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FOOD TRUCK FRENZY

Indy loves their mobile meals, and so we sent David Hoppe out (well, he sent himself out!) to as many food trucks as he could find. The result is a nigh-on comprehensive guide.

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OCCUPY INDY ATTRACTS OVER 1,000

Protestors cited several related reasons for their civil action, including corporate greed and a growing disparity between the richest and poorest. BY MIKE ALLEE

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THE BELLE OF BALL STATE

Mere months after receiving a bachelor’s degree in musical theatre, Emily Behny secured the part of Belle in Disney’s bigbudget touring production of Beauty and the Beast . You can see her on the Clowes stage this week. BY MATTHEW MCCLURE

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CHEW ON THIS

If this subject of Prohibition is of interest (and if you enjoy the irony of discussing Prohibition over a cocktail or two), then I encourage you to attend one of the Chew On This conversations organized by Indiana Humanities and the Indiana Historical Society, amongst others, on Tuesday, Oct. 18. BY NEIL CHARLES

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HEARTLAND FILM FESTIVAL

For 20 years now, the Heartland Film Festival has screened films that celebrate the human spirit. We pick seven to see at this year’s festival, including three candidates for the fest’s $100,000 grand prize. BY DERRICK CARNES AND SCOTT SHOGER

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BROAD RIPPLE MUSIC FEST

Our top picks for the annual music festival, which is taking over the streets of Broad Ripple Friday and Saturday, include Kate Lamont’s farewell show at The Vogue, the mega-parties at the Connor’s Pub mega-tent, IndyMojo’s three-stage affair at The Mousetrap and Heavy Gun’s annual beat battle.

DINING GUIDE 2011 This year’s Dining Guide includes some tried and true restaurants, along with this year’s Best Of winners. Also, check out a couple dozen restaurants we reviewed in the past year. Bon appéti!

from the readers I do not support anyone who says “On average Indiana harvests 884 MILLION acres of corn” (“Letters,” Marty Jones, Oct. 5–Oct. 12). Considering Indiana has less than 23 MILLION acres of total land area, this would be quite a feat. Maybe you meant 884 MILLION bushels of corn per year, which would only convert to about 5 to 6 MILLION acres of corn per year. … Again and again, it always amazes me how someone tries to make a point; can’t get simple facts straight; and publishes incorrect figures to make their point look better than it really is.

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Are the Occupy protesters anti-American? BY STEVE HAMMER SHAM M ER@ N UVO.NET

he Occupy Wall Street protests began last month in New York and have spread to other cities as spontaneous demonstrations against corporate piracy, greed and excessive profiteering among corporate interests. Such movements have sprouted throughout American history whenever big business gets so big that it ignores common Americans. The progressive movement in the early 1900s was, in many ways, a reaction to exploitation of workers, unchecked growth and greed, and a yearning for economic justice. It took coordinated government action and the emergence of the organized labor movement to address the injustices enough to stop the demonstrations. By the time the Great Depression came in the 1930s, we’d had labor riots and food riots and anti-government riots. Thirty years later, Americans took to the streets to protest discrimination. The marches led by Martin Luther King Jr. and others were non-violent. The response from the government, in many cases, involved water cannons, attack dogs and billy clubs. Before these protests ended, riots occurred in dozens of American cities, causing hundreds of deaths and billions of dollars in property damage. Many of the affected urban areas have still not recovered from the 1960s riots. Travel to parts of Chicago and Detroit and you’ll see burned-out buildings from that era. The Occupy protests have not yet turned violent and, hopefully, never will. But protests by average Americans against the excesses of big business are hardly rare in our history and, quite often, have helped spur change. Predictably, members of the Republican Party, whose policies of deregulation helped cause this global crisis, are outdoing each other in condemning these protests. Pizza executive Herman Cain, who inexplicably finds himself a leading contender for the Republican nomination for president, took the hardest line possible in an interview on Sunday. He told CBS News, “It’s anti-American because to protest Wall Street and the bankers is basically saying that you’re anti-capitalism. The free market system and capitalism are the two things that have allowed this nation and

this economy to become the biggest in the world. Even though we have our challenges, I believe the protests are more anti-capitalism and anti-free market than anything else.” By his measure, the protesters are “jealous” that others have Cadillacs and they do not. On the same program, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called the protests an inevitable side effect of what he described as President Obama’s “class warfare.” The Tea Party protesters, by contrast, are freedom fighters seeking to rein in an uncontrolled government hellbent on bankrupting the country and therefore, are fighting a noble cause. Gingrich and Cain said nothing when teabaggers spit on Congressman John Lewis, a hero of the civil rights movement, nor have they condemned the sometimes violent, always racially charged rhetoric of the Tea Party movement. Both the Occupy protesters and the teabaggers have a guaranteed freedom to protest against their government. But the Tea Party is a group financed by billionaires and given publicity and encouragement by the mainstream conservative media, led by billionaire Rupert Murdoch and millionaire Rush Limbaugh. In other words, the Tea Party movement was manufactured by the richest 2 percent of Americans and seeks policies that benefit that same 2 percent. Rarely have Americans been so willing to fight for the rights of rich people to become even wealthier. The comparison that immediately comes to mind is the estimated 60,000 to 90,000 freedmen and slaves who fought for the South in the Civil War on the theory that slavery brought them a higher standard of living than would freedom. One group is advocating more freedoms for corporations and another is holding them accountable. One group wants to punish the president for trying to keep the global financial crisis from destroying any notion of fair-market capitalism in America; the other wants to keep letting him fight for us. One group is marching in support of the spirit of Robert La Follette, Theodore Roosevelt and Dr. King. The other is aligned with billionaire industrialists who will do anything to keep all but a very tiny piece of the economic pie for themselves. The ongoing debate, now and in the run up to next year’s presidential elections, is which philosophy is more authentically American: economic justice for all or greater leeway for corporate America’s plundering of U.S. wealth. The answer will define what kind of America we really prefer. All the while, a much larger question looms: whether a greed-driven, soak-thepoor nation is even worth preserving. It is not overdramatic to say the very existence of the United States is at stake.

Protests against the excesses of big business are hardly rare in our history and, quite often, have helped spur change.

HOPPE Occupying America

Before it’s too late BY DA V I D H O P P E DH O P P E @N U V O . N E T

hen 1,000 people turn out in Indianapolis to protest the corporate takeover of the United States, you know something new is happening. So maybe these folks don’t have a plan. Maybe what they want isn’t exactly clear. This can make them easy to dismiss, especially in a place like Indiana, where we’re supposed to be practical. We’re so practical we call having a rate of household income that’s below the national average “efficient.” The demonstrations that were first called Occupy Wall Street, and are now taking on the names of an increasing number of places around the country, may not have a lot going in the way of an agenda, but anyone who thinks this makes them trivial should think again. The people who are showing up to occupy Wall Street, or in our case, Veterans Memorial Plaza, are the canaries in the coal mine of a corporate global economic structure that makes some people very rich and leaves many, many others eating dust. For the past three years, since the crash in September 2008, we’ve been told that what happened was cyclical, that the economy will come around eventually. But as time has crawled by, it has become increasingly clear that what’s going on isn’t cyclical, but structural — and that when the economy comes around, it may not look very friendly. We see this in that corporate profits and productivity are high, yet these things have had no impact on job creation or increases to household incomes. People have been losing jobs and seeing cuts to their benefits, but the cost of things like health care and college tuition have exploded. Over the past 20 years, according to AARP research, fulltime earnings for men have increased 3 percent, while the average cost of one year of college has gone up 73 percent, health insurance premiums have jumped 182 percent and the median debt being carried by middle class families has billowed 292 percent. For 30 years, Americans have been given credit cards instead of raises. Meanwhile, jobs that involve making things, like clothing or kitchen utensils or power tools, have been moved to other countries where workers are paid a small fraction of what they used to earn here, and where benefits are nonexis-

tent. This, of course, means that these goods cost a lot less to buy which, I guess, is fortunate, given that most Americans have less money in their pockets to buy things with. Sometimes it takes awhile to really begin to get what’s going on around us. But the Occupiers get it. They get that the America that Democrats, Republicans and their corporate cronies have in mind doesn’t look much like the America we were brought up to expect. The Occupiers are beginning to see what’s in store: wages and benefits that look more like those in Mumbai or Beijing than Madison or Boston. They already see how our education system — from kindergarten to college — has been turned into a training program aimed to please corporate employers. And they know that their health is considered less important than the bottom lines of big insurance companies. They walk every day on broken sidewalks, drive across bridges that are rusting and park their cars in garages where the concrete is cracked because they’re told there’s no money to fix our infrastructure. They hear from politicians that they have to make a choice between having energy we can afford and a healthy environment. And that being safe means making endless war. Most of all, the Occupiers see that their ability to have a hand in controlling their futures seems to be getting a little further out of reach with each passing day. In this, they may appear to be rather like some of the folks who have rallied around the Tea Party. But, as Columbia journalism professor and author Todd Gitlin has pointed out, where the Tea Party is merely against government, the Occupiers want self-government or, at least, a government that’s on their side. Some people have wondered how many among the Occupiers have voted in the past for politicians or policies that have wound up contributing to the fix we’re in, as if these demonstrations are simply large-scale expressions of buyer’s remorse, with President Obama being Exhibit A. This view attempts to reduce the various Occupations to a conventional political calculus aimed at 2012. But this, I think, misses the point. America is running a fever that pep talks about working hard and being exceptional can’t cure. The people who have taken to the streets and occupied places where American business as usual is conducted feel this in their bones. Their survival instincts have kicked in. They may not be able to say exactly what they want, but the Occupiers know they’ve been dealt a lousy hand from a deck that’s rigged against them. They’re sick from hearing people they voted for talk over their heads, as if they weren’t really there. Something is happening here. The Occupiers are bearing witness.

What’s going on isn’t cyclical, but structural — and when the economy comes around, it may not look very friendly.

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THUMBSUP THUMBSDOWN CIVIC FEVER

The results are in: On Monday, the first day of early voting, 278 people turned up at the county clerk’s office to cast their ballots, nearly five times the number of first-day early voters in the last municipal election. Several voters cited the Columbus Day holiday as giving them enough time and flexibility to make the trip downtown, according to the clerk’s staff. “It goes to show you that when people have time and they have flexible options they will avail themselves of the opportunity,” said Angie Nussmeyer, a spokeswoman for Marion County Clerk Beth White. “We just wish it was in other parts of the community...” Last month, Republican opposition thwarted the clerk’s efforts to expand early voting to satellite locations around the city. Voters wishing to cast an early vote have a variety of weekday and weekend options to do so downtown until noon Nov. 7. Democratic candidate for mayor Melina Kennedy held a rally Tuesday to further increase interest and participation. So who’s ahead so far? No one can say. The early ballots are kept in a vault until Election Day when bi-partisan election teams will deliver them to their respective districts to be tallied.

INDY OCCUPIED

Here’s to a peaceful yet powerful demonstration downtown last weekend! More than 1,000 people turned up to Occupy Indianapolis on Saturday, and a small group remains encamped on the Statehouse steps. The organic nature of this movement, the effort to embrace collective consciousness and consensus and the overall inclusiveness are blazing new territory on the protest front. We’re eager to see how it evolves.

PONY UP FOR THE PUPPIES (AND THE KITTIES)

Animal rescue groups across the city are teaming up for Rescue Rally, a friendly competition designed to see who can spring the most animals from Indianapolis Animal Care and Control. Last year, 8,707 of the 16,933 animals IACC received were euthanized. Local rescue groups saved 30 percent of the animals adopted from IACC, according to Rescue Rally organizers. The rally aims to bolster those efforts. The second annual event runs Oct. 15 – Jan. 15. Its goal is to see more than 200 animals removed from the shelter, double the amount saved during last year’s competition. In addition to rewarding groups that save the most dogs and cats, the rally will also award groups saving the most animals with special needs, including sight-impaired and physically impaired animals. Rally organizers are currently raising money to underwrite prizes. Wanna help? Visit rescuerally.org or call 317-641-9300.

THOUGHT BITE By Andy Jacobs Jr. To paraphrase the old airline line, “Coffee, tea or me,” the U. S. House is saying, “Coffee, tea and mean.”

