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In our cover, News Editor Amber Stearns and writer Michael Rheinheimer look at some of the racially charged incidents that have plagued Indiana colleges and universities over the last year. Mizzou? Yale? Yes. From small private schools to large public institutions, Indiana schools are experiencing the same problems that trouble our nation’s campuses pg.11
MUSIC We’re taking the music section back several years with interviews with Brian Wilson, Cheap Trick and Garbage. Feel that? That’s the sweet, sweet taste of nostalgia.
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The American Legislative Exchange Council will hold its annual meeting in Indianapolis later this month. There is also a huge protest against the organization planned. So what is ALEC and why do so many people and groups find them offensive? The answers to those questions can be found inside.
Sarah Urist Green shares what it takes to make a successful ArtPrize Pitch, while Mia Lee Roberts tells us how she believes ComedySportz is the reason she has survived cancer … twice. And Jim Obergefell details his recent book about being a plaintiff in the landmark same-sex marriage case.
What is ALEC?....................................... pg. 9 VOICES Krull on violence.................................. pg. 6 Baker on privilege................................ pg. 7
ArtPrize Pitch....................................... pg.19 ComedySportz..................................... pg.20 Jim Obergefell..................................... pg.21 Indy Film Fest...................................... pg.23
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Get to know more about the new Whole Beast program at Cerulean downtown, where chef Alan Sternberg is educating himself, his team and you while helping out local farmers. Plus, take a ride with Rita down the beer road from here to Columbus.
Sternberg............................................. pg.26
Kent tells you why you should be optimistic about the Pacers in 2016-2017. Rita talks Indy’s first mead and cider fest. And we’ve got a slew of photos from Flow Fest, Luke Bryan, Chris Cornell, Weird Al and more.
NightCrawler at Flow Fest................... pg.28
Cheap Trick’s favorite guitars.............. pg.32
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o many souls lost. So many scars upon the land. The mass shooting in Dallas, Texas, of 12 police officers that killed at least five of them followed by a day the shooting of a black man by a police officer in a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota. Which followed by a day the shooting of another black man by a police officer in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Which followed by a few weeks the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. Which followed yet another atrocity. Which followed. Which followed. The tragedies in America now come with a numbing rapidity. Some horror occurs — some disturbed or angry or hateful person picks up a weapon and slaughters innocent human beings — and we all shake our heads. We say, “Something must be done.” The temptation is strong to blame this on the National Rifle Association and the other members of the gun lobby for turning this country into a war zone. Lord knows the gun lobbyists bear tremendous moral responsibility. They have worked to corrupt our political system so it defies public will and they tirelessly — relentlessly — have sold a message of fear to the American people. The numbers show now that fewer and fewer Americans are buying or own guns, but that the ones who do have firearms are purchasing more and more of them, in the process turning homes into weapons stockades and average citizens into walking arsenals. (One of the suspected shooters in Dallas was carrying so much weaponry that the ammunition was literally spilling out of his pockets.) It’s not unreasonable for a police officer or any other person to fear that the stranger on the street, Black or white, could be armed to the teeth because that
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is what we have allowed our nation to become — a weapons bazaar. But only a fool would argue that nothing more than the easy flow of deadly firearms afflicts us. The truth is that we are a divided, distrustful nation, too determined to believe the worst of each other, too willing — even eager — to heed the angriest and most irrational voices among us. Blacks fear whites. Whites fear Blacks. Scared bigots want to ban Muslims. Other bigots want to punish and demean fellow human beings on the basis of gender or sexual orientation. Those oppressed, insulted or marginalized look for ways to lash back. Rage stalks the land, searching for — and so often finding — a trigger to pull. At times like these, people of good faith quote Martin Luther King Jr. They search through the King library to find admonitions about the importance of peace and the need for us to love one another. One of the downsides of King’s elevation to secular sainthood is that it prevents us from seeing him as the moral provocateur that he was. However soaring his rhetoric might have been, King’s strategy was unwaveringly earthbound. He sought, always, to spur the conscience, to force Americans of good heart into a moral awakening. He drove us to stop thinking impersonally. To stop saying and thinking, “Some-
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thing must be done.” And to start thinking and saying, “I must do something.” I must do something. We live in a time of horror. We watch our fellow citizens die on a regular basis. We snarl at each other as if there were no other way for us to talk. We walk down our streets fearful of each other. We see fellow citizens as enemies. This is who we have become, but it is not who we have to be. This is our country. We can make it what we want it to be, what it should be. We can start by listening to each other, by lowering our own voices when others shout, by trying to understand, as best we can, the person who looks or worships or lives differently than we do. We should do this. We must do this. The consequences for evading this moral responsibility are all around us. So many souls lost. So many scars upon the land. n
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Scenes from Saturday’s Black Lives Matter rally at the Statehouse.
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[EDITOR’S NOTE: This guest editorial was written before news broke of the shooting in Dallas, Texas that took the lives of five police officers and wounded seven others.]
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’m white. Most of my ancestors are from England and Germany. I sunburn easily, I can’t rap, and “mild” is the spiciest salsa I can handle. Because I am white, I don’t stand out in my (predominantly white) hometown of Kokomo, Indiana. I don’t have to worry about speaking for all white people when I discuss race. When I am pulled over by the police for speeding, my main concern is how I’m going to pay for the ticket, not if I’m going to make it out of my car alive. Growing up, I was constantly told that if I’m ever in trouble and my parents weren’t around, a police officer would be willing to help me. In the case of an emergency, I was always instructed to call 911 first, then my parents. Policemen were the “good guys” who were there to protect me.
This is not the case for Americans who are not white, especially Black Americans. However, I’m not addressing nonwhite Americans right now. You already know about the constant state of fear and oppression non-white Americans deal with, because you live that reality every day. You’re not the issue. White people, including myself, are the problem. We perpetuate racism, spewing microaggressions and hurtful stereotypes. We deflect from the root issue by arguing that the victim had a gun; he was resisting arrest; the police officer was acting in self-defense. We ignore the fact that white criminals also have guns and resist arrest, but somehow manage to stay alive during their encounters with the police. We cry #AllLivesMatter and #BlueLivesMatter in response to the pleas of #BlackLivesMatter, a very basic statement that shouldn’t ever be refuted. We dig up irrelevant facts about these Black victims and their families in order to label them “criminals” and “thugs,” while we search for any available evidence in order to prove that our white criminals are just “lone wolves,” “men-
tally unstable” or “quiet and reserved.” Our stout refusal to reflect on our inherent and rampant racism is literally killing people. Over 130 Black Americans (and counting) have been killed by police this year alone, and it’s only July. Some were armed; some were not. Some had a criminal history; others did not. It doesn’t really matter. A police officer should not act as the jury, judge and executioner, with the exception of extreme cases of self-defense. However, these are not extreme cases. People, Black people, are dying because they have a broken taillight, because they forgot to use their turn signal, because they were selling loose cigarettes. Our police officers need to be educated on de-escalation tactics, crisis intervention, implicit bias and other topics that will help to stop the disturbing pattern of police violence in this country. Body cameras should be consistently implemented and regulated, and the recordings should be made readily available to the public. Officers need to be held accountable for their actions and data on police shootings should be collected and released. As white people, we need to be better
allies to Black people. We need to listen to their perspective, believe them when they vocalize injustices that have been railed against them and educate ourselves on relevant issues. We also need to elevate their activism — share their posts, use your networks to connect them to various resources and support them in their fight for justice. Additionally, it’s important for white people to call out other white people on racism and prejudice. Work on changing the white spaces you currently operate in to make them more accepting and safe for Black people. Recognize your privilege and leverage it to do good. We can all do better. Talk to your state representatives about the issue of police brutality. Educate yourself about systematic racism. Look up if the police in your city are required to wear body cameras. Support and listen to your Black friends. Call out other white people’s racism. White people need to recognize our implicit responsibility for violence against Black people and fix this mess that we have created through centuries of racism and violence. n
As white people, we need to be better allies to Black people. We need to listen to their perspective, believe them when they vocalize injustices that have been railed against them, and educate ourselves on relevant issues.
The Statehouse rally moved to Monument Circle and marched up Meridian.
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THE INFLUENCE OF ALEC
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the world to infiltrate society to eventually take over the world. So what always saves the world in the end? The organized resistance of the people brings education and awareness to eventually stop the evil empire from taking over. Monday’s meeting at the library was one of several gatherings of the “resistance” to ALEC. ALEC is a membership-based organization, so its meetings are private and are not open to the public, despite the large gatherings of elected public of-
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here have been a lot of protests in Indianapolis over the past few years. Protests about the environment, marriage equality, minimum wage, LGBTQ civil rights, #BlackLivesMatter, reproductive rights and others have been held on Monument Circle and the steps of the Indiana Statehouse en masse. But there is one protest scheduled for later this month that literally wraps up all of the previous protests in one large box. About 100 people gathered in a meeting room at the Central Library Monday to learn more about the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which will hold its annual meeting in Indianapolis July 27 – 29. As an organization ALEC is a bit hard to describe and even harder to understand … or actually fathom, which is why the panel discussion was held. But most, if not all, of the attendees learned that ALEC and its influence on state and federal government is questionable at best and is flat out evil at worst.
government, businesses and corporations. The club meets at least once a year in what can only be described as a “mock legislature” where those corporate leaders and legislators sit side by side and discuss and vote on ideas and issues they believe should be presented to state legislatures all over the country. The ideas and issues always benefit the nature of big business, whether directly or indirectly. Once the club determines the course of action, legislators take those
“Our big concern is that big money is controlling the political process.” — JULIA VAUGHN
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ideas and issues back to their states in the form of proposed bills to pass. That is ALEC in a nutshell and how it does what it does. On one hand it sounds like the plot of a science fiction movie. The aliens gather on the mother ship to determine how to take over civilization, and then send drones out throughout
ficials present. Therefore, transparency is a major issue for those questioning ALEC’s practices and influence in local government. The Internal Revenue Service lists ALEC as a 501c(3) non-profit education organization, so donations are tax deductible, including membership fees. ALEC also fundraises “scholarship”
Reports of Bayh’s return as Hill drops out of the U.S. Senate race Baron Hill, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, announced he is withdrawing from the U.S. Senate race. “I have never run away from tough decisions or tough fights. But, I am a pragmatic person who will always put my country and my state first,” Hill said in a statement Monday. “I am also a proud Democrat who wants to see an Indiana Democrat fighting for Hoosier families alongside Sen. Joe Donnelly in the U.S. Senate.” A CNN report said Evan Bayh would replace Hill on the ballot for the Democrats, re-running for the U.S. Senate seat. Bayh was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1999, but in 2010 he suddenly dropped out of the race before the General Election. Bayh praised Hill’s decision in a statement Monday, but did not address the report or announce a bid. “Baron Hill has always put Indiana first, and has been focused on setting aside party differences to strengthen our state and country,” Bayh said in the statement. “I share this commitment, and agree with him that the stakes have never been higher. Baron and I have spoken and we both believe that we must send leaders to Washington who will put Hoosiers’ interests ahead of any one political party.” Hill did not mention Bayh when he announced that he was dropping out of the race, but did mention qualities that match Bayh’s resume. “Democrats have a very real chance at winning this Senate seat, especially with a strong nominee who has the money, name identification and resources to win,” Hill said in a statement. “I do not want to stand in the way of Democrats winning Indiana and the U.S. Senate.” John Zody, Chairman of the Indiana Democratic Party, said state Democrats will begin work immediately to find Hill’s replacement. “Baron Hill is a friend and a mentor, and I am proud to know him. His service to this state has always come from the heart — he is one of the most principled people I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. Congressman Hill has informed me of his withdrawal from the U.S. Senate race, and as State Party Chair I will begin the process for the Democratic State Central Committee to fill the ballot vacancy in accordance with Indiana state law.” John Gregg, the Democratic governor candidate, said he was disappointed, but respects Hill’s decision. “We’ve been friends and colleagues for 30 years,” Gregg said in a statement, “and I know that no matter what the future holds, Baron will continue to make positive contributions to our state and party in the years to come.” —THE STATEHOUSE FILE
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dollars as a part of their mission. But instead of scholarships for students to attend higher education or for workers to learn trade skills — how we typically assume scholarships are used — these scholarships are to sponsor legislators to attend ALEC functions and conferences to “learn” about what corporations want to see in legislation. And since charitable donations are not tracked and monitored, there is no way to specifically determine how much financial influence a corporation has.
