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One of the biggest obstacles to enact’m not sure that anybody takes the ing common sense laws and regulations New York Times as seriously as the concerning pot has been elite America’s New York Times takes itself. But when refusal to face up to its own experience. this country’s “paper of record,” the one It is inconceivable that most of the Baby proclaiming, “all the news that’s fit to print (or “click,” as its website so trendily Boomers in positions of power today are virgins when it comes to marijuana. puts it),” comes out with a major editoIndeed, while it would be unfair, if not rial in favor of repealing the federal ban plain silly, to use having smoked pot on marijuana…well, this is interesting. as some kind of litmus test for public The editorial appeared on the service, it is just as ridiculous to suggest front page of the Times’ op-ed secthat the only people qualified for public tion, Sunday Review, on July 27. It ran beneath a full color graphic in which the office are those who have either never touched the stuff, or concluded that getstars of the American flag morph into ting high is wrong. golden marijuana leaves. A tough anti-pot hiring policy is, The Times said its editorial board decided in favor of reforming our pot laws after “a great deal of The Times comes out decisively discussion.” The editorial went on to say: “we in favor of repealing the national believe that on every prohibition on marijuana. level — health effects, the impact on society and law-and-order issues — in fact, inhibiting the FBI’s ability to the balance falls squarely on the side of attract the type of computer programnational legalization.” ming talent needed to fight hackers. A The Times comes out decisively in May 20 article in the Wall Street Journal, favor of repealing the national prohibiquoted FBI Director James Comey: “I tion on marijuana, arguing that decihave to hire a great work force to comsions on whether to allow recreational pete with those cybercriminals, and or medicinal production and use should some of those kids want to smoke weed be left to the states. on the way to the interview.” While the Times’ editorial clout is The fact is that an awful lot of us have doubtful in, say, Loogootee or Peru, Ind., gotten high. Many of us continue to do you can bet this piece was read over so. We liked it then, we like it now. We coffee and croissants around Dupont know full well that most of what passes Circle in Washington, D.C. Who knows? for official information about marijuana It might even have found its way to the is harmful nonsense. governor’s residence in Indianapolis. But we are also afraid of talking about That said, even the Times’ editoour experience. Pot’s illegal, after all, rial writers admit “this Congress is as and as long as this is the case, honest unlikely to take action on marijuana as discussion about our experience with it has been on other big issues.” the stuff could get us in trouble. But an editorial like this one doesn’t But honest discussion is also the only need to be the cause that creates a cerway we have for changing our unnecestain effect, like, for instance, inspiring sary and demeaning marijuana laws. lawmakers to come to their senses and The Times’ editorial represents a serious put an end to the decades-long prohistep in this direction. n bition on marijuana.
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WHAT HAPPENED? Fighting violence with carrots and sticks On Thursday, Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard announced a three-pronged initiative aimed at curbing the violent crime epidemic. Focused on prevention, protection and punishment, the mayor’s proposal includes plans to expand pre-school availability, hire 280 new police officers by 2018 and lobby the state to increase mandatory minimum sentences on gun crime to 20 years. Among additional prevention strategies, Ballard proposes to expand the Peace Learning Center’s family programs, peace schools and juvenile justice initiatives offered in conjunction with Indy Parks. “One-third of the homicides, expulsions and suspensions take place in Indy due to fights, disputes and revenge,” Ballard said during the plan’s unveiling. “These stats clearly show that many of our young people lack the basic conflict resolution skills that others learned as young children from parents and/or in school.” CityCounty Council President Maggie Lewis issued a statement pledging to work with the mayor to address public safety problems. “The Council Democrats’ top priority is adding more police officers,” Lewis said. “We must address this crisis first.” The politics of crime Ever the political football, crime prevention will be a focal point in Indy’s 2015 mayoral election. The pool of Democrats lining up to challenge Mayor Ballard, the incumbent Republican, continues to grow. Joe Hogsett, a former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, is the latest Democrat to dip his toe in. On Monday, Hogsett leaked his plans to several media outlets, telling WTHR he would establish an exploratory committee “to actively and vigorously consider a run for mayor.” Washington Township Trustee Frank Short and State Rep. Ed DeLaney — have already jumped in. An abundance of fresh food sources The Original Farmers’ Market at the City Market announced a banner week in its Buy 2 Give 1 campaign for Wheeler Mission. Shoppers and farmers donated more than 675 pounds on July 30. This pushes the summer’s total so far to almost 3,000 pounds. A Burmese thanks to the BMV On Saturday, leaders from the city’s Burmese Community issued a statement thanking the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicle for making drivers’ license exams available in the Burmese and Chin languages. “The new language-based arrangement will help many in Indiana take the test in their own languages, pass it, obtain the driver’s license and be able to participate in the workforce,” said San Hlei Thang, president of Chin Community of Indiana. The Burmese American Community Institute estimates that 17,000 Burmese people live in Central Indiana; about 70 percent of the group is of the Chin ethnic group. The BMV is also offers the driving tests in Arabic, German, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese. — REBECCA TOWNSEND 6 NEWS // 08.06.14 - 08.13.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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s attorneys in Indiana’s same-sex marriage cases prepare for oral arguments before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals later this month, today (Aug. 5) is the deadline for the filing of amici briefs for the plaintiffs. An amicus brief is a “friend of the court” statement that supports a particular side of the argument under consideration by the court. Amici briefs on behalf of the state were filed by July 22. Attorney Karen CelestinoHorseman, who represents plaintiffs in one of the three Indiana cases, announced more than 100 police, fire, and EMS personnel have joined together in one brief in support of marriage equality in Indiana. The suit against the state and Public Employees Retirement System declaring Indiana’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional and demanding the right to have their spouses recognized as beneficiaries for their pension benefits. All of the couples in the suit were legally married in other states, however the law doesn’t recognize their marriages. The law leaves their spouses ineligible to be listed as beneficiaries for their pensions should they die in the line of duty, on active duty, or as retired personnel. “We are fighting for marriage equality for all Hoosiers, but we want to highlight the fact that first responders place themselves in harm’s way every day and deserve to know that their families will be protected if they are hurt or killed in the line of duty,” said Horseman. A portion of the brief reads as follows: “Gay and lesbian law enforcement officers and other first responders put on their uniforms, place themselves in harm’s way to protect and defend our communities, and swear to uphold our laws without prejudice or bias. They serve our communities with equal distinction, skill, and bravery. But Indiana and Wisconsin deny these men and women the equal dignity and respect they deserve. Indiana and Wisconsin do not treat them equally
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D-Indianapolis, stood in support of his in their day-to-day work, nor, tragically, in Indiana, even when fellow Hoosiers and first responder colthey make the ultimate sacrifice. leagues. Forestal says there is no reason Amici submit this brief, therefore, to why the brave men and women in public explain why basic human dignity safety shouldn’t receive the same ben– enshrined in the Fourteenth Amendment’s “The support from fellow officers doesn’t guarantee of equal protecfall along gender or racial lines. We all tion – requires truly stand together in a brotherhood, a the rulings of the court below to be sisterhood. We are a familyhood.” affirmed.” IMPD officer Teresa Welborn said she was amazed by the number of her fellow officers who agreed to join the brief without hesitation. Evansville police officer Karen Vaughn-Kajmowicz received the same kind of no-hesitation support as well. “The support from fellow officers doesn’t fall along gender or racial lines,” said Vaughn-Kajmowicz. “We all truly stand together in a brotherhood, a sisterhood. We are a familyhood.” State Representative Dan Forestal ,
— KAREN VAUGHN-KAJMOWICZ, AN EVANSVILLE POLICE OFFICER efits as their colleagues based upon who they choose to love and marry. Forestal also called for a swift resolution in this case. Forestal has been a firefighter with the Indianapolis Fire Department for almost 8 years. He is currently serving his first term in the statehouse. The state’s reply brief to the plaintiff’s opening brief is also due today. Oral arguments will be presented to the court August 26. n
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he State of Indiana joined 10 other states and the Commonwealth of Kentucky in a lawsuit challenging the legality of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's new Clean Power Plan, which aims to achieve targeted reductions in carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants. “The EPA’s recent action regulating carbon dioxide emissions shows a complete disregard for the rule of law and will harm Indiana ratepayers,” Indiana Gov. Mike Mike Pence said Friday in a news release announcing the state's action. “Congress has already rejected legislation that would put limits on carbon dioxide emissions, and a law of this significance should be passed by the legislative branch. The State of Indiana is determined to use every legal means at our disposal to prevent the EPA from overstepping its authority and costing Hoosier jobs.” The announcement from the governor's office made no mention of climate change or of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2007 determination that green house gases such as carbon dioxide are air pollutants subject to control under the Clean Air Act. Even though the Supreme Court’s 2007 decision compels the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases, the agency has yet to finalize its approach. Indiana and its cohorts in the suit argue that the Clean Power Plan improperly regulates carbon pollution, citing a U.S. Supreme Court finding that the EPA may not use Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act "if existing stationary sources of the pollutant in question are regulated under … [Section 112]." Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller and the rest of his AG peers involved in this suit ate "grasping at straws," wrote David Doniger, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's Climate and Clean Air Program, in a column detailing "at least three fatal defects" he sees in the lawsuit "that will cause the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to dismiss it in the judicial equivalent of a heartbeat." [Doninger's full response is posted at NUVO.net]
Total U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Economic Sector in 2012 Agriculture 10% Commercial & Residential 10%
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Total Emissions in 2012 = 6,526 Million Metric Tons of C02 equivalent. * Land use, Land-Use Change, Forestry in the United States is a net sink and offsets approximately 15% of these greenhouse gas emissions.
Coal-fired power plants are the largest source of carbon emissions in the country, according to the EPA. The agency ranks Indiana ranks 5th in terms of total carbon dioxide emissions. It released an estimated 92 million metric tons into the atmosphere in 2012. According to the EPA, Indiana ranked 15th highest in the nation in terms of pounds of carbon dioxide released per megawatt hour of energy produced in 2012. The EPA is proposing that the state develop a plan to drop its pounds/megawatt hour ratio from 1,923 to 1,531, a 20 percent reduction. The Clean Energy Plan does not require each plant to drop its emissions by 20 percent, it asks the state to devise a holistic strategy to achieve the target. Working with other states, establishing renewable energy standards and market-based trading programs, expanding renewables and expanded use of natural gas are all included in the list of suggested options that the state may wish to pursue. Even as Indiana's executive branch actively works to undermine efforts to curb carbon emissions, evidence continues to mount that increased green-
house gas emissions are driving a widespread array of harmful effects. Ignoring the threats posed by climate change would be "too arrogant," even for a company that does not espouse an official position on the issue, Gregory Page, executive chairman of Cargill Inc. (the nation's largest privately held company), said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, published on June 24. Page served as an advisor on Risky Business, a report that analyzes potential climate change effects on national, regional and state levels. Here are some highlights as they pertain to the Midwest: "[W]hile the agricultural industry will clearly be affected by climate change, it is also probably the best equipped to manage these risks. … However, this shift could put individual Midwest farmers and farm communities at risk if production moves to cooler climates. … But the real story in this region is the combined impact of heat and humidity, which we measure using the Humid Heat Stroke Index, or HHSI. … Our research shows that if we continue on our current path, the average Midwesterner could see an HHSI at the dangerous level of 95°F two days every year by late century, and that by the middle of the next century, she or he can expect to experience 20 full days in a typical year of HHSI over 95°F, during which it will be functionally impossible to be outdoors." The EPA's proposal is far from radical, according to an email from Citizens Action Coalition Executive Director Kerwin Olson. "The Obama Administration has put forth an incredibly modest and flexible proposal that provides a menu of costeffective options for States to choose from in order to comply," Olson wrote. "In fact, CAC believes it is too weak and doesn’t go far enough. The objections being raised to the proposed rule are purely political in nature and are not based on economics, science, or technology. It is most unfortunate that our Governor has placed partisan politics above doing the right thing for our economy, our environment, our health, and most importantly, our survival as a species.” n
GET INVOLVED Kin Killin’ Kin Join Mayor Greg Ballard and Indianapolis Public Library representatives for the opening of artist James Pate’s “Kin Killin’ Kin,” a study of blackon-black violence. The multi-faceted exhibit kicks off a two-month Library initiative, “Stand4Peace,” which encourages dialogue on the question of how the community can come together to reduce the incidence of violent crime. Central Library, 40 E. St. Clair St., Tue., Aug. 12, 10 a.m. FREE. Questioning the cost of electric car share Are IPL ratepayers willing to pay an additional 44 cents per month to subsidize the costs associated with establishing service for what would be the America’s largest all-electric car-share service? This is the question on the table at the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission’s public field hearing set for next Wednesday. An informational meeting conducted by the Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor will proceed the hearing beginning at 5:30 p.m. OUCC officials have indicated their support for the BlueIndy car share, but are opposed to a rate increase on its behalf. Public feedback on the issue will be taken at the hearing, but is also welcome online www.in.gov/oucc/2361.htm, email at uccinfo@oucc.IN.gov, fax at 232-5923 or mail at Consumer Services Staff, Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor, 115 W. Washington St., Suite 1500 South, Indpls, 46204. Comments should include the consumer’s name, mailing address, and reference “IURC Cause No. 44478.” Crispus Attucks Medical Magnet High School, 1140 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. St., Wed., Aug. 13, 2014, 6 p.m. FREE
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s local efforts accelerate to grapple with climate change, sustainability and conservation, two nationally prominent environmentalists are lending considerable vision to the conversation: Buddy Huffaker and Jerome Ringo. Those involved in this sustainability movement are encouraged by current progress [see page 13], but find that nothing comes easy when dealing with human habit and resistance to change. Buddy Huffaker has led the Aldo Leopold Foundation as its Executive Director for 14 years. He laments that the conservation community may have trapped themselves into thinking that the
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legislative progress is the sole way toward action and solutions. He lists the victories of the ‘70s: the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the Wilderness Act. “This is my opinion on climate change as well,” Huffaker told me in a recent phone conversation. “The problem is so big, the scale is so enormous, [we think] we need this big policy approach. While I don’t think there’s anything wrong with this approach, we A) haven’t found the legislative champions who could lead that … and B) we’ve lost sight of the little things, the myriad ways that citizens can contribute...”