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policy has been rigged to benefit only the very wealthy. When asked about charges that the movement had no clear focus, local organizer Joh Padgett was quick to respond. “Bullshit,” he said. “That’s just the media’s way of trying to pigeonhole us. We’ve got plenty to say. The problem is: How do you convey the voices and frustrations of thousands of different people? How do you do that? You can’t fit it into a normal media narrative, so they make stuff up as they go along. They’re doing the exact same thing that we are. They’re making it up as they go along. Nobody has ever done this before.” Some media sources have been quick to tag the movement as a left-wing alternative to the Tea Party. Josh Howe, an Indianapolisbased music producer who attended the BY M I K E A L L E E event does not deny the comparison. “The Tea Party is all about reducing the E DI T O RS @N U V O . N E T size of government,” he said. “But who do you think runs the government? The politihree weeks ago, a small group of cians? Big banks and finance own everyone young people set up camp in New of them. That’s who the government works York’s Zuccotti Park to protest for. Do you think government is going to against the financial market’s role in the propose any policy that would help me collapse of the American economy, and to before it helps them?” voice their united feeling that economic Insiders referred to Saturday’s rally decisions no longer favor the average as a Meeting of the General Assembly, a individual. They christened themselves set of procedures that national Occupy “Occupy Wall Street.” groups have adopted as a way to conRecent reports place their active demduct their business. As stated in the onstrators at well over 10,000 people. Both Occupy Together brochure, it is “a gathin support of, and as an extension of the ering of people committed to making Wall Street protests, satellite groups have decisions based upon a collective agreesprung up in cities and small towns across ment or consensus.” the country, including Indianapolis. There is no single leader or governing Driven almost entirely by Facebook, Twitter and various other Internet live feeds, body — everyone’s voice is equal. Any individual is free to speak, offer a proposal and a larger-than-expected have that proposal voted crowd estimated at about on through a series of 1,200 gathered downhand signals. In order to town to speak, march pass, a proposal needs to and support Occupy have a 91 percent conIndianapolis. sensus. Future demonA small group of prostrations, or “Meetings testors vowed to continof the Indiana General ue making a stand downAssembly” are currently town for as long as the being planned. To hold movement on Wall Street one, it must be proposed persists. Meanwhile and voted on, as well. several other Occupy An AIDS walk schedgroups are springing up uled at the same time around Indiana, includas the demonstration ing efforts in Fort Wayne, was expected to supply Bloomington, Lafayette, further supporters once –Joh Padgett, Occupy Evansville, Kokomo, the AIDS event ended. At Indianapolis participant Columbus, South Bend, one time, the AIDS group Muncie, Huntington, and Occupy Indiana Marion, and a group were actually marching called Occupy Small across from each other on opposite sides of Town Indiana. North Meridian Street heading in opposite For the first hour of the Saturday afterdirections. noon protest, those in attendance sat on A spirited group, almost three blocks the Veterans Memorial Plaza lawn or stood long, left the Veterans Memorial Plaza and and listened to volunteers who signed up to speak. Anyone was allowed to offer their voice marched to Monument Circle shouting rally cries: “We are the 99 percent!” The but within an enforced two-minute period. chant contrasts the majority of Americans Protestors cited several related reasons against the 1 percent who own and control for their civil action, including corporate the majority of the nation’s capital and, by greed, a growing disparity between the extension, power. After two laps around richest and poorest, lack of employment the circle, a large portion of the crowd and a general frustration that economic

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“How do you convey the voices and frustrations of thousands of different people?”

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Clockwise, from top: A spirited group almost three blocks long left Veterans Memorial Plaza and marched to Monument Circle shouting slogans and attracting attention along the way; for the first hour, those in attendance sat on the lawns or stood and listened to those who had signed up to speak; a demonstrator carries an American flag with corporate logos replacing the flag’s stars.

marched on to the Capitol Building while others returned to the Veterans Memorial or simply left. Some are hailing the Occupy movement as the next revolution. Filmmaker Michael Moore, for instance, predicted that events of the last three weeks are only the tip of the iceberg. Detractors, on the other hand, are unconvinced the movement amounts to anything, viewing the activities as the antics of a bunch of misguided college kids with too much time on their hands. While Saturday’s rally had plenty of college age people in attendance, people of all ages seemed to have been equally represented. The Indianapolis rally confirms that the New York protest resonates with people across the country. It remains to be seen whether the substantial legs the movement has gained so far are capable of sustaining the momentum necessary to influence any real change.

“Occupy” movement reaches Indy by Rachel Hollingsworth

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Nationwide, combined Occupy Facebook sites list over 450,000 members. The Occupy Indiana site currently ranks 19th in size with over 6,000 members. It is showing consistent growth, with several hundred new members joining daily.

ANALYZING THE “OCCUPY” MOVEMENT WHAT: A critical and open discussion regarding the events and causes of the Global “Occupy” events. WHERE: Democracy Plaza IUPUI Campus, in front of Taylor Hall WHEN: 11:00 a.m. - 1 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 13th BONUS: FREE FOOD and DRINK Sponsored by Democracy Plaza and the IUPUI American Democracy Project.

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FOOD TRUCK B Y D A V ID H O P P E • D H OP P E@ N UVO . N ET P H O T O S B Y MARK L EE “Being out on the street, meeting the public on a regular basis – that is one of the great rewards.” Chef Becky Hostetter of the Duos food truck speaks for virtually all the operators in Indianapolis’ burgeoning food truck movement when she talks about the pleasure she finds in serving food from a roving kitchen. But interaction with the public is turning out to be just one of the advantages afforded by food trucks. Relatively low start-up costs compared with regular restaurants, menu flexibility and the ability to go where the customers are, not to mention the ability to self-promote via social networking technologies like Facebook and Twitter, have all played a part in the trucks’ success so far. And I did mention that people are crazy about them? Indianapolis has embraced the food truck experience with gusto. Hungry folks seem happy to have an option that falls somewhere between franchise fast food and a sit-down experience in a café or restaurant. Food trucks offer an alternative that’s fast, but handmade and fresh, for a reasonable price. The dishes run a gamut in terms of imagination and complexity, from the essential street food of tacos and pizza, to creative vegetarian

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delights and brilliantlyy rendered ren ende ere red d desserts. dess sserrtss. The city has also gotten on board. An initial issue regarding an outdated law that restricted nighttime hours appears to be on its way to resolution in the food trucks’ favor. And so far, at least, the number of local food trucks hasn’t grown so large as to pose a threat to more conventional restaurateurs. Then there’s the Super Bowl. In the city’s rush to make sure there are enough hotel rooms to accommodate the horde of corporate football fans expected to descend on our downtown in February, it seems the fact that we have only so many restaurant tables available in the Mile Square was somehow overlooked. Food trucks to the rescue! Like the Seventh Cavalry charging in to save the day, food trucks are now expected to play a significant part in catering to Super Bowl fans, which promises to not only provide a valuable service on behalf of the city, but a potential windfall for food truck operators. A win-win, if ever there was one. Over the past few months, NUVO hit the bricks to get a feel for the food truck scene. What follows amounts to a sampling of what some of the most popular trucks in this growing field are serving up.

Indy’s new love a ffair with mobile meals

DUOS

info@duosindy.com www.duosindy.com www.facebook.com/duosindy Twitter: @DuosIndy 508-8614

BYRNE’S GRILLED PIZZA www.byrnespizza.com www.facebook.com/grilledpizza Twitter: @ByrnesPizza 606-2111

The Byrne’s Grilled Pizza truck has been showing up in places like the Wednesday night version of the Broad Ripple Farmers Market in Broad Ripple Park lately, but its abiding location is the gravel parking lot beside Flat 12 Bierwerks. Byrne’s takes its name from the former pastor of nearby Holy Cross Church, Father Jim Byrne, a longtime family friend of the Reinstroms – investors in Flat 12 Bierwerks and the team that’s put this food truck together. The truck’s manager, Derek Reinstrom, was baptized by Father Byrne. By his count, Reinstrom has worked in seven pizza joints over the years, in Indianapolis and Bloomington. The relatively modest cost of setting up a food truck has enabled him to establish his own brand of thin crust, New York-style pizza in a town with a penchant for pie: “All our stuff is handmade, hand cut, nothing’s frozen. It’s all about the freshness and appearance,” he says. We sampled slices of the Byrne’s

Original ($3), featuring a blend of mozzarella and Asiago cheeses that we enhanced with pepperoni for an extra buck; and the Byrne’s Specialty ($5), a combination of pesto, artichoke hearts and ricotta cheese with fresh spinach and tomatoes. The crusts on these slices were crisp and slightly chewy at the center, which give them a pleasing pop. The Byrne’s Original benefited from the Asiago’s bite and the Specialty’s pesto followed through with a heady whiff of garlic. “These things are legit kitchens,” Reinstrom says of food trucks. “The beauty is you can have a kitchen in a 7-by-15 space.” Reinstrom preps his ingredients at Indy’s Kitchen, the restaurant incubator on Central Ave., at the start of each day. Reinstrom would love to see the Circle surrounded by food trucks offering their various wares for the appetites of passersby. “You could fill it with 10 trucks,’ he says. “It’s a win-win.”

When it comes to local dining, chef Becky Hostetter is legendary. Even carnivores loved Essential Edibles, the vegetarian restaurant she and husband David ran out of an old church basement on Vermont St. in the ‘90s. When that project ran its course, Chef Becky became the personal chef for none other than the Irsay family. “Slow food made fast,” is the Duos truck’s motto. And with their emphasis on fresh, locally sourced foods and original, seasonally inspired recipes, Hostetter, along with kitchen collaborator John Garnier, bring a level of ambition to Duos’ offerings not found among the other trucks. Hostetter was poring over culinary magazines and cookbooks the afternoon we found Duos across from the NCAA Hall of Champions. “I’m trying to move into this fall mode, and I know I have to reconsider how to do warm things and be able to make them function properly and move out the window quickly,” she says. Duos hit the streets for the first time last December, so Hostetter and Garnier are cold-weather tested. “The way that

we’ve structured our menu gives us a lot of freedom,” Hostetter says. “We’ve found a little formula and then we can fiddle each week.” Duos makes the most of the creativity the food truck format offers. We ordered the Orzo Pasta ($7), a dish combining tender, rice-like pasta with feta and parmesan cheeses, broccoli florets, Kalamata olives and shaved almonds. This dish provided a sophisticated take on comfort food – it was warm and dusky-tasting at first, with Mediterranean flavors that blossomed with each successive bite. A Kale Salad ($5), with arugula, fresh peach slices, walnuts and blue cheese with a ginger miso dressing was a worldly way to get one’s greens. By turns sweet, tart and rich, it made a thoroughly satisfying midday meal. Lest meat eaters shy away, Duos typically offers a sandwich or some other livestock-derived treat. On this day, there was a Meatball Sandwich ($8) made with beef from top-shelf provider Fischer Farms in Dubois County and Romano cheese. “Every day I look forward to being in the street with people,” says Hostetter. “We’ve got a good team and we’re in a flow now.”

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FAT SAMMIES CIAO WAGON

GROOVY GUYS FRIES

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No, Sammie is not somebody’s rotund uncle. In this case, it’s Sicilian slang for sandwich and, as the name suggests, the sandwiches served by Fat Sammies are, in fact, on the very prodigious side. We found the Ciao Wagon parked outside the IUPUI Lecture Hall, across from the Student Center, on a lucid early September day. Christy Rieman was serving up the wagon’s small but sharply focused menu, consisting of Meatball, Italian Beef and Portobello Mushroom sandwiches ($6 each with a bottle of water included) as well as servings of Nutella ($3) and San Pellegrino Limonata ($2). Even though it was just noon, the homemade Italian Sausage sammie was already sold-out, so if your tastebuds are yearning for pork, make sure you hit the wagon early. “If we don’t sell out, we get close a lot of days,” says Christy, who seems able to strike up a friendly conversation with anyone who’s hungry. She says the Food

Network got her into the food truck movement. “And I like to cook for my family, so I said, ‘That looks like fun to me, so I’ll give it a try!’” I went for the Italian Beef sammie with the works – onions, grilled red peppers, fresh basil and a homemade garnish of chopped champ peppers and vinegar. This was a gladiatorial eating experience; I felt for a second as if I was wrestling a lion, albeit a very tasty king of beasts. The mix of tender, juicy shaved beef, peppers and spices was overwhelming. “We’re a taste truck,” says Christy. “We want everything to taste good and look good because you eat with your eyes.” The sammies I saw passed both exams with flying colors. “People are really starting to see that food trucks have great food,” Christy told me as she served up another Italian Beef for a lunchtime customer. “It’s not just convenient, it’s very good.”

