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BANDS TO WATCH We’re not saying you’ll love these bands, but with selections ranging from hardto nerdcore, one among the three local outfits is bound to suit your tastes. Meanwhile, it’s high time we recognize some of the hardworking video outlets tasked with capturing the magic. Check out our writers’ profiles of the names to know. B Y N I CK SELM, WADE COG G E S HAL L A ND DA N IEL BR OWN C OV ER PHOTO BY STEPHEN S I MO N E TTO

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A VISIONARY CITY

In its prime, the Major Taylor Velodrome on Indy’s west side was an impressive cycling venue. Over the years, though, both public use and maintenance have dwindled, leaving the property in overgrown disrepair. A new partnership between the city and Marian University will embark on some serious renovations, hopefully prodding Indianapolis’ bike revolution. BY CATHERINE GREEN

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Rising from personal trauma, fabric artist Stephanie Lewis Robertson has used her artwork to explore pain, recovery and the healing process. Her exhibit, The Infinite Moment of Now , is on display at the Indianapolis Art Center through July 31. BY DIANA J. ENSIGN

GRILLED GOODNESS

Fire by the Monon, one of Broad Ripple’s newer additions, utilizes simplicity and freshness in its ingeniously handcrafted sandwiches. With food this good, the restaurant seems destined for a long stay on Ferguson St. BY NEIL CHARLES

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JENNIFER KNAPP: LETTING GO

After finding success in the contemporary Christian music world, Jennifer Knapp shocked fans when she quit music altogether in 2002. Then, in April of last year, she came out. Her comeback album, Letting Go, is a shift toward indie-folk, noticeably lacking the capitalized Yous featured in earlier work. BY SCOTT SHOGER

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HAMMER Scrap the national anthem

The Mennonites have it right

BY STEVE HAMMER SHAMMER@NUVO.NET

oshen College, a small Mennonite school in northern Indiana, isn’t used to seeing its name in the national press very often. Thanks to the Internet, the college now finds itself in the middle of a nationwide media circus. In keeping with their religious beliefs, which state that kingdoms made by man are inferior to God’s creations, the school has decided to stop playing “The Star-Spangled Banner” prior to its sporting events. The move outraged the knee-jerk conservative crowd, which dislikes the current American government as much as it worships its flag. Upset citizens have called upon the college to reverse its decision, apologize to the community and, presumably, change its belief system. The school, which probably never expected anyone not on campus to even notice, now has to explain to news outlets repeatedly that, no, they’re not anti-American and yes, they love their country just as much as anyone else. The entire affair is ridiculous, of course, another example of what happens when conservatives with too much time on their hands read something on Yahoo News and wear their fingers out typing snide comments. Their anger is misguided on several points. Number one, nobody should be allowed to mess with the Mennonites. Their religious beliefs were formed despite extreme persecution across Europe and even in America. They are pious, devout, honest people whose interpretation of the Bible leads them to refuse to fight in wars, to dress conservatively and honor God first and foremost. They’re against all the things that rational people should be against, irrespective of religious beliefs: military conflict, the worship of technology, the disintegration of families and so forth. They’re for the things that most Americans say they want: strong family values, peace, privacy and devotion to God. The Mennonites don’t try to impose their beliefs on anyone; all they want is to be left alone to run their spiritual lives as they see fit. There be nothing more American than the freedom of religious expression, and the Mennonites are skilled in exercising these rights. The question that we should be asking is, “why do we insist on the national anthem

being played at sporting events in the first place? Are we so insecure about our patriotism that we must display it prior to WWE events, NASCAR races and baseball games? Why is it mandatory? Usually, it’s performed poorly, often by a young singer who forgets some of the words. At big-time events, star performers perform it not as a symbol of love of their country but rather as a means of promoting their new albums. Even television ignores the anthem, playing valuable commercials instead of the anthem, except when celebrities are mangling the song before a big event, such as Christina Aguilera at the Super Bowl this year. Other nations exercise more common sense about their national anthems. In England, it’s only played at soccer matches involving their national team, which makes sense. When two British teams play each other, it’s assumed that all persons at the event have at least a minimal regard for their country. Other nations play their anthems only during international competitions, such as the World Cup and the Olympics. Again, this makes sense. When national reputation and pride are at stake, play the song. When it’s two local teams, skip it. This is leaving aside the unfortunate truth about our “StarSpangled Banner” — that it’s simply not a very well-written song. Its lyrics talk about how awesome it is to fight a war against the British, but the music itself was stolen from an English drinking song. In a way, one could say that it is the quintessential American song with its clichés about the brilliance of war created by an act of theft from the people we were fighting. The song glorifies war, as do many of the fundamentalist conservatives out there. The song itself is covered in blood and should be retired. It’s time we replaced it with a song that represents freedom, democracy and equality instead of rockets and blood and dead soldiers. “This Land Is Your Land,” by Woody Guthrie, is as radical today as when he wrote it. It talks about how this is supposed to be a country where all are free and how, at its best, we sometimes achieve that goal. It says that since God created the land, it belongs to all of us. Some folks, particularly landowners and corporatists, are uncomfortable with that idea, as well they should. This makes it an even better choice for our national anthem. Either way, the mandatory playing of the song before public events is reminiscent of Soviet Russia, a minority of which also insisted, like today’s conservatives, upon ideological correctness and strict devotion to the government. The practice should be scrapped, and the people bothering the Mennonites for standing by their religious tenets should knock it off and let them live in peace.

The Mennonites don’t try to impose their beliefs on anyone; all they want is to be left alone to run their spiritual lives as they see fit.

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HOPPE What is college for?

Training or education

BY DAVID HOPPE DHOPPE@NUVO.NET

everal times a year I receive messages from the college I attended importuning me for money. These messages are all pretty much the same. They talk about the quality of the education my alma mater provides and how donations from people like me are necessary to ensure that this quality continues. I haven’t sent back so much as a dime. It’s not because I had an unhappy college experience. On the contrary, the education I received there was excellent. I met great teachers and made lasting friendships. Today, when people ask me if I would recommend the school I attended, I do so gladly and without reservation. But the constant fundraising bothers me. It bothers me because it seems to reflect a premise held throughout American higher education that colleges and universities must constantly grow, add on and build things in order to be relevant. Some new performing arts center, fitness facility, student life center or lab is always in the works. The campus I knew, for example, is barely recognizable today. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. If education teaches us anything it’s that change is inevitable. Not only that, in almost every case, these changes represent material improvements to previous facilities. It seems mean-spirited to be against these things, especially when college administrators assure us that the kids really want them. The trouble is that at the same time these new buildings have been going up, so has the cost of a college education. According to Money Magazine, college tuition has risen higher over the past 20 years than any other product or service, including gasoline and health care. Families are paying over 439 percent more for college today than they did in 1982. This means that more students are taking out loans to pay for college. The average student debt at graduation is over $20,000; many families are in hock for $50,000 or more. The good people at my alma mater assure me that they are working to contain costs and provide sources of financial aid to students. I believe them. But I am also troubled by the automatic assumption that higher costs are justified and that the problem is finding the money to pay for them. It’s hard not to conclude that colleges and universities see themselves as exceptionally privileged players in our society. Since the end of World War II, the college

degree has been universally identified as an essential key to success in American life. Statistics are routinely quoted like scripture to remind us how much more someone with a diploma will make in a lifetime than his or her peers who go without. Since the Baby Boom, college has also become a rite of social passage, something that middleclass kids are simply expected to do. Seriously questioning the value of college is a middle-class taboo, in spite of the increasing inability of recent college grads to find employment in anything like their chosen fields. Rather than challenge the cost-benefit ratio of a college education, many grads enroll in graduate schools, hoping that more college will make up for a lack of real world opportunities – or, at least, put off the day their student loans come due. But this taboo appears to be waning. The latest round of college graduation ceremonies set off a wave of commentary in the media about the pros and cons of college that generally took this form: If you majored in a technical field you were golden; if, on the other hand, your degree was in the liberal arts, you were probably screwed. College still packs a punch, in other words, to the extent that it is used for career training. College-as-training has always been the point for many students. For a large number of other kids, though, a college education has represented a constellation of experiences — both in and outside the classroom — aimed more at preparation for life outside the reach of sheltering institutions. These kids may not have been trained, but they were educated. There is, unfortunately, less and less tolerance for this kind of education — especially when it comes with a price tag that can run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Given the relentlessly upward push of college costs, it’s no wonder students and their families are more focused than ever on the likely return on their investment. This is practical. But the cultural implications are profound. To the extent we require students to think of education as the training necessary to plot a career they may only understand at first in terms of its immediate earning potential, we encourage a conformity that puts cost ahead of value. The results of such calculated ambition aren’t encouraging. From Tiger Woods to Anthony Weiner, we can see what happens when smart and driven people are turned loose in a world that’s more complicated than their limited, albeit powerful, experience enables them to grasp. We wonder how people who have it all can be so crass. Maybe it’s because they were trained instead of truly educated.

Questioning the value of college has amounted to a middle class taboo.

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HAIKU NEWS by Jim Poyser

Weiner’s prodigious pecker could penetrate the debt ceiling debate GOP hopefuls for 2012 run are pretty hopeless top aides quit Gingrich campaign; Newt to hire Keystone Cops and Gilligan Iowa House bill banning abortions even worse than Hoosier swill Sony says thirty seven thousand users were identity hacked power failure in Detroit a harbinger of the heat, hell to come if you suppress pain in the long run you’ll burn like Arizona fire falling equity as much an illusion as is money itself Clinton prospect at World Bank makes her perfect fit for antichrist folks team names opposite! Mavericks played as a team while the Heat grew cold

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THUMBSUP THUMBSDOWN PROPS FOR POPS

The Fathers and Families Center sets the tone early for this weekend’s Father’s Day celebrations with a June 15 Conrad luncheon honoring a group of dads who struggled with their fatherhood duties, but then took the time to seek guidance to fully embrace the paternal mantle. Being a good dad is no easy feat — so to all you guys out there who give it your best, we salute you. And to all you guys who manage to step up despite not having good dads of your own to mimic, we give you an extra thumbs up.

DUMP PUMP, FREE RIDE

To all y’all that understand public transit only as an abstract concept and roadway obstacle, we dare you to embrace a new experience: Park the car, “dump the pump,” visit IndyGo’s website for route maps, hop a free bus ride Thursday, June 16, and get to know our beautiful city with fresh eyes. To raise awareness of the ease, reliability and cost savings of using the bus system, IndyGo aims to increase ridership beyond the 762,715 passenger trips offered last month. Also, the Central Indiana Regional Transportation Authority (CIRTA) is using Dump the Pump Day as a petition drive kick-off to inspire greater legislative efforts in support of regional public transit.

PLAYING POLITICS WITH WOMEN’S HEALTH

Excited about Indiana’s impressive 2010 economic growth — at 4.6 percent, it generated the thirdhighest annual GDP increase in the country — and fostering of promising multinational biomedical partnerships, we almost gave our great State of Indiana a thumbs up this week. Then came the news that the fallout of HEA 1210 spread beyond arrested Medicaid funding. The state has now denied PPIN Neighborhood Assistance Program tax credits, which the women’s health care provider used to leverage donor support to the tune of $21,238 in the past two years. Knee-capping Planned Parenthood won’t kill abortion, but it will result in the crippling of a stalwart provider of reproductive health care and advocate for the economically disadvantaged.

GET EDUCATED

Indiana Tech scored a grant from the Ball Venture Fund to underwrite — for free to any adult in the community, space permitting — college prep classes in math, writing and computer skills. Classes start in late June, so if you need some educatin’, check it.

