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C-RAYZ WALZ C-Rayz Walz is not a rapper. He’s a hip-hop MC, and through a series of unlikely circumstances, including a (now-failed) love affair and run-ins with the law, the Bronxborn Walz now makes his home in Indianapolis. B Y K Y LE LONG COVER PHOTO BY STEPHEN SIMONETTO
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On Oct. 7, the public is invited to attend the Urbanized Summit at the IMA, where a panel of civil engineers, architects and grassroots project leaders will address the city’s most pressing revitalization issues. BY RACHEL HOLLINGSWORTH
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THE ART OF JUSTIN COOPER
In Cooper’s painting a foreboding of a coming environmental catastrophe of biblical proportions is right there on the surface — in the depictions of animals being swept away by waves. It’s also there in the title of his show, Missed the Boat. BY DAN GROSSMAN
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Hundreds of mountain bikers from all over the U.S. and Canada will take to the trails of Brown County and beyond this weekend. BY ROBERT ANNIS
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In honor of the food truck explosion — and the upcoming First Friday Food Truck Festival — we highlight one such truck, Fat Sammies. BY DAVID HOPPE
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10 YEARS OF ROCK AT THE MEL
Ten years ago this week, Melody Inn owners Dave Brown and Rob Ondrish took over their bar with a month’s rent paid and 11 bucks in the till. They’re celebrating their longevity in the bar business with a five-day run of anniversary concerts that kicked off Tuesday. BY PAUL F. P. POGUE
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Asphalt is to prairie as stick is to ass It’s unfortunate that the Indiana DNR is willing to whittle away at the state’s natural resources for the sake of revenue (“Newport Prairie Restoration,” Steven Higgs, Sept. 28 – Oct.5). The Natural Resources Commission and employees like John Davis are amenable to all kinds of alternative, or worst, “compatible,” uses for lands at the expense of wildlife. Our state parks, nature preserves, fish and wildlife areas, and other lands are suffering from continued recreational and business pressures one fragmented paper-cut at a time. Over time, those paper-cuts add up to diminished grounds for wildlife. I would love for the Natural Resources Commission actually stand up for wildlife and stop compromising our natural heritage away.
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ith a month to go until the mayoral elections, Mayor Greg Ballard and Melina Kennedy, his Democratic opponent, have taken to the airwaves with campaign ads, each side warning of the disaster awaiting us if their opponent prevails. Ms. Kennedy blames Mr. Ballard for the city having lost tens of thousands of jobs in the past four years, by implication putting Ballard on the hook for the global depression that started around the time he took office. Ballard counters with an ad featuring an interview with a retired police officer who says only Ballard cares about the city’s cops, is honest and is only looking to advance the city’s fortunes, not his own political career. Of course, Kennedy’s rebuttal is that the Fraternal Order of Police, which endorsed Ballard in 2007, is now supporting her. She stands behind the police department and the officers support her. After reading their policy papers and following the news media reports of the campaign, I can’t honestly see much of a difference in their views. Both Ballard and Kennedy want to bring jobs to their city, make our streets safer and make Indianapolis an even better place to live, work and to do business. I’ve voted in every election since 1984 and have only voted for three Republicans in that time. I voted for Ballard in 2007 because he was not Bart Peterson. He has kept up his end of the bargain by continuing to not be Bart Peterson. I’ve even written kind words in this column about Ballard and his commitment to the city. He won in an upset four years ago and came into office not owing anyone anything. He won through hard work and by not being Peterson. Kennedy brings an impressive resume of experience to her candidacy. She’s been successful in every position she’s held. She’s crafted intelligent, common-sense policies on the problems facing Indianapolis. All of which leaves me in a difficult position on deciding whom to support. On one hand, I like the mayor. On the other hand, all the kind things I’ve said about him in print didn’t help me one
bit when I applied for a job this year at a city-run agency, a job for which I was well-qualified. I’ve never met Kennedy, but, as I said, she seems like a decent person and a credible candidate. I could go with my heartfelt principles that all Republicans are evil fat cats looking to make the wealthiest people even richer and vote for Kennedy. But I like Ballard too much to lump him in with the Tea Party scumbags who are polluting our nation at the moment. He’s done his best to keep his head down, show up to work early and stay late and get the job done. He hasn’t gone out of his way to alienate the Democrats in the city, fully understanding that he’s going to need their support if he is to succeed in his re-election bid. He deserves credit for that and for taking measures to strengthen the city’s law enforcement during some of its biggest scandals in memory. Unfortunately, neither candidate is doing very much to earn my support. Kennedy’s attack ads against Ballard appear to be unfair. Ballard’s rebuttals only convinced me that he loves puppies, small children and senior citizens. Neither candidate will be able to turn around the global economic situation, end corporate greed or provide meaningful jobs reform to our city. Since I am undecided, I’ll put my unofficial endorsement up for bidding. Whichever candidate that does the most for me, personally, in the next 30 days will win my vote. There’s always work around the house that needs to be done and Ballard looks like he’d be strong enough to repaint my house and clean the gutters. Kennedy, from all reports, is talented in many fields and I’m trying not to hold the fact that she worked for Peterson against her. She’s a successful attorney and economic adviser; maybe she can look over my finances and help get them in order. Her husband is a former Olympic athlete; perhaps he could become my personal trainer. Of course, I’d be entering into a criminal conspiracy by asking either of them to hand me a bag full of campaign cash and a few cases of Crown Royal at 3 a.m. Thursday at the gas station at 30th and College, so I won’t do that. Especially not if I’ll be sitting in the back seat of a 2004 blue Escalade at that time. Neither candidate has yet earned my vote. But there’s still a month to convince or bribe me.
Unfortunately, neither candidate is doing very much to earn my support.
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BY DAVID HOPPE DHOPPE@NUVO.NET
hen you go to the WellPoint health insurance website, you are greeted with a slideshow of testimonials from WellPoint employees. Each testimonial starts with a banner headline: “I love helping people,” says one. “I work with compassionate, caring colleagues,” says another. “Our work really makes a difference,” proclaims a third. Makes you want to work for WellPoint. What a great thing it would be to work in a business where the halls are practically drenched with the milk of human kindness. Especially when that business has what amounts to a license to print money. Talk about a win-win! That appears to be the deal if you’re a health insurer in the United States. Last week we learned that the cost of health insurance premiums jumped 9 percent in the past year. This was the largest increase in six years, with annual premiums for families reaching $15,073, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research & Educational Trust. Employers are picking up most of these costs. On average, this amounts to $10,944 to cover workers and their families; employees pay about $4,129. Maybe you’ve been wondering why you haven’t gotten a raise in, oh, a decade or so. That raise is being eaten by the cost of your health insurance. In case you’ve given up trying to figure out how much what you’re “contributing” for your health benefits has grown since 1999 (if you have health benefits), get a load of this: 168 percent. Think about that. Since 1999, the amount employees pay for health benefits has gone up 168 percent. That’s more than three times the rate of earnings during that time, and more than four times the rate of inflation. But wait, you say, how can this be? Didn’t we get health care reform passed last year? Yes, legislation was passed. The trouble is that legislation didn’t deal with reforming the health care system so much as it protected health insurers. It was not for nothing that health insurers contributed $20 million to Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. And the fact is, President Obama blew
his chance to do anything real about health care reform when he took the possibility of a single-payer, Medicare-for-all option off the table before negotiations even began. The result, as writer Kevin Zeese reported on the Truthout website last March, at the health care legislation’s one-year anniversary, is that Americans lacking any health coverage still number over 50 million; over 45,000 deaths are occurring annually due to lack of health insurance; and 40 million Americans, including 10 million children, are underinsured. Zeese continued: “Underinsurance, requiring Americans to pay more of the cost of health care, may become the norm because of the 2010 law. The new law will hasten the current trend toward underinsurance as plans where patients pay an average of 40 percent of their health care bills qualify to fulfill the employers’ obligations.” Remember when we were told that health insurance would become “affordable?” That word, affordable, was an escape clause for insurance companies, enabling them to offer inadequate policies at a price the government would allow. As Zeese pointed out, “waivers to the requirements of the 2010 law are being widely granted, resulting in millions of Americans continuing to have inadequate health coverage.” During the first three months of 2010 -— at the same time health care, er, health insurance legislation was being passed, the five largest American health insurance companies reported profits of $3.2 billion, an increase of 31 percent over the same period in 2009, according to advocacy group Health Care for America Now. The one bit of silver lining in this palpitating cloud is that workers and, especially, employers may finally be waking up to the full effects of health insurers’ greed. If people’s pay continues being sucked up by higher premiums to pay for lower quality care, our consumerbased economy can never, repeat never, fully recover. This means that we all have to take a deep breath and start over on health care legislation that really accomplishes structural reforms. And that means demanding the government do what it’s supposed to do: Represent all Americans and negotiate health care costs on behalf of everyone in this country. A pool of 300 million people would represent a hefty bargaining chip — and a pretty attractive client, if you want to think of it that way. The “Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act,” H.R. 676, is a bill that has actually been introduced in Congress by Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.). It could save our economy – but even better, it might even save your life.
If people’s pay continues being sucked up by higher premiums to pay for lower quality care, our consumerbased economy can never, repeat never, fully recover.
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Obama grows in stature as assassin for US way of life that Bernanke did not talk ‘bout economy means it MUST be ruined New York protestors may be the spark that ignites the fall of the Wall at least, coupled with Keystone protests, we see signs of awakening Arctic losing ice shelves as fast as our talent at ignoring it Cameroon pigs full of swine flu, Africa’s new harbingers of plague who would have thought that the Apocalypse would be sparked by cantaloupes Tyson recalls half a million hamburgers but you can keep pickles only repairs will be needed for bridge linking Kentuckiana Fishbone’s Madd Vibe might think twice before stage diving again — lawsuit drops
THUMBSUP THUMBSDOWN IT’S YOUR GOVERNMENT, GET INVOLVED!
Attention all procrastinators: The deadline for voter registration is upon us! Columbus Day will buy you one extra day, but next Tuesday is the final day to embrace your civic responsibility or quit bitching about incompetent politicians and witless budgeting. Several indicators underscore our state’s woeful laziness, even among a nation of couch potatoes. Indiana: We are not as entrenched in self-righteous, right-wing rhetoric as we’d have the rest of the nation believe. We are capable of intelligent discussion and meaningful compromise if we have able leaders in place. Please don’t abdicate your part in the policy-making process. Get registered at indianavoters.in.gov and make your voice heard!
RAINBOW CHILDREN RISING
New census numbers confirm what we see on the streets — greater diversity. From 2000 to 2010, the number of Hoosiers identifying themselves to the Census Bureau as being of more than one race increased by 92 percent, to 107,618 from 55,926. By comparison, the state’s overall population grew about 7 percent during the same period. Among Indiana’s single-race populations, Asians grew at the fastest rate, 74 percent, followed by Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders and American Indian/Alaskan Natives, who expanded by 47 and 48 percent respectively. Whites still represent 87 percent of Indiana’s population of 6.5 million, but they represent the slowest-growing segment of Hoosierdom. Blacks, which represent 9 percent of the population, expanded their representation at a 17 percent rate. Across Indianapolis, race-relations conversation circles are getting underway “with a goal of creating understanding and commitment to address both individual and structural racism through dialogue and action.” If you’re ready to confront the insidious harm of racism in our community and build bridges to a more cooperative and connected society, contact Amy Tompkins at atompkins@ inrc.org or (317) 920-0330 ext. 106 and get involved!
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Though the Atlanta Dream killed Indy’s dreams of championship glory this year, the Fever deserve mad props for earning the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference finals despite losing their starting point guard early in the season. And we love kick-ass forward Tamika Catchings, who won her first ever WNBA MVP award. Good luck on nursing the ankle injury you sustained in the series, Tamika. Thanks for a great season, Fever. Can’t wait to see what you bring next year!
THOUGHT BITE By Andy Jacobs Jr. Gov. Christie, the real Republican fat cat, said of his reluctance to run, I’ve had a belly-full of politics.
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n Oct. 7, the IMA will host the Urbanized Summit, where local and international urbanization experts will deliberate the challenges of development, environment and transit in Indianapolis. At the half-day forum, a panel of civil planners, architects and grassroots project leaders will address the city’s most pressing revitalization issues. The public is welcome to attend. The summit was largely the brainchild of ecologist Tim Carter, director of Butler University’s Center for Urban Ecology. Carter hopes that Friday’s event will encourage Indy citizens to become more involved in the shaping of their city. “We want the Summit to be both something people will learn from, but also something they will contribute to, and ultimately carry on past the event through new projects,” said Carter. The day’s activities will be separated into three areas of discussion, all designed to stimulate new ideas for city improvement.
Looking for change
“In the first session of ‘Look,’ the speakers will be communicating big urban themes that underlie how cities operate,” Carter said, who will emcee the event. Carter recognizes that successful urban change requires citizens to understand the importance of preserving the city’s ecosystems. “We need to abandon this idea that the ecosystem is someplace outside the city,” Carter said. “Until we pay attention to what’s happening out our front door, in our backyards, and in other places where we spend most of our time, we’ll be unable to see how improving the urban ecosystem can change the city not only environmentally, but culturally and economically as well.” Joining the “Look” lineup is former Australian environmental planning officer Miriam Fathalla. Since moving to Chicago, Fathalla has been keeping a blog on her observations of Midwestern lifestyle. She too acknowledges that sustainable mannerisms don’t happen overnight.
“I don’t believe in an overwhelming tidal wave of a tipping point that will usher in a ‘mainstreamed’ form of sustainable,” Fathalla said. “I believe that small pockets of sustainable behaviors and projects are increasing in number. … This will continue until they dominate our social, economic and environmental practices and policies.” Urban architects Dan Hellmuth and Vop Osili will speak about the technical aspects of well-planned city expansion. As specialists in sustainable architecture, Hellmuth and Osili have made green design a priority for their respective firms. In Indy, Osili’s current projects include the restoration of the Fall Creek Place and Saint Clair Place neighborhoods.
Moving forward
The afternoon’s second portion, “Move,” will focus on transit. “We didn’t think you could have a summit on urbanism in Indianapolis and not discuss transit,” Carter said. And with good reason. Indianapolis remains one of the nation’s largest cities without a rail system. Poor road conditions make travel difficult for the bus system. And, as far as improvements go, funding is slipping. IndyGo recently made its budget plans public in an open hearing on Sept. 20, the results of which were not promising. “2012 will be a hard year for public transit in Indianapolis,” read a note on the IndyGo website. “The projected IndyGo budget shows revenues $6.4 million short of operating costs.” At the Summit, IndyGo director of business development Samantha Cross will address the transit system’s future, as part of a moderated panel discussion. Other speakers will include Ron Gifford of the Central Indiana Transit Task Force and Bruce Race of Ball State’s Urban Design Program.
