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Hello Kyle, I just read your article in this issue of NUVO, and upon finishing it, felt it would be almost improper not to write you immediately. I feel the same way you do. I feel like other people see people who have committed criminal acts and automatically replace their humanity with a new title — Criminal. And once you’re labeled it seems to be a pervasive truth in your life.

I see the defeat in them, their desperation. In truth, I have no idea what it feels like to have nowhere to go and no idea how will I make it to the next day.

It seems disingenuous for me to assume that I have any idea what I would do if I was in some of the situations and environments these people find themselves in or are born into. I hope I never become so arrogant or jaded that I replace other people’s humanity with labels. I hope, I hope, I hope.

Kendrick Lamar’s album is some of the best musical story-telling I’ve ever encountered. He has the potential to become one of the seminal artists of our time. He has this potential because people like you, people who understand the stories in music and how a sound can become a setting, will tell your truth as inspired by him and artists like him. Kyle, you are a truth teller. You are honest and essential. Thank you for sharing this piece with your readers.

My father is in prison. He has been my entire life. He may get out soon. He may not. He’s written me letters my entire life, and I love him. He’s done terrible things. And I love him. I don’t make excuses for what he’s done. That’s not what compassion is about.

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VOICES THE MADNESS OF KING MIKE THIS WEEK

Governor Pence denies reality

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e’re used to finding Indianapolis David Hoppe D ranked toward the bottom of has been writing columns for h national surveys measuring things NUVO since the mid-1990s.

N like air quality, educational attainment and FFind him online every week at obesity. So it came as a pleasant surprise to NUVO.NET/VOICES N learn that Indy is ranked the ninth best city in the country for happy marriages.

Sharecare, an interactive health and wellness website in Atlanta, drew on a sample of that gays, many of them in committed rela250,000 people for this finding. According to tionships, play leading roles across a wide Sharecare, Indianapolis folks tend to marry range of the city’s landmark institutions. younger and stay married longer. This is sigThis has been true for years. nificant because Sharecare finds that happily These people are accomplished profesmarried people are healthier — at lower risk sionals. They raise large sums of money, for heart disease and cancer. help shape public policy and work to If you’re that man and woman Gov. Mike sustain and enhance Indy’s reputation.

Pence likes to talk about when he talks about Because this is a city that values team playmarriage, this is great news. You’re even less ers ahead of individualists, they tend not likely to be in a car accident. But if you’re to make a big deal about their so-called part of a same-sex couple — and you live in lifestyles. This makes it easy for the rest Indiana — well, I’d think about moving to of us to congratulate ourselves about how another state, if I were you.

Gay couples everywhere were understandably elated when the The effect of denying gay people U.S. Supreme Court struck down marriage rights amounts to saying the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Not only did this they live in a different country. ruling make it possible for married gays to qualify for federal benefits, it asserted their status as first-class citizens, entitled to the same broad-minded and tolerant we are. rights as anyone else.

But it also leaves the door open for When he heard about the Supreme Court political cynics like Pence and his bigoted ruling, Pence promised to double down on cronies. While the rest of us are busy tryRepublican efforts to pass an amendment ing to look like whatever passes for norto Indiana’s state constitution making gay mal around here, they have been getting marriage forever out of bounds. themselves elected to public offices and “I am confident that Hoosiers will reaffirm dreaming up ideas like a constitutional our commitment to traditional marriage and amendment to relegate an entire group of will consider this important question with people to second-class citizenship. This is civility and respect for the values and dignity discriminatory and, thanks to that recent of all the people of our state,” said Pence.

Supreme Court decision, unconstitutional.

What he failed to mention is that his posiPence and Co. will soft-pedal their ill will tion on this “important question” is squarely by saying all they want is to put a constituaimed at denying the “values and dignity” of tional ban to a vote. As the governor says, gay people who want to be married. he is “confident” a majority of Hoosiers will It’s bad enough that Pence and his ilk vote their prejudice against gay marriage. seem bent on turning America into a grab Mustering the necessary votes to enable an bag of disunited states. If a person’s marriage antigay marriage amendment any less hateis recognized in California but declared illeful. As founding father and architect of the gal in Indiana, you have to ask yourself what Bill of Rights James Madison warned: “If [one] being an American citizen means. We don’t sect form a majority and have the power, carry Indiana passports, but maybe that’s other sects will be sure to be depressed.” next. The effect of denying gay people marAnd Indiana will be sure to find itself riage rights amounts to saying they live in a in never-never land. Pence and his different country. Or wishing they would.

Republican super majority can ignore the What may be worse, though, is what an U.S. Supreme Court. They can cloak bigantigay marriage amendment to our conotry by calling it due process, making the stitution would say about Indiana’s grip state’s constitution an affront to an entire on reality. Whether Hoosiers are willing to class of people. But this denial of reality admit it or not, gay people are among our will only serve to cut Indiana off from its most influential and productive citizens. own future. It won’t make us smarter or Just look, for example, at Indianapolis’ arts healthier — and our marriages won’t be and culture scene. It is common knowledge any happier.

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WHAT HAPPENED? On Wednesday, it was announced that Butler University Men’s Basketball Coach, Brad Stevens, was leaving the university for a job coaching the Boston Celtics.

After six successful years with the Bulldogs, including back-to-back national championship appearances, Stevens is moving to the next level. We wish him well, except on those occasions when his Celtics are playing our Pacers. Butler assistant coach Brandon Miller will replace Stevens. (JP)

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On Thursday, revelers drove their gas-guzzling, air particulate-emitting vehicles all over the city to sit and watch explosions of light and color that also emitted air particulate pollution. Then, they sat in gridlocks of stalled traffic, emitting even more carbon monoxide and other toxins, attempting to drive home. It is called Independence Day, and while the impetus for this annual celebration is absolutely justifiable, the way it plays out is a metaphoric display of American consumerism, waste and conformity. Plus, tens of thousands of animals — domesticated and not — spent the night terrified. (JP) Last week, the Hoosier Environmental Council and the Pipeline Safety Trust hosted a conference regarding Indiana’s aging and potentially hazardous pipeline infrastructure. Pipeline Safety Trust is the only national non-profit focused on pipeline safety, information and advocacy, and represents public interest in various forums. During the conference call, Rebecca Craven, the program director of Pipeline Safety Trust and Kim Ferraro, the Water Policy director of the Hoosier Environmental Council, discussed the logistics of U.S. pipeline systems, current safeguards and regulatory gaps, Indiana implications (a look at Enbridge Energy Line 6B), and recommendations for improved pipeline safety. Craven and Ferraro concluded that no federal agency has a role in hazardous liquid pipeline routing decisions. As a result, states like Indiana have the right to review new pipeline plans with respect to human and environmental impacts. They noted that federal officials have recorded at least 49 pipeline leaks in Indiana since 2002 — including a spill from a Marathon Petroleum Co. line on Indy’s Northwest side that released around 21,000 gallons of diesel fuel. (AM) Marian University announced last week that its Institute for Green and Sustainable Science (IGSS) received a highly competitive, two-year grant of $216,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that will fund the well-regarded IGSS Summer Program .

This year, the IGSS Summer Program, an intensive, seven-week course held on the campus of Marian University, will partner with the Hoosier Environmental Council and Keep Indianapolis Beautiful to make contributions to the broader community both on and off campus. (AM) On Monday, Mayor Greg Ballard unveiled details of a plan to help IMPD officers with the rise in crime. Not everyone was happy, however, because the plan, rather than adding new resources to the IMPD, moves existing resources from one place to another in the form of over a hundred officers moving from non-patrol jobs to patrolling the streets. This announcement occurs weeks after the Indianapolis City-County Council took action to fund 60 new officers by passing the bipartisan-supported Proposal 141, which Ballard subsequently vetoed. “The mayor’s solution is a shell game that fails to add needed officers,” said President Maggie A. Lewis, Indianapolis City-County Council . “The families in our community are concerned about increasing crime and deserve leadership that prioritizes more officers over a cricket stadium.”

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After her home care shift, Kelley Erving, Bloomington, helps care for her mother.

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Home care workers suffer low wages and no rights

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hen Kelley Erving was young, her grandmother was aging and had grown unable to care for herself.

Erving and her mother both had jobs outside the home, so a home care worker named Lateisha helped Erving’s grandmother. Lateisha performed tasks like bathing Erving’s grandmother, feeding her, and helping her with her medications.

The total was much greater than the sum of the parts. “Lateisha was like family to us,” Erving recalls. “She used to climb up in the bed with my grandma, watch TV with her, bring her stuff. She would do anything for her. She was a real comfort to my grandmother — my grandmother was so happy when that girl was coming over.

“That’s me. I’m that same person now.

I am there doing what I do as a home care worker, and I like seeing people’s faces light up when I walk in the door. They say, ‘Girl, let me tell you what happened last night.’

Once you have people who have entered your heart, that makes you good at your job.”

It is quite a job. When the Bloomingtonbased Erving arrives at her client’s home in the morning, she greets the woman and starts preparing a sponge bath. Erving cleans her client as much as possible while the woman sits in her wheelchair. Erving then squats, leans, and helps the woman stand up and brace herself against an end table so Erving can wash the rest of her body.

“Once you learn how to use body mechanics, you don’t get hurt — unless you have to jerk out of position to help prevent a client from falling,” Erving says. Following the morning bath, Erving helps the client get dressed, sets out her morning medicine, prepares the day’s meals, and cleans up around the house. Then Erving is off, headed to two more clients’ homes to perform similar duties. “The clients are amazing, and as long as you keep them happy, they’ll

make sure you are happy too.”

Erving is part of a business that is already huge and quickly getting bigger. There are an estimated 2.5 million home attendants and aides in the U.S. already, and the aging of the Baby Boom generation is making the profession one of the fastest growing job categories. The U.S. home care industry collected more than $84 billion in revenue in 2009. A recent report from the Governor’s Commission on Long Term Caregivers looked at the demographics of the aging Indiana population and concluded, “The growing need for long-term care represents an amazingly stable source of jobs long into the future.”

Yet those jobs are usually not very good ones. Like many home care workers, Erving provides health care for others but cannot afford medical treatment for herself. Two winters ago, the 33-year-old Erving picked up the flu from her two young sons. The virus developed into a sinus infection. Or at least that is what Erving thinks happened,

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Wednesday, July 10, 5:30-7:30 p.m., The Platform, 202 E. Market St., FREE Anti-war vigil Love peace? Hate war? Sponsored by the Indianapolis Peace and Justice Center, the weekly vigil protests allthings-warfare in front of the Federal Building, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

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CAREGIVERS , FROM PAGE 06 because she could not afford to go to a doctor or get antibiotic medication. The health insurance program offered by her employer is prohibitively expensive yet still provides limited coverage, so Erving and most of her colleagues go without. When she is ill, Erving cannot go to work.

“If I would have brought a virus to one of my clients that is on oxygen and has COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), then that is pneumonia right there, and it could kill them,” she says.

Her job provides no sick leave, so when she missed work, Erving missed her pay.

She cut back on food and gas, but still fell behind on the bills. The family had their electricity cut off for two weeks.

Low wages and no rights Nichole Paschal has faced similar struggles. A native of Fort Wayne, Paschal works as many as seven days a week as a certified nursing assistant for an Indianapolis-area home care agency. It took Paschal awhile to come to terms with the gritty challenges of the job. “At first, I thought it was gross to wipe rear ends and clean up vomit. Then I started realizing I was really providing help, and that I really do like caring for people,” she says. “You never know when you’ll need this kind of care, so you want to treat people the way you would like to be treated. Wiping people, changing people — that does not bother me anymore.”

But Paschal discovered the job comes with other challenges. She has high blood pressure that caused her to be hospitalized in 2010, but she has no health coverage.

Despite 16 years of experience and a recent raise, Paschal earns only $10.45 per hour.

She can’t fill her current prescription and still make ends meet for her twin 12-yearold daughters.

Erving makes a similar wage. Like most home care workers, Erving struggles to get full-time hours by shuttling between short two- or three-hour shifts at multiple clients’ homes. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the average wage of home health aides in Indiana to be just over $10 per hour, with an average annual income of $21,030, barely more than the federal poverty level for a family of three. Not coincidentally, nearly 90 percent of home care workers are women, who are vastly over-represented in low-wage service-sector positions.

In real terms, those low wages translate into skipping doctor visits and not filling prescriptions, cutting back on groceries so that the kids can get school clothes, and missed time with your family because you are picking up extra hours caring for someone else.

“How can we work effectively for our clients when we are getting so little pay that we are not sure that the rent is paid or food is put on the table?” Paschal asks. “People caring for others should get a good steady rate of pay.

When you have someone’s life in your hands, your pay should not be so low.”

One of the reasons home care workers struggle with low wages and limited benefits is that they are excluded from some of the most basic protections of U.S. labor law.