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news A visionary city Bike infrastructure and the Major Taylor makeover BY CA T H E RI N E G R E E N CG RE E N @N U V O . N E T

n its past, the Major Taylor Velodrome on Indianapolis’ west side drew competitive cyclists from all over the world. During a recent visit, the standout venue of Lake Sullivan Sports Complex was a far cry from its glory days, surrounded by overgrown grass patches and rusted metal. In places, the façade was more chip than paint while the skate park’s concrete base had become a showcase for local graffiti talent. Officials say the demise is due in large part to a waning interest from the general public. “Over the decades, you’ve had some shift in how the city itself has been structurally put together as far as amateur sports,” said Stuart Lowry, director of Indy Parks. “I think over time, you just didn’t have as much attention to the cycling.” Shared ownership of the sports complex between the city and Marian University may change that. Talks of privatization began in early 2008. “We were starting to look at all of our assets across the system, and look at deferred maintenance and challenges and where we needed to go,” Lowry said during a phone interview last month. City leadership issued a request for proposals, and eventually chose Marian to step in as manager. Submitted late last year, Marian’s strategic plan to bring the complex up to standards and “create a cycling hub for the city” targeted the existing Velodrome and BMX course. Under the new agreement, Marian will undertake the $2 million in capital improvements over the next 10 years, assuming management of operations and maintenance of the property. The school’s plan of action also includes designing an internal criterium or road course, a new cyclocross course and a 4k walking and jogging trail. With Mayor Greg Ballard’s blessing, the Indianapolis-Marion County City-County Council approved Marian’s proposal at an April 11 meeting. “These are structured partnerships that really reward the operators to do their capital up front,” Lowry said, “because they’re going to then have a stronger revenue stream and offset their own costs. So I would think in the next two years, you’re going to see some pretty dramatic changes.”

A clear choice Built in 1982, the Velodrome was named for Marshall “Major” Taylor, a local cyclist who suffered through racial discrimination

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at the turn of the 20th century to become the first African-American world champion athlete. The venue supported world-class events like the 1987 Pan-Am Games. Since then, however, that distinction has dulled. “The Velodrome used to be this really impressive place,” said Kevin Whited, board president of the bike advocacy group IndyCog. He was among the cyclists who raced on the track in its prime. “Here I moved back 22 years later and the Velodrome’s dead.” Indy Parks sensed potential community value in the overdue rejuvenation. “This was our opportunity to put the city back on the map,” Lowry said. For the last several years, Marian’s cycling team has been one of the complex’s few regular users, holding practices in the Velodrome. “The track itself is in very, very good condition, and that’s a real blessing,” said Head Coach Dean Peterson. “I think that makes this vision that we have very viable.” Peterson explained the school’s incentive. “We agreed that it was a need for the community, and we felt that we were really in the best position to be good stewards of that area and push this forward for the cycling community,” he said. With a clear investment in the future of the venue, the school was an ideal candidate for co-owner. “They’ve got some natural connections as a cycling hub and a multi-national championship program,” Lowry said. “They’ve already got the passion and the spirit and the vision.”

Dollars and sense According to Lowry, delegating management was a practical move for cashstrapped Indianapolis. “When you look at a partnership where someone else can come in and take over operations and bring in significant capital dollars, that leverages the public dollars and increases the public space much more rapidly,” he said. “It’s many decades of challenges that we just haven’t been able to address fiscally, so this made sense.” Besides the eased burden of upkeep and improvement, the city will benefit further from a profit-share model. As press materials circulated by Ballard’s office in early April detailed, “the City” will receive 10 percent of all gross revenue above $250,000.” But the deal has invited concern that the city may have lost out on a potential moneymaking boon. If the venue is successful in attracting future competitions and events, generating massive amounts of revenue in ticket sales, did the city sell itself short with a 10% stake? Had Ballard taken on those capital improvements himself, might he have found another way out of Indianapolis’ current financial woes? IndyCog’s Whited, who holds a master’s in public administration offered a different interpretation. “In certain cases I think (privatization is) almost necessary,” he said, referencing Ballard’s recent transfer of the

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It's the the outside façade of Lake Sullivan Sports Complex that appears to need the most renovation, including the bleachers surrounding the Velodrome, pictured above.

city’s parking meters to ParkIndy. “If the city would have kept ownership of those parking meters, think of all the money they could have made. But then they would have had to spend taxpayers’ money to upgrade the systems and then raise their parking meters on top of it? It just wouldn’t have flown well. “How would the taxpayers have felt, had Mayor Ballard started taking tax money and fixing up this bike park?”

Ambitious vision The planned renovation is also a fitting development with the city’s move toward human-powered transportation. The shift is evident in changes to infrastructure and resident lifestyle. “We’re seeing a much stronger connectivity,” Lowry said. “We’re seeing more cycling, more awareness of cycling.” Marian is wasting no time in working to boost that awareness, revamping both facilities and programming at the complex. As of late May, employees had already begun to set up shop, repainting office spaces. Meanwhile, Coach Peterson is heading a four-part regional development camp this summer, four-day-long workshops June through September open to riders between ages 14–22. It’s the city’s hope, though, that programming will expand to include other age groups. “We want to celebrate cycling for every generation,” Lowry said. “We want to get younger kids in there learning safety, as well as running collegiate events.” The city will try to grow the park’s user base as it continues to promote the biking lifestyle. “I see this as becoming much more active for special events and public outreach,” Lowry said. “This is not about trying to have things that are not accessible to the public. It really is truly about opening it

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back up to the public.” Upon completion, the renovated park could become instrumental in overhauling the city’s transportation system. A fee-based Park and Ride program has been proposed, which would allow commuters to take full advantage of the trails leading downtown. That kind of shift in livability may have a direct impact on the population of transplant urbanites. “A lot of the younger generation coming into this city, this is what they want. They want to have those fitness choices,” Lowry said. Lowry credits Mayor Ballard and the SustainIndy initiative, specifically its Bikeways program, with bringing the city up to speed alongside national trends in green living. “His idea of connectivity is just spot-on to what cities need to do to get these asset bases back together,” he said. “This is all about leveraging over time and thinking as a visionary city for the next few decades, where do we want to go?”

OPEN TRACK HOURS

Monday and Wednesday: 6:30-8:30 a.m., 11 a.m.-1 p.m., 5-7 p.m. Friday: 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $5 per session. Rental bikes $10 for adults, $5 for 18 and under a special training sessions $10 each. Friday Night Race series July 1, July 29, August 12 and August 26 Open track to those eligible to race: 5-7 p.m. Registration: 6-7 p.m. Racing begins at 7:30 p.m. Follow @MarianCycling on Twitter for updates.

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Chaotic Neutral’s Micah Jenkins rides a Sinking Ship crowd in late May.

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Chaotic Neutral — from left, James Lyter, Ian Phillips, Bake Henry, Micah Jenkins, Jon Coleman — following their Sinking Ship gig.

Joining a hardcore band can be a little like taking vows in a medieval monastery. The hardcore musician and monk alike commit to spending umpteen hours alongside smelly bearded dudes in dark, dank spaces, effectively forgoing the pleasures of this world while consumed in an esoteric discipline. As if on a medieval pilgrimage, I trek out to the Eastside home of Jon Coleman, guitarist for local hardcore super-group Chaotic Neutral. As I approach his house, my eyes adjust to the darkness, and I start to make out four figures on the lightless porch. They acknowledge me with calm, energy-conserving greetings, having just concluded a practice in the sweaty confines of Coleman’s basement. Their shadowed faces read like a hall-offame for Indianapolis hardcore. I first eye Coleman and fellow guitarist Ian Phillips, who have collaborated together for years —

in local thrash act Wasteland D.C., hardcore band Slow Motion Enslavement and, most recently, What Lurks, a pop-punk turned hardcore band. In another corner of the porch sits vocalist Micah Jenkins, who once played with Chaotic Neutral bassist Bake Henry (absent from the porch tonight) in the fast and heavy Critical Response Team. Drummer James Lyter, who put in time in Bolth and Waxeater, reclines nearby. About a year ago, all these guys were out of a gig. Fatherly duties forced Phillips to leave What Lurks, which went on hiatus upon his departure. Critical Response Team suffered a drawn-up demise, leaving Jenkins without a band and Henry pursuing side projects without success. And both Bolth and Waxeater came to an abrupt end within six months of the other, leaving Lyter looking for a new project.

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With each member in free agency, it was only a matter of time before Chaotic Neutral started to congeal. Coleman and Philips, always the collaborators, teamed up with Jenkins and Henry and enlisted drummer Josh “Chubbs” Shronz. Shronz, who had served with distinction behind the kit in Slow Motion Enslavement, was known throughout the city as the go-to drummer for local metal. But Shronz was only briefly with Chaotic Neutral before departing to focus on his other new band, Coffinworm. Hardcore drummer Skyler Rowe filled in briefly, but the band was on the lookout for a permanent replacement. “Then we realized that James, who we knew from Bolth and Waxeater, had moved back to Indianapolis and wasn’t playing with anyone,” Coleman says. “It worked out perfectly,” Phillips adds. “We couldn’t believe that he wasn’t playing in any bands.” Lyter jumped into the band headfirst, creating new drum parts for the songs they had written with Rowe and Shronz. With the lineup complete, the band got to work, each band member building and expanding on previous experiences. “We’re more straightforward hardcore than any of our other bands,” Phillips says. “But at the same time, we cover a lot more territory than we’ve done before.” “We initially just wanted to sound like [semi-legendary hardcore punk band] Blitz,” Coleman says. “But we developed with a lot more diversity. I’m glad we didn’t just end up being a rip-off band. We include everything from rock ’n’ roll to crust and ‘90s hardcore riffs.” “We’re all really open with each other when it comes to incorporating different styles,” Lyter says. “We’re not really trying to create any specific sound.” To all but the most trained ears, most hardcore bands can sound indistinguishable from

each other — chugging guitars, throbbing bass, volcanic drumming and incomprehensible vocals are all fairly standard. Chaotic Neutral manages to add a certain unknown je ne sais quoi to the mix. It has something to do with their talent, for sure; this is undoubtedly the most experienced band on active duty in the hardcore scene. And as their live show demonstrates, they not only play well, but do so with an infectious energy. Not that the guys in Chaotic Neutral are taking anything for granted. Over the past two years, each member has seen at least one band fall apart. “We’re a bunch of different people, and we’re all leading different lives,” Phillips says. “Anything could happen, but we’re not going to waste the time that we have. We want to be as productive as possible with each other.” Chaotic Neutral has stayed true to that doctrine of productivity by playing (seemingly) every local hardcore show in the past year. They are also gearing up for some new releases, in addition to a demo already available for purchase at shows. A 7-inch is due this summer, as well as a split 7-inch with Bloomington crust/hardcore act Ratstorm. Hardcore bands in this city come and go so quickly that it can be difficult to keep track. Some break up before working up a demo. The members of Chaotic Neutral, however, are poised enough to buck that trend. The guys in the band, all true believers, are more mature and dedicated to hardcore than most laymen on the scene.

Pessoa — from left, Caleb Waggoner, Bill Stack, Josh Wold and Zac Finch — hang out on a racquetball court above Indy’s Jukebox.

