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THIS WEEK AUG. 17 - AUG. 24, 2011

VOL. 22 ISSUE 26 ISSUE #1053

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THE PHILOSOPHY ACCORDING TO PHIL For years, comic Phil van Hest has been an IndyFringe favorite, blending philosophy with hilarity in a strange of mixture of performance art and stand up comedy. He’s back, as usual, but this time, he’s back as a local resident, having left Los Angeles last spring, for the greener, more beatific pastures, of Indianapolis. B Y A N DREW R OB ER TS

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STATE FAIR MEMORIAL

Hundreds of people came together Monday morning at the Indiana State Fairgrounds to mourn the lost lives and severe injuries experienced Saturday night when the grandstand stage collapsed in high winds. Pressing now is the need for leadership, directions and answers. BY REBECCA TOWNSEND

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LAST WEEK AT THE STATE FAIR

Before the accident on Saturday night there was plenty of fun to be had — and fun to be had this week as well. We present here images from the fair, the variety of experience is boggling. PHOTOS BY TED SOMERVILLE

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After a six-year gap, comedian Jake Johannsen returns to Indianapolis to share his world-view, one that is bewildered and bemused by everything around him. BY MARC D. ALLAN

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BROCKWAY: A FUN IRISH PUB

Outstanding is the battered fish sandwich ($8.50), generous chunks of battered Icelandic cod in a soft and fresh roll. This was some of the best fried fish I’d had in years and brought back happy childhood memories of the corner chippy. BY NEIL CHARLES

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LYNDA SAYYAH AT THE CROSSROADS

Here’s the deal with Lynda Sayyah: She’s the whole package. Writing.Producing. Dance. Modeling. Spokesmodeling. Fashion. She burns up the stage and leaves ‘em wanting more, her voice smoky, sleek, sly. BY PAUL F. P. POGUE

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Nicely done but feel the need to point out all the errors concerning the birds in the photographs (Cover, “Cock-a-doodle-doo! It’s State Fair Time!” Aug. 3-10). I will go clockwise from top left. (to follow this description, go to: http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/state-fairspotlight-cock-a-doodle-doers/ The Araucana pictured is actually a Salmon Faverolle. Faverolles are indeed a Continental breed. Araucanas are in the class All Other Standard Breeds. As i side note - most of the birds of this breed we see are actually Ameraucanas not the true Araucanas. Ameraucanas are in the same class as Araucanas. Buff Orpington - correct. Silver Sebright Bantam is a Silver Laced Wyandotte bantam. Wyandotte bantams are a miniature version of the American Class standard Wyandotte. The bantam version is classed Rosecomb Clean Legged. There is nothing British about the bird. And there is no British Class in the American Poultry Association Standard. The Cornish pictured looks more like a White Plymouth Rock. Rocks are indeed American Class, Cornish are indeed English Class. Sorry if this all sounds harsh. I admit I get a bit tired of all the info being put forth from nonchicken people on this now popular animal. I do thank you for the article regardless of some errors.

posted by Irvin

Weeds in the Cultural Trail

Incredibly one-sided, poorly researched coverage of this (News, “Weeds in the Cultural Trail,” Aug. 10-17). F[ountain] S[quare] has always struggled to keep businesses. There was barely any foot traffic before the trail construction. It’s a win-win for the merchants, they get lots of attention AND now have something to blame for businesses that would have failed regardless. This reporter (How sad is it for journalism that I’m calling her that.) should have gone to SEND on this. They would understand this problem and know the neighborhood history when it comes to commerce. Calling the Cultural Trail people would be something a high school journalist would have done. Let’s try a relevant question. How many businesses went out of business before the Cultural Trail construction?

posted by Anti-Alarmist

The fact remains that rail tracks and one vault a project should not hold up! My question (in hindsight of course) is why wasn’t a vault in or near the ROW, and rail tracks which have been underground and in a known location for God knows how long, addressed during the planning phases of the project? I know true un-

forseen things come about in project, but these are not items which should have remained un-forseen. That being said, isn’t there *something* which could be done while they’re waiting for test reports and permission?

posted by Jason Burk

I don’t live in Indy anymore and was shocked when I recently went to Fountain Square and saw the devastation. It looked like a war zone. That was in May. I can’t believe it still looks like this in August. This is gross incompetence and negligence on the part of the city. They’re going to kill this neighborhood under the guise of improving it. Ballard, the ball’s in your court.

posted by Michael Nolan

Bike hubbub

Will a bike hub in the City Market get more folks to ride to work downtown (Cover, “Indy continues bike-friendly path,” Aug. 3-10)? Not in a million years. First — there is no safe way to get downtown on a bike without getting run over and no plans are in the works, that will be changing that. Secondly — the City Market is on the far Eastside of downtown. This places it too far for most folks who work downtown. This has always hurt the City Market when it comes to trying to get downtown workers to come there for lunch. For most downtown workers it will be one long hike to work from the bike hub, if you happen to make it downtown safely!

posted by Kona Rider

I too commend Indy and its leaders for all of the above. We have a long way to go, however, when it comes to motorist awareness. This week alone I was: - honked at, I guess for riding in the left lane (I was about to turn left) - nearly run over when a driver apparently interpreted my lane-change signal as “please pass me at top speed” - yelled at to “use the sidewalk” Will I stop or curtail my riding (I bike commute daily)? No. Am I proud of his far Indy has come? Of course. But it’s clear where next to focus our attention.

posted by ajk

Ink dribbles

I find these cartoons very disingenuous (“Gadfly: Tax Breaks,” Aug. 10). It is one thing to be a political satirist and then another to distort to the point of fiction. If you are going to make a point about the economy, there are more than enough facts and current events (oh wait, is there where you blame the Tea Party or George Bush?) for you to point out than this dribble.

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HAMMER There are no words

Thoughts on the State Fair disaster

BY STEVE HAMMER SHAMMER@NUVO.NET

he morning after the Indiana State Fair concert disaster was quiet and gray, clouds dominating the sky while almost no traffic passed by in front of our house. Turning off the non-stop news coverage, our porch was a nice place to reflect on the tragedy and mourn the senseless loss of life. We expect to hear bad news from war zones; we are numbed by the death counts after a decade of war. We are not shocked even by violent crime in our own communities, most of us figuring it’s the price we pay to live in a big city. But the Indiana State Fair, home of wholesome entertainment, creator of precious family memories, site of joy and local pride, is the very last place we expect tragic loss of life. The shock of the tragedy was surpassed only by its cruel swiftness. Lives were snuffed out instantly while their friends and families must suffer for decades to come. As a veteran of hundreds and hundreds of concerts, it’s a truism that fewer audiences come to shows better-dressed and more excited than country music fans. I’ve seen State Fair audiences line up for hours in excessive heat dressed in stylish clothes, the men dashing and the women heartwrenchingly pretty. I can imagine the working-class men and women anxiously awaiting the Sugarland concert, their tickets bought with money earned through hours of hard labor. Many of them had undoubtedly been anticipating the show for weeks or months, grateful for an evening of entertainment and happiness, away from work and other causes of stress. The children at the concert were excited and happy to see the concert and to create memories with their parents. It was as all-American a scene as one can imagine — thousands of Midwesterners gathered together. Then, with little warning, the scaffolding fell and ended the lives of five people who’d done nothing more than try and have a good time at one of the premier events of the year. Even in the middle of the nightmarish scene that unfolded, there was inspiration amongst the tragedy. Once the crowd processed what had happened, hundreds of people rushed in to help,

working together to lift the scaffolding, free those trapped underneath and assist the injured to safety. Think about that for a second. In the face of adversity, people worked together to help strangers in need. There were no cowards, only fellow Hoosiers doing what they needed to do in a crisis. It’s hard to imagine how this year’s State Fair can go on after such an event. No decision had been made as of this writing whether other scheduled concerts would proceed this week, although cancelling them seems the most prudent move. There rightfully will be investigations of how the structure fell and whether it was assembled safely. If mistakes were made, an angry community will demand justice. Similar stages have collapsed in the past and there should be an industry-wide review to make sure no other concertgoers are imperiled in the future. The rest of this year’s State Fair will be more subdued than if this tragedy had not occurred, obviously. But I certainly hope that this incident does not deter people from attending and enjoying the exhibits and patronizing the many local merchants and vendors who depend on income from the fair. Tragedy has stricken the Fairgrounds many times during its long history. The natural gas explosion that killed 74 people at the Coliseum in 1963 is the largest and most deadly. Then, as now, innocent people were killed. Then, as now, the uninjured rushed to help. And the tradition of the fairgrounds as a gathering place continued on. We must never forget those who died and the heroes who assisted others to safety. As with any tragedy, no words can adequately express what happened. It doesn’t make sense on any level. Thousands of concerts have been held, hundreds at the Fairgrounds alone, and nothing unusual happened. But, for reasons yet to be fully determined, on this occasion the stage collapsed and innocent men, women and children died or were severely injured. It will take quite a while for the community to recover from this shock and begin the process of healing that will have to occur. In the days to come, we will hear more stories of heroism and of loss. We will get to know the names of the victims and feel the pain their loved ones are now suffering. I’m sure all of Indianapolis joins me in mourning the loss of life, fully determining the circumstances in which these deaths occurred and vowing to make sure it never happens again. May the victims rest in peace and may our city’s massive arms embrace their families with compassion and caring at this very difficult time.

As with any tragedy, no words can adequately express what happened.

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HOPPE The WTF era continues An age of satire BY DAVID HOPPE DHOPPE@NUVO.NET Editor’s Note: David Hoppe is on vacation this week and we revisit a Hoppe column originally published Dec. 23, 2009.

might have known what sort of decade this would be when good friends Ed and Sharon turned up at our front door on New Year’s Eve 1999 wearing Groucho glasses. Satire was about to become the national style. The truth — whatever that was — hurt. And so we laughed at it. The Onion became our newspaper of record. Jon Stewart became the most trusted anchorman since Walter Cronkite. It started with Y2K, the idea that our computers were out to get us. As the clock turned to midnight and a new millennium began, our technologies would start to eat themselves, leaving us all in the dark, living off canned goods and singing the bits of songs to which we could still remember the words for entertainment. This didn’t happen. In fact, something like the opposite occurred: Our computers ate us. Or we ate each other. This began with the first presidential election of the 21st century. Al Gore, who tried to make himself more likeable by satirizing himself on TV shows like Saturday Night Live, actually got the most votes that November. But the outcome in one state, Florida, was disputed. Votes were counted, recounted and lost in the shuffle. Finally, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of George W. Bush, making him, in effect our first appointed president. Al Gore, not wanting to further disrupt the country, or to show good sportsmanship, or something, went along with this. Oops. Eight years of national disruption ensued. Satire thrived. Satire, it must be said, does not prosper when the news is good. Perhaps the most famous piece of satirical writing is Jonathan Swift’s essay, “A Modest Proposal,” in which the author suggests that the destitute Irish turn their babies into food for their English masters. Let it suffice to say that Ireland, in those days, was in pretty bad shape. By contrast, look at what happened toward the end of the Noughts, when Barack Obama was elected president in 2008. The nation’s comedians were seemingly knocked back on their heels, overwhelmed by what appeared to be an outbreak of national optimism. But satire prevailed.

Obama, like a pitcher facing a line-up of steroidal hitters — Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and Raphael Palmiero, say, the very ones who donned suits and ties and appeared at a Congessional hearing — hung a series of curve balls when he faced the country’s Special Interests. The results? A home run for Wall Street, thanks to a bail out and lack of meaningful regulation. A home run for the Military Industrial Complex, thanks to an escalation of the war in Afghanistan. And a home run for the health insurance industry, thanks to the elimination of anything like a public option. Obama, at least, could take comfort in his family. The same could not be said for The Athlete of the Decade, Tiger Woods. Woods, who was virtually raised on a golf course, dominated his sport the way few athletes can. But while golf can be a metaphor for life, it is not life itself — a subject where Woods has proven himself to have an outsized handicap. After crashing his Cadillac Escalade (gas guzzler of the decade for millionaire jocks) at 2:30 a.m. outside his Florida home, Woods reluctantly confessed to cheating on his wife with a conga line of bimbos. Now he says he’ll take a break from competitive golf to see if he can patch up his marriage and make peace with his kids. The smart money bets he has until the spring, when the azaleas bloom in Augusta, Ga., and the Masters tournament begins. In another era, Woods’ transgressions might have remained on the level of gossip and hearsay. They might have actually contributed to his persona, the way they did for JFK. But this was also a decade in which public ownership of public figures reached new heights (or lows). Indeed, this might have been the one area in which the public actually cleaned up. Corporate interests might have been given greater hold over previously public lands and public resources might have been privatized, but the privacy of public figures became fair game, the bone the rest of us were thrown to gnaw upon. And so off-the-wall misadventures of the rich and famous that once seemed trivial in the broader scheme of things assumed the stature of what, in junior high, we used to call “current events.” Some decried this as prurient distraction and escapism. But we were living through a time in which ice caps were melting, sea levels rising, deserts expanding and wild fires spreading. The decade closed with leaders from over 100 nations gathering in Copenhagen to try and think about the unthinkable things happening to our planet. The trouble, though, was that the unthinkable turned out to be just that. Enter satire, Groucho glasses and all.

