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Jerome Neal is 74 years old — and for the first time in his life, this visual artist will be hanging his work in a major solo show. When the show opens at Gallery 924, viewers will be treated to work that “takes Downtown Indianapolis, chops it up and puts it together in a new and exciting way,” according to Shannon Linker of the Arts Council of Indianapolis.
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Our food section this week is all about tequila, new restaurants and brewing dudes. We’ve got your first look at Repeal’s food, plus Ask A Brewer and a nice rundown of where you should spend your National Tequila Day, plus a cocktail recipe from Sangrita’s Charles Schumacher if you’d rather celebrate at home.
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I kept my music writers busy this week. Here’s what they came back with: Jonathan Sanders spreads Christmas-inJuly cheer with a massive Release Fest II profile; Emma Faesi Hudelson reviews JAC’s Ride; and Jeff Napier takes a trip back to the ‘70s with his convo with Leif Garrett, who will return to Indy with bells on to raise money for a local woman with cancer.
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olitical campaigns are tough in many ways. One general problem with them is that candidates desperately need to do or say things that will generate interest in or attention to their campaigns. But if they win, they immediately have to transition from being an entertainer to being a statesman. Two words that should strike fear into voters on this front: Donald Trump. Does anyone really think he could make that transition? Case in point: In a guest column written by U.S. Senate candidate Eric Holcomb that ran in the Times of Northwest Indiana, the candidate wrote: “Our commander-in-chief is more interested, it seems, in polishing his Nobel Peace Prize than providing American leadership around the globe.” Now that’s entertainment, Indiana! But this inappropriate statement is more than that. It announces a couple of things to me that I don’t think Mr. Holcomb intended. First, it sets a tone of divisiveness that I didn’t know D.C. lacked. And secondly, it is insulting to the Nobel Prize — it’s as if America shouldn’t want its leaders to aspire to the award. Seriously, why would we want our president to be lumped in with people like Nelsen Mandela, Mother Teresa and Teddy Roosevelt? Since Holcomb is a Republican, let’s focus on President Roosevelt. He won the award in 1906 specifically for his role in negotiating a peace treaty between Russia and Japan. History teaches us many things about Roosevelt’s foreign policy, though. Obviously, he served before the United States became the superpower that it is today. Even then, though, he made famous the phrase
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“speak softly and carry a big stick.” This famous line that he first wrote in a letter in reference to New York gubernatorial politics became descriptive of his foreign policy as president years later. These days, the “stick” is far bigger than it was back then, but America seems to have lost the skill to pull off the “speak softly” thing. I think most Americans will agree that we need to continue to assemble and support the most powerful military force in the world. Agreeing with this doesn’t make any candidate special. Finding ways to be safe and free without deploying it is what does. To many voters, our nation’s foreign policy seems to be reduced to determining where the threats to freedom exist, and arguing over when we engage our military to end the insurrection. In its award to President Obama in 2009, the Norwegian Nobel Committee was making a statement of approval regarding his departure from that thinking as a policy.
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The fact is that we can become safer as a nation by doing a better job of being hated less. While it is true that nations around the globe look to us and our military for intervention when things get tough for them, it is dangerous for us to believe that no international problem can be solved without an American physical touch. Foreign policy is a broader term than most voters realize. It is a body of work that includes immigration policy, eco-
It’s insulting to the Nobel Prize — as if America shouldn’t want its leaders to aspire to the award. Candidates for office nearly six years later now debate the shortterm success and actual outcomes of Obama’s diplomacy approach as detailed in the award statement. No policy arena inspires after-the-fact debate like foreign policy.
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nomic and humanitarian efforts, disaster response and diplomacy, to name an obvious few. While polishing his Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama has maintained the most powerful military in the world. He shouldn’t get any bonus points for that. His successor would be wise to carry on in that regard. What voters should be drawn to next year is the candidate that will keep our military in its top position while improving our standing in the international community in every other way. In other words, let’s continue to work at being hated less. During his Nobel lecture in December of 1910, President Roosevelt said, “I ask other nations to do only what I should be glad to see my own nation do.” Things clearly have changed for us since these words were spoken. I don’t think America often views itself in such a humble way these days. We should try. It has often been said that presidents are remembered for their leadership on foreign policy more than anything else. The Nobel Prize Committee would say true leaders lead us to peace. I agree. The world’s most prestigious award for peace should be polished — and regularly. Thanks to Eric for inspiring me to read about an old award this week. Like Obama’s more recent one, it also deserves a little polish. n
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y cousin is in from Los Angeles this week. He usually cooks a meal for everyone at least once while he’s here, and last night was the night. I really do love my cousin, and – when he was a bit younger – he and I got on quite well. Maybe it’s that I was the one who was younger. He’s gay, and given my conservative family dynamic, I was probably fascinated with his homosexuality, considering it very exotic in the midst of a family made up of religious Anglo Republicans. I found it refreshing. As he ages, though, he resembles the deeper regions of my gene pool in a few surprising and – to me – disturbing ways. On July 15 — the day before my family gathered for my cousin’s mealtime offerings — Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, 24, shot and killed four marines in Chattanooga. I had come to dinner straight from work and hadn’t seen a TV or turned on a radio since the previous evening. My cousin kissed me hello, and then immediately asked, “So should we take the rest of his family out and shoot them?”
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As he did, and as he also ranted and raved about terrorism and the Middle East and how we should bomb Iran and Syria and all the rest into nothing more than big craters in the Earth, I saw that one’s outlook on issues, both foreign and domestic, don’t necessarily have anything to do with one’s orientation or environment. “That’s what they’d do if one of us went over there and killed some of their people,” my cousin raged. “They’d want to line all of you up against a wall and do away with you,” he preached passionately. I’m of the opinion that while there may be FAR too many acts of terror occurring on a disturbingly regular basis, the fact that we can turn on the TV at any time of the day or night and hear about someone or something being bombed in any given part of the world is overwhelming. It magnifies the horrors exponentially. It easily gives the impression that this is all that’s happening in the world. It’s enough to make even the most open-minded individual turn to the dark side, embracing cynicism with the rest of Nearly every religion has gone the conservatives who believe the philosophy through a period of violence in the of “It’s us or them” is our public name of divinity and for the only working option. And my once-liberal private purpose of control. cousin has done that. But the notion of “Us” isn’t always safe either. Consider the recent victims of the I was laughing when I asked him, Charleston church shooting. The FBI “Okay. What now?” I assumed he was declared that atrocity an act of domestic referring to an unfortunate dating inciterrorism — just as they did with the dent that had passed too quickly for the shooting in Chatanooga. gory details to have reached Indiana. Islam might appear to have the “The guy who shot the marines in market cornered on crazy at the moChattanooga,” he replied in a tone that ment, but nearly every religion has gone told me 1.) I’m slow, bordering on “spethrough a period of violence in the pubcial” and 2.) he was expecting me to imlic name of divinity and for the private mediately catch up to his mood, match purpose of control. it and agree with him wholeheartedly. Personally, I’m super inclined to I admitted I had no idea what he was assume that the pastor of the fundatalking about given my pretty much memental Baptist church down the street dia-free state of the previous 16 hours. is more insane than the guy running the He was only too happy to catch me up. halal market next to the Laundromat. n
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WHAT HAPPENED? A call to end gerrymandering Members of the Indiana Coalition for Independent Redistricting held a rally last week to call for the end of gerrymandering in the state. On the birthday of the grandfather of gerrymandering, Elbridge Gerry, the coalition spoke out against it. With the Supreme Court recently allowing redistricting committees to take control of drawing district lines in Arizona, it has paved a pathway for the change in Indiana before the next redistricting in 2021. In Indiana, a commission would need approval from the General Assembly because the state doesn’t have a ballot initiative process as Arizona does. In addition, the Indiana Constitution requires that the legislature approve district lines for the state House and Senate every 10 years. In 2014, Indiana had the lowest voter turnout in the country because many districts’ seats had no competition. Sen. Tim Lanane, D-Anderson, said he hopes to see a commission put in place before the next redistricting, which will take place after the 2020 census. State approves new A-F school grading criteria The State of Indiana has given the final approval to the new A-F accountability rule for schools. The new rule will base the grade rating for schools on performance and growth weighed equally. Performance and growth will be weighted 50/50 in grades 3-8 and 20/20 in high schools. High schools have 60 percent of their grades based on graduation rate, performance on graduation qualifying exams and students passing AP tests. The Indiana State Board of Education approved the rule language in May by a vote of 8-1. Currently, performance is mostly based on ISTEP+ testing and bonus points for student growth. The board’s new rule is set to put more emphasis on improvement of students, rather than achievements. The new rule will be used in the upcoming school year for calculating school accountability grades and those grades will be released after the 2015-16 school year. Altice to be Appeals Court judge Gov. Mike Pence appointed Marion County Superior Court Judge Robert Altice to the second district spot in the Indiana Court of Appeals. “I really look forward to serving the public at this time in a very different role,” said Altice. “I hope that my past, both as a trial judge, deputy prosecutor and civil litigator has prepared me for what I’m about to learn and about to do in the next many years. I’m very much looking forward to that.” Judge Ezra Friedlander of the second judicial district will be vacating his position after serving more than 22 years on the bench. Altice was chosen for the position from three final candidates. The other two vying for the job were Judge Christopher Goff and Indianapolis attorney Patricia McMath. Eight candidates applied for the job. A seven-member commission selected three candidates and Pence made the final appointment. — THE STATEHOUSE FILE 8 NEWS // 07.22.15 - 07.29.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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and work very hard, and work harder and be smarter than everybody else. But women have been doing that in all kinds of fields for a very long time.
It’s not every day you get to talk to a living legend. NUVO: Was broadcast journalism In her words, the emphasis is on the always your goal when you went to word “living.” college? Cokie Roberts, broadcast journalist and accomplished author, comes to ROBERTS: No, no, no. Like I said it was Indianapolis Thursday, July 23, to help the Dark Ages. I had no goal. I had no local NPR affiliate WFYI kick off its expectations of a career whatsoever. “Listen Up” speaker series. The soldNUVO: I know your [undergraduate] out conversation will be held at the degree was in political science and your Indiana Repertory Theatre at 6 p.m. family is very politically connected. It Roberts’ decorated career is rich, seems like everyone in your family has beginning with her work as a stringer held office in some form or another. reporter for CBS in Athens, Greece. Her career escalated through her work ROBERTS: Well, my brother didn’t. He on the The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour ran for office but he didn’t get elected. and continued with her political coverage for ABC’s World News Tonight NUVO: Was holding office ever a goal and her six-year co-anchor spot on for you? “This Week” with Sam Donaldson & ROBERTS: It would have been, except Cokie Roberts. that I met my husband when we were Now, Roberts serves as a senior 18 and 19 and then married when we news analyst for NPR and political were 22 and 23 and he was always commentator for ABC News. going to be a journalist. So it would The Library of Congress named have been pretty hard on him if I had SUBMITTED PHOTO her a “Living Legend”. The American gone into politics. But, I’ve always felt Cokie Roberts is currently a senior news analyst for NPR and Women in Radio and Television orgaa little bit guilty about it because I have nization call her one of the “50 greatest political commentator for ABC News. tremendous admiration and respect for women in broadcasting”. in the Dark Ages. (Laughs.) It was so the people who are willing to put themRoberts will be the first public media long ago. I was working … I’d had lots selves on the line in politics and go out personality for the new “Listen Up” speakof different jobs in broadcasting after I to the world and say, “Here I am, ready er series presented by WFYI. All proceeds came out of college. Some of them were to serve. Elect me!” will go to support WFYI programming. journalistic and some of them were Prior to her upcoming visit to Indy, I NUVO: I imagine your husband, with production and then I moved to Athens, had the opportunity to talk to Roberts his goal of being a journalist, had some Greece with my husband and children about her career, women in history, and in 1974 and started stringing for CBS. So, influence on you. And you had separate the future of our country. successful careers. Was there ever a time that was when I started an where you were in competition with uninterrupted journalistic each other? career. ROBERTS: Not really, because basically for You just do your job and work NUVO: How did you maintain your integrity and make a very long time we wrote for different very hard, and work harder and be sure you were taken serious- media, so that helped. And in the days ly as a journalist at that time before a 24/7 news cycle, I would always smarter than everybody else.” be on the air before he would be in the when women were seen paper. He couldn’t really expect to scoop — COKIE ROBERTS as more “eye candy” than me because I had an earlier deadline. having brain cells to push together and a story to tell?
