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or just talking points. he angry words echo into indeciAnd, though we are both neighbors and pherable sound, like screams across fellow citizens, we are eager to believe the a great divide. worst about each other. More than two weeks after the shooting Ferguson now has become a flash of Michael Brown Jr. in Ferguson, Missouri, point, a spot where cranks from left and there still is much we don’t know. right have traveled from every corner of We don’t know with anything resemthe country to gather and shout about bling precision the events that led to the race, about crime, about guns, about 18-year-old’s death. We don’t know if poverty and about every other thing Darren Wilson, the police officer who that scares them. shot him, was injured in a struggle with The problem with shouting is that it Brown – or if a struggle even took place. makes listening so much harder. We don’t know what happened in the And we aren’t going to solve them if we moments before six gunshots killed a don’t find a way to listen to each other. young man and carved deep wounds into first a community and then a nation. … We should start from a place All we do know for sure is that a white police of sadness, not anger. officer shot an unarmed young black man six times. Here is what we know for sure about Absent knowledge, angry speculation what happened in Ferguson: has filled the void. A young man’s life ended before he In some ways Ferguson has stopped completed his second decade on this being a community and instead has earth. His family and his friends. They will become a kind of perverse national have to live with this loss and their grief symbol, a forum for dueling counterfor the rest of their days. narratives about some of our deepest A police officer killed that young man. fears and resentments. The officer may face criminal charges and On one side, we hear mutterings prison time for his actions. For the rest of about Brown as a big and angry young his life, he will be known as the cop who African-American male, a young man shot to death an unarmed kid. whose very existence to those frightened These are human beings, not symbols. by him constitutes probable cause. You This is a tragedy, not a cause. don’t have to listen very closely to hear When we think and talk about what the subtext: He got what he deserved. happened in Ferguson, we should start On the other side, the narrative is about from a place of sadness, not anger. an overwhelmingly white and out-ofAnger helped bring us to moments control police force, a collection of Dirty like this, but anger can’t lead us out. Harry wannabes who treat the town as a If we are going to solve the problems kind of fantasy camp for aspiring bullies. that afflict us, we are going to have to stop You don’t have to listen very hard to hear screaming and start listening to each other. the subtext there, either: They were just Ferguson demonstrates how great the itching to shoot. divide separating us is. Welcome to angry America, 2014, a place If we’re going to close it, our only where we believe we know the answers hope is to quiet the noise so that we before we even ask the questions and, libcan talk with each other, once again, as eral or conservative, we seem to find it easy neighbors and fellow citizens should. n to reduce human beings to types or issues 4 VOICES // 08.27.14 - 09.03.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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ou’ve got your Texas, your Mississippi, even your – Lord save our cheese – Wisconsin. Could the most rightwing state in the process from the GOP team’s bench. union be our own Indiana? The Democrats of LBJ’s Texas would I’m tempted to call it a lock after read- have taken notes. ing a recent piece in the liberal organ What else? One of the gun lobby’s Truthout with the headline “The Ultrafavorite states? Regulatory agencies Right-Wing State Nobody Mentions.” headed by minions of the regulated That’s an overstatement, of course. industries? Regressive taxes (sales) makJust for starters, our current governor ing up for losses from tax cuts for the and his immediate predecessor each has rich (inheritance)? Unbridled mega-livegenerated national buzz as a presidenstock farming and state forest timbering? tial aspirant, and neither is on the short OK, it was a magazine article, not a list for the Eugene V. Debs Award. book. But I can’t cease my nitpicking The “Ultra-Right-Wing” part, though, without invoking two names. is pretty well substantiated in a detailed Bullock failed to mention Greg Zoeller, text that delves into such issues as labor, abortion, voter ID, immigraIndiana has consistently refereed tion, environment and privatization of schools the election process from the and other government functions. Writer Bryan GOP team’s bench. K. Bullock correctly calls Indiana “ground zero” for a slew of these pet rightwing initiatives. one of America’s most militant attorneys For some of us, that’s a stigma; for othgeneral, who has used a nominally imparers, a trophy. For me, it’s plain interesting tial office to combat marriage equality in ways the author may not have intended. and attacked Planned Parenthood to What’s remarkable is, for all its assiddeny low-income Hoosiers health benuous homework and leftwing zeal, the efits that just so happen to emanate from article falls well short of fully capturing a Democratic White House. just how far from the spectrum’s center And speaking of elections Ultra the Hoosier state has lurched. Indiana won’t accept, let’s not forget It astutely links school charters and Glenda Ritz, the Democrat whose audacvouchers to the undermining of urban ity in beating Tony Bennett for state school systems and unions, for examschools chief has been answered by the ple; but fails to note that vouchers have governor and his allies with open retalibreached the wall between church and ation, complete with the creation of a state as well. rump department of education staffed It bemoans the plight of poor, black with six-figure-salaried enemy agents. Gary; but overlooks the blatant state-levWhew. If we’re the Ultra-Right-Wing el schemes by Republicans to hold back State Nobody Mentions, it’s certainly not the Democratic tide in Indianapolis, for lack of something to talk about. If the through such measures as eliminating media aren’t giving us our due, you can at-large City-County Council seats (all bet folks like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, held by Democrats) and banning satelthe Koch brothers and the American lite polling places for early voting. Legislative Exchange Council are. A pioneer in discouraging poor and Indiana’s a laboratory, if not a poster minority voters by mandating photo IDs child, for a centrist nation under rightist without proffering a single case of fraud sway. Whether your politics incline you (as the Truthout article notes), Indiana to call that bad news or good news, it has consistently refereed the election does deserve to be bigger news. n
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WHAT HAPPENED? 7th Circuit hears gay marriage appeal Three judges from the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments regarding the bans on same sex marriage in Indiana and Wisconsin Tuesday morning. U.S. District Court Judge Richard L. Young consolidated three cases out of Indiana that sought for the state to allow same sex couples to marry as well as the recognition of marriages solemnized in other states. Indiana filed an appeal with the Circuit Court after Young ruled the state’s ban was unconstitutional. The 7th Circuit combined Indiana’s appeal with one case out of Wisconsin. It is unclear as to how long the court will take to reach an opinion. Death penalty sought in Renn case The man accused of shooting and killing Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Officer Perry Renn could face the death penalty. Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry filed the request with the court to seek the death penalty against Major Davis II. Davis is accused of shooting Renn with an assault rifle July 5 while the officer was responding to a 9-1-1 call reporting shots fired in the area of East 34th Street and Forest Manor Avenue. The review committee Curry established to consider potential death penalty cases cited two aggravating circumstances to support the death penalty request. This is the third death penalty request Curry has filed since taking office in 2011. The first case also involved an officer killed in the line of duty. Thomas Hardy pled guilty to the 2011 murder of IMPD officer David Moore. Hardy’s plea resulted a life sentence without the possibility of parole. — AMBER STEARNS State health commissioner resigns Indiana State Health Commissioner William VanNess has resigned with little explanation from the governor’s office about the move. Gov. Mike Pence issued a statement, saying that VanNess had “served Hoosiers passionately and with great dedication as state health commissioner and we will miss his leadership.” But the governor’s office did not say where VanNess is headed next. Pence spokeswoman Christy Denault said VanNess “resigned for personal reasons” and the decision was “his own choosing.” Pence appointed VanNess – a physician and former president of Community Hospital of Anderson and Madison County – in January 2013, the start of the governor’s term. VanNess had recently been promoting Pence’s proposed HIP 2.0 program – a proposed expansion of the state’s existing Healthy Indiana Plan, which offers health insurance to low-income Hoosiers. — THE STATEHOUSE FILE 6 NEWS // 08.27.14 - 09.03.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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For five years before the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in June 2013 ... Austin Armacost
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• Crossed the Atlantic Ocean 19 times (more than 160,000 miles) to visit/live with Jake at a cost of over $29,000
• Spent over $14,000 in travel to the U.S. to see Austin • Could only visit Jake on a 90-day VISA free period or a 6-month visitor’s VISA which is only allowed once per calendar year
• Spent a total of three years away from family and friends in the U.S. • Spent 23 of the 60 months apart as husband faced numerous immigration issues
• Was recognized by U.S. Immigration as a legal stranger to husband Jake, despite their legal marriage in the UK
• Became a full UK resident two days after their wedding ceremony in England
• Was ineligible for U.S. residency immediately following their wedding ceremony, contrary to heterosexual couples.
• Has all of the same rights in the UK as heterosexual couples
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his gay married couple is more than ready to simply start living. That thought echoed through my head after 90 minutes in a coffee shop on the south side of Indianapolis with Austin Armacost and Jake Lees. It is that straight forward desire to live that supports their statement: Should the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals fail to re-affirm the order from the U.S. District Court that Indiana’s ban on same sex marriage is unconstitutional, they will move out of the state. The statement isn’t meant to be a threat or ultimatum or a display of the power of celebrity status. It does reflect the weight of the struggle that married
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same sex couples face in their quest to simply be treated like other married couples of the opposite sex; that there comes a time when choices in life have to be made for the sake of one’s self and one’s partner. And after hearing about the struggles they faced over five-plus years just to be together on the same continent, I can’t say that I blame them.
Austin Armacost Austin is the native Hoosier in the relationship. Born in Muncie and raised in Franklin, Austin describes his early life as typical of someone growing up in small town Indiana. “I knew very young I was gay,” said Austin. “But I didn’t really face any type of negativity or discrimination growing up.” The aspir-
ing actor/model said his older brother, Tyler, was supportive and had his back. He believed he gained more friends once people knew he was gay. “The girls always were like ‘we can go shopping!’ but honestly, I hate shopping. I’d rather drink a beer, go hunting, watch sports, anything else,” Austin laughed. In high school, Austin was an All-American athlete in track and field. He transferred to Lawrence Central High School in Indianapolis to continue his training in pole-vaulting until a back injury thwarted his career and any Olympic aspirations. That’s not to say Austin didn’t face any struggles accepting his sexuality. His biggest battle was on the religious front. “I would spend a couple hundred dollars on gay porn and then burn it,”
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is difficult. It’s all lower and middle class with no real opportunities.” And for Austin, Indiana is and will always be home. “I can only stand New York for about 72 hours,” said Austin. “People act like they don’t want to be bothered with you and they mean it. Every time you leave your apartment, you are busy and it’s going to cost you at least $50 to get where you are going and do what you want to do. Even Central Park is busy.” “We really are just country folk,” said Jake, in a northern English accent with hints of a Scottish brogue. Austin was right. The accent was pretty adorable.
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How did you and Jake meet? A question, I’m sure, Austin has been asked a hundred times, and yet, the smile on his face said it never got old. “At a bar. I heard his accent and I just melted,” said Austin. Jake Lees, SUBMITTED PHOTO a British national, was in Indianapolis Austin and Jake continue to advocate for marriage equality, on an international internship for his recently attending a Lamdba Legal event honoring the degree in Hospitality Management plaintiffs in the case suing for recognition of same sex when he met Austin in the fall of 2008. marriage in Indiana. However, when that internship was over and Jake’s student VISA was no toll, with Austin experiencing short The repeal of DOMA in 2013 had longer valid, Austin had some deciepisodes of depression and periodic a big impact on Austin and Jake. The sions to make. “Jake had two years of binge drinking. But it also led Austin to young couple had just reached the school left, and since he couldn’t stay use his newfound celebrity status to be point of exhausting all options for the here, he asked me to go to England proactive. “Our personal story became year to be together leading Jake to take with him.” Austin said he was reluctant a job on an American cruise line. “Jake leave everything he had known, but was a strong storyline for the show of what had just signed a 6-month contract the excited about where that new adventure gay bi-national couples have to deal with,” said Austin. After The A-List: day DOMA was repealed,” said Austin. could take him. “The day after I got my Once they were able to get to the U.S. passport, I packed up my stuff and left.” New York finished taping, Austin began active involvement in the movement Embassy in London following the Austin and Jake continued their very to repeal the Defense of DOMA decision, the effect was immediMarriage Act (DOMA) and ately apparent. “Usually when we went to the U.S. Embassy in London we were worked with groups like “Usually when we went the only gay couple there,” said Austin. the DOMA Project and “After DOMA there were tons. I can’t Immigration Equality to to the U.S. Embassy in London put into words what it meant to be recbring awareness to the we were the only gay couple there.” ognized, finally.” issue and educate the But back home again in Indiana, masses. — AUSTIN ARMACOST those rights were essentially gone. Austin’s hard work and Austin has continued his activist advocacy paid off in 2013 work in his home state. He worked with when the U.S. Supreme long distance relationship after Austin Freedom Indiana in the last legislative Court struck down DOMA and opened was cast in LOGO-TV’s The A-List: session to push HJR3 off the ballot. At the doors for gay immigrants like Jake New York, a reality show about six gay one point, he and Jake considered taking to join their spouses in the land of the men living in New York. The show was the state to court to challenge the confree and the home of the brave. in the middle of taping when Austin stitutionality of Indiana’s ban on same took four days off to fly to England and sex marriage, but were advised to wait. get legally married. “England is a very National advocates leaned toward a stratAs I listened to their practically made- egy that started with more liberal states progressive country in that, when we for-TV story (no wonder The A-List: got married, I had access to all of the to build momentum before hitting the New York capitalized on its storyline), I rights of a spouse, including resident more conservative states like Indiana and could barely sit still, waiting to ask my status,” said Austin. However, the Texas. Austin says he was surprised when next obvious question. same could not be said of Jake. He the cases here in Indiana were filed but If England is so progressive and open was still considered a “legal stranger” applauds and fully supports their efforts. to same sex marriages, why live in in the eyes of U.S. Immigration. In Because if, God forbid, it doesn’t 2010, that meant Austin couldn’t spon- America, let alone Indiana? happen in Indiana, “We are gone,” said Austin and Jake smiled and nodded, Austin. sor Jake for a green card because he not at all surprised by my inquiry. It has nothing to do with legal accepwasn’t recognized as his legal spouse. “England is not very big, really no tance, because in Austin’s eyes, things Since Jake was only allowed to travel bigger than the state of Georgia here in are fine socially and have been for some to America during a 90-day VISA free the United States, so there isn’t a lot of time. It boils down to not wanting to period or on a 6-month visitor pass opportunity there,” said Austin. support a government structure that (which is only issued once per calen“The quality of life in England is lower refuses to support him. “I don’t want to dar year), a long distance marriage than in the U.S.,” added Jake. “The taxes pay taxes in any state that doesn’t recbecame their way of life. ognize my marriage.” n are high, poor education, employment The stress of being apart took its
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LUCK CONQUERS ALL! STORY BY CONRAD BRUNNER • EDITORS@NUVO.NET In an interesting role reversal, Andrew Luck was open. The subjects ranged from his newly developed taste for Indiana’s multi-colored tomatoes to his distaste for being repeatedly asked about his anachronistic flip phone, his absence from social media, and the status of his beard. He admitted an “unconditional love” for U.S. soccer in general, and a bit of fannish infatuation with star player Clint Dempsey in particular. He explained why it is important to handle himself meticulously well in public, both as a leader and example, while acknowledging a very real disinterest in how he is portrayed in the media.
