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Elite Indiana State Criterium ChampionshipS

Saturday, August 13 11:30am to 9:00pm

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See American-style racing up close and personal as cyclists from around the nation race by you at 25-35mph! Race Headquarters are located at 435 Massachusetts Ave.

For more information, go to truesport.com or visit us at New Belgium Mass Ave Criterium on Facebook Proceeds go to the Indianapolis Cultural Trail, Riley Neighborhood Development, Mass Ave Merchants Association (MAMA) and Davlan Park.

Also Featuring:

• The New Belgium Beer Garden offering New Belgium beer, premiere spectator seating for attendees 21+ and a family-friendly area. • The Police & Fire State Championships, IndyCog/Joe’s Cycles Fixed Gear IN State Championships – Women, IndyCog/Joe’s Cycles Fixed Gear IN State Championships – Men & the Freewheelin’ Community Kids Race. • Freewheelin’ Community Kids Bike Rodeo from noon to 2:30pm offering free helmets from Flanner and Buchanan while supplies last!

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Contributors:

Mass Ave Merchants Association • Pedal & Park • CIBA • ICVA • Fringe Fest • Mass Ave Cultural District • YMCA Athenaeum • Bicycle Indiana • Flanner and Buchanan • Indy Sports Corp Hoosier Mountain Bike Association • Spokes for Hope

To volunteer, email volunteer@nuvo.net. For more info, visit truesport.com or New Belgium Mass Ave Criterium on Facebook

THIS WEEK AUG. 10 - AUG. 17, 2011

VOL. 22 ISSUE 25 ISSUE #1052

cover story MASS AVE CRIT

It isn’t just a bicycle race, but an entire production, one that showcases the best of the best of Indiana’s bicycling community, and is centered around 40-mph blurs of spandex, helmets and spoked wheels, zooming past spectators in a rush of adrenaline. BY MICAH LING, LAURA MCPHEE AND ANNA TURNER

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WEEDS ALONG THE CULTURAL TRAIL

A construction horizon extending through December worries the Fountain Square business community, which is down three shops since construction began in March. BY MICAH LING

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WILD IN THE STREETS

A bicycle messenger race — and art exhibit — was held in late August and NUVO was there to capture images from the event. Check out our two-page photo essay spread, featuring bicyclists who will also be competing in this year’s Mass Ave Crit. BY HANNAH FEHRMAN

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FOOD TRUCK FRENZY

Indy’s love affair with food trucks is officially hot and lusty. With at least one truck launching here every month, no one who’s mobile and socially networked will ever go hungry again. This Saturday, an event will feature 10 food trucks at Broadway Park. BY ANNE LAKER

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THE HELP

The Help, based on Kathryn Stockett’s novel, is about what happens when a young white writer (Emma Stone) in early-’60s Mississippi sets out to make a book collecting the tales of the black maids who reared white children in her hometown. It’s painful watching human beings suffer, and the everyday racism here is appalling. BY ED JOHNSON-OTT

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IDENTITY FEST

Some in electronic music’s top tier are leaving the clubs for the outdoors, at least for this summer. The electronic-only music festival Identity is visiting amphitheatres nationwide this year, Verizon Wireless Music Center on Aug. 11 being the first. By Wade Coggeshall

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Disaster Assistance Denied by the Franklin College Statehouse Bureau Female candidates still face political barriers by Megan Banta Indiana National Guard instituting DADT repeal by Sarah Seward Manic Panic: Your enviro-PANIQuiz by Jim Poyser Review of “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” by Ed Johnson-Ott Review of Cirque du Soleil’s “Dralion” by Jim Poyser Basile steps in as president of Center for the Performing Arts by Dan Grossman Gen Con and the Rise and Fall of Cardhalla by Sara Baldwin

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LETTERS A Breath of Fresh Air

Last week I was pleased to see in the NUVO an article pertaining to environmental quality (“Cheap power, polluted air” Steven Higgs, July 27-Aug. 3). It is always good to see the importance of environmental stewardship brought to the public’s attention. However, I felt that the article did not adequately explain the challenges that we are facing concerning environmental protection and lacked information regarding ongoing efforts by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, the United States Environmental Protection Agency and industry to reduce emissions. Other points to consider: • Mercury exposure to children is due primarily to the eating of mercury-contaminated fish, NOT breathing air around coal-fired power plants. • Reduced mercury emissions in Indiana and the U.S. air do not necessarily translate to reduced levels of mercury in fish. According to EPA estimates, more than half of mercury deposition in the U.S. comes from sources outside the country. • There are no definitive scientific studies that provide a link between autism and mercury exposure. It is important that the public understand the lack of scientific evidence concerning the connection between autism and mercury exposure from power plants. • New rules are being implemented for coalfired power plants that will result in reductions of sulfur dioxide emissions by 73 percent, nitric oxide emissions by 54 percent, mercury emissions by 90 percent, and regional improvements to fine particle concentrations.

Keith Baugues ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER IDEM OFFICE OF AIR QUALITY

A True-Blue Rebellion

David Hoppe asks in his column; “For the people, or profits” if “we’ll feel guilty this time around” regarding the sharp economic downturn and decline in jobs in recent years [Aug. 3-10]. The official jobless rate has now stayed above 8 percent for 30 straight months, the longest stretch of high unemployment since the Great Depression. The problem of longterm unemployment is creating a growing army of desperate workers who have no prospects of finding a regular job. According to the Labor Department, 13.9 million Americans are unemployed with the average worker is unemployed for just over 40 weeks, the largest time spent on the unemployment line since the 1983 recession. Minorities and young workers

are disproportionately affected by joblessness. President Obama has made no announcement of a major jobs initiative but did praise the new debt deal from the Navy Yard last Friday. The average person looking for work has given up on both political parties to fix the system and has little faith in the new debt deal. The only thing we should feel guilty of is maintaining the current economic and political system as the status quo. As labor activist Joe Hill said long ago; “Don’t mourn - Organize!”

Doug Smiley INDIANAPOLIS

Scream All You Want

Last week’s ‘Thumbs Down” to the Council’s Republican-controlled Metropolitan Development Committee for barring public comment was well deserved [July 27-Aug. 3]. But even more warranted would be a proverbial coconut cream pie in the committee’s collective face. Zoning in Indianapolis is indeed broken, as Nuvo’s David Hoppe concluded in his February, 2010 column (“Zoning in Indianapolis is Broken,” Feb. 3-10, 2010). As the recently proposed Broad Ripple parking garage illustrates, decisions by the 3 BZAs during the last 20 years or more have approved variances for at least 646 parking spaces (See “Had Enough Indy?” blog post of 7-28-11). Now, the city administration is trying to force the public to subsidize a private parking garage (350 spaces) to the tune of $6.4 million in public funds. I doubt if the taxpayers in Franklin and other townships relish the notion of a dictated public subsidy to make parking more convenient for the post-11:00 p.m. weekend peak demand (as per the 2007 Walker Parking Study) of harddrinking hormonals. Meeting strategies and decisions are made by partisan political caucus often without much regard to the facts or to the public interest. Chairman Janice McHenry (District 6) arrogantly imposed her “will’ as the chair to deny public questions and comments. Hopefully voters will exercise their will to kick her, and her anti-public committee members, to the curb in November and replace them with councilors who are willing to allow the people have a voice in their own government.

Clarke Kahlo INDIANAPOLIS

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HAMMER Why do we still love Lucy?

60 years later, it’s still the best TV show

BY STEVE HAMMER SHAMMER@NUVO.NET

eality shows about pawn shops, exterminators, drug addicts and hoarders are the most popular shows on prime-time cable TV, while “American Idol’s” depressing annual death march has been the most-watched network program for a decade now. Great TV shows are just as rare with 250 channels delivering around-the-clock programming as they were when most cities only had three or four stations. And the situation comedy genre, which once dominated programming, is nearly dead. The last great comedy, “Seinfeld,” went off the air 13 years ago and hasn’t been replaced. Over the weekend, the 100th anniversary of Lucille Ball’s birth was celebrated with a three-day “I Love Lucy” marathon on the show’s current home, the Hallmark Channel, which usually shows original movies aimed at the menopausal set. As my wife and I watched quite a few epi-

sodes over the weekend, wequickly realized that, even 60 years after its debut, “I Love Lucy” is still one of the funniest and most inventive programs the medium has ever produced. Despite a 1951 debut, “I Love Lucy” doesn’t look as dated as other beloved shows from the past. “Star Trek,” “Happy Days,” even “Seinfeld,” all look very much like relics of the past. Even though it’s in black and white, something about the show seems timeless and immune to aging. Maybe it’s the crisp set design and lighting, or perhaps it’s the clothes worn by the cast, which don’t look out of date at all and, in fact, look stylish even by 2011 standards. But it’s the brilliant simplicity of the scripts (thanks in part to Shortridge High School grad Madelyn Pugh Davis, one of the show’s original writers) and the performances by the cast that make the show seem lively and fresh even after endless reruns. The show is so perfectly designed and executed that despite more than a half century of rip-off attempts, it remains without equal.

The show’s centerpiece, obviously, is Lucy and the predicaments into which she gets. But Desi Arnaz, in the role of Ricky Ricardo, makes “I Love Lucy” perhaps the greatest show ever. So effective was he, so subtly brilliant, yet still he remains underappreciated. Without Ricky, the show is just a zany sitcom; he propels it to the pinnacle. As the title states, he really does love Lucy. And it’s the generosity and all-encompassing nature of that love that allows us to laugh along with Lucy instead of laughing at her. The man is obviously a player. He dresses like Frank Sinatra, even if he doesn’t sing as well. He’s a big star in the show and in real life. The man is a winner and his approval of Lucy and his devotion to her gives us license to do so as well. In addition, every show revolves around in him in some major way. It’s his setup of the situations and his pained response when they go awry that elevates the program to legendary status. It’s a shame that his comic brilliance remains so underrated.

The show is perfectly designed and executed that despite more than a half century of rip-off attempts, it remains without equal.

Anyone who’s read much about the history of the program knows of the many difficulties it faced during its production. Network executives originally didn’t want to show a Cuban married to a white woman. Lucy was almost blacklisted by the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee due to her having registered to vote as a Communist in her youth. Arnaz’s drinking problems, infidelities and alleged domestic violence issues made production more difficult than it otherwise would have been. Vivian Vance and William Frawley, the actors who played Ethel and Fred Mertz, hated each other with a passion, by all accounts, which may have made their onscreen squabbles more realistic but didn’t help ease tensions on the set. The fact that none of this backstage turmoil can be seen in the show, until its last season as the rarely seen Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, is even more remarkable. So why is this program so beloved to the extent that Google spotlighted Lucy on its homepage Saturday and millions worldwide still watch it? I think I know the answer. It’s the purity and good intentions of the comedy, combined with great performances delivered with passion and warmth that keep us loving Lucy and Desi. And as long as television exists as a medium, people will still be watching and laughing. Rightly so.

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HOPPE We can afford public transit We choose not to BY DAVID HOPPE DHOPPE@NUVO.NET Editor’s Note: David Hoppe is on vacation. This week we are revisiting a Hoppe column originally published Nov. 25, 2009. They reopened Pendleton Pike last week. The project to widen that sevenmile stretch from two lanes to four took six years and cost $51 million. Meanwhile, work continues on the Accelerate 465 “urban interstate” expansion project. Work on the renovation of that expressway is expected to continue through 2012 and cost at least $550 million. When it comes to building roads around here, we spare no expense. But when the subject turns to public transportation…well, we just can’t afford it. Indianapolis is the 13th largest city in the country; judging by the size of our bus fleet, you’d think we ranked 98 or 99. In its efforts to make ends meet, IndyGo’s back is constantly against the wall. This forces the service to adopt a no-win proposition of having to raise fares and cut service – even when ridership shows signs of going up. In 2008, IndyGo officials unveiled a proposal that set goals of tripling the number of buses and increasing the service’s budget from $52 million to $146 million – in 10-15 years. Apparently no one at IndyGo has ever heard the word “express.” We are told there’s no demand for public transit in Indianapolis. Our love for our cars is well known. That would be fine, it might even continue to justify the amount of money we pour into making our highways wider, if it weren’t for the fact that all those cars contribute to Indianapolis’s failing grades for air quality. The American Lung Association puts us in the top ten of most polluted cities. This should be an embarrassment for a place that tries to project a clean and upright image, the way Indy does. I guess you make that clean and upright, with a hacking cough. Some folks seem to think our public transit situation will get better when we build a commuter rail line between Fishers and Downtown. The trouble is, this one line could cost as much as $160 million. The project is on hold, which is fine because the creation of a rail line, while nifty, will likely only serve to distract us from taking the steps necessary to create the viable transit system we really need. We shouldn’t be thinking of trains in Indianapolis. Buses is where it’s at.

