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had a fascinating conversation with a young man about the two national conventions. This college student described the two gatherings in Cleveland and Philadelphia accurately, but viewed through the eyes of someone really paying attention for the first time. He described the differences between the campaigns as “being like high school.” It seems to him that the issues at hand have been reduced to a low-quality popularity contest where the debate among voters is almost exclusively cosmetic and void of substance. The description he gave of the conventions was generically just like mine: The Republicans seem scared and angry, and the Democrats seem full of hope. He didn’t say who was getting his vote, but he did say who is scarier to him. I remember my first presidential election. It was then Vice President George H.W. Bush versus then Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis in 1988. I also remember two things President Bush said during that campaign. The first one was “read my lips, no new taxes.” I didn’t have any money back then so this bit was no sales pitch directed at me. But the second one came from his speech at the RNC when he accepted his party’s nomination. He said, “There is such a thing as reliable love. Some would say it is soft or insufficiently tough to care about these things. But where is it written that we must act as if we do not care, as if we are not moved? Well I am moved. I want a kinder, gentler nation.” Whoa. I didn’t vote for him. But I see him differently now than I did back
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then. He didn’t need my vote, though that first presidential vote of mine is the only one I have cast that may have been wrong for me. Things were easier for me and my pals back then. We weren’t arguing about what was in the latest email scandal, for an obvious reason. We also weren’t pondering whether or not it was ok to admire the “leader” of Russia. In 1988, that treasonous act would have easily disqualified any candidate. That year, I was a senior in college and wasn’t sure how I was going to pay the final bills. President Reagan had inconveniently “reformed” the college financial aid structure during his tenure, and his V.P. suffered the consequences with me when I voted. Neither candidate scared me though. Neither of them hid from who they were or what Americans should expect from their presidency. Gov. Dukakis proudly acknowledged his membership in the American Civil Liberties Union, and proclaimed he was a “liberal,” going on to say it shouldn’t be a dirty word. This is the America I know. I will always compare the politics of today to the politics I first learned. Most of us will. I am not one of those people who miss the
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good old days very often, but this election season is one of those times. What will the young people of today miss? They won’t think of the first woman nominee or president the way my generation does. An AfricanAmerican president is already normal to them. And these are things that make today so much better than yesterday. But unless some things are soundly rejected this year, the normalcy of them could take hold. The Hillary Clinton campaign commercial titled “your children are watching” had a profound effect on me. Not just because it blasts the candidate least suitable to serve, but it puts into perspective what the American public has allowed to become acceptable of a presidential nominee. To my Republican friends who once
knew better than to support the fledgling fascist their party just nominated: Losing this year is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing would be that your guy wins, and that performances like his become status quo. Smart Republicans know this much. More importantly to me today though is that the young man I mentioned happens to be my son. I am happy he doesn’t think the political success of Obama or Clinton is odd. That actually is progress. I hope his memory of this election is the clear rejection of its tone. And our first time voters need to look back on this election proudly because it was the last election like this, instead of the first. Son, meet America. You two have plenty to talk about. n NUVO // 100% SUSTAINABLE / RECYCLED PAPER // 08.10.16 - 08.17.16 // VOICES 7
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Indiana scores poorly in support for families report A state-by-state analysis by the National Partnership for Women and Families gives the Indiana a D-minus for workplace protections such as family leave. Erin Macey, a policy analyst for the Indiana Institute for Working Families, says 72 percent of Indiana’s children live in a home where all the adults are working, so paid time off is crucial, especially for lower-income residents. “Paid family and medical leave would allow parents to be home with their children at that critical time when they can initiate breast feeding, when they need to be looking for high quality child care, and we have research that shows that this kind of support allows them to do that,” she states. A bill has been put together in Indiana that would set up a program so employees could hold back a small amount from their paychecks to go into a medical leave fund. That could be used when a child is born, or as paid time off to care for aging family members. Macey expects it to be introduced in the 2017 legislative session. This month marks the 23rd anniversary of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act, which created unpaid leave for a new parent or for a medical emergency. According to Vicki Shabo, vice president of the National Partnership for Women and Families, some states have enacted measures that improve upon the federal statutes, but Indiana isn’t on that list. “A host of states, more than half, have done very little or nothing to improve the experiences and the supports that working families have at the time when a new child joins their family,” she points out. Twelve states were given grades of F for failing to enact any additional workplace policies to help families. Around the world, 183 countries guarantee paid maternity leave, and 79 have paid leave for fathers as well. Shabo says the evidence shows that enacting a national paid family leave program would benefit everyone. “It would boost our GDP, it would boost women’s labor force participation, it would create greater gender equality and it would reduce economic inequality, as well as difference in opportunities for children and children’s health going forward,” she states. — INDIANA NEWS SERVICE
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ndianapolis is a great place to live. NBC News recently listed Indianapolis as the best city for millennials because of the job market and a low cost of living. And two months ago Forbes listed Indianapolis as one of the best places for young professionals. It has taken a long time for Indianapolis to get to the position that it is in compared to other major metropolitan cities. One organization that celebrates 100 years this year can take a lot of credit for Indianapolis being what it is today. In 1916, a group of business professionals in Indianapolis decided to run with an idea that began in Cleveland. They decided to invest and plan for the future of the capital city and its citizens. That was the beginning of the Indianapolis Foundation. The purpose of the Indianapolis Foundation from its very beginning was to make Marion County a better place to live. According to the website the foundation exists for three reasons — to improve the quality of life for Marion County; to provide support where the need is greatest and the benefits are most extensive; and to give donors a ve-
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hicle to see their gifts in the best possible way in the present, as well as the future. “There is a very strong tradition of supporting our basic needs in health and human services first and foremost,” says Brian Payne, President and CEO of the Central Indiana Community Foundation. “We were the first organizational donor for Second Helpings,” says Payne. “Second Helpings was just an idea and we were the first kind of donor of any size to support Second Helpings. And we’re a big supporter of theirs and Gleaners Food bank and other food banks.” Other services supported by non-profit organizations — homeless shelters, domestic violence programs, education, healthcare and other basic needs — are also funded with help from the foundation. The Indianapolis Foundation has supported initiatives to help Indianapolis become a better city through beauty and nature by supporting projects like the Cultural Trail and the development of the various art districts. For 100 years, the Indianapolis Foundation has collected and invested donated funds for the sole purpose of giving that money back to the community. “The Indianapolis Foundation has actually been a progressive thinker about quality of life for the people of Indianapolis for 100 years.”
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The Indianapolis Foundation has inspired the creation of other foundations and grant-making funds. With the help of the Lilly Endowment, every county in the state now has a foundation. In 1997, the Central Indiana Community Foundation (CICF) was formed as the administrator of the Indianapolis Foundation and the Legacy Fund of Hamilton County along with several smaller focus funds and family funds. Each fund is managed and administered individually with its own board for decision-making. “CICF and its affiliates have hundreds of funds, and each fund has its own purpose, its own decision-makers, its own process of decision-making,” says Payne. “CICF kind of coordinates that and manages that for the donors. The Indianapolis Foundation is our largest individual fund at about $130 million and its own board gives away that money.” One hundred years is a milestone for any entity and is a call for celebration. The Indianapolis Foundation plans to celebrate in a way that is true to its core — by enhancing the local quality of life and giving money away. A Lights festival designed to illuminate downtown Indianapolis will kick off later this month. In the middle of the festival, CICF will host a gala filled with a “100” theme.