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There was, of course, some American football discussion, because that is what he does better than most anyone else in the world, the reason for his place in the spotlight. But it was after he left that the real bombshell dropped. This was not some well-orchestrated plan by the Colts public relations staff to help craft the image of their peerless young quarterback. This engaging, revealing, interesting and completely informal session with the media was strictly Luck’s idea. You knew he was bigger, stronger, faster and smarter than, well, just about everybody. You knew he had a preternatural maturity. You knew he was already one of the best quarterbacks, one of the best football players, in the NFL. What you did not know: he enjoys being Clark Kent almost as much as Superman. No wonder this man is almost always smiling. Do not be deceived, however, by the appearance, because it masks what really drives Luck, the one trait that makes all the others possible. In his uncommonly interesting life, Luck has made room for many things that might surprise those who know him only as a football star, but there is one notable exclusion: failure. “He’s just really determined at all times, whether it’s playing a football game or playing Settlers of Catan or playing trivia night somewhere,” said Matt Hasselbeck, a 16-year veteran serving as Luck’s backup. “He’s just really a determined, determined person.” Luck seemingly always has been a foot-
ball star, but that’s where reality begins to separate from the myth. Though he does live life under a microscope while perched on a pedestal, understand: he has found the balance that makes it possible to live that life as fully as time allows. He regularly plays Settlers of Catan, a board game in which the players acquire resources in order to build roads, settlements, cities – the fundamentals of civilization. He also enjoys Bananagrams, a word game. He thought long and hard about attending Gencon this year but the team’s schedule conflicted. His first sporting love was soccer, primarily because he spent his formative years in Europe. He has a degree in architectural design from Stanford, having been graduated with a 3.48 GPA. He hopes one day to design an environmentally friendly stadium. Had he never picked up a football, you get the distinct impression Luck would’ve had no difficulty finding something challenging, enriching and ultimately rewarding to conquer. Luckily for the Colts, fútbol in Europe gave way to football in Texas and the rest, quite literally, has been historic. In his chosen profession, Luck has already has thrown for more yards than any quarterback in NFL history in his first two seasons (8,196). Of the Colts’ 22 wins in his brief tenure, exactly half have come as the result of comebacks in the fourth quarter and/or overtime. That’s another record for the first two seasons of a quarterback’s career. S E E , L U C K , O N P A G E 10 NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 08.27.14 - 09.03.14 // COVER STORY 9
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LUCK , FROM PAGE 9 In each of those seasons, he guided the Colts into the playoffs. They lost in the wild-card round his rookie year, and then advanced to the divisional round before falling to the Patriots a year ago. This season, which begins Sept. 7 in Denver against Peyton Manning’s Broncos, has brought realistic discussions of a trip to the Super Bowl, and not just among what the old curmudgeon Bill Polian used to dismiss as pundits and mavens. This is the owner talking: “You know when you have a great player like Andrew at quarterback that everyone’s going to set the bar high for achievement,” Jim Irsay said. “So we won the division, we won a playoff game, and now it’s just a question of trying to get deeper. … I really think the mindset and the atmosphere and the desire to win a championship is there.” 10 COVER STORY // 08.27.14 - 09.03.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
••• Griff Whalen was Luck’s roommate for three years at Stanford and is entering his third season as his teammate with the Colts. So, Griff, what’s Andrew really like? Pause. Exhale. Hands on hips. Furrowed brow. “Uh … I don’t know,” he said. “Football isn’t his whole life, there’s a lot of other stuff that interests him. He loves to travel and read and he’s always trying to learn new stuff. He’s very curious, I guess I would say.” Pep Hamilton worked with Luck for two seasons as a coach at Stanford. The two are so closely associated, in fact, Hamilton was the first assistant to fill the endowed position, “Andrew Luck Director of Offense” with the Cardinal. Most other places, they just call it offensive coordinator. That’s been Hamilton’s job title the past two seasons in Indianapolis. So, Pep, what’s Andrew really like? Pause. Stare, not blank but calculating. “He is well-rounded,” Hamilton said. “He
has a life outside of football. He has other interests, worldly interests and of course his upbringing, the time that he spent as a youth in Europe as well as just the exposure that he’s had to a lot of different cultures. He’s well-traveled. He’s a very interesting young man. He can sit and have a conversation with pretty much anybody about anything.” And not just in English. Luck’s father Oliver – a magna cum laude graduate of West Virginia University, Phi Beta Kappa and member of the Academic AllAmerica Hall of Fame – also is a man of many interests beyond football. Oliver spent five NFL seasons with the Houston Oilers, where popular veteran quarterback Archie Manning was in the final phase of his career. Among the off-field tasks assigned to the rookie Luck in 1982 was looking after Manning’s sons, Cooper and Peyton. Little did anyone know at the time the link that would form between the Lucks and Mannings. Andrew was born in Washington, D.C.,
while Oliver and wife Kathy were working as attorneys, but spent his formative years in Europe, where Oliver served as general manager of the Frankfurt Galaxy as the World League of American Football was launching. It would evolve into NFL Europe, with Oliver filling the role of league president. It was during these years that young Andrew was exposed to an entirely new world, traveling the continent with his father and developing a passion for a variety of aspects of European culture, including languages, architecture, cuisine – and, of course, soccer. All three of his siblings, sisters Mary Ellen and Emily and brother Addison, were born in Europe. The Lucks returned to the U.S. in 2001, when Oliver was placed in charge of the Houston Sports Authority, and he soon became the first general manager for the Houston Dynamo of Major League Soccer. Though that was Andrew’s sport growing up in England and Germany, he soon traded it for the American version of football. Almost immediately, he became a star, and has been one ever since. After a prolific high school career – he also was co-valedictorian of his graduating class – Luck had a number of college choices (including Purdue) but opted for Stanford. The head coach there was Jim Harbaugh, a former Colts quarterback who developed his own reputation for leading dramatic comebacks. In that transition from high school to college, Andrew learned about life in the spotlight. “I think subconsciously I learned a lot of stuff from my dad,” he said. “He played quarterback in Houston, right? So like any backup quarterback you’re the most revered person in the town it seems like, especially when the team’s not that good. So when we moved back to Houston he still had some notoriety and he worked in the sports business world so he was the face
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Luck has thrown for more yards in his first two seasons than any QB in NFL history.
of a lot of events or things of that nature. “You’d see him on TV or read articles in the sports pages and he’d be quoted in them. And when he ran the Dynamo, it’s a new sports franchise, it’s a big deal, and being a guy that had already been a face in the public was one of the bigger faces of that team. And so you just sort of sit there and watch and pick things up.” After Andrew committed to Stanford, however, he said in an interview with a recruiting publication that he was looking forward to starting for the Cardinal, a potentially off-putting presumption his father quickly corrected. “He gave me a look that was like, ‘Hey, you don’t have to compete for a job?’ He sort of gave me a lesson,” Andrew said. “You have to understand the weight of what you say to a person with a recorder. You can’t
take things back.” That lesson took root. Luck has carefully crafted a public persona so polished, sometimes the shine makes you squint. He never offers a cross word, unless it is in selfevaluation. Luck will refer to his own “bone-headed mistakes,” but steadfastly avoids that kind of language when it comes to teammates or coaches. Last season, as Darrius Heyward-Bey was dropping passes right and left, not to mention over the middle, Luck never offered a hint of criticism. Though the interior of the offensive line struggled to form even a semblance of a pocket time after time, Luck only offered praise. The problem is, that’s the only side of Luck the public generally sees, and can sometimes generate a false impression of what really makes him tick. “It’s just consistent with someone that knows they’re a public figure, like Peyton Manning or Tom Brady or whoever it might be, you see them at work and you see that even when they’re in the public they’re a certain way because they realize they represent something way bigger than just themselves, just the name on their jersey, they represent more than any other player,” Hasselbeck said. “In our case, he represents the horseshoe. “He’s very conscious of that, very professional in how he talks and very aware of his surroundings but he is a human being and he has a life and there are things he enjoys. He’s a fan of other sports – he’s a fan, and he gets all geeked-up like fans do, fanatics. If he didn’t have this job, he strikes me as the kind of guy that would paint his face going to a soccer game, like that would be a fun thing to do.” SEE, LUCK, ON PAGE 12
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LUCK , FROM PAGE 11 The notion of Luck painting his face for a soccer match might seem far-fetched. Then again, he did travel to Brazil to watch the U.S. team compete in the World Cup, wearing the No. 8 of his favorite player – Dempsey – to the match. He sees sports through the eyes of a fan as well as a competitor, giving rare breadth to his vision in a world where monocular focus is generally demanded. ••• Ryan Grigson understood the opportunity, not to mention the challenge. As a first-time general manager with a first-time head coach and a rookie quarterback in 2012, no one would’ve blamed him for taking the traditional approach: rebuild through the draft, suffer a few difficult seasons while stocking the talent pool around Luck, preach patience to the public and dial back the expectations until the youngster matured into a winner. He might’ve entertained that notion entering Luck’s first season but as it unfolded, Grigson quickly realized this generation of Colts did not have to wait on Luck. If anything, they would have to work to keep up with him. The week the Colts were rocked by the announcement Pagano had been hospitalized with leukemia, Luck – in only his fourth NFL game – led the Colts back from an 18-point deficit to beat the Green Bay Packers, passing for 362 yards, including the gamewinning pass to Reggie Wayne with 35 seconds remaining. And the Colts, universally ranked by the experts as the worst team in the NFL entering 2012, were on their way to an 11-5 finish and a playoff berth. Luck’s presence allowed, in fact demanded, Grigson change the traditional rebuilding paradigm. While still focused on the draft, he also invested heavily in veteran free agents and became very active in the trade market. Luck has made it possible to approach each season with a win-now mindset, while also keeping an eye on the future. “We saw it right away: the rare football IQ, the way he regurgitated the offense after a short time, the great resiliency he showed in fourth-quarter comebacks since the beginning and the way he helped his team literally bounce back after every loss since 2012,” Grigson said. “It’s been amazing to watch, yet there’s still so much room for growth with just more actual game and playoff experience. You know, you still preach patience and take a long-term approach philosophically but if the growth continues to accelerate beyond your continuous short-term goals and expectations you keep raising that bar. “That’s what our coaches and coordinators did and have done. Even though we had to start from scratch in 2012, from a personnel aspect you’re instinctively inclined to piece things together and acquire talent on the fly instead of taking the traditional tortoise approach because he’s that good now.” After each season, Luck has spent time dissecting his
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mistakes, identifying his flaws and assembling a plan to correct them. As a rookie, his completion percentage (.541) was low and his turnovers (18 interceptions, five lost fumbles) high, so he focused on being more efficient with his decision-making and protective of the football. He improved his completion percentage to .602 and reduced his turnovers to 11 (nine interceptions, two fumbles) in 2013. What’s next? Luck’s goals this season are to be better in the red zone, finishing drives that reach inside the opponent’s 20-yard line with touchdowns instead of field goals, and third-down conversions. The Colts ranked 10th in the NFL in the red zone last season, scoring touchdowns on 57 percent of their forays, and were 15th in third-down conversions at 38 percent. Not exactly terrible, but when you’re trying to win a championship mediocrity screams for correction. There is another area the Colts would like him to improve: channeling his competitive froth. Luck simply does not want to give up on a play, no matter how badly it breaks down, and often tries to make something where there is nothing. Quarterbacks coach Clyde Christensen is encouraging Luck to avoid what he calls “eventful throwaways.” “Made a couple bonehead plays back the past two years where a simple throwaway would’ve avoided an interception or a hit that could put your body in peril or a hit in a wide receiver that’s going up that put him in peril,” Luck said. “So a simple, uneventful throwaway can save a lot of harm and bad things from happening.” There it is again: the self-deprecation, the readiness to point out his own flaws, the refusal to do so in teammates.
