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y dad died on Thursday, July 3, 2014. He was 78. He had pancreatic cancer. The diagnosis had come three weeks — weeks — earlier. I’ve seen — hell, spoken with — those who’ve fought the Big C and won, dueling with the onslaught of a toxic invader like it was some lumbering, slow-moving beast. I’ve heard about the way many people are able to valiantly, successfully throw chemo and scalpels and radiation at the Shuffling Zombie Tumors in their lungs or their breasts or their brains or their various nodes and nodules. My own mother is a prime example. The thing makes no sense, right? What kind of dumbass disease kills the host that feeds it? That’s why I’d always assumed that cancer was a slugfest, a UFC fight that usually progressed to the point where the combatants were just rolling around, kidney-punching each other until a whistle blew. The cancer didn’t really want to “win,” right? Right? Wrong. The invader that offed my old man was a Blitzkrieg Stuka bomber. Dad was devoured in the Speed Round of Death. Shredded by goddamn Ninja Cancer. It hid in his guts, getting stronger, then it attacked like a rabid dog. So this is not an Inspirational Cancer Story. It’s not a tale about someone who kept punching for years only to beat the tumorous creep into submission or succumb gently whilst proving his/her bravery in the face of a snickering universe. No, this is no long day’s journey into night. This is a slap in the face. This is a car accident. This is a random gunshot from a wasted junkie. This is falling off a ladder while cleaning the gutters. This is a massive heart attack or a stroke or a bite from a killer whale. This isn’t how people die, dammit. At least not from cancer, right? They’re not sitting up, insisting you take a limited edition print off the wall to remember them by one day and slipping from oxycodone sleep directly 4 VOICES // 07.16.14 - 07.23.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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into oblivion the next. It’s simply not fair that a guy with my dad’s wisdom, his accomplished study of theology, law and art can simply vanish. Where did that knowledge go, those parts he hadn’t time to either scribble down or dictate? How can all of that simply cease to exist? Perhaps it doesn’t. Perhaps what the old man believed — connection to a higher power — means that all of that information, thought and feeling he’d amassed since 1936 has bridged like some brilliant electric arc into a larger consciousness that none of us can understand. Dad, in fact, made it clear in the funeral sermon — one he wrote himself — that anyone who claimed to know the mystery of the creator fully was either a charlatan or a fool. Don’t get me wrong: my dad was a member of the clergy whose faith was unshakable. But he disagreed vehemently with Biblical literalists, and in his final homily reminded the mourners that the scriptures were words penned — and edited — by men. And, yes, some little shred of that brilliance that shone on our sad little rock was bequeathed to me, my brother, our kids, people he touched. I went back to what I wrote on social media the day my father died: “The things Dad passed to me were a love of the spoken and written word, a deep aesthetic appreciation and a fondness for a broad variety of music. The man dug piano jazz, surf rock (back in the day) and bought the first CSN album the very the week it came out, I think — he heard ‘Marakesh Express’ and was immediately hooked. He held degrees in theology, law and even art later in life. When I was younger, he’d bust me out of school whenever a new Bond movie came out. We’d play
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hooky and watch 007 at a matinee showing in Catonsville, MD. He understood my love of the movies, and he ensured I could see R-rated stuff in the theaters because he trusted my intelligence. I’ll never forget seeing The French Connection and Godfather films with him, not to mention every old Woody Allen flick from Sleeper to Manhattan.” And as I read that back, those few graphs that I’d hammered out while I was still processing my emotions, I realized that it was an Annie Hall moment that summed up my anger about my father’s ruthless disease. It’s some of the last lines of the film, delivered in typical creepy/conflicted Allen style by the character he played called ‘Alvy Singer:’ “There’s an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of ‘em says, ‘Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.’ The
other one says, ‘Yeah, I know; and such small portions.’ Well, that’s essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it’s all over much too quickly.” It’s true — our relationship was complex. There were a multitude of issues we had to work through as father and son both before and after my parents’ divorce. But Dad’s last three weeks were too small a portion. The reverend, the attorney, the photographer and painter had less than a month to share what he’d learned. I don’t know if three months would have been enough, or three years, or three hundred. I only know that we who are not yet of the ether are decidedly dumber now that we’ve lost him. n Ed Wenck, ewenck@nuvo.net, is managing editor of NUVO.
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he hand-wringing continues. What, asks an Indianapolis Star editorial, are we to do about the spike in urban violence? Change policMassacre is apt. It’s a way of pointing tactics? Better arm our cops? Create ing out the extent to which times have longer prison sentences for criminals changed. Those murders, and the comwho use guns? Identify specific steps to munal shock they inspired, took place in restore order in neighborhoods riddled an analog society. with unemployment, drugs and poverty? The recent shootings in Chicago and The point of questions like these is to Indianapolis, by contrast, seem defiprovoke answers. We put a lot of faith nitely digital. in answers. The right answers, we think, Just what, exactly, does this mean? should help us make things better. For one thing, being digital implies an Maybe. interconnectedness that, while daunting Indianapolis is not alone in its desto deal with from a bureaucratic standperation to make its bleeding stop. In point, is probably an essential first prinChicago, the long Fourth of July weekciple to be embraced if things are ever end turned certain parts of that city into going to get better. urban war zones. There were 82 shootSo yes, we need to address unemployings, 16 deaths. ment, drugs and poverty. And, while The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre still has a ring to it in Chicago and wherever old movies are shown. It’s become a part The recent shootings in Chicago and of that city’s folklore. An Indianapolis seem definitely digital. incident, where seven, I repeat seven, mobsters were lined up in a garage and gunned down in 1929 has entered the collective consciousness we’re at it, schools and social services as a kind of icon for urban lawlessness. and policing and gun laws. But as a recent Chicago Tribune headWe need to look at how the various line comparing then and now undersilos in state and local government, statedly points out, what happened over through their divisions of responsibility the Fourth of July weekend was (and I and reliance on specialized expertise, quote): “worse.” inhibit social clarity, information sharThe Tribune editorial makes a larger ing and common sense. point, though. “It’s time,” it says, “to Ultimately, we need to ask ourselves begin fundamentally rethinking how we whether government itself, on any level, spend money for schools, social services is keeping up with the ways in which we and police, and encourage more local understand ourselves, create identities, experimentation.” pursue livelihoods and raise families — In other words, it may be that both or has become like the last one in the the questions and the answers we’ve room who gets a joke. been wrestling with on the subject of This isn’t about arguing, as so many urban violence are beside the point. politicians of both parties do, for more Bringing up the Saint Valentine’s or less regulation, taxes or moral fiber. It has nothing to do with having big government or small; digital conflates and swallows both in a single dose. It’s about having the courage to make something new — before events make it for us. n
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WHAT HAPPENED? Officer Renn laid to rest; Charges filed Thousands of family, friends, fellow officers, and concerned citizens attended the memorial service for IMPD Officer Perry Renn Friday. Renn was killed in the line of duty July 5 after responding to a report of shots fired on the city’s eastside. The memorial service, held at Banker’s Life Fieldhouse, included remarks from U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly, Governor Mike Pence, Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard, Public Safety Director Troy Riggs, and Police Chief Rick Hite. 7th District Congressman Andre Carson also honored Officer Renn on the U.S. House floor Thursday. Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry filed one count of Murder against Major Davis Jr., the man accused of shooting Renn. Davis was also injured in the gunfire exchange with officers and remains hospitalized. If convicted, Davis faces between 45 and 65 years in prison with a possible 20 additional years for the use of a firearm in a murder. Appeals Court sides with ACLU The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals declared Indiana’s exclusion of secular humanist celebrants from the list of people eligible to solemnize marriages as unconstitutional. Their decision orders the state to allow these celebrants to conduct weddings immediately. Indiana code allowed for civic leaders (mayors, clerks, etc.) and clergy to perform wedding ceremonies, but denied designated members of groups like the Center for Inquiry (CFI), which has a belief system that is not based on religion but is comparable to religion in its humanist philosophical and ethical views. “As the Court noted, the First Amendment demands neutrality,” said American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana Legal Director Ken Falk. “This prevents the State of Indiana from doing what it attempted to do in this case-favor religion over a non-religiousbased system of belief and morality that is equivalent to religion, except for a belief in God.” Knead-to-Feed gets startup capital NUVO congratulates AIM Mentoring, Inc. on their successful Kickstarter.com campaign to fund their Knead-to-Feed: artisan breads and sweets initiative. The mentoring agency’s summer employment program plans to expand and develop into a business that will train youth and young people in the culinary arts while teaching them the fundamentals of workplace etiquette and other life skills. AIM used the crowdfunding website to raise $6266 dollars that will be used for equipment, packaging, and other costs associated with starting a bakery. Officials hope to have the bakery up and running by October for public sales and business-to-business marketing. — AMBER STEARNS 6 NEWS // 07.16.14 - 07.23.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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ndianapolis was shaken when Indianapolis Metro Police (IMPD) Officer Perry Renn was gunned down July 5 in an exchange of gunfire with a suspect (Major Davis Jr.) in the area of 34th Street and Forest Manor Avenue. On July 6, Gary police officer Jeffrey Westerfield was shot, on his 47th birthday, in his patrol car on that city’s west side after he answered a domestic disturbance call. Both men have now been laid to rest, while their families, comrades, and communities continue to mourn their violent and unnecessary deaths. While the families of Officer Renn (who leaves behind a wife of 21 years) and Officer Westerfield (who leaves behind 5 children) will be taken care of by each officer’s pensions, Indiana currently doesn’t provide the same benefits to every police officer’s family because of its ban on same-sex marriage. On July 7, Mark Ahearn, general counsel to Governor Mike Pence, issued a memo to executive branch agencies telling them to act as if the U.S. District Court’s order, that determined Indiana’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, never happened. For IMPD Officers Pamela Lee and Teresa Welborn, the governor’s memo means their spouses are not be eligible to receive their pension benefits from the Public Employees Retirement System if they ever meet the same fate as Officers Renn and Westerfield. Both officers are plaintiffs in the cluster of federal lawsuits that will be heard by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in August to make sure that doesn’t happen.
Officer Pamela Lee IMPD Officer Pam Lee has been a police officer for 23 years, just two years shy of the amount of time she’s been with her wife, Candace Batten-Lee. “Candy was the one who helped me become a police officer,” said Lee. “I was a musician in a band, but she said if we were going to stay together, I had
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every officer takes the fall,” said Lee. to decide what I was going to do when “Despite our own disgust and embarI grew up.” Lee became an officer and rassment in their actions, it’s the rest spent three years with the Kansas City, of us that have to deal with the scrutiny Missouri police department, before from the public.” Lee believes that lost moving to Indianapolis. Lee had no hesitation in expressing her feelings about the current cli“This is the biggest civil rights mate in law enforcement and the state’s position issue of the century.” on same sex marriage. “In my 23 years of ser— INDIANAPOLIS ATTORNEY KAREN vice, it has only been CELESTINO-HORSEMAN recently that I’ve worried about getting hurt or not coming home,” said respect a plays a factor in tragic cases Lee. She says several different factors like officers Renn and Westerfield. have contributed to her shift in thinkIt’s that same disgust and embaring. Everything from fewer officers on rassment that transcends to Gov. Mike the streets to increased paperwork and Pence when Lee thinks about his posiprotocol has added to officers’ every tion and recent edict regarding same day stresses. Lee said the growing apasex marriage. “I think it is disgraceful thy and lack of respect for officers is the and disgusting how he can completely most frustrating. Unfortunately, a lot of dismiss the hard work and sacrifice that lost respect is the result of the public misconduct of a few officers in recent officers make,” said Lee. “I don’t see how he can sleep at night.” Public safety memory. “When one person screws up,
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GET INVOLVED 10th Annual Pop Tab Drop The Ronald McDonald House of Indiana will host their 10th Annual PopTab Drop on Monument Circle Friday. The event invites people of all ages to donate their collected tabs from soda cans to be recycled with the proceeds going to the Ronald McDonald House. The event will include games, music, the world’s largest pop tab, and the traditional appearance by Ronald McDonald himself.
personnel automatically give to their pension funds through payroll deduction and can draw on that pension after retirement. Their spouses, as named beneficiaries, can still draw their pension when they die post retirement or in the line of duty. Lee filled out the paperwork to have her wife listed as a beneficiary the day after Judge Young’s decision was announced. However, that paperwork is now void thanks to the memo from Pence’s general counsel. “He [Pence] has no respect for us as human beings,” says Candy BattenLee, Officer Lee’s wife. “It is a slap in the face. He doesn’t have the right to treat us like second class citizens.” Coincidentally, Batten-Lee is related to Pence by marriage. Pence’s wife, Karen, is Batten-Lee’s cousin.
Permaculture solutions to climate change workshop Indiana IWW will host an interactive workshop led by Randall Jamrok about permaculture in urban environments. Participants will receive a few copies of Jamrok’s booklet, Permaculture Solutions to Climate Change, and work in small groups for discussions and time to prioritize best practice goals for individual communities.
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Although she didn’t know him personally, IMPD Officer Teresa Welborn said Officer Renn’s death changed her path of service in law enforcement. After 26 years of service, Welborn was on the fence about whether or not she should sign up for early retirement or continue to stay on the force. The current shortage of officers and the knowledge that another bump up in pay would come in six months were reasons to stay, but the dangers of the job were also reasons to leave. Welborn said initially, her wife, Beth Piette, told her it was her decision. But that changed while they were on vacation in Michigan. “I was in a dead sleep when Beth woke me up to tell me a fellow officer had been shot and killed in Indianapolis,” said Welborn. “She looked at me and said she wanted me to get out.” Welborn has patrolled the street of Haughville nearly her entire career and has never felt unsafe or thought she was in danger. ”I’ve gone out jogging at three in the morning before and never had a problem or felt unsafe,” said Welborn. “People here know me and respect me and I know them.” However, she does worry about her nephew who is currently a recruit at the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy, especially after recent events. Welborn and Piette started dating shortly before Officer David Moore was shot and killed in 2011. Welborn knew David as well as his parents. “Beth went with me to the viewing,” said Welborn. “I wanted her to know what she was getting into with me and she wanted to be there.” The two married in Hawaii in 2013. Like Officer Lee, Welborn says the lack of respect from the state in acknowledging Beth as her
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wife and beneficiary is upsetting. “The fact that she [Beth] wouldn’t get the money I earned is offensive to me,” said Welborn. It was that realization that moved them to become plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit. Despite all of the challenges she has faced in her life and her career, Welborn feels like she has come full circle. “When I was 18, my father asked me if I was gay. I lied and said no because I knew he would kick me out of the house,” said Welborn. “I was in shock to see the number of people supporting us and the entire cause at the church [on Decision Day June 25]. It felt good to know, and I said it there, that the younger generation won’t have to have the same struggles and fight the same fight that we have.” Despite his disapproval of her lifestyle, Welborn has a good relationship with her father and asked for his advice when deciding whether or not she should stay on the force or retire. Welborn said he told her it was her decision because he would blame himself if he told her to stay and something tragic happened to her in the line of duty.
