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DISCREPANCIES HAUNT INDIAN LICENSE PLATE FUND Questions of transparency bedevil the “Land of the Indians” specialty license plates and Gov. Daniels has yet to appoint adequate native representation of the commission charged with fund distribution and oversight. BY LORI LOVELY
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What is it about these creatures that have somehow so uniquely connected with humanity as to make them consistently an equal member of our families? [“Maple’s last day; a dog’s life, well-lived,” Jim Poyser, NUVO.net, Aug. 5.] Jim, simply put, that was beautifully poignant and called equally upon my feelings of loss and love for dog(s) past and present — from our first canine, a huge St. Bernard named Aundermat, to Beagle Sam, then miniGerman Shepherd Penny, to Beagle Samantha,
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HAMMER Judge not your tastes by chief execs The futility of politicized boycotts
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hese are trying times for Chick-fil-A employees. First, the company’s CEO makes a jackass of himself by taking a stance against gay marriage. Then comes a public backlash. Then, conservatives descend on the chain’s restaurants after being instructed to do so by their talk-radio masters. Following that, same-sex couples show up at the stores for a “kiss-in.” Meanwhile, the employees still have to prep the next day’s food, clean out the fryers, scrub the bathrooms and do all the things that make working at a fast-food restaurant a really crappy job. It’s not that big a deal that Chick-fil-A has a CEO with zany religious beliefs. Some of the bosses I’ve had in my life have been bigots, sex addicts, Republicans and other kinds of moral degenerates. You show up to work, do the job, collect the checks and go about your life. I haven’t had Chick-fil-A in 20 years or more and have no plans to eat there anytime soon. But if I were on a road trip, starving to death, and it was the only restaurant available, I wouldn’t feel any moral guilt. They sell good food. We’ve reached some strange state of affairs in our country where any kind of dissension from the norm is considered treasonous. The Dixie Chicks trashed President George W. Bush along with their careers. Hank Williams Jr. said some ignorant redneck things about President Barack Obama and ruined what was left of the country singer’s career. Why is there a need to organize boycotts against businesses and individuals with different beliefs than our own? The capitalist system in the United States has never been like this until recently. We had no problem buying gold mined by slave laborers in Soviet mines in the 1930s or clothes and toys made by Chinese slave workers now. And holding legitimate political viewpoints is no reason to organize mass boycotts of businesses now. Chick-fil-A’s owner may have beliefs I find offensive but that isn’t the fault of the people who work there. Charlie Daniels and Ted Nugent talk shit about the president all of the time but they still can play music well. Chick-fil-A is a $4 billion a year business,
according to published reports. If the company wants to give a small fraction of that to anti-gay marriage groups, who am I to tell them not to? If I ran a $4 billion business, I’d be supporting strip clubs and radical political groups of my own choosing. Right now, there are Christian groups outraged about an Oreos ad in support of gay pride showing a cookie with rainbow filling. Liberals are angry at Urban Outfitters because its owner gave money to Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum. And the list of other boycotts seems endless. If one judged companies solely on the actions of their chief executives, then I’d never be able to consume a lot of products. Coca-Cola gives money to the parties in power, which means I’d only be able to drink Coke Zero during Democratic administrations. Pepsi employed Richard Nixon as a lobbyist in the 1960s; should I not drink Diet Pepsi because of his alleged war crimes during the Vietnam War? If I cared that much about the political beliefs of the companies whose products I consume, I couldn’t order a pizza, make a telephone call or even watch cable TV or use the Internet. If it gets to the point where we have to Google each and every company with which we do business just to make sure it is on the right side of the issues, then we have truly lost something valuable. The CEO of Starbucks, a company I support several times a week, has taken a positive step by vowing not to make political contributions and has gotten more than 100 peers to agree with him. That puts Starbucks in a neutral territory. If, like me, you enjoy their coffee and pastries, please continue to support them. If, like some of my friends, you think their coffee tastes like pee, then don’t go to their stores. The same with Chickfil-A. I’ve never really enjoyed their sandwiches. But if you’re a gay person and you love their food, I’m sure they’d be happy to take your money and treat you in a dignified manner. The person serving you the food might be gay, for all you know. Base your decisions on goods and services by their quality and value, not the political beliefs of their owners. When people organize boycotts against Rush Limbaugh advertisers or Dixie Chicks concerts, it reminds me of the purges of the Stalin era in the Soviet Union. I vote against Limbaugh by not listening to his idiotic show. But I don’t waste my time trying to get other people to do the same or not to buy products advertised on his show. If I ran a company and I needed to reach a lot of narrow-minded, elderly and poorly educated people in a hurry, damn right I’d buy time on Rush’s show. We have too many real problems in our country without creating phony ones. So either go to Chick-fil-A or don’t, but please be quiet about it. We need to get back to work fixing America.
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HOPPE Numbers versus Mythology The art s and
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hat does it take to turn a skeptic into a believer? In the case of Richard Muller, a physics professor at the University of California at Berkeley, the answer is research. Muller had pooh-poohed the claims of other scientists about climate change. In fact, his climate change skepticism was so robust he attracted the support of the infamous Charles Koch Charitable Foundation, bankrolled by the right-wing billionaire, which reinforced Muller’s skepticism through grant-funding. But, to his credit, Muller’s interest in learning about life on earth trumped his opinions and, along with a team of researchers, he ran the numbers on what’s been happening to the earth’s temperature over the past 250 years. “I concluded that global warming was real,” wrote Muller last week in the New York Times, “and that prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct. I’m now going a step further,” he added. “Humans are almost entirely the cause.” Bravo, Professor Muller. It may have taken you a while to get with the hundreds of other scientists who have found that evidence of the human impact on our climate is beyond a reasonable doubt, but, once the evidence was coughed up in a way you could appreciate, you were willing to change your mind. That’s a step in the right direction. But this column isn’t about climate change. It’s about the arts. That’s right, the arts. Americans For the Arts has been studying the economic impact the arts have on communities. They traveled around the country and crunched numbers in 182 regions to learn how the arts business affects the places where it lives. I call it the arts “business,” because business is what it is. Yes, the arts that were the focus of this research operate in what we call the “not-for-profit” sector of the economy. But that doesn’t mean they don’t provide people with jobs, or that the ripple effect they create doesn’t put money in the pockets of a host of other workers, from parking lot attendants to bartenders. According to the Americans for the Arts research, the Indianapolis nonprofit arts and culture industry generated
$384,244,432 in total expenditures in 2010. It supported 13,136 jobs. These are serious numbers, particularly when you consider that this city’s annual budget for arts support is a comparatively paltry $1.3 million. Like the vast majority of scientists who have been warning us about climate change, many of us so-called “arts supporters” have been waving our hands and jumping up and down about the positive impact public investment in the arts brings to Indianapolis. We’ve talked about how every dollar spent for the arts generates even more dollars that get translated into revenue for state and local government, as well as local businesses and, last but not least, the workers who actually make dances and plays and paintings. This positive return on investment has existed for years. As a matter of fact, I wrote about it when Americans for the Arts released its last economic impact study in the pre-recession year of 2005, when the numbers were even better. The trouble is, the people who make policy around here either ignore these numbers, or flat-out deny them. This is odd, since these people are supposed to be trying to find cost-effective ways to spend public money. Ways, that is, that bring Indianapolis the biggest bang for its buck. These are the people now stumping for Indianapolis to host another Super Bowl. Man, oh, man, they say, that Super Bowl was the best. Indianapolis looked great on national TV. The talking heads on ESPN raved about our walkable Downtown, and it was a blast seeing celebrities like Lance Bass and Alyssa Milano — if that’s who they were — outside Buca di Beppo. How major league can you get? Look, if it takes a Super Bowl to get the city to finally address a previously neglected neighborhood like East 10th Street, that is truly great. If throwing another Super Bowl in 2018 gets us something like a halfway decent public transit system, I’m all for it. In the end, though, according to The Indianapolis Star, the Super Bowl actually lost the city $1.3 million — the equivalent, ironically, of what it allocates for the arts. Year after year, in study after study, research shows that the arts return more on investment than almost anything else we spend our money on. This fact, however, has not prevented Indianapolis from investing less in the arts than almost any other city of comparable size in the nation. When it comes to the arts, Ind ianapolis is like those people who keep saying climate change is just a myth. How much longer will we deny the research before we do something that actually makes things better?
The arts return more on investment than almost anything else.
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study: six billion will be spent on elections — that’s democrazy! in debate over Chik-fil-A the real losers are the poor chickens given politics, weather, U.S. declared a total disaster automated stock program error, turns market into laughing stock boats running aground in the Mississippi — it’s not too big to fail federal judge throws out EPA guidelines so mountaintops lose out extreme weather linked to global warming — from the Department of Duh! Australian zoo massacre proof that humans are nastiest beasts Twitter the platform by which Indy rivals smear leading to murder earth to idiot parents: don’t leave your kids in the car — hot or not
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The literal sign of thanks posted at the north side of the Indiana State Fair track stands two stories tall and maybe 50 feet wide each letter of the message “Thank you, Indiana” is constructed of more than 5,000 Indiana National Guard uniform name tapes. Nestled at the bottom left side of the sign is a white flag constructed of 200+ white name tapes — the fallen. The soldiers welcome all Hoosiers to bring a memento or token to leave at the display.
FRIED FISH
Fish are dying by the truckload as the drought dries up backwater tributaries, reduces main channel flows and raises the temperature of the remaining river water. In Indiana, many different fish are taking the hit. Northern pike and crappy are among the victims, said Doug Keller, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources aquatic habitat coordinator. The AP reports “thousands … many millions” throughout the Midwest, including about 40,000 shovelnose sturgeon last week in Iowa and enough fish to clog the intake valve at an Illinois power plant. At least one positive side effect to the mass killing: Keller reports the highly invasive Asian Carp, which like to populate flooded riparian backwaters as young fish, are also among the victims. So far, he added, the state’s blue gill and bass have not succumbed to the pressure, but “if we continue with hot weather and low water, we’re really not sure how this will play out over next month.”
KEEP MILKIN’, MA
Dairy cows aren’t the only milking moms roaming the grounds of the Indiana State Fair, two lactation stations aim to corral as many of the human variety as possible. In addition to helping moms, the Indiana State Breastfeeding Coalition aims to help society at large by normalizing nursing. The coalition is also participating in a nationwide campaign by consumer advocate Public Citizen to stop infant formula marketing in 2,600 hospitals nationwide — 85 of which are in Indiana. “Research has shown that mothers who receive infant formula samples are less likely to breastfeed exclusively and are more likely to breastfeed for shorter durations,” ISBC noted in a recent news release. Still, two-thirds of U.S. hospitals continue sucking at the manufacturers’ teats despite widespread proof understanding that exclusive breastfeeding of babies for the first six months provides an unparalleled health boost. In at five years at ISF, lactation stations, , have helped more than 25,000 women celebrate mothers’ milk.
THOUGHT BITE By Andy Jacobs Jr. Drought: As long as these platitudinous political TV ads continue, there will be no shortage of corn in Indiana.
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Native community seeks accountability BY L O RI LO V E LY E DI T O RS @N U V O . N E T Questions of transparency continue to haunt the Indiana Native American Trust, the holding account for the money collected on behalf of the state’s Native American community through the sale of “Land of the Indians” specialty license plates. The state operates on $28.3 billion budget and no officials appeared to be concerned when asked why a $3,500 discrepancy exists between the sales numbers reported by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles and the fund total tracked by Indiana State Auditor Tim Berry’s office. Still, to advocates of the state’s Native Americans, the lack of accountability is seen as yet another insult by the state, which has yet to name replacements to the Indiana Native American Indian Affairs Commission after a mass walkout by five Native American commission members in 2008 deactivated the commission.