It’s on a typical bipolar Indiana spring day that I meet up with the members of emo-punk band Pessoa at Midtown punk hangout The Sinking Ship. They’re sipping tall boys, staring out at the radiant day unfolding outdoors. But just as I introduce myself, the sky outside takes a sharp turn to gray and opens up with a blanket of blueberry-sized raindrops. “Sucks to be you!” jokes Pessoa frontman Josh Wold as he nods at my dripping bike chained outside. The rest of the band looks on and laughs. We order another round and drink to the weather. Pessoa is a sleeper cell waiting for the right time to explode on the scene. They’ve certainly put in their time — core members of the band cut their teeth in the humble Avon music scene while in the emotional punk/metal group Henry Can’t Die. They played every imaginable house party and battle of the bands over the course of seven years. When 2007 rolled around, they were ready to start from scratch. Three members of Henry Can’t Die — guitarist Wold, drummer Zac Finch and guitarist Bill Stack — were determined to continue playing music together, but the demise of the band left them without a singer, a bassist or a clear idea of what exactly they wanted to be as a band. As such, the first incarnation of Pessoa sounded quite different than the current lineup. “Our songs were all over the place,” Wold says. “We liked so many different things and had so many different influences that our sound was inconsistent.” Pessoa’s early schizophrenic sound incorporated — or rather, failed to incorporate — flavors of juvenile metal and math rock, all in a rather gloomy atmosphere. Then something just clicked. “All of a sudden we started writing songs in a major key,” Wold says. “And in that instant we shed all the gloom and metal and became…focused.” “Yes! ‘Focused,’” Stack chimes in. “That’s exactly it.”

“Bill would write a riff,” Wold continues, “and it would make us want to jump around the room and dance and have fun.” Maybe the band wouldn’t put it quite this way, but their artistic growth had as much to do with writing in major keys as with learning more about the world. Having played together since age 15, Wold, Stack and Finch have done quite a bit of growing up together. “When we first started [as Pessoa], I stepped up to sing,” Wold explains. “At first, all my lyrics were all about literary characters and books that I had read. I was singing about stuff that I liked but didn’t really relate to.” Over time, life presented Wold with plenty of experiences from which he drew inspiration. “I feel like I’m writing about the same things that most people my age are going through,” the 25-year-old says. With the sound of the band finally firmly in place, Pessoa simply needed a place in which to grow. The band was accepted into an eclectic, all-inclusive Indianapolis scene, but felt out of place in most shows. “We got asked to play a lot of hardcore shows,” Finch says. “We always had a good time, but we were always the only band that wasn’t screaming.” But not fitting in can also translate to standing out. Over the past two years, the band has risen to a place of prominence on the local scene. The band has a large following, amassed partly on the strength of two impressive EPs (2009’s It’s True and 2010’s Do You Have Great Strength?). Pessoa’s sound veers toward late ‘80s/ early ‘90s emo — The Get Up Kids, Braid, Rites of Spring and Mineral all come to mind. But members have looked more often toward local groups for encouragement and inspiration, as well acts outside of their genre, such as Queens of the Stone Age and Everyone Everywhere. “Obviously [northwest Indiana emo revivalists] Grown Ups are a huge influence,” Wold says. “But we also look to bands like Canterbury Effect, Mycomplex, Mock Orange, 1994!, Kickball and Algernon Cadwallader.”

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Pessoa at the near-Southside club Indy’s Jukebox.

“The music of Meet Me In Saint Louis” — the English punk band, not the 1944 film — “keeps me working harder,” says bassist Caleb Waggoner, the most recent addition to Pessoa. “They were an amazing band.” Having played just about every type of venue in the area, the members of Pessoa have had the opportunity to see how local laws can have an impact on the development of the scene. “Bars here should do what all other states do: if you’re underage, they ‘X’ your hands, and you can still watch the show,” Stack says. “There need to be venues that serve drinks so that people would be more inclined to come out to shows.” “If the drinking laws weren’t so strict, there would be more venues and more bands,” Wold says. A band can draw younger fans by playing all-ages venues like The Dojo, but the absence of alcohol makes it a tough sell for more casual listeners. Pessoa, however, is no stranger to the time-honored tactic of working around such silly restrictions: basement shows. “We like to party and drink when we play,” Wold says. “It’s kind of hard to play

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sober some times. We kind of live by the saying ‘If you study drunk, then take the test drunk.’” Having amassed a local fan base, Pessoa is ready to venture out into the great beyond. “We’re putting the finishing touches on a late summer tour,” Finch says. “It’ll be our first trip out to the East Coast. We’re really excited.” To prepare for the tour, the band is gearing up for two new releases: the first, a split 7-inch record with Caelume due in August; the second, a cassette tape featuring rerecordings of three “classic” Pessoa songs, as well as one brand new one. So many Indianapolis bands simply fail to thrive. It’s good to know Pessoa is sturdy enough to last. Their hard work and dedication have lifted them out of the Avon haze and into the spotlight.

Samuel Hammersley and Dustin Franklin are reliving part of their youth. The Tilt Studio arcade on Circle Centre Mall’s top floor is nearly deserted one recent weekday afternoon. There’s no wait for Hammersley and Franklin to play Dance Dance Revolution. “He used to be the king of this game,” Franklin says of Hammersley as he watches him follow the blinking lights with his feet. “I used to be OK at it for a while, but I never put in thousands of hours like this guy did.” Something else both childhood friends, who turned 24 within a week of each other this month, have put a lot of time into is music. Starting in fall 2009, the two began rapping under the name Shammers & Lefthand. Shammers is a nickname derived from Hammersley’s name, a moniker he’s had since junior high. Franklin, who used to describe himself as Lefthand while playing World of Warcraft, picked the nickname back up because he likes playing supporting characters. That, and he’s a southpaw. As it’s turned out, it hasn’t been the best name for their enterprise. “A lot of people come up and ask us after shows who we are,” Shammers says. “I tell them ‘Shammers and Lefthand,’ and they’ll say something like, ‘Bless you. What’d you say?’” But the two take it in stride because, at this point, they’re more concerned with having fun than with building a career. Shammers calls their music “a hobby that’s taken off much further than we ever imagined would.” A year ago, the duo joined Scrub Club Records, a nationally distributed indie label specializing in hip-hop — and specifically hip-hop’s geeky offshoot, nerdcore. The duo has since performed at anime and video game conventions around the country, including Gen Con here. “That is our demographic,” Shammers says. “We are so comfortable at those types of venues because we’re with nerds, with people we have stuff in common with. We’re not playing at hip-hop conventions where you’re nervous about getting shot on stage or have Faygo thrown in your face. So even if the show tanks, we know we’ll walk off stage and be amongst friends.” Indeed, their nerdiness was apparent early on while growing up in Danville, Ind. Lefthand read stuff like the Final Fantasy 7 walk-through guide in the bathroom at school and was still trading Pokémon cards in the locker room during his freshman year. Shammers quit the basketball team as a sophomore to play in the marching band. Along with their group of friends, they worshipped World of Warcraft and similar games rather than sports. They also weren’t ashamed. “We’d come to school and talk about it in front of everyone,” Lefthand says. “They thought we were nerds and geeks, and we didn’t care.” Video games and science fiction still heavily inform their songs. As a result, Shammers & Lefthand are commonly lumped into the musical genre known as nerdcore. They freely embrace their geek

credentials but don’t fully support being categorized. “It’s just a nice buzzword to help you identify people who like nerdy themes in their music,” Shammers says. Rapping about Starcraft may be esoteric to many, but it’s not necessarily a hindrance for the duo in gaining fans. They’ve played plenty of shows on neutral turf too, including Punk Rock Night at the Melody Inn and Scotty’s Brewhouse during Gen Con. At the latter, two older women pulled them aside following their set. Lefthand remembers them saying, “We didn’t necessarily enjoy the music, but you two were having so much fun up there that we were having fun out here.” “We’re more or less good at entertaining people, whether or not they can associate with what our music is about,” Lefthand says. “There are people who would never normally listen to hip-hop that listen to this,” Shammers adds. “It’s sort of like their gateway to other forms of hip-hop.” In fact, Shammers doesn’t even consider himself a hip-hop fan. His passion lies in improvisational comedy, something he dabbled in during high school and got serious about as an undergraduate at Indiana University. He was a member of the troupe Full Frontal Comedy. “I spent more time reading books on improv than I did about what I was supposed to be studying,” Shammers says. It’s one reason why he freestyles so much in their shows. To him, it’s an extension of his improvisational comedy. “That improvising element is so much fun,” Shammers says. “I have more respect for artists that can freestyle because it’s a rare skill.” Lefthand is more the traditional music fan. As a lad, he played his cassette copy of Michael Jackson’s Thriller until it wore out. Working in the music department at a Barnes & Noble afforded him the opportunity to explore a world outside the country and classic rock genres of his hometown. Artists like Gorillaz and Del the Funky Homosapien were his gateway into hip-hop. “To hear something that actually had some meaning and sonically sounded amazing was really the thing,” Lefthand says. If anything, Shammers & Lefthand are a gateway to hip-hop for people who don’t actually like that kind of music. That’s something they hear all the time: “I don’t even like rap, but what you guys are doing is really fun.” They consider it a compliment, but don’t want to be thought of as a gimmick. Shammers notes there’s a song that addresses “geekquilibrium,” the concept of balancing one’s nerdiness with society’s idea of normalcy. “As trivial as that may sound, it is a real struggle for a lot of awkward people,” he says. “That’s a very real sentiment we try to get across. People see that on stage and realize we are actually nerds and lovers of hip-hop, and that we’ve combined them and we’re putting on this show for them. But it’s not a clown act. It’s a fun experience.” So far Shammers & Lefthand have only

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Dustin “Lefthand” Franklin (left, natch) and Samuel “Shammers” Hammersley perform outside of Scotty’s Brewhouse in downtown Indy in 2010.

officially released the six-track EP Shmix Tape, comprised of songs and skits. They plan to hit the studio this summer. “We call it ‘leveling up,’” Shammers says of the experience they’ve gained since. “We both leveled up a lot. It’s really hard for me to listen to the Shmix Tape now because it’s so cheesy. For both of us, our caliber has been raised, and I’m so pumped to get in the studio and start hacking away.” 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 06.15.11-06.22.11 // cover story

Derik Savage and Christina Reid turn the tables.

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When the band White Rabbits walked in to the Pendleton High School radio station with their own videographer in early 2008, Craig “Dodge” Lile and Jeff DuPont realized they ought to be doing the same thing. Lile, the founder of the indie rock-focused My Old Kentucky Blog, and DuPont, then the faculty station manager for the student-run radio station, had already been recording live performances for two years. But Lile and DuPont hadn’t yet committed to adding video to the equation. “When we saw the video, the light bulb kind of went on,” DuPont said. “And Dodge, being the entrepreneurial type, was motivated to move it to a video session organization.” Their first video session was three weeks later with

House show, basement show, kegger — call them what you want, but underground concerts drive the Bloomington music scene. Midwest Underground, a new public access/webisode series, brings that basement concert experience straight to the comfort of your own home. Each episode features performances by two Midwest bands recorded at a real-life house show complete with audience, cheap beer and Christmas lights. The gigs are hosted at Midwest Underground’s headquarters, aka Andy Bergie’s basement. For years, Bergie, a drummer in the bands You’re A Liar and The Calumet Reel, watched peers create music, art and short films, only to see their content get lost in the vastness of the Internet. Bergie decided to create an online home for low-budget art. After consulting friend and professional videographer Kevin Winkler six months back, his idea has developed into a half-hour web-based show. As team cinematographer, Winkler wants each performance to hold the grit of an under-