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“We’re going to have this fun gala and the program is really built around celebrating programs the Indianapolis foundation has supported for years, some for 100 years,” said Payne. “What we are going to do is we are going to give ten $100,000 gifts away that night.” The Indianapolis Foundation has been setting money aside in a special fund over the last five ears or so for just such an occasion. Ten organizations will receive $100,000 to use without having to go through the grant proposal process. “This really is extra money that’s going to hit this community and our notfor-profits beyond their normal grant budget,” said Payne.
funds will be worth $100 million dollars and we’ll put them into action 100 years from now,” said Payne. “And we’ll celebrate 100 years from now all the people who gave that money.” As for the immediate future, Payne says there is plenty to do to continually increase the quality of life standards in Indianapolis. The foundation is already five years in to a 10-year plan to bring attention to the city’s waterways with the Lilly Foundation and Keep Indianapolis Beautiful. “Little Eagle Creek, Fall Creek, Pogue’s Run, the White River, Pleasant Run, all of these waterways which actually are beautiful, but we’ve done a bad job as a city for 100 years or more dumping industrial and human waste into our rivers and waterways, or streams and For 100 years, the Indianapolis creeks,” said Payne. “Those are getting cleaned up and there’s Foundation has collected and an opportunity to make the invested donated funds for waterways really an awesome natural and creative asset.” the sole purpose of giving that Regardless of what the future holds, Payne says the Indianapmoney back to the community olis Foundation will continue to work on the city’s behalf in finding more and more ways to Planning for the next 100 years is also make Indy a great place to live. a part of the celebration this year. Two “There will always be new ideas,” said funds have been created and dubbed Payne. “If we stop to celebrate, in five the Ben Franklin funds, designed to raise years we would be behind the rest of $100,000 each. One fund will have 1000 the cities we have past over the last 15 people donate $100 each while the other years with all of our great development fund will raise $1,000 each from 100 peoaround arts and cultures and beauty. ple. The funds won’t be touched for 100 Everyone’s trying to get better and as years, allowing them to grow over time. things change and you have got to keep “If we can average 7.2 percent investup with the times, so your work’s never ment return over 100 years, each of those really done.” n NUVO // 100% SUSTAINABLE / RECYCLED PAPER // 08.10.16 - 08.17.16 // NEWS 9
AGAINST ALL ODDS CRISPUS ATTUCKS CHAMPIONS HONORED — FINALLY — DECADES LATER EDITOR’S NOTE:
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he 1954-55 Crispus Attucks Tigers were the first Black team in the state — and the first Black team in the nation — to win a state championship. The team overcame adversaries at every turn: from having teams refuse to play them, to the city relocating their winning celebrations to predominantly Black neighborhoods, to not being truly honored until almost 50 years later.
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There is more print, film, discussion and debate about Crispus Attucks High School and its history now than in the glory days of its state championship basketball teams led by Oscar Robertson (All-American, All-Pro, alltime basketball great) and the all-star faculty of that era, which boasted more Ph.Ds and M.A.s than any other high school in the city. Not only the team, but the influence of the school and its outstanding graduates in medicine, law, academia, politics and the military — as well as its famous basketball players and musicians — will have their stories told in the upcoming 90-minute documentary by Ted Green, Attucks: The School that Opened a City. That film will have a premiere screening on August 18 at the Madame Walker Theatre, and then broadcast on WFYI. In the meantime, the 2007 documentary by Betsy Blankenbaker on the Attucks state championship teams, called Something to Cheer About, helps settle some continuing questions. In Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana, published jointly last fall by The Indiana University Press and The Indiana Historical Society, the eminent Indiana historian James H. Madison, writes that: “. . .Oscar Robertson, the greatest Hoosier player of the decade (perhaps of all time) remained convinced that the City had rerouted the Attucks victory parade to keep Black fans from celebrating Downtown.” After winning the same championship the team was denied the same celebrations that have been a milestone tradition of Indiana basketball.
The Downtown parade that wasn’t The reason Robertson “remained convinced” is because that’s what happened. The event is recorded on film in Blankenbaker’s documentary. The bonfire and celebration in Northwestern Park in the Black neighborhood of the city is shown on the film, and not only
Robertson and his teammates speak about the event on camera. Ray Crowe, the legendary Attucks coach who guided the school’s basketball teams to three state championships during his seven-year tenure, and later was elected to the State House of Representatives, gives his own testimony in the film: “They tell me they had extra police watching our section and all, and when we left the [Butler] Fieldhouse and all, because they thought we’d be disorderly, and tear up the Fieldhouse and the town. They took us Downtown, around the Circle — Downtown and then out to Northwestern Park, it was called then, and had a big bonfire and to celebrate out there. Northwestern Park is in a Black neighborhood, I guess that was part of the feeling whites had, ‘Let them do their own thing in their own neighborhood.’” The background was explained in another new book called Hoosiers, to
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be published this fall (also by Indiana University Press) with the subtitle The Fabulous Basketball Life of Indiana by Phillip M. Hoose. Like the author of the other Hoosiers, Hoose is something of a historian himself, having won the National Book Award for his Claudette Colvin: Two Trials to Justice. A graduate of Speedway High School and I.U., Hoose gives the background of the Attucks parade to the Black neighborhood park: “ ‘The week before the Finals, I got called into the Indianapolis school superintendent’s office,’ Attucks Principal Dr. Russell A. Lane later recalled. ‘There were representatives from the mayor’s office and from the police and fire departments. The mayor’s man said ‘Well, looks like your boys are going to
win next week.’ I said “We think so.’ He said ‘We’re afraid if they do, your people will break up the city and tear down all the lampposts.’ I said ‘There will not be one incident.’” Bob Collins of The Indianapolis Star was the first white sports writer to recognize the greatness of the Attucks team, while some others could not abide the idea of “players with ‘jumping jack legs’” (as Jep Cadou, then-sports editor of The Indianapolis Star once wrote) nor could the readers, who demanded Collins be fired, called him a Communist, and drove by his house at night honking horns and yelling racial epithets. Oscar Robertson told Zak Keefer of The Star last year “People really resented him [Collins] for writing about us. I can’t tell you in a few words how much he meant to our team at that time.” “That parade was the shame of the city,” Collins later told Hoose. It remains a sensitive subject. Someone told me they had thought Murray Clark, nephew of Alex Clark, who was mayor at the time of the Attucks championship, had written an oped piece about the parade. Kelly Eskew, a professor of Business Ethics at Indiana University — and author of a perceptive M.A. thesis on Indiana basketball — asked her friend Clark, a nephew of Alex, if he recalled writing such a piece. Murray Clark responded in an email to Eskew that “... Alex Clark judged a man not by the color of his skin but by his character. Alex ...was an intelligence officer in Patton’s 3rd Army. He was shot twice, captured once ...He won a Purple Heart, Silver Star, and 2 Bronze stars ...He was a great man. He is the prototype of the Greatest Generation Tom Brokaw wrote about.” I have no reason to doubt a single word of that. Mr. Clark goes on to say that, “The story perpetuated by Mr. Robertson over the years seems to have developed a life of its own. I suspect it began when Mr. Robertson, underS E E , CRISPUS A TTUCKS, O N PA GE 1 4
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Perhaps some future New History of Indiana will note that the Attucks was not only the first Indianapolis School to win a state basketball championship, it was the first Black high school in the U.S. to win a state championship.
terviews with a number of people who lived here in that era, including myself, were edited around particular subjects. In one section people who had been in high school at the time were asked what it was like for them going Downtown. I said my friends and I loved to go Downtown when we were in high school; the next cut was Oscar Robertson saying “We were afraid to go Downtown.” I didn’t know that. It didn’t occur to me or my friends, though we thought of ourselves as “broad-minded” (we weren’t familiar with the term “liberal.”)
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standably and justifiably, remarked about the prejudice of the day. The fact that Alex over time has become a part of the tale is not right. Can I say the story is inaccurate? I wasn’t alive then nor do I recall ever talking to Alex about it. My dad thinks it is bunk.” That is the “counterstory” that perhaps Prof. Madison heard. One subdivision of the counterstory is that no one from the mayor’s office was at the meeting when the Attucks principal was called in
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to inform him of the parade route. It seems hard to imagine that a decision of that political magnitude was made without the mayor’s knowledge. But why is it so shocking to think that anyone in the all-white city government of the 1950s made such a decision? During that era, Blacks were not allowed to eat Downtown, nor go to a movie Downtown, so why would City officials invite them to celebrate Downtown? If I had been in the city government then, I imagine I would have made the same decision, based on the same factor: ignorance — ignorance of whites about the Black community. I didn’t realize my own ignorance until some years ago I saw a documentary called “Indy in the Fifties,” made by a TV program here called Around Indiana. In-
As Hoose points out “For many whites, Attucks was above all a mysterious place. Few whites knew where the school was; many, not knowing any better, called it “Christmas Attucks.” (Patricia Payne, director of the Crispus Attucks Museum, told me recently, “Some still do.”) Bob Collins wrote that, “The success of Attucks basketball integrated the high schools of Indianapolis. They became so dominant that the other schools had to get Black basketball players, or forget about it.” Perhaps some future New History of Indiana will note that Attucks was not only the first Indianapolis School to win a state basketball championship, it was the first Black high school in the U.S. to win a state championship. It might add that Robertson was co-captain of the 1960 U.S. Olympic team that won a gold medal, was an NBA star with the Cincinnati Royals and won an NBA championship with The Milwaukee Bucks; that one of his records will never be broken — he averaged a triple-double for an entire season. Surely, part of Indiana history is that Attucks — along with two other Hoosier Black schools, all parochial schools and The Indiana School for the Deaf — was not allowed to be in the Indiana High School Athletic Association or to play member teams until the mid-1930s, and was not allowed to play in the state tournament until the pres-
sure of a lawsuit in 1942 and recognition that Black men were fighting and dying for their country in WWII. I was not surprised that Blankenbaker’s film was not well-received here when it came out in 2007. Full disclosure: Blankenbaker is a friend of mine, who I met when she produced a documentary based on my memoir New York in the Fifties. Since I moved back here in 2011, I have asked a number of local institutions to show the film, but the only place that showed it was The Vonnegut Museum. Bill Hampton of the championship Attucks team was on the panel that discussed it afterward. Betsy’s film begins with a montage of dancing flames over images of hooded Klansmen, white students picketing a school with signs that “I Won’t Go to School With Negroes,” and the voice of Willie Merriwether, a forward on Oscar’s team, saying “The KKK wanted to make sure Blacks were separate from whites, so in 1927 the city of Indianapolis opened Crispus Attucks High School.” The statement was technically not correct, since The Klan didn’t need to do it: as Madison noted in A Lynching in
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The Tigers, though a great team, were covered sparsly by local media.
