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INDIANA STATE FAIR It’s that special time of year, when all of Indiana gathers to celebrate all-things-agriculture. Oh, and there are massive machines that hurl you around, as well. We present a handful of stories, from the Pioneer Village stage to sustainable food stories to our top picks for the week. COVER IMAGE BY SHELBY KELLEY
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FITNESS FARM REALIZES SERVAAS VISION An expansive estate on the near-Northwestside, is making good on a long-standing promise to open its doors to the broader community as The Fitness Farm, a nonprofit focused on reducing childhood obesity. BY FRAN QUIGLEY
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from the readers Balanced breakfast = balanced biking
Eating for riding is tricky until you understand the role of carbs and protein (“Figuring out food,” Katelyn Coyne, July 26). Your exercise is fueled by carbs. Cereals (grains) turn into blood sugar quite rapidly giving a you a quick boost but no fuel for later. Adding proteins (such as your nuts or eggs) makes those same carbs process much slower making them convert to blood sugar over a longer period. As your mother probably told you, eat a balanced breakfast!
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Schooling the school
When a school receives public money, like it or not, they are held accountable to the same standards as all public schools (“The Project
School debacle,” David Hoppe, July 30). I feel for those families that are seeing a school they care about close, but the school has failed to meet the state standards. I find it ironic that many used test scores to defend the need for school choice but now that those same standards are being applied to their school of choice and children are still failing, they are complaining about those standards.
Paul NUVO.NET Check out all the opinions about The Project School from NUVO contributors and readers on NUVO.net.
corrections Last week’s Soundcheck mistakenly referred to IndyMojo festival MojoStock as MojoFest. Also, In last week’s interview with Not Working author DW Gibson, we misspelled the name of one of Gibson’s interviewees, Kelly Graham-MacDonald.
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HAMMER Romney’s record will hurt him
Cut-throat capitalism not an easy sell BY STEVE HAMMER SHAM M ER@ N UVO.NET
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ith less than 100 days to go before the presidential election, the public opinion polls would have us believe the race is close. Mitt Romney is neck and neck with President Barack Obama. I’m not so sure. And after watching Romney embarrass himself repeatedly on his overseas trip, I’m even more convinced that Obama is going to win this election easily. It’s a hard job to make the British unite in hatred an American politician. They’re America’s lapdog. They export reality shows and pop stars to us as repayment for saving them from the Nazis seven decades ago. In exchange, they kiss the butts of every president. Romney angered them on the eve of the Olympics by suggesting London was unprepared for the Games. By implication, he was saying that nothing could compare to the excellent job he, Romney, did organizing the Salt Lake City Olympics. Even though this was a minor incident, it’s emblematic of the reason Romney will blow this election that, by all rights, he should win in a landslide. It’s not just that he’s out of touch with the American people, boasting about his Cadillacs during an economic depression. It’s that he doesn’t care that he’s out of touch. Ironically, while Republican activists seem to be the most engaged and passionate they’ve been in the last 30 years, they’re about to nominate a man who takes palpable pride in his complete utter lack of any beliefs on any issues whatsoever except his own ambition for power. He’s always been the CEO of everything he’s ever done, he’s waited his turn and now he feels he deserves to be elected the CEO of America merely because he’s Mitt Romney. Americans have punished that sort of naked arrogance in the past and will likely do so again in November. Instead of being a referendum on the past four years of Obama’s presidency, the election is going to be instead a decision as to whether Romney deserves this promotion to which he feels so entitled. In a sense, Romney embodies what the Republican Party has become: a confederation of rich and powerful businessmen with a rich sense of entitlement and a belief in
making things easier for rich people. He is literally the man whose job it was to buy companies, fire everyone and then go enjoy a round of golf. His job was to make his corporation more profitable for its shareholders no matter what the human cost. Because of him, thousands of Americans saw their jobs outsourced while Romney made himself and his cronies richer. His job-cutting policies hit Indiana workers hard. Go talk to the former employees of Ampad, a paper company Romney purchased in 1992 in Marion. Hundreds of workers were laid off and wages for the remaining workers were cut. The company later went bankrupt. Romney profited from the deal. To the candidate, these accusations seem unfair. Isn’t it a capitalist’s job to make money and more money? If a few thousand people have to suffer because of business decisions, that’s just how the game works. Economic Darwinism. Romney is the less charismatic, less polished version of Ronald Reagan, who so firmly believed in the unalienable right for the rich to get richer that he helped dismantle all the regulations that once protected us from people like Romney. If you could build a time machine and tell voters that electing Reagan would usher in an era of unbridled big business that would end up destroying small businesses, labor unions and local ownership, many of them would have voted for the Gipper anyway. As Reagan helped provoke the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, he was building a similar capitalist dictatorship at home by freeing up large corporations to exert even more economic control over our lives. Reagan tore down the Berlin Wall and wrecked local banks, manufacturing sectors and small businesses here at home. He brought us the freedom of the economic slave, forced to buy cheap, foreign-made goods at WalMart, bank at Chase and watch idly as people like Romney bought their businesses and closed them. That’s one of the many reasons that this election won’t even be close. The past four years haven’t been paradise, but, given a choice between someone who understands average Americans and someone who doesn’t, the electorate will make the right choice. Romney’s arrogance, lack of convictions and country-club persona would serve him well as the commissioner of baseball. He would also make an excellent bankruptcy judge, since he’s helped create so many indigent people in the private sector. So enjoy the Olympics, try and get in a few days’ vacation somewhere nice and forget about the election for the next few months. No matter what Fox News or Drudge try to tell you, Romney has less than a 30 percent chance of pulling off a miracle and winning this election. Our country is still safe from a return of Reagan cutthroat economics for at least the next four years.
Romney is the less charismatic, less polished version of Ronald Reagan.
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HOPPE The Project School debacle The myth of school choice and parental input “
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eet the new boss,” The Who’s Pete Townshend once sang. “Same as the old boss.” Those lines have been roiling through my head in the days since Mayor Greg Ballard announced he wanted to close The Project School, one of the city’s charter schools. The Project School has had more than its share of problems: Of its 311 K-8 students, only 28.9 percent passed the latest round of ISTEP tests — one of the poorest showings of any school in the state; the city questions its debt-to-asset ratio; and state auditors said it improperly used federal grants to cover salaries and operational expenses. Although the school disputes the interpretation of some of these numbers, they remain serious issues; they demand scrutiny and open the school’s administration to criticism. At the very least they raise questions about whether the school, under its present leadership, is sustainable. But the mayor’s decision to bring the hammer down on The Project School only weeks before the school year begins is just as questionable. It’s an all-too familiar example of the reductive, authoritarian streak underlying the reform rhetoric put forward by such seemingly enlightened groups as The Mind Trust, the non-profit organization charged with improving the city’s public schools. If you’ve ever been the parent of a school-age kid in Indianapolis, you’ve heard ad nauseum about the importance of school choice and about how eager school principals and teachers are for you to be involved in your child’s education. Officials strongly hint that one measure of parental competence is based on the extent to which you are willing to lend a hand at school events and programs. The problem is that, in too many cases, your ideas are the last thing school administrators want. Parental involvement is fine as long as you do whatever educators want you to do. But raise a question like, for example, why a high school kid with no demonstrable aptitude for math should be made to continue taking math courses when she might more successfully study other subjects and you hit a brick wall. You’ll hear that the state has requirements and that those require-
ments are set in stone. It’s your job to get with the program. When NUVO decided to present a Cultural Vision Award to The Project School, we did it, in part, because of the stories we were told about parents who had seen their kids fail in one school after another. These kids had often been expelled from previous schools or had been held back from advancement. What these kids were learning was that they were losers who couldn’t fit in. As far as these kids and their parents were concerned, schools — regardless of whether they were public or private — were not on their side. And that’s the way it is for a lot of kids in Indianapolis. Schools seem to be run for somebody else — politicians and business leaders, bureaucrats and policy wonks — kids and their parents are treated like so much raw material. The No. 1 lesson taught is learning to do what you’re told. The Project School, whatever its failings, has made no bones about being on the side of the kids who go there. Its stated commitment to “heart, mind and voice” has provided a sense of community for kids, enabling them to begin understanding themselves as participating citizens. Over the past four years, the school claims that only one student has been expelled, making The Project School the court of last resort for many desperate parents. Under these circumstances, you would think that the mayor and his brain trust would welcome the existence of a truly alternative school — and would go about trying to save this singular example of school choice, not close it down. Apparently school choice ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. Not when it comes to The Project School and not, for that matter, when it comes to those parents, at The Project School and elsewhere, who earlier this year began exploring the possibility of having their kids simply sit out the ISTEP test. They question the test’s validity and the outsized importance state bureaucrats have attached to it, including the way test results can affect a school’s very existence. The funny thing is it turns out the bosses at the State Department of Education are so used to having people do whatever they say, they haven’t quite figured out how to respond to this exercise in passive resistance — yet another form of choice. Stay tuned. Meanwhile, the mayor enlisted his former communications director Robert Vane and Angela Smith-Jones, an official with the city’s Chamber of Commerce, to set up a “school enrollment fair” for potentially dispossessed Project School students. Of course, these kids and their parents thought they’d already made a good school choice. Too bad for them the boss thought otherwise.
Parental involvement is fine as long as you do whatever educators want you to do.
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THUMBSUP THUMBSDOWN BIKE TO THE FAIR Think of it as the most fun multi-tasking to be had in the city: Travel to the fair by bike AND offset all those shameless calories to be found in the lemon shake-ups, tenderloins and deep-fried cornucopia that sprout across the facility. The Central Indiana Bicycling Association will make it easy by offering a “Pedal & Park” at the old “Boulevard Station” at 38th Street and the Monon Trail. It’s free and secure plus the Central Indiana Bicycling Association volunteers, who have operated the stand for 15 years, will give $1 fair discount coupon to all who pedal in. The stand’s hours are set from 9 a.m. – 8 p.m. CIBA estimates parking almost 1,700 bikes last year. This year, it has signed up more than 200 volunteers to help with the effort.
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BUSINESS AS USUAL Opponents of the scuttled “Freedom to Work” ordinance fretted it represented, as Mayor Greg Ballard put it in his veto, “an overreaching overly burdensome city regulation on business because it unreasonably interferes with private entities’ right to freely contract with each other.” Hotel workers and union organizers flooded the city-county council chambers to support the effort, with many claiming that temporary agencies make agreements with their clients which prevent the hotels from hiring temporary workers directly into permanent staff positions. Opponents of the proposed ordinance said no one ever produced proof that such a practice exists — at least not written a document. The testimonials of hotel workers’ experiences, it seems, were not sufficient. Five days after the mayor’s veto, Elvia Bahena, a worker subcontracted to work at Hyatt who testified at the council hearing, was fired. Absent of written agreements that effectively work to keep the most impoverished among us — many immigrants — locked into indentured servitude, it seems the unwritten rules of business may be alive and well.