Last month Christina Reid and Derik Savage arrived at Melody Inn with video cameras in hand, excited to record Atlanta band Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun. They were blown away by the heart and soul of the performance, but shocked that only a handful of people were there to see it. And it’s those kinds of nights that push the two concert videographers, together known as MonkeyEatsMonkey, to the front of venues across Indy each week. Since March 2010, they’ve taken it upon themselves to capture bands they believe in. “How many times have you been out to a good show and been like, ‘Man I wish that I could show someone that I know what they are missing?’” Savage said. “That’s what keeps us going with this.” The duo’s work has a guerilla feel that captures the two key elements of live performance — the energy of a given band and the interaction between musician and audience. MonkeyEatsMonkey has turned its eclectic eye on Brooklyn art-rap trio Das Racist, Bloomington emcee Andy D, Chicago-based singer-songwriter

the then-obscure Bon Iver. Three years later, the site, located at laundromatinee.com, is Indy’s leading source for live session music videos. Laundromatinee’s catalog now features over 100 sessions by prominent indie artists (The Avett Brothers, Dr. Dog and Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes) as well as some of the area’s strongest local talent (We Are Hex and Beta Male). Lile credits the project’s heaviest lifting to chief videographer Doug Fellegy, task manager Jessica Clark and DuPont, who works as audio engineer. They record in venues across Indianapolis, some of them likely suspects (recording studios The Pop Machine, Snapjoint and Lovebird; record stores LUNA Music and Vibes Music), others a bit more

ground show. Bergie, a Protools-certified audio engineer, takes a similar approach to the audio. “Most TV shows that do live performance are closed set, and bands take a performance three times or until they get a good take,” he said. “Ours is a basement show. It just so happens to be taped very well. But it doesn’t have to be perfect; I don’t want it to be perfect.” The first two Midwest Underground episodes have covered an eclectic range of genres — hardcore, indie folk and math rock. Bergie hopes to include hip-hop and electronic sets in the future. With music comes comedy, and a small cast contributes sketches between the live performances, artist spotlights and submitted videos. These interludes give Midwest Underground a public access appeal. Archibald Progers, the show’s mustachioed host, leads the shenanigans in a creepy Mr. Rogers-inspired manner. Winkler says their goals are to produce one episode a month and to post original

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Cameron McGill, local orchestral folk band Slothpop and, most recently, the goofily-named local punk act Mr. Clit and the Pink Cigarettes. White Rabbit Cabaret has been a recent stomping ground, though the duo has filmed in just about every venue that features original local music. Reid and Savage say they’ve dedicated thousands of hours to their craft. They put in 40 hours each week filming, mixing and editing footage, in addition to their day jobs. It’s that drive that has had the duo sleeping in shifts to complete videos. They strive to upload content to their Vimeo site, the current home for their 30-plus performances, at least once a week. Reid and Savage say the next step is to launch an expansive website, which they anticipate going live within the next two months. The long-term objective for MonkeyEatsMonkey is to become a professional videography company. But they aren’t willing to compromise the quality of their product for a paycheck. At this point, they are “just really happy to be there to be able to capture it all.”

out of the way (the Indianapolis Museum of Art and French Pharmacie). The team is not without other commitments — full-time jobs, graduate programs and personal lives. “We have not made it profitable yet,” Dupont said of the project. “It’s purely enthusiasm and passion motivating it. It’s the love to discover that artist who will remind you what you love about music again.” “For me, part of it is just the love of music and just wanting to be connecting with that,” Fellegy explained. “The other part is the love for creating.”

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Doug Fellegy at work.

Midwest Underground host Archibald Progers introduces The Calumet Reel.

and submitted content online in the meantime. The long-term objective is to create six to 12 episodes, with the possibility of releasing a Midwest Underground compilation CD in the future. “I love doing it because it’s just something different,” Bergie said. “People like the house party scene, and I wanted to keep that vibe,

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and I wanted bands to be able to walk away from a house show with a great live recording and a live tape.”

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Only have time to do one thing all week? This is it.

STARTS THURSDAY

ENTERTAINMENT

Kevin Pollak stand-up @ Crackers Comedy Club

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Olesya Rulin and Josh Danziger star in Purdue grad Aaron Rottinghaus’s Apart, a selection at this year’s Indy Film Fest.

THURSDAY

FREE

FESTIVAL

Renowned comedian Kevin Pollak will be doing a stand-up set at Crackers Comedy Club June 16-18. The hilarious Pollak has appeared in such films as A Few Good Men, The Usual Suspects and Casino, displaying both his comedic and acting chops. He is currently in The Big Year, featuring Steve Martin and Jack Black. His last stand-up special, “The Littlest Suspect,” aired July 29, 2010 on Showtime. Tickets range from $10-32. 6281 N. College Ave., 255-4211, crackerscomedy.com/crackers-broadripple/ Kevin-pollak/. 

Festival Sneak Peek @ Sun King Brewery Not sure what the Indianapolis International Film Festival is all about? Come out to Sun King Brewery at on June 16 to catch a sneak peek of trailers and short films to be showcased at the festival which will be held in July at the IMA. Attend this free event to hear a complete line-up for this year’s event and be among the first to secure a festival ticket! Something tells us there might some beer there, too… 6 p.m. Free admission. 135 N. College Ave., 602-3702, www.indyfilmfest.com. 

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VISUAL ARTS

FREE

Four openings @ Herron School of Art and Design

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Brenda Williams performs at the Cabaret.

FRIDAY

CABARET

Brenda Williams @ The Cabaret

The bewitching voice that has opened for the likes of Ray Charles, the Beach Boys, Lee Greenwood and Chuck Mangiore is coming to the Cabaret. Indianapolis’ Brenda Williams will perform on June 17 at 8 p.m. in a can’t-miss event. Williams will perform pop-culture favorites in one of our favorite places, the swanky-but-cozy Cabaret at the Columbia Club. Tickets range from $25 to $45 with a $12 food or beverage minimum. 121 Monument Circle, 275-1169, www.thecabaret.org. 

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Not one, not two or even three, but four new shows are opening at the Herron School of Art and Design and will run through July 28. The newly named Dorit and Gerald Paul Gallery will feature 16 works by artists such as Jackson Pollock and Susan Tennant. Also featured will be Randolph Deer in “An Uneven Symphony”, Robert B. Berkshire in “Best of Berkshire” and “New Works” by Valerie Eickmeier. 5 p.m. – 8 opening, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday – Saturday. Free. 735 W. New York St., 278-9469, www.herron.iupui.edu. 

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FRIDAY-SATURDAY

PERFORMANCE ARTS

Beethoven 9th Symphony @ Hilbert Circle Theatre

The 2010-2011 ISO season will end with arguably the greatest composed piece of all time – Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Best known for the final movement featuring Friedrich Schiller’s “Ode to Joy,” this piece is best experienced live. The performance will feature Raymond Leppard as conductor, the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir and soloists Sara Jakubiak, Sean Panikkar, Michaela Martens and James Westman. 7:30 p.m. Ticket prices vary. 45 Monument Circle, 639-4300, www.hilbertcircletheatreindy.org. 

Work by Valerie Eickmeier is part of the upcoming Herron openings.

 Review of TNT’s “Falling Skies” by Marc Allan  Review of “Green Lantern” by Ed Johnson-Ott

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Raymond Leppard conducts.

SATURDAY

SPECIAL EVENT

Summer Solstice @ Indianapolis Museum of Art

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Television and comedy stage star, Kevin Pollak.

The sculpture/installation “Align” will be perfectly aligned on the summer solstice.

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Celebrate the Summer Solstice and the one-year anniversary of 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park with the IMA . The scheduled events include yoga at dawn, information about Andrea Zittel’s Indianapolis Island, a drumming circle with Steven Angel (founder of the Drumming for Life Institute) and art making at the Visitors Pavilion. For those young at heart, there’s even a massive game of freeze tag to participate in. Snacks and drinks are available. Be sure to stop by the “Align” sculpture; each year on the solstice, the two components of the sculpture align to create one shadow. The celebration begins Saturday at 9 a.m. In case of inclement weather, events will be moved to Sunday. 4000 Michigan Road, 923-1331, www.imamuseum.org. 

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 IMAF at the Harrison Center

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SATURDAY-SUNDAY

SPECIAL EVENT

38th Annual Home & Garden Tour @ Meridian-Kessler Neighborhood Admire classic architecture coupled with recent renovations and home SUBMITTED PHOTO décor in the historic Meridian-Kessler Part of the Home & Garden tour this weekend. Neighborhood. Residents open their homes for public tours in the 38th Annual Home and Garden Tour . The tour, created in the 1970s, promotes the history, beauty and unique architecture of the area. This year’s tour, titled “Real Homes. Real Neighbors. Real Ideas,” honors the authentic character of this historic neighborhood. 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Tour tickets are $12 pre-sale and can be purchased on the website listed below or are $15 on-site the day of the event. Suggested start point: 4560 Broadway Street, www.mkhometour.com. 

SATURDAY

PERFORMANCE ARTS

An Evening of Wine and Dance @ White Rabbit Cabaret

Pair together an evening of wine tasting and watching six newly choreographed dances at the White Rabbit Cabaret on June 18. American Culinary Federation’s Gold Medal Winner, Chef James Chantanasombut , will be preparing six delicious courses complete with the perfect wine pairings. Festivities, including a silent auction, begin at 7 p.m. Tickets will run at $75 per person and $120 for two people. 1116 East Prospect St, 686-9550, www.motusdance.com/pairings.  SUBMITTED PHOTO

Motus Dance Company.

SATURDAY

LECTURE

Dr. David Linden @ Center for Inquiry Ever wonder why being bad feels oh so good? Dr. David Linden of the John Hopkins University School of Medicine will explore what does and doesn’t light up the pleasure centers of your brain. Linden, the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Neurophysiology has published two books about the science of the psyche, from love and religion to addiction and comfort foods. Seating is limited. 7 p.m. $20 ($15 for friends of the center.) 350 Canal Walk Suite A, 423-0710, www.centerforinquiry.net/indy. 

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Dr. David Linden will talk about your brain.

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Aphasia performs at the IMA.

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SATURDAY

PERFORMANCE ARTS

Aphasia Dance Company @ IMA

The bizarre gets brought to life on stage in the Aphasia Dance Company’s American debut. The Belgian troupe will have two performances of Rencontres des Imbéciles (Under Erasure) at 5 and 7 p.m. Indy native and North Central graduate Craig McCormick will perform with the group as they feature surrealistic images in a memorable stage performance that challenges the perceptions of audience members. $12 ($9 IMA members). 4000 Michigan Road, 923-1331,www.imamuseum.org. 

SUNDAY

SPECIAL EVENT

Gary Levey @ Center for Inquiry

FREE

Gary Levey’s series of novels, The Joad Cycle, imagines a future where the reigning theology is: Money above all else. Levey will discuss the four novels at the Center for Inquiry on June 19 at 6 p.m. Levey, graduate of Drexel University in economics and history, uses his series’ unique perspective to tend to the issues we face today and will continue to face in the future. Admission is free. 350 Canal Walk, Suite A, 423-0710, www. centerforinquiry.net/indy. 

Gary Levey

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TUESDAY

SPECIAL EVENT

Circle City Chamber Group @ Northwest High School

Feel like helping Indianapolis Public Schools, but don’t know where to start? Then go to the arts extravaganza Heavy Metal. Presented by Circle City Chamber Group, Heavy Metal CCCG’s featured artist is Carol Tabac-Shank, whose work you see here. illustrates the various, fun ways to use metal in art. With metal sculptures from Carol Tabac-Shank, a performance from the Drum Corps International and tons of food and giveaways, there won’t be any shortage of things to do. $40 in advance; $45 at the door. Doors open at 6 p.m. and proceeds from ticket sales go to IPS. 5525 W. 34th St., 586-2224, www.circlecitychambergroup.org/heavymetal.

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THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING CIRCLE CITY IN PRIDE 2011! Here’s a glimpse of the fun we had...

A&E FEATURE Surviving the storm

“This is the one life that we have, and it can change in 15 minutes.”