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we were quite young writing magazine pieces together. Then when we went to Greece we did some travel pieces together and more magazine pieces together. So we’ve worked together in writing for a very long time. NUVO: Is it easy to do? ROBERTS: It’s not hard. We have a tremendous amount of respect for each other and for each other’s work. And as he always says, he’s learned that you “edit each other quite carefully.” But we really don’t find it a problem and we’ve written two books together and it’s really a joy. NUVO: Speaking of your books, the ones that you have written on your own have been about women in history and their untold impact on American history. Why was it important to tell their stories? ROBERTS: Because they haven’t been told and they’re very important stories. They show the tremendous contribution of women to American life. The founding and the maintenance of the early republic and the reconciliation at the end of the Civil War — these are all terribly important stories. People really don’t know them and therefore some have appropriate respect for and admiration for the women who did these things. And I think it’s VERY important for everybody to know it, but particularly for our young people to know it.
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became a very active defender and supporter and advocate for them. And so, that’s been true from the beginning. NUVO: Do you think when the U.S. gets its first female president — whether it’s the 2016 election or beyond in the future — will the “first lady” story change? ROBERTS: Of course it will change in some way because every time you have a woman in a new position of power you have changes in the lives of women. And so having a woman as the actual powerholder as opposed to the power behind the throne is bound to change things.
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NUVO: So it’s a matter of we don’t know how the conversation is going to change. ROBERTS: That’s right. We don’t know how it’s going to change. We don’t know what the “first man’s” job will be. We don’t know a lot of things, But having a woman as president at some point — please God, in my life — I think is a terribly important thing for the country.
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obnoxious would that be? But, certainly it’s true that I and many of my colleagues — particularly my NPR colleagues — were very much at the forefront because that was where we were as a society. Young women forget that it was legal to say “we don’t hire women to do that” until the 1964 Civil Rights Act and ending discrimination on the basis of sex in that bill was a surprise and a fluke. Not a fluke to the people who did it, but to the people who passed it. And that was 1964. That was the year I got out of college. So it’s relatively recent that we have the legal rights to do the kinds of jobs we do. NUVO: Looking at the history of civil rights, which as you said is relatively young, and where we are today and the last few weeks as far as marriage equality and the civil rights that have yet to be achieved — how do we keep the conversation moving? ROBERTS: I don’t think there’s any question that it stays moving — on the question of gay rights at least. It’s the fastest moving social change on a social issue ever in human history. And I don’t see any way that that goes backward. That doesn’t mean the fight’s over or the struggle’s over — not at all. As many gay rights advocates have pointed out, in some ways marriage — as odd as it seems — was the easiest thing to crack because it was also happy. But ending discrimination and employment and housing and all those [things] are a tougher nut [to crack]. NUVO: Having followed politics your entire life, where do you see it heading — are we on a path for disaster in terms of the great party divide? ROBERTS: It’s certainly an unpleasant time. It is polarized and somewhat poisonous. But it’s not an unusual time in terms of our history. We’ve gone through periods like this before. Now, I don’t recommend them because the last time we had a horribly unproductive period was before the Civil War — and then we went to war, so, not a good idea. But fortunately we don’t have a major overwashing moral issue like slavery. There is no moral issue like slavery ever. The taking of humans as property is a unique question. But it is a time that is very unpleasant and it makes it difficult to get anything done because there’s no trust and no appreciation for the fact that somebody you disagree with might actually be a person of substance and patriotism and sincerity — it’s [become] this person you disagree with is somehow evil. That’s not a way to run anything. n
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Painting the town in a whole new way AT AGE 74, JEROME NEAL IS HAVING HIS FIRST LARGE SCALE SOLO SHOW
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Clayton Hamilton — Jerome Neal’s friend and endless promoter of his work — warned me that Neal, a 74-yearold Indianapolis visual artist, was shy about letting people into his Wheeler Arts Community apartment. This is why he arranged for us to sit and talk just outside of Neal’s home. We bellied up to a table littered with his miniature paintings for sale. Letting your home double as an art studio isn’t always a good way to keep things tidy. But after several hours of conversation, Neal warmed up enough to allow me a look inside. His sequestered studio space is no point of shame. The first thing I noticed was an entire wall speckled with layers of canvasses, and paint tubes everywhere. There are paintings of clowns, astronauts, Indy cars, trains, horn-blowing musicians, African elephants and giraffes, and of course abstract work; all done in his colorful, expressionistic style. Neal’s solo exhibition of paintings at Gallery 924 will focus on a subject just a bit closer to home; the life of downtown Indianapolis. It’s urban living viewed from the kaleidoscope of Neal’s vivid imagination. The 2014 painting that Gallery 924 chose as its postcard image for the exhibition, entitled “Circle City 360°,” is certainly vivid enough. “The Yellow Bikes,” depicting a group of bike riders on yellow Indiana Pacers Bikeshare bicycles making their way past Monument Circle, has mesmerizing abstract touches, bold colors and bits of advertising logos — like “Hard Rock” and “Snickers” collaged in. It’s the kind of landscape you might encounter in a dream. But it’s also an indication of the vibrant inner-city life that Indy residents currently enjoy thanks to organizations like the Indianapolis Cultural Trail, Inc., which runs the Bikeshare program. 10 COVER STORY // 07.22.15 - 07.29.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
“He takes Downtown Indianapolis, chops it up, and puts it back together in a new and exciting way,” says Shannon Linker, vice president of the Arts Council of Indianapolis, which runs Gallery 924. She has followed Neal’s work for years, encountering it in group shows at venues like the ArtsGarden and Gallery 924. (Neal also has work in a permanent collection at the Indiana State Museum.) “The Yellow Bikes,” recalls the work of some of the Harlem Renaissance painters like Jacob Lawrence. But while Neal is AfricanAmerican and many of his paintings speak to African-American experience, perhaps the most important thing to say about Neal is that he defies labels. Hamilton’s discussions with Linker led to the forthcoming show at Gallery 924. He is also the father of Lobyn Hamilton, the artist NUVO profiled in 2011, and the designer of a mural for the Arts Council’s 46 for XLVI program. Hamilton definitely has something to say about labelling: “Jerome, basically, is an artist whose imagery is primarily of the urban experience,” says Hamilton. “Having said that, for decades Jerome’s artistic eye and abilities have allowed him to go outside of his experiential environment to capture the totality of his existence: rural Americana, farm animals, waterways, planes, trains, space and the abstraction of it all.
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a lot of different stuff going on in the park. They had picnics, people playing golf, horseback riding, parades and stuff like that. I actually saw a fox hunt, you know the guys with the red coats? I don’t know if they were making a movie or what. I was around four or five years old... The guy blows the horn and they come out there with the dogs.” Neal started translating his observations on to the page when he was very young. He received an art set for Christmas around the age of seven or eight, he says. “Sometimes, I wouldn’t say I was on lockdown, but I couldn’t go out. So I had to do something to occupy myself… You had to draw or make something out of wood or “He takes Downtown Indianapolis, something like that.” Neal was also gifted a toy chops it up, and puts it back together train, a gift that he didn’t appreciate so much for in a new and exciting way.” two reasons: The first was — SHANNON LINKER, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE that all his friends were playing with top-of-theARTS COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS line toy electric trains. And the second: “My grandmother wouldn’t let me plug it in the wall because she was scared that I would burn the rug,” he says. “If you ran the train too long, it had Neal spent most of his life in Chicago, a tendency in certain parts to get hot.” where he was born in 1941 and grew up, (Today, Neal’s studio includes his son’s for the most part, with his grandmother HO model electric train – and no, it’s not a on Forrestville Avenue. fire hazard.) “I stayed right across the street from In those years, his grandmother kept Washington Park,” he says. “And I used tight reins on Neal because their neighto look out the window — we had a side borhood had a rougher side. Those reins, window to the house — of the apartfor their family, meant a lot of church. ment building. And I stayed on the third floor. And I used to look out the S E E , N E AL, O N P A GE 1 2 window to look in the park. There was “It is difficult to categorize someone who illustrates outside of their stereotypical norm, especially when Black. If an African-American artists’ imagery is not black, is it Black art or art done by a Black person? Is the appreciation of the work diminished due to viewer expectation of what they believe “Black” art should be...I believe it can be…” Neal’s paintings range in place, style and subject: Drawing from every part of his own story and experience as an artist. Let’s sit at the table with Neal and dig into what has shaped him and his work, starting at square one.
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THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE Back in April, I bought an acrylic and oil painting by Jerome Neal entitled “Thomas and Friends in Country” featuring Thomas the Tank Engine (the star of a long-running British animated TV show for young children based on the Railway Series of books by Reverend W. Awdry). I loved the painting, but I wound up buying it partly because there’s a 3-year-old boy (my ex-wife’s son) who lives in my house who loves Thomas the Tank Engine. In the painting you see Thomas en route to his destination and you see another train (Gordon) on a separate track in the background also speeding toward a destination outside the frame. But between the two trains you see, conveyed with an uncanny sense of realism, a red covered bridge. It’s as if Thomas and his friends were transported through time and space from the Island of Sodor to Brown County, Ind. “It teaches kids about manners, it teaches about communications, about how things work,” says Neal. The painting’s disregard for plein-air-type conventions and its rough textures, more than its edifying subject matter, are what appeal to me most about “Thomas and Friends.” I like the way the blues and reds of Thomas’s shiny blue coat stand out against greenish brown
fields growing with yellow flowers. There are gobs of paint here and there particularly in the parts of the painting depicting the earthy backdrop of Thomas’s excursion, and I find these tactile qualities of Neal’s painting enormously appealing. (Speaking of tactile qualities, Neal also likes to experiment with various materials as support media — such as wax paper and plywood — since canvases have become so expensive, he says.) He makes the paintings so that they can be handled — and stand the test of time. “If a painting will be under lights for so long, it will change color,” Neal says. “So what I do, on some paintings, I put polyurethane on them. Kids like to put their fingerprints on them. So I put polyurethane on them all you have to do is wipe it off. It’s a practical thing.”