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process,” says Vaughn. “It controls the legislative process through lobbyists and lobbying. It’s controlling the electoral process when groups like ALEC get involved and try to disenfranchise numbers of Americans because they don’t have a government-issued ID.” Vaughn says Common Cause is all about keeping government accountable and transparent, something ALEC doesn’t want. Campaign finance reform, open records, voting rights and redistricting reform are among the issues Common Cause fights for in Indiana. “We care about process,” says Vaughn. “We care about how things are conducted, how they operate. We want things to be fair and we don’t want big money to have all the power in our system.” Kharbanda says ALEC’s influence in the Indiana General Assembly in terms of environmental legislation is very evident. Gov. Mike Pence, House Speaker Brian Bosma (R-Indianapolis), and Senate Pro Temp David Long (R-Fort Wayne) are all ALEC members along with several current legislators. There were several bills proposed in the last legislative session — especially involving the environment — that were ALEC-influenced bills. But Kharbanda says the influence of ALEC is much more than people and bills as an ideology. “When talking about a group like ALEC, the issue isn’t pro-business or anti-business or virtuous businesses that operate in Indiana. Neither is it about being free market. And the issue isn’t about partisanship, necessarily,” says Kharbanda. “The issue with ALEC is that it undermines the democratic process, in Indiana
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Labor interests, education advocates, environmental groups and government watchdog organizations are just a sampling of the greater public with concerns about ALEC’s influence in government. Presenters in Monday’s panel discussion included Jane Carter — an economist and lobbyist with labor organization AFSME, Julia Vaughn with Common Cause Indiana, Joel Hand with the Coalition for Public Education and Jesse Kharbanda with the Hoosier Environmental Council. Each group represented illustrated how legislation we’ve seen in the Indiana General Assembly has been influenced, created and/or written by ALEC. State Representative Matt Pierce (D- Bloomington) also sat on the panel to give a perspective of ALEC’s influence among his colleagues at the statehouse. From a labor standpoint ALEC is the primary influence behind issues like right-to-work, prevailing wage and other legislation that reduces the voice of the union employee. “Right-to-wok was one of ALEC’s first model bills,” says Carter. “They also push to limit our right to collectively bargain and they also push a lot of legislation that protects the minimum wage. They push legislation on voter ID. A lot of the legislation that ALEC puts forward is directly harming middle class middle wage earners across the country.” Carter, who is a specialist in privatization and outsourcing, says her drive to follow ALEC’s activities is because of its influence in privatization bills, such as transportation and transit, solid waste, parking meters, toll roads (think of the Indiana Toll Road deal) and private prisons. Collectively those public services, entities and programs are worth $6 trillion dollars in the private industry, according to Carter. Vaughn echoed Carter’s assessment of ALEC, adding that the lack of transparency is one of the most disturbing aspects of how ALEC operates in their influence of lawmakers. “Unfortunately our big concern is that big money is controlling the political
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ly through the rise of private schools and charter schools and the voucher system in Indiana, all under the guise of education reform. Hand says what appears to be a noble cause of education reform on the surface is actually a foundational and fundamental shift toward privatized education. For-profit corporations are behind the administration of charter schools and education reform programs. The cycle begins by changing the perception of public schools as inferior, forcing accountability mandates and other requirements on public schools that in turn forces their focus away from liberal arts education (art, music, social sciences, etc.) to a mandated EnglishMath curriculum. “And I think this is a main driver for ALEC,” says Hand. “If it’s not a S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) curriculum, then it doesn’t get taught in the public school system. That creates a need then for parents who want to have their child receive a wellrounded education to look outside the public school system.” Hand says it then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy — education becomes a hot commodity and a new profitable industry, at the expense of a public education for all. The list of groups targeted, disenfranchised and enraged by ALEC is large. But Carter says the good news is that the more people know about ALEC and its influence and activities, the more they can react and reverse the trend. Several businesses who were once members of ALEC are now disassociated with the organization because of public influence and outrage. Public rallies and protests
“The issue with ALEC is that it undermines the democratic process, in Indiana and around the United States.” — JESSE KHARBANDA
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and around the United States. And that is because you are developing public policy behind closed doors in a resort or a fancy hotel rather than in an open public transparent process that either happens in the General Assembly or in a place where a variety of different stakeholders can come together and craft fair-minded balanced public policy.” Hand acknowledged that education is a newcomer to the ALEC party, but the influence is there and progressing rapid-
have encouraged companies to back out. And without business members, ALEC can’t function or influence as it has for over 40 years. That’s why when ALEC comes to Indianapolis for its annual meeting in two weeks, opposing groups and organizations plan to be ready with rallies, protests and other educational opportunities for the public to lean about what is really going on behind closed doors. n
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acial tensions in the United States are rising to a fever pitch. Over the last few years the questionable deaths of minorities at the hands of police has captured the attentions of news media and the public with the latest name — Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota — added to the list just last week. The next day several police officers in Dallas, Texas were shot — five were killed and seven were wounded. These deaths are only a few of the latest big incidents fueling the fire of racial tension and aggression in America. But the smaller nonviolent incidents — the microaggressions*, the racially laced parade floats, the social media insults aimed at the President of the United States and his
family — deserve just as much, if not more, attention if we are to understand our societal problems. Racial tensions at colleges and universities are more common than one might think. Example: Payton Head’s Facebook post voicing his frustrations with microaggressions at the University of Missouri (Mizzou) last fall may have led to protests and demonstrations, vandalism, national media attention and the ultimate resignation of university president Tim Wolfe. But Head’s original complaint is not specific to Mizzou. That complaint has been voiced and microaggressions behind that complaint have been experienced on college campuses everywhere, including Indiana. SEE RACE ON PG 12
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“IT IS A RECOGNITION THAT HANOVER EXISTS WITHIN A RACIST, SEXIST AND HOMOPHOBIC AMERICAN CULTURE, AND EVEN MORE, I FEAR THAT EVEN THE LITTLE ‘FILTERS’ THAT HAVE SUPPRESSED INTOLERANT SPEECH IN OUR SOCIETY ARE COMING OFF WITH THE COARSENING OF POLITICAL RHETORIC.” — Lake Lambert, Hanover College president
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PURDUE UNIVERSITY It wasn’t long after the dust had settled at Mizzou when a group of students known as “Concerned Purdue Student Body Members” at Purdue University held a rally of their own on the West Lafayette campus and presented the university administration with a list of demanded actions and multiple examples of microaggressions on campus. The 105-page book, How Many More Fires, included 73 pages of screenshots of various social media sites featuring racially insensitive language aimed at Purdue’s minority population. “Essentially, the idea is that we saw what was going on at Mizzou and we wanted to show them that we were in support of what they were doing, and we also kind of sought a connection between our experiences here at Purdue and the things they were talking about,” said Kirsten Holston, an undergraduate student who spoke to NUVO at the time of the protests. University president Mitch Daniels had addressed the campus in an email praising the university for being in “proud contrast to the environments that appear to prevail at places like Missouri or Yale.” Daniels had implied that Purdue did not have any racial issues in his communication with the campus and students like Holston sought to change that assumption. The book of complaints, examples and demanded actions was delivered to Daniels in November, and a meeting took place at that time. “[The meeting] was tense,” Holston said. “There were things that we agreed on, and there were things that weren’t agreed
on and then there were things he said he had to look into.” Among the other 13 actions demanded was that Purdue create a required racial awareness curriculum for all members of the Purdue student body and staff. In early May the Provost’s Advisory Committee on Diversity released a 10-goal report that aims to recruit and retain underrepresented students, faculty and staff as well as a concentrated effort to change the campus climate to one that values and embraces diversity. Provost Debra Dutta created the committee in October to address diversity issues on campus — just a few weeks before the students presented their complaints to the president. The committee met with several campus and student groups throughout the year to determine the diversity needs of the campus.
INDIANA UNIVERSITYPURDUE UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS (IUPUI) IUPUI may be a part of Indiana University and Purdue University, but the school carries its own set of unique challenges due to its location. As an institution located in a major metropolitan area, IUPUI has a more diverse student body than Purdue and has a higher percentage of Blacks and African Americans than IU. In January members of the Black Student Union (BSU) organized a protest to call attention to a 10-year-old demand for a Black Cultural Center. The announcement that the university would invest in an LGBT center was viewed as a slight against the demands of the black student population. In 2006 the university created the Multicultural
Center, which houses the BSU, the Latino Student Association, Native American Student Alliance, Asian Student Union and the then-Gay Straight Alliance of IUPUI, now known as LGBTQ Student Alliance. All of the minority organizations shared building space as well as resources. BSU members say a Black Cultural Center is still needed on the urban campus outside of the Multicultural Center. The students also called for a budget specifically set aside for cultural programming and professional development for African-American students, cultural competency training for faculty and transparent communication with the administration. In an open online letter to the university’s administration the BSU leadership stated: “To be a black student in 2015 it is difficult to be whole when you still have to work twice as hard to be appreciated half as much. When your life isn’t valued as a student or a citizen. When you only need to turn on the news to see another black life taken at the hands of law enforcement every 28 hours, then hear your fellow students tell you that we should be more concerned about black-onblack crime if we truly believe that black lives matter. It is the consistent bombardment with macroaggressions and a lack of cultural competency by fellow students and even faculty, staff and administrators which makes a Black Cultural Center a necessity that has been ignored for far too long.” The goal of the protest was to encourage the boycott of oncampus businesses and to march to the administrative offices on campus to draw attention to their calls for action. IUPUI Chancellor Nasser Paydar agreed to meet in good faith with the students and
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listen to their demands. The protest was cancelled out of respect of the meeting. The microaggressions on the urban campus were not limited to the racial divide this year. The religious divide and the growing xenophobia for Muslims and persons from the Middle East fueled a personal attack on a young Muslim woman. The president of the group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) was targeted with personal attacks labeling her as a terrorist, threatening her personally and defaming posters with her photo. The vandalism incident occurred when the IUPUI SJP chapter hosted a Midwest conference for college SJP chapters. But the slander and defamation continued online on various blogs and social media outlets. With Haneen, who we are only identifying by first name, in fear for her safety, friends, fellow students and faculty did not believe Chancellor Paydar and the administration reacted strongly enough or fast enough in condemning the vandal’s actions. “Recent events have underscored the need for me to remind the campus community that there is a place for all voices at IUPUI,” said Paydar in a statement issued to the campus a few days following the vandalism incident. “IUPUI is committed to providing forums for the
free expression and exchange of ideas, including those we may not condone. Even when we vehemently disagree, we must strive to do so with mutual respect and civility. Open dialogue is central to academic freedom and our educational mission.” Paydar did meet with Haneen personally as well as other faculty members on her behalf. The chancellor issued a second statement to the campus acknowledging Haneen as a person and a student who suffered in this violation as well as the university’s role in removing the slanderous posts online and the investigation to the persons responsible.
