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LIVING ON INDY ISLAND
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Katherine Ball, a student at Portland State University, put her masters of fine arts on hold to apply for the residency on Indianapolis Island. Part of her effort is to create what she describes as pseudoscientific experiments to cleanse and heal the lake. To do so, she’s using the pioneering work of Washington State mycologist Paul Stamets, who uses mushrooms to remediate — or clean — water.
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We do it every year: get to every single Fringe show on the first weekend of the festival — to deliver a comprehensive slate of reviews, to help you in your decision-making process. BY EDITORS
from the readers Disgusted
Removing a spectacular original work for digital advertising is without imagination, sensitivity or class (Hoppe, “Indy’s latest arts debacles,” Aug. 24-31). What a tacky, cheap, run of the mill and common thing to do. I remember when Indianapolis and its leaders perceived a future of being “world class.” What is distinguishing about more electronic ads? How does that position the city’s “front door.” This move is bone headed! [James Wille] Faust’s work has inspired, entertained and left positive impressions with more people than any of the so called executives involved in this decision could ever begin to do. Sorry about the path to world class. Now it seems world crass is the objective. As an ex pat, I am disgusted.
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about theatre, or acting (Arts IndyFringe 2011, Aug. 24-31)? Or entertainment even? I saw this last night and was blown away by the performances, the direction, and the original concept of the script. Just because it doesn’t fit into generic ideals of what a plot should be doesn’t mean it isn’t riveting theatre and entertainment. It’s great to have a festival that opens doors to new experiences and opens our minds. Plus, do your job and look up the play before you review it like you should. Then maybe you could see it in the right frame of mind.
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HAMMER LBJ, civil rights and Rand Paul
Two Southerners with different ideas BY STEVE HAMMER SHAMMER@NUVO.NET Editor’s note: Steve Hammer is recuperating from surgery this week. His columns will return upon his recovery. This column originally appeared on May 26, 2010.
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’ve been doing a lot of reading about Lyndon Johnson lately. Our 36th president is quite an interesting man to ponder, a study in contradictions. He was a wealthy man who dedicated his public career to help the poor and elderly. He was a coarse and vulgar man who achieved some of the greatest legislative victories of any president in history. And, in the biggest contrast of all, he was a borderline racist Southerner who helped bring about the biggest civil rights reforms ever seen in this country. His biggest accomplishment was the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a landmark bill that helped tear down a century of legalized discrimination against blacks. The law was a compromise tirelessly negotiated by Johnson with militant civil rights leaders, conservative Republicans and radicalized racist white Southerners. Another president might have failed. But Lyndon Johnson was able to get it done and history books regard his actions as heroic and courageous. One of the provisions in the bill of which Johnson was most proud was Title II, which made illegal discrimination in public accommodations such as restaurants, hotels and movies theaters. While debate on the bill was underway, the segregationist Sen. John Stennis of Mississippi paid a visit to Johnson. An LBJ biography by Randall Bennett Woods includes a section with Johnson aide Harry McPherson recalling a conversation between Stennis and the president in which the senator told LBJ that business owners should be able to decide for themselves who to serve. Johnson, whose public career prior to becoming John F. Kennedy’s vice president, was unsupportive of civil rights, responded: “Well, you know, John, the other day a sad thing happened. My cook, Zephyr Wright, who’s been working for me for many years — she’s a college graduate — and her husband drove my official car from Washington down to Texas. They drove through your state and when they got hun-
gry, they stopped at grocery stores on the edge of town in colored areas and bought Vienna sausages and beans and ate them with a plastic spoon. And when they had to go to the bathroom, they would stop, pull off on a side road, and Zephyr Wright, the cook for the vice president of the United States, would squat in the road to pee. And, you know, John, that’s just bad. That’s wrong. And there ought to be something to change that. And it seems to me that if the people of Mississippi don’t change it voluntarily, that it’s just going to be necessary to change it by law.” And so President Johnson, despite his Southern upbringing, despite the political pressure, signed a law that guaranteed access to public accommodations. He didn’t do it because it was the popular thing to do; he did it because it was the morally right thing to do. And for the last 46 years, we’ve lived under those laws. Freed from the pressures of segregation, southerners could finally get about the business of building prosperity, crossing racial lines and fully rejoining the rest of the United States. That’s one of the reasons Lyndon B. Johnson is one of my heroes. With that in mind, the statements by Rand Paul, Republican candidate for U.S. Senator from Kentucky [now elected senator], are all the more disturbing. He stated that he opposed Title II of the Civil Rights Act as an unnecessary intrusion upon private business. In effect, he is making the same argument that Stennis and a century of segregationists before him made. During his speech after winning the Republican primary last week, Paul triumphantly barked that he was bringing us all “ a message from the Tea Party.” He said he wants his government back. From his comments, and from the other hijinks of the Tea Party, it seems like the government Paul wants to bring back is the Confederate States of America. That kind of message might play well to the meth addicts, gun nuts, moonshiners and illiterates Paul seeks to represent in Kentucky, but it’s poisonous talk to the rest of us. That’s why I’m optimistic about the future. The light of day will show the Tea Party as a fringe cult that will guarantee not only a landslide victory for President Obama in 2012 but will assure liberal Democratic majorities for the next 30 years. The teabaggers will hang themselves with their own words. Lyndon Johnson knew that the Civil Rights Act would deliver the South to the Republicans for 50 years or more. But he didn’t care. President Obama has that same kind of courage. That’s why they’re giants among men and people like Stennis and Paul are relics of an ancient, forgotten age.
It seems like the government Paul wants to bring back is the Confederate States of America.
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BY DAVID HOPPE DHOPPE@NUVO.NET
ramming all that’s gone wrong with the arts around here in the past few weeks won’t be easy, but here goes… The debacles involving public art at the airport and Fred Wilson’s installation at the City-County Building plaza have provided local arts skeptics — all those people who believe that investing in the arts is a limp-wristed waste of time and resources – with enough ammunition to last into the next decade. Arts advocates have been left in the lurch. It seems the airport hasn’t been the money-making machine that was promised when it opened in 2007. Since then the economy’s tanked and air travel has become nasty, brutish and not short enough for anyone who doesn’t fly first class. But back when spirits were high, airport planners did something previously unheard of in Indianapolis: They included a major arts component in their design for the new airport terminal. Painstakingly vetted to be in accordance with myriad security regulations and traffic issues, original works of art were integrated into the terminal design under the direction of Julia Moore of Blackburn Architects. The results were widely celebrated. Not only did the art works serve to lighten the airport experience, the project was an object lesson in how art could be successfully incorporated into major construction jobs — a first for Indianapolis. But that was then. The Airport Authority now has a new board and a new CEO in John Clark. In his search for needed revenue, Clark has apparently decided that some of the art in the airport’s selfproclaimed “permanent” collection isn’t permanent after all. Upon deciding not to renew the airport’s contract with Blackburn, Clark entered into an agreement with the Indianapolis Museum of Art to manage the airport’s art holdings. The result of this alliance was news that an installation by local artist James Wille Faust, located in a prime spot above an escalator leading to ground transport, would be removed so that advertising and works of digital art could be put in its place. Other works of art at the airport are reportedly being considered for removal as well. While it is understandable that the airport would want to increase revenues through strategically placed adverts, the decision to scuttle Faust’s site-specific piece is crassly out of step with the airport design’s original — and widely applauded — intention. What’s more, the notion that the airport will commission new works by
artists recommended by the IMA seems at cross-purposes with its stated need to make more money. Worst of all, though, is the message this sends about the value of art. The airport now seems as fickle as the homeowner who chooses a painting based on how it looks with a couch or the drapery. Art that was selected and paid for through a rigorously designed process is being thrown over because, well, it’s so 2007. But the cause of public art has fared no better downtown. Fred Wilson’s “E Pluribus Unum,” a sculptural installation of a freed slave holding a flag — a figure modeled on the slave depicted at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument — has been elbowed away from its intended site, the plaza in front of the City-County Building. The proposed Wilson piece has drawn fire since last winter, when an outspoken portion of the African-American community came out against it. One protester likened Wilson’s piece to a lawn jockey. The piece certainly is provocative, but that’s Fred Wilson’s stock-in-trade, something the leaders of the Cultural Trail who commissioned it must have embraced. He draws on existing works to make points and raise questions about our history, who we are and where we’re headed as a people. It could just as easily be argued that locating his piece in such a prominent civic location was a way of making an affirmative statement about how far this city has come since the bad old days of the Civil War, the Klan and the destruction of Indiana Avenue. But Wilson’s detractors were having none of that. Wilson’s using the image of a slave was all that mattered — his conceptual context didn’t count. Unfortunately, when people opposed to the work threatened a protest, Mayor Ballard and Brian Payne of the Central Indiana Community Foundation both came out against locating it on the plaza. While Wilson now says he’s open to finding another location, it’s not clear whether “E Pluribus Unum” will ever be realized. As with any work of art, people had a right to be offended by Wilson’s proposal. That those who commissioned the piece in the first place lacked the courage of their convictions and backed away from what made it truly resonant — the site in front of city hall — is a defeat from which proponents of ambitious public art in Indianapolis may find it hard to recover. In an argument over art, it seems, in Indianapolis, the loudest voice wins. The waste and waffling exhibited in these recent developments make you wonder what kind of art we can expect in this city. I see a 50-foot statue of Peyton Manning in our future. They could put it where “E Pluribus Unum” was supposed to be. The only people who would object are bound to be art lovers.
Arts advocates have been left in the lurch.
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THUMBSUP THUMBSDOWN TASTE THE COMMUNITY
If the key to one’s heart is through the stomach, maybe it’s the basis for a healthy community, too. That’s the promise of a burgeoning nationwide movement of food swaps that now is finding an Indy home at Earth House Collective. Here’s the deal: Swap tickets are free, but registration is required. (Visit indyfoodswappers.com for details.) Once you register, bake, harvest or forage some goodies you’d like to trade with fellow swappers, haul your offerings down to Earth House, peruse all the other goodies available for picking and propose your swaps. Organizers say they hope the swap will “inspire creativity, build community and spread good cheer.” Feast on that!
GETTING A KICK OUT OF KICKING THE HABIT
If losing control of your life to the devil spirits doesn’t seem like a laughing matter, well, it’s not. But funding recovery efforts can be a kick! At least that’s the premise of Laff-Aholics, an evening of standup comedy offered as a fundraiser for three of the city’s sober living recovery houses. Local comedian and additional treatment counselor Marti MacGibbon will join national headliners Alonzo Bodden and Ritch Shydner at the premiere event slated for 8 p.m., Aug. 24, at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The help comes none too soon: Funding pressures almost closed Dove House, a sober-living house for women in Indy, earlier this year.
KARAOKE FOR SQUARES
Don’t drink? Don’t smoke? What do you do? Open a karaoke club! The Karaoke Singers Club at 5343 English Ave. offers an alcohol-free, no-smoking, no-profanity all-ages venue seven nights a week from 6 p.m. to midnight. Even if it’s anathema to the rock and roll lifestyle, it’s got a stage and recording equipment so the inner diva should feel right at home.
PEACE TO THE PIT BULLS
In a dog-eat-dog world, we all need a shot at redemption — that goes for the dogs, too. Enter the Casa Del Toro Pit Bull Education and Rescue effort, which works to end dog fighting, rescue pit bulls from abusive situations, facilitate adoption opportunities and enable a greater quality of life in shelters through kennel enrichment programs. The group will host its first annual Ride to the Rescue fundraiser on Aug. 27. Whether you hop on hog in the morning or nail the dunk tank in the afternoon, the event offers an opportunity to redeem the human race to a breed of dog that all too often sees only our inhuman tendencies.
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Q&A with Melina Kennedy WHO? Democratic candidate for mayor of Indianapolis WHEN? Kennedy came to visit the NUVO offices on July 22. NUVO: If you were to brag about Indianapolis at a national mayors’ conference, what examples would you use about what makes this an exceptional city? MELINA KENNEDY: We have an incredible quality of life. We need to improve upon it, but we have incredible parks and trails. The Monon Trail is something that is great for not only families but also businesses. My husband and I, who opened a business together 10 years ago, picked a site specifically because of the Monon Trail. We just have a great city that has great human capital, people who are willing to join together, step up and accomplish big things… NUVO: What aspects of the city make it a difficult place to brag about? KENNEDY: Certainly right now we have our challenges. The city has lost 35,000 jobs over the last few years. That’s a tough reality we need to face. Crime continues to be a real challenge for our city… Being able to walk down the Monon Trail safely at 4:30 in the day should be a given, yet we have people just in the past few weeks walking down the Monon Trail shot several times… NUVO: What is the appropriate role for a city to take in terms of local economic development? KENNEDY: …Businesses are run by people, so you need to make sure this is a city where people want to locate because at the end of the day these decisions about where businesses start, where they move to, where they grow are made by real people, so the city can do a lot toward the end of making this a city that is high quality, and there’s many ways to do that…One example is the smoking ban. I’m fully supportive of an absolutely comprehensive smoking ban. That is the kind
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of thing that improves our quality of life and our indoor air quality. Everything from something like that to making sure that we have an environment where businesses are encouraged to start and grow, and that entrepreneurship is not just an afterthought, but something that people are thinking about from a very young age…
So personally I think about it for my own health, but I think about it for the health of the community as well.
NUVO: How would you prioritize redevelopment projects throughout the neighborhoods?
KENNEDY: ...We have a very high ranking, in a bad way, both in tobacco and childhood obesity. Those are two issues that, if we know we want to attack, we should certainly do what we can.The city and mayor’s office can do things to improve on that by awareness, simply by making parents and others aware of the options, by promoting access to healthy food...We’re seeing more urban gardens develop, but we want to do it in a way that’s less piecemeal.
KENNEDY: I think it’s important to understand data and take a look at where we have great challenges. When it comes to unemployment, training, skills level, those kind of things, as a mayor, I’d want to know where do we have the biggest challenges in the city and let’s try to focus additional effort in those areas. Unemployment, for example, in the African-American community can be over 25 percent. That’s a challenge we need to understand and then address. In terms of prioritizing, one is understanding what the landscape actually looks like by understanding the data. Secondly, prioritizing by having more neighborhood and community input…When you do economic development from that vantage point you really do two things at once: Make it an environment that’s positive for job growth but also one that makes residents feel engaged and have ownership in what happens. NUVO: Indianapolis has some of the worst air quality in the nation. To what degree could or should a mayor respond? KENNEDY: It’s essential for attraction and retention of people: We need to pay attention. We’ve recently been ranked F by the American Lung Association. Part of that is indoor air quality and so the smoking ban is just a small piece, but it’s something that’s relevant. And I’m very disappointed on the broken promises of the current mayor on that smoking ordinance… The city has over the last couple years really not embraced and engaged the Air Pollution Control Board, a board that was thoughtfully put together by ordinance and statute, that was much more active and has somewhat been deactivated and certainly not really consulted anymore by the city… I’m a runner, I run outside all the time.
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NUVO: The health of Indianapolis residents matches up poorly to other cities. In what ways, if any, can the mayor inspire better performance?
NUVO: How do you view issues of climate change and how do you feel they relate to the future of the city?
“The city has... not embraced and engaged the Air Pollution Control Board.” —Melina Kennedy
KENNEDY: Climate change is something the city has to be cognizant of. To start with: the science. I personally believe that climate change is an issue we need to acknowledge and address. The city can play a role in addressing that by engaging in green initiatives that help reduce our overall use of carbon and do carbon footprints and things like that to understand what we are doing now and how can we improve upon that. It’s a global issue, it’s an international issue, but we should have responsibility at every level. NUVO: If you were to look closely and objectively at today’s expenses at City Hall, what waste — if any — would you be able to find?
