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Vote, dammit! We contrast and compare the candidates for mayor of Indy — and break down all the districts in the City-County Council races to boot in our special Voting Guide section.
Brewer V. Hogsett.............................. P.15 Voter guide...................................P.V1-V4
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Here’s an equation: The Colts plus old dead cell phones equals Domestic Violence Awareness Month. What? It will all make sense on page 6. Also, a legislative study committee spent over 8 hours talking about the teacher shortage in Indiana Monday.
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The Indianapolis Art Center has been running a class inside the Marion County Jail. This week the exhibit that grew from that class comes to life. James Still of the IRT has a new play that deals with race, gender and politics through the lens of an Indianapolis family during the tragic day MLK died. We also have a look at the designers who are bringing arcade games back.
Prison art........................................... P.09 Arcade games.................................... P.10 IRT...................................................... P.12 SCREENS Ed Johnson-Ott reviews Coming Home... P.13
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This week in food, it’s a pasta party! We’ve got tips on how to cook your pasta just right, plus where to go to study up on the perfect technique. And the Bluebeard folks open Amelia’s as a standalone store.
Pasta technique with Thom England................................. P.29 Amelia’s opens.................................. P.29 Italian restaurant rundown............... P.31
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It’s another big Bloomington week in the music section, kicking off with interviews with Diane Coffee, who recorded a brand new album in Bloomington with Tim Smiley and a whole cast of local musicians; plus, Harlan Kelly goes deep with Protomartyr about death and detective novels. But we didn’t leave you behind, Indianapolis: Ed Wenck’s got the goods on a ska show at Union Brewing this weekend, plus Kyle Long chats up Michael Kaufmann about StreamLines.
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t has been a bittersweet year. EDITORS@NUVO.NET Even as we extended civil rights and Gregory W. Porter is a member of the Indiana House of Representatives, representing District 96. David Sklar is Director of Government Affairs equality to millions of Americans and with the Indianapolis Jewish Community Relations Council. thousands of Hoosiers, we also witnessed the tragic shootings at a church to all African-Americans who see it. in Charleston, South Carolina, of the Although Congress enacted the federal newscaster and cameraman in Moneta, Hate Crimes Prevention Act in 2009, the Virginia, and most recently at Umpqua Department of Justice has very limited Community College in Roseburg, Orability to investigate and prosecute local egon. These deadly attacks come on the bias crimes. This is why it is important heels of similar mass shootings at the that states have their own statutes, in Kansas City Jewish Community Center order to react to these crimes directly and the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisand justly when they occur. consin. Each of these horrific events had Our proposed legislation will in no one thing in common – the perpetrators way limit free and constitutional speech singled out their victims because of their or any type of legal religious practice or race or religion. The shooter in Charlesbelief. Bias crimes statutes have been ton targeted a storied African-American constitutionally upheld by a unanimous church in order to send a message, and Supreme Court ruling in the 1993 case the Roseburg shooter allegedly verified Wisconsin v. Mitchell and simply speak that his victims were Christian before to our collective disdain for criminal bemurdering them. havior motivated by hatred and bigotry. Every time we hear of one of these A nation’s laws should reflect its social senseless and despicable acts we are contract with all of its citizens. Adding reminded that hate-based violence still takes place with shocking regularity around the country. Every time we hear of one of these They also remind us that Indiana is one of only five senseless and despicable acts we are states in the country that reminded that hate-based violence lack bias crime statutes. We believe it is time for still takes place with shocking this to change and will urge the Indiana General regularity around the country. Assembly to pass comprehensive bias crimes legislation in the 2016 and enforcing a law addressing crimes legislative session. based on prejudice would help align our In 2013, the last year with data laws with American values. It will send a available, at least 75 bias crimes were strong message that hate-based violence reported by Indiana cities and law is anathema to the principles of freedom enforcement agencies to the FBI. When and equality that form the cornerstone criminals target victims because of characteristics such as race and religion, they of American democracy. We believe it is time that Indiana join a both harm their victims and threaten vast majority of other states in the counothers who share that race or religion. try and pass a strong bias-crimes statute. For example, a burning cross may harm We hope our fellow Hoosiers will join us the yard of only one African-American in this important endeavor. n family, but it coveys its racist threat
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ou’ve all seen the blinding graphic of our state — the one completely covered in red, representing how every single county in Indiana is primarily Republican. The only teeny blue dot of reason within that raging sea of conservative wingnuts is located smack dab in the center. In Marion County. Ironically, that sanguine, seizure-inducing graphic is somewhat reminiscent of a target. A target that one might use for, say ... shooting. Someone who has made his position clear is Elkhart County Sheriff Brad Rogers. This pillar of society has publicly made it clear that he will refuse to carry out an executive order should President Obama be successful with his plan to put more stringent gun control laws into place. The president called this firearms goal “common-sense gun legislation”. Rogers put his foot in it during a local PBS broadcast, shooting his mouth off, comparing dicks with the president of the United States as if he had a few inches to spare. Somehow, I think the leader of the free world is going to come out on top in a pissing contest between
People feel things about this issue — especially when someone who did have unregulated access to guns goes all “bell tower” at a college in Oregon. Because that kind of bullshit is the same thing that’s already happened at far too many colleges and that will continue to happen at several more as conservative whiners want to argue amendment protection instead of human protection. How many times has this happened already? Things go south. Guns go off. People die. Shooters are typically killed or go all Unibomber-martyr at the scene, and the public clamors for change and safety and gun control. Conservatives shut that down ... new news happens ... things die down ... and then it happens again and we start the whole psychotically futile process from the beginning. Allowing easy access to firearms and/ or not pushing for regulation and registration isn’t helping anyone. If it were, college students wouldn’t still be getting shot because they were So a sheriff just said out loud that simply walking to their art history classes. the government shouldn’t know Infowars.com went on to report on Rogers’ statement. who has weapons. “I’m from the government, and I don’t think the government has any place in gun registration,” Rogers said on himself and a small-time sheriff from the the PBS broadcast. “The government Clusterfuck Crossroads of America. shouldn’t know who’s got weapons.” Infowars.com reported on comments A sheriff just said out loud that the govmade by Rogers as well as by economist ernment shouldn’t know who has weapons. and political philosopher Thomas Sowell. “And so I always discourage people “With so many facts available from so from ever registering any guns – it’s not a many places and times, why is gun conlaw in Indiana, so it’s not like I’m asking trol still a heated issue?” asked Sowell ... anyone to break the law. I’m just saying if rhetorically, of course. “The short answer someone wants to come into the sheriff’s is that most gun control zealots do not office and register their gun I will let even discuss the issue in terms of hard them do it — but quite frankly it’s not facts. [They] act as if they just know — something we push or promote.” somehow — that bullets will be flying Oh, he’s a peach. hither and yon if you allow ordinary “In fact if President Obama today said, people to have guns.” ‘I’m creating an executive order that all Hmm ... wow ... let’s see ... could it be sheriffs and police chiefs around this that maybe people don’t consider the nation need to start registering firearms,’ idea of everyone having access to guns I will disregard it,” Rogers said. from a purely intellectual point of view?! Okay. I just can’t. n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 10.21.15 - 10.28.15 // VOICES 5
WHAT HAPPENED? ACLU of Indiana wins ‘ballot selfie’ law challenge A federal judge has ruled an Indiana law banning voters from taking a “selfie” photo with their ballot as unconstitutional. The ACLU of Indiana challenged the law that makes it a felony for someone to photograph their ballot at the polls and/or to share that photo on social media. “Taking a picture of one’s ballot and sharing it with family and friends is an expression of pride and enthusiasm about voting, and is a form of political speech that must be protected,” said ACLU of Indiana legal director Ken Falk. “We are happy that the First Amendment rights of all voters have been protected by the Court’s decision.” In her decision, Judge Sarah Evans Barker stated that the law violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and “neither serves compelling state interests nor is narrowly tailored to achieve those interests.” The law took effect July 1, however Judge Barker’s decision prevents the law from being enforced in the upcoming municipal elections Nov. 3.
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Governor’s new pregnancy education program Gov. Mike Pence announced the state has entered into a year-long contract with Real Alternatives to provide free pregnancy and parenting services. Real Alternatives’ programs include counseling support for pregnant women and new moms on topics such as breastfeeding, childcare, depression, fetal development, drug abuse and more. The group provides referral services for housing, medical health, mental health, etc. The statewide contract comes after a pilot program contracted with the Indiana Department of Homeland Security in northern Indiana. The new contract allocates $3.5 million to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). The funding comes from existing dollars and does not cut any services or programs, according to the press release. Real Alternatives is known for its anti-abortion stance and critics say the statewide contract furthers the governor’s anti-abortion agenda. The contract runs through Sept. 30, 2016. Gov announces new infrastructure initiative Last week Gov. Mike Pence announced a plan to make $1 billion in road funding available over the next four years. It received mixed reactions from Indiana legislative leaders. The plan is called 21st Century Crossroads. It does not include raising taxes but would result in the repairing of 16,000 miles of state highways and 5,200 bridges over the next 15 years. Indiana Senate Minority Leader Tim Lanane, D-Anderson, said the plan didn’t move fast enough. The governor’s plan pulls $241 million from the state’s reserves, appropriates an additional $450 million over three years to INDOT’s budget, takes $50 million from the interest in the Next Generation Trust Fund (which was created by the 2006 Major Moves program), grabs $240 million in bond financing and generates another $6.5 million by refinancing existing bonds.
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provided support services and resources to 335 adults and children escaping their domestic violence situations. Colts’ tight end Dwayne Allen spent an afternoon at Coburn Place playing basketball and doing crafts with the kids residing at the facility. Allen is one of nearly two dozen NFL players involved in the “Say No More to Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault” campaign. The public service announcements feature athletes and sports celebrities bringing attention to the issue of domestic violence. Domestic violence among NFL players fell under intense media scrutiny after the Ray Rice incident involving his then-fiancée Janay in 2014. The NO MORE campaign kicked off during the NFL season with PSAs airing during games. Allen became the Colts representative in that campaign. The mild-mannered well-spoken pro football player spent an afternoon tossing the football and making Halloween crafts with the kids at Coburn Place. But his message for the to the public was simple and sincere.
hat may seem like just anther way to get rid of old junk lying around your house may actually serve as a huge step toward independence for a domestic violence survivor and her family. October is Domestic Violence Awareness month and the Indianapolis Colts are encouraging fans to bring old cell phones, tablets, and other wireless devices to Sunday’s home game against the New Orleans Saints. The collection drive is a part of Verizon’s Hopeline campaign. The phones are refurbished and redistributed to domestic violence survivors to use as a new line of communication as they work to get their lives back. Coburn Place Safe Haven will benefit from the phones that are collected. “These phones make a huge difference, “ says Lara Chandler, vice president of mission advancement for Coburn Place. “We actually provide them to all sorts of our clients to have so that they can be able to access employment, resources, doctor’s appointments, things they wouldn’t have access to because their abuser has taken their phone away.” “These phones make a huge Communication is a necessity difference ...” that many of us take for granted, but for those who are in volatile — LARA CHANDLER situations, access to the world COBURN PLACE is often cut off and controlled. More often than not, domestic violence survivors escape with not much more than what few items “The Hopeline — their goal is to do three they can carry out with them. Domestic things,: said Allen. “Number one, to prevent abuse is often about control of everyby providing resources to different domesthing, which can include finances and tic violence organizations; number two, to time as well as possessions and belongeducate everyone about domestic violence ings. Getting a new cell phone not only and the different signs that you can pick goes toward establishing a new life, but up on to help prevent and stop domestic is also severs another tie to the abuser. abuse; and number three to empower them Coburn Place maintains 35 apartments by providing cell phones to the organizain Indianapolis for families who are tions and those survivors as a safeline to transitioning out of their violent situation resources and family and friends.” and working toward a safer life. The facilThis is the third year the Colts have ity also provides services and resources partnered with Verizon for the cell phone to those families to help in every aspect drive and Allen’s second year representof their transition to safety, including ing the program. self-defense classes, therapy support Any and all cell phones, tablets, and groups, financial literacy workshops and accessories will be accepted in any or in other resources. In 2014, Coburn Place no working order. n
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Why should we vote event Wednesday, Oct. 21, 5 p.m. Marion County Clerk Myla Eldridge, Mt. Zion Apostolic Church, the Northeast Indianapolis Community Service Corp. and the H.O.P.E. Team will host a community conversation about civic engagement and voter apathy. The event will feature a panel of community leaders with the hope or educating people about the importance of voting and how local elections impact their daily lives. Mt. Zion Apostolic Church, 4900 E. 38th St., FREE Pride IN History Thursday, Oct. 22, 6:30 p.m. The Indiana Historical Society will host a talk about how museums explore the history of LGBT communities. Bloomington-based author and researcher Dr. Susan Ferentinos will discuss her book, Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites, and photographer Mark Lee will discuss his exhibit, A Visual Journey: From Aids to Marriage Equality, which is currently on display at the Indiana History Center.
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legislative study committee met at the statehouse Monday to discuss the teacher shortage in Indiana and to come up with recommendations to possibly reverse the trend. The meeting was held in the House chamber and began at 1 p.m. with every seat filled with committee members, experts called upon to testify about the issue, college deans from education schools around the state and teachers determined to give a “real world” look at what it is like to work as a teacher under the current testing conditions and salaries. Unfortunately the room nearly was empty by the time teachers were able to voice their opinions during the public comment period that came at the end of the expert testimony, which took up the first five hours of the eight-hour meeting. The expert testimony was contradictory and left questions open as to if there even is a problem in the teacher workforce. Information presented to the committee offered mixed results on the number of people seeking education degrees in
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the state’s universities and the number of people remaining in the profession postcollege. Even the definitions describing the issue were questioned. When a report says a school district has a shortage of teachers, does it mean there are no qualified or certified persons to fill positions and long-term substitute teachers are filling in the gaps or are positions going unfilled completely creating overcrowded classrooms? That question and others were left hanging. Still teachers stayed until the end to give the committee a piece of their minds. The picture they painted was far from pretty, with much of the blame put on the pressure standardized test results create for teachers and students. “This educational environment has become a pressure cooker for our kids and teachers because the Legislature has decided that somehow educators weren’t accountable enough,” testified Cathy Fuentes-Rohwer, a Bloomington parent and public school advocate. “The learning and teaching process has been transformed into a test-taking, data collecting nightmare to somehow prove accountability ... at the root of which is
an apparent deep distrust of teachers.” Fuentes-Rohwer talked about the competition among schools and teachers that has been created in an effort, she believes, to ultimately privatize the industry and cites ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, as the root of the evil. “The A-F grading of schools, teachers’ loss of voice in advocating for kids through the loss of collective bargaining, the draconian 3rd grade reading law, vouchers and charters creating a competition for funding, a developmentally inappropriate 90 minute block of literacy instruction, these are all ALEC laws,” said Fuentes-Rohwer. “They were not backed by research of what are best practices in teaching. They were not created by teachers.” Others like Fuentes-Rohwer spoke passionately about their profession and what they interpret to be the problems within it, with testimony ranging from low salaries to lack of respect for the job. House Education Chair Rep. Robert Behning (R-Indianapolis) says the committee will meet again later this month before determining any final recommendations. n
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t the beginning of each class Jeff Jeffries opens by showing his students famous images throughout art history, letting them use everything from Pollock to Monet as inspiration. After discussing what kind of medium they are going to use that day, the students get to work on their projects. The only difference with this class is it’s taking place in the Marion County jail. The Indianapolis Art Center was approached by the Marion County Sheriff’s Department asking them to help facilitate an art class after they noticed inmates using the walls of their cells, bedsheets and just about everything else as a canvas. Since the Art Center has a strong focus on classes with children, they decided to target the juvenile pretrial boys as a starting point. By April, Insider Art began. Michelle Winkelman, interim director of educational programs with IAC, explains that the program began as a pilot in the summer of 2014. By February of last year they were ready to raise the funds for the program, resulting in $8,000 in eight days for art supplies and class costs. Jeffries, a photographer with a Wheeler Arts studio, stepped in to lead the class. Winkelman designs much of the program. The class meets once a week and is entirely voluntary (on the inmate’s part). Winkelman designed the program about “discipline based art education,” essentially using art as a lens for a larger discussion. “Instead of just making something in the class we make sure to bring in the context around that making,” says Winkelman. Jeffries has also made a point to show the students local artist’s work such as Mary Ann Nguyen and Mab Graves. The program only has room for eight kids at a time. Because they are all pretrial, most of them move in and out of the program rather quickly, or they turn 18 and are sent to the adult population of the jail. Since April, 35 juveniles have gone through the program. Winkelman sends out surveys for the Insider Art students to fill out every six weeks. She often leaves fill in
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the blank questions like “I create ____.” A few of their answers were: “I create … everything my mind can imagine or express.” “I am … not an artist yet but I am 3/4 of the way there and I am proud of some of my work.” “I connect … with the instructor and fellow artists.” Winkelman finds the responses of the students to speak to the program’s success more than anything. “I think one of the things for me that is
really telling is I asked them what would you like to learn next and they have more and more specific things that they request,” says Winkelman. “Which lets me know that they are ready to challenge themselves. They are taking more ownership over it.” The statical benefits of art therapy is unquestionable. According to a myriad of studies performed by the National Endowment for the Arts, juvenile offenders taking some form of art classes tend to have fewer court referrals, stronger communication skills and improved reading and writing scores. “Sometimes you can’t move on from something in your life until you let it out,” says Winkelman. “I think art provides that opportunity. “[This program is] about giving opportunities I think,” says Winkelman. “One of the reasons I thought specifically this program was important was we do after-school programs, we do programs out in the community for underserved audiences, partner with other organizations to bring art education to places where there isn’t very much of it. These kids wouldn’t have been in those classes because they were doing other stuff. And here, now, it’s almost … a safer space in a way. They can come to this class and learn things and be calm and take positive risks.” n
Sam Jones After Fred Wilson t Through Nov. 19. The Fred Wilson sculpture controversy, which erupted in 2010, is now in Indy’s rearview mirror. Wilson’s “E Pluribus Unum” was a proposed sculpture depicting a freed slave — based on an image found on the Soldiers and Sailors Monument — that was never realized on the Cultural Trail thanks to the controversy that ensued in the wake of its proposal. And the controversy might be nutshelled with one question: Is a depiction of a freed slave the best way to represent the African American community in the 21stcentury? The title of Sam Jones’s exhibition After Fred Wilson evokes this controversy. One of Jones’s three works at iMOCA is entitled “Poplar trees” which refers to a lynching in Marion, Indiana in 1930. (One of those lynched was Jones’s great uncle.) What you see here are two large square canvases, each covered with 126 decayed book covers. “The materials are primarily law books,” Jones explained to me. “A couple of pieces, the black rectangles, are actually from encyclopedias. The black ones represent the two figures that are hanging in the trees…. And then the white ones at the bottom are representative of the onlookers to the event...” This lynching was captured in a photograph by Lawrence Bitler, which was widely circulated, and which inspired the song “Strange Fruit” sung by Billie Holliday. Jones’s subject is compelling. But aside from the patches of black and white meant to represent viewer and victim, there isn’t much representationally going on here. It’s true that there’s much to discuss conceptually — considering what is symbolized by the law books — with so many abusive acts by law enforcement available on YouTube that might be seen as lynching in a contemporary context. But these largely abstract canvases, when viewed without scaffolding of interpretive text or artist’s explanation, remain conceptually abstract. And that’s problematic, considering the concrete passions that the proposed Fred Wilson sculpture aroused. — DAN GROSSMAN iMOCA, Murphy Building, FREE, indymoca.org Sam Jones >> SUBMITTED PHOTO
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he stereotypical video game nerd sits in his basement, hurling insults at faceless opponents and only venturing outside his home to attend conventions. There are three Indianapolis game developers who are anything but. Since February 2014 they have been building a new arcade game from scratch called Skycurser. What drew them into arcades in the first place was the social interaction they create. “We are developing in a market that not a lot of other game developers are developing, so it should be a little easier to stand out in that regard,” explains Brad Smith, a software engineer for Oracle and the game’s technical director. “But it’s about more than that for us. We’re trying to help usher in a second wave of arcade development. It’s about the one-to-one user connection that you get when you’re in an arcade that is really hard to get online or on a smartphone.” Back in December of 2013, Phil Golobish, the game’s producer, asked for a Raspberry Pi for Christmas, a tech device geared toward children that teaches computing and programing. He began programing a children’s game on the device that ended up being the foundation for Skycurser.
