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WEIGHING OUR TRANSIT FATE If state assistance for Indy-to-Chicago route ceases, will Indiana miss the train?
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Managing editor Jim Poyser says goodbye
ou can’t not start with that box of shit. Really. I’m just sayin’ … in any retrospective on my almost twodecade tenure at NUVO, the box of shit stands out. The box was not necessarily meant for me, but when you are managing editor, stuff just ends up on your desk. Unfortunately for my colleague Scott Shoger, he took the initiative and opened the box. It was a box of poop, i.e. a baggie with turds, either human or canine, with specific pages pulled from recent issues of NUVO. The sender of the box of shit had made notes on the pages about the reflexive liberal persuasion of our columnists. It’s kind of touching to think how much time and effort it took to prepare the package. This was a few years ago. Recently, the same person did the same thing, another box, presumably full of shit. I say presumably, because when I received the box, I recognized the handwriting, and put the box outside on the porch of NUVO. A day or two later I remembered I put it there, went to get it, and sure enough it smelled of feces. If you are reading this, oh poop-sender, I extol you with my admiration for your creativity and aplomb.
The beginnings It was 20 years ago that my friend Charlie Sutphin started coaching me on how to get into NUVO. I was already freelancing for the Bloomington Voice, but I was living in Indy, so I really wanted to break into this market. Charlie had worked at NUVO and knew the then-current editors to whom I would pitch my work — Sharon Calhoun and Steve Hammer — and so he helped shepherd my work their way. My first theater review, if I recall correctly, was a review of a local production of Flowers for Algernon. If you’re not familiar with the play, it is about a mentally challenged protagonist whose IQ is deplorably low. He becomes part of a laboratory experiment in which he’s given drugs to improve his IQ, and it works, turning him into a genius before his predictable precipitous decline into a simpleton status. I wrote the review as a fractal to the play, starting off with short, blunt sentences filled with misspellings. Gradually, the language became more complex, ultimately reaching a post-doctorate level of rhetoric before plunging once again into misspellings and brute language. It was a theater review as well, pointing out 4 VOICES // 09.04.13 - 09.11.13 // 100% RECYCLED P APER // NUVO
problems and successes with the production. I delivered the review and held my breath. This unconventional approach was either going to get attention or get me booted. Sharon and Steve replied positively, and so my freelance gig as an arts reviewer for NUVO began.
Making things up In those days, there was a section in the front of the paper called StreetTalk, and my first foray into that more newsy-style section was inspired when I drove past a health fitness joint on Keystone Avenue. A statue of Atlas holding up the earth had been out front of the shop, advertising its prowess in toning bodies and whatnot, and one day it had fallen over, either through vandalism or natural gravity. I went home and wrote a piece that — with a straight face — told a story about how the man who held up the earth had fallen down on the job. It was not the last thing I made up for NUVO. A column I co-created with Joe Lee, called The Zeitguys, was a weekly, Onion-style faux news story that paired some goofy story I made up with one of his great illustrations. I published dozens of these in StreetTalk, and they were always labeled “satire.” Once uploaded to the web, however, the satire label wasn’t always so obvious. In one such Zeitguys column, I wrote about how George W. Bush had visited Indianapolis and Photoshopped the event to make it appear African-Americans were in attendance, when they in fact were not. I got a call soon after from a reporter from Slate.com who’d seen the story online and thought he’d found the scoop of the year. Imagine my embarrassment to have to admit to him that in fact the story was made up and mistakenly not identified as such. That mistake never happened again.
The death threat This Slate.com call was awkward for sure, but not nearly as awkward as the day I got
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Clearly, the reference to the box of shit coming from WRTV an WFYI is a joke.
a death threat via voicemail. Sure puts a box of shit in perspective, doesn’t it? It said something like “Next time I see you I am going to put a gun to your head and blow your brains out.” I was mortified, as you can imagine, but there was something odd about the message, because next, the person included his name, address and phone number. It took but a moment for me to realize that this person who left the voicemail was not the same person as the one being
named. And that in fact I was supposed to report this to the police, so that person would be confronted by the cops. Despite realizing this, I called the cops and shared the voicemail with them. I don’t know how that all turned out, but I did receive a letter from the Indianapolis Police Department offering to help me psychologically deal with the trauma of having had a death threat plied upon me. I put that letter into the scrapbook. In fact, it was that letter that made me realize I needed to have a scrapbook.
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The voices of madness I don’t know if my experiences are particularly unique, but I do know that the sheer volume of communications I’ve received over the years must be in the hundreds of thousands. Truly. Emails, phone calls, letters, carrier pigeons. OK, I’m kidding about the carrier pigeons part. But it’s a lot of communication. Too much to deal with elegantly or thoughtfully. But it’s the way of the world these days as fewer and fewer people take on more and more work. The handwritten letters are, by and large, the worst of the lot. The writers are often, well, I only play psychologist on TV, but I’d say some of these folks have real problems. Some are heartbreaking, like the many letters we receive from inmates. Over the years I began to recognize a kind of pattern. People occasionally stop by the office, and those are the people you are least likely to want to talk to. Sure, I wish I lived in a world where I could drop two or three of the 15 plates I’m spinning to sit down and listen to your story, but I just don’t. Frank Capra isn’t directing this current reality. If someone sends you a letter, then, as per the above, there’s a good chance they are bitching about something — usually it’s a homophobic rant of some kind. If someone calls you on the phone, well, that’s a problem too. I eventually created voicemail that encouraged people to email me. I would advise my colleagues not to answer their phones, either, but they would, and then I would hear a conversation go on and on … until the editor cried out they were on deadline and needed to hang up. An email was a great way to hear from people, and a Facebook notice, for me, was a bit of a nightmare. Best of all was a tweet, as that was the shortest and sweetest communication portal of all. See how all that lays out? The more archaic the form of communication, the less responsive I was. This is not the humane system. But it was the one I created to be able to handle the massive amounts of queries. But it must be said as well that every single day, we — editors, writers, photographers — put our work out there with our bylines, making ourselves vulnerable to criticism from people who can be anonymous. “The Lord rebuke you,” said one recent email. I am not sure what I did to receive that response.
I lived through the transition of Harrison Ullmann — first the transition of him from NUVO editor to staff writer and second, quite quickly after the first, the transition of him from living to dead. My appreciation for Harrison, already high during the time I knew him, has only grown over time, as I realize his combination of passion, courage, intelligence, history, wisdom and writing prowess was a rare thing indeed. There are other colleagues now dead with whom I had the privilege to work: Chuck Workman and David Lesh. The friendships that emerge from workplaces can be profound, as you all have experienced. It’s impossible to name them all in this little article, so I will simply note we became a family. There are the boxes of shit and the death threats and a thousand other stories, but what will remain for me are the people I got to meet, the stories we told, and the everyday laughter rippling through the office.
The path unfolds This decision to leave NUVO came about quite naturally, growing organically, so to speak, from my increasing concern about our climate crisis. First there was the bicycle I got just under 10 years ago, thanks to NUVO, when I received it from some promotions effort I can no longer remember. I only remember getting the bike, and the joy I felt riding it. Five years ago, I embraced it as a year-round means of transportation. Then there was what I learned from all of you in my capacity as an editor and a writer: your activism, your commitment, your urban gardening effort, your eco-organization’s efforts, your growing consciousness, your leadership. Two years ago, Kevin purchased Indiana Living Green from Lynn Jenkins, and that put my immersion in all-things-
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eco into hyperdrive. A year and a half ago, I stumbled on a story online about a 14 year-old girl suing the governor for not protecting her and her generation from dangerous pollutants, specifically fossil fuel emissions. This blew my mind. I looked into the story and discovered that the organization of origin for this initiative was Our Children’s Trust, an Oregon-based group helping young people get engaged in climate advocacy. Soon, I found some local allies in talking about this. First, Mike Blackwell, a law student at IUPUI, then Rosemary Spalding, an environmental lawyer. By the beginning of this year, Rosemary proposed that an effort to get youth engaged could fit nicely with her organization’s mission.
That organization: Earth Charter Indiana I thought it was a great idea, and attended some meetings. I knew a number of people associated with this group, most notably John Gibson, whose commitment to a clean, safe environment for future generations has earned him tremendous respect, as well as numerous accolades, including a NUVO Cultural Vision Award for Lifetime Achievement. In early July, at a morning meeting for this youth initiative, John turned to me and asked me if I’d quit my job to work for Earth Charter Indiana. Without a pause I said, “Yes.” I was not thinking about leaving NUVO. I love this job, love this publication and love Indiana Living Green. My “yes” came from somewhere deep, from my overwhelming desire to raise awareness and action regarding our climate crisis. While I have been able to grow as a citizen of the planet working with NUVO all these years, this opportunity to focus on climate issues full time was irresistible. Three weeks after that “Yes,” I walked
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into Kevin’s office and told him of my desire to transition to Earth Charter. His response? “It’s perfect, Jim.” He immediately understood the great fit it was for me to lead the Indiana chapter. I can’t thank him — or my NUVO family — for understanding my need for departure.
Housekeeping So what’s next? Someone wonderful will replace me and enjoy the sweetest job in the land. NUVO will continue its great work of giving voice to the voiceless. We’ll cease the monthly stand-alone publication of Indiana Living Green, opting instead to find a NUVO placement for it. Look for that on page 24. Me? I will be needing help with this new endeavor at Earth Charter Indiana: I’ll need youth, aged 12-20, who understand our predicament, and are pining to become climate leaders learning how to be better stewards of the earth and motivating others to do so. My jpoyser@nuvo.net email will be active for awhile longer. I have talked with so many people this year who are making profound changes in their lives. Not all of them are quitting their jobs so they can work full time for Mother Earth. No, they are making changes to focus more fully on what they love. Simple as that. We have little time left to enjoy our lives, our world, and each other, because soon we will be constantly doing battle with the weather — the wild, woolly weather that we have created with our consumerism and waste. Let’s use this time to build coalitions, partnerships, friends — across all the aisles. We have one planet and we are screwing it up, especially for our youth. Let’s get on the cleanup crew. And if you’re thinking of sending me a box of shit, please keep it, use it to fertilize the soil. See you out there.
