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GAME ON!

Amy Sedaris plays herself on Nov. 8 at the Madame Walker Theatre, answering questions first from The Art of the Matter’s Travis DiNicola, then from the audience. Because we are fond of overkill, we figured we’d ask her a few more before she got to town.

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A TALE OF TWO OUTCOMES

Because we go to press on Tuesday afternoon, we won’t know who won the election in time to cover. So, Steve Hammer presents two columns, one with Obama winning, and the other with a Romney victory.

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THE ENDURING VOICE

Roger Hodgson is the enduring and endearing voice behind so many of Supertramp’s biggest hits. He’ll be at the Palladium on Tuesday.

BY WADE COGGESHALL

from the readers Hammer’s political views

With a name like Hammer one has to wonder how persuasive “the guy” can get. Such introspective opinions about politics and who is better for this and that, who deserves praise at what time … maybe “the guy” should run himself. If there are three outlets to choose from, no wonder the guy can get so critical of one party and so complimentary of the other while leaving the third party in such a negligible manner. If democracy is all about fairness and equality to Hammer maybe he should withdraw from writing or rather pushing in faces his opinion because nobody really wants to be forced by someone named Hammer, either on the street, on the bus, or in a drive-by opinion about politics.

Corrections:

The “i” was chopped from Rob Peoni’s last name in a Letter to the Editor last week. Sorry, Rob! Last week’s Q&A with locals Modern Motion included an incorrect photo. The current members are (from left to right): Finn Parker (drums), Von Dozier (guitar), Kristoff Carmichael (vocals/keys), Memphis Parker (bass).

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BY STEVE HAMMER SHAMMER@NUVO.NET

lawing his way over the finish line of an election that was his to lose probably wasn’t how Barack Obama envisaged his 2012 campaign.

But it’s what he has and, more importantly, we as a people have as we move forward into a second Obama term.

None of the scary bad things that Romney would have unleashed are going to happen now. Obamacare will not be repealed now. Roe v. Wade is safe. The Supreme Court may have a progressive majority by 2016.

Whoever won the 2012 contest was going to inherit a recovering economy and the nation’s mood will improve with jobs and credit again. Labor unions will not be squashed. The dark clouds are passing.

Obama is a peculiar messenger for positive social change. Of all the presidents in the past 50 years, the one he most resembles in demeanor is not JFK, Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton. It is Richard Nixon, who was also a brooding man, frustrated by political forces aligned against him in an open conspiracy.

He has a mandate to take bold action, no matter how narrow the victory was or even if he lost the popular vote. We can look for a relaxing of relations with Cuba and American tourists will once again be lounging on the beaches of Havana.

American leadership in stopping the Syrian war and resolving the Iran nuclear issue had been on hold awaiting election results. Obama may yet become one of the greatest foreign relations presidents since, well, Nixon.

White people are going to continue to be a problem, especially in the states of the Confederacy, where the legends of Obama’s Kenyan birth and his conspiracy to destroy America will continue to be told for a century or more.

Success will silence and marginalize them again. Obama has four more years to fulfill the promise of progress his 2008 election meant to so many people.

We’re behind you, sir.

Romney won?

Obama won!

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BY STEVE HAMMER SHAMMER@NUVO.NET

in terms of getting all the upcoming events in time for the weekend. Many of the stories are written a few days in advance, like this column.

You are a resident of the future as I write this on Monday morning. You know things I don’t know — such as who will win the presidential elections. Probably. The polls seem to indicate a narrow Obama victory.

So I am writing two columns this week, one covering an Obama win and one covering a Romney win.

e have stockpiled a month’s worth of water and food in preparation for a natural or man-made disaster like this, and now we are enjoying sardines in hot sauce while you are reading this in your living room, windows boarded up and power still out after the Romney rioting of 2012.

This may be a good time to start assembling your old pay stubs in a commemorative album. You won’t be seeing that much money when Romney gets done with the economy. When the minimum wage is lowered to $2 an hour, whatever you’re making now will seem like a fortune.

Doesn’t it make you wonder how all those opinion polls on Sunday night sure made it seem like Obama was going to win? Why were they wrong? I hope the contingency plans for civil unrest are being implemented.

In the long term though, what will a Romney administration mean to you and your family? If you’re lucky, a small tax cut, not even one large enough to pay a month’s electric bill. Millionaires will be living it up like never before. Never before has there been such an unabashed puppet of big business in the White House.

If Romney won, it was with the overwhelming support of white evangelical voters who are convinced a second Obama term would have taken away all their guns and forced their daughters to have abortions before their inevitable multiracial gay marriages.

This is a good time to lay low, stock up on supplies and try to make a few extra bucks by selling your surplus food and supplies. Hopefully you printed out those survivalist website checklists before the Internet went down.

Do you like white culture? Hope you do, because country music, TV shows about Christian families and redneck comedians are all going to be doing big business.

We’ve lived through things like this before and we’ll make it through this crisis. Republicans have stolen elections and put halfwits in the presidency as recently as 2000. We all have to hang in there together if we’re going to survive.

May God help us all.

A tale of two columns

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HOPPE Dreams for the next four years In which we find out what we’re made of

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BY DAVID HOPPE DHOPPE@NUVO.NET

he on-going reality show we call political campaigning has been interrupted this week for something called an election. Everyone concerned will pause, take two or three ragged breaths, catch an extra hour of sleep. Then the show will go on.

Our entertainment industry (which includes “the press”) needs this show.

So do the political parties.

The big campaign contributors can’t live without it.

As for everybody else — those of us, that is, who try to think elections are what the show is supposed to be about — well, we can dream can’t we?

Here are some of my dreams for the next four years …

Legend has it George Washington could not tell a lie. Abraham Lincoln was known as “Honest Abe.” But when it comes to contemporary politics, honesty seems to have fallen by the wayside. I don’t know when it was that Americans turned being lied to into a virtue.

Maybe it was when we voted George W. Bush a second term, even though anybody paying attention knew he lied about the need to go to war with Iraq. You’d think people would have been pissedoff about something like that.

We preferred Bush’s dishonesty to facing facts. In this latest campaign, one candidate dumbfounded observers by blatantly changing his positions on different issues in order to seem more or less conservative, depending on the audience. But this did not disqualify him. Instead, many of his constituents forgave his dissembling. Somehow they decided his saying one thing and doing another would be OK. Being honest, I know, is not always easy.

There’s a reason why people say the truth hurts. But, in the public realm at least, honesty is the next best thing to oxygen. I dream we get lots of it.

But honesty can be hard to come by when people are afraid. And Americans have become a fearful people. This is not the image we’re used to. We like to think of ourselves as John Wayne, the barrelchested individualist with a Winchester in one hand and a jug of bourbon in the other. But take a look around: We take off our shoes and submit to full-body searches in airports, trying to fend off yesterday’s terrorist attack; we arm our-

selves, we claim, for fear of violence in our public places or at home; we see a threat to marriage in the desire of same sex couples to share vows.

People who are afraid have a penchant for blaming some one, or some thing for what’s gnawing at them. Lately, the favorite target has been government. It’s the government that keeps us from doing this or that, that gets in the way or keeps us down. The trouble is that the government, to paraphrase Pogo, the cartoon possum, is us. Unless, of course, we make government a spectator sport.

I dream we shake off our fears and get in the game.

One of the biggest troubles we have with fear is that, the bigger it is, the more we try and ignore it. This is how we’ve treated increasingly weird and disruptive weather events. Two hurricanes in New York harbor in the span of 12 months; an extreme drought throughout the nation’s bread basket; a year in which winter never really came — we’ve known something strange was happening to our climate for some time, something that we human beings were largely responsible for. But we’ve put off coming to terms with this looming crisis because, well, we’re addicted to a way of life that turns out to be unsustainable.

Look at what just happened to our Eastern Seaboard. In a single day, more people lost power than live in the combined states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Maine and both the Dakotas. As New York’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo remarked, what do you do when what we used to call 100-year events become the new normal?

You take them seriously, for a start. It’s not as if we haven’t known that the garbage we put in our air and water is dangerous. They don’t call that 107-mile stretch between Baton Rouge and New Orleans that contains numerous petrochemical and industrial plants “Cancer Alley” for nothing. We have a corridor like that of our own through the steel belt in northwest Indiana. But our society is so dependent on using high doses of toxic energy, it is almost impossible for us to imagine life without it.

Rather than deal with the problem, we have tried to justify it. Some have gone so far as to suggest it’s God’s will.

The fact remains that things appear to be getting worse. In September 2012, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported Arctic sea ice declined to its lowest extent since records began.

This presents us with a real dilemma: We can set about the ridiculously difficult task of changing the way we live — or we can, as our politicians like to say, kick the can further down the road. Once again, it’s up to us. I may be dreaming, but if we’re not made for dealing with this stuff, who is?

I don’t know when it was that Americans turned being lied to into a virtue.

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at presstime Haiku News had no idea who won the election no single storm can be linked to global warming BUT oceans heat up CO2, absorbed by oceans, both acidifies and warms the waters warming oceans mean fiercer storms and Sandy sure was a major bitch superstorm puts both pres candidates to shame for snubbing climate change Sandusky sent to seximum security prison until dead AT&T, TMobile conspire so folks can hear each other now GOP campaign dough comes from secret donors; be vewy afwaid steering all campaign money to hungry, homeless would be nice gesture Colts beat Dolphins in the big battle betwixt the rookie quarterbacks

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THUMBSUP THUMBSDOWN INDY IN FINALS FOR MAYORS CHALLENGE

Mayor Greg Ballard today announced the City of Indianapolis has been selected as a finalist for the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Mayors Challenge, a competition created to inspire American cities to generate innovative ideas that solve major challenges and improve city life. Indianapolis was selected based on its innovative idea to create “Neighborhoods of Educational Opportunity.” Under the leadership of Mayor Ballard, the City’s Office of Education Innovation aims to create 30,000 high-quality K-12 school seats through partnerships between charter and traditional public schools. Indianapolis now will compete against 19 other cities across the country for the $5 million grand prize as well as one of four additional prizes of $1 million each.

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 25TH ANNIVERSARY

A few figures: • 416: the number of homes Habitat for Humanity of Greater Indianapolis will have provided for area families by the close of the year.

• $1 to $2.61: How far a single dollar donated to Indy’s Habitat chapter goes, priced in terms of social benefit, according to a recent study by the IU Public Policy Institute.

• 300: The number of homes constructed internationally with contributions from Indy’s Habitat chapter.

• 25: The number of years Habitat for Humanity of Greater Indianapolis has been doing its work.

And so it’s high time to celebrate, with a gala event Saturday at the Fairgrounds featuring keynote speaker Clive Rainey, the first official volunteer for Habitat for Humanity International. Editor’s note: The event is sold out.

GREENING FOOD DESERTS

Congratulations to the City of Indianapolis on its $25,000 grant to support the development of its GrowN-Indy program, which aims to empower teams of volunteers to plant gardens in areas notable for their lack of fresh produce. The grant will fund volunteer training and supplies such as seeds, trees and materials for garden construction. While more than 60 cities applied for the funding Indy is one of a handful of cities to receive funding from more than 60 that applied to receive funding from the Bloomberg Philanthropiesbacked Cities of Service Impact Volunteering Fund.

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news Green tech breakthrough at IUPUI New opportunities in energy efficiency

BY A L E X MIL L E R E D I T O RS @N U V O . N E T Professor Afshin Izadian of IUPUI’s School of Engineering and Technology has done what many thought impossible with the invention of a single-switching transistor power inverter. This discovery comes at a crucial time, when green products are not only desired but required to meet the energy needs of the future.

Izadian’s research could prove to be a major step in improving the design and application of green energy technologies, such as solar power and electric vehicles.

Today, most homes and businesses run on alternating current (AC). However, not all electricity sources create alternating current electricity. Some power sources, including batteries and solar panels, create direct current (DC) electricity. This has some industrial applications, but it cannot power homes and businesses. However, direct current electricity can power homes and businesses indirectly if it is converted to alternating current with a power inverter.

