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When you ask the guys manning the kitchen in your favorite eatery to talk about music, you’ll often find someone who’s actually in a band. Music editor Kat Coplen and food editor Sarah Murrell dig into the convergence of the local food and music scenes.
With a building to call home and a rapidly growing membership of “cannabiterians,” The First Church of Cannabis is two weeks away from its first service. The church may have developed out of the RFRA debacle, but Minister of Love Bill Levin is committed to the faith, the church, and the future.
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We continue our exploration of delicious noms and delicious riffs with a sitdown chat with the State Street Pub’s management, a new rock and roll bar on, you guessed it, State Street. Kyle Long gets a quiet moment with Lonnie Lester, a classic local soul singer — hear that interview in full tonight on WFYI. And Brett Alderman gets the deets on Shannon Hayden’s beer and gear before her show at The Warehouse.
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hey solved the problem the old-fashioned way. Two members of the Indiana delegation of the U.S. House of Representatives — Rep. Susan Brooks, R-Indiana, and Rep. Larry Bucshon, R-Indiana –— sit with the chair of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Rep. Fred Upon, R-Michigan, in a corner conference room on the 24th floor of a downtown Indianapolis office building. The view is magnificent, a panoramic look to the north and west of Indianapolis and central Indiana. It’s the kind of day that suggests that all our troubles may be behind us, that the possibilities for good are endless and that we all should be smiling. Certainly, Brooks, Bucshon and Upton are smiling. They’re here to talk about the 21st Century Cures Act He says — a sensible piece of legislation that now is working its way through the House. The bill includes many provisions, most of them aimed at making it easier for medical researchers to collaborate and share information, giving patients greater access to information and creating incentives for more medical research and development. Almost with one voice (they’ve clearly rehearsed their talking points), Brooks, Bucshon and Upton say the 21st Century Cures Act “will save lives” and “keep and create jobs here at home.” That’s good stuff, but there are a lot of good, sensible ideas that become the rope in a partisan tug of war in Congress these days. I ask Brooks, Bucshon and Upton how they managed to get a 51-0 vote in committee and whether that unanimous vote offers any lessons that could be applied elsewhere in a Congress plagued by gridlock. After noting that the committee has 54 members and three were absent when the vote was taken — “They’re all cosponsors,” he says with a chuckle — Upton talks about the path that led to consensus. He says it started with listening. He and the committee members solicited advice from everyone they could think of who was involved in heath care: 6 VOICES // 06.17.15 - 06.24.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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doctors, patients, medical researchers, insurance companies, patient advocates, technicians, etc. They took the counsel from the people with whom they talked when they crafted the bill. They also reached out to Democrats. They included provisions important to Democrats to get their support. They talked with the Obama White House. “The administration is on board. I have to commend them,” says Upton, a moderate Republican who has faced Tea Party primary challenges in his home district. The end result was legislation that
it started with listening. resembles a department store — a little something for everyone — more than it does the specialty-shop proposals aimed at specific (and narrow) ideological groups that most often come out of Congress these days. That sort of pragmatic approach to lawmaking — making sure everyone has a seat at the table and insuring that everyone gets at least a piece of what he or she wants — has fallen into disfavor in these rabidly partisan times. Compromising and seeking out areas of common ground now too often are perceived as signs of weakness. Once upon a time, they were called something else. Statesmanship. Leadership. In this case, making law the old-fashioned way has produced a bill that likely will save lives and give people satisfying and well-paying jobs. Not bad. After the three members of Congress wrap up, I walk out of the building with Brooks. It’s the kind of day that makes one believe that the world is kind and that we all can get along. It’s a pity that days like this one now seem so rare. n
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o, Socrates and Glenda Ritz walk into a bar ... Only philosophy nerds might think that is the beginning of a funny joke. And maybe a blogger. If I had the chance to have a conversation with Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz, it would almost certainly sound like I was using the Socratic Method with her. Since I do not envision such a conversation occurring any time soon, I will do my best at describing a hypothetical example of that conversation here.
an interesting “crime” in modern times? A practice that made his teaching timeless was his engagement in the questioning of his students and colleagues in an endless search for truth. He sought to get to the foundation of others’ views by asking a series of questions that serve as individual tests of logic. The series of questions continues until a contradiction is exposed. It ends by ultimately proving the fallacy of the initial assumption. This became known as the Socratic Method. Aristotle also refers to the method as the basis of the scientific method itself. So here we go.
The fight next year is not a fight between which union groups support which Democratic candidate, it is about engaging a more progressive agenda for Indiana. Additionally, since my kids might read this, I want to explain the method and its creator for context and more importantly so I can claim that this week’s edition is in fact, educational. (Just in case Superintendent Ritz actually reads this.) Socrates, the famous Greek philosopher, is considered one of the greatest and most important philosophers who ever lived. While most of what we know about his life’s work came from the writings of his disciples, Plato among them, there is significant debate related to his trial, conviction and ultimate execution. The crime he committed was that of “corrupting the young.” Wouldn’t that be
SOCRATES: Superintendent Ritz, why did you decide to run for governor? GLENDA RITZ: I think I can beat incumbent Gov. Mike Pence. You know, I got more votes than he did in 2012.
SOCRATES: So is that WHY you are running? RITZ: Well, not just that. I think Indiana can do a better job connecting our education policies to our economic policies, and this is the key to moving Indiana forward. SOCRATES: So your current office doesn’t provide the opportunity to successfully move this connection forward? RITZ: Well, it might if Gov. Pence and Republicans in the legislature would let me do the job to which I was elected. But since they haven’t, becoming governor is the next logical step. SOCRATES: So if you win the guberna-
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torial election next year, you will be able to implement all of your education-toeconomy policy connections? RITZ: I hope so. SOCRATES: Won’t a ‘Governor’ Ritz still have to work with Republicans, particularly in the legislature, to implement real change in this arena? RITZ: Of course, but at least I will have a majority of appointments I can make to the State Board of Education and the ability to veto bad education legislation. SOCRATES: Who do you expect to replace you as the superintendent of public instruction, and what happens if he or she is a Republican? RITZ: I hadn’t thought of that yet. However, the authority of the office has been reduced to the point that it no longer sets education policy as it once did. SOCRATES: Would you “partner” with your replacement the way you believe Pence and Republicans should have partnered with you? RITZ: Of course, to the extent that matters. SOCRATES: Even if the replacement wants to implement all of the agenda items that you have been fighting? RITZ: When I am governor, the new superintendent is just going to need to work with me, like I have with ... , I
mean maybe if I am governor, I should appoint the superintendent. SOCRATES: Really? I think you get part of my point. For two-and-a-half years, Ritz has been the superintendent of public instruction in Indiana. For almost that entire time, she has been embroiled in a partisan fight to do that job. Republicans have gone way too far in a long list of ways to block her effectiveness, to the point that one Republican told me that they have “martyred” her. Shame on the Republicans for that. However, has her performance under these circumstances been impressive to those of us who are independent voters in the middle of the political spectrum? Hardly. Quite the contrary, actually. It would seem to me that gridlock and standoffs should be expected in a Gov. Ritz scenario more than progress. That leads me to the rest of my point. Pence’s approval rating has suffered this year because pro-business, socially moderate Republicans were alienated by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act debacle. He needs those voters next year. So do Democrats. The fight next year is not a fight between which union groups support which Democratic candidate, it is about engaging a more progressive agenda for Indiana. I emphasize the word “engaging.” We are 11 months from next year’s primary and 17 away from the election. Which of the announced candidates will inspire that engagement? Last week’s announcement from Ritz, while politically logical, does not signify progress. Is she qualified to be governor? Of course she is. Many are. Socrates could “prove the fallacy” of virtually any political campaign. When using his method, it’s the political campaign that survives the proving of the fallacy the longest that I am most interested in supporting. As things stand right now, all of his conversations around here would be far too brief. n
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WHAT HAPPENED? Report says Energizing Indiana worked A final data report shows that Energizing Indiana, the former statewide energy efficiency program, was successful in creating jobs, reducing energy consumption, and saving ratepayers money. Energizing Indiana, created by former Gov. Mitch Daniels, was shut down after the Indiana General Assembly and Gov. Mike Pence decided to cancel the program in 2014. Kerwin Olson, Executive Director of Energizing Indiana, said in a statement that Pence’s decision to end the program was “pathetic” and that “Hoosiers should be outraged.” The report, filed by the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, highlighted claims Hoosiers benefited in several ways from the program. Energizing Indiana created approximately 18,679 jobs. Over the three-year life of the program, Energizing Indiana was cost-effective, acquiring energy efficiency resources at four cents per Kilowatt-hour per year. In 2014, Energizing Indiana realized 399,432 MWh in verified energy savings, which is enough electricity to power 37,886 homes per year. Hoosier Lottery changes GTECH contract The Hoosier Lottery Commission decided to restructure its contract with Rhode Island based GTECH after a downward spiral in profits over the past two years. Simply put, GTECH failed to meet its required income of $320 million in fiscal year 2015. Hoosier Lottery Spokeswoman Courtney Arango said that the company was “way short of that goal” for the current year. As a result, a restructure of part of the contract changes the term Bid Net Income (BNI) to now read as Minimum Net Income (MNI). The change dramatically lowers the threshold GTECH will have to meet. For example, this means the lottery will have to earn at least $270 million for fiscal year 2016 for GTECH to avoid a penalty, down from $365 million in the original contract. Over the life of the contract the decrease in revenue goals comes to more than a billion dollars. GTECH will also pay an additional one-time fee of $18.25 million, in addition to the shortfall penalty of $16 million. WSJ ad invites companies to Indiana A Wall Street Journal ad placed by Gov. Mike Pence is inviting three major companies to the Hoosier state in light of recent tax hikes in Connecticut. The invitation is directed at General Electric, Aetna Inc. and Travelers in a full-page ad. The Connecticut General Assembly recently passed a state budget comprised of an estimated $700 million in tax increases on businesses over a twoyear span. Connecticut’s business tax ranks fifth highest in the country. The three aforementioned companies have publicly protested the increase in taxes and threatened to leave the state. Pence penned a letter to the companies urging them to consider making Indiana their new home. The magazine, Chief Executive, recently ranked Indiana as sixth best when it comes to the states’ business climate. Connecticut took the 45th spot. — THE STATEHOUSE FILE 8 NEWS // 06.17.15 - 06.24.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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HAIL, MARY (JANE), FULL OF GRACE The First Church of Cannabis holds its first service July 1
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NUVO: Do you remember the first time you smoked pot? BILL LEVIN: Up in my treehouse when I was probably 11 or 12. I came to a good understanding of the plant as a health benefit, and I didn’t understand why people lied about it. And I’ve carried a torch for it ever since. I’m ready to talk about it any time anyone will let me bend their ear.
NUVO: How frustrating is it – have you ever reached a point where you just thought ‘I quit. This is ridiculous. This state is hopeless’?