Cities around the world are looking at ways to reinvent their bus systems, using fuel efficient, low emission vehicles. Since 2001, Bogota Colombia has been a leader in this field. In Bogota, they abandoned the idea of creating a rail transit system when it became clear that building it would cost too much, create too many construction headaches and take too long to complete. Bogota designed its bus rapid transit system as if it was an above-ground subway. This meant making express lanes on existing streets and building passenger stations at various points throughout the city so that people could purchase tickets and board buses the same way subway passengers do. In just less than a decade, Bogota’s TransMilenio system now moves more passengers per mile every hour than most of the world’s subway systems. In order to achieve this success, the leadership in Bogota had to come to grips with an important fact of life: To make bus rapid transit work, you have to discourage private transportation. You close some lanes, reroute others and make parking harder, not easier. You make cars less convenient. And in so doing, create less congestion and enable people to live wherever they want and still get to work. Most important, you improve air quality for everyone. In the past year TransMilineo has become the only public transit system in the world sanctioned to sell carbon credits, which figures to make Bogota between $100 million and $300 million. A recent article in The New York Times estimated that subways cost more than 30 times as much per mile to build than bus rapid transit systems and three times as much to maintain. Bus rapid transit systems can also be built more quickly because they don’t require the radical digging and tearing up that a metro rail system does. Walter Hook, executive director of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy was quoted: “Almost all rapidly developing cities understand that they need a metro or something like it, and you can get a [bus rapid transit system] by 2010 or a metro by 2060.” Here’s the deal: As long as Indianapolis insists on thinking of public transit as an add-on, an option for people who don’t have cars or a lifestyle choice for those that do, we can expect to have an underfunded bus system and big ticket highway improvement projects for years to come. Oh, and maybe an ornamental commuter train from Fishers at some point a generation from now. We need a new way of talking about public transit. This isn’t just about getting around. It means reimagining how we use the city and cleaning up our act when it comes to clean air. We can begin this process now or wait until later, when it’s forced upon us. Now is better.

To make bus rapid transit work, you have to discourage private transportation.

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GADFLY

by Wayne Bertsch

HAIKU NEWS by Jim Poyser

Americans think that tea party is a bunch of party poopers S&P downgrades US from triple A rate to double trouble company gives a mil to Mitt then disappears into mists of time Perry hopes Christian unity rally will get God to vote for him polygamist Jeffs faces bigger love than he’s prepared to handle Slaughterhouse-Five banned at Missouri high school; Kurt would say “So it goes” 300,000 Chrysler mini-vans recalled soccer is cancelled Arctic ice cap is so melted it’s nothing more than a yarmulke US will let Shell drill baby drill the Arctic till we’re all melted study suggests two earth moons may have collided like orbs in the night

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THUMBSUP THUMBSDOWN WALK A MILE, FASTER

Despite the best of attempts of crafty advertisers to cultivate our self-destructive urges, Indiana adults’ smoking rate dropped for the second consecutive year. Maybe now that we can breathe with greater ease the state’s populace can lose some the extra tonnage we tote! For the decade ending in 2010, the rate dropped 23 percent to 21.2 percent, according to Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System data. We’re looking better than West Virginia, which led the U.S. last year at 26.8 percent, but worse than the nation’s 17.3 percent median rate. Utah sets the example for clean living, with only 9.1 percent of its people claiming devotion to cancer sticks. Last year, 60 percent of Indiana’s smokers attempted to quit for at least a day. Extra thumbs up for those who try, try again. Remember, the state offers cash incentives to quitters through its Quit Now Indiana program.

HUNGRY, HUNGRY HIGHWAY

Did we somehow miss a 20 percent budget surplus at INDOT? Didn’t think so. That’s why we’re worried by an independently reviewed report from HEC lambasting the state’s funding plans (or lack thereof) for long-term highway infrastructure. In essence, it charges that I-69’s construction and maintenance will chew up a disproportionate amount of traditional state and federal funding for transportation infrastructure projects. We wonder if the state’s approach to I-69 might be suffering the same affliction as so many Toyota Camrys a few years ago: Barreling forward with few, if any, options to avoid a crippling mess.

LATINO FUTBOL, HOOSIER STYLE

Our hearts melt at the call of a beautiful goal scored. And throughout last weekend, the glorious word reverberated over the Northwestway fields at West 62nd St. as contestants in the city’s 3rd annual Latino Soccer Cup competed for bragging rights. In just three years the tourney grew from six youth teams in 2009 to 26 youth teams and 22 adult teams this year with hundreds of spectators in attendance. We hope this bodes well for our collegiate, pro and national team recruiting classes. ¡Felicitaciones, to winning teams “Inter” from Felix Franco’s International League, Mexico Jr., America Academy, Potocino and Pequenos Gigantes! We’re glad to see little Latinas stepping up in the youth leagues, but encourage the men’s teams to open the ranks to female power. Despite being open to ladies, no women were to be seen on adult squads. Don’t want to be beaten by las chicas, hombres?

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news Weeds in the Cultural Trail Delays deadly for business

BY M IC A H L IN G E DI T O RS @ N U V O . N E T

he vision of a Circle City flowing with healthy bike and pedestrian traffic is blurring in Fountain Square as local businesses struggle with virtual road rage. The neighborhood, which is trying to incubate locally owned restaurants and stores to bolster its reputation as one of the city’s cultural destination points, is suffering deep bruising from the rampant, widespread and long-neglected construction zone that will (eventually) be the southeast corridor of the Cultural Trail. Across the board, the merchants in Fountain Square are suffering cash-flowkilling side effects of the construction zone, which has obliterated sidewalks and obstructed parking since March. “It’s not just the places on Virginia Ave., it’s the whole district, because it looks like a dump down here,” says Craig Von Deylen, president of the Fountain Square Merchants Association. “I was initially for all for this, but now it’s nothing but a lot of finger pointing and talking in circles.” Fountain Foliage’s recent announcement that it will close, on top of the recent demise of both Square Rootz Deli and Venus and Mars Fashion Exchange, worries the remaining businesses who are struggling to hold on, Von Deylen says.

The city’s illustrated map of the Cultural Trail’s route harkens images of urban vitality, a vision many in the city embrace, though the rose-colored tint is fading as the hotter hue of anger flames in Fountain Square.

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Fountain Square business owners say delays in construction are crippling and even killing area commerce. Crews have left demoli shed streets and sidewalks untouched for months.

The Cultural Trail is one of two projects underway geared, in part, to better serve the 2012 Super Bowl traffic. Overall, a total of 100 infrastructure contracts are currently under construction across Indy, including 276 street segments, about 10 percent of which are on downtown streets. The rest of the city’s roadwork, Public Works Director David Sherman said at a meeting with reporters last Thursday, is allocated throughout the neighborhoods using a pavement condition index that considers ratios of factors such as how worn the pavement is and the volume of traffic flow. The city bid out projects worth an estimated $638 million in 2010, according to figures provided by the Department of Public Works. Minority-owned businesses won 14 percent of the projects while women-owned enterprises earned 7 percent and veteran-owned businesses won 0.7 percent. Construction on the Cultural Trail began in 2007; so far, the east corridor, the northeast corridor and the north corridor have been completed. (See image for orientation.) Four corridors remain to be finished, in addition to landscaping. Much of the construction has been on schedule, but in some areas it has lagged significantly. Construction is part of city life, but for some, it’s moving beyond inconvenience and into make-it-or-break-it territory. As weeds patches decorate the dirt piles along the unfinished Cultural Trail, Craig’s wife, Jennifer Von Deylen, who owns IndySwank on Virginia Ave., says her business is in jeopardy of failing because the streets and sidewalks have been a “destruction zone” since March of this year. The project in Fountain Square has been delayed due to utility relocations and

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A construction horizon extending through December worries the Fountain Square business community, which is down three shops since construction began in March.

because engineers uncovered old railroad tracks on Virginia Ave., from Prospect to Leonard Street, says Kara Brooks, a Department of Public Works spokeswoman. Crews are working to remove those tracks and target completion of the project by the year’s end, she adds. The city plans to complete construction by Dec. 31, 2011. But for IndySwank, and all of the other merchants in Fountain Square, that sounds like a death sentence: A complete loss for the rest of the nice weather, and a loss for the holiday season — usually peak earning times. “December 31st,” Jennifer Von Deylen says, “is not good news for us.” The Fountain Square Merchants Association began pressing the city for answers about the Cultural Trail construction from the project’s inception and keeps pressing. So far, says Craig Von Deylen, people associated with the construction are reluctant to talk, and in-person communication is vastly different than anything put in writing. “At first they were not even going to start [construction on] our section [of the Cultural Trail] until later,” Von Deylen says. “And then they said to us, ‘Well,

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we’ll start your section first, and our intention is to be finished by July, so you guys will be done first.’ And that would have been fantastic.” Instead, construction commenced only to stop almost as soon as it began, leaving the streets and sidewalks destroyed. To the Von Deylens, it’s a clear case of bureaucratic runaround. “I don’t give excuses, I go out there and fix the problem; they don’t seem to be fixing the problem, they just keep pointing the finger at other people,” says Craig, who, as the former owner of a construction company, has an appreciation for the fine art of project management. Many Indianapolis residents promote better bicycle access between the city’s neighborhoods. Fountain Square’s disgruntled cries are not in response to the concept of the Cultural Trail, just the execution. The neglected construction site is growing weeds tall enough to justify the attention of the city’s nuisance weed crew, though no such cleanup has materialized. Meanwhile, local businesses hope to survive long enough to judge whether a completed Cultural Trail will live up to its promise of urban redemption. 

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More than a bike race BY AN N A TURN ER EDITO RS@ N UVO. N ET

he Mass Ave Criterium isn’t just a bicycle race. It’s an entire production, one that showcases the best of the best of Indiana’s bicycling community, and is centered around 40-mph blurs of spandex, helmets and spoked wheels, zooming past spectators in a rush of adrenaline. Hosted by NUVO Newsweekly and sponsored by New Belgium, this year’s Mass Ave Criterium will take place on Saturday, Aug. 13, beginning at 11:30 a.m. and ending at 9 p.m. The Criterium’s flat triangular course is .66 miles long and spans Massachusetts Avenue, Vermont Street and East Street. In addition to 2011 state championship races, there will also be fundraising and recreational events. The State Fixed Gear Championship and the Police & Fire Indianapolis Championship will be part of this year’s Criterium, and proceeds from these races will be donated to a char ity chosen by the winner of the Police & Fire race. Recreational events include a Bike Polo match, as well as multiple kids races — five total, divided up according to the riders’ age — hosted by FreeWheelin’ Community Bikes of Indianapolis. FreeWheelin’ is also sponsoring the Kids’ Rodeo (noon to 2:30 p.m.), a bicycle safety exhibition that promises to be both fun and infor mative. Other fam-

ily events include the bicycle obstacle course, part of the New Belgium Beer Garden, located in Davlan Park at the corner of Mass Ave and Alabama Street. With its marriage of Mass Ave culture and firstrate American cycling, the Mass Ave Criterium should bring out another large crowd. In anticipation of a hefty turnout, there will be a Pedal & Park option available, as well as a valet parking lot for bicycles. And, for those over 21, there will be plenty of New Belgium beer on hand to quench y our summer thirst. A full day of racing for cyclists at all levels cultivates at dusk with the Men’s Category 1|2 Race at 7:50, a race that will also serve as the Indiana State Criterium Championship. Local elite riders from teams like NUVO and Texas Roadhouse will compete with pro riders and members of national elite squads traveling as far as California. For interested racers, the registration deadline is Aug. 11. Fees range from $10 to $60, depending on the event(s). For more information, visit www.truesport.com or mac.nuvo.net

