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The First Church of Cannabis held its first worship service with a lot of music, testimony and police presence. Ed Wenck recaps the event, the city’s response and the reaction to the overreaction.
We have your guide to summer burlesque and a behind-the-scenes look at each show. Plus, the man behind some of Indy’s best portraits is moving, and we wanted to hear his final thoughts before he goes.
The Cannabis Church, day one.............. P.06
Trans athlete.......................................... P.09 Transgender 101.................................... P.10 Mixed signals for transgender athletes............................................... P.13 Understanding the term........................ P.14
VOICES: Krull on Indiana’s image.........................P. 4 Regarding the Confederate flag.............P. 5 Ask Renee (recycling info)....................P. 25 Sex Doc..................................................P. 35
John McAfee exits................................. P.15 Burlesque roundup................................ P.17 Farewell, Woody Rau............................. P.18 FILM: Ed Johnson-Ott reviews Amy................ P.20
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Rum, smoothies and sandwiches: these are your flavors of July. Thunderbird owner and booze educator Joshua Gonzales is giving us the lowdown on the liquor that started it all. Chris Benedyk gives us a look inside the new Love Handle, and Chef Allie McFee gives us cooling, healing recipes.
Restaurant news.................................... P.21 Josh Gonzales’ rum diary...................... P.21 Previewing Love Handle....................... P.22 Healing whole foods recipes................ P.23
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Things get weird at Bloomington’s Mutant Fest, which goes down all day Saturday. Staying up in Indy? Check out the mega blissed-out Troubadours of Divine Bliss at their Grove Haus show this weekend. And don’t miss international music DJ K. Sabroso’s musical picks on Kyle Long’s show on WFYI on Wednesday, which we preview in A Cultural Manifesto in this issue.
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our state,” said Kara Brooks, Pence’s press secretary. That statement demonstrates once again that denial isn’t just a river in Africa. The annual convention of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists – which took place just a few blocks from the Statehouse the weekend before Pence pulled the plug on Porter Novelli – would have been a prime opportunity for the state to sell itself. There were a couple of problems, though. The convention’s organizers reported that attendance for the columnists’ convention was down to about half of previous years. Many potential attendees said they The way to dump embarrassing news wouldn’t come to Indioverboard is by releasing a statement ana because of RFRA. And the relative just before the weekend starts – and few who did attend heard Indiana busiit’s even better if you can throw ness leaders tell them garbage over the rail when people are there was no question the wounds generated racing away for a holiday weekend. by RFRA were real and deep. The only question that remains is how long those wounds will last. “Given the record-setting pace of job That echoes evidence from other quarters. creation by businesses across Indiana, Many states put in place orders of no Gov. Pence supports the decision by the travel to Indiana while Hoosiers were at IEDC (Indiana Economic Development the height of the RFRA debacle. Several Corpration) to conclude the contract have been slow to rescind them. with Porter Novelli and continue curSome of that can be attributed to rent efforts to promote the advantages stands taken on principle. Some also is of doing business and creating jobs in y coincidence, I was at a national convention of newspaper columnists just a few days before Gov. Mike Pence announced Indiana had cancelled its deal with an out-of-state public relations firm hired to repair the state’s battered image. The state had hired Porter Novelli to clean up the mess left by Pence’s maladroit handling of the needless debate over the Religious Freedom Restoration Act – a mean-spirited “solution” in desperate search of a problem if there ever was one.
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a result of our state officials’ tendency to try to make themselves look better by belittling the policies of other states. When those other states had a chance to respond in kind – well, you know what they say about payback. The Pence administration acknowledged as much by the way it announced the cancellation of the Porter Novelli contract. Public relations and political professionals know that the best way to get pop from good news is to break it ahead of the news cycle with fanfare and tailormade visuals. The way to dump embarrassing news overboard is by releasing a statement just before the weekend starts – and it’s even better if you can throw garbage over the rail when people are racing away for a holiday weekend. The news that Indiana had severed ties with Porter Novelli came right as Americans prepared to celebrate the Fourth of July. Belated as it was, the governor made the right decision for the wrong reasons to get rid of Porter Novelli. The problem with agreeing to drop $2 million on an out-of-state public relations firm was that it both was too much and too little. Spending that much money on damage control was bound to generate criti-
cism of state officials – the governor included – who have preached austerity at different times to everyone from school teachers to police officers to victims of domestic violence. And the reality is that no amount of money was likely to do what Pence wanted done. Communications professionals can’t sell a message that doesn’t exist. As Abraham Lincoln once suggested, you can try to tell people that a chestnut horse and a horse chestnut are the same thing, but most of them are going to know the difference when they see it and smell it. As long as we Hoosiers are going to debate whether it is okay for some people to discriminate against others in the public sphere, we’re going to have a problem. The only way we really fix the problem is by saying such discrimination is unacceptable. Period. Otherwise, we’re left in the position of trying to tell people from other parts of the country and world that what they’re really seeing – and smelling – is a chestnut horse. Most of them are going to trust their own eyes and noses. n
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ne of my first crushes was Bo Duke. At 4 and 5 years old, my little heart throbbed over Elvis Presley, Superman (the Christopher Reeve version) and John Schneider. For seven seasons, Schneider’s portrayal of Bo Duke on the Dukes of Hazzard sent me into an apoplectic arrhythmia every week. Yes, looking back on it now, I can see that the show was just plain goofy. Boss Hogg barely kept his questionably legal shit together, and Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane was dumber than Barney Fife in a physics class. Flash, his ironic canine partner, did more actual policing that the entire Hazzard County Sheriff’s
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screaming in my general direction that I am a good-for-nothing racist. Seriously. Dial down the shrill. There are bats hitting my house. I am not advocating racism, discrimination or slavery. I am not saying that anything the Confederate flag represents is intrinsically “good”. I am saying that this newly rabid mission that we are on to “ban” the image of I am saying that this newly rabid the Confederate flag is pointless, and – ultimatemission that we are on to “ban” ly – harmful. the image of the Confederate If some really nasty shit goes down – like slavery flag is pointless, and – – and time passes and slavery is ultimately – harmful. Department ever managed on their best day. But I also learned a thing or two from the Duke boys. Much like those long lost afterschool specials that only a child of the ’80s can cop to recognizing, the Dukes of Hazzard always attempted to teach its viewers a life lesson at the end of every hour. What did I take away collectively from seven seasons of redneck hijinx and hillbilly pratfalls? NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER. Uncle Jesse may have been an old redneck in overalls, but he was twice as shrewd as anyone running the county. Daisy Duke may have looked like “a ho’” in her — well… Daisy Dukes, but she had a heart of gold and the tightness of her clothes had no bearing on the fact that she was still “a good girl”. And Bo and Luke Duke would give you the shirts off their very broad, well-toned backs. When I was 5 years old, all I knew was that the General Lee was the coolest car on the planet — mostly because it was piloted by the one or the other of the Duke boys, but still… the fact that it was covered in a giant Confederate flag didn’t teach me to be a bigot. It taught me that the Dukes were from the Deep South, and – somehow – the Confederacy was a part of that history. Okay. Fine. Yes, I can hear you all
outlawed and eventually any symbol or sign that it ever happened is erased from history… how is that gaping black hole in time going to continue to remind us of the mistakes that man is capable of making? What if we eventually banned any record or historical remnant of the Holocaust? Not only is there an enormous lesson to be learned by every new generation who discovers that these kinds of atrocities can be committed man against man, but it’s also terrifying in its disrespect. The dead should be remembered. Absolutely, take that damn flag off of the South Carolina statehouse. Allowing it to remain in the air as a political symbol is definitely offensive. No one should have to live in a state – or a country – in which any kind of discrimination is still held as acceptable. But erasing the flag from history – or making pointless gestures like banning a cheesy ’80s sitcom or a film epic like Gone with the Wind – is an obvious fart in the wind. Besides, I identify with Scarlett O’Hara way too much. Fiddle-dee-dee, bring me an iced tea. n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 07.08.15 - 07.15.15 // VOICES 5
WHAT HAPPENED? State ends PR contract early The Indiana Economic Development Corporation cancelled the contract with Porter Novelli and will instead “focus resources on enhancing existing marketing efforts.” Porter Novelli was hired to help restore the state’s image after fallout from the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The state cites a strong economy and an “ongoing focus on cost management” as its reason in ending the contract. “Indiana continues to make headlines as a state that is attracting and adding private sector jobs at record-setting levels and is being recognized by national publications for its business-friendly climate,” said the IEDC in a statement. The state had originally hired the public relations company for a $2 million contact. The state will pay the company $365,000 from the IEDC’s existing marketing budget. ACLU files first lawsuit citing RFRA The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed a lawsuit challenging the law that bans sex offenders from attending church services in facilities that also house a school. The ACLU filed the suit on behalf of two men from Allen and Elkhart counties. The group said this ban violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. According to a statement from the ACLU, “the men wish to attend church services without fear of being arrested because church attendance and group prayer are essential to their ability to worship in a meaningful way.” The attorney general’s office responded with this statement, “By law the Indiana Attorney General’s Office is required to defend state laws the Legislature passed from challenges that plaintiffs’ lawyers file. The Legislature has made policy decisions to place certain requirements on convicted sex offenders concerning registration and preventing contact with children in order to protect the public. The State’s lawyers will review the plaintiffs’ lawyers’ complaint and respond in court at the appropriate time.” Former state legislator Townsend dies Former state lawmaker Wayne Townsend – who was the Democratic nominee for governor in 1984 – died Friday. He was 89. A farmer in Blackford County, the Democrat served three terms in the Indiana House and then 16 years in the state Senate. “As Townsend a longtime state legislator, Sen. Townsend fought for what he knew could be a better state and nation,” said Indiana Democratic Chairman John Zody in a statement. “Whether it was equal rights, education, agriculture or sticking up for working families, Wayne Townsend was a quintessential Hoosier leader through-andthrough.” In 1984, Townsend ran for governor and chose Ann Delaney to serve as his running mate, the first time a woman had been on a gubernatorial ticket in Indiana. Townsend lost to Republican Robert Orr. During his time in the Senate, Townsend cast the deciding vote as Indiana ratified the Equal Rights Amendment. He was also active in education legislation. — THE STATEHOUSE FILE 6 NEWS // 07.08.15 - 07.15.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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harlie Doss stood outside his house on South Rural Street and watched the cops rumble by on their motorcycles. “You’d think they were gettin’ ready for World War Three,” he muttered. The police presence in his neighborhood was making Charlie cranky. “What’s the big fuckin’ deal?” he announced. Roughly two dozen patrol cars and a mobile IMPD unit sat at the ready in the parking lot of the Carpenters Local Union building two blocks from the First Church of Cannabis. Officers seemed to be everywhere; on foot, on bicycles — like so many other cities in America in recent years, Indy’s police department looked less like a group of peacekeeping constables and more like an occupying force. IMPD was out in strength for the opening services of Bill Levin’s brainchild, the First Church of Cannabis, an
of marijuana will be subject to arrest … anyone caught giving marijuana to another individual will be subject to arrest for dealing.” And further, as NUVO’s Amber Stearns reported on June 26: Curry outlined all of the potential causes for arrest at the church service. Anyone attending the service, if marijuana is present, could be subject to arrest for probation violation or for visiting a common nuisance even if they choose not to partake in the church’s “sacrament.” Anyone who tries “Love is knowing the city is to drive away from the mounting an IMPD security camera church while high is subject to arrest for operating on a power line pole by the church.” under the influence. Any and all possible criminal — BILL LEVIN, VIA TWITTER code violations will be enforced. He also stressed that no minor child should be in the vicinity of the church. tions with a press conference. Curry Worried about a mass bust — including expressed monumental frustration with those who simply might’ve shown up to the Indiana legislature, but made it clear sing and not smoke — Levin prohibited IMPD would have all the plastic cuffs it weed at the church for the July 1 services. needed: “Anyone caught in possession “unintended consequence” of Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration law. After gaining tax-exempt status from the IRS, Bill had planned his inaugural ceremony for the day the law went into effect — July 1, 2015. Bill had initially stated that his congregants would partake of their sacrament — weed — at the end of the service. Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry had responded to Bill’s inten-
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A surveillance camera was mounted on a utility pole outside the church just before the first service.
IMPD Chief Rick Hite upped the ante, likening Levin to People’s Temple leader Jim Jones, the man behind one of the largest mass murder-suicides in modern history. As he told multiple media outlets, Levin was horrified by the suggestion.
