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AUG. 31 - SEP. 7, 2011 VOL. 22 ISSUE 28 ISSUE #1055

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EXUBERANT EXPRESSION

Jonathan McAfee’s new exhibit, Some Girls, is inspired by the Rolling Stones’ song, and is, according to the artist, an “in your face” kind of show. The First Friday experience promises to be a party atmosphere, too, as the opening will feature DJ Marty MixFly.

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LIBERTARIAN LEADERSHIP

06 HOPPE 24 MUSIC

Libertarian mayoral candidate Chris Bowen reflects on setting a good example, squaring a no-new-taxes philosophy in light of growing revenue needs, also his favorite (non-dirty) joke.

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BY REBECCA TOWNSEND

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36 WEIRD NEWS

MATTHEW MARKOFF: HIP-HOP IMPRESARIO

Markoff, who performs under the stage name M-Eighty, has built a one-man empire in the Circle City. He’s released four solo albums. He heads up Artist and Repertoire for the rapper Kurupt’s Pentagon Records. And his own company, Holy Toledo Productions, has helped bring some of the genre’s biggest names to town. BY WADE COGGESHALL

from the readers

Reviewing the reviewers

I would like to add a little caveat to these reviews (Arts, “IndyFringe Festival, 2011, Aug. 24-31). Read these with a big grain of salt (or a nice sea salt truffle from The Best Chocolate In Town). It’s great that NUVO has a review for each show. It is, however, a double-edged sword. Generally, it’s the first performance that is reviewed. Some shows need at least one performance to get their legs underneath them. I’ve seen shows in Fringe’s past with two star reviews get standing ovations by the end of the festival. The reviewer does have a bit of a thankless job. They are on a deadline, seeing four of five shows back to back, and by the end of the night their judgment might be a little fatigued. Not to mention the fact that live performance does depend so much on the kind of audience you have. A good responsive audience is almost always crucial to lifting a show up and making it better. That cannot help but influence a reviewer. As someone who has been a Fringe volunteer, directed a Fringe show, and is currently associated with a show ( flyover) I urge everyone to use these reviews as a starting point to make your decisions and listen more to what other people that have been in a later audience says. The truly exciting thing

about live theater is that it is exactly that- LIVE. Each performance has its own brief life and then is gone, never to be exactly the same ever again. Each night is its own unique experience for that particular audience.

— Jim Lucas

Arts debacles

I agree wholeheartedly with your comments on Indianapolis choosing the wrong artistic endeavors to support (Hoppe, “Indy’s latest arts debacles,” Aug. 24-31). Why are the popular artists in Indianapolis so terrible? Just because their work shows up consistently in the few galleries of Indianapolis, for some reason people decide to buy it and continue a trend of bad taste. Why does Indianapolis claim to want to care about the arts at all? Why not just admit that no one here gives a damn, and all true artists and art lovers can just move to different states? Sure I could write a few letters to the decision makers expressing my disgust, but I would rather ship my art supplies and opinions across the country. Thank you for this article and for making the masses aware of these numerous artistic follies.

—Brittany Eaton

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HAMMER Thoughts from the implosion Not everything about doomed complex was bad

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BY S T E V E H A M ME R S H A M M E R@N UV O . N E T

HIS IS 9/11 RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU!” a voice shouted over the P.A. system immediately following the implosion of the Keystone Towers apartment complex on Sunday. “9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB,” the unidentified voice screamed, loud enough to be picked up on local television. Not even close, but +1 to the lunatic fringe for representing itself so early on a Sunday morning. The demolition of the two buildings near 46th and Binford Blvd. brought an end to a complex constructed in the 1970s with optimism and shuttered 30 years later after years of crime, mismanagement and deterioration. City government, having given up on ever collecting back taxes on the property, condemned and finally razed the property, correctly guessing it would be cheaper to pay $827,000 to tear it down than to restore it to its former glory.

Unlike other demolition projects in the city, most notably the 2001 destruction of Market Square Arena, few in the city mourned the loss of the Keystone Towers, formerly known as Vantage Point Apartments among other monikers. The crowd that assembled at 46th Street and Allisonville Rd. in the early hours of Sunday morning was a bloodthirsty lot, eager to see tons of concrete come tumbling down upon itself in a dynamiteinspired haze. News helicopters hovered overhead and cameras inside the building fed live pictures of the destruction. Few of the spectators or media folk present were around when the apartments opened in the 1970s, just prior to the reconstruction and revitalization of downtown Indianapolis. The buildings were widely perceived then as an uptown equivalent of the tony Riley Towers complex. Stories of wild postgame parties featuring players from the ABA champion Indiana Pacers, who played home games just down the road at the State Fair Coliseum, spread through the city and, whether the tales of alcoholfueled hijinks were true or not, bolstered its

reputation as a swinging place to be. One story involved a lot of Pacers players, a crew of naked women and enough weed and booze to intoxicate an army. One of the penthouse suites had a hot tub built in the center of the room, something that was unusual for the era, and the X-rated story I heard was both hilarious and unprintable, even for NUVO. I certainly hope it’s true. The place had a gritty glamour. Speaking of X-rated, unprintable stories, I have more than a few of my own about a certain apartment at Keystone Towers. I’ll spare almost all of the details; I was guilty in some NUVO columns circa 1994-95 of felony TMI offenses about my sordid business there with a young woman. Look them up in the bound archives if so inclined. She was 10,000 leagues above me and was well acquainted with certain NBA players, at least one of which is now in the Hall of Fame. I remember visiting her there and being impressed with the plush carpeting and seeming elegance of the building. I will always associate the place with the scent of Indian incense and gold Dial bar soap.

Thousands of people lived there, for a time at least, in happiness and contentment.

The media coverage of the demolition Sunday focused on the problems faced by the complex in recent years — the drug crime, squatters and tax problems. But that does the place a disservice because thousands of people lived there, for a time at least, in happiness and contentment. It was one of the first apartment buildings to be constructed in a post-segregation era and the racial diversity among its tenants was unusual for its time, when an unspoken but powerful red line of housing kept many blacks living south of 38th Street. Old-timers who know the area speak of the building housing a mix of young professionals and elderly residents who respected and educated each other. It was opened right about the time the Lugar-Hudnut renaissance rebuilt the city, revitalized many areas and created a 20-year boom, the effects of which we still feel today. The fact it ultimately failed doesn’t negate the good intentions with which it was built and happy memories that were created there. Despite what the crackpot who hijacked the PA system said on Sunday, the destruction of Keystone Towers was not 9/11 or even an event that very many people cared about outside a few sentimentalists like myself. As 1970s renaissance dreams were reduced to rubble, the canvas cleared for new vision to take root. We’ll see if hot tubs and Indian incense will rise again.

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HOPPE Cutting the budget, cutting safety Suing the state for austerity

BY DA V I D H O P P E D H O P P E @N U V O . N E T

hen Gov. Mitch Daniels bragged that Indiana has the same number of state workers today as it did in 1978 during his last State of the State speech, there was no way for him to predict the future. If Gov. Daniels could have seen the disaster coming at this year’s Indiana State Fair, he would have done everything in his power to prevent it. But the governor had no way of knowing that a blast of wind would cause a temporary stage at the State Fair to collapse. That seven people would be killed and many more injured. The governor called for an investigation. Paid professionals will sift through the wreckage and attempt to reconstruct the events leading up to the collapse. Their report will probably play a part in many of

the lawsuits now being filed by the victims of this disaster. I doubt that the governor’s boast about Indiana’s lack of state employees will figure into these lawsuits. But it should. In a time of obsession with governmental red ink, Gov. Daniels has taken pride in Indiana’s solvency. As other states try to navigate their ways through accumulating debts, Indiana posted a $1.2 billion budget surplus. Indiana, it seems, is actually turning a profit. This doesn’t mean, however, that there’s more money to put toward programs or positions that have been cut due to the governor’s fixation on what he considers fiscal responsibility. No, Gov. Daniels says this money will be held in reserve, sequestered in what’s called the state’s “rainy day” fund. All this sounds very prudent. Indeed, Indiana’s finances are the envy of many state governments, and Gov. Daniels has thrilled pundits by his single-minded approach to reducing what amounts to Indiana’s calorie intake. Now this state is so skinny, if you put it in a swimming suit you could count every rib. That may make Gov. Daniels seem like a genius to Washington, D.C. think tankers, but it’s cold comfort for the families of people who were killed or injured at the State Fair. You see, one consequence of having the same number of state employees in 2011 as we had in 1978 is that certain kinds of work get short-changed. Inspections, for example. The State of Indiana, which is responsible for what goes on at the State Fairgrounds,

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does not inspect outdoor concert stages. You don’t need a state permit to set up a concert stage in Indiana. You don’t have to submit an engineering plan for some bureaucrat to OK. And as for inspections, forget about ‘em — at least as far as the state is concerned. John Erickson, a spokesperson for the state’s Homeland Security Department was quoted in USA Today: “There is no permitting process. There is no regulation on it. We do not regulate putting up a scaffolding in a business or an entertainment setting or anything of that type.” No state employee inspected the stage at the State Fairgrounds to make sure it was built to withstand the hard kind of wind we’re known to have in Indiana when a storm comes up. But the fact Indiana doesn’t assign people to inspect temporary stages shouldn’t come as a surprise. In Indiana, the lack of inspections amounts to state policy. Inspectors cost money, which adds to the state budget. So not only do we not have inspectors to check on the safety of a temporary stage at the fairgrounds, we don’t have enough of them to keep track of what’s going on in nursing homes, or mines, or jails, or schools. The ranks of state inspectors are so thin that, in many cases, routine inspec-

tions don’t occur. It takes a complaint — trouble that’s already happened — to get someone to come out. So if nobody’s complaining about the manure leaking into their creek, or the school kids having a hard time concentrating because of high levels of classroom carbon dioxide, or the lack of attendants to look after Mom in the nursing home, then everything’s officially OK. We can all take pride in the way Indiana cuts red tape. Until something goes wrong. Then we hire investigators, to tell us what happened. They will analyze the scene, create detailed studies of all the elements, write reports and even testify before special commissions. The state’s Attorney General and his staff will spend their time reaching settlements with people who have been damaged. In the case of the State Fair collapse, lawyers for victims have up to 270 days after the incident to sue. Indiana could be on the hook for up to $5 million. That sum, of course, seems like a drop in the bucket compared to the losses suffered by people who found themselves or their loved ones beneath the wreckage at the State Fair. But then Indiana can easily come up with $5 million. That’s what our “rainy day” fund is for.

In Indiana, the lack of inspections amounts to state policy.

GADFLY

by Wayne Bertsch

HAIKU NEWS by Jim Poyser

apparently, Rick Perry’s not married to his stand on gay marriage Texas governor loathes big government unless it gives him money Cheney’s “Undisclosed Location” was deep in his black Darth Vader heart Tea Party has grown tepid having added too much cream and sugar even the planet’s plate tectonics are tired of Washington, DC Alaska resists polar bear “threatened” status leaving beasts to drown Buffet buffs Bank of America giving it credit-bility college enrollment soars as do costs; school loans are a growing horror the Keystone XL Pipeline is pipedream come true for fossil fuel fools signing of Kerry Collins a suggestion that Manning is waning

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THUMBSUP THUMBSDOWN DIGGING UP DIRT

We herald the arrival of September as Archaeology Month in Indiana! With more than 60,000 archaeological sites identified across the state since the early 1800s, researchers have unearthed a vast historical record stretching back to projectile points used by Pre-Hoosiers 8,500 years B.C. Events include statewide artifact ID days, lectures and hands-on activities including spear throwing, and an opportunity to participate in archeological excavation at Holliday Park. For a full calendar, visit the DNR’s website at www.in.gov.dnr.

TRAILING MICHIGAN IN “GREEN” INDUSTRY

A transition to the green economy is evident in Indiana, with nearly 47,000 green jobs accounting for about 2 percent of the state’s employment, according to a new U.S. Dept. of Labor survey. In addition, about 17,500 jobs support green business in Indiana. It’s nice that such jobs are available in a time of lacking employment options, but the pay scale reflects the limited training necessary for most of these jobs. Michiganders, on the other hand, driven by the quest for innovation in greening the auto industry, have a heavier focus on higher-paying engineering in clean transportation and fuels. It’s encouraging that we’re involved in the latest industrial revolution, but at this point we’re growing in the lower-skill, lower paid categories of the sector. Let’s step up our game and get on the front end of the green innovation train!

