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NUVO QUESTIONS THE NEXT GOVERNOR OF INDIANA The 2012 election inches nearer — 41 days away. Mitch Daniels prepares to pass the baton. Suspense grips the state: Who will take his place? How many people will register? How many make their way to the polls? How will the presidential and statehouse elections factor in? Behold: NUVO asked the men racing to be governor a series of candidate profile questions.

BY REBECCA TOWNSEND COVER ILLUSTRATION BY WAYNE BERTSCH

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ONLY AS FREE AS A PADLOCKED PRISON DOOR

Beginning Sept. 30 at noon, Corey Michael Dalton will live 24 hours a day in a makeshift cell abutting the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library’s front window, surrounded by walls made of banned books.

The week long stunt is tied to both Banned Books Week, and to the Vonnegut Library’s efforts to bring attention to a partial ban of Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five by a Missouri school district.

BY SCOTT SHOGER

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from the readers Re: Hoppe’s column on the ISO (Sept. 19-26):

Mr. Hoppe, I was director of external affairs for the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in the late 1980s and I hope I can provide some perspective.

Both Dick Lugar and Bill Hudnut were supportive of the arts as mayors of Indianapolis. It was during the 1980s that the Circle Theatre and Indiana Theatre were renovated for the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and Indiana Repertory Theatre. The Indianapolis Zoo was moved to White River Park and Eiteljorg Museum was built.

Those of us in the culture field complained about the focus on sports, both amateur sports and professional. But the Pan Am Games came to Indy and arts institutions were highlighted in the broadcasts. And I understood why the Colts were spirited away from Baltimore. The fact is that the ISO or IRT would never bring the national attention to the city that a Sunday or Monday Night Football broadcast would bring.

And even then, those of us that fundraised for the arts were concerned about

graying audiences, a small cadre of donors, and shared board members.

The one thing that has changed in the last 25 years is that Indianapolis in the 1980s had more statewide corporate headquarters with the resultant leadership that invested in the city for the long run. This was before the the banking consolidation that swept the US. But the wave of mergers and consolidations and globalization has affected most every city in the Midwest.

It is very disconcerting to see the conflict at the ISO. I have great fondness for the orchestra and its music. For this dispute to be ended without destroying the institution, city leadership must intervene to bring both parties to the table and serve as an honest broker. In 1987, I designed an annual fund campaign around the theme that the ISO was the music of the city, and without it, there would be nothing but noise. The same is true today. The orchestra is the musical driving force of Indianapolis, and like a great symphony, it brings together disparate elements into a melodic whole.

Indianapolis cannot be without its musical soul.

— Jerold Kappel

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HAMMER Absentee lies, satellite dreams

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BY STEVE HAMMER SHAMMER@NUVO.NET

ere’s something that shouldn’t be particularly shocking: the State of Indiana doesn’t want to make it easy for you to vote in November. State law isn’t too friendly to those wishing to cast a ballot.

It wasn’t supposed to be that way. After the debacle of the 2000 election, when the Supreme Court stepped in and declared George W. Bush the winner, Congress and various states passed laws intended to make sure everybody gets a chance to vote and that every vote counts.

In Indiana, not so much. Our response to 2000 was to pass a restrictive photo ID requirement at the polls. We stop voting at 6 p.m., the earliest that polls close in the nation, so don’t plan on voting after work.

And if you want to vote absentee by mail, well, you’d better prepare to lie.

To vote absentee by mail, you have to swear to the state that on Election Day that you’re going to be gone from the county for the entire day or that you’re a caretaker for a disabled or elderly person or that your religion prohibits you from voting on that day due to a holiday.

My religion prevents me from doing anything on a day when liquor isn’t being sold, so that’s my excuse. If yours doesn’t and you still want to vote absentee, you’re going to have to lie and face a potential perjury charge and prepare for a hefty fine and/or jail time.

Perjury is a notoriously hard rap to prove. Ask Bill Clinton about that. So you’re probably safe by claiming that you are scheduled to work for the entire 12 hours the polls are open to get an absentee ballot. It’s just strange that our state wants to keep people from voting.

In 2008, my wife and I voted two weeks before the election at North Central High School at a satellite voting location. It was relatively quick and very easy. This year, though, the single Republican member on the three-person Marion County Election Board is keeping us from doing that.

Patrick J. Dietrick, vice chairman of the board, says it’s too expensive to staff the early voting locations and that the restrictive state law on absentee ballots is just fine with him. The vote by the board must be unanimous to set up satellite voting locations. You can choose to vote early at the clerk’s office at the City-County

Building starting Oct. 8. Of course, this assumes you can afford to park nearby and you don’t mind being treated like a criminal and being searched by unfriendly policemen after entering the building. * Let’s look back at our Founding Fathers, whose wisdom we are asked to accept as the final word on most other legal matters.

They only allowed white men over the age of 21 who also owned land to vote.

Other countries vote on Saturday, when most people have extra time on their hands. Other countries also allow people with felony convictions on their record to vote. But not the United States. Despite the fact that two of the last three presidential elections were tainted by fraud, we keep making it harder and harder to vote.

Then there is the question on whether it really matters whether you vote. With more than a month to go until the November elections — barring some sort of October surprise that changes the dynamics of the presidential race — President Barack Obama seems almost certain to win re-election.

Mitt Romney’s incredibly inept campaign has done little to change the minds of the few remaining undecided voters and his gaffes have alienated many of the people who might have changed their minds about voting for the president.

This, of course, is a very good thing for America. At the very least, a second Obama administration will ensure the Supreme Court doesn’t come under full fascist control, that our foreign policy will be run in a sensible manner and that the poorest people have a friend in the White House.

From a political perspective, President Obama’s re-election would involve some disadvantages. The economy will continue to suck for quite some time no matter who’s in office.

The Tea Party will continue to obstruct every proposal brought forth by Obama. And the world will remain a dangerous place, full of terrorist threats and turmoil in the Middle East.

Only God Himself or Herself can resolve these issues; neither Obama nor Romney nor any single human being is capable of it.

It is very possible America is headed toward some sort of partial economic and political collapse no matter what and it’s better, politically, if a Republican presides over it.

So here, Mitt: Here are the keys to the White House. We’ll watch you fix it.

What could go wrong?

… We keep making it harder and harder to vote.

*Note: Attendants will refund parking fees at the two pay lots directly north or south of the intersection of Market and Alabama streets next to the City-County Building in exchange for vouchers available to voters in the Election Board office.

Early voting runs from Oct. 8 at 8 a.m. through Nov. 5 at noon. Visit indy.gov/ election for the complete calendar. Voter registration, which can be accomplished right across the hall from the clerk’s office at the City-County Building, must be complete by Oct. 9 for voters wishing to participate in the 2012 election.

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BY DAVID HOPPE DHOPPE@NUVO.NET

ere are a couple of fragments from last week …

I was having lunch with a friend near Fountain Square. It was a bright blue, sun-spangled afternoon and we sat outside — in spite of the sonic gouge of heavy steel machines cranking away on what, someday, will be the Cultural Trail. My friend is an Indianapolis lifer, been here since the day he was born. When I asked him to describe his city, he said, “It’s really a small town.”

I thought I knew exactly what he meant.

Then, I was driving with another friend at night. We were on Interstate 74, approaching 10th Street on the city’s Far Westside. On our left was the hulking shadow of a vast landfill, a measure of the city’s accumulated waste turned into topography. We veered off the expressway, came upon a detour and found ourselves navigating through a slurry of industrial plants and bungalows on side streets that, apart from the brutal glare of an occasional streetlight, were coal-dark. A sudden wash of light from the open door of a little corner liquor store illuminated a crowd of young men — the only people in evidence for blocks and blocks and blocks.

“A small town,” I thought. “Really?”

I’ve lived in Indianapolis for 25 years.

So when my friend observed that this is basically a small town, I could relate to what he was saying because that’s been my experience, too. My orientation has been the city’s cultural life. I’ve worked the nonprofit and business sides of the street and, like many people I know, can say that I’ve found Indianapolis to be a remarkably accessible place. If you want to be involved in things, there seems to always be a meeting you can attend, or a group to join. Before you know it, you’re likely to find yourself chatting with a foundation head, a policy maker, even the mayor.

There’s no shortage of opportunities to engage in what we like to call “civil” public conversations about the city. Forget about Indiana’s tornado season. Indianapolis is all about brainstorming.

Adding to the small town vibe is that, if you

start hanging out at some of these get-togethers, you start seeing a lot of the same people.

At least they seem to be the same. In any event, what they generally share is a desire to live what they consider a more urban lifestyle.

I count myself among this group, although I’ve grown a bit old and grouchy. I am not, for example, as optimistic as some of my younger friends about the prospects here for public transit. Not because I have any doubt about its power to positively transform Indianapolis. But because I know that people here have been talking about this … well, for a very long time.

I’ve come to realize that one strike against public transit here is that it flies in the face of that widely held perception of Indianapolis being a small town. You don’t need public transit in a small town. In small towns everybody takes care of themselves and maybe their neighbors. They stick to familiar turf.

A real public transit system would have the power to change all that. Imagine, for example, there was a well-lit sequence of public transit stations located along west 10th Street.

Suddenly you might have a reason to go there that you can’t even imagine today. Your idea of Indianapolis might get a lot bigger.

But here’s a question: Are we willing to pay for this? It’s one thing to imagine what Indianapolis could be, another to find the money necessary to make these dreams reality. To date, state legislators are not even willing to let us vote on whether or not we’re ready to fork over higher taxes in order to pay for better transit. It seems they like thinking of Indianapolis as a small town, too.

Every city has a favorite obsession. In Manhattan, they fixate on finding the right apartment building.

In Chicago, people are always talking about neighborhoods. In Indianapolis, we keep a running conversation going about the very identity of the place.

What is it? Who are we?

This has proven to be a durable sort of parlor game. It allows players to display their urban savvy and assess each other’s hip quotient — with extra points awarded for such flourishes as chicken coops and hybrid bikes.

Along the way, some good things actually do occur: Walkability is now an accepted part of city planning. The White River is thought of as something other than a sewer. The Cultural Trail really will be finished one day.

Then I think about that dark drive along west 10th Street. And those good things, for all their obvious virtues, begin to seem like so many embellishments. I’m glad to experience them. They make the small town I’ve come to love that much better.

But small as it may feel at times, Indianapolis is big. So big, in fact, it’s hard to take it all in. Sometimes I wonder if we can. Or if we ever will.

Forget about Indiana’s tornado season.

Indianapolis is all about brainstorming.

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The voter registration deadline for people wishing to participate in the 2012 election is Oct. 9 — less than two weeks away. Several registration options are available. Online, eligible voters can visit IndianaVoters.com.

In person, voters can visit the Secretary of State’s Election Division at Indiana Government Center South, 302 W. Washington St.; the voter registration office at the CityCounty Building, 200 E. Washington St.; or their neighborhood Bureau of Motor Vehicles office. Voters who prefer to mail their registration can call 317-327-VOTE (8683) to have a form and mailing instructions sent.

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VOTER CONFUSION

Marion County Clerk Beth White has run more elections than any clerk in county history; the 2012 election marks her 12th. Each election, she says, something keeps her up at night. This year, it’s her concern about voter confusion after Mayor Greg Ballard changed precinct lines and polling locations and co-mingled several precincts within one polling location — five polling locations each handled voting for five different precincts during the primary. “It’s always true that people call and complain about their polling location for all kinds of reasons,” White said. “In May what we saw was an intensity of that problem.” Of the 295 voting locations used in the May primary, the clerk documented complaints with 19, representing 54 precincts (with about 10 percent of the county’s approximately 613,000 registered voters). Marc Lotter, spokesman for the mayor, notes that some changes have happened since May to try to address voter concerns and that the list was released before the deadline to allow more time to educate voters about the changes.

QUESTIONING THE CANDIDATES

The nonpartisan group Parent Power will host a forum featuring IPS school board candidates from 6-7:30 p.m. on Oct. 2 at Martin University’s Gathertorium, 2171 Avondale Place (west of 22nd and Sherman). The forum will feature an opportunity for parents and community members to question participating candidates.

Organizers are also providing Spanish language translation and headsets. Also coming soon: The Hoosier Environmental Council will hold a lieutenant gubernatorial forum on the environment at 6:30 p.m., Oct. 11, at the Indiana Historical Society Auditorium. Candidates Vi Simpson, a Democrat, and Libertarian Brad Klopfenstein confirmed participation. Republican Sue Ellspermann offered a one-on-one meeting with HEC, but her campaign has so far declined to participate in the forum.

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n Sept. 13, veterans service groups came together at AMVETS Post 99 to provide a variety of services and goods for homeless and near-homeless veterans and their families during an event known as a Stand Down. Items such as clothing, hygiene items, bus passes, and other items were available for the veterans and were provided by groups like the American Legion Auxiliary and Veterans of Foreign Wars. Local barbers were on hand to provide haircuts and shaves and optometry services were available through the Indiana University School of Optometry. Department of Veterans Affairs representatives were also available to discuss care and benefits. The event was sponsored by HVAF, AMVETS Post 99, Disabled American Veterans, Marine Corps League, Roudebush V.A. Medical Center, the U.S. Department of Labor, and the Women Marines Association. We spoke with veterans in attendance and asked them to share their thoughts.

Six years I’ma give it to you in a nutshell, man. I do delivery for Safeway United on 28th and Emerson.

We were up north and there was a woman veteran with a limb, a prostheses on and she was at the entrance to the highway with a sign that said, “hey I’m a veteran anything you can do to help?” I don’t think they’re doing enough.

They doing enough for us, but GILLIE, the one’s that is coming back out the war, they need to direct Marine Corps some of that, more of that energy toward the people that are maimed. We’ve got a lot of maimed veterans and they shouldn’t have to wait on nothing. Once you, if you come back maimed, it should be automatic that you get your disability or whatever you feel that’s coming to you, man. I’m not faulting nobody, I’m just saying.

We as a nation, we tend to focus on things that’s not as important.

But, that’s really important and it needs to be addressed real quickly.

Served 17 months

— Nathan Brown

Served in Vietnam for 11 months and 28 days I just come out here to be with my fellow veterans and celebrate and see of my old buddies I ain’t seen in a long time.