THE SURVEILLANCE CAMERA On the morning before Levin’s first service, NO PARKING signs popped up around the church. The media trickled in: all the local TV stations, radio, the Associated Press, Al Jazeera. Two representatives from the police-monitoring activist group Cop Block turned up to videotape the police and ask questions. Roughly an hour before the scheduled start of the service, a service truck loaded with hard-hats and a cherry-picker began work on the utility pole that sat just across the street from the church’s front entrance. If there had been a problem in the neighborhood with, say, a transformer, the coincidence would’ve been suspicious. Some congregants speculated that the city planned on cutting power to the church. As the crew worked — rather quickly, it seemed — it soon became clear what they were doing.
A surveillance camera had been installed on the pole the very day the Church began its worship services. The IMPD spokesman at the scene, Lt. Richard Riddle, said he knew nothing of a camera installation. Levin Tweeted, “Love is knowing the city is mounting an IMPD security camera on a power line pole by the church.” Church members stared up at the camera mounted on the pole. A few danced on the lawn. Geri Twitty shook her head. Twitty, the tie-dye adorned founder of “High on the Hill,” Speedway’s “one-stop hippie shop,” was manning a Kool-Aid stand on the lawn in front of the church — a not-toosubtle dig at Chief Hite. “I wonder if the cops want some of this,” Geri said. She wasn’t kidding. The patrolmen must’ve been thirsty in the midday heat. Levin had set up a video screen behind the Kool-Aid stand to deliver his message to the folks who couldn’t make it inside — the sanctuary couldn’t have held more than a couple hundred souls. A fire marshall was on hand to enforce the building capacity code. Outside the church, two food trucks lined the driveway. A portion of the church lawn had been tilled — the “Cannaterians” (they’ve also been referred to as “Cannabiterians”) intend to grow produce and distribute the food to the neighborhood free of charge. Protestors from other denominations began to arrive outside the church. A bank of television and web-streaming cameras lined the rear wall of the sanctuary. And just after noon, right on schedule, the service began.
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— began by welcoming the crowd and introducing a performer named Carson Dearson. Dearson began a guitar/harmonica rendition of “Amazing Grace” that would’ve seemed completely at home in any country church, ending with a double-time tempo change that began a revival-style stomp. The band kicked in after, and people stood and danced in the aisles. The eight-piece combo played a full set of songs with D-Roq interjecting between numbers: He was raised Pentecostal; yes, he believed in God, believed in Jesus. And then, as he danced and played, he announced: “I’m 47 — cannabis is good for a brother!” Standing ovation. Forty minutes after the service began — a longer intro than even James Brown ever had — D-Roq introduced the founder of the First Church of Cannabis. With the crowd still on its feet, Bill Levin entered the back of his church, decked out in tails and holding his signature cigar. Bill walked up the aisle, hugging everyone he saw. When he reached the
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altar, Bill explained that the congregants, not the Rev, were going to speak: “It’s better than hearing a preacher for 45 minutes. That’s damn boring.” Bill called out names, and one by one, churchgoers took to a platform on the right side of the stage. Bill explained that the podium was the opposite of the “sin box” that other churches had. Longtime activist Steve Dillon urged political involvement. A man who identified himself as an ordained minister insisted that cannabis was a natural gift from the Lord. Others, though, spoke with passion about the healing power of weed. The testimony of one woman named Diane Richey was exceptional — she’d lived in pain for years; medical marijuana had offered her untold comfort. She’d seen specialists from Chicago to New York for a variety of conditions — and after 12 years, she told the crowd tearfully, she could walk without a cane. Others reminded the crowd about weed’s ability to S E E , CA NNA BIS, O N PA GE 08
THE POOBAH The church’s “Minister of Music” — a man who identified himself as “D-Roq”
ANOTHER CHURCH On the same day Levin and his Church opened their doors, another cannabis-worshipping church — the Healing Church of Rhode Island — scored something of a victory in federal court over their use of weed as sacrament. NUVO received a press release that read in part: On Wednesday July 1st 2015, Assistant U.S. Attorney Lee Vilker motioned federal district court to stay criminal charges against 3 religious cannabis users from The Healing Church, who were ticketed in May for using cannabis over 10 days at the very birthplace of U.S. religious freedom, a non-descript, humble dried-up well at Roger Williams National Memorial.
IMPD assembled in a lot a few blocks from the church on July 1.
Church members believe the “Well of the Promise and the Prophecy,” as they call it, is the same Wellspring mentioned in Revelations 22:2, in which the healing leaves of the Tree of Life are to be restored to humans. Church Deaconess Anne Armstrong, a clergywoman ordained on Earth Day 2002, claims the Bible is literally full of overt and implied references to a Hebrew plant called “KNH-BS” (plural “KNH-BSM”) which the Hebrews blended into their sacred anointing oil (Exodus 30:23), which was psychoactive (1Sam 16:13 and Numbers 11:26-29), the burning of which was central to worship, and which produced the “aroma soothing to the Lord” when burned. “Nothing can stop the Prophecy,” says the Deaconess. “No weapon formed against us shall prosper.”
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The activists, who say they fear no violence deployed against them, have declared another 10-day vigil leading up to Tisha B’Av, the Hebrew day of mourning, as well as a 72-day vigil from Sukkot to Chanukah this upcoming September through December. When NUVO reached Armstrong by phone in Rhode Island, she explained that the church had been around since the ’70s, and has been using cannabis both as a healing plant and as a way to “meet the spirit. … The federal government realizes they’ve ticketed us in error. We’ve been protected all along [by the state] here in Rhode Island — something that’s not the case in Indiana. It’s up to our brothers in Indiana to educate the government there that this kind of bigotry shouldn’t stand.” NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 07.08.15 - 07.15.15 // NEWS 7
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ease chemo symptoms and the seizures suffered by kids with Dravet syndrome. As the service progressed, it seemed fairly clear that Bill’s message was about love first, pot second. The self-proclaimed Grand Poobah might not have converted anyone that day, but Bill laid the groundwork for an argument that’ll soon be played out in the courts: Cannaterians are religious practitioners, and their sacrament is weed. “We BUILT this on LOVE,” Bill exhorted, and the crowd gave him a good, old-fashioned “Amen.” Pundit and conservative radio talk-show host Abdul-Hakim Shabazz Tweeted: “This may sound odd, but take out the Cannabis controversy and this is just like any other charismatic Church service.”
THE DOZEN Levin’s been called a huckster, a mere pothead and a carnival barker. OK, granted — if Willy Wonka and Keith Richards could’ve somehow had a kid, it’d be Bill. He’s been a candidate, a raconteur, a promoter. But Bill’s a lot more than that. He’s an activist, and sure enough, it looks like he’s found enough like-minded souls to form a congregation that could last well beyond the media circus of day one. After the celebrants had spoken, Bill asked the crowd for a call-and-response reading of the church commandments, the “Deity Dozen.” Bill began with the first commandment: “Don’t be an asshole. Treat everyone with Love as an equal.” The crowd repeated it. There was a murmur. Nope, no one had ever heard the word “asshole” as part of a worship service before. Bill smiled. “You don’t know how beautiful that sounded from up here.” After the dozen had been read and repeated, Bill produced a box — it was the container intended to hold the sacrament. “If we hadn’t been intimidated,” Bill explained. Instead, the churchgoers lit various tobacco products — which explained why congregants were carded at the door. 21-and-over, please. “Enjoy the fellowship!” Bill shouted, arms in the air. The crowd turned to one another, hugging, laughing. As I left the church and started the long trek back to my car, a motorcycle cop caught my attention. “How was it?” he asked. I stopped. I paused. “It was really, really nice.” The cop allowed himself a slight smile. “Good,” he said. “Good.”n
THE COUNCILOR Indianapolis City-County Councilor Zach Adamson issued a statement calling into question the actions of the city and specifically the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department in response to the First Church of Cannabis on the day after the church held its first service. Adamson says the views expressed in his statement are his own and are not meant to reflect the sentiment of the entire council. Adamson’s statement reads as follows: Yesterday, as Hoosiers watched as several new state laws took effect, one issue of particular local interest has been a bit more high profile in the news. Specifically, the First Church of Cannabis, as they push the limits of the liberties the state says they wanted to protect. Sadly, more than the reaction of the state, the OVER-reaction by local authorities has been of greater disappointment. Indianapolis residents have watched over the weeks as the media wars on both sides of the issue have battled it out on both mainstream and social media. “I’ve been very troubled by the reaction by our city and the by-and-large overreaction by our police chief, who actually compared this religious institution’s leader to Jim Jones. That’s a jaw-dropping comparison to a horrific crime and it is an insult to the lives that were lost in that tragedy. It is even more disappointing to see this overreaction using scarce public safety resources during a time of great need in our neighborhoods”, said Adamson. Adamson continued, “Many residents have rightfully raised concerns about the city’s inappropriate use of taxpayer resources to fund harassment of this minority religious group. After reading several media reports of selective enforcement of municipal ordinances, the undue installation of police surveillance cameras — at a time when so many of our areas hardest hit by crime don’t have such attention — and the literal recruitment of opposition protesters by the mayor’s IMPD chief, many fear that Chief Hite’s actions have exposed the City of Indianapolis to expensive and preventable civil liabilities for violations of Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act, among others. As our city saw with yesterday morning’s homicide on the near northwest side, we need more officers on the streets and more dollars for neighborhood policing strategies — not unwarranted harassment.” The Council intends to take all possible actions to give IMPD the necessary tools they need to prioritize enforcement and we hope that we can pull back this encroachment onto the religious freedom of our residents. We call on the public safety agencies to allocate the officers and cameras where our residents have, for years, been begging for them and stop this highly inappropriate use of scarce taxpayer resources. We also call on Chief Hite to issue an immediate apology for the inappropriate invoking of the Jonestown Massacre.
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Not only was Dominic not staying in his clothes, but he was refusing to sign, which made communication tough. “We would go to the store — Wal-mart or Target or something — and he would instantly go to the girl clothes,” says Tuesday. “At first I didn’t think anything of it. It didn’t bother me that he liked to play with dolls. But he wouldn’t sign. He would just point at things.” Sign language is the primary language in the household. Carl, Tuesday and Dominic are deaf. (The other children are not, but still know sign language.) Dominic’s refusal to sign made getting to the heart of his issues even more difficult. Thank God for Oprah.
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Tuesday remembers watching an episode of Oprah featuring mother and author Cheryl Kilodavis, who talked about her son Dyson and his love of wearing dresses. Kilodavis wrote a children’s book, My Princess Boy, that describes Dyson’s story and addresses the concept of acceptance. Listening to Kilodavis’ story made Tuesday wonder — could that story and situation apply to Dominic? Tuesday initiated a conversation with her son on the next trip to the store where Dominic expressed he wanted to wear dresses. But it went much deeper than simply attire. “He said to me, ‘Mommy, I’m a girl,’” says Tuesday. Tuesday and Carl tried to negotiate with their young child. The first proposal was for Dominic to wear boy clothes at school and girl clothes at home. But for Dominic that wasn’t good enough. The clothes continued to come off in the car. The next option was to split the difference — Dominic would wear girl tops and boy bottoms. But that too wasn’t good enough. Dominic insisted he was really a she. That insistence wasn’t just expressed in clothing, but in everything the young child did. “One day he came and asked me how to go to the bathroom,” says Tuesday. “I was confused because he was potty trained. But then he showed me and I saw that he had taped his penis down and out of the way.” When Tuesday caught Dominic with a pair of scissors attempting to remove the offensive appendage that kept her from being who she really was, Tuesday decided it was time to let her son be her daughter. “I went and threw out all of the boy clothes. We went to the store and bought all girl clothes,” says Tuesday. “Suddenly, she was a brand new person, like a butterfly coming out of her cocoon. She started talking [signing] constantly, so full of life, and she hasn’t stopped since.” Dominice was born. “She named herself” says Tuesday. “She added an ‘e’ to the end of her name and became Dominice.” For Dominice, known as Dommie to her family, she was finally free to be the girl she knew she was since age 3. But that didn’t mean the transition was by any means easy. Carl admits it was hard for him to adjust to the idea that his son was now his daughter. Despite already having three sons, Carl expected his relationship with Dominic to be slightly different and special.
“I’m what you would call a macho man,” says Carl. “I coach basketball and football. It is so rare for a deaf father to have a deaf son and I was looking forward to sharing those father-son moments.” But once he saw what Tuesday saw — the brooding angry shoe-throwing boy transformed into a bright, lively, happy girl — he knew he had another daughter. The Indiana School for the Deaf, however wasn’t so accepting of Dominice right away. Dommie fell victim to bullying from other students who didn’t understand her. Parents told their kids not to play with her. The administration refused to acknowledge Dommie as a girl and even went as far as calling the Department of Child Services to report the family on suspected abuse charges, claiming Dommie was being forced to dress like a girl instead of a boy. Eventually, Tuesday put her foot down and insisted the family move to California. As a California native, Tuesday knew her daughter would be accepted and would flourish in that environment compared to conservative Indiana. And she did — for two years.
