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LETTERS

On our coverage of the ISO

I am originally from the Chicago area, and have lived here for 35 years. I love Indianapolis.

In that time, I’ve seen this city make giant strides, going from being referred to as IndiaNOPLace, to simply “Indy” — a major player in many genres. The fact is, the ISO has been carefully and thoughtfully maneuvered into their rightful place as a renowned worldclass orchestra. As is so often the case with so many organizations, the second and third generations in power were not around to see the hard work and sacrifices made by those who brought these organizations to their places of distinction, nor do they seem to care.

Bean counters and business men with no thought for the past, nor for the ramifications that will affect the future, are brought in and simply treat the matters at hand clinically and callously. What usually results is diminishment and devastation. And how often this occurs, and is repeatedly allowed, and ignorantly encouraged, is alarming. It is not a problem just in Indy.

It is a problem with corporate America. It happens again and again. And that fact is shocking.

It can not, it must not, be allowed to happen here, to our beloved ISO. The stupidity of the so-called “experts” sickens me. Their actions are like a disease that is infecting and killing this wonderful symphony. They need to be removed before it is too late. That is where the problem lies — not with Indy at large.

We have loved and supported the ISO over the years — THAT is why they have remained as one of the few year-round symphonies in the country. If Indy loses the ISO, we will be diminished on the world stage, and not just in the field of music. It takes all elements to make a city great. Remove one of those elements, and the structure is weakened. And with continued lack of care and disregard, the structure will fall. May it never be for Indy, and especially for our ISO. That would be a true travesty....

— Tamara Muller Rogers INDIANAPOLIS

Another ISO letter

Five year deal? Management opt-out clause? Are you kidding me? Opt-out clause?

It’s an insurance policy for management and MANAGEMENT is the pre-existing condition.

First of all, there’s no way the musicians should accept anything longer than two years given the state of the board and the ISO management.

No CEO. No marketing director. No fundraising director. The Bilby fiasco. Poor investments of the endowment money. A succession of absentee music directors. How on earth can the musicians

be asked to effectively underwrite a long-term deal with a “management” junta that is the CAUSE of all the ISO’s problems? A 30 percentplus pay cut? Again, why are the musicians being called upon to underwrite the board’s and “management’s” shortcomings? And it’s the board that wants an out clause? Does that mean that the musicians can stop playing if the management isn’t doing its job?

Compounding this ridiculousness are comments about this deal being a stretch. Bull.

Any “fiscal” crisis is a figment of the board’s imagination ... an exaggeration at best. The ISO can operate for 7.5 years under the arrangement that the musicians and an independent, objective financial consultant introduced. This is just the board taking advantage of real crises in other cities to emulate draconian cuts and make a grab while the grabbing is good.

These musicians are already the lowest paid of any full-time orchestra in America. They’re already operating under $7 million of cuts imposed since their 2003 contract. So any notion that it’s the musicians who are being intractable is patently ridiculous.

And no cuts in salary for management? Again, THEY’RE THE ONES WHO CAUSED THIS MESS. If I’m a musician, I don’t sign anything longer than two years, I don’t sign any cut larger than 15 percent, I don’t allow a single week to be cut and I absolutely without equivocation stipulate that Jackie Groth must step down immediately and an international search for an actual CEO undertaken.

— Griffin Sabine

In response Hammer’s column about Rupert Boneham: It may be that the huge number of campaign appearances, where Rupert does so well relating to people one-on-one, aren’t quite as visible as an endless bombardment of TV ads. I’ve worked at a variety of events at Rupert’s side, and he’s doing the very things he is portrayed here as not doing. He has been a tireless advocate for middle- and under-class people. Amazingly tireless. It’s who he is.

This article states, “from what I’ve read.”

Well, that’s not the same as being an eyewitness to Rupert’s effort. His campaign has been anything but a publicity stunt or selfserving. It’s been the real, personal grassroots stuff so many say they wish was the stuff of campaigns, rather than the millions spent on TV ads. Get away from the screen and into the trenches, and you will see Rupert there.

— Mike Kole FISHERS

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We chopped an “l” out of the name of David Willkie, the original Athenaeum roof sitter, in last week’s feature on Cassie Stockamp’s week-long roof sit. We regret the error, and encourage you to join Cassie on the roof this week to help us atone.

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HAMMER Hammer heads to vote early for Obama Rejecting Romney’s Republican rhetoric

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BY STEVE HAMMER SHAMMER@NUVO.NET

atching the presidential debate last week was an exercise in disbelief.

Mitt Romney’s absolute shellacking of President Barack Obama was as unexpected as it was impressive, especially given Romney’s mistake-prone, tone-deaf campaign in the 18 months prior to the debate.

It was like watching James “Buster” Douglas knock out Mike Tyson. It was like Muhammad Ali being knocked to the canvas by Joe Frazier. It was like every underdog story you’ve ever read.

There is a difference between those boxing analogies and Romney’s performance last Wednesday in that those surprises were based on fact. Douglas really did deliver a crushing punch that knocked Iron Mike on his ass. Frazier landed an amazing left hook that floored Ali. It wasn’t fiction.

Romney’s victory, however, was based on fiction. Among the lies: He’ll cover your preexisting conditions under his health plan, he really will cut everyone’s taxes while spending more on the military and reducing the budget deficit, the murder of Big Bird and/ or the entire Muppet family will help balance the federal budget.

Whether anyone will hold Romney accountable for these individual points of mendacity remains to be seen. Whether his conservative followers will become disappointed that their man has done a 180-degree turn and is trying to come off as Ted Kennedy is also an open question.

But, as the Colts proved against the Packers on Sunday, a win is a win, no matter how it happens. What looked like a boring slog to an Obama landslide in the Electoral College once again seems like a wide-open race.

If you’d told me before the debate that Romney would have a 50-50 chance to win the presidency, I’d have called you a damned liar. But it appears that this is the new reality.

Part of this is due to the mainstream media, which is supposedly liberal but in reality just wants an exciting close election to talk and write about. Part of this is due to Romney’s amazing accomplishment of discrediting all independent fact-checkers as irrelevant. The truth is whatever he says it is at any given time.

When a witness in a trial makes contradictory statements, even the most inexperienced attorney will ask which version is accurate. No matter what the answer, the

attorney will respond with a basic question: “Were you lying then or are you lying now?”

In Romney’s case, he gets to have it both ways. Yes, in fact, he was lying when he took hardcore conservative positions in order to win the Republican nomination over Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum.

And he’s lying now, when he claims to be a moderate, reasonable politician who’s always believed in a centrist agenda.

This isn’t to explain away Obama’s inexplicable debate performance. Watching him on a color TV, he resembled Richard Nixon in that catastrophic 1960 TV debate in black-and-white. He looked ill, unable to focus and not exactly sure if he wants a job where he has to persuade people he’s better than someone like Romney.

This is the time when we who believe in freedom and equality need to redouble our efforts to make sure we don’t hand over the keys to the country to Romney and his billionaire friends. Obama may not have turned out to be Lincoln or FDR in his first term, but Romney’s prescription is to double down on George W. Bush-era policies: deregulation of the financial industry, the rolling back of environmental standards, more needless wars of choice and a giant increase in misery, civil unrest and economic devastation.

You think the economy can’t get any worse? Wait until President Romney triples the federal debt and oversees even more outsourcing of jobs that once were held

by Americans. To that end, Romney is a bitter foe of the United States Call Center Worker and Consumer Protection Act, which guarantees the right for consumers to speak with a U.S.based worker, punishes companies which outsource those jobs overseas and ends tax breaks for said companies.

More than 80 percent of Americans — Republican and Democrat — support the principles of this bill. Virtually 100 percent of Republican politicians, including Romney, are against it.

Romney is suddenly talking about American jobs after a lifetime of preferring to create increased profits for the CEO class.

We can’t afford to go back to Bush-era economics. We can’t create billions in profits for Wall Street while Main Street falls apart.

Romney offers a vision straight out of the 1950s, where white men in crisp black jackets made all the decisions for the working class, poor and minorities. We didn’t fight the battles of the Civil Rights War of 195768 only to return to that past.

That’s why I’m going to take a few hours off work and vote at the county clerk’s office in the City-County Building this week. I want to proudly cast my ballot for Barack Obama and the Democrats. And then I’m going to talk to all my friends in Ohio, Wisconsin and Florida and get them on board, too.

The president needs our help more than ever. The alternative is, quite literally, the establishment of a plutocracy with a permanent gap between its rulers and people like us.

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BY DAVID HOPPE DHOPPE@NUVO.NET

aybe you’ve seen Mike Pence’s latest 30-second spot. It opens on Pence — or Mike, as he would have us call him (hell, it worked for Mitch!)

— standing beside a red pickup truck, somewhere in Hoosierland.

“Hoosiers are blessed with a lot of common sense,” says Pence. “Folks around here have a pretty good idea of what works and what doesn’t.”

This, of course, is what Indiana folk have been telling themselves since before the days when the state government was taken over by the Ku Klux Klan. In 1907, we were the first state to pass a law providing for the involuntary sterilization of “confirmed criminals, idiots, imbeciles and rapists.”

And before that, we tried building a system of canals — just as something called the railroad was catching on.

Figuring out what works and what doesn’t can be kind of tricky, I guess.

Pence goes on to say: “To put us on the road to recovery, we need to be willing to say yes to Indiana and no to Washington, D.C. As your governor, I’ll fight for the right of Hoosiers to run our own schools, choose our healthcare, and produce our energy the Indiana way.”

OK, er, Mike. But what, exactly does this mean?

It sounds good, I know, to pit good old common sensical Indiana against the great beast of Washington, D.C. For a politician like Pence, this represents a nifty pirouette. Pence started out as a get-the-government-off-our-backs talk show host. This, however, didn’t keep him from wanting to get a government job. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2001, where he set about trying to make the federal government seem as useless as he said it was. When Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, Pence shrugged and said, “We must not let Katrina break the bank.”

After awhile, though, common sense — even the Hoosier variety — might begin to wonder why someone so dead set against the federal government would continue wanting to be a part of something he found so dang-nabbed corrupt.

So Pence pivoted into state politics, where he can rail away at Washington, D.C., while continuing to cash taxpayers’ checks. The only trouble with this

approach is that it doesn’t make sense — common or otherwise.

For starters, check out our outgoing senator, Richard Lugar’s official website. There you’ll see just what a pain Washington, D.C., has been to Indiana: $47,254,172,000. That’s the amount of federal dollars brought into our state in a single year, 2007 — the last year for which figures like these are available.

That total includes $5 billion in family health and human services assistance, $1.8 billion for transportation and highways, $616 million for education, $343 million for housing and urban development, $451 million for agriculture.

Then there was the $6.8 billion for Medicare. The $797 million in unemployment compensation. The $677 million in food stamp payments.

Oh, and how about the $4.6 billion that went to Indiana defense contractors?

But maybe you’re a purist about these things. Maybe you’d just as soon say yes to Indiana and no to Washington, D.C. I have a common sense question for you: How you gonna pay for it?

Indiana is a low-tax state. According to a Purdue study comparing tax rates across the country: “One index of Indiana’s combined tax rates puts the state 40th in the nation — that is, in the bottom 10 — in tax rates overall. This low-tax ranking comes from low taxes on households — low sales taxes and low individual income taxes, and somewhat lower residential property taxes.”

And speaking of those property taxes — they’ve been capped. There’s no wiggle room there. Not only that, while Mitch Daniels was able to get away with funding billions worth of highway projects by leasing the northwest Indiana Toll Road for 75 years to foreign investors, that windfall’s been spent.

The next governor will have to find new sources of cash.

Daniels actually made trying to get federal funds a priority of his administration. Here’s a message he posted on the IN.Gov website: “I created the Office of Federal Grants and Procurement (OFGP) by Executive Order on my first day in office in order to increase significantly the amount of federal dollars coming to our state. Indiana ranks at or near the bottom among states in terms of our success in bringing federal funds back from Washington, and now the state is determined to move quickly to improve our performance and our ranking.”

Pence says he wants to say no to Washington, D.C., and run education, healthcare, and energy “the Indiana way.”

But the Indiana way has been based on an awkward kind of math. We’ve used federal dollars to keep our state and local taxes low. There’s a kind of Hoosier common sense in that: Why take the heat for raising state taxes when you can blame the IRS? If Mike gets his way — and it looks like he will — we’ll find out just what saying no to Washington really costs.

It sounds good, … to pit good old common sensical Indiana against the great beast of Washington, D.C.

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HAIKU NEWS

by Jim Poyser

Romney retracts things people don’t like one hundred percent of the time Jack Welch claim that the numbers are cooked up just sounds like sour grapes to me oil sheen spotted near Deepwater; origin is unknown; a mirage?

California ups gas prices thirty six cents — still ain’t enough free birth control could make those against abortions finally relent Boy Scouts would like you to do your best to not be homosexual humans stopped sex with Neanderthals once they found European babes Facebook hits milestone of one billion, self-obsessed, narcissist users Great Barrier Reef in decline; demoted to Lame Barrier Reef study: greenhouse gas anthropogenically bred since Roman times

THUMBSUP THUMBSDOWN GO FEVER!