You can’t lead by pushing or pulling. You can only truly lead if others willingly follow. This is where the real Luck and the image converge. “I attribute his public persona and the way he is wired to the people who raised him,” Grigson said. “Terrific, terrific family. Just spend five minutes with his parents or even his Uncle Will (Wilson, also his agent) or his feisty German grandmother and you kind of get it on all levels. You get why he’s so academic, so worldly, you get why he loves ball, you get why he’s calm in a storm, you get why he dives over the goal line fearlessly and without hesitation gives up his body to save a TD after throwing a pick. “While he is as smart and as big and strong as any quarterback I or the coaches have ever been around, I personally feel his humility is what makes him special. His uncle told me in our first meeting, long before we ever drafted him, that Andrew is big in all of his teammates’ eyes because of the talent and who he is, but he has a unique way of making himself small at the same time to still be able to be on everyone else’s level and be a true teammate. He was right on with that assessment and that’s exactly the way he is with his teammates. It’s special.” ••• Manning’s imprint on the Colts, indeed upon Indianapolis, is indelible. Luck has drawn comparisons with Manning since his college days, and they’ve never really stopped. When the Colts open the regular season against Manning and the Broncos on Sept. 7 in Denver, they will once again rise to the surface. S E E , L U C K , O N P A G E 14
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LUCK , FROM PAGE 13 Given what Manning has accomplished, his status as one of the greatest ever to play the game, it would be only human for Luck to resent the comparison or, at the very least, be uncomfortable when the discussion invariably arises. And yet … “I would ask the same question,” Luck said. “It’s an interesting storyline for fans and people but it is what it is. There’s no reason to hold a personal vendetta against someone for doing amazing things on the football field. There’s a lot to learn from what Peyton did, not just on the field but how you operate off of it, how you prepare.” Reggie Wayne has played with both and understands it ultimately is a futile exercise to measure one against the other. Luck isn’t trying to be the next Manning, because he is completely comfortable with himself. “One thing that I love about him is that he hasn’t changed,” said Wayne. “He came in loving the game of football, wanting to be the best, wanting to do everything he can to help the team win and he’s still the same way. “I really believe he’s going to be that dude when it’s all said and done. He has that aura around him that shows a team that this is a superb leader. He’s worthy of being the first pick of the draft. He’s worthy of replacing an all-time great. It’s something that we love to have on our side. I’m excited to have him as a teammate. He makes me better.” Luck has made the Colts better. In 14 COVER STORY // 08.27.14 - 09.03.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
“He has that aura around him that shows a team that this is a superb leader.” - Reggie Wayne, Colts Wide receiver fact, he has carried them back to the brink of greatness, and has managed to do so without trying to become something, or someone, he is not. The perception of Luck and the reality, when you get right down to it, aren’t all that different. “Some things you can’t say but they’re just absolutely hilarious,” Hasselbeck said. “And they’re surprising but they’re not. At the end of the day, he’s a kid who loves the sport he plays and he just happens to be really good at it. It’s kind of fun to be on the journey with him, and Clyde, and Pep and Chuck and everybody. It’s competitive even in our (meeting) room, with myself and Chandler (Harnish, the third-string quarterback). “Coach will quiz on something and the first one to answer, if you can beat Andrew it bothers him so it excites us. Or if we make a mistake he’s quick to correct us, even if it’s grammatical, like: ‘How do you think practice went today?’ ‘I thought it went good.’ ‘Ha! It went well!’ “He wins. It’s all those little things that make work fun.” Why is this man smiling? Even though he loves playing a game, you get the feeling he already has won. n Conrad Brunner is a sportscaster and writer for 1070thefan.com.
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ndy Eleven’s slogan, “The World’s Game, Indiana’s Team,” directly connects with Indianapolis’ international soccer heritage. Lorra F. Schroeder, Federation of German Societies’ historian, says Indianapolis’ soccer story starts at the turn of the 20th Century with an influx of Europeans coming to work and live — particularly on the Southside. “The young Germans that were playing soccer in Indianapolis backyards and alleys in early 1900s included Frank Gaity, Adolf Bickel, Walter Fink and Frank Scholl, along with immigrants from many other soccer-playing countries. In 1934 they moved the games to the newly built German Park at 8600 S. Main St., where at times interpreters were needed for players who did not speak English,” says Schroeder. A 1934 team photo identifies thirteen players whose descendents continue to play and support soccer. Known as the Indianapolis International Soccer Team until 1954 when they reorganized as the Indianapolis Soccer Club (ISC), early team photographs identified players by country of origin. A 1953 team lists players from Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland and the U.S.A “Nevertheless, we speak one language: soccer,” says Greenwood resident Sherif Sejdiu, who emigrated from Yugoslavia, and joined the ISC in 1971. Sejdiu was at German Park on Aug. 8 to celebrate the 100th birthday of Frank Scholl, who emigrated to the U.S. as a child from Bavaria. Scholl, whose interests included gymnastics and singing, helped develop
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German Park and witnessed the first soccer match played on the newly created field in 1934. “I came to honor Frank. We are as much a cultural club as a soccer club,” offered Sejdiu, adding, “You have to come on a Thursday when the team practices.” Ryan Howell, who was on ISC’s winning 10-0 team in 2000, now mows the practice field. He and wife Rachel provide a tour of the clubhouse showcasing 80 years of trophies and memorabilia. Jason Mann, who arrived at practice directly from work at Indianapolis Dent Company, carries forward from his grandfather who emigrated from Dresden in 1941. Currently ISC’s president, he says, “It makes me feel like a pioneer of sorts to be part of the first soccer club to be formed in Indianapolis. The cultural diversity drew me here. I get to talk with people from all over the world.” “[At German Park] we’re distinctive because players come from all over the city. And … no other club has a clubhouse facility like ours,” says Yugoslav native Jeff Gorgievsky with obvious pride. “We have three men’s teams. Before
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the growth of soccer all over the city, we used to have four men’s and a woman’s team, and we had youth soccer. Now every neighborhood has a youth soccer club and soccer is in schools.” Youth soccer’s growth connects to an international impetus across town. “Under the direction of the lay leadership of Dr. Allen Katner and Mike Vogel, the Jewish Community Center launched the city’s first youth soccer league in 1976,” recounted Rod Hofts at his retirement as director of fitness, sports and recreation in 2006. “Thirteen children took to the field that first year.” One of those originals is Jason Katner, now a licensed soccer referee and coach, who followed his father as a scientist with Lilly. “When my father came from England soccer was played by immigrant adults in the ‘60s and ‘70s. They passed skills on to their kids. My father and [Nazi] Holocaust survivor Mike Vogel had a passion to share with all kids. For them it didn’t matter what circumstances you came from, you could benefit from the skills and discipline of soccer.” By 1979 the youth program had outgrown JCC’s facilities, which led to the formation of Dynamo F.C [Football Club] with the additional support of Bobby Burt, Ray Lord and Bill McBride. The development of the state-of-art Dynamo Park at 401 E. 91st St. followed. For Katner, his childhood highlight was being in attendance at Indianapolis’ professional club Daredevils’ match at Butler Stadium in 1978 when “one of the greatest players in the history of soccer, Portugal’s Eusebio [da Silva Ferreira], scored his 1,000th goal.” It didn’t matter Eusebio was on the opposing team. It was history in the making. n
Indy Eleven V. New York Cosmos Aug. 30, 7:30 p.m. For a team that’s been living in the bottom of the standings, the Indy Eleven has still managed to be an impressive draw: The squad’s gone nine for nine when it comes to selling out home games. Next ™ up: a strong New York team dubbed the Cosmos (Why? Is it a Seinfeld-ian Kramer reference? Sex and the City? Is Neil de Grasse Tyson a fan?) rolls in on Saturday evening. The Eleven are hoping for another full house (at 10,500 per game, they lead the North American Soccer League in attendance) for “Indiana Soccer Heritage Night.” Michael A. Carroll Stadium, IUPUI, $10-100, indyeleven.com Indiana Fever V. TBD Date and time TBD. As we went to press, a deciding game three had yet to be played to determine who the Fever will see in the WNBA Eastern Conference Finals. (The Atlanta Dream and Chicago Sky were tied at one game apiece at this writing.) If you’re not a fan of the WNBA, here’s why you should be: Tamika Catchings is surely a Hall-ofFamer; Coach Lin Dunn is already. In fact, this is the final season for Dunn, who’s taken the Fever to the playoffs every season she’s coached the squad and won the whole darn thing in 2012 — the first pro hoops championship Indy had seen since Slick and the Pacers did it in 1973. Bankers Life Fieldhouse, indianafever.com Indianapolis Indians V. Louisville, Columbus V. Louisville: Aug. 27, 7:05 p.m.; V. Columbus: Aug. 28, 7:05 p.m.; Aug. 29, 7:15 p.m.; Aug. 30, 6:05 p.m. It’s the last regular-season home games for 2014 at Victory Field. Goodbye, summer. (Sniff.) Victory Field, $9-35, indyindians.com Colts V. Eagles Sept 15, 8:30 p.m. Didja see our cover story on Andrew Luck? Huh? Didja? ‘Cause it’s AWESOME. OK, we’ll calm down now. After opening the season on the road in Denver against Peyton Manning and the Broncos (in a game sure to bring as much hype to Colorado as the legalization of weed), the Horseshoe comes home to face the Green Menace. The Iggles (that’s how it’s pronounced in PA, believe us) will likely be the best team in a meh division, the NFC East. (We play all the teams in that division this year: Eli’s Giants, Jerry Jones’ Cowboys and Daniel Snyder’s Racist Nicknames.) Oh, and it’s a Monday-night ESPN telecast, so you can watch Coach “Chucky” Gruden grimace in the booth if you’re not at the game. Lucas Oil Stadium, $51-849, colts.com
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Susan Hodgin in her Harrison Center studio in 2012.
Remembering Susan Hodgin I knew Susan Hodgin — who passed away Aug. 22 at age 36 — primarily through her art. The first painting of hers that really grabbed my attention was “Gale,” which I saw at the Indianapolis Art Center back in 2010. A six-canvas-long work full of movement, color, light and shadow, it suggested a hurricane, of course, but also unforeseen forces large and small. This was the shot across the bow from an artist who had completely transformed her art after beginning a low-residency MFA program in Massachusetts in 2009. Circles, once a recurring motif in her work, had given way to glowing lattices. It seemed possible at times to see through these lattices and glimpse the underlying structures that held the world together. Susan had broken through into an artistic realm all her own, taking a cue from the philosopher Edmund Burke and his notions of the sublime. Quite simply, I loved — and loved writing about — her work. If I had to nutshell it, I’d call it X-ray cubism. The first time I talked in-depth with Susan was in her Harrison Center studio in late 2011. She was pregnant and had recently been diagnosed with colon cancer. I respected her wish at the time that I not write about her cancer, as she wished not to be defined by her disease. There was a period of remission after her daughter Anna was born, but then the cancer returned as Stage 4. Our next interview was at her bedside at the Simon Cancer Center in April. She was still creating art: colored pencil on paper. She was articulate, thoughtful, passionate and loving. It was clear to me that no matter how devoted she was to her work, that devotion was amplified tenfold when it came to her husband, Stephen, and two-year-old daughter, Anna. — DAN GROSSMAN The visitation will be Aug. 29, 4-8 p.m., at Leppert Mortuary, Nora Chapel, 740 E. 86th St. The funeral service will be Aug. 30, 10 a.m. at Leppert Mortuary with burial following at Crown Hill Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Anna’s trust fund, BMO Harris Bank, 1402 N. Shadeland Ave., Indianapolis, 46219.
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t took over 30 years for Roy Lichtenstein’s monumental “Five Brushstrokes” sculpture to make it from the drawing board to the IMA’s front lawn, where it will be officially unveiled Friday as part of an afternoon-long “block party.” Abandoned in the ‘80s because it was deemed it too expensive to build (one of its five elements is 40 feet tall), the piece was ultimately completed by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation in 2012, 15 years after Lichtenstein’s death. The foundation created two examples of the piece, holding on to one of them, which has yet to be assembled. The other was installed over two days in late July on the lawn in front of the main museum building, where it now towers over Robert Indiana’s iconic “LOVE” sculpture. Other installments in Lichtenstein’s Brushstrokes series are held by the Getty Museum (Los Angeles), the Hirshhorn Museum (Washington, D.C.) and the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis). Lichtenstein is perhaps better known for his vibrant comic book-inspired
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paintings than his sculpture. But viewers will note that “Five Brushstrokes” draws from the same palette of bright, primary colors as Lichtenstein’s 2D work. The story of how the piece came to have its world premiere at the IMA begins at the University of California, San Diego, which began installing contemporary sculpture on its campus in 1982. Lichtenstein was the first artist commissioned by the university, in partnership with the Stuart Foundation, to create a new, site-specific work. “He did all the measurements and the drawings and the models, which we in the museum world call maquettes,” IMA Director and CEO Charles Venable says. “And then he photographed all Workers install “Five Brushstrokes” on the Sutphin Mall at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. SUBMITTED PHOTO
those maquettes and decided what color they should be. Unfortunately, when they went to have them fabricated at the scale he wanted, it was so expensive that the foundation said, ‘We actually can’t afford this.’” The project was thus lost to history until Lichtenstein’s widow, Dorothy — who will attend the dedication ceremony at the IMA — was able to secure funding to fabricate the piece. And then a bequest by the late Robert and Marjorie Mann to the IMA made it feasible for the museum to approach the Lichtenstein Foundation with a proposal to add the sculpture to its collection. The museum considered several sites for the piece. “And then at the end we decided that the very best place to do it that was technically feasible would be on the lawn of the mall right in front of the main building,” says Venable. “Most people don’t realize it, but the mall is actually the second largest green roof in Indiana. The whole mall is on top of our parking garage. So it’s kind of cool that it’s an ecologically very green place. But when you’re putting works of art that weigh several tons on it, on top of a garage, you have to have engineering studies to make sure that our garage can carry the load.” n
A&E EVENTS The Department of Yes: 10 Years of Big Car Collaborative in Indianapolis Aug. 25-Sept. 26 It only makes perfect sense that a retrospective of Big Car’s first 10 years would emphasize interactivity. The show is organized around Big Car’s activities over the decade, including its beginnings as an art gallery and performance space and its more recent incarnation as a catalyst for social practice art around the city.
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Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center Gallery, FREE, uindy.edu Garfield Shakespeare Company: Lerner & Loewe’s Camelot Aug. 29 and 30, Sept. 5 and 6, 8 p.m. Over the past seven seasons, Garfield Shakespeare Company presented only two plays not written by Shakespeare. They’re doubling that number this year, starting with Anouilh’s Antigone in March and continuing this month with Lerner and Loewe’s time-tested 1960 musical Camelot. And in case you’re worried, the company’s 2015 season is all Shakespeare (The Merry Wives of Windsor and Othello).