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BY L AU RA M C P H E E L M CP H E E @N U VO. N E T When local riders take their places at the starting line of this year’s Mass Ave Criterium for the Men’s Category Pro|1|2 race, the contenders include winners from each of the previous year’s races and a good number of others hoping to take their place on the podium. Defending MAC champion Eric Young, who rode for NUVO Cycling when he won last year, is a certainly a favorite for a repeat. Young, who now rides for the Bissell pro team, led the Cutters team to five consecutive Little 500 victories while at Indiana University and was the first Little 500 r ider to have a pro contract waiting for him upon graduation earlier this year. “He’s the fastest guy around, that’s for sure,” says Texas Roadhouse rider Chad Burdzilauskas. “He’s got speed, which means he can bridge gaps really well and chase down any one who gets ahead of him.” Burdzilauskas and Young finished second and third at the recent Indy Criterium in July, with Burdzilauskas’ Roadhouse teammate John Grant taking first place. As it turns out, these three are also the winners of the previous Mass Ave Criterium races. In addition to Young’s win last year, Grant had the fastest time in 2009 and B urdzilauskas won the first MAC in 2008. “It’s great that all three of us will be there for this one,” says Burdzilauskas. “It’s such a great race — really fun.” Saturday’s race will determine the Indiana State Elite Criterium Championships, a title that speaks to a rider’s speed as well as technical skill. In a criterium it is as much about how deftly a cyclist handles a bike that determines the winner. For a rider to complete a criterium circuit, with its technical turns and sharp corners, he or she must not only stay upr ight and stay up front, but the bike-handling skills necessary to know when to slow down coming into a corner, when to accelerate coming out of it, and how to avoid crashing into the five or six other r iders taking the turn at 20-30 mph alongside of you is crucial. Most importantly, the rider also has to conserve enough energy for what is certain to be a powerful 30-40 mph flat-out sprint to the finish—especially at the MAC. While there are no shortage of criterium races in Indiana each season, the Mass Ave Crit presents an almost unique challenge for

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All of the day’s races start and finish in front the Chatterbox on Massachusetts Avenue.

the tight corners created by the street race’s triangular course and resulting in an almost slinky-like effect of riders who are forced to slow down at each turn. “The Mass Ave Crit is a good race for a lot of reasons,” says Burdzilauskas. “It’s those sharp turns though that make it really technical. For me, those turns simulate hills in other races. You really have to know how to come out of the turn, pick up speed and stay out fr ont.” Staying out front isn’t typically a problem for Burdzilauskas who recently took first place at the Superweek criterium. At the MAC in 2009, he and John Grant were part of a breakaway that sped away from the pack during the first ten minutes of the race and never gave the rest of the field a chance to catch up. That day, they finished first and second, with Gr ant on top—same results as this year’s Indy Crit. In addition to Grant and Burdzilauskas, Texas Roadhouse will also be represented by John Puffer, another rider with a good chance of winning. “Puffer is in great shape and could easily win this year,” admits Burdzilauskas. “We’ve got a bunch of fast guys this year and any one of us could take it on Saturday.” With Grant and Burdzilauskas giving Texas Roadhouse two of three MAC championships, the NUVO Cycling team is more determined than ever to even the scor e and win again this year. While Young may not be wearing a NUVO jersey any longer, the team has rider Jon Jacobs to

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represent in this year’s MAC and give the former winners a run for their money. Jacobs and Burdzilauskas competed just this past weekend in Illinois at the Tour of Elk Grove, where Burdzilauskas barely edged Jacobs out for the win. “JJ is amazing,” says Burdzilauskas. “He’s fast and strong enough to be racing professionally. When that guy gets away, there’s no bringing him back.” Burdzilauskas isn’t just being a generous competitor in his praise of Jacobs. Early this summer, JJ won the USA Cycling National Road Race Time Trials, making him the fastest rider in the country. “We’re fast,” Burdzilauskas says of his Texas team, “but we don’t have anyone who can ride as fast as JJ in Time Trials. He is amazing.” Additional NUVO Cycling team members competing Saturday include team captains Aaron Hubbell and Declan Doyle, as well as Drew Otte and Brad Schaeffer. Greg Strock of Texas Roadhouse will also be racing the MAC again this year, and Burdzilauskas thinks Strock shouldn’t be counted out as a contender. Strock was a top 10 finisher at the national time trials, and he has raced well at MAC in previous years. “Strock could win the whole thing,” says Burdzilauskas. “He’s been riding really well. Depending on how the rest of the team does, and what kind of break we’re dealing with, Greg could be the one to win it.”

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Scenes from the 2010 MAC: The Masters’ race; Eric Young (center), winner of the 2010 Men’s Elite Criterium Championships; racing fans gather along the Mass Ave course. More photos at www.nuvo.net.

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Get your bike on indy continues bike friendly path BY M I CAH LIN G E D I TO RS @N U VO. N E T There’s almost no excuse not to go cycling in Indianapolis these days. With the support of Mayor Greg Ballard, local philanthropists Gene and Marilyn Glick and about a dozen community and corporate sponsors, Indianapolis is becoming even more bike-aware. Bicycling. com even named Indy among America’s 50 Best Bike Cities. For the commuter, the introduction of the Indy Bike Hub YMCA is a dream come true. To be located in the east wing of City Market, the hub will be perfect for anyone riding into downtown from outlying areas. The space will include a bike shop (which will feature service, repairs, accessories and bike rentals, all operated by Bicycle Garage Indy), indoor parking for 148 bicycles, showers, locker rooms and a free towel service. By September, a state-of-the-art wellness center will be added to the space , with a WiFi lounge, multi-purpose rooms, clinics and other exercise classes. There will be cardio and strength equipment, nutrition coaching, personal training, plus ongoing special events. Now through Sept. 14, joining fees will be waived for membership. Everything should be up and running by Sept. 7, with a Grand Opening Celebration on Wednesday, Sept. 14. To sign up for membership you can visit the City Market (11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Monday through Friday) or to the YMCA at the Athenaeum during open hours (an existing Y membership automatically includes membership in the Hub). For more info, www.indybikehub.org. It’s also getting easier to get ar ound the city — and the whole city, not just downtown. By the end of this year, Indianapolis residents will be able to use more than 64 miles of biking lanes. The Indianapolis Cultural Trail will soon connect to the Monon Trail, giving cyclists easy access to Broad Ripple. The Cultural Trail is fully accessible to the physically challenged and has audio sig-

nals for the visually impaired. The trail connects five cultural districts, including Fountain Square, Indiana Avenue, Mass Avenue, the Canal/White River State Park and the Wholesale District. Construction of the Cultural Trail began in 2007 and should be completed by the end of 2012. Updates on construction and progress can be found at the w ebsite: http://www.indyculturaltrail.org/ news-events.html. Even if you’re not invested in cycling as a lifestyle or as a means for tr ansportation on a daily basis, it’s still fun to get on a bike ever y once in a while. The newest downtown bike shop, Bikes on Mass Ave, Ave scheduled to open in mid-August will have rentals available. Wheel Fun Rentals on the Canal also offers several options for cruising downtown for the day. Besides the New Belgium Mass Ave Crit, check out these other cycling events coming up: Nap Town Chickens presents Tour de Coops: Tourists are encouraged to ride Coops their bikes from coop to coop within the Broad Ripple/Meridian-Kessler/ButlerTarkington/Rocky Ripple area. (Cars are also welcome). Learn how much fun urban chicken farming can be while spending an afternoon on a bicycle. There is a $5/person donation and all proceeds benefit Keep Indianapolis Beautiful and IndyCog, a local bicycle advocacy group. Sept. 18, 2-5 p.m. Tweed Ride: Ride Wear your favorite tweed garb and hop on a bike for a r ide from Broad Ripple to Downtown and back. Oct. 29; more details at www.theindycog.com Car Free Fridays: Fridays Bike to work on Fridays all year! Everyone’s doing it! Courteous Mass, Critical Manners: Manners An effort to teach cyclists to become part of traffic rather than battle traffic — a practice in cooperation. Every second Friday of the month at the Amer ican Legion Mall, across from the Central Public Library. Next ride: Sept. 9.

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Bike shops, like Joe’s Cycles in Fountain Square, are another sign of Indy’s growing cycling community.

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I W LD in the streets Photos and text by Hannah Fehrman

One cyclist took a tumble out of the gate.

Indy may not conjure up the same need for bike messengers as larger cities like New York and San Francisco, but an increasing number of enterprising young men and women are trying to make the trend stick here. Showcasing the skills and speed needed to make a living as a bike messenger, and stay alive while employed, Indy’s fifth alley cat race took place on July 30 with 19 cyclists competing in the “Wild in the Streets” competition. Organizers and supporters eventually hope to compete with similar events in Milwaukee and Chicago.

They are a close and quirky community, but the fixed-gear riders and racers are also commited to the lifestyle. After talking to many of the racers, it’s clear that their focus remains on barreling through our downtown streets, dodging pedestrians, riding tightly between parallel cars and ignoring the inevitable horns.

Spoke cards are used in Alley Cat races to verify at checkpoints. This spoke card was used in the first race the guys from Goldstar Cycle Courier organized in 2006.

The masterminds behind this race --- and behind Goldstar Cycle Courier, which sponsored the event --- are (left to right) Levi, Shawn, and Chris. These Indianapolis friends had grown tired of working for other local courier companies, so, in April of this year, they started their own. “It came from a want and a need for our community,” Levi said.

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Before the race began, the anxious cyclists (and nearly 50 supporters) went over the rules. “No teams! Win on your own or die!” read one of the posted rules. “No cheating! Dopers suck. Respect each other or die!” read another.

Here’s how the race worked: after they unlocked their bikes, cyclists rode to various check points, where they picked up “packages” and the names of Indy intersections to deliver the package to. The first rider to complete three deliveries, a roughly 30-mile course, without losing any paperwork, would win.

When Ben Sutton came to his second checkpoint, he was shocked by the large size of his delivery. Ben spent several minutes trying to fit the large box into his courier bag. Then he got a better idea: tying the box to the outside of his bag!

Andrew Miller recently moved to Indianapolis from New York City. Even as a non-native he zigged and zagged through traffic -- until he was disqualified because he lost his checkpoint paperwork.

In an attempt to make the race, Doug Gigowski offered a co-worker $50 plus tips to work his shift as a busboy. Doug actually got the job with the help of a fellow biker. Unfortunately, no one picked up his shift so he was unable to race.

Even with that oversized delivery, Ben Sutton won the men’s division with an unbelievable time of 1 hour and 37 minutes, finishing almost twenty minutes ahead of the next courier. Lydia Fisher (above) won the women’s division with a time of 1 hour and 54 minutes. She moved to Indy only a year ago, but she bikes to school and delivers for Jimmy John’s. “It’s more fun than waiting tables,” Lydia said.

Shawn Wolf made the first-place trophies by welding spare bike parts.

The last cyclists finished the race at around 5:10 p.m., but no one was going anywhere. A few riders used one of the delivery boxes to start a game of hacky sack; others stood around and talked gear. All seemed happy to be together.

These people bike for different reasons -- some for enjoyment, others for serious competition, others for the simplicity of traveling. No matter what their reasons, though, they are all bonded by, if nothing else, their love of cycling. For these cyclists, it’s less about the race than the community they create. Want to ride with this community? Catch them every Monday morning at Starbucks on the circle at 8:00am. 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 08.10.11-08.17.11 // a&e reviews

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It’s that time of year! August 12 is the deadline to get your 2011/2012 Arts Guide season information to us for possible inclusion in this year’ s Arts Guide. Send your info, along with photos, to calendar@nuvo.net. Put “Arts Guide” in the subject line.

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The popular freakshow circus acts of the Blue Monkey Sideshow return to the State Fair this

year. With feats involving juggling, sword swallowing, bullwhip mastery, beds of nails and more, the family-friendly entertainment is a nice change of pace from the pastoral spectacles typical of the fair. Krembo, Skanky, Freakshow Foley and others return to make your State Fair experience authentic, mind-boggling fun. Runs through 21 Sunday. Shows at 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, and 9 p.m. Free with State Fair admission.

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A wide-ranging series of programs that celebrate the diversity of Middle Eastern cultures, languages and people begins in August and continues throughout the fall at the Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library. A variety of free programs for all ages are available featuring arts and crafts, dance, music, food, storytelling and Middle Eastern history. A full series program listing is available on the Library’s calendar online. 40 E. Saint Clair St., 275-4100, http://www.imcpl.org/.

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DCI World Championships @ Lucas Oil Stadium Drums? Check. Choreography? Check. Nick Cannon? No, thankfully. The 2011 Drum Corps International World Championships at Lucas Oil Stadium will highlight the unique artistry and talents that set it apart from other musical performances. With members from more than 15 countries, the diversity of music and background shows through as the best drummers, buglers and color guards compete for the title. Even better, the preliminaries take on an “all-skate” as members of the World, Open and International class will all perform. Tickets prices vary. Starts 9 a.m. 500 South Capitol Avenue, 800-745-3000, www.dci.org.

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Asking yourself why Indianapolis needs Indiana? Look for the answers at IndyTalks: Why Indianapolis Needs Indiana on August 11 from 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. With admission to the State Fair or for FREE online, you can be a part of these community programs. Take advantage of this opportunity to collaborate with other Hoosiers and explore the idea of Indy as a Super City. 1202 E. 38th St., 927-7500, www. indytalks.info.

