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A fashion photographer by trade, Osherov is at the center of a collaborative effort called Pattern that’s devoted to putting Indianapolis on the fashion map. BY DAVID HOPPE COVER PHOTO BY STEPHEN SIMONETTO
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The ACLU filed a lawsuit against the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles in regards to its handling of at least one, and possibly thousands, of license suspensions. BY JACK MEYER
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A. BITTERMAN ON INDY ISLAND
This year’s Indy Island resident is exploring the relationship between man and nature by making 100 Acres his habitat. BY SCOTT SHOGER
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BISON WORLD
A Noblesville family went into ranching in earnest this year, selling bison meat by the pound — as well as a few taxidermied beasts on the side. BY KATY CARTER
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DENA EL SAFFAR AT THE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM
Noted Iraqi-American violist Dena El Saffar will perform with her Bloomington-based ensemble Salaam this Saturday. El Saffar spoke on her first trip to the Middle East and the lure of Arabic music. BY KYLE LONG
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HAMMER A return to Un-United States
Perhaps it’s time for Arizona to go it own way
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hile much of the population of the United States will be spending the Independence Day holiday drinking beer, grilling hamburgers, using illegal fireworks or all of those things, I’ll be sitting at home thinking about the Supreme Court decision. No, not the health care decision, which hadn’t been announced as I wrote these words. We can count on the Roberts Court to be wrong on the laws, wrong on the facts and prone to be against any decision that helps promote compassion. The fix was in all along; universal health care never stood a chance. No, the Supreme Court decision I’ll be pondering is Texas v. White, the 1869 decision that made null and void the secession of the Confederate states during the Civil War. The majority opinion held that the
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Articles of Confederation had created a governmental structure that could never be breached, except in case of a revolution or the consent of the other states. Under that ruling, no state can ever secede from the United States even if it so desired, because any state’s decision to secede is, by definition, illegal. Why have I been thinking about this? Because I think getting rid of this decision might hold the key to the future success of the United States. If things continue as they have for the last 30 years or so, there may not be a United States of America 30 years from now. Let’s face the facts. A very vocal minority of citizens do not accept the legitimacy of the federal government under President Barack Obama. They are concentrated in mostly white, heavily conservative areas and they have a different mindset than the rest of us. Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who is the chief law officer of Maricopa County, Arizona, one of the most backward parts of the country, believes in detaining suspected illegal immigrants indefinitely and illegally profiling law-abiding citizens despite repeated court orders to not do so. He keeps prisoners housed in tent cities in the desert heat with a blatant disregard for humane treatment. He also states the president is ineligible to hold office because of his allegedly forged birth certificate. Sheriff Joe would have been rewarded if he were running a Soviet gulag or Vietnamese prison camp, but his ideas are definitely un-American.
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He and his constituents should have the right to create their own new nation separate from the United States, a place where torture and racial profiling are legal tactics. Texas Gov. Rick Perry has also publicly mused about wanting to leave the United States. Having been in Texas many times, I think he has a point. Texas doesn’t feel like any other part of the United States. With Arizona and Texas gone, one might expect several other southern states to follow suit and leave the U.S. Good riddance. The sad truth is that in the 236th year since the Declaration of Independence, we are almost equally divided on almost every major issue. We are not only divided, we are permanently divided. Whether the issue is gun control, abortion, the legalization of marijuana or the conduct of our foreign policy, we are split exactly down the middle. I don’t want to live in Joe Arpaio’s or Rick Perry’s America. They most certainly would not want to live in a country where my views dominated. That’s why I think it’s time for a divorce. Let these rogue states create their own nations and run things their way. Let progressive and freedom-seeking states start
their own nation, too. The United States has had a good run. Leaving aside the genocide of Native Americans and slaves forcibly imported from Africa, it’s been a relatively benign country. We have tried to maintain freedoms for the most part and we helped rid the world of Hitler. There is no shame in admitting that the union created more than 200 years ago doesn’t work so well anymore and that differences in political philosophies have become too entrenched to resolve them peaceably. The only thing standing in the way of this divorce is Texas v. White. An act of Congress or of the various state legislatures would probably be enough to overturn that ruling and let Texas, Arizona or any other state go its own way. The 50 former United States could maintain some sort of loose confederation for treaties and such, while maintaining autonomy over their regions. If the United States is already broken, there are easier ways than violent revolutions to sort out our differences and go our own ways. When this happens we would have not only a more stable environment, we would have a new Independence Day to celebrate.
The sad truth is ... we are almost equally divided on almost every major issue.
HOPPE John Strinka has guts Socialist makes Indiana ballot
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don’t know John Strinka. We’ve never met. But this guy’s got guts. Strinka has filed as a Socialist candidate for the Indiana House of Representatives in, of all places, District 39 — a swatch of the northern suburbs that includes parts of Carmel and Fishers. Jerry Torr is the incumbent there. He’s an insurance man who voted for what Strinka calls “Right to Work For Less” during the last legislative session. In a news release, Strinka is touted as the first Socialist candidate in decades to qualify for the Indiana ballot. This is worth thinking about. Indiana, after all, plays a distinguished part in the short and largely forgotten history of socialism in the United States. Terre Haute was the home of Eugene V. Debs, the labor leader who ran as a Socialist candidate for president five times, between 1900 and 1920, garnering as much as 6 percent of the popular vote during the race in 1912. Debs was a memorable orator who fought for a society based on the common good instead of individual striving. “I want no advantage over my fellow man,” said Debs, “and if he is weaker than I, all the more it is my duty to help him.” Debs understood the way capitalists used their power to divide people into competing interests, enriching a few at the expense of many. “Competition was natural enough at one time, but do you think you are competing today?” he asked. “Many of you think you are. Against whom? Against Rockefeller? About as I would if I had a wheelbarrow and competed with the Santa Fe [railroad] from here to Kansas City.” On another occasion, Debs said: “In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the people.” Debs was arrested and did time for organizing workers and then for his opposition to America’s entry into the First World War. Upon being convicted of violating the Sedition Act he said, “Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind then that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I
am in it; and while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” Debs said he opposed a social system, “in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.” Debs was part of a populist rising in response to the vast income inequality and exploitative working conditions associated with Gilded Age capitalism. The labor movement he helped foster improved wages and benefits for industrial workers and was key in the creation of an American middle class. But Americans are famous for historical amnesia — and capitalists publish our history books. So it wasn’t long before Debs’ idea of socialism — a social system, as the Republican Abraham Lincoln said, of, by and for the people — was lumped in with what communist dictators were doing to the Soviet Union and consigned to the dustbin of our collective memory. Socialism became a dirty word. It still is. Today Republicans use it to smear President Barack Obama, whose policies — from reforming health care in favor of big insurance companies, to bailing out Wall Street tycoons — look for all the world like the works of such Cold War Republican presidents as Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. Socialism is the kind of word people today use to kill debate or, for that matter, thought. We place our faith in the profit motive and call that freedom. This is not to say that socialist policies offer a silver bullet. The current mess in Europe, where socialism has long been part of conventional political discourse, suggests it is no more immune to corruption and ineptitude than any other means of social organization. But, in a political season when candidates from both parties seem eager to downplay the idea that government is actually us, a public tool meant to serve public needs, socialism’s moral argument that if we fail to hang together as a community, our community is bound to fail even the best off among us, deserves to be part of the mix. “The power of the state can be used to create jobs, provide living wages, and provide healthcare,” says selfproclaimed Socialist John Strinka. “We must simply find the political will to use that power to improve the lives of all our residents.” If a Socialist getting on the ballot in Indiana seems strange, what’s even stranger is that it takes a Socialist like Strinka to stand up for a common sense understanding of government’s role. That’s why my hat’s off to him. In times like these, common sense takes guts.
Socialism is the kind of word people today use to kill debate or, for that matter, thought.
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FAR FROM A FAIR SHAKE
Indiana’s utility watchdog continues to disregard the grassroots citizens groups asking for more transparency in the construction of one of the nation’s most costly new power plants — Duke Energy’s Edwardsport Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) Station. The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission last week denied requests to delay the deadline for testimony and evidentiary filings for a semi-annual review of the plant’s construction progress and costs, allowing the groups only three days to file their testimony and, according to a CAC news release, “ leaving a litany of important and critical issues unexplored by the groups’ expert witnesses.” Meanwhile ratepayer advocates also face a June 29 testimony-filing deadline and hearings, set to begin July 16, regarding the settlement between Duke Energy and the Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor. The OUCC and industrial ratepayers have been fighting to cap rate increases related to Duke’s cost overruns at a plant. Duke originally estimated the plant’s cost at $1.985 billion; now they are expected to top $3.3 billion. In separate Duke news, the company continues to pursue a merger with Progress Energy, which would make it the nation’s largest electric utility. Also of note, Duke is due in federal court to defend itself against the charge it paid kickbacks to large companies in Cincinnati in exchange for support of proposed rate increases. Meanwhile, Marion Superior Court Judge James Osborn this week denied a motion to drop the four felony charges against David Lott Hardy, the former IURC chairman fired for playing hanky-panky with Duke.
Thank you, Tamika Catchings, for all you, the WNBA’s most valuable player last season, do for Indiana basketball! Congratulations on being named the Eastern Conference player of the week — for the 16th time! Glad someone recognizes that during a week the Fever went 2-1 that you dominated every major stat category from O to D: an average of 5.7 assists per game, second-highest in the WNBA, and 14.3 points per game (WNBA’s seventh highest) to the league’s third-highest average for rebounds (8.3 per game) and steals at 2.0 (not to mention the 1.3 blocks per game, tied for fourth in the league). Let this be the year the great basketball spirit adds WNBA champion to that list. Speaking of catching … the Indy AlleyCats caught a sweet win over archrivals Columbus Cranes in a hard-fought ultimate Frisbee game at Roncalli Stadium last Sunday. Three home games left to become an inaugural-season fan — the next one July 8 against Connecticut.
THOUGHT BITE By Andy Jacobs Jr. All’s well that ends out of Hell – if you believe.
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news Indiana’s immigration law undermined U.S. Supreme Court rejects Arizona’s stance
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U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down key parts of an Arizona immigration law also means that similar Indiana provisions are not enforceable, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana said Monday. “The Supreme Court basically said that — as we have argued in our case — immigration is exclusively the province of the federal government and states cannot interfere or enter that arena,” said Ken Falk, the attorney who filed one of two challenges to the Indiana law, which the General Assembly passed last year. The nation’s high court ruled against provisions of the Arizona law that permitted state and local police to arrest individuals without a warrant if the officers believed them to be illegal immigrants. Indiana’s law went even further, Falk said. It said police could arrest an illegal immigrant because of felonies the individual had committed in the past — or if the federal government had issued a detainer or notice of action, even if federal officials had allowed the person to remain in the country. Falk said that Indiana’s provision will not stand under the Supreme Court’s decision in the Arizona case. “It seems to me that if the Arizona law is preempted, obviously the Indiana law is preempted,” Falk said.