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he jokes cover topics you might find at a comedy club anywhere: relationships, drug use, politics, masturbation. But the venue is a bit unusual. It’s Friday night and only standing room remains at the Flat 12 Bierwerks tasting room, though not very much of it. A receptive crowd sips on pints of brew while listening to comics presented by Rocketship Comedy, the brainchild of local standup Cam O’Connor. O’Connor, 34, says he “was a comedian that wasn’t getting enough opportunities” when he founded Rocketship three years ago. The goal: to put together a showcase where touring comics who might not otherwise stop here could share the stage with upand-coming locals. “If you’re a painter, you want to be around other great painters.” O’Connor says. Rocketship became homeless earlier this year after a successful, several-year run at The Sinking Ship. James Wuerch, one of the Ship’s owners and the bar’s general manager, said the establishment had to stop hosting live entertainment when they learned the bar didn’t have the appropriate zoning after the city received complaints. “Our hands were tied,” Wuerch said. Despite Rocketship’s departure, Wuerch remains glad his business helped give O’Connor a bigger toehold in the local comedy scene, allowing him a space to establish and grow the event through hard work and judicious planning. “He did it really smart — he didn’t book the same comics every week,” Wuerch says. “If you change it up, people want to come out every week to see what’s different. Just like a rock club — you don’t book the same bands every week or no one will come.” Valerie Green, events marketer for Flat 12, says the idea of bringing Rocketship to Flat 12 germinated among staff who were already followers of the showcase. “We used to all go to the Sinking Ship,” Green says. “We were already big fans.” And, she adds, Flat 12 makes a perfect venue for an indie comedy event with its minimalist décor, casual vibe and flowing taps. “This environment is perfect material — it’s a rustic barn, a hipster VFW,” Green
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says, recalling quips made by past acts. Green and Wuerch mention Kyle Kinane, Sean Patton, Stewart Huff and Geoff Tate as top draws at Rocketship shows. O’Connor says the transition to Flat 12 has been easy. “It works when the staff is on board,” he says. “Everyone I’m dealing with likes standup comedy.” On a Friday in July, Daniel Altom and Erin Castle wait in the second row of seats positioned around a makeshift stage for O’Connor to start the show. The pair began attending Rocketship events early on, and say they prefer the atmosphere to more traditional comedy clubs like Morty’s and Crackers. “The whole two drink minimum gets old, and the business aspect,” says Castle, 30. “There’s a lot more heart
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when you come to things like this — all the comedians are friends.” Altom adds that he learns about new talent in the comedy world each time he attends a Rocketship show, and attributes the event’s success to O’Connor’s passion and dedication. “He’s really into the scene,” says Altom, 29. “He loves it and it shows.” O’Connor hopes the intimate, indie vibe, combined with the ever-changing panel of rising stars, keep devoted fans like Castle and Altom coming back. “They know all I give a shit about is comedy and not about making money,” he says. n
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NUVO: I wonder if you have a specific example of the “nimbleness” of Engine Books in contrast to the big publishing houses — maybe you’ve picked up a title that was rejected by a major publishing house because it didn’t work for them economically? VICTORIA BARRETT: That nimbleness is certainly a function of our titles — editors at the Big 5 presses have no choice but to evaluate manuscripts based on how many copies they expect to sell, which means they are necessarily limited in their ability to take risks with titles. But moreover (and this is also a function of that first point), the big presses have a much, much higher obligation to return profit on each book than a press our size has. In the early years of the publishing establishment, if titles were generating 3-5 percent profit, that was good enough — that can support reasonable growth across the board for an independent company. As the presses have consolidated under enormous corporate banners (hence there only being five), the major conglomerates under which they operate have pushed for something more like 12-15 percent profit
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over the long haul. That may or may not be reasonable in the publishing business. It’s certainly not reasonable considering the obvious waste we see coming out of some of those presses. This is most visible in promotion. Here’s an example: when you promote a book, you produce early, uncorrected editions called Advance Reader Copies. Those are the copies that get sent to reviewers, buyers at bookstores, etc. They cost quite a lot to produce, and many of the major presses produce hundreds of them for each title, sending them out to anyone they can think of, regardless of whether that recipient has the ability to generate sales. So a blogger who features only story collections on his blog might get sent a memoir, out of the blue, something he’d never consider reviewing, and that copy is often overnighted via UPS or FedEx, rather than sent via Media Mail at a fraction of the cost. These are expenses that just aren’t necessary, but
they’re commonplace in big publishing, and they get repeated because that’s the way it’s always been done. So when I talk about EB’s nimble operation, I’m really talking about making smart, focused spending choices and sparing unnecessary expenses. We don’t need an office in Midtown Manhattan, or to pay salaries that meet Manhattan’s cost of living, because we’ve been able to do impressive things right here from Indianapolis. And while many retailers and reviewers used to express a serious preference for titles produced by those big presses, that’s not the case now, and hasn’t been for several years. The gatekeepers in the business recognize that small presses don’t have to rely on enormous sales to stay afloat and that we are, as a result, publishing the most interesting, fresh new fiction, since we don’t have to ask first if we can sell 20,000 copies. We ask first: Is this a great book? Then we figure out how to get it to its appropriate audience. There’s a larger cultural issue at play, too, when we talk about money and publishing, one that circles back to your question. Increasingly, jobs in publishing are staffed by those who can afford them, which often means those who are already wealthy, those whose parents can pay their rent during extended unpaid internships in the most expensive region in the U.S., those who come equipped with trust funds. This has begun to affect the kinds of lives we see represented in literature. We see much less representation of working class people, for example, than we might have once, and many more books focused on upper-middleclass white characters. I’m happy to see those stories told, but if it comes at the expense of telling other stories, or at the expense of a diversity of representation of life experiences, I think that’s a long-term problem in our culture and our literature. Another theme I’m drawn to as a reader is working-class life, and I think a good number of our titles have told complex, compelling stories of working-class people; these are stories that, by and large (and with notable exceptions), aren’t interesting to many of the young NY editors at this point in our culture. So it’s a shame that we don’t see more economic diversity represented in contemporary books, but it’s also a feature of many EB titles of which I’m very proud. n
A LEGACY OF LEADERSHIP: INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING 1914-2014 BY LESLIE FLOWERS Indiana University Press e It’s not just another attractive tabletop book — it’s a zestful documentation of one hundred years of nursing education in Indiana, showcasing the people whose leadership roles have shaped the quality of health care within and beyond the borders of our state. While the abundance of photographs initially engages the narrative within each section depicts and describes the flux of change from 1914-2014. Flipping through we can see the way society has unburdened itself from the expectation of the allfemale contingent wearing starched white uniforms (corset required) to the current crimson scrubs that identify an IU School of Nursing student representative of all genders and culture groups. From the initial five students graduating from the then Training School for Nurses, to the present four digit enrollment, administrators have taken a proactive role in training nurses to be ahead of the curve in health care, focusing on the strengths of partnerships between health care professionals. Presented chronologically through five chapters we meet the personalities who designed the curriculum and the students who met daily demands of study and service under the code of ethics and practice developed by Florence Nightingale. In her foreword, Patricia D’Antonio points out, “the School’s enduring commitment to excellence in research and education, to innovation [and] to collaborative partnerships” has made it program respected worldwide. — RITA KOHN
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Kathryn Maeglin Aug. 27, 5-7 p.m. Call it a doubleheader. Local author Maeglin will kick off her Indy Reads Books event with a talk, “Breast Cancer, Bulimia and the Blues: How I Beat Them All and Wrote Books to Boot” — and then read from one of those books, A Hunka Hunka Nursing Love, about an enterprising businesswoman who launches an agency to connect elderly ladies with hunky caregivers. Or call it a tripleheader if you add in music by guitarist Matt Beal. Indy Reads Books, FREE, kathrynmaeglin.com Tracy Mishkin Aug. 31, 4-6 p.m. A launch party for MFA student Mishkin’s chapbook I Almost Didn’t Make It to McDonalds, now available from Finishing Ling Press. Indy Reads Books, FREE, tracymishkin.wordpress.com
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OPENING Trip to Italy Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon go on another restaurant tour in this followup to 2010’s consistently hilarious and occasionally moving The Trip, with Michael Winterbottom back as director. If you haven’t seen Brydon and Coogan’s dueling Michael Caine impressions in the original, do yourself a favor and watch that now. We’ll wait here. NR, Opens Friday at Keystone Art The November Man An ex-CIA agent living in Switzerland is lured out of retirement for one last mission. Yawn. Pierce Brosnan stars, fires weapons, questions all that he once believed to be true. R, Opens Wednesday in wide release As Above, So Below Dangers lurk in the spooky catacombs beneath the streets of Paris. A found footage-style horror directed by John Erick Dowdle (Devil, Quarantine). R, Opens Thursday in wide release Ghostbusters (1984) Returning to your neighborhood multiplex for one week only. Head to ghostbusters30th.com for info on a traveling art show (not coming here) associated with the re-release. PG, Opens Thursday in wide release
FILM EVENTS Summer Nights: The Godfather (1972) Aug. 29, 9:30 p.m. Should we mention events that are sold out when we go to press? Probably not, except to pass along the news that The Godfather closes out the IMA’s Summer Nights series. Indianapolis Museum of Art, SOLD OUT Movies on the Lawn: Labyrinth (1986) Aug. 30, 9 p.m. Garfield Park is also wrapping up its outdoor film series this weekend with Labyrinth. Garfield Park, FREE, gpacarts.org IU Cinema Aug. 29-30, Sept. 2. On tap this week: the dreamy, meditative vampire movie Ganja and Hess (Aug. 29, 6 p.m.); on its 30th anniversary, Purple Rain (Aug. 29, midnight); Jacques Demy’s candy-coated 1967 musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Aug. 30, 3 p.m.); ageless post-New Wave filmmaker Phillip Garrel’s new one, Jealousy (Aug. 30, 7 p.m.); and the first salvo in IU Cinema’s Kevin Kline retro, The Big Chill (Sept. 2, 7 p.m.).
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hen I was a boy, I remember the first time our family went to visit a poor relative and her family. During the drive, I heard my dad tell my mom that in the housing addition where our relative lived, “all the side streets loop back to Tobacco Road.” I asked what he meant and he said the people that lived in the area had very little money and were mostly uneducated. He urged me and my brother and sister not to be judgmental, then resumed making Tobacco Road comparisons to my mom. I had never given any thought to where my family stood financially. I knew we weren’t rich, but we always got by just fine. The prospect of going to a community identified as poor was intriguing, but it turned out to be anticlimactic. Yes, the neighborhood looked run down, but it didn’t look any messier than any place with lots of kids playing on a Saturday afternoon. Rich Hill is a documentary by Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo that focuses on three boys in their earlyto-mid teens living in the poor town of Rich Hill, Missouri, population 1,396. The film won the best documentary prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. It’s been a couple of weeks since I saw the movie, so I scanned a few reviews to refresh my memory. Some of the statements made were striking. Joe Williams of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch writes that the feature looks at “three dirt poor boys whose lives are effectively over before they are old enough to drive.” How about that? The future of three kids between 13 and 16 gets written off because of money.
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The Expendables 3 u Why is this thing rated PG-13? The franchise is known for bringing together aging action stars for rude talk and over-the-top action. This time the cast includes Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Antonio Banderas, Jet Li, Wesley Snipes, Dolph Lundgren, Kelsey Grammer, Randy Couture, Terry Crews, Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Can you imagine someone saying “If we go from an R to a PG-13 rating we can capture the elusive youth market!” Geez. Anyhoo, the all-star gimmick is interesting for a few minutes, but the toned down action is not so hot, the screenplay is weak and the overstuffed movie drags in spots.
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he can become an art teacher and “get to draw dragons all day.” Andrew is 14. He’s a likeable kid whose reflective statements are used as voiceovers throughout the film. His dad is a Hank Williams Sr. impersonator whose feet rarely touch the earth. Andrew is handsome and athletic. His shirtless image appears on posters for the film and accompanies most of the reviews. I wonder how people would react to a documentary that promoted itself using a photo of a goodlooking 14-year-old girl in a swimsuit? Rich Hill is fascinating, maddening and moving. The filmmakers effectively mix picturesque and stark imagery. If you’re curious, you can read updates on the boys at richhillfilm.com. Harley is dealing with a brain tumor right now. Appachey and Andrew have high hopes for the future. Apparently they haven’t read Joe Williams’ review of their fates. n
Get On Up r In Get On Up, Chadwick Boseman successfully conveys a sense of James Brown’s legendary performances. He does as much with Brown as the script allows. Viewers are offered a choppy portrait of a great performer and a deeply flawed man. An argument over time signatures with Maceo Parker (Craig Robinson) is illuminating, and Brown’s conversations with promoter Ben Bart (Dan Aykroyd) suggest a genuine relationship of trust. But on the whole, Get On Up is about an obsessive, tyrannical, abusive, self-absorbed holy terror who created a dazzling stage show packed with funk and soul. PG-13, in wide release SEE, CONTINUING, ON PAGE 21
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Land Ho! e A low-key delight, a little movie that doesn’t aspire to hipness, as evidenced by the exclamation point in its title. Mitch (Earl Lynn Nelson) and Colin (Paul Eenhoorn) are retirees, longtime friends and former brothers-in-law. Both now single, they decide to go a road trip through beautiful Iceland. The scenery is gorgeous, the mood is upbeat and Mitch and Colin make are engaging characters. The big revelation about the film is that it has no big revelations. The filmmakers had the nerve to let the movie just happen. It feels like it occurred and we are lucky enough to get to watch.
Sin City: A Dame to Die For t Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s 2005 original Sin City was a brutal, visually-striking adaptation of Miller’s powerful graphic novels. The follow-up is a lurid and rude and crude visual treat. But alas, the damned thing is sluggish. Wait for video, so you can play a game on your mobile device during the draggy parts. Starring Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rosario Dawson, Bruce Willis, Eva Green, Powers Boothe, Dennis Haysbert, Ray Liotta, Christopher Lloyd and Christopher Meloni.
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The Hundred Foot Journey r Comfort food. Helen Mirren runs a restaurant in France that earned a Michelin star. When the Kadam family, far from their homeland of India, experience a car breakdown near her place, Papa (Om Puri) decides to open a restaurant of his own in a building directly across the street. Sparks fly. Meanwhile, Papa’s son Hassan (Manish Dayal) is a gifted cook. Marguerite (Charlotte Le Bon) is an aspiring chef working at Mirren’s restaurant. You do the math. Lasse Halstrom’s feel-good film is charming, but terribly calculated and predictable. A little more dramatic tension would have helped. Trimming the end of the overly-long movie would have helped as well.