Stephanie Lewis Robertson’s “The Infinite Moment of Now”

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abric artist Stephanie Lewis Robertson’s current exhibit at the Indianapolis Art Center, The Infinite Moment of Now, came about when her husband Tom suffered a stroke two years ago. “The doctors never expected him to recover,” says Stephanie, a teaching artist with Young Audiences of Indiana and a member of the Stutz Artists Association. With this show, Stephanie transformed her personal ordeal with her husband’s stroke into an art installation, inviting the viewer to join them on their journey of pain, recovery and healing. The exhibit begins with five silk-screen panels. As you enter, the audio recording by sound engineer Marg Herder takes you back to June 23, 2009, to the hospital critical care unit where Tom, hooked up to machines and tubes, lay in a medically induced coma. Tom had suffered both a hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke (a bleed and a clot) and was induced into a coma for several days, put on a ventilator and given a feeding tube. Herder, who stayed with Tom and Stephanie, received permission to record the hospital sounds. The display is in the shape of a spiral, motivating one to walk toward the center. Stephanie notes, “In a critical care waiting room, you do not stand on the edge. You are immersed in it. You have no choice.” The shape is also reminiscent of a hurricane as both Tom and Stephanie witnessed hurricane Hugo. Tom’s stroke, like the hurricane, brought chaos. Stephanie says, “This was a life-altering experience. Both of us want people to understand that this is the one life that we have, and it can change in 15 minutes.” One hand painted silk-screen panel at the entrance is awash in deep red: a serious, life-threatening wound. There are paper-laminated handwritten journal entries fused with brain scan images. Smaller panels contain MRI images of Tom’s brain. Stephanie says, “The caregivers and neurological specialists who walk through this exhibit say, ‘Yes, I recognize that: Traumatic Brain Injury.’” She adds, “This show is about being present, when it was harsh and horrible, and being present when it was gentle and calm.” Stephanie is emphatic when she says, “I always believed Tom would get well; I didn’t know how well, but I knew he was going to come back, and I kept telling the doctors as long as I get his humor back that will be enough for me, and I got a lot more than that.”

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to the community in a way they never would have before. And it helps them know that there is a bigger thing in the world… there’s so much more.” Herder adds, “I think this show is a ‘thank you’ on so many levels. A thank you to Spirit for this experience, thank you for Tom being okay, and thank you for Tom and Stephanie’s community… Don’t ever let anybody tell you that you can’t make miracles because if you can bring a bunch of people together who believe it, astounding things happen.”

Important life lessons

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Above: Tom and Stephanie Robertson, in the gallery at Indianapolis Art Center; below: one of Stephanie’s pieces in the show, which runs through July 31.

Prayers and faith

Fashioned after Tibetan prayer flags, the smaller exhibit panels are secured with white strips twirled around gray stones. Stephanie explains the stones: “Part of it is that I needed to stabilize the pieces, so they had enough strength to not move as people walked by. The other part is the stones are grounding to Mother Earth. I wanted the panels to be like prayer flags but then I wanted that holding to the ground; I anticipated straight up and down but they angle out, like they are saying: ‘thank you’ and ‘gratitude to the world.’” Tom, whose involvement with numerous theaters in Indy include the Phoenix and Buck Creek Players, adds: “The stones remind me of the security stone I held when I was agitated and running a fever. A friend of ours brought a stone from Lake Michigan and, even when I was sort of unconscious, it was a real throwback to growing up and swimming in a lake in Canada, which was my favorite thing to do.

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The coolness and smell of the stone was very soothing and calming for me.” The audio recording component includes songs, prayers and voices of those who cared for Tom and Stephanie. In preparation for this show, Herder asked those who were involved in Tom’s healing to come in for a recording. “What emerged,” Herder says, “just like at the hospital, are Buddhist prayers, Unitarian Universalist prayers, Christian prayers, Wiccan and Pagan prayers, Native American prayers, along with small ensemble singers and large ensemble singers… all part of Tom and Stephanie’s spiritual community.” Herder adds, “Sitting in that hospital room alone with Tom every night, alarms going off over the hypnotic noises of the pumps and respirator, was — perhaps strangely — the most connected to the gentle loving truth of Spirit I have ever felt.” Stephanie’s art students from Ivy Tech assisted with the installation. She says, “This helps them learn not just what you have to do to be an artist, but also how to give back

Toward the center of the exhibit, the panels become lighter. The songs and prayers and voices continue: gentle, loving, melodic. Stephanie says, “The doctors and nurses at the neurological critical care unit at Methodist Hospital were amazing; there are nurses there I trust my life with.” Tom agrees: “They were very respectful of the various nontraditional healing methods and diverse spiritual practices that are an important part of our faith community. “I had people perform Reike on me,” he continues, “and it was very calming and helped me sleep. Thinking about the experience and process, it’s really a case where: 1 + 1 = 3. The experience I acquaint it with is when you have a theater performance and you have a good script, good cast and good design and you put it all together and suddenly, you get magic. Then you have a similar situation for another show and you get 1 + 1 = 2. It’s like trying to figure out that thing that makes it more than the sum of its parts.” Stephanie says, “We can talk about the practical ways in which our lives have changed, but those things are not important. What is important is that we are more in love with this world. If we would all embrace that love and feeling, this world would be a much better place.” “The thing that was amazing about hurricane Hugo,” Tom reflects, “is that when the hurricane passes, and right before, it’s incredibly beautiful.” He pauses, then adds, “But you sort of have to survive the storm.” 

INFINITE MOMENT OF NOW Indianapolis Art Center Through July 31 820 E. 67th St., 255-2464 www.indplsartcenter.org Stephanie Lewis Robertson: www.fabricsinger.com Marg Herder: www.margherder.com

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COMEDY ANDY WOODHULL r Crackers Downtown, Saturday, June 11. Woodhull’s comedy, like the premise of Seinfeld, is about absolutely nothing and yet somehow incredibly successful. It is not loud, political, racial, deadpan, improvised, satirical, wacky, musical, gimmicky, familyfriendly, new age, raunchy or any other traditional comedic variety. Woodhull simply makes fun of himself and his ex-girlfriends for 45 minutes and he’s brilliant at it. He doesn’t change volumes or make funny faces and he doesn’t need to; he has very simple and plainly written subject matter that is made exponentially funnier by his natural Midwestern voice — which is not terribly eccentric, but contains enough character to maintain a distinctive punch. Perhaps his most endearing characteristic is his mastery over a difficult demographic, the late twenties/early thirties niche. There’s a massive logjam in the world of college humor, and most other club-comedians skip right through the entry-level working crowd into the midlife crisis demographic. But Woodhull’s diagnosis of the everyday plights of a 30-year old Midwesterner in 2011 is unprecedented. — ANDREW ROBERTS

Indiana History Center; June 7. To conclude this season’s International Violin Competition of Indianapolis’ Laureate Chamber series, we had a sole — as well as solo — performer, who also provided an engagingly informal lecture. Veteran violinist Arnold Steinhardt — a Los Angeles native, with more career credits than we can list here —came to the IHC’s Basile Theater to discuss his beloved Bach, in particular the great “Chaconne” from the composer’s Partita No. 2 in D Minor for Solo Violin. Then he proceeded to play the entire Partita. The “Chaconne’s” relevance to the competition itself couldn’t be greater: At least a third of the quadrennial event’s participants choose to play the piece, so that attendees and on-line viewers get to hear many views of this — possibly the greatest solo violin work ever written. A screen, projecting apropos images hung above the stage, included portraits of Bach and some of his contemporaries, as well as the Partita’s score as Steinhardt was playing it. Its five movements, based on Renaissance dance forms are: Allemanda, Corrente, Sarabanda, Giga and Ciaconna (Italian for “Chaconne,” which the English then borrowed from the French). Steinhardt easily projected in his discussion his lifelong fascination with the “Chaconne,” then proved it by giving us a more penetrating account of it than we ever hear from young competition participants, no matter their facility and tonal qualities. In fact, he revealed the entire Partita as few performers I’ve ever witnessed have brought to it. Following a standing ovation from the rather large IHC turnout, Steinhardt took a number of questions from the audience. — TOM ALDRIDGE

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A&E REVIEWS abstracted – perhaps in the eyes of her perplexed lover – with a geometric face and stylistic elongations of the arms, torso, legs and feet. I find this characteristic of Indy Indie shows: bold contrasts between the lightheartedness of the venue and the sober social realism being explored by some of the artists in residence. The number of artists exhibiting at Indie Indy seems to grow with every show, and if you keep up with their Facebook page you might catch an unexpected performance art piece. 26 E. 14th St., 919-8725, www. indyindieartist.com/. —JOSEPH WILLIAMS

into infinity. In contrast to this stark work, James Siena’s woodcut print “Multicolored Nesting Knots” bursts with color and multiple groupings of concentric rectangles that, when put together, suggest to me the outlines of multiple human faces. Not the least among the work of these internationally recognized artists is the work of Indy resident Dorothy Alig, whose print “Jung’s Guardian” portrays a pink halo around two cagelike edifices as it invites you to try and classify your personality type. 27 E. Main St ., Carmel, 844-7278, www.gsartaccess.com. —DAN GROSSMAN

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VISUAL ART INDY INDIE’S IN RESIDENCE t Indy Indie Artist Colony; through June 30. Sometimes the key to getting the most out of First Friday Art Walk is timing. If you ventured out on First Friday (June 3) to Indy Indie Artist Colony at the right moment, you were lucky to catch a bonus performance: Brandon Edge Haines doing a spectacular robot. The dance number was in keeping with the diversity of In Residence,

an exhibition which not only features numerous styles and themes, but also shows off the different markets for art in Indianapolis. Bryan Moore is the official artist of the Fountain Square Brewing Company. He exhibited “Cosmic Joy,” a fantasy collage-painting of Fountain Square which includes a woman in a summer dress and a background bursting with sliced fruit. The very beer it advertised was available to sample at the table set in front of the painting. Across the space, Ron Deane’s “Cassandra: A Portrait of a Woman Fighting ED” struck a different chord. It portrayed a reclining, discontented nude female

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Garvey|Simon Art Access; through July 16. All four of the artists in this show might be categorized as both minimalist and abstract but neither term completely does these artists justice. In Dan Walsh’s etching on paper “Folio B IV,” there are three rows of parallel lines and each row is segregated into red and blue groupings. If Walsh’s objective here is to concentrate on form and repetition without reference to a particular subject, then why does this print come off looking to me like some ethereal hammer dulcimer? Maybe this interpretation has something in the painstaking precision evident in the composition. In Mark Sheinkman’s, “4.1.2003,” where the illusion of space is achieved by abrasion on a surface of black aquatint, an equally obsessive precision is on display. This particular work stimulates my imagination to the nth degree. Here he creates a seemingly 3D field of multiple, varied-width lines — perpendicular to one another — stretching off