KENNEDY: There have been a number of projects that don’t seem to add up. The most recent example, some of the economic development projects that seem to be giving almost more money as incentives as the actual project potentially could cost, at least by virtue of some of the studies… Right now the city is going through the budget process. I’ve identified certain ways I think the city could reduce some of their administrative costs. Specifically, for example, in area of the public safety department. The director of public safety has really expanded his infrastructure and staffing around him. I believe those dollars could be more effectively used either on the street in the form of more manpower outside of an office or even in equipment… There’s a garage proposal in Broad Ripple. While a gargage in Broad Ripple may be a good thing, there’s been some concern raised that former studies for the very same garage that it costs $6 million or $7 million to build it, now the city is saying it’s $15 [million] and that $6 million is going to an incentive. Those are questions that at least need to be looked at, and the city has not provided all the information on the garage so it’s hard for me and the public to fully evaluate it. But if you look at old studies compared to what has been released more recently, the numbers seems to have some discrepancies. NUVO: How would you characterize the current state of your mind, body and spirit? KENNEDY: Healthy. I’m very thankful for that. I feel fortunate that I have a very supportive family that keeps me sane and grounded when times are tough. I feel very fortunate that I have people that I love and that love me. That’s really important to me. Physically, as well, I try my best to eat good. I have my share of doughnuts here and there, but I try to think about eating healthy and drinking water and exercising. My husband and I met on the track team at IU many years ago. I don’t run as much any more, but I try to run just to be healthy and it gives me an opportunity to think. I find that mentally even, some of my best ideas come when I’m out for a run, including what we talked about today at the Kiwanis Club [that Indy can be a Quality of Life Capital]. I feel healthy and I feel fortunate to be healthy.
Q&A with Mayor Greg Ballard WHO? Mayor of Indianapolis, a Republican running for re-election WHEN? NUVO visited Ballard at the Marion Co. Republican Party headquarters on Aug. 18. NUVO: If you were to brag about Indianapolis at a national mayors’ conference, what examples would you use about what makes this an exceptional city? GREG BALLARD: We don’t have oceans, we don’t have mountains and that sort of thing: We have people and I think that’s how we’ve gotten along so well in the last 30 to 40 years…But I also think there is another level to get to and I think we have been doing pretty good in that regard, certainly fixing the infrastructure, doing some police reforms… we’re fixing a lot of the internal parts of the city to make them work better while still looking out into the future. I think I have the first city administration that really got out there and said, “Listen, we must understand the global economy and embrace it.” The other piece is certainly becoming a much more sustainable city. We created the Office of Sustainability in 2008…the reason we’re doing that, obviously, is to create the type of city where young men and women want to live (with) bike lanes, urban gardens, rain gardens, pervious pavement, green-building incentives, hybrid vehicles…The fact is we needed to go in that direction because 1) It’s the right thing to do, 2) It helps create the type of city where young men and women want to live in. NUVO: What aspects of the city make it a difficult place to brag about? BALLARD: I think we’re doing pretty well. Honestly, I’m not into city envy…. All that said, we need to get mass transit fixed in this city. That’s a big deal. The reason I’m not mentioning education in that is because I am optimistic about the education reform for the statehouse and what we’re doing here in the city, so I’m actually optimistic about education moving forward… NUVO: How would you prioritize redevelopment projects throughout the neighborhoods? BALLARD: What we’re doing on Rebuild Indy is based on a priority with the neighbor-
hood liaisons, with the city county counselors, and the DPW engineers; it’s kind of a compilation… The commercial development piece is big [and redevelopment]…it’s really bringing together a lot of partners… You can go into Martindale-Brightwood and see a lot things that are happening right there in that area, that area has been neglected for a long time. …In Center Township I put out this urban garden challenge for 50 urban gardens, by the end of the year. I think that’s important. Those sorts of things will help drive certain areas, but other than the commercial part, which we try to put in different places, the rest of the redevelopment, there has to be some sort of consensus in that area, some sort of grassroots consensus… NUVO: What is the appropriate role for a city to take in terms of local economic development?
“It’s all about conserving resources. I think the rest of that takes care of itself.” —Mayor Greg Ballard
BALLARD: I think people expect the mayor to drive economic development, just like when I became the mayor I wanted the police department because I think they expect me to be in charge of public safety… …When I became the mayor, I don’t think the city generally knew, but I knew that we were going to go to certain places to drive the international focus of Indianapolis… Brazil, India and China are countries that we had not associated with in the past, and we should have — clearly, large, large emerging economies. We also went to England. NUVO: Indianapolis has some of the worst air quality in the nation. To what degree could or should a mayor respond? BALLARD: I think we should be able to respond. A lot of that goes to the type of state we are, as you are well aware. I think that mass transit will help if we can get that, you know about the change in bicycle culture in this city... So I think those com-
binations will come into play, [but] it’s going to be difficult. …We are a coal burning state right now. Until we can get to the point where that carbon sequestration gets to a certain point where we don’t release that, it’s going to be difficult... NUVO: The health of Indianapolis residents matches up poorly to other cities. In what ways, if any, can the mayor inspire better performance? BALLARD: Hopefully they see me out biking a lot… I think some of these surveys, if you look what they’re really based on, I’m not so sure about that, maybe, maybe not. We tend to be who we are and we try to improve who we are, as a city. Certainly we changed the bicycle culture in this city. My wife, with the walks with Winnie, and things she’s been…I hope they’ve been impactful. So I think we encourage people to get out there and do that sort of thing. Putting bike lanes in, I think, is sending a signal that we want people to get out there and do more in that sort of way. NUVO: How do you view issues of climate change and how do you feel they relate to the future of the city? BALLARD: Well, I really talk about what we need to do as far as energy and water conservation... Honestly, I think that drives everything else…making people realize that recycling is important in the city and that hybrids are important in the city. It’s all about conserving resources. I think the rest of that takes care of itself if we can put all these different things into place. It’s kind of amazing when you talk to different people about that sort of thing because, you know, sometimes [climate change] is sort of off limits to some folks and so I want to make sure that everybody understands that we’re trying to do the right thing for it all and if we can get these certain habits in place we’re moving in the right direction. NUVO: If you were to look closely and objectively at today’s expenses at City Hall, what waste — if any — would you be able to find?
Editors Note:
These profiles mark the first installment of our coverage leading up to this fall’s municipal election. These are excerpted versions of our interviews with Ballard and Kennedy. Both candidates had much more to say. The full transcripts will be posted as part of a multimedia candidate profile package at NUVO.net. Over the next few weeks we’ll analyze some of the complicated issues
BALLARD: …I think the big pieces have probably been taken care of. For instance, in the first year we cut the big law firms, taking them from $9 [million] to about $4.5 million… you use medium-sized lawyers for a lot of things as opposed to always having to go to the big firms. I think the Six Sigma (efficiency-targeted projects) …[will] save $10 to 20 million dollars… Put a culture in place, which is a continuous improvement, and cost savings, if we can do that, and make it part of who we are as a city, I think that’s gonna be rather dramatic. But we’ve done a lot of things… $740 million dollars [saved on EPA consent decree for Deep Rock Tunnel]…and it’s going to be even bigger than that apparently. If we can find more of those then we’ll save a little bit more money [but] I’m gonna be honest with you: It’s very, very, very tight right now. NUVO: How would you characterize the current state of your mind, body and spirit? BALLARD: Busy…it’s kind of funny, when I used to teach leadership…I told people to keep as balanced a life as you possibly can. Don’t work 14 to 15 hours a day, 6 to 7 days a week ‘cause in a few years you’re gonna find yourself alone... That being said… I’m kind of everywhere. I put in a long day, but my kids are grown, and my wife understands, and, you know, we have this unofficial rule in the administration which is: If it’s after 5 or on the weekend, if you want me, you’re gonna get her, that’s just the way it is… As long as I can get exercise, and certainly during the summer months there’s a lot of bike riding, if I can get that and a proper amount of sleep I think I can go for a while. I need some downtime, I’m introverted, I’m actually severely introverted. Most people don’t know that. So I need that time to get away…I have to struggle with that and, frankly, I could use a little bit more downtime, but I know what has to be done…I get on the edge sometimes with it, absolutely.
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KATHERINE BALL COMBINES ART WITH ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM by Angela Herrmann editors@nuvo.net PHOTO BY STEPHEN SIMONETTO
Katherine Ball has to row to her domicile (upper left, floating in the lake).
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hen Katherine Ball arrived in Indianapolis on Aug. 8, so did the rain. After record-setting, desiccating heat in July, Indianapolis experienced a bit of relief thanks to the showers. While weather officials recorded just under an inch of rain in Indianapolis, backyard rain gauges showed more than two inches of rain had fallen in the area around artist Andrea Zittel’s Indianapolis Island. The White River crested at just over five feet at the National Weather Service gauge near the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA). That was up from three feet three days prior, not far off the record low level set in 2007 at 2.79 feet. It was as if the influx of rain had awakened the White River from a lazy summer’s slumber to welcome the IMA’s latest Indianapolis Island resident. Katherine Ball arrived in Indianapolis by bus — she prefers not to fly — then immediately left the city the next morning to seek out, as if on a pilgrimage, the source of the west fork of the White River, a place accessible by car, or in Ball’s case, by bicycle. Reengineered as a drainage ditch on a Randolph County farm field, this section of the river launched the beginning of Ball’s journey into her IMA project titled No Swimming. Before she headed downstream, she collected a water sample to carry with her to the Island, testing for phosphates, nitrates and water hardness.
BIOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS Ball’s journey to Indianapolis is as meandering and circuitous as the White River itself. She spent last year cycling with four other people across the United States to produce a documentary about
community solutions to climate change. On that trip, she interviewed scientists, including mycologist Paul Stamets, who uses mushrooms to filter water. Having learned about the Indianapolis Island six-week artist residency from her art teacher Jen Delos Reyes, assistant professor at Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice program, Ball reveled in dreams of living on a little island in a lovely lake surrounded by a beautiful forest and swimming every day. This is not surprising given that she spent her youth swimming in Lake St. Clair, a body of water connected with the Great Lakes System just outside of Detroit. “It was such a nice thing to be able to swim in the neighborhood lake,” recalls Ball. She envisioned a similar experience in Indianapolis. “And then I found out the [ Indianapolis Island] lake was polluted,” says Ball. She noted that water quality samples from the lake in April 2010 revealed E. coli levels at 428, roughly twice the Indiana state standard of 235. E. coli is a bacterial organism commonly found in the lower intestines of mammals, including humans. Ball remembered the pioneering work of Washington State mycologist Paul Stamets, who uses mushrooms to remediate — or clean — water. She wanted to create what she describes as pseudoscientific experiments to cleanse and heal the lake. Consequently, she put her masters of fine arts degree on hold to apply for the residency. Given what she had learned on her bicycle trip, she wanted to experiment with solving environmental problems with biological solutions. “It’s about trying a different approach, using a biological solution instead of a petrochemical solution. Mushrooms
are one area that we should look more closely into because of how little research has been done on them,” says Ball. Recently certified as an Indiana Mushroom Identification Expert by the Indiana State Department of Health, Eric Osborne runs Magnificent Mushrooms, a family-run business in southern Indiana. He has studied the work of Paul Stamets for more than 10 years [see sidebar]. Stamets is the author of a number of books, including Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Save the World , and founder of Fungi Perfecti. Osborne is encouraged by Ball’s project. “I believe that [Stamets] has truly instigated a paradigmatic shift in the ecological crisis. Mycelium will continue to grow, adapting to and consuming the wastes we leave behind,” says Osborne. “We can either choose to consciously ride the mycelium into the future or be left in its wake.”
MYCOBOOMS TO THE RESCUE Ball, 27, is staking her future with the mycelium. By the end of her first week — with help from anyone willing to lend a hand — Ball will have constructed seven 20’ long by 12” in diameter mycobooms made from untreated, hydrocarbon-free burlap, filled with locally sourced, nongenetically modified straw from Central Indiana Organics, and inoculated with mushroom mycelium spawn from Fungi Perfecti, following Stamets’ guidelines in Mycelium Running. These will serve as floating water filtration and purification systems. As they float around the lake, Ball expects that the growing mycelium will digest the E. coli as well as remove excess phosphorus, nitrogen and heavy metals from the water.
MYCO-WHAT? So how can mushrooms clean and purify water? According to Stamets in his book, Mycelium Running, myco-remediation “is the use of fungi to degrade or remove toxins from the environment.” He writes that mushrooms have the capacity to break large toxic molecules down into simpler, less-toxic molecules. When you think about those little button mushrooms from your pizza, you’re seeing only a tiny part of an organism that is neither a plant nor an animal. They are fungi. Katherine Ball likes to compare mushrooms to apple trees. “If an apple tree were a mushroom, then the apple would be the mushroom,” says Ball. Given that most fungi live in the soil or in dead logs, we almost never see these organisms unless they produce fruit. At 3.4 square miles, the Armillaria solidipes, or honey mushroom, found in Malheur National Forest in Oregon, is one of the largest known living organisms on Earth. Paul Stamets, in his book Mycelium Running, said that all habitats depend on fungi, “without which the life-support system of the Earth would soon collapse.” It would follow that mushrooms might be key to remediating contamination on land and water.
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interest me that other people have done. I don’t feel a need to have ownership or authorship,” says Ball. Assistant Commissioner in the Indiana Department of Environmental Management Office of Water Quality, Bruno Pigott, applauds Ball’s efforts: “Congratulations to this person who’s trying to figure out what’s going on to creatively address water quality issues. She’s trying to come up with a novel approach to improve water quality in Indiana.”
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Ball sits on the west side of her Indy Island habitat as the sun is setting.
“This is a perfect opportunity to experiment with what Stamets has been pioneering in the field of mycology,” says Ball. Through a stipend provided by the IMA, Ball purchased two mushroom varieties from Fungi Perfecti to carry out her work, Oyster ( Plurotus ostreatus) and King Strapharia ( Stropharia rugoso annulata), because both are reported to have specific anti-microbial effects on E. coli, and they remediate pollutants. That’s at the heart of but only part of the work she intends to accomplish during her six-week residency, which runs from Aug. 12 until Sept. 25.