Home care aides and attendants are not protected by federal minimum wage and

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Eaton EMT Brian Clark helps transport Linda Muckway from her home to church on Sunday morning.

home workers, and has partnered with disability advocacy groups and other unions to lobby to protect home care funding at the state level. In Illinois, unionized home care workers have bargained for access to health care.

SEIU has a limited membership in Indiana so far, but union home care workers here do get overtime pay, seniority protection, and can only be disciplined for just cause, all protections that go beyond state law. (Paschal once was fired from a non-unionized care facility for speaking up about the treatment of residents.)

Some of the most vocal advocates for home care workers are their clients.

Linda Muckway, a 55-year-old Muncie resident who has cerebral palsy, is pleased with her home care workers and their agency. Muckway says she would not be able to live independently without home care. But she and other advocates express concern about the overall turnover rate in the industry, which some estimates say is as high as 60 percent annually. “You would not have as

overtime laws because Congress decades ago placed their work in the same category as babysitters. Yet, if those same workers performed the same services in a nursing home setting — Erving and Paschal, like many home care workers, have nursing home experience — all the terms of the Fair Labor “... I started realizing I was really Standards Act would apply.

In December 2011, President providing help, and that I really do Barack Obama proposed a like caring for people.” change to U.S. Department of Labor rules that would bring — NICHOLE PASCHAL, CAREGIVER home care workers under the full protection of workplace laws. But over a year and a half much turnover if they were paid more,” later, no permanent rule change has been Muckway says. The numbers back her enacted. up. A significant wage increase for home Home care is a difficult industry to care workers in San Francisco County, unionize. Solidarity is hard to come by California, led to a 31 percent decrease when workers have little interaction with in worker-initiated turnover. each other at their wide-ranging workplaces. But home care workers in several states have come together in unions to bargain for the terms of employment the Advocates like Muckway, the SEIU, law does not guarantee for them. and consumer-focused organizations like In California, for example, the Service the Indiana Home Care Task Force say that changes to Indiana law could benEmployees International Union (SEIU) efit home care workers. Health care for represents 180,000 home care and nursing

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seniors and persons with disabilities is the very opposite of a free market, with services largely funded by government programs like Medicaid. So lawmakers hold the power to readily adopt changes that can make a huge impact on the field.

For example, some home care workers get paid little more than half what their agencies receive in government reimbursement for the care provided. Indiana could require that home health agencies spend a fixed amount of its government reimbursement on worker pay and benefits, a provision that has boosted worker salaries in states like Illinois. And some states have established provider networks that allow home care workers to receive health benefits through the state government.

Currently, though, Indiana officials use their power mostly to provide benefits to the nursing home industry. “Indiana has far too many people in nursing homes who could be in home-based care and would rather be in home-based care, which is more cost-effective, too,” says John Cardwell of the Generations Project and the Indiana Home Care Task Force. Indiana does provide home and community-based services like the CHOICE (Community and Home Options to Institutional Care for Elderly and Disabled) program and a Medicaid waiver program to support homebased care. But, as of 2011, Indiana was 48th in the nation in funding such options, and these programs have thousands of people on their waiting lists.

Home care providers say they are not

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Health-care worker Nichole Paschall with her twin girls Nafia and Efia, both 13.

surprised by the demand. “My clients don’t want to go to nursing homes, and I don’t blame them,” Erving says.

“Sometimes my clients are crying because it hurts to turn over, and you just need to hold their hand. In a nursing home, they are not going to have time to hold your hand. They are going to throw you over whether it hurts or not, clean you, and then they are out of there.”

The Generations Project hosted a multiyear statewide roundtable discussion on

long term care in Indiana and issued its findings in 2011. The report concluded that home care is both the preferred and most cost-effective form of care, saying that “nursing home care is simply the wrong model for virtually anyone needing long term care services.” Advocates like Cardwell and Muckway say that Indiana is missing the opportunity to sharply reduce its Medicaid spending by expanding home care options. The state of Washington, which emphasizes home care options, has

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a population slightly larger than Indiana’s, but nearly two-thirds fewer nursing home residents. In the 2013 session of the Indiana General Assembly, representatives Tom Saunders (R-Lewisville) and Ron Bacon (R-Boonville) proposed to expand home care options in part by funding the growth with Medicaid savings created by avoiding nursing home costs. The bill did not receive a hearing.

Home care workers like Erving and Paschal would like to see the importance of their jobs affirmed by government priorities. But they do not need a lawmaker to tell them their work has value. “Everybody that breathes is at some point going to die,” Erving says. “It’s sad to say it like that, but it is the truth. The normal way is either getting sick by some type of disease or getting older, and your body starts to deteriorate. And when that happens, you need help. Period. There is no way around it.

“The people who are not thinking about that are going to make it to that place regardless. So our job is to give these people the best quality of life possible. You can’t do home care just because it’s a job.

You have to have your heart in it.”

Paschal agrees. But she also considers going back to school for accounting or starting her own business one day. She wishes those plans were less attractive options, because she cares deeply for her clients, and feels that providing home care is part of her better self.

“It is a wonderful field,” she says. “But the pay is just awful.”

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or Delana Ivey, being an educational activist means encouraging local schools to break free from the status quo and embrace open, democratic systems in which parents and students are valued equally with teachers and administrators. “People talk about parent involvement, but it is still the parent being told what to do, just like a child,� Ivey says.

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left) next to Delana Ivey and DeShawn Waiss on the A group of parent activists and their children, including Merry Juerling (front

Through her work with Parent Power — a grassroots effort to engage parents and the community as agents of change within Indianapolis Public Schools — Ivey encourages people to exercise their voices, to ask questions, to realize their value.

“We are critical friends of IPS,” she says. “We have children in it — my physical children that I gave birth to — and my community’s children. These parents are the taxpayers; they are the people who are paying people’s wages. … In the urban or rural setting, there is a different way we’d like children to be addressed — and it is not as a deficit class and your parents as a deficit.”

Bottom line for Ivey: “We want humanity back in schools.”

While running for school board in 2010, Josefa Beyer ran across Ivey speaking at a public meeting. Beyer recalled being struck

by Ivey’s emotion. “I thought ‘That’s why I’m running.’ ” Empowerment is “heartbreaking” work, activist parents say. It entails conflict — often of the good, old-fashioned headbutting type. But the goal is to enable a constructive kind of conflict based on the various stakeholders’ ability to challenge each other’s actions and assertions. In study groups, Parent Power members read actual “conflict theory” as it relates to the sociology of education. They consider the ultimate purpose of education and worry that curricular change accompanying by the rise of high-stakes testing increases the factors that cause dropouts and disenfranchise-

ment. They discuss the ultimate purpose of education and fret that critical thinking and holistic intellectual development are suffering under contemporary status quo.

Central to these discussions of educational theory and approach is the notion of critical pedagogy. In a February 2013 interview with Global Education Magazine, Henry Giroux, a leading proponent of critical pedagogy, explained it as such: “As a political project, critical pedagogy illuminates the relationships among knowledge, authority, and power. It draws attention to questions concerning who has control over the conditions for the production of knowledge, values, and skills, and it illuminates how knowledge, identities, and authority are constructed within particular sets of social relations.”

One tenet Parent Power members have learned concerning critical pedagogy within local schools: Questioning authority is not a solo mission.

Montessori madness Ivey’s educational activism took root a few years ago when she realized that many teachers at the Montessori-branded magnet school her children attended were not certified to teach the Montessori Method.

Her twin boys were placed in different classes. Ivey assumed that, because the school was advertised as a Montessori School, teachers would be using the Montessori Method, a well-established educational model that, according to the

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American Montessori Society website, views children as “naturally eager for knowledge and capable of initiating learning in a supportive, thoughtfully prepared learning environment.” Underlying this educational approach, the AMS explains, is an appreciation for “the human spirit and the development of the whole child — physical, social, emotional, cognitive.”

One of Ivey’s sons landed in a classroom with a Montessori-certified teacher. He responded well — and was soon recruited into the Sidener Academy for “high ability students.”

Her other son, however, was in a class with an uncertified teacher. This teacher told Ivey her son had behavior issues; the teacher suggested medication. The following year, another parent in the school, DeShawn Waiss, raised questions about a math textbook her daughter brought home.

“That’s how we found out half the teachers were uncertified or weren’t fully using the Montessori Method,” Ivey says.

Upon questioning, the teacher told Waiss that the only difference between her Montessori classroom and any neighborhood school is she gets to choose her own books.

“Traditionally, Montessori’s Method is not about books,” Waiss said. She couldn’t believe that a teacher who, despite the benefits of teaching at the magnet school, which included having her class capped at 25 students with the help of a teacher’s assistant and another adult volunteer, “doesn’t deem it necessary to do the Method.”

A trip Downtown Waiss and Ivey joined forces.

“We said, ‘Let’s go Downtown and figure this out,’” Ivey says.

They tracked down Billie Moore, then director of magnet and gifted programs for IPS. She affirmed the parents’ concerns by visiting the school and spreading the word that IPS pays to make Montessori training available to the school’s teachers and that teachers must take the certification or be re-assigned.

In the car, following their trip Downtown, Ivey and Waiss felt a rush of empowerment. Ivey remembers them saying, “That’s powerful! That’s what it is: We are parent power — this is power.”

At that moment, the trip became the first Parent Power act.

“We were just like, ‘Wow!’” Waiss says.

“The fact that we came together — we didn’t know what it was, but we knew the lady was sincere and something was going to happen. And we also knew that other parents hadn’t gone that far with the issues they have. We could tell she didn’t often get the visit she had with us.”

To see Moore make sure that the appropriate changes were made within the IPS Montessori program gave Ivey and Waiss a sense of accomplishment, a justification of their resolve to stand up and do something about a situation they felt was wrong.

“I believe that’s some power,” Waiss said. “I believe that’s the definition of it.”

Moore, who has since retired from IPS, could not be reached for comment.

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Parents as activists Parent Power voices are decentralized.

Ivey does not want to be in charge.

“Anyone can call a meeting,” she says. If someone reaches out for help, she will help facilitate meetings and training sessions with parents and community members, but, she adds, “There’s no reason I should keep all the information and be in charge — I’m not in charge.”

The most important idea is that parents learn to use their voices.

“You see something that is upsetting or wrong, you have to say something,” Ivey says. “Saying something and feeling powerful afterwards … it’s inspiring.”

But decentralized voices do not mean voices left alone to speak without at least one supportive witness.

“If you’re going to do a Parent Power act, you never do it alone because someone else needs to see it too,” Ivey says.

The Montessori experience was transformative to Ivey. At the start, she didn’t think to question the teachers’ credentials.

Afterward, she found herself empowered, angry and active.

“The rest of the year, I went to meetings. … I’d heard kindergarteners art funding would be cut. (The meeting) ended up being about something else, but I wanted to speak about that — the horror of a parent who knows what she is getting into when she goes to a boundary school.”

Boundary schools are the schools closest to a student’s home; the boundary school where one of her sons moved in third grade was slated to transition to a Center For Inquiry the following year.

“I knew the pedagogy was going to be very standard,” Ivey says. “I knew because in boundary schools there are more behavior problems, more worksheets and less learning.”

The idea that all the teachers were in transition, likely to be replaced when the school switched to the CFI, underscored Ivey’s sense of ill ease.

“People were going there and doing their best with what they got, but at a school that is test driven and where teachers don’t know where they are going to be, for me, that’s toxic and unsuitable for children,” Ivey says. “All they’ve done is take away art, social studies and science — seriously — because it’s not tested.”

Most recently, she is hearing about silent lunchrooms in which students are not allowed to speak to each other upon penalty of losing their recess privileges.

Fellow Parent Power member Merry Juerling cringes when she hears about students denied recess during their school day. “IPS policy states you may not use recess as reward or punishment, but that’s exactly what they do,” she says — she’s seen her son’s teacher do it.

“It’s a travesty that these kids sit at their desks for hours and there’s not time to play — that’s how they learn; that’s developmentally appropriate — but that’s what’s not happening. My kids don’t need to be in reform school, but, with all this education reform, that’s what it is feeling like to many of our children.”

As Ivey began to engage in policy discussion and ask questions, the scope of the

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Delana Ivey with her boys Sebastin and Zavier. She wants to give them the sense that she is engaged and interested in their educations, that she cares their daily experience, that she has their backs.

task began to seem overwhelming.

“There was always work to be done — I was always in the schools, realizing that I was spending so much time in the school because I didn’t trust it,” Ivey says, noting an ongoing inner war with her conscience over the need to work and the need to be in the schools.

She wanted to be involved in a meaningful way with her kids’ schools.

“Sometimes I feel parents feel like they just could not do that,” Ivey says. She wants to see that reticence to engage erased. “You go to school because you can, it’s not wrong to just go check things out,” she says.

Waiss echoes that sentiment.

“I don’t know if parents really understand they have to get involved in their children’s education — in their children’s learning environment,” Waiss says. “You’ve got to know what’s going on, you don’t have to have a Ph.D., you just have to know you care about your tax dollars and, more importantly, the minds and the future of your children.”