MINDFUL CONSUMPTION As high temperatures and extended drought continue to pressure local reservoirs, Indy residents are cooperating with official efforts to limit their water usage. On July 29, Citizens Energy Group reported that its customers used 143 million gallons, tens of millions less than they were using a month ago. “Compliance with water use restrictions continues to be high with water usage currently 59 million gallons per day less than before restrictions took effect on July 13 and 90 million gallons per day less than the peak usage recorded on June 28,” Sarah Holsapple, Citizens’ media liaison, reported in her most recent update.
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Elite enclave recast as beacon of broader health BY FRA N Q U I G LE Y A U T H O R@N U VO . N E T An expansive estate on the nearNorthwestside is making good on a longstanding promise to open its doors to the broader community as The Fitness Farm, a nonprofit focused on reducing childhood obesity. “This was Mom’s vision,” says Joan SerVaas, camp director and president and publisher of The Saturday Evening Post. “Our goal was always to take this property and devote it to children’s health.” That goal of Dr. Corey SerVaas, the former publisher of The Post, and her husband, longtime City-County Council President Buert SerVaas, was once the cause of controversy. Criticism of the family’s transfer of this property to notfor-profit corporations they controlled, while apparently still deriving substantial personal use of the property and its facilities, was the subject of a feature article in this publication (“Beurt’s Backyard,” March 16-23, 2000). The SerVaas estate is now abuzz with the activities once limited to drawing-board concepts. Now in its second year of operation, the Forever-Fit summer camp is helping children to shed weight and body mass and learn habits that will hopefully lead to healthier lifestyles. The morning scene at Forever-Fit Summer Camp is almost identical to one playing out at other day camps all
Indianapolis’ Big Latch On
Global breastfeeding movement gets local BY RE BE CCA T O W N S E N D R TO W N S E N D @N U V O . N E T In celebration of World Breastfeeding Week (Aug. 1-7), a synchronized breastfeeding event, pitched as "The Big Latch On," will commence around the world to promote the health benefits of nursing.
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Joan SerVaas, camp director and president and publisher of The Saturday Evening Post , surveys the camp scene with Olgen Williams, Indianapolis deputy mayor of neighborhoods.
around the community. About three dozen kids sit at several tables in a large airy dining hall, eating breakfast, laughing, and discussing the day’s plans for bike riding, tennis, and a hike. A few signs betray this camp’s special mission. The calories for the morning’s breakfast — English muffin, cantaloupe, eggs — are written on a flip chart at the front of the hall, all the easier for the kids to record the food into their daily meal and exercise journals. Later in the day, the adjoining kitchen area will host the campers’ parents for a nutrition seminar and a cooking demonstration. Almost all of the kids here at the 24-acre Fitness Farm are coping with weight issues. Forever-Fit is designed to help them and their families adjust their lifestyle and eating habits. “The epidemic of childhood obesity is mind-boggling,” Dr. Sandeep Gupta, director of Riley Hospital for Children’s POWER Program and a consultant to the camp, said. “This epidemic can’t be addressed in a hospital or doctor’s office, it has to be addressed in the community.” Gupta’s research on the Forever-Fit camp strategies is scheduled to be published in a scientific journal in a few months. The six-week camp, staffed in part by dieticians and fitness experts, is sponsored
Indy Breastfeeding Moms, a chapter of the nonprofit Breastfeeding USA, will host a local Latch On to increase access to local support networks, provide educational materials and bolster cultural acceptance of breastfeeding. The event is set to start at 10:30 a.m. at Commonwealth Apartments Gymnasium, 23 N. Rural St. The Big Latch On was born in 2005 in New Zealand. By 2011, 5,687 women participated worldwide. Organizers hope to top that number during this year's event. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's 2011 Breastfeeding Report Card, 11.4 percent of Indiana mothers reported exclusive nursing for the first six months of their babies' lives,
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IUPUI ROTC members lead Forever-Fit campers on a workout.
“The epidemic of childhood obesity is mind-boggling.” – Dr. Sandeep Gupta, director of Riley Hospital for Children’s POWER Program and Forever-Fit consultant
by the Saturday Evening Post Society and Children’s Better Health Institute. The camp caters to children aged 8-12 and its $100-per-week cost is often offset by financial assistance. The SerVaas-founded organizations have plans to build an indoor swimming pool and fitness center on the grounds
compared to the national average of 14.8 percent. The World Health Organization recommends exclusive breastfeeding for a baby's first six months of life. Seventy percent of Indiana mothers reported breastfeeding at least once, trailing the national average of 75 percent. The Indiana State Department of Health reports that breastfed babies enjoy greater protections from infections and illnesses, including asthma, diarrhea, ear infections, pneumonia and sudden infant death syndrome. Officials also note children who are breastfed for six months are less likely to become obese and mothers who breastfeed are less likely to develop breast and ovarian cancers.
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that already host an outdoor pool, tennis courts, a soccer field, and pens for chickens—the source of the morning’s eggs. The Post is also publishing a book for kids on nutrition and fitness. After breakfast, the campers jog onto the sprawling lawn of the property, first going through an exercise routine and a hike led by IUPUI ROTC members, then breaking into groups for games of tennis and four-square. Two girls rush over to show off a baby frog they found on their hike. Parents routinely walk a mile around the grounds with their kids before they head home at the end of the day. One Mom even stopped by before work to play tennis with her son. “This keeps him active — and me, too,” she said, wiping some sweat from her brow. “The folks here really help us all be aware of fitness and nutrition issues, not as much because it is a weight issue but because it is a lifelong health issue.”
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Indy Breastfeeding Moms will host a local event in support of the 2012 Big Latch On.
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When proponents of clean energy gather in Broad Ripple Saturday to advocate an evolution away from fossil fuels, they won’t be alone. The local demonstration is planned in conjunction with a series of actions around the world centered on the theme of ending fossil-fuel dependency and off-shore drilling. Global event organizer, Hands Across the Sand, reports that activists are planning to gather at noon in their respective time zones in at least 32 states and five continents. “Hoosiers need to take climate change, and our dependency on fossil fuels seriously,” local event organizer Angie Brooks said. “Maybe this year, when the high was 100 degrees day after day, and our state is brown instead of green, we should consider going green, instead of brown.” The event kicks off in New Zealand, moving around the globe throughout the day with the final action set to take place in Hawaii. In Indiana, the rally is set for noon Aug. 4 near the Monon Trail on the corner of Coil Street and Cornell Avenue. Participants are welcome to arrive as early as 10:30 a.m. at 6528 Cornell Ave., Ste. B, to create signs. Participants are encouraged to utilize public transportation, ride bikes, or carpool. “We are all energy, need energy, use energy,” Brooks said. “Energy is non-partisan. This is a family-friendly, peaceful gathering.” Brooks was born and raised in Indiana, but developed her sense of environmental activism while living in Florida. She learned about the fragility of ecosystems living on the Gulf Coast, in Naples, where she taught her daughter to swim. She held a Hands Across the Sand event in Atlanta following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 and hopes that the upcoming action will increase awareness of the
ongoing issues related to the disaster. Tourism and fishing industries are still recovering from the explosion on British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which killed 11 workers, injured 17 others and launched an epic oil spill of more than 200 million gallons that is responsible for what officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration call the largest Natural Resources Damage Assessment ever taken. Among the damage so far chronicled by NOAA scientists: dead and dying coral and anemic, underweight dolphins with compromised immune systems and liver and lung diseases related to oil exposure. Election season is also likely to inflame the rhetoric surrounding energy issues. On July 25, House Republicans voted to revoke the Obama administration’s fiveyear plan for offshore drilling. The Interior Department’s 2012-2017 offshore oil and gas leasing program, proposed 15 potential lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and around Alaska, while the Republicans’ plan, according to a July 25 Politico story, “provides for 29 lease sales over the same five-year period, and includes areas of the Atlantic coast from Maine to Virginia, and areas off the southern coast of California as well as Alaskan and Gulf areas.” Pundits predict the effort is not likely to find support in the Senate, plus the White House promised a veto. Still, it will force several legislators to take a public stance on the issue in an election year. Republicans estimate an increase in offshore drilling would bring in $600 million, along with thousands of jobs. A statement from the Office of Management said the administration’s plan “makes areas containing more than 75 percent of estimated, technically recoverable oil and gas resources in our oceans available for exploration and development — including all of the highest resource areas on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf.” Among the chief complaints about the Republicans’ proposed expansion, officials said, the proposal would open several new areas to potential drilling without oversight from the secretary of the interior, who is charged with assessing the suitability of new sites. “The bill also would establish unworkable deadlines and substantive and procedural limitations on important environmental review and other analysis that is critical to complying with laws,” officials said, naming the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act, among others.
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Indiana State Fair Events Aug. 3 - Friday INDIANA’S URBAN GARDEN, GREENHOUSE, 9 A.M.-8 P.M. Green Broad Ripple Urban Garden Committee and other community organizations will give presentations in the Greenhouse on sustainable urban gardening projects every day during the fair. Find out what gardening projects are happening in your area and get involved. Talk about green innovations, sustainability, the organizations and local food and network with environmentally-conscious neighbors. Free w/admission. ST. VINCENT HEALTH EXHIBITS AND ACTIVITIES, STATE FAIR BOULEVARD, 10 A.M.-10 P.M. This wellness extravaganza is sponsored by the St. Vincent Hospital network in and around Downtown. Their “Prevention Parkway” will be on State Fair Boulevard for health related screenings, early detection and prevention information. The Ninth Annual Tobacco-Free Day is Friday and fair-goers are encouraged not to smoke, even though most visitors are outside. Have yourself checked by professionals before you embark on your state fair culinary journey or experience the rides. Free w/admission.
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(Excerpted from Food for Thought: An Indiana Harvest, published August 2012 by Indiana Humanities)
F MONSTER TRUCK NATIONALS PRESENTED BY LUCAS OIL, HOOSIER LOTTERY GRANDSTAND, 1& 7 P.M. Who among us hasn’t been stuck in a traffic jam, bored, hot, and cranky, and wishing for some type of vehicle impervious to such trivialities? We give you monster trucks, whose gigantic wheels, tricked-out bodies, and massive engines guarantee that traffic is never a problem. Watch these trucks and live out your road-rage fantasies, smashing cars, doing wheelies, and creating general havoc. $5 COOKING WITH THE POWER OF WHOLE FOODS, ELLISON BAKERY HOME & FAMILY ARTS CULINARY STAGE, NOON A whole food is a pure food, free of processing, refining, added ingredients or any kind of enhancing additive. It’s food the way our ancestors ate it: pulled straight from the earth or brought in from the field; washed, peeled or skinned; cooked and placed on our plates. Annessa Chumbley, owner of Flourish! Nutrition Inspiration, will lead a demonstration on how to enjoy healthy food and cook well with it, dropping tidbits along the way on how to live a healthy and happy life outside of the kitchen as well. Free w/admission.