A tangled web of bureaucracy
The BMV reports sales of 2,246 Land of the Indians plates since June 30, 2011 (though in its first response to a request for these numbers, the agency reported sales of 1,886 plates from Aug. 1, 2011 - June 25, 2012, and listed the end of June 2012 trust fund balance at $150,685, which wouldn’t account for any of the year’s sales). If each plate adds $25 to the trust, the year’s sales of 2,246 plates should have added $56,150 to the fund for a total of $206,835. But the auditor’s office reported only $52,675 deposited since June 30, 2011 through June 30, 2012, leaving a balance of $203,360. If an easy explanation exists for the funding lag, state officials with the BMV, the treasurer’s office, the State Board of Accounts and the auditor’s office failed to offer it. It could be as simple as June sales had yet to be transferred, but the person who could confirm that remains elusive to those answering for the BMV. To reconcile the account to the dollar, the auditor’s office would have to know details such as if the BMV had money in the bank that had yet to be transferred, said Dan Bastin, the state auditor’s office settlement director. But his office is not charged with digging up such details, it simply checks to make sure that the money deposited by the BMV into the state account managed by the treasurer matches the total recorded on the
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state’s ledger for the account. From this the plates were diverted from Historic respect, Bastin sees no discrepancies. Prophetstown after the Tippecanoe County The state treasurer’s office is the custosite changed its focus from native peoples dian for all state-managed cash, including to historic farming. investments. Indiana code instructs the According to state law, funds from the treasurer to invest all unobligated funds in trust can be used for any lawful purpose the Indian’s trust account. The current fund the commission chooses. But the commistotal reflects no interest earnings, indicatsion, established in 2005, has been effecing another possible failure to act in the tually disbanded since June 2008, when best interests of the Native community in five of the Native American commissionthat it appears cash ers resigned, citing available for investissues with Gov. ment is languishing Mitch Daniels’ unattended. administration, Though by name ranging from failthe auditor’s office ure to fill all the would seem the positions on the likely entity to commission, which issue audit reports, left the group gridthe State Board of locked and inefAccounts is actually fective, to broken the entity charged promises and lack with auditing the of administrative state’s various funds support. and entities. The With no comBMV is regularly mission in place to audited and regulamanage the trust - Debra Haza, Odawa tribe member tors have not raised fund, Debra Haza, any red flags with an Indiana resident regard to BMV busiand a member ness, though it does not appear they have of the federally recognized Odawa tribe paid any special attention to the Native located in Michigan, hopes for outside American Trust. Likewise, the Treasurer’s accountability. More importantly, she Office has not complained about the flow hopes for a new commission. “We want of funds from the BMV into the account. Governor Daniels to reseat the commisThe final accounting of state money sion because they’re selling the plate on is summarized each year in Indiana’s our behalf, but we haven’t been able to Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. use the funding for the last three years.” The last complete report, which captures She said she has seen no effort to reseat 2011 finances, does not mention the Native the commission despite the interest of American Trust. numerous qualified applicants. Kokomo resident Sally Tuttle, a member of the federally recognized Choctaw A commission could help Nation of Oklahoma and founder of The Indiana Native American Indian Native Voices of Indiana (NAIVOI), said Affairs Commission is responsible for disshe is most concerned about the issue of tributing the funds from the sale of Land of representation. the Indian specialty license plates. “We still have no voice,” Tuttle said. “We The commission took on the responhave a law, but no voice. All I ask is for an sibility of overseeing the license plate equal seat at the table.” trust fund in 2008 when proceeds from
“They’re selling the plate on our behalf, but we haven’t been able to use the funding for the last three years.”
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Maple’s last day; a dog’s life, well-lived By Jim Poyser
Until Daniels or his successor take action, the state’s Native Americans remain without the commission created on their behalf and unable to distribute the money collected to bolster their community. Meanwhile, a bill passed last session aimed in part to consolidate oversight of boards and commissions transferred the commission’s administrative support — along with the Indiana Commission for Women, the Commission on Hispanic/ Latino Affairs and the Commission on the Social Status of Black Males — to the Indiana Civil Rights Commission. The CRC’s role is limited to tasks such as setting up a website, publishing meeting minutes and organizing files and office space. “We can only do what the statute allows us to do,” CRC Director Jamal Smith said. “Given the opportunity, we would be happy to have a conversation with the Governor and help seat it, but it’s at his discretion.” In June, the state House of Representatives renewed the June 2011 appointment of Rep. Dan Leonard, R-Huntington, to the commission. The Senate appointed Sen. John Waterman, R-Shelburn, who sponsored the original bill creating the commission. Waterman declined to comment on his appointment or the commission. Leonard said he sought the appointment because of his interest in Native American history. He wants to see the commission vacancies filled and hopes “to open up communication between the administration and the commission.” But he doesn’t know if his appointment signals that the governor plans to fill the vacancies on the commission. “We have filled our appointment like we are supposed to,” Leonard said. “You will have to ask the governor’s office [when he will fill the commission vacancies].” Jane Jankowski , the governor’s spokeswoman, repeated a long-standing line: The governor does “not have a timetable for new appointments to the commission.” Meanwhile, as sales of the specialty plates continue, money accumulates that cannot be managed or spent by the people it was intended to benefit.
Ballard’s weekend: vets, Latino soccer and b-ball By Sarah Sheafer and Tim Bydlon State budgets rebound but still vulnerable By Lesley Weidenbener
Analysis: Indy's budget season
Public safety in crosshairs as city faces revenue crunch B Y A BDU L - H A K I M S H A B A Z Z E D I T O RS @N U V O . N E T In the next week or so, the City of Indianapolis will unveil its budget for 2013 — and the unified city-county government looks set for a shortfall in the neighborhood of at least $50 million. "By its very nature, the size of the any gap is an elusive calculation because it depends on several variables," Jeffrey Spalding, controller of the Consolidated City of Indianapolis, Marion County, wrote in a recent email. "That said, a number of $50 million to $60 million is more representative of the gap between 2013 estimated revenues and 2013 estimated costs for current operations (remembering that there is some price inflation due to rising fixed costs for pensions, health insurance, utilities, contractual agreements, etc.). Thus, it costs more to do the same things in 2013 than it did in 2012." Cuts are looming, even most likely for the department of public safety, which managed to escape some of local government's previous belt-tightening exercises. The 2012 budget for the city was about $945 million. However, city-county officials do not get to distribute all those funds as they please. The real budget number is closer to $568 million. Where did that other $377 million go? Those are dedicated funds. Things like federal dollars for transportation. Those funds can only be used for specific purposes, so, the city really only has $568 million to move from department to department. Now let's break up that $568 million: $359 million goes to the city government (departments such as police, fire, the mayor's office), $209 million goes to county government (such as the clerk, sheriff, courts and recorder). In both the city and county budgets,
public safety is the 363-kilogram primate. Public safety makes up 88 percent of the city's expenditures and 75 percent on the county side. To put it another way, for every $1 the city-county spends, up to 88 cents goes to police, fire, courts, animal care and control, etc. On the revenue side, the city gets money from basically two sources: income taxes and property taxes. In 2012, the city received $196 million in income taxes and $303 million in property taxes — not counting the recent reimbursement from the state regarding recently discovered dollars to the tune of about $47 million. Other funding sources include fees and grants, but the income and property taxes are the big ones. Think of them as Indy's main income source while the other funds represent odd-job earnings. Revenues are shrinking. In 2007, Indy took in $446 million in property taxes. In 2012, it dropped to $303 million. That $143 million difference is the result of tax caps, declining assessments due the economic slowdown and the removal of the child welfare levy off the city and picked up by the state. On the income-tax side, Indianapolis took in $240 million in 2008. In 2012, it fell to $196 million, even after the 65 percent income tax increase passed in 2007. What's going on? The economy. And also the fact that income taxes are collected by the state and 18-24 months later disbursed to local governments. The lag means Indianapolis is dealing with revenue collections as if it were 2010, and we all remember those days don't we? Revenue collections are improving at the state level, but the city won't see that until about 2014. A forecast gap between expenditures and earnings means the city-county expects to face an overall shortfall of about $50 million-$60 million when it is all said and done, mostly because of declining income tax revenue and flat property tax collections. If 80 percent of city expenditures are in the public safety category, Mayor Greg Ballard must evaluate possible cuts. He can also tap city reserves at the risk of jeopardizing the city’s credit rating or he can raise revenue, i.e. taxes, a.k.a. political suicide. The other city and county agencies comprise — at most — 30 percent of the total budget. Public safety avoided many of the previous budget reductions taken from other agencies' hides (totaling 8 percent in the last budget cycle). This government cannot balance its books AND close a $50 million budget gap if it leaves 80 percent of its $568 million budget off the table in public safety accounts.
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heir male counterparts might get most of the attention — and the prize money — but women bike racers are starting to make their presence known in Central Indiana. Gone are the days when only a couple of women would toe the starting line at a race; during the recent Indy Crit, nearly 40 female competitors tried to outpedal their peers across two races. Racing for Riley’s Bri Clark took the top step on the pro/1/2 podium and will be a top favorite for the Mass Ave state championship Criterium along with Team Nebo Ridge’s Sydney Hatten and Team Indiebike’s Sierra Siebenlist. Where are the new racers coming from? Veterans such as Nicole Borem, who started in BMX in 1988 to become one of the dominant racers in the road, mountain and cyclocross disciplines, suggests that the fun and welcoming atmosphere of ‘cross is helping introduce women into the sport. Speedway Wheel (wo) man Sarah Fredrickson also sees several women following her example of moving from Indiana University’s Women’s Little 500 into the larger racing world. The increasing number of women competitors allows promoters to host two separate women’s fields, a pro/elite field, as well as a field for the less experienced riders. “I’ve noticed that the level of competition has increased tremendously just in the past year,” said A Cycling Team’s Janet Sherman, who is gunning for victory in the women’s Cat 4 race. “For the same courses, the winner’s time from the year before
would not have guaranteed a podium spot this year. Also, I see a larger turnout for Cat 2 women this year than last year. I think more women are realizing that they’re not the only ones who are out riding their bikes and don’t have to be pro-level to go out and have some fun competition with other ladies. It is also a great way of meeting other women who share similar levels of passion for riding their bikes.” Fredrickson agreed that more needs to be done to nurture upand-coming racers. “Getting more women involved is a big key to stepping up our game,” she said. “It would be nice to have even more races available for different categories. But in order to do this, the women (and men) in the sport need to encourage beginner racers. Often times, beginners are ignored or, in the case of some open category races, yelled at for being in the way or not knowing what to do in a race. I realize this yelling is usually in response to an unsafe situation, but I do think we can be a nicer and more supportive community. If we want more people to race, we need to do a better job of getting and keeping them there.” The newer riders have their work cut out for them if they want to topple the
current queens of the mountain, which Sherman’s teammate Rebecca Zink is finding out this year. Zink had a remarkable season last year, winning a national championship in mountain biking and state championships in both road and cyclocross. But she’s since moved up a level in each discipline and is finding it hard to duplicate her previous success. The competition is undoubtedly much tougher at the elite level. Borem, who will ride for Don Walker Cycles in cyclocross this year, was back winning elite races just five months after a pulmonary embolism nearly took her life. Little 500 Hall of Famer Clark earned a spot on the elite Nature Valley Pro Chase team earlier this year. Siebenlist graduated from famed cycling powerhouse Marian University [see pg. 15], winning a national — Sierra Siebenlist championship on the track, and has competed several times in the BMX world championships. Fredrickson is a monster on the bike and a threat to win any mountain or cyclocross race she enters. Hatten and Team Indiebike’s Jennifer Cvar win or podium in nearly ever race they enter. “I’d say Indiana women’s cycling is very comparable to other Midwestern states, if not at the top of the list,” Siebenlist said.
“...if we were to have a battle of the states I’m pretty sure the strong women of central Indiana would sweep the podium.”
“I race a lot in Ohio, Kentucky and Illinois where they have a decent women’s cycling scene, but if we were to have a battle of the states I’m pretty sure the strong women of central Indiana would sweep the podium.” Racing is nearly as fast but just as furious when it’s done by racers with two X chromosomes, but there’s still some inequality at play – at least when it comes to race payouts. At the Mass Ave crit, the admittedly larger field of pro/1/2 men will split a nearly $2,000 purse, while the pro/1/2 women will be fighting over a $600 purse – less than what some amateur men’s fields will collect. Should women get paid as much as the men? Surprisingly, many female racers say no, or at least not yet. “I don’t really think (we) should either, as much I would like to say yes,” Borem said, but adding a caveat. “We have fewer numbers and that’s the bottom line. I do think it is wrong to pay Cat 4 and Cat 3 men more than the women’s 1/2. We may be going slower then those lower cats, but in reality we have worked just as hard and put in just as much racing and travel time to earn similar pay as the Cat 1/2 men, not amateurs. So not equal pay, but more than the lower Cats and more than what they offer now.”
Mass Ave Criterium A triangle of Mass Ave, Vermont and East Streets Saturday, Aug. 11, 11:30 a.m.-9:00 p.m. FREE See mac.nuvo.net for a full schedule
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year, will set up a similar station with racing simulators for spectator participation. For those who prefer bicycles that actually move, Pedal & Park will be stationed in the shade at Barton Towers, offering free bike repairs for those spectators who cruise by, looking for relief from the hot weather.
involved people who are interested in being a part of anything that supports their own town.” (Editors note: While initially we considered removing the above Feeney-Caito remark, we decided to keep it, but only after thoroughly vetting it for its objective truth.)