Traditional power inverters have at least two switching transistors. While transistors are essential in power inverters, they are cumbersome and inefficient. Each transistor can only output a fine range of voltages, as well. Furthermore, even with specially designed filters, power grids are damaged each day by transistors, leaving much to be desired.

Izadian’s new class of power inverter design uses just one switching transistor, much lighter, cheaper and more efficient than traditional multiple-transistor designs.

Izadian came up with his creative transistor design while studying voltage and polarity creation in inverters at IUPUI. In his lab, he randomly reconfigured an inverter circuit. As a result of the reconfiguration, he discovered a new inverter that allowed for infinite voltage

levels and the inversion of the power circuits. Also, by-product harmonics, which result in inverter inefficiency, present in all transistors, are reduced in Izadian’s design.

“We have a working prototype [of the design],” Izadian said. “It is low power because it is funded by the university.”

Real-world transistors will be powered at a higher level. The transistor at IUPUI is being used for test cases because the engineering it is using is very new to the scientific community. Izadian and his team also are developing several different circuits for a variety of applications.

Having a design for each specific application will only improve transistor efficiency and productivity.

The design is currently under review by a well-known technical journal and many experts in engineering and the energy industry are showing interest.

If the scientific and engineering communities embrace the technology, it may be used in multiple fashions to improve many products that require the conversion of direct current electricity to alternating current electricity. For example, his design could potentially downsize the power components of electric vehicles, resulting ulting in smaller and lighter vehicles. Traction motors in electric vehicles may be less expensive with Izadian’s design.. And it might have have applications in manufacturing facturing robots and green power production duction sources such as solar panels.

Pending recognition n from the scientific community, Izadian’ss design is ready for manufacturing and wide-scale ide-scale use. He also is waiting for approval proval of multiple multiple patents and for additional onal funding to further develop his product. roduct. He estimated the inverterr could be on the market within three years.

Izadian’s design is a step forward on on the the long and complicated road to developing technologies to addresss the energy crisis.

Cultural and social changes anges in the U.S. U.S. are needed to maximize ze the usefulness of of Izadian’s design, experts rts say.

“Even if we have an n inverter that that is is 100 percent efficient, we will not solve the problem arising from rom our energy addiction,” said Giri Venkataramanan, a professor in the Department partment of Electrical & Computerr Engineering at the University of WisconsinMadison, noting that broad social change is necessary ssary

“This kind of breakthrough means a lot to [IUPUI].

It shows our participation in green energy.”

— Afshin Izadian, an IUPUI professor with a revolutionary design in power delivery

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to solve our energy dependence.

“Only cultural shifts can close the gap.”

While his breakthrough is big for his own research, Izadian recognizes it is important for the university, as well.

“This kind of breakthrough means a lot to [IUPUI]. It shows our participation in green energy,” Izadian said.

In particular, his design further highlights the work at the Richard G. Lugar Center for Renewable Energy on IUPUI’s campus, where Izadian is a research faculty member. The center, opened in 2007, focuses on the research and development of green power generation technologies.

The center already has made great strides in fuel cell, waste-to-energy and other green technologies.

“We are delighted with Dr. Izadian’s work and the possibility that his inverter can impact the renewable energy market,” David J. Russomanno, dean of IUPUI’s School of Engineering and Technology, said in a news release. “His efforts are the quintessential example of the cutting-edge research that enhances the school’s image and reputation and allows us to compete in the renewable energy arena.”

ABOUT AFSHIN IZADIAN Afshin Izadian’s recent inverter discovery is just one of many accomplishments in an already impressive career. He has participated in more than 50 scientific publications and journals and contributed a chapter to CD Proceeding on Electro-Information Technology, a book released this year.

Currently, Izadian is an assistant professor at the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI and a research faculty member at the Richard Lugar Center for Renewable Energy.

He said his ventures into the field of electrical engineering began in Iran, where he received a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Iran University of Science Technology in 2001. Seven years later he was awarded a doctorate in electrical engineering from West Virginia University. He pursued his postdoctoral research in 2009 at UCLA, where he began to broaden his research to include control of renewable energy systems and power converters, nonlinear controls and fault diagnosis, microsystems, MEMS, digital microfluids and energy conversion.

“I had the opportunity of applying my controls engineering knowledge to microfluidics as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA,” Izadian said. His research at UCLA and other institutions has exposed him to multiple science and engineering disciplines and has made him one of state’s leaders in renewable technology research and development.

Izadian explained that his fascination with tracking controllers inspires him to conduct his research. “Adaptive and other types of controllers that operate under system uncertainties are my favorites,” he said.

Most of Izadian’s long-term research goals revolve around his work with his power inverter.

“We are currently working on the modeling and system operation analysis phase,” Izadian explained. “In [the] future, I would like to complete the design of the inverter and its controller and use it for high power application.” He plans to upgrade his lab’s power inverter so it can operate at higher levels, closer to what he and his team will need in the field.

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ello, dear reader. You’ve come across our highly selective coverage of the waning days of Spirit & Place, which winds up ten days of “play”-themed events Sunday with the annual Public Conversation (more about which on pg. 14). In the following pages, you’ll learn about Amy Sedaris, who will chat with Indy Reads/WFYI dude Travis DiNicola on Nov. 8 at the Madame Walker Theatre.

Or Veterans Reclaim Armistice Day: Healing through the Humanities, an afternoon-long series of events about veterans and art taking place Nov. 11 at the Indiana War Memorial and featuring Kurt’s son Mark Vonnegut and NPR dude Steve Inskeep, among others. And then we’ll talk about A Paycheck Away, a game that simulates the experience of being on the poverty line and near homeless (pg. 14). Plus, we’ve got our calendar of other top events we didn’t have time or space to write about. Head to spiritandplace.org for full details.

Amy Sedaris Crafts (and games) for poor people The funny thing about Amy Sedaris’s craft books is that they’re not necessarily spoofs.

When she does crafts, they are actual craft projects that can be replicated by the reader at home, but they’re doll wig door knobs, coconut chip earrings, rusty nail wind chimes (more about those below) and tampon ghosts.

The same rule goes for her TV work, as the star of Strangers with Candy or, more recently, 30 Rock, on which she’s currently playing a Buffethead-type. Sedaris is interested in the type of comedy that’s about playing out an absurd situation without winking to the audience.

She’ll play herself on Nov. 8 at the Madame Walker Theatre, answering questions first from The Art of the Matter ’s Travis DiNicola, then from the audience. Because we are fond of overkill, we figured we’d ask her a few more before she got to town.

NUVO: So, you’re doing a live interview in Indy. Do you like that kind of setup?

SEDARIS: Yeah, I like it because it feels kind of conversational; you can work off someone else. And I love it when you get to the audience, because then you get to hear people’s accents and stuff like that.

NUVO: The theme of Spirit & Place is play this year — and I guess a lot of what you do is informed by playfulness?

SEDARIS: It is, but it’s also a tricky word, because sometimes people misunderstand what you mean by that. Sometimes people

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think that means you like to play games, something a five-year-old would like to do.

I think having a sense of play is all about being in the moment.

NUVO: And your craft books, for instance, tread the line between being parody and playful and being sort of serious, in the sense that you can actually do the crafts.

SEDARIS: I always like that. Even when I watch a movie or TV show, I’m like, is this supposed to be funny, because it’s pretty funny. And when it’s on a channel that says it’s funny or it’s a movie that classified as comedy, then I hate it when it’s pinpointed; I’m like, OK, you’d better make me laugh. But when you ride the line, you get away with both. But if anything, those books are more visual, and hopefully they’ll just trigger an idea.

NUVO: So you would have liked it if Strangers with Candy were on Lifetime.

SEDARIS: Well, there you go. After-school specials were actually what we were parodying. As we did it, it got sillier and sillier, but we started off with that intention: We wanted to play it out, literally, as if it would have been on TV when you got home from school. We wanted it to be serious, but we couldn’t help ourselves!

NUVO: I was just watching the social guidance film that inspired Jerri Blank and Strangers with Candy. [Called The Trip Back, it’s a filmed version of the scared-straightstyled speech that recovering addict Florrie Fisher gave to high school audiences during the late ‘60s and early ‘70s.] It’s such a nutty, but very sweet and sincere film. I can see how the character was so inspiring; there was so much to explore there.

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SEDARIS: Well, yeah. In the pilot, I look like Mike Dukakis. I had the character down and the facial expressions, but then when we found Florrie Fisher and got into her background, so much just changed. That was a gem; Paul Dinello found that. We were like, ‘Yes, jackpot.’

NUVO: I just love the reaction shots of the kids. They’re a mixture of confusion and detachment.

SEDARIS: Well, yeah; they’re really kind of bored. I’d be at the edge of my seat with my hand up. [When she says,] “I like colors like bone and tan and beige and bone,” you’re like, oh my God! “I’ve had hepatitis six times.”

She takes that pause, like it sounds like she’s lying, before “six times.” Another inspiration for Jerri was the female serial killer that that movie Monster was based on. When I watched the documentary on her, that’s where I got the idea where Jerri Blank would always turn, flip it and then clear the desk off in the principle’s office. It’s like, she’s standing up and saying to the judge, ‘I’m very sorry,’ and going on and on about how bad she feels about killing all those men, and that she was just protecting herself. And then the judge goes, ‘Guilty,’ and she goes, ‘[consult historical record for exceptionally unpleasant curse],’ and says these horrible things. That’s where I got that idea; that’s pretty good.

NUVO: Looking at your book Crafts for Poor People, I was thinking about how an artist said to me that she moved from making furniture to doing craftier things because she didn’t want to make, say, chess sets made out of ebony at $20 per board foot and other terribly expensive materials. It can be more fun to work with stuff where it’s not a disaster if you screw something up.

SEDARIS: That’s what crafting is; you just kind of find it. That’s why it feels like cheating to me when you go to craft stores and go in and buy it already done. [In trademark Sedaris southern accent,] ‘All you have to do is glue the seashell on to the wooden frame and paint it!’ That doesn’t seem crafty to me at all. But I’ve tried to follow Martha Stewart crafts, and first, I never understand the instructions, and second, it never turns out the way it’s supposed to look. So I just wanted to do a book where it’s — actually, this is what it’s going to look like.

NUVO: Do you go to any really out of the way places when you’re looking for craft materials. Do you ever go dumpster diving or pick stuff up off the street?

SEDARIS: Mostly flea markets, and I save everything. And then if I really need something ... I was making a wind chime out of rusty nails, and I couldn’t find any nails because they were all galvanized. So I had to go on eBay, and sure enough, there were enough crazy people selling rusty nails.

NUVO: And how much did you pay for rusty nails?

SEDARIS: Like 10 dollars for a sandwich bag full of them.

NUVO: Well, that seems reasonable.

SEDARIS: Yeah, you can always find it.

Popsicle sticks: I wanted to use popsicle sticks that were stained, and popsicle sticks nowadays have some sort of advertisement on them, so it took the fun out of that. So I would wait, and then I would buy popsicles at the end of summer, and I would watch them drain in the sink.

And that’s how I got the sticks.

SEDARIS: I just finished a fabric line. It’s cotton fabrics, and it’s going to be mostly sold in quilt stores. So that’s coming out in January.

started making cupcakes, and butter went up to six dollars a pound and I was like — I’m not going to do this. I do miss the allowance money, though; it was kind of nice having cash. So when I go on book tours, I sell whatever wares I have.

NUVO: How’s it different from other lines?

NUVO: So that adds to all the book sales?

SEDARIS: Well, crafters like to see things as small patterns; they like to cut things up and sew them back together again. So I had to take that into consideration. And then I also had to take into consideration that each design had to have something in common with the design before it, so I kind of had a color flow going on. So someone might want to buy a yard from the whole collection, and then they can make a quilt. That kind of took the fun out of it for me a little bit, because I wanted to do majorly different designs. But that’s okay; it was a learning experience, and I was excited about it.

SEDARIS: Even if I’m walking out with 20 or 25 dollars, that’s a wad in my pocket, and then you can tip with it and be more extravagant with it.

NUVO: Any other projects you’re working on now?