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When Neal formed a singing group with his friends, you can bet that his grandmother had something to say about it. “We started out singing in church,” Neal says. “It was a regular thing. … We were trying to get a recording thing. And what happened was the grandmothers and some of the others didn’t want us to be out too late, didn’t want us involved in that life. That’s what stopped us… . They didn’t let us stay out late.” Not coincidentally, musicians are one of the subjects for his art that he repeatedly returns to. It was at DuSable High School in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Southside Chicago that Neal began learning about art in a serious way. And perhaps Neal’s most significant experience in terms of his future artistic career, wasn’t a fine arts class.
THE FIRST DRAFTS “You see, I had drafting,” he says. “You’re doing stuff in dimensions. So that part I had covered, you know. When I started do-
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ing art it was easy. Shade and the shadow effect, that’s what made it so easy. It didn’t complicate things. But people want you to do portraits. And I wasn’t into portraiture. No, because there were too many people doing portraits. Then the portraits, they wanted you to do it in charcoal. And you know what happens when you’re doing charcoal, you get full of it. That’s what it was. And I’d be full of it. If we couldn’t get no charcoal, we’d use coal dust.” Neal liked to socialize — just like his high school classmates — and he didn’t want to mess up his clothes so he preferred to avoid the coal dust. The first painting Jerome Neal ever sold, completed during his senior year in DuSable High School, depicted a volcano. “What happened was I entered an art fair,” Neal says. “I just had three tubes of paint, red yellow or blue or something like that. I had some paper and one canvas. And I had some frames. So I painted some volcanoes with a hole in the side with a shadow. The volcano with a hole in it and the sun shining through it, a shadow effect. And I did four of those.” Immediately after high school, he took a job in suburban Chicago that required his drafting skills, but he didn’t like the
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“Fountain Square” by Jerome Neal.
long commute so he eventually left. After that he worked at Montgomery Ward in shipping and receiving. He also tried his hand at a U.S Steel mill before being drafted in 1963 He spent four years as an Air Force mechanic, and went back to the steel mill for several years before being laid off in the mid ’60s. And then he found himself working for the Gallanger Corporation. “We made 49 parts for the arch in St. Louis, synthetic seams,” he says. “We made the first billy clubs. Then made circuit boards for Western Electric. We made a whole lot of intricate stuff.”
“I saw trains from all over the United States come by,” Neal says. “When something happened, then all the passenger trains would come by on that line. I got a chance to see all the conductors. They would wave.” During all this time of successive and overlapping jobs — the variety of which matches the wide topicality of his painting — Neal was making art. But it was a series of deaths in his family that focused his attention more intensively on his art than before as a way to cope with the loss. His daughter Shakira died in 1975. Neal suspects homicide. Her passing was followed by that of his uncle, his aunt, his grandmother and mother all within ten years of the death of his daughter. “A whole generation went “Even his cityscapes pop and away,” Neal says. dance vibrantly, somehow. ” Around this time, he got his art supplies at a Chicago art store — DAVID HITTLE called Art Direction in Hyde Park Shopping Center. Working there was a photographer and painter named Eric Anderson. “He was a painter Industrial work (especially at a time of exotic nudes,” Neal says. He credits when it was less regulated) came with Anderson with being an inspiration and a health risks. Eventually Neal left this job, resource during this difficult time in his life, he says, because of the toxic fumes that as well as stoking his interest in photograwere a byproduct of production. phy. They both began selling their art in the He worked then for the U.S. Postal long-running 57th Street Art Fair as well as Service for 16 years and handled various other art fairs in suburban Chicago. jobs on the side including a pit observer But it wasn’t until he left Chicago for at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in good that his art career really began to the early 1980s where he used a computer get some traction. for the first time. But like the Gallanger Corporation, this particular work environment had its downside. “In there it was like 30 degrees,” he says. “I was like, ‘I gotta get away from this. I’m going to get pneumoNeal moved to Indianapolis in 1994, nia or something.’ ”During the 1980s, Neal following his children who settled here. also drove a taxi. This was the way that he After working as a day laborer for an emearned enough money to buy a house for ployment contractor, Neal landed a job his family. And his Chicago home so hapdoing maintenance at the Indianapolis pened to overlook a railway on which the Motor Speedway (yes, another frequent Union Pacific railway line ran frequently subject depicted in his work). And workand he liked to watch the trains. ing at the track gave him an opportunity Nearly every job he had has played a role in some part of his artwork. It’s no surprise that trains are frequently a subS E E , N E AL, O N P A GE 1 4 ject in his paintings.
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“Time in a Bottle” by Jerome Neal.
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to focus on his art since he only worked there seasonally six months out of every year. The rest of his time he could devote exclusively to his art. (Currently Neal is working as a full-time painter.) Around the turn of the century, Neal met David Hittle, the organizer of the April Show, a one-night-only exhibition dedicated to showing work by artists facing challenges, whose art may not otherwise be shown. The show takes place every year annually in Hittle’s house after he and a score of volunteers hang paintings on every conceivable wall space in his house. “David Hittle was in the Second Helpings food organization and me and some other artists we volunteered our time for that,” Neal says. “And then we volunteered to have our pieces shown so that’s how it became a special thing.” “I met Jerome Neal through Greg Brown, proprietor of Utrillo’s Art Shop on East 10th Street, at about the same time I met Harry Blomme,” says Hittle. “Jerome, and Berry Connell, another artist who had been drawn to Greg and Utrillo’s. [They] had stories similar to Harry’s, and as a trio were the first artists and inspiration for the April Show.” If you happened to be at the last April show, you would have seen an entire wall dedicated to Neal’s work. He is without doubt the most popular artist at this venue among the extremely devoted group of patrons. Neal believes the April Show helps keep him on his toes. “Each year I have to come up with something new. If not, I’ll get into a stalemate, doing regular airplanes and horses,” explains Neal. “Like this year I came up
with micro merchandise. Just like one year I did jazz musicians. It went well.” In 2000, Neal took a trip to Europe and met up with his son who is in the military, and they explored Europe together. Which is why, during my visit to Neal’s apartment, I saw paintings of Venice and the Eiffel Tower alongside one of Fountain Square. But the paintings of the Eiffel Tower, he noticed, didn’t sell very well. “One year I did clowns,” Neal says. “They got going pretty good. And what happened I found out that someone was copying the clowns. That disturbed me a little bit. I said okay. So you do a trend and it winds up in another state somewhere.” Sometimes he’ll put words and phrases in his work — collaged bits of advertisement such as in the painting “Yellow Bikes”— so people stop to take the time to read it. And other times he’ll choose subject matter that appeals to children, like Thomas the Tank Engine, the star of the British animated TV series aimed at preschoolers. And including text in his work, he says, is a great “conversation starter” for children. All of which is to say that Neal wants to create work that people will buy and enjoy whether it’s abstract or representational, whether it depicts a street scene or a barnyard. He’s not shy about adjusting his palette to fit the local art market.
CHANGES IN INDY, CHANGES IN THE WORLD Neal has kept in step with the changes in Indianapolis. He sees positive developments in the city in the refurbishment of the Downtown Canal and the Central Library expansion. He prefers the polarity of urban and
Shannon Linker shared some behind-the-scenes details of the heart and soul behind the Circle City show. NUVO: How did this exhibit come about? SHANNON LINKER: What happened was I was talking with Cliff Hamilton ... at one of our openings in the gallery and he just mentioned something about Jerome. He has been trying to work with a lot of African American artists to help promote them, to get them shows and to help promote their work out there a little bit more. Not that that is his background, it’s not, but his son is an artist so he understands a little bit more of the world of that ... I told him if you can talk to him and pull that off, make it happen I would love it.
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LINKER: There’s probably several layers of why.
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Jerome Neal in his Wheeler Arts studio. His cityscape work will be featured at Gallery 924 throughout August. His various jobs are often a part of his subject matter.
rural landscapes to the suburban repetition of stucco homes and strip malls: both as places and subject matter for his art. In that sense, it might be possible to read some nostalgia into Neal’s work. After all, it is the suburban landscape that has become the dominant one in post WW-II American life. And there’s changes in the culture that he feels have affected people’s perception of his paintings. “I’ve noticed people aren’t interested in art in the same way they used to,” Neal says. “They used to come in stare at a piece of art. They don’t do that no more. They’ll look, they’ll keep going, they’re on their cell phones. Then they’ll come look and take a picture of your stuff. Do they pay attention to it? Do they evaluate it?” Despite this concern, Neal isn’t ready to
throw away his paint brushes like some of his artistic friends have over the years. Anything he can do to grab the attention of a younger audience in the iEra of Planet Starbucks he will do, whether that’s making paintings of Japanese girls with big manga eyes, including text in his work to make viewers — young and old — stop to read it, or finding new subjects to paint that strike a chord. This restlessness — in both his production and his choice and treatment of subjects — seems to be a hallmark of his art. Or, in the words of David Hittle: “Jerome’s work moves. He has described himself as an ‘action painter,’ and I think that’s apt. There’s usually someone or something playing or flying, ascending or approaching, struggling or rejoicing. Even his cityscapes pop and dance vibrantly, somehow. He returns to the same half
dozen themes repeatedly, but, for a guy who’s been around for a long time, he’s also surprisingly relentlessly eager to venture into uncharted artistic territory.” The last thing Neal points out to me before I leave is the table just outside his apartment studio in the indoor atrium of the Wheeler Arts Community Center where we started. One of them just so happens to depict a volcano, with a shadow and a hole in it. I mention to Neal that this was the same thing he did in high school. “That’s right,” he says. “You hit the nail right on the head. Because I couldn’t figure out. The other artists used to be calling me, saying I can’t sell nothing. … I just told them I go back to the original work that I started. So that’s what I do.” n
One is as the Arts Council, having this space, we have the ability, the freedom, the luxury if you will, to show people that aren’t necessarily well known or at that point in their career where they have a following. A lot of spaces in town have to sell work or they shut down. We don’t have that. We can do lots of things. We have had shows in the gallery where they’re total installations and we aren’t going to make a dime, the artists won’t make a dime either, but it needs to happen – it needs to be shown. He does have a following. That’s the thing, it’s just maybe not the following in our crowd, right, our regular Gallery 924 crowd is probably not too familiar with him. So that’s important to me, that our crowd knows that this artist exists and is very successful and does really interesting work and you don’t know about him. I think it is partly our job to share that, to show them. And we have that ability. ... Yes, we want artists to sell work and help them make a living. But we also need to educate the public on who is out there, what is going on, things that maybe make them uncomfortable, things that are new or unusual or things that are just good and high quality – I think that’s where Jerome comes in. He is just well done and that is enough for me.