LEE, Army/ National Guard

A veteran is a person who stood up. A stand down is a good thing for the people who stood up. They’ve done their duty, now it’s for society to do theirs. I don’t feel there should be any such animal as a homeless veteran. That’s a man willing to stop bullets.

I didn’t have to stop bullets, thank God. People don’t recognize or realize what they (veterans) sacrificed so other people, civilians, could live and be happy and be free. I think that ought to be recognized.

1982 to 1985 I’ve been through both rehab and the VA. I was homeless off and on for probably about 10 years. I enjoy coming to these places because we get a lot of appreciation for veterans.

I’m here for all of it. A lot of it’s camaraderie and meeting veterans I haven’t seen in years.

JOE KRODEL, Army 10 years. Served in Vietnam for two years (1967-1969).

Well I was shot, stabbed and blown up. I was shot by a sniper.

I was hit in the shoulder with a bayonet. Got blown up! I carry between 700 to 800 pieces of metal throughout my chest and shoulders. And I carry three in my heart and they can’t take ‘em out (laughs). I really loved the service and I love helping vets. And any THOMAS, way I can help one, I’d be glad to go out of my way to help them Marine Corps because like I said, other vets helped me, so I got to help them.

You know, when you get something done for you, you just want to give it to somebody else. When I first came back, I wouldn’t talk to nobody.

I would speak to a vet or another guy in service just to say hi, but the only people I would talk to would be Vietnam veterans, combat veterans.

Because they’re the ones that seen combat. But I love all branches of the services. I tease my wife all the time, I say, why’d ya marry me? Because she spent 20 years in the Army and couldn’t find a good man in all that 2 millions guys she served with so she ended marrying a Marine.

Three years. Tow, Drag and Repair Specialist.

Currently training to become a Peer Support Specialist at the VA

HERMAN, Army Seven-and-one-half years.

Honorably discharged.

Tours in the Philippines, Korea, and others.

The veterans here, the organization, helped me to get on my feet and got me a reasonably place to stay based on your income. The lord has blessed me. I'm getting better, but I have hiccups every now and then in terms of getting laid off WALTER, or finding stable, stable work.

Air Force So, it was really a blessing for me to take advantage of the kind of program that allows veterans to kind of come back to where we should be, but with some assistance if you need it.

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Military police, San Francisco

I was homeless from ‘06 until probably a few months ago. Pretty much, I woke up in 5, 10 degrees below zero.

It’s not good.

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I think it’s (the stand down) a very good thing, man. Why it took so long, I don’t know. It should be done every week.

Every chance. It’s truly a God-send and I thank you for it.

I didn’t see combat there, but I’ve sure seen it here. I’ve been shot, stabbed, sliced. I’ve got three metal plates and a piece of plastic in my face (laughs) just state-side, you know. I’ve got PTSD issues from stuff like that. I’ve got alcohol and DUANE, drug problems. Just in terms of training to become a peer Army specialist, I’ve learned more about myself and how to deal with definitions myself. To be able to approach veterans myself.

Teach you about different cultures. A lot of people don’t think about cultures. Upbringings. There’s several different variables. I’ll just sort of be there to try to assist them, giving them hope. I’m a recovering alcoholic and addict. It was hard for me to make that decision in life, but when you do, you don’t know where you want to go, what you want to do. It’s just a real confusing time in life. When I went through it, I had no help. I’ve been struggling since ‘09 in my recovery. I’ve been off drugs since January of ‘09. Next month I’ll have a year and a half sober and that’s a good milestone for me.

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he 2012 election inches nearer — 41 days away.

Mitch Daniels prepares to pass the baton.

Suspense grips the state: Who will take his place? How many people will register? How many will make their way to the polls? How will the presidential and statehouse elections factor in?

Millions of dollars in campaign ads are flooding into Hoosier homes trying to reach you — the precious voter. Rather than attempt to referee the daily avalanche of news releases crowing about grand plans or howling over policies and positions forecast to be the ruin of modern civilization, NUVO opted to feature the men running to be governor through a series of candidate profile questions.

The following questions cover a lot of territory. (Even more material is online at NUVO.net.) They in no way reflect the unthinkable number of issues and circumstances a governor must negotiate, but they begin to hint at the vast diversity of fare on the chief executive’s menu. The job is of utmost importance to this state. To people who love Indiana, understanding the person who is governor and holding that office accountable are among the most important jobs true Hoosiers can do. We hope these candidate profiles provide voters with a more nuanced understanding of the candidates and help motivate greater participation at the polls.

Thank you to Rupert Boneham, John Gregg and Mike Pence for taking the time to participate and to their staff members who helped make those meetings happen. Thanks also to NUVO interns Sarah Shaefer and Olivia McPherson for their invaluable assistance.

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NUVO What do you feel defines a good governor?

BONEHAM: The ability to model what we would expect out of our leaders — out of a role model: to give back to the state, to put the state before themselves, not to just care about special interest but to care about all — from those of us that cannot fight for ourselves to those of us that have enough money to do whatever we want.

GREGG: I think a governor that’s inclusive, in touch with Hoosiers’ needs — and that doesn’t mean just the person on Meridian Street. That means the person on all the little main streets and county roads all across Indiana. I think the governor tries to bring people together. The governor, a good governor would want to get more stuff done rather than worrying about who gets credit, and would worry about the next generation rather than the next election.

PENCE: A good governor is someone who understands the moment in the life of the state and is able to provide the kind of leadership that takes full advantage of the opportunities for citizens in that moment. ... We’ve gone through a great season of reform in the life of our state; I supported those reforms very strongly. Now with jobs and schools, in particular, Hoosiers are looking for outcomes, the results.

I think that for the next governor of Indiana to meet this moment, it begins with understanding the opportunity Indiana faces and how we can really take Indiana from good to great.

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NUVO What do you think Governor Daniels did best during his term? In what areas, if any, do you feel he fell short?

BONEHAM: One of the best deals that I think I have seen so far, now time will tell, but selling the Indiana toll road for a billion dollars more than it was valued at was a pretty good deal. Unfortunately, that’s the exception to the rule. You know, as we go then into some of the things that I don’t see as positive for the state … how do we put this? When we look at cutting budgets, too many times we still look at cutting from the bottom up; we don’t cut from the top down.

When we try to centralize our government throughout Indiana and locate a lot of offices in Central Indiana that have power over outlying areas, it takes power away from our communities. So I would see a better use of our money as decentralization, again, of government and giving the communities back their power.

GREGG: You know, I tell people I’m not running against Governor Daniels.

Indiana has had a tendency to like all of their governors and hold them high, and I’m not running against him. I’m running against a career politician, a congressman out in Washington, D.C., so I kind of keep trying to keep my comments going that direction.

PENCE: In the midst of many reforms and accomplishments, I think the

transit gets people to work and consumers to the shops. But any system built needs to be efficient and reasonably self-sustaining.

“... Any investment in REPUBLICAN PARTY mass transit has to be based upon the population density and reasonable expectations of utilization and sustainability.”

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legacy of the Daniels administration will be changing the culture of state government. I think state government now moves more at the pace of taxpayers than at the pace of bureaucrats. ... I think there is unfinished business, but I’m hard-pressed to find areas where I disagree with the policies that have been advanced. ... The nature of this moment in the life of our state is that we can take Indiana from reform to results because of the progress we’ve made.

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NUVO Why do you want to be governor?

BONEHAM: Enough of … different regulations that I have to deal with that cost dollars and jobs.

I’ve always said I want to change the world; the way that I will do that is by being one of those people that create policy. Showing what we have done for our job creations and our re-entry program. I would like to do that for the entire state.

GREGG: You know, I have quite a bit of experience in state government. I served as speaker of the house, I’ve served as president of Vincennes University, worked for a couple Fortune 500 companies and in all of those places always managed to bring people together. Two of the years I was speaker, we were tied 50-50 [split between the parties] and the whole time I was speaker, the opposite party controlled the Senate, so you had to

work out differences, you had to collaborate and cooperate. … I decided to run for office because I thought, we’ve got a lot of opportunities in Indiana … [specifically in] ag. ... that’s right there at the top, what I now call advanced manufacturing, but manufacturing, advanced manufacturing, energy, logistics, and life sciences.

PENCE: For two reasons: I love this state. I love everything about it. I was born and raised in this state, got all my education in Indiana and have worked every day of my life living with or serving the people of Indiana. … The second reason is because I think this is no ordinary time in the life of our state. I truly believe Indiana is on the verge of an era of growth — and if we bring the right leaders in on every level with the right ideas and the right energy, I think Indiana can take her rightful place as the leading state in the Midwest — and one of the fastest-growing state economies in the U.S. … We really believe that we can be a part of Indiana meeting that moment with the right leadership and the right ideas.

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NUVO How do you rate the General Assembly’s mass transit bill? What, if anything, will you do about the issue moving forward?

BONEHAM: I support mass transit wholeheartedly. A city the size of Indianapolis needs an efficient and desirable mass transit system. Mass

GREGG: That was two local governments, Marion County and Hamilton County, coming together, wanting to ask the legislature for permission to have a discussion on something that they “might” like to do. And I want you to put “might” in quotes. The legislature wouldn’t even allow them to have a discussion. It’s just wrong.

We accomplish nothing if we don’t allow people to talk. We accomplish nothing if we don’t allow for a free exchange of ideas and that’s one reason why I’m running, I mean, as partisanship has gripped our country, and has gripped our state.

I’ll tell you why it’s utterly silly in this case. Indiana actually makes rail in Fort Wayne. The rail on the railroad, Indiana makes that in Fort Wayne. We make railcar and components, railcar and railcar components in Muncie. We make the diesel engines for the locomotives in Columbus and soon to be, I think, even Seymour. We don’t have a rail policy.

These opportunities, if we would quit griping and fighting with one another and worry about what we’re going to do next and where we’re going to do it — there’s just huge opportunities.

PENCE: I have an open mind on the issue. But as I’ve said in many conversations with people, particularly in Central Indiana, my view of the matter is any investment in mass transit has to be based upon the population density and reasonable expectations of utilization and sustainability. But what we can’t have is one part of the state expanding infrastructure in a way that people all across the state will be required ultimately to pay for in higher taxes. ... In areas of mass transit — which again I am openminded, I don’t have an opinion — if I’m elected governor, we’ll sit down with all the interested parties and listen. But from my perspective, when you’re talking about mass transit infrastructure there are metrics that can be used to determine whether an investment is economically sustainable. That’s how we’d approach it.

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NUVO How do you think the state’s gay people feel our state’s politicians have treated them recently?

BONEHAM: For years, LGBT Hoosiers have been treated like second-class citizens. We’ve seen too many young people taking their lives because of bullying in their schools and homes.

As governor, I will stand up for all of us. I will protect the constitutional right to equality under the law for every single Hoosier.

GREGG: I have been on record as saying I support traditional marriage.

But with that said, when I was speaker of the house, that was the only time we ever passed a hate-crimes bill with a gay category in it. I’ve told people; I’m all about jobs. This whole amount of time we spend on social

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issues... it’s not putting anybody to work and that’s what we need to be focused on. And I remind them I’m running against the guy whose whole 12-year career has been nothing but dealing with social issues. And I’ve been criticized by some reporters saying, “Why do you bring it up?” Well, because I feel like I’m the game warden and a leopard is trying to change its spots. You can’t be one way for 12 years and then all of a sudden say “Now I’m for jobs.” You need to look at the record. I stand by my record.

I’ve done other things, I’m not a career politician. I have not spent every day of the last 12 years trying to deny women access to healthcare.

PENCE: My hope is that every Hoosier, regardless of their political or personal philosophy, has been treated with the respect that every person in this state should be afforded. I believe that’s been the case in the state of Indiana and if I serve as governor, it will continue to be. Regardless of where any Hoosier stands on any particular issue, I think here in this state we know you can disagree without being disagreeable. Hoosiers put a high premium on civility and mutual respect — if I have the privilege of serving as governor — whether I agree with any particular community in the state on every single issue, I will always show every Hoosier the respect that I believe everyone should be accorded.

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NUVO What about the state’s economy? Where do you see the greatest opportunities for growth?

BONEHAM: I like seeing our economy better than our neighbors. I like seeing our businesses not fleeing the state, but actually businesses looking to relocate in Indiana. I want to

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encourage that, not with tax abatements and government subsidies, but … backing the government down from putting so much regulation in front of business, encouraging businesses to come to Indiana because of our location, because of our ease of compliance regulations, because our personal and corporate taxes… .

We want to bring our corporate tax rates and our personal tax rates down to a 3 percent level. If we stop giving the tax abatements, if we stop giving the prebates. … Honestly, I mean, I’m looking at GE that’s threatening to move out of the state again if we don’t give them another 10 years of abatements. At the same time we charge all of our small businesses 100 percent. If we eliminate that and stop taking away from our ability to collect taxes and we make everybody pay across the board, we can bring it down for everyone. That along with our location, along with the easing of regulations — and I’m not talking about making it a free-for-all, that you can do anything in Indiana — but you can promote your business, you can promote your world, you can advertise your company. You can put your sign up and take care of your world. We are the crossroads of America. We need to show that.

GREGG: There’s a new awareness, sustainability, green farming … [between growth in aquaculture and new generation greenhouses] Indiana could actually be to the point where we help change the way we feed the world and it would be affordable, it would be cost effective, and it would be healthier. … I actually come from a mining background. I’ve worked for two Fortune 500 [mining] companies. Southwestern Indiana is part of the Illinois coal basin. … The United States is the Saudi Arabia of coal. I

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think clean coal is part of the answer and I’m an advocate of coal-fire generation. I disagree with our president on coal even though we’re in the same party. … We’ve also got opportunities all over southwest, south-central Indiana in natural gas. We’ve got methane that we haven’t even begun to tap. Then all you’ve got to do is go north and you see the wind possibilities and all over the state, the biofuels.