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With approximately 500 games released on iOS every day and thousands more available online and on consoles, it can be hard to get a new game noticed. There are only a handful of other new arcade games being developed which makes it much easier to stand out to video game publishers. “It’s already gotten us some cool attention,” says Chris. “So there’s the three big game publishers out there: Nintendo, Microsoft, and SONY. We’ve already talked to two of the three of them.” I ask if they can tell me which ones, and Chris hesitates. “I don’t know . . . since it wasn’t really,” he begins before Phil chimes in… “Fuck it! It was Microsoft and SONY!” They all laugh, clearly pleased with the unexpected success of Skycurser. The game currently has two levels, but they’ve already sold a few proto“We’re trying to help usher in a types to arcades in Utah Chicago. They’re hopsecond wave of arcade development.” and ing Hoosiers will be able to play the game at Tapper’s — BRAD SMITH Arcade Bar on Virginia Avenue when it opens. Although it has taken nearly “When Chris saw me sort of just triptwo years to develop two levels, much of ping over myself with this little kids’ that time was spent building the core of game I made, he was like, ‘I can come the game, and they expect to have all six in and make better graphics.’ And after levels completed and the game up for sale that, the obsession just kind of took in the spring of 2016. over,” says Phil. “Because we love arcade games,” Chris is the art director, so he is explains Chris. “And we recognize that responsible for the visual style, sound they’re kind of blowing up again. It’s effects, and music. Once he joined, going to get to a point where people are the game quickly evolved from a silly probably going to want more content, reindeer-hunting game into Skycurser: and if we have this super simple thing a lone pilot battling humans, animals, that’s really cheap and that people can and machines infected by a plague-like make new games for, hopefully, it will disease. The three of them are the only kind of usher in a small second wave of people who have worked on the game new arcade games.” itself, and they’re really only one of a “Let’s put Indianapolis on the map for few other people creating new arcade being a hotbed of arcade game developgames today. ment,” says Phil. n
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othing says Saturday morning quite like breakfast and a healthy dosage of cartoons. With this in mind, multi-talented Indianapolis artist Erin K. Drew started curating an event called Cartoon Research Laboratory back in May, inviting a small selection of presenters to screen pre-selected 20-30 minute sets of cartoon-related content. Additionally, the Lab also features a food and coffee element, with Drew encouraging attendees to bring bizarre breakfast dishes as well. Prior to this Saturday’s Spooky Edition of the Lab at General Public Collective, Seth Johnson caught up with Drew to discuss her series of cartoon-themed events. NUVO: Can you talk to me about the start of Cartoon Research Lab? Why was this something you wanted to pursue? ERIN K. DREW: I guess “classic cartoons” like Looney Tunes, novelty products and sight gags have been foundational inspirations for me, as well as more far out contemporary art comics. Artists who make work inspired by comics and incorporate a cartoonish sense of humor have been really important to me, like the Chicago Imagists. I also really like curating events, and consider it a part of my art practice. I liked the idea of a daytime or morning-anchored start time for an event as well. I feel like morning creates a level playing field, kind of. People are smooshier and less defined. NUVO: How many Labs have you had up to this point, and what have been some of your favorite topics covered? DREW: We’ve had four, including one in Chicago. The Spooky Edition will be the fifth. I have enjoyed the really different approaches people have taken to curating sets. In Chicago, this animator Jenna Caravello showed cartoons that related to timelessness and the feeling of being disembodied, which is a sensation really well served by animation, unique to the form. But, I’ve also liked the oddly specific sets. At the first Cartoon Research Laboratory, my friend Bethy Squires [of Bloomington’s Sitcom Theatre] screened a set about ear horns. I also recap the highlights from Cartoon Research Labs on my blog. NUVO: Correct me if I’m wrong, but I haven’t really heard of many other artists in the city curating cartoon-related
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events. Would you say there’s any specific reason for that? DREW: I don’t think they have. I know Bree Gerard has used Rad Grrrls Club as an excuse to assemble illustrators and comics-people (specifically women). But, it does seem like there’s an absence of anything like this. I think that’s why people have responded pretty enthusiastically. Even in Chicago, which is saturated with comic artists and rad weird cartoons, people were pumped. I think the name gets people’s brains working. I think the words “Cartoon Research Laboratory” evoke something. I kind of fixate on the idea of helping Indianapolis have a well-rounded scene. I don’t play music and while I am definitely inspired by it, there are other things a city needs to be exciting. NUVO: Why is that something you’re so passionate about? DREW: Indy has tons of potential. There are great things happening here, but there is room for improvement. I think creating more diversity of events is part of that. That’s an ongoing project of mine — organizing non-music performances and hosting events that create audiences that may not have existed before. Difficult Women is an extension of that. So is my involvement in General Public Collective. NUVO: What are some outcomes that you ultimately hope to see come out of your Cartoon Research Laboratory series? DREW: It’s been exciting to be asked to visit other cities to facilitate similar screenings. Maybe a Cartoon Research Lab media tour flanked by other Indianapolis artists indebted to classic animation. It’d be incredible to attract other cartoon purveyors to Indy to be guest hosts or to have some sort of panel. n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 10.21.15 - 10.28.15 // VISUAL 11
REVIEW Water by the Spoonful from Wisdom Tooth q Oct. 23-24, 8 p.m. Quiara Alegría Hudes’ 2012 Pulitzerwinning play won that major award for a reason: It’s breathtakingly brilliant. Many reviews note the play concerns an Iraqi war veteran coming to terms with his soul-shattering time in service — and the play is about that, BUT it’s about so much more. You don’t hand this script to newbs — this heavy material requires an audience capable of handling heavy material. The material also needs actors and actresses who can command the stage and bring the house to hearty laughter and genuine tears. Simply put, you need the best. The Wisdom Tooth Theatre Project, with producing artistic director Ronn Johnstone, found the best. By play’s end, I could see I wasn’t the only audience member likening the entire presentation to a revolutionary revelation of spirit and humanity. At 2.5 hours, with a brief intermission, there is synchronicity for everyone. The set/design team of Sarah White and Kelly Gualdoni, respectively brought cubism and projection to visually represent the atmosphere — and they did it well. Cubism itself represents many movements, but in the traditional sense, something that can be analyzed is broken and reassembled, offering multiple lenses for study. I can’t think of a better artistic medium to represent Spoonful. Projection is used effectively here — never distracting or pointless — that, in and of itself, is worth noting. Hudes’ writing contains some real one-liner gems, masterfully articulated and executed by all cast members, including: Mauricio Miranda, Elysia Rohn, Dena Toler, Scott Russell, Butch Copeland, Tracy Herring, and Sunny Atwal. Each character is brought to life by its host and given the chance to shine — so brightly, that it hardly seemed over two hours had passed by the play’s end. Some of those moments included snappy dialogue such as:
Life is short, you can only live in mediocrity for so long. I’ve been meaning to become an asshole — can you teach me? Ideas don’t fill the void — they just help articulate it. Hoosiers should be proud of this team’s obvious hard work and dedication to breathing a full and deserving life into A Spoonful of Water, and it would be a shame if theater lovers missed this masterpiece, which provided a warm introduction from director Johnstone, just enough instances of levity to cushion some of the almost-too-intenseto-bear moments, and plenty of visuals to accompany the symbolism present in the written work. Wisdom Tooth’s work is a true gift to Indianapolis. — RHONDA BAUGHMAN IndyFringe Basile Theatre, 719 E. St. Clair St., $12-$20, indyfringe.org
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hen James Still was settling into his new role as the Indiana Repertory Theatre’s (IRT) playwright in residence (1998), he started with a research project. He was interviewing senior citizens around Indianapolis about different key points in history, but one day stood out — April 4, 1968. “Bobby” Kennedy was making a much anticipated campaign stop in Indy. He was set to speak at a downtown park to a mostly African-American audience. What was intended James Still to be a rousing campaign speech quickly morphed into a eulogy that would be remembered as the day America forever changed — the day that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered. “Flash forward many years” says Still. “So I started in very early 2011 doing one-on-one interviews with people in the community.” Those interviews would become the nutrients that now sustain the IRT’s (and Still’s) newest production April 4, 1968: Before We Forgot How to Dream. Still ended up completing over 50 formal interviews, focusing on those who were at Kennedy’s speech or worked on his campaign. One of the most notable interviews was with the late state Rep. Bill Crawford. Still recounts Crawford detailing himself, a 30-year-old man who worked at the post office, standing in that park. “That event, it shamed me,” says Still, quoting Crawford. “It made me realize I wasn’t doing anything with my life.” That speech set him on a path of public service that impacted Indiana legislation for 40 years. While none of the characters are directly based on any one person, the interviews helped to set the scene in Still’s mind and portrait a story of how political reckoning impacted each generation of a fictional Indianapolis family on that day. There is something to be said for research that’s void of a preconceived narrative. Still was trying to unveil
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a story, not validate the first one that emerged in the writing process. He recalled the exact moment when he realized that the story was about an African-American family. Telling it as a white writer was something Still takes seriously. “I don’t view myself as an interloper,” says Still. “I view myself as a writer. I had a play that opened in Washington this year that was eight women, no men … I had the same conversation.” Still went on to recall a play that he just saw about a white family that was written by an African American playwright. “We are in this delicious dangerous moment in the theater where writers and producers are taking that risk of cross community exploration,” says Still.
April 4, 1968 gives the account of an Indianapolis family over a 24-hour time span. The daughter is frustrated by the Indy Star’s weak coverage of the Kennedy campaign. She sets out to write an article about it for her school paper and ends up confronting her own political beliefs. “It’s not that she changes, she confronts change,” says Still. Much of the play is about the process we go through when our political leanings evolve. “[It’s] about political awakenings, and the liability of political awakenings, about how confusing that can be for the people around you,” says Still. “The price you pay for having a political reckoning. But it is also about a family getting through what turns out to be really tough day. Still positions his characters in April 4, 1968 at the crux of their of personal fulcrum and in a setting where the country was building to a transformation that occurred in a matter of hours. “History is just stuff that happened to people,” says Still. “History is not something that people set out to make. They find themselves in the middle of it. Or they don’t even know it until later. All of the people I interviewed, they didn’t go to that park to make history. They went to that park to hear a guy give a speech. But it became history and they became a part of that.” n
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oming Home is a Chinese melodrama, a tearjerker about a family torn apart, and their sometimes maddening attempts to reunite. It’s also a political metaphor about what happens when reality gets rewritten. Or something. I’ll be focusing on the relationship story here. Directed with great confidence by Zhang Yimou (The Flowers of War, Raise the Red Lantern, Hero, House of Flying Daggers), the unashamedly sentimental story is adapted from the novel The Criminal Lu Yanshi by American-based novelist Yan Geling. Zou Jingzhi wrote the screenplay. Set in China toward the end of the Cultural Revolution, the story introduces teacher Feng Wanyu (Gong Li, who has often worked with the filmmaker) and her daughter Dandan (newcomer Zhang Huiwen), an aspiring dancer. They are informed that Feng’s husband and Dandan’s father, college professor Lu Ytanshi (Chen Daoming) has escaped from the facility where he was sent for “re-education” after being damned as a rightist. The women are warned not to help the fugitive and to alert the police if he tries to make contact. When Lu tries to come home, Dandan – estranged from her dad and hoping for a position in a propaganda ballet troupe – rats out her father. The authorities move to snag him at the train station, Feng cries out a warning to him, and all hell breaks loose, leading to his recapture. Feng gets injured in the fracas. Cut to years later. The Cultural Revolution is over, Lu is free and returns home. But something has happened to Feng. She can’t recognize Lu. When she
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point he pretends to be a piano tuner to get to spend time in the house. Later, he pretends to be a Samaritan agreeing to read old letters from her husband to her. OPENING: FRIDAY, KEYSTONE ART Witnessing Lu reading a letter he once RATED: PG-13 t wrote to a woman that doesn’t recognize him is painful in a good way. Truth is, the film has a number of moving scenes of encounters her beloved, she identifies the misaligned love. It also has a number him as various other people, including of scenes that fall flat. a party official that clearly did someThe daughter gets involved in reconcilithing awful to her. She tends to business ation attempts, too. I just forgot to include around the house, eager to rendezvous her in the post injury part of this essay. I with her husband at the train station on forget things like that all the time. Perhaps the 5th – of any month. I need a bowling ball dropped on my head. Clearly she is suffering from an acute This has turned out to be a particularly case of Flintstones Amnesia. odd essay, eh? My leapfrogging from synI recognize there are many bizarre real opsis to silliness is because that’s how the medical conditions that affect the human film played for me. As a tearjerker with mind. I’m not belittling suffering. I am, an obvious political message, I apprecihowever, leery of illnesses that happened ated Coming Home. Despite some plodding sections, Zhang Yimou still knows how to tell a story. He impresses by taking a relatively Truth is, the film has a number also small number of locations and making them feel like the whole world. of moving scenes of the He deserves special praise for how misaligned love. It also has a well he utilizes the train station. A number of the family scenes number of scenes that fall flat. grabbed me, though some felt like contrivances to jerk more tears. I was genuinely touched by Coming Home and I mulled over the ramifications of a to Fred Flintstone when a bowling ball husband essentially stalking his wife right got dropped on his head and were later in front of her. There’s a lot to consider in cured by dropping another bowling ball the relationship between this couple ... less on his head. I’m also leery of storytelling so when you remember that the only other devices like this one. But I’m willing to go couple that ever experienced anything along with most anything in a movie, so similar is Fred and Wilma Flintstone. I stopped rolling my eyes and continued Hence my critical dilemma. The botwatching, hoping that the film would oftom line? fer insights into the human condition. Coming Home is heartbreaking. We watch Lu try to get through to Feng. Coming Home is hooey. Sometimes he simply goes along with his Take your pick. n wife when she misidentifies him. At one REVIEW
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Back to the Future Oct. 21. Today is the exact date that Doc Brown and Marty McFly time-travel to in Back to the Future II. (Maybe the Cubs will win the World Series like the film predicts!) To celebrate “Back to the Future Day,” theaters around the country are showing the films in the trilogy. IU Cinema is showing all three for free! And the IMA is showing the first two back to back in its outdoor amphitheater. Before the film, audiences can enjoy trivia games, photo opportunities and maybe even a chance to ride a hoverboard! IU Cinema, 1213 E. 7th St. (Bloomington), 1-9 p.m., FREE, cinema.indiana.edu; IMA, 4000 Michigan Road, doors at 6 p.m., film 7:30 p.m., $20 public, $15 members, imamuseum.org Heartland Film Festival Special Presentation: The 33 Oct. 23, 7 p.m. Starring Antonio Banderas and Juliette Binoche, this film tells the miraculous true story of the Chilean miners who were trapped underground for more than two months in 2010. Check nuvo.net this week for an interview with the film’s director Patricia Riggen. AMC Showplace Traders Point 12, $9 online (heartlandfilmfestival.org) or by phone (1-866-HFF-1010), $11 box office
Heartland Film Festival Closing Night: Coming through the Rye Oct. 25, 7 p.m. Inspired by the writer-director’s own adventures in the ’60s, this coming-of-age tale follows a young man who runs away from boarding school. He sets off in search of J.D. Salinger (Academy Award-winner Chris Cooper), the creator of his hero — teen rebel Holden Caulfield from the film’s namesake, The Catcher in the Rye. AMC Showplace Traders Point 12, $9 online (heartlandfilmfestival.org) or by phone (1-866-HFF-1010), $11 box office
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Crimson Peak is more atmospheric than scary. Like those Universal Pictures horror films of yore, it romanticizes the macabre, evoking awe rather than repulsion. Crimson Peak remedied Sam’s utter disappointment with Goosebumps last week.
