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ED WENCK

AMBER STEARNS

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NUVO’S 18th Annual Cultural Vision Awards Our annual awards for those with Cultural Vison — what’s that, you ask? Turn to page 7 for the long answer. The short answer: they’re people making Central Indiana a better place for all of us.

CVA Winners.......................................... P.07

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EMILY TAYLOR

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ARTS EDITOR

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Elementary environmentalism.............. P.06 VOICES Krull on Ali............................................. P.04 Savage Love.......................................... P.35

CAVAN MCGINSIE

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Pop resurgence artist Jason Rowland is showing new work at Primary Gallery. This week we also have a preview of spoken word coming to Indy Fringe. And last but not at all least, Indy’s ComedySportz team is hosting the world championships.

Jason Rowland....................................... P.18 Spoken Word......................................... P.19 ComedySportz....................................... P.20 SCREENS Ed Johnson-Ott reviews Maggie’s Plan..................................... P.22

Your complete guide to Indy’s pop culture convention, complete with a conversation between NUVO and Kevin Smith.

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KATHERINE COPLEN

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FOOD & DRINK EDITOR

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Indianapolis Public Schools recently announced they will purchase environmentally-friendly school lunch trays instead of the polystyrene trays that have been in use since 2007. That doesn’t seem like a big deal until you read how a group of students urged that decision through their research and a presentation to their superintendent.

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Here’s what’s hot on NUVO.net currently: Think sitting down for long periods of time won’t hurt you?

Think again. Dormant Butt Syndrome is no joke. And IU Assistant Athletic Director Jeremy Gray has a great write-up on meeting the late Muhammad Ali.

SENIOR EDITOR/MUSIC EDITOR

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One man is working to make Greenfield the next go-to place for Indiana’s culinary scene.

From Tyner Pond Farm to The Mug and his newest venture Griggsby’s Station, Chris Baggot is working to revitalize this small town east of Indy. Plus, for its 20th anniversary, Rita Kohn shares just how many incredible refers around Indy got their start at Rock Bottom Downtown.

Stephen Deusner goes deep on a longtimein-the-making Erin Tobey release before the Blockhouse show in Bloomington celebrating it Friday. Kyle Long remembers Blottboyy, a producer releasing work beyond his years, who died tragically over Memorial Day weekend.

Rick Wilkerson drops details on the Dancing Cigarettes release on Magnetic South, and we bring you zillions of shows in Soundcheck.

Greenfield! Catch it!............................. P.24 Rock Bottom’s legacy............................ P.24

Erin Tobey.............................................. P.30 Dancing Cigarettes................................ P.30 Blottboyy............................................... P.33

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any years ago, the newspaper I worked for sent me in search of Muhammad Ali. Ali lived in those days in Berrien Springs, Michigan, a quiet, almost sleepy little town of fewer than 2,000 people about 25 miles north of South Bend, Indiana. The question the paper wanted me to answer was why perhaps the most famous person on the planet had chosen to live in such a secluded spot.

The townspeople in Berrien Springs told me charming stories about the former heavyweight champ. The best ones came from children.

They were too young, even then, to remember the days when Ali roamed and ruled both the ring and the world’s stage.

They saw him not as a celebrity, but as a kind of silly old uncle, the kind who came to their school to do magic tricks and make them laugh.

When Ali, body shaking, lit the torch at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, the folks in Berrien Springs didn’t see the Greatest up there. They saw their neighbor. They wept the tears of friends.

A few years later, I met Ali. It was in Washington, D.C. The American Civil Liberties Union honored him with an award.

His wife Lonnie delivered his acceptance as he stood behind her on the stage. She made a little joke about him.

He pointed his finger toward his skull and twirled it – “she’s coo coo” – while she rolled her eyes.

It was a well-practiced, but still charming, routine.

They left the stage after that and the

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crowd surged around him, the man’s magnetism moving in waves through the big room. He was just a few years older than I am now, but he looked and moved like an old, old man, the Parkinson’s disease that afflicted him keeping his limbs and nerves in constant agitation.

The people in the room didn’t care. He was Ali, the man and fighter who “shook up the world.”

As I stood before him, I couldn’t help but wonder, not for the first or the last time, what it must be like to live with that kind of fame, to have one’s character and contradictions both reduced and expanded into caricature.

Because Ali was such a larger-than-life presence, it could be easy to forget the human being within the myth.

The crying little boy who first wanted to learn to fight to get even with the person who stole his bicycle and the brash young man who boasted he was “too pretty” to beat. The eloquent advocate for strong families and the serial womanizer. The warrior for racial equality and justice who disparaged rival and friend Joe Frazier in the most racially charged terms. The gliding, graceful young champion, a man whose movements were as smooth as polished ice, and the trembling, prematurely old man who stood before me.

They all lived in the same skin and skull.

They all were Ali. Muhammad Ali died Friday. He was 74.

He lived within the enveloping and perhaps smothering bubble of fame as celebrity, icon and brand name for the last 50-some years of his life.

JOHN KRULL EDITORS@NUVO.NET John Krull is director of Franklin College’s Pulliam School of Journalism, host of “No Limits” WFYI 90.1 Indianapolis and publisher of TheStatehouseFile.com.

In these hours following Ali’s death, I find myself thinking about his time in Berrien Springs and the question the paper wanted me to answer: Why did such a famous man choose such an out-ofthe-way place to live for so many years?

The answer, I think, was that the people there saw him as part of the landscape, another face in the town.

He could pass the time in the local stores without having to be the Champ.

He could visit the local schools and be goofy with the children, doing silly little magic tricks even the youngest kids could see through.

In fact, it was a kind of magic trick that brought him to Berrien Springs. He’d lived with captivating and crushing fame for so long, through both triumph and decline, that being able to slip out from under the yoke, even for an instant, must have felt as liberating as a blessing.

That’s why Muhammad Ali lived there.

It was a town where he could be a human being, not a celebrity.

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IPS students make environmental impact within the school district

The Just Tray No students celebrate their impact on IPS’s decision to switch from polystyrene lunch trays to paper trays.

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ndian civil rights activist Mahatma Ghandhi is credited with saying, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” The statement can be applied to a group of Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) students who wanted to change a small part of their world and found success in the process. The end result is now a greater effort by IPS to implement more environmentally friendly practices in their operations.

The group of about 8-10 students from the Sidener Academy started with a simple task. A few were a part of the school’s robotics team and were looking for a STEMrelated research project. It was suggested to the students — through Jim Poyser of Earth Charter Indiana (and former NUVO Managing Editor) — that they consider researching the environmental impact of something that they use in their everyday lives, such as the polystyrene trays used by

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the school district’s cafeteria system.

Through their research the students learned the detrimental effects polystyrene has on the environment. They learned that the synthetic material releases toxins into the atmosphere when burned and doesn’t break down organically when sitting in a landfill. The students learned that polystyrene cannot be recycled — it can only be broken up and pressed into packing peanuts.

They learned that only mealworms can actually eat polystyrene, but the number of mealworms needed to significantly reduce the waste isn’t feasible, especially since the larvae turn into beetles over a short period. The conclusion to their research determined that the best solution would be for their school district to stop using polystyrene trays altogether.

IPS shifted its food service model from school-based kitchens to a centralized kitchen model in 2007. Instead of each school have a functioning kitchen where food is prepared onsite and served di-

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rectly to the children, all food is prepared off site, packaged into individual serving sizes, and shipped via truck to all school locations. The individual packaged food options are distributed to the students who then carry their food to their lunch tables on “disposal” polystyrene trays.

(I know — it is sad to think that there now exists a generation of Indianapolis students to whom Adam Sandler’s “Lunch Lady Land” song has absolutely no meaning.)

The students’ research not only included the environmental impact of the trays, but the cost effectiveness of the school district’s decisions. All of the school kitchens were “decommissioned” with the food service change. All of the appliances in the kitchens, including the tray washers, were removed from the buildings. Students learned that in order to return to plastic trays, the trays and the washers would have to be replaced. An industrial washer for the trays costs about $30,000 per unit. That doesn’t include the

Pence expresses interest in more pre-K programming Gov. Mike Pence sent a letter last week to Secretary Sylvia Burwell of the Department of Health and Human Services expressing interest in expanding the state’s pre-K program for disadvantaged children.

“Because of the success of our first-ever, statefunded pre-K pilot program, I am committed to opening doors of opportunity to serve even more disadvantaged children in our state,” said Pence in a statement. “Since the On My Way Pre-K pilot program has come online, we’ve served 2,300 kids in the five pilot project counties. I am committed to growing this program using state and available federal resources.”

But not everyone is applauding his move – some say it is coming too late.

“What a shame he didn’t think that way back in October 2014, when he completely rejected an opportunity to get $80 million in federal funds for preschool programs for low-income students – the same types of students he wants the federal government to help him support now,” said House Democratic Leader Scott Pelath, D-Michigan City, in a statement.

On My Way Pre-K started in 2015 as a pilot program in five counties – Allen, Jackson, Lake, Marion and Vanderburgh. The Indiana General Assembly passed the legislation during the 2014 session.

The program provided grants to low-income families of four-year-olds living in one of the participating counties. The families then use the grants to pay for high-quality pre-K a year before heading to kindergarten.

State Superintendent Glenda Ritz said the opportunity should have been afforded statewide sooner.

“Because of Governor Pence’s inaction, Indiana is years behind in implementing pre-K throughout our state,” Ritz said in a statement. “Our children deserve better.”

In the letter, Pence said the delay was planned to give the program time to show its success.

“By not expanding the pilot program prematurely, I kept a promise I made to key legislative leaders in order to gain their support for my prekindergarten program,” Pence said in the letter. “I promised we would not expand the program until we saw evidence that it was working. Keeping our word will be critical as we again look to the legislature next year for additional support to help us expand prekindergarten opportunities for those children in need.”

Pence closed the letter by requesting that the state be informed of when the application for the Preschool Development Grants would be available.

“Efforts have been highly collaborative between state agencies, local leadership, prekindergarten programs and families,” Pence said in the letter. “This is why we are now considering ways to expand as we prepare for the state’s next budget session, which will begin in January 2017.”

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cost of the trays or the ongoing water and electric bills associated with each washer.

They also determined that the trays were not mandated by any state or federal law and were not a rule or requirement according to district policies.

The students put all of their information into a PowerPoint presentation with the dream of sharing it with school officials. They coined themselves “Just Tray No” and practiced a group presentation. After a few dry runs at Orchard School and during a pregame event at an Indiana Pacers game, the students got the opportunity to meet with IPS officials, including IPS superintendent D. Lewis Ferebee. The students sat down with IPS officials for 30 minutes revealing their research, explaining some of the alternatives they had reached on their own and answering questions. They were nervous, but dedicated to their presentation.

“Kids are more open minded and will want to make things happen and will make it happen.”

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“It was kind of nerve-wracking because we didn’t know what they were going to say,” said 11-year-old Emily.

“But it was really cool to answer their questions and get their feedback.”

The pinnacle of their work was reached at the May 26 school board meeting.

They thought they were there to give their presentation yet again, this time for the school board members. But officials announced as a part of the food service

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infrastructure improvements planned for the following year, the district would shift to using paper trays in the fall.

“The Just Tray No students had a wellorganized and well-researched presentation. They clearly shared the facts and proposed several options for addressing the problem they had identified,” said Ferebee in a statement following the board meeting. “We were in the process of studying food service improvements and an investment in slightly costlier paper trays was within the budget. We are excited to continue to work with these talented and dedicated young people to explore additional ways to be more environmentally friendly in IPS.” Currently IPS spends $235,600 annually on the polystyrene trays. That equals over 4.7 million trays at a $0.05 per tray.

The district was able to find paperboard trays — which are biodegradable and safer for the environment — for just $0.02 more per tray.

With the promise from the administration of exploring more ways to improve the district’s carbon footprint, the students are already looking to future projects.

“I think it’s important that young people get involved, because adults are always thinking logistically — and so not as creative — sorry, adults!” said 11-yearold Lillian. “Kids are more open minded and will want to make things happen and will make it happen.”