NUVO: Is this the first time you’ve ever done anything like this?

SEDARIS: They approached me, and I said, ‘No, no; I don’t know anything about fabric.’

But then a friend of mine, Todd Oldham, who’s a designer, said, ‘All it is is knowing what you like, and you know what you like.’

And I thought, ‘Oh,’ and came up with some ideas and hired some artists to draw for me.

So, I’m glad I did it.

NUVO: What do you think of Etsy and Etsy culture? Can it be a little too cute for its own good?

SEDARIS: I think it’s great. At least it’s a place where people can put their stuff. You have an option on Etsy: You can look for stuff that’s handmade, or you can look for vintage. I’ve gotten a few things off Etsy before, and I like it. I just think it’s a good idea.

NUVO: Are you writing anything right now?

SEDARIS: No, I was going to do a TV show, but it just fell through, so I just have to get back to making it happen. Which is fine; we were going to do it for the food channel, and now we’ll just figure out where else to take it.

NUVO: I wonder what it’s like for you fielding offers for TV and movies, because you seem to show up all over the place.

What are your criteria?

SEDARIS: I always like to think of what is it that I really want to do next. I prefer playing characters; it was really easy to do Jerri for three seasons, because I liked playing her and I liked the look and it was our creative project. For me, it’s like, what will I have the most control of? Creatively, what would I like to do here? How long can I do this? It just depends on things like that. It’s kind of about doing something for the first time. With a TV show like Strangers, that was our first time doing something like that — or with a sketch show like Exit 57. So this new idea will just have to be something I’m ready to do, and it’s about, do I want to do something presentational or characterdriven or narrative? It’s about getting it down to that, and then going from there and seeing who will be interested.

NUVO: And how about your cupcake line and other foods?

SEDARIS: If someone called me up and said they really needed a cheese ball or a cupcake, I would do it for them, but I don’t make them for delivery anymore. Everyone

NUVO: So I’m unfortunately going to ask a question based on your Wikipedia page, and it’s because it notes that you played the big Microsoft company meeting, which I bet was kind of odd. Do you usually play stadiums?

SEDARIS: No, and that was another example of them coming to me where I went, ‘No,’ and then my friend Paul went, ‘Oh, yeah; we’ll write something!’ It was the first time for it, and it wasn’t right for me.

But that’s okay; at least I tried it! I don’t like getting up before a group of people like that. That’s why I like Q&As and live interviews; then it gets you talking about stuff, and it seems like everyone’s involved. But when you’re up there with a mic and a teleprompter, and it’s almost like an industrial thing: that’s really hard for me. I’m not a stand-up comic.

NUVO: What are some of the strangest questions you’ve heard during a Q&A? SEDARIS: That’s a good question; I’m sure I’ll think of something really good when I’m off the line. It’s like when someone hands you a book and says, ‘Well, just make it out to me,’ and I say, ‘Well, what’s your name?’ They don’t think. And then when someone says, ‘Just make it out to Jackie,’ and then they say, ‘That’s not how you spell it! There’s a “Gh” before the “j” and it’s silent!’ And I’m like, ‘Well, how the fuck am I supposed to know that?’

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STARTS 08 THURSDAY Ashes to Ashes @ IndyFringe Theatre “What happens when a career-locked man visits his aging hippy father to help spread the ashes of his deceased mother?” we asked in a 4.5-star review of Ashes to Ashes, when it was first staged, by Twilight Productions, at the 2010 IndyFringe Festival. “In this case, really solid drama ... Some of the play’s best moments arise when the two men are simply sitting and reminiscing, borne on waves of remembrance into the past.”

Nov. 8, 7 p.m.; Nov. 9 and 10, 8 p.m.; Nov. 11, 2 p.m.; $10

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NUVO: Do you ever do any writing with David these days?

Insert Coin to Play

SEDARIS: We just did those plays together.

Insert Coin to Play, a show of video game-inspired art, has been open since First Friday at Stutz Art Space, but the opening reception proper is this Friday, when four interested parties will gather to discuss the relationship between gaming and visual art. On the panel are Greg Phillips, partner at Plow Games, a developer of computer, console, mobile and online games for the consumer and educational markets; Barry Geipel, founder of Mantid Creative Studios and a creator of iPhone and iPad games; and Joseph Crone, an artist and Stutz Artists Association Resident. Andy Chen, the show’s curator, will moderate.

NUVO: And there was a run of those in the ‘90s. Do those ever get revived?

SEDARIS: There’s one that we do. We always like the idea of — we’d do it, and then if you saw it, you saw it, and if you didn’t, you didn’t. We’ve had offers where I wanted to do it again, but David always felt very strongly about keeping them in the theater, which I respect completely. But Book of Liz — other people can do that; they have the option. Samuel French sells the play, so I’ll get an e-mail every once in a while from someone who wants to do that.

AN EVENING WITH AMY SEDARIS

@ Stutz Art Space

Nov. 9, 6-9:30 p.m. (open Thu and Fri through Nov. 30), free

Madame Walker Theatre, 617 Indiana Ave.

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$25 (brownpapertickets.com)

Bali Dream

Presented by NoExit Performance, Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival, Indy Pride, with pre- and post-event performances by NoExit.

@ Butler

Thursday, Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m.

This year’s Christel DeHaan Visiting International Theatre Artist, Ida

Nyoman Sedana, hails from Bali and is an expert on his country’s performance traditions, including the warrior dance and shadow puppetry. He concludes his residency with a version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream incorporating Balinese performance elements and presented by a student cast.

Last year’s VITA program (featuring Indian classical drama) proved consciousness-expanding for both students and audiences.

Nov. 9 and 10, 8 p.m.; Nov. 10 and 11, 2 p.m. @ Butler Studio Theatre, Lilly Hall 168, Butler University; $15 general, $10 seniors, $5 students

10 SATURDAY Laughter: The Universal Language @ Congregation Beth-El Zedeck One wonders what’s the tougher crowd for a rabbi-comedian: A full synagogue during a lovely summer morning when to stay inside seems something of a sin, or a comedy club in, oh, say, Atheistsville. Rabbi Bob Alper. He began performing comedy in 1986, and is now up to 100 shows per year. He’ll be joined on a cross-cultural bill by a Muslim comic, Mohammad Amer, who’s been compared to Sinbad and Lee Evans (the British comic, not the wide receiver).

7:30 p.m., $15 (253-3441 for tickets)

11 SUNDAY The Great Pumpkin Fling @ Garfield Park Arts Center We dare you to resist the lure of the Great Pumpkin Fling. There will be trebuchets. And catapults. And many pumpkins, intricately carved

by Ivy Tech culinary students before being ruthlessly hefted, jettisoned and smashed. Little ones will have a chance to create their own miniature catapults and trebuchets.

11 a.m.-2 p.m., free

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11 SUNDAY Spirit & Place Public Conversation @ Indianapolis Museum of Art

09 FRIDAY A Paycheck Away @ Farm Bureau Insurance building Steven is on the brink of homelessness. A 53-year-old Army veteran suffering from PTSD and depression, he received an honorable discharge after the Gulf War. He’s lost his job, his ex-wife won’t talk to him and he’s lost touch with his two adult children.

He’s also afflicted with a profound case of unreality.

You see, Steven is a character in a A Paycheck Away, a game developed for this year’s Spirit & Place in order to teach players about homelessness in Indianapolis. Up to 125 people will have a chance to play Friday, Nov. 9 from 7-9 p.m. at the Farm Bureau Insurance building (225 S. East St.).

A Paycheck Away was developed

by Bottom Line Performance Inc., which designs products, such as games, that help people or organizations get results or behavioral changes, and the Dayspring Center, an emergency shelter for families with children. Characters are based off of real clients or are typical of the local homeless population.

Gameplay is straightforward: Four players are given a packet with a profile sheet that has a picture of and information about their character.

Players start with an amount of money that depends on his or her character’s situation. For instance, the player who gets Willa and Dave, a couple, will start with $520 per month. Dave is unemployed. Willa works at a convenience store 35 hours a week at minimum wage. They live in a pay-by-the-week hotel and pay $125 week in groceries.

Another character in the game, Steven, has no trouble finding jobs, but can’t quite keep them because of substance abuse problems. Each month, the player with Steven’s profile rolls a die to see if he can get into a substance abuse program, which would help him keep his job. The chances aren’t good, just as it’s difficult to get into such programs in real life.

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Characters get paid in week two, but only if they have a job in the game. And then the bills come due.

Willa and Dave usually don’t have enough money to afford both rent and groceries, so they must make the choice: food or shelter. At the end of one month in the game, all players must assess their housing situation.

“That’s when reality kicks in,” said Steve Boller, marketing and communications strategist at Bottom Line.

“They have to roll to see if an exception can be made for them at their shelter, because shelters are usually only 30 days, for an extra 30 days, or if they can get into emergency housing, which there isn’t very much of. Then, they go into second month.”

Play continues, and chance cards, much like those drawn in Monopoly, continue to bring up unforeseen illnesses, expenses or good fortune. The game finishes after three months.

“There were obstacles in there that I hadn’t even thought of myself,” said Herzog, development coordinator at Dayspring Center. “For example, having to make the choice between buying medicine for your child or buying food for that week.”

The percentage of characters in the game who can manage to get themselves out of homelessness closely mirrors the numbers in reality.

“It has to be an immersive and emotional experience,” Boller said. “We tend to learn by doing and by playing a game, you can have the experience.

You’re simulating yourself in homelessness the same way you would play the role of real estate tycoon in Monopoly. It’s as close as you can get to understanding the experience of homelessness without becoming homeless yourself.”

At the end of the game, players are given an opportunity to discuss what they’ve learned.

“The real reason (for the game) is the discussion after,” Boller said. “We playtested the game at IUPUI. The discussions afterwards are amazing. People start coming up with solutions.”

— NATHAN BROWN

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Spirit & Place wraps up Sunday evening with its 17th annual Public Conversation, bringing together three people whose work and lives each have a little something to do with play.

Jane McGonigal is the celebrated author of the 2011 book Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World. She also works with SuperBetter labs to create alternate reality games designed to countenance and solve social and cultural problems in the real world.

Susan Sparks uses her experience as a former trial lawyer to bolster her skills as both a professional comedian and a senior pastor at Madison Avenue Baptist Church in New York City.

And David Darling is a widely acclaimed cellist and multi-instrumentalist, who, in 1986, founded the non-profit organization Music for People, which seeks to foster a holistic, egalitarian approach to musical performance.

NUVO recently spoke with Darling, who won the Grammy in 2010 in the New Age category for his album Prayers for Compassion.

— TAYLOR PETERS

NUVO: The Spirit & Place mission describes using arts and music to explore “sometimes difficult questions and issues through the process of metaphor.” Does that have any resonance with you?

DAVID DARLING: Well, I see my non-profit Music for People as a source for people to find their innate and intuitive behavior toward creativity, toward art, and toward music. We use music by and large because I find it’s one of the easiest mediums to apply to everybody in the same way. So when people begin to rediscover that they can do music because they found drumming or whatever it is, it helps to give them integrity and confidence to continue having something like that in their life.

NUVO: You started Music for People in 1986 in order to promote a “humanistic approach to music.”

DARLING: It came out of my experience, first as a public school music teacher, and then as a college teacher, and then as a professional musician giving workshops throughout the world. I was enthused to try to make a company that gave everybody a chance to begin their musical pursuit again in a positive environment with no negativity, with nobody telling them that they didn’t have the right stuff.

NUVO: And Music for People focuses on improvisation in music.

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David Darling from the archives.

DARLING: There are so many problems sometimes around the learning of music through what we might call the formal way, where you read music on the page. Those things sometimes get in the way of some people who just don’t have that kind of neuro-linguistic system when they’re younger. Improvisation is one of the simplest ways that you can become involved with music because you don’t have to read any notes and your melody can come from your breath, your rhythm comes from your ability to walk. Now we don’t advertise as a certain kind of improvisation, we just say that it’s “free.” We make sure people understand that it’s free — not jazz or anything — it’s just free. So it includes one of the most basic philosophies that has been talked about over the years, that music is actually just sound or sound making, a very holistic approach. We say that music the sound of birds or rivers flowing, the whole world is a musical spectrum.