And, if parents can’t always make the PTA meetings or volunteer in the classroom personally, they should send a proxy, Waiss adds.

“You do need a caring teacher, but they need parents to come in and help — or other family,” she says. “Teachers need assistance.

We have to do what’s necessary, because the children are our future. We can’t leave it all up to someone else. … If your child is failing or not doing right, you’ve got to be there and know the situation.”

Beyond that, Waiss says, “If your school is not able to give what your child needs, you need to get extracurricular activities that are available, for free, all over the city. There is a program at IUPUI where kids can do dissection for free — I learned about it at a PTA meeting.”

The work of activism Since 2010, when Ivey organized the first parent-led forum for IPS school board candidates, Parent Power has hosted study

groups, training sessions and organized Statehouse lobbying trips and a meeting on education issues with former Gov. Mitch Daniels. Members are growing a network where parents across the city can seek support when they feel called to question authority or simply want a witness to their school-related experiences.

“If a parent has an issue, there are parents willing to be a supportive body for you,” Waiss says. “Our thing is: ‘When are you meeting? … Have you met with the teacher and the principal?’ I also let them know: Have another person with you. This sets a precedent that parents are concerned. We may be few, but we are there and it has to be dealt with.”

Members also hold a regular breakfast meeting Friday mornings at the Near Northside’s Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, where anyone with an interest in improving the local educational experience for kids can join the ongoing conversation.

Still, Ivey says, “It is hard to be an activist in this town. It’s like they see you coming from a mile away.”

The decision to take a more active role in her children’s educational experience has, at times, made Ivey feel like an outsider, she says, adding “I’m just a human having an experience — just like you.”

Retaliation In addition to potential ostracism, parental activists also fear retaliation.

Parent Power member Nanci Lacy, who has three kids, ages 21, 19 and 12, says her 12-year-old “was falsely accused of being a bully.” This was after Lacy had reported the principal for what she felt was inappropriate treatment of a child. She had heard the principal telling a student in a voice loud enough to be heard in the hallway that she was tired of supporting her family on welfare.

“The next thing I know, my son is suddenly involved in a group of bullies,” Lacy says.

The school’s principal gave her 24-hours

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notice to attend a meeting. If Lacy missed the meeting, she was told, her son would be suspended. When she arrived, the school had called in the parents of about seven boys for a group-upbraiding not limited to an incident involving Lacy’s son. Together, the boys stood accused of being the bullying ringleaders for the fifth and sixth grades. Former IPS Superintendent Eugene White attended the meeting because the principal had, in past meetings, been physically threatened, Lacy says, but “Dr. White wasn’t trying to hear from any of the parents.”

Assigning punishments seems to Lacy to have taken a higher priority than academics. She notes she has received more notices on problems with uniform compliance than communication about missed classroom assignments.

Authoritarian retaliation techniques also include abdicating responsibility. Juerling encountered this when she told school administrators her high-functioning autistic son’s writing skills where not up to grade level and that forcing him to take standardized tests was developmentally inappropriate. Juerling had just read a federal law that said a special needs student’s independent education plan committee, which typically involves teachers, support staff and parents, holds the responsibility to determine assessments for students with disabilities. When Juerling said she wanted to discuss opting out of standardized testing — she felt the test was abusive because her son, who was advanced in math but grades behind in English, came home crying after a testing session — school officials informed her that they could not discuss testing.

“I was told that if I had questions,” Juerling says, “I had to contact Superintendent White or Wes Bruce, the chief of assessment with the Indiana Department of Education.”

Her son’s IEP was eventually amended to recognize her right to excuse her son from testing and testing preparation.

Evaluating parental empowerment Parent Power evaluates levels of parent involvement on a grid divided into four rows ranging from status quo to open democratic system. The columns list the theoretical approach associated with each row, the model by which each system tends to define parental involvement, the degree to which parents are seen as co-contributors in the educational process and the type of relationship parents and teachers typically display at each level of involvement.

“Parents have got to change their mentality about their involvement with respect to the education of their children,” Waiss says.

In status quo, conformist environments, students and parents are not engaged as equals with teachers and administrators.

In open democratic systems, parents and teachers are equals engaged in constructive criticism of the school system with the ultimate purpose of greater intellectual stimulation and enrichment for students.

Today, parents aren’t often asked what they bring to the table, Ivey says. Instead they are handed an agenda and told not to go off topic, that they should be happy just to have a seat.

“Parents care; they do not engage because they know they will not be listened to and treated as social equals by school staff,” John Harris Loflin, a retired IPS teacher and member of Parent Power, said in an email after a recent breakfast meeting of activists. “So, it is not disinterest, it is resistance.”

Today’s status quo is driven by highstakes testing environments and the mantra to keep kids in school no matter what.

But Ivey says, “My thing is: Why are they not turned on by school?’ (Leaders) don’t ask the question.”

Asking the students for greater input would yield much greater results, several Parent Power members note.

“If we started to get the stories of children, it would wake us up to everything,” Ivey says. “They tell you exactly everything that goes on in their school.”

Beyer, the former school board candidate, is currently in the process of collecting stories of people’s IPS experiences. During her candidacy, she was struck by the number of grandparents active within IPS. “These people know something,” Beyer says. “They’ve raised their children and their grandchildren — they know something, and no one ever asks them what they know.”

As a writer, Beyer says, she loves oral histories. She tries to guide her subjects with open-ended questions, so they are free to dictate their experiences according to their individual priorities.

She asks people of all generations: “What’s been important to you? When you think about school, what do you think about?” And, she says, “I’ve been stuck by a lot of people remembering stories about their art teachers, music and choirs and shows — I didn’t bring that up — they did.”

Personal accountability is also essential if parents really want to be transformative figures in the city’s classrooms, Waiss is sure to emphasize.

“Always look in the mirror first and say ‘Where can I make changes?’” she says. “You can’t just complain. It doesn’t benefit your child at all.”

Ultimately, Waiss says, “regardless of public, private or charter, we just want good environments for children to learn in. I wish the politicians understood that.”

MARION COUNTY JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER ADMISSIONS (Broken down by race, in total numbers and percentage of population) A hard cap on the number of kids admitted to the Marion County Juvenile Detention Center and an increased focus on alternatives to detention have reduced the total number of admissions to the center, but the numbers — particularly those that detail the disproportionate effects on kids of color in relation to their percentage of the general population — suggest that significant challenges remain. Parent Power posits that increased cultural literary within schools, enabled by greater systematic engagement with local students and parents, would generate more positive outcomes.

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GET INVOLVED IN LOCAL EDUCATION ISSUES Join local activists for breakfast Parent Power and Education-Community Action Team members meet each week for breakfast on the Near Northside. The meetings are open to anyone interested in discussing current events and action strategies.

WHERE: The Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, 1831 N. College Ave. WHEN: Fridays, generally from 8:30-10 a.m.

Sit in on an IPS school board meeting WHERE: John Morton-Finney Center for Education Services, Board Room, 120 E. Walnut St. WHEN: Meetings are set for 7 p.m. July 16, 23 and Aug. 6. A public budget hearing is set for 7 p.m. on Aug. 19.

FOR MORE INFO: Visit schoolboard.ips. k12.in.us/schedule-of-board-meetings Share the story of your IPS experience To share an oral history on one’s IPS experience, contact Josefa Beyer at josefa_ beyer@sbcglobal.net.

True Alternatives Alternatives in educational offerings may, for many students, be tantamount to an inoculation against incarceration.

Bored, disenfranchised students are dropout threats. Kids who have dropped out are “3.5 times more likely to be incarcerated than those who complete high school,” according to a 2011 Justice Policy Institute report.

Ivey saw this dynamic play out at Tech High School. Without the approach to education she learned during her elementary years attending Indy’s Key School, she says, she would not have made it through high school.

The project-based approach she learned at Key encouraged her to ask questions about the subject matter that interested her.

“At Key School, they dealt with the multiple intelligence theory and educating the whole child,” Ivey says. “One subject wasn’t any more important than another.”

At Tech, Ivey says, “I spent a lot of time in the media center freshman year — more

Attend Black Expo’s 2013 Education Conference WHERE: Indiana Convention Center WHEN: Thursday, July 18 COST: $25 early registration through July 17; $50 at the door The day’s workshops include topics such as project-based learning, “the overrepresentation of vulnerable populations in special education,” “leading troubled boys of color effectively,” “real parent engagement,” “multicultural teacher efficacy.”

Stay Tuned Parent Power will host a weekend-long education conference in late November.

Check the group’s Facebook page: facebook.com/pages/Parent-PowerIndianapolis.

Write a “Perspectives in Education” Submit a guest column about your perspective on Indy’s educational landscape to editors@nuvo.net. than normal — doing project work. Had I not had that, I would have just dropped out — a lot of people around me did, they weren’t engaged at all.”

Closing the prison to school pipeline Reach for Youth, a local nonprofit working to change outcomes for students facing expulsion, outlined what is at stake when considering disenfranchised students in its 2011 annual report: “(Indiana) ranks third in the nation in school expulsions, second in teen dating abuse and at the top of Midwest states for illicit drug use among teens.”

The report also referenced a 2008 United Way of Central Indiana Community Assessment, which found “that removing students from the school, even for a short time, is directly related to negative consequences on that child’s future, including increased dropout and incarceration rates.”

Moving beyond stereotypes Ivey remembers a presentation from former IPS Superintendent White in which he broke down IPS standardized testing performance by various sub-groups, noting that the district’s performance challenges were linked to its greater population of subgroups.

Commonly evaluated subgroups include divisions based on income, race/ethnicity, special needs, and English proficiency.

“No one went, ‘Why do I have to be a subgroup? Why can’t I be normal?’ ” Ivey says. “That goes back to that critical theory.

I can’t believe everyone just sat there and listened to the definition of subgroup and no one went, ‘Why do I have to be a subgroup? What is normal?’”

She says she left the presentation feeling that people who are not white, middle class males are stuck in a subgroup, always being held to foreign standards, compared to something other.

Nanci Lacy can relate: “To hear Dr. White say ‘We have to take all kinds, that’s why IPS can never achieve.’ We’re the reason why IPS would never be anything? I was so glad to see him go. His comments offended me because they offended my autistic son, who had done everything he can each year to improve. He felt especially sold out because he started school under Dr. White in Washington Township; my kids would hug him in the Keystone Walmart — he knew my son and daughter by name.”

Breaking through the labels of “broken” schools, “bad” kids and “uninvolved” parents is important to Parent Power members. Not that such concepts are foreign to Indianapolis, but because the diagnosis creates the feeling of being plagued by a foregone conclusion.

“People become their stereotypes — because, actually, they were programmed,” Ivey says. “The thing we say over and over is what they think about.”

What the future holds The empowerment dialogue continues to develop in Indy and around the world.

“Delana is, like, almost 20 years younger than I am, and she is my mentor,” Beyer says. “She is amazing. I love the people she has allowed to meet each other because of her and her work. It will keep happening. I see us moving forward.”

Beyer sees local school councils as a way parents may see greater involvement in the future. She also predicts successful fundraising for continued study circles, fostering democratic conversation about schools — about issues parents and students determine are priorities. Ultimately, “promoting voice and collective action on behalf of children.”

Ivey tries to stay as engaged as she can with Parent Power and on her own. She led a talk on yoga in the classroom at the international Alternatives in Education conference in London, and a Parent Power group will travel as the Indiana delegation to this year’s conference in Colorado. Ivey is also leading youth programs exploring how to amplify the student voice. She continues to meet with Parent Power members and participate in the ongoing conversation on how to improve the system.

If schools embrace parents and students as social equals, Ivey says “you would have strong parent support — but at this point, there’s not enough involvement because they’re still like a ‘Be a passive fan, make sure they get enough rest for a test.’

“We’ve got to get beyond that.”

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CONTINUING Timeless Beauty Closing this week at the IMA is an exhibit of bijinga (portraits of beautiful women) from across three centuries, ranging from the decorous (the appropriately titled “Long Undergarment,” dating from 1929) to the rather more provocative “Girl Walking in the Wind,” a sort of 18th-century anticipation of the subway grate scene from The Seven Year Itch .

Indianapolis Museum of Art through July 14

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Rutherford Chang: We Buy White Albums r The Beatles’ White Album, with its all-white cover, is something of a blank canvas (at least in its first vinyl edition). Might that be the secret to its visual appeal?

In Chang’s “record store,” consisting of 750 first edition pressings of the double album, you see a number of covers that are adorned with stickers or drawn on with pen or marker. iMOCA through July 20 Ai Weiwei: According to What? q One of today’s foremost artists, a sort of spokesperson for what ails China, is the subject of a new retrospective covering more than two decades of work, including early pieces influenced by Duchamp’s readymades and recent large-scale works exploring his complicated relationship with his homeland.