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Growing the future
The “Grow” section will encourage attendees to contribute their own ideas for urban change. Participants will be invited to take the stage for a sticky-note brainstorming session, which organizers hope will result in some do-able new proj— Tim Carter ects for Indianapolis. Jim Walker, director of Big Car Gallery, will facilitate the open forum. He’ll be joined by David Forsell, president of Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, whose recent treeplanting initiative “2012 Trees by 2012” hopes to green up the city in time for next year’s Super Bowl.
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Topping off the afternoon is a screening of filmmaker Gary Hustwit’s newest film, “Urbanized,” a documentary
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on urban design. The viewing is part of Hustwit’s nationwide tour with the film, which premiered in Toronto several weeks ago. Hustwit, who’s based in New York and London, got his start producing films for the indy music world, but has since turned to directing. “Urbanized” is the final chapter of Hustwit’s trilogy on design. The film is a global tour, exploring how cities are facing the challenge of housing the world’s ballooning population. “It’s inevitable that more and more people will live in large cities,” Hustwit said in a phone interview. “In terms of sustainability and the use of natural resources, we’re not going to have a choice … It’s not optional. The sooner we embrace the solutions to the challenges, the better off the species and the planet will be.” Over several years of filming, Hustwit followed some of the world’s leading planners, designers, and policymakers on their journey to address livability and growth in their respective cities. From Copenhagen to Cape Town, Hustwit saw city planners tackle the dilemmas of transportation and overcrowding from countless different angles. He hopes that “Urbanized” can jump-start an inter-city sharing of these solutions and ideas. “I want people to be more aware of the design of their cities and who shapes their cities, and be more involved,” Hustwit said. “By showing what other cities are doing around the world, I’m hoping to get these ideas to be more a part of public discussion.” But urban change isn’t the duty of the public alone. In a world where privatefunded civil-improvement projects often
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prioritize profitability over functionality, Hustwit said it’s the government’s responsibility to initiate changes in the people’s best interest. “The job of government is figuring out how to take the pulse of the citizens and see what their needs are,” Hustwit said. “[Get] the citizens to really think about what would make the city better and use that as a direction for projects.” That is easier said than done. In many of the cities Hustwit visited, local governments are struggling just to stay afloat — essentials like new transit systems are sometimes out of the question. For Summit-goers on Friday, Hustwit’s insight on transportation could prove useful. “Mobility is one of the key issues I see,” he said. “I think we’ll look back and won’t be able to imagine why so much energy was wasted on bad mobility infrastructure and outdated technologies.” Reshaping our city to better serve its citizens is a monumental challenge, but from all he has seen, Hustwit remains optimistic. “In the end it’s about ideas, thinking of ways that the city can be used to make our lives better. It shouldn’t be an obstacle, it should be an opportunity.”
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-Rayz Walz is not a rapper. C-Rayz Walz is a hip-hop MC. It’s a distinction the Bronx-born artist will make several times during our conversation at Yats on College Avenue, which he refers to as his office. “Hip-hop gets a bad name because of rap music,” Walz tells me. “Rap music is used to promote products and a lifestyle that is dominated by people who are wealthy and live imaginary lives. Hip-hop is about loving the next person and growing through sound-word power.” Walz is an institution in the world of underground hip-hop. He’s collaborated with the most revered and respected artists that the genre has produced, including the Wu-Tang Clan, MF Doom and Atmosphere. Never afraid to step outside the boundaries of traditional hip-hop, Walz has worked with the Hasidic Jewish reggae star Matisyahu and is also a member of Abraham Inc., a klezmer-funk outfit featuring funk trombonist Fred Wesley. In a career stretching over 10 years, Walz has released nearly 20 albums and appeared on over 40 singles. Through a series of circumstances, including a (now-failed) love affair and runins with the law, Walz now makes his home in Indianapolis. His current ambition is to use his decade of experience in hip-hop to help move the Indianapolis scene into the national spotlight: “Even though it’s not fast-paced like New York, I believe a lot of people have good hearts here, and I believe hip-hop can thrive here. I think Indiana’s ready for the ultimate rising of hip-hop culture. If I gotta be a leader of it, then whatever. It ain’t where you’re from it’s where you’re at, and hip-hop is everywhere.” He isn’t trying to build the Indianapolis scene single-handedly, though. Last year, Walz released a free mixtape, Naptown: The Broken Comb, mixed by DJ Indiana Jones and featuring 17 of Indy’s most notable MCs and crews. His latest release, The Circle City Project, is a similarly-conceived compilation of Indianapolis MCs that Walz boasts “will become a classic like Dr. Dre’s Chronic.” A solo full-length, The Indy CD: Mind of a LUNA-Tick — named for a couple local record stores — will drop on Halloween. Oct. 21 will mark the first edition of Raps at Yats, a monthly hip-hop showcase at the Massachusetts Avenue Yats hosted by Walz and featuring DJ Ronin Roc on the turntables. It’s all in line with Walz’s almost mystical belief in the power of hip-hop to transform lives: “I truly believe with all my heart that if we didn’t have this music, the world would be at war.” His stage name is all about that effort to break down walls. At one level, it’s just a play on words: C-Rayz is a reinterpretation of the word “crazy,” and Walz is an abbreviation of his given name, Waleed Shabazz. But it’s more than that: Walz represents the barriers that we put around ourselves, while C-Rayz stands for that bit of craziness that might allow us to break through those walls.
Raised by Marvin Gaye Hip-hop transformed Walz’s life as a kid growing up, high-risk, in the Bronx. “My father was murdered when I was 2 years old,” he says. “He was running the streets, he was what you call a hustler.” Walz dabbled in various forms of criminal mischief and street thuggery as an adolescent, a period to which he refers in the confessional lyrics of the song “3 Card Molly”: “And
Ms. Rios, sorry that I dissed your flag / And when Ty got shot, he had to shit in a bag / But that’s okay, cause Ra lay, on the same corner / On the same ave, where I sold, marijuana.” Music was always present in his life, providing an alternative to street life: “I was raised by Marvin Gaye and those soul music cats.” Ultimately, Walz’s exposure to the birth of hip-hop would provide him with a way out: “I come from the Bronx, Echo Park. There were Zulu Nation jams in my park. Kool Herc, who is considered the founding father of hip-hop used to be in my park every other day in the summertime just jamming” An encounter with pioneering hip-hop MC Busy Bee (best known for his role in the epochal 1982 film Wild Style) would seal Walz’s fate: “When I was 5 or 6 years old I freestyled for Busy Bee. He gave me $5, said, ‘Boy, you’re good. Keep rocking son.’ I ran with that because he was one of the greatest of all time. I knew I was a freestyle legend when I was 6.” As years went by, Walz gained confidence — and worked the scene like a heavyweight fighter racking up championship belts (or bracelets, like the one he wore during our photo shoot): “As a freestyle MC I’ve done it all. I’ve rhymed all over the world. I was rhyming online before Google! I’ve battled Supernatural and I scraped him. I’ve been in ciphers with Eminem. Any artist you can think of I’ve probably been on stage or backstage freestyling with them. I’m a master of that. There’s no one else that can go toe to toe with me. I usually do full interviews rhyming through the whole interview.” One of C-Rayz’s childhood friends, Prodigy, a member of the legendary hiphop duo Mobb Deep, attests to the emcee’s freestyle skills. “C-Rayz is my nigga, we go way back,” Prodigy said following a recent appearance at the Egyptian Room. “We went to school together, and we used to have MC battles at the lunch room tables.” Prodigy, a member attributes much of C-Rayz’s longevity to his freestyle abilities: “He’s good at that, and it’s one of the reasons he’s still around. He has that original early ‘90s style, he’s still doing his thing and I’d like to see him continue.”
Going pro Walz started getting paid for his verses at age 19. His first LP, The Prelude, released in 2001, was recorded by Plain Pat, who has since become an engineer for Kanye West. Less than two years after that debut, Walz’s work caught the ear of Def Jux Records CEO El-P, who signed Walz to his label at a time when it was considered the next big thing in (indie) hip-hop. “Def Jux was epic,” says Walz, whose time at the label is seen by many as the high water mark in his career. “El-P had a collection of the dopest, hardest working MC’s in New York City. As a collective we really came through and put out some powerful music.” During his tenure with Def Jux, Walz made memorable cameo appearances on albums by label mates Aesop Rock and Cannibal Ox, and released 2 highly regarded LPs of his own: Ravipops and Year of the Beast. Featuring A-list guests (MF Doom, Jean Grea, Dead Prez) and solid production, both albums managed to strike a balance between radio-friendly moments and more challenging material in line with the label’s reputation for radical experimentation. The Def Jux LPs also feature some of Walz’s best work as an MC.
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In addition to his legendary freestyle skills, Walz is known for his charismatic flow, razor-sharp battle raps and comedic one-liners loaded with sarcasm. But that doesn’t mean the MC isn’t capable of more introspective moments; take, for instance, his contemplative verse on Aesop Rock’s “Bent Life,” Why is it like this? Why the fuck do I care? I don’t have the answers, or at least the ones you want to hear City lights look like bright groups of fire flies Many see the truth only when the liar dies Tires screech to a halt, the ground cries Spit sparks, speak to the streets The skid marks are replies Read discussions of what we rode through, entrenched in the vocals The hopeless stay hopeful, the toxic fumes choke you As I walk out my door, step into the pollution I breathe in the problems, exhale solutions Physically the situation’s hard to stop I had a wicked jump shot and sold crack rock on back blocks Casualties in this apocalypse, street chronicles Abnormal abdominals, push-ups phenomenal Integrated sectors, metropolis and mecca It’s a conspiracy, I can’t lie dukes Sometimes I feel the rats got a better deal than I do
And Walz is also a capable storyteller, as evidenced by the Native American lament “Dead Buffalos” (from Ravipops): The land was raped, scorn, torn and withered Later on you would praise portraits of these killers Even made holidays for this unholy act I’m the voice of the dead! You can’t hold me back Dead buffalos, similar to us now In the name of gain on these plains we get bust down
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What up, how you think there can be reparations? We been touched down, so make preparations... We did nothing but show love to a stranger We were repaid with murder, rape and anger.
around in glasses and suspenders and be a nerd all day, and I wanted to embrace that, but El-P shied away from that.”
Frozen Molasses
During the Def Jux era, Walz made a prominent guest appearance on the MTV Over the next few years, Walz’s career reality series Made, having been given would take an unlikely turn: The Bronxite the task of teaching an upper-class teenmet a girl, fell in love and decided to follow age suburbanite from Minnesota how to her west. Midwest to be exact. “I wound up rap. The episode, which featured special getting married and landed in Indianapolis appearances from Ghostface Killah, The in 2006,” he says. The couple divorced in Game and Snoop Dogg, was a hit. “At that 2007, but what might have been a short stay time it was the highest rated show on MTV in the Hoosier state for Walz was indefinitely ever. So I went platinum extended when the MC visually,” Walz jokes. was arrested after a It should’ve been a scuffle with the police. breakout period for Walz downplays the inciWalz. But the sales dent: “I pulled up to the didn’t add up, and his club with a red Colts hat relationship with Def and a red Colts jersey. I Jux started to deterioguess that was too gully rate. Walz criticizes El-P for them, and I wound up for Def Jux’s failure to bumping into some secuthrive: “Def Jux could rity guards who turned have been the all-time out to be police. I got into greatest hip-hop collecsome disruptive behavior, tive ever, but El-P just which led to a couple lost sight, and he wasn’t felonies.” —C-RAYZ WALZ as a good a leader as Walz has spent the someone like Slug [of last few years in and out the indie hip-hop duo of court rooms and jail Atmosphere], who constantly promoted his cells fighting the case, releasing albums in label and their artists.” between. Although he’s still on probation, A disagreement with El-P over the album he says the incident is behind him and he’s title for his 2005 release, Year of the Beast, sig- eager to move forward with his career: “The naled the end of his run with the label: “My lesson is learned. The anger management album was censored, which is something that classes have been paid for. Here I am, five I would expect a major label to do. Year of the years later, an Indiana resident trying to Beast was really supposed to be called Nerd motivate the culture of hip-hop in this city.” Rap. I’m from 178th and Anthony Avenue in Although Walz remains best known for the Bronx, which is definitely not a place for his work with Def Jux, there are several nerds, but I’m super intelligent. I can walk other gems in his discography, including
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“Hip-hop is an amalgamation of jazz, pop, rock, folk music, slave chants, indigenous hums, celtic samples; it’s everything.”
Monster Maker, his 2007 collaboration with producer Sharkey. A crazed mix of pop, electronica and hip-hop, Monster Maker earned rave reviews while drawing comparisons to Gnarls Barkley’s St. Elsewhere. 2007’s Chorus Rhyme is another highlight from that era, featuring excellent production work from Parallel Thought and an abundance of memorable Walz lines, like this lyric from “Leo Chorus”: “They cut off your mind when you work with your hands / when you work with your mind, they cut off your hands.” The transition from New York to Indianapolis hasn’t been easy for Walz. “I really hated this place in the beginning,” he admits. “New York is like catching two lightning bolts in your hand at a party with Zeus, and Indiana is like being stuck in frozen molasses while going backwards through a time machine. People here were more close-minded, but I made it a challenge to myself to thrive in a place that’s slow and bring it up to speed.” Part of Walz’s transition has included an extended “residency” at Yats, where he’s become an institution, something like Indy’s version of Norm from Cheers. The Yats tattoo emblazoned across Walz’s right wrist says it all. “C-Rayz is a character,” Yats owner Joe Vuskovich says. “He’s one of those guys that makes life fun. He came in one day and one of the guys working in the kitchen recognized him. He said to me, ‘Hey, that guy is a really famous rapper.’ From there we just started talking. He was always smiling, and he’s just a nice guy to have around.” “Sometimes he’ll jump up and start bussing some tables. Or, if we don’t have a certain dish on the menu here, he’ll order takeout at our Mass. Ave location downtown and bring it back here to 54th Street to eat. Now that’s loyalty to a location,” Vuskovich laughs. And what about the tattoo? “All the sud-
den he’s standing at the cash register and he shows me the tattoo. I’ve never had anything like that happen,” Vuskovich laughs. “I’ve been doing this since I was 19, and I had a couple of famous places in the past, but no one has ever done anything like that!”