When I drive northwest up to Lake County, or if I drive over to Anderson and Muncie, and I see those wind turbines, I see new technology. I see alternative, renewable power, but I also see opportunity. I want to know why that steel post that holds that thing up isn’t made in Gary. I want to know why the hub that’s cast for that isn’t cast in a La Porte, Ind., casting foundry. I want to know why the wire in that doesn’t come out of, it’s no longer Essex Wire, but it used to be Essex Wire in Fort Wayne. I want to know why that blade that’s got some aluminum materials is not made in Lafayette or Booneville down on the river at Alcoa. … When we talk about logistics, everybody always wants to talk about roads. The challenges, everybody already knows this, the toll road (money) is going to be gone July 1 of 2013, so you’ve got I-69 that’s somewhere between Crane and Bloomington. That has to be finished. You’ve got 31 north up to South Bend … it’s got to be finished.

Approximately 60 percent of our bridges need to be totally refurbished in the next 20 years. So we’ve got some challenges there. … But we’ve got some opportunities still there, in that we’ve got an unbelievable interstate system that crosses the state.

We’re located in the central part of the country. If we complete 30 or so miles of rail up the western side of the state we could ship southwestern

Indiana coal up to Burns Harbor, one of our three ports in Indiana. It could also be used in northern Indiana, but it could also (move through) the St. Lawrence Seaway and be exported … also some of this produce and all of the ag products. …

PENCE: If we make job creation job one, I think we have an opportunity to increase private sector employment and increase investment in our traditional areas of strength, which are manufacturing, agriculture, logistics and the life sciences.

There’s been a lot of talk in the last 20 years about the new economy and new jobs. I think Indiana should continue to lean into attracting new jobs to our state, but I think the real opportunity for growth is to build on our strength. And in Indiana we are many things. But we grow things, we make things, we’re innovators, we’re inventors and we export what we grow and make from factory to farm and lab to every part of the world. So I think our greatest areas of potential are in our traditional areas of strength and that’s where we’re going to focus.

The policies that we’re articulating are intended to harness that energy, which I’m happy to elaborate on relative to vocational education or the proposal to promote greater collaboration between our universities and life sciences.

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NUVO What do you see as Indiana’s No. 1 environmental issue and how would your administration respond to it?

BONEHAM: I am the outdoorsy guy.

I grew up in Kokomo, Ind., catching snakes and fish and turtles and crawdads in the Wildcat Creek. I want to protect our waterways, I want to

protect our air, I want to protect our soil. The best way to do that is to aggressively go after the people that are breaking the law and not just fine them a slap on the wrist, but actually pursue them criminally and financially. … We protect Indiana’s environment and when we catch people dumping or polluting we prosecute and we recover the money from them to make it right. It’s that simple. We don’t need to create more regulations. We need to enforce what we have. And not make it a slap on the wrist, because some people still, some of the bigger companies, can dump and it’s cheaper to dump.

GREGG: We’ve got a number of issues out there when I talk with people. … We need to be concerned about our water supply. Not so much from just contamination … there’s a finite amount of water and I think we’re going to see over the next 10-20 years that he or she who has the water is going to be the one that attracts the business and industry, the population growth. … Indiana’s got some great aquifers in certain areas of the state. And I think we need to … see what we’ve got, know where it is, keep it clean. But I think water is probably, it would be my biggest environmental concern because if we have water shortages … that’s going to absolutely impact not just where cities are built, but where these factories locate. It would have to be water.

PENCE: I think Indiana’s made great progress over the last eight years in compliance with federal standards and more importantly the public’s expectation for clean water, clean air, clean soil. But I think maybe the greatest challenge that we have is to make sure that the State of Indiana is implementing our environmental standards and working with the federal government on environmental standards in ways that meet our environment goals but also are not a hindrance to job creation and growth. I’m someone who believes that a strong economy and a clean environment are not in competition with each other, necessarily. And that there are ways to grow our economy and we can continue to make progress on a clean environment … .

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NUVO Are you at all concerned about man-made climate change?

BONEHAM: In Indiana, you know we deal a lot with, there is talk with the methane gases released from the feedlots and the cattle farms, the pig farms, there’s the methane gases that they’re starting. And I’d like to see some of these landfills try to collect methane gases. Now they still might just be burning them off, unfortunately. I would like to see some collection and actual use, but Indiana, just like the rest of the country, has to get some control over the fluorocarbons, the methane gas, the air pollutants. For us in Indiana, we have focused a lot with the farms and all the pesticides we have put on the ground. We haven’t focused as much on the air.

“The day I’m elected governor, war on the public teachers will stop ... and (on) public education.”

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state are older and are mothballed.

That’s going to be something we’re going to have to look at. Fortunately, right now we’ve got cheap natural gas, coal prices are low. But the costs of building those power plants are enormous. … I know you have a lot of readers that are basically anti-utility.

I always kind of, coming from the coal industry, I was always sensitive to that. I tell people that we long ago in this country decided we wanted to be cool in the summer and warm in the winter. That battle’s been fought.

PENCE: We’ve not expressed an opinion on that. If I’m elected governor, we’ll take a very careful look at all the issues affecting Indiana’s utilities with an eye toward ensuring that we promote policies that keep energy at a relatively low cost. One of the benefits for us, in terms of attracting jobs to Indiana, is we’re a relatively lowcost state from an energy perspective.

I want Indiana to continue to pursue and maintain policies that will maintain that competitive low-cost energy advantage that Indiana has. But any specific issues from my perspective would await us actually being given responsibility in the area. Then, we’ll listen, learn and lead. That’s how I like to approach things.

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NUVO What is your sense of our state’s current educational landscape? How would it change — if at all — under your leadership?

GREGG: I’m trying to focus on the things that Indiana can deal with, what the governor’s office can deal with, and I don’t think on those issues that that’s anything the governor can deal with. But I will tell you I do think, I’m not one of these people who discounts global warming. We’re obviously going through some type of change and extremes, and whether one wants to call it global warming or something else, it’s legit, it’s real.

PENCE: I’m concerned about policies like a national energy tax that would work such a hardship on Hoosier utility ratepayers. I think the issue of climate change — and the cause of any climate change that’s occurring — is a subject of scientific debate. And I think the science should always drive that debate, but I strongly oppose efforts to enact cap and trade legislation at the national level. And if elected governor, I’ll strongly oppose efforts to impose cap and trade through regulatory policy by tying Indiana’s utilities to standards of other states in the country.

In Indiana, we get the overwhelming majority of our electricity from coalburning power plants. I support cleancoal technology. Indiana continues to be a leader in that area. To embrace a cap and trade regime would be to work a great hardship on Hoosier families and Hoosier businesses because of our reliance on coal-burning power plants. I’ll strongly oppose those efforts as governor.

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NUVO What’s your take on Duke Energy’s development of the coal gasification plant in Edwardsport?

Do you believe the current proposed settlement of cost overruns is in Hoosiers’ best interest?

BONEHAM: When we don’t really know the total impact to the environment yet and we’re creating a settlement …

I would have to honestly have to dig more into that, because we’re dealing with some of the fracking things too, that I want to, I don’t know the longterm effects. There are long-term effects in some of the things going on we don’t know yet. Potentially there could be a greater cost, and we don’t see it. Unfortunately, there’s not enough transparency, even though it is a billion dollars over. Would it be more cost-effective to stop right now or should we continue on? That, and I have to say, I’ll sit here right now and say that would take putting my team together and really doing analysis of how far we want to continue.

GREGG: I’d be willing to comment on that after they get it settled, because I’d need to see that, but I can tell you that I’m an advocate of things burning Indiana coal. I’m an advocate of trying new technology and I think that Indiana has about the sixth lowest utility cost. But with that said, cost overruns, I am not a fan of them being handled by the consumer. … That’s going to be an issue, and some of our power plants around the

BONEHAM: Our current educational landscape costs us half our dollars in our budget. I’d like seeing the ISTEP school scores rising, but we’re talking about bringing in coaches to coach our teachers on how to teach better to the multiple-choice tests. Well, life is not a multiple-choice test. Life is an essay. And when we teach our children to pick the best of four answers and they get out in the world, how do we expect them to come up with their own answers? I want to give the power back to the teachers and the principals. I want to eliminate the standardized testing. I want to eliminate the No Child Left Behind. I want to empower our schools. I want to take dollars out of the administration and put them back into programs. …

GREGG: I’ve talked to school teachers all over the state and they all tell me it can get better. They all tell me they don’t mind being held accountable, but they’d like a voice in the changes and the reform and I think we need to give teachers a voice, our public teachers. The day I’m elected governor, war on the public teachers will stop — and (on) public education. I don’t think it does any good to demean. … We need to have people work together and share ideas. … I’m an inclusive person, you just have to be.

Now, with that said, I think one of the biggest things we can do in education is fully fund kindergarten. I know they say it is, but fully and truly fund it, and also do some prekindergarten and early childhood development. That’s just essential and we’re

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one of a handful of states that do nothing on that. That’s why we propose the childcare credit for parents that work. The other thing we have to do on the other end, as kids get ready when they graduate from high school, they need to be career ready or they need to be college ready. …

College is accessible in Indiana. Our challenge is to keep it affordable. And that would be one of the things that I would do would be to challenge the public trustees, the public university management, to say “How can you keep these fees, how can you keep a lid on them, so to speak?”

PENCE: For more than 20 years I’ve been a champion, along with leaders like Bill Crawford, of educational vouchers. I think giving underprivileged kids and their families the same choices that more affluent Hoosiers have to go to a different public school, a public charter school or even a private school, it is better for the kids and better for the communities and education as a whole. Competition makes everyone stronger on the basketball court or in any arena.

That being said, I want to make sure schools are working for all kids, regardless of where they start in life and regardless of where they want to start in life. To me a voucher program is about saying to kids “We’re going to level the playing field.” Even if you were born into a tough environment and an underprivileged family, we’re going to give you scholarships and choices to go to the best school you think your kids can attend. Similarly, we’ve advocated very strongly that at the other end of the educational process — more choices and more pathways for career and vocational education. … I come from a perspective that all honest work is honorable work and that our schools ought to stand for the

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principle that any child that wants to go to college should be given access to a world-class college preparatory education. And, similarly, I think we can do a better job saying that for boys and girls that want to go into the workforce after high school and continue their education another time, we want to give them access to the kind of career and vocational education that will permit them to take off their cap and gown and go to work making a good living.

As I’ve traveled around the state, as often as I’ve heard business say they’re not hiring, I’ve heard businesses tell me “We can’t find people that are qualified to hire.” I think if we close the skills gap at the high school level, it’s going to be good for our kids, but it’s also going to be good for our economy and for jobs.

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NUVO Do you plan any changes in how the state serves its veterans?

BONEHAM: We know that there are many areas our veteran’s services can and must be better. But without knowing all the facts and how the current agencies work, it’s not appropriate for me, or any candidate, to make sweeping statements on how we would fix it. I would rather know what’s broken and how it happened before I try to fix it.

One thing that I do know is that we need to examine the portion of funding from the POW/MIA specialty licenses plate that goes directly to supporting Indiana veterans. Right now the majority of those funds go to programs to support active duty personnel and their families. While that is just as important, it wasn’t the original intent of the plate.

GREGG: I mean it has happened in every corner of the state, … normally it’s their parent, but sometimes it’s a

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spouse, saying, “We’re trying to get … our claims paid.” And they can’t. So the first thing that we said is, hey, we’re going to put more people in there.

There is a huge backlog of claims.

That’s No. 1. No. 2: When Indiana spends all this time talking about social issues, I tell people they want to talk about a social issue, talk about our slide in per capita income from 36th to 41st, but also talk about unemployment among veterans at 20 percent.

PENCE: It breaks my heart to say the unemployment among Hoosier veterans returning from service since 2001 is two times the unemployment of the average Hoosier. Indiana has got to do better. Hoosiers want us to do better. That’s why we’ve articulated a very specific set of policies and goals — from Indiana being accredited with veterans affairs in Washington, D.C., to emulating Indianapolis’ recently stated goal of awarding state contracts, in part, on the basis of vetowned business status. ... I think we can do better by our veterans. I think Hoosiers know they owe a debt of gratitude to the men and women who put on the uniform that we’ll never be able to repay.

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NUVO What’s your sense of the influence of the Citizens United decision (which prohibits limitations on independent political spending by corporations and unions) on politics in America?

BONEHAM: My biggest problem with Citizens United and the new Super PACs is the anonymity of donors and the way they get around contribution limits.

GREGG: (It’s) had an enormous influence and I don’t think it’s a positive influence because you can have

people given unlimited amounts of money and then not know where they come from, where the dollar comes from. I mean, we’ve seen $1 million come from some super PAC that’s supposedly hooked to the Republican governors that came in to the Congressman and nobody has to tell where it’s from. I think it’s probably one of the most disastrous court cases we’ve had as far as affecting our electoral process, because it, in some cases, it is going to allow a person with little or no qualifications just to come in and buy a race if they can attract that type of money.

PENCE: I’m someone who has long believed that the more debate that we can encourage and more transparency we can encourage in the American political process, the better off our citizens and our elections will be. I strongly oppose the McCainFeingold law (which regulates campaign financing and was enacted in 2002). I actually was a plaintiff in the lawsuit that challenged McCainFeingold, the McConnell case, to the Supreme Court. I was pleased to see the Supreme Court, while they upheld McCain-Feingold in the McConnell case, they slowly changed the law in the Citizens United case as one of the recent iterations of that. But they changed it in a manner of freedom.

But I want to say that I believe that the more debate and the more transparency that we have in campaign elections is better for the country. … My view has always been that Hoosiers ought to be able to expend their dollars in public life under the First Amendment as they see fit in support of the candidates or causes of their choosing. But I’ve also always supported transparency in our campaign finance laws and I’ll continue to … promote both those

things. I’ve supported efforts at created transparency and accountability. … I think throughout my career in Congress, I’ve long supported the public’s right to know. I authored the Free Flow of Information Act in the Congress — that passed the House of Representatives and may yet become law — that will ensure the free flow of information by protecting confidential sources at the federal level.

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NUVO Any special plans for farmers?

BONEHAM: Standing up for our farmers and not letting the federal government tell them who can or cannot drive a tractor on their land. The federal government is trying to create a situation where only CDL drivers can operate equipment, even on private land, even out in the fields. That will never happen if I am governor.