Indianapolis Museum of Art through July 21 Summer exhibitions at Indianapolis Art Center A typically diverse showcase for artists from around the country is anchored by a group show, Under Construction, featuring work created using tape, floor debris sod. Of exceptional note is Margi Weir’s Frontline Series/Detroit, which finds abstract beauty — beautifully rendered in various inks and tusche — in the derelict neighborhoods of a bankrupt, crumbling Detroit. Meanwhile, Lee Littlefield’s whimsical sculptures, on display inside and out, blend animal and plant life in a whimsical, Seussical fashion.

Indianapolis Art Center through Aug. 4

IN MEMORANDUM David Lesh, 1953-2013 We were sad to learn of the passing of Lesh, a longtime Indianapolis resident and outstanding artist. Lesh was a great friend to NUVO, from doing numerous illustrations — including covers — for us, to creating our Cultural Vision Awards logo and overall look.

Lesh illustrated for the likes of Time Magazine, Sports Illustrated and Newsweek, so it made us feel special that he would occasionally do work for us.

But that’s the kind of guy he was.

We had personal, face-to-face contact with him when he lived in his beautiful home on Meridian Street.

About a decade ago, Lesh moved with his wife Vicki to their cottage on Burt Lake, where he continued his artwork and illustration, along with founding the Great Lakes Boatbuilding School in Cedarville, and then, more recently, The Michigan School of Boatbuilding and Marine Technology in Walloon Village.

He remained connected to the Indianapolis community, and his many close friends mourn his loss. Our thoughts go out to Vicki and to their two sons.

— NUVO Editors

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Alfred Eaker: La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura t There’s something weird going on conceptually with Alfred Eaker’s oil painting “Pieta,” which shows, per the usual, the Virgin Mary cradling a dead Jesus. Christ appears to have female breasts. Eaker does a lot with a limited palette in the painting; you see dashes here and there of orange leap out against the blue. I wish that there were more paintings like this in this show.

Too often the paintings are defined by a psychedelic, lava lamp abstraction that varies little from painting to painting.

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Portraits of Passion: New Figurative Paintings

by Addie Hirschten t There are a great many paintings in this show but “Full Many a Glorious Morning I Have Seen” — inspired by Shakespeare’s Sonnet 33 — is among the best. You see a man and a woman against a landscape where the sun is low on the horizon. The colors are bold and dark and provide good contrast with the flesh tones in the foreground.

The light on the woman’s face could be sunlight — or love. While many other paintings seem more like painting studies than completed work, there’s enough here to make you believe that passion still exists, somewhere.

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“Nine Reflections” by Paul D’Andrea

“Dorothy” by Dana Sofié

In the Offing: New Work by Jeannine Allen e It might just be a chasm topped by a horizon line on which there are sparks of red suggestive of a sunset. Or maybe something else. Allen used joint compound and a palette knife as well as oil paint and brush to create “Abyss”; it’s a painting that you want to touch as well as eyeball. Many paintings here feature what look like horizon lines, but the intuitive painting process leaves a lot to the imagination.

Harrison Center for the Arts through July 26

photography (Helsley), all rather loosely congealing on the theme of travel and food. Shopoff’s painting “Monon Fitness” concerns a less than exotic locale, but one that may transform into something more inhabited in the near future. Helsey has photos of various blue collar joints located far off main thoroughfares. And then there’s Hopson’s not-quite-abstract sculpture “O,” visualizing both the place from which we emerge into the world and (more figuratively) the orifices we stuff with various types of nourishment.

Harrison Center for the Arts through July 26

Etikette Exotica: New work by Marna Shopoff, Melissa Hopson, Michael Helsley r Also at FoodCon: A show that involves painting (Shopoff), sculpture (Hopson) and

Ten at M10: INvision: Alliance of Photographic Artists r This exhibit’s premise involved the exhibited photographers picking num-

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bers out of a hat from one to 10 and choosing subjects for their photos that have something to do with that number. A variety of creative compositional approaches are seen; check out Paul D’Andrea’s “Nine Reflections,” where you see a boy walking down a city street, in front of a large office building, into a nine-numbered swarm of reflected sparkles of sunlight.

M10 Gallery (call 317-443-3792 for times) Portraits: Dana Sofié e It’s amazing, what Sofié does with mixed media on wood, mixing dead-on portraiture with collage, reminding me somewhat of Mike Graves’s collaborations with Justin Cooper. The collage backdrops to her paintings give you the impression of walking into a young girl’s room and seeing photos of her heroes on the walls. But Sofié’s subjects aren’t all movie stars (although Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz numbers among them). Her subjects also include serial murderer John Wayne Gacy and Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. Kahlo seems to be a major source of inspiration for this gifted artist, who will begin attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago this Fall.

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EVENTS Indiana Fever Take a long lunch with the Fever.

They won’t tell. It’s all looking up for the defending champs, on a three-game winning streak, with Tamika Catchings turning in 20-plus-point performances and Briann January effectively leading the charge at point guard (and scoring a season-high 14 points in Saturday night’s victory over the Phoenix Sun).

July 11, 12 p.m., vs. Minnesota at Conseco Fieldhouse

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Boone County Polo Pack a picnic lunch with beverages and head for the polo grounds for a match benefitting Witham Hospital Foundation and Boone County Senior Services. General admission to the polo grounds is $20 a car. For VIP seating contact 765-485-8112. Other matches held throughout the summer will benefit a variety of other charitable causes, from the Boone County Cancer Society to the Heroes Foundation.

Hickory Hall Polo Club, 7551 East 100 North, Whitestown; July 13, gates open at 11 a.m., match begins at 1 p.m.

Indianapolis Indians No doubt that the Indians can be proud of their best-in-the-International-League record. But they also get plenty of credit for the parent team Pittsburgh’s best season in recent memory (second-best record in the league — which, rather unfairly, puts them in second place in the Central behind St. Louis). Sure, the front office is also getting praise for smart investing and development (Pittsburgh being a small market, they essentially have to follow a smart, economical, Moneyball-esque approach without recourse to huge contracts). But if the Pirates had a dysfunctional AAA team that compromised players on their last stop before the bigs, that would make it that much tougher to build a winning team in the bigs. So, yeah, Pirates fans can thank the Indianapolis ballclub for being a dependable source for player development. Hats off to ya’ll.

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Yoga in the Galleries A six-week session combining art and yoga (an alllevel vinyasa series) kicks off this week. Certified instructor Erin Morgan will lead participants in exploring different parts of the galleries and ground. Limit 20 participants. A second session starts in August.

Indianapolis Museum of Art, July 13-Aug. 17 (from 10 a.m. Saturdays), $78 public, $60 member, imamuseum.org Indy Bike Polo Polo + bikes = eco-friendly fun. Summer matches take place Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. and Sundays at noon at 46th Street and Haverford Road — or, in case of inclement weather, at 12th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. New players are invited to take part, as equipment is shared, but it also makes for a great spectator sport for the faint of heart. The friendly games offer another way to get some exercise without realizing it.

Arsenal Park; Sundays at noon; Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5:30 p.m.; FREE

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Brad Stevens, right, and Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski at the 2010 NCAA title game.

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ust as Indianapolis was counting down to the start of a four-day weekend last Wednesday afternoon, news broke that slightly dampened our fireworks: Brad Stevens, the face of Butler Basketball, mid-majors and March Madness Cinderellas agreed to be the next head coach of the Boston Celtics.

(On July 6, the university named Brandon Miller — a former Butler point guard who joined the team as assistant coach in April — as the team’s new head coach.)

First reactions were strong, some even harsh. The feelings of anger and betrayal and sadness quickly faded into a slight smile for most: Indiana is happy for Stevens. But after repeatedly spurning bigger checks and brighter lights from pedigreed programs across the country, it was assumed that the whiz kid, he’s still just 36, was ours forever. Then the Boston Celtics came calling.

Stevens leaves behind something much greater than a stellar record of 166-49 — which includes back-to-back title game appearances — during his six years as Butler’s head bulldog. He set a standard of accountability and preparation that every player and every coach in every sport

Bulldogs Matt Howard and Ronald Norad reflect on Butler head coach Brad Stevens’ departure for Boston

should strive to achieve. After seven years a prepared team of selfless players working his way up the assistant coach could beat a collection of raw talent ladder at Butler, Stevens took the helm on the biggest of stages. Perhaps the and pushed a little known mid-major to player who most exemplified these virthe highest level of college basketball, tues during Stevens’ tenure was Matt doing it with the utmost class and poise.

Howard. Howard, who plays profesRonald Norad, the starting point guard sionally in Europe, was stunned when for the Bulldogs during their two Final he first heard the reports.

Four trips, calls Stevens his role model. “He showed me that you can be successful “I’m not sure there is anyone in my in this business and still do things the right way,” life that I’ve looked up more than Norad said. “He showed me you can be really good Coach Stevens.”

— RONALD NORAD and still treat people with respect. I’m not sure there is anyone in my life that I’ve looked up But he also recognized that this was a more than Coach Stevens.” How many once in a lifetime opportunity. “If you’d other coaches earn such praise? ask any coach anywhere I imagine all of Norad recently joined the coaching them would jump at the opportunity to staff at the University of South Alabama coach the Boston Celtics,” Howard told after one season as Brownsburg High NUVO. “He’s proven in the past that he School’s head coach. “I can only imagine was willing to turn down bigger jobs, how difficult it was for him to leave,” he but I don’t how you could turn down added. “We all thought that he would this opportunity.” never leave and I truly know how he feels “I was shocked when I heard,” Howard about Butler because I’ve heard him talk added. “In a way I was really hoping it about it many times. I’ve seen him live it, was true, and in a way I was hoping it so I can only imagine just how difficult it wasn’t true, because I loved him being was for him to go.” here in Indianapolis, but I also love that On the court, Stevens proved that he’s getting this opportunity.”

OPENING Indianapolis Early Music Festival July 12 — Wayward Sisters: Formed in 2009 by Oberlin, Juilliard and IU vets, Wayward Sisters (whose instrumentation includes baroque violin, recorder, baroque cello, therobo and guitar) won a prestigious 2011 recording competition organized by Early Music America and Naxos, which gave way to their first album last year.

July 14 — Flanders Recorder Quartet: The closing concert of this year’s Early Music Fest features a recorder quartet that’s played more than 1800 concerts in 42 countries since 1987. Their Indy program, “Chest of Flutes,” will feature transcriptions from (mostly) early organ repertoire (Bach, Brahms, Cabezon, Ashton, Part).

And, to be sure, they won’t be playing your grade-school recorder; the quartet’s collection covers the tonal waterfront, from the piccolino recorder to the contrabass.

All concerts: Indiana History Center, 7:30 p.m. $22, $12 student

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by Mozart and Handel), “Broadway Night Music” (Bernstein’s Overture to West Side Story and Gershwin’s Lullaby for Strings) and “Song and Dance Night Music” (Bizet’s Carmen). Attendees are encouraged to bring lawn chairs, blankets and food (but not booze).

July 16 at Ellenberger Park (or Warren Performing Arts Center in case of inclement weather), 7:30 p.m.

July 17 at Garfield Park, 7:30 p.m.

July 18 at Holliday Park, 7:30 p.m.

Charlie Murphy A one-night appearance by the Chappelle’s Show vet, who’s parlayed that show’s success into a nice, long-lived standup career.

Crackers Broad Ripple, July 17, 8:30 p.m., $22.50-32.50

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REVIEWS Smoke on the Mountain r It’s a slight premise: In the midst of the Great Depression, the down-and-out-Sanders Family brings their musical talents to the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in North Carolina. One calamity seems to lead to another and like a tumbleweed gathering momentum, the result is a journey of wonderment. The production features a company of seven proficient on 24 different instruments and every style culled from old hymnbooks. Praise to John Vessels as the bombastic Rev. Oglethorpe, Pam Pendleton as the 18 // ARTS // 07.10.13 - 07.17.13 // 100% RECYCLED P APER // NUVO

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Q Artistry’s latest musical, ZirkusGrimm, translates Grimm tales to a German circus

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T Jesus Is My Roomie The live sitcom starring the Christ child as a slacker addicted to Playstation and pizza returns for a second season.

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wenty actors gyrate their bodies to an uptempo pop song blaring from a speaker in the corner of the room. They rotate in a circle, moving fluidly. It’s like a kindergarten dance party.

“I know there isn’t choreography here, but can we move to the beat so it’s just a little bit neater,” a guy with a blonde-highlighted lawnmower haircut suggests after the music stops. He’s Q Artistry artistic director Ben Asaykwee, and he’s directing his company’s latest, ZirkusGrimm, a musical based on folk tales by the Brothers Grimm opening July 12.

One might infer from the playful dance scene taking shape that Asaykwee’s take on Grimm’s tales is, well, a little less grim than one has come to expect from 20th and 21st-century adaptations. And one would be right. Askykwee, who’s been working on the script and music since last summer (the songs came first and inspired the “mood of the story,” he says), skips over some of the toe-lopping and frog-throwing in favor of a more whimsical approach, which finds a group of German ex-cons turned circus performers telling the tales.

