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HEALING ART

Kate Wagner is an artist in her own right, but her day job is to serve as development coordinator for Outside the Box. There, she guides the developmentally disabled in the wiles of artistic creation. The fruits of these labors will be on display on First Friday, in an Athenaeum ArtSpace gallery exhibit entitled “A Cause for Elegance.” BY DAN GROSSMAN COVER IMAGE OF KATE WAGNER BY STEPHEN SIMONETTO

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INDY’S BIKE NETWORK EXPANDS

The city is expanding its connectivity plan, increasing numbers of bike lanes and sharrows are in place. As more bikers hit the road, the city ramps up and driver awareness and enforcement efforts.

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OCCUPY WANING

Hardcore few hold on despite jail time and everyday pressures. BY BROCK BENEFIEL

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SPIRIT & PLACE SINGS THE BODY ELECTRIC

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THE VOLLRATH IS SILENT

The 10-day extravaganza of civic engagement and creative collaboration enters its 16th year this week with events centered around the body. Tattoo artist Lyle Tuttle, this weekend’s biggest guest, talks with us about Samoan initiation rites, Annie Liebovitz and Janis Joplin.

Owner Brian Alvey of the Vollrath speaks about his decision to close the doors to the historic tavern and music venue late last week. Also inside: other venue owners respond to the closure. BY KATHERINE COPLEN

BY MATT MCCLURE

from the readers So sad! The Vollrath was a great; I’m sad to see it close (“The Vollrath is silent,” by Katherine Coplen, posted to NUVO.net Oct. 27). A catering business though? Lame.

EDITOR’S NOTE – We posted the Vollrath story that appears in this week’s music section to NUVO.net as soon as the news broke.

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Dear reader: We don’t often take up print space in NUVO with announcements about the internal goings-on, but we do have a couple of new editorial employees — and we have an exciting announcement about a recent acquisition.

Music editor: Katherine Coplen kcoplen@nuvo.net

Although I am an Indianapolis native, I have only just returned to town after four wonderful years in Bloomington. My background is in radio and non-profit work; I was the proud public relations director for WIUX-FM at IU for two years, and an intern for the wonderful WFHB-FM. I believe in the power of music and the community it fosters in our city. I majored in history and English literature and can often be found curled into a comfortable chair with a thick book. Although I realize that choosing two liberal arts degrees did not guarantee the most stable career path, I am infinitely grateful that it steered me toward NUVO. I gravitate toward folk and rock music, but my ears are always open and I look forward to exploring more deeply what Indy has to offer musically. My tastes vary wildly; I am equally interested in listening to death metal and Tchaikovsky. Most of all, I want to talk to you. I want to hear what you think about the ever-evolving Indy music scene. I want to come see your shows and listen to your new CDs. I surround myself with dogs, great conversation, and an ever-changing soundtrack. And maps. And typewriters. I enjoy Thai food, really bad romantic comedies and talk radio. I love to cook (and am currently trying to create the most perfect curried butternut squash soup possible). My first experience with an alt-weekly involved picking up an issue of NUVO when I was 15. It is supremely satisfying that I now work for the very publication I once combed for fun things to do. Cheers to serendipity!

Digital platforms editor: Tristan Schmid tschmid@nuvo.net

I’m NUVO’s first digital platforms editor — a fancy way of saying I’m responsible for the NUVO.net website (and IndianaLivingGreen.com) and the

preparation and sending-forth of digital content in general. Formerly the director of marketing and communications for the Humane Society of Indianapolis, I have a background in new media, first getting a degree from IU in telecommunications, followed by a master’s in media arts and science from IUPUI and stints at Creative Street Media Group and Angie’s List. Usability is at the core of my vision for NUVO’s digital efforts, and I aim to make sure our content is enjoyable and informative — and that it gets to you in the most efficient and effective ways possible. We tweak NUVO online every day to make sure it’s good for you. (Get your mind out of the gutter if that sentence sounded dirty.) Personally, I have a love/hate relationship with technology, which may explain why, in my free time, I love creating digital music that sometimes sounds like machines dying. When I’m not staring at a screen, I’m hiking with my two 11-year-old Husky mixes and one-eyed Lab, squeezing my FIV+ cat’s chubby cheeks, or enjoying hoppy beers and Indy’s increasingly amazing array of local restaurants. Other likes: sunglasses, hats, trees, predatory animals, the smell of gasoline, skiing, rainy days, Rick Rubin. Dislikes: neckties, the sounds of people chewing food, grammatical errors, grass lawns, Black Eyed Peas. You can follow me on Twitter at @NUVO_ net and @TigerSharkMusic. I’m always thinking about ways to improve the way you experience NUVO’s online offerings, so hit me up if you have ideas, questions or comments. Note: Long-time music editor Scott Shoger has taken over the A&E section from Jim Poyser. Last month, NUVO purchased statewide environmental magazine, Indiana Living Green, and Jim is editor. NUVO/ILG Publisher Kevin McKinney says: “ILG is a perfect fit with our mission to give a voice to the best ideas in our community, and given the passion of our staff toward a greener lifestyle, it was clear this was the right thing to do.” ILG will continue its bi-monthly publishing schedule with two more issues: November/December and January/ February. In March, NUVO will re-launch ILG with a new design, new website and a monthly publishing schedule. The first issue of the NUVO-powered Indiana Living Green will debut on Nov. 9. 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 11.02.11-11.09.11 // staff update

HAMMER A quick way to end the NBA lockout

Invoke the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947

BY STEVE HAMMER SHAMMER@NUVO.NET

he National Basketball Association had been scheduled to begin its 2011-12 season this week, with our Indiana Pacers having their best chance in years of having a contending team. But the Pacers won’t be playing this week due to a labor dispute that has put the entire season in jeopardy. With players and management said to be far from agreement on how to split revenues, NBA Commissioner David Stern (hereafter referred to as the Grinch Who Stole Basketball) has cancelled all games through at least Nov. 30 and is threatening to wipe more games off the schedule. I haven’t seen conventional media identify one immediate path beyond this impasse. The legal framework exists to end the lockout tomorrow and put the players, coaches and arena employees back to work immediately. The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, a viciously anti-union law passed by Republican lawmakers over Harry Truman’s veto, gives the president of the United States executive order authority to end any lockout or strike if the strike imperils the “national health or safety.” In the 64 years since the law took effect, courts have interpreted that clause quite broadly, allowing the president almost unchecked power to end labor disputes. President George W. Bush used it to force locked-out longshoremen back to work in 2002. It’s not that big of an overstatement to contend that the lack of professional basketball creates an economic emergency in cities with NBA teams just when businesses can least afford it. Ask any waiter or bartender who works near Conseco Fieldhouse just how happy a Christmas they plan on having. Ask any downtown restaurant owner whether they can afford to lose patrons for 40 nights a year. And, for God’s sake, won’t someone please think about the Pacemates, the NBA’s first and best dancing team? Usually, invoking the provisions of the Taft-Hartley bill is an anti-worker move, forcing them to accept substandard pay and working conditions while negotiations continue. In this case, the president would be working to help save jobs, give players and owners time to cool off and give

millions of people entertainment and joy when they could really use it. The Pacers are more than just a sports team to Indiana. They are pioneers, pillars of the community and a key factor in the revitalization and rehabilitation of downtown Indianapolis. They were one of the main reasons people began coming to downtown again in the 1970s and 1980s. Without them, would we have been able to steal the Colts from Baltimore? Would there be a Circle Centre Mall? I can handle the bad economy. I can handle the Indianapolis Colts being the worst team in the NFL. But I can’t live in a world without the Indiana Pacers and the NBA. Without the NBA, we face the prospect of making it through a cold and snowy winter on our own with nothing to look forward to except ice storms and nights spent staring at the fireplace for entertainment. The lockout comes at the worst possible time. For the first time since 2004 — when Ron Artest charged a man in the bitch-ass Detroit crowd [his fury was misdirected; the person he attacked had not tossed the liquidfilled cup that instigated Artest’s fury] and started the brawl that stole Reggie Miller’s final hopes for an NBA championship — the Pacers finally have built an exciting, vibrant team with a legitimate, if unlikely, chance to win a championship. It looked as though Conseco Fieldhouse would be full again just about every night with fans. But due to the Grinch and the team owners, we likely won’t get a chance to see the Pacers play at all this season. Barring some last-minute compromise, we’ll have to do without our beloved Pacers for an entire year. The Grinch and the wealthy industrialists he represents are trying to strike a hard bargain with the players, amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars over the life of any new contract. Without making any significant concessions, they’re asking the players to agree to a series of punitive measures that benefit the richest owners and do little to help small-market teams such as the Pacers. It’s no wonder that the players have thus far told the Grinch to go to hell. But they’re in a weakened position asking for anything while much of the country suffers through the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. Other cities will do fine this winter without basketball. The Knicks can’t singlehandedly ruin the economy of New York and Dallas has plenty of attractions besides the Mavericks. The Pacers, however, are an integral part of the city’s economy. We need the moral and economic boost that the team gives us, especially now. President Obama should do the right thing and end the lockout, order the players back onto the court and allow the labor process to take place with no time pressure, or risk losing the NBA altogether for a generation of fans.

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HOPPE The Gallup poll and pot

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smoked pot for the first time in 1969. The Doors were on the stereo, Jim Morrison singing, “Before you slip into unconsciousness, I’d like to have another kiss …” It was also in 1969 that the Gallup polling organization first asked Americans how they felt about the legalization of marijuana. The very idea of legalization was barely within the bounds of polite conversation in those days, a fact reflected by the measly 12 percent of respondents who said they favored the idea. A lot of smoke has gone up the proverbial chimney since then. This year, when Gallup asked Americans how they felt about legalizing pot, the number of people in favor hit 50 percent — the first time this has happened since Gallup started polling on the issue in 1969. Those opposed to legalization dropped to 46 percent. The Gallup numbers chimed in with previous findings by Zogby and Angus Reid polling, indicating that over 50 percent of Americans have favored legalization of marijuana since 2009. This should be good news on a number of fronts. When 50 percent of Americans are in favor of something, it usually opens the door for public discussion about how these feelings might translate into the development of meaningful policy. In the case of our outdated marijuana laws, policy changes could start by reclassifying marijuana from its current status as a Schedule I drug, which rejects pot’s medicinal applications and erroneously lumps it in with such dangerous and addictive substances as heroin. Rescheduling would enable people with serious illnesses, like various cancers and Parkinson’s, to have access to marijuana relief, regardless of where they live in the United States. The large number of people in favor of legalization should also permit a more intentional exploration of how marijuana might be developed as a legitimate cash crop. In states like Indiana, where there is already a longstanding black market in marijuana cultivation and sales, this would enable the state to regulate this product and benefit from a new, agriculturebased revenue stream. And let’s not even start on how our laws have encouraged the growth of bloody drug cartels in Mexico to supply our black market. That’s material for another column. Finally, the burgeoning majority in favor of legalization should help us to get out from

under the social and political hypocrisy that comes from having to maintain a law that is practically unenforceable and socially bankrupt. It benefits no one when the state sets about turning otherwise law-abiding citizens into rebels and transforms criminals into anti-heroes. If the failure of Prohibition in the 1920s teaches us anything, it should be that while the state may choose to create disincentives for a variety of behaviors — like drunken driving — it risks losing whatever legitimate authority it has when it engages in draconian efforts to completely outlaw those behaviors. The polling data amounts to a permission slip making it safe for politicians to talk about reforming our marijuana laws for the better. This isn’t happening. In the past month, the Obama administration has been hammering medical marijuana dispensaries in California and Colorado. On Oct. 7, U.S. attorneys in California announced “coordinated enforcement actions targeting the illegal operations of the commercial marijuana industry in California.” The U.S. Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration and the Internal Revenue Service have been mobilized in what appears to be a team effort to drive legal medical marijuana dispensaries out of business. Making a bad situation worse, the Obama administration is perpetuating the government’s long-time practice of discouraging research that could legitimize the use of pot for medicinal purposes. It has blocked federal approval of medical marijuana and, through the DEA, rejected a 9-year-old petition to reschedule marijuana. It has set up a catch22, demanding that pot must prove its value through large-scale, FDA controlled trials, while blocking these trials by refusing to use marijuana grown at a private production facility. Apparently, the only place where you can get pot for research is through the National Institute on Drug Abuse, but guess what? The NIDA recently blocked a request for marijuana to study its effects on post-traumatic stress disorder because, said these watchdogs, they don’t want to allow studies that might reinforce or encourage the use of medical marijuana. If you’ve been wondering what the Occupy Wall Street movement is about, look no further. Here’s a situation where half of the American people are ready for, at the very least, an energetic discussion about how to improve our wayward marijuana laws. But the politicians and their big pharmaceutical campaign contributors know better. In fact, they don’t even want to know what marijuana’s benefits might be. They would rather suppress research that could lead to the relief of suffering veterans and cancer patients than have to rethink the ineffectual law enforcement apparatus that has been created over the years to save us from ourselves.

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Wanna avoid the threat of setting your neighborhood on fire or being fined for illegal burning? Compost those leaves, lawn owners! Not only is it the most responsible move ecologically … it’s about the simplest (legal) option. Through Dec. 2, the Indianapolis Department of Public Works will be collecting bagged leaves in Marion County. They’ll pick up 40 bags per household per week at no charge, and they’ll even give you the compost to use in your yard next year if you head over to the Southside Landfill at 2577 S. Kentucky Ave. Also note: Keeping storm water drains clear of leaves (and other waste) helps our combined overflow systems contain their loads and protect the local watershed.

YOU’VE COME A LONG WAY, BABY

As the percentage of Indiana’s 18-44-year-old smokers drops over the years, infant health advocates note a coinciding dip in the state’s pre-term births, now at 11.9 percent, down from 12.4 a year earlier. The March of Dimes applauded the continual declines in both rates despite Indiana’s preterm birthrate exceeding the organization’s best-practices target of 9.6 percent. While several factors contribute to preterm birth, “… smoking is linked to premature birth and low birth weight,” March of Dimes Indiana State Director Tanya Hand said in news release celebrating the state’s progress. Indiana’s performance on the MOD report card is in line with the national average premature birth rate of 12.2 percent. Both Indiana and the U.S. earned a grade of “C.” Both samples also had upticks in uninsured women, not a positive indicator for the health of pregnant women.

GROWING GREENS FOR THE GREATER GOOD

Here’s to the inaugural harvest of Indy Urban Acres, the city’s burgeoning urban garden project! Farm manager Tyler Gough reports the half acre of plantings, which ranged from cucumbers to collard greens, yielded about 2,000 pounds of harvest — all exclusively shipped to Gleaners Food Bank for distribution to hunger relief agencies in 21 counties. All this despite a late start, with seedlings hitting the freshly tilled dirt in July — just in time for 26 rain-free, high-heat days. Urban Acres plans to expand its operation across more of its eight-acre site on a former gravel pit on the east side near Interstates 465 and 70 and will need more volunteer involvement, Gough said. In addition to expanding field plantings, the farm plans to add hoop houses and greenhouses to expand fresh produce options year-round.

THOUGHT BITE By Andy Jacobs Jr. Tea Party politicians have so much virtue in their hearts that there is no room left for charity. Tea and no sympathy.

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New bike lanes, sharrows in place BY RO BE RT A N N IS EDI T O RS @N U V O . N E T

fter decades of little or no attention paid to cyclists, Indianapolis has made huge strides over the past three years to encourage two-wheeled transportation, with even brighter days seemingly on the horizon. Crews are attempting to finish a number of bike lane projects that will bring the number of miles of bike lanes in the city to 64, about double the number earlier this year. Earlier this month, Mayor Greg Ballard announced that up to $20 million of RebuildIndy funds would be earmarked to build an additional 75 miles of trails and bike lanes throughout the city by 2015. Connectivity is the key to the planned routes, said City Planner Jamison Hutchins. Two segments of the Fall Creek Trail on the east side finally will be connected, and the recently completed 71st Street Connector Trail will be extended in some form, eventually connecting with Lafayette Road bike lanes and the Monon Trail. South side residents also will see their first huge increase in trail mileage; Hutchins said the city’s focus in the following years will be to bring the south side mileage up to par with the north. Once completed, Indianapolis will have more than 200 miles of trails, greenways and bike lanes, allowing commuter and recreational cyclists to travel nearly anywhere in city almost entirely on the bike network. Add in the recent opening of the $1 million Indy Bike Hub in City Market and the Indianapolis Cultural Trail nearing completion, and it seems to be an ideal time to be a Marion County commuter. But some critics say the bulk of the city’s efforts are actually making bikers less safe. And while the infrastructure continues to grow, education and enforcement efforts continue to lag.