Grant to boost Indy’s bikeability
Neighborhood discussions are underway BY S A RA H S HE A F E R E DI T O RS @N U V O . N E T With the creation of the Cultural Trail, Indy Greenways and the SustainIndy Bikeways Plan, which aims to create more than 200 bike-lane miles, Indianapolis is becoming more bicycle-friendly by the day. With the promotion of cycling gaining speed, INDYCOG, an Indianapolis bicycle advocacy group, and Local
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Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller said in a statement Monday that his office is reviewing the U.S. Supreme Court decision and said it will provide “valuable guidance to Indiana and other states in the proper role we serve in cooperation with the federal government in enforcing immigration laws.” “The failure of Congress to reform our immigration statutes has put states in the difficult position of seeking this guidance from the judicial branch,” Zoeller said. “My office will take the time necessary to review the court’s decision today in more detail and make decisions regarding our two cases currently pending in which Indiana is a party. After thorough review, we plan to advise Indiana’s legislature of any necessary changes to our current statutes.” State Sen. Mike Delph, a Carmel Republican who authored the Indiana law, was not immediately available to comment. A U.S. district judge last year issued an injunction in the ACLU-filed case that prevented several provisions of Indiana’s law from taking effect. The state did not appeal the decision. The judge is currently reviewing the larger arguments in the case. However, the ACLU did not challenge all parts of the law, including provisions that punish businesses that hire illegal immigrants by revoking some of their state tax credits. In another case — Union Beneficia Mexicana v. State of Indiana — a district judge postponed any rulings until after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the Arizona case. Indiana was not the only state waiting for the decision from the U.S. Supreme Court, which struck three parts of the Arizona law that: Created a state crime for the failure to apply for or carry federally issued alien registration papers. Made it unlawful for an unauthorized alien to solicit, apply for or perform work. Authorized the warrantless arrest of a person where there is probable cause to believe the person to have committed a public offense that makes the person
removable from the United States. The high court also upheld a provision requiring law enforcement officers to determine a person’s immigration status during a lawful stop, although the justices indicated they could impose restrictions on that in the future. Five states — Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah — have enacted legislation similar to Arizona’s law and lower courts have partially or wholly enjoined all of them. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, the laws in Alabama,
Georgia, South Carolina and Utah include the lawful stop provisions. The laws in Alabama and South Carolina have provisions requiring individuals to carry alien registration papers. Also in Alabama and South Carolina it is unlawful for unauthorized aliens to solicit or perform work.
Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) have joined forces to help five underserved urban neighborhoods develop bicycle infrastructure plans. Much of the project is made possible by a $10,000 grant given by Bikes Belong, a national coalition of bicycle retailers and suppliers. The project is one of eight others that received a Spring 2012 Community Grant from Bikes Belong. The grants were awarded based on support of innovative bicycle projects and studies. The five neighborhoods involved in the project are: Near East, Southeast, West Indy, Near West and Crooked Creek. Each of these areas includes several individual neighborhoods in need of a better bicycle infrastructure. The infrastructure planning must be completed by the end of the year, but the actual building will take years to finish, according to Kevin Whited, INDYCOG’s
executive director. Discussions are already started in the Near East and Southeast. Near East is the farthest along with initial talks starting last winter. In fact, Whited said, it was those discussions that inspired to apply for the Bikes Belong grant application. While INDYCOG educates the residents in the neighborhoods about bicycle safety, efficiency and infrastructure options available, Whited said most of the planning is up to the neighborhoods. “It’s up to the neighbors in the area,” he said. “We have public meetings, but they decide. We tell them about different types of infrastructure and tell them what they are and why they might need them. They show us areas that need it most.” Indianapolis is above average when it comes to bicycle infrastructure, Whited said. But, he noted, the city did not make the cut for Bicycling magazine’s 2012 America’s Top
50 Bike-Friendly Cities. In 2011, Indianapolis ranked No. 45 due to the Monon Trail. “I was disappointed by the ranking, because I’ve been to some of the cities listed and they were not as good of a cycling city,” Whited said. “Some cities have no where near the infrastructure we already have.” INDYCOG is currently pushing for a Complete Streets Ordinance, which would create roadways that are better designed for safe access among all users including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorist and public transportation vehicles. Some features of Complete Streets may include, but are not limited to, sidewalks, bike lanes, special bus lanes, median islands, roundabouts and curb extensions. “We hope to see cycling number increasing and the number of crashes decreasing,” Whited said. “We hope to improve the quality of life in those neighborhoods.”
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Indiana sinks to new porn low Cutting-edge forensic response enables wide-net perv nab BY RE BE CCA T O W N S E N D RT O W N S E N D @ N U V O . N E T When Jeremy LaBrec pleaded guilty in early June to possessing and distributing sexually explicit images of Hoosier children under 4 years old, it concluded a nearly two-year, multi-jurisdictional investigation known as Operation Bulldog. The cases prosecuted throughout the course of Bulldog marked a new low in child pornography — the discovery of a group of nepiophiles, people sexually attracted to infants and toddlers, who recorded and shared videos and still images of group members physically raping and molesting children as young as 2 months old. “I’ve prosecuted these cases for 20 years and we just never saw that before,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve DeBrota, who specializes in cutting-edge computer forensic response tactics, during a news conference announcing guilty pleas entered by nine people targeted through Operation Bulldog. The principal offender and the most prolific contributor to the nepiophiles’ file-sharing arrangement, David Bostic, a Bloomington, Ind., resident, who would abuse children entrusted to him for babysitting, received a 315-year sentence. Bostic also served as the hub through which law enforcement was able to ferret out several other offenders engaged in what DeBrota termed “a directed, awful sexual fantasy” and “existentially bad.” “Internationally and nationally we have examples of offenders who were planning on having children for the purpose of having a class of victims,” DeBrota said. “For example, one of the offenders of this group sent an ultrasound image of a child getting ready to be born that they were planning on victimizing after that.” That case was stopped before abuse
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Arbitrary suspensions under scrutiny BY JA CK M E Y E R E DI T O RS @N U V O . N E T The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit last week asking the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles to reinstate the driver’s license of a single working mother of six who, the ACLU said, is not in violation of any law that would justify the suspension. In a news release following the filing, the ACLU said it feared the BMV might be engaged in a wider pattern of arbitrary suspensions. The BMV suspended Lourrinne M. White’s driver’s license after asking her to produce proof of auto insurance dur-
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Cutline: FBI Agent Robert Holley, Assistant U.S. Attorney Brant Cook, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Josh Minkler and Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve DeBrota at a news conference announcing the successful conclusion of Operation Bulldog.
could occur, as was another planned abuse in Europe, he added. The ultrasound case, though, is part of a separate and ongoing investigation, so officials would share no further details. “I applaud the work of these investigators and prosecutors, who, in this instance, were able to take a search warrant in Bloomington and use it to bring down a monstrous criminal organization that reached across the country and into at least a half dozen others,” First Assistant U.S. Attorney Josh Minkler said when announcing the operation’s successful conclusion. All together, the Indiana-based prosecution extracted guilty pleas from nine people arrested around the U.S. Officials are pursuing additional prosecutions in the U.S. and abroad. Indiana law enforcement, led by experts with the Indiana State Police and Purdue University along with DeBrota, are credited with developing the “fast, flexible and adaptive” forensic response model credited with capturing so many offenders in an exceptionally rapid and fluid process.
The response technique allowed investigators to accompany police issuing Bostic’s search warrant and identify and review the contents of his computer in real time. “In a matter of minutes we were able to find he was in connection with a group of people who were nepiophiles,” DeBrota said. “In most other places in the U.S. that wouldn’t have been possible … Other places can take months and years for a forensic exam; (an investigator) wouldn’t be able to view collection till much later.” Officials said more than two dozen children had been rescued as a result of the operation; investigators continue work on identifying more. Officials also acknowledged that the horrific crimes discovered can never be undone, but expressed the hope that the convictions would offer some degree of solace. The depth of the group’s depravity, though, demands continued attention to the challenges that continue to dog child pornography investigations. “We’re not where we need to be internationally or in the U.S. on website data
retention,” DeBrota said. “The (Obama) administration proposed amendments: Congress did not pass them. The reality of the fact is: Data retention is the No. 1 problem in catching online child offenders. Nothing is more frustrating to me than being able to identify an offender but for the fact that the provider no longer has the records or never kept them in first place. They should take more responsibility for the kids we don’t rescue.” Operation Bulldog included members from the FBI, the Indiana State Police, and the Brownsburg and Kokomo police departments and the U.S. Department of Justice.
ing a time when she says she did not own a working car, and therefore was not required by law to have insurance. “Requiring persons to prove financial responsibility, and penalizing them if they do not have financial responsibility, even when they are not required by Indiana law to have such financial responsibility is contrary to Indiana law and violates due process as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment,” a copy of the suit read. In 2010, the Indiana General Assembly created the “Previously Uninsured Motorist Registry,” to document Hoosiers who had at some point been asked to provide proof of insurance to authorities and couldn’t. According to the ACLU, White’s name was put on the registry when her license was suspended in 2010 for driving a vehicle without auto insurance. Her license was reinstated when the suspension expired in April 2010. The ACLU says White’s name was still on the list in 2012 when the BMV started
randomly selecting people to send notices asking alleged violators to provide proof of insurance — even though some might not have been required to have it at the time. Kelly Jones Sharp, the ACLU’s director of communications and education, said White was one of those who was sent a notice to provide proof of insurance but didn’t respond because she didn’t receive it. The BMV then, presuming White was in violation of Indiana financial responsibility laws, suspended her license for a year. “It makes no sense to punish persons when they are not violating Indiana law,” said Ken Falk, legal director of the ACLU of Indiana in a news release last week. “The action is particularly troublesome given the profound and immediate impact, economic and otherwise, that loss of ability to drive brings.” The ACLU’s suit claims that thousands of Indiana drivers could have been potentially affected by the actions of the BMV. The only way White’s name would
have been on the list was if she had been stopped by authorities while driving without insurance, Dennis Rosebrough, the BMV’s deputy commissioner of external affairs, said Monday. “At some point she either had an accident or had a traffic violation that required her to file proof of insurance and apparently at some point in the past she did not do that, or could not do that or did not have insurance,” Rosebrough said. “You can’t be in the registry unless you have been at one point suspended for not having insurance.” The ACLU also claims in the suit that under the law, which created the Previously Uninsured Motorist Registry, the BMV was responsible for creating regulations for enforcing the law, something they say the bureau did not do before using the registry to suspend the driver’s licenses of the alleged violators. Rosebrough wouldn’t comment on whether or not the BMV had created those regulations.