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or thirteen years, Prohibition created a black market on the sale and purchase of alcohol. From 1920 to 1933, the map of the United States was dotted with mountain moonshine stills, swampland speakeasies, secret city backroom supper clubs and farmland gin mills. The 18th Amendment was generally hated by the population, and easily three-fourths of the country was in favor of its repeal. By the time Prohibition ended, Franklin Roosevelt publically looked back on those dry years as “a damnable affliction”. The only caveat to the 18th Amendment that allowed for even the slightest bit of alcohol consumption? Communion wine. This stringent law allowed for communion wine to be utilized during Catholic Mass. Needless to say, anyone running a vineyard during the early part of the twentieth century was always happy to see a Catholic coming their way. Today, many view the statutes outlaw-
LEVIN: Never give up. NUVO: Did Pence’s signing the RFRA give you the idea to start this church, or had it been simmering in your mind for a while already? PHOTO BY MICHELLE CRAIG
Bill Levin, Minister of Love and Grand Pooba of the First Church of Cannabis is ready for the church’s inaugural service July 1.
RFRA bill into law. You know that the church’s story has gone global, and – come July 1 – there may be many people who show up to puff up in solidarity of marijuana as a religious sacrament as well as a healing remedy and recreational herb. NUVO spoke with Levin about his upcoming public spiritual debut. Supporters see Levin’s new contribution to Indiana’s metaphysical landscape as one of the few positives to thus far come out of the RFRA debacle. Once a lobbyist committed to “More people have died over those the legalization of marijuana, Levin saw the signing of the ‘magic books’ than cannabis.” Religious Freedom Restoration Act as a backdoor opportunity — BILL LEVIN to gain some ground. ing marijuana as another Prohibition through which the country must suffer. Readers will, of course, remember our recent WEED ISSUE. In it, you read about Bill Levin’s First Church of Cannabis. You read how the story of his church is a direct result of Pence’s signing the
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LEVIN: It was just one of those karmic things that all came together at one time. NUVO: How big a factor do you think religion has played in keeping marijuana illegal for so long? LEVIN: I don’t think religion has had anything to do with keeping it illegal. I think voluntary ignorance has kept it illegal. NUVO: What would you say to people who are either very religious or just very closed-minded on the subject of marijuana – who believe it is evil simply because it’s been arbitrarily labeled as illegal? LEVIN: That I am a nice Jewish carpenter who is preaching love, compassion and understanding for all while helping everybody do good things for themselves to be healthy. If they can’t relate to that they should go back and look at the book from which they’ve been practicing. NUVO: Do you intend to have weekly services? What will that schedule be like?
NUVO: When did you begin lobbying to have the marijuana ban repealed?
LEVIN: We’ll be a fully functioning church. My biggest fear is that it’ll go twenty-four hours.
BILL LEVIN: In 2009 I sort of cut loose. It had to be done. I had to go from a quiet homebody to stepping up on a soapbox and speaking the gospel.
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<<< do some soul-searching. If you had to sit down with God and say, “Dude, I know you got a message you want to get out to the planet. How would you go about doing it? What would you do? How would you do it?” Keep it fucking simple. It’s all about love, understanding, compassion and good health. More people have died over those “magic books” than cannabis. Let’s just speak about love and celebrate life and good health because cannabis is the greatest health supplement on the face of the earth. NUVO: Are people encouraged to bring their own pot to the service or will the “sacrament” be provided for them? LEVIN: The church will not buy, sell or trade in any illegal substance in the state of Indiana. NUVO: Are you at all worried about law enforcement showing up to your first service? LEVIN: They don’t show up to other religious services where they poison children with alcohol. Why would they show up to mine? Substantial point. Authorities didn’t show up at Catholic churches during Prohibition — so will they show up at the FCC’s new location, 3400 South Rural? The church has been recognized as a valid religious institution by the state, and it has been granted non-profit status by the federal government. Service participants will find out around noon on July 1 if the IMPD also recognizes the legitimacy of the church and its “sacrament”. Local media and news networks have reached out to the prosecutor’s office looking for answers, but – so far – no response or comment has been issued. Whether or not law enforcement becomes involved, Levin’s successes thus far could very well be paving the way for future cannabis state legislation and an eventual disintegration of the stringency of our laws and punishments with regard to marijuana. The First Church of Cannabis’ inaugural service will be held the same day as the RFRA bill officially becomes law. Visit their Facebook page for more information at Facebook.com/CANNABITERIAN. Also, knowledge is power. Educate yourself on Indiana’s current marijuana laws and penalties at norml.org. n
One month after the first service, the First Church of Cannabis will hold its first revivial August 8 at the Vogue in Broad Ripple at 8 p.m. The gathering boasts a celebration of life and love through music, salvation, faithlifting and vending.
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contract. The company is working under the assumption that the contract is and will remain valid once a five-judge panel he same day the city-county council determines in mediation which branch voted to sue Mayor Greg Ballard over of government has the authority to make the validity of a contract, the compa- changes to the contract. ny at the center of that contract stepped For the city-county-council, the isin with some legal action of its own. sue centers around deals, especially Vision Fleet, under their holding com- purchases, made without the council’s pany’s name Indy-Vision Funding I, LLC, consent or public input and unauthorfiled a notice with the Marion Superior ized money transfers to pay for it. Since Court asking for a declaratory judgment the agreement includes the purchase of through mediation to settle a dispute vehicles for the city, including the police between the council and the mayor’s ofdepartment, local law requires those fice. Vision Fleet officials claim to be the purchases to be bid out and vetted by injured party caught in the middle. The the council, not reached in agreement council, the mayor and the city are all with the mayor’s office. Their lawsuit listed as defendants in the case. claims that since the purchase or rent Through an agreement reached with of the vehicles in question was not put Ballard, Vision Fleet provides and mainthrough a bidding process as dictated by tains fully electric ordinance, the conand hybrid cars tract is invalid and for the city, known Vision Fleet’s efforts as the “Freedom to save it are moot. Fleet.” Vision Fleet The motion to disbegan integratmiss was filed this ing the cars into week so the court the Indianapolis has not had the opfleet in 2014 with a portunity to rule. SUBMITTED PHOTO goal of 425 cars in It is not an un“Freedom Fleet” is the name of the fleet of use by early 2016. familiar scenario 425 cars Vision Fleet is currently contracted to Currently there from the mayor’s provide to the city of Indianapolis. are 153 cars in use. office. Deals made The departments in private with too using the vehicles include the Departmany questions of “can he really do that?” ment of Public Works, the Probation once the details are made public and end Department, the Department of Code up in court. Enforcement, the Fire Department, and the Police Department, excluding patrol officers and others who might be in a While the deal made with Covanta high-speed pursuit. was technically an amendment made to The attorney for the city-county counan existing contract with the facility, that cil quickly filed a motion to dismiss statamendment did include the creation ing the case doesn’t fit the requirements of a new recycling facility – something under the law cited as the validation for that typically is placed out for bids and Vision Fleet’s request. The law, Indiana discussed publicly. The terms of that Code 36-4-4-5, determines if a particular contract once a bid was accepted would power or duty exercised by a city is exalso be something up for council discusecutive or legislative in nature. The counsion. Although it is not the city-county cil argues that the issue with the city’s contract with Vision Fleet isn’t a matter of council suing the mayor’s office over the agreement, the lawsuit was filed by jurisdiction, but rather the legality of the two recycling materials companies and contract in how it was reached and the a private citizen, specifically because of monies used to secure it. the monopolizing terms of the contract. Vision Fleet’s actions point to a The case remains in litigation in the apcompany trying to save the $32 milpellate court. n lion in business it is receiving with the
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clubs, a shared language that expresses itself in beautiful plating and atmospheric set pieces. It’s a tale as old as time: music makers work in restaurants. New tale time: Indy’s increasingly hip restaurant scene lends itself to events that facilitate and support the local music scene, like Milktooth’s Big Gay Day party, Libertine’s Wednesday night dance sessions with DJ Cool Hand Lex and State Street Pub’s ear-busting local rock shows. Old tale: Creative people aren’t built for the 9-to-5 lifestyle. New tale:
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They’re built to butcher whole cows, think up a slammin’ guitar hook, write rhymes on the spot, delicately place microgreens. These pages are about the crossover between musical and culinary creative types, between kitchens and stages. It’s about what those people take from one “performance” to another, from audiences at tables to audiences in clubs, and how they carry inspiration back and forth from each space, too. We let them tell it in their own words, whatever form that takes.
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NOAH MILES
JEREMY TUBBS
WORKS AT BLUEBEARD AND PLAYS IN DEAD BIRDS ADORE US:
Art, food, and music. That’s what it’s all about. These outlets coincide with one another allowing me the freedom to create in many different mediums be it canvas, amplifier, or plate. I have a deep love for food that I discovered at a young age. I was weaned with hot sauce! I love working in a kitchen for a lot of obvious reasons. I get to work with great people — executive chef/owner Abbi Merriss, head baker/owner Charles McIntosh, the Battista family, as well as other great chefs that have left to pursue their own projects, not to mention our wonderful bartenders, managers and wait staff. I get to try new things on a daily basis as our menu at Bluebeard is ever-evolving. I am never hungry. We may fall in love with a dish and then change it the next day as ingredients dictate. I love the fact that we have the freedom to change at a minute’s notice. We don’t have to necessarily make the same thing day in and day out, which can become monotonous and wearing on the creative soul. The same is true with the music I play in Dead Birds Adore Us. We can play anything we choose because we trust each other musically. We have the ability to create what we think is pretty A-okay, good old-fashioned Dead Birds Adore Usstyle sound. We get together and bounce around notes until we have something to build on. Our songs come about by constantly listening and tweaking the composition until we are all in approval — and we may still decide to change something. It’s much like in cooking, where I can bounce ideas to the chef and fellow cooks to determine first the direction of the dish, then other key elements that support the intention of the dish until we have a final product — all the time tasting and tasting. I find myself learning from everyone as we come together to produce a greater good, weather it be in music, or food, or even art. I enjoy painting when I’m not cooking or playing in the band. I am currently working on a horror movie series I will be showing in October. With these outlets at my disposal I am able to exercise my creativity. Yes, I may work long hours in a kitchen, but when you’re in a good one, with people you trust, bleed, and sweat with every single day, you feel like you’re with family and that is important. The same holds true with a band. You wouldn’t spend all your free time in a van driving to gigs with people you couldn’t stand as a form of relaxation. No, they become your brothers and sisters. It is satisfying to know that what I make and send out into world is received and appreciated by someone in the way of food, music or art.
