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THIS WEEK AUG. 15 - 22, 2012

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GEN CON 2012 Gen Con is the largest gaming convention in the world, attracting tens of thousands of role players, board-game aficionados, cosplayers and more to Indianapolis in August. More than 8,500 events are scheduled during the four days of the convention; more than 300 vendors and artists will sell their wares. Jake Theis, senior marketing communications manager for Gen Con, estimates close to 50 new games will debut over the weekend. COVER PHOTO, SUBMITTED B Y RO BERT ANNIS

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THE THIRD COAST

It behooves Hoosiers, in whatever part of the state they live, to think of Lake Michigan as part of who they are. It’s our freshwater legacy, something that helps give shape to an understanding of what it means to be from this part of the Midwest. But it may also prove to be our state’s most important asset.

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INDY REZONE

If city planner Tamara Tracy has it right, Indy is on the cusp of a radical process of transformation, akin to historical innovations such as architect Alexander Ralston’s original blueprint of the Circle City in the 1820s, George Kessler’s Park and Boulevard Plan in 1909 and UniGov in 1970. BY REBECCA TOWNSEND

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YOUNG ACTORS THEATER: FACEBOOK ME

IndyFringe Basile Theatre, will soon host facebook me, the next play in the Young Actors Theatre (YAT) “Teenz Issues” series, during this year’s Fringe Festival. Russell is one of the ten teenage girls in the cast. They are using very little set, just two black boxes and a slew of laptops and cell phones as props. BY ELISE LOCKWOOD

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MAKING PLANS FOR NIGEL

Nigel Laskowski – Nigel to his radio listeners – has returned to WRZX-FM (103.3) with a pledge to “bring balls back to broadcasting.” He means that literally, apparently. BY MARC ALLAN

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CATARACTS BACK IN FOUNTAIN SQUARE

Indianapolis music lovers: it’s time to get weird. Yes, the Cataracts music festival is back for the second year in a row and bigger – much bigger. This year the festival has been scheduled alongside the first ever Fountain Square Grand Prix bicycle race, and the organizers of the two events—Jacob Gardner (Cataracts) and Joe Cox (FSGP)—have combined their energies to create a perfect storm of awesomeness for music fans, bike racing fans, and for the city’s fastest-growing cultural district. BY GRANT CATTON

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Hammer, I usually breeze past your pedantic op-ed piece for the more exciting porn in the back of NUVO, but I found this article particularly misguided (“Judge not your tastes by moronic chief execs,” Steve Hammer, August 8). You seem to have a conservative problem-lack of empathy. You say it’s not that big a deal that Chickfil-A has a zany CEO, so workers should just show up, work and collect the check. Well, millions of people are boycotting the restaurant because they think the very same about what the CEO should do. Show up, run a chicken joint and keep your political beliefs to yourself. As a human being, I like to put myself in the shoes of other human beings before I presume that I know about their lives. What you, and lots of conservatives (read: heterosexual white guys) seem to exhibit is a privilege of ignorance. I am a married man, but I understand why gay people are upset with this. I am a man of color, and if Chick-fil-A’s CEO said that he thinks two black people should not be able to marry--can you imagine the backlash!? Now, is the idea that black people shouldn’t be allowed to marry any less a “legitimate political viewpoint”? Well, there are some who would say it is because of their religion, or whatever. And that is exactly what’s happening in this case. So, should CEO’s be allowed to say whatever they want? Sure. But people should also be allowed to boycott restaurants without fear of retribution, or guilt, or denigration, or that they are doing something un-American, or somehow damaging the political system. And finally, we have too many real problems in America to be writing op-ed pieces about the phony ones. Oh, and Ted Nugent sucks.

—Kris Owens

Bigotry, all grown up!

It would have been interesting to see what the parents of these Chick-Fil-A flash mobs would have done against the bus strikes, the marches, and the counter sit-ins that fought discrimination in the fifties and sixties (“Gadfly: Chick-fil-A,” Wayne Bertsch, August 1). Let’s give these bigots credit. Bigotry has matured. They don’t use high-pressure hoses, feral dogs and lynchings so much anymore. Hatred compensates today by a show of economic strength instead. In a world of money, maybe this will be more effective.

—BerneThau NUVO.NET

Why can’t anyone see that this is not about pro-gay vs. anti-gay. This was about the First Amendment. Freedom of Speech. He never called anyone names and yet he’s being called plenty of names as are the people that showed up on Wednesday. Oh course, anyone reading

this will just call me bigoted and such so I really don’t know why I’m bothering. Come on...spew your hate...or I’m sorry...your tolerance at me.

—h2otowngirl NUVO.NET

Liberal blather as usual

Classic liberal blather (“Romney’s record will hurt him,” Steve Hammer, August 1). I almost called it thinking, but if you were really thinking you’d realize what a load of crap you just wrote. “His job was to make his corporation more profitable for its shareholders no matter what the human cost.” Yep...that’s what businesses do. If companies were run like not for profits we’d all be screwed and no one would be working. You say he’s out of touch with the average American but overlook Obama’s annual 2 weeks in Hawaii and 3 weeks at Martha’s Vineyard.....all while American’s are struggling. Take your blinders off.....Barry sucks worse than words describe.

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Rest in Peace, Jessica Adkins

Ashley, thank you so much for the beautiful words (“The Jessica Adkins we knew,” Ashley Kimmel, August 2). You captured Jess’ spirit and personality perfectly. It is wonderful to hear how she touched people’s lives and will live on in their memories. You made her come to life again with your writing. Bless you.

—Laura Adkins (Jess’ mom) NUVO.NET

Useful idiot

This comment thread happened on facebook.com/nuvo.net in response to a link to the Indiana Living Green post, “Getting ready for my training,” by NUVO and ILG editor Jim Poyser. Jim is heading to San Fran to train for a presentation about climate change. Wow...so this guy actually volunteers to be brainwashed and have his IQ lowered? The real story is why this person wants to become a useful idiot.

—Charles Sifers

This useful idiot wants to be useful to the planet. How about you?

—NUVO

If he wanted to be “useful to the planet” then he would be getting an education, instead of volunteering for a propaganda program. BTW, I have 40 years of actually being useful to the planet. Don’t start something with someone that you know nothing about.

—Charles Sifers

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HAMMER Taking the radical right to the extreme A philosophical showdown at the polls

BY STEVE HAMMER SHAMMER@NUVO.NET

n an acknowledgment that he was losing the election, Mitt Romney doubled down last week on the angry, white people constituency and named the most radical, whitest, angriest political figure imaginable as his running mate. With almost nobody left in the undecided column, Romney has given up on capturing the middle and is going all out to make the presidential campaign a referendum on the concept that the richest people in the country aren’t rich enough. In doing so, he’s picked a vice presidential candidate with the brilliant intellect of Dan Quayle, the charisma and charm of Al Gore and the compassion of Dick Cheney. The Romney-Ryan ticket is a suicide pact almost guaranteed to lose the election and to burn down America if it doesn’t. The unemployed, underprivileged and disadvantaged people are using up too much money and need to sacrifice even more so that Romney and Ryan can build bigger yachts, send more money to offshore bank accounts and pay even fewer taxes than they do now. Previous tickets have at least given lip service to the concept of a rising tide that lifts all boats, of creating more economic opportunity and to helping the middle and lower classes. The Romney-Ryan ticket is a middle finger directed at the 99 percent of the population that doesn’t own multiple Cadillacs or belong to multiple country clubs. If you’re anything but a rich, white Republican, you have no place in Mitt Romney’s America. The choice of Ryan made that crystal clear. If you’ll ever need Medicare, public education or any kind of governmental assistance for your children, Romney-Ryan isn’t for you. The money spent on keeping seniors healthy, improving our classrooms or even helping poor children eat healthy lunches at school is money better spent redistributed to the rich. Instead of Medicare, Ryan would like to hand people a voucher that may or may not be good enough to get private health insurance. The budget he authored and ramrodded through Congress was a declaration of war against the poor. It would have dropped 300,000 children from the subsidized school lunch

program and eliminated health care for almost as many. It would have slashed $83 billion in benefits for federal retirees, people who devoted their careers to serving their country. He did this not to save money but because he carries a heartfelt belief that government shouldn’t be doing things like helping people attend college, making sure veterans are cared for and making sure we have clean air and water. The trillions of dollars he desires to cut from the budget comes from things such as that. But millionaires can expect a big bonus from the enhanced tax cuts he wants to give them. It would be unbelievable except that it’s true. Want a choice on reproductive rights? Sorry. Want any rights at all except to remain in the working poor? Not with Romney-Ryan. You have the right to pay higher taxes if you’re poor and lower taxes if you’re rich. Meanwhile, Romney would like to take a wrecking ball to 50 years of foreign relations by restarting the Cold War with Russia. His provocative statements aimed at Moscow can only be designed to start a new arms race and remilitarization against the imaginary threat of the former Soviet Union. Remember that despite what they say, neither Romney nor Ryan is for smaller government. They want a much bigger military and a new bureaucracy to dole out entitlements to the rich. They only want a government that provides fewer benefits for the vast majority of people. They’re not against corporate welfare, just the welfare that helps poor people survive when hard times hit. As the late historian Howard Zinn wrote, “Dependency on government has never been bad for the rich. The pretense of the laissez-faire people is that only the poor are dependent on government, while the rich take care of themselves. This argument manages to ignore all of modern history, which shows a consistent record of laissezfaire for the poor, but enormous government intervention for the rich.” The Republicans will do their best over the next few months to portray President Obama as a radical president when, in reality, the addition of Paul Ryan means Romney ticket is the most radical and extreme in history. So the election, more so than before, is a good old-fashioned class and race war. The rich versus the poor. The plutocrats versus the have-nots. The bosses against the workers. White America versus non-white America. Don’t get caught up in the noise coming from the news media or from corporately controlled conservative talk radio. This is a choice between economic opportunity and a permanent underclass, between diplomacy and the Bush Doctrine of perpetual war and between the CEO class and the rest of us. Which side are you on?

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HOPPE Thinking of The Third Coast It’s our lake, too

BY DAVID HOPPE DHOPPE@NUVO.NET

had my eyes opened last week. My wife and I and a couple of friends went on a road trip. We started in Michigan City, Ind., and drove up the Michigan coast to the point where Lake Michigan meets another of the Great Lakes, Huron, at the Straits of Mackinac. Those of us living in Central Indiana can easily forget that part of this state’s northern edge is bordered by an inland sea. For us, the Indiana landscape tends to be flat, all the better for planting acre-upon-acre of corn and soybeans. Most of our water comes from rivers and streams, or manmade reservoirs and wells. It’s no wonder, then, that so many of us, upon first laying eyes on Lake Michigan, are liable to blurt out something to the effect that this sure doesn’t feel like Indiana. Lake Michigan gets its name from the Ojibwa Indians; it is believed to be a derivation of mishigami, or great water. The lake has a surface area of 22,400 square miles, making it the fifth largest lake in the world, and the most expansive to be found entirely within one country. Its deepest point is 923 feet and it offers 1,640 miles of shoreline. Our friends, being new to the area, had thought they could drive around the lake — it was just a lake, after all — in an afternoon. They got as far as the suburbs north of Chicago before realizing they were overmatched. I, on the other hand, spent a large part of my growing up on Lake Michigan beaches. I’d seen 12 and 14-foot waves, heard the stories about shipwrecks. I thought I understood something about the lake’s scale. But I had never seen the lake from its uppermost point. This was a revelation. In Central Indiana, when we want to feel a sense of space, we tend to look up. The sky provides us with evidence of something more expansive than ourselves. On Lake Michigan, you not only look up, you look out. The sheer vastness of it, the distance to the horizon, where the water meets the sky, is breathtaking. At the Straits of Mackinac, where an elegant suspension bridge connects the northern tip of Michigan’s mitten with the Upper Peninsula, you experience this by looking either west, across Lake Michigan, or east toward Lake Huron. On the map, this point

looks like a punctuation mark. Maps, though, often bear little resemblance to the landscapes they are meant to describe. In person, the magnitude of the strait is, at once, humbling and exhilarating. It can change the way you think about being a Midwesterner. The most beautiful view we found was from atop a 400-foot bluff along the Sleeping Bear Dunes, about a 30-minute drive west of Traverse City. The day we were there, sunlight turned the lake into massive bands of aquamarine and indigo. On the beach at Sleeping Bear Point, looking out to the islands of North and South Manitou, the rocks were rounded smooth and the bright, clear water shimmered around our ankles. The lake, of course, is not only a wonderful spiritual presence. It is a valuable resource. As Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers told Forbes magazine’s Ken Silverstein last May, “Water is the new oil.” If those of us living in Central Indiana didn’t know this before, we do now. This summer’s historic drought has underscored the dependence of our state’s way of life on its water supply. As Silverstein wrote, “Energy production is water-intensive and the vast supplies that are needed to run every type of power plant — natural gas, coal, nuclear and renewables — is not well understood.” According to the World Policy Institute, coal-and-oil-fired power plants, like the ones we are so reliant upon in Indiana, consume twice the water of gas-fired facilities, but use less water than nuclear plants. Corn-based bio-fuels like ethanol consume greater amounts of water than drilling for traditional oil. It’s no wonder there’s a large coal-burning plant beside the harbor in Michigan City. Or that oil giant BP has one of the nation’s largest oil refineries located on the lake in Whiting, Ind. On July 25, the Save the Dunes Foundation posted an alert to the effect that Enbridge, a multinational oil pipeline company, is preparing to expand existing oil pipelines in Indiana in order to move tar sands oil from Canada to BP’s Whiting refinery. Save the Dunes has requested public support for a hearing in order to learn how the State of Indiana plans to monitor and regulate this work, which will run across the Lake Michigan watershed (to learn more about this project, go to savedunes.org. It behooves Hoosiers, in whatever part of the state they live, to think of Lake Michigan as part of who they are. It’s our freshwater legacy, something that helps give shape to an understanding of what it means to be from this part of the Midwest. But it may also prove to be our state’s most important asset. How we treat Lake Michigan, and whether we are willing to stand up for its health and preservation, could determine what kind of state Indiana will be for years to come.

Those of us living in Central Indiana can easily forget that part of this state’s northern edge is bordered by an inland sea.