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TOTS: Love, Loss and What I Wore e Through Aug. 1. Love, Loss, and What I Wore is chick lit on stage, but in a good way. Written by Nora and Delia Ephron (yup, that’s Sleepless in Seattle Nora Ephron) and based on the book by Ilene Beckerman, the play is like taking a peek a five women’s diaries, using the lenses of prom dresses, the perfect pair of boots, training bras, and purses. Instead of a traditional play with characters, sets, and a plot Love, Loss, and What I Wore is a collage of monologues (a monollage?) by five women, playing a shifting cast of characters. They sit at the edge of the stage behind music stands, glancing down at scripts as needed. After reading the description of the play, I was skeptical. I don’t read chick lit and I don’t watch chick flicks. I come from the era of fourth-wave feminism and wear a gender-bending haircut. I was expecting my millennial feminist nature to be offended. I expected wrong. From the unwittingly cruel remarks of mothers (“You look like a prostitute.”) to the disturbing realities of dressing-room mirrors (“It’s distorted or something!”), I was on the edge of my seat. That’s saying something, because the TOTS space is small, and the edge of my seat put me within three feet of Bridget Schlebecker yelling “You?! A tiara?! Where are you going to wear a tiara?!” literally in my face. We’re in the age of the personal essay revival, and Love, Loss, and What I Wore was like a treasure trove of the best of them. It was funny, with lines like “When you start wearing Eileen Fisher you might as well say, ‘I give up.’” It was poignant. It was even thought-provoking, which is not what I was expecting from a play written by the mind behind You’ve Got Mail. I left Theatre on the Square pondering questions like, What do our clothes say about us? Is a dress really just a dress? How does what we wear connect us to those we love, or have loved? And do I really need to buy another black sweater? — EMMA FAESI HUDELSON Theatre on the Square, $12-20, tots.org
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he legendary basketball Coach Dean Smith won national praise for leaving in his will a gift of $200 to each of his eighteen former players at The University of North Carolina. That’s a fine gesture, but even finer — and little known — was the $2,000 that publisher Seymour (“Sam”) Lawrence (1926-1993) left in his will to each of his long-time writers — a list including Kurt Vonnegut, Tim O’Brien, Jayne Ann Phillips, Barry Hannah, Richard Bausch, Frank Conroy, Susan Minot, and Richard Yates (to name but a few.) Lawrence’s “list” is surely as distinguished in literature as Dean Smith’s gifted basketball players, which included Michael Jordan, Larry Brown, Billy Cunningham, George Karl and Mitch Kupchak. Coach Smith’s letter that accompanied the bequest bore the notation “Dinner Out.” (The $200 might only cover the salad course in Michael Jordan’s dinner out, but it’s the thought that counts.) The $2,000 bequest Sam Lawrence left to his writers did not carry any suggestions as to how the money might be spent. Some of Sam’s writers may well have used it to pay the bills or the rent, which would hardly have surprised him (some distinguished authors as well as some former basketball stars may be staving off the Repo guy.) I happened to be a few blocks ahead of the Repo people at the time I got Sam’s surprise bequest, and I knew how
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those countries, while enjoying the finest of the local cuisine, wines, and spirits. The book party to celebrate a new publication is largely a thing of the past. But in the glory days of mid-list authors publishers were judged by their parties as well as their promotion power. Sam Lawrence ranked near the top of both. Sam’s specialty was taking on writers who other publishers had dismissed to the dust-bin of literary history and turning them into best-selling stars. Perhaps his greatest coup was Vonnegut, who wrote that Sam Lawrence I think of it as the last party of the “rescued me from certain era of independent publishers ... oblivion, from smithereens ... by publishing Slaughterhouse-Five, and then bringing all my previous books back into print he would want me to use it. I booked a weekend in Key West. Sam owned a house under his umbrella [Timequake.]” The three publishers who had brought on the beach in Key West, and rented out Vonnegut’s three early novels had all one side to author John Malcolm Brinnin turned down the manuscript of Slaugh(Dylan Thomas in America was the first terhouse, and Kurt remembered that of his many books) and when Sam wasn’t Lawrence had once written him a fan letstaying there he offered it to one of his ter and said if he ever needed a publisher authors. On different occasions I accomto “knock on my door.” Kurt knocked on panied Sam to Key West and St. Thomas. the door of Sam’s one-room office at 90 He took Vonnegut with him to Russia and Beacon Street in Boston. A few days later Scandinavia, combining the business Sam called Kurt back to the office and of introducing Kurt to his publishers in
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offered him a contract, not only for the new book but also for the next two as yet unwritten, for more money than Vonnegut’s books had ever earned. “You shouldn’t give me that much money,” Kurt said. “My books don’t sell.” “You write the books,” Sam said. “I’ll worry about the money.” Slaughterhouse became an international bestseller, and neither publisher nor author had to worry about money again. That put Sam on a roll that enabled him to save a lot of other authors “from smithereens,” and bring in enough profits to fund all those great “business vacations” and legendary publication parties. “What kind of a party do you want for your next book?” Sam asked me at our “publishing lunch” for my novel Starting Over at Trader Vic’s in Boston. In the spirit of the occasion, and the second Mai Tai, I offered to throw a Boston party, where both of us lived at the time, if Sam would host a party in New York. “It’s a deal,” he said. “What kind of a party do you want?” “A belly dancer,” I said. It must have been the Mai Tai. Sam approved, and we enjoyed (and lived through) a double celebration — I took seventy people on a boat trip around Boston Harbor, and Sam provided a belly dancer as the feature of a party in a New York hotel. Six months before he died, perhaps foreseeing his time was limited, Sam donated his papers and a room to the library to the University of Mississippi. For the official dedication, Sam sent plane tickets to fly in his long-time authors to Mississippi for a three-day party to mark the event. There was a ceremony with the University Band playing, followed by parties. Sam flung aside the cane he now used and danced with the lovely Susan Minot, author at that time of Monkeys and Lust and Other Stories. I think of it as the last party of the era of independent publishers and independent bookstores. As far as I know, Coach Dean Smith never sent plane tickets to fly back his basketball stars to Chapel Hill to celebrate their championships, nor did his $200 bequest of “dinner out” come close to the two grand that Sam Lawrence gave us to pay our overdue bills, or blow it all on a weekend in Key West. Eat your heart out, Michael Jordan. n
The Sisters are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America “What is wrong with Black women? Not a damned thing” says Indiana native and author Tamara Winfrey Harris. With the release of her first non-fiction book this summer, we get to examine the tropes of the Mammy, Sapphire and Jezebel that have plagued the perception of Black women for years. NUVO: What inspired you to write The Sisters Are Alright? Were early versions of the book centered on the same ideas you used? TAMARA WINFREY HARRIS: This book is a culmination of the writing I have done for the last eight or so years. ... But what really got me going was the conversation, which reached a fever pitch a few years ago, about Black women and marriage. In case your readers haven’t heard, Black woman are half as likely to marry as white women ... As I began to speak to Black women about marriage and research the issue, it was clear that the racist and sexist stereotypes driving the analysis of Black marriage rates also affect other issues in Black women’s lives, like health, motherhood, even beauty practices. My book expanded to focus on the reality behind negative stereotypes of Black women — a reality that is, thankfully, more nuanced, empowering and hopeful that what people commonly hear. NUVO: How did internet feminism shape this? How has it changed you? HARRIS: The internet can be wonderful sometimes. I think what it has done is give voice to lots of people who did not previously have space in mainstream media. That includes Black women. Consider that pre-2008 Tamara election, the designated media Winfrey Harris spokespersons for Black America seemed to be Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and perhaps Cornel West and Michael Eric Dyson. Nothing wrong with these men, but making middle-aged straight men the voice of all things Black certainly erases a host of experiences, especially those of Black women who make up more than half of the Black community. Now you see a greater diversity of voices represented, including feminist women, many of whom first emerged online. And you see Black women leading modern civil rights movements and using the internet, in part, to do it. The founders of Black Lives Matter? Three Black women. The internet has also made it possible for diverse women to have a stronger voice in feminism. Not just Black women, but also other women of color and poor women, queer women, transgender women and everyone who is many of these things. MORE ONLINE: For the full Q&A go to nuvo.net Tamara Winfrey Harris reading, Indy Reads Books, July 25, 12-2 p.m., FREE
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efore Indiana author, blogger, nerdfighter extraordinaire, John Green, made his way Downtown to sign posters and kiss babies last week, we got to chat with him and two of the actors in Paper Towns. NUVO: There is a lot of that gets lost in translations between film and books. (For example, the Sea World scene that everyone has noted). But as far as the ideas themselves do you think there were any missteps between the two? JOHN GREEN: [T]he thing that was important was preservation of the themes, (Nat Wolff gives a dramatic swoop and glare to John, causing Halston Sage to crack up laughing) especially with the theme of the importance of imagining other people complexly in this sort of treachery romanticizing the others, especially when young boys romanticize the young women they think they admire and treat them as, and imagine, them as angels or goddesses or something other than human and how that can be dehumanizing. I think that’s there in the film. I think the way Q imagines Margo and the way that really everyone is imagining everyone in the beginning of the movie is a little off. Then they are sort of able to embrace the complexity a little more throughout the film. That was the thing that was important to me. I thought that Jake the director and all of these guys did a great job bringing that to life. NUVO: It seems like the story speaks to the experience of both genders, going through adolescence and growing up. For you guys what was your experience going through that?
HALSTON SAGE: I related a lot to Lacy because she feels misunderstood and wants to be seen as more than just the stereotypical popular girl in high school. I think anyone can relate to wanting to be seen for being more than one thing. For me that’s what was important to get across. NAT WOLFF: Yeah and I felt that I completely related to Quentin and Margo, all of them ... anytime John writes a book all of the characters are so well drawn and complex. Anybody can relate to all of them no matter what gender or anything. 20 SCREENS // 07.22.15 - 07.29.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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WOLFF: Well, screw you John. (laughing) GREEN: Whatever, you guys are Nerdfighters. You guys count. But that’s the most important thing, having that amazing, direct, years long relationship with those people. So yeah, it’s just something that I love. NUVO: It seems like this common theme throughout all of your books is this visceral moment of humanity that you have all throughout adolescence. And these moments of, kind of renewal I guess. Do you feel like you had a lot of those moments growing up? GREEN: I definitely had some, yeah. That you know, when I was a teenager so many things were happening to me for thåe first time. You know, I feel in love for the first time. I grappled with grief for the first time. And I was also asking the questions about being a person. You know like what is the meaning of life. Is the meaning in life constructed or is it derived from some source? Why do people suffer? All of those questions for the first time. And I approached them really directly. I didn’t feel the need to couch that curiosity and irony. I was really interested in them. My friends and I would talk about the meaning of life without feeling like it was weird or lame. And so I do think that I try to go back to that time when I am writing. n This is a small portion of that interview. For the whole conversation go to nuvo.net.
