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Derrick Braziel’s Voices column on panhandling received this disparity of reactions: Our system no longer rewards people based on their “hard work, study, talent and other contributions”. Concentration of power/money now dictates the terms of success. Our lawmakers are bought, and are changing the system to one that disregards responsibility at the corporate and/or wealthy individual level. It’s becoming more and more about luck and manipulation at the middle class and poverty levels. It’s becoming a crap shoot in which even a well-adjusted and physically capable person may struggle. Those that don’t have it together enough to work within a manipulated system are screwed. Panhandling is hardly taking an easy route. Using money to rig the system, so that one can screw workers out of their pensions and/or health care - that’s the easy route for making money. Using money to pay lawmakers to deregulate, and then poisoning the environment while turning a higher profit, since you no longer are paying for the real cost of goods sold - that’s the easy route. Panhandlers may or may not be using social services. They may or may not have access to services. That’s almost not relevant to the issue of their right to be there. They are working the free enterprise system, and are doing so without manipulating legislation to benefit themselves at the expense of others. They are playing fair. You don’t have to contribute, and there has been plenty of legislation recently added, to regulate their actions so they don’t impede on others’ rights. You just don’t like them. You shouldn’t get to remove someone from the public sphere simply because you don’t like them, even if they’re costing the city convention business. This city is getting a tad over-managed in many respects, but that’s another issue. — Spare a dollar Derrick says, “On the other, panhandling is the result of a system that has massively failed millions of Americans, because in order to have, others must have not. “ Not sure how you arrived at that. Perhaps the ‘homeless’ have not applied themselves to take advantage of a system that rewards people for hard work, study, talent and other contributions to make society greater. Rather many seem to be taking from society rather than contributing. And there are plenty of social programs to aid misfortunes that befall some folks. See above. Most are scammers look for a fix of whatever. — Roger That
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TALE OF TWO KIDNEYS: A LOVE STORY On May 8, 2013, a woman named Karen Irwin posted a picture of her kidney on Facebook. By Ed Wenck • Cover illustration by Asha Patel
MINUTES WITH THE MAYOR MUSIC 29 As I strolled through the friendly crowd I didn’t anticipate that I’d be ruining anyone’s day – certainly not the mayor of Indianapolis. By Kyle Long
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WHAT HAPPENED? Affordable Care at IU Costs associated with implementing the Affordable Care Act at Indiana University means “there will be folks who will work few hours,” according to Mark Land, IU’s associate vice president for communications. But, he added, “there will also be a small group of people who don’t have insurance now who will.” IU’s human resources department is still working to devise a reliable estimate of the total part-time (including many seasonal and student workers) employees who will have their hours limited to keep them below the ACA’s definition of full-time employees who must be provided with health insurance. Land said that hourly, full-time support and service staff who are employed year-round would not be affected by the changes. “Nobody who has insurance will lose their insurance,” he said, noting that IU will spend an estimated $200 million in health-care costs this year, up about $15 million over last year. The university estimates that the ACA added between $3 million to $5 million to its health care bills. “It’s a challenge to do right by people and run your business,” Land said. “Taxpayers and legislators are looking at every dollar we spend — we’re trying to feel it from both sides and do the best we can.” (RT) A charge for electric vehicles … Bolloré Group, which is known for its electric carsharing program in Paris, on Monday announced its plans to expand into the U.S. — beginning with a $35 million investment in Indianapolis. The program will feature 500 electric vehicles and 1,200 charging stations at 200 car-share locations. City officials said the installation would be the largest all-electric system in the U.S. The rates for the Indianapolis service have not yet been established, but in Paris, membership costs $16 per month and a 20 minute trip costs about $4.50. Bolloré will begin hiring local management and marketing teams in the next few months. (AM) Bureaucracy in action … delayed A public meeting scheduled for June 13 on zoning variance requests for a proposed re-development along Central Canal in Broad Ripple — which would be anchored by a 35,000-square-foot Whole Foods store — has been rescheduled at the request of the petitioners. The new hearing is scheduled for 1 p.m. July 11 at the City-County Building’s public assembly room. The move further delayed the release of the Department of Metropolitan Development’s staff report to the Metropolitan Development Commission’s hearing examiner. The hearing was previously delayed by requests from DMD staff, who asked to be provided more information on the project, and the Broad Ripple Village Association. Staff reports to the hearing examiner offer recommendations on whether to approve or deny re-zoning requests. In this case, developers seek variances on the current limits to retail space and total height of mixed-use structures, currently capped at 8,000 square feet and 35 feet, respectively. The public meeting will then allow the examiner to take testimony from the developers, remonstrators and politicians before issuing his recommendation to the MDC. The MDC will then hold another round of hearings before voting on the matter. If the project receives MDC approval, it will proceed to the City-County Council for consideration. (RT) 8 NEWS // 06.12.13 - 06.19.13 // 100% RECYCLED P APER // NUVO
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n line with its goal to help residents “grow well, eat well, live well, and be well,” Growing Places Indy, a local urban farming non-profit, has launched a series of initiatives to enrich whole-person health. The group’s “full-circle vision for healthier communities” is well illustrated by a series of interconnected efforts underway this summer. A volunteer-powered garden at White River State Park supplies a food stand held from 4-6 p.m. Thursdays at Chase Near Eastside Legacy Center on the Tech High School campus, and a donation-based yoga class subsidizes purchases for low-income food stand shoppers. In addition, to these activities, Growing Places Indy is hosting a weekly discussion on food-related issues from 1-2 p.m. on Wednesdays, through Aug. 7, at the Platform at City Market. And the group’s cooking classes and apprentice pro-
culture program, which supplies seasonal gram are booked for the season. subscribers with weekly deliveries of fresh By facilitating the development and produce — all grown without chemical growth of the local food and farm network, fertilizers or pesticides. the group is working to realize its vision of “We don’t have a food culture; we “a sustainable future for urban and farm need to reclaim it,” Tyler said as he land ecology, a burgeoning local food tended to the Legacy Center gardens last economy, and a vibrant and diverse food culture in Indianapolis.” Laura and Tyler Henderson, who are, respectively, the execu“We don’t have a food culture, tive director and farm manager we need to reclaim it.” of the Growing Places Indy, were involved in Slow Food Indy before branching into their own — TYLER HENDERSON, GROWING PLACES organization. They had planted INDY FARM MANAGER urban gardens for R Bistro, Goose the Market, Indiana Thursday afternoon. Humanities and Black Market before Bob The gardening experience grows proWhitt, executive director of White River duce, along with greater food awareness State Park, in 2009 asked the Hendersons to and mental well-being for the people develop a garden for the park, now known engaged in the process. as the Wishard Slow Food Garden at White Apprentices in the program span genRiver State Park. erations, though this year’s crop has heavy The group is also the agricultural proparticipation from people in their mid-20s. gramming partner at the Chase Near The apprenticeship is a “wellness boot Eastside Legacy Center where they mancamp,” said Kate, who left her 9-to-5 job and age a 1,000-square-foot greenhouse and is a part-time freelance writer. She explained 2,500 square feet of raised beds. In addition to the farm stand, Growing Places Indy offers a community-supported agriS E E , C U L T I V A T I N G , O N P A G E 10
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THOUGHT BITE Straight Arrow actress and archer Geena Davis is a strong advocate for gender equality among child actors and actresses. Being the original advocate for girl pages in The U.S. House of Representatives, I sense a kinship. — ANDY JACOBS, JR
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Juergen Sommer has seen a lot of high-level soccer in his career — from vantage points on a national championship-winning team at Indiana University (which returned to the finals the following year), the U.S. National Team during the ‘94 World Cup, the English Premiere League and the Columbus Crew. After more than a decade of professional play, he returned to Indiana and began coaching. On Tuesday, Indy Eleven named Sommer as the team’s first head coach and director of soccer operations. “I feel this is right place to be, the right time,” Sommer told NUVO. “Definitely, the sport is at a point where it has reached its tipping point … I’m really proud to be part of this professional soccer team here in Indianapolis and will use all my resources to grow it
the right way and hopefully make it a force in professional soccer in this country.” The process for scouting players is already underway. Sommer said he anticipates developing the backbone of the team around locally grown talent — some players who may still be playing in state and others who may be playing on other teams within the North American Soccer League, Major League Soccer or the U.S. National Team. He plans to supplement this group with a mix of international players who will bring experience and diversity in playing styles to the field. “We’ve already we’ve gotten so much interest from all over the world … emails from as far away as Africa and Argentina to the UK, Denmark, Holland, Mexico … It’s unbelievable the variety of interest players from around the world.” To read NUVO’s complete interview with Sommer, visit NUVO.net.
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that the experience has led her to consider “how we communicate with each other” and reflect on the ways “things we learn on the farm apply in the real world.” Apprentice Jay also picked up on this theme, noting that working with people on the farm leads to more intimate relationships with others in the community, like “building a family.” The garden also provides serendipitous experiences for people visiting White River State Park, such as William, a child who came running up while volunteers were working last week and was excited to eat a carrot he picked all by himself.
STRETCHING DOLLARS AND BODIES In a separate but related effort to increase community wellness, Growing Places Indy also works to cultivate connections at the Chase Near Eastside Legacy Center’s yoga studio. On Thursdays from 4-5 p.m., the group hosts donation-based classes taught by a rotating lineup of teachers from studios around the city. Laura Henderson, who also teaches yoga in addition to shepherding the development of Growing Places Indy, explained that the practice offers a “tool for understanding health on a personal [level] and sustainability as concept.” It grants people time for “mindfulness,” allowing for “understanding ourselves and sustaining ourselves.” And, Tyler Henderson noted, yoga could be an especially useful tool for farmers because farming is “really labor intensive.” Stretching is good, he said, “because [farming] can be quite taxing on the body.” Each class is taught by a new teacher with the intention that students will be inspired to try classes around the city, following instructors they like back to their home studios. The lessons are free, but donations are accepted and used to help support a food stamp matching program at Growing Places Indy’s Legacy Center food stand. The program matches a customer’s food stamps purchases up to $6 per week,
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Farm Manager Tyler Henderson instructing the apprentices and volunteers how and why to trim a tomato plant.
enabling households that may not otherwise be able to pay for fresh produce greater access to the bounty of the White River garden’s harvest. The effort, Laura Henderson explained, fits with the Growing Places Indy’s idea that economic barriers should not prevent access to good, healthy food. The group plans to expand the garden and add “u-pick options” to the Legacy Center operation, which would enable less expensive produce options for people willing to save labor costs by harvesting their own purchases.