A quick shout-out to the women of the Indiana Fever: Your exceptional teamwork and individual toughness embody the spirit of Indiana basketball. We are so proud of you! Bury the Sun when you play in Connecticut on Thursday night and bring that WNBA Eastern Conference championship home!

DEATH BY PILLS

All the lawmakers and candidates claiming to care about Indiana’s economy, its agriculture and its life sciences should consider several points from an Oct. 6 Wall Street Journal report: 1) “The U.S. spends around $15 billion a year fighting illegal drugs, often on foreign soil.” 2) “More than 15,000 Americans now die annually after overdosing on prescription painkillers … according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — more than from heroin, cocaine and all other illegal drugs combined.” 3) The rise in painkiller abuse led drug overdoses to top the CDC’s list of causes of accidental death in America.

“They surpassed traffic accidents in 2009, the most recent CDC data available.” Question: How many cases of deadly marijuana overdoses did officials log in this period? Answer: zero. Marijuana is not a demon drug; it is a versatile, opportunity-laden, medicinal plant that grows well in Indiana. Bold action would facilitate a competitive edge for what could be among Indiana’s most versatile industries.

And who knows? Maybe a readily available herbal alternative could reduce the number of body bags filed under accidental drug overdose.

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The Marion County Clerk’s Office reported 776 people participated on the first day of early voting compared with 679 on day No. 1 in 2008. Early voting continues through noon on Nov. 5. Call the voter hotline at 317-327-VOTE (8683) or email elections@indy.gov with questions.

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news Preview of underreported stories for 2013 Project Censored lists top ten stories

4. FBI agents responsible for terrorist plots

BY YA E L CH AN O F F E DI T O RS @N U V O . N E T

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ince 1967, Project Censored has been documenting inadequate media coverage of crucial stories.

Each year, the group considers hundreds of reader-submitted news stories to determine if they are, indeed, underreported. If so, the stories are fact-checked by professors and experts in relevant fields before a panel of academics and journalists chooses the Top 25.

Censored 2013: Dispatches from the Media Revolution will be released Oct. 30.

Here’s a preview of Project Censored’s new Top 10 list:

1. Signs of an emerging police state President George W. Bush is remembered largely for his role in curbing civil liberties in the name of his “war on terror.” But it’s President Obama who signed the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, including its clause allowing for indefinite detention without trial for terrorism suspects.

Another law of concern is the National Defense Resources Preparedness Executive Order that Obama issued in March 2012.

That order authorizes the President, “in the event of a potential threat to the security of the United States, to take actions necessary to ensure the availability of adequate resources and production capability, including services and critical technology, for national defense requirements.”

2. Oceans in peril In a haunting article highlighted by Project Censored, Mother Jones reporter Julia Whitty paints a tenuous seascape — overfished, acidified, warming — and describes how the destruction of the ocean’s complex ecosystems jeopardizes the entire planet, not just the 70 percent that is water.

Whitty compares ocean acidification, caused by global warming, to acidification that was one of the causes of the “Great Dying,” a mass extinction 252 million years ago. Life on earth took 30 million years to recover.

3. Fukushima effects in the U.S. A plume of toxic fallout floated to the U.S. after Japan’s tragic Fukushima nuclear disaster on March 11, 2011. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found radiation levels in air, water, and milk that

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were hundreds of times higher than normal across the United States. One month later, the EPA announced that radiation levels had declined, and they would cease testing.

After making a Freedom of Information Act request, journalist Lucas Hixson published emails revealing that on March 24, 2011, the task of collecting nuclear data had been handed off from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry lobbying group.

To root out what it now considers the most likely kind of terrorists — “lone wolves” — the FBI seeks “to identify those disgruntled few who might participate in a plot given the means and the opportunity.”

Then, in case after case, “the government provides the plot, the means, and the opportunity,” writes Mother Jones journalist Trevor Aaronsen. The publication, along with the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California-Berkeley, examined the results of the FBI’s counterterrorism strategy in 508 cases classified as terrorism-related that have come before the US Department of Justice since the 9/11 terrorist attacks of 2001. In 243 of these cases, an informant was involved; in 49 cases, an informant actually led the plot.

And “with three exceptions, all of the highprofile domestic terror plots of the last decade were actually FBI stings.”

5. Federal Reserve loaned trillions to major banks The Federal Reserve, the US’s quasi-private central bank, was audited for the first time in its history this year. A couple highlights: The CEO of JP Morgan Chase served as a board member of the New York Federal Reserve at the same time that his bank received more than $390 billion in financial assistance from the Fed. William Dudley, who is now the New York Federal Reserve president, was granted a conflict of interest waiver to let him keep investments in AIG and General Electric at the same time the companies were given bailout funds. The audit was restricted to Federal Reserve lending during the financial crisis.

On July 25, 2012, a bill to audit the Fed again, with fewer limitations, authored by Rep. Ron Paul, passed the House of Representatives.

6. Small network of corporations run the global economy Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute in Zurich found that, of 43,060 transnational companies, 147 control 40 percent of total global wealth. The researchers also built a model visually demonstrating how the connections between companies — what it calls the “super entity” — works. Some have criticized the study, saying control of assets doesn’t equate to ownership. True, but as we clearly saw in the 2008 financial collapse, corporations are capable of mismanaging assets in their control to the detriment of their actual owners.

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The oceans’ peril continues to be an underreported topic according to Project Censored.

7. The International Year of Cooperative According to Project Censored evaluators, the corporate media underreported the UN declaring 2012 to be the International Year of the Cooperative, based on the co-op business model’s stunning growth. The UN found that, in 2012, one billion people worldwide are co-op member-owners, or one in five adults over the age of 15. By 2025, the UN predicts worker-owned coops, which provide for equitable distribution of wealth, will be the world’s fastest growing business model.

8. NATO war crimes in Libya In January 2012, the BBC “revealed” how British Special Forces agents joined and “blended in” with rebels in Libya to help topple dictator Muammar Gadaffi, a story that alternative media sources had reported a year earlier. NATO admits to bombing a pipe factory in the Libyan city of Brega that was key to the water supply system that brought tap water to 70 percent of Libyans, saying that Gadaffi was storing weapons in the factory. In Censored 2013, writer James F. Tracy makes the point that historical relations between the US and Libya were left out of mainstream news coverage of the NATO campaign; “background knowledge and historical context confirming Al-Qaeda and Western involvement in the destabilization of the Gadaffi regime are also essential for making sense of corporate news narratives depicting the Libyan operation as a popular ‘uprising.’”

9. Prison slavery in the U.S. On its website, the UNICOR manufacturing corporation proudly proclaims that its products are “made in America.”

That’s true, but they’re made in places in the US where labor laws don’t apply, with workers often paid just 23 cents an hour to be exposed to toxic materials with no legal recourse. These places are U.S. pris-

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ons. Slavery conditions in prisons aren’t exactly news. It’s literally written into the Constitution; the 13th Amendment, abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, “except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.”

10. HR 347 criminalizes protest Sometimes called the “criminalizing protest” or “anti-Occupy” bill, HR 347 made some headlines. But concerned lawyers and other citizens worry that it could have disastrous effects for the First Amendment right to protest. Officially called the Federal Restricted Grounds Improvement Act, the law makes it a felony to “knowingly” enter a zone restricted under the law, or engage in “disorderly or disruptive” conduct in or near the zones. The restricted zones include anywhere the Secret Service may be — places such as the White House, areas hosting events deemed “National Special Security Events,” or anywhere visited by the president, vice president, and their immediate families; former presidents, vice presidents, and certain family members; certain foreign dignitaries; major presidential and vice presidential candidates (within 120 days of an election); and other individuals as designated by a presidential executive order. These people could be anywhere, and NSSEs have notoriously included the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, Super Bowls, and the Academy Awards. So far, it seems the only time HR 347 has kicked in is with George Clooney’s high-profile arrest outside the Sudanese embassy. Clooney ultimately was not detained without trial — information that would be almost impossible to censor — but what about the rest of us who exist outside of the mainstream media’s spotlight? ■ Yael Chanoff is a reporter for the San Francisco Bay Guardian. This story is an excerpt from her overview of Censored 2013.

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BY K A T E L YN C O Y N E E D I T O RS @N U V O . N E T Since the City of Indianapolis was first recognized as a Bicycle Friendly Community at the Bronze level in 2009 by the League of American Bicyclists (LAB), the city has set its sights on reaching the next level of bicycle friendliness.

The city's new draft Bicycle Master Plan outlines the vision, goals and implementation steps it will take in the next seven years to improve connectivity and ease of use in our growing bicycle infrastructure.

Last Wednesday, Mayor Ballard's Office of Sustainability held an open house to discuss the 71-page document, which will serve as a guiding document for the development of bikeways through 2020. Bicycle Coordinator, Jamison Hutchins, shared some key aspects of the plan and invited the public's questions and comments.

The city will continue to accept public comment through Nov. 3.

The "six Es" served as guiding principles in the master plan's evolution: engineering, education, encouragement, enforcement, evaluation and planning and equity. The overall goal is to construct 200 miles of on-street bicycle facilities in the next seven years.

With the adoption of the Complete Streets Ordinance last August, city planning intends to incorporate the needs of all users (pedestrians, bicycles and cars) into already scheduled road construction projects. Within the context of that ordinance and through collaboration with bicycle-focused organizations, the master plan sets goals, objectives and benchmarks to improve Indy's bicycle infrastructure.

Perhaps some of the most interesting aspects of the plan are the introduction of bicycle boulevards and bicycle boxes.

Sometimes called "neighborhood greenways," bicycle boulevards are streets where all vehicles are allowed but that have been enhanced to improve bicycle safety and convenience. The idea is to calm vehicular traffic while creating a safe way for neighborhood residents to reach main thoroughfares of our already existing bicycle infrastructure.

Bicycle boxes are designated areas at intersections to push vehicular traffic a few feet back. They give a clear area for bicycles to queue up ahead of traffic, making it easier to cross multiple lanes on a busy road when stopped at a red light. This feature

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The overall goal is to construct 200 miles of on-street facilities in the next seven years.

keeps both cars and bikes out of crosswalks and out of the way of pedestrians.

In general, Indianapolis' Master Bike Plan reflects a change in mentality when it comes to city planning and how projects are approached. In a city with a transportation infrastructure designed first and foremost for cars, bicycle and pedestrian needs are now being taken into account at an equal level.

For more information about the Master Bike Plan, head to SustainIndy.org or visit tinyurl.com/ IndyMasterBikePlan to view the document in its entirety.

Again, the Office of Sustainability remains in its 45-day public input period until November 3. Contact bicycle coordinator Jamison Hutchins at Jamison.

Hutchins@indy.gov with questions, comments and concerns. ■

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Katelyn Coyne is a regular NUVO contributor. Her weekly column, "Bicycle Diaries of a Big Girl" is posted weekly at NUVO.net.

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A review of Indy’s zoning ordinances and regulations is also underway.

Officials say the more public involvement in the process the better. Upcoming listening sessions offer the opportunity to learn about more IndyRezone and dialogue with the city planners: North Central High School 1801 E. 86th St. Wednesday, October 10, 2012 5-8 p.m.

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n a brisk September morning on Indy’s Eastside, standing in the middle of the in-progress production farm, Mark Cox spreads his arms wide in opposite directions. “My greatgrandfather grew up right over there,” he says, pointing northeast, “and my great grandmother on the other side grew up right over there,” as he points southwest.

“We ended up right in the middle — totally randomly, but here we are.”

It doesn’t seem so random when you consider the big picture, and what Cox and his business partner Joshua Henson are doing with Fermenti Artisan, a local purveyor of raw probiotic foods — i.e. they contain living microorganisms that offer a health benefit when consumed.

At the heart of their business is a desir e to see change in farming and people.

They are proselytizers of an improved relationship between the two, a relationship that in the past 50 or so y ears has been broken.

This farm, Cox says, will eventually provide most of the vegetables used in the krauts and other ferments made and sold by Fermenti Artisan.

Cox and Henson want their message to be relevant to individuals and the community, and their techniques employ methods steeped in cultural tradition. With their families rooted deeply in Indiana, it is fitting their efforts for change begin here, in the literal middle of the land and among people they would love to see heal. It is the place where their own stories unfolded and they separately came to stark personal realizations about food, farming and the health of a nation growing sicker by the year.

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Mark Cox (left) and Joshua Henson, partners at Fermenti Artisan, located at the Indianapolis City Mark et.

Their ventures into food started early. Henson’s journey into cooking began at age 4 when he stole his older sister’s Easy-Bake Oven and made her read the instruction book to him — he ended up using it more than she did.

His parents adopted special needs kids, and with 20 brothers and sisters — most with disabilities — he quickly realized that to get alone time with Mom he needed to help in the kitchen.

It was clear at that early age he wanted to be a chef — until middle school when the guidance counselor told him he couldn’t make any money doing it. So he left his culinary dreams behind and decided to focus on math and science.

That is what he pursued, admittedly loosely, during his one year at Purdue.

But he was restless and, after trying school and other jobs, kept ending up at restaurants.

At age 22, looking to gather some per spective, he spent a summer hitchhiking.

He came back home to Lafayette with one goal in mind: to find a chef under whom he could apprentice.