Satire, it must be said, does not prosper when the news is good.

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HAIKU NEWS by Jim Poyser

VIP pit fans killed, many injured, as wind gust topples State Fair stage London calling for calm but hooliganism is sure hard to hush Pawlenty drops out ‘cause he ain’t enough of a nut for tea party as GOP veers even righter is there no Democrat fighter? Perry to run for pres; Texas candidate feels like deja voodoo debt super panel to waste taxpayer money in constant gridlock US Post Office will make hundreds of thousands be post-Post Office it would seem Phillip Hinkle’s intelligence was lacking in design cable, satellite TV subscriptions fall like deus ex machina paper money found to contain BPA — call it regressive tox

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It’s almost a self-fulfilling prophecy: The more rabid the homophobic rhetoric, the more likely it stems from a closeted conservative longing for hot, same-sex action. Now comes poetic justice for Rep. Phil Hinkle, one of the Indiana state lawmakers who earlier this year voted in favor House Joint Resolution 6, which calls for a constitutional amendment dictating that marriage be defined strictly as a heterosexual institution. It seems his support of such legislation does not preclude trolling Craigslist in search of hot, young, male love for sale, as alleged in a recent Star exposé. Instead of refuting the report, which outlines a bizarre encounter between the lawmaker and an 18-year-old prostitute, Hinkle acknowledged “a shakedown” and referred the reporter to his attorney. Too bad johns rarely are locked up for solicitation; Hinkle may finally have found what he was looking for.

MAID AID

The city’s hospitality workers may be fighting an uphill battle in their quest for tax relief for the lowest paid among them, especially when the mayor is characterizing the city’s 2012 fiscal outlook as “our toughest budget in years.” But that didn’t stop an estimated 500 community activists from packing the City-County Council chambers Monday night for the introduction of Proposal 242, which would offer annual tax relief of about $200 to downtown hotel workers making less than $25,000 a year. The total price tag of such is effort is estimated at $250,000. But, supporters ask, if the city can subsidize the Pacers, Lucas Oil Stadium or the North of South development, how about throwing some scratch to impoverished neighborhoods by allowing low-income workers to pocket a little extra cash? The proposal carries the support of four council sponsors and will receive a hearing Sept. 27 at 5:30 p.m.

GAG ORDER

If the public is indignant or rude, then they don’t deserve a voice. This, in essence, is the message the council sent Monday night when it rejected an effort to ask Metropolitan Development Committee to reconsider its decision not to accept public testimony at a recent hearing on a new nominee for the Board of Zoning Appeals. If people are falsely accused of unethical or illegal behavior, it discourages volunteers from accepting council nominations to the board, those in favor of muzzling public input argued. If you don’t allow comment, fellow council members responded, how do you know what the public is going to say?

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news Memorial offers healing moment

The moment of silence offered some degree of catharsis to Kayla Sollars of Marion, who sat in the audience with a memorial poster of her friend Alina. Sollars was in the Sugarland audience Saturday night, but did not find out until later that Bigjohny, who had won her ticket to the concert, was present as well. “I cried when the stage fell,” she said. “It was even worse to know I knew someone who was killed. I was really happy they were able to do the moment of silence…” Others directly touched by the tragedy left the service telling reporters they wished the stands were cleared once officials knew the storm was imminent. “I just wish when the storm was coming….maybe he would have had a chance,” Nate Byrd’s brother told a local TV station. State fair employees and vendors also packed Monday’s memorial. “They, too, are devastated,” Simmerman said, noting his hope that the service would allay some anxiety and lift some burdens as they endeavor to carry forward. For some employees, these personal burdens have been compartmentalized, set off to the side of their mental landscape, while they focus of the enormity of the task at hand. On Saturday night, for instance, Andy Klotz, the fair’s spokesman, spent much of his evening comforting two women who were separated from their husbands during the mayhem, uncertain as to whether they had survived the collapse. Those stories, at least, had a happy outcome, he said. But there’s no time for reflection yet. “It’s really difficult,” Klotz said. “There are a lot of different things to consider. You have to put your own emotions on hold because you are part of something much bigger.”

Investigations underway

BY RE BE CCA T O WN S E N D R T O W N S E N D @N U V O . N E T

undreds of people came together Monday morning at the Indiana State Fairgrounds to mourn the lost lives and severe injuries experienced Saturday night when the grandstand stage collapsed in high winds. The ceremony served primarily as a memorial tribute, but also as a medium to channel the outpouring emotion of Hoosiers from all walks of life looking for a vehicle to share their sorrow. “We hope this tribute will be uplifting to friends and families who so deserve to find meaning in their sudden grief,” said State Fair Board President Steve Simmerman. The audience shared moments of silence for each of the five victims: Tammy Vandam, 42, of Wanatah, Ind.; Glenn Goodrich, 49, of Indianapolis; Alina Bigjohny, 23, of Ft. Wayne; Christina Santiago, 29, of Chicago; and Nathan Byrd, 51, of Indianapolis. An additional moment of silence focused attention on the people still in the hospital. Of the 45 people taken to the hospital Saturday, on Monday an estimated 19 remained.

The search for answers

PHOTO BY MARK LEE

Indiana State Fair Executive Director Cindy Hoye holds responsibility for evacuation decisions together with the joint emergency command forces charged with oversight of public safety at the fair.

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Most pressing now is the need for leadership, for direction, for answers. Much of that responsibility falls on ISF Executive Director Cindy Hoye. Even when operations are running as planned, her job during the fair is all encompassing, demanding around the clock attention. Now she carries the weight of one of the most commonly asked questions: What if? What if officials enacted evacuation plans sooner? Could calamity have been prevented? Following Monday’s memorial she faced a television reporter with weary patience as he asked the same question she’d been attempting to answer since Saturday night, the question that will likely haunt her forever: Why didn’t you act sooner? The accusing tone of the question is amplified as people look to the more swift and decisive response taken earlier that evening at Conner Prairie, where organizers of an Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra performance ordered the audience back to their cars a full half hour before officials at the state fair suggested to the grandstand audience that an evacuation might be necessary. Hoye and State Police Special Operations Commander Brad Weaver were on their way backstage to ask audience members to

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Following Monday’s memorial service at the Indiana State Fair, nurse Nancy Chiles contemplates a makeshift shrine outside the grandstand. She said she knew several people that attended the concert Saturday night and wishes she could have been there to lend a hand.

evacuate the grandstand when the stage collapsed. Cpt. Weaver pulled Hoye away from the falling wreckage, according to several officials, including Klotz and Gov. Mitch Daniels. Sunday morning, Daniels joined Hoye and other officials at a press conference to outline the basic details that had been pieced together — a timeline and the names of the deceased. Following Monday’s service, Hoye said that several different engineering firms were moving in for inspections of the collapsed stage, including the Cincinnatibased company that built the stage, a Chicago-based firm contracted by the state fair and another firm hired by the attorney general. Additional investigating agencies include the state fire marshal, the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Marion County coroner and the Indiana State Police. So far, it appears that no state or local inspection agencies were charged with evaluating the stage rigging, underscoring the need to heighten official scrutiny of the structural integrity of temporary stages. According to a Wall Street Journal article published Tuesday, while the state fair accident may be the worst of its kind in history, it is at least the third accident involving outdoor stages this summer. In July, for example, the band Cheap Trick was nearly flattened during a stage collapse at Ottawa’s Bluesfest.

Moving forward

Monday’s service also marked the ceremonial reopening of the fair, which was closed on Sunday as officials regrouped and plotted their best course of response. Part of the strategy was to establish the Indiana State Fair Remembrance Fund for the victims and their families. The Central Indiana Community Foundation is collecting donations at www.cicf.org.

More than a dozen people remain in the hospital. Jenny Haskell, for instance, who attended the show with Alina Bigjohny, is suffering a skull fracture, broken ribs, a crushed pelvis and broken femur, her friends report. In times of tragedy, First Lady Cheri Daniels told the memorial audience, people can either “lose heart and hope and remain in tragedy or take heart and rebuild.” Gov. Daniels repeatedly praised both first official first responders and private citizens for rushing to the aid of Saturday’s victims. “I can’t tell you how proud I am to be the employee of six-and-a-half million people like that,” he said. “I bet you share that pride, too.” The memorial audience responded with applause. Now, Daniels continued, “It’s time to get back to business: The business of living. The business of the state fair. The business of caring for each other.” And for the dozens of investigators, it is time to see what lessons can be learned from Saturday’s disaster, to determine exactly what happened and try to make sure it never happens again. So far, it seems, the governor is taking one central lesson to heart. “I thought it was a learning point for all of us, that something of that size needs some either inspection or certification,” Daniels told reporters gathered Tuesday for an announcement that Angie’s List will expand in Indianapolis. “It ought to be looked at.” But the requirement for inspection or certification should not be without qualification, he added. “We’re not going to have an inspector on every three-foot scaffolding all over the state when (they’re being) built,” Daniels said. “So there’ll have to be some rule of reason.” Megan Banta of the Franklin College Statehouse Bureau contributed to this report.

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Frustration in Fountain Square by Micah Ling

Deep-fried edibles by Shelby Salazar

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IndyFringe

2011

56 shows on 7 stages stages

By Anna Turner • editors@nuvo.net

ringe Theater, loosely defined, is everything The New York Times forgot about. Coming from the outskirts of theater communities around the world, IndyFringe proudly boasts a lineup of bizarre, unique and fresh theatrical performances, with none comparable to their fellow headliners. The Fringe Theater festivals occur across the country, and now, starting this week, IndyFringe is next on the circuit. The two-week event runs Aug. 19-28. This year’s venues are Cook Theater, ComedySportz, Theater on the Square (main stage and stage two), Basile Theater, Phoenix Main, and IndyFringe Theater. Backer Buttons ($5) must be purchased in conjunction with a ticket for admission into any show. Tickets can be purchased at www.indyfringe.org or at the box office prior to the show (box office opens 30 minutes prior to start time). A particularly amazing aspect of the Fringe is that 100 percent of ticket sales are returned to the Fringe performers. Showtimes and venue vary, but all performances’ seating begins 30 minutes prior to start time and IndyFringe insists that absolutely no late admittance is permitted. With over 50 shows to choose from, even the most diverse of theatrical palettes can be satisfied. From the outright ridiculous comedy/musical to the heavily laden with social commentary, IndyFringe’s 2011 lineup has it all. Comedy, musical, one-man, improvisation, dance, magic, interpretive, newage, variety — even Dada. The various faces of theater are well-represented at this year’s IndyFringe, as are local (Three Dollar Bill Comedy takes a bite into “School House Rock” with their musical/ comedy School House Wrong!), national (New York’s Rupert Wates and Friends weave a story of America in Joe’s Café), and international theater (Australian