KNOW THY SALAD Growing Places Indy also provides knowledge about the connections between food and wellness to the city’s children. In the spring of this year, the non-profit hosted an after-school program with fourth graders. To familiarize the kids with the local vegetables, the class would “try something new every week — and everyone tried it,” Laura said. “The last week they ate a salad they made from the plants they grew …
VOLUNTEER at the Wishard Slow Food Garden at White River State Park throughout the summer Wednesdays from 4-6 p.m. Sign-up for the volunteer email list by contacting farm manager Tyler Henderson at tyler@growingplacesindy.org. SHOP at the farm stand at the Chase Near Eastside Legacy Center on Thursdays from 4-6. STRETCH at the donation-based Legacy Center Thursday yoga classes from 4-5 p.m. to support food stamp matching programs for low-income farm stand shoppers. DISCUSS local food systems from 1-2 p.m. on Wednesdays, through Aug. 7, at the Platform at City Market. SALUTE the sun during Monumental Yoga, a fundraiser for Growing Places Indy and Yoga for 12-Step Recovery, that will bring instructors from studios around the city to lead a massive summer solstice yoga class from noon – 1:30 p.m. June 21 on Monument Circle. DONATE time and/or money. Visit growingplacesindy.org for details. NEXT SEASON: Apply for a free apprenticeship or an 8-week cooking program focused on all-natural ingredients and vegetables.
every single one them ate the salad.” The children in the program and those who come to the gardens get “excited when they get a treat from the garden,” she added. A grant from the Indy Food Fund will also enable Growing Places Indy to host a summer camp for middle school children. Tyler Henderson finds he is as enriched by the experience of sharing his agricultural knowledge as those with whom he shares it. “Training youth and those who care about their food is great for me,” he said.
Karen Irwin July 26 & 27, 8 p.m. The Cabaret at The Columbia Club 121 Monument Circle, Ste. 516 $25-$45. Local theater veteran Karen Irwin pays tribute to Janis Joplin in this musical journey through transformation.
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n May 8, 2013, a woman named Karen Irwin posted a picture of her kidney on Facebook. Not an X-ray. Not an MRI. Not a drawing, not a painting, not an artist’s conception. Her actual, honest-to-God organ; a photograph snapped by an attending nurse in the OR while Irwin’s kidney was, in Karen’s words, “between gigs.” I commented on the photograph: “The top part looks like bacon. The rest looks like British food.” Actually, that was just me trying, and failing, to be comical. The top part did look bacon. The rest looked like a boneless chicken breast – complete with rib meat – that had been left on the cutting board a little too long. Kinda … pinkish/bluish/weirdish. By the way, before you judge, I wasn’t the only one who chimed in with a Hannibal Lecter-esque “human-organ-asfood” gag. A lot of Karen’s friends, it turns 12
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out, are equally morbid. They were also equally touched by what that photo meant. Listen: Karen Irwin’s kidney has come unstuck in Karen Irwin. It’s now stuck in the dude she’s dating.
The naming of the kidneys I went to see Karen in the hospital, two days after the surgery, two days after she’d donated one of her kidneys – the one she’d named Stacey – to her boyfriend. She sat upright, stoned but alert, all the monitors and tubes and appliances and accessories attached to her that one comes to expect to be burdened with when one is wearing one of those ridiculous medical gowns. The room was a flurry. Friends dropped in. Family. She had a visit from an advisor/advocate person whose functions included making sure that no one was holding Karen’s dog or kid
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or grandma or family heirlooms hostage in some kind of extortion-for-organ plot. Her pupils were huge. “What are you on?” I asked her. “Right now … I just switched over to Percocet.” Before we talked motive, before we talked process, before we talked about the recipient and Karen’s relationship to said recipient – I had to hear about the naming of the organ. Some of us name our external parts on occasion – ahem – but you don’t find too many folks walking around with nametags emblazoned with things like “HELLO! My liver’s name is Floyd!” Plus, it was all over social media. I mean all over. My news feed had become Stacebook. Karen explained why her kidneys both received a moniker: “The left one was Dolores and the right one’s Stacey. Stacey was supposed to stay – that’s why her name was Stacey – and Dolores was gonna be the one that went on a suicide mission
to live with Randy.” Once more, for the sake of clarity: Stacey is – sorry, was – Karen’s right kidney. Dolores is her left. Randy Julian is her boyfriend. Karen named Stacey after consulting with medical professionals. But she still didn’t think Stacey would actually stay. “From the minute I started thinking about donating my kidney a couple years ago – prior to even meeting this recipient – I had envisioned my right one. In my dreams – I was always holding the right side of my abdomen …” She trailed off a little. Percocet. Karen Irwin usually finishes her sentences with an unmistakable bang. The doctors, the advisors, everybody with IU Health informed Karen that the left kidney was usually the one that, well, left. Karen insisted she thought the right one was going to exit. A CAT scan revealed that Dolores was 208 grams and Stacey was 203 grams. They were roughly the same weight. A toss-up, sizewise. However, because of the length of the surrounding vessels, the left was usually the best candidate for a transplant. But Dolores – although she left lived on the left – had a spare artery, something that complicated the process of attaching the organ to its new host. Now it was up to the attendant physicians to hammer it out among themselves. Whose job was going to be more difficult – the take-it-out doc or the put-it-in doc? Karen, not the sort who’d let some guy in a lab coat make decisions about Karen’s bod without Karen’s input, informed everybody that, “If it’s all the same to you people, I’d just as soon get rid of Stacey. That’s who I said goodbye to a long time ago.” So Stacey became the one getting a travel agent. “Which is a great relief. Because once you’ve said goodbye to a kidney, you really don’t want to keep that one.” The kidney transplant procedure takes about two to three hours. Recovery time is patient-dependent but most patients (recipients) are feeling fairly good by two to three weeks. Donor recovery time is a bit different but again patientdependent. We suggest that donors stay off work for six weeks (although they have usually recovered much sooner.) Complications are discussed with the potential donor prior to the procedure and are consistent with any other laparoscopic procedure. — DR. TIM TABER, MEDICAL DIRECTOR FOR THE KIDNEY TRANSPLANT PROGRAM AT IU HEALTH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
One working kidney too many Maybe you’ve seen Karen in a Fringe play. Maybe it was Assholes & Aureoles (with Diane Kondrat and help from Eric Pfeffinger). Maybe you‘ve seen her Janis Joplin tribute show, A Piece of Her Heart, which returns for a run at the Cabaret at the Columbia Club July 26 and 27. (Don’t worry – Karen will be all healed up by then. Not to mention 203 grams lighter.) Maybe you’ve caught “Karen-oke.” Maybe you’ve seen her other work. Maybe you’ve met her. If you know Karen personally, or if you’re familiar with her stage chops and/or her attitude, then it’s probably not a big stunner that Karen simply decided one day that she had one working kidney too many when a lot of other folks were walking around with one working kidney too few. Once someone with Karen’s personality type decides that
the donation of an organ is Something That Should Be Accomplished, there ain’t much that’ll stop said task. So – it’s not a surprise that Karen wanted to do something like donate a kidney. But where does that come from? What’s the impetus for the idea itself? What’s the trigger? What makes somebody decide to be an organ donor? “I honestly don’t know.” She’s searching for words, suddenly. These aren’t the meds talking. This is a rarity: Karen Irwin, momentarily unable to express herself. Turns out there’s more than one reason. She’s having trouble prioritizing. REASON 1: She was purging. Unloading. Getting rid of stuff. She quit drinking. Didn’t need it. That wasn’t challenging enough. So she quit smoking. OK, now what? Sold everything she felt she didn’t need. More satisfaction. Less consumption. Less stuff. REASON 2: She’d been on the bone-marrow donor list since she was 17. And nobody wanted her bone marrow. “And frankly, that’s a little insulting. What is wrong with my bone marrow?” Surely, somebody would want a healthy kidney, right? Right? REASON 3: Karen’s dad had been on the lung transplant list. As a recipient, since they don’t let you give those away. (He’s got a fresh one now.) Note: Karen didn’t cite that as a reason. That’s just me, playing armchair shrink. REASON 4: Karen’s not going to have children. However: something can be taken out of her that will provide life. But we’ll get back to that.