The Fast Track to Appeal Their case, along with the other same sex marriage challenges in Indiana,
is on the fast track in the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. The court has now combined Indiana’s cases with similar cases in Wisconsin and has set August 13 as the date to hear oral arguments. Briefs are due to the court August 5. Indianapolis attorney Karen CelestinoHoresman, who represents Lee and Welborn, says the fact that the appeals court will hear the case in August is significant. “Usually the court is on vacation in August, there isn’t much activity,” said Horesman. Since the case will be presented to the court in August, Horseman says it is feasible for the appeals court to render a decision in September. The U.S. Supreme Court convenes in October and Horseman speculates the appeals court could return their decision in time for the cases to make the high court’s fall calendar. “This is the biggest civil rights issue of the century,” says Horseman. “It is humbling and exciting to be a part of it.” Attorneys have not determined who will present oral arguments in August. Horseman is one in a group of attorneys representing the public safety officers. One of the other three Indiana cases is represented by the ACLU of Indiana, while the second is represented by Lambda Legal. n
Flood hazard mapping info A series of preliminary maps, just released by the Federal Emergency Management Agency at Floodmaps.IN.gov, outline federal flood insurance requirements, among other information — and will be a hot topic for neighborhoods such as Rocky Ripple. Officials will staff open houses July 16-17 to answer questions. The maps are open to 90 days of public feedback before final drafts are determined. Community Life Center, 10612 E. Washington St., Wednesday, 4-8 p.m., Lakeview Church, 47 Beachway Drive, Thursday, 4-8 p.m.
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t’s a good thing I’m not an actual writer, because the story of how my band met underground rock and roll icon and Coven lead singer Jinx Dawson sounds like poorly crafted fiction, the kind you’d have to alter because it’s not even remotely believable. My name’s Jilly Weiss. I sing for the band We Are Hex. You’ve got to believe me; the tale I’m going to spin is true. When our drummer and captain, Brandon Beaver, found out that Jinx lived in Indianapolis again, we knew we wanted to write a song for her. We found it in a witchy psych track that culminates in the refrain, “Goddamn the ghouls again / they fall like leaves when the summer ends,” a perfect nod to she who is known as the High Priestess of the Left Hand Path. So we named the track “W.D.M.R.S.” after the essential Coven album from 1969, Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls. Then we booked time at the Lodge studio here in Indianapolis to record with our buddies Alex Kercheval and Tyler Watkins. We finished that track, along with a few others and were listening back
when Tyler said he had to take off for another session. We asked him who he was recording and he said, “some sixties chick,” offhandedly. I looked at Brandon, and we knew it was Jinx. We just fucking knew. I said, “It’s not Jinx Dawson, is it?” When Tyler said it was, I pushed him across the room. I thought maybe he heard us talking about “W.D.M.R.S.” or Jinx or Coven or something earlier in the session and was messing with us. Nope. We watched the security camera as her big black Cadillac pulled up and she stepped out in all black leather, motorcycle hat, upside down cross. Holy shit. We still had to finish what we were doing and she had an entire session to get through, but somewhere in there, Tyler brought her to meet us and listen to the track. She didn’t seem to believe us at first that we’d written a song dedicated to her, but she dug it. By this point I think I had offered her something to drink like three times even though she said that she was just fine … each time. Oof. I was nervous (typical), but decided to ask her if she wanted to add some vocals to our track. Beaver knew what I was going to say before I said it and was shaking his head “no” at me. We had a wordless argument with a lot of frowning, which I won. So I asked her. I tell you, she listened to the song once, had me write down the one refrain, went into the booth and took two passes at it. Two! Nailed it. Here’s what you probably already know about Jinx Dawson: She intro-
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duced music crowds to the sign of the horns. Her band, Coven, held Satanic masses on stage. Charles Manson was photographed holding their record. Black Sabbath ripped them off. And it’s all true. But there is a lot more to the story of this musician, who should be a household name, and who instead leads a cult of record nerds like me. Jinx left Indianapolis in 1968, returned for
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several summers in the ’80s to put on concerts, and returned for good in the early 2000s to take care of family. Right now, there’s an energy building behind her. People are taking notice, digging into her history, listening to her classic cuts. And the best part is, she’s making music again. Here’s my conversation with Jinx Dawson, a living rock legend.
learned he was doing it wrong, and doing the deaf hand sign for love instead. Amusing that we knew Gene and were offered the same Casablanca Record deal before they were signed and then called KISS. And Coven drummer Steve Ross was in the band Rainbow for a few weeks, then they later hired Cozy Powell, who had a bigger drum set. We played with Black Sabbath in 1970 at the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles. Yet they do not seem to recall Coven in the press. I guess everyone desires to be first, an original. Am I bitter? No. Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
JILLY: What kind of music did you grow up with? JINX: I was not allowed to listen to much popular music of the 1950s. Only during the summers at our lake house was I allowed to listen, and I mimicked all the 45s. The rest of the year was classical, musicals and opera. I was training in classical piano and opera starting around age 8. I received a special opera scholarship at age 13 to the Jordan School of Music at Butler University. The professor would make me sing arias in front of the college students to show them how it was properly done. I also received a scholarship to Herron Art School at 14, where I saw my first fully naked person. We were at the anatomy class and I think they forgot I was very young among the college age students drawing a live nude model. JILLY: Did your formal training influence your vocal style? JINX: Most assuredly it did, indeed. I learned how to sing properly from the diaphragm, not from the throat which most rock singers do. I never really fully caught on to properly reading the music though. I was caught at one opera lesson when I did not turn the page of the songbook at the correct time. The teacher then realized I had memorized the entire piece by ear, as all the pieces I had learned before. JILLY: Was Coven’s Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls originally supposed to come out on Chicago label Dunwich Records? Had you started conceptualizing and writing while still in Chicago?
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rospect you wish you hadn’t? JINX: The music business in the late ’60s was in a toddler stage. Walking, but still trying to find itself. Trying to find artists that would make money for their labels, while trying to release musical art. Engineers just learning to use the studio equipment for recording heavier rock. Musicians trying to stay a course when managers, producers and record companies thought they knew what was best. A very difficult time. An experiment. Everyone “borrowing” from everyone else to catch
JINX: Coven was residing in Chicago by fall of “I personally was always 1968. Dunwich was a into the occult.” small Chicago record label owned by our producer and manager. Both the band and his office wantthe Magickal brass ring. ed a major deal and Mercury Records immediately signed us in late 1968. We JILLY: There seems to be a lot of contrawere finished with the album by spring dictory information about Coven’s influ1969,with its release late summer 1969. We had already been playing regularly on ence on Black Sabbath. It seems like they don’t want to admit the influence, but the Midwest circuit and had a full set of you guys had a song called Black Sabbath songs and gothic stage show since 1967. come out before their band formed. And, of course, your bass player’s name was JILLY: It blows me away to think that you were just 18 or 19 when you made such an Oz Osborne, which cannot be a coincidence. What’s the deal? It seems like influential record. How did you maintain there are so many things that you innoyour direction within the industry? Did you lose control of some things that in ret- vated and do not get credit for. How did
JILLY: So you shared a stage with Pink Floyd, the Yardbirds, Deep Purple, The Stooges, the MC5. Who else?
you keep from getting bitter about it? JINX: The music business was a bigger boys club back then than it is now. And Black Sabbath were indeed named Earth until Fontana/Vertigo Records signed them in 1970, just after we broke from our label Mercury. Vertigo/Fontana was a subsidiary of our label Mercury. And they also had a song called “Black Sabbath” on that ’70s release, as we did on our 1969 release. Sabbath also did a cover of a song on our publishing company, Yuggoth Music, a song called “Evil Woman” by Crow who were managed by our Chicago management company, Arkham Artists. All in the same office. I think they did not imagine the future would bring an “Internet.” Before that, all publicity and stories on these bands came from the labels and the bands. Secrets were easily kept. Even Gene Simmons had originally claimed the sign of the horns rock hand sign, but later, he
JINX: Over the years this is a list that has become fairly long and I am sure to miss many. Rod Stewart and the Faces, Henry Rollins and Black Flag, Zappa’s Mothers of Invention, Ted Nugent and The Amboy Dukes, Bob Seger System, SRC, the Frost, Berlin, the Electric Prunes, Vanilla Fudge, Jefferson Airplane, The Who, Black Sabbath, Brownsville Station, Liza Minelli, Stiv Bators and The Dead Boys, The Runaways, The Motels, Alice Cooper, Circle Jerks, The Jam ... and also some of my own bandmates over the years were originally from Steppenwolf, Jethro Tull,The Hollywood Stars and Todd Rundgren’s Utopia. JILLY: You played with Alice Cooper at this time, right? I think a lot of people consider him a progenitor of shock rock, but I’ve seen Coven called “pioneers of shock rock.” Your crazy stage show predates Cooper’s, yes? JINX: We played several festivals and concerts where Alice Cooper also played in the late ’60s. At that time they were known as a “tranny” or ‘’glam” band, meaning they dressed and made up feminine for their shows. Alice Cooper was the name of the band, not Vince Furnier’s personal stage name (he later adopted it), and there was no occult nor dark theme about their shows at all. That came later when SEE, JINX, ON PAGE 10
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on to later mention this episode with us in two of his songs. One, in the infamous “200 Motels” film and soundtrack and the other in “Billy the Mountain.” JILLY: There’s a description of your voice that I heard in a 2008 radio interview with WNYU. The interviewer said that your vocal chords could run circles around Stevie Nicks. Why do you think you didn’t have the same level of mainstream success? She also seems to have “borrowed” your look from this period. Annoying? Or were you used to people stealing from you at this point?
JINX , FROM PAGE 9 they were at the Zappa rehearsal studio in the 1970s in LA and we rehearsed there also. After we split from the Bizarre/ Zappa management, we saw that Vince and his band started changing their garb to black and studs, more like our Coven gothic clothes and they started using props onstage, most noticeably a noose. Coven always had a noose hanging from our organ during our late ’60s to early ’70s shows. And their press photos and album covers became darker in a kind of Halloween way, as did some of their songs. JILLY: You have mentioned that you don’t define your religious affiliation, despite that fact that most people believe you’re a Wiccan or a Satanist. Can you give a bit more insight into your spiritual path? JINX: I am Left Hand Path, which is not a religion but a practice. I have no religious affiliations, so I am neither a Wiccan nor a Satanist. I enjoy the study and practice of the arcane arts and historical Occult materials. Left Hand Path has more to do with science, math, astrology, herbology, personal powers, etc. than with spiritual endeavors. JILLY: Did you mean to share the secret Left Hand Path sign (the sign of the horns) with the world onstage or was it just something you did, and people caught on? How do you feel about how it’s been used? JINX: I did not think it would catch on as it did. Back in 1967, when I first did
JINX: I was pretty used to it by that time. Even though Stephanie is older than me, she arrived in LA at the same time we did in 1970, and stayed at the same rock hotel that we did, the infamous Tropicana. That is where we met. She and Lindsay Buckingham were there shopping for a duo record deal. This was before they met anyone in Fleetwood Mac. She asked me once, “How do you get to play at the Whisky?” where we were playing at the time. She would go to our gigs and study carefully. I did not think much of it at the time, but it all seems so ludicrous now.
the Horned Hand Sign on stage, no one knew what it was nor had ever even seen it. Most were doing the peace hand sign back then. It is strange for me to see so many doing it now as it was originally a very guarded sign, one only known to members of the secret society of LHP. It has now become ubiquitous but its original, esoteric meaning has been diluted. JILLY: I find myself getting annoyed at some of the things I’ve read that accuse Coven of harnessing the occult as a gimmick. Not only were you really living it, you had already formed and were practicing your beliefs in Chicago before the release of Witchcraft, right? JINX: I personally was always into the occult. As a child my great aunts were part of the Post Victorian Spiritual Age where popular interests were anything from Houdini magic tricks to ghosts to séances to mesmerism to pendulums and fortune telling to Hoodoo and casting spells. And powerful secret societies were very much in effect. They also had an extensive library of occult books in their large Italianate mansion which I eagerly read. There is a vast difference between having a fascination for a subject and the actual study and practice of that subject. JILLY: What prompted Coven’s move to California? This was at Frank Zappa’s
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JILLY: Speaking of things interviewers dwell on, I don’t think I’ve read a single article that didn’t mention your appearance. Does this bug you?
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invite, right? JINX: Coven played a two night gig with Zappa and The Mothers in 1970, which was actually in Indianapolis at a theatre called Middle Earth. The Mothers were the headliner, so the first night, we opened for them. We played a very heavy set with serious dark music and occult-themed stage show and received a huge ovation. Zappa was in his comedy show and heckle-the-audience phase. They went on and the audience did not like the Mothers set at all. So the next night, a fuming Zappa wanted to go on first so they could get out of town earlier. His bandmates, especially Aynsley Dunbar and Jeff Simmons were impressed with our show and said they wished they were doing serious music. Zappa invited us to L.A. to sign with his Bizarre label. Zappa would go
JINX: It does get to be burdensome sometimes, but I suppose it is because I never changed my natural long blonde hairstyle much, nor my dark makeup, nor my clothing style, which is 99 percent all black. There must be a sort of weird fascination there. I think Hollywood puts too much emphasis on youth and looks. Give me a great singer any day. JILLY: I think people are surprised that you didn’t do something that would have been easier to profit from. You could easily have been a model or fronted a more radio-friendly band, but you stuck to your guns. How did you come to this decision? JINX: I came from a long line of money. And I had a wonderfully colorful and creative childhood with many advantages. My great aunts lived in the family’s old mansion with a full working farm and Obeah [Jamaican-born Hoodoo practitioners] helpers from New Orleans. I had a nanny who taught me about Hoodoo customs and how to speak French. My father bought the original Indiana Governors mansion because my grandfather had been a Lt. Governor of Indiana. We also
the “Tommy/Talmy can you see me” Who album) and our album was just not coming out as we felt it should, as his sight was all but gone at this point. The band did a new mix with the engineer and luckily what I thought was originally recorded was actually there in the end. JILLY: Definitely seems like there are some radio cuts on this one. How was it received? JINX: There was indeed immediate airplay and we set out for a long tour. Our tour manager got in a serious motorcycle accident while on the road and we could not find a replacement to run the Blood on the Snow rear projected video film and special light show. Those kind of people could not be so quickly replaced back in 1974. JILLY: So this was the last Coven album for a long while. What happened? Articles have attributed the break up mainly to mismanagement. Is this accurate, or was there tension within the band?