Henson approached chef Brannon Soileau of Lafayette’s Maize & American Grill. “I went in, told him I wanted to learn, told him I’d wash dishes for him.

The next day he called me back and said I was hired. I was making $5.50 an hour making salads and desserts — within a year and a half I was sous chef.”

It was at Maize, steeped in the techniques of French cuisine, where the stories of Henson and Cox first overlapped.

Both were working for Soileau and they began to embrace the skills of French cooking that contribute to the infamous “French paradox.” That is the name attached to the intense jealousy by the rest of the Western world that the French consume vast quantities of animal fats, dairy and wine, yet miraculously escape many of the health consequences.

At the heart of French cuisine are long-cooking bone stocks, roux bases of butter and flour, sauces laden with heavy cream — layers of flavor built over time while using every part of plant and animal to avoid waste.

They individually fell in love with the complexity of flavor and art of process, caring not that what they were serving to guests would be found damnable by USDA food pyramid standards.

But at the time, Henson wasn’t eating what he was making. At age 25, he was diagnosed with psoriasis — the same age of his mother and older br other when they were diagnosed with the skin disorder. After describing the condition as incurable, his doctor prescribed a lifelong pharmaceutical that could help keep it controlled.

But Henson had seen the ways those medicines had failed his family and sought natural remedies instead. He delved into herbal medicines and yoga and adopted a low-fat vegetarian diet.

But over time there was no improvement — and at times he seemed to get worse .

He was living a paradox: preparing rich, fatty foods for the customers at Maize, but avoiding those foods at home while hunting down the right dietary combination to set his body straight.

ENTER WESTON PRICE’S RESEARCH By 2005, Cox had moved back to Indianapolis and was working at The Oceanaire. He and Henson had a mutual friend, Nick Schroeder, who told Cox about the Weston Price Foundation. It’s an organization touting the research findings of Weston A. Price, a dentist in

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Henson (left) and Cox do a lot of the pr ep for their fermented foods right on site .

the 1930s who studied indigenous cultures all over the world. Price found they had remarkably healthy teeth considering they had little, if any, dental hygiene. And it wasn’t just their teeth that were healthy — their bodies were healthy too, even down to skeletal structure.

Price studied the diets of these cultures, finding items common to each: cultured foods (dairy and vegetable), broths and organ meats, souring or sprouting of grains and legumes.

Cox read everything he could get his hands on about tr aditional diets. The proverbial light bulb had turned on. There was a reason that we crave the foods taking center stage in French cuisine — our bodies actually need those things and we are genetically programmed to like them. But not from industrialized, commercially produced sources — our bodies need them from animals and plants far med in healthy environments.

It was all directly contrary to Cox’s own dietary history. Like most kids of the ’80s, he had grown up eating industrialized food — and with a grandfather who worked for Eli Lilly and Co., he had access to all the pharmaceuticals his family needed. “We grew up on processed food, boxed food, genetically-modified food — it was what everyone did.”

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But after reading about how the health of the gut is directly related to the heath of our bodies and brains, he began to believe that the way he ate growing up had a direct impact on his lifelong struggle with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and attention deficit disorder. “The most intimate thing we do on a daily basis is w e eat — and we leave that in somebody else’s hands to make the decision for us before the food even gets to us ,” Cox says. “There is a direct correlation between gut, mind and body — it all goes back to the diet.”

LET THE HEALING BEGIN Henson’s food journey soon followed suit. After his own research into the methods presented by Price, he immediately changed his diet — yet another attempt to get to the root of what was described as a genetic skin disorder. For Henson and Cox, the results of their lifestyle changes were dramatic. After six months of incorporating local cultured foods and good fats into his diet, Henson’s skin began to improve. After a year, his psoriasis disappeared.

For Cox the change was mental and physical — his head clear ed, he lost five sizes on his waist, and says he’s now in the best

shape of his life. “What happens through the farming process to make that food nutritious, and what happens when you consume that food or make it mor e nutritious through fermentation — for Josh and I, this was the missing link,” Cox says.

At this point, they were convinced enough to shout the message from non-existent Indiana mountaintops — so they turned their passion for helping others into a business plan.

In 2008, Henson moved back to Indianapolis and the two began talking about ways to launch a cultured vegetable business. One afternoon, a friend brought over some paté and a bottle of F rench wine and the three laid out a spread for snacking. As the stor y goes, by the end of the bottle of wine, and born from a conversation involving fake French accents, the name for the business was tossed out.

Though initially created in jest, it managed to encompass their history and future all at once: A love for French cooking blossomed into a desire to focus on ferments for the people. Fermenti Artisan it would be.

Their goal was to make and sell food that gave the biggest return on investment for their customers — to prove that eating organic didn’t have to be price-prohibitive or elitist.

That’s why their commercial products focus on foods where a little goes a long way. While new customers often balk at the $10 price tag on a jar of F ermenti Artisan kimchee, they might not realize that a serving size is a tablespoon. In that tablespoon is a powerful colony of microbes that heals and nourishes a gut depleted of good flora — a far cry from the pasteurized, commercially-produced counterpart on the grocery shelf that doesn’t contain a single living organism.

When vegetables are fermented and raw, their nutrients become hyper-available, turning a very small portion into a superfood. They settled on an initial product line that included sauerkrauts (including traditional krauts and kimchee), kombucha (a fermented tea), and water kefir (a naturally-carbonated probiotic soda).

One day in the spring of 2009, Cox was driving north on Ritter Avenue on the Eastside and noticed a far m for sale — a place he had dr iven past hundreds of times without a thought. He and Henson contacted the owner — a man in his 80s who had owned and farmed the land since 1953. Originally a railroad worker, he took to farming after an injury and, from the early ’70s until about 2005, ran an honor-system farm stand behind the house.

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Some of the delicious options you can enjoy at F ermenti Artisan.

BACK TO THE FARM Cox and Henson were able to set up a meeting with the o wner and his stepson and got, firsthand, the history behind the land. After explaining that they wanted to keep farming the land, to improve it and bring it back to its original use after a few y ears of dormancy, the sale went off without a hitch.

Henson now lives at the farm with his wife. He and Cox share the work, enlisting the help of friends when they can, with future plans to hire a farm manager.

Eventually the 2-acre farm will supply as much of their needed produce and eggs as possible.

Fermenti Artisan officially appeared on the farmers’ market circuit in the summer of 2010 and, by the next season, was in seven markets each week. That proved to be too much.

“Doing that many markets was rough on us, the car, the equipment, everything,” Henson says. As far as initial customer response, Henson explains, “People understood probiotics, because there was a lot of press coming out about that. But the biggest question we got was, ‘What do I do with it, besides put it on sausage?’”

That fall they got into the I ndy Winter Farmers’ Market, and

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began selling prepared food to show customers how to use the ferments — breakfast scrambles with their house-cured bacon, topped with a kraut flavor-of-theday, along with cultured beverages. The response was so positive the next logical step was to open a permanent storefront.

They were considering their options around the time the City Market was coming off a major renovation and had renewed interest in filling its Downtown space with local-business vendors. The match seemed natural.

“We went into City Market for a couple of reasons,” Cox explains.

“One of them was that the space was originally created for what we were doing. We were trying to take back a piece of what that property was originally dedicated to — w e wanted to be a part of that culture,” referring to the historic role of City Market as a place where local

farmers and artisans sold their goods circa 1886.

The Fermenti Artisan storefront and restaurant opened in January.

It has lunch and early dinner offerings as well as cultured beverages on draft. Customers can also pick up a selection of jarred fermented vegetables and condiments, probiotic beverages, local cheeses and smoked and cured local meats.

The idea of being a par t of local culture is central to their business philosophy. When sourcing meats and vegetables for their products, they first seek local, then regional — and if they must source commercial it’s organic.

They are able to connect — MARK COX with local farmers as more than just suppliers, taking the organic waste off the hands of Natural Born Juicers in City Market and using it as input on their far m.

They bring their own hogs to Smoking Goose which cures them to their specifications.

“It’s all about spreading it out as far as we can — the nutrient density of food.”

They’ve even used locals for their logo and label design, utilizing students at IUPUI who want to build their design portfolios by creating work for real-world businesses. It’s a very communal mindset, a long-term investment in Indianapolis.

Back at their farm on the Eastside, Cox walks through rows of hot peppers and daikon radishes, and points out where garlic was pulled in late summer and horseradish waits patiently for harvest. This year they grew items with the most longevity and were able to harvest enough hot peppers to lend heat to their kimchee for the year.

“It’s all about spreading it out as far as we can — the nutrient density of food,” Cox says.

The space has a long way to go, but the potential is obvious.

“We want to build this up and make it really nice so people will want to come and pr otect it — a farm in the city,” Cox says.

“That’s the main component in all of this that needs to be celebrated — our connection with the farmers we use with the techniques they use — because it all translates to the nutritional side.

And that’s when food is good.

We’re not doing this because it ’s trendy. We’re doing it because it’s the right thing to do.”

Hours: Monday – Friday 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.

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Project IMA @ Indianapolis Museum of Art

Participants in this year’s Project IMA, a fashion show featuring national and local designers on an IMA runway, were asked to create work based on the oeuvres of Indiana-related designers Bill Blass, Norman Norell, Stephen Sprouse and Halston, all of whom are featured in an IMA exhibition running through January 2013. We have our fingers crossed that Blass’s dress for Nancy Reagan is cleverly deconstructed in a parody of the military-industrial complex and stuff.

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Project IMA 2011.

Separately ticketed runway shows in The Toby at 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. for $15 public, $10 member; after party at 8:30 p.m. in the Deer Zink Pavilion is $30 (tickets must be purchased in advance from imamuseum.org).

Second Saturday Gallery Walk @ Carmel’s Arts & Design District

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New work by Rachel Bliel.

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Fall exhibitions @ Indianapolis Art Center

Four shows are on the fall slate at the Indianapolis Art Center, including a retrospective of work by Sarah M. Hurt; new sculpture, painting and installation art by Mark Pack; drawings by Angel Piehl; and hybrid teddy bears by Rachel Bliel, rendered in sgraffito on ceramic. Piehl, a professor at Oklahoma State, says she examines the bourgeois world through a gender-queer perspective, an approach which has brought forth graphite drawings of flora and fauna that fall somewhere between John Audubon and Aubrey Beardsley. If you get a wild hair, head out on the Broad Ripple Gallery Tour, taking place Oct. 12 on the streets and alleys of the village.

Oct. 12-Dec. 6 @ 820 E. 67th St., free, indplsartcenter.org

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Optical Popsicle @ Madame Walker Theatre NUVO’s Jim Poyser writes thusly of a past Optical Popsicle: “Know No Stranger captures the primordial impulse to create and share and thus connect with humans with everything they do, from announcing audience members as they enter ... to making everything out of cardboard, duct-tape and overhead projectors.” The fourth edition of the company’s annual variety show features goofball emcee Oreo Jones and break dance crew Art Spark. As always, myriad ticket discounts are available for the enterprising; for instance, those who correctly answer a random trivia question get in free, and those who beat KNS bigwig Michael Runge’s dad in chess get $8 off.

Head to knownostranger.com for more options and info. Oct. 12 and 13, 8 p.m. @ 617 Indiana Ave., $15 (discounts available)

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Whisky & Fine Spirits Expo @ Montage It’ll cost you $70 ($135 for VIP) to get into the Whisky & Fine Spirits Expo, taking place at Montage at Allison Pointe, which is nestled in the heart of an office park between 82nd Street and I-465 in the Castleton area. But think of what you get: A ton of high-quality whisky, including several Scotland-based distillers. A room devoted to the Art of the Cocktail featuring local mixologists from The Ball & Biscuit, The Libertine and Late Harvest alongside national talent from the Museum of the American Cocktail.

Plus, a buffet, master classes, cigars and a silent auction benefitting the Humane Society of Indianapolis.

Doors open 5 p.m. for VIP ticketholders, 7 p.m. for general admission; open thru 9 p.m. @ 8580 Allison Pointe Boulevard; tickets at indywhiskyexpo.eventbrite.com

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When the challenging, fresh Evan Lurie Gallery opened its doors on Carmel’s Main Street in the fall of 2007, it quickly became the center of the emerging visual arts scene north of 96th Street. Lurie, a former stuntman and actor with LA roots, brought a selection of internationally-renowned artists to his gallery, while leaving space for talented local artists such as Jason Myers.

The gallery will celebrate its fifth anniversary during this Saturday’s Artwalk with a show that will feature Cuban-born painter Alexi Torres and Mexican artist Luis Sanchez. Sanchez, whose mixed media paintings of circus scenes have a strong narrative element, came to the Hoosier state not just to show his art, but stuck around to address more pressing concerns.

“He actually needed a kidney transplant,” says Evan Lurie. “And in LA he was told that that it would be three to five years at the earliest before he could have one. He was on dialysis out there for years. And then he found out from his doctor that he only had two or three years to live. So he came out here and we were able to introduce him to some doctors out here because he had a rare blood type. And within a year he actually ended up with a transplant (at St. Vincent Hospital).”