David Quirk brings us a one-man comedy in his solo act The Day I Ate Wombat). Beyond the stage, IndyFringe brings its patrons ClubFringe, a free outdoor stage that is open Friday and Saturday nights of the festival’s run. Sponsored by Flat 12 Bierwerks, World Class Beverages, Barefoot, and NUVO, ClubFringe promises food, drink, music and fun. Individuals with an IndyFringe Backer Button enjoy free admission to ClubFringe; otherwise the cost is a $1 wristband. For those who think they can enjoy a real theater party is the After Dark Performers Gig, starting at 11 p.m. and lasting until late. $10 admission gets you in for a night with the Fringe performers at the IndyFringe Theater, 719 E. St. Clair St. It will be hosted Friday-Sunday nights of the festival’s run. There will be a cash bar at the event. Putting an emphasis on street theater, IndyFringe will expand into the streets, sponsoring street performers up and down Mass Ave. Fire twirlers, jugglers and various Fringe performers, called buskers, are there for entertainment outside the IndyFringe schedule. Mini-Fringers Make Play is a familyfriendly activity sponsored by Young Actors Theatre School that takes place at the intersection of Mass Ave. and College Ave. This is a one-hour activity from 4-5 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 20 and Saturday, Aug. 27. Since theater is not limited to just bipedal thespians, IndyFringe will host Tails on the Trail Saturday, Aug. 27, beginning at 5 p.m. and ending at 6 p.m. There will be prizes for biggest, smallest and most fringy pet, as well as the most artsy pet carrier. To learn more about IndyFringe, visit www.indyfringe.org. INDYFRINGE FESTIVAL August 19-28 Seven stages $10 per ticket www.indyfringe.org

The Philosophy according to Phil Comic returns to Fringe — this time as an Indy Resident BY AN DREW ROBERT S EDITO RS@ N UVO.NET In a full beard and a sleeveless black bicycle jersey, Phil van Hest follows a five-hour writing binge and a sweaty bike ride through the thick summer heat with a goblet of beer and a careful diagnosis of American debt. He chews over his words with deliberation and candor; the subject of his conversation is wellresearched, but the words are improvised and sincere, as one of the city’s favorite IndyFringe Festival icons deliberates the material of his newest one-man show, Motherbanking Bankholes. His long, distinctive beard would be impractical for most men in late July, but it becomes van Hest; it is one of few definable characteristics of one of the most enigmatic men you will ever know. He is equal parts artist, performer, philosopher, comedian, writer, anthropologist, critic, psychologist, teacher, student and activist. That’s not much of a marketable brand, but it is Phil’s — and it is all his own. Think of a modern-day Khalil Gibran, with a few more anus jokes. Even when writing his own promotions, Phil van Hest struggles to define himself as an entertainer. A comedian evokes images of a microphone and a brick wall, and that’s not quite right. “Philosopher” evokes

images of required reading, and he uses the word “fuck” a couple dozen times too many for his work to find its way into an IPS curriculum. While van Hest insists that comedy is simply the numbing agent to dull the mosquito bite of the difficult truths he explores, it is the laughter — not the universal truths — that fills the seats. He does both very well, but the two are mutually dependent on one another for his success. “I came to this after three years of telling penis jokes for a living,” van Hest says of his current string of one-man shows. This spring he moved to Indianapolis to pursue a career of comedy/activism/philosophy/ theater/writing. “There’s money in dick jokes,” he says. “But it felt irresponsible from an artistic integrity standpoint. I try at all times to — and this is really the death nail — educate while making people laugh. “I try to be factual, accurate and wellresearched. But the trick is presenting it in a way that’s not fucking boring.”

Trying to find God

In Indianapolis, van Hest says, more people have got on board than anywhere else. After stopping through town the last few summers for IndyFringe, van Hest decided to take his search for a sustainable lifestyle to Indianapolis on a more permanent basis. He has a television-free, automobilefree life in the oasis of Rocky Ripple, where he spends his days writing. Ideally, van Hest wants to live in a commune of organic farmers, living off the fat o’ the lan’. Fully aware that all the American frontiers have been claimed, he seeks a life of communal-based living where he can grow his organic veggies and eat them, too. “I don’t want to need as much, but to start a commune I’m going to need some capital before I can live within a more locally dependent network. It’s an illusion to think you can live indeCONTINUED ON PG. 16

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“Once you realize that you don’t own the truth and nobody does, it starts to become laughable and ludicrous to take someone serious who tries to take ownership of it,” van Hest says, with quiet, fatherly poise. “Then you realize that they’re just trying to find happiness and avoid suffering, and you can have empathy for them, because that’s what we’re all doing. My methods may seem ludicrous to them. So unless you know that you are each other, then it’s hard to care about each other.”

Moving into the future

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When Phil moved to Indianapolis, he immediately started a garden. CONTINUED FROM PG. 15

pendently,” he says. “I want to build a village, but you’d have to find a group of Amish people or Luddites who are willing to raise their people on this land so that there would be generations to take care of you, but still be close enough to a hospital. And have some health insurance. It’s possible, but you have to reinvent the wheel. “It seemed like that concept was much more available here than in California.” Van Hest doesn’t have the answer to America’s collective financial ruin, but he wants his audience to consider the heart of the question in his new show, Motherbanking Bankholes, which he will unveil at IndyFringe. This year’s effort is a deviation from the broad sociopolitical spectrum of past shows. “Before, I’ve always taken on vague philosophical constructs,” van Hest says of his latest endeavor, which is largely an affront against the imaginary and asinine concept of American debt. “But this is the first time I’ve tried to attach the premise to something concrete.” Van Hest finds the nebulous monster of American’s financial system — where we play a game in which we strive to be “good at debt” and get the best “debt score” — to be a condescending and dehumanizing beast of our own making. “It’s a faith-based system, and I have a problem with that for the same reason I had a problem with organized religions when I was younger,” he explains. “I’m just supposed to accept that someone has a plan, that I don’t understand that plan and that I have to just move on with my life. We’re supposed to be comforted that we don’t know what it is and never will; just be comforted that some larger benevolent figure is taking care of it for you. “It’s like the rapture; it’s like an imaginary system. We created it; it’s so far-flung at this point no one knows what it is. Even the people who are paid to know what it is don’t know what it is. I feel insulted by this

notion; if you want to know what’s really going on it shouldn’t be that hard to find out. But the fact that it’s being purposely hidden, it’s like spending your whole life trying to literally find God.” So how do we gain independence from this rat race of financial ambition and never-ending debt? “We could build a commune. But you know what we’d need to do that? A loan.”

“Once you realize that you don’t own the truth and nobody does, it starts to become laughable…” —Phil van Hest

The chicken and the egg

In August of 2008, van Hest performed for a crowd of about nine people at ComedySportz on a weekend afternoon. He got modest laughs, but there was a lot of integrity and potency behind the material. That evening I mulled over the performance at great length, trying to figure out what I had just seen. It was a hybrid between stand-up comedy and an epic one-man show best suited for an HBO special. He had the confidence needed to not be funny every 10 seconds, to go minutes without a laugh and trust that his material is working in layers toward a larger experience. Three years later, neither van Hest nor I still know exactly what it was I saw that day.

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“Marketing has been a huge problem because after five or six years of doing this, I still couldn’t tell you what it is that I do,” he says. “Comedic monologues with a philosophical spin?” Part of the reason his approach to performance art is so unchartered is because it is almost impossible to tell a person how the world works without immediately alienating them. Typically a comedian has to build a reputation over the course of decades to earn the privilege of an audience’s interest in his genuine ideologies. Van Hest instills a sense of trust and mutual respect with his crowd instantaneously. Of course, like anything, it’s not for everyone. The first review he ever received was of his first performance, in which the critic complained that the material was “too smart” and used too many four-syllable words such as “in-ter-est-ing” and “wat-er-mel-on.” Though the nearsighted review provided a hilarious retrospective anecdote for van Hest, the entertainment industry’s penchant for catchphrases and characterizations is a harsh daily reality. “It has crossed my mind every day for the last five years with increasing intensity per day,” he says. But he doesn’t see dumbing down his material as a viable alternative. “I could fall down and make you laugh. But to really reach someone and help them realize something that will make their experience of life more full or understand another human being or realize their anger is misplaced, those are the reactions I’m trying to evoke.” The comedy and the philosophy go hand-in-hand, and to discuss which came first and which is more relevant quickly becomes a conversation about the chicken and the egg. Van Hest’s comedic brevity makes the sociopolitical commentary accessible and harmless, even to a potentially hostile audience. Where most of us fall for the trap of expressing our opinions as truth, van Hest makes a point to distinguish the two — even when people are paying to hear that opinion.

After this year van Hest is officially retiring from the Fringe circuit, though he still plans to do the Indy edition each summer. Next on the horizon is a monthly news satire show at the Fringe Building, entitled “Funny About That.” Van Hest plans to podcast it and try to build a following, and become a recognizable presence in Indianapolis theater, then possibly move into television. But to get there and make it self-sustaining, van Hest knows that he will need sponsors. “If you’re not shitty,” van Hest says, leaning in toward the recorder, speaking to potential investors, “I’ll let you be a part of it.” “For all my railing against the monetary system, I still want to succeed at it. Because I want to have kids, I want to not live in fear of financial ruin, but I also have to do it my way,” he says. If it doesn’t work out and the move to Indianapolis turns out to be for naught, does van Hest need the performance arts to consider himself successful? “Fuck no. I used to, but lately I’ve moved more toward apathy. I want to start a religion of apathyism. ‘Shit happens?’ It doesn’t if you don’t give a shit. I’ve been redefining my own concept of success, and I don’t want that to be tied to other people’s opinions of what I do. I don’t need that. “If I had a job-job that I felt was beneficial to other people, I’d do that. But right now, this is the best idea I’ve had — having my own ‘thing.’ ‘Thing’ subject to interpretation.”

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Phil the Void: Motherbanking Bankholes ComedySportz Saturday, Aug. 20 (6 p.m.), Sunday, Aug. 21. (1:30 p.m.), Monday, Aug. 22 (6 p.m.), Friday, Aug. 26 (9 p.m.), Saturday, Aug. 27 (10:30 p.m.) Sunday, Aug. 28 (6 p.m.)

More Fringe must-sees Truth is, IndyFringe is an adventure. Get out there and go see some stuff. Ask a stranger what they saw, try out something you didn’t plan to see. But also check out our must-see list — folks we’ve been watching over the years, and we can nigh-on guarantee you’ll have an enjoyable,

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Uncomfortable questions

Kling’s Fringe show explores gender identity BY A N N A TU R N E R E DI T O RS @ N U V O . N E T In 2010, Rebecca Kling was let go from a teaching position at a school in North Chicago, Illinois. The alleged reasoning behind Kling’s dismissal was that things like Kling’s “deep voice” and “big hands” would raise uncomfortable questions. This act led Kling to create her one-woman show No Gender Left Behind, a multifaceted theatrical piece that explores the question, “what is society teaching in regards to gender identity and trans culture?” No Gender Left Behind addresses general gender issues, something Kling hopes all audiences will relate to. “I don’t just want the audience to take away something about trans culture, but about the human experience,” Kling said in a NUVO interview. “We all have gender, we all have gender experiences. I want people to realize they can relate to this thing that seems totally unrelated.” Kling, who is transgendered, goes beyond a mere memoir performance format. “The show itself is a mix of personal narratives from my own experience, as well as drawing on other peoples’ experiences,” Kling said. Kling’s tools include metaphor, fiction, storytelling and even multimedia. She incorporates sexual education videos from the 1940s to illustrate what was taught about sexual orientation in that era. Kling also uses the Growing Up Skipper doll as a visual in her show, another example of drawing on society’s past viewpoints of gender and sexuality. Originally made in the 1970s, Growing Up Skipper “grows up” by growing breasts with the twist of her arm. Though it is clear society has evolved since Growing Up Skipper, No Gender Left Behind provides evidence we still have a long way to go. Kling hopes her work can open up a dialogue about this, and she has been able to continue the show’s conversation in talkback sessions following her Fringe performances. “I really find that the work that I do aims to open up a conversation,” Kling said. When asked how she felt about the talkback sessions, she expressed that they were ideal for No Gender Left Behind. “I find the talkbacks really valuable both as a performer in ter ms of what the audience thought of the show, and as someone who wants to open up that dialogue and continue the conversation about gender.”

Beer Can Raft and other plays

Lou Harry Lou Harry is one of the funniest guys in town, is a journalist — and he’s a helluva playwright, too. So when we learned he was teaming up PHOTO BY KIM SESSIONS with juggernaut direcSpencer Elliott, Georgeanna Smith, Julie Mauro star in “Beer Can Raft.” tor Karen Irwin and a bunch of great actors — Georgeanna Smith, Julie Marie Mauro, Spencer Elliott and Matthew Goodrich — we would have been there even if we hadn’t heard the premise: Three college students, a late-night float on a raft made of beer cans, no sign of land and a chance for the world to be seen a little differently.