MINDING OUR MANURE

A little rusty on your manure management skills? Time to catch up. For years, large-scale animal operations, government officials and the public have been negotiating the appropriate regulatory balance. Here in Indiana, the latest draft of the state’s rules for confined feeding operations is nearly complete. The deadline is Sept. 2 to postmark, fax or hand deliver to IDEM comments on the new rule — which addresses everything from the definition of manure to soil testing methods. Among the items rural health advocates would still like to see addressed include greater setbacks between confined feeding operations and their neighbors, tighter standards for spreading manure as fertilizer on frozen ground and stiffer groundwater protection measures. Farmers’ concerns include protecting a certain level of privacy and limiting operational cost increases. Wanna jump in the fray? Visit the Water Pollution Control Board’s rules under development section on the IDEM website (www.in.gov/idem) for more details.

THOUGHT BITE By Andy Jacobs Jr. IPS Leader may sue over State Official’s proposal to privatize (profitize) public schools. To which the State Official replied, “Educate, not litigate.” How ‘bout educate, not profit rate? 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 08.31.11-09.07.11 // news

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Q&A with Chris Bowen WHO? Libertarian candidate for mayor of Indianapolis WHEN? Bowen visited the NUVO offices on Aug. 24. NUVO: If you were to brag about Indianapolis at a national mayors’ conference, what examples would you use about what makes this an exceptional city? CHRIS BOWEN: …We’ve got a thriving community of entrepreneurs and entrepreneur spirit in Indianapolis, even going back to the days when they were first racing on an actual brick surface out at the Indianapolis 500, they were actually testing engines and parts on cars… we still have a lot to offer… We don’t have a lot of traffic to speak of, you can pretty much get anywhere in the city within 20 minutes. We have a thriving arts community… NUVO: What aspects of the city make it a difficult place to brag about? BOWEN: [In] education, the cuts that we’ve seen. …We’ve kind of lost our sense of priorities… Then of course, we’ve put off a lot of the infrastructure upgrades. We have this huge strain of money coming in [and] we’ve really sold out our future revenue to have money now. It looks really nice now that we have the Super Bowl coming…but what we’ve been doing the last 20 years? I don’t think that just this last year, focusing on infrastructure has really changed the outlook or the culture of the people that are making these decisions. NUVO: What it the appropriate role for a city to take in terms of local economic development? BOWEN: Well, one of the things that always made me scratch my head here in Indianapolis is that it looks like we have two or three different organizations responsible for the same thing…. A government can’t really create jobs except a government job, but what they can do is get out of the way so that a private industry can start to thrive and grow again and create jobs. I’m an outsider. I’m not a career politician… There’s got to be…fresh ideas.

It’s like owning pets and your house has that smell [people visiting] can smell when you have cats or dogs…When you live there everyday eventually you don’t smell it anymore. It’s the same thing with government: You’re hiring the same two parties, you keep electing the same two viewpoints, and they’ve been there so long and you start to get used to the funk that some of them are creating. So you need to hire outside people…that can come in and be a new set of eyes. NUVO: How would you prioritize redevelopment projects throughout the neighborhoods? BOWEN: I’d really like to focus on expanding the arts and continuing to connect those areas of talent together. Look at the Eastside, look at the Westside. It seems ironic to me how poverty and crime and deteriorating neighborhoods all seem to run hand in hand. When is it the Eastside’s turn, when is it Little Flowers’ turn? …The neighborhood associations [are] doing the best that they can, but they need help. ...At first Arsenal Tech High School was slotted to get the practice facility for the NFC team, and for some reason now it’s going to a private university. That kind of angered me a little bit — I graduated from [Tech]…so maybe a little bit of my opinion on that is bias — but I think that the inner-city kids who are going to public school deserve that more than the people going to a private university that could have found other ways to fund it whereas IPS couldn’t of found other ways. If you go on the outskirts of town…they seem to have enough money to do what they want to do with their children for their extracurricular activities…When is it inside of 465’s turn? That’s what really concerns me about the economic development. It always seems that the focus goes to the same places. NUVO: Indianapolis has some of the worst air quality in the nation. To what degree could or should a mayor respond? BOWEN: I’m adopted and my father is half American Indian…I used to hear a lot about nature and how modern technology is really supposed to save us time so that we can connect with each other and connect with the earth, but it just seems like the more technology we have, the worse we are stewards of what we’ve been given. I don’t know as a mayor I could do anything about it, but at least I could be the spokesman or the person that’s saying “Hey, we

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need to get our priorities straight.” NUVO: Along the same lines, how do you view issues of climate change and how do you feel they relate to the future of the city? BOWEN: There are things at play that take the earth into warmer periods and cooler periods and if we’re not careful we can tip that balance. On one hand it’s arrogant to say that I, as a human, can have an effect on this big planet, but it’s a closed system. We’re not getting any fresh air shipped in from anywhere else.... The greenhouse gases, the carbon emission that we contribute will eventually tilt the balance. …What happens if we ruin the conditions that made it a viable place for us to live?

“You keep electing the same two viewpoints, and they’ve been there so long and you start to get used to the funk.” —Chris Bowen

Can we just be good to the earth because it’s the right thing to do and not because there are political debates on whether there is global warming or not? NUVO: If you were to look closely and objectively at today’s expenses at City Hall, what waste — if any — would you be able to find? BOWEN: Well I’ve gone on the city’s website and I’ve looked at the budget and it shouldn’t be so hard to find out what these things are being spent on. When you look at a line item and it says personal services… What does this mean? Do our city officials get dry cleaning services? Is this the take home vehicle program? Is this the fuel for the take home vehicles? As I look at it the budget, it’s very vague. NUVO: Aside from the Bible, name the book that has made the biggest difference in your life and explain why.

BOWEN: You know I love the story of underdogs… When I was a kid, Great Expectations always stuck with me, because I came from a working-poor family. I used to struggle and always wondered if I was doing the right things, would I have a benefactor? NUVO: The health of Indianapolis residents matches up poorly to other cities. In what ways, if any, can the mayor inspire better performance? BOWEN: What I want to do is have like a Biggest Loser contest with all the kids in the charter schools. I could stand to lose a little weight, probably 50 or 60 pounds, and I know that there are a lot of kids out there who are struggling not only with self image but with healthy eating habits, even knowing how to make a healthy choice, what to buy at a grocery store. I’ve been learning to eat healthier, we’ve been going to farmers markets these last couple years to get our meat and our vegetables, so I’m trying to buy local, there’s something… NUVO: How would you characterize the current state of your mind, body and spirit? BOWEN: My spirit is strong. My mind is definitely strong; I’m carrying a 4.0 average working on getting my CPA. My body, it needs some help. I’m approaching 40 years old, I’ve had some knee surgeries… I really beat up my body. I had a little help from the Army, but really beat it up in my younger years, living fast and wild. Being a parent, having a family will definitely slow you down and make you reconsider where your life is. On days that I exercise, I feel I have more energy than on the days I just wake up and go straight in to work… I need to keep my mind sharp and my spirit sharp as well… as far as my body, it’s something that I’ve gotten better about in the last couple years because I’ve got a wonderful family and a bunch of friends that I want to be around to grow old with. Editors Note: Our series of mayoral candidate profiles marks the first installment of our coverage leading up to this fall’s municipal election. This is an excerpted version of our interview with Bowen, he had a lot more to say. A full-length transcript will be posted to NUVO.net, along with profiles of Mayor Ballard and Melina Kennedy. Stay tuned more stories leading up to the comprehensive NUVO Election Guide, currently slated to hit the street Oct. 19.

Indianapolis officially out of water business

Citizens takes control BY RE BE CCA T O W N S E N D RT O W N S E N D @ N U V O . N E T

itizens Water, a subsidiary of Citizens Energy Group, made the first deposit for its acquisition of the city’s water and wastewater systems into city coffers, officials announced Friday. The total infusion of an estimated $425 million will be complete by the year’s end, city officials said. In addition, Citizens will absorb more than $1.5 billion in city debt. The funds gained from the utility sale are slated to underwrite Indy’s Rebuild Indy effort, which targets infrastructure improvements and the removal of abandoned homes. The deal also releases the city from its management of the Deep Rock Tunnel Connector project. Citizens will assume control of the long-term pollution control plan mandated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to address a legacy of Clean Water Act violations linked to combined sewer overflow into the White River and its tributaries. Officials estimated that $1.7 billion remains of the $3.5 billion cost to complete the tunnel project and the Septic Tank Elimination Program. In addition to finishing the tunnel project, Citizens is also charged with completing the STEP, which is supposed to remove about 7,000 problematic tanks across the city through 2013. Customers can expect monthly water meter readings and combined billing for gas, water and sewer services within the next year and a half, Citizens announced in a press release Friday. See the new Citizens Water website for details. The mayor touts the deal as a costeffective solution to address overburdened infrastructure and environmental repair expenses. In 2008, the city faced a $5 billion backlog of sanitary, transportation and infrastructure-related projects, according to a recent presentation by Director of Public Works David Sherman. The water company, managed for the city by Veolia, faced nearly a $1 billion debt in 2008, Sherman said. At the same time overrun costs for Department of Public Works projects were estimated at $360 million and DPW faced $26 million in outstanding contracts, he added. Examples Sherman offered to illustrate the state of decrepitude included DPW employees welding salt spreaders to trucks because some vehicles were too rusty to support conventional attachments. He also cited “neglected alleys, crumbling or missing sidewalks” plus the well-documented and long-term sewage releases into waters of the state (the major surface water bodies protected by the Clean Water Act), plus drainage issues in which rainwater flooding incidents would overrun street corners and

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As a part of the utility transfer, Citizens will assume responsibility for completing the Deep Rock Tunnel Connector.

residential areas such as Sten Court. While officials acknowledge plans must still be hatched to maintain infrastructure demands that will remain after the Citizens money expires, especially in light of the budget-limiting effects of property tax caps, this deal allows the city to address several backlogged problems and buys more time to imagine future solutions. “Just think about if we wouldn’t have done it,” Sherman said. Mayor Ballard built on that theme in a recent Q&A with NUVO: “We’re making up for a lot of time right now,” Ballard said. When he fields questions about the future funding hole, Ballard said he replies, “So you mean you don’t want us to do it now?” “And no one ever says ‘no’ to that question because it’s been neglected for so long,” he said. “But if we can find a mechanism to do this, continue this in the future? I don’t know...” he added. “...I’m not sure that future politicians in 30 to 40 years will be able to figure that out because I understand short-term budgetary pressures and political pressures... But I’m suggesting to you that we’re getting a large window for people to try to figure that out. We’ll try to figure that out, but I suggest to you that it’s going to be some successor after me.” Citizen’s cash infusion to Rebuild Indy will enable the creation of between 1,000 and 10,000 new infrastructure and urban improvement jobs as a result of the new spending capacity, the mayor’s Chief of Staff Chris Cotterill told NUVO in 2010. Critics of the deal worry that by transferring the water and wastewater utilities

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to Citizens, the city is releasing valuable oversight capacity of a vital resource and opening consumers up to the potential of billing increases. The city and Citizens contend, that given the efficiencies to be gained by consolidating utility services, their agreement will save ratepayers. Water bills were projected to rise to $63 a month by 2025 under the city’s agree-

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ment with Veolia, while Citizens estimated water bills at $39 by 2025, Citizens Vice President Yvonne Perkins told NUVO in a July 2010 interview. Democratic Candidate for Mayor Melina Kennedy, in a speech earlier this summer, reiterated reservations about the transfer. But, given that it is a done deal, she proposed reconsidering the direction of the cash the city received. Directing all the utility transfer funding to infrastructure projects is short sighted, she said. Instead, to further her central goal of making Indianapolis a “Quality of Life Capital,” Kennedy supported using $150 million of the estimated $450 million to endow a 2021 Vision fund to support early education, crime prevention and job training efforts within the city. She would like

to supplement that initial investment by inspiring local philanthropic organizations to contribute, which she said, would allow greater funding capacity to support the fund’s three main areas of interest. In a recent interview with NUVO, Chris Bowen, the Libertarian candidate for mayor, emphasized his concern that — even with the utility transfer — property tax caps will lock the city budget at spending levels that will not keep up with infrastructure as the city moves forward, in addition to shortages for other essential city services. Though tax increases are not popular with Libertarians, and Bowen does not support them either, he said that the city must explore new funding sources, including revised fee schedules, to keep up with its responsibilities. Citizens, a public charitable trust founded in 1887 by Col. Eli Lilly and Benjamin Harrison, already operates natural gas, steam and chilled water services. It will continue to be regulated by the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission and the U.S. EPA. Citizens also has a for-profit arm that supplies and markets natural gas. This entity, called Citizens Resources, provides the trust with a funding stream. News on this component of the Citizens group is mixed. Since 2000, Citizens has invested at least $50 million in local community redevelopment projects. On the flip side, its ProLiance venture, co-owned with Vectren, received a $ 3 million fine from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for profiting from natural gas market manipulation practices.