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his rapidly fading memory and save his own life. A precocious boy named Roger (Milo Parker) keeps Holmes young, befriending the old man as he tries to rest and write in his rural Sussex home. Roger’s mother (Laura Linney) is the housekeeper, looking at Holmes with much less admiration than her son. While Roger grows closer to him, she eagerly awaits Holmes’ death, wanting to move to another house whose owners will be more grateful for her help. An air of melancholy subtly looms over the film like a gentle London fog. Director Bill Condon aims for understated elegance rather than melodrama, raising the issue of Holmes’ impending death without getting sappy about it. McKellen follows suit with his subdued performance, portraying Holmes as a soft-spoken, emotionally repressed man. Parker and Linney are effective as foils for Holmes, wearing the raw emotion on their sleeves that he struggles to reveal. We never see him express fear of his death, but he doesn’t deny it either. He simply acknowledges it in a rational rather than emotional way. “Mourning is commonplace, logic is rare,” the detective says. Hollywood obviously doesn’t want iconic characters to die. That’s why Arnold Schwarzenegger keeps coming back as the Terminator, and it’s also why Jurassic Park stays open despite the fact that its attractions keep eating tourists. In this age of endless sequels and reboots, it’s refreshing to see a film that accepts the possibility of a popular character dying. Mr. Holmes exudes the confidence that its hero will live on in our memories if not on screen. n
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oft openings tell you a lot. In the best-case scenario, it all goes off without a hitch. The second-best scenario, I think, is one where you have a lot of problems and mistakes. Soft openings are meant to show you what you didn’t think of, which is why I pushed my visit back to after Repeal had been through their week-long soft opening. They, too, had pushed it back, for reasons that I assume fall under normal new restaurant kinks and quirks. Good thing, too, because I came away from the dinner on Monday pretty content with the service, food, and interior at Repeal. It’s decked out on the inside with a lot of dark wood and crystal chandeliers, and the warm light coming in from the wall of ancient windows makes the place feel warm. The ice hanging from the ceiling automatically makes you feel a little underdressed, and it would be an impressive-looking spot to take a date. But one thing stood out above everything else: Some damn good cocktails. I had previously chatted with bar manager Eli Sanchez about his shrubs and the menu he’d been developing for the new place (which you can listen to on The Mouthful podcast at nuvo.net/food), so I was excited to taste the finished products. We each tried a different cocktail, and found them all to be a perfectly balanced blend of sweet, sour, and booze. He does a great job of incorporating elements like egg whites, which gave my sour cocktail an unbelievably velvety mouthfeel. They’ve got a cocktail for lovers of the unusual, as well as their bestselling Sour Puss, a deliciously sweet and tart strawberry cup of sunshine. The use of throwback ingredients like egg and vinegar shrubs gives the menu a truly
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unique identity, and I keep finding myself craving that sour-sweet flavor that struck an oblique note on the palate. I also keep craving that side dish of peas. Peas?! Yes, the peas stole the show. They’re just sauteed in butter, with sliced almonds and light shave of white chocolate. And they were so damn good.
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The fine folks at Carmel’s Danny Boy Beer Works turn out not only an impressive lineup of brews, but a killer pub menu to boot. We caught up with one of their brewers, Derek Herring, and he had a few words to say about everything from spicy beer, pranks and movie sequels. Take it away, Derek! Question: What are you supposed to drink spicy beer with? Is it meant to just be tasted? Seems like it does the opposite of what beer is supposed to do.
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Though I have to disagree with our server that you wouldn’t notice the white chocolate. You noticed the white chocolate, but it was subtle. Same thing with the blend of funky cheeses that make up their shells and cheese, of which you got a mouthful of both rich, creamy, melty goodness and the grownup spike of bleu. Next time I go, I might just order a bowl of peas, a bowl of shells, and a couple of cocktails. That would be living my best life. But I’m getting ahead of myself. We got the beer cheese appetizer, as we had some little people with us (the restaurant is divided into a family section and an over-21 section). It was just meh: The cheese sauce had a so much flour in it that it was more of a cheese-flavored roux than liquid-ish cheese. Plus >>>
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<<< there just wasn’t much to it for the price. The “beer cheese incident,” though, was really the only dark spot. With the entrees, we split it up into different proteins. My steak was cooked actually rare (as in dark blue-red in the middle and seared on the outside), which made me feel like Snoopy when he floats and claps his feet together with joy. It was served with some preserved mushrooms, and I was really happy with the generally un-screwed-around-with flavor of the steak with the acid from the mushrooms. The trout was also really good, moist and buttery. The crab fritters were more like giant hushpuppies than the crab and shrimp fritters I’m used to from the northern Florida coast, but they were nonetheless totally decent. As far as the entrees go, they were all pretty good. It’s just unfortunate that they had to share the spotlight with the Sam Rockwell of side dishes and cocktails: Total scene-stealers. And since all the main dishes are served standalone, I’d suggest ordering a few side dishes to share. I’ll be back to Repeal, more than likely, but I’ll be there to have an excellent cocktail and a really good pre-drinking heavy snack before I go out in Fountain Square. Would I choose it above my other options for a multicourse dinner in Fletcher Place? Probably not. But that doesn’t mean Repeal can’t continue to build on its solid stable of dishes and outstanding cocktail program and turn it into a destination for sophisticated latenight dining, which is sorely needed in that neighborhood. The short version? Get a cocktail, try the fish, and order the peas and shells. There’s plenty to recommend at Repeal. n
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This Friday is National Tequila Day, so we’ve put together a list of amazing local tequila bars and tequila-specializing restaurants to help you celebrate in style. Or if you want to celebrate at home, Sangrita’s Charles Schumacher has provided us with an outstanding tequila-based cocktail to mix up in your home bar. Sangrita Our first pick for the perfect place to celebrate Tequila Day is the newlyopened Broad Ripple joint, which took the place of the former Greek’s Pizza building. They’ve got an unreal lineup of tequila and mezcal, and Charles Schumacher is behind the bar mixing up a huge variety of amazing tequilabased craft cocktails. Here, you can also enjoy the namesake sangrita with your tequila, a usually tomato-based accompaniment to a tequila that’s smooth and sippable. Sangrita picked up Joshua Huffman, who came from another restaurant named on this list, Bakersfield. They do a great, small, focused menu with a lot of Mexican and Tex-Mex favorites. Most of what they do is made in-house, churned, somewhat miraculously, out of one of the smallest kitchens in the city. Definitely go and check out the very luxe, gorgeous interior. 834 E. 64th St., 377-4779, sangritasaloon.com
Get your margarita on at Bakersfield. Bakersfield The “street Mexican” lineup at Bakersfield typically consists of eight tacos — including the fan favorite fish (crispy mahi) and Pastor (marinated pork and pickled red onions) — two tortas, two salads and chips with dips, including vegetarian options. Bakersfield’s guac — hand-cut with chunks of avocado, lime-forward and punchy — won a “Best Guacamole in Cincinnati” award from three publications last year. They’ve got a ton of tequila and bourbon to offer, and we dig their ice-cold margaritas in their signature kitschy jar mugs. 334 Massachusetts Ave., 635-6962, bakersfieldmassave.com
La Margarita La Margarita is most famous for its impressive tequila selection, with flights available at a variety of themes. With a name like La Margarita, it probably also goes without saying that you should order a pitcher of margaritas — and the top shelf pitcher is worth it. The bar also features an impressive lineup of craft beers in bottles and cans (sorry, no taps at this bar), with 69 varieties available, 39 of which are under $5. They serve lunch specials every day at the Fountain Square location, which has also played host to classic pinball tournaments in the past. This is one of the best places to get a bite and a drink before you see a show in ol’ Fountain Square.
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1043 Virginia Ave., 384-1457, lamargaritaindy.com Adobo Grill This is another spot that gets overlooked, but they also have an outstanding lineup of tequilas behind the bar. You can also enjoy a little cucumber cup of sangrita with your tequila. My personal favorite, however, is the hot lips margarita — a super-spicy little cocktail made with habanero that leaves quite a tingle on the lips. I might also recommend this MIX IT
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Combine all in a mixing glass, add ice, shake and strain into a tall glass. Garnish with an orange twist, Mint Sprig and shaved cinnamon. — CHARLES SCHUMACHER (SANGRITA)
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110 E. Washington St., 822-9990, adobogrill.com Revolucion Revolucion has been serving up a variety of tacos for a couple of years now. But what sets them apart isn’t the tacos, but the huge selection of salsas available to splash all over your tacos, chips, or whatever is nearby. They have sweeter, lighter salsas and devilishly mouth-searing varieties, not to mention crazy-delicious guac and queso. The beer selection changes regularly, so you’ll have to become a friend on Facebook to keep current on what’s new. One of the very best things you can avail yourself of while there is the spicy margarita. It comes with a chili-salt rim and a little pepper in the glass, and while it won’t make you sweat or make your eyes water, it definitely leaves behind a satisfying tingle on the lips. Going out to a show
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Delicia shows tequila’s pretty side. Delicia Delicia combines the culinary traditions of Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain into a blend the restaurant describes as “new Latin.” Delicia also features a full bar, including a number of wines, beers, and craft cocktails, such as the pisco sour, a popular South American cocktail made with pisco (a type of South American brandy), lime juice, bitters, simple syrup, and optional egg white (get it with the egg white). But the draw on this Tequila Day is a chance to sample tequila drinks with a little more sophistication. 5212 N. College Ave., 925-0677, facebook.com/DeliciaIndy Barrio This place offers one of the best options for those trying to expand their tequila palate: a huge variety of flights. Brand to brand, Barrio offers a flight of one of each of their blancos, anejos and reposados. Belly up to the bar and order a plate of tacos to soften the blow, then take the opportunity to develop a keen taste for the differences between the different styles. Not that you needed our encouraging to seek out tequila on Tequila Day. 3855 E. 96th St., 218-3186, barrioindy.com — SARAH MURRELL
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GREEN EVENTS CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: A River Runs Through It: Connecting Life in Indiana to the Waters around Us NOW through Aug. 1. The Sierra Club Hoosier Chapter tells us they’re inviting “ amateur and professional artists, even non-artists, to create and submit new art for its annual exhibit at the Indiana Interchurch Center this fall. The exhibition, A River Runs Through it: Connecting Life in Indiana to the Waters around Us, will feature art that explores the vital need for stewardship, sustainability, awareness, and advocacy for Indiana’s water. One of the exhibit’s goals is to broaden participation by including people who do not have extensive art background but who would like to express themselves on environmental issues they feel passionately about. Submissions are open to Sierra Club members and non-members.” hoosier2.sierraclub.org
Central IN Land Trust Volunteer Day at White Owl Nature Preserve Jul 25, 9 a.m.-noon. If ever there was a marvelous way to spend a Saturday morning, this is it. The Land Trust folks ask you to “Join volunteers for a day of work on July 25th to restore this urban nature preserve along the White River on the northside of Indianapolis. Bring work gloves if you have them and wear boots and long pants. If you don’t have gloves we will provide some. Please dress for the weather as we will work rain or shine. This preserve is located behind Fleming’s Steakhouse along the White River. Parking is available on the northside of the restaurant. Questions? Contact Stacy at info@conservingindiana.org.” White Owl Nature Preserve, 8487 Union Chapel Road August Second Sunday Slow Saunter Aug. 9, 1 p.m. Yep, they’re planning ahead: Cool off with a visit to the proposed Siberia State Wild Area in Ferdinand State Forest. 27700 Calhoun Road (Bristow), FREE Connect and Collaborate 2015 Bloomington Aug. 20, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Another stop on the Indiana Chamber’s luncheon tour of the state’s major cities (there’s a Muncie date, too: Tuesday, Aug. 25) during which you’ll “discuss the top ten energy saving tips and insights for Indiana businesses.” Register ASAP as seating is limited. Bloomington Convention Center, 302 S. College Ave. (Bloomington), FREE, indianachamber.com 26 INDIANA LIVING GREEN // 07.22.15 - 07.29.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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I wish it didn’t have to be this way, but it would really be best if you would only compost newsprint with black ink and not colored ink. Don’t get me wrong, I love the comics more than any other section of the paper. I just can’t stand to think that Garfield might unknowingly sabotage your Italian herb box or Billy might traipse with his potentially toxic tennies through your garden. If you’re even thinking about asking about glossy paper, stop. It’s just not going to work out. (See the next letter for more info!) To be perfectly honest, I would prefer that you recycle your newsprint rather than compost. If you compost it, it’s gone forever, but if you recycle, then it can be made into another paper product. Besides, too much paper in a compost pile might tip the balance of carbon to nitrogen. But that’s just me — do what you must. PIECE OUT, RENEE
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Can you tell me the best place to take magazines? I have a fairly large number — about a hundred. — ANONYMOUS
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I scoured my brain for a good pun about fixing clogs, but wasn’t able to break anything free. I guess I’m just feeling drained today. Here are three options: • T ry a drain stick. It can be a little gross, but you just slide the stick down the drain and when you pull it out, it brings all the nasty drain blockers with it. No chemicals; buy it once and use it forever. •A home remedy for slow drains is to pour ¼ cup of baking soda mixed with ½ cup of white vinegar down the drain followed by boiling water. • T here are a few enzymatic drain cleaners available. A brand I trust for all of their products makes one called homesolv. PIECE OUT, RENEE
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If you mean can they go in your curbside recycling bin, then no. We struggle with getting recyclers to work with glass, let alone the wax that may be inside of them! If you’re crafty, you can reuse candle wax. All you really need is a double boiler, molds or jars, and new wicks. You can even experiment with scenting them with essential oils and play with mixing colors. If you’re campy (I don’t actually think that’s the proper use of that word, but I don’t care), make your own firestarters. Pack wood shavings tightly in a paper (not foam!) egg carton, melt wax in a double boiler, and pour the melted wax over the shavings and carton. There are multiple variations of this DIY project. If any of your candles happen to be beeswax, use them on a sticky drawer, use them to prevent rust on outdoor tools or for any of the other million uses of beeswax. Hope that sheds a little light on your question. PIECE OUT, RENEE SIGN UP for the AskRenee Newsletter at indianalivinggreen.com.