Randy’s kidneys ate themselves While Karen was purging, she also became a server. She “ran away to Zionsville.” In the midst of sorting out what she still needed to get rid of, she now had an answer for those who queried: “So, Karen, what are you doing these days?” “Well, I’m thinking about getting rid of a kidney.” This was not to elicit shock, mind you. That’s honestly not the way Karen’s brain works, believe it or not. Irwin is part anthropologist. She wants to see what happens when The Answer They Didn’t Expect lands on The Unsuspecting Ear. If it shocks, so be it, if it saddens, so be it, if it amuses, win-win. Karen didn’t like the responses she was getting. A lot of times the comeback was, “What if you NEED it?” That horrified her. I pointed out that it seemed a logical response: if one goes to hell, you’ve got a backup. Irwin shook her head. “The disease that Randy got – his kidneys ate themselves.” They were both working – kind of. They were both doing the same thing at the same time. And they were both dying. About 10 years ago, I was diagnosed with a thing that hardly anybody can pronounce, a thing called glomerulosclerosis – which is a scarring of the filter sacs in the kidney. You’ve got about a million of them per kidney, and you need about a million total to live a normal life – which is why you can get away with living with one kidney. I ended up on a very harsh steroid therapy for a year – and we thought we had it under control. There’s two forms of the disease. … If you
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Showing their scars and their love: Randy and Karen; Stacey is the Karen-named kidney that now resides in Randy.
have the fast acting one, then the steroid therapy almost always cools it down. ... If you have the slow acting one, you’re inevitably going to end up on dialysis – and with a transplant. — RANDY, RECIPIENT OF STACEY
203 grams of tissue As Karen and I were talking, there was a gent in another wing of the fourth floor of University Hospital, a guy who’d just received 203 grams of tissue that had come unstuck from Karen Irwin. Again, his name’s Randy, and he and Karen are now connected in ways most couples aren’t. OK – so how did the donor and recipient get to be linked – romantically … and renal-ly? “I went on line,” Karen explained, “and I started feeling real judge-y: ‘I want someone to do something GOOD with my kidney’.” Karen wanted her kidney to have a good home – and then realized that was a horrible place to start. “As soon as I started having those judgments, I realized I didn’t want to be the person who made this decision.” Karen decided to be an “altruistic” donor: a live donor who just wants to give an organ to the next needy human who’s a match. About 40 percent of IU Health’s kidney transplants involve living donors. We have about one or two non-directed altruistic donors annually. The relationship of the donor to the potential recipient has been changing with the advent of paired donation. Specifically, more donors are not related to the recipient than in the past. — DR. TABER As Karen was doing her research, she began crushing on a regular at the restaurant where she worked. Their conversations were scintillating, interesting. He came in three times a week. She enjoyed his company. He asked her out. On their first date, Randy cleared the air: Karen needed to know something. His kidneys were failing. He was on home dialysis. Karen’s immediate response: “What’s your blood type?” August of last year, (both my kidneys) failed profoundly. I ended up getting real-
ly sick and had a surgery to put in a dialysis catheter. There’s two types of dialysis – one where they take blood out of your arm, pump it through this thing that’s the size of a Coke machine, and then pump it back in – that’s called hemodialysis. I chose an alternative dialysis therapy that uses the peritoneum, which is the sac that holds all of your organs together. They implanted a catheter and then I filled that abdominal cavity with two liters of fluid four times a day. That allowed me a nominally active life. In my case, the catheter had shifted to a very uncomfortable spot, rubbing up against some crazy nerve, and so it took almost two hours to do a fill. — RANDY
Closely related to Gnostic Christians If you’re like me, you were incredulous when you heard this – skeptical, even. The cynic in me looked askance at the chain of events: Karen just happened to be thinking about donating a kidney, and just happened to meet somebody who needed one. What? I eyeballed Karen. “He had no foreknowledge of the fact that you were interested in donating a kidney?” Karen eyeballed me back. “No,” was all she said – but I’ve known Karen long enough to realize what she was thinking. Don’t even go there, buddy. OK. This is Karen Freaking Irwin we’re talking about. There’s no way this woman could be snowed. A professional actress who’d managed to pay the rent for years in a town like Indy – that’s somebody who could spot a huckster at a thousand paces. “Are you religious?” I asked. “I am now.” She paused. “I’ve always been spiritual. I don’t know that I claim any specific religion here. I’m most closely related to Gnostic Christians, based on the research I’ve done – however, I always have felt … when I allow myself to be, I’m led to the next right thing. And in this particular case, at no point have I been afraid, at no point have I questioned it – it’s just the next right thing. It makes total sense.” Karen had gone from an “altruistic” donor to what’s called an “emotional” donor – you’re giving a kidney to a friend. (There are also what are called “familial” donors.) But for Karen, on some level, she was still, at
least in part, an “altruistic” donor. “These were two very separate things, the dating and the kidney. There was a lot of conversation about that aspect of it – before I knew I was a match, even,” Karen explained. “And then … I was asked who my support network might be?” Randy offered, but Karen wasn’t down with it – Randy would be recovering himself, and there was still a question as to whether or not the two would be medically compatible. Love her as they do, Karen’s parents wouldn’t have been a good option for “support” in this particular instance. Her dad had just gotten a lung – and the recovery process for that was a hell of a lot more involved than getting a new kidney. Karen thought about it some more. There was an option called “chain donation”; if Karen donated a kidney to a third-party match, then another kidney involved in that donor/recipient pairing would hopefully wind up in Randy. This process obviously wouldn’t happen overnight, so Karen set the terms: one year. She’d go on the list for a year. Then after that year, if there wasn’t a viable chain, she was simply going to release Stacey or Dolores into the wild: first come, first served. As she told Randy: “I’m not going to be hoarding my kidney for you.” Randy’s response really sealed the deal for Irwin: He told her that no matter who got Karen’s kidney, he’d be her support network. Donors are tested both physically and psychologically. They have multiple tests including CT scans of their abdomen/blood tests in addition to seeing a nephrologist for a history and physical exam. In addition, they are seen by a psychologist prior to donation. — DR. TABER
Part of the life cycle To recap, at this point – healthy kidney? Check. Donor match? Got it. The best of intentions from all parties? Absolutely. There was only one thing now that concerned Ms. Irwin. “I was kinda worried about the psychological test, quite frankly. I don’t see the world like a lotta these people do. And one of the things they kept saying to me was ‘There is no benefit to you.’ ” NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 06.12.13 - 06.19.13 // COVER STORY 13
INTERESTED IN DONATING? OKAY, I’M INTERESTED IN DONATING A KIDNEY. WHO DO I CALL?
Call IU Health Transplant Monday through Friday, 8-4pm, 800-382-4602 or 317-944-4370 and ask to speak with the living donor coordinator.
WHAT’S THE PROCESS ENTAIL?
We do a phone interview with the potential donor regarding their health history to determine if they meet the criteria.
WHAT DO I HAVE TO PROVIDE?
Your medical history and the name of the potential recipient.
WHAT KIND OF TESTING HAPPENS?
Genetic testing for compatibility, then a full medical evaluation to determine if the potential donor is healthy enough to donate a kidney.
I WANT TO DONATE TO A FRIEND OR FAMILY MEMBER – WHAT DO I NEED TO KNOW? WHAT IF I WANT TO DONATE TO A STRANGER?
Call the transplant center and we will educate and guide you thru each step of being evaluated.
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On their first date, Randy cleared the air: Karen needed to know something. His kidneys were failing. He was on home dialysis. Karen’s immediate response: “What’s your blood type?”
That bugged Karen. Immensely. “In order to be a kidney donor, you have to be one of the most healthy people on the planet. Kidney donors, on average, live 15 percent longer than other people – not because they got rid of their kidney, but because they were already healthier. I had to jump through a LOT of hoops – genetic testing, I had collect my pee for 24 hours straight, I had more vials of blood taken for this than anything in my life. And they kept saying to me, ‘We have to do all this – we have to make sure that nothing could possibly go wrong, keep you as low risk as possible – because there is no benefit to you.’ “And it kept making me angry. “What do you mean there’s no benefit to me? There’s no benefit that you can mark down in your books … but what’s the real benefit of having children? “What’s the physical, health-related benefit?” Karen is not having children. But she wanted to be a part of the life cycle. Karen noted that women completely got this concept – in fact, more of her female friends than men were aboard with the idea when Karen had the chance to explain her reasons. There was another thing that Karen and Randy had in common when it came to the perception of the process, something that expectant couples also do: When Karen and Randy’s blood first matched, they didn’t want to tell anybody. It was too early in the process. Randy said to Karen: “It’s like telling people in the first trimester.” The first step is to make sure the patient’s blood type is compatible with the donor’s. If that is not the case, paired donation is an option. After 14
that, we look at six HLA antigens to determine the closeness of the match. — DR. TABER
Romantic bonding The surgery was a complete success. As of this writing, Stacey is running like a faucet; Randy has to pee a lot. His bladder has shrunk from underuse. I ask Karen how she’s feeling. “GREAT. I’m not turning cartwheels yet, but I was never very good at cartwheels. I guess I should learn, ya know? How to do cartwheels.” Yeah, that’s Irwin off Percocet, all right. She’s got some incision pain, some gas – but she’s off the painkillers. Randy is sitting at his kitchen table. He’s carefully stowing his meds away – the regimen of drugs that keeps his body from treating Stacey like some alien xenomorph. He’s a single dad, four kids, nice house, owns his own business. He’s successful. He’s a quiet guy. He’s an introspective guy. He climbs mountains for grins. He’s got an almost Zen-like vibe about him: measured, calm. He’s a nice guy – a really, really nice guy. I mention, point blank, three weeks after the surgery, that there are those who will react much like I did initially – that Randy surely must have had some foreknowledge that Karen was interested in donating a kidney. He purposefully wooed his organ-to-be like some kind of kidney-hunting mercenary. Karen, across the table from me, laughs out loud. This is a vastly different reaction than the one she gave me at
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University Hospital. Randy smiles at the question and Karen’s reaction. It’s obvious this has come up in conversation between the two of them – or with others. “I wish that had been the case – we could’ve arranged the donation without it becoming a romantic relationship. She was as interested in it as anything. So even if I had known about her interest, she was looking for the right kind of person to donate to and I probably would have talked to her about it anyway.” Randy pauses. “For me, it was just one of those miraculous moments that I don’t believe in.” Randy is a scientist. Karen is an actress. They are dating. And part of Karen now belongs to Randy, in the most physical manifestation of romantic bonding anyone’s ever come up with.
My bacon gag was rather prophetic. Karen and Randy reminisce about their time in the hospital the same way new parents might: this happened, that happened, this doctor was a nut, this nurse was terrific, and so on. They finish each other’s sentences. This is, simply put, a happy couple. There’s one wrinkle, I figure, though – one thing Randy has to concern himself with: If he and Karen stay together, she’s got the ultimate trump card when they fight.
Grieving for lost parts
“Yeah,” admits Randy, “we’ve already gone down that path.” There’s laughter all around. Actually, Karen’s been using it to counter when other people squawk about some disappointment or issue in their lives. “Well, YOU didn’t give away a kidney, now, didja?” Plus, according to Karen, Randy doesn’t do “mad” very well. “At one point, we had what I would consider an argument. I was mad at him, and he really wasn’t acting mad at me, and I got really frustrated and said, ‘Ya know – you’re allowed to get mad at me – I’ll still give ya my kidney.’ ” The two exchange a look. A slight smile, an absolute locking of the gaze. It’s a look I recognize. It’s the look a man and a woman give one another when she’s had his child.