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EXUBERANT EXPRESSION Jonathan McAfee opens exhibit “Some Girls” at Earth House By Dan Grossman | editors@nuvo.net Photos by Stephen Simonetto

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ou might think that a trip to Paris as a teenager would be the most formative experience for a budding artist. But for Jonathan McAfee, who visited the Musée D’Orsay and the Louvre with his high school class in 1998, this wasn’t the case. It was a trip to a museum much closer to home, to the Art Institute of Chicago, where a giant work by Andy Warhol set him on his path to be a painter. “It wasn’t until I went to the Art Institute of Chicago and saw the life-size Mao painting from Warhol that I remember thinking that this is something I could do,” says McAfee. “So I started taking every art class that my high school [Perry Meridian, on Indy’s south side] offered.” You might feel Warhol’s presence, which McAfee transcends with his own distinctive style, if you visited his Harrison Center for the Arts studio recently. This presence can be seen in the bold Pop-art colors he used in the composition of his paintings in progress for his new show Some Girls, which will take place at Earth House on First Friday, Sept. 2. This presence is also there in his subject matter. The female subjects he paints on canvas, with a mixture of acrylic and acrylic house paint, look like they might have made good subjects for Warhol’s silkscreen paintings. They’re also the kind of free-spirited women you might have met if you had happened to be a guest of the New York City’s Studio 54 discotheque back in the ’70s and the early ’80s — during which time McAfee, 29, hadn’t yet been born. (Among the frequent patrons at Studio 54: Andy Warhol and the Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger.) Which brings us to the title of this show, Some Girls. This was the name of the Rolling Stones’ disco-influenced album of 1978. The eponymous song, which seldom gets airplay on FM radio, reflects the Stones at their raunchiest. “I’m not a huge Some Girls fan,” says McAfee. “I’m more of an Exile on Main Street fan. But Some Girls came so naturally for the title of this show. Because I feel like this is in your face. It’s raw. The show itself is going to be a lively party atmosphere. I’ve got a great DJ who’s going to be spinning records the whole night… a pretty eclectic blend of records.” Listening to the right music when composing his paintings is a big part of McAfee’s creative process, but he wasn’t listening to the Stones’ Some Girls when painting Some Girls. “Some Girls naturally came with its own music,” he says. “The last series [of paintings he completed] probably would’ve

had more Rolling Stones influence, more guitar-heavy music behind it whereas this series, each night when I come to paint, I have to have a beat behind it. So I’m listening to a lot of different musicians like Girl Talk and LCD Soundsystem and a bunch of others that just keep the atmosphere light.”

Exposure, beautiful and rough

In a standout painting in McAfee’s new series, the subject is a young woman portrayed from the waist up; she’s looking askance and opening her shirt to reveal her large breasts for some unknown purpose — without even bothering to remove her glasses. The colors that cover the lion’s share of the figure are bold reds and various shades of blue. Interesting things happen when these streaks of red and blue intersect. Looking at the more expressionist aspects of his work may remind you less of Warhol and more of Robert Rauschenberg and Jean-Michel Basquiat — two of his other painter heroes. There’s an expressionist streak

“I totally embrace being a painter and I want each painting to be evidence of that.” – Jonathan McAfee

in McAfee’s work that either speaks to his state of mind when painting the piece, or to the figures that he’s portraying, or both. But the women he paints are not anybody who he knows personally. The sources for his imagery are books and magazines. “I think it’s important to take these somewhat candid images out of the original photograph and produce an environment that makes the viewer ask, ‘Where are they?’ and ‘Who are they?’ and ‘What is it that you need today?’” says McAfee. “The subjects are beautiful women and I want the painting to come across as beautiful but my painterly style sometimes is rough.” That is, he wants you to see his paint and his other media — even sometimes the markers he uses for under-drawings. “I do pretty much all my underdrawings with Sharpie markers

paint markers magic markers,” he says. “So I don’t lose that under-drawing once the paint’s applied, which sometimes is a bad thing because it takes forever for so many layers of paint to actually get rid of the magic marker because it soaks in so much. That’s where it starts and I try to find a fairly bright or florescent color that goes along with the subject matter and I don’t always try to cover it all up. You’ll see traces of it when you get up close of the original under-drawing.” His process is a deliberative one: “My painting style is split into thirds where a third of the time spent looking for the image that I could just sink my teeth into — that I know will be a beautiful painting and something that’s within my ability,” says McAfee. “Then there’s a third actually painting, and a third just staring at what I painted and deciding what stroke of paint and the brush needs to go next. So I totally embrace being a painter and I want each painting to be evidence of that.” The backgrounds of his paintings are not monotones; you may see streaks of orange complementing a blue background behind it, for example. You get the sense that if the figures themselves were removed from the paintings, then you might have a pretty good painting in its own right, in the Abstract Expressionist vein. “I want the audience and the viewer to see brushstrokes,” McAfee says. “I want them to see that a human made this. That it was a painter who made this. I look at myself as an Abstract Expressionist first and a portraitist second. I want each individual painting no matter where you crop it, in the painting, to stand alone as an abstract painting.”

Finding himself

McAfee’s color palette hasn’t always been so bright and exuberant. “The work I painted before I moved to Bloomington was getting rather dark,” McAfee says. It wasn’t meant to. It was just based off my own lifestyle at the time.” That lifestyle included an addiction to both heroin and cocaine. In 2008, the same year he graduated Herron, he enrolled in a two-year drug and alcohol treatment program that necessitated leaving Indianapolis. “I ended up moving out to this fairly isolated farm in Bloomington where I didn’t have any contact with former friends or former influences or anybody but close family,” he recalls. “I wasn’t making work. I was working in a saw mill, building palettes during the day, just doing a lot of self-reflection and towards the end of the second year of being out in Bloomington, a

friend of mine gave me some art supplies; sketchbook, some pastels, Crayola markers, crayons and whatnot, and so I started to draw again. And it had been a while since I painted.” At the time, he was re-reading The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger. “I try to read that book each year,” he says. “And I realized how much I love it. And I started thinking of not only how much Holden Caulfield [the main character in the novel] was an influence but Salinger as well. He also lived sort of an isolated life and didn’t want people to know much about him. So I looked up an image or two of Salinger. I decided to draw him… I figured it loosely, because I hadn’t drawn in over two years at this point…” McAfee had taken many figure drawing and painting classes at Herron School of Art & Design, where he graduated with a B.F.A. in Art & Design in 2006. On one hand, this training undoubtedly has some bearing on how McAfee mixes up Realist, Expressionist, and Pop Art styles — and somehow pull it off, while using just pages from magazines or books as a visual reference while painting. On the

“The show itself is going to be a lively party atmosphere.” – Jonathan McAfee

other hand, he found that his art school regimen could be limiting as well. He found that the relentless criticism from teachers and fellow students eventually transposes itself into a little voice in your head demanding perfection. “So here I am, clean-headed,” says McAfee. “I started drawing Salinger but I always had the problem like I said with art school, with critiques. Worrying about how this is going to finally be absolutely perfect before I can say that I’m done. And I basically decided, no, not any more. So I started just doing some quick line drawings, where I was looking at the subject for the image rather than the paper itself and drew Salinger.” There are actually two mixed media drawings of Salinger that you can see on McAfee’s website (www.jonathanmcafee. com). One is a lot more abstract than the other but both are loose and confident and were a precursor to later figurative work in acrylic on canvas. Fast forward to 2010. “I was now living in Indianapolis, in Fountain Square,” says McAfee. “And I had moved back without a job, without really an idea of what to do next…so between the months of October to Dec. 2010 I painted about 15 to 18 paintings…. And I just got some momentum going. I felt inspired. I felt loose. I no longer really worried about the public’s reaction. It was more painting for me and hoping that it went well because I still needed the income.” Those were the paintings that wound up in the Effigy show that opened in the Harrison Center for the Arts Gallery #2 on Jan. 7, 2011. In this show there were 18 portraits of various icons: Nelson Mandela,

McAfee with “Girl with the Hipster Glasses” and “Some Girls.”

Lee Harvey Oswald and Jane Goodall among them. Most of these paintings hit their mark. That is, most were readily identifiable by visitors while also displaying a loose, expressionist style. However, these paintings were slightly more static than the ones you’ll see in the Some Girls show. In the Effigy show, that is, you only saw the figures depicted from the waist up. But in Some Girls, you’ll see all-female figures — often the whole body is portrayed — in active, often semi-nude poses. If you check out images from this show on www. jonathanmcafee.com before checking out Some Girls you might get a sense of his trajectory — where he might go next with his painting. And more likely than not, his next batch of paintings will be anything but static.

Making it come together at Earth House

By the time of the Effigy show, McAfee had already settled into a new job as the program manager at the non-profit Earth House Collective, located in the Lockerbie Central United Methodist Church building located on 237 N. East St. in Indianapolis. He likes the location because it’s close to his Fountain Square home. (In this way he’s most unlike his hero Holden Caulfield, who runs off to New York City to get his kicks). “I oversee basically the day-in, day-out operations,” he says. “The first Friday art exhibits, and what goes on in the building but I also try to bring new programs and concerts and national touring acts, event rentals there.” Earth House Executive Director Jordan Updike thinks it’s a good fit for his orga-

nization. “A lot of the people that we run into in our lives who we like to be around and create with are magnetic,” Updike says. “Jon’s one of those guys… He does a really good job of bringing the best out of all the creative types that we have here at Earth House. He does a really good job of bringing people’s strengths to the forefront.” About his upcoming show at Earth House, McAfee says, “It’s an awesome opportunity to show this type of work in a church building for one and in a place that I’m heavily involved in…. I wanted it to be at Earth House. The space is gorgeous, the walls are huge, the ceiling is extra tall. The stained glass brings in some great natural light. It’s going to be a celebration but a party atmosphere to coincide with what a lot of my images are based upon. And I don’t feel like a series of my paintings are really complete until they’re out of the studio. It’s so rewarding to see people out getting up close to my painting; I love when people get up close to my work and see how it’s painted; and see smaller details that you don’t see

from far away. Just to get these out into the public eye.” McAfee’s as passionate about his day job as he is about his art. In that sense, all the jigsaw puzzle pieces that compose a meaningful life seem to have come together for him here. “It’s my personal mission to Earth House to make Indianapolis more progressive,” he says. “I feel that if we don’t, who’s going to? So that’s not only a personal mission but it’s something that I’m constantly striving after day in and day out.”

Some Girls: New Paintings by Jonathan McAfee First Friday event, Sept. 2, 5-9 p.m. Music by Marty MixFly Earth House, 237 N. East Street 317-636-4060 Exhibit runs through September 30. For more on McAfee: www.jonathanmcafee.com See nuvo.net for a slideshow of McAfee and his work. 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 08.31.11-09.07.11 // cover story

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IDADA 7th Annual Membership Exhibition @ wUG LAKU’S STUDIO & gARA GE The Indianapolis Downtown Arts and Dealers Association presents its annual juried membership exhibition. This year’s host is wUG LAKU’S STUDIO & gARAGE , a popular First Friday Gallery Tour destination in the Circle Center Industrial Complex. The exhibition, which opens Aug. 31 and runs through the end of S eptember, features a balanced mix of accomplished and emerging artists. The show will be jur ied by Barry Blinderman, director of the University Galleries at Illinois State University. Starts Aug. 31 and continues through Sept. 30. 6-9 p.m. Aug. 31 and Sept. 2; 6-9 p.m. Free. 1125 Brookside Ave., 270-8258, www.wlsandg.com

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Field of Dreams @ Victory Field Is this Iowa? No, it’s Indianapolis, where we’re celebrating 125 continuous years of professional baseball. Indy Film Fest , as part of its Roving Cinema series, pays homage to our city’s base-

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ball tradition with a screening of Field of Dreams on the r ight-field scoreboard. The downtown skyline will be the backdrop for this baseball cinema classic starring Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones and Burt Lancaster. Gates open at 7:30 p.m.; movie starts at dusk. $8 gener al admission; $20 for a r eserved seat in Captain Morgan’s Cove (21+), including a ticket to the I ndians game on Sept. 2. 501 W. Maryland St., 560-4433, rcfieldofdreams.eventbrite.com

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Artist Aaron Scamihorn and writer Jason Roemer are teaming up for this unique First Friday event. Scamihorn, who works under the pseudonym RONLEWHORN, has a passion for cr eating digital portraits using mixed methods of screen printing and painting. “I’m intrigued by the juxtaposition of these distinctly different textures and how the pairing of them highlights their uniquely individual qualities,” Scamihorn says. On display will be 15 of his o versized portraits, several of which depict characters featured in stream-of-conscious narratives written by Roemer. The stories will be read aloud, creating a compelling amalgamation of words and art. 6-11 p.m. Free. 1043 Virginia Ave., Suite 215, 4506630, www.bigcar.org

Tattoo work galore at Indy Indie.