Huffaker adds, “We haven’t put enough effort into engaging citizenry in everyday environmental stewardship. Citizens don’t know what they can do. We have more work to do, to connect those dots, to engage people in proactive and productive ways.” One way to connect those dots is to attend the 45th gathering of the Environmental Education Association of Indiana, Sept. 26-28, at McCormick’s Creek State Park. Among the workshops, field trips and other events planned for this year’s gathering, two keynote speakers will address the theme, “Igniting the green fire.” Both keynote speakers, Huffaker, of the Aldo Leopold Foundation, and Jerome Ringo, former chair of the National Wildlife Federation, are fluent in environmental advocacy and issues of justice, poverty and race. Ringo is the past chairman of the National Wildlife Federation, the first African American to hold such a prestigious position in a major conservation organization. We also recently spoke via phone, and began our conversation by discussing race and the environmental movement. In a speech to the 2006 National Black Mayors Conference, Ringo told the assembled that, “the environmental movement in America does not look like America.” I ask him to explain what he meant by that. “It’s clear from the beginning,” Ringo states, “back in the 1930s when the environmental movement was first organized, that it was primarily made up of those who could afford to be active in the movement. Primarily hunters and sportsmen… those people that would go out and fish and hang those fish on the wall [as opposed to] people that were fishing to put a fish on their plate.” Consequently, says Ringo, the first conservationists and environmentalists were sports fishermen and sports hunters. Over the last century, the movement evolved to involve more women, but still, people of color and people who lack wealth were absent. Ringo says that when he took the leadership role at the National Wildlife Federation in 1994, there were 24,000 members. And he was the only black member. And so, he’s embarked, he says, “on a personal campaign … to diversify the movement, and help the movement be more inclusive, especially including the people who suffer the greatest and disproportionate impact from environmental practices. That is, the poorest and the people of color.”
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The complication, as Ringo puts it, is, “Poor people … are concerned with next month’s rent rather than the depletion of the ozone layer.”
Huffaker: A land ethic Huffaker is a leading advocate for developing an ecological conscience, and he has the perfect platform for his message: the historic Leopold Farm and Shack in Baraboo, WI. Leopold Farm and Shack is named, of course, for Aldo Leopold, whose 1949 collection of essays, A Sand County Almanac, is as foundational an eco-read as Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. Among many other accomplishments, Huffaker lead the foundation’s effort to the construct the LEED Platinum Leopold Center as well as served as executive producer of S E E , C H A N G E , O N P A G E 10 NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 08.06.14 - 08.13.14 // COVER STORY 9
“Poor people … are concerned with next month’s rent rather than the depletion of the ozone layer.” — Jerome Ringo
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CHANGE , FROM PAGE 09 the Emmy Award winning documentary film Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time. There is an Indiana connection for Huffaker; he attended high school in Fort Wayne, and then graduated from Purdue. After Leopold’s death in 1948, Huffaker says, some of his assets were put into a family trust where they sat, untouched. By the 70s and 80s, however, the family realized that interest in Leopold’s life and work was actually growing, “So they created a family foundation, and transferred the shack and farm [where Leopold lived and worked] and transferred the rights to his writing.” This larger public appreciation of Leopold began, says Huffaker, “in the 1970s with the first Earth Day. Leopold was well known in the wildlife community, but it wasn’t until the seventies, when there was a public awakening and awareness about the environment. As people sought good literature about nature, Leopold was rediscovered.” Huffaker calls the scope of the Leopold 10 COVER STORY // 08.06.14 - 08.13.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
Foundation “multifaceted,” given the fact the Foundation has stewardship over Leopold’s property and prose. Huffaker explains, “We take care of a particular place, and we continue to do ecological research and restoration. We operate much as a nature reserve or a land trust – where there is this place we take care of. “We also have this universal idea of the land ethic,” he continues. “As the executor of Leopold’s literary estate, we work very broadly — geographically — to help other people think about what this idea means and how it gets applied in their place and their community.” Ecological restoration is a key component in the Leopold Foundation mission. Huffaker cites some examples: “We continue to manage invasive species. We have a research component where we are trying to document how we combat a species like garlic mustard. We are trying different management techniques and we’re documenting the efficacy of our work, so that we are not only trying to improve the health of the land, but understanding how we can do it better.” In addition, says Huffaker, “We helped create an important bird area radiat-
ing out from the shack that sits within 10,000 acres of public and private land that is managed and protected for conservation value.” These projects enable the Foundation’s charge to educate. He says their main audience includes middle school, high school and beyond. “School groups come from all over the region to learn about the history, ecological restoration, green building, and then we also have an intern program – on a collegiate level.” He maintains, however, that they don’t view themselves as a nature center. “There are other sites like those in our community that are better equipped at introducing kids to the flora and fauna. We’re the next step. They’re beginning to formulate their attitudes and thinking about their responsibilities to the natural world. They are starting to think about things like stewardship and ethics as they relate to the natural world.” Related to this stewardship point, Huffaker emphasizes that Aldo Leopold “hunted and fished his entire life and felt those were important ways to connect to the world. He was keenly interested in how people spent their leisure time and engaged in the natural world.
“We have an active hunting program,” Huffaker continues. “We do engage the hunting community. There is an important and valuable role for hunting in wildlife management but I would also be quick to point out that there are some attitudes and approaches in the hunting community that are troubling. “It’s important to finding that positive role for people to play in the natural world; to bring an ethic and code of conduct to any activity outdoors is of utmost importance.”
“Think beyond our lives” Jerome Ringo cites some progress in the diversification of the conservation moment, noting that the NWF now has a board of directors much more diverse than in the past. In fact, Ringo says, “diversification in leadership is the first step” to diversifying the movement. I ask him what he says when he’s talking to the poor and to people of color about our environmental challenges. “Education is critical,” Ringo says. “I say to them, ‘how can next month’s rent be your top priority when you’re dying of cancer’….” [from pollutants associated with nearby industries]. “Changing environmental policies and making sure there is accountability should be just as important as next month’s rent. Because next month’s rent sustains your life, but so do clean air and clean water.” Environmental challenges affect us all, Ringo maintains. “We are all impacted … beyond those who have close proximity to chemical plants and to landfills. The climate change issue is the issue that impacts everyone. We all suffer.” This shared suffering, “gives us the opportunity to come together as one people on one issue. What drives activism is believing that your voice has the ability to change things. We can all be change agents. History has shown us – whether it’s been the Civil Rights or the Women’s Movement – that when we all come together with one common goal in mind, that there is power in numbers.” Ultimately, he says, he has to “Think beyond our lives … [to] the grand kids and great grandkids that I may never see. I have a moral responsibility to them.” He adds, “We see a global effort of people from nation to nation recognizing that what they do in their country impacts all the corners of the earth, and making necessary steps to make a real change.” Ringo knows more than most about the impacts of humans on the environment. He lives in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and says he’s been an evacu-
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Council Vote for Clean Energy in Indianapolis The Indianapolis City-County Council is expected to vote on Proposal No. 241, a resolution that encourages Indianapolis Power & Light Co. to commit to a plan to stop burning coal in Marion County by 2020 and to invest in greater amounts of clean, renewable energy, reducing toxic emissions at the Harding Street plant. Public Assembly Room of City County Building,Aug. 18, 7 p.m., facebook.com/IndianaBeyondCoal Using Energy Prudently Support Group This support group for congregations meets about reducing energy usage in their facilities and by their congregants. Benedict Inn 1402 Southern Ave. (Beech Grove), Sept. 4, 7 p.m. Environmental workshops NAACP’s Environmental Climate Justice Committee of Indiana will hold a series of workshops at Crispus Attucks, open to the public. Crispus Attucks High School, Sept. 20 Indiana Moral Mondays Movement "Launch Rally" Rev. Dr. William Barber, N. Carolina, will address a diverse gathering of social, economic and environmental justice advocates. Indiana Statehouse, Sept. 20, 3 p.m., moralmonday.org Jerome Ringo speaks in Indianapolis Time and location to be determined, Sept. 25 Our Air, Our Climate and Our Environment Concerned Clergy of Indianapolis will host this event at a venue TBD. Oct 18, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
ee of Hurricane Gustav, Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Wilma, Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Ike — all since 2005. “I have experienced the impact — increasingly — of climate change, the intensity of hurricanes. I have seen the impact of sea level rise with the erosion of the Louisiana coast where we lose an acre of land every 42 minutes due to erosion. “I have been at ground zero here in the United States, where my level of activism has risen, because I can see before my eyes what is happening… and I can also see an opportunity to make a difference.” S E E , C H A N G E , O N P A G E 12
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“What drives activism is believing that your voice has the ability to change things. We can all be change agents.” — Jerome Ringo CHANGE , FROM PAGE 11 Living near the Gulf of Mexico, Ringo also experienced the ravages of the oil spill from Deepwater Horizon. “It was horrible,” he recalls, adding, “I believe that there are enough people that believe there should be a level of accountability for those who destroy the environment. Even those who are advocates for … ‘drill baby drill,’ they too suffer the effects of Deepwater Horizon. They too have children and grandchildren.” Ringo is buoyed by his spirituality, saying that, “God gave dominion to man over the earth, not to trash it, but to keep it. And to make sure that the next generation has it better than we found it. America must come to a stronger realization of the value of going green, from an environmental perspective, from an economic perspective — from a better quality of life as a whole. It creates a win-win for us.” He said he is inspired by the work of people like Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson and Virginia Ball for their commitment to the environment. “Protecting the land and the water is critical to sustain life,” he says. “Preservation and conservation is not just the right thing to do, it’s a life thing to do.”
Green fire “Green fire” is the name of the Leopold Foundation’s Emmy-winning documentary, as well as the thematic focus of the upcoming EEAI conference. Huffaker says that the phrase is “a reference to one of Leopold’s most seminal essays ‘Thinking like a Mountain’ – liter12 COVER STORY // 08.06.14 - 08.13.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
ally and figuratively about the energy of the earth. Even in the ‘40s, when Leopold wrote the essay, ‘green’ was taking on the connotation of the environment and nature. It was Leopold’s story of an epiphany of recognizing these complexities of the natural world.” Huffaker illustrates with the following example: “At a time when many thought that if you eliminated predators you would have unlimited game and wildlife of species you wanted, Leopold began to realize that wasn’t true. Predators, just like every other species or function in an ecosystem, have a particular role to play and when you remove those there can be negative consequences. Too many deer is really not a hunters’ paradise; it becomes an ethical dilemma of deer starving, range degradation, soil erosion and this cascading of problems.” Green fire, then, represents Leopold’s increasing appreciation of the complexity of ecosystems. “It’s his philosophical shift and his way to invite readers to go on this journey with him to rethink their place in the world and how the world actually operates. “We use that story and meaning as the packaging for our documentary on [how] Leopold’s life and ideas continue to inform conservation today all over the country. We use that metaphor to engage others in this journey to recognize we have an important role to play in environmental stewardship.” I point out to Huffaker that “green fire” sounds like the fire within people that motivates them to become more active in conservation. “I think that’s right,” he says. “That is many readers’ response to that term. It is right and just and it’s powerful and Leopold would be pleased.” Huffaker pauses, then continues.