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THUMBSUP THUMBSDOWN GET CONNECTED

Advocates of innovations in the local transportation scene have plenty to celebrate this week. First, the city-county council approved a Complete Streets ordinance. Second, Indy Connect Day at the Indiana State Fair on Friday, Aug. 17 will provide advocates with a chance to energize Hoosiers about Indy Connect’s vision for the future of multi-modal transportation in Central Indiana. All the organizations in the Indy Connect partnership will be on hand to answer questions and host a series of experience stations, each highlighting a different form of transportation featured in the plan.

BLAMING THE VICTIM

The saga continues for Dynasty Young, the bullied, gay teen expelled last spring from Arsenal Technical High School last year after deploying a noise-emitting device (the electric charge component of the tool remained undeployed, Young’s attorneys claim) to deter oncoming attackers. IPS determined this month that Young would not be welcome back at Tech but instead would be sent to an alternative school. “The district failed to protect my son, and there are still lots of young students in IPS schools who won’t feel safe until the district makes some real changes,” Chelisa Grimes, Young’s mother, said in a news release issued by the National Center for Lesbian Rights. The case highlights the ongoing struggles of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender teens not just to achieve social parity, but, at times, to find basic security in the face of continuous physical and mental abuse. On a more positive note, however, the Indiana Youth Group will celebrate 25 years of support group services to LGBT youth at its anniversary dinner and dance beginning at 7 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 18 at Ft. Harrison Inn.

HONORING GREEN INNOVATION

As quaint as the notion of a garden party may seem, a statewide series of soirees planned for Saturday, Aug. 18 will illustrate the myriad ways in which Indiana’s gardens are breeding grounds for innovations in sustainable living. The celebrations are the brainchild of Sustainable Indiana 2016, which aims to foster “measureable progress toward sustainability by Indiana’s Bicentennial year 2016.” The various sites featured within Marion County include urban community gardens, a native species orchard, a science education garden, yard gardens and flower gardens. Several other parties are on tap statewide. Find locations at sustainableindiana2016.org under the “garden parties” tab.

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news Indianapolis budget season begins

Budget highlights

The proposed $1.1 billion budget included a planned appropriation of $595 million to the city-county general fund, the portion of the budget that officials can allocate to address priority needs. This represents a 4.6 percent increase over 2012, a reflection of increases in health care, pensions and fixed costs. The remaining portion of the budget is supported by dedicated funds, such as transportation funds or grants, which cannot be diverted from their intended purpose. Even with the boost to the general fund BY RE BE CCA T O W N S E N D appropriation, officials project a $65 million gap between projected revenue and expenses. RT O W N S E N D @ N U V O . N E T The mayor outlined several strategies for closing the gap, including a planned From hotel workers to ex-offenders savings of $5.5 million gained by forgoand domestic partnerships to Complete ing planned raises for police officers Streets — not to mention a budget presenand firefighters. tation from the mayor — the City-County “My administration has history of supCouncil tackled a wide variety of business porting police officers and firefighters,” Monday night. Ballard said, noting that he had granted The council signified its unified support cumulative salary increases totaling 14 for a Complete Streets ordinance, passing percent since 2008. it on to the mayor with a 28-0 vote. The “ Unfortunately we’re not in a position to measure institutionalizes a process that provide an additional 3 percent this year.” requires planners of new infrastructure In response to a question about his projects to consider the needs of all users decision to award $150,000 in raises to of the city’s streets — from cars and buses key members of his staff earlier this year, to cyclists and wheelchair users — and file Ballard said his decision reflected a desire a written explanation in cases that don’t to keep money-saving talent. meet the needs of all users. “Talent is what saved this city $800 milCouncilors divided along party lines lion when we were reworked the sewers. when they failed to override a mayoral veto Talent is what puts $300 million to $400 of the so-called Freedom to Work ordimillion of infrastrucnance. Republicans ture on the streets,” continued to insist he said. “I could save they’ve seen no evi$20,000 on a salary dence of blacklisting and hire somebody, practices that hotel but then the citizens workers have testidon’t save the $800 fied prevents workmillion … and we ers employed by don’t do all these temporary agencies other creative things from moving into like getting the pools permanent jobs in Councilor Benjamin Hunter fixed … we’re under Downtown hotels. budget on all that.” But five Overall, the proRepublicans joined posed budget would increase the general with Democrats to pass an ordinance to funds for the police and fire departments define “domestic partnerships” and proby $9.8 million and $4 million, respectively. vide benefits to city and county employOther cost-saving strategies include ees in such partnerships. elimination of the local homestead Councilor Benjamin Hunter, a credit, which would save $8.1 million and Republican representing District 21 only affect homes not already taxed at on the city’s Southeastside, said that the 1 percent rate cap dictated by state although his individual morals might not law. Killing the subsidy would increase align with the concept of domestic partlocal taxes on affected homes by an avernership, “I can’t cast my morals into law age of $24 per year. nor can I judge others.” For the councilors, as well as the heads Hunter said several considerations of several agencies within city-county guided his decision to support the ordigovernment who gathered at the council nance, including the benefits children chambers, Ballard’s budget presentation of such relationships stand to gain, the Monday night offered their first peek at equity gained in not choosing favorites his fiscal plans for 2013. in benefit distribution and the potential This marked a departure from years economic benefits the city stands to gain by promoting itself as a welcoming, past in which agency financial officers engaged in more collaborative planequitable municipality. ning efforts prior to the unveiling of the Mayor Greg Ballard at a news conference mayor’s initial budget proposal. Wednesday afternoon said he remained “We’re introducing today probably not undecided on the issue.

Council passes domestic partnership

“I can’t cast my morals into law nor can I judge others.”

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Democrats need more time to digest the mayor’s proposed budget, which they first received Monday night. At a press conference Monday night led by Council President Maggie Lewis, the Democrats said they would work to help pass a balanced budget, but highlighted several areas in which they look forward to greater analysis, particularly in the public safety arena. BELOW: Proponents of domestic partnership fill the chamber.

with the same level of communication we’ve had in the past, but that’s largely due to the timing of the information we got from the state and our new technology system,” said Ryan Vaughn, the mayor’s chief of staff. The council is required to pass the budget by the end of October, leaving plenty of time for in-depth discussions about its final shape, he added. As a result of the challenges Vaughn mentioned, Controller Jeff Spalding said his department “definitely had to scramble over the last couple weeks to get an introduced budget together and we’ve missed some of the back and forth exchange we normally would have.” Future budget exercises should benefit from updates to the city’s budgeting process, Spalding said, adding, “I do expect this process to actually get better for departments and agencies going forward.” Councilors did not have time to digest the mayor’s proposal for detailed feedback, but in a news conference following the presentation said they were worried about the public safety implications and would be watching to make sure that public safety would not be cut to a point that would jeopardize the city’s ability to qualify for public safety grants.

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Mayor Greg Ballard, flanked by Controller Jeff Spalding to the right and Chief of Staff Ryan Vaughn to the left, discussed their budget proposal with reporters on Monday

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Interactive rezoning aims to transform cityscape Officials seek inp input, willing to travel B Y REBE REBECCA CCA TO WN WNSEN SEN D R TO WN SEN D@ N UVO . N ET RTO NE If city planner Tammara Tracy has ha it right, Indy is on the cusp of a radical process proc e of transformation, akin to historical inn innovations such as architect Alexander Ralston’s Ralston’ original blueprint of the Circle City in in the the1820s, George Kessler’s Park and Boulevard Plan in 1909 and UniGov in 1970. The reason for her excitement: excitement Indy Rezone, an effort to nurture growth grow in the city’s sustainability and livability livab through a revision of zoning and an d development regulations. The effort aims to modernize antiquated a zoning codes that at times stymie stym urban to core revitalization efforts by adhering ad 1960s-era policies designed for the autofor centric culture (think requirements requirem large parking lots or large setbacks). setba “The built environment env n i affects virtually y every aspect of life, life f your fe economic health, ec development, deve v lop property taxes, prop crime,” Tracy crim said. said id ““The qualiity it y of the physical ph hy environe en v

Corps aims to finalize flood management

Rocky Ripple’s fate hangs in the balance A long-standing saga involving the Army Corps of Engineers, the City of Indianapolis, the Town of Rocky Ripple and the White River continues. As the Corps prepares to construct the final segment of a levee system aimed to provide better flood protection to an estimated 1,500 homes and businesses throughout the project area from Broad Ripple to Butler, the fate of Rocky Ripple remains uncertain. The Corps favored approach to completing the third and final segment of its Indianapolis North Flood Damage Reduction Project for the White River would exclude Rocky Ripple and, many residents fear, may exacerbate the flooding issues within the town.

Engineers have outlined several other options, as well, including a so-called Rocky Ripple alignment that would offer greater flood protection to the town's residents but dozens would lose their homes as eminent domain would necessitate the taking of an estimated 43 structures, including 22 riverside homes. The Corps is not currently promoting this plan because it will cost an estimated $35.9 million more than its favored option and would require Congressional involvement. The various proposals, along with renderings of how different scenarios would affect property and environment, are outlined in a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Study (DSEIS) available online at bit.ly/indynorth. A copy is also available at Central Library. The Corps will consider and respond to the collected feedback in a final study, which also will be subject to public review, before collaborating with the city to determine the project's ultimate scope and cost. The deadline to comment on the plan is Aug. 31. Digital responses may be emailed to michael.turner@usace.army.mil.

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ment, it can help how you live life and what you think about it because the built environment is what we’re all in every single day.” A city’s design can enhance feelings of safety or fear, calm or stress, Tracy said. As one example, she cited a study of 192 cities the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released this summer that found people were less obese in environments considered conducive to walking and biking. “Zoning isn’t exciting; it’s what you can accomplish with zoning that’s exciting,” Tracy said. City officials are not only soliciting as much involvement with the community as possible, they are bringing remote-control technology to their meetings. Arming every public participant with a remote, officials can gauge in real time and with great response rate, the crowd’s reaction to a series of questions to determine local residents’ opinions. The interactivity also forces participants to understand that each regulation carries tradeoffs, such as increased costs that mandated design requirements might seek in pursuit of greater public safety (such as more windows in buildings where vast walls face the streets) or environmental and aesthetic improvements (as requirements for greater tree plantings at new home sites would offer). So-called “neighborhood invigoration” meetings will be held throughout the fall and winter with the goal of developing draft proposals next spring and summer. The goal is to finish by March 2014. Officials are interested in working with all sorts of community groups to provide as many meetings to as many city residents as possible. Because these policies affect everyone’s quality of life, Tracy said she hopes to see a wide variety of ideas proposed and constructive criticism levied. “Every voice can make a difference,” she said. In conjunction with ordinance updates, the city will also revise the development regulations for government projects. A group of 45 officials from the police

department, the prosecutor’s office and the department of metropolitan development took intensive seminars in crime prevention through environmental design. The Indy Rezone effort sprang from a $1.19 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities. Indy provided a 40 percent match totaling just under $2 million in in-kind services. Only 42 communities of the 586 that applied received HUD awards. The website indyrezone.org contains a wealth of information on the project, including opinion poll questions and a calendar of meetings. In related urban environment news, City-County Councilor John Barth, an atlarge Democrat, will host a hearing on a draft proposal crafted by the young attorneys section of the Indianapolis Bar, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful and members of the City-County Council to address the blight of vacant lots and abandoned homes that continues to scar sections of the city. The hearing is set for 5:30 p.m., Monday, Aug. 20, in the John H. Boner Community Center gym, 2236 E. 10th St. UPCOMING INDY REZONE MEETING @ Marion County Alliance of Neighborhood Associations Time: 9-11 a.m. Date: Saturday, Aug. 18 Place: 3808 N. Meridian St. @ Smart Growth District Public Workshop No. 1 Time: 6-8 p.m. Date: Wednesday, Aug. 22 Place: Douglass Park Family Center, 1616 E. 25th St. @ Nora-Northside Community Council Time: 7:30-9 p.m. Date: Thursday, Sep. 6 Place: Nora Library, 8625 Guilford Ave.

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fter a long and perilous journey, you and your companions finally reach your destination — a sparkling hall filled with marvelous treasures that defy imagination. You want to hurry through the gates and dive headfirst into the riches beyond, but surrounding every entrance are the scariest assortment of ghouls, demons and dudes in three wolf moon T-shirts ever assembled. As you make your way closer to the door, you shout out, “Hey, is that Joss Whedon?” and when everyone looks in the opposite direction, you and your compatriots rush through the door. Clutching a laminated pass, your eyes take in amazing sights. Hundreds of tables covered with nearly every role-playing or fantasy card game known to man. Dungeons & Dragons sets come to life and Warrior women in more chain-mail bikinis than you can shake a sword at. You’ve arrived at Gen Con: Appropriate for ages 8 and up, with proper adult supervision.

Gen Con is the largest gaming convention in the world, attracting tens of thousands of role players, board-game aficionados, cosplayers and more to Indianapolis in August. More than 8,500 events are scheduled during the four days of the convention; more than 300 vendors and artists will sell their wares. Jake Theis, senior marketing communications manager for Gen Con, estimates close to 50 new games will debut over the weekend. Gen Con has been a huge success for the city and vice versa. The Indianapolis Convention and Visitors Association estimates that it had a $36 million economic impact on the city last year, with attendees coming from as far away as Germany and Japan. Promoters have agreed to keep the

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convention in Indy through 2020. Theis said Mayor Greg Ballard will be on hand during the weekend — Gen Con’s 10 th in Indianapolis — to issue a special proclamation. Jondi Soper, who will attend her seventh Gen Con next week, calls the event “nerd heaven.” “It’s a place where I feel I belong, among nerdy people who are interested in most of the same sort of stuff that I am,” Soper said. “The first year I went, I was going through a bad breakup, but a friend dragged me along. When I walked through the doors, I forgot all the troubles in my life. For four days, I was on cloud nine, playing games and seeing all the people and costumes. That first time will always hold a special place in my heart.” The twin Gallifreyan hearts of the convention are probably the vendor room, where exhibitors show off their latest wares, and the gaming room, open 24 hours a day. Dozens of game companies will allow attendees to be among the first to ever play — and buy — their offerings. “Almost every imaginable game is going to be played at some point over the weekend,” Theis said. “Gen Con has been around for 45 years, so we have multiple generations of players, parents and kids, all playing these games together.” Chelie Herthel, co-owner of Saltire Games in Lawrence and one of the sponsors of the convention, said board games are stronger than ever in the U.S., due in part to the stillstruggling economy. “It can cost $120 for a family of four to go to dinner and the movies, but only $60 for a nice board game they can play again and again,” Herthel said. Considering the amount of activities planned — the introduction of Star Trek Catan (a sci-fi take off on the popular Settlers of Catan board game), the inaugural Magic: The Gathering World Cup, and the tapping of the official beer of Gen Con, Sun King’s Ale of Destiny, to name just a few — the $80 price tag for a four-day pass seems almost criminally cheap for the hardcore gamer. Theis said the biggest news

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will likely come from Wizards of the Coast, which will announce major changes to the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game in front of an expected capacity crowd. Local fan Stephen King (not the horror author) claims he stayed awake almost the entire four days of his first Gen Con, spending the time he would have been sleeping in the 24-hour gaming room. “There’s almost too much going on the entire time,” King said. “You’re always making tough choices about what to do.” Another big attraction is the auction room, where gamers bring their forgotten and hard-to-find games to be sold to the highest bidder. Last year, the games ranged from the forgotten (such as Finance and Fortune, a 1936 Monopoly rip-off), to the tasteless (a 1970s-era Sinking of the Titanic game that had the cardboard luxury liner sink under the waves) to the undeniably odd (Medfly, another 1970s game that pitted California Gov. Jerry Brown against the agricultural scourge). Hundreds of attendees make periodic stops to check out upcoming auctions, prowling for a long-lost game from their childhood.