the Heartland, “Between a quarter and a third of all native-born white Indiana males belonged to The Klan in 1925.” Backed by The Chamber of Commerce, the school board recommended in 1922 construction of a separate high school for Blacks be constructed in the city. In the 1950s — until Attucks started winning — there were still no Indianapolis teams that wanted to play them. As Betty Crowe, the wife of the coach said, “We had to travel way up north, and then way down south in the state to find schools that would play us.” They played tiny schools like Smithville and Hope. Bill Mason, one of the players said in Something to Cheer About “We played these little schools in farm towns. We were a rarity. It was like the Harlem Globetrotters coming to town. Some of them had never seen a Black person before.”
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Bill Mason cutting down the net for the 1954-55 team
Tigers players from L to R, Bill Hampton, Sheddrick Mitchel and Oscar Robinson.
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Coach Crowe said, “After other schools saw what kind of following we had and the crowds we had at our games and the money it was making, they wanted to play us.” Gate receipts were split at Butler Fieldhouse, with 10,000 fans coming to see Attucks play.
The recognition they deserved In 2000, Blankenbaker got the Pacers to honor Ray Crowe and the Attucks championship teams during halftime of a game. The day before, Robertson called to say he couldn’t make it, since his wife had pointed out that the next day was
Easter Sunday. The Pacers wanted to cancel the event but Betsy explained that the other players and Coach Crowe were all set to arrive, so the ceremony was held, the team was honored. That was the first time the championship team was publicly honored by the city. Since then, there have been other honors. Last May 22, Robertson and eight surviving members of his Attucks team were Grand Marshals in the Indianapolis 500 Festival Parade. Robertson agreed only when he was assured that all his teammates as well as the cheerleaders could participate with him. He made the same demand for his teammates to get equal billing in Something to Cheer About, and in film footage of the championship game, each of the starting team is announced by name as he scores.
Since The Pacers were the first in the city to publicly honor the team for their championships, it would seem appropriate that they honor the Attucks teams as they honor the movie Hoosiers team modeled on the legendary Milan’s championship team of 1954 with throwback jerseys that say “Hickory” (the name of the Milan team in the movie). How about “throwback’ jerseys that say “Attucks” or “Tigers” to honor the team that became the first Black high school basketball team in the United States to win a state championship – a team whose story will be told again as part of the highly anticipated new documentary film on The School that Opened a City? How’s that for an “Indiana basketball story?” How’s that for “impacting a community?”
EPILOGUE I realized from researching this article that the state championships Attucks won were only part of their impact on the city. That team helped make us begin to be aware of the racial injustice here that I was ignorant of in high school. How much more are we ignorant of today? We owe a great debt to that Attucks team, for giving us Something to Cheer About, and more importantly, for opening our eyes to more than sports, to issues that our city and our country need to recognize and address, now and throughout our lifetime. Attucks is is truly the school that changed a city. That is a better part of our past, but the future holds even greater challenges. After we’ve applauded Attucks — and ourselves for finally recognizing them — what do we all do next, together? Read the headlines. Time is running out. n Movie Night: Something To Cheer About with Dan Wakefield Wednesday, Aug. 10, 6 p.m. Indy Reads Books, 911 Massachusetts Ave. FREE PHOTO BY MICHELLE CRAIG
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Dan Wakefield’s articles have appeared in Esquire, GQ, The Atlantic, The Nation and other publications. His five novels include Going All The Way, and he edited and wrote the introduction to Kurt Vonnegut Letters.
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to the show … We have such a fantastic visual and that is one of the biggest wow factors. And everything else after that aligns itself with that. The palate, the support of the show, is really on the visual and the visual impact on the audience. NUVO: How is this storyline different from the film?
LEMIRE: It’s a different direction of artistic exploration. I am asking the audience to come in with an open mind to see a different exploration of this work. … It’s very much a quest for three young heroes who … are going on a journey to find the Toruk. Throughout the “It is very much a reflection of show progression you underwhat’s going on today in society” stand what is the reason for journey and the quest … While — FABRICE LEMIRE the show is evolving you realize their journey. It’s very much a reflection on humanity in For me it’s finding the right balance regards to the aspects of age … and in between exceptions. People will come humanity when we accept differences in with expectations of seeing high and come together we can change the acrobatics in the meantime you also world. It is very much a reflection of want to educate them to look at a difwhat’s going on today in society … ferent way of doing performance. As Look at the beauty of different lives, well as reaching out to a new democome together and hold hands, and we graphic and bringing a new audience can lift mountains. n
e The rock musical Next to Normal is a dichotomy of heartbreaking and hopeful. Brian Yorkey (book and lyrics) and Tom Kitt (music), part of the team behind If/Then, crafted this show, which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize and was nominated for the 2009 Tony Award for Best Musical. Their story gives audiences insight into the painful effects of mental illness on a family — in this case, the mother, who was diagnosed as bipolar and experiences hallucinations. Carmel Community Players’ production of this raw narrative is spot on. Carlo Nepomuceno (also the director) and Bill Fitch’s set design is minimal but effective, letting the audience’s full attention rest on the actors. Various levels segregate spaces and allow simultaneous events to take place in different locations. Nepomuceno utilizes the cast’s talent to fill in the gaps. Talent is in no short supply here. Georgeanna Teipen, as Diana, the mother, gives a powerful performance. Teipen’s Diana never comes across as a slave to her illness, even when she attempts suicide, which from her perspective seems logical, and then when ECT treatments rob her of most of her memories. Diana’s husband and daughter are worse for the wear after living with her oddities for the last 16 years. Russell Watson, as her husband Dan, expresses the longtime suffering of a man who is devoted to his wife but doesn’tt really know how to help her. Watson’s Dan is the most sympathetic character, as he portrays the patience and helplessness of his situation. Sharmaine Ruth, as their daughter Natalie, combines the typical difficulty of being a teenager with the added burden of her family life. Ruth shows how angry Natalie is but how lonely and sad. Daniel Hellman, as her sweet boyfriend Dan, is the most stable element in her life, and she doesn’t know how to accept that kind of love. Kyle Mottinger plays the crux of the family’s dysfunction: The specter of Gabe. His rocking “I’m Alive” demands notice, symbolizing the relentless, inescapable nature of mental illness and grief, which his character represents. Toward the end, Diana says, “Most people who think they are happy haven’t thought about it enough.” Diana was diagnosed after only four months of grieving over a lost infant. The subtext in this show questions what is normal. As Natalie states later, maybe we should all accept that the more realistic goal should be something “next to normal.” — LISA GAUTHIER MITCHISON Through Aug. 21, Carmel Community Players, Clay Terrace, $15 - 16, Carmelplayers.org
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Uncle Dan’s Story Hour Aug. 15, 6-8 p.m., This event is already sold out, but don’t worry there will be one every month. Held at the literary watering hole, The Red Key, Hoosier best-selling author Dan Wakefield (and the author of our cover story this week) will be telling one of his famous stories. In coordination with Will Higgins as the host and recorded by WFYI, the hour will be aired at a later date. The stories will include everything from the stories behind Going All the Way to the 1954-55 winning Crispus Attucks basketball team. Red Key, 5170 N College Ave. VOCAB Aug. 10, 8 p.m.-1:30 a.m., What might be the oldest spoken word set in Indianapolis is back for another round at the Casba. Spoken word by Aisha Tariqa Abdul Haqq, music by Damon Kar; visual artists include Kent Brinkley and Jen Struck. And of course the night will close out with an open-mic hosted by Tatjana Rebelle and Corey Ewing. It’s the best five bucks you will spend this week. Casba, 6319 Guilford Ave, $5 at the door, 317-251-3138
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aniel Blake Smith can school you on Jamestown, the Trail of Tears and now Fletcher Place neighborhood. Smith has authored books on all three subjects, but his most recent endeavor follows the family behind Fletcher Place Historic District, and specifically Calvin Fletcher himself. NUVO chatted with Smith about what it took to write the book and what he learned about one of Indiana’s founders. NUVO: What’s the compelling line through your books and films? (Smith is also a screenwriter.)