FRANKLIN COLLEGE In late winter and early spring, racially offensive Snapchats circulated around the Johnson County campus of Franklin College. Some of the images being shared included a photo of burnt toast with a Black History Month filter overlaid on top of the image. A poster from the Office of Diversity and Inclusion had handguns drawn into the students’ hands and blunts (a type of marijuana cigar) were drawn onto their mouths. One of the most offensive images featured a group
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“I SEE THAT AS THE MOST IMPORTANT AND MOST DIFFICULT PART OF MY JOB — TO PRESERVE THE UNIVERSITY AS THE PLACE WHERE DIALOGUE HAPPENS AND THE BALANCING ACT BETWEEN FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND DIVISIVENESS AND HATRED, ETC.” — Rob Manuel, University of Indianapolis president
of minority students in the dining hall with monkey emoji images superimposed over their real faces with a caption that read, “It’s a zoo in here.” Another student reported the offensive images to campus officials. The dean of students initially suspended the offending student indefinitely. But college president Thomas Minar reversed that penalty after the student’s legal counsel pointed out that procedures were not followed in accordance with the school’s student handbook. The student was allowed to return to classes and campus life while his case was properly adjudicated. Unfortunately the small nature of Franklin College made remaining weeks of the school year uncomfortable and difficult for all involved, including an alleged confrontation between the offending student and the student who “ratted him out” during a meal time in the campus cafeteria. After a long and rather complicated process, the offending student was officially suspended for an entire semester. That suspension begins
this coming fall. For Black Student Union president Zay Thornton, this was his first direct experience with blatant racial aggression on campus. “I’m sure there’s always stuff that goes on behind closed doors and we have incidents that happen off campus as well, but as far as on campus this was the first incident that we noticed for us,” said Thornton. “There may have been other instances with other races, but as far as for me as an African-American this was the first experience for me.” Thornton will enter his senior year this fall at Franklin. Originally from Ocala, Florida, Thornton was recruited by Franklin College to play football. Although he didn’t know that much about Indiana, Thornton visited the campus and made his choice to attend after that visit. “A lot of people who come to Franklin may have never interacted with a Black person before or any person of color,” said Thornton. “That’s kind of mind-blowing for me because where I’m from there are people
of every color.” In the immediate aftermath of the incident, but prior to the offending student’s final disciplinary action, Thornton organized a campus gathering sponsored by the Black Student Union. Students, faculty and staff were invited to gather and discuss racial tension and diversity on the campus. However, the one person that Thornton and others on campus wanted to hear from, President Minar, was a no show. “I was surprised. I actually reached out to the president and I had a meeting with him and he kind of talked to me about it and he was just saying how he couldn’t really say a lot because of privacy issues,” said Thornton. “I understand that there were a lot of things he couldn’t really say and that it was still in the process, but it was something that it needed to be talked about.” Minar told The Franklin, the college’s student-run newspaper, the same thing — that “due to federal regulations regarding student privacy issues, the college is unable to discuss
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individual student matters.” Messages sent to the president’s office and to the college’s communications director Deidra Baumgardner from NUVO were left unanswered. The fact that there has been no statement, address or communication from the administration does not sit well with recent graduate Caitlin Soard, who was a communications major and editor of The Franklin at the time the case and the story were being investigated. Soard believes there was an opportunity for Minar to say something without violating the “privacy issues” mentioned. “I just feel like there is a lot more there and more that can be said,” said Soard. Although she had crossed the bridge from student to alumna, this situation was something she could not let go. “I am grossly appalled at the actions that have been occurring on this campus, and I know I am not the only student who feels this way.” Although Thornton could not speak about the college’s plans, he says he will continue to address the issue and work for improved student diversity and awareness throughout the summer and when school reconvenes in the fall.
HANOVER COLLEGE Indianapolis resident Sierra Cosby has always been an advocate for all people and has been surrounded by diversity. So when she began her sophomore year as a residential assistant (RA) at Hanover College, Cosby took her new leadership position seriously and thought it could be a way to help her fellow students think about the world we live in and their place in it. Makes perfect sense considering she is an anthropology major.
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Cosby created a “privilege board” — a large display with details on what privilege is, who has it and how to help along with empty space and sticky notes for other students to make comments. The board detailed not only racial or “white” privilege, but gender, sex, economic and able-bodied privilege as well. According to The Triangle — Hanover’s independent student newspaper — the board generated positive and negative comments before it was shredded and shoved under her dorm room door. “A lot of positive comments were in reaction to the negative comments. Which I thought was interesting,” Cosby told Ivonne Mora of The Triangle. “Then after all those negative comments, the board started being vandalized. People started drawing swastikas. Someone crossed out the section that talked about white privilege. People were drawing lines on the board and saying ‘nope, that’s not true.’ There was a Nazi chant and I tore it off and gave it to [Campus Safety].” Cosby’s other boards about alcoholism and Black History Month were also vandalized. The anonymous vandalism to Cosby’s bulletin boards isn’t the only instance of microaggressions on Hanover’s campus. Racial slurs have been found written on structures in permanent marker, the school rock painted by the feminist club was re-painted with the words “Build The Wall” on it and students participating in a peaceful #BlackLivesMatter protest about police brutality were met with vulgarities and gestures from one student. Hanover president Lake Lambert recognizes that the diversity issues on
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the campus, but also acknowledges that change will not come easy or overnight. “The most important thing that I need to say is that I know that Hanover is not the inclusive community that it needs to be. We can do better, and I am committed to making that happen,” said Lambert in an email response to the campus regarding diversity issues. “But it will take time. Saying this is not meant to be an evasion. Rather, it is a recognition that Hanover exists within a racist, sexist and homophobic American culture, and even more, I fear that even the little ‘filters’ that have suppressed intolerant speech in our society are coming off with the coarsening of political rhetoric.”
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Why are college campuses a hotbed of racial tension and aggression? Universities are a microcosm of society at large. In a small — compared to the rest of the world — space, people from all races, faiths, backgrounds etc. exist together. In many ways the only common link is their relationship with the university, whatever that relationship may be. And by the very nature of a college’s purpose students, faculty and staff are exploring the world in which we live. For University of Indianapolis president Rob Manuel, the dialogue that occurs at colleges and universities is essential to a school’s fundamental mission. “There aren’t many places anymore where real dialogue happens, “ says Manuel. “In the traditions I grew up in — NYU [New York University] and Georgetown — were all about making the university the place where dialogue happens. Not shouting matches or where sides are taken, but where true dialogues could occur.” Manuel’s ideology is evident in how he manages the southside campus. Since taking office, Manuel has led over 37 campus meetings with students, faculty, staff and community leaders about diversity. “I see that as the most important and most difficult part of my job,” says
Manuel. “To preserve the university as the place where dialogue happens and the balancing act between freedom of speech and divisiveness and hatred, etc.” The difficulty of dialogue is evident in society today. From the state and federal political platforms to the everyday cultural silence created by technology and social media, people are not opening themselves up to discussion. “I also feel that if we don’t prepare our students to be engaged in the most difficult questions of our time, then we haven’t done our job,” says Manuel. So how does a university create an atmosphere where dialogue is open and encouraged with the knowledge that not everyone will agree yet with the expectation that all will agree to disagree with respect when warranted? According to Manuel there is no simple answer and no end, but rather a series of beginnings. “The greatest challenge and the greatest need in higher education at the moment is to figure out that question,” says Manuel. “I think that people push us to have an end point, to know when it’s done or to know when we are successful. But the truth is the dynamics change each year when a new student population comes in or each time another issue in society is being talked about.” Manuel says there is no magic curriculum that teaches “how-to” and suddenly a person simply is enlightened for the rest of their lives. Each new experience in life comes with a new set of challenges and a new set of rules creating an ongoing process. “All you can do is have an environment that accepts the fact that you are both good and discerning at the same time,” says Manuel. “You can be a great institution and have a problem on your campus. I think people think the great institutions are the ones that don’t have problems on campus when it’s probably the opposite. I can’t think of a place that isn’t affected by these social issues that we’ve all dealt with over the past four or five years. And if the conversation is not there, then that’s when I think we begin to get in trouble.” n
STUDENT DIVERSITY STATISTICS PURDUE UNIVERSITY
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4.1% Ethnicity unknown 4% Black or African-American
17.5% Non-Resident Alien (not U.S. Citizens)*
3.4% Two or more races 2.3% Non-Resident Alien 5.4% Asian
65.8% White
2.1% Hispanic/Latino
83.3% White
0.6% Asian
4.2% Hispanic/Latino 3% Black or African-American 2.1% Two or more races 1.8% Ethnicity unknown
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10.4% Black or African-American 5.5% Non-Resident Alien 5.6% Hispanic/Latino 71.7% White
3.9% Non-Resident Alien 3.6% Asian 3.5% Two or more races 1% Ethnicity unknown
* INCLUDING EXCHANGE STUDENTS, INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS AND UNDOCUMENTED STUDENTS. ALL STATS PROVIDED BY COLLEGEFACTUAL.COM
81% White
4.8% Black or African-American 2.5% Ethnicity unknown 2.4% Hispanic/Latino 1.8% Two or more races 1.4% Asian 0.6% Alaskan or Native American
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Experiences and Performances, Scott Stulen — who will take over as director of the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma come August — and Emily Kennerk, the 2015 Indianapolis ArtPrize Pitch Night winner. Normand won over the panel with a humorous presentation in which he vowed to “go baroque” in order to transform the small entrance of the patio space into a “triumphal entry… inspired by everything from classical architecture to baroque painting, early amusement parks, circus parades and even a good bit of Midwestern American history.” Normand’s entry had something that the other entries didn’t, at least in the minds of the judges. It might be worthwhile then asking one of these judges what makes a good ArtPrize Pitch. Former IMA curator Sarah Urist Green — the host of the weekly PBS Digital Studios production The Art Assignment — was looking for accessibility: “I think the more open your work is socially, the better, and if you creatively engage with the types of crowds, [so much] the better,” said Green. “Emily Kennerk’s piece last year was super successful because it actively required the voices of people who came by.” Kennerk’s “Whisper” utilized the voices of passersby — voices channeled by a microphone to create vibrations that made dishes clatter on a table. “Emily was there facilitating her art-
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work the whole time,” continued Green. “So having the artists there and available and answering questions and encouraging people to try it and show them how to use it; It all makes for a great piece. But at the end of the day, you have to have a really good idea.” No one — at least no one from Indianapolis — can talk about ArtPrize without talking about the 2014 winner of both the Public and the Juried Grand Prize — prizes worth a total of $300,000 — Anilia Quayyum Agha whose lightfilled hanging cube “Intersections” has been displayed not just at ArtPrize but all over the world during the past two years, casting its arabesque shadows on both museum walls and passersby. When it was on view at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, it was the setting of a marriage proposal. Whether “Intersections” was interactive enough to inspire the marriage proposal is a question that cannot be answered, but it surely didn’t hurt the dude’s chances. And there’s a reason why this interactivity is important, according to ArtPrize Executive Director Christian Gaines who was on hand at Thursday’s Pitch Night. “So much contemporary art is about trying to explain to people why art is important,” he said. “And really, ArtPrize is about trying to explain why people are important to art. And that’s what’s really exciting about it.” n
If nothing else, Sarah McKenzie’s White Walls will make you contemplate the experience of entering into a contemporary gallery or museum space. I mean, not just the pondering the work on the walls but the actual moment of entering; of opening doors and actually walking into the quintessential gallery with its white walls and minimal décor. Because these spaces are her subjects. White Walls was an eerie experience for me, because most of the time the white-walled iMOCA gallery where her paintings are exhibited was empty as I was viewing it save for the gallery attendant at the desk. But in the painting “Entry” even the depicted desk at the entryway is devoid of human presence. And the exhibition spaces depicted in these paintings — all acrylic and oil on canvas save for a couple of prints — are likewise devoid of people. In “Door to the River” you see not just the entranceway lead into an exit: You see, in the right foreground, an abstract expressionist painting hanging on a wall — a painting within a painting. The wild abstract work is quite a contrast to the white walls of the depicted space. But in this depiction, you might notice this contrast while you might overlook it in an actual gallery. Everything that you might find in one of these minimalist gallery spaces is here in these paintings, which really isn’t all that much when you think about it: doorways, walls, floors, fluorescent lights, light streaming in from windows. There’s an empty bench in “Still,” presumably waiting for someone to sit on it. (This work depicts a gallery space in the Clyfford Still Museum.) One of the more intriguing pieces is “Landscape 1” where you see a stormy landscape painting on the wall. Yet you can see a similar mixtures of shade and sunlight in the lightreflecting black floor polished to perfection. It’s as if the floor is reflecting the painting as much as the sunlight streaming through the adjacent window. In the painting “EXIT/SIGN”, the exit sign is the same bright red as a color field painting displayed on a wall beyond. Maybe this is a wry commentary on the strange world of minimalist abstraction, where an exit sign can be more engaging than a painting. I didn’t rush to the exit with this exhibition. I lingered, all the while wondering whether I was having an actual art experience or a meta one. — DAN GROSSMAN iMOCA at the Murphy through July 30