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(appearing Aug. 8) Wildflower Ridge Honey, Anderson David Barrickman of Wildflower Ridge Honey in Anderson is a fourth-generation beekeeper. A former president of the Indiana Beekeepers Association, Barrickman made raising honeybees his business after a 37-year career as an engineer for General Motors. Lately, Barrickman has focused on trying to replenish Indiana’s diminishing honeybee population, which, he says, is stressed due what he calls “a concoction of chemicals that are now in the ground out there.” When we meet at a farmers’ market where he’s selling raw honey and other beehive products, including soaps and bee pollen, Barrickman says, “I’m not interested in producing a lot of honey. I’m more interested in making bees.” “My grandfather had bees for as long as I can remember. I was 46 when he passed away at 96. I really enjoyed being over at the farm and watching him catch swarms and put supers on and off — that’s the top box on the beehive, where you get the honey from. “The one thing I always hated when I was a little kid was when we were out working bees I would get stung, and Grandpa chewed tobacco and he’d always spit on the sting. He said it helped, but I don’t know. He said the tobacco juice would draw the poison out. “Before, when I wore the full gear, I would go in there and pull hives apart and throw this in that direction, pull honey out, and damage a lot of bees. When I quit wearing gloves, it slowed me down. I’m more patient. I’m slower. My observation time is much longer. I can inspect a beehive by just walking up to it and looking at it from the outside. Most people, when they open it up, all they see is bees. But I see bees, I see new nectar flows, I see brood, I see any type of disease I can recognize. Plus, I used to have some arthritic fingers and I don’t have those arthritic fingers anymore. That’s what we call bee venom therapy. A beehive’s God’s medicine cabinet, believe it or not.”
or the past year or so, while we've been sitting around the office here, NUVO Contributing Editor David Hoppe has been roaming the state, chatting with people from across the spectrum of the food and agriculture world, joined in his journeys by photographer Kristin Hess. Their travels have been in service of Food for Thought, a program launched in 2010 by Indiana Humanities to help Hoosiers think, read and talk about food. And now the fruits of their labors have been collected in a new book, Food for Thought: An Indiana Harvest, that will be the basis of a wide range of public programming, starting with an interview series at the DuPont Food Pavilion during the Indiana State Fair and continuing into the fall with visits to cities throughout the state. We provide here an apertif from the book in the form of four lightly edited profiles, each of a Hoosier food figure who will take part in a public interview at the pavilion. The book will be available at bookstores and via indianahumanities.org by early August, as well as during all Food for Thought programming.
PEDAL & PARK RETURNS TO INDIANA STATE FAIR The popular Pedal & Park program can be seen all over Indianapolis and beyond, and you can bet they’ll be on site the Indiana State Fair. Located right along the Monon Trail on the north side of 38th Street it’s perfectly situated for your fairgoing pleasure. It’s an easy, secure way to take care of your bike. Just pull up to the tent, get your bike registered, then they’ll watch over it, battling any anti-bicycle demons who try and harm your beloved wheels. Operated by CIBA (Central Indiana Bicycle Association), taking this Pedal & Park option will get you a $1 discount coupon to the fair. Hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. the entire run of the fair. For more: cibaride.org
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Chef Thom England’s culinary career began when he was a teenager, washing dishes in the kitchen of a local country club in Warsaw, Ind. Four years later, he was the club’s executive chef. Following stops at the University of Evansville and the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., England returned to Indiana in 1999 to work at the Chateau Thomas Winery in Plainfield. He currently serves as culinary arts instructor for the Ivy Tech Hospitality and Culinary Arts program in Indianapolis. He is also a cofounder of Dig-IN, a nonprofit dedicated to the promotion of Indiana food and agriculture. “We’ve got over 900 students in our culinary classes this fall. When I started, we had 240. We’re still placing 100 percent of our graduates. Two other culinary schools have opened up in the city, and they’re placing 100 percent of their graduates. So there was a need in the community for people to work in restaurants, to produce real food. “I also knew that if I could go in and
teach more people about some of the nutritional aspects of food — how to prepare good, healthy food — that they were going to go back to their own pockets and start doing the real work that needs to be done in some of those areas. “But then there isn’t a lot of food available in some parts of Indianapolis. I know people who have to take two or three buses to get to the grocery store. So one of the things I started doing three years ago was going into some of those communities, helping to build urban gardens and teaching more people how to grow a tomato on their balcony. “When I see people cooking with an Indiana tomato for the first time, and how that leapfrogs into their going to a farmers’ market and trying to eat as much locally as they can, that’s amazing. It makes a huge impact when we start to eat local and that money stays local. If each Indiana resident spent about $5 per week on local food, it would make a $1.5 billion impact on the state’s economy.”
Lali Hess and her husband, Doug Miller, have lived on their five-acre homestead farm in Montgomery County since 2004. This is the bucolic base for Lali’s catering business, the Juniper Spoon. Within sight of rows of blackberry bushes and fruit trees, is Lali’s kitchen, a gleaming state-of-the art workspace. When Lali and Doug decided to move from their home in Lancaster, Pa., they first considered settling in such foodie capitals as Madison, Wisc., Ann Arbor, Mich., or Iowa City. “We looked at all of them and then we decided together that we wanted to be part of the revolution and not just bask in what had already been established,” says Lali. “We were young and healthy and strong and had a little base of knowledge of agriculture — let’s go to where we would do more. We wanted to be part of the revolution.” “Permaculture is a philosophy of life and agriculture in which every resource is used to its fullest ability. It marries sustainability of household and garden with
animal husbandry. It can be backyard gardening or it can be an agricultural system, but everything works together. “Within 10 miles of my house, I get pork, beef, lamb, chickens (I could get ducks if I wanted to) eggs, goat cheese, any vegetable I want, herbs. And we just picked a spot on the map and moved here; we didn’t move here for those reasons. We were looking for a three-bedroom house on five acres anywhere around Indianapolis; I would guess this can probably be replicated all over the state. “You need to have a consumer that is willing to go either out of their way to find things or willing to pay to have it provided to them conveniently. In Europe and certain coastal cities, they have created those networks. Here, we’re having to create them from scratch. Our roads and our cities aren’t designed to support cottage industry, but I hope there’s a day when consumers and producers can work seamlessly together.”
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LUCAS OIL INDY SUPER PULL, HOOSIER LOTTERY GRANDSTAND, 1 AND 7 P.M. The godfather of all truck- and tractorpulling events is on its way back to the fair. The race was a highlight of the fair through the mid-’90s, then took a hiatus until last year, when it returned with a vengeance as part of the fair’s first ever Lucas Oil Motorsports Weekend. This year, each session will include four classes of tractors and trucks (though the classes will differ in each session, so there’ll be eight classes total), and they’ll be running on two tracks. For only $5 (in addition to fair admission), you can watch the drivers compete for a $49,500 prize. $5 INDY HULA, FORD DANCE STAGE, 3 P.M. If you’re looking for a taste of the islands, look no further than this performance by local dance group Indy Hula. They not only perform the ancient and modern versions of the Hawaiian hula, but they also demonstrate the traditional dances of other Polynesian and South Pacific islands, such as Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand, the Marquesas Islands, Tahiti and Tonga. If you enjoy the show, you can take classes with them Downtown at the Riolo Dance Studio. Free w/admission.
Aug 6. - Monday HAND-MILKING DEMONSTRATIONS, FAMILY FUN PARK, 9:30 A.M., 12:30, 3 AND 6 P.M. Perfect for the fair’s celebration of the Year of Dairy Cows, this exhibit gives visitors the chance to hand-milk a cow and participate in the pasteurization process. Participants can take part in creating cheese, butter and ice cream. Even better, you get to sample these “homemade” delights when they’re done! Free w/admission. INTERNATIONAL CIRCUS HALL OF FAME, HOOSIER LOTTERY GRANDSTAND, 2 AND 6 P.M. The International Circus Hall of Fame is from Peru, Ind. Don’t miss circus animals, memorabilia, as well as professional circus stars from around the world. Started in 1892, this act has stuck around for a reason! It features a traditional lineup of acrobats, jugglers, and trapeze artists. Exotic animals and domestic ones have found a place in this longstanding circus act. Champion Afghan dogs and the only Persian cat in circus performance have been featured. Come see what the circus has to offer this year! Free w/admission.
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Aug. 7 - Tuesday GHIRARDELLI CHOCOLATE RECIPE CONTEST, ELLISON BAKERY HOME & FAMILY ARTS CULINARY STAGE, 11 A.M. This contest involves … you guessed it: CHOCOLATE! All contestants will deliver their tastiest recipes using Ghirardelli chocolate and their cunning to out-deliver the competition. The winner will receive $150, as well as an extravagant chocolate gift basket. Free w/admission. THE MYSTERY OF COAL, DNR AREA, 11 A.M.-1 P.M. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources is hosting this event about coal whose mining and use as a source of energy is hotly debated in Indiana. Let them unravel the mystery of this substance, the “them” being the Division of Reclamation, which is responsible for overseeing coal mines currently in use, as well as land from which coal has previously been extracted. Free w/admission.
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THE BIG CHEESE UNVEILING, DUPONT FOOD PAVILION, NOON Nationally renowned cheese sculptor Sarah Kaufmann will return for her fifth year at the fair. No doubt Kaufmann’s cheese sculpture will reflect this year’s dairy cow theme. Last year’s model featured the Indianapolis Colts promoting the NFL’s Play 60 program. Kaufmann’s skills at creating cheese simulacra have earned her appearances on The Today Show. Avoiding obvious and painful puns about this being a cheesy event, the kitsch factor should be off the charts. Free w/admission. BATS: MYTH & REALITY, DNR AMPHITHEATER, 1 P.M. Perhaps after seeing The Dark Knight Rises for the fifth time you’ll be feeling suitably sympathetic to one of the most misunderstood critters in Indiana. The state’s Department of Natural Resources will shed some light onto the myths and realities of the bat. Without bats, you’d spend a fortune on citronella candles. Bats keep the insect population in check and despite what The Office might indicate, won’t fly into your hair or drink your blood. Bats also serve as inspiration for certain orphaned billionaire playboys with a flair for the theatrical and vigilantism. Free w/admission.
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The Barn Dance Tribute Show crew includes Bill Bailey (seated, front), who has booked Pioneer Village’s music lineup for almost a decade.
Sit a spell, go away happy BY RITA KO HN RKO HN @ N UVO . N ET Music and farm life are as natural a pair as bread and butter, so it’s fitting that Indiana State Fair’s Pioneer Village stage is filled with music every year. But it wasn't always so. Bill Bailey, who for almost a decade has been organizing music events at Pioneer Village, recalls the early years, when demonstrators of pre-modern farm life would just “sit on 5-gallon buckets and play old time music,” without planning performances ahead of time. Some impromptu sessions stretched from sunrise to sunset, and though each of the players was a bandleader in his or her own right, autoharp player Gerry Grey was the agreed-upon leader. “All Gerry had to do was point at someone and they’d play a song and everyone else would come in around it,” Bailey says. “One of the most popular music events Gerry started was Sunday mornings between 10 and 11. The whole back end of the building would be filled. It brings goose bumps talking about it. It was something special.” A Gospel Sing continues as a Sunday morning staple but now visitors sit on pews and groups play from a two-tiered stage about the size of a wagon bed. “Barn architecture with a front porch attitude,” Tim Nannet, director of Pioneer Village, says of the one-of-a-kind Pioneer Village stage, built in the early to mid 80s. AND THE RED-PAINTED PEWS? “Well, that’s how it is here at Pioneer Village,” Nannet recounts. “If there’s a need something shows up. Somebody probably said, well, now we’ve got a stage, we need something more than old folding chairs.” This year, once again on Sundays at 10 a.m. the Family Reunion String Band leads the Gospel Sing on Aug. 5 and 19; an Ohio-based gospel group leads on Aug. 11. Bailey, a percussionist proficient on a range of instruments, recalls he started playing at Pioneer Village in the early 1990s with his band Blackberry Jam and later, The Fall Creek Delta Boys.