I also see a great value in bringing fibered crops to Indiana and creating an industry that we are growing fibers, turning them into textiles, creating clothing for every prisoner locked up in Indiana, thousands of prisoners, tens of thousands of prisoners. Every state hospital employee, thousands, hundreds of thousands of scrubs — first responders, fire, and police, law enforcement officers … Now we have different colleges in Indiana that have for years been working on fuels, grass fuels. Well, there are some crops out there that could make 10 times, 50 times the fuel production that corn creates and they grow in our environment. [Any particular crops?] I would love to see bamboo and hemp come into Indiana. Hemp is a $200 billion dollar industry in the United States, and it is not represented because the federal government has said hemp is illegal. [Is there a place for marijuana as well, or should we focus on the hemp?] They’re being able to create a spot for medical marijuana, of course.

When we have alcohol that is legal and marijuana that is not, if we want to look at, in our future, the decriminalization, the taxing and regulating of marijuana like we do alcohol, it cuts off a lot of budget problems. But that is not one of my agendas. I don’t want to scare everybody away… I’m already scary enough.

GREGG: I’ve been real critical of my opponent in that there is a farm bill laying in the House right now. … he voted for a recess while Indiana farmers are experiencing, in some cases, the worst drought ever, in other cases, still the worst drought in over 20 years…

Indiana farmers are hurting, and if I were governor I would be doing everything I could to work with our congressional delegation and the ag secretary and the president, to say we need relief.

Another thing that goes hand in glove with an ag policy is … rural development policy … I live on a farm, I don’t farm, but my parents still live in our hometown of 300 people. You know there are some real challenges to a lot of these small towns… that also affects the farmer.

We need to do everything we can because that’s an important part of our heritage… we have to eat.

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RUPERT BONEHAM

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PENCE: My running mate, Sue Ellspermann, recently unveiled our agricultural agenda and I would commend it to your readers’ attention.

I think Indiana is many things, but Indiana is agriculture at our core.

One of the reasons I love the state fair is because you see tens of thousands of people who make their way out to the state fairgrounds and on an annual basis are reminded where we come from in Indiana and we celebrate that no matter what our backgrounds. But I think the economic opportunities in agriculture are very real. Agriculture is a major part of our past and our present. The reason we embraced an innovation corridor for agriculture being promoted in this state, the reason that we’re determined to look at and evaluate the tax burden that faces family farmers is because we really do believe that a growing diverse agricultural economy in Indiana is a core part of our state’s economic strength and by promoting greater innovation and greater investment in Indiana, it will just make Indiana stronger.

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NUVO How do you define Hoosier?

BONEHAM: I like describing myself as that good Hoosier boy that has values, a sense of self worth and work ethic. … We’re able to look each other in the eye and care if people are OK — not to get too involved, but to care. ... Indiana is a great place.

The Hoosiers that inspire me … some of these men and women coming out of the detention center that

were born with three strikes against them. That were raised without the knowledge of making a legal living or even having a sense of self worth that are able to turn themselves around. ... Seeing someone that has been beaten down all their life, stand up and say “No matter what, I will make it!” … I have many fellow Hoosiers that I think back on knowing that we can make it.

GREGG: The obvious way is someone born, raised, and lived in Indiana.

Me. But there are 7 million of us. You know, it’s interesting, as I’ve traveled around the state, the definition of Hoosier is different in different areas. It can be a small-town person.

It can be a farmer. It can mean a fan of Indiana University. But it can also mean somebody that works in a steel mill in Gary or somebody that’s up in Fort Wayne working at the GM plant, or it can be a guy working down at the Clark Marathon somewhere down in the southeast part of the state that’s right on a barge. There are so many things it can mean, but I think it really means a hardworking, decent human being that has a love of state, a love of country, and a great hope for the future.

PENCE: For me, Hoosiers are special.

All you need to do to be a Hoosier is to be a person of compassion, decency, who believes in hard work and calls Indiana home.

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CONTINUES 28 FRIDAY

Ain’t Misbehavin @ Athenaeum Theatre It’s the final weekend for the Fats Waller songbook musical Ain’t Misbehavin’, directed by jazz singer and actress Brenda Williams and presented by the Indiana Performing Arts Centre. Joyce Licorish, Deaon Smith, Angela Shaunette Felix and Brian Kelly star.

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Lenka Konopasek, “Retaliation,” from Papercuts

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Sept. 28, 7:30 p.m.; Sept. 30, 5 p.m. @ 401 E. Michigan St., $20-30 (senior/student discount available), ipacindy.org

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Caroline Goulding

Classical roundup

WEDNESDAY

Papercuts @ Herron School of Art + Design Reni Gower, a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, is the prime mover behind an exhibition opening Wednesday that highlights contemporary paper cutting. Featured artists include Lyon, France-born Beatrice Coron, who wore a fabulous paper dress to a 2011 TED Talk that included this key quote: “In life and in papercutting, everything is connected. One story leads to another.”

Opens Sept. 26 with a 6 p.m. lecture by Gower in the Basile Auditorium at Eskenazi Hall; runs through Oct. 25 in the Berkshire Paul and Reese Galleries; herron.iupui.edu

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Asante’s Legacy Cabaret @ Indiana Landmarks Center

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Sourdough Slim (top), Parker Quartet

FRIDAY

Day of fests

Art vs. Art @ The Vogue

You probably know the drill: Artists create the very best painting they’ve got in them during a timed session, then paintings that won an online auction head to the final round, a battle at The Vogue in which the losing paintings in a head-tohead vote are destroyed by a method that may involve acid or chainsaw. With music by the Leisure Kings Big Band; hosted by Leisure King Mike Wiltrout.

Doors 8 p.m. @ 6259 N. College Ave., $12, artvsart.net

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Jazz singer Everett Greene and man of the cloth/jazz pianist Dr. Marvin Chandler are the guests of honor for a fundraiser for Asante Children’s Theatre featuring performances by singers Bashiri Asad, Joyce Licorish, Renee King and Deaon Smith. Greene’s impressive bassbaritone is most often heard around these parts with the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra. Chandler’s accomplishments and titles are many, including community organizer (a job which saw him take part in reconciliation discussions at Attica Prison in the ’70s) and Indianapolis Jazz Hall of Famer. Asante Children’s Theatre remains a unique, vibrant, essential program that teaches life skills via music and theater education.

With straight-up college –– or professional –– level ballet hard to come by within the city limits, a trip down to Bloomington becomes necessary to fill one’s needs. IU Ballet’s Light and Shade program will feature Twyla Tharp’s Sweet Fields, set to a live performance of Shaker hymns; two works scored

by Stravinsky and choreographed by Peter Martins: Eight Easy Pieces and Eight More; and Copland’s Appalachian Spring as choreographed by Martha Graham.

6:30 p.m. reception, 7 p.m. show @ 1201 Central Ave., $25 per person (tables available), asantechildrenstheatre.org

Sept. 28 and 29, 8 p.m. @ 101 N. Jordan Ave., Bloomington; $12-25 (student discount available); music.indiana.edu

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Ongoing ISO coverage, classical reviews by Tom Aldridge Cassie Kerns at Indy Indie review by Dan Grossman

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A couple weeks back, it was the week of fests; in these waning days of September, they’re all crammed into one day — Saturday.

The first Latino Festival for the Arts (Sept. 29, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. @ Indiana State Museum, free with museum admission) will open with music by Staci Sandoval and Trio ConPaz, followed by a welcoming ceremony at noon hosted by WRTV reporter Rafael Sanchez. A community organizations fair will run through the afternoon, which will close with a performance by the Pasion Huasteca Guitar Trio.

The Army Corps of Engineers and RebuildIndy may have it out for Rocky Ripple via proposed levee plans that would either exclude the river town from protection or wall it into the flood plane. But that doesn’t mean residents aren’t still up for a good party. The 13th annual Rocky Ripple Festival (Sept. 29, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., free, pedal and park available) will feature music by Andra Faye and the Rays, Day Job Blues, Cosmic Preachers, Seismic Souls and CW and the Working Class Trio, as well as an open drum circle in the key of djembe.

“How the West was fun” goes the tagline to WestFest (Sept. 29, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. @ Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art; $9 adult, $5 youth) a family-centric event allowing tykes of all ages the chance to see an authentic chuckwagon, drink real root beer, pan for gold and listen to one-man-band Sourdough Slim.

Asante fundraiser blog, IU ballet review by Rita Kohn

The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra has cancelled this weekend’s program, but there’s still plenty for classical fans in the city.

Here are four options: Ensemble Voltaire’s season opener, Postcard from Bohemia (Sept.

28, 7:30 p.m. @ Trinity Episcopal Church; Sept. 30, 2 p.m. @ The Athenaeum, $20 with student/senior discounts available), will focus on chamber music written in the area now known as the Czech Republic.

Grammy-winning violinist Caroline Goulding will open the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra season with Mendelssohn’s Violin Concert (Sept. 29, 5:30 p.m. @ Indiana History Center; $25 adult, $12 student). Michael Torke’s Lucent Variations and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 in B-Flat Major are also on the bill.

“Lucidity and poise” characterize Parker Quartet’s performances, according to The New York Times.

The young group will bring Part’s Fratres, Britten’s String Quartet No. 2 in C Major and Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” to the Palladium (Sept. 29, 8 p.m., $18-73).

And after, it’s time for the APA Classical Fellowship Awards to begin, with Round One performances by the five finalists. Claire Huangci is the first up, playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra (Sept. 30, 3:30 p.m. @ Indiana History Center, $30 public, member/student discounts available). Every four years the APA chooses a Christel DeHaan Classical Fellow, who will walk home with a two-year fellowship worth $100,000, including a fabulous $50,000 cash prize and equally lucrative career assistance in the publicity and booking arenas.

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Oranje by Mike Allee Art Squared and Art vs. Art by Stacy Kagiwada

A&E FEATURE Only as free as a padlocked prison door Writer locks self in Vonnegut Library

BY SCO TT SHOGER SSHO G ER@ N UVO.NET It wasn’t his idea. But Corey Michael Dalton — editor of children’s magazines, writer of fiction, admirer of Kurt Vonnegut — said to his cohorts at the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library that if they couldn’t find anyone else to live for a week in a cell made of books, well, then, they could come back and ask him.

Anyone who’s ever worked for a nonprofit knows that saying such a thing is tantamount to volunteering and paying for the party favors. And so Dalton will find himself, beginning Sept. 30 at noon, living 24 hours a day in a makeshift cell abutting the library’s front window, surrounded on two or three sides by walls made of banned books. The week-long stunt is tied to both Banned Books Week, a national venture celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, and to the Vonnegut Library’s efforts to bring attention to a partial ban of Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five by a Missouri school district.

Dalton is, for the record, gainfully employed, as an editor of three children’s magazines published by The Saturday Evening Post Society. But he was one of the few in the network of Vonnegut enthusiasts and volunteers who could clear an entire week from his schedule. “Given that I’m an editor and writer for magazines, and that I just graduated from Butler with my MFA and I’m shopping around manuscripts, they figured I’d be a good fit, because I could actually, for one thing, get work done,” he told me one afternoon outside Mo’Joes, just down the road from the library. “And I work for The Saturday Evening Post, which published a lot of Vonnegut’s short stories, so there’s a classic tie-in.”

Dalton will be released Oct. 6 at noon, by which time he’ll have, according to plan, written a short story, blogged about his experience, listened to a variety of authors reading from banned books (including Dan Wakefield and Michael Moore), sat still for lectures by local experts (including Jon Eller, director of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies) and witnessed the handover of Kurt Vonnegut’s Sagamore of the Wabash from the ACLU of Indiana (represented by Judy O’Bannon) to the library. Check the sidebar for more details, delivered in a less breathless manner; all events are free and open to the public.

Anyone who’s ever been in prison knows how valuable visiting hours are — and Dalton will get to pack in a little more companionship into expanded hours of operation (noon-7 p.m. daily) at the library during Banned Books Week.

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Visitors will be encouraged to sign a petition addressed to the school board in Republic, Mo., which continues to limit access to Slaughterhouse-Five. The book was banned outright by the school board in July 2011, in response to which the Vonnegut Library offered free copies to any student at Republic High School. Seventyfive students took up the library’s offer; 75 more donated books remain available.

In September 2011, the school board downgraded the ban, allowing students to take out the book from the school library, but only with parental consent. The Vonnegut Library maintains that this partial ban — which places the book in exile in a secured section of the school library — continues to infringe on First Amendment rights.

Call the “Locked in with Vonnegut” stunt a mix of practical, direct action (petitions, education via lectures, Dalton’s blog and the like) and indirect, magical thinking of the best kind (i.e. man imitates imprisoned book, locking himself away to better raise awareness of book’s plight). “Part of it is the absurdity of the whole thing, which is kind of like Vonnegut’s fiction, which can be wacky and absurd. This is such a stupid thing to do that it seems like Vonnegut would appreciate it,” said Dalton, a scruffy, bespectacled sort, at home in flannel, who looks more like a typical MFA grad than a children’s book editor.

Dalton said that, given all his involvement with the Vonnegut Library, he’s becoming known at “the Vonnegut guy. And that’s fine; there’s a lot worse things you could be. But I don’t think anyone at the library thinks Vonnegut was a saint. He was just a dude who told interesting stories. What connects with me, in his books, is the basic decency he puts forth, a ‘can’t we all just get along with each other’ message. That’s his sunny message at the heart of it all, but then there’s all this darkness on top of it, where his characters are selfloathing and hate humanity. They know that they’re supposed to be good to each other and that’s what they’re trying to do, but life fucks you up.” Dalton says he’s most into Vonnegut’s earlier work, those books that have a “sci-fi element.”

Dalton’s core concern — and the reason why he’s spending a week of his life in the library — is with censorship, in general.

“As a writer and editor and guy who works on kids’ magazines and tries to encourage kids to be into literature, it’s shocking that books are still banned for rather arbitrary reasons. We’re focused on SlaughterhouseFive, but To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the 10 most challenged books every year, and it’s because people say it’s racist. Well, anyone who’s read the book would know it’s the opposite of racist. But, yes, racist things happen in the book to illustrate racism.”

Dalton notes that he’ll retain access to at least some creature comforts during his incarceration. “There’s a shower in the basement, so anytime I go to the bathroom or shower, I’ll put up a little sign that says, “Back in five,” because there’s going to be a webcam.” But won’t that be a sort of censorship of the shower experience? “Yeah, I’ll be censoring it; it won’t be like German Big

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Corey Dalton in the entryway that will become his cell.