Alexi Torres puts an immigrant’s twist on the iconically American subjects of his recent large scale oil paintings, which include the Guggenheim Museum, an American flag and Muhammad Ali. He renders these subjects such that they seem to be composed of tightly woven wicker. This opening will feature several pieces new to the Evan Lurie Gallery, including one portraying Vincent Van Gogh.

Those with slightly more conventional tastes — and/ or looking for something a little more affordable to decorate their dens — might check out the paintings

by Valentina Shvyrkova in the ArtSplash Gallery at 111 W. Main St. The Moscow-born Shvyrkova is heavily influenced by 20th century Russian Impressionism, her subjects ranging from European village scenes to winter landscapes to paintings of flowers.

Rivaling Shvyrkova in vibrant use of color — if not in style — are the abstract silkscreen prints by Laurie Wright at Eye on Art Gallery next door.

Wright is an artist and former graphic designer based in Columbus, Ind. There’s something very Mid-Century modern about her work, as if she had taken graphic design motifs from that era and dripped them, Jackson Pollock-like, against her silkscreens. “I find her work very refreshing, very unique, very modern, very graphic and full of color,” says Eye on Art Gallery owner Jerry Points.

— DAN GROSSMAN

The Second Saturday Gallery Walk will take place Saturday, Oct. 13, from 5-10 p.m. in Carmel’s Arts & Design District (around the intersection of Range Line and Main Street).

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Lincoln Colloquium @ Indiana History Center Lincoln, Slavery and the Historian’s Role is the theme for the 27th annual Lincoln Colloquium at the Indiana History Center (450 W. Ohio St.), which will feature several Lincoln experts presenting papers, engaging in discussions and the like. That part of the program costs $40 for the general public, $30 for IHS members

13 SATURDAY Taste of Italy Festival @ Holy Rosary Catholic Church

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It broke Virginia Iozzo’s heart (of Iozzo’s Garden of Italy fame) to hear that the Italian Street Festival was canceled for 2012. It’ll be back next June, but in the meantime, Iozzo and crew have put together a temporary, smallerscale shindig that will take place in the same location as the street festival is usually held, the Holy Rosary Catholic Church. She promises plenty of food vendors and music, plus beer and wine.

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and $25 for students, and includes a Friday reception. Then comes the free part; starting from 4 p.m., The Modern Abolition Movement: A Dialogue between Historians and Anti-Human Trafficking Advocates will take a look at contemporary manifestations of slavery (perhaps with some attention to Lincoln’s thoughts on the subject), with representatives from Exodus Refugee, U-ACT and Remember Nhu discussing their work with three historians.

Ghost Stories @ Crown Hill Cemetery Storytelling Arts of Indiana brings back a spooky favorite this year with a night of ghost stories on the grounds of Crown Hill Cemetery.

The evening kicks off with a VIP reception at Crown Hill’s Gothic Chapel, featuring snacks, Sun King beer and an optional half-hour walking tour. Then come the stories, moving from child-friendly to those more appropriate for adults and other mature humans as the night wears on. Bring picnic, blankets, lawn chairs and/or flashlights (for lighting the way back to one’s car, not one’s face, because that just gets annoying if everyone does it).

5 p.m. VIP reception, $50 (including Ghost Stories admission); 7:30 p.m. stories, $20 adult, $5 children 5-12 @ 700 W. 38th St., tickets at storytellingarts.org.

A&E FEATURE Bowie to Bluebeard

Tom Battista’s Indianapolis adventure

BY D A V I D H O P P E D H O P P E @N U V O . N E T Tom Battista is sitting in the courtyard of Bluebeard, the new restaurant that he helped found on Virginia Avenue. It’s a sunny early autumn afternoon. The lunch crowd has departed and the lull enables Battista a brief respite for a sandwich and a little reflection.

Battista is quick to point out that he has nothing to do with running the restaurant — that job belongs to his son, Ed. “I’m the maintenance guy,” he says. But Bluebeard, along with adjoining bakery Amelia’s, are the latest in a series of local endeavors Battista has been instrumental in getting off the ground.

Have you eaten at R Bistro or Black Market? Purchased something sweet from The Best Chocolate In Town, or a bottle from Mass Ave Wine? Perhaps you’ve had occasion to peruse the artwork in any of the various galleries that have found an address along the 800 and 900 blocks of Mass Ave. You could call Battista a venture developer.

He’s what all these businesses have in common — the one who acquired and rehabbed buildings no one else wanted, then leased spaces to creative entrepreneurs, giving these folks the chance to take root and make Indianapolis a little more hip.

Even through dark glasses, Battista’s eyes have a twinkle. At the moment, he’s comparing himself to the title character in the 1994 Italian film, Il Postino. “Here’s this postman in a little town in Italy who’s always in the right place at the right time.

That’s kind of how I feel,” he says with a bemused smile. “This building was available. A lot of people looked at it, didn’t want anything to do with it. Too much work. I made the offer at the right time.”

If there’s one thing Tom Battista’s not afraid of, it’s hard work. When others have fallen by the wayside, he’s kept going. In a world where, as Woody Allen once famously said, 80 percent of life is showing up, Battista is the guy who’s there, ready to deliver the goods.

A ‘C’ Student

Battista’s career is, at once, unlikely and extraordinary.

Battista was born in Indianapolis, at St. Vincent’s hospital, Fall Creek and Illinois Street on June 28, 1950. He was one of seven kids; his dad was a pharmacist who owned a drugstore located at 24th and Illinois.

Battista was taught by Jesuits at Brebeuf.

“That was back when all the classes were totally separate,” he recalls. “”You never intermingled — and there were no women.”

The Jesuits, he says, “made you inquisitive.” But, by his own account, he was a lack luster student. “I always put everything off until the last minute,” Tom says of his C-student days. “I didn’t mind school, I just never thrived at it.”

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Tom Battista and Bluebeard, the Virginia Avenue restaurant managed by his son, Ed.

It’s not that Battista was lazy. He was otherwise occupied: you could find young Tom helping his grandfather tend the family vegetable garden. Or else he was helping his father at the store. The Battista pharmacy was part of a building the family owned with multiple storefronts and apartments. “We were always remodeling them … I would help. Of the seven kids, I was the one who was always going with Dad to work.”

When it was time for Battista to graduate from high school, Brebeuf wouldn’t give him a college recommendation. This was serious; the war in Vietnam was in full cry and, without a student deferment to attend college, Tom was almost certain to be drafted. “I had to get that 2-S deferment.”

Battista and his mother went to Bloomington and pleaded for him to be admitted to Indiana University. “They let me in on probation.”

At first, Battista was a business major. But that soon went by the board. “I didn’t think anybody in business interested me. The people that were asking the questions and talking about how history was written by the ruling class, that there was another whole group of people that never got written about — that interested me.”

When he could, Battista continued to make improvements to his dad’s building. In the meantime, he was also working for “an old

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concrete guy” named Finn Thornton. “He had a third-grade education but was smarter than most people I’ve ever met. I was working for $2.50 an hour, but I was learning.”

Among the lessons Thornton was imparting were how to set up a job, the importance of being prepared, and the habit of thinking ahead and anticipating next steps.

Foghat at Bush

It all came together during the summer of 1972. Tom was home from college and, as he puts it, “getting ready to drop out from society” on some land he and a friend had recently purchased in southern Indiana.

He had just finished a job for Thornton and was looking forward to a long weekend off when the phone rang.

It was friend from high school calling to tell him a rock festival that was supposed to hap— Tom Battista pen west of the city had been pushed to Bush Stadium because the folks in the suburbs decided at the last minute they didn’t want a crowd of hippies descending on them.

“He said they got screwed by the establishment. Can you come and help?”

There was no money. Battista wouldn’t get paid. But, in exchange for helping to set up the stage, he and the other workers would get free tickets to see a bill that included Foghat, Chuck Berry and It’s a Beautiful Day. Battista says he wasn’t that into music,

“It was easy to be good around people who do drugs.”

but he did want to see how a rock and roll show worked. It turned out that he would be learning from one of the best hands in the business.

Bruce DeForeest was in charge of the production crew. DeForeest had run sound at Woodstock. “He was the greatest guy in the world,” says Battista. DeForeest was quickly drawn to Battista’s work ethic — that Tom actually knew what he was doing.

Battista could set up scaffolding and use a level. Best of all, he could work all day and through the night without a break. “I was way ahead of all these other people who were there for the music. I was there because I knew I could produce what needed to be done in order to have a show.”

Once everything was set up, tickets were handed to Battista and the other workers.

“They said to come back tomorrow and we’ll take down the stage and everything else. Well, at noon on Sunday, nobody else showed up. None of the kids that had worked for free to get into the show came back,” says Battista. “I did.”

DeForeest couldn’t believe it. He told Tom he couldn’t pay him, but he offered something even better. He asked Tom if he would help him build a nightclub in New York City. That club turned out to be the legendary Bottom Line.

“Having never been to New York City, I said, ‘Sure!’” says Battista today.

He agreed to work for $4 an hour and a place to stay — at the intersection of Bleeker Street and the Bowery. “It’s the hippest area in New York now,” he says, shaking his head. “When I was there it was all bums. I carried my hammer home from

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Bluebeard’s grilled octopus.

work because I was kind of afraid.”

The job took six months. Afterward, the club’s owners flew Battista back to New York from Indianapolis for the opening.

“There was Mick Jagger and Edgar and Johnny Winter, James Taylor — all these names I’d known about. They were all in this little 500-seat club that I built.”

Deforeest then asked Battista if he’d sign on as his assistant for David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs tour. “I didn’t know who David Bowie was,” laughs Battista.

Bowie and Buffett

Today, Battista describes Bowie as one of the few genuine geniuses he’s ever met.

At that time, Bowie was certainly one of the most ambitious artists around. The set for the Diamond Dogs tour was conceived by a major Broadway designer and would be one of the most elaborate rigs created for a touring show in its day. The set involved huge walls, scrims, a catwalk, and a mechanical arm that extended over the audience. There was even an elevator. “It was the biggest show that had ever gone out.”

This was 1974, an era of mind-boggling promiscuity and excess. Battista, though, provided a steady hand. He was the only guy who knew how to set everything up. “It was easy to be good around people who do drugs. For a couple of days, someone on coke can stay up with me. But after the third day, they can just hang it up. When I was a kid, I could work circles around people — and still be humane and nice.”

Battista prides himself on not losing his temper with his crew. He keeps things cool in a world full of divas. “When I get a job, I never ask how much [it pays]. I ask can I do the job? Is it interesting? I’ve never asked about the money. I’ve always made good money. I don’t know why. It’s just always worked out.”

With the exception of a 10-year hiatus he took to help his wife, Sherry, a

fine art conservator, raise their kids, Battista has gone on the road with rock tours every year over the course of four decades. He has worked as Jimmy Buffett’s crew chief for the past 20 years.

As a result, Battista has had a chance to visit and revisit the 30 largest metropolitan areas in the United States. There have been plenty of opportunities to relocate, but he’s chosen to stick with Indianapolis as his home base. He loves it here, simple as that. “It’s still a very small place,” he says. “People know each other. In reality, it’s very civilized.”

And Indianapolis is where Battista has created a kind of parallel career for himself as what he calls a “small developer.” He and Sherry began by acquiring a vacant building at the end of the 900 block of Massachusetts Avenue, abutting the expressway, in 1983. Their idea was to create a lab for Sherry’s art conservation work.

But it turned out it was easier for Sherry to work from home. Then Tom was approached by a local entrepreneur, wanting to start a gardening shop for city folk. Tom called in architect Jim McQuiston for design help and set to work rehabbing the place; Urban Bloom was born.

Urban Bloom is gone now, supplanted by the restaurant Black Market. In the meantime, the Battistas acquired the retail strip running along Mass Ave’s 800 block. This stretch had been neglected for years. It was in a kind of twilight zone, defined by an old, if historically significant, art deco Coca Cola bottling plant, repurposed into the public school motor pool — and the township trustee’s office, a gray-faced office block.

Bluebeard’s tap lineup includes a generous assortment of local brews, including selections from Fountain Square Brewery and Flat 12.

The Battistas helped change that. After rehabbing their block, they made a point of making spaces available to a variety of creative enterprises. Chef Regina Mehallick, one of the founders of the Indianapolis locavore movement, put her R Bistro restaurant on one corner. Jill Ditmire moved her wine shop there. Then Elizabeth Garber set up shop with her Best Chocolate In Town. The block has also been home to art galleries, like Kuaba, for African works, and the idiosyncratic McFee.

Safe for development

Today, with a major apartment development in the works across the street, it’s hard to deny that the Battistas made this stretch of Mass Ave safe for development on a much larger scale. Tom describes his sense of accomplishment there in a more down-to-earth way: “When we bought the two buildings on Mass Ave, there were three people working in them. Now there’s over 70 people working there. Seventy people have jobs in our city who live here and spend their money here. These aren’t chains that are taking the money to Texas.”

Battista’s impact on — Tom Battista Mass Avenue hasn’t been limited to his buildings. In 2003, he solicited a $10,000 grant from Jimmy Buffett’s Singing For Change philanthropy in order to create the infrastructure for the installation of temporary artworks. “I’m not an artist, and I don’t judge art,” Battista says. “I accept it. If people take the time to do it, it’s fine with me. I don’t worry about it.