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I have any number of friends who, when pressed to reflect upon their misspent adolescence, will confess to having made French fries their lunch-of-choice. Folks like these must make up a significant share of the target audience for the Groovy Guys Fries truck, a rolling invitation to, as the side of the truck proclaims: “Peace, Love and Fry Grease.” The good news is that these fries are actually light on the greasy spectrum; these are not the fries you covered in ketchup during your greasy spoon days. They are, instead, a fresher type of spud, served with a variety of toppings and, in one case, not even fried, but baked. The Groovy Guys are Terry Shepard, the truck’s owner, and Joe Reeves, manager. Shepard is a comedy and screenwriter who saw his first fry truck while in Los Angeles at a comedy shorts festival. He and Reeves, a filmmaker and musician, teamed up for a 48-Hour Film Festival project. They enjoyed working together so much that when Shepard

MABEL ON THE MOVE

HOOSIER FAT DADDY BUS CAFE

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www.HoosierFatDaddyBusCafe.com www.facebook.com/ HoosierFatDaddyBusCafe Twitter: @HoosierFatDaddy 460-5665 Ginger the dog knew exactly what she wanted from Hoosier Fat Daddy Bus Cafe: a treat. It seems whenever Tom Rockwell’s bright blue converted school bus pulls up by the War Memorial on Meridian St., Ginger (and her human) show up and Ginger waits, panting, until Rockwell or his sister-in-law clamors down with something tasty. On this day it was a handful of tater tots. We were drawn to the Shrimp Salad Sandwich ($5.99), a sumptuous serving of chilled tender shrimp with what amounted to egg salad, including celery, tomatoes and crispy lettuce wrapped in a commodious slice of wheat bread. Even on a sweltering day this combination retained a high refreshment quotient. As did an order of the Broccoli Salad ($1.49), a sweet yet tangy combination of fresh broccoli florets mixed with cherry tomatoes and accented with flecks of radish and quality bacon. Rockwell, who worked as a nurse for 20 years until taking the food truck plunge last February, is an affable gent who was turned on to food trucks by

his nephews in California and egged on by his son, who’s an executive chef in Louisville. “There’s 9,000 of them in Los Angeles, with eight million people” he says of food trucks. “There’s 5,000 of them in Chicago and 5,000 in New York City. We’re a city of 2.5 million, if you count all the surrounding counties, and we have 12. Maybe it’s our time.” He’s looking forward to the Super Bowl. “They’re expecting about 200,000 more people than they can seat. We’ve talked to the city and there are several groups working on this. They’re even talking about having groups of food trucks in designated areas.” For Rockwell, serving folks in the middle of winter won’t be that different from working through a heat wave. He laughs: “It’s just as hard to run out when it’s freezing to get something to eat as it is when it’s too darn hot!”

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launched his food truck last May, he asked Reeves to manage it for him. “We keep experimenting and try to have a variety of options to suit different moods,” says Reeves. We ordered the Natty Fries ($3), a serving of unadorned fries, accompanied by one of the dipping sauces on offer, Dragon Sesame and Ginger. This teriyaki-like concoction gave the fries a pleasing cross-cultural smack. We followed this with an order of Sweet Potato Fries ($5), accompanied by the Sweet and Salty Whipped Cream Cheese dip, a rich, cinnamonny mixture. The sweet potatoes were coated with a light, almost tempura-like batter, and the sauce gave them a dessert-like finish. Groovy Guys also offer Pizza Fries, bedecked with pepperoni slices and mozzarella cheese ($6), a variation on the Philly Cheesesteak ($6) sandwich, albeit without the bread (fries, instead), and a Loaded Baked Potato ($5) with lots of hot peppers, bacon bits and sour cream.

Even when she’s at rest, it’s hard to miss Mabel on the Move. Mabel is a glistening Airstream trailer, circa 1962. And if that weren’t enough, she sports a pair of red and white polka-dotted flags off her highly polished, aerodynamic stern. Kate McKibben is the chef working away inside Mabel’s interior, serving up what she calls “food with a conscience.” Food, she says, “I would feed my own family.” On the day we found Mabel, parked downtown along Meridian St., she was serving dishes like a Roasted Red Pepper Mac and Cheese ($4) and two kinds of hot dogs made from grass-fed beef, a Chicago style with the works and one that recalled New York, served with sauerkraut (both $4). There was also an Organic Herbed Potato Salad with hard-boiled egg and bacon ($4) and ice cream from local organic dairy Trader’s Point ($3.50). We’re lifelong aficionados of Chicago dogs, so this offering was irresistible. The dog, as promised, was top-quality beef, succulent and tasty. It was well dressed with the requisite toppings, including

pickle relish, fresh tomatoes, onions, mustard and champ peppers, which Kate’s son added with the care of a true artiste. When he added a spray of celery salt – the genius of the Chicago dog – I knew I was in good hands. McKibben, who started her truck last March, is an ex-real estate broker who comes by her interest in food via a personal conversion story. “My husband and I revamped how we eat a few years ago,” she says. “We saw what an impact that had on our health and our thinking and overall well-being. I thought this is something I can do for people, bring them some healthy options.” This means no white sugar or white flour. If McKibben makes a chicken salad, she uses half mayo and half zerofat Greek yogurt. “It’s sort of like Mabel’s from 1962,” McKibben says, gesturing toward her Airstream. “If we went back to eating like we did in 1962, we wouldn’t be in such dire need of health care in America.”

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“Everything’s working in favor of food trucks right now,” says John Ban, owner of the pizza-purveying truck, The New York Slice – or, more simply, the NY Slice, to its many followers. Ban knows whereof he speaks. Many around town give him credit for kicking off the local food truck movement when he and his then-partner, Arnold Park, brought the idea for West Coast Tacos to Indianapolis after a sojourn in Los Angeles. “The call me the godfather, jokingly,” laughs Ban, while watching slices of his New York-style pizza practically fly from his truck on a dank and rainy day in Nora. “It’s kind of a nickname they’ve attached to me.” Three months ago Ban parted company with West Coast Tacos to start his own franchise. “I think it’s the perfect time for food trucks,” he says. “Start-up costs aren’t as high as brick and mortar. You’re not tied to a lease. And you can offer a great product for a lower price than you would at a restaurant.” What’s more, adds Ban, “The city

really seems to be behind the food truck movement. They like having us here.” In choosing lunch and dinner locations, Ban looks for a spot that’s easy to get to, with high foot traffic and where there figures to be demand – something he’s able to assess thanks to social media. That’s what’s brought the NY Slice to Nora. Sure enough, at 12:30 on an inclement day, the truck’s supplies are running low. The Vegetarian Slice ($3.50) is sold out and there’s no more spicy cheese for the breadsticks. No problem. We were drawn to the Specialty Slice ($3.75), a blend of pepperoni, sausage and mushrooms, anyway. This proves to be a workman-like, thoroughly satisfying pizza slice, notable for its ultra-thin yet bubbly crust. Ban is looking forward to the Super Bowl in February. “We don’t know what to expect,” he says. “We’ve never been through it, but we know it’s going to be insane.”

“I guess this is like having the biggest bakesale of my life,” says Lisa Moyer, the owner of Scout’s Treat Truck. There’s a fine mist falling, but that hasn’t kept folks from lining up in the Nora Plaza parking lot to get the cupcakes, brownies and other assorted sweets the Scout’s truck has to offer. In fact, Moyer has already had to make two trips back to the kitchen space she uses at Smee’s at 86th and Ditch to replenish her supplies. Inspired by her great-great-great Aunt Pippa Scout and some of her recipes, Moyer launched her treat truck just two months ago, after taking a year and a half to develop her business plan. Now, she says, “It’s going gangbusters.” It’s easy to see why. We ordered a jumbo Red Velvet Cupcake with a generous dollop of cream cheese icing ($5), a standard-size Chocolate and Peanut Butter Cupcake ($3) and a Dark Chocolate Brownie sprinkled with sea salt ($3). Everything was scrumptious. Moyer says her aim is to provide the best red velvet cupcake in town – she may have pulled it off. This one is moist and rich and loaded with dark chocolate chips. Incredibly, it also manages to

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SCRATCH

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Matt Kornmeyer, the proprietor and chef behind the Scratch truck, says he looks for locations where people congregate, but where there aren’t a lot of other food options within walking distance. The guys at West Coast Tacos must have had the same idea, because on the day we visited Scratch, at 9th and Illinois outside the Gateway Plaza building, the West Coast truck was parked nearby. If this bothered Kornmeyer, he didn’t show it. He was too busy whipping up what he calls “modern comfort food” in his roving kitchen. Kormeyer got the idea to start Scratch a little over a year ago, after being laid off at a previous job. “I’ve always had a passion for food and started writing a business plan,” he says. “I kept talking myself into thinking, ‘Hey, this could work.’” For this visit, I took a suggestion that Derek Reinstrom of Byrne’s Grilled Pizza truck gave me. He said Scratch’s Spicy Chicken Cone ($7) was amazing. This grub consists of a soft taco shell that’s swaddled

in a paper cone and filled with a handbreaded chicken tender, mango jalapeno slaw and ancho chile aioli. The effect was neither as spicy nor as sweet as the ingredients suggested, but the portion was generous. Instead of fries, I got a Muffaletta Salad for an extra buck. Inspired by the New Orleans sandwich, this refreshing salad consisted of bite-size pasta bits with ham, cheese, herbs and olives. I happened to hear that Scratch had parked outside the new Big Car Service Center by Lafayette Square the previous evening. The Scratch Burger ($8) with bacon marmalade, by all accounts, stole the show. There’s also a Hoity Toity BLT ($7) that’s served with arugula on French bread. “I love being my own boss,” says Kornmeyer, who, as his truck’s name suggests, prepares his dishes from scratch. “It’s fun to see somebody eat our food for the first time and have a smile on their face.”

restrain the sweetness, so what you get is, as the name implies, pure velvety flavor. The same held true for the chocolate cupcake with peanut butter icing. The peanut butter topping was salty but not cloying, and the chocolate cake was dark and sophisticated. As for the brownie, it was a dark chocolate lover’s pleasure punch, devilishly dark and besotted with semi-sweet chips. The sea salt kept the sweetness quotient from going over the top. The Scout’s truck has had a nice tagteam going with the New York Slice pizza truck, often parking nearby so that diners can follow their lunchtime pizza with an upscale dessert. Scout’s also provides late afternoon sugar buzzes at office blocks around town as well as late night visits to college campuses to polish student sweet tooths. Scout’s offerings are subject to change on a daily basis; Moyer tries to include at least one vegan item in every lineup and is also developing some gluten-free treats. “I’ve never worked harder in my whole life,” says Moyer. “But I’ve never had more fun. Never.”

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We found West Coast Tacos’ glossy black truck on a batteringly bright and sunny day, parked at the corner of Massachusetts Ave. and Alabama St. West Coast Tacos claims a certain pioneer status in the local food truck scene as the city’s first rolling kitchen. They got their start roughly a year and a half ago. Now the business has expanded to two trucks, with a third on the way. It’s been very exciting,” says David Kim, an assistant general manager for West Coast Tacos, during a quick break. “People honk at us when we drive by. They love us and we love them.” Kim’s L.A. Dodgers cap reinforces the fact that he came to Indianapolis from Los Angeles to join the West Coast team at the end of the summer of 2010. “We know what the food’s supposed to taste like,” he says, adding that he’s impressed by how “open” Indy diners are to trying new flavor combinations. We tried a couple of the tacos on offer, the Spicy Pork ($2) and Chicken Teriyaki

($3). In both cases, the contents were served open face on a soft, four-inch taco. This is unabashed street food, so the portions, while modest, are packed with flavor and designed to be enjoyed while on foot, or perched on a handy urban ledge. The pork was chopped into neat little morsels and slathered with a peppery sauce that imparted a slow burn with little sparks provided by bits of green onion. The chicken was cut into larger chunks and immersed in a dark and dusky sauce that imparted a lingering afterbite. Together, these items made for a light but satisfying midday meal. The West Coast Tacos trucks prep their food every afternoon at a kitchen located at 49th St. and College Ave. and then change their locations on a daily basis, moving from one place for lunch to another for the dinner hour. The menu, at all times, remains the same. Asked what he likes best about his job, Kim smiles: “Talking to people and socializing, even on a hot day.”