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About nine years ago Grey asked Bailey if he’d be interested in taking her position as music [coordinator]. “She was a great mentor,” Bailey says. “I’ve followed her format to provide what’s now 140 hours of music at Pioneer Village since we went to 17 days.” BARN DANCE TRIBUTE SHOW The Barn Dance Tribute Show originated with string player Geoff Davis, who enlisted local acts to recreate the National Barn Dance, the Chicago-based radio variety show that anticipated the Grand Ole Opry. On the bill every year are an old time fiddle contest, a country classics band with audience participation, the Ice Cream Crank Off Contest and an original live play presented by “The Fair Lady Players.” In addition, this year's edition will celebrate Indiana songwriters. Through the course of the fair, the Pioneer Village stage will also host a Liar’s Contest and storytellers, along with small groups playing everything from blues to jazz to gospel. “Pioneer Village is alive with activity and the enthusiasm of presenters and spectators alike,” summarizes Nannet. “It’s an aspect unique to Indiana among the dozen Midwest state fairs where historic agriculture and modern ways of life now intermingle.”
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As a devoted narcissist, I — the brain in a jar known affectionately as “Señor Go&Do” — tend to prefer any art that features myself as the subject. Remember that Time cover where I was the Person of the Year? I do. So I’m more than a little piqued by Shawn Causey’s show, You Are Here, at Stutz Art Space. Causey tried out a new approach for this show, starting each piece by applying drywall mud and house paint to a canvas, then sanding down that surface before adding metallic spray paint. The end product has a reflective, even phosphorescent quality; hence, I become the model for each piece, in all my resplendence. As part of a recent initiative in the Stutz world, visitors to Causey’s show on First Friday are invited to head up a floor to more than 12 studios presenting mini open houses; it’s a chance to see what Stutz artists are up to outside of annual opportunities like the Open House. Down the road, the Harrison Center for the Arts and the Herron Art Library are teaming up to present Bookmark, their annual book art show, at the Harrison. Look for a few traditional pieces in book form, as well as all manner of violence inflicted on books in the name of deconstruction. So many any ruffled pages! So much wasted ink! Inhabiting the other Harrison galleries are Nathan Foxton, Tyler Meunick and Michael Helsley; additionally, Indy Reads Books will be collecting used books donations, while Herron High School will take any and all school supplies in a big blue tent in the courtyard. I’ll point out one more event worth stopping by, and then leave you to
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Not all extracurricular programming presented in conjunction with the IMA’s latest exhibition, Snapshot, is directly concerned with the show’s subject: namely, painters who became amateur photographers when the first manageable, point-and-shoot camera hit the market in 1888. One might learn about those guys in the show itself, then head over to hear Edward Tenner talk about the broader themes at work when any technology is adopted — how new technologies can fulfill latent desires; how cell phone cameras meet our demands for mobility and ease of use in the same way the Kodak did at the turn of the century; how the widespread use of cell phones has changed our behavior, as we become increasingly aware that our smart phone can also be a handy-dandy tracking device. A freelance writer frequently published in The Atlantic and visiting scholar at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information, Tenner will speak to all or some of the above issues Thursday night in a talk titled “Still Pushing Our Buttons: Mass Photography in the Electronic Age.”
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your druthers. iMOCA is back in action this week with Charon’s Pantheon, an exhibition of life-size paper-mache statues by California-based artist Myron Conan Dyal, who draws inspiration from visions that come to him during seizures. Dyal has temporal lobe epilepsy; he considers Charon his spiritual guide through these recurrent visions and seizures, and his statues (as well as other drawings and paintings) reflect his attempt to create a mythology responsive to his worldview and condition. Dyer will be present for the opening of the exhibition, which features a soundtrack by Jennifer Logan representative of each goddess in Dyal’s (and Charon’s) pantheon. And just so you know we didn’t miss them, head to pg. 23 for more on Primary Colours’ tenth anniversary show and Marna Shopoff’s exhibition at Wug Laku’s.
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One might expect to find Chris Edwards — the author of two books on philosophy and a new book on education, Teaching Genius: Redefining Education with Lessons from Science and Philosophy, as well as a frequent contributor to Skeptic and Free Inquiry — in a college environment, perhaps heading up a think tank dedicated to building the perfect, all-climate curriculum. But one would be wrong. Edwards teaches world history at a public high school around these parts, and his experience informs his on-the-ground philosophy that teachers “should not be viewed as individuals who adopt systems, but as professionals who are invited to shape and advance their field,” specifically by trying out new approaches and methodologies and then publishing those results in dialogue with others in the field. 6 p.m. @ 350 Canal Walk, Ste. A, free, teachinggeniusrowman.com
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Iibada Dance’s ‘Glorious: The Redemption’ @ Marian University Theatre When Sabra Logan moved here from Baltimore in the late '80s, she found something missing. “I didn’t see an opportunity for African-American children or any children of color to do the types of things that were done on the East Coast,” Logan says. “I felt the training, if it was here, was so far out that it wasn’t reaching our children, period.” So the long-time kindergarten teacher became a dance instructor, founding Iibada Dance Company in 1989 with four members, each paying $1.50 per class. Today, approximately 50 students take classes at Iibada, which is comprised of two companies: one for children ages 5 to 9 and another for those ages 10 to 18. Classes remain cheap, running $15 each. “I keep everything as inexpensive as possible because I want it to be accessible for everyone,” she says. “I’m always looking for scholarships for folks who don’t even have the 15.” Ever the teacher, Logan, known to her students as Mama Sabra, stresses the importance of academics to all involved in Iibada; applicants for an internship must have a 2.5 GPA or higher and provide proof of collegiate enrollment. “You hear, ‘it takes a village’ – well, this is the village!” Lyn Sigman, a parent who helps with costuming at Iibada, says. “If kids come in and have had a hard day at school, we take a minute with them and then we send them out on the dance floor and we say, ‘Take all of that, and put it out there.’ It’s empowering.” Destiny Casson started dancing with the company when she was 5 years old. Now 17 and a teacher at Iibada, she plans to attend Howard University as a dance major.
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“Iibada has been the most influential part of my life,” Casson says. “Not only my dancing life, but in creating me as a person. It’s brought me out of my shell and made me the person I am today. It has truly, truly been a moving force in my life.” Iibada alumni have made dance their profession in the past by joining the Alvin Ailey Dance Company or founding their own dance companies. And Mama Sabra is at the center of it all. She hires teachers, choreographers, finds spaces to rehearse in, develops concepts for shows. At rehearsals, she switches between watching the dancers, acting as a mediator between two students, approving costumes for the upcoming show, talking about finances, and leading a prayer, multi-tasking with speed and grace at a pace that would give whiplash to most. Now working with her third generation of students, Logan is determined to keep things going, despite challenges. “Having our own facility is the biggest challenge,” she says. “Some place to call home. Because my passion is to make sure I am accessible for everyone, it’s been a challenge to find the right floors and mirrors and the money to pay choreographers and the rent. Having the knowledge easily available is the most important thing.” Iibada’s next production, Glorious: The Redemption, opening this weekend, was inspired by Logan’s church life. “I looked at how everybody goes to church as a regular routine type thing,” she says. “There are so many distractions. People tapping on their kids, people winking and flirting, people going, ‘giiiiiirl, did you see?’ or even folks just passing notes. I wanted to highlight some of those distractive things. We are dancing through a church service.” First performed in 2005, Glorious is updated each performance with new dances and staging. — ELISE LOCKWOOD
Iibada Dance’s Glorious: The Redemption plays Aug. 2-4, 7 p.m. and Aug. 5, 4 p.m. @ Marian University Theatre, 3200 Cold Spring Road; $20 adults, $15 children 12 and under; iibadadance.org
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Galen DeKemper is on a mission. “I want skateboards to be perceived as the best thing ever.” Better than sex, heroin and Jesus. Step one in his plan? Putting on Placementality, a festival combining skateboarding with food (vegan burgers), beer (Sun King) and music (Oreo Jones, among others) to be held Aug. 4 at the Big Car Service Center. And it’s all free, with any donations being kicked right back to Big Car. DeKemper and his partner-in-skateboarding, Mike Block, came up with the plan about a year back. “Mike has been collecting wood for ramps for years,” DeKemper said, adding that “Jim Walker, the executive director of Big Car, helped us by giving us free reign and seeing our vision very early on.” The plan is to set up ramps both inside the Service Center building as well as in its community garden. Skaters will be able to weave in and out of indoor and outdoor spaces, with some of the outdoor asphalt having been repaired by Block to ensure a smoother ride. Skateboarding may be at Placementality’s core, but Block and DeKemper have expanded the event in an effort to, as Block puts it, “unite the subcultures” that inhabit the Lafayette Square area. Along with all the skateboarding events — including a free ride and opportunity to take lessons — the event will feature art and video by skateboarders, produce from Green B.E.A.N. Delivery (the event’s official sponsor) and music by a diverse sampling of bands, from Best of Indy emcee Oreo Jones to Fountain Square bands Learner Dancer and Crys. During the day, Placementality is geared more toward families and beginning skaters, with Rise Skateboard Shop
providing rentals and reduced prices on purchases. “People who don’t skate perceive it as something done in the skatepark,” DeKemper said. “We want Placementality to show skateboards as an object more integrated into the Indianapolis transit environment.” A movie screening and discussion panel about skateboarding inside the gallery space will follow through the afternoon, followed by free ride time geared at more advanced skateboarders, then choreographed skating until the light fades. “I’ll gauge the success of the event by how many people I don’t know,” Block said. “If it’s all people who’re my friends or who I’ve seen around, that’s cool, but if it’s a bunch of people I’ve never seen before, that would be the best.” — ELISE LOCKWOOD
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The pre-history of Primary Colours dates from 1998, when a couple veterans on the local art scene, Jeff Martin and Fred Shields, first hatched the idea of connecting local artists with the community at large in new, innovative ways. But Primary Colours is timing this week’s 10th anniversary celebration to 2002, when the organization established itself as a 501(c)(3) non-profit with all the fixings. Allotropy, an art-and-music party held through 2008 in abandoned spaces throughout the city, was Primary Colours’ flagship event in the early years. Art vs. Art, likely the world’s only painting competition featuring chainsaws, and Installation Nation, which features installations housed in metal shipping containers, were introduced later in the decade and continue to be held annually or semi-annually. It’s a measure of Primary Colours’ success that the organization is no longer a unique force on the Indy scene. Events like Oranje and TURF (IDADA’s art installation pavilion mounted during the Super Bowl) demonstrate that it’s almost become the norm to present art in an unconventional, interactive manner. As such, the braintrust behind Primary Colours is changing up its tactics a little in order to better aid local artists in their work. Shannan Spence, board president at Primary Colours, told us more. SHANNAN SPENCE: Today, with the success of First Friday and with so many more opportunities for local artists, we see artists needing more support in handling the business side of being a professional artist. While we still love putting
SPENCE: We moved into the Murphy building about a year ago, so the gallery is still a relatively new initiative for us. With the Primary Gallery, we have six shows a year and hope to continue to showcase some really amazing artists. We’re constantly challenging ourselves to stay relevant and asking artists how we can help them be more successful. We conducted two workshops last year to get a pulse on how artists could be better served in this city. We received some really great feedback that will continue to help us shape our events and programs. One of the small things we started doing is holding a closing reception for each of our shows. This usually takes place on the third Friday of the month, and it’s a great opportunity for people to see the show, chat with the artist and hang out with us for a bit. We love putting on events like Art vs. Art, Installation Nation and Toys. As long as artists still enjoy participating and people still have a great time at our shows, we will continue our labor of love! — SCOTT SHOGER
Primary Colours’ 10-year anniversary: A retrospective show opens Aug. 3, 6-10 p.m. @ Primary Gallery (Murphy Arts Center, 1043 Virginia Avenue, Ste. 217); for viewing appointments following Aug. 3, contact Hinfo@primarycolours.org
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Marna Shopoff: Structured Essence @ Wug Laku’s Studio and Garage The familiar and strange meld together in the work of Indy-based Marna Shopoff. Take, for instance, her painting “The Bathtub,” which shows the original construction pit of the World Trade Center not as it actually appeared in the late 1960s, but as if seen through the haze of a dream, with muted colors ranging from pink to lavender to orange. Other Shopoff compositions portray contemporary buildings that seem alight with a restless kinetic energy, as if viewed from a passing car. Much of Shopoff’s work evokes Midwestern architecture, but inspiration has come from beyond the Midwest — including Rome, which she first visited in 2009. “I was influenced not only by the visual beauty of the architecture but the overall physical experience of the space,” says Shopoff of her visit to Rome’s Piazza Navona. “The age of the buildings, the cracks in the architecture, and the lingering essence of the years of history reflected through the piazza’s atmosphere: the feeling of the air, the smell of the streets, and the residual energy of the place.” Not that Shopoff finds herself drawn to the Italian piazza (or town square) as a subject. The energy of her work has more to do with the hurried, fragmented nature of contemporary life. “We’re constantly in a state of unrest,” says Shopoff, referring to our wired society. “But we are also surrounded by structures where we can take comfort in the strength and solidity of the architecture. I use architectural structures as a way of questioning life though my paintings.” These structures that she chooses to represent on canvas, she says, are “strong and lasting while here, but ultimately fleeting in nature.” While her paintings wrestle with 20thcentury ideas and 21st-century dilemmas, the foundation of her work remains solidly classical in terms of technique.