SERENADES TO THE LAKE The IMA’s staff was drawn to Ball’s proposal because she considered the broader impact of her work, and she is inviting audience interaction and maintaining a blog. “Katherine thought about the park and island in a holistic way,” says Amanda York, curatorial assistant, at the Department of Contemporary Art at the IMA. “She considered not only the Island and how her residency would impact it, but also the lake, the park and the river.” Polluted ecosystems require more than a technical fix that is someone else’s problem to solve. What if everyone could reconnect to the air, land and water more directly, more intimately? Rather than preaching to people about what to do or not do, what if everyone came together at the source of a problem to directly experience and address what’s happening in that place? Ball will attempt to do just that. “I want to have serenades to the lake to reconnect people to waterways, and encourage people to think it’s important that we can drink out of our waterways or swim in our waterways. That isn’t the case right now,” says Ball. Ball notes that Indiana residents, when asked about the White River, tell her it’s totally polluted and they won’t swim in it. “It’s strange that people I talk to all over the country are resigned to the fact that our waterways are polluted. I would love to help people feel like ‘our waterways are polluted, we need to try to fix this’” instead of simply accepting that pollution is normal.” Ball maintains that environmentalism is too preachy. “I want to take a more fun,
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entertaining and inspirational approach, with dancers, musicians and poets — a pseudo-shamanic event,” says Ball. “Music can be healing for the lake, but also for healing the bonds that we have broken with our lakes and waterways.” To that end, Ball enlisted the musical talent of Butler University’s Sally Childs-Helton, a percussionist and ethnomusicologist, to lead these serenades to the lakes. Other events planned around Ball’s residency include a Public Social University that will offer free educational sessions about water-
“I want to have serenades to the lake to reconnect people to waterways.” related issues, community water quality testing, a history tour of the 100 Acres park and a Watersheds and Runoff Bicycle Trip [see sidebar]. “Most of the things I’m doing [at the IMA] are me copying what other people have done. I don’t feel like I’m putting out original ideas; I’m just bringing together these different things that
READ KATHERINE’S BLOG www.imamuseum.org/island2011
LEARN MORE ABOUT WATER QUALITY TESTING: HOOSIER RIVERWATCH: www.in.gov/dnr/nrec/files/HR02_Chapter2.pdf HOW TO USE WATER QUALITY DATA: www.in.gov/idem/nps/2916.htm
A couple of friends and I walk toward the shore of Hidden Lake — the unofficial name of the gravel pit that is now part of the 100 Acres park — with Ball. We pile into the rowboat, Ball’s lifeline for the next six weeks, and she paddles us to the dome jutting from the middle of the lake like an arctic mirage on an August day. Soon, we climb out of the boat onto Indianapolis Island, a molded, snow-white fiberglass habitat with a wood door in front that opens to a rounded patio with molded seating and a port-hole window that opens to the back. Ball warns us she hasn’t unpacked or tidied for visitors. Her sleeping bag is laid across the floor. A bicycle sits on the other side of the cave-like space (it was reengineered by the previous island residents to power their electronic devices). Ball steps over to a pile of her belongings and lifts out a feather. “This I found on the porch today,” she says, holding up a nearly foot-long, dark grey feather. Musing, she observes that too many environmentalists have stopped being in touch with nature. “That’s why you get organizations like 350.org, which is a good cause but a strange way of creating awareness about climate change by reducing it to one single number.” Ball adds, “Carbon is not the only problem, there are lots of ways to cut carbon that are not good for the environment.” It turns out water-quality testing isn’t, either. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provided Ball with Hach water quality test kits, similar to those used by Hoosier Riverwatch, the Department of Natural Resources water quality monitoring program. The kits include warnings detailing how to dispose of the
NONPOINT SOURCE WATER POLLUTION RESOURCES: www.in.gov/idem/nps/2686.htm
KATHERINE BALL’S PUBLIC SCHEDULE SUNDAY, AUG. 28, 11 A.M. - 4 P.M. Bicycle trip around Indianapolis to observe firsthand a wide range of local sites—such as organic farms or industrial factories. Processes and chemicals used at these locations around the city affect the quality of water runoff. Meet in 100 Acres at the intersection of the Canal Towpath and Pony Truss Bridge. SUNDAY, SEPT. 11, 2 - 4 P.M. Collect and examine water samples from the lake. Learn about the EPA’s guidelines for contaminant safety levels. Everyone is invited to bring and test water samples from their homes, land, or other water sources. THURSDAY, SEPT. 15, 6 - 8 P.M. Public Social Universities are open workshops taught by members of the community and for members of the community. Everyone is free to participate, either in the audience or as a leader of a 30-minute workshop. SATURDAY, SEPT. 24, 2 - 4 P.M. Join Indianapolis Island resident Katherine Ball and IMA staff for a nature walk in 100 Acres. Learn about the history and ecology of 100 Acres as well as Mary Miss’s upcoming installation for the Park titled FLOW: (Can You See The River?) .
Note: Eric Osborne of Magnificent Mushrooms will be in Indianapolis, on Nov. 12 to lead two workshops, a basic session ($15) and an advanced, hands-on session ($75). Attendees of both sessions will get what they need to grow mushrooms at home. See: www.fallcreekgardens.org.
ABOUT INDIANAPOLIS ISLAND Approximately 20 feet in diameter, Indianapolis Island is a fully inhabitable experimental living structure that examines the daily needs of contemporary human beings. For the next four summers, the domicile will be occupied by one or two commissioned residents who are art students. Source: Indianapolis Museum of Art
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Here, Ball is launching one of her five mycobooms. Filled with pasteurized straw and mushroom spores, these mycobooms are designed to help leach E. coli and other toxins from the water of the lake.
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This interior shot of Indy Island is approximately one-third of her entire space.
water once the testing is done. Ball notes, “These packets have warnings about how toxic this stuff is. The USGS gave me canisters to put the waste in. We’re using all of these chemicals to test the water. I never really thought about it before.” She adds, “I think that often happens when you want to do something good for the environment, you realize how hard it is just to do something good.” On the counter with a sink that drains to nowhere is an unopened iPad box, Ball’s blogging tool during her residency, provided by the IMA. It requires carbon to power it if Ball is to share her message beyond those who show up at her public events. Being in the middle of the lake without electricity — unless she is able to use the bicycle — leaves Ball with the daily task of recharging the device at the museum.
WHAT ABOUT TOOTHPASTE? But what about those other necessities, like clean water and fresh food? It’s not like she can drink from the lake or store food without refrigeration on the Island. Ball must carefully plan bathroom trips, as well as disposal of toothpaste and bathing water — it doesn’t seem right to toss that into the water. After all, while her Dr. Bronners castile soap may be biodegradable, what about the toothpaste? “I’m using a lot of resources from the museum, keeping food in the visitor center. I could cook out here but then I have to wash my dishes. I could create a miniature greywater system,” says Ball. As Ball settles in to her spartan, 20-foot in diameter space, her to-do list includes finding a local potter, figuring out how she’s going to transport 21 bales of straw from Central Indiana Organics and finding what she describes as a “non-neoliberal grocer.” Good Earth and Pogue’s Run Co-Op come to mind — they’re not multinational corporations masquerading as neighborhood grocers. Wherever she is, Ball tries to shop local, and she almost always rides her Surly Long Haul Trucker bicycle to her destination. That’s one way she can maintain a direct connection with the environment. That shouldn’t be difficult as everything about the environment
is literally in her face at the Island. The sounds across the lake travel in layers. The breeze moves over the water, carrying the buzz of the cicadas in the surrounding trees. Beyond the trees, I hear the din of traffic less than a mile away. Fish languidly swim near the surface of the lake. Swallows pass by, snagging a meal in mid-flight. The blue heron stalks the shoreline, still as a statue, striking at a small fish that has the misfortune of passing by at that moment. And flowing down the side of Indianapolis Island is a reminder of a large bird that had stopped for a rest before losing a feather and flying on. Perhaps the birds are the source of the E. coli found in the lake. More likely, the White River is the source. After all, the lake “was excavated for sand and gravel sometime after 1962 and before 1972, probably for road construction,” according to Robert Barr, research scientist at the Center for Earth and Environmental Science at IUPUI. In an email message, he writes that the lake “receives water from groundwater and from the river, but the river can also receive ground water. There is interchange between surface water and groundwater in much of the White River Valley.”
IT’S AN EXPERIMENT Throughout Ball’s residency, she will be testing the lake water. Will her myco-remediation efforts succeed? Is that even the right question? “I’m at a point that I can’t say that I know the solution, I’m just in a stage of experimenting. Let’s just try. There’s a difference between not doing anything and giving up or being willing to try to do what I can. If it doesn’t work, I can say I tried,” says Ball. Ultimately, Ball’s real success is if she brings attention to water quality issues in Indianapolis in a way that engages community curiosity and action. Perhaps, because of Ball’s efforts, we’ll once again get to swim in our Indiana waterways. Upon completion of her six-week residency at the Island, Ball plans to continue her journey along the White River to its destination, the Wabash River. “I’ll return to school, but I might bike up to Madison or Minneapolis first,” says Ball. “Once I start riding, it is hard to stop.” 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 08.24.11-08.31.11 // cover story
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Only have time to do one thing all week? This is it.
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26-28 FRIDAY-SUNDAY 27 SPECIAL EVENT
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In seminars led by spokespersons for rationally led lives, guests will explore alleged modern quack medicines such as homeopathic and chiropractic practices, the presence (or absence) or ghosts and spirits downtown and the “true” power of tarot cards. Also available are performances portraying Einstein and featuring real quotes and dialogue from the scientist, as well as group visits to the Red Lion Grogg House. $5 per session, pub visits free. Times vary. 350 Canal Walk, Suite A, 423-0710, www.centerforinquiry.net/indy
Imagine a six-year-old, redneck boy. Now, add a beard and twenty years, then subtract about 40 IQ points, and you have Jasper T. Colbaire . Texas’ Jasper T. Colbaire is bringing you the best late night talk show/variety show you ever done did see. The Jasper T. Colbaire Show returns with a dynamic line-up of guests including comedic characters Vinnie from Jersey and Jonathan Peepers, sideshow act Freakshow Foley, and musician Dan Schepper. Doors open at 8 p.m. and show beings at 10 p.m. $5 general admission. 21 and up. 1116 Prospect St., 686-9550, www.jaspertcolbaire.com
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NESCO Feast of Lanterns @ Spades Park Don’t worry, they don’t expect you to actually eat a lantern. This all day event features something for the whole family, from local art, a lantern auction and local vendors to crafts and games for kids. Once the sun goes down, the historical park is celebrated by the lighting of hundreds of paper lanterns that are hung from the century-old Oak trees that give this location so much character. See nuvo.net for a feature by Dan Grossman. 1800 Nowland Avenue, www.indyfeast.org
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XDL Championship @ Indiana War Memorial
Do you love motorcycles? And racing? You live in Indiana, so of course you do … or else you better get the hell out of town this weekend! The stage is set for the upcoming XDL Championship Series Finals to become one of the best events in sportbike freestyle history with athletes from the United States, Asia and Europe squaring off for a shot at the win, which includes over $10,000 in prize money. With six unique competitions around the War Memorial, it should be an exciting sight. Gates will open at 5 p.m. Ticket prices vary, but kids 12 and under are admitted for free. 431 N. Meridian St., 233-0991, www.xdlshow.com
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Tony nominee and Emmy Award winner Liz Callaway will bring her voice to The Cabaret at the Columbia Club . Liz Callaway has performed on shows on Broadway ranging from Cats, The Look of Love and The Three Musketeers; she is also the voice in animated films such as Anastasia and Aladdin and the King of Thieves. She will be performing on Aug. 26 and 27 at 8 p.m. Tickets range from $35 to $55 with a $12 food or beverage minimum. 121 Monument Circle, 275-1169, www. TheCabaret.org
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Brian Bubash in Daytona in 2010.
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Melissa Villasenor’s got talent by Marc D. Allan
The NESCO Feast of Lanterns by Dan Grossman Your Go&Do Weekend by Jim Poyser $82,000 boost for Fringe by Matt McClure
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Shop Local, Shop Fair by Laura McPhee IndyFringe Preview Party by Dan Grossman
Fringe Festival street scenes by Daniel Axler and Kelley Jordan Behind the scenes at Indy Island by Stephen Simonetto
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A&E FEATURE
BROAD RIPPLE Nikki Glaser
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he battle for the title continues as riders prepare for the Red Bull Indianapolis GP. Coming off a victory in the Czech Republic Grand Prix on Aug. 14 at Brno, Repsol Honda rider Casey Stoner extended his points lead over competitor and reigning World Champion Jorge Lorenzo, who finished fourth in possibly his worst race this season. It was the Australian’s sixth victory of the season on the RC212V for his new team. Stoner’s teammate Andrea Dovizioso finished on the podium with him and sits 23 points behind Lorenzo in the points, adding further Honda pressure to the Yamaha rider. “The championship is now even more difficult for us,” reflects 2009 Red Bull Indianapolis GP winner Lorenzo, “but that doesn’t mean it is finished. There are still a lot of points to be played for, so we must focus on winning the most races we can.” Winning at Indy, where riders compete at speeds approaching 200 mph on the 16-turn, 2.621-mile circuit, will be a new challenge for all the drivers. Reacting to feedback from competitors after last year’s race, in June IMS officials resurfaced 1.5 miles of the course, from Turn 5 through Turn 16 – basically, everything but the 2.5mile oval. Riders had expressed concern about Turn 6, a sweeping left-hander off the oval’s Turn 2, and Turn 11, a righthanded horseshoe turn before heading back onto the oval. The decision was made to resurface the entire infield at the same time, making it smoother, faster and safer. “It was awesome,” exclaimed MotoGP Ducati Team Nicky Hayden after conducting a tire test last month for Pirelli. “We wanted smooth, and we got smooth.” Once the bikes lay down some rubber for better grip, he
predicts that Lorenzo’s the track record of 1:40.152, set in 2009, will be shattered. The bigger question seems to be whether or not Lorenzo can shatter the Honda domination and stand on the podium again – a place only he and Nicky Hayden have landed in each of the previous Red Bull races at Indianapolis. Lorenzo may have the fire in the belly, but his Yamaha is a little down on power compared with the Hondas, which seem practically invincible. Despite lingering stiffness from a shoulder injury last year and struggling to adapt his riding style to the Ducati, seven-time MotoGP World Champion Valentino Rossi has managed to climb to fourth in the points standings. The Doctor’s teammate, 2006 World Champion Nicky Hayden, trails the Italian in seventh, mired in mid-pack and hampered by his relegation to Rossi’s unofficial test rider and the team’s virtual Number 2. However, the Kentucky Kid likes Indy, which he considers his home track, and those extra test sessions may give him an edge. But it’s the Honda factory team that most expect to top the podium. Stoner’s teammates, Andrea Dovizioso and Dani Pedrosa, hold 3rd and 5th in the championship battle, respectively. While Pedrosa has demonstrated short-run speed comparable to Stoner’s, the Spaniard has been a runner-up too many times to convince anyone he has what it takes to win. Oddman-out Italian Dovizioso also carries the speed, but he suffers from inconsistency. For MotoGP party suggestions see the long version of this feature on nuvo.net.
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A&E REVIEWS IndyFringe
2011
A comprehensive review guide
They said it couldn’t be done… Okay, that’s hyperbole; sorry about that. Everybody knows we can do it because we do it every year: review every single Fringe show. We sent seven reviewers out to the seven theaters to get the job done. For more Fringe coverage, including slideshows, visit nuvo.net. Fringe continues through Aug. 28, mostly along Mass Ave. Shows are only $10 a ticket, and all proceeds go back to the performers. Note: at the end of each row is a list of additional showings of the performance.
selves – nor should we try. Abeel occasionally references his notes, breaking the show’s pacing. But his message is heartfelt and relatable, and his show likely will improve considerably as he gains experience through future performances. Thursday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 7:30 p.m.
DAVID QUIRK, THE DAY I ATE WOMBAT
DAVID QUIRK, AUSTRALIA r David Quirk engages his audience from the start with a personable, offbeat wit that he readily admits on stage is not for everyone. He tells tales of growing up in Australia, getting “pantsed” by his peers and eating road-kill wombat with a man who, Quirk later learns, was arrested for pedophilia. The performer earns some of his biggest laughs during off-script conversations with his audience, a few of whom, on opening night, teased him for drinking a mainstream domestic beer. Quirk’s humor may not be for everyone, but it’s unquestionably original, and it’s likely to be well-received throughout his run at IndyFringe. Thursday, 9 p.m.; Saturday, 6 p.m.; Sunday, 9 p.m.
REBEL WITHOUT A NICHE
KURT FITZPATRICK, NEW YORK t Kurt Fitzpatrick powers through his one-man show with seemingly indefatigable energy, ricocheting from character to character as he dramatizes his continuing struggle to find an occupational niche. Messenger, guerilla marketer and creepy-crawling crab at Madison Scare Garden – this is not the career path he envisioned while studying filmmaking in college. At times one wishes that Fitzpatrick, who bears a striking resemblance to a young Tim Robbins, would slow down the pace and focus on more fully developing his characters. Nonetheless, buoyed by his confident stage presence and remarkable mimicking ability, he captures his audience’s attention from start to finish, delivering humor and insights throughout his hour-long performance. Wednesday, 6 p.m.; Saturday; 3 p.m.