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et in a castle surrounded by mist, the film harkens back to Dracula, Frankenstein and other Universal Pictures horror movies of the ’30s and ’40s. I obsessed over those films when I was a kid, seduced by each one’s elegantly moody atmosphere and sumptuous sets. Now, young audiences are accustomed to grittier, more crudely made horror films — torture porn and found-footage. Crimson Peak is a lavish, refreshingly old-fashioned production. With this refined film, director Guillermo Del Toro redeems himself from that loud robot mess, Pacific Rim. The film revolves around Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska), the daughter of a self-made industrialist. Her daydreams of writing gothic novels are interrupted when a handsome aristocrat named Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston) breezes into her father’s business. He hopes Mr. Cushing (Jim Beaver) will invest in his clay mining invention. Thomas soon warms up to Edith after failing to impress her father. They quickly fall in love, but Thomas’ intentions seem less than pure when his sister Lucille (Jessica Chastain) steps into the picture. She doesn’t offer Edith a very warm welcome when she moves into the cold castle where Thomas and Lucille were raised. These siblings are clearly up to no good — a little too clearly. It grows a bit tiresome watching Edith stumble around in a panic after we see early on that Thomas and Lucille obviously have sinister plans in store for her. But the film’s eerie setting will certainly keep you engaged. A big smile spread across my face when
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the creaky floorboards of the castle gushed with bright red blood. (It’s actually the “crimson clay” beneath the Sharpe estate, but whatever.) This scarlet soil has strong symbolic power. It recalls all the blood shed to build a lasting foundation for the Sharpe family’s success. Their haunted house is a character in and of itself. Crimson Peak is more atmospheric than scary. Like those Universal Pictures horror films of yore, it romanticizes the macabre, evoking awe rather than repulsion. It’s grotesque yet gorgeous. The three lead actors are equally magnetic. Wasikowska breathes surprising depth into what is basically a damsel in distress role. And Chastain gives a commanding performance as the polar opposite — one of the most sinister characters you’ll see on any screen this year. She and Hiddleston also carry sorrow in their eyes, making their characters more than mere monsters. The complexity of these performances is a credit to Del Toro. He holds horror in high regard, demanding a sophistication missing from many films in the genre. Crimson Peak has a delicate beauty. It’s like a painting you have to look at from behind a velvet rope. In the midst of the millionth Paranormal Activity movie and other foundfootage spectacles, Crimson Peak will seem like a relic. It’s a rare find — a graceful horror film. n
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n November 3, a select group of Indianapolis residents will elect the next mayor of Indianapolis. I say “a select group” because voter turnout in the Circle City is projected to be the lowest in the history of local elections, averaging around 7 percent. That would be considerably lower than the re-election of outgoing Mayor Greg Ballard in 2011. Only 11 percent of eligible voters in Marion County cast a ballot in that election. Registered voters who have voted in presidential elections but tend to shy away from local elections have said their “apathy” is rooted in a lack of knowledge about the candidates. They don’t feel comfortable making an uneducated vote so they choose not to cast a vote at all, thus leaving the decision to a select group of voters who are either dedicated to their party or have taken the time to
educate themselves on the candidates and the issues. Well, this week’s NUVO leaves registered voters with no more excuses. It’s time to learn about the choices for the next mayor of Indianapolis. The mayor is the chief executive of Indianapolis and Marion County. Much like the structure of our state and federal governments, the mayor sits at the top of the executive branch of city government, while the city-county council is relative to the legislative branches. (We’ll explore the council coming up in later pages.) The path of the city and the mayor’s office was established when then-Mayor Richard Lugar established the Unigov system in Indianapolis after taking office in 1968. NUVO asked the two mayoral candidates officially listed on the ballot a series of issue questions to get a sense of where these two men stand. The issues include income equality, homelessness and poverty, mass transit, public safety, education, quality of life, and global warming.
JOE HOGSETT (DEMOCRAT) Joe Hogsett is an Indiana native and has been a public servant for nearly three decades. An attorney by trade, Hogsett served as deputy to Evan Bayh as secretary of state in 1986. Hogsett was appointed to the top spot when Bayh vacated the position following his election to governor two years later. Most recently he served as U.S. attorney in the southern district of Indiana from 2010 to 2014. He resigned the post to run for mayor of Indianapolis.
Corps Reserves; he has served two combat tours in Iraq and a tour at the Pentagon. His run for mayor is his first time running for political office.
A NOTE ON THE QUESTIONS To keep everything completely fair — and to allow for thoughtful responses — we submitted the candidates questions via email. You’ll note that Brewer went point-by-point and Hogsett answered in a slightly broader fashion. n
CHUCK BREWER (REPUBLICAN) Chuck Brewer is a native New Yorker who settled in Indianapolis to run a business and raise his family. A selfdescribed “business guy,” Brewer owns two restaurant franchises, both of which are located in the heart of downtown Indianapolis. Brewer is also a Lieutenant Colonel in the United State Marine
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Our core responsibility is to do all we can to improve the safety of our residents and all of those who visit our city. My 12-point crime plan addresses a variety of issues including curbing violent crime.
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INCOME INEQUALITY
NUVO: What is your stance on global warming?
NUVO: In 2014, the Census Bureau released numbers saying overall net worth was down 7%. Is income inequality a problem?
(BOTH candidates acknowledged the existence of global warming. Yay, science!) CHUCK BREWER: It exists. What will you do to reduce carbon emissions and make Indianapolis more eco-friendly? I would like to continue the transition of city vehicles to low-to-zero emission vehicles where it makes sense. Clearly, there are some city employees, police officers for instance, who may require other types of vehicles. But, this transition is a step in the right direction. I also would like to implement the use of renewable energy. One example would be using LED or solar-powered streetlights. We are in a position where we need to add more streetlights in our neighborhoods to make our city safer. We should explore ways that are friendly to both the environment and our budget. How do you plan to make those changes? Under Mayor Ballard, we have already seen the start of transitioning city vehicles to lower emission vehicles. I would work with the council and key stakeholders to continue those efforts in a way that makes sense. And, I would evaluate new projects and efforts to upgrade equipment to determine if the use of renewable energy is a viable option. Why do you think those changes will make a positive impact on the environment of Indianapolis? Clearly, the use of cars with lower emissions and shifting some of our city operations toward renewable energy would have a positive impact on our environment.
First, I would bring back the Indianapolis Violence Reduction Partnership that dramatically reduced violent crime in the 90s. It will bring all the various public safety agencies together to target our most violent criminals. Additionally, the drug trade, specifically heroin, drives a great deal of the violence we see in our city. We will face this challenge head on, developing a heroin task force. We will increase the number of narcotics officers to cut off the supply of heroin in our city. And, we will work to connect those who want access to drug treatment with options to get help. Why do you think your solutions will be effective? Many of these proposals have been utilized in other cities across the country and even in Indianapolis in the past with great success.
BREWER: Yes. In your opinion, what causes wealth inequality? There are many things that contribute to wealth inequality but the key issue in my mind is education. We hear it all the time — education is the silver bullet. And, there is no greater indicator for an individual’s success than access to quality education.
MASS TRANSIT NUVO: What will you do to improve mass transit in the city of Indianapolis? BREWER: I had the opportunity to tour IndyGo and was impressed with their ongoing efforts to provide services with the limited resources at their disposal. Expanding Bus Rapid Transit and making progress on the Red Line are certainly important components of improving our transit system. There is, however, no question that additional efforts like a mass transit referendum would be needed to take our system to the next level.
What will you do to lessen the gap between the rich and the poor? I would have an intense focus on workforce development. Right now, there are companies in our city that have job openings but they cannot find individuals with the skills needed. What kind of effects will your changes have? Hopefully, it will give individuals the opportunity to learn a new skill and obtain a higher paying job. If we do this on a large enough scale, we start to see a smaller gap between incomes. How do you propose making these changes? The Office of Education Innovation has been focused on administering charter schools and holding them accountable. I want them to continue that work but will also charge them with tackling this issue to close the workforce development gap.
BLACK LIVES MATTER NUVO: What will you do to crack down on police brutality?
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New York native Chuck Brewer settled in Indianapolis five years ago.
BREWER: Indianapolis has largely avoided some of the situations we have seen play out in other areas across the country. But, we must remain vigilant and work with community leaders and our police officers to build greater trust and respect. This is one of the reasons I support equipping all of our patrol officers with body cameras. We, of course, hope that there is never a controversy or need to use them. But, if there is a circumstance where there are questions about what exactly happened, we need to be able to get the truth. What will you do to curb recent murder and crime rates?
Voters should have the opportunity to weigh in on how and if we expand our mass transit system. I believe we should work to build a plan for the system to be largely self-sustaining. If voters approve the initial funding through a referendum, I would want to ensure that the city is not saddled with unanticipated significant debt like many other cities doing similar projects have been. How should a mass transit system be operated? A mass transit system needs to be run in a way that maximizes services and efficiencies while being largely selfsustaining. A major key to establishing a largely self-sustaining mass transit system is that it is designed as a high frequency ridership model and is then given the opportunity to grow to include low frequency stops. >>>
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I am excited to see the city expanding BRT and making progress on the Red Line. These are crucial components to expanding our mass transit and getting the community to support any additional expansions that would better connect our city and the surrounding areas. Would you like to see Indy’s mass transit system expand? Mass transit is an important mark of a first class city. Having lived in Chicago and having traveled to many cities with extensive mass transit systems, I am keenly aware of the benefits. My main concern is that any expansion is done in a way that makes financial sense for the city and that voters have the opportunity to weigh in.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS NUVO: What are the greatest challenges facing IPS today? BREWER: The greatest challenge facing IPS is that, in some areas of our city, children come from difficult circumstances that make it harder for them to be prepared to learn. We have kids who come to school hungry or worried about their parents’ employment. We have kids who see violence in their homes and neighborhoods on a regular basis. This is extremely difficult on the children and results in unique issues in some of our IPS classrooms. What will you do to fix these problems? We need to do everything we can to address these issues across our city. We need to bring economic development and job opportunities to our neighborhoods. We need to support efforts aimed at curbing hunger. We need to work with organizations focused on helping parents in need. Finally, we need to work hand in hand with IPS to identify more ways the city can be involved and provide resources. That is why I have proposed adding two bipartisan, mayor-appointed members to the IPS Board, providing support for IPS and a voice for the city. If your solution involves increased spending, where will the money come from? How do you plan to cut down on crime rates in IPS schools? One of my proposals is to hire and train civilian social resource officers through IMPD to assist in connecting those in our community who are struggling with drug addiction, domestic violence, mental health challenges, etc. with the help and programs they desperately need.
Some of the proposed social resource officers will work with school officials to address issues with our young adults in an effort to get them on the right path and away from a potential life of crime.
HOMELESSNESS NUVO: What services should the city provide to help the homeless community? BREWER: The first step is to work with the non-profit community to determine where the city can best help and assist in their efforts. One great example is the Reuben Engagement Center which provides intervention for those who are homeless and chronically in and out of the justice system. The center is being built with private dollars and staffed through city funding. Additionally, the mayor can serve as and advocate and a convener. We have seen Mayor Ballard do this on a variety of issues, like pre-K, where he has taken a stand on an issue and the corporate community has stepped up to help make it a reality. What services should be provided by churches and other private groups? It is my belief that we generally need community-led efforts paired with city support. The city has a vested interest in ensuring these community-led efforts have support. But, the community should lead the majority of these efforts to ensure that programs do not change based on politics or budget constraints. What would you do to make sure everyone has somewhere warm this winter? It is crucial that we work with groups like Children’s Health Insurance Program to effectively coordinate efforts across the city that provide services to those struggling with homelessness. But, one of the key things missing is a low barrier shelter for individuals who do not fit the sober or faith-based shelter environment. This is something I believe the city should work to resolve.
MOST PRESSING ISSUE @tremendouskat
NUVO: What is the most pressing issue facing Indianapolis right now? BREWER: The most important thing we can do for the long-term success of our city is to attract more people to live here. To do that, we have to focus on the three key issues of public safety, economic development and education. We need to have a vibrant economy and attract the best and brightest to our city. To do that, we have to be a city that people want to live in. S E E , M AY OR , O N P A GE 1 8
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What is your approach for addressing this issue? We need strong neighborhoods that are safe and we need great schools for our kids. We need to have a good quality of life with a bustling downtown and the best city services that can be provided. And, we need to provide those city services in a fiscally responsible manner. Why is this issue more important, in your opinion, than other issues facing Indianapolis? Our tax revenue is generated by the people who live here. There are 200,000 people who commute in and rely on our infrastructure and city services everyday but their tax dollars are all dedicated to another county. We have to attract more people to live here in order to be able to afford the maintenance of our infrastructure and to invest in the types of amenities that make our city attractive for residents and businesses. How do you prioritize the issues facing the city? Our core responsibility is to keep our residents safe. We have several other responsibilities, which include providing various city services and providing a
good quality of life. The mayor needs to balance all of these needs to make progress across the board while also honoring the taxpayers.
QUALITY OF LIFE NUVO: What do you think are the greatest assets Indianapolis has for improving the quality of life for its citizens? BREWER: Indianapolis is a great place to live. We have all the amenities one would expect in a larger city — major sports teams, a thriving restaurant and arts scene and a vibrant downtown. In recent years, we have expanded on those assets and added things like bike lanes, the Cultural Trail, and bike sharing. With the addition of Blue Indy and the expansion of the Red Line, we are taking the first steps to address mass transit. These are the types of things that lure the best and the brightest to Indy. How would you go about improving the quality of life in Indianapolis? First, we need to keep building on the progress we have seen in recent years. We have made investments and we need to maintain those upgrades. Second, we have seen the downtown thrive while areas like Mass Ave, Fountain Square, Irvington and areas around 16th Street are growing. We need to use the devel-
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opment tactics that have worked well in these areas to develop the economic corridors running throughout our city. This will bring jobs and new private investment to improve our neighborhoods. Do you believe there is a marginal divide between the citizens of this city, economically, socially, racially, etc? Why or why not? There are always a variety of issues and ways that citizens can be divided from one another. The key here is to make Indianapolis a better place for everyone to live, work and raise a family. Do you support the current administration’s dedication to bicycling opportunities and bicycle safety? What would you do to increase this initiative in Indianapolis and Marion County? I am committed to the cycling community and the value it brings our overall transportation system, quality of life and economic development efforts. We should build on the progress made by Mayor Ballard. If elected, I will develop a broader long-term plan for the future of cycling in our city and hope that IndyCog will be part of those conversations. I was disappointed that my opponent didn’t even respond to the IndyCog questionnaire.