NUVO: You’ve spoken before about the idea of a “birthright to be musical.”

DARLING: In the holistic sense, in the most pragmatic philosophy that I know about, the idea of a birthright describes what music is. The way I think about it is that all melodies have tension and release patterns in them, we call it sometimes in the theoretical of music the four-one or the fiveone cadence, and every time we breathe we have tension and release as well. I’ve always described that as the perfect musical phrase. So I’ve always said that from birth, even when we’re in the womb and we begin breathing, we’re actually doing music.

I believe music is a form of talking. I see it as a big tent of meaning, and I think it’s important to be very broad about what music really is. It’s not just playing music off a printed page, it’s everything that makes sound in life. There have been many people in recent years that have demonstrated that the voice is the original instrument in a certain way. If you play an instrument it’s okay, but the original one is the voice, and that’s attached to speaking.

5:30 p.m. @ The Toby, Indianapolis Museum of Art; free for event, $5 for parking; spiritandplace.org

Because Ideas MatterRecommended Readings by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Butler University Teleology, First Principles, and Scientific Method in Aristotle’s Biology Allan Gotthelf Oxford 2012 Reviewed by Tiberiu Popa Most readers of Aristotle are familiar with his ethics and political philosophy. More devoted students are also acquainted with his works on metaphysics and natural philosophy. His biological works, however, tend to be less widely read, despite a steady tendency in recent scholarship to make them a centerpiece of any comprehensive attempt to grasp several crucial facets of Aristotelian philosophy.

Biological writings such as Generation of Animals, Parts of Animals, and History of Animals (“history” should be taken in its original sense of “inquiry,” Aristotle vigorously resisted the notion that animal species have evolved through successive stages) are certainly fascinating on their own. Despite their obvious limitations, they often display extraordinary insight and dazzle even modern readers with surprisingly accurate observations, inspired causal explanations, and a peculiar division of genera of animals (quite different from modern taxonomy). These treatises can also shed light on defining aspects of Aristotle’s theories about matter, cause, and substance.

The 16 essays gathered by Allan Gotthelf in this volume elucidate key passages especially from the three treatises mentioned above, and investigate their many connections with Aristotle’s metaphysics, “physics,” and philosophy of science. Gotthelf, a preeminent authority in Aristotelian studies, is also careful to give the measure of the enduring admiration for Aristotle’s biology and of the influence it has exerted.

Indeed, Chapter 15 starts by quoting this line from a letter by Darwin: “Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere school-boys to old Aristotle.” A careful reading of Generation of Animals, etc. can also reveal methods, concepts, and claims that are relevant to contemporary debates, e.g., in philosophy of biology. Gotthelf’s compelling account is thus a most helpful guide to understanding not only the first major episode in the history of what we call today biology, but also the heart of Aristotle’s science, philosophy of science, metaphysics, and natural philosophy.

— Tiberiu Popa is associate professor of philosophy at Butler University.

Go to www.butler.edu/BookReview for more recommendations by the faculty and staff of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Butler University.

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Marine turned ceramicist Ehren Tool has created over 14,000 cups over the past two decades.

Reclaiming Armistice Day Not to mention Vonnegut’s birthday

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 Armistice Day, once a widely celebrated holiday commemorating the close of World War I, has decidedly fallen out of fashion (well, except in France and Belgium). The name itself was jettisoned following World War II in favor of Veterans Day, in order to better celebrate veterans of all wars. That change was borne out of an admirably egalitarian sentiment. But no longer do we celebrate peace — the end to war, and even the notion of an end to all war — on the same day that we recognize vets.

But just as one might curse Columbus on his day for his wholesale dismemberment of those whom he figured just had to be West Indians, it stands to reason that Armistice Day can be reclaimed for our own ends. Thus, we have what bodes to be one of Spirit & Place’s most outstanding events — Veterans Reclaim Armistice Day: Healing through the Humanities, an afternoon’s worth of talks, activities and conversation devoted to better understanding

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the relationship between creativity and the soldier, with a little extra attention to one veteran and native son, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Vonnegut, whose birthday just happens to be Nov. 11, returned again and again to the battlefield in his work. His Slaughterhouse-Five might be said to mimic in its structure the experience of a soldier suffering from PTSD. It roams from past to present, with seemingly little cause and effect. One moment, a middle-aged, befuddled Billy Pilgrim is sitting in his basement, his feet turning blue from the cold; the next he’s trudging through the cold, a chaplain’s assistant captured by the Germans.

It’s not hard to find other examples in Vonnegut’s work: His Bluebeard ends as its narrator shows off a mural that reproduces a single, obsessively-recalled scene from World War II, a memory from his days spent with other freed prisoners of war abandoned to their devices in the German countryside.

Each detail is meticulously rendered, every facial expression, maybe every blade of grass, in immersive, larger-than-life form.

Those writings, according to Kurt’s son Mark Vonnegut, who will take part in Sunday’s event, are a record of his father’s attempt to process his memories. “When I look at my father, he was really a privileged, smart aleck kid before he went through what he went through,” Vonnegut, a pediatrician, said from his Massachusetts office.

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“In coming to terms with what he went through as a prisoner of war and everything else, he grew up in a hurry, and he really made a lot of it, and I think that’s a good model of ‘don’t let it get you down.’

While Vonnegut is concerned that a diagnosis of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder might be used to invalidate veterans by labeling them as something less than sane, he emphasized that his father “overcame what would have been called PTSD by being involved in the arts, and I think that works for other people, as well.”

And it’s those other people who are paramount for Vonnegut, who noted that Sunday’s event ought not to be merely about his Dad, but “should be controlled and determined by the vets.” That’s part and parcel of Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library Executive Director Julia Whitehead’s vision for the library as an organization that not only advocates for Vonnegut’s legacy, but also for those causes to which Vonnegut gave full-throated support via his work.

It’s safe to call this one of the library’s biggest programs yet, though Whitehead would likely hasten to add that the library isn’t the only presenting organization (several veterans groups are on that list, as well as Indiana Humanities, the Indiana National Guard and WFYI). Participants include Dr. Jonathan Shay, who has devoted much of working life to studying PTSD and help-

ing vets to heal wounds, both internal and external; Steve Inskeep, the NPR host, who will interview Shay; and Ehren Tool, an Iraq war soldier turned ceramicist who has given away over 14,000 cups that bear some manner of war-related imagery. The day begins with keynote speech by Shay, before breaking into workshops and closing with a panel discussion and performance.

Magic cups While “healing” is a key part of the event’s title, it’s interesting to note that the Berkeley, Calif.-based Tool, who plans to create hundreds of cups while visiting Indianapolis, wasn’t initially compelled by the notion that art, in and of itself, can have a cathartic effect. “But I had this show in Los Angeles, and I made 1200 cups, and I laid them all out to make sure I made the right kind of shelves and things,” he said in a phone interview. “Looking at 1200 cups I thought, ‘Oh, shit,’ I might have crossed that line between productive and obsessive.”

Tool freely gives his cups away to people from all walks of life, notably fellow vets and family members of vets. “Yeah, I’m not a religious person but as for vocation, what God c alls you to do — for me, it’s making these fucking cups!” he said. “If I was a doctor, I’d volunteer for Doctors Without Borders. But cups is what I make, and the

VETERANS RECLAIM ARMISTICE DAY: Healing through the Humanities Sunday, Nov. 11, 12:30-4:30 p.m.

Indiana War Memorial, 431 N. Meridian St. Free (registration available), more information at vonnegutlibrary.org

12:30-1:50 p.m.

• Video message from Tom Steinbeck, John Steinbeck’s son • Talk by Mark Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut’s son, about Vonnegut’s war experience and Slaughterhouse-Five • Keynote speech by Dr. Jonathan Shay, a clinical psychiatrist doing on-the-ground work with soldiers with PTSD

2-3:30 p.m. Breakout sessions • Hands-on art experience moderated by Christiane O’Hara from ArtReach • Talks with Mark Vonnegut and Dr. Jonathan Shay (interviewed by Steve Inskeep) • Readings by Jason Poudrier and Dr. Elizabeth Weber; workshop led by Barbara Shoup from the Writers’ Center of Indiana • Talks by visual artists Ehren Tool and Tom Hubbard and U.S. Army art curator Renee Klish • Viewing and discussion of the documentary Coming Home: Military Families Cope with Change

3:40-4:30 p.m.

• Performance of The Tiger’s Whisker by Doug Berky • Panel Discussion • Message from Andy Jacobs SUBMITTED PHOTO

Mark Vonnegut and son on the circle.

message in the cups is what I believe in. It seems a very small and very impotent thing to do, but it’s what I believe in.”

Compared rather unfairly to Vincent D’Onfrio’s character in Full Metal Jacket in one profile, Tool nonetheless looks more like the stereotype of a craftsman and artisan than a rarefied fine artist. He calls himself an “object maker,” notes that he’s a “mediocre potter” who’s happy to shirk the responsibility of having to defend his work in the “true art world,” and is aware of the double-edged nature of fame: He abandoned a project that saw him writing letters and sending cups to those somehow connected to the the U.S. military because he found that some correspondents looked him up on Google before replying.

“A lot of the work I make now is for specific people: Fathers or sons or whoever,” he said, noting that he doesn’t stamp any sort of military insignias on his cups unless supplied by a vet’s family. “I don’t show that to anybody; I don’t even photograph a lot of work that I make for people like that. It’s the best work I’ve made! But it’s not mine, almost.

As an object maker, making something for somebody that really appreciates it is the goal. I made some cups for this woman in Los Angeles, and I thought she was gonna drop them; she started crying right away, and it looked like she got

weak in the knees. It’s an honor and a privilege to be part of that person’s life.”

“It’s cool to see those cups as part of an exhibition, on the wall, that sort of shit, but it’s so much cooler for me to think about them traveling through time and space, from hand to hand,” he continued. “You get a cup, and because somebody loves you, you pass that to them, and they hold on to that cup because it was special to you. That’s magic to me, to think that I put it in your hand, and you put it in someone else’s, and then, 500,000 to a million years later if somebody’s around, they pick it up and have the same experience. It takes some of the pressure off me too because I have 500,000 to 1 million years to find an audience for my work, right?”

Soldiers as artists Of course, not all art about war — not even all art about war made by soldiers — need have cathartic ends. Renee Klish, retired art curator for the U.S. Army, will talk Sunday about Army-commissioned artwork created since World War I, when a group of soldier-artists were first sent to the field with the mission, according to Klish, to “paint what you see, in whatever style and whatever medium, as long as it’s recognizable.”

They were charged to create art as reportage, with the Army also keeping an eye toward its propaganda value. Klish

distinguishes this body of work, created by artists employed by all branches of the armed forces up to present, from that created by soldiers years after their war experiences. Not that the artists didn’t create work with significant emotional impact, including graphic pieces that show the Army in less than the greatest light.

On the whole the collection is valuable, according to Klish, because it shows “the everyday life of the soldier. You don’t have just war scenes. You also have scenes in camp, of soldiers interacting with civilians.

You have every aspect, from the mundane to the battle.” Some great talents were engaged by the Army, which still maintains a permanent post of soldier-artist, over the years.

“I love the collection, which is kind of ironic because I’m pretty much a pacifist,” Klish said. “You really have the creme de la creme of mid-century artists, a lot of people who came from the WPA program.

I had curators come from other museums and their jaws dropped. That’s why I called the collection the greatest collection that nobody had ever heard of.”

so it goes The library’s new literary journal, So It Goes, the first issue of which should appear Nov. 11 (assuming Hurricane Sandy’s interruptions haven’t interrupted the supply

chain), may likewise offer possible discoveries or re-discoveries for the reader looking to better understand war and the soldier’s life.

J.T. Whitehead, the journal’s editor and husband to Julia Whitehead, the library’s executive director, saw So It Goes through an incredibly short gestation period. The journal’s team had about two months to put the journal together after a grant was received in mid-July. One month was spent collecting material, the other in dealing with proofing, editing, layout and all other concerns.