WORKS AT MILKTOOTH, IS PART OF GENERAL PUBLIC COLLECTIVE, AND SERVES AS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER FOR LET’S DO LUNCH WITH OREO JONES:
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DIMITRI MORRIS
WORKS AT THE GOOSE THE MARKET AND IS WORKING ON OPENING UP A NEW COLLABORATIVE SPACE:
I’ve played in five bands in my two years working at Goose the Market and each of them has been affected by tracks/words/melodies that have come to me while working. There is something about the clarity of being focused on a labor task that allows the mind to be very receptive. RICKY HATFIELD
The first job I got when I came back [from Chicago] was at Bluebeard, because I knew I could work at a restaurant … I think it’s cool [to have] the community; we’re all artists and musicians working in the neighborhood [of Fountain Square]. A lot of us work in the restaurants doing whatever job it is. I feel like it’s a nice little family, almost. Most of the places around here are doing something really well done, using awesome ingredients from all of these different farmers. I think it’s just being done really well. It’s been done in other places, but I think we have a cool scene going on right now. It’s pretty special. It’s really small, and I like that. It’s funny to be part of a food scene — I’ve never felt like that before. It’s so funny when we’re playing music at [Milktooth]. The mood between the whole staff [changes.] If someone plays something [we’re not into], the whole staff will turn and look, like, “Nope!” and then someone has to play something else. We definitely have battles at Milktooth. You’ll see people look around like, “Nah, we’re not feeling this.” If Jon gets real busy, he always knows what he wants to hear, so he’ll come back and say, “Play this. I want to listen to DMX right now.” And I’ll be like, “Okay, I don’t know if everybody in the restaurant wants to do that on Sunday,” and he’s like, “I don’t care!” Which is fun. There’s certain days where stuff plays and you don’t even notice it. But there are other days where everyone wants to hear a certain thing. The best part is that we’ll just play full albums. I like that.
music] goes hand-in-hand with that. The mindset was very much the same. Even in being in a kitchen, there was that sense of finding a community for people on the fringe. Just a different mentality. People are just a little different [in kitchens and in punk music]. Growing up in Anderson, we had a little punk scene that was really fun for a long time. We had a good two-year stint. I’d help book shows, I wrote for a zine. I would miss a lot of shows because I was working in kitchens, but I would get off work and run over there and catch the last couple songs of the last band and help them load up and clean up, and just be part of that whole scene. That was very much and still kind of is who I am: being the last person out and doing the jobs that no one else wants to do because I see it as kind of facilitating the ability to have the fun part of it, too. It’s at the core of who I am. It’s so instrumental in who I am. I grew up a middle class white kid who was super fuckin’ angry. And I mean, what better world is there for that than the ’80s punk scene? It was kids like me, who grew up in a relatively white collar area. But they just have so much angst and they don’t know how to express it. They do it themselves and they figure out a way, and not waiting for a handout. They go out and express themselves. It has resonated with me my entire life. I still listen to all the stuff I listened to when I was 15, still like an angry kid. Except I’ve mellowed out now that I have a wife and a family and a career. S E E , TA STY GROOVES, O N PA GE 1 2
IS HEAD CHEF AT PETERSON’S:
During the daytime, we listen to music on the radio. We like mid-’90s rock, and as far as motivating my guys, we all pretty much listen to the same stuff. I let them listen to music up until 5, then we turning it off, but no music during service. Music can make you lose focus, especially if you’re playing it too loud. Communication is such a huge part of cooking on a line. Timing is really important, too. If you miss a drop or miss a certain dish, or you don’t hear a certain callout, your ticket times are going to be a lot longer and that’s going to affect the guest in the dining room. I like ’90s alternative rock and hiphop, and I think that translates to my dishes. They’re not really subtle dishes. The flavors are big; they’re loud.
ALAN STERNBERG
IS HEAD CHEF AT CERULEAN:
We play a huge variety of stuff. We typically don’t play music during service, but during prep, when no one’s in the restaurant, we’ll play something. A variety of stuff, from ’90s gangster rap, ’80s punk, a lot of ska, that kind of stuff. I have been riding BMX for 17 years now, so [punk and hardcore
“I feel like Dame Dash but with smelly jeans.” — OREO JONES
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inha is a popular staple at our Carnaval parties, but we also offer a couple non-alcoholic options like suco de caju - a delicious juice made from the fruit of the cashew plant and Brazil’s most popular soda Guaraná Antarctica. Sadly Carnaval doesn’t roll around again until 2016. But on the plus side it falls incredible early on the calendar — the first weekend of February. OREO JONES
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FROM PAGE 11 KYLE LONG
IS NUVO’S INTERNATIONAL MUSIC COLUMNIST AND THE HOST OF A CULTURAL MANIFESTO ON WFYI; HE BOOKS SHOWS AT THE JAZZ KITCHEN REGULARLY:
One of the best parts of hosting our annual Cultural Cannibals’ Brazilian Carnaval at The Jazz Kitchen is the venue’s ability to incorporate food into the celebration. An overindulgence in all forms of sensory gratification is central to the Carnaval experience, so being able to offer traditional Brazilian food and beverage in addition to our roster of samba drummers and dancers is crucial. Feijoada is often called the national dish of Brazil and it’s the central item on The Jazz Kitchen’s Carnaval menu. Feijoada is a black bean stew brewed with a variety of lower-grade pork and beef cuts, e.g. ears, feet, tails and tongue. In addition to feijoada we’ve also established a Cultural Cannibals’ Carnaval tradition of passing out freshly made pão de queijo after midnight. Pão de queijo is a tasty Brazilian cheese bread made with cassava flour. The dough is formed into small bitesized balls and is typically served as a snack or side dish. Choking hazards be damned, we pass around platters full of hot-from-the-oven pão de queijo on the dance floor. Brazil’s national cocktail the caipir12 COVER STORY // 06.17.15 - 06.24.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
IS THE HOST OF LET’S DO LUNCH, WHICH FEATURES LOCAL CHEFS AND MUSICIANS; WATCH SEASON THREE ON NOISEPORN.COM. HE’S A RAPPER AND MILKTOOTH EMPLOYEE:
All the guests on Let’s Do Lunch are carefully selected. Everyone involved with the show has good awareness of the scene and all the cool stuff that’s going on in our city. [ Jeremy Tubbs, executive producer] has a good grasp on all the culinary stuff just because he’s been working in some of the best kitchens here in Indy, so we kind of look to him for ideas on what chef we should have on. As far as musical guests we all just look for unique artists that bring originality to the table. Indianapolis has some amazing talent in every genre and it’s important that everyone outside of the city see this. Working at Milktooth has been great. The atmosphere is crazy and the [Jonathan and Ashley Brooks] probably employ half of Indy’s music scene. I’ve learned a lot from Jon and have met a grip of chefs that are molding the food culture. I’ve also tried caviar and like 500,000 dollar liquor for the first time. I feel like Dame Dash but with smelly jeans. Have you ever had Nigerian Prawn? Damn.
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shitty server’s assistant’s jacket pockets, plating garbage from the dish disposal and waiting for someone to come along and scarf it, stabbing someone who was jumping you on the Cultural Trail and not mentioning it to anyone because you were on the clock, licking lipstick off customers coffee mugs in the dishroom for money or tricking a crack-cocaine addict into eating a ghost pepper. Trying to tie working in the most creative restaurants and playing with the most talented musicians is easy. It’s rock and roll. ANDREW WHITMOYER
IS HEAD CHEF AT THUNDERBIRD:
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PLAYS WITH BENNY AND JUNE AND BENNY AND THE 25TH AND COLLEGE AVENUE BAND; HE WORKS AT RESTAURANTS HE DOESN’T WANT TO BE BLACKLISTED:
Writing a story to be published about your coworkers is difficult for me to do because I want to name so many things that I’ve seen that could possibly get any amazing restaurant I’ve ever worked in blacklisted. It is hard to hold back and not mention doing whip-its in the walk in, having sex in a coffin, spending the better half of a shift getting high and trying to catch a mouse with a box propped up by a fork, stuffing chicken bones in the
I usually play a lot of different stuff. Sometimes I let other guys play stuff. Normally, when I play stuff, it’s anyone from Danny Brown, Chance the Rapper, Childish Gambino to metal. So many different things with metal. Sometimes I’ll play DJ and just be like, “Tonight, it’s female pop star night!” and so I’ll play Britney Spears and Katy Perry. We did grunge night one night. We just played all grunge. I try to play stuff that’s upbeat and gets me hyped. It makes me feel like I work better. I work faster. I think it pushes people to work a little harder when they have a good beat behind them.
KATIE JOSWAY
PLAYS IN THE BAND GYPSY MOONSHINE AND WORKS AT MONON FOOD COMPANY AND THUNDERBIRD:
Whenever people ask me what I do for living, they seem pretty surprised when I explain that I have a bachelor’s degree in business management from a top ten business school but I wait tables at two restaurants and play in a band — and I love it. I work at Monon Food Company in Broad Ripple. It is a laid-back, familyowned restaurant that serves really affordable craft beer, amazing fish tacos as well as other comfort foods. Tim Williams, the owner, really makes an effort to provide a fun, easy-going place to work for all of us “misfits” in the community. It truly is like a family. There are no scripts for us to mindlessly recite, and we only use the freshest ingredients to make all of our food in house. He allows the chefs to express themselves and pour their hearts into the food. This type of welcoming and supportive environment helps remind me to always be myself and surround myself with good people and love. Tim is a musician himself so he understands and supports my artistic pursuits. When I pitched the idea of having a Wednesday night music night he said, “If you want to do it, go for it!” So I started booking local music acts to perform on Wednesdays this past fall and winter. My other job is at Thunderbird in Fountain Square. We serve gourmet Southern comfort food with a twist and are well known for our crafted cocktails and our selection of over 120 different bourbons. Chef Andrew Whitmoyer is an artist in the kitchen. Depending on his inspiration and what ingredients are in season, he creates incredibly unique dishes for our weekly specials. The food at Thunderbird is like nothing I’ve ever had before. It seems that the staff is made up of more musicians than non-musicians. All the talented people I work with at Thunderbird constantly blow me away. There are so many musicians that are employed by both restaurants, I can’t help but think there is an unspoken draw for the worlds to collide. Most creative people aren’t suited for the normal 9-5 workforce. I know now that I’m not cut out to work in some cubicle in fluorescent lighting hell. I am not a chef, but I think there are a lot of similarities between being a chef and a musician. We both get to create something and share it with our community. We get to bring people together, start conversations, share ideas and passions, make people happy and hopefully make a living doing it.
I would miss a lot of shows because I was working in kitchens — but I would get off work and run over there and catch the last couple songs of the last band and help them load up and clean up. — Alan Sternberg
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DJS AT THE LIBERTINE AND FORTY FIVE DEGREES AS COOL HAND LEX:
On a Wednesday at Libertine I can expect that Leah Elston and Justin Runyon are making completely unique and delicious food in the kitchen and a few of Indy’s best bartenders (seriously, the best) are doling out immaculate cocktails, the recipes of which they created. So it’s my job to give an equally interesting and aurally pleasing taste to the diverse and ever-changing patrons on the bar stools. I’ve been performing in nightclubs and bars for over 15 years and with it comes a certain set of expected challenges and ideas about how to orchestrate the night, what music and vibes to create, etc., most of which don’t change too dramatically between venues. One of the things I love most about playing restaurants and bars like The Libertine and Forty Five Degrees is how different all those things become. Dancing takes a back seat to socializing early in these kind of places so the songs I pick need to reflect that in terms of energy, familiarity, and tempo. I’m able to rinse so much good music that rarely works in big room nightclubs and I’m quick at the chance to run indie rock records after some chill vibey sounds and into some ’90s rap, all just playing off the reactions I see around the room. S E E , TAS TY GR O O V E S , O N P A GE 1 4 NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 06.17.15 - 06.24.15 // COVER STORY 13
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TASTY GROOVES CUSTOM PLAYLIST: Like Oreo Jones says, Milktooth owners Jonathan and Ashley Brooks employ what seems like half of Indy’s music scene. That means the music selections inside that brunch spot are choice — and occasionally very weird. Jeremy Tubbs (see pg. 11) and the Milktooth crew compiled a playlist of stuff they love for us. Listen on NUVO.net and stop in to the Virginia Ave. restaurant on Sundays to hear some DMX.