Brother. That’s my choice, and no one wants to see that, anyway.”

His cell will be sparsely furnished: a MacBook, a military cot and, Dalton hopes, a coffeemaker. “And there’s a creepy statue of Vonnegut (see above) in the space that’s kind of heavy and probably won’t be moved. So I’m going to have a skeletal Vonnegut looking over me. I hope I can sleep at night.” Does he have plans to exercise? “Yeah, wouldn’t it be hilarious to have a stationary bike?

I’m sure someone has one that’s has clothes hanging on it. That’s something to contemplate because I’m afraid all my muscles will atrophy, and I’ll just be a blob of Jell-O.”

EVENTS (all free and at the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, 340 N. Senate Ave., unless otherwise noted) Sept. 30, noon

Julia Whitehead, executive director of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, in a replica of Vonnegut’s Office.

Will there be a curtain to give Dalton a little privacy while slumbering? “There’s a blind, and I’m going to try to not put it down, but we’ll see if Bourbon Street allows me to sleep.” Is he worried about sleeping alone, undefended? “Not really. I’m more worried about being mooned. Which is fine!

We’re going to put a sign in the window to briefly explain why I’m doing this, the circumstance of the book banning in Republic, the fact that books are still being banned from our high schools in this day and age.

So if people come up and bang on the window, I won’t have to try to mime to them what’s going on. I can just point to the sign, they can read, and then if they want to flip me off, then whatever.”

of the Wabash, currently held by the ACLU of Indiana, to the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library WHO’S READING TO COREY? Sept. 30: Dan Wakefield, from the ending to The Great Gatsby

Julia Whitehead, Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library executive director, talks about the Republic, Mo., ban of Slaughterhouse-Five, its partial abatement and attempts to remove all barriers to accessing the book

Oct. 1: Michael Dahlie ( A Gentleman’s Guide to Graceful Living ), book TBA

Sept. 30, 3 p.m.

Oct. 3: Sarah Ockler, from her own banned book, 20 Boy Summer, via Skype; Alex Mattingly, manager of Indy Reads Books, from The Grapes of Wrath

Screening of a film based on one of Vonnegut’s masterworks at Tilt Studio (49 W. Maryland St.) Oct. 2, 6:30 p.m.

Talk by Jon Eller, director of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies at IUPUI, concerning connections between Bradbury and Vonnegut; followed by 7:15 p.m. screening of a film based on one of Bradbury’s masterworks

Oct. 2: Michael Moore, from Slaughterhouse-Five, via Skype; Jon Eller, from Fahrenheit 451

Oct. 4: Ben H. Winters ( Sense and Sensibility and Seamonsters) from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Oct. 5: Judy O’Bannon, from To Kill a Mockingbird

Oct. 5, 6 p.m.

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THE PROTEST: Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five, has been under virtual lock and key by the Republic, Missouri, school system for a year.

Special library hours: Noon-7 p.m. daily Plus: “Corey’s Bedtime Stories” Special programming nightly 5-7 p.m.

Details on the ban, the event and to view a 24/7 LIVE web cam of Corey: VonnegutLibrary.org

A&E FEATURE Artistic freedom, within bounds Butler’s Debussy Celebration kicks off

BY S CO T T S H O G E R S S H O G E R@N U VO . N E T Just about all roads in the world of modernism point to French composer Claude Debussy. At least that’s according to Dr. James Briscoe, director of Butler’s Debussy Celebration.

Beginning Sept. 29, the two-weekend long celebration will feature concerts and lectures in the interest of taking stock of the French composer’s legacy.

Briscoe celebrates Debussy’s philosophy of artistic freedom, an approach which distinguished the composer from his modernist ilk, who were far more inclined toward a systematic, agenda-driven approach: “He was open to all possibilities. Not that all were valid, but that all possibilities ought to be tried, tested, to see their validity.

Each artist, this is, in his view, had to find his or her own way.”

The celebration’s four concerts will offer a glimpse into different aspects of Debussy’s body of work, from piano music to songs, orchestral to chamber works, early pieces based on poems by Paul Verlaine and Charles Baudelaire to his final piece, the Sonate for Violin and Piano.

Briscoe got the idea to put on the celebration while attending an international forum on Debussy’s work this February in Montreal. But he’s been thinking about the composer’s wideranging influence for years — and he’s been asking others their thoughts, interviewing major American composers by hook or crook, calling up Wynton Marsalis while he was on the road between gigs, sitting down with Philip Glass in the Clowes Hall basement. He’ll present some of those findings during a session of the American Musicological Society at Butler on Sept.

29 (see butler.edu/music for more information), and he’s toying with the idea of a book of interviews.

Briscoe was impressed that, not only did Marsalis take the time to talk with him about Debussy — with Marsalis noting that Debussy “taught us organization of sensual experience” — but he called him back twice: first when the line dropped as Marsalis traveled down a highway; and then the next morning, when Marsalis woke up Briscoe and his wife, Anna (a pianist performing during the celebration), with another thought on Debussy’s legacy, concerning the connection between Cezanne’s painting and Debussy’s work.

Briscoe, who has the air of a Southern gentleman despite his many years at Butler and in Indianapolis, takes it from the beginning of Debussy’s career in the following interview.

JAMES BRISCOE: Many among the American composers I interviewed pointed to how he set off his career by attending the 1889 Paris World’s Fair.

That was when the Eiffel Tower was built; Alexander Graham Bell brought his telephone across the waters; Edison had installed electric lighting; and there were French, German and English inventions all over.

But one thing that interested Debussy was what was called primitive music, not called, of course, music of the world.

Musicians came from French, Dutch and other colonies; from Vietnam, which was a French protectorate; from Bali, which was, of course, a Dutch protectorate. This Vietnamese theater, for example, was so sparse and improvised, that it moved Debussy toward the idea of simplicity and improvisation. Likewise, the Balinese gamelan was a new sound world, and a new sound source of a percussive, shimmering sound, and this moved him a great deal. In turn, of course, Debussy’s music subsumed some of these influences and interested American composers, who are still alert to that opening to non-European ways of hearing music.

That opening to a possibility of testing, of renouncing, ultimately, European forms, harmonies and the rest is perhaps Debussy’s greatest legacy. The composers, to the person, man and woman, that I interviewed recognized that freedom, that mandated, self-individualized expression.

NUVO: And he had this notion of America as an untapped, unexplored land.

BRISCOE: Debussy thought America held enormous potential for such development for two reasons. We have to be, first of all, candid in saying that he saw economic possibilities. He was not naive, he didn’t think like many ignorant Europeans coming here that the streets were paved in gold and all of that. But he knew that there was an economic potential here that the artist could dip into. But secondly, he saw a melting pot of musical interests, artistic inspirations: German, French, English, and you name it; non-European inspirations, as well. He thought there were possibilities of opening new combinations and new solutions, new paradigms for musical thought.

NUVO: Did Debussy have a kind of respect for “primitive” traditions?

BRISCOE: Debussy took what he wanted, what he could use and converted it, translated it into terms proper to himself. He didn’t simply incorporate African drumming into some symphonic piece. That would have been kind of silly. But he could certainly show a polyphony of rhythms, which West Africans are very strong on. This new sound interweaving, the polyph-

ony of sound color, is something that perhaps the non-West showed him.

NUVO: You use the term the “abyss of total freedom” as part of the title for the Oct. 9 concert. Can you unpack what Debussy meant by that, by this fear that informs the person who goes his own way?

BRISCOE: I couldn’t say it all in that title, but what he said was: “I approached the abyss of total freedom and just withdrew”, barely withdrew; that is, he looked into, sampled the depths of it and found the extent of the possibilities of total freedom, but withdrew enough, withheld himself just enough to find those potentialities that might well be personalized for him, that might well be integrated into his own way of thinking.

NUVO: You’ve spoken with a number of contemporary composers about Debussy. Were there any commonalities between the way that they view his music and how they describe his influence?

BRISCOE: He stated that his music would be understood by the grandchildren of the 20th century. The grandchildren of the 20th century are the very composers we’re talking about in Europe and the United States; these are people born in the ’40s and ’50s, having skipped a generation, almost from Debussy. These composers are unanimous in their praise of Debussy’s liberation; that is, his trying of multiple possibilities of oneself. To point, therefore to various style traits, or uses of a rhythm, is therefore not possible. It’s a contradiction almost.

Debussy withdrew from the abyss of total freedom, and he could not, and would not, influence by way of a complete chaos or any sort of happenstance music. I don’t think Debussy would have been comfortable with John Cage’s music, for example, in which happenings and complete happenstance sound were involved. He was a quite structured composer, if in a very individual way.

NUVO: But he was also reluctant to embrace any single structure or approach.

BRISCOE: Yes, any agenda in music was foreign to him. The new agendas coming on at his time, at the later part of his life, were not comfortable to him. The two primary ones that he saw were, firstly, Stravinsky and the agenda of primitivism. He found the rhythmic demand, the rhythmic poignancy of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring quite mechanistic, because it was so agenda-laden. Likewise he couldn’t abide by the coming of Schoenberg and his agenda of chromaticism, because of its rules and regulations.

NUVO: And is that balance between structure and freedom something that you value in Debussy’s work?

BRISCOE: That’s the particular strength, but also the charm of Debussy, because it is a delicate music, a suggestive and not an imposing music. One must be alert — to these quite subtle strengths, to the prismatic, kaleidoscopic changeability in what Debussy was doing.

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Claude Debussy

KEY EVENTS (ALL FREE): Sept. 29, 8 p.m. @ Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall

Songs and piano music, including Preludes pour Piano Livre I , En blanc et noir (for two pianists) and three selections from Cinq poemes de Charles Baudelaire; preceded at 7 p.m. by a lecture by Michael Oravitz (Ball State), “Tradition and Revolution in the Piano Music of Debussy” Debussy and the New Modernist Orchestra Sept. 30, 3 p.m. @ Clowes Memorial Hall

Butler Symphony Orchestra performs three orchestral works by Debussy — Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune, Nocturnes and Iberia — as well as Ives’s Variations on America and Vaughan-Williams’s On Wenlock Edge; preceded at 2 p.m. by a lecture by David Hertz (IU), “Debussy, Mallarme and Symbolism” Debussy’s Adventure and Achievement Oct. 2, 7:30 p.m. @ Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall

Songs and a piece for violin and piano , including selections from Fetes galantes pour Madame Vasnier and Ariettes oubliees (both drawing on poetry by Paul Verlaine); Trois ballades de Francois Villon ; and Sonate pour Violon et Piano Debussy and the Abyss of Total Freedom Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m. @ Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall

Three chamber pieces: Trio pour piano, violin et violincello (written by Debussy at age 18; performed by guest cellist Kurt Fowler, guest pianist Minju Choi and faculty violinist Davis Brooks), Quatour pour deux violins, alto et violincelle en sol mineur (played by the Vero Quartet of Butler student artists) and Sonate pour flute, alto et harpe (featuring guest flutist Rebecca Price Arrensen)

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Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson at the Phoenix

THEATER BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON PHOENIX THEATRE, THROUGH OCT. 21 w The Phoenix Theatre kicked off its season with a big bang with last week’s opening of a whirlwind 90-minute musical about our oft-debated seventh president. The show, presented by a 13-person ensemble cast, is a gory interpretation of Jackson’s legacy as a land-hungry general with a pivotal role in American expansionism — and the attendant displacement and/or murder of thousands of native peoples. Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson poses big questions about how our history informs our present, offering a welltimed political satire that poses big civic questions minus the dogged doctrines of either side.

Eric Olson delivers an impetuous performance as a punk rock Andrew Jackson, unafraid to wear

nail polish and express his feelings. The entire ensemble impresses with vocal power, with Claire Wilcher standing out as a comedic force. The latest production proves that the Phoenix Theatre, celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, hasn’t lost its exuberant and youthful touch.

— KATELYN COYNE

THE NIGHT WATCHER INDIANA REPERTORY THEATRE, THROUGH OCT. 14 t Charlayne Woodard’s work has been a staple of the IRT’s Going Solo lineup, with Milicent Wright slipping into Woodard’s one-woman shows like a favorite pair of pajamas. But while it may be comfortable for the IRT to produce a tried and true character with an unquestionably talented actor, it’s important to know when to try something new.

As always, Wright makes Woodard‘s words her own; however, Woodard’s third script,

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The Night Watcher at the Indiana Repertory Theatre which presupposes knowledge of her previous two works and her own celebrity, falls short. The script is thematically cohesive, centering around one woman’s decision not to procreate and the way in which her maternal instincts play into the decision, but its stories are disjointedly organized. So while the fluidity of Woodard’s previous writing is sorely missed in this piece, her thought-provoking message about child-rearing still provides fodder for interesting post-show conversation.

— KATELYN COYNE

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capable storyteller with powerful acting chops.

Playwright Pamela Gien’s story of Apartheidtorn South Africa focuses on an innocent central character, Lizzie, a young, white South African girl of privilege. Johansen beautifully rises to dialect challenges, shaping setting and character without distraction. She’s adorably poignant as young Lizzie, but also finds wisdom and maturity in adult Lizzie. She also ably incarnates a range of other characters, from her native South African nurse maid to her liberal, educated father. Though her pacing and energy seemed to lag toward the end of the reviewed show, Johansen still delivered a moving performance. A powerful final image chosen by director Fontaine Syer leaves a lasting emotional impression as we are left to think about global race relations.

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Art Squared 2012 LOCKED OUT ISO MUSICIANS PLAY SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH LEPPARD CONDUCTS BENEFIT FOR YOUTH ORCHESTRA On a cool, brilliant late Saturday afternoon, the entire complement of Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra players appeared in front of an overflow crowd at one of Indy’s architectural landmarks, Second Presbyterian Church. Ostensibly, the players were there to give a benefit for the groundbreaking Metropolitan Youth Orchestra, an ISO-sponsored institution founded in 1995.

But it was as much a demonstration of solidarity in opposing the ISO executive board’s proposed plan to drastically scale back the orchestra’s operations and players’ salaries because of stated long-term financial difficulties. The players have offered counter proposals considerably reducing the severity of the cuts, but because the two sides have yet to reach an agreement, the board has put the players in a lockout mode.