The doctors had warned Karen that she might suffer from some depression after the donation. The speculation is that when you lose a part of yourself, you grieve for it. Karen thinks that it’s more than likely a symptom of adrenaline buildup and post-op crash. Either way, she’s having none of it. Karen, who can be something of a black-humored wiseass, is about as sunny as I’ve ever seen her. For his part, Randy’s allowed the spotlight to be turned on his private life so that he could explain the process of live donation. He also told me that in perhaps two years, the whole thing becomes moot. Researchers are breeding pigs with kidneys that won’t be rejected by the human body.
HE: “Your crap is all over the bathroom.” SHE: “Oh, yeah? I gave you a kidney.” HE: “You dented the car?” SHE: “Big deal. I gave you a kidney.” HE: “I wanna watch football.” SHE: “Tough. I gave you a kidney.”
OPENING NoExit: This Is Not Shakespeare’s MacBeth Here’s director Michael Burke on his new adaptation of MacBeth: “When the idea of doing Macbeth was thrown onto the table, I immediately thought about the decapitation scene. I didn’t want to show the audience a fake plastic head and ruin the reality, so I came up with a way for Macbeth to lose his head, without actually losing his head.” Hence, MacBeth has already lost his head as the action begins; the play is set in a mental hospital, and doctor and patients are seen staging traumas from MacBeth’s past toward a therapeutic end. Head to nuvo.net for a preview. Irvington Office Center (338 S. Arlington Ave.), June 13-29, noexitperformance.org
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CONTINUING Intimate Opera: Julius Caesar t Intimate Opera really means it when it says “intimate.” The company took Handel’s Julius Caesar, chopped its length significantly, threw out a few characters, staged it in a tiny hall and on an even smaller stage and substantially downsized the orchestra. That takes a lot of chutzpah, and while they may not have always sung the 1724 opera with precision or perfected technique, a gusto and enthusiasm for the craft was there. (Much less precise was the five-piece orchestra. Karen Palmer (Cleopatra) has a huge stage presence with a voice to match and was the clear star. The part of grieving widow Cornelia went to Kimberly Wallace, who gave an emotive performance, as did Carissa Riedesel as Cornelia’s son, Sesto. — Chantal Incandela IndyFringe Theatre, June 14-15, intimateopera.org
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REVIEW ISO: MacMillan and Lutoslawski e Leave it to music director Krzysztof Urbanski to defy convention in concluding an ISO classical season. We usually get is a big, familiar warhorse, but last weekend’s program featured two large works by James MacMillan and Witold Lutoslawski. Veteran French pianist JeanYves Thibaudet returned to perform MacMillan’s Piano Concerto No. 3, “The Mysteries of Light” (written in 2011). Programmatically dealing with the Catholic Rosary, it’s an extravagantly colorful orchestral display, with the piano sometimes taking a back seat to multifarious ensemble textures and percussion. Modernisms were intermingled with quieter, more tonal portions, though Thibaudet also, at one point, began a 12-tone row, playing by himself one note at a time. This music covered all bases. Carefully prepared, Urbanski was in peak form throughout while Thibaudet, in bowing to the concerto’s compositional aspects, failed to impress as much he has with piano-against-orchestra Romantic concertos. Brilliant is an apt description for Lutoslawski’s Concerto for Orchestra (1954). Every section has a solo part, with solo instruments often peeking out. And once again Urbanski had its measure throughout, including its big, epic final movement: a passacaglia, toccata and chorale. Any time I hear our orchestra play any piece with this degree of precision, I want to hear it, no matter its style. — Tom Aldridge Hilbert Circle Theatre, June 8-9
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his weekend, bobdirex — the directing and producing arm of former American Cabaret Theatre head Bob Harbin — opens Monty Python’s Spamalot, the takeoff on the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail that won a Best Musical Tony in 2005. Recent bobdirex productions of Cabaret and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum have grown the audience base, filling seats at the Athenaeum Theatre. Harbin took time from rehearsals to chat with NUVO. NUVO: What is unique about bobdirex? BOB HARBIN: Through bobdirex I provide a couple different environments for our theatre community. It is fulfilling to challenge some of the conventional casting and shake things up a bit, to present a local actor in a role unexpected. bobdirex is the perfect middle ground to mix the professional with the non-professional actor and technician — community theatre people get to work with Equity members. My actors and technicians receive a salary — that provides an extra validation for their work. NUVO: What does Bob Harbin do when
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not in the midst of directing a production? HARBIN: Bob Harbin gets his butt out and puts it into other theatre seats. I go to as much local theatre as possible. Movies can always be seen later. Going to theatre is great for the casting process. It helps to know everyone on the playing field. NUVO: Why perform at the Athenaeum? HARBIN: When I first worked there in 2006, I fell in love with the theatre space, the intimacy of cabaret seating, the imperfections of an old theatre and the ghost. The Athenaeum Foundation is trying to save the space. I want to support them financially and by getting as many different patrons into the space as possible. NUVO: Why Spamalot? HARBIN: Mostly I want to speak about costume designer, Jeff Farley, who has come up with 80 costumes he created or custom-built. I think we could all use a bit of harmless funny fun. I grew up on the Three Stooges, Benny Hill and Monty Python. They are irreverent without being improper. It’s terrific work-
ing with actors of all ages. The older ones recreate this style of humor and introduce it to the younger actors. We hope older audience members will remember the jokes and younger ones will enjoy this different kind of humor. Audience members better remember to take their wallets and keys and leave the tablecloth. And if they have been highly entertained, then we have all done our job.
The company players bobdirex has established a company of actors – NUVO asked why they keep coming back. JENEE MICHELLE: Bob is the only director I’ve worked with in Indy. I left the worlds of theatre and dance ten years ago only to return when I met Bob. He’s reached out to me, and I found dance again. We have walked through some fire together, and so I continue playing in his sandbox. CHARLES GOAD: From start to finish, it’s just plain fun and silly, and I have the least challenging role. I get to stand there and look ... kingly. I get to sing and dance, but the other actors in the show? They’re incredible. DAVE ROSENCRANS: Bob makes the stage and rehearsal spaces a safe and fun environment to explore talents and highlight strengths in the performer; that is something special. CLAIRE WILCHER: There’s no one around with a bigger heart and a greater sense of generosity to actors than Bob. He’s not afraid to play.
Institute for Relationship Research, Indianapolis Do you drink alcohol? Are you in a romantic relationship? If you answered yes to both of these questions then you may be eligible to participate in a Purdue University study on the relationship between alcohol and behavior. Call the Purdue Institute for Relationship Research in Indianapolis at 317-222-4265, or go to http://sparc.psyc. purdue.edu to ďŹ nd out more about this study. If eligible, you will be compensated between $10 to $100. Must be 21 and over to participate.
REVIEW Limestone Comedy Festival Wrap-up Three packed days of comedy almost killed organizers Mat AlanoMartin and Jared Thompson, who were run ragged putting together the inaugural iteration of this comedy fest. But thanks to the hilarity gods, they survived and are already scheduling next year’s date. Headliners Tig Notaro and Maria Bamford packed the Buskirk-Chumley on Thursday and Friday while smaller venues including The Bishop and The John Waldron Arts Center hosted revolving shows with regional and local comics. Notable moments: Comedy Film Nerd podcast host Graham Elwood climbing over seats during an impromptu Bon Jovi karaoke performance. And a stirring round of applause as “Filmed Entirely in Bloomington, Indiana” appeared on screen during the Benson Movie Interruption screening of Breaking Away. But it was the Blooming10 showcase of 10 local comics that was the best part of the fest. Comics like Joshua Murphy, Tom Brady and David Britton prove there’s more than limestone in Indiana. We can’t wait for next year. — Katherine Coplen Bloomington, June 6-8
EVENTS Preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse This just in: The Indiana History Center has become ground zero for an outbreak of Virus Z, which reanimates the dead and turns them into mindless, cannibalistic monsters. Thanks to the quick response of public health officials with the Indiana State Department of Health and first responders from the Indiana Department of Homeland Security, the virus has been largely contained, and the Center is serving as both a command center for local responders and a relief station for the Red Cross. Guests to the Center will have an opportunity to interact with rehabilitated zombies and learn survival skills, including first aid and bartering techniques. Alcohol and food will be provided. Indiana History Center, June 19, 7 p.m., $30 public, $25 IHS members, indianahistory.org Sullivan and Son tour All your favorites from the Vince Vaughn-produced TBS sitcom — Steve Byrne, Owen Benjamin, Roy Wood, Jr. and Ahmed Ahmed — live and in person. Crackers Broad Ripple, June 16, 8:30 p.m., $17.50 Comedy at the Sinking Ship Co-owned by the member of one local punk act and staffed by remnants of many others, SoBro’s Sinking Ship isn’t the first place many would think to go for standup. But two years ago, they opened their doors and tables to local comic Cam O’Connor every Sunday night. O’Connor books a diverse group weekly, securing top alt comics and giving burgeoning locals a place to drop in. Upcoming headlines include Mark Chalifoux (June 16) and Matt Ward (June 30). Sundays, 9 p.m.