Their ideas include hybrid buses, recycling receptacles in all schools and eliminating straws for milk and other carton drinks served for breakfast and lunch.

“We so often despair over our enormous challenges wondering what we can do that’s significant enough to matter,” said Poyser about the students’ accomplishments. “Well, I’m here to tell you, youth stepping up to get involved at the juncture of environmental stewardship and civic leadership is an inspiring, future-affirming action. We should all support them.” n

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O 18th Annual

NUVO Cultural Vision Awards Innovation. Inspiration. Celebration.

n Tuesday, June 7, NUVO handed out the 2016 version of our annual Cultural Vision Awards.

This year we expanded the field quite a bit: in addition to our CVA Visionaries, we honored two additional “Trailblazers” in the categories of arts, music, screens, sports, food and social justice. We want to shine a light on all the great things happening in Central Indiana, and when we looked around at the wonderful work our neighbors had undertaken, it only made sense to widen the field.

I’ve had some ask me: “Cultural Vision Awards — what exactly does that mean?”

As I have in the past, I like to turn to the dictionary for this, and analyze each word on its own.

Culture: the beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular society, group, place, or time; a way of thinking, behaving, or working that exists in a place or organization.

Vision: the ability to see; something that you imagine, a picture that you see in your mind.

Everyone who’s included has had a vision for the culture of Indiana, whether that means helping out a refugee family or making sure Indiana’s best music is committed to vinyl. Some are marking milestones this year: The Naptown Roller Girls just celebrated their tenyear anniversary and the founder of the Indianapolis Children’s Choir, Henry Leck, is hanging up his baton after 30 years.

The people you’re about to meet do something else: they reach across economic, racial and political lines to foster community. While some — especially some who seem only interested in their own self-promotion — try and divide us, the people you’ll meet in the following pages seek to unite us.

— ED WENCK, MANAGING EDITOR

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LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD HENRY LECK

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t was 30 years ago this summer when Henry Leck, a new music professor at Butler University, began what is now an artistic and educational institution in Central Indiana. The very idea of the Indianapolis Children’ Choir (ICC) was borne out of the observance of another city’s children’s choir. Leck’s intentions began as fact-finding mission to Chicago to see if the Unitarian Universalist Church of Indianapolis would be a good fit for hosting the Chicago group during their tour stop in Naptown.

Not only was Leck able to confirm his church’s role in hosting the children for their concert, but — and probably more importantly — Leck saw an opportunity for Indianapolis to have something similar.

The idea to bring children from all over the city — particularly from schools and neighborhoods where music education was minimal at best — and expose them to a world of opportunity began to develop. Music and its instruction became a way to build unity, foster creativity and encourage friendships among kids from all different races and socio-economic backgrounds.

Thirty years later, Leck’s vision has surpassed everyone’s hope of what the ICC could become. The choir has grown beyond the city limits to Central Indiana with numerous regional choirs in nine counties, workshops and other music education classes that span the ages. ICC has opportunities for musical learning from birth to high school graduation.

Leck’s dedication to student learning and world exposure has led the choir around the world multiple times. ICC has performed all over the United States and on every continent in the world with the exception of Antarctica. The choir has sung for mayoral and gubernatorial inaugurations, presidential visits, dedications and ceremonies and much much more. In its first year the ICC sang for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Pan Am Games. When Super Bowl XLVI was held at Lucas Oil Stadium the choir sang the National Anthem with pop star Kelli Clarkson. And the choir most recently celebrated the 100th running of the Indianapolis

500 by singing “Back Home Again in Indiana” with Josh Kaufman and “God Bless America”.

With a decorated resume full of accomplishments it’s no wonder that the ICC has become an artistic ambassador for the city. But of all of the travels and all of the performances, Leck says his fondest memories of his time with the ICC come from rehearsals, bus rides and other non-performance interactions with the kids. For Leck his favorite moments come when the kids are excited about a certain piece of music or when their eyes glistened from the realization of their own accomplishments.

The reputation of the choir is renown based on its own merits as well as the reputation of Leck himself. Numerous composers from all over the world have written music specifically for the ICC. When Leck informed the choir’s administrative board that he would retire from his position as artistic director in the 30th anniversary year, composers were contacted to gauge interest in the creation of an original piece for Leck’s farewell concert. (Leck gave 2 years notice for his retirement plans.) Out of 15 composers contacted, 13 responded with the intent to write. As a result, all of the music performed in the final concert was original music, written specifically for the occasion.

In 2008 NUVO named ICC and Leck the recipients of a Cultural Vision Award celebrating the choir’s contribution to the music culture of Indianapolis. This year we honor Henry Leck for his vision in the creation of the ICC, his commitment to the children of central Indiana and the cultural integrity he has brought to Indianapolis.

— AMBER STEARNS

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o-founders DeShong Perry Smitherman and Ericka Gibson began A Girl’s Gift with a vision of empowering young girls to realize their true potential. During a week-long camp in a college setting, middle school-age girls discover how to dream big through lessons in business. The girls find self-esteem and self-worth in their journey toward becoming young entrepreneurs. “We want girls to look into the mirror of success

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here is no question homelessness is an issue in our community. In 2015, The Indiana Policy Research Institute counted 136 homeless families in Marion County — those families included 285 children (under age 18). On the day of the count two of those families did not have shelter for the night. (The results of the 2016 Point-in-time Count will be released in July.)

Family Promise of Greater Indianapolis is an organization dedicated to providing shelter and resources for homeless families until the entire family is ready to move to permanent housing. What makes Family Promise unique is the village approach to its services.

Formerly known as the Indianapolis Interfaith Hospitality Network, Family Promise of Greater Indianapolis at its core is a network of faith communities throughout the city. For one week at a time homeless families find shelter in different congregations. The network includes many faiths from Christian churches to Jewish synagogues and more. The congregations provide food for the week and fellowship during the evenings. During the day,

children go to school and guardians go to work or the Family Promise day center for job training or counseling, case interviews and other necessary resources that will lead them to permanent housing and independence.

The promise of Family Promise is its commitment to keeping families together.

Some shelters may only take men and others only take women and children.

Sometimes the women and children shelters won’t accept boys over 13 years of age, requiring them to seek independent shelter at men’s facility. The shelter program through Family promise keeps families together regardless of age and configuration of that family.

For over 20 years, Family Promise of Greater Indianapolis has been helping families stay together as they work their way out of homelessness while building a greater community that transcends socioeconomic and faith boundaries.

— AMBER STEARNS

GET INVOLVED: FamilyPromise.org

and see themselves in the picture,” says Smitherman. Since A Girl’s Gift began in 2009, over 200 girls have completed the business plan program and have the tools they need to become owners of their own businesses and developers of their own products.

— AMBER STEARNS

LEARN ABOUT: aGirlsGift.org

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wo organizations lead the way in welcoming and settling refugees from any country in Indiana. Exodus Refugee Immigration and the Refugee and Immigrant Services at Catholic Charities Indianapolis have settled hundreds of refugees while helping them acclimate to life in the Hoosier state. Over the past several months our state government has challenged both

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organizations on their mission and service specific to Syrian refugees. And both have been steadfast in their resolve to make sure these families and all others that they serve are able to find stability and peace in a new and foreign place.

— AMBER STEARNS

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veryone has a story. It might sound simple, but for the Indiana Writers Center it means everything.

Over 30 years ago a man named Jim Powell had an idea to bring together writers around the state. By 1979 he founded what is now the Indiana Writers Center and served as the director for 20 years. Today the helm is held by Hoosier writer Barbara Shoup (who recently wrote about her own journey through publishing for NUVO).

Since its creation the center has become a non-profit hosting classes in everything from playwriting to memoir writing. The teachers are all published writers who teach single session classes all the way up to courses with ten or more meetings.

“It’s like having a school with no school board,” says Shoup. “We can do anything we want.”

And they do. From any kind of classes to a slew of community programing. They host a summer learning program called Building a Rainbow, which serves over 200 kids a year at four different sites.

They are writing the stories of their lives, and everyone has a story to tell. We really believe that,” says Shoup.

Those stories can make a huge difference especially through things like the Memoir Project — an intensive workshop with different groups around Indy. They did three session this past year: one with homeless women at Wheeler Mission, another with women veterans and now they are doing one with the Julian Center. Teachers were

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able to mentor women, guiding them in ways to tell their own narratives. Then they collect the pieces and publish an anthology.

“If you could have seen those homeless women on the night that we did their party, it was just so amazing,” says Shoup. “They were so proud to be able to share their lives and to think that people wanted to know about what it was like to be them. That, to me, is a super important thing that we do.”

Finding that community is something that she feels every writer needs.

The literary community of Indianapolis has only flourished with time; producing writers like John Green, Dan Wakefield and of course Kurt Vonnegut. But for Shoup writing is the first step in seeing those in your city as equal, and is a way to ignite social justice.

“It makes you look at people differently,” says Shoup. “If you are reading and writing you have to look at people objectively.

You have to cut away everything and see who they are. And when you see who they are, I don’t know, you can’t lump them.

Every single person is so incredibly different and they got to where they are by such an interesting path.

“I think reading and writing contributes to this sense of acceptance, to this sense of curiosity about diversity in people, places, things, ways of thinking that are a little bit out of the box,” says Shoup.

— EMILY TAYLOR

WRITE: IndianaWriters.org

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HOUSE LIFE PROJECT

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eredith Brickle saw the empty houses around Indy as brimming with potential. After parenting with groups like iMOCA and Renew Indianapolis, Brickle was able to kickstart what is now known as the House Life Project. The idea was not to rehab house, paint them, or even care for them; it was simply to help people see these vacant spaces a little bit differently. Last fall she started a “pilot house” — a blighted building that was turned into a work/gallery space for artists.

They would host neighborhood nights with the community, teaching kids how to do everything from juggle to make ceramic cups. Today, the project has become an active discussion on how to address Indianapolis’ rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods.

— EMILY TAYLOR

LEARN: HouseLifeProject.org

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he brain child of Elle Roberts, a NUVO contributor and local arts organizer, Women317 was a place to showcase, well, women.

A derivative of the Shehive collective — a gathering where ideas about race, nationality, gender, queer theory and feminism can be openly discussed — it became clear that Women317 was needed to give a space to women artists in Indy.

The events host everything from spoken word to visual art. They began as a strictly non-political event. Now, things are a bit

different. The group realized that even though every gathering had a personal element, by hosting a night dedicated to women artists topics that were rooted in systematic issues were going to arise. This is why Roberts decided to kick off 2016 with a night dedicated to undocumented immigrant women and their stories. The events continuously host a variety of topics, mediums and ideas.

— EMILY TAYLOR

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THE NAPTOWN ROLLER GIRLS

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n an era of sports news where coverage focuses as much on salaries and stadium subsidies as often as player stats, it’s refreshing to see a group of players competing purely for the love of the game.

It’s really inspiring to see such a squad prosper.

The Naptown Roller Girls, Indy’s trio of flat-track women’s roller derby teams, are celebrating their tenth anniversary this year. The NRG’s members are all-amateur, paying their own way for gear, practice space, venue rental, medical expenses, even travel overseas. The ticket price you pay at the door helps to offset those costs — and also to help the NRG donate to and provide events for a variety of charitable organizations.

Flat-track roller derby began in Texas with a punk-rock ethic and aesthetic.

The original “uniforms” — cutoff shorts, fishnets and tutus — have toned down a bit over the years, and now the crew founded in part by folks with handles like Dill Hero, Brownie and Joan of Dark are primarily focused on fitness and the thrill of competition. The NRG’s top-tier crew, the Tornado Sirens, are ranked 25th internationally, and their “B” team, the Warming Belles, are ranked second in the state. (The entry-level squad is nicknamed the “Third Alarm.”)

The skaters often have high-school or college sports backgrounds, but many have no past team-sports experience at all.

“It’s really empowering — a lot of people come in thinking they can’t do it, and want

to prove to themselves that they can,” says seven-year-vet Maiden America.

In addition to the women you see skating, women who’ve taken derby names like “Eve Ann Hellical” and “Trudy Bauchery,” there are also people behind the scenes: officials, support staff and so on, 90 percent of whom are all-volunteer, according to Maiden America. “We call them our ‘derby unicorns,’” she laughs.