How to Kill

Gabe Globen We’re excited about this because Gabe Globen is a hilarious actor who regularly does IndyFringe with the Bloomington Playwrights Project. This year, he developed his own play at BPP (that’s what the BPP does: develop new plays), and it focuses on SUBMITTED PHOTO a socially awkward introvert who figures out a perfect therapeutic approach to heal his crippling anxiety: kill people. In his mind, of course. Plays at Phoenix Theatre Mainstage

Plays at Phoenix Theatre Mainstage

Illusion

The Magic of Jared Sherlock This Indianapolis magician pretty much grew up at IndyFringe, starting his performances at the tender age of 16. Now he’s 22, graduated from college and doing magic full time. He fuses magic with comedy, and dancing with storytelling in a modern-day variety show. SUBMITTED PHOTO

Plays at Cook Theatre

Little Red Riding Hood

NoExit Performance This theater group emerged from the experimental cauldron of the Butler Theatre Department a couple years ago, and has regaled the arts community with a number of compelling, provocaSUBMITTED PHOTO tive performances, such as Thom Pain (based on nothing), 4.48 Psychosis and their own take on Antigone. Here, they’ll adapt the legendary story of Little Red Riding Hood to their own particular patois. Who knows? The entire play might take place inside a wolf’s stomach. Plays at Theatre on the Square Mainstage

Red Couch

Paper Strangers After having seen performances by this local group — The Lives of Cut Flowers, Medea — we can predict this is going to SUBMITTED PHOTO be compelling. Michael Burke directs and Tommy Lewey choreographs a show that explores … romance. They’ve borrowed the term “twitterpated” from Bambi, the “funny awkwardness” that comes from having someone “like” you. Plays at Theatre on the Square Mainstage

No Gender Left Behind

Frank and Katrina Basile Theatre, The Phoenix Friday, Aug. 19 (9 p.m.) Saturday, Aug. 20 (3 p.m.) Sunday, Aug. 21 (7:30 p.m.) Wednesday, Aug. 24 (6 p.m.) Saturday, Aug. 27 (10:30 p.m.) Sunday, Aug. 28 (4:30 p.m.)

even challenging, time. So here’s a half-dozen picks for you; as we do each year, check out our Fringe coverage in next week’s issue as we attempt to attend every single show and review.

Welcome to Zanland

Zan Comedy Greetings from ZanLand, home to the hilarious, poignant and raw adolescence of Indynative Zan Aufderheide. Using her acting acumen to break your cathartic little heart and her comedy know-how SUBMITTED PHOTO to patch it right back up, Aufderheide spins the coming-of-age tale as no one has before. Welcome to Zanland has tears, laughs, gasps, pregnant pauses and applause, all strung together by the unavoidable pain of growing up. Plays at IndyFringe Theatre

There are plenty of other names you can depend on to deliver top quality Fringe performances, from Screw You Revue (IndyFringe Theatre) to Diane Kondrat ( Luminary

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For comprehensive event listings, go to www.nuvo.net/calendar

do or die

Only have time to do one thing all week? This is it.

SATURDAY

SPECIAL EVENT

Circus Under the Stars @ Indianapolis Art Center The Indianapolis Art Center’s annual fundraiser, ArtSparkle, will take on the theme of a classic circus for a one time exhibition. Guests will be able to view vintage hand-painted circus and sideshow posters from the 1930s to 1960s, enjoy food and drinks catered by Indianapolis restaurants, dance to music by the Fabulous Imports, all included with admission. Proceeds benefit seven outreach programs. 6 p.m. for VIP ticketholders, 7 p.m. general admission. 820 East 67th Street, 255-2464, www. indplsartcenter.org

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Will this rooster be the winner? You’ll have to attend the finals to found out!

17 WEDNESDAY + STATE FAIR

THURSDAY FREE

Rooster Crowing Contest @ Indiana State Fair Most of us don’t wake up to the crowing of rooster. For those masochists who wish they could, this hilarious event will be the one for you. With three days of competition, roosters from across the state vie to be Cockledoodliest rooster that ever did crow. Numerous birds will compete, with one emerging for crowing rights all the coming year. Poultry and Rabbit Building , Wednesday, Aug. 17 at 4 p.m., Finals, Thursday 4 p.m. Free with State Fair admission. 1202 E. 38th St., 927-7500, www.in.gov/statefair

SATURDAY

SPECIAL EVENT

Hoosier Farm and Garden Dinner @ Epworth United Methodist Church Celebrate the goodness of fresh, locally grown food at the third annual

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Blue Monkey Sideshow continues their incredible run — performing every day at the State Fair, and Saturday at the Indianapolis Art Center.

Green Team will provide small farm, Hoosier-raised Pulled Pork BBQ sandwiches, homemade apple dumplings, and other desserts. They ask that each family attending bring a large salad or vegetable side dish to share, using at least one ingredient from an Indy farm, garden, orchard, field or waterway. Guest speakers will be Rick Dawson and Shannon Cagle former WISH-TV reporters and current owners of their own flock of egg-laying hens. 6450 Allisonville Rd., 251-1481 http://www. epworthindy.org

Hoosier Farm and Garden Dinner

this Saturday at 5:30 p.m. The Epworth

SATURDAY

SPECIAL EVENT

Shop Local, Shop Fair @ Earth House Collective

THURSDAY

VISUAL ARTS

Heavy Metal @ Hyatt Regency Hotel Join the Circle City Chamber Group as they present a night of authentic art, tasty treats and moving music. Heavy Metal features metal artwork from Indianapolis’ own Carol Tabac-Shank; she is premiering two new works alongside others. Gourmet chocolate, drinks, and hors d’ oeuvres will be available throughout the evening in addition to a concert by CCCG Brass Quintet. The evening starts at 6:30 p.m. and ends at 9:30 p.m. Tickets: $25 early, $30 at door. 1 South Capitol Ave., 586-2224, www. brownpaperticket.com/event/180205

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Chef Byron Gabel

Shelby Kelley’s Revolucionary art by Dan Grossman Mass Ave Crit: Eric Young wins again by Micah Ling Your Go&Do weekend; Aug. 19-21 by Jim Poyser

Want to learn more about the local food movement and buying fair trade? Earth House Collective, along with other businesses and organizations, have provided an opportunity to do just that! Head out to Earth House Collective on August 20 to be a part of workshops and panels focusing on being a conscious consumer. There will be food vendors, artists and artisans vending their goods and service, as well. Bring the kids along for a day full of fun activities. 12 p.m. - 6 p.m. 237 North East St., 636-4060, earthhousecollective.org

Review of the remake of Fright Night remake by Ed Johnson-Ott

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Greg Monzel of Pogue’s Run will be one of the presenters at Earth House.

Shelby Kelley’s Revolucionary art by Mark Lee

Mass Ave Crit: Eric Young wins again by Ted Somerville State Fair Memorial by Mark Lee and Ted Somerville

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SATURDAY

FESTIVAL 6281 N. College Ave.

247 S. Meridian

Huggy is known for his appearances on The HBO Def Comedy Jam, The Jamie Foxx Special, P. Diddy’s Bad Boys of Comedy, The Bernie Mac Special and for his rounds with the Kings of Comedy Tour. You can also hear him every morning on the Tom Joyner Morning Show!

Niki Glaser 8/24-8/27

Joe Dunckle 8/31-9/3

In 2008 Josh ﬁnished 2nd out of 100 of Comedy Central’s top comedians in the Annual Stand-up Showdown and recorded an album on Comedy Central Records. He has opened for various members of “The Blue Collar Comedy Tour”, and made several appearances on the “Bob & Tom Show.”

Mike Stankiewicz 8/24-8/27 Rebecca Corry 9/7-9/10

GIRL'S NIGHT OUT Wednesday, Aug. 24th

Join Crackers, NUVO and Silpada Designs for a night of Cocktails and Belly Laughs! Mary Margaret Hillenbrand Independent Representative

Cumberland Arts Goes to Market @ CUMBERLAND Take part in this festival that celebrates caring for the earth and sustainable living practices! The Cumberland Arts Goes to Market starts at 8 a.m. on the 20th lasting until 4 p.m. Festival includes over 70 art and craft booths, jazz, cloggers, thai food, a farmers market and a Pennsy Trail Group Cycle Ride and 5 K walk/run. Don’t miss the Pennsy Trail and Town of Cumberland Sustainable Bike Ride either! Festival admission and parking are free. 11501 E. Washington St., www.cumberlandfbc.org

20 ENTER TO WIN Silpada Gift Certiﬁcates! Ladies in FREE with reservation Doors at 7, Show at 8:30pm

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The Cumberland festival includes all sorts of fun, including a Sustainable Bike Ride and plenty of arts, crafts and food.

STARTS SATURDAY

SPORTS

Indianapolis Indians @ Victory Field The Lehigh Valley IronPigs will storm Victory Field for a four-game series from Aug. 20-23. Managed by Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg, the IronPigs lead the Indians by a few games in the wildcard standings. This ten-game home stretch is bookended by games against the Louisville Bats (Aug. 16-19) and the Columbus Clippers (Aug. 24 and 25). Be sure to cheer on the Indians during this vital stretch for their playoff hopes. 501 West Maryland Street, 269-3545, indianapolis.indians.milb.com

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Indians’ right fielder John Bowker.

21 SUNDAY FESTIVAL 2011 State Fair Queen Pageant @ Pepsi Coliseum, Noon This year marks the 53rd Annual Queen Pageant. Beautiful, poised,

confident and well-spoken county fair queens from across the state will compete for the Miss Indiana State Fair title. Contestants are judged on three categories: interview, evening gown and professional wear. Judges are looking for the best representative of the State Fair with her personality, poise and presence. The new Miss Indiana State Fair will receive a $1,000 cash prize, a $1,000 wardrobe, tiara, trophy and various other gifts. Only $6 to be a part of this timeless tradition. 1202 E. 38th St., 927-7500, www.in.gov/statefair

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Sara Lynn Alford, last year’s winner.

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SUNDAY

STATE FAIR

Demolition Derby @ Hoosier Lottery Grandstand A great event to celebrate the end of another incredible season for the Indiana State Fair – the Lucas Oil Demolition Derby. Stop by the show at 4:30 p.m. to see the grown-up version of bumper cars. Winner of the event not only wins the coveted title of “Indiana State Fair Champion” but also prize money. Following the demolition derby, stick around for fireworks to conclude your State Fair 2011 experience. 1202 E. 38th St., 927-7500, www.in.gov/statefair

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Watch cars destroy themselves. Yeah, America!

SUNDAY

S PORTS

Indiana Fever v. Washington Mystics @ Conseco The Fever look to continue their undefeated streak against the Washington Mystics at Conseco following two games on the road in California. To continue their 5-0 record against Washington, look for more high scores from Tamika Catchings and Katie Douglas, who have averaged 14.3 and 13.6 points per game respectively, as of 8/12. 125 South Pennsylvania St. 9172500, http://www.wnba.com/fever/

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The Fever’s Erin Phillips

THROUGH OCTOBER 30

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“Project 35” @ IMA If you want some movement in your artwork, head out to the Indianapolis Museum of Art to take a look at “ Project 35.” This exhibit makes use of video as a medium for artistic expression rather than sculpture or painting. 35 international curators put their heads together to select works of art that specifically specialize in video as artwork. Three videos are currently displayed at the IMA Tuesday-Saturday until October 30. Admission is free to this exhibit! 4000 Michigan Road, 920-2660, www.imamuseum.org

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Last week at the Indiana State Fair P H O TO S B Y TE D S O MERVIL L E It seemed so simple last week; and, presumably, it will seem that way again (see pg. 13 for coverage of the Memorial at the ISF). Here we present just some of the wonders you can find at the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest, most comprehensive and diverse fair. The ISF continues through Aug. 20; see our Go & Do section for some highlights and keep an eye on nuvo.net for potential cancellations due to the accident. Â&#x201E;

Above, right, the Stars of the Peking Acrobats mesmerized the State Fair crowds (left); there are fun options on the Midway, and various stations where you can cool off from the heat.

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Jake Johannsen returns to Indianapolis after a six year absence.