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These are some of the organizations in the Indianapolis area dedicated to confronting our coming climate crisis. Beyond Coal The Indianapolis City-County Council has submitted a proposal that encourages Indianapolis Power & Light Co. “to commit to a plan to stop burning coal in Marion County by 2020 and to invest in greater amounts of clean, renewable energy, reducing toxic emissions at the Harding Street plant…” A full Council vote is expected on Aug. 18. (See p. 11) content.sierraclub.org/coal/indiana Hoosier Environmental Council HEC tackles a variety of environmental challenges in Indiana, including issues concerning climate change. They are an education and advocacy group, often found in the Indiana Statehouse, working both sides of the aisle. Occasionally, they get involved in litigation as well. Hecweb.org Indiana Moral Mondays Working Group This diverse, statewide, newly formed organization is inspired by the North Carolina-based Fusion Politics movement that unites numerous social justice elements, including environmental activism. IMMWG is looking forward to a visit from Rev. William Barber, who helped ignite Moral Monday in NC, in September, that will also coincide with the People’s Climate March. moralmonday.org Indiana Organizing For Action Climate Campaign Team The OFA Indiana Climate Campaign Team works locally to change the conversation on climate change, by collecting public comments to support the EPA Carbon Pollution Standards, by advocating for more renewable and clean energy, by asking that our elected officials recognize the reality of climate change and by building public awareness and support for the need to address this urgent problem. They work to facilitate the President’s Climate Action Plan which includes 1) Cutting the dangerous carbon pollution that causes climate change, 2) Preparing the United States for the impacts of climate change and 3) Leading international efforts to fight climate change.
People’s Climate March On the weekend of Sept. 20-21, heads of state will gather in NYC to discuss climate change issues. A massive march is planned to send the message of urgency to these leaders — and to the entire country. peoplesclimate.org Great Climate March No kidding, it’s another march! This one started in Los Angeles on March 1 and is headed — on foot — to Washington D.C., As their mission statement emphasizes, this group is diverse with many interests, but their focus is on the climate crisis. The march will include the following cities in Indiana: Whiting, East Chicago, Gary, Lake Station, Portage, Chesterton, Michigan City, Rolling Prairie, New Carlisle, South Bend, Mishawaka, Elkhart, Bristol, Middlebury, Shipshewana, Howe, Orland and Fremont. When will they arrive? Late summer/early fall. Keep an eye on the march here: climatemarch.org NAACP’s Environmental Climate Justice Committee of Indiana This organization hosts numerous events each year, focused on environmental justice issues. People of color and people of low income are always the first to be impacted by pollution. ECJ, led by Denise Abdul-Rahman, is dedicated to education and action. Contact: inecjnaacp@att.net Youth Power Indiana This youth movement, a program of Earth Charter Indiana, submitted a Petition for Rulemaking to the Environmental Rules Board in June. The goal is to get a Climate Action Plan for Indiana. Thirty-four states have a Climate Action Plan; Indiana does not. A hearing is anticipated in October. Youthpowerindiana.com
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“There’s no easy solution to this stuff,” he concludes. “This is part of the ongoing challenges and dilemmas that the conservation community is going to have to wrestle with, that we as citizens are going to have to wrestle with, and it’s going to take more vigilance, more energy, more commitment, more passion. “The amazing and wonderful things that happen when we do, are the things
that keep me coming back, whether that’s seeing a flock of cranes flying over or a beautiful prairie flower in bloom. It’s those little things that I think we can find so much inspiration and power in.” n Jim Poyser is Executive Director of Earth Charter Indiana and a member of EEAI. NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 08.06.14 - 08.13.14 // COVER STORY 13
A&E EVENTS Indiana State Fair You’ve probably noticed the fair is in full swing — and that you can drink there now, courtesy of the new, rather crowded, Indiana Beer and Wine Exhibition, before heading over to see a full lineup of concerts in the remodeled Coliseum. Coming up this week: cheerleaders (Aug. 9), monster trucks (Aug. 10), freestyle motocross (Aug. 10), horse pulls (Aug. 12) and harness racing (Aug. 13-14). And take note that while the Queen Pageant competition has moved to Jan. 2015, county queens have been invited to roam the concourse on County Queen Day, Aug. 10. Indiana State Fairgrounds, through Aug. 17, gates open 8 a.m., in.gov/statefair Drum Corps International World Championships The World Series of sticks and skins returns to Indy this weekend, bringing with it the finest marching bands in the nation and drawing about 400,000 fans. Competitive events on Aug. 7-9 are at Lucas Oil Stadium, with ticket prices at the door running $45-135 (advance and group discounts available). But we’d like to point to two free showcases — Aug. 6, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and Aug. 9, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. at Pan Am Plaza — that’ll feature the best of the fest. Various locations, Aug. 6-9, dci.org Altered Seven military vets are putting on a play for the first time through a partnership between Q Artistry and Roudebush VA Health Services Research and Development. Q Artistry’s artistic director Ben Asaykwee wrote the script for Altered, consisting of “four stories that reimagine Greek myth and shine a light on man’s relationship to material possessions, ambition and each other” (from the news release). Vets will be joined on stage by actor Lauren Briggeman. Q Artistry, 5515 E. Washington St., Aug. 8 and 9, 7:30 p.m., FREE, tickets at qartistry.org COLE! Dance Kaleidoscope is reviving its Cole Porter tribute for a one-weekend run in Carmel. “The delight is in experiencing the interpretive range between act one and two, with Ol’ King Cole — jaunty, sunny, with luxurious choreography paired with fluffy sultry-hued costumes and lighting — followed by Cole Soul, which features grittier elbow jutting, muscular, hurried contemporary configurations and angular striped body suits,” said Rita Kohn of a 2012 remount of the show. The Tarkington (Carmel), Aug. 9, 8 p.m. and Aug. 10, 2:30 p.m., $29.50 adult, $22.50 student, dancekal.org
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FIRST FRIDAY, BY THE NUMBERS Anila Agha: Sacred Silence w For fans of Herron professor Anila Agha’s work, this exhibition is a must-see, the most comprehensive look at her work so far in Indianapolis. Agha’s works in this show may seem abstract, but the reference points associated with them are anything but. The small, square canvases near the Harrison Gallery entrances riff on patterns from women’s graves in Pakistan near the Indus River Delta. Then there are works of embroidery and mixed media suggestive of particular landscapes seen from above. Agha’s “Intersections” has already transfixed the art world on an international scale. The sculpture takes the form of a cube hanging down from the ceiling, with a light bulb in the middle of the otherwise empty box. The kaleidoscopic shadows cast by the spinning cube on the gallery’s white walls are as much a part of the piece as the cube itself. The cube’s six sides are made of laser cut wood, painted black and carved with geometric elements to be found in the mosques of Alhambra, Spain, which were places of dialogue in Moorish Spain between Jews, Christians and Muslims. “The geometric patterning in Islamic sacred spaces, associated with certitude, is explored in a way that reveals fluidity,” writes the Pakistan-born-and-raised Agha in her illuminating wall text about this work. The contemplative is an aspect to be found in all major religions — Islam is no exception — and Agha brings this to the fore in her art. In a time when much of the Middle East is burning — with the murderous ISIS taking over much of Iraq and Israel bombing the people of Gaza into nonexistence — Agha’s allusions to Alhambra in her work remind us of a place where, for a while, Muslims, Christians and Jews lived in relative harmony.
Reviews from the Harrison, Gallery 924, Vonnegut Library, iMOCA and Stutz Art Gallery works. And atop “Not Fret’s” intricately detailed layer cake, as it were, of snow and shadow, you see three birds staring out towards the horizon. The Chinese characters running down the right side of the composition betray an uncommon optimism, reading “The Winter is Almost Over: Spring is coming. Nothing to be Worried About.”
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Harrison Center for the Arts, through Aug. 29 D. DelReverda-Jennings: Caught Between the Sun and Heaven e DelReverda-Jennings’ work gestures toward an amalgam of cultural influences as expansive as the list of materials that she uses to create her mixed-media sculptures. Take, for example, “Daughters of Yemaya and Oshun,” which refers to the Santeria religion as practiced in the Caribbean. The painted, sand-casted polyurethane sculpture depicts a naked female figure with her womb opened up, splayed out on a cross. This intricately-detailed sculpture demonstrates syncretism, or how concepts from indigenous religions combined with those of Catholicism and other Eurocentric traditions. DelReverda-Jennings seems to be headed in a more autobiographical direction with her paintings. Her portraits are all of women, and a number of them have issues with their hair. In “I am not 2
Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, through Aug. 31 The Black Knight Archive: Chapter 1: Migration r Ian Weaver’s exhibition, based on a fictional history of the “Black Bottom” part of Chicago destroyed by urban renewal, contains a standout pseudo-artifact. His “Black Power Helmet” is black-painted with a fist rising out of the top (Weaver’s own fist served as a model here). The sculpture is at once humorous and thought-provoking, with its combination of Medieval European and African-American cultural elements. The Black Knights, according to this fictional history, were a Black-Panthers-like group fighting for the survival of their community. There’s also a Black Knights coat of arms, a Black Knights seal and various maps. While such pseudo-artifacts are in themselves interesting, and each finds Weaver using a different set of skill sets to demonstrate how communities form their own identities and narratives, there seemed to me to be a certain lack of historical context. There isn’t much narrative glue in the wall text to hold everything together. The good news is that this is an ongoing project and such questions might be answered down the road. 4
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“I am not my Hair” by D. DelReverda-Jennings my Hair,” two women are joined not at the hip but at the hair while in “HypnotiQ,” the subject’s hair is also a bird’s nest. And then there’s her altarpiece/installation, “Arbitrary Thoughts of a Colored Gal,” which includes, below the altar, a number of skin lighteners and extensions available to African-American women. Gallery 924, through Aug. 29 Zuimeng Cao: The Glance of Chinese Painting e Zuimeng Cao is a dissident artist from Northeast China, currently living in Carmel. While his technique is often contemporary, it stands firmly atop a two-millennium-old tradition of Chinese painting. His paintings of snow relating to his boyhood in rural China are of particular note. In the painting “Not Fret,” you see a layering of snow-covered branches, one over the other. There are also luminous, nearly transparent icicles hanging down from the branches — as expressionistic as they are realistic. Cao, a master of snow painting, makes his own paints and uses a special paper in order to accomplish these 3
iMOCA, through Oct. 18 Courtland Blade: places we travel through e Where to start when talking about Courtland Blade’s oil paintings? Maybe with the ways in which they’re influenced by the hyperrealist tradition? Or with how a painting like “Route 16” — where you see the rainy day view from a windshield under an underpass — verges on abstraction? Or with their ideological content? James Kuntzler’s book The Geography of Nowhere bemoans the kind of generic suburban architecture that fills Blade’s canvases: empty aisles in supermarkets, vacant walkways in malls. Such placeless places conform to post-WWII ideas of suburban functionality and are hard to love. It’s easy to love Blade’s paintings, however, because of his color sense and the mystery they evoke. And Blade doesn’t forget the people who live in such places. Compassion and humanity burst forth at times, as in one of his latest, “Untitled (Aniyah in the Playground)” which portrays his daughter making her way through a jungle gym. 5
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he Pattern Store — a combination store, event space and office created by the fashion collective Pattern with the help of the Riley Area Development Corporation, other non-profits and a last-minute Kickstarter — opened its doors to the public Aug. 1. But let’s be clear, says Pattern co-founder and executive director Polina Osherov, that it was a soft opening/sneak peek, with plans in place for an official, grand opening in September or October. Planning for the store started only four months ago, according to Osherov, and the store’s only full-time employee, retail expert Jeremiah Williams, was hired “little more than four weeks ago.” Here’s more from my interview with Osherov. Head to nuvo.net for the complete interview. NUVO: A retail store was never part of the master plan for Pattern.