Something else will come along … I had grade school kids digging holes to put in

“I carried my hammer home from work because I was kind of afraid.”

pedestals, so if people complain about the art I think, it’s here for a year. It’s gonna change. Get over it.”

Battista raised matching funds to get a grant from the Central Indiana Community Foundation to install 42 bike racks along Mass Ave, predating the creation of the Cultural Trail. At first, says Battista, the city wanted him to install the racks in one place, creating, in effect, a bike parking lot. “I said, ‘Are you kidding me?’ They would come up with all these reasons why we couldn’t do something.”

In the end, Tom, Sherry and their kids installed the racks themselves.

But Battista may be proudest of his association with the IndyFringe Festival.

It started when he attended a public meeting in 2001, a gathering of theater folk and fans, called “Theatre City 2012.” The goal was to envision a livelier performing arts scene in Indianapolis.

Battista remembers Butler theater students speaking up. “These students at Butler were saying, “‘There’s no reason to stay in our city. There’s nothing here for us as far as theater is concerned.’”

The idea for a fringe festival arose and, his interest piqued, Battista agreed to serve as the festival’s first board chair. He helped focus festival venues on or near the Mass Avenue corridor, making Indy’s Fringe Festival a uniquely walkable happening, and identifying Mass Ave as a theater district in the bargain. In its first year, 2005, IndyFringe drew over 4,000 people.

It attracted twice that many the following year; the 2012 festival drew over 15,000 people for 336 shows. “It’s a gift that keeps giving back to the city every year.”

Always about the bread

Battista has always had a soft spot for great bakeries.

“As I travel around the country and go to all these cities, I find some great little places to eat,” Battista says. “To me, it’s

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Ed and Tom Battista outside Bluebeard.

always about the bread. When a place on the idea of realizing do-able neighborserves mediocre bread, I know they’re not hood and community projects in the same where they could be.” spirit as those they accomplished on Mass When, on a trip to Louisville, he was Ave. “We can do more for our city, physiintroduced to the renowned Blue Dog cally doing little projects than by giving Bakery, he began a personal campaign to try money,” says Tom. and get them to open a branch of their busiTheir first project will be construction ness in Indianapolis. of a viewing stand overlooking the nearby Blue Dog declined to open a store here, interstate, in the no-man’s land between but their owners offered to help Battista open Holy Rosary, Fountain the kind of bakery he dreamt Square and Fletcher Place. about. Hence Amelia’s, “There’s a brow of a hill part of the new developout there that Lilly has ment Battista has created on planted with trees,” says Virginia Avenue that includes Battista. The plan is to colthe restaurant Bluebeard, laborate with People For as well as a barbershop and Urban Progress to build a Calvin Fletcher’s coffee shop. pergola using seats from Bluebeard’s name is Bush Stadium and roofing derived from Indianapolis from the Hoosier Dome. native Kurt Vonnegut’s — Tom Battista “You’ll be able to go out novel. The restaurant, there and have your lunch in a kind of homage, is and wonder, ‘Where are all bedecked with antique those people going in such typewriters, including one that is reputed a hurry?’” he says, adding, “We’ll have the to be a replica of the machine Vonnegut greatest view of Downtown.” used to write his book.

Which is perfect for a guy who loves But the restaurant is really like a museum seeing his city take shape. Tom Battista of found objects, including a rail from the doesn’t just have a sense of place, he old Virginia Avenue trolley line that Battista actually knows how to build it. He looks has managed to incorporate into the design around Bluebeard’s courtyard. “When of the bar. Tables have been crafted from a people come here and they say something tree that once stood in Battista’s yard and like, ‘Oh, this reminds me of Chicago!’ it’s he’s converted enormous old loudspeaker a backhanded compliment. Our son, Ed, horns into overhead lights. says to them, ‘No. This is Indianapolis.

As for the food, Battista beams: This is local. This is us.’”

“It’s unbelievable. It’s all local. It is Indianapolis. It’s these young guys that love our city and they’re here to stay.”

When Tom and Sherry, the restaurant’s BLUEBEARD majority shareholders, met with the rest of 653 Virginia Ave. | 317-686-1580 the management team, they asked themHOURS: Mon-Fri 11 a.m. - 11 p.m. selves how the business could give back Sat 5 - 11 p.m. to the community. Rather than make cash contributions or donations, the group hit bluebeardindy.com

“To me, it’s always about the bread.”

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A&E REVIEWS ISO IN EXILE WEEK FIVE: THE SECRET LIST A tit-for-tat battle for control of the narrative continues between union and management as we head into the fifth week of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra lockout.

The key issue, upon which neither side will compromise, is a “termination clause” that would allow either union or management to end a proposed five-year contract after three years. On Sept. 30, the musician’s union rejected a contract including the termination clause; last weekend, ISO management, in turn, rejected a proposal by the union without the clause.

Richard Graef, chairman of the ISO musicians’ negotiating committee, describes both sides as largely agreeing on the main points of the contract — wages, season length, orchestra membership, pensions — but for the clause.

The failure to reach an agreement has led to the cancellation of this weekend’s concerts. It would’ve been the first of two weekends to feature conductor wunderkind Krzysztof Urbanski. ISO musicians played their second, freelance concert during the lockout Oct. 7 at the Palladium, raising money for the New World Youth Orchestras, as well as to fund future concerts by ISO musicians.

Management acknowledged in a news release issued Monday that union and management have “mutually exclusive positions” on the termination clause. They also raised the issue of the union’s “secret” list of demands: “There also is a list of yet unidentified obstacles to reaching an agreement — ‘unidentified’ because the musicians acknowledge to having a list of items that still divide the parties but have refused to provide that list to the ISO.” ISO interim CEO Jackie Groth is quoted as say-

INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA MUSICIANS WITH ANDRE WATTS THE PALLADIUM, OCT. 7 w The Palladium’s near-capacity crowd filled the room with heartfelt warmth when Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra players appeared on stage for Sunday night’s concert.

Both players and patrons alike stood applauding each other, evidence of the passion provoked on both sides by the ISO executive board’s four-week lockout.

Two concert favorites always make for winning enthusiasm, but especially under the present circumstances. Conductor Samuel Wong led the players through Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto (No. 5 in E-flat, Op. 73), with none other than IU’s André Watts at the keyboard, and Mussorgsky/Ravel’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Both pieces were clearly what the audience wanted to hear.

The “Emperor,” the last of five Beethoven piano concertos, is the longest and grandest, but is exceeded in musical depth by No. 4 in G. In any case, Watts once again proved he had total command of the music — if not quite all the notes. A master musician with perfect touch and control, he balanced the work’s broad themes with Wong’s orchestra.

ing that the union’s withholding of the list has made reaching a deal “challenging.”

Graef responded that such a list does exist, in a sense, but that because the union’s negotiating team wants to reach agreement on key points like wages, orchestra size, season length and benefits before moving on to any other issues, they’ve thus far withheld a rundown of other concerns with the ISO’s contract proposals. “There’s no point in discussing how many rehearsals we’ll have until we know if we’re taking a 50 percent or 20 percent pay cut,” he said.

And there are more secrets: The union contends that an agreement on a contract acceptable to both sides was reached, according to a union news release, “in a meeting on Sept. 11 between John Thornburgh, chairman of the ISO board, and Jackie Groth, interim president and CEO, representing the [Indianapolis Symphony] Society, and Rick Graef, chair, and Jerry Montgomery, associate chair, of the musicians’ negotiating committee.” The union says that the ISO then “reneged” on the agreement, adding the termination clause. ISO spokesperson Jessica di Santo told NUVO last week that this scenario is “simply untrue.”

According to Graef, the Sept. 11 meeting was unique and off-the-record; legal representatives for either side were absent, as were members of both side’s negotiation teams. However, he expected ISO management to abide by agreements reached in the meeting, and felt “totally betrayed” when the ISO introduced the termination clause during a subsequent, on-the-record Sept. 19 meeting with legal representation present.

— SCOTT SHOGER

As always with Watts, the tempos were perfect, his figurations a model of clarity, his dynamics well executed. As a side note, the Palladium acoustics sounded drier than I’ve previously heard them (from the same seat location). Has there been a change in the sound baffling above the orchestra, or did the packed house tend to reduce the reverb?

An even larger orchestra was used for Ravel’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s suite for piano solo, Pictures at an Exhibition. Among its 14 parts, bound by several statements of the “Promenade” (i.e. “walking” from one “picture” to the next), the strings only showed some raggedness in part 2, “The Gnome,” thereafter displaying solid precision throughout the 40-minute work. It was enjoyable hearing the bass drum resonate with a “vroom” up to the gallery, the hall’s loftiest perch; that sound is never audible beyond the stage in the Circle Theatre.

With an explosive and greatly extended applause following “The Great Gate of Kiev,” Wong and the ISO players offered as an encore Mikhail Glinka’s sprightly overture to his opera Russlan and Ludmilla. Which again brought down the house.

— TOM ALDRIDGE

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HALLOWEEN INDY SCREAM PARK 5211 S. NEW COLUMBUS ROAD, ANDERSON (ON THE GROUNDS OF WHITE RIVER PAINTBALL), 317-4893732, INDYSCREAMPARK.COM TICKETS $22-$ 40; OPEN OCT. 11-14, 18-21, 25-28, 31 q Indy Scream Park hasn’t been around long, but in a short time it’s established itself as one of the must-see parks of the season. It’s a haunted house as directed by Michael Bay and written by caffeine-addled grad students on a weekend bender. And it’s absolutely huge, with five separate segments that stand distinctly on their own.

A pitch-dark maze with more surprises than most of its kind, an excellent 3-D neon house and a Victorian nightmare hall make up the indoor portion. Outside you’ll see an enormous hillbilly-torture-family sequence that is nearly worth the price of admission.

The real standout, though, is the military-themed zombie corn maze, which makes tremendous use of the site’s location at a paintball facility. In the darkness, the deep field of wrecked military vehicles and jeeps gives the impression of an endless apocalyptic landscape. The Blade Runneresque billowing torch that occasionally lights the night certainly adds to the flavor.

Indy Scream Park keeps you busy for hours.

The whole thing is designed as an event in itself: A Halloween-style county fair complete with the snacks, cheesy entertainment, booths and highly dubious games. (Paintball-shooting invading zombies is something of a thrill in itself.) Worth the cost of admission and certainly worth the drive to Anderson.

— PAUL F. P. POGUE

THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN: UNSCRIPTED AT COMEDYSPORTZ 721 MASSACHUSETTS AVE., 317-951-8499, INDYCOMEDYSPORTZ.COM TICKETS $5-12; PRESENTED OCT. 12, 19 & 26 AT 10 P.M. e ComedySportz takes a decidedly mature stance on Halloween entertainment with The Headless Horseman: Unscripted, a long-form improv piece

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very loosely based on Washington Irving’s classic tale. Six improvisers tells the story of Drunken Hollow (the place name changes with every performance, per audience suggestions), incarnating characters from the story — Ichabod Crane, Brom Bones, Katrina Van Tassle, etc. — and pulling slips of audience-suggested dialogue from two buckets flanking the stage as they go.

Like any good improv show, success depends on strong ensemble work, and the ComedySportz team more than succeeds by that measure.

However, hilarious standouts are inevitable; Jeff Clawson and Edward Trout fall easily into that category. With plenty of X-rated content that readily reflects the sensibilities of the audience, ComedySportz creates a gut-busting evening of fast and loose comedy. Their tried and true framework for “adults-only” performances doesn’t disappoint. Worth seeing again and again.

— KATELYN COYNE

KORN KINGDOM MAZE AT BEASLEY’S ORCHARD 2304 E. MAIN ST., DANVILLE, 317-7454876, BEASLEYS-ORCHARD.COM TICKETS $6-$8 (PLUS $5 PARKING FEE) OPEN OCT. 12-14, 19-21, 26-28 r Beasley’s Orchard offers a charming harvest experience geared toward families in the memorymaking-business. With a pumpkin patch, hayrides, games and entertainment, this Far Westside farm evokes the spirit of fall. And if you’re looking for non-scary fall fun, their Korn Kingdom corn maze might be just the ticket. Maze-goers choose from a variety of passports containing themed multiplechoice questions (sports, history, Halloween, scouting, etc). Throughout the maze, wanderers reach markers corresponding to the questions. A correct answer sends them in the right direction, while an incorrect answer leads them astray.

My partner and I completed the quest in about 20 minutes; for me, the perfect amount of time to meander aimlessly. The designers of this maze wisely made the path more difficult at the start and less confusing toward the end. For a family with kids, I expect it might take about twice the time, hopefully adding up to twice the fun.

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A&E REVIEWS VISUAL ARTS PAINT AINT PAIN: STAN BLEVINS PRIMARY GALLERY, THROUGH OCT. 26 w Stan Blevins learned to paint from his father, a billboard painter, and uses materials common to that trade: oil paint, enamel and medium. This exhibition sees him, according to his artist statement, attempting to “tell the story of my present experience as a human being living in a world where time and space have been collapsed and where I have the ability to wander through the past, present, and future at will.” The work ambitiously tries to incorporate multiple narratives, and does so admirably well.