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Funny About That @ IndyFringe Fresh off a string of hilarious, packed-house performances at the IndyFringe Festival, Phil van Phil the Void launches his newest Hest launches a monthly talk show endeavor Wednesday. featuring himself -- aka Phil the Void -- along with local celebrities and special guests. Phil brings his philosophical and sharp-barbed musings to the IndyFringe Theatre, where attendees can partake in $1 Flat12 draft beers and various other libations. If you miss this performance, you’ll have to wait until Nov. 16 for Phil’s next Funny About That show, so don’t dawdle in buying your tickets. Check out www.funnyaboutthat.com for more details. 8 p.m. $10. 719 E. St. Clair St., 721-9458, www.indyfringe.org

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Optical Popsicle 3 @ Earth House Know No Stranger returns to the Earth House Collective for Optical Popsicle 3, a dazzling blitz of

optical illusions, live music, dancing, shadows, puppetry and video. Optical Popsicle proves that inspired entertainment can be produced on a shoestring budget. The creative geniuses of Indy-based Know No Stranger are a spirited bunch who, above all, seek to “make people proud of where they are.” Expect abundant laughter and be prepared to interact with the performers; KNS is a feel-good, do-it-yourself troupe that engages its audience from the get-go. 8:30 p.m. Friday; 3:30 and 8:30 p.m. Saturday. Ticket prices vary. 237 N. East St., 6364060, www.knownostranger.com

High-quality art can be had for a minimal amount of cashola. Proof of this fact can be found this week in the Crows Nest neighborhood, where Studio Showcase will host a Work by Tatyana Fedorikhina is part of this affordable, fun showcase. three-day exhibit of affordable art. The members of Studio Showcase -- a co-op of Indiana artisans whose work includes textiles, jewelry, ceramics, photography, painting, glass and wood, gather once a year to show off and sell their newest creations in an open-house setting. This year’s show and sale takes place Oct. 13-15. 5-9 p.m. Thursday; 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday. Visa and MasterCard accepted for art purchases. Free admission. 5914 Stafford Way, 7260811, www.studioshowcaseart.com

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Jason Robert Brown/ Soshana Bean @ The Cabaret Heralded singer/songwriter Jason Robert Brown teams up with vocalist Soshana Bean for a two-night stand of musical theater favorites at The Cabaret at the

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Dave Attell @ Morty’s Kickstart your weekend with some hearty laughs thanks to the acerbic, bent and undeniably hilarious wit of Dave Attell. The Long Island native is perhaps best known as the host of Insomniac with Dave Attell, the Comedy Central show in which Attell would wander around cities late at night, cracking jokes as he visited clubs and interacted with locals. A veteran of the stand-up scene, Attell has earned a reputation for being a comic’s comic. He also boasts a loyal following, so expect a lively scene at his two-night, four-show engagement at Morty’s. 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Tickets: $35. 3625 E. 96th St., 848-5500, www.mortyscomedy.com

Columbia Club. An accomplished pianist who’s often compared to Stephen Sondheim, Brown has applied his songwriting magic to numerous award-winning musicals, including The Last Five Years, Songs for a New World and Parade -- the latter garnering a Tony for best musical score. Bean, an original cast member of Broadway’s Hairspray, rose to stage stardom after replacing Idina Menzel in the Elphaba role in Wicked. 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Tickets range from $35 to $55, with a $12 food/ beverage minimum. 121 Monument Circle, 275-1169, www.thecabaret.org

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Bethany Rainbolt Dance presents...

Ben Davis High School Wrestling Presents

Giant Monster Making a difference by supporting and spreading awareness to our Indianapolis community through the powerful art of dance, performance, and creativity.

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$20 Pre-Registered Tickets $25 Day Of Tickets • 9am - 10 am Proceeds benefit Ben Davis High School Wrestling program.

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Saturday, October 22 @ 8pm Ruth Lilly Performance Hall in Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center on the University of Indianapolis campus FREE Admission is FREE!

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Awards for top three finishers in each age group: 12 & Under, 13-18, 19-49 and 50 & Up. $100 prize given to the best costume of the event.

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Disquieting, Disturbing and Dreadful Tales @ IHC

Snuggle up under the stars and enjoy a bone-chilling night of frightful yarnspinning. Storytelling Arts of Indiana hosts an evening of literary horror stories. Your attention will be seized by master storytellers Deborah Asante, Lou Ann Homan, Jim May and Sally Perkins, as well as the winners of Storyteller Arts’ Ghost Story Contest, Ken Oguss and

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The denizens of the Cottage Home neighborhood invite you to “shake-ya-booty” at their 28th annual block party. The Halloween-

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Christian Painter. Dress warmly and bring a blanket, as the event will be held outside, alongside the canal at the Indiana History Center. The event is being billed as for mature audiences only, so leave the kids at home. 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $15 in advance; $20 at the door. 450 W. Ohio St., 576-9848, www.storytellingarts.org

themed party features local artists, vendors and live music, along with the scrumptious fare of Duos and the freshly poured beers of Lockerbie Pub. There’s fun for the kids as well, with horse-drawn hayrides, face painting and an interactive presentation by critter experts Animalia. Attendees are encouraged to arrive in costume -- the spookier the better. The funfest takes place just south of St. Clair St. on the city’s near eastside. 5-11 p.m. Free, though a $5 donation would be appreciated. 700 N. Dorman St., 209-6964, www.cottagehome.info

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Natyamanjari @ Zionsville Performing Arts Center Experience the joy and beauty of Indian dance without venturing far from home. Kalakshiti Performing Arts, a local nonprofit dedicated to promoting the classical art and culture of India, hosts this must-attend afternoon affair for dance lovers. The event brings performers from across the nation to Zionsville to showcase the classical dance forms of India. Three dance companies are scheduled to perform, including Trinayan Dance Theater (from New York), Soorya (from Missouri)

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National Acrobats of China @ The Palladium Witness spectacular acts of derring-do as the National Acrobats of China make a stop in Carmel during the company’s inaugural U.S. tour. The troupe’s perform-

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and Abhinaya Dance Company (from California). Snacks and beverages will be available for purchase. Seating begins at 4:00 p.m., and the performance starts at 4:30 p.m. Tickets: $15; free admission for kids under the age of 5. 1000 Mulberry Dr., Zionsville, 846-0482, www.kalakshiti. com ers mesmerize and awe with a blend of illusions, Chinese martial arts and high-flying acrobatics. Founded in 1950 by the government of the People’s Republic of China, the Beijing-based company combines tradition with innovation, with performers captivating audiences through displays of superhuman-like strength, coordination and flexibility. Add lively music and colorful costumes to the mix, and you have an event that promises to be an aural and visual delight. 7:30 p.m. Ticket prices vary from $15 to $100. 335 City Center Dr., Carmel, 660-3373, www.thecenterfortheperformingarts.org 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 10.12.11-10.19.11 // go&do

A&E FEATURE The Belle of Ball State

2010 grad returns to star in Beauty and the Beast BY M A T T H E W MC C L U R E E DI T O RS @N U V O . N E T A recent headline in The Onion aptly, if satirically, summed up the employment situation facing millennials who recently received their undergrad degrees: “New College Graduates To Be Cryogenically Frozen Until Job Market Improves.” And yet, in spite of these challenging economic times, there are young grads who — through pure talent, strong will and, yes, a measure of good luck — have managed to pull off great professional achievements. As an example, look no further than 2010 Ball State graduate Emily Behny. Mere months after receiving a bachelor’s degree in musical theatre, Behny secured the part of Belle in Disney’s big-budget touring production of Beauty and the Beast. How plum of a role is Belle? After the show’s opening night performance in Los Angeles, she was met in her dressing room by Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, who were eager to introduce her to their daughter, Suri. Since that March night, Behny has played Belle in countless North American cities, singing and dancing before rapt audiences often numbering in the thousands. And oh, by the way, in between graduation day and the launch of the tour, she got married. Indeed, it’s been a remarkably successful and busy first year out of college for the native of Silver Lake, Indiana.

Performing for the home crowd I catch up with Behny while she’s in Cincinnati for a two-week run of shows. She soon will be heading to her home state, where Beauty and the Beast will be staged at Butler’s Clowes Hall from Oct. 11-16. She’ll return to Indiana for single-night shows at Ball State on Nov. 1 and Purdue on Nov. 2. Performing in a major theatrical production on her home turf, with friends and family seated before her, will be yet another noteworthy milestone for Behny. “I’m so excited about the opportunity to come back to Indiana,” she says. “I love the message of this show, and I love the role of Belle. It makes it that much more special sharing the experience with my friends and family in the Indianapolis area.” Behny speaks with the poise of a seasoned performer but remains approachable thanks to her ample charm and humility. “It will have more personal meaning” she says of her shows in Indiana, before confessing, “I might be more nervous.”

Audition first, then get hitched Behny’s to-do list on Jan. 14, 2011, must have looked something like this: 1. Get the part. 2. Get married. You see, she was asked to do her final audition for the role of Belle on Jan. 14. Trouble was, she and her fiancé had been planning to get married that day. Not one to let life’s complexities slow her down, Behny aced the audition as well as the wedding -- the latter being a low-key ceremony at a courthouse in New York City. “I was actually on the plane coming back from my honeymoon when I got the call from my agent telling me that I’d gotten the part,” she says. In securing the part, Behny had to overcome long odds, as hundreds of young actresses had sought the high-profile role of Belle. She says of the audition experience, “I went to an open call for the show in October 2010, and there were over 300 girls there. I was number 191, I believe, so I waited a long time. I finally sang and got a call back to dance, and the next day was called back to sing and read for Belle. But it wasn’t until two months later, in January, that I heard from them again asking me to come back t o do another callback.” Playing Belle is not much of a stretch for Behny, who sees much of herself, and who she aspires to be, in her alter ego’s persona. “I’m like Belle in that I’m feisty,” she says. “Belle’s not the stereotypical damsel in distress, Disney princess. And I really identify with her quirkiness. She’s who I want to be when I grow up. Somebody who cares about people and is kind and compassionate but holds her own.” Life on the road is not without its challenges. “It’s quite a physically demanding job, as we’re doing eight shows a week,” Behny says. “And we’re also traveling in the midst of those shows, so it often can be tough on your body and on your voice.” Behny strives to stay healthy and fit to ensure that she’s able to deliver a great performance night in and night out. “I want every city to receive the same show. I feel like that’s what audiences deserve,” she says, before admitting, “Keeping that consistency level can be difficult.”

Prepping for success Behny credits the musical theater program at Ball State for preparing her early on. “The department does a great job of having professors that have acted themselves in the real world, so they understand the business side of acting and they understand the difficulties of it,” she says. “They have this great personal experience that they can share with you. I owe a lot of my success to my teachers for the mentorship they provided, for the faith they had in me and for challenging me to go for something like this.” The young performer lauds Ball State for offering students real-world experience far from the Muncie campus. “They have a showcase program in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles,” she says. “I auditioned for those and got into all three my senior year. It was a great platform where I could

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Emily Behny and Dane Agostinis star in ‘Beauty and the Beast.’

meet people in the industry and perform for them and get a head start on my career. As a result of that program, I now have an agent in New York City that I work with.” About her Nov. 1 show at Ball State, Behny says, “I’m going to be performing for my professors, who taught me all that I know. And I hope that I do them proud.”

Life after Belle Behny is under contract to tour with Beauty and the Beast until May 2012. It’s possible her contract will be extended, but she’s already sizing up her options to make sure she has a Plan B in place if her time as Belle ends next spring. About the uncertainty, Behny says, “That’s the nature of the beast,” then quickly adds with a laugh, “no pun intended.” “I’m going to continue to look for auditions even while I’m in this role just to look ahead,” she says. “And if I’m able, I’ll go back to New York to audition for those. But we’ll see what happens. Hopefully it will be a stepping-stone. But I may end up serving tables when I get back to New York and the audition scene. So I’m just going to have to stay very open-minded and flexible with my career.” Behny’s long-term focus is not fixed exclusively on the theatre; she’d eventually like to work in either TV or film. She’s even planning on submitting a video application for the next season of Glee. But in the near term, she’s savoring her time as Belle and looking forward to performances in the coming weeks for the

home crowd. She’ll spend time with friends and family when she’s back in Indiana, and she also plans on relaxing outside and enjoying some Midwestern autumnal glory. “I’m really looking forward to going to an orchard and doing fall-like activities when I’m in Indianapolis,” she says. So don’t be surprised this month if you see a young woman break into pitch-perfect song while strolling through Holcomb Gardens. It very well may be Emily Behny, unwinding before her next show.

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Behny and the cast of ‘Beauty and the Beast.’

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: Oct. 11-16 Clowes Memorial Hall 4600 Sunset Tuesday-Friday: 7:30 p.m.; Saturday: 2 and 8 p.m.; Sunday: 1 and 6:30 p.m. Tix: BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com/Indianapolis or 1-800-982-2787

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Alison Koroly – a student in the Jacobs School of Music Ballet Department -- sails during the “Company B” piece.