“The first-ever reader of So It Goes told us that we should never (have to) explain to anyone that we did this thing in one month, that it stands on its own, that it needs no excuses,” Whitehead said. “And I like to think that’s true, but the chaos that accompanied the shrunken time-line is one of the things that makes the story behind the magazine interesting, I think.”

The journal draws from four groups of contributors. First there were the “dead people,” some of whose works were drawn from Whitehead’s personal anthology, a collection Whitehead has compiled over the past two decades, typing up quotes or poems that catch his fancy.

“Second, I went for new work from living poets, and for that I used my own personal anthology again, but I also looked through all of the contributors copies that magazines send you when they publish your poetry,” Whitehead said. He found work by Donald W. Baker, Robert Bly, Hayden Carruth, James Norcliffe, David Pointer using his anthology; and Marge Piercy, Robert West, Gerald Locklin, Julie Kane, A.D. Winans, Elana Bell rose to the top by looking through those free journals. Some of the living poets contributed new work; Whitehead says there are about 40 new works and 25 previously published work included in the first issues.

Then Whitehead drew from friends of Vonnegut and friends of the library, soliciting work from Dan Wakefield, James Alexander Thom, Morley Safer, and Sidney Offit. And finally he pulled from unsolicited manuscripts sent to the library, some of which turned out to be excellent.

Whitehead said the idea had been out there to create literary magazine from the library’s founding — and maybe even before that, given that he and his wife, who met as English students in college, had always dreamed of founding some kind of little magazine. Julia Whitehead said she was concerned about how it would look for her husband to be the editor, but that he was simply the best person for the job.

J.T. Whitehead notes that, given that he has 120 poems in print, was a Pushcart nominee and knows the territory, he was uniquely poised to jump into the scene and connect with fellow writers and editors.

But Whitehead (J.T. this time, though Julia would spread this love) is quick to give credit to his collaborators, including production designer Shannon Bahler and designer Sara Lunsford. Copies will be available for $12, more than likely by Nov. 10, when the library will host an book launch for the new Dan Wakefieldedited collection of Vonnegut’s letters (see pg. 24 for a review). Veterans will get a free copy on at the Nov. 11 event, as will all contributors.

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Back to Kurt And as we see Vonnegut’s letters published and become witness to the kind of post-humous studies that look at the man behind the work, we might come to admire even more the fortitude that it took him to do what he did. As Mark Vonnegut put it, “I always thought that there were two separate things running through my family: one was art, and the other was mental challenges. And I’ve really come to see that the arts really do help transform your past and help you grow from it, and that’s something I realized relatively recently.”

Mark Vonnegut’s two memoirs bear witness to that theory: Both deal frankly and lucidly with his bouts with severe mental illness, which, he notes, very nearly knocked him out of running to become a contributing member of society. He can identify with those vets who feel themselves laden down by, rather than helped by, a PTSD diagnosis.

“I’ve heard from a fair number of vets who are wary about PTSD and who think the diagnosis will be used to invalidate them and their experiences, and I share that concern,” he said. “If somebody is trying to use a diagnosis to try to invalidate somebody, which wouldn’t be the first time the medical profession did that, let’s be aware of that.”

FROM WAR STORIES: A MEMOIR OF NIGERIA AND BIAFRA

BY JOHN SHERMAN

Excerpted from So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library I am carrying a dead baby. I have never done this before. Last night, the woman stayed in this house with her baby on an I-V. Brace insisted on sleeping downstairs near them so he could be awakened if anything was wrong.

Olive wanted to take his place, but he said no. The baby lived through the night, but this morning while we were getting dressed, it died. The mother cried out when Brace confirmed what she feared. The other three arranged to go to our clinic today in the one Land Rover and I am assigned the task of taking her and the baby near her village.

Brace is very specific. I am not to take her all the way home. She lives about four miles off the main road and he is afraid there might be Biafrans, or even deserting Nigerians, who will take the vehicle and who might bump me off in the process. I don’t think that is likely

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What would the medical establishment think, after all, of someone like Billy Pilgrim, Slaughterhouse-Five’s protagonist, whose profound insights are, in part, garnered from lessons taught him by extraterrestrials who sucked them into their spaceship one night?

Or even a guy like Kurt Vonnegut himself, who Mark describes as a distant father, quick to detach, pathologically afraid of being embarrassed, and with whom he came close to having an irrevocable falling out: “While he was alive I realized that this could end badly, because things were hairy from time to time. But when all was said and done, I think myself and my sisters have come around. You can’t be afraid of him anymore, so you might as well just appreciate him.”

Boiled down to their diagnoses, neither Vonnegut — either the manic-depressive son or the shell-shocked father — might have been thought of as trustworthy or worth hearing out. But here’s the thing, for all those who might find themselves marginalized: It’s the nature of art that one can’t just brush it aside because its creator seems, you know, a bit touched.

“You can’t just sort of invalidate art,” Vonnegut said. “You can say Van Gogh had mental illness, but they’re astonishingly good however he came to make them.” And vets have astonishing insights and testimony to offer, no matter what path takes them there.

since it is stark white with large red crosses on all four sides and even on the roof. But when I mention that, it doesn’t faze him. He mentions land mines on the dirt road as another possibility, and that convinces me, finally, that I must not drive the extra few miles.

I take the baby from the cot. It reminds me of picking up a piece of Styrofoam for the first time. Your arms go up sharply when they are confronted with a lot less weight than they were expecting. The mother gathers her few belongings while I hold the baby and follow her outside. I am glad to be able to hand it over to her when she is quietly sitting on the front seat. A cruel irony is here: the baby’s surprisingly light weight comes to me in comparative images: baked egg whites. Meringue.

Food. Nothing but food.

We ride in silence. I had never noticed before that the keys banged so hard against the steering column. I hear everything. The shifting of gears. The wooden boxes in the back of the van sliding into one another. I imagine I hear the child breathing ...

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Eric Weiner @ Arthur M. Glick JCC Former NPR correspondent and putative agnostic Eric Weiner travels around the world to investigate the ultimate answers in his new book, Man Seeks God. Sample quote: “More than any other faith on my dance card, Islam necessitates a reaction. That one word — meaning both “submission” and “peace” — elicits fear, admiration, puzzlement, full-body scans.”

7 p.m., part of the Ann Katz Festival of Books and Arts; $5 public, $3 JCC members; jccindy.org

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Motus Dance Theatre’s Cultivate @ White Rabbit Cabaret What you have here is a do-it-yourself showcase for young choreographers, with a $300 prize for the winner of the Motus Emerging Choreographer Award. Motus provided the rehearsal and performance space, help with auditions for dancers, promotion and peer feedback; choreographers provided the raw ideas and talent. Among the seven choreographers are Tommy Lewey (of PaperStrangers and NoExit fame), Sara Little (as seen in Hasenpfeffer on the White Rabbit stage) and Amie Dillion (who was once a competitive Highland dancer).

Nov. 8-10, 8 p.m.; $12 advance (eventbrite.com), $15 door; motusdance.com

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ISO’s Spanish Seductions @ Hilbert Circle Theatre Classical guitarist Milos Karadaglic is the guest of honor for an all-Spanish program featuring Ravel’s Alborada del graciso, Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez, Turina’s Sinfonia Sevillana and RimskyKorsakov’s Capriccio espagnol. Karadaglic is something of an up-and-comer; here’s a Huffington Post writer on his recent performance at Joe’s Pub in NYC: “He took command, not by demanding attention, but by drawing the audience in, sensuously, hauntingly, and with a clarity of purpose and technique.”

Nov. 8, 11 a.m.; Nov. 9, 8 p.m.; Nov. 10, 5:30 p.m.; tickets vary; indianapolissymphony.org

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Body Mind Spirit Expo @ Indiana State Fairgrounds Need crystals and healing stones, aura photos, an astrological reading, personal growth counseling, aromatherapy supplies, vitamins, minerals, herbs or supplements? The Body Mind Spirit Expo has you covered, with 60 “holistic” exhibitors, 40 free lectures (including a talk by psychic Marilene Isaacs concerning the “sacred geometry” of Indianapolis) and all manner of relaxing massage. $10 gets you in for the weekend.

Nov. 10, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Nov. 11, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. @ Grand Hall, Indiana State Fairgrounds; $10; bmse.net

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Indy Winter Farmers Gathering of Writers Market opening @ Indiana Landmarks Center Joseph, the author of six poet@ Indianapolis City Market ry Allison collections and director of the Young It’s back! And in newly-refurbished digs.

The Indy Winter Farmers Market reappears Saturday at The Platform, the name for the reconstructed west wing of the Indianapolis City Market that’s now home to LISC and other non-profits. It’ll be there every Saturday through April 27, 2013, but for Dec. 29 — and, it goes without saying, pending the Apocalypse. The first 250 people through the door this week will receive a $5 coupon that can be used toward purchases at any of the market’s 60-plus vendors. Free bike parking is available at the Indy Bike Hub, over there in the east wing.

Every Saturday beginning Nov. 10, 9 a.m.12:30 p.m., indywinterfarmersmarket.org

Writers Workshop at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, is the keynote speaker at the Writers’ Center of Indiana’s annual Gathering of Writers, a full day of classes and workshops devoted to all things writing. Writer’s Center faculty will suggest approaches to writing fiction, poetry and non-fiction; additional presenters include novelist Barb Shoup, executive director of the Writers’ Center and a 2012 Indiana Author Award winner.

10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; $100 public, $75 Writers’ Center members, $25 students (includes breakfast and lunch); indianawriters.org

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Billy Elliot @ Old National Centre The small-town British boy who thought he could dance plies his irrepressible self to Indy in the Broadway Across America season opener. Elton John wrote the music, Lee Hall the book, and Billy is played by a rotating cast of teens and tweens. Head to nuvo.net for an interview by Rita Kohn with Ben Cook, one of the actors playing Billy.

Rita Kohn was in the audience in Louisville when actor Ben Cook made his premiere appearance in the lead role, then took the time to chat with him prior to the Indy run.

NUVO: What is the most challenging aspect of portraying Billy Elliot?

BEN COOK: It requires a lot of stamina, you really have to know how to pace yourself.

Billy is on stage for almost the entire show, and he’s acting, singing and dancing the entire time. The Billys are on stage twice a week and on standby for two shows, but we also take ballet, acro[batics], and cardio classes to be in top physical condition.

NUVO: How do you keep the story fresh for each performance?

COOK: This company is one big family, doing our best to give the audience a great show they will remember. We pick each other up and we laugh a lot backstage. We work closely with the resident

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director and choreographer and constantly make little changes — a different step, a different way to read the line.

NUVO: How did you prepare for the role?

COOK: I started auditioning for Billy when I was 9, five years ago this month, and though I loved dance, I didn’t have the ballet and tap skills necessary for the role.

I didn’t like ballet then, but I felt a connection to Billy’s story, so I continued to train while working in theaters in the Washington, D.C. area. Every few months I would be called back for another “Billy” audition. In 2009, I moved to New York to be in Ragtime. After it closed I was cast in the Broadway production of Billy as Tall Boy/Posh Boy and understudy to Michael, Billy’s best friend. I did that for 15 months, became really serious about ballet and tap and joined the tour as Michael last year.

That’s when I started training for Billy.

Nov. 13-18, tickets vary, indianapolis. broadway.com

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A&E REVIEWS DEATH FOR SYDNEY BLACK NOEXIT PERFORMANCE AT BIG CAR SERVICE CENTER, THROUGH NOV. 17 t Mash up fairy tales, Mean Girls, and Pygmalion, then toss in a few more female archetypes and stereotypes, and you’ve got Death for Sydney Black. The play follows home-schooled ingénue Nancy (Leah DeWalt) as she attends her first high school and attempts to befriend or destroy Sydney Black (Callie Burk), queen of the cheer clique. A trio of other cheerleaders serves as a macabre chorus, outlining both the rules and travails of a woman’s life. Jen, the quirky sidekick with “oddball interests and hidden artistic talents” is the narrator, played by Arianne Villareal with a wry sense of humor and a ukulele. Burk plays Sydney’s boyfriend, too, and she nails it, mixing Bieber-like R&B crooning with hip-hop lite dance moves to demonstrate sensitivity with the ladies.