SCUBA MISSION: GAINFULLY EMPLOYED
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COMEDYSPORTZ REVIEWS BY MATTHEW MCCLURE (EXCEPT WHERE NOTED) THE RETURN OF THE GREAT NICKOLINI
NICK ABEEL, NEW YORK y Indianapolis native Nick Abeel revisits his younger, awkward self in an unpolished but promising performance. He takes to the stage nattily dressed in a suit; but after hopping in and out of an on-stage trunk, he’s transformed into 11-year-old Nick, donning baggy shorts and a King Kong t-shirt. Abeel questions why we always look upon our former selves as something lesser than our current selves. Ultimately, he concludes that we can’t escape our former
SHAWN BOWERS AND COLIN HOGAN, CHICAGO e Shawn Bowers and Colin Hogan performed for only a handful of people on IndyFringe’s opening night, which is a shame because they delivered a hilarious sketch show that would have generated laughter heard up and down Mass Ave had it been in front of a full house. The two Chicagoans demonstrate mighty improv talent and strong chemistry during a series of fast-paced sketches exploring working life and under-employment. Of particular appeal – and absurdity – is the “Surf Shirt Lawyer/Volleyball Attorney at Law” sketch. Perhaps the 10:30 start time is to blame for the sparse opening night crowd. Whatever the case, add this show to your must-see list. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 4:30 p.m.
EVOLUTION
ROMAN RIMER, NEW YORK t How will I be treated by others simply because of the body I’m in? That’s the question Roman Rimer attempts to untangle in an alternately humorous and serious perfor-
mance. He chronicles his experience as an openly transgender New Yorker who spent months touring Southern colleges to organize and assist LGBTQ youth. Wearing simple sweats and a white t-shirt, Rimer shares intimate details about himself, doing so in a disarming and endearing manner. His performance touches on such issues as identity, classism and religion, and it concludes with a message that resonates: we’re all much more alike than we realize. Friday, 6 p.m.; Saturday, 1:30 p.m.; Sunday, 10:30 p.m.
PHIL THE VOID: MOTHERBANKING BANKHOLES
PHIL VAN HEST, INDIANAPOLIS w Phil van Hest lives up to the hype and delivers a smart, funny and timely skewering of bankers and the politicians who love them. He takes an historical approach in his performance, mixing humor with pointed barbs as he shifts his focus from the city of Ur to goats to Babylon to the Federal Reserve to Tea Baggers – and to just about every imaginable topic in between. “At this point, if I were America I’d change my name to Canada and quit picking up the phone,” he growls near the end of his hour-long show. Van Hest’s fed-up, populist brand of humor salves the pain of our uncertain economic times. Friday, 9 p.m.; Saturday, 10:30 p.m.; Sunday, 6 p.m.
A SWORD AND A KISS
ASANTE PROGRESSIVE HIP HOP PROJECT r Count on being enlightened as well as entertained during this under-the-radar performance from a trio of young, local hip hop artists. Part one of the show – the “Sword” – is inspired by the Civil Rights movement, with songs lyrically centered on rising up against racism; it is, as one performer describes it between songs, “A history lesson from a black man’s perspective.” The show shifts thematically to brotherhood, love and compassion in part two – the “Kiss.” Their message is powerfully told through thoughtful rhymes and arresting beats. A post-performance Q&A reveals their influences, which include Mos Def and Lupe Fiasco, among others. Friday, 10:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9 p.m.; Sunday, 1:30 p.m.
I LOVE YOU (WE’RE F*#KED)
KEVIN J. THORNTON, LOS ANGELES e Thornton, an L.A.-based comedian and troubadour who grew up in Evansville, works on multiple levels during this generally funny and well-observed show. A solid monologist, he offers up a finely-shaped, resonant narrative about getting back out there after a break-up with his boyfriend. He also interpolates a few songs into the proceedings, which comment on his stories in the general, metaphorical way that songs do. But he’s at his best when playing the bar-stool storyteller, animatedly bringing to life disgusting and bloody stories, tossing off pretty-ingenious pop culture criticism along the way (say, of the bestiality embedded in Prince’s “When Doves Cry”). Thursday, 6 p.m.; Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 4:30 p.m.; Sunday, 3 p.m. — THIS REVIEW BY SCOTT SHOGER
COOK THEATRE REVIEWS BY SCOTT SHOGER BLIZZARD: 30 PLAYS IN 60 MINUTES
BLOOMINGTON PLAYWRIGHTS PROJECT t A Fringe staple added as a last-minute replacement (replacing A Cosmic Conundrum), Blizzard is a collection of micro-plays, most of them at least sort-of funny, a few impossibly clever, others gross-out, all of them lasting no longer than four minutes. Brisk and fun but lacking the occasional dramatic and autobiographical touches that make the Chicago-based play that helped originate this timed concept, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind , such a magical, unpredictable experience (rather than purely a high-energy, sketch-comedy show). Performed by a tireless cast of five comfortable with consuming each other’s bodily fluids and responsible for writing most of the 30 plays. Thursday, 7:30 p.m.; (no Saturday show); Sunday, 3 p.m.
THE LESSON
CARMEL HIGH SCHOOL u No one ever said Ionesco was easy. Funny, sure; more so than that Beckett fellow much of the time. But like Beckett, Ionesco played with language and the elements of stagecraft in ways both obvious (rhinos) and subtle (language’s impotence in the wake of the Holocaust). And it’s those subtleties that are lost when unseasoned actors tackle such difficult material. Kudos, of course, to these student performers for engaging with the contemporary canon. But a few flubs can fatally compromise the rhythm of Ionesco’s script, and it takes mature performers to bring out the give and take of the play’s master-slave dialectic. Thursday, 9 p.m.; Saturday, 3 p.m.
ILLUSION
THE MAGIC OF JARED SHERLOCK, INDIANAPOLIS r It’s hard not to like Sherlock, what with his blinding-white smile, ready (and family friendly) wit, un-ironic enthusiasm and mastery of the stage magician’s tricks, from juggling to sleight of hand. Still, cheesiness is one thing and emotional manipulation another: A hokey segment concerning his dying great-uncle’s last gift stood out like a sore something-or-other in the middle of an otherwise glitzy, breezy show. That said, Sherlock is both charismatic and genuinely funny, and his riff on the kind of slow-motion, “how it’s actually done” segments seen on tricks-of-the-trade TV specials is pretty darn hilarious. Highly recommended for family audiences. Wednesday, 6 p.m.; Saturday, 10:30 p.m.; Sunday, 4:30 p.m
THE IMPRESARIO
INTIMATE OPERA OF INDIANAPOLIS y The Intimate Opera – a newly founded company presenting “underperformed staged music and new talent” – took on Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor as their first Fringe production, updating the super-talky songspiel to include local references and jokes. No qualms here with the music: It was refreshing to hear an aria or two at the Fringe, particularly as performed by seasoned vocalists. But the company didn’t have a handle on the script the first night
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and played the farce slowly and hesitatingly. What’s more, they updated some of the language and left the rest, leaving archaic phrasing to rest uneasily alongside more modern exclamations like “You da man!” Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 1:30 p.m.; Sunday, 9 p.m.
THE BEST AUDIENCE EVER
UNDER THE BED PRODUCTIONS, OTTAWA u We may have been the best audience ever, but this show — a fake lecture about “audienceology” chockful of hoary theater jokes and cut-rate slapstick — didn’t quite hold up its end of the bargain. The two performers behind it seemed to be pretty quick on their feet — scriptwriter and lead Rick Cousins especially, who looks a bit like Albert Brooks and has a dry, erudite style. But Cousins didn’t give himself much to work with, and the closing number, a drawnout song about the audience really wanting the show to be over, was a little too on-the-mark. Wednesday, 9 p.m.; Thursday, 6 p.m.; Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 10:30 p.m.
SCIENTIST TURNED COMEDIAN
TIM LEE, LOS ANGELES e Tim Lee applies scientific concepts to real-world problems, working from a PowerPoint presentation populated by cheesy clip art and bare-boned charts and graphs. At heart, he’s more Tim Allen than super-nerd: For instance, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which holds that the more we know about the position of a particle, the less we know of its momentum, inspires Lee’s riff about TVs mounted above urinals (the more one knows about the TV, the less about the stream). Usually quite funny and original, but points off for tired Charlie Sheen and Asians-aresmart jokes, which can’t be improved upon even by modern scientific techniques. Friday, 6 p.m.; Saturday, 4:30 p.m.; Sunday, 7:30 p.m.
A LIVE DOCUMENTARY OF DANCE!
PONES INC. LABORATORY OF MOVEMENT, OHIO r A fascinating if slightly problematic hybrid of filmed talking-head documentary, dance performance and encounter group exploring our relationships with dance, from our consumption of professional dance to the way in which we distinguish movement and dance. The encounter group section came halfway through, when the three main performers opened up the floor for a Q&A that yielded a few surprising observations from those who played along. Thought provoking but a bit rocky in its transitions from recorded to live material, with live content (notably pithy minimonologues by cast members) being a bit more compelling than the lo-fi video. Friday, 10:30 p.m.; Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 6 p.m.
WHEN CATS COULD FLY
BROTHER WOLF, OHIO t (q for kids) Cats could fly during Brother Wolf’s New York City childhood, a time when Roman Candles were subbed out for real ones on birthday cakes – and when sleds could fly too, right down an icy hill into eight lanes of traffic (and that’s how Wolf got his first speeding ticket, at age 9). With his ability to bring to life eccentric characters like a WWI vet and Voodoo priestess, Wolf is the kind of gentle, playful, imaginative storyteller you loved to sit before, Indian-style, back in your youth. There isn’t quite enough to chew on for adult audiences, though. Friday, 9 p.m.; Saturday, 6 p.m.; Sunday, 1:30 p.m.
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writer who illuminates the world through a unique lens. The words of this stand-up-philosopher will linger in your ears all night. Thursday, 9 p.m.; Saturday, 1:30 p.m.; Sunday, 9 p.m.
AROUND THE WORLD WITH CINDERELLA
LOU SANZ, AUSTRALIA t In this bawdy one-woman show, Lou Sanz shares her unpublished (not-fit-for-children) children’s stories, ruminations on parenthood (by a self-confessed non-parent) and a hefty amount of information about her sexual missteps. This ballsy performer pushes taboos with her dark humor and nudges the audience beyond their comfort zone. Clearly a very intelligent comedian, Sanz’s performance nevertheless suffers from a lack of organization and cohesion. She uses the show as a kind of therapy to work through her own issues, which is fine except that she fails to make her problems universal to those watching. Thursday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9 p.m.; Sunday, 3 p.m.
MARY HAMILTON, KENTUCKY t Mary Hamilton offers new perspectives on an old story, as she recounts the tale of the girl with the glass slipper (or gold slipper, depending on where in the world you reside). Russian, German, Chinese, Native American, Appalachian and other culturally derived versions of Cinderella are woven together by familiar motifs. A slipper, a wicked stepsister, a fairy godmother and other symbols transport us from one country to another in seamless transitions. While repetition is a common device in fairy tales, it hampers this show’s pacing at times. But Hamilton handles it well by using audience participation when things get slow. Friday, 6 p.m.; Saturday, 4:30 p.m.; Sunday, 7:30 p.m.
LOU ANN HOMAN-SAYLOR: I WAS A VIRGIN NUDIST
LOSING MY RELIGION: CONFESSIONS OF A NEW AGE REFUGEE
LOU ANN HOMAN-SAYLOR t An energetic and likeable performer, Lou Ann Homan-Saylor takes audiences on her adventurous forays into the world of nudism. As a Hoosier-grown Baptist, Homan-Saylor is surprised to find herself agreeing, on several occasions, to enjoy nude-oriented getaways. Homan-Saylor’s delivery was a little sing-song, but her excitement for the unknown is endearing and entertaining. Though the story was thematically weak, it was well organized and outlandishly funny. Her overall message empowers audiences to step beyond their comfort zones and try something different. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 3 p.m.
SETH LEPORE, MASSACHUSETTS u Seth Lepore’s exploration of “America’s spiritual enterprise” felt rushed. His mish-mash of spiritual vignettes illustrate how belief, in any form, can become overbearing and lack room for individuality. The performer’s hurried speech sounded slurred at times, making it difficult to actually understand his words. Though he is a talented character actor, offering a variety of distinct voices and mannerisms for each story, the play’s quick transitions were easily missed, creating a vacuum in which the actor struggled to connect with his audience. Wednesday, 9 p.m.; Thursday, 6 p.m.; Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 10:30 p.m.
NO GENDER LEFT BEHIND
BOX FULL OF DARKNESS
REBECCA KLING, CHICAGO e After being fired from a teaching position for being transgender, Rebecca Kling began her crusade to educate the masses by stirring up conversation. In her one-woman show, she takes on all of our nagging questions about what it means to be trans and introduces a vocabulary for discussing gender-identity issues. While this former teacher is clearly a talented lecturer and her show feels like a master class on understanding gender, she is careful not to stand on a soapbox. She gracefully jumps from personal experience to political ideology to society’s black-and-white understanding of gender. Blending humor with challenging ideas, she invites her class to join in the conversation. Wednesday, 6 p.m.; Saturday, 10:30 p.m.; Sunday, 4:30 p.m.
MARY ARMSTRONG-SMITH, INDIANAPOLIS r The title of this play says it all. Not your typical upbeat, wacky fringe show, Mary ArmstrongSmith shares the dark side of her childhood and her quest to attain happiness. As she sifts through family photos, it’s as if she’s invited us all to gather around her kitchen table to listen.
PAUL STRICKLAND: ANY TITLE THAT WORKS
PAUL STRICKLAND, KENTUCKY w Paul Strickland offers a prophetic look on growing up and gaining perspective. Moving between the past and present, Strickland reads open letters to himself at various ages and shares family stories that shaped his everchanging worldview. This insightful writer delivers perfectly crafted phrases that touch on the shared human experience without being sappy. His straightforward, unabashed dissection of his own life encourages audiences to take a similar journey. A comedian by trade, Strickland has wonderful timing and spot-on delivery. But his real strength is as a sensitive and thoughtful
She recounts her upbringing by a mentally ill mother, an alcoholic father and the sister who saved her sanity. While the material is no doubt heavy, Armstrong-Smith creates moments of levity, wisely giving the audience occasional respite. The play is a reminder that there is value in every experience and in every person who tells of their experiences. ASL interpreted. Friday, 10:30 p.m.; Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 6 p.m.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, HOOSIER HERO
DANNY RUSSEL, INDIANAPOLIS u This historically based theatrical illumination of Abraham Lincoln’s life offers an interesting snapshot of the 16th president of the U.S. The script is well researched and well written. However, Danny Russel’s performance lacks a certain elegance. His words set the scene for many a heartfelt moment, yet Russel fails to capture the heart of Lincoln’s emotions. Instead, his choices are predictable and over the top. His false emotions make for a not-so-honest portrayal of Honest Abe. The history, the language and the look are there; the execution is not. However, for history buffs, Russel offers a thoughtful look at this historic figure. Friday, 9 p.m.; Saturday, 6 p.m.; Sunday, 1:30 p.m.
INDY FRINGE THEATRE REVIEWS BY DAVID HOPPE SLAMMED
THE ARDEN THEATRE UNION, INDIANAPOLIS t Slam poetry and hip hop-rhyming effectively propel a story of love lost and unrequited in this powerfully acted drama written by Sharla Steiman and directed by Ty Stover. Set in a bohemian pad recalling the opera La Boheme, this piece features particularly strong performances by Lauren Briggerman and Jonah Winston. Steiman’s script is overstuffed with language, compensating a bit for a rather flimsy plot. But this language is also, at times, inspired and raises intriguing questions about how words define and limit us. Thursday, 9 p.m.; Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 6 p.m.; Sunday, 9 p.m.
SATAN LIVE!