The reasons for joining are as varied as the women who skate, but the NRG’s members seem to have one thing in common that them paying the dues, showing up at practice for anywhere from six to 16 hours per week, training more on their own time and shelling out for the inevitable trips to the ER: the camaraderie, according to Trudy: “When you’re an adult, you don’t get a lot of opportunities to meet people. I have met so many incredible people through roller derby.”

The manner in which the Circle City’s embraced this team — and help keep the lights on and the bouts on the schedule — is both a point of gratitude and pride for these skaters.

“Indianapolis in general has always embraced amateur sports,” says Darth Blue. “This is the definition of amateur — we do it for the love of it, and it shows in how we play.”

— ED WENCK

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hen Fern Goodman was a kid, her mom — Barb Bonchek — started a short-lived equine therapy program south of Indy. The idea stayed with Fern, ultimately inspiring her to found People and Animal Learning Services in 2000. “I always loved horses and I wanted to help people,” says Fern, adding that some of the clients her mom helped out have since sought out sessions at P.A.L.S. Goodman’s operation, which provides therapy sessions, summer camps and other services for the disabled, at-risk youth and

veterans, helps roughly 60 Hoosiers a week.

The Bloomington-based nonprofit relies on an influx of volunteer help (100 instructors and staffers weekly) and a revenue stream that’s mainly built on private donations.

Goodman’s working to pay off the building where P.A.L.S is housed and maintain gear such as the hydraulic lift that helps some clients mount the horses.

— ED WENCK

DONATE: palstherapy.org

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DENNIS BYRNE AND MATT BOALS

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oals and Byrne are something of a team: the pair have been instrumental in rehabbing the disc golf course at Sahm Park on Indy’s Northeast side. While Boals takes point on that project, Byrne — who’s designed 27 disc golf courses across the state with more in the works — has spent the last five years developing a course at the Indiana School for the Blind. “What we did initially was work with Braille and textures … and [now] we’ve worked up some beepers and a control system for the baskets and discs and the

signs. We’ve got what we believe is a field-ready product, we’re just trying to get some funding to get it into production.

We’ll need about 50K to do that.” Byrne’s also prepping local courses for the 2016 Deaf Disc Golf Association National Championships — and Boals’ baby Sahm park is one of them. You can sponsor a hole at Sahm for $750.

— ED WENCK

SPONSOR: disc.golf@hotmail.com

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ndiana is doing almost everything it can to make sure filmmaker don’t want to come here.

Well, the legislatures are at least.

One of the biggest factors when deciding where to shoot a feature film comes down to the almighty dollar — which state is going to give back a percentage of what you spend. And most states do, giving anywhere from 15-30 percent of a tax break. Indiana is one of the few states that does not.

There are a few Hoosier producers who are trying to change that — and what better way than with a movie, three movies to be exact. Zachary Spicer and Paul Shoulberg both cut their teeth at Indiana University and shortly after moved to New York and L.A. to pursue their loves of acting and filmmaking. While they were away they began to feel the pull to come back, make movies here, and effect change in the process. They gathered a crew of [mostly] IU grads and started scouting out sites in Bloomington for their feature The Good Catholic. Filming wrapped up early this year, but they already have two more films lined up to shoot in Indiana over the next few years.

“We are doing it because it means so much to us and because we all come from Indiana,” says Spicer. “We really do want to see this change.”

That change is what motivated Spicer to start his production company Pigasus.

Though they were formed in New York, they are based here. Their mission statement is short and sweet: “To bring great film back to Indiana.”

Pigasus has a bigger picture in mind — to show legislators that it’s possible to draw in film crews and hundreds of thousand of dollars in revenue if they welcome filmmakers with open arms. Spicer has been working with Jon Vickers of IU Cinema to do exactly that.

Vickers doesn’t put together a bill. He must find a state legislator to sponsor, word, and introduce it. The teeth on this one is a higher tax break if a filmmaker uses only Indiana labor, not just shoot here. Vickers feels that this is the defining difference that could poise this bill for success. Though the bill was ready before the deadline for 2016, the team decided to wait until 2017 (a budget year) before presenting.

With the tax incentives that Pigasus is fighting for Spicer’s statement could become reality: ”Indiana is a filmmaker’s dream.”

— EMILY TAYLOR

LOBBY: PigasusPictures.com

ut on by HorrorHound magazine, the midwest film conventions create a home for some of the more obscure, and whimsical characters and storylines in cinema. Many may not know about Indiana is the burgeoning horror film scene here — something that wouldn’t be possible without HorrorHound weekend. The film festival hosts celebrities, screenings and meet-and-greets for horror film buffs. All

of their work allows for the film community to come together and collaborate on future film projects. One of the most unique events in Indy film, this festival has allowed the genre to gain traction in the creative community and will hopefully soon will be able to showcase even more local artists.

— EMILY TAYLOR

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t’s a mad rush for artist in Indiana every year while they try and pull what might seem impossible — make a film in two days with the clock ticking. Up until this year the 48 Hour Film Festival has been run by Big Car (this year the reigns will go to Indy Film Fest). The idea of the festival is simple: teams have two days to make a short film, they cannot have any work done before hand (no brainstorming, costumes of scripts), and they have to work in the genre they are assigned and incorporate any items the organizers decide. Last year it was a hair

brush, the name Sam or Samantha and the line “Oh, really? Tell me more.” Other than that they have free reign. At the end each film is shown to a panel of judges and an audience. The winners of last year’s festival were able to take their short film to possibly compete in the Cannes Film Festival.

Opportunities like that have been born nearly every year, and given a starting line for new filmmakers to blaze their own trail.

— EMILY TAYLOR

WATCH: 48hourFilm.com

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BRANDYWINE CREEK FARM

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onathan Lawler realized an aspect of Central Indiana that many people seem to forget: there is a rich agricultural community right here, and yet we have an immense group of hungry and food-insecure people. 150,000. That is the number of men, women, and children living right here who don’t know where their next meal is coming from. Add to that the even larger number of people who don’t have access to fresh, healthy food.

This brought Jonathan to beg the question, “As a farmer, why am I sending my fresh, Indiana-grown produce across the country instead of feeding the hungry people right here in my back yard?”

So, Jonathan asked his wife Amanda if he could stop being a for-profit farmer and give away his produce to the needy, and she enthusiastically gave the okay.

From there came Brandywine Creek Farm.

In their first year of business, Brandywine Creek Farm will be growing 500,000 pounds of fresh produce (a weight that is hard to wrap your head around) to give out to those in need in Indianapolis and the surrounding areas. In fact, Jonathan says they will most likely surpass that goal.

But, that isn’t their only goal, Jonathan sees farming as a way to instill a core set of skills and values in our youth. So, to that end, he is reaching out and getting at-risk youth to come out and work the farm

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with him. They can learn the importance and worth of hard work, respect, and the wonderful feeling of fulfillment one gets from seeing the finished product of their labors. He also is using his farm as a way to teach inner-city children about the importance of sustainably grown and organic fruits and vegetables and how these foods can help them live long and healthy lives.

Another aspect of the farm is that Jonathan has, and is taking on more, interns who are veterans of the United States Armed Forces. He believes that, through teaching these brave men and women these agricultural-related skills and giving them hands-on experience on a farm, they can potentially start and run their own farms as a fulfilling way of life to continue to give back to their country.

Lawler, his family, and his team at Brandywine Farms truly are doing something innovative and important for our community. Through their efforts we may start to see hunger in our city begin to dissolve. We can all learn from Jonathan’s words, “I’m making less money than I ever have in my life, but I’ve never felt so happy and fulfilled in my entire life.”

— CAVAN MCGINSIE

VOLUNTEER: BrandywineCreekFarm.com

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HAWKINS FAMILY FARM

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awkins Family Farm is a small, family farm run by father and son team, Jeff and Zach Hawkins. The farm has been quietly producing vegetables, pork, beef and poultry since 1957.

Then, all of sudden, the family farm came into the spotlight when they went to bat against House Bill 1267. The bill would have effectively shut down the farm, destroying the livelihoods of many farmers with small poultry farms across the state by making it illegal for them to sell to the many farm-to-table restaurants in Indiana without bird-by-bird inspection (a time-consuming and costly process).

Through their efforts, combined with an outcry amongst Hoosiers and the help of many restaurants like Cerulean, Milktooth, and Rook, Hawkins Family Farm was able to get the state government to amend the bill and to keep chicken on the menu.

— CAVAN MCGINSIE

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very year in the United States our schools trash one billion food items. In fact, 40 percent of the food made in America is wasted. Enter John Williamson and K-12 Food Rescue. The organization has a simple concept: any food that is untouched, unopened and unpeeled goes into a bin that is refrigerated. A “caring agency” — a shelter, food pantry, or other charitable organization — picks this bin up from the school and doles out the food to Indiana’s food insecure.

It’s a simple idea that has made a massive impact on our state. 170 schools in the state are now a part of the Food Rescue movement and are currently saving millions of meals a year from landfills. Not only are

they saving school meals, they also have worked closely with restaurants like Panera, Einstein Bagels and Little Caesars to keep their food from being tossed out at the end of the day. They are helping the nearly 1 in 6 food insecure Hoosiers.

As our managing editor Ed Wenck put it when he did a story on K-12 FR earlier this year, “... through Williamson’s efforts, Indiana leads the nation when it comes to reducing school food waste — and sending that nutrition to the needy.”

— CAVAN MCGINSIE

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he story of Secretly Group is the the thing of Bloomington legend, and rightly so.

The tale of college friends who got together and started a little label that, 20 years later, puts out music by Grammy winners and Academy Award nominees is an indie rock fairytale. What can’t go unsaid in that fairy tale, however, is the incredible hard work and strong ethical base that goes in to the label group’s day-to-day dealings. The central lesson is this: when the labels in Secretly Group work together, they are stronger.

“We have a large staff that for the most part work across all four of those,” label manager Nick Blandford says. “We have the shared expertise and the advantage of a big group of people working together with some specialists with particular focuses on parts of the label. It allows us to present music in different contexts and work with a wide range of artists.”

This year, Secretly Canadian turns 20. How are they celebrating? By staying busy as ever.

“Our release schedule is as busy as it’s ever been, and we’ve had a lot of big records this year. We’re putting a lot of our emphasis on those records. In general, we’re using this as a time to reflect, figure out ways to better engage our community,” Blandford says.

In 2016, Secretly Group (Secretly Canadian, Jagjaguwar, Deal Oceans, Numero Group) released or plans releases

by Mitski, Damien Jurado, Suuns, Whitney, Julianna Barwick, Kevin Morby, Ryley Walker, Dinosaur Jr., Black Mountain and Small Black, plus many more. When asked for an artist that defines the label, Blandford and label group co-owner Ben Swanson name

the same ones immediately: Anhoni and Molina personify a label group that balances the challenge of any small business – that it’s constantly in flux – while maintaining a focus on lasting, impactful art.

“Like some labels, we’re not out there really exploring new technology in a big way, at the bleeding edge or anything like that,” Swanson says. “What sets us apart is that we’re constantly looking at, what do we and what do our musicians look like 10, 20, 30 years from now?”

The word for that? “We’re looking for timelessness,” Blandford says. “And that can mean a lot of different things. It doesn’t mean that something has to sound like classic rock or classic American songwriter; it can sound very forward-looking and modern. But we’re not interested in chasing trends.”

Part of the focus on a sustainable, long-term artist catalogues means the label emphasizes fairness and equity in its deals with artists.

This is highlighted in Secretly Group’s push for the Fair Digital Deals Declaration, a document signed by Secretly Group pledging to convey financial terms directly and comprehensively to their artists.

The timelessness Secretly Group seeks is borne out in new artists that are inspired by early artists on the label.

“I think some of the biggest rewards that we’ve seen is really just seeing some of the artists we’ve worked with and how they’ve affected people,” Swanson says.

— KATHERINE COPLEN

LISTEN: SecretlyGroup.com

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hen Darrin Snider started local podcast network and streaming radio station Indy In-Tune 10 or so years ago, the podcast boom was years off. Now, he’s a local scene godfather who estimates he’s hosted and interviewed upwards of 400 bands and 1,000 local musicians in his home studio.