Left, an offer for trauma counseling as a result of the death threat; below, the July issue of Indiana Living Green. ILG lives on each month in NUVO, see pg. 24
I’ve lived through a lot I certainly don’t feel rebuked by the Lord. In fact, I feel absolutely grateful for all the opportunities I had because of NUVO. Twenty years is a long time to work somewhere, and I am grateful to NUVO Editor and Publisher Kevin McKinney not only for gainful employment, but for a job that put me in the center of the life of the city. It was my job to learn about you, your organization, your brewery, your initiative, your deli, your bicycle advocacy group, your … you get the idea. It was my job to know what was going on in the city, and I tried my best to keep up. Impossible, but I tried. NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 09.04.13 - 09.11.13 // VOICES 5
WHAT HAPPENED? Rail Response State lawmakers representing Tippecanoe and surrounding counties and mayors of cities along Amtrak’s Hoosier State line — including Crawfordsville, Lafayette and Rensselaer — are all unified in their efforts to rally local support for the train ahead of an Oct. 1 federal deadline threatening to cut service. [See cover story, pg. 8 .] The response from leaders in Marion County is a little more varied. Beech Grove Mayor Dennis Buckley opposed a legislative effort earlier this year to enable voters to decide if the Central Indiana Regional Transportation Authority should expand local mass transit options — in part, he said, because Amtrak was not a part of the planning partnership. He is, however, 100 percent sure that Indiana should do everything it can to protect the line. “I’ll give you 61 million reasons why,” he said. “That’s what Amtrak contributes to the local economy.” Mayor Greg Ballard, who is a die-hard supporter of the mass transit bill, is not embracing advocacy of Amtrak in the same way; his spokesperson directed questions about the issue to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Planning Organization. The MPO’s executive director, Anna Tyszkiewicz, said she is waiting for INDOT to complete its study of the issue to see how it shakes out among stakeholders. “I want to make sure this doesn’t impact our regional (transportation) funding,” she noted. The Indianapolis-Marion County CityCounty Council members are not saying much either. In response to an emailed request for comment, only one councilor responded. “Yes on trains…. too many cars now,” wrote Councillor José Evans, a Republican from District 1 in the city’s northeast corner. “Gas is high and even my family has re-adjusted our budget. Only problem is that trains need to run faster.” — REBECCA TOWNSEND
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INDY RE-ENTERS SUPER BOWL FRAY Colts’ owner Irsay pledges to blitz every NFL owner for support of Indy’s 2018 bid B Y L ES L EY W EI D EN BEN ER EDITORS@NUVO.NET
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acing into Lucas Oil Stadium with their backs to the Indianapolis skyline, state and local officials said Friday the city will compete to host its second Super Bowl and bring thousands of people and millions of eyes to Indiana’s capitol city. Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard said officials notified the National Football League on Friday that the city wants a chance to bid for the game in 2018. Several other cities — including Denver, Minneapolis and New Orleans — are expected to compete as well. And despite what was overwhelming praise for the 2012 game in Indianapolis, Colts owner Jim Irsay said convincing NFL owners to give the city another Super Bowl will “take a mighty effort.” “I’m ready to do in and call in as many favors as I have from the other 31 owners,” he said. “You’ll see me blitzing on every down.” Still, the dignitaries gathered on a temporary platform near a Lucas Oil window that opens to the city said one after another that they believed the city could make it happen. “I’m confident we’ll be successful,” said Republican Gov. Mike Pence. “I know we’re going to get it,” said former Indianapolis Colts center Jeff Saturday. Allison Melangton, president of the Indiana Sports Corp., said cities had to let the
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Indianapolis Colts Owner Jim Irsay, then-Gov. Mitch Daniels, Mayor Greg Ballard and Mark Miles of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (and now chief executive of Indianapolis Motor Speedway owner Hulman and Co.) watch a highlight roll from the 2012 Super Bowl in Indy at a press conference last year announcing their intention to consider another bid. Last Friday, Indianapolis submitted its formal bid to be the NFL’s 2018 Super Bowl host city.
praising the game’s logistics, the fan experience and the thousands of volunteers who helped put together the event. But the city has strikes against it as well. Even though Lucas Oil Stadium’s roof and windows can be closed, it’s still considered a cold weather venue. There are not as many downtown lodging options as in some cities and there are larger cities in the running. “We don’t sell the beaches and the palm trees and the oceans and those types of things,” Irsay said. “But what we do sell is we do it better than anybody else and the personable type of hospitality and the way a city pulls together, we are the gold standard of how Super Bowls are run.” But the 2012 game dispelled concerns that the city was too small-market to handle such a big event, officials said. “We did set the standard for future Super Bowl bidders. We changed the game.” Studies found that more than 1.1 million people — including thousands of Hoosiers and out-of-state visitors — took advantage of activities in Super Bowl village. And a report by Rockport Analytics found that the
NFL know by Friday whether they were interested in hosting the game. NFL owners are then expected to narrow the list in October to a just a handful of cities that will be asked to submit formal bids in April. Finalists will then be asked to make in-person presentations at an NFL owners’ meeting. The Indianapolis effort will be led by a bid committee and supported by the Colts “We do it better than anybody else.” organization as well as state and city officials. Melangton — JIM IRSAY, OWNER, INDIANAPOLIS COLTS said that cooperation makes Indianapolis unique. By most accounts, game resulted in $176 million in direct ecoIndianapolis successfully hosted the game in nomic impact in the city. 2012. Sports and media officials praised the That report also found that 84 cents of city’s handling of big crowds and creation of every dollar spent during Super Bowl XLVI a Super Bowl village with a zip line, concerts remained in Indianapolis. and festival atmosphere. On Friday, officials “I like those numbers,” Ballard said. “I played a video montage of broadcasters like that return on investment.” And Ballard said the impact has also been long lasting, with increases in business for the city’s convention and tourism industry. John Livengood, president of the Indiana Restaurant Association and Indiana Hotel and Lodging Association, said most of the game’s impact was in Central Indiana – particularly in downtown Indianapolis. But he said visitors used hotels across the state and the overall impact was positive. “It was so huge it was hard to quantify — not only for the restaurants and hotels that we represent but for the whole hospitality community, the retail community, the people who live in Central Indiana,” Livengood said. “It was the best event ever. The idea that we’re going for it again is just spectacular.” Lesley Weidenbener is managing editor of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news service powered by Franklin College journalism students and faculty.
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ndiana stands to lose its Hoosier State Amtrak line from Indianapolis to Chicago if the state fails to identify $3 million in local funding to cover the train’s operating costs by a federally imposed Oct. 1 deadline. The deadline has been on the calendar for five years, since Congress passed the Passenger Rail Investment Improvement Act of 2008, which included a provision that required states with passenger rail service lines of less than 750 miles to take financial responsibility for the routes — or lose them. As part of the PRIIA’s mandate of railrelated funding equity among the states, a multi-state working group partnered with Amtrak to devise a “single, nationwide standardized methodology for establishing and allocating the operating and capital costs among the States and Amtrak.” In Indiana’s case, that methodology requires the state to cover 80 percent of the Hoosier State’s operating costs for fiscal year 2014, or $3 million by Oct. 1. As vocal groups of activists, from all points on the political spectrum, are rallying in support of the Hoosier State, others — most notably officials with the Gov. Mike Pence administration — are less than enthusiastic about the train’s value. Speaking to an auditorium packed with people at an Aug. 21 Amtrak summit in Lafayette, Troy Woodruff, chief of staff at the Indiana Department of Transportation, kept his message simple. “We’ve approached this with an open mind,” Woodruff said. “When [the PRIIA] came through Congress, we opposed it as an unfunded mandate. That position for 8
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us hasn’t changed. We don’t believe this subsidy should be the responsibility of the taxpayers of Indiana.” Woodruff’s rough analysis breaks down as follows: The Hoosier State line’s operating and equipment expenses of about $3.87 million for the upcoming year are anticipated to be offset with revenue of about $907,000. With an estimated 37,000 riders paying $23 per ticket, that leaves Indiana subsidizing each passenger by about $80, he said. INDOT spent an estimated $2.1 billion in fiscal year 2012. In anticipation of the pending deadline, the biennial budget passed by 2013 Indiana General Assembly endowed INDOT with the authority to fund the Hoosier State, but legislators did not require state officials to do so. In line with the “open mind” approach, Woodruff said that INDOT commissioned a study to analyze a variety of options, so officials can consider the cost of doing nothing, funding the line at its current service level or expanding the frequency and speed of the line to accommodate two or four trips a day.
Of course, added service and performance means added cost, Woodruff noted, arguing that revenue increases other states have seen as ridership grows in response to service improvements would not be alter his assessment of the bottom line: “There will be subsidization no matter what … unless we are willing to charge more (for tickets).” Though the study has yet to be released, Woodruff offered the audience a basic assessment of his agency’s thinking thus far. “We view this as a bad model, not a good investment,” he said. “Not that we won’t participate …” If keeping the Hoosier State is important to local communities and stakeholders, Woodruff added, “We will come to the table; we can work collaboratively with you, we will have a hand in this. We will be a piece of the pie, a sliver of the pie — but not the whole pie.”
Diverse dividends Rep. Randy Truitt, R-Lafayette, doesn’t look at the funding request as a subsidy. “The word is investment,” he said. “I look at this as a great opportunity to invest in something that may not fit a typical business model of revenue and investment.” Several summit speakers highlighted similar themes, arguing that investing in improved passenger rail service should be considered a critical component of the state’s economic development strategy — that the dividends of such an investment would be evident far beyond the train’s total ticket revenue. “I don’t personally see this as any different than TIF (tax-increment finance) investments or tax incentives,” Lafayette
Mayor Tony Roswarski said. “I see this as an investment in economic development — something we need to do.” In a global economy, he said, “competitiveness is paramount.” Speaker after speaker emphasized the importance of how Indiana relates to China and other economic leaders, in terms of attracting investment and recruiting top talent to study, work and raise families here. “The Chinese operate the largest highspeed rail system in the world; by 2015, they will operate nearly 16,000 miles and achieve their goal of uniting an extremely diverse nation,” said Arvid Olson, who helped organize the Amtrak summit and serves on the Greater Lafayette Commerce Quality of Life Council and as director of development at Faith Ministries. He noted that a train connecting the 1,428 miles between Beijing to Guangzhou takes 7.5 hours — and the seats convert to full-length beds. Part of Eric Angermeier’s role as general manager at Lafayette’s Nanshan American Advanced Aluminum plant involves welcoming Chinese companies looking to invest in the U.S. and, more specifically, Indiana. Chinese executives expect rail to be a part of the transportation mix, he said. “Expanding passenger rail would help attract investment and create jobs,” Angermeier said, noting Nanshan considers passenger rail to be a growth industry. “Selfishly, it is good for our business. We continue to believe passenger rail will continue to expand in the U.S.; it is growing quite rapidly. We hope Indiana can be part of that growth. We need to look for ways to keep it viable and expand.” A February 2013 study of the Midwest
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high-speed rail supply chain by the Chicagobased Environmental Law and Policy Center found that 99 Indiana business support the rail industry through manufacturing and related services — the second-largest number of rail-tied firms in the Midwest. For Indianapolis, greater ridership could be a boost for Union Station and Downtown business, noted freelance journalist Bill Malcolm, who attended a rail support-building meeting in Indianapolis on Aug. 19. “Indianapolis is unique among Midwest cities in having an Amtrak station steps from Downtown hotels,” he wrote in an email exchange following the meeting. “Since 60 percent of convention visitors come from Chicago, this needs to be more heavily promoted.”