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had a lake house just south of Chicago, a was asked by Billy Jack producers to hotel in Florida and a small town called sing a title song for their movie. She was Shore Acres on the north side of Broad unavailable, and they asked if I wanted Ripple where we had our own police car to do it. So I did it because I had never and fire engine. Dawson Lake was in that done a session with full orchestra before town. It is now a 69-home gated communi- and wanted that experience. ty but was once my private summer home away from my winter home in Los Angeles. JILLY: Even though the rest of the band wasn’t involved with this song, I read I would come back from LA and manage that you asked to be credited on the summer events and concerts there too. We soundtrack as Coven, as opposed to just had boats and planes. So, profit was never Jinx. Why was this important to you? a motivation in what I started creating as a teenager in the 1960s. I simply did what JINX: I never thought the record would I knew and liked. And I never cared to do be anymore than a title song, so I was just one kind of music. I liked opera and I liked rock. I liked to sing harmonies “So, profit was never a and I liked to scream. But eventually found that motivation in what I started creating underground rock was the as a teenager in the 1960s. I simply most amusing.
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did what I knew and liked.”
JILLY: A lot of people know your name from your 1971 recording of “One Tin Soldier” for the movie Billy Jack. How did you get this gig? Did this huge hit change things? JINX: This film soundtrack session came about because we wanted to leave the Zappa stable. Linda Ronstadt was also in that stable, because Zappa’s manager Herbie Cohen also managed her. She
not worried about it confusing what the band Coven was about. But I have to admit, when I was singing along with the full orchestra and the time coded film was running on the back wall and the horses were getting shoved over the cliff, I choked and thought, “This song is a pop radio hit.” I never desired a solo career so I demanded the band name be printed on the records and in the film credits.
JILLY: Blood on the Snow [Coven’s third album, released in 1974] seems like a really ambitious album. You cover a lot of ground here. Can you tell me about the songwriting process? JINX: By 1974, we had been in our Hollywood hillside aerie, which we called Coven House for almost four years. The entire band lived, worked and played there. It was a very busy house and was visited by many famous musicians and actors over the years. We had regular rehearsals in the day and jam sessions at night. It was not unusual for the likes of Alvin Lee or Emerson, Lake and Palmer to stop by to hang out and jam. We had been writing for the Blood on the Snow album for about six months. It was a fertile and maturing time for our music. JILLY: What had changed with you and with the band since the last release two years earlier? What was it like working with [Who producer] Shel Talmy? JINX: We were finally allowed a certain amount of freedom with this album. We had a new record company. But they still wanted some radio-friendly hits. I had written some softer sounding songs which still had Magickal lyrics and we signed Shel to produce. In the end, we did not like Shel’s mixing. He had been slowly going blind for some time (thus,
JINX: There were some diverse personalities among the members, but I do not ever remember one argument or fight. A few disagreements here and there, but that is needed in a functional creative unit. For the most part we acted as one, especially onstage and in the studio. We knew exactly what to expect out of each other musically. The friendly parting was because of constant bad management. They either did not stand up for us or they actually competed against us. So, a long break was needed.
Genre spread JILLY: I never knew you went on to do a punk/new wave band in the ’80s! Tell me about The Equalizers. JINX: Coven drummer Steve Ross and I wanted to continue playing live during a downtime, so we started a punk/wave band called The Equalizers. We played four to five times a week throughout Southern California at the many punk venues that were hot there in the early 1980s. Michael Monarch, formerly of Steppenwolf (his guitar lead on “Born to Be Wild” is iconic) and Glenn Cornick, formally of Jethro Tull (famous for his bass SEE, JINX, ON PAGE 12
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JILLY: You have really been embraced by the current metal community. This makes sense in a lot of ways, not just because of the imagery and subject matter, but also because metal has always incorporated operatic voices, much more so than some other rock and roll genres. Was this surprising to you, or does it seem like a natural progression? Do you listen to metal? JINX: I do not listen to much music at all, as I feel it might creep into my writing. I retain a song at first listen, even usually knowing where it is melodically going next. My ear works naturally that way. I catch a few new parts of songs here and there on my Facebook newsfeed. And as far as genres go, I do not really like them nor adhere to them. Too many have emerged in recent years. I think it a boring practice to limit oneself to a certain style. I do not like to be put in a box. But I can see some correlations to what is categorized as heavy metal. JILLY: You are not afraid of mixing genres. Do you think it’s hard for the audience to follow, or for reviewers, who often like things packaged and labeled? JINX: I see no problem in screaming and growling in one section, then going into a quiet mysterious harmony for another section of a song. I think this style is much more intriguing and naturally eerie. I also like totally different kinds of songs. I personally would get bored listening to the same type of song on one album.
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tor’s last name was Jinks. So it was logical to me to release a new album. It was not finished until the very end of 2013 — I barely made it. There was a lot of work done, yet it all fell together easily. Some of the songs indeed were recorded many years ago at Elecktra Records studios in Los Angeles. We were recording there while The Doors were in the next studio. We became very friendly with Jim and his crew. On breaks, we would all go to Barney’s Beanery across the street and play pool. Other tracks were unfinished and new parts were added and the songs finished. There are also totally new tracks. Again, you see I like to mix things up, and I do not like to pick over songs too much. JILLY: How did you meet Wolfpack 44 [who contributed tracks to the album]? Have you performed the songs you wrote with them live or do you have plans to? JINX: Guitar wizard Ricktor Ravensbrück, formally of the Electric Hellfire Club, contacted me about his new project Wolfpack 44. They were doing a remake of Coven’s “Wicked Woman” and wanted to know if I would like to sing on it. They also had another song, “To the Devil a Daughter” that was unfinished with no words nor melody, so I finished writing that song. I travelled to Chicago’s Glitch Mode Studios and met their fascinating engineer and producer. He owned his separate studio and was quite versatile at recording, writing and playing, an all around talent. His name was Nikk Skum when I first started working with him, but he is now called Nikk Dibs, as he recently joined the band Dope. I had a very good time with all the fabulous Wolfpack boys. I would work with them again in a second. There has been talk regarding future live performances. JILLY: Today you have a cult-like following that feels like its steadily building. I get the sense that something is happening, that the word is getting out. Do you agree? JINX: The Internet has allowed people to experience more than what the major record companies control, so there is a new world out there for artists like myself that did not necessarily want to follow all the corporate rules. And because Coven was a band that did so many things first that are now popular in pop culture, like the sign of the horns, occult themes and the like, I think people are interested in where all these things started.
many offers that did not charm us. And as for being the time for us, I think we were always just one step ahead, which sometimes gets one lost in the shuffle. The ones who first forge a path are sometimes pushed aside by so many others following down that same path. The cards may be dealt more in my favor this year.
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JILLY: So, I’d be remiss not to point out that the track “W.D.M.R.S.” on your record is also on our split 7-inch of the same name. Can we talk about the recording process the night you joined us at the Lodge? It just seems crazy that we were recording a song dedicated to you and you showed up! Magick?
JINX: Of course it was Magick. I needed one more song for the newest Coven album JINX and I vibed that something was waiting for me at The Lodge studios. Of course, we must let the readers JINX: I cancelled the spring Euro Festival know that W.D.M.R.S. is an acronym for tour because I am still trying to put the the first Coven album which is called live band together and get more staging Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps built. And I’m looking for a sponsor. I see Souls. Your band, We Are Hex, had most no need to go out unless the stage show of the song finished. It was late, a hot and is as least as big as we presented when I sweaty summer night. I had just finished first started. I would actually like to do a hours of mixing in another studio and U.S. tour first, but we are currently getwas dragging equipment out to the car. Someone said I must go upstairs to hear a song, so I did. You “The ones who first forge told me the name of the a path are sometimes pushed aside song, so I was game from that point on. You and I by so many others following down went into the booth and went at the choruses and that same path.” breaks with screams and doubles, and I added a speaking part off the top of my head at ting more offers from overseas. I hope we the beginning of the song. And, voilà. can start playing out by this fall. JILLY: Indianapolis seems really excited JILLY: Throughout your career, you’ve to have you back. People went nuts had a hard time getting your music out when you came out with us at a show to people because either a record label at the White Rabbit. How was it being was refusing to release an album or a back on stage here? festival wouldn’t let you speak. Do you JINX: It is really a full circle story. The think that maybe this is the time for White Rabbit used to be called the Le you? The independent labels are doing Scene Club in the late ’60s, one of the better than the majors in a lot of ways. first places Coven ever played. We did Are you looking for a label home that gigs several times in that same building will be a partner in your creativity? back in the day with the Yardbirds, the JINX: We have our own label at the Electric Prunes and Vanilla Fudge. So I moment, Nevoc Musick Company, and thank thee most kindly, My Dearest Jilly, are not real thrilled on the idea of signand thy band We Are Hex for closing ing again with a major label as we have that particular circle. So mote it be. n already been with the biggest in the world. But, if an interesting offer came Listen to music from Coven across, be it indie or major, I certainly and We Are Hex at NUVO.net. would take a look at it. So far we have had JILLY: I know you were asked to headline some festivals in Europe. What about a U.S. tour? Is something in the works?
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A&E EVENTS Deon Cole A Chicago native, Cole has gotten plenty of national TV screen time of late as a member of the writing staff of both The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien and then Conan. Cole had another show on TBS for a few months in 2013, a sketch comedy compendium called Deon Cole’s Black Box, and as you might guess from this weekend gig at Morty’s, he maintains an active standup schedule. Morty’s Comedy Joint, July 17-19, times vary, $15-18, mortyscomedy.com Happy Hour at the Symphony And you thought Happy Hour was done for the season after the ISO moved north the Prairie. Ensemble-in-Residence Time for Three will headline in the wake of the release of their new, self-titled album, joined by special guests Lily & Madeleine. Hilbert Circle Theatre, July 17, 6:30 p.m., $25 advance, $30 door, indianapolissympphony.org
REVIEWS Acting Up Productions: The Tragedy of Hamlet e Lauren Briggeman’s Hamlet, under the direction of Acting Up’s R. Brian Noffke, is someone to fall in love with. She is beautiful, brave, a tad crazy, maybe, but definitely fully human. Like many of us, she is impatient with politics and love. Unlike many of us, she is equally comfortable using guns, rapiers, words or crotch grabs to get what she wants. And she’s the reason to put a lawn chair in your car and drive out to Marian University. Marian University, through July 26 —HOPE BAUGH Miles and Ellie t The Phoenix’s latest offering, an anti-romantic comedy with a quasi-feminist central character, Ellie (Lisa Ermel), misses the mark, but just slightly. As the play begins, quirky, nerdy, teenage Ellie relives memories of her lost first love, Miles (Zachariah Stonerock). Ellie’s hellaciously perfect family adds humor to the gentle romance. But one key qualm: While early on Ellie offers up many a feminist argument, the play, written (Don Zolidis) and directed (Bill Simmons) by men fails, in the end, to present a truly strong female character. However, the ensemble does an excellent job of creating a dynamic picture of a family. And the play is very funny, though don’t expect more than a few good laughs. Phoenix Theatre, through Aug. 10 —KATELYN COYNE
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n annual must-stop on the Summer Celebration is the Cultural Arts Pavilion, which features a variety of exhibitions and collections created by local institutions such as the Indiana Historical Society, Indiana State Museum and Harrison Center for the Arts. Curated by a committee including members of Indiana Black Expo, Inc. and institutions like those mentioned above, it aims to play a part in IBE’s mission “to be an effective voice and vehicle for the social advancement of African-Americans.” Or, really, the “whole community,” if you ask Jennifer Darby, IBE’s Director of Youth and Family Programs. As her title might suggest, Darby is very interested in the benefit exposure to such cultural programming might SUBMITTED PHOTOS have on young people. But adults Harrison Center artist Quincy Owens, whose “Threshold” is seen here, is among the artists featured in the Cultural Arts Pavillion, which also includes vintage photos from the Burns Archive. can get something out of it too, and to be sure, the programming in the The following are a few of the major shows included in the Cultural Arts Cultural Arts Pavilion Pavilion, which is open during regular Summer Celebration hours July 18-20, is accessible to all age with entrance included with festival admission. groups. “We know the impact of the arts on our children and adults and important for them to have and other hands-on art experiences). And the other Indiana State Museum: the opportunity to engage with prois a selection of work by Owens, whose most recent Shadow and Substance: African American gramming like this,” she says. show at the Harrison Gallery, Brimful of Asha, feaImages from the Burns Archive Darby started at Indiana Black Expo tured work inspired by and/or created during a recent The Indiana State Museum is drawing from the earlier this year, and her approach three-week artist residency in Delhi. substantial Burns Archive of Historic Vintage was to let institutions like the Indiana Photographs for a 113-image exhibition that tells a State Museum create their own shows Indiana Historical Society: Who Is a Hoosier? story, snapshot by snapshot, of African American life for Pavilion. But next year she and the We quote from promotional materials: “In this travelover the past 160 years. The museum first presented committee plan to be more “intening exhibit, maps and info graphics highlight the photos from the archive in a 2009 show; here’s what tional” in terms of programming, and statistical impact of changing ethnic groups, while NUVO’s David Hoppe said at the time: “First you see she hopes to collaborate with new photographs from various IHS collections and instituthe faces: the group portraits of college fraterniinstitutions. She starts planning for tions all over the state bring to life the personal ties, football players, soldiers and wedding parties. next year in September, and interested stories of immigration.” And then the individual studies, many painstakingly parties are welcome to drop her a line posed, of men, women and children: a little boy Indiana African American Heritage Project: (923-3092) or email to jdarby@indidressed like a policeman with a toy pistol in a holster Leora Brown School anablackexpo.com. on his hip, the matron in her Sunday best. Together, these images create a familiar composite portrait: (A note: An organization that A recreation of the Leora Brown School, originally America, from the first half of the 19th century was initially involved in the pavilthe Colored School of Corydon, one of the states first through the 1960s.” segregated African America school, graduating its ion, the Indianapolis Museum of first class in 1897. Contemporary Art, will not present a Harrison Center for the Arts: show by Chicago artist Ian Weaver as Icon Paintings and Quincy Owens Collection Indianapolis Museum of Art announced. His show, Black Knights, That’s two separate shows: The first comprised of The IMA will present a sampling of work from its which presents faux artifacts from a paintings of “cultural icons” by students at Herron encyclopedic permanent holdings, including selecfictional black nationalist community High School attending its Summer Academe program tions from its African, American, Asian, European, in a museum-style setting, remains of don’t-call-them-summer-school classes (because Contemporary, and Design Art collections. scheduled to open at iMOCA on they’re heavy on field trips to cultural institutions August 1.) n
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THURSDAY IBE Education Conference (all day) Jennifer Darby particularly recommends this education conference, which “seeks to provide teachers, administrators, and others concerned with education with resources, best practices and professional development training specifically regarding cultural competence.” In other words, it’s open to the public, with a day-of registration cost of $50 (early bird was $25, but that deadline expired before we went to press). That’s still certainly cheap for a professional conference. Ron Clark, an educator dubbed Oprah’s first Phenomenal Man, will talk about his work with “at-risk” students, which first began when he moved on a whim, more or less, to Harlem to take on a job in a struggling school. Clark has since founded a private school in Atlanta, the Ron Clark Academy, with a curriculum that stresses worldwide travel (students will visit six of seven continents by the time they graduate). WTHR Employment Opportunity Fair (noon-5 p.m.) A key, five-hour event for both employers and those seeking employment, which annually welcomes more than 2,000 job-seekers.