FINALLY NUVO: What is the question you wish we would have asked? (“Why are you running?” is what we extrapolated.) BREWER: I have never run for political office but I am running for mayor because I love this city and I think it’s critical that we continue the progress that Mayor Ballard has made over the past several years. When I was starting my first business, I researched cities across the country — and I chose Indianapolis. We’re on the right path and have tremendous potential. But to reach that potential, we need the right leadership. I believe strongly that a politics-as-usual approach will not take us to the next level. We need a fresh, business-minded, and innovative approach if we truly want to continue our progress. NUVO: If you could tell the state legislature something, what would it be? BREWER: The RFRA debate last year damaged our state’s reputation and I would urge the legislature to look at Indianapolis’ Human Rights Ordinance as an example of what might make sense. n
JOE HOGSETT
Democrat running for Mayor of Indianapolis Age: 58 (Nov. 2, 1956) joehogsett.com hogsettforindy @HogsettForIndy
GLOBAL WARMING NUVO: What is your stance on global warming? JOE HOGSETT: It exists. What will you do to reduce carbon emissions and make Indianapolis more eco-friendly? How do you plan to make those changes? Why do you think those changes will make a positive impact on the environment of Indianapolis? I support the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community that global warming exists. I applaud Mayor Ballard for his work aimed at making Indianapolis more sustainable and I believe there are ways in which Indianapolis city government can do its part in fighting climate change. In addition, city government efforts to reform and expand modes of mass transit are vital to combating global warming. I support recent IndyGo efforts to implement the Red Line, a new bus rapid transit system. When fully realized, the Red Line will provide efficient and environmentally responsible transportation from Westfield and Carmel all the way down to Greenwood. Providing Indianapolis residents with dependable modes of mass transit as an alternative to their vehicles will go a long way toward significantly reducing the carbon footprint in our city. Finally, we must continue to make Indianapolis pedestrian and bicycle-friendly. Indianapolis is now home to 200 miles of dedicated bike space and is recognized as a topten city for cycling. As mayor I will continue to find ways to enhance our infrastructure that provides residents with safe and reliable alternatives to relying exclusively on a motor vehicle. In sum, by partnering with the City-County Council, concerned citizens, and the private sector I hope to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels which will result in cleaner air for our residents. These efforts will
positively impact the cleanliness of our air and the overall quality of life for all those living in Indianapolis.
INCOME INEQUALITY NUVO: In 2014, the Census Bureau released numbers saying overall net worth was down 7%. Is income inequality a problem?
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HOGSETT: Yes. In your opinion, what causes wealth inequality? What will you do to lessen the gap between the rich and the poor? What kind of effects will your changes have? How do you propose making these changes? Income inequality is a significant problem in Indianapolis. In fact, one in five residents live below the poverty line, including one in three children. This follows an 82 percent increase of residents in poverty over the past decade. According to a recent Harvard study, Indianapolis ranks 92nd out of the 100 largest U.S. cities for upward mobility. These statistics are staggering and they are unacceptable. The causes of income inequality are many, but the lack of quality early childhood education is a significant contributing factor. As mayor, I will continue to support our city’s pre-K pilot program, even while advocating for a long-term, statefunded program for universal access to early childhood education. In addition, Indianapolis lacks a coordinated, comprehensive youth employment plan. As mayor, I will work with the nonprofit and private sectors to employ at least 1,000 area youth in meaningful summer jobs each year. These summer job opportunities will connect our youth to community leaders and provide young people with skill sets that will help them attend college and/or find gainful employment after high school. Studies
show that the earlier an individual is impacted by a quality education and meaningful development opportunities, the less likely it is that they fall victim to the drugs or crime that so often prevent one from reaching their full potential.
BLACK LIVES MATTER NUVO: What will you do to crack down on police brutality? What will you do to curb recent murder and crime rates? Why do you think your solutions will be effective? HOGSETT: I support the implementation of body cameras by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, and would seek the state and federal funding necessary to expand our city’s usage. In addition, my public safety plan calls for a return to neighborhood policing — so that every officer knows their neighborhood, and every neighborhood knows their officer. I believe a focus on committing police officers to particular neighborhoods and encouraging real, meaningful communication with residents will lead to better relationships between citizens and law enforcement and drastically reduce the potential for violence. Indianapolis is facing a homicide and gun crime epidemic. The root causes of this violence are complex and did not develop overnight — so I believe that the solutions must be comprehensive and long-term in focus. As a former federal prosecutor, I worked with local,
state, and federal law enforcement to tackle our challenges. We cracked down on gun crime, prosecuted those who perpetrated internet crimes against children, created the first Indiana Civil Rights task force, and broke records for the number of criminal convictions and the length of sentences imposed. As mayor, my plan adds 150 new police officers to the streets. In addition, I will lift a 30-year moratorium on new streetlights to improve the safety and qualityof-life for our residents. As mentioned, I will ensure at least 1,000 area youth have summer jobs that deter them from the pitfalls of crime and drugs. And finally, I will deploy cutting-edge data analytics and technology to make our police department more effective and more efficient.
MASS TRANSIT NUVO: What will you do to improve mass transit in the city of Indianapolis? How should a mass transit system be operated? What would you like to see Indy’s mass transit system expand to include? Would you like to see Indy’s mass transit system expand? HOGSETT: Mass transit has the potential to define the future of Indianapolis. Recent studies have shown that, while Indianapolis is the 12th largest city in S E E , MA YOR, O N PA GE 2 0
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the country, we rank 83rd in per capita investment in mass transit. I support securing public buy-in as part of the plan to expand mass transit, and I believe next year’s potential referendum will provide a unique opportunity for the people of Indianapolis to speak on this critical challenge. When the public gives its support, as mayor I will work to see that Indianapolis becomes a city known for safe, reliable, and expansive mass transit. The impact on the environment is significant and mass transit is also a determinative factor when it comes to attracting the next generation workforce.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS NUVO: What are the greatest challenges facing IPS today? What will you do to fix these problems? If your solution involves increased spending, where will the money come from?
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HOGSETT: There is no doubt that IPS is confronting a unique set of challenges. Lower than state average test scores and high rates of expelled and dropout students continue to plague the school system. We must do better for our children. My education plan does several things to address the significant challenges facing our schools. First, I will work to expand pre-K in Indianapolis. Second, my “TeachingIndy” initiative will reward those who choose to educate in our schools by opening up city owned abandoned residential properties to teachers at a reduced price, retaining the best and the brightest and recruiting the next generation of educators. Third, I will create the Mayor’s Scholars Initiative which will bring together teachers, mentors, coaches, and community leaders who will ensure that every child eligible for the state 21st Century Scholars program is signed up for the scholarship and receives the guidance necessary to complete the program. Finally, I will end the school-to-prison pipeline by encouraging our schools and relevant stakeholders to implement best practices of school discipline.
HOMELESSNESS NUVO: What services should the city provide to help the homeless community? What services should be provided by churches and other private groups? What would you do to make sure everyone has somewhere warm this winter?
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HOGSETT: Indianapolis has seen an increase in the number of those experiencing homelessness over the past five years. While a number of non-profit/ civic organizations offer services, including temporary housing, to those experiencing homelessness, the most recently available data shows the number of available beds to be approximately half of the number needed. Nearly 30 percent of those experiencing homelessness in Indianapolis are families. In fact, at last count over, 3,000 children in the Indianapolis Public School system are experiencing homelessness. Homelessness amongst families is often a result of a lost job, reduced hours, or unforeseen medical expenses. For prevention, it is absolutely critical that the city attract good quality jobs that are stable and pay a living wage. In addition, there must be easily accessible resources available to families that are experiencing a financial hardship so that they receive help before they reach the point of homelessness. I will work with IPS to identity those students experiencing homelessness and work with their families to steer them to the correct resources. From there, employment resources such as Work One Indy will be deployed to assist parents in finding meaningful and long-term employment.
MOST PRESSING ISSUE NUVO: What is the most pressing issue facing Indianapolis right now? What is your approach for addressing this issue? Why is this issue more important, in your opinion, than other issues facing Indianapolis? How do you prioritize the issues facing the city? HOGSETT: First and foremost, we must aggressively address the public safety crisis facing our city. Everything from attracting the next generation workforce, to keeping our children safe in their homes and neighborhoods, is affected by rising crime rates. As a former federal prosecutor I have a unique understanding of these challenges and I have dealt with them firsthand. By adding 150 new police officers to the street, implementing neighborhood policing, and utilizing cutting-edge technology, we can build a stronger, safer city.
QUALITY OF LIFE NUVO: What do you think are the greatest assets Indianapolis has for improving the quality of life for its citizens?
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Do you believe there is a marginal divide between the citizens of this city, economically, socially, racially, etc? Why or why not? Do you support the current administration’s dedication to bicycling opportunities and bicycle safety? What would you do to increase this initiative in Indianapolis and Marion County? HOGSETT: Indianapolis is home to world-class amenities and attractions that are of great benefit to its citizens. We have world champion professional sports franchises, some of the best restaurants in the country, a network of renowned hospitals and medical professionals, and several highly reputable colleges and universities. As mayor I will build upon our assets to not only improve the lives of our current residents, but to also attract and retain the best and the brightest. My neighborhoods plan specifically addresses quality of life initiatives. I will charge my neighborhood advocates with bringing together all relevant stakeholders and giving them the resources they need to bring about growth in their respective neighborhoods. With tools such as state and federal grants, collaborative work spaces, responsibly-implemented Tax Incremental Financing districts, and affordable housing development, I will empower neighborhoods across Indianapolis to take control of their own future with Quality of Life Plans. Through initiatives I have already described, such as pre-K, summer jobs, and restorative justice in our schools, I hope to bridge the divide between our communities and help them all grow and work toward realizing their full potential. With respect to bicycling, Mayor Ballard has put Indianapolis on the map when
it comes to building a cycling friendly city. Through investment in dedicated bike lanes, greenways, and trails Indianapolis is now home to 200 miles of cycling space. As a result our city has been recognized as one of the top ten cycling-friendly cities in the country. The social impact is clearly positive, but this growth has also had a significant economic impact. The Cultural Trail has been responsible for contributing 11,000 new jobs and more than $860 million in economic benefits. Simply put, investing in cycling-friendly infrastructure is good for the community and good for the economy. This is a great legacy for Mayor Ballard and one that I intend to expand upon if elected.
FINALLY NUVO: What is the question you wish we would have asked? HOGSETT: [I wish you’d asked] “What is the most proud you have been of the city in recent years?” Last year, I was filled with immense pride as an Indianapolis resident to see our city come together and show the state and the nation that Indy truly welcomes all. As someone who opposed the unnecessary RFRA legislation in committee, on the floor, and after its unfortunate passage, I thought it was a wonderful expression of our city’s character. As mayor, I would support efforts in the next legislative session to extend the civil rights protections that residents of Indianapolis enjoy to all Hoosiers across the state. NUVO: If you could tell the state legislature something, what would it be? HOGSETT: Please ensure that state-funded pre-K programming is available for every child in Indiana. n
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Indy’s Mayoral Race:
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“CHUCK WHO?” VS. “OL’ STINKY SHOES” B Y H A R R Y C H E E SE EDI TO RS@N U VO . N ET
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Harry Cheese doesn’t necessarily speak for NUVO’s editorial board in the analysis that follows. [And were Harrison Ullmann still alive, we bet he’d have some pretttty choice words for former Mayor Goldsmith.] Harry Cheese has, however, been writing for us for years, and we find him pretty damn entertaining.)
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t’s fun — and easy — to hate politicians. I mean, on just about any given day you can find a politician doing something vile, ignorant or just plain stupid. From sexting scandals and prostitutes to graft and influence-peddling. From forcing religion into legislation to mud-slinging and petty partisanship. And therein lies the problem with Indianapolis mayoral politics. For the past 50 years, Indianapolis has been led by a bunch of virtually scandal-free mayors who have taken their jobs very seriously and have pretty much done a good job managing, developing and advancing our city. Sadly, this leaves snarky writers like me with very little to criticize, skewer or mock.
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In Brewer’s spot, he gets to smell pizza. Score one for Chuck.
I moved to Indianapolis in 1967 when I was ten. That next year a young Dick Lugar was elected mayor. He created a system called Uni-Gov that broadened the city’s boundaries, increased the tax
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base and allowed sleepy “Naptown” the opportunity to grow and become a real city. Lugar was followed by a group of guys, both Republican and Democrat, who seemed intent on keeping the momentum of the city moving forward. Former Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith (1992-2000) was recently interviewed on public radio by NUVO contributor and Burl Ives look-alike John Krull. After graciously excluding himself (which he need not have done), Goldsmith said, “The mayoral leadership of the city since the beginning of Unigov is extraordinary compared to, I think, any other large city in the country. We’ve been relatively free of corruption, we’ve had bipartisanship, we’ve been professional, we’ve been aspirational... I mean there’s no other city that’s had the likes of the mayors that we have had.” Which brings us to Hogsett vs. Brewer. I’m going to be frank here. I know next to nothing about the Republican candidate Chuck Brewer, other than he is a former Marine and a restaurateur. And restaurant people are cool, but I’m not sure how that translates into governing the 14th largest city in the U.S. It almost seems like the Republican field was so thin they just decided to throw a bunch of names of random people into a hat and draw one: “Okay, Chuck, looks like it’s you.” On the other hand, I wouldn’t have expected a former Marine with no experience as an elected official to do as good a job as outgoing two-term Mayor Ballard has done, so what the hell do I know. Like most folks in Indianapolis, though, I’m well familiar with the name Joe Hogsett. It’s a distinctly Hoosier name: rural-sounding and sturdy. (“Hogfall” or “Hogtipp,” for instance, would sound weak and unsteady.) I know he’s been a successful federal prosecutor and that over years of working in government he has never done anything remotely scandalous (sigh). I also know from his televised campaign ad that he enjoys mowing his own lawn and is so cheap that he keeps his smelly sneakers for 30 to 40 years. In the ad his wife Steph (not Stephanie) Hogsett explains that Joe’s
footwear frugality has translated into the office budget-cutting he did as a federal prosecutor. Then, in what is either a playful act by a loving spouse or the cruel vengeance of a woman who is fed up with years of smelling her husband’s rotting shoes, she forces Hogsett to take a whiff of one of his own rancid sneakers. You know it stinks, too, because then Joe contorts his face and violently vomits into his
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own reeking shoe. (I may have made up that last part, but you get the idea.) And so it seems that we here in Indy will never enjoy the dirty, scandalplagued politics of our neighbors in Chicago or my hometown, Detroit. Indianapolis seems destined to be cursed with earnest, hard-working and honest people leading our city. Both Hogsett and Brewer have noble and good ideas about improving public safety, education and troubled housing areas. If I were a betting man — which I am — I would say that Hogsett is going to win this election. He has better name recognition, more money and a party that is fully supportive. Indianapolis is a purple oasis in a red state, which is to say that either a Democrat or Republican can one day grow up to be mayor. It appears that this is going to be the Democrats’ year. And if that is the case, the first question I would ask newly-elected Mayor Hogsett is, “Bro, would it kill you to slip a pair of Odor-Eaters into those stinky-ass sneakers?’ n
That’s gotta be a stunt sneaker, right?
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he faces of the legislative body that runs in Unigov in Indianapolis will change with the upcoming municipal election. Following the elections in 2011 the districts for the CityCounty Council were redrawn and approved in 2012. One year later, the state Legislature approved the elimination of the four at-large council seats that represented the entire county, reducing the council from a 29-member body to a 25-member body. In some districts two incumbents are battling for one seat while in others the new districts mean a brand new face to the council regardless of who wins. The face of the City-County Council of Indianapolis will change. It is inevitable. Exactly what that face will look like will depend on voters and who shows up to the polls Tuesday, November 3. Since the Republican Party held the mayor’s office in 2011, the GOP controlled the redistricted lines, which statistically favor their party 15-10. The atlarge seats were historically held by Democrats and more often than not gave Democrats the numbers needed to hold a majority.
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What will that council look like on November 4? Only voters can decide that for certain. So here is the chance to learn about who is running and what they stand for. Of course, it is hard to make the case to voters that they should care to take time out of their day to cast a ballot when the candidates on that ballot can’t take the time to respond to a simple 8 question survey to get a feel for their position on the issues. It is fascinating to see, in this day and age of cyber-communication and all things web-universe, how little information can be found on the internet about some local candidates. Some do not have websites or if they do, it is merely a vehicle for fundraising with little to no information about who they are as potential city leaders. It can make a researcher’s job more than a little difficult. And for the casual voter, it’s makes the question, “Why should I care?” even that much harder to answer and the decision to head to the nearest coffee shop instead of the polls that much easier. Read ahead, then make plans to vote. The future of Indianapolis depends on it. n
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1 LEROY ROBINSON
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BRIAN JONES
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One of Leroy Robinson’s champion issues is addressing the homeless and income inequality in Indianapolis. The at-large incumbent drafted the Homeless Bill of Rights for Indianapolis, which was the first of its kind for any U.S. city. Opponent Brian Jones supports the upcoming Homeless Engagement Center initiated by Robinson. While Jones believes IMPD does not have an image problem, he does put public safety at the top of the city’s priority list and would like the state Legislature to increase penalties for gun crimes and possession of illegal guns.
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both see the city’s deal with Covanta as a step in the wrong direction. Tew supports raising the minimum wage and adopting a retail worker bill of rights as a means of narrowing the income gap. Fanning believes the income gap requires a long-term strategy that focuses on better education. Goldstein does not believe the income gap is as big an issue as it is portrayed. Tew would like the House of Representatives to pass statewide anti discrimination laws. Fanning would like them to focus on economic issues, and Goldstein wants them to end the war on drugs by decriminalizing marijuana use.
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PAM HICKMAN
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CHRISTINE SCALES
REPUBLICAN
CHRISTOPHER BOWEN
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COLLEEN FANNING
REPUBLICAN
SAM GOLDSTEIN
LIBERTARIAN
Incumbent At-Large councilman Kip Tew and Colleen Fanning agree that the city needs to invest in mass transit. However Sam Goldstein thinks any form of light rail would be a waste of taxpayer money. He instead wants the city to focus on what he calls a “workable bus system.” Tew and Fanning
Thanks to the new district lines and the elimination of the four atlarge seats, incumbent councilors Pam Hickman and Christine Scales are battling to represent a portion of the north-northeast side of the city. Scales was not the endorsed GOP candidate in the primary and is known for voting her conscience, which sometimes varies from her party’s position. Hickman would like to see recycling increased in the city, but questions the financial and environmental responsibility of the Covanta deal. Hickman also sees public safety as the top issue in the city that needs to be addressed. Chris Bowen ran for mayor of Indianapolis in 2011 and also for Lawrence Township Trustee in 2010.