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TASTY GROOVES, FROM PAGE 13 GEORGE TURKETTE
WORKS AT SMOKING GOOSE MEATERY:
We listen to a lot of different things. It depends on what we’re doing and the time of the day. There’s a guy, Chris, he’ll play this radio station called Mom Jeans radio. It plays exactly what you would expect: what moms in mom jeans would listen to. It’s pretty sweet. We get down to a lot of old school rap, Tribe Called Quest, stuff like that, Biggie, Tupac. We do a lot of metal, like Mastodon. Sometimes we put on techno. It honestly depends on the mood and how we’re feeling. The only time I get to eat is in front of my trash can at home, usually. I don’t go out to eat much. But when I do get to eat, I hardly ever think about music. PAUL HAVECK
IS HEAD CHEF AT LIBERTINE:
Personally, with music, I go all over the place. I don’t like just one certain genre. Let’s just say I’m alone and I’m prepping by myself, that’s when the
punk comes on and it gets a little weird in there. I came up in kitchens where you didn’t have music. You might have a little radio in the morning before you open up, or in the middle of the day if we were closed between lunch and dinner. But for the most part, music was not something that was during service. I try to train my cooks that you use a lot of your senses cooking. It’s not just a physical thing and it’s not just tasting. You can hear when a pan is getting too hot. You can hear how something is searing. I really don’t allow my staff to play music in service, because I want them to be able to hear each other and I want them to be able pay attention to the nuances of the kitchen and what the food is telling them. JONATHAN BROOKS
IS OWNER AND HEAD CHEF OF MILKTOOTH IN FLETCHER PLACE:
Honestly, we don’t play a lot of local bands, because a lot of people in local bands work here. It would be kind of awkward to play their records while they’re working here. We play Vacation Club occasionally. We play a lot of Natural Child, a lot of ’90s hip-hop like Wu-Tang. We play a lot of Iron Maiden.
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I definitely have a rule: no Elliott Smith or Wilco or anyone like that. We have an open kitchen so the music we play in the kitchen is what they hear in the dining room. We definitely have hiphop on all day long. And on Sunday we blast “Ruff Ryders’ Anthem” by DMX every Sunday at 1 p.m. in the dining room. It’s our little ritual. TYLER HERALD
IS THE EXECUTIVE CHEF OF PATACHOU, INC:
I’ve probably seen Phish close to a hundred times. String Cheese Incident, Postmodern Times. Probably traveled to 30 states to see music. I usually see 18 to 50 Phish shows a year. This year, it looks like I’ll be hitting up Oregon, Texas, Washington DC, Colorado, Wisconsin, Ohio. It’s basically what makes me tick. For about the past four years, for summer I would always do song titles [on the Napolese menu, which Herald changes three times a year]. The rotating seasonal pies are always song titles. It started with a couple of Grateful Dead songs, a couple String Cheese Incident Songs. The past few years, I’ve gone straight Phish, since that’s who I see the most these days. They’re my first love.” CINDY HAWKINS
IS A FRENCH-TRAINED BAKER AND OWNER OF CIRCLE CITY SWEETS. HER CROISSANTS ARE TO DIE FOR:
“[My music choice] depends a lot on what I’m doing. My go-to’s are always on Cake Radio [on Pandora]. [Editor’s note: she’s referencing the ’90s rock band, not a Pandora station that exclusively caters to bakers, but we would really like to hear that station if it existed.] Ben Folds is always great for me. I’ve been listening to a lot of Pixies lately because we went to see them on Saturday night. Today’s music du jour was Steely Dan Radio, so I was doing some ’70s and ’80s rock just to mellow out.” n
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e Now through June 26. Energy, we all crave it. We want energetic sex lives, we want energy to power our cars and air conditioners, and we certainly want it for our gadgets! In Kevin Raber’s iPhone photograph you see SUBMITTED PHOTO “Yggdrasil” by Lydia Burris a part of the Francis Ward Pumping Station in Buffalo, New York that hasn’t been in use in decades. (We need power to get our water too.) But the image is oddly distorted: you see the control panel on one part of the station duplicated and enlarged. It, in fact, becomes the focal point of the photograph, taken with an iPhone 5. There are also other currents of energy running through this show which focused on the work of five artists with a generous sampling of the work of each. (Sometimes these Stutz shows turn into an overstuffed smorgasbord.) Spirituality and transformation are what you see in the work of Lydia Burris. Often she’s portraying colorful creatures, sometimes in states of transformation. They could be creatures out of phantasmagoric novels or animated films. But in the acrylic painting Yggdrasil, Burris is going in a more abstract direction. The subject might be a cross between a tree and a creature riding currents of energy against a wildly colorful background. It’s hard to say exactly what it is, leaving it open to to a sense of mystery. And maybe that sense of mystery will drive me into Burris’s studio at the Stutz on the next Open Studio Night to see if she’s working on anything equally mysterious. — DAN GROSSMAN Raymond James Stutz Art Gallery
MORE ONLINE That Ayres Look review and event June 17, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Indy Historical Society looks back at L.S. Ayres and Company and the fashion of an era. You can still see Fashionable History — a runway show with models wearing highlights of a 100 years of fashion trends in Eli Lilly Hall. Indy Historical Society, $10, indianahistory.org Review: ISO ends season with Beethoven’s Ninth “We need to experience a live performance of the Ninth at least every three years, knowing a priori that it will not be perfect.”
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$1.5 million plan will bring art and community to Garfield Park
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eighbors just getting off of work step outside their homes, settle into the pendulum of a porch swing and catch up on the tide of daily events. The constant hum and zip of I-65 and four-lane Shelby Street overpowers any neighborhood noise on a small dead end street eddying off of Garfield Park. A large blue industrial building stretches down half a block next to small homes. The old factory sits abandoned — well, it did at one time. Big Car has announced that they are taking on a $1.5 million project to change the face of the Cruft Street block, near Garfield Park. The city of Indianapolis awarded Big Car a $460,000 Community Development Block Grant to buy and renovate two key buildings on the street as community spaces, and a variety of local organizations (like the Lilly Endowment Inc., LISC and INHP) have donated significantly to help renovate. More than $600,000 has been raised so far. The whole point? “To make life better for people who live here,” says Jim Walker, Big Car’s executive director and founder. It’s a simple idea, but hardly small.
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What it will become Two buildings will become the focal point of the endeavor. Built in the 1930s “The Tube,” is an old industrial space that will become the flagship of Big Car. On the west side of Shelby Street lies the second building, a permanent version of the sound art pop-up shop that currently lived in the Lafayette Square/International Marketplace area, only this round will add community programing and a curated record store. The location was chosen because it is the halfway point between University of Indianapolis and Fountain Square and lies on what will become a rapid transit stop in the coming years. In typical Big Car style, nothing about these spaces will be bare-bones. If you don’t know what Big Car is, pause and read a few background stories at nuvo.net.
But for a tweet-sized summary, they are a group of artists, and just generally innovative people, who use creative placemaking to build up communities. Previously, Big Car was housed in Lafayette Square where the deal was this: In exchange for lower rent they would fill a building that had been sitting empty and work on it. Once the owner wanted to lease it to someone else, they would be gone in two months, having left it better than when they moved in. That notice came, and Big Car saw the need for a permanent space and an opportunity. Jim Walker is calling the first building in their Garfield Park project “The Tube” as homage to its previous use by Tube Processing facility. The 12,000-squarefoot space that was also once a dairy processing plant (evident from thick linings of cork that >>>
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<<< pack the basement ceiling) will house Big Car’s new headquarters, community programing, wood and metal shops, a darkroom, screen-printing and a tinkering lab for hands-on learning. The space will also be used for art installations and just about anything they need. A home base shop that doubles as a point of contact with the community is a win-win. The second building, called “Listen Hear,” sits at the nearby intersection of Cruft and Shelby streets. Walker describes it as a space for sound art, and will include a record store, seating, room for single-person shows, a small kitchen for chefs to cook meals and a home for Big Car’s soon-to-launch low-power FM community radio station. Neighbors in the area have told Big Car that they want somewhere to do laundry and walkable retail space. At one time there used to be over 30 active businesses on the street. Today, retail space is desperately needed. The president of the Garfield Neighbors Neighborhood Association, Jim Simmons, recalls 45 years ago when almost anything you needed was in walking distance. “It’s been replaced by concrete asphalt and chains,” says Simmons. “The local business labor has pretty much disappeared. We are trying to bring that back.” Big Car hopes to help kickstart that change. The process that they are using is often refereed to as “creative placemaking,” in short, it’s transforming the physical elements of a neighborhood to unleash social innovation. It will bring the tools to make art and let the buildings become a canvas. Hopefully, it will not only serve itself but organically feed into every area of life around it. There is a certain mentality to “The Tube” and nearly everyone connected with it — as you create, bring people up with you. For Brent Lehker, Big Car’s staff artist and builder, it’s the difference between what his art was (installations and pieces that were centered on his individual story) and what it’s becoming.
The art Having new retail and artist spaces are undoubtedly a positive thing for any neighborhood, but Big Car is pushing the roots even deeper. In addition to the two buildings, they bought three houses along Cruft Street for artists in residence. One will house rotating artists, the other two will be for permanent ones. “The key will be being open to the community,” says Walker, discussing what kind of artist will end up living there. “If you’re a musician, or you’re a writer, or culinary artist, or you’re a visual artist and you like the idea of interacting with people, collaborating and connecting — that’s what we really want this to be. Kind of a communal situation.” For Walker it’s an attitude of not wanting to be hidden away. For Lehker, who has been working to bring “The Tube” to life, having a large scale shop for artists and neighbors to use goes hand in hand with his own work as an artist. “This is artwork to me,” he says. “The whole [building] is a big art piece to me. I will have my own shop now; it will be the community shop.” Lekher’s background is in furniture making, with a degree from Herron School of Art and Design. Seeing the community as art in itself was not always so innate for Lehker. He remembers the first time something he made took on a life outside of himself. During Art in Odd Places his city market installation required him to ask passersby questions, they would mark their answers by dipping sticks into paint: Certain levels signified a particular response. He used each one in the work. “Here is an art piece I could have just made by myself, but I got to include 250 people,” says Lehker. “That’s kind of what this [The Tube] is to me. I’m pulling in people.”