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GENDER IDENTITY is different from sexual orientation. Gender identity is introspective, meaning it has to do with how someone views himself or herself. It is about the individual and only the individual. Sometimes the inside matches the outside and sometimes it doesn’t. Sexual orientation is about a person-toperson connection on a romantic and sexual level, or rather, an individual’s connection to another individual.
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“But we eventually came back because Schools League (IISL), where interscholastic play between schools begins at of the cost of living,” says Carl, who is a the middle school level with fifth- and Hoosier native. “And Indiana is a good sixth-grade teams and seventh- and place to raise a family.” eighth-grade teams. Other schools in the Thankfully, things had changed for league include the International School the better at the Indiana School for the of Indiana, Sycamore School, the Oaks Deaf. Dommie’s return was met with Academy and St. Richards Episcopal acceptance from the administration School among others. and teachers. She is allowed to live in the girls’ dormitory and use the girls’ bathroom. Things are definitely better than they were “Suddenly, she was a brand new before the trek out West and back, but they aren’t person, like a butterfly coming out exactly perfect. “She wants to do evof her cocoon. She started talking erything,” said Tuesday. [signing] constantly, so full of life, “Gymnastics, cheerleading, basketball, volleyball and she hasn’t stopped since.” … she wants to be with her friends.” — TUESDAY APPLE, DOMINICE’S MOTHER Of course she does — just like so many other American kids. But there is also the reality that Dommie would be eligible for interwhile sports at an elementary level is scholastic play in two years when she child’s play, competition and pressures increase with age, practice and skill. That enters the fifth grade— if the athletic director lets her. increased level of competition is someAccording to Carl and Tuesday, the thing Carl knows and understands as a middle school athletic director said Domcoach. It led both Carl and Tuesday to mie would not be allowed to play as a girl be proactive in their thinking regarding on the girls’ basketball or volleyball teams. Dommie’s future in school sports. “He said he is concerned about what “Knowing Dommie wants to play volother parents would say. ‘What locker leyball and basketball in middle school, room would she use? Where would she we decided to talk to the middle school use the bathroom?’ What does that even athletic director,” said Carl. “We wanted mean?” asked Tuesday. “She is a girl! She him to know that Dommie was coming sleeps in the girls’ dorm when she is at and to prepare for that.” The Indiana School for the Deaf (ISD) is a part of the Indianapolis Independent S E E , DOM INI C E , O N P A GE 1 2
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Dommie and will let her play when the time comes. There are no rules or guidelines for school. She uses the girls’ bathroom at gender of any kind at the middle school school. Why would playing a sport be level, but the stakes increase dramaticalany different?” ly when students get to high school and For coaching dad Carl, the argument is college. The Indiana High School Atheven less valid from an athletic standpoint. letic Association (IHSAA) policy requires “There is no competitive advantage for transgender athletes to complete gender any fifth- or sixth-grader at that age at reassignment (surgical sex change) and ISD’s level and conference,” said Carl. provide proof in the form of an amended ISD superintendent Dr. David Geeslin birth certificate or other government says the “no” the Denneys were given documentation. The National Colleby the school’s athletic department was giate Athletic Association (NCAA) only taken out of context. Although Dommie requires hormone therapy and gender turns 10 years old this year, an age typiacknowledgement from the school. cally associated with fifth grade students, IHSAA commissioner Bobby Cox says she will actually enter the third grade in Indiana was one of the first state associathe fall. Geeslin says regardless of her tions to adopt a gender policy which was age, Dommie would need to play with first included in the policy manual for the 2012-2013 school year. “At the time of authorship, the protocols “There is no competitive advantage included in the policy succinctly addressed the issue for any 5/6 grader at that age at of transgender students ISD’s level and conference.” and their identity with respect to interscholastic — CARL WAYNE DENNEY, DOMINICE’S FATHER participation,” says Cox. “The IHSAA did not consult with the NCAA or any other non-interscholastic entity to develop our policy.” her grade level and is two years away The NCAA policy was approved in from playing as a fifth-grader. August 2011 and published September “However, we will support her when 13 the same year. However, Cox says the she enters the fifth grade,” says GeesIHSAA policy has not been challenged so lin. “The research says that a positive there are no plans to change it. environment creates a positive learning Carl says the high school athletic environment and we are dedicated to director is “ambivalent” about allowproviding that for Dommie as well as the ing transgender students to play as the rest of our students.” gender they are identified instead of Greeslin adds the middle school athletic director, Wade Curtis, is in agreement with the administration about S E E , DOMINICE, O N PA GE 1 4
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Mixed signals for transgender athletes Both the Indiana High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) have rules regarding eligibility for transgender athletes — but the rules and requirements for each do not complement each other. In fact, the IHSAA rules are much more stringent and discriminatory compared to the NCAA rules.
According to the IHSAA (2012): “The IHSAA rules do not permit transgender or transsexual, cross-dressing or similar types of student-athletes to participate on a member school’s team which is other than the team of the gender which matches the student’s birth gender.” – IHSAA C-1 Gender Policy • The only exception to the rule is if the student athlete completes gender reassignment surgery. In other words, the minor student athlete would have to undergo a surgical sex change in order to play high school sports in Indiana as their chosen gender. The rules also state that all legal recognition of the change in gender would have to be “conferred” by all the proper government entities. An amended birth certificate, a court order or another official state document showing the student’s new gender would have to be presented. • To verify a student’s changed gender, the student may be required to submit to a confidential case-by-case evaluation by an IHSAA Gender Committee relative to the gender change.
According to the NCAA (2011): Transgender student-athletes are eligible to participate in sex-separated sports activities so long as the athlete’s use of hormone therapy is consistent with the NCAA policies and current medical standards, which state: • A trans male (female to male) student-athlete who has received a medical exception for treatment with testosterone for gender transition may compete on a men’s team but is no longer eligible to compete on a women’s team without changing the team status to a mixed team. A mixed team is eligible only for men’s championships. • A trans female (male to female) student-athlete being treated with testosterone suppression medication for gender transition may continue to compete on a men’s team but may not compete on a women’s team without changing it to a mixed team status until completing one calendar year of documented testosterone-suppression treatment. Participation policies for high school transgender athletes in other states mirror the NCAA policy including Wisconsin, Washington and Colorado.
IHSAA commissioner Bobby Cox on the gender policy: “Initially, the IHSAA was one of the first state associations in America to adopt a gender policy. Our policy was first included in our policy manual for the 2012-13 school year. “At the time of authorship, the protocols included in the policy succinctly addressed the issue of transgender students and their identity with respect to interscholastic participation. The IHSAA did not consult with the NCAA or any other non-interscholastic entity to develop our policy. “All policies are subject to membership review and potential revision. Having stated that, the IHSAA has received no request to alter our gender policy based upon the actions of the NCAA or any other governing body and at this moment, we do not intend to make any modifications.” NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 07.08.15 - 07.15.15 // COVER STORY 13
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“I don’t care if she wants to play or not,” Tuesday says. “Just don’t say no to her because of who she is.” their birth gender. The varsity athletic It’s already happening — even before director expressed concern about how Dommie gets to middle school. “There other teams would react to a transgender was a cheerleading thing where the girls player on the opposing team. But Carl were doing cheers for the school and says that is a non-issue. the parents,” says Tuesday. “Dommie “ According to FERPA [the Family had practiced with the other wgirls and Educational Rights and Privacy Act], the knew the cheers but she wasn’t allowed other schools don’t have to know,” he to perform. Dommie was fine with says. “It is the family’s right to keep that it and was doing the cheers from the information private.” audience and cheering for her friends Even so, the underlying issue for who were on the stage, but I was crying any sport is the level of competition — inside because I knew she was being something Carl’s well aware of as a coach excluded. It wasn’t fair.” and realizes is a major issue for transLike any mom, Tuesday’s number one gender athletes. concern is the emotional well-being of her children. Dommie’s situation and the potential for “I don’t care if she wants to play or harm keep Tuesday on not. Just don’t say no to her because heightened alert. Her biggest fear is that of who she is.” one day Dommie will fall victim to all of the — TUESDAY APPLE negativity thrown in her direction — and perhaps even become suicidal. “She is such a loving “ISD competed in this national baschild and rolls with the punches,” says ketball competition among other deaf Tuesday. “But she does come home schools from around the country,” recalls sometimes crying because she wasn’t Carl. “The ISD girls’ team played the completely included in something. She Phoenix Deaf School girls’ team and ISD, has friends that say they are her friends of course, mopped the floor with them. but then she finds out there was a birthLater I discovered that the Phoenix team day party and she wasn’t invited. What had a transgender player. When I brought happens when she gets older? I want her this to the attention of ISD’s athletic dito be able to stand up for herself.” rector, thinking about Dommie, he said, The family support Dommie has ‘Well, that’s different.’ When I asked him around her is what allows her to be why he said it was because they weren’t stable and confident in her identity. any good. I told him it didn’t matter. A Her parents know the road ahead is precedent had been set at that moment.” full of obstacles, but they are dedicated Dr. Geeslin says when the time to educating everyone around them comes for Dommie to play in high about transgender people to ensure school, he and ISD will continue to their daughter’s continued stability and advocate for her right to play in both security. The opportunity to play sports the IISL and the IHSAA. is just one more level of acceptance they For Tuesday, it really doesn’t matter if feel Dommie deserves to have. Dommie plays or not, but the decision to But for now, Dommie is just what she play or not to play should be Dommie’s is supposed to be — a happy-go-lucky and not based on someone’s assumplittle girl surrounded with pink frilly tions or their lack of knowledge about things, baby dolls and love. n transgender people.
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“Dominice... I am beyond blessed to have you as my beautiful transgender daughter. Remember, GOD LOVES YOU, even though you’re a transgender! DO NOT LET anyone tell you differently!” – Tuesday Apple (above, with Dominice) on Facebook.
Transgender people and the concept of transgender personhood are still grossly misunderstood. For parents who allow their children to freely express who they know themselves to be, society sometimes falsely accuses them of abuse and neglect. Dommie’s family is no different. “Dommie had fallen and hurt her ankle. I was worried it could be broken or badly sprained so I took her to IU Saxony,” explains Carl. “I told the nurse right away
that my daughter was transgender because my insurance card says she is male [due to her birth certificate and other information] and she looks female. We waited for four hours in the exam room with no doctors looking at her ankle and no medicines to ease her pain. Instead, [Department of Child Services] comes in to investigate a report of abuse and neglect. They say I am forcing Dommie to dress like a girl and want to know why.”
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ue the farewell songs — one of our own is packing up his art supplies and heading west. Jonathan McAfee, Herron painting graduate and mastermind behind the Vonnegut portraits last summer, has been in Indy for the last five years. Now he is moving to Denver. In the midst of searching for a place to live, packing and putting the final touches on his last show, McAfee found the time to sit down and chat with me in his studio basement. NUVO: What kind of challenges are you looking for in this move? JONATHAN McAFEE: It’s going to be starting from scratch out there. I don’t have the network like I have worked so hard to build here. … That’s part of the reason I have been working so hard on this body of work. Because I don’t know what my studio situation is going to be like out there so I want to bring as much strong work with me as possible to show right when I get there.
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ing because, for the most part, artists, musicians, creative types want to see one another excel and succeed. There are a lot of great things happening right now. So I am leaving at a bittersweet time. NUVO: What was the change that you witnessed being here for the last five years?
NUVO: What has your experience been like working in the art scene here?