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The Criterium involves street closings and other infrastructural adjustments that — at first —alarmed shop owners. Garber, who admits to some initial worry about interference with the avenue’s comerce, says that she soon discovered that, in the long run, “for every day your sales are down, there’s another day when they’re up.” “It depends on perspective,” she adds. “It’s about experience and actually being in a space, figuring out what are the true concerns versus perceived concerns.” Sage Boutique’s new location on the 400 block of Mass Ave means owner Jessica Hamm will have a new experience of the race this year, though she hasn’t exactly been separated from past races. “One year my boyfriend and I almost ruined a race,” she recalls, laughing. “We were carrying boxes and all of a sudden the bikers were riding by, blowing whistles and yelling. Luckily, we got out of the way just in time.” Cassie Stockamp, president of the Athenaeum Foundation, has been involved since the race’s first year. She’s had only pleasant partnerships with organizers in years past, though her fondest memory might be meeting a “dear, dear friend” at the inaugural Criterium in 2008. They remain close to this day and plan to ride bikes down to this year’s race together. These stories are testaments to the race’s grassroots feel. As Garber explains, “When you’re in an urban environment, you have to embrace what happens in that environment.” The ultimate prize of the race is more than some chocolate or even a cash reward. It’s joining in, whether by riding or watching, and since it happens right on the avenue where so much eating and drinking and sweating and living happens, it’s impossible to ignore. Not that anyone would want to. “It really feels like it’s from us, for us,” Feeney-Caito says. “Whatever they want to do, we’re down.”
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“We support it,” David Andrichik, owner of the Chatterbox Jazz Club and longtime cycling fan says of the shifting nature of the Criterium. “The bigger and better the race, the better the racing.” Andrichik opens the Chatterbox to customers whenever the race begins, which, last year, meant they started lining up at 7:30 am. With good reason, says Elizabeth Garber, founder of Best Chocolate in Town: “David has the best view on the street.” Unlike Andrichik, Garber doesn’t know much about the technicalities of the sport: the exact angle of the turns, the balance needed to corner smoothly. For her, the fun is off the course. “Last year, I played!” she remembers. “I drank mimosas, cheered, and handed out trophies.” Other spectators, who, like Garber, turn up to watch a blur of colorful jerseys speed by and drink good beer are what excites shop owners the most about the Criterium. “It draws a great crowd,” says Kristen Kohn, owner of Silver in the City, a feeling Garber echoes: “It’s not your usual group of people.” Feeney-Caito agrees, gushing about both organizers and spectators. “They’re real salt-of-the-earth type people,” she says. “NUVO readers are the best because they’re
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Teenagers can participate in a junior race that’s shorter than the adult races, but just as competitive. For younger kids, there will be a rodeo, lessons about bike riding basics and safety tips from Flanner & Buchanan, complete with obstacle courses and goodie bags. There will be a chance to design your own pannier put on by INDYCOG, a cornhole tournament, popsicles from Nicey Treat, lemonade, pretzels and New Belgium beer. If a day of bike races isn’t enough, the cycling will continue into the night at another of the year’s new a events: a post-race screening of Breaking Away in the New Belgium Beer Garden in Davlan Park, open to all ages.
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According to shopkeepers, the Mass Ave Criterium is different than most events that happen on that trendy avenue. Mass Ave’s hip reputation is impossible for event planners of all kinds to resist, and they swoop down onto the Ave like culture vultures, seizing anything that looks like a choice bit of fresh indie flavor. “There are a lot of events on Mass Ave,” says Kay Feeney-Caito of Mass Ave Toys. “But this one is done with us in mind.” Shop owners describe the Criterium as “great,” “really fun,” “exciting,” “dynamic, “colorful.” For five years, support from shop owners has been crucial in managing the various organizational headaches such an event entails.
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More than a dozen riders trail a motor scooter around the Major Taylor Velodrome during a recent training session, furiously pedaling up to 40 miles per hour. As the motorbike gradually increases speed, spent riders begin peeling off the back. Dean Peterson, head coach of the Marian University cycling team and the man in charge of the Indy Cycloplex, hangs on longer that most, but finally yields. He eases down to the infield, seemingly pleased not only with the workout, but also with the progress surrounding him. At this weekend’s Mass Ave Criterium, you might be hard pressed to find a podium without at least one of Peterson’s proteges. Behind the velodrome to the east, construction continues on a revived BMX track that had its grand opening in late June. To the west lies the framework for a cyclocross course that Peterson hopes will one day be the site of a national championship race. The track itself has seen numerous improvements over the last 12 months.
Man of many hats
The 47-year-old Peterson has worn many hats over the years – bike racer, coach, mechanic, camp organizer, Peace Corps volunteer, teacher, Tour de France guide; he’s isn’t a stranger to building projects. He spent two years in the Togo region of Africa, teaching villagers how to construct fresh water wells, clay stoves and bike trailers. In the late 1990s, he co-founded the Children First cycling team – the precursor to today’s Bissell/AGB/NUVO squad – which raised more than $80,000 for abused and disadvantaged youth in the area. “I’ve always tried to do the kind of work that had intrinsic value to the community,” Peterson said. “… With Children First, I wanted to show that compassion and competition could coexist. We could race our bikes and have it mean more than just the spirit of competition.” Peterson tries to bring that same goal to his charges at Marian, encouraging students to become involved hands-on in projects they’re passionate about. Peterson came into the Marian coaching job almost by accident; he met with newly hired Marian athletic director Joe Haklin in 2006 thinking he’d try to convince him to keep the cycling program, which had been rumored to be on the chopping block. Instead, Haklin offered him the job as coach. Sierra Siebenlist [see pg. 13] had just finished her freshman year at Marian, but clashes with then-coach Ken Nowakowski left her discouraged and planning to leave school. After Peterson was hired, he called her and managed to lure her back. Unfortunately for the new coach, he was unable to convince the bulk of the team to stay and was faced with constructing a new team almost from the ground up. “Dean was a good fit for me,” Siebenlist said. “I majored in education; he was a teacher at the Orchard School for a long time. He wanted me to focus on academics more than the cycling. … At the time, I wasn’t very good. Dean helped me grow, both as a cyclist and as a person. He gave me the support I needed, but also pushed me when I needed it.
“When he came on, there were only seven or eight of us left on the team. We didn’t have a big bus like they do now; we rode in Dean’s car, and he’d recruit someone else to drive (another vehicle). Sometimes it’d be his neighbor, sometimes it was a bike rep.” The team would come back stronger than before. A track-cycling powerhouse in the 1990s and early 2000s, Peterson expanded the team’s scope. The team retains its dominance on the boards, winning the last six national collegiate championships, but now also excels in the road and cyclocross disciplines, winning national championships in each over the past few years.
The rise of the velodrome
The velodrome has always been an important piece for Marian’s cycling team. Built in 1982, Major Taylor Velodrome quickly became one of the premier bicycle tracks in the country. Racers from across the Midwest traveled to compete there against hundreds of others in front of spectators packed tightly into the bleachers. But over the years, the luster faded, and both cyclists and fans virtually disappeared. The track fell into disrepair, as the cash-strapped city couldn’t afford much of the maintenance. When the city sought private partners to oper— Dean peterson ate the velodrome and surrounding Lake Sullivan Sports Complex, Peterson and Marian officials answered the call, presenting the city with an ambitious revitalization plan. Per the agreement, Marian will make up to $2 million in improvements to the park over the next 10 years, keeping the revenue generated. “I’m proud that Marian felt responsible as a good citizen to step up to this challenge and keep this wonderful park open to the community,” Peterson said. “We want to use our Marian team to create some attention and excitement, so hopefully people and kids will come out and try racing for the first time. … It’s our desire with the BMX and cyclocross courses to create a comprehensive cycling experience for people.” Peterson hopes to raise $250,000 in grants and private donations to start work on many of the projects by the end of the year. Officials hope to sell naming rights to each of the new courses in order to raise funds, but the Major Taylor Velodrome name – honoring the first AfricanAmerican world champion in any sport – won’t be changed, Peterson has said. Besides the new courses, some other major changes are planned, but Peterson is reluctant to share the details at this time. Peterson anticipates national-level events coming to the Indy Cycloplex in the next few years, but hopes his studentathletes will be able to walk away from the experience with more than just medals. “When they finally leave Marian, I want them to have experienced something special, something they can use to build a better life more so than a national championship … like hard work and teamwork,” Peterson said. “ … I’m proud of all the things we’re doing here; I’ll always treasure being a part of it.”
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NUVO recommends the following races: NATIONAL MOTO & CYCLE MEN MASTERS 40+ & 50+ (CAT 1-4); 2:55 P.M. If the Zipp Factory Team shows up en masse they will be the ones to beat. In the 40+ race look for Zipp to lead out Ben Weaver (Zipp Factory Team) for the win and Court Maple (M.O.B. Squad/U Build It) and Chris Kroll & John Kelly (Joes Cycle/Cardinal Bicycle) right there at the finish. In the 50+ race, Jim Creamer of Team Nebo Ridge is hot right now. He races smart and his finishing sprint is deadly. But if John Schmitz (Indiebike/Angie’s) can get his head out of his “suitcase” he will use his wind up power sprint to come away with the win. If Bob Brooks (Joes Cycle/Cardinal Bicycle Company) brings his A-game he has a nice chance to notch a win. BGI WOMEN CAT 1/2/3 USAC IN STATE CHAMPIONSHIP; 4:05 P.M. If we know Racing for Riley Team like we think we do, Bri Clark and Katie Arnold will likely lead the field. If Sierra Siebenlist of Indiebike/Angie’s List brings her best game Saturday she could surprise everyone. However, you cannot count out Sydney Hatten (Team Nebo Ridge) or Rebecca Zink (A Cycling Team).
PENSKE HONDA MEN 3 USAC IN STATE CHAMPIONSHIP; 5:00 P.M. You never know what will happen in this race . Any of these young and upcoming riders could mak e the final sprint to win, but Charles McClary (Racing for Riley), David Pratt (Cyclin’ Pratt Proforma) and Blak e Voges (Team Upland Brewing) have the greatest chances for the victory. This race will be just as fast as the Cat 1/2/3 race, but with less team tactics. At this level most guys are trying to muscle the win.
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ZIPP PRO 1/2 ELITE STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS; 7:30 P.M. Look for Panther, Texas Roadhouse and Bissell/AGB/ NUVO to duke it out once again for the best in state title as well as $2,000 in cash and $2,000 in prizes . NUVO will be bringing eight members of their squad to defend their title by positioning Weston Luzadder, who recently turned pro, for the win. But Chad Burdzilauskis, from Texas Roadhouse, won’t be far behind. Burdzilauskis is a two-time winner and former pro who brags throughout the year about how he is going to tak e down NUVO at the MAC. We will see! And Panther Racing, out of Ohio, has almost always had a podium finish and they will be positioning Chris Uberti for the win. Adam Liebovitz, a former collegiate national champion at Marian College and a pro on the Garmin Chipotle team, is planning on spoiling the party for everyone.
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The Art of Falconry
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Huzzah! I, the falconer, master of my wooded dominion, pursuer of all creatures great and small in the bestiary, shall transport my beloved, fierce raptors — mighty and vicious, with souls infused with the inextinguishable virility of the ageless Wodin — to the plebian feeding trough that is the State Fair of Indiana, where my winged companions might share the unalloyed wisdom of the eons, reduced to mere morsels in the infinitesimal head cavities of the masses. (The falconer’s mindset does not necessarily reflect that of The Indiana Falconers Association, which will present its education program “The Art of Falconry” Thursday at the fair.) Free with admission.
Triple huzzah! Yes, you know who it is; your wizened companion, the falconer, returned from a bath shared with my glorious, preternaturally intelligent partners in life to tell you of contests involving the swift-footed mule, friend to falcon and falconer alike, lugubrious where the falcon is swift, but big-hearted and kind. The Mule and Donkey Show, which began Aug. 8, culminates at 6 p.m. Friday at the Pepsi Coliseum. Free with admission.
Where does water go after we’re done using it? The Pathway to Water Quality exhibit is open daily and educates Hoosiers about how proper management practices can protect our soil and water resources. Activities include building a Leopold bench, playing Wetlands Migration Hopscotch or taking a stroll through the beautiful watershed model to see how proper techniques preserve birds, butterflies and other wildlife. Free with admission.
DNR Amphitheater, 4:30 p.m.
Hoosier Lottery Grandstand, 11 a.m.
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Timberworks Lumberjack Show
A Farm-to-Fork Celebration with Chef Thom England Thom England, a culinary arts instructor at Ivy Tech and co-founder of Dig-IN, a nonprofit dedicated to the promotion of Indiana food and agriculture, will share recipes and pure food knowledge Thursday, taking the audience on a journey along the food spectrum, from farming to masticating (but stopping right there). England’s an exemplary State Fair figure because he embraces both the slow food movement and the corporate agriculture and culinary world in his work. Free with admission.