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he exact sequence of events may forever elude us, but it seems safe to say that no sooner had humans figured out how to build fires than someone started grilling. Grilled meat is an ancient form of sustenance, and no wonder — it’s delicious. Fire by the Monon has been offering up a selection of grilled delights for a little more than a month now, but a recent lunchtime visit indicated that these folks fully understand grilling’s primordial allure. These Fire folk have taken over the Broad Ripple building previously occupied by Neal Brown’s L’explorateur. Located along leafy Ferguson St., it’s a gracious, roomy space that also affords plenty of opportunity for outdoor dining. On the day we visited, an aromatic cloud of smoke beckoned from above the roofline. We chose a patio table and made ourselves comfortable, enjoying a desultory parade of dog-walking pedestrians. Fire by the Monon takes pride in offering a seasonal menu with ingredients supplied by local growers and herders. They cold-

smoke their meats and fish, meaning they expose these victuals to indigenous hardwood and fruitwood smoke that’s under 100 degrees Fahrenheit for an extended period of time. This process enhances flavor and preserves moistness without actually cooking the food. The result is then seared over an open flame. We tried a couple of sandwiches: the Tug of War ($9.95), a pile of slow-smoked pulled pork topped with barbeque sauce, thoroughly melted Gouda cheese and red cabbage slaw; and the Veggie Burger ($9.50), a Portabella mushroom cap marinated in balsamic vinegar and garlic and grilled with roasted red and yellow peppers, caramelized onions, pesto and mozzarella cheese. Both sandwiches were served on quality multi-grain wheat buns with “shreddies,” a dish featuring a variety of diced pickles. Sides of sweet potato fries and beer-battered onion rings were included. Sometimes the test of a great sandwich is whether or not you can actually pick it up with your hands. The Tug of War passed this exam with flying colors, meaning I reached for my knife and fork after attempting just one slip-sliding bite, the better to taste the full monty of flavors. Pork, cheese, sauce and slaw created the equivalent of a power chord. Best of all, you could really taste the meat, which was marvelously tender and juicy. Although Fire by the Monon emphasizes burgers, steak, chicken and such fish as

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LOCAL FOOD POTLUCK, JUNE 30 The Indianapolis Food, Farm, and Family Coalition, Slow Food Indy and the Weston A. Price Foundation invite you to share a meal together at Basic Roots Community Foods in the perennial garden, “Fruit Loop Acres.” Bring a pitch-in dish to share made with locally grown or produced food, dining ware for yourself and group and a blanket or chairs to enjoy a nice potluck in the garden. The potluck is from 7-9 p.m. For more details contact april@indyfoodfarmfamily.org. If you have an item for the Culinary Picks, send an e-mail at least two weeks in advance to culinary@ nuvo.net.

salmon and trout, they don’t let vegetarians down. The Veggie Burger proved to be an ingeniously handcrafted concoction. What might have been a muddle of ingredients proved actually refreshing, as well as substantial. The onion rings were golden, tender and not at all greasy. They went well with a creamy, red pepper-inflected dipping sauce. The same held true for the sweet potato fries. This being lunch, we passed on the chance to take advantage of a thoughtfully curated selection of local and regional craft beers, including selections from Upland, Flat 12, Sun King, Barley Island, and Oaken Barrel. Indiana’s Chateau Thomas is represented (twice) on the wine list. Our server informed us that desserts are the only items not prepared in-house. That didn’t keep us from splitting an order of blackberry cobbler served hot with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. This was tasty all right, but lacked the immediacy of our previous dishes. Service at Fire by the Monon was, if anything, overly solicitous and a little giddy. Once things settle in a bit I expect the staff will find that it’s enough to be welcoming and efficient. With food this good, simplicty speaks for itself

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City Market is launching a new event “Rally in the Alley” in Wabash St. area (just behind City Market on the pedestrian walkway, which is being referred to as “a natural beer garden”), 4:30-7 p.m. every Wednesday through August. The street festival-style event will feature music, local food and Indiana craft beer. Architect Wil D. Marquez of w/purpose is designing a streetscape for Wabash Street. More at www.incycm. com; http://www.facebook. com/IndyCM?ref=ts; twitter@ IndyCM.

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Elbow Room, 605 N. Pennsylvania St., “Trivia Nite” featuring Flat 12 beer starts at 8:30 p.m. in the Upstairs Bar. Tomlinson Tap Room, Indy Third Thursday Brewery Feature. $25. 5:30-8:30 p.m.

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Meridian-Kessler Twilight Tour & Silent Action, 5692 N. Central Ave. (the grounds

of Immaculate Heart of Mary Church); tour of homes, silent auction and dinner featuring Upland brews; 416-8929; 6:30-11:00 p.m.

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RiverStage, the floating Ohio River venue off Riverside Dr., Jeffersonville. Smokin’ on the River Barbecue, Blues and Brew Festival features pairing local beers-including New Albanian Brewing Co. -with the varying takes on barbecue. Smokin’ on the River is a two-day barbecue contest sanctioned as a state qualifier for national barbecue contests. http://www.smokinontheriverbbq.com/

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The RAM Downtown, 6 p.m., Batch 1000 Easy Ryeder, Imperial Rye Pilsner Tapping. Barrel-aged NUTorious Brown also on tap. A band is scheduled.

JUNE 21 Tomlinson Tap Room Beer and Food Pairing. 5:30-8:30 p.m. $25.

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r (PG-13) In the mood for a light, charming movie? Midnight in Paris is an undemanding fantasy where the lead character has a magical romantic adventure and learns a lesson about life along the way. Woody Allen wrote and directed the film. Some have hailed it as his best movie in a decade, but that puts way too much of a burden on its unpretentious little shoulders (and it’s not true, either. Rent Vicky Cristina Barcelona and see for yourself). Anyhoo, don’t enter the theater with unrealistic expectations. Just prepare yourself for a pleasant trifle, an extra-fluffy meringue, an airy drink of ... something airy. Are you getting my message, ladies and gentlemen? The movie is effervescent, featherweight, frothy — hey, I’ve got a thesaurus open here, I can go on like this for paragraphs. Owen Wilson, employing Woody Allenstyle stammering without getting annoying about it, plays Gil, a successful Hollywood

screenwriter working on a novel because he wants to be feel legitimate. Gil’s an easygoing, likable fellow, so why is he on a pre-wedding vacation in Paris with Inez (Rachel McAdams), who is self-absorbed, materialistic and kinda abrasive? Don’t blame Inez. She’s not bad, Woody Allen just wrote her that way, so we’d root for Gil to get away from her. Gil, whose love for Paris and its storied past appears stronger than his feelings for Inez, takes to walking the streets at night to drink in the romanticism of the City of Light. Romantic notions turn true when the clock hits midnight and a vintage car pulls up. The party-goers in the roadster invite Gil in and he finds himself transported back to the Paris of the Golden Days, riding with none other than F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald (Tom Hiddleston and Alison Pill). Congratulations to Woody the writer and Owen the actor for finding just the right level of awestruck-ness for Gil — enough for a reason-based man magically transported through time, but not so much as to prevent him from adapting to the situation. He can’t believe he’s hobnobbing with legends. To them, however, he’s a peer — a writer with a promising book and an appealing manner. The best parts of the film are Gil’s nightly visits to the past, where he pals around with pointedly-direct man’s man Ernest Hemingway (played amusingly, but somehow not cartoonishly, by Corey

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Stoll), gets advice from the remarkable and remarkably down-to-earth Gertrude Stein (Kathy Bates, in fine form), and marvels at Salvador Dali. I won’t list all the luminaries he encounters. Suffice to say that in addition to socializing with the greats, Gil gets a crush on the lovely Adriana (Marion Cotillard), who is dating Hemingway and Picasso (Marcial Di Fonzo Bo). During the daytime hours, Inez complains about Gil’s increasing distance, while her parents (Mimi Kennedy and Kurt Fuller) up their “tut-tutting” about their son-in-law to be. Dad even hires a detec-

tive to follow Gil at night, a subplot with a payoff that isn’t funny enough to warrant the build-up. Michael Sheen is entertainingly irritating as a know-it-all who hovers around Inez. In the end, the fairy-tale has a suitably happy ending and Gil learns a lesson. So there you go. The Purple Rose of Cairo it ain’t, but Midnight in Paris is a pleasure, really. Just don’t expect too much. Did I mention the movie is slight, trifling, airy ... oh hell, I said airy 479 words ago.

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The following are reviews of films currently playing in Indianapolis area theaters. Reviews are written by Ed Johnson-Ott (EJO) unless otherwise noted. 13 ASSASSINS (R)

A government official hires thirteen samurai warriors to assassinate a sadistic lord. Among other breathtaking spectacles, this film features one of the bloodiest, muddiest swordfights ever put to film. And it’s directed by the prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker, Takashi Miike ( Audition, Ichi the Killer). 136 minutes. At Landmark’s Keystone Art Cinema this Friday and Saturday only at midnight.

GREEN LANTERN (PG-13)

Martin Campbell (Casino Royale) directs the story of what happens when cocky test pilot Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) gets recruited to become a member of the Green Lantern Corps, an interstellar police force that uses power rings and has a great oath (“In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight, etc.”). Sure, the comic was C-list, but Green Lantern was always a cool character, and his costume was both sleek and sexy. Looking forward to this one ... 105 minutes.

MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS (PG)

Jim Carrey stars in a family comedy about a driven businessman who is clueless when it comes to the important things in life — until he inherits six penguins. Co-starring Carla Gugino and Angela Lansbury, the film is a contemporary update of the awardwinning book by Richard and Florence Atwater. 94 minutes.

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As warm as a summer night, this film is a bona fide children’s classic that even adults will enjoy. The now-iconic film tells of Scotty Smalls and his unforgettable summer of making friends, playing baseball, and outrunning killer dogs. Seamlessly merging childlike imagination with reality, this film captures the universal magic of growing up like no other. 101 minutes. At IMA’s Amphitheater Friday, June 17 at 9 p.m. $10 for the public, $5 for museum members. — Sam Watermeier

STEPHEN SONDHEIM’S COMPANY (PG-13)

Experience the classic stage musical on the big screen. The all-star cast includes Neil Patrick Harris, Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert and Jon Cryer. And they are accompanied by the New York Philharmonic. 150 minutes. At Landmark’s Keystone Art Cinema for a limited time only. See landmarktheatres.com for more details.

SUPER 8 r (PG-13)

Entertaining as all get out, Super 8 is an homage to early Spielberg films that stands as a work unto itself. Directed by J.J. Abrams ( Lost, Star Trek), the film is set in a small Ohio steel mill town in 1979. While making their own movie, a group of kids witness the most bad-ass train wreck ever depicted on film. During the crash, something breaks out of one of the cars and disappears into the darkness. Something big and powerful, like the film itself. 112 minutes. See nuvo.net for the full review.

THE TREE OF LIFE w (PG-13)

Terence Malick’s long-awaited new film is an engrossing, 138-minute meditation on life, the universe, and our place in it. The impressionist film includes extended images depicting the creation of the universe, the birth of our world, the age of the dinosaurs, and a detailed portrait of a Texas family in the ‘50s. In the end, it’s a poignant representation of the reconciliation most of us make (or wish to make) with the people and memories that affected us most.

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NUVO: Could you take me back to the beginning of your life in Australia? How’d you end up there in first place? How’d you make ends meet? Did you find yourself with fresh insight because you were away from the States?

Former CCM star relaunches career after coming out BY S CO T T S H O G E R S S H O G E R@N U V O . N E T

ime was you could find your Jennifer Knapp album just down the aisle from your study bibles and your icthus magnets. She was a big deal on the Christian music scene: her first album, 1998’s Kansas, sold over 500,000 copies; followup records in 2000 and 2001 were nominated for Grammys and pushed her total career album sales to over 1 million. A 2010 CCM collection Wow #1s: 30 of the Greatest Christian Music Hits slots her biggest single, “Undo Me,” right between tracks by Steven Curtis Chapman, Amy Grant and Jars of Clay. So it was certainly news to the Christian music world when she quit music entirely in 2002, heading on sabbatical to Australia after finishing up touring commitments. And her return to the States was the stuff of mainstream news. Knapp came out publicly during a series of interviews conducted in April 2010, including talks with The Advocate and Christianity Today and an interview on Larry King Live. As Reuters put it at the time: “No other singer of Knapp’s renown in the Christian music genre is openly gay.” One might quibble with that quote from Reuters because Knapp isn’t really active in the Christian music genre, as such, these days. Her 2010 album, Letting Go, is a secular affair, a tense, emotionally-charged journey of self-discovery that’s absent any of the capitalized Yous or references to faith that figured in her prior work. It’s more a work aimed towards the folk or adult-contemporary scene than the CCM crowd; as Knapp put it to Reuters, “I just wouldn’t find it respectful at all to say, ‘Hey, this is something that you want in your store next to your Jesus statue.’” But you will find Letting Go for sale in the acoustic-friendly confines at the Wheeler Arts Community, where she plays Saturday night, closing out a busy weekend that includes stops at a Pride festival in Nashville and a book signing in New York City for Raw, a collection of poetry addressing concerns of faith, race and sexual orientation to which Knapp contributed an introduction. The following interview is, if you will, joined in progress; the following is a pretty exact transcript starting from about 10 minutes into my conversation with Knapp, because things get more exciting once we get to Australia.