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Local attorney and blogger Paul Ogden argues the design of the bike lanes along New York Street leave cyclists open to getting hit by motorists backing up or opening their car doors. He also criticized the lack of upkeep of other lanes by the city. “These bike lanes are giving riders a false sense of security,” said Ogden, a frequent bicycle commuter. “They think they’re safe, but it’s only a strip of paint separating them from vehicle traffic. I wouldn’t want my son or daughter riding them.” But Hutchins said Ogden is missing the point; most cyclists realize that just because they’re in a bike lane, they’re not magically protected from traffic. Pike Township resident Matt Stone typically rides up to 100 miles a week, both for fun and to get to the Ivy Tech campus. He expressed similar concerns to Ogden, but acknowledged his preference for additional greenways or segregated bike lanes might not be financially practical. Workers are completing a half-mile separated cycle track in Fountain Square, connecting the Pleasant Run Trail with the Cultural Trail, but the cost is much more expensive than a traditional bike lane, a luxury the cashstrapped city can’t often afford. To keep costs down, most bike lanes are created during road resurfacing projects, Hutchins said. No roads have been widened to create new bike lanes; whenever possible the city tries to use one-way streets with three to four lanes, taking a little bit from each lane to create the new bike lane. “In the end, there’s a little less room in each lane, but that also can be a benefit,” Hutchins said. “Narrower lanes mean people are going to be more aware and hopefully drive slower. We’ve had a lot of people living in these neighborhoods who love the bike lanes just because drivers aren’t speeding through anymore.” Hutchins acknowledges some of the earliest bike lanes aren’t perfect, but claims city engineers are learning from previous mistakes. The city is also doing a better job of cleaning the bike lanes and encouraged riders who notice debris to call the Mayor’s Action Center for help. City planners have tried to avoid controversies, declining to move forward with a Shelby Street bike lane project that would take away on-street parking for surrounding businesses. Instead, the city went with sharrows, painted bicycle symbols that alert drivers the road

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is frequently used by cyclists. But some drivers — especially those who haven’t come across similar road markings in the past — have expressed confusion about what they mean. That’s also evident on New York Street, where a green bicycle lane indicating a shift in traffic pattern caused a bit of uncertainty when

it was created in 2007. “There’s still a bit of confusion every now and then,” Hutchins acknowledged. “But typically traffic continues to roll smoothly. There’s just one or two lane shifts; it really doesn’t change the way people drive.” Although Ogden claims they’re dangerous, city officials aren’t aware

Fountain Square Cultural Trail progressing by (Indianapolis Library Foundation’s 2011 Emerging Author winner) Micah Ling

of any motorist-cyclist accidents involving the bike lanes. By contrast, elsewhere in the city, there were 160 vehicle-biker collisions between Jan. 1 and Oct. 1 of last year. League of American Bicyclists spokeswoman Meghan Cahill says the best thing cyclists can do to promote safer riding conditions is multiply.

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The green tint draws a path for bikes to follow, signaling greater caution to drivers wishing to turn right.

Bauer threatens “response” if GOP pushes right-to-work Walkout forecasts “premature” BY L E S L E Y W E ID E N B E N E R E DI T O RS @N U V O . N E T The Democrat leader in the Indiana House said Oct. 26 that his members “will reserve the right to respond appropriately” if Republicans move forward with plans to push right-to-work legislation in the General Assembly’s 2012 session. Rep. Pat Bauer of South Bend — who led Democrats on a five-week boycott of legislative action over the issue earlier this year — said it appears majority House and Senate Republicans are “hell-bent on bringing this ruinous policy to Indiana.” But it’s not clear whether Democrats have the leverage to stop the proposal, which would let Hoosier workers opt out of paying fees to unions they choose not to join, even if those groups represent them. On Oct. 26, Democrats tried repeatedly to amend a recommendation by the Interim Commission on Employment Issues that the General Assembly adopt a right-to-work law next year. They called the idea “radical” and said Republicans

were simply aiming to destroy unions in Indiana. “Marginalizing the opposition is not the way we operate in a democracy,” said Sen. Karen Tallian, D-Portage. “I can’t vote for anything whose real purpose is to silence dissent.” But Republicans, who have a 5-4 majority on the committee, overcame Democratic attempts to gut the recommendation and passed it on a party-line vote. They said the legislation will make Indiana more economically competitive and lower costs for Hoosier businesses. Twenty-two states have right-to-work legislation. “If you’’re not competitive, you’re going to die,” said the committee’s chairman, Sen. Phil Boots, R-Crawfordsville. “We have to stay competitive.” The committee’s recommendation now moves to the General Assembly, which will begin its 2012 session in January. That’s when Bauer’s comments could lead to Democratic action — but what type is unclear. Rep. Kreg Battles, D-Vincennes, said that “it’s way too premature” to know what steps Democrats might take. “At best we have a recommendation here. We don’t have a bill. We still have to see the language,” Battles said. “Clearly it goes against what I personally believe and what our caucus believes in. But to make threats at this point is too premature. We’ll wait and see what happens.” Republicans have a 60-40 majority in the Indiana House and a 37-13 majority in the Senate. The latter is a large enough margin to produce a quorum for business even if Democrats don’t show up. Last session, after House Democrats fled to Illinois to stop action on right-to-work, the GOP pushed through a new law that could lead to $1,000-per-day fines for lawmakers who try to deny the quorum neces-

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“The more cyclists you have on the road, the more awareness you’re going to have,” Cahill said. Neither Ogden nor Stone say the bike-lane investments have yielded more riders, but the League of American Bicyclists reported a 62 percent increase in commuter cyclists from 2008 to 2009. The city doesn’t yet have a solid grasp of exactly how many people are using the lanes, but hopes to conduct a rider count sometime next year. Seven students at Herron School of Design, working under the Median Design banner, hope to increase communication between cyclists and motorists. The group held an open brainstorming session Monday evening at IUPUI, and plan to hold others before the end of the year. “The city’s moved forward with initiatives to help grow the (cycling) infrastructure, but without the proper education, that won’t matter,” said Bella Olszewski, one of the students involved in the project. “… There’s always going to be accidents, but if both drivers and cyclists are more aware and know the other is out there and what their responsibilities are, both are going to be safer.”

Both Olszewski and Hutchins mentioned including more bikerelated information in driver’s education training, but what about adults? Hutchinson has been attending community meetings in areas where bike lanes are being installed, answering neighbors’ questions. The city also is working on a new public service announcement for the city’s website and the Department of Public Work’s YouTube channel. Officials are discussing mailing information with utility bills in the future. Hutchins hopes a renewed focus on enforcing traffic laws will help as well. “Drivers were driving partially in the bike lane or not giving 3 feet to the riders; cyclists were riding on the wrong side of the road or running stop signals or signs,” Hutchins said. “Cyclists have the right to be on the road, but they also share the same responsibilities as a car. No one’s immune to the law.” Over three weeks this summer, Indianapolis police held a special enforcement campaign, issuing warnings to both drivers and cyclists they noticed breaking the law. As the bike network continues to expand, city officials hope to do more of the campaigns.

David Johnson of Evansville, an organizer for the Sheet Metal Workers International Association, displayed an anti-right-to-work sign during a legislative committee hearing Oct. 26 at the Indiana Statehouse.

sary to conduct business. Rep. Jerry Torr, R-Carmel, said Democrats learned their boycott “was not a good political or financial move for them.” Still, the move did work. Republicans agreed to take right-to-work off the agenda for the 2011 session, in part because GOP Gov. Mitch Daniels had an aggressive education agenda he did not want to see derailed. That’s not the case this year, Torr said. “I don’t know that we have anything more important than this to do in the coming session,” he said. “So it’s a completely different dynamic.” Union leaders said they have no plans to back off their opposition. David Johnson, a union organizer for the Sheet Metal Workers International

Association, drove to the Statehouse from Evansville to protest at the Oct. 26 meeting. Johnson said he’s confident union members and other Hoosiers will “wake up and see what they’re trying to do here.” “Right to work will not benefit the state of Indiana,” Johnson said. “It is a union busting measure.” In a statement, Indiana AFL-CIO President Nancy Guyott called the proposal anti-worker legislation that “will force Indiana into a race to the bottom.” “We strongly oppose it,” she said, “and will continue to do everything we can to educate and mobilize Hoosiers to defeat it.” Lesley Weidenbener is editor at Franklin College’s Pulliam School of Journalism Indiana Statehouse Bureau.

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Food service at IUPUI goes union; no management resistance BY S T E V E N H IG G S E D I T O RS @ N U V O . N E T Food-service workers at IUPUI have organized the first union shop on any university campus in Indiana, according to officials from Unite Here Local 3 in Indianapolis. “The next step is for these workers to sit down with management and negotiate their first contract,” said Becky Smith, the union’s community political organizer. The 72 represented workers are employed by Chartwells, a division of the Charlotte, N.C.-based Compass Group North America. Chartwells provides food services to school districts, university campuses and private schools across the nation. Unite Here represents workers in the United States and Canada in the hotel, gaming, food-service, manufacturing, textile, distribution, laundry and airport industries. The Indianapolis local, which Smith called “fairly new,” also represents workers at the Indianapolis International Airport and has been organizing workers at downtown Indianapolis hotels. The union traces its roots to 1891 when the Hotel & Restaurant Employees International Union formed. It includes a diverse membership of workers from immigrant communities and high percentages of African-Americans, Latinos and Asian-Americans, according to its website. The majority are women. Smith said the IUPUI workers began their organizing effort last spring and in early September notified Chartwells management of their intent to unionize. The process involved a “card-check” system in which workers signed cards to indicate their support rather than taking a vote. Within two weeks, a majority of the workers had signed cards indicating their support for union representation, she said. While the company could have resisted, it didn’t. “They are a fairly good company to work with and for allowing union recognition,” Smith said. The National Labor Relations Board officially recognized the IUPUI bargaining unit on Sept. 29, she said. Chartwells employee James Meyers was one of the campaign organizers. He said worker empowerment was among the driving forces behind the effort. “What got me interested was to be able to have a voice on my job,” he said, “to make things better for me and my co-workers.” Specifically, he cited pay, benefits and working conditions. “We wanted to have a voice in what goes on and how things are done,” he said. Most of the employees work at the IUPUI Campus Center prepping and cooking food, he said. “There’s like three different sites on the campus, but the main building is the Campus Center.” Smith said the workers’ campaign drew support from across the campus. In fact, students and professors accompanied the workers when they presented the company with the cards. “I think that was a huge help,” she said. “It was a real community effort there at IUPUI.” Meyers said the workers are pleased the process went so smoothly and hope the first contract negotiations progress similarly. “We have no idea,” he said when asked how long they might take, ““but hopefully we will come to an agreement soon.” Steven Higgs is a freelance writer and editor of The Bloomington Alternative.

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In its headier days, Occupy Indy attracted about 1,000 people to demonstrate their displeasure with the management of the natio n’s wealth by the highest net-worth individuals. Today, the protest work is done by a hardcore few. But, despite serving jail time, they are still th ere.

Occupy waning

But protestors who remain are committed BY BRO CK BEN EF IEL EDITO RS@ N UVO . N ET What remains of the Occupy Indy protest just 22 days after about 1,000 protestors gathered at Veterans Memorial Plaza is dramatically smaller. As late as two weeks ago, hundreds marched around Monument Circle shouting, “Banks got bailed out. We got sold out.” Now, the group occupying the space it has named “Liberty Lawn” will spread its purpose by shaking the hands of a few people who pass by and handing out fliers on the streets. “If we keep this up and stay united like we have been, I know we can win this and we will,” said Tasha Ernstes, who has been at Occupy Indy for three weeks. Like many members of the protest, Ernstes said she still feels passionate about opposing the economic inequalities and influence of corporations in politics — two of the key threads running through an organization inclusive of ideas that don’t always fit a smooth narrative. “We don’t have one goal,” said Debra Moore, who has made multiple trips from her home in Akron, Ind., to the protest. “We don’t have one leader. We have all of the issues that are wrong with America today, but we don’t have just one person to stand in front of us and say it.”

If one person has stood out it’s James Kerner. He became the first arrested in the protest Thursday on charges of trespassing after an umbrella he was holding was deemed a hazard to a fire exit on the south side of the statehouse. Ernstes said Kerner returned to the protest Saturday night for the first time since his arrest. For several members of the fledgling group, the arrest offered an opportunity to ignite interest in what some see as growing apathy toward the cause. “This is going to help us build our numbers,” Brandon Jones said Thursday. “People are starting to believe this is just a joke.” On Sunday, however, it was apparent little had changed. The same umbrella Kerner held provided shade for the group on a sunny day and numbers were still low. But each addition to the protest offers inspiration. “We have a lot of the same faces,” Ernstes said. “But we have some new faces every day. Some just pass through. Some end up staying. It’s very enlightening and very encouraging to see new people who don’t really know about the occupation and when they find out about it and they find out what we are doing and our cause they sit down and actually help support us.” As the 24-hour, seven-day-a-week protest goes on, Ernstes said other commitments keep more protestors from gathering near the statehouse. Still, she said many join the occupation via the group’s live stream — a sporadic online broadcast of events happening on “Liberty Lawn.”

Staying put

For Occupy Indy, the statehouse poses both problems and opportunity. Jones said the inability to put up tents or other shelter hampers the ability to maintain the group’s presence. But Ernstes said it’s important to stay put.

“Being on the statehouse lawn makes a major point,” she said. “It makes a much bigger point than if we were sitting in a park occupying. We are on statehouse and (the government) can’t touch us.” To go to the bathroom, Ernstes said she travels to the Circle Centre Mall. Other group members said they are often invited to nearby homes to take showers. Jones serves as the group’s chef, cooking anything from soup to Ramen noodles on a hotplate powered by a generator. Cool temperatures and strong October winds are a constant reminder of the threat weather will pose as winter arrives. Among the six members in attendance on Sunday, there were mixed feelings about where Occupy Indy should be when the snow arrives. “If needed, we can move,” Ernstes said. “But we have to (discuss) what the group wants to do. This isn’t just about one person.” “If we do shut down for the winter,” said Stefan Ludlow, a junior at Butler University. “We will be back in the spring in full force.” The group is most easily identified at its daily general assembly, a 7 p.m. meeting that has been a venue for making decisions and discussing the group’s progress since its inception. Ernstes said the gathering still attracts those with less time to spend near the statehouse and a slow stream of donations to keep the movement alive. Ernstes said her belief in a bright future for Occupy Indy is the strongest reason she remains. “We are only four weeks strong,” she said. “But we are getting stronger every second. Every single person that sits down and supports us, that’s one more person to help prove our point — to help support us.”