McAFEE: For me personally, I have been able to focus all of my time on my art. I left my full time job at a marketing agency McAFEE: It’s been positive. I think Indy downtown in January of this year to focus has a pretty vibrant art scene. I think that solely on a career as an artists full time. ... if you are willing to ask for things then That’s not really something that Herron people usually are pretty receptive. … The teaches you. You don’t really graduate scene here is improving in the sense that from Herron feeling equipped to know how to manage an art career and how to be a professional artist. “There is something a little And how I have seen it more intimate about painting change in the city and as a scene, I think there are someone you know.” more and more opportunities. For instance, — JONATHAN McAFEE you will see more public art than in years past. … It seems if you want to do something great here younger people are purchasing original there are opportunities to do it. artwork; where before I think that maybe people my age or younger would be a little more intimidated by making a big purchase. But fortunately art in Indianapolis is relatively affordable. And that’s another thing, it seems that in Denver prices are higher but people maybe value the price of expensive art more than they do here. Indianapolis I think is encourag-
NUVO: Tell me about this body of work. McAFEE: This body is focusing again on portraits, ... [faces are] something I have been interested in for about a year or two now. ... So this body of work is a collection of 16 paintings all done this year, and all done since early this year. Eight of them
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were done exclusively for this show. So you got the four local hip-hop musicians: John Stamps, Oreo Jones, Grey Granite and Sirius Blvck who are four members of ... Ghost Gun. They will be performing at Chreece. ... I have been watching the local Indy music scene take off. And I have been fascinated with hip-hop culture anyway, in my own personal life, that’s a lot of the music I am listening to when I am down here painting. … There is something a little more intimate about painting someone you know or that other people know locally and recognize. That has been a rewarding part of this process. … I am really proud of this work. With each body of paintings I feel like I can see myself improving, but this is one I really stand behind because I am really figuring some things out with how I apply my paint. I am doing things differently like I am still using brushes but I am also using putty knives to move the paint around. So it has more texture than some of my paintings and has more emotion and more expression. n MORE ONLINE: For a playlist of what
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Goons: Gooniverse r Through July 26. This month’s artist is Goons (Konrad Fitzgerald) based in Manchester Center, Vermont. It’s a region which has more than its share of plein air painters. When I was there last month, I was surprised by plethora of canvases depicting the Green Mountains and cows chewing their cud. These paintings (largely impressionistic in terms of style) might be admired in terms of technique, of course, but I felt like I had seen them all before. When walking into the Southern Vermont Art Center, I wondered if the Hoosier Salon had staged an invasion. Perhaps making such art might be just the ticket to escaping the momentous changes in the world. But the work of Goons is as far from plein air as you can get. You can say that his large-scale acrylic on paper paintings — good media for wheatpasting on walls he says — are crudely drawn and silly. But these put-downs might have some truth to them. There seems to be genuine deliberation lurking behind all of this and genuine artistic ability (that he seems, at times, desperately trying to repress). And there’s a playful quality to his depictions of humanoid-like creatures with huge mouths and thick lips that I find appealing. In Goons’ most engaging paintings, subjects and landscapes are as densely-packed together as shoppers in a Goodwill on a 50-percent-off Saturday. The colors are as vivid as those of a digital landscape photographer going apeshit with over-saturation in Photoshop. One such boldly colored standout has text reading “New York 20/20.” Last time I was in New York, about two decades ago, it seemed predominantly gray and I do have 20/20 vision. But, hey, his work is a particular way of looking at the world — humorous, without irony or bitterness — with all sorts of derivations of street art and comics while adding something new to add to this relentless flow. Through his work as an artist, I was getting to see this world for the first time. — DAN GROSSMAN General Public Collective, FREE, goonswood.com
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ost of us have crossed paths with homelessness in Indianapolis at some point in time. Whether that’s through volunteering at a shelter or trying to avoid eye contact on the street. For those of us who have been privileged enough to never personally encounter life without a permanent home, the image is often conventionalized into a person that we can easily ignore. But local high school artists and the Indianapolis Art Center are taking those conceptions head on with a program called “Beyond Perceptions.” The idea is to have students create artwork based on what they think homelessness looks like. “The bigger picture of the program is really about stereotypes,” says Michelle Winkelman, Director of Outreach at The Indianapolis Art Center. “It is using art to look into an issues that affects our city – in this case homelessness – that has stereotypes attached to it that can be harmful in addressing solutions.” Students from three schools (Cardinal Ritter High School, Crispus Attucks High School and Lawrence Central High School are this year’s participants) were asked to make a visual representation of homelessness in their art class before any discussions take place. Then they go on trips to shelters and hear from speakers who are or have been homeless. After group discussions, speakers and field trips, the students create another piece of artwork after the fact. Both pieces are hung in a
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traveling show that has been making its way around the city. They also make a collective piece. In the past this has included everything from zines to murals. “Homelessness is something that we all have a lot of perceptions around,” says Executive Director Alan Witchey of the Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention (CHIP). CHIP has been involved with the program from its beginning 11 years ago. “You know people standing at an interstate exists holding a sign, or they see someone who is drunk and laying on the streets downtown. That becomes sort of the stereotype or myth around homelessness. When people hear real life stories, they hear so much more. The main reason why people are homeless is more about job loss and lack of living wage income than anything else.” CHIP is responsible for a yearly homeless count in Indianapolis — typically in January — and this year they found 1,666 people living on the street. Because people move in and out shelters and of course can’t all be found, CHIP estimates that the actual number is somewhere closer to 8,000. And about 20 percent of those are under 18. “We have a lot more children and families than you ever really think about,” says Winkelman. “I think we have a very specific idea or image that comes to our heads.” n
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he burlesque revival in Indianapolis is still going strong even in its thirteenth year. The movement that started with a single show on the Punk Rock Night stage in 2003 has expanded into six local troupes, an ever-growing number of independent performers and a seemingly nonstop schedule. And the scene really flairs up in July with some of the best shows of the year. The confluence of major local conventions creates an influx of nerd-inspired shows from a dizzying array of genres, from Monty Python to Magic: The Gathering. Here’s a rundown of shows you shouldn’t miss. Stripalot: A Burlesque Tribute to Monty Python July 11, 10 p.m. This is the second year for Stripalot, whose Monty Python theme sounds like it might somewhat limit the genre, but organizer Barbacoa Jones says Python’s rich output creates tremendous opportunities. “We are shooting for the feel of an episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus,” he says. “Every performer is required to be in several routines – much like the comedy troupe. ... The awesome routines from last year we kept, but the performers are revamping them to make them even more over the top. In kind of a twist on Python, we have made most of the men in the skits women.” Melody Inn, $8 in advance, $10 at door, punkrocknight.com Nerdgasm V July 17, 18, 24, 25, 10 p.m. Angel Burlesque leader Katie Angel says nerdy topics give no end of new material for their annual Nerdgasm shows. “Everyone picks characters from references they love, so the variety is amazing,” she says. “Video games, comic books, television, movies and card games. Inspiration comes from everywhere! Burlesque and nerdy themes are a match made in geeky heaven, to the point that people even refer to nerdy burlesque specifically as ‘nerdlesque.’ What can I say — nerdy people love sexy fun times! Every routine this year is brand new! We’re expanding our nerd universe to some genres that haven’t been covered before. The seasoned Angels are also presenting some pretty exciting material too and we’re thrilled for our guest performers including Jason Adams. His group is sharing the story of young Ito and his journey to become a mech suit fighter in New Tokyo.” Theatre on the Square, $15, angelburlesque.com
Galaxy Jones (above) and Katie Angel (below) in last year’s Nerdgasm by Angel Burlesque. Legendary: A Burlesque Pantheon of Myth and Magic July 17-18, 10 p.m. The Rocket Doll Revue brings a literary element to their show, as Frenchy LaRouge explains: “‘Legendary’ is a mix of different mythologies, legends, monsters, and magic, or better yet, practitioners of magic,” she says. “I have an educational background in Greek mythology and general love for wizards and many things typically considered nerdy. Burlesque fits in with nerd life so well primarily because burlesque itself is meant to be a parody of whatever is going on in the world — the word literally means to mock or parody in French. ” She says the Rocket Doll’s famous group routines will be a highlight, as well as an appearance by Chicago performer Ray Ray Sunshine. White Rabbit Cabaret, $10 in advance, $12 at door, rocketdollrevue.com/calendar PEEP! presents Sapiosexual: An Ecdysiast Tribute to Geek Fandom! July 20, 10:30 p.m. Organized by independent performers Pepper Mills and Bunny Elise VanDoren, PEEP!
“I’m always surprised to meet people who have never heard of burlesque in Indianapolis, let alone that they have so many amazing options for their entertainment,” — Katie Angel
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brings together performers from a wide variety of troupes and independent acts around the city, as well as guest performer Red Rum from Chicago, described as “The Lon Chaney of burlesque.” VanDoren says PEEP is an extension the Burlesque Craft Night she and Pepper Mills run. “People who would not normally work together get to laugh and connect backstage,” she says. “It’s also is a wonderful avenue for new performers to get stage time and develop which is so important in those first couple of years. Burlesque, specifically neo-burlesque. works so perfectly with nerd themes. You can tell a story, create an alternate universe for a popular character, or mash up two totally different realms.” Crackers in Broad Ripple, $10, crackerscomedy.com Nerdy Flirty Burlesque Aug. 1, 9 p.m. Creme de les Femmes’ Nerdy Flirty Burlesque is another long-running stalwart of the nerd burlesque scene in the city. “Nerdy Flirty is one of our favorite shows to do,” says producers Jezebel Sinfell and Scarlett Nopantson. “We will have some fan favorites returning along with some brand new acts, including a giant mutated rat, an ode to anime and other graphic novels.” They note that many of the same things that get people involved in nerd culture also attract them to burlesque: “Those who are drawn to those things tend to be a little left of center. Pulling from pop culture of the time is at the heart of burlesque. Burlesque is a very referential art form, which nerdy themes lend themselves to in general. A lot of nerdy themes are about dual personas, Superman/Clark Kent, Batman/Bruce Wayne, which is very much part of burlesque life.” Hi-Fi, $10 in advance, $12 at door, hifiindy.com
Indianapolis School of Ballet Summer Intensive Showcase Next appearance: Aug. 19 at Indy Eleven half-time. At the Indianapolis ArtsGarden, backstage is in full view before the show. As the dancers assemble for the opening numbers, smiling at family and friends, their collective focus zeros in on the music cue. A waft of blue floats on stage. It’s a waltz with an attitude and each dancer gives depth of character to the flower they bringing to life. I think of architect Walter Blackburn as the dancers frame this organic scene to the closing strains of Delibes’ waltz. I imagine hearing him say, “Yes, that’s the perfect portal for what’s inside.” What’s inside is a program of eleven other short dances across genres including classical and contemporary ballet, modern dance, folk, tap and Broadway shows. Dancers range from preteen to pre-professional with a mix of first time and multiple-year returnees to the ISB annual Summer Intensive that brings instructors with international and national resumes to carry on the tradition of learning from the Masters. What’s most fun is watching the younger dancers off-stage mark the movements of the older ones on stage, suddenly taking on the posture of Spanish dancers arching and replicating triple stepping to the music of Tchaikovsky. The pint-sized cygnets in soft pink dresses in a modern dance version of the famously synchronized scene from Swan Lake, and upper level dancers recreating Gershwin on toe from dreamy sways to swaggy honky-tonk were probably the most unexpected parts of the show. Equally noteworthy during the ambitious program were recreations of Minkus’ La Bayadere, Bach’s Goldberg Variations and Well-tempered Clavier; Tchaikovsky’s Danse Espagnole and new configurations of Tango and Celtic dances. Choreography was by Coleen Rhea, Guo Ping Wang, Roberta Wong, Victoria Lyras, Scott Jovovich, Karen Scalzitti Kennedy and Paul Vitali. — RITA KOHN Carroll Stadium, IUPUI, indyballet.org
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oody Rau passed away on July 2, leaving some big shoes to be filled in our local comedy scene. Rau had a national TV appearance in Caught Ya! on ESPN Outdoors and wrote everything from musicals to scripts, but he was perhaps best known for his work with ComedySportz — and his bitting wit. One of his close friends and fellow improv comedians, Mia Lee Roberts, recalls some of her favorite memories. “Maybe the time he scratched my cornea while we were playing a game at a Comedy Sports match,” says Roberts. “It wasn’t one of my favorite times in my life, but it was actually very hilarious. That probably happened 15 years ago and he was still apologizing for it on a regular basis.” Rau was impersonating a rapper for one of their performances and Roberts was standing slightly behind him, putting her in the line of fire when he threw his arms out in a fully committed rap impersonation. “He has always been a ridiculous man,” laughs Roberts. “With more life experience he just got a little more ridiculous.” Roberts met Rau met in 1993 at ComedySportz. The two have been friends ever since. (To put it in perspective he stood up with her at her wedding and she did the same at his.) Rau was also known for his love of kids. Though he and his wife Eileen Kramer didn’t have any of their own, they had plenty of love to go around. Roberts says that Rau practically raised her children. He also worked with the NCAA’s Stay In Bounds program, for children in first through eight grade. Just about a month ago Woody posted on Facebook that he wanted to