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Deb Mullins @ The Cabaret

Come out for an evening of soulful blues sung by Deb Mullins at the Cabaret in the Columbia Club . Backed by some of Indiana’s finest musicians, Mullins’ delivery underlines the influence of the blues on decades of American jazz and other popular music styles. Showtimes are both August 12 and 13 starting at 8 p.m. Ticket prices range from $25 to $45. $12 food or beverage minimum. 121 Monument Circle, 275-1169, TheCabaret.org.

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Multiple Propositions @ Herron School of Art and Design Drawing exhibit, Multiple Propositions, opens this Friday featuring nine artists who bring complexity and beauty to this raw art form. The exhibit will fill SUBMITTED PHOTO three galleries at the Herron School. Gallery director Part of the new exhibit at Herron. Paula Katz describes the artists and their work, “Each of these artists work very differently. Some use traditional media… Others use very non-traditional media, creating 3-D drawings and working on industrially made materials.” Four artists hail from Chicago, Micheal Dinges, John Himmelfarb, Paul Nudd and Judith Brotman . In addition to these the works of Purdue Professor Christine Wuenschel, Dragana Crnjak of Ohio, and Jillian Ludwig of Lafayette will be displayed. The final two artists are Martin Brief of St. Louis and Sara Schneckloth of South Carolina. 735 W. New York St., www.herron.iupui.edu/ galleries/exhibitions/multiple-propositions.

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Drum Corps galore at Lucas.

Celebrate the launch of Airmail from the Airpoets with the authors on the 12th at 6 p.m. The poets Joe Heithaus, Norbert Krapf, Ruthelen Burns and Joyce Brinkman will share some of their poems, autograph copies of their newly published book and join all the attendees in conversation and refreshments. Launch reading and party are free so be sure to attend and bring a friend! 1100 W. 42 St., 923-3617, www.sanfranciscobaypress.com.

Review of “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” by Ed Johnson-Ott Basile steps in as president of Center for the Performing Arts by Dan Grossman Review of Cirque du Soleil’s “Dralion” by Jim Poyser Gen Con and the Rise and Fall of Cardhalla by Sara Baldwin

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Indiana Fever v. NY Liberty @ Conseco Fieldhouse

“Happily Ever After” @ Pike Performing Arts Center The Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre, known for their unique style and impressive choreography, will present “Happily Ever After” as the conclusion to their 2010-2011 season and their final performance at the Pike Center. With their humorous twists and alternate endings to classic fairy tales, the performance will include Once Upon a Time, Hansel and Gretl, and Pinocchio. With characters of Snow White, the Wolf, Little Red Riding Hood and more, these twists on childhood classics are creative and nostalgic. 8:00 p.m. $25 adults, $20 students and seniors. Available at the box office or online. 6701 Zionsville Road, 216-5455, www.pikepac.org.

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Huge parts of summer in Indy are Fever basketball games and Indians baseball games. As if these organizations weren’t fantastic enough on their own, both of them are helping Indy Reads this summer. You have the chance to “Catch the Fever” and support Indy Reads adult literacy programs at the same time. Buy tickets for Saturday night’s game versus the N.Y. Liberty and help support the fight to end adult illiteracy. Go to www. fevergroups.com/tickets/250/ (using the password READ) and order tickets to the game for $15 each. You can’t beat that price, and you definitely can’t beat helping out this great cause. 125 N. Pennsylvania St., 917-2500, www. wnba.com/fever.

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Celebrate Indy Arts! Parade @ Indiana War Memorial The first-ever Celebrate Indy Arts! Parade —11 a.m. to 1 p.m. — will bring together over 30 of the world’s finest marching music ensembles with members of the local Indianapolis arts community in the most musical, creative and fun-filled parade to ever hit the streets of the Circle City. As a part of the 2011 Drum Corps International World Championships, the parade will kickoff from North and Pennsylvania and end at the American Legion War Memorial Mall. At the end of the parade, more than 2,000 brass musicians will assemble to play a musical tribute to America. DCI will host its annual World Championship Finals later that evening at Lucas Oil Stadium. 431 N. Meridian St, www.dci.org.

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5th Annual Paranormal Meet and Greet @ Hannah House Is there something strange in your neighborhood? Who you gonna call? Probably somebody from the 5th Annual Paranormal Meet and Greet . The event will take place at the historic Hannah House from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. Come to meet experts in things that go bump in the night. Special guests include the host of Spooked, Keith Age, paranormal show veteran Chris Dedman and many more. Take this great opportunity to network with leading voices in the field. Admission is Free. 3801 Madison Ave., 616-4513, dani@ gevco.net.

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6th Annual Zionsville Paint Out @ SullivanMunce Cultural Center Spend the day outdoors with local and regional artists as they leave their natural habitat -- the studio -- to paint, sketch and draw in a new environment. The 6th Annual Zionsville Paint Out kicks off at noon ending at 4 p.m. on August 13. Artists will be focusing on historic homes, lush gardens and local landmarks. This annual event also offers an opportunity for attendees to combine architectural sightseeing with a chance to see artists work and acquire works of art. 205-225 W. Hawthorne St., Zionsville. 873-6862, www.sullivanmunce.org.

The Indiana Recycling Coalition and the National Recycling Coalition invite you to attend a picnic reception Tuesday night from 7:00-9:00 p.m. Great company, great food and great brew in the cool setting is sure to make for the perfect relaxing summer evening. Held before the National Resource Recycling Conference, the picnic will draw a national group of recycling stakeholders. A fee of $25 includes a game ticket, a full picnic dinner and drinks. Note: you do not have to be registered for the conference to attend the picnic reception. 501 West Maryland Street, http://www.resource-recycling. com/rr_conference/reception.html.

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BOOKS FAIR CULTURE: IMAGES FROM INDIANA’S FAIRS BY HAROLD LEE MILLER, INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESS, 2011, $24.95. r Portraits of people, poultry, pigs and much more provide a photographic romp around Indiana’s county fairs as well as the Indiana State Fair. Harold Lee Miller’s style is uniquely intimate and inclusive. It’s a handsome, lovingly assembled album of over 100 full color photographs interspersed with tidbits of information and wisdom. Balladeer Carrie Newcomer’s verse sets the tone: “At this year’s county fair /all our friends will be there /gather kin and cousins near /and everything we love is here.” Anthropologist Gerald Waite’s essay “A Fair Profile: Hoosier County Fairs” walks us through the history of fairs from the middle ages to the present, showing how geography shapes what we do, content structures how we do it and economics dictates why we do it. It’s a prototype of tradition slowly changing with the flow. Agriculture was the basis of Indiana’s “Fair Culture” but foodstuffs and entertainment always came a close second. When schools NEVER started before Labor Day, fairs signaled the transition from summer to fall. Miller somewhat lingers on the nostalgia of the easier times when leisure was an okay thing to embrace. Pages aren’t numbered — simply amble along competitions for best of, aggression at demolition derbies, waiting for tastes of stuff you’d never eat anyplace else. Sun up to sun down a day at a fair in Indiana is steeped in the story of people wanting to learn the latest in technology, style and fun. Fair Culture is a generous personal memoir for the coffee table. — RITA KOHN

HOOSIER BEER: TAPPING INTO INDIANA BREWING HISTORY e BY BOB OSTRANDER, THE HISTORY PRESS, PAPER $21.99. Hoosier Beer is a splendid overview of Indiana’s brewing saga from early 19th century settlement to the present. It reads like a conversation with the convivial Bob Ostrander and offers a peak into Derrick Morris’ in-depth collection of beer memorabilia. You can access information about the hundred-plus breweries that came 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 08.10.11-08.17.11 // go&do

REVIEWS and went, 1800s to 1990, in a variety of formats: by region and community; alphabetically by name of brewery; along a timeline; by breweries and brands. Ever on the trail of uncovering new data, Ostrander squeezes in an addenda — “Breweries We Have Uncovered Since This book Went to the Publisher.” The modern era of brewpubs and production breweries 1990-2011 is arranged alphabetically by city, Aurora to Wilbur, with a chart of who is still in operation and which are in the process of opening. For the casual reader the first 206 pages will provide a pleasant journey with details about each brewery and introductions to the brewing method and collecting. For the more scholarly reader, the notes, bibliography and appendices entice further explorations. –RITA KOHN Note: Ostrander will sign this book Aug. 11, at Black Swan Brewpub, Plainfield, starting at 6:30 p.m., followed by a Pub Quiz at 7:30 p.m.; he’ll sign on Aug. 13 at Bookmamas, Irvington, starting at 1:30 p.m.

THEATER/PERFORMANCE TROUBLE SHOOT r Theatre Non Nobis; directed by Jeffrey Barnes; through Aug. 20. In a gutsy move, this small theater (formerly known as Theater Within) commissioned Chicago playwright Paul Amandes to write a play about an Indianapolis soldier who committed suicide in Iraq. Amandes, who had written a much shorter play before ever meeting soldier Chance Keesling’s Lawrence family, developed a twoact, issues-packed version that focuses on dad Gregg’s mission to change a White House

policy that keeps the president from sending condolence letters to families of soldiers who kill themselves. After charged scenes that portray Chance’s (Noah Winston) heated relationship with a stateside girlfriend and his sexual obsession with his M4 (Denise Jaeckel), we hear speeches about military suicide, employment training for former prisoners (Gregg’s non-profit work) and witness Gregg’s numerous futile meetings with government officials. It’s a lot to take in, too much. And yet, Amandes often writes with wit, wisdom and a lyricism that director Jeffrey Barnes brings forward in small bursts of music and dance. Dancer Wynter Z. Veal-Drummond personifies the presidential condolence letter as a beautiful and elusive phantom, while wild Frank Zappa guitar riffs punctuate Gregg’s (Sam Fain) overwhelming drive to keep Chance alive through activism. The play’s greatest emotional pay-off comes, almost too late, in quietly loaded scenes in which mom Jannett (Pamela J. Akers) defends her right to grieve privately. Trouble Shoot is not a perfect sum, but it has some beautiful, deeply moving parts. 1125 Spruce St., 637-5683, www. thechurchwithin. org. — JOSEFA BEYER

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Harrison Gallery; through Aug. 26. The standout work in this show was Tasha Lewis’ “Paper Dublin,” a wallhanging 3D map of Dublin, Ireland as it was during the 1920s when James Joyce wrote his monumental novel Ulysses. (The novel follows the character Leopold Bloom for one day as he wanders Dublin.) The individual buildings on this relief map are built using actual pages of a ANIMALCULES: BRIAN copy of this novel. Another JAMES PRIEST entry in this show, “Les Work by Brain James Priest at iMOCA. e Fleurs de Bonheur” (The Flowers of Happiness) by Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art; Sarojini Johnson with Pat Nelson, acknowlthrough Sept. 17. Is seeing believing? How edges an equally renowned literary classic, do we know that what we see is “real?” Charles Baudelaire’s poetry collection “The Brian James Priest wants audiences to ponFlowers of Evil.” Using a process involving der these questions in Animalcules. A grain intaglio and enameling, Johnson and Nelson of sand inspired it all: digitally printed created beautiful prints of sunflowers with imagery, installations, and performances. adjoining text on the facing pages relatDeeper considerations about science, origins, ing to the portrayal of sunflowers in art micro to macro, and a realization that sand history. Will Lutz’s “Photo-enigma,” unlike represents life’s building blocks inform the the previous examples, didn’t refer to any work. If this seems like a lot to address in literary works at all. The book’s jacket cover one exhibition, it is! Priest composed images was plain black save for a white question of collected, individual sand particles using mark. Inside were photographs reminiscent a light microscope and his PC for “Grains,” of Robert Frank’s black and white work which fills iMOCA’s back gallery. Large-scale and it purported to narrate a murder mysPolycarbonate cutout pictures of each sand tery. Whether or not you had the ability particle look like boulders of living environto solve this mystery (there wasn’t a lot of ments: rocky caves, insects, glacier crystals or info to go on here), the work benefitted fossilized feathers. Beside each macro grain from your ability to open it up and look cutout was the actual sand granule in a plasthrough it. A number of other works in this tic bag. Do we accept Priest’s “portraits” as show were not so approachable — bound, true depictions? There’s more. Pendulums as it were, in clear plastic cases. 1505 N. hanging from sound domes above floor Delaware, 396-3886, www.harrisoncenter. displayed cutouts point to smaller places org. — DAN GROSSMAN within the images, making one think about

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Noah Winston (Chance) and Denise Jaeckel (Chance’s M4) star in Trouble Shoot.

his ideas and processes, his art became even more densely packed with nuances, rituals and patterns. For instance, objects in digital collages in “Bodélé” that look photographed were digitally constructed, and there are performances that may or may not happen. Don’t let the hidden meanings intimidate you. Even without explanation, works may still be enjoyed for their slick details and presentation, formal compositions, and imagery that moves from being playful with depictions of giant minerals on cardboard boxes to altar-like, spiritual and scientific. 1043 Virginia Ave., 634-6622, www. indymoca.org, www.brianpriest. net — SUSAN WATT

additional micro worlds we may have forgotten to imagine. In talking with Priest about