JULY 18-20 Cultural Arts Pavilion (all day) Summer Celebration’s biggest weekend starts July 18, when key elements like the Cultural Arts Pavilion open for eight hours daily through Sunday. Read the adjacent article for more info, of course. Family Fun Zone We’ll just name off the special attractions here: Asante’s Children’s Theatre, Pacers Fan Van, Play 60 Obstacle Course, St. Florian Center, Knights of Glory Drum and Bugle Core, Indiana University Mascots and Half-Court Show and Big Car Collaborative.
FRIDAY Music Heritage Festival I (6-11:30 p.m. at the American Legion Mall) Summer Celebration’s first big concert (the free one) will feature Keith Sweat, After 7 and the S.O.S. Band. VIP tickets are available for $40 per person.
SATURDAY Motorcycle Ride and Park (11 a.m. from Lafayette Square Mall) A portion of benefits from this annual motorcycle
ride, which starts from Lafayette Square Mall and ends on Georgia Street, will benefit the Fallen Bikers Fund. Fees run $20 per person and $10 per passenger in advance or $30 day of. IBE Fashion Show (3 p.m.) Another must-see, says Darby. Korto Momolu, a Project Runway season five finalist, is the featured guest for Summer Celebration’s annual fashion show, a showcase for work by local designers. Curobiks Fitness Concert Experience (1:30 p.m.) Listen to this claim: “CuRobiks Fitness Concert Experience is the first workout routine led by a multiplatinum recording artist bringing you high-energy, fun filled aerobic line dancing.” IBE Slam Dunk Contest (4:30 p.m.) A favorite on the Summer Celebration schedule. Followed by... Amp Harris & Reggie Wayne “Saving Our Youth” Celebrity Basketball Game (6 p.m.) Kind of a mouthful, but it’s another well loved Summer Celebration tradition. Booked for this year are Trevor Jackson, Robert Mathis, Ty Hilton, Trent Richardson, Vick Ballard, George Hill, Jeff Teague, Gary Brackett, Jay Ellis, Stephen Bishop and coach Jason Gardner. Music Heritage Festival II (8 p.m., Bankers Life Fieldhouse, $35-65) Babyface, that local boy who did so good they named a highway after him, is back in town for this second Music Heritage show, with Anthony Hamilton headlining and Chrisette Michele supporting. All White Affair (8 p.m., $25) You wouldn’t be caught dead in red at Summer Celebration’s official after party, which is DJed this year by Kid Capri with a performance by R&B ensemble Troop.
SUNDAY IBE Hair Showcase (3 p.m.) Fashion is Saturday and hair is Sunday — and both are must-sees, according to Darby. If you’re a professional cosmetologist, show up at noon for a one-hour class with hairstylist to the stars, Kim Kimble (registration required). And stick around after the show for a panel on chemical vs. natural hair featuring Kimble with local hairstylists. IBE Gospel Explosion (3 p.m.) Le’Andria Johnson (a season three winner on BET gospel competition Sunday Best) is the headliner for this threehour concert included with fest admission. Also on the bill: Joshua Rogers, Alexis Spight and a bunch of guest stars. NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 07.16.14 - 07.23.14 // VISUAL 15
REVIEWS Circling the Camp: Wendy Red Star e Wendy Red Star grew up in a multicultural family on the Crow Reservation. Her mother is Irish and her father is fullblooded Crow. Going to, and participating in, the annual Crow Fair near Billings, Montana was a big part of her childhood. These memories are revived, manipulated and displayed on iMOCA’s walls with help of her dad’s old slide collection. Red Star took old slides that her dad took of the vehicles, riders, and participants in the Crow Fair parade and edited out the backgrounds in Photoshop. This editing process creates some surreal effects, such as in the composition “Paint Horse & Sunglasses,” where you see a man on a horse in the distance, seeming to float in empty air, much smaller than the horse and sunglasseswearing-rider in the foreground.
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— DAN GROSSMAN Summer Exhibition Series Loosely linked by the concept of storytelling, the six exhibitions that make up the Indianapolis Art Center’s summer offerings span across media, styles and concepts. Eric Troffkin’s Communication Vine contorts a cell phone tower into a roller coaster-like shape and invites consideration of the depth of our reliance on technology for communication. Is the “vine” taking an organic form because technology is so integrated into our communication that we take it for granted, or has it come crashing down? Joseph Lupo’s Comic Configurations deftly distill comics into awkward and tense moments. He joins the comic-oriented discourse that also includes Garfield Minus Garfield and Ray Yoshida’s artwork. The dark, arcane sentiments expressed in the speech bubbles contrast with the comic imagery; considered alongside Lupo’s text-based pieces that alphabetize all words from selected comics, the art has the lingering and unsettling effect of channeling utter insanity Indianapolis Art Center, through Aug. 3 — CHARLES FOX Visit nuvo.net for the rest for Charles Fox’s take on the rest of the exhibitions.
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he tributes weren’t long in coming following the August 2013 death of Ed Funk, the accomplished artist and Dolphin Papers owner. “If Herron, iMOCA, Harrison Center and the like are the body of the local art scene, Ed was the blood that was coursing through its veins, below the surface, authentic, necessary and lasting,” wrote Mark Ruschman in his Sky Blue Window column. “Ed was a great guy, a talented and thoughtful artist, and offered me and countless others continual encouragement throughout our careers,” said Wug Laku in another sky Blue Window piece. But words can only go so far. Denise Charboneau-Eickhoff, an organizer of a Funk retrospective opening Saturday at Gallery 924, says it “was in the back of everyone’s mind that there needed to be a show.” Charboneau-Eickhoff started the ball rolling in January when she contacted the Arts Council’s Shannon Linker. The Gallery 924 show is the first of two Funk exhibitions this year, with a second planned for October at UIndy. Funk, who served in the Navy in the late ‘70s and graduated from Herron School of Art and Design in 1988, was a source of inspiration and knowledge to his fellow artists. He earned the friend-
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ship and trust of those with whom he did business as owner of Dolphin Papers, which Funk purchased in 1996. From 1999 to 2009, Dolphin Papers occupied the largest storefront in Fountain Square’s Murphy Arts Center, which Funk co-founded. Funk was profoundly knowledgeable about art history and technique and loved to share his knowledge. “It seems like his comfort zone was mentoring and nurturing other artists,” says CharboneauEickhoff. “One on one, or even with a small group he was great with.” But Funk didn’t exhibit his work all that often. “There was something intimidating about letting the public in to judge,” she says, “because no matter what there’s always some person who doesn’t like something about what you’ve done.” Funk was a prolific painter and print maker, but his approach was different in each media. “Paintings allowed him to work large
and be sloppy,” says CharboneauEickhoff. “There was more focus on color whereas with his prints he paid a lot of attention to detail.” The show at Gallery 924 will focus mostly on Funk’s paintings. “It’s not just one series,” says Charboneau-Eickhoff. “We’re looking at a lifetime of work. We want it to look good when hung next to another piece and that’s why we were trying to focus our energy more towards painting but not forget about the printmaking. “ Charboneau-Eickhoff, an artist herself, is married to painter Matthew Eickhoff, who continues to work at Dolphin Papers, now located in Franklin. The Eickhoffs considered Funk a close friend and are organizing the show in tandem. Asked about Funk’s legacy in the city, Charboneau-Eickhoff says, “I think that, when you think of human nature in general, we all want to be remembered when we pass. I feel that Ed has done enough to be remembered.” n
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Wish I Was Here Zach Braff’s crowdsourced Garden State followup is about a struggling actor (Braff) who decides to homeschool his two kids after his dad (Mandy Patinkin) says he can no longer afford to send them to a private school. Here’s The Hollywood Reporter: “Though in many ways a quirky and touching film” like Garden State, “Wish I Was Here thankfully also feels like a more mature work that dares to tackle complex topics such as religion and God in the face of death.” R, Opens Thursday in wide release Persecuted Dean Stockwell and Fred Thompson star in this fundamentalist thriller about an evangelist named John Luther who’s the only guy who can block the heathens from taking over the government. PG-13, Opens Friday in wide release Sex Tape Cameron Diaz and Jason Segal make a sex tape and accidentally upload it to “the cloud,” where it is apparently available for viewing to all their friends and co-workers and family and such.
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R, Opens Friday in wide release Purge: The Anarchy You know the concept from the ubiquitous advertising: Americans have twelve hours every year to kill each other because apparently Halloween isn’t good enough anymore. Ethan Hawke does not return for the sequel. R, Opens Friday in wide release Planes: Fire and Rescue Hot on the heels of Disney’s Planes, released last August. G, Opens Friday in wide release
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Summer Nights: Hook (1991) I’m not a pirate. It so happens I am a lawyer. Indianapolis Museum of Art, July 18, 9:30 p.m., $10 public, $6 member, imamuseum.org
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n an August, 2011 issue of NUVO I said, “Rise of the Planet of the Apes is the best summer movie of 2011 and, hoo boy, that’s a sentence I didn’t expect to write.” So, is Dawn of the Planet of the Apes the best summer movie of 2014? I have high hopes for Guardians of the Galaxy, which comes out August 1, so I’m not going to make a statement that bold, but it’s certainly a worthy successor to the “where did THAT come from?” 2011 hit. Incidentally, doesn’t Dawn of the ... sound like it should come before Rise of the … ? Not a big deal, I know, but doesn’t it? Where Rise was an origin story, Dawn is a war movie/Shakespearean tragedy with a nod toward westerns. If you’re looking for social themes, it addresses the betrayals of Native Americans with all the subtlety and finesse of the original 1968 Ape movie. And while representing the terrible treatment of Native Americans, it relegates women to the background, giving only two females notable screen time: a nurse and a new mother. Maybe it will deal with the problem in Gender Inequities of the Planet of the Apes. The set-up: 10 years after the first film, most of humanity has been wiped
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out by the Simian Virus. Ape leader Caesar (Andy Serkis, at his best) and his followers live in Muir Woods outside of San Francisco. Their use of spoken English is growing, but most communication is done through sign language. Caesar and Cornelia (Judy Greer, wasted in the role) are parents to rebellious young adult Blue Eyes (Nick Thurston), with another child due any day. Koba (Toby Kebbell), scarred from being used for experiments in a human lab, is a rabble-rouser who bows to Caesar, at least during the early part of the movie. A few hundred virus-resistant humans live in the ruins of San Francisco. The group is led by Malcolm (Jason Clarke), a reasonable fellow, and Dreyfus (Gary Oldman), the human equivalent of Koba. Desperate for electric power, they send a contingent toward a dam near Muir Woods. The expedition is made up of widower Malcolm, his teenaged son Alexander (Kodi Smit-McPhee), nurse
Ellie (Keri Russell) and Carver (Kirk Acevedo), because no expedition is complete without a twitchy extremist nut-job. Apes and humans meet again and it does not go well. There are misunderstandings, tragedies, truces, betrayals and battles galore. Interspersed are touching moments (watch Gary Oldman as his character looks at photos of his kids for the first time in years) and dark humor (check out Koba’s Stepin Fetchit routine in front of a couple of not-very-bright guards. The look of the Ape colony is rich, dark and interesting. Michael Giacchino’s score serves the franchise well – he gave me chills in a key scene where his music evoked Jerry Goldsmith’s score for the 1968 original movie. To be sure, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes has its problems, but its triumphs are many, from its exciting pacing and strong sense of place to its charismatic turn by Andy Serkis, whose characterization at times reminded me of Abraham Lincoln. There’s a depressing undercurrent to the proceedings – it’s a Planet of the Apes movie, for Pete’s sake. But for now, at this point in the Ape time line, there is cause for hope. And for celebration – the next film in the series is in the works. n
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INDY FILM FEST REVIEWS Indy Film Fest’s big goal for its 11th annual summer festival, coming up July 17-26? “Bring more filmmakers to Indy,” says president and CEO Craig Mince. And the non-profit raised more than $8,000 through a Kickstarter this spring to make that happen. One other big change: The awards ceremony will be held on the festival’s opening weekend, to give attendees more chances to see the winners. The venues remain the same, with most screenings at the IMA’s Toby and DeBoest theaters. We looked at all the features the fest provided us in advance and reviewed our favorites. EVENT
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Greg (Matt Dellapina) is a Brooklynbased musician who mostly sings and plays songs at children’s birthday parties. He doesn’t exactly bowl over his audiences. On the same day his girlfriend turns down his marriage proposal, Greg receives an unexpected visit from his long-time friend Shawn (Sean Christopher Lewis), who is headed west to take care of some big business. The two haven’t seen each other in a while and the evening is awkward. But in the wee hours of the morning, Greg wakes up Shawn. He needs a break and informs his old buddy he’s ready to hit the road with him, right now. These Hopeless Savages is a winning celebration of friendship as well as an unassuming study of the human condition. Ramshackle travel movies can go
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wrong easily, but the chemistry between the lead actors allows the film to easily cruise over any bumps in the road trip. Underscoring the trek is a lot of appealing original music, including a catchy tune called “Little Bibles.” Only one song, a wordy number played during a traffic jam scene, got on my nerves. I wonder if it was supposed to? The low-budget production is directed by Kaitlyn Busbee and Sean Christopher Lewis from a screenplay written by Lewis and Matt Dellapina. The men wrote the script after talking about how friendships can become strange post-college. “You start drifting away,” said Lewis, “and you have these friends on websites who suddenly have kids and lives and experiences, but who you no longer know anymore.” They crafted a story where “constant bachelor Shawn is inspired by some news to set off on a road trip to meet
for rural Minnesota, where she pursues her dream, relying on the kindness of strangers as she goes. Kumiko is played by Rinko Kikuchi, who made her mark as the disaffected teen in Babel. Director David Zellner’s film isn’t exactly warm, but it is consistently interesting. Fort Tilden r Allie (Clare McNulty) and Harper (Bridey Elliot) are teen pals who spend most of their time in Brooklyn being hip and oblivious. Their secure world is shaken when they decide to ride their bikes to meet some friends at the beach. On the way they encounter, like, real life. How annoying. At times the film, the debut feature of directors Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers, plays like a more nihilistic version of Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion. At other points the annoyance factor threatens to get out of hand. McNulty and Elliot are very good regardless. I Believe in Unicorns r Leah Meyerhoff’s directorial debut follows Davina (Natalia Dyer), a teen prone to fantasy who mistakes bad boy Sterling (David Vack) for her Prince
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Charming. Caring for her handicapped mom (Toni Mayerhoff) is challenging, so Davina seeks refuge in a fairy-tale world (nicely presented with a stop motion animation look). Sterling takes Davina’s virginity, then treats her like nothing the next day. He soon does another turnabout, inviting her to go on a road trip “anywhere but here.” The film doesn’t blaze new trails, but Dyer’s charm makes up for much of the over-familiarity. Try not to trip in the plot holes.