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t was 24 years ago that former ComedySportz (CSz) owner Mia Lee Roberts was told her improv group wouldn’t make the cut. “When we started ComedySportz, we started practicing in 1992, I was the one going around to theaters begging someone to let us perform in their theater,” says Roberts. “I had one woman who I remember saying, ‘We can’t have that here. This won’t last six months.’ I love to think about that now almost 24 years later. We lasted way more than six months.” And though the theater recently changed ownership (from co-owners Mia Lee Roberts and Lynn Burger, to contracted players Todd Kenworthy and Rick Randjelovic, along with Jessica Kenworthy) they don’t see that growth slowing anytime soon. According to a press release sent out by CSz, one of the current co-owners, Edward Trout, will stay on as artistic director. Randjelovic, a 15-year player, also noted in the release that he is “honored to now be a part of the new ownership team. I am looking forward to continuing to provide award-winning comedy for all ages and helping to grow the improv community in Indianapolis.” For Roberts, the choice to sell was one that may have been later than it should. “Well, they are two very different reasons [why myself and Burger decided to sell],” says Roberts. “I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis about 12 and half years ago … I have survived two cancers
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since 2013 and 14. I had kidney cancer and thyroid cancer and three surgeries in a 12 month period. And I just couldn’t be present anymore. I was no help to the company. I stayed probably a little too long because of my love for it. It’s such a part of my identity. I have been president of the company since I was 24 years old. It probably took me a little longer than it should have to decide to go. But when I
opinion is fantastic.” It was on a Tuesday afternoon that they signed all of the official paperwork in the theater. “I thought, ‘This is going to be sad,’” says Roberts. “But it was such as positive vibe in our theater … It was just so great to see how excited they are. And they are really smart. Ed is super smart, and they are just as smart as he is.” Roberts added that the all-ages format, and the closeness of “It’s one of the most positive things you the former owners, has been a recipe for can do when you’re sick—be around a success. “We have been bunch of laughter” business partners — MIA LEE ROBERTS probably last,” says Roberts. “We have been best friends and family first.” did decide, Lynn decided that for her own It has been that family who have reasons she would sell with me. Lynn has helped Roberts through her roller coaster always had another full time job. She has of illnesses over the years. worked for the Indiana Sports Corp for, I “It’s one of the most positive things you think 26 or 27 years. She used to handle can do when you’re sick — be around a all of the finances for us over the years. As bunch of laughter, be around a bunch of the theater has grown, it has turned into funny people, make other people laugh,” a full time job. So Lynn has had two full says Roberts. “It’s huge. It’s been huge in time jobs for years. It wears on you. dealing with a chronic illness and in my “[But] I am really at peace with it and recovery from cancer. We’re very positive. very happy about it,” says Roberts. It’s all about ‘yes, and’ with comedy and Both she and Burger will remain ComedySportz. And I have 50 people at ComedySportz players. Roberts noted that theater who have my back, who have that her health has prevented her from been encouraging and who would do performing in over a year. anything for me … Aside from family and “I will be there as much as I can,” says friends, it’s been the most positive thing Roberts. “Lynn and I will still be around a in my life.” n lot. We just won’t be the boss, which in my
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NUVO: What is next for you when it comes to advocacy work? JIM OBERGEFELL: Right now I’ve been so focused on the book over the past few months, I haven’t really planned ahead on advocacy other than to continue to do what I have been doing. Which is getting more involved in the fights and efforts to address LGBTQ youth homelessness. In Cincinnati I have gotten involved with some programs there … I just continue to speak out in support of the transgender community. They are the most at risk part of our community and they need as many allies as they can get. … NUVO: Did you ever anticipate that this is what you would be doing? OBERGEFELL: Never in my life. Never in my wildest dreams. Yeah, it’s absolutely unexpected and surprising, and I feel really fortunate that I ended up in this spot. NUVO: Tell me about the process of writing the book and when you realized it should be a written narrative. OBERGEFELL: For the first year or so after John died people said over and over, “You should write a book, you should write a book.” But I was still fairly deep in my grief and dealing with that.
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The man and author who made marriage equality a reality
im Obergefell’s name was a shot heard around the world. He became famous when he and his partner sued Ohio; not for the right to be married, it was far more bleak. They were suing to have Jim listed on his terminally ill husband’s death certificate. John Arthur had ALS and died in 2013. Though they won the case, Jim hasn’t stopped working. He has since written a book called Love Wins, explaining in detail what their battle was like. We spoke with Jim before his upcoming talk at Indy Reads.
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Jim Obergefell was one of the plaintiffs in the landmark same-sex marriage case.
Writing a book wasn’t something I could seriously consider or put any effort toward. As I started to heal and I started coming out of my grief and my mourning phase people kept saying that and espe-
OBERGEFELL: For me one of the best things about it was realizing, and I have known this for years, that my memory tends to be of the forest, not the individual trees. But Debbie had this fantastic way of pushing me, asking questions and digging deeper. What was the weather like? What were you wearing? What color was the wall? Things that I wouldn’t have necessarily thought of myself. She really helped me pull out those details which were there, but I didn’t realize that they were there. For me, the conversations, the writing, I certainly cried a lot, I smiled a lot, I laughed a lot. Writing the book was one more added layer that helped me heal, helped me work through my grief and helped me work toward feeling happy again. It was a really good process for me. … NUVO: In hindsight what are your favorite parts of the book to go back and read?
OBERGEFELL: For me it’s the prologue. Talking about when we first met Al [Gerhardstein, their attorney]. For me I always get choked up when there is “Writing the book was one more the bit about how right after we got married how added layer that helped me heal.” we would just say “Good morning husband. Good — JIM OBERGEFELL night husband.” That part always gets me. I think for me that’s the heart of the whole story for me, loving John and John cially when the Supreme Court accepted loving me and being able to say husband the case, that was happening over and and have it mean something. For me, it’s over … I started to think about it and always the prologue. That’s probably my realized, yeah, there is a narrative here. It favorite part. It’s the most meaningful is a landmark decision and there is kind to me. I will say that also the parts that of a good story here. The thing that really I love in the book — and I think to me it made it happen was getting a call from gives so much more weight to the book Debbie, my co-author, out of the blue — is Al’s story. Learning about him, he saying, “Jim, I have a literary agent who was our attorney. I knew him as a man has been pressing me to write a book. but in the process of this book learnAnd I didn’t want to do that until it was a ing more and more about his story and story I am passionate about. So what do understanding what a tireless advocate you think? Do you want to write a book and fighter he has been for civil rights together?” … in his career is just amazing. Just underNUVO: What was it like for you personstanding what a redemption story this is ally writing that and working through all for him as well. His experience with his of those memories? I was astounded at brother’s boyfriend and fighting Issue3 the level of detail that you were able to in Cincinnati. It’s probably my favorite add from scenes in the courtroom. part about the whole thing. n
Author Jim Obergefell will be speaking at Indy Reads about his recent book. But most of his days are spent campaigning for LGBTQ equality. Currently he is focusing on the youth homelessness epidemic. Here are a few rights that LGBTQ Hoosiers are still struggling to obtain. HARASSMENT
There is no protection against hate crimes or harassment for LGBTQ people in Indiana. While there is safety in numbers at events like Pride, and safe spaces like Mass Ave., there is no legal protection against hate-based attacks. FIRING
Theoretically, if a business wanted to, they could fire someone for any reason they wish. The employee could not receive a jury trial or carry the case into court outside of the human rights ordinance. For our Pride issue IU McKinney School of Law professor Jennifer Drobac told NUVO: “Anybody facing sexbased harassment or racial discrimination or discrimination based on LGBTI status, you’re going to have to go federal law. And federal law obviously doesn’t protect on the basis of sexual orientation or transgender status yet.” TRANSGENDER RIGHTS
Transgender people are the most vulnerable in the LGBTQ population. Trans people are murdered or attacked around the country every week, but those numbers are hard to track. While many police departments do have some kind of sensitivity training for trans individuals, the classes are often not enough. Many trans individuals are identified by the name they were given at birth, thus are not counted among trans victims. Judges also do not have to grant a name change for a trans person. Trans activists have told NUVO about instances of intolerance at some Indianapolis BMV locations. There have been over 40 pieces of anti-trans legislation nationwide. One of the most recent public debates is the “right to pee” bills. Many trans people encounter harassment and violence when they use a restroom of their choice. And just a reminder, they are not protected legally against that violence.
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Wiener-Dog w Writer-director Todd Solondz makes us stare into the abyss, laugh nervously and hope for some soft light to flicker in the darkness. His latest film, Wiener-Dog, is one of his best. The pitch-black comedy follows the titular puppy as it goes through several different owners: a boy recovering from a bout with cancer (Keaton Nigel Cooke); a mousy vet tech (Greta Gerwig); a bitter screenwriter/film professor (Danny DeVito); and a brash, dying old woman (Ellen Burstyn). As you dive into the melancholy wonder of Wiener-Dog, you’ll find a piece of yourself in all of these engaging outcasts. Solondz has a gift for shining a raw, harsh and oddly beautiful light on society’s black sheep. This is one of the best films of the year. — SAM WATERMEIER Rated R, now showing at the Keystone Art Cinema
FILM EVENTS IMA Summer Nights: Roman Holiday July 15, 7 p.m. A European princess falls in love with an American reporter while traveling across the globe. How romantic! Better yet, Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck star as the two lovebirds. Pre-screening activities include an Audrey Hepburn look-alike contest and photo booth as well as classic film trivia, jewelry-making, music from DJ Kyle Long and more. Indianapolis Museum of Art, 4000 Michigan Road, $8 for members, $12 for the public, imamuseum.org Midnight Movie Madness: Road House July 15 and 16, midnight. This is a perfect film to watch late at night, when you throw all logic and inhibitions to the wind. The pulpy action drama stars Patrick Swayze as a bouncer hired to straighten out The Double Deuce — the loudest, most lethal club south of the Mason-Dixon Line. As the tagline states, “The dancing’s over. Now it gets dirty.” — SAM WATERMEIER Rated R, Keystone Art Cinema
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he original 1984 Ghostbusters shouldn’t have worked. Creating a big special effects comedy showcasing two SNL graduates and two unknowns was an iffy notion. Dan Aykroyd, who wrote the original story as a vehicle for him and John Belushi, teamed with Harold Ramis to craft the screenplay, which would star Bill Murray, Aykroyd, Ramis and Ernie Hudson. Adjustments were made to give more screen time to Murray, resulting in Hudson’s role getting pared down. After the film became a smash, the studio convinced Aykroyd and Ramis to write a sequel. While 1989’s Ghostbusters II had some fine moments, the lumpy film was a disappointment. Over the years, Aykroyd lobbied hard for another Ghostbusters movie, with little support from Murray. Cut to the present. Ghostbusters opens this week, after a year or two of online tantrums from some troglodytes disturbed by the decision to make the new Ghostbusters female. As of this writing, reviews on the Rotten Tomatoes website are 76 percent positive, with star ratings averaging 6.5 out of 10. Sounds about right. The 2016 Ghostbusters is entertaining and funny. It never reaches the heights of the original, which is common with reboots. Part of the problem is the screenplay. The original film made a point of showing the massive impact an invasion of ghosts would have on NYC. Director Paul Feig and Katie Dippold’s screenplay never captures that insane grandeur. Even the climactic battle just looks like a fireworks display in the long distance shots favored by Feig. Thankfully, when the Ghostbusters look out at the city in the film’s closing images, what they see feels suitably sweeping and stirring. Feig and Dippold’s script tries to make sense out of the story, something Aykroyd and Ramis barely bothered to do in 1984. I appreciate Feig and Dippold’s attempts, even if they tend to over-explain, especially in the early part of the movie. The casting is solid, with the women operating as a solid team. Erin Gilbert
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(Kristen Wiig) and Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy) are estranged friends who once wrote a book together about ghosts. Erin loses tenure at Columbia University after the long-suppressed book resurfaces, but her anger at Abby fades once the spooks appear. Wiig and McCarthy get their gears stuck in subdued mode for too much of the film. I kept waiting for one of them to exhibit the deadpan wise-ass behavior that Bill Murray did so well in the original, but neither of them steps up to the challenge. Jillian Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon) is the engineer that designs the Ghostbusters’ containment devices and weapons. McKinnon is a hoot as the Egon of the group, flashing wild-eyed delight during confrontations or moments of danger. She’s the funniest member of the team. As transplanted transit worker Patty Tolan, Leslie Jones uses her character wealth of information about New York buildings and their histories to distract me enough from wondering why, in both the original and the reboot, the black cast members play blue-collar types that join the team midway through the proceedings. Chris Hemsworth gets some laughs as Kevin, a strikingly dense receptionist whose dreamy looks and gym-sculpted body make Erin melt. The movie includes cameo appearances by all the primary cast
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members of the original except the late Harold Ramis, who is honored with a bust on display at the college, and Rick Moranis, who turned down the invitation because he thought it was senseless. Don’t get your hopes up over the cameos — nothing special happens in any of them. The 2016 Ghostbusters is an entertaining feature that will likely make an enormous amount of money. I half-heartedly recommend it, while strongly encouraging you to check out the original. Watch it and you’ll understand why. n NOTE: When the closing credits begin to roll, stay in your seat for a few quick scenes and one final cameo. There is also one more scene all the way at the end of the credits which is skippable. It’s a teaser for a possible teaser that includes one key word: Zuul.