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represented the Protestant work ethic in just about everything he did — from how he organized his day, the effort and worry he put into his investments, the land he purchased, the banks he ran, and the extremely purposeful way he raised his children. All of it was done for high moral purpose and to be the most efficient and productive person he could be. It’s not surprising that even though he came to Indianapolis as a young man in a near penniless condition, he would later become one of the city’s wealthiest and most prominent citizens. The biggest “take-away”, though, that I hope readers feel after reading the book is the recognition that whatever differences in clothes, travel, communication, etc., Calvin, like so many of his Fletcher kinsmen, bear a striking resemblance to us today: their unswerving devotion to education and pursuit of the American dream all but leaps out of the pages of their letters and diaries. Calvin was the quintessential American: seen in his deeply felt need to cultivate personal ambition and use it to advance himself. The Fletchers’ story, I believe, is our own. The best history, I think, is history we can relate to, we can see ourselves in, as well as learn about what was so utterly different about another era and people. At one level, the Fletcher family was an ordinary family, but their experiences, especially those of Calvin and Elijah, provide an astonishingly candid look into the American dream as it was unfolding across the 19th century. So, to me, the Fletcher story offers nothing less than an emotional x-ray into the heart and soul of a middle-class American family trying to survive and advance in the American nation. And because it’s told as much through their own eyes as possible, I’d like to think readers will be intrigued and compelled by their story. n
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Ledger’s performance is not only fiendishly fun popcorn fare; it’s a hypnotic and haunting work of art. The Dark Knight was released six months after the actor’s untimely death, and his performance emerged as one of the most iconic in modern film history. Otherworldly yet achingly raw and human, it’s the very definition of movie magic. CATWOMAN (MICHELLE PFEIFFER):
Equally sinister and sympathetic, Pfeiffer ignites the screen in the criminally underrated Batman Returns. Her transformation from a meek secretary to a menacing night-prowler is nothing short of exhilarating. Pfeiffer makes the character’s catharsis our own. MAGNETO (IAN MCKELLEN):
In 2000’s X-Men, McKellen owns the screen, giving the metal-wielding Magneto a certain swagger and spiky sense of humor. He’s so cool. When you watch him, you’ll be afraid, but you’ll also want to be him. What more could you want out of a villain? GREEN GOBLIN (WILLEM DAFOE):
Dafoe chews the hell out of the scenery, but he never loses sight of the character’s tragic side. The man behind Green Goblin, Norman Osborne, is the father Peter Parker never had, and Dafoe keeps him intact, revealing glimpses of humanity beneath the Goblin’s monstrous exterior. It’s a multilayered performance — cartoonish and fun but also tender and poignant, much like the film itself.
GENERAL ROSS (SAM ELLIOTT):
Mostly, I just love Ang Lee’s Hulk. It’s a bold movie, blending surreal action scenes with piercingly intimate human drama. This film took me back to my childhood with its crisp, exhilarating imagery of Hulk sprinting across the desert, bouncing off mountains and soaring through the air. The action scenes are vivid and vibrant, as if they popped out of the comic book panels and splashed onto the screen. And as Hulk’s main enemy, Elliott mirrors the comics; he’s tough and stubborn yet surprisingly sympathetic.
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Although it’s not quite as rich as Ledger’s performance, Nicholson’s Joker is just as iconic. Disturbing yet devilishly charming, he is a ferocious force of nature. THE PENGUIN (DANNY DEVITO):
In Batman Returns, Batman and the Penguin are painted as kindred spirits — tortured orphans on opposite sides of the law. DeVito’s poignant performance intensifies the tragedy of the characters. DOCTOR OCTOPUS (ALFRED MOLINA):
Much like Dafoe did with Green Goblin, Molina portrays Doc Ock as a father figure tragically consumed by his godlike powers. ULTRON (JAMES SPADER):
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the only member of the ensemble who seems to be having fun with her role — or at least the only one whose enthusiasm rubs off on the audience. Of course, we’ve all heard about Leto’s commitment to his role as Quinn’s lover, the Joker. By now, it’s no secret that he stayed in character and gave his costars sinister gifts (a live rat for Robbie; a handful of bullets for Smith). When he was absent from the set one day, he sent the cast a dead hog along with a video message as the Clown Prince of Crime. All the hype and stories surrounding his villainous turn are somewhat embarrassing given how little screen time he has. Leto is in maybe six minutes of the film, and he doesn’t leave a lasting impression. If you’ve seen the trailers, you’ve seen most of his performance. Beyond a menacing purr he makes when circling his prey, Leto doesn’t do anything terribly memorable with the role. The film is just as forgettable. Like so many action movies of late, Suicide Squad devolves into a blandly chaotic mess, which is disappointing considering it’s written and directed by David Ayer, who delivered far more vivid, intense action in Fury and End of Watch. Those films never lose sight of the drama amid the destruction. And they feel more like labors of love. Even after years in development hell, Suicide Squad feels half-hearted and unfinished — like a comic book sketch that hasn’t been inked or colored. n
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of ramen. “There is no ramen school here in Indianapolis,” he laughs at this, recognizing the absurdity of that even amen. The college dorm room being a possibility, “even in Japan there staple. Desiccated bricks of noodles, are some places to teach us, but usually, dropped in tap water, heated in a to learn how to make ramen, we have to microwave for three minutes and sprinwork in a ramen restaurant and get the kled with powdered bouillon. 33 cents a proper training for many, many years. pack. This is what I knew of ramen durBut, I live here and I don’t have a lot of ing my formative years at Butler and the time, so I had to find a good instructor to penny-pinching years that followed. I’m teach Sapporo ramen.” He did just this sure you may have had, and may still and trained under a ramen teacher, the have, that same idea in your mind. Oh, instructor even flew here to the U.S. to how wrong we are. Ramen, real ramen, continue teaching Jun and his wife. is a thing of beauty. After training and learning the art of ramen — and it is an art — Jun opened Ramen Ray earlier this year. Since then he and his The Maruchan packs are team have been serving authentic Sapporo style ramen to our city great for college, but to call and giving people an idea of what true ramen is. Paul, Ramen Ray’s that ramen is like calling general manager, prepares a fresh SpaghettiO’s pasta Bolognese. bowl of ramen for me, so that I may understand just how authentic this dish truly is. A graduate of The Chef’s Acad“I moved to Indianapolis in 2005,” emy, Paul has been with Jun since the says Jun Kuramoto, “since then I was beginning of Ramen Ray. He tells me, looking for a good ramen restaurant, but “After college I was thinking of opening nobody opened it.” Jun sits at a red table up a noodle soup business; I wanted to with two of his employees, Paul Yu and Khaleel-Jamal Harrison. Jun is soft spoken and his demeanor is kind, his face is seemingly always set in a slight smile, a look I equate to a person with inner peace. “I missed the good ramen and I was looking for a solution. So I started researching how to get good ramen for a restaurant and how I could bring it from Japan. I eventually found the solutions and I executed my plan and opened my own place.” It was an amazing leap for a man who had spent years working in machine manufacturing, an occupation that had brought him from Japan, to the Netherlands, to San Diego and finally here to Indy. He took time away from his work to pursue his love
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specialize in Asian soups. Then I saw this place was opening and I contacted Jun and we started working together from there. The reason I wanted to work with noodle soups is food that’s very powerful will have a nostalgic factor to it. For me growing up, noodle soups like ramen were very nostalgic and so I came here to make ramen.” The steaming bowl of noodles, soup, and toppings sits in front of me. I’ve had ramen many times on the West coast, but I’ve never had instruction on the best way to enjoy the dish. According to Jun, “Ramen is a combination of topping, soup and noodle. Quite often people enjoy the topping first, and then the soup and leave the noodles a long, long time. That whole time the noodles are getting soggy and thicker and thicker. The best way is for the toppings, noodles and soup to be eaten together. Other than that, there are no rules. Don’t worry about using chopsticks. Just use a fork and a spoon and enjoy it while it’s hot and fresh. The whole set is the art of the ramen.” So, I do as the expert says and mix my chashu (pork belly that has been stewed for two hours), corn, green onions, sprouts, nori and soft boiled egg into the rich broth and wavy noodles before digging in with my chopsticks and Asian soup spoon and slurping away. One bite in and I’m reminded of something Khaleel Jamal, the night manager and dinner expediter, said, “The noodles we keep al dente, to the tooth, so you can get that good slurp action.” Jun had gone into detail about the importance of the noodles, “First of all, for ramen, the noodle is very important. There are two ways to get the noodles, either buy them straight from Japan or buy the machine and make them yourself … I really wanted to bring the really authentic ramen, and so simply I decided let’s bring it from Japan.” I had seen the Japanese PHOTO BY CAVAN MCGINSIE noodles aging when I walked