The play almost overwhelms with an onslaught of references, and at times the ideas and direction feel jumbled, with dialogue lost amid frenetic activity. It’s also overlong, and devolves a bit into 1970s new-age mumbo jumbo, where it could have wrapped nicely by giving more time to the liberated Nancy, who realizes that she must be not only beautiful, rich, and successful, but also self-deprecating and edgy.

But Leah Nanako Winkler’s exploration of how women think of themselves, while bombarded by the perceptions and expectations of others, is worthwhile and often funny.

— STACEY MICKELBART

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Patricia Hodges in The House That Jack Built .

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THEATER THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT INDIANA REPERTORY THEATRE, THROUGH NOV. 25 r In a new show by IRT playwright-in-residence James Still, a family of five struggles to move on more than a decade after the death of a loved one. Five talented actors expertly set the all-too-familiar atmosphere of a holiday reunion, drawing us into their world as they dance around conflicting opinions about religion, politics and the best way to mix a drink. The ensemble so thoroughly connects with each other via clever dialogue and knowing looks that our attentions are held rapt, even as the script withholds information that might define their relationships for longer than expected.

Yet as the play unfolds its deep secrets, the kind that every family struggles not to bring up during the holidays, one comes to wonder if The House That Jack Built wants to be a topical play about this American life, or a character-driven piece depicting unraveling relationships. Both options are there, but neither is realized fully. Regardless, the play got me thinking — about American paranoia, about my family and our changing traditions, about the way I intend to approach the looming season of giving thanks. And that’s all I ever really want from a new piece of theatre.

INSERT COIN TO PLAY STUTZ ART SPACE, THROUGH NOV. 30 e The theme of this Spirit & Place Festival-tied exhibition is video games and their influence on artists and art. And in the world of video gaming, no characters are more iconic than the Super Mario Brothers. Jason Rowland convincingly depicts the face of Mario, on his spray paint on wood “Warp Zones,” composed on three different levels of wood, raised one above the other to mimic the levels to be found in the game. Drew Etienne’s painting “Cold Future” (acrylic, ink & pencil on canvas) also echoes the Mario games with its odd yet geometrically-shaped blocks floating under a yellowish sky. The painting seems to portray the future as something unattainable (unless you have the jumping powers of a Mario or Luigi).

A number of the pieces in this Andy Chen-curated show are digitally created works of art, such as the luminous “Taotie City” by Matt Williamson.

The argument is also made here, by its inclusion of Esteban Garcia’s “BT Corn Game,” that video games are works of art that can be appreciated equally in an arcade or a gallery setting. The protagonist in this video game is an ear of genetically-modified corn with legs that you can lead, by way of joystick, from a cornfield, past various agricultural buildings, and toward the distant horizon and whatever lays beyond. [This is a review of the show’s preview; don’t miss the opening and subsequent panel discussion on Nov. 9.]

— KATELYN COYNE

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RACHEL RITCHFORD: FUTURE DAYS MT COMFORT, THROUGH NOV. 30 e New York/Berlin based artist Rachel Ritchford’s current body of work “examines the phenomenon of geometric abstraction as a metaphorical interpretation of psychedelic and entheogenic experiences,” according to the text for the exhibition, which shares its title with spacey krautrock band Can’s album Future Days. The paintings do, indeed, have a washed out, drug-induced aura. A sense of wonderment and bliss is skillfully embodied in her work in the show, which consists of seven oil paintings that vary in size and color palatte, all but one featuring a landscape.

Ritchford’s focus is always on the sky, which is then overlaid with geometric patterns, varying in intensity and complexity, that capture the feeling of staring at clouds. Upon closer inspection, one sees the presence of the artist’s hand, with some of the overlays lining up just off center, or lines converging in such a way as to form an imperfect angle. This brings to mind Frank Stella’s large shaped canvases, where the negative spaces of the compositions appeared perfect from a distance but imperfect upon close inspection.

Ritchford’s mix of focus and distortion, precision and human imperfection, come together to form a cohesive and engaging series.

— CHARLES FOX

KYLE RAGSDALE: TABLEAUX HARRISON CENTER FOR THE ARTS, THROUGH NOV. 30 r This show marks something of a new direction for Ragsdale, who, after attending Oxbow, the Art Institute of Chicago’s summer camp, came back to Indy with some new ideas about painting. Banished are his levitating, ghostlike figures in profile, parading against luminous backdrops with their top hats and parasols. And while many of his figures in this new series of paintings remain dressed in historical garb, the settings are more down to earth, but no less colorful, than those found in much of his earlier work. In “Playing in the Streets I,” you see three figures who look like they just stepped out of a James Whitcomb Riley poetry reading circa 1905 to

find themselves stranded in 2012. (The setting is what looks to me like East Street, in front of the Lockerbie Central United Methodist Church.) The figures, two men and one woman quite literally playing in the street, are painted in Ragsdale’s usual glancing, impressionistic style. Ragsdale had friends and family pose for photographs that he used as reference for this series. The results, it seems, are more relaxed and naturalistic depictions than those found in his previous work. With its newfound, consistent attention paid to linear perspective — creating a needed sense of depth — this show seems new and fresh.

— DAN GROSSMAN

MUSIC BRAHMS’ REQUIEM HILBERT CIRCLE THEATRE, NOV. 1-2 e In the 19th century, we have Requiem settings

by Berlioz, Fauré and Verdi based on the Latin Mass for the Dead — and, last but not least, Brahms’ A German Requiem, set to Biblical texts, in German, of the composer’s own choosing.

Former ISO music director John Nelson (19761987), an acknowledged choral conductor and devoutly religious himself, was an excellent choice to be the podium guest for the Brahms Requiem on Friday and Saturday, along with two vocal soloists and the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, directed by Eric Stark. This was Nelson’s first podium appearance anywhere since losing his wife, Anita, three weeks earlier to cancer.

Aga Mikolaj provided the soprano voice for Part V, in turn giving us splendid vocalism: powerful, well projecting and evenly centered. She made that part the high point of the evening. The Choir did its usual good job handling Brahms’ thick-textured harmonies and occasional digressive forward motion. Nelson was clearly at home throughout the hour and five minutes, keeping his players and singers well in tow with a slightly brisk tempo. The concert opened with Mozart’s short, early motet, Exsultate jubilate, for soprano and orchestra, again featuring Mikolaj. This time, however, she did not impress so much, her delivery seemingly nervous, her vibrato too rapid. I was dumbfounded later when she showed what she really had in the Brahms. Perhaps changing her gown from red to black made the difference. For a more detailed review visit nuvo.net.

— TOM ALDRIDGE

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Lectures, performances, sculpture, readings, painting and interactivity are used to explore how artistic expression can help veterans and military personnel communicate their experiences to others.

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MARK VONNEGUT

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Kick-Off Saturday 11/10 9 AM - 1 PM IU Health Saxony Hospital, 13000 E. 136th St., Fishers with on-site document destruction by All-Shred

Rush Hour Recycling 11/14 - 11/16 7 AM - 9 AM RecycleIndy Wednesday • Big Car Service Center, 3819 Lafayette Road • Irvington Presbyterian Church, 55 Johnson Ave. (Off Washington) • Indy Express Bus Park & Ride @ Carmel Meijer

America Recycles Thursday • Second Presbyterian Church, 7700 N. Meridian St. • Craig Park 10 E. Smith Valley Rd., Greenwood from 2 - 6 pm • Indy Express Bus Park & Ride @ Prairie View at Crosspoint Fishers

IU Health Friday • IU Health Methodist Hospital, 18th St. & Capitol Ave. • IU Health University Hospital/Lockefield Green Park W. North St. & Blake St., IUPUI Campus • Riley Hospital for Children, Simon Family Tower 705 Riley Hospital Dr. • IU Health Call Center, 250 N. Shadeland

Super Saturday 11/17 9 AM - 1 PM • Southern Plaza Kroger, 4202 S. East St. • Speedway Kroger, 5718 Crawfordsville Road • Connor Prairie, 13400 Allisonville Road, Fishers

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From the cover to Kurt Vonnegut: Letters

BOOKS KURT VONNEGUT: LETTERS EDITED BY DAN WAKEFIELD, DELACORTE PRESS, $35 e At last: the Vonnegut book readers of the late modern master have been waiting for.

Since his passing in 2007, Kurt Vonnegut has inspired an ever-growing number of works, including attempts at retrospective critical analysis and biography, as well as the publication of previously uncollected short stories.

For the most part, these efforts have been like guests at a wake, trying hard to put the best face on what is finally an irretrievable loss.

What a pleasure, then, for this collection of Vonnegut’s letters to come steaming round the bend. It’s his voice again, live as ever, clear and unvarnished, with the pop and crackle of a hardwood fire on an Autumn night.

We have Dan Wakefield, a longtime friend of Vonnegut’s and, like Vonnegut, a native son of Indianapolis, to thank for this book. “Reading these letters has allowed me to know my friend Kurt Vonnegut better and to appreciate him even more,” Wakefield writes in his introduction.

Wakefield combed through roughly 1,000 letters to arrive at this collection, which, to a great extent, reflects what it was like to be a writer at a very particular time in American literary history.

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Vonnegut worked hard to make a career for himself when magazines like Collier’s and the Saturday Evening Post made a practice of paying top dollar for short stories. As he wrote to the widow of one of his early compadres, John D. MacDonald: “If our school of

writing had a name, what would be a good one? I suggest this: ‘The Professionals.’”

And so the larger portion of letters in this book addresses, in one way or another, the business of writing when, in fact, writing could be a business.

Vonnegut was always keenly aware of himself as an artist living within a capitalistic system and the need, therefore, to be entrepreneurial. He worried and griped about payments and agents, diversified by hitting the lecture circuit and never tired of angling after other forms, especially the theater.

The most moving letters found here, though, are those addressed to Vonnegut’s daughter Nanny, in the wake of the dissolution of his marriage to Jane Cox, mother of Nanny and her two siblings, Mark and Edith. One senses in this sequence, written mostly during the 1970’s, Vonnegut’s desperate love for his children, his need to try and make things right between them and, at the same time, a tragic dawning as he allows that his greatest wounds are probably self-inflicted. “Just know that I love you,” he writes, “and that I wish you knew me, for good or ill, better than you do.”

Vonnegut’s writing, as Wakefield points out, “like his conversation, is often surprising, because it makes you laugh and makes you think…” This plain-spoken quality, one that Vonnegut never ceased to attribute to his education and upbringing in Indianapolis, is generously displayed throughout Letters. For those of us that miss Kurt Vonnegut, it makes this collection a gift. Pick up this book, it’s like having him by your side.

— DAVID HOPPE

There will be a free reception with Dan Wakefield at the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library on Saturday, Nov. 10 at 5 p.m.

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The Sessions is an unflinching, moving and often funny story about dignity and sexuality. It follows the fact-based quest of writer Mark O‘Brien, a survivor of childhood polio, to lose his virginity. Confined to an iron lung for all but a few hours a day, O’Brien cannot move his body, but he can feel what happens to it. He can also get erections. Compelled by a feeling that he is “coming close to his ‘use by’ date,” he decides to explore the idea of working with a sexual surrogate, seeking the counsel of a Catholic priest. John Hawkes (Winter’s Bone) plays O’Brien, Helen Hunt plays Cheryl, the sex surrogate, and William H. Macy plays Father Brendan. Writer/director Ben Lewin’s film is as impressive as its cast.

The sex scenes are startling at first. Helen Hunt gets very naked for extended periods of time (the 49-year-old is in remarkable shape, by the way) and the intimacy of the sexual therapy is periodically disquieting.

The segments are fascinating and tender, but I had trouble shaking the feeling that I had no business watching something so personal, proof of the movie’s effectiveness.