At first glance, the show — with its great variety of styles and moods — seems to lack cohesion. But upon reflection it all comes together in a way that duplicates the sense of wonderment, of being overwhelmed yet fascinated that Blevins talks about in his artist statement. There’s an interplay of matte and glossy, black and white — as well as pieces where the bright reds seem to jump from the compositions. He’s a highly skilled painter, unafraid to take risks and explore his creativity without inhibition. The best painting, pictured, recalls Salvador Dali due to its surreal mood and the way the composition is laid out, while managing to avoid feeling like a trite homage. Its ample size and restrained use of color and space allows an assortment of images that seem plucked from the artist’s dreams to occupy the frame together without feeling cluttered. Indeed, restraint is what makes Blevins’ work great.

— CHARLES FOX

COLOR ME ____ AND SUBLIME IS NOT A GUILTY PLEASURE INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (IMOCA) THROUGH NOV. 17. r There was excitement in iMOCA’s main gallery on opening night as patrons, gripping what looked like giant markers, painted between the lines on two, 16-foot-wide murals. Andy J. Miller and Andrew Neyer created the outlines, then left it to visitors to paint the rest, coloring book-style, using foam-tipped

brushes that one could dip in orange, yellow or baby-blue paint. The bazooka-sized brushes helped to level the playing field; that is, even if you had the artistic skill of a Monet, transporting your vision to this canvas would present a certain level of difficulty. It was fascinating to watch these patron-artists color in what looked to me like surrealistic clip art; some painted within the lines, some didn’t and some painted over everything. I can’t imagine, though, that these murals will be as compelling a draw after opening night, with the original artwork largely painted over.

But there’s something else going on at iMOCA worth a look: the video installation Sublime is Not a Guilty Pleasure, featuring the non-sequitur texts/tweets of Benny Sanders side by side with the street-videography of Nathaniel Hammond. The latter feels like it was inspired by the last minutes of the Richard Linklater film Slacker. It’s set in iMOCA’s neighborhood of Fountain Square and features a blurry whirlwind of young adults partying, skateboarding and doing what they do so well before being weighed down by career and parenthood.

— DAN GROSSMAN

POLINA IN THE CITY: POLINA OSHEROV WUG LAKU’S STUDIO + GARAGE, THROUGH OCT. 27 e Osherov, who works as a commercial fashion and portrait photographer, gives a glimpse into her personal work with an excellent show that bodes well for any future non-commercial efforts. Only a few of the photographs are easily identifiable as images of Indianapolis. Each feels more like a moment captured than an attempt to document the city, and although the photos are new, somewhat hazy filters used by Osherov cloak them with an air of nostalgia. What comes through the strongest is Osherov’s sense of perspective; the way she composes each image, with the lines of buildings and other compositional elements stretching in unexpected directions, gives significance to each scene. In her artist statement, she mentions that she likes to leave things out and say as much as possible with the least, and this is evident in each tasteful composition.

— CHARLES FOX

FILM CLIPS BENSHI KATAOKA ICHIRO AND AN INN AT TOKYO (1935)

Call it a time-travel opportunity. When silent films screened in Japan, they often featured the talents of the benshi, a live narrator who explained the on-screen action to the audience, speaking for characters, commenting on the action, and, when needed, translating foreign language intertitles. Just as a few silent film organists and musicians can still find work for revivals and soundtrack work, so too has the benshi tradition survived. Kataoka Ichiro, a professional benshi in Japan, will take part in a moderated discussion of his work on Oct. 11 at 3 p.m., and then accompany the Yasujiro Ozu’s silent film An Inn at Tokyo that night at 7 p.m. Both free events are at Bloomington’s IU Cinema.

THE CITY DARK (2011)

Here’s an under-appreciated, key environmental issue: the light pollution pervading our landscape. It is one of the many ways humans have endeavored to kill off nature, and one of the easiest to solve. Filmmaker Ian Cheney grew up in rural Maine, appreciating the stars, then was disturbed to find them all but missing when he moved to New York City. This excellent, engaging film is a personal story, one that highlights, so to speak, many aspects of our ridiculous efforts to light up the planet. The film will be accompanied by Don Gorney, president of Amos Butler Audubon, about Lights Out Indy, the local initiative working to turn down the lights in Indianapolis area. Oct. 12, 7:30 p.m. @ Cross and Crown Lutheran Church (5233 E. 79th St. at the corner of 79th and Allisonville), free. — Jim Poyser

THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1959)

A high point in the careers of producer William Castle and actor Vincent Price, and a cue to Alfred Hitchcock that he could make some money in horror.

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FOOD The lessons of intolerance Gluten-free expo this weekend

BY K A T Y CA R T E R E DI T O RS @N U V O . N E T When Judy Thorne, an Indianapolis grandmother who’d spent her life cooking meals for four children, received a diagnosis of celiac disease in 2009, she was completely overwhelmed. The disease is just one reason that many people are now living gluten-free –– but the diet can be challenging.

“From the moment you get that phone call with a diagnosis –– there’s no more wheat, oats, rye or barley. You go to the grocery store, and you say, ‘Well, what can I eat?’ It is extremely overwhelming,” Thorne says.

Three years later, Thorne considers herself still on a learning curve, and looks forward to this weekend’s Gluten Free Living Now Expo, a two-day event in Carmel featuring workshops with world-renowned experts on celiac disease and gluten sensitivity, plus demos and samples from over 80 gluten-free vendors.

Tina Duncan and Shelia Cafferty, cofounders of the expo, now in its second year, met each other through GIG (Gluten Intolerance Group) of Indianapolis.

Duncan’s son was diagnosed with celiac after doctors struggled for five years to find the source of symptoms that caused failureto-thrive and a misdiagnosis of autism.

Her son has lived gluten-free now for over four years and has seen almost all of his previous symptoms disappear.

Cafferty was diagnosed with gluten sensitivity after struggling for years with symptoms of fatigue, bloating and “brain fog.”

About 2,000 people from all over the country came to last year’s event. “The main reason people come is that we have the world’s leading researcher and director for the University of Maryland’s Center for Celiac Research, Dr. Alessio Fasano. He’s the most knowledgeable expert –– so if you hear something from him, you know it’s correct,” Duncan says.

“His center is the source for the most current data on celiac, and facilitated the research that determined one in 133 people are now affected by the disease, a lifelong genetic autoimmune disorder where even a small amount of ingested gluten causes destruction of the villi in the small intestine.”

“A lot of people are diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome, depression and anemia when they actually have a gluten intolerance or celiac,” says Duncan, who shares with Cafferty a passion for getting the word out about these increasingly common disorders. One of their main concerns is in making the Expo affordable — so they set admission at $5, with children under 10 admitted for free.

“We don’t want anyone not to be able to come because they can’t afford it,” Duncan says.

Admission gives an attendee access to all of the speeches and demos taking place during the two-day conference (a full schedule and list of speakers can be found at GlutenFreeLivingNow.org).

— Tina Duncan In addition to speakers ranging from medical experts (some local professionals will present as well, including Charles Vanderpool, assistant professor of pediatrics at Riley Hospital for Children) to gluten-free stars (the reigning Mrs. Alaska, a nurse practitioner, and 2011’s Mrs. USA), the conference offers the rare opportunity

“A lot of people are diagnosed with ... depression and anemia when they actually have a gluten intolerance or celiac.”

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to sample and watch cooking demos of gluten-free foods from over 80 vendors.

“We like to think of this as a gluten-free Costco on steroids — you can eat your way across this room,” Duncan laughs, adding that the advantage to having this many samples is it gives attendees a chance to try expensive foods before they buy.

Judy Thorne loves the expo so much, she’s now volunteered twice for the event.

For her, it’s not just about having a wealth of information and product samples all under one roof, it’s about the encouragement that can be given to many people who face a gluten-free life and feel very alone.

“I consider the expo to be a megadose of encouragement and information — but it’s also about connecting with others who are going through the same thing. You can come out of there with hope,” Thorne says.

The event is for anyone who knows someone affected by celiac or gluten sensitivity. Last year’s festival saw several school teachers coming to learn more about the needs of their gluten-free students.

Duncan reminds, “The holidays are coming, and for those who will be having gluten-free people in their homes, it’s nice for them to come and hear how to avoid cross-contamination and see what’s available to accommodate a holiday menu.”

GLUTEN FREE LIVING NOW EXPO Saturday, Oct. 13, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 14, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

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t’s impossible to see it all, but we implore you to try your best. Broad Ripple Music Fest is one of the best –– and cheapest –– ways to catch our favorite locals performing all year long. This year, many long-time organizers chose to retire their BRMF duties, leaving DJ and tech guru Jack Shepler to coordinate the showcase-style festival this year.

One of his first changes was to eliminate any non-Broad Ripple-strip centered venues; the result is a festival that’s ultra-walkable. We saw fit to honor the walkable fest with a walking map, highlighting our favorite act from each showcase along the way.

The Details

Get full access to all BRMF has to offer with a $15 wristband. Wristbands can be purchased online and picked up at will call at Connor’s Pub. If you’re interested in one specific showcase, pay the individual cover at each venue (noted below). Those interested in BRMF and the Indie Arts & Vintage Marketplace should note the free shuttle bus running between the Strip and Glendale Mall.

INDY CD AND VINYL GIRLS ROCK! SHOWCASE (ALL AGES, NO COVER)

(21+, $5 OR FEST WRISTBAND) 7:00 p.m. Swig 8:00 p.m.Blue Moon Revue 9:00 p.m. Shadeland 10:00 p.m. Midwest State of Mind 11:00 p.m. Rodeo Ruby Love 12:15 a.m. The Broderick 1:30 a.m. She Does Is Magic

She Does Is Magic is cruising on new release My Height in Heels from Bloomington label Flannelgraph. Singer and guitarist Chad Serhal calls his band’s music “awkward, introverted rock and roll,” but it’s more nuanced than that. The surfy Bloomington-Indianapolis trio alternated instrumentals and snappy, heartstring-twanging rock songs –– album structuring not unlike another NUVO favorite Murder by Death –– creating eight succinct, delightful tracks.

WE LOVE: “Day at the Lake”

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9:00 p.m. djtetsuo. (BRMF Facebook contest winner) 10:00 p.m. Mr. Orange 11:00 p.m. Ninja Toji 12:00 a.m. Shiva 1:00 a.m. Brian Summers 2:00 a.m. Defi

SHIVA: From classical music to punk bands, Shiva’s done a lot. But we know and love her best on the turntables, where she’s legendary both here and wherever she brings her decks.

She just released a split with another Indy techno mainstay, Adam Jay. What will you see from Shiva at BRMF? We’re not totally sure –– but she’s teased that she’ll be playing some variation of bass music at the Nocturnal showcase.

WE LOVE: It all

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ECHOMAKER: We’ve written quite a bit about Echomaker, part of the Audio Recon collective that seems to be in constant transition. Spearheaded by drummer Eric Brown, this experimental collective combines disparate sounds of soul, funk, jazz and hip-hop into electrifying live performances that always bring a new element. Members include Neil Cain, Lorax, Dietrick Klooster and Dan Marquis –– and the aforementioned Brown. They released Concrete Seeds in late December 2011.

WE LOVE: “Ghost Life”

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NO DIRECTION: No Direction is a Girls Rock! fairy tale. After meeting during the Girls Rock! Indy summer camp and forming a pop-punk group, these 13- and 14-year-olds went on to play Pride, place highly in the Hoosier Dome High School Battle of the Bands and open for groups like Chicago’s Flatfoot 56. We love No Direction, and we know you will too.

WE LOVE: “Hardball”

BEN SOLLEE: Nestled among a lineup of hometown faves is BRMF headliner Ben Sollee. We’re big Sollee fans –– note his political and environmental activism –– especially of the Jim James’ produced My Dear Companion, which explores the issue of mountaintop removal coal mining.

Sollee’s a big bike fan too –– he often travels between tour stops on bicycle, and even traveled 330 miles to Bonnaroo with his cello strapped behind him.

WE LOVE: “A Few Honest Words”

4:00 p.m. Whoa!Tiger 5:00 p.m. Indian City Weather 6:05 p.m.Rhinoceros Beetle 7:15 p.m. Echomaker 8:30 p.m. Hotfox 10:05 p.m.Perfect Kiss (Chicago) 11:40 p.m. Pravada 1:00 a.m. Critters

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TOPSPEED: If you’re lazy, you can hear turntable wizard Topspeed –– legally, Alan Roberts –– on the air at Hot 96.3 every Tuesday and Thursday night or watch him on IMC Monday – Friday on Channel 19. But the real way to experience the joy of Topspeed is in the clubs; he’s regular at Taps and Dolls every Friday and holds down Dynamite at Mass Ave Pub with DJ Salazar on Sunday.

WE LOVE: It all

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ALLEY CAT - JOYFUL NOISE RECORDINGS SHOWCASE (21+, $7 OR FEST WRISTBAND) 9:00 p.m. Ha Ha You 10:00 p.m. Sleeping Bag 11:00 p.m. DMA 12:00 a.m. Ancient Slang 1:00 a.m. Marmoset

ANCIENT SLANG: We’re loving Ancient Slang, the fuzzy punk threesome who have been popping up all over Indy lately –– most recently at Cataracts and Radio Radio with Soft Moon. They’re dark, they’re distorted, they’re necessary.