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through the door. Out of all of the ramen I’ve had in my life, these noodles are the most slurpable and in ramen, that is a part of the process. I’m reminded of another thing Khaleel-Jamal said as well, “the broth is the main key.” This is true when it comes to any and all Asian noodle soups, if you have a watery broth, the soup will be flavorless. But at Ramen Ray that broth is cooked for seven hours, using fresh ingredients including bones, collagen, vegetables and miso. This broth is packed with flavor, and the toppings themselves add an intricacy to the dish that makes each bite unique. This is unlike any ramen I’ve had before and one of the best noodle soups I’ve had — one of the best dishes I’ve had. But, Jun and his team are fighting an uphill battle here in Indiana because some people don’t understand it. The main issue is we all have spent too much time eating, well, there is no better way to put it, fake ramen. The Maruchan packs are great for college, but to call that ramen is like calling SpaghettiO’s pasta Bolognese. Still, people have trouble spending $14 on a bowl. Jun says this is the first misconception Ramen Ray is trying to break, “We have to let them know actual ramen is really fresh and very time consuming [Close to ten hours goes into creating a bowl, not including aging the noodles] and has a very long history in Japan.” In fact ramen was created during one of the hardest times in Japan’s history, right after World
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War II. The country was very poor and so were its people and they were forced to use the limited resources they had to create hearty dishes. Much of the best cuisines in the world were created during periods of great strife, as Jun points out, “It is like a soul food [which came out of slavery], you can’t just teach soul food to people just by words, and so we just have to try to let them eat. This location is more like a school, actually. People come and try and they may like it or they may not like it.” People have been coming and trying in droves and while they’re enjoying the authentic ramen, Jun and Paul have been listening closely to feedback and taken away many lessons from it. “We’ve now been open six months and we’re starting to understand we have to localize the food as well,” Jun says, with obvious agreement from Paul and Khaleel-Jamal. “Authentic is not everything, it depends on the community, town and region; people’s tastes are different. We are even thinking now of changing the recipe a little bit, we will keep the best quality al-
ways, but just adjust to the people’s taste.” Paul furthers this thought, “People in Indianapolis are looking for something authentic, but something they can connect themselves to. So how can we connect ourselves to the people who grew up here in Indiana. Ramen is very much a people’s food and people add their own personality to it that’s why there are so many variations of ramen. In Japan if you just have a good soup and good noodles you can build a pretty strong foundation. But it’s kind of like a canvas, people just add their own preferences and style. We’re trying to bring the Japanese foundation here for Hoosiers, but maybe in the future we can add some localized ingredients to the menu.” They have a few ideas up their sleeves to localize the taste, for example I went with the spicy miso, which hits my particular tastebuds that enjoy a bit of heat in my dishes. Not long after I walked in they all sat down to a bowl of ramen between the lunch and dinner hours. It was reminiscent of a family meal. Jun has created a family in this first restaurant endeavor,
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not just his staff, but his returning customers. “So many people come here and try the food and enjoy it and even shake our hands and thank us. It is nice to see so many smiles,” he tells me. “This is our first restaurant, and as I mentioned, we started this from scratch. We are learning new things everyday, we use this restaurant more like a school to give an opportunity for people to eat ramen. But at the same time we want to use this place to think about how to make the best ramen for the community and for the future.” They are all joking around, laughing with each other when I ask what they imagine for the future. Khaleel-Jamal, easily the most excitable of the bunch, says, “We are going to see a Ramen Ray Germany, Australia, Japan, Canada, were going worldwide.” The other two laugh and Jun adds, “Khaleel mentioned our big project. But one of my dreams is taking [my workers] to Japan and enjoying the ramen. Not just ramen, ramen is just one of the many foods in Japan and there are so many umami foods to enjoy. Ramen is just the start.” Paul finishes that thought, “For Ramen Ray I want to open the door to more traditional Asian food, the real tastes. Not the fast-food Chinese food or the stuff that has lost its cultural identity; something that is like the food I grew up loving to eat. I want to spread that love and share my culture. I think food is a great way to share what you grew up with and your culture.” n
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A: Hi Amy, congrats on your pending nuptials. First, to answer your question (with info from industry expert, Field to Vase): yes, 80 percent of flowers sold in the US are imported from other countries. Of those that are grown in the US, 77 percent are grown in California. That’s a hefty carbon footprint for something that should be absorbing carbon. Even more scary though, of the imported flowers, 50 percent come from Colombia where pesticides that are known carcinogens, and have been banned in North America, are still used. These facts make the flower industry seem not so pretty. But don’t let that wilt your dreams of an ecowedding. I was at the Bloomington Farmers Market last week and I can tell you that there are definitely locally- and sustainably-grown flowers aplenty. Harvest Moon is the flower farm I’ve gotten to know the best over the years at farmers markets – they have been growing in Owen County for more than 24 years! Sustainable flower farming and green weddings are topics on which Molly & Myrtle of Indy’s Northside, strives to educate Hoosier brides and grooms. In season, they grow more that 80 percent of what they uses in wedding
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arrangements. They also have all kinds of vintage, repurposed accessories, like 100-year-old Ball jars made right here in Indiana. They say their customers are often surprised that their flowers are still fresh after their honeymoon – all because they are fresh and chemical-free. On my list of activities I’d like to do in Indiana is to visit Willowfield Lavender Farm in Mooresville. Imagine how lovely a reception of fresh lavender would smell! JP Parker Flowers has shops in Downtown Indy and Franklin, but also has a flower farm in Needham, where their fields are abundant with sunflowers, zinnias, peonies and more. They also source from other local growers to create wedding arrangements. More than six years ago, I spent the morning with friends cutting lilacs and irises for my wedding (just like my grandma did decades prior). So, yes, whether you’re picking up a bouquet for someone special or selecting the perfect arrangements for your special day, you definitely have greener flower choices. — PIECE OUT, RENEE
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A: Rebecca, Congrats on your new home! Local furniture makers are really starting to find light in a forest of invasives (ie. chains and mass produced furniture). Here are a few that have a focus on reuse and sustainability. Dickinson Woodworking is a popular vendor at local farmers markets. They make everything, from the spatula to prepare your meal to the table where you dine, using locally sourced wood, including recovered storm damaged trees. I get compliments on my wood travel mug every time I use it. Vine & Branch sources all of their wood from Hamilton and Marion County, so the end product has not been more than 40 miles from where it grew. You can even commission a piece from a fallen tree from your yard. Salvage 3 uses, you guessed it, salvaged wood. He constructs gorgeous industrial-style
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s a full day of music comes to a close at this year's Pitchfork Music Festival, Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand of Beach House take the stage for their headlining appearance as the unusually cool summer air greets them. Quickly, the pair of longtime collaborators jumps into a set of songs both new and old, mesmerizing listeners in their easy, breezy way. Buried beneath all of their usual charm, however, is a sense of raw emotion that feels both genuine and urgent, making this Beach House set more special than any other I’ve ever seen from the dream pop duo. “Love is the key word,” says Legrand at one point during the set. “And fear is the bad word.” This simple statement felt incredibly relevant, especially considering the terrorist attacks in Nice, France that had happened just one day prior. Later on in the set, I'll remember that Legrand was born in France. Less than a week later, I find myself talking on the phone with Scally, and I quickly bring up the performance mentioned above. The guitarist tells me that half of Legrand’s family is from France, making the country very close to the both of them. Ultimately, though, he makes sure to point out that her words could be applied to, “everything happening everywhere.” “I don’t know if it’s just my perception, but it seems like everyone’s kind of feeling like everything is unraveling, and it feels very beautiful to try to ignore that and try to create an atmosphere of love and happiness and acceptance,” Scally says. “We try to create that feeling; we always have. But now more than ever, it feels like there’s some sort of mission to create that feeling of love every night just so that more of it exists in the world and less of the garbage keeps getting pushed around.” Although he and Legrand share these views, the guitarist points out that nothing Legrand ever says on stage is planned. “Victoria’s very much just shooting from the hip,” he says. “Whatever she’s feeling, she says. And if she doesn’t feel anything, she doesn’t say anything.” This spontaneous nature seems to be a consistent theme with