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“Each piece starts by using imprimatura to stain the canvas, with a compositional under-painting while building up thin translucent layers with glazing techniques,” she says. “Working on multiple paintings at once I can intuitively respond to each piece building up layers over time.” Often Shopoff’s oil on canvas paintings begin with a photo reference “as a point of entry.” As multiple layers are applied, her work becomes increasingly abstract. Shopoff recently received two commissions through the Frank and Katrina Basile Center for Art. One, yet to be completed, is for a new Dow AgroSciences research facility. The other, “At Peace in the Ecosystem,” is a colorful diptych that will be on view at the fifth floor waiting room at IU Health Riley Children’s Hospital. The diptych painting pictures koi fish that swim upstream and become dragons. While it’s a different subject for Shopoff than usual, the overarching themes of strength and transformation are not out of line with her work. — DAN GROSSMAN
Structured Essence: Paintings by Marna Shopoff opens Aug. 3, 6-9 p.m. @ Wug Laku’s Studio & Garage (Circle City Industrial Complex,1125 Brookside Avenue, C7); continues through Sept. 1
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Fifth in Josiah Wolfe series is mystery-western hybrid BY RITA KOHN RKOHN@NUVO.NET It’s May 1875, and Josiah Wolfe’s life is in flux. He’s on furlough from riding with the Texas Rangers, awaiting reassignment and hopeful in his courtship of a certain Pearl Fikes. Austin, Texas, still doesn’t feel much like home to Wolfe, and his relationship with his 4-year-old son has remained
challenging since the death of his wife soon after the child’s birth. But an accusation of murder against a fellow Texas Ranger propels Wolfe into action — and a two-day quest to find the real killer and save his friend from hanging. A hybrid of mystery and western, The Coyote Tracker, the fifth novel in Noblesville-based author Larry Sweazy’s Josiah Wolfe series, takes us into the underbelly of Texas’s burgeoning capital city. Sweazy interjects secret military codes into the story, giving the reader a crack at solving a puzzle that’s eluding the elected sheriff. The book is another page-turner in the series, featuring a cast of unsavory characters and unexpected allies that have appeared in previous covers. Still, one wouldn’t turn the pages too quickly or risk missing lovely descriptions, such as that of a springtime sky in the hill country: “Gray clouds struggled to hold their shape as the west wind pushed at them, broke them apart, ate at them like termites on a fresh piece of wood.” Sweazy won the Will Rogers Medallion award for Western Fiction in 2012 for The Cougar’s Prey and for The Scorpion Trail in 2011. The Rattlesnake Season was a 2010 Best Book of Indiana finalist and in 2011, The Scorpion Trail became the first Western to win the Best Book of Indiana competition. In 2005, he won the Western Writers of America (WWA) Spur Award for Best Short Story. THE COYOTE TRACKER BY LARRY D. SWEAZY; BERKLEY BOOKS, 2012; LARRYDSWEAZY.COM e
page-turning western novel, not historical fiction, we forgive the disparity. Characters are fully drawn, places are meticulously described and incidents are plausible.” THE BADGER’S REVENGE (2011) “Sweazy spins a good yarn — and paints a realistic social, cultural and political triptych, drawing us into the climate and manners of the time and place.” THE COUGAR’S PREY (2011) “Josiah Wolfe is a flawed hero, which is what makes us embrace him all the more fiercely. He’s basically a simple, decent person most often out of his element in a world of intrigue. How he balances his integrity against political machinations set to destroy the fabric of a good life for the ‘little people’ is the stuff of Sweazy’s series.”
Larry Sweazy’s Josiah Wolfe novels THE RATTLESNAKE SEASON (2009) “Sweazy’s meticulous research lays out the stuff we like to believe and picks it apart to get to something closer to the truth. What sets Sweazy apart are his interior insights rounding each character with layered motivations for choices made at any particular moment. His poetic bent lifts descriptions beyond intellect and into the heart.” THE SCORPION TRAIL (2010) “Sweazy admits to altering historic timelines to heighten the drama, but since this is a
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Ruby Sparks t You discover you have the magical ability to create your own lover. How detailed will you be in customizing him or her? More importantly, when you complete the process, do you stop and let your lover develop as an individual with free will or do you play puppet master on an ongoing basis? Just how much of a control freak do you think you are? Ruby Sparks, a romantic comedy/drama by Little Miss Sunshine directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, veers from the usual rom-com path to explore the issue of control. The film is erratic — fizzy in parts and startlingly cruel in others — but engaging, especially when dealing with the ethics of the situation. Whether it’s a partner, son or daughter, friend or colleague, most people try to control others to one degree or another. Co-star and screenwriter Zoe Kazan puts that process in high relief. The premise is trite in the extreme, but structurally sound. Calvin Weir-Fields (Paul Dano, Little Miss Sunshine and There Will Be Blood) wrote a landmark novel at age 19. A decade later, he struggles with writer’s block and indie-film mopey-itis. After his
shrink (Elliott Gould) assigns him a onepage writing exercise (it took the therapist 10 years to come up with this idea?), Calvin starts writing about Ruby Sparks (Kazan), a quirky redhead he met in the park, speculating on her personality. A few days later he wakes to find Ruby in his home, exhibiting all the traits he typed. The stunned man tells his brother Harry (Chris Messina) about the situation. After the expected disbelief, Harry visits the house and meets Ruby, confirming she is not a hallucination. Calvin tests the otherworldy situation by typing new abilities for Ruby while Harry watches. She immediately exhibits those traits. So Calvin swears off writing any more about Ruby ... until she starts becoming more independent and — Egads! — gets along with his bohemian mother (Annette Bening) and stepfather (Antonio Banderas) better than he does. Reluctantly, Calvin heads for the typewriter, and we head for the startlingly cruel part of the story. Don’t come to Ruby Sparks expecting another Little Miss Sunshine. This film is thinner, mostly a two-character piece, save for the visit to Calvin’s mom’s home, which briefly captures the Sunshine spirit. Paul Dano’s Calvin is a difficult man, especially later in the story. Zoe Kazan (granddaughter of legendary director Elia Kazan) is beguiling as Ruby. Prepare to wince at some of the behaviors she is forced to exhibit, though. The well-known supporting cast (which includes Steve Cogan as Calvin’s agent) brightens the movie without stealing scenes. Messina adds to the story as Calvin’s concerned brother. He is less entertaining in scenes where Kazan paints him more crassly. Ruby Sparks is entertaining and thought-provoking, with a satisfying wrapup. Don’t be surprised if, after the movie, you find yourself evaluating your efforts to control/refine those in your inner circle. You may decide it’s your own behavior that needs a rewrite.