Snider, an analyst and project manager by day, offers 24/7 streaming local music on indyintune.com, and programs a huge variety of podcasts and streaming shows, broadcast out of his studio and from locations all over Indy. Indy In-Tune features shows like Local Is Our Genre, The Chris Brake Show, Brother, Brother Beer Cast, Blind

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Pig Confessions, Whiskey On The Rails, Music and Martinis for Mutts, Live From Studio B, and an ever-growing list of more. Indy InTune coordinates local live music shows, like Radiothon. The 2016 Radiothon featured 14 hours of live radio broadcasting and 18 live acts on three different stages at Sinking Ship II, all in support of the Talitha Koum Women’s Recovery Home. Indy In-Tune’s network of connected musicians, broadcasters, bloggers and bookers is vast, energetic and hyper local-focused.

— KATHERINE COPLEN

LISTEN: IndyInTune.com

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o get inside the Rhythm! Discovery Center, you have to go underground.

Literally. Walk in through the doors at 110 W. Washington, hop on the escalator and cruise on down. But, as Daniel Hoffman, the museum’s Marketing, Membership & Events Coordinator says, in 2016 the museum is ready to for the spotlight.

The 7-year-old percussion museum is the physical, year-round educational space of the Percussive Arts Society. So, once you’re inside, what do you do? You play. Rhythm! hosts multiple interactive programs during the week, coordinates tours for schoolkids and puts together stunning displays of historic, exotic and inventive instruments.

It’s a museum where visitors want to touch everything, and a museum that encourages it (to an extent – hands off Neil Peart’s kit, kids). It’s likely louder than any museum you’ve visited, thanks to scores of kids experimenting on all kinds of drums, boom whackers, marimbas and more. And if you’re lucky enough to get a tour behind the glass and into their archived collection, a world of historic percussive delights awaits you.

— KATHERINE COPLEN

PLAY: RhythmDiscoveryCenter.com

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VISUAL EVENTS 19 STARS OF INDIANA: A BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION

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It threw me seeing Halston dress-clad mannequins in the section of 19 Stars entitled “Pioneers and Innovators” along with works by Jacob Cox and Robert Indiana.

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The exhibit makes (too) much of the fact that Halston grew up in Indiana (although he wasn’t born here). Robert Indiana — who was born in Indiana — is represented with an oil painting featuring his iconic LOVE design and a couple of other midcentury works. I was annoyed that none of Indiana’s astounding Hartley Elegies, dating from the 90s, were included in this exhibition. It’s a disservice to artists when a calcified view of their artist development is dragged out of the closet, like say, when all those music critics eulogized Miles Davis upon his death, as if he died right after releasing Porgy & Bess, without mentioning the pioneering fusion of Bitches’ Brew.

No complaints about the inclusion of Jacob Cox, Indianapolis’s first full time professional painter. Cox’s “Scene in Indianapolis,” from the 1860s, portrays a pioneer wagon against a backdrop of recently cleared forest adjacent to a creek. (This happens to be Fall Creek, where the Illinois St. bridge is today.)

One of the exhibition’s revelations is African American artist Felrath Hines’s brilliantly colorful abstract painting “Untitled.” Other selections in the exhibition aren’t quite so revelatory. Architect and designer Michael Graves’s garlic press designed for the Target Corporation is on display, but not his design for the Indianapolis Art Center. Could this curatorial exclusion be a matter of branding? And why is Graves branded as an entrepreneur when he was also an innovator? Why is Robert Indiana labelled a pioneer but not a visionary? There are plenty of revelations about Hoosier artists in this exhibit by the numbers, but why is the grouping of artists into various categories so reductive? Why are some of the artists’ connections to the state so tenuous? Why aren’t there more artist “stars” with connections to Indy’s thriving contemporary arts scene.

— DAN GROSSMAN

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ason Rowland hasn’t always had the space to build his own canvases indoors. There’s been times when he has found himself outside — under a tarp with an extension cord leading to his power tools — cutting, spray-painting, and sanding in snowstorms.

The fruit of his labor is a large body of highly accessible work — influenced by pop culture, pop art, and comic books — much admired by fellow artists. Sixty such works were on view in his exhibit Forward Regression at Primary Gallery on Friday, June 3. They will be available for viewing again at the closing reception on June 24.

In addition to painting, the 38-yearold Rowland also manages a car wash about a 30 minute drive from his home in Winona Park, Ind. “So I go over there and do all the maintenance,” says Rowland. “If it’s working well, it affords me a lot of time to paint.”

And he makes the most of his commute.

“As I drive I get a lot of ideas, so I just work them out in the studio,” says Rowland.

Rowland considers his drive — or rather, the ideas generated by it — to be the first step in his composition process. And, in his thoughts, a lot of stuff gets mixed together.

“I like to do cultural mashups…where I’ll take one iconic image and mix it with another,” says Rowland. “And then I’ll draw it up or sketch it up. Most of my work is done with ink and stencils and spray paint. So once it’s done I’ll cut it out and paint it up...”

Rowland, who is self-taught, pre-

“I’m getting older but I’m still regressing back into comic books and cartoons and punk rock.”

— JASON ROWLAND

Rowland has shown at Oranje and Jake Lee’s Attic Gallery. This is his largest show to date.

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pares his own canvas panels or cuts and primes wood as a canvases. “I usually finish everything with an epoxy resin to give it a melted glass look,” he says.

And that “melted glass” sheen, as well as the confident lines of the work, are much admired by Primary Gallery curator Martin Kuntz.

“First and foremost, it’s really clean, really well presented,” says Kuntz.

Superheroes are often part of his subject matter. He also likes to depict crying women, in a comic book style. In his current exhibition at Primary, his largest to date, you can see said depiction on a pair of skateboards.

But it’s not just the comic books that he read as a child that influenced his art. It was also punk music, and as the 38-year-old

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Rowland says, “Just growing up in the 80s.”

“We were the first generation with unlimited entertainment,” says Rowland.

“Video games and MTV and cable. As an indoor kid, I just soaked it up.”

And he was indeed an indoor child for half the year because of his severe allergies. The upside was that he had plenty of time to do art.

Forward Regression refers to his childhood influences.

“The title honestly is just a take on the phrase ‘arrested development,” says Rowland. “I’m getting older but I’m still regressing back into comic books and cartoons and punk rock. All this stuff that I was into as a kid that I can’t seem to get away from and grow up.” n SUBMITTED PHOTO

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ComedySportz is hosting a world championship of improv

f there’s anything Hoosiers love – it’s a shot at a title. But this time, it’s all in the name of improvisational comedy.

At 721 Mass. Ave. there lives and breathes ComedySportz, a headquarters for laughter, and as such, entirely unpredictable and humorously madcap events for Hoosiers to get excited about.

Certainly, we all need some more humor in our lives these days. Indianapolis won the championship title in 2011 when the tournament was hosted here, and it’s time for the Naptown Team to take the trophy once more.

Indianapolis itself is home to one of the larger venues when compared nationally, and has occupied the same location the longest (since 1999). It also has one of the largest team rosters in the world (over 50 players). It’s on our home turf again this year, and that means a shot at the championship.

“It means a great deal to us that the other owners and shareholders trust us to host the Championship,” says Mia Lee Roberts, founder and co-owner of ComedySportz Indy. “Several cities vie for the opportunity each year because it allows your entire roster of players to attend and be involved and allows a large number of them to play on the national stage in front of 300 or more of their peers. The home team gets more matches which means a better shot at the championship match and winning the whole thing. We won when we hosted in 2011. We came in second in Buffalo, New York in 2013 and we haven’t been in a final match since then so we are really excited about our chances this year.”

And so are ComedySportz supporters. Indianapolis has a solid team and a real shot at that title they seek. While they gear up for the main international tournament, they stay busy offering year-round classes, workshops, student

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dying for a shot at first place. Or any place, really. But it seems the same year I graduated high school, having never won that title, ComedySportz was just starting their high school league.

“In 1996 we started our high school league with one team of a group of kids from different high schools and we have now grown that to 14 area high schools that play ComedySportz as a traveling theatre sport which is something we are really proud of,” says Roberts. “Then, in 1997 we started our education department after several of us trained for and wrote the syllabus for our Group Unity Training Seminars (GUTS) and we have

groups, camps, private shows, and the ever-popular murder mysteries. (Personally, I like a good murder-mystery, albeit one where we can all live another day to talk about it.) Additionally, ComedySportz has grown over the years, in scope and active members.

“Nationally, we have grown with the addition of cities over the years “Because it’s all made up on the spot, and with certain guideour fans can come back anytime and lines in place, audiences are accustomed to seenever see the same show twice.” ing a really fun all-ages show no matter what city — MIA ROBERTS they see perform,” says Roberts. “Locally, we have grown from an eight perbeen using the rules of improvisation son team in 1993 performto teach large corporations and small ing at any theatre that companies how to communicate and would have us roughly lead better.”

50 shows per year to That is a lot of growth in 23 years. a roster of over 50 Most importantly, ComedySportz performers performcomedic offerings are appropriate for ing over 300 shows all ages. per year.”

“I think that our diversity is one of It just seems like the things that makes us attractive to only yesterday I was so many people,” says Roberts. “We a ridiculously shy are improvising, so, making things up, speech and debate completely based on audience suggesteam member in tions so anything about any subject high school can happen with any kind of people, myself, places or things. Any person, age 5-95, can come to ComedySportz and have a great time. And because it’s all made up on the spot, our fans can come back anytime and never see the same show twice. It’s just a different, fun experience every time. We feel really strongly that comedy and theatre that is accessible to all ages is really important. Parents and kids can enjoy the show together and enjoy it as much as the couple on a date at the next table.” n SUBMITTED PHOTO

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It’s no secret that I adore dark, weird drama (and musicals). Crumble (Lay Me Down Justin Timberlake) is one of the weirdest and darkest I’ve seen in a long time, and it’s awesome.

The play, written by Sheila Callaghan, who is also a writer/producer for the Showtime comedy Shameless, uses a cast of damaged characters to reflect on isolation, death, and deterioration. This sounds depressing, but really, it’s not. Plus, the bizarre humor is appallingly sidesplitting. It’s sexy, luscious, even poetic at times, and it expresses as much about the characters as their bodies do.

From the beginning, you know this isn’t a typical show. It opens with Clay Mabbitt, as the once-dapper House, who delivers the first of many soliloquies.

Mabbitt is excellent as the anthropomorphic character that yearns for a loving touch. Mabbitt’s physicality in depicting doors, windows, and falling plaster and his slithering along walls and floors add a whimsical and amusing touch to his lonely character.

Even stranger is Paeton Chavis’s character Janice, a hyper, foul-mouthed, belligerent 11-year-old who exhibits symptoms of schizoaffective disorder and spews explicit venom via her dolls.

Chavis, who also played a disturbing child character in Phoenix Theatre’s production of The Nether in 2015, is equally amazing here. Most children are simply not this brilliant. Chavis is mesmerizing in her on-stage intensity and can deftly move from blooming psychotic to typical preteen star-struck reverence when Justin Timberlake flies into her room.

A jocular Joshua C. Ramsey, as Timberlake, also shows up as Harrison Ford for Clara, Janice’s mom.

Mother and daughter embrace these ludicrous, dream-like escapes to find solace.

Carrie Ann Schlatter as Clara has the arduous task of anchoring the show in reality. Schlatter’s character is simply lost without her husband.

Schlatter does what she can with the character, but Clara’s evolution is slow, making her less interesting and sympathetic than those around her. Xanax, stat.

All of this was coalesced under the direction of Rob Johansen. He has engineered a sneak attack for best play of the year, blemishes included.

— LISA GAUTHIER MITCHISON Theatre on the Square, 627 Massachusetts Avenue, June 3-18, various times, $15-20, tots.org

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The Casba, 6319 Guilford Ave. Prodigal 2 Launch June 9, 7 p.m.