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rock bands of the modern era, earning praise with every new album they put out. This includes their pair of 2015 releases, Depression Cherry and Thank Your Lucky Stars, which were both written during a very creative time for the band. “We were writing a record, which was Depression Cherry, and it was almost done,” Scally says. “But because of the way booking works, we had to book our studio time way in advance. So we were like, ‘Okay. Well, we’ll be done writing by November.’ But, we ended up being finished writing Depression Cherry in July.” With so much extra spare time prior to heading into the studio, Beach House SUBMITTED PHOTO decided to write some more songs, Beach House which became Thank Your Lucky Stars. “We just let the songs be really bare and considered it a bonus record really,” Scally says. “Like, “Love is the key word. ‘We already have written this one record, and now we’ve writAnd fear is the bad word.” ten this other. It’ll be something — VICTORIA LEGRAND AT PITCHFORK we put out for the fans.’” With this in mind, the duo didn’t subject Thank Your Lucky Stars to any of the typical album marketBeach House, especially when it comes ing tactics either. to the duo’s songwriting. “Normally when you release a record, “We’ve always just tried to write, and you have to have a million people listen what happens, happens,” Scally says. to it and write about it before it even “We’ve never been successful at trying to comes out,” Scally says. “And, you have do something. These are just the kinds to pick a lead single and do all this stuff. of things that we’ve ended up writing So when we realized we had two records, throughout the years of being a band.” we had the idea of, ‘Let’s not do that Although they’ve always stuck to this whole thing for the second record. Let’s natural approach of making music, just release it.’” Scally does believe that the songwriting Now more than 100 shows later, dynamic between he and Legrand has Beach House is nearing the end of their evolved over the years. “I think things massive tour in support of this pair of have changed a lot, if you look closely,” records. “We tour really, really hard, and he says. “Victoria plays the guitar and we’re pretty worn out since we’ve been bass some now. It’s evolved a lot in difgoing almost a year,” Scally says. Regardferent ways. You might not hear it if you less, he is very much looking forward to don’t listen closely, just because the inthe band’s remaining tour stops. struments we’ve used haven’t changed a “I get very inspired by the road, even whole lot. But, in some ways, they have.” though it completely destroys us. I still Nevertheless, Beach House has refind it very beautiful, so I’m excited.” n mained one of the most consistent indie
ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard have made 15 studio albums together over 40 or so years as a band, and when we ask Gibbons how they’ve cruised through that many years and albums together as a unit, he gets, well, a little metaphysical on us. Here’s a bit from our Q&A with Gibbons before ZZ Top’s show at Hoosier Park on August 19. NUVO: The blues has a lengthy history; what is it about that music that continues to draw in new fans? BILLY GIBBONS: Well, blues ain’t ever obsolete or shall it be said, “over,” as it emanates from those mysterious biorhythms. It is, literally, something within. So unless the planet goes extinct (which, I guess is a possibility) the blues will color on. As far as new fans find the way, they’re (mostly) human so the choice is to “feel” it. NUVO: How has your relationship with other band members changed over the 40+ years you’ve been playing together? GIBBONS: We keen toward yielding each other’s way. No getting underfoot, even on a lengthy tour. We give each other space, so when it’s reconnection time, it’s something we each look forward to. Of course, playing together still plays a part in strengthening our weird telepathic communication. We like to think we intuit what the other is going to do before it’s delivered. Makes for an enrichment of the exchanges. This even applies to mistakes (yes, we make ‘em). Not entirely sure how this came to pass but we may go in for a collective brain scan one of these days to graph the process. NUVO: As a band, you’ve incorporated new styles and sounds. What’s the key to being an open-minded listener and attracting open-minded listeners? GIBBONS: It’s sometimes an exhausting challenge to invent exotic new sounds while keeping within the band’s draw to the bluesy side of things yet at the rescue is that “always there” band enthusiasm even when we’re unfamiliar with the approach. NUVO: What’s the first record you can remember falling in love with? GIBBONS: That’s gotta be either High and Lonesome from Jimmy Reed or Hound Dog by Elvis. I mean, they were the be-all and end-all. Everything everyone could possibly want from then, up to this minute. — ANDREW CROWLEY AND KATHERINE COPLEN
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aster Ka Leung Ching, or Teacher Ka as he is affectionately known to his rabid listeners, is one of the most memorable personalities I’ve ever encountered within the Indianapolis music scene. Teacher Ka is an extraordinary musician and the leader and founder of the Indianapolis Chinese Orchestra. During one conversation, he told me he plays around 30 different instruments, and during a recent concert, I was enthralled to watch Ka pick up several different traditional Chinese instruments and perform beautifully. But Ka is not interested in using the Indianapolis Chinese Orchestra as a forum for his musical virtuosity. Instead he wants to see the group become a vehicle for cultural inclusion and diversity in Indianapolis. Teacher Ka has an irrepressible passion for sharing music, and finding ways to connect the traditions of East and West. Though Ka speaks almost no English, his kind spirit and joyful music communicate in volumes. If you ever have a chance to meet Teacher Ka, or attend one of his performances with the Indianapolis Chinese Orchestra, I thoroughly recommend it.
TEACHER KA: I was born in the countryside of the Western part of China. When I was in elementary school one of my schoolmates, a young girl, had a Chinese flute and that triggered my interest in music. NUVO: Were your parents also musicians? KA: My father was fond of singing, but my parents had no knowledge of music. NUVO: Did you study music at an academic institution?
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unfortunately, when I was a young man the political, social and economic situation in my country did not allow me to even have the expectation to fulfill that dream. The environment was not under my control and the only way for me to learn music was to study independently and with other musicians I met. NUVO: Did you have the opportunity to perform with any orchestras while you were living in China? KA: I don’t want to talk too much about my time in China. I want to emphasize that I really started performing music in Hong Kong. From China I moved to Hong Kong and I stayed there for almost twenty years. When I was in Hong Kong I was very active in performing Chinese music. I established a number of orchestras in different religious high schools in Hong Kong. The students and myself were invited to perform internationally all over Asia, and even Austria.
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NUVO: Teacher Ka, I’ve seen you perform on several instruments, from Chinese instruments including the hulusi and erhu, to western instruments like the saxophone. I’m curious if you know exactly how many instruments you play? KA: (laughs) Well, I never tried to make a count of how many
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I could play. But most likely I can play twenty or thirty — but I’m not an expert on all those instruments. NUVO: I want to skip ahead to your time here in Indianapolis. Can you tell me about forming the Indianapolis Chinese Orchestra? KA: Whatever I’ve achieved in life has been through the blessing of God. When I came to Indianapolis about six years ago, I saw there were not as many Chinese citizens here as on the East or West coast of the United States. But I was surprised one time when I was brought into a Chinese Christian church here and met the people, and they were very interested in Chinese music. That is how our orchestra started, the early structure was just a few families playing for fun. There was no organization at first. But through a blessing of God, more and more people have been interested in our group. The orchestra started in the year of 2010. So for six years our group has been growing quite a bit. The efforts of group member Kwan Hui have helped to add structure to our organization and we’ve truly become an orchestra. NUVO: In addition to presenting Chinese music, I know you have a greater vision for the group’s role in the community. Tell us about your mission for the orchestra. KA: I was brought to this great country through a blessing from God. Though I don’t have a lot I can contribute to this society, I try my best by using my musical skills to lead the orchestra and to contribute some color and diversity to the great city of Indianapolis. I really enjoy having other Ethnic groups join our orchestra. While we call ourselves a “Chinese Orchestra,” we are actually multi-ethnic. We are not only Chinese; We do have a number of Americans participating in the group. It is our desire to have more local Hoosier folks to join our group. NUVO: A good example of your desire to reach out beyond the Chinese community can be found in the orchestra’s repertoire. In addition to playing Chinese folk and classical melodies, the orchestra also performs several American songs. At a recent concert I saw the group playing everything from “The Yellow Rose of Texas” to “Back Home Again in Indiana.” Tell us about the orchestra’s repertoire and the inclusion of popular American melodies. KA: We have approximately 300 songs in our repertoire, encompassing Chinese
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music, Western pop, folk and religious music, plus other forms of international music from India, Korea and Japan. I’m a musician who loves all kinds of music, western music, Chinese music, other types of ethnic music. As long as the music is beautiful and pleases my ear I will try to present it. I feel our orchestra is not only for the local Chinese ethnic folks, but we are open to the entire city, and we love to present our music to other groups. Over time we’ve done many presentations here in Indianapolis. We observed that if we do a presentation purely of Chinese music that while the audience enjoys the performance, there is a lack of interaction. However, when we add different varieties of music like American film songs and folk music, the audience becomes very active. We see them waving their hands and moving their bodies. The response would change from just sitting and listening, to actually expressing their feelings. For me this proves our orchestra is going in the correct direction as we try to reach out to the entire population of Indianapolis.