An artist’s artist Alan Roberts, aka DJ Topspeed, can give a local perspective on Walz’s efforts. An iconic figure in Indianapolis hip-hop whose encyclopedic knowledge of the genre is every bit as impressive as his devastating turntable skills, Roberts is unstinting in his praise of Walz: “He’s a very dope MC, and as a rapper he fundamentally knows what it takes to be a great.” Roberts reels off his favorite Walz tunes: “There’s ‘Mark of the Beast,’ ‘Camouflage,’ ‘Battle Me,’ which is one of my theme songs, since I’ve always been about battling as a DJ. The C-Rayz song that really set me off was ‘Whodafuckareyou.’ I played that 12-inch on Hot 96 back in 2001 when it originally came out.” Roberts encountered Walz before the MC relocated: “I had the pleasure of meeting C-Rayz at the Casbah around 2002. He came through Indianapolis with Breez Evahflowin and Akrobatik. I was opening the show spinning breaks, and he came up to me and said, ‘Yo, you’re my favorite DJ now’. I was happy to hear that, because he was one of my favorite MCs at the time.” “I’ve been a witness to him falling in love. I DJed at his wedding in Rockville, Indiana. Being that he’s from the Bronx it’s a big deal to me,” Roberts says, noting the importance of the borough as the birthplace of hip-hop. “I’m glad he’s here; I think it’s great. I’d like to see him find the right project and progress to the next level.” Sean Daley, aka Slug of the Minneapolis-
based hip-hop duo Atmosphere, hits a similar note: “C-Rayz is an artist’s artist. Art is a language, and his grasp on that language is amazing.” “Sometimes I look at him and think he burns so brightly it’s almost too bright for some people to see,” Daley said via phone. “I think he’s going over the head of many people who try to interpret him. You know how dogs can hear certain sounds humans can’t hear? Or how some people can see certain colors that others can’t? His palette is outside of our color wheel.” “As an artist he doesn’t sacrifice what he’s trying to communicate,” Daley continued. “He doesn’t dumb it down. He doesn’t do those things a lot of other artists do when they’re frustrated because people aren’t interpreting their work correctly. As an artist myself, I have a lot of respect for that; that’s my kind of shit.”
Hip-hop, not rap Walz’s love for hip-hop and the art of MC-ing is irrepressible: “I’m the epitome of freedom expressed through hip-hop culture with a universal appeal to intelligence and creativity.” Walz easily tosses off such grand statements, sometimes in the form of rhymed verse. “Hip-hop is an amalgamation of jazz, pop, rock, folk music, slave chants, indigenous hums, celtic samples; it’s everything. It encompasses the personality of people coming from the hood in New York City, expressing what they went through: drug abuse in their family, sex life, love life, violence in the streets, Nation of Islam, the five percent Nation, fashion. It’s all an amalgamated story to give the listener an education and inspiration.” Walz contrasts hip-hop with rap: “Rap is a machine run by America that’s used to sell cars, alcohol, jewelry, promote drugs and
promote a way of living that isolates you from everybody else.” Walz improvises a verse: “’Don’t touch my ones, don’t touch my guns, that’s my girl you can’t touch her buns.’ Everything is me, my, mine. Rap music creates a negative mentality. It tells you it’s OK to use girls, to have sex with them and throw them away. They tell you it’s OK to shoot somebody if they step on your sneakers or bump into your car. They tell you it’s OK to have a lot of money and not give back to your community. They tell you it’s OK to be racist and ignorant. They tell you it’s OK not to say anything that can transform life, shift politics and enhance the human family.” What motivates Walz to put so much work into developing a regional hip-hop scene at a time when he’s also trying to rebuild his own career? “I wanted to overcome the stagnation Indianapolis had become in my life. I don’t really believe in failure. I believe you are what your thoughts are, so I had to change my thoughts. The slowness of Indiana has given me the patience to try to help the scene and create this movement. Circle City is a movement. It’s the whole culmination of me turning my experience in Indiana into a positive. It’s my gift back to Indiana for taking so much of my time, my speedy New York time. I’m gonna give you all some real hip-hop that will stay here forever.” Which just might happen, as once again the future is looking promising for Walz. With his legal troubles largely behind him, he’s eager for a fresh start and hopes his current album, All Blvck Everything: The Prelude , will provide for that. It features 16 songs, all of which contain the word “black” — or “blvck,” in the album’s alternate spelling in the title. “It’s a eulogy, because I’m in mourning,” Walz says. One track, the Marley Marlproduced “Blvck Gifted,” is a classic shot of pure, old-school New York hip-hop. Walz
has never sounded better as he threatens to “refine your mind’s lining with high science.” He views the album as the final word on the bad habits that were holding back his career. “It’s about killing the way I used to handle my business, my anger issues and ushering in everything I’m doing now.” With production contributions from beat maestro 9th Wonder and hip-hop legend Marley Marl, it’s Walz’s best-sounding album to date. Walz finds himself in top form, turning in his best lyrical work since his Def Jux days. Whatever comes next, Walz is comfortable with his current lot in life: “I don’t make enough to buy cars with gold rims, or gold chains with eagles, or dogs that walk themselves and lawns that mow themselves. But I pay my rent, and I make my child payments. I eat at Yats for free, and I’m happy, because I don’t have to punch a clock or say hi to coworkers who don’t really like me. I get to do what I love and inspire people. It’s a win-win situation. I’m not bitter or jaded because I’m not selling records like Kanye West or Jay-Z. I’m C-Rayz Walz, and I’m the people’s champ. I can walk through any hood, I can go to any state and I can get love. At the end of the day that’s what you want, love from your family and your friends and to be respected as a genuine person.” And what about New York? Is Walz planning to return to his Bronx home when his probation ends? “I’m an Indy resident; I live here. I’ll probably have more babies here. I’m Indy’s own, and I appreciate Indy for receiving me with open arms.”
Thanks to Kevin Muñoz for his role in making this article possible.
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Marco Vinicio Galaviz and Anthony Palma, members of the Latino Youth Collective. Art work like this can be viewed at the IAC’s Day of the Dead exhibit.
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Day of the Dead @ Indianapolis Art Center
The IAC has been celebrating the traditional Mexican holiday of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) since 2000, and this year’s extravaganza promises to be the best one yet. The full slate of programming, which begins this weekend and continues into November, includes exhibitions of altars and shrines, presentations of Latino artists’ work, and activities and workshops as well as a preview party (Oct. 20) and a celebration (Oct. 29). If you want to get an early start on the festivities, head over to the IAC’s Churchman Fehsenfeld and Frank M. Basile Galleries , where an altar exhibition opens to the public on Oct. 7. 820 E. 67th St., 255-2464, www.indplsartcenter.org
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JealousyJane Couture @ Mass Ave
Mass Ave will be style central on Saturday, with the fresh and edgy designs of CanadianAmerican artist Sheila Ferguson featured at a fashion and costume show. Ferguson started up JealousyJane Couture following her studies in studio art at Indiana University. At this weekend’s event, she shows off inspired designs from her fall/winter collection, along with a sampling of one-of-a-kind costumes -- just in time for Halloween! Enjoy live music as well as wine and appetizers. Ferguson’s designs have been featured in Bloomington’s annual Trashion Refashion Show, an event celebrating garments composed of recycled materials. Saturday’s fashion soiree will be held in Century 21 Scheetz’s office on Massachusetts Ave. 5-8 p.m. Free. 643 Massachusetts Ave., www.jealousyjane.com
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Youth and Social Justice @ Indiana History Center Gain a better understanding of how young people today view social justice and how their perspectives differ from those of past generations. Sheila Seuss Kennedy, professor in IUPUI’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs, begins the night by talking about the historic nature of social justice in American democracy. Dr. David Craig from IUPUI’s Religious Studies program then moderates a panel discussion of what social justice means in today’s world. The panel -- composed of student-activists from the Latino Youth Collective as well as representatives from the Marion County Commission on Youth and other local organizations -plans to take a frank and conversational approach to this important subject. 6 p.m. Free. 450 W. Ohio St., 232-1882, www.indianahistory.org
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DK explores the four elements in their next show.
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Dance Kaleidoscope @ Indiana Repertory Theatre Indiana’s dazzling dance company performs The Four Elements (Redux) , a celebration of water, earth, air and fire. Now in its 40th season, Dance Kaleidoscope introduced this show to great acclaim in 2005. DK’s artistic director, David Hochoy, has a reputation for producing powerful and imaginative pieces; this show furthers his reputation for brilliance, with creative and wowworthy dance interpretations of each of the elements. New York-based Spencer Myer, a pianist and APA Fellow, adds musical accompaniment to the Water section of the performance with selections from Chopin. 7 p.m. Oct. 6; 8 p.m. Oct. 7-8; 2:30 p.m. Oct. 9. Ticket prices vary. 140 W. Washington St., 635-5252, www.dancekal.org
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The Good Body @ Theatre Non Nobis
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Experience a journey toward selfacceptance with Theatre Non Nobis’ production of Eve Ensler’s latest play. In The Good Body, Ensler, best known for penning and performing The Vagina Monologues, focuses her razor-sharp insights and wit on America’s obsession with body image. Ensler says about TGB, “Do the most radical thing you can possibly do -- love your body and get on with it.” Local theater veteran Jenni White
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Freewheelin’ Grand Opening by Paul F.P. Pogue Asylum House by Paul F.P. Pogue
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Ken Burns’ ‘Prohibition’ by Marc Allan Poet Maurice Manning reads at IUPUI by Micah Ling Amazing Maize exhibit at ISM by Rita Kohn
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My Gypsy Soul @ The Tarkington Want to get away? No worries -- you can journey from India to Spain thanks to Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre . Enjoy the remarkable artistry and colorful costumes of GHDT, as the Carmelbased dance company performs for its home crowd at The Center for the Performing Arts’ Tarkington Theatre. Travel with the gypsy dancers,
taking in their fluid and inspired movements, while being treated to music from around the world. The performance features music from such far-flung places as Romania, Serbia, Greece, Portugal and Ireland. For more info on GHDT, check out the dance company’s website at www. gregoryhancockdancetheatre.org. 8 p.m.
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Oct. 7-8. Tickets: $36 for adults; $31 for students and seniors. 335 City Center Dr., Carmel, 660-3373, www.thecenterfortheperformingarts.org
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Emily Budd: Microcosmic @ Nancy Lee Designs Gallery
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Microcosmic is the latest interactive collection by visual artist Emily Budd, winner of the 2009 Robert D. Beckmann, Jr. Emerging Artist Fellow. Viewers are encouraged to immerse themselves in the works, picking the bronze statues up, moving them in the light of the gallery and deciding what the pieces represent. The forms can represent anything from a single, tiny cell to an entire universe—all in the
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palms of your hands, somewhere in the middle. Opening reception, Oct. 7. 6 – 9 p.m. Free. 1125 Brookside Ave. C8B, 9371652, ndesignsmetal.com
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Funk Soul Brother @ Harrison Center
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If you’re looking for a break from traditional square-canvassed art, this should be the first stop on your First Friday tour. The Harrison Center presents the art of William Denton Ray, with a collection reflecting the artist’s whimsical and unconventional approach to his work. In Funk Soul Brother, Ray’s first solo show, central characters come to life within multi-layered vignettes and cut-out shapes. Be sure to visit the Harrison Center’s Gallery No. 2 as well, where you’ll experience Death Becomes
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The prolific William Denton Ray is on view at the Harrison.
Her, a fiber and mixed-media show by artists Elyce Elder and Gabrielle Duggan. 5-10 p.m. Free. 1505 N. Delaware St., 396-3886, www.harrisoncenter.org
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The Vonnegut illustration John Clark will discuss.
Jeff Litsey and Emily Janowiak.
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Reflections on Guatemala @ FPA&B
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Join local publisher John Clark as he reflects on his experiences with Kurt Vonnegut, whom he met in 1991 and whom, through a series of plot twists, contributed a felt-tip drawing to Clark’s literary magazine pLopLop. Clark will present a slideshow illustrating Vonnegut’s belief that locally focused, independent publishing should concentrate not on making money but on “making one’s soul grow.” Post-slideshow, Clark plans to discuss DIY publishing and the current arts scene in Indianapolis, connecting it all to Vonnegut’s convictions and teachings. If the proceedings make you feel inspired and ready to share your own creative musings, you’re in luck -- the event concludes with an open mic poetry session. 6 p.m. Free. 340 N. Senate Ave., 437-7867, www.vonnegutlibrary.org
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Fletcher Place Arts & Books celebrates its grand opening in style with Reflections on Guatemala, an exhibit of work by Emily Janowiak and Jeff Litsey. Reflections features pieces inspired by the artists’ recent two-week trip to Guatemala. The exhibit runs from Oct. 7-29. FPA&B boasts a bounty of creative experiences, with a gallery displaying the work of local artists, a lounge area for reading and writing, and a library of books focused on theology, art and literature. On Oct. 7, the gallery will be open from 4:30-10 p.m., with an artist reception from 6-9 p.m. Free. 642 Virginia Ave., 400-3114, fletcherplaceartsandbooks.wordpress.com
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924 features glass art this month.
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Glass Art Exhibition @ Gallery 924 Calling all glass blowers and the people who love them. Gallery 924 presents the annual juried show of the Indiana Glass Art Alliance -- a must-attend event for First Friday art revelers. The exhibition highlights the absolute best work of Indiana’s glass artists, with entries from across the stating representing wide-ranging styles, from traditional vessels to contemporary sculptures. From 6-9 p.m. on Oct. 7. Glass art remains on display through Oct. 28. Gallery hours: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursday. Free. 924 N. Pennsylvania St., 631-3301, www.indyarts. org/gallery924
Get down with your inner German.