Three poets will all read their work: Lara Mimosa Montes, Kara Krewer, and Matt Minicucci. Montes is based in New York and Minneapolis with work showing up in Fence, Triple Canopy, BOMB, and elsewhere. Krewer has Hoosier roots that grew when SUBMITTED PHOTO she received her MFA in poetry from Purdue University. She still teaches film and composition there. Minicucci holds bylines for two pieces of poetry: Translation (Kent State University Press) and Small Gods (New Issues).

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You don’t need much more.

Harrison Center for the Arts, 1505 N. Delaware St., FREE

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Vocab June 8, 8 p.m. Kirei and Tony Styxx will headline as performers. Kirei hails from Flint, Mich. Styxx won NUVO’s Best of Indy award for best spoken word artist in 2015, and his career has kept going strong since. The featured visual artists will be Travis Owens and Greg Roper.

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ne bustling spring evening, Indianapolis’ Theon Lee Jones found himself presenting poetry in a noisy Broad Ripple bar. As usual, the longtime spoken word artist was without a microphone, making the situation at hand a little more difficult. Quickly he resorted to a trusted trick, in hopes of turning down the audience’s volume.

“There are certain consonants that people pay attention to, so I just went through the piece and kept hitting these consonants really hard and not even that loud,” says Jones. “I was just hitting them well enough, not even above the social volume. But after a while, the whole place was silent.”

Having done spoken word for several years now, Jones has become accustomed to performing in all sorts of environments and with all sorts of people, SUBMITTED PHOTO which has led him to acquire a strong Theon Lee Jones arsenal of strategies for shutting up a crowd. He may once again have to think on his toes, as he performs alongside his knack for seizing audiences. “We comedian Nathan Gropp at the Indy attended a poetry slam at Wabash Eleven Theatre as part of an event called University four years ago, and I saw how Poems for the People. he can control a room with the ocean“I feel like my performance is going sized talent he has.” It’s this and a numto be challenged,” says Jones. “At the ber of things that led him to handpick same time, it will be complimented.

Jones for his event.

I can focus much more on delivery, than usual, without sounding like I'm just trying to make you cry “Theon isn’t just shooting from harder than the last guy.” the hip aimlessly with words.”

In addition to being a spoken word artist, Jones is also an active local rap— GREGG DEBOOR per (see him perform as a featured artist at the Jay Brookinz Beat Battle Cham“He has a message with his voice,” pionship on June 11). Ultimately, he says DeBoor. “Theon isn't just shooting believes that a lot of his spoken word from the hip aimlessly with words. He experience has helped him to be a speaks with intent.” better emcee too. “I learned crowd parLike Jones, featured Poems for the ticipation from it, I learned networking People comedian Nathan Gropp also has from it,” he says. “I learned creativity, experience with adjusting to his surconceptuality. All of that came from roundings. Since dropping out of music being a spoken word artist.” school at Ball State and moving to IndiaHaving known Jones for the better napolis seven years ago, he’s performed part of six years, Poems for the People a vast gamut of venues, while learning organizer Gregg DeBoor has witnessed

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to gauge audiences before delivering certain jokes.

“I think different crowds and different venues create different energies,” says Gropp. “It’s just understanding that different things are going to be reacted to differently by different people in different contexts, and you just have to be willing to adjust to that.”

While performing at one of DeBoor’s previous comedy-meets-poetry events, this idea of different crowds having different energies became very apparent to Gropp.

“I had a couple missed shots at the poetry show I did with Gregg where I told a joke, and it seemed kind of insensitive in that context culturally and socially. I had never had it not work in a club though,” says Gropp. If he had been in louder, dimmer bar, however, he thinks things would’ve been a little different.

“The lights can be on in a coffee shop, and everyone’s kind of doing the whole socially conscious thing,” says Gropp. “And then at a comedy club, the lights are down and everyone’s drinking on a Saturday night. It’s just completely different.”

Despite these points, Gropp admits that he really does love the idea of having poetry and comedy all in one place.

“The juxtaposition of a humorous art form with something more serious (generally) like poetry and spoken word is really cool to be a part of,” says Gropp.

These types of juxtapositions are really what DeBoor hopes to create more and more of through his events.

“Word is getting out there that we want to work with anyone who practices either poeming things out or shooting funnies,” says DeBoor. “Working with peers and encouraging others who have the same types of love for the things we do, can only make our scenes feel more whole.” n

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FILM EVENTS Eighties Adventure Double Feature at the IMA June 10, 7 p.m. First up is 1987’s Adventures in Babysitting. The quirky comedy stars Elisabeth Shue as a young woman whose babysitting gig turns into a nightmare when she ends up lost with three kids in the darkest corners of Chicago. (It’s funnier than it sounds.) The next film is exactly as funny as it sounds — Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter star as two metalhead slackers who get a huge advantage for their high school history project — the ability to travel back in time! Before the double feature, you can dress like a historical figure or your favorite comic hero, make your own ’80s art, participate in ’80s music trivia, rock out to music from DJ Scott Stulen and shop for limited edition posters designed by Ronlewhorn Industries.

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Indianapolis Museum of Art, 4000 Michigan Rd., $18 for the public, $12 for members, imamuseum.org Midnight Movie Madness: The Warriors June 10 and 11, Midnight. This pulpy cult classic revolves around a turf battle between two rival New York City gangs — a feud that spreads from Coney Island to the Bronx. Frequently cited as one of the most controversial movies ever made, this ultra-violent action thriller is a perfect film to watch at midnight with a cocktail in hand. (The Indie Lounge at the Keystone Art Cinema will serve drinks inspired by the movie!)

Keystone Art Cinema, 8702 Keystone Crossing, $10, landmarktheatres.com Mildred Pierce June 10 and 11, 2 and 7:30 p.m. each day. The great Joan Crawford stars in this classic film noir as a struggling baker striving to win back the affection SUBMITTED PHOTO of her resentful daughter, all while being involved in a murder case. Mildred Pierce was Crawford’s first starring film for Warner Bros. after she left MGM, and it also won her the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1946.

Come see her towering performance on the big screen this weekend at an old, magical movie house listed on the official Indiana State Register of Historic Places.)

57 N. Main St. (Franklin), $5 adult, $4 senior/ student, $3 kids 12 and under (unless noted otherwise), historicartcrafttheatre.org

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ou met and sparks flew, He left his wife for you, But your love has gone out of whack, And you wonder if you can give him back.

There’s the beginning of a potential hit song. Feel free to set it to music. Just give me a co-writer credit. If you need further inspiration, check out Maggie’s Plan, the indie rom-com it describes.

The story takes place in New York.

Greta Gerwig stars as Maggie, who maintains she is unable to keep a romance going for more than six months. She decides to become a mother on her own and searches for a sperm donor. Eventually she chooses Guy (Travis Fimmel), a math major turned “pickle entrepreneur” who is as quirky and adorable as she is.

Guy offers to impregnate her the oldfashioned way, but Maggie is determined to maintain her self-set boundaries, and hands him a sterile jar. Guy dutifully pads to the bathroom to take care of business.

Clearly Maggie and Guy were made for each other. Well, maybe if Ethan Hawke wasn’t the male lead. Y’see, Maggie works at The New College as an advisor for art and design students. John (Hawke) is a new adjunct professor there. He struggles to write a novel while dealing with tension on the home front with his wife, Georgette (Julianne Moore).

She’s Danish, though her accent and delivery reminded me of a German interrogator from a war movie. Her hair – in a tight bun – is severe. Her presentation

Writer-director Rebecca Miller based her screenplay on editor-publisher Karen Rinaldi’s unpublished novel. Creating a romantic screwball comedy with SHOWING: OPENS FRIDAY AT KEYSTONE ART indie sensibilities is ambitious. Indie RATED: R e films are generally a bit reserved and non-traditional, while rom-coms and style is severe. She is more successful than screwball comedies are unafraid of employing cinematic exclamation points. her husband and has little patience for Maggie’s Plan stays true to its indie roots his hand-wringing. John and Georgette – it’s chronically too-cool-for-school – have two children, Justine (Mina Sundwhile embracing the wacky situations wall) and Paul (Jackson Frazer). expected in rom-coms.

Maggie meets John. Sparks fly.

It works in large part because of the Cut to three years later. Maggie and John are a couple. He splits custody of the swell cast. Greta Gerwig used to get on my nerves – at times she was as irritating kids with Georgette, and helps Maggie as first-season-of-New-Girl Zooey Deraise Lily (Ida Rohatyn), her 3-year-old schanel – but that desperation has faded, from The Big Plan. All is not well. John allowing her to craft agreeable characcontinues cranking out pages from the ters that are amusing and believable. now-massive novel and generally being Julianne Moore is terrific, deftly creating self-absorbed. Maggie continues turning a character who is rude, judgmental and to her married friends Tony (Bill Hader) – somehow – funny and sympathetic. and Felicia (Maya Rudolph) for support.

Nice work! Ethan Hawke is Ethan Hawke.

And then she has the idea. Would it He is effective here.

In the supporting roles, Bill Hader and Maya Rudolph continue to impress. This time he’s Screwball comedies need a lot of more serious than usual, while set-up in order to kick in properly. she finds new shadings for her character. And Travis Fimmel, as the pickle entrepreneur, is a gallant neo-hippie. be possible to manipulate John and My concern with Maggie’s Plan is that Georgette back together again? it may be dismissed as too light by the I try to avoid long-winded plot descripart house crowd and too indie for romtions, but Maggie’s Plan makes more than com fans. A film this sweet and funny a few nods in the direction of screwball comedies, and screwball comedies need a shouldn’t be overlooked. n lot of set-up in order to kick in properly.

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SHOOTING DOWN THE STARS The Biebers of the world are like a disease, and Popstar targets them with radiation therapy.

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opstar puts its finger firmly on the computerized pulse of contemporary pop music. This is a cathartic satire — a much-needed roast of the celebrities currently driving the world mad.

The central character, Conner4Real (Andy Samberg), is like a Frankenstein monster mashed together from parts of several dickhead pop stars — Justin Bieber, Adam Levine and Macklemore, to name a few.

The first single we hear from Conner is a sharp, biting satire of Macklemore’s hit song “Same Love,” in which the rapper undermines the gay rights message by unnecessarily asserting his heterosexuality. “I’m not gay, but if I was, I’d want equal rights,” Conner sings in what is essentially the more honest version of Macklemore’s casually offensive lyrics. It’s a brilliant parody and a stinging dose of truth.

Popstar paints the current pop music scene as a world in which songs take a backseat to musicians’ personas and style triumphs over substance. It’s painfully clear that the lyrics of Conner’s songs don’t matter nearly as much as the shallow life he leads offstage. To the same degree that we obsess over Bieber’s new girlfriend or latest face tattoo, Con-

ner’s fans watch with great anticipation as he shares every single facet of his silly existence, documenting every thought, movement and fart on Facebook, Instagram and all the other social media outlets we check far too often. (We’re just as guilty as Conner, the film suggests.)

The one criticism the film warrants is that it grows a bit bloated near the end, especially as Conner tries to reunite with the boy band that launched him into stardom — the Style Boyz. But maybe the bloated feel of this act is necessary, mirroring our own excessive indulgence in the music from our past.

Popstar may overstay its welcome a bit, but Samberg will keep your eyes glued to the screen. He’s a magnetic comedian and a genius when it comes to playing an idiot. What makes Conner so tragically hilarious is his inability to realize his music is horrible. Bad reviews fall on deaf ears.

When Rolling Stone rates his sophomore solo album with a “shit emoji,” he can’t believe it. (Bieber seems similarly clueless when confronted with the cold, hard fact that people dislike him.)

In the same way that This Is Spinal Tap takes aim at ’80s hair bands, Popstar effectively shoots down the stars of today. It’s almost necessary — a film that makes us step back and question why we allow this sleazy world of pop decadence to thrive.

(Just because something is popular doesn’t mean it’s good — or good for you.)