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“There’s a lot going on and maybe you have to work a little harder to find it, but it’s here,” Osherov says with a blue-eyed glint that, combined with a raspy laugh, gives her a slightly mischievous edge. “It’s happening.” Cameras are second nature to Osherov. Her father was a highly regarded cinematographer in Moscow. But being of Jewish heritage, the Osherovs had an uneasy life in the Soviet Union or, as Osherov says, “My parents were not very excited about being part of the communist empire.” The family was allowed to apply to emigrate. The process took more than two years, but finally resulted in a move to Melbourne. Although this got the Osherovs out of the repressive environment in their native land, it was a temporary setback for Osherov’s father. “He was one of the top filmmakers in Moscow but, in Australia, he was just a weird-looking dude with an accent.” Osherov’s multi-lingual parents found work as language translators. Then, at about the time Osherov was graduating from high school, they were offered jobs by an organization in Chicago that wanted translations of religious tracts for distribution in the postGlasnost U.S.S.R. The family moved again. “I’m an only child,” Osherov says, “so I didn’t have any say in it.” Osherov received an international student scholarship to attend St. Xavier University on Chicago’s southwest side. “I was the typical college bachelor of arts student who went through everything, from graphic design to architecture, to political science,” she says. “I ended up with a
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degree in physician assistance studies. I could have been a doctor!” Osherov met her husband of 17 years, the successful motivational speaker Ben Glenn, at St. Xavier and helped manage Glenn’s speaking career, as it took off throughout the Midwest. Frustrated with the high cost of living in Chicago, not to mention its cold climate, the couple decided to move to Indianapolis. “Three hours south made a big difference for us financially and weather-wise — and still allowed the business to continue.” They arrived in the Circle City in 1999.
Osherov with entrée to a new scene, it gave her the chance to stretch her abilities. “I had always been a natural light shooter, but I felt that to go to the next level, I had to understand strobes and get familiar with [other forms of artificial lighting].” She brought a strobe to the fashion show and duct-taped it to a pole. “The pictures turned out great. They were different.” Soon Osherov was meeting people in the city’s burgeoning creative class and doing self-assigned fashion shoots, “to expand my craft and get the hang of it.” Things, as she puts it, “snowballed.”
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Osherov didn’t begin to think of herself as a photographer until she had the first of her two children. “In the digital photography age; you see a lot of people, especially those in retail photography — the ones that shoot kids, weddings, seniors — are women. They started with shooting their children, and then found out they were good at it,” Osherov says. “I fall into that category. I was reminded how much I loved it.” But when Osherov tried her hand at photographing kids, weddings and seniors: “I hated all of it.” Then she stumbled upon an ad on Craigslist. Photographer Jay Gambino needed help shooting a fashion show. “I called him on a lark,” Osherov says. The experience not only provided
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Osherov says her feel for fashion has been a work-in-progress. “I remember when I was younger, I would look at the runway stuff — the fall issue of Vogue that’s two-inches thick — and skip over all of it because I didn’t know what I was looking at. So much of it is pretty outlandish. Who is going to wear this? Who can afford it? But I’ve since learned it’s more intricate than that. It’s everything, from shoes to hair to make-up. A lot of it’s in the details, then how that translates to real life. How you interpret it. There’s a whole creative process.” She says it took her years to understand the real importance of shoes. “I could not wrap my mind around how women could spend $200, $300, $400 on a pair of shoes.
$200, $300, $400 on a pair of shoes.”
But I’ve finally grasped that the outfit starts with a shoe. You have a great shoe, it literally can take the entire outfit from boring and mundane to the most stylish, chic thing ever. It’s completely bizarre, but I get it now.” For Osherov, a successful fashion shoot often begins with what she calls “stories” that might be inspired by run-down buildings or a beautiful natural setting. “I’ll percolate on that. I don’t know that there’s a formula. Usually, I accumulate ideas and inspiration when I’m not actively trying to think about a shoot. Like any creative person, you just have these notebooks and you collect pictures and it all marinates. Then, one day, you see a location or a model and you go, ‘Oh, yeah! I’ve been thinking about this for a year.’” Osherov’s work displays an unabashed theatricality and romance. Although she understands the appeal of photographers who work against expectations by deliberately looking for ugly or otherwise disturbing imagery, “that’s too deep for me,” she laughs. “I’m in it to make beautiful pictures.” “I think it catches someone’s eye if they can somehow relate to it,” Osherov says of her image-making. “It’s a situation they’ve been in, or they want to be in, or they can imagine themselves being in. I think my goal is to create a beautiful image that is a fantasy of sorts that a consumer would buy into.”
Pioneers “One thing I’ll say about shooting in Indiana is it forces you to be really creative,” Osherov says. “I’ve done some
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shoots in cornfields. I love that. I think we have some great skies. And those roads that lead off to the horizon — I like that.” She also appreciates the creative opportunities afforded by Indianapolis’ relatively small market size. This is a blessing, but also a handicap. “There are creative opportunities galore. Fiscal opportunities? Not so much. At least not yet. There are so many people that are extremely talented and who are hungry to work with others. People will donate their time for hours and weeks and months. But none of it pays, by and large. At least not in the fashion photography field.” Osherov calls her cohorts in the local fashion scene “pioneers.” This group, based for the most part, downtown, is “pushing on all levels: design, art, architecture, interior design, photography, fashion. To them, it’s important and exciting. It’s exciting because you can see things evolving in ways you might not see in other cities, where the movement is more slow. Indiana is so convenient and cheap. If you can have the convenience married to a dynamic cultural life, not only will it attract more talent, it will boost the city economically.” The trouble, says Osherov, is that the city’s wider population remains skeptical about the value of the arts. It also suffers from a case of collective low self-esteem that causes them to think that creative enterprise, like the fashion industry, is for other cities, but not for Indianapolis. That’s where Pattern comes in.
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a really good indicator of how they feel about themselves and their prospects and what the future holds,” Osherov says. “I’m not one for settling and I think that taking the time to evaluate how you look every day is an important indicator of how you’re living your life. I hate to say this, but I can see how some people would say that if you end up living in a city like Indianapolis, you are settling. If you really have ambition, you wouldn’t be here, you’d be on a coast. Pattern is about trying to change that perception as much as possible.” Pattern grew out of conversations and latenight rants among a circle of local fashionistas who felt representation of their industry in Indianapolis media was insufficient. This was about two years ago. At repeated gatherings, the group began to outline an ambitious to-do list that included the creation of a downtown fashion district, where designers could work, have showrooms, small shops and manufacturing cells, with apprenticeship opportunities for students. They also tried to connect with the seven or eight existing fashion programs available throughout the state. These efforts bore little fruit, largely, says Osherov, because the group was trying to run before it could walk. “It was a huge undertaking and none of us was qualified to take it on.” But their efforts were generating enough interest to catch the attention of Broad
Ripple branding and identity guru Kristian Andersen, who volunteered his services. Andersen suggested the group was trying to do too much. It was also presuming that a fashion community already existed. He offered Verge, the networking group for the city’s IT community, as a role model for emulation. “They started out with five guys in a bar,” Osherov says. “Now it’s a very dynamic community that’s making a lot of things happen and bringing money to Indiana.” Hence Pattern, the aegis for a grassroots movement aimed at creating enough critical mass around local fashion so that city leaders begin paying attention. Through its website , patternindy.com, Pattern has been organizing monthly meet-ups, typically drawing from 60-100 people around such topics as fashion photography, street style and small business resources. It has also published an eponymously named magazine. Pattern magazine first appeared last spring. A second issue is due this fall. Osherov, who serves as editor-in-chief, says the magazine is meant to serve as a physical manifestation of the group’s larger goals. “Pattern represents fashion lovers and consumers and creators. We’re in Indianapolis. There’s this movement. Hopefully, the quality of the magazine makes people sit up and say, ‘What? This was done here? In Indiana?’” Osherov recalls running into Mayor
“There’s a Midwestern authenticity that’s
really important and sets us apart.”
Greg Ballard at a public event shortly after Pattern’s first issue came out. She ran out to her car, grabbed a handful of copies and put them in the mayor’s hands. “I got a picture of him holding it, which is awesome because if we can keep adding to our numbers there’s money out there to get something going.”
Something more “It would be a dream come true to have big companies bring their productions here because they recognize they can get a great photographer in Indianapolis and they can do it for less, with less headaches,” Osherov says. Be that as it may, she finds the Midwestern ethic of learning to do more with less congenial with the way she works. “I love that I can shoot a $100,000 production here for 50K. That’s great. I’m not that greedy. I don’t have an apartment that costs me six grand a month to worry about.” But there’s something else Osherov finds appealing about her adopted home. “My ability to have relationships that are real. I’m not in this to cut anybody out. I love that Indianapolis has this very communal spirit. We’re all in it together. I hope we never lose that. New York is too vast for that. L.A. is too fake. There’s a Midwestern authenticity that’s really important and sets us apart. “I love it that if people Google fashion in Indianapolis, our website pops up and they go, ‘Hey! This is actually pretty good.’ Something changes there. If we do that to enough people’s minds then maybe, eventually, our reputation will evolve to something more than Colts, a racetrack and corn.”