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Above: Kyle Ragsdale’s “King Park”; below; a detail from Tasha Lewis’ “Paper Dublin.” CITY GALLERY GRAND OPENING e City Gallery at the Harrison Center; featuring the paintings of Kyle Ragsdale; through Aug 26. I’ve been critical of Kyle Ragsdale in the past by what appears to me to be an unfinished quality to some of his oil on canvas paintings (leaving faces of people blank, etc). But, then, one man’s unfinished painting is another’s impressionistic masterpiece. In any case, much of Ragsdale’s work is popular, at least in part, because it unpretentiously reflects contemporary urban life. As such, there’s no better artist to hang on the walls of the City Gallery for the grand opening. The standout for me is “First Home,” which portrays a proud young couple in front of their St. Clair neighborhood home. Unlike the stern figures in Grant Wood’s “American Gothic,” a painting that this work clearly alludes to, you can tell by the well-articulated facial features that this particular couple is relaxed and happy. But not all urban Indy residents are people, Ragsdale reminds us, with his painting “Bird Sanctuary,” representing the Watson McCord Neighborhood. (If you didn’t know there was a bird sanctuary along Fall Creek, well, neither did I.) Your eyes are drawn to the yellow and red dashes of color, representing flowers, as well as the yellow birds on the vegetation in the foreground. Ragsdale does a lot here with a limited color palette (mostly green and yellow). It wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to think that these paintings, focused on five particular neighborhoods, could do a lot to spur potential homeowners to consider in living in urban Indy. 1505 N. Delaware St., 3963886, www.harrisoncenter.org/city-gallery. php. — DAN GROSSMAN

REVIEWS

“Sarah’s Reflection,” by Travis S. Little, on view at StutzArtSpace.

BODIES OF WORK: THE FIGURATIVE PAINTINGS OF TRAVIS S. LITTLE e StutzArtSpace; through Aug 26. Stutz resident artist Travis Little is primarily selftaught, a fact that makes his mixed media portraiture all the more remarkable. His technical skill is such that you might, from a distance, mistake his (mostly) nude and semi-nude portraits for photographs. Certainly this is the case for “Art Book,” where you see a young woman reclined on a bed, browsing through a book of art, naked save for the white shirt that she’s wearing. But if you look closely, you can see individual brushstrokes in the background. (This portrait, based on a live model, is as beautiful work of art as any that could possibly be in that particular

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book.) In other paintings, Little departs even further from strict realism. In “Sarah’s Reflection,” you see a seated woman undressing in front of the mirror that she’s looking into. As your eye follows down from her thigh to her feet, her leg seems to dissolve into abstraction. And in the work entitled “Barry,” the nude male figure’s face seems so obscured by shadow that there’s an almost surreal quality to it. It’s made more striking by the dark green background. You could say that Little’s work fits the definition of Contemporary American Realism — it’s a label the artist himself uses — but in order to appreciate such art fully, you might just want to abandon all preconceptions. 212 W. 10th St., www.stutzartists. com. — DAN GROSSMAN

REVIEWS Harrison Center for the Arts where she has her studio. Yet sometimes the religious tinges are diverting. There is one work unencumbered by a structural frame: “to embody.” Its waxed paper circles strung in symmetrical rows of changing colors sway sweetly from a dowel rod. This more sculptural direction seems a good course for Dart, who is self-taught and has only been a full-time artist for two years, but is an emerging artist to watch. 237 N. East Street, 636-4060, www.earthhousecollective.org, www.kathryndart.com”www.kathryndart. com. — SUSAN WATT GRADE

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The paintings of Douglas David are featured at the Indiana State Fair. Work by Kathryn Dart, on view at Earth House. RENOVATION: KATHRYN DART r Earth House Collective; through Aug. 29. Kathryn Dart moved to Indianapolis from Southern Indiana and discovered a love for urban community and recently, a penchant for encaustic painting. Renovation marks her first solo show. She uses the common house motif in multiple works. In “to support,” two folded paper houses are spaced apart in a row and covered in red wax. They extend out in pop-up fashion from the alluring, abstract yellow to orange waxy and butter-like surface. White strings stretched from house-to-house suggest connecting with a neighbor. Connotations of neighborhoods and residents are obvious themes, but what carries Dart’s message is sincerity plus good use of abstraction, color, repeating patterns and the seductive hardened ooziness of the encaustic surfaces. “to shelter” successfully utilizes compositional thirds to create a landscape of three houses fit snuggly against horizontal bands of red, orange then yellow wax. Dirt applied towards the top creates an appealing textural cloud. All houses were folded from reused paper bulletins from Dart’s church, Redeemer Presbyterian, which adjoins the

Indiana State Fair Normandy Barn; through Aug. 21. Glorious vistas and intimate closeups fill the spacious second floor [air conditioned] gallery. You’ll want to stop in for the respite from the heat but you’ll linger because Douglas David’s sixty oil paintings and Nora Spitznogle’s accompanying narratives are so engaging. David began his painting marathon in March in the MacReynolds Barn on the Fairgrounds following a year’s immersion into Indiana’s agricultural landscape and the Fair. David captures activity — you feel yourself walking into “Spring Light” across an awakening field toward the horizon lineup of farm buildings that have been part of the landscape for the past 150 years. “Finding the Shade” cows crowd under a tree. “Weather’s on Its Way” heightens the barn’s “face” and the pens’ hunkering down. Fair views are equally in the moment. A careful buttered corn eater is determined not to mess up her white outfit. Spitznogle combines her memories and impressions with facts and figures on Indiana’s 59,000 farms 2/3 grow crops and 1/3 raise livestock; 500,000 Hoosiers work in the agriculture industry making up 16% of the state’s workforce. Free with entrance to Indiana State Fair. For more, visit www. douglasdavid.com/currentshow and farmtofairblogspot.com. — RITA KOHN

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Event features 10 eateries on wheels BY A N N E L AK E R E D I T O RS @N U V O . N E T Like any trend, it took a while to infiltrate the heartland. But Indy’s love affair with food trucks is officially hot and lusty. With at least one truck launching here every month, no one who’s mobile and socially networked will ever go hungry again. For food truck addicts and virgins alike, this Saturday’s Taste of the Trucks is the ideal forum to sample wares from ten different purveyors of street-side vittles. Credit West Coast Tacos as the Indy food truck pioneers. John Ban and Arnold Park began selling $2 Korean-inspired tacos to late-night Broad Ripple clubbers in spring 2010. Later that year, Duos — brainchild of former Essential Edibles chef Becky Hostetter, and John Garnier — started dishing up vegetarian fare like farm egg sandwiches and coconut popsicles to First Friday-goers. Hoosier Fat Daddy Bus Café sprang up in February; their menu features

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grown-up corn dogs and creamy broccoli salad. Matt Kornmeyer fired up Scratch in June, a year to the date after being laid off from a corporate job. “I’d seen a lot of food trucks in L.A. & Portland, Oregon,” says Kornmeyer, after serving me a cup of basil lemonade and homemade chocolate-espresso pudding from his truck, parked in front of the Central Library. “Indy’s not just home to all-you-can-eat buffets – there is some sophistication here now.” Kornmeyer and his fellow truck owners are cordial with one another. “It’s not cutthroat here,” he says. “We do trades, try each other’s food. I speak with a couple of the other owners a few times each week.” Many of them “like” each other, Facebook-style. If there’s one thing these food truck owners have in common, it’s branding savvy. Tom Rockwell, owner of Hoosier Fat Daddy Bus Café, enlisted his brother Steve to create spectacular artwork for his truck, featuring a leggy retro redhead. When John Ban started The NY Slice last month, his expertise in branding and DJ-ing made it easy to create an exciting food truck experience. “People think NY Slice is a franchise,” he says. “But this is the only one.” The pizza itself has a fabulous salt-dusted crust and non-sloppy toppings: the perfect street food. All of the trucks mentioned above, plus Lisa Moyer’s brand-new cupcake outlet, Scout’s Treat Truck, plus Groovy Guys Fries and several others, will park bum-

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High Velocity Sports Bar in the JW Marriott at 10 S. West St. presented its first Brewers Dinner featuring five Sun King brews paired with a perfectly matched menu created by Chef Glen Urso. Urso, a master at developing recipes with specific beers [we previously lauded his dinners partnering with Omar Castrellon at Alcatraz], is developing a season of reasonably priced brewers dinners where he talks about food and the brewer talks about brews. Clay Robinson set the standard for introducing newcomers to the world of craft and deepening knowledge for the rest of us. JW Marriott beverage manager Jonathon Sellers is someone to watch for innovative eat/drink local events. Call 317-860-6500 or go to www.highvelocityindy.com

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Kahn’s, downtown, 5-7 p.m. Sun King tasting. Great Fermentations, 5-7 p.m. Monthly Friday Night Club share brews and news; Owen Lingley from Wyeast Labs gives presentation and demonstration about yeasts.

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Great Fermentations, 9 a.m. Beginning brewing class Bookmamas, Irvington, 1:30 p.m. Book Signing for Hoosier Beer by Bob Ostrander and Derrick Morris. Irvington’s Black Acre Brewery is providing samples and info on their new brewery

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catering to Black Friday shoppers. Another dreamed of a beer truck (is that legal?). Either way, Taste of the Trucks is an intro to the fun food available all over town on any given day, just a tweet away.

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per to bumper at Taste of the Trucks, the brainchild of Steve Neville, president of Intelligent Designs Media. After experiencing the diverse food truck scene, Neville knew he “had to figure out a way to raise awareness of this growing culture.” Scratch’s Kornmeyer says he hopes the event convince they you can get excellent (and hygienic) meals from a truck. Some foodies need no convincing. A line of folk outside the WFYI building waiting for their NY Slices expressed excitement over SideWok Dumplings, a soon-to-launch truck. One woman dreamed of food trucks

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MOVIES Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest BY E D JO H N S O N - O TT EJO H N S O N O T T @N U V O . N E T

t (R) There’s a recent TV commercial for a fast food chain that features two firemen playing rock-paper-scissors in an attempt to win a bite of a third fireman’s sandwich. The hook of the commercial is that the filmmakers dub in the voices of three little boys for the burly firefighters. When I watched Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest , it reminded me of the commercial. Never mind the fame, the money, and the hiphop trappings, this is a story about some

boys, school friends who try to remain pals as the years go by. A Tribe Called Quest became big in the ‘90s. Their raps extended past boasting and they raided their parents’ record collections and built songs around mellower tunes than most of their contemporaries. First-time filmmaker Michael Rapaport offers plenty of info on the rise of the group and their huge influence on the music scene, but the relationships between the members is what makes the film memorable. Q-Tip is the leader — or at least the fellow who talks most like the leader. Phife Dawg is his diabetic partner — the two were childhood pals who grew up in Queens. I could bury you in the colorful names of the other band members, those who influenced them and those who admire them, but the core of the film is the trouble between Q-Tip and Phife. The group breaks up, then reunites for concert tours, in part to cover Phife’s medical expenses. Forget the anger and posturing, just listen to Phife as he discusses a text sent to him by Q-Tip following his kidney transplant surgery. You’ll hear the voice of a boy who misses his friend. Beats, Rhymes & Life is opening Friday at Landmark’s Keystone Art Cinema.

The Help r (PG-13) The Help, based on Kathryn Stockett’s novel, is about what happens when a young white writer (Emma Stone) in early‘60s Mississippi sets out to make a book collecting the tales of the black maids who reared white children in her hometown. It’s painful watching human beings suffer, and the everyday racism here is appalling. The Help works as an exercise in empathy. I think it would have worked better had director Tate Taylor (Satterfield in Winter’s Bone) drawn the bigoted white women with as much detail as he did the maids. The story is determined to present the blatant racism of the era while keeping the crowd happy with Hallmark moments and comical situations. Taylor’s efforts to follow the template of the book seem strained at times. Regardless of any misgivings over the presentation style, the film packs a punch, aided immeasurably by the performances of Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer as maids Aibileen and Minnie, with strong support by Emma Stone as the writer. Davis makes you feel the pain, weariness

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Octavia Spencer and Viola Davis in The Help

and determination of her character, while Spencer offers fire, coupled with a strong sense of caution over the life-threatening dangers of the book project. As the budding journalist, Stone delivers another solid performance. The Help manages to be horrifying and inspirational despite its heavy-handedness. I wish it had been as stark as Taylor’s performance in Winter’s Bone. I didn’t buy the ending, which gives the audience a hug and a pat on the bottom to send us on our way. Too calculated. Too tidy for a situation that is anything but neat.