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not a typical non-profit. When funding organizations look at us, they have a lot of trouble figuring out who we are and what we do, we don’t fit into a normal bracket of an arts organization or medical needs organization. So we said, if we can figure out a way to becoming selfsustaining and leave the grant dollars to artists and others who really struggle with funding and have a hard time figuring out a way to really make money, why don’t we do that? For us, the next step we want to see happen is creating a cut-and-sew shop. Of course, we want to represent as many local vendors as we can in the store, but the trouble for them is pro-
POLINA OSHEROV: As a non-profit with limited resources, we try to make the dollar stretch as far as “So we said, if we can figure out a we can and try to kill as way to becoming self-sustaining, ... many birds with one stone as we can. So when this why don’t we do that?” opportunity first came up, it certainly didn’t seem like — PATTERN CO-FOUNDER POLINA OSHEROV an appropriate fit because it had never been something that we’d thought ducing the product locally. There are about. But the more we worked with so many folks with great ideas but no Riley Area Development Corporation, the means to create even prototypes to test more they were able to figure out how them out and see if they sell and how they could help us on the back end, the well the public responds to them. You more we got more comfortable with the have to go to China, India or Chicago. idea of an incubator. Of course, having a But we want to figure out a way to physical space is really great for us; we do make it happen here in Indy. a lot of events. When we work on Pattern Magazine, we’re sort of nomads; we go NUVO: So you’ll be carrying more in the between The Speak Easy and the Bureau way of national or international brands at the Hinge. So we thought that we could because a lot of locals wouldn’t necesdo a lot of things with the space, as a retail sarily be able to provide the kind of location and an events space and an office quantity you’re looking for. for Pattern Magazine. Obviously the hope is that the store OSHEROV: We’re definitely starting out starts generating revenue, and in a few carrying national brands more than months we’re able to bring on some local, mostly because of availability, but other staff. We’ve been having so much also because we don’t want to compete trouble finding funding because we’re directly with stores like Homespun or 16 VISUAL // 08.06.14 - 08.13.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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Boomerang Boutique that are basically our neighbors. We have women’s wear, menswear, accessories. Opening up we’re going to have a really low level of inventory. We didn’t really have the amount of money that one should have to open up a store of this size, so we’re going to start out small and build on it. But there’s going to be some emphasis on collaborations with local brands on specific stuff for our store that no one else has. Hopefully that’ll stimulate a lot of new ideas and cool products to come out of it. When we have visitors in town, we want to be able to hang up stuff made locally next to stuff that’s been made in L.A. or New York, to promote the whole idea that Indianapolis is just as good as anywhere else.
NUVO: What kind of apparel and accessories will you be carrying? Any highend products? OSHEROV: We have four archetypes to help us figure out what we want to have in store. They are Sporty Stylista and Cultural Trail Chic for women; one is more sporty and urban, the other is more professional and fitted. And then for men, one is called Startup Style, for the young professional working in, say, a tech startup, so who’s not quite as conservative as someone working at a bank or as a lawyer, someone who’s going after trends but keeping it professional. And the fourth one is called Urban Explorer, which is more of a streetwear look, casual but not sloppy or messy. We’re targeting a
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NUVO: Will these archetypes be seen by the public or are they more of an internal organizing rubric?
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OSHEROV: It could be somewhat public. We might merchandise around them. It’s important that people realize that we need to be gentle with us. We’re not trying to present ourselves as experts in retail. It’s an experiment for us, a lab of sorts. So to answer your question: maybe? I don’t have all the answers! We’re just going to try it out and see what happens. NUVO: And you can use the space for a bunch of purposes. I assume the store can be rearranged for events? OSHEROV: Everything’s on wheels or moveable and it can be reconfigured to be an event space. That’s exciting for us to be able to have more frequent, smaller events on more specific topics or catering to specific groups of people. Continuing to engage the community is at the heart of it. There aren’t enough of us to go around to be the middleman. So to bring people together and allow them this opportunity to meet each other and take it from there, and allow them to make whatever plans or partnerships that they want to is really at the heart of what they’re trying to do. NUVO: You noted on your Kickstarter that there’s a two-year incubation period for the store. OSHEROV: If everything goes to plan and generates good revenue and allows us to hire people to do lots of other things other than just working at the store, it’s something we’d probably want to continue. But then again it might just be a means to an end, a way for people to get to know us and what we’re doing, of spreading the good word that fashion and style are alive and well in Indianapolis, to get attention from the national or maybe even international scene. I think that what we’re doing as an organization is pretty unique. And we’ve got other cool initiatives and things with the city that are happening in the next four months, so who knows? We may be on to bigger and better things than just having a retail store. But the two-year incubation period is exciting because 50 percent of profits are going to go back to Riley, and they’re going to use that money to incubate other retailers and small businesses. If nothing else, we’ll help somebody else get up and running. n
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MASS AVE CRIT Mass Ave Criterium Results Every year — well, for the last seven, anyway — NUVO hosts the Mass Ave Crit (or MAC, as we lovingly call it.) The Criterium races, winding around a triangle that include two you-gottabe-kidding-me turns, use Mass Ave’s storefronts and the famous “Dancing Lady” as a backdrop 2014 for the daylong event. More than 400 riders entertained 5,000 spectators last Saturday; here are the results. Men, Categories 1/2/3 • Jeffrey Pendlebury • Chad Burdzilauskas • Devin Clark
Men Junior 10-12 • Jae Walters • Will Johnson • Marek Hayes
Men 3/4 • Craig Stokan • Michael Atkins • Christopher Coslow
Men Singlespeed • Ray Smith • Andrew Boyd • Jonathan Persinger
Men 4 • Grant Goldman • Tyler Hart • Joseph Hatley
Women 1/2/3 • Sierra Siebenlist • Shera Clark Clarksville • Jane Vani-Noone
Men 5 • Robert Frangi • Thomas Turi • Brandon Fry
Women 3/4 • Ali Oesch • Natalie Smith • Emma Caughlin
Master 40+ • Ben Weaver • Rondald Glowczynski • Chris Richter
Women Junior 10-12 • Adara VossoughiHorton • Tirajeh VossoughiHorton • Annikah Beecham
Master 50+ • John P. Schmitz • Chris Kroll • Brent Vanlandingham Men Junior M15-18 • Victor Popov • Nathaniel Ganger • Ryan Bredemeyer
And lest we forget ... The Mascot Race • Mayor Greg Ballard • Boomer • Freddy Fever — ED WENCK
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EVENT Eleven v. Strikers The Indy Eleven, a respectable 2-2 in the Fall Season standings (let’s not talk about the combined spring/fall rankings, mmmkay?) are looking to bounce back after ™ dropping a 4-2 match against Atlanta. Next up: the middle-of-the-pack Fort Lauderdale Strikers. The Eleven’s been packin’ ‘em in; tickets were available as we went to press. Michael A. Carroll Stadium, Aug. 6, 7:30 p.m., $10, indyeleven.com
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ere, put this on,” said someone who seemed to be in charge of this MotoGP 2-seater deal that I had foolishly agreed to, because I am dumb and I assumed I’d be riding comfortably in an old-timey motorcycle sidecar like Indiana Jones’ dad, at a leisurely pace and perhaps with a nice umbrella to shade myself from the sun’s harmful rays. “It’s a spine protector. It protects your — you know …” “My spine?” I interrupted. “Yeah.” Oh dear. He handed it to me. It was a thick titanium back brace of some sort, to be worn under my firesuit — or maybe it was made of carbon-fiber or iron, I don’t know. I had never worn a spine protector or touched one or knew that they existed. Spine protectors, after all, are not terribly necessary in my line of work — which consists entirely of NOT DOING SHIT THAT MIGHT EXPLODE MY SPINE. We were off to a heavy start.
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eee Still in the dressing room prior to the green flag, Mr. Spinal Board-giver led a 3-minute instructional lesson on what to do during the superbike DEATHRIDE, a lesson which felt insufficiently brief by about 29,000 hours, give or take — especially to someone who has NEVER
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before been on a motorcycle. He quickly explained the basic logistical setup of the motorcycle, which did not involve a relaxing sidecar/shade umbrella at all, but rather a small seat behind the rider and pegs near the exhaust where our feet were to be placed. “Alright, there’s a handle attached to the gas tank,” he explained. The room began to spin. “And what you’ll wanna do is hold on to it. I can’t emphasize this enough: you’ll be doing about 160 on the straights — DO NOT LET GO! That’s pretty much it. Any questions?” I struggled to process the eight-pointinfinity billion questions quickly engulfing my brain like a grease fire, which in turn crippled my motor functions and balance and vision. Looking back, it was almost certainly a small stroke of some kind — NO BIG DEAL, GANG. “Oh yeah, one more thing,” he added. “At those speeds, you have to keep your head down. If your head isn’t down, the wind can rip your helmet off.” Ooooooh, NEAT! Once down on the track, I saw the beast before it saw me: a rugged, athletic, brawler-of-a-bike — a ‘roided-out, illtempered brute that our legal system had
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eee There was an odd, unexpected sense of calm when I lumbered my way onto the two-seater for my ride. In a drawn out flash, I had a come-to-Jesus moment where I finally realized that I would NOT be coming to Jesus — not today, probably! — because, after all, this MotoGP 2-seater operation DOES have a 100% safety record — and besides, who dies at noon on an impossibly gorgeous Thursday? Neither of those things guaranteed with certainty that I wouldn’t be horribly maimed, of course, but they were good enough for me. We sauntered out of the garage and through the first three or four turns at a leisurely enough pace — it was quite pleasant, actually! The ride was smooth and the sun glistened brilliantly and I could see my Indy 500 seats in the G Stand of the SoutheasooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCKKK!!!!!!, we were at a leisurely pace no more and whatever sense of calm I had got violently tasered in the throat — we had gone quickly and with great vengeance into the business side of this business trip, and business was alarming. As we weaved impossibly through Turns NOOOOOPE and ARE YOU SHITTING ME, every single ounce of my physical and emotional and adrenalinready dad strength surged into my hands, which clamped themselves shut onto the gas-tank handle with the power of a thousand bear traps. We had been instructed to NOT do that — to grip lightly instead — but when you’re hanging off the back end of a 600-horsepower DEMONROCKET and laid out sideways through impossibly sharp turns at 95 mph, fuck your “instructions.” There ARE no instructions; there is barely oxygen to breathe. There is only complete, unwavering panic. We completed about 40 or so more turns there on the back half of the course,
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none of them particularly well. My 220 pounds of arthritic cowardice & fat was fouling up our aerodynamics, I think — that and my instinct to do the exact opposite of what I was supposed to be doing: namely, leaning INTO the turns (as opposed to cry-puking/remaining as vertical as possible). At some point, my driver — Chris Ulrich — gave me the universal and unmistakable hand sign for “GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER RIGHT NOW.” Although I can’t remember or duplicate the gesture today, at the time it was very clear and very much understood. I began leaning as he leaned, against my better judgment, and things began to improve. Until we hit the front straightaway. He opened up the throttle IN A HURRY, aggressively popping through the gears in ascending order and jolting me backwards with each one. I can tell you that it’s quite worrisome to be inching your way rearward at 160 mph, against your will, right toward Life Everlasting and the overall unpleasantness of sliding nuts-first down the world’s most iconic stretch of speedway. No, that would have been entirely unacceptable and also embarrassing — there were too many photographers along the front stretch for that to happen. So I managed to wiggle forward while using Chris as a human shield against the wind and whatever else might be in our way, inadvertently keeping my head down in the process just as I had totally forgotten I was supposed to do. (IN YOUR FACE, LISTENING TO INSTRUCTIONS!!) My hands were by then permanently seizuremelded into the handle. It was, without question, the most exhilarating/terrifying/wonderful/awful 15 seconds of my life.
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eee That first lap, as I now know, was merely a “hot lap” of sorts. A get-your-bearings WARM UP lap — which I’m not terribly proud to admit. The 2nd and 3rd laps, though — those were the KINGHELL, HAIR-ON-FIRE MEGALAPS that neither physics nor I care to explain. Yes, the turns were sharper and the speeds were higher and the WTF-O-Meter was permanently pegged toward the supernatural, but so what? This isn’t a grand & ambitious tale about Conquering One’s Fears or Learning to Trust or Discarding Your Firesuit Because You Soiled It So Badly, it is none of that. I rode around IMS at unwise speeds atop an unwise vehicle for all the right reasons — or no good reason at all, I haven’t decided — and I will never, ever, EVER, do it again. n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 08.06.14 - 08.13.14 // SPORTS 19
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OPENING The Hundred Foot Journey A dislocated Indian family opens a restaurant in a small French town, much to the dismay of ice queen Helen Mirren. Directed by Lasse Hallstrom (My Life as a Dog, Darling Companion).