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Kate Wagner, center, is flanked by her Outside the Box clients: Herman Adams, Katie McKee, (Wagner), Ben Jared and Destyne Purvis.

s the group of eight developmentally-disabled young men from Outside the Box (OTB) file into the Rock Steady Boxing gym, Studio OTB Development Coordinator Kate Wagner is waiting there to greet them. The men have come to check out this one-of-a-kind nonprofit gym that combats Parkinson’s Disease with boxing gloves. These eight young men have their own unique challenges and they know a good organization when they see it. Knowing that the trainers of Rock Steady Boxing help people with Parkinson’s maximize their physical potential through a regimen of non-contact boxing exercises, they’ve come here for the first time with two OTB group facilitators to learn firsthand about this organization — and to get a workout. This particular group of men is called the “Rainmakers.” They’ve been creating art that, when sold at the Athenaeum ArtSpace during their Nov. 4 First Friday show “A Cause for Elegance” will benefit twenty local nonprofit causes including Rock Steady Boxing. OTB’s Kate Wagner, who graduated from the University of Indianapolis in 2005 with a degree in Art Therapy, is responsible for making visits like this happen. “A lot of people think that people with disabilities are people you have to give to,” says Wagner. “But they have so much more to give. That’s what’s so cool about the art is that it can open so many different doors. They win, our artists win. It’s win, win, win, across the board… The art program allows for volunteer opportunities to happen. And really all the relationships that we’ve established are still going today. Once people meet OTB they usually fall in love.” After the Rainmakers get settled in, everyone including Wagner and OTB Executive Director Megan Greek sits down in a circle on the mats for stretches led by Rock Steady’s Program

Director Kristina Rose Follmar, a redhead with her hair tied back in a blue bandana. “Welcome to Rock Steady Boxing,” says Follmar. “This is a fitness program that we developed for people who have Parkinson’s Disease. You see those guys on TV, they’re usually battling against each other but that’s not what we do in here. We don’t hit each other. What you don’t realize is that those athletes that are on TV battling it out, have to do exercises to get in shape for that stuff. So what we do in our gym is all the things those athletes do to get in shape for their sport.” After warm-up exercises and a session with jumping rope, the eight men put on boxing gloves and get the chance to punch punching bags. There’s a wide spectrum of ability in the Rainmakers. Some of the men need some extra attention from OTB staff and Rock Steady Boxing trainers just to keep their balance, and some of the men are able to act independently. But everybody really seems to be enjoying this excursion, particularly a talkative young man named Edward who — Kate Wagner seems to be having the time of his life. Another young man, Ben Jared, quickly makes an impression on the Rock Steady Boxing staff with his skill with the jump rope exercises. This twenty-four-year-old is a calming presence when interacting with the some of the more excitable Rainmakers — like Edward — especially when the group moves into the boxing ring, not to box but to sit down and do more exercises.

“Once people meet OTB they usually fall in love.”

Studio Outside the Box Outside the Box, based at 3940 E. 56th Street, offers life skills and career training like other day programs for the developmentally disabled in the Indy area. And, just like in these other programs, a large percentage of its 130 par-

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ticipants use Medicaid waivers to fund the services they receive. But OTB stands out for its low participant to staff ratios (6:1) — and for its numerous one-on-one activities engaging one staff person per participant — as well as for the innovative nature of its programs. (OTB is the 2011 recipient of a $100,000 grant from Impact 100 while Rock Steady Boxing won this grant in 2010: see box.) Studio Outside the Box is the locus of much of this innovation. In this studio, the Rainmakers and a host of other peer-matched groups make their art. Lauren Church is the Studio Art Coordinator. “We started Studio OTB because it provides an opportunity for people for whom maybe it’s not so easy to express how you’re feeling inside,” says Church, who graduated with a B.A. in Fine Arts from Purdue in 2007. “It just grew and grew and now we have three community classes in the evenings and provide art classes for everybody who comes through OTB which is awesome. And then we have artists in a bunch of different shows and just trying to get our artwork out there so that they’re respected not

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Arts and crafts by Outside the Box clients.

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Rock Steady Boxing Rock Steady Boxing was cofounded in 2006 by former Marion County District Attorney Scott Newman who, at age 40, was diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson’s Disease. After Newman started oneon-one boxing training with his friend and former Golden Gloves boxer Vincent Perez, his symptoms started to improve dramatically. So they decided to help others with the disease. They opened a small boxing in a corporate employee gym and Rock Steady Boxing was born. Kristy Rose Follmar, who is a former world champion professional boxer, was hired early on and remains today the head trainer. Rock Steady Boxing won a $100,000 “Impact Grant” from Impact 100 in 2010 which allowed Rock Steady Boxing to move to their new facility in February. Rock Steady Boxing’s mission and message are the following: “If you are living with Parkinson’s, you are not alone. Our boxers may not win titles or trophies, but they are all champions in the Rock Steady Boxing ring.” 5026 E. 62nd Street; www.rocksteadybox-

only as individuals with disabilities but people who are true artists who create wonderful, beautiful things.” Kate Wagner, after querying the participants and ascertaining their choices about what nonprofit organizations they wish to benefit, then connects with the chosen organizations. The Rainmakers’ trip to Rock Steady Boxing is only one example of numerous excursions that Studio OTB participants take to the organizations they wish to benefit by selling their art. (At Studio OTB art shows, thirty percent of the profits of the sales of their art go to various nonprofits and seventy percent going back to Studio OTB for things like art supplies.) Another group Wagner helps coordinate, the Dreamers, is a collection of older women who’ve chosen the Little Red Door Cancer Agency as the one that they wish to support. “Little Red Door has a little community garden and they needed it watered and weeded weekly,” says Wagner. “So not only do the Dreamers who adopted Little Red Door get to volunteer, but Rainmakers can go volunteer there and other groups can volunteer. So you have your group and everyone else can benefit.”

at capacity. But OTB began in a much smaller facility. “It was myself and four students and a 200 square foot room,” says Greek, who graduated with a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Indianapolis in 2007. “And that was just three years ago. So we have just exploded in the last several years. I and the other co-founder have been in the field for over ten years. And I just really saw the need for something meaningful for people to do. People with disabilities have the same hopes and dreams that we all do. They want meaning in their day. They want a productive lifestyle, all of those things. And there just wasn’t a venue for them to do…. “So the idea was to come up with a continuing education program for adults with disabilities. So that’s what this has turned into. We have small groups, we have classrooms with students that work on a whole gamut of things. Most day programs have really large rooms with a lot of people in them. We’re definitely different.”

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Several days after Ben Jared visits Rock Steady Boxing with the Rainmakers, he’s back in Studio OTB preparing banners that will appear in the Athenaeum show, while another OTB participant, Katie McKee, is painting a wood cigar box brown. They’re seated at a well-used (and well-loved) table on which you can see thousands of many-colored paint marks made by hundreds of Studio OTB clients over the years. Through Studio OTB, the twentysomething McKee has had the chance to her skills at photography by going to various locations with her mentor, who just so happens to be Wagner. For seven and a half hours a week, Wagner mentors this Studio OTB participant on a one-to-one basis. “We go everywhere,” says Wagner. “She gets to plan her day. She

“Megan Greek is the brainchild behind OTB,” notes Wagner. “She wanted to find a place where her peers could find a place where they could go that wasn’t the normal day program. So we’re very person-centered. Lots of day programs try to do a one size fits all model but here our clients run the show. So we’re different from other providers because we pair people up instead of just sticking them in a room. They get to meet each other and get to see if it’s a good fit.” The current E. 56th Street, which OTB moved into in July 2011, sits on seven acres of property. There is plenty of room for expansion and OTB may have to expand soon, because it is already

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gets to choose where she wants to go or she’ll say I want to find something related to this and we’ll go there. She just loves taking pictures. She loves nature. She loves the city. We’ve been in the art district. Down by the river the different parks like Holliday Park. We’ve been up to the Carmel Arts District. We’ll go in and she doesn’t just have to do photography sometimes she’ll actually make some art. Sometimes she’ll want to go to a gallery and make some stuff meet some people. So it’s a little bit of everything.” Anything can serve as her subject; McKee’s cat, an urban street corner, the flowing waters of the White River bordered by the trees of Marrott Park. “My parents wanted me to do something where I wasn’t sitting at home a lot, bored,” says McKee. “They came across OTB and at first I wasn’t all gung ho about it. But then they talked about photography and I’ve liked to take pictures since I’ve been little and I’ve been doing it ever since. Taking pictures is a good outlet.” As for Ben Jared, working in Studio OTB has inspired him not only to create art, but to think about possible career paths. In the future, he can see himself working with the developmentally disabled. “Being here at OTB has helped me to open up more and to start to be a little more talkative again,” says Jared. And to be willing to try new things. Because before coming here I had closed myself up to everything... And they definitely help me out with that and to get back to doing some of the things that I like to do with art.” For more info on OTB; 317-253-6658 otbonline.org

CAUSE FOR ELEGANCE Friday, Nov. 4 (First Friday); 5:30-9 p.m. Athenaeum ArtSpace, 401 East Michigan St. Info: 317-655-2755, www.athenaeumfoundation.org Free admission

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Artist profile: Kate Wagner BY DA N G RO S S M A N E D I T O RS @N U V O . N E T To describe Kate Wagner as a mixedmedia action painter would, well, fall short on the particulars. “Art’s my form of exercise,” Wagner says. “If it’s not in arms’ reach then I won’t use it…. I hate paying bills so I’ve used IPL bills... I’ll shred it and get the joy of shredding it and repurpose it into a painting, so it goes from shitty to pretty.” You may have seen Wagner’s work in the Recycled & Reclaimed show that hung at the Jazz Kitchen in March 2011. Or you may have seen her the following month at Luxe 218, in the Murphy Art Center, where she had her first solo show. She also had a booth at the Oranje art and music expo for her fourth year running this past Sept. 17. Not only does Wagner paint, but she makes jewelry — and just about anything else that occurs to her — while staying up way after most everybody else in Indy has gone to bed. “I’m lucky to be asleep between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m.,” she says. “All my jewelry is made of junk mail and phonebook pages. Phone books are ideal for many ladies accessories — bracelets, headbands etcetera,” she says. But she also uses more conventional mediums, such as acrylic, on her canvases. And then she uses Mod Podge (a combination glue, seal and finish) for attaching paper to her canvases. The paper that she

uses is no ordinary paper. “I love the odd look of surprise when I tell people I’ve used toilet paper to create a dress of a person on the canvas.” But there’s more than clever decoupage going on in her work. A number of her paintings of female figures are completely engulfed by the patterns of color that flow from the background into the portraiture itself. And the colors do flow all around as if in a kaleidoscope that you’re turning while in a state of reverie. A state of reverie is where the female figure in profile in her painting “Infinite” seems to be, with her eyes closed, as blues and purples and white bubbles swirl all around her. Wagner’s paintings are pretty, sure. But when you see a red bird perched on a branch in front of a circular blue river sort of thing swirling in a florescent sky — as in a painting in her “April Series,” — you might reach for other adjectives to describe her work. “I make a nest, surrounded by materials and canvas,” says Wagner, about her art-making at home. You may wonder if the bird in her painting is a representation of Wagner herself. And it seems that she might have been on some sort of trip (a flight of the imagination, as it were) when composing these works. There is, after all, a certain hypnotic power that many of her paintings possess. And then, when you think of her frenetic nighttime activity, combined with her equally active day job as the Studio Development Coordinator at Outside the Box — where she works on art projects with developmentally-disabled adults —

you may wonder about her wellspring of creativity, her source of inspiration.

Growing up Wagner grew up running around in her grandmother’s retail shop. “It was this three storey old building and it just was a junk paradise,” she says. “And she was always making just random jewelry and painting on clothes and just doing her own Outside the Box style creativity.” Her grandmother would sometimes paint old leisure suits. “She would do all sorts of random things to them,” she says. “I just thought that was so wild. She always wanted to be a designer in New York. Still to this day she’ll share different ideas with me and I’ll see if I can make that happen.” Growing up in Valparaiso, Ind., Wagner also volunteered in an organization called Opportunity Enterprises. “It’s for people with disabilities and they had an art program there and I loved it,” she says. “I did my internship for art therapy there. I did art with kids with disabilities, pre-K and so that was kind of my foundation.”

Passing it on Nowadays, the 30-year-old Wagner is sharing ideas just like her grandmother did with her. (They still share ideas to this day, but Wagner has yet to paint a leisure suit.) At Outside the Box, she’s constantly sharing ideas with her co-workers and artists in Studio OTB that she’s come up with at home.

“I’ll make stuff at home because I’m always trying to figure out how to adapt stuff to make it so anyone could make it,” she says. “Art for anyone from anything... There’s stuff that I want that doesn’t exist in the stores so I started making it. I just can’t sit still. My hands are always trying to figure out something new. I taught my artists how to make junk mail jewelry and those kind of things so I share all my projects with them and I always pick their brains and say ‘come up with the craziest thing you can think of that you think would be fun and I’ll see if I can make this happen.’ So that’s kind of being an art engineer of sorts.” Wagner’s parents are inspired by her work — and her art — these days. (There doesn’t seem to be any fine line dividing the two.) “My mom and dad and my grandma came down from Valpo to the Jazz Kitchen show,” she says. “They’re getting more and more into art. My dad is now starting to paint and he does walking sticks and he’ll carve them… really ornate, fun, earthy walking sticks. He’s gotten into canvas and watercolor. It’s funny because she gets really inspired by the ideas that Lauren [Church] and I have in the studio or stuff that I’m doing… she’ll find different ways to do it with fabric. And it’s carried over to her friends and now her friends are in painting classes… It’s contagious. I love it.” For more info on Wagner’s art: http:// www.artifolio.com/artist/missionart/

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Dunno if you happened to catch NUVO’s sex issue this summer, but it was a breezy little number featuring pieces about the Ponderosa Sun Club’s annual nude pageant, the Kinsey’s annual juried art show — and, oh, that’s right, a photo of a nude homo sapien. That’s what got a few people upset, mostly to the tune of, “Well, I’m not personally offended, but what will the neighbors think?” Well, the neighbors are probably cool with it, too; and, certainly, plenty of artists who hold down studio space at The Stutz aren’t afraid of a little flesh. Twenty nine artists — half of whom have space at The Stutz — will present work in the art nude tradition in Unclothed: Exposing the Art Nude , an exhibition running through Nov. 25 at the Stutz Art Space gallery . Friday’s soft opening runs 5 to 9 p.m.; the, er, hard opening falls Nov. 11 from 5-9:30 p.m. and will feature a panel discussion at 7 p.m. concerning the place of the fine art nude in public venues. 212 W. 10th St., 503-6420, stutzartists.com

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Here’s the start of what’s sure to be a trend: Wug Laku, whose work was selected for a mural installation at the Arts Council of Indianapolis headquarters as part of the super-exciting 46 for XLVI mural program, will begin selling off smaller prints of his murals (as well as large-scale replications if you so fancy) this Friday at his Studio & Garage. We predict that, in the coming months, more artists will follow Wug’s lead, offering up prints, postcards, etc., of their murals; once all 46 are up (half have already been completed), there will doubtless be demand to take home one’s very own Vonnegut (who now graces a side of the Massala Building) or whale catching a prawn (Olive Street and Pleasant Run Trail). Just to reiterate: Wug’s murals have been installed at the Arts Council building, but this First Friday event is at Wug’s studio space. From 6-9 p.m. Friday; exhibition through November 26. 1125 Brookside Ave., Ste. C7; 270-8258; wlsandg.com

Oh sure, Koko the gorilla gets all the love. But the rest of the hominidae family may be just as equipped to understand language. So who will teach the humble bonobo, once known, in less politically correct days, as the pygmy chimpanzee? Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, that’s who. She’s the first and only scientist to conduct language research with bonobos, and Wednesday at Butler, she’ll give a talk on her work titled “Bonobos, Language and Culture” as part of the Woods Lecture series. Savage-Rumbagh was named to this year’s TIME 100 list of the most influential people in the world; explaining the choice, Frans de Waal noted that her work “has punched holes in the wall separating us” from other primates, putting “our remarkable gifts in a broader context.” Savage-Rumbaugh will speak at 7:30 p.m. in the Atherton Union’s Reilly Room . 4600 Sunset Ave., 800-368-6852, butler.edu

The Experience of Gold , have made their names in other sectors of the visual arts. Bussman, who goes by Rev. Bussman when she’s serving the Lord, has worked as a set designer and stylist for clients including John Mellencamp and Sugar Ray Leonard; Clark’s bona fides run deep as a record producer (Mellencamp, Rodney Carrington, Carrie Newcomer) with several Grammys. 6-9 p.m. for Friday’s opening of The Experience of Gold, which will be up until Nov. 26. 26 E. 14th St., 322-1322, indyindieartist.com

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A Water Bird Talk and Bon Appetit! @ Basile Opera Center The Indianapolis Opera’s season rolls on this week with two one-person, one-act operas: Bon Appetit!, based on a 1961 episode of Julia Child’s The French Chef devoted to chocolate cake, and A Water Bird Talk , in which an Audubon Society member’s lecture to a ladies club on water birds gradually comes to concern his own dysfunctional marriage. Bon Appetit! looks like a hoot; Child’s high-pitched, lofty voice had a rather operatic quality, after all, and in an Atlanta Opera production of the piece posted to YouTube, part of the fun is in