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Great American Wild West Show
Aloha and huzzah. The falconer regrets his behavior during the Reno stop of the Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in 1882, when, too fond of the demon rum, the falconer found himself passed out in Buffalo Bill’s own cabin, unresponsive and surrounded by attentive raptors trained to peck with great fury whenever their master’s space is invaded. But Buffalo Bill recovered from the attack; and lo these many years later, one can get a sense of the Wild West Show that was with this battle between cowboys, American Indians and special effects. as one can get. Free with admission.
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Behind the scenes of ‘Mom and Pop Porno Shop’ at White Rabbit by Paul Pogue
Rooster Crowing Contest Poultry and Rabbit Building, 10 a.m. & 4 p.m. (finals)
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The call of the falcon is most certainly the loveliest sound in the cosmos — dulcet, harmonious, firm but supple. But the rooster ranks a distant second to the falcon, and because of their ubiquity in a Hoosier state undeniably fond of cock, there a sufficient pool of competitors to justify a rooster crowing contest. The falconer shall switch off his hearing implement before he attends, for the falconer’s tinnitus will find no succour in the Poultry and Rabbit Building while the roosters crow. Free with admission.
Hoosier Lottery Grandstand; 1, 3:30 & 6 p.m.
Ellison Bakery Home & Family Arts Building, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. LEGO my LEGO! Designs include the Indianapolis Motor Speedway packed with a legion of adoring LEGO men and women fans and Lucas Oil Stadium complete with players on the field. Along with the local venues, fifteen train designs will be among the LEGO sculptures on display including Thomas the Train Engine along with designs based on exact train models set to the background of tracks laid in deep valleys of looming LEGO mountains. Free with admission.
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Carol Woods @ Cabaret at the Columbia Club Carol Woods has been an off-and-on presence in the Broadway productions of Chicago since the late ‘90s; in fact, she’ll be taking time off from her role in the current production to stop by Indy for a cabaret set heavy on the blues. It’s the latest in a long list of Broadway appearances for Woods, including One Mo’ Time, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Stepping Out and The Goodbye Girl, who has also taken prominent film roles (opposite Cedric the Entertainer in The Honeymooners; singing “Let It Be” in Across the Universe).
Giant Hot Air Balloon Launch Greetings; I did not see you there. I, the falconer, have been busy grooming my fuzz-covered comrades, but not too busy to attend Saturday morn’s Hot Air Balloon Launch. The voices in my cave tell me that all hot air balloons will be inflated and lifted by bubble tea, per the sponsorship of the infield. The Indiana Propane Gas Foundation Hare Balloon will be released first, followed by the other competing hot air balloons. Free with admission.
Double huzzah! It is I, the falconer, once again emerging from my subterranean lair to tell you of the greatest danger to my feathered friends: the nefarious lumberjack, who would be so impudent as to make sport of his livelihood with a spectacle of speed wood cutting, log rolling, axe throwing and pole climbing. For shame, Mr. Lumberjack. Free with admission.
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The Loom and the Shuttle @ Tabernacle Presbyterian Church Peter John — the guy behind Tab’s new piano recital series — has booked himself this week, sharing the stage with mezzo-soprano Megan Elk in a recital including work by John himself (The Bookshelf Series), Reynaldo Hahn (“L’heure exquise”), Rufus Wainwright (“Pretty Things”), James Blake (“The Wilhelm Scream”) and The National (“Bloodbuzz Ohio”). Elk is a full-time member of the voice faculty at The Aurora School of Music who’s performed with The Cleveland Orchestra and Opera Cleveland; John was a finalist in the 2011 Stanislaw Moniuszko Competition and the 2010 Ibiza International Piano Competition. Aug. 12, 2 p.m. @ 418 E. 34th St., free, tbartistseries.com
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The Cadets will compete this weekend in the Drum Corps International World Championship.
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Drum Corps International World Championships The cream of marching music’s major league — Drum Corps International (DCI) — is coming to town this week to vie for an annual title awarded for performances that redefine the phrase “half-time show.” If you’ve never seen a marching band at the DCI level, you should expect serious musical skill mixed with the physical prowess of collegiate athletics (everyone on the field is under 21). Each corps of up to 150 members has spent months perfecting the music and marching of their 10- to 11- minute shows. Corps form and start to rehearse as early as November, followed in May by spring training and its 10-hour practices. The tour, beginning in June, includes 130 events and climaxes in August with the finals. The World Championships are the endgame, and bragging rights will be determined Aug. 11, with the respect of band nerds across the country on the line. Perennial powerhouse corps the Blue Devils lead the current score rankings. With more titles than any other corps, they’ll be looking for their 15th championship with an ambitious show inspired by, of all things, the Dada movement and its home base, Zurich’s Cabaret Voltaire. David Gibbs, the Devils’ executive director, says it’s all about making it new: “Dada artists wanted to take the absolute and the typical and the expected and turn its on its ear.” The Blue Devils’ five-part show draws from a wide range of American and European compositions, starting with “Tristan [Tzara] Writes
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a Manifesto” (including excerpts from work by John Adams, James Horner and Charles Mingus), moving on to “Hannah [Höch] Makes a Collage” (Erik Satie’s Gymnopedies) and “Man Ray Makes a Metronome” (George Antheil’s Ballet Mecanique), and closing with “Gertrude [Stein] Writes a Play,” an eclectic grab-bag of Steve Perry, Danny Elfman, Thomas Ades, George Gershwin and The Artist composer Ludovic Bource. Carolina Crown, second behind the Blue Devils in the rankings, is looking to join an elite group known as the “Top 6” — comprised of competing groups with a championship to their name — with their first title. Known for its impressive horn sections, Crown will play to its brass strength this year with a show based on Aaron Copland’s trumpet-heavy “Fanfare for the Common Man.” George Hopkins, director and program coordinator for the Cadets, says that going into Finals Week ranked fourth, his corps maintains a hopefulness appropriate for their show, an exploration of the various meanings of Christmas. He understands that a win or loss is dependent not so much on what the young men and women on the field do as how the judges score them, which informs his attitude. “I teach kids that when you wake up in the morning, you have two choices: you can believe that everything is going to work out and life is going to be great, and then you go about your day, or you can believe that it’s not going to work out, and you’re still going to go about your day,” he says. “So why not believe in miracles?” A Cadets championship win in Indy wouldn’t be miraculous, but it would be a great underdog story. The beauty of DCI is that there is no win/loss record going into the finals. Aside from determining the order in which the corps perform, previous scores have no concrete bearing on what happens finals night. Which means surprises happen. — MAXWELL COTHREL
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The ‘80s were kind to The Cadets, and their show based on Copland’s ballet effectively captured the original’s big brass moments and softer sections. Copland’s work is a favorite among DCI powerhouses (see Carolina Crown’s show this year), and this show set a standard for any corps set on using his work on the field. PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, SANTA CLARA VANGUARD, 1989
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Drawing on the mystique of the Andrew Lloyd Webber warhorse, Santa Clara Vanguard (SCV to their fans) blew away the 1989 finals with a show that wedded the best-known music from the stage version with high-precision marching. In an ending still speculated on by corps aficionados, one of the Vanguard’s members disappeared under a sheet on field in true Phantom style.
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MY SPANISH HEART, THE BLUE DEVILS, 1994
It’s hard to find a Blue Devils show that doesn’t showcase something original and innovative, but this mid’90s piece matched the corps’ traditional attention to detailed drill with a sensitively played show drawn entirely from work by jazz pianist Chick Corea. MACHINE, THE CAVALIERS, 2006
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The Cavaliers dominated DCI finals from 20002006, winning five championships in seven years, and their 2006 show was emphatic proof that the Cavies deserve their nickname “The Green Machine.” Musically ambitious, the show’s real wow-factor came from its mind-blowing drill, as when the corps took a simple block formation of straight lines and made it move like a sentient being. SPARTACUS, PHANTOM REGIMENT, 2008
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DCI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WEEK DCI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS OPEN CLASS INDIVIDUAL & ENSEMBLE CHAMPIONSHIP Aug.8, 2 p.m. @ Indiana Convention Center
Members of DCI’s Open Class corps offer up solo and ensemble pieces. (Free) DCI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS KICKOFF PARTY AND HALL OF FAME INDUCTION Aug. 8, 9:30 p.m. @ Historic Union Station
On the last night before competition begins, DCI celebrates its championship and honors its legends in a party open to the public. (Free) DCI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS PRELIMS Aug. 9, 10:30 p.m. @ Lucas Oil Stadium
In the first of three rounds, over 40 top corps compete throughout the day for one of 25 spots in the
Phantom Regiment’s identity as DCI’s source for marching adaptations of classical standards was brilliantly realized with a finals-topping interpretation of the story of Spartacus, the king of the slaves. With a show ending outdone only by SCV’s “Phantom of the Opera” show, Phantom Reg reminded the drum corps world that they’re never a group to count out. Ending the show by spearing and enshrouding the field commander turned a great performance into a legendary one.
semifinals; also broadcast live to movie theaters across the country. ($25-$55) DCI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS SEMIFINALS Aug. 10, 2 p.m. @ Lucas Oil Stadium
Competition heats up in the second night of the championship: 25 will enter, 12 will advance. ($25-$75) CELEBRATE INDY ARTS! PARADE Aug. 11, 11 a.m. @ Downtown Indy
Over 30 corps will march through town starting at the intersection of Pennsylvania and North, heading down to New York Street and then up Meridian Street to St. Clair Avenue. (Free) DCI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS FINALS Aug. 11, 5:30 p.m. @ Lucas Oil Stadium
DCI’s 12 top corps compete for its 40th World Championship in marching music’s biggest event of the year. ($35-$125)
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The many faces of Leslie Jordan.
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Leslie Jordan’s ‘Stories I Can’t Tell Mama’ @ Talbott Street Nightclub Leslie Jordan says he’s always been horrified by the way he sounds. “I open my mouth,” he says in his nasal, effeminate, Southern twang, “and 50 yards of purple chiffon comes flying out.” Lucky for him, he’s been able to spin that chiffon into a glorious ball gown of a career. He’s won an Emmy for his guest role on Will & Grace, accumulated more than 90 movie and TV credits, and performs his one-man show in 45 cities a year. That’s why he was on the phone last week — to talk about Stories I Can’t Tell Mama, which he’s bringing to Talbott Street Cabaret for his Indianapolis debut. In the show, he tells stories about his life and career. He’s got a million of ’em — some bawdy, some touching, many uproarious. “I’m sitting here in my underpants,” he says. “Wait till you get me dressed up and onstage. I’m hilarious.” Here’s some of our conversation. NUVO: Tell me a story you can’t tell mama. LESLIE JORDAN: Most of my stories involve growing up gay in the Baptist church in the Deep South, with a dad who was a lieutenant colonel in the Army. My mother and my grandmother took one look at little Leslie and thought, “He’s going to need some help.” They circled the wagons as only good Southern women can do and created an amazing little secret garden where I could play with dolls. I could sew, and Mother taught me to twirl the baton. But we didn’t tell Daddy. I left Tennessee at 17 and ended up in Atlanta in about 1973. It was like a buffet for
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gay men and I partook. I’m also sober 15 years. With my generation, we figured it was a lot easier to be gay if we were loaded. The ’70s were all about psychedelics and marijuana. Then the ’80s rolled around and it was Quaaludes and staggering around in your platform shoes. The ’90s was about cocaine and making some money. And here we are. NUVO: I’m going to ask you about some of the television shows and movies you’ve done. Tell me whatever pops into your head. Let’s start with Desperate Housewives. JORDAN: I’ve known Mark Cherry, who created that show, for a million years. But I never did say, “Are you ever going to write me into the show?” Finally, nine seasons in, they wrote me this part. I did two episodes and then never heard a word. Those four girls were just tired of doing it, I think. Not that they weren’t friendly. But the least they could do was smile for the new boy when they came to work. NUVO: The Help. JORDAN: The Help was life-changing. I’m more proud of that than winning an Emmy for Will & Grace. I had read the book and fallen in love with the book. It’s my generation. We had Roberta my whole life, from the time I was in diapers. She raised me. I knew that story. I knew those women — the catty white women and the black women. I had done a play years ago that toured called Southern Baptist Sissies that starred this kid Tate Taylor. We got to be really good friends and we kept up over the years. He called me and said, “I’ve got this movie based on the book The Help.” He grew up with Kathryn Stockett, who wrote the book. He said, “I want you to play the editor.” I said, “No, that’s not a good part for me. He’s a blowhard. He’s married. He’s straight.” He said, “Every Southern town had one of these guys in the ’60s — that man who’s married with children but you know he’s gay.”