Millennial milieu Not only do international executives view passenger rail as part of a modernized transportation mix, international students do as well. West Lafayette Mayor John Dennis noted that Purdue University supports the second-largest international population of any university in the country. “Do they come with cars and drivers licenses?” he asked. “No, they come with the expectation of an efficient and reliable transportation system. Passenger rail is not something they are optimistically hoping for, it’s something they expect.” More international students than ever — 1,837 or 6 percent of the student body — enrolled in IUPUI this fall. India surpassed China as the lead feeder country this year. More and more domestic students — and young graduates — are looking for rail options as part of the transportation mix as well. As president of the Purdue University Student Senate, Micah Matlock was the summit’s sole panelist under the age of 30. He confessed that when he first received the invitation to speak, he thought the panel was about expanding rail options and was “surprised” to find out that the topic involved possible cuts to service. As state officials conduct their cost-benefit analysis to determine whether an investment in Amtrak is warranted, Matlock encouraged them to consider the impact
GET INVOLVED To connect with passenger rail activists, visit the “Save the Hoosier State” and “Hoosiers for Passenger Rail” groups on Facebook. A stakeholders summit is planned for Sept. 11 in Indianapolis. HAVE AN OPINION YOU’D LIKE TO SHARE? Contact the following decision makers: Gov. Mike Pence at 317-232-4567 or via his website at in.gov/gov/2333.htm; Troy Woodruff, INDOT chief of staff at 232-5533 or indot@indot.in.gov and your state senator and representative. For a list of lawmakers, visit district.iga.in.gov/ DistrictLookup. of bringing new students into the state and retaining that talent. “Without rail, (students) will not be impressed with Indiana or want to stay here, period,” he said. Matlock added that, as far as making a business case for Amtrak, when Indiana succeeds in scoring students from out of country and out of state, “that is money coming from out of Indiana.” Among some other issues he considered to be relevant, Matlock said: “Amtrak is cool, the technology is cool. It’s good for the environment … and reduces wear and tear on highways. Airfare is not affordable and gas prices are rising. Also, tuition is frozen, but still … one of my friends just paid $450 for one book for one class. “All of these costs are not very easy on the pocket books of students.” Matlock said he would submit a recommendation on behalf of the Purdue University Student Senate that Amtrak be supported in Indiana. In analyzing the economic issues as stake when considering the Hoosier State’s fate, Lafayette Commerce’s Olson split his time between explaining the investments others are making in rail — in other states and S E E , T R A I N , O N P A G E 10 NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 09.04.13 - 09.11.13 // COVER STORY 9
“You don’t throw something away when it’s not working properly … let’s make this successful (and) find ways to make it more efficient and more effective.”
“Passenger rail is not something [international students] are optimistically hoping for, it’s something they expect.” WEST LAFAYETTE MAYOR JOHN DENNIS
“We don’t believe this subsidy should be the responsibility of the taxpayers of Indiana.” TROY WOODRUFF, CHIEF OF STAFF, INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
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TRAIN , FROM PAGE 09 around the globe — and in emphasizing that the millennial generation’s approach to life is quite different from that of generations before. “This is the slowest generation to buy a car in 60 years,” he said. “In 1982, 80 percent of 18 year olds had a driver’s license. In 2012, it was 60 percent. “Their dreams do not require 2.3 kids, a house in the suburbs and a fleet of cars. According to study after study … they have a new way of doing community.” Coming of age today means owning a smart phone, not a car, Olson said. “Why don’t they want to drive?” he asked, holding a smart phone is front of his face. “They can’t do this while they’re driving. “We need to preserve and enhance passive transportation.” Olson pointed to the competition Indiana faces in neighboring states. Normal, Ill., is about the same distance to Chicago as is Lafayette and, he said, that town has 10 passenger trains into the city, carrying 300,000 passengers a year. “They are starting to build high-rise apartments near the station because young people can live in an affordable, safe community and be in downtown Chicago in 1 hour and 45 minutes,” Olson said. “That is faster and cheaper than commuting everyday from Schaumburg or Elgin by car.” If the Hoosier State could generate the same amount of ridership, ticket sales, at their current $23 price point, would generate $6.9 million in revenue — more than two times next year’s projected annual operating costs. Hoosier State supporters also point to the environmental and safety benefits of rail. A letter the Hoosier Environmental Council is circulating in support of the Hoosier State notes: “Cars and light trucks use over one and a half times more energy per passenger mile than Amtrak trains. Improved rail travel means less dependence on oil, and lower motor vehicle emissions as travelers choose rail over auto travel.” The communities that rely on the Hoosier State are also the communities that clean up the accidents along I-65. Indiana’s highway deaths dropped 23 percent from 1994 to 2011, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System. Still, in 2011, 750 people died in Indiana auto accidents — 85 of those deaths occurred in Marion County. In 2012, 12 people died on I-65 in Indiana counties between Indy and Chicago.
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OBLIGATIONS — FY 2012*
Public Mass Transportation Fund $61
Debt Service $101
Other $19
Construction Development $234
Construction $1,031
Local Construction $269 Operating $388
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Total: $2.1 Billion
INDOT TOTAL RESOURCES — FY 2012* Local Match $48 State Highway Fund $543 Other Resources $10 PMTF Federal $17
Federal Funds $888
Public Mass Transportation Fund (PMTF) $44
State Highway Road Construction Improvment Fun $60
Major Moves $447
*Includes locally sponsored federal projects
Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. The trip takes five hours, leaving at 6 a.m. Eastern Standard Time and arriving in Chicago at 10:05 a.m. Central Standard Time. Return trips leave Chicago’s Union Station at 5:45 p.m. CST, arriving in Indy at 11:50 p.m. EST. The Hoosier State’s ridership hit almost 37,000 last year — an increase of 77 percent from 2002. During the first half of fiscal year 2013, ridership increased by 5.8 percent and revenue rose by 15.1 percent, making July 2013 the best revenue and ridership month in the line’s history, according to Ray Lang,
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Amtrak’s chief of state relations. When considering the potential to build ridership, increase revenue and improve performance, Lang noted that 42 percent of Indiana’s population lives within 25 miles of an Amtrak station. In addition, the line serves eight of Indiana’s college campuses. The Hoosier State also hauls equipment in need of repair to Amtrak’s maintenance facility in Beech Grove, a giant installation where an estimated 550 Hoosiers work on trains from all across the nation. The Beech Grove shop is the only Amtrak facility in the U.S. where services such as diesel engine repair
and dining car overhauls are performed. “It’s an important piece of the Amtrak network — we couldn’t survive without the Beech Grove facility,” Lang said. “It’s the only place we can maintain bi-level super equipment; that equipment will not fit under the wires on the East Coast.”
Beech Grove As Amtrak’s principal heavy maintenance facility, the Beech Grove shop — which covers 300 acres and houses 1 million acres of underroof shop space. The company estimates annual wages paid at $49 million. In addition, Amtrak estimated its annual 2012 Indianabased procurement expenses at $21.5 million. “In short, folks, Central Indiana cannot afford to lose this vital asset,” Beech Grove Mayor Dennis Buckley said. With regards to Woodruff’s contention that the $3 million expense of the line cannot be justified, Buckley said, “I respectfully disagree — and I’ll give you 61 million reasons why I disagree: That’s what Amtrak contributes to local economy.” The Hoosier State allows Amtrak to haul equipment on a passenger line, which gives it priority over freight trains. In fact, Lang said, the Hoosier State line grew out of Amtrak’s need to haul equipment to the Beech Grove facility without delay. Without passengers, the shop trains did not have priority over freight trains, sometimes delaying transport by more than 24 hours. Regardless of the Hoosier State’s fate, Amtrak’s Cardinal Line would continue to run between Indy and Chicago on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays as a part of longdistance route between Chicago and New York. But it would not offer the “shop train” flexibility that the Hoosier State enables. Moving forward, this dynamic raises the question of whether the Beech Grove facility could remain a vital maintenance hub for the company should Indiana forgo support of the Hoosier State line. On the flipside, with Amtrak expanding services and adding new amenities to its cars, summit speakers also said they can see the possibility of expansion at the Beech Grove shop.
Other states Fifteen states provided Amtrak with $191 million in operating support for 21 different routes during fiscal year 2011, the company said. Several states are pursuing aggressive upgrades with more frequent and faster service. In cases where Wi-Fi service is added, ridership jumps can be seen the next day, Lang said, noting that efforts to enable people to be more productive as they travel are meeting with “great success.” He highlighted the train-to-air market share rates between several cities where upgrades have been implemented. For the
route between New York and Washington D.C., Amtrak controlled 77 percent as of the first quarter in fiscal year 2012. Its Acela Express makes the 226-mile trip in just under three hours. On the 187-mile Seattle-Portland route, rail controls 69 percent of the market and for the 86-mile trip between Chicago and Milwaukee, 89 percent of travelers chose rail over air. “What that proves is with fast, frequent service, you can be a relevant transportation provider,” Lang said. Arvid Olson sees Indiana’s lack of rail investment in comparison to surrounding states as an even greater challenge than the immediate issue of whether state officials will save the Hoosier State. Between 2000 and 2009, of the $1.9 billion Midwestern states spent on rail investment, Indiana spent $150,000 — or about $15,000 a year. And rather than facilitate higher line speeds, Olson said, the state granted CSX’s request to reduce top speed on the line between Lafayette and Dyer from 79 to 60 miles per hour. Indiana’s lack of enthusiasm for rail investments left the state sidelined in a recent round of federal grant distribution. Between 2009 and 2012, the federal government sent Midwestern states $2.6 billion to support rail improvements. Indiana received about 3 percent of that money. “Only one grant was submitted by Indiana,” Olson said. “It was the Indiana Gateway grant to provide better access in Northwest Indiana for the three passenger trains operated by the state of Michigan on their increasingly busy
FUNDING MIDWEST PASSENGER RAIL TRANSPORTATION Midwestern states’ rail investment budgets 2000-09 Ohio Illinois Wisconsin Minnesota
$284,085,000 Iowa $241,314,314 Missouri $156,518,000 Michigan Indiana $132,250,000 Total $1,087,977,314
$110,000,000 $98,910,000 $64,750,000 $150,000
Federal Funds: 2009-May 2012 Midwest Funding: $2,564,839,563 Indiana Portion: $71,364,980 trips to and from Chicago.” As one of two Indiana appointees to the 11-state Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Commission, Rep. Truitt said he was disheartened to find that local rail service could not deliver him in a timely manner to the committee’s meeting in Kalamazoo, Mich. “Here I am, a commissioner from Indiana, and I couldn’t take the train,” Truitt said. He was, however, able to take a high-speed line from Chicago across northern Indiana to Kalamazoo that hit a top speed of 110 on its 2 hour-and-16 minute journey. That experience marked the high-point of his journey. The meeting itself just served to highlight
how far Indiana lagged in terms of rail assets. “All the states were bragging about their rail involvement and I didn’t have much to say,” Truitt said.
What’s Next With the deadline for cutting service just over three weeks away, Amtrak said four states at risk of losing routes have signed boiler-plate contracts to maintain existing service. INDOT officials have yet to determine a course of action as they await the results of the feasibility study, which they anticipate hav-
“Why don’t they want to drive? They can’t do this while they’re driving.” — ARVID OLSON, LAFAYETTE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ing by mid-September. No public meetings are planned to review the findings, though INDOT plans to publish the study to the department’s website site upon its release. State Sen. Brandt Hershman, R-Buck Creek, encouraged the audience at the Amtrak summit to approach rail advocacy in pragmatic terms. He asked people to think about and communicate what would inspire them to use rail service more often — or at all. “The challenge,” he said, “is to not pound the lectern and say, ‘We want rail service!’ But to go to lectern and say, ‘We want rail service and here is how we can make it work.’”