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Skip breakfast on Saturday, as you’ll want to arrive at this year’s German Fest with a schnitzel-size hole in your stomach ready to be filled up. The Athenaeum, formerly known as Das Deutsche Haus, hosts the third annual celebration of all things German. Grab a freshly poured Hefeweizen and take in wiener-dog races, a Bavarian stone-lift competition and the harmonies of the Alpine Express yodelers. If you’re feeling ambitious, participate in the Lederhosenlauf 5K Run/Walk. Noon-6 p.m. Free admission. 401 E. Michigan St., 655-2755, www.indygermanfestival.com 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 10.05.11-10.12.11 // go&do
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Cabaret Poe @ Irvington Lodge October’s arrival brings a welcome influx of dark and gothic entertainment offerings, including this Broadway-style musical based on the works of macabre literary master Edgar Allen Poe. Cabaret Poe comes thanks to local nonprofit Q Artistry, its third annual iteration of this Indianapolis original production. Poe stories reimagined for the musical include such classics as “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “Annabelle Lee” and, of course, “The Raven.” The show is not over-the-top spooky; event organizers encourage those ages 11 and up to attend. 3 p.m. Oct. 9, 16 and 23. Tickets: $15-$20. 5515 E. Washington St., 800-838-3006, www.cabaretpoe.com
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Augustin Hadelich @ Indiana History Center Violinist Augustin Hadelich joins forces with pianist Chih-Yi Chen and the Indiana University String Academy Chamber Orchestra in the season-opening performance of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. Hadelich took home the gold medal in the 2006 competition. The evening’s program features Haydn’s Concerto in C Major for Violin and Orchestra, Ravel’s Tzigane and Beethoven’s Sonata No. 6 in A Major for Violin and Piano. 3 p.m. Tickets: $25 general admission; $20 for seniors; $10 for students. 450 W. Ohio St., 232-1882, www.violin.org
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Chaos Theory @ Butler’s Reilly Room Steven Strogatz somehow manages to pull of the impossible: he makes complex math not only understandable but engaging and relevant. Stogatz, who teaches applied mathematics at Cornell University, travels to Indy to discuss chaos theory as part of Butler’s J. James Woods Lecture Series . The professor earned acclaim and a wider audience with his 15-part blog on mathematics for The New York Times. In 2009 he published The Calculus of Friendship, reflecting on his 30-year correspondence with his high school calculus teacher. 7:30 p.m. Free. 4600 Sunset Ave., 800-368-6852, www.butler.edu
A&E FEATURE A window into a changing world The art of Justin Cooper
BY DA N G RO S S M A N E DI T O RS @N U V O . N E T When you walk into Justin Cooper’s studio apartment on the second floor of the Wheeler Arts Community Center in Fountain Square, you just might be fortunate enough to see his recent mixed media paintings hanging on the walls. (If his walls are bare, the work’s probably hanging in a gallery somewhere.) In one of his most recent series of paintings you see a raccoon, with a gold halo around his head, being carried by an oceanblue wave rimmed with white foam. The wave looks like it could have been painted by Katsushika Hokusai, the great 18th and 19th century Japanese printmaker and painter. But Hokusai is just one of the influences that Cooper incorporates into the work you’ll be able to see on his show Missed the Boat at Primary Gallery, opening on Friday, Oct. 7. You can also see the influence of the Eastern Orthodox tradition of icon painting — in the raccoon’s halo, for example. Another big influence is a classic of children’s literature, Aesop’s Fables. “That’s part of the show, the way that [Aesop] used certain animals, and that creates its own back story. So you think that a fox is sly,” says Cooper. “You see the raccoon and you know that he’s nocturnal and that he lives in a tree.” One thing that’s hard to miss in Cooper’s studio, lying on his coffee table, is the current edition of National Geographic. And if you read through any recent edition of this magazine, you can’t avoid the current editorial preoccupation with numerous, escalating environmental crises. “There’s what we call displacement from humans,” Cooper says about his concern for animals that forms a sort of halo, as it were, around his work. And in Cooper’s painting a foreboding of a coming environmental catastrophe of biblical proportions is right there on the surface — in the depictions of animals being swept away by waves. It’s also there in the title of his show, Missed the Boat. What boat did these animals miss, you might think, Noah’s Ark?
The significance of the haloes Perhaps the most widely known Aesop’s Fable is the one about the tortoise and the hare. This tale is referenced in an untitled Cooper painting on canvas , where you see a hare riding a tortoise’s back as both are being carried off by a wave. If we’ve truly entered a new age of environmental calamity, does the moral of the
fable — that slow and steady wins the race — have a new sort of significance? Or will such fables be swept away by the storms of a swelling ocean along with the animals? Whatever the answer, the fact that the tortoise and the hare — both wearing haloes — are riding a wave together towards an unknown destination seems touching and sad. “The haloes,” says Cooper, “could mean a couple of different things… Enlightenment or maybe the animals aren’t around anymore so… angels.”
A little about technique
Cooper uses metallic leaf to make the haloes. He paints in layers; first in acrylic, then in oil, on wet-sanded canvas — or sanded wood — surfaces. (“I’m a big fan of thin layering,” he says.) In terms of color choice, many of these paintings have limited palettes; aqua-blues, whites, and pale browns color the stylized backgrounds to his naturalistic depictions of animals. He gets a glossy effect — that might make you think of stained glass windows — by mixing oil paint with linseed oil on his canvases and by sealing his woodblock paintings with a polyurethane coat. Cooper, who graduated Chatard High School in 1993, credits his Catholic background with exposing him to the tradition of Christian art. (Despite a semester or two at Herron, Cooper is essentially self-taught.) And although Cooper grew up Catholic, you’re more likely to find him spinning records in a nightclub or painting with fellow artist Mike Graves than going to church.
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Justin Cooper poses in his studio with work that will be on display at Primary Gallery, starting this Friday.
Collaboration with Mike Graves
You may have seen Music the Way We See It, a collaborative painting show between Cooper and Graves at the Harrison Center for the Arts’ Gallery 2 back in December, 2010. In this show, Cooper painted the portraits of figures such as LL Cool Jay and Ennio Morricone on backgrounds created by Graves. For the Morricone portrait entitled “An Ennio Morricone Western,” the backdrop was newspaper in Arabic text — a reminder, perhaps, that the backdrops for many of the westerns that Morricone composed for were closer to the Sahara Desert than to the American West. Graves calls such paintings “cultural mash-ups.” “He’s a big music scene guy,” Cooper says of Graves, who works as a professional deejay and music producer as well as a visual artist. Cooper’s something of a music guy himself. In his studio, you’ll find two turntables adjacent to the kitchen and an album cover by Dick Dale and his Del-Tones hanging on the wall. He likes to listen to Jamaican reggae and ska while painting. He’s restless when composing his work, switching from location to location in his studio apartment. In this highceilinged studio — where the only windows are above — it seems possible to lose all track of time.
What’s next
After this show at Primary Gallery, don’t expect any more work picturing animals being swept away by waves — at least for a while.
But there is a hint in his studio about the collaborative direction that his work is headed in — a collaboration with Mike Graves. In a new, as yet incomplete painting standing on an easel, you see a surrealistic hybrid between the train paintings that Graves has been working on recently and Cooper’s wave paintings — with the additional element of hopping kangaroos. (The title for this work is “Train Hopping.”) The term “cultural mash ups” seems also to apply here, but it’s a term that seems to apply to Cooper’s solo work as well. And, for that matter, it could probably apply to any art that creates something new with what’s being borrowed — from whatever source. In Cooper’s case, he wants to leave some room for interpretation in his art. “And I try not to guide people too far,”
says Cooper. “Just because it’s nice if you can invest a little time in something that’s yours and not mine.”
FIRST FRIDAY RECEPTION FOR MISSED THE BOAT: WORKS BY JUSTIN COOPER
Friday, October 7, 5 p.m.-11 p.m. Primary Gallery Murphy Art Center 1043 Virginia Ave, Suite 217, http://primarygallery.tumblr.com Show runs through October.
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A&E FEATURE Brown County Breakdown
Attracting mountain bikers, bluegrass lovers BY RO BE RT A N N IS E DI T O RS @N U V O . N E T Hundreds of mountain bikers from all over the U.S. and Canada will take to the trails of Brown County and beyond this weekend. The Brown County Breakdown is the biggest fundraiser of the year for the Hoosier Mountain Bike Association, raising $65,000 for the trail building and advocacy group over the past six years. The money has helped build dozens of miles of trails in Brown County State Park – where the ride and related festivities kick off – and throughout the state. Although Sunday’s ride is the major attraction, there’s plenty to keep riders occupied when they’re not in the saddle. With routes ranging from 25 miles up to 100 miles, there’s a ride for all ability levels, said race promoter Jonathan Juillerat. Organizers are quick to point out the event isn’t a race, although plenty of friends will be competing against one another for bragging rights for a year.
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“Doing 100 miles on a mountain bike is nothing casual; in fact, it’s incredibly hard,” Juillerat said. “The finishing rate for the 100-mile route over the past six years hovers around 5 percent. I might not have the elevation that (famous mountain bike race) Leadville has, but I bet it’s just as hard.” But for every rider looking for a challenge, there are dozens of others looking to have fun on their bike, catch up with old friends and drink a lot of free beer. The beer starts flowing Friday night with a complimentary tasting courtesy of Big Woods Brewery, followed by an Upland tasting Saturday night. Beer from Flat12 Brewery will be poured during Sunday’s post-ride hog roast. Riders can also test ride the latest models from Trek, Giant and Felt from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. A free family fun ride is slated for 2 p.m. Saturday as well. Befitting an event named after the title of one of Bill Monroe’s best-known songs, the weekend’s entertainment will be heavy on the bluegrass. Local favorites New Old Calvary will play Saturday evening, followed by national recording artist Danny Barnes. Barnes, described by Juillerat as “the only banjo player you’ll see on stage wearing a Melvins T-shirt,” is a cutting-edge bluegrass performer who’s shared stages with the Dave Matthews Band and country troubadour Robbie Fulks in the past. White Lightning Boys will perform Sunday afternoon. Musicians will be scattered through the course during Sunday’s ride as
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Bucolic fun in the forest of Brown County State Park.
well, with Weed Patch Music Company playing at the well-known hidden cabin stop. “This is the first year the Breakdown is exactly how we originally envisioned it – it’s really a music festival with weekend camping and an epic bike ride,” Juillerat said. “We already have these great trails that are on par with the best the country has to offer. Every year we add more activities to the weekend and get more people. It makes me proud when someone tells me they drove 10 hours or more to get here.”
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Robert Neal stars as James Beard in IRT’s ‘I Love to Eat,” part of the Going Solo Festival.
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APA partnered pianists Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe with a guest appearance by Dance Kaleidoscope for an inspired and inspiring premiere performance in a night club for each. Talbott Street provided an intimate setting as part of APA’s “Grand Encounters” series. Anderson and Roe have been described as the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers of the piano, performing a sort of “ballet at the keyboard.” Their extraordinarily visual and visceral playing expands the concept of sit and listen to a standard repertoire. Anderson and Roe not only have engaging personalities, they engage the audience with sprightly introductions and new arrangements of old works “re-imagined” to be in-the-moment creative collaborations between composer and performer. They practically “chewed up” the Steinway grands opening with Schubert’s ballad Der Erlkonig describing a child’s delirium on a dark, stormy night, then did a total turnaround with Bach’s softly melodic “Ebarme Dich” from The Saint Matthew Passion. Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring Part I bristled with conflict between the elders and the sacrificial virgin. Mystery imbued Villa-Lobos’ “Lo, at Midnight” from Bachiana Brasileiras No. 5; Piazzolla’s Libertango sizzled to close Act I. Act II opened with Liberty Harris’ floatingly sensuous embodiment of St. Saens’ The Swan, followed by DK dancers letting loose to Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean”. Both performances radiated delight with live piano accompaniment. Anderson and Roes closed the program with The Bee Gees’ witty “Stayin’ Alive,” Radiohead’s dramatic Paranoid Android and a masterful 12-minute encapsulation of the heart and soul of Bizet’s Carmen as Fantasy for Two Pianos. — RITA KOHN
Opening with the exuberant, physical “The Particle Zoo,” we witness three men, comfortable with each other, who don’t readily make room to include a fourth who desperately wants “in.” It’s a witty exploration of personal needs, trust in others and rejection. When it looks like the floor of the stage is juggling bodies you know you’ve been transported into a different level of dance performance. “The Transformation” totally changes pace as a quiet silhouette work during which a young woman undergoes a series of changes until she isn’t what she was. The third piece, “Kokoroko,” was explained during the after show Q-A with the company as a Japanese word meaning something ‘rolling constantly.’ The Pilobolus website states, “We are creating a world of surreal physicality that is interested in the making and unmaking of heroes.” Uh-huh. Act two opened with “Duet,” brought back after a decade of absence to celebrate Pilobolus’ 40th anniversary. Two women, whose tender caring for each other suddenly erupts into a power struggle, have to find their way back to a nurturing love. Relational at its core, is it equally a metaphor with what we face in daily struggles for unity with self? The program closed with “Rushes,” which thrusts us into a community of misfits whose fractured dreams are manifested into repetitive anxiety. Humor and pathos line up and encircle like a clutter of white chairs. Delivering exceptional performances were Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, Winston Dynamite Brown, Mat Del Rosario, Eriko Jimbo, Jordan Kriston, Jun Kuribayashi and Nile H. Russell. Pilobolus last was seen at Clowes with a different company of dancers. — RITA KOHN
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ISO CLASSICAL SERIES PROGRAM NO. 3 HILBERT CIRCLE THEATRE; SEPT. 30-OCT. 1. u
BALLADS, BEATS & BIG PIANOS AMERICAN PIANO ASSOCIATION.