start an arts organization that worked with autistic children. “He wasn’t just a great improviser,” says Roberts. “He was a stellar comedy writer as well.” Seriously, go to nuvo.net and just search his name. You can’t help but smile when reading his byline and Q&As. I asked Roberts for any other favorite bits that they shared. “His car was always filthy and had a ton of trash in it and he was a smoker,” says Roberts. “If we went anywhere it was in his car so he could smoke, you couldn’t smoke in my car
“Another gratitude post. I was just thinking of all the opportunities I’ve had. I’ve hosted a show on ESPN, I’ve been in a movie that was on Showtime, and I’ve got 20 some years of improv comedy under my belt. Pretty good life.” — WOODY RAU (FACEBOOK POST)
because I have kids. … One night we were in Woody’s car. We weren’t exactly sure what it is we were going to do, and he said ‘I know what we will do. We will fight crime with only our wit.’ And I said ‘and a car full of trash.’ And ever since then we would text each other back and forth ‘What do you want to do?’ and it’s always ‘let’s go fight some crime with our wit and a car full of trash.’ “Woody had about 150 best friends who are hurting just as badly as I am,” says Roberts. “He was very well loved and is going to be missed by a lot of people.” n
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ne of the largest and most competitive bicycle races in the Midwest returns this weekend. Both racers and spectators will notice a few big changes at this year’s Indy Crit. Perhaps the largest change will be that most of the action and activities will happen on the Circle for the first time in the event’s six-year history. “We had to rethink everything,” said Race Director Jennifer Cvar. “It’s almost like we’re recreating the event from scratch. But being there on Monument Circle, it’s going to bring even more excitement and energy to both the crowd and the racers.” The Start/Finish line has moved to Meridian Street on the Circle as well, setting up a longer, straighter finish that favors PHOTO BY MICHELLE CRAIG The Indy Crit benefits Freewheelin’ Community Bikes (shown above), where local youth work to earn a bike. sprinters with good timing and even better fast-twitch muscle fibers. The rest of the first Indy Crit since Freewheelin’ Founder one-mile, figure-eight course that passes EVENT INDY CRIT Nancy Stimson passed away last fall. Cvar University Park and the demolished husk of has since taken over Stimson’s role as the Indianapolis Star building will remain Freewheelin’ Executive Director. Money the same, but competitors will be racing W H E N : J U L Y 11 earned from Indy Crit will be earmarked clockwise, not counter-clockwise, this year. WHERE: VARIOUS LOCATIONS AROUND INDY for programming and employee salaries. Taking a cue from the city’s most INFO: INDYCRIT.COM More than 80 kids take Freewheelin’ famous eponymous racing event, winclasses each summer, taught by a mix of ners of each race will be drinking milk — of racing might attract even more comvolunteers and employees. Groups of kids Traders Point Creamery organic chocoare bused in from Eastern Star church and petitors from out of town. late milk, to be exact. local community centers about once a “We’ve always had multiple-category Mayor Greg Ballard will be riding in his week for six weeks to take the initial course. races so people can compete in more final Rolls-Royce Race with the Mayor’s Most have barely handled a wrench before, contest, and he may be joined by the two than one event,” Cvar said. It seems like let alone learned how to take off wheels or a lot of other big races have been followcandidates looking to take over his ofchange a flat tire. Upon completion of the ing our example. Now with (the addition fice, Democrat Joe Hoggset and Republiprogram, each of the kids will graduate to can Chuck Brewer. A mix the next level — from a yellow apron to a of local CEOs and media green one — and receive their own bike. personalities round out “Being there on Monument Circle, “Our biggest challenge is the quality of the starting field. (I’ll be bikes we receive,” Cvar said. “Many of the racing with the mayor as it’s going to bring even more donated bikes were bought from departwell; look for a goofyment stores and are pretty low quality. We excitement and energy to both the looking guy with an even need good bikes that will last for a while.” goofier-looking handlecrowd and the racers.” Terry Brown, 9, is already trying to conbar moustache.) vince his mom to bring him back after his With more than 500 — JENNIFER CVAR, RACE DIRECTOR beginner class is finished so he can learn expected amateur and more about working on bikes. All the kids professional participants, have the opportunity to continue their bike other promoters will be education afterward, moving from a yellow of the two new races), there’s even more trying to capitalize on Indy Crit’s success. apron all the way to a black version, similar incentives to come.” At the Major Taylor Velodrome, a team to the karate belt system. About 15 kids Once again all proceeds will go to Freepursuit race will be held, and on Sunday, have earned the coveted black apron by wheelin’ Community Bikes, a local nona Dan Daly-promoted criterium will completely rebuilding a disassembled bike; profit that teaches local adolescents and take place at Eagle Creek Park. Although teens bike-mechanic skills and helps them one of those black aprons has gone on to neither is officially connected to her race, score a job at Loke Bicycles in Fishers. n earn their own free bicycle. This will be the Cvar hoped that the combined three days
Fever V. San Antonio Stars July 10, 7 p.m. The middle matchup of the Fever’s three-game home stand pits Indy’s WNBA franchise against the Stars. The Fever is flirting with a .500 record at this stage of the season — but wins right now are still being overshadowed by the Pacers’ off-court moves, including the departure of Roy Hibbert, which is incredibly dumb or incredibly smart, depending on whether you believe Bob Kravitz or Gregg Doyel. Bankers Life Fieldhouse, $10-120 Eleven V. Carolina Railhawks July 11, 7: 30 p.m. The Indy Eleven open the “Fall” season with a match on the pitch (see how much futbol we know after watching the Women’s World Cup?) against a team that wrapped up the Spring campaign with a ™ similar record to the Eleven’s. Carroll Stadium at IUPUI, $10-100 Bicycling: Ride Across Indiana (RAIN) July 11, 7 a.m. Roughly 160 miles, many on US 40. OUCH OUCH OUCH OUCH OUCH. So much OUCH, in fact, many cyclists refer to this one as the “PAIN” ride. START: St. Mary-of-the Woods (Terre Haute), FINISH: Earlham College (Richmond), $40-65, rainride-2015.org The Mass Ave Criterium Aug. 1, 9 a.m.-9:30 p.m. PUT THIS ON YOUR CALENDAR NOW: This NUVO-sponsored — hell, NUVO-created event is one solid Saturday full of excitement. And after the Indy Crit, you’re sure to be hooked on this style of racing. You’ll see kids on bikes, people on fixies — not to mention some of the best riders anywhere competing in the final race, even pro2015 fessionals. You’ll see the top riders running under the lights after sunset. The triangular course is challenging, and the tradition of American criterium racing — which saw the height of its popularity in the 1920s — highlights beautiful urban settings as a backdrop for the course. Plus, we really dig Mass Ave, y’know? You can also volunteer to help out on race day — you’ll get a free t-shirt and food. Mass Ave, FREE for spectators, massavecrit.com
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Magic Mike XXL r When the first Magic Mike came out, groups of women went to theaters on opening day anticipating the kind of fun they would have at a Chippendale’s show, only to leave disappointed because the movie had too much drama and not enough stripping. I suspect Magic Mike XXL is more the kind of film they were hoping for. There’s not a lot at stake – hardly anything, really. Instead, there is Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash, Stephen Boss, Adam Rodriguez and more, stripping and having fun while traveling to Tampa for a big male stripper event. Everybody looks great and the goings-on are easy to watch. R, in wide release.
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The Overnight r Alex and Emily (Adam Scott and Taylor Schilling) are parents that just moved to Los Angeles from Seattle and are trying to make friends. Enter Curt and Charlotte (Jason Schwartzman and Judith Godreche), who seem friendly enough. A pizza party is set up, but after the kids go to bed, things get freaky. Funny enough, if a little too sketchy. R, Keystone Art
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Terminator Genisys r This film pulls off a neat trick for Terminator fans. It transports us back in time to when we first fell in love with the Terminator mythos. Lovingly recreating scenes from the original film, Genisys follows future resistance fighter Kyle Reese as he travels back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor, the mother of humanity’s hope against killer robots. The Terminator franchise is ideal for a reboot, as its time travel element allows filmmakers to play with the mythos, which writers Laeta Kalogridis, Patrick Lussier and director Alan Taylor do excessively here. Genisys is often silly and paradoxical. But it ultimately feels like it was made by true fans rather than a studio looking for a cash-grab. And, of course, Arnold Schwarzenegger is always fun to watch as the titular humanoid robot. PG-13, in wide release.
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my Winehouse was a gifted singer and songwriter who became a punchline. Then she died and the jokes stopped. Amy is a powerful documentary that puts her life back into context. Regardless of whether or not you’re familiar with Winehouse and her music, it is well worth your time. She only made two albums. The first brought her critical acclaim and success at home in England. The second brought international stardom and massive hits, including a little ditty called “Rehab” (“They tried to make me go to rehab and I said, ‘No, no, no.’”). That’s when most of us got our first look at Winehouse, onstage in her beehive hairdo and trashy makeup. She looked disengaged, probably wasted, or about to get wasted, just as soon as she got the performance out of the way. Her image as self-destructive pop star was bolstered by the tabloids, and then by late night talk show comedians that stopped using Keith Richards’ name when they recycled old jokes about hard-living stoners and plugged in Amy Winehouse’s name instead. In 2011 she died at age 27, joining Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and Kurt Cobain in “The 27 Club.” Three years earlier, her former personal assistant told an interviewer that Winehouse feared that she might end up in the club. British director Asif Kapadia (“Senna”) goes back to the beginning and
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out is because Kapadia shows the words to the songs onscreen. Oh my god, what a difference that makes! You see young Winehouse, a nice young Jewish girl OPENING: THURSDAY AT KEYSTONE ART giggling and chattering with her friends, C I N E M A , A M C S H O W P L A C E I N D I A N A P O L I S 1 6, then you see the words to the poems V I L L A G E P A R K C I N E M A 17 (which became lyrics) she wrote about RATED: R w her life. Words that are true to who she is while showing a sophistication you shows us the journey of Amy Winewouldn’t otherwise associate with the house. The documentary is remarkable footage onscreen. Amazing. for two reasons. First, the events are How did this kid know about singers recent enough that there is video of allike Ronnie Spector, Billie Holiday and most everything. Remember how docuSarah Vaughan? How did someone her mentaries were made out of talking age become familiar enough with Marilyn heads? Not here. In “Amy,” you see her Monroe’s presidential performance of life unfolding, from the early days when “Happy Birthday” to do her own knowing version? All you can do is watch and marvel. Some members of Winehouse’s By the time the film nears the family have denounced the film end, I appreciated and respected for its portrayal of Winehouse in the latter days of her life. Amy Winehouse considerably They claim it focuses too much on the negative. Others have more than I had before. complained that the film doesn’t include footage of some of Winehouse’s worst behavior towards the end, including arrests for assault. she and her girlfriends recorded each What I know is this: By the time the other, to the latter days, when she and film nears the end, I appreciated and her handlers tried to get from point A to respected Amy Winehouse considerpoint B while photographers assaulted ably more than I had before. Whatever them with exploding white light. the particulars of her final months, she I’ve always wondered who is interwas an enormously talented human ested in photos of celebrities shielding being. More importantly, she was a nice their eyes while trying to enter or exit buildings. Ethical considerations aside, young Jewish girl from London who was ill-equipped for fame. She even says so. what is there to see? Listen for yourself. n The second reason that “Amy” stands REVIEW
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commodity plant and its byproducts, it seems unlikely that slavery as we know it or the Civil War would have ever haposhua Gonzales is always trying to get pened. me to listen to him talk about booze. In fact, sugar-rich land was so imporWell, not just talk, but recount the tant and profitable, the British governfiner points of the hours of education ment sent the majority of their military (though I think “edutainment” fits better to the islands to protect them. In the as a label) that he and his fellow process, the British were unable dedicated bartenders and owners to prevent the breaking away of go through for the betterment of 13 little American colonies that the bar experience. This time, he eventually became back-to-back was onto rum, which he learned at World War champs. a recent intensive rum education Most of the refinement was becamp in Puerto Rico, is actually ing done on America’s east coast, America’s true “native spirit.” and by 1760, the state of Massachu“A lot of people think of Bourbon Joshua setts alone had over 63 individual Gonzales when they think of real American rum distilleries. Most had closed spirits, but in reality, it’s actually rum.” their doors by the mid 1800s with the The sugar-cane based spirit was at the abolishment of slavery. The cane trade is root of everything from piracy to slavery, still responsible for the majority of sugar as the colonizers rapidly ate up ecuatorial production globally (about 65 percent, growing zones for the commodity plant. with the other 35 percent produced from The rum trade’s triangular cut through sugar beets grown in temperate climates). the oceans became the avenues by which Now, however, there is a revival of interest slaves were brought to America, rum and in the art of rum distilling, thanks mostly molasses to Europe, and finally survival to the variety within the liquor genre. supplies for African colonizers from EuThere are few rules for what does and rope. Don’t get it twisted either: the slavery does not make something “real” and rum trades were not just happenrum, but the different styles are stance neighbors in this trade; by the late set apart by the nation for 1600s, Americans’ thirst for the stuff meant which the rum was currency. cane plantations needed more labor, and But unlike most other spirits, so American and European producers there is no set “proper” distilstarted to import slaves to prop up their lation process, and rum can be massive profit margins. Essentially, the produced from a variety of startcane trade created slavery. Without an ing ingredients with either pot or ever-increasing taste for the hot climate column distillation. n
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KNOW YOUR RUM English-speaking islands and countries are known for darker rums with a fuller taste that retains a greater amount of the underlying molasses flavor and color. More than likely, if you’ve had rum, you’ve had this style of brown or golden rum as one part of a long list of poor collegiate decisions.