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Twas the dog days of summer and all through Naptown People traveled to where the new records are found The albums were wrapped 'neath the Rock tree with care In hopes that Release Fest will soon be there
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orgive our bastardization of Clement Clarke Moore's classic holiday poem, but we've got a bad case of the Yuletide spirit. That's because for fans of local music in Indianapolis, Christmas comes July 24. Last year Shine Indy put on its first Release Fest, giving the Farewell Audition, coup d'etat and the Chicago Typewriters the opportunity to own the big stage at The Vogue, at a show celebrating the release of each band's new album. The show, organizers say, was an unqualified success, bringing brand new local music onstage with displays by local visual artists, a one
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night microcosm of how much Indianapolis' arts communities have to offer. For a second incarnation, Shine Indy recording engineer Ryan Gibbons knew they had to find a way to up the ante, so they doubled it. On Saturday, IAMLION, No Pit Cherries, Brother O' Brother, Sugar Moon Rabbit and Brad Kleinschmidt take the stage, with Gypsy Moonshine along for the ride to entertain VIPs before the show. Each band will showcase never-beforeheard music, much of which has been more than a year in the making. “Every band involved put a lot of their
Double the local albums at Release Fest II at Vogue souls into these projects,” Gibbons says. “What Release Fest does is [get] them the audience they deserve at what I consider to be one of the best rock venues in the country. To someone who hasn't been to an Indy show, I would say more than anything you're going to have a lot of fun.” One band making big waves in particular is Brother O' Brother, coming off their recent title-winning performance in at Birdy's Battle Royale finals in May. The band put the final touches on Show Pony, its second locally produced album, and they've been ready for Indianapolis to hear it for a long while. “We agreed to it back in December, before we even had the Battle Royale on our radar,” says Chris Banta, who sings and plays guitar in the duo alongside drummer Warner Swopes. And though they're on their second album — many of the bands participating this year are releasing their first recorded songs — that's only got them more excited to hear releases from the rest of the bill.
Indy may not have a shore, but Jason Aaron Coons’ – the titular JAC – tunes are so smooth that you won’t need the beach to find that chill summer mood. The title track on four-track EP Ride nails a 1980s West Coast sound with funky guitar licks, sexually charged lyrics, and sax riffs as seductive as the opening bars of “Careless Whisper.” Duke Silver would be proud. If Maroon 5 and Walk the Moon had a baby, and George Michael was the great uncle who dropped in to babysit, the result would be Ride. The EP kicks off with the upbeat “Do It Again,” a love song in poppy four-four time with fresh beats reminiscent of hot EDM. It’s eminently danceable, the type of track I’d turn up to shake it with my girlfriends. Straight sugar pop, yes, but the speedy drums keep it from being Disney-sweet. “How We Operate” is an outcast’s anthem that, if you listen closely, also reads as a strong proLGBTQ protest song: “There’s no grace for anyone who’s sick like you, who loves like you, who fucks like you. How dare you be so different?” Good for Coons for speaking up on such a timely issue. It’s refreshing when pop music takes a risk and creates something you can pump your fist to. The EP closes with “This is Life,” a mid-tempo ballad featuring keyboards instead of guitar. Like any good pop artist, Coons makes sure his voice remains front-and-center in its march up and down the scale – with the perfect mixture of angst and bravado, too. Throughout all four songs, Coons’ vocals are bright and effortless. He’s a graduate of IU’s Jacobs School of Music, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he had some formal vocal training during his time studying guitar there. Ride ends too quickly, with the full EP clocking in under 16 minutes, but the tracks are ordered so the listener is left with a sense of closure — even while she wants more. The good news is that the second volume of Ride is due to come out later this year, so we won’t be left wanting for long. — EMMA FAESI HUDELSON
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“I noticed when I was looking at the poster for No Pit Cherries, they've been around for four years and this is their first album,” Banta says. “This is our second album only because from the word 'go' we had an EP out. It was important to us from that very first show to have something to put in peoples' hands.” Sugar Moon Rabbit have Sounds of the City, a love letter to the city of Indianapolis, to showcase from The Vogue stage. Their third album is an effort to forge a new sound from the influences that have formed their earlier work, and if lead singer Trevor Potts is to be believed, when they unleash the songs for the Release Fest crowd it will be electrifying. “We plan to light the Vogue stage on fire,” he jokes. “Seriously though, we always have surprises in store, and the audience always plays a crucial role in our shows. So with their help, there's no telling where the celebration may lead. Also, this will be the only night we'll be playing the new album in its entirety, so it will be an unforgettable night.” Others on the bill are looking at this show as an opportunity to expand from solo to full band shows. “I normally play a lot of solo acoustic shows, or those as a duo or trio where every song is written from a one-guitar, one voice world,” says Brad Kleinschmidt, who will debut his EP Gone at the show. “I recorded all these songs as a full band, to maximize every last ounce of emotion in these tracks. I hope Release Fest is the start of a new begin28 MUSIC // 07.22.15 - 07.29.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
“With all these great bands around it's easy to set a bill that has something for everyone,” he says. “There are so many shows we see around town that are just as good as the national acts, if not better. As for Release Fest, you've got four of Indy's best artists sharing the stage with us. That ought to be enough to get you off the couch right there!” With so many bands debuting new material, it seems the bands themselves are often just as excited to hear what the other bands can bring to such an overstuffed table. “We're excited to see all the acts,” says Aaron Sprowl, guitarist for IAMLION. “We saw Brad [Kleinschmidt] play for the first time a couple weeks ago and loved “The amount of talent in our city it. We have played with Pit Cherries in the past limits is so thick it’s difficult to move.” No and they put on a hell of a show. Everybody knows — RYAN GIBBONS what Brother O' Brother brings to the table. And after seeing Sugar Moon ever you can, request the music on local Rabbit's new video, we're excited to see stations,” he says. “I feel the big thing that them perform the track live. It's going to be needs to happen is we need to start getting a very diverse event.” music on corporate radio stations because Still unconvinced? the audience is so wide. I feel that is a nec“We have something great going on essary evil to get the bands into the ears here in Indy,” Gibbons says. “The music of the public and get our music into other continues to grow, and the amount of talmarkets. Look at breakout scenes like Seent in our city limits is so thick it's difficult attle in the '90s! It was the songs that made to move. The people in this town are what all that happen, and the vibe was singular. keeps the whole thing going and growing. We need a breakout album or song, and And you're probably going to be surprised everything else will fall into place.” in that bands are stepping up their games For Aaron West, lead guitarist of No Pit as songwriters, concocting shows you Cherries, that breakout album can't be won't forget when you walk out the door too hard to find. of the venue.” n ning when it comes to booking more full-band gigs in the future.” One thing that stands out is that, for the folks at Shine Indy, loving music is a full-time job on top of the other jobs they do to make a living. And for the most part, Gibbons says, every dollar they make goes back into Shine Indy, an investment in our city's musical stock market. His fingerprints are all over the show, having produced No Pit Cherries' album Pressure front to back, as well as new material from Gypsy Moonshine. And, he says, if we are willing to do our parts there's no limit to where Indianapolis can go nationally. “Buy the merch, share the music wher-
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diligent viewer can map the local music connections in the big screen adaptation of John Green’s bestselling YA novel Paper Towns just like main character Q maps possible-love-of-his-life Margo’s solo sojourn in one of the film’s critical scenes. Mark it with mental push pins while you watch: Yes, that’s Son Lux – who studied at Indiana University and released music on local label Joyful Noise – scoring the film. Yes, that Son Lux song playing during a late night drive features Lily and Madeleine – Indy sister singer success story that you definitely know by now, right? And yes, yes, a thousand times yes, that’s a Mountain Goats poster hanging in Q’s room (and one of their songs playing during the film’s end credits), because the Mountain Goats are, of course, Q’s favorite band. They also happen to be author John Green’s favorite band. Coincidence? Nah. Green has taken it upon himself to spread the gospel of the Mountain Goats for years at this point. The band at its core is the writing project of John Darnielle, who evolved from self-released low-fi boombox recordings to hi-fi full band releases on Merge and 4AD over the course of 25 years and 15 or so albums. (Another local connection? Darnielle was born in beautiful Bloomington.) And Green is as devoted a fan of those 15 albums as they come. The author kicked off the book Paper Towns with a quote from Mountain Goats’ song “Game Shows Touch Our Lives.” For the last month or so on his (extremely popular) Tumblr, Green published a series called 42 Days of the Mountain Goats, linking his favorite songs for his legion of Nerdfighters. And before the film’s release on Friday, Darnielle answered a few of my questions about the connections between their work, plus shared a bit about what he was listening to at Q’s age.