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The Tattoo Show @ Indy Indie Artist Colony If you love tattoos — or simply appreciate highly detailed and provocative works of art — here’s a First Friday event that’s certain to capture and hold your attention from the moment you enter the gallery. This call-for-entries show will feature hangable, tattoo-themed fine art produced by artists from all over the state, including residents at Indy Indie. The Tattoo Show is a juried exhibit, and event organizers are promising that they have “many surprises in store.” Be sure to bring your wallet, as all the ar t will be up for sale. Reception from 6-10 p.m. on Sept. 2. Exhibit continues through Sept. 30. Free. 26 E. 14th St., www.indyindieartist.com

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Amy Falstrom creates ephemeral, organic and often muted abstr actions. She says of her wor k, “I see a random and beautiful quirkiness in how nature places things in the world, and I enjo y making images in that same spir it.” This new series reflects the felt experience

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of a place and time, such as the quality of light, the weather and the full sensory experience of temperature, aromas, sound and movement, all of which find their way into the final visual for m. Starts Sept. 2, 6-9 p.m., and continues through Sept. 30. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Thursdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. 924 N. Pennsylvania St., 631-3301, www.indyarts.org/gallery924

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Don’t start your weekend on an empty stomach! Bust out of the office and head down to this monthly gathering of food trucks. The festival showcases the best of Indy’s curbside vendors, including Mabel on the Move and Fat Sammies Ciao Wagon (fingers crossed that the nutella and mascarpone Sammie is on the menu), to name just two of your dining options. Along with some tasty food, enjoy the music of Hot Fox, recently lauded as Bloomington’s Best Local

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Michelle Walkey-Thornburg’s mischievous lollipops is part of the fun of F oodCon II.

Last year’s unconventional convention of food and culture in Indiana was such a hit, it’s returning for an encore performance. FoodCon II will be built around the concept of food “biomes.” Attendees will navigate the Harrison Center’s building and courtyard to experience the desert, prairie, wetlands, forest and tundra. Artists and individuals from the local food movement will create interpretations of each biome. Vendors representing the best of Indy’s local food farmers markets, dairies and neighborhood supper clubs will create a “food forest” in the courtyard. Local faves Duo’s and Sun King Brewery will be on site offering food and drink. 5-9 p.m. Free. 1505 N. Delaware St., 3963886, harrisoncenter.org

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15th Annual Rib America Festival @ Military Park Rock and ribs! It’s a festival that makes your mouth water and y our booty shake. Located in leafy Military Park , near the IUPUI campus, this yearly gathering brings together purveyors of BBQ from around the nation, as w ell as our own Squealers, for a summit of flavor and fun. The live soundtrack is provided by the likes of Jonny Lang, Reo Speedwagon, The Doobie Brothers, KC & The Sunshine Band, Everclear and many more. Free before 5 p.m. and $7 after 5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 2; free before 2

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of stand-up comedy to Indianapolis for a one-night event at Talbott Street. Count on an evening of honest, raunchy, laugh-out-loud material from the irrepressible creator of Sordid Lives, a 1996 comedic play that delved into LGBT issues. Shores later adapted Sordid Lives into a TV series and full-length film, both of which starred Olivia Newton-John in the role of lesbian country singer Bitsy Mae Harling. A native of Texas, Shore’s writing credits include Dharma & Greg, Queer as Folk and Touched by an Angel. 21+. 8 p.m. $15. 2145 N. Talbott St., 931-1343, www.delshores.net

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You needn’t travel around the world to experience Tibetan and Mongolian culture. The Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center is a mere hour’s drive south, and in September they will be hosting a two-week celebration of Bhutanese culture. Examples of planned events include a demonstration on making prayer flags and a presentation of Tibetan thangkas (silk paintings with embroidery), as well as music, group yoga and a discussion about traveling to Bhutan. The fortnight-long event begins with a reception from 5-8 p.m. on Sept. 3. Check out the TMBCC’s website for specifics on days and times for all events. Sept. 3-17. Free. 3655 Snoddy Rd., Bloomington, 812336-6807, www.tibetancc.com

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Going Local Week @ All Across Indiana Celebrate Going Local Week by partaking in foods grown and produced right here in the Hoosier State. Created by local food blogger Victoria Wesseler and sponsored by the Indiana State Department of Agriculture, this week is a hint-hint, nudge-nudge reminder to all of us to enjo y Indiana food, protect the environment and help support the local economy. There is no one central event for the celebration. Event supporters recommend participating on a local level by visiting a farm or a

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A&E FEATURE Happy birthday, Catch-22

IUPUI scholar adds to 50th anniversary edition

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t’s a rare book whose title becomes part of peoples’ everyday speech. But that’s what happened with Catch-22, Joseph Heller’s surreal satire about an Air Force squadron based in North Africa during the final stages of World War II. The book had barely been in print for two years when people began to refer to situations and circumstances — those times when the world seems to say “gotcha” — as being a catch-22. The novel Catch-22, though, has proven to be more than just a handy way of descr ibing one of the more bedeviling aspects of moder n life. Fifty years after its initial publication it is being celebr ated as a cultural milestone with a special edition printing that recognizes Heller’s achievement as one of the great American novels, an enduring work of art. Jon Eller, a professor of English and senior textual editor at the Institute of American Thought at IUPUI, has had a significant hand in the anniversary edition that was published by Simon & Schuster in June. Eller, who first read Catch22 as a cadet at the U.S. Air F orce Academy in 1969, is a liter ary detective, a scholar whose specialty is uncovering the often tangled stor ies hidden behind the publication books that wind up becoming known and taught as literature. Eller contributed an original historical essay for the new C atch-22 volume and selected an arr ay of accompanying essays by such writers as Nelson Algren, Studs Terkel, Norman Mailer and Anthony Burgess. Eller’s section of the book also includes an essay by Joseph Heller, as well as copies of manuscript pages, photos and examples of advertisements that helped make the book, Heller’s first novel, a runaway success. Eller recently talked to NUVO about the 50th edition of Catch-22 at his sub-basement office in the Institute of American Thought at IUPUI.

NUVO: How did you come to be involved with the 50th anniversary edition of Catch-22? ELLER: I was a major in the Air F orce in 1986, and I was teaching at the Air Force Academy. We hosted a 25th anniversary celebration of Catch-22. Joseph Heller came out for a series of events, including a screening of Mike Nichols’ 1970 film. We had a great week with him. As it happened, I had been sent to Brandeis University to go through Heller’s papers, which he had given to Brandeis. I found a couple of chapters, which were deleted from Catch-22. One of those chapters Heller published as a short story in Playboy. But the other chapter he had literally lost track of. I pointed this out to him and he wound up publishing it in Playboy, as well. I stayed in touch with him because he was fascinated by the kind of work a textual scholar goes through covering the history of a text –- how it’s translated from a writer’s manuscript into typescript into submission to a publisher, then, once purchased, through the press work stages of galleys, page proofs and publication. All the crazy things that can happen to a book during that process. That led me, in the early 1990s, to publish a monograph on Catch-22, which Heller actually revised and corrected for me. NUVO: What was Joseph Heller like?

ELLER: The book is important because it’s brilliant satire. It’s harsh, which is meant to make people aware — to teach and to elev ate in one sense – but also to present a mirror to the dark forces. We should remember Catch-22 because as long and complicated as it is in some places – some people would say it ’s overwritten – it really hits the point of the darker side of the American dream and shows how important, in any free society, the dissenter is. The person who would be an antihero is often more virtuous than the person who goes along with the company line. Heller is not really writing about the Air Force. He’s not really writing about World War II. He’s writing in a more universal sense about any kind of corporate structure where the technology, the science, the power base is so involved with its own goals and aims that it loses sight of the moral high ground. It’s a book you have to take time to read carefully. Everyone in the novel is crazy. But the story pulls you through –- the humor, the brilliance of the situations, the lunacy of it all. It’s also a big book, depending on the edition, it’s over 450 pages. The plot is complex. Joseph Heller maintained a very large desk blotter grid of characters and events, just to keep it all straight as he was working on the final drafts.

“[Catch-22] really hits the point of the darker side of the American dream and shows how important, in any free society, the dissenter is.”

ELLER: He was a very genial man, a brilliant writer, a public figure who was totally at ease in an academic environment. He had been a college instructor and had graduate degrees in English, so he was comfortable talking about his novels as literature. He had also been an advertising writer on Madison Avenue, so he knew how to help people market his book and he got along very well with his editors, his publishers and his agents. He was easy to talk to and easy to get along with. NUVO: Why should we still care about Catch-22?

NUVO: What was your first encounter with the book like?

ELLER: The challenge for me as a cadet at the Air Force Academy, where your time is structured around a 28-hour day, where sleep is optional, was to literally find the time to read the book through. In spite of the challenges. I think most of us made the time to read the novel because it was important –- not just as hilarious relief from military training, a way to lampoon authority figures -– but as a think piece. It’s a book that makes you think about the values of all points of view in any organization –- military, civilian, corporate or academic. NUVO: How would you assess Catch-22’s impact on the culture?

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Joseph Heller, circa 1961.

ELLER: Heller said he felt the Vietnam War lurking somewhere in the future, but couldn’t know it was coming. In that sense, this novel, along with other novels of the late ‘50s, really foreshadowed the high gear that public dissent would rise to during the 1960s. Let me quote Heller here: “Without being aware of it, I was part of a near movement in fiction. While I was writing Catch-22, J.P. Donleavy was writing The Ginger Man. Kerouac was writing On the Road. Ken Kesey was writing One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Pynchon was writing V and Vonnegut was writing Cat’s Cradle. I don’t think any one of us even knew any of the others. Certainly, I didn’t know them. Whatever forces were at work shaping the trend in art were affecting not just me, but all of us.”

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County, which retains its rural heritage, and spent most of his distinguished career as an educator in Johnson County which currently is Indiana’s second fastest growing county [Hamilton is first]. Hunter’s unique approach to editing a diary goes beyond the daily commentary of the new Franklin College graduate as a young soldier recording nearly four years with the Eighteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry fighting in the W estern, Eastern and Trans-Mississippi Theaters. By interpolating into the edited diary family history and events during Stott’s formative years and the observations of other soldiers during his war service, the reader becomes involved in the making of a life — not merely the story of a life. — RITA KOHN

THEATER FOR DUTY AND DESTINY: THE LIFE AND CIVIL WAR DIARY OF HOOSIER SOLDIER AND EDUCATOR WILLIAM TAYLOR STOTT EDITED BY LLOYD A. HUNTER; INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESS; $27.95. r

Lloyd Hunter’s “curiosity” about the heritage of his “new setting in life as a novice professor” thirty years later has culminated in a benchmark biography wrapped around the engrossing Civil War diary of William Taylor Stott [1836-1918]. Stott grew up in Jennings

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The Exonerated was gripping, graphic, heart-wrenching, poetic and dangerous as several former death row inmates ruminate on the fragility of life and the chaos of fate. The packed house included overflow viewers watching via live feed. Produced by Butler University and Heartland Actors Repertory Theatre, this simple staged reading presented complex and fully fleshed relationships, where the slightest nod of the

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William Fisher, Butler Theatre Chair, directed ‘The Exonerated.’ head or lift of the face cues us in. The versatile ensemble of professional actors carried our attention with their razor sharp focus. Director William Fisher created an empathetic atmosphere for each inmate’s story, where the facts are justice is an illusion and the state is the enemy. Yet, Fisher is careful not to answer the questions raised in

the production, instead he leaves space for the audience to choose between belief or doubt. This evening was a true event in theater: unique and impermanent, just like life. For more info about Butler Theatre’ s season visit butler.edu/theatre. For more info about HART go to www.heartlandactors.com. — KATELYN COYNE

missing in Indianapolis. What’s still missing, however, is complex study of a basic question: Why would one woman let alone two, waste her time on the self-absorbed manboy presented here? The flat contemporary characters live only as types: the poet, a cabaret singer and a would-be revolutionary. Her cause is never explored. Their dialogue swaps nuance and subtext for poetic af fectation, as when the poet tells his lover , “I’m compelled to ask you to live a secret life.” Dance (choreography by DeNeen Collins) is used to some good ef fect to explore the characters’ sexuality and unspoken emotions. The torch songs are sung well by Brittney Attyberry and Raynah Diggins, who hold their own onstage better than Bates. As the poet, he shrugs his shoulders when a sexy muse appears on his doorstep, pretty much the same way he shrugs when his girlfriend walks out on him, crushed by his faithlessness. — JOSEFA BEYER