The best comedy is like medicine, curing us of some sickness in society. The Justin Biebers of the world are spreading like a disease, and Popstar targets them with the precision of radiation therapy. It’s so hilarious that it ultimately makes you a little grateful for no-talent assclowns like Bieber. Without them, this great comedy wouldn’t exist. n

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TRACING INDY’S BREWING HISTORY FROM A SINGLE SOURCE

Rock Bottom is Downtown Indy’s oldest microbrewery. The breadth and depth of connections between brewers and breweries becomes evident through a survey of its 20-year brewer story.

With help from home brewer Paul Edwards and long-time Jerry Sutherlln we have ‘an almost accurate’ Rock Bottom Downtown’s history: 1996: Will Gafney is head brewer with Dave Chichura as assistant brewer.

Dave Chichura becomes head brewer when Gafney leaves to brew at RB Chicago, then at Bell’s in Michigan, Mountain Sun Brewery in Boulder, and Oskar Blues until 2013. Chichura currently is with Melvin Brewing in Alpine, Wyoming.

When Chichura leaves, Bill Smith comes on as head brewer. At the same time, Clayton Robinson joins as assistant brewer.

Clayton Robinson follows Bill Smith as head brewer. In 2003 Robinson leaves RB and takes a sabbatical from brewing, don’t worry he comes back in a big way.

2003: Tim Marshall is head brewer but leaves in 2004 to brew at RB Chicago.

2004: Dustin Boyer replaces Marshall until he leaves to manage a tavern, after which Boyer went to Sun King when it opened in 2009.

2005: Jerry Sutherlin replaces Dustin Boyer, Sutherlin will be the head brewer for the next decade; Jon Simmons joins Jerry as assistant.

In mid-2006 Jon goes to RAM as assistant to Dave Colt, replacing Clayton Robinson, who had returned from his sabbatical and had joined Colt as assistant brewer.

Simmons becmes the RAM head brewer when Dave Colt and Clayton Robinson leave and open Sun King; 2010 Simmons leaves to brew at Sun King; Andrew Castner became head brewer at RAM (coming from Oaken Barrel).

2006: Adrian Ball comes on as Sutherlin’s assistant at RB; then moves to RAM as Jon Simmons’ assistant, and then moves to Sun King where he now is head brewer.

2014-2015: Joe Carrol comes on as assistant brewer; Joe goes on to work with Alan Simons at the newly-opened St. Joseph’s. He has since left the industry.

Dec. 2015: After 10 years as head brewer, Jerry leaves Rock Bottom Downtown to open his own brewery, Round Town Brewery with Max Schenk.

Nathan Scruggs takes over as RB head brewer.

In its twenty years in our city, Rock Bottom has produced many top quality brewers that are still making big things happen everyday in the brewing scene. So we say, Happy Anniversary to them.

Celebrate with them on June 17 during their 20th Anniversary Celebration — Good Times & Great Beers from 5-8 p.m.

— RITA KOHN

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e’s go a-visitin’ back to Griggsby’s Station/ Back where we ust to be so happy and so pore!” Thus reads the refrain of Hoosier poet, James Whitcomb Riley’s poem, “Griggsby’s Station”. The poem’s theme is a common enough one that has been used in novels, plays, and films like the beloved Orson Welles masterpiece, Citizen Kane.

“It is about a guy who moves to the city, becomes wealthy, but he still misses the benefits of his small town home,” explains Chris Baggot, owner of the soon to open Griggsby’s Station in Greenfield.

“It hit home with me and I just knew it was the perfect name for the place.”

It hit home for Baggot because it mirrors his life almost flawlessly. Baggot comes from a small town in Pennsylvania and for years he worked to accrue a sizable amount of wealth, first in Chicago and then in downtown Indianapolis where he founded ExactTarget.

He and his wife moved to her hometown of Greenfield (also Riley’s hometown) in the 90s and since then Baggot has called

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“When I first moved here there were a lot of people out here that aren’t anymore,” says Baggot. “The community has changed so much. We used to have a lot of the people from Eli Lilly here and the doctors from the hospital lived here. And then it all changed.” The people moved out and despite having major corporations like Covance and Elanco housed in the city, the majority of workers for those companies make a commute everyday.

Baggot came to the conclusion that this is because “We’re lacking in amenities that are found in nearby communities.

Amenities like this,” he finishes, gesturing to the rustic, industrial restaurant around us and the fresh, locally-sourced carnitas tacos in front of me. So, in the years since coming to this revelation, he has worked on revitalizing the town and making it more than a row of chain restaurants.

This began with the opening of Tyner Pond Farm in 2011 — a beef, pork, and chicken farm that focuses on “the growing, processing and marketing of sustainably raised, antibiotic free [meat].”

Greenfield is a farming community, less-so than it was twenty years ago, but it still is home to dozens of farms. The issue is many of these farms don’t supply the city in which they reside.

Tyner Pond set out to fix this by keeping their products here in Central Indiana. If you live within 70 miles of the farm, you can have Tyner Pond Farm meats delivered fresh to your door, with free delivery.

You can also find their meat at Baggot’ second step toward revitalizing Greenfield, the incredibly popular drive-in, The Mug. “When I started selling Tyner Pond products to restaurants, I quickly realized I was competing with other like-minded farmers, and they’re not the enemy,” says Baggot. “Tyson and Monsanto are the enemies. It’s not Greg Gunthorp, I love Greg and Gunthorp Farms and I didn’t want to take away from them. So I decided to make the pot bigger by opening The Mug S E E , GRIGGSBY'S, O N PA GE 2 6

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“When I started selling Tyner Pond products to restaurants, I quickly realized I was competing with other like-minded farmers, and they’re not the enemy.

Tyson and Monsanto are the enemies, it’s not Greg Gunthorp, I love Greg and Gunthorp Farms and I didn’t want to take away from them. So I decided to make the pot bigger by opening The Mug and allowing everyone to succeed.”

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and allowing everyone to succeed.”

Through his opening of The Mug, Baggot was able to keep his product within Greenfield and give the people of Greenfield a true “farm-to-curb” experience.

It was an immediate success and since their opening in 2014, masses of people have traveled to Greenfield simply for a taste of their Mug Double (which was just named “Indy’s Best Burger” on the Indy A-List), their giant tenderloins, and root beer floats.

Despite the popularity and importance of The Mug, Baggot knew he had to do more. So, two years ago, when he purchased a closing antique shop on Greenfield’s Main Street (aka US-40), he knew he wanted to bring a nice, trendier restaurant to his new-found home and he had to make it accessible to people of all walks of life. From this was born Griggsby’s Station.

The two-year process of construction, getting permits, gathering a team, and creating a worthwhile menu and drink list, has given Baggot and the entire Griggsby’s Station team the chance to make sure every single aspect is accounted for.

Executive Chef Mike Tambasco (also the chef from The Mug) has created a small 12-item menu, but each dish has been thoroughly thought out and keeps with the idea of allowing the top-notch, farm-to-table

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ingredients to shine through. The menu consists of creative plays on pub food favorites, like Asian barbecue wings and beer-soaked chili cheese fries made “from hand-cut potatoes soaked in a wheat IPA, which we found crisps-up the fries a lot more, and then topped with a five-pepper roasted chili and queso.”

Right now, I’m taste testing their phenomenal carnitas tacos. Tambasco explains the process: “We get the pork from Tyner Pond and confit it in lard [from the farm, as well] for about 4-hours, then we use a dry rub of chipotle, ancho, cinnamon, salt, and pepper. We then top it with a roasted serrano and poblano sauce with garlic, onion and heavy cream. All on a corn tortilla and topped with cilantro, white onion, grilled green onion and lime.”

Alright, ‘nuf ‘splainin. I can attest that these are some badass tacos, the flavorpacked meat melts in your mouth. You truly can tell that this pork is high quality and I’m glad Mike and his team (which includes Sous Chef Marcy Breckenridge, former Sous Chef of R Bistro) allow the meat to be the star.

The drink menu is set to match the quality of the food menu, and to be accessible for any bar patron. It features eight Indiana beers on tap, including brews from Three Floyds, Powerhouse

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be, and it has to,” Baggot says.

I’m thinking about how much he is doing for the area, “57-percent of people in Hancock County commute to Indy, we have the second highest income outside of Hamilton County … it’s a great county and a great city and it’s time to make it that much better.”

I’m finishing up my second taco, sipping on a Powerhouse Ceraline Cream Ale and talking with manager Ian Rossman, and director of operations Abi Tambasco (she and Chef Mike are married), when Executive Chef Mike Tambasco the mayor of Greenfield, has created a small 12-item menu, Chuck Fewell, walks in.

He takes a seat next to but each dish has been thoroughly Baggot and starts to chat thought out and keeps with the idea candidly with him. “So are the people of Greenfield of allowing the top-notch, farm-toexcited?” I ask him. He laughs, “Oh yes, they’re table ingredients to shine through. very excited, and they’re not the only ones. I have people ask me all the time ‘When is it going to open!?’ I always say, co, Ammerman is at the end of the bar well he only has one more permit to get running through a training session with passed.” Everyone laughs, it has been a his bartending team. long time and many permits in the mak“It’s really coming together,” Baggot ing, but they are finally ready to open, says, looking at the trainees and Amwith opening day set for June 14. merman. It really is, the downstairs is More people make their way through complete (including the entire poem of the door, an elderly couple that thought “Griggsby’s Station” printed on the wall) the place may be open. Baggot talks the upstairs is nearly there, only a few with them and gives them the openmore days, the patio has been approved ing date, Abi tells them they can have a by the city and the food and drink are drink on them when they come back in. beyond ready.

It reminds me of one of the lines in the It couldn’t come at a better time, the poem, “Le’s go a-visitin’ back to Griggscity is ready. The town plans on running by’s Station … [where] ever’ neighbor an off-shoot of the Pennsy Trail directly ’round the place is dear as a relation.” next to the patio, making Griggsby’s a These people care about their patrons. great place to stop for bicyclists. “Next They care about this little town; they see summer they’re putting the farmer’s its potential and little by little, they’re market in across the street. The town is helping it take the steps to reach it. n really working on making this a place to Brewing, Upland, and Greenfield’s own Wooden Bear Brewing. Baggot was able to get “[His] favorite bartender from the Columbia Club,” Jason Ammerman to join the team as bar manager. Ammerman, through his knowledge of beer, wine, and spirits, has been able to form a bar selection for most any palate including a decent wine list and some classic cocktails. While I’m sitting in the dining room chatting with Baggot and Tambas-

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THE DANCING CIGARETTES DANCE DOGS DANCE

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The Dancing Cigarettes ruled the Bloomington new wave scene in the early 1980s.. Rapidly morphing into a tight, innovative and yes, danceable art-rock band, they gigged constantly in Bloomington and toured the East Coast and Midwest. Every show at The Bluebird or Second Story was packed with ecstatic fans treated to a regular stream of new material and increasingly inspired performances.

The only thing missing was an album and had there been one back then, their legend would be far greater than it is today. Gulcher issued a 7” EP in 1980, just as the band began to gel, and there was a track on the 1981 Red Snerts compilation.

Two posthumous CDs — 1995’s The School of Secret Music (Turnstyle/OR) and 2002’s The Gulcher Recordings: 1980-1981 (Gulcher) — documented much of the band’s prolific output.

Thanks to Magnetic South, the Dancing Cigarettes not only have their full-length vinyl, they have a better release than anyone would imagine.

Offering several tracks not on either CD and lovingly remastered by Paul Mahern, it crackles with vitality and excitement. Previously released tracks have a much stronger presence and power than their digital predecessors. Three live tracks from a landmark 1982 show at Chicago’s Space Place demonstrate the band’s live prowess while sounding better than typical archival live recordings.

Far more than the sum of their talented and versatile parts, the Cigs blended elements of off-kilter psych (Beefheart/Zappa), small town weirdness, downtown NYC’s No New York scene and tuneful new wave (Talking Heads, Roxy Music). Songwriting, instrumentation and vocals were passed around, the limelight shared, while the band’s trademark sound remained intact. Each of the Dancing Cigarettes gave everything to their music, at the expense of pretty much everything else. That passion leaps out of the grooves of this 35-years-too-late release, a belated reward for their blood, sweat and genius.

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iddlemaze, the long-awaited sophomore album by Bloomington’s Erin Tobey, has its roots in one of the most infamous bargains in music history.