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JENNIFER KNAPP: I initially ended up there because that’s where my partner’s originally from and the other half of my family’s there. I figured, why not? It was definitely a challenge to go live internationally. Basically, I didn’t work until maybe two or three years into it, until I kind of felt comfortable enough culturally to even begin to assimilate. While it’s an Englishspeaking country, it’s still culturally different, and to even begin to feel comfortable to hang out with everyday people really took me a good deal of time. And in terms of what that experience brought to me, I think you kind of hit the nail on the head: Taking myself out of my own comfortable environment and living somewhere else really challenged my perception on who I thought I was or how I fit in socially with other people. Being an American and being identified as an American every time I opened my mouth, what does that mean? With my drive to be like everyone else, what does that mean, given people’s reaction to me? How do I assimilate and achieve my own individuality inside of that? How do I hold on to things in my past — being an American, being a Kansan, being a musician — and when I wasn’t being a musician, how did that play out? Something lovely about the Australian culture is that you have to give an account for yourself on a daily basis. You’re accepted for who you are, no matter how you come. But you need to have a mindset in that culture, where it’s not just about saying who you are but following through and being who you are, which I found incredible. NUVO: Maybe Australia offered you a chance to walk to walk and gain confidence before coming back to the States, to get comfortable in your shell before coming back to a potentially hostile environment. KNAPP: In some ways, yeah. I had many friends and family there and I’d say to them, “I can’t go back and do music because, if I go back to the States, people won’t like my music because I’m gay.” And the questions that come back to you are: What makes you say that? Why would you let that stop you? Some really hardcore searching questions. They are a culture that says, “If these are things you want to do and believe in doing, then making up excuses to not do them is really not a way to proceed forward.” Being in an environment with friends and family that asked me those hardcore questions was part of gaining the confidence to be able to come back and, literally after five or six years, to say, “Man, I really do miss my art. Why am I not playing? Why am I not writing? I don’t have to be a public

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figure, but I can no longer sit here and say, well, I’m afraid of being a public figure and therefore I can’t write. No, I should write and perform, whether or not that’s publicly accepted, whether or not I’ll go and be a rock star.” That part of me was really important, and to hide that or not participate in that when it gave me a lot of joy, pleasure and, even, self-confidence, was no longer acceptable for me. NUVO: How did your music change when you started writing again?

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KNAPP: I quit music in 2002 and, long story short, I really quit; I didn’t want to play anymore. It wasn’t until about 2007, 2008 where I missed it and the lightswitch came on and I said, “Why am I not writing?” That process was kind of a scary one for me because I didn’t know what I was going to write. I didn’t know if I wanted to write faith-based music — I was pretty confident I didn’t, but I had a long history of forcing myself to think in terms of community and in terms of sharing faith. It’s a hard habit to break, without knowing the balance of

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what made for an ecumenical conversation. After five years of not having released that animal, it was a little bit wild. But in terms of creativity, I think as an artist sometimes you have to challenge yourself to jump in the deep end and not worry about the end product. Once I started getting the process going, I was writing songs and finishing them. Once those started to get completed, then I started to think about what those individual songs pieced together might look like shared out in a live concert setting or shared out on CD. NUVO: Some songs on your new album seem to mirror the songwriting process — “Dive In,” which might be about jumping into songwriting, and “Inside,” which captures a darker interior monologue and a voice saying quite the opposite, something like, “Don’t dive in.” KNAPP: Yeah, there are some songs on this record that mirror my internal struggle. Some people like to put them in a category, saying they’re about a reconciliation process between my faith and my sexuality, and that’s not necessarily the case. “Inside,” for example, is definitely a song written to the voices in my head about my fears — of being public, of being known as this Christian songwriter of faith, of what people will say. But as an artist, it’s about being able to jump into those things and finish a song, without regard to what people will think about the simple fact that you expressed it is part of the process. When I start confronting my fears in those quiet places and start talking back to those voices in my head, they actually start to be pretty positive experiences for me, in terms of uncovering whatever it is rattling about my head and piecing those things together. It’s an interesting journey for me, and it’s later on down the track that there’s the question of how much of this will I share out loud with other people. For me that initial journey was so profoundly impacting for me, sitting in that little studio at home and wrestling with those issues over whether or not I was going to participate in the creative life ever again.

To be re-engaged with other people and to, in some ways, step outside of myself and come at the music fresh, I started to see that connectivity with what I was writing then and what I’m writing now in really positive ways. I think, intrinsically, I’m really a person who likes to doubt, who gets energy and enthusiasm from whittling things down to their most vulnerable place and heading at it. I’m pessimistic at worst; I always work out the worst case scenario to make sure I can survive the worst case scenario. I think my writing is a lot like that. And where that intersects with me as a person? I think my faith issues do come into it, but at this point, I think I’m trying to be less of a harbinger of a specific spiritual bent. In the Christian marketplace the conversation was only about Christianity, and I’m less interested in being a poster child for a particular religion and more interested in people allowing themselves to engage their spiritual nature. I’m trying not to be as afraid of going there because I think I need to control the end result. That’s another part of the creative process: you write a song for yourself in your own journey and then you have to let it go. You have to allow people to let that music find a way into their heart, and you can’t always dictate what that’s going to mean to them. That’s been a real challenge in terms of this music and it’s been a real joy as well, to be surprised at where or when people connect with a particular song or the whole body of work.

I think, intrinsically, I’m really a person who likes to doubt ...

NUVO: Is there a throughline to your past, pre-2002, work? You’re still addressing issues of faith on the new record, but are you doing so in the same way? KNAPP: I was really concerned with the connectivity to my past work. Part of that was time and geography; there was just so much space in between that, having that much space between projects, I definitely was doubting my ability to have an continuity at all, or even curious as to whether or not there was even supposed to be any continuity — I’m not sure there have to be any hard and fast rules. When I sat down to write this past project, I wasn’t concerned with the continuity; I just wanted to get it out. Later on down the track, as this record got out and there were a lot of requests during live shows for me to play some of that older music, on the egotistical side, you’re like, “Man, I’ve been playing this music for fifteen years; I don’t want to play that song anymore.”

NUVO: You’re having to market your work differently now, in what we might call the indie-folk scene rather than CCM. What struggles and successes have come with that transition?

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KNAPP: I’ll start with the negatives first. If there are any pitfalls, they’re the typical pitfalls of trying to be a musician. It’s really hard work, and for every 24 hours that you spend traveling, you might have an hour of doing a concert and being a rock star and having everyone think you’re so great. And it’s a hard economy to be doing it in as well; there are musicians everywhere. You have to do it because you love it, and that’s just pretty much the end of it. I can’t imagine having to do this if I got up every day, as exhausted as I feel some days, if there wasn’t something I loved about it at the core. At the same time I’m challenged to bring on the legacy of the conversation I’ve had in the Christian music industry — and that’s frustrating because I’m not doing sacred music anymore, it’s not meant for the church. Balance that out with people who think that, if you’re not doing sacred music anymore, it’s not something holy. Then balance that out with going into pubs and clubs and people who aren’t familiar with me — in a lot of ways, I’m a new artist — who are thinking, ohmigosh, religion’s coming to town, and that’s not it at all. It’s fun to be able to navigate that; I’ve always enjoyed surprising people’s expectations… It’s been really fun; I’m making new fans every day and meeting old fans every day as well, who are just jumping on board.

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Clare Burson poured a lot of time, energy and thought into her latest record, Silver and Ash, using a fellowship to study the history of her European ancestors. The resulting record focused on her grandmother, who fled the Nazis just before World War II.

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Kind of the prototypical Vollrath show, featuring Michigan thrash band CokeDickMotorcycleAwesome, the timeless punk drummer-turned-guitarist JJ Pearson with his latest creatively-named backing band, local throwback punk band Stealing Volume, and Chicago’s The Sky We Scrape.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. 7 and 10:30 p.m., $15, 21+

Pianist and vocalist Joe McBride made his name in the smooth jazz world, a fact which may leave the average reader of NUVO cold, unless she happens to be the average reader who wept when WTPI changed formats to “glorified iPod playing your favorite hits with no sense of continuity because robots are cheaper and easier to clean.” But McBride has always packed a secret weapon — his voice — which he put to good use on his latest album, Lookin’ for a Change, an R&B workout that finds McBride in George Benson mode. COUNTRY CLINT BLACK

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White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect St. 8 p.m., $8 advance, $10 door, 21+

Breezy summer music from a Detroit-based duo inclined towards cheekiness — note not only the band’s name, which has surely drawn in the NASCAR crowd, but also the title to their latest album, It’s a Corporate World, released on Warner Bros. The music itself isn’ t quite so arch, full of bright major-key keyboard lines, equally bright stacatto guitar and nerdy vocal harmonies a la Pet Sounds (or maybe the less intricate Smiley Smile). ROOTS NICK 13, DANNY THOMPSON Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St. 8 p.m., $12, 21+

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Philly-based R&B singer Musiq (Soulchild) has spent the last decade on one major label or another, working up solidly-constructed R&B without scoring a major single, but never really capitulating to the market by hooking up with any old emcee — well, with the exception of the rather obvious attempt to hit the charts with a certain albumcloser called “Radio,” which tried to channel Atlanta snap a few years too late. He’ s effectively drawn on everything from ‘60s soul to late-period disco, with a particular knack for the slow jam and ballad.

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The local classic rock band Goliathon, which came very close to winning last year’s Battle of Birdy’s, tends to come fully equipped to any given shows, what with their three guitars, organ, bass and saxophone. Dead Man’s Switch is long on local talent, with John Zeps and Tony Reitz on guitars, Ace One on vocals, Bake Henry on bass and T om Roosa on drums. With Chicago’s Mutts.

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Much like their neo-soul compatriots at Daptone Records, Fitz and the Tantrums try to sound like the real thing. But their version of the real thing has a little more of a sheen. They dig on Northern soul and Motown at its more refined, with smooth sax lines, tight backing vocals and even an occasional drum loop.

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a recording studio located on a huge patch of land in Spencer, has found its way on the radar without a whole lot of fanfare, hosting a smattering of outdoor, campout-style events usually aimed towards the jam scene. This year’s lineup for their signature event, the Stable Studios Music Festival, is jam-packed with pretty famous headliners (Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, 7 Walkers, Headtronics, Chicago Afrobeat Project) and a whole bunch of locals (Shaggy Wonda, Ladymoon, Waldemere Revival). NUVO’s own Danielle Look will have coverage from Saturday at the festival; look for it next week on nuvo.net. BILL MONROE BEAN BLOSSOM BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL

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The fest so nice we pick it twice, largely because it runs from Saturday to Saturday and saves some of its big-name headliners for the final day, including Dr. Ralph Stanley and his Clinch Mountain Boys and Bobby Osborne & Rocky Top Express. Music runs from roundabout 10 a.m.-11 p.m. every day, with most bands playing two sets. And lest you discount the uniqueness of the Bill Monroe Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival, keep in mind that this is the oldest, continuously-running bluegrass festival in the world, and a pretty darn good value considering the amount of music for the price.