BEN ASAYKWEE, INDIANAPOLIS y Giving Satan a chance to strut his stuff and crack wise about human self-righteousness and hypocrisy amounts to a kind of theatrical chestnut. Writers and performers have been trotting old Ned out to offer ribald commentary about human hypocrisy for centuries. In Ben Asaykwee’s iteration, the Devil’s a lounge singer. This is a promising set up for an unevenly paced show that, nevertheless, has its moments – thanks largely to Asaykwee’s limber jazz singing. The opening, which uses topical references to make an alarmingly convincing case that this has been one hell of a summer, is particularly effective. Saturday, 10:30 p.m.; Sunday, 6 p.m.
ONEYMOON (A HONEYMOON FOR ONE)
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Phoenix Fire thrilled the crowd with firedancing and swordplay.
CHRISTEL BARTELSE, DUTCH GIRL PRODUCTIONS, TORONTO r As its title suggests, ONEymoon is a one-woman send-up about a character so self-absorbed she decides to cut through the clutter of dating and relationships to marry herself. Christel Bartelse, the creator and star of this show, is a formidable, thoroughly entertaining performer with tremendous physical gifts – at one point, she even tap dances. But, while her show hits some
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predictably funny and uncomfortable notes, it settles for an easy-listening ending, instead of trying to get at more provocative truths about ourselves and the others we (think) we want to be with. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.; Friday, 10:30 p.m.; Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 4:30 p.m.
THE WEDDING BELLES
NICOLE KEARNEY PRODUCTIONS y To marry – or not? That’s the question facing all three of the couples in writer/director Nicole Kearney’s good-natured musical about the various routes lovers take to the altar. On the plus side, Kearney has assembled a likeable cast of truly first-rate singers, whose soulful voices fill the hall and never miss a beat. If only the same could be said for this production’s stagecraft. Spoken lines are often barely audible and transitions on the Fringe Theatre’s admittedly difficult stage lack timing and finesse. Wednesday, 9 p.m.; Thursday, 6 p.m.; Saturday, 4:30 p.m.; Sunday, 3 p.m.
each member of the packed audience into the Fringe Theatre last Sunday, it was clear this was going to be a real show and, indeed, of all the performers appearing at this particular venue, Ms. Panache and her foul-mouthed sidekick, Wayburn Sassy, went the furthest in turning this space into a club of their own. And go far they do: their improvisational roller coaster of insults and outrageousness is calculated to make even Don Rickles blush. It takes a kamikaze kind of courage to pull off an act like this. They do. Saturday, 9 p.m.; Sunday, 1:30 p.m.
LUMINARY
YOUNG ACTORS THEATRE TEEN ISSUES, INDIANAPOLIS r Local theater artist Diane Kondrat worked with teens, teachers and parents to create this script about how social networking technologies compound and pressurize the already fraught process of finding one’s identity and developing relationships. The story, in part about a boy who seemingly falls to earth, consists of multiple strands employing a large ensemble cast to convey a message as emotionally affecting as it is troubling: our inventions are making a society that’s already inhospitable to kids’ fragile and formative brains even more difficult to navigate. Saturday, 1:30 p.m.; Sunday, 7:30 p.m.
WELCOME TO ZANLAND!
ZAN AUFERDHEIDE, INDIANAPOLIS t Zan Aufderheide tries to blend a memoir of dysfunctional family life similar to those that have become the stock-in-trade of nonfiction bestseller lists with stand-up comedy. The results are by turns emotionally sore and humorous, albeit in the laughing-beats-crying vein. Whether her routine reaches its high point when she suddenly lowers her defenses and speaks frankly of what her father’s death has taught her or, rather, veers off course, confusing sincerity with artistic tone deafness, is an open question that tries to give this show a redemptive heft. Thursday, 7:30 p.m.; Friday, 6 p.m.; Sunday, 10:30 p.m.
JOE’S CAFÉ
RUPERT WATES AND FRIENDS, NEW YORK r Rupert Wates is a transplanted Brit who channels Studs Terkel-like oral narratives of regular folks through a lens reminiscent of Ray Davies to create elegantly written songs that are low-key and literate. Joe’s Café, an imaginary place where the subjects of Wates’ songs come to share their experiences, provides a gestural context for what really amounts to a set of beautifully played songs (Wates is a master finger-picker on guitar, while Penelope Thomas and Stacy Lorin provide lyrical vocal support). Most of the performance is done sitting down, which honors the café conceit, but inhibits the energy level. Wednesday, 6 p.m.; Friday, 9 p.m.; Saturday, 3 p.m.
SCREW YOU REVUE: DÉJÀ VU e From the moment the “suspiciousy statuesque” Didi Panache personally welcomed
“The Meeting” is curious and doesn’t explain itself, as the others scenarios tend to do. Throughout all, however, there’s thoughtful writing, plus engaging acting by Georgeanna Smith, Spencer Elliott, Matt Goodrich and Julie Mauro. Friday, 6 p.m.; Saturday, 4:30 p.m.; Sunday, 7:30 p.m.
THE CHAIRS
MAIN STREET ARTISTS, PARKER CITY, INDIANA r The riskiest performance of my 2011 IndyFringe experience, The Chairs is Romanian playwright Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist farce about an elderly couple (Julie Lyn Barber and Darrin Murrell) who alternately drift through a past that blends fact and fiction and fumble through a fully imaginary present. It is billed as “uproarious vaudeville,” and while someone in the first row Saturday got the giggles, it seemed to me that Chairs, at its best, is a painful portrayal of minds meandering. If you’ve seen it in real life, you’ll recognize it here. Wednesday, 6 p.m.; Thursday, 9 p.m.; Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 4:30 p.m.
HEADSCARF AND THE ANGRY BITCH
PHOTO BY KELLEY JORDAN
This unsuspecting person is being pursued by a member of Know No Stranger.
THE PHOENIX THEATRE MAINSTAGE REVIEWS BY JOSEFA BEYER ANTIGONE WITH A SHOTGUN: THE MUSICAL
LYNDSEY BROWN AND KEVIN J. BURGUN, INDIANAPOLIS t Brown and Burgun, the teacher-student Brebeuf High School team that brought us Hostage in 2010, now pose the musical question: What would Antigone, Romeo and Juliet, The Scarlet Letter and A Doll’s House look like if their heroines wielded shotguns? Most of these literary ladies were feisty sans firearms, but Juliet (Maureen O’Leary) is wonderfully improved as a gumshoe on the trail of her gutless boyfriend. Clever writing for Antigone allows O’Leary and the rest of the cast (Lyndsey Brown, Chloe Follis and Bethany Driggers) to shine as one mixed-up ancient Greek family. The rest, including four unneeded songs, follow a less amusing spoofy form. Wednesday, 9 p.m.; Saturday, 3 p.m.; Sunday, 10:30 p.m.
BEER CAN RAFT AND OTHER PLAYS
LOU HARRY AND KAREN IRWIN, INDIANAPOLIS r In four unrelated comic and dramatic scenes, playwright and Indianapolis Business Journal arts critic Lou Harry ponders how fate and circumstance make couples out of singles and singles out of couples. My favorite, which doesn’t fully fit in the overall theme, plunks us into a failed encounter group in which a single woman questions the agenda of the two moderators, who are a couple.
ZEHRA FAZAL, VIRGINIA y Zehra Fazal is a nimble comedic performer with a strong singing voice and an important reminder that one can be Muslim and many other things as well, even gay. Her writing, however, falls short of these gifts, and her title misleads. As Zehra Headscarf, Fazal is warm and sweet, more feisty than angry, as she explains the gaps and bridges between her Pakistani-Muslim background and her American upbringing. Her parody songs, to tunes like “The Little Drummer Boy” and “Blackbird,” rely more on her charm, which is plentiful, than the strong wordplay that makes spoofing pay off. Thursday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9 p.m.; Sunday, 3 p.m.
SCHOOL HOUSE WRONG!
THREE DOLLAR BILL COMEDY, INDIANAPOLIS e In a rainbow of brightly colored t-shirts, this mostly male comedy troupe (along with the exceptional Claire Wilcher) attacked the stage like a high school drama club on a folksy, feelgood mission. Wrong’s real target is, of course, the ‘70s TV series School House Rock. Instead of the basics of math or grammar, here wholesomesounding music and skits teach us the virtues of junk food, meth and, in the revue’s edgiest song, Native American genocide. The marks are mostly easy and often not PC, but the local troupe’s close interplay and staging are refreshing and offer hope for political humor in Indy. Friday, 10:30 p.m.; Saturday 1:30 p.m.; Sunday, 9 p.m.
STRIKE! THE MUSICAL
BEN ASAYKWEE, Q ARTISTRY, INDIANAPOLIS e How do you create dramatic tension with hunks of wood that stand, fall and then get up to do it all once more? Apparently, bowling sounded enough like life to Ben Asaykwee, so he made characters out of bowling pins, each with competing life views (feisty new guy, jaded pro, sulky teen, etc.). Then he wrote tight choral arrangements and drafted 10 talented women to rehearse to near-harmonic and fluffy comic perfection. À la Seinfeld, Strike! is about nothing, but “nothing” is lovingly explored through the sweet solos and duets of Maria Meschi and a cast of hardworking pinheads. Friday, 9 p.m.; Saturday, 6 p.m.; Sunday, 1:30 p.m.
THEATRE ON THE SQUARE, MAINSTAGE REVIEWS BY RITA KOHN
HOW TO KILL
PIAF
GABE GOLDEN, HEALTHY LIVING PRODUCTIONS, INDIANAPOLIS r Socially awkward introverts like me love shows about socially awkward introverts. In this one, Keith muddles through life by “killing” everyone he meets – in his imagination only. Developed in the Bloomington Playwrights Project’s “BloomingPlays” series, Gabe Golden’s How to Kill successfully stretches what is basically a skit idea into an hour of entertaining theater. Keith (Ryan Powell) is a schlep worth rooting for; his high school buddy Rob (Zack Joyce) is the kind of jerk you would sleep with against your better judgment; and the girl (Carrie Morgan) they both like is just as twisted as they are. Thursday, 6 p.m.; Saturday, 10:30 p.m.
DAVID HOCHOY (CHOREOGRAPHER), DANCE KALEIDOSCOPE, INDIANAPOLIS w DK is at their best in an intimate space where facial expressions and minute nuances of physicality are appropriately “in your face” to convey the depth of Piaf’s distinctive style in observing the underbelly of Parisian life. With love in its manifest meanings as the thread running through 14 songs, it’s the harsh flip side of brutality that grabs, particularly in the layerings of the 10-member company becoming a microcosm of mob mentality, with Jillian Godwin amazing as the hapless figure in “Hooray for the Clown!” And in the end, no regrets — like Sinatra, Piaf did it her way and DK shows that splendidly. Wednesday, 7:30; Saturday, 6 p.m.; Sunday, 7:30 p.m.
LIKE FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES
DEAREST: THE MOMMIE MUSICAL
SARSPARILLA SHOOK PRODUCTIONS, INDIANAPOLIS t In this ambitious, well-produced play, playwright Kim McCann takes us back to 1940 Appalachia for a lesson in union busting, fleshed out with old-timey mountain music, the wood slat walls of a humble home and even era-correct tableware. Like Fire, however, is too much lesson — and in a rush to establish back stories and historical context and, without any ambivalence, exactly who is right. There is excellent writing here that has a place in a better play that hushes the message and stretches out the storytelling, that uses words, music and silences to conjure characters, not eras. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 6 p.m.
RON SPENCER, ASSORTED FRUITS AND VEGETABLES, INDIANAPOLIS r Joan Crawford’s larger-than-life personality in a whirlwind 56 minutes is packed with clichés whose truisms hit home. Perfection, alcoholism, feminist allure and steely ambition collide into the lives of people she seeks to control since she couldn’t control her own. And through this Spencer shows the cutthroat movie industry when growing old is a detriment. A versatile cast of seven zips through Spencer’s edgy dialogue and songs as a journey into the interior of voyeurism. Is it a cautionary tale or a spoof on reality? Lucinda Phillips is amazingly Joan; Morgan Patrick-Roof brings talent beyond her years to Christina. Thursday, 9 p.m.; Sunday, 9 p.m.
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presents
Penn Jillette
Monday, September 19, 2011 7:00 pm Hamilton 16 IMAX 13825 Norell Road Noblesville, IN 46060 For more information and to purchase tickets, go to www.centerforinquiry.net/indy
FRICATIVE
PERFORMANCE GALLERY, OHIO e Don’t miss this extraordinary opportunity to experience human vocalization stretched to its limits. Initially reminding of childhood games we played to confound our elders with a madeup language of blips, oweys, sputs and druts and the gimmickry of Danny Kaye, who could turn communication into an uproaringly funny facial combat, we quickly are drawn into the musicality of eight voices traversing a foreign terrain of communication that’s a throwback to bird chatter, animal wimperings, wind howlings and yes, infant soundings. Seeming gibberish become musical with rhythm and melody growing from random emanations and sound dynamics expressing a range of emotions and ideas. Wednesday, 6 p.m.; Saturday, 3 p.m.
RED COUCH
PAPERSTRANGERS PERFORMANCE COMPANY, INDIANAPOLIS t Relationships in a dozen nonverbal sound bites portrayed by a Chaplinesque limber duo are provocatively entertaining. A take-off from early TV à la Lucille Ball and Mary Tyler Moore he-she pratfalls and later Seinfeld something-out-ofnothing mentality, we wile away an hour wondering what on earth can they possibly dredge up next. Clearly trained dancers, Aggie Schmank and Tommy Lewey easily move from sprawl to split-second twirls and back into sedentary boredom. Body language games make us laugh or squirm with “I’ve been there and done that” recognition. But watch that couch. It’s got the attitude of a certain person-eating plant. Thursday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 4:30 p.m.
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
NOEXIT PERFORMANCE COMPANY, INDIANAPOLIS y A challenging presentation of multiple issues, the show fails to fully materialize into a coherent point — and there’s an awful family secret that isn’t cognitively revealed. Theatrically this piece has potential with further development. The episodic format has value in showing a fractured mind and a fractured family as psychological drama. What doesn’t happen, however, is a depiction of sympathetic characters — they are cutouts, not multi-dimensional. The script begins with a long, repetitive voice-over, giving the impression of a dream spilling over with questions of a troubled past. Ryan Mullins, Michael Burke, Paul Nicely and Ross Percell work as a creative performing ensemble. Friday, 9 p.m.; Saturday, 10:30 p.m.; Sunday, 6 p.m.
SOUSEPAW: A BASEBALL STORY
JONATHAN A. GOLDBERG, SHELBY COMPANY, NEW YORK e James B. Kennedy is a striking look-alike for the real George Edward “Rube” Waddell, elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946. Goldberg’s meticulously crafted script covers the highlights of Waddell’s 13-year major league career as a lefthanded pitcher and the aspects of his personality that made him an undependable personality on the mound. Written as a conversation between the likeable yet easily angered Waddell and “Reptile Girl,” deftly portrayed by Ariana Venturi, the characters unpeel their lives as one does an onion getting to the inner core of their being. We root for them, feel their pain. Friday, 10:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9 p.m.; Sunday, 1:30 p.m.
DEXTALES
KRISTIN DEXNIS (CHOREOGRAPHER), DEXDANCE, NEW YORK y Kristin Dexnis and Jessica Whelan work from a Kabuki base to attack social issues. The first piece alludes to the environment, emanating from Henry David Thoreau’s precept, “In the wilderness is the preservation of the world.” The dancers appear with and in opposition to each other, utilizing a long cloth of many colors. Are they emerging from a skin? Or are they a felled tree? The second piece starts with a long voice over editorial asking, “What are the important issues concerning violence against women?” Friday, 6 p.m.; Saturday, 1:30 p.m.; Sunday, 10:30 p.m.