Like many children of the 1990s, Tobey supplemented her CD collection through the BMG Music Club, which was one of several companies offering 10 albums for the price of only one.

“When you’re a kid, you don’t have any money, so you’re not going to go out and buy 10 CDs. BMG was the most music I ever got at once.”

The deal allowed the teenager an opportunity to hear some unknown artists she might otherwise have dropped $15.98 on, to nurse her own musical ambitions and claim her own set of influences.

“I remember one of the CDs in that first BMG order was Liz Phair’s Whipsmart. I wish I could remember what all else was in there.” For a mo-

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ment she retreats into the Case Logic CD wallet of her memory, then blurts out, “Jill Sobule!”

Remembered or forgotten, those albums left a mark on Tobey, and she carried that DIY aesthetic with her as she learned to play guitar, started writing her own songs, and played in a succession of punk bands during the early 2000s.

In 2005, the 24-year-old released her self-titled solo debut through Bloomington’s Plan-It-X Records. It’s a collection of lo-fi tunes featuring Tobey’s stark vocals and dexterous guitar playing, introducing her as a singer who favors practiced restraint and a songwriter who prizes lyrical precision and melodic concision.

For years Erin Tobey appeared to be only one in a series of different projects by a musician who got more thrills collaborating with friends than she did playing alone. She recorded one-off albums with short-lived bands like Mt. Gigantic, local favorites Abe Froman and Fat Shadow.

Her current project, a duo with Amy Oelsner called Brenda’s Friend, just released its second collection of spare indie pop, House Down.

Middlemaze continues to mine her favorites from the ‘90s, imaginatively updating that decade’s buzzy guitar pop as well as its diligent DIY ethos.

She writes with the emotional frankness of Phair, the daring of Sobule, the catchiness of the Posies, another favorite band. She sings in a high register, and the way she sculpts her syllables recalls both the world-weary wryness of Aimee Mann and the knowing selfpossession of Juliana Hatfield. “In a lot of ways I feel like I live in that era.”

To her credit, Middlemaze never plays like the work of a revivalist artist. >>>

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“Bernie Sanders inspires us. In a political and business climate which is increasingly self-interested and money-driven, Bernie Sanders alone remains uncompromisingly focused on the issues that affect 99% of us. Which is to say, he’s talking about the things that will improve the lives of ourselves, our families, and basically everyone we have ever met.

As the only presidential candidate who refuses bribes from big business, his agenda is unswervingly focused on the people over special interests. As Bernie himself has said, ‘The reason why we are doing well in this campaign is because we are telling the truth.’

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JOYFUL NOISE BERNS UP Indiana went for Bernie in May, and now Indy’s biggest label is going for Bernie with a new uber-cool release with Thurston Moore.

Announced last Wednesday, Joyful Noise Recordings will help fundraise for Bernie Sanders by trading proof of donations for a limited edition flexi featuring Bernie speeches, plus guitar noodling from Sonic Youth’s Moore. To purchase, make a donation to the campaign, take a screenshot of the confirmation, then upload that photo at joyfulnoiserecordings.com.

Here’s label founder Karl Hofstetter on why making this record was important:

“We at the label were inspired to support the campaign, and we thought it would be best to use our curatorial talents to this end. Being a weird-o indie rock record label, we are fortunate to work with a variety of incredible musicians; including, on occasion, the great Thurston Moore. So we decided to ask him.

And we were delighted that in a matter of minutes after posing the idea, Thurston excitedly agreed.

“Next: the task of getting a major presidential candidate involved. Fortunately, one of our employees was already friends with the good folks of the Bernie campaign, so we reached out. Amazingly, the Bernie campaign responded, and within a week or so, we heard that Bernie himself was into the idea. The amazing folks at the Bernie campaign have worked closely with us to make this crazy collaboration a reality.”

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<<< The songs aren’t mired in nostalgia, the sound isn’t a pose, and you don’t need to know the difference between Veruca Salt and Girlpool to enjoy songs like the expansive “All Over the World” or the just-shy-of-goofy “Baby Monitor.”

Tobey deploys these familiar sounds as a means of personal assessment, using the language of her teenage self to figure out

remember being flotsam in the wake,” she sings, offering up something close to an artistic mission statement.

It’s a song that seems to come from the pen of an experienced musician, but “Flotsam” is the oldest song on the album. She originally recorded it for a 2006 compilation by the now-defunct Bloomington label Harlan Records. “It was something that I put away for a while, because it felt like its purpose had expired.

She writes with the emotional It’s about being inspired frankness of Phair, the daring of by the creativity of your friends, but they’re Sobule, the catchiness of the Posies. friends I never see anymore. They’re still very meaningful to me. It’s funny to have that connection to whatever I was doing then.” her adult self. “I’m young, I could move The song links the thirtysomething a mountain,” she sings on the slowly Erin Tobey to the twentysomething unfurling opening track, “I’m Young.”

Erin Tobey, one who was reeling from a “Stone by stone, it may take all day.” bad breakup and using those dire emoThese new songs constantly toggle tions to fuel her music. between Tobey’s younger and older “The songs on the first album all selves, as though taking stock of the last decade of her life. “Flotsam in the Wake” served this very specific purpose of dealing with being sad, but not long meditates on the nature of creative after that, I met my husband and my expenditure and artistic evolution, life totally changed. My emotional with Tobey extolling her friends’ aclandscape totally changed.” complishments (“Justin, your songs are like drowning”). “We will make, we will mend more than we break, because we S E E , TOB E Y , O N P A GE 3 2

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Returning to “Flotsam” so many years later was an intense experience.

“For eight years I wasn’t playing regularly with a band, so I only ever played that song by myself. The words stayed the same. Everything about it stayed the same. But I feel like we made it something completely different.”

The “we” is important. Tobey is careful to emphasize the contributions made by her small band, which includes her brother Matt Tobey on drums (known for writing music as Matty Pop Chart and with Memory Map, Kimya Dawson, Lil Bub) and her husband Jeff Grant on bass (co-owner of Hopscotch, one of the best coffeeshops in Indiana).

They had practiced but never played a show together before laying down tracks at Russian Recording in Bloomington, with Mike Brodinsky (Lil Bub’s Dude) manning the boards.

“I did some set design for Lil Bub’s 2016 calendar, and told Mike, why don’t we do a trade and you give me some studio time? I felt like if I didn’t make myself do it, it was never going to get done. I had accumulated all these songs, but I had become paralyzed. I figured if I had this studio time, that would give me a reason to get moving,” Tobey says.

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instead of letting them simply come to you. It’s a feeling Tobey recalls from her youth, when she had to be much more aggressive in cultivating her own tastes. She had to shop at record stores, fill out membership cards for record clubs, trade mixtapes with friends, and finally she had to make her own music.

“Seed the clouds and make it rain,” she sings on “Medicine Garden,” arguably the catchiest track on the new album. The guitars jangle wildly, the drums pound not like thunder but more like a party, and Tobey takes a pop conceit like rain—something usually approached as an uncontrollable force of nature—and turns it into a cry for self-transformation. “Babe, I know

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it’s hard to change.”

She might be offering advice to a friend or high-fiving the listener, but more likely Tobey is talking to herself— telling herself not to get rained on, to keep pushing herself to create in as many different forms as possible. “I’ve always had a lot of paralysis, especially with these solo songs that are the most autobiographical and come from a really vulnerable place. Ten years ago I think I was a little more carefree, but over time I think I’ve gotten more confident even as that kind of vulnerability feels harder and harder to express. That sounds really sad, but it’s not. It took a while, but it’s triumphant to have this album finished.” n

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R.I.P. BLOTTBOYY: A LIFE WITH COLOR

n May 30, Indianapolis lost a talented and visionary young artist.

Christopher Easton was a DJ and electronic music producer creating work under the name BlottBoyy. In a short period of time Easton established himself as a significant force within the Indianapolis underground music scene.

Easton began making waves as a musician while still a student at North Central High School before graduating in 2015. At a time when most young artists are blindly grasping for a direction or identity in their work, Easton was busy refining his surprisingly mature artistic voice. As a fan of Easton's productions and DJ sets, I felt his work held a vast potential and Easton seemed to be poised on the brink of finding a larger national or international audience for his art.

Sadly, all that promise was cruelly wiped away last weekend during a visit to White Rock Park in Shelby County.

Easton's body was found by a scuba diver 25-feet deep in the park's limestone quarry.

Easton was just 20 years old.

But he accomplished so much during his short life. Blottboyy toured nationally with his friend and collaborator SUBMITTED PHOTO Ejaaz. He also left behind a handful of recordings featuring his compelling electronic music compositions. I greatly you'll also find a few of his original compositions, which range from more admired the music Easton produced as blatantly experimental pieces like "E L BlottBoyy. While his compositions often E" and "My Belief Is Ours,” both from veered toward the abstract and experi2014, to more recent tracks including mental, Easton never lost touch with "Out the Cage" and "Rave" which sucthe soul and rhythm of dance music. cessfully reach for a big room/festival I also had great respect for Easton as EDM sound. a DJ. I recently commented to a colleague that I seldom listen to young DJs, as most haven't had the time to Easton seemed to be poised on the accumulate the expansive knowledge of music rebrink of finding a larger national or quired to craft mixes with artistic depth. Easton was international audience for his art. an exception though. I'd recently caught a couple different BlottBoyy DJ sets at Pattern Magazine In memory of Easton's life and work, and Joyful Noise Recordings events. On I'd like to end this piece with a few both occasions Easton's work behind the words on my favorite BlottBoyy track. mixer was intriguing, filled with atmo"Life With Color" was commissioned by spherically diverse tracks that split the the Museum of Psychphonics in Foundifference between haunting ambient tain Square. It's a site-specific composiexpression and abrasive electro-noise. tion referencing Elvis Presley's famous Fortunately Easton preserved last performance at Indy's Market several of his mixes on his BlottBoyyy Square Arena. Clocking in at 11 minutes Soundcloud page. On that same page

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in length, "Life With Color" resonates with a grand, almost epic feel.

Easton spends several minutes weaving a swelling block of ambient symphonic strings over a light house rhythm, until midway through the track when the droning strings are overtaken by a chirping chorus of angelic voices and a full-on jacking house beat. After reaching a peak energy level the track collapses into itself, receding back to the calm atmospherics of the introduction.

"Life With Color" is a beautiful creation, certainly Easton's most complex and artistically ambitious recording.

"Life With Color" will likely stand as the magnum opus of Easton's all toobrief career.

The artist statement Easton wrote for the work provides some insight into his character and artistic vision. I'd like to share an excerpt.

"My song 'Life With Color' is a beautiful journey that shows happiness in life.

I wanted to create a song that people can escape to, and for just one second believe that they are in their fantasy. Everywhere around the world people love to dance to feel something which shows love and happiness… 'Life with Color' was inspired by the legendary singer Elvis Presley. Elvis was more then just a rock star on stage; he was also a leader to the world that touched hearts. The memories of Elvis Presley forever live in us through his music."

Chris Easton will continue to live on through all the lives his music touched, including my own. n

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LolaPalooza will host, and DJs Fate, Chachi and Ari Atari will spin.

The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., $20 general, $40 for VIP, 21+ ROCK Whitesnake 8 p.m. We’re now at the point that every Whitesnake concert probably includes an attendee who was conceived … to Whitesnake. The Brit hard rockers are touring their 12th album, The Purple Album.

Murat Theatre at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., $25 - 59.50, all-ages Rabble Rabble, Straberry, Video Grave, State Street Pub, 21+ Robert Ellis, Tom Brosseau, The Hi-Fi, 21+ Bring Your Own Vinyl, Lola’s Bowl and Bistro, all-ages

Salsa Night, Red Room, 21+ Blues Jam, Slippery Noodle, 21+ Blues Jam, Main Event, 21+ Summer Under the Sails: Noble Roots, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, all-ages VOCAB, Casba, 21+ Free Jazz Wednesdays, Chatterbox, 21+ Open Stage Night, Claude and Annie’s, 21+

THURSDAY COVERS Great Cover Up Thursday – Friday 9 p.m.