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REVIEWS DREAMS OF DUNELAND BY KENNETH J. SCHOON Quarry Books $30, u Known primarily for its state and national parks, the Indiana Dunes have been called the Midwest’s Grand Canyon and Yosemite by no less an authority than Carl Sandburg. Once stretching from Chicago’s southern border, all the way around the lower lip of Lake Michigan, the dunes are astonishingly beautiful. But they have also been a stage where, for over 100 years, America’s as yet unresolved quarrel between the exploitation and preservation of its natural resources has been enacted in terms that can fairly be called archetypal. A pictorial history of this fraught region could make for a fascinating, visually compelling book. But, its subtitle notwithstanding, a pictorial history is not what Dreams of Duneland turns out to be. More assembled than curated by Kenneth Schoon, a professor of Science Education at Indiana University Northwest, Dreams of Duneland feels like a travelogue, with history added for extra contextual ballast. As such, it’s a useful reference tool where you can leap from the names of wild flowers to the career of aeronautic pioneer Octave Chanute, find out about annual National Lakeshore programs (like Maple Sugar Time in March) and Frank Dudley’s brilliantly evocative landscape paintings. But as a coffeetable-style “pictorial history,” it’s a disappointment, seriously marred by a lack of editorial vision. — DAVID HOPPE
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Jabberwocky Storytelling Arts and IndyFringe’s monthly night of themed community storytelling is back with “My Old House: The Agony and Ecstasy of Historic Restoration,” including a few brave persons who have tried to restore houses, plus an open-mic featuring all-comers. IndyFringe Basile Theatre, Sept. 10, 6 p.m., FREE The Encyclopedia Show: Obsolete Diseases The kids most indubitably like themed shows ( This American Life, The Moth, Trampoline Hall). Thus we have Series 2, Vol. 5 of The Encyclopedia Show , a Chicago-born melange of, as they put it, improvisation, vaudeville and poetry slam. This time around, they’re talking rickets. Irving Theatre, Sept. 12, 7:30 p.m. Sheldon Vanauken: ‘A Severe Mercy’ Our pretty darn active Central Indiana C.S. Lewis Society is bringing in Will Vaus next week to talk about his biography of Sheldon Vanauken, an Auburn, Ind.-born author whose 1977 autobiography, A Severe Mercy, talks about how he and his wife returned to the Christian faith through the works of and a relationship with Lewis. That’s not all there was to him: Vanauken is credited by the Oxford English Dictionary as having coined the term sexist. Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, Sept. 13, 7 p.m., FREE Saul Williams Williams has translated the slam poetry (or just poetry) experience across media, from TV (as a Def Poetry Jam star) to film (he co-wrote and starred in 1998’s Slam, which won prizes at Sundance and Cannes) to the longplayer (2007’s The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust, which, like most of his recent records, match up his words with a full-fledged musical soundtrack). Do317 Lounge, Sept. 14, 8:30 p.m., $20
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.A. Powell is perhaps best recognized for his first three poetry collections chronicling gay life and the age of HIV: Tea, Lunch, and Cocktails. But to know him for this trilogy alone would overlook the fullness of his work and ambitions. His latest book of poems, Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry, shares glimpses of the rent boys, disaffected suburban kids, and migrant workers among the fields, poppies, and liquor stores of California’s rural Central Valley. His 2009 collection, Chronic, won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Powell has also received Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and teaches at the University of San Francisco and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Powell will read from Useless Landscape on September 10 as part of the Butler University’s Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series. He spoke with NUVO about his landscapes and how readers relate to the eroticism in his work. NUVO: You write about the vast agricultural center of California. Is that still an unfamiliar place for readers? D.A. POWELL: I think so. When I’m reading in places that have a strong history of agriculture, people get it. They really relate to the poems and they’re surprised, because sometimes they think, “I did have this conception of California as a coastline with a couple of big cities on it.” Iowa, Missouri, North Carolina audiences — they actually relate to the setting well because they can look around at their own backyard and see the changes that are occurring in the environment. You don’t have to be in California to experience that shift in American landscapes from small farming communities to large, industrial farming communities to bedroom communities or sprawling cities — we’re all experiencing that. NUVO: When you layer gay life and gay sex over these agricultural landscapes, is that another surprise? Things have changed a lot over the last 20 years. POWELL: I think my work, as experienced by an audience, is benefitting from that social change. It’s funny; there is heterosexual sex in my work, but no one ever complains about that. But I also meet so many queer people in rural areas who have experiences that feel analogous to some of the things I’m writing about, and I’m glad to be writing for them and their neighbors and friends. What
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I recognized after I had written the book is that I had naturalized queer life in a rural setting, and made it seem like it belongs there just the same as any other kind of life. NUVO: In the age-old theme of innocence versus experience, I’d guess you come
down on the side of experience. POWELL: How we grow as people is through experience. This book in particular is written for or from the psychology of someone who is on the verge of adulthood or teenhood. I am always surprised at how many young people are reading my books. And they don’t even necessarily have to be queer identified or questioning, but they know that the world is more complex than people let on, and they’re glad that someone is not holding back. Although I feel like I do hold back — quite a bit. NUVO: Your poems often link the decline of the body and the decline of the landscape. POWELL: I’m drawn to the work of metaphysical poets, Platonists, people who are writing about the world as a magical place. So I try to stay in that mind and to recognize that these natural cycles are larger than us, that things are always disappearing, things are always dying — but also that lots of new stuff comes along, too. Our task as humans, I think, is to get out in front of that change and have some sense of active participation in how it happens, so that we’re able to sustain life on this planet — not just for us but for children, and children’s children. There is a wistful quality to my landscapes, but at the same time, I feel like there’s also a sense of pleasure, a sense of enjoying the abundance while we have it — to celebrate the body and this life that you’re given, because who knows how long it lasts?
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Organizer 6Cents checks on work being done at 1605 Prospect. SubSurface Graffiti Expo Weather for this weekend’s Subsurface Paint Fest ran the gamut from blazing heat to torrential downpours. Still, 12 large Fountain Square walls were completed, in addition to new work at the group’s previous Palmer Street site. And there’s talk already of new walls being added for 2014. It could be argued that the near Southside now contains the city’s largest concentration of graffiti inspired art, though you may need a map to find some of it.
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Best bets include Warhol and Picasso at The Conrad and ‘Indy’s nicest day’
5X5 at Harrison Center It’s been a good run for 5X5, but the idea-pitching event winds up this Friday, after stops through the year at Big Car Service Center, Indianapolis Fabrications and Georgia Street. This installment’s candidates for the $10,000 grand prize? Brent Aldrich’s Near Eastside Neighborhood Arts project, which would implement public art projects in all 20 NESCO neighborhoods. Tiffany BenedictBerkson’s Hi, Indy Neighbor party series, designed to welcome new neighbors to the city. Marilyn Gatin’s I AM INDY, a map-based sculpture intended for the Monon Trail. Atsu Kpotufe’s 40 Kkm, a multi-disciplinary exhibition featuring Indy-based international artists. And Adrian Pumphrey’s Indianapolis Young Songwriter’s Guild, which would give young folk a chance to share their work. Also at the Harrison this Friday: I n Your Own Backyard, new paintings and sculptures by Kyle Harrington and the grand finale of The Bindery, a pop-up co-working space for Indy’s design community. Harrison Center for the Arts historic sanctuary, Sept. 6, 6:30 p.m., free Icons and Irony Just named one of fall’s 100 Best Shows by Modern Painters (the only Indianapolis show and one of only three Midwest to be so recognized), Icons and Irony features 40 or so works by guys like Andy Warhol, Roy
“Color Sentences” by Gautam Rau is at Gallery 924.
Gautam Rao: Unblocked Butler prof Gautam Rao was working in a figurative world like everybody else. But then he started to study patterns. Colors. Higher mathematics. And he found the journey downright pleasurable. See the results this month. Gallery 924, opening reception Sept. 6, 6-9 p.m., through Sept. 27
Lichtenstein, Pablo Picasso, David Kramer, Russell Young and Robert Indiana, including 25 works from Warhol’s 1953 Love Is a Pink Cake series, plus one of two examples of Lichtenstein’s brushstroke stamp. An all-star reason to add The Conrad to your First Friday itinerary. Long-Sharp Gallery (at The Conrad), opening reception Sept. 6, 6-9 p.m., through Oct. 11, modernmastersfab.com Quest for the West It’s a totally huge week for art collectors, what with the aforementioned Long-Sharp show and Penrod — and
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the Eiteljorg’s annual high-end art fair, which found 450 guests purchasing $870,000 worth of art in 2012. Participation runs $300 per person ($250 for Eiteljorg members) Friday and Saturday, but the show opens to the the general public (for the price of museum admission) on Sept. 7. The Eiteljorg, Sept. 6-7 (ticketed), Sept. 7-Oct. 6 (open to public)
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EVENTS Indiana Fever It’s crunch time for Fever, who, even with a sub-.500 record, have a pretty sure lock on the fourth playoff seed in the Eastern Conference — and could even score the second seed and home court advantage with some big wins this week. They’ll play a couple decent teams Sept. 4 (at Atlanta) and 6 (at Chicago), then return home against the worst-in-the-league Connecticut Sun. Three home games remain on the season, which the Fever will close out on the road Sept. 15. Sept. 7, 7 p.m., vs. Connecticut Sun Sept. 10, 7 p.m., vs. Washington Mystics Sept. 13, 7 p.m., vs. New York Liberty Indianapolis Indians Depending on how well they do against the Durham Bulls in the first round of the International League’s Governor’s Cup, the Indians will play one, two, three, four or five home games through Sept. 11. It all depends on how long the series vs. Durham runs — and whether or not the Indians make it to the second round (which would include home games Sept. 10 and 11). The Indians had the third best record in the league this year, but this is, of course, the season of the extended, 40-man MLB roster, meaning that the best AAA teams often lose their best players around Sept. 1. vs. Durham Bulls: Sept. 6, 7:05 p.m. — and if necessary Sept. 7 and 8, 7:05 p.m. White River Festival Walk and Fun Run It’s the summer of White River love — and it rolls along this month as the White River Festival offers a variety of informational programming, much of it family-friendly. An untimed run/walk hugging the back side of the Zoo, emerging onto the White River Greenway and zig-zagging along the Downtown Canal will kick off a Community Fun Day at the Indiana State Museum this Saturday. The Community Fun Day (9 a.m.-2 p.m.) will feature, among other activities, wildlife collage-making, live turtle-meeting, Big Car mascot-hugging, Polar Bear plunging, prey bird-admiring and watershed-touring. Sept. 7, 9 a.m., leaving from Indiana State Museum, $20 registration (children 6 and under FREE, discounts available)
College football Butler vs. Wittenberg Let us not forget about our local college football options. Butler got massacred last week by the nationally ranked South Dakota St. (14-55), but the Bulldogs, who tied for first in the Pioneer Football League last year, are expected to compete if not excel with 17 starters back. And if nothing else, it will be Band Day, and there will be a trombone feature. Wittenberg at Butler, Sept. 7, 6 p.m., butler.edu University of Indianapolis vs. Ashland And UIndy kicks off its season this week at home against a rather formidable opponent, the ninth-ranked (Division II) Ashland Eagles. The Greyhounds put up a 10-3 record last year and are ranked 19th entering the season, despite having lost some key contributors over the summer (notably, Great Lakes Valley Conference player of the year Mar’quone Evans). Ashland at UIndy, Sept. 7, 6 p.m., uindy.edu
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he Colts drafted two players from Stanford last year. We hear a lot about Andrew Luck, but how’s tight end Coby Fleener doing? Last season he put up admirable if not outstanding numbers: 26 passes for 281 yards and two touchdowns. Expectations are high for the second-round pick, who was hampered by an injury for most of the preseason but is expected to be ready to go this Sunday. When did Coby meet Andrew for the first time — and what is an electronic cleanse? Read on. NUVO: Are the players as excited about the NFL season starting as everyone else is? COBY FLEENER: Yeah, I think whether it’s the start of a new school year or the NFL season, it’s the same kind of feeling. You enjoy your time off, but once the season comes around again, you start to get those feelings of excitement.