DANCE THE FOUR ELEMENTS (REDUX) DANCE KALEIDOSCOPE, IRT MAINSTAGE, OCT. 6-9. r Slimmed, trimmed and still dynamic, David Hochoy’s revisited The Four Elements (2005 premiere) this time opened with “Earth” set on Frank Felice’s dynamic Earthworks. Kenoth Shane Patton’s powerful creator-figure both orders and shapes the never-stopping company of dancers resembling drones whose urgent purpose is to build, tear down, rebuild. Technology is at the core with sounds of machinery driving action faster and faster. “Water” delivers a soothing counter-balance to music by Chopin played live by pianist Spencer Myer. Clad in iridescent and fringeswaying shades of blue, the company flowingly engages in designs and relationships with Liberty Harris as a maternal/benevolent figure — a fine contrast to the strident Poseidon whose tantrums turn the waters into a feared element. “Air,” to Satie’s Gymnopedies-Nos 2 and 3, takes flight through spatial configurations, making floating pictures that curve and bend. Jillian Godwin ignites “Fire” to Tito Puente’s Ran Kan Kan as the company keeps pace to the driving Latin rhythms. —RITA KOHN

EXHIBITS AMAZING MAIZE: THE SCIENCE, HISTORY AND CULTURE OF CORN INDIANA STATE MUSEUM: CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND CULTURE; THROUGH JAN. 20. e Amazing Maize delivers a WOW experience from the entryway’s eye-popping 7-foot tall sculpture of corn products on through six sections taking us across 10,000 years of evolution from wild plant in Mesoamerica to today’s genetically modified fields. You can walk through and get the high points, or you can allow yourself to become thoroughly engaged with interactives, including some of the 4,200 corn-based products currently available, American Indian tribal relationships with corn featuring a larger than life replica

STEPS IN TIME: FALL BALLET IU BALLET THEATER, MUSICAL ARTS CENTER. OCT. 7-8. q This exhilarating program showcases contrasting styles by pioneering choreographers spanning premieres 1941-1991, courtesy of IU Ballet Theater artistic director Michael Vernon. George Balanchine visualizes Bach’s “Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins” [1941] as an engaging ensemble of eight dancers interacting with soloists to show us the music’s spiritual perfection. Assuming roles as players with the live orchestra, the dancers create quick-paced yet luxurious pictures folding into and unfolding out of each other. Dwight Rhoden interprets and interpolates modern moves through Chopin’s piano works as dancers literally float, bounce and explode off the keyboard and represent the exhilarating spaces between notes. Something exciting is happening standing still. The dancers are living manifestations of Chopin’s passion and energy throughout “Dear Frederic [2008]. With “Company B” [1991] Paul Taylor juxtaposes grim war against a rush to grasp fun before it is snatched away. Set on recorded popular songs sung by the Andrew Sisters throughout the 1940s, it’s sunny, upbeat and carefree until the shocking instant the bugler is shot at the frenzied close of “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (of Company B).” —RITA KOHN

of the Mayan corn god, scientific findings and technological advancements highlighted by a chance to climb aboard a tractor and manage thousands of acres of corn fields. Built to feel like you’re on a farm, there’s a delightful brightness in the delivery of information that makes you feel like you’re in a conversation. We start with “did you know it takes 25 corn plants per person per day to support the American way of life — from sweeteners to plastics, fuels to textiles, [M&Ms to baby powder], corn is a part of every life for nearly all of us.” Journeying through 5,000 square feet of space we find out why and how corn has remained the mainstay of human and animal life from its isolated beginnings in the heart of Mexico to its current penetrating appearance worldwide and out into space. Amazement lurks around every corner — try pounding corn into meal the old way; meet 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 10.12.11-10.19.11 // a&e reviews

up with a razorback hog, figure out why corn whisky was an easier way to ship corn down the Ohio River. Make connections between: moonshine and the Indy 500; corn, overpopulation and African slave trade; corn and the discovery of vitamins. My ideal visit is to spend a day, with a lunch break at the Ayer’s dining room savoring their corn ingredient foods. 650 W. Washington St., 317-232-1637, www.indianamuseum. org. –RITA KOHN

MUSIC DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING ISO POPS PROGRAM ONE, HILBERT CIRCLE THEATRE (OCT. 7-8) AND THE PALLADIUM (OCT. 9). r Do You Hear The People Sing is a glorious tribute to the creative team that brought us into a new concept of musical theater with Les Miserables [Broadway 1987] and Miss Saigon [Broadway 1991]. It equally introduces us to their lesser-known French rock opera La Revolution Francaise [1973] and the musicals Martin Guerre [1997] and The Pirate Queen [2007]. This premiere “dream concert” conducted by Jack Everly featured five veteran Boublil and Schonberg vocalists and the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir in a seamless musical journey that included some 30 songs presented within the context of their conception, their development during rehearsals and relationships within the storyline of each musical work. As creators of works of social conscience, Boublil and Schonberg continue to inspire us to pay attention to the ever-present inequalities within societies across cultures and time. Yet they understand the essential aspects of good entertainment, lacing even the harshest moments with humor. These elements shone through staging to create the mood of the song through dialogue and movement and sterling vocal and acting performances by Stephanie J. Block, Peter Lockyer, Terrence Mann, Lea Salonga and Marie Zamora. ISO players and the Symphonic Choir were top notch. This newest touring program by the ISO Symphonic Pops Consortium is the best yet in terms of a cohe-

sive whole to show a body of work. If you missed it, ask for a return next season. —RITA KOHN

IVCI LAUREATE SERIES INDIANA HISTORY CENTER; OCT. 9. q A sunny Sunday afternoon, a filled IHC Basile Theater and a confluence of instrumentalists created one of those musical events where everything seemed to work — where nothing went wrong. The International Violin Competition of Indianapolis’ Laureate Chamber Series starred, in its opening concert, Augustin Hadelich, the gold medalist in the Seventh Quadrennial IVCI of 2006. His appearance then strongly confirmed my feeling that he has become one of the finest few on the tour today and overall the best find of our competition to date. Furthermore, he was joined by other chamber musicians who seemingly played at his level—pianist Chih-Yi Chen for one. They started with Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 6 in A, Op. 30 No. 1. They followed with Ravel’s well-known display piece, Tzigane, also often played with violin and orchestra. Then came a most unexpected entry: Introducing Galia by Atar Arad (b. 1945) for three violins, one offstage. Three different players: Brian Allen and Amy Lidell on stage, Gregorio Lopes off. What can I say: They were all good — faultless, even, in conveying a yearning Irish style with matching tones and perfect ensemble work. Finally the IU String Academy Chamber Orchestra entered with the satiric Battalia in D by Heinrich Biber (1644-1704), in eight sections, one in particular well ahead of its time. Hadelich then returned and led the group while playing the solo part in Haydn’s Violin Concerto in C for String Orchestra. With those forces encoring two Fritz Kreisler favorites, “Liebesleid” (Love’s Sorrow) and “Liebesfreude” (Love’s Joy) I left, not being able to imagine a better played concert by anybody. — TOM ALDRIDGE

THEATER/PERFORMANCE CABARET POE Q ARTISTRY, IRVINGTON LODGE, THROUGH OCT. 29. e Q Artistry brings Cabaret Poe to the stage once again, but sadly for the last time. This is the final year of this Irvington Halloween tradition that proffers music and dance as a means to bring Poe’s American gothic horror stories to life. The show works, first and foremost, because the production creates an atmosphere the allows the actors to move seamlessly from the kitchy-ness of a cabaret show to the macabre of Poe’s dark stories. But more than that, Ben Asaykwee, the creative genius behind this unique idea, asks that we consider these time-tested stories through different eyes. Most notably, he successfully changes the narrator in stories like “The Raven” to a female perspective. Instead of a man mourning his dead love, a woman mourns her dead child. He also adds a silent element, threading the stories together through the Shadow of Death, brought to life through interpretive dance by Sara Williams. Cabaret Poe has literally everything I could want from a show: songs that stick with your, classic literature and darkly funny direction. 5515 East Washington St. 317-677-5317 www.cabaretpoe.com. — KATELYN COYNE

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BROAD RIPPLE RYAN DALTON

6281 N. College Ave. Wednesday, Oct. 12-Saturday, Oct. 15

• Bob and Tom Radio Show • Myspace.com’s Featured Comedian’s

• Comedy Central’s, “Live at Gotham”

FOR RESERVATIONS, CALL 255-4211 Upcoming: Wed., Oct. 19-Sat., Oct. 22 Ruben Paul

Tickets: $5-$18

Wed., Oct. 27-Sat., Oct. 29 Halloween Burlesque

*special events not included

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“Bad Dreams” by Tim Hildebrandt, on view at Wug’s.

VISUAL ART FINIS HUMANITIE: PAINTINGS BY TOM HILDEBRANDT WUG LAKU’S STUDIO AND GARAGE; THROUGH OCT. 26. r You can’t accuse Tom Hildebrandt of seeing the world through rose-colored glasses. In both palette and subject matter, his apocalyptic landscape paintings are — unsurprisingly — dark. He’s certainly not the only painter in the Greater-Indy area with such forebodings. What distinguishes Hildebrandt are the sculpture and collage elements he incorporates into his oil paintings. In “Range of Emotion,” you see a crucifix shape cut into the surface of a land-

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scape depicting a sort of curtain, hanging like a flag of surrender, against an empty skyline. At the head of the crucifix you see a bird’s beak. At best, this landscape seems indifferent to the balm of Christianity. Elsewhere you see another kind of indifference. In “Actual Eye,” you see a plaster sculpture of an eye — from a life cast of Michelangelo’s David — peeking out from below the surface of a painting portraying multiple flat surfaces, like so many discarded artists’ drawings on paper. A disturbing possibility for any artist is that the world’s great art will be treated like so much trash in an apocalyptic future. It’s a prospect from which even Michelangelo’s work isn’t immune. 1125 Brookside Ave. Suite, 317-270-8258; wlsandg.com. — DAN GROSSMAN

LADIES NIGHT

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THURSDAYS COLLEGE ID NIGHT

$5 Admission with ID

reservations recommended

RON SHOCK

247 S. Meridian Wednesday, Oct. 12-Saturday, Oct. 15

• “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson • “The Joan Rivers Show” • His own ShowTime special “Bad Gig Blues” • “Into the Night” with Rick Dees • A&E’s “An Evening at the Improv”

• Fox’s “Comic Strip Live” • ShowTime’s “All Stars” • “Caroline’s Comedy Hour” • “Redneck Comedy Roundup 1 and 2” • ShowTime’s, “Bad Gig Blues”

FOR RESERVATIONS, CALL 631-3536 Upcoming: Wed., Oct. 19-Sat., Oct. 22 Tom Segura Wed., Oct. 26-Sat., Oct. 29 Dan Grueter

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Work by Justin Cooper is on view at the Primary Gallery through Oct. 28. MISSED THE BOAT PRIMARY GALLERY, THROUGH OCT. 28. e Justin Cooper fills Primary Gallery with a fresh, engaging and witty group of paintings depicting various animals in the face of impending environmental catastrophe. Drawing on influences including Aesop’s Fables and 18th-19th century Japanese printmaker and painter Katsushika Hokusai, Cooper intentionally forgoes any depictions of land and paints water scenes exclusively. He keeps his color palette limited to mostly blues and whites, aside from the colors used for the animals and gold leaf, which he uses effectively to render haloes around the animals and embellish decorative details of the paintings. Cooper uses scale to an almost comical effect; pieces are either

small enough to hang above a light switch, or large enough to command a sizeable wall and nowhere in between. Some works are rendered in both sizes and the larger pieces are unframed canvases that hang on the wall like tapestries. Cooper states that “these characters have come to terms with their fluctuating habitat, with a sense of confidence and serenity,” and the way he depicts this feeling is brilliant: most of the animals are surfing the waves. By juxtaposing the heavy, foreboding sense of environmental change with the lighthearted, carefree reference to California beach culture, he imposes the distinctly human sense of indifference to catastrophe upon animals. The overwhelming feeling is that we’re pretty much screwed from here on out, so we might as well enjoy what’s left of the ride. 1043 Virginia Ave. Suite #217, primarygallery@gmail.com — CHARLES FOX