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so I wasn’t really in school during the last few weeks of senior year. But in spring of that year I would have been listening to the Sisters of Mercy, the first Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds album, and the lone Stockholm Monsters album — and then, on the radio, that Kool and the Gang album that was everywhere that year, the one with “Misled” and “Fresh” and “Cherish” — Emergency. And Billy Ocean, who was also in his hit-after-hit phase. Unstoppable time for pop radio. NUVO: John Green told me when he’s playing someone tMG for the first time, he usually picks “Love, Love, Love” and “Up the Wolves,” as a tMG entry point. What (and this assumes you’ve read multiple pieces of Green’s work) book would you recommend as a Green’s entry point? And how do you respond to his “Love, Love, Love” and “Up the Wolves” choices as a gateway to your catalogue? DARNIELLE: I feel like the answer’s gotta be Paper Towns — but that was the first one I read, and I think one’s own entrypoint is sort of the natural default recommendation for anything. For my stuff, I usually tell people, “The Sunset Tree is the record we’ll be remembered for, if we’re remembered” — but as the guy making the records I kinda want to point to the stuff we as a band feel proudest of, the stuff where we came as close to the ideal of what we were trying to do as
DARNIELLE: Well, my experience of being 18 was — certainly not unique to me, but...I didn’t feel invincible, I felt like I had maybe a year left on earth. I don’t know that it really counts as YA but the movie I’d watch about the struggle to transition from high school to the outer world would be of Douglas Coupland’s short story 1,000 Years, which is about the desperation of needing meaning, of needing God. There’s nobody quite like Rich Mullins for that so I think the soundtrack would be a combination of good ambient music — Steve Roach, say — and some of the best interpretations of Rich Mullins: Chris Rice’s “Calling Out Your Name,” Amy Grant’s “Nothing Is Beyond You,” Carolyn Arends’s “Jacob and Two Women.” Maybe some darker instrumental stuff in the leadup, like mid-period Cabaret Voltaire — “Eddie’s Out” or the 2x45 album. NUVO: What’s new with you? What’s next? What are you reading?
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we could. So, like “Age of Kings” from All Eternals Deck and “Fire Editorial” from Beat the Champ — because the latter’s a live instrumental studio take of an unusually-complex-for-us song, which I’m super-proud of, and the former is a Scott Solter production that finds Scott at peak powers and the drums sound so great and my guitar is in a very subtle cool pocket. It just sounds so sad and mildly eerie, which is kind of a very beloved combo for me.
DARNIELLE: I’m working on another book; I’m in the middle section right now, it’s really exciting. I have to make something really terrible happen within the next few chapters, like I know what the terrible thing is so what I’m doing is making the place to which the terrible thing has to happen as lifelike as I can and then I’m going to send the tornado through. (Not a literal tornado.) We’re doing some touring in the fall, nothing hugely major — my main focus is on the book, it’s daily work, I’m really absorbed by it — you ask about names: this one takes place in various stations around the Midwest and I’ve been digging through old phone books trying to get names that ring just right, splitting them apart and putting them back together. I’m reading Naiyer Masud’s Snake Catcher. It’s taking me ages, because 1) kids and 2) work. n Read more about Paper Towns, including an interview with the cast and book author John Green on page 20. NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 07.22.15 - 07.29.15 // MUSIC 29
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eif Garrett. He really was quite the shit back in the day, wasn’t he? In the late ’70s every girl in America had his poster on her wall. Even the Amish chicks. Before that, he was in on just about every TV show there was in the ’70s. He played Felix Unger’s kid on The Odd Couple, and Buford Pusser’s son in the Walking Tall trilogy that ruled the drive-ins 40 years ago. It was during his time on a short-lived show, Three For The Road, that teen girls began to lose their shit over Garrett, so he was put in a studio and for a brief time at the end of the decade, he was king. Since then he’s pretty much provided the script for just about every Behind The Music special there ever was, appeared in the Coppola flick The Outsiders, and sang on The Melvins’ definitive cover of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” – which, if we’re lucky, he’ll perform when he comes to Indy to
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WHEN: SATURDAY, JULY 25, 8 P.M. WHERE: THE VOGUE, 6259 N. COLLEGE AVE. TICKETS: $15 IN ADVANCE, 21+
play The Vogue this Saturday, July 25. Regardless of what he plays, it promises to be a unique show for a cause that might break your heart a little. Shawn Robare Lee was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer in January. She was just beginning a new journey with her husband Tim: they bought a farm. Then came her her diagnosis. Then the bills. To help out, her brother-in-law,
Indy native Billy Lee, asked his buddy Leif to play a show to try and raise some money. Garrett not only agreed to play a show, but invited his friends in the Chicago band Emperors and Elephants to perform as well. Family friend Jeff Willock will open the show, with all proceeds going to Shawn. Garrett is not bringing his band, but is instead using a Indy metal supergroup of sorts that all know the Robares. Billy says: “I started [the band] with my old Devil To Pay bandmate Matt Stokes, who has been close friends with my family all of my life. He’s my favorite bass player next to Geezer Butler in the world! Scott Bronner from Iron Diamond and Radiation Sickness are also very close friends. Dustin Boltjes, presently with Skeletonwitch and Iron Diamond, has
“I really am looking forward to this because my family has been affected by cancer... I just want to help out however I can.” — LEIF GARRETT
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been one of my really good friends for last couple of years. We also have Kelley Milligan whom I went to high school with. She’s a very accomplished musician, and has done work with Mellencamp and one of my favorite Indy bands Wonderdrug, among countless other acts.” So how are these brutal metal warriors gonna tone it down for the quasidisco of Leif’s early hits? “This is no disco band!” Lee says, laughing. “You’ll recognize the hits, but with this band there’s an unavoidable heavy edge. Leif does the hits with his full time band members not in a disco style and the fans still seem to love it and sing right along. The structure and progressions of the songs were tricky at first. I even took some guitar lessons to get the parts super tight.” “There was a time when I wouldn’t even consider doing ‘I Was Made For Dancing’ or ‘Surfin’ USA,’ ‘Runaround Sue’ or any of that stuff,” Garrett says when I reach him via phone. He pauses, then continues: “But now, I am proud that people still have a connection to those songs, I mean I’m not going to tell you what songs I will and will not be doing, I’ll leave that to surprise. I’m not doing a set of my old stuff, but a mixture of some of the old songs, some of the songs from various bands I’ve put together like Godspeed and F8, some new stuff and some covers.” “I really am looking forward to this because my family has been affected by cancer,” Garrett says. “I really don’t know anybody who hasn’t been affected by cancer. It’s a horrible, widespread epidemic, if you will, that takes many different forms. I just want to help out however I can.” It’ll help that all those girls that had his poster up on their walls as teens will be in attendance, I say. “Oh, man! That is still one of the best things about what I do!” Garrett says, laughing. “So many girls had my poster up in their room and all the guys wanted to beat me up. Now when I meet those women, their husbands are behind them telling me, ‘Dude, you’re cool!’ “I grew up with people, people grew up with me. It makes me proud that so many people still love and cherish that period. I mean, it was a period of our lives that was the most influential time of our lives.” I have one more question. Who’d win in a street fight, Shaun Cassidy or Leif Garrett? Garrett chuckles. “Oh my God, I’d kick his ass!” n
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NEW ALBUMS Indy Release Fest II 8 p.m. See our profile on 28. The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., $10 - $40, 21+ Tied To Tigers, Union 50, 21+ Jesse J, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Hillbilly Happy Hour with The Travling Mulberries, Sam and Derek, Melody Inn, 21+ Six Time Losers, Chilly Water Brewing Co., all-ages AJ and The Jigg watts, DJ Hal Greens, Radio Radio, 21+
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LOCAL LABELS Reptar, Stranger Cat, Twinsmith 8 p.m. Last time Reptar swung through town, we asked them about their relationship with new label Joyful Noise Recordings (where they’ll play on Thursday). They said, via email: “We are all pretty much completely in love with Joyful Noise Recordings. The other artists they work with are some of our longtime favorites but most importantly the people at the label are some of the most incredible we’ve ever met. Not to take away from anyone else we’ve worked with — we have been lucky to work with some great people — but the Joyful Noise folks are so much on the same page as us. Getting signed up with them was pretty natural, we had a mutual friend that put us in touch, then we played a show in their super cool show space in Indianapolis, then had a mutual declaration of love over breakfast the next morning and that was pretty much it. We started pressing records and working on artwork months before actually getting around to signing a contract.” Joyful Noise, 1043 Virginia Ave., $10, all-ages HIP-HOP Yoni Wolf, Serengeti 9:30 p.m. Two Joyful Noise artists stop in at The Bishop with relatively new albums; Yoni and Serengeti know each other well, so we wouldn’t be surprised if they hit the stage together at some point. The Bishop, 123 S. Walnut St. (Bloomington), $10 advance, $12 at door, 18+
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SATURDAY FEST Wide Eyes Music Festival noon This all-day fest at the Monkey’s Tale features live painting from visual artists Brian Reed and Sly Artist (and maybe more!), plus performances from Heartland Heretics, Steve Fulton, Blue Moon Revu, Brady Passon, Me and Mine, Mark Benham, Tied to Tigers, Shadeland, Minute Details, James Wilkerson, Dell Zell, Landon Keller, Human Lights, Christian Taylor, Great Future, Phillip Sloan and The Poor Man’s Band. Monkey’s Tale, 925 E. Westfield Blvd., prices vary, 21+ FESTS GnawBrew Beer, Art and Music Festival noon GnawBrew is a small but mighty brew fest in beautiful Brown
County – and that’s by design. They offer only 700 tickets to the event so those gnarly lines that typify a lot of food and drink festivals will be dramatically reduced, plus, you’ll be right in front for the artists (many of them local) that will take the stage through the day. On the docket for this fest: The Hammer and The Hatchet, Derick Howard, Jeff Morgan, Matt Holt, Megan Maudlin, Matt Holt, Cut Camp, Hawcreek Experience, Empty Glass Prophets, Announcements, Hyryder and Jaik Willis. eXplore Brown County, 2620 Valley Branch Road (Brown County), $40 - $60, 21+ CHARITY Leif Garrett, Emperors and Elephants 9 p.m. Did you know Leif Garrett is in the Cowboy Hall of Fame? Did you know there was Cowboy Hall of Fame? There is, and Garrett’s a member. Acting accolades aside, Garrett will perform at this charity event for Shawn Robare. Emperors and Elephants travel down from Chicago to provide support. The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., prices vary, 21+ REUNIONS The Elms Friday – Saturday Hey, big high five to The Elms for selling out their two night reunion stand at The Hi-Fi this weekend, Yes, there’s no more tickets (so we’ll keep this informational blurb brief), but if you didn’t snag tix, rest easy in the
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SINGING The Great American Songbook Academy Finals 7 p.m. There’s three public events associated with the Songbook Academy, a week-long academy with the goal of “interpreting and performing the music of the Great American Songbook.” On Wednesday, Michael Feinstein and Laura Osnes will conduct a masterclass at the Palladium with selected Songbook Academy participants performing; on Thursday, all Songbook Academy attendees will perform pieces back to back during a two-session performance that qualifies a select few for the Songbook Academy Finals on Saturday. During the Finals, all 40 of the finalists will perform onstage with Michael Feinstein, with the top ten performing two pieces each. At the end of the performance, one finalist will receive the title Songbook Youth Ambassador, thereby charged to carry the banner of the Great American Songbook, which includes multiple appearances, plus the chance to sing the national anthem at an NFL game. Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, 355 City Center Dr. (Carmel), all-ages ALBUM RELEASE Scanlines, Manners, Please., Wooves, Moor Hound 8 p.m. Here’s a question that didn’t make it into last week’s Beer and Gear Q&A with
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Anselmo Childbite, Wednesday at 5th Quarter Lounge Scanlines that’s very pertinent to the live show they’re hosting this weekend in celebration of their new album Figure of Speech. It follows: NUVO: Has the new album meant any rig changes for live shows? DREW MALOTT: I’ve added a [Boss] LS-2 line selector, which belongs to Bryan, naturally, and an Ernie Ball VP Jr. volume pedal. I built a pedal board to hold it all. I’m also playing Bryan’s old Yamaha keyboard on “Constantly Replaying the Past” and bell kit on “Filament.” I just bought a [TC Electronic] Ditto X2. I was borrowing my roommate’s Ditto [but felt] that I still need two switches. Huzzah. White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect St., $5, 21+ Erica Campbell and Friends, Eastern Star Church, all-ages Bashiri Asad, Union 50, 21+ Pre-Punk Rock Night Early Show with Rick Dodd and The Dickrods, Melody Inn, 21+ Ska Punk Night with Rough Customers, Soundtrack ‘96, Black Cat Mambo, Melody Inn, 21+ Lloyd Dobler Effect, The Rathskeller, 21+ The Steeldrivers, Canan Commons (Muncie), all-ages Tim Warfield, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Chad Mills and The Upright Willies, Leilah, Warehouse, all-ages Erica Campbell and Friends, Sinclair Wheeler, Avisci, Alx Peace, Room Seven, 21+ The Aristocrats, Travis Larson Band, Birdy’s Bar and Grill, 21+ The Bloody ‘Els, Chilly Water Brewing Co., 21+