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NUVO: When did you first know you could play in the NFL? FLEENER: Midway through college, I would say. NUVO: What are the main differences between the college and NFL game? FLEENER: A lot of people say the speed of the game, but I don’t necessarily agree. I think it’s that players are a lot more savvy. They understand the small nuances of the game that get overlooked by younger players. Part of it is you don’t really beat anybody badly in this league. If you are a foot away from someone, you’re open. Whereas in college, you can get away with 10 feet of separation, now you have to catch the ball with someone on you at all times.
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That other guy from Stanford talks about going pro and meeting Andrew Luck visit to the school. Who could have predicted how closely we would be tied? To think back, it’s kind of funny showing him Stanford, and now he’s my quarterback in the NFL. NUVO: How sore are you the night after a game? FLEENER: It varies from game to game. Sometimes you get back and you just want go lay in your bed for days on end — and sometimes you go back, and you are ready to go that night or the next day. Anytime you get out of a game feeling good, you are thankful for it. NUVO: What is the coolest part about being an NFL player? FLEENER: I think what’s cool is being able to interact with the fans, and how the simple gestures of signing an autograph or saying ‘Hello’ can brighten up someones day. I especially like talking to little kids that come to practice, during camp — or during a game, when you can talk to them when they’re in the first row. It’s really cool to see them light up. NUVO: Do you prefer playing with the roof opened or closed at Lucas Oil Stadium? FLEENER: Night game or day game? Sometimes it’s tough. The ball is going in and out of the shadows, but then sometimes the lights can be in your eyes. There are so many variables. I would just say, whatever the fans want. NUVO: Last concert you attended? FLEENER: The Band Perry and Rascal Flatts at Klipsch Music Center. NUVO: Who is your favorite athlete of all time? FLEENER: Michael Jordan would be a tough one to go against. I was born and raised in the Chicagoland area. Walter Payton is up there too.
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NUVO: If you weren’t a pro football player, what would you be doing?
FLEENER: It’s a totally different atmosphere, and it’s definitely a work environment. Players go home to their wife and kids as opposed to going back to the dorm room with their buddies.
FLEENER: That’s a very good question. I wish I knew for after the NFL, but I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up. (Laughs) Sometimes I enjoy writing. I have a blog: CobyFleener.com.
NUVO: Can you remember the first time you met Andrew Luck? FLEENER: The first time I met Andrew Luck was at Stanford. I was actually his host on his
NUVO: Could you go a month without your phone and other electronic devices? FLEENER: I would love to go without for a month, but I would also say I’m addicted. (Laughs) I know that I am, so I think a month would be good for an electronic cleanse.
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OPENING Riddick Vin Diesel fights against alien predators and bounty hunters and time and gravity and aging. The third in the Riddick series, rumored since 2006 and following 2004’s The Chronicles of Riddick and 2000’s Pitch Black. R, Opens Thursday in wide release
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Blue Jasmine e Jasmine (Blanchett) lived in New York and had it all, until her husband (Alec Baldwin) was arrested by the feds and hung himself. Now she’s off to San Francisco to live with her sister, Ginger (Sally Hawkins). A good movie, one of Woody Allen’s best in years, but the draw here is Cate Blanchett, who takes an off-putting character and makes her surprisingly riveting. As maddening as Jasmine is, she is clearly wounded and striking out from a fragile state. PG-13, At Keystone Art & AMC Castleton In a World … r Lake Bell (Children’s Hospital) writes, directs and stars in a screwball comedy about a woman struggling to break into the mostly male world of voiceover announcing, which puts her in competition with her father (Fred Melamed), a giant in the field. The cast includes Rob Corddry, Michaela Watkins (Enlightenment), Ken Marino ( Burning Love), Nick Offerman and other hip names. The goings-on get sitcommy, but the romantic comedy is funny. R, At Keystone Art The World’s End r Director Edgar Wright and actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost re-team after making the popular comedies Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz for a story about an arrested adolescent (Pegg) dragging his friends on a pub crawl during which a sci-fi movie breaks out. The friends include Eddie Marsan (the hot-headed driving instructor in Happy-Go-Lucky), Paddy Considine ( In America) and Martin Freeman (Dr. Warson in the PBS version of Sherlock Holmes). Impressive cast. The movie takes a while to get rolling, but once the boys start to loosen up, the movie kicks into high gear. R, In wide release Getaway u Ethan Hawke, Selma Gomez and Jon Voight star in the story of a race car driver (Hawke) who is forced to go on a dangerous mission after his wife is kidnapped. Selma Gomez plays a hacker who provides support for poor Ethan, while the voice of Jon Voight barks orders. It’s just a bad car chase movie – one chase after another until you go into a coma. There’s one killer scene, but don’t spend good money for one good scene in a crapfest – you can catch it on Spike or TNT in a few months. PG-13, In wide release — ED JOHNSON-OTT
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he Grandmaster is a gorgeous, ornate visual feast. The tone is reserved, melancholy in the best sense of the word. The martial arts scenes are pure poetry, visually coherent with every frame meticulously composed. The stars of the film are charismatic actors Tony Leung (Lust, Caution, In the Mood for Love) and Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha). The movie comes from gifted filmmaker Wong Kar-wai (Chungking Express, Days of Being Wild, In the Mood for Love), who spent the last five years working on the production after rolling around the idea for much longer. The big question is whether to see the film in a theater, where the spectacle is best presented, or on video (a 2-disc package is currently available), where you can see longer versions of the film. There are at least three versions floating around. The one in American theaters is 22 minutes shorter than the version most widely shown elsewhere. Thank the Weinstein Company for that – they ordered the chopping, along with the addition of lots of exposition to clarify the story. I hate it when a studio messes with an artist’s work. Wong supposedly gave his approval to this version, but still… I’ve only seen the version of The Grandmaster playing in Indianapolis theaters, so I can’t speak to the other editions. I can tell you that the film I saw was confusing. The exposition – through voiceovers and onscreen text – offers explanations, but all the yakking blurred together after a while. The philosophy is stated upfront: “Kung fu equals two words: horizontal and vertical. The one lying down is
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out, only the last man standing counts.” The story is a stylized bio of Ip Man, the martial arts master best known for teaching Bruce Lee and popularizing the Wing Chun style of kung fu. The story addresses a national crisis that requires the masters of different forms of kung fu to come together. Ip Man, played by Yeung, is a crucial figure to the process of unification. He spends most of the movie dueling/demoing his way around the country and having a doomedfrom-the-start would-be romance with the
very proper Er (Zhang). Ip Man is married with children, but they are marginalized in this version of the story (the tragic fates of his children are mentioned only in passing). I could paraphrase the plot in detail from the press notes, but that seems like a cheat. My experience with the film was this: I marveled at the beauty, tone and martial arts majesty throughout the less-than-two-hour running time. Story wise, I felt oriented at first, only to grow confused as the story progressed. After a while, I stopped trying to make sense of the plot and contented myself with enjoying the production’s audio-visual assets. I was bored by a few scenes and became achingly aware of the film’s lack of even a hint of humor. But despite the problem areas, I felt enriched by the experience of The Grandmaster. It’s a shame what it isn’t, but what it is is still remarkable.
FILM EVENTS Road to Morocco (1942) The third of the Road to... series starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour — and a pretty good answer to a question of why people ever thought Bob Hope was funny. In 35mm. Artcraft Theatre (Franklin), Sept. 6 and 7, 2 and 7:30 p.m., $5 adult (discounts available), historicartcrafttheatre.org Bike-IN Movies: Ghostbusters (1987) It’s the final Bike-In film of the summer. You don’t have to ride your bike to watch but you ought to. Screening just outside the Garfield Park Arts Center. Food trucks available for refreshment purposes. Garfield Park, Sept. 6, dusk, FREE, gpacarts.org
Black Gold Black Gold (2006) Did you know that Bloomington was named the 33rd Fair Trade Town in the U.S. this July, in recognition of its support for fair trade principles? Now you do. And to keep that discussion going, Fair Trade Bloomington will present a documentary this weekend juxtaposing poor Ethiopian coffee farmers and Westerners who pay a high cost for their goods. IU Cinema (Bloomington), Sept. 8, 6:30 p.m., FREE
NFB of Canada Animated Shorts Program An HD Cam presentation of shorts from across NFB’s quite rich history, including Norman McLaren’s 1952 anti-war short Neighbors (which uses live actors as stopmotion objects) and 1974’s The Owl Who Married a Goose, animated using sand. IU Cinema (Bloomington), Sept. 6, 6:30 p.m., FREE, cinema.indiana.edu F for Fake (1973) and The Hoax (2006) Chicago Sun-Times editor-in-chief Robert Elder will be in Bloomington Saturday afternoon to sign copies of his latest book The Best Films You’ve Never Seen and introduce one of those films, Orson Welles’s sublime film essay F for Fake.
Followed by a screening of director Lasse Hallstrom’s The Hoax, which dramatizes the relationship between forgers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving that’s depicted using documentary footage in F for Fake. Both in 35mm. IU Cinema (Bloomington), Sept. 6, 3 p.m. (F for Fake) and 6:30 p.m. (The Hoax), each $3 Magnetic Storms (2003) Director Vadim Abdrashitov will present his film about a love triangle, labor riots and other unrest in late ‘80s Russia that Variety called “Stylistically mesmerizing, viscerally powerful yet virtually incomprehensible.” IU Cinema (Bloomington), Sept. 10, 7 p.m., FREE
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Michigan has long been known for its apples, cherries, blueberries and more. Indiana has raspberries, blackberries, and peaches, and more. Winemakers have been turning those fruits to wines for decades. But what do you do for dinner if your wine rack only has fruit wine choices? Just use a dose of logic, like pairing a cranberry wine with poultry — or a raspberry wine with just about anything chocolate. The sweetness level of the wine will set the bar for sweet, semi-sweet, or a robust dark chocolate dessert. Generally, wine drinkers will think of a sweeter Riesling or Gewürztraminer for spicy Asian food. Why not try a peach wine with a spicy pairing? You might be surprised how well it complements big strong flavors. You can always fall back to grape wines and pair a semi-sweet, Midwestern Traminette. Huber Winery, with Indiana’s biggest vineyard and acres more of fruit and vegetables, makes Peach, Strawberry, Apple, and Blackberry wines. “We partner one of our semi-sweet sparkling wines with a peach and a graham cracker as an appetizer,” said Dana Huber, Huber Winery. “But obviously people just enjoy them as a perfect glass of wine independent as dessert in a glass. Certainly brownies or cheesecake can be a great match as far as sweet wines.” “We’ve had some customers marinate steaks in our blackberry wine which it gives it a really nice tenderness and a little sweetness on it,” she says. “The sweet wines are definitely something home cooks can use in their recipes.” Doty’s winery produces an award-winning cherry wine that’s great with desserts. “One of the things with the cherry we recommend is to try it with goat cheese,” she said. “It sounds weird, but it’s really a great match.”