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Eons ago, or back in 2002, Iron & Wine was the solo project of singer-songwriter Sam Beam, a guy recording whispery and meditative folk songs on a four-track in his basement. But on Friday night at The Vogue, Iron & Wine featured a gaggle of musicians including a three-part horn section, two electric guitars and a bass, two percussionists, a keyboard player and two backup vocalists (am I missing anyone?). If your only exposure to Iron & Wine was Beam’s first album, The Creek Drank the Cradle (2002), and you were blindfolded

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Any concerns that The Black Keys could fill the sonic space at The Lawn were answered Friday night, when the Akron, Ohio, duo greeted the sold-out audience with a soulful, thunderous blues wail. The band is riding high on the success of last year’s Brothers, their sixth full-length release, which came nearly a decade after their debut. After opening with earlier material — including the muddy power chords of “Girl is On My Mind” and the barn-burning disco of “Stack Shot Billy” — they brought out a keyboardist and bass player for a suite of Brothers songs. That release represents a departure from the duo’s stentorian blues bash of old. Hell, guitarist Dan Auerbach sings “Everlasting Light” in a falsetto. The stadium-storming “Howlin’ for You” and the stilted “Tighten Up,” both singles off Brothers, brought out thousands of cell phones and set attendees hopping. The sludgy, sexy groove of “Sinister Kid” is one of the best accomplishments on Brothers, but came off disheveled during the encore. Aside from a disco ball and a lighted Black Keys sign, there wasn’t much of a visual element to the show. Instead Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney relied on finesse and pealing waves of gritty noise to win over the crowd. The musical connection between the two is obvious. They fed off each other continuously, giving facial cues as to which musical direction to go next. Auerbach’s ferocious guitar work is enough on its own, but Carney is the perfect complement, attacking his cymbals as much as his snare. They brought out the whoop-ass on “Busted,” impelling each other to ever greater heights. Fans were treated to the bonus of opening act Booker T. Jones sitting in with The Black Keys on two songs, something Auerbach described as amazing more than once. No surprise. The Keys owe a debt of gratitude to the Memphis-born Stax legend, an obvious influence on their sound. During his opening set, Jones played a couple cuts off his newest album, The Road from Memphis, as well as his signature song “Green Onions.” His soulful B3 organ playing was nicely complemented by guitarist Vernon “Ice” Black’s emotionallycharged work. Normally an instrumental organist, Jones even strapped on an ax and sang on a couple numbers. His rich baritone voice should make anyone wonder why he doesn’t sing more often.

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Patrick Carney of The Black Keys at The Lawn.

and taken to Friday night’s show, you might not have known you were watching the same performer. You might, however, have recognized Beam’s beard and determinedly vacant stare, even if you weren’t able to make out the highly literary quality of his lyrics due to poor sound mixing, plus the fact that Beam’s seductively hushed voice seemed to get drowned out by his complex arrangements. Though it made for a great show, the 11-piece band just didn’t seem to be the best vehicle for Beam’s lyrics. Beam took the stage looking every bit the Southern Hipster Gentleman in a rumpled black three-piece suit and collared shirt. His hair was already slick with sweat as he said his hellos and announced this was his first trip to Indianapolis. Iron & Wine then kicked things off with the song “Boy With a Coin,” from their third album, Shepherd’s Dog (2007), followed by a funky track from this year’s album Kiss Each Other Clean , called “Me and Lazarus” (“He’s an emancipated punk and he can dance / he’s got a hole in the pocket of his pants”). As the show wore on, it was evident that Iron & Wine has not merely added more instruments over the years, but that the group has also developed and branched out musically, playing around with different beats and genres. The band played a strikingly funk version of “Big Burned Hand,” a heavily electronic and synth-y rendition of “Monkeys Uptown,” and turned “House By the Sea” into a Caribbean, Afro-beat jam. By the end of the show the crowd had fully awakened and, after thumping the floor enough to make the Vogue’s balconies shake, called the band back on stage for a rocking encore performance of the romantic and catchy “Tree by the River.” The Head and the Heart opened the night with violinist and singer Charity Thielen appearing front-and-center. The Seattle-based group’s debut album hit the shelves this year and was panned by critics as unoriginal. Indeed, other than Thielen’s striking voice, there doesn’t seem to be lot to distinguish this band from a host of other contemporary folk-rock groups. That said, when Thielen is allowed to really belt it out, such as at the end of the moving track “Rivers and Roads,” even the most disillusioned critic cannot help but take notice. —GRANT CATTON

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C-cup or larger), and without visible scars or blemishes, will be considered for the equivalent-$80-a-day jobs (an almost unheard-of salary in China, especially for agricultural field work). NOTE: Last month, News of the Weird reminded readers, with examples, that bizarre human adventures repeat themselves again and again. Here are a few more recent selections of previous themes: • Cliche Come to Life: The person in the news most recently for slipping and falling on a banana peel might be Ida Valentine, 58, who filed a lawsuit in February against the 99 Cents Only chain after slipping on one while shopping in its store in Fontana, Calif., in April 2010. The fall, she said, left her with a herniated disk and tissue damage. • News of the Weird has reported several times on the confusion many art gallery visitors reveal in evaluating “abstract impressionist” pieces when they compare them to random scribblings of toddlers (and animals, such as chimpanzees and elephants). In April, academic researchers at Boston College reported that, indeed, gallery patrons correctly differentiated serious works from squiggles only about 60 per-

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The film Tuck Everlasting tells the story of a family that becomes immortal after drinking from a magical spring. The two parents and their two sons hide their gift from the world, but eventually a mysterious man in a yellow suit finds out about their secret and stalks them. At one point in his search, this man has a conversation with a young pastor. “What if you could be eternal?” he asks the priest. “Without having to face the uncertainty of death. Invincible to disease. Forever young.” The priest is rattled. “You speak blasphemy, sir,” he protests. “Fluently,” replies the man in the yellow suit. You have that mandate right now Aries: to speak blasphemy fluently, as well as any other rebellious diction. It’s time to rise up and express the unspeakable, the controversial, the revolutionary. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): There’s substantial evidence that the Amazon River used to flow in the opposite direction from what it does now. Ages ago, its currents traveled westward from the Atlantic Ocean toward the Pacific (tinyurl. com/AmazonReversal). I’d like you to hold that image firmly in mind as you contemplate a monumental shift of course in your own life. Let it serve as a surprising symbol of what’s possible — as a promise that you could actually manage to reverse a current that may seem immutable. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In Mark Harris’s novel Bang the Drum Slowly, professional baseball players cheat their fans out of money by engaging them in a card game called TEGWAR, which is an acronym for The Exciting Game Without Any Rules. Judging from your current astrological omens, Gemini, I’d say it’s prime time for you to play a more ethical version of this game. Strictly speaking, the game can have rules, but they may be changed at any time, and new ones may be added as needed. The object of your brand of TEGWAR is to have as much smart fun as possible without anyone getting hurt. CANCER (June 21-July 22): “The only way to let your dreams come true is to wake up,” said poet Paul Valery. Here’s how I think that applies to you right now. You’ve become too engrossed in the mythic, phantasmagorical feelings of your fantasies, and that’s interfering with your ability to muster all of the kick-ass pragmatism and supercharged willpower you will need to actually make your fantasies come to life. In other words, Cancerian, I advise you to snap out of your creamy dreamy haze with a self-induced wake-up call. Stop floating and start grunting. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): As we began our first session, the 79-year-old Jungian psychotherapist looked at me with mischief in her eyes and said, “Go ahead — surprise me! What have you got?” I was torn. Part of me felt like rising to her challenge, meeting her dare: I fantasized about telling her such wild versions of my adventures that they would outstrip any tales she’d heard in her long service as a deep listener. But in the end I chose to tell the truth. I felt it was more important to explore my life’s actual mysteries than to entertain her. And that was the first healing she helped me achieve. I suspect a similar test is ahead for you, Leo. Would you rather be honest or impress people? VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I predict that at no time in the coming weeks will anyone be justified in saying to you, “Your ego has been writing checks that your body can’t cash.” Nor will anyone have any reason to tell you, “You’d better start running if you hope to catch up with your dreams,” or “You may be an old soul but you’ve been acting like a naive punk.” No, Virgo, I firmly believe that none of those accusations will be hurled at you. Why? Because from what I can tell, all of the various parts of your psyche will be in a greater state of collaborative unity than they’ve been in for a long time. Your alienation from yourself will be at an all-time low, as will your levels of hypocrisy.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I’m brave in some ways, cowardly in others. I’ve gone parasailing, performed on big stages in front of thousands of people, assisted in the birth of two children, and explored the abyss of my own unconscious. On the other hand, I’m scared of confined spaces, can’t bring myself to shoot a gun, and am a sissy when it comes time to be around people who are dying. I imagine that you, too, have areas of courage and timidity, Libra. And I suspect that in the coming weeks you will be called to a challenge in both areas. See if you can transfer some of the nervy power you’re able to summon in one sphere to bolster you in the place where you’re a wimp. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The Kinky Dream and Funky Paradise chapter of your astrological cycle has arrived — a phase when you’ll have poetic license to let your imagination run wilder than usual. In fact, it’ll be prime time to escape into fantasyland and try on a new identity or two, complete with a host of outlandish nicknames. Your new hip hop name could be Extasy TrixxMaster. Your pro wrestler name could be Velvet Soul Pandora. Your mystic superhero name could be Mountain Wind Storm. Your Irish prostitute name could be Luscious X. Mahoney. Your rock star from the future name could be Destiny Acrobat. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The coming weeks could be a Golden Age for your perceptiveness. If you’re even moderately aligned with the cosmic rhythms, you will be able to discern hidden agendas that no one else has spotted, catch clues that have been hidden, and be able to recognize and register interesting sights you’ve previously been blind to. To maximize your ability to cash in on this fantastic opportunity, say this affirmation frequently: “My eyes are working twice as well as usual. I can see things I don’t normally notice.” CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): If you were the star of a fairy tale in which a spell had been placed on you, you would find a way to break that spell sometime in the next seven months. If you were the hero of a myth about a royal child abandoned in the wasteland by your evil nurse and raised by emotionally clumsy but well-meaning gnomes, your exile would soon end; your real parents, the king and queen, would find you after a long search, and your birthright would be restored. Now translate these themes into the actual circumstances of your life, Capricorn. Are you ready to do what it takes to achieve a healing and restoration that have been a long time coming? AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): What is sacred? The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said it was anything that you cannot or will not laugh at. But I have the exact opposite view. If I’m unable to crack a joke about what I regard as holy, then it’s not holy. For me, part of what makes an idea or person or object holy is its power to animate my sense of humor and put me in the mood to play. Where do you stand on this issue, Aquarius? If you’re aligned with my view, you will have some wonderful opportunities to commune with the sacred in the coming days. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the chorus of my band’s song “Apathy and Ignorance,” I sing, “What is the difference between apathy and ignorance?” and the other two singers chant, “I don’t know and I don’t care.” I recommend you make that chant your mantra in the coming days, Pisces: “I don’t know and I don’t care.” You really do need to experiment with a mischievous state of mind that is blithely heedless of what anyone thinks about anything. You have the right and the privilege to be free of expectations, precedents, and dogmas. Trust you intuition above all other influences! It’s an excellent time to at least temporarily declare your independence from everything that’s not interesting or useful or helpful or appealing.

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