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FOOD Chew On This event examines Prohibition BY N E I L CHA R LE S N CH A RL E S @N U V O . N E T As one who has worked in the wine and spirits business for the over two decades, I continue to be fascinated, surprised and perplexed by the myriad of arcane and seemingly arbitrary laws that have found their way into the books since Prohibition’s repeal almost eighty years ago. In spite of the repeal, we still live in an effectively prohibitionist society: one where alcohol, production, distribution and consumption, is unequivocally illegal unless otherwise permitted by law. When the loss of excise tax revenue and the rise of organized crime finally persuaded the federal government to abandon its failed experiment in 1933, regulation was left largely up to the state governments, most of whom had never had the resources to enforce Prohibition anyway. The resulting patchwork of contradictory and confusing alcohol laws keep the lawyers and lobbyists busy to this day, particularly in the areas of the shipping

and distribution. For some unexplained reason, the national and local distribution of alcohol continues to be monopolized by a government-enforced threetiered system of producer, wholesaler and retailer. This means that consumers are limited in their choices, and interstate commerce is unfairly restricted. This level of regulation wouldn’t be tolerated in any other business, but powerful lobbies with a commercial interest have seen to it that the system is here to stay, fair or not. Just try ordering a bottle directly from your favorite California winery, and you’ll find out how much grip the wholesalers’ lobby has on your ability to buy alcohol freely. A more immediate example of Prohibition’s lingering influence is the temperance-era rule that prohibits the sale of alcohol on Sunday. In the 1970s, you could only sell booze on the Lord’s Day if you happened to own a motor speedway not less than 2 ½ miles around (It’s true, really!). Today, you can drink at a restaurant and drive home, but you can’t buy a drink in a store and take it home with you, which is a far safer thing to do. Sensible, right? In spite of the obvious failure of Prohibition, there are still those who believe in it today. Witness our absurdly expensive and futile war on marijuana. It should be obvious by now that one cannot successfully legislate one’s own

CULINARY PICKS OCT. 15

IVS Potluck @ Northwest Way Park Everyone’s favorite squash, the pumpkin, gets top billing at this potluck feast hosted by the Indianapolis Vegetarian Society. Attendees are encouraged to bring a pumpkin dish, with a special prize going to the chef of the most-voted-for creation. So dig deep in your recipe box and whip together something inspired — pumpkin pasta with Gorgonzola anyone? Or perhaps you prefer the classics — maybe a pumpkin pie made from scratch? Whatever you choose, just make sure it’s meat free and delightfully delectable. The event begins at noon at Northwest Way Park, which is situated, logically, on Indy’s northwest side, near the intersection of 62nd Street and Moller Rd.: 5253 W. 62nd St., www.indyvegsociety.org. Admission is free. If you have an item for the Culinary Picks, send an e-mail at least two weeks in advance to culinary@nuvo.net.

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This photo, from the collections at Indiana History Center, is being recreated at their current exhibit, ‘1920: Busted! Prohibition Enforced,’ part of their You Are There series.

personal morality, but successive zealots persist in trying. If this subject is of interest (and if you enjoy the irony of discussing Prohibition over a cocktail or two), then I encourage you to attend one of the Chew On This conversations organized by Indiana Humanities and the Indiana Historical Society, amongst others, on Tuesday, Oct. 18. Venues include Ball & Biscuit, Mesh on Mass Avenue, Slippery Noodle and Turner’s. Following the cocktail conversations, all participants are invited to engage

BEER BUZZ BY RITA KOHN

OCT. 12

Binkley’s Kitchen, 7 p.m., Sierra Nevada Brewmaster Steve Dresler shares brews on draft including: Life and Limb, Estate Homegrown Ale, Northern Hemisphere, Ovila Abbey Ale ( Saison), Kellerweis, Torpedo, Tumbler and Sierra Pale. Sun King, 6:30 p.m., Brewer’s Dinner with the Big Green Bistro, 4 Courses; $40 per person

OCT. 13

Sun King Takes Over Flatwater, 5 p.m. until closing. The Ram downtown 6:30 p.m. and Fishers 6 p.m., simultaneous tapping of All Hops go to Heaven, a

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bold American IPA with prominent fruity hop flavor and a supportive malt backbone and brewer Chris Knott’s Amber Waves Farmhouse Ale, a “Saison showcasing fruity and spicy notes from the yeast balanced by a floral character from the hefty noble hop additions.”

OCT 13-14

Big Red Beer Fest, Bloomington Convention Center, 6 -9 p.m., $30 Thursday, $35 Friday

OCT. 14

Flat 12 Brewery, Second Friday, music by Brian Deer and Tad Armstrong Great Fermentations, Monthly Friday Club meeting, 5:30 p.m.

OCT. 15

Triton Brewing Company Grand Opening, 5764 Wheeler Rd., 46216. 317-735-2706. Log on http://tritonbrewing.com/

in more dialogue at a post-event reception. To learn more about the featured speakers, including our very own David Hoppe, and to apply for tickets, go to www.indianahumanities.org/chewonthis.

Chew on This

Tuesday, Oct. 18 Various venues www.indianahumanities.org/chewonthis

Porter Perfect Pint, Porter, IN, includes Flat 12 and other brewers.

OCT. 18

Chew On This discussion surrounding Ken Burns’ Prohibition. 6-8:30 p.m.. Various downtown locations including Flat 12 Bierwerks Tomlinson Tap Room, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Beer and Food Pairing, $25. Upland Bloomington, reserved Sours available for pickup, through Oct 31.

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Half Moon, Kokomo, California Common, or Steam Beer, a unique American style lager brewed with a special strain of lager yeast used by brewers in California since the 1800’s. Amber, malty medium body and Northern Brewer hops. If you have an item for Beer Buzz, send an email to beerbuzz@nuvo.net. Deadline for Beer Buzz is Thursday noon before the Wednesday of publication.

MOVIES Heartland Film Festival: Seven to see

For 20 years now, the Heartland Film Festival has been devoted to screening films that celebrate the human spirit — and giving those who’ve made those uplifting films the resources they need to keep making them. And those resources aren’t too shabby: $150,000 in cash prizes, including a $100,000 prize for best narrative feature, $25,000 for best documentary feature and $10,000 for best short film. Total screening attendance added up to 21,500 at last year’s festival, which featured the 2011 Oscar winner for best live action short ( God of Love). What awaits this year? We can give you a sense with our capsule reviews, but we won’t call them our top picks; we didn’t have a chance to see any of the documentary slate before we went to print, for instance. But here are a few that we saw and more-or-less liked, including three that are up for that $100,000 grand prize: Kinyarwanda, Inuk and The Hammer. Find more reviews throughout the week on nuvo.net. The festival opens Thursday, Oct. 13, with screenings of The Way at the IMA’s Toby Theatre; both of the film’s stars,

Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez, are scheduled to attend. All award-winning films will be presented on Friday, Oct. 14, at AMC Castleton Square 14. Then, regular screenings of all the films invited to the festival will run from Oct. 15-Oct. 23 at both AMC Castleton and AMC Showplace Indianapolis 17 on the Southside. Individual advance tickets, available online for $7.50, are $9 at the door. The Heartland Film Festival Awards will be held Saturday, Oct. 15, at the Old National Centre.

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The Hotel Rwanda is mentioned during this network narrative about the Rwandan genocide; characters reject it as a possible safe haven, wrongly assuming that only those who can pay will be let in. Compare that with the mosques that are at the center of Kinyarwanda: Muslim clerics have resolved to open them up to all who need refuge, Christians and Muslims alike. The ecumenical goodwill of the imams earns unreserved praise from the film; it seems to have been made to tell their story of rising above the insanity. But there’s room, especially at the beginning, for multiple storylines and ideas, including a shocking early scene in a re-education camp that suggests that neither truth nor reconciliation can erase the past. Winner of the World Cinema Audience Award for Dramatic Feature at Sundance. (SS)

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Inuk r

Sure, Inuk has its hokey elements, particularly during its slow-mo action scenes on the icy northern expanses of Greenland. But stop right there — how often do you see anything beyond a National Geographic special filmed in Greenland? And I’ll make another bet that you’re unfamiliar with a children’s home that aims to help troubled Inuit youth by reuniting them with the land and Inuit culture. Inuk, the title character, is one of those troubled children; he finds himself with the help of a seal hunter (warning: the killing of a seal is an affirmative act in this film’s world). (SS)

Saigon Electric r

Holy hell — it’s a remake of Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo! Like in the original, the breakdance crew at the center of Saigon Electric is determined to save their youth center from a predatory developer. Wisely, the youth center storyline occupies no more than a quarter of the film’s running time, with the rest left to explore a wellplayed country mouse/city mouse relationship between a ribbon dancer from the sticks and a B-girl from the hood. You’ve seen it all before, but probably not in Saigon, so you may find it surprising how it all plays out. (SS)

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Through perseverance, an underdog triumphs against all odds. We’ve seen this one before, á la Rudy, Hoosiers or any other inspirational sports flick, but The Hammer has enough character to be enjoyable. Russell Harvard (There Will Be Blood) plays Matt Hamill, the first deaf wrestler to win a National Collegiate Wrestling Championship. His struggles are many and somewhat predictable but Harvard, who is also deaf, steals the show. The frustrations of hearing loss are rendered through subtitles—one of the film’s strongest traits — as many characters speak only in sign language. You can overlook the watereddown clichés — this one feels real. (DC)

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The cliches roll out fast and fierce in the first ten minutes: an aging groupie (a bedraggled Elizabeth Shue) surprises a jaded rawk singer (Alessandro Nivola) by announcing that they had a kid together years ago: 13-year-old Janie Jones (Abigail Breslin, the Little Miss Sunshine pageant contestant), who just happens to be a precocious little singer-songwriter. And then, against all odds, it all clicks into place: Nivola and Breslin are charming together; their songs, written by Clem Snide singer Eef Barzelay, aren’t bad; and while Nivola’s character’s quest to play South by Southwest seems a little naive for a guy with a major-label deal, everything else feels authentic. (SS)

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A Christopher Guest-style mockumentary with the same passion for Lutheran jokes as your average episode of A Prairie Home Companion, The Lutefisk Wars is, well, pretty darn funny at times, unashamed of its corniness and with enough in the tank to last 85 minutes without lagging. Viewers should have an appreciation for Midwestern protestant culture going in; this is a series of inside jokes, to a certain extent. But the energy of the cast and filmmakers is infectious, and the fauxdocumentary footage, including a clever silent film sequence, is well-crafted. (SS)

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TJ Thyne (Bones) plays Lovell Milo, a man who begins experiencing his life out of order — every day he wakes up at a different age, on a different day of his life. Terrified, Lovell searches for ways to make it stop, until he notices a pattern and works to uncover why this is happening. Part Twilight Zone, part It’s a Wonderful Life, Shuffle’s science fiction mystery is original enough to grab your attention, but it’s the film’s focus on family and emotions that keep hold. The screenplay trips over its own feet at times but stays untangled enough to entertain. (DC)

Reviews are by Derrick Carnes (DC) and Scott Shoger (SS). See nuvo.net Friday for Ed’s review of The Thing.

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music Broad Ripple Music Fest: A highly selective guide

e won’t waste much space with an intro, but let it be known that the crew behind Broad Ripple Music Fest — comprised of guys from local web design outfit SmallBox, and, in particular, drummer, promoter and SmallBox employee Daniel Fahrner — have once again put together a completely legit (a too legit to quit) party on the streets of Broad Ripple, making the most of a streetscape that’s been down a full-time venue for some time (the erstwhile Spin and Patio space), leaving it up to the music community at large to book the best shows they have in them and donating all the proceeds to a good cause. Last year, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful received a $2000 check from the Fest; this year, Girls Rock! Indy will be the recipient of whatever comes down the pike. Over 150 bands on 17 stages will participate in Friday’s and Saturday’s festivities; here’s our pick of some of the best showcases of the lot. Flip to pg. 6 for a complete listing, and/or check out broadripplemusicfest. com for more details. All-access wristbands, available for $15 from the fest’s website, afford access to all showcases except Friday nights kickoff party at the Vogue.