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irst, a definition. Spent grain refers to the barley or wheat left over after separating liquid from mashed grain in the brewing process. But it’s only “spent” in terms of the brewing process. It can live another life — to feed livestock, companion animals or human beings (as an ingredient in baked goods); even as biomass to power, in part, a brewery (Alaskan Brewing Company). Closer to home, urban farming initiative Peaceful Grounds and several local breweries are teaming up to feed worms and make soil using spent grain. It all started when Andrew Castner, head brewer at downtown’s RAM, needed to find a way to get rid of the spent grain produced by The RAM and Rock Bottom Downtown. He reached out to the community for ideas and, Castner says, “the most interesting and environmentally responsible option was a local gardening initiative that wanted to use the nutrient-rich brewery by-product to make soil.” He’s talking about Global Peace Initiatives, which has been growing food to feed the hungry in Indianapolis for the past eight years. “We are involved in food system development because if you are hungry, there is no peace,” explains founder Linda Profitt. If you can’t even grow a tomato in your yard because of contaminated soil, something has to be done.” “Urban redevelopment is a big interest of mine,” Castner says. “When Linda spoke about soil contamination in our downtown neighborhoods from 100 years of human pollution and how her company is hoping to help fix that, it struck a
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personal chord with me.” Peaceful Grounds, the latest GPI initiative, was developed to show the public what a mature year-round urban food system looks like. Proffitt believes urban growers have to start from the ground up so the organization has been worm farming to develop safe soils. “The worms like the brewer’s spent grain because it fits right in their mouth,” she says. Peaceful Grounds recently relo-
cated its entire operation to the Marion County Fairgrounds, where the Cattle Barn has become “Worm Central.” “I am a die hard recycler,” says Jerry Sutherlin, head brewer at Rock Bottom downtown, “So anything that is going to help clean our littered land, I am for it. Other than the obvious need to remove spent grain from the brewery, knowing that a by-product of my labor of love can aid in the process is very rewarding. After speaking with Linda and getting more of an understanding of the composting process, I am going to start a program at home.” “People are becoming more and more aware of their food sources, often looking locally for options,” Castner says. “If you combine this with a new generation of people highly interested in urban living in the Indianapolis area, urban farming is, and will become, even more of a civic interest. Peaceful Grounds will be there to make it happen. We have done a bit of social media to help Peaceful Grounds, and I am always willing to talk up Linda and her group with anyone who will listen.” “Nary a brew day goes by when a guest doesn’t poke his or her head in the brewhouse and ask “what is that stuff?” and “what do you do with it?”” Sutherlin says. “After explaining the brewing process and our relationship with Peaceful Grounds, that guest is very impressed and I am very proud to get the word out that breweries can be a productive part in the green movement in a community.” Groups and individuals can participate by volunteering at Peaceful Grounds by appointment. Write info@globalpeaceinitiatives.net for information.
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IPL to reduce mercury emissions IPL announced on Aug. 15 plans to invest $511 million in creating and installing new environmental controls at their Petersburg and Harding Street coal plants to reduce mercury emissions. The new environmental controls will reduce mercury emissions by 80 percent and complies with the EPA’s new Mercury Air Toxic Standards (MATS). “IPL is focused on continuing to provide safe, reliable and affordable energy by retiring older, less efficient units and investing in cleaner generation,” said IPL President Kelly Huntington in a press release. Construction will start in the fall on the Petersburg plant and will create between 350 and 400 construction jobs. Not everyone is excited about the construction. Indiana’s Beyond Coal Campaign continues to urge IPL to skip the new outfitting and retire the coal plants all together. “Instead of locking families into a future of higher bills and more toxic pollution from coal-fired power plants, IPL should heed the calls of thousands of Indy residents by retiring the dirty, outdated Harding Street coal-fired power plant and moving Indy toward a renewable energy future,” said Jodi Perras, Indiana’s representative for the Beyond Coal campaign. The nation’s largest trash incinerator? The citizens of Logansport are protesting a proposal by the City of Logansport to build an incinerator that claims to turn burning trash into energy. If the proposal goes through, the incinerator will be the largest one in the country. The city has appropriated $1.5 million to research the incinerator and prepare contracts for its construction. Operated by Pyrolyzer LLC, the incinerator would replace the city’s current coal-fired power plant as an alternative energy source that could possibly reduce emissions. Citizens, however, are skeptical of the incinerator and its environmental impact. After reading through the Logansport Utilities Report on the plant in which water is cited as a cooling agent in many steps, citizens are concerned with the amount of water needed to operate the incinerator and whether or not the used water will return to the environment tainted by pollution. On the flipside, some citizens are in favor of the proposal in hopes the plant will bring new jobs to the area and reduce the amount of refuse in the landfill. Plus, anytime a coal plant is replaced, angels sing.
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IPL pays customers to “Ditch Your Fridge” Indianapolis Power and Light is handing out checks to customers as part of their “Ditch Your Fridge” program in an effort to encourage customers to recycle outdated and unused refrigerators and freezers. Not only will IPL pick up ye olde refrigerator and haul it away, they will also give you $30 for it. Additionally, IPL says customers could save up to $150 a year on their electricity bills by eliminating a geezer refrigerating unit. After pick up, the units are taken to JACO Environmental where hazardous materials are removed and materials such as glass, metal and foam are recovered and repurposed into new manufactured products. IPL will accept two refrigerating units per household per year and all units must be functional and between 10 and 30 cubic feet in size. For more information on the program or how to participate please call (877) 395-5535 or visit IPL’s website at IPLpower.com/DitchYourFridge. Indiana nation’s top water polluter Known for being one of the worst environmental states in the nation, our fine state now tops the charts for releasing toxic chemicals into waterways. The goo is primarily released from factories — and Rockport’s AK Steel Corporation in particular accounts for 83 percent of toxic releases into state rivers, lakes and streams, according to data reported to the Environmental Protection Agency. Conducting an analysis of this surface-water discharge data by the EPA, the Indianapolis Star states that factories in Indiana release 21.96 million pounds of toxic chemicals into waterways. That’s five million more pounds than Virginia, which ranks second in the nation for toxic chemical release. Nitrate compounds make up the majority of released chemicals and the EPA warns that high levels can cause blue baby syndrome, a condition in which hemoglobin levels are reduced, making it harder for blood to carry oxygen throughout the body.
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save energy and therefore, electricity costs, but the replacement lamps cost more initially. Margaret from ABI shared this: Let’s think of it this way: over the lifetime of one 10W LED bulb, you would need 30 60W incandescent bulbs. In addition, you would be saving $131 in energy by switching to LED! Your monthly savings in energy would be $3.69, much more than the cost of one incandescent bulb. Piece out, Renee, Dad & Margaret
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n the corner of Henderson and Hillside in Bloomington, a small café named Feast has a large impact on the community through locally sourced foods and its emphasis on sustainability. Feast’s owners hold sustainability near to their culinary hearts. Manager John Zadlo points out that the restaurant doesn’t just focus on sustainability for sustainability’s sake, but for better food. “The owners [Erika Yochum, Jennifer Burt and Pat Sellers] are definitely very eco-minded,” he said, “and source locally not just for sustainability, but also to share better quality and better food.” Much like Indiana weather, Feast’s menu is constantly changing — not just for the season, but week by week. Feast deals directly with local farms to craft their menu. Working closely with farmers means adapting to what’s available. Zadlo used a recent example where a farmer arrived with boxes of tomatoes. Local availability works both ways. For instance, local farms didn’t produce a strong spinach crop this year due to flooding. Whereas spinach salad would usually grace the summer menu, it had to be removed. Feast provides vegetarian, vegan, meat and gluten-free options with each menu, all with a local focus. Individual dishes are designed to show off their ingredients. “It’s definitely a balance,” Zadlo said. Feast’s eco-consciousness doesn’t stop with food. “We do monitor electricity closely, use up-to-date machinery, and compost food,” Zadlo said. Some scraps become feed for farmer’s chickens. Very little goes to waste, he said. The restaurant purchases in bulk for less packaging, and makes products in small quantities to reduce waste. Food is prepared in small quantities, and coffee is roasted in small batches, using the French
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press method to conserve energy. Feast’s efficiency doesn’t just benefit the environment, but is necessary for working in close quarters. All food is prepared in the restaurant, including catering and farmer’s market operations. Zadlo recalled a catering event last summer for 250-300 people. All food needed to be prepared and transported on a tight timeline. “It’s difficult, but we’ve gotten around the fact that it’s small,” he said. Everything is made in-house, from the pastas and sauces to bread and tamales. Feast has become known for their handmade tamales, showcased in the restaurant as well as Bloomington’s and Broad Ripple’s farmers markets. The tamales too represent the diversity, attention to detail and local-driven focus everything in the restaurant has to offer. From local meats to in-season vegetables and local cheese, the tamales come any way you want them — vegan, vegetarian or otherwise. Tamales aren’t the only popular item. Some café items make reoccurring appearances throughout the year, including tiramisu, made by the owner’s mother, and the crème brulee cheesecake bar. For lunch, the BLT is a favorite. Available on locally made gluten-free bread as an option, the bacon comes from Smoking Goose, the goat cheese from Capriole Farms and the tomatoes from Heartland Farms. Sandwiches are served with roasted sweet potato fries. The dinner menu changes so frequently, there aren’t really repeat favorites, but spanakopita and veggie hand pies are popular savory bakery items. Feast highlights the best bounty Indiana seasons have to offer, and does so with as little eco-impact as possible. NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 09.04.13 - 09.11.13 // INDIANA LIVING GREEN 25
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Convocation: “American Dream 2.0: Creating an Economy that Works for Everyone.” Wednesday Sept. 4, Earlham College’s Office of Sustainability will be hosting speaker Van Jones as part of their Speaker and Film series themed around Energy and Power this year. Van Jones is the founder of Green For All; president and co-founder of Rebuild the Dream; and a former green jobs advisor to the Obama White House. Green For All is an organization that strives to bring green-sector jobs to underprivileged communities while Rebuild the Dream is a program for people-centric innovations to help solve the U.S. economy. Admission is free and no tickets are required for this event. Wed., Sept. 4, 1-2:30 p.m, Carpenter Hall, Goddard Auditorium 801 National Road West, Richmond. FREE. Stillwater Marsh Hike Sycamore Land Trust is hosting a marsh hike on Wednesday Sept. 25 in which participants will have an opportunity to discover the beauty of Stillwater Marsh. Hikers may even be able to see some of the marsh’s many inhabitants as they walk from point to point! Participants should be prepared to walk with purpose along the trails. This event is free for Sycamore members and non-members have a suggestion donation of $5 per adult and $10 per family. Interested hikers must RSVP by Sept. 20 and the hike is open to the first 15 who sign up. Meet at Stillwater Marsh Overlook on McGowan Road at 10 a.m. Wed., Sept. 25, 10 a.m.-12 p.m, Stillwater Marsh Overlook, Bloomington. FREE for members, $5-10 for non-members. Goshen Market Tours & Talks Come join the Michiana chapter of the Sierra Club for tours and discussions surrounding the Goshen Farmers Market and connecting farmers and consumers. Anyone interested can join the group on Tuesday Sept. 18 at 5:30 p.m. at the Goshen market. The Goshen Famers Market Manager will discuss with the group food projects in Goshen and the Transition Goshen movement in Rachel’s Bread, which will have food available for purchase. Afterwards, there will be
SEPTEMBER EVENTS an optional tour to the Maple City Market just a few blocks away. After the tour the group will make a stop at a local restaurant for food and drinks. Tues., Sept. 18, 5:30- 7:30 p.m, Goshen Farmers Market, 212 W. Washington Street, Goshen. Frogapalooza 2013 Join the Little River Wetlands Project for their 4th annual fundraiser Frogapalooza at Sweetwater Sound on Friday Sept. 20. Guests are encouraged to wear green business casual dress to celebrate the namesake wildlife as they enjoy wine and hors d’oeuvres. Dinner will be provided by Catablu and served amidst a live auction featuring Justin Hoover. Auction items include exciting getaways, theater packages, kayak trips, handcrafted jewelry and more. All proceeds will go to the Little River Wetlands Project. Tickets are $100 per person or $800 for a table of eight. Fri., Sept. 20, 6 p.m., Sweetwater Sound, 5501 US Highway 30 West, Fort Wayne. $100 per person or $800 per table of eight. Chemistry in Motion: 246th ACS National Meeting & Exposition A busy day full of activities, workshops, celebrity speakers, lectures and symposia, this conference brings together leading scientific minds to discuss various interesting chemistry topics, including “The Chemistry of Racing,” “Helping the Public Get Beyond a Blind Date with Science,” and Dr. Harry Gray’s keynote address, “Powering the Planet with Solar Fuel.” Alton Brown of the Food Network will also be giving a presentation on the science behind food and cooking. Sept. 8-12, Indiana Convention Center, 100 S. Capitol Ave. Prices vary. For these events and more, see indianalivinggreen. com/events.