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with every person who has shunned him.” Lewis told Iowa City’s Little Village Magazine that Shawn was based on a college friend. They imagined “what would happen if he showed up at Matt’s house one day demanding a loyalty they hadn’t experienced in years.” Filming took place over the course of a week-long trip from Brooklyn to Iowa City. Iowa City actor Maria Vorhis took the role of Shawn’s younger sister, with other cast members coming from Working Group Theatre, where Lewis is Artistic Director. These Hopeless Savages works because it has charm, substance and the ring of truth. At each stop on their trip the guys encounter distinct characters and some unusual situations. Ultimately the particulars don’t matter – the key stop of Shawn’s quest involves a circumstance reminiscent of the film Nebraska. That’s all well and good, but the situation could just as easily have been a convention of Zulu choral music fans. What matters is Shawn and Greg, our representatives, and how they interact. Matt Dellapina and Sean Christopher Lewis both offer fine performances. As Greg, Dellapina is suitably frustrated with his life and his traveling partner, but he never becomes annoyingly fussy. As Shawn, Lewis offers a man on a mission dealing with something too big to manage without tasks to occupy his mind. Spending time with these guys is a pleasure. I’d happily watch a film about them going out to grab some coney dogs and play miniature golf. It’s important that I don’t oversell These Hopeless Savages. This is a little movie without pretension. But it made me smile and it touched my heart. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. n The Heart Machine r Cody (John Gallagher Jr.) talks to his girlfriend Virginia (Kate Lyn Sheil) every night on Skype. She’s in Berlin studying, or is she? Turns out they’ve never physically met, and Cody can’t shake the nagging suspicion that Virgina is also in the city. We also see Virginia in Greenwich Village looking for hookups online, but are the scenes current? The paranoia builds, even though the stakes seem low (what’s the worst that could happen – a break up with a virtual stranger?) Still, writer-director Zackary Wigon has cooked up an interesting concept. Homemakers t Well acted story of Irene (Rachel McKeon), a punk singer in an Austin band. She receives word that she’s inherited a house in Pittsburgh from her grandfather, who she didn’t know had died. When she sees the sad shape of the house, she teams with her cousin Cam (Jack Culbertson) to fix up the place and sell it. They are not good at their tasks. Along the way, Irene begins to discover domestic feelings new to her. There are charming scenes, like when Irene and her girlfriend watch grandpa’s old home movies, but the story never digs very deep into the character. NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 07.16.14 - 07.23.14 // FILM 19
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Late in the documentary Point and Shoot, a young man in the middle of a war is instructed to take out a nearby enemy soldier. While he has participated in battles before, this is the first time he is going to be physically close to a soldier he intends to shoot. He grabs his gun … and his camera, which he hands to a comrade. After asking his buddy to film what is about to happen, he starts running towards his target. Then he hesitates, looks back at his fellow soldier and says, “Make sure it’s set on record!” Marshall Curry is the credited filmmaker of Point and Shoot and he does excellent work. Almost all of the footage, however, was shot by Matt VanDyke, the subject of the documentary. Matt shot a tremendous amount of footage of himself because, you know, that’s what you do. Later, Curry shaped it and interviewed the young man at length. Matt describes himself as the only child of an only child of an only child. We first see him sporting long, straight well-groomed hair as he shows off his weapons and defensive clothing to the camera at home in Baltimore. Matt grew up on adventure books and action movies. He later discovered Lawrence of Arabia and the bare-chested documentaries of Australian adventurer Alby Mangels. Matt, who has OCD, says he never had any friends and “all my adventures were virtual.” Deciding he needs “a crash course in manhood,” Matt leaves his mother (he lives in her basement) and girlfriend Lauren and heads out to get in touch
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A cricket enthusiast in Beyond All Boundaries. American Arab e Documentary look at American Arabs and their lives here in the post-9/11 era. To be sure, there are good times, but when things get bad ... Filmmaker Usama Alshaibi shows his wounds from when he was lured into a Fairfield, Iowa house in 2010 and beaten up because of his name and nationality. We meet a punkrocker from a band called Al-Thawra whose family received threats over the phone, a Palestinian woman that sued after someone tried to snatch her hijab off her face at a supermarket, and so on. Alshaibi does a nice job showcasing the strength of the human spirit as a counter-balance to all the pain. Beyond All Boundaries e Fascinating documentary about three people in India whose lives are wrapped around cricket. The film follows Sudhir Gautam, a slim fellow well-known across the country for painting his face and torso in the colors of the Indian flag. As India makes progress in the 2011 World Cup, he gains more popularity for his unwavering loyalty. Prithvi Shaw is a 12-year-old cricket prodigy with a father obsessed with his son’s sporting ambitions. And Akshaya Surve is an 18-year-old girl trying out for the Mumbai Under-19 team. This is the first feature-length project of producer-director Sushrut Jain, who crafts a cohesive and engaging film. Last Days in Vietnam e In the last days of the Vietnam War, American soldiers were instructed to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon before the rapidly-approaching North Vietnamese Army attacked. But what about the South Vietnamese citizens begging to be rescued? If the soldiers saved them they could be court-marshaled. At what point does decency trump orders? Filmmaker Rory Kennedy combines stunning images from April, 1975 with contemporary interviews with (mostly American) people who were there. Kennedy focuses on the insane last 24 hours and does so effectively. Bigger questions — mostly beginning with WHY? — will have to be dealt with elsewhere. Riveting fare. Jingle Bell Rocks! r Breezy look at fans of non-religious Christmas tunes. Ignore the awkward beginning, where filmmaker Mitchell Kezin pretends (unconvincingly) to discover Christmas albums at a record store, and just settle back and enjoy the interviews with director-kitsch
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connoisseur John Waters, “Christmas in Hollis” writerperformer Joseph Simmons (Run-DMC), Clarence Carter (“Back Door Santa”), Hispanic Elvis impersonator El Ves (“Santa is Sometimes Brown”), Wayne Coyne of Flaming Lips (“A Change at Christmas (Say It Isn’t So)”) and more. The documentary only scratches the surface of the subject, but it’s engaging – and even touching – enough to warrant a look. The Ballad of Shovels and Rope t Shovels and Rope is the name of a two-person family band consisting of spouses Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent. The Americana musicians start off working for tips. Later their album O’ Be Joyful was critically hailed and Shovels and Rope was named Emerging Artist of the Year by the Americana Music Association. The film documents what happened in between. There’s not a lot new happening here, but the couple is likeable and they make good music. Wondering why two people would use a band name instead of their own? My understanding is that t-shirts with band names sell better than t-shirts with the names of individuals. Fight Church t “Wrestling is the only sport mentioned in the Bible,” says one of the guys in Daniel Junge and Bryan Storkel’s documentary about fightin’ and worshippin’ and the guys that tie the two together. Go figure. Or listen to John Renken, who mourns the loss of our “warrior ethics” or Preston Hocker, the “Pastor of Disaster,” who loves the catharsis of ritualized fighting. Scott Sullivan tries to sort the whole thing out over the course of the film. There are over 700 churches in the USA with martial arts programs, according to the film, so there are clearly a fair number of people who don’t think these men are nuts. Impossible Light t Have you seen the way-cool light show on the side of San Francisco’s Bay Bridge? Have you asked yourself “How did that way-cool light show come to be?” If so, here’s the movie for you! Jeremy Ambers’ documentary introduces us to artist Leo Villareal and his vision to attach 25,000 individual white LEDs along 1.8 miles of the cables on the north side of the suspension bridge so often overlooked as people marvel at the Golden Gate Bridge. The patterns do not repeat and are decidely unique (no Las Vegas Fremont Street Experience here!). The documentary is interesting, but after a while I just wanted to look at the lights. NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 07.16.14 - 07.23.14 // FILM 21
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Maribel (Seedne Bujaidar), a Mexican woman in her early 30s, flies into Havana in the wake of her brother’s suicide. He’d always wanted her to visit Cuba. “Are you looking for a ghost in Havana, a city full of ghosts?” a cab driver asks her on her way into the city. She doesn’t directly reply, but the answer is yes — and in a lot of ways. Still in the early stages of grief, she sees — hallucinates? or are we in more poetic territory here? — her brother walking across a plaza, strolling along the beach, a guitar slung across his back. But when she isn’t giving into that kind of magical thinking where we try to will a loved one back to life, she looks for him in the city’s art museums, in literature and film, in the people she meets. She stands pensively before a canvas by his favorite painter, Wilfredo Lam; they were both fascinated by the “tribal and complex.” She reads the poetry of Dulce Maria Loynaz, buying a collection from a bookseller who says it’s just the book for a searcher, a voyager like her. Loynaz’s words gracefully intertwine with her own restless monologue, as she eases from lines from a Loynaz poem like “Viajero” (or “traveler”) — “I am like the traveler / Who reaches the port where no one awaits her” — to her own reflections on loss and identity. She looks for him in the Cuban woodworker, Eusebio (Yasmani Guerrero) who becomes her sherpa through the city after he unsuccessfully tries to steal her camera (quite the brutal “meet cute”). And she looks for him in herself, asking “how can the same soul exist in two separate bodies: sister and brother,” and 22 FILM // 07.16.14 - 07.23.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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just what happens to that soul after one of those bodies expires. And while she searches for him, Havana works itself on her. Traveling to places with a rich, vibrant history like Havana can have a destabilizing, mind-expanding effect on those with open minds and defenses down. And if Maribel doesn’t necessarily find the answers or solace she’s looking for, she does occasionally reach toward those kinds of deeper, poetic truths that can be accessed, perhaps, only through an earnest appeal to myth and symbolism. When Eusebio learns that her brother wasn’t properly buried (his ashes were dispersed at sea), he brings her a bag of crosses, proposing that she plant them throughout Cuba during their travels, burying him many times over as it were. It’s a transient, “symbolic” gesture to be sure, but by investing meaning in those trinkets that Eusebio and his uncle usually sell to tourists, she transforms an empty, commercialized object into something relevant to her life. Director Kelly Daniela Norris’s film rises to the challenge of tackling these big themes. Her approach to sound mixing is particularly adept in the way that ambient noise drops out as Maribel drops into herself. In one striking scene, a solo guitar number that she remembers her brother performing replaces the “realworld,” diegetic soundtrack of a jazz club she’s visiting. The way bold, beautiful, widescreen landscapes contrast with more hectic, handheld shots of Maribel moving through the city seems akin to looking down at your feet before looking up to admire a striking vista. It should be noted that Norris’s film is autobiographical — she also lost her brother and dedicates the film to him. n
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Trap Street w A modern-day Man Who Knew Too Much set in urban China. Li Qiuming, a GPS surveyor in training, is working his Taiwan beat with his supervisor when Guen Lifen, a busy professional woman likely way out of his league, catches his eye. He finds excuses to hang around her workplace, which just happens to be on a “trap street,” or a road that won’t register in the GPS system for one reason or another. When Qiuming puts himself in position to give her a ride home in the rain, she happens to leave behind a couple USB drives in his van. He calls her to return them but finds her boss instead of her at the agreed upon place for the handoff, and … well, you know how this goes in a Hitchcock film, and I’d rather not give away the rest of the plot of this ordinary-man-in-over-his-head thriller. Vivian Qu, a first-time writer/director, is concerned with the ways in which technology can be exploited by a state with such vast informational and surveillance resources at its fingertips. China’s police state comes under fire here, with its presumption of guilt (and not innocence) against the defendant and brutal suppression of even the appearance of dissent, though the technology certainly remains the same around the world. Qiuming has built his life around these same devices that allow the state to gather evidence against him. He installs security cameras and checks rooms for bugs as a side gig — and like many a young man, he spends his leisure hours playing a ton of video games. But Qiuming isn’t, say, a technology addict who spends all his time in virtual worlds; he proves quite sweet and vulnerable when he tries to court Lifen and they interact in the old, familiar ways, meeting in a park, dancing in a club that plays ‘60s soul. That relationship is compromised by the omnipresence of surveillance technology, which is benignly present for the morally untested Qiuming until he realizes that someone might actually want to watch him using those same tools he’s accustomed to installing. Chanthaly e We open with Chanthaly, a young girl, happening upon what looks like the aftermath of her mother’s suicide attempt. This much is sure: Mom is dead, and 15 years later, Chanthaly is a withdrawn, troubled young lady with
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Tu Seras Un Homme (You’ll Be a Man) y Who will become a man? Is it Leo, a 10-year-old who may be brilliant and/or permanently physically handicapped by a childhood accident? Or Theo, his free-spirited, 20-year-old babysitter who helps him come out of his shell? Maybe neither of them? This French film nicely builds suspense by playing off common fears: Will Leo’s mercurial dad quash Theo and Leo’s relationship in a violent way? Is Theo’s interest in Leo less than wholesomely pedagogical? Who’s that woman in the attic? The trouble is that there’s not much to the story beyond that suspense. Plot twists that could work in a straight-up thriller just needlessly complicate the action and distract from the central relationship between Leo and Theo. Which is too bad, because the movie ends just as their give-and-take starts to get interesting, particularly as Leo reverses roles and calls Theo on his bullshit.