Magic in the Moonlight t The product of a writerdirector who isn’t trying hard enough. Why hire highly regarded actors if you’re not going to do anything with them? Why create a strikingly detailed world and populate it with only two realized characters (Colin Firth and Emma Stone, as a stage musician and clairvoyant, respectively). I was charmed by the scenery, the music and the notion that a Woody Allen surrogate could concede even the possibility that the supernatural might be real. The 1920s (yes, he goes there again) period details were impressive as well. But by the time I reached my car I’d pretty much forgotten the whole thing.
When the Game Stands Tall y Faith-based inspirational sports movie based loosely on a true story. Football coach Bob Ladouceur (Jim Caviezel) gained fame for leading the De La Salle High School Spartans to a 151-game winning streak over 12 seasons — a record breaker. The streak ends — a star player is shot to death, the coach suffers a heart attack, and many key players leave for college — and the challenge is to help the team to pick itself up and carry on. I’m a sucker for inspirational sports movies, but this one didn’t stand out. The game scenes are strong, but the other parts are trite. Michael Chiklis, Laura Dern and Clancy Brown costar. Chiklis is very good, far better than Caviezel, who is flat and uninteresting.
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Guardians of the Galaxy w Action-packed, funny and full of heart, Guardians of the Galaxy is a wild space adventure from Marvel Studios that, at various times, reminded me of Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Last Starfighter, The Fifth Element, Joss Whedon’s Firefly and Serenity, and more. Chris Pratt, as one of a group of rag-tag prisoners who learn to use their criminal skills to benefit for the greater good of the universe, sets the tone of the film. He’s spot-on as a Han Solo type, swaggering about and cracking wise, while radiating a sunniness that warms those in his sphere of influence. PG-13, in wide release
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he way they tell it, they figured they’d just spend a few nights in the homeless camp, interview some residents, try to challenge some stereotypes. The kind of thing you’d expect from a compassionate but admittedly ignorant high schooler and his friend-ofa-friend college student with some camera equipment. They were even close to scrapping the project when Adam Oppenheim, the high schooler, thought he had to take classes over the summer. But then someone urged the IUPUI student, Sam Mirpoorian, who had been working on music videos and other small projects, to “do something that has meaning to it, that can make an impact.” And Oppenheim decided to skip summer school (and the last semester of his senior year, but we’re jumping ahead). So they cleared their summer, raising $495 to buy a sound recorder, making a teaser in April 2013. And they started filming in earnest in June of that year, heading to the homeless camp on Davidson Street where they met the soft-spoken, wise Maurice, a sort of camp counselor who opened their eyes to just how complicated it can be to live on the streets. And it’s there that they met Don Sawyer, a friend of Maurice and volun-
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teer at the camp who soon joined the filmmaking team. And they started talking not only to homeless people but to representatives of Wheeler Mission, the IMPD, the Mayor’s Office, the Coalition for Homelessness Prevention (CHIP). And the film evolved. “Nothing was planned,” says Mirpoorian. “Everything just unfolded. It was almost like the movie was given to us.” Sawyer took on the role of amateur investigative reporter, trying to account for federal and city spending on homelessness, figuring out just what CHIP does. The end result, Uncharted: The Truth Behind Homelessness, is above all a political documentary. Mirpoorian says Michael Moore and Gasland’s Josh Fox were touchstones for their style, though Sawyer says he was reluctant to take such a critical approach: “I’m from Indiana — I’ve lived in L.A., but
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telling the team, “I do not believe any further interviews would change your portrayal of this issue in Indianapolis.” And the film makes light of that situation, propping up a cardboard cutout of Ballard in an auditorium, and addressing him from the stage: “Mr. Mayor, we have to talk to you this way because you refuse to talk to us at all.” The Mayor’s Office isn’t amused. “This filmmaker approached his project to promote a specific agenda, without the objective lens of journalism,” Lotter told NUVO Tuesday. “The film intentionally misreports and distorts information to support the filmmakers’ conclusion. It should be viewed in that light.” Mirpoorian says the “The hardest part emotionally in first cut of Uncharted ran four hours and 45 making the film was watching them minutes. He regrets what hit the floor as they cut it tear up the camp. It was the worst down to its current length thing I’ve ever seen in my life.” of 94 minutes, including profiles of those help— ADAM OPPENHEIM ing the homeless who were recently themselves homeless. And if Sawyer, Oppenheim and Mirpoorian all say editof all the details of Wheeler’s admising was a struggle, Sawyer says that, in sion process, admitting that “I probgeneral, the hardest part about makably should know these things” with a ing the film “was never having done it laugh. Sgt. Robert Hipple, the director before. Working with people who are of IMPD’s Crisis Intervention Team, just as anally detailed as you are was the is candid in the film about the city’s hardest part. You know what you want shortcomings: “We are sorely lacking ... to see but you don’t know how to get an emergency shelter that will handle there. People almost lost their lives a couples, someone with a pet, someone few times.” Oppenheim recalls a brush that’s gay, someone who has mental with death when he found himself doing health issues and someone that has the splits between a moving car and the substance abuse [issues]. I don’t have sidewalk while holding a camera. anywhere to put them.” For Oppenheim, the film was, above The film is particularly critical of the all, an eye-opener: “The hardest part Mayor’s Office, contradicting budget emotionally in making the film was figures offered by Front Porch Alliance watching them tear up the camp,” he Director Douglas Hairston during says, referring to the Davidson Street two interviews with the filmmakers. homeless camp, which was shut down Uncharted includes an email from by the city in August 2013 before the the Mayor’s Communication Director team’s cameras. “It was the worst thing Marc Lotter, who, after the filmmakers I’ve ever seen in my life.” interviewed Hairston, declined to make Sawyer reports that the world premiere Mayor Ballard or other members of the of Uncharted at IUPUI in May drew 450 Mayor’s Cabinet available for interview, attendees. The team has submitted the film to 16 film fests and say they have contacts in place that might help them get the film distributed. Others have helped along the way, including a law firm that saw them through a potential copyright infringement lawsuit (they joke that they’ve become experts on fair use law). If Uncharted proves successful, they hope to make a fictional feature film — and Uncharted II, which would look beyond Indianapolis and possibly SUBMITTED PHOTO include interviews with celebrities who A cardboard cutout of Mayor Ballard fields questions have been homeless. n in Uncharted. I’m from here. And the one thing I’ve kept a connection to was the Pacers. So I didn’t come here to mess with Indianapolis.” But Sawyer says the rest of the filmmaking team urged him “to say it the way it is.” While Sawyer says he doesn’t think of the movie as a “hit job” because he chose not to include what subjects said when they thought the cameras are off, he does catch those positions of power in moments at unguarded moments. Steve Kerr, Wheeler Mission Ministries’ Chief Development Officer, tells Sawyer that because he’s an administrator and not a “shelter worker,” he’s unaware
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Flat 12’s Indy Eleven’s official brew-ta-da at Michael Carroll Stadium was upended by stormy weather Aug. 23. Watch for rescheduled “Indy Craft Brew Night presented by Kroger.” New Brews Half Moon infuses Kokomonster with Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Beans, making an already smooth, delicious, strong beer even more smooth. Ask about the legendary Kokomonster. Chilly Water has a new chocolate/coconut porter and an English Brown Porter. Their Octoberfest brew arrives Sept. 5th. Flat 12 Flat Jack Pumpkin Ale boasts a special blend of “Indian(a) spices” [per their description] with pumpkin shining through just enough to complement the slightly sweet and malty backbone. People’s Nine Irish Ale is the house brew at the newly opened 9 Irish Brothers Traditional Irish Pub at 575 Massachusetts Ave. With a 4.3% ABV and 17 IBUs, this Irish Red is an easy-to-enjoy conversation brew and a comfortable companion for any choice on the Pub’s tasty menu. Malt-centric, it’s equally a dessert choice, with its caramel sweetness fading into toffee. Events Aug 28: Indianapolis Monthly Beerfest at City Market, 222 E. Market St. 6-8:30 p.m. $30 at the door, $10 DD; $25 at IndianapolisMonthly. com/Beerfest Aug 28: Lino’s in Speedway College football party features $3 pints of Daredevil Lift Off IPA Aug. 29: Upland Tap Takeover at Lino’s, 1201 W Main St., Speedway. Aug. 30: Chilly Water, Dave Grodzki live at 8 p.m. Aug. 30: Great Fermentations/Indianapolis, All Grain brewing class, 10 a.m.; Beginner brewing class, 2 p.m. Sept. 2: Thr3e Wise Men tapping Antonius 1742 Oktoberfest. Sept. 4-7: 40th annual Oktoberfest at German Park, 8600 S. Meridian St. It’s Indy’s original salute to the 1810 marriage in Munich of Prince Ludwig I of Bavaria and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen. Two hundred years later we continue to drink the same beer styles and sing the same songs. “Ein Prosit” [a salute to your health and well-being]. $5 at the door. Sept. 13: 16th Annual Mad Anthony Brewing Oktobeerfest, at Headwaters Park West, in Fort Wayne. New this year is the Mad Brewers Homebrew Challenge. Contest details at madbrew.com. Earlybird tix: Sept. 20: 2nd Annual CANvitational, Georgia St. downtown Indianapolis. Discounted GA ticket $40 up to midnight Aug. 30. Go to canvitational.com.
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rvington resident Chad Heeter has lived all over the world, but the allure of launching a business has brought the former teacher and filmmaker back to Indianapolis. Heeter, who was director, editor and senior producer for documentary Two Million Minutes, which followed two Carmel students — as well as students from India and China — throughout high school, has moved back to Indianapolis to put down roots and explore a new career path. “I fall into the category of ‘wantrepreneur,’” Heeter said, “the person who has sort of always dreamed of being an entrepreneur but never gets around to it.” Until this past spring, Heeter, who grew up in the suburbs of Kansas City, was editor-in-chief of the documentary film unit at Qatar Television in Doha, Qatar. In April, though, he and his family settled back down in Irvington and he finally got around to launching Heeter’s Homegrown. He now sells the company’s first product, called Garbäage, at area farmers’ markets. The salsa-like dip, based on a family recipe, includes olives, tomatoes, onions and peppers. “You can call it a dip,” he said. “You can call it a relish. You can call it a tapenade. We prefer to call it a Mediterranean salsa.” Whatever you call it, the product has been a hit at area farmers’ markets, which has confirmed Heeter’s notion that others would enjoy his family recipe, something he had thought about for years. “For the last 20 years, it’s been on my mind to create this product and sell it,” Heeter said. And though he figured it would be a hit with market shoppers, he also knew they might think he was nuts for choosing the offbeat name — and for using a garbage truck on his label. “I know it sounds like we’ve made a mistake in naming it,” he said, “but that’s what my mom called it. And to be honest, I didn’t know what else to call it. People will read it and think, ‘Wow, I want to try that.’ The name ‘Garbäage’ elicits a chuckle right off the bat.” “Farmers’ market clientele are unique in that they’re not doing all their shop-
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ping at Kroger or chain stores,” Heeter said. “They take a morning or afternoon to come to the market to find something local, something fresh.” And for Heeter, manning a booth a farmers’ markets means he can do plenty of research. “The great thing about farmers’ markets is that, at least for me, is I really use them as research opportunities,” he said. “I spend at least a portion of my time at the market chatting not only with the customers, but with other vendors to find out what’s selling and what people are interested in. And what he sees is a growing interest in local food. “You have a greater interest in local food sources,” he said. “You have a greater interest in how food’s being grown. My impression is that there’s an expectation for better quality food, to know where the food comes from and to be eating fresher food, especially in season.” Plus, he said, farmers’ markets provide a way for entrepreneurs like himself to see if they’ve got what it takes. “Farmers markets are great incubators for product development,” he said.
That has certainly been the case at the Indianapolis City Market, said executive director Stevi Stoesz Kersh. “The outdoor farmers’ market has actually incubated some of our great merchants inside City Market,“ she said, mentioning such now-established businesses as Circle City Sweets and 3 Days in Paris crepes. Heeter, who sells at the Wednesday Downtown market as well as others, thinks there are more such businesses out there just waiting for the opportunity. In fact, helping others to bring their idea to fruition is part of the vision for his own company. “I know there are a lot of families that have those kinds of recipes that they take to gatherings and take to parties. I think a lot of people would be able to develop a product that could then sell at farmers’ markets and stores.” It’s all about telling the story, he said. And when you look at it that way, Heeter’s transition from filmmaker to farmers’ market vendor doesn’t seem like such a stretch. “Part of the reason I’m enjoying what I’m doing,” Heeter said, “is I’m continuing to tell stories. Right now I’m telling my own personal story about this product. It’s telling the story of the recipe.” n Jolene Ketzenberger covers local food at EatDrinkIndy.com. Follow her on Twitter @JKetzenberger.
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ou don’t have to look far in this publication to see that we’re all about the pop-ups trend happening in the Indy food scene. Pop-ups are starting to pop up both as private restaurant events and collaborative efforts between chefs and locations. Chefs’ Night Off, a regular multi-chef collaborative monthly dinner, has been growing continually since starting this year. More commonly, a pre-fixe menu is employed, but this time around, the CNO folks are branching out and trying a different approach — one we are very much looking forward to. This pop-up is all á la carte, with a portion of the proceeds going to the Humane Society of Indianapolis. Let me say that important part again in case you missed it: This pop-up is á la carte. Yes, the dream is real.You can sample dishes item-by-item and come back for your favorites all night until they run out of food. The event is slated to run until 10 p.m., but it is unlikely that the evening will last that long, once you have a look at the chefs on the docket. You’ll be able to sample dishes from Bluebeard’s Andrew Whitmoyer, Plow and Anchor’s Craig Baker, and 4BirdsBakery and H20’s Nicole Anderson. Also making an appearance is Ben Vaughn, a southern-born chef who has found his calling as host of Food Network’s Health Inspectors.