WE LOVE: “New Blood’” from Satan Is Waitin’

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Punk Rock Night Awards, Pravada at Indy’s Jukebox, Musical Family Tree New Music Showcase, Esperanza Spalding at Old National Centre

MUSIC MONKEY’S TALE (21+, $5 OR FEST WRISTBAND) 4:00 p.m. Branch Gordon 5:00 p.m. Mark Alexander 6:30 p.m. Floyds Biscayne 8:00 p.m. Coup D’e Pat 10:00 p.m. And Away They Go 12:30 p.m. Kalo

KALO: Bluesy rock duo Kalo is Kara Ostewig and Alan Long –– get it?

Kalo –– who met in high school and reconnected years later to make music. Their sound is a little Adele, a little Swell Season and weirdly, a little Eagles. Ostewig’s mostly sweet voice has some rough jazz edges which are complemented by Long’s frantic blues guitar.

WE LOVE: “Gypsy in the Night”

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9:00 p.m. DJ Metrognome 9:30 p.m. 1st Round of Beat Battle 10:15 p.m. Ace-One 10:30 p.m. Ajnee the God 10:45 p.m. Flaco 11:00 p.m. 2nd Round of Beat Battle 11:30 p.m. Pro Forms 11:45 p.m. M-Eighty 12:00 a.m. Hinx Jones 12:15 a.m. 3rd Round of Beat Battle 12:30 a.m. Sirius Black 12:45 a.m. Blake Allee 1:00 a.m Grey Granite 1:15 a.m Final Round of Beat Battle 1:30 a.m Feeray & Sun of Thought 1:45 a.m Freddie Bunz 2:00 a.m Oreo Jones 2:15 a.m DJ Metrognome

COP OUT: We know, we know. We said we’d pick our faves from each showcase, but it’s just impossible at the Heavy Gun Beat Battle. Suffice it to say, if it’s hiphop you’re seeking, this is your place. This showcase is legendary for highlighting Indy’s behind-the-scenes geniuses. Breaks between beats are filled with performances by our favorite emcees –– including, of course, Heavy Gunners Grey Granite and Freddie Bunz.

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p.m. Magnetic p.m. Elephant Quiz p.m. Howard Lewis & Lovins p.m. Midwest Hype p.m. Max Allen Band

ELEPHANT QUIZ: Bloomington’s Elephant Quiz are regulars in basements and small clubs, where they peddle a hard-to-describe blend of reggae, hip-hop and jam. Until recently, they’ve had a strong, large collection songs without an album to unite them.

That all changed with the May release of The Weirdest Room.

Their live shows are unpredictable and ridiculous –– and they’re ready for their breakthrough.

WE LOVE: “Dream Fever”

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SWEET POISON VICTIM: We’re loving newcomer Sweet Poison Victim, an emerging Latin-African soul fusion group that’s all fun, no filler. Featuring Clarence Jones of Hinx Jones, on bass, drums, vox and other various instruments, this flexible collective started at a series of jam sessions and rapidly evolved into a project worth seeing. At the heart of the group is Kwesi Brown, a professor of Ghanian performance and culture at IU whose favorite imbibe is group namesake sweet poison, a root-based concoction Brown eagerly shares with all at his shows.

WE LOVE: “Pasa Pasa”

SABBATICAL (ALL AGES, NO COVER)

12:00 p.m. Evan Slusher 12:45 p.m. Rick Dodd & The Dick Rods (acoustic) 1:30 p.m. Salvador Dalai Llama Farm (acoustic) 2:15 p.m. Pres Maxon 3:00 p.m. Toeknee Tea 3:45 p.m. Old Truck Revival 4:30 p.m. Laura K Balke

KILROY’S UPLAND TENT ZA PIZZA - MUSICAL FAMILY TREE SHOWCASE (21+, $5 OR FEST WRISTBAND) 4:00 4:50 5:40 6:30 7:20 8:10 9:00

p.m. TBA p.m. Jethro Easyfields p.m. Dave Carter p.m. Dr. Ray p.m. Christian Taylor p.m. Jessie & Amy p.m. Jon Rogers

JETHRO EASYFIELDS: Last time we spoke with Jethro, he was selling his beloved Ford Mustang to raise money for his even-more beloved pup Chelsea after her bout with acute glacoma. On a lighter note, Easyfields was also planning to produce a collection of his story songs and recording a hard rock album with The Innocent Boys. We’re not sure which tack he’ll take at the Musical Family Tree Showcase, but you can brush up on all of his musical iterations (including stints with The Trashing Edens, Cool Coyote, The Arrowheads and Fishes of Eden) in an archive of his music on musicalfamilytree.com.

WE LOVE: “Relentless Pouring”

(ALL AGES, $10 OR FEST WRISTBAND) 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00

p.m. Deek. p.m. MC Sparkplug p.m. DJ Deanne p.m. Manic p.m. Hollow Point p.m.Phenom p.m. Colette

COLETTE: The second BRMF headliner is DJ Colette, noted house DJ and singer who holds down a residency at SmartBar in Chicago.

She’s more than a DJ –– Colette has gained a legion of fans not just for her mixes, but for the clear, clean vocals she layers over them. She’ll fit right in between bass-heavy Indy DJ Hollow Point and fellow Chicagoan Phenom.

WE LOVE: “Smile for Me”

EVAN SLUSHER: Originally from Noblesville, Slusher’s frequently seen at at songwriter’s rounds hosted by Cara Jean Marcy. He’s a UIndy student whose track “The Best Thing” popped up on the Paradise Recovered soundtrack. Now let’s turn it over to Cara Jean Marcy, who’s taken Slusher under her successful-singer-songwriter wing. “He’s a great writer, has a great voice, great songs –– it’s not surprising people are anxiously waiting for him to come out with an album. It’s interesting to watch how carefully he’s considering every little detail and I’m in a particularly fun spot, watching, knowing that the end result will be well worth the wait, and that people are going to hate him for being 19.” You’ll have to wait on that album, but you can see him Saturday at his opening set at Sabbatical’s all-ages, acoustic-driven showcase.

WE LOVE: “The Best Thing”

SABBATICAL - 8729 RECORDS / FOUR SEE ENT SHOWCASE (21+, $5 OR FEST WRISTBAND)

9 p.m. Mina and the Wondrous Flying Machine 10:15 p.m. NARP 12 a.m. s.a.i.n.t. RECON

S.A.I.N.T. RECON: Wondering what the Saint stands for in s.a.i.n.t.

RECON? It’s Speaking As I’ve Never Told, which hints towards the group’s propensity for clear and forward thinking rhymes. It’s the truth, and s.a.i.n.t. RECON’s telling it. With a live rock band backing, emcees Mr. Kineik and Ace One spit truth, one line at a time.

WE LOVE: “The Ill-Fated Giant”

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Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto have preserved one of the most distinctly American forms of music in the Western Hemisphere.

Originating from a unique blend of PHOTO BY ARTUR SILVA Juan “Chuchita” Fernández European, African and indigenous native influences, the term gaitero refers to one who plays the gaita, an ancient wooden flute asso- spent several years playing the guacharaca ciated with the Kuna, Kogui and Zenú Indian in Landero’s band. During his tenure with cultures of Colombia. The haunting melodies Landero, Chuchita honed his compositional of the gaita are played over a foundation of skills contributing lyrics to Landero’s “La hypnotic Afro-Colombian rhythms.

Pava Congona,” one of the most popular “This music was born from a marcumbias ever written. Chuchita vividly riage between the Indians of the Sierra recalled composing the song with Landero.

Nevada and those who came here “We were going to visit some girls who lived from the land of Africa,” says Juan in the mountains. We put Andres’ accordion “Chuchita” Fernández. in a bag, strapped it to a donkey and drank Chuchita is the current leader of Los aguardiente [an anise-flavoured Colombian Gaiteros de San Jacinto, a group co-founded liquer] as we walked. We were listening to the by his uncle Antonio “Toño” Fernández in songs of the birds and Andres would ask me the early 1940s. I spoke with the legendary the names of the birds. I would tell him and singer after a recent he put the verses together performance at The as we walked along.” He National Museum of begins reciting lyrics, “One Mexican Art in Chicago. day in the mountains I Chuchita has been heard the corcobao singperforming with Los ing and I saw a spider Gaiteros since the spinning a web of gold.”

1970s. At 82 years old, Chuchita would go the singer has been on to write hundreds of a firsthand witness other songs, often drawto many important ing on his love for nature. changes in Colombian “I used to work in the music –– particularly the fields. When I write my development of cumbia. lyrics, I speak about nature Over the course of our and the experiences I had conversation, Chuchita working outdoors,” he says, shared many valuable before quoting a poetic — Juan “Chuchita” Fernández insights and memories example. “The life of the from his historic career. field worker is a beautiful “I started out playing life, but in the afternoon the tambora drum. I was thrown into doing when praying begins and the ground doves do vocals because the other musicians saw I not sing, this saddens my heart.” had charisma,” says Chuchita when I ask Advanced age isn’t slowing Chuchita down. about his early involvement with music.

After a 90-minute performance of full-throttle Chuchita remembers the term cumbia singing and dancing, my friends and I sheepwas originally applied to the parties where ishly asked Chuchita for an interview. We the gaiteros played. expected the 82-year-old to be too fatigued to “Back in the day, people would say ‘Let’s cooperate. But to our surprise, the singer had go to the cumbia.’ The women would bake plenty of energy left. He talked with us well cakes and cookies. The gaiteros would be into the night and probably would have kept drinking and there was dancing all night. It going if the museum staff hadn’t kindly asked was very festive,” he says. us to leave so they could lock up.

Chuchita described a memorable scene As we said goodbye, his parting words to from a typical cumbia party. us indicated that his career is far from over.

“The women would stand holding candles “I’m still composing songs. We’re tourto light the plaza. The dancers would gather ing Europe and the U.S. I’ve worked with and dance around the women as the gaitethe Philharmonic Orchestra of Bogota. I’m ros played. When one of the gaiteros would working on a play. Music has given me the get tired, another would come in to replace status to accomplish all this.” them. We would party so long that the next Thanks to Isaias Guerrero and Gerardo Ruiz day, there was so much wax from the canTovar for their assistance in this interview. dles on the ground that the donkeys would slip and fall as they entered the plaza.”

Chuchita’s experience playing at these LISTEN UP informal cumbias led to an offer to join the Kyle Long creates a custom podcast for each column. Hear this week’s at NUVO.net. band of Andres Landero, an accordion player known as the King of Cumbia. Chuchita

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NUVO: What are a few of your favorite moments on Bear Creek?

CARLILE: When Tim (Hanseroth) came up with the guitar line on “Rise Again,” that was one of my favorite moments. When we finalized “Just Kids,” that was one of my favorite moments because that was an experiment that was getting exhausting for me to explain it all to the band. I couldn’t actually play the piano part –– it was too difficult. I could only play it for like 30 seconds at a time and then my hand would fatigue. I was trying to piece it together and it took a really long time. So, when that finally came together that was a big moment for me.

But my favorite moment was when we finished “That Wasn’t Me,” because it was going to be an all-day ordeal and we ended up getting it in one live take. Without an arrangement, without anything, we just performed the song. We didn’t know what the breaks would be, or where the bridge would be, or how it would begin or how it would end. That’s one of those moments where you can never take that back and do it again.

NUVO: I think a lot of people would be surprised that you work with two twins [Tim and Phil Hanseroth, part of Carlile’s band for 10 years] who are essentially your siblings. What is unique about your writing process with them?

CARLILE: Well, it goes so much deeper than that. They’re not my actual siblings, but we’ve been playing together for over 10 years now.

One of them is married to my little sister. And they have a baby, my niece Josephine who’s 6 months old and tours with us. She’s not just my niece –– she’s Phil’s twin brother’s niece, so me and Tim share a niece.

We all live in the same small town. It really works for us, to be together here, on the road and in the studio and also to be together at Thanksgiving, Christmas. For the twins to come to my baptism, for me to go to a family member’s funeral. For us, it works that way.

And the reason it works that way is because of the writing process. It turns three separate songwriters into one very diverse songwriter.

When Phil or Tim turns a song into me as an interpreter, it’s not difficult for me to understand it or perform it, because we essentially have parallel lives.

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NUVO: I’m very interested that you donate so much money to the foundation you founded. It’s a really great way to give –– almost like the fans are donating. Can you tell me what causes you’ll be highlighting in the next year or upcoming years?

CARLILE: Absolutely. The first order of priority is that we’re taking on hunger as a cause for the fall. We teamed up with an organization called WhyHunger. So, food bands, soup kitchens, food pantries are going to come out, hand out their materials and I’m going to speak about them on stage. That way, when I come to your city, you’re going to know which food bank or organization is making an impact.

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NUVO: I know you came out publicly several years ago. Also I know there is a lot of pressure for media figures to speak out during hotly contested political races. Are you campaigning at all for LGBT rights?

CARLILE: Totally, especially in Washington state. Marriage equality is up for discussion in November. It’s Referendum 74, is what it’s called. Back to what you were saying about coming out and the highprofile obligatory attached to coming out.