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THE GIRL IN THE POEM

THE ATHENAEUM; DIRECTED BY SONNY BATES; AUG. 27-28 Local poet Sonny Bates attempts a new per spective on the old love triangle through a mix of drama, dance, song, poetry and video (the last never materialized Saturday night, after the curtain was held one hour). The Girl in the Poem also features a local, African-American cast, something too often

MULTIPLE PROPOSITIONS: A LOOK AT CONTEMPORARY DRAWING: GROUP SHOW e Herron School of Art & Design; through Sept. 15. In a gallery where the dial is often turned up to eleven in terms of conceptual content, it’s refreshing to see a show dedicated to contemporary drawing. This show , however, isn’t just a quaint stroll through traditional media, although there’s plenty of that. In fact, you’ll get an eyeful of it as you walk into the gallery and are confronted with Christine W uenschel’s larger

than life charcoal on paper drawings facing the entrance. One of them, “Up Skirt Me 1,” is a self-portrait where you get to gawk right up the subject’s skirt. There’s eroticism here, but there’s also the unique way this artist sees herself and her subjects—often as if through a funhouse mirror. Check out her three other portraits here and you’ll see what I mean. Also check out the work on the more non-traditional drawing surfaces; Sara Schneckloth’s “Rotation,” is a drawing/ sculpture that you can actually spin. And then there’s Michael Dinges’ engravings on PCV plastic that draws connections to the 19th century art of whalebone engraving. Another large work on paper (ink on paper), John Himmelfarb’s “Protest” recalls the art of Chinese calligraphy with its vertical rows of entirely made up characters that might nevertheless propose themselves as distinct words in your cerebral cortex! 735 W. New York St., 317-278-9418, www.herron.iupui.edu/galleries — DAN GROSSMAN

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VIDEOS BY ROBERT CAUBLE, KOTA EZAWA, AND WANDA RAIMUNDI-ORTIZ; INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART HOLMAN VIDEO GALLERY; THROUGH OCT. 30. r If you feel that Disney’s animated Alice in Wonderland is a classic that shouldn’ t be messed with, then Robert Cauble’s “Alice in Wonderland or Who is Guy Debord?” will probably take you down the wrong rabbit hole. This particular video appropriates scenes from the Disney film. It shows Alice not only having to deal with the Mad Hatter, but also with the quasi-Marxist Situationalists led by Frenchman Guy

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A still from Kota Ezawa’s video on view at the IMA. Debord. It’s cool but also unsettling to see Alice rapping Situationalist dogma with a crew of flowers. Alice is, needless to say , not a born rapper. As if to punish her for not getting with the program, they engulf her in a blur of capitalist media imagery , including scenes from Star Trek and hundreds of other clips, to a techno-rave beat. After that, having the Cheshire Cat tell you that you’re a fictional character must be a real downer . Even more of a downer is Kota Ezawa’ s “Lennon/Sontag/Beuys” featuring vintage documentary clips — John Lennon talking about the purpose of his bed-in, for example — that are rotoscoped so that they appear animated like cartoons but are disjointed and arcane nonetheless. Wanda RaimundiOrtiz’s “Topic I: Contemporary Art,” a discussion of “white box” art in terms of hip-hop lingo, is a lot more animated, as it were, than Ezawa’s contribution to this project. 4000 Michigan Road; 317-923-1331, www. imamuseum.org — DAN GROSSMAN

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FOOD Hearty and assertive

The MacKenzie River Pizza Co. BY N E I L CH A R LE S N CH A RL E S @N U V O . N E T Even though it’s a chain, and we attempt to refrain from reviewing such entities, MacKenzie River Pizza Co. is worth of inclusion because, first off, it has a local family connection. Secondly, it also happens to be a very small chain, and finally and most importantly, it’s really pretty good. Located in the elegant and impressive space that used to house Something Different, MacKenzie River’s owners have opened up the space considerably. The ambience is reminiscent of a mountain resort, with lots of wood, stone and imposing pictures of people engaged in vigorous outdoor pursuits, like fly-fishing. In keeping with the rural, if not rustic, ambience, the food is hearty and assertive in both portion size and flavor. The pizzas are the stars, and come in three sizes, with an impressive and well thought-out array of toppings. We chose the eponymous

MacKenzie River Pizza ($9.25 for a small) which comes with spinach, roasted zucchini, mushrooms and tomatoes. The crust was exemplary, in the classic Neapolitan style, with a firm, slightly chewy texture that was a far cry from so many floppy, foldable aberrations that define chain pizza. The balance between bread and super-fresh toppings was excellent, and the flavors nicely defined. As an appetizer we had selected the Lodgepoles™ ($4.25): pizza crust baked with a mozzarella topping and marinara sauce for dipping. These were essentially bread sticks by another name, but held up well for the following day’s lunch. In addition, we sampled the quite delicious Buffalo chicken mac and cheese ($9.25). Who would have thought that this combination could have worked as well? Creamy, starchy and cheesy, loaded with chunks of moist spicy chicken, this was almost the definition of modern comfort food with a twist (the uber-fashionable thing these days). I could only manage about four forkfuls before succumbing to calorie overload, but it was well worth the struggle. Surprisingly, however, the standout of the day was a plate of blackened cod tacos (3 for $9.50). These were served with soft flour tortillas and a delicious fresh coleslaw loosely mixed with a spicy red pepper and lime salsa. The fish was cooked perfectly and combined well with the crunch of the slaw and the freshness of the tortillas. Elsewhere on the menu, you’ll find meatloaf, barbecue ribs and all manner of sand-

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The eponymous Mackenzie River Pizza.

wiches on house-made sourdough. MacKenzie River offers a decent selection of beers, several of which are local. Service seems generally efficient and friendly, although in our case, our server couldn’t have been much more indifferent if we’d asked. Fortunately, this lackluster performance was more than compensated for by the parade of kitchen staff and management who stepped in to help when needed. The fact that our pizza was delivered by the guy who made it was a thoughtful and engaging touch. We’ll certainly be back.

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Sun King Brewery, 135 N. College Ave., 6 to 9 p.m., Oktoberfest Tapping; live music, Alpine Express; food, King David’s Dogs. Oktoberfest is the first Sun King seasonal beer to be canned. Mid-September cases will be available at select Indianapolis-area liquor stores and Sun King’s Tasting Room. Sun King’s Oktoberfest has a clean, malty start with a slightly spicy hop note and a crisp, dry finish. (317) 602-3702, http://www.sunkingbrewing.com. Field of Dreams presented by Roving Cinema live on the scoreboard at Victory Field, 501 W. Maryland

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CULINARY PICKS If you like to eat, this is your week. Start off your Friday with rock and ribs, where purveyors of all things BBQ will gather for the 15th annual Rib America Festival at Military Park. For dinner, head down to the Old National Centre for the First Friday Food Truck Festival, where a gathering of food trucks will showcase the best of Indy’s curbside vendors. If you have an appetite for art, FoodCon II returns to the Harrison Center on Friday, where chefs and artists will collaborate to create interpretations of the earth’s five biomes. If you’re still hungry, Monday marks the start of Going Local Week, which celebrates foods grown and produced right here in the Hoosier State.

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Triton Brewing at Fort Benjamin Harrison, 5764 Wheeler Road, opens with guest beers; their own brews will follow shortly. Hours: Friday: 3-10 p.m.; Sat. 11 a.m.-10 p.m. http://tritonbrewing.com or call 317-508-3715 Food Con II, Harrison Center for the Arts, 1505 N. Delaware St., 5-9 p.m. Presented by Sun King Brewing Co. & Harrison Center for the Arts, Food Con is “an unconventional convention exploring the art and culture of food in Indiana” and is built around five different food “biomes”: desert, prairie, wetlands, forest, and tundra. As attendees move through each biome, they will experience that particular region as interpreted by artists and individuals involved in the local foods movement. Vendors representing Indianapolis’s local food, farmers’ markets, dairies, neighborhood supper clubs will create a “food forest” in the courtyard. Sun King Brewing Co. will sell pints outside of Gallery No. 2. 317-396-3886, http://www.harrisoncenter.org/, http://butlerfoodcon.com/. Upland, 350 W. 11th St., Bloomington, Rusted Root live at the Brewery with TV Mike and the Scarecrows and Bobbie Lancaster; doors open at 5 p.m., music starts 6 p.m. [a.k.a. Hillbilly Haiku Americana Music concert to benefit Sycamore Land Trust]. Children free. Tickets: $20/$25 at Upland Bloomington, Tasting Room Indianapolis or call 812-323-3020. More at hillbillyhaiku.org

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

e (R) Sergeant Gerry Boyle’s newest officer is missing and Boyle is talking to the man’s wife. The forlorn woman states, “I do not believe that Aidan committed suicide.” “Neither do I, to be honest,” Boyle says flatly. “He didn’t seem intelligent enough.” The Guard was written and directed by John Michael McDonagh, brother of playwright, screenwriter and director Martin McDonagh (In Bruges). Lot of talent in the McDonagh family. The film, a quirky mismatched cop story set in Ireland, is smart as all get out and packed with interesting personalities. It’s funny and melancholy and it stars Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle, two of the best actors in the world. Rich characters, caustic humor, emotion without a whiff of sentimentality, all of it set in the unassuming beauty of a small Irish village. Oh the colors, the sights and the camerawork. One shot starts by showing a little boy standing in the middle of a muddy one-lane country road. The camera begins a smooth

360 degree turn — 180 degrees through we see a police car driving towards the kid. When the image comes full circle, we see that the camera eye has drawn closer to the boy. It’s a dandy shot. Quietly flashy, which is what The Guard is all about. For verification, take a listen to Calexico’s spaghetti western-inspired guitar and trumpet-based score. John Michael McDonagh wants to impress you almost as much as he wants to entertain you. There are moments where you can feel him trying too hard — I mean, international drug dealers debating Friedrich Nietzsche and Bertrand Russell seems a bit much, but damned if it doesn’t work. Better yet, it sets up a fine throwaway moment later when one of the criminals asks why he’s always selected to be the executioner for the group. “Because you’re a psychopath,” one of his cohorts explains. “No I’m not,” he answers, annoyed and a little hurt. “I’m a sociopath!” No more quotes, you get the idea. The focus of the film is on Brendan Gleeson — who is as good as he’s ever been — as Sergeant Boyle: foul-mouthed hedonist, skilled police officer, devoted son, and accomplished irritant. He has a fine time bothering FBI agent Wendell Everett (Cheadle), casually making outrageous racist remarks and then claiming he is merely busting his new colleague’s balls. Don Cheadle plays straight man most the time, and does so flawlessly. Cheadle finds a few moments to fool around — an alcohol-fueled conversation here, an exhausted interview with a horse there

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— but he primarily remains the steadying influence that allows the deadpan nuttiness around him to seem credible. Fair warning — the Irish accents are thick. Thick. I strained to understand what was being said by a number of characters — hell, there was a whole subplot I didn’t catch until the second time I watched the film. But honest to God, it doesn’t matter. Not that much, anyway. Even with the

stuff you miss, there’s more than enough to guarantee an exceptional time for anybody who doesn’t mind hearing variations of the word “fuck” a few hundred times. Even better, after sitting in the theater and enjoying the parts of The Guard you can figure out, you can flip on the subtitles when the DVD comes out in a few months and savor all that you missed on the first go-round.

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The following are reviews of films currently playing in Indianapolis area theaters. Reviews are written by Ed Johnson-Ott (EJO) unless otherwise noted. APOLLO 18 (PG-13)

Look, it’s The Blair Moon Mission Project! Here’s what the press notes say: Officially, 1972’s Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later, in December of 1973, two American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the Dept. of Defense. What you are about to see is the secret footage the astronauts captured on that mission. While NASA denies its authenticity, others say it’s the real reason we’ve never gone back to the moon. 90 minutes.

THE DEBT (R)

Espionage thriller set in 1997, as shocking news reached retired Mossad secret agents Rachel (Helen Mirren) and Stephen (Tom Wilkinson) about their former colleague David (Ciaran Hinds). All three have been venerated for decades by their country because of the mission they undertook in 1966, when the trio (portrayed by Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas and Sam Worthington) tracked down a Nazi war criminal. The highly risky mission was successful — or was it? Suspense builds in and across two different time periods, with startling action and surprising revelations. 104 minutes.

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THE NAMES OF LOVE (R)

Young extrovert Baya Benmahmoud (Sara Forestier) lives by the classic motto: “Make love, not war.” In order to convert them to her cause, she sleeps with her political enemies — which means a lot of men, because every conservative is her enemy. So far, so good, until she meets 40-something Arthur Martin (Jacques Gamblin), who is not what he seems to be. Sparks fly — but will the motto work? 100 minutes. At the Movie Buff Theater.