VIOLET DREAMS & UNLISTED MELODIES
POETIC REBOUND, PERFORMANCE COMPANY, IOWA CITY y As dance/performance art, the vocabulary for this work with three dancers draws from contemporary moves found on videos, in clubs and on the street. The intent, according to the program description, is to “explore the many facets of human relationship.” Floor writhing, kicking, punching, hair swishing and torso moves depicting anguish evolve into combative episodes pitting one against one and then two against one — culminating in some sort of resolution. Music and movement seem in opposition, almost autistic in mentality. Costume changes precede each of the half dozen episodes that feel exploratory rather than defined. Wednesday, 9 p.m.; Thursday, 6 p.m.; Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 4:30 p.m.; Sunday, 3 p.m.
THEATRE ON THE SQUARE, STAGE 2 REVIEWS BY HARRY WATERMEIER THE THIRD LIFE OF EDDIE MANN
JOHN SPURWAY, ASSORTED FRUITS AND VEGETABLES, INDIANAPOLIS y The opening tableau of this piece is brimming with darkly comedic potential: An unkempt businessman stands on a window ledge, preparing to leap to his death, when a bemused stranger casually pokes his head out the window and strikes up a conversation. Unfortunately, this potential is squandered by static staging, predictable plot points and punch lines, and hackneyed moralizing toward the play’s end. The actors fail to connect with their audience in this disappointing performance. Friday, 6 p.m.; Saturday, 4:30 p.m.; Sunday, 7:30 p.m.
FLYOVER
TRISTAN ROSS, NO HOLDS BARD, INDIANAPOLIS y Tobey, Marcel and Brie (a retail store clerk, a high school teacher, and a Home Shopping Network personality, respectively) all hate their jobs. Through prolonged monologues, fantasy sequences and recurring Hamlet references, these foul-mouthed working stiffs bemoan their insignificant, Midwestern existence for the better part of an hour. While this piece employs a number of structural bells and whistles, as well as a liberal use of profanity in an attempt to illuminate the frustrations of the overeducated and underappreciated, it lacks one key element — humor. Funny concepts exist in this piece. Unfortunately, they are mired in a pessimistic attitude. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 6 p.m.
ANDREA MERLYN’S BOOK OF SECRETS: VOL. 2
FLOWERS AND OTHER F-WORDS
CAMELOT IS CRUMBLING: AN ARTHURIAN NIGHTMARE
STORYTELLER’S THEATRE
TAYLOR MARTIN’S INDY MAGIC MONTHLY, INDIANAPOLIS y Taylor Martin and crew have created what is possibly the most low-key drag variety show in the history of the medium. The show — which combines elements of stand up, magic and short sketches — relies too heavily on storebought props and stock gags. The magic tricks are juvenile, and the performers lack the professional skill to execute them with the necessary grace. In a particularly bizarre chapter of the show, Mr. Martin (as Andrea Merlyn) recounts a somber and deeply personal anecdote about the dangers of alternative medicines. This disorienting speech creates an atmosphere from which the show never recovers. Friday, 9 p.m.; Saturday, 6 p.m.; Sunday, 1:30 p.m.
PHILLIP ANDREW BENNETT LOW, MAXIMUM VERBOSITY, MINNESOTA t While several moments of Camelot veer dangerously close to self-indulgence, and at times the play seems to dare the audience not to laugh at it, one cannot help but be impressed with the sheer scope and heft of Mr. Low’s one-man show. The text — composed of dueling testimonies of war from the noble Lancelot and the vengeful Mordred — is immense, and Mr. Low handles it with an acrobatic grace. The production — built of anachronistic visuals and ominous sound design — is striking, if at times baffling. This challenging piece will surely satisfy some of Indy’s most adventurous theater-goers. Thursday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9 p.m.; Sunday, 3 p.m.
TRICKS OF THE TRADE
JOHN P. DOWGIN, A WING AND A PRAYER PRODUCTION, INDIANAPOLIS y This comic thriller employs Mametian dialogue and stylized violence in an attempt to define itself as a modern genre piece. The play begins promisingly enough: After a night of celebratory drinking, Eddie (played by a capable Scott Russell) asks his business partner, Ralph, to reveal the origins of a newly adopted confidence that allowed him to close an important deal for their company. This set-up is clever, and the revelation that drives the final act is unexpected, but Jonathan Evans (as Ralph) lacks the stage presence to create the verisimilitude that would allow the audience to invest in the heightened circumstances of Tricks’ final act. Thursday, 6 p.m.; Saturday, 10:30 p.m.
LAWRENCE HAWORTH, TWILIGHT PRODUCTIONS, INDIANAPOLIS u Constructed through a series of one-man vignettes, in which a bouquet of flowers plays a prominent role, this show attempts to plumb the depths of the human heart. Flowers’ intentions and ambitions are admirable, but its execution is technically hackneyed and, at times, misguided. Performer Larry Haworth (who co-wrote the show with director Amy Pettinella) has neither the technical skill nor the emotional sensitivity to embody six different characters that expound monologues on complex subject matter. His script offers him no assistance; its sentiments on subjects ranging from mental disability to war are as deep as a greeting card. Wednesday, 9 p.m.; Saturday, 3 p.m.; Sunday, 10:30 p.m.
STORYTELLING ARTS OF INDIANA, INDIANAPOLIS r Liza Hyatt, Bob Sander, and Celestine Bloomfield — all artists representing Storytelling Arts of Indiana — held an impromptu storytelling session after a last minute cancellation this past Saturday. The audience in attendance received an exceedingly pleasant surprise. The trio told a handful of rich and eclectic yarns ranging from mysterious folktales to inspiring stories of survival. The performers were relaxed and engaging, and their casual attitude — coupled with the soothing patter of rain falling on the theatre’s roof — made for an unexpectedly intimate evening of theatre. Simple stories well told — this is the key to great theater. Editor’s note: This particular show will not be repeated, as it was a temporary stand in for a cancellation; storytellers abound at Fringe, though: See Frank and Katrina Basile Theatre at the Phoenix Theatre.
DRIVING THEM CRAZY
BLUE SKY PRODUCTIONS, MICHIGAN r Driving, as a piece of historical fiction, dramatizes the 1935 meeting between aviatrix Laura Ingalls and reporter Mary Bostwick, and their attempt to establish gender equality in the world of racing. The technical elements of this production — elegant lighting, engaging sound design, attractive costuming — infuse an already confident script with a kind of professionalism that is unique to many fringe venues. The talented, committed cast (possessing a kind of professional gloss of their own) propels the story with a fantastic energy. The piece is never bogged down by historical exposition, but rather manages to be entirely accessible and utterly charming. Friday, 10:30 p.m.; Saturday, 1:30 p.m.; Sunday, 9 p.m.
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FOOD Dig-IN
A locavore lovefest BY N E I L CH AR LE S N CH A RL E S @N UV O . N E T White River State Park Executive Director Bob Whitt is excited about next week’s DigIN. “Last year, when we started this venture, we had fifteen restaurants, and we spent our entire budget on the event itself and on organization. We had nothing left for marketing, and had no idea what the public response would be.” The public response, as it turned out, was overwhelming, with three thousand hungry Hoosiers showing up for the inaugural event. This year, ticket sales are capped at five thousand, there are thirty-one participating restaurants, as well as numerous wineries, artisan farmers and producers, not to mention a solid representation from Indiana’s burgeoning craft beer movement. Born from the ashes of A Taste of Indiana, Dig-IN is designed to be a more focused event than its huge, unwieldy predecessor. “With Taste we were having difficulty getting the high-profile, highend restaurants to participate,” explains Whitt. “That, combined with the scheduling of Taste made it very hard for us to focus on quality.”
CULINARY PICKS SATURDAY, AUG. 27
The inaugural Indy Food Swappers event will be held on Saturday, from 1 – 3 p.m. at Earth House. What do you bring? If you made it yourself (from scratch and/or grew and/or foraged for it) and it’s edible, bring it on. This is a decidedly no-pressure event. According to the press release: “No expectations that you map a path to world peace, or find a solution for global warming.” Of course, they won’t mind if you try. Participants are invited to bring their D-list culinary status; i.e. don’t sweat it. The event is supposed to be fun. And nourishing. And a great way to meet people who are also interested in learning more about the local food community. Tickets are free, but registration is required to participate: www.indyfoodswappers.com. You can just show up and watch, but that doesn’t sound like as fun as swapping, does it? Earth House is located at 327 N. East St. If you have an item for the Culinary Picks, send an e-mail at least two weeks in advance to culinary@nuvo.net.
BEER BUZZ
This year there will be no shortage of quality on offer. The state’s top locavoreinspired restaurants will be paired with small farmers and artisan producers to turn out a single signature dish. Foodies will have the opportunity to taste dishes from such luminaries as Aaron Butts of Joseph Decuis and David Tallent of Restaurant Tallent in Bloomington, as well as local culinary stars Tony Hanslits, Neal Brown and Greg Hardesty, amongst others. This will also be the second year of the Slow Food Garden. Previously devoted to rare and endangered flowers, the garden, curated by Laura and Tyler Henderson, is now devoted to rare and endangered vegetables, and provides a striking example of how little of nature’s astonishing diversity actually ends up on the average dinner plate in today’s environment of factory farms and genetic modification. Although there has been much welldeserved press for Indiana’s artisan brewers, it would be a shame to overlook the state’s wineries. Dig-IN will provide a good opportunity to sample wines from a number of growerproducers, including Best Vineyards and Marion County’s own Buck Creek Winery. For those not inclined towards alcohol, local and organic juices will be on hand from Natural Born Juicers, as well as coffee and teas from B-Java. In addition, those of a more cerebral bent can join local experts as they discuss chocolate, beer and wine, urban agriculture, nutrition, and related topics with an Indiana focus.
Sunday, Aug. 28 Noon to 5 p.m. White River State Park Tickets $20 in advance at Marsh, MainStreet market, or online at digindiana.org
Kahn’s, 5341 N. Keystone, “Come hang with Sun King Brewery” for tastings and conversation. http://www.kahnsfinewines.com
AUG. 27
Sullivan Hardware & Garden, 6955 N. Keystone Ave., EggFest 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Flat12 on tap. http://www.sullivanhardware.com/IndyEggfest_8d0af17.html
www.indynewindia.com
SWIRCA Southern Indiana Brewery, Winery & Spirits Festival, Evansville. 6-10 p.m. Hoosier Beer Geeks 5th Anniversary Party at Sun King Tasting Room, $30 includes beer samples from Barley Island, Bee Creek, Bier, Broad Ripple, Brugge, Cavalier, Crown, Flat 12, Lafayette, New Albanian, People’s, Ram, Schlafly, Sun King, Thr3e Wise Men, Upland; food and a souvenir glass. Uptown Jazz & Blues Festival, three stages on 5th Street between Main and Columbia Streets, Downtown Lafayette features Lafayette Brewing Company and Peoples Brews, 5 p.m.-midnight
closed tuesdays
AUG. 28
AS OF AUG. 24
AUG. 30
Sun King Tasting Room, Grapefruit Jungle Tapping, 6-9 p.m. Music from Whitey Morgan & The 78s; food by New York Slice
Dig-IN
Sun King Tasting Room, releasing Nelson an American Pale Ale, their version of this year’s Indiana Replicale.
Dig IN at White River State Park Celebration Plaza, 801 W. Washington St., Noon-5 p.m. Local Chefs, Farmers, Breweries & Wineries Showcase; Tickets: http://digindiana.org/
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As Indiana’s artisan food movement gains momentum, Dig-IN looks set to become a major player in the evolutionary process. As Bob Whitt sees it, “the whole business of artisan food used to be really fragmented, with all these different individuals doing their own thing. We wanted to capture all that energy and bring it together in one place. And what better place to do it than the White River State Park?”
AUG. 26
BY RITA KOHN
Aristocrat Pub, 5212 College Ave., has expanded to 32 beer taps including 10 rotating lines currently serving: SunKing Wee Mac, Sunlight Ale, & Nelson Pale; Flat 12 Karousel Kolsch & Halfcycle; Upland Rad Red & Dragonfly; Peoples Pilsner; Three Floyds Gumballhead, & Arctic Panzer.
PHOTO BY MARK LEE
Indiana wines are part of the delights at Dig-IN.
Great Fermentations Beginning brewing class, 6 p.m. Black Swan Brewpub “Every Tuesday $2.50 Pint Day”
If you have an item for Beer Buzz, send an email to beerbuzz@nuvo.net. Deadline for Beer Buzz is Thursday noon before the Wednesday of publication.
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MOVIES Sarah’s Key BY L A U RA M C P H E E LM CPH E E @N U VO . N E T
e (PG-13) Holocaust movies are not, by nature, light-hearted fare. As such, it can be difficult to recommend a film as emotionally draining as Sarah’s Key without sufficient warning. And do be warned, this one is heart wrenching. Based on Tatiana de Rosnay’s best-selling novel, the film tells the story of 10-year old Sarah Starzynski, one of more than 13,000 Jews rounded up by Parisian police and turned over to the Nazis in July of 1942. For two days, French authorities and German soldiers executed a sweep of Paris to reduce the city’s Jewish population. Thousands were detained and taken to an indoor sports arena known as the Vel d’Hiv where they were held for five days with no windows, no air condition, no food, no working toilets and only one water tap before being sent to the prison camps. The film begins as the police are knocking on the door of Sarah’s family apartment. While her mother begs officials to leave the
family in their home, Sarah hides her younger brother in a bedroom closet, promising to come back for him when it’s safe and making him promise to stay inside until she returns — promises that provide the majority of the film’s tension and the tragedy. Jump to the present day and Kristen Scott Thomas is Julia Jarmond — a journalist writing about the Vel d’Hiv. In the course of her investigation, she finds a family connection to the event, and the story of Sarah Starzynski quickly becomes the focal point of her research and her personal life. Moving between Julia’s modern day Paris and the detainment of Sarah and her family 70 years prior, the first hour of the film is so taut, so emotionally charged, so beautifully shot and so deftly acted that you expect those strengths to continue through the film’s end. Sadly, they do not. The film’s best moments are those with young actress Mélusine Mayance as the 10-year old Sarah. Director Gilles PaquetBrenner presents much of the action from her point of view and a good deal of the film rests upon this young actress’s very capable shoulders. At turns mature beyond her years and hopelessly naïve, Mayance’s Sarah is a true heroine without ever being maudlin or precocious. Sarah’s determination to reclaim her brother from the locked closet is juxtaposed with Julia’s determination to reclaim the story of Vel d’Hiv from obscurity, and the alteration between the two storylines propels the action
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Kristin Scott Thomas as journalist Julia Jormand in Sarah’s Key.
successfully for most of the film. It doesn’t quite hold up through the end, however. What happens to the Starzynski family is so horrible, so heartbreaking, that the problems of the modern family with which they are contrasted seem horrifically banal — and that’s saying a lot when the modern storyline involves elderly parents, middleaged pregnancies, marriage breakups and ghastly family secrets.
Audiences might be tempted to moralize, but, thankfully, the film doesn’t. Instead, it presents events in the past and present, as fact. These are decisions men and women make. Some are criminal, indeed. But how many of us would make the same choices in similar circumstances? Sarah’s Key unlocks secrets and asks just as many questions.
FILM CLIPS
FIRST RUN
OPENING
The following are reviews of films currently playing in Indianapolis area theaters. Reviews are written by Ed Johnson-Ott (EJO) unless otherwise noted. COLUMBIANA (PG-13)
Action film. Zoe Saldana plays Cataleya, a young woman who has grown up to be an assassin after witnessing the murder of her parents as a child. Turning herself into a professional killer and working for her uncle, she remains focused on her ultimate goal: to hunt down and get revenge on the mobster responsible for her parents’ deaths. 107 minutes.
DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK (R)
While Alex (Guy Pearce) and his new girlfriend Kim (Katie Holmes) restore their Gothic mansion’s period interiors, Alex’s young daughter Sally (Bailee Madison) can investigate the macabre history and dark corners of the estate. After hearing raspy whispers in the basement promising understanding and friendship, Sally gives in to them and ends up opening a gateway to a hellish underworld. Danger abounds, but no one will believe Sally’s claims. 100 minutes.