FRIDAY Kate Lamont’s farewell show

The Vogue, 8 p.m., $10 (brmfkickoff.eventbrite.com), 21+

She’s been an institution on the Indy scene for over a decade, first with R&B and hip-hop band Mab Lab, then nu-grass collective Blueprint Music, later pursuing extra-musical interests as co-founder of the Earth House Collective. But, truth be told, Indianapolis remains a tough place to make it as a musician, and come the end of the year (or the end of her lease), Kate Lamont plans to move to San Francisco, where she hopes to increase her chances of getting her stuff out there — via licensing, session work, old-fashioned gigs and all the kinds of opportunities that open out once out on the West Coast. Lamont has been heading out to San Francisco since she was 12; her sisters live there now and have been needling her to move out for years. She’s saying goodbye this week with an EP release show that will feature contributions from her collaborators throughout the years, from her Mab Lab days to her current lineup. The new EP, Quality, is a collection of odds-and-ends she’s recorded over the past year and a half at the ARK studio;

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she’s keeping an album’s worth of tracks that were recorded at the same time in the can, hoping to release them once she’s made the trip out West. Lamont wrote the title track for a collaboration last year with Motus Dance Company. Other songs date from the Mab Lab days (“Paralyzed,” presented in a edition with and without a rap by Dicky Foxxx) and the past couple years (the rocker “Nothing to Do with It”; and “On My Own,” which Lamont calls a “little ditty on piano”). The show will feature the same band Lamont performed with at Radio Radio in August: Devon Ashley (drums), Mike Hogan (bass), Dicky Foxxx (DJ) and Josh Silbert (saxes). Jazz pianist Bob Wilson will join Lamont for a few piano-and-vocals numbers; she’s performed jazz sets with Wilson in the past, and he wrote two tracks for her After the Traffic LP. Vess Ruhtenberg, who produced and played on After the Traffic (among perhaps hundreds of other records), will open, along with the hip-hop/soul collective T.J. Reynolds & the Freehand Orchestra.

A Squared and Rad Summer showcase

Connor’s Pub mega-tent, 8 p.m., $10, 21+

Once again, the mega-tent stationed outside of Connor’s Pub will host two of the biggest shows BRMF has to offer: Friday night’s showcase headlined by “Lemme Smang It” hip-hop collective Turquoise Jeep and Saturday’s Standard party, which closes with a DJ set by Of Montreal pied piper Kevin Barnes (see below). The Turquoise Jeep crew was through town earlier this year; if you haven’t seen their YouTube videos, you’re missing public access-quality parody on the level of Tim and Eric, not to mention disgusting-but-inspired lines like “This is what I like to call ‘smash-bang fusion’ / Gotta focus, mama don’t wanna get a cooch contusion.” Also on the lineup: emcee Oreo Jones, subbing out his usual 90 Lbs full band for OMG! DJ B-Qwyatt; NYC dubstep DJ Proper Villains, whose stuff has seen proper release on Norman Cook’s Southern Fried label; and a more than solid opening lineup of local DJs (Action Jackson, DJ Metrognome, A-Squared DJs, Kaiton & Jordan, CRKSHNKS).

SATURDAY Commodore Von Keepsie’s Magic Playhouse Connor’s Pub mega-tent, 4 p.m., $10, 21+

For the second year running, the good Commodore — a mustachioed character from the age of telegraphs and child labor transported to this moment in time and space by the Standard Recording crew — will host just about the biggest indie rock show this side of the Mason-Dixon, headlined by DJ List Christee, who you may better know as Kevin Barnes, the flamboy-

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ant genius behind Athens, Ga.-band Of Montreal. Barnes’s Magic Playhouse visit is also the release show for Joyful Noise Recordings’ Of Montreal cassette box set. If you picked up last year’s Joan of Arc box from Joyful Noise, you’ll know about what to expect; this time around, it’s a custombuilt wooden box housing the entirety of Of Montreal’s long-playing work on ten cassettes, with original hand-screened art by Kevin’s brother and Of Montreal art director David Barnes. But wait there’s more; not only do you get to rub shoulders with indie rock royalty, but a pretty freaking good local/Midwestern lineup is in store, including Bloomington Old West troubadours Murder by Death, gloomy indie-pop band Pravada, kitchen sink artrock outfit Child Bite, the ever-mirthful Amo Joy, the keyboard-centric Elsinore. And then all these other bands, who we’re just going to list for space reasons: Harley Poe, Slothpop, Sleeping Bag, Whip Cream Wars, America Owns the Moon, Learner Dancer, Crys, The Embraceables, Household Guns, Caleb McCoach.

Heavy Gun showcase Casba, 8 p.m., $5, 21+

The rumors aren’t true: producer J. Brookinz and emcee Grey Granite are still working together, and their blog/label/ empire Heavy Gun is still an active concern. Both Brookinz and Granite cleared that up with NUVO this week before hyping some upcoming projects: a dubstep/hip-hop collaboration between Granite, DJ Ed Trauma and Freddie Bunz called Slaughter on the Audio; a Fela Kuti-inspired project with newcomer Fenya Fudiyah. And, of course,

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they’ve been hard at work putting together this beat battle/showcase, which will be packed into four-hour span (curfew is 12 a.m. for the show, according to Granite). The beat battle will, as usual, see two producers going head to head in a single-elimination tournament, playing minute-long samples of their beats for the consideration of judges, who will pick their favorite of the two, round after round, until the ultimate winner is chosen. This year’s winner will receive a grand prize of $200 and the right to compete in a beat battle sponsored by dynamicproducer.com. Of course, it’s not all about the battle; the rest of the lineup features just about everyone in the local hip-hop world, from Grey Granite to Oreo Jones, Proforms to Mr. Kinetik, Ace One to Mic Sol. They’ll only have ten minutes each to perform, but as Granite puts it, “a good artist can give an amazing performance in that amount of time.”

Indy Mojo showcase The Mousetrap, 4 p.m., $5, 21+

The guys at The Mousetrap have done a yeoman-like job making their club the home for jam music in the Indy area. But it took the tag-team of IndyMojo and the G-9 Collective to take the club’s offerings one step beyond. Mojo and company started off with a weekly dance night Altered Thurzdaze; they’ve moved on to put on occasional multiple-stage blowouts like the one they put booked for 4.20. Mojo’s BRMF showcase will feature music on three stages: inside the ‘Trap, in a tent and on the deck. We’ll leave it to Mojo’s Matt Ramsey to make some top picks: He’s looking out for Illesha, a San Francisco-based dubstep pro-

Dreamers of the Ghetto, Enemy/Lover; Forevermind (X-103 Nirvana tribute album); Pop Lolita, Smokerings and Halos; Flufftronix, Filthy Angels

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Sat. Oct. 29th Irving Theater 2pm-9pm

Mitchell Entertainment shows:

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10.13

If I Had a Nickel

Sun. Dec. 11th Birdy’s

10.14

Gemini

10.15

4PZ, ERK, T Dub & Jaecyn Bayne

Souls of Mischief | Tyrae Tala | Max Allen Band | C-Rayz Walz

Yellow Dubmarine w/ Max Allen Band Fishbone w/ Deadman’s Switch | Stealing Volume

Joe’s 2 | 9pm–no cover Rokafellow’s Hall | 10pm-$5 cover

Kelly’s Pub Too |10pm-$5 cover

10.15

Tapes ‘n Tapes

MOKB/Roaring Colonel showcase Rock Lobster, 5 p.m., $10, 21+

Local indie rock dude Dodge will represent at BRMF by offering a mix of the kinds of bands he talks about on his My Old Kentucky Blog — a couple Minneapolisbased headliners: XL band Tapes n Tapes, whose sound gestures towards giants of indie rock like Pavement and The Pixies, and Rough Trade garage rockers Howler — alongside the locals who’ve either released work through his Roaring Colonel label or ought to: Neon Love Life and Hotfox, both of whose full-lengths the label released this summer; and a couple garage rock bands whose stuff can be heard on Gloryhole Records, The Kemps and Vacation Club.

OnTrack and InHouse showcase Tru Nightclub, 9 p.m., $10, 21+

One of three three-stage shindigs at BRMF, OnTrack and InHouse’s party at Tru will be available in two flavors: House, courtesy of Deanne, Zebo, Compact Disco (to name a few); and bass, brought to you by El Carnicero, The Grimey Kids, Mowgli and others. An outdoor stage will host a couple battles of sorts: Chachi vs. Taylor Norris and Fate vs. Brandon Patrik.

Ripple Inn and Crush Entertainment showcase

Ripple Inn, 5 p.m., free before 9 p.m., $5 after 9 p.m.

Here’s a rather eclectic lineup at the Ripple Inn. Out on the patio: soul and funk from Bulletproof Soul, electric blues from Harvey & the Bluetones and more

trombones than is usually required from Trombonymous. Inside, at Room 929, plenty of DJs, including Lockstar, Indiana Jones (both a sponsor and a performer) and Gabby Love. And at the bar, singer-songwriters like Jamie Nichole and Chad Mills.

We’ve left out other excellent shows at Locals Only (featuring the return of Mardelay), the Melody Inn (Chindi, Eastside Larry) and Birdy’s (Permacrush) — not to mention our own showcase (presented with Oranje) at the Monkey’s Tale, headlined by neo-soul cats Bashiri Asad and Whitney Coleman. We don’t like to brag too much; find out more about all the showcases at broadripplemusicfest.org. But we did want to emphasize BRMF’s all-ages shows, all three of which are considered below.

Piradical showcase ES Jungle, 6 p.m., $8, all-ages

Yes, some of the best of BRMF is off-limits to the kids, but the kids will have to live through it (it gets better, sort of). There are three shows designated as all-ages; this is only ticketed one, a headlining set by oversized Bloomington pop outfit Rodeo Ruby Love, with help from Blane Fonda, Tax Brandywine and Indian City Weather, among others.

XRA Records showcase LUNA Music, 12 p.m., free, all-ages

LUNA Music will hand over its corner stage area Saturday to XRA Records, a Bloomington-based label that tends towards indie-pop and is sometimes known by its full name, Crossroads of America. Frank Schweikhardt, State Park, Wet Blankets, Doug, Rodeo Ruby Love will represent the label. A couple ringers — Everything, Now!, which was part of XRA’s CD-a-month series but isn’t on the label’s active roster, and Dave Adamson’s new solo project, DMA — round out the lineup.

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ducer and vocalist who usually doesn’t get as far east as Indy. Chicago-based livetronica band Loyal Divide is another of his picks: “These guys have never played Indy, and having North Coast Music Festival and SXSW on their performance resume, certainly adds some meat to our lineup.” And he singles out Shy Guy Says, a Bloomingtonbased producer who dresses as Super Mario villain Shy Guy on stage and performs live on Ableton software: “This guy is one of the most humble musicians I’ve met, and is just looking for the opportunity to showcase his talent on a big stage.” With Eumatik, Loyal Divide and Blue Moon Revue inside; Topspeed, Hollow Point and Psynapse in the tent; and Kodama, DJ Sarge and Kid Kollision on the deck.

Star Cult Mama

10.14

Bubbaz - Plainfield

10.15

Indy Southside Harley w/4PZ

10.15

Krazy St.

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10.13

Rokafellow’s Hall

10.20

Britton Tavern

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HIP-HOP DAS RACIST, DANNY BROWN, DESPOT The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave. 9 p.m., $15 advance (plus fees), $17 door, 21+

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Thursday

HIP-HOP MAC MILLER, CASEY VEGGIES & THE COME UP

Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St. 7:30 p.m., $22 (plus fees), all-ages

Pittsburgh-based rapper Mac Miller skirts the difference between post-Beastie Boys party hip-hop and Jason Mraz-style lite-rock. His biggest single to date is “Donald Trump,” whose chorus runs “Take over the world when I’m on my Donald Trump shit / Look at all this money, ain’t that some shit?” FOLK MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER

The Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, 335 City Center Drive 7:30 p.m., $15-100, all-ages

Carpenter is a bit less country these days, now that she’s moved from major labels to Rounder offshoot Zoe; she doesn’t have to craft work with crossover appeal and can pretty much follow her muse. On last year’s The Age of Miracles, her muse prompted her to write, with typical insight and soulfulness, about Tiananmen Square, marriage, long-term relationships and the plight of Ernest Hemingway’s wife.

Saturday

FOLK CARRIE NEWCOMER AND THE KHAN BROTHERS Second Presbyterian Church, 7700 N. Meridian St. 7:30 p.m., $18 (available at Global Gifts), all-ages

See feature, pg 30.

HARD ROCK THE BACON BROTHERS

The Palladium at the Center for Performing Arts, 335 City Center Drive, 8 p.m., $15-90, all-ages

The biggest surprise about the Bacon Brothers has tended to be how little they suck. In fact, they’re a pretty versatile band, ranging from Wallflowersstyle alt-rock to more roots-infused stuff, mixing Stones-inspired hard rock and blues in for good measure. Michael Bacon is the full-time musician in the crew — he played in Philly-area bands well before his brother, Kevin, became a household name and has now become a sought-after film composer. And that famous brother of his is a capable guitarist and singer. So, yeah, part of the appeal has to do with star power, but it won’t be a boring night even if you care not for such worldly things.