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that they count and they deserve a great neighborhood.” The road, like so many in Indy, draws a stark line between classes. It walls off who has convenient access to the park and who doesn’t. Part of Big Car’s plan is to work with the city to narrow Shelby Street to a two-lane road instead of four, making it more manageable for bikes and pedestrians. Things like few crosswalks make it hard for anyone on the east side of Shelby Street to access the park that is only feet away. Small elements of urban design can act as a relief for an area that is quietly buckling. While the two spaces that Big Car has are entirely unique, it’s hardly the first time that industrial blight has been redeveloped in the hopes of revitalizing a neighborhood. Big Car’s Urban Design and Research fellow, Nicole Rebeck, noted a few that she came across back when she was writing her thesis — the Steele
work if they want to. Big Car seems void of the let-me-come-tell-you-what-youneed-instead-of-asking-first approach. “You can’t do things for people, or be the one who is saving them or whatever, but you can do things with people,” says Walker. He lives in the neighborhood himself. According to Simmons, he hasn’t encountered a single neighbor with a negative reaction to the project. He also noted that there are at least five artists and a handful of woodworkers that live in the area that he knows of. The neighborhood association that he heads just recently expanded their territory to include the blocks east of Shelby Street. The expansion is intended to bridge a very visible gap. It’s well known that one block in any direction can make all of the difference in Indianapolis. The divide of one street can mean thousands of dollars in home values, average incomes and the privilege of a population. Shelby “It’s like urban acupuncture. They Street, bordering Garfield picked this spot here to do work.” park, is no exception. According to data released by — NICOLE REBECK Big Car, forty-two percent of houses in the area have incomes that don’t even brush $25,000, and 13.5 Yard in Providence, Rhode Island and percent live on less than $10,000 a year. Wychwood Barns in Toronto, Ontario. Just to break down some cycle-of-povBoth sites were once near industrial ruin erty basics, the low income results in 22 and were reshaped into what became a percent of adults over age 25 having no high school diploma and 81 percent with catalysts of creativity. This kind of urban narrative is what fuels Rebeck. no college degree. Without eduction or “It’s kind of beautiful,” she says lookopportunity, the cycle continues. Most ing up at the rough gray wall outside of the homes near “The Tube” are walled “The Tube.” “The way this space existed by boarded up windows and crumbling was a burden on the community [before cement, 20 percent of those homes are Big Car]. It was abandoned, dilapidated, sitting empty right now. unkept. What Big Car is doing is infusing “There’s really no mystery as to why it it with creative people and ideas, and is that houses are empty over there but productive spaces. It’s kind of magical to they aren’t over here,” says Walker. “It’s only one thing, this road [Shelby Street].” think about that. … It’s like urban acupuncture. They picked this spot here to He added in a press release that “we do work. That has ripple effects through really want to show people on both sides of Shelby Street in Garfield Park the community.” n
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will introduce the entire community to these benefits, even those who can’t afford yoga classes. I asked how those n Sunday, June 21, Monument Circle people can find other free classes. Her will be paved with mats for the largbrow creased as she explained that there est yoga class in the state. Last year, is no official way for people to find other more than 1,500 participants of all levels free or by-donation classes. joined together for sun salutations on the “There are free community classes. summer solstice. The maven who started Through 317 Yogis, through our site … it all, Cassie Stockamp, president of the we’re happy to connect people to them,” Athenaeum Foundation, thinks this year Stockamp said. It’s clear that she wishes will be even bigger. for a system that helps people who may be The fun begins at 10 a.m. with a drum interested in yoga but can’t afford it. “This circle, then music from the internationis a volunteer thing. We don’t have the staff ally-renowned D.J. HyFi. There will be and resources to make that happen, but acro-yoga and hooping demonstrations, we’d welcome it if someone could.” a guided meditation session, and a “Yoga Stockamp teaches a free class every Village” of vendors with holistic values. Monday at the Athenauem Y. Indy Yogi, The night prior will feature an ecstatic the local yoga webzine, has a calendar dance (guided free-form movement) that includes yoga classes for $5.00 or pre-party with D.J. HyFi and Rob Hess. less. Breathing Space is a studio whose Clearly, there’s more to the practice than classes are 100% by-donation. Stockamp making your butt look good in yoga pants. is right: affordable classes are out there, According to Stockamp, it “fundamentally but people have to look for them. changed” her life. I got to sit down with Everything but the Monumental Yoga her before the big event, and she was radi- pre-party is free (including bike parkant and calm. Her twenty years of yoga ing), with the option to donate. Last practice must be working for her. year, Monumental Yoga raised about $6,000, which was split between multiple organizations, including Mighty Lotus, “Somebody could have spit on me a nonprofit that brings yoga schools. and I would have been okay. Yoga into Monumental Yoga chose to solely benefit Mighty Lotus reprograms your brain.” this year because they “re— CASSIE STOCKAMP ally stepped up,” according to Stockamp. They’ve been involved with Monumental Yoga throughout the planning “I found yoga because a therapist process, and partnered to plan the prerecommended it. She said I was wound party, according to Mighty Lotus Execua little tight,” Stockamp laughed. At the tive Director Alyssa Pfennig, who said end of her first class, which she squeezed they hope to receive “About $10,000… into her slam-packed schedule at 5:45 which would cover four semesters of our a.m., she was in a state of total peace for Mighty Minds programs, [which] include the first time ever. both mindfulness and yoga practices “Somebody could have spit on me and to … build self-awareness and confiI would have been okay. Yoga reprograms dence as well as improve attention and your brain. It allows you to be more increase physical activity.” present, more centered … scientifically, Stockamp emphasized that it takes it slows down your parasympathetic ner- a village to put together an event like vous system. Once you learn to feel that this. She mentioned Matt Hayden of tension and learn to let go, it’s a practice Body, Mind, and Core, Amanda Dorman you can take throughout your day.” of Downtown Indy, and Dave Sims of Stockamp hopes Monumental Yoga CITYOGA. Her vision is to “… bring the
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yoga community together in a non-competitive way. The Athenaeum is about community. It’s our way of giving back.” The Athenaeum has been one of the sponsors for Monumental Yoga for each of its three years. “This year, we added the Yoga Village,” said Stockamp. The Yoga Village will be a collective of more than 40 vendors, with booths that participants can browse before or after the class to check out goodies and information from local yoga studios, Whole Foods, Eskenazi Health, and other organizations that provide mindful products and services. This being the conservative Midwest, I had to ask Stockamp if she’s received pushback from religious organizations. She said that thankfully, she hasn’t. “This is not a religious practice. It’s spiritual. It actually enhances whatever walk of life you’re on. You can have your belief system,” Stockamp grinned, “We’re going to do Monumental Yoga.” n
Naptown Roller Girls V. Toronto June 20, doors at 6:30 p.m., first bout at 7 p.m., second immediately following. Another doubleheader. Hooray! The Warning Belles and the Tornado Sirens will each play squads from the Toronto Roller Derby. This is the last game — excuse us, “bout” — left in the spring of 2015. The roster’s split into three teams divided along skill levels: the Tornado Sirens, the Warning Belles and the Third Alarm. With nicknames like Dora the Destroyer, Maiden America, Peyton Slamming and — our favorite moniker — Trudy Bauchery, one might think this is just some kind of novelty act decked out in helmets, skates and ripped fishnets. Think again. This is a legit athletic contest, combining flat out skating speed with strategy and the kind of body-checking you might find in hockey. It’s tough, it’s physical and it’s very, very exciting. Another thing to remember: this is an amateur sport, played for the love of the game. The team’s a member of the Women’s Flat Rack Derby Association (yep, there’s a sanctioning body) and the events are family friendly, but loud — caution to those with kids who are scared of big rackets. Indiana Farmers Colisuem, $10-17, military members $8, kids six and under free Fever V. Mystics June 20, 7 p.m. There is ALWAYS more professional basketball. ALWAYS. And you can get tickets up in the balcony for as little as 12 bucks. Bankers Life Fieldhouse, prices vary
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t As a fashion designer, Yves Saint Laurent’s style was defined by “lissomeness,” a slender, supple look that made the female form almost seem to glide. The new biopic Saint Laurent — which focuses mainly on YSL’s run from the late ‘60s to early ‘70s — ain’t exactly “lissome.” The film’s got all the strange rhythms of a bender, and man, it knows how to portray sedation specifically. While it’s beautifully shot (the montages of 1960s war footage aside Saint Laurent’s collections and the recap of the designer’s Matisse-inspired ’76 show boxed up like a Mondrian painting are worth the ticket alone), there’s an odd hollowness here — but maybe that’s the point. Although we learn a lot about the man’s sexual adventures and drug use (Keith Richards would be impressed), the film generates surprising little empathy for Saint Laurent’s addiction-driven loneliness in his gilded cage. Ultimately, this oh-sovery-French film also seems as overindulgent as its subject: Does Saint Laurent really warrant nearly as much screen time as Gandhi? — ED WENCK R, opens Friday at Keystone Art. (We jumped the gun last week. Sorry about that.)
CONTINUING I’ll See You in My Dreams r Carol (Blythe Danner) is a lonely retired schoolteacher out to recharge her life. With the support of her best friends (June Squibb, Rhea Perlman, and Mary Kay Place), she puts herself back in the dating world, even trying out speed-dating. When a handsome stranger (Sam Elliott) shows her attention, she ends up going to lunch with him, and … Look, it’s a nice little movie. The three gal pals get tiresome at times, but the movie is an easy sit. Martin Starr and Malin Akerman costar. — ED JOHNSON-OTT PG-13, at Keystone Art Live from New York! y Have you seen any Saturday Night Live retrospectives? Well, here’s another one. The film has laughs, of course, with material culled from the show (the star rating is strictly based on the sketches) , but there is nothing here that you haven’t seen before. The notion of paying for this half-ass retrospective is repulsive. Don’t let it suck you in. NR, at Keystone Art
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Frank vs. God y June 19, 6 p.m. When slick, smarmy lawyer David Frank loses his house in a tornado, he goes to the extreme, filing a lawsuit against God. He puts representatives of the world’s leading religions on the stand and turns the court into a sideshow circus. The film deserves kudos for its clever, original concept. Unfortunately, it turns into the same sort of preachy, sappy and self-righteous spectacle that its protagonist hates. And as the lead character, Henry Ian Cusick chews the scenery a little too ferociously. Wheeler Arts Community
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Slingshot r June 19, 7 p.m. Geniuses are messy. And so is this documentary portrait of the brilliant inventor, Dean Kamen. Framed by his attempts to create water filtration systems, the film also explores his battle with dyslexia, his father’s influence as an artist and Kamen’s creation of the Segway scooter. The film jumps all over the place, like a mad scientist’s mind during an all-nighter in the laboratory. It’s disorganized and dizzying but ultimately fascinating. Heartland Basile Theatre >>>
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JAMES ‘THE AMAZING’ RANDI (An Honest Liar) Pablo Picasso once said, “Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.” James “the Amazing” Randi uses the art of magic to shed light on deception. Summer Rewind’s opening night film, An Honest Liar, follows the magician as he investigates psychics, faith healers and spirit channelers, exposing their “miracles” as mere magic tricks. The documentary is fun popcorn fare, playing out as a spirited con artist caper film. But it’s also affecting audiences on a profound personal level, which Randi is witnessing all over the world. “At every one of the Q&A’s after the film, I find people coming to me with tears in their eyes and taking me by the hand and saying, ‘You made a big change in my life,’” he said. Most viewers think Randi’s most inspiring trick is simply being honest about himself, such as when he came out of the closet at the age of 81. And his most compelling revelation in the film is a discovery
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about his life partner of 25 years. When he found out that Jose Alvarez had been living under a false identity since he fled his abusive, homophobic village in Venezuela, Randi begged directors Tyler Measom and Justin Weinstein not to use his interview about it. But, as he always does, Randi committed to telling the truth. “I called the directors two days later and said, ‘Wait a minute. My agreement with
you was to show warts and all. So, I don’t have any right to forbid you to use that segment,’” Randi told them. It’s the film’s most powerful scene — a moment of vulnerability beneath the veneer of show business. An Honest Liar is far from the first attempt to bring Randi’s life to the big screen. Several filmmakers approached him over the years, but only Measom and Weinstein shared his aim for raw honesty. It’s unusual for a magician to show his hand, but Randi often says, “I’m not a magician. I’m an actor playing the part of a magician.” You can witness that magic when Randi performs before the screening of An Honest Liar on Thursday night at 7. His partner, Devyi Pena, will be joining him along with the directors of the film at the Wheeler Arts Community. As you will see, Randi’s performances have an intimate, confessional quality. He is the kind of artist who can turn a stadium into a living room.