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DEMOCRAT
MIKE MCQUILLEN
more initiatives to address mental illness would help the problem of homelessness and other cities around the country, like Seattle, could serve as examples of how to address issues of income inequality and mass transit.
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FRANK ISLAS
REPUBLICAN
DEMOCRAT District 12 incumbent Mike McQuillen and challenger Ray Biederman agree that mass transit needs to be expanded. However, McQuillen believes that IndyGo expansion should be the focus while Biederman would like to ensure that low-income areas of the city will receive service. Both candidates believe that there is confusion about the Covanta deal, and that good can still come from it. Biederman believes the most pressing issue facing the city is crime, which he wants to address by expanding the police force, while McQuillen believes the most pressing issues are all about quality of life.
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CURTIS BIGBEE
DEMOCRAT
JEFFREY COATS
REPUBLICAN
JANICE MCHENRY
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MONROE GRAY JR.
REPUBLICAN
DEMOCRAT Frank Islas is challenging incumbent Janice McHenry to represent the northwest side of Indianapolis. McHenry believes neighborhood development is the most pressing issue facing the city, which includes good schools, streets and sidewalks, quality of life amenities and good-paying jobs. McHenry also believes Indianapolis should initiate a commuter tax for individuals who work in the city, but live outside of Marion County. Islas is a U.S. marine who has worked in Indy’s advanced manufacturing industry for many years. He currently is employed with RollsRoyce America on the west side. Islas was unavailable for comment on the issues.
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JOE SIMPSON
DEMOCRAT Jeffrey Coats currently is a councilman on the Lawrence City Council and hopes to bring his experience to Indianapolis. Coats would like to improve public safety by increasing the number of police officers on the streets and restoring the number of fire apparatus in the city to 2011 levels. Curtis Bigbee, a Lawrence law enforcement officer, believes any and all aspects of public safety initiatives should be explored. Bigbee also believes
best way to tackle income inequality is to expand council support of educators and after school programs. She would also like to see the city partner with employers to train workers. Simpson believes that funding for homeless services is good, and that there is only so much funding for these services. Slash believes the city can fight homelessness by expanding existing partnerships with groups that seek to provide services.
PATRICK MIDLA
REPUBLICAN
Monroe Gray Jr. is running for his sixth term in office. Attorney Patrick Midla hopes to interrupt Gray’s record of service. Midla supports the city administration’s deal with Covanta, calling it “a tremendous step in the effort to expand recycling in an efficient manner.” Midla also supports increasing the number of police officers on the street as opposed to equipping existing officers with body cameras. Midla believes the biggest issues facing the city are all interconnected in the way of economic development, education and pubic safety and all should be a priority. Gray is a retired Indianapolis firefighter.
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WILLIAM OLIVER
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Joe Simpson believes the city should raise the minimum wage for all city employees and provide more jobs for Marion County. Adrienne Slash believes that the
CHUCK MADDEN
REPUBLICAN
Business owner Chuck Madden believes in recycling and would like to see the current fees reduced or eliminated to encourage more curbside recycling. Madden believes the biggest issues facing our city are intertwined and cannot be separated out individually. Education, drug and gun crime, poverty, dysfunctional families, e.g. are all issues that need to be addressed collectively with a “what can I do to help? attitude instead of a “someone needs to do something” attitude. Incumbent William “Duke” Oliver is a retired Chrysler employee and UAW member. Oliver was first elected to the City-County Council in 2003.
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MAGGIE LEWIS
DEMOCRAT
TERRY BIBLE
REPUBLICAN
Incumbent Maggie Lewis is the current president of the City-County Council and is the first woman in the history of the council to hold that position. Lewis’ profile on her councilor page for the city details a laundry list of nonprofit involvement, including the International Marketplace in the Lafayette Square area. Terry Bible is challenging Lewis for the district 10 seat. Bible is listed as a federal contractor with Lockheed Martin, according to her LinkedIn page. Her photo on indyrepublicans. com links to her Facebook page, which offers no information about her candidacy. Neither candidate responded to NUVO’s questionnaire about the issues.
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REMINGTON O’GUIN
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Vop Osili is running for his second term as a City-County Councillor. The real estate developer and architect works as a city representative to expand economic opportunities in challenged communities. According to his Facebook page, Remington “Remy” O’Guin works for Gexpro, an electrical supply store, as a member of the commercial and industrial team. Prior to that, he worked in member services at the Indiana House of Representatives. Neither candidate has a website for his campaign, nor did either respond to NUVO’s issue questionnaire.
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BLAKE JOHNSON
DEMOCRAT
SUSAN SMITH
REPUBLICAN
MICHAEL GUNYON
LIBERTARIAN
Susan Smith is willing to take a look at the Covanta contract to make sure it is in the best interest of the city and our environment. She also believes IMPD has struck the right balance between public safety and citizens’ rights. However she believes the city has looked for too many quick fixes to the issues
it faces and should take the time necessary to address the bigger picture of income inequities, homelessness and mass transit. Smith supports the city’s involvement as an active participant in education for stronger neighborhoods and health communities. According to his website, johnsonforcouncil.com, Blake Johnson believes public safety is the biggest priority facing Indianapolis. He also feels stronger neighborhoods in terms of streets, sidewalks, city services and parks are also important. According to his Facebook page, Michael Gunyon would like to address crime in the city and work on programs that help keep kids out of trouble. Gunyon is employed by the Marion County Sheriff’s Department.
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STEPHEN CLAY
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LEKEISHA JACKSON
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TERRY DOVE
REPUBLICAN
Neither candidate in District 14 responded to NUVO’s issues questionnaire. The candidates also do not have any websites or social media presence associated with their campaigns. Incumbent LeKeisha Jackson is the executive director of Pathway Resource Center, a non-profit Neighborhood Networks Center established through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Terry Dove is managing partner at The Merit Group, a business-consulting firm.
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REPUBLICAN
Incumbent Stephen Clay is a strong advocate for income equality and initiatives that create jobs and educational opportunities. However he also believes the city’s role in public education is advisory and consultative with regards to the business and economic needs of the community. Clay says police brutality is a reality in our community and public safety must seek to strike the right balance between law enforcement and citizens’ rights. He believes cultural sensitivity training and greater transparency of the offending officers would help. Challenger Terry Miller-Penquite did not respond to NUVO’s questionnaire on the issues. Her Facebook page lists her as an instructional assistant for Warren Township schools.
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MARILYN PFISTERER
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LAURIE WORKS
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With three candidates in this race, one would think that at least one of them would have responded to NUVO’s questionnaire on the issues. However, one would be mistaken with that assumption. Marilyn Pfisterer is the incumbent in this race and is running for her third term on the council.
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Christopher Wall is a glazier (architectural metal and glass worker) and member of the United Glaziers Local 1165. NUVO could find no information about Laurie Works.
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EMILY SHROCK
DEMOCRAT
JEFF MILLER
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and reducing the city’s carbon footprint. Adamson believes income inequality can first be tackled by paying all city workers a living wage, while Spiers believes the real issue is a lack of skilled labor. Both candidates would like the state Legislature to leave Indianapolis alone. Spiers believes improving public education is the most important issue facing the city. Adamson believes city government corruption is the most pressing issue.
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EDDIE BARNES
DEMOCRAT Emily Shrock says she is reminded daily as deputy prosecutor of the crime in Indianapolis and the need for a solution. She wants to use her time on the City County Council to address it through better policing and by attacking the underlying issues. She would also like to see the Statehouse stop proposing “half-baked fixes” that do not actually address discrimination. Incumbent Jeff Miller sees neighborhood success as the key to stopping the spread of crime. He would like to see the city invest in removing eyesores like burned and abandoned buildings. He would like the Statehouse to stop passing laws that cut down on Indy’s ability to govern itself.
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ZACH ADAMSON
DEMOCRAT
SUSIE CORDI
REPUBLICAN
IUPUI freshman Eddie Barnes believes the council needs to work with local environmental groups to promote awareness about how people can improve the environment. He also wants to push for a more eco-friendly mass transit system. Susie Cordi wants to see more alternative energy powered vehicles in the city fleet and continued support for the Bike Share program. Like Barnes, Cordi believes in mass transit, but believes it should be a totally selfsupporting program. Barnes would like to see the CCC work together with state legislators of the doughnut counties to expand to consider the viability of a regional mass transit system.
SALLY SPIERS
REPUBLICAN
Incumbent Zach Adamson is against the Covanta deal, and he believes in making recycling free by charging more for other solid waste disposal. Opponent Sally Spiers believes the council should encourage recycling
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DEMOCRAT
BEN HUNTER
pressing issue facing the city is crime, which is tied to problems in the education system, while Holliday believes it is too hard for the city to attract and retain economic development that would benefit everyone.
District
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FRANK MASCARI
REPUBLICAN
DEMOCRAT David Ray believes the key to fighting income inequality in Indianapolis is by supporting unions and attracting jobs to the city. He would also like to see a greater support for local businesses. He says it is his priority to see more police officers on the streets in District 19 to improve safety. Incumbent Ben Hunter was first elected to the City-County Council in 2007. He is currently employed at Butler University. No other information about the candidate is available and Hunter did not respond to NUVO’s questionnaire about the issues.
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JOHN EASTER
DEMOCRAT
JASON HOLLIDAY
REPUBLICAN
ANTHONY DAVIDSON
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REPUBLICAN Anthony Davidson and district 21 incumbent Frank Mascari agree that the council should do more to make Indianapolis green. Mascari is currently working with Zach Adamson to renegotiate the city’s contract with BlueIndy. Mascari is hopeful a new deal will allow the city to move where some of the cars were placed. Davidson would like to see the city expand and improve on the bike lanes. Davidson believes some of the most pressing issues are infrastructure and crumbling streets. Mascari would like to see the council address infrastructure by working to install LED streetlights to help energy costs and brighten up dark neighborhoods. Mascari also supports Hogsett’s plan to put 150 more officers on the street.
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JARED EVANS
DEMOCRAT
DOUGLAS MCNAUGHTON
LIBERTARIAN
Scott Krieder and Douglas McNaughton agree that increasing the quality of life is the greatest challenge facing Indianapolis. However, McNaughton believes that the police currently spend too much time focusing on what he considers victimless crimes and not going after violent criminals. He believes the state Legislature should decriminalize marijuana use. Krieder believes in focusing on increasing quality of life by attracting and retaining quality jobs. McNaughton believes homeless services can be delivered more efficiently by private entities, except for in what he calls “dire emergencies.” Krieder wants to continue Ballard’s push for a new homeless engagement center.
District ROBERT LUTZ
REPUBLICAN
Robert Lutz believes the city’s partnership with Covanta is a step
cillor’s page on indy.gov, Sandlin is a retired Indianapolis police officer and a former law firm administrator for the law firm Harrison & Mobley. Following those careers, Sandlin opened his own business specializing in fraud examination, private investigation and security consultation.
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JEFF WHEELER
DEMOCRAT
SCOTT KRIEDER
REPUBLICAN
District District 20s incumbent Jason Holliday believes that the council should continue to support legislation like the Complete Streets Initiative. Challenger John Easter would like to make the city greener by promoting urban farming, community gardening urban beekeeping. Holliday supports a parent’s decision to choose between private, public and charter schools. Easter would like to see the council stop granting so many charters to charter schools. Easter also believes that the most
in the right direction for increasing the city’s ability to recycle. He also believes the council should increase the number of bike lanes available, and also support the growth of the Bike Share program. We would also like the state house to increase funding for Indianapolis’ public safety. Jared Evans is a native and resident of the west side of Indianapolis. Although he did not respond to NUVO’s issues questionnaire, Evans does have a website at evansforcouncil.com.
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JACK SANDLIN
REPUBLICAN
Incumbent Jack Sandlin is running unopposed. According to his coun-
AARON FREEMAN
REPUBLICAN
MIKE JASPER
LIBERTARIAN
Incumbent Aaron Freeman believes that providing good education is a top priority for the council, and supports charter school development. Mike Jasper (I) believes that private and charter schools add to the variety necessary for individual students and families. Jeff Wheeler believes that public money should be used for public schools, not charter schools. Jasper agrees that use of public funds requires accountability, saying the ultimate test is if the student can be financially independent as an adult. Mike Jasper wants a private mass transit system, while Freeman believes it must be supported by the entire central Indiana region. Wheeler would like to see Indy develop a transit system using federal grants.
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ast week was World Pasta Day, not that anyone in the NUVO office needs an excuse to indulge in those life-giving strands of starch. But I wondered, as I stood over my boiling pot of pasta, if perhaps I have been doing it wrong the whole time, of if there was any way to improve my pasta technique. So I called up Thom England, Ivy Tech instructor and Idiots Guide cookbook author, to get some tips about how I could up my pasta game. “So there are two different types of pasta. There’s fresh pasta and there’s dry pasta, and they cook entirely different. With the fresh pasta, you’re not hydrating it, you’re cooking it. But with the dried pasta, it’s actually harder to cook, because you’re hydrating the pasta as opposed to cooking it because it’s cooked already.” Most of us are used to the timetested method we learned from our mothers, which is to take pasta out of the box, snap it in half, and drop it in boiling water. Most people then keep their water boiling, cooking the pasta in a big enough pot to prevent boilover. Not to mention the myriad ways that home cooks have been devising to keep their pasta water from boiling over. “Most people have the false impression that you’re supposed to bring it to a boil and then leave it in the boiling water. That actually causes your pasta to break apart. Most good Italians would tell you that if you break your pasta apart, you’re cutting your life in half or something superstitious like that,” England laughed. “With dried pasta, ideally, you put it in a pot with lukewarm water and bring it up to a boil from that, then turn it down to a simmer. When I was in culinary school, I was taught that you bring a gallon of water to boil for each pound of pasta you’re cooking, and in reality, that’s the wrong way.” “After traveling through and studying pasta in Italy, I learned the method of the lukewarm water and S E E , PASTA, O N PAGE 30
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The only time you should keep your pasta water continuously boiling is for fresh pasta, when you’re cooking the raw egg inside the soft dough to create that delicious, chewy texture. For dried pasta, add just enough lukewarm water to your pan to cover the pasta, then add your salt and bring the water up to a
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bringing up to boil. And [they only use] enough water to cover the pasta. You get that fresh pasta taste with dried pasta.” Surprised? So was I. And England wasn’t done with the surprises yet. It also turns out I’ve been way under-salting my water. Most Hoosier cooks are taught to throw some salt in their pasta water, maybe a couple of tablespoons, but England told me that Italians consider the seasoning of their pasta equally important to the seasonings of the sauce. “It’s a whole mindshift,” England says. As far as the salination of your water, England says to shoot for “water as salty as the ocean.” Food nerds have probably heard the phrase “salt makes food taste more like itself,” and the additional salt in the water will give your pasta a slightly saline breadiness, which made my nosugar-added pasta sauce take on a new kind of sweetness. Not to mention that the low amount of water and slow cooking method that England uses means he doesn’t need to add oil to the water to keep it from boiling over. That also means you get clean pasta, which becomes a better vehicle for your sauce. “Sauce should stick to the pasta, and coating it with oil makes the pasta
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Are you still putting oil in your pasta water, or worse, directly onto your pasta after straining? Stop that. Correct pasta cooking in the above step will keep your pasta from sticking together, you won’t need to worry about boilover, and you’ll get better adhesion of sauce to pasta.
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England advises keeping your water “as salty as the ocean,” so still go liberal on your salt here. Not only does salt make the pasta taste better, but wellseasoned pasta should complement the flavors of the sauce as well.
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The more texture your pasta has, the more texture your sauce should also have. If you have a smooth sauce, pair it with a wide, flat noodle to get a good blend of pasta and sauce. If you have a chunky sauce to go on there, use something like fusilli or another twisted, textured pasta.