NUVO: Any final thoughts on the future of the Indianapolis Chinese Orchestra, or more generally the future of Chinese music in Indiana? KA: Our expectation is to use our music to reach out to the entire state of Indiana. Crossing cultures is our hope and expectation for the orchestra. We want to see more non-ethnic Chinese musicians join to make our group a truly diverse rainbow orchestra. That is our dream for the future. n NOTE: I want to send a huge thank you out to Indianapolis Chinese Orchestra member Kwan Hui who kindly interpreted for Teacher Ka during this interview. If you’d like more information on the Indianapolis Chinese Orchestra, contact me at klong@nuvo.net.
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verily did this music editor tear up a bit, imagining a world that wasn’t a frozen tundra. Now, Dierks comes to spread the gospel of being “Drunk On A Plane,” during the warm summer months, even. This music editor is blessed, indeed. (Randy Houser and Cam will open.) Klipsch Music Center, 12880 E. 146th St., prices vary, all-ages Indy Folk Fest, Indy Hostel, all-ages White Wax, Long H Sound, Coke Bottle Glasses, State Street Pub, 21+ Our Little Bit of Heaven Animal Rescue 3rd Annual Benefit Ride with Sledom Surreal, Lieber State Park (Cloverdale), all-ages Rick Dodd and The Dickrods, Melody Inn, 21+ SUBMITTED PHOTO
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CLASSICS Happy Together Tour 7 p.m. In more recent years, Turtles members Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan have ventured into writing kids’ music (including tracks for Strawberry Shortcake movies and The Care Bears TV series) while maintaining a steady schedule of headlining concerts to go along with the Happy Together tour, which now looks to be established as an annual outing. “That was the hope,” Volman said. “When we initially set out to do this at all, that was the hope that we would have it so that people would come out no matter who was doing the tour, so they would know that it was going to be a great show no matter who was plugged into the slots.” — ALAN SCULLEY
Indiana State Fairgrounds, FREE, all-ages Jazz Night, Fountain Square Brewing Co., 21+ Schlafly Brewery Night, Sinking Ship, 21+
38 Special 6 p.m. What does the State Fair Free Stage do best? Highlight classic rock acts, whose heyday may have been the ‘80s, but whose fans are still as rabid as ever.
When Ships Collide, Float, Melody Inn, 21+
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Vocab, Casba, 21+
HIP-HOP Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa 7 p.m. Puff puff pass. This tour features special guests Kevin Gates, Jhene Aiko, Casey Veggies and DJ Drama. This tour has been marked with a bit of drama: After a dramatic partial stage collapse at one of last week’s tour stops at BB&T Pavilion in Camden, 42 attendees were injured, including one who suffered critical injuries. Klipsch Music Center, 12880 E. 146th St., prices vary, all-ages Andrew Combs, The Hi-Fi, 21+ Wiz Khalifa x Taylorang Official Afterparty, Front Row (Kokomo), 21+ The Fray, Indiana State Fairgrounds, all-ages The Jellybricks, No Pi Cherries, Gabriel Harley Band, Cosmic Preachers, Melody Inn, 21+ Tashi Dorji and Flannelly v. Funkhouser, State Street Pub, 21+
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Battle of the Bands and Rock the Lot 5 p.m. on Friday; noon on Saturday This band battle features youngsters from all over Central Indiana – but only one can be crowned Carmel’s best band. The next day, student musicians from Carmel’s School of Rock will take over the lot stage for a free all-day show. School of Rock, 626 S. Rangeline Road, FREE, all-ages Kammy’s Kause Compilation Album Release, Indy CD and Vinyl, all-ages
The Boy Band Night, The Vogue, 21+ Friday Night karaoke, Living Room Lounge, 21+
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Second Saturday Songwriters Showcase, Logan Street Sanctuary, all-ages
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SATURDAY DANCE Green Velvet 9 p.m. Curtis Jones (a.k.a. Green Velvet) toured the US last year with Claude Von Stroke under the name Get Real. Thanks to the geniuses at Keepin’ It Deep, Indy’s had a chance to see both Green Velvet and Claude Von Stroke in solo sets this year. John Larner and Taylor Norris will support. Blu Lounge, 240 S. Meridian, 21+ FEST Hop Your Face Festival noon Shrub, Cornmeal, Egi, Jonathan Scales Fourchestra, Dead End, Branch Gordon and Nashawti play the 5th annual imperial IPA release party. Fountain Square Brewing Co., 1301 Barth Ave., $8 advance, $10 door, 21+
Bigger Than Elvis, Radio Radio, 21+ Sweet Poison Victim, DJ Kyle Long, Wife Patrol, The Hi-Fi, 21+ Chives, Heaters, DJ Mild Cheery, State Street Pub, 21+ Country Dance, Greg’s, 21+ Classical Mystery Tour: Music of the Beatles, Conner Prairie, all-ages Those Dirty Horse, The Common, Phyllis, Melody Inn, 21+
THROWBACKS The Beat Summer Jam: I Love the ‘90s 7 p.m. This package tour features Vanilla Ice, Tone Loc, Coolio, Rob Base, All-4-One, Young MC and Kool Moe Dee. You know, basically all the acts you’ve been jamming to on The Beat.
Real Talk 10:30 p.m. A line stretches out from the White Rabbit every time the A-Squared DJs and DJ Action Jackson roll into White Rabbit Cabaret for their second Saturday dance night Real Talk. Get there early — we promise the dance floor will fill up — and stay late for the chance to see even the most reluctant dancers boogie on the dance floor.
Asleep at the Wheel, Hoosier Park Racing and Casino, 21+
SUNDAY DANCE Lee Scratch Perry, Subatomic Sound System 8 p.m. We’ve got a long, windy, crazy interview with Lee Scratch Perry online at NUVO. net for your reading pleasure.
White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect St., $5, 21+
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Fifth Harmony 7 p.m. The Fifth Harmony song “Work From Home” is the summer Friday jam you’ve been looking for.
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Dierks Bentley, Randy Houser, Cam 7 p.m. Time for a little story. One late winter evening, a certain music editor (perhaps even the music editor typing these very words) was sitting in her car (perhaps a purple PT Cruiser) waiting for it to heat up and defog the windows. Lo and behold, the Dierks Bentley jam “Drunk on a Plane” came over the airwaves, with its mentions of balmy Cancun, cold champagne and friendly flight attendants. And
Bloomington Blues and Boogie Woogie Piano Festival Sunday – Monday Craig Brenner coordinates this yearly Bloomington fest, whose 2016 lineup includes Bob Seeley, Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes, Cynthia Girtley, Bill Sims, Jr., Mark Braun, aka Mr. B, Ricky Nye, Alfred “Uganda” Roberts, Gordon Bonham, Joe Donnelly, Ron Kadish, Dan Hostetler and Brenner herself.
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Green Velvet, Saturday at Blu John Waldron Arts Center, 122 S. Walnut St., prices vary, all-ages
John Wiese, John Collins McCormick, Mark Tester, Big Car Collaborative, all-ages PBR Bingo Night, Sinking Ship, 21+
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SURF Dick Dale with The Madeira 7 p.m. We cherish this email from surf legend Dick Dale’s wife Lana, which reads, in part: “People like Mick Jagger, Stevie Ray Vaughn – who started playing music on his guitar after hearing Surfer’s Choice album in 1963 – worship Dick by the way. Steven Tyler loves Dick, and Bruce Springsteen, and I can go on all day. Dick
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is self-taught as he plays upside down backwards left-handed. And a bit of trivia: He taught Jimi Hendrix the slide on the Strat guitar. ... Leo Fender and he pioneered the strap guitar, as Dick was Leo’s guinea pig. Leo Fender was like a second father to Dick and we all loved him.” Dale returns for a show with local surf lovers The Madeira. Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St., $40, 21+ Bourbon for the Brain, Jazz for the Soul, Mousetrap, 21+ Take That! Tuesdays, Coaches, 21+ Tempting Tuesdays, Alley Cat, 21+ Psychic Temple, Pravada, Joyful Noise Recordings, all-ages NUVO.NET/SOUNDCHECK
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DEAR READERS: I’m on vacation for the next three weeks — but you won’t be reading old columns while I’m away. You’ll be getting a new column every week, all of them written by Dan Savage, none of them written by me. Dan Savage is a sports writer and the assistant director of digital content for OrlandoMagic.com, and he will be answering your questions this week. Dan has covered six NBA finals and 10 NBA All-Star Games; he’s appeared on CBS, ESPN, NBA TV, and First Take; and his writing has been published at ESPN.com, CBS.com, NBA.com, and OrlandoMagic. com. This is Dan’s first time giving sex and relationship advice. “Other sports writers often tell me they enjoyed reading my latest column,” Dan Savage told me in an e-mail, “but when they show me the article, it’s one of your sex advice columns. The joke is going to be on them this time around when it’s actually my advice!”