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Though he’s not an inspector by training, he’s best known for being a restaurant consultant who has put in his dues in the kitchen. The other best part of this pop-up? It’s free to get in, so just bring enough money to cover your food and booze — but look over the menu first before you go light at the ATM. Here’s an idea of what to expect: Grilled pork belly, rice vermicelli, noun cham, pickled shiitake mushroom; cold smoked sea scallop, cheddar grit cake, apple braised kale, cole slaw; State Fair special: curried goat walking taco, guac, cilantro creme, slaw; country style pork terrine, mustard/honey slaw, sour corn, salted popped corn; deviled egg; mustard seed caviar, duck chicharron, smoked tomato fondue duck confit cakes, sauce gribiche, preserved lemons; baked apple-pecan baklava, bleu cheese fondant. We asked Whitmoyer how much cash the average patron should bring to cover it all. “If they want to try everything, probably around 50, plus money for drinks,” he said. Of course, if you’re feeling just a little snacky, bring a ten for one plate and some extra for a drink. Either way, it all supports a good cause. So, if you’re feeling charitable on Wednesday, head to the Hi-Fi to support a great local cause in a fun way — without all the ice. n
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ST WARMFE I didn’t get to a single regional festival this year. No Bonnaroo, no Lollapalooza, no Bunbury, no Pitchfork for me. I was holding out for WARMfest, happening this weekend in my own backyard. In case you’re new ‘round here, we profiled WARMfest founder Dan Ripley in a cover story last year, on the eve of his new Broad Ripple Park festival. Pulling off a new fest is hard, remounting it for a second year is harder. Pulling off a festival – by its very nature, an energy-wasting, trash-generating, carbon footprint-leaving entity – with an eco-focus is even harder than that. But founder Ripley is passionate about WARMfest showcasing the mighty White River as a place for recreation and stewardship. His fest’s (and its umbrella organization, the Carl G. Fisher Society’s) mission is to “promote environmental responsibility, independent business and artisans, and sustainable goods and services through the magic of music, art and culture.” There’s no doubt WARMfest was still getting its feet on the ground last year, but the strength of this year’s lineup gives the infant fest a booster shot of confidence. This year, local label Joyful Noise Recordings hopped on board, contributing a host of their roster to Saturday’s lineup. The label is also working in cool fest projects like specialty single recordings, cut onsite and signed by bands. Big Head Todd and The Monsters are back for a second go-round (we hear they’re a favorite of Ripley’s) and Broad Ripple Music Fest, a fall tradition in Indy, is still folded in, bringing round more than 35 local acts. On the non-music side, the Indie Arts and Vintage Marketplace returns for those looking to rock and shop, and Monday’s full of group exercise events, like acro yoga and zumba. And don’t forget the Wapahani River Sessions, idyllic private paddlewheel boat cruises featuring WARMfest artists and locals. In typical fest fashion, there’ll be food trucks galore and plenty of shady trees to recline under between sets. Can you tell I’m excited? In the following pages, we’ve got three long features on WARMfest bands Half Japanese, Guided by Voices and of Montreal, plus a breakdown of locals on the fest. There’s, as always, more online. See you in the park. — KATHERINE COPLEN WARMfest Friday, Aug. 29 – Monday, Sept. 1, Broad Ripple Park, 1550 Broad Ripple Ave., times vary, prices vary, all-ages
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uided by Voices’ guitarist Mitch Mitchell is in Indy sometimes twice a day. What?! No, the Dayton musician hasn’t relocated. He’s a big rig trucker, and has been for 14 years. “I go to Fishers, Greenwood, places like that,” he says when we chat. “They put the foundations down, and then we bring all the lumber for the walls and ceilings, all that stuff. I bring it out and drop it off at the job site. I guess I’ve got two great jobs. I get to play in a great band and I get to drive a big ol’ truck around.” Of course, what those not currently building houses know him for is his legendary band Guided by Voices, helmed by Bob Pollard and still ticking, albeit after approximately a zillion different incarnations, and more than 30 years. Mitchell is a member of the “classic” GBV lineup – those that played together in the ‘80s and early ‘90s – that reformed in 2010 for a special show … and then continued on for many more, plus new albums and festival dates, and on and on. It’s surprising even to Mitchell that his old band (which has featured more than 60 members alongside leader Pollard through the years) is back together, but he’s just enjoying the ride. And all those rides to and from Indy, too. They’ll play at WARMfest on Sunday.
NUVO: Guided by Voices has announced or mentioned so many “final albums,” so many albums where the band says, “This will probably be the last one.” But it’s never the last one. Do you think there will ever be a final album? What’s the future look like for Guided by Voices? MITCHELL: I think we’re just going to take it as it comes. We’ve had a lot of good responses for the records that we did put out, and I think that’s a good thing that we’ve had good responses to these records. And I’m sure that will help in any further thoughts of more records that will come out in the future. I hope, personally, that we keep doing it. I’m sure Bob, he has a lot of creativity left in him. A few more songs will come our way. I hope so, anyway.
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NUVO: I read an interview that said [the process is] that Bob comes to the band and says, “I’ve written more songs.” What’s the process of making a record for GBV, now? MITCHELL: Usually, we’d just go and show up and record on the spot a lot. Learn right there and put it down on tape. But recently, the last few records, Bob will do them on the acoustic and give us demos to listen to, then we can learn them through the demos and add our parts, create a thing to those demos. Then, when we go to the studio, we’ll rehearse a couple days before we go in the studio, then we’ll go in and bang them out like that. It seems to work better that way, having a knowledge of the material and the songs. But I liked the old [way of] going in cold and being surprised. It adds the element of danger to it.
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obviously that’s not the case. If I ever see a GBV record that I don’t have, or even if I see one that I have, I’d buy it again. NUVO: Bob has said before that more than 60 different people have been in GBV throughout the years. He’s also referred to the band as a songwriter’s collective. Have you met everyone that’s played in your band at one time or another? MITCHELL: I don’t know! That’s a good question. We might have to have some kind of a reunion some day, wear name tags, put “I was in GBV from ___ date to ___ date.” I don’t know. Maybe I haven’t met everybody, but I think I might have. Then again, I don’t know.
NUVO: I’ve also read that there are so many GBV releases, that there’s a couple even you don’t have a copy of. Are you currently on the search for those?
NUVO: I have a quote from an interview you gave to the Dayton City Paper. You said, “It’s time for some good music again. We can’t let it die, we’ve got to make it live.” I wanted to know what “good” music is to you.
MITCHELL: I would like to have a copy of everything. It is true, I don’t have some copies of the older material, of older records. A lot of it is because we’d just give it out to our friends and families and not really think about what would happen down the road, as far as the records being valuable, or even being able to find the songs again. That never really occurred at the time. In hindsight, I probably would have kept everything that I ever got, and never would have given away anything, but
MITCHELL: I think most people can understand a real band, a real song when they hear it. There’s elements of that that people can pick up intuitively, not even knowing that’s what it is. Something grabs you, and you may not even need to have an explanation. You don’t really care why, you just know that you like it and that it’s a good thing. That may be overanalyzing why or what, but I think when you boil it down to the main essence, it’s just honesty and goodness like that. n
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had just started my position as music editor at NUVO when Joyful Noise put out that glorious, 10-album cassette box set of work by of Montreal. Literally. It came out the day I first opened up my work email account. I remember staring at the press release, thinking about how utterly cool it was to write about a record label like Joyful Noise in my hometown. That was, almost, three years ago, and Joyful Noise’s relationship with pop avant garde masters of Montreal continues and strengthen. JNR released 2012’s Paralytic Stalks and this year’s Lousy with Sylvianbriar, plus a rarities collection called Daughter of Cloud, a flexi disc and a few other interesting oddities. It’s a perfect pairing between an esoteric, innovative label and a wildly creative band. I spoke with of Montreal’s mastermind Kevin Barnes before their set at WARMfest.
On his relationship with Joyful Noise:
“At first, I got in contact with Karl a couple years ago, and he offered to release one of our records on cassette. Joyful Noise was starting to do things like that. It’s cool because we hadn’t had our records released on cassette, so it was just fun to have that format covered. Then, from there, it sort of went a little further and Joyful Noise did a box set of all the albums up to that point on cassette. … We’ve just been friends ever since.” On the of Montreal documentary, The Past Is A Grotesque Animal, which screens at WARMfest on Friday:
“We just wanted to document this one concert. We had someone go out to LA, where we were playing two nights at this one place, and we had someone come out do it professionally. We had a crane and everything. A year later, we had Jason Miller, who directed the documentary, [at one] of our shows in Atlanta. Then, with all that footage
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we didn’t know what to do with it. At some point, we sort of realized, well, maybe we should go ahead and just make a proper documentary, other than just these live shows on their own. So, from there, we had him go to Bonnaroo and film a lot of stuff, then follow us around the country for many years.” On writing Lousy with Sylvianbriar in San Francisco:
“It’s just sort of a romantic place for me. I’ve always had this deep fascination with the counter-culture movement of the ‘60s, and San Francisco was the epicenter for so much. It really hasn’t really changed that much. The United States is pretty much 95 percent really boring and 5 percent fantastic. And San Francisco is one of those few places that is a cool
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place, that’s always been really cool and interesting, that’s always had really intentional architecture and people... It just felt like a semi-magical place to spend some time in and try and be creative in.” On appreciative fans:
“Some cities are wilder than others … sometimes we’ll play a place that’s economically depressed, but we’ll have a great show because people need that, that release, because their day-to-day is a struggle. Sometimes you play a place where people are doing pretty well, so then they are more relaxed and usually aren’t as vocal, aren’t as loyal. I’d say that is common in the US, because we’re all kind of struggling. ” n
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ince the late ‘70s, Jad Fair has spun out over 70 deeply idiosyncratic albums. He’s worked as a solo artist, in collaboration with the likes of Daniel Johnston, Moe Tucker, The Pastels and most famously, with his band Half Japanese. From Half Japanese’s earliest days on their debut Half Gentleman/Not Beasts as skronky, no-wave-inflected garage pop, Fair’s songwriting voice has been irrepressible. Though his work has grown less chaotic over the years, all the way up onto this year’s Overjoyed – the first Half Japanese album in over 13 years, out on Indianapolis’ own Joyful Noise Recordings – there’s still Fair’s singularity pulsing at the center. Though for the most part he only sings with Half Japanese these days, part of what makes so many of his recordings sound so unique is his signature guitar style. “I play like a caveman. I just hit it more like a percussion instrument,” he said when NUVO reached him via phone before Half Japanese’s date at WARMfest this weekend. Earlier in the year, he played a solo set at Joyful Noise’s space in Fountain Square. Accompanying himself on a custom guitar, he choked the strings and bent the instrument’s neck through different pitches. At the climax of the show, the neck popped off (and he was nonchalant). Fair explains, “I was doing a good bit of traveling. Many of the airlines will charge for extra luggage, so I wanted to
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have a guitar I could just break apart and fit in my suitcase.” He went through a few iterations before he got the design right. In the end, office supplies did the trick. “I tried putting [the neck] on with Velcro, and I could keep it on that way, but I had no real movement with it,” he says. “Then I had the idea that I’d put rubber bands on it so I could kind of a whammy sound with it.” Fair’s actual songs are often built from traditional elements, but they’re hardly derivative. Fair’s brother David, an early member of Half Japanese, has said Jad sings mostly about two things: love and monsters. Jad thinks that’s about right. “For the most part it usually is about either love songs or monster songs.” Love songs make sense, everyone’s got love songs. But monster songs? “Probably the monster thing comes because when I was a young kid, monster movies were just my favorite type of movie.” It’s as simple as that. That simplicity runs like electrical current through all of Fair’s music. He does what he likes, sings about how he feels. Overjoyed, which leans a bit more heavily on the love songs, presents with a propulsive optimism. “Well I think part of that is that I’m very happily married and I love my wife, and so you know, I think of love as being a very positive thing.” It’s easy to read the album’s title and
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content as a sort of gleeful response to the end of a 13 year dry spell for the band; their last album together was 2001’s Hello. Fair says the break came about because of logistics. “It’s mainly because everyone is in different cities, and actually different countries.” Drummer Gilles Reider is in France, guitarist Mick Hobbs is in the United Kingdom and the rest of the band is scattered around the United States. Now, however, the band seems to be back. In fact, after playing WARMFest this weekend in Broad Ripple Park, Half Japanese will head down to Bloomington to begin work on another full-length at Russian Recording. They’ll be writing the album in the studio, but don’t expect them to burn through months and months of time. Regarding their writing and rehearsal process, Fair says, “we’re pretty fast.” Of course, Fair’s work with Half Japanese makes up not even half of his planned recorded output this year. With Joyful Noise, he’s also in the midst of an artist-in-residence series that will see him release four collaborative full-length albums with R. Stevie Moore, Norman Blake, Danielson and Strobe Talbot over the course of the year. The collaborations on these albums, as with most of Fair’s work with other musicians, grows first out of his personal relationships. “It usually starts as a friendship. All the
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people I’ve recorded with, I’m friends with them, so it has a very natural feel to me because these are just the people I do enjoy being around,” he says. Many of these friendships began quite simply as correspondence. For example, as a “huge fan of The Velvet Underground,” getting the chance to work with Moe Tucker on such albums as 1989’s Life In Exile After Abdication grew simply out of “sending letters back and forth.” Later, he found himself in Arizona near where Tucker was living. “I went to see Moe and we just hit it off real well.” That’s pretty much how the artist-inresidence series and the Half Japanese full-length on Joyful Noise came about, too. There were conversations between himself and Joyful Noise label head Karl Hofstetter that lead to the two feeling they could work well together. “Karl made the offer to me of doing several records with his label during the year, and that just sounded great to me.” Overall, Fair says he’s just glad he’s been able to make all these connections and keep on making music in all these different directions. “I’ve had so many great opportunities being able to record. I’ve just been very lucky.” n
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Saturday. This local supergroup of mythic proportions is rumored to be in the studio. Right now, Vess, Tufty, Rusty and Devon’s set is cover-heavy, but we bet we’ll see some new originals at this fest set.
est part of WARMfest for us? It’s all the locals slated for Labor Day weekend slots. Now, we don’t want you to forget about headliners like Mutemath, Big Head Todd and The Monsters, The Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Sebadoh and Why? (plus all the others we’ve written about in previous pages), but there’s nothing like seeing one of your favorite locals on a big stage. Here’s a collection of various local artists, alphabetized for your reading pleasure. It’s not a complete list — there’s frankly too many of them — but it will at provide a solid look at the mix of local artists WARMfest is offering. Here’s where Broad Ripple Music Fest’s contributions come in. n
NO COAST: Sunday. Dig this irrepressibly fun rock from Kokomo. We loved their release Rock and Roll All Night (Yeah Right) release last year, and they followed it up with a short and sweet 7-inch this winter.