Jake Johannsen at Morty’s Comic brings bemused worldview to Indy BY M A RC D . A L L A N M A L L A N @N U V O . N E T In the 18 years since he made his Indianapolis debut, comedian Jake Johannsen has gotten married and fathered a daughter, built a house, done a couple of comedy specials – most recently “I Love You” in 2010 – made nearly 40 appearances on Letterman, continued his successful standup career … and been back here exactly once. “Let me just say this: I’ve got all new material,” he declared. “The downside is, you missed a lot of good material. The upside is, it’s all new.” Johannsen isn’t sure why his trips here have been so infrequent; the last time was about six years ago when Morty’s was the Funny Bone. But that bafflement sort of fits his comic persona, which is a man bewildered and bemused by the world around him. (You can hear him on The Bob and Tom Show on Thursday morning on WFBQ-FM 94.7.) “I’d like to come back once a year so that if people like me, they get a chance to see me again and I can develop a following,” he said. “It’s kind of tough when people come and they see you and they like you and they see you again, but they sort of forget who you are after three to four years. Or they forget that they liked you. That’s why it helps to be really fat. If you’re really fat, people go, ‘Oh, yeah, it’s the fat guy. I remember the fat guy.’” The Iowa native’s visit here follows a fourweek vacation in New Zealand, where his wife is from, and a weekend gig doing standup in

Sioux Falls, SD. So he promises to be rested and ready to go. He didn’t do any standup in New Zealand — there are few venues for comics, he said — but the trip gave him the opportunity to observe America from a distance. At one point, Johannsen tweeted: “In New Zealand US debt ceiling ‘debate’ looks like monkeys fighting for a peanut while driving a school bus full of babies down a mountain.” Johannsen felt bad for the New Zealanders. “I feel sometimes like I wish I had more control over what’s going on,” he said. “But at least I get to vote. And at least I get to have conversations with other people who get to vote about what’s going on. They’re on the other side of the world going: Are these jugheads just going to destroy the earth? ” The vacation was great, he said — jetlag notwithstanding — but he’s happy to be back on the road. “My career is in the Brian Regan vein of the guy who’s making his living on the road more than the Jerry Seinfeld having a massive hit TV show,” he said. “It would be great to have a massive hit TV show, but it’s pretty fun to go on the road and do comedy clubs. You know that my job is fun when a guy who’s got Jerry Seinfeld’s money is going back out to do standup.” Johannsen said he’s in the early stages of planning his next comedy special and is pitching a TV pilot he and a friend made. He’s also trying to figure out social media. “I’m not going to be a friend with my gas station,” he said. “My gas station is like, ‘Hey, follow us on Twitter.’ What are you going to tell me: Hey,we’ve got gas? I know that.”

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A&E REVIEWS VISUAL ART CIRCLE OF CHAMPIONS: SIX ART VS. ART CHAMPIONS IN ONE VENUE. e Primary Gallery; through Aug. 30. Dane Sauer’s sculpture entitled “65011,” in the form of two solid steel planks, rises up almost to the Primary Gallery ceiling. It’s in the center of the gallery and it’s the center of gravity of this particular show. With this minimalist evocation of the Twin Towers, how could they not be? This work might unpleasantly stimulate your imagination with the 9/11 anniversary so close on the horizon. As for myself, I can’t help suspecting that the 9/11 terrorists were sexually aroused in the final moments before they consummated their heinous act. The sculpture not only succeeded in turning my thoughts in this direction, but also toward the work of Amory Abbott. Abbott’s four mixed media works on paper depict the four horsemen of the apocalypse. One is entitled “War”; it depicts a beautiful teenage girl with flowing red hair and large bluish-green eyes. Abbott uses primarily charcoal and graphite but renders the red hair with a mixture of watercolor, Conté crayon, soft pastel and gesso. The technical precision here is quite amazing in service of a horrible paradox: that war can be as alluring as it can be destructive. Elsewhere in the gallery, I was pleased to see Mab Graves’ “Dorothy Darkly” and Emma Overman’s “Stargazer” characters staring each other down (if not duking it out) from the dark storybook backdrops of their canvases. 1043 Virginia Ave., 721-2787, www.primarygallery. tumblr.com — DAN GROSSMAN

INSTALLATIONS AND LANDSCAPES: VARIOUS ARTISTS r Indy Indie Artist Colony; through Aug. 26; There’s food for thought in the two installations on view here. The first, Lydia Dresser and Jacob Biernat’s “Milk and Honey,” offers up a set dinner table under

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Work by Emma Overman is part of the Circle of Champions show at Primary Gallery.

which is a large mound of dirt, full of the organic compounds that we’re all made of and where we’ll all end up — the ultimate form of recycling. Nate Garvey’s “Recycled string web collaboration portal,” recycled to some degree the structure of Ball-Nogues Studio’s “Gravity’s Loom” at the IMA last year. But this installation, which looks like a giant spider web (save for the bicycle wheel in the center of it), also employs the same string material used in that IMA installation. If you aren’t quite transported anywhere in particular by this “portal,” you might just want to take in Sarah Boyle’s painting “Grotto Divers” (acrylic and oil on canvas). Reminiscent of Thomas Eakins’ “Swimming,” in subject matter if not in style, Boyle’s painting portrays a group of swimsuit-clad boys on the edge of a body of water. The brushwork is loose and colorful with a wonderful contrast between the black of the water and sun-drenched stone. The boys’ figures convey a sense of movement and the faces are blurred to the degree that they might be blurred in the recall of a pleasurable — but unrepeatable — scene from childhood memory. 26 E. 14th St., 919-8725,www.indyartist.com. — DG

TRANSCENDENCE: GROUP SHOW t Gallery 924 at the Arts Council; through Aug. 30. There’s a great variety of work, in just about every conceivable medium, on view by the 28 exhibited artists here. Certainly any show that has both institution-friendly sculpture (Pat Mack’s “Transcendent”) and hip mixed-media collage (Mike Graves’ “Lotus Blossoms”) fits my definition of eclectic. Yet both these works reflect the theme that curator D. DelReverda-Jennings organized the show around. Graves’ “Lotus Blossoms” focuses its attention on the centers of spiritual power in the human body — chakras — and explains this concept somewhat in the paragraph of English text included in the surface of this composition. There are also pages of text in Hebrew and various other oriental languages collaged into the surface as well. And then there’s a painted chakra in the guise of a “whirling wheel of fire” against an abstract background marked by various hues of blue and paint drips. Nothing wrong with showing that yearning for transcendence is a universal thing. Although there is danger for an artist, I think, in locking in a particular meaning so tightly that a certain sense of mystery is lost. Certainly there’s no mystery in the meaning of Mack’s “Transcendent,” a table-lamp sized bronze sculpture showing two human figures rising up out of what looks like a swirling firestorm. By virtue of the title you know something of the theme of the work, but that won’t necessarily prevent you from being inspired by it. But one of my favorite works in this exhibition, Walter Johnson’s “Stealing Principles, Destroying Souls,” deals not with inspiration per se, but with the exploitation of peoples in the name of religion. It’s an oil on canvas painting where you see nude female figures in clothed proximity to robed church figures. One of the women has a snake wrapped around her body. The simplified figurative imagery of the painting seems to ironically evoke the sort of pre-Renaissance paintings commissioned by the Catholic

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Jorge Santos' "Wolf," on view at Evan Lurie Gallery. Church in the late Middle Ages ostensibly to save souls, not to destroy them. 924 N. Pennsylvania St., 46204, 631-330, gallery924@ indyarts.com. — DG TWO PAINTINGS: JORGE SANTOS AND LARISSA MORAIS w Evan Lurie Gallery; through Aug. 30. Sometimes a painting grabs you by the shoulders and pulls you closer with a certain amount of violence. Such is the case with the painting “Wolf” by Jorge Santos (oil and acrylic on canvas). This work features what appears to be a grown-up Little Red Riding Hood with possibly her sister (or lover?) on foot on a forested road, with an innocuous looking Manchester Terrier in tow. The name engraved on the collar tag is “Wolf.” You can’t tell the exact circumstances about what’s going on here, but the wide-eyed, fear-

ful look in Little Red Riding Hood’s companion is aimed at you. And it’s almost like you’re transported there with them, into the middle of this dark forest where an eerie, subdued light pervades everything. You’ve probably already gathered that there is a twisted sense of humor at play in this painting. Whatever you think of this sensibility, you have to acknowledge Santos’ technical brilliance. He can be both painterly and photo-real and he is often both at once. Don’t miss another painting by another contemporary master, Larissa Morais, on display here. Entitled “Otrebor/Roberto” (oil on canvas), it’s a double portrait of the same man where one portrait is half-scraped away to reveal the other, who’s wearing a chef’s uniform. It’s the sort of painting Magritte might have come up with if he’d been a fan of Fox TV’s Hell’s Kitchen. 30 W. Main St., Carmel, 844-8400; www.evanluriegallery.com. — DG

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FOOD Brockway: fun Irish pub Food is a wee bit inconsistent BY N E I L CH A R LE S N CH A RL E S @N UV O . N E T I always find it curious that while modern American cuisine continues to innovate and evolve at an apparently exponential pace, Midwestern interpretations of international cuisines seem jelled and unchanged since around the mid-1970s. It’s almost as if international cooking hasn’t evolved at all, which is a shame. Ireland, with its wealth of game, fresh and seawater fish and extraordinary produce, boasts a profusion of excellent restaurants whose talented chefs take full advantage of nature’s generosity. So it seems strange and somehow irrational that Irish restaurants on these shores continue to serve the bogstandard fare we have all come to know and grudgingly accept. To make matters worse, two staples of many Irish restaurants, namely the Reuben and the Boxty, have nothing to do with the Emerald Isle whatsoever, but are wildly popular.

So having established the parameters of Irish food in the U.S. how does Brockway in Carmel stack up? Well, it’s a lot of fun, for a start. Modeled after a Dublin industrial bar (clean lines, lots of wood, European soccer on the TV), this is a great place to visit for a cold pint of Guinness (the best in town, they say, and I agree wholeheartedly), a bite of something simple and a bit of a sing-along at weekends. Aside from the Guinness, the beer selection, short and to the point, is excellent. Recently they’ve been running the Cycle IPA from Flat 12, as well as an offering from Sun King and the wonderful nitro-powered Milk Stout from Left Hand. The friendly and effusive bar staff know their drinks and know their rugby, essential qualities in an Irish pub. While the atmosphere is lively and the staff friendly, the food represents a bit of a sticking point. At various times, it’s been excellent, and at others lackluster. Outstanding is the battered fish sandwich ($8.50), generous chunks of battered Icelandic cod in a soft and fresh roll. This was some of the best fried fish I’d had in years and brought back happy childhood memories of the corner chippy. Also excellent was the appetizer flight ($10.90): a generous serving of the unusual and savory corned beef spring rolls, succulent strips of lightly breaded and fried chicken and the Dublin pub chips, a starchy and moreish fried potato dish with bacon and cheese. Not the kind of food you want to eat every day, but good as an occasional indulgence.

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Only two days left to to experience this event that only rolls around every two years! Make your way downtown on one or both of these last two days to check out Indianapolis’ biggest showcase of food and drink. Be sure to check the website to see which downtown Indianapolis restaurants are participating in the dinner special — 3-course dinner for $30. Full menus available online, too! www.devourdowntown. org

THURSDAY – SUNDAY CORNFEST

The third annual CORNfest kicks off this weekend. Whether you’re interested in eating competitions, artwork or music, there’s something for everyone at this festival celebrating Hoosier sweet corn. Come out with the family to be a part of corn contests, games, dancing, live music and plenty of corn-themed food! To enjoy the CORNfest tasting menu, cost is $38 per person and includes a starter, two main courses and a sweet course. Address: 108 E. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, 812-323-0002, www. farm-bloomington.com

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Brockway’s battered fish sandwich.

On the negative side was the burger voted best in Indy by ESPN. What they are doing judging food is anyone’s guess, but this was a disappointment at $8.75. Bland, overcooked and under-seasoned, it was a chore to eat. Similarly, the shepherd’s pie at $8.50 was thin and soupy, more like lamb soup than pie. Although the flavor was decidedly lamby, the texture was all wrong, with a sad looking island of soggy mashed potato floating on top. In spite of the occasional culinary shortcoming, I will certainly go back. Stick to the appetizers, the fish and chips and the beer, and you’ll have a fine old time.

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Sun King Pale Rider Tapping at Captains Cove at Victory Field. At 6:35 p.m. Brewer Dave Colt will throw out the first pitch

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Sun King Brewing Co. & St. Thomas Aquinas sixth annual Sausage Fest at St. Thomas Aquinas, 4600 N. Kenwood Ave., 6 p.m. to Midnight, Free: music, kids games and activities. More info at: 253-1461, http://www.staindy.org/

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Flat12’s Axis Hefe is the Official 2011 Fringe Beer on tap at Mass Ave bars and Fringe Festival Outdoor Stage “Club Fringe” at 748 Mass Ave. Axis Hefe, a mashup of Japanese hops (Sorachi Ace) and a classic German Hefewiezen, is part India Pale Ale, part fruity Hefe with notes of banana, strawberry and watermelon complementing a punched up hop bitterness and full, yet refreshing wheat mouthfeel. Also at ClubFringe, Flat 12’s “Walkabout” beer.