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Amira & Sam e June 19, 8 p.m. You may recognize the lead actor, Martin Starr, from NBC’s Freaks and Geeks. He’s just as sweet and nerdy as Sam, an Iraq War veteran struggling to live in New York. (The city’s shattered skyline brings back shell-shock memories of war.) Sam finds himself harboring an illegal Iraqi immigrant named Amira and falling in love. Poignant and surprisingly funny, Amira & Sam paints a post-9/11 world with a gentle touch rather than a heavy hand. Wheeler Arts Community
Drunktown’s Finest t June 19, 9 p.m. A look at the lives of three Native American youths trying to rise above the adverse reservation they call home. The film is dull, much like its drab setting. But it’s not without a few surprises and poignant performances. Carmen Moore is particularly effective as a tormented transsexual stumbling through the reservation’s oppressive emotional terrain. Heartland Basile Theatre
Light Fly, Fly High e June 20, 12:30 p.m. A fly-onthe-wall look a young Indian woman boxing her way into a better life. Although she is ranked third in India’s Light Fly category, Thulasi struggles to fight oppression. This is not a typical talking head documentary. It captures Thulasi’s battles in and out of the ring with intimate immediacy. Wheeler Arts Community
Becoming Bulletproof e June 20, 1 p.m. Through the story of a cerebral palsy-addled man’s journey into acting, this documentary illuminates the magic of filmmaking. The film follows twentysomething A.J. Murray to a camp where able-bodied and disabled people collaborate on a feature film, doing what filmmakers from all walks of life do — pushing limits and redefining what’s possible. Heartland Basile Theatre SEE, HEARTLAND, ON PAGE 22
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1,000 Times Good Night w June 20, 3 p.m. After she is caught in an explosion, war photographer Rebecca (Juliette Binoche) must choose between her husband, daughters and the profession that always leaves them wondering whether she will come home alive. What they don’t realize is that Rebecca wields her camera in a way that keeps her and the people in front of the lens safe. Binoche anchors the elegant yet harrowing film with her tender performance. Wheeler Arts Community All-Stars e June 20, 4 p.m. Warmly evocative of Bad News Bears, this mockumentary about a girls softball league has everything you’d expect — clueless kids, a crooked coach and absurdly competitive parents. Just when you think, “been there, done that,” the film reels you in with sharp satirical suggestion that kids’ sports are really about insecure adults living vicariously through children. Heartland Basile Theatre The Sound and the Shadow w June 20, 5:30 p.m. Allergy-prone and antisocial, Harold is a hermit connecting to his neighbors only through the sound recording equipment he uses to eavesdrop on them. When a little girl goes missing, Harold and his spunky new roommate Ally join forces to find her. Joseph E. Murray and Mary Kate Wiles exude strong charisma and chemistry as the amateur detectives in this lighthearted riff on Rear Window. Wheeler Arts Community Ben’s at Home w June 20, 8 p.m. Fresh on the heels of a bad breakup, thirtysomething Ben decides to never leave his house again. And with that set-up, the film emerges as an amusing look at this age in which it’s all too easy to avoid stepping outside. Ben finds voiceover work, connects with friends via Facebook, and convinces girls online to come to his house for dates. But his vow to veg out quickly goes awry when an adventurous delivery girl opens his eyes to the world behind his computer screen. Ben’s at Home is a breezy yet biting satire of our online immersion. Wheeler Arts Community Lucky Stiff u June 20, 6:30 p.m. (After-party at 8 p.m.) The best musicals don’t have characters merely speaking in sing-song, but expressing themselves in tunes that stand on their own and stay in your head. This is not one of those musicals. The tale of a British shoe salesman gambling and cavorting in Monte Carlo to fulfill a rich uncle’s wish, this film unfortunately closes out the festival on a low note. However, the screening of the film is followed by a fun, free Monte Carlo-themed after-party. Heartland Basile Theatre
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struggle to guide Riley through it, but all the changes make it hard for the group and Riley’s life takes a negative turn. In Headquarters, memories are stored in color-coded orbs, then cataloged after sorting. To the team’s surprise, they discover that when Sadness touches a memory, it changes color and taints the incident. Big mistakes are made, and Joy and Sadness are accidentally ejected from Headquarters and sent deep into the lands of Riley’s mind. Fear, Disgust and Anger are left to run the show and, despite their best efforts (never mind their names, they wish the best for Riley), all heck breaks loose. Meanwhile, Joy and Sadness travel from one unique place to the next, encountering Riley’s long-discarded imaginary friend Bing Bong (Kind) along the way. Visits to Family Island and the Subconscious allow for even more inventive adventures. How do they get around? By crossing long, scary bridges or hopping on a passing Train of Thought. Literally. In the wrong hands all of this could have been overly intellectual, too cute for its own good or simply unrelateable. But directors Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen, working from a screenplay by Docter, Mag LeFauve and Josh Cooley, don’t slip up. By keeping Riley’s story simple, they have more room to let the emotions explore. And the excellent cast makes their circumstances feel genuine. Michael Giacchino’s score is effective enough to support the story without overpowering it. Inside Out gets a bit frantic every now and then, but most of the film is sweet, funny and a visual knockout. You don’t need to take a child to enjoy it. n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 06.17.15 - 06.24.15 // FILM 23
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Mixture’s crash course in cocktails “Mixture came about because we’ve seen and been a part of the Indianapolis cocktail scene growing over the past five years. With PDX and Tails [of the Cocktail] and Paris of the Plains (similar craft cocktail events in other cities), and we wanted to do something that would show off what Indianapolis has to offer,” said USBG member Lindy Brown, also a sommelier at Neal Brown Hospitality Group. “There are still plenty of people who are still not aware of the craft cocktail movement, so year one, we are making it completely consumer-focused, highlighting some of the best bars in Indianapolis.
Next year, we’ll be doing seminars and it will be more of a cocktail tour and expo.” Brown hopes the tour will help usher along a new awareness and appreciation of the cocktail scene that might help us catch up to nearby cities with a more developed scene. Not to mention that it’s going to be an insanely good deal. If you’re familiar with DigIN, Mixture will function much the same way with a check-in down on Georgia Street, and a passport that will get punched at every participating bar. You’ll be able to grab sample cocktails from spots like Milktooth, Union 50, Bluebeard, Platt 99 and whole mess of other bars in Indy’s cultural districts. You can get a $50 ticket for one night or a discounted $85 ticket for both. Don’t miss this opportunity to familiarize yourselves with the very best in local craft cocktails. n
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I really am confused. I’m a longtime and enthusiastic recycler. I live in Fishers and for many years have paid Republic to take both my trash and recycling. It is quite expensive and my husband tells me it is a waste of money because Ray’s takes the trash and picks through it to separate the recycling from trash. Everyone in my neighborhood has switched to Ray’s because the cost is so much more reasonable. I am really torn. I want to believe they really do this, but I am spending much more to separately recycle with Republic. Can you help me sort this out? Thank you. — GINGER
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Here’s what I know from two very reliable sources: Ray’s does not pick through the trash to pull out recyclables. Republic will sometimes pick out clean, heavy cardboard, but nothing else. The rest is going to a landfill or incinerator, depending on where one lives. You may now look to your husband for a “You were right, dear. Subscribing to curbside recycling is not a waste of money.” When choosing a curbside recycling service, keep two things in mind: cost and carbon emissions. If all of your neighbors use one company and you use a different company, then two different trucks need to drive to your neighborhood. Both companies are doing a great job, so I would go with the one that has the best price and is currently servicing your neighbors. I toured the new Ray’s single stream recycling facility on the SW side of Indy a couple weeks ago. Ray’s is recycling approximately 140-150 tons per day. The photo on the top left is what it looks like when it comes in. The materials are put on a conveyor belt that runs past a first line of “pickers.” This team knows their recyclables and thinks quickly on their feet — they typically make 50 to 60 “picks” per minute. The conveyor belt taking unrecyclable material 26 INDIANA LIVING GREEN // 06.17.15 - 06.24.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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“The environmental impact between cremation and green burial are relatively comparable. Although cremation has an immediate impact during the process, the particulate emissions have been greatly reduced and the new equipment is more fuel efficient.
What you should be asking is where to get the city’s side of the story. Mayor Ballard and his Office of Sustainability have entered into this contract for the City of Indianapolis. Unfortunately, there aren’t any resources or fact sheets on their web site and they didn’t respond to my request for info so I can’t direct you to a particular place. That said, your timing for info from Covanta is perfect — just this week they launched a new web site (recyclingforindy.com) with details about their work in Indianapolis. You can also follow them on Facebook and Twitter. Simply put, I think the Covanta ARC is probably better than what we have now, but not the best our city can do. I recently toured the new Ray’s recycling facility and was really impressed with their clean and efficient recycling system — I’ll be sharing more details about that soon. Increasing curbside recycling and building more facilities like theirs seems like a much better investment to me! PIECE OUT, RENEE
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fter many years of devotedly booking shows in the Indianapolis area, GloryHole Records founder Jimmy Peoni finally has a venue that is 100 percent his own. Snuggled inside Indy’s Holy Cross neighborhood, Peoni’s State Street Pub has been regularly throwing shows over for a few months, with plenty more on the horizon. Having already hosted everyone from local bluesman Gene Deer to Austin, Texas psych rock outfit Holy Wave, the 21+ live music spot also offers a humble selection of food, beer and wine, catering to “a lunch crowd by day” and “a rock and roll crowd by night,” Peoni says. After choosing to serve “pub food with a twist,” Peoni made the decision to partner up with Historic Steer-In owner Casey Kehrer. And since coming into the mix, Kehrer helped his boyhood friend with the State Street Pub menu, and assisted in getting the kitchen off the ground. A longtime fan of Indianapolis’ The Vulgar Boatmen, Peoni’s love for local music initially inspired him to start his own record label dedicated to documenting the sounds of Indiana in 2010. “The tempo for the ‘90s was bands getting signed and dropped by major labels, so that’s pretty much how GloryHole started. I liked putting out music for bands that I didn’t think would maybe get the opportunity to get music out,” he says. Since his label’s first-ever release – Vacation Club’s debut 7” – GloryHole Records has put out 16 records and 10 cassettes, most recently The Last IV’s debut 7” and America Owns The Moon’s Record Store Day cassette. The label will release music from Mysteries of Life and Sleeping Bag's Dave Segedy, as well as a compilation of Fountain Square music titled FSDC Vol. 4. In the midst of their label endeavors, Peoni and GloryHole label manager/ State Street Pub bookkeeper Kim Oskins dedicate much of their time to the new venue as well, gradually transforming the space. With vintage concert posters lining every wall, Peoni says the venue’s interior is essentially just his “living room blown up into a bar.” The intimate, 130-capacity space also nods to Peoni's love for house shows.