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Cirque du Soleil @ Conseco Fieldhouse Cirque du Soleil is a rather large operation. 5,000-plus employees will work 22 unique shows this year, including Quidam, a tale of a young girl who slides between fantasy and reality which makes its Indy premiere this week (Cirque has been coming here since 2006). But for guys like J.P. Viens, a spanish web performer who plays BoumBoum in Quidam, joining Cirque can still be like joining the circus, in the old-school sense of hooking up with a family of talented misfits, each of whom has traced their own unique path to the stage. Viens’s story is a little unusual, even among the unusual. While Viens was in college studying kinesiology, he and his girlfriend decided to take a class at a circus school on a whim. They broke up and she left the class, but Viens decided to stick with it. He eventually moved up to spanish web (a long braided rope hung vertically), and his skill on the apparatus drew the attention of Cirque reps. It’s unusual for a performer to start training so late in life; many performers have been involved in gymnastics practically since birth. But everyone takes a little different path — and most cast members are given every opportunity to stay the course with Cirque, with opportunities to transition to a “desk” job if they’re no longer interested or capable of performing. Viens says that he’s more than confident as a performer on the spanish web, but acting is a different story; he’s
First off, Bob Biggerstaff is a big guy. And he’s not afraid to say it. Physically, he’s another bust in the pantheon of overweight men in comedy; put him in the up-andcomers pavilion beneath a looming marble Jackie Gleason perennially on the verge of sending the supplicant straight to the moon. On stage, He looks sort of nervous and is probably a little sweaty, and seems like a grown-up version of that kid in the back of your high school math class whose underhis-breath jokes went over the cheerleading captain’s head, even when they were aimed right at her. After two good runs on Last Comic Standing and a couple other spots on Comedy Central and The Bob and Tom Show, Biggerstaff has established himself as a guy who knows his way around a joke, even if he’s usually the butt of it. Visit his YouTube page (username: chilitime) to see what he does when he’s bored (e.g., impersonating Joe Paterno, eating nachos in a Mexican wrestling mask). June 28, 8 p.m.; June 29 and 30, 8 and 10:20 p.m.@ 3625 E. 96th St.; $12-$15; mortyscomedy.com
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Pokemon U.S. National Championships @ Indiana Convention Center 29 FRIDAY Angel Burlesque Like cockroaches, the indomitable Pokemon will be around well after @ Athenaeum Theatre Fukishima finally explodes in a triumtaken on his first ever dramatic role as BoumBoum, an oversized goofball, and each night is a learning experience about how best to communicate his character’s growth process to the audience. Quidam is all about growth: One of Cirque’s more family-friendly shows, it tells of a girl who lets her imagination run wild in the absence of a compelling family life. June 27-29, 7:30 p.m.; June 30, 3:30 and 7:30 p.m.; July 1, 1 and 5 p.m.; tickets $3580 adult, $28-65 children 12 and under, $31.50-67.50 military, seniors and students; cirquedusoleil.com
phant, human-obliterating nuclear fireworks show. They will never be defeated — but a bunch of Pokemon enthusiasts will be this weekend at the Pokemon national championships, the final qualifying round before the world championships this August in Hawaii. (Beat that transition!) Admission is free and the competition is open to all U.S. residents “in good standing” — meaning, I suppose, those who have not graduated from Pokemon to a raging Dr. Who fetish. Any upstarts will have to deal with Pokemasters like Ryan Sabelhaus, ranked No. 1 in the world with a rating of 1973.97, and the Indiana-based Dustin Zimmerman, approximately six points behind Sabelhaus in third place. June 29-July 1, from 9 a.m. daily, free to attend.
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Three well-endowed gentlemen in the burlesque world will return to Indy this weekend to perform with Angel Burlesque and conduct workshops open to the public. Two of the guys — Ray Gunn and Bazuka Joe — are from Chicago’s Stage Door Johnnies; St. Louis’s Jiggle McGee, part of the Randy Dandies troupe, completes the trifecta. Ray Gunn, a featured performer in Angel Burlesque’s 2011 Boo-lesque, will give a 90-minute workshop on “The Business of Burlesque” Saturday afternoon, followed by Bazuka Joe, last in town for Angel’s Nerdgasm, talking about “Boylesque: For Men Only.” 8 p.m. @ 401 E. Michigan St.; $20 (18+ only; advance at angelburlesque.com); workshops June 30 at Fox Hill Dance Academy, $30 per workshop, register at angelburlesque.com
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24 Hours of Booty It’s 24 hours of cycling in the name of raising money to find a cure for cancer. Physical performance for the sake of physical preservation. 24 Hours of Booty started in Charlotte, N.C., and is the official 24-hour cycling event of Livestrong, the non-profit organization founded by cyclist Lance Armstrong and devoted to inspiring and empowering cancer survivors. Since its inception in 2002, over $7 million has been raised. Races will be held this year in Charlotte, Atlanta, Indianapolis and Columbia, Md. The ride is basically a traffic-free loop around a given neighborhood in a host city, complete with “Bootyville,” a support village within the community for cyclists of all ability levels to relax and cheer on fellow riders. Riders can join a team or go at it alone; but of course, no one is alone, with so many supporters and fellow riders. They can also ride as much or as little as they like. If nothing else, the philosophy of the event is the necessity of community — the reality that we’re all in this together. Leading up to the ride, there have been several gatherings for anyone interested in joining as a cyclist or as a supporter. I wandered into the first one of these gatherings at Creation Café and right from the start I wanted to join a team, but I wasn’t exactly sure how to go about doing that. Within 10 minutes I was welcomed to Pedaling Cures, the team associated with the IU Simon Cancer Center. As the first really hot days of spring/summer set in, I decided that I’d
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train by riding all night — thereby avoiding the sun and some of the heat. The event kicks off at 7 p.m. on Friday and concludes (24 hours later, of course) at 7 p.m. on Saturday. More information about the route, how to donate and ways to support the riders — or on how to join yourself; it’s not too late! — can be found at the event website: 24hoursofbooty.org. And if you can’t make it out — or even if you can — I’ll be writing about the experience on nuvo.net throughout the week.
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Indie Arts & Vintage Marketplace @ Glendale Town Center Jon Jenkins, who has spent his life in and around Indianapolis, grew up in the highend antiques market. His company promotes some of the largest antique shows in the country — ones like the up-and-coming Tailgate / Music Valley Antiques Show in Nashville, Tenn., where the inaugural weekend brought 1,500 people. And now he’s setting up shop in Indy with the Indie Arts & Vintage Marketplace, through which he hopes to interest a younger demographic in the world of antiques (or its oft-cheaper cousin, “vintage” objects), as well as other handicrafts. The second of these marketplaces will take place June 30 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the rear parking lot of the Glendale Town Center (6151 N. Rural St.); admission is $4. “We realized that a larger group of people are just looking to add unique pieces to their homes,” Jenkins says of the marketplace, which he launched with his wife, Kelly, and Dan Jenkins of Antique Helper. “They don’t want to order everything out of a catalog — they want something that has memories or a story attached. That’s the appeal of vintage — something unique with a lower price point than traditional antiques.” Barrett Crites might be said to be part of that next, younger wave of those interested in old stuff. His Eastside rancher, located in a pocket neighborhood of mid-century modern homes, houses a large collection of vintage furniture and housewares. His love of the style goes back to childhood. “My mom jokes that all of my Lego houses had flat roofs and overhangs,” Crites says, adding that his mother’s employment at an architecture firm in Atlanta gave him early exposure to meticulously-renovated homes from the period. He fell for the style — so much so, that when he began his home renovation, he recorded the experience on his blog, AtomicIndy.com, now
one of the most-read blogs on mid-century design in the country. Crites has a small problem. When he sees vintage furniture and light fixtures being thrown out, he can’t help himself: He must save them. He has a rotating collection of pieces, many of which end up collecting dust in his basement. “When something has been in my basement for two years, and I haven’t even thought about it, it’s time for that thing to go.” As luck would have it, he now has a place to unload those jewels of the period. The first marketplace took place June 2 in the Glendale Town Center back parking lot. “We wanted to wrap good local food, music, and beer into the package—we asked ourselves, what gets people off their couches on a Saturday afternoon?” adding that he and his partner check with their wives to find out “what’s cool.” Attendees strolled through dozens of vendors, selling everything from furniture to art to repurposed jewelry. Food was available from Smoking Goose (a vendor list for the upcoming show is available at indieartsvintage.blogspot.com) and beer was provided by Sun King. It had the feel of similar flea markets in Brooklyn, NY and Portland, OR. “The crowd in Indianapolis is so excited about the event — it’s a fresh, untapped market, and a nice change from the more saturated markets of other cities,” says Annie DeJongh, a vintage jewelry artisan from Minneapolis who made the drive for the first show, and plans to return in September. — KATY CARTER
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The cage which transported Bitterman to 100 Acres is furnished with a television and mini-fridge.
Nature is not your friend A. Bitterman on Indy Island
BY SCOTT SHOGER SSHOGER@NUVO.NET To quote Jiminy Cricket, as we are so wont to do in these pages, “You are a human animal, you are a very special breed; for you are the only animal, who can think, who can reason, who can read!” Ah, but all that thinking and reasoning can get us in a bind, can make us think we’re more (or less) than an animal; can lead us to be believe we’re a synthetic, unnatural being apart from the great expanse known as the Natural World. Uninformed and entirely disconnected from the unmediated flux — the “out there” that exists prior to perception and apart from
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our constructs — the relationship between Nature and Man might thus be plotted as a closed circle, an un-dialectical dialectic in which Man conceives of nature entirely by virtue of his pre-conceptions, rather than any “direct” experiences. Hey, wait a minute: Is that a guy in a beaver suit? A transcendental beaver suit? Sitting in a recliner in the middle of a field? Yes, that is. That is the artist A. Bitterman, and while he might employ terms like ecofascism and, yes, unmediated flux to talk about what he’s up to in the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s 100 Acres Art and Nature Park over the next few weeks, we’ll put aside those conceptual trappings for the moment. Bitterman is this year’s resident of Indy Island, an inhabitable installation floating in the middle of the lake at the center of the 100 Acres park, and as part of his project, Indigenous: Out of the Wild, he’ll remain silent during his residency, except when wearing that transcendental beaver suit. Most of the time, you’ll have to talk to him via hand signals (consult the guide to the right for some suggestions on how to best communicate with the artist). You may bring
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Visitors may feed the artist if he indicates he is hungry.
Indigenous’s signage is modeled after that found in national parks.
him food if you wish; he will accept if he so wishes. You may observe him during his peregrinations through the park; several observation posts have the angle for that perfect Kodak moment, while a GPS tracker attached to Bitterman plots his every move. You can take part in the research project too. Photograph Bitterman in the wild and post the evidence to the project’s website (imamuseum.org/island2012). Suit up in latex gloves, booties and scrub cap — above all, leave no trace — and forge your own trail through his habitat. Learn about Bitterman through “living history” exhibits arranged throughout 100 Acres — where he came from, how he lives. In another incarnation, Bitterman is known as Pete Cowdin, a father of five and co-owner of a children’s bookstore, Reading Reptile, in the Kansas City, Mo., area. Bitterman’s interest in gentle, playful subversion seems consistent with Cowdin’s work at the bookstore, which is informed by an anti-monopolism, prosurrealism agenda. Bitterman has mined the territory covered by Indigenous before: For Point of Interest, mounted last summer with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation, he fashioned his suburban home as a historical site, complete with explanatory markers, information on the current activities of his family and cat — and the possibility of applying for a “back country” permit to allow visitors to explore his backyard. Bitterman started to explore one core idea behind his current project — namely that returning land to its “natural” state is a deeply problematic endeavor that may endanger those who have adjusted to a supposedly artificial order of things in a given environment — a couple decades ago: “A friend of ours, who’s a preservationist, took us to a prairie that was being ‘returned’ to its prior state,” Bitterman told Nuvo during an interview prior to the opening of Indigenous. “It seemed like a good idea at the time; I had little kids then, so we went for a weekend to be introduced to the prairie. We went to where they had blown a dike a farmer had built several years before, and all these
fish were flopping around, dying; this whole ecosystem had been destroyed. It was brutal, grisly, and my kids were crying. That was 20 years ago, and that’s when it hit me: This is just someone’s idea of a prairie, and who’s benefitting from it except someone who has this idea? That’s a fascist sort of idea. If you go back 5,000 years, it would be a conifer forest, so why not return it to being a conifer forest?” But to be clear, he doesn’t think that Indigenous can be plotted on the left-right political continuum, and doesn’t conceive of it as an agitative work: “I think it’s harder than that; anybody can say this sucks or this is wrong. My work can be misconceived as a right-wing thing, but I think the point is that industrialists and environmental activists
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A promotional brochure for Indigenous gives illustrated tips for communicating with the artist.