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The following are reviews of films currently playing in Indianapolis area theaters. Reviews are written by Ed Johnson-Ott (EJO) unless otherwise noted. 30 MINUTES OR LESS u (R)

An aggressive loser (Danny McBride) wants to pay a hitman to knock off his rich, contemptuous dad (Fred Ward), so he and his buddy (Nick Swardson) kidnap a pizza delivery guy (Jesse Eisenberg), strap a bomb to him and order him to rob a bank. The pizza dude ropes his best pal (Aziz Ansari) into his nightmare, and the filmmakers struggle mightily to capture the jittery outrageousness of the first Hangover film. They fail. Love the cast, and there are isolated jokes and action scenes that work, but despite the movie’s short running time (83 minutes), it drags. Perhaps the lame screenplay has something to do with that.

ANOTHER EARTH w (PG-13)

The best of the summer releases, this film proves that spectacles don’t have to be loud to blow audiences away. A refreshing change of direction from bloated epics like Transformers, Another Earth is a quiet, intimate film that uses sci-fi elements to stir its already simmering drama pot. Co-writer Brit Marling stars as Rhoda, a young woman looking for a second chance after killing a family in a car accident. For Rhoda and the widower of the family (William Mapother), a newly discovered parallel Earth embodies that chance for a new life. Mike Cahill’s debut film is starkly beautiful and impossibly alive — like the parallel Earth itself (a spectacle that never distracts from the drama unfolding in its shadow). 92 minutes. At Landmark’s Keystone Art Cinema. — Sam Watermeier

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A man’s premonition saves a group of coworkers from a terrifying suspension bridge collapse, but this group of unsuspecting souls was never meant to survive and, in a terrifying race against time, the ill-fated group frantically tries to discover a way to escape Death’s sinister agenda. 95 minutes.

GLEE LIVE! 3D The popular TV series gets the big-screen concert movie treatment. Starring Dianna Agron, Lea Michele, Gwyneth Paltrow, Chord Overstreet, Darren Criss, Chris Colfer, (PG) Cory Monteith, Jane Lynch, Heather Morris and Kevin McHale. 100

SARAH’S KEY (PG-13)

Julia Jarmond (Kristen Scott Thomas), an American journalist married to a Frenchman (Frederic Pierrot), is commissioned to write an article about the notorious Vel d’Hiv round up, which took place in Paris in 1942. She stumbles upon a family secret which will link her forever to the destiny of a young Jewish girl, Sarah (Melusine Mayance). The more Julia discovers — especially about Sarah — the more she uncovers about her husband’s family, France and finally, herself. 111 minutes. At Landmark’s Keystone Art Cinema.

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Cary Grant stars as an ex-jewel thief who comes out of retirement and falls for a diamond tycoon’s daughter (Grace Kelly) in this breezy and romantic thriller from Alfred Hitchcock. 106 minutes. At the IMA Amphitheater on Friday, Aug. 12 at 9 p.m. Gates open at 6:30 p.m. for picnicking. $10 for the public, $5 for museum members.

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ome in electronic music’s top tier are leaving the clubs for the outdoors, at least for this summer. The electronic-only music festival Identity is visiting amphitheatres nationwide this year, Verizon Wireless Music Center on Aug. 11 being the first. Slater Hogan, a local DJ and club promoter, promises a day of “booty-shakin’ dance beats.” He and his DJ partner, John Larner, have teamed with Live Nation and other area entities to help promote the show locally. “Some of the biggest names in the game are coming to Indy for the first time,” says Hogan, who has won Best Local DJ two years running in NUVO’s annual Best Of poll. “This show will be off the chain.” Larner says Identity will be unlike any electronic music show this state’s ever seen. “We’ll have four separate shows running DJs all at the same time,” he says, including a stage featuring local talent. “Never before in Indiana have there been so many headlining acts in one show and at one time.” Club vets The Crystal Method are one of those headliners. The L.A.-based duo was part of another touring electronic festival in the late ’90s called the Electric Highway Tour. “We’ve been waiting for another one to happen, so we’re excited,” says Ken Jordan, one-half of The Crystal Method along with Scott Kirkland. The closest approximation to Identity that Jordan can think of is the Electric Daisy Carnival, an annual electronic music festival that originated in southern California and has since spread to cities in the west and south. “(Identity is) full-on traveling, tour buses, everything,” Jordan says. “We’re really excited.” Normally electronic music is associated with packed, confined spaces with minimal lighting, not a cavernous outdoor amphitheatre in the daytime. Larner says the transition won’t be any different for club music than it is for rock ‘n’ roll in a daylong event. “It’s going to be a little different for people around here, but a lot of the big festivals like Electric Daisy all start during the day,” he says. “So it’s par for the course for music festivals.” Nor should fans worry about a repetitious sound at Identity. “I think the lineup hits a lot of different crowds,” Larner says. “You’ve got the dance crowd covered, but you’re also going to see a lot of the jam-band crowds, hipsters and a ton of clubbers from all over the Midwest. We’ve been selling tickets

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in St. Louis, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee and Illinois. It’s going to be an amazing day and night for electronic music.” Jordan also is confident there’s enough artistic diversity in the lineup to pique fan interest. “I can’t imagine listening to trance or house for 12 hours straight,” he says. “It’s good there will be a lot of styles there.”

On your radio The electronic scene may be enjoying another upswing in terms of mainstream popularity. Larner notes that crossover acts like The Black Eyed Peas, Pitbull and LMFAO have ushered club music onto the radio. He’s noticed a change in the culture itself too. “More and more clubs are leaning towards more up-tempo music and kind of getting away from hip-hop,” Larner says. Hogan also attributes the ascent to a trend that sees artists once considered avant-garde producing albums for some of pop music’s biggest names. “What you hear on the radio is now making its way into the clubs, and remixes of hiphop tracks are more accepted now than ever before,” Hogan says. “Kids can also access so much more music through the Internet. They are no longer restricted to the local radio stations or MTV to mold their tastes of music. All these things have been positive influences for the dance music scene.” Hogan notes there’s dance music events in Indy most every night of the week. The Melody Inn and Subterra have cornered Tuesdays, while The Mousetrap and Blu Lounge offer big beats every Thursday (the latter is where Hogan and Larner host their

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long-running Keepin’ it Deep). There are also options for the under-21 crowd. The Grime Time Collective now hosts an all-ages party every Thursday on the south side. And national electro artists like Girl Talk and Identity DJ Skrillex are playing all-ages venues here like the Egyptian Room. “Just the fact that all these shows are going on means that the scene is growing and people want more options when they go clubbing,” Hogan says.

Up and down The Crystal Method were part of the 1990s electronic music surge, when artists like Prodigy and The Chemical Brothers broke through to the mainstream. Their debut, 1997’s Vegas, went platinum. “We always thought our music was more underground,” Jordan says. “Just recently it’s blown up a bit and that’s great. But I think it will always go up and down in popularity.” He’s not personally concerned about any sort of popular backlash though. “We don’t sound like Lady Gaga, so I don’t anyone’s ever going to fully equate electronic music with pop, even though some of the style has been co-opted by pop music,” Jordan says. “We look for little visceral feelings in our sound and rhythms and beats.” Perhaps an important part of The Crystal Method’s appeal is their frequent collaborations with vocal artists, particularly those of the rock persuasion like Metric’s Emily Haines and Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots. “We’ll start working on a track, and if we feel it needs a vocal or some other musician then we start thinking of who might

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be right for it,” Jordan says. Writing scores is now one of the biggest components to The Crystal Method’s artistic venture. Their work his been featured in multiple movies, trailers and video games. “Our music has always lent itself well to that without us trying to do that on purpose,” Jordan says. He remembers the thrill of hearing their track “Busy Child” in a Gap commercial soon after Vegas was released. But Jordan’s never forgotten why he became a DJ in the first place. “There’s nothing better than having a big crowd just going off to your music,” he says of the live setting. He’s seen more of that too, over time. Underground electronic music started with mostly young people in the culture. “Now we’ve got a couple generations coming to these events, so it’s really cool,” Jordan says.

IDENTITY Verizon Wireless Music Center, 12880 E. 146th St., Noblesville Thursday, Aug. 11, 1 p.m., $62.85 (plus fees), all ages HEADLINERS: Kaskade, Steve Aoki, DJ Shadow, Manufactured Superstars, Rusko, Nero, White Shadow ON THE LOCAL STAGE: Topspeed, Kodama vs. Hollowpoint, Action Jackson, Hugh Jeffner, Gabby Love, Clay Collier, A2, Rudy Kizer

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The in sounds from out there Son Lux headlines three-day experimental fest Outsound BY S CO T T H A L L M U S I C@N UV O . N E T If the goal of the inaugural Outsound V.1 music and video festival is to present work that is “weird and new and beautiful,” as one organizer put it, then it has an appropriate headliner in Son Lux. The Manhattan-based artist – an IU music graduate known as Ryan Lott in his day job as a commercial composer – met all three criteria earlier this year with his second album, We Are Rising. The otherworldly song cycle combines contemporary classical composition with digital cutting and pasting to create a sometimes delicate, sometimes imposing synthesis of acoustic and electronic music. And the story behind it is just as unconventional. The album was sparked by a suggestion from National Public Radio’s All Songs Considered music blog, which picked Son Lux as its best new artist of 2008 on the strength of debut album At War with Walls and Mazes. This winter, the editors asked if Lott/Lux would be willing to enter the annual RPM Challenge, in which a New Hampshire-based alternative culture magazine invites musicians to compose and record an entire album during the month of February. Not only that, but the All Songs Considered folks wanted him to document the process online, which he did in text, photos, audio and video that are still available on the site. Lott had already been working in his spare time on a planned Son Lux follow-up album, so initially he saw no possibility of accepting the challenge. “I let the e-mail fester in my inbox for a few days, trying to come up with enough reasons to say no,” he says in an interview. But upon the urging of friends, Lott decided to plunge into the unlikely project, enlisting a broad roster of collaborators to quickly generate the raw material for a new collection of 10 songs, nine of which made the final cut. “It wasn’t a solitary affair. I had lots

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of help and lots of inspiration from my friends and many musicians,” he says. “For that reason, I can stand to hear it, because I’m basically listening to my friends. I love it. Normally, I stew over things so long that by the time it’s released, I’m done with it.” Indeed, Lott spent three or four deliberative and experimental years on his first album. But in the more recent case, he relied on serendipity and the spontaneous contributions of the various players and singers. Chief among them were a versatile New York sextet called yMusic, which specializes in applying its strings, woodwinds and brass in unusual contexts. Lott brought the members into his studio in various combinations to record fragmentary patterns that he sometimes jotted down just before their arrival. “I was just writing stuff from my gut, just raw ideas,” he says. “How those ideas fit together to form a whole piece or a whole song was to be decided later.” After two weeks of tracking live sounds, as well as creating hybrid instrument sounds electronically (“It takes a lot of time and a lot of coffee”), Lott spent the next two weeks manipulating and piecing together those elements to create songs in which rhythm and texture count as much as melody and harmony. Some are set to heavy 4/4 drum beats, others to exotic meters that defy easy grasp. “I sort of compose everything twice,” he says. “I write things kind of traditionally – in fragments, at least, notes on paper with instructions. I captured that stuff (while recording) and in the moment also captured things that I thought of while listening to the musicians bring to life what was on the page. Then I thought of it all as negotiable. “The precise way in which all the parts interlock and come together to form the whole, then, was the second round of composing. And that round was more akin to the production process of hip-hop, more like collages. I’m working with what’s given. In this case I gave it to myself, but I’m working with what’s given to create a new whole.” Atop his beautiful and/or brutal mixes ride vocalizations from guest singers, including Asthmatic Kitty recording artists DM Stith and Shara Worden, along with Lott’s own fragile tenor. His sparse lyrics are sometimes unsettling, as in the ominous “Claws,” which endlessly repeats the phrase “You’ve got your claws in me, don’t you? Understandably, the music has to be adapted for live performance. The Indianapolis show will feature Lott on vocals, keyboards and other electronics, accompanied by fellow New Englanders Jonny Rodgers

An exhibition of new video art and three nights’ worth of local and touring electronic music acts will highlight the inaugural Outsound V.1 experimental media festival. The festival is presented by Big Car arts collective and the Indianapolis Museum of Art, with talent coordinated by Michael Kaufmann, A&R man for Asthmatic Kitty Records and manager of the festival’s centerpiece act, Son Lux. It’s also the first substantial arts event to be staged at Big Car’s Service Center for Contemporary Culture and Community, a former auto shop that

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on guitar and Ryan Fitch (who grew up in Zionsville) on drums. The three can generate a broad spectrum of sound, Lott says. “It’s probably more dynamic than the record,” he says. “You can create a big angry sound, which is really fun, but you can also sustain really simple, small ideas

the grassroots group is transforming into an arts and neighborhood-building hub for the Lafayette Square area. The video work tends toward the abstract and aesthetically driven, rather than traditional narrative. Featured artists include Gala Bent, Zack Bent, Lynn Cazabon, Austin Dickson, Jonathan Dueck, Nadia Hironaka & Matthew Suib, Ryan Irvin, Roberto Lange, Mike Szegedi and Lauren Zoll. The music ranges from ambient and game-influenced electronic sound to compositions with more conventional orchestral and ethnic elements.

longer than you can on a recording.” Opening for Son Lux on Thursday at the Indianapolis Museum of Art is Helado Negro, a vehicle for experimental producer Roberto Carlos Lange, who in May released his second Asthmatic Kitty album, Canta Lechuza.