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With a yeoman’s effort, ISO conductor laureate Raymond Leppard led the orchestra in three works: George Chadwick’s “Noel” from his Symphonic Sketches,

Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins and String Orchestra in D Minor and Elgar’s most famous work, the Enigma Variations on an Original Theme. He mounted the podium just five days after conducting his 85thbirthday concert at UIndy.

Though I don’t consider normal reviewer’s criticism to apply in this case, I can say that Leppard’s conducting skills kept his players — as he had done for the 14 years (19872001) under his music directorship — at a level I was used to hearing during his tenure. The two soloists for the Bach — Jayna Park and Michelle Kang — coming from the ISO violin section, delighted the audience with their professional aplomb.

The warm, extended standing ovation indicated the audience’s strong desire for a quick settlement of this player / management dispute, for a quick resumption of the orchestra’s fall schedule — and for a quick return to the Circle Theatre.

— TOM ALDRIDGE

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BY EMMA FAESI EDITORS@NUVO.NET The Emerging Author category is the only one left to decide this Saturday at the Indiana Author Award Dinner, a sold-out event taking place at the Central Library, following an afternoon of free, public programming featuring all the winning authors (see infobox for details).

We already know that the winner of this year’s National Author Award — given to an author with Indy ties whose work is read throughout the country — is John Green, The New York Times best-selling author of four novels for young adults and a professional video blogger whose Vlogbrothers project (a collaboration with his brother Hank) has been watched more than 230 million times.

Barb Shoup, the author of seven novels — including An American Tune, the launch party for which is this Friday at Indy Reads Books (see infobox) — is the winner of this year’s Regional Author Award, given to an author known and respected throughout the state. And Dan Wakefield, who recently moved back to Indianapolis after a career spent in New York City and elsewhere, is the Lifetime Achievement Honoree.

Wakefield doesn’t get to keep the money he’s “awarded”; he’ll be asked to designate $2,500 given in his recognition to the library of his choice. But exciting prizes await the others, who in addition to each selecting a library to which to give a $2,500 grant, will receive either $10,000 (Green), $7,500 (Shoup) or $5,000 (the Emerging Author winner).

So there’s where the drama is: Who will get the $5,000 Emerging Author prize?

Douglas Light, Sherri Wood Emmons or Christopher Coake?

Light was born in Indiana, but he’s since adopted New York City, and seems to be in touch with it in a way that runs deeper than those following a stereotypical writermoves-to-New-York scenario. His debut novel, East Fifth Bliss — which was adapted into a film starring Peter Fonda — takes a cue from Joyce and extends it, following a single character over a single long weekend.

Light’s most recent publication, Girls In

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Trouble, is a collection of 13 short pieces that won the Grace Paley Prize in short fiction. “The short story is a strange beast,” he says with respect to Girls in Trouble’s gestation period, which lasted seven years. “They consume a lot less time to create, but still require a lot of energy. It is a smaller space to make something poignant happen.”

Christopher Coake is another native Hoosier winner who has taken up residence away from home. He teaches at the University of Nevada in Reno, a job of which he says, “anything Reno lacks, Lake Tahoe gives back.”

His recently published You Came Back is the story of a man who believes it possible that his long-dead son has returned as a ghost — and his ex-wife, who’s certain the ghost is real.

According to Coake, “the entire book is about leaps of faith, about the unsupportable things we humans believe, and whether doing so is a necessity.”

Coake’s first wife died of bone cancer over a decade ago, and although he is happily in love and remarried, he still has nightmares in which his first wife calls, wondering why her husband has abandoned her. He says, “That kind of thing is hard to get past. I’ve always thought of it as a kind of haunting, even if I’ve created it for myself.”

Sherri Wood Emmons, author of Prayers and Lies and The Sometimes Daughter, came to novel-writing later in life, but seems to be making up for lost time. Both her prose and her characters are warm and real, with an appeal that spans generations.

For both novels, Emmons drew on her own memories to get a sense of place.

The Sometimes Daughter takes place in Irvington, where Emmons grew up, and Prayers and Lies comes to life in West Virginia’s Coal River Valley, which she visited often as a child.

All three emerging authors remain at work. Emmons’ next book is due in April 2013, and Coake is deep in the weeds of his next project, a novel-in-stories that follows a man of unlucky circumstances over 25 years of his life. According to his interview with Superstition Review in spring 2012, Light has completed another novel, Where Night Stops, and is already working on his next.

INDY AUTHOR FAIR Saturday, Sept. 29, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m., free Central Library (40 E. St. Clair St.)

The Indiana Author Award dinner is sold-out, but fret not, because the free Indy Author Fair offers the opportunity to meet with all award winners (from noon-2 p.m. in the Simon and R.B. Annis Reading Rooms), along with all manner of other Hoosier writers. Free workshops on subjects such as publishing, marketing and writing and selling picture books will also take place during the day; head to indianaauthorsaward.org for more information.

AN AMERICAN TUNE BOOK LAUNCH Friday, Sept. 28, 6-9 p.m. (reading at 7 p.m.)

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Regional Author Award winner Barb Shoup will celebrate the publication of her seventh novel, An American Tune, by Indiana University Press on Friday at Indy Reads Books, which has become a go-to spot for readings and book launches since it opened in late summer. The novel starts with a chance meeting between two college classmates who ended up leading very different lives — one going into exile after engaging in Weatherman-esque direct action; the other quietly raising a family in northern Michigan.

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Sometimes the frame is more interesting than the picture. The Master, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood) boasts great acting, striking visuals and a number of memorable scenes, all of which add up to … what? Not the feeling one gets after watching a grand film.

Reviewers championing the production insist that The Master is too rich and deep to fully appreciate on just one viewing. They may be right; perhaps this is a work of art where the first viewing is simply the initial sip in what deserves to be a long drink. But I’ve only seen it one time and the experience was frustrating. The Master feels like it’s building to something profound — then it doesn’t.

The characters — the 1950-set film is more about characters than story — are a junkyard dog and his would-be master. Joaquin Phoenix plays Freddie Quell, a royally screwed up WWII vet with terrible impulse control.

Freddie is a mean drunk given to violent outbursts. After one of his misadventures, he takes refuge on a yacht, where he meets Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), creator of The Cause, a discipline/religion/ cult that uses repetition and digging at painful memories to rid the soul of impurities. Time travel is involved somewhere in the process.

The men connect and something sparks.

Freddy appears drawn to a father figure who appears unlikely to turn him away. He shows his appreciation for Dodd by beating up those who criticize The Cause. Dodd appears to be attracted to Freddy’s wild side. Perhaps there’s a bit of homoerotic appeal, but Dodd seems to view Freddie as both the undisciplined child he no longer is supposed to be and the perfect test subject for The Cause.

Freddie’s ready to be a test subject, even after Dodd’s son Val, played by Jesse Plemons of Friday Night Lights, says “He’s just making it up as he goes along — can’t you see that?”

While the boys play games, Dodd’s wife (Amy Adams, in a fine imposing performance) and other members of the inner circle look on with concern. The Cause can only be endangered by this junkyard dog.

Dodd is a loose cannon prone to blather enamored with a loose cannon prone to punching. Nothing good can come of this.

Sounds like a must-see movie, right? In addition to Phoenix and Hoffman’s exceptional acting, the cinematography (shot mostly in 65mm) couples with Jonny Greenwood’s dissonant score to create a beautiful, ominous atmosphere. There’s a memorable scene where we see a subjective view of the patrons of a party — the men appear in suits, the women are nude. Another scene in adjoining jail cells places the id next to the superego for a temper tantrum smackdown. There’s so much of interest here, but the big payoff, the moment of transcendence, satisfaction or outrage never happens.

The Master was, by report, a larger movie, but Anderson cut out the scenes unrelated to the love story between the guys. What’s left is insufficient. Maybe I’ll discover something more when I watch the movie again.

For now, I can only look at The Master as much ado about not enough.

— ED JOHNSON-OTT

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Welcome to Adam-12, only with cussin’ and violence. Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena are impressive as police patrol officers and best friends. The film includes maverick actions, but only as part of two devoted cops’ determination to protect and serve. How refreshing. Make no mistake, this is a formula film, but the formula works, despite a silly attempt to present the story as found footage. 109 minutes. — Ed Johnson-Ott

THE ARTCRAFT’S 90TH BIRTHDAY

Community members came together at the right time to save Franklin’s Artcraft Theatre — and, unlike with some other reclaimed houses, to keep it running as a movie theater on a regular basis. Franklin Heritage and others will celebrate the theater’s 90th birthday with programming that could well have gone on in the space in the beginning. Sept. 28: Classic vaudeville act The Lil’ Darlins (with throwback 25 cent admission). Sept. 29: Harold Lloyd’s Grandma’s Boy (1922), with live accompaniment and more vaudeville. historicartcrafttheatre.org

FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL

You likely know the drill: Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher, two comedy writers of some experience, gave up the world of television a few years back for that of ‘80s-era video, culling together “found” thrift store tapes, pulling out just the best bits and presenting them before live audiences with a little bit of commentary and a few interstitial skits.

They’re on their sixth volume now, full of staples of the found video world — “stranger danger” PSAs starring a dude from the A-Team or a terrifying clown, ill-conceived children’s vids about potty training or learning to play drums, music lessons taught by bigheaded soft rock legends and, of course, exercise videos: nude exercise videos, exercise videos with superfluous cursing, exercise videos devoted to God. And there’s plenty of other weirdness, including a hirsute, flabby guy who dances in a thong in front of elderly persons eating salad (pretty sure it’s performance art, but you never know) — and a couple clips unwatchable in their own way: one concerning the world of wounds (blech, but hilarious in its attempt to jazz up the material) and the other showing the ramblings of someone who’s either schizophrenic or just really high.

I find the home movie segments of the fests the most problematic, because while it’s easy to laugh at videos that find the perfect match between low production values, high-minded goals and a total lack of awareness of the outside world, it’s sad to watch the truly, totally insane lose their mind on camera (and not all that original with the advent of YouTube). Happily, the fests rarely cross that line into “laughing at the idiot.” — Scott Shoger Oct. 3, 7:30 p.m. @ Big Car Service Center; $11 general (or $30 for two tickets plus the Vol. 6 DVD); foundfootagefest.com

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Craft Beer Tasting at Birdy’s, 2131 E 71st St., 6-8 p.m. $10.

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Bier Brewery Pint Night, benefits Riley Children’s Hospital, 5-9 p.m.

Herron-Morton Oktoberfest at Herron-Morton Place Park, 1900 block of Alabama Street. 1-9 p.m, $5 advance tickets, $10 at the door.

Noblesville Brewfest at Forest Park Shelter No. 5 in Noblesville. 4-8 p.m., $25 advance tickets, $30 day of event.

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Walking through the doors of La Chinita Poblana, you’re surrounded by bold citruscolored stripes that allude to the legendary robes of a princess from the story that gives the restaurant its name. (We’ll tell you more about that in a minute; suffice it to say that the story represents a happy mixing of Chinese and Mexican cultural traditions.)

And if those slightly-offbeat colors don’t give signal that this isn’t an ordinary taqueria, the menu items will: chicken tacos spiced with tamarind and cumin and topped with sweet chile de arbol salsa, star-of-anise braised beef tongue with avocado crema, and crispy Japanese eggplant with carrot-ginger-habanero dressing.

Prices are modest — at $3 each, you can feel free to try more than one taco flavor (a lunch special offers two tacos, a cup of soup or chips and salsa, and homemade agua fresca for $8). Sides include classic mole poblano sweet potato fries, a peanut noodle salad with vegetables, and hot and sour soup.

Desserts include a Thai tapioca pudding with mango and whipped cream, a crispy chocolate banana eggroll or tres leches flan.

The taqueria, now inhabiting the space that once housed Boogie Burger at the corner of Westfield and Winthrop Avenues, can be defined as Mexican-style with an Asian twist.

The owner and chef, George Munoz, was a managing partner of the downtown Adobo Grill until he opened the brightly-colored take-out restaurant just two months ago.

A Chicago native who trained at City Colleges of Chicago, Munoz has 20 years of restaurant experience under his belt on both kitchen and management sides.

“My friend Patrick McGarvey is a general contractor — he’s been building restaurants for decades — he had the key and was show-

ing the location. I called him up, took a look, and it all happened really fast. From idea to opening was just about two months,” says Munoz, who adds with a laugh, “One day over several bourbons, the whole idea took shape.”

Munoz had been thinking on the concept of a fusion taqueria for a while. When cooking for his family he often uses flavor profiles found in Mexican and Asian cooking.

“Broad Ripple needed a taqueria — but I didn’t want to go with a purely traditional version,” Munoz says. “With the fusion concept, it makes sense that I offer bubble tea along with tacos.”

The name of the taqueria reflects these flavors as well. “The Legend of La China Poblana” tells of an Indian princess who was kidnapped and taken to Puebla, Mexico. The locals believed the girl came from China, and she became a curiosity with her brightly-colored robes and head coverings, eventually inspiring the women of the town to dress like the demure beauty.

The story points to a centuries-old cultural exchange between Mexico and the East. Foods such as tamarind and mango that were originally imported from Malaysia and India have now become synonymous with Mexican culinary tradition.

La Chinita Poblana has just one hiccup in the plan so far — because the building is currently restroom-free, Munoz has been unable to get a license to offer seating.

While all orders are wrapped to-go, customers are welcome to stand at counters along the walls for instant gratification.

Munoz hopes to acquire an exemption to allow for some seating — Boogie Burger had plenty of seating when it occupied the location — but until then it’s technically a takeout-only restaurant. Maybe that’s the only traditional element of this unusual taqueria.

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dam Turla was packing boxes when I called him. Lots and lots of boxes. The singer and founder of Bloomington’s Murder by Death is in the midst of fulfilling $187,048 worth of donation rewards.

That’s right; they raked in just under $200,000 in a month to support the release of their fifth full-length album Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon. The average successful music Kickstarter asks for and receives approximately $5,000. But Murder by Death offered so many promotions, special considerations and, frankly, bizarre reward options that their fundraiser spread like wildfire across the Internet, almost doubling their goal. The campaign ended as the third-highest music Kickstarter ever.