I would say that coming out is something I did when I was 14. At that time, although I didn’t have a voice or a platform, or anyone who cared besides my parents and my teachers, I know that those kinds of things have a ripple effect. They start out small, but have really broad reach.

As I got older and moved my way up through the music business, it never occurred to me that there was a necessity to come out. Once you do it that young –– part of explaining your orientation at that age –– it becomes just that: your orientation. You believe it’s visible, just like your eye color, it’s on your sleeve. I really believe it was common knowledge about me.

But, since it wasn’t, I do understand the importance of making an issue –– of highlighting that about a person. It was important to me to have those kinds of role models to look up to. Having done that and having said that, doing that without a cause, it’s more than just making an example about yourself and saying, “Look at me, I’m gay too and I’m happy.” It’s more CONTINUED ON PG 32 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 10.10.12-10.17.12 // music

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CONTINUED FROM PG 31 to make an issue about a specific cause –– marriage equality. Marriage inequality sends the most violent message to adolescent gay youth that you can possible send.

That is, not only can you not be happy, but you can’t be normal. You can’t do even the basic day-to-day things. You can’t become a civil rights recipient. And that’s why I’m involved in Referendum 74.

NUVO: You came up in Seattle’s coffeehouse circuit. What is your advice to people who are doing that same thing right now –– young singer-songwriters searching to break into touring?

CARLILE: I think that the most important things about coming up is that one –– you can’t skip those things. You can’t skip those steps. You have to play bars, restaurants, coffeehouses, and, in my opinion, you have to busk as well. The reason for this is that music is an over-saturated thing. Everybody’s doing it, everybody’s putting their music on the Internet and going the same direction.

But not everybody knows how to perform in a way that makes people stop what they’re doing. So you have to first learn how to make people stop, physically stop, where they’re walking when you’re busking. You learn, when I do this thing, when I play this chord,

when I hit this note, people are stopping.

Then you move into a restaurant and you figure out what it is that makes people put down their fork. And then you move into a bar and you figure out what it is that makes people put down their beer and stop talking to their colleague. And then, by the time you graduate into playing theaters and actual shows with your band, you really do know what it is that makes people stop what they’re doing. And when you have an audience, it becomes a refined craft. That’s one thing, playing in uncomfortable situations that you may not think are cool.

The second thing is community. You have to find other people to play with and work with, set up shows with and jam with.

Nothing big ever happens throughout the course of history without people coming together in community.

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Tuesday, Oct. 16 Murat at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey 7:30 p.m., prices vary, all-ages EVEN MORE This interview has been condensed and edited. For the full version, see NUVO.net.

SOUNDCHECK Wednesday

ALL-AGES STRAY FROM THE PATH

Hoosier Dome, 1627 Prospect St. 6:30 p.m., $10 advance, $12 at door, all-ages

Spend your Wednesday at the Hoosier Dome with a selection of the freshest young metal, including Southport’s Awaken O Sleeper (who may or may not have broken up), Tuscaloosa’s Gideon, Ontario’s Counterparts, Conquerers and Columbus’ Christian Wings of a Martyr.

Headliners Stray from the Path are Long Island born and bred –– but they’re leaving L.I. to embark on a UK tour with Every Time I Die and Last Witness in two weeks.

JAZZ NEGRONI’S TRIO

The Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave. 7 p.m., 10 p.m., $12, 21+

Not the excellent gin cocktail, but just as good –– Negroni’s Trio is Jose Negroni, son Nomar Negroni and a rotating cast of guest bass players. Out of Puerto Rico, both Negronis and their third grabbed attention for progressive and Latin jazz blends and fresh piano improvisations. They’ll perform twice at the Jazz Kitchen tonight.

MORE WEDNESDAY PICKS:

Motion City Soundtrack, Jukebox the Ghost at Old National Centre. Read our interview with Jukebox the Ghost on NUVO.net

The Waffle Stompers at The Melody Inn

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JAZZ VICTOR WOOTEN

The Bluebird, 216 N. Walnut, Bloomington 8 p.m., $15 + fees, 21+

Bass giant Wooten is one of five musical brothers who once toured together as the Wooten Brothers Band. They’ve since separated to play and tour separately, but music still flows through the family; nephew and bassist Bobby Wooten is a recent grad of Bloomington, where Victor will perform on Thursday. Wooten also is member of Bela Fleck’s Flecktones, along with brother Roy “Future Man” Wooten. His uberfast slap and pop style is widely admired and

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Switchfoot, Paper Route at Egyptian Room The Soft Pack at Radio Radio Backwoods Payback, Devil to Pay at The Melody Inn

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POP RUPA AND THE APRIL FISHES Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave. 9 p.m., 21+

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SOUNDCHECK ROCK THE JERRY GARCIA BAND

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The Mousetrap would be an absolutely perfect place for Jerry Garcia, but, alas, we’ll have to settle for the Jerry Garcia Band. We’re happy the group still includes original member Melvin Seals on the Hammond B3 Organ –– and they’ll bring plenty of classic hits, including the Bob Dylan covers for which they were known during their heyday.

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Balmorhea at The Bishop (Bloomington) Kiya Heartwood at Lazy Daze Coffee House Battle of Birdy’s at Birdy’s Jeff Coffin and the Mu’tet at The Jazz Kitchen Man Overboard, Indian City Weather at the Hoosier Dome

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Various locations, Broad Ripple Various times, various prices, some all-ages, some 21+

Flip back to page 28 for coverage of this year’s more-walkable BRMF, including a handy map!

although you can pick up the album in its entirety already at their Bandcamp site.

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Rising country star Eric Church has gained popularity for tracks like “Creepin” (as in ivy, not a predator) and “Homeboy” (sample lyric: “You were too bad for a little square town/With your hip-hop hat and your pants on the ground”), but we know him best from his stint on CTV’s Cribs where Church showed off his Nashville mancave.

An Evening with Jonathan Groff at The Cabaret at the Columbia Club Eric Richards at Hubbard and Cravens, Carmel JD McPherson at Radio Radio

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It may not be on the BRMF schedule this year, but don’t count the Mel out this Saturday night.

Featuring Bottoms Up Burlesque’s annual charity event, the evening will have musical accompaniment from The Lickers and The Slappies. Now, let’s turn it over to resident NUVO burlesque expert Paul Pogue for his thoughts on BUB: “The performers [work] with an easy confidence and seemingly endless creativity. After all these years of burlesque you might think the form had been exhausted, but you’d be wrong. Even sticking with the always effective formula of ‘tease + vaudeville humor = PROFIT,’ the Bottoms Up Crew had something new at every turn.”

Notable folkie Brandi Carlile breakthrough album The Story introduced tracks like “Turpentine” and “My Song” to AAA radio stations. Since, she’s toured on a few more successful albums, including this year’s Bear Creek. Carlile donates $1 from each ticket sale to Looking Out, a foundation she founded in 2008 that’s donated money to causes as diverse as the American Diabetes Organization and Honor the Earth. Opening are the alt-country Oregonians from Blizten Trapper, touring on 2011 Sub Pop release American Goldwing. Our fingers are crossed for a performance of their 2009 track “Black River Killer,” an outstanding rootsy murder ballad from their album Furr.

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The obviously current events-attuned Werks are touring their self-titled album on the Funemployment Tour. Join them Saturday at the Mousetrap, where the psych-rock-dance-drum group promises “exploratory jams.” We’re into it. The group is considering the ‘Trap show their album release ––

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© 2012 BY ROB BRESZNY

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Ten percent of all sexually suggestive text messages are delivered to the wrong number. Take precautions to make sure you’re not among that ten percent in the coming weeks. It will be extra important for you to be scrupulous in communicating about eros and intimacy. The stakes will be higher than usual. Togetherness is likely to either become more intensely interesting or else more intensely confusing -- and it’s largely up to you which direction it goes. For best results, express yourself clearly and with maximum integrity.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If it were within my power, I’d help you identify the new feelings you have not yet been able to understand. I would infuse you with the strength you would need to shed the worn-out delusions that are obstructing your connection to far more interesting truths. And I would free you from any compulsion you have to live up to expectations that are not in alignment with your highest ideals.

Alas, I can’t make any of these things happen all by myself. So I hope you will rise to the occasion and perform these heroic feats under your own power.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher (1898-1972) was a Gemini. He liked to depict seemingly impossible structures, like stairways in which people who climbed to the top arrived at the bottom. I nominate him to be your patron saint in the coming week. You should have his talent for playing with tricks and riddles in ways that mess with everyone’s boring certainties. Here are four Escher quotes you can feel free to use as your own. 1.

“Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?” 2. “My work is a game, a very serious game.” 3. “I think it’s in my basement; let me go upstairs and check.” 4. “Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Venus flytrap is a remarkable plant that gobbles up insects and spiders. Its leaves do the dirty work, snapping shut around its unsuspecting prey. Evolution has made sure that the flowers of the Venus flytrap sit atop a high stalk at a safe distance from where all the eating takes place.

This guarantees that pollinators visiting the flowers don’t get snagged by the carnivorous leaves below. So the plant gets both of its main needs met: a regular supply of food and the power to disseminate its seeds. I’ll ask you to derive a lesson from all this, Cancerian. Be sure that in your eagerness to get the energy you need, you don’t interfere with your ability to spread your influence and connect with your allies.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A sinuous and shimmering archetype that begins with the letter “s” has been trying to catch your attention, Leo -- sometimes in subliminal and serpentine ways. Why haven’t you fully tuned in yet?

Could it be because you’re getting distracted by mildly entertaining but ultimately irrelevant trivia?

I’m hoping to shock you out of your erroneous focus. Here’s the magic trigger code that should do the trick: Psssssssssst! Now please do what you can to make yourself very receptive to the slippery, spidery signals of the simmeringly sublime surge.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t burn down a bridge you haven’t finished building yet. OK, Virgo? Don’t try to “steal” things that already belong to you, either. And resist the urge to flee from creatures that are not even pursuing you. Catch my drift? Stop yourself anytime you’re about to say nasty things about yourself behind your own back, and avoid criticizing people for expressing flaws that you yourself have, and don’t go to extraordinary lengths to impress people you don’t even like or respect.

Pretty please? This is a phase of your astrological cycle when you should put an emphasis on keeping things simple and solid and stable.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Hello Dear Sir: I would like to place a large order for yellow chicken curry, cherry cream cheese cupcakes, and sour, malty Belgian golden ale. It’s for my birthday party this Saturday, and will need to serve exactly 152 people. My agent will pick it up at 11 a.m. Please have it ready on time. - Ms. Lori Chandra.” Dear Ms. Chandra: I am an astrologer, not a caterer, so I’m afraid I can’t fulfill your order. It’s admirable that you know so precisely what you want and are so authoritative about trying to get it; but please remember how crucial it is to seek the fulfillment of your desires from a source that can actually fulfill them. You’re a Libra, right? Your birthday is this week? Thanks for giving me an excuse to send this timely message to all of your fellow Libras.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Here comes the big reveal of the month; the trick ending of the year; and maybe the most unusual happiness of the decade. Any day now yo u will get the chance to decipher the inside story that’s beneath the untold story that’s hidden within the secret story. I won’t be surprised if one of your most sophisticated theories about the nature of reality gets cracked, allowing you to at recover at least a measure of primal innocence. I suggest you start practicing the arts of laughing while you cry and crying while you laugh right now. That way you’ll be all warmed up when an old style of give-and-take comes to an end, ultimately making way for a more profound new give-and-take.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There’s almost nothing about the dandelion that humans can’t make use of. People of many different countries have eaten its buds, leaves, and greens. Besides being tasty, it contains high levels of several vitamins and minerals. Its flowers are the prime ingredient in dandelion wine, and its roots have been turned into a coffee substitute.

Herbalists from a variety of traditions have found medicinal potency in various parts of the plant. Last but not least, dandelions are pretty and fun to play with! In the coming weeks, Sagittarius, I invite you to approach the whole world as if it were a dandelion. In other words, get maximum use and value out of every single thing with which you interact.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Intellect confuses intuition,” asserted painter Piet Mondrian. I don’t think that’s always true, even for creative artists. But in the coming week I suspect it’ll be important for you to take into consideration. So make sure you know the difference between your analytical thinking and your gut-level hunches, and don’t let your thinking just automatically override your hunches. Here’s more helpful advice from painter Robert Genn: “The job of the intellect is to give permission to the intuition, and it’s the job of intuition to know when intellect is once again appropriate.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s time to seek help from outside the magic circle you usually stay inside. You need to call on extracurricular resources -- people and animals and deities who can offer useful interventions and delightful serendipity and unexpected deliverance.

The remedies that work for you most of the time just won’t be applicable in the coming days. The usual spiritual appeals will be irrelevant. I’m not saying that you are facing a dire predicament; not at all. What I’m suggesting is that the riddles you will be asked to solve are outside the purview of your customary guides and guidelines.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): These days lobsters are regarded as a luxury food, but that wasn’t the case among early Americans. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the large crustaceans were meals that were thought to be suitable only for poor people and prisoners. Wealthy folks wouldn’t touch the stuff. After examining your astrological omens, Pisces, I’m wondering if your future holds a similar transformation. I think there could very well be a ragsto-riches story in which an ignored or denigrated thing ascends to a more important role.

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