Julia Child sings about cake.

watching the mezzo-soprano actually run through all the steps in the recipe (cracking eggs, beating egg whites, etc.) while singing. Performances take place at the Basile Opera Center on November 4, 5, 11 and 12 at 8 p.m.; and November 6 and 13 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $34-60, with student and senior discounts available. 4011 N. Pennsylvania St., 283-2531, indyopera.org

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Heywood Banks @ Hyatt Regency Hey-wood ya like to help a non-profit devoted to providing aid to families in need? Forgive the awful pun, but, seriously, your attendance at Families First’s Stand Up for Families fundraiser, headlined this year by Bob & Tom fave Heywood Banks, would certainly help the 175-year-old (!) organization to continue to provide counseling, educational and treatment services to families in need. Banks, who, as his press photo suggests, has nicely aged from quirky nerd to lovably crazy old dude, is consistently clever, fun and family-friendly, from his catching enthusiasm for “Toast” to his absolute hatred for “Soup” (a song which includes an admirably weird Solzhenitsyn reference). The evening-long fundraiser is sold out, but $50 tickets for Banks’s comedy show at the Hyatt Regency remain; head to familiesfirstindiana.org for details. 1 S. Capitol Ave., 644-7230

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your bike to the event and lock it up at the onsite NUVO Pedal & Park Tent, where you also can indulge in fresh fare from such food trucks as Garden on the Go, Mabel on the Move, The NY Slice and Scout’s Treat Truck. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. All events are free with the exception of the yoga workshop, which is $20. 6701 Hoover Rd., 251-9467, www.jccindy.org

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Helping Hands Festival @ St. Richard’s It’s not only the right thing to do to buy “fair trade” goods that have been produced and marketed under humane conditions. It’s also a way to get way more interesting stuff — stuff that has a story attached to it; stuff that’s been made by man, not machine (or man-machine); stuff that’s better than that other crap. Global Gifts’ annual Helping Hands Festival is a showcase for all that good stuff, work by artisans representing Central America, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia. Burmese weaving experts will be on hand throughout the festival, which goes from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at St. Richard’s Episcopal Global Gifts School. 33 E. 33rd St., 917-1836, globalgiftsindy.com

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You don’t have to look far for superlatives concerning Richard Price, author of eight novels, including Clockers and Lush Life, and a writer for the HBO series The Wire. New York has called him a “king of American urban fiction” and, um, the “best writer of dialogue since Plato”; The Times’s Michiko Kakutani has echoed that “No one writes better dialogue than Richard Price.” Price rounds out this fall’s lineup of the Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series with a talk Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Atherton Union’s Reilly Room . 940-9822, 4600 Sunset Ave., butler.edu

Authored by mother and playwright Karen Brody, Birth offers a clear-eyed view of the current state of childbirth and maternity care in America. Recognizing the high number of well-educated, low-risk women who have bad delivery experiences, Brody conducted interviews with more than 100 mothers, quilting together their stories to create an honest and provocative portrayal of childbirth. Jenni White directs this Theatre on the Square production, which includes a moderated post-show discussion with the audience. Proceeds from the event go to BOLD, a global arts-based organization dedicated to making maternity care more mother-friendly. 6 p.m. Tickets: $15. 627 Massachusetts Ave., 782-2111, www.tots.org

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A&E FEATURE BURNETT: And also on the fact that he endured and he survived, and that’s a positive thing. I never looked at it as bleak, as such; there’s not that much humor or anything like that, but, when I was growing up, that people were able to survive was all you can ask for, basically. The other things — getting rich; accomplishing something — they’re good, but if you hold your family intact in some sort of moral environment, then that’s as positive as you’re going to get. NUVO: You’ve worked in venues that aren’t necessarily associated with independent film: for the Hallmark Channel, the Disney Channel, Oprah’s production company. What are the advantages and drawbacks of that, and what does that say about what an independent filmmaker needs to do to keep working?

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Charles Burnett:

Filming stories of social justice, from Watts to Namibia BY S CO T T S H O G E R S S H O G E R@N U V O . N E T Let’s start with a bold claim, or at least a prelude to one: “I think a strong case can be made that Charles Burnett is the most gifted and important black filmmaker this country has ever had,” film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum argued in a 1996 Chicago Reader review of Burnett’s Nightjohn. “But there’s a fair chance you’ve never heard of him...” The L.A.-based director’s work has had found a new audience in recent years: His first two feature films, Killer of Sheep (1977) and My Brother’s Wedding (1983), both unhurried, slice-of-life portrayals of working-class African-American communities, were re-released theatrically and to home video in the past decade. But there’s still a chance you’re hearing his name for the first time. Indy audiences will no longer have an excuse: Six of Burnett’s films will screen this weekend at the IU Cinema in Bloomington, including To Sleep with Anger (1990), a family drama invested with Southern black magic that features Danny Glover as a charismatic trickster, and The Glass Shield (1995), an ostensibly traditional cop drama that takes police corruption more seriously than any procedural. Killer of Sheep, Burnett’s UCLA thesis film about a benumbed slaughterhouse worker who sleepwalks between moments of everyday transcendence (a cup of coffee, his wife’s embrace, a Dinah Washington tune), will screen Thursday at The Toby, as part of

a collaboration between the IMA, the IU Cinema and the IU Black Film Center/ Archive. Burnett will attend Thursday’s IMA screening after lecturing earlier in the day in Bloomington. Burnett, 57, is presently developing several projects, though because either the script and financing or both aren’t yet in place for any them, he jokes that “none of them are really real.” Still in gestation are 145th Street, based on a young adult short story collection set in Spanish Harlem; Faith in Credit, which concerns microfinancing in a small town; a dramatic feature film about Paul Robeson; and documentaries about Obama’s mother, hospital desegregation in the ‘60s and a man who ran around the world. NUVO: What attracts you to projects? Is there a through-line we can draw between all the stuff you’re working on? CHARLES BURNETT: Strangely enough, they’re all about something or someone who effects change in society; who contributes something or does important work; who helps communities or the world. NUVO: Is it at all fair to contrast your current work with your earlier work, to say that those early films were less about those who changed the world? BURNETT: Well, the earliest ones were more about private individuals to a certain extent, where only a little community knows about them. I think the people that we’re doing stories about are larger in life as individuals than the people in the earlier films. It’s hard to explain: I think they’re different, but not really, because I think the idea of my filmmaking is to encourage people to see things in a different way, in a more positive way, and be activists in a certain sense. I think it’s all the same, more or less. Even in these other films, like the one on Paul Robeson, it still focuses on his humanity. NUVO: So even in a somewhat bleak film like Killer of Sheep, there’s this emphasis on the common humanity of characters.

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BURNETT: It’s hard for me because I’m not really successful at it. It’s really a struggle for a lot of independent filmmakers in a lot of ways. I wish I could get back to being able to doing my own films, with money that has no strings attached to it. Disney was very good in many ways because they were surprisingly interested in doing a film that depicted the horrors of slavery [Nightjohn]. But it was still their film in a lot of ways, because of a certain style they have, a certain audience. You have to live within those circumstances, but if there’s something you don’t like, you don’t do it. But there’s a lot of things that are OK; you say, ‘I can do something with this.’ You can’t do everything, but you can do enough to be happy, maybe help someone to see something differently.

just, sort of, less aggressive. When we were at UCLA, it was so competitive. NUVO: They don’t seem as hungry? BURNETT: Yeah, they’re less cutthroat. And these guys really need to challenge themselves; every moment, make the best of it. Maybe it’s just my expectations. It was a different makeup than at CalArts. There was a mass of black students at the time — not a mass, but comparatively speaking, but there were, like, 20 black students in the film department, and they all had a mandate, because they were in Film and Social Change, to make films that said something about society. That’s not the case here; they’re into every different thing. NUVO: I’d like to talk about When It Rains [a 15-minute short about a griot/jazz musician who tries to raise money to pay a friend’s rent bill]?. BURNETT: It was a response to having done a film, a Hollywood film like The Glass Shield, where, comparatively speaking, you have this sort of rigor. After that I just wanted to do my own thing. This was an opportunity; I just wrote this little thing up, got together some friends, and we just spent the day making this thing work...It was like the blues in a way, where you get an idea and play with it, where you have your own personal style and add to it.

Still, I was just at a screening of Nightjohn at CalArts the other day, and some students came up and said, “I saw this in grade school,” and it changed their life. One young lady came up and said, ‘This really changed my whole attitude about race relationships,’ because she had come from a very conservative family. NUVO: Do you feel heartened by the development of different avenues for independent filmmakers of getting their work out there — say via the Internet? BURNETT: I think it’s very positive. What it does is it allows beginning filmmakers to get their work out there. But, I think, for older filmmakers who have been around and have used film actors, you feel that, at a certain point, you’re exploiting them without paying them. NUVO: Can you tell about the class you’re teaching at CalArts? BURNETT: Well, I’ve been over at CalArts for a year. First of all, I always say I’m not a teacher, I don’t have any particular syllabus or structure to this thing. It’s kind of an awkward feeling, in a way. You don’t know what to expect from students — and you expect a lot more, in a certain sense, from students. You realize that they’re going to soon be leaving, to be competitive in the market, and they’d better get their act together. And they’re

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KILLER OF SHEEP WITH CHARLES BURNETT Toby Theatre at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, 4000 Michigan Road Thursday, Nov. 3, 7 p.m., $5 public, free for members and students. CHARLES BURNETT RETROSPECTIVE featuring a guest lecture by Burnett and screenings of Killer of Sheep, My Brother’s Wedding, To Sleep with Anger, The Glass Shield, Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation and a shorts program IU Cinema, 1213 E. 7th St., Bloomington November 3-6, all events free but ticketed, cinema.indiana.edu

A&E FEATURE Spirit & Place celebrates The Body:

Tattoo artist Lyle Tuttle headlines this weekend’s events BY M A T T M CC L U R E E DI T O RS @N U V O . N E T A 10-day extravaganza of civic engagement and creative collaboration, the Spirit & Place Festival enters its 16th year with a robust and diverse lineup of events revolving around a shared theme: The Body. From childbirth to tattoos, fashion to dance, nude art to nutrition, this year’s festival explores the human body from every conceivable angle through performances, exhibits, workshops and panel discussions. More than 50 events are scheduled for Spirit & Place’s Nov. 4-13 run. “The arts community has created several inventive expressions for The Body, from original works to stunning visiting artists,” said Pam Hinkle, the festival’s director. Spirit & Place’s theme holds great relevance to Hinkle on an individual level. “My body is at the center of my life in many ways,” she said. “My spiritual practice includes extended periods of fasting and prayer. In my work as an improvisational musician, my body is often my primary instrument. And as a fierce, fiftysomething woman, I am leaning — and learning — through menopause. A festival that celebrates the body is a wonderful opportunity to think more deeply about my own experiences and to explore the many dimensions of the body in our cultures and communities.” Among the most anticipated Spirit & Place events are filmmaker John Waters’ Nov. 12 appearance at the Walker Theatre and the festival’s culminating public conversation on Nov. 13 at Congregation BethEl Zedeck, a gathering that features basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The Red Tent author Anita Diamant, and the inspiration behind TV’s Six Feet Under, poet and recently retired undertaker Thomas Lynch. And one of the more intriguing events on the festival’s calendar is Think Farm at Big Car’s Service Center location near Lafayette Square. Big Car, invited locals to submit a 400-word idea for improving Indianapolis. Each submission needed to include three images illustrating the idea. A panel of community leaders will select the six strongest ideas, and on Nov. 11 winners will present their ideas Pecha Kucha style — that is, with 20 slides shown on screen for 20 seconds each. “We hope Think Farm can continue as a semi-regular event that keeps ideas flowing and keeps people talking about great ideas,” said Jim Walker, Big Car’s executive director. “We also hope to bring

people together through events like these so we get to know each other, connect and collaborate on even more ideas and on making those really great ideas become a reality. It’s all about growing — like you do on a farm. We really want to see our community grow and develop into an even better place to live.”

Lyle Tuttle’s skin art This weekend is highlighted by a Q&A with Lyle Tuttle, who’s credited with moving tattooing closer to the cultural mainstream during the ‘60s and ‘70s. Tuttle lives today in his childhood home in Ukiah, a scenic and peaceful burg in Northern California’s Mendocino County. Between the bookends of his Ukiah years, He spent a whirlwind four decades as a tattoo artist in San Francisco, beginning his career in anonymity but ultimately soaring to celebrity status. He inked the likes of Cher and Janis Joplin, and his tattooed body and storytelling talent gained him favor with the media, highlighted by a guest appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Tuttle will appear at the IMA to converse with local tattoo artist Dave Sloan Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. Tuttle took some time to chat with NUVO about his remarkable life and career. NUVO: You grew up in Ukiah, a quiet, seemingly idyllic Northern California town along Highway 101. How did you end up in San Francisco? TUTTLE: I went down to the big city because they had after-hours clubs and a little faster-paced ladies than they have up here in the Redwoods. I knew there was some chicanery going on down there. I was about eight years old in 1939 when the World’s Fair was happening over on Treasure Island. And my folks took me down there. Well, I looked across the bay and saw all those bright lights and tall buildings and, whoopee, I couldn’t wait to get down there. NUVO: What drew you back to Ukiah and your childhood home? TUTTLE: My parents continued living here. And I’m an only child. You have a lot more responsibility to your parents when you don’t have siblings. And I liked my parents. So I’d always come up here. Bring my kids up to see their grandparents. My mother just passed away quickly, and my father a year and a half later. And I was up here all the time helping my dad, giving him moral support. He was really lonely once my mother was gone. NUVO: Is there anything you miss about San Francisco? TUTTLE: No. You know, you couldn’t have tied me to a Redwood tree up here and kept me here when I was young and full of piss and vinegar. These servicemen come back with those tattoos. They’d been out of Ukiah. They’d at least been to San Francisco. And I was the same way. I couldn’t wait to get out of here. I was enamored with all big cities. Now I try to drive around them. You drive around the block 20 times just looking for a parking space. It’s inhospitable.

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NUVO: But the city was very good to you. TUTTLE: San Francisco has changed from the one I remember. In 1960 I opened a shop that I stayed in for 29 years. It was next to the Greyhound bus station. You know, bus stations aren’t the greatest area of a city. But a tattoo shop, a lot of people get tattoos on a hunch. It’s not a long, planned-out thing. And if you’re in a high-traffic area, you’re going to have good business. When I first moved in, I used to say I was next to the bus station on my business cards. After 25 years or so, and I was getting all this thunder from the press and everything, with women’s liberation and tattooing so many women, I’d joke that the Greyhound bus station now has on its business card that it’s next to Lyle Tuttle Tattooing. NUVO: You tattooed Janis Joplin at the height of her popularity, not long before her death.