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NUVO: Will & Grace. JORDAN: I just went in and auditioned. The character’s name was Beverley Leslie, but that was already on paper. People think they wrote that for me, Leslie Jordan. They’d actually written that for Joan Collins. The episode was, she was going to steal Rosario the maid away from Megan Mullally’s character, Karen Walker. They were going to get into a fight across a billiard table in Karen Walker’s mansion and pull each other’s wigs off. At the last minute, Miss Collins refused to let them pull her wig off. NUVO: You’re in a movie called Sordid Lives, which people call “a cult classic.” For those of us not in the cult, what can you tell us? JORDAN: I played a man in a mental hospital named Brother Boy who thought he was Tammy Wynette. And I’m in drag. Olivia Newton John plays a lesbian I go on the lam with. We did this as a play first, and it was a huge hit in L.A., but it was in a 77-seat theater. We raised $400,000 for the movie, which is like no budget. The movie started playing in film festivals around the country and got a following in the gay community. Then a theater in Palm Springs, Calif., started playing it and people were thronging to the movie. It spread, and it runs every summer in Provincetown (Mass.), San Francisco — it’s gotta be a big gay mecca — and it’s rabid. I knew I’d finally made it when I went to the West Hollywood Halloween carnival and I counted 11 Brother Boys. NUVO: Tell me something good about being 4-foot-11 and something not so good about it. JORDAN: I was raised by a mother who convinced me I was special. I never had any problem with being short, ever. I made a joke the other night without even thinking about it. I met this guy, he was
about 6-foot-5, and my face was almost at his crotch. I said, “I’d have to go up on you.” When you’re short, you don’t go down on people; you go up on ’em. NUVO: Will you eat at Chick-fil-A? JORDAN: I grew up on Chick-fil-A. Chickfil-A was started right outside of Atlanta in a little diner called The Dwarf House. Then they moved into a mall. We would drive to Atlanta and eat a chicken sandwich and go Christmas shopping. Then over the years, I heard they had put their first Chick-fil-A out near Palm Springs and I would drive out there to get a sandwich. I knew they were very religious because they weren’t open on Sundays. But I really want to caution our gay community that we don’t become brittle. Let people do what they do and leave us alone, and we need to leave them alone. If that’s their policy, fine. I’m not going to give them my money because I know what their policy is now, but I’m not going to chastise them. NUVO: You once shared a jail cell with Robert Downey Jr. What did you talk about? JORDAN: We didn’t say a word. He was dope-sick. It was Oct. 11, 1997, the last day I had a drink or a drug. They said to me, “We don’t have room for him and you’re going to get out.” I was sentenced to 120 days; it was my unfortunate incarceration for DUIs. They said, “We can’t let you out till the bars close because of your history.” So I talked and he was so sick. I got to see him years later on Ally McBeal; we worked together and he remembered me immediately. He said, “I know you,” and I was going “Shh, shh, shh,” because I didn’t want him telling anybody we met in jail. But look at what staying clean and sober has done for him. — MARC D. ALLAN
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Myron Conan Dyal, “Goddess of Contemplation & Conversation” (left) and “As Above, So Below”
VISUAL ARTS MYRON CONAN DYAL: CHARON’S PANTHEON INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART THROUGH SEPT. 15 q As a child, Myron Conan Dyal’s fundamentalist Christian parents subjected him to bouts of isolation and crude forms of exorcism in response to his epilepsy. The visions associated with this condition ultimately inspired a body of artwork that would puncture the boundaries of the religion that he was immersed in as a child. Dyal’s exhibit at iMOCA, curated by Matt Kennedy of Los Angeles’ La Luz de Jesus Gallery, is grouped into two parts. The smaller back gallery features a hothouse of colorful acrylic paintings and painted sculpture like “The Guardian of Male Energy,” which seems a hybrid humanoid/flowering plant with a keyboard in hand (Dyal is a classically trained pianist). Paintings like “The Guardian,” a chimerical humanoid figure with a ruminant-like skull for a head, suggest an animistic spirituality as well as a hermetic symbolism. Dyal’s subjects seem to inhabit a netherworld between the living and the dead such as one might find in the rich rot of a tropical forest’s floor. The modus operandi behind Dyal’s larger exhibit Charon’s Pantheon, which occupies the larger, front gallery, is not diversity, as in the backroom, but unity. The piece collects 13 life-sized, paper mache sculptures in the forms of human — and humanoid — creatures. Six white sculptures and six black sculptures stand on either side of a “Red Shroud” statue, which remains completely veiled. This veil cannot be lifted physically; it’s part of the sculpture. While the “Red Shroud,” by its placement, suggests a sort of birth mother from which the other figures spring, its exact symbolism remains hidden and mysterious, though Dyal offers interpretive clues via his poetry, included on the placards that identify each sculpture. Here and there, the figures bear a familiar countenance: the all-white figure of “As Above, So Below” resembles no one so much as the Virgin Mary.
And if you’ve read your Joseph Campbell, you may know that Mary has her corollary in religious traditions more ancient than Christianity. And as you walk from left to right, from white to black, the figures become increasingly bizarre, chimerical, and foreboding — even primeval. While Dyal believes in conflict and dichotomies, he refuses to credit the black and white (and fundamentalist Christian) conception of good and evil. Like the Charon of Greek mythology, ferrying the dead across the River Styx to the afterlife, Dyal is leads past the boundary of art for art’s sake toward his more primitive and allencompassing vision. — DAN GROSSMAN
COURTLAND BLADE: SUPERMODERNITY GALLERY 924 THROUGH AUG. 21 e Here in these United States, we’re surrounded by architecture that’s hard to love. Maybe that’s because a lot of structures are built without any connection to the past, place or nature. Courtland Blade seems to be drawn to such alienated buildings, such as in “The Parking Garage,” which lacks a human presence and, as such, has a somewhat sinister feel. But there’s an oddly attractive element to this oil on canvas painting, and its repeating round circles of light on the concrete floor of the parking garage draw you in like the luminous masses of color in certain Mark Rothko paintings. One finds more of the same in “The Movie Theater,” which depicts an empty multiplex interior but suggests a human presence through posters that display movie stars in silhouette. Although Blade works with photo references, he’s by no means a photorealist. He’s attracted to the possibilities of manipulating color and light in the kind of places most of us take for granted. His Gallery 924 show also includes pieces based on Indy landscapes that may surprise you after seeing his depictions of empty super stores, offices and hotels. Surprising because they depict structures that actually draw on a sense of place, like “The Red Bridge,” based on the bridge over the Broad Ripple Canal near the Butler campus. — DAN GROSSMAN
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AJ Nafziger, “Lobster” AJ NAFZIGER: INTERPRETATIONS FLETCHER PLACE ARTS & BOOKS THROUGH AUG. 30 r AJ Nafziger is an Master’s candidate in studio art at UIndy, but it’s just as significant, perhaps, that he minored in psychology as an undergrad. Nafziger’s current work is a series of freeform meditations on Rorschach inkblot tests. Using carbon pencil and charcoal on white paper, Nafziger created forms that inhabit a world of precisely rendered — and completely imaginary — creatures and objects, often portrayed with perfect symmetry. The drawing “Lobster” depicts a cross between a lobster, dragonfly and Hindu deity. It’s perfectly symmetrical and flawless in execution; the process for achieving this level of symmetry involves tracing paper, a lot of technical precision and patience. But most importantly, I think, it took a bold imagination. In this drawing, like the others on display here, Nafziger didn’t set out to draw a lobster. He went where his imagination took him — something that might get you in trouble in a shrink’s office. — DAN GROSSMAN
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Tyler Meuninck, “Perry Steam Plant Series” TYLER MEUNINCK: RECENT WORK HARRISON CENTER FOR THE ARTS THROUGH NOV. 25 t A little context, from the artist’s statement to Meuninck’s show: “Meuninck explores the loss of interest and use of industrial areas common to Indianapolis and the entire Midwest. Closed factories and proper-
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Shawn Causey, “Tock No. 2” SHAWN CAUSEY: YOU ARE HERE STUTZ ART SPACE THROUGH AUG. 29 e We’ll start by referring to Stutz Art Space’s website to describe how Shawn Causey created the work featured in his new show, You Are Here. “Causey thickly applies drywall mud and house paint to a stretched canvas,” it reads. “She then scrapes the surface with a trowel and uses a belt sander to create texture and lines that emerge with greater drama after a gilding of metallic spray paint.” Now to the results: You Are Here consists of works of various sizes, some quite large, painted either metallic silver or metallic gold. The drywall reliefs range from having slight surface texture to an extensive buildup extruding over an inch from the canvas; drywall mud is cut away sharply at the surface in a few of the pieces, which creates a fuzzy and mold-like appearance which contrasts nicely with the metallic colors. It’s surprising that there’s so much variety between the pieces, considering that Causey takes such a specific approach and uses only two paint colors. Each piece exists as its own visual environment that beckons viewers to take a closer look from various angles. They come together to form a bold exhibition that rewards viewers’ attention. — CHARLES FOX
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The Campaign t The Will Ferrell and Zack Galifianakis comedy The Campaign isn’t preachy. The film is to politics what Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is to auto racing. As with most Adam McKay/Will Ferrell productions, the raunchy silliness is built around a simple story with a simple
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message. The message this time: Wouldn’t it be nice if elected public servants focused on being honest representatives of the people instead of ego-tripping boobs squirreled away in the pockets of big business. Hard to argue with that, and it makes a sturdy framework for the comedy. Will Ferrell is incumbent Cam Brady. The North Carolina politician is a cooperative shill for the power brokers. He’s an ongoing public relations nightmare — poorly informed, not particularly bright and prone to incidents like “the phone call,” where he misdials, gets the answering machine of a Ned Flanders-ish family (headed by Jack McBrayer), and proceeds to leave a stunningly explicit message for one of his mistresses. Even though he’s running unopposed, some of his backers decide to seek an opponent for Brady. They select Marty Huggins (Galifianakis), a sweet, odd, fuzzy man who walks funny, talks funny and serves as a constant embarrassment to his sour big-shot daddy. Two wildly corrupt businessmen (John Lithgow and Dan Aykroyd) decide the husband and father of two will make a fine vehicle for pushing through legislation to support their vile schemes. Two lead characters with distinctly different personalities, a
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system that knows no shame, and a rivalry — The Campaign takes off with a bang (in a port-o-potty!) featuring a barrage of jokes, many vulgar and foul-mouthed, almost all funny. (Note: If you receive a pass to an R-rated comedy and you find rude language offensive, do everyone a favor and stay the fuck home, m’kay?) The laughs are spread thinner in the latter part of the film, as the creative team scrambles to wrap up the story in satisfactory fashion. Ferrell plays a slight variation of the character he plays in most of his R-rated comedies. If he annoyed you before, expect more of the same here. Lucky me, I found him hilarious. Galifianakis is consistently entertaining and, my oh my, his character actually grows over the course of the movie. Ferrell and Galifianakis work well together. Their interactions and comic battles are a treat. The Campaign isn’t as good as Talladega Nights or Anchorman, but scenes like Cam Brady’s mangling of The Lord’s Prayer and Marty Huggins’ family’s confessions at the dinner table make up for the lulls. As the real fall political campaigns gear up, The Campaign offers a chance to laugh before spending the next few months cringing. — ED JOHNSON-OTT
FILM CLIPS TOTAL RECALL t (R)
Forget the original film, a one-of-a-kind carnival of excess featuring mind-games, ultra-violence and Ah-nold at his most appealing. This version, from the Underworld director, skips the head trips (the commercials ask “Is it real or is it Recall?” It’s Recall”) and tries to simply be a kick-ass futuristic action show. It works on that level for a while, though it poops out at the end. The Blade Runner derivative art direction is great, really fun to watch. Colin Farrell plays a factory worker who tries to get a memory implant adventure as a secret agent only to discovery he’s really a secret agent with a factory worker memory implant. From there on it’s non-stop action, with Kate Beckinsale chasing Farrell and Jessica Biel trying to help. Not great, but not bad. 120 miniutes. — Ed Johnson-Ott
LUMIERE BROTHERS’ FIRST FILMS (1895-97)
The first filmmakers ever, the Lumiere bros made cinéma vérité avant la lettre with their “actualités” — 50-second, one-shot scenes of everyday life, including that of workers leaving the brothers’ own factory and a baby having breakfast. Director Bertrand Tavernier narrates this collection of 85 of them. Introduced by IUPUI film prof Dennis Bingham; shown in DVD. Aug. 9, 7 p.m. @ The Toby, Indianapolis Museum of Art; $5 public, $3 members