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LOCAL SPORTS DOCS AT INDY FILM FEST It’s well worth your while to catch up with a couple documentary shorts about local sports that screened as a double feature last week at the Indy Film Fest. First up on the bill was Black Baseball in Indiana, an effectively lensed and edited history edited history that includesthat includes archival footage of baseball icons and impressive recreations of historical baseball. The doc kicks off with a wide-ranging survey that looks at a laundry list of teams and players from around the state. It can be a lot of information to process, but it grounds the piece as the focus shifts to one team in particular. The Indianapolis Clowns, touted as the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball, take up the most sizable chunk of film, and interviews with surviving players and sport historians shine lights on the legendary antics of the team. Engaging in gags to the delight of all-ages audiences, the Clowns played some serious ball, too, being one of the first major teams to include Hank Aaron, the former home-run record holder, on its roster. The 30-minute film was produced by Ball State students, under the advisement of Negro Leagues historian Geri Strecker. More information and excerpts from the film are available at blackbaseball.tumblr.com. On the second half of the bill was Lucky Teter and his Hell Drivers, about a proto-Evel-Knievel stunt driver who thrilled state- and county-fair audiences in the 1930s with gravity-defying jumps and death-defying rolls executed in fresh, unmodified Plymouths. Wearing nothing but a pair of lucky boots, a leather football helmet and goggles, Lucky Teter would jump his cars not through just rings of fire, but walls of flaming 2-by4s, a stunt duplicated by the unit of motorcycle drivers he traveled the country with. The archival footage of Teter and his group doing their stunts is breathtaking even by today’s Hollywood standards. Interviews with some of the old Hell Drivers and their offspring sheds personal light on Teter himself. As the documentary follows his story’s too-tragic-to-be-true arc, it mixes sepia-toned film clips with interviews with the men who’ve taken over the Hell Driver franchise. An interview with Teter from an old radio broadcast is used throughout to shine light on the man’s simple sense of humor about his life-threatening line of work. A tight piece through and through, the film made me wonder how my old ’95 Accord might hold up on a double barrel roll. Lucky Teter and his Hell Drivers was directed by Dan T. Hall and narrated by Dave Dugan. A trailer is available at vizmofilms.com, where a DVD can be purchased for $19.95. — Maxwell Cothrel
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Hidden in plain sight BY KATY CARTER EDITORS@NUVO.NET When you walk through the door of the Endangered Species’ non-descript production facility on Indianapolis’ westside, you’re met with the overwhelming scent of chocolate. “We don’t smell it anymore, it’s really sad,” laughs Kelly Meinken,
who’s been with the company since it relocated here in 2005. “I think it takes about three months working here, and then you just stop smelling it.” Eight years ago, when Indianapolis philanthropist Wayne Zink decided to purchase a company with an established “give-back” policy, a web search zeroed in on Endangered Species Chocolate. It was late 2004, and the company was in its 11th year, headquartered in Talent, Ore. Its owner, John Stocking, had been ahead of his time environmentally. He started a 10 percent give-back program to benefit non-profits, and ran his boutique-sized organic chocolate company in an environmentally-conscious manner. Zink bought into the company (he is now majority owner), and in 2005 moved the production facility to Indianapolis.
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Endangered Species had a cult following on the West Coast, but the company wanted to push eastward, and a midwestern production location seemed like the logical way to accomplish his goal. Leadership found an old check-printing facility near I-465, gutted the building, brought in a single chocolate-molding machine and set up shop. Seven years later, the company has 40 employees and a production room outfitted with conveyor belt lines feeding various chocolate confections into molds and wrapping machines. Endangered Species now ships 20 tons of chocolate per week to individuals, distributors, and stores across the country. “We’re always looking for ways to improve efficiency and cut down on waste without compromising quality,” says Meinkin. She talks over the loud hum of a 1960s-era machine as it wraps chocolate bars in foil and paper with hypnotic speed and accuracy. “You can’t find these anymore — everything is going to heat-sealed plastic, all the mainstream chocolate brands like Hershey’s, because it’s cheaper. We want to use foil for our bars, so we keep this machine.” When renovating their facility, Endangered Species originally planned to get LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification, and completely revamped their HVAC system for that goal. But after the economic downturn, the company decided to accomplish a more accessible checklist of environmentally-friendly design decisions. Offices are outfitted with only recycled or recyclable materials, and the company continues to make adjustments to production to allow for more eco-friendly options. While lacking the space to be a “beanto-bar” company, careful attention is given to production at every stage. The cacao beans are grown in the Ivory Coast and Ecuador; the farms, visited regularly by the company, are either certified organic (for the “organic” chocolate) or use sustain-
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able practices (for the “natural” chocolate). Beans are grown ethically, with no slave labor, and are Rainforest Alliance certified. No preservatives or chemicals are used or added, and by late next year all but their milk chocolate products will be non-GMO (Meinken explains that sourcing certified non-GMO milk is a challenge they’re still working to overcome). The beans are fermented in their country of origin, using banana leaves and the heat of the sun. They’re then shipped stateside, where a production facility works with proprietary recipes to create their different varieties of dark and milk chocolate, including the top-selling 88 percent dark, and the 72 percent variety used as a base for many of the bars with inclusions. The chocolate arrives in Indianapolis in large cakes, where it is re-tempered, additions mixed in, and molded. “The chocolate is mixed in what is like a giant slow-cooker — and the longer it’s mixed the better the chocolate,” Meinken explains. “Ours is mixed for about seven days before it’s cooled and shipped to us.” Wayne Zink, who stepped down as CEO in 2010 but is still head of the board, is as committed as ever to the philanthropic foundation of the company. Endangered Species continues to donate 10 percent of net profits each year (with a guaranteed $10,000 in years that are not profitable), split between two non-profit foundations chosen every three years. The requirements for the non-profits are that they must impact species, habitat, and community. And while the typical customer, who might now find Endangered Species just as easily at Kroger as Whole Foods, might not know the philanthropic side of the company or the fact that it’s local to Indianapolis, the resulting product bears out the company’s commitment to detail and attention to sourcing. That’s important for those of us who — unlike employees working in the production facility each day — can still smell the chocolate.
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he original members of Journey came together when current drummer Deen Castronovo was just 8 years old. Consequently, he grew up worshiping the songs of the band he’s currently toured with for over 15 years. After the departure of founding members Steve Smith and Steve Perry and a 10-year hiatus, Castronovo got the call from remaining original member and guitarist Neal Schon to come and take hard rock arena classics like “Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin,” “Any Way You Want It” and, yes, ubiquitous bar singalong “Don’t Stop Believin’” back to the masses. Indy residents can see them Wednesday, Aug. 8, at Bankers Life. NUVO: Where are you right now? Let’s start with that. DEEN CASTRONOVO: I’m in Riverside, Calif. We’re going to be starting out rehearsals today in San Bernardino. NUVO: How exciting. Tell me about your rehearsal routine. How do you prepare for a tour like this? It’s different for a drummer because you have to keep your chops up in a different way. CASTRONOVO: The first thing I do around 10 a.m. is go and work out. Two months ago today, I had back surgery. I’ve got to do stretching exercises and get on a treadmill and do that. Then, about 30 minutes prior to rehearsal, I get on a treadmill. And that’s stretching. And then at rehearsal, we just go through the set list. We take it easy; we don’t kill it. When I come home, it’s time for family. I don’t bring my work home with me. After a tour, especially last year’s tour which was like 101 shows, I didn’t want to look at a drum set. I just spent time with my kids and my fiance and just hang. So we work on the set, work on each song. Everybody forgets something but me, which is awesome. ( Laughs) I’m like the Journey Encyclopedia, because I know all. I have a memory like a steel trap; if somebody forgets, they look at me. NUVO: Give me a brief sketch of your time with Journey. Memorable moments? CASTRONOVO: The first thing is the call I got from Neal in 1998, saying “We’re doing Journey again; would you like to play?” It took me a nanosecond to say yes. That was a huge thing. The second thing I remember is flying down to San Francisco to start
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rehearsals and meeting our new singer and talking to him. We proceeded to go over to Steve Smith’s house and make sure I knew every nuance of each song before I went out there and murdered what he had. Then, the first tour, the very first we went on. If we were lucky, there was 1,000 people a night, if we were lucky. People didn’t think Journey would be anything, without Steve Perry. We had to reeducate everybody. It wasn’t disappointing, but like Jonathan (Cain, the group’s keyboardist) called it, a re-education. Then, when we went to South American with Arnel (Pineda vocalist), when we first got Arnel and we brought him in. It was his first show with us and there were 20,000 people in the audience. It was a place called Xena del Mar. Arnel just killed it. He was amazing, it was incredible. He was bouncing all over the place, and I remember watching him and saying, “Look, there he goes across the audience. Look, there he goes up the stage.” NUVO: Since you brought up Arnel, I wanted to ask you about the serendipity that technology creates. You found him on YouTube. In another time of Journey’s career, you just would have existed separately forever, you in Journey, and Arnel in a Journey cover band. Do you believe you came across him at the right time for a reason? CASTRONOVO: I try and be as spiritual as possible. I believe God has his hand in everything. It was like [it was] meant to be. When he came in, it was like, how could you deny this was a gift from above? And to have him be such a humble, sweet man and just own those songs. I definitely believe that it was, whatever you want to call it, fate, a hand of [God] in this. NUVO: I believe that I counted over 19 past touring or present members of the band. Do you believe your average audience goer has an idea of the changes in lineup over the years? CASTRONOVO: I don’t think people really realize. I’ve been in Journey for 15 years, which is longer than Steve Perry and Steve Smith. I have been in this band for 15 years now, and to see us going from where we started, without those two original band members, to where we are today, it’s mindboggling. I am so blessed. I don’t take it for granted. I count my blessings daily. NUVO: You’ve come to the top of many of the lists of best rock bands. Who else do you consider best arena rock bands? CASTRONOVO: KISS was my Beatles. They were the reason I became a musician. I saw them at 7 years old and said, “Oh, yeah, that’s what I’m going to do.” That’s my top one. At 12-13 years old, they were huge. I was also a big metal head. I grew up listening to thrash and speed metal, so, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica. That’s the thing around 17-18 that I loved. That’s the soundtrack to my teen years. But so many bands come to mind.
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NUVO: Since that time, musical genres have become so fractured. There’s not the unifying factor that existed when Journey began. Do you think that slows down a band’s rising like your band has and did, to an arena rock CASTRONOVO: Journey was built upon radio play and touring. That’s how we built a fan base. When MTV stepped up, it was like, here today, gone today, here today, gone today. There was so much info that nothing could really catch on. You get something that would catch on and it would be there for three seconds and be gone. That’s why I think we’re still here, playing bigger and better shows every year; because we were not built on the here today, gone today MTV format. When that came out, you would think, “Aw, that is cool!” But you wouldn’t see a video because fans didn’t vote it on or something. But in the ’70s and early ’80s, Journey toured their tails off. A lot of these bands are one-hit wonders. They have one good song, and that’s it, and then they’re gone. NUVO: It’s a hard question to answer — how to maintain consistency. CASTRONOVO: Exactly. How do you? For us, [our] music is timeless. Our stuff is timeless. The stuff that Jonathan and Neal and Steve wrote is the soundtrack to our lives. It’s definitely the soundtrack to mine. A lot of these other bands, how can you have the soundtrack to your life if it’s one song and then they’re gone? It’s the soundtrack to maybe three or four days of your life, not something you listen to all summer and hear and say, “Man, I remember where I was [when I heard that]. I remember where I was when I heard ‘Anyway You Want It.’” And that’s the fun thing. I actually do remember where I was when I heard each one of those Journey songs. It’s the weirdest thing ever. There were not many bands at the time that I really caught on like that.
“Wheel in The Sky.” I think it says something about a person if they’re a “Separate Ways” guy or a “Wheel in The Sky” guy. I’m a “Separate Ways” girl. CASTRONOVO: I’m a “Separate Ways” guy too. Back then, when I was 16 and that came out, I had just broken up with a girlfriend of mine. The song just spoke to my soul. It’s funny because, my gosh, that song pretty much defined a summer for me. NUVO: All right, I’ve got one more question for you. Do you love or hate Glee? CASTRONOVO: You know, I’ve got to be honest with you. I’ve only ever watched it when Journey was on it. I think the Season One finale when they were doing a competition and they did “Anyway You Want It” and “Faithfully.” And that was the only one I watched because the fans were blowing up. I really wasn’t paying attention to the show, [really], I was just waiting for the songs to come on. It was very cool, I felt very blessed. NUVO: And you don’t feel like synthesizing it to a school choir takes away the rock edge? CASTRONOVO: How do I put this and be diplomatic? At least the songs are getting out to a different demographic. To have the songs live on to another generation is incredible. Our demographic has grown so much because of those shows. It just shows those songs go beyond the boundaries of demographic. Bottom line, those songs are beautifully written songs.