SHARK NIGHT 3D (PG-13)

Arriving by boat at her family’s Louisiana lake island cabin, Sara (Sara Paxton) and her friends quickly strip down to their swimsuits for a weekend of fun in the sun. But when star football player Malik (Sinqua Walls) stumbles from the salt-water lake with his arm torn off, the party mood evaporates. Assuming the injury was caused by a freak wake-boarding accident, the group heads out on a tiny speedboat to cross the lake and head for the hospital, unaware that there are hundreds of flesheating sharks in the water. Also available in 2D. 95 minutes.

DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK y (R)

This film’s title is an apt warning for moviegoers, as the gothic thriller lacks genuine scares within its moody atmosphere. Based on a 1973 TV movie and adapted by Matthew Robbins and monster-meister Guillermo del Toro ( Pan’s Labyrinth), it tells of a solemn girl (Bailee Madison) terrorized by creatures hiding in a house her father (Guy Pearce) and his girlfriend (Katie Holmes) are renovating. Unfortunately, the film is as underwhelming in scope and execution as the creatures are in size. Although the monster encounters effectively embody childhood struggles, the sense of dread that comes with them is not nearly potent enough, despite the cast’s best efforts. 100 minutes. — Sam Watermeier

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music Matthew Markoff:

Dean of a hip-hop academy

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atthew Markoff is an enterprising sort. The hip-hop impresario, who performs under the stage name M-Eighty, has built a one-man empire in the Circle City. He’s released four solo albums. He heads up Artist and Repertoire for rapper Kurupt’s Penagon Records. And he has his own company, Holy Toledo Productions, that’s helped bring some of the genre’s biggest names to town. Over drinks at a Broad Ripple Mexican restaurant, Markoff pinpoints when he knew he could hustle. Third grade, age 9. His mom took him to Target to buy school supplies. He got a package of National Football League pencils for $3, then proceeded to sell each pencil at school for $1. It got to where his mom received phone calls from irate parents. “From that moment I was like ‘I’m gettin’ it in’,” Markoff says. The burly 29-year-old rapper also gives some credit to the Indianapolis Colts for the start of Holy Toledo Productions. Back when the team played the Chicago Bears in the Super Bowl, Markoff won an eBay auction for two tickets. Spending $3,000, he flipped them for $10,000 and used the profit to start the business, named after his former hometown. Markoff has used that kind of gumption and savvy all along to get where he is now — an A&R representative for the star-studded The Academy compilation. Set for release Sept. 13 on Penagon – with distribution handled by Fontana/ Universal – the album features guest spots by more than 55 emcees. It’s a who’s who of the industry: Raekwon, Kurupt, Method Man, Redman, Jadakiss, Styles P, Royce da 5’9”, Crooked I, Dilated Peoples, Pete Rock, Canibus, Chino XL, Sean Price and more. It’s got a solid Indiana connection too, with appearances by Indianapolis artists Rusty Redenbacher, Alpha.Live, Jaecyn Bayne, Son One and M-Eighty himself. The Academy, for Markoff, is “the most exciting record that I’ve had to date. I would say every album is amazing and better than the last, but this whole process was really exciting to me.” He served as A&R for the 2005 compilation Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture . A group of producers contacted Markoff wanting a sequel, but with more mainstream artists. Markoff gave them a list of people he regularly works with and they gave him a

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prospectus on who they’d like to work with. Markoff pitched the idea to Kurupt, who wanted to issue it on Penagon. “There’s definitely something for everyone, based on this hotbed of talent we put together on one disc,” says Markoff, who explains that several hip-hop crews came together for this project, including Wu-Tang, D-Block, Slaughterhouse and the Gold Chain Military. “With the exception of one or two tracks, these are all pairings of people that have never had the opportunity to work together, doing tracks where they didn’t just send each vocals over beats. They got together to build on themes. We worked on it for over a year, so it’s very calculated.” Bayne, a Charleston, S.C., transplant, believes The Academy will be big for local rappers such as himself. “Just on the strength of who’s behind it and on it,” he says while wearing a camouflage Yankees cap and drinking a soda. “It’s something the hip-hop industry as a whole isn’t really expecting but is anticipating. For it to come out of Indianapolis, that might be the thing to make the industry look and wonder what’s going on in Indianapolis. I think it could be that big.” Markoff would like to see that happen too. Indianapolis isn’t his birthplace, but he’s adopted it as his hometown since moving here at age 13. Given the industry connections he’s made, Markoff could’ve left and never looked back. Instead he’d rather stay and help build something special. “Indianapolis hasn’t necessarily reciprocated that love, but I’ve never let it deter me from continuing to build opportunities for myself and the artists I work with and my company,” says Markoff, who credits locals like Derek Ziko, engineer at H2O Studios, and his intern David Keisman for helping him achieve what he’s wanted. As just another wannabe rapper in the early ’00s, Markoff had the stones to introduce himself to some Wu-Tang Clan members, including Killah Priest, who were in town performing. He convinced them to let him on stage. That led to M-Eighty finishing the rest of their tour with them and some lasting friendships. But he wasn’t just trying to meet elite players so he could brag about it later. “For me it was about, I met him, now where do we go from here,” Markoff says. “I made sure contact information was exchanged and offered whatever services I felt I could offer.” Markoff also earned his law degree amidst all this. He never took the bar, but his education has opened many doors in the music industry. Many artists have hired him to broker agreements, trusting his law background but also holding him in higher esteem because he has firsthand knowledge of the business. After law school Markoff was set to take an A&R job with Def Jam in New York. While moving from San Francisco, he stopped in Indy to visit family. That’s when he got a call from the label, learning there were massive layoffs and he no longer had a position there.

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Four key figures in The Academy, clockwise from top left: Derek Ziko, David Keisman, Jaecyn Bayne, Matthew Markoff.

“I was thankful I was in a place where at least I had family,” Markoff says. “I decided to set up shop here.” Aside from teaming with Live Nation to bring more hip-hop concerts to the city (Wiz Khalifa at The Lawn was one of his), Markoff is also ingratiating himself with artists from the local scene. He introduced Bayne to The Headhunters, the pioneering jazz-funk band now signed to Indianapolis jazz imprint Owl Studios. Bayne is now recording a rap album for the label, which he hopes to have done in the fall. Much work remains on the home front. Markoff sees Indianapolis as a city hungry for hip-hop. The concerts he’s helped bring to town have been well-attended. But the community needs to resolve some of its internal conflicts in order to grow, according to Markoff. Currently Bayne compares it to a high school cafeteria. “We’re all at different tables, and if you’re not already at that table you can’t sit there,” he says. “I’m trying to sit at every table and be cool with everybody. We need

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more people to do that.” Markoff thinks Indianapolis can be as good a hip-hop market as any in the Midwest. There are some who are working to make it a contender. Others are only in it for themselves. “When more people come around to the compassion side of what it takes to make a better image for the city, then everyone wins,” Markoff says.

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Coffinworm drummer Josh Schrontz performs during this year’s Dude Fest.

The bleak catharsis of Coffinworm

Everything’s fucked, but there is hope B Y W A D E CO G G E S H A LL M U S I C@N U V O . N E T It’s a gorgeous and comfortable evening, but Carl Byers and Dave Britts, guitarist and vocalist respectively of local metal band Coffinworm, aren’t feeling uplifted by the rare nice weather. Over a haze of Bell’s Two Hearted Ale at J. Clyde’s Pub, they commiserate about the failing health of a close friend. It’s that kind of thing that helps explain why Coffinworm’s sound is so incredibly blackened and nihilistic. “Everything’s fucked,” Britts says matterof-factly. “I believe that to my core. But I’m still trying to laugh. Coffinworm is a band of dichotomies. We play bleak music, but ultimately songs of hope and resistance.” Indeed, Britts and Byers project a wellhoned sense of humor and camaraderie that can only come from years of friendship. Their friendship shouldn’t come as a surprise, they say. Just because you’re blasting a dark and deranged sound with disturbing topics doesn’t mean that’s how you always are. For Coffinworm and other bands like them, their music is an outlet for all of life’s frustrations. “If you don’t let that shit out or embrace it in some small amount, you’re doing yourself a disservice by ignoring a portion of your psyche that’s going to fuck you up later,” Byers says. “Most people want to just smile and act like everything’s fine. It’s not.” Coffinworm’s aesthetic may not appeal to a wide audience, but they aren’t looking to exclude anyone. Britts says his lyrics can relate to any person, no matter his or her background, who’s downtrodden and try-

ing to do better for themselves. “Those are the people we scream for,” says Britts, notable for having dreadlocks clear down to his waist. “Our songs are resistance for those that life has forgotten, that people have given up on. They’re everywhere – people that life says ‘fuck you’ to. Why not say ‘fuck you’ right back?” That’s what Coffinworm effectively did on their full-length debut, last year’s When All Became None , released by Profound Lore Records. It had an immediate impact thanks to a colossal mix of swarming guitars, hellhammer drums and demon-fromthe-deep vocals. It garnered praise from national and international metal bibles like Decibel and Terrorizer Magazine. Some of the credit belongs to producer Sanford Parker. Byers knew the Chicagobased metal producer through mutual acquaintances and thought he’d know exactly how to handle their sound. They weren’t mistaken. “He helped elevate our collective [game],” Britts says. “It was cake. We’ve all recorded I don’t know how many albums, but it was never like that. He had the ear and equipment and we had the jams.” Surprisingly Parker doesn’t use analog recording gear. You’d think he does, given the fathomless depths from which the songs on When All Became None emanate and the eerie echo of Britts’ tortured screams. “He was born in the analog age but exists in the digital age,” Britts says. “He’s bridged that gap.” Byers notes that Parker had them leave his Semaphore Studios while he was mixing the album. Only when he hit on the perfect combination did he bring them back. “I was not expecting it to sound that big,” says Byers, who has a lumberjack beard. “I figured it would be more like just some dudes playing jams in a room.” Both agree it was easily the best recording experience they’ve ever had. And they’ve had many. Every member of Coffinworm (including guitarist Garrett O’Sha, bassist Todd Manning and drummer Josh Schrontz) has been in and around the Indianapolis music scene for years now. “We’re all fans of each other,” Britts says. “That’s a real mark of friends – can you support what your other homies are doing.” 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 08.31.11-09.07.11 // music

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Coffinworm singer Dave Britts at Dude Fest.

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They started playing together in late 2007. Their first show came the following year, as support for New York band Unearthly Trance at the Melody Inn, on a bill that also included local hard-rock schzoids Racebannon. Byers befriended the Relapse Records trio after interviewing one of them for a webzine he used to compose. Coffinworm wasn’t necessarily ready at the time, but they couldn’t pass up the opportunity either. “We sounded like dog shit, but we jumped at the chance to play with that band,” Britts says. “As any young hustler would hopefully fuckin’ do. Would you play your first show with a bunch of bullshit bands, or play with one of the best bands ever?” Coffinworm was supposed to release a split 7-inch with Unearthly Trance for the Ireland record label Hell Comes Home. It’s part of a subscription club 7-inch series that includes 12 discs, a T-shirt, digital download codes for every song and a special box to put everything in. But Unearthly Trance recently decided to disband after surviving the devastating earthquake that struck Japan while on tour there with the Melvins. “They’ve kind of been plagued from their inception,” says Byers, noting they were also in New Zealand when that country was hit by an earthquake, as well as being in New York when 9/11 happened. “I really wish they would’ve continued, but if I would’ve been through a traumatic experi-

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ence like that, I could probably see myself wanting to step away for a while.” Instead Coffinworm will do the 7-inch with the Akron band Fistula, whom they’re good friends with. The song they recorded for the project has some decidedly faster parts than what comprises most of When All Became None. Byers played drums on the debut. Schrontz’s technique is noticeably different. “He can do a lot more shit that I can’t,” Byers says. “I usually tried to hold it down more like a 4-4 punk-rock number because that’s all I’ve ever really been able to do. The new stuff has more of a death-metal bent to it.” Perhaps that’s more appropriate for the life-rejecting bile that Coffinworm spews. “It’s the opening of a portal, the raw catharsis that comes from us projecting our hate toward the crowd, and them projecting it back on us,” Britts says. “We swallow it up and just shit it right back on them.” SEPT. 3 AT VOLLRATH TAVERN with Harakiri, Whiskeytits, Legion, Chinaski (memorial show for guitarist Jared Southwick), 8:30 p.m., $10, 21+ SEPT. 10 AT VOLLRATH TAVERN with Cardiac Arrest, The Dockers, Absconder; 8 p.m., $7, 21+

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Neon Love Life

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ROOTS COOT CRABTREE & THE RHINESTONES, WESTERN PHILCO, THE INNOCENT BOYS, JETHRO EASYFIELDS

PUNK HELLO HOOSIER DOME

Locals Only, 2449 E. 56th St. 8 p.m., $5, 21+ A couple years after the demise of the weekly Big Roots Show at Local Only — a well-curated showcase for all things Americana — we think we’ll revive the name to describe this concert. So this, this right here, it’s a Big Roots Show, with appearances by Coot Crabtree (who hosts his own roots show, the Back Road Radio Show on WITT), Bloomington’s Western Philco, local punkabilly outfit The Innocent Boys and Locals Only mainstay and open mic host Jethro Easyfields. Gamblin Christmas and Hank Haggard will special guest.