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im Gaffigan’s “inner voice” — which provides judgmental running commentary to his standup act — gets to kick off his new book, Dad Is Fat, commandeering the preface: “Jim Gaffigan wrote a book? Isn’t he the Hot Pocket guy?” From then on, the essay collection belongs to the Chesterton, Ind.-born Gaffigan, joined by a cast of characters consisting of himself, his wife and their five children, all of whom live in a twobedroom apartment in Brooklyn. NUVO: Besides the preface, you didn’t try to replicate your inner voice in the book. JIM GAFFIGAN: I wrote this with my wife, and we contemplated having a rebuttal from the inside voice on every essay, but it felt complicated, and I wasn’t sure of how effective it would have been. And you can incorporate other points of view into an essay, whereas in stand-up, if I say, “I love bacon,” I can’t then shift gears and say, “I don’t appreciate all this bacon talk. I have high cholesterol.” NUVO: How did these essays start out? GAFFIGAN: With my stand-up act, I strive to have it appeal to everyone in the room. I always had some kids’ material, but a great majority of my act could appeal to someone whether they’re 12 or 60, have kids, are married or are single. I would find myself almost censoring myself by not including some kids material or limiting it. But with Twitter I found myself having an outlet for some of these observations about parenting. I would say that initially some of these essays started off as Tweets — commenting that candy is a kid’s currency, or how lollipops are just flavored muzzles for children. Then the next step would be compiling them into essays, and then my wife would turn some of my insane drivel into something of coherence. In standup, you get in the habit of trying to communicate an idea in the shortest way possible, even communicating non-verbally. With an essay you don’t even have the context of someone speaking. NUVO: Do you keep the two bedroom apartment your family lives in by choice? GAFFIGAN: It’s not like we’re trying to prove something: “I’m going to raise all my kids in a two-bedroom!” Some of it was economics, but some of it is when a woman is seven months pregnant, it’s not a good time to turn to them and say, “Let’s pack up and move,” even if it’s two blocks away, and given that my wife has been pregnant has been pregnant for eight years straight, there really hasn’t been an ideal time. But we’ve been looking for two or three years now, and there’s definitely an expectation that we’re going to move.
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NUVO: Would you consider writing another book?
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GAFFIGAN: Yeah I would definitely consider writing another book, not right away. I enjoyed the process. Initially, I just wanted this book to be observational stuff, because I think we’re in this strange era of mass voyeurism and exhibitionism. I didn’t want to say anything about my personal family. I just wanted to say, “All right, here’s my thing on diapers.” Eventually, I came back to that and went beyond my point of view and provided some biographical stuff.
NUVO: It seems like you assume you’re at this point because of your wife’s fertility.
NUVO: How did you get to be okay with that — you have pictures, names in there.
GAFFIGAN: It’s interesting to even joke around about that, right? I joke around and say, “My wife is so fertile I don’t even let her hold avocados,” but it’s weird because when you’re single, the last thing you want to do is accidentally get your girlfriend pregnant. You want to have control, but once you get married, it’s amazing because tons of friends want to have kids — and they’ve been married for a couple of years — and it’s a struggle.
GAFFIGAN: I guess it’s just well-intended, and somehow I thought it was safe. I would never do a reality show, but Jeannie and I had the opinion that even if no one buys this book, we’ve chronicled a time in our children’s lives.
NUVO: I wonder if you’ve passed up parts in movies because they would keep you away from your family. GAFFIGAN: I’m not sure if my discussing this ended up in the book, but there are movie roles that are pretty small parts that I’ve turned down because I’m not going to go to Alaska for six weeks and say four lines. Even during this book tour, it’s a calculation; I’m meeting them in Milwaukee, but I will have been gone for a week. That’s nothing compared to some of the soldiers that have been over in Afghanistan, but if you have the opportunity to control it, as a dad you’re like, Do I need to go out and be a guest star on this TV show that I don’t even like? NUVO: You gently, humorously point to some of your dad’s flaws in one essay. GAFFIGAN: A father in the 1920s, from a societal standpoint, had nothing to do, no responsibility. My father versus my grandfather, my dad probably made enormous leaps and bounds — and my children, my sons, will hopefully be much better fathers than I was. I joke around that eventually we’re all just going to become women, but there is something about men where we’re evolving in the role of father. NUVO: Have you heard any feedback from the mothers of America? GAFFIGAN: Mothers definitely appreciate me acknowledging Jeannie in the book, and acknowledging that I don’t know what I’m doing, articulating how a husband might feel like a Vice President.
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A horn-of-plenty of reviews, including stops at iMOCA, the Stutz, Gallery 924 and the Conrad
Heather Stamenov: TA-DA! w Take one glance at Stamenov’s large-scale oil paintings and you’ll see why she was a shoo-in for the Stutz Residency program this year. Her deadon depictions of adolescent girls having fun — accomplished with bold splashy brushstrokes and thick gobs of paint — are a must-see. Check out “Happy Birthday, Harmonized,” where you see 12 or so people, mostly girls, on their backs, on air-mattresses in the flowing waters of a river, singing and flipping the bird — so to speak — to life’s troubles. — Dan Grossman Primary Gallery through June 20
Emily Schwank: These are the days that must happen to you r These photographs document Schwank’s recent trip to Northern Ireland with her daughter, who is often a subject in this series. In the photograph “The Space Between - Belfast 2013,” you see Schwank’s sister — a peace facilitator — walking along the border between Protestant and Catholic neighborhoods in Belfast. A number of other Schwank’s photographs are similarly imbued with rich metaphorical content, spurred by the setting and clever framing. — Dan Grossman M10 Gallery, through June 30 by appointment and June 22, noon to 4 p.m.
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Nathaniel Russell: The Opposite of Lost w At a glance, this room at iMOCA seems a bit, well, mundane, in that it’s merely a row of fliers — mostly 8” by 11” but some are larger — with a rough, handdrawn approach. Feast your eyes on one, though, and the laughter begins. There are numerous guffawout-loud fake fliers in this show that blends photos with simple messages. It appears to be rather crude in its approach, but the effect is delicate as the show captures the idea that fliers are the last frontier of true, unmediated human expression — an expression that transcends our preoccupation with presentation, design and coolness. —Jim Poyser Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, through June 20
Indianapolis Art Center: Under Construction It’s all about “construction,” in its many facets, at the Art Center this summer. Seven artists are on the bill. The North Carolina-based Scott Hazard’s assemblages combine photos with cut paper and text. Chicago’s Katie Volta’s installations are inspired by the structures of plants, as seen on a microscopic level. Garry Noland traveled from Kansas City to create large-scale, site-specific collages constructed out of adhesive tape in the Center’s hallway galleries. And Margi Weir depicts the ruins of her native Detroit in watercolors. The above artists’ work is part of a single group exhibition; three others will present individual shows. The Indy-born Stacey Lee Webber, who was last seen at the Smithsonian Gallery in Washington, D.C., uses coins of little value to create sculptures both finely-wrought and socially-aware. Leslie Mutchler’s exhibition TrendFACTORY — which is devoted to education and research — invites the gallery-goer to take part in the construction of a piece. And Houston’s Lee Littlefield is featured in the ArtsPark and library; his sculptures make use of wood and vine in evoking the Louisiana Bayou. Opening reception June 14, 6-8 p.m.; on display through Aug. 4
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Russell Young, Robert Indiana, and Whitfield Lovell: Rethinking the American Dream e The selected works by MacArthur Genius Grant winner Whitfield Lovell are the standouts here. Lovell’s sharply-detailed portraits, drawn in Conté on surfaces ranging from paper to wood, evoke the breadth of African-American history. The portrait of a young woman on paper in “Kin XX (Be My Knife)” is part of his thought-provoking series including found objects — this one includes an actual knife. But I don’t know if the adjacent Russell Young screen prints featuring portraits of Native American chiefs — and incorporating sparkly diamond dust as a medium — do anything other than to commodify a painful chapter in American history. The addition of Robert Indiana prints from his American Dream no. 5 series, however, was a good choice. —Dan Grossman Long-Sharp Gallery at The Conrad, through June 30 Self-Portrait Show r This show features 43 self-portraits — by the loosest definition of the form — by 43 Indy artists. The ones that drew me in didn’t leave the world of representation behind. A.J. Nafziger’s painting “Self Portrait,” which portrays the artist decked out in Christmas lights, is as conceptually intriguing as it is technically sharp. Evan Hauser’s ceramic and mixed media sculpture “War Childs,” featuring a boy and a girl breathing out of the same gas mask, might make you wonder about the possibility of finding love in a world where the very air we breathe is under threat. — Dan Grossman Gallery 924 at Arts Council of Indianapolis, through July 26
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Rutherford Chang: We Buy White Albums r The Beatles’ White Album, with its allwhite cover, is something of a blank canvas (at least in its first vinyl edition). Might that be the secret to its visual appeal? In Chang’s “record store,” consisting of 750 first edition pressings of the double album, you see a number of covers that are adorned with stickers or drawn on with pen or marker. The artistic utility of its cover, then, as well as the mind-boggling diversity of the music contained within, make it the ideal desert island LP. — Dan Grossman Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art through June 20 Freddie Kelvin r Kelvin’s photography exhibit encircles the Rotunda at the Hilbert with an eclectic mix of his wide-ranging interests. Of particular note is his penchant for slicing through the obvious to the particular. His keen insight into dance movement allows Zach Young’s body language to merge with the iridescence of the ball as prop in “Afternoon of a Faun” and unleashes Mariel Greenlee’s joyful “Summer Sizzle.” Initially known for his landscapes, Kelvin here provides a retrospective from straightforward reality to playing with light for refracted imagery. “Yosemite” particularly compels with its layerings of what the water reflects. Stop at the ISO Box Office for free entrance up the stairs. – Rita Kohn Hilbert Circle Theatre, through June 30 5
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Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy reprise their roles as Jesse and Celine in Before Midnight. Before Midnight e Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) met in 1995’s Before Sunrise, and rekindled their romance in 2004’s Before Sunset. This installment of the collaboration between director Richard Linklater and the two actors (who are co-credited as writers with Linklater) finds the couple nearing the end of a six week vacation in Greece. They have kids and conflicts, presented with gloriously long takes that allow conversations and/or arguments to fully play out. Some scenes are hard to watch – not because of any structural, performance or pacing problems, but because they feel so real. A must for fans of the series, but newcomers will have no trouble stepping in. (R) — Ed Johnson-Ott Rated R, Opening Friday The East r Political thriller about a former FBI agent (Brit Marling, who co-wrote the screenplay with director Zal Batmanglij) assigned by a private intelligence firm to go undercover with The East, a radical collective wreaking vengeance on corporations that have SUBMITTED PHOTO done wrong. So are they Brit Marling stars as former activists or terrorists? agent Sarah in The East And will the tres attractive female undercover operative notice that the leader of the collective is hunky Alexander Skarsgard? The East has murky and far-fetched parts, but manages to remain gripping while maintaining a personal touch. Patricia Clarkson, Ellen Page and Julia Ormond costar. — Ed Johnson-Ott Rated PG-13, Opening Friday