OUR IDIOT BROTHER (R)
Every family has one sibling who is a bit off the curve in getting their life together. For Liz (Emily Mortimer), Miranda (Elizabeth Banks) and Natalie (Zooey Deschanel), it’s their brother Ned (Paul Rudd), a sweet, unfailingly honest soul who keeps getting into trouble. After his latest batch of problems, each sister takes a turn housing Ned. According to early reviews, what happens next is both funny and charming. 95 minutes.
SENNA (PG-13)
Documentary about Ayrton Senna. Spanning his years as a Formula One racing driver from 1984 to his untimely death a decade later, Senna explores the life and work of the triple world champion, his physical and spiritual achievements on the track, his quest for perfection and the mythical status he has since attained. 104 minutes. At Landmark’s Keystone Art Cinema.
HEARTLAND FILM FESTIVAL SNEAK PEEK
Hoosiers and Rudy writer David Angelo and director David Anspaugh will be present for the 2011 Heartland Film Festival’s Sneak Peek fundraiser (their first in 20 years!) alongside many local filmmakers at the Mavris Arts and Event Center. The event includes an auction on festival tickets and vacation packages to exotic destinations and a showing of a short film entered in the festival. Tickets are $95 or $1,000 for a ten ticket entourage package. Seating is limited; see: Trulymovingpictures.org/hffsneakpeek
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I liked the original 1985 Fright Night and I like Craig Gillespie’s new version. Both films have parts that are very well done and other parts that are simply ... done. The well done parts are different in each version, which makes for a fun, though occasionally frustrating viewing experience. Casting Colin Farrell as the vampire is a good decision. The cat-and-mouse game between Farrell’s character Jerry – yes, Jerry the vampire – and Andy, the teenage neighbor, ably played by Anton Yelchin, provides some deliciously tense moments. One significant gripe: There was a club scene in the original that had an exceptionally nice flow, blending and gliding otherworldly feel with a severe sense of horror. The club scene in the new version is just busy.
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or the past decade Langhorne Slim (better known to friends and family by his given name, Sean Scolnick) has toured tirelessly, winning over fans with his punk-infused folk melodies and high-energy performances. Slim started out life calling himself the “bastard son of Hasil Adkins,” which says a lot about where he’s coming from — not only had Slim listened to a lot of (obscure) records by the time he came of age, but he was evidently inspired by one of the weirdest, wildest guys to ever make folk or rock music, an Appalachian manic-depressive who sang about biting heads off of chickens and life without hot dogs. But if Slim started off as just one man fascinated by Old Weird America, he’s amassed a small battalion of accompanists over the past few years; his most recent record, Be Set Free, boasts full arrangements featuring horns, keys and strings. We spoke with Slim last week while he was hanging at his home in Portland. NUVO: Your hometown of Langhorne, Penn., inspired your stage name. Is there is a difference in personality between Langhorne Slim and Sean Scolnick? LANGHORNE SLIM: There are many people in all of us. But I think I’m normally a little bit more reserved and shy when I’m not on stage and not performing, so perhaps it’s the Langhorne in me that is more of the performer. NUVO: People seem to have a hard time pinning you down into one genre. SLIM: I don’t know if it was Duke Ellington or Louie Armstrong who said, “There are two kinds of music. Good music and bad music.” So I prefer to be on the side of the good music. I grew up listening to so much different stuff: Punk rock music, blues music, soul music. I’m just a lover of music, period.
form. You know, playing in front of people there is so much energy to work off of in the atmosphere. But in the studio you have to create that. I think in the past I have been a little more overwhelmed by that process, but I am finding myself much more comfortable and excited to make cool things happen. NUVO: Growing up, were there any performers that you stood in front of the mirror trying to emulate? SLIM:(Laughs) No, not really. My favorite entertainer of all time is Muhammad Ali, but I’d get my ass kicked if they put me in a ring. Musically there are a ton of people that I admire and found growing up that I thought were great. Just off the top of my head: Howlin’ Wolf, Kurt Cobain, Otis Redding. But there wasn’t really one that I tried to emulate. It was more of freeness in style and a confidence in performing that I was drawn to. It’s something that serves naturally and that’s raw and passionate. I’d like to think that I have some of that in my performance. NUVO: Many of your songs are written from the first person. How often are they about you? SLIM: They come from my own true stories and my own true emotions, but I definitely fictionalize facts a good deal of the time to create a story. And once in a while, they come out as exactly as it happened. NUVO: In late 2008, you were in Indy doing a music video session with Laundromatinee, and you broke out the wiffle ball bat during some technical difficulties… SLIM: Yeah, that was a bad day man. I’m not gonna say that I am an all-star, but I played Little League for many years…I think that was a bad day, and I’d like to be given another chance to redeem myself.
NUVO: In the past you’ve talked about being more comfortable on stage than in the recording studio. Do you still find that to be true? SLIM: Less and less, but yes. The black and white answer is yes, but I am becoming much more comfortable in that way and just opening to experimenting with the song art-
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The band Sleeping Bag is only about 18 months old. But in that short time, they’ve already cut a self-titled, debut album with Indy-based Joyful Noise Records (released Aug. 9). And they’re currently wrapping up a 16-day tour that will culminate with shows in Indianapolis (Friday at White Rabbit) and Bloomington (Saturday at The Bishop). On top of that, national media is jumping on board, notably the Village Voice’s Maura Johnston, who had some high praise for the band’s new record prior to their appearance at NYC’s Cake Shop: “One of my favorite debut efforts of the year is the self-titled album by Sleeping Bag... who craft hooky, low-end-heavy rock that sounds like it could have been lifted off a 7-inch originally purchased in 1994.” Sleeping Bag grew out of a solo project launched by drummer and lead singer Dave Segedy, who has played with a number of Bloomington and Indy-based bands (Prayer Breakfast, Arrah and the Ferns). After coming up with what he referred to as roughly two album’s worth of material and then recording a demo, he brought aboard Lewis Rogers on guitar and David Woodruff on bass to work on turning that material into a proper album. The three guys ended up producing an album that hearkens back to the golden days of alternative. At times Sleeping Bag recalls Weezer, Pavement, and other influential bands from the era. There’s a distinct tone of teenaged apathy to Segedy’s vocals, but that doesn’t mean the songs lack energy; in fact, quite the opposite. We caught up with Segedy (just three days before his 24th birthday) last week as the band was on its way to a gig in Savannah, Ga. NUVO: How would you describe your sound? DAVE SEGEDY: I can’t say I disagree with people that say we’re ‘90s-influenced. Pavement is one of my favorite bands. But when I wrote the songs it wasn’t like I was trying to sound like them. I just wanted to write something I like to listen to. I’d like to think we have our own sound. NUVO: Was there a moment when you realized things were starting to come together for you? SEGEDY: There were kind of two moments like that. One was when I wrote the first demo, a song called “Night Fight” [not on the album]. I’d never written a song before
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and I kind of freaked out about that. The demo, listening back, is terrible now. I don’t know why I liked it. But I kept writing. And then when I got the rest of the guys, we just gelled really fast and sounded really good from the first practice. NUVO: Did feedback from fans help you decide which direction to take on the album? SEGEDY: Oh yeah. Particularly as far as what songs were good. For example, the song “Beside.” I thought that song was okay, I didn’t think it was really that good. But lot of people seemed to like it. NUVO: What about the song “Scone Zone”? SEGEDY: Well, there is a meaning behind that. I work at a grocery store in Bloomington called Bloomingfoods, and in the mornings everyone gets scones and coffee. So I would just kind of think to myself, “You’ve stepped into the Scone Zone.” NUVO: What’s next for the band? SEGEDY: Right now my goal is just to survive this tour that we’re on. But after that I’d like to learn a new set pretty soon, start playing some new songs. I still have a semester left before I graduate, but in the spring I think we’ll tour again. I’d like to have another album out in a year or two, but I don’t want to overload too soon. NUVO: What do you think you’ll do with that other album’s worth of material you’ve still got? SEGEDY: I’m going to keep that in the pocket, but still try and write new stuff. I don’t get too attached to those things. I just try and keep moving forward.
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White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect St. 8 p.m., $6, 21+ Fort Wayne’s End Times Spasm Band play it hot, taking inspiration from café jazz of the ‘20s and ‘30s. Locals Irene & Reed keep things a little cooler and close-mic’ed, with a torch song flavor.
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ROCK ELSINORE, HOTFOX, ACCORDIONS
Rock Lobster, 820 Broad Ripple Ave. 9 p.m., free, 21+ Its drummer fully recuperated after being struck by a car, the Champaign, Ill.-based art-rock band Elsinore returns to action with a new EP, Life Inside an Elephant. With Hotfox, who also have a new record, You, Me, and the Monster (Roaring Colonel Records), for you to take a listen to; and Accordions, also back in action and with a largely-new lineup.
Friday WORLD CHICAGO AFROBEAT PROJECT
The Mousetrap, 5565 N. Keystone Ave. 10 p.m., $3, 21+ The Chicago Afrobeat Project may live up to its name by trying new players and pieces every few months, but what remains constant is their mix of juju, highlife, funk and Afro-Cuban music, with a little from the Chicago experimental jazz and post-rock scenes to boot. In short, awesome for dancing.
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Earth House, 237 N. East St. 7 p.m., $7, 21+ Multi-instrumentalist J. Wail is getting a little help on beats these days, courtesy of percussionist Chuck Morris, a percussionist for the Manchester, Ind.-born jam band Lotus who has the summer off from his day job. Morris, who usually mans the bongos for Lotus, is playing drum set for this project; Wail, a mainstay on the festival circuit, makes liberal use of the fuzz bass and warbly jam bandstyle synth. With a whole mess of openers, including Boston glitch-hop outfit Mammox and three Bloomington one-man EDM artists: Shy Guy Says, David Peck and ersatz modem.
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JAZZ TIM WARFIELD AND THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS
The Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave. 8 and 10 p.m., $10, 21+ A long-time collaborator of trumpeter Nicholas Payton, Tim Warfield has made his career stationed out of a somewhat unlikely city: York, Pennsylvania, which may not have a thriving jazz scene, but is within striking distance of all your major East coast hubs. The saxophonist, currently an artist-inresidence at Pennsylvania’s Grantham College, has recorded several well-received records for NYC label Criss Cross (the long-time label of local organist Melvin Rhyne), most notably a soul-jazz tribute to B-3 master Shirley Scott.
MASHUP GIRL TALK
Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St. 9:30 p.m., $25 advance (plus fees), all-ages Maybe the most unlikely part of the Girl Talk phenomenon is just how popular the live shows have become; after all, they do still center around a guy and his laptop, even if Greg Gillis, the mashup artist known as Girl Talk, does trigger samples (or loops of samples) in real time. But, of course, it’s not just about Gillis: He’s simply the maestro conducting a massive, glittery, unironic dance party, a celebration of pop that’s come to include accoutrements like video screens, dancers and even a full-scale cutaway of a two-story house (that was a one-off Chicago show; don’t look for the house at this gig). Through it all, Gillis continues to be a surprising collage artist, drawing out similarities between artists who would seem to have nothing in common, chopping up musical history with a focus and controlled insanity consistent with his background as a scientist. (Stay for the after-party, hosted by Keepin’ It Deep, DJed by WickIt the Instegator, Action Jackson and Sinclair Wheeler, and taking place in the basement of the Egyptian Room. A Girl Talk ticket stub gets you in free; it’ll cost $5 otherwise. 18 and over are welcome; 21 and up are welcome to drink.)
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SOUNDCHECK Saturday PUNK BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY!, THE SIDEKICKS, GIANT GIANT ROBOT
Vibes Music, 1051 E. 54th St. 7 p.m., $8, all-ages To be clear, the guys in NYC-based ska-punk collective Bomb the Music Industry! haven’t actually done any harm to pop stars or record execs since they started playing together back in 2004. It’s more about bombing in the graffiti bombing sense, and their opposition is more about doing things in a DIY-punk fashion than directly challenging the powers-that-be. With Cleveland’s The Sidekicks, whose most recent record was named best of the year by punknews.org, and local pop-punk band Giant Giant Robot.
ROCK SLOTHPOP, WAY YES, AMO JOY
Big Car Gallery, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 215 8:30 p.m., $6, all-ages Sinuous folk-rock outfit Slothpop gets back into action this week at Big Car, joined by Columbus, Ohio band Way Yes, who inject an island flavor into their indie-rock in a rather less annoying way than Jimmy Buffet, and playful indie-pop outfit Amo Joy.
ELECTRO-POP GHOSTLAND OBSERVATORY, DJ MICK BOOGIE, KELLEY JAMES
Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 4790 W. 16th St. 6 p.m., $15 student, $20 grown person (plus fees), all-ages A goofy electro-rock band that doesn’t get much critical love, Ghostland Obeservatory is probably a perfect pick to headline this weekend’s Moto GP entertainment. Over the top in a love-em-or-hate-em way, the Austin-based duo steals big riffs from Gary Glitter, vocals from Freddie Mercury (well, his energy if not his chops) and song structures from LCD Soundsystem and (maybe) Daft Punk. But They’re a good time it you’re not a party pooper, and party poopers simply won’t make the drive out to the speedway, because it’s loud and it smells like gas and rednecks. With LeBron James’s favorite DJ, Mick Boogie.
ROOTS CHELY WRIGHT
Studio Theater at the Center for the Performing Arts, 355 City Center Drive, Carmel 8 p.m., $40, all-ages When country singer Chely Wright came out publicly last year, she had no illusions about what she was up against, occupation-wise; here, for instance, is a quote from a 2010 interview with the Los Angeles Times: “[The country music world] would rather you were a drug addict than be gay. They will forgive you if you beat your wife, lose your kids to state, get six divorces, make a sex tape,
get labeled as a tramp — any and all of it is better than being gay.” That being said, Wright has begun in the past few years to shift her music in the direction of Americana and alt-folk audiences, which are typically less monolithic and single-minded (if also smaller and less lucrative) than mainstream country crowds. Her show at the Studio Theatre, one of the first in the newly-opened 120seat space, follows on her marriage to girlfriend Lauren Blitzer last weekend.
Monday ROCK GUSTER, JACK’S MANNEQUIN
The Lawn at White River State Park, 801 W. Washington St. 7 p.m., $26-$36 (plus fees), all-ages A couple pop-rock act share headlining duties at The Lawn. Once a goofy college-rock trio comprised of acoustic guitars and bongos, Guster has grown into a serious pop band while on the job. But through the growing process, they’ve kept much of the charming lightness and quirkiness that made them an unlikely success when they launched from Tufts in the mid’90s. Drawing from a younger fan base than Guster, Jack’s Mannequin mixes piano-pop and power ballads, sometimes with the energy and intelligence of kindred spirit Ben Folds.
Tuesday HIP-HOP RAEKWON AND GHOSTFACE, MOBB DEEP
Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St. 8 p.m., $32.50 advance, $40 door (plus fees), all-ages The Egyptian Room becomes a musical reanimation chamber Tuesday night, with some hip-hop legends bringing back to life their hit records of 1995. In one corner we have Wu-Tang Clan members Raekwon and Ghostface Killah, performing Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx in its entirety; in the other, Mobb Deep, revisiting every track from their sophomore album, The Infamous. If you’re thinking that this is show is best for super-fans, you might be right: Reviews of the tour’s other stops have noted that the concert became a bit of a slog after a while, given that some deep cuts haven’t seen live performance for about 15 years. (An afterparty will follow at the newly-opened 247 Sky Bar, 247 S. Meridian St., featuring Beretta 9, Son of Thought and Rusty Redenbacher. Tickets are $15 advance and $20 at the door.)