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heard.” Then an elderly gentleman sat down next to me and said,” How do they expect to increase their audience with noise like that?” Both were referring to the opening work on Friday’s program, the Concerto for Violin: Concentric Paths (2005), by 40-year-old-Brit Thomas Adès. Violinist Leila Josefowicz, having appeared with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra a number of times previously, did provide the concerto with some dazzling solo playing. But we began to suspect when ISO guest conductor Larry Rachleff beseeched us to “hunker down” for its three movements and some 25 minutes. The “colors, harmonies, and rhythms winding around each other,” as Rachleff put it, offered no musical tension, and therefore nothing to resolve. Yet the audience gave the piece — or perhaps more properly Josefowicz — a hearty applause (though no one stood this time), bringing her back for an encore. Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 in D (1896), appearing after the break, is entirely another matter. Using well-known material from his Songs of a Wayfarer, Mahler transmogrifies it into music seemingly embacing the world while caressing all of nature. Rachleff failed to get out of this work everything he intended to, with the instrumental choirs thorny in places, the trumpets well overshadowing the rest of the complement in the abrasively loud sections, albeit playing otherwise with beauty and precision. With all four of its movements equally inspired, No. 1 is especially difficult to bring off. In this case it showed. For more review details visit www. nuvo.net. — TOM ALDRIDGE
THEATER/PERFORMANCE I LOVE TO EAT: COOKING WITH JAMES BEARD INDIANA REPERTORY THEATRE, DIRECTED BY JAMES STILL, THROUGH OCT. 22 t The last two shows of IRT’s Going Solo festival remember two minor American celebrities who, though once well known, have given way to larger pop culture icons. In this world premiere, playwright James Still and actor Robert Neal give us James Beard, the first TV chef (1946) and author of 20-plus cookbooks. Perhaps the most important thing we learn in I Love to Eat, Beard tells us almost immediately: If you mess up dinner, toss it in the garbage, laugh hardily and find something better to eat. Before Julia, with her chemistryset recipes, and Martha, with her fussy place settings, there was James, with an appetite for simple, local cuisine and recipes that read like American folktales. James Still translates Beard’s love of opera into an hour of operatic memoir: Beard’s huge torso, his gossipy phone calls, and his unsatisfied desire for a grand love story to call his own. Neal gives us arias, manly giggles and, after too much scotch to drink, teary eyes. I resisted the fleeting moments of pity for Beard. After all, this was a man who lived past 80 after a life of sea air, friendship and buttering his bread thoroughly. Perhaps Beard’s lack of moderation did not serve him always, but clearly the man loved to live. 140 West Washington Street, 635-5252, www.irtlive.com — JOSEFA BEYER
NOBODY DON’T LIKE YOGI INDIANA REPERTORY THEATRE, DIRECTED BY TIM OCEL, THROUGH OCT. 23. t “You can’t lose if you win.” “It’s not over ‘til it’s over.” “Nobody goes there anymore—it’s too crowded.” The often-quoted baseball great Yogi Berra reminds me of the men who were old when I was a girl. To me, they were all big of nose and belly, pressed yet somehow still crumpled, and talking more than thinking. In Tom Lysaght’s one-man play about Berra, ideas are small compared to emotions, especially Berra’s adoration of his wife, reverence for baseball legends and protective love of his children. As Berra, Mark Goetzinger strikes the perfect tone of a humble man who always tries his best. Through Berra’s scattered memories of managing the Mets and the Yankees and getting fired by George Steinbrenner, we learn that although he mixed up words once in a while, his actions were mostly right on, if old-fashioned. While some of us “young gals” like a man to bend prose tightly around ideas, there’s still a generation of theatergoers that will embrace this play’s sentimental heart and Berra’s goofy words. The delighted laughter of one smitten woman sitting behind me last Friday night made this clear. 140 West Washington Street, 635-5252, www.irtlive.com — JOSEFA BEYER
VISUAL ART INVISION: ALLIANCE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTISTS EXHIBITION RANSBURG GALLERY, GOOD HALL, UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS; THROUGH OCT. 14. r This show featured the work of seven Alliance photographers who focused their lenses on rural and small-town Indiana. Andy Chen says of his work here, “You can get the outline of a thing by finding the edges.” Accordingly, one of his photographs focuses on the empty frame of a wooden roadside sign through which you can see the words “Welcome to Thorntown” painted on a downtown building façade. From the edges, Thorntown looks like it has seen better days. But in the twenty-odd photos of Rich Phelan, attached to strings with clothespins like bric-a-brac in a souvenir shop, you see the citizens of Thorntown, IN. enjoying life like anyone else. You see motorcyclists revving up, plates of food from a local café—the kind of things you might see in a publication by the local chamber of commerce. These are professional quality photos, but not really mind-blowing. If you want mindblowing, check out Ginny Taylor Rosner’s series of photographs entitled “In Motion.” In these photos, you see electric-generating windmills studding pancake-flat fields like New Age religious emblems. One photo, taken while the sky was milky white, shows the white blades melting into the sky that turns them. 1400 E. Hanna Ave; 317-788-3253, www.art.uindy.edu/ ransburg_gallery.php — DAN GROSSMAN
FOOD Food truck frenzy continues
Fat Sammies one of 12 trucks on Friday BY D A V I D H O P P E D H O P P E @N U V O . N E T No, Sammie is not somebody’s rotund uncle. In this case, it’s Sicilian slang for sandwich and, as the name suggests, the sandwiches served by Fat Sammies are, in fact, on the very prosperous side. We found the Ciao Wagon parked outside the IUPUI Lecture Hall, across from the Student Center, on a lucid early September day. Christy Rieman was serving up the wagon’s small but sharply focused menu, consisting of Meatball, Italian Beef and Portobello Mushroom sandwiches ($6 each with a bottle of water included). As well as servings of Nutella ($3) and San Pellegrino Limonata ($2). Even though it was just noon, the homemade Italian Sausage sammie was already sold-out, so if your tastebuds are yearning for pork, make sure you hit the wagon early. “If we don’t sell out, we get close a lot of
days,” says Christy, who seems able to strike up a friendly conversation with anyone who’s hungry. She says the Food Network got her into the food truck movement. “And I like to cook for my family, so I said, ‘That looks like fun to me, so I’ll give it a try!’” I went for the Italian Beef sammie with the works – onions, grilled red peppers, fresh basil and a homemade garnish of chopped champ peppers and vinegar. This was a gladiatorial eating experience; I felt for a second as if I was wrestling a lion, albeit a very tasty king of beasts. The mix of tender, juicy shaved beef, peppers and spices was overwhelming. If I had it to do over again (which I hope to), I would have taken a more minimalist approach and perhaps simply augmented the beef with the spicy peppers. But then I would have missed the sweet accent of the red peppers…well, some problems are really opportunities in disguise. “We’re a taste truck,” says Christy. “We want everything to taste good and look good because you eat with your eyes.” The sammies I saw passed both exams with flying colors. “People are really starting to see that food trucks have great food,” Christy told me as she served up another Italian Beef for a lunchtime customer. “It’s not just convenient, it’s very good.” To find Fat Sammies: fatsamiies@gmail. com, www.facebook.com/fatsammies, Twitter @fatsammies, 317-525-3628. Check out NUVO every Friday for a new Food Truck feature.
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Fat Sammies sandwiches are on the very prosperous side.
FIRST FRIDAY FOOD TRUCK FEST Friday, Oct. 7, starting at 5 Old National Center Parking Lot 502 N. New Jersey St.
Must be 21; leave your dog at home Tickets: $5 at the gate (kids 5 and under, free) TRUCKS:
Rollin With Da Roux, Scratch Truck, Fat Sammies Ciao Wagon, Byrnes Grilled Pizza, Edwards Dashboard Diner, The New York Slice,
Leinenkugel, Oliver Winery MUSIC:
Chad Mills , Adam Kuhn & the Cardboard Cut Outs, DJ OhBeOne ACTIVITIES:
Cornhole & Beer Pong by Circle City Athletics, Expanded Kids Zone by Old National Bank Bag Toss, Pumpkin Painting
Binkley’s Brew Club 7 p.m., featuring brews from Founders.
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Four Indiana craft breweries earned eleven medals at the 2011 Great American Beer Festival in Denver, CO Sun King won four gold medals for Buffalo Slumber, Belgian-style Strong Specialty; Ring of Dingle, Classic Irish-Style Dry Stout; Java Mac, Coffee Beer; Wee Muckle, Scotch Ale; three silver medals for Popcorn Pilsner, American-Style or International Pilsner category and two Wood-and-Barrel-Aged Beers--Wee Muckle and BBJ (Bourboun Barrel Johan); and a bronze for Johan the Barleywine, Barley Wine-style ale. Rock Bottom Brewery College Park won silver for Naughty Scot, Scottish-style Ale Three Floyds won a silver medal for Munster Fest, German-style Marzen. Brugge won bronze for Grimalkin - Super Kitty Fantastico, American-Style Brett Ale. National Cask Ale Week (http://www.camra. org.uk/). In celebration, Crown Point is releasing “Crown Brown Real Ale” their first real ale.
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Upland’s Sour Reserve Release, 12 noon starts online reservations for this limited release beer on www. uplandbeer.com. Bottles: $25, available for pickup at Bloomington Brew Pub or Indy Tasting Room from Oct. 18 through 31, and online ticket sales for a Sour Reserve Reception on Oct. 22. Bloomington Brew Pub, 3-6 p.m includes assorted cheeses and fruits for pairing.
OCT. 6
The Ram in Fishers, 6:30 p.m. tapping of “All Hops go to Heaven, a bold American IPA with prominent fruity hop flavor enhanced by a supportive malt backbone.”
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Flat12 Brewery, FlatJack Pumpkin Ale Tapping Party
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Indiana Convention Center, WFTDA Roller Derby Regional Playoffs, featuring Sun King Monumental Mayhem on tap.
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Tuxedo Park Brewers, 5th Annual TPB Fauxtoberfest! 4 p.m. to midnight; includes in-store brew competition, food from Claus’ Market and Smokehouse on Shelby and music by Brian Deer and Co. $25 gets you a custom pint glass and unlimited food and beer samples; wear/bring your Lederhosen and St. Pauli Girl outfits. http://www.tuxedoparkbrewers.com/ Brew Bracket Fall Tournament, Indianapolis State Fairgrounds, pick Indiana’s best stout in a blind competition from among 16 brewers. Includes oatmeal, Irish, milk, chocolate and coffee stouts. Tomlinson Tap Room, Chatam Tap Fishers and Chatam Tap Downtown will host the winning brewer on a guest tap following the event. A portion of Brew Bracket II proceeds is donated to Movember Indy to benefit men’s health. www. brewbracket.com Crown Brewing and City of Crown Point Oktoberfest on Main Street, 3-11 p.m.; three bands, beer garden, food vendors, bean bag tournament, pie eating contest, chili cook off and kid friendly activities; “also pouring beer from our friends at Sun King (their beer is not yet available in our area).” http://sunkingbrewing.com/ http://www.crownpoint.in.gov/calendar.htm If you have an item for Beer Buzz, send an email to beerbuzz@nuvo.net. Deadline for Beer Buzz is Thursday noon before the Wednesday of publication.
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r (R) In the first few minutes of The Ides of March, we hear Governor Mike Morris, played compellingly by George Clooney, state publicly (and eloquently) that he is not a religious man. We hear him debate a same-sex marriage opponent fairly and directly. Whatever the subject, he answers clearly without quibbling. He presents himself so well that I could easily imagine someone with vastly different views voting for the guy because of his refreshing honesty. Oh, and there’s also a low-key, evocative singer showcased in an early scene. He is Detroit singer Bob Mervak and, no, he doesn’t have any recordings out yet. But I digress. The Ides of March is a political thriller packed with wonderful acting. Clooney’s Governor Morris, an aspiring presidential candidate, is actually a secondary character who remained offstage in Farragut North, the Beau Willimon play on which the film is based. Clooney also co-wrote (with Grant Heslov) and directed The Ides of March, which features
a fine score by Alexandre Desplat. The focus of the story is on Stephen Myers (Ryan Gosling), strategist for the campaign and right hand man of campaign manager Paul Zara (Philip Seymour Hoffman). Paul Giamatti is another key character, as is Evan Rachel Wood. Marisa Tomei and Jeffrey Wright also appear, but they don’t have much to do. I loved the first hour of the movie. Everybody is so smart, the atmosphere is electric, it feels like we’re getting a backstage look at the beginning of something important. Then the inevitable scandal happens and everything becomes depressingly typical. It’s still well-presented – Clooney is good at creating an air of intimacy – but the whole movie seems to get smaller. Even with a juicy revelation near the end, it feels too ordinary for a film with such a promising beginning.
Real Steel r (PG-13) Real Steel starts off smart. It opens in rural America, scanning the countryside before moving to a carnival in a small town. The year is 2020, but everything looks about the same as now, except for the boxing robots, and even they look weathered enough to fit in. By adding one unusual element to
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Ryan Gosling stars in ‘The Ides of March.’
a familiar landscape, director Shawn Levy and company effectively ease you into their world. Once you’ve accepted boxing robots as part of the norm, it’s easy to swallow what comes with them. Real Steel is bombastic, cheesy and packed with clichés, but you don’t mind ... well, I didn’t mind, because boxing is filled with larger-than-life figures, bombastic speechifying, macho posturing and big bad action. The stylized battling robots are the eye candy, but the main storyline involves a lousy father (Hugh Jackson) and a spunky son (Dakota Goyo). There’s also a plucky romantic interest (Evangeline Lilly from Lost), but the heart of the film is in the father-
son dynamic. Jackson, looking great, plays a real son of a bitch. Young Goyo is a little too slick, but the two work well together. That’s the thing about Real Steel. You recognize it as a hodge-podge of elements from other sources, a high calorie Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Rocky with a dollop of The Champ, rolled up in panko Transformers crumbs, then deep-fried and served with comic book dialogue and blaring music. It’s shameless and it’s fun. And the filmmakers pulled me into the highoctane hooey with their picturesque Ray Bradbury-ish opening. Pretty impressive.
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The following are reviews of films currently playing in Indianapolis area theaters. Reviews are written by Ed Johnson-Ott (EJO) unless otherwise noted. If the title isn’t enough to entice you, the man behind the film and its visual marvels FLYING MONSTERS 3D should. Written, directed, and narrated by Sir David Attenborough, this documentary immerses audiences in a prehistoric world to witness the story of pterosaurs, winged (NR) creatures that ruled the skies while dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Employing the same
state-of-the-art 3D CGI technology as Avatar, this film demands to be seen on the big screen. You can see it at the Indiana State Museum starting Friday, Oct. 7.
Featuring a slew of quirky, colorful, locally-made films, including Joshua Hull’s GEEK zombie comedy Beverly Lane, the festival is bound to lift spirits this weekINDEPENDENT charming end at Beulah Park, as all of the proceeds will benefit the Alexandria Christmas Toy FILM FESTIVAL
Oct. 7-9 MACHINE GUN PREACHER (R)
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Drive. $7 for block admission, $10 for an all-day pass, and $25 for a VIP bundle. For more info, visit giffestival.com.
When ex-biker gang member Sam (Gerald Butler) makes the life-changing decision to go to East Africa to help repair homes ruined by civil war, he is outraged by the horrors faced by the people. Sam breaks ground for a much-needed orphanage in the middle of territory controlled by the brutal Lord’s Resistance Army. Determined to save as many individuals as possible, he leads armed missions deep into enemy territory to retrieve kidnapped children, hoping to restore peace to their lives, and maybe his own. Fun fact: The film’s screenwriter Jason Keller is an Indianapolis native. 123 minutes. Black comedy from director Gus Van Sant about young lovers, played by Mia Wasikowska and Henry Hopper, trying to deal with mortality. They are visited by the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze (Ryo Kase) in full WWII uniform, by the way. You’d think he could clear up most of their questions. 95 minutes. At AMC Castleton Square.
URBANIZED (NR)
Exploring urban design projects and issues, this eye-opening documentary frames a global discussion on the future of cities, and features the voices of the world’s foremost architects, designers, and policymakers. 82 minutes. Director Gary Hustwit will introduce the film at 5 p.m. in the Toby Theatre and take questions afterwards. $10 for the public, $5 for museum members. Audiences can enjoy a half-day summit on the design of Indianapolis from 1 to 4 p.m. the same day at the IMA, Friday, Oct. 7. See pg. 12 for more.
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Mixing a rude buddy comedy with a harrowing cancer drama, this film has heart, but it fortunately steers away from sappy sentiment. It’s like Seth Rogen’s character — predictable and overly broad at first, with more depth revealed as the story proceeds. The film deals with one man’s (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) hell (being diagnosed with cancer at the tender age of 27), made more bearable by his friendship with a loyal, lovable doofus (Rogen). 50/50 is inspirational without getting sappy, funny enough to make the painful parts bearable, and credible when it counts. 99 minutes.