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20 YEARS FOR MIKE Monday, August 27, 1990. Stevie Ray Vaughan is declared dead after a helicopter accident in East Troy, Wisc. Three years later, one Mike Milligan would embark on his own blues journey, forming Mike Milligan and Steam Shovel at Ball State University, never knowing that his pursuit would one day unite him with his hero’s bandmates. Twenty years after Vaughan’s death, Milligan would be asked to perform in Nashville with Double Trouble, Vaughan’s iconic backing blues group, for the twenty-year anniversary of the blues legend’s death. Through this opportunity, Milligan would also eventually be signed as a Fender artist. Opportunities such as this have brought Milligan to believe that the spirit of Vaughan has maybe had a hand in his career all along. “I’m not saying that I’m cool enough or deserving enough for Stevie Ray Vaughan to notice who I am, but once in a while I sure feel like he has guided me in a way,” Milligan says when we chat before his trio of anniversary shows. “I don’t know if that sounds like I’m big-headed or egotistical that somebody like Stevie Ray Vaughan would even have time for me, but once in a while, it sure feels like somebody on the other side has pulled some strings for me.” On Friday, Sept. 6, Mike Milligan and Steam Shovel will be celebrating their own 20th anniversary, with a show at Birdy’s. The show will be the second of three 20th anniversary gigs for the band. “In’93, I was seriously buying stamps and mailing out tiny little postcards every month or so to a handful of people that signed up on our mailing list at our shows,” Milligan says. “I had to physically be somewhere for them to know about us. And we still do that. I look at every show like, ‘Hey this show is important. Even though we’re playing at Joe Schmoe’s Bar and Grill down the street, we still need to do these shows because we reach people that way.” Steam Shovel has had many incarnations over the years; however, it currently includes Mike on guitar and vocals, his brother Shaun on bass, and Robert “Tiny” Cook on drums and backing vocals. For all three members, family has greatly contributed to their love for music. In fact, Mike acknowledged his father as his first musical inspiration. “Without them, I wouldn’t have gotten my start in music because that’s where I was initially influenced,” Mike says. “They’ve been supportive of me; they’ve been supportive of my brother.” As for the next 20 years, Mike hopes to continue producing genuine blues tunes as long as he possibly can. “I want to play as long as B.B. King has been playing. That’s all. I think he’s 88 and he’s been playing his whole life,” Mike says. “He does his thing. He’s playing for himself, but people have grown to know who he is and love him.” — SETH JOHNSON Mike Milligan and Steam Shovel Friday, Sept. 6, Birdy’s Bar and Grill, 2131 E. 71st St., 8:30 p.m., $10 advance, $12 at door, 21+
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DIARRHEA PLANET’S DIRTY JAMS Hoosier Dome hosts band on breakthrough album tour
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ordan Smith is tired of the poop jokes. His band Diarrhea Planet plays a raging style of garage and punk. And their live show, which features four guitarists, has become synonymous with one helluva rock and roll shindig – no shitty jokes needed. “We are a live energy band and we feed off of the audience,” said Smith, lead vocalist and guitarist in the band. “When the audience is really, really into what you’re doing and they’re going crazy and stage diving and stuff like that, it really pumps you up and gets you excited to play.” Diarrhea Planet will play Indianapolis’ Hoosier Dome on Friday, Sept. 6, along with The So So Glos, Male Bondage, Brother O’Brother and Bleach Drinker. They’re no strangers to Hoosier Dome, having performed there on multiple occasions. In fact, Smith played many Piradical Productions events in his younger years when he was growing up apart of the Indianapolis hardcore/punk scene. Although Smith enjoys returning to his hometown on tour, repeated positive experiences with Indianapolis are what keep Diarrhea Planet coming back. “Indianapolis has become one of our favorite places to play because our shows are just nuts there,” Smith said. “Every time we play at Hoosier Dome, I feel like it’s at capacity or over capacity. There are
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just tons and tons of kids and the response has been amazingly positive.” With the recent release of their second full length, titled I’m Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams, the sextet has gained much much media attention, including pieces from Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Spin, Stereogum, Paste and The New Yorker. However, much of the coverage has shed light on the band’s name before mentioning its music. “It does get old,” Smith said. “When you read a whole article and you want to read about what somebody thinks about your music, and then they spend three quarters of the article just making poop jokes, you’re like, ‘Man. What did you actually think?’ You have no idea by the end of it.” Diarrhea Planet are signed onto Infinity Cat, a Nashville label with many other highenergy garage/punk counterparts including JEFF The Brotherhood, Natural Child and Pujol. Although Smith played in bands throughout high school, he credits Nashville with teaching him how to truly shred. “I could play punk, a little bit of metal and stuff like that on the guitar, but I really had no clue what I was doing,” Smith said. “I
got my butt kicked pretty quick. Moving to Nashville is what I pretty much give credit to me learning how to actually play the guitar and learning about other styles of music.” In addition to growing as a musician, Smith has grown as a songwriter. On DP’s most recent release, he decided to speak openly on his tunes, rather than hiding behind a “bitter satire façade” and poking fun at party culture. Smith also abandoned writing hyperactive, 1-2 minute songs — something he attributes to sober songwriting. “I used to write under the influence of a lot of different things, pot or alcohol or Adderall and stuff like that. I feel like that really came through in the songwriting,” he said. “Versus now, this entire new record was written 100 percent sober. I just tried to stop doing that stuff and started really looking more inward to write about the way that I felt about things.” As the band continues to gain exposure, Smith is learning the ins and outs of being a professional musician, all the while harboring his hope that critics will one day entirely move past the band’s name. “There’s this idea of as you get further along, you do less work. What we’re finding out is that is not true at all. Because now it’s like a job,” Smith said. “It feels good to get some recognition for your hard work, whether it be good or bad press. That’s the thing for me that feels the best too; people are finally starting to get over the name and start caring about coming to the show.”
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From the leftover pieces of Indiana’s beloved and broken-up experimental pop band Slothpop have come a number of interesting new projects. For one, singer Kristin Newborn’s KO, which delighted the crowd at the recent Bat for Lashes concert with expertly layered vocal melodies. Another is Scanlines, an instrumental postrock group that features Slothpop’s rhythm section — Drew Malott on bass, Bryan Unruh on drums and Dan Zender on guitar. (Malott and Unruh also played in jascha, which disbanded after the death of founding member jascha updike in April.) Scanlines has been writing and perfecting material for the past few months, playing low-key shows and working meticulously on recordings. This Thursday, they’ll perform at their first large show in Indianapolis at The White Rabbit Cabaret. NUVO: Did you guys have an idea of what you wanted Scanlines to sound like? DREW MALOTT: Yeah we did. Obviously we didn’t want people to be like, “Oh it’s like Slothpop.” Because it’s really not, but there’s a certain point where you get me and Brian [Unruh] and Dan [Zender] playing together, it kind of sounds like me and Brian and Dan playing together. That was already in place for years. The foundation, I guess you could say, in terms of sound, we knew that we wanted to go a little bit… What’s the word? Okay, it’s post-rock basically, which is a sort of catchall term for rock without a singer, I guess is what it means. When I first joined Slothpop, the three of us were really big into Explosions in the Sky at the time, and if you go back in time and listen to some of that music, in the rhythm section, you can hear that really strong influence at the time. We were all digging on it at the time that I joined [Slothpop]. These days we’re just kind of continuing with that thread of the story, like, what would it sound like if we just went down that road?
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There’s less of a dance-y vibe to it. It’s not big pop songs. It’s basically like what the three of us would have sounded like if we would never have stopped playing together for those few months. NUVO: How does the way that this band works compare to your past experiences? MALOTT: The only difference that I feel is that there’s not a lot of talking during the writing process. For whatever reason, the three of us can [read] each other pretty damn well. We might be improvising on something and I might change the time signature for fun and I’ll look over at Bryan and he’ll look over at me and there’ll kind of be this, “I see what you did there,” kind of thing. So for the rest of the night we’ll play that song in that new time signature but nobody said anything about it – it just sort of happens. NUVO: What’s changed about the musical community in Indiana? MALOTT: That’s a really tough question. If you look at the overall slant towards lo-fi, more instrumentally-based music … I keep hearing the term psych rock thrown around, and I know that we’re not that. I feel like there are these parallel threads of a story that’s evolving, and we’re a part of it too. There’s sort of a move towards this sound which is less about big pop songs with catchy lyrics and is more about the overall ambience of a song. Maybe it’s sort of a sludgy, garage rock sound or, in our case it’s more of an atmospheric, pulsing rhythmic thing with a focus on bass with ethereal melodies on top. It’s sort of a shift away from songwriting for right now. It’s more of a shift into music as art, I guess.