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Buffalo Wild Wings FESTIV-ALE 2011, A Celebration of Beer Tasting by Kahn’s Fine Wines & Spirits at 200 S. Meridian (corner lot of Jackson and Meridian Streets); 4-8 p.m. $40/$50 including food. Tickets: 202-9210 or Indiana.cff.org/festivale. Sun King Brewing Co., third annual Wine Art Music & Microbrew WAMM Fest at Craig Park, 2 E. Smith Valley Road, Greenwood, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Jennie DeVoe headlines the musical lineup; local artists throughout the park. Tickets: $8/$10; http://www.wammfest.com/

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MOVIES Tabloid BY E D JO H N S O N - O TT EJO H N S O N O T T @N U V O . N E T

e (R) Oh the things we do for love. Errol Morris’ documentary, Tabloid, focuses on one of the weirdest love stories ever, covered in great lurid strokes by the British tabloids when it happened back in the ‘70s. Morris offers us the story from the mouth of the woman at the center of the craziness, along with an accomplice, an almostaccomplice, representatives from two competing tabloids, an expert on the Mormon Church and a South Korean cloning doctor. Where does the truth lie in all this? Damned if I know. Is Joyce McKinney a thoroughly deluded obsessive? A con artist? A mixture of both? Could her accounting of her adventures — as whacked-out a tale as I’ve encountered in a long time — possibly be the truth? Probably not. Surely not. But maybe, just maybe... It was “The Case of the Manacled Mormon” and it blazed on the covers of British tabloids in 1977. Kirk Anderson, a Mormon missionary from Utah, disappeared from a Devon meet-

inghouse. Joyce McKinney, a former beauty queen from North Carolina, was accused of kidnapping Anderson, chaining him spreadeagled to a bed and raping him. Not true, exclaimed McKinney. Anderson was the love of her life. He had been sent to England by the Mormon Church to keep him away from her. Joyce had simply rescued the love of her life from a cult. The sex was consensual. The manacles were just a method — a psychological tool, if you will — to allow the repressed man to feel safe to release himself sexually. So why was Anderson now siding with the prosecution? Because of the whole cult thing, of course. If you tell yourself a lie often enough, you start to believe it’s true. Afraid I’ve told you too much of the story? Don’t worry, there’s a lot more. The misadventures stack up all the way through — in fact, just when it seems we’ve reached an undeniably sad end, a new bizarre chapter of McKinney’s life begins. Morris, the man behind the documentaries The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., Fast, Cheap & Out of Control, A Brief History of Time, The Thin Blue Line and Gates of Heaven, does what he does best: set his camera at eye level, ask his questions and shoot. He accents certain descriptions with vintage TV and movie footage and underscores certain words from the interviews by flashing them on the screen. But mostly he just lets McKinney and the others talk. Kirk Anderson refused to par-

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Joyce McKinney, the sultry subject of Errol Morris’ new documentary.

ticipate in the film. Doesn’t matter — his version of the truth would likely have been as suspect as McKinney’s, but not nearly as colorful. And she’s not the only entertaining face on screen. At the time of the initial scandal, one tabloid took McKinney’s side and painted her as a victim, while a competing paper looked into her past and portrayed her as an S&M-leaning quasi-prostitute. Watching a self-righteous spokesman from one paper and a smirking representative from the other is a sideshow unto itself.

Joyce McKinney objects to Tabloid, claiming it portrays her unfairly. All I can say is this: I often feel discomfort with documentaries like this, because I don’t like laughing at people with emotional or psychological problems. I laughed freely during Tabloid, however, because Joyce McKinney, with all her peculiarities, reminded me of all of us. The quest for love often leads to Sillyville, and Tabloid represents a travelogue of the place. Tabloid opens Friday exclusively at Landmark’s Keystone Art Cinema.

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The following are reviews of films currently playing in Indianapolis area theaters. Reviews are written by Ed Johnson-Ott (EJO) unless otherwise noted. CONAN THE BARBARIAN (R)

FRIGHT NIGHT (R)

LABYRINTH (PG)

ONE DAY (PG-13)

Arnold-less remake. A quest that begins as a personal vendetta for the fierce Cimmerian warrior soon turns into an epic battle against hulking rivals, horrific monsters and impossible odds, as Conan (Jason Momoa) realizes he is the only hope of saving the great nations of Hyboria from an encroaching reign of supernatural evil. 112 minutes. Remake of the enjoyable 1985 thriller. Senior Charlie Brewster (Anton Yelchin) finally has it all — he’s running with the popular crowd and dating the hottest girl in high school. He’s so overcome with being cool he’s even dissing his best friend Ed (Christopher Mintz-Plasse). But trouble arrives when intriguing stranger Jerry (Colin Farrell) moves in next door. Charlie soon discovers that Jerry is a vampire preying on his neighborhood. Then Jerry realizes Charlie knows his secret. Also starring David Tennant and Toni Collette. 101 minutes. See nuvo.net Friday for Ed’s review. Taking Jim Henson’s puppetry to new artistic heights, this fun fantasy film tells of a girl (a young Jennifer Connelly) who gets caught in the world of a bedtime story, complete with goblin kings (one of whom is played by David Bowie), lost castles, and much more. At the IMA Amphitheater on Friday, August 19 at 9 p.m. $10 for the public, $5 for museum members. After one day together — July 15, 1988, their college graduation — Emma Morley (Anne Hathaway) and Dexter Mayjew (Jim Sturgess) begin a friendship that will last a lifetime. For the next two decades, key moments of their relationship are experienced over several July 15ths in their lives. Together and apart, we see Dex and Em through their friendship and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. As the true meaning of that day in 1988 is revealed, they come to terms with the nature of love and life itself. 107 minutes.

SPY KIDS: ALL Marissa Cortez Wilson (Jessica Alba) is married to a famous spy hunting TV reporter THE TIME IN and mother to a new baby and intelligent twin step kids. But trying to mother Rebecca (Rowan Blanchard) and Cecil (Mason Cook) isn’t easy. And hubby Wilbur THE WORLD (PG)

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(Joel McHale) has no clue that Marissa’s a retired secret agent. She is forced out of retirement when the maniacal Timekeeper (Jeremy Piven) threatens to take over the planet. With the help of Spy Kids Carmen (Alexa Vega) and Juni Cortez (Daryl Sabara), the world might have a chance after all.

A sci-fi western told through vibrant Japanimation, this film is a feast for the eyes. The story follows an eccentric outlaw and the trackers aiming to collect the bounty on his head. The plot is largely an excuse for the visuals, but it’s engaging enough. More compelling are the characters, who pulse with wit and pathos. Starting this Friday, Trigun is playing for one week at Georgetown 14 Cinemas. And it’s well worth seeing on the big screen. — Sam Watermeier

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Following Saturday’s stage collapse, only one concert remaining on the schedule at the Hoosier Lottery Grandstand — an Aug. 18 appearance by Train and Maroon 5 —will be presented as scheduled, taking place at Conseco Fieldhouse with all proceeds going to the Indiana State Fair Remembrance Fund.

ipping off an evening gown midsong is not a task to be taken lightly, ask singer/songwriter/dancer/ all-around entertainer Lynda Sayyah and her crew. “I think I just flashed the whole crowd,” she says after a failed attempt to get it right. Talbott Street. Awards show. July 2011. Sayyah’s the closing act, preparing to sing Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful” and debut her newest single, “Love is Hell.” It’s a brief, two-song appearance, which fits in well with Sayyah’s preferred European approach. Get out there, blow them away, get the hell off the stage. An hour is a long show for her; three or four songs are best. In between songs: Ripping off an evening gown to reveal a corset and bouncy skirt beneath. You’d be surprised at how much choreography goes into such a simple act. Ditch the mike. Move the mike stand. Grab. Rip. Toss. All while keeping it out of the way and preferably not dinging a dancer in the eye. Again and again she tries it, surrounded by her entourage – because c’mon, a pop songstress HAS to have an entourage, right? – before getting the timing exactly right, the white gown flung exactly between the dancers, fluttering down like a cape discarded mid-fight by a dazzling whiteclad matador. Seriously, you think stagecraft like this just creates itself? “Now we’re talkin’,” Sayyah declares. Sayyah (pronounced SIGH-uh) first came to prominence in 2007 and 2008, working alongside Nate Davis and the Franchize. Her stint with the band culminated with a 2008 performance opening for Ludacris at the Playboy Mansion. (“A word of advice: Do not have sex in the Grotto,” she notes. “You don’t want to know what people have been doing there.”) Appearances around town with the likes of Hum-V or on Real Scene TV have cemented her role as an active Indianapolis presence, even as her work has reached listeners as far away as Germany. (“There’s a German radio station that plays my songs a lot. I have no idea how big they actually are, but it’s nice to be out there, right?”) Here’s the deal with Lynda Sayyah: She’s the whole package. Writing. Producing. Dance. Modeling. Spokesmodeling. Fashion. She has an ease in the spotlight and a talent for dominating the stage. Her voice is smoky, sleek, sly, a slightly sinister smooth croon. I would call her Indianapolis’ dark princess of pop except that offstage, she’s

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Scheduled concerts by Janet Jackson (Aug. 17) and Lady Antebellum (Aug. 19) have been cancelled, with refunds available at the point of purchase. Most, if not all, parties involved in the Train and Maroon 5 concert are donating their time and profits to the fund, according to an announcement by the Indiana State Fair. Maroon 5 and Train will donate 100 percent of their performance fee. Both the Indiana State Fair and Pacers Sports and Entertainment, which manages the Conseco Fieldhouse, will donate the entirety of their proceeds. Conseco Fieldhouse full- and parttime employees, IATSE Local 30 stagehands and employees of ESG Security and Levy Restaurants will volunteer their time to work the concert. The Indiana State Fair Remembrance Fund, established Monday by the Indiana State Fair Commission and the Central Indiana Community Foundation, “will be used to provide support for the families of those who perished, as well as those who were injured and their families,” according to the Indiana State Fair website. Direct donations to the support fund can be made via the CICF’s website at cicf.org.

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too damn friendly and smiles too damn big to call her dark or a bad girl. Musically, she exists in that strange space between electronica, hip-hop and pop occupied by Britney, Christina, Beyonce and numerous other artists identifiable by a single name, though her talent for showmanship makes me compare her most closely to Kylie Minogue.

Discovering divas Sayyah grew up in a mixed household, the daughter of a German mother and Palestinian father. She grew up listening almost entirely to Arabic music, until, as a teenager, she encountered Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston and others divas of the era and would practice for hours. “I didn’t exactly want to be better; I just

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wanted to sing,” she says. “I liked those very empowering and strong voices. When I was 15, I realized I could do this as a profession. Christina Aguilera came out and it all came together for me. I realized, this is the kind of music I wanted to write. I became an obsessive, listening to everything Christina. I learned Spanish from listening to her Spanish album. In high school and college I started listing to older stuff, The Beatles, 1970s classics.” In one noteworthy teenage incident, as she tells it, she auditioned for a Disney Channel show and did quite well, right up until the plug got pulled on the show itself. She’s had slightly better luck with her music appearing in the likes of promos for Hellcats and America’s Next Top Model , and more

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Meanwhile, the local music community is banding together to help victims of the stage collapse. Monday’s edition of the dance night Manic Monday became a benefit for the family of Nathan Byrd, a victim of the stage collapse. The 52-year-old Byrd, a long-time stagehand working the Sugarland show, was perched in the stage rigging preparing to operate a spotlight when the structure fell. The benefit show was organized by Andy and Annie Skinner, together known as A-Squared Industries, as well as Jamie Fahrner, an educator working with one of Byrd’s two teenagers. Butler Scion, already a sponsor for Manic Monday, made a direct donation to Byrd’s family during the benefit. Andy Skinner said the following about the event via e-mail: “It’s a sad day, but it is interesting how closely aligned the entire music community of Indianapolis really is...We can all take some comfort in the fact we are not alone and we can rely on our community to support each other in times of tragedy.” Andy Skinner notes that he and his wife, Annie Skinner, began sharing condolences with Byrd’s family upon hearing the news of their deaths, and that the event emerged out of an idea by Fahrner to raise money for back-to-school shopping for Byrd’s teenage children. Read more about the stage collapse — including coverage of Monday’s memorial ceremony and a rundown of questions being asked of those presumably culpable — on pg. 13.