One of the highlights for many attendees is the 45,000 square-foot True Dungeon game, sort of a Dungeons & Dragons game come to life. Groups of adventurers can choose among several different quests, each requiring puzzle-solving skills and teamwork. In order for each group’s wizard to cast a spell or the paladin to attack, the individual must perform a skill-appropriate test. If he or she passes, the group moves on; if not … well, not everyone’s character makes it out alive. Have a significant other who prefers more down-to-earth activities? Gen Con hosts

more than 60 events like wine tasting, yoga and knitting to keep them occupied while you’re on a quest.

You’re likely to see more redshirts and Star Fleet insignia than in previous years. Nichelle Nichols, who played Lt. Uhura during the original series and subsequent movies, and Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Wil Wheaton will be the guests of honor at Gen Con this year. A geek icon of the highest order, Wheaton is a well-known gaming fanatic, hosting the Table Top series on fellow Internet celebrity Felicia Day’s Geek and Sundry YouTube channel. It’s likely the frequent Big Bang Theory guest star would be attending the event even if he wasn’t being paid by the promoters. (Rumors that he’s being paid in 20-sided die and Magic: The Gathering cards couldn’t be confirmed.) Local favorites Five Year Mission were so excited about Wheaton being at this year’s Gen Con, band member Andy Fark started a Twitter campaign to get him to their convention show. “I posted a generic comment like … come see Five Year Mission at Gen Con and had our fans repost it on Twitter,” Fark said. “We never know what it’s going to take to get a star’s attention so we figured it would never get a reply. After just a couple of hours of our fans tweeting like crazy, he responded with something like, ‘I get it. But now you’re just spamming me.’ We apologized immediately and had our fans back down. He took it in stride and accepted our apology and said, ‘No hard feelings. It’s pretty awesome that you have so many enthusiastic fans!’ Hopefully we didn’t scare him off too bad, and we might still be able to convince him to at least stop by the show or at least hand him a CD or two.”

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As to be expected of a band that’s not only named after a phrase in the original Star Trek opener, but also crafting a song for each of the series’ 79 episodes, the band members are all hardcore geeks. Even if they weren’t playing Friday night at the Westin Ballroom II, they’d still be walking the convention floor, taking in the sights and sampling the gaming wares. Fark hopes this year’s gig will be less smelly than last year’s performance.

“When we played at The Tilt Arcade, they asked us to park at the loading dock in the basement,” Fark said. “It turned out the basement was also the site for multiple dumpsters and grease traps from local restaurants. The smell was awful. It wafted all the way up to the fourth floor through the service elevator. It was so bad that by the end of the night, we smelled like hot, wet garbage. I actually had to throw away the shirt I was wearing.” Indy-based world-music band il Troubadore will be playing more otherworldly tunes when they perform their Klingon ballet Friday afternoon. Titled wa’ SaD ram wa’ ram je – which translates to “One Thousand Nights and a Night in Terran” — is the story of a Klingon warrior who returns to his homeworld after 10 years only to find that his wife, believing he perished in battle, — searching for a new mate. Unrecognizable by friends and family as a result of his battle scars, he must triumph in a song competition to win back his wife. If he fails, he dies. Because the ballet will be performed entirely in the original Klingon, the musicians will be in full costume (it’d be fairly silly otherwise). Local belly dancers in interstellar garb will perform alongside the band, who will also be part of the roving entertainment throughout the convention. “I think what we enjoy most is just the response of convention attendees to us,” said the Klingon Music Project’s Jon

Silpayamanant. “More than half the time we spend at any convention is usually getting our picture taken with someone — that’s part of the fun! I think for all of us it will just be great to experience the convention as a whole rather than on sporadic days when we happen to have some time. We’re pretty much going to be there from the beginning until the end.” The highlight for most fans is walking the convention floor and coming face to face with a living, breathing Orc, zombie or superhero. For many of the cosplayers, the convention is the culmination of up to a year’s work on a costume. “I’ve been playing dress up since I was a little girl,” said Amanda Lupfer, aka Mixtress Mandy. “I had a huge box of costumes, secondhand prom dresses, and tons of shoes. I almost never wore real clothes when I was at home. My favorite as a child was to dress up as Sailor Moon and run around the house and telling anyone who would listen, ‘In the name of the moon, I will punish you!’” Soper — who goes by the moniker Ruby Red among her D20 Girls cosplay collective — majored in costume design in college, giving her the needed skills to put together some intriguing costumes, like Cheetara of the Thundercats and My Little Pony’s Twilight Sparkle, as well as a Doctor Whothemed TARDIS dress that always gets comments. Cosplay is a growing passion for her, and she dreams of one day having enough money to be able to create more intricate costumes. She said some of the more complicated costumes can cost thousands of dollars to construct.

Not all cosplayers are as skilled with a needle and thread or glue gun. An oldschool Nintendo nerd, Lauren Guilkey has only been cosplaying a short time, but is quickly becoming a star on the convention circuit thanks to her portrayals of sexy characters such as Black

Widow and Silken Floss from the Spirit comic book. She’s had costumes specifically made for her by designers, but she’s just as comfortable piecing together an outfit from Goodwill finds. All of the cosplayers interviewed encouraged fans to approach them for photos and to ask questions about their costumes. “I love the looks that people give me when I pump gas in a maid outfit, go to a bar in my Victorian bustle dress, walk through Target in a Doctor Who inspired outfit, or go to Panda Express as a Sailor,” Lupfer said. “I think I’ve made it a must to go to a normal place in costume at least once per convention.” Guilkey will host a cosplay-themed party Thursday night at Blu nightclub, which is sure to attract a huge crowd. Whether it’s at the party or on the convention floor, you don’t necessarily need to roll a 20 charisma score in order to get to know some of the cosplayers better. Lupfer says fans of her cosplay often ask her out, and she’s said yes in the past. “As long as I’m not seeing someone already, I will usually at least give them a chance,” Lupfer said. “I mean, we obviously already have things in common.” She’s not alone. Soper admits one of her costumed friends met her now ex-boyfriend at a Bloomington horror convention. But both advise budding lotharios to be genuine and courteous.

“Most guys at the conventions are aware of what they can and can’t get away with; they’re pretty respectful,” Soper said. “If they want to get to know you better, there are plenty of public places at the convention to go and have fun or sit down and talk. A lot of the smaller conventions will even have speed dating (with people in costume)!” But cosplay isn’t just about getting slobbered on by adoring fans. One of the most popular events at Gen Con is Saturday’s costume contest. Hundreds are expected to enter, but only a handful will walk away with coveted medal. Having an intricate costume can help your chances, but several cosplayers said the person behind the latex and makeup is the most important element. “The key component to cosplaying is enthusiasm,” said Lupfer, a self-confessed “half-elf sorcerer with an abyssal bloodline” in the popular Pathfinder role-playing game. “It doesn’t matter how good your costume is, who you are cosplaying, or how much it cost. If you are lackluster, it ruins all the hard work. Someone can have bought a $500 custom-made cosplay but if they look like they don’t care to be wearing it, the little girl in the hand-me-down cheap Halloween costume whose smile never leaves her face is the better cosplayer.” Soper echoed similar thoughts. “Your costume doesn’t have to look exactly like the character,” Soper said, “but you should capture the essence of the character. Put in a little bit of yourself, and let your personality shine through.”

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When Aug. 16-19

Where

Officially sanctioned events in Indiana Convention Center and surrounding hotels; unauthorized happenings throughout downtown

Tickets

4-day badge: $80; 1-day badge: $50 Thu-Sat, $30 Sun; VIP and family packages available (gencon.com); children 8 and under free with parent (child care available at $12/hour)

Author guest of honor:

Brandon Sanderson, author of the Mistborn series and the final installments to Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series (left incomplete with Jordan's death), creative writing teacher at Brigham Young

Media guests of honor:

Wes Bentley, Seneca Crane in The Hunger Games; Nichelle Nichols, Lt. Uhura on Star Trek; Wil Wheaton, Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation

Artist guest of honor:

Dungeons and Dragons veteran Todd Lockwood

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Indiana Grown & Artisan Foods

DuPont Food Pavilion, 9 a.m.- 9 p.m. This daily event features Indiana-based retailers bringing a top-end farmers’ market to the fair. Aside from the 30-plus Indiana-made specialty foods, the event features sampling sessions sure to put those little, corporate shill-manned carts at the grocery store in harsh, locally sourced perspective. Free with admission.

Celebrity Milking Contest Livestock Nursery, 11:30 a.m.

With a milk, milk here and a squeeze, squeeze there, the Celebrity Milking Contest returns to the fair this year. With nothing but ego on the line, celebrities from around the state compete to see who is most at one with the udder. Fan-favorite First Lady Cheri Daniels is on the line to defend her title. Free with admission.

Old-Time Farm and Antique Auction Pioneer Village, 10 a.m.

In the market for something beyond retro? How about the practical and bucolic curios found in antiques at this auction? We recommend a tetanus shot before any sustained interaction with rusty blades. Free with admission.

Habitat for Humanity Ag Home Build North of Orscheln Farm & Home FFA Pavilion, 9 a.m. - 7 p.m.

For the third year in a row, Habitat for Humanity is constructing a home on the fairgrounds. Volunteers in the hundreds will help construct the home out of agriculturally derived building materials — like soy-based carpeting and Indiana hardwood cabinets — from about two dozen agricultural companies. As the house takes shape over the course of the fair, it’s open to any member of the public curious about how a house is built or how Habitat for Humanity runs a build. Once complete, movers take the house from the fairgrounds to its final address, perhaps the most impressive part of the process. Free with admission.

2012 State Fair Queen Erika Burghardt

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Underground Railroad in Indiana

Pepsi Coliseum, noon

The bureaucratic mouthful that is the Department of Natural Resources’ Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology (DNR’s DHPA) presents an informative survey of Underground Railroad operations in Indiana before and during the Civil War. After unearthing hundreds of spots around the state used by slaves and their protectors, the DHPA has highlighted those of special interest. Free with admission.

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Sausagefest @ St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church Can’t think of a more appropriate place to hold a Sausagefest than on the grounds of a Catholic Church, where persons of the female persuasion still aren’t considered well enough equipped to lead worship services; you see, their lady parts draw all the blood from their brain, rendering them incapable of investigating the higher truths. But we kid, and we know that the rank and file of a church doesn’t necessarily represent its leadership; and so we embrace Sausagefest, an annual fundraiser for St. Thomas Aquinas dedicated all manner of cured meats and featuring adult gaming, a wine garden (new this year) and a fun lineup of up-and-coming bands alongside familiar faces (Jon Martin, Gary Wasson) and one-off, sausage-themed bands (Sausage Kings).

Indiana’s top ten county fair queens compete to become the State Fair Queen, judged in two categories, professional wear and formal wear. The latter category includes a question to answer onstage. The top four runners-up will make up the queen’s court and Miss Congeniality (as voted by the contestants) also will be announced. The winner will travel to other county fairs next summer to promote the state fair and will be the official hostess for the 2013 fair. $6.