Timing is everything. I’m a straight guy in my 40s, and I’ve been with my wife for more than 20 years. I’m incredibly attracted to my wife. Recently, I’ve been a bit frustrated with us not having sex as frequently as I’d like. So I broached the subject with her. I tried to be easygoing about it, but maybe I fucked that up. Basically, I told her that I fantasize about her daily and would like to have sex more often. I cited two examples of frustration. Two weeks ago, I came on to her and tried to initiate, but we had a dinner party to go to and she didn’t want to be late. One week ago, I was flirting with her but was rebuffed because we were going out to dinner and … she wanted to go to dinner more than fuck, I guess. I made my wife cry by bringing
this up. End result is that she doesn’t want to fuck more than we already do, there’s nothing I can do to make sex more appealing for her, and it hurt her for me to bring the subject up at all. I dropped it, apologized, and moved on. I don’t want to coerce her into anything (I want her to want me), so here we are. How can I communicate better in the future? — USING MY WORDS
DAN SAVAGE: Communication in any relationship is key. On the basketball court, one of the first things young players are taught is to communicate effectively with their teammates. They’re required to call out plays, offensive assignments, and defensive rotations in order to prevent breakdowns and keep the system working smoothly. In relationships, the same principles hold true. You have to be able to effectively communicate with your partner in order to keep both parties happy. And just like everything else in life, timing is everything. First, I’d make sure you communicate your needs at a time other than when you’ve just been rebuffed. You’re then likely to be less emotional, think more rationally, and more effectively explain your needs without applying added pressure. Second, I’d try making your next move when other plans are not on the table. In both the examples you mention, UMW, the timing of your request appears to have been an issue for her. Schedule some time for an intimate dinner at home or cap off an exciting evening out on the town with romantic advances. If she does not respond to your improved efforts, then she’s not being a good teammate. A successful relationship is when both members’ needs are met, not just one. Question? mail@savagelove.net Online: nuvo.net/savagelove
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Using scissors, snip off a strand of your hair. As you do, sing a beloved song with uplifting lyrics. Seal the hair in an envelope on which you have written the following: “I am attracting divine prods and unpredictable nudges that will enlighten me about a personal puzzle that I am ready to solve.” On each of the next five nights, kiss this package five times and place it beneath your pillow as you sing a beloved song with uplifting lyrics. Then observe your dreams closely. Keep a pen and notebook or audio recorder near your bed to capture any clues that might arrive. On the morning after the fifth night, go to your kitchen sink and burn the envelope and hair in the flame of a white candle. Chant the words of power: “Catalytic revelations and insights are arriving.” The magic you need will appear within 15 days. Aries
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): This would be a good time to have a master craftsperson decorate your headquarters with stained glass windows that depict the creation stories of your favorite indigenous culture. You might also benefit from hiring a feng shui consultant to help you design a more harmonious home environment. Here are some cheaper but equally effective ways to promote domestic bliss: Put images of your heroes on your walls. Throw out stuff that makes you feel cramped. Add new potted plants to calm your eyes and nurture your lungs. If you’re feeling especially experimental, build a shrine devoted to the Goddess of Ecstatic Nesting. Taurus
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You Geminis are as full of longings as any other sign, but you have a tendency to downplay their intensity. How often do you use your charm and wit to cloak your burning, churning yearnings? Please don’t misunderstand me: I appreciate your refined expressions of deep feelings -- as long as that’s not a way to hide your deep feelings from yourself. This will be an especially fun and useful issue for you to meditate on in the coming weeks. I advise you to be in very close touch with your primal urges. Gemini
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Be vulnerable and sensitive as well as insatiable and irreverent. Cultivate your rigorous skepticism, but expect the arrival of at least two freaking miracles. Be extra nurturing to allies who help you and sustain you, but also be alert for those moments when they may benefit from your rebellious provocations. Don’t take anything too personally or literally or seriously, even as you treat the world as a bountiful source of gifts and blessings. Be sure to regard love as your highest law, and laugh at fear at least three times every day. Cancer
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Let’s assume, for the sake of fun argument, that you do indeed have a guardian angel. Even if you have steadfastly ignored this divine helper in the past, I’m asking you to strike up a close alliance in the coming weeks. If you need to engage in an elaborate game of imaginative pretending to make it happen, so be it. Now let me offer a few tips about your guardian angel’s potential purposes in your life: providing sly guidance about how to take good care of yourself; quietly reminding you where your next liberation may lie; keeping you on track to consistently shed the past and head toward the future; and kicking your ass so as to steer you away from questionable influences. OK? Now go claim your sublime assistance! Leo
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the coming weeks, I suspect that Life will attempt to move you away from any influences that interfere with your ability to discern and express your soul’s code. You know what I’m talking about when I use that term “soul’s code,” right? It’s your sacred calling; the blueprint of your destiny; the mission you came to earth to fulfill. So what does it mean if higher powers and mysterious forces are clearing away obstacles that have been preventing you from a more complete embodiment of your soul’s code? Expect a breakthrough that initially resembles a breakdown. Scorpio
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Maybe you know people who flee from the kind of Big Bold Blankness that’s visiting you, but I hope you won’t be tempted to do that. Here’s my counsel: Welcome your temporary engagement with emptiness Celebrate this opening into the unknown. Ease into the absence. Commune with the vacuum. Ask the nothingness to be your teacher. What’s the payoff? This is an opportunity to access valuable secrets about the meaning of your life that aren’t available when you’re feeling full. Be gratefully receptive to what you don’t understand and can’t control. Sagittarius
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I placed a wager down at the astrology pool. I bet that sometime in the next three weeks, you Capricorns will shed at least some of the heavy emotional baggage that you’ve been lugging around; you will transition from ponderous plodding to curious-hearted sauntering. Why am I so sure this will occur? Because I have detected a shift in attitude by one of the most talkative little voices in your head. It seems ready to stop tormenting you with cranky reminders of all the chores you should be doing but aren’t -- and start motivating you with sunny prompts about all the fun adventures you could be pursuing. Capricorn
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): What you are most afraid of right now could become what fuels you this fall. Please note that I used the word “could.” In the style of astrology I employ, there is no such thing as predestination. So if you prefer, you may refuse to access the rich fuel that’s available. You can keep your scary feelings tucked inside your secret hiding place, where they will continue to fester. You are not obligated to deal with them squarely, let alone find a way to use them as motivation. But if you are intrigued by the possibility that those murky worries might become a source of inspiration, dive in and investigate. Aquarius
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Although you may not yet be fully aware of your good fortune, your “rescue” is already underway. Furthermore, the so-called hardship you’ve been lamenting will soon lead you to a trick you can use to overcome one of your limitations. Maybe best of all, Virgo, a painful memory you have coddled for a long time has so thoroughly decayed that there’s almost nothing left to cling to. Time to release it! So what comes next? Here’s what I recommend: Throw a going-away party for everything you no longer need. Give thanks to the secret intelligence within you that has guided you to this turning point. Virgo
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here comes a special occasion -- a radical exemption that is so rare as to be almost impossible. Are you ready to explore a blessing you have perhaps never experienced? For a brief grace period, you can be free from your pressing obsessions. Your habitual attachments and unquenchable desires will leave you in peace. You will be relieved of the drive to acquire more possessions or gather further proof of your attractiveness. You may even arrive at the relaxing realization that you don’t require as many props and accessories as you imagined you needed to be happy and whole. Is enlightenment nigh? At the very least, you will learn how to derive more joy out of what you already have. Libra
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Are you ready for your midterm exam? Luckily I’m here to help get you into the proper frame of mind to do well. Now study the following incitements with an air of amused rebelliousness. 1. You may have to act a bit wild or unruly in order to do the right thing. 2. Loving your enemies could motivate your allies to give you more of what you need. 3. Are you sufficiently audacious to explore the quirky happiness that can come from cultivating intriguing problems? 4. If you want people to change, try this: Change yourself in the precise way you want them to change. Pisces
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