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Maybe before you get down to practicing your own pasta form, you could take a real-life lesson from one of the pro chefs around town. Use this as a handy guide for learning all the perfect pasta ways. Amalfi’s Authentic Italian favorites on 86th Street. Chef Mario DiRosa hails from Naples, Italy, creating Italian cuisine like the famed lasagna with veal meatballs. Rumor has it that Amalfi Ristorante makes the best eggplant parmigiana in the city. Be sure to try the gnocchi, hand-rolled stuffed potato dumplings. The eclectic menu also features a wide variety of steak, seafood, chicken, veal, pasta, wine, beer, and spirits. Leave the kids at home: Only 18-year-olds and older are allowed in this restaurant. 1351 W. 86th St., 253-4034, amalfiristoranteitaliano.com Ambrosia The new location on College may be spiffy, but the quality of the fare here is consistently wonderful. Thoughtfully prepared and smartly presented for a reasonable price, Ravioli della Mamma is composed of large squares of fresh spinach and cheese ravioli served with a pesto cream sauce. Rich yet delicate, creamy but never cloying, it is certainly one of the top vegetarian entrees in the city. 5903 College Ave., 255-3096, ambrosiaindy.com Iozzo’s Garden of Italy Somewhat off the beaten path, Iozzo’s boasts one of the coolest outdoor dining areas in town: A secluded courtyard behind the 19th century brick building, shaded by trees and enlivened by flowers and plants. The interior doesn’t lack for old-world charm, either. Quality is consistently good. And you get a sense that they know what they’re doing in the kitchen. The wine list is quite extensive, with a good number of well-chosen, moderately-priced selections and a few surprises: Shafer Hillside, anyone? 946 S. Meridian St., 974-1100, iozzos.com J. Razzo’s Italian Restaurant & Wine Bar Occupying a highly desirable location facing Meridian Street at 126th Street, J. Razzo’s is about as visible as a restaurant can get in Carmel. Service is professional and
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calmly efficient; the atmosphere is cool and relaxing; there’s no Sinatra on the soundtrack. So why hasn’t J. Razzo’s become a Carmel destination? Quite simply, the food, which ranges from from somewhat better than good to less than mediocre. The cioppino, an Italian fish stew, is properly cooked and nicely spiced, but the veal parmigiano was slathered with a pasty, processed-tasting tomato sauce, and the gnocchi was cooked to a porridge-like consistency. 12501 N. Meridian St., 844-9333, jrazzos.com Mama Carolla’s Old Italian Mama Carolla’s Old Italian in Broad Ripple is, hands-down, the most romantic restaurant in the city according to NUVO readers in each year’s Best of Indy poll. From the twinkling lights to heavy wood accents, all housed in what actually feels like a house, there’s something cozy and refreshing about a visit to Mama’s. The reasonable prices mean it’s affordable for two, even with a good bottle of wine to complement the traditional Italian menu. When the weather permits, take your date to the patio dining room for an even more romantic evening. (And don’t forget about their new café next door for breakfast — Good Morning Mama’s!) 1031 E. 54th St., 259-9412, mamacarollas.com Milano Inn Relying on Italian hospitality and good food, Milano Inn has stood watch as Indianapolis has evolved. It was founded during the Great Depression, flourished as manufacturers prospered during the 1940s and survived as subdivisions lured families to the suburbs
starting in the 1950s. It has seen the rise and fall of Market Square Arena and the Hoosier Dome. Skyscrapers, world-class hotels and a resurgence in urban living has revitalized downtown, and, as always, Milano Inn has welcomed everyone with warmth, and tried and true family recipes. 231 S. College Ave., 264-3585, milanoinn.com Napolese Rustic Neapolitan pizza is becoming more and more in demand here in the States, and this Café Patachou offshoot is happy to oblige. It’s a cozy pizzeria with all the style of a classic Italian restaurant. Build a pizza yourself or choose from some winning combinations like the BLT (bacon, caramelized leeks and taleggio) or PFG (pancetta, roasted fingerling potatoes and gorgonzola). To satisfy your sweet tooth, try the Nutella Stuffed Pizza or the rotating selection of Patachou’s own premium gelato.
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Revent 2015 Nov. 7, 6-9:30 p.m. Wanna help out the Indiana Recycling Coalition? Of course you do. Tickets are going fast for their annual gala, which really is a who’s-who of those that give a darn about (still) trying to bring first-class recycling plans to every city in the Hoosier state. If there was EVER a time that the IRC needed your support, it’s now. The ticket price includes “hors d’oeuvres, dinner, complimentary beer and wine from Monarch Beverage, our popular silent auction, photobooth, networking and fun!” Get a ticket. Better yet, get a table. Goodwill Industries at Indianapolis Metropolitan High School, 635 W. Michigan St., $95 person, $900 table of 10, $70 young professional, indianarecycling.org/revent-2015 November Slow Saunter Nov. 8, 1 p.m. On the second Sunday of every month, the Indiana Forest Alliance hosts a leisurely stroll through the woods. November’s destination is the proposed Knobstone State Wild Area, in Clark State Forest.
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Swing sets and such Greening the Statehouse Nov. 14, time TBD. Save the date: the Hoosier Environmental Council’s eighth annual Greening the Statehouse is set. Sayeth our pals at HEC: If you have attended in years past, you know that this will be an energizing day filled with dynamic speakers and educational breakout sessions. You will learn how to make your voice heard in the community and in our Indiana Legislature. You will receive information and education about state environmental issues and the opportunity to network with greenminded Hoosiers, businesses and non-profits. Schwitzer Center, U of I, 1400 Campus Drive, $5 and up Wild & Scenic Film Festival Dec. 3, 6-10 p.m. The Indiana Forest Alliance is instrumental in brining the touring version of this festival to Indy. This festival, says the the folks behind it, “sits apart from the hundreds of festivals around the world by leaving you feeling INSPIRED and MOTIVATED to go out and make a difference in your community and the world. As a festival by activists and for activists, Wild & Scenic is organized and produced by SYRCL (the South Yuba River Citizens League). … “Wild & Scenic is a call to action. At the festival, film-goers are transformed into a congregation of committed activists, dedicated to saving our increasingly threatened planet. We show environmental and adventure films that illustrate the Earth’s beauty, the challenges facing our planet and what the work communities are doing to protect the environment. Through these films, Wild & Scenic both informs people about the state of the world and inspires them to take action.” The Athenaeum, 407 E. Michigan St., price TBD
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My husband and I have been doing some landscape updates to our home. We removed a very old wood swing set with a molded plastic ladder (not in good shape) and removed some steel lawn edging from the flowerbeds. Are any of these items recyclable? If so, I would love some advice on where to take them. (We’re in Carmel/ Hamilton County.) Thank you, — SUSAN
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piece, but I do have some numbers that might satisfy your interest. I asked Republic for stats on where their recyclables are going. In Indianapolis, 50 percent stays in Indiana, 38 percent stays in the Midwest, five percent goes elsewhere in the U.S. and seven percent is exported. In Bloomington, 25 percent stays in Indiana, 65 percent stays in the Midwest and 10 percent is exported. Fort Wayne: 60 percent Indiana; 3.75 percent Midwest; two percent U.S.; 2.25 percent export. South Bend: 25 percent Indiana; 60 percent Midwest; 15 percent export. They believe that once Pratt Industries begins processing in its new Valparaiso facility, up to 80 percent of its fiber will stay in state. In a conversation during a tour of the Ray’s Trash Service single-stream facility on the Southwest side of Indy, I was told that about 99 percent of their materials stay right here in the Midwest. Indiana Recycling Coalition’s 2013 job study reported that there are 77 Indiana manufacturers that use recycled feedstock creating more than 30,000 jobs for Hoosiers. In recent years, China has raised its standards on the type of recyclable materials that they will accept. Operation Green Fence was implemented in 2013 and resulted in hundreds of thousands of tons of recyclables being rejected because they were poorly sorted or dirty. Often what you see being exported to other countries is e-waste. If you want to ensure that your e-waste is being handled responsibly in Indiana, seek a recycler who demanufactures electronics right here in our state rather than loading up materials on a truck to be sent elsewhere. Also seek recyclers with certifications such as R2 and ISO to ensure that materials are being handled responsibly. PIECE OUT, RENEE
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What a great idea for a business to go beyond simply recycling in the blue bin. National Bank of Indianapolis is ahead of the curve! If the broken items are plastic, they can be recycled with pretty much any plastics recycler. If you have a pick-up service already in place with a company like Ray’s or Republic, contact your account representative to arrange a special pick-up. You can also take your broken plastics to RecycleForce — they’ll take your old desktop computers, telephone systems, copiers, and just about anything else with a cord. If you have a lot of old electronics to recycle, you may even consider asking them to come to you and hosting an electronics recycling drive with your staff and neighboring businesses. As for the not-broken items, if you ever need to clean out the closet, check with Teachers’ Treasures. Check out their Wish List at teacherstreasures.org. PIECE OUT, RENEE SIGN UP for the AskRenee Newsletter at indianalivinggreen.com.
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ew York City: not for Shaun Fleming. “I didn't really like living in New York; I like New York to visit and hang out, but I can't really live there,” says Fleming, who records as Diane Coffee, a psychedelic Bowie-esque songwriter with a madcap new record called Everybody's A Good Dog. But Bloomington felt like the place he grew up, California's suburban Agoura Hills. So Fleming – also the touring drummer in Foxygen – made a move. What he found in Southern Indiana: a long-term partner; green spaces, and a musical community he dove straight into. And Tim Smiley, the perfect person with whom to make his new record. Well – let's back up. Fleming actually already knew Smiley, who co-produced, recorded and mixed Diane Coffee's new record, out on Western Vinyl now. They first met when Smiley served as tour manager and sound engineer for Unknown Mortal Orchestra, another Jagjaguwar band that Foxygen, also signed to the Bloomington label, opened for. That was when Fleming was in the demoing process for his first Diane Coffee record My Friend Fish, recorded solo inside his New York apartment that he was looking to escape. So when the chance to move to Southern Indiana emerged during a two-week Foxygen recording session in town, Fleming (hastily and happily) took it. Then he set about making his dream record come true. “I think the only vision I had for the record was I wanted it to sound like something proper in a studio, much more grand, a lot of strings, a lot of horns,” Fleming says over the phone Monday, just at the end of a short tour, in the midst of preparing for another. “And I wanted to do it in Bloomington, I wanted to do it with Tim, and I wanted to have other people play on it.” Smiley, who majored in Recording Arts and minored in Physics at IU, worked his way up running sound at venues like Rhino's and The Bishop to touring as sound engineer with bands like Houndmouth and the aforementioned Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Foxygen. He juggles a collection of different touring commitments, including several jags with Foxygen last year, in between which he and Fleming would work on what would
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become Everybody's A Good Dog. “I gave myself about three months to write, and I had that plus a little bit more to record in between Foxygen tours, which was great because that was plenty of time. I have a little studio in my place – a little room with some drums, an organ, tape machines, not really a studio proper, but it's great – and I would just hammer out [demos],” Fleming says. “He had really intricate demos of every song already, so it was pretty easy to see where he wanted to go, so that was easy on my part. … When we weren't on tour, I would bring over recording gear to his house and we would just mess around. The first thing we did was record a 'Soon to Be, Won't To Be' demo. That demo, we couldn't improve upon. So we ended up for the album just re-recording the drums better, and used all the original guitar track stuff from the original demo that we had first done,” Smiley says. “We'd set up in the living room and I would lay down a drum line, SUBMITTED PHOTO just whatever came to mind, or a Diane Coffee bass line. You sort of do it right on the spot and see what happens,” dom Hearts, among others. Every vocal part Fleming says. “['Soon To Be, Won't To Be'] on Good Dog, besides a duet with Felicia happened, and just trying to recreate it in Douglass aptly called “Duet,” is Fleming's. the studio it just didn't have that same vibe. “[Voice acting] taught me how to maThat's why it sounds, I think, the most difnipulate my voice,” Fleming says. “For the ferent from everything else on the record.” longest time I struggled with trying to find Although “Soon To Be, Won't To Be” my voice. Trying to find what did I actudoes have a looser, scrappier vibe than the ally sound like, when I'm on record, or do rest of Everybody's A Good Dog, the record I have to just pick a character and stick contains of multitude of sounds, influences with it? That was kind of rough for a long and vibes, spun out over 11 tracks Fleming time when I was starting to write right after describes as his Little Shop of Horrors meets high school. I could put on a country voice, Aladdin Sane vision. And that actually maybe I'll just do country, or come out with stems from a bit of a problem for Fleming a hip-hop album, I don't know [laughs]. – because did we mention he's a former I really didn't know what I wanted, child star and Disney voice actor? Yep, he spent his early days tracking voices for Kim S E E , D I A N E C O F F E E , O N P A GE 3 6 Possible, Lilo and Stitch: The Series, King-
PREMIUM BLEND S.O.A.P. (SUM OF ALL PARTS) There’s no denying that Indianapolis has a rich history of jazz music, with a long list of greats dating back many, many decades to the days of Indiana Avenue. But this is 2015. And luckily, for a 24-year-old like myself, plenty of innovative tunes are still being made by the city’s current generation of exciting young jazzers. With influSUBMITTED PHOTO ences that include everything from hip-hop to hard-bop, Premium Blend is an excellent example of a modern Indianapolis jazz group making well-informed tunes for a 21st century audience of listeners. Regularly playing the Chatterbox on Sunday nights, the four-piece is led by tenor saxophonist Jared Thompson, whose warm and inviting sax style is a direct reflection of the humble 33-year-old’s radiating personality. When accompanied by his impressive backing band, Thompson’s stirring sax work is further accentuated which makes for an engaging listen at each and every gig. After performing in the Indianapolis area for more than a decade, Premium Blend has now unveiled their debut album, S.O.A.P. (Sum of All Parts). A cohesive collection of 13 tracks, the release stays true to the quartet’s refreshing live sound, channeling a variety of non-jazz influences while still maintaining a hard-hitting jazz foundation. In staying true to its title, S.O.A.P. shines a light on all four parts of Premium Blend as well, with exceptional playing from guitarist Ryan Taylor, keyboardist/bassist Steven Jones and drummer Cassius Goens III. After hearing coins enter a washing machine on the album’s opening track, the listener is pulled into the S.O.A.P. experience with a Thompson-written, John Coltrane-inspired number “Trane of Thought.” The Jones-written “Robin Sage” follows this track, with a pair of Taylor-written tracks (“The Abyss and the Luminescence” and “Eye of the Dragonfly”) also surfacing later in the album. Despite having multiple songwriters, the sum of S.O.A.P. is wrinklefree, with each new track simply giving the listener a more complete picture of the group as a whole. While displaying a tightly knit togetherness, each member of Premium Blend is also given his time to shine through a unique four-part title track that briefly shows its face in fragments throughout the album. For example, “S.O.A.P., Pt. I” is the album’s fourth track and highlights Taylor on guitar, while “S.O.A.P., Pt. IV” comes in at track 12 and highlights Goens III on drums. All in all, this strategic move greatly enhances the album’s overall message as well, proving to listeners that Premium Blend really is a sum of all its parts by the time S.O.A.P. concludes with the buzz of a clothes dryer. — SETH JOHNSON
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because I was inspired by so much and was capable of voicing so many different types of things.” Because of his background in voice acting, Fleming was meticulous and labored while recording his vocal parts; Smiley, who says he prefers to record in large passes, sent him home with some gear so he could work as slowly as he’d like at home, then bring it back. “Basically we would have … a pretty focused rough mix of instrumentals, and then I'd give him a bounce of it and he'd take it home and he'd record all his vocal parts and he'd bounce them out separately. So it'd be his lead vocal and all the separate background parts. He'd do that at night in his garage and bring it back to my house and we'd mix the song with the vocals, then do another mixdown of rough instrumental, and he could take that home.” Recording for Everybody's A Good Dog took place at three different studios: first, 10 days at Primary Sound Studios, then – because that wasn't quite enough – more at Smiley's home studio The Furnace Room and at Bloomington's Blockhouse, an event space/studio and media production house that also put together two videos for singles from the album. In the studios, a rotating cast of local players, plus Fleming's touring band from the My Friend Fish days were brought in to play. “We had his old band that was all from New York that came and were the session players: that would be Emily [Panic], Jared [Walker], Joey [Lefitz] and Steve [Okonski]. Shaun had a friend's dad record and write all the arrangements [Steve Hampton, Emoto Studios] and he did some live string instruments and also some midi stuff and sent it over,” Smiley says. (Fleming's Foxygen bandmates Sam France and Jonathan Rado pop up on the album, too.) From Bloomington, Kyle Houpt, Glenn Myers and Alex Arnold sat in to record. “That is one of the coolest parts about Bloomington, how much music comes out of here,” Fleming says. “I guess it's maybe because IU is a really great music school, and we've got the cool labels ... and there's a lot of good venues: it seems like it's just this really awesome cesspool of talent. Everywhere you look there's so many people making so much great music. That's why it was so easy when we were recording to [say], 'Let's get some cool bass players! Who do we know?' And Tim just opens up his phone and could touch any connection and someone would come over and lay something down. One of those cool bass players, Glenn 36 MUSIC // 10.21.15 - 10.28.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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Myers, says: “I really enjoy playing soul/ funk/Motown music, and that was the general vibe Shaun was going for, so it went pretty smoothly. Shaun had a really great vision for this one, and Tim did a great job mixing it together.” (Myers is also presently working on records with Ace Yankee and Sleeping Bag. ) Arnold (!mindparade, Jefferson Street Parade Band) popped in to record horns on the album's second single “Mayflower.” “[Shaun] posted on Facebook one day he needed a horn player for a session, so I messaged him about doing some trumpet. He had seen my group Jefferson Street Parade Band previously, and asked me to come in the following day to the Blockhouse, where we did about four overdubs of trumpet choir on the track “Mayflower.' I like the record and am stoked to be a
part of it! My favorite tracks are the more forward-pushing synthed-out ones like 'Too Much Space Man,' ” Arnold says. “Overall I think it's a fun and interesting take on ’70s psych, and I'm impressed with Tim Smiley's mixing prowess, which really shines on those tracks.” Those carefully scanning the liner notes will find two special guests as well: Chris Swanson and Dave Walters. “Shaun writes and performs from that fearless place that very few musicians ever find, or if they do they’re only able to stay there for a few short beats. He lives there,” says Swanson, cofounder of Secretly Canadian and co-owner-operator of various associated businesses, who also solicited Smiley and Fleming to put together tracks for films he's music supervising. “Tim’s one of the most passionate people I know.