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Henry Cavill in Man of Steel Man of Steel Do we really need another Superman movie? If it’s written by David S. Goyer ( The Dark Knight) and Christopher Nolan (Memento), we do! Zack Snyder (Watchmen, 300) directs as Russell Crowe, Kevin Costner, Amy Adams and Henry Cavill as the journalist/superhero (just like us!) enter the subconscious of yet another wave of pre-pubescent moviegoers, whose nightly rescue fantasies will surely be enhanced by this film. Rated PG-13, Opening Friday
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e nice. Be honest. Put others first. Do these things because they are the right things to do. And because otherwise, you just might get left behind when the Rapture pulls all the good people to Heaven and leaves everybody else to a Hell on earth where monsters roam freely, fiery sinkholes swallow up sinners and pudgy warlords force men to become their dogs. In 2007 actor/writer/co-director Seth Rogen and writer/co-director Evan Goldberg made a nine-minute short film titled, Seth and Jay Versus the Apocalypse for roughly $3,000. The film was never shown, but the 85-second trailer made the rounds. This Is the End is their feature-length adaptation of that comic short. What they’ve cooked up is snarky, juvenile, selfserving and, when you least expect it, surprisingly sweet without betraying its feisty nature. The movie is stuffed with jokes: for every one that falls flat there’s a winner coming a second later. The cast uses their real names and plays exaggerated versions of themselves (sometimes insanely exaggerated, as in the case of mild Michael Cera, hilariously portrayed as a coke-snorting sexual wild man with women hanging off of him like ornaments on a Christmas tree). The device invites the viewer inside the world of L.A. actors, here presented mostly as self-absorbed, neurotic, entitled schmoozers. It’s indulgent, allowing the cast to take shots at each other’s career missteps while charging people to see it, but a lot of their riffing is funny. The set-up: Jay Baruchel flies in from Canada to visit his best friend Seth Rogen. Baruchel is ready for a relaxed visit filled with dope-smoking and video games, but Rogen drags him to a housewarming party at James Franco’s new place, a cubist spectacle designed by Franco himself. Baruchel hates the L.A. showbiz scene and especially doesn’t want to have to interact with the
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unctuous Jonah Hill, but ends up in the middle of the star-studded event, feeling left out and abandoned by his friend. Then the Apocalypse starts. Flaming holes open up in the earth, demons strike, civilization crumbles. The good folks are raptured away, leaving the sinners in the middle of the mess. The party dissolves, leaving Baruchel, Rogen, Franco, Hill and Craig Robinson trapped in the Franco estate. There are visited later by Danny
McBride and Emma Watson. The bulk of the comedy follows the five guys as they try to deal with their circumstance. Body function jokes abound, as do numerous personal digs. Allegiances are formed, then broken. There’s lots of scrapping over food and drink. Just when the homebound setting starts to wear out its welcome, the men are forced to move outside, leading to a conclusion built on first grade Bible School theology that allows a happy ending for some. Credit the five guys for their solid ensemble work. Points to Cera, McBride, Watson and a host of others for rollicking cameos. And to the A-list actor playing the … um, dog, a gold star for being such a good sport. This Is the End is tasteless. Enjoy.
FILM EVENTS Summer Nights: Jurassic Park (1993) All major theme parks have delays. When they opened Disneyland in 1956, nothing worked! — Yeah, but John, if the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don’t eat the tourists. Indianapolis Museum of Art Amphitheater, June 14, 9:30 p.m., $10 public, $6 member
Midnight Movies: The Room Tom Bissell on The Room: “He tried to make a conventional film and wound up with something so inexplicable and casually surreal that no practicing surrealist could ever convincingly ape its form, except by exact imitation. It is the movie that an alien who has never seen a movie might make after having movies thoroughly explained to him.” Keystone Art Cinema, June 14 and 15, midnight, $7.50
Planet Indy: Trashed Jeremy Irons travels the globe — from a landfill in Lebanon to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — in a meditation/ investigation on waste. The Toby, Indianapolis Museum of Art, June 13, 7 p.m., $9 public, $5 member
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Rocky Horror (Pride edition) Prop kits available ($4). Wear costumes. Virgin sacrifice before the show.
Irving Theater, June 15, midnight, $6, 17+ The Court Jester (1955) Danny Kaye is the Jester, Angela Lansbury is the Princess and Basil Rathbone is a murderous Lord in a musical-comedy filmed in both glorious Technicolor and extra-wide VistaVision. Historic Artcraft Theatre (Franklin), June 14 and 15, 2 and 7:30 p.m., $5 adult (discounts available)
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The brewers at RAM downtown received a Silver Medal for their Scottish Ale, Buckfast Commando, at the 2013 North American Beer Awards in Idaho Falls, Idaho. NABA is one of the most elite beer judging events on the continent. Tomlinson Taproom toasted the honor June 7 when the winning Scottish Ale was tapped along with RAM’s 2012 GABF Silver medal-winner, Anaheim IPA. RAM downtown gave awards of their own May 30 in the “Rye Not Homebrewer Challenge.” Shawn Kessel took first place with Eye of Rye; Waber Terhorst took 2nd with Coming Through the Rye, and Jonathan Ware was 3rd with Pale o’ Rye. Great Crescent Brewery Co-owner and Brewmaster Dan Valas has been accepted into Indiana Artisan. Great Crescent Dark Lager and Bourbon’s Barrel Stout were accepted after completing a juried review of each beer and their respective packaging. Great Crescent follows Upland Brewing Company headbrewer Caleb Staton as a Craft Beer Indiana Artisan. Upland Brewing Company launched distribution in Cleveland and Columbus, as of June 10, increasing their Ohio distribution beyond Cincinnati and Southwest Ohio. Volunteer stewards are needed for the 2013 Indiana State Fair Brewers’ Cup Competition. Sign up at brewerscup.org/register. New Brews Downtown we stopped at Rock Bottom for their multi-layered, full-bodied, bitter-sweet, copper-hued Cask conditioned Real Ale, a hoppy, fruity Belgian Pale Ale and Old 59 Barley Wine Ale, a collaboration with RB downtown and College Park and Thr3e Wisemen. At the RAM we sampled their golden sun, refreshingly smooth Rye Ask Rye and the pale yellow, effervescent citrusy Pacific Jade.
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Brew Bracket Pale Ales 16 of Indy’s finest pale ales face off in an afternoon of head-to-head blind tasting. Only one beer can be crowned champion. Expo Hall, Indiana State Fairgrounds, June 15, 3-7 p.m., $45 VIP, $35 general
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Four restaurants featured in Tasting Success: (clockwise from top left) Saigon, Abyssinia, India Palace and Guatelinda. These photos, provided by Kerry Jessup, are part of the Tasting Success exhibition.
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Holy Rosary Italian Street Festival It’s back! After a year off, the Italian Street Festival returns with a special guest (Food Network host Rosella Rago), a race (the inaugural 5K Meatball Madness Fun Run), a bocce tournament, 25 food stands — and, of course, an afternoon mass on both Fri and Sat (4:30 p.m.), preceded by a religious procession headed up by the Virgin herself. Holy Rosary Catholic Church is on the corner of East and Stevens streets, six blocks south of downtown. Parking is available in the Eli Lilly Lots on East and New Jersey streets. Holy Rosary Catholic Church, 520 Stevens St., June 14 and 15, 5-11 p.m., FREE
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n June 15 restaurant owners from the Lafayette Square area will share their firsthand stories and delicious international cuisine at Big Car Service Center. The event, Tasting Success, will feature restaurants such as Abyssinia, Guatelinda, Saigon, India Palace, and Spice Nation, among others. Interviews with restaurant entrepreneurs will be featured throughout the event, as will samples of each restaurant’s food. The event is hosted by Big Car, Welcoming Indianapolis and Exodus Refugee Immigration. Megan Hart of Big Car Service Center is helping to plan. “I’m looking forward to showcasing the stories of local immigrant restaurant owners, not only to let the community know about the incredible food options we have in the Lafayette Square area, but also to give a glimpse into the lives of some really incredible people,” she says. “Tasting Success is an opportunity to share with Lafayette Square residents, as well as neighboring communities, who the foreign-born living and working in their neighborhood are,” says Sarah Johnson, coordinator for Welcoming Indianapolis. “These restaurant owners have purchased vacant buildings, started successful businesses, and are doing so right down the street from people who have lived there from birth,” she says. David, the founder of Beautiful Shades, a
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Nigerian influenced restaurant in Lafayette Square, came to the United States from Nigeria in 2001. “The first time I came to the U.S. I came to Indianapolis,” he explains. “So Indianapolis is home for me now. I do love it. I do absolutely.” He says he’s not a fan of large cities, and that Indianapolis is just the right size. “I just got back from Houston this morning,” he says. “That city is too big! I couldn’t do it. It is family oriented [here in Indianapolis]. A lot of Nigerian communities grew up together and we’re still here.” David enjoys cooking Nigerian dishes, including the ever popular jollof rice. When a hair salon with a primarily African American clientele moved in next door to his restaurant, he decided to try his hand at soul food — now a popular addition to his repertoire. “Rather than just driving by or eating at one of these ethnic restaurants, this exhibit gives the community an occasion to actually meet the owners and learn about when they came to Indianapolis and how they arrived here,” Johnson explains. Tina, founder of Siagon, says that her cuisine hasn’t changed much since the
days her grandmother sold food as a street vendor in Vietnam. “At the time [of our restaurant opening] there weren’t that many Vietnamese restaurants in the area and there was a big need for it, so we decided to open one up,” she explains. “We are a family business, so we are a lot closer together and work well together.” Tina hopes that guests will enjoy the opportunity to explore the ethnic foods provided on Saturday. “I think it’s good to experience things I’ve never had,” she says. “If I go to a Japanese steakhouse where I’ve never experienced it before ... I think it’s good to branch out.” For Kerry Jessup, an AmeriCorps VISTA at Exodus Refugee Immigration, the event signifies an opportunity to bring people together. “A meal prepared with care and intention transcends physical nourishment; it is something that connects people,” she says. “We are lucky to have neighbors in the Lafayette Square area who are so open and passionate about sharing both their food and culture with us.” Stories from foreign-born new Hoosiers seem to resonate closely with those of native-born Hoosiers, Sarah Johnston points out. “Meeting your neighbors is the first step to becoming friends--what better way to kick that relationship off than by sharing stories and eating food together?” Kristin Wright is Director of Development for Exodus Refugee Immigration.