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Feast of Lanterns @ Spades Park No, the lanterns aren’t edible, wise guy; but if they were, there would be enough for a mighty banquet. Hundreds of ‘em will light up Spades Park at dusk in one of our city’s trippiest moments. Music starts in the afternoon with Il Troubadore, Innocent Boys and Dancin’ Nancies; grizzled rockabilly guitarist Art Adams is the headliner, starting after the lighting, with Indiana Boys wrapping things up. From 12 p.m. @ Hamilton and Massachusetts Avenues, free (donations accepted; sponsorship opportunities available), facebook.com/IndyFeast

More from First Friday by Dan Grossman and Charles Fox Symphony on the Prairie review by Rita Kohn

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Out West @ The Eiteljorg

Aug. 17 and 18, 6 p.m.-midnight @ 4600 N. Kenwood Ave., free, staindy.org

Indiana State Fair Queen Pageant

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The emphasis is on the “Out” for this afternoon-long event exploring the contributions of the LGBT community to the American West. Gregory Hinton, who first curated the event for the Autry Museum in L.A., will be in town to tell stories of LGBT western lore, alongside Jim Wilke, a former rodeo competitor turned historian of the American West (and now a member of the L.A. Gay Rodeo Association). They’ll also lead a gallery tour focusing on work with significance to LGBT history, notably pieces by modernist painter and poet Marsden Hartley and 19thcentury mountain man Alfred Jacob Miller. Out West concludes with Beyond Brokeback, a staged reading of essays by members of the Ultimate Brokeback Forum, a fan website devoted to the film Brokeback Mountain, presented in collaboration with the Indiana Repertory Theatre. The film itself will be screened prior to the reading. 1:30 event begins, 3:30 p.m. Brokeback Mountain screening, 7 p.m. Beyond Brokeback @ 500 W. Washington St., free with museum admission ($8 adults; discounts for seniors, students, members), eiteljorg.org

WEDNESDAY

Jimmy Pardo @ Morty’s Comedy Joint You may have never seen Jimmy Pardo’s work, but you’ve probably known his impact. Pardo started as warmup comedian for Conan O’Brien when O’Brien hosted The Tonight Show and has followed him to his latest show on TBS. In addition to priming the pump on the nightly basis, he also hosts a web series, The Pardo Patrol, featuring followup interviews with celebrity guests on Conan. Pardo also hosts the comedy podcast Never Not Funny, in addition to his work as a standup that brings him to Indy for a one-off, mid-week show. Aug. 22, 8 p.m. @ 3625 E. 96th St., $15 (with two-item minimum), mortyscomedy.com

Interview with Gayla Hudson by Rita Kohn

GALLERIES

Mass Ave Criterium coverage by Mark Lee Fun at the State Fair by Brandon Knapp

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Nicky Hayden at the 2011 Red Bull MotoGP

A wide-open field, full of privateers MotoGP goes indie BY LORI LOVELY EDITORS@NUVO.NET This weekend, the world’s premier motorcycle world championship returns to Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the sixth consecutive year, bringing with it the suspense of a tight battle for the points lead and the drama of new specifications, new rules and rumors of new teammates for the 2013 MotoGP season. Much of the drama this year comes from the introduction of independent Claiming Rule Teams to the circuit, a new initiative designed to attract privateer entries (i.e. teams without the support of a manufacturer) to compete alongside factory-supported teams racing prototypes. They use a production-based 1000cc engine based on models for sale to the public and a prototype chassis for a fraction of the cost of factory-sponsored teams. Each Claiming Rule Team must be approved by the Grand Prix Commission, but it is then granted concessions in terms of fuel tank capacity and engine changes in an attempt at parity. Like the wild card entries that provide aspiring riders with an opportunity to demonstrate their skills at an individual race, the CRT rule adds an element of excitement and drama to the top level of motorcycle racing. It is not, however, without some drawbacks due to the understandable disadvantages of competing without factory support. One experienced rider is learning firsthand about the challenges of representing a Claiming Rule Team. Although he likes his NGM Mobile Forward Racing team, MotoGP rider Colin Edwards is frustrated

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with his Suter-BMW. “It would be nice to win again,” he says. “I’d like to line up on the grid near the front.” The 38-year-old Edwards, known as the “Texas Tornado,” whose best finish at the IMS was fifth in 2009, doesn’t expect to be at the front of the grid at this week’s Red Bull Indianapolis GP. He believes the high front engine mount location of his BMW S1000RR is one of the problems, contributing to vibration and engine noise through the handlebars, but there are other issues as well. “My problems are from the starting line to the last corner, and everything in between,” he complains. Getting a little more specific, he says, “We’ve struggled with the electronics. The engine needs more power, the chassis is rigid, there are traction control issues and the bike feels too small. It feels like I’m sitting on top of the bike.” Pulling off the seats and “crunching up” helps him feel more “in” the bike, but it comes at a price. “I’ll deal with my legs and knees later in life.” The team’s ability to find a base setup and work on their technical issues is hampered by a diminished development schedule that puts them farther behind the prototype teams as the season evolves. “The prototypes are developing,” Edwards points out. “They’re getting faster and farther away from us.” Once the most dominant amateur American rider and a two-time World Superbike champion, Edwards glumly concludes he’ll “make do with what we’ve got.”

Season of change

Edwards and his cohorts are facing other challenges. This year’s Moto GP bikes are 1000cc, as opposed to last year’s 800cc, and the increase in power has required some refinement of riding style through the turns. The change allows teams to use a production-based engine that provides high performance at a lower cost. But thanks to the GRAND-AM race at IMS, extra rubber should improve the grip level for the bikes, as will some new asphalt on the track. Although Edwards has lowered his expectations for the Red Bull race, and even popular American rider Nicky Hayden, who considers IMS his home track, thinks he and Ducati teammate Valentino Rossi don’t

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The Yamaha Girls at the 2011 Red Bull MotoGP.

have a realistic shot at the podium, others seem almost unstoppable. One of those – Jorge Lorenzo, points leader and 2010 World Champion – will welcome seven-time Italian champion Rossi to the factory Yamaha team next year. Meanwhile, he’s dominating the field this year, having scored wins in half of the first 10 races. Chasing Lorenzo – who, ironically, might replace him next year at Repsol Honda – is reigning Moto GP world champion Casey Stoner. This is the 27-year-old rider’s last chance to rack up a win here before he retires at the end of the season. After two early-season wins, Stoner, who has been critical of the increase in engine size that led to the departure of Kawasaki and Suzuki, announced that he lost his passion for the sport. A new baby and painful arm cramps are rumored to have contributed to his decision to leave. “This sport has changed a lot and it has changed to the point where I am not enjoying it,” Stoner explains. “I don’t have the passion for it and so at this time it’s better if I retire.” His passion hasn’t completely evaporated yet, however. In assessing his prospects for another title, he adds, “I’m World Champion and I do not give up so easily.” Stoner’s Repsol Honda teammate, Dani Pedrosa, is also contending for the championship. Issues with chatter and tires haven’t hampered his consistency this season, leaving him only 23 points back. Indiana-based GPTech is eager to put four-time AMA National Champion Aaron Yates on the grid at IMS as one of the CRT wildcard entries. GPTech teamed up with MCJ Motorsports for engine development of the Suzuki GSX-R1000 and turned to BCL Motorsports to manufacture their custom-built chassis. Practice for the Moto GP (1000cc), Moto2 (600cc) and Moto3 (250cc) classes begins Aug. 17. For the second consecutive year, the AMA Pro Vance & Hines XR1200 Series returns, featuring spec Harley-Davidson XR1200 machines with limited modifications. The formula is designed to highlight rider skill and provides competitive sideby-side racing.

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In a pinch, a boar’s head can provide UV protection from the sun’s rays, as Going, Going Gone playwright John Thomas demonstrates.

Going, Going, Gone

Ed’s dead. Want his stuff? It looks a bit like the gift table at a hillbilly wedding: sock monkeys sit atop a boar’s head, a Jerry Falwell audiobook stares corpulently across at a genuine Flowbee. But Lou Harry and John Thomas aren’t celebrating their nuptials (they’re strictly creative partners). Rather, they’ve invited friends and family to a early August pitch-in with the notion of collecting strange and unwanted knickknacks as props for their 2012 Fringe show Going, Going, Gone. More about that pile in the sidebar; for now, we’ll tell you more about the show, an interactive, improvised affair that will begin when audience members are handed a cache of Monopoly money — which has real purchase value in the world of Going, Going, Gone. “Ed, who owned Ed’s Auction House for 40 years, has died,“ Harry says of the minimal plot of the show. “As the audience comes in, they are hearing the last auction of the stuff he was supposed to sell. When the show starts, two actors set up to the audience that they found these boxes of stuff in his office, his personal stuff, [and] everything has to go.” The six Fringe performances will star two different actors each time, each with a different relationship to Ed. “In some performances,” Harry says, “it might be his first ex-wife and third ex-wife. [The actors] know as much about each other and their relationship to Ed as their characters would know. So if they’re playing the business manager and the son who hasn’t been home for 30 years, they have a limited amount of information.” In addition, the actors have no script and no previous knowledge of the items to be auctioned. “Lou and I both like the quick comeback,” Thomas says, “So, we thought it would be fun to do a play about reacting to things. We also both like things that are

very well organized and edited. This isn’t going to be that.” But with 10 actors for six performances and two actors slated per show, the math simply doesn’t add up. “We haven’t decided what we’re going to do for the last night,” Thomas says. “Everything else is up in the air, why not make this up in the air?” Harry and Thomas have assembled some of the best talent in the city for the cast: Diane Kondrat and Matt Roland, Rob and Jen Johansen, Scott Greenwell and Paul Hansen, Karen Irwin and Ed Wank, and Claire Wilcher and John Patrick Cohen. “We wanted to do a show that took advantage of the acting pool here,” Harry says. “I love the idea of using the talent that is here. Four of the people in our show are in other Fringe shows, but because they were only doing one, we were able to work around their schedule.” Harry refers to the rehearsal process for this improv piece as a “workshop” that centered on conversations about each artist’s relationship to their stuff. “Objects somehow stick around,” Harry says. “But there’s only so many objects we can have in our life. There are only so many things that fit into our apartment and our houses. And there is next to nothing that we take along with us afterward. [This play] has altered my awareness of the objects in my life.” For Harry, dealing with the belongings of a loved one who has passed is an especially raw issue. Around the time he and Thomas met for lunch and decided to pursue this piece last winter, Harry’s teenage daughter died. “When my daughter died, part of what we had to figure out was what to do with her stuff,” Harry explains. “What we ended up doing in that case, we had an open house for all of her friends to come in and go through her clothes and take shoes … to take something personal. That turned out to be one of the most satisfying things that happened over the last couple of months. Just knowing that that stuff has gone out into the world with different people.” Working on a piece about death placed a big elephant in the room when it came to the actors. Because they knew of Harry’s loss, they were sensitive to his perspective in rehearsal. But Harry insisted they look beyond his own bereavement process. “I tell them don’t let any of that keep you from going wherever this goes,” Harry says. “In a way this is my opportunity to stare death in the face. So don’t be shy if it goes dark, if it goes funny, if it goes silly, if it goes really moving and nostalgic. What we found is, in any pair of actors, all of that happened.” This will be Thomas’ first Fringe in Indy, though he did experience the largest Fringe Festival in the world at Edinburgh, Scotland. As for Harry, he’s an old pro when it comes to the IndyFringe scene, whether reviewing shows as a critic for the Indianapolis Business Journal or seeing his own work mounted on stage. Harry and Thomas hope to take Going, Going, Gone to other Fringe Festivals, in addition to more non-traditional venues.“We are open to the idea of working out some way that it might be useful to nonprofits who are doing auctions as part of their fundraisers,” Harry says. — KATELYN COYNE

FIVE THINGS YOU MIGHT BID ON AT GOING, GOING, GONE

A WILD BOAR’S HEAD:

Donated by artist Emma Overman; shot by her husband’s sister’s ex-boyfriend.

Breaking Rank! If you want to speak out, speak out

In 1966, Howard Petrick’s number came up and he was drafted against his will into the Army. During his years of service, he actively spoke out against the Vietnam war to fellow troops, to the general public, to anyone who would listen. When he was threatened with a court martial, his case became a civil liberties cause concerning the right of free speech for GIs. More than 40 years later, he shares his story in his show Breaking Rank! NUVO: How was your case as a reluctant draftee different from others? HOWARD PETRICK: I was the first guy to go in and actively organize against the war without breaking the rules. Some other guys, previously, who were opposed to the war would eventually refuse an order to do something. Then [the Army] would just arrest them and throw them in the stockade after a court martial. I consciously decided that I would be like the good solider; I would do everything I was told to do, but I would insist on being able to speak about the war when I was off duty and on my own time. NUVO:: To whom did you speak?

A FAMILY OF SOCK MONKEYS:

A mostly matching set, but for one adopted sock monkey with colors wildly different from the rest. JERRY FALWELL EXPLAINS CREATIONISM (EIGHT-CASSETTE COLLECTION):

Darwin turns in his grave as Jerry’s ancestor rides a stegosaurus. CHAIRMAN MAO COLLECTIBLES:

A slightly creepy selection of Mao-obilia.

PETRICK: I spoke at a national antiwar conference. I spoke to guys in the barracks and all over the base every chance I got. I found out some guys were receptive to antiwar stuff, and I just kept going from there. I went to college campuses and spoke too. NUVO: How did you decide to turn this into a theatrical piece? PETRICK: That happened pretty much by mistake. The short story is I took a class from a playwright and director in San Francisco, who is a real genius at finding the story in people. I did it because I was a documentary filmmaker several years ago, and I wanted to see how he talked to people. I thought that would help me to interview people. He told me I had to get up and do something. We talked about my Army experiences, and he said to write that up for next week. From that, I went on and eventually I had about over three and a half hours of material. So far I’ve performed it at different Fringe Festivals and had an eight-week run at The Marsh Theater in Berkeley. NUVO: And what do you feel is the message of this piece?

A FLOWBEE:

“One day I was in my garage — and being a carpenter, you get sawdust in your hair. And I was cleaning the sawdust out of my hair and needing a haircut desperately — I’d go about three months back then without getting a haircut — and I was going, ‘What if I could have blades up there and set the length?’ And that was about seven years ago, and since then we’ve sold hundreds of thousands of FlowBees.”

PETRICK: I’m just hoping that people sort of take this to heart and understand that they have to go out and constantly fight for their rights. I’ve learned a lot of people remember what happened in the ’60s and ’70s — fighting for women’s rights and gay rights and against the war and in the civil rights movement. Even though [these rights] are constantly being attacked and in some areas eroded, I think there are still people who want to do something. — KATELYN COYNE

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The facebook me cast poses during an August rehearsal at the IndyFringe Basile Theatre. From left: Izabella Robinson, Gabi Ritt er, Alli Russell, Ldyia Egan, Ayanna Sanders, Anna Rankin, Raine Miller, Kylie Clause and Rachel Daugherty.

facebook me Embrace your boobs

“I think teenage girls get a bad stereotype as being whiny and stupid and shallow,” Meg McInerny calls out to Allie Russell, a redheaded teen perched unsurely on a darkened stage. “Your problems aren’t trivial. They’re real, they’re important, they matter.” Whispers trickle in from the corner of the room — the peanut gallery is restive — as Russell contemplates her next move. She shoots a nervous smile at her friends, then breaks character: “But I still don’t know what to do.” “Just stand there,” McInerny urges. “Don’t smile. Just breathe.” Russell fights a grin, but slowly her physique relaxes and she moves into the scene. The setting is the IndyFringe Basile Theatre, which will soon host facebook me, the next play in the Young Actors Theatre (YAT) “Teenz Issues” series, during this year’s Fringe Festival. Russell is one of the 10 teenage girls in the cast. They are using very little set, just two black boxes and a slew of laptops and cell phones as props. McInerny is one of the founding members of the Arts Effect All Girls Company in New York City. She’s traveled to Indy with Katie Cappiello, the playwright of facebook me, to work with the YAT cast. McInerny is tall, strawberry blonde and freckled while Cappiello is shorter, with curly, dark brown hair. Both have a commanding presence. While McInerny works with the girls onstage, Cappiello sits in the back with Catherine and Justin Wade, the brother-sister duo that runs YAT. Catherine is the director of facebook me and associate artistic director of YAT. Justin, the executive artistic director, has popped in to watch the process.