He works incredibly fast, something he learned from touring the world with bands where you need to make decisions fast and there’s no re-dos. When he’s not on the road and is able to focus his passion on a studio project it’s very potent. He and Shaun are a dream team.” The finished product (mastered by Joe Lambert in Brooklyn) is featured at a long run of live shows, including one in Indianapolis on Thursday with of Montreal. Diane Coffee will stay with the Athens' pop collective for more than 20 dates – although it's not the first time Fleming and of Montreal mastermind Kevin Barnes have toured together. “We toured with his other band, Foxygen, before,” Barnes said in an early October interview. “Then I started listening to his last record [My Friend Fish]. Then when I heard he had a new record that he was going to go out in support of, I was really excited and happy that it worked out that we could do the tour together. I think it's going to be a fun tour, because 1) the music is great and 2) they all seem like really fun, nice people. I think the vibe's going to be really solid.” When asked what makes for a traditionally successful opener for an of Montreal show (notoriously theatrical pop experiments) Barnes says it's not about the kind of music – although Diane Coffee's psychedelic experiments do sonically fit nicely – but instead reliant on that solid vibe. “We just like to bring people who are like-minded and who are doing something that we appreciate, that we want to listen to every night, and feel inspired by,” he says. “The main thing is for us to get along with them as people and to really appreciate their music and what they do from night to night. Fleming notes of Montreal serves as an inspiration for him as he develops his own live show, and he remembers their last tour together fondly. “They're so accommodating, so friendly,” Fleming says. “I'm looking forward to just hanging out almost more than playing with them. Their live show is just on point. It's the show that I would want to be involved in. Watching them do that every night was a huge inspiration for what I hope to – when financially able – do something like that as well.” Right now, he's bringing out locals Myers (bass), Ben Lumsdaine (drums) and Drake Ritter (guitar), plus Nashville's Caleb Hickman (keys). Smiley won't be able to come along as sound engineer; previous obligations with Houndmouth call, but he did set up a few shows where Diane Coffee and Houndmouth will take the stage together.n
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hris Murray is coming to Indy, and you can thank Facebook. Murray’s acoustic solo ska act will hit Carmel’s Union Brewing, just off the Monon trail, on Friday night. Murray, who’s fronted his own groups and played with legends of the genre — both first- and second-wave acts — wanted to round out a Midwest swing, so he alerted The Great Zuckerberg Billboard. “I just asked if anyone wanted to put a show together around that time, let me know,” Chris tells me when I reach him via phone at his place in Los Angeles. The Circle City Deacons — an Indy act specializing in horn-heavy ska, soul and rocksteady riffs – saw the post, reached out and put Murray in touch with the nano-brewery. More specifically, it was Deacons’ drummer Cristian Riquelme, also known in Indy for his work with Harley Poe and the Innocent Boys, who asked Murray to include an Indy stop on his most recent tour. “I've known about Chris since his first solo release off the Moon Records, The 4-Track Adventures of Venice Shoreline Chris way back in the late ’90s,” Riquelme says. “He was on tour with the Skatalites, I'm pretty sure, or it could have been the Slackers. They played at the Emerson during a period where there was a surge of really cool ska bands touring and putting out records.” (The Deacons will open the show and back Murray on a few tunes.) Murray, despite his current L.A address, is Canadian by birth. Which begs the question: How does a kid from Toronto develop a love of ska music, the reggae forerunner that saw a massive British revival in the late 1970s and early ’80s? “I came up when 2-Tone [the record label] was big — that hit my radar first,” says Chris. “Coincidental to that, Toronto has the third-largest Jamaican population outside of Jamaica. It’s a commonwealth country, and when people were leaving in droves in the ’50s and ’60s and onwards, a community started there.” Murray’s parallel exposure to both ska and reggae inspired a love for both, but Chris eventually found himself working with one of the bands that inspired
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legions of ’80s college kids to put on skinny black ties, The Specials. “I did a run of dates with them as equipment manager. I would drive the instruments and the amplifiers separately from their tour bus. I’d arrive ahead of time and set up all their gear … so they could plug in and do soundcheck.” What Murray really dug was ska-sanshorn sound, and his Toronto band King Apparatus was built in a similar fashion — the vibe he was after was more “aggressive,” according to Chris: “Two guitars, an organ … my function was as the vocalist.” He was also a songwriter (he’s the co-writer of Hepcat’s “I Can’t Wait”) and the self-described “guy with the guitar by the campfire.” That’s what led him to what he’s doing now: standing on stage with an acoustic axe, playing and singing. “It was just something I’d always been doing. After King Apparatus, I didn’t feel motivated to put another band together.” As for the set he’s performing these days, it’s 90 percent original material, but the man’s not afraid to take requests: “I’m a big fan of the old music, and there are some songs I love to sing. Often, I find solo shows will be in part driven by requests.” n
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he night before I was due to interview Joe Casey, the vocalist in Detroit quartet Protomartyr, I was walking through my front yard and almost stepped on a sleeping college student. I woke him up and — although he was clearly inebriated — he was able to tell me he actually just lived down the block, and that he needed to go home to go to sleep. He was going to see the Colts game tomorrow. The next morning the only record I wanted to listen to was Protomartyr’s new record, The Agent Intellect. Maybe, if I knew where his house down the block was, I'd give it to that kid who passed out on my lawn. I'd tell him, kid, there is something about Joe Casey’s mumbles and melodies that allows you to navigate the world around you. Maybe it’s the way his voice melds with the snarling haze of Greg Ahee’s guitar. Or the way the pound of Alex Leonard’s drums and Scott Davidson’s bass somehow make you want to dance, even if you are a little afraid. Or maybe it’s just that Protomartyr reminds you (or, at least, me) that it doesn’t matter how many books you read, or how many Colts games you go to: nothing is going to stop you from dying eventually. They know it. And you know it. And it’s nice to have music we really like in the meantime. Protomartyr plays the Blockhouse with Amanda X and Daguerreotype on Friday in Bloomington.
give me a job. So I've worked in comedy clubs now for something going on 12 years and I don't really have any desire to do comedy. When I'm working in the box office people are always like, "Oh are you a comedian?" and the answer is always firmly no. I figure there's gotta be one person at a comedy club who is not funny and that's me? NUVO: [I laughed for a bit at this] Ok, well, you are a big reader, yes? CASEY: I wouldn't say I'm the biggest in the world but yeah, I like to read. NUVO: What are you reading currently? CASEY: Currently right now I'm reading George Simenon, who is a Belgian writer and he's most famous for writing a series of detective novels called Inspector Maigret and he wrote like hundreds of those books. But he also wrote hundreds of other books that are called romans durs which I guess is French for “hard novel” and they are all psychological. They are easy and quick exciting reads but he wrote hundreds and hundreds of them but I'm slowly working my way trying to read all of them. But I've read about 10 of them so I've a hundred or three hundred more, maybe.
JOE CASEY: I still do! Still do.
CASEY: I was when I was younger. When I was in college I read a lot of, like, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Before Simenon I read a bunch of Patricia Highsmith's books. But I like them just because sometimes, you know, I don't like reading super trashy stuff, but they're nice and they don't tax the brain too much. They aren't full of big words, there's a plot. Sometimes I like reading experimental fiction but if it's got a good story I'll read it.
NUVO: Do you have much of a relationship with comedy or comedians?
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CASEY: It's an improv theater in Ferndale called Go! Comedy. A buddy that I actually went to grade school with and later on high school opened it, and he was kind enough to give me a job.
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CASEY: You know, no. It's weird, 'cause the job I had maybe 10 years ago, was [because] my cousin was also into improv and had an improv theater in Michigan, and he was kind enough to
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NUVO: My grandpa died of Alzheimer's and my mom recently passed away from cancer. Personally, writing and performing helps me remember it and deal with it. In writing songs that have even a flutter of your personal experience with grief, do you find it healing at all to repeat them on stage for long periods of time while you are on tour?
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<<< they came in a booklet with your last record. Do you ever see yourself writing things specifically for the page? Or to read without music? CASEY: You know, not really. The reason why I include the books is ’cause I know people wanna hear stuff and I don't sing very clearly so sometimes things can get misheard. But it definitely helps to have. Like, I never write the lyrics ahead of time like before the song is made. Usually the song is made and then I write the lyrics to fit the music. So I haven't set out to write stuff ahead of time recently. NUVO: So you don't consciously collect things beforehand — you just dig from whatever is in your brain during recording. CASEY: Well I'll give you an example. Like right now I'm actually at a friend's house and he's got a studio and we're working on stuff with this band Spray Paint. They sent us just an instrumental track and we're going to send them an instrumental track and they're going to put vocals over our, Protomartyr's, thing and we're going to put vocals over theirs. And I was just doing that today just before you called. And I didn't have any lyrics for it but I did have the thought in my head, "This one is going to be called Corinthian Leather." Because when I was younger there used to be car commercials where Ricardo Montalbán would tout these cars that had Corinthian leather and that stuck in my head. And I looked it up online recently and I found out that Corinthian leather wasn't even from Corinth; it was from New Jersey. They just called it that to make it sound luxurious so I had that, "Corinthian Leather is a good name for a song" [thought in my head.] And then today is me figuring out lyrics that go along with that idea that fit
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the music. So I'm kind of making them up on the spot. Sometimes with the the band songs I'll put in more references or things that I've been thinking about. But the main thing with writing lyrics is it has to fit the music. NUVO: I went to Catholic school for 12 years, so a lot of your allusions in some of your lyrics — or at least the undertones of your records — strike me because I have this upbringing of Catholicism and this tight lexicon of Catholicism. Did you have a religious upbringing yourself?
CASEY: You know I don't know exactly why I do it. Especially, I think, writing lyrics and not being completely raw but writing lyrics and singing are two kind of distancing techniques, 'cause they are artistic and you have to follow the music. So it's a nice buffer to have. So on the first record I talk about my dad dying and sometimes when I'm singing I can really lock into that emotion and it helps me, I'd say but sometimes it doesn't. There was one show I was doing that song about my dad and there's this guy and he didn't — he was in the front row singing along, and it kind of threw me off a little bit. So it's a weird balancing act between the performative thing and then also thinking about what they are about. We haven't played “Ellen” from the new record out too much so it'll be interesting to see how that develops… doing it live. I mean I'm glad I did it. Because I just felt like with the music the guys came up with, before it was on, I was like, "Okay, I gotta do something a little bit more heartfelt or a little bit more emotional to fit the music. And it allowed me the opportunity to do it."
CASEY: Yeah. I grew up next to a monastery. I still live next to a monastery in Detroit of Benedictine monks. I really like those SUBMITTED PHOTO guys and actually Album art for The Agent Intellect NUVO: Do you worked at the monever catch yourastery. It was my first self not wanting job, answering phones at the monastery. to play a song because you don't want And I was an altar boy. And I went to an to visit that mental space in a night? all boys Catholic High School. So that definitely influences me, I would say. CASEY: No. Usually it's ‘cause I don't want to sing a song. Some of them are harder to NUVO: Yeah I always joke that I can tell sing than others and I'm kind of a lazy guy. Catholic people, even later, ’cause there No. [The song] becomes something differis a vibe there. ent once it's out there. For me, it was pretty personal. If I would have just recorded CASEY: It's a weird thing yeah. I wouldn't a song just to listen to myself that would say I'm particularly religious now. But the influence of the way of looking at the world have been one thing. That would have been just for me. But now it's kind of for and also applying the old arcane history everybody. So however it develops from that you learn in Catholic school. Those there is kind of out of my hands. I think it's kind of things stick with you and so they're okay. I like the song a lot so I'm looking rattling around in my brain. forward to singing, I think. n
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n a recent episode of the radio edition of Cultural Manifesto I featured an extended interview with Indianapolis cultural visionary Michael Kaufmann. The work Kaufmann does in Indianapolis takes shape in many different forms, from running a record label, to directing a variety of civic projects, to serving on a multitude of organization boards. If I were to attempt to identify a common theme uniting Kaufmann's disparate set of endeavors I'd say it's a deep desire to enhance Indy's quality of life and sense of place through profound artistic experiences. Which brings us to Kaufmann's latest project: StreamLines, a series of six site-specific compositions about local Indianapolis waterways. Kaufmann curated the roster of contributing musicians, drawing from both local (Stuart Hyatt, Hanna Benn) and international (Moses Sumney, Matthew Skjonsberg) talent pools. I was so overwhelmed by the superb musical quality of the StreamLines project I felt obliged to present my conversation with Kaufmann here in NUVO for those who missed the WFYI radio broadcast. Full disclosure: I work with Michael on the Marianne Tobias Music Program at Eskenazi Hospital. NUVO: Tell us about the StreamLines project.
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MICHAEL KAUFMANN: I had the unique opportunity to be part of a National Science Foundation grant application that was awarded. StreamLines is an interactive project that merges science and art to enhance the community's understanding of our waterways here in Indianapolis. There are several components. There's a visual art component, a poetry component, a dance component and a music component. Each of these are occurring at the six different sites of our six different waterways. There's an app and a website where people can participate at the site and learn about the ecological system and the environmental aspects of those sites. NUVO: Am I correct in saying that the StreamLines project is reflective of a larger interest you have in creating site specific works? KAUFMANN: Before I worked for the hospital I ran a record label called Asthmatic Kitty for about a decade. While it's a strange transition going from the music industry to the healthcare industry, a lot of what I did then and do now is project management.
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While I was doing the record label I always had an interest in music and artists that thought about the context of their work and wanted to explore new ways of engaging with listeners and the listening environment around them. That interest came even before I started running the record label, when I myself operated as a musician for over a decade. This opportunity with StreamLines to create new compositions for six different sites comes from an interest in using music to enhance someone's understanding of a specific environment. This comes from a project I did as a musician way back in the day where we recorded at different sites, took these recordings back to our studio, made new recordings in response and planted actual cassette decks with tapes in them and stashed them in different locations with the idea of exchanging the incidental sound of one location with another. That has evolved over many years now to the idea of doing
“I think this project is a increasing and layering legacy of a place.”
Kyle Long’s music, which features off-the-radar rhythms from around the world, has brought an international flavor to the local dance music scene.
at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The first site-specific composition created for Sound Expeditions was by Jordan Munson for the opening of the Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park: 100 Acres. I commissioned Jordan during the opening events to write a piece in response to the visitor's pavilion out in 100 Acres. Then, when I started working for Health and Hospital the idea came up that we wanted to have someone write some music for the grand opening of Eskenazi Hospital. I said, "Why don't we think of it as a site responsive composition?" So we brought in Caroline Shaw to experience the hospital and the city and to learn the historical, social and physical context of that site. She wrote a wonderful piece of music which was performed in collaboration with the Indianapolis Children's way of Choir and Kristin Newborn. the cultural It was a very rewarding experience and I'd like to think it was well received.
— MICHAEL KAUFMANN site-specific compositions where someone is coming in and working in a more collaborative way with the environment – enhancing the natural sounds and awareness of the environment with a piece of music. The other thing that excites me about this type of project is the idea of creating a cultural legacy. So when you go to different sites there's a cultural context. Maybe there's a story about something that happened and there's a historical marker, or someone from the neighborhood knows about something that happened at that site. I think what really enriches our cultural experience of our surroundings and enhances our pride of our cities and neighborhoods is when we have these cultural legacies. I think this project is a way of increasing and layering the cultural legacy of a place. NUVO: StreamLines is part of an ongoing project you've created called Sound Expeditions. KAUFMANN: Yes, Sound Expeditions has a goal of soundtracking the entire city and the Sound Expeditions' projects will be archived
NUVO: Tell us about the six musicians who contributed to StreamLines.
KAUFMANN: My responsibility with the StreamLines project was to select six different musicians to write music for the six different waterways. My hope was to bring in a wide variety of musical approaches. There's Matthew Skjonsberg who is originally from Wisconsin and now based in Switzerland, Moses Sumney who is based in Los Angeles, Hanna Benn who is originally from Indianapolis, Roberto Lange of Helado Negro, Stuart Hyatt who lives in Indianapolis, and Olga Bell who is based in Brooklyn. Each of them brought their unique approach and I'm really happy with the variety of pieces. I didn't want the music to be all lyrical, or all experimental, or all chamber pieces. I wanted to represent the wide spectrum of possible musical responses to the sites. n
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this free show, but we are VERY stoked for the debut of Gyro Boys, the Zero Boys-reffin’ gyro project from Jeremy Tubbs and Milktooth’s Jon Brooks. Oh my god we want to put gyros in our mouths so badly right this second.