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
Probably the best American film critic of his time, Manny Farber can be depended upon to give a little perspective on a mid-century classic. He called Double Indemnity “the most incomprehensible film in years,” though “less repressed than usual.” A little less repression goes a long way; the film is now a mainstay on top 100 lists, including the American Film Institute’s. Shown in DVD. Aug. 10, 9:30 p.m. @ Indianapolis Museum of Art amphitheater; $10 public, $6 members
PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE (1985)
Be sure and tell ‘em Large Marge sent ya. Shown in 35mm. Aug. 10-11, 2 and 7:30 p.m. @ Artcraft Theatre (57 N. Main St., Franklin); $5 adult; $4 college, seniors, military; $3 children 12 and under
48 HOUR FILM PROJECT SCREENING
About 40 short films produced in 48 hours will be presented in three slates to wrap up this year’s 48 Hour Film Project. More at 48hourfilm.com. Aug. 11; 5, 7 and 9:30 p.m. @ The Toby, Indianapolis Museum of Art; $10, or $20 for three
FOOD Lamb parfait? Don’t mind if I do But deep-fried bubble gum is a bridge too far BY N E I L CH AR L E S N CH A RL E S @N UV O . N E T It’s been 10 years or so since I last visited the Indiana State Fair and, as an avowed enthusiast of tradition and stasis, I’m delighted to observe that very little has changed in the intervening decade. Yes, there are some exotic-looking kebabs, which ultimately turn out to be bits of pig impaled on a stick. There’s even an acknowledgement of Italian culture and food in the International Pavilion, where the burgeoning diversity of that great nation’s cuisine is represented by biscotti and brightly-colored soda. The deep-fried Snickers bar — that tribute to Scottish thrift and ingenuity which was just making its debut last time I visited the fair — is still on the menu, but is now in the company of a similarly prepared Milky Way (actually quite tasty, even at 10 a.m.) and an abundance of other candy bars. A scary addition to the lineup this year is the deep-fried bubblegum (available from Carousel Foods). Last time I checked, bubble gum was a petroleum-based product. My late grandmother, an unrepentant hypochondriac and quintessential old wife, was always warning me that if I ever swallowed bubble gum it would tie my guts in knots and I would spend the rest of an otherwise happy childhood in hospital. Who knows what happens when you deep fry the stuff, but I wasn’t prepared to put it to the test so early in the day, and my usual roster of willing cohorts was mysteriously absent, leaving me in the company of our thoroughly agreeable but gastronomically cautious photographer, Mark. (Just as an aside, Mark, if you’re reading
this, next time you decide to go on a macrobiotic diet, please wait until after the state fair; I need a guinea pig, for goodness sake.) A prime rib sandwich consumed close to the source just inside the cattle pavilion was sliced so thinly that I believe a new form of laser cutter was employed in the process. For $8 this was, for want of a better choice of words, daylight robbery, but there again, that kind of pricing goes with the territory. Much attention has been paid to the most striking culinary innovation of this year’s fair, the spaghetti and meatball ice cream (at Monroe Concessions, across from Pepsi Coliseum in a place of honor given the winner of the fair’s Signature Food contest). Molecular gastronomy has come to the Hoosier state in a most unlikely form; Ferran Adrià, eat your foamy heart out. Well, maybe not, but it’s a fun idea, even at $5 for a small dish, which unfortunately melted before Mark was able to get his award-winning shot. If you have to try it, take a couple of bites, then give the rest to an unsuspecting child. For the grand finale, I decided to try a dish ambitiously and quite cunningly entitled the Lamb Parfait (at Porky’s BBQ). Essentially a deconstructed, and then reconstructed shepherd’s pie served with barbecue sauce in a clear plastic container, it was, to paraphrase Steve Martin in The Jerk, quite possibly the best lamb parfait in a cup I’ve ever tasted.
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Monroe Concession’s spaghetti and meatball ice cream (top, left), a deep-fried Milky Way (top, right) and Porky’s BBQ’s lamb parfait (bottom).
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Craft beer aficionados have a new reason to attend the Indiana State Fair. In celebration of this year’s animal of honor — the dairy cow — chefs and caterers have put together a menu of fair foods that put dairy products to innovative use. Of concern in this column is Barto’s Micro Beer Cheese Sauce, to be served on specialty fresh cut fries and hefty burgers and/or on the side for dipping during the course of the fair. Barto’s, the Fair’s official year-round caterer, regularly crafts menu items with locally brewed beer, as well as local produce, meats and dairy products. Executive chef Chip Huckaby credits owner John Barto with “coming up with the idea.” Barto, in turn, lauds Chef Chip for creating a multi-flavored cheese sauce featuring locally cold-packed cheddar infused with Triton’s Sin Bin Pale Ale and Barto’s own southwest spiced sauce “to complement the beer.”
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BY W A DE CO G G E S H A LL M U S I C@N U V O . N E T
H-1’s Behind the Music series has covered this storyline well: buzz band gets signed to a record label, finds immediate popularity but ultimately succumbs to the pressure of keeping their gravy train rolling. Many of the artists that fall into this scenario don’t get a second act. The Toadies are one of the few. The Fort Worth, Texas roadhouse rockers just released their fifth album, simply titled Play. Rock. Music. It’s their third release in four years, a fairly assiduous schedule by most measures. Not really, though, when you consider Toadies started 23 years ago. They’re currently co-headlining a tour with Helmet, another ’90s wrecking ball of sound that’s seen its share of travails. “We’re all fans of theirs; we both used to be on Interscope (Records) at the same time,” said Toadies drummer Mark Reznicek during a recent phone interview. “Musically I think we’ll go together pretty well. The opportunity came up and we said, ‘Yeah, let’s do it.’” Hot out of the Fort Worth scene in the early ’90s, Toadies signed to Interscope and issued their debut full-length, Rubberneck, in 1994. A rebelliously intense sound that’s played like punk rock ne’er-do-wells, they proceeded to stay on the road for two years both headlining and opening for acts as diverse as the Red Hot Chili Peppers and White Zombie. Something peculiar happened along the way. Rubberneck spawned a remarkable six singles. That was never the Toadies’ nor Interscope’s plan though. Rather, radio stations around the country picked their own favorites and added them to the rotation until they took on a life of their own. “The timing was never totally worked out,” said Reznicek. “Various radio station program directors just liked the band and said, ‘I’m going to play this song,’ which is not a bad thing at all. There just never was a plan put into place.” The creeping track “Possum Kingdom” in particular — with singer Todd Lewis’ memorable refrain “Do you want to die?” — became the Toadies’ most popular song, and led to Rubberneck going platinum. It was a surprise to the band and their label. “I don’t think anybody can plan on being that successful,” said Reznicek. “There was pressure to produce a follow-up. You always hear you have your whole life to write the first album, then only a couple years to write the second.”
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In the Toadies’ case, it turned out to be seven years. It would’ve been only four, but Interscope rejected the band’s next offering, Feeler, in 1998. It wasn’t until 2001 that the Toadies finally released their second album, Hell Below/Stars Above. By then they’d lost virtually all the momentum amassed from Rubberneck, working double to convert new fans and win back old ones. Within months of getting back on the road, the Toadies broke up after bassist Lisa Umbarger echoed the sentiments of everyone involved when she said she didn’t want to do it anymore. “It was already getting frustrating,” said Reznicek. “It felt like we were starting over, like we couldn’t build on the success we had. It’s like we were hitting our head against a wall for seven years.” Members scattered after that. Reznicek joined a country band from Dallas called Eleven Hundred Spring and Lewis formed a new group called the Burden Brothers. Guitarist Clark Vogeler moved to Hollywood to work as an editor on the cable fashion series Project Runway. “We thought we were done for good,” said Reznicek. But in 2006 the Toadies were offered a nice sum of money to perform in a St. Patrick’s Day parade in Dallas. The original cast except Umbarger accepted the offer. They were invited back the next year. “At that point we started saying, ‘This is fun. What if we start doing the band again?’” said Reznicek. The Toadies proceeded to tour their native Texas, with Doni Blair replacing Umbarger on bass. Their 2008 album No Deliverance, released on Dallas-based Kirtland Records, got a positive response. And the long-shelved Feeler was re-recorded and finally issued in ’10. Reznicek says the process by which the Toadies work now feels much different from the ebb and flow of their first incarnation. “This is a lot more like what we had always planned to do when we started: You pu t out an album every couple years and tour, not sit around in a rehearsal room for seven years trying to write an album that keeps getting rejected by your label,” he said. “We’re now an actual working, functioning band like we should’ve always been.”
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Kyle Long’s music, which features off-the-radar rhythms from around the world, has brought an international flavor to the local dance music scene.
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SAMUEL YIRGA: Yes, when I was 16 I had the chance to audition for Addis Ababa’s Yared School of Music. I didn’t have any experience in music before that. I was not a musician and I had never even touched an instrument before auditioning. There were 2,500 other people at the audition and I came in third. I always knew I wanted to be a musician. NUVO: Your family resisted your decision to pursue music though? YIRGA: My father was not happy. He didn’t want me to go to the audition and we argued about it. He said, “You need to find another course of study. Music is not a respected profession in Ethiopia. Everyone wanted me to be an engineer or doctor. NUVO: Tell me about the recording of Guzo. YIRGA: The album was produced by Nick Page. I played on Nick’s Dub Colossus project, which was a fusion of Ethiopian music and dub reggae. We recorded some of the songs for Guzo here in Addis Ababa with traditional Ethiopian musicians and the rest of the songs were recorded in the UK featuring guest artists
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The Ethio-jazz of Samuel Yirga Earlier this year I wrote a shopping guide for Ethiopian music in Indianapolis. (Editor’s note: you can find this guide and more online at NUVO.net. ) Over the years, Indy has hosted a handful of grocery stores and restaurants retailing the East African nation’s music. It was in these small shops that my love for the country’s culture developed, particularly the vintage sounds of Ethio-jazz. In the 1960s, the nation’s capital Addis Ababa achieved fame for its rich music scene, which featured an intoxicating blend of traditional Ethiopian sounds with American funk and soul. This style became known as Ethio-jazz. I wrongly assumed that the Ethio-jazz genre had been relegated to the past — until I discovered the work of an exciting young Ethiopian pianist named Samuel Yirga. Yirga has just released his debut LP Guzo on Real World Records and it’s one of the best albums I’ve heard this year. In the tradition of Ethio-jazz, Guzo features a variety of native Ethiopian instruments and scales formatted into a jazz context. Guzo spotlights Yirga’s brilliant technique as an improviser as well as his prodigious compositional skills, a reflection of his time studying at Addis Ababa’s Yared music conservatory. I recently spoke with Yirga via phone from his home in Addis Ababa.
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like Nicolette from Massive Attack and the Creole Choir of Cuba. NUVO: Can you talk a bit about the traditional side of Ethiopian music that you explore on Guzo? YIRGA: We have many different varieties of music. There are approximately 80 to 90 languages spoken in our country and as you can imagine there are a lot of tribes and each of these tribes has their own music traditions. There are four main modes in Ethiopian music; they are tezeta, bati, ambassel and anchihoy. But there are many branches within each of these major modes. Ethiopian music is really unique. Our way of playing is unique and our modes or scales are unique. We’ve kept our traditional music alive more than many other countries. Even when we play modern instruments, we play in our traditional style. It’s in our blood. It’s not about theory, it’s not about principle, it’s about the feeling that Ethiopians have for music. NUVO: Ultimately, what do you want to accomplish in music? YIRGA: There are great musicians in our country and I want to bring our music to the attention of the world. We have an amazing and diverse culture. I want to show how Ethiopia really is and show how the country is progressing. There are problems right now, but through hard work and patience we can change things and it is changing right now. I love the piano. I love music. This is my life. I don’t have any other profession and I don’t want any other profession. I want to be successful playing Ethiopian music. I want to promote Ethiopia. Right now the world knows about Ethiopia as a place of famine and drought. There are many things we have to show the world and I’m trying to do this through my music. I’m not a politician and I can only do this through music. Kyle Long creates a custom podcast for each column. See this week’s online at NUVO.net.