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Kyle Long’s music, which features off-the-radar rhythms from around the world, has brought an international flavor to the local dance music scene.
The African-indie connection Midway through Vampire Weekend’s recent appearance at the Egyptian Room, the band launched into a lively version of their 2008 single “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa.” From the opening notes of singer Ezra Koenig’s sinuous soukous guitar intro, the near-capacity crowd went wild. As a lifelong fan of African music, it was beautiful to see a room full of mostly white, American college kids dancing ecstatically to the group’s loving recreation of the Congolese kwassa kwassa rhythm. “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa” is not a mere anomaly in the the band’s catalog. Vampire Weekend have embraced African music textures as an integral core element of their sound and they’re not alone in their adoration for African sounds. I n the 1960s, Santana recorded the FM staple “Jingo,” a composition by famed Nigerian percussionist Babtunde Olatunji. The ’70s saw legendary Cream drummer Ginger Baker collaborating with afrobeat star Fela Kuti, and in the ’80s Peter Gabriel and Paul Simon brought African sounds to the Top 40 pop charts. Heck, rock and roll itself was born from the wellspring of African rhythms forcibly imported into the Americas during the slave trade. But the current African-indie trend marks what is perhaps the most significant and prolonged interaction between Western rock culture and the music of the motherland. In the spirit of this blossoming connection, I compiled the following list documenting 10 significant moments in the musical dialogue between indie rock and Africa.
Ten defining moments of the African-indie rock connection: 1. Vampire Weekend: Name dropping artists like King Sunny Ade, Orchestra Baobab and referencing music traditions from Madagascar to the Congo, Vampire Weekend have elevated indie rock’s African influence to its highest yet. It will be interesting to see if the band continues to incorporate African rhythms and sounds on their soon-to-be released third LP. 2. Santigold with Amadou et Mariam, “Dougou Badia”: A riotous anthem featuring hipster queen Santigold performing with legendary Malian duo Amadou et Mariam. As an added endorsement, the singer’s new LP Master of My Make-Believe makes frequent use of African music textures within the new wave-styled beats. 3. TV on the Radio with Tinariwen, “Tenere Taqqim Tossam”: In their 10 year career, TV on the Radio have achieved iconic status within the indie rock scene. The band’s 2011 collaboration with Malian “desert rock” group Tinariwen spotlights the natural connection between the two seemingly disparate traditions.
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4. BLK JKS: South Africa’s BLK JKS are one of the first and perhaps most important African rock bands to have their music released in the U.S., as iconic (and local!) label Secretly Canadian has issued a handful of releases from the acclaimed band. 5. tUnE-yArDs, Whokill: Merrill Garbus’s subtle incorporation of African music traditions has pushed the African sound deep into indie culture — tUnE-yArDs 2011 cult hit LP Whokill references everything from afrobeat to pygmy singing. Garbus recently recorded a cover of Fela Kuti’s “Lady” with Beninoise singer Angélique Kidjo, further solidifying the African-indie connection. 6. Damon Albarn, Rocket Juice & The Moon: Former Blur frontman Damon Albarn has been involved in several African music projects since releasing the album Mali Music in 2002. His current band Rocket Juice & The Moon might be his most Africa-heavy endeavor yet, featuring legendary Fela Kuti drummer Tony Allen and guest spots from artists like Cheick Tidiane Seck and Fatoumata Diawara. 7. The Very Best: A collaboration between Malawian singer Esau Mwamwaya and London-based production duo Radioclit, The Very Best have crafted an extensive catalog of afropop-influenced dance floor grooves, while working with a long list of artists from M.I.A. to Vampire Weekend. 8. Extra Golden: Ian Eagleson traveled to Nairobi in 2004 to study Kenyan benga music for his doctorate thesis. His interactions with local musicians led to the formation of Extra Golden. The band released their debut LP Ok-Oyot System in 2006. 9. Sub Pop Records: Sub Pop is synonymous with the early ’90s Seattle grunge scene, so their recent foray into African sounds might be the best example of the importance of this trend. The label has issued a variety of African sounds from the avantelectro dance noise of South Africa’s Spoek Mathambo, to the traditional Malian folk sounds of Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba. 10. Malcolm McLaren, “Double Dutch”: It would be wrong to label notorious Sex Pistol’s manager Malcolm McLaren as the father of the African-indie trend, but his 1983 hit “Double Dutch” provided an early and influential example for future experiments. “Double Dutch” fuses hip-hop rhythms with an addictive guitar sample from “Puleng,” a classic mbaqnaga music track by South African stars The Boyoyo Boys. Kyle Long creates a custom podcast for each column. Hear this week’s at NUVO.net.
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MUSIC Algernon Cadwallader
Rejecting businessmen, embracing emo BY N ICK SELM M USIC@ N UVO.NET For years, fans of true emo lived a doubly disgraced existence. Not only were they ridiculed for their association with the genre, they were mortified at what the term had come to describe. In the past few years, however, the genre has revived itself — through reunions of classic bands and a wave of new bands — and rebranded itself as “skramz.” So while Get Up Kids shirts need no longer hide behind the pearly snaps of buttondowns, the most refreshing aspect of the recent revival is the quality and caliber of the new wave of bands. Reluctantly leading the charge is Philadelphia-based trio Algernon Cadwallader. “We never set out to be leaders,” said Algernon bassist and vocalist Peter Helmis. “Nor do we feel responsible for carrying a torch. We’re just doing what we want. Always have been.” The “torch” he’s speaking of is the sonic and emotional similarities that Algernon bears to classic bands such as American Football and Cap’n Jazz. But while Helmis is quick to shake off the yolk of torch-bearer or flag-waver, he is quick to acknowledge his influences. “The mid-’90s Chicago scene had a big influence on how we play over instruments. The early ’80s hardcore scene gave us our DIY ethics. The Beatles taught us that you can wrap it all up in a nice little pop package.” Their sound, while an homage of sorts to the emo pioneers, has an edge all its own. Noodling guitars freak out over controlled feedback while brainy lyrics soar. And with only two albums completed, Algernon have still managed to notice-
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Earnest, lo-fi, coed power poppers The ShakeUps are releasing not just one, but two albums this Friday at the Mel. Their newest, Extra Pulp, has been available for a bit, but you can officially pick it up along with a label-made compilation at the show. You may recognize hard-working music man Patrick O’Connor from his numerous other projects in Indy, including Five Year Mission, The Madeira and Destination: Earth!. He also appears as punk rock ukelele artist P.J. Otaku. Salvador Dalai Llama Farm and Nalani Proctor will support.
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ably mature and develop their sound over time. The angsty bounce of “Some Kind of Cadwallader,” from the 2008 album of the same name, is markedly different than the focused pop of “Preservatives” off of 2011’s Parrot Flies. As there are mixed results when combining punk music with major labels, Helmis and crew have made it a point to stick to their DIY guns. “We had been fully engrossed in DIY culture before this band even started,” said Helmis. “It would have been pretty boring waiting around for someone to notice us. By the time any business men came a-knocking, it seemed to us that they would more or less just be taking a cut of what we had worked so hard to build on our own.” As for their first stop in Indianapolis, Helmis and company seem rather excited. “It’s no secret that the Midwest kills it when it comes to DIY punk music. This will be an unforgettable show. If anything, I’m worried for the roof of the Hoosier Dome!”
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Singer Barry Manilow will perform at Bankers Life Fieldhouse as part of the Indiana State Fair’s concert series. Manilow is best known for “Mandy,” “Can’t Smile Without You,” “Could It Be Magic” and “Copacabana.” One of Manilow’s biggest hits, “I Write The Songs” was written by Bruce Johnston, a member of The Beach Boys — the track was rumored to be about Brian Wilson, but this turned out not to be actually the case. Last year, Manilow released a concept album, 15 Minutes. It’s Manilow’s first foray into rock opera. The album chronicles a musician’s rise and fall, as he experiences the upsides and downsides to being famous — perhaps (cough ), he’s drawing on personal experience?
SOUNDCHECK forming in 1994, although they took a hiatus from 2006 - 2009. The group’s commercial stock began to rise with “Hey Soul Sister” a single culled from its fifth studio album, Save Me, San Francisco. Mat Kearney is a singer-songwriter who released his most recent album, titled Young Love, in 2011. Andy Grammer is a relative newcomer to the music industry. He released his self-titled debut in June of 2011. SUBMITTED PHOTO
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We’ll let the education-event-with-koolmispelling go, because we think this is a super kool concert. See Dro Man, Yung Tone and Yung Gutter. Dro Man rose from the Far Eastside, spreading trap rap far and wide and gathering particular local acclaim for his single “Jiggalate.” He just wrapped an opening spot on the Mac Miller and Wiz Khalifa date at Klipsch this weekend.
We’ve had some time to digest the blues-rock melodies that Band of Skulls recorded on their sophomore album Sour Sweet, and released to the states in February of this year — it’s time to take in the live show. They wrote heavier, bigger songs on the new album than the sugary vocals and heavy riffs that brought them success on their debut album in 2009, showcasing the band’s dynamics. The English three-piece will be bringing their crunching rock ‘n’ roll riffs to The Vogue on Aug. 6.
RADIO WIUS/WIUX ALUMNI WEEKEND TAKE-OVER Radio waves everywhere – including WIUX 99.1-FM and WITT 91.9-FM All weekend, free, all-ages
It’s a retro rock anniversary weekend down in Bloomington. Student-run station WIUX (formerly WIUS) is celebrating 50 years of independent radio this weekend. Tune in at WITT 91.1 in Indy or live stream at WIUX’s site. The alumni, who return yearly from all over the country, promise to play the hits of the ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s ..., well you get the idea. There will also be a healthy dose of sports talk radio and IU sports history. Tune those dials for a weekend of nostalgia and tunes that have stood the test of time — plus a few that may not have. (Editor’s note: Your music editor is a proud 2011 WIVX alumni)
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Indiana Undocumented Youth Alliance (IUYA) and El Camaron Electronico present Espanglish Night at Locals Only. Performers include Stacie Sandoval, Sweet Poison Victim, recent reggaeton award winner Guero Loco, Alyssa B, Ocho, DJ Kyle Long and Noctilucent. Proceeds from the event will go towards a scholarship fund our very own Kyle Long helped establish with the Latino Youth Collective for undocumented students who are often not eligible for typical grants and other financial aide.