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and why we really struck it off.” Peoni is hoping to attract more and more of his Holy Cross neighbors into the venue by offering a diverse selection of shows that includes everything from jazz to rock to bluegrass. “We’re not partial to one type of music,” he says. “There are certain bands that we probably won’t have in here, and there are some [with large followings] that just wouldn’t fit in here either. Although many more additions to the pub will be made, including a front porch and a back fence similar to Radio Radio’s, Peoni doesn’t want his bar to change much more from what it is now. Inspired by local op artist Stephen Peck (known to many as Speck) who passed away last year, he believes that having a no-nonsense venue is really what the city needs. “I based our motto here around an art exhibit of Speck’s, Simple is Complex Enough,” Peoni says. “So that’s kind of our motto.” State Street Pub has several shows booked including We Are Hex on June 19. Songwriter Christian Taylor will have a regular residency spot on Tuesday nights, too. As Peoni and Oskins plow ahead with their new restaurant, both admit they’re just excited to be pursuing something music-related. “It’s fun because it’s a dream for us both,” Oskins says. “We just both love music.” n
SPALDING: “I got the idea on October 17, 2013. .. It was the night before my birthday. I’m all excited, thinking, ‘Oh, what am I going to do tomorrow’ and ‘This tour is going so nice’ and blah blah blah. In the middle of the night, I just started seeing these little music videos that would play in my mind’s eye. There was this central character – I don’t think it was me – but her name was Emily, and she looked different [than me]. It was a different feel and a different aesthetic. ... I was also hearing these songs, little fragments. I just started recording all the fragments in Garage Band. I thought, ‘When I’m more awake and it’s not three in the morning, maybe I’ll see what these sound like, and if they’re any good. And most of them weren’t, but some of them were! ... “I realized that in this project there was now room, I felt, to explore aspects of performance and creative expression that I hadn’t engaged with in years and years and years: acting, poetry, movement. “A lot of people used my middle name. I remember there was a point in my life where I was like, ‘That’s not me. That’s not me.’ … I went through this emergence in my teenage years, where I was like, ‘No, Emily, no, that’s too plain, that’s too young and kiddy, no. I’m Esperanza and I want to be called Esperanza. So from then on everybody called me Esperanza. Actually what happened in my case, I would say with Emily is that [I realized] that it is me. That is me, too. Yes, I’m Esperanza, … but the truth is they’re both me. In a way, I see Emily as the vessel with which I can bring up to date my total self, engaging with a lot of the things about performance and art that I was always curious about that just didn’t really get cultivated in my quote-unquote Esperanza stage.” — KATHERINE COPLEN Thursday, June 18, 7:30 p.m., Palladium at the Centre for the Performing Arts, 355 City Center Drive (Carmel), prices vary, $15 student tickets, all-ages
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VESERIA CELEBRATES FIVE YEARS Editor’s Note: MP Cavalier is the co-host of the DoItIndy Radio Hour on Radio Free Indy, which broadcasts live from Grove Haus on Monday evenings at 8 p.m and rebroadcasts at 5 p.m. on Wednesday and 10 p.m. on Thursday. Find the full version of this piece on NUVO.net. When I first met Veseria, it was quite literally a dark and stormy night. That was September of 2013, outside of Radio Radio during the usual between-set-mass-exodus smoke break. People huddled together in the shallow doorway sharing American Spirits, singularly hunched to stave off the rain. I was a shadow on the music scene, posting hardly viewed YouTube videos, trying to drum up audiences for the shows I thought would appeal to Indy’s need for its own musical voice. These two well-dressed guys greeted me at the door and introduced themselves nice-as-you-please. “Hi, we’re from Veseria. We just released a new single and we were wondering if you’d consider playing it on your radio show.” What’s extraordinary about their approach was not its forwardness, or their assumption that I was even who they thought I was. It’s that they knew there was a radio show. At that point, the show too was a shadow – a series of infrequent Facebook posts about something that I wasn’t sure would really happen. It’s a testament to their faith in a music scene that some claim doesn’t really exist, that they would be so quick to support a radio show that didn’t actually exist. Since then, I have had the pleasure of watching this band flower, sometimes as a witness to private moments and often as an observer of their public celebrations. Veseria has shown me parts of Indianapolis you spend a lifetime searching for, unaware they existed until you stumble across them. Most importantly, Veseria has made me understand how a town like Indianapolis, for all of our sociopolitical missteps, is indeed a town where even the most jaded out-of-towner can not only find a purpose but also fulfill that purpose. And for some who had to relocate to meet their life objectives, Veseria provides an umbilical cord to home. One example: Jason Appel, who considers himself Veseria’s biggest fan. And although Appel resides in Atlanta these days, he still considers the Indianapolis quintet to be “my band. They symbolize finding myself.” The band is marking its fifth anniversary with a mega-music and art show at the Fountain Square Brewing Company on June 19. With a new EP (Songs of War) and its first tour looming, the band is revisiting not just its history but its place in the current Indianapolis landscape. “This city runs through our blood and we understand it,” guitarist and vocalist Patrick Roberts says.“It’s a part of us and we’re a part of it.” — MP CAVALIER 30 MUSIC // 06.17.15 - 06.24.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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had the pleasure of seeing Shannon Hayden at the Hi-Fi in January opening for Mike Adams at His Honest Weight. One glimpse at the equipment she used on stage I knew she would be great for an installment of Gear and Beer. We sat down at Chilly Water Brewing on Virginia Avenue to enjoy a couple of Built to Last pilsners and talk about her century-old cello and off-the-grid vegetable farm studio. NUVO: How old is your acoustic cello and what can you tell me about its history? SHANNON HAYDEN: It is from the 1890s. The previous owner was from the Indianapolis Symphony. I have a luthier in town that builds amazing cellos and does my maintenance. A couple brought it to him after it had been hit by a car. He put it back together and did an amazing job. And, I knew the whole story and got a really good deal on it. I was able to visit the tiny village where it was built when I was fourteen. It was the last cello this guy built. NUVO: I noticed you also use an electric cello. Is that a pragmatic choice? HAYDEN: Yeah, for a lot of shows. It depends on the show, on the venue, how I’m getting there. If I’m flying it’s just so much easier with the electric. My acoustic cello is a really amazing instrument. I want to take it out on more special occasions, like concert halls and theaters. With an electric cello it can get banged around a little more and thrown into the back of a truck. With my acoustic cello [I use] various pickups and clip-on mics. It’s pretty high maintenance, a bit difficult to travel with, so this year I began touring with an electric cello. It’s a Yamaha and I use a Barbera bridge. It has to be custom made for that instrument. It’s got two pickups per string. I run that through a series of pre-amps and mic simulators to get the best sound. NUVO: At what point did you start experimenting with pedals and effects? HAYDEN: I played lead guitar in a rock band when I was 14 or 15. All the while I continued very serious classical training. I really enjoy the world of guitar because there’s no limitations placed on your instrument. I got more involved in that world of sound effects, sound manipulation, recording and writing. After a while it was like, “why don’t you try some of these effects on the cello?”
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NUVO: What are you using to layer your parts? Are you using a looper pedal? HAYDEN: The looper is the Boss RC-300. It’s so flexible. You can fade in and out of things; each loop can be a whole different length. It’s more like a quartet than an individual. I actually started with an Electro Harmonix 10 second delay. I didn’t want to get a low-end looper, because I didn’t want to get frustrated right off the bat with what I could do with it, so I went for a glorified delay pedal. Eventually, if I liked the minimal amount of looping, then I could move on to something bigger. And then I would still have an awesome delay pedal. NUVO: Are there stored loops in your RC-300? HAYDEN: All instruments are looped live. I have recorded sounds from my studio [sampled] in my machine. All vocal loops are live. A lot of people are confused about what’s live and think some of that is back-
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ing tracks. I keep it simple, no backing tracks. If you hear a percussive sound, then that can be sampled. Even still, I try to do a lot of that on the cello [live]. NUVO: I heard that your home studio is self-sustained, can you tell me about that? HAYDEN: I have an off-the-grid vegetable farm over in Illinois about 50 minutes west of Terre Haute. We grow our own food and it’s all solar powered. That farm has enabled me to do what I want to do. If I want to pay rent in New York for the summer I can. If I want to head to L.A. I can. But I can always come home. It’s an advantage because all my friends have to work at Starbucks. I’m always available and can always schedule tours. I’ve been recording in Bloomington for a month and I brought a flat of lettuce and a ton of frozen strawberries, produce and canned veggies. It’s awesome. NUVO: Was it long process to set that up? HAYDEN: Not really. It’s a lot easier than people think to be self-sustained. It’s pretty simple to purchase a couple of panels, a battery bank, a good sine wave inverter to keep it quiet for music recordings and you’re pretty well set. We can run a projector and huge sound system. It’s easy to do on your own. n
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onnie Lester is one of the truly great Hoosier soul singers and in his nearly 60-year career in music, Lester has racked up enough wisdom to fill up a library's worth of self-help books. But Lonnie Lester isn't writing any self-help books. He manifests his deep emotional creativity in song. Much of Lester's artistic legacy rests on a series of classic soul 45 RPM singles he cut for the Midwestern record label Nu-Tone in the '60s. Original copies of Lester's Nu-Tone release are scarce and frequently fetch $100 to $200 on the collectors market. Recently, German-based label Tramp Records reissued Lester's Nu-Tone catalogue. The reissues have brought a renewed interest in Lester's work which culminated last year with the singer's performance at the Dig Deeper event series in New York City. Lester keeps a busy concert schedule here in Central Indiana. Lester and I met recently at the WFYI studios where he shared many reflections on life and music with me. Listen to the entire interview this Wednesday night at 9 p.m. on 90.1 WFYI Public Radio. NUVO: After high school, you joined the Air Force. And after that you came back to the Midwest and in the '60s and recorded a series of 45 RPM singles for the Nu-Tone label. What do you remember about those sessions?
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NUVO: In the early '70s, you were offered a gig at an Indianapolis club called The Honeydripper and you've been pretty much based in Indy since. I'm curious what the club scene was like here in the '70s for a working musician. LESTER: In the '70s Indy was like Chicago was in the '50s as far as music. In the '50s and '60s in Chicago there was all kinds of clubs you could work. But by the early '70s so many of them were gone. And if you did find a job they wanted you to play eight hours unless you were a big name artist. The blues guys would start at night and play until day. But Indy was wide open. Indy was ready for it, man. I said "I'm not going to tell anybody about this secret." Indy was a good place and things worked out for me here.