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t the height of my record collecting days, I would buy anything on the King Records label. The Cincinnatibased indie was best known as the home of James Brown during his prime recording years. But throughout the ‘40s, ‘50s and ‘60s King released everything from gospel to rockabilly, and all of it was top notch. I was digging through a box of 45s at a garage sale one summer day when I came across an unfamiliar King release. It was recorded by an obscure R&B singer named Mary Moultrie and the title intrigued me. “Last Year, Senior Prom (This Year, Vietnam)” the faded label read. I bought it and headed home to give it a spin. It started off like a typical doo-wop era teen ballad. But as I listened closer to Moultrie’s sweet young voice, the lyr-
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ics brought the song into a darker, more mature space. “It’s spring again, wish you were here. How life can change in just a year,” Moultrie begins. “A year ago tonight, we danced and you held me tight. Your letters say that you’re doing fine, but I can read between the lines. Last year senior prom, this year, Vietnam.” The haunting innocence of the song and its mournful refrain brought tears to my eyes. It was one of the most moving anti-war songs I’d ever heard. But it wasn’t created as an anti-war statement. Moultrie certainly wasn’t an activist; she was a typical aspiring singer casting a hopeful eye toward the pop charts. Recorded in 1966, the song reflected a basic reality for many young AfricanAmericans. A lack of access to opportunity had pushed blacks into military service at higher rates than their white counterparts. Moultrie’s ballad was one of literally hundreds of songs recorded in opposition to the Vietnam war during the ‘60s and ‘70s. It’s a product of an era where the inherent cruelty and injustice of war were firmly embedded in the national consciousness. It was a time that brought the arts community together to rally the public against the civil and moral abuses of the industrialist war mongers. Great artists like Bob Dylan and Marvin Gaye created stirring protest anthems. While others like John Lennon and John Coltrane who may not have com-
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mented directly on the conflict were composing timeless anthems of love and peace. There was a general tone of resistance in the air that even trickled down to pop singers like Moultrie. Fast forward to today. Over a decade spent fighting two failed wars has caused incalculable death and suffering, drained federal budgets and plunged us into economic crisis. And all this has largely been met with a general silence from the populace – and the arts community too. We now sit on the verge of a new war and there is still silence. Polls indicate that the overwhelming majority of Americans are against military intervention in Syria. But why should Congress or the President take our concerns seriously when they can firmly place their confidence in our silent acquiescence? It’s clear the Syrian people need immediate assistance. But I must ask whether unleashing the American military industrial complex on Syria will alleviate or intensify the people’s suffering. Saddam Hussein was known as the “Butcher of Baghdad” during his cruel reign of terror.
But when considering the death toll and atrocities committed under Iraq’s occupation by the American industrialists, I’m forced to wonder if the Iraqi people would have been better off battling the monstrous Hussein on their own. The American military industrial complex that President Dwight Eisenhower warned us about in his eerily prescient 1960 farewell speech failed to bring peace and justice to Vietnamese people. It also failed to bring peace and justice to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan and I have serious doubts it will bring peace and justice to Syria today. Evidence suggests that the main benefactor in the aforementioned conflicts was the defense industry itself. Haliburton alone raked in over 17 billion dollars in revenue from the Iraq War. It seems we’ve foolishly ignored Eisenhower’s advice to “guard against the unwarranted influence of the military industrial complex.” As we face the imminent threat of a new war, we desperately need the voices of the arts community to once again awaken the public. To inspire us to foment resistance against the abuses of corporate power that are plunging us into war, destroying our environment and robbing us of a sustainable future. I challenge all my fellow Indianapolis artists to raise their voice in protest against this corruption — even if your message is as simple as Mary Moultrie’s 1966 lovesick plea. Sometimes it’s the simple heartfelt declarations that stir our emotions most effectively. >> Kyle Long creates a custom podcast for each column. Hear this week’s at NUVO.net
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ROOTS Delta Duo The Delta Duo’s music centers around pre-WWII Delta blues and the artists of the era, such as Willie Brown and Skip James. Made up of Jeffrey John and Irina Povarova, the Delta Duo is bringing their old-world blues stylings to Bookmama’s Underground 9 Studio for a free show this Friday, along with a nice bonus: free coffee. The Underground 9 Studio, 9 S. Johnson Ave., 8 p.m., FREE, all-ages.
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POP Paul Collins Beat with The Brothers Gross and The Melismatics This power-pop lineup is absolutely the show to see if you like your rock music with a touch of glitter and neon. This one’s going to be loud, fast and seriously danceable, bringing bands from as far as LA and Minneapolis. Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St. 10 p.m., $8 advance, $10 day of show, 21+
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SATURDAY COUNTRY Toby Keith When he’s not pouring beer in the unwilling mouths of horses and threatening to put sturdy footwear in enemy posteriors, Toby Keith tours the country as one of America’s most popular country artists. He’ll be bringing Kip Moore to support, and probably a lot of flannel. Klipsch Music Center, 12880 E. 146th St., 7 p.m., $105.70 - $45.50, All-ages. ROCK The Impossible Shapes, Everything Now! and The Coke Dares The Impossible Shapes return from retirement to take the stage for two nights in their home state. They’re Indiana’s psych-rock pranksters, four years removed from regular live performance, return to old haunts to perform tunes from their vast canon. Not to be missed. Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St, 7 p.m., $8, 21+
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ILLINOIS Riot Fest , Chicago Sept. 13 - Sept. 15 Holy balls. The Chicago version of this fest features a large-scale reunion by The Replacements, along with headlining sets from Fall Out Boy, Blink 182, Pixies, Public Enemy, Danzig, Joan Jett and so many more.
WISCONSIN Yellow Phone Music Conference, Milwaukee Sept. 5 - Sept. 8 This intimate two-day fest features panels and performances by artists in a variety of genres -- and all showcases are free with no cover charge. It’s the chilled-out, Midwest answer to SXSW (less tacos, more cheese curds).
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you were about to run in a long-distance race, you wouldn’t eat a dozen doughnuts. Right? If you were planning to leave your native land and spend a year living in Ethiopia, you wouldn’t immerse yourself in learning how to speak Chinese in the month before you departed. Right? In that spirit, I hope you’ll be smart about the preparations you make in the coming weeks. This will be a time to prime yourself for the adventures in self-expression that will bloom in late September and the month of October. What is it you want to create at that time? What would you like to show the world about yourself? CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land. It’s the foundation of the most politically powerful nation on the planet. And yet when it originally went into effect in 1789, it was only 4,543 words long -- about three times the length of this horoscope column. The Bill of Rights, enacted in 1791, added a mere 462 words. By contrast, India’s Constitution is 117,000 words, more than 20 times longer. If you create a new master plan for yourself in the coming months, Cancerian -- as I hope you will -- a compact version like America’s will be exactly right. You need diamond-like lucidity, not sprawling guesswork. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): There are two scientific terms for tickling. “Knismesis” refers to a soft, feathery touch that may be mildly pleasurable. It can be used to display adoring tenderness. The heavier, deeper kind of tickling is called “gargalesis.” If playfully applied to sensitive parts of the anatomy, it can provoke fun and laughter. Given the current planetary alignments, Leo, I conclude that both of these will be rich metaphors for you in the coming days. I suggest that you be extra alert for opportunities to symbolically tickle and be tickled. (P.S. Here’s a useful allegory: If you do the knismesis thing beneath the snout of a great white shark, you can hypnotize it.) VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In his “Song of the Open Road,” Walt Whitman wrote some lyrics that I hope will provide you with just the right spark. Even if you’re not embarking on a literal journey along a big wide highway, my guess is that you are at least going to do the metaphorical equivalent. “Henceforth I ask not good fortune -- I myself am good fortune,” said Uncle Walt. “Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing. Strong and content, I travel the open road.” LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Mystical poet St. John of the Cross (1542-1591) was one of Spain’s greatest writers. But not all of his work came easily. When
he was 35, a rival religious group imprisoned him for his mildly heretical ideas. He spent the next nine months in a ten-foot by six-foot jail cell, where he was starved, beaten, and tortured. It was there that he composed his most renowned poem, “Spiritual Canticle.” Does that provide you with any inspiration, Libra? I’ll make a wild guess and speculate that maybe you’re in a tough situation yourself right now. It’s not even one percent as tough as St. John’s, though. If he could squeeze some brilliance out of his predicament, you can, too. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The American naturalist John Burroughs (1837-1921) traveled widely and wrote 23 books. “I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think,” he testified, “all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.” Let’s make that longing for abundance serve as your rallying cry during the next two weeks, Scorpio. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you have a cosmic mandate to push to the limits -- and sometimes beyond -- as you satisfy your quest to be, see, and do everything you love to be, see, and do. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Punk icon Henry Rollins did an interview with Marilyn Manson, rock and roll’s master of the grotesque. It’s on Youtube. The comments section beneath the video are rife with spite and bile directed toward Manson, driving one fan to defend her hero. “I love Marilyn Manson so much that I could puke rainbows,” she testified. I think you will need to tap into that kind of love in the coming days, Sagittarius: fierce, intense, and devotional, and yet also playful, funny, and exhilarating. You don’t necessarily have to puke rainbows, however. Maybe you could merely spit them. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): If you want to know a secret, I talk less crazy to you Capricorns than I do to the other signs. I tone down my wild-eyed, goddess-drunk shape-shifting a bit. I rarely exhort you to don an animal costume and dance with the fairy folk in the woods, and I think the last time I suggested that you fall in love with an alien, angel, or deity was . . . never. So what’s my problem? Don’t you feel taboo urges and illicit impulses now and then? Isn’t it true that like everyone else, you periodically need to slip away from your habitual grooves and tamper with the conventional wisdom? Of course you do. Which is why I hereby repeal my excessive caution. Get out there, Capricorn, and be as uninhibited as you dare. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Germany’s Ostwall Museum displayed a conceptual installation by the artist Martin Kippenberger. Valued at $1.1 million, it was called “When It Starts Dripping from the Ceiling.” Part of it was composed of a rubber tub that was painted to appear as if it had once held dirty rainwater. One night while the museum was closed, a new janitor came in to tidy up the premises. While performing her tasks, she scrubbed the rubber tub until it was “clean,” thereby damaging the art. Let this be a cautionary tale, Aquarius. It’s important for you to appreciate and learn from the messy stuff in your life -- even admire its artistry -- and not just assume it all needs to be scoured and disinfected. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In her novel White Oleander, Janet Fitch suggests that beauty is something to be used, “like a hammer or a key.” That’s your assignment, Pisces. Find practical ways to make your beauty work for you. For example, invoke it to help you win friends and influence people. Put it into action to drum up new opportunities and hunt down provocative invitations. And don’t tell me you possess insufficient beauty to accomplish these things. I guarantee you that you have more than enough. To understand why I’m so sure, you may have to shed some ugly definitions of beauty you’ve unconsciously absorbed from our warped culture.
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