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Drummer Convertino talks Hoosier roots, early music lessons
It’s late on a Wednesday afternoon when I reach Dustin Boltjes, an Indianapolis native and drummer for Athens, Ohio-based metallers Skeletonwitch. He and his bandmates have just checked into a hotel in Ontario. The band has a lucky day off during a run of dates and has spent the time driving towards their next show in Winnipeg. “[The tour] has been really good. You always hit those little, weird towns where you get maybe 50-60 people, but even the smaller crowds like that are stoked. In the big cities like Montreal and Toronto, we do really well,” says Boltjes. “Since I’ve been in the band, we’ve done one previous Canadian headliner, but we’ve also been through Canada on two or three support tours. Canada’s got love for the ‘witch!” Boltjes and the members of Skeletonwitch have been friends since 2008 when they and his former band, Demiricous, toured together. The bands kept in touch over the years, even playing shows together. And when Skeletonwitch found themselves without a drummer in 2011 with their fourth album Forever Abomination scheduled to be recorded in a month, Boltjes stepped up. “Scottie [Hendrick, guitar] called me and said they needed someone to play drums on their new record. We got together to go over the songs which went really well. We knocked the record out, and the rest is history.” A relentless tour across North America and Europe followed, with time in the studio after. The band recently finished recording their fifth album, Serpents Unleashed, with producer (and Converge guitarist) Kurt Ballou at God City Studios, Salem, Mass. Boltjes. The band is extremely happy with the results. “Kurt was great to work with,” said Boltjes. “He kicked my ass, that’s for sure. There was minimal punch-ins and he had a lot of cool input as far as arranging or encouraging us to try something different. I think this record has finally, completely captured the essence of how the band sounds live.” Serpents Unleashed is set for release in October this year, but the band isn’t resting in the meantime. They have one-off shows lined up for Puerto Rico in July, as well as a week of dates opening for Ghost in the United States. Their current tour, however, ends in Indianapolis on Monday, June 17 with a free show at The Sinking Ship. “[The show] was my idea. I’ve been in this band for a while now and no tour we’ve done has come through Indianapolis. I got with the folks at the Ship, we got [Butler] Scion involved and it turned out to be a pretty awesome thing.” The event is also a benefit for Three Carrots, a vegan and vegetarian restaurant in the works by Killer Tofu owner Ian Phillips.
–– Carl Byers Skeletonwitch, Windhand, Black Goat of the Woods, Summon the Destroyer, Sinking Ship, Monday, June 17, 8 p.m., free, with donations accepted, 21+
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ohn Convertino and Joey Burns grew up on opposite sides of the country, but settled together in the middle of the Southwest. There, in Tucson, they formed Calexico, a Tejano alt-country band that is deeply grounded in the sounds of the South. Burns (vocals, bass, guitars) and Convertino (drums, piano) blend the textures of traditional Mexican music and American folk, and solicit fellow Tucson musicians (like mariachi band Luz de Luna) to craft their dark, atmospheric albums. Makes sense for a band named after a Mexicali border town to pull inspiration from both sides of the separation wall that runs through it. “I think that people think that mariachi music is just party music,” said Convertino on the phone last week. “But really there’s a lot of beautiful songs written in that format that are in the minor key. They’re love songs and they have great yearning, whether it’s for their home or for love.” New album Algiers is inspired by a different place –– the Algiers district of New Orleans, where the album was recorded. But to get to
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Convertino’s real musical story, we have to come back home to Indianapolis, where his parents met while studying music.
CONVERTINO: You do! You need that discipline. I remember my dad always saying “You have to discipline yourself.” That helped me out too, as painful as it was.
NUVO: I’ve been a fan for a long time. I’ve been excited to talk to you.
NUVO: Was your dad your instructor on the first instruments you picked up?
CONVERTINO: That’s good. I was excited to talk to you too. I was thinking about it, and I realized that I wouldn’t be talking to you if it hadn’t been for Indianapolis.
CONVERTINO: Yeah. He gave us all some accordion lessons and some piano lessons. But, I think he was way too busy with his own world of teaching and playing that it didn’t really work out that well for us to be his students.
NUVO: How so? CONVERTINO: That’s where my parents met. NUVO: Please tell me about that. CONVERTINO: I don’t really know the whole story, I’m the youngest of five [and] both my parents are dead now. My dad was attending Butler University and was teaching accordion and my y mom took accordion lessons from him. And they fell in love. NUVO: I could not like li that story more. CONVERTINO: They played p accordion together. My mom’s mom specialty was voice and guitar and an drama. So, I think at some point poin way later, I was born in ’63, I remember we had remem the Convertino School Sch of Music in taught voice Mineola, N.Y. My Mom M and guitar guita and my dad taught piano and accordion. He had a friend from Italy, who taught violin. violi And it was the Convertino School Con of Music, which was M pretty sweet too, as pr I remember it. [I r remember] seeing re kids k coming up and down the stairs. d The T studio was down in the based ment of our house. m Sometimes, these S
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NUVO: I can imagine. CONVERTINO: When I started getting interested in drums, he really helped me out a lot with that. He wasn’t a drummer, but he knew who the greats were from his time period and had a lot of great jazz records. He pointed me in the right direction for listening to drummers and learning from listening besides the whole pop/ rock world which he really wasn’t a part of. Neither my mom or dad really were into pop/rock stuff. Which is kind of interesting, because Joey [Burns], he’s not that much younger than me, but his parents were probably about 10 years younger than my parents and they embraced the pop/rock; they had the Beatles records and stuff. That is such a huge difference, and it’s only really within a ten-year span, how that generation really changed. NUVO: I’m sure it changes your musical DNA –– what’s around and what’s getting in your brain from when you’re young affects what kind of music you want to make when you’re older. CONVERTINO: See, that’s so funny and interesting. There’s a whole generation of people who grew up listening to ‘80s music, and I just can’t hardly fathom that because it’s kind of painful for me to hear a lot of it. I was in cover bands in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, so I played all of that music. Something just got super ugly there. It must have happened somewhere in the late ‘60s, early ‘70s and on through the ‘80s. Things really got ugly. But, what can you do. NUVO: Keep making better music, I guess. CONVERTINO: Yeah, I hope so.
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NUVO: Well, I think you need that early on if you are going to stick with it. Maybe I’m just rationalizing my previous piano teachers’ tactics.
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“Writing is influence. The idea of a writer who’s cut from whole cloth is ridiculous.” This doesn’t mean he’s totally against a little obscurity every now and then, though. “If I were feeling academic, I’d think also about how not including what might seem like obvious possible sources and reference points is a way of encouraging harder reading or listening.” This harder listening is usually rewarding with The Mountain Goats, and not just at the lyrical level. The band is always looking for new sounds and new people to work with. Last year’s Transcendental Youth represented yet another sonic first for the band: it was their first album to feature a prominent horn section on several tracks. Matthew E. White wrote the horn arrangements. “I think the fun of playing with other people is letting them bring their own expression to the music.” Of course, one shift for the Mountain Goats’ sound came back in 2002 when they released Tallahassee, the band’s first album totally recorded in a “real” studio. Before that, many of the releases had consisted of recordings from Darnielle’s personal
boombox. Naturally this brought new possibilities sonically, but it also brought with it occasional frustration. “I was very impatient with the studio for a long time,” he says. “I still am to an extent. The whole day you have to spend just setting up the beginning of a session drives me absolutely nuts.” Even so, he doesn’t really ever consider returning to the boombox. “The boombox was a different lifetime at this point. I don’t really think about recording in other ways. That would be nostalgia. Nostalgia is self-hate and I’m against it.” Sometimes those songs whose recordings don’t really interest him anymore can find their way into live sets. “There’s a sense in which performance has nothing to do with albums. Performance is communion. It’s a whole deal off on its own planet.” In addition to music, Darnielle is currently working on a novel (his second). He says work on the novel is necessarily different from his lyric writing. “Writing longer things takes more focus, requires bigger vistas.” Importantly, writing longer things also takes a longer amount of time. Asked if this more extended process ever chafes with his rapid-fire songwriting instincts, he says it’s not an issue. “I would have to be pretty naïve to think that I could build a ship using the same tools I’d use for whittling a spear point. … If you’ve gotten good at whittling spear points and you say, ‘Cool, I’ll make a ship, I’ll do it exactly like I do the spear points because I enjoy that process,’ then your focus is all messed up.”