PG-13, opens Thursday in wide release Into the Storm High school students chase a tornado. Originally titled Found Footage Tornado Thriller. PG-13, opens Thursday in wide release Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles This Michael Bay-produced reboot of the franchise reportedly pays greater allegiance to the comic books. PG-13, opens Thursday in wide release
CONTINUING Hercules y In Brett Ratner’s (X-Men 2) take on Hercules, based on Steve Moore’s comic, the gods might be real or they might be mere legends — we certainly never see one — and Hercules (Dwayne Johnson) isn’t the son of Zeus. He’s an orphan who uses the rumored demi-god status to snag jobs as a mercenary. Sound interesting, but there’s nothing special going on here. Johnson is fine, but doesn’t do anything surprising. The cast includes Ian McShane, John Hurt, Rufus Sewell, Peter Mullan and Rebecca Ferguson. McShane, one of Herc’s traveling crew, takes his nothing role and makes it interesting. Everybody else collects paychecks. PG-13, in wide release
FILM EVENTS B Movie Celebration Joe Bob Briggs will host this all-1984 edition of the B Movie Celebration, back to the state after relocating last year to Chicago. On the lineup are Revenge of the Nerds, The Last Starfighter, The Toxic Avenger, Repo Man, C.H.U.D. and, yes, Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo. Brown County Playhouse (Nashville), Aug. 8-10, bmoviecelebration.com
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ness smooths out and the film begins to feel more like a traditional music bio, with flashbacks to suggest the origins of Brown’s approach to music and his various misbehaviors. Brown periodically talks to the camera, but don’t expect any major insights; the star of the show remains opaque. The PG-13 movie uses shorthand to convey his actions: his drug problems are acknowledged by one shot of him sprinkling something on a joint, his physically abusive behavior is confined to the afore-
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TWO WFYI DOCUMENTARIES Bobby “Slick” Leonard: Heart of a Hoosier r There are many kinds of sports documentaries: the “expose”, the “tale of heroism” — ESPN’s 30 for 30 series has covered them all. WFYI-TV dips its toe back into these waters with Ted Green’s feature-length Bobby “Slick” Leonard: Heart of a Hoosier. That film falls, fittingly enough, into the same category as Dan Klores’ Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks. It’s a “talking heads love letter.” And in a “talking heads love letter,” dozens of people
are interviewed about a single subject, usually an individual, who’s gained respect, even reverence. The reason Green’s film works is precisely the same reason that Klores’ doc does: the primary subject — and his supporting cast — are as interesting and entertaining as hell. Green’s bio of Slick traces the man from his beyonddirt-poor beginnings as a hellraiser in Terre Haute to his current role as color man for the Pacers’ radio network. Leonard went on to sink the game-winning freethrow for IU in the 1953 NCAA final, and after a stint in the pros that ended with a career-changing injury, Slick eventually found himself being lured back to Indy
to coach the newly-formed Pacers. It’s this third act of Green’s film that’s the most entertaining. Slick was a flamboyantly dressed madman who wasn’t afraid to throw a punch if it got his point across. The stories are as colorful as Leonard’s ‘70s era leisure suits: here’s Slick punting a ball into the stands, feuding with Red Auerbach, threatening a timekeeper, insisting Star reporter Bill Benner transcribe a profanityladen response to a rival for print. Beyond all the cussin’ and the fightin’ (and the CONTINUED ON PAGE 21
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drinkin’ and the drinkin’ and the drinkin’), it’s obvious that anybody who’s had anything to do with Slick loves this guy, and Green’s found them all. He does a nice job balancing the historical footage with the interviews, and the pacing’s strong through the first three-quarters of the documentary. True, the last twenty minutes of the film lean a bit too heavily on the repetition of “I’d do anything for Slick” refrain from Green’s interview subjects, but the overall effect is spot on. Slick gave the city more than we realize, and Green makes sure his talking heads stress that without Leonard, Indy might not have become a major-league town. — ED WENCK
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WFYI public television producer Gary Harrison in this new, half-hour documentary. Harrison shapes The Fringe Factor as a series of testimonials showing the impact of IndyFringe on the careers and lives of performers. It began as a crapshoot. Would people come to a festival of un-juried acts? Would anyone notice or care? A positive outcome led to season two — and ten years later audiences can enjoy both a hoopla-filled, ten-day August festival, as well as a year-round performance venue. Harrison’s aim is to show how IndyFringe can change lives. He succeeds nobly through a mix of testimonials from actors, interns, staff, supporters and volunteers. The number of returnees to the annual festival speaks to the endurance of some of the acts. But what’s most impressive is the way in which hometown companies — the kind of acts booked day-in, day-out at the IndyFringe Theatre — have grown alongside IndyFringe.
Airing Aug. 7, 9 p.m. on WFYI-1 The Fringe Factor: Ten Years Onstage with IndyFringe e IndyFringe’s decade-long journey toward becoming cultural and civic magnet is buoyantly documented by
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TwoDeep Brewery and Tap Room officially opened Aug. 2 at 714 N. Capitol “on the top of the Cultural Trail” and in the hub of new building expansion at the north edge of downtown Indianapolis. Founding brewer Andy Meyer spoke with me early in 2014 when it was clear his original intention of repurposing the old Chateau Thomas Winery building was not possible. Looking for an underserved area to locate, North Capitol called out as a perfect location, yet even there negotiations for a spot took twists and turns until the northwest corner building north of The State House opened up TwoDeep opened with Jenny Wit, a Belgian wheat; The Kunkel, a Dunkelweizen; Red Sunday Irish Red; Lake IPA; and Knightstic, a cream ale, all on tap. Growlers will be filled. Bottling/canning will follow. More at Twodeepbrewing.com Flat 12 poured pints of the yet-to-named Indy Eleven tribute beer at the Aug. 6 match at Carroll Stadium. Bob Weaver was on hand to listen to everyone’s opinion about the five finalist names accompanied by label mock-ups. “We’ll consider these anecdotal responses along with the online comments for our final decision,” said Weaver. To offer “constructive feedback” go to: flat12.me. New releases Indiana City has their 2014 Indiana State Fair Brewers’ Cup Gold Winner “Irish Hill” back on tap along with “Crimson Bombshell,” a robust Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Amber Ale. Rock Bottom downtown is serving a special menu of “Summer Honey Ale” paired with Sweet & Spicy Tastes of Summer Half Moon in Kokomo is pairing their Summer wheat with a special menu. Brewer John Templet says, “It’s a refreshing American Wheat beer brewed with sweet orange peel and coriander for a fresh orange-citrus flavor that balances with the soft spiciness of the coriander.” Mad Anthony in Fort Wayne has created “Peach Wheat” with a bold peach flavor and a light body to soothe hot, sultry weather. Upland released Loner IPA on tap at all its locations Events Aug 6-17: Indiana State Fair Grand Hall inaugural Beer and Wine Exhibition. Have photo ID in hand to enter. Experience 3-4 different breweries and wineries each day for a flight of tastes and/or a full serving. Aug. 7: Bier Brewery is featured at Carmel Monon Mixer at Carmel Clay Parks Aug. 8: Thr3e Wise Men inaugurates every Friday Hoppy Hour with live acoustic music 5-7 p.m. Aug. 8: Great Fermentations monthly Friday Night Club meeting at 5127 E. 65th St. 5 p.m.
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review of a tiny stand in the Indianapolis City Market? You bet. When Three Carrots opened recently in the Indianapolis City Market, it became — as far as I know — the city’s first non-ethnic vegetarian restaurant. And that’s significant. And even though chef/owner Ian Phillips is operating out of a spot that’s smaller than most home kitchens, he’s turning out a variety of vegetarian and vegan dishes for a variety of customers — not just vegetarians. And that means that even here in steak-and-potatoes Indianapolis, vegetarian food isn’t so unusual anymore. In fact, Three Carrots won’t be Indy’s only vegetarian cafe for long. Ezra’s Enlightened Café will be opening soon at 6516 Ferguson St. with even more raw, gluten-free and vegan options. Other restaurants, like Duos, for example, have cajoled the local dining public into trying lunches that don’t necessarily feature meat in the middle of the plate (I’m thinking here of Duo’s popular Balance Bowls). And when even bars like the Sinking Ship offer vegetarian and vegan options — beyond the ubiquitous portobello burger — you know it’s just not that odd anymore to skip the meat-centric model and have something else for lunch. So, yeah, a little stand in the City Market can definitely command some attention. Now, I know it’s a too soon to jump into a full-fledged review. After all, Three Carrots had barely been open a couple of weeks when I stopped in for lunch with a friend recently. But there’s enough going on to merit a look. I certainly wasn’t the only one who thought so. According to Phillips, it was probably the busiest day he’d seen yet. So waits for orders were a bit on the long side — let’s say more than five minutes, and getting close to 10 — and with Phillips manning the sandwich press and one other person working the counter, “hectic” is the word that comes to mind. But I was happy to notice repeat customers; in fact, I was behind a person in line who said “I’ll have the Three C BLT again.” Good choice. In fact, the special of
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the day was my favorite of the three sandwiches I tried — although the seitan in the BLT isn’t anything at all like bacon. Seitan, sometimes called “wheat meat,” is made from wheat gluten and can take on a variety of favors. It has a nice chewiness and this version had a bit of bacon’s salty smokiness, but don’t expect to be fooled. Still, it’s a good sandwich, although the bread didn’t hold up as well as I would have liked. The banh mi sandwich, also $7.50, worked out better as far as sturdiness. Also made with seitan, it included the pickled vegetables and jalapeno of a traditional banh mi, although the two of us who tried it wanted bigger flavors, especially from the vegetables. Saltier, maybe or sweeter or more sour. It’s a banh mi that plays it safe. I also wanted to try one of the tofu sandwiches, so I opted for the popular Tofu Rich Girl, $8.50, a take on a po-boy that includes cornmeal-crusted tofu, chipotle slaw and avocado. This one just
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didn’t work for me. The cornmeal coating on the tofu was sandy rather than crisp and the avocado just wasn’t ripe. Ian’s Chili, however, available by the $4 cup or $6 bowl, was terrific. Made with beans, peppers, tomatoes and a generous amount of spice, it was also a bit sweet thanks to a topping of cashew crème fraiche. I also liked a chilled peach soup, another of the day’s specials. Sandwiches come with chips and a flavorful salsa. Side salads are available as well, and a $6 lemon-marinated kale salad with fruit, almonds red peppers and cranberries sounds good. And I’ll definitely have to stop by at breakfast soon for vegan biscuits and gravy, $7. “It appeals to the vegan and vegetarian communities whose dining options can be somewhat limited,” said City Market executive director Stevi Stoesz Kersh. “Even non plant-based consumers have been enjoying the flavorful offerings from Ian Phillips and his Three Carrots crew.” So there’s plenty to try at Three Carrots, more than its small space would indicate. It’s a great addition to the market, and the very fact that the city now has a vegetarian breakfast and lunch option is definitely encouraging. I’m looking forward to seeing what else Phillips and other vegetarian chefs in the city have in store for us. n Jolene Ketzenberger covers local food at EatDrinkIndy.com. You can follow her on Twitter @JKetzenberger.
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e’ve covered the Chefs’ Night Off dinners in NUVO before, and we’re big fans of the concept. RJ Wall and Andrew Whitmoyer put together pop-up dinners at locations throughout the city. The food is fancy and sophisticated, the plating and seating are not. Let’s put it this way: if you love watching acoustic live DVDs of rock stars playing their acoustic favorites and playing them hard, CNO dinners will be your new favorite event. So, what should newbies expect from such a dinner? “They should expect Odin to burst through the gates of Valhalla and shower the great people of Indiana with a delicious feast,” said co-organizer RJ Wall of the Cerulean-hosted event. In other words, it’s not for people who take their dining too seriously. “No frills or razzledazzle. Great food and a good time without all the bullshit,” Wall clarified. So who’s cooking? How about Ed Sawyer, Sous Chef at Pizzology; Seth
Julian, Meat Monger at Goose The Market and CNO veteran; and Matt Stum, Sous Chef at Plow & Anchor. August’s dinner falls under the headline of “Mama Tried,” and will take place at Cerulean in a partnership with the fine folks at Slow Food Indy (slowfoodindy.org), a nonprofit organization that helps diners find “good, clean and fair food.” They give out their signature “Snail of Approval” to restaurants that put the extra effort into buying local, keeping it green, and encouraging food system sustainability. There will also be some new additions, like an optional cocktail pairing menu, along with some extensive organic and “bio-dynamic” wine offerings. It’s not a vegetarian dinner like July’s, but it will definitely be green. The $55 ticket for three courses and a dessert does not include gratuity for servers, so bring some extra to make sure the wait staff leaves feeling appreciated. Speaking of those tickets, they’re staying on sale until Friday on Eventbrite.com if this sounds like a dinner you could get into. n
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Renee — in addition to answering your questions — offers the following note. You can also make your voice heard by signing the change.org petition linked to this column at indianalivinggreen.com. As we went to press, no decision had been reached, although a vote is expected on Aug. 6.