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10 years of social lubrication with a soundtrack
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ll you really need to know about the long history of the community hub known as the Melody Inn can be summed up by a couple of photos someone recently showed to owners Dave Brown and Rob Ondrish. “We had a guy come in from a local band recently who had told his grandfather he was going to play the Mel,” Brown says. “It turns out his grandpa used to mop the floors back in the 1940s, so he gave him some photos from that time. Turns out it was a real swanky joint back then!” The punchline may be that the Mel is now your classic hole-in-the-wall, but the most fascinating thing about the photos of a brand-spankin’-new speakeasy is what hasn’t changed. The floor is the same, as is the tile, the distinctive big mirror in the back — even the metalwork. In that time it’s gone through only six owners. Ten years ago this week, Brown and Ondrish took over with a month’s rent paid, 11 bucks in the till and no clue if their new venture would live past the first thirty days. Things seem to have turned out okay. “Ten years is a lifetime in the bar business,” Ondrish says. They’re pulling out all the metaphorical stops to commemorate the event with a five-day concert series covering everything from original rock to DJs to punk rock, with a long slate of performers every night. “We wanted to really support local live musicians, and as it turns out, a lot more places are doing that now than there were 10 years ago,” Brown says. “It’s kind of neat to hear when people tell us they came here and used the Melody Inn as a template for their own approach to live music.” “We’ve always tried to treat the bands really well, but to be honest, we didn’t even know we were treating that well,” Ondrish says. “We were just being decent. But a lot of these places out there, you hear stories of shady bar guys, never getting paid, gear getting stolen. We’ve always taken the road bands very seriously.” The Mel’s diverse crowd comes from all walks of life – everything from the Punk Rock Night gang that’s been in place from the beginning of the Brown/Ondrish era, to businessmen dropping by, to old couples who remember courting each other and falling in love here decades ago. “This place has always defied categorization; you can some in here and see any kind of people,” Ondrish says. “We’re in a
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Clockwise from top left: the Melody Inn today; as a piano bar in the '40s; Melody Inn owners Rob Ondrish (left) and Dave Brown; more piano bar action.
situation where people from a lot of scenes can feel comfortable calling this place home. It cross-pollinates; we’ll have kids who come in on electronic night who end up coming by for Punk Rock Night. We do all kinds of music all the time. If you like music of any sort and you’re not a snob, you’ll be able to have a good time.” That very sense of family has contributed to the stability of the place after all these years, and helps maintain order even when more than 100 punks fill the place on a Saturday night, spread out over two different rooms and an outdoor beer garden. “People look out for this bar and each other, and that’s really amazing,” Brown says. “They respect the place and the atmosphere. If someone’s acting stupid, we can say to their buddy, ‘Hey, your bud is being a real jerk.’ If you can’t get your shit together here of all places, there’s no hope for you!” Ondrish’s fiancé Nikol Prieto is assembling a video of longtime fans sharing their
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Avett Brothers, Arctic Monkeys, Foster the People, Stephen Malkmus, Esperanza Spalding, The Bangles, STS9, Learner Dancer, Shellac, tUnE-yArD
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own memories of the place. “I’m amazed at how many hookups and marriages we’ve gotten over the years!” she says. “So many people feel like this place is home to them.” “People don’t just wander in; this is a destination,” Brown says. “People know why they’re coming here, which helps weed out a lot of bad people. It’s a family vibe around here.” “I guarantee we have less bar fights than anywhere in Broad Ripple,” Ondrish adds. “When someone comes out here that’s an asshole, they stand out like a sore thumb.” For their own part, Ondrish and Brown say they’re happy for everyone who’s helped bring the bar to this point. “We’re thankful for all the bands that have played here, all the promoters, all the DJs and all the fans that have come out to support it,” Brown says. “We wouldn’t be here without the help of all those people. We always hope people will continue to come and support the bands we have on
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tour, even if they’ve never heard of them before. We’re so often amazed by an underground band we’ve never heard of. You may just be blown away.” THE MELEBRATION Wednesday, Oct. 5, 9 p.m., $5: Hip-hop night feat. The Proforms, Stakzilla, Hinx Jones, TJ Reynolds and the Freehand Orchestra, Oreo Jones, DJ Indiana Jones Thursday, Oct. 6, 8:30 p.m., $6: Metal night feat. Dead Man’s Switch, Devil to Pay, Bible of the Devil, Cocaine Wolves, Bulletwolf Friday, Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m., $8: Rock night feat.America Owns the Moon, the Melismatics,The Fuglees, Hymn For Her, Rock Star Club, Phyllis, the Cousin Brothers Saturday, Oct. 8, 9 p.m., $10: Punk Rock Night feat. Pizzle, DV,The Mighty John Waynes, Stealing Volume, Dave Dugan
Druglord rhapsodies at the Discount Mall, Revisiting Pop Lolita’s Smokerings and Halos, Local journal: Gypsy Revival, Ladymoon
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Punk Rock Night Awards
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Parabelle, Pragmatic & BellJar Birdy’s Live | 8pm - $7 tickets available at Ticketmaster.com and Birdy’s Box Office.
Oct. 6th Engine Room Recording Artist- Canon Logic w. opener TBD @ The Rock House. Oct. 7th First Friday, October 7th @ 7pm | Voir de Art, Served Cafe/ Bistro, 4638 E. 10th Street, Indpls, IN Oct. 15th Chuck Dukowski Sextet (former bassist for Black Flag) w. opener TBD @ Radio Radio.
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Esperanza Spalding:
From Slam Stewart to hip-hop B Y CH U CK W O R K MA N M U S I C@N U V O . N E T The music world might have been surprised to see Esperanza Spalding this year’s Grammy for Best New Artist, but the talented bassist, vocalist, composer and bandleader is un-pretentious about being the first jazz artist to win the award. When I contacted her at home for a phone interview, I found her fun and cute, but passionate and candid about jazz. Her insights into jazz history demonstrate her deep respect for her forebears, while her own work illustrates how she can keep it fresh while remaining within the tradition. NUVO: How has your being the first jazz artist to receive the Grammy for Best New Artist changed your career? ESPERANZA SPALDING: It hasn’t changed my life very much, but there is one thing I can say about it. Even though it is exciting about the Grammy, there is no “me” without all of the musicians, teachers, friends and supporters who are equally important in terms of the music I make or the career that I have. I hope there are positive repercussions for the jazz community on the whole. I wish I could share that honor more directly with all of the people from who I learned from. NUVO: What jazz artist inspired you to pick the bass as your instrument? And who inspired you to sing with it? SPALDING: I always liked Slam Stewart. I didn’t think of being a vocalist when I listened to him. I liked him as a bass player. I didn’t think of his singing and playing with his bass solos in Slim Gaillard’s group. I would go to a friend’s house, and he would teach me songs. To remember the chord progressions, I would sing the chord melody. It became something I wanted to cultivate more and explore, and that’s how it started. NUVO: You’re an instrumentalist, vocalist,
composer, arranger and bandleader. Which role is the most satisfying for you? SPALDING: Oh, they are all part of one whole. I don’t really differentiate. It’s sort of mixed up. It’s the experience of them all that is really fulfilling.
Oct. 29th Souls of Mischief. Blacksheep.Planet Asia/Break Down Kings/Tyrae Tala/ Max Allen Band and more. Irvington Theatre. 2pm-9pm Nov. 11th Yellow Dubmarine at Birdy’s. Dec. 11th Fishbone w. Deadmans Switch/Stealing Volume.
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SPALDING: The only reason there aren’t more are the special requirements of being a professional traveling jazz musician that are challenging for someone who is engaged in a more traditional role, as a mother at home with kids or being a more domestic wife. Touring isn’t really compatible with that lifestyle. I think you will see that more women are seeing their commitment to their music as a traveling, recording professional artist in jazz. It relies so heavily on touring and being gone at night. I think that has been the hindrance on women continuing their professional careers.
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The Canon Logic plus special guest The Rock House Café | 9pm - $3 cover. College I.D. - No cover Arianah Musique & Tyler Mac Britton Tavern | 8pm – No cover Radio FX Heavy’s Sports Cafe | 10pm - $5 cover Pinky Droyd Buskirk-Chumley Theatre, Bloomington IN | 8pm - $17 advance.$20 day of the show Gemini Kelly’s Pub Too | 10pm - $5 cover Gemini Rokafellow’s Hall | 10pm - $5 cover 4PZ, ERK, T Dub & Jaecyn Bayne Kelly’s PubToo | 10pm - $5 cover Star Cult Mama Bubbaz Camby | 10pm - $5 cover
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Drifty’s Live | 10pm pm - $5 cover Hangar 18 | 10pm - $5 cover Indy Southside Harley w.4PZ (All Ages) | 1:30pm – No cover Krazy St. | 10pm - $5 cover
DJ Bomb shows: 10.06
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Joe’s Grille 2 | 9:30pm 30p 0pm m - No cover Kelly’s PubToo – Every Wednesdsay | 8pm – No cover Rokafellow’s Hall | 8pm – No cover
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NUVO: Do you think that jazz has strayed from its roots? SPALDING: I think, technically, the foundation is strong, and the roots of what has become jazz are firmly in every branch in part of what has American music and almost every form of popular music. If you wanted to get literal about it, the answer is no. It hasn’t strayed from its roots. There are many ways of looking at it. NUVO: You have said believe hip-hop and neo-soul are “our ‘jazz’ now as far as the role these genres play in the music genre lineage.” SPALDING: ...I would say rap is the need for improvisation in rhythm and time. It shows how you can create your own time and shows how you can use the vocabulary to create you own swing. That to me is a really a distinctive characteristic of jazz. To me free-styling is really an outcropping of jazz. ESPERANZA SPALDING’S CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY Clowes Memorial Hall, 4602 Sunset Ave. Saturday, Oct. 8, 8 p.m.; $30-40 adult, $2535 students/seniors/children (Pre-show talk at 7:15 p.m. by violinist Cathy Morris and vocalist Brenda Williams in the Krannert Room) 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 10.05.11-10.12.11 // music
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Bolth:
Hardcore outfit to play farewell show BY N ICK S ELM M USIC@ N UVO.NET Since their sudden implosion in January 2010, the members of local punk rock powerhouse Bolth have gone their separate ways to work on new projects. Drummer James Lyter found himself behind the kit for mathy post-punks Step Dads and hardcore champs Chaotic Neutral. Bassist Will Wissel covered guitar duties for poppunk outfit Giant Giant Robot. Guitarist Mitch Vice took his pop-punk project It’s All Happening on the road while frontman John “JS” Saxen slaved away on his hardcore experiment, Elle. With a high profile reunion/farewell show with ska-punk heroes The Suicide Machines scheduled for Oct. 6, it’s high time to sum up Bolth’s impact on the scene. On a brisk evening at The Sinking Ship, Saxen and Lyter sit back and reminisce about the glory days of Bolth. Saxen formed the band in 2005, but it never really took off until Lyter joined a few months later. “You can function as a band with a bad guitarist,” begins Saxen, “but you gotta have a good drummer. It wasn’t until James joined that we had a solid foundation.” With a revolving door of bassists, which at one point included John Orr, now of The Last Domino, Lyter and Saxen recorded two albums and toured as much as possible, building a name and a following. While their first album, Ten Shakes of a Lamb’s Tale, was more of a high school pop-punk record, their second, Short Sighted, headed towards the hardcore territory for which they’re now best known. In the years following Short Sighted’s release, the band reached their peak in local popu-
larity, despite being at odds with the naysayers of the local hardcore scene. They began touring extensively, according to Lyter: “We played about 100 shows a year. We toured around a college schedule: huge tours every summer and week-long tours for Christmas and spring break.” It wasn’t until 2008 that the band was blessed with a more solid line-up. Wissel, who had previously played with streetpunks The Five Second Cummings, joined the band on bass. Fellow Five Second Cummings alum, James Odae, took over guitar duties from Saxen, leaving him free to focus on vocal duties. And as the band worked on what would become their third and final album, Mitch Vice joined, taking over guitar duties from Odae. “Mitch joined and learned all of our songs in like, two days,” Saxen says. “We left on tour right after that.” With a solid line-up finally in place, Bolth began writing songs in a more collaborative manner than before, according to Saxen: “There’s actually a lot of Mitch on that last record. He would chime in with ideas like a second opinion.”
“We’re all friends now and we are all personally in better placed than we were when we broke up. ”
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Rats in a box
Despite having settled on a stable lineup, the stresses of being in a band began to take their toll. “When you tour as much as we did, work as hard as we did and —James Lyter consume the insane amount of chemicals that we did, it was like shaking two rats in a box together,” Saxen jokes. “Shit got really explosive.” “JS (Saxen) and I took the band really seriously,” Lyter adds. “If someone didn’t do something right or something didn’t sound right, we were very vocal about setting things straight.” The same intensity that helped Lyter and Saxen keep the band focused eventually became a source of conflict between the two. “We were getting at each other constantly,” Lyter confesses. “The last year or so of touring was really rough.” Lyter says that the fuse finally hit the powder keg as the band returned from a winter West Coast tour. “It was a really
shitty and exhausting tour in January 2010. We nearly died coming back across the Rockies during a blizzard. Tensions were really high.” “Our homecoming show was supposed to be with Hellmouth [a Detroit metalcore outfit featuring Suicide Machines frontman Jay Navarro], Counteractive and Picked Clean,” Saxen adds. “It was supposed to be this huge show, and we were supposed to tour on with Hellmouth later. But it never happened. “When Will and I got to the E.S. Jungle, we were about ready to load in when I got the word that JS (Saxen) would not be coming,” Lyter explains. “I was absolutely beside myself.” The passing of time eventually mended broken friendships between band members, but there was little talk of a reunion. That is, until this summer, when Saxen received an intriguing text message from Vice. “All it said was, ‘Do you want to play one last show with the Suicide Machines?’ My response was obviously ‘Yes!’” While a proper farewell show seemed appropriate, playing with the Suicide Machines, a top band in the ‘90s ska-punk explosion, was certainly an added incentive for the band. “I think a lot of people have a lot of nostalgic feeling for them today,” Saxen says.