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Record birthin’ freakout BY G RAN T C AT T ON M USIC@ N UVO.NET
(Editor’s note: This is another entry in the “Psychedelic Square” series on Fountain Square’s emerging artists by Grant Catton. Check in next week for news on Cataracts, which will take place on Aug. 18. See more on NUVO.net) There have been so many shows at Mediumship this summer I’ve found it almost impossible to keep up. I’ve found myself walking around Fountain Square on a random night, for some entirely different reason, only to bump into someone I know who says there’s a show going on at Mediumship. Next thing I know, I’m in Bud’s picking up a warm six-pack and heading over to the house. Even if I’ve never heard of the bands, their connection to Mediumship makes them worth checking out. And then the very next night someone will ask me if I’m headed to Mediumship for the show. “No,” I will say. “The show was last night. I was there.” “Yeah, well ... there’s another one tonight,” the person will respond. And then I will spend the rest of my evening debating whether to head down and check out the show, or stay home and beat myself up for not going. But either way, I know there will be another one coming up in the next few days (Oddly enough, after I finished writing this piece I got a text message about a last minute show going on there). However, with that said, one show I definitely did not want to miss was this past Friday’s Record Birthin’ Freakout — basically a triple album release party — featuring Bloomington-based Apache Dropout and Fountain Square’s own Crys and Learner Dancer. The three bands are connected by a number of different factors: they all have Bloomington roots and have each put out vinyl through Indy’s GloryHole Records. They also all play variations of the fuzzed-out psych rock that is flourishing in Fountain Square and pockets of the underground music scene all over the country. All three bands also recorded their albums with John Dawson at the controls, at Magnetic South Studio in Bloomington. Sitting on the porch with Landon Caldwell and Joey Shepard, of Learner Dancer and Crys, respectively, we discuss Dawson’s influence on their recording processes. When I ask whether their latest albums benefited from Dawson’s help, versus recording and mixing on their own, their expression of mutual agreement is so enthusiastic it makes me crack up. “Absolutely,” says Shepard. “John understands our sensibilities. He’s been into psychedelic music longer than us. In the mixing process he becomes another part of the band, basically.” Caldwell heartily agrees. “When we were mixing the record he was usually a whole step ahead of me,” he says. “John didn’t just record these records, he produced them.”
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A scene from the album release show at Mediumship Friday evening
Before the show, Dawson himself performed an opening set which I wasn’t able to catch. I arrived as Learner Dancer was in mid-set, Caldwell with his face painted in wild colors, singing with his eyes rolled back into his head like he was in a trance, channeling spirits from another dimension as the rest of the band dripped sweat and drummer Peter King stripped down to his boxer shorts. What I loved about their set was how they blurred the lines between songs, running them together until they built up to my personal favorite “Dark Glow.” Apache Dropout also delivered a killer set. This band runs a little bit more toward the pop end of the psychedelic spectrum, oddly fitting since the other member of the usual Mediumship trio — Vacation Club — plays a more pop-influenced sound. Apache Dropout fought the heat for an hour or so, dropping one or two songs that seemed to be known word-for-word by the crowd who were jumping and dancing so much that the hardwood floor buckled. Crys turned in the performance of the night. Playing in near total darkness, speckled by a dizzingly fine pattern of green and red pin-sized lights, they wrung out whatever sweat the audience had left in them. With Mitchell Duncan playing his second set on guitar — he’s also in Learner Dancer — Vacation Club’s Sam Thompson on keys, Jacob Gardner on rhythm guitar and Shepard on drums, Crys performed with an almost supernatural level of energy. For me, the highlights of their set were “Hanging Ten at the Dawn of Time.” One of their more krauty songs toward the end of the set was played so fast I thought for sure Shepard was going to spontaneously combust at the drum kit.
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MUSIC THE REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND BETWEEN THE DITCHES SIDEONEDUMMY RECORDS
w Josh “The Reverend” Peyton’s story is almost like something out of a superhero comic. He wasn’t bitten by a radioactive spider, but a debilitating hand injury later corrected by surgery gave him the ability to play the finger-style picking on his guitar, just like hero Charlie Patton. The Eagletown, Ind. resident native guitarist, has used the technique to increasingly greater success over the years. As The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band (with wife “Washboard” Breezy and distant cousin Aaron “Cuz” Persinger on drums), the trio has built a reputation for fervent live shows that are translated in their recordings. On fifth album Between the Ditches, they eschew the one-take approach for a more carefully-crafted collection of delta blues. There are still plenty of songs, like “Something for Nothing,” that stomp like a backwoodsier Black Keys, but it’s more controlled, and Peyton doesn’t come off like an amphetamined Moses trying to split Mount Sinai. These 14 compositions are more cultivated and singular. “Devil’s Look Like Angels” is a mid-tempo and, dare I say, conventional ramble that sets the table for some fine bluesy plucks on Peyton’s archaic gear. The harmonica runs on “The Money Goes” make it custombuilt for a rowdy night at the roadhouse. That’s not to say the Big Damn Band is toning down its outback brio. “Shut the Screen” is reminiscent of the Peyton sound, and with
the virtuosic skills to sound like multiple players simultaneously (especially pronounced on “I Don’t Know”), why not? Peyton’s lyrics have always reflected pride in his roots, but there’s also maturity there. “We’ll Get Through” — with the lines “if it’s me with you / then we’ll get through — is one of his most sentimental songs yet. “Shake ’em Off Like Fleas” is a rustic diatribe against corporate crooks and “Don’t Grind it Down,” with its flamenco touches, rails against strip mining. He hasn’t forgotten the humor though. On “Big Blue Chevy ’72,” the sentimentality is for a muscle car that “they just don’t make ’em like this anymore.” Having developed a reputation as road warriors, “Brokedown Everywhere” is a lighthearted recap of places where they’ve had car troubles (“You’ve been everywhere / I’ve been broke down there, and three times in Tennessee”). While improvisation and spontaneity are essential in art, it doesn’t hurt to take one’s time either. Between the Ditches is testament to that. It’s some of Peyton’s most accomplished work to date. — WADE COGGESHALL
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w Verdant Vera’s self-titled EP may only have five songs on it, but each track makes an impact. Any of the songs could easily be placed on the soundtrack to a film like (500) Days of Summer; the band even sounds like a twenty-five-yearslater version of The Smiths. Verdant Vera does not in fact list The Smiths as one of their influences, but they do count My Morning Jacket, Radiohead, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and David Bowie among those who inspire their sound, which is self-described as “pop/rock and experimental/jazz, or indie rock with pop sensibilities.” Originally from Plainfield, IN, and currently based in Indy, Verdant Vera are friends with other local band Veseria – something about the V’s, maybe? As a six-piece, Verdant Vera has one more person in their band than Veseria; the members of Verdant Vera include Josh Smith, lead vocals and keyboard; Zach Smith, guitar and vocals; Nathan Payne and Jake Satterfield, both on guitar; Jeremiah Maxwell, bass; and Brandon Randall, drums. According to the band’s ReverbNation page, they’ve only been playing together since early 2011, which makes their complex styling that much more impressive. The highlight of the EP is its second track, “Paper Champion.” All of the elements of the song contribute to an overwhelming sense of inner turmoil that is still totally accessible to the listener. As the song’s persona wonders
how his relationship went wrong, his anguish accented by lyrics including “the flavor in your eyes, the color of your smile” and “diamondscented perfume,” all of which are not only interesting images but also reflect confusion of the senses, which either adds to or is a result of the singer’s own bewilderment. The melody and background instrumentals are also dissonant, adding a tone of perplexity. The least impressive track on the CD is “New Bazaar,” if only because the instrumentals overpower the lyrics to the point that you can’t understand what is being sung. Another complaint is first song, “Ready To,” which begins to sound quite repetitive as it develops. Those flaws, however, do not detract much from an otherwise excellent record. If this is the kind of EP that Verdant Vera can produce, I can’t wait to see what they can do with a full-length album. -HANNA FOGEL
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GOODBYES LOCALS ONLY BENEFIT SHOW Locals Only, 2449 E. 56th St. 5 p.m., donations accepted, 21+
It’s with a heavy heart we say goodbye to the current location of Locals Only Art and Music Pub, the beloved home of Barfly Art and Music Shows, Cara Jean Marcy’s Songwriter’s Nights, Mashup Monthly, Blues Jam nights and so much more. From hip-hop to roots, Locals Only both confirmed and denied the meaning of its name daily. Yes, it was consistently full of locals, but the friendly staff and regular clientele opened their arms to anyone who was in need of a cold brew or plate of hot wings. It was the place where leagues of Bears fans camped out on Sundays, a piece of Chicago on 56th Street. If this reads like a memorial, it partially is. We are sad to see Locals move on from the well-worn spot behind the Mousetrap at 56th and Keystone Avenue. But rest assured, Bears fans, music fans, beer fans — Locals Only will exist in another — as of yet unannounced — location. Keep your eyes and ears open for the brand new spot and a whole new lineup of Indy’s favorite local bluesmen, emcees and artists.
Wednesday
CLASSIC ROCK JOURNEY, PAT BENATAR, LOVERBOY Bankers Life Fieldhouse, 125 S. Pennsylvania St. 7 p.m., $56 - $103.60, all-ages
Nostalgia will be the draw for attendees of the Journey, Pat Benatar and Loverboy show at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. All three bands had experienced great success dur ing the ‘80s (but the really cool kids were listening to The Replacements, Hüsker Dü instead). Journey has experienced a revival as of late, particularly with the anthemic, Gleeified track “Don’t Stop Believing.” The song experienced renewed popularity after it was used on the series finale of The Sopranos. ‘80s goddess Pat Benatar is best known for “Love Is A Battlefield” and “Hit Me With Your Best Shot.” Loverboy is of course famous for the daily grind anthem “Working for the
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Celebrate the end of the road for the 56th St. location this Saturday evening with a show featuring some of Indy’s favorite hip-hop, dance, roots and punk artists. The full lineup is below, but come early to snag a prime seat and browse the work of two Indy visual artists, Sara “SaraBellum” White and Louis Wheeler Every II. Doors open at 4:30 p.m. and music begins at 5 p.m. Locals Only will of ficially close Aug. 17. All proceeds from the evening will benefit Dave Queisser and Kevin Phillips in opening the new Locals Only location. 5:00-5:50 p.m. Ed Trauma 5:50-6:15 p.m. El Carnicero 6:15-6:35 p.m. Mic Sol & Ace One 6:40-7:25 p.m. Audio Recon 7:40-8:05 p.m. s.a.i.n.t. RECON 8:20-8:50 p.m. Rhinoceros Beetle 9:10-9:45 p.m. Cut Camp 10:00-10:45 p.m. Max Allen Band 11:05-11:50 p.m. Blackberry Jam 12:10-12:55 a.m. Harley Poe 12:55-1:10 a.m. DJ Ridge 1:10-1:40 a.m. ATFU with Eratic 1:40-2:10 a.m. Heavy Gun
Weekend.” The trio of groups can frequently be heard on the soundtrack of any film set in the ‘80s, and, tonight, at Bankers Life.
Thursday
IN MEMORIAM STEVEN PRATT PUNK ROCK WAKE Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St. 7 p.m., $5 minimum donation, 21+
Honor the memory of the recently passed Steve Pratt at the Melody Inn this Thursday evening. A lineup full of his former bandmates, including Phony Beatlemania, a Clash cover band, The Mighty John W aynes and Drunko will take the stage, but the mic is open between sets for your personal remembrances. This is the official memorial for Steve, as a funeral service is not planned at this time. The Mel’s PBR Lounge will contain a memorial to Steve. Rest in punk, Steve Pratt.
SOUNDCHECK ticularly because it brings back The Spud Puppies. The groups joining them aren’ t too bad either; you’ll see Whipstich Sallies, Barbara Bell, Old Truck Revival, Adam James Sorenson and Bro Slaw on the stages dur ing the day. Bring your lawn chairs, snacks and your kids; ages 8-12 are just $5 and 7 and under are free. Taco Lassi will roll up to serve those who prefer to purchase their picnics on site. This is the second annual Indy Hostel Folk Festival. ROCK THE CAB AND PARACHUTE Deluxe at Old National Centre 502 North New Jersey St. 8 p.m. $15, 21+
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Grunge rock band The Toadies are on tour supporting their fifth album, Play.Rock. Music., released on July 31. The band has had some ups and downs, including sevenyear spans between each of their first few albums, so it’s nice to see them back with a vengeance. They’re co-headlining with Helmet, a metal band that was incredibly successful in the ‘90s but has gone through so many lineup changes that their current lineup has only been in place since 2010. Both bands are supported by Ume, a younger post-punk band whose second album Phantoms was released last year.
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Alternative band The Cab began as two friends playing music together in high school in the early 2000s, and they’ve been growing steadily since, even through lineup and record label changes. They were last in Indy in January, when they played the Emerson Theatre with The Summer Set. The Cab will be joined by pop-rock band Parachute, who have enjoyed success from their radio hits that include “She Is Love,” “Something to Believe In” and “Kiss Me Slowly.” The show’s opening act will be Katelyn Tarver, a singer-songwriter and TV actress from The Secret Life of the American Teenager, among other shows.