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Prowlers and The Prey, Kristen Ford, Jessie and Amy 8 p.m. Here’s what we wrote about when Prowlers and The Prey were in the Birdy’s Battle Royale finals: “Easily the band with the largest fan-base we’ve seen so far, they’ve been frontrunners since the beginning. With the double threat of Kyra Waltz and Jeff Kelly on vocals to keep people guessing, plus Kelly’s already well-documented ability to dominate a crowd whether on banjo or guitar, there’s something for everyone with these guys. That makes them hard to categorize, but that’s what works about having a sonic palate as diverse as theirs — audiences may think they know what they’ll get, but until the band finishes playing, nothing’s off the table.” — JONATHAN SANDERS
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SARAH: The worst part about fucking other people is that they have all these thoughts and feelings, but you can’t know about them unless they tell you. Here’s my general rule about these kinds of situations: cross intentions once, you might be okay. But if you’re having the “what are we” talk multiple times, it’s obvious that there’s an emotional imbalance and one or both parties should just cut it off. It’s my personal opinion, backed by zero data or hard science, that a long-term friends-n-bennies situation rarely works out for any party involved, save for a handful of particular circumstances. And no, it’s not really a gendered thing either. Even then, relationship desires shift faster than Katy Perry switches candy-shaped bustiers, so you can’t tell at the beginning of something how it’s going to turn out at the end. Of course you know this now, reader. What you do now depends on how badly you want to maintain this friendship. If you can’t imagine not ever being around this person again, tell her you’ll get back in contact after a set period. If the friendship isn’t that important to you, it’s probably more kind to back slowly out of the room and never return to this relationship in any capacity. DR. D: Try to remain calm, civil and kind and essentially say — in your own words — something like
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Man on the fun Is it safe for a man to use a sybian machine? SARAH: Ah, the supposed Cadillac of sex toys, the instant mega-orgasm or whatever. I’ve only ever seen this in a porn that I clicked on out of curiosity and didn’t end up watching to the end. I would imagine that whatever is safe to send home with a regular Jane to put in her orifices is probably alright for her Joe as well, but I’m not sure. I did, however, learn that the same company that manufactures these things makes a hands-free jerkoff machine for the gents. Of course, if you’re after internal stimulation, maybe start small with a vibrator. DR. D: There’s no reason you can’t try it and see if it’s comfortable and whether you like it. As Sarah pointed out, it’s really just about penetrative play. Not all women like any specific sex product and, similarly, not all men will either. They exhibit at some adult Expos and are sometimes even part of more well-equipped sex parties, so you might look for opportunities to try before you buy (or, if not, try — at least check out and position your body in roughly the way you’d want to use it and see if you think it might work for your own purposes).
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fantasy is, how you both feel about it, and any ground rules you want to set (e.g., “not with my best friend” or “only with my best friend” or “no kissing” or “oral but no intercourse” and so on). If you’re looking for ideas on how to have that conversation, check out books like The Ethical Slut or Opening Up. And threesomes aren’t your only opportunity — sex clubs and swinger’s parties are another option. You don’t even have to be a part of the sex play if you don’t want to; some people prefer watching from afar (see David Ley’s book Insatiable Wives for interviews with, and stories about, men who like it when their wives are with other men).
Solo takeover Anal progressive play My gf likes for me to put my fingers in her ass but doesn’t want to try anal sex. Why is she into one and not the other? SARAH: Probably because I bet your fingers aren’t as big as your dick, for starters. Anything beyond that isn’t really up for you to reason through for her, but you should definitely discuss it with her if it’s something you’re interested in. Maybe she’s worried that it’s going to hurt, or that it won’t be as pleasurable as vaginal sex. If she’s not interested, period, let it go, Louie. And if no booty play is a dealbreaker for you, you’re allowed to bail out and find someone who might match up better sexually for you. DR. D: Sarah hit the nail on the head here; fingers are pretty small and finger-anal play may be comfortable and pleasurable for her, or at least not hurt. So she’s not into anal sex ... let it go! Whatever you do, don’t pressure her or make her feel badly for not liking one specific sex act out of many different possibilities.
My boyfriend loves to watch me masturbate, and I don’t mind it if it turns him on. Recently, though, he’s been asking me to do it more than any other sex act. He usually masturbates as well, which means I don’t usually get to have sex right away or at all. How do I get us back to a normal sex schedule without making him feel dissatisfied?
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SARAH: I’m assuming you mean that it’s started to displace your regular sex, which definitely sounds like it could be frustrating. After all, anyone can masturbate anywhere, but partnered sex, well, requires the participation of a partner. Duh. This is one situation where I would, in a totally non-sexual or romantic situation, like when you’re washing dishes or driving or something, just bring it up. Try, “I’m glad it turns you on so much to watch me go to town on myself, but I miss regular sex with you. Do you think we could even out the ratio for a while?” He may not even realize how much it’s become part of the routine.
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Hyper-satisfaction, plus one For the first time ever, I’m having fantasies about watching my boyfriend have sex with another woman. We have amazing, adventurous sex and we are very open with each other about our desires. There’s a freedom there that I’ve never experienced. Now I have this desire to watch him pleasure another woman. Is this normal? How do I have a conversation about it with my boyfriend? SARAH: Man, fuck “normal.” If you have a satisfying sex life that you want to share with other people, just count yourself among the lucky and don’t fret over the status quo. Those people have boring sex anyway. This is one conversation that you could come at from any angle and it would probably be successful. Hell, you could spell “Threesome?” in shaving cream on an older, portly Greek man’s naked body and he would probably still be down. DR. D: As we commonly say in sex research (something commonly attributed to Kinsey), “the only normal is variation.” You feel a sense of freedom. You have “amazing, adventurous” sex and now you have a new adventure in mind. Great! Sometimes threesomes turn out well, sometimes they don’t. You’ll have a better chance at a good outcome if you talk ahead of time about what your
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DR. D: You could turn it into a carrot at the end of the stick — like, you get to do this kind of sex play for every 5 times you have sex, or once a month, or you could save it in a less scheduled way by saying something like about that kind of sex play is for every now and then, but not your preferred kind of sex play on a regular basis. If it’s his preferred, it’s something you’ll need to talk about and figure out how it fits into the bigger picture, but it should be doable. If you find yourself at a standstill but feel you still want to make it work as a couple, bringing a sex therapist into the picture may help (find one through aasect.org or sstarnet.org).
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’re entering a volatile phase of your cycle. In the coming weeks, you could become a beguiling monster who leaves a confusing mess in your wake. On the other hand, you could activate the full potential of your animal intelligence as you make everything you touch more interesting and soulful. I am, of course, rooting for the latter outcome. Here’s a secret about how to ensure it: Be as ambitious to gain power over your own darkness as you are to gain power over what happens on your turf. Scorpio
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The ancient Greek philosopher Thales is credited as being one of the earliest mathematicians and scientists. He was a deep thinker whose thirst for knowledge was hard to quench. Funny story: Once he went out at night for a walk. Gazing intently up at the sky, he contemplated the mysteries of the stars. Oops! He didn’t watch where he was going, and fell down into a well. He was OK, but embarrassed. Let’s make him your anti-role model, Gemini. I would love to encourage you to unleash your lust to be informed, educated, and inspired — but only if you watch where you’re going.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I’m a big fan of the attitude summed up by the command “Be here now!” The world would be more like a sanctuary and less like a battleground if people focused more on the present moment rather than on memories of the past and fantasies of the future. But in accordance with the astrological omens, you are hereby granted a temporary exemption from the “Be here how!” approach. You have a poetic license to dream and scheme profusely about what you want your life to be like in the future. Your word of power is tomorrow.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Charles Darwin is best known for his book The Origin of Species, which contains his seminal ideas about evolutionary biology. But while he was still alive, his best-seller was The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms. The painstaking result of over forty years’ worth of research, it is a tribute to the noble earthworm and that creature’s crucial role in the health of soil and plants. It provides a different angle on one of Darwin’s central concerns: how small, incremental transformations that take place over extended periods of time can have monumental effects. This also happens to be one of your key ALLI themes in the coming months.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A philanthropist offered $100,000 to the Girls Scouts chapter of Western Washington. But there were strings attached. The donor specified that the money couldn’t be used to support transgender girls. The Girl Scouts rejected the gift, declaring their intention to empower every girl “regardless of her gender identity, socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation.” Do you have that much spunk, Capricorn? Would you turn down aid that would infringe on your integrity? You may be tested soon. Here’s what I suspect: If you are faithful to your deepest values, even if that has a cost, you will ultimately attract an equal blessing that doesn’t require you to sell out. (P.S. The Girls Scouts subsequently launched an Indiegogo campaign that raised more than $300,000.)
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A researcher at the University of Amsterdam developed software to read the emotions on faces. He used it to analyze the expression of the woman in Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting, the Mona Lisa. The results suggest that she is 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. Whether or not this assessment is accurate, I appreciate its implication that we humans are rarely filled with a single pure emotion. We often feel a variety of states simultaneously. In this spirit, I have calculated your probably mix for the coming days: 16 percent relieved, 18 percent innocent, 12 percent confused, 22 percent liberated, 23 percent ambitious, and 9 percent impatient. Leo
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “What makes you heroic?” asked philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Here’s how he answered himself: “simultaneously going out to meet your highest suffering and your highest hope.” This is an excellent way to sum up the test that would inspire you most in the coming weeks, Virgo. Are you up for the challenge? If so, grapple with your deepest pain. Make a fierce effort to both heal it and be motivated by it. At the same time, identify your brightest hope and take a decisive step toward fulfilling it. Virgo
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Consider the possibility of opening your mind, at least briefly, to provocative influences you have closed yourself off from. You may need to refamiliarize yourself with potential resources you have been resisting or ignoring, even if they are problematic. I’m not saying you should blithely welcome them in. There still may be good reasons to keep your distance. But I think it would be wise and healthy for you to update your relationship with them. Aquarius
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Over 10,000 species of mushrooms grow in North America. About 125 of those, or 1.25 percent, are tasty and safe to eat. All the others are unappetizing or poisonous, or else their edibility is in question. By my reckoning, a similar statistical breakdown should apply to the influences that are floating your way. I advise you to focus intently on those very few that you know for a fact are pleasurable and vitalizing. Make yourself unavailable for the rest. Pisces
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