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SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND FEAT. RICHARD EDWARDS, OTIS GIBBS, CAMERON MCGILL Aug. 19, White Rabbit Cabaret
w On Friday night at the White Rabbit, singer-songwriters Richard Edwards, Cameron McGill and Otis Gibbs got together to showcase their music in front of an astonishingly quiet, attentive crowd. The musicians each noted what a pleasure it was to be able to perform for a change to an audience that was so intent on the music that the bartenders couldn’t even wash glasses for fear the clinking would disturb the performance. McGill, lead singer of the Chicago-based band What Army and member of Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s, showcased work from both his upcoming solo album and What Army’s recent release, Is a Beast. His first contribution was “Sad Ambassador,” a song that, like a lot of McGill’s songwriting, combines a certain kind of removed melancholy with trenchant observations on society. A few turns later, McGill took to the keyboard to sing a sadly humorous song called “American Health Insurance” (“I got health insurance that only works if I die/ but what if I live?”). The Nashville-based Gibbs — originally a Hoosier — provided a grittier, folk counterpoint to the proceedings, with finger-picking guitar songs about life in small towns, getting older and the sadness of watching friends pass away. Gibbs was not at all shy about engaging the crowd, warning them that having his picture taken is his second favorite thing in life, behind “everything else, which is tied for first.” His songs carried a kind of sad humor about them, with lyrics like “Everyone’s your best friend when you’re closing down the bars, but god bless the ones that really are.” The undoubted highlight of Gibbs’s turns in the round was “Joe Hill’s Ashes,” a deeply-reflective and emotionally-resonant song about the Swedish-American union organizer who was executed in Utah in 1915. Gibbs said he played the song recently, by request, to a group of prisoners in Stockholm, Sweden. Occupying the third spot in the round, but probably the first spot in most of the attendee’s hearts, was Edwards. For those familiar with Edwards’s work as the lead singer of Margot, there’s no need to try and describe his sound. But for the sake of the uninitiated, Edwards has a peculiarly direct way of performing that allows his haunting lyrics to kind of jump out and slap the
Aug. 20, Verizon Wireless Music Center
r A glassy-eyed youth drinking straight from a whiskey bottle. An even younger looking female chugging a beer just before a security pat-down, vomiting into a nearby trash can, then finishing her drink. Yep, Kid Rock was back in town. The self-proclaimed American Bad Ass brought his redneck carnival to the Verizon Wireless Music Center Saturday. Trash receptacles were overflowing with booze containers before the show even began. Apparently Kid Rock knows his audience well, because the venue twice aired a prerecorded public service announcement in which the singer urges attendees to drink responsibly. Everyone did, for the most part, and Rock gave his customary high-energy performance. His stage was decked out in a full bar replete with ads for Jim Beam and Red Stag, his own branded whiskey made by the distillery. There were also lots of pyro and two pole dancers. Despite his cultivated reputation as a bacchanalian womanizer, Kid Rock remains one of the most enigmatic performers in present pop music. His successful marriage of hip-hop and Southern rock is a major achievement unto itself. Granted, the crowd was almost universally white, but they still embraced both forms with equal fervor. As Rock himself sang/rapped in one song, “I rock it with the white, black, young and old.” And so long as you love Kid Rock — and everything about him — that’s great. Cos you’re going to get a lot of Kid Rock at a Kid Rock show. Aside from an opening montage that practically recounts his entire life up to now, there’s also birthday wishes sent from Conan O’Brien, Jon Stewart and Jimmy Kimmel. Certainly braggadocio is part of Rock’s schtick, but by the time in his show he’s scratching records while pouring himself a drink and lighting a cigar, then pulling a Frampton vocoder, playing a Nugent riff and jamming on the drums, a sense of overkill begins to invade. Sheryl Crow, his opening act, turns 50 in February. But she’s clearly become a performer who’s comfortable in her own skin. Looking like a relaxed hippie chick in bellbottom jeans, she breezed through a set of her biggest pop hits and cuts from her soulful new release, 100 Miles from Memphis. She’s got songs about fast cars and drinking beer (“Real Gone”) and about the man she was meant to marry (“Steve McQueen”). —WADE COGGESHALL
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Breast Milk Baby
Plus, child support payment WAY late BY CH U CK S HE P H E R D Berjuan Toys is already selling its Breast Milk Baby online ($70) and expects to have it in stores later this year. The doll works by the child”mother” donning a halter top with flowers positioned as nipples, and when the baby comes into contact with the a flower, sensors mimic sucking sounds. Although dolls that demonstrate toileting functions are already on the market, breastfeeding activists are more enthusiastic about this one, hopeful that girls’ comfort with breastfeeding will result in decreased bottle-feeding later on. (Opponents have denounced the doll as forcing girls to “grow up” too soon and with choices too complicated for their age, which according to the manufacturer is as young as 3.)
The continuing crisis
• Frances Ragusa, 75, was back in court in Brooklyn, N.Y., in June claiming child support she said was never paid by husband Philip Ragusa, 77, in their divorce settlement of 33 years ago. (The “children,” of course, long ago became adults, but the $14,000 judgment has grown, with interest, to about $100,000.) Frances told the New York Post in July that she called Philip several months earlier to discuss the amount but that Philip merely began to cry. “Don’t let this case go to trial,” she recalled telling him. “(I)f you think I’m going to forget it, Phil, you’re stuck on stupid.” • Carole Green was fined $1,000 in July by a court in Leavenworth County, Kan., for littering the property of the same Bonner Springs resident “most afternoons” for the past two years. Green apologized and said the charge was a complete surprise. She said when she starts out in her SUV every day, and drinks a bottle of tea, it just happens that she finishes it at about the same spot on her journey -- in front of Gary Bukaty’s property -- and that’s where she tosses the bottle. She promised to stop. • The Perfect Society: Rules to assure correct, “progressive” behavior were recently proposed by the San Francisco Commission of Animal Control and Welfare and the Colorado Department of Human Services. The San Francisco agency would ban the sale of all pets in the city limits, from dogs to gerbils to goldfish. (“Why fish? Why not fish?” asked one exasperated commission member, bristling at criticism.) Animals sold as food for other animals would be included but not animals sold as food for humans. Day care centers in Colorado would be required, if it made dolls available at playtime, to have dolls of three different races.
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• A Southampton (England) University researcher told an academic conference in Stockholm in July that his work, demonstrating that women who stop smoking even after becoming pregnant will have healthier babies, is important because he found that pregnant women rationalize continued smoking, in part to have smaller babies that will be less uncomfortable to deliver. • Small Town Democracy: The City Council of Gould, Ark. (pop. 1,100), voted in July to make it illegal for its citizens to form “groups” without written permission from the council. (The mayor and the city council are feuding over the budget, and the council, attempting to stifle lobbying by a group supporting the mayor, has taken down all “groups” -- except that the ordinance appears to blatantly violate the First Amendment.)
Chutzpah!
• Inmate Johnathan Pinney, 26, petitioned U.S. District Court in Chicago in July, demanding that state and federal officials stop arresting him (because he did nothing illegal, he wrote, despite his current four-year sentence for aggravated battery on a police officer). Pinney helpfully suggested a way for the federal government to compensate him for all the grief it has caused him: The government should give him $50 billion “restitution” and award him uninhabited land so that he can start his own country, with sovereign and diplomatic immunity. WBBM Radio noted that Pinney appeared to solicit romance on his MySpace page by writing that he “hopes to get into a committed relationship with a woman, but wouldn’t mind if it meant ‘leaving this world and marrying an alien with similar attonomy (sic) and genetics.’” • Even though Michigan schoolteacher Marcie Rousseau was sentenced in December to at least four years in prison for having sex with a high school boy in Saginaw and Midland counties, the episode is not over. Now, the “victim” has filed a lawsuit against Rousseau and school officials for what his lawyer described as “not consensual” sex. The unnamed, then-16-year-old admitted to at least 100 acts of sexual intercourse, and 75 “other” sex acts, and asks at least $1 million for “physical, psychological and emotional injury.” (To use the “minimum” numbers, that works out to at least $5,700 per sex act, and since $1 million is sought on each of the seven federal-law claims and three state-law claims, the best-case scenario regards each sex act as a $57,000 burden.)
Plan B
• Jonathan Schwartz called 911 in New York City in July to report that he had stabbed his mother to death. A few minutes later but before police arrived, Schwartz called back 911 to report a correction: “No, she committed suicide.” (The mother’s body was found with multiple stab wounds, and police, notwithstanding Schwartz’s “correction,” charged him with murder.)
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The Pervo-American Community
• Jerry Prieto, 38, pleaded guilty in July in Benton County, Wash. (possession of methamphetamine and “malicious mischief with sexual motivation”), and was sentenced to 45 days in jail. Prieto had been arrested with the drugs in October 2010 in a stall at a highway rest stop. According to the prosecutor, Prieto had written sexual notes on the floor with a felt-tipped pen and drawn an arrow pointing directly to his stall. (As a condition of his sentence, Prieto is allowed in rest-stop bathrooms only for “traditional” purposes.)
Redneck chronicles
• (1) Ronald Adams, 49, was arrested in June for assaulting an 8-year-old boy in his home in Ouachita Parish, La., after an argument over which TV program to watch. Adams allegedly threw a TV remote, hitting the child in the head, because the kid insisted on “cartoons” while Adams preferred “wrestling.” (2) Authorities in St. Lucie County, Fla., investigated an incident in May in which a woman allegedly fired an AR-15 rifle at a target inside her bedroom closet and in which the gunshots went through the wall and damaged a washing machine, springing a water leak throughout the residence. (Officials said the woman’s husband fired shots, too, and that it wasn’t the first time the couple had engaged in bedroom target practice.)
Names in the News (For Immature Readers Only, Please!)
• Arrested (again) for prostitution (this time, Columbus, Ga., April; previously in News of the Weird, in Tampa, Fla., 2009), Ms. Suk Kim Ho, 46. Charged with conspiracy to commit child molestation (Woodstock, Ga., June), Mr. Patrick Molesti, 58. Arrested for lewdness for allegedly exposing himself (Howe Township, Pa., June), Mr. Handy H. Wood, 35 (not to be confused with the man arrested in Columbia, Mo., in July, on suspicion of the same thing, Mr. Willy Wood, 54). Charged with DUI in a crash into a library (Buffalo, N.Y., July), Mr. Jack Goff, 47.
A News of the Weird Classic (February 2001)
• In November (2000), Mr. Auburn Mason, 62, was sentenced to four years in prison in England for a 1999 British Airways hijacking. He had grabbed a flight attendant, held scissors to her neck, and threatened to blow up the plane with the bomb he was holding, screaming “Take me to Gatwick (airport in London)!” At that point, the flight was 15 minutes away from its scheduled destination, which was Gatwick airport. (Minutes later, passengers disarmed Mason.)
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I found this unusual classified ad in a small California newspaper. “Wanted: Someone to travel backwards in time with me. This is not a joke. You must be unafraid to see the person you used to be, and you’ve got to keep a wide-open mind about the past -- I mean more wide-open than you have ever been able to. I have made this trip twice before, and I don’t expect any danger, but there may be a bit of a mess. Please bring your own ‘cleaning implements,’ if you know what I mean.” As crazy as it sounds, Gemini, I’m thinking you’d be the right person for this gig. The astrological omens suggest you’ll be doing something similar to it anyway. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Of your five senses, which is the most underdeveloped? If you’re a typical Westerner, it’s your sense of smell. You just don’t use it with the same level of acuity and interest you have when you’re seeing, hearing, tasting, and touching. You may speak excitedly about an image you saw or song you heard or food you ate or massage you experienced -- what they were like, how they made you feel -- but you rarely do that with odors. You easily tolerate an ugly building or loud traffic noise or mediocre food or itchy fabric, and yet you feel a deep aversion to an unappealing smell. Having said that, I want you to know it’s an excellent time to upgrade your olfactory involvement with the world. You’d benefit greatly from the emotional enrichment that would come from cultivating a more conscious relationship with aromas. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Enlightenment is simply this,” said the Zen master. “When I walk, I walk. When I eat, I eat. When I sleep, I sleep.” If that’s true, Leo, you now have an excellent chance to achieve at least temporary enlightenment. The universe is virtually conspiring to maneuver you into situations where you can be utterly united with whatever you are doing in the present moment. You’ll be less tempted than usual to let your mind wander away from the experience at hand, but will instead relish the opportunity to commit yourself completely to the scene that’s right in front of you. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In August 2009, 120 scientists and their helpers staged a BioBlitz in Yellowstone National Park. Their goal was to find as many new species as they could in one day. To their surprise and delight, they located more than 1,200, including beetles, worms, lichens, and fungi that had never before been identified. An equally fertile phase of discovery could very well be imminent for you, Virgo. All you have to do is make that your intention, then become super extra doublewildly receptive.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Two dangers threaten the universe: order and disorder,” said poet Paul Valery. I think that’s especially true for you right now, although the “danger” in question is psychological in nature, not physical, and it’s a relatively manageable hazard that you shouldn’t stay up all night worrying about. Still, the looming challenge to your poise is something that requires you to activate your deeper intelligence. You really do need to figure out how to weave a middle way between the extremes of seeking too much order and allowing too much disorder. What would Goldilocks do? SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Readers of Reddit.com were asked to describe their lives in just six words. It would be a good time for you to try this exercise. You’ve reached a juncture in your unfolding destiny when you could benefit from a review that pithily sums up where you’ve been up until now, and where you’ve got to go next. To inspire your work, here are some of the most interesting from Reddit: 1. Early opportunities wasted, now attempting redemption. 2. Searching tirelessly for that one thing. 3. Living my dream requires modifying dream. 4. Must not turn into my mom. 5. Insane ambi tion meets debilitating self-doubt. 6. Do you want to have sex? 7. Slowly getting the hang of it. 8. These pretzels are making me thirsty. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Go where the drama is, Sagittarius, but not where the melodrama is. Place yourself in the path of the most interesting power, but don’t get distracted by displays of power that are dehumanizing or narcissistic. You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when you have a mandate to intensify your excitement with life and increase your ability to be deeply engaged with what attracts you. I urge you to be as brave as you once were when you conquered a big fear and to be as curious as you were when you discovered a big secret about who you are. For extra credit, be highly demonstrative in your expression of what you care about. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In his older years, after steadfastly cultivating his vices with the care of a connoisseur, the agnostic actor W. C. Fields was caught reading the Bible by an old friend. Questioned at this departure from his usual behavior, Fields said he was “looking for loopholes.” I suspect a comparable shift may be in the offing for you, Capricorn. In your case, you may be drawn to a source you’ve perpetually ignored or dismissed, or suddenly interested in a subject you’ve long considered to be irrelevant. I say, good for you. It’s an excellent time to practice opening your mind in any number of ways. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I watched a Youtube video that showed eight people competing in a weird marathon. They ran tw o miles, ate 12 doughnuts, then ran another two miles. I hope you don’t try anything remotely similar to that , Aquarius. If you’re in the mood for outlandish feats and exotic adventures (which I suspect you might be), I suggest you try something more life-enhancing, like making love for an hour, eating an organic gourmet feast, then making love for another hour. It’s a good time for you to be wild, maybe even extreme, about getting the healing you need. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the out-ofprint book In Portugal, A.F.G. Bell defines the Portuguese word saudade as follows: “a vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist, for something other than the present, a turning towards the past or towards the future; not an active discontent or poignant sadness, but an indolent dreaming wistfulness. ” In my astrological opinion, Pisces, it is imperative that you banish as much saudade from your system as you can. If you want, you can bring it back again later, but for now, you need to clarify and refine your desires for things that are actually possible. And that requires you to purge the delusional ones.
Homework: What’s the part of you that you trust the least? Think up a test whereby that part of you will be challenged to express maximum integrity.
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