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2014 Indiana State Fair Brewers’ Cup Craft Beer Competition, held July 11-12, is the premier beer competition in the Midwest, with over 1,300 regionwide entries judged by 120 trained beer judges. Here are some of the results; head to nuvo.net for a complete list. Upland earned Professional Best of Show with VinoSynth Red, described as “a blend of 50 percent Sour Reserve and 50 percent Malefactor Flanders-style Red Ale aged on Catawba grapes.” Upland also took trophies for Indiana Brewery of the Year and the newly established Grand Champion Brewery. And Upland won two gold medals (Belgian & French Ale and Sour Ale), two silver medals (Sour Ales and Indiana Indigenous Ingredients) and a bronze (European Amber Lager). Indiana’s newest breweries made an impressive showing, with Evansville’s Tin Man, Bedford’s Salt Creek, Indiana City and Scarlet Lane taking home at least one gold medal; Evansville’s Carson winning a silver and a bronze; and Valparaiso’s Ironwood, Carmel’s Union and Columbus’s Zwanzigz winning a bronze each. Expect to taste most of these winning brews July 19, 3-7 p.m., at the 18th Annual Indiana Microbrewer’s Festival at Opti Park and the Indianapolis Art Center in Broad Ripple. Tickets are available at Big Red Liquors and online. A portion of ticket sales benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Evan Brill of Louisville took home Homebrewer of the Year Best of Show. The Homebrew Club of the Year trophy went to Foam Blowers of Indiana. JULY 17 Twenty Tap, 5-7:30 p.m., lead-in to July 19 Microbrewers Festival features four Indiana breweries. JULY 19 Rock Bottom College Park firkin tapping, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Indy Eleven vs Tampa Bay Rowdies, Carroll Stadium, 7:30 p.m., Flat 12 tailgate event. JULY 22 Rock Bottom downtown, 5 p.m., celebrating Rock Bottom history with appetizers and 96cent pints; charity partner Simon Youth Foundation receives 10 percent of all day food sales.
EVENTS Prairie Plates: Live in Concert The latest in Conner Prairie’s new series of gourmet food events will feature food by The Local Eatery & Pub and beer from Sun King. The meal runs from 6-7:30 p.m., followed by a Symphony on the Prairie show (Classic FM: Radio Hits of the Decades) from 8 p.m. Expect a menu including shrimp ceviche, berry and goat cheese empanadas, cured, braised and grilled mole brisket, and a chili-spiked chocolate torte. Conner Prairie, July 19, 6 p.m., $75 per person, connerprairie.org
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hen it comes to restaurant openings, this has been a terrific summer in Indianapolis, with enough new places to keep diners busy for weeks. And more new spots are on the way.
From Colts to Southern food Former Indianapolis Colts linebacker Gary Brackett says his new restaurant, Georgia Reece’s Southern Table & Bar, is on track to open in August at 3454 W. 86th St. Brackett, who is also a partner in area Stacked Pickle locations, said he’s been developing the Georgia Reece’s concept for a while. “Because we don’t have anything like this in the city,” Brackett said, “so I felt like it was a great opportunity to start something new, something fresh and kind of create something. So that’s where the concept came from. It’s southern, it feels good, it reminds us of home.” Indy native and former Kiss Z Cook chef Dwight Simmons will be executive chef at the new restaurant. “When I heard we were doing a southern-themed restaurant, I got really excited about it,” Simmons said. “It’s something I’ve always to do, so it’s right up my alley.” Simmons describes it as “sort of semicasual, sort of upscale southern food.” Brackett, who said he grew up on traditional southern fare, said diners can expect a bit of a spin on old favorites. “I think chef Dwight really put his twist on a lot of items,” Brackett said. “Some items won’t be your traditional southern items, but there will really be something on the menu for everyone to come in and enjoy.” Including, he said, vegetarian dishes and gluten-free items. “We have a lot of options, which is great,” Brackett said. “I’m excited to see how it’s received.” And he did mention on dish in particular. “These are a lot of my favorites,” Brackett said of the Georgia Reece’s menu, “but the alligator gumbo will definitely be one of the talks of the town when that comes out.”
R Bistro to go Local chef Regina Mehallick of R bistro is also working on a new concept.
Erin Kern is taking over as executive chef at R Bistro while Regina Mehallick prepares to open a new market R2GO, in a building undergoing renovation at 1101 N. College Ave. And Gary Brackett’s new restaurant Georgia Reece’s is due to open in August.
Mehallick, who opened the highly regarded R bistro 13 years ago at 888 Massachusetts Ave., has stepped out of the kitchen and will be opening a carryout market at 1101 N. College Ave., a building that was built in 1927 and is currently undergoing renovation. The chef hopes to open the market in September. “That’s why I have to step away from R bistro,” she said. The new market, to be called R2GO, will stock deli meats and cheeses, homemade chicken stock, tomato sauce, meatballs and meals to go, said Mehallick. She’ll also have a small freezer section as well as fresh produce. A counter area will offer a small number of seats, she said, for those ordering sandwiches or salads. Food will be prepared in the market’s commercial kitchen. Unlike Goose the Market, the butcher shop and specialty market at 2503 N. Delaware St. that also offers a small sandwich menu, Mehallick won’t be carrying raw meats or wine and beer. R2GO will be open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and 11 a.m to 5 p.m. Saturday. While Mehallick said
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she is looking forward to not working evenings, “I’m a little skeptical about leaving the kitchen,” she said. “That’ll be a hard thing.” Mehallick, who will remain as owner of the award-winning R bistro, which recently eliminated lunch service, expects to still be in and out of her restaurant office. “And I’ll be here in the evenings to talk to customers,” she said. Erin Kem is taking over as executive chef as Mehallick turns her attention to getting the market open. The R bistro menu will continue to change weekly, said Kem, and the restaurant will maintain its focus on using local seasonal ingredients. “I can’t envision any real big changes,” Kem said. “Maybe more of my family favorites and ethnic favorites. More of my love of Middle Eastern foods. That’s possible.” For Kem, who has had input into menu planning and has handled the restaurant in Mehallick’s absence, taking over as executive chef is exciting but not daunting. “I’ve been here for 10 years, so I’ve invested a lot of myself in the place as it is,” Kem said. “It’s like a natural progression.”
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Best Damn Sandwich In Town: The Batali “I believe that all anyone really wants in this life is to sit in peace and eat a sandwich.” - Liz Lemon The premise is simple, or at least it seems so: some bread, some kind of topping on the bread, some kind of condiment to enhance the marriage of the two. Similarly, the premise of discovering the perfect sandwich seems simple: a good ratio of meat to toppings, not overdressed and not too big to shove in my stupid face. Beyond that, though, and you get into paraphrased Potter Stewart territory — I can’t define a “perfect sandwich” but I know it when I eat it. Finally, I’ve eaten it. Well, technically, I’ve eaten it many times. But this is my first week helming NUVO’s food section, so I’m kicking it off with a bold declaration rife with culinary controversy: The best damn sandwich in town, according to me, is Goose the Market’s Batali. The Batali is the aging, thick-necked boxer who levels the quick-shuffling featherweight in two hits. The Batali is sexy-as-hell sexagenarian Dame Helen Mirren in a bikini. The Batali walks in the party wearing a Cosby sweater and tassle loafers and still steals your girl. Why? Because it’s a mash-up of the most goddamned delicious things those clever Italians ever slapped on bread, with coppa, sopressata and capocollo, provolone, hot giardiniera and pickled onion, tomato preserves, and some fresh arugula. It’s an oily (but not greasy—more on that in a second), old school Italian sub served on a perfectly-baked baguette. It’s rich and it crunches between your molars and you have to tear the chewy bread up and rip through the thick swaddle of perfectly-aged meats. You
could hold it in one hand but you don’t want to. (Would you give Kate Upton a side-hug? Fuck no you wouldn’t, male or female, gay or straight.) The oil from the peppers will begin to drip out of the bread and between your fingers, and you’ll throw your head back and laugh imagining the look on Dr. Mahmet “Payola” Oz’s stupid face as he watches and shovels plain oatmeal into his mouth. The Batali is proof that, in the paraphrased words of Ben Franklin, God exists and he wants us to be happy: seven small dollars’ worth of perfectly-cured meats, cheese, citrusy brightness and acid bite to cut through the fat. It doesn’t slide apart as you tear it to pieces and commit it to your body. Though the oiliness of the sandwich can be a little messy, it’s a different taste and mouthfeel than that sluggish, what’s-on-my-tongue, “greasy” taste and texture you get from some fried monstrosity. No, this kind of oil is of the olive variety, and even if you smash the whole thing in one sitting, you won’t want to crawl under your desk for an afternoon nap. This is the “working man’s sandwich” for the working man or woman who’s booked solid on the half-hour until 7 and has the shock-absorbing insoles to prove it. So that’s my bold sandwich statement: that there’s no better sandwich in Indianapolis than the Batali in all of its chewy, salty, oil-slicked glory. If I wore a hat, I would remove it every time I passed Goose the Market, where there be wizards. So what do you think? Is there a better sandwich in Indy than Goose the Market’s Batali? Get in on the conversation at nuvo.net.
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Ed Sawyer has left The Alexander and returned to the Neal Brown Hospitality Group as a chef at the Mass Ave. Pizzology, Dean Sample is now executive chef at Meridian Restaurant and Bar, and Braedon Kellner has left Oakleys to work for Peter George and Tom Main at their new Tinker Street restaurant, which should open late this summer at 16th and New Jersey streets. George and Main have also closed on the purchase of a building across the street from Tinker Street; it will also be a restaurant, but the two aren’t yet talking about details or staffing. n
And in other restaurant news, Alan Sternberg left the Cunningham Group’s Mesh on Mass Ave. in May for the executive chef position at Cerulean. Jessica Selkirk left Bluebeard earlier this month to join Cerulean as sous chef; Jake Boyd is the new general manager. Back at Mesh, Jessica Sciortino is now executive chef, and Layton Roberts has moved to Union 50, another Cunningham restaurant at 620 N. East St. And Jeremiah Clark left Plum’s Upper Room this past spring to work as sous chef at Cunningham’s Stone Creek Dining Company in Noblesville; he’s now executive chef.