The origin story

YAT has been around since 1976. Catherine and Justin participated in the company when they were younger, then took it over in 2005, at a time when it was in serious need of fresh blood. They made significant changes during the first year. In years prior, students ranging from kindergarten to 12th grade were lumped together in the same class, something of a one-room schoolhouse located in the former (and founding) director’s basement. The Wades split up those age groups, creating three companies within the YAT framework: Youngsterz (grades K-2), Kidz (3-7) and Teenz (8-12).

YAT has seen a rise in membership since the Wades took over: 170 students studied in spring 2012, compared to the approximately 50 students in 2004. Justin projects that 175 will study this fall, and YAT serves even more students through in-school programs. Through their “Teenz Issues” series — created in 2009 and of which facebook me is a part — the Wades seek to “make teenagers and guardians aware of the warning signs and dangers of [a] specific issue,” according to a mission statement. The most recent play staged in the series was Dog Sees God, a polemic against homophobic bullying featuring grown-up Peanuts characters. “I started doing teens issues plays because the youth of Indianapolis are dealing with the issues of bullying, violence, drug abuse, eating disorders, depression, and on and on every day,” Justin said. “It is the perfect meeting grounds for young people to come from every side of town to the Downtown area and watch their peers put on an entertaining show that sets up a community discussion afterwards.”

Facebook fervor

Facebook me was written in the fall 2010, based on problems a group of girls from the Arts Effect All Girls Company in New York were dealing with at the time. “When we graduated from NYU, acting was exciting and fun, but we felt like there was so much more to theatre,” Cappiello said. “We thought about when we were girls, preteens or teens, and how it would’ve been so cool to have a place, a creative place, where we could come together with a community of girls and just be really open and honest about our experiences. Theater was the obvious forum in which to engage in conversations with peers, parents and the larger community” When facebook me was first developed, it was in the middle of the rapid growth of the company. “The first day of class, when we were hearing about the girls’ summers, hearing about what was going on with them, they had all these stories, as always, but we noticed something new, which was that everything was linking back to Facebook,” Cappiello said. McInerny added, “Everything. Fights with their parents, how many likes they got on a certain picture, the dynamics between their friends, everything. Everything was linked to Facebook for the first time. It’s changing the rules. We looked at each other and thought: we have to capture this.” Through overlapping dialogue, intertwining stories and projections from ever-present social media, facebook me does just that.

It tells the stories of 10 girls — in real time — for an hour of their lives on a Friday afternoon. “Everyone growing up has experienced a lot of the same issues, whether it’s peer pressure, drama with your parents, friends, sex, drugs, all of that,” McInerny said. “We went through the same thing. But now, it’s different because we have Facebook. So now there’s a public platform and the choices you make are permanent.” The play first premiered at the New York International Fringe Festival. Pauline Moffat, executive director of IndyFringe, got in touch with McInerny and Cappiello and told them YAT was looking for a Teenz Issues play to present at this year’s Fringe Festival. Everything just clicked. “We love Justin and Catherine,” Cappiello said, “Totally have a similar vibe.” “And philosophy about theater and working with kids,” McInerny was quick to chime in. “So it’s been great.”

Stop acting

When Cappiello and McInerny came to YAT, the girls in the cast had only had six rehearsals, but it was obvious they’d been working on developing their roles on their own. Some in the cast are YAT veterans; others are part of the company for the first time. Anna Rainkin, a soon-to-be-freshman at North Central, stressed how different doing a Teenz Issues play is from being in a YAT mainstage productions. “In the sessions, everybody who is in the session gets a part. And they’re nice. It’s Cinderella, or, like The Crucible. But facebook me is so much more modern. It’s just … bad. Like, the language, what we’re talking about, all of it.” Rainkin plays the role of Stella, a girl from a private high school whose picture is taken off Facebook and put up on a website where guys rank girls by “how hot” they are. “Stella is the ‘shockingly thin girl’ who looks like she’s anorexic, but she’s not,” Rainkin said, “She’s basically exactly like me.” When Rainkin performs, the note that McInerny and Cappiello keep saying is, “Stop acting.” “I’m worried about my lines,” Rainkin tells them. “Then don’t say them,” Cappiello replies, “Seriously, I wrote all your lines. If you need to change them, change them.” During their time in Indy, Cappiello and McInerny teach acting theory and practice, as well as talk gender issues and the challenges that come with being female. They urge the girls, trading lines off each other, “Get rid of the distance between you and your character. You cannot vilify your character. You have to love her.”

A happy ending

Raine Miller is having a hard time relating to her character, Ava, who is above all other things, sexy. Ava knows she is sexy. Sometimes, like when creepy men catcall at her, she hates it, but other times, after a comment on a Facebook photo from a cute boy or while trying on bras, she embraces it. For a 15-year-old actress, this could be a tough role to play, especially with directors, playwrights and peers looking on. But as Justin keeps saying, “That’s theater!” Miller says she feels as though she has little in common with Ava:: “She’s the popular girl and she’s so sexy, but I’m just really, really awkward.” When pressed, she adds, “I think we’re alike because we can both be really insecure sometimes.” Cappiello and McInerny don’t let Miller off the hook. “It’s a damned if you do, damned if you don’t thing,” McInerny says. “It’s way more socially acceptable to be self-deprecating than to embrace the fact that you do think you’re sexy. Embrace your boobs,” Cappiello adds. It’s tough to find that balance, on-stage and off, for girls negotiating the world of sexuality in the age of Facebook, and the play captures that interplay between rewards and consequences while avoiding the dreck and inauthenticity of an afterschool special. The play ends with two girls leaving a silly, happy video message for a friend locked in her room, a comfort only Facebook could have made possible. After their Indy visit, Cappiello and McInerny headed off to Indonesia to workshop with another facebook me cast. They’ll return in time to see YAT’s facebook me perform at the IndyFringe Festival. — ELISE LOCKWOOD

Fringe kicks off Thursday, Aug. 16, with a preview party from 6 p.m. at the IndyFringe Basile Theatre featuring two-minute previews from scads of shows at the Festival. The festival proper starts Friday, Aug. 17, at 6 p.m. with the first shows at Cook Theater, ComedySportz, Theatre on the Square, Phoenix Theatre and IndyFringe Theatre. The fest closes some 329 shows later with the final time slot at 10:30 p.m. on Aug. 26. See indyfringe.org or pick up a Fringe guide (included with the Aug. 1 NUVO and available at Fringe venues) for a complete schedule.

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Threshold Choir

Giving hope, one chorus at a time BY MICAH LING EDITORS@NUVO.NET It’s easy to forget — and sometimes difficult to admit — that the human animal is still very much an animal, with basic, core, even primal needs. We might argue that music is one of them; not as essential as water or air, perhaps, but certainly a necessary component for many a life. Especially at the end of a life. The Threshold Singers, a network of a cappella choirs consisting primarily of women, is devoted to bringing music to those, as the organization’s mission statement puts it, at “the threshold of life.” The pre-history of the organization dates from 1990, when Kate Munger, the group’s Bay Area-based co-founder, sang for a friend who was dying of HIV/AIDS and in a coma. According to the Threshold Choir website, Munger sang for two and a half hours, an experience she thought “comforting” for both her and her friend. After the idea of singing for those near to death (or just beyond it) gestated for some time in Munger’s head, the first Threshold Choir gathering was held in 2000 in El Cerrito, Calif. The local chapter of the Threshold Choir began to take shape after Donna Pittman lost three family members during 2008. “Music sustained me,” Pittman says of that difficult year, recalling how she sang for her husband as he died in their home. She’s now working on a doctorate at Indiana University’s School of Social Work, focusing on end of life issues. “The choir becomes sort of a bridge for people who are dying and for people who are losing someone: it’s really special and wonderful,” Pittman says, recalling several firsthand experiences when she’s seen “such a shift from fear to relief.” Pittman recalls a time when she was making a bedside visit at a nursing home.

There were two patients in one room, and, she says, “The woman I was singing for was actively dying, but couldn’t quite let go.” Pittman could tell that the dying woman still felt too aware of herself to have relief in the music, so Pittman sang for her roommate. It was at that point that the dying woman finally let go. Many of the songs the Threshold Choir sings are poems adapted to music, often to a very simple melody. The national choir book includes poems by Wendell Barry, Mary Oliver, and others. Munger put the choir book together with her girl scouting days in mind, thinking of the idea of singing songs in rounds or quoting mantras (camp chants in another form). Like a camp sing-a-long, a typical Threshold Choir rarely uses instrumentation beyond the voice, though a drum or flute occasionally find their way into the mix. Like Munger, the co-founder of the first Threshold Choir, Pittman has had plenty of help in realizing her vision, notably from Deborah Carrithers, who shares with NUVO that the choir recently received permission to sing for IU Health Methodist Palliative Care patients. The group’s “performances” are not in any way public, but Carrithers says it’s important for people to know that this choir exists. There’s no charge and very few of the chapters do fundraising. They accept donations, of course, but more than anything, it’s a ministry that will appeal to those who want to volunteer in an intimate way, and who have the gift of a good voice but are tired of using it just in a choir in a church, for example. According to Carrithers, “The only real requirement to join is that a shiver goes down your spine when you hear about the choir.” The choir chapters have tended to appeal to people who have lost a loved one, as well as those who have retired from medical and ministry fields. The Indianapolis chapter has existed for just over a year. Pittman emphasizes that the choir will sing for anyone, regardless of creed or lack thereof. “If possible, and it’s not always possible, we like to know a little about the persons we sing for in order to individualize our choice of music,” Pittman says. “If the person is Catholic, we’ll sing chants, songs to the Blessed

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Deborah Carrithers (above left) and Donna Pittman sing for Holly, who is preparing for surgery. While Threshold Choir members often sing for those nearing the end of their lives, Holly was not (and is not) in a terminal state; as Pittman puts it, “We also sing for people who are seriously ill but may not have a terminal diagnosis.”

Mother or ‘altar songs,’ as one woman put it. If we know a person is agnostic, we’ll do more general music about peace and breathing easy.” “So many people are ditching the religious trappings but still have a need for ritual, and I think poetry and music and ritual are all tied up together,” Carrithers adds on a non-denominational note. The ideal, according to Carrithers, would be for mothers to teach this sort of ritual to their daughters, for songs to be passed down the way they used to be. Another goal for the choir is to encourage more chapters to get started in Indiana and around the world. And it’s not only people that need healing. The Indy chapter of the Threshold Choir agreed, after a little deliberation, to sing in the City Market’s catacombs at the March 2012 re-launch party for Indiana Living Green, which was recently acquired by NUVO. It was an unusual setting for the choir, but Pittman amply justified her decision through an email to

NUVO and Indiana Living Green managing editor Jim Poyser. “At first I couldn’t see how our mission intersects with your mission,” Pittman wrote. “Then it occurred to me that the Indiana Living Green launch party is a ‘macro-mourning’ event — anticipatory grief, so to speak — mourning the decimation of Mother Earth caused by greed, carelessness and global disconnect from nature.” And so the Threshold Choir sang in the hushed, dim dampness of the dirtfloored basement, accompanied only by bells and candles, at the planet’s bedside, so to speak. Pittman reported to NUVO in early July that the choir has “lots of work and not enough singers.” Interested parties are encouraged to visit the Threshold Choir website (thresholdchoir.org) or contact thresholdsingersindpls@gmail.com

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Hammer and Nigel at Coaches Tavern

Making plans for Nigel X103 welcomes back prodigal jock BY MARC D. ALLAN MALLAN@NUVO.NET Nigel Laskowski — Nigel to his radio listeners — has returned to WRZX-FM (103.3) with a pledge to “bring balls back to broadcasting.” He means that literally, apparently. “If ANYONE is going to the Fair,” he tweeted in early August, “take a pic of the pig w/ big balls & upload it to the X-103 Facebook

page. Write ‘Hammer & Nigel Sent us!’” “I’m just ecstatic to be back on the station I started with here,” Laskowski says. “It’s like it’s come full circle and they’re letting us do our thing.” Laskowski started with X103 in 1998. After they let him go in 2002, he moved over to RadioNow (then 93.1), where he stayed for five years. When 93.1 flipped formats, he and his wife moved to Austin, Texas, for two years and he worked at a rock station there. In 2009, they came back — just as the economy tanked. There wasn’t any significant radio work to be had, so in February 2011, he and buddy Jason Alan Hammer (ex-WZPL, WXNT and WGRL) decided to start a barcast — a live podcast from a bar. The two have had a fair number of local celebrities visit the barcast, including Pacers coach Frank Vogel and radio play-by-play man Mark Boyle, musician Henry Lee Summer, and Bob & Tom sidekicks Kristi Lee and Chick McGee. And given the location and the hosts, it’s often a freewheeling, uninhibited hour filled with “guy humor,” sports and pop culture. In late July, X103 hired them to do shows Saturdays and Sundays. They mash up the best of the barcast with music and humor. “The fact that they give us two nights,” Laskowski said, “I’m still stunned.” Here’s what else he said. NUVO: So how did this happen? Did they hear the podcast?

NIGEL: I have a lot of contacts and friends in the industry. We had been talking with Buzz Casey, who’s the operations manager there, for a few months, brainstorming different ideas. Then we didn’t hear anything for a while and we thought it was off. Finally, they had this idea: You guys do your live show on Thursdays and then incorporate what you do on the air with us. So we do weekly clips from the show, and we do pop culture and entertainment. But we keep it quick and focused, and we play a lot of good rock music too. NUVO: Has this changed the podcast? The podcast has to be cleaner now, right? NIGEL: We can always go in and insert a bleep. Hammer and I got into an argument on the last podcast. We featured that on one of our shows on X103. So we’re not changing it at all. As far as the guests, we had (WZPL morning man) Dave Smiley a couple of months ago. We probably wouldn’t be able to have him on. NUVO: Are you happy with the way things are working out? NIGEL: I’m happy. Clear Channel is a huge company and they have a lot of avenues for a show like ours. Radio stations are always looking for content, and I think we bring something unique to the table. Anybody can do a podcast, but I think it’s our unique brand of entertainment that caught their attention. But we’ll see.