A&E FEATURE use the same outdated narrative to justify their agendas; they’re coming from the same, exact perspective concerning the separation between human and natural worlds, and they’re both wrong.” If Bitterman is agitating for anything, it’s for an attentiveness to the way in which we construct our realities — and, possibly, for more flexibility in the way we construct and relate to our grand narratives. “I think nature is a pretend place; and I think nature, as an idea, is one of our biggest enemies and maybe a threat to our survival,” he says. “When we deal with people, it’s happening so quickly that we’re constantly building constructs with each other; it happens so fast and fluidly that it is sort of real because that space between perception and the unmediated flux is so small. But our relationship with something grandiose like nature or God or art is so static that it can stay the same way for a person for her whole life.” Is A. Bitterman indigenous to 100 Acres? Well, it’s part of an art museum after all. And what better way to support our out-of-work artists than by giving them a place to live and work for the summer? It’s an ideal habitat. He has all his creature comforts, including TV and La-Z-Boy, and if visitors fail to provide enough food to meet his needs, “Like animals in an urban area, Pete can rely on our cafe for castoffs, only he doesn’t have to get them from a dumpster,” says Amanda York, a curatorial assistant at the museum. And it’s a chance for Bitterman to work on a significant scale. 100 acres make for a huge canvas, and Bitterman was concerned while installing Indigenous with engaging all elements of the grounds. As York puts it, “I don’t know of any other residency like this where you can live in an artwork while you’re creating it. It’s a really great opportunity.”
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INDIANAPOLIS EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL: INGRID MATTHEWS WITH SEATTLE BAROQUE JUNE 22, INDIANA HISTORY CENTER r What better way to start the Indianapolis Early Music Festival than with Bach? This titan of early music (indeed many say of all music) so eclipses his competitors that we must adjust our expectations when hearing works of his contemporaries. Though not touring extensively this season, the Seattle Baroque’s eight performers were engaged on Friday by Festival Music Society artistic director Mark Çudek, with Seattle Baroque artistic director Ingrid Matthews as featured violin soloist. Matthews began with the second of Bach’s two extant violin concertos, that in E Major, BWV 1042. She ended the program with his first one — in A Minor, BWV 1041. In between, we heard earlier Baroque fare by Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, the redoubtable Heinrich Biber and the virtually unknown Romanus Weichlein. Most of these were sonatas for violins, two violas and continuo; however, Seattle Baroque enriched the continuo part — usually taken by a solo harpsichord — with a cello, violone (a large, fretted string instrument, this one sized between a cello and a double bass) and theorbo (the longest extant lute, with a giraffe-like neck). These supplemented the locally built harpsichord, well played by Byron Schenkman, adding a more harmonized underpinning to the upper strings. Matthews played the Bach concertos mostly “white,” that is without vibrato, in keeping with those times. But she was occasionally slightly off pitch, something evidently more noticeable when bowing pure pitches. Instead of just string accompaniment and harpsichord, the group stayed with the cello, violone and theorbo when playing Bach, as well as including Schenkman, proving the old adage that Bach works on any instruments. The festival continues through July 15. See nuvo. net for a review of Ingrid Matthews’ June 24 appearance with Schenkman on harpischord. — TOM ALDRIDGE
DANCE PARSONS DANCE JUNE 22, TARKINGTON THEATRE AT THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS e Yes, the accolades are apt — David Parsons’ dancers are strong, focused, exhilarating. But the same has been said of other top-flight companies, so what sets Parsons Dance apart and persuades audiences to fill the seats? Maybe it’s accessibility. What some critics deride as “simplicity” might really be OK, because a simple idea opens up interpretative opportunities for viewers of all ages and levels of sophistication. Parsons Dance began its mixed repertory program for its two-evening engagement at the Tarkington with Round My World, which premiered in New York City in January 2012. Perfectly entwined with Zoe Keating’s curvilinear digitized cello score, six dancers as couples, solos and corps showcase a zillion variations of roundness, sometimes as a slinky walking down a staircase, or as hands wrapping skeins of wool into balls, or as the turnings of Jupiter’s
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66 moons — you get the point. The piece’s 20 minutes pack in amazingly intricate variations of the human body; it’s a mesmerizing wonderment of “how do they do that?” Ditto for the iconic Caught which in 1987 launched Parsons Dance in partnership with lighting designer Howell Binkley. The Apollolooking Eric Bourne brought charisma to the piece, which matches endless leaps with strobe lighting. Hand Dance (2003) is simplicity made whimsical as five pairs of “disembodied” fingers, palms and fists spatially draw personalities and images from Kenji Bunch’s “hoedown” strings score. Equally, Parsons’ choreography captures Bunch’s edgy New York’s dusk to dawn mood-ranging Swing Shift (2003), which shows four couples clad in shimmery velveteen re-enacting the cheek-to-jowl intricate moves of a mid-20th century sock hop. Kind of Blue (2001) features a quartet of dancers trying on Miles Davis’ sultry jazz in body gyrations growing out of teenage hormones. Nascimento (1990), a paean to Milton Nascimento’s music, elevates samba’s rhythms with non-stop brightness, brashness and bravado. See nuvo.net for a review of Parsons Dance’s Saturday night performance of the modern rock dance opera Remember Me. — RITA KOHN
COMEDY ABSURD THIRD THURSDAYS JUNE 21, WHITE RABBIT CABARET t Last week at Absurd Third Thursdays, White Rabbit’s monthly comedy night, I felt a bit like Alice, not knowing what I would encounter on my journey in the rabbit hole. I saw, for instance, the nicest heckler in the history of stand-up comedy, endlessly polite while making endless drunken interruptions. But of all the surprises of this show (including host Isaac Landfert’s 30th birthday), the true delight was Open Mic Jesus. In wrinkled shorts and a “Got God?” T-shirt, he took the stage lackadaisically blessing the crowd. And if the crowd catches not the joke and doth not laugh, well, Open Mic Jesus forgives. His material was accessible and irreverent (even former — or current — Bible study kids might find funny), through he wasn’t above telling a misogynistic joke or switching up a street joke to begin, “A Pharisee, gentile and prostitute walk into a bar…” And his joke about pawn shops left the crowd with an actual pearl of wisdom. Opening the show was Vincent Holiday of Cincinnati, who, with just two years under his belt, has some decent skills handling the crowd. Ryan Mast featured, seducing the crowd with his usual mix of quick one-liners and a take on a Harlequin Romance-type story. Introduced by Landfert as “America’s Drinking Buddy”, headliner DJ Dangler delivered, connecting with hilarious and perceptive stories, delivered in an endearing, yet curmudgeonly, style. Sometimes incensed by mundane things, Dangler communicated his exasperation in a non-threatening, completely funny way — even working the crowd in a “laughingwith” style by drawing on an impressive reserve of mustache jokes when someone showed up wearing a large, French-style handlebar. — BEVERLY BRADEN
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People Like Us u People Like Us is a relationship story and tearjerker structured like a Hollywood romance. Romance is out of the question, however, because the leads are half-brother and sister (only one knows the truth). At the screening I attended, there was a healthy amount of applause at the end of the movie. If you’re a fan of this sort of stuff, you might consider skipping the rest of this essay, as you may find it annoying. Sam Harper (Chris Pine) is a fast-talking salesman who comes off like Tom Cruise’s scuzzy character in the first half of Rain Man. In varying degrees of trouble with his girlfriend Hannah (Olivia Wilde), his boss (Jon Favreau, briefly) and the Federal Trade Commission, Sam learns that his father has died. After unsuccessfully trying to sabotage the trip home, Sam ends up arriving with Hannah just in time to miss the funeral and the post-funeral get-together, earning a big slap from his mother Lillian (Michelle Pfeiffer). Enough background, here’s the key part. Sam, long estranged from his freewheeling pappy, meets with the estate lawyer and learns he has a half-sister from Dad’s philandering days and that pop wants him to give a huge amount of money to the half-sister’s young son. Stunned, pissed and longing to keep the money, he stalks his half-sister Frankie (Elizabeth Banks) and her 11-year-old
son Josh (Michael Hall D’Addario, who looks like somebody superimposed the head of There Will Be Blood’s Paul Dano onto a kid’s body). What follows is your standard romance framework. Sam meets Frankie and later the kid, gradually builds relationships with both, while withholding the truth until the designated minute late in the film’s running time. The story is “inspired by” actual events in director and co-screenwriter Alex Kurtzman’s life, but it comes off like horse shit in a colorful candy coating. After a week of watching indie flicks for an upcoming film festival, I had little patience for the lush production populated by extremely attractive actors with perfectly coiffed hair and dazzling white teeth. It’s not that I dislike the performers, but the idea of watching a parade of too-good-looking-to-betrue individuals in a movie called People Like Us is laughable. Also irritating is the noticeably manipulative score and the cheesy writing. Listen to what the actors are instructed to say and ask yourself if you’ve ever heard real people talk or behave like these folks. One example comes late in the story, when young Josh reunites with a character he has grown very close to – I watched and waited, hoping the writers would allow the boy to simply run up and hug the other person, but no, they have him saunter up and deliver a quip. Damn. I generally have no problem with glossy Hollywood fare, but this one rubbed me the wrong way. Grafting a romance formula onto a throughly unconvincing relationship tale and selling it as a meaningful statement of the human condition — I don’t think so.
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Comedy and drama mix in this uneven tale set in a distant village, where the local women try to keep the peace between the church and the mosque by distracting the noisy menfolk with ruses like having one of the women fake a miracle. The comedy is broad, but what a nice change of pace to see a story in the Middle East that uses humor. Group scenes with large numbers of townspeople are enjoyable as well. Particularly agreeable is an early outdoor scene involving a television. There are rewards here for forgiving viewers. Subtitled. 110 minutes. - Ed Johnson-Ott Tom Hanks stars as a 12-year-old boy transformed overnight into a 35-year-old man. The best of the ‘80s many body-switching comedies. June 29, 9:30 p.m. @ Indianapolis Museum of Art amphitheater; $10 public, $6 members Left alone in the prop room to scotch tape together cardboard monsters battling in a cotton ball sky, Michel Gondry tends to lose sight of the script; witness The Science of Sleep, an exercise in narcoleptic surrealism weighted down a soporific plot. And absent an entirely sympathetic director (as with Synecdoche, New York when he directed his own script), Charlie Kaufmann can fall too deep down his rabbit holes, sacrificing humor for more cerebral pleasures. And Jim Carrey — well, we all know Jim Carrey needs a tight leash. Eternal Sunshine was a perfect meeting of these minds/bodies, each buffing out the others’ rough edges; its stature has grown with the years, its themes of loss, grief and mortality resonating with a wide swath of viewers. June 29 and 30, midnight @ Keystone Arts Cinema, $9.75
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FOOD Bison World
Lean meat and taxidermy in Noblesville BY KATY CARTER EDITORS@NUVO.NET Art Johnson, the paterfamilias at Noblesville’s Bison World — who will say of his pre-retirement life only that he “owned a couple corporations” — started collecting bison in 1999. But it was all a hobby until late last year. Art’s two sons, Sam and Andy, had separate but similar college experiences — after a year or two of school, they decided it wasn’t for them. They came home and needed jobs, so they bought an old golf cart store a little south on state road 37 and began selling meat from their bison herd. “I used to give the meat away,” Art says. That was back when one animal cost under $600 — these days they cost around $3,000 each.” Art explains that the bison market collapsed about 10 years ago, and people were literally giving their herds away. (Bison are also known as buffalo, a term coined by European settlers because they thought the animal looked like a water buffalo, although the breed most often seen in the states is the plains bison).