It seems appropriate to reprint in full V ictor Vasquez’s answer to the question “How do your politics inform your work?,” put to him by Danielle Look on behalf of NUVO earlier this year: “The richest 10 percent owns 85 percent of the world’s wealth. 1.4 million kids die per year of curable diseases. There’s enough food on earth to feed all six billion or so of us twice; but one out of every eight people on earth is starving. The US has spent over a trillion dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where thousands of American soldiers (mostly poor) have died and an estimated million or so Iraqis and Afghanis have died. Our dependence on oil is poisoning the oceans, destroying the atmosphere and countless fragile ecosystems and is perpetuating mass violence and economic disparity. I’m not sure what use there is in making music aside from the fact that it’ s paying my rent right now.” Vasquez and the rest of the art-rap outfit Das Racist will play The V ogue on the heels of their debut album.

Tuesday

JAZZ REGINA CARTER

The Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave. 7 and 9 p.m., $25, 21+

When the always-adventurous Detroit-born jazz violinist Regina Carter received a Fullbright Fellowship in 2006, the awarding foundation pointed to her “wide range of musical influences including Motown, Afro-Cuban, swing, bebop, folk and world music,” not to mention her “fluidity, grace and balance.” She used that fellowship to further expand her horizons by preparing and researching her latest album, Reverse Thread, which is her take on various African folk traditions, from Ugandan Jewish music to Afro-Cuban jazz. Her touring act, which goes by the same name as her album, features Carter backed by Yacouba Sissoko on kora (the West African harp traditionally played by village storytellers, or griots), as well as accordion, bass and drums. POP MATTHEW SWEET

Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St. 8 p.m., $18 advance, $20 door, 21+

As tastes change, it’s good to know that Matthew Sweet remains one of our leading producers of power-pop, both as an artist (his latest, Modern Art, has been picking up solid reviews since its September release) and a producer (he was at the helm for the latest effort by The Bangles, which has been called their most energetic effort since their debut). And, actually, power-pop may not best describe Sweet’s latest album, which includes a folk parody that compares, lyrically, to “Sick of Myself”; some late Byrds-esque numbers; an electric blues; and then more of the same that we’ve heard since Girlfriend, albeit with a more intimate sound (Sweet recorded it with two other musicians, and the album was processed through some sort of triple-analogue process that involves cutting the masters to lacquer before transferring to digital).

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JAZZ BUSELLI-WALLARAB JAZZ SEPTET: THE ELLINGTON SHOW The Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave. 8 and 10 p.m., $15, 21+

Sure, you may associate the Buselli-Wallarab brand with a big band, but they can split into other formations, including the time-honored septet. And, yeah, you may think of Ellington as a guy who largely wrote for big bands, but he found the time to write and record hundreds of works for septet during his super-prolific career. So you pretty much have the idea behind this show.

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Thursday The Flying Toasters

Friday Zanna Doo

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THUR. 10/13

RICK STUMP, SAMUEL LAWTON

FRI. 10/14

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SAT. 10/15

BROAD RIPPLE MUSIC FEST W/ GYPSY HARBOR, STEPSON, THE HOLLAND ACCOUNT, PERMACRUSH, 5 DAY TRIP, SKYHUNTER AND THE KNOLLWOOD BOYS WWW.BROADRIPPLEMUSICFEST.COM

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ECURB ENTERTAINMENT W/ NICHOLE MICHELLE, GROOVE MUSIQ

MON. 10/17

DAVE BARTLETT , NATE HENSLEY, JUNK BOX MIKE, JON ROBERT BOWYER

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VASKI // ROTTUN RECORDS WITH HEMSTREET & DJ TANNER A COSMIC EVENT MITCHELL

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PRESENTS PARABELLE W/ PRAGMATIC AND BELLJAR ADRIAN BELEW, POWER

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BY WADE CO G GESHALL WCO G G ESHAL L @NUVO.NET Carrie Newcomer has always had an adventurous spirit. It’s evident in her perceptive folk music and collaborations with everyone from Quaker theologian Phillip Gulley to environmental writer Scott Russell Sanders. Then there’s her work leading songwriting workshops and serving as a cultural ambassador for the American Embassy in India. It’s that last role that’s facilitated her 15th album, Everything is Everywhere, a collaboration with the famed Khan family of Indian classical musicians. It’s a project even Newcomer admits is unusual for her. “It’s very singular,” she recently said by phone from Delhi, India, while on her second visit to the country as a cultural ambassador. The idea came about in 2009, when Newcomer was invited to be an artist-inresidence at the American Embassy School in Delhi. There’s a section of the American Embassy called the American Center, which brings cultural events like music, art and literature from the United States. “It’s not so much for expatriates,” Newcomer said. “It’s really to bring a variety of American culture to India.” The Southern Indiana-based singer spent a month traveling all over the country, playing concerts at night and performing community service during the day. Mostly she worked with young residents, leading workshops on songwriting and cre-

ative writing. That’s something Newcomer had done for years, though never internationally. She described the experience as wonderful and life-changing. “I really fell in love with India when I was here,” Newcomer said. “I’ve had the opportunity to meet wonderful musicians while I was here.” That includes the Khans, a family of classically-trained sarod players that includes Amjad Ali Khan and his sons Amaan and Ayaan. As Newcomer describes it, if the sitar is the violin of the Indian classical world, the sarod is the cello. “It still has those beautiful, resonating strings and that drone we associate with the sitar, but it’s lower,” she said. In an email exchange, Ayaan says the sarod has become one of India’s most popular musical instruments. “It has reached out to diverse and mainstream listeners all across the globe,” he wrote. “Post the sitar boom, the sarod has managed to carve out a special niche in the hearts of music lovers.” Newcomer met the Khans in their home, where they have a studio. One thing led to another, and they began to play music together. “It was just a beautiful experience,” Newcomer said. “We were both so touched by one another’s music, and touched by the spirit that was contained in the music.” Like Newcomer, the Khans have facilitated plenty of interfaith dialogue (Amjad is Muslim while his wife Subhalakshmi is Hindu). “There’s a spiritual current in my work,” said Newcomer, a practicing Quaker. “They really appreciated that. We felt like we had a common well that our music was pulling from.” There were other factors that drew the Khans to Newcomer. “(She has) one of the most appealing voices we ever heard,” Ayaan wrote. “The lyrics also were truly a connecting thread between what was to become Everything is Everywhere.”

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States, they recorded with Newcomer at Bloomington’s Airtime Studios. Newcomer wrote a collection of songs specifically for the collaboration, working from notes she kept while in India. “I came home with notebooks filled with images,” Newcomer said. “It was such a busy schedule and so much happened in that month that it was hard to process it all. I didn’t have time to write about it, but I did have time to write little reflections and images.” Newcomer was keenly aware of the cultural differences while in India. But she also noticed the similarities. “When I started singing songs for Indian audiences, what I found is if you’re singing a song about love or family, or grief or struggle, or particularly about hope, it’s recognizable everywhere immediately,” she said. “I was touched encountering that beautiful thread that pulls between us as people.” Both sides went into the project having little idea of what to expect. “We were all stepping out into uncharted territory,” Newcomer said. “I don’t know if a collaboration like this has ever happened.” Ayaan isn’t aware of another one. His family has worked with Western artists before, including Derek Trucks, but no one of the folk persuasion like Newcomer. “It is very rare for [performers such as us] to record an entire album together as opposed to recording just a track,” Ayaan

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): If it’s at all possible, Aries, don’t hang around boring people this week. Seek out the company of adventurers who keep you guessing and unruly talkers who incite your imagination and mystery-lovers who are always on the lookout for new learning experiences. For that matter, treat yourself to especially interesting food, perceptions, and sensations. Take new and different routes to familiar hotspots. Even better, find fresh hotspots. Cultivating novelty is your mandate right now. Outgrowing your habits would be wise, fun, and cool. Changing your mind is a luxury you need and deserve. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn,” wrote the Slovenian American author Louis Adamic. That’s true enough. Here’s the thing, though: If you manage to get a smooth thorn without any prickles (like on certain hawthorn trees), the only risk is when you’re licking the honey close to the sharp end. Otherwise, as your tongue makes its way up the sleek surface of the rest of the thorn, you’re fine -- no cuts, no pain. According to my analysis, Taurus, you have just finished your close encounter with the sharp point of a smooth thorn. Now the going will be easier. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): On the front of every British passport is an image that includes a chained unicorn standing up on its two hind legs. It’s a central feature of the coat of arms of the United Kingdom. I would love to see you do something as wacky as that in the coming week, Gemini -- you know, bring elements of fantasy and myth and imagination into some official setting. It would, I believe, put you in sweet alignment with current cosmic rhythms. (P.S. If you decide to invoke the archetype of the unicorn, unchain it.) CANCER (June 21-July 22): I’ve come across two definitions of the slang term “cameling up.” One source says it means filling yourself with thirst-quenching liquid before heading out to a hot place on a hot day. A second source says it means stuffing yourself with a giant meal before going out on a binge of drinking alcohol, because it allows you to get drunk more slowly. For your purposes, Cancerian, I’m proposing a third, more metaphorical nuance to “cameling up.” Before embarking on a big project to upgrade your self-expression -- quite possibly heroic and courageous -- I suggest you camel up by soaking in an abundance of love and support from people whose nurturing you savor.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There’s a good chance that you will soon find something you lost a while back. It may even be the case that you will recover an asset you squandered or you’ll revive a dream that was left for dead. To what do you owe the pleasure of this blessing? Here’s what I think: The universe is rewarding you for the good work you’ve done lately on taking better care of what’s important to you. You’re going to be shown how much grace is available when you live your life in rapt alignment with your deepest, truest values.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Chris Richards wrote a story in the Washington Post in which he complained about the surplus of unimaginative band names. At this year’s SXSW music festival in Austin, he counted six different bands that used “Bear” and two with “Panda.”

Seven bands had “Gold,” including Golden Bear. Marshmallow Ghosts was one of seven bands with “Ghost” in their names. You’re in a phase of your life when it’s especially important not to be a slave of the trends, Libra -- a time when it’s crucial to your well-being to come up with original language, unique descriptions, and fresh approaches. So what would your band’s name be? (tinyurl.com/ BadNamesForBands) SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’ve got to cry one more tear before the pungent comedy will deliver its ultimate lesson and leave you in peace. You’ve got to make one further promise to yourself before you will be released from the twilight area where pain and pleasure became so tangled. You’ve got to navigate your way through one more small surrender before you will be cleared to hunt down your rebirth in earnest. But meanwhile, the catharses and epiphanies just keep on erupting. You’re growing more soulful and less subject to people’s delusions by the minute. Your rather unconventional attempts at healing are working -- maybe not as rapidly as you’d like, but still, they are working. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Most people who profess a deep love of the Bible have never actually read the book,” says religious writer Rami Shapiro. If they did, they’d know that Satan is not implicated as the tempter of Adam and Eve. There’s no mention of three wise men coming to see baby Jesus, nor of a whale swallowing Jonah. Homilies like “This too shall pass” and “God helps those who help themselves” never appear in the scriptures. And contrary to the Ayn Rand-style self-reliance that evangelicals think is a central theme of their holy book, the Bible’s predominant message is that goodness is measured by what one does for others. I bring this up as a teaching about how not to proceed in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. You really do need to know a lot about the texts and ideas and people and situations upon which you base your life. (tinyurl.com/BibleFog) CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote to the emptiness of existence.” So says the Gertrude Stein character in Woody Allen’s film Midnight in Paris. As an aspiring master of crafty optimism myself, I don’t buy the notion that existence is inherently empty. I do, however, wish that more artists would be motivated by the desire to create cures for the collective malaise that has haunted every historical era, including ours. In alignment with your current astrological omens, I invite you to take up this noble task yourself in the coming weeks, whether or not you’re an artist. You now have much more than your usual power to inspire and animate others. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The worldfamous whiskey known as Jack Daniel’s is produced in Moore County, Tennessee, which prohibits the sale of alcohol in stores and restaurants. So you can’t get a drink of the stuff in the place where it’s made. I suspect there’s a comparable situation going on in your life, Aquarius. Maybe something you’re good at isn’t appreciated by those around you. Maybe a message you’re broadcasting or a gift you’re offering gets more attention at a distance than it does up close. Is there anything you can do about that? The coming weeks would be a good time to try. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Once you drive your car into Norway’s Laerdal Tunnel, you’re in for a long haul through the murk. The light at the end doesn’t start appearing until you’ve traveled almost 14 miles. Using this as a metaphor for your life in the here and now, I estimate that you’re at about the 12-mile mark. Keep the faith, Pisces. It’s a straight shot from here. Can you think of any cheerful tunes you could sing at the top of your lungs?

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