NUVO: What is it that’s unique? NIGEL: We’re the only show that streams a live webcast from a bar every week. Somehow, we’ve gotten some really cool guests to come on our shows. We’ve gotten NBA players, NFL players, NBA coaches, radio personalities. People in the radio industry like to listen because we talk about inside jargon sometimes, which is unique and fun. NUVO: Did you think you were ever going to get back on the radio here? NIGEL: That certainly was the goal. I was doing some part-time work on ’ZPL the past couple of months, just on the weekends — myself; not Hammer and I — but I’m just ecstatic to be back on the station I started with here.

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CONFESSIONS OF A GUILTY FREELANCER BY WILLIAM O’ROURKE INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS e YOU CAME BACK CHRISTOPHER COAKE GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING t Coake tells the story of Mark Fife, a man who survived unspeakable grief only to rediscover it years later when the owner of his old house tells him it is being haunted by his dead child. Mark is an intellectual and not one to believe in ghosts, but his beliefs are called into question when his exwife, with whom he had the ghost-child, accepts the return of her lost son as real. The dead child serves as the book’s antagonist; his reappearance, whether real or imagined, leads to Mark’s undoing. By the middle of the book, it’s hard not to resent the kid as well as his father. Mark’s rose-colored take on his former life as husband and father leaves him blind to any goodness in the world he’s created in the years post-death. Coake’s characters, especially Mark, are almost too realistically flawed. It’s difficult to want to read about a main character who relentlessly hurts those who love him, but the plot is strong enough to carry you through till the end. The creepier sections of the book are tastefully done, so you don’t feel like you’re reading a Goosebumps novel; some passages might make a few hairs stand on end. In all, You Came Back is an intriguing page-turner that would translate well to the big screen. Indianapolis natives will recognize an accurately rendered Butler University in a few scenes, but most of the story takes place in Ohio. This is the first full-length novel by Coake, a native Hoosier who received his MFA in fiction from Ohio State University. He also has an award-winning collection of short stories called We’re In Trouble, and he comes endorsed by Nick Hornby, the author of High Fidelity and Fever Pitch. — EMMA FAESI

“I am polemical, something of a complainer, a writer who values the role of curmudgeon, who attempts to unsettle, as well as inform,” writes O’Rourke in the introduction to his new collection of essays. O’Rourke is that rarest of increasingly rare birds, a writer’s writer. He has published four novels, five nonfiction books, been a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, headed the creative writing program at Notre Dame — even blogged for NUVO. The funny thing about writer’s writers, of course, is that anyone can read them. The only thing that sets them apart is their originality, on abundant display in this collection of O’Rourke’s short pieces about politics, contemporary culture and, especially, books and other writers. O’Rourke brings an artist’s critical thinking to his political writing, providing him angles of attack on players from both parties that help reframe the issues in ways not available through the most mainstream press outlets. Since he’s been engaged as both political observer and professional writer with issues dating back to the Vietnam War, he also brings a valuable firsthand historical perspective to events, as well as an irreverent insider’s understanding of how the journalism business actually works. His takedown of Bob Woodward, for example, is illuminating. But O’Rourke is especially good in his assessments of other writers and the way trends in creative writing have played out — in the marketplace and the academy — over the past 30 years or so. He sees contemporary literature within the larger social, political and economic contexts in which it is created and consumed — a situation that has changed markedly during his lifetime, filling him with rue, though never dampening his enthusiasm for the work at hand. — DAVID HOPPE

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BLOWUP (1966)

Swinging London never popped quite so much — in the retina-burning, Technicolor sense — as in Blowup, Michelangelo Antonioni’s first English-language film and the Grand Prix winner at Cannes for 1966. David Hemmings is the strapping young fashion photographer who may have shot evidence of murder; Vanessa Redgrave is somehow involved, as are The Yardbirds and a bunch of very available models. Perhaps not as profound as Antonioni’s earlier work, but doubtlessly his most shagadelic effort. NUVO’s own David Hoppe introduces; part of a film series related to Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard. Aug. 16, 7 p.m. @ The Toby, Indianapolis Museum of Art; $5 public, $3 member; shown on 35mm

BATMAN (1989)

Heavy doses of German Expressionism and Blade Runner-esque futurism make Tim Burton’s reboot of the Batman series a pleasure to watch in the limited sense that modernist excess provides one pleasure. Jack Nicholson is likably over-the-top as The Joker; Michael Keaton sets the tone for a generation of low-key, one-note Batmen. Aug 17, 9:30 p.m. @ Indianapolis Museum of Art Amphitheater; $10 public, $5 member; show on DVD

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Vegan choices abound BY NICK SELM EDITORS@NUVO.NET Local vegan options are often of the accidental type — a salad without the savory fixins, a double order of french fries, a BLT with no “B” and, in more fortuitous circumstances, some manner of hummus-based dish. But these days the city is blossoming with yet more inventive, delicious and intentionally vegan treats. “Vegan food used to get a bad rep,” says Earth House chef Ian Phillips, a recent hire at the collective who’s introduced an entirely vegan menu. “People heard the word ‘vegan’ and they would immediately think ‘quinoa and sprouts.’ But vegans have plenty of savory and appetizing options.” Phillips also runs a vegan catering business, Killer Tofu, which he started about a year ago. While his initial interest in veganism stemmed from his devotion to hardcore punk politics, the roots of his reasoning go much deeper. “My dad has had tons of health complications with diabetes, complications that could have been controlled with a vegan diet,” he says. “I wanted to avoid my own hereditary issues with simple dietary solutions.” Phillips’ menu changes have helped boost the once floundering café. The shift

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It’s high time to drape our laurels around an Indiana winery chalking up awards on a national level. In July, Easley Winery’s Reggae Red was voted the top sweet red wine at the Long Beach Grand Cru International Wine Competition; it earlier won a gold and Best in Class award at the Pacific Rim International Wine Competition and a gold at the Tasters Guild International Wine Competition.

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Live interviews being conducted at the Indiana State Fair’s DuPont Food Pavilion to celebrate the release of “Food for Thought: An Indiana Harvest” continue this week with visits by urban farmer Tyler Henderson from Growing Places Indy (Aug. 15, 4 p.m.), artisanal syrup maker Tim Burton from Burton’s Maplewood Farm (Aug. 16, 4 p.m.), Cajun fast food specialist Joe Vuskovich from Yats (Aug. 17, 4 p.m.), culinary arts educator Chef Thom England from Ivy Tech Community College (Aug. 18, 3 p.m.) and Bill Oliver from Oliver Winery (Aug. 19, 3 p.m.). Food for Thought is a collection of interviews with Indiana food figures conducted by David Hoppe and photographed by Kristin Hess that’s part of a threeyear project devoted to understanding Indiana food organized by Indiana Humanities. If you have an item for the Culinary Picks, send an email at least two weeks in advance to culinary@nuvo.net.

toward vegan food has quadrupled sales and has made the cafe a destination, and not just a place people end up at while waiting for a show or movie. While not a vegan himself, Sinking Ship owner Damon Lyden has plenty of reasons to include vegan items on his menu. “I love cooking and I love food,” Lyden says. “And I don’t care if it’s vegan or there is meat in it, as long as it tastes good.” After rattling off a half-dozen vegan options on the Ship’s menu (including a vegan chili with a description simply reading, “Vegan as fuck”), Lyden excitedly pointed out that his top-selling appetizer was seitan wings, a dish provided by Phillips’s Killer Tofu. “The Ship draws a lot of people who just come for the vegan food.” Lyden says. “It’s easy to be vegan now. It’s not about eating meat, it’s about having a good product.” New arrivals in the Midtown area have made vegan fare a part of their menu since the beginning. Twenty Tap offers several options, including a bahn mi sandwich that replaces the original’s cold cuts with silken tofu. Just down College Avenue, the Biscuits and (mushroom) Grrravy at SoBro Café has picked up devoted followers; the restaurant also makes a point of offering seitan as a salad topper, apart from traditional meat options. The Broad Ripple Brew Pub, an old standby in the area, has long been serving fantastic vegetarian and vegan dishes, as has the Three Sisters Café. A recent surge in immigration to the city’s westside has

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yielded a fantastic crop of ethnic restaurants with great vegan options as well. “I’ve always been a fan of the various Indian buffets in the city,” Phillips says. “But right now, I’m super-pumped about Ethiopian food. I’ve met with the chef at Abyssinia, on the westside and he’s a great dude with a great menu.” Other great restaurants with plentiful vegan options that get Phillip’s stamp of approval include Jasmine Thai on East 96th Street, WB Pizza on Allisonville Road and, of course, Pogue’s Run Grocer on East 10th Street. “Veganism is a national trend,” Phillips notes, citing baby steps like Meatless Mondays, an initiative encouraging carnivores to cut out meat one day a week. “Cooking and eating vegan is easier now than it ever was. It’s much more accepted than it ever has been.”

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Planet Adventure — Urban Sprint starts and ends at Flat 12 Bierwerks. 7:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Ride, trek and paddle your way through Indianapolis. WAMM (Wine, Art, Music, and Microbrew) Fest , Craig Park in Greenwood. 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; $10 advance, $15 at the gate. Tour De Upland biking and camping with Upland Brewing; $50-$125 depending on registration package selected. Log on: uplandbeeradventures.com.

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Introduction to Mead Making at Great Fermentations, 5127 E. 65th St., 6 p.m., $20. At its most basic, mead is a honey wine with few rules. New Day Meadery makes interesting meads like Snap Dragon, an apricot mead with orange peel, coriander, Hallertau hops & Belgian Wit yeast and their Breakfast Magpie. Magpie has notes of black raspberries mixed with chocolate and coffee.

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ndianapolis music lovers: it’s time to get weird. Yes, the Cataracts music festival is back for the second year in a row and bigger – much bigger. This year the festival has been scheduled alongside the firstever Fountain Square Grand Prix bicycle race, and the organizers of the two events — Jacob Gardner (Cataracts) and Joe Cox (FSGP) — have combined their energies to create a perfect storm of awesomeness for music fans, bike racing fans, and for the city’s fastest-growing cultural district. With two days of music, Cataracts will showcase more than 50 bands from around the city and the region. The first day of music, Aug. 17, will happen in the parking lot of the Murphy Arts Center and will be headlined by Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s. The second day of music will take place at a cluster of four houses on E. Morris St., just steps from the Murphy in Fountain Square, with simultaneous sets every half-hour from 1:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., as the FSGP races circulate nearby. Whether you’re a close follower of Indy’s thriving music scene or you’ve never been to a show, Cataracts is the time to come down to Fountain Square and get a dose of the region’s most innovative, independent rock and roll.

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Hammer Screwdriver celebrates the life and music of Paul Cobb. 1:00 p.m. — Organ Grinder — Fountain Squarebased brother-sister team deliver an arty, eccentric take on stripped-down folk; an angelic voice with an intricately entrancing guitar. 2:00 p.m. — Beer — Indy-based experimental band have a bit of the Black Keys in them, with an electronic twist. 3:00 p.m. — Bed — Reincarnation of the Indybased folk band Accordions; “The fevered dreams of a band learning to use its new body,” say Jacob Gardner. 4:00 p.m. — Hammer Screwdriver — Folk tribute project playing the compositions of local musician Paul Cobb, who passed away last year. (See more on Paul Cobb on NUVO.net)

Why should you go? It’s free. The festival is a not-for-profit event organized primarily by Gardner, a musician himself, who has been performing and booking shows in Indy for the past seven years. Take money-making out of the picture and suddenly you’re left with an event organized around one simple premise: the love of good, weird, arty music. Gardner knows almost all of the Cataracts bands personally and spends most of the year — and his own money — organizing the festival. Secondly, in terms of a local, homegrown cultural event, you can’t get more real than Cataracts. House shows are a hugely important part of Indy’s music scene throughout the year. The festival brings together all of the best bands from around the neighborhood, the city and the region, into an atmosphere that’s more like a raucous college party than anything else. “I like house venues because they’re compact and you get people squeezed in there,” Gardner says. “There’s something magical about that and I think it really appeals to people.” Perhaps more importantly, Cataracts and FSGP represent an opportunity to participate a weekend that will be a great

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Fountain Square Theater (top), by Phillip Hill, Crys (bottom), submitted photo.

moment for Fountain Square and for Indianapolis. “It’s not just a bike race or a music festival,” says Cox, owner of Joe’s Cycles and organizer of the FSGP. “It’s a symbol that Fountain Square has arrived as a cultural district. The race organization, music arrangement and food and beer options all come from the neighborhood.” Cox, who was also instrumental in providing support for Cataracts, has been working on getting the FSGP together for nearly a decade and purposely scheduled it the same weekend as the MotoGP at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in order that his race, and the neighborhood, could benefit from the international publicity that will be focused on the city that weekend. “We have the opportunity to be known internationally as a progressive, growing neighborhood,” he says. The entire Saturday lineup will take place at four houses within 100 yards of each other. Two of them — Debbie’s House

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of Noise & Laundry and The Dave Cave — are next door to each other. Skull Manor and Jasona Beach are each just a stone’s throw from each other on E. Morris St. Friday’s lineup leans a bit more toward folk and straight-up rock and roll, while Saturday’s 40-band, 10-hour blitzkrieg is almost purely focused on psych-rock and artrock; it’s innovative, edgy stuff that doesn’t fit neatly into categories and is not always necessarily meant to please. To put it simply, Cataracts is your chance to get exposed to a year’s worth of shows in two days. Still unsure about whether to turn up for the festival? Take it from Gardner. “The most beautiful part about it is that everybody [in the neighborhood] is so friendly and so nice, and we’ve worked really hard to keep it that way,” he said. “There’s no reason not to come.”

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5:00 p.m. — Christian Taylor & Homeschool — Taylor is an FS music scene elder and musical jack-of-all-trades; poetic lyrics and rich, folk instrumentation recall Neil Young at times 6:00 p.m. — Bonesetters — Indy-based folkand alternative-influenced rock and roll and heir-apparent to the raw, emotionally revelatory rock of Margot. 7:00 p.m. — KO — New project of Kristen Newborn, front woman for recently defunct and much missed Indy-based Slothpop. 8:00 p.m. — Oreo Jones — Hip-hop impresario is a local legend and recipient of NUVO’s Best of 2012 category for hip-hop. Need we say more? See our cover story from July 25. 9:00 p.m. — Pravada — Indy-based power pop group fronted by Jesse Lee, former member of Margot. 10:00 p.m. — Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s — Perhaps the single best-known band to come from Indy; playing emotional and hardedged alt-rock

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1:00 p.m. — Hen — FS-based duo combines music, performance art, comedy, and absurd garb for some goofy good times

1:00 p.m. — 2150’s — Former Jookabox member Benny Sanders leads this FS-based rogues’ gallery that has just popped up in the past few months

2:00 p.m. — Death Tram — Noise rock and mind-bending fuzz from Champaign, Ill.