PRAVADA: Sunday. This mainstay is cruising on the success of last year’s Dirty Looks LP. Don’t miss their video for “Flatbush,” directed by Matt Mays and still rumbling around in our brains.
THE REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND: Sunday. What can be said about the Rev? He and the Big Damn Band are consummate professionals, known the world over for amazing live bluegrass, and we get to claim them for our very own.
LOCALS: ACTION JACKSON: Saturday. Rad Summer baron and man-abouttown Jackson DJs some of the hottest nights in town, including Real Talk (with A-Squared DJs, also playing) and Night Moves.
ANDY D: Saturday. Mr. D and the Anna Vision are epic touring machines, setting out solo and with the Ghost Gun Summer boys this year. They’re uber pros – uber pros with fanny packs, wigs and lots of glitter.
AUDIODACITY: Sunday. This sextet won last year’s Next Big Thing, and prides themselves on their commitment to Indy’s local scene and their constantly morphing and tough-to-categorize sounds. One thing’s for sure: you can hear members’ marching band backgrounds in every note.
AYOKAY DJS: Sunday. Jackola, a.k.a. Jack Shepler (one of the WARMfest directors and the director of Broad Ripple Music Fest) and Brandon Patr!k are marking their first outing together as Ayokay DJs at WARMfest.
BASHIRI ASAD: Friday. This soulful singer appears perhaps most often at the Jazz Kitchen, but we’d follow Bashiri anywhere. We’re not sure if he’ll appear with his band Xenobia Green, but fingers are crossed the answer is yes.
BRANDON TINKLER: Sunday. This young singer-songwriter is cruising on new album Nowhere to Run, released in July. He’s a talented writer experimenting with a variety of styles.
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Sunday. Fresh off their slot at Kammy’s Kause (Breakdown King Jared Hiner is Kammy’s dad), the Kings hit up a Sunday slot at WARMfest.
Sunday. This legend on the stacks was just honored with a massive mural on Mass Ave. Come see what the fuss is about – he’s truly a wizard.
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Saturday. From their days busking on the edges of Bloomington’s Farmers’ Market, we’ve followed the brothers Rogers from baby band to breakout roots hit. Their debut Joyful Noise LP is a delicate and beautiful release.
Sunday. Straight ahead rock and roll from good ol’ Hoosier boys. They say they worked on 2013 LP Death of a Salesman for more than fifteen years.
CHRISTIAN TAYLOR, VESS VON RUHTENBERG: Monday. These guitarists will play together in a Wapahani River Session on Monday. They’re dynamite with their legions of bands, but we like seeing them play solo, too. Don’t forget, tickets to these cruises are sold separately from your general festival pass.
COOLIDGE: Friday. A favorite of NUVO’s Barfly, Coolidge grew out of Chris Smail’s previous band Johnny Socko – but this group is more power pop than ska.
DECKADEMICS: Sunday. This Broad Ripple DJ school just passed its six-month mark, but their students and teachers (including DJs Metrognome, Topspeed, Chase and Cool Hand Lex) have already showcased at various Broad Ripple locales.
FREDDIE BUNZ AND FRIENDS: Saturday. We’re guessing the “Friends” part of this band will be the Ghost Gun Summer gang, i.e. Oreo Jones, Grey Granite, Sirius Black and John Stamps. We have a post-tour wrap up from the dudes on NUVO.net now, for your perusal.
HERO JR.: Sunday. The subject of a massive Wayne Bertsch-illustrated cover story and a favorite of NUVO’s, Hero Jr. is adding a raucous live show reputation to a solid rock and roll backbone.
KID QUILL: Sunday. This DePauw youngster’s a bit of an accidental success, by his own admission. But he embraced his viral success wholeheartedly, and has hustled ever since, securing opening slots for Riff Raff and SoMo.
RUDITOONZ: Saturday. In case you didn’t realize that WARMfest is super warm to the kids in your life (10 and under are free with an adult!), they booked Scott Rudicel, a.k.a. Ruditoonz, superstar kids performer and all-around fun dude.
SLEEPING BAG: Saturday. We’re gaga over this Bloomington trio’s new release Deep Sleep and its irresistible slack-inspired gems, as NUVO writer Seth Johnson calls them. They’ve got a Wapahani River Session booked, too.
SWEET POISON VICTIM: Saturday. This Afro-Caribbean funk group is so large they can barely fit on some stages. We bet the WARMfest stage will be plenty big, though. They were our favorite part of Fountain Square Music Fest (and most shows they’re on, to be honest), so block out some time for these jammers.
THE TWIN CATS: Monday. As Barfly calls it, this band is owning the local music scene right now. And they actually are twins! That’s Adam and Seth Catron, who bring the sweaty blues and funk jams alongside Phil Geyer and Cameron Reel. We do miss sax wizard Nicholas Gerlach, but they’re holding it down without him just fine.
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Friday. As classic Hoosier punk as classic Hoosier punk gets. Known the world over for a reason, and still releasing new music.
Saturday. We’re sad to see Kristin Newborn (also called KO) leave Indy, but we’ll be consoled with this Saturday set. She and bandmate Todd Heaton (Street Spirits) have an album forthcoming on Joyful Noise.
This is by no means a comprehensive listing because, well, we don’t have space! Check out NUVO.net for the full local lineup.
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his Saturday at Caribbean Village, DJ Indiana Jones and his longtime musical collaborator DJ Danger will be participating in Indy’s first Jamaicanstyle DJ sound clash. Jones, a.k.a Ron Miner, has been a major force in the Indianapolis club scene for well over two decades. In addition to spinning hip-hop and Top 40 beats, he’s well known for his connection with Jamaican music. Jones filled me in on the event’s significance as well as his own personal history with Jamaican sounds. NUVO: Can you explain what a sound clash is, for our readers who aren’t familiar with the term? INDIANA JONES: The simplest way to break it down is to say it’s a Jamaican DJ battle. In a sound clash, your sound system competes against two or three other different sound systems. You start off in the initial round just playing a warm-up mix. Then, you go into a round of coun-
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teraction between the sound systems. For example, one sound systems plays a song, then lets the other sound system respond with a song counteracting, then there’s a counteraction to that, and so on. You have to be on your toes, and know what the artist is talking about in each song so you know what to play next in your response. From there you go into what they call a dub for dub round. This involves each system going back and forth playing their dubplates – a specialized version of a song done by the original artist singing about a particular sound system. So it could be Sean Paul or Mr. Vegas singing about Indiana Jones and DJ Danger, and Crushstar International which is the name of our sound system. This is the first event of its kind in Indianapolis. To be honest, I don’t consider myself a soundclash-style DJ. But this being the first event of this type here for reggae, it was only natural Danger and I would enter. Whether
A CULTURAL MANIFESTO WITH KYLE LONG KLONG@NUVO.NET Kyle Long’s music, which features off-the-radar rhythms from around the world, has brought an international flavor to the local dance music scene.
He’s a talented musician, producer and vocalist, and he has a lot of dubplates. He’s a quadruple threat. DJ Teya has been coming to the reggae party at Casba since 1997; that’s where I met the guy. He’s an old school DJ from Jamaica, so you can expect to hear him bring that classic sound. His dubplate collection is fierce. The Chrome Matic Sound brings a lot of heat too, I’m curious to see what they do. NUVO: What initially pulled you into working with Jamaican music?
we win, lose, or draw, we want to be there to support. NUVO: How is a sound clash scored? JONES: It’s scored by the judges and the host, but you also have the crowd involved. They look at your interaction with the crowd, the quality of your dubplates and the quality of your selections and mixing. You have to interact with the crowd and talk shit about the competition or talk shit to the crowd. Just get people riled up. NUVO: Tell me about the other participants in this clash. JONES: Roots Iric is a good friend of mine.
JONES: I had two different gravitational pulls. In the early ‘90s, I met up with a bunch of kids who went to Pike High School that were really into straightahead reggae like Steel Pulse, Augustus Pablo, and The Wailing Souls. They put me up on the roots thing, but I wasn’t really keen on the dancehall sound at the time. I wasn’t really into the pop stuff I would hear, like Maxi Priest. But then Super Cat and Shabba Ranks came with a couple hip-hop remixes and that got me interested. When I moved to New York around ‘93 or ‘94, I went to a Rock Lobster-type college bar in New Brunswick. The DJ was playing standard Top 40 fare, but then he started playing reggae. Not like
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any of the reggae I was familiar with. He was playing Cutty Ranks, Beenie Man and Bounty Killer. I couldn’t believe all these college kids were into it. It was bugging me out. Later, as I started really getting into it in New York I would DJ for Mark Ronson’s reggae sets. A hip-hop DJ would always bring another DJ with him to do the reggae set, or a house set. Really, you were there just to carry their records. [laughs] But I would get to do my little reggae set. The music and rhythm of reggae is similar to the foundation of hip-hop. I really liked the roots and culture music, the religious teachings in it. And some of the revolutionary prose that reminded me of what I heard in hip-hop with Public Enemy, BDP and X-Clan. NUVO: The Sunday night reggae party at the Casba has been going for seventeen years. How has Jamaican music in Indy grown since the Casba party started? JONES: It’s a totally different thing now. You have a diaspora here now. When I started, you had the West Indian Association that had some traditional events going on, but they didn’t do anything fun for the youth. Now kids are
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KISS participated in the Ice Bucket Challenge during their show on Friday. Afterwards, Joe Elliot (of Def Leppard, who also performed) and Gene Simmons palled around. We have an interview with drummer Eric Singer online at NUVO.net, as well as a full set of photos.
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event in 2010, this event continues to provide regular opportunities for house fans to experience the classier side of Downtown Indy. The Keepin’ It Deep guys have a special talent for snagging huge national acts as they ping-pong from coast to coast -- probably because John Larner and Slater Hogan are legends themselves. And don’t forget the local support; Manic, Adam Jay, John Larner, Tyler Stewart, Ashley Ross, Deanne and Grenadine have all taken over the stacks at Blu. This week, the event celebrates its first anniversary under the name Animal House. Kirill Was Here, Slater Hogan and Clay Collier will play. Blu Lounge, 240 S. Meridian St., 21+ SUBMITTED PHOTO
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WEDNESDAY DANCE Hi-Fi Wednesdays 11 p.m. This new weekly from Rad Summer features Action Jackson and Lemi Vice on the stacks weekly, and they promise the Fireball will flow like milk and honey. This replaces Jackson’s former weekly at Casba in Broad Ripple, so if you’re used to going north to party, redirect your Uber (or Lyft or whatever chartered vehicle you use to get safely to and from a boozy dance party) to the Southeastside. The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 4, FREE, 21+ LOCALS #LOCALLOVE 8 p.m. This new Vogue series features local bands for bottom dollar prices. Is there anything better? Next Wednesday’s edition is hard and loud. Machine Guns and Motorcycles, Mr. Clit and the Pink Cigarettes and Black Cat Rebellion are booked. Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., $5, 21+ ALL-AGES The Ramettes, White Gold, DMA, Chieftan 7 p.m. Your weekly reminder to patronize local, all-ages spaces and shows. Maltese Tiger, 1118 Spruce St., all-ages
DANCING Retro Rewind 10 p.m. The Vogue had jettisoned Retro Rewind in exchange for Glow Wednesdays, a black light party soundtracked with retro jams, but the people want those good all retro jams, and the people don’t want black lights. One could even say … they rewinded back to Retro Rewind. (We’ll pause for laughs here.) Retro Rewind is always full of beautiful young people who will definitely be late to their Thursday morning classes. In the past, the night has consistently draws some of the biggest weeknight crowds, who are there for the cheap drinks and to find other like-minded grinders. Grab your friends (and possibly a nap after work) and hit the club for fun, sing-along-able music at this always packed event. Sometimes, Retro Rewind even celebrates hump day with seasonal themes featuring special contests, games, and party favors. DJ Steady B is the man on the decks holding it down currently. Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., 21+ ROCK We Are Hex, Thelma and The Sleaze, Bruiser Queen 8 p.m. To be honest, we’re still geeking out over We Are Hex’s Jilly and her extensive interview with Jinx Dawson. Jinx has, after all, been known to get up on stage with We Are Hex from time to time. Hex’s new full-length is called Bleach Brigade; that’s forthcoming,
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but they’ve got a new split 7-inch from earlier this summer they’re working with, too. Plus, they’ll play again with Thelma and The Sleaze. Bruiser Queen will join as well. White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect St., 21+ Zakk Knight, Nick Harless, Mike Wasson, Birdy’s, 21+ Brenda Williams, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Andra Faye and Scott Ballantine, Jazz Kitchen Patio, 21+ Pop Up for Pups, The Hi-Fi, 21+ Soul Bus, Daddy Jack’s, 21+ Wade Baker Trio, Eagle Creek park, 21+ Annual Stevie Ray Vaughan Tribute, Biergarten at the Rathskeller, 21+
Altered Thurzdaze 9 p.m. Get a healthy dose of EDM every Thursday night. Both Mousetrap regulars and electronic music fans will find something to like about this weekly event, especially as genres like dubstep, EDM and house music gain a greater share of pop culture attention. This is a great way to kick the weekend off early, and get a little of practice dancing before you shake your groove thing in nearby Broad Ripple on the weekend. There’s a different lineup of songs every weekend, but one thing remains the same: this is an EDM dream and an all-around blast of a dance party. Mousetrap, 5565 N. Keystone Ave., FREE, 21+
Regions Rooftop Cocktail Party 5:30 p.m. Party with some sensibly dressed young professionals on the rooftop of the Regions Tower every Thursday. DJ Gno provides the background music.