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Rock band Train will headline a show at Bankers Life Fieldhouse as part of the Indiana State Fair’s concert series. Train has chugged along since
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• Recurring Theme: From time to time, Buddhist groups attempt to improve their “karmic balance” by doing good deeds for Earth’s animal cohabitants. (Previously, “News of the Weird” mentioned a California group’s “freeing” fish by buying out a pet shop’s inventory and liberating the “lucky” fish into the Pacific Ocean -- where they were undoubtedly eaten almost immediately by larger fish.) In June, about 50 members of the Let Blessings and Wisdom Grow Buddhist group in Beijing bought at least 200 snakes, took them into a rural area of Hebei province, and, chanting, released them. Almost immediately, the snakes infested the nearby village of Miao Erdong, horrifying the villagers, who were able to club to death some of the snakes, but who remained on edge. • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s weekly Morbidity and Mortality newsletter reported in June that, officially, 11 newborn Jewish males in New York City between the years 2000-2011 were diagnosed with herpes simplex virus that had been passed on by a circumcision technique in which the “mohel” (circumciser) contains bleeding by sucking blood directly from the wound. • Prominent filmmakers Daniel Junge (an Academy Award winner) and Bryan Storkel have been raising money for their documentary “Fight Church,” featuring devout Christian mixed martial artists viciously pummeling each other -- but only after the brawlers begin the match with a prayer and commitment to serve Jesus Christ. Among those featured is Pastor Paul Burress of Rochester, N.Y., who says he “loves to fight” and sees no problem with MMA’s barbaric nature. “These (techniques of fighting savagely) are the gifts and the skills God has given me.” • Scottish officials were reportedly optimistic about a recent decision of the legislature of Louisiana. State officials this year broadened a voucher program to allow parents to choose private schools with Christian funda-
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mentalist curricula. One prominent textbook for that curriculum (offered by the Accelerated Christian Education program) touted sightings of Scotland’s Loch Ness monster as “evidence” that humans and dinosaurs walked the Earth at the same time, thus undermining the widely accepted scientific theory of evolution. Officials now anticipate an influx of tourists to Loch Ness, near Inverness.
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• Television ads appeared recently in India exploiting women’s obsession with lightening their skin -- a fascination already responsible for a rich market in facial bleaching. Now, ads for “Clean and Dry Intimate Wash” promise to “refresh” a woman’s private parts by making them fairer. Female columnist Amrit Dhillon, viewing an ad of a disinterested husband ignoring his too-brown wife, denounced the product as catering to “self-hatred -- of race and gender” and urged the banning of the ads. • In May, the Beijing Municipal Commission of City Administration and Environment issued a formal rule to crack down on unhygienic public restrooms. The toilets’ attendants will be ordered to take corrective action any time they count a number of flies equal to two times the number of stalls in the restroom. The city official in charge downplayed the likelihood of inspectors themselves counting flies. “The regulation is specific ... but the inspection methodology will be flexible.”
Questionable Judgments
• Adriana Villareal of Dos de Mayo, Argentina, lost her husband two years ago but now makes it a point to visit his tomb about four times a year, and not just briefly. Villareal brings bedding, an Internet connection, and a small stove so that she can remain three or four days at each visit. Said Villareal, according to a June Agence France-Presse dispatch, “When you love someone, you do all sorts of things.” • The Illinois Supreme Court affirmed a lower court ruling in June in which Marshall Hollins was sentenced to eight years in prison for taking cellphone photographs of a 17-year-old girl with whom he was having sex. That sex was voluntary and, since Illinois’ age of consent is 16, legal. However, the court ruled, it is still illegal in Illinois to take sexual pictures of a child, and that particular law defines underage as under 18. (Hollins had claimed, unsuccessfully, that he surely ought to be able to take pictures of a legal event.) • British soccer player John Terry was acquitted in July of hurling racial abuse at opponent Anton Ferdinand, even though Terry’s three-word phrase was acknowledged by the judge to contain the word “black” and two words that are commonly censored in family newspapers. According to a New York Times dispatch before the verdict, there was much testimony about the “paint-peeling profanities” that soccer opponents routinely use on the pitch (in particular, referencing each other’s mothers’ sex lives). In handing down the verdict, the
Westminster Magistrates’ Court judge said he was not certain that Terry was not simply repeating a slur that he had heard moments earlier.
Least Competent Criminals
• Not Ready for Prime Time: (1) On June 8, sheriff’s deputies near Tampa, Fla., charged Robert Suggs, 36, and David Hall, 28, with taking a front-end loader and a dump truck from a construction site and using them to steal an ATM from a Bank of America drive-thru. The theft took place at 5 a.m., and deputies arrested the pair that afternoon when they were found near the bank, still trying to get the ATM open. (2) On the same day, in Albuquerque, Thomas Molina, 38, was arrested in the act of fleeing a burglary at Central New Mexico Community College. As he tried to climb out a window, his getaway was hampered by having gotten his foot caught in the blinds.
No Longer Weird
• Some events, no matter how “weird” they first seemed, now occur with such frequency that they must be retired from circulation. Surely there are now too many instances in which a worker drawing disability benefits cheats by taking on strenuous pastimes or even second jobs while claiming to be unable to function normally at work. One of the most recent involved letter-carrier Jacquelyn Myers of Tallahassee, Fla., who was put on “light duty,” with worker compensation benefits, because of a back injury from heavy lifting. Over a several-months period after her May 2009 injury, investigators found that she had entered more than 80 long-distance races, including the Boston Marathon. Investigators also noted that her race times improved after her “injury.”
Readers’ Choice
• The Role of Alcohol in Parenting: (1) Police in Fort Wayne, Ind., arrested an intoxicated man and woman on May 7 after witnesses reported that the couple was seen leaving Belmont Beverage with four children strapped to the hood of their car. The children (ages 4, 5, 6 and 7) were not hurt. (2) In April, Paul Berloni, 49, was arrested in Sarasota County, Fla., when police spotted him driving an SUV with his 7-year-old granddaughter in a toy Hot Wheels car behind him, attached to the SUV with two dog leashes. The SUV was traveling 5 to 10 mph, witnesses said, and Berloni, who smelled of alcohol, admitted that his license had been suspended following his last DUI. Thanks This Week to Sam Dillon, Mike Wolcott, Tim Allen, Peter Smagorinsky, Eric Ivers, Roy Henock, Tom Sullivan, John Ellwood, and Craig Cryer, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.
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beset a person to which he knows no solution and to which the dream finds none.” That sounds bleak, doesn’t it? If it’s true, why even bother to remember our dreams? Well, because we are often not consciously aware of the feelings they reveal to us. By portraying our buried psychic material in story form, dreams give us insight into what we’ve been missing. So even though they may not provide a solution, they educate us. Take heed, Taurus! Your upcoming dreams will provide useful information you can use to fix one of your longstanding dilemmas. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When French composer Georges Auric scored the soundtrack for Jean Cocteau’s movie Blood of a Poet, he produced “love music for love scenes, game music for game scenes, and funeral music for funeral scenes.” But Cocteau himself had a different idea about how to use Auric’s work. For the love scenes he decided to use the funeral music, for the game scenes the love music, and for the funeral scenes the game music. In accordance with the current astrological omens, Gemini, I recommend that you experiment with that style of mixing and matching. Have fun! (Source: A Ned Rorem Reader, by Ned Rorem.) CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Piglet was so excited at the idea of being useful that he forgot to be frightened any more,” wrote A. A. Milne in his kids’ story Winnie-the-Pooh. That’s my prescription for how to evade the worrisome fantasies that are nipping at you, Cancerian. If no one has invited you to do some engaging and important labor of love, invite yourself. You need to be needed -- even more than usual. P.S. Here’s what Rumi advises: “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.” LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’ve been making pretty good progress in the School of Life. By my estimates, you’re now the equivalent of a sophomore. You’ve mastered enough lessons so that you can no longer be considered a freshman, and yet you’ve got a lot more to learn. Are you familiar with the etymology of the word “sophomore”? It comes from two Greek words meaning “wise” and “fool.” That’ll be a healthy way to think about yourself in the coming weeks. Be smart enough to know what you don’t know. Cultivate the voracious curiosity necessary to lead you to the next rich teachings. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A few years ago, a Malaysian man named Lim Boon Hwa arranged to have himself “cooked.” For 30 minutes, he sat on a board covering a pan full of simmering dumplings and corn. The fact that no harm came to him was proof, he said, that Taoist devotees like him are protected by their religion’s deities. I advise you not to try a stunt like that, Virgo -- including metaphorical versions. This is no time to stew in your own juices. Or boil in your tormented fantasies. Or broil in your nagging doubts. Or be grilled in your self-accusations. You need to be free from the parts of your mind that try to cook you.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): On a spring day in 1973, an engineer named Martin Cooper debuted the world’s first cell phone. He placed a call as he walked along a New York City street. The phone weighed two and half pounds and resembled a brick. Later he joked that no one would be able to talk very long on his invention, since it took a lot of strength to hold it against one’s ear. Think of how far that amazing device has come since then, Libra. Now imagine some important aspect of your own life that is in a rather primitive state at this moment but could one day be as natural and fully developed as cell phones have become. Are you willing to work hard to make that happen? Now’s a good time to intensify your commitment. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the coming week, you will lose some clout and selfcommand if you’re too hungry for power. Likewise, if you act too brazenly intelligent, you may alienate potential helpers who are not as mentally well-endowed as you. One other warning, Scorpio: Don’t be so fiercely reasonable that you miss the emotional richness that’s available. In saying these things, I don’t mean to sound as if I’m advising you to dumb yourself down and downplay your strengths. Not at all. Rather, I’m trying to let you know that the best way to get what you really need is to tailor your self-expression to the unique circumstances you find yourself in. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): For a while, French writer Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was very poor. He lived in a place that had no heat and almost no furniture. To enhance his environment, he resorted to the use of fantasy. On one of his bare walls, he wrote the words, “rosewood paneling with ornamental cabinet.” On another, he wrote “Gobelin tapestry with Venetian mirror.” Over the empty fireplace he declared, “Picture by Raphael.” That’s the level of imaginative power I encourage you to summon in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. So much of what you’ll need will come from that simple magic. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s an excellent time to overthrow false gods and topple small-minded authorities and expose fraudulent claims. Anyone and anything in your environment that do not fully deserve the power they claim should get the brunt of your exuberant skepticism. When you’re done cleaning up those messes, turn your attention to your own inner realms. There might be some good work to be done there. Can you think of any hypocrisy that needs fixing? Any excessive self-importance that could use some tamping down? Any pretending that would benefit from a counter dose of authenticity? AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In old China, people used to cool themselves by sipping hot drinks. After taking a bath, they buffed the excess water from their skin by using a wet towel. When greeting a friend, they shook their own hand instead of the friend’s. To erect a new house, they built the roof first. You’re currently in a phase of your astrological cycle when this kind of behavior makes sense. In fact, I suspect you’re most likely to have a successful week if you’re ready to reverse your usual way of doing things on a regular basis. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I’m really tired of you not getting all of the appreciation and acknowledgment and rewards you deserve. Is there even a small possibility that you might be harboring some resistance to that good stuff? Could you be giving off a vibe that subtly influences people to withhold the full blessings they might otherwise confer upon you? According to my analysis of the astrological omens, the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to work on correcting this problem. Do everything you can to make it easy for people to offer you their love and gifts.
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