ROCK NEON LOVE LIFE

Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St. 9 p.m., $10 (includes CD), 21+ There’s a story behind the title to Neon Love Life’s debut album, Tuesday Night, which they’ll release to the world Friday. For about six months — the period between the band’s founding and its first show in March 2009 — the four members of the band gathered every Tuesday night to write and practice, mobilizing their forces before premiering the all-new material at their first show at Radio Radio. Call it a Tuesday Night Music Club. They return to the scene of the first crime for their release show; it’s also where they filmed scenes for the first video from the album, the Matt Mays-directed “Love Control” (available on nuvo.net, or wherever you find it). With Hero Jr. and 8 Inch Betsy.

Hoosier Dome, 1627 Prospect St. 1 p.m., $10 all-ages Piradical Productions, the promotions outfit that they brought all-ages shows to the city for the better part of a decade, mostly from the punk, pop-punk and punk-pop scenes, says “hello” to the Hoosier Dome this week, as they move their base of operations from their former home at Broad Ripple’s ES Jungle to the goofily-named Fountain Square-based venue. It’s not a final move, though; Piradical will continue hosting shows that call for a larger space at ES Jungle, the church basement turned venue. But the Hoosier Dome will now host the Pirad offices, as well as the majority of shows booked by Pirad and most rental business. This kick-off show — and it’s not really a kick-off, either, since Pirad has been booking the Hoosier Dome for over a year — will feature Pessoa, Big Things, Indian City Weather, Step Dads, Cave Bear, Full Rainbow, Trip N Balls, Scumbelina, One Must Fall, From the Grave.

ROCK WE ARE HEX

White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect St. 9 p.m., $6, 21+ Local rock four-piece We Are Hex is headed out to San Francisco next month to put together a new record with Tim Green, a San Francisco legend who has recorded tapes by the Melvins, Saviours and Howlin Rain who and shares We Are Hex’s taste for all things analogue. But before they go, they’re looking to put a little more money into the band kitty, via this show at White Rabbit (with Louisville’s Natives and Chicago’s Rabble Rabble) and three new

LATIN JAZZ SAMMY FIGUEROA AND HIS LATIN JAZZ EXPLOSION

The Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave. 8 and 10 p.m., $15, 21+ A master percussionist and conguero, Sammy Figueroa first made his name in the NYC jazz scene, where he accompanied just about anyone you can think of who’s been alive sometime in the last 30 years (Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Chet Baker — and the Brecker Brothers, with whom he performed for 12 years). A 2001 relocation to South Florida reoriented his efforts, putting him in touch with a robust Latin jazz scene that prompted the founding of his own ensemble, the Latin Jazz Explosion. Because Gallagher-style antics have fallen out of disfavor, Figueroa no longer detonates timbales filled with tapioca pudding on-stage. But the name still inspires some fanciful language in album reviews: Bill Milkowski, in a Jazz Times write-up of Figueroa’s 2005 … And Sammy Walked In , noted that the Explosion was “bristling with chops-busting unison lines and fiery solo exchanges” and that Figueroa added “fire to the proceedings with his precise, rapid-fire conga playing.”

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Wed. Aug. 31 PETER & THE TWINS(Minneapolis)! w/ Youthguard and The Glass Identity Crisis... doors @ 8, show @ 9...$5. Thurs. Sept. 1 Tonal Caravan, The Mundies, Hyryder... doors @ 8, show @ 9...only $3. Fri. Sept. 2 Psychic Feel(featuring Jesse Lee), The Constants, Otis & The Rufies(Bloomington)... doors @ 9, show @ 10...$5. Hillbilly Happy Hour w/ Gambling Christmas and Tilford Sellers(Bloomington)... doors @ 7, show @ 7:30...$5. Sat. Sept. 3 PUNK ROCK NIGHT w/ The Involuntarys, Subatomic, The Classless, Squared Away... doors @ 9, show @ 10...$6.

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy songs released via Bandcamp (wearehex.bandcamp. com). The new material, laid down at Bloomington’s analogue shrine Magnetic South, was recorded mostly live-to-tape (keys, vocals and horns were overdubbed) in July with John Dawson at the controls.

*Pre-Punk Rock Night Early Show* w/ Attakulla and Saints & Strangers... doors @ 7, show @ 7:30...$5. Sun. Sept. 4 COCOANUT GROVE LOUNGE NIGHT... doors @ 8, show @ 9...$5.

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Connor Prairie Amphitheater, 13400 Allisonville Road, Fishers Sept. 3 and 4, 8 p.m.; tickets vary (indianapolissymphony.org), all-ages Big Bad Voodoo Daddy was there from the beginning of the ‘90s swing revival, making an onscreen cameo in the hip-for-its-time indie comedy Swingers, playing the Los Angeles lounge circuit before being snapped up by Capitol and making it pretty darn big, including a Super Bowl halftime performance. They’ve also survived many of their cohorts; only Brian Setzer has kept things together as long, and he occasionally slims down to a rockabilly outfit. Their most recent release, 2009’s How Big Can You Get: The Music of Cab Calloway, saw lead singer Scotty Morris, always a slightly manic presence, channeling the goofball vocalist, one “hidey-ho” at a time. This gig, incidentally, will not feature the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, which has already made its way back downtown.

Monday JAZZ LABOR DAY STREET FAIR

Outside of The Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave. 1:30-6 p.m., free, all ages Once a year, the Jazz Kitchen moves things outside the club, taking over the length of the strip mall at the southeast corner of College Avenue and 54th Street with the consent of co-presenters and mall neighbors Yats and Be Boutique. It all centers around the stage, which will host Clifford Ratliff (1:30-2 p.m., with his hard bop ensemble, in tribute to Clifford Brown and Lee Morgan), Sunset Stomp (2:30-4 p.m., riverboat jazz led by banjoist Robin Hopkins and vocalist Kathleen Miller) and Rob Dixon & Friends (4:30-6 p.m., modern jazz). Inside the Kitchen, NUVO jazz dude Chuck Workman will host the second edition of his benefit garage sale (check out Jazz Notes, for more info). Bring lawn chairs if you care to sit anywhere in the vicinity of the stage; some seating is available under the Kitchen’s outdoor deck, but it can be hard to come by.

DANCE GAYBOR DAY

Metro Nightclub and Restaurant, 707 Massachusetts Ave. 3 p.m., no cover, 21+ A tribute to gay unionizers and agitators from across the ages, concluding with a interpretative dance cycle inspired by Harvey Milk. Wait no, scratch that; just a dance party, but what bodes to be a good one, helmed by DJs Deanne, Jackola, Mr. Orange and Knayte St. James.

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Tuesday DANCE LET GO!

Lockerbie Pub, 631 E. Michigan St. 10 p.m., no cover, 21+ The monthly dance night Let Go! has become a sweaty, crowded early-week tradition at the humble Lockerbie pub. On the turntables this time around are A-Squared Industries DJs, DJ Action Jackson and special guest Slater Hogan. Organizers urge attendees to wear their best outfit because video cameras will be rolling.

VARIETY MEATS As usual, the Rib America Festival covers the waterfront when it comes to bands. You’ve got your nostalgia acts, which have made up the core of the festival in the years past — and which play to the festival’s core crowd: REO Speedwagon, The Doobie Brothers. You’ve got your Disneyfied crowd-pleasers: KC & the Sunshine Band, Beatlemania Live. But there are a few more outliers this year: “What I Like About You” pop-punk act The Romantics, Black Crowes-affliated roots band Truth and Salvage Co., blues guitar prodigy Jonny Lang. And because alt-rock is just about ready for its own oldies station, you’ve got Blind Melon (sans Shannon Hoon) and Everclear. And through it all, the folks booking Rib Fest have done right by our local musicians. There are eight Indy-based bands on the lineup this year, including Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band, which has become a Rib Fest staple.

RIB AMERICA FESTIVAL Military Park, downtown Indianapolis Sept. 2-4, 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sept. 5, 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; admission free 11 a.m.-5 p.m. (Sept. 2) and 11 a.m.-2 p.m. (Sept. 3-5); $7 adults, 12 and under free all other times Sept. 2: REO Speedwagon, Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Corey Cox; Sept. 3: The Doobie Brothers, Blind Melon, Truth and Salvage Co., The Why Store, Healing Sixes; Sept. 4: KC & the Sunshine Band, The Romantics, Beatlemania Live, Jennie DeVoe, WT Feaster; Sept. 5: Jonny Lang, Everclear, The Last Good Year, Borrow Tomorrow

JAZZ NOTES JAZZ NOTES by Chuck Workman, the producer/host of the Saturday Evening Jazz Show from 6 to 8 p.m. on 88.7 WICR FM

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Steve and Shawn Goodman

The Goodmans: A study in jazz collaboration Shawn and Steve Goodman are a unique couple on Indy’s jazz scene. Shawn is an accomplished clarinetist and saxophonist; her husband, Steve, is a well-traveled violinist best known in Europe. Both are passionate about jazz; both are music educators; and both have, at different times, served as music directors at Cathedral High School, where Steve currently heads up the jazz program. Each has acquired numerous honors and awards, but what’s fascinating about the couple is how they challenge each other professionally, particularly within the confines of their group, the Impossible Jazz Collaboration, a five-piece comprised of Shawn’s clarinet and alto sax, Steve’s five-string amplified violin, with piano, bass and drums. The Impossible Jazz Collaboration tackles all forms of jazz: Steve is especially fond of avant-garde or experimental concepts, while Shawn likes things straight-ahead. I had to ask them: How do they decide what to play — and in what genre to play it in? Who calls the shots? After a round of laughter, Shawn said that she calls the tunes most of the time, and that the group’s repertoire is just about evenly divided her husband’s compositions and her own. Steve’s response: “That’s about right.” I asked both Goodmans how they got started in jazz. Shawn’s story was the most unconventional. Things got going in 1994, when she heard local clarinetist Frank Glover while attending the Great Lakes Music Camp. “I was inspired to start practicing my clarinet at that point,” Shawn explained. “Next year, when I went to high school, my band director brought in Frank Glover to teach us a master class for the jazz band. This was when Frank had long hair. One of my friends dared me to tell him he looked like Stephen King. I didn’t even know what Stephen King looked like — I just wanted to be funny.” Shawn did just as she was dared, going

up to Glover to tell him that he resembled the horror novelist. According to Goodman, Glover laughed in response, telling her that Stephen King was “ugly.” “He saw I had a clarinet and said, ‘Do you want play something for me,’” Shawn continued. “I said, ‘If you want, hear me play an open G.’” Glover laughed again, asked her if she wanted to start taking lessons and gave her a copy of his album, Something Old, Something New. If hearing Glover at music camp put Shawn on the road to jazz, hearing Glover’s album decided things: “There’s this part in [Something Old track] ‘America’ when he hits this high note in perfect unison with the piano, and it was like, with that one note, all of a sudden, I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up.” Steve’s path to music didn’t include the same kind of personal intervention. He sang and played guitar before deciding to play violin in the fourth grade, and got into jazz not through violinists, but players on other instruments: John Coltrane, Miles Davis. But he eventually found his way to a guy who re-defined jazz violin: “It was Jean-Luc Ponty who changed my life with his experiments on violin,” he said. Steve now plays on a five-string violin identical to the one played by Ponty. The Goodmans are currently at work on their first Impossible Jazz Collaboration album, set for release next year. They continue to co-conduct the Symphonic Youth Orchestra of Greater Indianapolis, and Shawn currently serves as secretary and treasurer of the Indiana Jazz Educators Association.

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I will be hosting my second annual jazz garage sale fundraiser at the Jazz Kitchen’s Labor Day Street Fair Monday, September 5, from 12:30 to 6 p.m. All of the proceeds will go to the Indianapolis Jazz Foundation’s Pat Holland Scholarship Fund for deserving students in music education. 15 cases of new CDs from all genres of jazz, collectable jazz posters and jazz wearables will be available, with certain items designated for a silent auction.