Luke Bryan, Lee Brice, Cole Swindell Vary Klipsch is always the headquarters for country and pop country all summer long. This triple bill (Luke Bryan, Lee Brice and Cole Swindell) is no exception. Bryan’s touring last year’s Crash My Party; our favorite single off that one is “Play It Again,” the sweet, pre-YouTube ode to hearing your favorite song on the radio. Sweet, simple, country.
Region’s Bank Rooftop, free with RSVP, 21+ Nikki Hill Band, Slippery Noodle, 21+ Paul Rusesbagina, Madame Walker Theater, all-ages Naptown Stomp, Grove Haus, all-ages The Hit Men: Ft. The Former Stars of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, Hilbert Circle Theater, all-ages Mockingbird Sun, Biergarten at the Rathskeller, 21+ Radio FX, Rock House Cafe, 21+ Ryan Taylor, Freddie Mendoza Jazz Duo, Chilly Water Brewing Co, 21+ Max Allen Band, Union 50, 21+
FRIDAY LOCAL Thee Tsunamis, Hen, Shame Thugs, Senior Citizens 9 p.m. The Free House is a house venue just south of Fountain Square that hosts bands and screens films regularly. This week’s show features a pack of lady-led groups. The Free House, 1634 Ringgold, donations accepted, all-ages NEW MANAGEMENT
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The Dapper, Carey Goodspeed, Marshall Lewis 8 p.m. We spoke with Henry French last week, as he’s taken over booking at Birdy’s as of August. Here’s what he had to say: “The fact that we have the capacity (414) and a true concert venue feel in a small footprint almost begs to have all kinds of music coming through, and I’m working hard to achieve that.” You can sample some of that this Friday when The Dapper, Carey Goodspeed and Marshall Lewis play.
Jay Elliott and Friends, Tin Roof, 21+ Punk Nasty’s, Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ Blues Jam with Gordon Bonham, Slippery Noodle, 21+ The Family Jam, Mousetrap, 21+
THURSDAY ROOTS Tim Easton 9 p.m. Nashville’s Tim Easton journeys up to Indy for a show with Indy’s Caleb McCoach. He was previously a member of The Haynes Boys.
Birdy’s, 2131 E. 71st St., 8 p.m., 21+ FESTIVALS
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Animal House 1 Year Anniversary 10 p.m. Featured by NUVO as Indy’s best weekly house
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Klipsch Music Center, 12880 E. 146th St., Friday and Saturday, prices vary, all-ages LOCAL Hillbilly Haiku American Music Festival 5 p.m. The lineup for this year’s Hillbilly Haiku is great, and features three bands NUVO has written about this year. It will be opened by the fearless country punk singer-songwriter Lydia Loveless, followed by the Kopecky Family Band and headlined by the inimitable (and Bloomington native) Murder By Death. And there will, of course, be so so so much beer to try. Upland Brewing Co., 350 W. 11th St., $15 advance, $18 at door, all-ages ALL-AGES Jon Banard 9 p.m. The Fishers The Amp After Dark concert series is back in the Nickel Plate District all summer long. Friday night will feature a variety of artists and welcome adults in the Nickel Plate District to dance the night away under the summer stars. Nickel Plate District Amphitheater, 6 Municipal Dr., FREE, all-ages BATTLES Rock House Cafe Battle of the Bands 2014 Finals 9 p.m. Battles of the Bands are always fun, and finals are the most fun. On the lineup: Raized on Records, Before I fall, Haughville and Mardi Belle. Rock House Cafe, 3940 S. Keystone Ave., #7 discount ticket from bands, $10 at door, 21+ Hector Acosta el Torito, Chispas Discotheque, 21+ Alan Kaye and The Toons, Moon Dog Tavern, 21+ Bunny Brothers, Ale Emporium, 21+ Kool’s Bazaar, Sabbatical, 21+
said about Chicago’s Motorcycle: nothing, because we haven’t seen them yet. But we will, this Saturday at Maltese Tiger.
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Benito DiBartoli, The Black Voodoo Band, Slippery Noodle, 21+
Haughville and a Hog Roast 5 p.m. Free pig! Free pig! Free pig! And music, and cold beer. Organizers ask if you’ll please bring a side dish. Free pig!
Zanna Doo, Britton Tavern, 21+ Rod Tuffcurls and The Benchpress, Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+
Lucky’s Bar and Grill, 1118 S. Meridian St.,FREE, 21+
Rahsaan Barber and Everyday Magic, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Skydive, The Hi-Fi, 21+ Glasslands, Pretending We’re Monsters, The Room Colored Charlatan, Hoosier Dome, 21+ Danielia Cotton, Biergarten at the Rathskeller, 21+ Midwest Rhythm Exchange, Tonos Triad, The Maple Trio, 21+ Good Rockin’ Live, Brown County Playhouse, all-ages Benito DiBartoli, Claddagh Irish Pub (Avon), 21+ DJ Rican, Subterra, 21+ Pop Punk Night, Emerson Theater, all-ages Night Moves with Action Jackson and DJ Megatone, Metro, 21+ PT’s Showclub After Hours with DJ John Larner, PT’s Showclub, 21+ Bang! With Slater Hogan, Revel Nightclub, 21+ WTFridays with DJ Gabby Love and DJ Helicon , Social, 21+
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SATURDAY ROCK Bloody Mess, The Constants, Motorcycle 7 p.m. Here’s what we’ve said about The Constants: “The songs here share a style of doo-wop and bubblegum inflected garage rock that’s been run through the lo-fi ringer with current heavyweights like Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees.” Here’s what we’ve said about Bloody Mess: “There have only been a few musical pairings as magical as the one between guitarist Sonny Blood, also of Apache Dropout and Miss Mess, formerly of Thee Open Sex. Sharlene Birdsong, of Thee Tsunamis and White Moms, grounds the duo with solid rhythm on bass.” Here’s what we’ve
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28th Annual Our Hospice Concert 6 p.m. This community concert benefits Our Hospice, and features Mayan Miscalculation, 40 Years of College, Janie Gordon and Dennis DeYoung (playing the music of Styx). Best thing? It’s free. Mill Race Park, 22 and Sycamore (Columbus), FREE, all-ages PUNK ROCK NIGHT Punk Unplugged 10 p.m. This acoustic night features Danny Thompson, benny NoGood, Black Irish Texas and ToeKnee Tea. Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St., $6, 21+ METAL Iron Borne Chopper Metal Fest 2 p.m. Ride in, camp out, stay all night. Organizers
remind you the bar is only open until 3 a.m., but the party goes all night. Lineup: Ringworm, Radiation Sickness, Iron Diamond, Photian Schism, Stone Cutters, Kvlthammer, Savage Master, Burn The Army, R’lyeh, and Occult Deceiver. 5th Quarter Lounge, 306 Prospect St., $20, 21+ CLASSICS The Doobie Brothers 8:30 p.m. We’ve got an interview with Tom Johnston of the Doobie Brothers online at NUVO.net.
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Preservation Hall Jazz Band 8 p.m. The always wonderful Preservation Hall Jazz Band stops by Conner Prairie for a night. The musicians are always changing, but the music is always on point. They celebrated their 50th anniversary a few years ago with a seres of projects and performances. (They also play on Saturday!) Conner Prairie, 13400 Allisonville Road, 8 p.m., prices vary, all-ages
Hoosier Park Racing and Casino, 4500 Dan Patch Circle (Anderson), prices vary, all-ages
Dynamite, Mass Avenue Pub, 21+
DANCE Windy to Indy 10:30 p.m. Soul house, deep house, juke and disco are on the menu for Saturday’s late night Chicago-style house music party at the Kitchen. DJ Lou Bey and DJ Freddie Fresh are taking over. Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave., $10 in advance, 21+ Highway Magic, Blane Fonda, Injecting Strangers, A Distress Call, Hoosier Dome, all-ages Caitlin Stephens, Thirsty Scholar, all-ages
The Band Sweeney, Bluebird (Bloomington), 21 +
Sunday Summer Nights with Kevin Anker and Friends, Jazz Kitchen, 21+
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Masterworks 6 6 Tour Preview, Christel DeHann Fine Arts Center, all-ages
Soul Street Live, That Place in Greenwood, 21+ The Elect, Biergarten at the Rathskeller, 21+ Nailed It, Blu, 21+ Hasenpfeffer’s 10 Gallon Rabbit: Tales from a Dusty Tail, White Rabbit Cabaret, 21+ Royal with DJ Limelight, The Hideaway, 21+
The Bikewalk, Royal Holland, Melody Inn, 21+
Enemy Planes, Melody Inn, 21+
Raw McCartney, Negative Scanner, Sapphic, White Rabbit Cabaret, 21+
Acoustic Bluegrass Open Jam, Mousetrap, 21+
The Soil and The Sun, The Hi-Fi, 21+
Krista DeTor, Bryan Park (Bloomington), all-ages
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Heartbreak Hotel – A Salute toYoung Elvis, Brown County Playhouse, all-ages
Reigning Sound, Bishop, 21+
Labor Day Luau, Howl at the Moon, 21+
Hairbanger’s Ball, Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+
Sonny and The Sunsets, The Bishop (Bloomington), 18+
Take That! Tuesdays, Coaches Tavern, 21+
Sunset Stomp Jazz Band with Hopkins and Miller, Jazz Kitchen, 21+
Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave., FREE, 21+
Metal Showcase, Emerson Theater, all-ages
Broke(n), Melody Inn, 21+
Single Origin Sunday Sides, Landlocked Music (Bloomington), 21+
Back 2 School Party with DJ Marcus, Vogue, 21+
Blues Revue, Birdy’s, 21+
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New Orleans Night, Jazz Kitchen Patio, 21+
Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet, Player’s Pub, 21+
Dave Grodzki, Chilly Water Brewing Co., 21+
Industry Mondays, Red Room, 21+
Reggae Revolution, Casba, 21+
Labor Day Street Fair Noon The 18th annual outdoor block party is the perfect getaway for some great BBQ, beer and blues. The event will feature tunes from Bill Lancton, Clifford Ratliff, Rob Dixon and Triology. And don’t forget the food, Yats took home four Best Of awards including one for best overall local restaurant. Good food and good music equals a great way to spend Labor Day. Wendy Reed, Clifford Ratliff, Bill Lancton and Rob Dixon and Triology will play.
Rufus Reid “out Front” Trio, Steve Allee, Steve Houghton, Jazz Kitchen, 21+
Steve Boller, Player’s Pub (Bloomington), 21+
Black Taxi 9 p.m. Black Taxi is one of New York City’s most prominent live acts, smashing an anything-goes punk ethos together with pop sensibilities, unparalleled energy and brilliant songwriting. The result is a raucous stage show, heavy on harmonies, spitfire guitar licks, body paint and all manner of instrumentation. Their
WEIRDOS Man or Astro-Man?, The Pack A.D. 9 p.m. Instrumental surf rockers Man or Astro-man are weirdos. And we mean that in the best possible way. They love all things sci-fi – and often intro themselves with clips from classic and forgotten sci-fi offerings – and sample things like theremins and tesla coils. They are nerds of the highest order, and we truly love them for that. They’ve been on a few long hiatuses in the last several years, so make sure you see them while they’re out and touring. The Pack AD will open. Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St., $15, 21+ Raw McCartney, Ami Dang, Debbie’s Palace of Noise and Laundry, all-ages Code Orange Kids, It’s Safe, I Swear, Hoosier Dome, all-ages NUVO.NET/SOUNDCHECK
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e’re back with our resident sex doctor, Dr. Debby Herbenick of Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute. To see even more, go to nuvo.net!
Sexed-Up Insemination I am a lesbian and my partner and I are trying to get pregnant‑they say having an orgasm makes pregnancy more likely, but the turkey baster (aka syringe) method is not very sexy. Has anyone invented some sort of dildo sperm delivery device? — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: Whoa. This had absolutely never crossed my mind, so thank you for giving me food for thought. I’m not sure about the dildo, but I’m curious about your insistence that the orgasm and semen delivery be a 2-in-1 deal. I mean, there are a million ways to make a lady orgasm and only a couple ways to get sperm in there. I’m sure the item you’re looking for exists (and is probably available for same-day delivery), but you’re in the unique position of being able to have a lot more control over the placement of the semen. Add in a squirting fake dick and it seems like the clinical control factor goes way down. If I were you, I’d go for the orgasm (I mean, you should always go for the or‑ gasm) and keep the baby-makin’ part separate. Good luck! DR. D: Yes, there is indeed a squirting dildo thanks to Doc Johnson and you can fill it with the liquid of your choice, including semen you happen to have on hand. However, the orgasm/pregnancy research is mixed at best and not all researchers think it’s sufficient enough to bank on, so my advice would be to focus on getting sperm deep inside your vagina and worry less about the orgasm in terms of conception (but obviously if you can make conceiving more pleasur‑ able, enjoy). And while there’s no research that I know of to suggest laying on your back or placing pillows underneath your hips to keep more sperm inside you, a little gravity cannot hurt and might help. Good luck with your baby making — little people are super fun and important to our future!
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Walter Kaufman had a major role in clarifying the meaning and importance of Friedrich Nietzsche. His English translations of the German philosopher’s books are benchmarks, as are his analyses of the man’s ideas. And yet Kaufman was not a cheerleader. He regarded Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra as brilliant and triumphant, but also verbose and melodramatic: a “profusion of sapphires in the mud.” I love that phrase, Aquarius, and maybe you will, too, as you navigate your way through the coming weeks. Don’t just automatically avoid the mud, because that’s probably where you will find the sapphires. Aquarius
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I’m not tolerant of greed. Acquisitiveness bothers me. Insatiableness disgusts me. I am all in favor of people having passionate yearnings, but am repelled when their passionate yearnings spill over into egomaniacal avarice. As you can imagine, then, I don’t counsel anyone to be piggishly self-indulgent. Never ever. Having said that, though, I advise you to be zealous in asking for what you want in the coming weeks. It will be surprisingly healing for both you and your loved ones if you become aggressive in identifying what you need and then going after it. I’m confident, in fact, that it’s the wisest thing for you to do. Pisces
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