Asaykwee has been fond of the circus since an age when most find themselves traumatized by well-meaning clowns, and he thinks the setting is perfect for the show. “I find that adding humor into a show that has serious themes and parts in it really makes the intense parts more intense,” Asaykwee says. “The entire show is much more well rounded if there is a good balance between humor and drama.”

Q Artistry is staging ZirkusGrimm in the round, appropriately enough: “When you are in the circus, everything is in a circle,” Asaykwee says.

The cast has been working on getting all the music, lines and choreography down during the past couple of weeks.

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Irvington Lodge today, practicing lines and dance moves. Asaykwee isn’t worried: “I know these guys can come prepared to give a great performance, and because of that we’ve been spending a lot of time on getting the music solidified.” A live band will perform the score, written and adapted by Asaykwee, who’s also responsible for Q Artistry’s other musicals (BOT, Cabaret Poe, Strike!)

Most of the show’s actors have been busy with other projects this summer. A couple

among them — NoExit’s Georgeanna Smith and ElecticPond’s Thomas Cardwell — are effectively taking a break from helming their respective organizations.

Smith hasn’t done a musical since college, but she says it’s nice to “branch out and work with other professionals in the area.” Cardwell, whose company shares building space with Q Artistry, plays one of ZirkusGrimm’s main characters.“I was in Spamalot with Ben, too, and we work really well together,” Cardwell says of Bobdirex’s just-closed production at the Athenaeum Theatre. “It’s been a lot of fun working with him again, and the whole concept of the show is great. I think it will resonate well with the audience.”

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over-the-top Vera, Bobby Taylor as the trying-to-keep-itall-together Burl, Brian Gunter as the repentant yet wise sinner, Keith Potts as the stammering shy minister-in-waiting, Ashlie Roberson as the stardom-sighted ingénue and Sarah Hund as the endearing June: “I don’t sing, I sign.”

And what she depicts is rollicking. Jeff Stockberger’s direction finds a beautiful balance the tongue-in-cheek and an admiration for people who live their faith and belief with honesty. — Rita Kohn Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre through Aug. 18

Star Spangled Symphony t Lincoln re-enactor Dean Dorrel’s delivery of the 277-word “Gettysburg Address” was far more measured than during previous concerts — and was given added weight by Randy Edelman’s accompanying Suite from the motion picture Gettysburg, played by the ISO under conductor Alfred Savia.

The music brought the emotional enormity of our nation’s loss to the fore. Edelman’s outstanding score more than held its own against the more recent John Williams score to the film Lincoln, which preceded it on the program. ISO

trumpet player Robert Wood was featured in a fine rendition of the Lincoln segment “With Malice Toward None.”

The concert also delivered patriotic music spanning the 18th to 21st centuries. Of particular note was the thoughtprovoking composition Freedom Tower by James Beckel, a member of the ISO’s trombone section. This new work commemorates events surrounding 9/11. Fireworks, as always, were an added treat. — Rita Kohn Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra at Conner Prairie, July 3-5

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EVENTS Wes Gehring talks Robert Wise Gehring’s latest biography, Robert Wise: Shadowlands, is of the versatile Hollywood vet Wise, who started out life as an editor (notably of Citizen Kane), then transitioned to directing a variety of films, including West Side Story and The Sound of Music .

Indiana History Center, July 16, noon, FREE DIY Success with Eleanor C. Whitney Eleanor Whitney’s Grow: How to Take Your Do It Yourself Project and Passion to the Next Level and Quit Your Job is a field guide to creatively dropping out without leaving behind the world of organization and business plans and good sense. She’ll take about her book and take a few questions next week.

Indy Reads Books, July 16, 6 p.m., FREE

NEW BOOKS FROM KENTUCKY A FEW HONEST WORDS: THE KENTUCKY ROOTS OF POPULAR MUSIC

BY JASON HOWARD University Press of Kentucky, $24.95, r In this conversational overview of fourteen contemporary musicians with Kentucky roots, NPR commentator Jason Howard updates Alan Lomax’s 1930s-60s research that enriched our experiences with folk musicians of the South. His focus is on ten “up-and-comers,” including Naomi Judd, Dwight Yoakam, Matraca Berg and Joan Osborne. Together the interviews show, he says, “how the Bluegrass State has taken up residence in the hearts and songs of an eclectic group of musicians” whose work “reveals the broad nature of American roots music.” Includes b/w photos and an extensive bibliography. — Rita Kohn

APPALACHIAN ELEGY: POETRY AND PLACE

BY BELL HOOKS University Press of Kentucky, $19.95 bell hooks’ poems grab us with an impatient sense of urgency to be active participants in issues of environmentalism and sustainability in the Kentucky hills. Echoing Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology, hooks summons us to “hear them cry / the long dead / the long gone” who “speak to us/from beyond the grave” and direct us to bring “trees back to life/ native flowers/pushing the fragrance of hope/the promise of resurrection.” Sixty-six poems strut across the pages, stopping to remark on a “dreaming bird,” “fierce unyielding winds,” “the glory of old barns,” “the gray blue wash of dawn,” yet concluding, “fierce grief shadows me / I hold to the memory / of ongoing loss / land stolen bodies shamed.” “Nature demands amends” calling upon us to make “a place/that can sustain us / a place of certainty / and sanctuary.” hooks opens her introduction with simplicity: “Sublime silence surrounds me,” and describes how her childhood “from the hills, from the backwoods” shaped her and how the values of her family simultaneously sustained and propelled her throughout her exodus and return. It’s a slim volume to which you may return often. — Rita Kohn

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THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE: CONGRESSMAN JIM JONTZ OF INDIANA

BY RAY E. BOOMHOWER Indiana Historical Society Press, $24.99, e Nowadays it’s to be expected that your typical Indiana congressman will call for repeal of all social services, demand that government be run like a small business and try to snuff out the public school system with private school vouchers. In The People’s Choice: Congressman Jim Jontz of Indiana , Ray E. Boomhower reminds us that there was an exception in the recent past to the reflexive extremism displayed by the likes of Dan Burton and our current governor.

In his short life — he died of colon cancer in 2007 at the age of 56 — Jontz fought against NAFTA and fought for the protection of the ancient forests of the Northwestern United States. He was propelled into politics by the fight against putting a dam in Fall Creek Gorge in Warren County.

He succeeded by successfully running a campaign for State representative against the dam’s primary proponent. His career as state representative was followed by a stint in the U.S. Congress representing the Fifth District. Boomhower gives the reader a good sense of Jontz’s tireless dedication to his cause, as well as the toll this took on his personal life, in steady and engaging pose. — Dan Grossman

DRAGGING WYATT EARP

BY ROBERT REBEIN Swallow Press, $19.95, t Essayist Robert Rebein, who happens to live in Irvington, deconstructs his own past while telling the history of Dodge City, Kansas, in his new novel, Dragging Wyatt Earp. Dodge City used to be known for its lawlessness, loose women, and pleasure-seeking cowboys. Its Main Street was depicted in countless Westerns, serving as the face of the Wild West.

The city has changed, and now identifies better with grain elevators than saloons and six-shooters.

Rebein uses this shifting history as a mirror for his own.

He intersperses memoir with tidbits of history about the city itself, debunking a few myths about some of its famous and infamous individuals along the way, including General Custer as well as Earp himself. The book is at its finest in its final section, which deals with a cowboy’s favorite subject: horses.

Rebein’s writing shines when his subjects can trot, canter, and gallop. He unpacks his own and his family’s relationship to the equine, discusses the history of the horse itself and its uncanny bond to humans, and gives a candid account of his own attempts at cowboying after spending much of his adult life in air-conditioned universities. The initial two-thirds of the novel deal mostly with Rebein and his family, and are pleasant enough.

Rebein’s writing is masculine and crisp, but takes its time to tell a story. As Rebein tells it, his upbringing had plenty of interesting quirks, but those quirks seem more appropriate topics for a family reunion than a novel. If you’re looking for a memoir detailing the exciting life of a man who faced insurmountable odds, then keep looking. But if you’re seeking an honest tale about examining life in a changing American West, then you’ll find it in Rebein’s prose. — Emma Faesi

THE SUPREMES AT EARL’S ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT

BY EDWARD KELSEY MOORE Alfred A. Knopf, $24.95, t Seemingly designed for the Oprah’s Book Club set (with its slick but folksy cover), The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat details the lives of three AfricanAmerican women — Bernice, Odette and Barbara Jean — from the sixties to the present in the fictional town of Plainview, Ind. Their friends call them “The Supremes,” and their perpetual hangout over the swath of forty years is Earl’s All You Can Eat restaurant.

Odette is the most magically real, as it were, of the three Supremes; she was born in a sycamore tree and has conversations with dead people.

Think of the book as Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café meets The Color Purple meets One Hundred Years of Solitude . Moore, who just so happens to be male, does a particularly good job in intertwining the lives of these three women. He certainly knows how to spin a lively yarn, and the book could have crossgender appeal, which just goes to show that you can’t always judge a book by its marketing. — Dan Grossman

THE TRIBAL KNOT: A MEMOIR OF FAMILY, COMMUNITY, AND A CENTURY OF CHANGE

BY REBECCA MCCLANAHAN Indiana University Press, $22, t Drawing on a wealth of memories, old photos, letters, and diaries, Rebecca McClanahan shows the trajectory of her family from its rural beginnings in the Hoosier heartland to its suburban and transient incarnation that she knew during her childhood. Along this journey, we learn about her great-grandfather’s application to the Improved Order of Red Men in Oxford, Ind., in which he had to affirm that he was, in fact, a white citizen of the United States. In such episodes, it’s possible to see how radically life in Indiana has changed over the past century.

But more central to the narrative is the story of

McClanahan’s Great-aunt Bessie. We’re treated to excerpts from the diary that she started in 1897. Unlike other members of her family, Bessie remained rooted in place for most of her life, and her story successfully grounds the narrative. But too often the author/narrator barrages the reader with questions about what might have gone on in family members’ minds at particular times in their lives. She writes of Bessie as a youth: “Did she listen for the footsteps on the stairs, her three cousins returning late from the city?” Such questions don’t clarify anything and are frankly annoying. The narrative loosens up though, when McClanahan writes of her own upbringing, and the final passages of the memoir are beautiful, poetic, and moving. — Dan Grossman

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HARD TIMES IN THE HEARTLAND New Midwest industrial history depicts symbiotic relationships between factories and towns

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NOTHIN’ BUT BLUE SKIES: few weeks ago, The Indianapolis Star THE HEYDAY, HARD TIMES, wondered why Mike Pence had seemed AND HOPES OF AMERICA’S so quiet and detached during his first INDUSTRIAL HEARTLAND session as governor. The governor’s staff offered a quick reply: Pence had actually spent half his time outside the Statehouse, A U T H OR : ED W A R D touring counties, sitting on business M C C LELLA ND roundtables, and working, as he likes to P U B LI S H E R : put it, “on making job creation job one.”

B LO O M S B U R Y That’s certainly a worthy cause, given P R ES S that Indiana’s unemployment rate hovLI S T P R I C E : $ 2 7 ers above 8 percent. Not that our previous t governor, who was no one’s idea of quiet, didn’t struggle for eight years to improve that number and the state’s stagnant per capita income.

In his new book, Nothin’ But Blue Skies, Edward McClelland digs deep into the hislike this, along with some fun before-theytory of this problem — or, at least, into one were-famous profiles of Dennis Kucinich part of it. McClelland, a Midwestern native, and Michael Moore. The writing here (and traces the decline of manufacturing in in the memoir sections) is McClelland’s Decatur, Ill. (where everyone used to clock best — like when he describes the factory in at a corn syrup refinery), in Syracuse, next to his school as painted a “shade of N.Y. (an air conditioner factory), and in our green ... somewhere between the Statue of own Gary (the steel mills), among other citLiberty and mold.” ies. And while Nothin’ But Blue Skies isn’t But McClelland spends far more pages perfect, it still tells a worthwhile story, reldetailing these cities’ histories, and, after evant to local concerns — especially when manufacturing remains so important to the a while, it starts to feel repetitive. He also skimps on history’s hows and whys. When Hoosier economy. he does address them, it’s simply to indulge Michigan’s auto industry plays a key some predictable pro-union politics. role in this story, and McClelland writes engagingly about his old high school in Lansing, which sat next to a parts factory for GM. The factory’s jobs weren’t easy — to many, they weren’t even The factory’s jobs weren’t easy — to desirable — but for decades many, they weren’t even desirable — you could graduate from high school, then walk across the but for decades you could graduate street into a good-paying job.

(Sometimes you could even from high school, then walk across skip the graduating.) the street into a good-paying job.