Ryan Van Abeele, Jay Jones, Tin Roof, 21+
State Street Pub, 243 N. State Ave., FREE, 21+
Melody Inn, 21+ Empancipator Ensemble, The Vogue, 21+ Kate Edmonson: The Big Picture, The Cabaret at the Columbia Club, 21+
Indiana Solo Artist Awards, Birdy’s Bar and Grill, 21+
FRIDAY STRINGS Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn
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Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St., $5, 21+ HIP-HOP Mac Miller 8 p.m. Pittsburgh-based rapper Mac Miller has climbed the ranks from indie beginnings to releasing a top five Billboard record. GO:OD AM is the latest in a long line of well-received releases that have
The Big Broadway Sing-Along, Chef Joseph’s at the Connoisseur Room, all-ages Sister Kill Cycle, Element A440, 5th Quarter Lounge, 21+
propelled Miller to the top of the rap charts. GoldLink, Domo, and The Come Up provide support. Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., prices vary, all-ages
Eric Alexander, Harold Mabern Quartet, Jazz Kitchen, 21+
THURSDAY METAL Beast in the Field, Conjurer, Doomcow, Potslammer 7 p.m. This is a killer lineup.
CRAZY STUFF That 1 Guy 9 p.m. That 1 Guy has become That 1 Guy by building a totally crazy instrument called a Magic Pipe, which he plays while beatboxing, playing the musical saw, sampling and looping all kinds of stuff and otherwise just totally experimenting. His Magic Pipe is an almost 8-foot long collection of “steel plumbing pipes and joints, orchestral bass strings and electronics.” What! Mike Silverman, you truly are That 1 Guy. Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St., $15, 21+ Reconnecting our Waterways Placemaking Workshop, The Hall, all-ages Go!Zilla, Wet Heave, Chieftan, State Street Pub, 21+ Good English, Sunspots, The Bishop (Bloomington), 21+ Will Scott, Fat Dan’s Chicago-Style Deli, all-ages
5th Quarter Lounge, 306 E. Prospect St., $5, 21+ POP Saintseneca, The Sidekickers, Yowler 9:30 p.m. Headliner Saintseneca is touring their newest, called Such Things out on ANTI- now. The Bishop, 123 S. Walnut St. (Bloomington), $10 advance, $12 door, 18+ Jay Brookinz Battle League Round 3, The Hi-fi, 21+ Von Strantz, Union 50, 21+ Stampede String Band, Shoefly Public House, all-ages
8 p.m. Banjo virtuosos Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn are more than stage mates: they’re life mates, too. (Cue “awwws” here.) This husband-and-wife pair delights with original compositions and traditional folk favorites.
Charlie Ballantine Group 10:30 p.m. If you haven’t been to see Best of Indy winner for Best Local Jazz Musician yet – well, why haven’t ya?! Oh, because we just announced those last week? Oh, okay. Makes sense. Go see Charlie Ballantine (the aforementioned winner), right now though. The Chatterbox, 435 Massachusetts Ave., $7, 21+ Paul Holdman CD Release Party, Jazz Kitchen, 21+
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The Shady Dames, Royal Outsiders, Holy White Hounds, Melody Inn, 21+
Deluxe at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., all-ages SPOOKY Here Come The Mummies 9 p.m. We only like to see Here Come the Mummies in October (because of the extra spoooookiness factor), so thanks to the Vogue for bookin’ ‘em now! The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., prices vary, 21+
Long Tall Deb, Slippery Noodle Inn, 21+
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Rev//Rev, White Wax, Psychic Feel, DJ Mild Chery 10 p.m. Yes, we are very stoked on all the bands right up there in the title that are playing
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Cherub 8 p.m. When we chatted with the electro-indie duo last year they had this to say about their tunes: “We have generally started to make it broad, feel good, pop music. People have a bad condensation with pop music because they think it’s hollow, manufactured and corporate. But to me a pop song is catchy lyrics; catchy melodies and something that makes you feel some type of way.” There’s no doubt they’ll play breakout hit “Doses and Mimosas” but be on the lookout for new tracks as well.
Dale Lawrence (Vulgar Boatmen) on Saturday at Bookmama’s. (She’ll also appear Friday at The Venue Fine Arts and Gifts in conversation with Mike Leonard from BLOOM Magazine.) This combines like 50 of our favorite things: local musicians, rock memoirs, cake, an afternoon event, etc., etc., etc.
Blue Lunch, Slippery Noodle Inn, 21+
Will Scott, Pine Room Tavern, 21+ Easton Corbin, The Swon Brothers, Clowes Memorial Hall, all-ages Maia Sharp, The Hi-Fi, 21+ Protomartyr, Amnda X, The Blockhouse (Bloomington), all-ages Rap vs. Metal Night, Hoosier Dome, all-ages The Black Dahlia Murder, Iron Regan, Harm’s Way, Maruta, Emerson Theater, all-ages Cozette Myers, Chef Joseph’s at The Connoisseur Room, 21+ Driftwood Gypsy, Flantland Harmony Experiment, Mousetrap, 21+
HIP-HOP The Dozens 9 p.m. Tony Styxx hosts, Dicky Foxxx DJs and F.A.C.T.S., Fre$co, Fricktion, GRXZZ, Jo and Theon Lee feature at this hip-hop competition (NOT a battle, organizers note) where the winner gets a featured spot at the Rabbit’s quarterly Good Company Showcase. Did that sentence have enough details in there for you? White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 Prospect St., $5, 21+ STRINGS Indy Guitar Summit 7 p.m., 9 p.m. Formed in 2002 by Bill Lancton, The Indianapolis Guitar Summit is an exciting, unique group of musicians. Consisting of five guitarists, plus bass and drums, the group presents an entertaining, energetic show, ranging from straight ahead jazz standards to Latin jazz and funk jazz. Although the repertoire is always evolving, expect tunes by Miles Davis, Wes Montgomery, Django Rheinhardt, Grant Green, Joni Mitchell, Thelonius Monk, and the Beatles, among many others. Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave., $15, 21+
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SATURDAY READINGS Freda Love Smith 2 p.m. This is such a cool event: Freda Love Smith (Blake Babies, Bloomington’s The Mysteries of Life) has put together a memoir/cookbook called Red Velvet Underground: A Rock Memoir with Recipes. She’ll discuss it with fellow Hoosier musician
PARTIES The Nightmare Before Halloween 7 p.m. This sppooooooky show features acoustic sets from Bizarre Noir, The Transylvania Hell Sounds, The Elixirs and Lady Ursa. There’s lots of art and candy and other deliciousness, too. Bring the kiddies – this one is both all-ages and totally kid-appropriate. Grove Haus, 1001 Hosbrook St., $10, all-ages FOLK Harpeth Rising: 1st Avenue Folk Series 7 p.m. All three members — Greenberg, Rebecca Reed-Lunn on
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who make their home in Memphis and just keep churnin’ out good ol’ roots records. Be prepared to indulge in many a whiskey, and revel in singer Ben Nichols’ luxuriously rough baritone vocals.
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That 1 Guy, Wednesday at Radio Radio banjo and Maria Di Meglio on cello — earned performance degrees while at IU, and together they’ve toured America and the world playing and singing to growing audiences ready to lap up something different. Self-described musical nomads, they’ve only recently attempted to make Louisville their permanent home, though they’ve spent plenty of time in Nashville as well. The Tennessean even once named them Best Local Band, quite some praise considering the number of locals vying for such a title in Music City. The Warehouse, 254 1st Ave. SW, $20 advance, $25 door, all-ages
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BACK IN ACTION The Rosebloods Reunion 8 p.m. Welcome back to The Rosebloods, who celebrate their 25th anniversary with a show featuring members from many eras of the band. This show features another set with the band’s alter ego, the jazzy The Bluebloods. (Whoop!). Thee Aquaholics and Purple 7 open. Player’s Pub, 424 S. Walnut St. (Bloomington), $10, 21+
Wednesday 13, Abolishment of Flesh, Xiting The Systm, Bionic Monks, American Bombshell, 5th Quarter Lounge, 21+ Yvonne Allu, Chef Joseph’s at the Connoisseur Room, 21+ Random Harvest Acoustic Duo, Oliver Winery, 21+
SUNDAY Video Grave In-Store Performance, LUNA Music, all-ages Screaming For Silence, 5th Quarter Lounge, 21+ Choral Concert, Howard L. Schrott Center for the Arts, 21+ James Kramer, Tin Roof, 21+
ROOTS Lucero 9 p.m. We’re big fans of country punkers Lucero,
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Twiztid, Centerstage Bar and Grill (Kokomo), 21+
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The Hall Brothers, Father Mountain, Melody Inn, 21+ moe., Lafayette Theatre (Lafayette), all-ages Gordon Bonham Trio, Slippery Noodle Inn, 21+
Collective Soul 8 p.m. Can you imagine the chorus of voices that will sing “Oh, heaven let your light shine down” when Collective Soul gets to the “Shine” portion of their setlist?
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Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., prices vary, all-ages
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Jazz Jam Session, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Brent Wallarab Jazz Ensemble, Musical Arts Center (Bloomington), all-ages Third Eye Blind, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ Sirens, The Fine Constant, Send The Advocate, Vera Complex, Hoosier Dome, all-ages
Zedd True Colors Tour with Dillon Francis 7:30 p.m. Building on the success of his debut album Clarity, in which the title track earned a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording, electro-house DJ Zedd released his second studio album True Colors in May. Featuring the likes of Selena Gomez, Logic, and X Ambassadors, Zedd has
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Indiana Farmers Coliseum, 1292 E. 38th St., prices vary, all-ages Clifford Ratliff Big Band, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Ruckzuck, Phase II, Melody Inn, 21+ W.T. Feaster and Friends, Slippery Noodle Inn, 21+ Levi Driskell, Tin Roof, 21+
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ost of the time, you, our wonderful readers, ask really good, probing questions about sex and physiology. Then, at other times, you send me some spectacular clunkers. Usually, I didn’t feel the need to burden a Ph. D. with these ideas, but today I’m feeling cheeky. So please sit back and enjoy a handful of questions from the reject pile.
Dickipad landing Why do guys feel OK to do the dickcopter before sex? SARAH: It’s not that guys feel OK about doing the dickcopter. In fact, no one in the fullness of time has ever felt “comfortable” while doing the dickcopter. The dickcopter move is just a way to remind yourself that you have this appendage that you can make behave ridiculously. You know what a vagina can’t do? Dance or become a comedic or dramatic marionette. It can’t spin hilariously in the air with the quick bend of the a knee and a little jig at the feet. In short, because penises are hilarious and you should use them for maximum comic effect whenever possible. If you can’t lean into the obvious comic genius imbued into the flaccid penis by a benevolent creator, then I just don’t know what to tell you.
DR. DEBBY HERBENICK & SARAH MURRELL Coming of Age How to feel 18 down there?? SARAH: Making your genitals feel like they’ve come of age is a tricky process. They’re going to be pushing for their independence, sneaking out at night, talking back, and generally showing that they’re their own genitals now and they want a little bit of freedom. First, make sure they feel confident when it comes to issues of safety and consent. Tell your genitals that they never should feel pressured into doing anything they don’t want to do, even if they might have thought they wanted to do it before. Also make sure your genitals know that sex, above all things, should make you feel good, and sex with people that don’t make you feel good or don’t make you feel free to enjoy sex should be avoided like the plague. Make sure you maintain an open and honest channel of communication with your genitals so they have a place to go with their questions and fears. All that matters is that your genitals enter the world as an adult feeling confident about their choices and informed on their health. Then let them out in the world to have some fun!
Higher Squirting Are there places I can go to learn and practice how to make women squirt?
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DR. D: Although I recognize that some small percentage of people are into choking (and you can often get tips on - hopefully - safer styles of choking through local kink groups), it’s not a kind of behavior I can safely recommend. Unfortunately, there are too many ways people can choke someone and accidentally cause harm or even death. These instances are rare, but they do occur. In my field, these are the kinds of cases that colleagues end up providing expert testimony on and it’s heartbreaking. I’ve heard about too many terrible situations where someone was hurt or died as a result of either an unsafe behavior or a behavior that — DR. D. started out safe, but something went wrong (like, in the heat of the moment the choking or hitting got too rough). Also, legally you should know that the judicial system has a very complicated case with BDSM-related activities. Often, judges/juries find that people cannot consent to their own harm - meaning that, even if you and your girlfriend create a written contract where she outlines that she wants you to choke her, if you My girlfriend likes to be choked pretty hard during choke her and something goes wrong, it could legally be sex. I’m not particularly into it, but I do it because it your fault and your contract may mean little if anything. makes her orgasms really intense, but I don’t have a lot of experience. Is there a “right” and “wrong” way to choke someone with your hands? Thanks! Have a question?
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock did a daily ritual to remind him of life’s impermanence. After drinking his tea each morning, he flung both cup and saucer over his shoulder, allowing them to smash on the floor. I don’t recommend that you adopt a comparable custom for long-term use, but it might be healthy and interesting to do so for now. Are you willing to outgrow and escape your old containers? Would you consider diverging from formulas that have always worked for you? Are there any unnecessary taboos that need to be broken? Experiment with the possible blessings that might come by not clinging to the illusion of “permanence.” Gemini
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Terence was a comic playwright in ancient Rome. He spoke of love in ways that sound modern. It can be capricious and weird, he said. It may provoke indignities and rouse difficult emotions. Are you skilled at debate? Love requires you to engage in strenuous discussions. Peace may break out in the midst of war, and vice versa. Terence’s conclusion: If you seek counsel regarding the arts of love, you may as well be asking for advice on how to go mad. I won’t argue with him. He makes good points. But I suspect that in the coming weeks you will be excused from most of those crazy-making aspects. The sweet and smooth sides of love will predominate. Uplift and inspiration are more likely than angst and bewilderment. Take advantage of the grace period! Put chaos control measures in place for the next time Terence’s version of love returns. Cancer
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): One of the largest machines in the world is a “bucket wheel excavator” in Kazakhstan. It’s a saw that weighs 45,000 tons and has a blade the size of a four-story building. If you want to slice through a mountain, it’s perfect for the job. Indeed, that’s what it’s used for over in Kazakhstan. Right now, Taurus, I picture you as having a metaphorical version of this equipment. That’s because I think you have the power to rip open a clearing through a massive obstruction that has been in your way. Taurus
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): More than any other sign, you have an ability to detach yourself from life’s flow and analyze its complexities with cool objectivity. This is mostly a good thing. It enhances your power to make rational decisions. On the other hand, it sometimes devolves into a liability. You may become so invested in your role as observer that you refrain from diving into life’s flow. You hold yourself apart from it, avoiding both its messiness and vitality. But I don’t foresee this being a problem in the coming weeks. In fact, I bet you will be a savvy watcher even as you’re almost fully immersed in the dynamic flux.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Are you an inventor? Is it your specialty to create novel gadgets and machines? Probably not. But in the coming weeks you may have metaphorical resemblances to an inventor. I suspect you will have an enhanced ability to dream up original approaches and find alternatives to conventional wisdom. You may surprise yourself with your knack for finding ingenious solutions to long-standing dilemmas. To prime your instincts, I’ll provide three thoughts from inventor Thomas Edison. 1. “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” 2. “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” 3. “Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.” Scorpio
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Some unraveling is inevitable. What has been woven together must now be partially unwoven. But please refrain from thinking of this mysterious development as a setback. Instead, consider it an opportunity to reexamine and redo any work that was a bit hasty or sloppy. Be glad you will get a second chance to fix and refine what wasn’t done quite right the first time. In fact, I suggest you preside over the unraveling yourself. Don’t wait for random fate to accomplish it. And for best results, formulate an intention to regard everything that transpires as a blessing. Sagittarius
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “A waterfall would be more impressive if it flowed the other way,” said Irish author Oscar Wilde. I appreciate the wit, but don’t agree with him. A plain old ordinary waterfall, with foamy surges continually plummeting over a precipice and crashing below, is sufficiently impressive for me. What about you, Capricorn? In the coming days, will you be impatient and frustrated with plain old ordinary marvels and wonders? Or will you be able to enjoy them just as they are? Capricorn
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Years ago, I moved into a rental house with my new girlfriend, whom I had known for six weeks. As we fell asleep the first night, a song played in my head: “Nature’s Way,” by the band Spirit. I barely knew it and had rarely thought of it before. And yet there it was, repeating its first line over and over: “It’s nature’s way of telling you something’s wrong.” Being a magical thinker, I wondered if my unconscious mind was telling me a secret about my love. But I rejected that possibility; it was too painful to contemplate. When we broke up a few months later, however, I wished I had paid attention to that early alert. I mention this, Aquarius, because I suspect your unconscious mind will soon provide you with a wealth of useful information, not just through song lyrics but other subtle signals, as well. Listen up! At least some of it will be good news, not cautionary like mine. Aquarius
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): When I advise you to GET NAKED, I don’t mean it in a literal sense. Yes, I will applaud if you’re willing to experiment with brave acts of self-revelation. I will approve of you taking risks for the sake of the raw truth. But getting arrested for indecent exposure might compromise your ability to carry out those noble acts. So, no, don’t actually take off all your clothes and wander through the streets. Instead, surprise everyone with brilliant acts of surrender and vulnerability. Gently and sweetly and poetically tell the Purveyors of Unholy Repression to take their boredom machine and shove it up their humdrum. Pisces
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): New friends and unexpected teachers are in your vicinity, with more candidates on the way. There may even be potential comrades who could eventually become flexible collaborators and catalytic guides. Will you be available for the openings they offer? Will you receive them with fire in your heart and mirth in your eyes? I worry that you may not be ready if you are too preoccupied with old friends and familiar teachers. So please make room for surprises.
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