2:00 p.m. — Creeping Pink — A musical allstar team, composed of members of various FS-based psych bands; Saturday will be their second live performance ever.

3:00 p.m. — Slushy — “Bubblegum sun drop pop” from Chicago. Think surf rock, rockabilly, The Kinks, The Troggs, tambourines; one of our personal “Can’t miss ‘em” acts of the festival

3:00 p.m. — Teenage Strange — Solo project of former FS-based garage champions The Kemp’s guitarist Jared Birden. 1:30 p.m. — DMA — David Moose Adamson, Indy-based founder of Jookabox (RIP) brings a one-man mashup of hip-hop, electronica, and sardonic humor

4:00 p.m. — The Orchidales — Three piece shoegaze/garage outfit from Gaston County, N.C. has been called a “surfy trash-fi translation of the Brian Jonestown Massacre.” Well, alrighty!

2:30 p.m. — Tight Genes — These chaps come all the way from Orlando, Fla. Playing good ole stripped-down, grimy garage rock. They joined Vacation Club on a recent tour.

5:00 p.m. — Jovontaes — Death dirge outfit out of Lexington, Ky.; “Hints of sludgy jams and motorik tendencies” says Sam Thompson 6:00 p.m. — Thee Open Sex — Bloomingtonbased psych rockers and alumni of Magnetic South studios

5:30 p.m. — Marmoset — Local lo-fi alt-rock legends are one of the longest-running acts in FS and tantamount to royalty on the local scene

5:00 p.m. — Energy Gown — Chicago-based psychedelic/noise rock from another dimension of space and time; recent visitor to Mediumship

6:30 p.m. — Bigcolour — Chicago-based psychrockers transport you back to the psychedelic ‘60s and forward, into the future, with complex electronic instrumentation

6:00 p.m. — Lushes — Experimental/synth-rock duo from Brooklyn who play “The kind of glitchy, electronic shit that makes you involuntarily convulse along in time” 7:00 p.m. — Pomegranates — All the way from Cincinnati, they’ve been compared to The Flaming Lips, Broken Social Scene and of Montreal but, whatever – you be the judge 8:00 p.m. — Plains/Holy Youth — Guaranteed to make you question everything you knew about life, love, and existence or your money back.

8:00 p.m. — Crys, Heavy Hanging Sun — FSbased band with an affinity for extended weirdness kraut-rock freakouts; members of Mediumship collective. 9:00 p.m. — Vacation Club — Bubblegum pop with psychedelic fuzz; Tommy James & the Shondells meets Timothy Leary and a cattle prod; member of the FS-based Mediumship collective. 10:00 p.m. — Burnt Ones — San Fran-based psych- and garage-rockers return to their home city; jangly guitars and hard beats combined for organized chaos that will make you lose your shit.

4:30 p.m. — Purple Seven — Featuring members of Open Sex. We can’t find anything else about them, so consider this your Cataracts mystery band.

4:30 p.m. — The Hecks — Two-part garage rock band from Chicago, played at Mediumship over the summer.

7:00 p.m. — Learner Dancer Return Arkestra — FS-based psych rockers and member of Mediumship collective; they create alternate worlds with mind-bending guitar and heavy drums.

9:00 p.m. — Gap Dream — Hey, they’re from Cleveland, so you know they’re good. Are they psych-rock, glam pop, synth-rock? Yes, yes, and yes. And they’re from Cleveland. 7:30 p.m. — Magic Milk — Hailing from Chicago and describing themselves as: “a new band about disappointment and terrible friends… that you can dance to.”

2:30 p.m. — The Mutations — Countrytwanged surf rock from Knoxville, Tenn.; you’d have to actually go back in time to find music any surfier 3:30 p.m. — Ramma Lamma — Super-fun punk and power pop outfit from Milwaukee; big loud rock with KISS-like stabbing chords and outrageous riffs

3:30 p.m. — Ancient Slang — Bloomingtonbased noise punkers keep it weird with heavy beats and eerie, distorted, repeating riffs that sear the brain. 4:00 p.m. — Psychic Feel — Droney, far-out guitar rock weirdness by FS-based journeyman guitarist Mitchell Duncan of Crys and Learner Dancer

1:30 p.m. — Normanoak — Bloomington-based musician Chris Barth, former frontman of The Impossible Shapes, plays acoustic rock and folk.

10:00 p.m. — Tammar — Bloomington-based synth rock band with an improvisational bent have been called “Talking Heads revivalists”; latest album Visits given a 7.7 by Pitchfork.

5:30 p.m. — Smoking Nurse — Knoxville, Tenn.-based band playing “Insterstellar music with guitars and drums.” 6:30 p.m. — The Soft Opening — There’s nothing soft about the far-out psych-rock of this Asheville, N.C.-based band; instead it’s stripped down, deliberate, and mind-altering 7:30 p.m. – Scammers — Kansas City, Mo.based electronica band bold enough to name an album Magic Carpet Ride, but Steppenwolf this ain’t. Band claims to make “manic pop crooner goth.” 8:30 p.m. — Three Man Band — GloryHole Records alumni from Knoxville, playing heavy ‘60s-influenced psych-rock. 9:30 p.m. — TV Ghost — Lafayette-based band closed Cataracts last year; eerie, twisted, goosebump-inducing rock that’s a perfect horror film accompainment. 10:30 p.m. — Natural Child — Nashville-based band play straight-up blues- and country-influenced rock; they tried to release first LP on 4/20 last year but in true stoner fashion, it was late.

8:30 p.m. — Lazy — From Kansas City, Mo. playing gothic, lo-fi and punk rock that will make your skin crawl one minute and your head bop the next. 9:30 p.m. — Expo 70 — Internationally touring act originated in L.A. in ’03 and has run the gamut from kraut, to prog- and synth-rock; They’ve been compared to Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno, Pink Floyd 10:30 p.m. — White Mystery — First time in Indy for this notoriously loud red-headed brother-sister duo from Chi-town; definitely one of the “can’t miss” acts of the festival

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Japanese afrobeat BY KYL E LONG KL O N G @ N UVO.NET Fela would be proud. The last few years have seen his vision of afrobeat explode into a worldwide movement. Out of this current global afrobeat revival, Japan’s Kingdom Afrocks have become one of my favorite groups. Kingdom Afrocks are one of only a handful of Japanese bands who’ve embraced the afrobeat style. The seven-piece ensemble have been turning heads with their highpowered live show, and have become regulars on the Japanese festival circuit, playing the Fuji Rock Festival in 2007 and Gilles Peterson‘s Worldwide Showcase in 2008. In addition to faithfully replicating the rugged rhythms and anthemic choruses of the afrobeat sound, Kingdom Afrocks have also maintained Fela’s tradition of using the afrobeat form as a vehicle for social commentary. The group’s back catalog is littered with message songs delivered in a combination of Japanese, Spanish and English language. Kingdom Afrocks have just released their sophomore LP SanSanNaNa, a powerful follow up to their 2001 debut album Fanfare. I spoke with Kingdom Afrocks bassist Leo Nanjo from his home in Japan. NUVO: Can you describe the Kingdom Afrocks sound and tell me a bit about the history of the group? LEO NANJO: The band formed at the end of 2006. We released our first full-length in 2009, which became a club hit in Japan. In 2011 we released our first LP Fanfare, which included a collaboration with Fela’s drummer Tony Allen. The core of our music lies in afrobeat, but there are also elements of jazz, Brazilian music, Latin beats, rock and roll, you name it! The group has a very international background. I was born and raised in Brazil. Our drummer Keiichi Tanaka has spent time in Senegal and recently returned from a five year period studying percussion in Cuba. Our guitarist Daisuke Nomoto has experi-

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ence playing music in New Orleans and our dancer Yussy just returned from Senegal. NUVO: What initially inspired you to play afrobeat? LEO NANJO: The first time I heard afrobeat was at a Tony Allen gig in 2005 in Japan. It was an amazing experience. After that I wondered if could some day play afrobeat myself, and by 2006 we had formed the band. We are trying to make afrobeat music with a distinct Japanese style and a unique message for the Japanese people. NUVO: Is there a large scene for afrobeat music in Japan? LEO NANJO: No, the scene is not large yet, but it is growing quickly and it’s catching up with the other music scenes here. Our newest single is a collaboration with a pair of hip-hop artists and a female singer who are very famous in the Japanese pop music scene. This collaboration is becoming a topic of conversation for all music lovers in Japan, which is helping to spread the afrobeat sound here. NUVO: How have the audiences in Japan been reacting to the Kingdom Afrocks sound? LEO NANJO: Anytime we play the audience goes crazy! People dance and sing from the beginning of the show to the end. NUVO: Tell me about the song “Loud Minority.” LEO NANJO: Earlier this year, on March 11, we released the single “Loud Minority.” The release date marked the one-year anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Japan. The song is a message of peace for all Japanese people as well as the Japanese government. NUVO: Future plans for the group? LEO NANJO: We just released our second album here in Japan and we’re currently looking for a label to release the album internationally. We’re looking forward to playing gigs overseas and sharing the stage with artists we respect. Kyle Long creates a custom podcast for each column. Hear this week’s at NUVO.net.

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“We’re happy here.” At some point, you become comfortable with yourself. When you become comfortable with yourself, you become comfortable with your geography. When you’re tired of getting out, when you don’t want to leave no more, you can think, “Man, this is actually the awesomest place in the world.”

NUVO: Tell me about recording this album. Everyone’s talking about your new Memphis soul sound.

NUVO: What can you tell us about local bands in Memphis we should keep our eyes open for that are embracing their geography?

BRIAN VENABLE: It was the same [as recording the last album] but better. On 1372 [Overton Park], that record was all demoed up without horns, and we [said], “Hey, let’s see what happens if we put horns.” I wanted to put horns on a song, kind of a Rocket from the Crypt — it wasn’t, let’s make a Memphis soul record. [Lynyrd] Skynyrd, Alice Cooper, they all had horns, you just didn’t realize it. Once we started putting the horns on, we realized, “Whoa, this just went from a Lucero song to Dark End of the Street.” We can take these sad little country songs and put a little horns on it, and it turns into Memphis soul I think we’ve all, in the last few years, starting realizing and being more aware of our Memphis heritage. [We thought], “Wait a minute! We’re a Memphis band playing Memphis music.” We’re not a Detroit band, we’re not a California band. The last record, the horns were so apparent, but this record, we wrote all the songs with the horns, which I think gave [them] a more integral part.

VENABLE: There’s a band Glossary from Murfreesboro, Tenn. There’s a band here, who’s actually gone on tour with us, called John Paul Keith and The One Four Fives. It’s not rockabilly, it’s like ‘60s Sun sound — the birth of the garage band. The Dirty Streets are kind of like the MC5, they’re awesome. That’s the beauty and the bad about Memphis. A lot of places have it, but I think Memphis specializes in it somehow. We’ll have a hundred amazing bands that will play for two months to two years, maybe put out a CD or 7-inch, and then they break up. If half the bands stayed together and toured, Memphis would be bigger than New York and Austin and Seattle. A lot of times bands come through here and have to open up for the local bands, because everyone will leave. We’re real insulated, our music scene. When you’re that insulated, I don’t know what it is, you have a tendency to break up over girlfriends and guitar.

NUVO: That’s something I wanted to talk about. David Brooks just wrote a piece for the New York Times [“The Power of the Particular,” June 25], where he discussed the absolute worship of Bruce Springsteen in Europe — something that strikes him as odd because Springsteen is so grounded in place, in New Jersey, in the U.S. He writes, “Don’t try to be everyman. Don’t pretend you’re a member of every community you visit. Don’t try to be citizens of some artificial globalized community. Go deeper into your own tradition. Call more upon the geography of your own past. Be distinct and credible. People will come.” VENABLE: You grow up young, doing that [pretending to be a member of other communities]. I’m from Memphis, Tenn., redneck. It’s a city, but it’s definitely a Southern city. I grew up wanting to be a punk rock kid. I wanted to be New York, I wanted to be L.A. Guns N Roses. A lot of times you see other places and think that’s the coolest place in the world. My dad grew up talking about it. He’s all redneck from Mississippi, and he wanted to be a hippie. All you heard about was the records and what they saw in Time magazine. That was the big goal, to get out there. But then you get bands like the Allman Brothers who say,

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Brian Venable is part of one of the world’s two favorite groups called Lucero. No, not the Mexican superstar pop singer — the crusty, punk-influenced Southern rock group out of Memphis. Lucero just released their sixth full-length album, Women & Work. He encourages readers not to let a music magazine tell them what’s cool, but we implore you to listen to us just this once: Lucero is cool. They’ll be at the Vogue this Thursday.