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Visions from another era filled the White Rabbit Cabaret Thursday night, courtesy of two bands perfectly suited for White Rabbit’s bar-that-time-forgot feel. Indy’s own Irene & Reed and Ft. Wayne’s End Times Spasm Band both exist in that fedora-and-opera-gloves ideaspace that’s equal parts classy and seedy — they’re the kind of bands you might see at the beginning of a mob movie playing the high-end bar while the snitches are getting beat up out back. Irene and Reed — respectively, erstwhile NUVOite Leslie Benson and onetime Form 30/Nimbus member Jason Milner — is very much a 1950s torch-song piano band. Milner keeps his head down, obscured by fedora, as he thunders away at the keyboard, while Benson plays the frontwoman, a femme fatale caressing the mike as she croons soul-searching lyrics and weaves tales of loss and hope. End Times Spasm Band aren’t kidding with that name. With their manic take on 1920s couture, they’re like a gang of libertine flappers straight from the cast of Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? Lead singer Lyndsy Rae Patterson is a spitfire, a ball of energy endlessly prancing and kickstepping across the stage in a crazed fusion of jazz moll and rag doll puppet with half her strings cut off. And a washboard with a cymbal. You know, because. But stagecraft aside, this is a seriously tight outfit that can make the harmony of guitar, bass, drum and, erm, kazoo make sense. Rae absolutely nails the jazz-age falsetto; she sounds like she should be coming out of a slightly scratching Edison phonograph. The name is more apt than it may seem at first. It’s chipper stuff, relentlessly happy and upbeat, but reminiscent of a time when the world really was ending and the only way to stay sane was to celebrate the moment. “This just in: you only live once!” Rae exhorted the crowd as midnight approached. “So if you wanna dance, go for it, and if you wanna holler, now’s the time!” —PAUL F. P. POGUE

Two local bands and one from Illinois showcased their stuff at a free show at Broad Ripple’s Rock Lobster Thursday night, previewing coming attractions at October’s Broad Ripple Music Fest. Bloomington-viaIndianapolis-based HotFox opened up the proceedings with their ballsy, dirty sound that combines some fierce guitar work with innovative songwriting. Songs by Hotfox like “We Are Not Machines” and “AK-47” really demonstrate the band’s ability to match lyrics and melody while telling an engaging story. “AK-47” tells the story of meeting a girl at a bus station and inviting her back to meet one’s dysfunctional parents. One would never believe these guys are only a year out of high school; the depth of their songwriting and overall cohesion seem to defy their age. Next up was Champaign, Ill.-based Elsinore, a quartet touring on the heels of the release of their EP “Life Inside an Elephant.” Playing after Hot Fox, these guys had a cleaner, more straightforward, power-pop kind of feel, making good use of the keyboard. Led by the long-haired and highly-skilled showman Ryan Groff, Elsinore delivered about a half-dozen short tracks, including several from the new EP. The soulful, haunting “The Thermostat, the Telephone,” from an earlier release, also stood out. Elsinore play heavy on the low end, while keeping things fast-paced and allowing Groff’s vocals to take center stage. They closed their set with a cover of Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” taking the ‘80s classic and making it their own while still delivering the goods. Rounding out the night were the Indybased Accordions, led by frontman Ben Bernthal variously on the auto-harp and ukulele. The combination of auto-harp with electric bass, guitar and drums gives the band a dramatic sound, with pace changes and vocal harmonies that carry an epic quality. Accordions are operating on a pretty sophisticated level, experimenting with odd instrumentation, time signatures and a cappella interludes. However, the nuances of Bernthal’s lyrics were drowned out for some reason, which tended to take away from the gravity of an otherwise innovative and engaging performance. —GRANT CATTON

SLEEPING BAG, EVERYTHING, NOW!, DMA, THE KEMPS Aug. 26, White Rabbit Cabaret

e The latest rock and roll success story to come out of Bloomington is Sleeping Bag, a trio of young cats whose highly-sophisticated re-interpretation of mid-’90s alternative angst has earned them glimmers of serious national attention. On Friday night this rising regional act put their new album on show for a bar full of eager fans, with local acts Everything Now!, DMA, and The Kemps rounding out the bill. It was the second to last night of the band’s 16-day tour, which wrapped up the

REVIEWS following night in Bloomington. According to drummer and lead singer Dave Segedy, the band arrived home from Thursday night’s show in Knoxville at the crack of dawn Friday morning, and some of them had to work on Friday. But that didn’t stop them from putting on a great show. Sleeping Bag opened with the fastpaced, low-end heavy “Desker,” on which guitarist Lewis Rogers — the youngster of the band, at 21 — showed his exuberance, taking some really interesting guitar explorations and bopping frenetically on stage, almost defying the band’s studied cool. Shortly after, the band played “Slime,” perhaps the best-known song from the album. Up next was “Rental,” a definite crowdpleaser with a gritty, sternum-rattling guitar riff and a jarring bass line (played by David Woodruff) that includes a melodic, two-part harmony almost reminiscent of a Mentos commercial. Another crowd favorite was “Ben,” which opens with Segedy’s lithe vocals and a swinging sort of beat, before evolving into a thumping chorus that includes the catchy and inscrutable lyric “I’m not that kind of a Christian, I’m not that kind of a Lutheran, it’s not that kind of a question.” The band wrapped up a few songs later with, quite appropriately, the last track on the album,

“Another Time,” which lays a kind of sugary, post-punk vocal harmony over a purealt beat and guitar sequence. Opening up for Sleeping Bag was a cast of characters including Indy-based experimental/garage band Everything, Now!, who have recently released an album of their own. One highlight was their rendition of “The Shelter,” from their 2008 album Spatially Severed. DMA, aka David “Moose” Adamson, formerly of Jookabox fame, played next. The one-man show used a guitar and a synth to loop his own hooks and beats for a quirky, heavily-electronic, sometimes roboticsounding performance, with songs like “I Like Having Fun” inducing laughs and cheers of recognition from the crowd. Indy-based garage rockers The Kemps closed out the night, keeping with the custom that a local band play last at the White Rabbit. One of the most exciting bands to come out of the Fountain Square scene, The Kemps have a sound that’s almost a throwback to the early days of punk — kind of like the Black Lips, but even grittier and more raw. If what you like is balls-to-the-wall rock and roll, I highly suggest catching these guys live very soon. —GRANT CATTON

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Plus, mudbogging rednecks Arkansas Time Machine, Back to the 1950s: In McGehee, a town of 4,200 in southeastern Arkansas, a black girl (Kym Wimberly) who had finished first in her senior class was named only “co-” valedictorian after officials at McGehee High changed the rules to avoid what one called a potential “big mess.” As a result, in an ironic twist on “affirmative action,” the highest-scoring white student was elevated to share top honors. Said Kym’s mother, “We (all) know if the tables were turned, there wouldn’t be a co-valedictorian.” In July, the girl filed a lawsuit against the school and the protocolchanging principal.

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• (1) Roy Griffith, 60, John Sanborn, 53, and Douglas Ward, 55, were arrested in Deerfield Township, Mich., in July and charged with stealing a 14-foot-long stuffed alligator from a barn, dragging it away with their truck, and using it to surf in the mud (“mudbogging”). When the gator’s owner tracked down the three nearby, they denied the theft and insisted that theirs is an altogether-different 14-foot-long stuffed alligator. (Ward’s blood-alcohol reading was 0.40.) (2) When deputies in Monroe County, Tenn., arrested a woman for theft in August, they learned that one of the items stolen was a 150-year-old Vaticancertified holy relic based on the Veil of Veronica (supposedly used to wipe Jesus’ face before the crucifixion). The painting had been stolen from the closet of a trailer home on a back road in the Tennessee mountains, where a local named “Frosty,” age 73, had kept it for 20 years with no idea of its significance.

Government in Action!

• Of the 1,500 judges who referee disputes as to whether someone qualifies for Social Security disability benefits, David Daugherty of West Virginia is the current soft-touch champion, finding for the claimant about 99 percent of the time (compared to judges’ overall rate of 60 percent). As The Wall Street Journal reported in May, Daugherty decided many of the cases without hearings or with the briefest of questioning, including batches of cases brought by the same lawyer. He criticized his less lenient colleagues, who “act like it’s their own damn money we’re giving away.” (A week after the Journal report, Judge Daugherty was placed on leave, pending an investigation.) • Gee, What Do We Do With All This Stimulus Money? The Omaha (Neb.) Public School system spent $130,000 of its stimulus grant recently just to buy 8,000 copies of the book “The Cultural Proficiency Journey: Moving Beyond Ethical Barriers

Toward Profound School Change” -- that is, one copy for every single employee, from principals to building custodians. Alarmingly, wrote an Omaha WorldHerald columnist, the book is “riddled with gobbledygook,” “endless graphs,” and such tedium as the “cultural proficiency continuum” and discussion of the “disequilibrium” arising “due to the struggle to disengage with past actions associated with unhealthy perspectives.” • Once hired, almost no federal employee ever leaves. Turnover is so slight that, among the typical causes for workers leaving, “death by natural causes” is more likely the reason than “fired for poor job performance.” According to a July USA Today report, the federal rate of termination for poor performance is less than one-fifth the private sector’s, and the annual retention rate for all federal employees was 99.4 percent (and for white collar and upperincome workers, more than 99.8 percent). Government defenders said the numbers reflect excellence in initial recruitment. • Bats’ Rights: In January, Alison Murray purchased her first-ever home, in Aberdeen, Scotland, but was informed in August that she has to relocate, temporarily, because the house has become infested with bats, which cannot be disturbed, under Scottish and European law, once they settle in. Conservation officials advised her that she could probably move back in November, when the bats leave to hibernate.

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• In June, the Five Guys Burger and Fries restaurant in White Plains, N.Y., was robbed by five guys (well, actually, four guys and a woman). One of the guys worked at Five Guys. All five “guys” were arrested. • Catch-22: NYPD officer James Seiferheld, 47, still receives his $52,365 annual disability pay despite relentless efforts of the department to fire him. He had retired in 2004 on disability, but was ordered back to work when investigators found him doing physical work inconsistent with “disability.” However, Seiferheld could not return to work because he repeatedly failed drug screening (for cocaine). Meanwhile, his appeal of the disability denial went to the state Court of Appeals, which found a procedural error and ordered that Seiferheld’s “disability” benefits continue (even though the city has proven both that he is physically able and a substance-abuser). • Unclear on the Concept: In April, Robert Williams conscientiously completed his San Diego police officers’ application, answering truthfully, he said, questions 172 (yes, he had had sexual contact with a child) and 175 (yes, he had “viewed or transacted” child pornography). Three weeks later, the police had not only rejected his application but arrested him. Williams’ wife, Sunem, said the police department has “integrity” problems because “telling the truth during the hiring process brings prosecution. ...”

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against them until he ejaculated. Police were unable to identify him but were concerned enough that they obtained an indictment -- “naming” the suspect only as whoever’s DNA it was who committed the subway crimes. In July 2011, they finally obtained a match, to Darnell Hardware, 26, who had been in the system repeatedly (drug and indecentexposure charges) but not until July in offenses that obligated collection of DNA.

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• News of the Weird has reported on life-sized, anatomically correct dolls manufactured in fine detail with human features (e.g., the “Real Doll,” as one brand is called), which are as different from the plastic inflatable dolls sold in adult stores as fine whiskey is to $2-a-bottle rotgut. An early progenitor of the exquisite dolls, according to new research by Briton Graeme Donald, was Adolf Hitler, who was worried that he was losing more soldiers to venereal disease than to battlefield injuries, and ordered his police chief, Heinrich Himmler, to oversee development of a meticulously made doll with blonde hair and blue eyes. (However, according to Donald, the project was stopped in 1942 and all the research lost in the Allies’ bombing of Dresden, Germany.) Among those who had heard of Hitler’s earlier interest, according to Donald, were the creators of what later became the Barbie doll.

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• In his signature performance art piece, John Jairo Villamil depicted both the excitement and danger of the city of Bogota, Colombia, by appearing on stage with a tightened garbage bag over his head and his feet in a bucket of water, holding a chain in one hand and a plant’s leaf in the other. At a May show at Bogota’s Universidad del Bosque, Villamil, 25, fussed with the tightened bag and soon collapsed to the floor, stirred a little, and then was motionless. The audience, likely having assumed that the collapse was part of the performance, did not immediately render assistance, and Villamil lost consciousness and died in a hospital five days later.

A News of the Weird Classic (April 1998)

• In March (1998), trial began in Lesli Szabo’s $1.7 million lawsuit against a Hamilton, Ontario, hospital for not making her 1993 childbirth pain-free. (Physicians said that painless childbirth cannot be achieved without the anesthesia’s endangering the child.) Szabo admitted to previous run-ins with physicians, explaining, “When I’m in pain, the (words) that come out of my mouth would curl your hair.” In the lawsuit, Szabo said she expected to be able to read or knit while the baby was being delivered. (The parties eventually settled the lawsuit.)

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