But now the market for bison has dramatically rebounded, and the Johnsons are taking advantage of the shift. Sam is in charge of husbandry — taking care of the herd and getting them processed. Andy runs the store — which looks a little like a natural history museum. When you walk out of Bison World, you can go home with buffalo steaks and burgers; but if your heart so desires (and you have $12,000 burning a hole in your pocket) you can also take home “George,” the Johnson’s first herd bull, who was 24 years old when butchered (and subsequently full-body stuffed). The store boasts watusi mounts, a raccoon or two, ample bison, and even a couple of bears; buffalo leather, hide rugs, skulls and horns — most available for sale to the animal decor-inclined. In recent years the Johnsons have also raised camels, zebras, and watusi — exotics with a limit: “We don’t raise anything that can eat you,” claimed Art with a grin. “When bison ruled the land between Ohio and Washington, the Native Americans used every single bit of the animal — nothing was wasted,” said Sam as he drove through “The Valley,” a clearing for power lines that’s a favorite spot for the herd. Lined with trees and graced with a stream fed by a well pumped from below the water table, the 1,000-pound animals find relief from the heat during the steamy Indiana summer.
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One of Bison World’s inedible offerings.
Sam, who would like to return to college someday to finish his degree in biochemistry, gets most excited when describing the personalities and genetic strengths within the herd. The main breeding bull and largest animal, “Little Joe,” was one of two male offspring from one “Chief Joseph” who sold for over $100,000 at auction (to another rancher) and was then struck by lightening after breeding just twice. But apparently, Little Joe doesn’t rule the roost — that role always goes to a female, who can go from benign to viciously aggressive in a flash if her authority is challenged. So far, all of Bison World’s customers are from word-of-mouth. Doctors and chiropractors recommend the lean meat to their patients. Others like it because it’s local and 100 percent grass-fed (they grain-finish some animals for 90 days, at the request of restaurants who like a little more fat in their steaks). Federal regulations prohibit the use of antibiotics and growth hormones in bison, so for many it’s a cleaner, safer dinner option. Customers can buy online (bisonworld. org), or try the meat at several Carmel
restaurants (the brothers are looking to expand sales to Indianapolis restaurants as well). A very lean cut, they recommend quick-searing a steak, then cooking in a separate skillet at low temperatures — pink in the middle is well-done. The burgers can be grilled just like beef, and are surprisingly tender and flavorful considering their low fat content. But for locals, the best way to buy is to make the trek to the store. You might not find deer and antelope at play, but the stuffed 1,200-pound bison on the front porch offers a welcome that can’t be had at the neighborhood grocery.
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July 4 is Oaken Barrel’s 18th anniversary, to be celebrated with the annual “Pork of July Party,” noon-4 p.m., featuring the all-you-can-eat buffet highlighted by a pig roast, for $10 per person. On tap are the seasonal Schwartzbier and Uberweizen, along with the house regulars — Razz-Wheat, Indiana Amber, Gnaw Bone Pale Ale and Alabaster White. “We opened July fourth weekend of 1994, and have been going strong ever since,” said owner Kwang Casey. “We just expanded our brewery and have increased our brewing capacity by 150 percent.”
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think the way this record sounds is very much the definition of BoDeans.” That Kurt Neumann, longtime co-frontman of the group, sums up the new BoDeans album, American Made, in those terms might surprise those who have kept up with recent events surrounding the group. Last fall, Sam Llanas, who co-founded the band with Neumann in 1983, abruptly quit the band, announcing the release date for his new solo album, 4 A.M., the day after the release of the latest BoDeans album, Indigo Dreams. Llanas’s raspy voice was the most immediately identifiable part of the BoDeans sound, and along with Neumann, he was a major songwriting contributor to the group. Yet Neumann has very valid reasons for describing American Made as a prototypical BoDeans record — especially if one considers the group’s acclaimed 1986 debut album, Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams the definitive album in the group’s long career. Like that debut, American Made has a rootsy sound and a folk element that was downplayed on the five albums that followed the debut. “I think some of the records of the ‘90s, there was a lot more focus from the record company and stuff to push us toward rock, toward rock radio,” Neumann said. “We did lose a little bit of our sound there, and I think there was definitely a conscious effort to get back to folk and Americana type music on this record.” The more rock oriented sound worked fairly well for the BoDeans. Although Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams remains the best reviewed albums, it was a poppy rocker, “Closer To Free” (from the 1993 CD Go Slow Down) that gave the group its only bona fide hit single. By that time, strains between Neumann and Llanas were beginning to show. “Closer To Free” got a long life when it was chosen as the theme song for the television show Party Of Five, and the band followed up that success with the 1996 album, Blend. But when the Blend tour cycle ended, the BoDeans went on hiatus. That wasn’t Neumann’s choice. “It was really bad timing then back in ’98, and I was really open about that.” Neumann said. “We had just come off of a big hit and Warner [Bros. Records] was making changes
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and we had gotten dropped from the label. And it seemed to me, if anything, that was the point where we should refocus on BoDeans and not a solo career.” But Llanas formed his own band, Absinthe, and released the album A Good Day to Die, while Neumann made a solo CD, Shy Dog. The group got back together again in 2004 and released the CD, Resolution. But its comeback was stalled by a lawsuit with former manager Mark McCraw, a situation that prevented the group from releasing new albums until the dispute was settled. The band then released three albums in quick succession — Still in 2008, Mr. Sad Clown in 2010 and then Indigo Dreams a year later. Neumann and Lllanas continued to co-front the band live, but according to Neumann, it was no longer anything close to an equal partnership in the studio. While Llanas continued to write songs, Neumann said he produced Still, Mr. Sad Clown and Indigo Dreams and played virtually all of the guitars on those albums. The split that was probably inevitable happened in August, but the timing caught Neumann by surprise. The band had arrived in Boulder, Co., for a key show in support of Indigo Dreams, and Llanas was a no-show. Neumann picked up the story from there. “The band paid literally $15,000 to go out to Boulder and play for the Triple A Radio Convention, which is all the biggest radio station programmers in the country, and that’s a big expense for someone to not show up,” he said. “I wasn’t expecting that at all, not when your whole band and company invests that much into moving forward and releasing a record. Then he released his press release right on top of
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our record and saying in the press release that his record was basically better than a BoDeans record and all of this stuff. I was like you just can’t do this. “I think all of that just kind of came to a head where he decided he wasn’t going to come out there and then he texted me in the middle of the night that he was done and good luck going on,” Neumann said. “That was bad timing.” The other band members, though, rallied around Neumann and the group played its show. Then Neumann went about the task of beginning a new era of the BoDeans. Band members Michael Ramos (keyboards, accordion, backing vocals), Ryan Bowman (bass) and Noah Levy (drums) were joined by Jake Owen (guitar) and a bit later by fiddle player Warren Hood, a move that added a different dimension to the group’s sound and furthered Neumann’s intention to take the music back in the rootsier direction of the first BoDeans album. “[Violin] works so well with the accordion in it,” Neumann said. “They’re such traditional instruments, that I thought that’s really the sound I want for this record because I wanted it to be a very American sounding record, and to touch on those elements of folk or roots type music.” In moving ahead to make American Made, Neumann showed just how committed he was to the new BoDeans. He sold his truck and some other belongings so he could hire high-profile producer John Alagia for the project and bring the entire band to New York City to record the songs live in the studio. It was the way Neumann had wanted to make a BoDeans record for some time. “I would propose it to Sam that let’s go and do it,” he said. “Let’s really write some live stuff and record live and his perspec-
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tive was we can’t afford it. Let’s just work on it here in your studio.” It took the band all of three days to record American Made, something that was possible because the songs had been played live — which allowed Neumann to know which songs were working — and the band was rehearsed and ready to play in the studio. The direction of American Made is established right away on the opening track, “All The World,” a sweet deliberately paced song that’s kissed by twangy guitar. Much of the album is in the ballad or midtempo vein, with songs like “All Over Me” and “Chemical” among the highlights of the laid back material. But several songs pick up the energy level, including the rollicking fiddle-spiced “Shake the Fever” and the cheery fast-shuffling accordionaccented closer “Flyaway.” Now the band is heading out on an extensive tour to support American Made. Neumann said about a half dozen of the new songs will be in the set, and while the band won’t play songs that Llanas wrote and sang, plenty of fan favorites — such as “Closer To Free,” Good Things,” “Fade Away,” “You Don’t Get Much” and “Good Work” — remain staples of the show. “We’ve just been around playing for so many years that people just come to know a lot of [the songs], and it’s a great thing,” Neumann said. “It’s a good thing that you can go to towns and play your music after this many years and people still come out and sing with you. It’s getting rarer and rarer.”
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Iraqi-American violist to play Children’s Museum For nearly 20 years the Bloomingtonbased ensemble Salaam have been bringing the sound of the Middle East to the Midwest. Salaam have carved out an impressive career gaining international exposure through appearances on NPR and Al Jazeera. Salaam was founded in Bloomington in 1993 by classically trained Iraqi-American violist Dena El Saffar. I spoke with El Saffar after a recent Saturday afternoon performance at the Indianapolis Children’s Museum. I was amazed by El Saffar’s incredible musicianship, skillfully rotating between the oud and djoze (a Middle Eastern predecessor to the violin.) But she really came to life on the violin. Her soulful, virtuoso performance brought new life into a variety of vintage Egyptian and Turkish melodies. NUVO: When you were a teenager you visited Iraq. Did this trip had a profound influence on your life and music career? DENA EL SAFFAR: Yes, I grew up in Chicago and I’d always wanted to go to Iraq. When I was a kid that was my bedtime story: I would ask my dad to tell me about Iraq. Finally we went when I was 17 and it was life changing for me. I was already a musician at that time and I had been accepted into a music conservatory. I brought along my viola with the idea I would lock myself in my room and practice, which is what classical musicians do. But, I didn’t have any time to myself. There’s a whole different feeling in Iraq about closeness and families spending as much time together as possible. So I wound up changing my whole plan with my my instrument. My family in Iraq would be playing recordings of Arabic music and I would play it back on my viola very easily. They were so impressed and it became an instant dance party. As soon as I would learn a little melody, I got so much enthusiasm back from them. They were dancing, clapping and cheering me on. It was very impactful on me, these moments in this house with my aunt and cousins. I had been waiting so long to go there. While traveling around Baghdad and Iraq I remember consciously thinking, “Take in as much as possible. The architecture, the air, the music.” We’d get in taxis and hear the radio stations. I’d heard Arabic music before, but it finally made sense to me when I was there. It was like I was infected by a bug that carries the virus of Arabic music. When I came back all I wanted to do was play Arabic music. I was still going to the conservatory, playing classical music. But in my spare time I was learning Arabic music.