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“This farewell show will be a lot better than the Hellmouth show would have been had we ended up playing it,” Lyter says. “We’re all friends now and we are all personally in better placed than we were when we broke up. “Now that we’ve gotten things smoothed out we feel that we owe ourselves and our fans one final show,” Lyter continues. “When we were putting together the setlist for the final show we used mostly songs that we knew that fans would want to hear, not necessarily songs that we wanted to play.” While it may seem odd that Bolth is reuniting only to breakup, Saxen is almost certain that it will be the band’s last show: “Of course, I’m never gonna say never, but there’s no reason why this wouldn’t be our last show, ever.” THE SUICIDE MACHINES, BOLTH, THE MEATMEN, IT’S ALL HAPPENING Earth House, 237 N. East St. Thursday, Oct. 6, 6:30 p.m., $12 advance (brownpapertickets.com), all-ages
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“HIP HOP NIGHT”... THE PROFORMS • HINX JONES • STAKZILLA • TJ REYNOLDS AND THE FREEHAND ORCHESTRA OREO JONES • DJ INDIANA JONES • SON OF THOUGHT DOORS AT 8, SHOW AT 9 • $5
“METAL NIGHT”.. DEVIL TO PAY • BIBLEOFTHEDEVIL(CHICAGO) • COCAINEWOLVES • BULLETWOLF • DEADMAN’S SWITCH DOORS AT 6:30, SHOW AT 7:30 $6 “ROCK NIGHT”...AMERICA OWNS THE MOON • THE MELISMATICS (MINNEAPOLIS)•THE FUGLEES • HYMN FOR HER (FEATURING MAGGI + PIERCE FROM PHILADELPHIA) • PHYLLIS •THE COUSIN BROTHERS • DOORS AT 6:30, SHOW AT 7:30 $8
“PUNK NIGHT”..PIZZLE • DV • THE MIGHTY JOHN WAYNES • STEALING VOLUME • COMEDIAN DAVE DUGAN DOORS AT 8, SHOW AT 9 $10
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SOUNDCHECK UPCOMING
THIS WEEK AT BIRDY’S
QUAKE INDIANAPOLIS PRESENTS BROAD RIPPLE MUSIC FEST AT BIRDY’S W/ THE NEW GUILT, 5 DAY TRIP, PRAGMATIC, THE KNOLLWOOD BOYS, THE HOLLAND ACCOUNT, STEPSON, SKYHUNTER
WED. 10/05
MMKAY W/ ADRIAN BLEDSOE
THUR. 10/06
WUHNURTH PRESENTS GREAT AMERICAN TAXI, FLATLAND HARMONY
FRI. 10/07
BATTLE OF BIRDYS ROUND 2 W/ ALTERED ROOTS, OLD REVEL MINDS, KYROS, DEVAULT , MIGRAYNE, FAREWELL AUDITION
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SAT. 10/08
NATIVE JUNE, ONE-EYED DOG, FIVE ‘TIL DAWN
WED ENTERTAINMENT/ 10/26 D.A.M.P.PRODUCTIONS
SUN. 10/09
REVEREND CHARLES BLUES MISSION BENEFIT W/DIREWOLF, ANDRA FAYE, MICHIGAN STREET BLUES BAND, RASTABILLY REBELS
MON. 10/10
TUES. 10/11
JEFF’S BIRTHDAY BINGO BASH W/ HENRY FRENCH, DAVE BARTLETT AND MORE! THREE’S COMPANY W/ JESSIE & AMY
SAT 10/15
VASKI // ROTTUN RECORDS WITH HEMSTREET & DJ TANNER A COSMIC EVENT MITCHELL
PRESENTS PARABELLE W/ PRAGMATIC AND BELLJAR ADRIAN BELEW, POWER
THU TRIO W/ STICKMEN 10/27 & TONY LEVIN WED ELIZABETH COOK 11/02 W/ TIM CARROLL THU 11/17
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ROOTS BODEANS, THE MICHAELS The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave. 8 p.m., $25 (plus fees), 21+
Wednesday
INDIE STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS Earth House, 237 N. East St. 7 p.m., $20, all-ages
The fifth record by Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks, Mirror Traffic, is something of a departure from the disheveled and fragmented sound that became Pavement’s trademark. Produced by Beck, it’s more of a condensed and well-adjusted af fair. Not that Malkmus necessarily set out to keep things under control. All he knew was he wanted something that sounded “lively” and “life-like.” “We kept it sort of medium-sounding,” Malkmus told NUVO last week. “It’s not trying to jump out and say ‘I’m alive.’ The takes still have a looseness and improvisational feel within the focus. Not having it sound unfresh is kind of all I can really hope for now. That’s kind of what I gravitate towards now in music.” —Wade Coggeshall (read the rest of our interview with Malkmus at nuvo.net)
When the BoDeans stop by The Vogue, it will be the first time that the band will play an Indianapolis show without founding member and co-lead singer Sam Llanas. Llanas, a high school friend of the other lead singer, Kurt Nuemann, didn’t show up for an Aug. 13 BoDeans show in Winter Park, Colo., and of ficially left the group five days later. Nuemann will continue under the BoDeans moniker and has added Jake Owen to take the spot of Llanas. Their website has new pictures of the band, minus Llanas, and notes that five shows are scheduled through November 4. Without the Everly Bros-like harmonies, it’s difficult to imagine the band not changing its sound; the BoDeans will, thus, morph into the Kurt Neumann Band. And I am good with that. Still, the BoDeans in my head features Sammy and Kurt, teaming up to harmonize through “(She’s a) Runaway,” “Don’t Pass Me By” and “Good Things.” —Rob Nichols
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Thursday POP-PUNK THE SUICIDE MACHINES, BOLTH, THE MEATMEN, IT’S ALL HAPPENING Earth House, 237 N. East St. 6:30 p.m., $12 (brownpapertickets.com), all-ages
See feature, pg. 34.
HIP-HOP RED OCTOBER
Locals Only, 2449 E. 56th St. 8 p.m., $5, 21+
A hip-hop showcase booked by local emcee and tireless hip-hop advocate Brad Real. Featuring Son of Thought & FIRE, Tony Styxx, M-Eighty, Blake Allee, Kal-J, DK Ganzarelli and real. PSYCH LEARNER DANCER, THE PHANTOM FAMILY HALO, CRYS
Shared Heritage at the Murphy Art Center, 1043 Virginia Ave. 9 p.m., all-ages
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Gloryhole Records, a vinyl-only label that launched this April with released by The Kemps, Vacation Club and Adam Kuhn, returns with new stuff this weekend, namely a 7-inch by the now-Indy based Learner Dancer, about whose performance at Cataracts Music Festival Justin Spicer had this to say: “The stoner prog of Learner Dancer inhabited a mind-space all its own; they were five men with disparate taste, coming together to create hazy but intricate music that jammed without being repetitive or indulgent.” With Brooklyn’s The Phantom Family Halo, touring behind a 10-inch collab with Bonnie “Prince” Billy, The Mindeater, and Fountain Square’s Crys.
SOUNDCHECK SINGER-SONGWRITER BOBBY LONG, DALE LAWRENCE
most recent release, the EP When the Dust Settles, works more extensively with synths and drum machines than ever.
Long, a British singer-songwriter born near Manchester, wrote a senior thesis on the social impact of American folk music, and shortly after flew across the pond to present his own stuf f before U.S. fans. Learning is all about doing. His debut album on ATO Records (Dave Matthews’ label, to which he signed in early 2010) was released Feb. 1. With Vulgar Boatman bandleader Dale Lawrence, playing a rare solo gig.
ROCK THE BANGLES, NEON LOVE LIFE
Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St. 9 p.m., $12, 21+
Saturday JAZZ ESPERANZA SPALDING Clowes Memorial Hall, 4602 Sunset Ave. 8 p.m., $30-40 adult, $25-35 students/seniors/ children See feature, pg. 33. PUNK-INSPIRED MARKY RAMONE’S BLITZKRIEG
Rock House Cafe, 3940 S. Keystone Ave. 8:30 p.m., $20 advance (black cat rebellion, bigcartel.com) $25 door, +21
Sunday
Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St. 7:30 p.m., $25 (plus fees), all-ages
The members of L.A.-born jangle pop band The Bangles, which enjoyed a run of hits including “Manic Monday” after emerging from the Paisley Underground scene in the early ‘80s, have been playing together every so often since 1999 (following an initial breakup in 1988). Their new album, the Matthew Sweet-produced Sweetheart of the Sun, has been earning generally favorable reviews, with Slant noting that it “boasts their most stripped-down and loosest performances since their debut” and All Music Guide praising its “solid and gently hooky tunes about kids, relationships and the realities of middle age life” that “sound the best you could hope for after all these years.” With Neon Love Life, the Girls Rock rockers whose debut record, Tuesday Night, has also drawn pretty good reviews.
Marky Ramone may not have been a founding Ramone, but he put in plenty of time with the group, joining the band as Tommy Ramone’s replacement on drums in 1978, taking a sojourn from 1983 to 1987 to address personal issues, and then rejoining The Ramones until the group’s retirement in 1996. And while Tommy has gone on to play bluegrass, Marky is still playing Ramones tunes — along with some originals — in Marky Ramone’s Blitzkrieg, an outfit featuring former Misfits frontman Michale Graves on lead vocals. Marky is also hawking pasta sauce; check your grocer’s unlikelycelebrity-pitchpeople aisle for Marky Ramone’s Brooklyn’s Own Pasta Sauce, right down the way from the Barbeque’n with Bobby Seale display with black cat rebellion, The B Movie Monsters and Dead Man’s Switch.
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9 p.m., $20 advance, $25 door (plus fees), all-ages Sound Tribe Sector 9, the jam band often referred to as STS9 by people who just can’ t stand for five-syllable names, has always covered the waterfront, working in the region of dub, funk, jazz and psych, stretching out at times to incorporate Mayan-style flute, at other times simplifying to keep things dance-y and groove-based. A 2010 live album, Axe the Cables, was the band’s first all-acoustic release, though one can’t count on the band going any one direction for long; their
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A couple bands from Italy making their first appearances in the Indy area. Rome’s Tribraco play restless, tight prog, while Bologna’s Tubax has a dirtier, garage rock sound that bears a psych rock influence. With a couple locals: dance-rockers Music Video and noise rockers Melt-Face.
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Hard to believe Widespread Panic has only been around since the mid-’80s; like R.E.M., the band’s Southern rock has been pretty much ubiquitous ever since, with Widespread Panic’s work largely flourishing in a live setting (they’ve had a trickier time in the studio, though recent albums have earned wider critical acceptance). In the meantime, the group has survived the passing of its founding member and lead guitarist, Michael Houser, in 2002; his wish was that the band would continue, and they have, keeping up a touring schedule that balances jam festival appearances with one-off shows like this one at the Murat.
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y Morris reminds me of Illinois musician Jack Logan, who released a 1995 album, Bulk, containing way-too-many (42) songs. Most were recorded in less-than-stellar sounding studios. One was called “15 Years in Indiana.” I listened to that album a lot. Some of it was great, and some was crap. Partiallycompleted ideas made it to the record, and some songs were so poorly recorded that it was an effort to find the hook of a song, buried in the recording mud. The same is true of Detasseling. There’s a lot to hear, much of it probably recorded with one, or just a couple, microphones. It’s another in a string of lo-fi Americana albums that have come my direction in the past few months. Though I usually love the feel of the playing, I nearly always wish they would have paid an engineer a couple hundred bucks to get a better-sounding recording. Morris is 22 years old. His family has been in Warsaw for more than 5 generations. His bloodline runs through the album, making it one to consider, if only because you might
Ches Smith) are strangers to the weird and wild, as SWAPS, the group chucks out pop nuance for down and dirty tinkering, using only the filthiest, trashiest sounds to compose their two-song, two-sided affair. “Pair Bonds,” which takes its name from the world of biology, finds the foursome comparing and contrasting sound during an 11-minute exercise in deconstruction. Various pairings of instruments are taken for free-form test drives, without the band ever settling on a uniform rhythm or style. It’s a track interested in the next, new, exciting thing — by proxy, so is SWAPS. B-side “Aether Defects” once more sums up the band aesthetic. Sporadic bursts of drums, guitar, and anything else that happens to be laying around fills the space with angular ferocity. An angry tone missing from recent Deerhoof and XBXRX releases is rediscovered here. What keeps SWAPS from being perfect are the lulls — those moments when the energy is sapped out and exhaustion rears its head. Still, those are brief, and they little compromise the overall thrust of the record. —JUSTIN SPICER
be a fan of Hoosier-based music that mentions locations and names we know. The band comes out whooping with “Indiana O Indiana,” a lo-fi blugrass rocker complete with background hollering. I’m a sucker for a song about Indiana, be it by The Elms or Bill WIlson, and this one’s fun as shit, with lyrics that speed up like Dylan and slow down like Nirvana (“Indiana O Indiana, you’ll always be home to me”). A terrific “Coyote Hunt” rushes through lyrics that call out Hank Williams, Jr. hunting and cigs (“But I accept the offer out of respect. Light her up, like a man, and puff her”). “Meth Head” is a winner with its title alone and gets better when Morris sings of reading about another “meth head in the Times-Union.” It’s possibly the best song on the album; love the banjo. But not everything succeeds; far from it, really. “The Trite Call to Arms Song” borders on parody that you’d hear on a radio morning show. “Bar Stool Prophets” can’t overcome a dead-sounding track. “Curse” is a lukewarm attempt at scary New Orleans R&B. This is homemade Indiana music. Dive in and see what feels good. Ignore what you don’t like. —ROB NICHOLS
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PUNK ROCK NIGHT AWARDS 2011 Melody Inn, Oct. 1
w It’s past 1 a.m. at the historic Melody Inn, and longtime Punk Rock Night impresario Greg Brenner is giving his farewell speech. Let’s listen in to see if the capstone of his 11 years of dedicated service is received with the respect and sentimentality we’ve always come to expect from the PRN scene. “Get the fuck off the stage! Shut the fuck up! Less talk, more rock!” Guess not. Brenner takes it in stride: “Why don’t you go eat a bag of dicks? I’m fucking talking here!” Good to know the PRN crowd will never let us down.