TUTTLE: I saw her the night before on television. Haight-Ashbury was going on. That whole explosion, it was in full swing at that time. And she just returned from South America. First thing, she came roaring through the door, and she had two big Samoyed dogs. And they were in the lead. I wound up chewing out this hippie chick for bringing her dogs in. I said to her, “Would you bring your dogs to the dentist?” But then I put two and two together and figured out who it was, and I went about my business. She gave me my opinion of Capricorn women. NUVO: Which is what? TUTTLE: Capricorn women are the ballbusters of the universe. But they don’t take tattoos well. She went downstairs to a bar to have a drink between the two tattoos, which were a bracelet on her wrist and a heart on her breast. She tossed a

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couple back and freaked out the clientele. They talked about her visit to that bar for months. But she was a good gal. She probably did more for tattooing than anyone. NUVO: When word got out that you were Joplin’s tattooist, did you see a surge in business? TUTTLE: Oh, it was like sticking a skyrocket up my butt. She got acquainted with me through the media. I was the media darling for so long, the writers would come up to interview me and they could not believe how many women I was tattooing. The women all wanted a rosebud or a little butterfly, and the majority wanted them inside the bikini line because it was still an avant-garde no-no. Women had been suppressed in the tattoo department for so long. Told “No, no, no, it’s for drunken sailors and fallen women.” It was a revolt in a way. To be honest, I think tattoos are better suited for women than men. NUVO: And, as you’ve said, the women’s liberation movement was a boon for you and the tattoo industry. TUTTLE: All of a sudden, bingo, you have all these women working down in the Financial District. And here I’m in the Wall Street Journal — that’s golden. They published an article putting me and tattooing in a good light. Tiffany, the jeweler, got so disturbed with that, they put out a counter-ad the next day taking exception to the Wall Street Journal having an article saying that tattoos are all right. They said they’d didn’t feel that it was and that they always stood for good taste. I mean, damn, it was a heck of a period there at that time. NUVO: You were photographed by Annie Leibovitz for Rolling Stone’s 1972 Christmas card. Tell me about the photo shoot. TUTTLE: Those lights are taped on me. And there was an intersection of lights down by my testicles, where the electric cords went in two different directions. Boy, I got lightheaded, I think, because of a magnetic aura or something. I was on backdrop paper. They had a light shining to give me a halo effect. So they snapped the picture and gave me the money and away I went. NUVO: Were you pleased with the photo? TUTTLE: Oh, yeah. It couldn’t have turned out better. That was a great shot. And that’s your immortality, those photographs and stuff. NUVO: One of your claims to fame is that you’ve been tattooed on six of the seven continents. What’s your most memorable experience as the recipient of a tattoo? TUTTLE: Each one of them is a punctuation in your life. In 1972 I went to Samoa and got tattooed. They tattoo manually down there, like they have for many years. And the reason I went to Samoa was, in America, you get a certain amount of admonishment for being a tattoo artist. And here there were these Samoan people coming into my tattoo shop, and they were men, women and children who revered tattoos. I thought, damn, this is utopia for tattoos, I got to go down there. So I read up on it. And tattooing is part of their culture. If you’re a young man growing up in Samoa, you’ve got to have that traditional

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Tuttle worked in the same San Francisco shop for 29 years.

tattoo or you can’t even enter the chief’s chambers. That’s where that adoration and respect comes from. So I went down there and got tattooed, and they made me a chief — which is not like what you get at a tourist tepee camp in Arizona. They took me up in front of Parliament and read it. That was a great honor. NUVO: You stopped tattooing 15 or so years ago. What do you miss about life as a tattoo artist? TUTTLE: Nothing. I’m busier now than I’ve ever been ... Tattooing, you’re sitting there, living in a world that you’re creating, meaning you’re drawing a picture. You know, people who live on small islands can get Asiatic fever, they call it. That’s a thousand-yard stare of a hundred-foot island. So, you know, I don’t really miss tattooing — I mean, as a professional tattoo artist putting pictures down. NUVO: Not even as a creative outlet? TUTTLE: As tattooing became more and more popular, a better grade of artist was brought into the profession than would have ever thought about being a tattoo artist before the popularity it has today. It’s just steamrolling now. The closest tattoo shop when I was a kid was in San Francisco. There are four tattoo shops in Ukiah now. Today I would be the guy who would look at the tattoo on your arm and say, “What are you doing with that?” I was never for popular causes. It wouldn’t appeal to me today, I don’t think.

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JERICHO PHOENIX THEATRE; THROUGH NOVEMBER 27 q At first glance, the expansive set in the Phoenix’s Basile Theater would seem ambitious and overreaching, the skeletal remains of the twin towers rubble an unnecessary provocation. However, scenic designer Bernie Killian makes the most of the set, adjusting sight lines as the play progresses and transforming the wreckage before our eyes. The characters in the play, all survivors of 9/11 in one way or another, wander through each scene trapped in the emotional and psychological rubble of the towers. Yet, things are not what they seem; this is not just another play about September 11. Playwright Jack Canfora tackles issues of politics, grief, religion and forgiveness through the lens of a chance interaction between a man who made it out of the towers and woman whose husband did not. Ten years later, the thought of the tragedy stirs up a range of emotions, and Canfora’s writing and the Phoenix’s actors touch on them all, validating our individual experiences of that day. The ensemble swells together to give a hair-raising collective performance. Director Bryan Fonseca bravely stages this two hour play without an intermission. Yet, the story was crafted so tightly, I was too engrossed to notice the lack of a halftime until the actors were bowing. Presented as part of a rolling world premiere (this is the first Midwest production), do not miss Jericho. Through Nov. 27. 635-7529. Phoenixtheatre.org. — KATELYN COYNE

CUARTETO CASALS ENSEMBLE MUSIC SERIES; INDIANA HISTORY CENTER; OCT. 26. t The Barcelona based Cuarteto Casals — or the Casals Quartet — did nothing to bring a Spanish idiom to its Ensemble Music series’ scheduled program on Wednesday. The stringed foursome did offer as an encore an excerpt from Manuel de Falla’s well known The Three Cornered Hat, however. What the players had scheduled was a quick survey of three centuries of quartet music from Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805), through Franz Schubert (1797-1828) to Dimitri Shostakovich (19061975) — though not in that order. Boccherini’s String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 32 No. 5, came first. Because it was written in 1780, we heard an ingratiating mixture of rococo and galant styles fused into an agreeable four movements, with a most unusual fourth-movement first-violin solo cadenza, played by Vera Martínez with expressive gusto. Next came the Shostakovich Quartet No. 9 in E-flat, Op. 117 (1964), quintessential Shostakovich with its biting sarcasm filled with the composer’s signature “galloping” rhythms. Cast in five connected movements, it’s certainly as program worthy as his much more often programmed No. 8. Schubert also wrote 15 quartets — and this one, the Quartet No. 13 in A Minor, D. 804 (“Rosemunde”), which we haven’t heard in Indy in a while, takes its name, and a tune, from the composer’s Rosemunde incidental music. Though the Casals group played their program with zip, panache and good musicality throughout, first-violinist Martínez tended to dominate the ensemble, all but covering her violin partner, Cibrá Sierra Vásquez, who is subbing in this tour. Regardless of who held the principal

INDIANAPOLIS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA WITH HARPIST JANA BOUŠKOVÁ INDIANA HISTORY CENTER; OCT. 29. r The IHC’s Basile Theater was full and firmly packed for the ICO’s second in its Masterworks concert series, with many harpists from the IU Jacobs School of Music reportedly in attendance. They were present to hear Jana Boušková, one the world’s most celebrated artists on that “celestial” stringed instrument dating back to Biblical times. As usual, longtime ICO music director Kirk Trevor led his orchestra, highlighting the soloist in the first two offerings: Saint-Saëns’ Morceau de Concert for Harp and Orchestra, Op. 154 (1918) and Alberto Ginastera’s Concerto for Harp, Op. 25 (1956). Boušková’s large, shiny, gilt-covered instrument virtually dominated the stage, affording as much instrumental beauty as conveying its player’s mellifluously plucked tones. Saint-Saëns’ Morceau de Concert, coming from three years before his death in 1921 is not only low on inspiration, but it failed to highlight the harp, as the ensuing Ginastera did in spades. Being a modern work, the latter concerto afforded Boušková an opportunity to do much more than roll her arpeggios over her instrument’s compass and pluck a melodic line. For one thing, she used her hands to produce a drumming effect by pounding on the harp’s case. Trevor’s orchestra made prominent use of percussion, with pulsating rhythms and well-honed ensemble work. The Ginastera concerto — and Jana Boušková — produced a standing ovation. Trevor ended with Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony (in C Minor, Op. 67). Having rushed the repeat of the opening, four-note “fate” motif, our conductor also allowed occasional raggedness to intervene here and there, in an otherwise compelling performance. Trevor has done far better in other concerts with other concluding symphonies. For more review details visit www.nuvo.net. — TOM ALDRIDGE

ISO SYMPHONIC HITS PROGRAM NO. 6 HILBERT CIRCLE THEATRE; OCT. 28-29 e Though Friday’s Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra concert featured both the Schumann A Minor Piano Concerto and Tchaikovsky’s Fifth symphony, war-horse standards extraordinaire, the circle saw an unbelievably paltry turnout. Chinese conductor Xian Zhang served as the podium guest, and German Till Felner was the pianist for the Schumann. Zhang provided a podium powerhouse; she gave Schumann’s bland orchestration some flair not usually encountered in more typical readings. From Felner’s opening cascading chords, we heard the two give Schumann’s most inspired writing a unanimity of purpose, of conception, of execution. Though Felner’s pianism did not show any prominent tempo or dynamic nuance, his consistency with Zhang’s orchestra seemed to compensate to a fair degree. Zhang began her program with a five-minute trifle: the Overture to Vincenzo Bellini’s opera I Capuletti e i Montecchi (The Capulets and the Montagues, 1830). Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64, occupies the middle of the symphonic triptych which places the Russian composer in the top tier of Romantic symphonists. For No. 5, we have the lovely horn solo opening its second movement, beautifully played by ISO principal hornist Robert Danforth. Zhang took a measured

tempo throughout, as compared with many typical performances, but I would only have preferred a faster reading during the Finale’s bravura Allegro vivace section, which should be taken at a swift pace. Otherwise her account was wholly satisfying, if not quite memorable. For more review details visit www.nuvo.net. —TOM ALDRIDGE

DANCE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA INDIANA BALLET CONSERVATORY; TOBIAS THEATRE; OCT. 30 t The Indiana Ballet Conservatory offered a new spin on an old story in a remount of their Phantom of the Opera at the IMA’s Tobias Theatre. Featuring three principal dancers and an ensemble of talented ballerinas from the IBC school, the performances were strong but the production lacked cohesiveness. As Christine, Tuesday Mayhew was effortless, gliding across the stage with the grace of a cloud. Her partners Sergey Sergiev (The Phantom) and Ogulcan Borova (Raoul) complemented each other and gave focus to the trio. While I appreciated seeing a range of dance styles from choreographer Alyona Yakovleva, unfocused direction caused my eye to wander aimlessly across the stage instead of focusing on specific moments. In addition, unmotivated lighting design and distracting scenic choices detracted from the performers. Still, the young dancers in the “Corps de Ballet,” whose professionalism on stage was undeniable, demonstrated why this relatively new cultural and educational organization deserves support. — KATELYN COYNE

VISUAL ARTS EXPEDITION BOGOTÁ-INDIANAPOLIS INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (IMOCA); THROUGH NOV. 16. t Subtitled “An Examination of the Aesthetics of a place and its plants by Alberto Baraya & Danielle Riede,” this show is a collaboration between two artists who also happen to be collectors. Herron professor Riede and Columbian artist Baraya met at the Venice Biennial and realized that they had common interests; this show is a result of an ongoing collaboration. On the wall facing you when you walk into the gallery is their collection of more than 100 fake plants bought at places like Goodwill and Hobby Lobby. Each is tied with an identification tag. Baraya has collected fake plants in other parts of the world, and on this expedition to the Hoosier state, he likewise wanted to document his finds. You may wonder, disconcertingly, if it’s easier to collect fake foliage than real foliage in the Hoosier state. And aside from the serious issues that revolve around this show, such as the impact of European colonialism in the Americas, there’s humor to be found. Take, for example, the photos of various Brownsburg High School football players posed with a fake pumpkin. The videos that document the planting of fake flora in real forests are also humorous; watching them gives you a sense of thematic context. But if you find yourself still unable to wrap your brain around it, you might check back with Riede and Baraya next year and see where their collaboration leads. — DAN GROSSMAN

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INVOLVING THE SKY: HYBRID PAINTING, SCULPTURE, AND VIDEO WORKS BY CHARLES GICK INDIANAPOLIS ART CENTER; THROUGH NOVEMBER 27 e Charles Gick makes the upper atmosphere seem palpable through depictions of skies, his paintings, sculptures, and videos fitting like an installation in the Hurt and Clowes Galleries. Repetitive layering of materials such as encaustic, gauze, and plaster propose Gick’s determination to not just represent the sky, but to recreate its physicality. “Cloud Repair,” a poetic diptych, juxtaposes a conventionally painted puffy white cloud and blue sky next to a canvas of thickly textured blue and white wax with dense overlays of hard lined tape. Sky is deconstructed here — if not reconstructed. “Clamped Cloud” butts two different sky interpretations together – a more traditionally painted atmosphere paired with a flat, graphic panel showing a Pop-like approach – joining them with an antique metal clamp placed like a horizon line to interrupt the imagery. Gick perhaps pays homage to the cloud paintings of Fluxus artist Geoffrey Hendricks; both artists reflect on shifts, impermanence, and contrast between approaches or materials. Most evocative is the video “Persistence,” in which meditative footage of slow moving clouds flanked by profiles of two women shows a rhythmic exchange of blowing and breathing, suggesting one can move the clouds. — SUSAN WATT GRADE.

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MUSEUMS FROGS: A CHORUS OF COLORS THE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF INDIANAPOLIS; THROUGH JAN. 2, 2012 e Frogs, the Children’s Museum newest special exhibit, is touted as “the most advanced traveling frog exhibit in the country.” While the majority of us aren’t in a position to challenge this superlative claim, the exhibit is nevertheless an excellent way to introduce all ages and interest levels to the amphibian world. A sturdy balance is struck between play and education, allowing a family to get plenty of information without feeling bogged down by heady intellectualism. Fifteen species of frogs are set up in cunning habitats that resemble their native environments, complete with waterfalls, rocks and vegetation. Accompanying visuals include an Atari game set-up (remember Frogger?), a pond backdrop photo-op, interactive stations, frog dress-up and a virtual dissection. The hall is spacious, giving little ones plenty of room to hop about without antagonizing every adult in the room. Shades of blues and greens on the walls create a watery atmosphere. While a multitude of kids banging on buttons day after day can be hard on machinery, it’s still disappointing when coming across a broken station or a frozen video presentation. These details keep the exhibit — created by by Clyde Peeling’s Reptiland in Allenwood, Penn., a specialized AZA accredited zoo — just shy of a perfect score. Be sure to pick up a Family Guide at the door and check out the Swamp Studio for activities and talks on specific frog topics. — LISA GAUTHIER MITCHISON

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Prime location, veteran staff, sub-prime food (thus far) BY N E I L CH AR LE S N CH A RL E S @N U V O . N E T Although Carmel has evolved by leaps and bounds from the uninspired culinary landscape of just a few years ago it once again lacks a first-rate dining destination. Since the sale and subsequent closing of the Glass Chimney a couple of months ago, the overall balance of quality eateries has tilted once more to the chains, while the independents staunchly hold onto the middle ground of casual dining and, more recently, wine bars. When I heard that John Perazzo, a longtime fixture on Indy’s Italian dining scene, was opening a new establishment on Meridian Street, I was hopeful that his J. Razzo’s would be situated to partially redress the balance. Based on a couple of recent dinners, however, I think it’s going to be an uphill battle. 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. Behind the upscale strip-mall exte-

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rior, the designers have created a cool and relaxing atmosphere featuring lots of deep wood and earth tones. There’s not a checkered tablecloth in sight: tables are crisply set with white linens and elegant silverware; the serving dishes and stemware are similarly stylish. And, best of all, there’s no Sinatra on the soundtrack. Those familiar with the Carmel dining scene over the years will doubtless recognize several of the staff: There’s an abundance of seasoned professionals in the front of house from Fletchers, Panache and the aforementioned Glass Chimney. So it stands to reason that service is professional and calmly efficient. Dishes are well-timed and arrive hot and promptly. It’s what’s on the plates that can be a touch problematic, though. Over the course of two recent visits, dishes have ranged from somewhat better than good to less than mediocre. It’s easy to blame the inconsistency on the restaurant’s youth, but with the combined years of experience on display here, one would expect more stability in the kitchen. Amongst the more impressive dishes was a solid, if simple, take on Cioppino ($18), a traditional Italian fish stew. Made with salmon, shrimp and clams, it was properly cooked, the tomato sauce fresh and nicely spiced. Even though the ingredients might not have been strictly authentic, the dish still delivered. Equally good were the risotto balls, a light and savory appetizer for $8, and the Antipasto plate, a generous serving of imported meats, Tuxedo Park Brewers, Fountain Square; MONK Chili Bowl, starts 5 p.m.