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This was in 1990, right before the Gulf War. It was so heartbreaking, because it was impossible to go back. The sanctions made it illegal, plus it was dangerous. The Gulf War had an impact on me. I wanted to do whatever I could in my power to promote Iraqi culture and for me that was music. NUVO: How have you used music to promote Iraqi culture? EL SAFFAR: One thing we did was start an education program teaching elementary school kids about the Middle East using music and images. We’ve performed this program for tens of thousands of kids. With music, it’s easy. Arabic music is so infectious; there are great rhythms and melodies. The music brings people in. They may not know what it is, but they start dancing and clapping along. During the Gulf War, I felt the beginnings of prejudice or hatred towards Middle Eastern people, because of the fear-based mentality in the media and the constant talk about terrorism. I feel like that could have gotten a lot worse. But I think Americans are very open minded and they’re willing to give something a try. Right after September 11 was probably the worst of the worst of it I felt there was some real animosity starting to blossom in this country. But it never really did. At that time I felt a strong purpose with the music. We weren’t going to let people think all Middle Easterners are terrorists. I feel like we’re way beyond that now. People I encounter are quite open-minded. People get it. It’s a complicated world and there are many beautiful things from the Middle East.
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Attention please, trombonists and lovers of jazz trombone: Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see Delfeayo Marsalis, one of the few remaining trombonist and band leaders, perform with his fiery quintet at the Jazz Kitchen tonight. Delfeayo (pronounced DEL-fee-oh), born in 1965, is the third son of the Ellis Marsalis dynasty (after brothers Branford and Wynton, born 1960 and 1961 respectively, and before drummer Jason, born 1977). After first experimenting with bass and drums, at age 13 he chose the trombone, feeling it was an extension of his personality. “The trombone is the member of the band that actually keeps things together,” he said in a recent interview for Art Works. The trombonist benefited greatly from apprenticeships with several jazz greats, including Art Blakey, Slide Hampton, Max Roach and Elvin Jones. “Blakey taught me patience, and how to construct a solo,” he said. Hampton taught him to take his instrument seriously. “Slide was a master. His diligence made you always want to go practice.” Roach emphasized that playing good, accessible jazz is a balancing act. He said Jones taught him about humanity, about expressing himself through the trombone and keeping time. Marsalis has recorded four albums as a leader, including the mainstream and very swinging Minions Dominion (2006). The stellar lineup includes drummer Jones in one of his final performances, Mulgrew Miller on piano,\ and Bob Hurst III, bass. The playing is consistently superb, and Marsalis, preferring the low- to mid-range of the instrument, sounds smooth and velvety. His playing is inventive and precise, yet containing a subtle levity. In 2011 Marsalis released the nonmainstream, a bold reinterpretation of Such Sweet Thunder (1957), the Ellington/ Strayhorn classic suite of musical renderings of Shakespeare’s most notable characters. Marsalis’s arrangements, for octet, range from the strident, dirge-like title track, to the reckless and carefree “Sonnet to Hank Cinq” (a.k.a. Henry V), and from the lyrical, poignant “Star Crossed Lovers,” to the bouncing, rather society “Lady Mac.” Throughout, the horn voicings are lush, the feels and tempos widely varied and the soloing deft. Tonight’s quintet will likely perform selections from both albums and will feature, besides Marsalis, Mark Gross on sax, David Pulphus on bass, Fred Sanders on piano and Winard Harper on drums.
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Grammy award-winning R&B and smooth jazz guitarist Norman Brown will appear at the Old National Centre Saturday, June 30, as part of the Jumbo Love Show 1st Anniversary Concert Celebration. Known for his easy, catchy grooves, “hook-ridden” melodies, and solid, at times inspired guitar playing, Brown has been compared with George Benson and Eric Gale who, along with Wes Montgomery, Brown considers his primary guitar heroes. Having such a strong command of his instrument prompted one critic to label Brown’s music “smooth jazz with teeth.” Brown, born in Shreveport, La., and raised in Kansas City, began playing guitar at age 8, inspired by the music of rock legend Jimi Hendrix. His first album, Just Between Us, on Motown Records’ jazz label, was released in 1992. Twenty years later Brown has nine quality albums under his belt, the latest of which is 24/7, on Concord, a team effort with saxophonist Gerald Albright, released just last week. Besides his 2003 Best Pop Instrumental Album Grammy, for Just Chillin’, Brown’s “Let’s Take A Ride,” from Stay With Me, was a No. 1 smooth jazz hit in 2007. Brown seems to be a big-hearted downhome soul who laces everything he does with positive energy. His eighth album, Sending My Love, “is about pure love,” he said on his website, “in all its many aspects: a personal relationship and a general love for the planet and for people.” I have a feeling that love powers everything Brown creates, which makes him an especially endearing entertainer. The evening will also include performances by saxophonist Euge Groove, vocalist Phil Perry, and guitarist Peter White.
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Radiation Sickness returns with new album BY JE FF N A P IE R M U S I C@N U V O . N E T What was supposed to be a one-off reunion a few years ago for legendary Indy grindcore pioneers Radiation Sickness has turned into a second coming. Doug Palmer, the growling screamer who holds the band together, used upheaval in his personal life to write a crop of new music that might be better and harder than anything the band ever did in the late ’80s and early ’90s. Their new album, Reflections of a Psychotic Past boasts songs like “Graveside View” and “Tripping in the Seas of Madness” that convince the listener that Radiation Sickness is as current and relevant in 2012 as they were 20 years ago. The band is planning a couple of local gigs to show off their new accomplishment. The first is an all-ages show Saturday, June 30. A week later, they will play for the drinking crowd at Indy’s Jukebox on July 7. NUVO recently caught up to Palmer and asked him about the new record. NUVO: How was it going back into the studio after 20 years? DOUG PALMER: It was a blast. I was very apprehensive because all of the recording was done on a computer. Last time I was in the studio it was more of a live recording to
a 24-track reel-to-reel tape. After we got the drum tracks put down, I relaxed a lot. It helped that the recording was done by long-time friend Bob Fouts. After the first day or so it was more like friends hanging out having a good time. Dave Britts from Coffinworm came over and did some backing vocals and things turned crazy. Somebody was stopping by everyday just to hang out. It was fun.
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NUVO: Had these songs been building up over 20 years or have you written them recently? PALMER: Yes and no. Most songs [have been written] since the early ’90s, [musically]. Most of the songs were written and we played them at my last show with Radiation Sickness around 1992. They have been changed and new lyrics have been written for all the songs. The lyrics have been building up for years. They are all about true-life stories I have seen happen to people close to me over the years. NUVO: You’re recently engaged and happy in love. How does that jibe with the brutality on this record? PALMER: It truly has nothing to do with the record or the “brutality.” What is brutal is trying to trying to live outside this crazy, fake world of hypocrites, double standards and judgmental idiots. My life is just happening to take a turn in the right direction. I guess things work that way from time to time.
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The June 27 edition of Wasted Wednesday at the Melody Inn will showcase Chicago-based sextet, The Downtown Struts. They released their debut LP,Victoria, in May. It was recorded with Matt Allison at Atlas Studios in Chicago. The Downtown Struts recently finished a spring tour as the supporting act for The Business. The group plans to tour Europe this summer and are scheduled to appear at the Rebellion Festival in Blackpool, England, as well as the Endless Summer Festival in Germany. The group describe their sound as punk/Americana and cite influences such as The Clash, Bruce Springsteen and The Replacements. Expect well-crafted songs, with pop hooks and hearton-the-sleeve vulnerability. JAZZ DELFEAYO MARSALIS SEXTET The Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave 7 p.m., 9:30 p.m., $25, +21
The Delfeayo Marsalis Sextet will play two sets at the Jazz Kitchen. As a recording artist, Marsalis’ output has been sporadic. Since his 1992 debut, Pontius Pilate’s Decision, Marsalis has released a total of four studio albums His most recent release, Sweet Thunder: Duke and Shak is a modern take on Such Sweet Thunder, a twelve-part jazz suite inspired by the work of William Shakespeare and composed by Duke
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Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. Putting a new spin on an old musical style is par for the course in the Marsalis family, particularly for Wynton Marsalis, one of the most vocal advocates for straight-ahead jazz. Expect an evening of tight musicianship on tunes from some of the greatest jazz musicians of all time.
Thursday
PUNK TROPHY WIVES
White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 Prospect St. 9 p.m., free, 21+
Louisville punk band Trophy Wives and their explosive vocals, crashing drums, pounding bass and screeching guitars are on their way to Indianapolis. The singer’s voice is as scratchy as a worn-out record, just as a true punk musician’s should be. With lyrics like “You got all you’re gonna get: bad tattoos and a cigarette” (“Bad Tattoos”), the songs are appropriately angst-ridden and angry, too. The show is free, courtesy of Butler Scion. POLKA BRAVE COMBO ALBUM RELEASE PARTY The Rathskeller, 401 E. Michigan St. 7:00 p.m., N/A, +21
Grammy award-winning polka group, Brave Combo, is having a release party for their album, Sounds Of The Hollow. Brave Combo isn’t your Uncle Fritz’s polka band. The group specializes in taking popular songs and putting them in a polka setting. Think of Weird Al Yankovic’s polka medleys played straight instead of for
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Friday
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Klipsch Music Center, 12880 E. 146th St., Noblesville 7:30 p.m., $57.85 - $74.40, all ages
Jam band fans, didn’t get enough of your fix when Dave Matthews Band played last week? Fear not, another relic of the ‘90s will soon satiate your hunger for spaced-out grooves. Phish will return to Klipsch Music Center for a two-night stand. Phish are probably the closest modern equivalent to the Grateful Dead, in terms of devoted fan base and musical style. The band was on hiatus for much of the last decade and returned to the road in 2009. Their concerts are a summertime tradition for generations of hippies. The warm weather, open-air venue, and access to chemical stimulants (legal or not) create the ideal environment for spacing out to lengthy instrumental noodling. ROCK JON WALKER, MARK ROSE, LUCAS CARPENTER
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Formerly the bassist of quirky, theatrical band Panic! At the Disco, Jon Walker has branched out into a more folk-pop direction, perhaps inspired by his former band’s second album (and his last as a member of the group), Pretty. Odd. His solo effort, New Songs, is reminiscent of ‘60s folk artists simple-sounding, acoustic guitar-based lyrics and chord progressions. Mark Rose has a similar story to Walker’s, in that he also left his band (Spitalfield) to pursue a solo career. His music has been compared to “a John Hughes movie soundtrack,” which is appropriate considering its breadth of emotion as well as the heavy use of synthesizers.