That factory was torn down in 2005, and the absence of it and many others helps explain why Michigan’s per capita That’s really too bad since Nothin’ income has fallen from 11th, in the early But Blue Skies is a book that could prove 1960s, to 37th today. “The twentieth-cenof interest to both Gov. Pence and his tury auto plant,” McClelland writes, “was a Democratic opponents. While Indiana was great integrator, a great income leveler.” never as auto-dependent as Michigan, it Nothin’ But Blue Skies does a good job still had plenty of plants — you could plot at showing how these plants shaped and them out by mapping the high school basorganized their communities. In Lansing, ketball dynasties scattered throughout the a different bar would open outside each North Central Conference. In 2013, only one of the factory’s gates. On Chicago’s a handful of factories remain, and even east side, the housewives checked the wind they’re considerably smaller, just like the patterns before they did laundry; if it was RV plants in Elkhart and the many other blowing across the sooty factories, they types of industry besides. would hang their clothes inside.

Nothin’ But Blue Skies provides a timely Today, Buffalo has so many abandoned reminder of how much Indiana’s indusfactories — and those factories are so trial economy has changed — and how, overgrown with wildflowers and weeds because of those changes, something like — that the city suffers from the highest our unemployment rate has become much pollen count in the country. McClelland more than a governor-sized issue. includes a few present-tense moments

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OPENING Byzantium Neil Jordan’s third movie about the undead (the 1988 Steve Gutenberg vehicle High Spirits was his first; 1994’s Interview with a Vampire was rather more successful) is about a mother-daughter vampire duo who first start sucking around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. They’re bereft and on the lam when the movie catches up with them at a resort hotel, the titular Byzantium. (R)

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Pacific Rim Well, those big old monster-robots splashing about our seas (after having risen from them) certainly look big and stupid, but it ought to be noted that Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy, Cronos) directed and cowrote this 131-minute, $180-million beast, so itit could could very well be excellent (and early reviews have been across the board respectful). (PG-13)

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Grown Ups 2 The latest from Adam Sandler’s lazy, half-assed production house. (PG-13)

CONTINUING The Lone Ranger u Just a mess. There are entertaining moments, to be sure, but oh what you have to sit through to see them. The film is too long, overwritten, too bombastic and too violent for its PG-13 rating. It’s not fun.

Segues between some scenes seem to be missing.

It feels like a collection of over-the-top action set pieces mixed with a dry buddy comedy, with Tonto playing the deadpan smartass and the Lone Ranger a bumbling newcomer who slowly grows into his role as a hero. (PG-13) —Ed Johnson-Ott Love Is All You Need t Pierce Brosnan plays a burned-out English widower; Ida (Trine Dyrholm) is a Danish hairdresser recovering from cancer whose husband has split for a younger woman. Ida heads to Italy for her daughter’s wedding and bumps into the father-inlaw to be. Nothing earth shattering going on here and the screenplay has some bumpy moments, but the actors are good, the scenery is spectacular and director Susanne Bier creates and sustains a beguiling atmosphere once the story moves to Italy. (R) —Ed Johnson-Ott World War Z t Brad Pitt stars in this very loose adaptation of Max Brooks’ novel about a worldwide zombie plague. Pitt plays a United Nations troubleshooter who has quit the job in order to spend more time with his wife and child. He gets pulled back in by the crisis, traveling from Pittsburgh to Korea to Jerusalem to Cardiff, Wales, searching for an explanation and a way to stop the mayhem. Pitt is solid and some of the set pieces are stunning, but the film is uneven and the ending is anticlimactic. (PG-13) —Ed Johnson-Ott

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by Israeli writer/director Rama Burshtein, tells a story of a tightly-knit community and the pressures related to arranged marriages. It would be easy to grow annoyed at the young adults for perpetuating such a restrictive culture, but there are rewards to being part of the insular society. While there are many things you cannot do, you are surrounded by supportive people with a common belief system and similar values. And in the case of the characters in this story, it’s the world in which they grew up.

The film takes place in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Haredi community in Tel Aviv (the subtitled production is in Hebrew).

18-year-old Shira (Hadas Yaron) is engaged to be married when tragedy strikes. Her older sister, Esther (Renana Raz) dies, leaving behind a newborn baby and a griefstricken husband, Yochay (Yiftach Klein).

Marriages in the community are vitally important and the women marry young, usually in unions arranged by parents and professional matchmakers. The woman has input, to be sure, and the right to say no, but the pressure to play one’s part in the societal traditions is tremendous.

After a time, Yochay opts to pair with a woman from Belgium, which is unacceptable to Shira’s mother (Irit Sheleg), who is horrified at the prospect of her only grandchild being taken away from Israel. A idea is hatched: What if Shira married her sister’s widower? It’s not a notion that folks are thrilled with, but it would take care of the problem.

However, while Shira has always gotten along well enough with Yochay, she has never thought of him in romantic terms and besides, the idea of replacing her sister just doesn’t feel right.

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every person in the film subscribes. No one is threatening Shira and she has the right to say no. But the cultural pressure, the sense of duty and the needs of her family are all at odds with Shira’s desires.

Writer/director Burshtein, a member of the Haredi in real life, presents the story in a fashion that focuses primarily on the story and the individuals. We are given no primer on the Haredi and certainly no judgment is passed on the community

values. You are left to watch and make of it what you will. Or you can elect not to judge and simply take in the fascinating society and the Jane Austen-ish story.

Burshtein’s direction is unhurried, but never slow; thoughtful, but not righteous.

We are watching people belonging to a distinctive religious group from the point of view of an insider, and what an interesting experience that is. The acting is top notch by all involved, especially by the actors playing Shira and Yochay. Both portray their characters with richness and strength tempered by uncertainty.

When I left the theater after watching Fill the Void I breathed a sigh of relief.

Not because the movie was bad, but because it was a refreshing to be out and about without the weight of Haredi traditions on my shoulders.

FILM EVENTS Ma & Pa Kettle: The Egg & I The stars have aligned. This first screen appearance of the long-lived Ma and Pa Kettle (they made 10 films before they were through) is playing an Indy-area screen on the same weekend as The King & I , whose title it spoofs. Long live repertory cinema. Majorie Main (Ma Kettle) was born Mary Tomlinson in Acton, Ind., and attended Franklin College.

Artcraft Theatre (Franklin), July 12 and 13, 2 and 7:30 p.m., $5 general (discounts available)

Summer Nights: The King & I Yul Brenner and Deborah Kerr are, respectively, the King & I in a big old film version of the Rogers and Hammerstein musical lensed in the not terribly successful Cinemascope 55 format (and presented digitally at the IMA).

Indianapolis Museum of Art, July 12, 9:30 p.m., $10 public, $6 member

player and suffer the consequences. It’s like the Decameron, only with more blood and less plague. Featuring short horror films by Simon Barrett, Adam Wingard, Eduardo Sanchez/Gregg Hale, Gareth Huw Evans/Timo Tjahjanto and Jason Eisener (“Alien Abduction Slumber Party”).

Midnight Madness: V/H/S/2 The conceit remains the same: Some unsuspecting schmoes (this time, two private investigators) find some VHS tapes, pop em in a convenient

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Fruit beers are in abundance this summer. Noted for their refreshing qualities they cover the field from session-able (i.e. lower than 4 percent ABV) to highly alcoholic; sweet to bitter; sun-up yellow to dusky rose. Broad Ripple Brewpub’s Tart Lizzie features pink grapefruit tones. It’s on the milder end of spectrum, a good distance away from Sun King’s mouth-puckering Grapefruit Jungle. Brugge’s Harvey, brewed with fresh blackberries, is in a tart Wild Ale style. Oaken Barrel’s Razz Wheat, Thr3e Wise Men’s Two Lucy’s Blackberry Wheat, Black Acre’s Apricot Wheat each finish on the sweeter side. Bloomington Brewing’s Seven Sips Belgian Strong Ale with coriander and sweet and bitter orange peel is a big beer at 8.3 percent ABV. Flat 12’s Kiwi Kiwi Hefeweizen sports flavor notes of ripe bananas, citrus and hints of berry along with tart Kiwi.

Upland’s Fruit Lambics, from cherry to strawberry, have become internationally known for their distinctive tart profiles. Other fruit brews will surface with the harvest, so get set for the immersion.

While prowling our downtown neighborhoods on First Friday, Beer Buzz was surprised to find Black Acre’s brews being passed about at the recently opened gift shop Rogue Décor Co. (1056 Virginia Ave.) Patrons poured small samples from growlers for each other and discussed the taste profiles of Saucy Intruder Rye IPA, Phantom Cat Coffee Stout, Red Hopper Imperial Red Ale — and particularly Mystery Pale, brewed by Black Acre with an unmarked bag of hops. We think the bag might’ve been full of Columbus, Nugget, Simcoe or Warrior hops, given the brews strong, bittering element. A follow-up call to Black Acre Brewing (5632 E. Washington St.) didn’t provide an answer, just a happy brewer with a promise of more mystery brews to fuel conversation.

Beer Buzz annually spends July 4th in Greenwood celebrating Oaken Barrel’s birthday. Along with an endless buffet, a specialty brew tops the list of regulars. This year’s Saison Farmhouse Ale found head brewer Alan Simon bring back a retired brew from his former stint at Thr3e Wise Men. It’s characterized by a welcome burst of aromas from earthy yeast to spicy fruit with matching tastes for a dry finish. Also on tap are King Rudi Hefeweizen, a strong wheat with very slight banana notes; and a big A.M. Wheat Pale Ale distinguished by the tropical fruit character imparted by Citra hops.

The recently opened twobarrel nanobrewery Planetary Brewing (500 S. Polk St., Ste. 22, Greenwood) sells its brews in its tiny tasting room and at Greenwood’s Shallows Restaurant.

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College Park Rock Bottom Summer Brewer’s Dinner; 6:30 p.m. reservations 317-471-8840.

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Indy’s diners continue to spurn focusgroup approved menus, heading instead to more authentic, locally based eateries. Add to that list Rook, a Bánh mì sandwich shop that opened this June in Fountain Square’s Hinge Building. Simple as its menu and mission may be, Rook is just as important to a strong culinary community as once-amonth or -year fine dining experiences.

Rook is the third offering from Ed Rudisell, who co-owns Siam Square and Black Market.

His small shotgun-style shop offers his take on the Bánh mì, a traditional street food popular in Vietnam that came into fashion during the French occupation of Indochina during the late 19th century. The name refers to the bread used: a thin-crusted baguette that has a slightly airier consistency than European baguettes.

Rook offers nine sandwiches on an average day, each named after a different bird, each anchored by a different protein. The menu is written on a suspended roll of butcher paper adjacent to the counter at the back of the slender space.

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the same $8 price point. Adding an order of Pork Cracklings and Shrimp Chips ($2.50 each) and a few tangerine Jarritos, we took our seats along a simple wooden bench that runs the length of the shop and is paralleled by a few worn canary yellow metal stamped chairs. Our food showed up soon after on stainless steel trays that could’ve been lifted from a military mess hall but didn’t seem at all out of place.

The Rook’s cool chicken liver terrine plays nicely against its other protein, a Vietnamese pork roll made to order for Rook by Goose The Market that’s flavorful but not overpowering. The Magpie is built around cold marinated ground chicken; we were amazed by its light, coherent and com-

plex flavors. The Black Wing’s beef-peanut curry is moist without being messy and portioned perfectly. The peanut dominates the first second of the bite, while the curry waits in the wings to add an appreciated intensity.

Equally impressive is Rook’s sense of restraint when it comes to toppings. Each baguette features the same accoutrements — pickled Korean radish and carrots, cilantro, mayonnaise and jalapeños. Taken together they could easily serve as strong side if left just as a slaw. Again, like the main course, nothing overpowers; each of the ingredients used in the toppings pops up randomly on your tongue like a whack-a-mole. We never knew which would present itself with each bite and the anticipation was marvelous.

It’s a rare, happy thing to eat subs of such size without feeling like a glutton afterwards.

Even after the fried pork cracklings (overdone and burnt on our visit) and shrimp chips (our collective favorite) we still had room to finish up with a sampling of desserts from two local artisans. Marcarons, created daily by Cindy Hawkins of Circle City Sweets, are available in four flavors — lemongrass, matcha green team, black sesame and wasabi (named in order of their enjoyment). And generous tiles of Frittle, peanut butter brittle topped with sesame seeds, are provided by Carrie Abbott of Frittle Candy.

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Wild Ginger on 116th Asaka Japanese Restaurant A very young, attractive crowd frequents this small, cozy, clean space in an 82nd Street strip mall.

The food is hit and miss, but we found some good bets. First off, the shrimp tempura: The shrimp are a decent size, the batter is light and the single tail expertly left at the roll’s opening adds a bit of pizazz.

Then agedashi dofu, whose “vegetable sauce” is actually an unamirich broth (perhaps on the salty side) and whose lightly fried soy will please bean curd enthusiasts.

And also the tiny shrimp and crab dumplings, which look like giant, shriveled marshmallows and have a delicate, slightly sweet aftertaste.

Eat them quickly, however; water from their steaming process leaks out, making them soggy.