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For Nowhere to Run, Brandon Tinkler enlisted producer extraordinaire Tyler Watkins (Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s), recruiting a cast of diverse musicians to help him out with the album’s colorful array of instrumentation. The last album to be made at the much-loved Queensize recording studio, this collection of ten tracks truly does stretch an expanse of sound palettes, from relentless, crunchy blues to numerous acoustic hues. But underneath all of these layers is Tinkler’s organic and simple songwriting, which holds steady throughout the entirety of this impressive first album. Tinkler welcomes the listener with a gentle strumming of his guitar on “HipHooray.” Waves of reverb gently swirl as train track clacks surface, escalating into a beautiful climax on the album’s opening track. “Just My Luck” follows this standout, with Tinkler and his harmonica taking the listener on a melancholy saunter into the Midwestern sun. Throughout Nowhere to Run, Tinkler reveals his songwriting proficiency time and time again, masterfully taking the reigns on tracks like “Night Birds,” “Fade Away,” and the album’s title track. Even in his most minimal instances of songwriting, Tinkler often finds a way to accentuate each song with intriguing layers, whether it’s with buried ambient ripples or his trusty harmonica. Also scattered throughout the album are strategic snapshots of Tinkler’s plethora of rock knowledge. On “Low” for instance, shades of the classic ‘90s Britpop sound bleed through, with guitar solos eventually surfacing amidst a sea of driving distortion. It’s again evident on “We Don’t Need No Money,” where we hear Tinkler’s wonderfully gritty side, as soulful vocals meet spirited Southern twang. And when listening to “Summer’s Over” and “Daydreamers & Misbelievers,” it’s pretty damn hard not to imagine yourself sitting comfortably around a campfire on a sandy shore somewhere, with hints of Beach Boys. Through and through, Tinkler’s knowledge of song craft is evident on Nowhere to Run, whether it’s in the album’s instrumental minutia or simply just in his irresistible songwriting style. — SETH JOHNSON Brandon Tinkler with Christian Taylor, John Kill and The Slacks, The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave. Ste. 4, Friday, July 18, 8 p.m., $7, 21+
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urder by Death sounds a little exhausted. When I reach cellist Sarah Balliet by phone in late June, she’s in the midst of a long drive back from Martintown, Ontario, where she and Adam Turla (he Johnny Cash-like baritone) had just wrapped up the final show obligation from their recordbreaking Kickstarter album fundraiser. “We’ve been driving for 15 hours. It’s been exhausting, but it feels good to be finally done,” Balliet says. For those (somehow) uninitiated in the new age of crowd-sourced album funding, note the steps: band wants to make album; band creates Kickstarter (or PledgeMusic, or IndieGoGo, etc.) to raise money from fans with different rewards corresponding with different donation amounts; band finishes fundraising; makes album; releases album; begins arduous process of filling all prize requirements; band takes long nap. In Murder by Death’s case, the album was 2012’s Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon, the total amount raised was $187,047, and they traveled to seven different towns to play popup shows. Whew. But that’s not all that’s tiring. The
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It’s something that happens a lot more regularly in cities all over the United States all the time. But a small town like Bloomington can really be rocked by something like that.” There’s no denying that Murder by Death is drawn to the dark and dreary in song, and sometimes they pick a locale to match. They’re repeating a run of shows this January at Colorado’s Stanley Hotel. Sound familiar? It’s the creepy place that inspired Stephen King’s The Shining. “It was just such a raging success last year … that we thought, ‘We just have to do this again,’” Balliet says. “It was too great.” But before that, they have more music to make. The’s band in the studio with the band diving into new tracks already for a followup to Bitter Drink. They’re recording in a series of sessions with Kevin Ratterman at his studio, La La Land. “We’re recording a new album this summer,” she says. “We are writing and recording in bits and pieces in Louisville. We’re plunging into it, just hoping to get the whole album done in three or four sessions. It’s a hectic summer for us.” They haven’t been to Radio Radio since 2011. They know it’s easy for a band to overplay their home region, so they try to keep that in check. “We try to keep it somewhat special,” she says. n
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n the last few editions of this column I’ve written about an incident of alleged racism at Bella Vita in Geist and the episode of violence in Broad Ripple that left seven injured from gunshot wounds. While these two occurrences have nothing in common, there was a noticeable similarity in some of the public dialogue these events sparked: the use of the word “ghetto” to reference certain characteristics of these situations. In the case of Bella Vita, I read heard speculations that the rejected black patron was denied entry because he was dressed too “ghetto” to be admitted into the club. I also heard a large contingency of voices describing the perpetrators of violence in Broad Ripple as being representative of “hood” or “ghetto” behavior. First, a little history: the word “ghetto” dates back to Italy during the 1600s. For the majority of the word’s lifespan, it’s been used to label Jewish neighborhoods forcibly segregated by racist civil policies. In more recent history, the
This district was literally born from a slum. word ghetto has become a catchall term to identify poor urban areas where large populations of minority groups reside due to social and economic inequalities. But now, I mostly hear the word used as an adjective used by persons of privilege to describe things they deem as being of inferior quality. I’ve heard the term applied to everything from consumer products to systems of human values. “I just bought these sandals, and the strap already broke. They’re so ghetto,” or “That guy just cut in front of the line. That’s so ghetto,” are a couple typical examples of current usage. Personally I find this use of the word extremely distasteful and completely incorrect. This usage assumes (absurdly) there is a de rigueur low standard of quality and ethics the residents of impoverished neighborhoods have collectively agreed to follow. It also blindly ignores the rich history of innovation ghettos have fostered in cities across the United States. From jazz to blues to hip-hop to rock to salsa to electronic dance music, so many of our beloved American cultural institutions have deep roots in ghetto societies. Here in Indy local neighborhoods identified as ghettos have birthed some
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of our city’s most significant cultural contributions. The Indiana Avenue of the mid-1900s provides a striking example. This district was literally born from a slum. In 1935 when the WPA initiative Lockfield Gardens began construction, only one of the neighborhood’s 363 existing dwellings was deemed as inhabitable by project surveyors. Despite disadvantages, the ghettos of Indiana Avenue produced what is likely the most profound and influential cultural movement in Indiana history. The area cultivated great athletes like basketball star Oscar Robertson. The neighborhood inspired world renowned writers, like Mari Evans, and Etheridge Knight. It was a base of operations for America’s first selfmade female millionaire Madam Walker. And, of course, the neighborhood produced a generation of jazz musicians whose work made history. I’m certainly not attempting to glamorize ghetto life or ignore the struggles residents face. Ghettos, like any other kind of neighborhood, exist as microcosms of larger social structures – there’s both good and bad to be found in equal measure. While the harsh conditions of ghetto poverty often produce more amplified examples of negative behavior, that shouldn’t define the average ghetto resident anymore than notorious Wall Street criminals should define corporate America. I feel the current misuse of the word ghetto reflects a larger cultural trend of demonizing the poor, making them scapegoats for a grab-bag of social ills. Perhaps it’s easier for us to ignore the suffering of the poor if we convince ourselves they’re bad people, not worthy of our respect or even our empathy. n
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TRIBAL RHYTHMS, SAGE WISDOM Madeira’s Patrick O’Connor interviews surf legend Dick Dale
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y interview with surf legend Dick Dale took the form of a two-hour, stream-of-conscious phone discussion encompassing his battle with cancer, time in the Air Force, martial arts, and of course, surfing. He gave marriage advice and mused on the existence of the paranormal. At 77, he prefers to be home at his ranch in Twentynine Palms, Calif. with his wife and their exotic animals than on tour. He’s a living legend, one who developed the unique guitar sound that defined a genre of music that’s stood the test of time. (Editor's note: O'Connor's band, The Madeira, will open for Dale at a sold-out show at the Melody Inn on Monday. There's a much, much longer version of this conversation between O'Connor and Dale online.) PATRICK: How did your signature sound originate? DICK DALE: Gene Krupa was my hero. I learned rhythms [he had gotten] from the indigenous tribes. That’s how I learned to play drums. And then I took that same rhythm and applied it to my guitar. Number two, where my sound came from: I had over 40 different species of animals, and they would call to me. I would make [those sounds] on my guitar. It would sound like the scream of a Pterodactyl or a Tyrannosaurus. Number three would be the ocean. When I moved to California, I became a surfer, and I would be in the water from sun-up to sundown. PATRICK: Almost synonymous with surf music is the name Leo Fender and the Fender Showman amplifier, which many of us still use today. Could you tell me more about your work with Fender?
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DICK: I had heard about Leo Fender. I met him and he took a liking to me, like a son. Leo and I used to sit in this front living room on the floor listening to Marty Robbins on a little 8” speaker, it was just monaural. And that’s when we started designing the first output transformers that went from 10-15 watts to 180 watts. The JBL Lansing 15” D-130 speakers, I blew over 50 of his amplifiers, and he’d say
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“Dick, why do you have to play so loud?” And then we finally brought him down to the Rendezvous Ballroom. And by word of mouth, we had 4,000 a night. PATRICK: And then he understood what you needed. DICK: He had Freddy Tavares from Hawaii, and he was his number one tester. He took all the bugs out of the Telecaster guitar. And when I met him, he said “Here, I just made this. It’s a Stratocaster. Take it and tell me what you think of it.” I held it upside down backwards and started playing it, and he never laughed. He looked like Einstein and was very serious. PATRICK: We’re both left-handed, but I play guitar in the traditional right-handed way. From what I understand, when you were learning to play, you didn’t restring the guitar for a left-handed player, in effect, learning to play upside down. DICK: What happened was, as a child back in Massachusetts, I was reading a Superman magazine, and in the back there was an ad to sell so many jars of Noxzema skin cream, and we’ll send you this ukulele. I went out every night in the damn snowstorms; the snow would be so high you couldn’t go outside the front door. They’d say “Dickie is supposed to be in school.” And I says “Please buy my Noxzema skin cream.” And so I sold it, and I sent it in, and I had to wait about four months… PATRICK: And you finally got your ukulele. DICK: And I finally got a ukulele. It just had holes with pegs in it and sawdust. And I just smashed it, I was so upset. So I took my little red wagon and a whole bunch of Pepsi bottles and went in and traded it, and I got $6. And for $5.95, I bought my first plastic brown and cream ukulele. It had screws holding the pegs in. They used to just fall out. And then
I got this book and couldn’t figure out why my fingers wouldn’t go where the book said for them to go. And the first song that I ever learned was “Tennessee Waltz.” It was because my left hand had all the rhythm, playing the knives on my mother’s flower cans to Gene Krupa. And all the rhythm was in my left hand. So I just went and started taping my fingers where they were supposed to go, and I’d go to sleep at night thinking the fairy godmother would come along and make my fingers go there like they’re supposed to. And I learned those three chords. PATRICK: You and your wife, Lana, make a great team. I was married a few weeks ago and thought I’d ask your advice. DICK: They always feel insecure, so treat them like a baby cub animal. PATRICK: Everybody’s insecure about something, that’s how the human mind works. DICK: My friend, you just give your sweetheart a big hug. You speak very learned, even though you have a young voice. PATRICK: I try to keep myself young so I can go onstage and perform. Do you have any advice for performing musicians? DICK: If [a band is] into drugs and booze, walk away. I found Jimi Hendrix when he was playing bass for Little Richard in a bar in Pasadena to 30 people. He was a warm, nice person in the beginning. The people he associated with got to him because he felt he should be doing these things to be successful. And that’s why I don’t like musicians or entertainers, because they don’t represent what they should to the world. PATRICK: After more than half a century performing live, how do you keep that inner fire? DICK: They’ve had to carry me onstage and put me in a chair because the pain was so severe, but I would [still] perform, and get standing ovations. I learned from the monks that you don’t think about yesterday, you don’t worry about tomorrow. I could hang up the phone and keel over dead. So I make the most of this conversation, and this is the longest I’ve ever talked to anybody [for an interview]. n
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HIP-HOP Mike Stud, IamG, Kid Quill, Last month Kid Quill officially released his current album, Ear to Ear, and within a day it landed a spot on the iTunes hip-hop Top 40 albums list. In it, Quill muses on the struggles of growing up, finding a place in the world and falling in love. “Feelings” takes fans through the various emotions of a 20-somethingyear-old chasing success. And by the end of the album, “All Right” addresses all of the people that ever doubted Kid Quill and his undeniable rising success. Ear to Ear is a musical story, and it’s laced with witty lyrics and infectious, feel-good vibes. We had a brief chat with the DePauw student (real name Mitch Brown, middle name Quilleon):
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NUVO: I saw that you had the opportunity to open for SoMo back in April and then Riff Raff in May. What was that like? KID QUILL: Riff Raff was quite the adventurer. It was hard going from SoMo, where there was a crowd of a bunch of girls, and then to Riff Raff. When I opened for him, no offense to St. Louis, there were some freaks there. I took a video of a guy that was literally in the
corner by himself just dancing crazy. It was a complete change of pace, but they were both fun. SoMo was very good live, and with Riff Raff I think I just learned about the life of a super star. I just got to watch how he handled himself. NUVO: Ear to Ear made it to the top 40 on iTunes hip-hop the day it was released. When did you realize that and what was that moment like? KID QUILL: I was at work and my dad sent a group text between my family and I and it showed the album at 101, right above Biggie, who’s also one of my favorite artists. And we were just kind of joking like, “Hey, we actually made it on the charts!” Then throughout the day my dad would say, “Hey, it’s really moving up” or “It’s at 80 now.” And I just thought, “Wow, this is crazy, I didn’t think it would chart.” After that I started keeping up with it and then all of a sudden I kept looking and it was getting close to the top 50. Then I went to the pool with the day camp, so I didn’t have my phone around, and when I snuck to the bathroom and looked and it was at 36, and I was just like, “Wow.” It peaked at 34. —Teryn Armstrong Irving Theater, 5505 E. Washington St., 7 p.m., $13 in advance, $15 at door, all-ages
OPEN STAGE Blues Jam Every Wednesday Indiana natives The Blues Ambassadors perform at Main Event for Blues Jam Night until 1 a.m. This blues and soul band includes four funky dudes that put on an entertaining show week after week. On some nights the quartet also does live recording. Stop by and enjoy some beer, burgers and bumpin’ beats. Main Event, 7038 Shore Terrace, 9 p.m., FREE, all-ages Retro Rewind, Vogue, 21+ Symphony in the Park: Brass and Percussion Ensemble, Holliday Park, all-ages Timbre, Leilah Smith, Derek Johnson, Maltese Tiger, all-ages Murray Weirich Quintet, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Jeff Day, Ale Emporium, 21+ Jen-A-Rita, Jazz Kitchen B-Side Stage, 21+ Andra Faye and Scott Ballantine, JK Patio, 21+ Musicartwords Night with Robert Meade, Melody Inn, 21+ Jillian Jenson, Biergarten at the Rathskeller, 21+
Dub Thompson, Ought, The Bishop (Bloomington), 18+ Jay Elliott and Friends, Tin Roof, 21+ Blues Jam with Gordon Bonham, Slippery Noodle, 21+ The Family Jam, Mousetrap, 21+
THURSDAY ROCK Cooked Books, The Singles Bloomington’s Cooked Books performs with The Singles from Los Angeles, CA. Craiglist has more use than getting rid of that old, Kool-Aid stained couch that’s been sitting in your basement for several years. Cooked Books debut album, The Reader was born though an ad titled “garage/ psych/loud,” which ironically is a pretty good description of the album. The Singles are also on tour in support of their latest album, Look How Fast A Heart Can Break. Spoiler: it’s pretty fast. Mixing rock, blues and punk together the album is a fresh take on each genre; energetic yet chill, a nice vibrant pinch of the nerves. The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave. Ste 4, 10 p.m., $8, 21+
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Black Expo Music Heritage Festival There’s multitudes of events at the Black Expo every year, but we’re going to focus on the music in this blurb. This year, the Heritage Music Festival spans two days. The first features Keith Sweat and After7 with the SOS Band. Tickets for both events vary in price and are available online. Indiana War Memorial, 431 N. Meridian St., times vary, prices vary, all-ages
Latin Dance Party, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Am Ezra Group, Biergarten at the Rathskeller, 21+ Stockwell Road Outlaw Country Happy Hour, Melody Inn, 21+ Magnatix, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ Quincy Brass, Greenwood Park Mall, all-ages Music in the Park Summer Series featuring Patrick Keller Band, Washington Township Park Ampitheater, all-ages
ALL-AGES Hoosier Dome Benefit Show This one features Nightbeast, Dr. Manhattan, Andy D, The Red Streak, A Distress Call, Aversor, The Huskies, Bipolar Bears, Daisy Madeline, Nothing Is Sound and maybe more. And all money goes towards a better floor and new stage. Good cause, good bands, good night. Hoosier Dome, 1627 Prospect St., 5 p.m., $10, all-ages
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Elsinore FESTIVAL Pitchfork Music Festival Once the reigning king of hip music blogs everywhere, and now the reigning king of hip music blogs that people love to hate, Pitchfork started throwing itself a festival in its headquarters around eight years ago. Since, the lineup has skewed from alt-rock and sincere folk to trendier noise acts (as has coverage on their site). But we’re heartily behind this year’s headliners, which include Beck, Neutral Milk Hotel and Kendrick Lamar, and the always lovely St. Vincent.
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Open Stage Blues Jam Every Friday The Hilltop Tavern hosts an open stage night for musicians to share their tunes with a crowd and locals to enjoy the dinner specials while bobbing to beats. The host band goes on at 9 p.m., then the stage is opened up to other acts around 9:45 p.m. Musicians should bring their own instruments and check in when they arrive.
Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., 9 p.m., $13, 21+ ALBUM RELEASE Brandon Tinkler Album Release Party Read our review on page 26. The HI-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave. Ste 4, 8 p.m., $7, 21+ Coup DeTat, Simple Ghost, James Kramer, Three D’s Pub and Cafe, 21+ Killing Karma,, Britton Tavern, 21+ Metal Showcase, Emerson, all-ages Spirit Family Reunion, The Whipstitch Sallies, Radio Radio, 21+
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Nappy Roots Ah, the early 2000s were such a chill time. Southern alt-rappers Nappy Roots were giving people what they wanted to hear — smooth beats and real lyrics. Their album Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz was the best selling hip-hop album in 2002. The four-man group has since released four more albums and several other mixtapes and featured tracks.