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recently on compilations such as Block Starz Music’s She Got Next 2011. A musical career does not always come without its price. Sayyah’s choices proved incompatible with her father’s strict values. “For Arabic women, sex is a big no-no,” she says. “No women doing music, not tank tops, no miniskirts. To talk about sex or be empowered, these are negative things. We’re always going to disagree. I went to my father and said, ‘We can be different but we can still love each other. And he said, ‘No, I can’t accept you as long as you do what you do.’ So I walked out. We haven’t spoken in five years.” One of her earlier songs, “Ay-Ya-Ya,” serves as a direct response to all those with her fathers values, Infused with Arabic rhythms and lyrics, the song is about washing your hands of the past and brushing off what’s hurt you. “This was one of the first records I wrote towards the oppression I grew up with,” she says. “It’s an empowerment record, so it sounds fun, but it’s a direct hit using Arabic sounds. It’s not bashing people; it’s me standing up for myself. This is the music I grew up with. It’s an ironic and a happy record. Though I don’t think the people it’s about would be very happy.” It’s a theme she revisits frequently, on songs such as “Daddy’s Little Rebel” and “I’m Not Sorry.” Despite all this – or perhaps because of it – she maintains an intense focus on the next thing in line. She has a very specific sort

Return to Forever:

A mellowed-out Jean-Luc Ponty talks shop BY CH U CK W O R K MA N M U S I C@N U V O . N E T The violin was brought into the modern era of jazz via the innovative ideas and technique of the Frenchman Jean-Luc Ponty, a member of the groundbreaking jazz-rock fusion band Return To Forever. Led, then as now, by pianist-composer Chick Corea, Return to Forever will stop by the Murat Theatre Sunday as part of a worldwide reunion tour titled RTF, IV. I caught up with Ponty by phone at his home in Paris, France, for this interview, and found him to be both outgoing and erudite. He’s certainly passionate about his work, but he’s unassuming about his role in making violin into a viable jazz instrument NUVO: Has Return to Forever adjusted its approach to reach new younger listeners? PONTY: I don’t think there is so much focus on changing the music. What changes is the rhythm. Some types of rhythms might sound outdated. But basically, the essence of the music is the same. NUVO: What inspired to you to join Chick Corea and Return to Forever back in the day? PONTY: Going back in time to the early seventies, there were three major groups

of stardom in mind and a very specific plan — actually, five or six plans at any given time to get there. Just listening to her recite her itinerary is exhausting. A few days of meetings in New York. Recording and meetings in Atlanta. Dance practice and recording and a Talbott Street gig all in a few days. “Being a solo pop singer isn’t a good model for touring,” she says. “Getting relationships in the industry and making it onto the radio is key.”

Cutesy psychotic She once called her onstage style “a lot of belly dancing combined with head banging, if that makes any sense.” Once you watch her for a few songs, that description makes total sense. She’s picked up a not-entirely-undeserved reputation for smoking-hot sexuality in her act, although she points out it’s a natural outgrowth of the material: “It’s never my intention to try to be sexy. Some of my songs are about sex, but I never go into it trying to be sexy. That’s why it comes off as playful, not raunchy. My favorite character to play is a psychotic person. “They’re just so interesting. I have a record called ‘Uh-oh,’ where the concept is a guy’s breaking up with a girl, she’s crazy and she’s stalking him, but the song itself is really upbeat and cutesy. Cutesy psychotic. Sometimes it’s sexy, sometimes it’s crazy and sometimes it’s sad. It just depends on the song.”

Sayyah twirls backstage at Talbott Street Nightclub.

All her musical work is in addition to her role as a prominent fashionista, designer, model, occasional TV presenter and several times fashion director for Oranje. It was at a photo shoot for Oranje that I first met her in 2007. After an hour or so of talking fashion and music over bagels, we headed out to the back alleys of Broad Ripple, where she slipped right into bad-girl, work-the-camera character as if she were born for it. This chameleon ability is crucial to her work now, which requires an infinite number of attitudes. “When you’re a model, you have to have

that were innovative in jazz-rock fusion: Weather Report, the Mahavishnu Orchestra and RTF. I was with the Mahavishnu Orchestra. I had already collaborated with Stanley Clarke and Chick. Chick was friends with John McLaughlin and he invited me on his album. We had known each other for a very long time, and there was a mutual respect, and we had a lot of affinity since we were trying to do the same thing. We were trying to break away from tradition, to incorporate rhythms from all generations — which at the time were some rock rhythms, Latin rhythms — and to use the new electronic instruments that were being invented as we were creating this music. Chick asked me to join in 1976. At the time I had started my own group. It was a tough decision, and I was right since I was successful. I am a really lucky guy to have lived long enough that the offer would come back thirty-five years later. NUVO: How would you define your playing today? Have you mellowed out? PONTY: Somehow, yes. We still have a lot of energy, [but] it’s not quite the same as when we were thirty years old. There was a focus on energy more than maturity. The way I handle chord changes is more mature — I can tell when I listen to my old recordings. We were wondering how the violin would work into RTF, which was initially a quartet. I bring a lyrical side to the music, although I enjoy the energy side on rock music. NUVO: Have technological advances in the music world had an effect on how you are playing the violin today? PONTY: It did, not on the total repertoire of what music I play, [but] it definitely inspired me. Yes, it has influenced a lot of pieces, but not exclusively.

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something behind your eyes — a character, a passion, fiery thoughts,” she says now. “If you can’t pull that off, you look like a bored pretty girl. Up onstage you have to throw it all out there. People might hate it or love it, but if you can’t get a reaction, it’s not real. You can have a plan and a strategy onstage, but it’s driven by the heart — random, crazy, spur-of-the-moment emotional. There’s nothing else in the world like people cheering you on while you’re onstage. You can’t force a performer to perform. You either are or you’re not.”

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NUVO: Is there anything you haven’t done recording-wise that you would like to do? PONTY: Yes, I have some projects in mind. I am looking more and more to collaborations. There is a demand around the world for the music I created in the seventies and eighties. In November, I am going to South America with my American Band for a series of concerts, and we may record them live for an album. Outside of that, I am really looking forward to playing with Chick and Stanley in a different format, mostly intimate acoustic. I really love that as a violinist. It is really challenging for me. NUVO: After your career of four decades of performing various styles of jazz, what is your opinion of the status of jazz being played today? PONTY: I am very encouraged. There is a whole new generation of very young people

who have absorbed music — from mainstream jazz through fusion through everything — who do their own thing. They have a strong link with tradition and acoustic music. I like that because some of these young people don’t have as much room to improvise as we had. So much has been created already that there is not a lot left to still explore. Those who have talent still manage to do something original by using some styles from the past. I see a tendency to treat jazz as or like classical music. It is becoming too academic. See, the difference is that in classical music everything is written down and meant to be performed by interpreters. The reason I left classical music is because, in jazz, you have room to innovate, and it would be wrong to really copy and sound like past musicians. What I saw in jazz was the opportunity to create your own sound, even if it’s only a little different.

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r The Identity Festival, which made its debut Aug. 11 at Noblesville’s Verizon Wireless Music Center, came to Indiana loaded down with superlatives. Not only would it be the first-ever all-electronic touring festival, but it would become the largest electronic music event in Indiana history, bringing together over 25 DJs and electronic music acts and a projected audience in the thousands. The good news is that by the night’s end, Identity had delivered on that hype, leaving the impressive turnout of glow stick-toting ravers and well-tanned college kids fiend-ing for more after dancing through 10 straight hours of bass heavy grooves. I must admit I was skeptical of Identity going in. As a DJ, I’m pleased to see electronic dance music find this kind of public acceptance. But as a spectator, I questioned going in whether a full day of DJ-based entertainment in Verizon’s amphitheater setting would work. I was also troubled by Identity’s lack of diversity, in every sense of the word. Despite the fact that house, techno and hip-hop were created primarily by African-Americans, there were zero African-American performers featured on Identity’s large artist roster. There was also a remarkable lack of musical variety on display. There are impressive and influential EDM scenes sprouting up worldwide

in places like Angola, South Africa, Brazil and Mexico, but Identity organizers chose to ignore that, drawing artists solely from the American and European scenes. Still, I had a great time at Identity, and so did the other 5,000-plus attendees. Featuring three stages of continuous entertainment, there wasn’t a dull moment to be found. When the music became a bit repetitious, as when DJ Chuckie’s electro Dutch house beats began to sound indistinguishable from the heavy dubstep tunes of Canadian producer Datsik, one could take advantage of the valuable people-watching opportunities Identity provided. Yes, some of the outfits on display at Identity rivaled Gen Con’s in their audaciousness and bad taste. Attendance was sparse for most of the early afternoon, which is unfortunate, as many of the more interesting performance-based acts were scheduled early in the day. Late comers missed an excellent showing from Miami’s Afrobeta, featuring the vocals of Cuci Amador, one of the few female artist’s on the Identity stage. Philadelphia’s Disco Biscuits turned in a solid set, fusing rock and electronic styles in front of a largely indifferent crowd. Synth-poppers Holy Ghost! impressed as well, with the Brooklyn based duo performing material from their DFA-released debut with a full band lineup. The majority of the crowd wasn’t there to experience the subtleties of live music perREVIEW CONTINUES ON PAGE 35

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formance; they wanted bass, and dubstep ruled the day. Packs of roaming bass-heads bounced between the festival’s various stages, stopping wherever the music was loudest and most aggressive. At times relative newcomers like L.A. DJ Marshall Barnes commanded larger crowds than veteran acts like Frankfurt based house duo Booka Shade and Berlin’s glitch-hoppers Modeselektor. To the surprise of many, the gut-twisting sub-bass wobble of dubstep, which originated in the ghettos of south London as a dark and brooding offshoot of 2-step and drum and bass, has gained a huge following in the U.S. States. Leeds native Rusko is often credited (or blamed) for developing a more upbeat and commercial take on the style. His production help on M.I.A.’s MAYA LP and work for Diplo’s Mad Decent label have elevated his profile in the U.S., and his set at Identity was one of the more anticipated moments of the day. Rusko built off the crowd, bouncing maniacally in his DJ booth while spinning a mix of new material and audience favorites Woo Boost and Cockney Thug. A DJ set by Daniel Stephens of Nero provided another strong dose of dubstep. Nero garnered international attention for their composition Symphony 2028 (popularly known as the Dubstep Symphony), a collaboration with the BBC Philharmonic. As I walked past a stack of sub-woofers during his set, I felt like I was on a battlefield, the bass pounding within me with the intensity of cannon fire. The sound at Identity was impeccable. As night fell, the headliners began to take the stage. First up was Steve Aoki, known for his high energy electro-house sets. Backed by incredible visuals, Aoki presented 2 hours of non-stop electro mayhem. The crowd was at its peak at this point, and Aoki delivered one the most well-received sets of the day.