6414 E. 82nd St., 576-0556, asakajapaneserestaurant.com Ichiban Noodles Fans of really tasty, mouthwatering home-style Japanese cooking are already doubtless well aware of Ichiban Noodles. Granted, it’s not exactly located at the epicenter of hip inner-city nightlife, and the restaurant probably won’t be featuring in Architectural Digest anytime soon, but you come here for the food, not for the zip code or the styling. The sushi is fresh, expertly prepared and reasonably priced: The sushi rice is some of the best in town. The stars here are the noodle and rice dishes, fresh, vibrant, perfectly executed and, above all,

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extremely reasonably priced. Savory and somewhat addictive, these are dishes you’ll want to come back for.

8355 Bash St., 841-0484 Mikado Japanese Restaurant Ask around, and some will say Mikado is too expensive, too fussy when you can get good Japanese food elsewhere. Some might say that its fusion approach in many of its dishes means it’s not the most authentic Japanese cuisine around.

But taken purely for its elegance and quality, its attention to detail and the flavor in individual dishes, Mikado exceeds in so many ways, not just among Asian restaurants, but among the city’s very best eateries. Sushi is consistently excellent here. A house favorite is the sun roll; crabstick, tuna and salmon are rolled in rice with smelt roe and spicy mayonnaise then dipped in tempura flour, fried and wrapped in soy paper.

148 S. Illinois St., 972-4180, mikadoindy.com Ocean World Spicy tuna enthusiasts take note: The best we’ve had in town has come from Ocean World, sister restaurant to the venerable Sakura.

These rolls actually masquerade under the description of “tuna tartare.” Their blend of green onion, spicy sauce and small fish eggs adds a kiss of hot while allowing fresh tuna to shine through.

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Sakura Japanese Restaurant If there is a neighborly Japanese restaurant in Indianapolis — a place that feels comfortable and familiar as a corner pub, yet without in any way compromising the authenticity of its origins — this is it. The simplicity of the dining room reflects Sakura’s menu and the presentation of its many dishes. Traditional Japanese cuisine abounds: items like vegetable rolls, a variety of sushi, and gomaae — a bowl of steamed spinach topped with a sweet, creamy sesame sauce — populate the menu. Sakura offers a basic selection of beers and sake. Its parking lot is often overflowing, but the wait is worth the while.

7201 N. Keystone Ave., 2594171, indysakura.com Wild Ginger on 116th As far as sushi in the Midwest is concerned, we think it’s time to set the record straight: The simple fact is that, for quite some time now, fleets of big, silvery, aluminum objects with wings on them have been rushing fresh fish from all over the world to markets all across this country. Wild Ginger knows what to do with all this fresh stock, making fairly priced, elegantly proportioned nigiri sushi, as well as excellent maki rolls that rival those of Boston’s acclaimed Oishii.

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For Human [legally, Howard Jones], the world of hiphop is very new. Growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness, hiphop was something that was frowned upon.

“I’ve always secretly harbored this love affair with hiphop and would secretly sneak off and listen to it,” he said.

Jones admits he has plenty of inner feelings to reflect upon in his lyricism, considering how his family and friends left him after abandoning Jehovah’s Witness. In fact, he believes the biggest struggle he faces as an artist is sounding too angry.

Since he’s new to the Indiana music community, Jones is thankful for the help he has received from local marketing company A Million Other Things, who is sponsoring the show. The company is led by the single-monikered Jace.

“Individually, [A Million Other Things] has helped me to build relationships with local artists here,” he said. “It also helped me craft my brand and to be able to precisely articulate, explain, and communicate to my fan base who Human is.”

A student at Herron School of Art and Design, Ejaaz Collins is an artistic emcee. He takes a hands-on approach to his music career, making his own visuals and beats, with the help of a producer.

“I’ve always been a creator, since I was a child,” Collins said. “I just create all the time. It’s just something I’ve always done, even without knowing it.”

Jace also sees this authentic artistic ability in Collins, calling him “one of those artists that are genuine and believe in everything they say and do.”

Backed by a band, Collins’ new age hip-hop tracks reincarnate into a rock and roll-influenced high-energy expemrience at his live shows. And when it comes to his performing, Ejaaz said he studies the mannerisms of Jimi Hendrix,x, mimicking and manipulating the legend’s crowd-capturingg prowess to “give people the best show possible.”

“These are talented individuals who are all coming together on one stage on one night to perform,” Jace said. “They all currently have releases coming upp in July, August and September, so I think it’s a great opportunity to hear new music first,” he said.

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nder the influences category of Shadeland’s Facebook page, they list, “Daily life struggles combined with the triumph of living.” That’s about as succinct a summation as there can be for this band, which has experienced most of the travails anyone trafficking in music can.

Over 15 years they’ve changed their name three times, released six albums (the latest, This Ghost, drops July 12) and endured innumerable lineup changes. The core has always been vocalist and guitarist Allen Kell and drummer Brad Hudgins.

Both attended Triton Central High School (until about four years ago, everyone who had ever played in an incarnation of Shadeland was a graduate of there). Hudgins received a drumset for Christmas while matriculating there, but didn’t really start playing until a friend suggested they start a band. That person introduced Hudgins to Kell. Triton Central was small enough that Hudgins knew of him, but they weren’t hanging out.

“He sat like two seats down from me in science class,” Hudgins said of Kell during a recent phone interview. “But he could play guitar and sing, so we all got got together.” together.”

Their first stab at musical stardom was was under the moniker Lo-Life. It was appropriap ppr p op priate for a high school-age band copying copying the the popular form of rock and roll at at the the time time acts like Korn, Limp Bizkit and Rage Rage Against Against The Machine. Hudgins admits he didn’t even ev en really rea eall lly y listen list li sten en to to rock rock music mus usic ic until unt ntil il he he joined join jo ined ed the the group. gro roup up. Kell, Kell Ke ll, who’s who’ wh o s always alwa al ways ys been bee een n their chief songwriter, was influenced by artists like Radiohead over time, and taitailored lore lo red d his his band’s band ba nd’ss sound sou ound nd accordingly. acc ccor ordi ding ngly ly.

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Hudgins said. “Every album we’ve released has been quite a bit different from the last.”

By the time they changed their name to Mind’s Eye, they were sounding more like Incubus than some aggro jock-rock collective. Problem was, with their new appellation, too many people expected them to sound like Tool. So they rebranded themselves Shadeland about 10 years ago.

It almost didn’t matter initially. Interband relationships were beginning to fray.

“When you’re around the same people for that long, things can start to get a little edgy,” Hudgins said.

Personnel changes had commenced long before they became Shadeland.

Their original bassist left soon after they graduated high school. They had a close friend replace him, but he always butted heads with Kell over musical direction and left late last decade. Their keyboardkeyboardist at the time filled in on on bass bass too, too, but but eventually left also. And Hudgins and Kell Kell ll were starting star ting i families, famil iliies, while whi hille their th heiir bandmates had no such attachments.

“That’s really what ultimately put the band band on life support back then,” Hudgins said. said.

Shadeland didn’t die, though, just took some time off. With a reconstituted lineup, they started playing shows again a few years ago. Unfortunately it’s been tough drawing decent crowds ever since.

“We were an established band, but taking time off really hurt us,” Hudgins said.

“So ever since we’ve been trying to get back [to where we were].”

Even opening for national acts like Stone Temple Pilots hasn’t helped much. It’s all the more difficult when you don’t get much local promotion. Hudgins and Kell are hoping This Ghost and new members Tony Vibbert on bass and pianist Jacob Zimmerman are enough to jump-start their concert calendar. If their 2009 release Red Giant fit Shadeland’s self-described “progressive rock for the common man,” This Ghost takes it in even more diffusive directions. Kell wrote much of it principally on piano, adding guitar later.

“We’re still a rock band, but I think [Allen] kind of wants to move more in a direction where he doesn’t have to play guitar all the time,” Hudgins said. “I’m a really loud drummer; I hit really hard. So it would be hard to get it away from a rock sound with me.”

“It’s all just forward,” he added. “We “We don’t have a vision planned.”

Though g Shadeland mayy be far from being a household name, and their journey filled with lulls and setbacks, Hudgins has no regrets.

“I’ve got six CDs worth of music music I’m I’m always going alwa al lways ys g oing oi ing to to be b proud pro roud ud d of,” of,”” he h he said. sai aid id d. “Not “N “No Nott just ju st that, tha hatt, but but I’ve I’vve made made so so many many ma ny friends fri rien ends ds over the years, seen a lot of of really really good good bands. I feel lucky to be part part of of music musi mu sicc and an a nd Indianapolis the th e In Indi dian anap apol olis is scene.” sce cene ne.”

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It’s almost Kurt Vile Day — and just in time for the man himself to get off tour and return home to celebrate.

Vile’s hometown of Philadelphia recently declared August 28 of every year Kurt Vile Day, celebrating the music of the 33-yearold guitarist and songwriter. He’s made a name for himself as one of independent music’s master song crafters and received high praise for his recent Matador release, Wakin on a Pretty Daze, his third fulllength on the longstanding indie label.

The end of tour means time to get away for this married father of two.

“Ultimately, I feel like I’ll be able to disappear because I’m busting my ass now,” Vile said, reflecting on his rigorous touring schedule and how that affects his family life. “It’s not that I don’t get the itch to play music too, because that’s just what I do.”

On Friday, Kurt Vile and The Violators will be performing at The Vogue, marking Vile’s second ever trip to Indianapolis — the first of which was a successful in-store appearance at Broad Ripple’s LUNA Music.

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“We were playing the same Happy Mondays song through the PA before we went on, like a real pump-up type of song,” Vile said. “Other rituals include drinking a Red Bull or something, which is not very healthy. The next thing you’re drinking two and you’re like, ‘Oh man, I’ve gotta stop this.’

So certain rituals are better than others.”

Throughout our 20-minute phone conversation, there was never an ounce of artifice or PR-honed interview conditioning in Vile’s replies. This is something the native Philadelphian truly tries to communicate through his lyricism, he said.

Observe the lyrics of his 2011 song “Jesus Fever” for an example of songwriter’s twisted humor. He writes: “I’d pack my suitcase with myself But I’m already gone Cleanse myself with vitamin health But I’m already gone.”

Vile told me his choice to embed humor within the lines of his songs is nothing more than him trying to remain true to himself.

“I think it’s just my personality [to] throw some wisecracks in there. I think about these things as a person and a songwriter

and I decided a long time ago that it was important,” he said.

Vile is still fond of his early material, some of which took the form of raw home recordings. While he is plenty aware that his sound has evolved from that, he expressed his love for the uniqueness of the recording style.

In particular, Vile recalled hearing an interview with The Band’s Robbie Robertson regarding The Basement Tapes, referred to by many as the first lo-fi release. Taking this intoconsideration, Vile explained how this rugged recording style offers “so much nuance” — something that he finds very special.

Nevertheless, the longhaired Philadelphian has always kept a high standard for himself as an artist, whether he’s working alone in his bedroom or in the studio with famed producer Steve Agnello.

Although Vile is thankful for the support he receives from his Matador family, he admitted that the label’s love for him is somewhat pressuring at times.

“They love everybody they put out but certain times I feel like one of the heads might take a special liking to you or make it their mission to really support you. … I kind of just feel like a weird son,” he said, laughing.

No matter what weird words the hardworking Philadelphian utters or has uttered in his songs, he hopes one thing holds true.

“I’m happy now and I’m happy to look back to then. I just hope it’s always quality. I work hard, taking many hours to make that work out,” he said.

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he Midwest wasn’t kind to disco. In fact, some still blame us for its untimely death. It was a public execution.

Disco Demolition Night went down July 12, 1979 between games during a White Sox doubleheader at Chicago’s Comiskey Park.

A pair of Chicago area rock DJs hosted the event, which culminated in a actual explosion of disco records. The night ended early when anti-disco rioters poured onto the field in celebration of the destruction as a charred pile of LPs smoldered in the background. Thee White Sox forfeited their game that night and the media pronounced disco dead.

But disco never really died. It simply went underground, where it’s maintained an important position in electronic dance music ever since. It morphed into spin-off genres like Italo, nu-disco and boogie and embedded itself in the DNA of post punk acts like John Lydon’s PiL or Gang of Four.

Perhaps most importantly, it inspired the birth of both hip-hop and house music.

Despite that rich pedigree, disco remains a misunderstood and divisive sub-ject among music fans. A mere mention of the word is likely to draw groans of disapproval from your average rock listener.

But like it or not, disco is currently experiencing a major comeback, and the charge is being led by French electronic music duoo Daft Punk. Their current disco-inspired single “Get Lucky” has been firmly entrenched in the Top 40 charts since its release in April. The song is taken from Daft Punks’ latest LP Random Access Memories, a tribute to disco culture featuring legendary genre luminaries like Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers and super-producer Giorgio Moroder.