“I’ve spent the last two weeks, 10 to 15 hours a day packing all the orders,” says Turla.

And, indeed, it sounds like he’s stacking something when he picks up my call.

Inside those boxes are things expected –– CDs, vinyl, specialty posters, T-shirts –– and and unexpected –– globe lanterns emblazoned with album art, book club selections, whiskey crew patches and more.

But the really good stuff won’t fit in a box.

Fan-plus-band activities include an entire day at Cedar Point riding roller coasters and playing carnival games ($4,001); a Kentucky Bourbon Trail tour ($6,500); and, of course, shows in donors’ basements ($4,000).

They’ll spend the next several months honoring the eccentric requests of their highest donors. Dagan Thogerson, the group’s drummer, will bear a permanent mark of their recording-setting campaign –– someone bought the right to tattoo whatever they’d like on him.

“I have a feeling he’s going to get it in the next month on this tour because we’ll probably run into one of the tattoo artists that come into our shows. It’s funny –– that

sold in about 30 minutes,” Turla says.

The fan’s final choice?

“It’s going to be a picture of Jesus and the devil roasting marshmallows over a fire.”

They’ll be flying to eight different locations around the globe to play basement, living room and special occasion shows for super fans willing to pay big bucks for their own private concert. In fact, one’s already done.

“There was a wedding of these fans in upstate New York; they were getting married on a beautiful property. The groom pledged the money and he wanted us to serenade her, just a few songs, acoustic after they were married,” says Turla. “She spotted us as soon as we showed up and started crying, saying, ‘Did he do this for me?’ It was adorable.”

Their next few private shows will be at an antiquities shop, a few more weddings and a Canadian barbeque cook-off.

“A lot of cool, weird places,” says Turla.

Although the group’s spent the last few years traversing remote parts of the world, they’re always happy to come back to Bloomington.

“Most of us still live here; we love it.

Our drummer has been living in Portland, and Scott [Brackett, keyboardist] is from Austin. But I own a house here. I love it, I’m entrenched.”

Part of the joy of living in Bloomington is enjoying the same musical community that fostered their growth.

“I try and go to The Bishop as often as I can; I think that Dan [Coleman, of Spirit of ’68] is doing an amazing job there. He’s bringing acts to our town that would never have been there two, three years ago.”

They often have a hometown release show at The Bluebird, where they’ll play Thursday.

“The Bluebird is one of the bigger rooms in Bloomington.We play The Bishop just because we like it a lot, but it’s much smaller. If we’re going to do a CD release, we want to get more people out; The Bluebird is the biggest place to do that.”

Attendees will be able to see the group’s slightly modified lineup. Original members Turla; cellist Sarah Balliet and bassist Matt Armstrong will be joined by drummer Thorgensen (a member since (2007) and Brackett. Brackett’s the newest member of the crew, a seasoned musician who’s a welcome addition.

“Scott was in Okkervil [River] for a really long time, like six or seven years.

He wanted to be in a band where he was considered more of an equal member.

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of musicians, aside from the main guy, Will Sheff. He came out for SXSW and played horn on two songs and we hit it off with him right away,” says Turla. “We hired him on as a tour member, and for about a year he was an additional musician, and then I made the offer to him to be an equal member. We thought about it and about one and a half years ago, he decided to come onboard. I’m so glad we did it.”

Brackett joins a group that’s been on the road almost since their beginning. After meeting at Indiana University in 2000, the members –– then called Little Joe Gould –– recorded Like the Exorcist, but More Breakdancing, which was released on Eyeball Records in 2002.

Years of shows followed, as the group progressed from opener on dates with groups like Thursday, The Weakerthans and Interpol to headliners on tours with Ha Ha Tonka and Langhorne Slim. Eleven separate EP and LP releases followed too, including Tuesday’s Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon.

Distinctive elements of the group are refined on the release –– Balliet’s sonorous cello ties together ballads, marches and instrumentals. Lyrics and arrangements carry on the gothic punk style that’s earned the group acclaim and a large following. Perhaps, most notably, is the return of Turla’s roaring baritone. His deep, rich voice (remarkably lower than Breakdancing’s weaker tenor) has earned him an annoying amount of comparisons to the Men in Black.

$350 OR MORE (22 Backers) 1 YEAR SUBSCRIPTION TO THE MBD BOOK CLUB UB “Each book will contain an inscription from a member of the band describing why they love the book. First book –– 100 Years of Solitude.”

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PLEDGE: $1 OR MORE (50 Backers) DOWNLOAD OF OUR FIRST RECORD LIKE THE EXORCIST, BUT MORE BREAKDANCING “Yep. For as little as a dollar.”

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“The thing that I always get that I sound like is Johnny Cash and Nick Cave. Both of those guys are awesome, but I don’t actually listen to them much, especially when I saw the comparisons starting. Whenever I see a comparison, my instinct is to shut that down,” says Turla. “Those guys are legendary; I don’t want to listen to them and therefore copy their style if I’m already being compared to them.

Similarities non-withstanding, Turla has to protect his voice from the rigors of a decade of hard touring.

“I’ve been working on just reserving [my voice]; I use honey if my throat’s feeling raw, just to make sure that we don’t screw up the shows,” says Turla. “It’s really important to me. Touring is the way that we’ve been able to keep this band afforded.”

He’ll be packing boxes quietly as they wrap up their Kickstarter mailings and prepare for the 20 dates they’ve announced in October where Turla expects they’ll see a lot of new fans for the first time.

“The truth is –– [the Kickstarter has] just been really effective in getting the music out to new people. While we couldn’t expect how much work it was going to be, we knew we were in for a really busy fall,” says Turla.

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Kyle Long’s music, which features off-the-radar rhythms from around the world, has brought an international flavor to the local dance music scene.

Dominican hardcore: La Armada Dominican Republic musical exports bachata and merengue have become dance floor staples across the globe. Next Saturday, Indy will host a much different Dominican style –– a sound its creators have labeled “Latino hardcore fury.” La Armada are a hardcore punk band from Chicago via the Dominican Republic. I spoke with La Armada’s guitarist Paul Rivera after a late night gig in New York.

We discussed the band’s roots in the D.R. and their rich blend of influences.

NUVO: The band started in the Dominican Republic; why did you decide to relocate to Chicago?

PAUL RIVERA: We all grew up in the Dominican Republic. The band started there around 2003 and we moved to the States in 2007. We take our music seriously and there’s only so many platforms to present your music in the D.R. Our biggest priority is moving the band forward and getting our message out. The U.S. provides a much bigger platform to do that. We decided on Chicago because there’s a huge Hispanic punk and hardcore scene there.

NUVO: What’s the hardcore scene like in the D.R.?

RIVERA: We don’t have a lot of resources like people here in the States do, like access to gear and nice venues. But that makes us work harder. A hardcore show in the D.R. can bring in as many as 300 people; you don’t see numbers like that at shows very often in the States. So it’s cool in that sense, but on the other hand, it’s a small island and there’s only so many places you can play. Over the years we were able to bring a lot of Anglo bands to play in the D.R. We brought in bands like Death by Stereo and Strung Out, which was great because not many punk and hardcore bands would go there otherwise.

NUVO: How did you discover punk rock?

RIVERA: In the record stores you couldn’t really find punk music. One day, they started selling the Epitaph Records’ Punk-ORama compilations. Those albums started spreading around and at that time people were starting to get Internet in D.R. too.

Through those comps and the Internet we would find out about bands and the D.I.Y. hardcore scene. We tried to emulate that; we started doing shows at houses or any space we could find. We even did a show at a car wash. We would also listen a lot of the Dominican metal bands, like Necro. There’s always been a big metal scene in the D.R. NUVO: The D.R. is synonymous with music, particularly merengue. Merengue, like hardcore is raw, high energy music; was that an influence?

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RIVERA: It’s definitely part of our music, especially if you see us live. You’ll notice it in the rhythm section, the drums and bass are very percussive just like merengue. If you have any notion of Caribbean music and you see us live, you’ll notice a common thread. It’s not something we set out to do. It just kind of happens. It’s what we grew up being exposed to, old school merengue like Los Kenton, Los Hermanos Rosario. We listen to a lot of salsa too, the classic Fania stuff like Ismael Rivera.

We listen to a lot of Caribbean music.

NUVO: What about the D.R.’s other famous genre, bachata?

RIVERA: There are some amazing bachata guitarists. I wish I could play like that; they’re sick. I’m not at that level yet, I need to go back home and go to some parties and hang out with those guys and see what I can pick up.

NUVO: Your lyrics are in Spanish; can you tell non-speakers what you’re singing about?

RIVERA: We talk about the class struggle in general. Unjustified low wages and the majority of wealth being concentrated in the hands of a few –– and how these things affect our lives from the food we eat, to the things we buy. The record talks about issues specific to the Dominican Republic and our current home Chicago, but it also speaks to the broad concept of class struggle. We sing about the day-to-day struggle of waking up and trying to make ends meet.

NUVO: Do you think music and the arts are an effective medium to communicate that message?

RIVERA: I think it’s the best medium. When the message hits you through art, it’s getting to you in its purest form. I know that’s how my belief system was shaped. When politically or socially conscious art hits you, it makes you want to get up and do something.

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It only seems natural for a musician named Andrew Bird to be migratory.

And he has been, for years. Constantly being on the road has its physical tolls. He frequently battles sickness and fever, but he won’t stop any time soon.

“I just love the performance,” Bird says, “I love the realness of it. And I love not knowing what’s going to come out of me or my band every night.”

With the vast array of instruments on stage, audiences are as curious as to what’s going to come out of Andrew Bird’s performances as he is. Between violin, glockenspiel, whistling, looping pedal, guitar –– and his accompanying band –– each performance takes listeners through many layers of music and energy.

When he isn’t on tour, Bird is at home or staying at his barn-turned-studio in Western Illinois. These different locations not only affect his health, but his songwriting as well. Bird explains that when looking back at songs, he can tell whether they were written in rural or urban settings.

“I think what you see every day is certain-

MUSIC ly going to influence the things you hear.

Being able to see a storm rolling through your valley and moving on gives you a different sense of space and time.”

Great songs can be formed in a cluttered urban environment, but Bird also believes that, “seeing long distances calibrates your mind to a certain type of imagination.”

Bird is a man of many theories –– along with his theory on how sight calibrates minds, he also believes that his constant sickness is his body adapting to touring by becoming a “non-animal.”

Whether or not these theories are scientifically accurate isn’t as important as their effect on Bird’s music. These theories stem from how the mind and body can evolve within a lifetime to adapt to the rapid changing of location. Much of Bird’s music, both in live performance and in the studio, is an evolutionary phenomenon.

The current stage of evolution is an exciting one for Bird and his bandmates. In the past, he’s moved from solo folk and classical work, to Bowl of Fire, a gypsy-jazz-swing band, to experimenting with a looping pedal in his album Weather Systems.

Using a loop pedal allows Bird to record different sections of a song and then layer each part live and in the studio.

From one man, one glockenspiel and one violin, comes the sound of an entire symphony.

While looping remains a key aspect of his newest album, Break It Yourself, there is a different vibe that creates this new “stage” of his musical evolution.

Whereas older albums, such as The Mysterious Production of Eggs, were more heavily produced, Break It Yourself was recorded as a live band. The shift to recording as a band was a natural step for Bird.

“I guess I’m tired of production; I’m into the sort of realness of recording as a reaction to what I hear ‘out there’ to some degree,” he says.

This “realness” gives Break It Yourself a lively and bright sound that contrasts his darker lyrics. “[Recording this album] was to project out of ourselves as quickly as possible, and just enjoy the dynamic of playing in the band.”

That joyous group dynamic transcends the album beautifully. It captivates listeners through its contagious melodies while maintaining the depth and complexity of older Andrew Bird songs. The band on Break It Yourself consists of longtime bandmate Martin Dosh, Jeremy Ylvisaker and Michael Lewis.

The theme of adapting to location

appeared once again in recording Break It Yourself –– it was the first album recorded at Bird’s barn. Each band member had to adjust to the new setting, including Bird.

“It is kind of a sacred space where I otherwise go alone and make music. I’ve been afraid to bring anyone out there for years,” Bird says.

To ease the transition, he brought along a chef.

“It’s farm country…” Bird says, “and it’s late summer, so we’re just getting the harvest. So it was pretty damn good.”

The food, the country setting and the desire to strip down his music led Bird and his band into an old-time folk direction.

During performances on his recent tour, his bandmates would engage in folk driven acoustic segments. On describing the “old time” section, Bird says, “It’s become a really nice contrast to the full-on looping electric set that can get pretty enormous.

“It just becomes this perfect thing where we unplug everything and play into one microphone; I think the word ‘recalibrate’ is appropriate. Everyone that hears it is refocused when we do that.”

The next step to express this vintage feel was to record an album. That album is Hands of Glory, a companion piece to Break It Yourself that comes out in October. It was recorded in the barn and features original songs, covers and “old time” versions of songs from Break It Yourself.

Playing folk music is not turning back the clock for Bird; it’s moving —Andrew Bird forward in his evolution. To Bird, music, and especially folk music, is “subconsciously evolving; it’s always under your skin. That melody just keeps resurfacing to the point where you’re whistling it and it’s escaping from you. It’s completely in your bones and it keeps resonating with you, and you know you have to do something with it.”

Though he says folk purists will often say reworking is wrong, he thinks it keeps it truly alive. Not writing down any music is a way of continuing the liveliness of a piece of music to Bird.

“When a record is finished, it doesn’t mean that the music has stopped evolving,” he says.

“I think what you see every day is certainly going to influence the things you hear. Being able to see a storm rolling through your valley and moving on gives you a different sense of space and time.”

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Thursday

ROCK MURDER BY DEATH, MAPS AND ATLASES The Bluebird, 216 N. Walnut St., Bloomington 8 p.m., $15 + fees, 21+ Bloomington exports Murder by Death and Chicago’s Maps and Atlases are a double threat –– make the night a triple threat if you add the Bluebird’s notorious Dirty Birds. Art school math rockers Maps and Atlases are crusading on 2010’s full-length Perch Patchwork. Murder by Death are gothic pirate rockers with wild west souls; their 12-year career has seen their tracks evolve from multi-minute instrumental breakdowns to tight, bombastic anthems. They’ll release Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon this Thursday –– the bitter drink definitely being bourbon.