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On Tuesday, July 29, I made brief remarks regarding the pending recycling proposal by Covanta for the City of Indianapolis. My remarks were brief because, after a 15-minute speech by Jeremiah Shirk, Department of Public Works Chief of Staff, when he was given the opportunity to outline all the reasons the city would like to proceed with the contract (and attack the opposition), others (including the Indiana Recycling Coalition, which represents the opposition) were given two minutes to comment. If you’re unfamiliar with the Covanta proposal, in short: Covanta currently converts waste to energy for the City of Indianapolis, burning our trash to create steam to power the downtown steam loop. They get paid to take the trash, they get paid when we don’t produce enough trash (the city actually signed a contract to produce a certain amount of trash each year and we’re fined when we don’t meet that goal), and they’re paid to produce steam. They propose that they build a new facility, which I will respectfully call the Advanced Recycling Center (ARC), where recyclables are pulled from the garbage. The new contract would allow Covanta to own our city’s trash until 2028. It does not include the recycling of glass. While the Mayor announced this new plan a few weeks ago, it still requires a vote by the Board of Public Works. To my knowledge, we don’t know when that vote will take place, nor have we, or they, seen the actual proposed contract. As someone who is very passionate about green living and is looked to as an expert on the topic, I have many concerns with this proposal. I’ve shared 24 INDIANA LIVING GREEN // 08.06.14 - 08.13.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
many of those concerns in my Ask Renee column, but if I had one last opportunity to represent myself – and, I believe, many of my followers – here are just a few more thoughts I’d like to share with those who care about the environment. One of the biggest opposing arguments against the Covanta ARC is contamination. It’s hard to believe that materials recovered from the garbage will have value to recyclers. During the public comment before the City County Community Affairs Committee and Board of Public Works, I learned even more from local manufacturers who use recycled materials. • A representative from Knauf Insulation of Shelbyville shared that they recycle one million glass bottles a day. They don’t require that the glass be sorted by color, but they do require that it be clean. As I mentioned earlier, Covanta won’t be recycling glass and, even if they did, it would likely be contaminated. • During his presentation to the Community Affairs Committee, the representative from Covanta said that there is no market for film plastic. In fact, there is a strong market in Indiana for film plastic. Hilex Poly in North Vernon operates the largest closed loop plastic bag recycling facility in the world, where plastic bags are turned back into resin pellets and then back in to new bags. Petosky Plastic in Hartford City recycles all types of plastic film. Covanta’s comment that there is no market for plastic film leads me to believe that film will not be recovered from the trash in their ARC. • Pratt Industries is the largest privately held 100% recycled paper company and has four facilities in Indiana. They recently announced their new $260 million facility that will employ >>>
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I just emptied a small 16.4 oz propane tank that you use with your camp stove. Can those be recycled? I’m finding very conflicting information online. Thanks! — STACIE
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You may be finding conflicting information because propane tanks are made from a very recyclable material (steel), but they can be very dangerous to handle. Your best bet is to take it to a ToxDrop. In Indianapolis there are four locations. Folks in other counties can learn where to dispose of household hazardous waste through their Solid Waste Management District. Places like RecycleForce and other metal recyclers can take a punctured propane tank, but I don’t advise that you attempt to puncture a tank unless you truly know what you’re doing. A small spark + some leftover propane = disaster. — Piece out, Renee
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Please update me about lids. I know that water bottles can be recycled with lids on. What about other plastics that have a lid of a different color? Is there anything I should know about jars that have a metal
<<< over 130 people in Valparaiso. They need as much clean recycled paper and cardboard as we can provide and they are not confident that they will get a clean supply from Covanta. • Additionally, Pratt’s owner said that in all his years in the recycling industry, he has never ever seen this many manufacturing companies who use recycled material come together to speak out against a new recycling facility. It’s laughable that the Mayor’s Office claims that the City of Indianapolis offers curbside recycling to its residents. I’m pretty sure Republic offers curbside recycling to Indianapolis residents and the City of Indianapolis has one page buried on their web site with information on how to contact Republic. I’m plugged in to the local green scene and I have seen little to no public promotion for recycling by the city. Cities all around Indianapolis – and the country – have successful curbside for all
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lid? I know the glass jar can be recycled but can the metal lid? There are always pesky questions when one recycles. — THANK YOU, JEANNETTE
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What do you call someone who doesn’t recycle their lids? A lidder bug.
In other words, yes, you can recycle lids. All lids. My contact at Republic says they prefer them off the container. You’re right. There are lots of pesky questions. But it’s SO worth it! — Piece out, Renee
recycling programs, including Lawrence, Fort Wayne, and Columbus, OH. If you live in Indianapolis and you believe that trash disposal is free and are frustrated that recycling is a paid program, then I encourage you to rethink that position. Our trash happens to be a service that is bundled into our taxes (don’t forget, the city is paying Covanta to make that trash disappear) while recycling is an extraneous service that requires initiative of the citizens. Perhaps it should be the other way around? If the city wants to champion a sustainable recycling program, they must pursue a curbside for all recycling program. They must re-evaluate how we handle our trash. If you truly believe that Indianapolis residents cannot be inspired to do what’s best for the environment, then maybe this proposal is the right choice. If you truly believe that people from Indianapolis cannot be educated to put recyclables in one container and trash in another, then this proposal probably is the best option. If you truly believe that Indianapolis is worthy of a second-best solution, then we should sign now before pursing curbside for all. After all, it’s better than nothing. Heck, in the spirit of new slogans, maybe that should be ours – Indianapolis: It’s Better Than Nothing. Honest to goodness. n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 08.06.14 - 08.13.14 // INDIANA LIVING GREEN 25
TINY CHATS CATCHING UP WITH JOSH KAUFMAN After winning The Voice in May, soul singer Josh Kaufman has been in a whirlwind of musical excursions, including a summer tour with the NBC show. But come September, Kaufman and his trademark fedora will return to his roots in Indianapolis as a headliner for the 16th annual Indy Jazz Fest. While fans of Kaufman got to see him perform pop and R&B songs on The Voice, at Jazz fest, he will also illustrate his love for jazz. “I’m excited about the fact that I’ll get to do a variety of music, and I hope to incorporate more jazzinfluenced stuff, because that’s something that I’ve done before,” said Kaufman during a phone interview. Before The Voice, Kaufman did both solo gigs and performances with his band, The New Etiquette, around Indy at places such as Monkey’s Tale, White Rabbit Cabaret and the Chatterbox. During this time, Kaufman and his band covered a wide variety of genres, including jazz, which gave him the opportunity to explore its similarity to the improvisational aspects of soul music. “It’s so at the roots of everything that has come out of American music,” says Kaufman. So while he’s back in his town, Kaufman will celcel ebrate the heritage of his city’s jazz scene along with many other musicians to immerse the community in one of the oldest music genres in American history. “I love it. It’s music that I really enjoy. I just think that it’s important. Jazz is the heart of American music, and that’s what we’ve contributed to the world of music,” says Kaufman. Indy Jazz Fest Director, David Allee, believes all music lovers can find a branch of jazz to fit their taste in music; they just have to hear it first. And by bringing Kaufman up on stage for this year’s festival, Allee hopes to show pop or R&B lovers that they may love jazz too. “We’re thinking of this show as a good way to connect a bridge between somebody that may be more of a pop listener or signer/songwriter type listener to what we do musically jazz wise,” says Allee in a phone interview. Kaufman will perform at the Murat Theatre at Old National Centre on September 13 at 8 p.m. Tickets for the show are on sale now. — TERYN ARMSTRONG
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hey've coordinated ultra-complex routines on treadmills, constructed and performed inside an elaborate Rube Goldberg Machine, danced with 12 dogs, and coordinated a warehouse full of optical illusions – all in epic, single-take videos. They also make pop music, of course, but it's those perfect, hyper-complicated videos that skyrocketed this Chicago-born band into the pop culture stratosphere. OK Go will hit Deluxe at Old National Centre next Thursday. Here's a portion of our interview with bassist Tim Nordwind. NUVO: So you guys are obviously known for your quirky, creative music videos. Tell me a bit about when those started. TIM NORDWIND: Well, I’ve known Damien, a singer in the band, since I was 11. We met at a creative arts summer camp in Northern Michigan. We have been friends ever since, and a lot of our friendship has been based off of making things. We’ve been making videos with our parents’ cameras and writing songs for ages, like 27 years now. For the last 15 years we’ve been doing it under the name of OK Go, but we were doing it well before that. And you know, we love making music, but we also love performing, making short films, all sorts of different artistic endeavors and collaborations.
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NORDWIND: When we write music, we aren’t thinking about how we’ll perform it or what would make the best video. We’re more thinking about how the music makes you feel, how it sounds. Typically, a lot of the times, the lyrics don’t necessarily coincide with the visual concepts. However, that being said, we just put out a new video for our first single on our new record, called “Writing On The Wall,” which is a video of perspective tricks and anamorphic images and things like that. The end of the video is a huge anamorphic image that says “The writing's on the wall,” and I think this is one video where visually it does match what the lyrics are about. The lyrics are about a couple sort of breaking up, but wanting to have one more moment together. The reason they’re breaking up is because they can’t seem to see the same thing the same way. In order to do that, you have to be really aligned, and that goes well with the idea of doing all these perspective tricks. NUVO: What was the video that was the most fun for you? NORDWIND: It’s hard to pick a favorite. They’re all so unique in their own ways.