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cheeses with roasted red peppers and artichoke hearts. For $14 this was almost a meal in itself. Less than impressive was a Veal Parmigiano ($18): the tomato sauce was pasty and processed-tasting. A dish of gnocchi ($15) was overcooked to a porridge-like consistency. A caprese salad used bland, cardboardlike roma tomatoes; this right in the middle of Indiana tomato season. With more attention to detail in the kitchen, especially to ingredients, I believe that J Razzo’s can improve with time and live up to the standards to which it so clearly aspires. Carmel’s independent restaurant scene desperately needs a new star.

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RAM night at Tomlinson Tap Room , Indianapolis City Market. Brewers Chris and Andrew are tapping four seasonals: All Hops go to Heaven, Amber Waves Farmhouse Ale, Pie’d Piper Pumpkin Ale and Chupacabra (a porter infused with Ancho chiles). Chupacabra will be a Tomlinson Tap Room exclusive.

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A solid if simple take on Cioppino, a traditional Italian fish stew, highlights J Rizzo’s menu.

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Indianapolis Mayor Gregory A. Ballard proclaimed October 28, 2011, “Sun King Brewing Day” at a ceremony at the Sun King Tasting Room. In taking top honors at the 2011 Great American Beer Festival, Sun King Brewing made a 30-year record in GABF’s history by being the first to win eight medals, four of which are gold and the others silver and bronze.

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Speaking with NUVO, Mayor Ballard said, “It’s special for a little company like Sun King to gain these honors. I think Sun King has become a cultural institution in downtown Indianapolis.” Alluding to the way Indianapolis brewers work together for the good of the product and the community, Mayor Ballard observed, “People grow more when they share their insights. I love the creativity in the brewing process. Brewers are not afraid to experiment and grow.”

The Beer is Good at Fiddler’s Hearth Craft Brew party. 11am-midnight. Hoosier Beer Geeks 5th Tailgate for Nothing Gravyfest at Sun King parking lot, starts 11a.m.

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MOVIES Tower Heist BY E D JO H N S O N - O TT E JO H N S O N O T T @ N U V O . N E T

t (PG-13) At the end of the sneak preview I attended for Tower Heist, the audience gave it a hearty round of applause. The caper film is a crowdpleaser. I enjoyed some of it, but wasn’t nearly as enthused as most of the crowd. Directed by Brett Ratner (the Rush Hour movies, X-Men: The Last Stand), the setting for the story is The Tower, the most expensive residential high rise in New York City. Dante Spinotti offers some impressive camera work, starting with the opening shot of Ben Franklin’s face on the bottom of a penthouse pool. His rich images of NYC and The Tower establish a beguiling tone. Alan Alda plays penthouse dweller Arthur Shaw, a Bernie Madoff type who gets popped for swindling a mind-boggling amount of money. Before that, though, we meet the other key players in The Tower. Ben Stiller is Josh Kovacs, the building’s general manager, a dedicated leader and a nice guy. Stiller plays the straight man for most the movie, giving his most likable performance in years. Front desk clerk Charlie (Casey Affleck) is

anxious over his wife’s pregnancy. He’s a lovable screw-up. New hire Enrique (Michael Pena) is naive, enthusiastic and amusing. Lester (Stephen McKinley Henderson) is the charming grandfatherly doorman, and Odessa (Gabourey Sidibe, very appealing) is a highly-confident maid from Jamaica. And then there’s bankrupt investor Fitzhugh (Matthew Broderick, agreeably sad sack), who is about to be evicted from The Tower. The set-up: After establishing The Tower as a vibrant, incredibly plush facility with a great staff, Arthur Shaw gets popped by the FBI — led by Special Agent Claire Denham (Tea Leoni, sporting an earthy accent and lots of style) — and everything turns upside down for the staff. A well-meaning Josh turned everyone’s retirement funds to Shaw for investing, and the money is all gone. Which brings us to the caper: It is believed that Shaw has a massive amount of cash hidden in case of emergency. Josh decides to steal the money to take care of the ripped-off staff, enlisting the help of every cast member I’ve mentioned except for Alda and Leoni. Finally, around 40 minutes into the film, Eddie Murphy enters the action as a neighborhood hothead known as Slide. We learn that Josh and Slide knew each other as children, a promising bit of information that is mined for only a few laughs. More important is the fact that Josh feels the heist team needs a real criminal to advise them and Slide is the only one he knows.

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Murphy pops and crackles in his role — it’s so nice seeing him play a fiery character again — then, when everything gets rolling really well, he just kind of disappears for a while. The handling of the character is one of the frustrating aspects of the screenplay, the product of several writers. The credibility issue is a factor. I realize you have to suspend disbelief for this kind of movie, but not for one second did I believe any of these characters could do any of the things we see them do. For Pete’s sake, because Odessa is the daughter of a locksmith, she is able to effortlessly crack one of the toughest safes in the world. The overall heist is equally bothersome. Again,

suspension of disbelief — I get that — but the scheme presented here would have been rejected as implausible by Wile E. Coyote. Hell, a key plot point involves lowering a large object down the side of the building’s penthouse while the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade takes place below — gosh, I hope nobody standing on the street looks up. If you’re in the mood for light entertainment (and tolerant of a plot that makes no sense), Tower Heist offers good camera work, an appealing cast, a number of funny moments (a shoplifting scene is a highlight) and a solid sense of urgency during the heist, courtesy in large part by Christophe Beck’s jittery score.

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KILLER OF SHEEP (NR)

Shot in haunting black-and-white, this coming-of-age story follows a young boy and his father, a slaughterhouse worker, struggling to make ends meet in Watts, Los Angeles. Selected for preservation by the National Film Registry, the film is widely considered one of the key works of American cinema. You can see the film and meet director Charles Burnett (interviewed on pg. 24) at the IMA’s Toby Theater this Thursday, Nov. 3, at 7 p.m. This screening is part of a retrospective of Burnett’s works presented by Indiana University Cinema, along with the IU Black Film Center/ Archive. Free for students, $5 for the public.

MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (R)

Psychological thriller starring Elizabeth Olsen as Martha, a young woman rapidly unraveling amidst her attempt to reclaim a normal life after fleeing from a cult and its charismatic leader (John Hawkes). Seeking help from her estranged older sister Lucy (Sarah Paulson) and brother-in-law, Martha is unable and unwilling to reveal the truth about her disappearance. Becoming paranoid that her former cult may be pursuing her, the line between Martha’s reality and delusion begins to blur. 101 minutes. At Landmark’s Keystone Art Cinema.

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A VERY HAROLD AND KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS (R)

Following years of growing apart, Harold Lee (John Cho) and Kumar Patel (Kal Penn) have new friends and are preparing their respective Yuletide celebrations. But when a mysterious package arrives at Kumar’s door on Christmas Eve, his attempt to redirect it to Harold’s house leads to a reluctant reunion of the two and a trip through New York City to find a perfect Christmas tree. Keep your eyes peeled for a return appearance from party monster Neil Patrick Harris as well. 89 minutes.

THE RUM DIARY y (R)

Unlike most literary heroes, Hunter S. Thompson’s rise is synonymous with his fall. In a drug-induced abyss, he was at the top of his game, producing such masterworks as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas . The Rum Diary follows an incarnation of the writer before he falls off the edge. Simply put, there is little fun to be had in watching this typically reckless character swagger on the safe side. His largest threat is a sleazy investor (Aaron Eckhart) aiming to build a garish hotel in Puerto Rico. As Thompson’s doppelganger, Johnny Depp exudes charisma, but the film is a minor, borderline bland piece of work. 120 minutes. — Sam Watermeier

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music Silence at the Vollrath

ALVEY: We have a heavy focus on local. All [the craft beer] we ever put on draft was Indiana craft beer. If it wasn’t brewed in Indiana, it wasn’t on draft. NUVO: I know you had a policy of only allowing original material to be played at the ‘Rath. Why did you make that decision?

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rian Alvey, owner of the Vollrath Tavern, shuttered the doors last week after four years of operation as a music venue. Rest assured, the spirit of the Vollrath is not gone for good; Alvey is regrouping and planning to open another venue in the extremely near future. Fans of the historic venue have expressed shock at the seemingly-abrupt closure of the tavern. For many months, Alvey had been in negotiations to move into another venue, bringing with him the musical performances he had booked for the Vollrath’s stage. However, in the final stages of negotiations, the second location fell through, after Vollrath had already been sold. This leaves Alvey temporarily stalled. He can continue to search for another location, but in the meantime must reschedule all of the booked shows that were supposed to happen at his original club. However, he believes that the loyalty he curated at the Vollrath will buoy him until he can figure out where he is going next. Alvey spoke candidly with NUVO about the venue’s closure, Indy’s music scene, and supporting his fellow venue proprietors. NUVO: How did the Vollrath fit in the community? ALVEY: If you want loyalty, you have to give loyalty. It is like love; it only exists in reciprocation. What we did at the Vollrath was commit to taking care of people. This is the place you are supposed to go and feel like we looked out for you. You have no idea how many religiously regular locals we had. We knew we have to make this a reciprocal relationship if we were going to make it. NUVO: How is Indy changing as a musical destination?

ALVEY: [ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, the performing rights organizations] have big money, so they will sue you if they catch you [playing covers]. They hide under the guile of protecting artists, but I have yet to meet one person who has made money off of royalties. Once LP sales went in the toilet, they had to make money somehow; now they are single handedly putting music venues out. Their first conversation with you is a threat. So I decided not to deal with any of them, and enforced an original music policy. NUVO: Describe your relationship with other venues in town. ALVEY: I always support other venues like The [Melody Inn], The Mousetrap, Radio Radio, etc. How can the music scene ask for more than [owners] putting their livelihood on the line to support music? There are a lot of con artists in the bar business and a lot of con artists in the music industry. Put them together, and I have met some of the most disgusting scumbags in this business. But, for every bad person, I have met twenty people that I hope I will call friends for the rest of my life. I am better just being around them for the last four years. A music scene is not made of one venue. We have these incredible venues, so we didn’t try and copy anybody. We tried to find what would make us fit so we could compete with them, not against them. NUVO: Describe the history of the Vollrath. ALVEY: This place was the most popular place in Indy in the ‘20s, ‘30s, ‘40s, ‘50s, and into the ‘60s, but when they put the interstate in and dug out Madison St, it cut off this neighborhood. Because it was cut off, it survived, it just deteriorated. I felt like a paleontologist that found a mastodon in perfect form in a bog. I just had to recreate it, and at the end it was a popular, packed, super positive type of place. We brought it full circle before we closed it. It has been in operation since it opened in 1926. NUVO: I have heard stories about ghosts at the Vollrath. Can you elaborate?

ALVEY: There are bands driving right through Indy to play shows in Chicago and Louisville; we are the 11th largest market in the United States and we are not even considered a third-tier music [destination]. However, we need to realize how to compete. We are the absolute best big small town in America. Indy is growing leaps and bounds to be on the same page [as these cities].

ALVEY: If it is haunted, then the ghosts aren’t mad at me. We have had so many paranormal people in here, and they say, “Yes, there is paranormal activity here, but it is all positive.” And I think, yeah, because this is where some people spent the best days of their lives. If Louis Vollrath [the original owner] is still here, he is happy that I cleaned it up.

NUVO: Tell me about the importance of supporting local industries to you.

NUVO: You describe yourself and your operation as anti-VIP.

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The historic Vollrath Tavern

ALVEY: You know, people downtown are spending two hundred dollars on bottle service to try and impress someone and hide that they are broke. More power to [downtown clubs] for being able to cash in on that. But we are anti-VIP. We had the number one [Miller] High Life sales in town, and were in the top five sales of PBR. We used to joke that VIP stands for “Vollrath Isn’t Pretentious.” NUVO: You described closing as “an agonizing choice.” What was your thought process? ALVEY: We didn’t close because we were hurting. Everyone I owe is being paid, everything I need to pay is being paid. I am not jilting anyone. I am closing the right way, and taking care of the guy who is going to inherit this space. I am not a bar owner, I am a business owner, and I am a business owner that happens to really dig live music. I thought about this for many months. It was hard, it was tough.

ues. They are not my competition, they are my friends. Support the music venues, because when you support the venues, you are supporting the artist. It is a wonderful circle. When in doubt pick a show and go see it. Then Indy can grow, as it has. We are on the map now.

OTHER REACTIONS TO THE CLOSING OF THE VOLLRATH

NUVO: In closing?

David Brown of The Melody Inn: I would agree that the venues who support underground, original musicians, such as Birdy’s, Radio Radio, Locals Only, formerly The Vollrath, and of course The Melody, etc, care about the scene as a whole, and consider these venues as friendly competitors. I don’t think any of these venues would purposely screw another, and I know first hand that if one reached out to another for assistance, it would be given without hesitation. Although we still don’t have quite enough fan support, especially considering the population of this city, we do have a decent music scene, with all of those venues playing a role to help it thrive. Although there are a lot of talented musicians in this town, many of whom appreciate the opportunities these venues provide, sadly, there are some who take us for granted. The Vollrath will be missed. I hope this is a wake up call for the musicians and fans to make it a point to support these cool venues. The next one down could be The Melody. You know the saying: you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.

ALVEY: It is amazing how wonderful things turn out if you go into things with good intentions. Things, like this place closing, happen for a reason. It is nobody’s fault. Being involved in this music scene has been an absolute wonderful experience in my life. Once you have been involved, it is addictive. We will be back. But for now, everybody needs to support the other ven-

David “Tufty” Clough of Radio Radio I think all music venues that try to support the arts are a great thing for the city. I have always wanted more music venues closer together so we can make an area that is all about music and art. Fountain Square is the closest thing as far as I can see.

NUVO: What’s the future of the Vollrath? The plans for your new venue? ALVEY: The liquor license was sold to a downtown catering firm and the actual building is going to be made into a catering facility (Editor’s note: the two catering operations are separate). I will incorporate the name (Vollrath) in some fashion [in the new place], but I don’t want to call it “The Vollrath” because the Vollrath Tavern name needs to stay here. I am making some change [from the sale] and opening another place to do the same thing: support local music, have cheap drinks and develop a base of regulars.

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CD REVIEW

SEVEN THINGS I LEARNED FROM MY FIRST GWAR SHOW B Y T AYL O R P ETERS MU SIC@ N UVO . N ET

1 LOTUS S/T SCI FIDELITY

The fact that so many artists these days necessitate hyphenated descriptions and mixed-genre definitions can be wearing, but it really is tough to classify Lotus. One thing is certain; their roots are re in jazz. “Bush Pilot” is all horns and riffs. It is beautifully followed by “Drown,” which throws you right back to your favorite DJ and your favorite club, to a time whenn clubs were still about discovering new tunes. Then, just as suddenly, the blues slip in, and punk, and entirely danceable beats. All of this makes the fact that this band formed at Goshen College in Indiana almost hard to believe. They seem big-city, like they are from a place where a convergence of culture lends itself to such a spectrum of sound (no offense, Goshen). But then, it’s also reassuring: people everywhere are making music that sounds like this—music that should have a mixture of influences. And this is certainly a mixing: the album was recorded in several locations over the span of several months. Lotus has been around since 1999, and, like most bands together over a decade, they’ve changed their sound a bit—added percussion, focused more or less on funk, etc. There are bits of Phish, Radiohead, Daft Punk and Broken Social Scene here, but with several moments of absolute clarity of genre; as in, some songs that seem so linked to one genre or another are followed by absolute total reversal. But these switches fit. This album seems to have more organic roots than some of the more electronic-heavy stuff. It’s easy to listen to—easy to drive to and dance to; it’s practically trance-inducing. Some bands don’t manage to maintain their varied definitions, but it works here—both the mixing of sounds within each song, and the varietyy of songs within this album. The band is based in Philadelphia now, w, but their influences and their expeperiences to this point make them seem grounded wherever they are. BY MICAH LING MUSIC@NUVO.NET

WHO: Lotus WHERE: The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave WHERE: Thursday, November 4th, 9 p.m. TICKETS: $15; 21+

Wednesday

No matter how much time you spend trying to find a spot that’s out of the range of GWAR’s many blood cannons, you’ll probably underestimate: I didn’t count the number of times that GWAR shot fake blood into the audience, though I’m positive it was at least ten, and probably more. At one point they decided to cut through the drama of acting out a beheading or a disembowelment as a precursor to jets of fake blood, and instead they just wheeled out a cannon whose sole purpose, it seems, was to emit a concentration of fake blood into an audience.