Daft Punk isn’t alone in their devotion to disco. There’s a slew of other disco-revivalists currently working to return the genre to former glories. Chief among these modern disco advocates is 27-year-old British dubstep producer Skream who turned heads in the world of EDM when he distanced himself from the dubstep genre he helped to originate. Skream recently announced plans for a new disco project to be released later this summer.

So what’s sparking this resurgence of interest in disco? The constant ebb and flow of pop music trends often appears to be governed by completely random forces, but deeper inspection can reveal evidence of significant social influences at play.

The sharp rise and fall of disco music in the late ‘70s is a prime example of the role social patterns play in shaping the popular music landscape.

In many ways disco was a response to the aggressive, masculine rock culture that dominated the early 1970s. Disco emerged at a time when Americans were looking for relief from the oppressive struggles of Viet Nam and the stress of the Civil Rights Movement. While disco music was rarely overtly political, its message of universal love and sexual liberation held considerable value. The genre’s ascendance coincided with the rise of feminism and gay rights activism in the United States.

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This heady mix of open-minded, hedonistic musical bliss was a bit too much for mainstream America to take. In fact, many critics have observed that the anti-disco backlash of the 1970s was primarily driven by the macho homophobia and bigotry of white American males. So, perhaps, the demise of disco was more of an objection to the genre’s pan-racial and pro-gay outlook than it was a rejection of its musical content.

The current disco resurgence mirrors many of the social conditions that originally propelled the genre into the mainstream.

The never-ending war on terror and prolonged economic depression have wreaked havoc on American morale. There’s also a renewed interest in LGBT activism, as millions of Americans have come together to show their support gay marriage. Perhaps we’re ready for the joyful, carefree celebration that disco music offers.

The Top 40 success of Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” is proof that Americans are open to the return of the disco sound. But it remains to be seen if Americans will now embrace the cultural proposition of sexual and racial equality that the disco lifestyle proposes — particularly here in the Midwest.

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In tow is his massive “Believe” tour setup (but not his tiny capuchin monkey, which he left behind in a German quarantine). To prepare for the show, pick your Bieber poison.

Is it “Baby”? Is it “As Long As You Love Me”? We love, and in equal measures hate, them all.

After openers Hot Chelle Rae’s standout hit “Tonight, Tonight” went double platinum, there’s no more doubt of these Nashville natives’ place in the world of pop. The 2011 winners of the AMA’s “Best New Artist” aren’t reached nearly 50 million combined YouTube views and jumped aboard Justin Bieber’s “Believe” tour alongside Mike Posner. We spoke with HCR’s lead guitarist, Nash Overstreet, about an upcoming album, Bieber’s Beliebers and his Glee star brother. Hit up NUVO.net for our interview.

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but left to start his own group in 2008. The hostel is celebrating their 10 year anniversary all summer long with a series of concerts.

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FRIDAY THURSDAY TRIPPY Andy D, Lil Iffy, Grey Granite Indy’s favorite wild unicorn man brings Knoxville-based wand core rapper Lil Iffy to the stage in a wild and weird and Harry Potter-filled performance.

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Opening for Bernie Worrell Orchestra are Jahman Brahman, a five-member band from Asheville, NC. Jahman Brahman dubs their group a musical cohesion deriving from the heart and energy of one musical family.

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Over the course of the band’s decade plus career, they have released three killer albums and have a fourth one in the oven. Kuhn is a successful comic artist who moved to Albuquerque a few years ago, making Fuglee shows a once or twice a year proposition. We caught up with him before the show.

NUVO: It’s been awhile, does this mean there’s some new material to look forward to?

KUHN: We have a bunch of new songs which we are itching to break out and play for people, but it really depends on how rehearsals go. I live in Albuquerque, and when I come into town we have a limited amount of time to practice.

We really have to pick and choose what we’re able to reasonably do in the time allotted. If rehearsals are going great, then we will definitely be rocking some new songs, but I won’t really know for sure till I get there.

NUVO: How do you like living in New Mexico? Do you ever miss Indy?

KUHN: New Mexico is a beautifully weird state, and I dig it the most.

Unfortunately, they don’t have White Castle in the Southwest, so legally, I have to come back for that. Clearly, the biggest thing I miss in Indy is playing in The Fuglees. When you find people you connect with musically the way we do, you don’t want to give that up.

That’s why I walk all the way from Albuquerque, to Indianapolis to make the rock that the kids need so desperately these days. Indiana is like an old Converse All-Star that fits me perfectly. When I get there I love seeing all my old friends and making a ruckus, even if it’s only for a few days at a time. Rocking a club full of peoples’ faces off never gets old.

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ROCK A Silent Film, The Unlikely Candidates Oxford quartet A Silent Film returns to the Rathskeller exactly a year after their 2012 appearance — probably because the band is making the trip to Indy again from Cincinnati’s Bunbury Festival, where they’ll play again this year. Their second album, Sand and Snow, was inspired by that traversing on tour, and, while it’s quite a good listen, the cinematic soundscapes (pun intended) created by the band deserves a live viewing. The group happens to agree.

From our interview with lead singer Robert Stevenson last year: “[There’s a] fear of going back and re-visiting and listening to [the first album]. Because it’s fixed, it’s set in stone. You know that everyone out there is experiencing it like that, but you always want to make changes, because as an artist, you always want to evolve. Live, I can always change things, I can always improve. We can change how to deliver certain parts of the songs and make it more fun, make it unique. I think that’s really important. I don’t think people come to hear you play live just to hear you play the album, exactly as it is. I think they want something new, something more. I think they deserve that as well.”

Biergarten at Rathskeller, 401 E. Michigan St. 7:30 p.m., $5, 21+ ROCK Shadeland Album Release We can’t say this enough: Shadeland’s new LP is a winner. See for yourself at their album release show.

Rock House Cafe, 3940 S. Keystone Ave., 9 p.m., $8 (comes with album), 21+ CLASSIC The Bernie Worrell Orchestra, Jahman Brahman This eccentric musical prodigy started playing the piano at age three and has been shredding the keyboards ever since. Worrell is one of the most featured keyboardists in American music — he’s even been compared to Beethoven. He is known for his complex synthesizer work with the psychedelic

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Yet as the 1990s came, The Spirtles faded away. “Sometime soon” became “no more.”

The tried-and-true, familiar-andtrippin’ groove-happy rock band has regrouped after having been (mostly) absent since then. This week, twirling jam fans can rejoice: the group with two drummers and a heavy dose of Dead is back, for at least one night, at the Irving Theater.

The Spirtles were a jam band. Not a flavor of the day/month/year, but a throwback to the late 1960s, firmly planted in the blues-infested psychedelic sounds of the earlier time. Clubs like the Mousetrap survive in part because the jam band culturel lives today — some of it (the desire for liquid guitar lines, weedy rock and roll and “Sugar Magnolia”) unchanged in the time that The Spirtles have been gone.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY © 2013 BY ROB BRESZNY ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Space Needle is a tourist attraction in Seattle. It’s taller than the Washington Monument but shorter than the Eiffel Tower. Near the top of the structure is a circular restaurant that rotates slowly, making one complete turn every 47 minutes. The motor that moves this 125-ton mass is small: only 1.5 horsepower.

In the coming days, Aries, I foresee you having a metaphorically similar ability. You will be able to wield a great deal of force with a seemingly small and compact “engine.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “How many years can some people exist before they’re allowed to be free?” asked Bob Dylan in one of his most famous songs, written in 1962. “The answer is blowin’ in the wind,” he concluded. Many people hailed the tune as a civil rights anthem. Thirteen years later, a hippie cowboy named Jerry Jeff Walker released “Pissing in the Wind,” a rowdy song that included the line, “The answer is pissing in the wind.” It was decidedly less serious than the tune it paid homage to, with Walker suggesting that certain events in his life resembled the act described in the title.

“Makin’ the same mistakes, we swore we’d never make again,” he crooned. All of this is my way of letting you know, Taurus, that you’re at a fork. In one direction is a profound, even noble, “blowin’ in the wind” experience.

In the other, it would be like “pissing in the wind.” Which do you prefer? It’s up to you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The Italian artist Duccio di Buoninsegna painted his Madonna and Child sometime around the year 1300. It’s a compact piece of art -just eleven inches high and eight inches wide.

Nevertheless, New York’s Metropolitan Museum paid $45 million for the pleasure of owning it. I propose that we choose this diminutive treasure as your lucky symbol for the next eight to ten months, Gemini. May it inspire you as you work hard to create a small thing of great value.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): When the comic book hero Superman first appeared on the scene in 1938, he had the power to jump over tall buildings, but he couldn’t fly. By 1941, he was hovering in mid-air, and sometimes moving around while floating. Eventually, he attained the ability to soar long distances, even between stars. Your own destiny may have parallels to Superman’s in the coming months, Cancerian. It’s possible you will graduate, metaphorically speaking, from taking big leaps to hovering in mid-air. And if you work your butt off to increase your skill, you might progress to the next level -- the equivalent of full-out flight -- by March 2014.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “It’s never too late to become what you might have been,” said novelist George Eliot. I’d like you to keep that thought in mind throughout the rest of 2013 and beyond, Leo. I trust you will allow its sly encouragement to work its way down into your darkest depths, where it will revive your discouraged hopes and wake up your sleeping powers. Here are the potential facts as I see them: In the next ten months, you will be in prime time to reclaim the momentum you lost once upon a time . . . to dive back into a beloved project you gave up on . . . and maybe even resuscitate a dream that made your eyes shine when you were younger and more innocent.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When I first arrived in Santa Cruz some years back, I helped start a New Wavepunk band called Mystery Spot. Our first drummer was a guy named Lucky Lehrer. After a few months, our manager decided Lucky wasn’t good enough and kicked him out of the band. Lucky took it hard, but didn’t give up. He joined the seminal punk band the Circle Jerks, and went on to have a long and successful career. Flipside magazine even named him the best punk drummer of all time. I suspect, Virgo, that in the next ten to twelve months you will have a chance to achieve the beginning of some Lucky Lehrer-type redemption. In what area of your life would you like to experience it?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to my reading of the astrological omens, the next 12 months will be a time when you will have more power than usual to turn your dreams into realities. You’ll have extra skill at translating your ideals into practical action. To help make sure you capitalize on this potential, I suggest you adopt this Latin phrase as your motto: a posse ad esse. It means “from being possible to being actual.” So why not simply make your motto “from being possible to being actual”? Why bother with the Latin version?

Because I think your motto should be exotic and mysterious -- a kind of magical incantation.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 2010, two economics professors from Harvard wrote a paper that became a crucial piece of evidence for the global austerity movement. Politicians used it to justify their assertion that the best way to cure our long-running financial ills is for governments to spend less money. Oddly, no one actually studied the paper to see if it was based on accurate data until April 2013. Then Thomas Herndon, a 28-year-old Ph.D. student at the University of Massachusetts, dived in and discovered fundamental mistakes that largely discredited the professors’ conclusions. I believe you have a similar mojo going for you, Scorpio. Through clear thinking and honest inquiry, you have the power to get at truths everyone else has missed.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Breakthrough will probably not arrive wrapped in sweetness and a warm glow, nor is it likely to be catalyzed by a handsome prince or pretty princess. No, Sagittarius. When the breakthrough barges into your life, it may be a bit dingy and dank, and it may be triggered by questionable decisions or weird karma. So in other words, the breakthrough may have resemblances to a breakdown, at least in the beginning. This would actually be a good omen -- a sign that your deliverance is nothing like you imagined it would be, and probably much more interesting.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In a wheat field, a rose is a weed -- even if that rose is voluptuous and vibrant. I want you to promise me that you will work hard to avoid a fate like that in the coming months, Capricorn. Everything depends on you being in the right place at the right time.

It’s your sacred duty to identify the contexts in which you can thrive and then put yourself in those contexts. Please note: The ambiance that’s most likely to bring out the best in you is not necessarily located in a high-status situation where everyone’s ambition is amped to the max.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Is your soul feeling parched? In your inner world, are you experiencing the equivalent of a drought? If so, maybe you will consider performing a magic ritual that could help get you on track for a cure. Try this: Go outside when it’s raining or misting. If your area is going through a dry spell, find a waterfall or high-spouting fountain and put yourself in close proximity. Then stand with your legs apart and spread your arms upwards in a gesture of welcome. Turn your face toward the heavens, open up your mouth, and drink in the wetness for as long as it takes for your soul to be hydrated again. (In an emergency, frolicking under a sprinkler might also work.)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Igor Stravinsky was a 20thcentury composer who experimented with many styles of music, including the avant-garde work “The Rite of Spring.” “My music is best understood by children and animals,” he said. In my vision of your ideal life, Pisces, that will also be true about you in the coming week: You will be best understood by children and animals. Why? Because I think you will achieve your highest potential if you’re as wild and free as you dare. You will be fueled by spontaneity and innocence, and care little about what people think of you. Play a lot, Pisces! Be amazingly, blazingly uninhibited.

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