I loved, and believed, the performances of Hawkins, Hunt and Moon Bloodgood as Vera, one of O’Brien’s caregivers. William H. Macy’s priest feels more like a script device than a person, but the actor is so likable that it doesn’t matter. The Sessions celebrates a determined man who uses humor to lighten the weight of his burden and a group of people who help him fill in the blanks of his life. Inspiring fare.

What a treat. Skyfall manages to present the strikingly choreographed and totally outrageous action scenes you expect from a James Bond film with a story that places the hero squarely into contemporary culture. The movie questions whether Bond and his old school compatriots are necessary in a high tech world. It feels grounded in reality, an amazing achievement given the stunts, the over-the-top behavior of the villain, and a key scene that echoes Home Alone. Thanks, director Sam Mendes (American Beauty).

To my mind, there are only two Bonds at this point, Sean Connery and Daniel Craig.

Craig remains in peak form here, as the film references its history without getting too cutesy about it. Judi Dench gets more screentime than usual as the pursed-lipped M. The grand cast also includes Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Albert Finney and the delightful Naomie Harris.

Then there’s Javier Bardem’s villainous Silva, whose theatrical behavior springs from an understandable angst. Memo to Silva: When your formidable opponent falls through a hole in the ice into the water below, try waiting more than 20 seconds before assuming he is dead and walking away. Kudos to all involved, incidentally, for the scene where Silva touches a bound 007 in a sexually suggestive fashion in an attempt to further mess with his mind.

Bond’s comeback line to Silva is priceless.

Bottom line: Skyfall is not simply one of the very best Bond films, it’s one of the year’s best movies, period.

— ED JOHNSON-OTT

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Frontline provides a compelling, inside look at assisted suicide, focusing the majority of the documentary on assisted suicide advocate Final Exit Network, and its series of legal struggles. Various perspectives are presented in this excellent, well-made and sober work: a physician, an activist, a son, a daughter, a prosecutor, jurors — and, most movingly, an 83 year-old suicidee named Joan Butterstein. As the baby boomers age and face, in a tidal wave of humanity, end of life decisions, this conversation of suicide will come fully out of the shadows. The Suicide Plan, produced, directed and written by Miri Navasky and Karen O’Connor, adds to an essential conversation. Watch it with friends and loved ones, then talk with others about it. Airs Tuesday, Nov. 13, 9:30 p.m. on WFYI. — Jim Poyser

FILM CLIPS INDIANAPOLIS LGBT FILM FESTIVAL

Two of our very favorite groups are behind this weekend’s Indy LGBT Film Fest: Indy Pride Inc., which took the fest under its wings a few years back, and Indiana Youth Group, for which the fest is a fundraiser. Opening night is Nov. 9 at the Toby with Cloudburst, a Canadian production starring a couple Oscar winners — Olympia Dukakis (Stella) and Brenda Fricker (Dot) — as a couple of over 30 years having to deal with a granddaughter determined to put Dot in a home and Stella out on the street.

Screenings run through the day on Nov. 10 at both IUPUI and The Toby, including Southern comedy Tennessee Queer, the Provincetown-filmed Bearycity 2: The Proposal, romantic comedy Elliot Loves and omnibus of erotic male film Sexual Tension: Volatile at The Toby. And the Nov. 11 slate at Herron includes documentary exploring Melville’s fall-out from a Fort Worth gay bar raid. Head to indylgbtfilmfest.com for more info.

Tickets run $8 for individual screenings, with full-festival passes available.

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Seven by one of the smartest filmmakers in the world, whose work engages substantially and often brilliantly with post-colonial issues. Nov. 8: The Intruder (2004), opaque, deliberate and continent-spanning. Nov. 10: Beau Travail (1999), inspired by Billy Budd; Trouble Every Day (2001), her vampire film. N ov. 11: White Material (2009), starring a strong-willed Isabelle Huppert. Denis is scheduled to attend screenings on Nov. 10 and 11.

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BY KATY CARTER EDITORS@NUVO.NET October 31 usually means just one thing for children across America — consume as much candy as possible. But last Wednesday saw a healthier spin on the typical Halloween, as students at The Chef’s Academy spent the day volunteering in seven Indianapolis Public School high schools, crafting upgraded versions of typical dishes and helping to educate students about better eating choices.

Created in conjunction with First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! program, the Chefs Move to Schools initiative is part of a month-long partnership between members of the American Culinary Foundation (including The Chef’s Academy, Ivy Tech, The Art Institute and Second Helpings) and Indianapolis Public Schools.

“The program gets chefs involved with food service directors — not to uproot what they do, but to meet with nutritionists and dietitians, and come up with a healthy twist on what they’re offering,” says chef Jason Anderson, who spent his morning at Arsenal Tech High School.

Anderson was quick to point out that he admires efforts already underway in IPS schools to make the lunch options as fresh and healthy as possible.

“IPS’s Food Service Program is ranked in the top 10 in the United States as far as meeting nutritional guidelines,” he explains. “They’re moving to whole-grain pastas and rice, and offered a beautiful fresh fruit cup on Wednesday — there’s a real attempt to do it right.”

But Anderson knows that availability of quality foods doesn’t always translate into good eating choices: “Indiana is currently number 8 in adult obesity, and number 15 in childhood obesity, so we, as an ACF chapter, want to make a push to talk to as many students as we can about eating healthy.”

On Wednesday, Anderson met with the school’s Superintendent and Food Service Director, reviewed the school menu for the week, and — without changing anything about the menu or what

would need to be ordered — came up with a healthier option for something they were already serving. He landed on a marinated vegetable salad, which was a collection of fresh vegetables that would normally utilize a pre-made Italian dressing, and replaced the dressing with olive oil (donated by Bogaris), balsamic vinegar and fresh herbs.

“By itself the pre-made lowfat salad dressing isn’t bad, but it’s full of chemicals and preservatives,” Anderson says. “We made a fresh vinaigrette to marinate the vegetables, and talked about the health benefits of using olive oil rather than a hydrogenated vegetable oil. Our goal for this event was just to scratch the surface — to show that you can make modifications with everyday ingredients you have in your house and have a healthier product.”

The vinaigrette recipe, which was available at the school and posted to the Chef’s Academy website (thechefsacademy.com), called for “your favorite vinegar” and used dried herbs, which are often more accessible at home.

Although last Wednesday’s school lunch event wrapped up the official month-long initiative, the Chef’s Academy website will continue to offer monthly ideas for healthy after-school snacks.

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Students and instructors from The Chef’s Academy took part last month in the Chefs Move to Schools initiative.

BEER BUZZ

BY RITA KOHN

BREWING UP CONTESTS

November offers a couple opportunities to get involved in the craft beer world. Upland’s Teddy Bear Kisses recipe contest submission deadline is 11:59 p.m., Nov. 12, to tasing@uplandbeer.com. And contact storybrewhouse@gmail.com for information about submitting Indy beer-centric photos for the upcoming book, A Six Pack of Stories .

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Tuxedo Park Brewing Supply, 2012 M.O.N.K. beer and chili competition

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Schlafly Brewery Night at the Sinking Ship, 7 p.m.

The RAM: Tapping S’no Angel Weizenbock and release of the fourth leg in RAMAGEDDON 2012 series, Final Countdown Imperial IPA, Fishers at 6:30 p.m., downtown at 7 p.m.

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Bier Pairing Dinner at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse on Keystone. Reservations and information at 844-1155.

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The RAM “Tap Takeover” at the Tomlinson Tap Room, Indianapolis City Market. All 16 taps will include cellared seasonals and rare releases such as Barrel-aged Apocalypto Barleywine and Nitro Vanilla Stout.

NOV. 26

Triton Beer Sampling at Union Jack’s in Speedway, 7-9 p.m.

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ou probably remember the songs, ones like “Take the Long Way Home” and especially “Give a Little Bit,” which was honored by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) as one of the most played compositions in its repertoire. What you may forget, or may not have ever known, is the voice behind them.

That would be Roger Hodgson, who co-founded Supertramp in 1969 with Rick Davies. Over the next 14 years, the British progressive rock band sold more than 60 million albums worldwide, including having the top-selling release, Breakfast in America, in 1979.

This year marks the first major U.S. tour Hodgson has undertaken since leaving Supertramp in 1983.

He’s toured the rest of the world for the last eight years, including Canada, where at Supertramp’s height, one out of every 15 of the country’s citizens owned Breakfast in America and the 1974 release Crime of the Century.

“It’s been hard getting a tour arranged in America,” Hodgson said during a recent phone interview.

“Part of that is name recognition. It’s ironic that almost everyone knows my voice and certainly knows my songs, but they think of Supertramp and not Roger Hodgson. That’s been the biggest challenge — connecting the dots for people.”

That’s why Hodgson calls this tour, which stops Nov. 13 at Carmel’s Center for the Performing Arts, the “Breakfast in America Tour,” after Supertramp’s top-selling record and stateside breakthrough. While most of the set list is comprised of Supertramp songs, Hodgson considers them his own.

He and Davies composed separately despite sharing songwriting credits, much like John Lennon and Paul McCartney did in The Beatles.

“Obviously a large portion of the show is the songs that people want to hear,” Hodgson said of his tour. “It’s tricky because I have so many and

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everyone wants to hear them all. But I do weave in some solo things and try to throw in a brand new song or two. It’s a very rich show.”

Hodgson says he was following his heart when he left Supertramp, even though the band was still quite popular.

There were multiple reasons. It felt to him like the group was splintering. Plus he now had two children that he wanted to spend more time with. He was growing increasingly disillusioned with the music industry too.

“I needed to take a break from that and focus on my family, and get back in touch with something I could feel passionate about,” Hodgson said of what he still calls one of the most difficult decisions he’s ever made. “The band had a great run, but I felt it had run its course. I didn’t want to continue just to be making money. I don’t function well that way. As an artist I need to feel passionate about what I’m doing or involved in.”

He’s had business-related contact with Davies in the past few years, but nothing more. Ultimately Hodgson says they’ve led separate lives for more than 30 years now.

“I don’t really foresee any sort of collaboration at this point,” he said.

Hodgson did, however, send a letter to Davies offering to play on a few shows of Supertramp’s 2010 tour, marking the 40th anniversary of the band’s debut. That offer was declined.

“I think that was really the last opportunity,” Hodgson said of a reunion.

To him it feels like he’s continuing the Supertramp legacy now anyway, even if he’s not playing with the actual band. At this point he estimates he’s playing to at least four generations.

“I see a lot more young people now,

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all the way up to 50-some year-olds,” Hodgson said. “It feels like I am still waving the Supertramp flag in a way. So many people have told me after shows, ‘I felt like I just saw Supertramp.’ Some have even said this band is better than Supertramp. People are going home with smiles on their faces.”

There was a time when playing music at all was jeopardized for Hodgson. In 1987, the same week he released his second solo album, Hodgson shattered both his wrists. Doctors told him he’d never play music again. It took a year and a half of physical therapy and prayer, but Hodgson returned to form.

It’s that spirituality that has been his “compass” and a major influence on his songwriting.

“Music is where I go to express my deepest longing, pain, joy, confusion — the deepest part of me,” Hodgson said. “There’s always been a part of me that’s wanted to know the purpose of my life and what or who God is and where God is to be found.”

He thinks that’s a big part of why so many of his songs have endured.

“They aren’t contrived, but very personal,” said Hodgson, who plans to continue touring through next year and hopefully release new music. “I’ve never held back with what I’m feeling. That’s why so many relate to the journey I’ve been on and the questions I’ve had. That’s an artist’s job — to be a voice for the people who don’t have that way to express it.”

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Make no mistake, there is a sound of Indiana. A Mellencamp-influenced sound, and any Hoosier musician around long enough to have played during 1980s heartland rock heydey must find the stuff thick in their veins.

Dane Clark, who has worked as John Mellencamp’s drummer for the past 16 years, his new album Postcards from the Hard Road brings together many branches from that Indiana heartland rock tree, through direct ties to Mellencamp (current bandmembers), or by way of Larry Crane, John’s guitar player throughout the 1980s.