OTHER THURSDAY PICKS

Pearl and the Beard, Joel Rockey at DO317 Lounge Icon of Coil at Birdy’s Josh Turner at the Palladium

Friday

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Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St. 9 p.m., $29, all-ages

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bit of everything thrown in the mix and dirtied up. There are pieces of hip-hop, the bass from electronic dance tracks and the roots of U.K. garage and drum and bass; dubstep is totally the punk rock of electronic music.” Warning –– this show isn’t for sensitive ears: Datsik’s Firepower Tour boasts a 50,000-watt audio system.

Lawn at White River State Park, 801 W. Washington St. 7:30 p.m., prices vary, all-ages

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Zoobombs, Thunderhawk, Goldenboy at the Melody Inn

Saturday

ROCK NICK WATERHOUSE, ALLAH LAS White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 Prospect St. 9 p.m., $12 advance, $15 at door, 21+

Nick Waterhouse is a newbie, but his sound is way, way retro. The L.A. soul revivalist and his band The Tarots encountered some retro-style villains during their quest to become full-time touring musicians, too. A NYC-based producerturned-hustler almost stole a session’s worth of material before Waterhouse got hooked up with the right compadres who produced 2011’s Time’s All Gone. Catch them before Waterhouse shuffles his group back into the inexplicable time machine that brought them here.

ROOTS GIRLYMAN, MARTINE LOCKE Radio Radio, 1119 Prospect St. 9 p.m., $10, 21+

Describing themselves as “harmony-driven genderpop” this Amy Ray-approved gem of a band returns to Indianapolis with a new album, last year’s Supernova. Singer Doris Muramatsu named the album in honor of her recovery from leukemia –– like a dying star spawns new, they’re a band reborn. They’ll bring new drummer JJ Jones along;

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Here We Go Magic opener Martine Locke is an Australian transplant who is in the midst of mixing her new live record.

OTHER SATURDAY PICKS

Espanglish Night at the Melody Inn Rocky Ripple Festival at Holht Park Xtober Fest at the Rathskeller

Sunday

POP ANDREW BIRD, HERE WE GO MAGIC Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St. 8 p.m., prices vary, all-ages

Pop virtuoso Andrew Bird is profiled on Page 30

by Bari Finkel, but we don’t want you to miss out on Here We Go Magic, the Brooklyn Baroque-folkpop trio-turned-quintet most recently in the news for their serendipitous meeting with a hitchhiking John Waters on his way across America. Their latest album, A Different Ship, was produced by U.K.-based Nigel Godrich; the release was hailed as a “return to form” for lovers of their early efforts.

They’ll perform at LUNA Music at 4 p.m.

It’s been a major, major year for North Carolina’s Avett Brothers. Actual brothers Scott and Seth, bassist Bob Crawford, cellist Joe Kwon and drummer Jacob Edwards followed up major label breakthrough I and Love and You with The Carpenter, released on Sept. 11. The Carpenter of course carries the bluegrass-infused anthemic roots rock that rocketed the group to indie superstardom.

But although they’ve not entirely abandoned the songs about broads and booze that were played loudly on many a porch, their new release carries a heavy weight in the form of many meditations on death. The Avett Brothers performed at the Lawn almost a year ago to date –– join them again as they continue to solidify their reputation as one of the most energetic live roots acts touring today.

CARNIVAL SUNDAY FUNDAY

Sun King Brewery, 135 N. College Ave. 1 p.m., $10 advance, 21+

Time to have some Fun on this Sun –– musical acts include Rad Summer newbies Party Lines, DJs Metrognome, Crookshanks and Action Jackson, The Ghost Town Gang, Oreo Jones, Hotfox, Indian City Weather, Mutiny and hosts A-Squared. But the real fun is in the carnival games –– and beer, definitely beer –– customized to each booth. Also, dunk tanks!

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• School officials in Grand Island, Neb., told Hunter Spanjer that the way

NEWS OF THE WEIRD he signs his name violates the schools’ anti-weapons policy and that he’ll have to abandon it. Hunter is 3 1/2 years old, deaf, fluent in the language Signing Exact English, and uses a hand flourish as his unique signature (registered with SEE), except that officials say the flourish looks like Hunter is threatening with a weapon. At press time, Hunter’s parents were still negotiating with officials.

• An unidentified mother of twins was photographed at the Thanksgiving Point Deli in Lehi, Utah, in September apparently toilet-training her toddlers at a table. Another patron witnessed the mother’s bringing in what at first glance looked like booster seats, but then the mom undid the kids’ jumpsuits and placed them on the potties. A spokesperson for the deli (located 10 miles south of Salt Lake City) said the incident was over by the time it was reported to her, but the witness put a photo on the Internet (picked up by TV stations) so that millions of people could disapprove of the mother’s parenting.

• Police in Seneca Falls, N.Y., arrested Dawn Planty in August and charged her with statutory rape. Planty came to officers’ attention when she called 911

to ask if the dispatcher knew the age of consent in the state because she had had sex with a 15-year-old boy recently and wanted to clear her conscience.

Cuddly Geopolitics

• (1) The Washington Post, reporting in August the existence of a newly declassified communication between a cooperating Guantanamo Bay detainee and his lawyer, revealed that the “high-value” prisoner had, without explanation, been rewarded with a pet kitty cat. (2) On July 4, two peace activists who own a small advertising agency in Malmo, Sweden, pulled off their most audacious stunt yet by hiring a small plane to drop 800 teddy bears emblazoned with democracypromoting messages over the capital of Belarus. The country’s strongman president, Aleksandr Lukashenko, later fired two generals for their inability to prevent the breach of the country’s airspace.

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Least Competent Criminals • Not Ready for Prime Time: (1) The two robbers who walked into the 7-Eleven in Arlington, Va., in August apparently neglected to coordinate in advance and thus left empty-handed.

As the first man pulled a gun and demanded money, the second, a few steps behind, tossed a firecracker on the floor, apparently to intimidate the clerk. However, it mainly served to scare the gunman, who dropped his pistol and ran out the door. (2) A 40-year-old man swiped a cellphone while visiting a patient at the Kagadi Hospital in Uganda in August. The facility is currently treating the country’s Ebola virus outbreak, and the phone was in the room of an Ebola patient. Doctors urged the thief to return to the hospital for treatment.

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• A 30-year-old man told Providence, R.I., told police in August that he was the victim of a sexual assault, and police are investigating. The man said he had gone to the North Main Street Spa for a professional massage and was unable to avoid a sex act administered by his “masseuse,” “Yo Yo.” (The Providence Journal did not publish his name because he claims to be the victim of a sex crime.)

• In July, Labor Party councillors in the Netherlands demanded that weather forecasters be punished for incorrect predictions -- since poor weather drives down resort business, resulting in slower hiring. One hotelier in Hoek van Holland lamented that the forecasters, ironically, were getting worse “(d)espite having more forecasting tools than ever before.” (A week before that, tourist managers in Belgium reportedly called for “less pessimistic forecasts,” and one urged meteorologists “to pay as much attention to sun as they do to rain.”)

• In a lower-level Norwegian soccer league match in May, player Talat Abunima was ejected for arguing with a referee who had just given him the benefit of a penalty. He was not fouled, he insisted. “(I) tripped over my own feet,” he said later. “It was unbelievably clumsy of me and ... I felt I had to speak out.”

The referee first warned Abunima (a yellow card) for complaining and finally red-carded him, telling a local newspaper afterward, “It was a clear penalty.

The player got it all wrong. I don’t think the players know the rules properly.”

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• Sounds Like a Joke: (1) The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported in July that vandals had wrecked the pen that reptile farmer David Driver employed to confine his herd of 1,600 turtles -- and that they had all fled.

(2) Apparently at their wits’ end trying to get their rare Chilean flamingos to mate, handlers at the Drusillas Zoo Park in East Sussex, England, began piping in music at night, including songs by the human seduction machine, Barry White (“Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe”).

(2) A 47-year-old man was accidentally strangled in June in Eastern Cape province of South Africa. He had taken to wearing his recently deceased dog’s leash around his neck in remembrance but, bending over, gotten the leash caught in a car’s axle as it drove away.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Here’s the curious message I derived from the current astrological configurations: It’s one of those rare times when a wall may actually help bring people together. How? Why? The omens don’t reveal that specific information. They only tell me that what seems like a barrier might end up serving as a connector. An influence that in other situations would tend to cause separation will in this case be likely to promote unity.

Capitalize on this anomaly, Aries!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In my first dream last night, I gave you a holy book that you left out in the rain. In my second dream, I cooked you some chicken soup that you didn’t eat. My third dream was equally disturbing.

I assigned you some homework that would have helped you discover important clues about tending to your emotional health. Alas, you didn’t do the homework. In the morning, I woke up from my dreams feeling exasperated and worried. But later I began to theorize that maybe they weren’t prophecies, but rather helpful warnings. Now that you’ve heard them, I’m hoping you will become alert to the gifts you’ve been ignoring and take advantage of the healing opportunities you’ve been neglecting.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): There’s a good chance that your rhythm in the coming days will resemble a gentle, continuous orgasm. It won’t be stupendously ecstatic, mind you. I’m not predicting massive eruptions of honeyed bliss that keep blowing your mind. Rather, the experience will be more like a persistent flow of warm contentment. You’ll be constantly tuning in to a secret sweetness that thrills you subliminally. Again and again you will slip into a delicious feeling that everything is unfolding exactly as it should be. Warning! There are two factors that could possibly undermine this blessing: 1. if you scare it away with blasts of cynicism; 2. if you get greedy and try to force it to become bigger and stronger. So please don’t do those things!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Philosopher Jonathan Zap (zaporacle.com) provides the seed for this week’s meditation: “Conscious reflection on the past can deepen the soul and provide revelations of great value for the present and future. On the other hand, returning to the past obsessively out of emotional addiction can be a massive draining of vitality needed for full engagement with the present.” So which will it be, Cancerian?

One way or another, you are likely to be pulled back toward the old days and the old ways. I’ll prefer it if you re-examine your history and extract useful lessons from the past instead of wallowing in dark nostalgia and getting lost in fruitless longing.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Picture a TV satellite dish on the roof of a peasant’s shack in rural Honduras. Imagine a gripping rendition of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata played on the mandolin. Visualize the Dalai Lama quoting Chris Rock a bit out of context but with humorous and dramatic effect. Got all that? Next, imagine that these three scenes are metaphors for your metaphysical assignment in the coming week.

Need another hint? OK. Think about how you can make sure that nothing gets lost in the dicey translations you’ll be responsible for making.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Here are some ways to get more respect: 1. Do your best in every single thing you do -- whether it’s communicating precisely or upholding the highest possible standards at your job or taking excellent care of yourself. 2. Maintain impeccable levels of integrity in everything you do -- whether it’s being scrupulously honest or thoroughly fair-minded or fiercely kind. 3. On the other hand, don’t try so compulsively hard to do your best and cultivate integrity that you get self-conscious and obstruct the flow of your natural intelligence. 4. Make it your goal that no later than four years from now you will be doing what you love to do at least 51 percent of the time. 5. Give other people as much respect as you sincerely believe they deserve. 6.

Give yourself more respect.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The German poet and philosopher Friedrich von Schiller liked to have rotting apples in his desk drawer as he worked; the scent inspired him.

Agatha Christie testified that many of her best ideas came to her while she was washing dishes.

As for Beethoven, he sometimes stimulated his creativity by pouring cold water over his head.

What about you, Libra? Are there odd inclinations and idiosyncratic behaviors that in the past have roused your original thinking? I encourage you to try them all this week, and then see if you can dream up at least two new ones. You have officially entered the brainstorming season.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It’s expensive for the U.S. to hold prisoners at its Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba: $800,000 per year for each detainee. That’s 30 times more than it costs to incarcerate a convict on the American mainland. According to the Miami Herald, Guantanamo is the most expensive prison on the planet. How much do you spend on locking stuff up, Scorpio? What does it cost, not just financially but emotionally and spiritually, for you to keep your secrets hidden and your fears tamped down and your unruly passions bottled up and your naughty urges suppressed? The coming weeks would be a good time to make sure the price you pay for all that is reasonable -- not even close to being like Guantanamo.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): What time is it, boys and girls? It’s Floods of Fantastic Gratitude Week: a perfect opportunity to express your passionate appreciation for everything you’ve been given. So get out there and tell people how much you’ve benefited from what they’ve done for you. For best results, be playful and have fun as you express your thanks.

By the way, there’ll be a fringe benefit to this outpouring: By celebrating the blessings you already enjoy, you will generate future blessings.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Telling the whole deep truth and nothing but the whole deep truth isn’t necessarily a recipe for being popular. It may on occasion provoke chaos and be disruptive. In an institutional setting, displays of candor may even diminish your clout and undermine your ambitions. But now take every thing I just said and disregard it for a while. This is one of those rare times when being profoundly authentic will work to your supreme advantage.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Show me the money” is a meme that first appeared in the 1996 movie Jerry Maguire. It has been uttered approximately a hundred trillion times since then. Have you ever said it in earnest?

If so, you were probably demanding to get what you had been promised. You were telling people you wanted to see tangible proof that they valued your efforts. In light of your current astrological omens, I propose that you use a variation on this theme. What you need right now is less materialistic and more marvelous. Try making this your mantra: “Show me the magic.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): My acquaintance Jacob fell for a woman who also professed her ardor for him. But in the midst of their courtship, as the mystery was still ripening, she suddenly left the country. “I’ve got to go to Indonesia,” she texted him one night, and she was gone the next day. Jacob was confused, forlorn, dazed. He barely ate for days. On the sixth day, a FedEx package arrived from her. It contained a green silk scarf and a note: “I wore this a s I walked to the top of the volcano and said a fivehour prayer to elevate our love.” Jacob wasn’t sur e how to interpret it, although it seemed to be a good omen. What happened next? I haven’t heard yet. I predict that you will soon receive a sign that has resemblances to this one. Don’t jump to conclusions about what it means, but assume the best.

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