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WEDNESDAY POP Barenaked Ladies 8 p.m. Once, during a very fancy Super Bowl party, we convinced the members of the Barenaked Ladies to sing the Canadian Alphabet Song, which differs from the American A.B.C.s in one big way: they say “zed” instead of “zee.” To date, it’s our favorite Barenaked Ladies performance. (Violent Femmes and Colin Hey will open.) Farm Bureau Insurance Lawn at White River State Park, 801 W. Washington St., varies, all-ages FEST Batesville Music and Arts Festival Wednesday – Friday The Batesville Music and Arts Festival features a little bit of everything; music and art, of course (including performances by the Indy Jazz Orchestra, a battle of the bands and country showdown.) But there’s also a 5k walk/run and a community art show presented by the Rural Alliance for the Arts Community. Liberty Park, 716 S. Park Ave. (Batesville), FREE, all-ages
SPOOKY Fellow Creatures 8 p.m. Band in a church! Synthy band in the atrium of a church! If this doesn’t set off all your cool meters, your cool meters are broken. All Souls Unitarian Church, 5805 E. 56th St., FREE, all-ages ‘90S
Esperanza Spalding 7:30 p.m. Her latest recording, Radio Music Society, includes a mosaic array of musicians; jazz legends Joe Lovano, Jack DeJohnette and Billy Hart; hip-hop giant Q-Tip, Algebra Blessett, Lalah Hathaway, Gretchen Parlato and Lionel Loueke; Portland mentors Janice Scroggins and Thara Memory, as well as the horn section of Memory’s American Music Program ensemble. But she won’t be playing any of that at her Thursday show at the Palladium – check out our sidebar on page 29 for more info on her current show.
The Smashing Pumpkins 8 p.m. This one is billed The Smashing Pumpkins In Plainsong - An Acoustic-Electro Evening. So Old Bill Corg is taking a more chilled out approach to tour this year. We’re into it.
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WZPL Birthday Bash 7 p.m. Radio king/pop superstar/seXXXy magazine cover star Nick Jonas headlines this big ol’ radio bash, with an assist from “Whistle” rapper Flo Rida, British pop queen Charli XCX, ear wormer Hoodie Allen, Olly Murs, and “Trampoline” dudes Kalin and Myles. Indiana Farmers Coliseum, 1202 E. 38th St., all-ages ANNIVERSARIES Veseria 7 p.m. Here’s a bit more on Veseria: To the band, Voyager was another in an ongoing string of what singer Patrick Roberts describes as “small goals.” “Our expectations have always been very low,” he says. The band agrees that the short term goals keep up the enthusiasm
as they prepare for the long game. They hired a manager — Benjamin Cannon from Shine Indy — and initiated a Kickstarter this spring to raise money for their upcoming tour. The regular problems arise: They need a van, they all have full-time jobs, Patrick and Jen have two kids. Their personal realities are not lost in their collective dream. But their progression has been an organic and natural one, with many small steps forward and few steps back. From dive bars in Brownsburg to the Irving, The Vogue, and the ONC, Veseria’s path mirrors that of many a local band, perhaps a path that leads out of the city to what some perceive as more music and art-friendly towns. Veseria doesn’t exactly see it that way. “This city needs people that are gonna fight for it,” Patrick says. “You fight for your family, you stick with the family, and we feel that way about the city. So leaving is not an option.” Drummer Kyle Perkon cites the small, pocket organizations within the music and arts community as keys to the city’s potential. “They’re supporting each other, the way they go about presenting people that they legitimately care about. If your van breaks down on the way to a gig, I’m coming to get you!” Bassist Corey Lusk agrees: “It’s a small town feel in a big town. It’s our responsibility to take care of each other.” Jen Roberts says that for the short time she and Patrick lived in Bloomington, “it was painful. That distance is what made us realize how much we loved Indianapolis. Coming back, we realized that if we’re going to be part of this community why not make it the best that we can. If that’s what we’re here to do than how do we do that? We want to be in a place
where artists and our fellow musicians can flourish. We want the good artists to stay here, not to reach a certain plateau and leave.” — MP CAVALIER Fountain Square Brewing Co., 1301 Barth Ave., $5, 21+ ROCK We Are Hex, Goldmines, The Hyper Tensions 9 p.m. We’ve got a profile of the State Street Pub on page 29. State Street Pub, 243 N. State Ave., 21+ HIP-HOP Tyler the Creator, Taco 8 p.m. Why’d Tyler the Creator record Cherry Bomb, his third full-length album? “I was just bored. And when I get bored, I do shit. So I decided to make an album.” Cherry Bomb showcases a new Tyler, a happier Tyler, and it quickly rose to the No. 1 spot on the hip-hop charts. Unlike his lyrics, Tyler’s outfit game hasn’t changed, it’s still as far out as they come. Which makes this even more puzzling. “If I could wear anything? I would wear some regular jeans, some Jordan’s, and an Alexander Wang Jacket — something simple. I have a weird shaped head but I’ve always wanted to wear a fedora. I’ve just never felt comfortable, but that’s probably my dream outfit.” Here’s hoping Tyler rocks a fedora on-stage Friday night. — BRIAN WEISS Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., prices vary, all-ages
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Festival in the Park 1 p.m. On the main music stage, in order of appearance: Scott Ballantine & Andra Faye / The Brains Behind Pa (Gordon Bonham & Bill Price) / Flatland Harmony Experiment / The Half Step Sisters / Martine Locke / Blue Collar Bluegrass. Artists from across Indiana will be set up in the park displaying their work. Booths for non-profits, neighborhood organizations and animal rescues.
Highlife 9 p.m. One of our five bands to watch in 2015 kicks off their residency at the Hi-Fi. That would be Sweet Poison Victim, the diverse and dynamic Afro-Caribbean collective, who along with our very own DJ Kyle Long, plan to host regular evenings at the Hi-Fi monthly. This show is free, free, free. The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 4, FREE, 21+
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ROOTS Whitey Morgan and the ‘78s 9 p.m. Whitey returns to the area after an opening slot for Bob Seger at Bankers Life this spring. So it’s a smaller stage, and a bit south, but we expect no less energy from the man and his 78s. Catch him in a smaller room while you can: Whitey’s going places. The Bluebird, 216 N. Walnut St. (Bloomington), $20 - $75, 21+ Glostik Willy, EGI, Mousetrap, 21+ Russ Baum and Huck Finn, Angel Burlesque, Gaslight Inn, 21+
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My effects unit is the HD500 POD. It’s my go-to in the studio. It’s so customizable. I have so many different patches. I was running my keyboard through the POD yesterday.
NUVO: What are you using to record?
HAYDEN: I record with Logic. I like Guitar Rig, Mainstage for my own recordings. With Margot [and the Nuclear So and So’s] we had some fun. I was running through a guitar amp in a bathroom and that was daisy chained to an amp somewhere else. It was super cool. Almost like old school orchestra recordings, a little distant. A little issue with that is when you have an amp in a bathroom with a mic on it, you do hear when someone is using the restroom. I heard it [in my headphones] when I was about to do my track. “Hey guys, what is that?” — BRETT ALDERMAN The Warehouse, 254 1st Ave. SW (Carmel), $20 in advance, $25 at door, all-ages
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Familia Fest: El Dia de la Familia 1 p.m. The city’s largest recurring Hispanic-cultural event is back for its 15-year anniversary. Familia Fest El Dia de la Familia, or the Day of the Family offers the community a wide range of Latin foods, music and family fun. Radio Latina, Indianapolis’ Spanish radio station holds down the fort at the live music stage featuring local, regional and national acts. And of course there will be food, lots of it. Attendees can sample authentic Latin cuisines from countries like Costa Rica, Panama
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tion of hosting some of the best electronic music in the city. After an original run between 2005 and 2007 during which they hosted some of the nation and world’s biggest drum and bass acts, IQ Entertainment’s Broke(n) Tuesdays are back at the Melody Inn. Organizer Jay-P Gold says this time around he wants to widen the sonic range with as much “weird shit” as possible, ranging from footwork and jungle, to broken beat techno, and of course no small amount of drum and bass. Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St., FREE, 21+ PUNK Flogging Molly, Gogol Bordello 7 p.m. Three punk fusion bands on parade at this show: Flogging Molly (Irish punk); Gogol Bordello (gypsy klesmer punk) and Mariachi El Bronx (mariachi punk). Fusion-palooza at the Lawn! Farm Bureau Insurance Lawn at White River State Park, 801 W. Washington St., prices vary, all-ages Rock Cantanese and The Chapter, FARMbloomington’s Root Cellar (Bloomington), 21+ Broke(n) Tuesdays, Melody Inn, 21+ Take That! Tuesdays, Coaches Tavern, 21+ Unwritten Law, Ten Foot Pole, Emerson Theater, all-ages NUVO.NET/SOUNDCHECK
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Better edibles Are edible body products (lotions, sprays etc.) still a thing? Or at least ones that don’t taste like chemicals when you kiss/lick the body? I remember a line from about a decade ago. — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: Of course there are! You can even get the flavored stuff at your local Sephora: Urban Decay makes its own line. I would advise you do your due diligence with your online shopping and read reviews. You can also make your own at home by blending vanilla powder, a little confectioner’s sugar and cornstarch. This is not for cosmetic application though, and it probably would not be advisable to get near your nether regions with the sugar content. DR. D: Kama Sutra body dusts are still around and so is Lust Dust, so yes — there are still plenty of flavored/ edible body products around. If you’d prefer to taste test before buying (understandable) consider going to a women’s in-home sex toy party (that is, if you’re a woman) such as Pure Romance or Passion Parties. Quite often, the woman running the party will let partygoers sample the product before purchasing. Bon appetit!
Flirting with disaster The last few dates I went on were really confusing. We had great chemistry and conversation going into it, then it all seems to fizzle when we actually get an in-person meeting. I do sometimes get nervous meeting women from online sites. How do I get over this and stop botching my dates? — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: Do you have female friends? If not, make some or ask the girlfriends of your male friends. If those don’t exist either, well, you may have a higher hurdle to jump than I have the skill for. That said, find a straight woman you have confidence and trust in and ask her what you’re doing wrong. She’ll probably know. Usually, date failure falls into a few different categories: Nerves that make you fall back on a false bravado that make you seem like a jerk you are not; oversharing about your past romantic mistakes and/
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Each of us has at least one pesky ghost or nagging demon that occupies a dark corner of our psyches. It may have been there for years, or we might have picked it up more recently during a phase of temporary insanity. In any case, most of us can benefit from conducting a periodic banishing ritual. Now would be prime time for you to do just that. Ready? With your imagination, draw a clockwise circle of your favoritecolored light on the floor or ground. Next, identify an image that makes you feel happy and safe, and visualize four versions of it at the four cardinal points, hovering three feet above your circle. Then say this: “I dissolve any hex and banish any pest that has been draining my energy. I purge any wasteful emotions, unsound ideas, and trivial desires that I may have grown attached to.” To put the seal on your magic, laugh for two minutes. Sagittarius
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): At this year’s Grammy Awards ceremony, British singer Sam Smith won in four categories. His tune “Stay with Me” was named Song of the Year. In one of his acceptance speeches, Smith expressed appreciation for the difficult muse who inspired the song. “I want to thank the man who this record is about, who I fell in love with last year,” he said. “Thank you so much for breaking my heart, because you got me four Grammys.” I invite you to come up with a comparable expression of gratitude, Aquarius. What experience that seemed like tough luck at the time has actually turned out to be a blessing? Now would be a perfect time to acknowledge and relish and make full use of the unexpected grace. Aquarius
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Bay of Fundy is a branch of the Atlantic Ocean between the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. It’s renowned for its tidal range. When high tide comes, the water may be as much as 53 feet higher than what it is at low tide. The shift back and forth happens twice a day. I’m wondering if in the coming weeks your emotional ebb and flow will have a similar variability. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you could experience both very high highs and very deep depths. Please note that when I say “depths,” I don’t mean sadness or despair. Rather, I’m talking about a profound ability to feel your way into the heart of things. Pisces
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