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f a story works, it speaks to a specific place as well as life outside of it. As filmmaker Ira Sachs says, “By being personal, it becomes universal.” Sachs’ latest film, Little Men, is an intimate family drama set in New York but rooted in issues that people can relate to regardless of where they live. This is just one of the many reasons it’s opening the upcoming Indy Film Fest. “I wanted to change it up this year and open the festival with something a bit more dramatic,” says Craig Mince, the executive director of the festival. “As soon as I laid eyes on Little Men, I knew it was our opener. And it doesn’t hurt that Indiana’s own Greg Kinnear turns in an amazing performance.” The Logansport native stars as Brian Jardine, a struggling actor who finds himself working mostly in non-profit theater productions. After his father dies, Brian inherits his Brooklyn property, the bottom floor of which he leased to a quiet Chilean woman named Leonor (Paulina García) in an effort to help her run a dress shop out of the building. While his wife Kathy (Jennifer Ehle) barely holds the roof over their heads, Brian pushes Leonor to pay more in rent. As these adults turn into enemies, their children become best friends. Leonor’s
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son, Tony (Michael Barbieri), brings Brian and Kathy’s son, Jake (Theo Taplitz), out of his shell, turning the introverted aspiring artist into a more exuberant young man. While the kids’ differences bring them closer together, their parents struggle to find common ground. As a result, Tony and Jake go on strike against them, refusing to speak until the adults can straighten out their problems and bridge the socioeconomic gap between them. Both sets of characters find that they have a lot of growing up to do. “Everyone is always trying to figure out how to be an adult, whatever age they are,” Sachs says. But as the film shows, children seem to deal with interpersonal conflicts in better ways. “There’s something about childhood that allows us to cross difference more easily,” Sachs says. “Children aren’t as aware of economic and racial distinctions. There are these merged communities in children’s lives that seem to
their characters as “little men.” “Yesterday, Theo sent me his third short film that he’s made since completing our movie. So, for him, our production was like Filmmaking 101,” Sachs says. “And Michael has had a very interesting year since our film went to Sundance. He’s been cast in The Dark Tower, the Stephen King adaptation with Matthew McConaughey. And right now, he’s on the set of the new Spider-Man reboot, and he’s playing Spidey’s best friend. So, their lives have transformed, and they’re very proud of what we made together.” As for the adult actors, Sachs found them to be just as excited about this film as the young men, feeling the same spark that first ignited their passion for acting years ago. “It seemed to remind them of the kinds SUBMITTED PHOTO of movies they got in the business to become more difficult to create as you make — movies that resonate with their get older and people define themselves own lives and share something very deep more by class and race, even if they’re not and real and human,” Sachs says. aware that they’re doing so. And it’s not a Audiences at the Indy Film Fest will feel matter of children choosing to be more the same way — as if they are watching progressive. It’s just something about the their own adolescence or adulthood uninnocence of youth that allows better fold on screen. The film sets the bar high relationships to be made.” for the rest of the festival, quietly sneakSachs found the young actors supporting up and engaging our emotions with ing that idea every day on set, exuding its small yet powerful story. Like many of a sense of compassion and wisdom far the movies that typically play in this fest, beyond their years. (They were 12 and 13 it’s an earnest film with its heart in the right place. It should sweep audiences off their feet here just like “Children seem to deal with it did at Sundance. Although Sachs interpersonal conflicts in better ways.” won’t be able to attend the festival, he has high hopes for the when the film went into production, and screening of the film and what Indy audiboth were making their feature film debut ences will take from it, in their hearts and with this project.) imaginations. “These two kids were particularly “I’m from Memphis, Tennessee, and I precocious and insightful and energetic,” imagine Indianapolis is similar,” Sachs he says. “So, part of my job was to create says. “I’ve seen in cities like that what a an environment in which their most film festival can create, not only for the intimate energy was given free reign. The audience but for filmmakers. And I hope adult actors very quickly realized that the this film is an inspiration in the sense that kids were their peers, and there was a real it shows how telling our own stories can family atmosphere on set.” be the most powerful thing we can do as That support system pushed both filmmakers and as people.” n of the young actors long after the film wrapped. They’re growing into serious artists, living up to the descriptions of NUVO // 100% SUSTAINABLE / RECYCLED PAPER // 07.13.16 - 07.20.16 // SCREENS 23
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Shot over the course of 20 years, this documentary tells the troubling story of Cabrini-Green — a high-rise neighborhood in Chicago that was demolished in an effort to bring the city’s residents closer together through the development of mixed-income housing. However, this social experiment did nothing but hurt the members of Cabrini-
Green. (The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.) Epic yet intimate, this film touches upon timeless, vital issues.
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An achingly intimate portrait of a growing problem, The Invisible Patients makes you a fly on the wall in the lives of people falling through the cracks of the American healthcare system. It follows nurse practitioner Jessica Macleod on monthly visits to the homes of four patients in Evansville. Like a soft light flickering in the darkness, she guides
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these people through seemingly impossible challenges, from the maddening maze of health insurance to the end-of-life process and all the pain in between. Director Patrick O’Connor explores these issues as gently as Macleod cares for her patients.
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Indiana farmer Bob Stevens (Marc Menchaca) finds his world falling apart and repressed memories flooding back when an old friend from the Air Force Police rolls into town. The plot thickens when Bob’s daughter starts having nightmares that mirror his experiences in the military. A scary, surreal and strikingly original reflection on post-traumatic stress, Reparation is also a superbly acted
ensemble drama. Menchaca anchors the film with his poignant performance while Jon Huertas exudes a strong, menacing presence as Bob’s long-lost friend. Behind the camera, co-writer/director Kyle Ham maintains an unsettling atmosphere of palpable tension and dread.
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An eye-opening and infuriating exploration of homelessness in Indianapolis — the only city of the 15 largest in America that doesn’t spend state or local public funds on homeless shelters and services. Director Don Sawyer focuses on a homeless camp under the Davidson Street railroad bridge and the
unfair adversity that the community faces from city developers as well as local government and law enforcement officials. This is a harrowing, heartfelt documentary with a thirst for change coursing through its veins.
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A classic slasher premise: On the way to a music festival, some rambunctious teens stop at a house in the woods, where they are slowly killed one by one. Slick and fast-paced, this film is a fun little homage to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the
13th and Scream. It doesn’t come close to the scare factor of those gems, but it’s an endearing love letter to the genre. The Toby Theater
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THE LONG AND HOPPY ROAD June closed out with the grand opening of Upland’s Columbus Pump House, an upscale restaurant alongside the East Fork of the White River. But, it’s silly to travel from Indianapolis to Columbus without stopping at other craft breweries also bringing new life to old buildings — though they might not be as historically commanding as is the 1903 Columbus Pump House. Going south on US-31 to Bargersville we inspected Taxman’s re-use of Bargersville’s old Fire Station 201. It’s a perfect fit for Taxman’s cooler storage and barrel rooms, for sours and regular barrel-aging lineup. On to Nashville via scenic SR-135, we stopped at Big Woods in downtown and then at the (QuaffON!) Brewery to say hello to Shane Hedrick, head of operations, and his brewing team. We also did a look around at the old motel gaining re-use as office and storage space for Big Woods/Quaff ON! Jeff McCabe’s motto, “We’re crafting an Indiana tradition,” is very much in practice with this re-use along with the intent to market only throughout Indiana. Having purchased the closed Three Pints Brewing facility in Martinsville, Quaff ON!’s flagships, Busted Knuckle and Six Foot Blonde are brewed there, allowing for more research and development to happen at the Nashville brewery. Onward to Columbus to behold the amazing transition from abandoned building to destination place. The place is better experienced than described, I’ll simply suggest you go there. It’s all in attention to details for a welcoming ambience. We met up with ZwanzigZ brewer Mike Rybinksi and owners Lisa and Kurt Zwanzig and learned ZwanzigZ in Columbus (like Thr3e Wise Men in Broad Ripple) can home deliver their beers along with orders of pizza. We chatted with Jon Myers, founder/brewer of Powerhouse Brewing Company at Columbus Bar, celebrating its 10th anniversary as the first brewpub in Columbus and Bartholomew County. Stop in all of July for specials at the downtown brewpub and learn how to enjoy a visit with brewer Ritch Mettart at the Powerhouse production brewery. — RITA KOHN
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massive, pale carcass is sprawled out across clear plastic packaging and a sanitized stainless steel table. The tattooed man, opposite from me, has a black handled shimmering knife in one hand and his other hand inside the body, tearing away chunks of thick, white fat. On the table beside the body is a clean, stainless steel hacksaw; that’ll come in handy once he gets to the butchering of this beast. “This is a Duroc-Mangalitsa hybrid from Gunthorp Farms,” says Alan Sternberg, head chef at downtown’s Cerulean. The pig on the table is the fourth animal Sternberg is eviscerating for a new addition to his menu; he has aptly entitled this new series the Whole Beast program. The idea behind the Whole Beast program is one of simplicity: Sternberg purchases a large portion of one animal, he butchers it in his kitchen and then proceeds to use every bit of the animal in a special part of his menu. Once it is gone he orders another animal. It’s rarely being done anywhere else in the city, but one conversation with Alan (Indiana’s only chef nominated for a national James Beard Award) will prove to you that it should be happening everywhere. As he sets into the next step, removing the head with that hacksaw, he explains what led him to start this program. “This is something I haven’t done very often and something I truly wanted to get to know a lot better. So part of this entire experience is the education for me and the challenge of, ‘How am I going to use this entire thing?’; ‘How am I going to butcher it?’; What am I going to teach my staff as we’re learning together?’; ‘If we make a mistake how do we salvage it?’; These are all in my head with this project, and it’s exciting.” He is nearly through the neck bone. You can tell, in a way, he is enjoying this; not in some weird, bloodthirsty way, but as a kid learning something for the first time — or Peter Parker testing his new spidey sense. He explains it as he saws away, “Being able to take an animal, break it down and know that it will be on the menu tonight has been a surprisingly rewarding experience for me. I really
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hacksaw again, “Part of it definitely was my personal exploration of the whole thing, another big part was it helps the farmers when they can sell a whole animal. This,” he says, pointing to what is left of the pig on the table, “makes sure they don’t have to sit on any ground meat for a long period of time and they just get paid.” It also can lead toward a popularizing of usually unused parts. Consider pork belly: a decade ago you would have been hard-pressed to find it on an American menu and now it is a much sought after cut of pork, because it’s so damn good. The Whole Beast also allows him to be a bit more creative. He has multiple cuts to work with throughout the week, and he is likely to change the menu the night of. “I’m a wait and see kinda guy. I try not to be too planned in life, I find it restrictive. I don’t think I’m a very creative person, so when creativity hits me it’s not planned, it just kind of comes.” You can tell he is reeling around ideas in his mind: “I’ll get a ham here, T-bone from here, belly from here, loin chops here, a ton of lardo from this.” He gets excited. “This is honestly the most fat I’ve pulled out of one of these guys.” He places a massive slice of bone-white material on the table, just one of many fat layers on this beast of a pig. “Greg [Gunthorp] likes to raise gigantic animals,” he says, laughing at the fat.