French-conquered islands are best known for their earthy rums. The name, agricole, is French for “agricultural,” and it’s made entirely out of sugar cane juice. That means it retains much more character from the plant itself, and an overall more botanical flavor.
Spanish-conquered islands and countries traditionally produce añejo rums, which get their smoothness from aging in casks, or sometimes bourbon barrels. These are sippable and for the grown-up palate.
MIX IT And now that you know all you can from 500 words of rum education, try these essential three rum drinks at home:
DAIQUIRI 2 oz. light rum 3/4 oz. fresh squeezed lime juice 3/4 oz. 1:1 simple syrup Shake hard with ice and fine strain into coup.
MOJITO 2 oz. light rum 3/4 lime 3/4 oz. 1:1 simple syrup 5-6 mint leaves Shake hard with ice and fine strain into a Collins glass that had been prepped with new ice and about an inch of soda water. Add the ice soda to the glass before you strain in the cocktail. This will insure that the soda is integrated into the whole drink.
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(A more sophisticated version of the mojito) 2 oz. aged rum (Don Q Anejo) 3/4 lime 3/4 oz. 1:1 simple syrup Two dashes of Angostura bitters 5-6 mint leaves Shake hard with ice and strain into a coup. Top with a dry sparkling wine and garnish with a mint sprig. MORE ONLINE:
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Repeal opens Friday They’ve passed inspections, hung the chandeliers and gotten their shrubs just right. The vintage-themed restaurant opens its doors this weekend, and we’ll have a review for you about it next week. Got kids? Don’t worry, the restaurant is divided so everyone can enjoy the Prohibition-era drinks and food. At the very least, go down and see the gorgeous Virginia Street State Bank building. 636 Virginia Ave., facebook.com/RepealRestaurant Malicious But Delicious dinner postponed As happens to those who forage in nature for their food, heavy rains have delayed the gathering of necessary ingredients for this dinner of invasive species. All the chefs are staying on for the event, but organizers will let us know when the new date is. Stay tuned to nuvo.net/events to make sure you get all the updates. John Adams gets back in the game Chef John Adams is back in the restaurant game, this time bringing family-style “Asian-fusion soul food” and tiki-style cocktails, wine and beer to Fountain Square. Adams had previously made his mark at Bluebeard and Plow & Anchor. Though for now, the restaurant only plans to be open for dinner, Adams hopes to eventually add Sunday brunch and special events to the roster. Brian Epstein of UrbanSpace Commercial Properties and Darren Block, or UrbanSpace and Landsharks have signed on to back the restaurant. 1106 Prospect St. We need your questions for our brewers! Looking for the Ask a Brewer column? We need your questions to keep this train rolling! Send them in to askabrewer@nuvo.net, or find your faithful food editor on Twitter: @likesquirrel317.
EVENT Chefs’ Night Off’s “Steal Your Face” July 26, 5:30 & 7:30 p.m. The final dinner before off to the James Beard House. Four courses plus one collaborative dessert paired with Founders Beer and a hell of a good time! The chefs, per usual, represent some of the best talent in the city. Chefs: Andrew Whitmoyer of Thunderbird, John Herndon of Oakley’s Bistro/Black Market, Bryan Kanne of Pioneer and Allan Giannattasio of Shoefly. Shoefly Public House, 122 E. 22nd St., $55, 283-5007
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hris and Ally Benedyk are already on a rough streak of breaking hearts. Their restaurant was a huge hit in Milwaukee long before they began renovations on their 10th and Post sandwich shop, and its closing was mourned by city residents and food editors of many local publications. Well na-na-na-na-nah, Milwaukee, because we’re getting our prodigal son back, and he’s bringing his signature brand of high-end flavors in brownbag approachability to the Pogue’s Run neighborhood. “When we left, I think we always knew we’d come back to Indianapolis.” Even during the three-year flourish of Love Handle on the Great Land’s east side, Benedyk was importing meat from Goose the Market. It’s also where he once worked, and where he learned the craft of curing meats. Chris’s restaurant and food mirror each other as Chris Benedyk well. He’s going to start off with a simple smoker out back and offering whatever he can churn out between that and a contact griddle. Both Chris and Ally have spent the last few months prepping the shop and building up buzz by selling sandwiches out of the Milktooth parking lot during Mixture. They more or less recycled the interior from their original shop, wall color included, and decided to go with what definitely wasn’t broke for their service model: One counter, one cold case, and a bunch of chairs. Behind the counter, Benedyk has set up a refrigerator in which he can hang his
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Summer is finally here and that means with the hotter weather we gravitate toward cold sugary drinks, popsicles and ice cream. However, many of these foods contain high fructose corn syrup and other sugars, which can affect blood sugar levels and cause dehydration. Between the heat, outdoor activities and exercise, it is important to consume plenty of water and hydrating foods. Enjoying more fruits in the summertime is a great way to quench your thirst along with providing your body with vitamins and nutrients. Fruits like cantaloupe, honeydew, oranges and watermelon are great sources. Watermelon is 93 percent water. I have tested these delicious recipes that I pull out during the warmer months to keep me hydrated while enjoying a healthy treat. Since it’s super simple and all ages of your family will love, try my “Mint Melon Cooler” juice and “Cherry Banana Sorbet.” They’ll bring a smile to anyone’s face.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: A River Runs Through It: Connecting Life in Indiana to the Waters around Us NOW through Aug. 1. The Sierra Club Hoosier Chapter tells us it’s inviting “amateur and professional artists, even non-artists, to create and submit new art for its annual exhibit at the Indiana Interchurch Center this fall. The exhibition, A River Runs Through it: Connecting Life in Indiana to the Waters around Us, will feature art that explores the vital need for stewardship, sustainability, awareness, and advocacy for Indiana’s water. One of the exhibit’s goals is to broaden participation by including people who do not have extensive art background but who would like to express themselves on environmental issues they feel passionately about. Submissions are open to Sierra Club members and non-members.”
“I know cotton and hemp might not be quite as durable as plastic ... or your shoes. Something that’s healthy, safe and long-lasting for chewing is elk antlers.” — RENEE
hoosier2.sierraclub.org July Second Sunday Slow Saunter July 12, 1 p.m. Once a month, the Indiana Forest Alliance hosts a leisurely walk through an Indiana wood, rain, snow or shine. (Odds are good snow won’t be an issue for this one.) Next up: the proposed Cataract State Wild Area, in Owen-Putnam State Forest.
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Owen-Putnam State Forest (Poland), FREE Barn Conference July 18, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. This incredibly interesting event is split into two locations. From the organizers: “[The] Indiana Barn Foundation and [The] National Barn Alliance host a day-long conference on saving Indiana’s dwindling number of historic barns. Ann Arbor-based architect Chuck Bultman, who has restored barns and adapted many to new uses as homes, wedding venues, and event spaces, serves as keynote speaker. The historic Normandy Barn at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis hosts the conference from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Attendees will also see a screening of the documentary Resurrection of a Barn and end the day with a tour of Traders Point Creamery in Zionsville.” Indiana State Fairgrounds, 1202 E. 38th St., $30 member, $40 non-member, includes lunch and barn tour August Second Sunday Slow Saunter Aug 9, 1 p.m. Yep, they’re planning ahead: cool off with a visit to the proposed Siberia State Wild Area, in Ferdinand State Forest. 27700 Calhoun Road (Bristow), FREE
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I’m gonna use your question to share a lot of info here. Bear with me. Yes, you may put your empty prescription bottles in your curbside recycling bin. To make sure your personal information doesn’t get reused, make sure to peel off and destroy the label. I have also reused old prescription bottles to store bulk herbs and spices when my spice rack doesn’t have the appropriate container. They’re also the perfect size for buttons, change, screws, and a number of other things that you may need to organize. PIECE OUT, RENEE
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dogs, they offset their carbon with a local preservation fund, are members of Green America and AmericanMadeMatters, and give five percent of every sale to no-kill rescue organizations. I know cotton and hemp might not be quite as durable as plastic ... or your shoes. Something that’s healthy, safe and long-lasting for chewing is elk antlers. Pet Lovers Organic Bakery has various sizes and shapes of antlers from Indiana elk. You can also find antlers online at places like Nature’s Select of Indiana and at pet stores. Look for brands that say their antlers are 100% naturally shed, meaning that no animals are harmed in collection. I think you should treat your pooch to a new local toy — and treat yourself to a new pair of shoes. PIECE OUT, RENEE
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To rinse, or not to rinse: that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the recycling center to clean ... The bottles and cans of outrageous food scraps, Or to save water from the sea of bubbles ... There’s no need to scrub recyclables clean before tossing them in the bin, but giving them
a little rinse helps make the whole recycling process more clean and efficient. DO swish some water around in a pasta sauce jar to remove the residue. D O NOT run a peanut butter jar through the dishwasher – just use a spatula to remove as much as you can. D O rinse out milk jugs with a little water. D O NOT worry about using hot water and soap to sterilize recyclables. D O reuse water for the purpose of rinsing recyclables, like the cold, murky water at the end of washing dishes or the pot of water from boiling eggs. D O NOT ever put half empty bottles, cans or jars in your recycling bin. Some things to keep in mind when deciding to rinse or not to rinse: • P lastics are sensitive to contaminants and excess waste can alter their chemistry and affect the quality of the recycled material. • P aper and cardboard are especially sensitive to contamination, so if nothing else, it’s important to dump liquids out before putting them in a bin with paper goods. • R ecycling materials typically requires much less water than producing products from virgin materials, so prudent rinsing will not negate the good you’re doing by recycling. Now — get thee to a recyclery! PIECE OUT, RENEE SIGN UP for the AskRenee Newsletter at indianalivinggreen.com.
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Some bands manage to make a living crafting the most commercially unviable music imaginable. Melt-Banana is one. The Tokyo-based duo – vocalist Yasuko Onuki and guitarist Ichirou Agata – are capable of pop-based sensibilities. They just bury it under layers of strafing effects, and play it at inhuman speeds and stentorian levels. That still attracts divaricated fans. As proof, Melt-Banana performed at the Maryland Deathfest in May, while this month they’re on the bill for the Eaux Claires Music & Arts Festival curated by Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and The National’s Aaron Dessner. With eight albums, two live albums and 26 EPs under their belts, Melt-Banana have worked or toured with fellow avant-garde luminaries such as Merzbow, John Zorn and Mr. Bungle. With a new singles and covers compilation available now, they’re playing July 13 at the Hi-Fi with Torche opening. We caught up with Onuki and Agata with a recent email exchange. NUVO: Were there other bands with a similar sound in your native Japan or did you kind of stand alone in your sound? AGATA: I think we are kind of standalone. ONUKI: We play with many bands in Japan, but they sound different from our music.
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NUVO: How difficult is it to incorporate melody into your songs while keeping it noisy and fast? AGATA: It’s one of the most difficult things for us when writing songs. ONUKI: It’s difficult to find good balance. AGATA: I agree. That’s why we are very slow when writing new songs. NUVO: Is there more of an attempt at this point in your career to have your music more conventional to more people, or do you think it’s as experimental as it’s ever been? AGATA: We have been trying to write catchy music from the beginning of this band. ONUKI: I think our approach to writing catchy music has changed and evolved. And also we have more ways to express what we like to do now than before, having played music for a long time. AGATA: We were really beginners when we started this band. NUVO: Why have you gone through so many drummers? AGATA: I also want to know why. — WADE COGGESHALL See show info on page 32
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estival season is upon us, but you don’t have to travel far for a great lineup. There’s one in our own backyard. The second annual Mutant Fest takes place Saturday July 11 at The Back Door and The Blockhouse in Bloomington. It's the second year for the fest, but technically a Bloomington debut; the first occurrence was in Louisville last year. Festival founder Meagan Scruggs said the turnout to last year’s festival was quite a bit smaller than she expected, but despite the disappointment, she knew immediately after that first festival that Mutant Fest needed to happen again. “It was an overall fun experience, and I just kind of learned from it,” she said. So when Scruggs made the move to Bloomington, she brought her idea with her. Alex Molica and Jared Coyle, founders of the concert promoter/record label/house venue Crush Grove, invited her to start booking shows and live in the Crush Grove house, and they
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joined the effort to bring Mutant Fest back for round two. This year, bands will perform at both The Back Door and The Blockhouse, with sets starting at staggered times so someone is always playing. Scruggs said she knew from the beginning that The Back Door would be a good place to host the festival, and they started looking into The Blockhouse when it opened at the beginning of the year. She said The Blockhouse had just successfully hosted the Bloomington Peace Festival at the end of April, so they agreed to host Mutant Fest shortly after. The Hemingers are the only Mutant Fest veterans to play again this year on a lineup Scruggs sweated over. Finally getting her first choice band Timmy’s Organism on the bill was a high point for Scruggs in the festival’s planning.