Can You Rock?

Thursday The Flying Toasters

Friday Cousin Roger

A high level of acting skill is not necessary with a liberal helping of fake blood and a heavy metal backing track: At several points in the evening, one character would simply wave his giant sword in the direction of another character, at which point that character would simply stop what he was doing and remove a layer of fake skin in order to simulate a wound. Casting directors of the world, take note.

Saturday Private Party

GWAR are a great unifier in the heavy metal world: Under few other circumstances would it make as much sense for a traditional death metal band like Ghoul and a metalcore band like Every Time I Die to be playing together. In addition to this, I saw nearly every stripe of metal head imaginable at this concert, and they all seemed either to be having the time of their life or to be frustrated that they were more soaked in fake blood than they would have liked.

is probably someone, somewhere writ4 TThere iing a lengthy academic essay on how GWAR is a reflective repository of negative cultural imagery from American society: This essay, though p probably containing a valid argument, is misguided.

is as bizarre as it sounds to see an effigy of 5 IItSSnooki from Jersey Shore disemboweled by a

bunch of armored trolls: It is equally weird to see a group of armored trolls hold a bull fight with a dragon-like creature called the Jaeger Monster, as well as to see them attack a small roundish creature with giant teeth and a feather duster for an arm, because it was a custodian and it complained about the mess they were making.

A After seeing the band for the first time, it is llikely that you will spend the first ten minutes of your drive home laughing maniacally: With a little bit of critical distance from the events that have just befallen you, it becomes quite clear how patently rridiculous rid ic and hilarious it is that a band has made a ccareer car e out of such a live show as the one you just saw. IItt is possible to do basically the same thing for nea ne n e nearly 30 years and to maintain throughout tthat tha hat time a consistently high level of energy and a n commitment to creating the most absurd live show possible: GWAR first formed in 1984. Since then, they’ve played countless shows and fired countless gallons of fake bodily fluids into countless audiences. After this concert at The Vogue, it’s clear that they’ve lost none of their energy, and that they’ll probably continue doing what they’re doing into the foreseeable future. Thank heavens for that, because GWAR injects some much-needed levity into a genre that sometimes takes itself far too seriously.

THIS WEEK AT BIRDY’S WED. 11/02

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THUR. 11/03

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X-RAY ROGER JIMMY REUNION SHOW & ACCEPT REGRET

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LOVESICK RADIO W/ AND AWAY THEY GO & THE GLASS IDENTITY CRISIS

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AFTON SHOWCASE W/T-TIME, LOGIC1, KING JAMES, VITO DA DON, JAMES, STRAIGHT TRUTH ENT., ELZEA AND GUESTS, TEEKLEF, BISHIP J.R., JUPITER SO CRAZY, TAE, STUDENTBODY10, MR.420, UNKNOWN A.K.A. JON DOE, GENO, MAC BOYS, BISHIP J.R., KO, CRAYZ, FACE CHILLZ

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THU 11/17

EDWIN MCCAIN

FRI 11/18

RUSS BAUM SHOWCASE W/ MARK ALEXANDER & THE GOOD SHAME, HUCK FINN, MAX ALLEN BAND AND JAMIE NICHOLE

SAT 11/19

NAPTOWN ROLLERGIRLS AFTERPARTY AND JOE’S SHOW BENEFIT

SUN 11/20

ANDY DAVIS MICHEAL KELSEY

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SECRETS BETWEEN SAILORS NOW HEAR THIS! HOPS RECORDS

Imagine you’re sitting at the bar and a big, burly, lumberjack-looking guy comes in. He seems pissed off and thirsty, so you and the other patrons give him a wide berth at first, averting your eyes and pretending not to notice him. That is until he starts talking, and out of his mouth comes sentimental tales of youth, longing, and love gone wrong, all with the lyricism of a wandering poet. That’s essentially what it feels like to delve into Now Hear This!, the sophomore album by Bloomington-based Secrets Between Sailors. Now Hear This! is a big, guitar-heavy, drumsforward album, so you don’t automatically expect it to be as lyrically rich as it is; you’re too busy trying to process the fat riffs, the solos, the pace changes, the punchy drum work. You’re also trying to figure out if lead singer Kyle Burkett is in as much pain as it sounds like he is with his husky, pleading and sometimes angry vocals. And I suppose that’s the moment when you start listening closer to the lyrics. The album opens with “Get Together,” which, like a lot of the tracks on the album, has that rough-aroundthe-edges feel, yet is actually a sentimental paean to one’s youth and musical influences (“We had Iggy Pop and punk rock documentaries / to help us fight the boredom at the time / ‘Combat Rock’ when we clashed with our enemies / fight until the sirens drove us away”). Right from the gate, it’s evident that Secrets Between Sailors have turned away from the punkier side they showed on their self-titled debut album (2009), and are instead channeling a more straight-up rock vibe. The most ready modern-day comparison is perhaps Hold Steady, and even Bruce Springsteen at times, for the hard-driving, brutallyhonest, exfoliated nature of the songwriting. The following track, “Lioness” is another deeply emotional song, perhaps as emotional as SBS gets on this album (and that’s saying a lot since it’s a pretty deep album). The song starts out with a ska-ish bassline, strong drum work, and then gets overlaid with one of a few guitar solos that lace the track. Burkett sings in his peculiar voice, asking his temperamental love to leave him alone and let him move on with his life (“Lioness won’t you let me be / every time around you get your fangs into me / Lioness won’t you let me be free / every time we kiss it’s like you’re killing me”). Vocalist Lyndsey Helling takes over on “The Way You Are,” a track that — mostly because of her vocals — seems to stand out from the others on Now Hear This!. Backed by Andrew Hartman on horns, the song has a mellower, ‘60s pop feel to it, as Helling croons about vampires, werewolves, ghosts, and love. Another track that continually catches the ear is “Your Voice,” which feels a little more alternative, with a dirtied-up rhythm guitar and a solo guitar riff that sort of becomes a refrain. Again, there’s a deep pain lingering closely behind the powerful beats and rocking guitar riffs. Unfortunately, the same musky, hoarse quality that gives Burkett’s voice its power tends to obscure the nuances of certain lyrics. But that only matters to a certain degree, as the longing and desire laced throughout a song like “Your Voice” are easily perceptible on the first listen. If there’s any one major drawback to this album it is this: it’s a little bit too emotionally demanding. Burkett jams so much pain and frustration into his vocals that, by the end of the record, one feels kind of worn out. After a few run-throughs in a row, I found myself needing to listen to some AC/DC. In a technology-saturated world that can seem superficial and isolated, it’s definitely important for artists to cut to the naked soul of the human being. But I think SBS could let up on the gas pedal once in a while, if for no other reason than to give the listener a change of pace. Secrets Between Sailors is Kyle Burkett on lead vocals and guitar, Andreas Evaristo Butler on guitar, Andrew Maxson on bass, Kyle Collins on drums, Lyndsey Helling on vocals and Andrew Hartman on horns. Now Hear This! is available on vinyl via Hops Records. BY GRANT CATTON

DON’T MISS: RAD SUMMER EDITION Although a lot of new music crosses the NUVO Music editorial desk, by no means do we hear everything. So every week we turn to a local music luminary (or in this week’s case, luminaries) to talk about the best new music they’ve found. This week we spoke with DJs Action Jackson and Flufftronix of Rad Summer, who launched their booking company in 2007 and their record label this summer. Here’s what they’re spinning lately. Rustie - Glass Swords (Warp) “Rustie’s been a go-to for melodic, glitchedout cosmic bass music for years now. This is his debut full length and it sure as hell delivers! ‘Ultra Thizz,’ the leading single, is one of my favorite tracks of 2011.” Starkey - Open the Pod Bay Doors (Ninja Tune) “This one’s out today! While the release might feel like a sidenote to his epic EPs, Space Traitor Vol. 1 and Space Traitor Vol. 2, these tracks stand on their own and span Starkey’s range from mournful lullabies to grindable bangers, sometimes even in the same track! You’ve got to hear it to believe it.” Shiftee & Rx Space Ace (Rad Summer) “Our own contribution to the space bass canon, by way of two luminary NY producers: Plastician-adored, Mishka Bloglincontributing Rx and two time DMC Champ/Dubspot curriculum mastermind Shiftee. Keep an eye out for the remix EP later this month!” Crookers – Dr. Gonzo (Mad Decent) “For their second full length, Crookers dons the Dr. Gonzo alias and creates more of the synth-heavy anthems that put them on the map. I love some of the over the top and left-field samples they use, like the “boing” sound on ‘Springer.’” Bag Raiders - Not Over (Modular Records) “More new disco gold from this Australian act. This is a real feel-good track with great uplifting vocals. Also check for the time-traveling caveman music video for this!” -ACTION JACKSON AND FLUFFTRONIX OF RAD SUMMER

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by Wayne Bertsch 11.11

Birdy’s

Yellow Dubmarine | w/ Max Allen Band Sun. Dec. 11th Birdy’s

Fishbone w/ Deadman’s Switch Stealing Volume

Mitchell Entertainment shows: Every Tuesday | Internal Energy Karaoke with Tara Metz Kip’s Pub | 10pm – no cover

11.19 Toys for Tots Beneﬁt Show featuring ZIQUE, T DUB, MEGGA & MS STRESS Hangar 18 (Peru, IN) - 11pm | $5 donation

11.23 DJ Fuzzy’s Thanksgiving Eve House Party Kelly’s PubToo – 10pm – no cover

Recoil shows: 11.4 Rokafellow’s Hall 10pm - $3

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Catching up with Jimmy Ryser

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Jimmy Ryser, on the cover of his self-titled album

Music success came to Jimmy Ryser in 1990 with the release of his self-titled debut CD. The first single, “Same Old Look,” hit number 26 on the Billboard Chart. The album sold over 100,000 copies. But, the national stage was short-lived. While music has continued to play a role in Ryser’s life, he broadened his career. He also got off of painkillers, clean for more than ten years. Now, Ryser is the program manager for Pain Services at IU Health Methodist, after earning his Master’s degree in Counseling at John Carroll University We decided to catch up with the Ohioborn Hoosier after seeing him post on Facebook about new music. NUVO: Any new songs and new original music in your future? JIMMY RYSER: Absolutely, quite by accident. I had gotten in touch with Bill Winke, a wellknown archery hunter who hosts an Internet and TV series called Midwest Whitetail. I had sent Bill a copy of my “1965 - Now” CD and he asked if he could use my music for the show. I told him I would go one better and do writing exclusively for his show. That was two years ago and I write nearly all the music for the Internet, and all of it for TV. Another CD will likely be a result. I just sent in a piece that had bagpipes, a little boy singing, a drum loop I created and violin. The producers at MW absolutely loved it. Then I go hillbilly with a fiddle, a Dobro, and a mouth harp. Then orchestral. There is nothing in the digital age you can’t do. Winke provides lots of ideas, I get more while sitting (and hunting) in a tree, and then I come home and go crazy. Best stuff I have ever done

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JR: I mostly do private shows and the occasional gig. I like Zanna-doo. I play with those guys and gals every year for the 9/11 tribute and always love it. But my priorities are recovery, family, hunting, Midwest Whitetail and (then) playing out. I expect a few more gigs next year, including the benefit of Recovering Nurses Now which I hope to make yearly. I am a huge fan of the nurse who has addiction and chooses recovery. I will go to the wall for them.

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NUVO: What have you been listening to? JR: I love country music. Lady Antebellum has to be my favorite. Love Zac Brown as well. And so many folks compare my old stuff to Rascal Flatts - although Gary LeVox absolutely blows me out of the water, I am humbled by the comparison. And Rush and Pink Floyd still roll me. I just checked my CD player in my truck. Methods of Mayhem, Henry Lee Summer, my stuff for the show, Sade and Tony Rich Project are in my changer. NUVO: When you record, how do you do it? Are you at home? In a studio? JR: I like both. I updated my recording studio and am having more fun with music than I ever had, including the Arista [Records] days. I have worked with Andy Symons since I was 18. He and I have done stuff at the Lodge Studios, my best CD “Chameleon”. And he has mixes here at home. Both have their charms, but at the end of the day I love doing stuff here at home. The magic happens and then it is in stone - no demos, just what is. And I like it that way. I play everything myself.

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Wednesday

ROCK HANDDOG HEARTS, DELL ZELL, SUGAR MOON RABBIT The Melody Inn, 3826 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis 9 p.m., $5, 21+

Dell Zell and Sugar Moon Rabbit are rock fixtures in Indianapolis. Handdog Hearts, joining them tonight as a bit of an unknown entity , makes bluesy rock heavily influenced by the Jack White/Mississippi Delta sound. Led by singer-guitarist Austin Stirling, Handdog Hearts is poised to be as much a presence on the scene as their accompanying acts after this show .

Thursday

LATIN LATIN DANCE PARTY

The Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave. 8 p.m., $7 (ladies free until 10 p.m.), 21+

The longest running Latin dance party in the city mixes salsa, merengue, reggae-ton and more. Free dance lessons start at 9:30. POP PUNK HIT THE LIGHTS

The Emerson, 4630 E 10th St 6:30 p.m., $12 in advance, $14 door, all-ages

Lima, Ohio is home to Phyllis Diller, those crazy kids on Glee, and pop-punk band Hit the Lights. With The Dangerous Summer and Such Gold, this show is presented by By a Thread. Coincidentally, the band’s EP, Invicta, is being released on this day as well, making the Emerson show an informal album release performance.

ROCK COMPANY OF THIEVES

Butler University Starbucks, 700 W. Hampton Dr. 7 p.m., free, all-ages

These Chicago-based indie rockers were featured as an iTunes Discovery Download for their track “Oscar Wilde,” and in 2009 appeared on Daryl Hall’s monthly Internet concert, “Live from Daryl’s House.” Band leader Genevieve Schatz writes in a letter to fans, “For months on end we would meet up every Monday night to write songs and listen to our favorite artists and cheer each other on for the week that was ahead. We finally got the guts to scour the local papers for open mics at tiny hole-in-the-wall coffee shops in the city where we were comfortable to come undone amongst other musicians and make some friends. W e won the first open mic contest we ever entered into with “Tornado Song” and spent the whopping $13 prize on ice cream. To this day we still spend money on silly sweets that melt away in our mouths and live every day like it’ s the last one we’ll get. We still feel that every show is like the first one - an intimate, personal experience with friends to play for.” ELECTRONIC LOTUS

The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave. 9 p.m., $15, 21+

Expect a spectacular light show at this electronic jam band’s Thursday show. Lotus originated at Goshen College in the late ‘90s and has built a reputation on their extensive touring and excessively produced shows. They incorporate a large variety of genres in their music, including funk, rock, electronica and jazz, among others. See our review of their latest record, Lotus, on page 35.