Minute Details, 3 am Blues Band, Gypsy Moonshine, Sugar Moon Rabbit and The Orchard Keepers will cover Nirvana, Elvis, Mazzy Star, Pearl Jam, The White Stripes and Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Who’s doing what? You’ll have to show up to find that out. This event spans Thursday and Friday night.

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‘course — Trampled By Turtles alt-bluegrass is a favorite of fest-goers and club kids alike.

Trampled By Turtles loves playing in Indy, and we’re lucky for that ‘cause they come back all the time.

But when I get mandolin player Erik Berry on the line and ask what his absolute favorite place to play — and remember, his band has played almost every single state in the country — he has an immediate answer: “For years, a standard question we would get asked in interviews and by fans and whatnot is what’s your favorite place to play? It’s always kind of a hemming-hawing answer, because if you have a great gig some place, it’s your current favorite place to play. Sometimes you have a not so hot gig in a place where you’d had a hot gig.

And then we played Red Rocks and it’s not a hemming-hawing answer anymore. [laughs] They’ve got a list of every concert that’s ever happened there, and there’s some stuff from the ‘40s that I would, if time machines come along, I would love to go back and watch Stravinsky conduct his own work with the Denver Philharmonic in 1941. Then, 20s years later, the Beatles played there. It’s unbelievable what’s gone on there.”

Berry said there’s no current plans to go into the studio to record a new Trampled By Turtles record, so expect this show to be filled with lots of old favorites.

The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., $25, 21+ Creeping Pink, Sedcairn Archives, Flesch, State Street Pub, 21+

Mike Adams at His Honest Weight Album Release Party 9 p.m. Mr. Mike Adams doesn’t do anything (great pop music, his own talk show) exactly as expected. That includes an album release show for Casino Drone, where Mike will co-bill with comedian Dave Hill, currently touring with a new book Dave Hill Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.

White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect St., $10, 21+ Okay, for Now Release Show featuring Stay Outside, Veseria, Chad Lehr and The Lost Loves, Grove Haus, all-ages Radioactivity, Bad Sports, State Street Pub, 21+ Slidecat Royale, Liberty Street, 21+ Mallrats, The Vogue, 21+ Slaughter Camp, Discount Jaw Removal, GOYA, 5th Quarter Lounge, 21+ Paul Thorn, The Warehouse, all-ages The Lacs, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ Butler Adult Big Band, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Punky Reggae Party with Moor Dub and DJ Kyle Long, The Hi-Fi, 21+ The Rhaspers, Billy O’Neal’s Pub, 21+ Erin Lawrance Salewicz: Town and Country with DJ Indiana Jones, Sugar Creek Art Center, all-ages The 4th Dimension, Buskirk-Chumley Theatre (Bloomington), all-ages Hillbilly Happy Hour, Melody Inn, 21+ Open Stage Blues Jam, Hilltop Tavern, 21+ Erin Tobey, Tammar, Amy O, The Blockhouse (Bloomington), all-ages

SATURDAY FINALS J Brookinz Beat Battle League Championship 10 p.m. J Brookinz changed formats this year to make his beat battle event a series of battles culminating in one huge throwdown – and that throwdown is this Saturday. Dylan Prevails, Joey French, Mandog, Makwolf Preach, Maja 7th, The Klinik, David Peck and Nevi Moon are the last producers standing in the league, and they’ll fight for the championship at Pioneer alongside host Jarrett Moore and house DJs KNags and Txtbook.

FUNDRAISERS A Concert for Bernie 4 p.m. As of press time, it’s unclear how Super Tuesday will shake out, and if Bernie will still be in the race by the time this show rolls around (we’re betting on yes, though). Regardless: Jethro Easyfields, Carmichael, Bulletpoints, Jackson VanHorn, There Are Ghosts, Bonesetters and Pravada will perform at this Bernie-fundraising bash.

The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 4, $10, 21+ Cracker, The Easthills, The Ready Stance, Rushville’s Riverside Park, all-ages

Pioneer, 1110 Shelby St., $8 advance, $10 door, 21+

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Sarah Scharbrough, Jazz Kitchen, 21+

Murat Theatre at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., $29.50 - $40, all-ages FESTS 42nd Eagle Creek Folk Festival Saturday – Sunday Eagle Creek is hands down one of the best places to spend the summer, and this is one of the park’s signature events. See Atwater-Donnelly, The New Augusta Bluegrass Band, Allie Burbrink and a host of acts on the acoustic open stage.

Eagle Creek Park, 7840 W. 56th St., free with park admission, all-ages

SUNDAY POP Wreckless Eric 9 p.m. Eric Golden wrote one of the most perfect songs in the whole wide world. A perfect song for walking down the aisle. A perfect song for opening or closing any party. A perfect song for a funeral? Yep, “Whole Wide World” would probably work for that too. (His new album amERICa is pretty great, too.)

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MONDAY ANNIVERSARIES The Free Zone 25th Anniversary Concert 7 p.m. Many congrats to the Free Zone on their 25th anniversary.

They’re doin’ it up right, booking The Dwarves, The Queers and The Gitmos.

Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St., 21+

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M Ward 8 p.m. When he’s not doing the She & Him thing with Zooey Deschanel or making collaborative albums with Monsters of Folk, M. Ward is touring his large catalogue of solo records. His latest is More Rain, which dropped in March with, yes, an actual rainstorm kicking off the album. Big Thief and NAF will open. NAF stands for Nice As Fuck, a new project from Jenny Lewis. Scratch your mid-2000s itch with M. Ward and Jenny Lewis BOTH at this show..

Operator Music Band 7 p.m. Lo-fi kraut rock is always in style, and that’s what Operator peddles. Pink Breeze (Jacob Gardner, Carrington Clinton) will open.

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I’m a 33-year-old straight guy with a small dick. I have a girlfriend of seven years. When we met, I was really insecure and she had to spend a lot of time reassuring me that it didn’t matter — she loved my dick, sex with me was great, it was big enough for her, etc. I broke up with her once because I didn’t think she should settle for someone so small. After some hugely painful nights and another near breakup, we are in a good place now.

We have lots of great vanilla sex, we love being together, and we recently got engaged. After everything I put her through — and I put her through hell —how do I tell her that being mocked (and worse) for having a small dick is the only thing I ever think about when I masturbate? I want a woman to punish me emotionally and physically for having such a small and inadequate dick. I’ve never been able to bring myself to tell anyone about my kink.

How do I tell this woman? I basically bullied her into telling me that my dick was big enough — and now I want her to tell me it isn’t big enough. But do I really want her to? I’ve never actually experienced the kind of insulting comments and physical punishments that I fantasize about. What if the reality is shattering?

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DAN SAVAGE: “I was in a similar situation years ago with my then-girlfriend, nowwife,” said TP. “I was too chicken to tell her about my fetish and worried she wasn’t satisfied with my size, so I didn’t want to bring more attention to it. I eventually went to a pro Domme and felt guilty about doing it behind my girlfriend’s back.”

TP, which stands for Tiny Prick, is a prominent member of the SPH (small penis humiliation) fetish scene. TP is active on Twitter (@deliveryboy4m) and maintains a blog devoted to the subject of SPH (his passion) fatandtiny.blogspot.com.

“I got really lucky because I found the Domme I’ve been serving for more than 10 years,” said TP. “It was my Domme who encouraged me to bring up my kinks with my wife. I only wish I had told my wife earlier. She hasn’t turned into a stereotypical dominatrix, but she was open to incorporating some SPH play into our sex life.”

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According to TP, TINY, you’ve already laid the groundwork for the successful incorporation of SPH into your sex life: You’re having good, regular, and satisfying vanilla sex with your partner.

“TINY’s partner is happy with their sex life, so he knows he can satisfy a woman,” said TP. “That will help to separate the fantasy of the humiliation from the reality of their strong relationship. I know if I wasn’t having good vanilla sex, it would be much harder to enjoy the humiliation aspect of SPH.”

It can be hard for people to understand how humiliation can be fun.

When you’re ready to broach the subject with the fiancée, TINY, I would recommend starting with both an apology (“I’m sorry again for what I put you through”) and a warning (“What I’m about to say is probably going to come as a bit of a shock”).

Then tell her you have a major kink you haven’t disclosed, tell her she has a right to know about it before you marry, tell her that most people’s kinks are wrapped up with their biggest fears and anxieties… and she’ll probably be able to guess what you have to tell her before you can get the words out.

“He should explain to her that he doesn’t want to be emotionally hurt as much as he wants to feel exposed and vulnerable, and that can be a thrill,” said TP. “It can be hard for people to understand how humiliation can be fun. But humiliation play is one way to add a new dynamic to their sexual relationship.”

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Five times every day, devout Muslims face their holiest city, Mecca, and say prayers to Allah. Even if you’re not Islamic, I recommend that you carry out your own unique version of this ritual.

The next three weeks will be a favorable time to cultivate a closer relationship with the inspirational influence, the high ideal, or the divine being that reigns supreme in your life. Here’s how you could do it: Identify a place that excites your imagination and provokes a sense of wonder.

Five times a day for the next 21 days, bow in the direction of this treasured spot. Unleash songs, vows, and celebratory expostulations that deepen your fierce and tender commitment to what you trust most and love best.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “The road reaches every place, the short cut only one,” says aphorist James Richardson. In many cases, that’s not a problem. Who Libra

among us has unlimited time and energy? Why leave all the options open? Short cuts can be valuable. It’s often smart to be ruthlessly efficient as we head toward our destination. But here’s a caveat: According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you’re now in a phase when taking short cuts may be counterproductive. To be as well-seasoned as you will need to be to reach your goal, you should probably take the scenic route. The long way around may, in this instance, be the most efficient and effective.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Truth is like the flu,” says poet James Richardson. “I fight it off, but it changes in other bodies and returns in a form to which I am not immune.” In the coming days, Scorpio, I suspect you will experience that riddle first hand — and probably on more than one occasion. Obvious secrets and wild understandings that you have fought against finding out will mutate in just the right way to sneak past your defenses. Unwelcome insights you’ve been trying to ignore will finally wiggle their way into your psyche. Don’t worry, though. These new arrivals will be turn out to be good medicine.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): According to Guinness World records, the most consecutive hours spent riding on a roller coaster is 405 hours and 40 minutes. But I suspect that during the next 15 months, a Sagittarian daredevil may exceed this mark. I have come to this conclusion because I believe your tribe will be especially adept and relatively comfortable at handling steep rises and sudden dips at high speeds. And that won’t be the only rough talent you’ll have in abundance. I’m guessing you could also set new personal bests in the categories of most frequent changes of mind, most heroic leaps of faith, and fastest talking.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Whether we like to admit it or not, all of us have acted like puppets. Bosses and teachers and loved ones can manipulate us even if they’re not in our presence. Our conditioned responses and programmed impulses may control our behavior in the present moment even though they were formed long ago. That’s the bad news. The good news is that now and then moments of lucidity blossom, revealing the puppet strings. We emerge from our unconsciousness and see that we’re under the spell of influential people to whom we have surrendered our power. This is one of those magic times for you, Capricorn.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A few weeks ago you undertook a new course of study in the art of fun and games. You realized you hadn’t been playing hard enough, and took measures to correct the problem. After refamiliarizing yourself with the mysteries of innocent joy, you raised the stakes. You began dabbling with more intensive forms of relief and release. Now you have the chance to go even further: to explore the mysteries of experimental delight. Exuberant escapades may become available to you. Amorous adventures could invite you to explore the frontiers of liberated love. Will you be brave and free enough to meet the challenge of such deeply meaningful gaiety? Meditate on this radical possibility: spiritually adept hedonism.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Poet Sharon Dolin compares artists to sunflowers. They create “a tall flashy flower that then grows heavy with seeds whose small hard shells you must crack to get to the rich nut meat.” As I contemplate the current chapter of your unfolding story, I see you as being engaged in a similar process, even if you’re not literally an artist. To be exact, you’re at the point when you are producing a tall flashy flower. The seeds have not yet begun to form, but they will soon.

Later this year, the rich nut meat inside the small hard shells will be ready to pluck. For now, concentrate on generating your gorgeous, radiant flower.

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