“I always thought he was, like, the number one mutant,” she said about the band’s frontman Timmy Vulgar. Last year, he turned down her request to play at the festival, but she said he finally relented after she persistently asked about playing this year. Mutants like Timmy Vulgar are the intended audience for Mutant Fest, Scruggs said. “It’s for the movers and the shakers, the creepers, the crawlers, the underground dwellers and the rock’n’roll goners,” she said. “It’s just for the outof-place and the not normal.” Scruggs said when she put together the lineup for the festival, she wanted to put together a festival that she, a self-described “true believer in rock and roll,” would enjoy. She wanted an afternoon and evening of uncompromising rock to give to rock lovers. Even more, Scruggs said she wanted to showcase her favorite Midwest rockers. “I want Indiana to be put on the map for rock and roll,” she said. “I want it to be true again, so I got as many Midwest bands as possible. I think my heart is in the Midwest.” Kyle Gross, drummer and vocalist
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in The Brothers Gross, said he thinks it’s great to gather together so many bands from the region. He said he’s especially excited to see new bands alongside the old standbys. One of those old bands is Mutant Fest’s capstone. Scruggs said she got in contact with legendary Hoosier protopunkers The Gizmos on a whim. When she heard The Gizmos wanted to return to Bloomington to record a new EP after last year’s reunion of the original 1976 lineup, she said she reached out to two of the band members about Mutant Fest. Eddie Flowers, one of the band’s lead vocalists, said the festival is the only show The Gizmos currently plan on playing in 2015. Most of the band is scattered across the country working regular jobs, he said, so getting everyone to take time off and get to the same place is a hard task. The Gizmo’s manager set up a GoFundMe to raise money for the band’s transportation and recording costs, but they only raised part of the money for transportation. Still, Flowers said they will figure it out. “It’s great when we get together,” he said. “That’s what was really cool when we finally did this. In our minds, we didn’t know. We were, like, ‘How’s this going to work?’ And I think it works really well. I don’t think it comes off like a bunch of old guys trying to be teenagers.” Gross and Jessic Wabbit, guitarist and lead vocalist for The Girls!, both said they’re excited to see The Gizmos play. Gross said the band is a good example of the Midwest sound of raw protopunk.
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Flowers said the band never meant to be a Midwest band, though. It just happened. Flowers lived in Alabama at the time the original Gizmos lineup recorded their three EPs, and he would drive up to Bloomington for the band’s recording sessions. The location just happened to be Bloomington, and the bands they were listening to for inspiration, like the MC5 and The Stooges, just happened to be from the Midwest. “I think we were, but we weren’t,” Flowers said about being a Midwest band. “I guess we were the first Indiana punk band, even though we were not exactly from Indiana.” Whether they were or not, The Gizmos left a SUBMITTED PHOTO legacy of punk music that stuck to influence new generations of Midwest rockers such as The Brothers Gross. Beyond the music, Scruggs said she wants to have some food vendors at the festival such as Uel Zing Coffee and Gimmie Sum Moe. With a large crowd expected and a plan for swimming pools, she also recommends wearing a swimsuit. “You’re probably going to come out gross in sweat or filled with water or something,” Scruggs said. n
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listener to Troubadours of Divine Bliss couldn’t begin to separate spirituality from the inventive blend of folk they’ve made their own over the last two decades. After growing up in an insular Pentecostal community of Central Kentucky, where both singer/guitarist Aim Me Smiley and singer/accordion player Renee Ananda played music within the structure of the church, they’re uniquely able to blend the holy with the secular. And that’s what’s become a calling card of sorts for the duo: The ability to write music with a message that doesn’t beat you over the head. “Music is awesome that way; it’s the key that tumbles in and unlocks people and they don’t even realize they’re being unlocked!” says Smiley. “So it can be much more disorganized. You can sneak messages in that find their way into peoples’ hearts without them feeling like they’re being preached to or they’re being taught. There’s no specific dogma or religion attached to it.” Smiley and her wife Ananda split time between their cabin in Southern Indiana and their home in Bloomington, where they were legally married a year ago. They’ve both been inspired by the way Central Indiana has embraced the LGBTQ community. “The pioneers before us had to find a strength and an anger in extremes to get the attention they needed,” says Smiley. “And it seems like in the past 20 years it’s been more of a relationship changing, a relationship building between the heterosexual and the homosexual community. I know for us personally, we’ve made the most progress by reaching peoples’ hearts and by letting them see a loving, mature relationship, and in loving them regardless of how they feel about us, by respecting their beliefs. Inevitably any kind of barriers to just having respect and love for one another just fall away, because it seems like you’re fighting too hard to be against it.” Bringing a spiritual focus into the gay community is something Smiley says she’s proud to do. “A big part of what we’ve wanted to 30 MUSIC // 07.08.15 00.00.15 - 07.15.15 00.00.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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see change and shift is a spirituality within the gay community, because that was stolen from us,” she says. “We were told we were unholy, that we can’t have a spiritual life. So it’s really beautiful to see that shifting as well for gay people, not just equality and equal rights in government but also full engagement of their own purity and spirituality.” While the Troubadours only come through Indianapolis and the surrounding suburbs three or four times
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a year, they’ve had their share of memorable experiences. Ananda tells of the time they were enjoying postshow drinks at one of the Fountain Square rooftop bars, when they were invited to an underground art installation by a trio of young men. “They found out we were musicians so they asked if we could do a song,” she says. “So we started singing an a cappella song that we do called “Standing in the Stairwell”, and suddenly we were having a Stomp
moment, these guys are playing the railings and buckets. One of them, it turns out, was Jim Poyser [former NUVO managing editor], so that was kind of surreal. That was more than 10 years ago, and it still stands out as our most fun night in Indy.” They will return this week to officially launch their new album As You Wish at Grove Haus, an album they say could only have happened at this point in their career. “As these songs were surfacing, we knew they could only happen because we’d been able to make a special trip down to New Orleans and we were reinvigorated with the music down there,” says Ananda. “Our travels and experiences added to this collection of music. This particular album and the one just prior to it are the first albums we’ve ever kept more to a single genre. Typically we’d blended all the different styles together, and that’s fun to do and powerful in its own way but there’s that situation where you’ve got enough momentum going with a message, and it gets into people.” Whatever your particular bliss, if you do come to hear the Troubadours live, they just want you to be yourself. “The reason we chose the name Troubadours of Divine Bliss is that our greatest inspiration comes from the deepest joy, the great mystery, that the spirit brings,” says Smiley. “But we don’t seek to define what that is for anyone other than to encourage them to seek and find their own divine bliss, their own happiness, by living out their purpose and finding what they’re here to do.” n
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met Sutiweyu Sandoval around five years ago. At that point, I knew of him as a breakdancer, but at the point we met he was attempting to transfer his energies into the world of DJ culture and music production. He'd taken an interest in my globally themed dance parties and would show up at all my gigs and ply me with dozens of questions. I appreciated his interest. In turn I tried to support his entry into the Indianapolis DJ scene, throwing a few gigs his way. But he didn't need my help. His Latintinged b-boy dance tracks produced under the nom de plume K. Sabroso quickly developed an international fan base. Sandoval has spent the last few years bouncing around the globe spinning b-boy battles and dance parties while racking up an impressive list of releases on a wide variety of labels, including Indy's own Rad Summer. I recently met with Sandoval quite by accident. We were both booked to spin for Cumbia Sazo a monthly electronic Latin music party at Chicago's Double Door. I caught up with Sandoval between sets and invited him to select a few tracks to spin on my Cultural Manifesto radio show. Hear the tunes this Wednesday night at 9 on 90.1 WFYI Public Radio.
NUVO: When we met you were an Eastsider like me. Now you're bouncing all over the planet. I know you've spent some time in Latin America and you were based in Brooklyn for a while. Why did you feel that you needed to leave Indy?
NUVO: You haven't been spending too much time in Indy lately. Remind folks what type of music you produce and play under your K. Sabroso name.
NUVO: Your music uses a lot of samples and textures from Garifuna music. Their music, language and dance is extremely unique and beautiful. Tell our readers about your connection to this culture.
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SANDOVAL: To be honest outside of your Cultural Cannibals parties there's no place in Indianapolis that the sound I was striving toward made sense. It's not like I was doing something groundbreaking, but here the music I was making didn't make sense to anybody. It was something me and my crew of dancers needed. Inspired and creatively innovative dance parties were something we needed. Indianapolis has world class DJs, but that doesn't mean they have the creative freedom to do everything want to. I know all these “There’s a sensuality to [Garifuna they phenomenal DJs in Indianapolis who were not packing dance music] that I can’t escape.” floors. For the ones who made — SANDOVAL a living off it they kind of had to stick to formats that would make the club money.
SUTIWEYU SANDOVAL: I guess what I'm known for is creating music for and spinning for b-boys and breakers. But one of the things I take the most enjoyment from is finding a type of Caribbean or tropical sound and reworking that into something that works for contemporary dance floors. So I may take a soca track and rework it into moombahton, or I may take a mambo and turn it into drum and bass. There's no formula for it. Sometimes I just hear the potential in something that I already think is amazing, but I feel like if I update it or rework it the 17-year-olds will be like, "Mambo is crazy!"
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SANDOVAL: I'm half Garifuna. My dad is from Labuga, which is the primary Garifuna village in Guatemala. I wasn't raised speaking the language and I wasn't raised within the tribe itself. So there's only a small handful of words I know in the language. But the music is beautiful to me. When I hear the language or the music it feels like a part of me. There's a sensuality to it that I can't escape. n ™
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Jaill, NE-Hi, Chives 8 p.m. Jaill returns to Burger Records with new album Brain Cream after two albums on Sub Pop. They’ll play with Chicago’s NE-Hi and locals Chives.