Every time we do one, I’m like, “Wow, this is not like any of the others. This does not remind me of any of our other experiences.” The very first one, that was a predecessor to “Here It Goes Again,” it’s just us doing a dance routine in the backyard for a song called “A Million Ways.” That one has a true innocence to it, in the way that we had made up that dance for our live shows, and that video was really just a rehearsal tape so we could see what the dance looked like. We thought it was really charming, with all our mistakes, so we put the music with it and sent it to our friends. And our friends sent it around, and before we knew it, it had gone somewhat viral. And I love the Rube Goldberg Machine, because we kind of made the impossible possible. It’s not so much about having a favorite; we’re just lucky that we’ve been able to chase these ideas we’ve had and be able to execute them. The process by which we do that is always amazing. NUVO: Do you consider your live performances anything like your videos, in terms of creativity and execution? NORDWIND: Yeah, yeah we just spent like the last month and a half putting together a new live show, and there’s a lot of new technology involved. There’s crowd participation, a lot of multimedia stuff happening, and of course a lot of new music to play with some of the older songs. The live show that we’re touring on right now was made very much in the spirit of how we make our records and videos. n
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o I rolled up to the White Rabbit for the Cataracts-sponsored side project night at five after ten, paid my five bucks, and headed straight for the couches in the back just to post up. It was not, to be fair, strictly speaking or officially “side-project night,” but all three locals on the bill were tracking the outer limits of one of their other, more established bands. Exploding Head Scene was Sonny Blood from Apache Dropout and The Bloody Mess, MK-II was a couple dudes from Raw McCartney including Mr. Cataracts himself, Jacob Gardner. And Sedcairn Archives, looked at under the right light, was probably, almost definitely, David Adamson a.k.a., DMA. Music hadn’t started yet when I got there, but the whole stage was already set up. Three stations: left, right and center, lending a little ad-hoc, collaborative, creeping-from-the-basement vibe. That’s cool with me because usually when I’m inside the White Rabbit I don’t think “ad-hoc-up-from-the-basement,” I think “weird stuff I saw go down at Real Talk.” Soon enough, some dude in a wolf mask and graduation robes took to the stage and everything started. The guy whipped pitch-shifted funk jams out of an arcane little pile of gear. This was Exploding Head Scene, though I wasn’t positive at first because I couldn’t tell for sure it was Sonny Blood underneath that fake (probably?) wolf hair. He started harmonically spare, a little tentative, not immediately sure, it seemed, how far into the White Rabbit’s speaker system he could push. Soon enough, though, he was ice-picking his way straight through. Jangling tape-hiss shredded the air as his cut-ups tripped forward. Personified, the music would’ve walked with a slight leftward limp. A few minutes into the set Sonny, who stayed mostly hunched over his pile of electronics, was joined by two women dressed like forest sprites. They littered the stage with greenery. They lilted and swayed in a manner about one step removed from being precisely “with” the music (which, with its collagic fragments, did not always give them much
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to be “with” anyhow). Samples seeped out of unseen crevices for the length of it, stacking scores of jolts, little surprises and flashes of insight or understanding until it all hit the ceiling, the dancers left the stage, and Blood leaned back to pull at the wolf mask. Next up it was MK-II, or, if you prefer, half of Raw McCartney, hammering minimalism as loud as you’ll ever hear. Aside from the insane, busting depth of the sounds they eventually made, MK-II was notable (I guess?) for being the only group to use a guitar in any capacity at all. They also came closest to sounding like an “actual rock band:” drum pattern (drummachined though it was), bass groove, guitar chords, some synth in there for flavor, and so on. But where the sonics and the
pieces were, yes, more traditional, the form itself bucked against the easy listen. When you say a word enough times it starts to feel funny, almost inert, but also shockingly strange. This is the place MK-II takes you. The grooves were huge, full, loud and locked in loops. Repeating, repeating, repeating. Fully mesmerizing. No choruses, no verses, no bridges, dynamics only minimally and primarily as an on-ramp to full speed ahead, and above all a pulse, a feel, a motorik hum, abiding. At 11:11, the stage set up changed around and I thought about the White Rabbit’s soda situation. Everything comes out a little flat, if you ask me. I polished my glass off anyhow just as I I’m Eye My — on tour from Philadelphia and with fresh tape on Not Not Fun called
7 Transmissions — started up. Both Exploding Head Scene and MK-II were insistent in their own ways; I I’m Eye My leaned back more. The eighth notes in MK-II’s set were straight where I I’m Eye My’s were swung. Exploding Head Scene careened toward peaks; I I’m Eye My were all about carving out divots. I’m talking in terms of comparisons because so many of the pieces from the first two locals were present again, just twisted a different direction. Longform, looping beats and krauty synths, distant melodies, and sprinkles of noise. Still, somehow, it felt totally different; fully individual and engrossing. Part way through their set, someone turned on the disco ball, and somehow they seemed to be playing in time with its rotation. It was beautiful. There are bass frequencies, which, played at sufficient volume, seek to suck the air out of a room. The long waves reflect off each other to fill the space completely, canceling out, it seems, any room reverberations, and stranding every listener in an individual headspace. I learned that from Sedcairn Archives’ set, the last one of the night. With his DMA and Tuffblades projects, Adamson wrenches the sounds of hip-hop and footwork until they roll end over end. Sedciarn Archives takes those same sounds and textures further off toward the fringes. Instead of boom-baps or bangers, the physical characteristics of the sounds did most of the work, vibrating with the room more than any simple kick-kick-snare. This was the most patient, vibing set of the night, driving not for sheer volume, but for maxed-out, almost-out-of-the-range-ofhuman-hearing gut punches. There was a dude who spent the whole set leaning right against the stage left main and I don’t know how he did it. The music was free-form and winding, seemingly improvisatory. It traced the sounds of hip-hop as they spiraled out and out, getting constantly more distant from any clear, beat-driven center. Pretty much right after Adamson clicked off that mysterious little CR-68 in his rig, I was out the door. For some reason this show had put me in the “drive around with the windows down listening to something kosmische sounding” mood, and I wanted to get at it sooner than later. Professionally: it was worth the five bucks. n
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'm absolutely sick of hearing about racism in the Indianapolis club scene, and the last thing I want to do is turn this column into a weekly rant about issues of race. But as a nightlife and culture writer, I can’t ignore the subject while black artists and promoters are being unfairly treated in my city. And that's exactly what happened on July 21 when Fox 59 aired a news piece suggesting that racy club flyers featuring images of Beyonce and bikini clad women were directly related to recent episodes of violence in the Broad Ripple neighborhood. The DJ in question, DJ Cash, lost his job over the station's investigation, even though his event flyers featured no reference to violence or any illegal activities. DJ Cash is black. A few days later, a story appeared in the Indiana Business Journal detailing a federal court case filed by Anies Alfayyad, the owner of Broad Ripple nightclub Bleecker Street. The IBJ reports the club's owner alleges that the building's landlords doubled their rent to force Bleecker Street (which has primarily black patrons) out of
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made no progress in breaking down racial tensions and stereotypes since this story was published over ten years ago. From what I’ve read, public officials and community leaders in Broad Ripple insist their response to recent episodes of violence is not racially motivated. It's about behavior, they say. So, would they come down with equal force if white patrons were seen to be destabilizing the neighborhood? Let's look back to 2011 for an example. In November of that year a group (whose leader has alleged ties to white supremacy organizations) announced an "Occupy Broad Ripple With Guns" rally. The The event called for crews of event called for crews of gunpacking citizens to patrol gun-packing citizens to patrol Broad Ripple's nightlife scene. A November 28 Channel 6 Broad Ripple’s nightlife scene. news report stated members of the group were also disseminating racially inflammatory publicity materials, which, according Broad Ripple. Per the IBJ story, Alfayaad’s to one eyewitness testimony, called lawsuit claims the building's landlords for "a noose for Mexicans and Africanused the terms “ghetto” and “those types Americans." The group disputed via of people” when describing Bleecker Facebook that they had disseminated Street's clientele, and told the Alfayaad he the material. needed “to get rid of these people." The That sounds a lot like terrorism to story also cited a rejected lease agreement me. But did the threat of gun-toting offered to Bleecker Street's owner which white supremacists provoke a public forbid the nightclub from playing hip-hop response from someone like Indianapolis music and employing DJs. (NUVO was Homeland Security chief Gary Coons? No, unable to reach Alfayaad for comment.) I was recently looking through NUVO's but Coons appeared eager to lend his condemnations of DJ Cash's "racy" fliers to archive for stories on this topic. I found a Fox 59's questionable report. 2003 piece titled "Blacks in Broad Ripple As Indy grapples with issues of crime - Is there racial discrimination?" I found a and violence in our communities we quote from IMPD officer Kendale Adams need to measure our responses carefully. particularly interesting from that piece. Vilifying innocent black entertainers and After strongly stating that he believed club patrons is clearly not the answer. n black patrons were being unfairly target-
ed, Adams said Broad Ripple "bar owners do not want that type of element when you get a lot of black people in the same place, they [club owners] get concerned." Sadly, it seems the neighborhood has
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WEDNESDAY BEATS Writer’s Block Producer Showcase The August edition of Writer’s Block features Mvstermind (St. Louis), Abnormal, Loosescrews and Michael Franco. Open decks begin at 11:30 p.m. Beginners and established producers alike are welcome to this monthly networking showcase. Sabbatical, 921 Broad Ripple Ave., 9 p.m., $5, 21+
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POP Ingrid Michaelson, Neulore Ingrid Michaelson’s music is a gift to AAA radio and soapy evening primetime dramas – and people who just like intelligent pop music, of course. Her new album Lights Out produced the infectious single “Girls Chase Boys,” and the even more infectious accompanying video, an homage to Robert Palmer’s “Simply Irresistible.” Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., 8 p.m., $25, 21+ JAZZ Avenue Indy Jazz Quintet Here’s Jeff Conrad on his group: “The concept for Avenue Indy was developed on the shared belief that the casual jazz listener likes the music and the ‘jazz vibe’ but
has limited interest in extended improvised solos and long tunes. Our goal is to engage our listeners and keep the music interesting and accessible to them, not to ‘educate’ them.” Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave., 7 p.m., $7, 21+ SINGING COMPS American Idol Live! Welcome to the 13th annual Hunger Games! Here are your tributes: C.J. Harris, Jena Irene, Caleb Johnson, Jessica Meuse, MK Nobilette, Alex Preston, Dexter Roberts, Majesty Rose, Malaya Watson and Sam Woolf. Over the next several weeks, you’ll watch, through your screens – Er, this is actually the Season 14 American Idol tour, you say? And these are the finalists, who are on a countrywide tour together? And nobody has to die? Oh. Well that sounds much better. Indiana State Fairgrounds, 1202 E. 38th St., 7:30 p.m., prices vary, all-ages
Apache Dropout Record Release The scuzzy, fuzzy rockers in Apache Dropout just dropped Heavy Window yesterday, and tomorrow they’re celebrating with a show at the Back Door in Bloomington with OBNOX, Danny and The Darleans and Thee Tsunamis. Show up early, buy the record and bury your head in noise for the rest of the night. The Back Door, 207 S. College Ave. (Bloomington), 9 p.m., 21+ JAZZ Blair Clark Clark and his wife Heather Ramsey-Clark are busy opening up a new spot for music in Carmel called The Warehouse (slated for a fall opening date), but he’s finding time to drop into the Zoo for an all-ages show. Indianapolis Zoo, 1200 W. Washington St., 5:30 p.m., all-ages EDM Altered Thurzdaze Four Year Anniversary
Jay Elliott and Friends, Tin Roof, 21+
Downlink plays this anniversary event, which marks four years of boundarypushing EDM at the Mousetrap on Thursday nights.
Blues Jam with Gordon Bonham, Slippery Noodle, 21+
Mousetrap, 5565 N. Keystone Ave., 9 p.m., FREE, 21+
SlideCat Ryoale, Vogue, 21+ Blues Jam, Main Event, 21+
The Family Jam, Mousetrap, 21+ Retro Rewind, Vogue, 21+
4 on the Floor, Moon Dog Tavern, 21+
SOUNDCHECK Hugh Jeffner’s Birthday Bash, John Larner, Dane Rohl, Taylor Eads, Aron Don, Blu, 21+ Open Stage, Lucky’s Bar and Grille, 21+ Aaron Lewis, Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ Living Proof, Greenwood Park Mall, all-ages Radio FX, Rock House Cafe, 21+ Latin Dance Party, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Naptown Stomp, Grove Haus, 21+ Uncle Juju, Rathskeller, 21+
FRIDAY ALBUM RELEASE Tonos Triad, Half Step Sisters Joint Album Release Tonos Triad and Half Step Sisters, two local Indianapolis bands, will be holding an album release party at the White Rabbit Cabaret on August 8th. Admission is $10 and with that you get a copy of BOTH ALBUMS! White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect St., 8 p.m., $10, 21+
HIP-HOP Pitbull Ay, mami. Pitbull is coming to the State Fair, you hear? The massively, massively popular rapper is featured on about every major summer hit from the last six or seven years, and we bet he’ll pull a bunch of those out at his State Fair stop.
Wiz Khalifa, Jeezey, Tyga, Rich Home Quan, Sage the Gemini, Mack Wilds, Iamsu, DJ Drama, Klipsch Music Center, all-ages Shimmercore, Rooms, Bait and Tackle Tabernacle, Melody Inn, 21+
Amp After Dark: David Acerman Band, Nickel Palte District Amphitheater, all-ages
Vibes Music, 1051 E. 54th St., 8 p.m., free with donations accepted, all-ages POP
Rayford Griffin, Broad Ripple Park, all-ages
Future Islands Future Islands stops by the Vogue during their MASSIVE World Tour — and, yes, massive needs to be in all-caps, because they’ve got 70 stops ranging from San Francisco to Boston to Portugal and all the way to New Zealand. The synthpop group recently released their fourth studio album SINGLES, a 10-song project that received warm reviews from critics across the country. When we interviewed Future Islands on their last tour, bassist William Cashion opined on his love of synth pop: “I think there’ll be more synthpop for years to come. The technology is getting better for this kind of stuff and I think there’s some really classic stuff from the late ‘70s and ‘80s and even the ‘90s. I think that will still continue to inspire young people to try and make that kind of music.”
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Alchemy This monthly event features visual, audio and performance art. On the docket: Mike Graves (displaying visual art, not DJing), Kenyetta Dance Company, Dezzy Dez, Ninja, Roy McMahon, Theon Lee, Thierry Baptiste, DJs Limelight and Kyle Long, plus some more.