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If nothing else, the PRN awards is always a great chance to see what happens when the punk rock kids try to go formal, with an entertaining mess of fishnets, evening wear and Doc Martens. Still, over the years, we seem to have gotten the whole classy-punk thing down pretty well. It should come as no surprise that Brenner himself is not terribly good at that part. Among other memorable incidents, the ladies of longtime PRN staples Bottoms Up Burlesque presented Brenner with an award for his longtime support: “You were there at the beginning and you’ve always been there for us since,” Meg Olsen noted. In what probably stands as the best line of the night, Brenner retorted, “I was just trying to get into your pants!” And Rich Barker, PRN assistant maestro,
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proved an able host in the warmup for his new gig as host and organizer. He presented Brenner with the Joey Ramone Lifetime Achievement Award and a plaque with a dial that goes up to 11. (Rest assured that the Spinal Tap vein was mined many a time tonight.) The event was commemorated by a fourband punk rock set from big winners of the night. Mr. Clit and the Pink Cigarettes (Best New Band) opened with their distinctly retro look, Mad Men by way of the burlesque scene. Livermortis delivered a thundering, blistering set that more than justified their award as 2011’s Best Local Punk Band. Riverbottom Nitemare Band — which took home the Dee Dee Ramone Songwriting Award, which I personally think they deserve if only because of the mad genius of the Muppet-inspired band name — played what felt like the most traditional punk rock of the night, one that wouldn’t have been out of place at CBGB circa 1981. And as for the reunited Belligerent Bendajos, also playing their farewell show — well, violence on the floor is always a byproduct of PRN, but this band certainly took audience interaction to a new level. For a moment it looked like the bassist was going to brain himself with his own guitar. Glorious stuff. Brenner, who’s transitioning to a new role that is less retirement and more full-time elder statesman, enjoyed himself much as he always does at these things. Let’s let him have the final word: “For everyone who said we couldn’t fucking do this here in Indy, just remember we fucking did this on our own!” —PAUL F.P. POGUE
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q Saturday night at The Toby, a full band led by Gravity was everywhere back then director Brent Green accompanied his atturns-whimsical and metaphysically heavy true story of a man who tried to turn his house into a healing machine, building it ever closer to the heavens so that he might save his wife from cancer. Green’s film was
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a marvel in itself — lensed in his backyard, where he and his colleagues realized a replica of the house — and the accompanying performance gave the experience renewed immediacy and emotional intensity, with Green’s shaky-voiced, sometimes streamof-consciousness, fast-paced narration leading the charge. Plus, it’s always fun to see someone doing live foley or playing the Theremin. Or a member of Fugazi — drummer Brendan Canty — out in the wild. In a brief introduction to the film, Green noted that the film “looks like it was made in his backyard” — which is true, but in the very best kind of way. Borrowing techniques from the greats of the American avant-garde — notably, the choppy, frames-missing, diary-like approach of Jonas Mekas — Green made the most of his resources, showing glimpses of the house where a typically crafted narrative film might have opted for a wide shot, making a virtue of his DIY approach with hand-drawn title cards and hand-crafted furniture, his style perfectly in line with his subject matter (being an eccentrically constructed house plotted in the middle of Old Weird America). But enough about the film itself — the musical accompaniment was equally distinctive, accomplished by Green (on acoustic guitar and narration) with five backing players, including Donna K. (who played Mary in the film) on live foley. The band warmed up by accompanying Green’s Carlin, a short film which follows a lifesize puppet in a wheelchair around an old house, with images from old science books spliced throughout. That one was a slow-builder, the band and Green gradually building up in volume and intensity towards the close; they had as careful a command of dynamics when it came to the score for the main film, which rocked when it needed to, stuck in the region of rustic folk at other times and generally had an elegiac feel. The band also dropped out for long periods of time, giving the main characters some space to breathe and be awkward when they meet for the first time (their dialogue being the only recorded element of the soundtrack).
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Frozen fat vs. fresh fat
Plus, elderly road rage Risky Business Models: (1) Orlandoarea cosmetic surgeon Jeffrey Hartog inaugurated Liquid Gold, a storehouse for patients’ frozen liposuctioned fat, charging $900 to safekeep a coffeecup-sized portion and $200 per year storage (in case the fat is needed later, as for smoothing facial wrinkles). A Massachusetts General Hospital physician shook his head, telling the Orlando Sentinel, “(F)rozen fat doesn’t hold up as well as fresh fat.” (2) German biochemist Peer Bork told the journal Nature in September that he and his partners built the not-for-profit MyMicrobes.com social network so that people with similar stomach bacteria can commiserate over diet and gastrointestinal woes. The $2,100 signup fee includes a full gutbacteria sequencing.
The continuing crisis
• Wild Things: Motorist Clyde White of Corbin, Ky., was charged with attempted murder in August after police finally collared him following a road-rage chase that reached speeds of over 100 mph. White, who had repeatedly rammed his two siblings in their vehicle, is 78 years old, and in that other vehicle were his brother, 82, and his sister, 83. • According to a recent report from Britain’s Office of National Statistics, there are 297,000 households in the country in which no adult has ever held any kind of job. The number of individuals who thus may never have developed the “habit of work,” and who instead have grown accustomed to the country’s generous welfare payments, might total 700,000. (In an example cited by the Daily Mail, one such couple in their late 30s, and their children, “earn” the equivalent of almost $1,100 per week in income support and disability payments.) • Chicago massage therapist Liudmyla Ksenych, testifying for the prosecution in August in a sex-trafficking trial, happened to notice from the witness stand that the defense lawyer, Douglas Rathe, was formerly a client of hers. The judge immediately declared a mistrial. Rathe later said he visited Ksenych four times in 2009 but that “nothing inappropriate” happened.
Fine points of the law
• (1) What Year Is This? In August in Lubbock, Texas, Carl Wade Curry, 44, was sentenced to 99 years in prison for cattle rustling. (Said one of the victims, Curry tried to be a smooth-talking, handshakedealing cattle seller, but “he wasn’t capable.”) (2) In Jackson, Minn., in March, Andrew Espey was sentenced to 90 days in jail for improperly shingling the roof of his house. Complained Espey, “(A) drunk can drive down the highway and get a lot less (of a sentence).” (He had affixed new shingles without first removing the old ones.)
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• Larry Stone, jailed on property crimes in Tavares, Fla., because he could not make the $1,250 bail, posted the bond in July by earning $1,300 in telephone-company money after discovering a management error that credited his jail account $46 for every international call he pretended to make. (The company figured out the problem a day later and recovered all the payouts from the accounts of Stone and 250 other prisoners who had learned of the glitch. Stone’s bond was revoked, of course, and he was returned to lockup.) • “Sorry, Honey. I Was Aiming at the Dog”: (1) Betty Walker, allegedly firing at the pit bull that she saw lunging at some children, hit the dog with one shot and her husband, 53, with a second shot, killing him (Jackson, Miss., July). (2) Brent Bader, allegedly firing at the family dog, instead hit his wife once in the head, killing her (Twin Peaks, Calif., February). (3) Samuel Campos, 46, allegedly firing to put away the family Chihuahua after having inadvertently wounded it the day before, instead hit his girlfriend, 41, killing her (Willits, Calif., March).
News of the self-indulgent
• While too many children in Third World countries die from starvation or lack of basic medicines, the preschoolers of the TLC TV channel’s “Outrageous Kid Parties” reality show celebrate birthdays and “graduation” (from or to kindergarten) with spectacular events that may cost their parents $30,000 or more. Typical features, according to an August ABC News report, included a Ferris wheel, a roller coaster, a dunking booth, animal rides and a cotton candy machine, as well as the obligatory live music and limo or horseback (for grand entrances).
Bright ideas
• Strategies: (1) Alicia Bouchard, 41, was arrested in Jackson County, Fla., in August, accused of hatching a plot with her husband to impregnate a 12-yearold girl for the purpose of producing a baby that would eventually earn an additional welfare check. (2) In August, the Japanese construction firm Maeda Corp. ordered its 2,700 employees to adopt standard, short hairstyles (a “bob” for women with a longer fringe that could be swept to the side, and a routine short-back-and-sides cut for men with a slightly longer cut on top). Maeda said it was responding to the government’s plea to reduce energy usage (less water, less hair dryer time).
People different from us
• (1) Travis Keen, 28, was arrested in Ouachita Parish, La., in August and charged with indecent exposure while driving around the parking lot at a Walmart. According to the police report, Keen explained that, based on experience, “when he comes to Walmart, he gets aroused.” (2) William Falkingham, 34, was warned by police in Idaho Falls,
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Idaho, in August that he’d better stop wearing his large, black bunny-rabbit suit in public. One resident complained that his son had been frightened and that others were “greatly disturbed,” and besides, Falkingham sometimes wore a tutu with the bunny outfit.
Redneck Chronicles
• (1) Lon Groves, 40, was arrested in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., after a brief standoff with police in July following an incident in which he allegedly held a handgun to the head of his wife in an argument over which of their granddaughters was the wife’s favorite. (2) Pastor Daryl Riley of the New Welcome Baptist Church in St. Elmo, Ala., was tased, allegedly by the church’s music minister, whom Riley had just fired in August (which led another parishioner to pull a knife and begin stabbing wildly in a melee). Said the music minister’s mother, “He done cut (me) before anything started.”
Recurring themes
• Anecdotes have surfaced over the years about an alleged sexual fetish of purposely pumping air into the rectum, and the Snopes.com “urban legends” website accepts that at least one instance has been reliably reported (in 1993 in Thailand, although that involved not self-gratification but a prank that got
out of hand, resulting in the death of the victim). In July 2010, in Hull County, England, electrician Gareth Durrant, 26, was the victim of a prank that mirrored the 1993 case except that a quickacting colleague removed the air hose, which had been inserted by co-workers as Durrant lounged on a break. Durrant said his body felt like it was inflating. In August 2011, as his lawsuit went to Hull Crown Court (as he has been unable to work ever since), he said that he still suffers headaches and stomach pains.
A News of the Weird Classic (March 2006)
• Because perhaps hundreds of Japanese Yakuza gangsters are nearing retirement age, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has drafted rules for the former gambling, loan shark and protection workers to qualify for benefits, according to a March dispatch from Tokyo in The Times of London. Since organized gangs avoid paper trails, exmobsters must supply a letter acknowledging retirement from their crime boss in order to sign up, although local governments are expected to accept as provisional proof criminal records, gang tattoos and demonstrations of missing fingertips (traditional Yakuza punishment for mistakes).
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Do unto others as they wish,” advised French artist Marcel Duchamp, “but with imagination.” I recommend that approach to you, Aries. You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when you can create good fortune for yourself by tuning into the needs and cravings of others, and then satisfying those needs and cravings in your own inimitable and unpredictable ways. Don’t just give the people you care about the mirror image of what they ask for; give them a funhouse mirror image that reflects your playful tinkering. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Winner of the American Book Award in 1963, William Stafford wrote thousands of poems. The raw materials for his often-beautiful creations were the fragments and debris of his daily rhythm. “I have woven a parachute out of everything broken,” he said in describing his life’s work. You are now in a phase when you could achieve a comparable feat, Taurus. You have the power to turn dross into sweetness, refuse into treasure, loss into gain. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Is there something you’ve always wanted to create but have not gotten around to creating? Now would be an excellent time to finally get that project off the ground. Is there any role you have fantasized about taking on but have never actually sought out? Now would be a perfect moment to initiate an attempt. Is there any big mysterious deal you’ve thought about connecting with but never have? Any profound question you’ve longed to pose but didn’t? Any heart-expanding message you’ve wanted to deliver but couldn’t bring yourself to? You know what to do. CANCER (June 21-July 22): The experiences you’re flirting with seem to be revivals of longforgotten themes. You’re trying to recover and reinvigorate stuff that was abandoned or neglected way back when. You’re dipping into the past to salvage defunct resources, hoping to find new applications for them. To illustrate the spirit of what you’re doing, I’ve resurrected some obsolete words I found in an 18thcentry dictionary. Try sprinkling them into your conversa-
tions; make them come alive again. “Euneirophrenia” means “peace of mind after a sweet dream.” The definition of “neanimorphic” is “looking younger than one’s true age.” “Gloze” is when you speak soothing or flattering words in order to persuade. “Illapse” means the gradual or gentle entrance of one thing into another. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): An old Egyptian saying declares that “the difference between a truth and a lie weighs no more than a feather.” I suspect that your upcoming experiences will vividly demonstrate the accuracy of that statement. There will be a very fine line between delusional nonsense and helpful wisdom . . . between colorful but misleading BS and articulate, provocative analysis . . . between interesting but irrelevant fantasies and cogent, evidencebased prognostications. Which side will you be on, Leo? To increase your chances of getting it right, be a stickler for telling yourself the heart-strong truth. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): What’s the most practical method of acquiring wealth? One out of every five Americans believes that it’s by playing the lottery. While it is true, Virgo, that you now have a slightly elevated chance of guessing the winning numbers in games of chance -- the odds are only 90 million to one instead of 100 million to one -- I don’t recommend that you spend any time seeking greater financial security in this particular way. A much better use of your current cosmic advantage would be to revitalize and reorganize your approach to making, spending, saving, and investing money. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Jet Propulsion Laboratory landed two robotic vehicles on Mars in 2004. They were expected to explore the planet and send back information for 90 days. But the rover named Spirit kept working for over six years, and its companion, Opportunity, is still operational. The astrological omens suggest that any carefully prepared project you launch in the coming weeks could achieve that kind of staying power, Libra. So take maximum advantage of the vast potential you have available. Don’t scrimp on the love and intelligence you put into your labor of love.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I don’t want to play the part of the mythical phoenix again,” my Scorpio friend Kelly has been moaning as she prepares for her latest trial by fire. “I’ve burned myself to the ground and risen reborn out of the ashes two times this year already. Why can’t someone else take a turn for a change?” While I empathized, I thought it was my duty to tell her what I consider to be the truth: More than any other sign of the zodiac, you Scorpios have supreme skills in the art of metaphorical self-immolation and regeneration. You’re better able to endure the ordeal, too. Besides, part of you actually enjoys the heroic drama and the baby-fresh feelings that come over you as you reanimate yourself from the soot and cinders. Ready for another go? SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When she was seven years old, my daughter Zoe created a cartoon panel with colored pens. It showed an orange-haired girl bending down to tend to three orange flowers. High overhead was an orange five-pointed star. The girl was saying, “I think it would be fun being a star,” while the star mused, “I think it would be great to be a girl.” I urge you to create your own version of this cartoon, Sagittarius. Put a picture of yourself where the girl was in Zoe’s rendering. Getting your imagination to work in this way will put you in the right frame of mind to notice and take advantage of the opportunities that life will bring you. Here’s your mantra, an ancient formula the mystics espouse: “As above, so below.” CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Years ago, I discovered I was eligible to join MENSA, an organization for people with high IQs. Since I’d never gotten any awards, plaques, or badges, I thought I’d indulge in this little sin of pride. Not too long after I signed up, however, I felt like an idiot for doing it. Whenever I told someone I belonged to MENSA, I felt sheepish about seeming to imply that I was extra smart. Eventually I resigned from the so-called genius club.
But then I descended into deeper egomania -- I started bragging about how I had quit MENSA because I didn’t want to come off like an egotist. How egotistical was that? Please avoid this type of unseemly behavior in the coming week, Capricorn. Be authentically humble, not fake like me. It’ll be important for your success. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Right now you have license to make pretty much everything bigger and funnier and wickeder. Good fortune is likely to flow your way as you seek out experiences that are extra interesting and colorful and thought-provoking. This is no time for you to be shy about asking for what you want or timid about stirring up adventure. Be louder and prouder than usual. Be bolder and brighter, nosier and cozier, weirder and more whimsical. The world needs your very best idiosyncrasies and eccentricities! PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): There is a slight chance the following scenario will soon come to pass: A psychic will reveal that you have a mutant liver that can actually thrive on alcohol, and you will then get drunk on absinthe every day for two weeks, and by the end of this grace period, you will have been freed of 55 percent of the lingering guilt you’ve carried around for years, plus you will care 40 percent less about what people think of you. Extra bonus: You’ll feel like a wise rookie who’s ready to learn all about intimacy as if you were just diving into it for the first time. But get this, Pisces: There’s an even greater chance that these same developments will unfold very naturally -- without the psychic, without the prediction about a mutant liver, and without the nonstop drunkenness.
Homework: Provide proof of the following hypothesis: “You know what to do and you know when to do it.” Freewillastrology.com.
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