didn’t think it would be as rewarding as it has been.” “This will be on the menu tonight?” I ask, incredulously. “Yeah,” he says nonchalantly as he finishes cutting the head off with a hacksaw. “Wow,” is the only response I can muster. Next he moves onto the back half of the pig, “This has been “We do not inherit the Earth such a learning experience; it’s from our Ancestors, we borrow taught me a lot about the different parts of different animals, it from our Children.” like this right here is the sirloin,” Alan says, patting his hand on a — NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB large area just in front of what a layman would call the back thigh (ham in the pork world). “I knew that, but I didn’t really underWhile he is using this to help farmstand it all, like between this bone and ers — which in the end is his true goal this bone is a divider between two dif— another crucial aspect is educating ferent cuts of meat.” people. “Letting people know that where He takes his knife to a seemingly their food comes from is important and invisible line between the ham and the why our state and its food culture is the loin; the knife glides through the skin way it is is another aspect of this,” he with ease. While he’s slicing, I ask him says as he is making his way through what else led him to this program. He the pork loins. He already set the ham to responds as he swaps the knife for the the side, saying it will cure for about 40
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days, get smoked and then age for about 9 months. He gives a synopsis of Indiana’s history: “That is one thing I found most interesting throughout this entire process. Our state was settled on rivers so that we could easily get to and from New England because the settlers here owed the people there money. Then the railways came in and so nearly everything we were growing, from the time the state was settled, was being sent back East and it really kind of screwed our state’s food culture up for a long time. I mean, it wasn’t until the ’70s when our farmers finally actually started seeing profits.” His next beast coming in will pay homage to this history. “Next week we will be getting a Poland China, the original pig bred in Indiana, which kind of helped settle it … I want to educate people on the historical influences on food in Indiana. My goal is always to increase education and increase good practices. In the next 20 years I really want to see more small farms, I want to see us stop subsidizing such big farms who aren’t taking care and aren’t good stewards of the land.” This is something Alan emphasizes over and over again, being a “good steward of the land.” It is a term one sees often when looking at forward-thinking people who work and advocate to save our Earth and in turn make a brighter future for our children. In fact, a common Native American proverb, quoted often
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Electronic music. Spot Tavern. You’re coming this time. It’s the third in this series of local electronic artists from around the area. It’s a dance party at your favorite dive bar. Millennial Cheers. Everyone knows your meme. The headliner for this intense but loose showcase of electronic jams is Johnathan Thomas. Johnathan is a multi-genre producer outside of Chicago, mixing juke with other influences, such as beat. He’s had releases on Seclusiasis Records, Italdred and Saturate Records. Johnathan will be using the APC40 sampler with Ableton during the show, and you can also catch him the following night on July 16 at The Mousetrap in Indy. Next on deck is Lykaire (pronounced “like air”), a 21-year-old student from Purdue who often mixes EDM with his skilled accordion playing. Lykaire – real name Landon Lehman – will shift you to alternate toxic zones. Also an aficionado of Ableton software, Landon uses the AKAI MPD 26 sampler. Expect a bearded man delivering you pizza (he does that, too) and beats in a unique vibrating dome of dance. As a patron of The Spot, I’m impressed with how well organized the Electronic Frolic series has been. For a place where start times typically never matter it’s a supreme feat to put on seven acts in one night. Overcoming the challenge is knowing where to place each act based on their equipment and overall sound. It’s less of a festival-type of large lineup than it is a live playlist of energetic talent. Carrying a lot of that energy is STQUEST, who premiered his trap-inspired DJing last fall during The Spot’s first Hip Hop series. Spreading his love for rap, Esteban Olivo Jr has been getting people hyped by mixing popular tracks with lesser known old school cuts. He’s also been working with a lot of local rappers, connecting with Chicago DJs, and making his name known. Empty Spaces After Dark is the solo project of Paper Claw front man Tim Gick, and his ’80s industrial-based dance will get you moving and smoking (which you can do heavily indoors at The Spot). There’s three more acts, but you’re going to have to head to NUVO.net to read more. Go now! To the Internet! — GREG LINDBERG Electronic Frolic III, The Spot Tavern, 409 S. 4th St., (Lafayette), Friday, July 15, 9 p.m., $5, 21+
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can still remember the first time that I heard Shirley Manson’s voice. I was a teenager, living in Orlando and their hit single, “Only Happy When it Rains,” pumped through my tiny Aiwa speakers, as a Central Florida thunderstorm pounded the windows around me. Needless to say, it left an impression. Through the years, the band has put out several acclaimed albums and logged countless hours on stages the world over. With Shirley Manson, Duke Erikson, Butch Vig and Steve Marker, Garbage has molded an eclectic sound, marrying elements from multiple genres. Before their show in Indy on Friday, I spoke with Steve Marker about the new album Strange Little Birds and the band’s current world tour. When asked about the time between albums, Marker explained that Garbage is “slow in the studio,” but after the album is released, their goal is to tour as long as possible. “Even when we take breaks, you can get restless. We love working together,” Marker said. Within Garbage, Marker and the rest of the band all carry the weight of an album’s production. Since the beginning,
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the band has not let geography interfere with songwriting and Garbage has approached new material in an organic way. This has included each member writing individually at their respective home studios and, “going in to the studio [together], with a glass of wine to write.” For their newest release, Marker told me that the band made a real effort to write Strange Little Birds together. That meant “two weeks in Butch [Vig]’s basement.” As a group of producers and multi-instrumentalists, each member of Garbage covers different parts. Marker: “Sometimes Shirley [Manson] knows exactly what she wants. Sometimes Butch will take lead, or I will. There’s no set way things work.” Marker mentioned that several of the band’s European concert dates had memorable moments. A highlight was at the Mad Cool Festival in Madrid, Spain. “It was about 11 at night and we played after The Who. We were going on right
after ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again.’ As for pressure, Marker told me “it doesn’t get more intimidating than that.” Speaking about the new material, I asked him if there were any favorite tracks to perform. His answer was the song “Blackout” because “there’s a certain excitement because you’re not certain if you can pull it off.” Another standout was the band’s second release, “Even Though Our Love Is Doomed.” Marker described what it’s like to play live: “It’s dark, but there’s a cinematic, visual atmosphere.” As a long time guitar shop flunky, I felt it was my duty to ask about his current touring rig. For Marker, the Guild Bluesbird has been a longtime favorite, and several of those guitars travel with him along with a Henman Mod model. “What’s really made touring and life in general better, is the Line 6 Helix,” he said. Given the band’s lead singer is Scottish, and that Garbage just finished up a European leg of the tour, it seemed fitting to ask about the United Kingdom’s recent “Brexit” vote, too. “We got home right before [it happened]. I think they didn’t take it seriously enough. I think that it’s a wake up call about what’s happening in our country. Educate yourself.” n
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hen you entered The Radiant Radish, you’d first notice a wide selection of fresh vegetables, fruits and vitamins. This small grocery store lived in the year 1969 in West Hollywood, California, and if you were lucky, the boy at the cash register was composer and Beach Boy Brian Wilson. In the year 2016, perhaps you’re more likely to run into me at Georgetown Market, landlocked, covered in beets, sitting in the break room speaking with Brian over the phone. In the late '60s, Brian had a brief stint as a health food store operator. He founded The Radiant Radish alongside his cousin Steve Korthoff and Arnie Geller in an attempt to advertise the importance of being physically and mentally healthy. When I think of The Beach Boys, carrots and tomatoes aren’t on the menu. Perhaps more so sand and intense vocal harmonies. It's cliché by now to note the Beach Boys' immense impact on American popular music, and their status as summertime icons — remember, Brian himself was born on the first day of summer. Their songs about surfing and teenage culture have filled jukeboxes and lived on the radio for over 50 years. (Even though only drummer Dennis Wilson was able to ride a surfboard at the time Pet Sounds dropped.) Brian's father Murry Wilson managed the group in those days and pushed for catchy songs that would appeal to teenagers and become quick hits. It worked: Songs like “409,” “Little Deuce Coupe” and “Surfer Girl” were huge and the band skyrocketed to fame. The suffering of the band, however, was legendary. Murry has been accused of emotional and psychological abuse toward the Wilson brothers. The boys themselves — and the many iterations of the group, amid breakups, crises and reformulations — are sometimes lost in translation. One contingent of fans is loyal to the early material. The other is eager to talk about projects like SMiLE, a record that Brian once referred to as a “health food album.” That's me, in Georgetown Market. I snagged time with Brian on the phone for a very short interview before his Elizabeth, Ind. show on Friday celebrating the 50th anniversary
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of Pet Sounds. Here's a teeny bit of our interview, plus some more biographical notes about the legendary Beach Boys. NUVO: If someone has never heard Pet Sounds and they come to see you play, what would you like them to take away from the music? BRIAN WILSON: Good songs and good memories.
NOTE: Pet Sounds is an album that takes risks with orchestral notions and the personal turmoil that comes with being a twenty-something. This isn’t to say it is tied to a particular age group: The subject matter reads like the diary entry of a young adult reaching for comfort amongst inevitable growth. The band was young, wideeyed, and riding the wave of psychedelia that washed over many musicians of the 1960s. Before Pet Sounds, it was all about kitschy pop songs. In an effort to create a composition
rather than a rock and roll record, Wilson recruited members of The Wrecking Crew to work alongside The Beach Boys. Seasoned players like Carol Kaye were quick to pick up on Brian’s vision and many of these musicians had worked with another inspiration of Wilson’s, Phil Spector. NUVO: I know you’re a fan of The Four Freshmen and Bach. What other music during this time period inspired Pet Sounds? BRIAN WILSON: The Beatles.