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Gary Applegate, Chateau Thomas Wine Bar, 21+ Midnight Mob, Michigan Street Blues Band, The Cousin Brothers, Melody Inn, 21+ Saint Aubin, Brooks Ritter, Steven and The Savvy, Radio Radio, 21+
Bill Lancton’s Santana Tribute, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Chase Rise, Indiana State Fairgrounds, 21+ Lisa Walks, Rathskeller, 21+ Brother O’ Brother, Janet Duke and The Seven Deadly, Like Smoke, Three Ds’ Pub and Cafe, 21+ Benito, Claddagh Irish Pub (Downtown), 21+
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SOUNDCHECK FESTIVAL Indy Folk Fest The 5th annual Indy Folk Fest features Sweet Poison Victim, Joshua Powell, Willoughby Sprig, Michael Kelsey, Lisa Walks, Sindacato and The Dapper, and special performances by INDYPROV. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Freewheelin’. Community org booths will be open all day, and Brics and La Chinita Poblana will serve food. Indy Hostel, 4903 Winthrop Ave., 1 p.m., FREE, all-ages HIP-HOP Drake, Lil Wayne Hip-hop music lovers rejoice, Young Money rap artists Drake and Lil Wayne will be co-headlining a 31-city tour titled “Drake vs. Lil Wayne” for the first time this summer. The dynastic duo have been collaborating on one another’s tracks for years in singles such as “Love Me” and their recent release, “Believe Me.” In the early part of his music career, Drake traveled along with top-of-the-rap-game Lil Wayne during his 2009 tour, but has since joined the ranks with his mentor
especially after winning a Grammy last year. While Drake is on the rise, Lil Wayne is currently working on his reported final album, Tha Carter V, which has yet to receive a release date. The anticipation for this joint tour is soaring in the hip-hop world, so grab your YMCMB apparel and watch two of the biggest stars in the rap game rival each other live.
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SUNDAY FEST Super Mega Slam Fest III Hell yes. United Nations, Frameworks, The Reptilian, Pessoa, Two Knights, Grey Gordon, Wounded Knee, Raw McCartney, Canyons, Great Floods, American Thunder Band, Torturess, Air Hockey, Princeton Dodgeball Tournament, Shipwreck Karpathos, House Olympics. That’s it, that’s the entire space of our blurb. Okay, we’ll add a little more. All-ages, cheap, hosted by Galt House Records, at a DIY venue on the Westside. Perfect. West Gate, 6540 W. 10th St., 3 p.m., $15 at door, $10 before 6 p.m., all-ages CLASSICS Chicago, REO Speedwagon, Justin Moore, Thomas Rhett, Jukebox Mafia NUVO sat in on a conference call with REO Speedwagon’s Kevin Cronin and Chicago’s Robert Lamm and Lee Loughnane. REO and Chicago will do separate sets, of course, but also share the stage
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for a few sets. Here’s what Cronin said when asked about their collaboration: “When I heard about the idea that we going to get both gets together and do an extended encore, that was really what sold me, because that’s just right up my alley. To me, as a songwriter, there’s nothing better than when you take a song and just take it outside the comfort zone, turn it inside out. The thought of having these … Chicago, these guys are like real musicians; we’re just a bunch of knuckleheads with guitars. To have the Chicago horn section, and have the … Robert and I were communicating over the past few months, and I was thinking about Robert singing a verse on “Keep On Loving You.” The more you think about it, the more you come up with ideas. There’s so many possibilities because of the fact that the bands are so different. It really gives us
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berspace, a blog called Fuck Yeah Ben Nichols, and in it, pages of photos, lyrics and stories proving why Lucero frontman Ben Nichols is the best. Because, if you didn’t know, he really is the best. Nichols is coming back to Indy solo this time – after 15 years with Lucero, he earns a break now and then, we guess – but that gravely voice is great with and without his Memphis band.
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Stalled Stiffy There is no easy way to say this. I suffer from erectile dysfunction. The last 3 relationships in just as many years I have been in have largely had problems because of this. In one case, complete dysfunction and on the other end, only sporadically. I have sought treatment and began using ED meds prescribed by my urologist and also therapy, but that is difficult for me to schedule due to work. My question is what resources are there for someone like me to work on this on my own? — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: Man, I’m sorry this is something that’s been dogging you for this long. Especially when it comes to matters of sexual dysfunction, crap like this tends to have a very cumulative mental effect. It’s already some shitty shit to not be able to perform when you want, but then you start anticipating the disappointment, guilt, etc, and the anticipation makes it all worse. We may not have dicks, but we get it. Before you get started on Dr. Debby’s real, actual advice, here’s mine: go outside and scream, at the top of your lungs, “MY CONFIDENCE AND MASCULINITY IS NOT DETERMINED BY MY ERECTIONS OR LACK THEREOF BECAUSE REAL LIFE IS NOT A BEER COMMERCIAL!” This is your winkand-nudge permission to ditch all the self-judgement about this and work on the problem with a mentally and emotionally clean slate. DR. D: Although I think sex therapy is your best bet, so long as it’s with a sex therapist who is professionally trained and with whom you feel comfortable (see www.sstartnet.org and www.aasect.org for listings), it’s not always practical or affordable. Two books that have helped many men I know are The Sexual Male: Problems and Solutions (significant focus on erectile function) and The New Male Sexuality. There is certainly hope for addressing this on your own, particularly with the help of quality ED meds. Know that, even with meds, it’s not always a magical solution. You still need to find things that arouse you and give it time to work (pills don’t result in automatic erections but rather than in easier erections once you feel aroused). 34 VOICES // 08.06.14 - 08.13.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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DR. DEBBY HERBENICK & SARAH MURRELL Couch Commanders In an effort to break away from the bedroom, my guy and I have taken to having living room couch sex. It’s kind of our boring way of being adventurous. Anyway, it’s fun. But so far we’ve only tried me on top while he sits on the couch. Are there any other fun sex positions/ideas we should try if we’re interested in being adventurous but not necessarily outside of the privacy/comfort of our homes? — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: Are you asking about different ways to bone on the couch, or just different places to bone? The former I have space to answer here; the latter will be my greatest and final opus. If you want to get some ideas, just lounge creatively on the couch more often and note the general ease with which your partner could get in there. Sometimes it’s fun to use the arms and do kind of a Playboy Bunny perch kind of thing—but, y’know, on a dick—and take advantage of the half-up, half-down angle and support. Over the back, over the arms with his legs outside yours, over the arm wheelbarrow, reverse-cowgirl-feet-on-the-floorseated, any opportunity for him to get a foot on the floor for extra thrust, standing and using it as support because na-na-na-na-na you can fuck anywhere, you sexual sojourner. Once you’ve conquered the couch, it’s time to take on the dining room table, kitchen counter and floor, and the living room mantle. You can do it. I believe in you. DR. D: That’s a great one! Another is to try sex on the dining room or kitchen chair, assuming you have one you can straddle (e.g., without arm rests). You can also stand while having sex or bend over an arm of the couch or an ottoman. If you’ve got a soft carpet or rug, and don’t mind risking a little rug burn, you can also lay down on the floor in your choice of positions. Sofa pillows can also be propped under your hips or back for a little comfortable repositioning.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don’t just be smart and articulate, Aries. Dare to be wildly wise and prone to unruly observations. Don’t merely be kind and wellbehaved. Explore the mysteries of healing through benevolent mischief. Don’t buy into the all-too-serious trances. Break up the monotony with your unpredictable play and funny curiosity. Don’t simply go along with the stories everyone seems to believe in as if they were the Truth and the Way. Question every assumption; rebel against every foregone conclusion; propose amusing plot twists that send the narratives off on interesting tangents. Aries
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old Italian idiom. Its literal translation is “short prayers pierce” or “concise prayers penetrate.” You can extrapolate from that to come up with the meaning that “God listens best to brief prayers.” In the coming week, I invite you to apply this idea whenever you ask for anything, whether you are seeking the favors of the Divine Wow or the help of human beings. Know exactly what you want, and express it with no-nonsense succinctness. Taurus
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Every February, you go through a phase when it’s easier to see the big picture of your life. If you take advantage of this invitation, your experience is like being on a mountaintop and gazing into the vastness. Every August, on the other hand, you are more likely to see the details you have been missing. Transformations that have been too small and subtle to notice may become visible to you. If you capitalize on this opportunity, the experience is like peering through a microscope. Here’s a third variation, Gemini: Around the full moons of both February and August, you may be able to alternately peer into the microscope and simulate the view from a mountaintop. I think that’s about to happen. Gemini
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): You wouldn’t sip dirty water from a golden chalice. Am I right? Nor would you swig delicious poison from a fine crystal wine glass or tenyear-old vinegar from a queen’s goblet. I’m sure you will agree that you’d much rather drink a magical elixir from a paper cup, or a rejuvenating tonic from a chipped coffee mug, or tasty medicine out of a kids’ plastic soup bowl you bought at the thrift store. Don’t you dare lie to yourself about what’s best for you. Cancer
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Every 12 years, the planet Virgo
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Jupiter spends about a year cruising through the sign of Leo. It’s there with you now, and will be with you through early August, 2015. What can you expect? EXPANSION! That’s great, right? Yes and no. You might love to have some parts of your life expand; others, not so much. So I suggest you write down your intentions. Say something like this: “I want Jupiter to help me expand my faith in myself, my power to do what I love, and my ability to draw on the resources and allies I need. Meanwhile, I will prune my desires for things I don’t really need and cut back on my involvement with things that don’t inspire me. I don’t want those to expand.” Leo
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): TV comedian Stephen Colbert confesses that his safeword is “pumpkin patch.” Does that mean he participates in actual BDSM rituals? Is it the codeword he utters when he doesn’t want the intensity to rise any further, when he doesn’t want his next boundary crossed? I don’t know. Perhaps he’s simply joking or speaking metaphorically. Whether or not you engage in literal BDSM, Virgo, there’s an aspect of your life right now that has metaphorical resemblances to it. And I suggest that you do the equivalent of using your safeword very soon. Nothing more can be gained from remaining embroiled in your predicament. Even if the ordeal has been interesting or educational up until now, it won’t be for much longer. Escape your bondage.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you’re planning to hurl a
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at full strength before you actually unleash it. It would be sad if you flung a half-assed thunderbolt that looked like a few fireflies and sounded like a cooing dove. And please don’t interpret my wise-guy tone here as a sign that I’m just kidding around. No, Libra. This is serious stuff. Life is offering you opportunities to make a major impression, and I want you to be as big and forceful and wild as you need to be. Don’t tamp down your energy out of fear of hurting people’s feelings. Access your inner sky god or sky goddess, and have too much fun expressing your raw power.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In your dreams you may
travel to Stockholm, Sweden to accept the Nobel Prize or to Hollywood to pick up your Oscar. There’s a decent chance that in your sleepy-time adventures you will finally score with the hot babe who rejected you back in high school, or return to the scene of your biggest mistake and do things right this time. I wouldn’t be surprised if in one dream you find yourself riding in a gold chariot during a parade held in your honor. I’m afraid, however, that you will have to settle for less hoopla and glamour in your waking life. You will merely be doing a fantastic job at tasks you usually perform competently. You will be well-appreciated, well-treated, and well-rewarded. That’s not so bad, right? Scorpio
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Lake Superior State
University issues a “Unicorn Questing Privilege” to those people who are interested in hunting for unicorns. Are you one of them? I wouldn’t be surprised if you felt an urge like that in the coming weeks. Unusual yearnings will be welling up in you. Exotic fantasies may replace your habitual daydreams. Certain possibilities you have considered to be unthinkable or unattainable may begin to seem feasible. Questions you have been too timid to ask could become crucial for you to entertain. (You can get your Unicorn Questing License here: http://tinyurl.com/unicornlicense.) Sagittarius
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your ethical code may soon be tested. What will you do if you see a chance to get away with a minor sin or petty crime that no one will ever find out about? What if you are tempted to lie or cheat or deceive in ways that advance your good intentions and only hurt other people a little bit or not at all? I’m not here to tell you what to do, but rather to suggest that you be honest with yourself about what’s really at stake. Even if you escape punishment for a lapse, you might nevertheless inflict a wound on your integrity that would taint your relationship with your own creativity. Contemplate the pleasures of purity and righteousness, and use them to enhance your power. Capricorn
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “The thorn arms the roses,” says an old Latin motto. The astrological omens suggest you’ll be wise to muse on that advice in the coming weeks. How should you interpret it? I’ll leave you to draw your own conclusions, of course, but here are a few hints. It may be that beauty needs protection, or at least buffering. It’s possible that you can’t simply depend on your sincerity and good intentions, but also need to infuse some ferocity into your efforts. In order for soft, fragile, lovely things to do what they do best, they may require the assistance of tough, strong, hearty allies. Aquarius
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you go to an American doctor to be treated for an ailment, odds are that he or she will interrupt you no more than 14 seconds into your description of what’s wrong. But you must not tolerate this kind of disrespect in the coming days, Pisces — not from doctors, not from anyone. You simply must request or, if necessary, demand the receptivity you deserve. If and when it’s given, I urge you to speak your truth in its entirety. Express what has been hidden and suppressed. And this is very important: Take responsibility for your own role in any problems you discuss. Pisces
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