Saturday
JAZZ NORMAN BROWN, EUGE GROOVE, PETER WHITE & PHIL PERRY Murat Theatre at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St. 8 p.m., $34.99-$44.99, all-ages
Guitarist Norman Brown will headline a set of smooth jazz artists. Brown is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the release of his debut album, Just Between Us. According to his Wikipedia page, Brown’s music can heard on the Weather Channel and was featured on The Weather Channel Presents: Smooth Jazz II. Euge Groove is the stage name of saxophonist Steven Eugene Grove. Euge Groove has enjoyed several Top 40 hits and is one of the best selling contemporary jazz artists of the last decade. Peter White is an English guitarist who began his career with Scottish singer-songwriter Al Stewart. White co-wrote songs with Stewart and their best know collaboration is “Time Passages.” Phil Perry is a vocalist who dabbled in R&B and soul as well as jazz. During his long career, Perry has appeared as a vocalist on the recordings of musicians like Bobby Womack, Chaka Khan, Johnny Mathis and many more.
Sunday
ROCK COUNTING CROWS
Farm Bureau Insurance Lawn at White River State Park, 801 W. Washington St. 6:30 p.m. $29.50+, all-ages
Alt-rockers Counting Crows, singers of smash hits “Mr. Jones” and Academy Award-nominated “Accidentally in Love” from the Shrek 2 soundtrack, are bringing their talents to Indianapolis in support of their new album Underwater Sunshine, their first since 2008’s Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings. All the songs on Underwater Sunshine are covers, but the band will definitely find a way to make them their own in this sure-to-be energetic performance. In any case, most of the artists covered are obscure enough that the audience may not have heard the originals in the first place.
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Chinese HighTech Answer to Red Bull Chinese media reported that on May 4th, at the Xiaogan Middle School in Hubei province, high school students studying for the all-important national college entrance exam worked through the evening while hooked up to intravenous drips of amino acids to fight fatigue. A director of the school’s Office of Academic Affairs reasoned that before the IVs were hung, weary students complained of losing too much time running back and forth to the school’s infirmary for energy injections. After the media reports, there was
a public backlash, but less against the notion that China was placing too much importance on the exams than against reports that the government was subsidizing the cost of the injections.
Can’t Possibly Be True
• Desmond Hatchett, 33, was summoned to court in Knoxville, Tenn., in May so that a judge could chastise him for again failing to make child-support payments. Official records show that Hatchett has at least 30 children (ages 14 down to “toddler”) by at least 11 women. He said at a 2009 court appearance that he was “through” siring children and apparently has taken proper precautions since then. (In Milwaukee, Wis., in April, Sean Patrick was sentenced to 30 years in prison for owing more than $146,000 for 12 children by 10 mothers, and the city’s Journal Sentinel newspaper
reported that, before being locked up, two convicted pimps, Derrick Avery and Todd Carter, had fathered, respectively, 15 kids by seven women and 16 children with “several” mothers.) • The Associated Press reported in May that Kentucky prison officials were working behind the scenes to resolve the thorny question of whether inmate Robert Foley deserves a hip replacement. Normally, a prisoner in such extreme pain would qualify. However, Foley, 55, is on death row for killing six people in 1989 and 1991, and since he has exhausted his appeals, he is still alive only because a court has halted all executions while the state reconsiders its lethal-injection procedure. Furthermore, all local hospitals queried by the prison to perform the procedure have declined to take Foley because the prison considers him dangerous. • Chilean artist Sebastian Errazuriz recently created “Christian popsicles” made from wine that Errazuriz obtained by trickery after a priest consecrated it into “the blood of Christ.” The popsicle’s stick is actually a figure of Jesus on the cross, as sort of a reward for finishing the treat. (Also, The Icecreamists shop in London, England, recently began offering a popsicle made with absinthe -- and holy water from a spring in Lourdes, France, which many Catholics revere for its healing powers. The “Vice Lolly” sells for the equivalent of about $29.) • The official class photo of Eileen Diaz’s second-grade kids at Sawgrass Elementary School in Sunrise, Fla., was distributed this spring with the face of the front-and-center child replaced by a dark-on-white smiley face. Apparently there was miscommunication between the school and the photographer about redoing the photo without the child, whose parents had not given permission for the shot. (Another child without parental authorization was easily edited out of the photo, but the front-and-center student could not be.)
Fine Points of the Law
• In May, the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled, 3-0, that it is not necessarily improper under federal law for Minute Maid to name a beverage “Pomegranate Blueberry” even though those two ingredients constitute only 0.5 percent of the contents. A competing seller of pomegranate juices had sued in 2008, pointing out that 99.4 percent of the Minute Maid beverage was merely apple and grape juices. Minute Maid’s owner, Coca-Cola, called the competitor’s complaint “baseless.” • Almost all companies that collect customer data publish their policies on how they keep the data “private” (even though those “privacy” policies almost always explain just precisely the ways they intend not to keep the data “private” -- and are not required to by law). Researchers writing in the journal I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society (summarized in an April post on the blog TechDirt.com) found that if typical consumers bothered to read all of the detailed privacy policies they encountered, it would take from 181 to 304 hours per year
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(22-38 workdays), depending on shopping habits. (If every consumer in America did it, it would take from 40 billion to 67 billion hours a year, or 5 billion to 8.3 billion workdays a year.)
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• In April, the Federal Communications Commission announced that it was fining Google for deliberately impeding the agency’s investigation into the company’s collection of wireless data by its roaming Street View vehicles and that the agency had decided, based on Google’s “ability to pay,” that it needed to double its staff-proposed fine in order to “deter future misconduct.” Hence, it raised Google’s fine from $12,000 to $25,000. (As pointed out by ProPublica.org, during the previous quarter year, Google made profits of $2.89 billion, or $25,000 every 68 seconds.) • In April, police in Newtown Township, Pa., searched (unsuccessfully, it turns out) for a “skinny” black male, between ages 35 and 45, wearing a black tracksuit. He had indecently exposed himself at a place of business -- the offices of the Bucks County Association for the Blind (although, obviously, at least one sighted person reported his description). • District of Columbia Councilman Marion Barry initially was scorned in May for criticizing the influx of “Asian” shopkeepers into the ward that he represents. “They got to go. I’ll say that right now.” Later, after re-thinking the issue, Barry announced that his ward should be “the model of diversity,” and issued an apology to Asian-Americans. But, he lamented, America has always been tough on immigrants. “The Irish caught hell, the Jews caught hell, the Polacks caught hell.” (The preferred terms are “Polish” or “Poles.”)
Bless Those Researchers’ Hearts!
• (1) A team of scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, following up on a Harvard study that found dramatic weight-loss qualities from eating yogurt, did its own yogurt study. The results, summarized in Scientific American in May, noted that yogurt-eating male mice have 10 times the follicle density of other mice, producing “luxuriantly silky fur” and larger, outward-projecting testicles that made them far more effective inseminators. (2) British researchers from the University of Liverpool and the University of Bristol concluded in an April journal article that caterpillarsscie of the large white butterfly, which defends itself against predators by vomiting on them, are less likely to do so when the caterpillars live in groups. The researchers hypothesize that gratuitous vomiters are seen as poor mating risks.
Recurring Themes
• The most recently reported morbidly obese person who required that her home be partially torn apart by firefighters so that she could be lifted out to be taken to a hospital was teenager Georgia Davis in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. Davis, 19, weighs nearly 800 pounds, and 40
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “The dream which is not fed with dream disappears,” said writer Antonio Porchia. Ain’t that the truth! Especially for you right now. These last few months, you’ve been pretty good at attending to th e details of your big dreams. You’ve taken the practical approach and done the hard work. But beginnin g any moment, it will be time for you to refresh your big dreams with an infusion of fantasies and brainstorms. You need to return to the source of your excitement and feed it and feed it and feed it. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A Chinese businessman named Hu Xilin is the champion fly-killer of the world. Ever since one of the buzzing pests offended him at the dinner table back in 1997, he has made it his mission to fight back. He says he has exterminated more than ten million of the enemy with his patented “Fly Slayer” machine. And oh by the way, his obsession has made him a millionaire. It’s possible, Scorpio, that your story during the second half of 2012 will have elements in common with Hu Xilin’s. Is there any bad influence you could work to minimize or undo in such a way that it might ultimately earn you perks and prizes -- or at least deep satisfaction? SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): From the 14th through the 18th centuries, many towns in England observed a curious custom. If a couple could prove that they had gone a year and a day without ever once being sorry they got married, the two of them would receive an award: a side of cured pork, known as a flitch of bacon. Alas, the prize was rarely claimed. If this practice were still in effect, you Sagittarians would have an elevated chance of bringing home the bacon in the coming months. Your ability to create harmony and mutual respect in an intimate relationship will be much higher than usual. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “If I had my life to live over,” said Nadine Stair at age 85, “I would perhaps have more actual problems, but I’d have fewer imaginary ones.” I suggest you write out that quote, Capricorn, and keep it close to you for the next six months. Your task, as I see it, will be to train yourself so you can expertly distinguish actual problems from imaginary ones. Part of your work, of course, will be to get in the habit of immediately ejecting any of the imaginary kind the moment you notice them creeping up on you. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Astronomer Percival Lowell (1855-1916) was instrumental in laying the groundwork that led to the discovery of Pluto. He was a visionary pioneer who helped change our conception of the solar system. But he also put forth a wacky notion or two. Among the most notable: He declared, against a great deal of contrary evidence, that the planet Mars was laced with canals. You have the potential be a bit like him in the coming months, Aquarius: mostly a wellspring of innovation but sometimes a source of errant theories. What can you do to ensure that the errant theories have minimal effect? Be humble and ask for feedback. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Throughout the 16th century and even beyond, European explorers trekked through the New World hunting for the mythical land of El Dorado: the Lost City of Gold. The precious metal was supposedly so abundant there that it was even used to make children’s toys. The quest was ultimately futile, although it led the explorers to stumble upon lesser treasures of practical value -- the potato, for example. After being brought over to Europe from South America, it became a staple food. I’m foreseeing a comparable progression in your own world during the coming months: You may not locate the gold, but you’ll find the equivalent of the potato.
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