Wednesday at Service Center 7 p.m., $5, all ages, beer available for 21+ Nathan Monk (Indianapolis) the glitch clique (Indianapolis) dREKKa (Bloomington) Melt-Face (Indianapolis) Thursday at IMA 7 p.m., $12, all ages Son Lux (NYC) Helado Negro (Brooklyn)

Friday at Service Center 7 p.m., $5, all ages, beer available for 21+ Matt Davignon (Oakland, CA) shedding (Louisville) Kristin Miltner (Oakland) DMA (Indianapolis) Additional sound and visuals by Jordan Munson (Indianapolis)

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Wednesday METAL SLAUGHTER SURVIVORS TOUR

Emerson Theater, 4630 E. 10th St. 5:30 p.m., $12, all-ages Kind of a junior varsity tour, and here’s why: Earlier this year, the organizers of the long-running metal festival Summer Slaughter asked its Facebook followers to decide who would fill the tour’s final open slot. Within the Ruins scored the win, but the runners-up in the voting were left with nothing to do for the summer. And they wanted to, you know, slaughter something. Hence, the Slaughter Survivor tour, made up of those bands that didn’t win that Facebook contest, including local metalcore outfit The Contortionist and five other acts, some of which have a little better critical reputation than acts playing the varsity tour — Conducting from the Grave, Scale the Summit, Rings of Saturn, Volumes and Structures.

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Thursday EDM IDENTITY FESTIVAL

Verizon Wireless Music Center, 12880 E. 146th St. 1-11 p.m., $62.85-$426 (plus fees), all-ages See feature, pg. 31.

EXPERIMENTAL SON LUX, HELADO NEGRO

Indianapolis Museum of Art, 4000 Michigan Road 7 p.m., $12 ($8 for members), all-ages Part of the Outsound festival, about which you can read more on pg. 32.

ROCKABILLY ART ADAMS, DAVY JAY SPARROW AND HIS WELL-KNOWN DROVERS

White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect St. 8 p.m., $8, 21+ Elders and youngsters meet on common ground, with rockabilly hall-of-famer Art Adams being joined by the Bloomington-based Davy Jay Sparrow and His Well-Known Drovers.

Friday SOUL BILAL

Madame Walker Theatre, 617 Indiana Ave. 9 p.m., $25-$40, all-ages A member of the now-inactive Soulquarians collective along with Common, Erykah Badu, Mos Def, ?uestlove, among others, the Philadelphia-based soul vocalist Bilal has never quite broken though to the mainstream, but not for want of talent. Much like the Nappy Roots (see below), Bilal had a less

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than productive stint in major label-world, seeing his second album (Love for Sale, easily available online) shelved after Interscope thought the fact that it had been leaked had fatally compromised its commercial viability. But maybe his stuff is best produced for a smaller audience, who can appreciate his take on soul (simultaneously forward- and backward-looking) and intense honesty (he pours out his heart on his most recent record, Airtight’s Revenge, a stylistically airtight but lyrically confessional work). Certainly, his octave-spanning, angular, expressive voice remains one of the best in R&B or soul. The kick-off concert for the Madame Walker Theatre’s 2011-12 season.

HIP-HOP NAPPY ROOTS

The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave. 9 p.m., $12, 21+ In the past decade, Nappy Roots, once a multiplatinum-selling group, has established itself as an independent act, releasing stuff on a house label (N.R.E.G., or Nappy Roots Entertainment Group) and adjusting to a mixtape-based style of distribution and marketing. Through the changes, the Louisville-based hip-hop group has remained true to a dictum from a recent song, “Live & Die”: “Ain’t nothing wrong with being smart, black and proud.”

HARD ROCK DEF LEPPARD, HEART

Verizon Wireless Music Center, 12880 E. 146th St., Noblesville 7:30 p.m., $25-$125 (plus fees), all-ages Take a gander at their discography and you might be surprised to see that Def Leppard, the hard-touring British hard rock band, has pretty much maintained the same cadence for album releases, one every three or four years since 1980. Granted, the ‘00s were a little dry, though the covers record Yeah! was surprisingly laid-back and loose.

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VOCALS LUCY WOODWARD

White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect St. 8 p.m., $8 advance (mokbpresents.com), $10 door, 21+ The NYC-via-Amsterdam vocalist Lucy Woodward grew up on the job, starting out life with an alt-rock singer-songwriter record on Atlantic (2003’s While You Can) that had her competing with folks like Michelle Branch Nelly Furtado, then re-tooling her act to embrace a retro-pop vibe fully realized on 2010’s Hooked, her debut on Verve. Her clean and bright voice worked well for both genres, though her newer stuff is, well, better, being poised somewhere between the movie musical jazz of Pink Martini and the neo-R&B of Duffy.

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Saturday COUNTRY SUGARLAND, SARA BAREILLES

Indiana State Fairgrounds, 1202 E. 38th St. 7:30 p.m., $35-$60 (plus fees), all-ages 2010 CMA vocal duo of the year embraced the steampunk phenomenon on their latest record, The Incredible Machine, the cover of which features the band’s name festooned with all manner of late-19th century doo-dads and gears. The record itself has a Frankenstein’s monster feel, with early ‘80s synths, big drums and gestures towards U2 and OMD processed through the Nashville mainstream country machine. A crossover attempt, though Sugarland seemed to be doing just fine sticking with country. With the rather more critically-respected Sara Bareilles, whose piano-based pop seems effortlessly big, graceful and well-crafted.

HIP-HOP LIL’ WAYNE

Verizon Wireless Music Center, 12880 E. 146th St., Noblesville 7 p.m., $29.75-$89.75 (plus fees), all-ages Child star turned legitimate artist turned felon Lil’ Wayne hit the road right after his November 2010 release from prison. Even while incarcerated, Wayne was still on the charts; his September 2010 minialbum I Am Not a Human Being was inconsistent but still impressive, featuring the breezy single “Right Above It,” a track simultaneously inspired by STDs and sci-fi, “Gonorrhea,” and collaborations with Nicki Minaj and Drake. His next full-length, Tha Carter IV, is due in late August, having been delayed since April; three singles from the record (“6 Foot 7 Foot,” the Rick Ross collab “John” and the extra-sweet “How to Love”) have already found their way to the listening public. With Miami’s 300-pound gangster rapper Rick Ross, L.A. electro-hop outfit Far East Movement and R&B vocalists Lloyd and Keri Hilson.

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Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St. 8 p.m., $6 advance, $8 door, 21+ It’s a good week for a benefit for the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, which was recently in the news for offering free copies of Slaughterhouse-Five to students whose high school library had banned the book, having found it to be anti-American and anti-Christian and whatnot. The library is asking for direct donations via its website to pay for the books. This benefit, which will feature emcee Oreo Jones, too-sexy band Beta Male, roots-ish rockers jascha, and Muncie rock band The Bonesetters, will collect funds to go towards to library’s overall cause, namely

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THE REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND Peyton on Patton Side One Dummy

e In the beginning there was Charley Patton, at least according Rev. Josh Peyton. Promo materials penned by Peyton for his tribute to the Delta bluesman, Peyton on Patton, start off with a fairly bold claim — “Patton might be the single most important figure in 20th-century American music” — and then move from there, noting that Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and Robert Johnson wouldn’t have done the work that they did but for Patton, and that Peyton himself probably woudn’t have started playing country blues if he hadn’t run across Patton’s records. Peyton’s not alone in feeling that way: Robert Palmer and Greil Marcus have detailed Patton’s influence on American music; R. Crumb devoted one of his music comics to the story. Peyton says that only now does he feel confident to pay tribute to Patton, and he’s done so by recording 11 of bluesman’s songs in much the same conditions as Patton originally recorded them: in mono, before a single mic, without much in the

way of accompaniment beyond a single guitar, though singer/washboardist Washboard Breezy and percussionist Aaron Persinger do contribute to a couple songs. This is, thus, a Big Damn Band album, although Peyton is certainly the star of the show — Breezy’s contributions are limited to background vocals and washboard on a few tracks, and Persinger ends up beating out nearly undetectable rhythms on a tobacco barrel. It’s not for me to say, exactly, but I think Peyton does right by Patton. For one thing, it’s easier to make out Patton’s lyrics when Peyton sings them; Patton’s vocals were legendarily slurred, and, as Crumb points out, are somewhere between difficult and impossible to make out. Not to mention that this could bring Patton’s work to a new generation, including a few of Peyton’s youthful fans who may not listen to much classic blues, being as its largely the province of neurotic collectors like Crumb. And Peyton is certainly qualified to make this record: His guitarwork, front and center here, is outstanding, and he sounds like he knows these songs front and back, having chosen wisely from Patton’s catalogue of some 60 songs originally recorded between 1929 and 1934. Religious numbers on the record include “You’re Gonna Need Somebody,” which includes a spoken-word section that sees the Rev. preaching in a charmingly breathless and Apocalyptic tone, and three versions of “Some of These Days I’ll Be Gone,” all of them successful in their own right. And a couple party songs stand out: “A Spoonful Blues,” a stomper in line with the Big Damn Band’s own songs that features Breezy in the role of Patton’s lady friend Bertha Lee; and “Shake it and Break It,” which numbers all the things one might do with a jelly roll. —SCOTT SHOGER

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w Muse, who recently came to town, are rightfully considered one of the top live acts performing today. My Morning Jacket deserves to be in that conversation too. The five-piece rock band gave a sprawling yet concise concert Sunday at The Lawn. Despite the heat and a set the night before at Lollapalooza in Chicago, the group conveyed passion and energy throughout. Head-banging his considerable mop of hair all evening, lead singer Jim James could easily front a metal band. It probably helped that MMJ lead guitarist Carl Broemel is originally from Indianapolis. Broemel, who’s found his niche in My Morning Jacket, split duties between guitar, lap steel and saxophone during the show. He helped take the reggae rock of “Off the Record” into spectral territory with some howling leads early on and took on lead vocals for the high plains country of “Carried Away,” some of his fin-

est guitar work on the night. Other highlights included “Mahgeetah,” a Beach Boys-sounding gem with loud, snarling guitars. Some arpeggioed metal licks from James only added to the fervor. The cavernous and psychedelic “Dondante” was easily the fiercest jam of the night, a continual slow build of unpredictability with one cadence after the next. Broemel finally finished it with a night-cutting sax line. Fans certainly got their money’s worth from the two-and-a-half hour set. Given the stifling August heat, it was probably a bit of an endurance run for some attendees. There were no complaints from the band, though, so fans seemed to follow their lead. Opening act Neko Case wasn’t so lucky in that regard. The sun was at full shine during her 45-minute performance. “It’s hot, just go with it,” Case seemed to say as much to herself as to the crowd. “Good thing I don’t have balls.” She and her band, which included banjo and standup bass, soldiered through with a fine mix of low-key country and gothic balladry, her honeyed voice soaring through the swelter. —WADE COGGESHALL

REVIEWS THE HEAD AND THE HEART

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Vocalist Josiah Johnson and drummer Tyler Williams perform at the Earth House Friday night.