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NUVO: You have a family, and your band is pretty consistently described as a family. VENABLE: For better or for worse, we’re not the most professional. We didn’t expect this band to get famous, to play music in big clubs and get rich. We wanted to play pretty music in a situation where everybody’s playing loud music. It’s gotten to the point now, where, when you decide you want to be in, you’re in. Nobody quits. If we had to kick somebody out, it’d be. I don’t know what we’d do. We’d die. And it’s the same with crew and tour managers. People come and go like family come and goes. I don’t want it to be a job, I want it to be a life style. There’s bands where we don’t care what they sound like, but if we have to hang out with you for eight weeks, we wanted you to be nice. So, instead of picking the most popular bands, we picked bands we got along with the best. And this made for some amazing tours. Maybe if we had picked that hot band at the time, we’d be a little further along, but, I don’t know. The [Lucero Family Picnic] came about — we modeled it after Willie Nelson’s picnic, and Cross Canadian Ragweed. They did the Red Dirt Roundup. There’s not a scene — there’s a whole lot of bands out there like us that don’t fit into some cool, “elec-

MUSIC tro-trash” “indie-clash” bar or whatever. They’re just out there playing rock and roll. Bands that people like Sub Pop [Records] don’t want, or whatever. And we tour with a lot of them, and I thought it would be fun. If nobody is going to call it a scene, you make it a scene. The Family Picnic, which is bands that you’re friends with, bands that you toured with, you draw them all to one place. If you look at the lineup, they’re maybe not the most popular bands in the world, but they’re awesome bands. It’s just kind of neat. It would be nice to develop your own scene, like the old punk rock days. I’m not going to wait for somebody in a magazine to tell me that this is cool. I’m not belittling your profession — NUVO: [laughs] VENABLE: I came of the age watching that grimy stuff, when I was a full-blown punk rocker. Knowing it wasn’t cool, thinking, I know about Nirvana, I know about this, I know about that, but I don’t necessarily know that it’s a scene. But all of a sudden, Rolling Stone is telling me that Seattle is the greatest place in the world and they’re the rebirth of rock and roll. And I always thought that big magazines like that might be a little too late. It’s a big idea, it’s slow to settle in [for the magazines]. We had Shooter Jennings last time [at the Picnic]. We toured with him, we played with him. We had Two Car Garage in the past, we had Glossary, all these different people. I just want it to be something. Whether people see it or not, I want them to have the opportunity. It’s almost as much for the bands, cause it’s family. If you need to crash at my house, or you need a hotel, or we’re stuck in this town, or I’ll put you on the bill. I want it to be something amazing. You don’t get that being real calculated — I guess you can — but it’s not real. I’m 41 years old. I’ve seen a lot of crap musically, good and bad. I just want to contribute. That was really long and rambling. NUVO: But it all made sense. It echoes a lot of struggles that I have trying to define a scene that definitely exists, but it’s more of the sense of camaraderie [that defines it] than it the type of music. What did you think of Metallica’s take on the family picnic — the Orion Music and More Fest [in Atlantic City in June]? VENABLE: Regardless of what I think of Metallica musically — I saw them on the Ride the Lightning tour, but I did not necessarily grow with them — but I love the fact that they’re rich enough, they’ve set enough landmarks and goals, that they can do whatever they want. They could go two years and not play. But I think in the end, they love music. Lars Ulrich, he knows all about the European metal. Cliff Burton knew all about the punk rock and the different stuff. It’s pretty awesome they’ve been doing it for as long as they have, and they still love music. Not just Static-X and Slayer, but all kinds of different stuff. Our stage alone was Baroness, us, Gaslight Anthem, Modest Mouse and Metallica. That’s a crazy lineup. NUVO: I know. It was insane to see. You share a producer with Gaslight Anthem, am I correct?

VENABLE: I’ve listened to some of the Gaslight Anthem. They’re young kids, they’re having a blast. I enjoy it. What I think is funny is that Ted Hut was on the list with us when we signed with Universal and they wanted us to have a “producer” producer, like a name producer. Ted had just finished The ’59 Sound. The reason he was curious about us was when [The Gaslight Anthem came into the studio] they had said something about how they wanted to make a Lucero record, with organs. Once again, it’s like when we want to make a soul record, it’s still a Lucero record. Not saying Gaslight made a Lucero record, but our experience was awesome. The first one was a learning experience; this second one [Women & Work] was awesome because we all knew each other and were comfortable with each others work styles. NUVO: It seems like you have some brother bands on your new label [ATO Records]: The Alabama Shakes, The Driveby Truckers, My Morning Jacket. Alabama Shakes are just starting out, but The Driveby Truckers and My Morning Jacket are road veterans [like you]. VENABLE: That is what’s so amazing about ATO, what people like Universal and East West and other labels couldn’t figure out. We’re not a hit-making machine. If you get lucky and have one, that’s one thing. We make our money touring. We are a touring band. My Morning Jacket — a touring band. Drive-by Truckers — a touring band. Dave Matthews [the label owner] — a touring band. We finally found a home where they know what to do with us, which is awesome. NUVO: Something about being a touring band — once you hit the decade mark people start thinking they should describe you as grizzled road veterans. I feel like that embodies a lot about what people want to think about Southern rock, slinging all your gear in and out of venues, 200 dates a year. VENABLE: We’re also all old, fat, tattooed and bearded, for the most part, in some variation or form. Ben Nichols has that voice. We are grizzled; it’s aged us. We’ve been doing this 14 years. They romanticize it. I’d love to play less dates. I’d love to be home with my family more, but it’s just what we do. Music always has a romantic, rogue element. Whatever you need it to be that you like. The whole pirates, us against the world, we’re going to go out there and take what we want element. The truth is, I’ll hang out some, play the show, have a drink every once in a while, go back, put on my cozy shorts and a clean shirt and watch Law and Order on the bus. NUVO: Are you an Special Victims Unit fan or just straight Law and Order? VENABLE: You know, I like them all. My guy Christopher Meloni ended up on True Blood for a little bit. I like how HBO is hiring all my Law and Order guys on their shows.

This interview has been condensed and edited.

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The highs, the lows

found each other through networking within the music scene and some oldfashioned good luck. NUVO: Listening to your songs, there’s many highs and lows in the tracks. What motivates your songs?

Pragmatic finds its sound

PRAGMATIC: Dynamics, dynamics, dynamics. Life is all about the highs and lows. We like to make a song that builds up, tears down and gives the listener a real experience, not just a flat, bland routine.

BY E L I S S A C H A P IN M U S I C@N UV O . N E T Pragmatic is showcasing as new set of songs from their brand new second album this Friday at the Vogue. Kramus, Flesh Suit and Threat Level will support. We gathered the men together to tell us a bit about recording their second album and finding themselves together. NUVO: You guys are all in Indianapolis currently. Are you all from here originally? PRAGMATIC: Tim Patenaude, the singer, is from Jacksonville, North Carolina. Lee Lillie, the bassist, is from Lawrenceburg and James Miernyk the drummer is from Fort Wayne. Jeff Borders and John Wallace, the guitarists, are from Indy. NUVO: How did Pragmatic come together? PRAGMATIC: Most of the original members are from the Indy original band Sludge Factory. Tim and Lee come from various other bands and projects including 31 Spline and Downfall. Basically, we

NUVO: What’s a song of yours that you connect most with or find the audience connecting most with? PRAGMATIC: A fan favorite is “Change”; it’s got a great hook people love to sing along to. “Control” is a favorite groove song. It tends to get the fans really going. “Soma” is one of our favorites. It’s a lot of fun to play and the off-beats and big chorus really draw you into it. NUVO: Your second album is markedly different from the first. How was the recording process for your newest album different? PRAGMATIC: Well, the first album was written and recorded fairly early in our time as a band. The second CD is a result of the band growing together musically. We learned more about how we play together and how to complement each other better musically. The band found its sound essentially. It’s less individual musicianship-influenced and more [of] a cohesive unit complimenting the individual styles in

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a balance. It’s this complimentary musicianship that continues to drive Pragmatic to new and unique song writing. NUVO: How do you guys strive to keep yourselves Pragmatic and not blend in with other artists in your genre? PRAGMATIC: We don’t really think in terms of trying to sound different from others in our genre. We focus on the songwriting and it tends to take us to places that are unique organically. Our songwriting often blends heavy, rhythmic riffs with melodic, hook-oriented guitar work. This with the locking up between the drums and bass gives the song a great layered sound that

Saturday, August 11, 2012

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Bands South Six 5, Indy Nile, Tight Rope, Zanna Do! Woomblies Rock Orchestra and Toy Factory are the first “M” of this festival. The other big capital letters stand for WINE, ART and MICROBREW. Those are all of our favorite things! A juried art show will feature 50 artists, whose work is available for purchase. Indiana wines and brews are available to those of legal age – a group that doesn’t include South Six 5, a group of youngins making quite a splash in cover band scene. They just returned from a spot at the Country Music Association Fest. A variety of food vendors will keep you full, too.

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Surprise, it’s no anesthesia day! Plus, beware the handsome young hypnotist

Fern Cooper, 65, and 13 other cataractsurgery patients arrived at Ontario’s Oakville Trafalgar Hospital on June 25 to learn that they would not receive the usual anesthesia because the hospital had decided to schedule an “experimental day” to evaluate how unsedated patients responded. (The Ontario Health Insurance Plan had recently cut anesthesiologists’ fee.) A topical numbing gel, plus doctors’ reassurances were provided, but Cooper, previously diagnosed with severe anxiety, told the Toronto Star of the terror she felt when, fully awake, she watched the surgeon’s scalpel approaching, and then cutting, her eyeball.

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• Officials organizing a show for high school girls in June in Sherbrooke, Quebec, signed up a 20-year-old apprentice hypnotist to perform, but by the end of his session, he had failed to bring all of the entranced girls out of their spells, including one who was so far under that the man had to summon his mentor from home (an hour’s drive away) to come rescue her. The mentor, Richard Whitbread, quickly rehypnotized her and then snapped her out of it with a stern voice, according to a Canadian Broadcasting Corp. News report. He noted that his protege is a handsome young man, which might have unduly influenced the girls. • Christianity has grown in acceptance recently in Ratanakiri province, Cambodia, according to a June report in the Phnom Penh Post, as up to 80 percent of the population has given up the traditional Theravada Buddhism (mixed with animism) as too demanding. According to local officials, traditional priests typically prescribe expensive offerings, such as a slaughtered buffalo, as the price of improving a relative’s health. Said one convertee, with the money saved using Western medicine instead of traditional sacrifices, she was able to build a house for her family. • According to a June lawsuit by a former student, Western Nevada College’s course in human sexuality was so over-the-top that it might be described as a collection of instructor Tom Kubistant’s erotic fantasies about college-age kids. Among Kubistant’s demands, according to “K.R.,” were keeping a masturbation journal (and ramping up the activity to twice the student’s pre-course level), disclosing one’s uninhibited sexual fantasies that in some cases were described by the instructor to the class at large, and conducting discussion groups on the uses of sex toys and lubricants. By the fifth week, K.R. claimed, Kubistant had abandoned his schedule of topics and begun to dwell extensively on “the female orgasm.” Kubistant’s instructions appear to fit the faculty handbook’s definition of sexual harassment. • “Deer stands,” classically, are jerrybuilt platforms hunters climb onto to spot deer in the distance, but county officials in

Duluth, Minn., complained in July that the woods are becoming cluttered with elaborate tree houses that are too often abandoned on public land at the close of the season. One official was alarmed by “mansions” -- tree stands, he told the Duluth News Tribune, with “stairways, decks, shingled roofs, commercial windows, insulation, propane heaters, carpeting, lounge chairs, tables, and even the occasional generator.”

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• Rhesus monkeys have always posed delicate problems in India, where they are both revered (by Hindu law) and despised (for damaging property and roaming the streets begging for food). In Delhi, the rhesus population has grown dramatically, aided by the Hindus who feed them, and streets and private property are increasingly fouled. However, Amar Singh’s business is good. He owns 65 langurs (apes much more vicious than rhesus monkeys) and, for the equivalent of about $200 per month, periodically brings one or two by a client’s house to urinate in the yard so that the rhesus monkeys will steer clear.

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• Awww, Mo-ther! Alleged drug dealer Jesus “Pepe” Fuentes, 37, was arrested in

Chicago in May after his mother botched a heroin pickup for him. Fuentes, eager to catch a concert by the rapper Scarface, sent his mother instead to gather the 10-kilo drop. She collected the drugs, but the entire shipment was lost when she failed to use a turn signal and was stopped by police. • Catherine Venusto, 45, was arrested in July and charged with breaking into the computer system of the Northwestern Lehigh School District in Pennsylvania (where she formerly worked) and changing the records of her two children (and while at it, reading private e-mails of 10 school officials). Venusto allegedly switched a daughter’s F grade to M (for medically excused) and one grade of her overachieving son from 98 to 99.

Movie Scenes Come to Life

• Should Be an Olympic Sport: Romanian gang members have apparently been apprehended after a series of robberies during March, April and May that resembled a scene from a recent “Fast and Furious” movie. The gang’s vehicle approaches the rear of tractortrailers traveling at highway speed, and gang-

sters climb onto the hood, grab the 18-wheeler’s rear door, open it using specialized tools, and steal inventory, apparently without knowledge of the driver. In one video released by police in Bucharest, the gang members, after peering inside the trailer, decided to take nothing and climbed back out.

Perspective

• Chicago staged its annual gun buy-back program in June (a $100 gift card for every firearm turned in) amidst its worst homicide epidemic in years, in which 259 have died on city streets in the first six months of 2012. However, the program appears to be, inadvertently, a win-win project for both anti- and pro-gun forces. The city reported that 5,500 guns were removed from circulation (bringing the total to 23,000 since the program was inaugurated), and included this year were several machine guns. On the other hand, 60 of this year’s guns were handed in by a local pro-gun organization, Guns Save Life, which promised to use its gift cards to buy ammunition for a National Rifle Association-supported shooting camp for kids.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What is the longest-running lie in your life? Maybe it’s a deception you’ve worked long and hard to hide. Maybe it’s a delusion you’ve insisted on believing in. Or perhaps it’s just a wish you keep thinking will come true one day even though there’s scant evidence it ever will. Whatever that big drain on your energy is, Capricorn, now would be a good time to try changing your relationship with it. I can’t say for sure that you’ll be able to completely transform it overnight. But if you marshal a strong intention, you will be able to get the process underway. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You may have heard the theory that somewhere there is a special person who is your other half -- the missing part of you. In D. H. Lawrence’s version of this fantasy, the two of you were a single angel that divided in two before you were born. Personally, I don’t buy it. The experiences of everyone I’ve ever known suggest there are many possible soulmates for each of us. So here’s my variation on the idea: Any good intimate relationship generates an “angel” -- a spirit that the two partners create together. This is an excellent time for you to try out this hypothesis, Aquarius. As you interact with your closest ally, imagine that a third party is with you: your mutual angel. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the coming weeks, you’ll be wise to shed your emotional baggage and purge your useless worries and liberate yourself from your attachments to the old days and the old ways. In other words, clear out a lot of free, fresh space. And when you’re finished doing that, Pisces, don’t hide away in a dark corner feeing vulnerable and sensitive and stripped bare. Rather, situate yourself in the middle of a fertile hub and prepare to consort with new playmates, unexpected adventures, and interesting blessings. One of my readers, Reya Mellicker, sums up the right approach: “Be empty, not like the bowl put away in the cupboard, but like the bowl on the counter, cereal box above, waiting to receive.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Hubble Space Telescope has taken 700,000 photos of deep space. Because it’s able to record details that are impossible to capture from the earth’s surface, it has dramatically enhanced astronomers’ understanding of stars and galaxies. Homework: Is there a belief you know you should live without, but have not yet gotten the courage to banish? FreeWillAstrology.com

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