Back at the main stage, Illinois native Kaskade was getting started. Although I’m not a fan of Kaskade’s poppy house music, his live show is impressive. Surrounded by 12 columns of white fabric and massive video screens, Kaskade’s fans erupted into dance as he dropped his massive club hits “Angel on my Shoulder” and “Move For Me.” DJ Shadow was the final artist to take the stage at Identity and perhaps the most anticipated. Because Shadow’s complicated live set-up finds him performing in an orb shaped capsule over which videos are projected, it wasn’t a total surprise to find his set delayed by technical difficulties. Apparently, one of his projectors died, rendering a major element of his live presentation useless. Despite any technical issues, Shadow’s set was undoubtedly the highlight of Identity Fest. Freely mixing hip-hop with various forms of electronica, Shadow covered a range of material from his large discography, eliciting huge audience response with any musical reference to his 1996 LP Endtroducing. In addition to the three main stages, Indianapolis promoters Keepin’ it Deep arranged a fourth stage offering performances by popular local DJ’s including A Squared, Action Jackson and Topspeed. Unfortunately the whole thing looked like an afterthought. Powered by a couple of tiny 12-inch speakers, the local stage was simply outgunned by the mammoth soundsystems used by the headliners. Performers on the stage never managed to attract more than a few curious onlookers, with the exception of Topspeed, who rallied the b-boys and b-girls in attendance for a set of funky old-school breakbeats. Topspeed was also noteworthy for being the only DJ to spin vinyl at Identity. —KYLE LONG

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e The inaugural edition of Outsound, a three-day festival devoted to experimental art and sound, kicked off Wednesday at Big Car Service Center with mostly local performers, followed by a Thursday show at the

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on offer made for an awkward though often rewarding study. Jonathan Dueck’s “Nuit Atypique” was a strange mix of animation, bold colors and editing tricks that wasted too much time on technique. The clunky, squeezebox drone that accompanied the lengthy piece made it all the more tedious, five minutes feeling like ten, ten feeling like twenty. Other selections were inspired if brief. Ryan Irvin’s “Soft Power” presented a soft palette of white and pastel overlays. Lynn Cazabon’s “Junkspace” is as simple as its title, showing obelisks of our modern age (disks, laptops, power chords, household appliances) discarded into an ivory abyss, remnants of our wasteful society set free from their duty in a gravity-free environment. The highlight of the films, “BioGeology,” which paired visuals by Gala Bent with a soundtrack by Roberto Carlos Lange (Helado Negro, who performed Thursday night at the IMA), saw inorganic scribbles playing out quixotic fantasies of becoming something meaningful before falling into a Technicolored chaos. The unevenness of Outsound’s visual submissions carried over into the first night’s music. The best performance was by the night’s opener, Bloomington one-man band dREKKa (otherwise known as Michael Anderson), whose somewhat-retro work mimicked that of Climax Golden Twins or Algiers. Armed with trinkets, noisemakers, pedals and knobs, Anderson put his whole body into the performance, gargling water, crawling on the stage floor and bending himself into pretzel-like shapes to achieve the sounds he wanted. Even mistakes were a part of the bigger sonic picture, as his calcu-

BILAL

Aug. 12, Madame Walker Theatre

w The avant-garde of R&B, soul and jazz returned to Indiana Avenue for a few hours Friday, courtesy of a flawless, emotionallycharged late-night set by neo-soul singer Bilal on the Madame Walker stage. Turning in one of the best performances I’ve seen all year, Bilal led his razor-sharp four-piece band through a wide swath of musical territory that included spaced-out funk, jazzy soul, boombap hip-hop beat and hard rock riffs. In short, Bilal was on fire, screaming and crying in his unique falsetto, sounding at times like a Bizarro Al Green. Working from a set list drawing equally from his three LPs, Bilal launched into some of his best-known material early. A powerful new rock arrangement of the classic Dr. Dre produced single “Fast Lane” featured guitarist Mike Severson’s arpeggiated picking and evoked the sound of another famous cautionary tale, The Animals’ “House of the Rising Son.” A shout out to the late producer Jay Dee elicited howls of approval during an impassioned performance of the Dillaproduced “Reminisce.” Bilal ended the show with a frenzied reading of the Led Zeppelin classic “Since I’ve Been Loving You.” Wrenching every possible ounce of pathos from the song, the singer

lated drones and beats morphed into ghostly rattles and heavenly mantras. Others didn’t find the sparse, unfinished Service Center space quite so friendly, including The Glitch Clique, a clique of one that produced the sort of mess that happens when ideas aren’t filtered and distilled. It’s to the festival’s credit that a variety of performers — some polished, some not — took part, with the panoply of experimental work being made in Indiana and beyond on display. That said, a kitchen-sink approach was nowhere to be found on the festival’s second night, which featured two more polished performers: Helado Negro and Son Lux. Roberto Lange, who opened Thursday night’s concert at The Toby, made his physical presence known with a set that blended tender drone with feral beats. Performing as Helado Negro, Lange delivers Spanish vocals that toy with the timbre of his work. Even when a tune threatens to get nasty, his easy voice balances things out. Despite the respectful, sit-down audience, Lange didn’t let up when the mood called for a bit of dance flavor, not that anyone took him up on his implicit offer to dance. Combining the field recordings and odd noises of Wednesday night’s Service Center performers with slick melodies and accessible live instrumentation, IU graduate and NYC dweller Ryan Lott greeted family and strangers alike with a performance as much about style as substance. His use of odd noises and samples along with live music (piano, guitar, and drums) bridged the gap that many believe exists between experimental music and more “accessible,” pop-based work. —JUSTIN SPICER

writhed across the stage, moaning the famous chorus “I’m about to lose my worried mind.” Bilal is on tour in support of his latest album Airtight’s Revenge; whether this should be considered his second or third LP is a matter of serious contention. After issuing his critically acclaimed debut 1st Born Second in 2001, the release of Bilal’s follow up Love For Sale was indefinitely delayed by his label, Interscope, which claimed the album lacked commercial potential. In 2006, the album was leaked to the internet and Interscope decided to permanently shelve the project. Fortunately, Bilal has now teamed up with the L.A.-based independent label Plug Research, home to forward-thinking artists like Flying Lotus and Daedelus. The partnership has allowed the singer to pursue his leftof-the-dial musical visions unencumbered by record company politics. The evening kicked off with a strong showing from a couple Indy locals, DJs Metrognome and Rusty Redenbacher, who traded sets as the audience filed in. Mudkids frontman Redenbacher was first at bat, cutting and scratching his way through classic funk breaks. Metrognome demonstrated why he’s one of the premier soul selectors in the Midwest by crafting a seamless mix of contemporary and classic R&B jams. Also in the mix was local soul singer Izzy Andrews, who impressed with a powerful, gospel-tinged version of The White Stripes’ “7 Nation Army.” —KYLE LONG

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White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect St. 9 p.m., $15 advance (mokbpresents.com), $17 door, 21+ An in-the-round concert, featuring one Wobbly from Wanamaker and a couple guys in Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s. Otis Gibbs may have left Indianapolis for Nashville, but he still sings about his hometown, telling audiences in Europe (for which he’ll depart shortly after this show) all about our foibles. Margot lead singer Richard Edwards, who has gotten a little funnier and louder over the years, now leads a lean-and-mean edition of his band that has done away with miscellaneous percussion in favor of pretty much straight-ahead rock. But an all-acoustic number closed his band’s last record, Buzzard, so this kind of man-with-guitar setting isn’t out of keeping even with his recent work. The Chicago-based Cameron McGill joined Margot on keyboards when the band slimmed down and moved to Chicago.

SINGER-SONGWRITER EZRA FURMAN, CHRISTIAN TAYLOR, ACCORDIONS, BEAT DEBRIS

Big Car Gallery, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 215 8 p.m., $5, all-ages Kinda too bad this show is on the same night as the Songwriters in the Round gig, since they’re likely of interest to the same crowds. Que sera sera. The Chicago-based Ezra Furman, who usually performs with his backing band, The Harpoons, stops by Big Car Gallery Friday for a solo acoustic set, joined by a few local compatriots in the fractured indie-rock and -folk world. Furman’s a plenty insightful songwriter, given to multiple rhymes within a single line and stories about prostitutes and the mean streets of Springfield, Ill. Taylor has a weirdly economical style: like Marmoset’s Jorma Whittaker, he can take a few absurd lines, stretch them out into a half-song and somehow make it all click in a way in an unconventional way. With a couple local bands: Accordions, a folk-rock outfit that rocks the zither and singing saw; and Beat Debris, whose latest album was released earlier this year by Big Car as part of their not super-ambitious Record-a-Year project.

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ROCK KID ROCK, SHERYL CROW

Verizon Wireless Music Center, 12880 E. 146th St. 7 p.m., $29.50-$79.50 (plus fees), all-ages You know, I was thinking: the world doesn’t have enough Ted Nugents. Enough power chord riffing, American flag wearing, pussy joke spouting, disgusting hair sporting dudes. Thank you for becoming Ted Nugent, Kid Rock. Sheryl Crow, who has collaborated with Rock on a couple singles, knows how to turn a phrase or two (most of those hits are still listenable), and has kept things fresh lo these many albums after she broke, trying on Memphis soul for size, for instance, on 2010’s 100 Miles from Memphis.

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COUNTRY LYLE LOVETT AND HIS LARGE BAND

The Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, 355 City Center Dr., Carmel 8 p.m., $30-$100, all-ages Lyle Lovett passed through these parts somewhat recently, playing alongside local boy John Hiatt at the Murat in February. Of course, that time around he had to share the stage, and he didn’t have his Large Band (not big, large) along with him. So, this’ll be your chance to catch the Texas singer-songwriter writ large, towering tall in the Palladium, delivering witticisms with a smirk and grin, occasionally declaring that his love for everybody, especially you, in a way that teeters on being ironic but isn’t quite.

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White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect St. 8 p.m., $7, 21+ We’ll take it from the press release for this one: “The purpose of Breaking Ground is to bring together different musical genres from Indianapolis’ local music scene for an opportunity to learn, grow and experience each other.” An admirably noble sentiment, for sure. Hip-hop and rock will unite on this bill, with event organizer Brad Real taking the headlining spot, preceded by the goofy, excellent emcee Oreo Jones and a rock couple bands: The Post Script and Finer.

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HIP-HOP LMFAO

Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St. 8 p.m., $22 (plus fees), all-music Well, Ke$ha may have bailed on Indy to go practice for an upcoming MTV-sponsored show (while keeping her Chicago gig the night before, natch). But the guys in LMFAO are still determined to entertain Indy audiences; hence, this headlining gig at the Egyptian Room, booked after the cancellation of Ke$ha’s concert on The Lawn, for which LMFAO was booked as an opener. Anyways, this show will probably be more fun; LMFAO know how to write a party rock anthem — witness their track “Party Rock Anthem,” not to mention “Champagne Showers” and “I’m in Miami Bitch” — and they’re infectiously goofy performers who take music seriously enough to make it work but so much as to become, say, the Black Eyes Peas. Maybe that has something to do with one of the duo’s members being the son and grandson of Motown mogul Barry Gordy — they probably grew up a little jaded, aware that they shouldn’t take this thing too seriously.

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• California’s state and local governments are rarely discussed these days without the pall of budget cuts looming, but apparently the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is safe because it is spending a reported $1.5 million to move a big rock in from Riverside, about 60 miles away. It’s a 340-ton boulder that the museum intends to display above a sidewalk (“Levitated Mass”). The move will require a 200-foot-long trailer with 200 tires, with one semi-tractor pulling and one pushing, at night, maximum speed 8 mph. • Tennessee State Rep. Julia Hurley apologized in July and said she would pay for the refinishing of her desk in the legislative chamber after it was revealed that she had carved her initials in it during a January session. “It was like one in the morning on the last day of the session,” she told WSMV-TV. “I wasn’t thinking straight.” Rep. Hurley,

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• Must Be Guilty: Arrested in Woodbridge, Va., in July for burglary after being discovered by police inside the MVC Late Night adult store: U.S. Army officer Justin Dale Little Jim, 28 (who was found physically engaged with a “blow-up doll”). Little Jim’s chances for acquittal are slim under News of the Weird’s insightful theory of criminal culpability known as the “Three First Names” hypothesis. • In June in the Houston suburb of Alvin, Texas, a petite, 42-year-old Walmart customer came across three men running out of the store carrying shoplifted beer. She decided that it was up to her to take a stand because, as she said later, she was “sick of the lawlessness.” The woman (whose name, coincidentally, is Monique Lawless) chased the men, climbed onto the hood of their getaway car, even jumping up and down on it, to delay their escape. The three were eventually arrested: Sylvester Andre Thompson and his brothers Sylvester Durlentren Thompson and Sylvester Primitivo Thompson.

Recent confusing headlines • (1) If Yogi Berra Wrote the Headline: “Woman Missing Since She Got Lost” (Chicago Sun-Times, 5-17-2011). (2) Please Explain: “Teen Dies of Shaken Baby Syndrome” (Chicago Tribune, 3-9-2011). “Man With Clown Nose in New Cumberland Poses No Serious Threat” (Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa., 7-3-2011). (3) Run for the Hills: “Return of the Giant Carnivorous Hermaphrodite Snails” (Yahoo News-LiveScience.com, 6-32011). (4) Not What You Think: “Showboat Casino Hotel to Become First Dog-Friendly Casino in Atlantic City” (Press of Atlantic City, 2-3-2011) (Guests’ dogs can be admitted to the floor, but dogs are still forbidden to play poker.)

People With Issues

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