Seattle-based The Head and The Heart returned to Indianapolis Friday, just two short months after opening for Iron & Wine at the Vogue in early June. The folk-rock band was originally scheduled to open for The Decemberists, but that group’s lead singer cancelled the show to rest his vocal chords. The contrast between the The Head and The Heart as an opening band and headliner was stark. Back in June, their opening set for Iron & Wine was subdued and subtle, with heavy emphasis on their string and piano work. As the main event the band unleashed an intense, percussion-forward show that had the floorboards shaking inside the packed and sweaty Earth House. The show began to crescendo with “Winter Song,” on which violinist and only female band member Charity Thielin took the vocal lead to thunderous crowd approval. They followed that up with the obvious crowd favorite “Lost in My Mind,” a fast-strummed tune about introspection and dropping out of reality (“Put your dreams away for now/I won’t see you for

some time/I am lost in my mind”). Another highlight of the show was the group’s signature song “Rivers and Roads,” on which Thielin got to light up the stage with her heart-piercingly bittersweet vocals while the group played hard on the beats, jumping and stomping it out much to the approval of the crowd. Despite this group’s obvious talent and chemistry — both between themselves and their fans — there is a certain run-of-themill “I’ve heard this before” kind of quality about them. They sing about pastoral scenes, breakups, and the simple times of childhood with deeply concentrated emotion, but so do a lot of other folk groups, and with a lot richer lyrics. Thielin, for one thing, is vastly under-utililized. For a group that includes five hipster boys with beards, you’d think they’d want to put someone of Thielin’s attention-getting capacity —and talent — at center stage a bit more often than they do.

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BRIGHT EYES, THE MOUNTAIN GOATS

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Bright Eyes singer Conor Oberst at the Egyptian Room Aug 14.

Conor Oberst is a bit of a ham. Not in a bad way, necessarily. We already knew the Bright Eyes singer for his quivering, emotive voice, perched just on the edge of a breakdown in much the same way as Italian opera singers of the early 20th century sounded like they were perennially on the cusp of tears. But there’s more in the way of melodrama at the live show: at the first-ever Indianapolis performance by Bright Eyes (at least according to Oberst), Oberst acted

out some of his lyrics, cinching his fingers and covering his eyes to match the lyric “The crowd was small and mostly blind” from “Approximated Sunlight,” for instance, along with other charades-style gestures. And he closed Thursday night’s two-anda-half hour concert at the Egyptian Room by introducing each member of the sevenpiece band to a funk soundtrack and delivering a short sermon along the lines of “Fuck the government and love each other” to the modest but enthusiastic crowd. CONTINUED ON PAGE 38

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It might have been an overlong show for the unconverted, but one figures that there was a satisfying mix of sing-a-long favorites and new stuff for those already loyal to Oberst and his nearly two-decade old project. Oberst has written his share of list songs about the decline of America and, I guess, the world at this point, many of which made their way to the latest Bright Eyes record, The People’s Key. From that album, “Haile Selassie” and “Shell Games” both earned inspired readings Thursday night. But it’s songs like “Lua” and “Bowl of Oranges” (about seeing the world anew, as if in a dream but not) that seem the most emotionally affecting in the end, chronicling as they do a particular post-adolescent mixed-up period when one’s dream world and real life are nigh indistinguishable, and the world doesn’t seem to extend beyond

MUSE, CAGE THE ELEPHANT

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q The weak economy has scaled a lot of things down for a lot of people. Not for Muse. The English rock band pulled out all the stops for a performance Wednesday at Verizon Wireless Music Center that included eye-popping visuals, high-energy performing and a streamlined sound. It was everything an arena rock show should be, but hasn’t been for a while. Some might call it excessive. True, classical piano interludes that would put Queen to shame and Zeppelin and AC/ DC riffing between songs would likely strike some as over the top. Plenty of others consider that preferable to bands with shoegazing lead vocalists or ones who prattle on between songs. Muse kept it tight and invigorated throughout their 17-song set. Given the myriad styles that inform their sound, it would be nearly impossible for them not to craft a dynamic set list. It ranged from the grinding “Stockholm Syndrome” to the churchy organ and thunderous beats of the slow-burning “Guiding Light” (during the performance of which a marriage proposal

one’s own struggles and circle of friends. John Darnielle, whose band The Mountain Goats opened the show, shares some similarities with Oberst: both have singing voices that ooze neuroticism; one often finds bloody sci-fi or horror touches in their work; both started out as low-fi singersongwriters before expanding their projects into a full band. Darnielle, though, seems to have gone through more shit than Oberst. His work chronicles, in hyper-realistic detail, child abuse at the hands of a father-as-lion, drug abuse and its attendant squalor, divorce and its attendant humiliation. Darnielle piles on the details when he tells these stories, placing his narratives in a specific place and time, bringing the listener back to the scene of the crime. —SCOTT SHOGER

was made, according to message boards). In between were epic amalgamations like the bluesy bass-driven “Supermassive Black Hole” (featuring a falsetto lead vocal by Matthew Bellamy), the Queen-like opera of “United States of Eurasia” and the futuristic “Undisclosed Desires” with Bellamy on keytar. There was as much to look at as hear. Hexagonal screens alternated between heavily digitized footage of the band and crowd, as well as assorted graphics and imagery. Laser lights assaulted the audience on such tracks as the pop-rock masterpiece “Starlight.” There were even fog machines and giant eyeball balloons full of confetti adding to the carnival atmosphere. Just the fact that Muse played “Uprising,” perhaps their biggest stateside hit, second in the show proves their performing chutzpah. It wasn’t a sellout. Let’s hope they come back. They’re called by many as the greatest current live band for a reason. Cage the Elephant offered a frenzied opening set. Singer Matthew Shultz probably gave more effort than the sun-dazed crowd deserved, jumping into the audience during the Bowling Green band’s biggest hit, “Ain’t No Rest For the Wicked,” and tackling his guitarist brother Brad at the end of the chaotic number “Sabertooth Tiger.” —WADE COGGESHALL

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Or the Rise and Fall of Cardhalla BY SARA BALD W I N P HO TO S BY KRIS ARNOLD EDITO RS@ N UVO.NET Taking those first steps into the Indiana Convention Center during Gen Con, I always get the feeling I’ll need a second pair of eyeballs just to observe it all. I’d

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FEATURE night, were auctioned off for charity. This year’s first throw went for $1,300 (up from $600 last year), and the second one for $450. The change that was thrown amassed to $1200. Both the throws and coin money went to School on Wheels, an organization that gives educational aid and school supplies to underprivileged children. The clean-up afterwards was finished in just a little over 30 minutes. “We have an army of slave labor — I mean volunteer workers,” said one volunteer. Of course, laborers don’t have to be forced to help out — anyone who helps clean up can keep whatever cards they want. Rather than allowing his hand-crafted firebreathing dragon to be destroyed by ruthless coin tossers, one artist, Juan Martinez, is selling it in the Gen Con Auction, the largest game auction in the world. Martinez sold his 2010 card castle, modeled after a scorpion, for $150 and a twinkie. No joke. Jeffrey Hammerlund, Gen Con’s Auction Organizer since 2007 and a gamer since the ‘60s, saw me photographing and made it his personal duty to show me around. He informed me that last year they raised $27,000 auctioning off anything and everything that relates to the gaming world. Hammerlund said he even auctioned off a hug from his niece, a “goth model” for $35 last year. “We’re going to sell another one from her this year,” he said. GenCon provides 96 hours of activity without halt. There’s never an unscheduled moment during the 4-day convention, and gamers could subsist on concession foods for the whole weekend without ceasing their play. But for those who feel the need to unstrap their Rock Band guitar and get some real grub, nearby restaurants like the RAM provide a special Gen Con menu. With returning appetizer items such as the “Pyre Troll Tenders” (wings), “Battle Mage BBQ Quesadilla” and “Retribution Nachos”, the RAM is a great place to grab a beer (I tried the Primal Porter: delicious) and sit down for some grub without leaving the comfort of the gamer world. This is where I met Jeff VanVlymen, resi-

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dent of Greenwood and Gen Con veteran, who was kind enough to offer me a seat at his table in the crowded bar section. VanVlymen has been coming to GenCon since its earlier days in Lake Geneva, when the crowd was much smaller and less diverse. “I used to go when it was 2,000 guys and one woman the size of a house who was more popular than Pamela Anderson,” VanVlymen joked. As Cosplay, an Anime and Mangainspired of costumed performance art, has become more popular, more and more females have started showing up for Gen Con, according to VanVlymen. However, he says that the gaming convention remains the “mecca of geekdom.” “The city loves this convention because it has the largest number of people and the fewest arrests, “ VanVlymen said. “People are here to have fun, and that’s what makes Gen Con different than most conventions.”

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Plus, from banking consultant to witch doctor • A More Reputable Career: Thomas Heathfield was a well-paid banking consultant with a promising career in Maidenhead, England, but gave it up this year to move to South Africa and endure rigorous training as a “sangoma” (“witch doctor”). After five months of studying siSwati language, sleeping in the bush, hunting for animal parts, vomiting up goats’ blood and learning native dances, Heathfield, 32, was given a new name, Gogo Mndawe, and is now qualified to read bones and prescribe herbal cures (among the skills expected of sangomas by the roughly 50 percent of South Africa’s population that reveres them). He admitted concern about his acceptance as a white man calling out African spirits, “but when (the people) see (me) dance, perhaps those questions go away.”

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• The Talented Mr. Zhou: Zhou Xin, 68, failed to get a callback from the judges for the “China’s Got Talent” TV reality show in June, according to a CNN report (after judge Annie Yi screamed in horror at his act). Zhou is a practitioner of one of the “72 Shaolin skills,” namely “iron crotch gong,” and for his “talent,” he stoically whacked himself in the testicles with a weight and then with a hammer. • The elegant, expansive, gleaming new glass-andconcrete indoor stairway at the Common Pleas Courthouse in Columbus, Ohio, opened recently, to mostly rave reviews for its sense of space and light, creating the feeling of walking suspended on air. However, as Judge Julie Lynch and other women soon discovered, the glass partitions at each step make it easy for perverts to gawk from underneath at dress-wearing women using the stairs. “(Y)ou’re on notice,” Judge Lynch warned her sister dress-wearers, “that you might want to take the elevator.” • Pablo Borgen has apparently been living without neighbors’ complaints in Lakeland, Fla., despite general knowledge that he is, according to sheriff’s officials, one of the area’s major heroin traffickers, bringing in tens of thousands of dollars a month. Following a drug sting in June, however, neighbors

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Where do you want to be at this time next year? What do you want to be doing? I encourage you to fantasize and scheme about these questions, and be alert for clues about possible prospects. Here’s my reasoning, Libra: Some foreshadowings of your future life may soon float into view, including a far-off whisper or a glimpse of the horizon that will awaken some of your dormant yearnings. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that these visions must be acted upon instantly. Instead, ruminate leisurely on them, regarding them as the early hints of potential longrange developments. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Let’s say, hypothetically speaking, that you can’t get The Most Beautiful Thing. It’s out of reach forever. You simply don’t have the connections or wherewithal to bring it into your life. Could you accept that disappointment with a full heart, and move on? Would you be able to forgive life for not providing you with your number one heart’s desire, and then make your way into the future with no hard feelings? If so, Scorpio, I bet you would be well-primed to cultivate a relationship with The Second Most Beautiful Thing. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): What images would be most helpful for you to fill your imagination up with? What scenes would heal and activate your subconscious mind, inspiring you in just the right ways? I invite you to make a list of at least five of these, and then visualize them often in the coming days. Here are a few possibilities to get you warmed up: peach trees filled with ripe fruit; the planet Jupiter as seen through a powerful telescope; a magnificent suspension bridge at dawn or dusk; a large chorus animatedly singing a song you love; the blissful face of a person you love. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Scientists have proved beyond a doubt that heavenly bodies cannot possibly exert forces that affect events on earth, right? Well, no, actually, according to research reported in the December 24, 2009 edition of the science journal Nature. It turns out that the gravitational tug of the sun and moon sends significant tremors through California’s San Andreas Fault, and could potentially trigger full-blown earthquakes. Speaking as a poet, not a scientist, I speculate that those two luminaries, the sun and moon, may also generate a lurching but medicinal effect on you sometime soon. Are you ready for a healing jolt? It will relieve the tension that has been building up between two of your “tectonic plates.” AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Follow your dreams,” read the headline on some random blog I stumbled upon, “except for the one in which you’re giving a speech in your underwear.” In the comments section, someone named “Mystic Fool” had posted a dissenting view: “I would much rather have a dream of giving a speech in my underwear than of being naked and drunk and inarticulate at a cocktail party, trying to hide behind the furniture.” Mystic Fool’s attitude would serve you well in the coming week, Aquarius. Expressing yourself in a public way, even if you don’t feel fully prepared, will actually be a pretty good course of action -- especially as compared to keeping silent and hiding. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Some substances that seem to be rock solid are in fact fluids that move verrrryyy slowly. Bitumen is one example. It’s a form of petroleum also known as pitch. In a famous experiment, an Australian researcher set up an apparatus that allowed a blob of pitch to gradually drip into a container below it. Since the experiment began in 1927, eight drops have fallen. I like to think you’re engaged in a similar long-term process, Pisces. And from what I can tell, a new drop is about to drip.

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