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Von Strantz Music Video Premiere Party 7 p.m. The folk duo will premiere a music video for their track “1793,” plus a limited edition book. Flat 12, 414 N. Dorman St., FREE, 21+ LOCAL Craig B. Moore and The Invaders 8 p.m. Moore, an educator who serves as the assistant principal at Doe Creek Middle School in New Palestine, has worked with guitarist Tom Baumgardner for more than a decade, since the two were college roommates. For Life Matters, the two teamed up
with Brant Cook on bass, Corey Miller on rhythm guitar and Nate Wiencken on drums. Once the Invaders lineup was set, they set to recording the debut last March at The Lodge Recording Studios in Indianapolis. Just weeks after releasing the album, they threw themselves to the Birdy’s Battle Royale wolves. “I think anyone who saw us in March and then saw us again in May would have seen a noticeable difference and I think a lot of it is due to the fact that the Battle Royale really stretched us,” says Moore. “It challenged us to look at ourselves individually and as a band to bring out the best.” That’s a message he strives to impart on the students who pass through his office “I just had a neat experience, as our high school jazz band covered our song “How To Fall,” and they invited me to perform it with them at their spring concert. It was a really neat experience. And then they interviewed me after the performance. And one of the questions was what advice I would give to a student who wanted to pursue a career in music. And my answer was easy: ‘Go for it!’ I think a lot of kids, especially these days, are so focused on doing one thing well, they don’t feel like they can find enough time for music.” — JONATHAN SANDERS
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from restaurants will be available as well. Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Wester Art, 500 W. Washington St., prices vary, all-ages FEST Mutant Fest 4 p.m. See our preview on page 28. The full lineup includes Laffing Gas, Tycoons of Teen, Wet Heave, Thee Open Sex, The Girls!, The Panics, Chives, Timmy’s Organiism, Cancuners, Cold Star, Sick Velvet, RAW, KP and Me, The Hemingers, The Brothers Gross and The Gizmos. The Back Door, 207 S. College Ave., $10, 21+
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Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St., $7, 21+ Joy Caroline Mills, Indiana Design Center, all-ages Minute Details, Doktra, Perfect Teeth, Phaze II, Jakis Strakis, Rainy Day Field-Trip, house venue (address unlisted), all-ages
Shelby County Faigrounds, 500 Frank St. (Shelbyville), FREE, all-ages ROCK Local H, Maravich 9 p.m. We’re sending Rhonda Baughman to cover this show, because’s she’s all about Local H. Example: When they were crowdfunding their last album, she had them out to her place for a show to fulfill a donation perk. She’ll report back on NUVO.net about the latest show from her beloved Local H after Friday’s show. The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 4, $15, 21+ LOCAL The Gizmos Mutant Fest PreShow and CD Release Party 11 p.m. Before they head down to Bloomington for Mutant Fest, the Gizmos will hit up State Street Pub to release their new album 28. State Street Pub, 243 N. State Ave., $6, 21+
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POP Train 8 p.m. Pregame with your mom and a giant bottle of white wine. Klipsch Music Center, 12880 E. 146th St., prices vary, all-ages ROOTS Jason Isbell, John Moreland 8 p.m. Isbell may very well be the best currently touring contemporary country singer – an unexpected turn for a guy who was kicked out of The Driveby Truckers and needed a hearty dose of rehab before he could make the masterpiece that is Southeastern. Isbell’s toured mightily on the strength of that solo album for two years now, but we eagerly await new music from him (possibly with new bride/fellow musician Amanda Shires?) out next week. It’s a bit of a haul to get up to Lafayette,
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MONDAY COUNTRY Shania Twain 7:30 p.m. Oh, baby baby. Shania is back on her first North American tour in 11 years and she’s about to bring the HEAT to Bankers Life. Our love for The Lady Twain cannot be overstated, and we’re completely on board for her plan for the year: tour North American (check), record a new album (check) and release it when she turns 50 next August (check, check and check). Man, we feel like a woman who is super stoked to see Shania Twain. Bankers Life Fieldhouse, 125 S. Pennsylvania St., prices vary, all-ages NOISE Melt-Banana, Torche 9 p.m. See our profile on page 28. The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 4, $16 in advance, $18 at door, 21+ Backyard Superheores, P-Funk North, MariaHIll, Monterrey, Hoosier Dome, all-ages Julie Houston, The Jazz Kitchen, 21+ NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 07.08.15 - 07.15.15 // MUSIC 33
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TUESDAY INDIE MEWITHOUTYOU 7 p.m. The band’s latest album, Pale Horses, is out on Run for Cover. Vice called it a crossection of the band’s career to date, which has run the gamut from post-hardcore to folk. Emerson Theater, 4630 E. 10th St., $15 in advance, $18 at doors, all-ages SUPERGROUPS The New Pornographers 7 p.m. It’s difficult to get the Canadian supergroup together, since they’re all highly in-demand artists with their own
projects. But The Vogue has done it! This mini-tour is the last bit of the tour for last year’s LP Brill Bruisers, an uptempo collection of indie pop harkening back to the band’s Twin Cinema days, with some extra electronic flourishes. And there’s something else new, too, according to lead singer AC Newman. “We’ve got sort of a new member named Simi [Stone],” he said in an interview with NUVO last week. “[Stone] is doing second female vocals. It’s because even when Neko can’t do tours, there’s a point that I thought like, we really want to have that second [voice]. A lot of the vocals are built around a second female, and using the maximum amount of singers. We have like five; I’ve
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Sex party pooper My boyfriend wants to have another woman join us in the bedroom. I said I was okay with it, but now that I think about it, I’d like to set some kind of ground rules for what I’m into and not into in terms of the specific sex. I told my boyfriend that I want to have this conversation and he said he thought it would “ruin the spontaneous energy” of the threesome. How do I deal with this? — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: For starters, dump your shitty boyfriend who is trying to make some porny fantasy come true. In reality, you have every right to ask for a conversation beforehand about how this goes down. If he thinks that establishing boundaries and consent will “ruin” anything, he’s a knuckle-dragging moron who doesn’t deserve threesomes or the girlfriends who participate in them. Especially when you’ve been together for a while and you have somewhat of a routine, introducing a third person will interrupt your usual flow, so it’s good to decide what you do and don’t want beforehand so you’re not caught off-guard. That said, remind him that it doesn’t have to be some sort of broad daylight, meet-in-a-public-place kind of thing. Have your third sex friend over for wine (heavy pours for you, dear) and cheese and enjoy each others’ company for a while, then once you feel relaxed, have a conversation about what you imagine it being like. And again, I remind you that if either party becomes squeamish about it when you broach the topic frankly in a discussion, you’d be better off finding a third who is as open and comfortable with the conversation as you want to be. DR. D: Ground rules are the way to go with threesomes — always. Your boyfriend is not being very threesomefriendly if he just wants to do as he pleases, how he pleases. When people set ground rules, things tend to go better. What are common ground rules? Some people
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DR. D: None that I’ve seen in the scientific literature but there is increasing (though still tentative) evidence that ejaculation early in men’s adulthood (e.g., 20s, 30s) may be linked with decreased risk for prostate problems later in life. If you enjoy prostate stimulation during sex, cool — the mental benefits of pleasure and enjoyment have to count for something!
Private public sex I’ve always wanted to have sex outside, but I live in the city. I’d like to have some privacy, but I don’t know where me and my bf can go. Any ideas? — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: It’s time for a road trip, friend. You could cut this one of two ways: either go down the camping path and have good, old-fashioned camping sex, or go to a far (far, far, faraway) city and go with either hotel balcony/rooftop sex or curtains-open 6th-floor hotel sex. Only people looking up from the street will notice, and that kind of optimism deserves such a reward.
SARAH: I’m not a doctor, so I won’t pretend to know the real answer here. However, if you’re the kind of person who needs “antioxidants” to allow yourself a big, delicious square of dark chocolate every day, then I get it. So here’s some fake scientific study headlines you can read to yourself over and over while you plunder your nether hole for prostatic stimulation gold:
DR. D: Somewhere private within a massive, expansive park with no nearby playground or school? (Child-focused places can put you at greater legal risk if you get caught.) Or you take a vacation. A road trip. To the countryside or a wooden highway exit or a tropical vacation, somewhere far away where you’re unlikely to run into your boss or mom or a local security cam but totally likely to run into the beautiful outdoors where you can have sex as you dream.
• 43% of men who engage in prostate stimulation during sex live to 100 years, other 57% immortal
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• Prostate stimulation can cause the penis to grow up to 2 extra inches annually • Oxford Study: Prostate stimulation causes a 15% increase in general sex appeal, and a 76% increase in sex appeal in cargo shorts or jorts* *This is doubly false, because nothing can make you look sexy in cargo shorts or jorts. In all seriousness, if you like it, you should do it. Even if you don’t know if you like it, you should definitely try it if you’re at all curious. You never know when you might find to be your next favorite thing.
“Your boyfriend is not being very threesome-friendly if he just wants to do as he pleases, how he pleases.” — DR. D
My girlfriend will not stop talking about how hot Ruby Rose is from Orange is the New Black. Should I be worried that she might be discovering a different side to her sexuality? — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: No, but rest assured that her vision and hearing are 100% perfect. Ruby Rose’s extreme sexiness transcends any and all preconceptions of gender expression and sexuality, but getting her bonk on for the sexiest person in pop culture who happens to have a vagina won’t magically transform her into a lesbian. That said, I would forsake all lovers future and past to have her, and I’m really into dudes, generally. Sexy people are sexy. Our sexualities are what they are, individually. One doesn’t magically transform the other. DR. D: Absolutely not! It’s great to find people attractive. If she’s going to leave you for someone else, she will do so
anyway, no matter what her sexuality is. She’s unlikely to leave you for a fictional character or a Hollywood actress. She may have someone new to fantasize about, which can make things fun. She may enjoy thinking about her sexuality in bigger ways than she has before. That’s cool, right? People grow, change, expand — try to connect with her on it and ask what she finds appealing or sexy and see how these conversations can help you two to become more intimate, rather than further apart.
To the dick doc, or not? I was having sex w my boyfriend when he kind of “missed” with his penis as he was entering me and it feels like it bent a little. He immediately went soft, and although there was no visible damage that I could see, I could tell he was uncomfortable. He claims he’s fine. Should we seek any additional medical attention? — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: I’m going to guess it probably hurt at least a little, but dicks are fairly resilient. Now, if he had bruising of any kind, I would go to your nearest friendly ER because bruises mean blood vessel damage and that’s no good in an organ made almost entirely out of blood vessels. However, if there’s a lot of pain or any problems getting hard, he may want to go see a boardcertified Dick Doctor. That is their clinical name. * *It’s not. DR. D: If he feels fine and there was no “pop” and no bruising or swelling, then it may be okay. But he should be aware that sometimes even these seemingly minor traumas can cause scar tissue development so if he notices that his erection starts to curve or bend in bigger ways than before, he should mention it to a urologist sooner rather than later lest he wind up with a more severe case of Peyronie’s (which results in a more noticeable bend/ curve, and which is easier treated in early stages). And of course if he feels any pain or notices bruising or swelling or other penile changes, he should seek medical attention.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): While making a long trek through the desert on a camel, British author Somerset Maugham passed the time by reading Marcel Proust’s novel In Search of Lost Time. After finishing each page, Maugham ripped it out and cast it away. The book weighed less and less as his journey progressed. I suggest that you consider a similar approach in the coming weeks, Taurus. As you weave your way toward your next destination, shed the accessories and attachments you don’t absolutely need. Keep lightening your load. Pisces
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I have gathered about me people who understand how to translate fear into possibility,” writes John Keene in his story “Acrobatique.” I’d love to see you do the same, Gemini. From an astrological perspective, now is a favorable time to put your worries and trepidations to work for you. You have an extraordinary capacity to use your doubt and dread to generate opportunities. Even if you go it alone, you can accomplish minor miracles, but why not dare to think even bigger? Team up with brave and resourceful allies who want to translate fear into possibility, too. Gemini
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Even the most provocative meme cannot literally cause the Internet to collapse from overuse. It’s true that photos of Kim Kardashian’s oiled-up butt spawned a biblical flood of agitated responses on social media. So did the cover shot of Caitlyn Jenner in Vanity Fair and the Youtube video of a tiny hamster noshing tiny burritos and the season-five finale of the TV show Game of Thrones. But none of these starbursts unleashed so much traffic that the Web was in danger of crashing. It’s too vast and robust for that to ever happen. Or is it? I’m wondering if Virgos’ current propensities for high adventure and rollicking melodrama could generate phenomena that would actually, not just metaphorically, break the Internet. To be safe, I suggest you enjoy yourself to the utmost, but not more than the utmost. Virgo
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to acquire a new title. It’s quite possible that a person in authority will confer it upon you, and that it will signify a raise in status, an increase in responsibility, or an expansion of your clout. If for some reason this upgrade doesn’t occur naturally, take matters into your own hands. Tell people to refer to you as “Your Excellency” or “Your Majesty.” Wear a name tag that says “Deputy Director of Puzzle-Solving” or “Executive Vice-President of Fanatical Balance and Insane Poise.” For once in your life, it’s OK to risk becoming a legend in your own mind. P.S. It wouldn’t be a bad time to demand a promotion — diplomatically, of course, in the Libran spirit. Libra
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Between now and July 22, your password and mantra and battle cry is “serendipity.” To make sure you are clear about its meaning, meditate on these definitions: a knack for uncovering surprising benefits by accident; a talent for stumbling upon timely help or useful resources without searching for them. Got that? Now I’ll provide clues that should help you get the most out of your lucky breaks and blessed twists: 1. Be curious and receptive, not lackadaisical and entitled. 2. Expect the unexpected. Vow to thrive on surprises. 3. Your desires are more likely to come true if you are unattached to them coming true. But you should formulate those desires clearly and precisely. Scorpio
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): On behalf of the Strange Angels in Charge of Uproarious Beauty and Tricky Truths, I am pleased to present you with the award for Most Catalytic Fun-Seeker and Intriguing Game-Changer of the Zodiac. What are your specific superpowers? You’re capable of transforming rot into splendor. You have a knack for discovering secrets that have been hidden. I also suspect that your presence can generate magic laughter and activate higher expectations and wake everyone up to the interesting truths they’ve been ignoring. Sagittarius
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Who is that can tell me who I am?” asks King Lear in the Shakespeare play named after him. It’s a painful moment. The old boy is confused and alarmed when he speaks those words. But I’d like to borrow his question and transplant it into a very different context: your life right now. I think that you can engender inspirational results by making it an ongoing meditation. There are people in a good position to provide you with useful insights into who you are. Capricorn
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): What’s hard but important for you to do? What are the challenging tasks you know you should undertake because they would improve your life? The coming days will be a favorable time to make headway on these labors. You will have more power than usual to move what has been nearly impossible to move. You may be surprised by your ability to change situations that have resisted and outfoxed you in the past. I’m not saying that any of this will be smooth and easy. But I bet you will be able to summon unprecedented amounts of willpower and perseverance. Aquarius
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Franz Kafka produced three novels, a play, four short fiction collections, and many other stories. And yet some of his fellow writers thought he was uncomfortable in expressing himself. Bertolt Brecht said Kafka seemed perpetually afraid, as if he were being monitored by the cops for illicit thoughts. Milena Jesenská observed that Kafka often wrote like he was sitting naked in the midst of fully-clothed people. Your assignment in the coming weeks is to shed such limitations and inhibitions from your own creative expression. What would you need to do to free your imagination? To get started, visualize five pleasurable scenarios in which you feel joyful, autonomous, generous and expansive. Pisces
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