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ROCK SECRETS BETWEEN SAILORS RECORD RELEASE SHOW The Melody Inn, , 3826 N Illinois St 10 p.m., $5, 21+

With openers Everything, Now!, They’ve Shot Flanigan, and Vamos, central Indiana band Secrets Between Sailors will present their new album Now Hear This!. See our review on pg. 37.

this bluegrass band that won the Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album in 2006 (for The Company We Keep). The band is often associated with Steve Earle, whom they recorded with in 1999. They are joined at this show by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, an ever -changing group of performers from Preservation Hall in New Orleans. This group splits their time between the historic hall and tours around the world for a large part of the year. ROOTS THE DEVIL MAKES THREE Radio Radio, Time TBA, $10, 21+

A guitarist, upright bassist, and tenor banjo player make The Devil Makes Three, a combo rockabilly folk-punk band. The Santa Cruz Metro writes, “The jug-band-meets-punk-rock sound is alluring and wild like an untamed bull: powerful, reckless and beautiful.” ROCK RAY DAVIES (OF THE KINKS) The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave. 7 p.m., $35, 21+

Truth and Salvage Co. SOUL AND ROCK JJ GREY AND MOFRO, TRUTH AND SALVAGE CO. The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave. 8:30 p.m., $20 in advance, $22 at door, 21+

This soul/funk/blues band is led by (as the name would imply) multi-instrumentalist JJ Grey, who experiments with electric piano, guitar, harmonica, and more. JJ Grey and MOFRO have spent a decade touring, but just recently began to slide into mainstream popularity with their 2010 radio hit “The Sweetest Thing.” Truth and Salvage Co. is a six-piece roots band from L.A. that has made a trip through Indianapolis several times in the last few years, and for good reason. Lead singer Tim Jones is a hometown boy, signed previously to Epic Records for his band Old Pike (who gained relative fame supporting John Mellencamp, Ben Folds Five, and The Old ‘97s). With his new band signed to Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson’s Silver Arrow label, Jones recently made news after a controversial arrest for a crime he (according to all records) did not commit. Concert goers are encouraged to bring a canned food donation to benefit Gleaner’s Food Bank. ROOTS THE CIVIL WARS

Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 5002 N. New Jersey St. 7 p.m., $19.50 in advance, $21 at door, all ages

Relatively new Nashville pair The Civil W ars has made it big, if making it big can be divined from a presence on the Grey’s Anatomy soundtrack (their track “Poison and Wine” was featured in a November 2009 episode). Their success is not limited to primetime evening dramas, however. They’ve also been picked by Paste Magazine as the “Best of What’s Next,” debuted at Sundance Film Festival, and featured on the front page of The New York Times. They’ve opened for Adele, received the Vanguard Award at the 49th Annual ASCAP Country Music Awards, and performed on various late night shows internationally. What we are saying, here, is that they are kind of a big deal.

Saturday

JAZZ DEL MCCOURY BAND, PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND

Center for the Performing Arts, 335 City Center Dr. 8 p.m., $15-$100, all ages

Del isn’t the only McCoury in the Del McCoury Band. He is joined by his brother and sons in

Ray Davies is still ticking. At age 67, this former leader of The Kinks has acted and directed theater and television, curated the London Meltdown Festival and begun work on his second book (a fictionalized autobiography). After a brief scare earlier this year following the discovery of blood clots in his lungs, the Kinks’ frontman is back on tour for his own solo project.

Sunday

ROCK SICK/SEA

The Melody Inn, 3826 N Illinois St 9 p.m., $5, 21+

Sick/Sea writes, of themselves on their website, “Once upon a time, there was a band called Sick/Sea who wrote songs about the countless lessons love teaches. Playing their music in the tropical climate of South Texas, they garnered a fan base who appreciated the unique style that mixed the band’s influences of indie, jazz, rock, and even a breath of hardcore. Their songs are strung together by the powerful vocals and jazzy chord progressions of Audrey Scott, the swelling and crashing bass lines of Miguel Morales, and the dynamic drum beats of the singer’s brother, Cameron Scott. The dedication of these three has enabled the band to release two EPs and embark on a successful East Coast tour. Now three years seasoned, they have buckled down to make music their career.” Sick/Sea is performing with The Mad Wails and Minute Details. POP SWIMMING WITH DOLPHINS The Hoosier Dome, 1627 Prospect Street 6:30 p.m., $8, all ages

Swimming with Dolphins is the musical project Adam Young left behind to launch his super solo project Owl City. The synthpop band continued on without him, and remaining member Austin Tofte now writes his own music. Don’ t worry, Young and Tofte are still friends. This show is supported by Indiana City W eather, Violet Skies, Arming Arcadia, Austin Parish

Tuesday

METAL BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME

Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 5002 N. New Jersey St., 7:30, $29 + fees, all ages

This North Carolina heavy metal band is five albums into a very successful touring career. They’ve been a fixture at Ozzfest and the New England Metal & Hardcore Festival and supported Norma Jean, Protest the Hero, Lamb of God, and, most recently, Hatebreed. The band recently switched from Victory to Metal Blade Records and, on their new label, have released a three-disc greatest hits record.

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A little too into penguins

Plus, South Korean students should relax “My ultimate dream is to be buried in a deep ocean close to where penguins live,” explained the former Alfred David, 79, otherwise known in his native Belgium as “Monsieur Pingouin” (Mr. Penguin), so named because a 1968 auto accident left him with a waddle in his walk that he decided to embrace with gusto. (His wife abandoned the marriage when he made the name change official; evidently, being “Mrs. Penguin” was not what she had signed up for.) Mr. Pingouin started a penguin-item museum that ultimately totaled 3,500 items, and he created a hooded, full-body black-andwhite penguin outfit that, according to a September Reuters dispatch, he wears daily in his waddles around his Brussels neighborhood of Schaerbeek.

Inscrutable Asians

• Though South Korean children score among the highest in the world on standardized reading and math tests, their success comes at a price, according to an October Time magazine dispatch. They supposedly suffer “educational masochism” -- punishing themselves by overstudy, especially in high school preparing for university admissions tests (a process so competitive that even testcoaching schools are picky about accepting students). Earlier this year, to curb the “masochism,” the government began enforcing a 10 p.m. curfew on coachingschool activities, and in Seoul, a six-man team conducts nightly after-hours raids on classes that run late-night sessions behind shuttered windows. (Ironically, Time acknowledged, American educational reformers want U.S. students to study harder, like Asians do, but Asian reformers want their students to relax, like American students.) • In America, the quest for perfectly straight teeth can lead to orthodontia bills of thousands of dollars, but in Japan, a dental “defect” -- slightly crooked canine teeth -- makes young women more fetching, even “adorable,” say many men. Women with the “yaeba” look have canines pushed slightly forward by the molars behind them so that the canines develop a fang-like appearance. One dental salon, the Plaisir, in Tokyo, recently began offering non-permanent fixtures that replicate the look among straight-toothed women.

Latest Religious Messages

• Polls report that as many as 57 percent of Russians “notice” signs of a “cult” surrounding Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, according to a September Spiegel Online dispatch, and a chief cult leader is “Mother Fotina,” 62, who has a following of thousands among Russian Orthodox practitioners and believes herself to be the

reincarnation of Joan of Arc and Putin to be St. Paul. “God,” she said, “has appointed Putin to Russia to prepare for the coming of Jesus Christ.” Mother Fotina was a convicted embezzler in the 1990s, and critics suspect her devotion to Putin is a ruse to deflect law-enforcement attention. • Sheriff’s deputies in Bergholz, Ohio, arrested three Amish men in October and charged them in incidents in which other Amish men and women had their homes invaded and their hair (and men’s beards) cut off -- supposedly grave insults. The three are part of an 18-family breakaway sect of Amish who were said to be exacting revenge upon mainstream Amish for insufficiently pious behavior. The “bishop” of the breakaways, Sam Mullet, 65, denied the arrestees were acting under his authority.

Questionable Judgments

• “Snakeman” Raymond Hoser, of Park Orchards, Australia, was about to be fined in August for violating his Commercial Wildlife Demonstrator License -- by failing to keep at least three meters’ distance between his venomous snakes and the public -- when he hit upon a defense: He would prove that he had de-venomized the deadly taipan and death adder snakes by allowing them to bite his 10-year-old daughter on the arm. (Though both bites drew blood, the girl was otherwise unhurt. Said Hoser, “(I)f they’d been venomous, she’d have been dead in two minutes.”) • For the 10-year remembrances of Sept. 11 this year, many cities recalled the tragedy with monuments and public events, including Washington Township, N.J., about 20 miles from ground zero. A large commemorative plaque was unveiled, but provoked immediate outrage because the only names on it were not victims’ but only the mayor’s and those of the five council members who approved the plaque. Said one retired police officer, “It made my blood boil.” (Mayor Samir Elbassiouny later apologized and ordered a steel overlay to obscure the politicians’ names.)

Fine Points of the Law

• A judge in Nice, France, ruled in September that Article 215 of the French civil code (defining marriage as a “shared communal life”) in fact requires that husband and wife have sex. A husband identified only as Jean-Louis B. had evidently lost interest years earlier, and his wife was granted a divorce. Apparently emboldened by her victory, she then filed a monetary claim against the husband for the 21-year-long lack of sex, and the judge awarded her 10,000 euros (about $13,710). • It might well be “excessive force” if a sheriff’s deputy beats and pepper-sprays a black motorist who had been stopped only because the deputy saw the motorist without a fastened seatbelt. A district court judge had concluded that the force was surely justified, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said in August that excessiveness of force was for a jury to evaluate. (The deputy’s explanation: The motorist, waiting for the deputy to finish his report, was sitting on a curb

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eating a bowl of broccoli, and the deputy had to beat him down, he said, out of fear that the motorist would throw the broccoli at him and then attack him.)

steps to the Village Inn (which is also just across the street from the Yuma Police Station).

People Different from Us

• Soon, it might be absolutely impossible to get hurt in Britain -- because of stringent health and safety rules. St. Mary’s Church in Cottingham announced it would go without an overhead light because government rules require that it rig scaffolding to change the light bulb in its 30-foot-high ceiling. (Using a ladder would be unsafe.) And following the August riots in London, hundreds of volunteers took to the streets to speed the cleanup process, but at several junctures, police turned them away, fearful that the civic-minded workers lacked the sense to avoid cutting themselves on the broken glass and debris.

• “Urban farming” is growing more popular among city-dwelling progressives committed to eating local foods, but that usually involves gardens in backyards. For Robert McMinn and Jules Corkery, it means raising two chickens in their one-bedroom apartment in New York City -- just to have a supply of fresh eggs. “I don’t think it’s the ideal situation,” McMinn told the New York Daily News in October. However, he said, the hens are “cute. They’re fun to (watch) run around. They’re excited when we come home.” On the other hand, he said, “(T)hey poop everywhere.”

Least Competent Criminals

• Bank Robbers Not Ready for Prime Time: (1) Thomas Love, 40, was arrested in New Castle County, Del., in October after he had walked out of a WSFS Bank empty-handed. According to police, Love had presented a demand note to a teller, who couldn’t make out the writing and handed it back, provoking Love to flee. (2) Henry Elmer, 56, was arrested in Yuma, Ariz., in October where he had just sat down to enjoy a beer at the Village Inn Pizza Parlor. Police identified Elmer as the man who just moments earlier had robbed the Wells Fargo bank in the same block and “fled” the few

Recurring Themes

A News of the Weird Classic (March 1994)

• In January (1994) at the Lake Como Fish and Game Club near Syracuse, N.Y., Brian Carr beat out three dozen competitors in the annual ice-fishing derby with 155 catches. The temperature that day was minus 30(F), and prize money for the top three anglers was, respectively, $8, $6.50 and $5.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Here’s Malcolm Gladwell, writing in The Tipping Point: “We need to prepare ourselves for the possibility that sometimes big changes follow from small events, and that sometimes these changes can happen quickly . . . Look at the world around you. It may seem an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push -- in just the right place -- it can be tipped.” You are now within shouting distance of your own personal tipping point, Aries. Follow your gut wisdom as you decide where to give a firm little push.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I suspect that you will have a minor form of good luck going for you this week. It probably won’t be enough to score you a winning lottery ticket or earn you a chance to get the answer to your most fervent prayers. But it might bring you into close proximity with a financial opportunity, a pretty good helper, or a resource that could subtly boost your stability over the long haul. For best results, don’t invoke your mild blessings to assist in trivial matters like finding parking places or avoiding long lines at check-out lines. Use them for important stuff.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Welcome to the autumnal garden of earthly delights, Taurus. It’s a brooding, fermenting paradise, full of the kind of dark beauty that wouldn’t be caught dead in a spring garden. There’s smoldering joy to be found amidst this riotous flowering of moody colors, but you won’t appreciate it if you’re too intent on seeking bright serenity and pristine comfort. Be willing to dirty your hands and even your mind. Feel the moss on your back, the leaves in your hair, and the mist on your bare legs. (P.S. If you like, you can take what I just said as an elaborate metaphor.)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Try to be surprised by something every day,” advises Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his book Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. That’s an inspirational idea for everyone all the time, but especially for you Scorpios right now. This is the week of all weeks when you have the best chance of tinkering with your rhythm so that it will thrive on delightful unpredictability. Are you brave enough to capitalize on the opportunity? I think you are. Concentrate your attention on cultivating changes that feel exciting and life-enhancing.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here’s a vignette described by columnist Thomas Friedman: “Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is 2 plus 2 and he tells you 5, that is a mistake. But if you ask a man how much is 2 plus 2 and he tells you 97, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking with is operating with a wholly different logic from your own.” I’d like to suggest, Gemini, that for you right now the whole world is like the man who swears 2 plus 2 is 97. At least temporarily, you are on a very different wavelength from your surroundings. In order to understand what’s coming toward you, you will have to do the equivalent of standing on your head, crossing your eyes, and opening your mind as wide as it’ll stretch.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Dear Rob: I was born on November 30, and am quite attached to having it as a birthdate. But there’s a complication. While in Iraq in 2006, I was half-blown up by a bomb, and had a neardeath experience. When I returned from my excursion to the land of the dead, I felt I’d been born anew. Which is why I now also celebrate September 24, the date of the bombing, as my second birthday. What do you think? Two-Way Tamara.” Dear Two-Way: I believe we’d all benefit from having at least one dramatic rebirth in the course of our lives, though hopefully not in such a wrenching fashion as yours. In fact, a fresh rebirth every few years or so would be quite healthy. If it means adding additional astrological identities to our repertoire, so much the better. Thanks for bringing up the subject, as it’s an excellent time for Sagittarians everywhere to seek out an exhilarating renewal.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you want to grow vanilla beans, you have to pollinate the plant’s flowers within 12 hours after they bloom. In nature, the only insect that can do the job is the Melipona, a Mexican bee. Luckily, humans can also serve as pollinators, which they do on commercial vanilla farms. They use thin wood splinters or stems of grass to perform the delicate magic. I’m thinking that you resemble a vanilla bean right now, Cancerian. It is the season when you’re extra receptive to fertilization, but all the conditions have to be just right for the process to be successful. Here’s my advice: Figure out exactly what those conditions are, then call on all your resourcefulness to create them. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Even our most sophisticated drilling machines have barely made pinpricks in the earth’s surface. The deepest hole ever dug was 40,000 feet, which is just 0.2 percent of the planet’s 20-million-foot radius. I offer this up as a spur to your imagination, Leo. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to plumb further into the depths of anyplace or anything you’re intrigued by -- whether that’s a subject you’ve always wondered about, a person you care for, the mysteries of life, or the secrets of your own psyche. You could reach the equivalent of five million feet into the Earth’s innards. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): National Geographic speculates that most of the species on Earth are still unknown and unnamed (tinyurl.com/UnknownLife). While 1.2 million life forms have been identified by science, there may be as many as 7.5 million that are not, or 86 percent of the total. I suspect that this breakdown is similar to the situation in your life, Virgo. You know about 14 percent of what you need to know, but there’s still a big frontier to explore. The coming months should be prime time for you to cover a lot of new ground -- and now would be a perfect moment to set the stage for that grand experiment.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Social climbers are people who are focused on gaining higher status in whatever circle of people they regard as cool, even to the point of engaging in fawning or ingratiating behavior. Soul climbers, on the other hand, are those who foster the power of their imagination, keep deepening their connection with life’s intriguing enigmas, and explore the intersection of self-interest and generosity toward others. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you could go far in either of those directions during the coming weeks, Capricorn -- but not both. Which will you choose? AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): An Australian man named Daniel Fowler has more giraffe tattoos on his shoulders than any other human being on the planet. So says the Universal Record Database at Recordsetter.com. Meanwhile, Darryl Learie is now the only person to ever be able to insert three steak knives into an inflated balloon, and Billy Disney managed to inject a world-record 31 sexual innuendoes into a rap song about potatoes. What could or should be your claim to fame, Aquarius? This would an excellent time to try to establish your reputation as the best at your specific talent. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “You have to know how far to go too far,” said poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. I reckon that’s good advice for you right now. You’re at a phase o f your astrological cycle when you really can’t afford to keep playing by all the rules and staying inside the proper boundaries. For the sake of your physical and psychological and spiritual health, you need to wander out beyond the limits that you’ve been so faithfully respecting. And yet, on the other hand , it would be a mistake to claim you have a right to stop at nothing. Know how far to go too far.

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