NOTE: If one has been paying attention to Wilson’s legacy, his answer is simple. The Fab Four’s rise to fame was also like a brilliant summer firework, illuminating the world. The Beach Boys were growing into their newfound adulthood, and The Beatles were their British counterparts. Brian has historically cited Rubber Soul as the motivator for recording Pet Sounds. At the time, both bands were hyper-creative — and experimenting with drugs. Listeners can spot this
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transition through songs like “Hang On To Your Ego,” a reference to the experience that comes along with taking LSD. Around 1965, it’s been reported that Wilson began to experience auditory hallucinations as a result of psychedelic drug use. This period is illustrated in last summer's feature film Love & Mercy. From this point on, Wilson struggled with fame and substance abuse in his then-marriage to Marilyn Rovell of ’60s girl group The Honeys. In the chaos, his work as a musician and composer started to become overshadowed by the success of The Beatles, despite both being equally inventive groups. After months working on Pet Sounds, the record was deemed a commercial failure and had no supporting tour. SMiLE was to be the follow-up record to Pet Sounds, but the original recordings wouldn’t see an official release until 2011. In 2004, Brian went on tour with the same musicians he works with today and presented a reimagining of what SMiLE could’ve sounded like. This led to more solo work, a short reunion with The Beach Boys, and extensive current tours. His sold-out show in Elizabeth, Indiana, is just one of many booked to celebrate the album that Rolling Stone has deemed the second greatest album of all time, just under Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band — an album inspired entirely by the work of Brian Wilson. n
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heap Trick lead guitarist Rick Nielsen has one of those gear collections that attracts a lot of attention. Like, say, the attention of History Channel’s American Pickers, the hosts of which stopped in to Nielsen’s Rockford, Illinois guitar gear museum to check out his hundreds and hundreds of guitars, including that famous five-necked checkerboard guitar that he played onstage alongside locals The Easthills and Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band at a show in Muncie last year. We grabbed a bit of Rick’s time to chat about his reality TV show experience and other collectors he admires — including our own gear-crazed collector, Colts owner Jim Irsay. NUVO: Tell me about the American Pickers experience. RICK NIELSEN: Those guys were terrific. They contacted me first, and then they had two guys who came out to my house. At that point, I had a museum. They came there and said, ‘This is perfect. This is perfect for [hosts] Mike [Wolfe] and Frank [Fritz].’ Then about a month after that, they said, ‘They’re coming on Tuesday’ — or whatever day it was. We hit it off immediately. Mike and Frank never even came to my house. They went to my museum and then a few of the warehouses. Then we became fast friends. I’ve hung out with Mike a number of times in Nashville, and then Frank came to see us about two weeks ago. We played in Dubuque, Iowa, and he showed up. We’re friends for life. Pretty cool! They’re great guys. I took ‘em out to dinner. We went out to dinner right after, and I took them to one of my favorite Japanese restaurants. And I bought! [laughs] It was their whole crew, about a dozen of them. NUVO: In Indianapolis, we have our own guitar-crazy collector, Jim Irsay, who has a huge amount of guitars. What other guitar collectors have collections you admire? I envision some kind of society of guitar collectors … NIELSEN: For a while there, there were a lot of collectors. I knew mainly the collectors that were musician collectors. That was very, actually, fairly rare. 32 MUSIC // 07.13.16 - 07.20.16 // 100% SUSTAINABLE / RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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Randy Bachman [The Guess Who, Bachman-Turner Overdrive] had a huge collection of guitars. Now, you’ve got Joe Bonamassa — he’s way into it. As a musician, to be able to go out and get all these guitars … [well,] I did it when they weren’t so expensive! The collectibles weren’t that expensive. It was never about how many I could have. It
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was about stuff I would look for that I didn’t have. Then before you know it, it got out of control. It’s still kind of out of control. But the people that I liked, and that I actually did a book for, was John Entwistle [The Who]. I stayed with him for a couple of weeks in his castle in
England. I did his book; it was released after he died. There’s a French guy that lives in London whose name is Armand Serra. He has a book called EXP. It’s a two-volume set of his collection. His collection is unbelievable. Besides having cool stuff, he has the guitar that Jimi Hendrix had, that Keith Richards had, the Rolling Stones’ amps, Ginger Baker’s drum set. He doesn’t just have a drum set; he has the Ginger Baker drum set. I know a few of those guys. … I did a thing for The Washington Post; they called me up right before the sale of the Holy Grail, supposedly, the [1954 black custom] Les Paul. I said, “That’s not the one.” [Jim Irsay] ended up buying it, but not for the two million dollars the guy was asking for. NUVO: No, [he bought it for about] $335,000. NIELSEN: And he just bought the Prince guitar, too. NUVO: And the Bob Dylan Newport Folk Festival guitar. NIELSEN: Yeah, that one was on Antiques Roadshow, that one. It was on one of those shows. He just bought the Prince Yellow Cloud. I think he paid $140,000 for it. I thought, as far as iconic things go, that was cheap! I’d like to see his collection. I’d like to see his collection of money! n
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verett Greene possesses one of the great voices of Indianapolis, a smooth bass baritone he's used to enchant Hoosier ears for more than seven decades. If you haven't heard Greene's deep, rich vocals ringing out from a stage or compact disc, then there's a strong possibility you've heard Greene's work as a voiceover artist in a myriad of projects, from documentaries to commercials. Greene's work as a jazz vocalist has attracted worldwide attention. But Greene is no mere singer: he's a song stylist whose work preserves a refined vocal tradition of elegant jazz singing perfected by artists like Joe Williams, Billy Eckstine and Johnny Hartman. I recently attended a two hour Greene performance and the 82-year-old maestro breezed through the concert with a rarified ease and grace. (Editor's note: An expanded version of this conversation lives on NUVO.net.) NUVO: What was it that first brought you to Indianapolis? GREENE: I came to Indianapolis when I got out of the Marine Corps because my mom had moved here from Washington D.C. I came to Indianapolis to spend a week, and one week turned to two, and two weeks turned to boredom. I met some people who told me they could help me find a job if I didn't mind getting dirty and they introduced me to a foundry. Well you know, I'd never seen dirt that I could't wash off. So I took the job, and I learned there is some dirt you can't wash off. [laughs] I had no intention to stay in Indianapolis, but it wasn't too bad of a job. It was very dirty, but I kind of got used to it — especially after pay days. But working here and there in the Indianapolis music scene, I really became enchanted with the jazz scene here. NUVO: Right, you were here when the Indianapolis jazz scene was exploding with creativity. Great musicians from J.J. Johnson to Freddie Hubbard and James Spaulding were playing clubs along the Avenue. GREENE: Well, J.J. had already left. But Freddie and Spaulding were emerging. I was fortunate to work with Jimmy Coe and Pookie Johnson. But on top of that, there were lots of unknown greats
when you won this chance to sit in with Wes Montgomery and his band. Were you nervous to sing in front of that stellar ensemble of musicians?
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that would come through Indianapolis. They'd heard about the jazz scene here. People like Jack McDuff and Roland Kirk, these guys would come through Indianapolis and just hang out because they'd heard about the jazz scene. It was really cool just to watch these guys grow.
GREENE: No, no, no, I was very comfortable because I'd been sitting in with the guys all along. I never was nervous about singing because I'd been doing it for so long. It was just fun to have that opportunity without having had any music schooling. I had to really work at my craft. There were a lot of jam sessions then, especially Saturday matinees, where you could go to almost any of the clubs and if they knew that you could do what you do, then you could sit in with the band. I did that for awhile, then guys would begin to hire me for jobs and I realized it was something I really wanted to do. NUVO: As I mentioned earlier, you had a chance to experience Indiana Avenue during its heyday, and I wanted to get your take on the Avenue scene. A lot of young people today don't have any understanding of what happened on Indiana Avenue. If you drive down the street today everything is gone except the Walker and Lockefield Gardens.
“I was at a jam session at the Jazz Kitchen about a month ago, and a guy said to me, ‘You must never rehearse anymore.’ Wrong! I rehearse all the time. You’re always learning.
GREENE: Yes, it's all gone. NUVO: Describe to young people what it was like being on Indiana Avenue during the 1950s.
GREENE: It was unbelievable. You had clubs all up — EVERETT GREENE and down the Avenue, from Illinois Street to 10th Street. There were many clubs where there were wonderful musicians playing. At night, after the NUVO: Around this time you had clubs closed, everyone would go hang an opportunity to perform with Wes Montgomery and his band. How did that out at after-hours places like the Missile Room, which was just south of Indiana come about? Avenue. That's where a lot of the guys GREENE: I entered into an amateur coming through Indianapolis would go to night competition. If you won you got a just sit and listen to the local musicians. chance to sit in with the pros, who were Oh man, on Indiana Avenue there was Wes Montgomery, Dr. Willis Kirk, Mingo about seven clubs on that one block. Jones and Earl Van Riper. I got a chance Then when you moved on past the to work with those guys for a week at the Walker Theatre there was Al's British Hub-Bub. Whether I got paid or not for Lounge and other big time clubs. One that I can't begin to remember. (laughs) of the popular things was the Saturday matinees. They'd have jam-sessions NUVO: You were a young musician starting at 4p.m. It was a fun, fun, fun
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time for the music. I have to say, I remember there was one saxophone player who was on the scene back then and I knew that a lot of the musicians didn't like to see this guy because he wasn't really up to par at the time. But years later I was working out in California and I was driving out of Los Angeles and I heard this fantastic sax solo on the radio. This guy was just wailing. When the song finished they said his name and I was like "Wow, this is the same guy the musicians didn't want on the set!" But that's what progress is. You've got to work at your craft. NUVO: You don't want to say his name? GREENE: (laughs) I will say it. It was Claude Bartee. [note: After leaving Indianapolis Claude Bartee would go on to play on several classic jazz recordings for Blue Note and Prestige Records with artists including Grant Green, and Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers.] When I heard that solo though and they announced it was Claude Bartee, my jaw dropped. But that's the way it went for me too. I gained my knowledge from working with people. I've had an opportunity to work with some of the greatest musicians in the country. I had to really listen and work at my craft in order to not be pushed aside and told "we don't want you onstage." [laughs] It's been great, though. I have no regrets. The only thing I would do different though is to study more music and learn every interment possible. But I'm still learning. I was at a jam session at the Jazz Kitchen about a month ago, and a guy said to me, "You must never rehearse anymore." Wrong! I rehearse all the time. You're always learning. n
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Steely Dan, Steve Winwood 7 p.m. Jeff Napier sets the scene from Steely Dan’s 2013 show at the Murat. Imagine: “The crowd was decidedly white collar: doctors, lawyers, hedge fund managers. They were the type of men who secretly rock out to a diet of classic rock in their Mercedes on the morning commute before entering a sterile office environment void of any fun stuff. They poured into the Old National Centre to see Steely Dan, a band fronted by a couple guys who, ironically, had probably beaten up the very types of men who now pack their houses.”
Greener Grounds, Earphorik, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+
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the first openly gay country act in the US, and had this title honored with a SXSW short doc winner Cryin’ These Cocksucking Tears. Drag gospel quartet The Anointed and Back Door regulars Argenta Peron and Nicci B will also take the stage. The Back Door, 207 S. College Ave., (Bloomington), $10 advance, $12 door, 21+
Animals and All That Jazz, Indianapolis Zoo, all-ages Mimicking Birds, The Bishop (Bloomington), 18+ Andy D, Wife Patrol, The Snarks, The Hi-Fi, 21+ G-Eazy, Logic, Yo Gotti, YG, Klipsch Music Center, all-ages
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Concerts on the Canal: Brenda Williams, Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center, all-ages
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If You Knew Me, You’d Love Me, Broad Ripple United Methodist Church, all-ages
Lavender Country, The Anointed, Nicci B, Argenta Peron 9 p.m. Patrick Haggertyand his band Lavender Country is billed as
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ALBUM PARTIES Tracksuit Lyfestile Album Release Party 9 p.m. We like to imagine that this local supergroup was formed after one of them verbalized the thought we’ve all had: “Wouldn’t it be excellent to wear tracksuits every day? You know, have a tracksuit lifestyle?” Yes, yes it would. Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St., prices vary, 21+ Slide Hampton Quintet, Jazz Kitchen, 21+
SOUNDCHECK Garbage, Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, all-ages (See page 30) Rodney Atkins, Indiana Grand Casino, 21+
Music in the Vineyard Garden featuring StraightDavis, Owen Valley Winery, 21+ SHED, SetFire, Whiskey Supercharger, Birdy’s, 21+ Trevor Hall, Deluxe at Old National Centre, all-ages
MONDAY Sawyer Fredericks, The Hi-Fi, 21+ Unknown Mortal Orchestra, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+
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Seldom Surreal, The Garage, 21+
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Vans Warped Tour 11 a.m. This year’s Warped Tour features Bullet for My Valentine, Atreyu, Good Charlotte, Motionless in White, New Found Glory, Reel BIg Fish, Yellowcard, Mayday Parade — and, game change, Waka Flocka Flame. We’ll repeat some of our tips for newbies from last year’s guide by TJ Jaeger: 1) Above all else, the number one risk at Warped Tour is passing out. While running from stage to stage, frantically searching for the next band, it’s easy to get caught up in the disarray and forget to take care of your body. 2) Don’t forget to eat. There will be multiple vendors selling those precious calories and nutrients throughout the day. Unfortunately, the food tends to be a bit pricey, so be sure to bring some extra cash. 3) Go see small bands. One of the best things you can do at Warped Tour is to stay open minded; you may surprise yourself.
SATURDAY PARTIES Shipwreck Karpathos Bring Down The Sky Album Release Party 3 p.m. This mega-huge party for mega-loud Shipwreck Karpathos is our pick for the best local showcase to see all week — possibly all month. Crescent Ulmer, Grammaw, The FLood, Autumn’s Androids, S.M. Wolf, Barricades, Scanlines, She Does Is Magic, House Olympics, Clint Breeze, The Icks, Wounded Knee, and of course headlining instrumental post rock group Shipwreck Karpathos will play in celebration of the long-awaited Bring Down The Sky record. This is your last chance to see Shipwreck in this configuration before lead songwriter David Chastain departs for the Pacific Northwest, so don’t mess it up. Irving Theater, 5505 E. Washington St., $12 for entrance and copy of album, all-ages
Sublime with Rome, Dirty Heads, Tribal Seeds, Special Guests, Farm Bureau Insurance Lawn at White River State Park, all-ages Punk Rock Night, Melody Inn, 21+
SUNDAY ROCK Rock Hall Three For All 7 p.m. This slammin’ three-band bill includes Heart, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts and Cheap Trick — who we interviewed on page 32. Klipsch Music Center, 12880 E. 146th St., prices vary, all-ages Dynamite, Mass Ave Pub, 21+ John Moreland, The Hi-Fi, 21+ The Orchard Keepers, Transylvania Hell Sounds, For The Wolf, The Bad Jackets, Melody Inn, 21+ Reggae Revolution, Casba, 21+ Rumba Latina Salsa Night, Adobo Grill, 21+ Free Jazz Jam, The Chatterbox, 21+ Sunday Night Bluegrass Jam, Mousetrap, 21+
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STRAIGHT UP AND BRUISED UP I’m in my mid-40s, straight, never married. Ten months ago, my girlfriend of three years dumped me. She got bored with the relationship and is generally not the marrying type. The breakup was amicable. I still love her and miss her. Last week, I wrote her a letter saying that I still love her and want us to get back together. She wrote me a nice letter back saying she doesn’t feel passion for me and we’re never getting back together. Over the past few months, I’ve started dating another girl. She’s pretty, smart, sexy, and kind. If I proposed, she’d probably say yes. I want to get married. The problem is that I don’t have the passion for her that I had for my previous girlfriend. So do I “settle” for Girlfriend #2 or start my search all over? Please don’t give me the bullshit that love can happen at any age. At my age, the number of single women without kids is low. How many married people “settle” for someone who is a good person but not their true love?
where, either lost or not yet found, snuffs out more good-and-loving-and-totallyworth-settling-for relationships than anything this side of cheating.