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New York City’s tap water is already widely regarded as world-class, in safety and taste (and subjected to a half-million tests a year by the city’s Department of Environmental Protection). However, two entrepreneurs recently opened the Molecule water bar in the city’s East Village, selling 16-ounce bottles of the same water for $2.50, extra-filtered through their $25,000 machine that applies UV rays, ozone treatment and “reverse osmosis” in a seven-stage process to create what they call “pure H2O.” The owners of Molecule are a restaurateur/art dealer and a “social-justice activist” who is a “former world champion boomerang player,” according to a July Wall Street Journal profile.
Can’t Possibly Be True
• In 2011, the Liberty County, Texas, home of Joe Bankson and Gena Charlton was raided by sheriff’s deputies, the FBI, state officials and a trailing media crew (alerted by the sheriff), checking out a tip that “25 to 30” children’s bodies were buried on the property. No evidence was found, and in a June 2012 lawsuit for defamation, Bankson and Charlton claim that the sheriff had organized the raid knowing full well that the tipster was a selfdescribed “prophet” who had disclosed that her information came from “Jesus and the (32) angels” who were present with her. The sheriff said he did everything “by the book” and that a judge signed the search warrant confirming “probable cause” to believe that at least one crime (if not 25 to 30) had been committed. • In July, the online magazine Salon profiled Virtuous Pedophiles -- an effort by two notably articulate men who insist that their sexual fascination with children would never extend to personal contact. Said one (who claims “advanced degrees from prestigious universities”): “We do not choose to be attracted to children (but) we can resist the temptation to abuse children sexually.” He added, curiously, that “many” of the Virtuous Pedophiles “present no danger to children whatsoever.” Lamented the group’s co-founder, “Almost any group in the world can hold a convention, look out on a sea of faces, and say, ‘These are people like me,’” but because pedophiles are treated with such scorn, “we can’t.”
Democracy Follies
• North Carolina state Rep. Becky Carney, an environmental activist, inadvertently cast the deciding vote in July to open up natural-gas hydraulic fracking in the state. The legislature had passed the bill earlier, but it was vetoed by Gov. Bev Perdue, and the House needed exactly 72 votes to override the veto and enact the bill. Carney’s tireless lobbying of colleagues appeared to have helped halt the overriders at 71 votes, but when it came time to push the buttons, Carney acciden-
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tally became the 72nd. She could be heard on her microphone in the chamber, saying, “Oh my gosh. I pushed green.” • “It’s Just Politics”: (1) Mark Schimel told reporters in Albany, N.Y., in May that it was nothing personal that caused him to run for the Republican nomination to the state assembly from Nassau County -- where the incumbent is his estranged wife, Democrat Michelle Schimel. Mark’s mother seemed quite upset at her son. “I can’t believe he’d do a thing like this (to Michelle),” she told a reporter. “I’m going to talk to him.” (2) Democratic attorney Christopher Smith is the presumptive nominee for a Florida Senate seat from Fort Lauderdale, and it was just a coincidence, said Republican leadership in June, that their candidate is attorney Christopher Smithmyer. Registered Democrats dominate the district, but Smithmyer may win some votes by confusion. • Coming Soon to American Democracy? (1) In March in Ireland, Bundoran Town Councilor Florence Doherty became exasperated with colleague Michael McMahon, who opposed a bill to strengthen whistleblowers’ rights. “(T)his country doesn’t need whistleblowers,” McMahon said. Doherty replied, “Of course it does, you asshole.” In a later radio interview, Doherty repeated her word-of-the-day four times. (2) In a live TV debate in July, Mohammed Shawabka, a member of the Jordanian parliament, became enraged when his opponent, Mansour Seif-Eddine Murad, called him a secret Israeli agent. Shawabka removed a shoe and hurled it at Murad, who ducked, but then Shawabka pulled a silver pistol from his waistband and waved it around (though no shots were fired). • Mainstreaming: In May, the brother of Jane Svoboda, 52, called for sympathy after a video surfaced of her addressing the Lincoln (Neb.) City Council with nonsense comments about Whitney Houston, Hillary Clinton and “corpse(s) found without clothes.” The brother noted that his sister lives in an assisted living community and has been diagnosed as schizophrenic. Nonetheless, as the Lincoln Journal Star pointed out, Ms. Svoboda continues to be a registered lobbyist at the state capitol.
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• William Voss has a tough job, noted a Bloomberg News report in June. He is CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation, which relentlessly campaigns for improving airline safety regulations, but admits that his primary obstacle is ... safe airlines. (The last major-airline accident in the U.S. was 11 years ago, leading to complacency by airlines, passengers and regulators.) “If anyone wants to advance safety through regulation,” Voss said, “it can’t be done without further loss of life.”
times that amount -- just for a parking space. The space is a deluxe one, though: about 12 feet by 23 feet by 15 feet high, meaning that it can be configured to store more than one car.
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• Yet another woman made the news recently for having loaded up, over several years, in breast augmentation surgery. Paula Simonds, 44, of Miami, who is known professionally as model Lacey Wildd, is approaching her goal of having breasts large enough to place her in the top five in the world. However, the quest is grossing out her six kids -- two young, two grown and (especially tough) two in high school, where the taunts flow freely. Currently, Simonds measures herself as an “L”-cup, headed for a “triple-M.”
Least Competent Criminals
• James Allan, 28, was sentenced to three years in prison in Oxford, England, in July for robbing a news shop. Allan’s getaway was delayed when he insisted, repeatedly, on pushing the front door open when he obviously should have been pulling. Finally, exasperated, he yanked off his balaclava, exposing his face to the surveillance camera, kicked the door, breaking the glass, and escaped. Police arrested him about three hours later nearby. (The 2000 British movie Snatch featured just such a memorable scene of push/pull helplessness.) • When the assistant manager arrived early on June 26 to open up the Rent-ACenter in Brockton, Mass., he encountered a man with his head stuck underneath the heavy metal loading bay door (obviously as a result of a failed burglary attempt during the night). “Hang tight!” the manager consoled the trapped man. “The police are on their way.” Manuel Fernandes, 53, was arrested.
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• (1) Our Lady of Sorrows Academy in Phoenix, playing for an Arizona state boys’ baseball title in May, decided to forfeit the game rather than field a team against Mesa Preparatory Academy -because Mesa’s second-baseman was a girl, Paige Sultzbach. (In two regularseason meetings, Mesa had honored Our Lady’s beliefs by benching Sultzbach.) (2) The Judson Independent School District near San Antonio fired a kindergarten teacher in June for arranging an unorthodox solution to a colleague’s bullyingstudent problem. The teacher ordered the class’s 24 other students to line up and slap the bully (and encouraging the students to “hit him harder”) to reinforce the message of “why bullying is bad.” Thanks This Week to Gary DaSilva, Jim Weiss, and Perry Levin, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Apollo astronaut Russell Schweickart had a vision of loveliness while flying through outer space in his lunar module. “One of the most beautiful sights is a urine dump at sunset,” he testified. He said it resembles a “spray of sparklers,” as ten million little ice crystals shoot out into the void at high velocity. As you feed your quest for a lusty life, Aries, I urge you to be as quirky and resourceful as Schweickart. Come up with your own definitions about what’s gorgeous and revelatory. Take epiphanies any way you can get them. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): At the heart of this horoscope is a quote from Maya Angelou. While it may seem schmaltzy, I assure you that its counsel will be essential to your success in the coming weeks. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said,” said Angelou, “people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Can you see how valuable this principle might be for you, Taurus? If you hope to get what you desire, you should turn your empathy on full blast. If you’d like to supercharge your vitality, hone your skills as a judge of character. If you want to get the love you think you deserve, be a master at making people feel good in your presence. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The coming week will be prime time to celebrate your eccentricities and cultivate your idiosyncrasies. Do you like ketchup on your bananas? Is heavy metal the music you can best relax to? Do you have a tendency to break out in raucous laughter when people brag about themselves? I really think you should make note of all the qualities that make you odd or unique, and express those qualities with extra intensity. That may grate on some people, true, but it should have a potent healing effect on you. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here are my questions: Will you thrust your foot across that imaginary line, or will you back away from it, scouting around for an escape route? Will you risk causing a commotion in order to scratch the itch in your ambition? Or will you shuffle on back to your comfort zone and caress your perfect daydreams? Personally, Cancerian, I’m hoping you will elect to do what’s a bit unsettling. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you should. If you make a bold move, make sure you’re not angling to please or impress me -- or anyone else, for that matter. Do it as a way to express your respect for yourself -- or don’t do it. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): When Tchaikovsky wrote the musical score for his famous 1812 Overture, it included 16 cannon shots. Literally. These blasts weren’t supposed to be made by, say, a sledgehammer pounded against a wooden mallet, but rather by the detonation of an actual cannon. As crazy as that is, you’ve got to admire Tchaikovsky’s creative gall. He was going way out of the box, calling on a source of sound no other composer had ever done. In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to be inspired by his example, Leo. In your own chosen field, mess with the rules about how to play in your chosen field. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “And if nothing is repeated in the same way,” says poet Antonio Porchia, “all things are last things.” That’s a good principle to adapt for your own purposes, Virgo. A few weeks from now, I bet you’ll be enmeshed in an orgy of novelty, creating yourself from scratch and exploring experiences you’ve never heard of before. But in the meantime, as you bring this cycle to a close, be equally inventive about how you finish things off. Don’t imitate the approach you used in tying up loose ends in the past. Don’t put stale, boring karma to rest in stale, boring ways. Nothing repeated! All things last things! LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): All of us feel bad sometimes -- sad, discouraged, helpless, unloved, and all the rest. It’s a natural part of being human. Here’s the good news: I am not predicting you will go through a phase like that anytime soon. Here’s the even better news: The coming week will be an excellent time to
come up with effective strategies for what to do in the future when you go through a rough period. For example, instead of wallowing in self-pity or berating yourself for your weakness, maybe you can resolve, next time, to amble aimlessly out in nature, dance to cathartic music for three hours, or go to the gym and smack around a punching bag. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When a domesticated weasel captures some treasure or beats out a competitor for food, it performs a celebratory dance that’s referred to as the “weasel war dance.” During this triumphant display, it might hiss, arch its back, fluff out its tail, and hop around madly. I encourage you to come up with your own private version of this ritual, Scorpio. It can be more dignified if you like: snapping your fingers, singing a magical phrase, or raising your arms in a V-for-victory gesture. Whatever you choose, do it after every accomplishment, no matter how small: buying groceries, arriving at an appointment on time, getting a good new idea, or any other success. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): One out of every four of us is afraid that we have missed our calling -- that we have misread our soul’s code and failed to identify the labor of love that would provide our ultimate fuel for living. If you’re among this deprived group, I have good news: The next six weeks will be an excellent time to fix the problem -- to leave the niche where you don’t belong and go off to create a new power spot. And if you are among the 75 percent of us who are confident you’ve found you r vocation, the next six weeks will be prime time to boost your efforts to a higher level. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You can take this as a metaphor if you like, but I’m getting a psychic impression that you will soon be drawing on the energy of one of your past lives. Will it be a 13th-century Chinese lute player or a kitchen maid from 15th-century France? Will you be high on the vitality you had when you were a Yoruba priest living in West Africa 300 years ago or when you were a 16th-century Guarani herbalist in what’s now Paraguay? I invite you to play with fantasies like these, even if you don’t believe they’re literally true. You might be surprised at the boost you get from imagining yourself alive in a different body and historical era. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Italian mattress company Sogniflex has created a bed with features designed to facilitate love-making. It has straps and handles, plus a trench that helps you get better traction. The extra-strong springs produce an exceptional bouncing action. You might consider buying one for yourself. The astrological omens suggest it’s time to play with more intensity in the intimate clinches. You could also try these things: 1. Upgrade your licking and sucking skills. 2. Cultivate your ability to listen receptively. 3. Deepen your sincere appreciation for what’s beautiful about anyone you’re attracted to. 4. Make yourself even more lovable than you already are. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): My $10-anhour counsel only requires a few seconds to deliver. Here it is: “Never try to be someone you’re not. Discover what you were made for, and do it with all of your passionate intensity.” On the other hand, Pisces, my $100-a-minute wisdom is more complicated, subtle, and hard to impart in less than an hour of storytelling. Here’s a hint of it: There are times when you can get interesting and even brilliant results by experimenting with being something you’re not. Going against the flow of your instinctual urges and customary tendencies might tweak you in just the right way -- giving you an exotic grace and wild depth when you ultimatel y return to the path you were born to tread.
Homework: If you could change your astrological sign, what would you change it to and why? Write: FreeWillAstrology.com.
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