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q Indianapolis’ sweethearts Rodeo Ruby Love have achieved a deeper, more sincere level in the sound on their fourth full-length album, put out by Pentimento Music Company. The Pits adds to their growing pool of songs that illustrates both the simplicity and the difficulties of a Midwestern adolescence. The musical elements that I fell in love with in their previous releases are sharpened and poignantly utilized on The Pits. This latest album features a more expansive sound, sweeping listeners into an aurally spiritual experience with soaring vocal harmonies between Zachary Melton and Annie Cheek. Delectable choruses and danceable beats come from the rhythm section of Dillon Enright and
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q Two years in the making, this fifth album from Bloomington’s Amo Joy was halted in the middle of the recording process when bassist Paul Cobb passed away. His death was the same week he was scheduled to record his tracks. Everything stopped. But soon enough, the band took inspiration from his friends and family to complete the album, with Paul’s father, Don Cobb, mastering the record at Independent Mastering in Nashville. Despite enduring what must have been a grueling period of mourning and an exhausting recording process, the band has created another album of thick, quirky lyricism, compellingly original vocal style and generally upbeat psychedelic pop. This album, though, seems to share a hint of darkness that Amo 32 MUSIC // 06.12.13 - 06.19.13 // 100% RECYCLED P APER // NUVO
Joy hasn’t shown before. These moments of despair are brief, but noticeable. And understandable. In this self-titled release, the band is playfully aloof while tackling subjects like the greed of oil corporations in “Deepwater Horizon” and spiritual cynicism on “Heaven,” which is a detached but concerned attitude that’s the signature of Amo Joy. Besides the four key members, there are feature spots for brass, noisemakers and toy pianos, making for an eclectic mix of aural joy – also an Amo Joy signature. Though its makeup is similar to past releases, this album is ultimately more compelling because it contains a more balanced dynamic, tighter songwriting and stronger playing. Amo Joy Album Release with Everything, Now!, DMA, Mr. Kinetik, Radio Radio, 1119 Prospect St., 9 p.m., $5 at door, $10 with vinyl album, 21+
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The Food and Drug Administration proposed recently to limit the quantity of tiny “mites” that could occupy imported cheese, even though living, crawling mites are a feature desired by aficionados. (“Cheese is absolutely alive!” proclaimed microbiologist Rachel Dutton, who runs the “cheese laboratory” at Harvard University.) In fact, cheese is home to various molds, bacteria and yeasts, which give it flavor, and sellers routinely use blowers to expel excessive critters, but the FDA now wants to limit them to 6 bugs per square inch. However, according to a May report on NPR, lovers of some cheeses, especially the French Mimolette, object, asserting both an indifference to the sight of mites creeping around -- and a fear of taste-loss (since the mites burrow into the hunk, aerating it and extending the flavor).
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Starting this month, we will be ceasing publication of News of the Weird. Yup, we will miss it too, but as we focus more and more on dedicating our pages to local stories written by local writers and illustrated and photographed by local artists, we just couldn’t keep spending these pages on non-local features. Plus, you can still find your News of the Weird here: newsoftheweird.com. nuclear non-proliferation, which the country is widely thought to be ignoring.
Compelling Explanations • Unclear on the Concept: (1) Ruben Pavon was identified by surveillance video in Derry, N.H., in April snatching a grill from the front porch of a thrift store. Pavon explained to police that the store’s name, “Finders Keepers,” indicated to him that the objects were free for the taking and admitted that he had previously taken items from the porch. (2) In May, Los Angeles police bought back 1,200 guns in one of the periodic U.S. buyback programs, but they declined to accept the pipe bomb a man said he wanted to sell. “This is not a pipe-bomb buyback,” said Chief Charlie Beck. “Pipe bombs are illegal ... “ The man was promptly arrested. • Too Much Information: John Casey, 51, was caught by security staff at an Asda supermarket in Washington, England last October after allegedly stealing a slab of beef. He was S E E , N E W S O F T H E W E I R D , O N P A G E 38
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The Litigious Society • Keith Judd filed a lawsuit in Iowa in May, in essence to invalidate the 2012 election by having President Obama officially declared a Kenyan and not an American. Judd filed the papers from a federal penitentiary in Texas, where he is serving 17 years for threatening a woman he believed to be a “clone” of the singer Stevie Nicks, because Nicks (or the clone) had tried to sabotage his home improvement company. (Bonus Fact: In the 2012 Democratic presidential primary in West Virginia, Judd, a write-in candidate, defeated President Obama in nine counties and lost the state by only 33,000 votes.) • Edward Kramer, co-founder of the annual Atlanta fantasy-character convention
Dragon*Con, was arrested in 2000 for allegedly having sex with underage boys, but has yet to stand trial in Georgia because he has engineered a never-ending set of legal delays -- if not because of his version of Orthodox Judaism that limits his diet and activities, then it his allegedly poor health. (“As soon as he puts on an orange jumpsuit,” said prosecutor Danny Porter, “he becomes an invalid,” requiring a wheelchair and oxygen tank.) In 2011, after managing to get “house arrest,” he violated it by being caught with an underage boy. Lately, according to a May Atlanta Journal-Constitution report, he files an average of three demands per day from his Gwinnett County, Ga., lockup, each requiring painstaking review before being rejected. Kramer still owns about one-third of Dragon*Con, whose current officials are mortified that they cannot expel a man they consider a child molester.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY © 2013 BY ROB BRESZNY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Irish poet Richard Brinsley Sheridan didn’t confine his lyrical wit to well-crafted poems on the printed page. He used it to say things that would advance his practical ambitions. For example, when he first met the woman who would eventually become his wife, he said to her, “Why don’t you come into my garden? I would like my roses to see you.” That’s the kind of persuasive power I hope you will summon in the coming days, Aries. According to my analysis of the omens, you should have it in abundance. So what’s the best use of this mojo? Is there anything you would really like to sell? What new resources do you want to bring into your sphere? Who do you want to convince? TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In The Book of the Damned, Charles Fort revealed one of the secrets of power. He said that if you want power over something, you should be more real than it. What does that mean? How do you become real in the first place, and how do you get even more real? Here’s what I think: Purge your hypocrisies and tell as few lies as possible. Find out what your deepest self is like -- not just what your ego is like -- and be your deepest self with vigorous rigor. Make sure that the face you show the world is an accurate representation of what’s going on in your inner world. If you do all that good stuff, you will eventually be as real and as powerful as you need to be. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Long after the artist Amedeo Clemente Modigliani died, his paintings sold for millions of dollars. But while alive, he never got rich from doing what he loved to do. He expressed frustration about the gap between his ambitions and his rewards. “I do at least three paintings a day in my head,” he said. “What’s the use of spoiling canvas when nobody will buy anything?” I hope you don’t arrive at a comparable conclusion, Gemini. It’s crucial that you NOT keep your good ideas bottled up in your imagination. You need to translate them into practical actions, even if there’s no immediate or obvious benefit in doing so. Expressing yourself concretely has rarely been more important than it is right now. CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 1967, dissidents dreamed up a novel way to protest America’s horrific Vietnam War. They marched to the Pentagon, the military’s headquarters, and performed an exorcism to purge the place of its evil. With the power of songs and chants, they invoked magic spells designed to levitate the 6.5 million-square-feet building into the air. Their plan didn’t quite work in a literal way -- the Pentagon remained firmly fixed to the ground -but the legend they spawned was potent. When I heard about it years later, it inspired me to become an activist. I see myth-making as a worthy goal for you right now, Cancerian. Dream up an epic task or project that will fuel your imagination for a long time. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1926, surrealist artist Max Ernst painted “The Blessed Virgin Chastising the Infant Jesus in Front of Three Witnesses.” It shows Mary vigorously spanking her son as he lies on her lap. Nowadays, the image doesn’t seem nearly as scandalous as it did when it first appeared. Even some Christians I know find it amusing, welcoming the portrayal of Jesus as a genuine human being with lessons to learn. What would be your equivalent of creating a cheeky image like this, Leo? How could you achieve cathartic release by being irreverent toward something or someone you respect? I recommend it. (See the image: tinyurl.com/SpankingJesus.) VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s prime time to promote cross-cultural liaisons and interspecies relationships, Virgo. I encourage you to experiment with hybrids and facilitate the union of diverse interests. You will be working in alignment with cosmic trends if you strengthen the connections between influences that belong together, and even between influences that don’t know they belong together. So see what you can do to facilitate conversations between Us and Them. Negotiate peace treaties between Yes and No. Look for legitimate ways to compare apples and oranges.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Gonzo columnist Mark Morford wrote a list of liberated behaviors he wants to cultivate. Since you’re in the emancipatory phase of your yearly cycle, I invite you to try some of his strategies. 1. Have a gentler grip. Let go of tight-assed attitudes. 2. Make deeper penetration. Don’t be satisfied with surfaces. 3. Raise the vibration. Isn’t it a waste of precious life energy to mope around in a sour and shriveled frame of mind? 4. Appreciate appreciation. Treat gratitude as an emotion of the same caliber as joy. 5. Cultivate ecstatic silliness. Develop a blissful ability to take everything less seriously. 6. Drink the awe. Allow astonishment to seep in. (More: tinyurl.com/morford joy.) SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): From an astrological perspective, now would be a good time to go on a meditation retreat for a few days or make a pilgrimage to your ancestral homeland. You would generate just the right shifts in your brain chemistry by doing something like that. Other recommended adventures: reviewing the story of your entire life from your first memory to the present moment; writing a brief letter to the five people you have loved best, telling them why you’ve loved them; spending a day outside of time, when you don’t consult a clock or use electronic media for the duration. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarius comedian Steven Wright says he took a class in speed waiting. “Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes,” he brags. I think you will have the same knack in the coming days, Sagittarius. Your patience is likely to be much more effective than usual. Results will come faster and they’ll be more intense. The only catch is that you will really have to be calm and composed and willing to wait a long time. It won’t work if you’re secretly antsy and only pretending to be imperturbable. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Let the boundaries blur a bit, Capricorn. Don’t stick too rigidly to the strict definitions. Play around with some good old-fashioned fuzzy logic. The straight facts and the precise details are important to keep in mind, but you shouldn’t cling to them so ferociously that they stifle your imagination. You need to give yourself enough slack to try openended experiments. You’ll be smart to allow some wobble in your theories and a tremble in your voice. Magic will happen if there’s plenty of wiggle room. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather,” said French poet Paul Valery. How do you interpret that thought, Aquarius? In the book The Science of Self-Control, here’s how Howard Rachlin expands on Valery’s idea: “We need to be spontaneous, but only in the context of some framework that allows us to attain higher levels of spontaneity; a feather is a slave to the wind, while a bird uses the wind.” Take heed, Aquarius! Your creative flights will go further and last longer if you have a solid foundation to take off from. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Let’s call today Sigh-Day. Tomorrow, too, and the next day, and the two days after that. During these five Sigh-Days, you should feel free to let out big, deep sighs at a higher rate than usual. Allow yourself to be filled up with poignant thoughts about life’s paradoxical mysteries. Give yourself permission to be overwhelmed with emotions that are midway between lamentation and reverent amazement. For even better results, indulge in some free-form moaning during your five Sigh-Days. That’ll help you release your full backlog of tension and give you more appreciation for the crazy beauty of your fate. (P.S. Try not to whine, though.)
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