My girlfriend has started seeing other partners. It makes her happy, and in turn I’m happy for her. It’s taking me a bit of time to adjust to the new situation, but she’s happier than she’s been in ages. We love each other and are crazily compatible. Today she came back from a hotel with bite marks on her breasts. I know she’s been with a few people over the last few weeks, but being reminded of it each time I look at or touch her makes me uncomfortable. What’s more, the guy who did it knew she was part of a long-term couple. Do I need to get over it for the sake of my girlfriend or do I make an issue of hickeys? — BOY REALLY UNNERVED IN SEEING EVIDENCE
DAN SAVAGE: If you and the girlfriend have a don’t ask, don’t tell policy about her hookups with others, BRUISE, then DAN SAVAGE: There is no settling down hickeys and other kinds of slow-fading without some settling for. Please make a marks violate the spirit of that agreenote of it. Also, NCA, while passion is a ment. Those kinds of marks amount to great feeling — totally intoxicating — it a nonverbal “tell.” You have a right to also tends to be ephemeral. It’s a hard calmly point that out to your girlfriend, feeling to sustain over the long haul, and she has a responsibility, in the future and marriage is theoretically the longest and in the moment, to remind/warn of long hauls. her outside sex partners that leaving You felt strongly about your ex, but slow-fading marks on her breasts, neck, she didn’t share your feelings. You don’t thighs, forehead, insoles, eyelids, etc., is feel quite as strongly about your curout of bounds. For your part, BRUISE, don’t inspect your girlfriend post-hookup for the kinds of How many married people “settle?” marks that fade quickly after sex, as that would amount to a nonverbal ask. — NO CLEVER ACRONYM
rent girlfriend, but you would like to be married — to someone, maybe her — and Girlfriend #2 seems like a good candidate. I wouldn’t suggest proposing, as you’ve been seeing her for only a few months and most sane women view early, impulsive proposals as red flags. And finally, NCA, the specter of a “true love” waiting for us out there some-
My first refractory period — the time it takes me to get ready to have sex again after my first orgasm — is shorter than the time it takes me to lose my erection. I was in a relationship and wasn’t using condoms anymore by the time I figured this out, so it was just generally good
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times — I’d blow my load, take less than a minute to catch my breath, and be ready to go again. But now that I’m single and entering the dating pool, I’m going to be wrapping it again. Obviously. But I’m not 100 percent sure it’s safe to blow two loads into one condom. I’m not sure how much ejaculate I’m producing the second time I come, but it’s surely less than the first time. I’m not confident that “second” erection would survive the whole taking-off-the-condom-and-tyingit-up-and-then-putting-on-anothercondom exercise, but I would like to avoid that rigmarole if possible. So is it safe to blow two loads in a single condom? — TWO PUMP CHAMP
DAN SAVAGE: The failure rate for condoms when used correctly is low (2 percent), TPC, but the failure rate for condoms when used incorrectly is high (18 percent). Leaks are the most common way condoms fail, and slamming your cock in and out of someone with a fully loaded condom wrapped around it will result in leaks. Even if your second load consists of nothing but good intentions, TPC, reusing a condom the way you describe is a recipe for disaster, impregnation, disease transmission, or all of the above.
I have to put my two cents in about Heartbroken And Devastated, the man who discovered that his wife has been cheating on him the entire time they have been together. Her constant and selfish betrayal is egregious. Instead of being honest and giving him a chance to be in an open relationship, she chose to make a fool out of him. She is selfish and a slut. Not to mention that she could have given him an STD, AIDS, you name it. I disagree with you about the concept of monogamy — I don’t think it is a fantasy. I believe there is something that separates us from the animals, and that’s called integrity and self-control. I am happily married to a beautiful woman. I am a singer in a band, I get hit on all the
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time, but I don’t act on it. Because some of us have a conscience and don’t betray the ones we’ve made a COMMITMENT TO. I wish HAD the best of luck, but I hope he moves on and finds someone who will appreciate him. — MONOGAMOUS AND PROUD IN PORTLAND
DAN SAVAGE: I have a few questions for you, MAPIP, but first: I agree that HAD’s wife betrayed him in an extreme and egregious way, and I made that clear in my response. (“The scale, duration, and psychological cruelty of your wife’s betrayals may be too great for you to overcome.”) Now here’s my question for you: What did you make a COMMITMENT TO? Was it to your wife or was it to an ideal? Did you commit to a fallible human being or did you commit to a principle? Let’s say your wife screwed up and cheated — which happens all the time, it could happen to you (you do realize you’re whistling past the world’s most densely populated graveyard), women cheat now at pretty much the same rate men do — and let’s say it was a far less egregious betrayal than the one HAD is suffering through. Let’s say it was a one-off, years from now, or maybe a two-off. Would you stay and try to save your marriage or would you leave your wife? Staying and trying to save your marriage says, “I committed myself to this person,” leaving says, “I committed myself to this ideal.” If your ideals are more important to you than your spouse, I think you’re doing marriage wrong. But you’re free to disagree. n Question? mail@savagelove.net Online: nuvo.net/savagelove
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Upcoming adventures might make you more manly if you are a woman. If you are a man, the coming escapades could make you more womanly. How about if you’re trans? Odds are that you’ll become even more gender fluid. I am exaggerating a bit, of course. The transformations I’m referring to may not be visible to casual observers. They will mostly unfold in the depths of your psyche. But they won’t be merely symbolic, either. There’ll be mutations in your biochemistry that will expand your sense of your own gender. If you respond enthusiastically to these shifts, you will begin a process that could turn you into an even more complete and attractive human being than you already are. Pisces
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I’ll name five heroic tasks you will have more than enough power to accomplish in the next eight months. 1. Turning an adversary into an ally. 2. Converting a debilitating obsession into a empowering passion. 3. Transforming an obstacle into a motivator. 4. Discovering small treasures in the midst of junk and decay. 5. Using the unsolved riddles of childhood to create a living shrine to eternal youth. 6. Gathering a slew of new freedom songs, learning them by heart, and singing them regularly — especially when habitual fears rise up in you. Taurus
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your life has resemblances to a jigsaw puzzle that lies unassembled on a kitchen table. Unbeknownst to you, but revealed to you by me, a few of the pieces are missing. Maybe your cat knocked them under the refrigerator, or they fell out of their storage box somewhere along the way. But this doesn’t have to be a problem. I believe you can mostly put together the puzzle without the missing fragments. At the end, when you’re finished, you may be tempted to feel frustration that the picture’s not complete. But that would be illogical perfectionism. Ninety-seven-percent success will be just fine. Gemini
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you are smoothly attuned with the cosmic rhythms and finely aligned with your unconscious wisdom, you could wake up one morning and find that a mental block has miraculously crumbled, instantly raising your intelligence. If you can find it in your proud heart to surrender to “God,” your weirdest dilemma will get at least partially solved during a magical three-hour interlude. And if you are able to forgive 50 percent of the wrongs that have been done to you in the last six years, you will no longer feel like you’re running into a strong wind, but rather you’ll feel like the beneficiary of a strong wind blowing in the same direction you’re headed. Cancer
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): How often have you visited hell or the suburbs of hell during the last few weeks? According to my guesstimates, the time you spent there was exactly the right amount. You got the teachings you needed most, including a few tricks about how to steer clear of hell in the future. With this valuable information, you will forevermore be smarter about how to avoid unnecessary pain and irrelevant hindrances. So congratulations! I suggest you celebrate. And please use your new-found wisdom as you decline one last invitation to visit the heart of a big, hot mess.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): My friend Athena works as a masseuse. She says that the highest praise she can receive is drool. When her clients feel so sublimely serene that threads of spit droop out of their mouths, she knows she’s in top form. You might trigger responses akin to drool in the coming weeks, Virgo. Even if you don’t work as a massage therapist, I think it’s possible you’ll provoke rather extreme expressions of approval, longing, and curiosity. You will be at the height of your power to inspire potent feelings in those you encounter. In light of this situation, you might want to wear a small sign or button that reads, “You have my permission to drool freely.” Virgo
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The latest Free Will Astrology poll shows that thirty-three percent of your friends, loved ones, and acquaintances approve of your grab for glory. Thirty-eight percent disapprove, eighteen percent remain undecided, and eleven percent wish you would grab for even greater glory. As for me, I’m aligned with the eleven-percent minority. Here’s what I say: Don’t allow your quest for shiny breakthroughs and brilliant accomplishments to be overly influenced by what people think of you. !
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You are at the pinnacle of your powers to both hurt and heal. Your turbulent yearnings could disrupt the integrity of those whose selfknowledge is shaky, even as your smoldering radiance can illuminate the darkness for those who are lost or weak. As strong and confident as I am, even I would be cautious about engaging your tricky intelligence. Your piercing perceptions and wild understandings might either undo me or vitalize me. Given these volatile conditions, I advise everyone to approach you as if you were a love bomb or a truth fire or a beauty tornado. Scorpio
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Here’s the deal: I will confess a dark secret from my past if you confess an equivalent secret from yours. Shall I go first? When I first got started in the business of writing horoscope columns, I contributed a sexed-up monthly edition to a porn magazine published by smut magnate Larry Flynt. What’s even more scandalous is that I enjoyed doing it. OK. It’s your turn. Locate a compassionate listener who won’t judge you harshly, and unveil one of your subterranean mysteries. You may be surprised at how much psychic energy this will liberate. (For extra credit and emancipation, spill two or even three secrets.) Sagittarius
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What do you want to be when you grow up, Capricorn? What? You say you are already all grown up, and my question is irrelevant? If that’s your firm belief, I will ask you to set it aside for now. I’ll invite you to entertain the possibility that maybe some parts of you are not in fact fully mature; that no matter how ripe you imagine yourself to be, you could become even riper — an even more gorgeous version of your best self. I will also encourage you to immerse yourself in a mood of playful fun as you respond to the following question: “How can I activate and embody an even more complete version of my soul’s code?” Capricorn
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): On a summer day 20 years ago, I took my five-year-old daughter Zoe and her friend Max to the merry-go-round in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Zoe jumped on the elegant goldenmaned lion and Max mounted the wild blue horse. Me? I climbed aboard the humble pig. Its squat pink body didn’t seem designed for rapid movement. Its timid gaze was fixed on the floor in front of it. As the man who operated the ride came around to see if everyone was in place, he congratulated me on my bold choice. Very few riders preferred the porker, he said. Not glamorous enough. “But I’m sure I will arrive at our destination as quickly and efficiently as everyone else,” I replied. Your immediate future, Aquarius, has symbolic resemblances to this scene. Aquarius
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Early on in our work together, my psychotherapist confessed that she only works with clients whose problems are interesting to her. In part, her motivations are selfish: Her goal is to enjoy her work. But her motivations are also altruistic. She feels she’s not likely to be of service to anyone with whom she can’t be deeply engaged. I understand this perspective, and am inclined to make it more universal. Isn’t it smart to pick all our allies according to this principle? Every one of us is a mess in one way or another, so why not choose to blend our fates with those whose messiness entertains us and teaches us the most? I suggest you experiment with this view in the coming weeks and months, Pisces. Pisces
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