Circulatory System, Everything, Now!, Be Here Now (Muncie), all-ages DJ Rican, Subterra, 21+ Dead Birds Adore Us, Noctilucent Cai, Bizarre Noir, Superchief, Melody Inn, 21+ Night Moves with Action Jackson and DJ Megatone, Metro, 21+ WTFridays with DJ Gabby Love and DJ Helicon , Social, 21+
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FEST Rock the Arts Park Festival Organizers of this New Castle Fest have been rolling out lineup announcements one by one on the event’s Facebook page. So far, they’ve let us know that Afterlife Party, Shenita Golder, Maria Diebolt, The Cornfield Mafia, Don’t Call It A Comeback and The Stampede String Band will take the stage in July for the fest. This fest is in its third year. New Castle Arts Park, 1202 E. 38th St., Saturday – Sunday, prices vary, all-ages ROCK Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival Known as the world’s biggest heavy music touring festival, this event includes about 16 rock bands including Avenged Sevenfold and Korn. Klipsch Music Center, 12880 E. 146th St., 1 p.m., prices vary, all-ages BURLESQUE
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Stripalot Punk music, Monty Python and a Burlesque show. What’s not to enjoy about that? A special Punk Rock Night at the Melody Inn features Monty Python inspired skits like “French Tauter”, “Hell’s Grannies” and “Sit On My Face” presented by a special group of local performers. The Brixtons, The Jereactors and The Relatives, who are reuniting for this show only, will also be performing. Melody Inn 3826 N. Illinois St., 9 p.m., $8, 21+ EXPO Black Expo Music Heritage Festival Night two features Anthony Hamilton and Babyface (Indianapolis born and bred! You drive on his highway!) alongside Chrisette Michele. Tickets for both events vary in price and are available online. Bankers Life Fieldhouse, 125 S. Pennsylvania St., times vary, prices vary, all-ages
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Kid Quill ROCK Murder by Death Read our interview of Sarah Balliet on page 26. And online, we’ve got an brand spankin’ new feature called My Hometown. Here’s a portion of the first installment, with Saturday’s openers Elsinore. Here’s their singer, Ryan Groff. Read the rest online at NUVO.net NUVO: Where did you grow up? GROFF: I’m from Charleston, a small college town here in Illinois. Eastern Illinois University is there and is where Elsinore started while three of us were in music school.” NUVO: What was the music scene like there? GROFF: Like the town it was small, but there were a lot of great people trying to do big things. There were a few solid open mics every week in locations around town, and plenty of house and club shows if you put the work in.” NUVO: What’s the first local band that you were in? GROFF:While I was still in high school, I had a band with two friends and our physics teacher, which was definitely the beginning of the life I’m living now; 33 and a full-time musician and teacher. When I started music school, I joined a band of locals called The Last Resorts. We were pretty goofy, but made good music and played a lot of fun shows. It was definitely a seed planting experience for me. I got hooked pretty quickly.” Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St., 9 p.m., $16, 21+ OPEN MIC Not Your Average Open Mic Night Have you noticed our beefed up open mic night listings in this week’s paper? We’re adding all sorts of them
Blue Moon Revue, Caleb McCoach Band, Nate Hammond, White Rabbit Cabaret, 21+ Against Me!, Rhino’s Youth Center (Bloomington), all-ages Fire Retarded, Pnature Walk, The Cowboys, house show (address unlisted), all-ages No Coast, Indy CD and Vinyl, all-ages The Railers, Scarletta, Biergarten at the Rathskeller, 21+ DJ Drama, Blu Lounge, 21+ Surf Party with Thee Aquaholics, The Katatonics, Player’s Pub, all-ages 50 Years of the Dead: Forgotten Space, Grateful Dead, Mousetrap, 21+ Nailed It, Blu, 21+ Royal with DJ Limelight, The Hideaway, 21+ Summer Family Concerts, Fountain Square Branch, all-ages Pizza and Wine Night with the Toy Factory, Mallow Run Winery, all-ages Goldie and Exquisitely Yours, Jazz Kitchen, 21+
SUNDAY POP Gavin DeGraw, Matt Nathanson, Andrew McMahon Time to pack up some beers and take your sweetheart to a show where there’s room to slow dance. Actually, DeGraw puts on a surprisingly soulful live show—an interesting live treat that shows of his skills as a smooth vocalist and pianist, and puts a new spin on his usual pop-packaging. Similarly, Matt Nathanson’s audience straddles the Mayer Divide between soccer moms and college women, so bring some Pinot Grigio and get that adult contempo party started. We’re not going to judge. Farm Bureau Insurance Lawn at White River State Park, 801 W. Washington St., 6:30 p.m., prices vary, all-ages
SOUNDCHECK JAZZ Hot Club of Detroit, With two acoustic guitars, a saxophone, a bass, an accordion and no drums, Hot Club of Detroit isn’t your average jazz quintet. Modeled after French guitarist Django Reinhardt’s Hot Club of France, Hot Club of Detroit continues where Django left off by stretching the limits and boundaries of gypsy jazz into the worlds of pop, rock, groove, and modern jazz. Julien Labro, Hot Club’s accordionist, took time to talk with us about their upcoming projects and performances before their Sunday date at the Kitchen. NUVO: How would you define gypsy jazz? JULIEN LABRO: Django Reinhardt was the founder of the Hot Club of France and was one of the best jazz guitar players that has ever lived. Because Django was of Romani background, and because he played a style of jazz that was different, I think that people thought they should call it gypsy jazz. The main difference between American jazz and gypsy jazz is the strong presence of the acoustic guitar. It is the centerpiece of the music, and it has to take care of the time as well as the harmony with its constant strumming rhythms. The guitarist in a gypsy jazz band is really the train engine, and he is crucial to the pulse and to the ensemble. To me, Django was a musician that was influenced by Louis Armstrong and others, and he played jazz. NUVO: Evan was struck by the French Django Reinhardt’s unique
style; you were greatly inspired by Argentinian bandoneon virtuoso, Ástor Piazzolla — how have these and other vastly different inspirations been incorporated into your group’s style? LABRO: One of the great things about this band and the way it functions is that we’ve never asked any of the guys who have been in the band to change their personality or their musicianship to fit the music. It’s almost like we have carte blanche to be who we are musically and use the Django style of jazz as a format to express ourselves. The more we grew together as musicians and as individuals, the more we realized that we wanted to use this Django style of jazz as a platform. Sometimes it seems that people expect a traditional, homage-to-Django-Reinhardt kind of band just because we have the words “hot club” in our title. We were that kind of band for maybe our first couple years, but after over 10 years it is definitely no longer the case. — Chris Murray Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave., 6 p.m., 9 p.m., $15 21+ Dynamite, Mass Ave Pub, 21+ Reggae Revolution, Casba, 21+ Old Monk, Melody Inn, 21+ Sunday on the Patio with Tennessee Walker, Mallow Run Winery, all-ages Cathy Morris Sunday Music Series, Liberty Street, 21+ Cool Ranch, Poor Islero, Glitter Brains, Fire Retarded, Crush Grove, all-ages Acoustic Bluegrass Open Jam, Mousetrap, 21+
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MONDAY INSTORE Sweet Poison Victim, All People, Aspiga, Domingos If you haven’t seen the irrepressible afro-jam collective Sweet Poison Victim yet, what are you waiting for? They’re about to lose their guitarist, Ted Somerville, to Brazil. We’ll miss you, Ted. Vibes, 1051 E. 54th St., 8 p.m., FREE, all-ages Marlin McKay, SI Senor Latin Jazz Experience meets Ars Nova Orchestra, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Pandora’s Box Tour featuring Zug Izland, DJ Clay and Razorz Edge, Emerson Theater, all-ages Many Cultures, Many Instruments, Irvington Public Library, all-ages Industry Mondays, Red Room, 21+
TUESDAY SURF Dick Dale, The Madeira Read our interview with Dick on page 28. Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St., 6:30 p.m., SOLD OUT, 21+ The Jackson Street Orchestra featuring Brenda Williams, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ NUVO.NET/SOUNDCHECK
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Ye Old Tickle Dick Last weekend, I asked my BF to put on a vibrating cock ring because a friend of mine told me it was amazing. I got on top and really enjoyed how it felt and how hard it made him, but after a while he started giggling because he confessed it actually tickled a lot. We had to take it off bc he couldn’t keep it together and that was pretty awkward even if it was pretty hilarious to watch. Do you have any recommendations for cock rings that would give me some stimulation without making my BF feel like “there are ants all over his dick?” — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: Damn. I’m genuinely sad for you right now, as the vibrating cock ring is quite literally the perfect marriage of man and machine. But the experience of Ye Old Tickle Dick is not an unusual experience, after questioning a few of my friends. I bet the issue here is the level of vibration, which can completely alter the sensation of the ring itself. In other words, dear reader, you might have to just have to buy a whole bunch of them and see which one gives you the right vibe. Also, let’s break down the components of the vibrating cock ring: vibration and, uhh, constriction, ie, rock-hardness. There are plenty of ways to achieve this final result with a two-piece setup; just get a regular ring and a bullet vibrator and DIY that vibration. Blammo, solved it. DR. D: There is no sex toy that works for everyone so if your boyfriend is interested in more c-ring play (these are called cock rings, condom rings, c-rings, erection rings; and penis rings) then you two may want to shop around. There are less expensive versions, such as the Trojan vibrating condom ring, in drug stores. You could try those and, if they don’t feel good to him, you can continue to use the vibrator on your own (or he could use it on you) and it’s affordable so it’s not a waste of money. More expensive versions are available through women’s in-home sex toy parties and adult stores/websites - as you’re beginners, opt for latex or jelly versions that can be easily stretched to remove them (avoid metal versions as they cannot always be easily removed and are better for expert-level users). You might also play around with 34 VOICES // 07.16.14 - 07.23.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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The Male Nipple Spectrum Yes or no: do guys get pleasure from having their nipples played with? — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: Ah yes, one of life’s great mysteries: Why do men have nipples? Like every person on earth is a unique, individual snowflake (JK, college students! You’re indistinguishable lemmings!), you’ll just have to figure it out with any dude you get with. I know guys who are on the spectrum from “Meh” to “GOD PLEASE DO THAT YES” to “If you do that again, I’ll kick you out.” You just never know with those rascally male nipples, so just ask! Don’t just reach out and start tuning in Tokyo, as it were, until you get permission to touch that dial. DR. D: Yes: some do. No: not all do. (Same as with women.) If you’re curious about whether you should stimulate a male partner’s nipples, try it and/or ask him if he enjoys it or would like to try it. Some men even find it easier to orgasm when their nipples are stimulated. I’ve heard from some men who use nipple stimulation as basically a launching pad/tipping point to orgasm. For others, it’s an annoying distraction … or else totally neutral. Explore, communicate, and find out!
College Life 101 My niece is headed to college in the fall and I feel like I should give her some advice on how to deal with sex in college (I’m only 8 years older than she is) as a girl. What should I tell her to help her make good choices without really scaring her about campus rape? — Anonymous, from email SARAH: Anymore, I don’t even know how to begin answering this question. College is an awesome time of figuring out who you are and what you want sexually
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thing as a failed experiment,” said author and inventor Buckminster Fuller, “only experiments with unexpected outcomes.” That’s the spirit I advise you to bring to your own explorations in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. Your task is to try out different possibilities to see where they might lead. Don’t be attached to one conclusion or another. Be free of the drive to be proven right. Instead, seek the truth in whatever strange shape it reveals itself. Be eager to learn what you didn’t even realize you needed to know. Sagittarius
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Architects in ancient
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Country Music Hall of Fame now, but it took a while for him to launch his career. One of his big breaks came at age 29 when he was sweeping floors at a recording studio in Nashville. He managed to meet superstar Johnny Cash, who was working there on an album. A few years later, Kristofferson boldly landed a helicopter in Cash’s yard to deliver his demo tape. That prompted Cash to get him a breakthrough gig performing at the Newport Folk Festival. I wouldn’t be surprised if you were able to further your goals with a similar sequence, Libra: luck that puts you in the right place at the right time, followed by some brazen yet charming acts of self-promotion.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Bananas grow in Iceland, a country that borders the Arctic Ocean. About 700 of the plants thrive in a large greenhouse heated by geothermal energy. They don’t mature as fast as the bananas in Ecuador or Costa Rica. The low amounts of sunlight mean they require two years to ripen instead of a few months. To me, this entire scenario is a symbol for the work you have ahead of you. You’ve got to encourage and oversee growth in a place that doesn’t seem hospitable in the usual ways, although it is actually just fine. And you must be patient, knowing that the process might take a while longer than it would in other circumstances. Taurus
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Kris Kristofferson is in the
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Rome used concrete to create many durable structures, some of which are still standing. But the recipe for how to make concrete was forgotten for more than a thousand years after the Roman Empire collapsed in the fifth century. A British engineer finally rediscovered the formula in 1756, and today concrete is a prime component in many highways, dams, bridges, and buildings. I foresee a similar story unfolding in your life, Capricorn. A valuable secret that you once knew but then lost is on the verge of resurfacing. Be alert for it. Capricorn
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Beginning in 1798, European cartographers who drew maps of West Africa included the Mountains of Kong, a range of peaks that extended more than a thousand miles east and west. It was 90 years before the French explorer Louis Gustave Binger realized that there were no such mountains. All the maps had been wrong, based on faulty information. Binger is known to history as the man who undiscovered the Mountains of Kong. I’m appointing him to be your role model in the coming weeks, Aquarius. May he inspire you to expose long-running delusions, strip away entrenched falsehoods, and restore the simple, shining truths. Aquarius
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the simplest, calmest
of times, there are two sides to every story. On some occasions, however, the bare minimum is three or more sides. Like now. And that can generate quite a ruckus. Even people who are normally pretty harmonious may slip into conflict. Fortunately for all concerned, you are currently at the peak of your power to be a unifying force at the hub of the bubbling hubbub. You can be a weaver who takes threads from each of the tales and spins them into a narrative with which everyone can abide. I love it when that happens! For now, your emotional intelligence is the key to collaborative creativity and group solidarity. Pisces
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