Twenty years ago, Clark played drums in Crane’s band when the guitar player first split with his former boss.

When Jennie DeVoe joins in on “I Wouldn’t Be Me Without U,” it is the magic of two seasoned Americana performers having fun. “Sweet Temptation “ cuts through with lyrics about opportunities to stray, matched to a blues-rock sound. “Waylon and Willie” is a Steve Earle/Joe Ely redux. The mid-tempo “Down in the Goldmine” –– with Clark working on the downbeat, beautifully dragging the snare just behind the vocals – recreates the Waylon vibe.

Postcards from the Hard Road teeters between rock and a healthy dose of country music, thanks mainly to a ubiquitous Pat Severs’ dobro and steel guitar. Though Clark has limited vocal range, he uses a comfortable John Prine-like restraint to pace the songs, and smartly relies on the crack band carry a heavy load.

Throughout, slices of the Seymour sound of 25 years ago keep on coming. Many of the cuts bring memories of The Lonesome Jubilee, the game-changing album that introduced the dobro and fiddle to the middle America sound. And smartly, there are trusty anthemic chord changes to join a guitar and dobro living together, with lyrics that slide between country music stories and rock and roll defiance.

The record features contributions from Crane, and also DeVoe, who sang backup for Crane when Clark was the drummer. Longtime Indiana engineer Mike Petrow (The Elms) and Static Shack’s Alan Johnson, an Indiana recording studio fixture, both helped sculpt the album.

And there are hints of Steve Earle for good reason: Nashville vet Ray Kennedy (one of the Twang Trust collaboraters on Earle’s groundbreaking records) was involved with the recording.

Clark is the reason the record pops; he’s a great rock drummer. He also handles nearly all the acoustic guitar sounds, while bringing in ringers like Mellencamp band members Jon E. Gee (bass), Troye Kinnett (keyboards) and Andy York (guitar and vocals) for a few cuts. Clark even gets harmonica player Mickey Raphael (Willie Nelson’s longtime bandmember) to play on “Robert Johnson.”

While there will always be just one Big Daddy of heartland rock, there is a still a place for disciples of that sound, who can emerge from a studio with a subtlyunique-yet-wholly familiar piece of Indiana rock and roll.

––ROB NICHOLS

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Fueled by syrupy soul samples and lively horns, these tracks illustrate one man’s vision for cosmic creativity and positivity. Black Hole Rap is concerned with breathing energy back into the soulful jazzy vein of hip-hop, which seems to be diminishing more with every new rap song dropped on the radio. Mr. Kinetik fills the sonic space of this album with a plethora of wholesome funk, soul, and ‘70s samples, a far cry from the robotic auto-tuned sounds that unfortunately conquer a vast majority of the airwaves currently.

However, there are certain moments in the album where the blaring horns on actually override the vocal parts.

Fortunately for Indianapolis hip-hop fans, Black Hole Rap is to poppy hiphop as a mother’s homecooked meal is to McDonald’s. It makes you feel good, and it’s good for you. On the title track, Kinetik repeats, “I’m feeling like a fresh pair of warm socks/ Right out the dryer”;

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Much like the ice cream, Dorsh’s first full-length LP is a swirling concoction of myriad sonic flavors. On Neopolitan, misspelled to mean literally “new people,” Dorsh effortlessly transitions from hip-hop to neo-soul to acid house to grime and drum and bass. It’s a quintessentially 21st century album –– one that takes full advantage of the Internet’s wellspring of potential influences.

Dorsh Deans, a Butler University graduate and former soccer player, manages the rare feat of excelling at both singing and rapping. On the first proper track, “Je t’aime,” Dorsh croons “Love/you betrayed me/but showed me life.” It’s a surprisingly nuanced take on the breakdown of a complex relationship, and sets the tone for a record that is never just black or white.

The album hits its stride with “ Big Footsteps,” a track featuring rappers Innocent and label mate Oreo Jones. It’s the kind of track Lupe Fiasco wishes he could still make –– a sparse J Dilla-esque beat and artful R&B sample that basks in the sound of hip-hop’s heyday.

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Sandwiched between two tracks, “The Pivot” and “Cosmos,” a man –– a character from a science fiction novel, perhaps?

–– discusses his theory on human behavior and it’s “unnatural naturalness” or “natural unnaturalness.” It’s not entirely clear why Mr. Kinetik, or Marc Williams, has chosen to place such a quotation between these songs on his album, but I don’t think the answer is as abstract as it seems. On this album there is a definite interplay between the emotional, human experience of existence, and the astral, metaphysical realm to which we belong in as well.

In “The Cosmos,” he mentions both cruising on a spaceship and sitting in his grandfather’s basement in the same line.

Kinetik is exploring the unique hinge through his music. He grounds the listener with his feel-good soul and funk, only to push us through his Hubble telescope to explore the connections of the cosmos.

The track “Focused” utilizes intense DJ scratching, while emphasizing the importance of concentration in the creation of music and lyrics. His use of the phrase “positive progress” on this song epitomizes the theme of this song, and the ultimate tone of the album. Mr. Kinetik is a musician concerned with the livelihood of creative endeavors, and the positive progression of the community where he resides. Black Hole Rap is the product of a hip-hop artist whose goal is to spread his positive message through his lyrics and beats. He portrays an image of universal connectedness, from his family to the cosmos, for fans of intelligent hip-hop to both adhere to, and to aspire to sound like.

— RACHEL HANLEY

Following “Footsteps” is the equally excellent “The Mulatto (Afrodite),” –– like Black Star’s “Brown Skinned Lady” repurposed for a 21st century examination of race. It’s a soulful tune, sampling Gil Scott-Heron’s “Brother”, that finds Dorsh lamenting a female friend’s struggle with racial identity. “Always thinking about modelin’/but she won’t/cause she don’t believe in her skin.” Like much of the album, “The Mulatto (Afrodite)” is a song that celebrates racial difference while articulating thoughts from the complex racial experience.

The rest of the album finds Dorsh further expanding the album’s sonic range: post-dubstep on “Belief,” neo-soul on “Seduction” and “Changes:” and dancepunk on the title track.

Throughout, the album displays lyrical intelligence; on “Belief,” Dorsh manages to reference one of soccer’s greatest players and an Italian Renaissance painter in the same verse: “They had me broke like Baggio/ trying to paint my crucifixion like Masaccio.”

But despite all of this intelligence, the album falls slightly short because Dorsh has yet to find a way to make his various influences synthesize into a cohesive whole; Neopolitan sounds like a string of great singles rather than an album.

Regardless, Neopolitan is a solid effort from an exciting new artist from whom we can expect great things.

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As the end of the year approaches, critics everywhere begin compiling their annual “best of” lists. As I started that process myself last week, I noticed a remarkable amount of the LPs I earmarked for that designation originated in South America.

Over the last few years there’s been an explosion of artistic creativity across the South American continent. The recent trend of infusing experimental indie and electronic music concepts into regional rhythms and styles seems to have sparked this fertile creative epoch, just as the introduction of rock and funk inspired the vibrant South American music scene of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s.

The following list is an attempt to spotlight the fresh and innovative sounds coming out of the South American music scene over the last year.

ONDATRÓPICA –– ONDATRÓPICA (COLOMBIA): Produced by the U.K.’s Will Quantic and Colombia’s Mario Galeano, Ondatrópica features over 40 of Colombia’s greatest musicians past and present in an incredible document of the nation’s rich musical heritage.

Not a single note is wasted over course of the LP’s 19 songs, which explore nearly every significant regional style in Colombian music.

Some have labeled Ondatrópica a Colombian take on Cuba’s Buena Vista Social Club, but the approach here is far more experimental as Quantic and Galeano layer rap, afrobeat and dub into the more traditional national textures. Stylistic considerations aside, Ondatrópica is imbued with a joyous creative spirit and fiery passion missing from a lot of contemporary music. An absolute masterwork and one of my favorite LPs of 2012.

CRIOLO –– NÓ NA ORELHA (BRAZIL): Criolo’s sophomore release Nó Na Orelha may stand as the São Paulo MC’s magnum opus. With its stunning blend of sophisticated musical production and powerful social commentary, Nó Na Orelha has catapulted Criolo out of the São Paulo underground and onto the international music stage. The album has received rave reviews worldwide and earned the respect of Brazilian music legends like Caetano Veloso and Chico Buarque. Jumping musically from reggae to samba to afrobeat, Nó Na Orelha is one of the most imaginative and far-reaching hip-hop albums I’ve encountered, bar none.

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Producer Andrés Celis has draped Tijoux’s jazzy beats in a cloak of violins and cellos.

Lyrically there’s lots of political commentary on tap with several references to the recent Chilean student protests. But you don’t need to speak a word of Spanish to appreciate the rich musical experience La Bala offers.

MERIDIAN BROTHERS –– DESESPERANZA (COLOMBIA): If you’ve ever wondered what Krautrock experimentalists Can or Faust would have sounded like had they started a salsa band. then this album is for you. Desesperanza is the work of Colombian musician Eblis Álvarez, who takes delight in blending his countries traditional dancefloor rhythms with spaced-out keyboards, sped-up vocals, out of tune guitars and oddball sound effects. Song titles like “Salsa del Zombie” and “Guaracha U.F.O.” provide a good indication of the deliciously warped grooves Álvarez unleashes on Desesperanza.

NOVALIMA –– KARIMBA (PERU): A brilliant blend of traditional Afro-Peruvian music with contemporary DJ culture.

ASTRO –– ASTRO (CHILE): Ridiculously catchy new wave synth-pop that rivals any similar creation from the North American or European scenes. Chile’s Astro deserve wider recognition.

BOMBA ESTÉREO –– ELEGANCIA TROPICAL (COLOMBIA): Bomba Estéreo continue to explore their explosive mix of rocked-out, electronic cumbia beats.

LAS MALAS AMISTADES –– MALEZA (COLOMBIA): A lovely, collection of fragile minimalist compositions from the Bogotá –– based outfit once described as the Spanish language Young Marble Giants.

MATI ZUNDEL –– AMAZONICO GRAVITANTE (ARGENITINA): Perhaps the most fully realized LP to emerge from Argentina’s influential electro-cumbia scene, bolstered by Zundel’s excellent songwriting and his knack for recreating Argentinian folkloric textures.

BONDE DO ROLÊ –– TROPICAL/BACANAL (BRAZIL): Produced by Diplo, Bonde do Rolê’s latest delivers another dose of the group’s art school take on baile funk, the booty-shaking beat of Brazil’s favelas.

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MUSIC The joke’s on us

Slop-punk from the Southside B Y W A D E CO G G E S H A LL M U S I C@N U V O . N E T

them knew how to play their instruments before helping to form Mr. Clit and the Pink Cigarettes though.

“It’s better to be in a band with friends than with strangers that are talented,” says Ayesha of their mindset.

Says Abby, “We all just want to have fun doing it. That’s what it’s all about.

We’re already together all the time.”

That’s very true. Since 2006 they’ve lived in a commune of sorts — sleeping in the living room of Ayesha’s parents’ house in Franklin. Lots of acquaintances and touring bands intermittently crash there too. They also share a paper route.

And they tour as much as possible.

Until Abby graduates from college in the spring, it’s mainly been in the summer and over winter break. But Mr. Clit have still managed to tour coast-to-coast in their two years together. They’ve even returned home with money. Sleeping in their Nissan Versa or on friends’ couches helps with that. So does having no qualms about where they perform and with whom.

“We’ll play with anybody,” says Davey.

So far that’s included acts from a variety of genres, unusual locales like a backyard barbecue in San Diego and odd settings like open-mic nights.

“It’s better than sitting at home,” says Ayesha.

It’s all been pretty do-it-yourself. Mr. Clit and the Pink Cigarettes have self-recorded and released two albums, though they may be working with an outside producer on the next one. Davey has booked all their tours.

There aren’t really any audacious goals in mind for the band. For now the benchmark is being able to tour without going bankrupt.

“We want to play, but we’re not really expecting anything,” says Abby.

Being Mr. Clit and the Pink Cigarettes seems more like an adventure to its inhabitants than a serious venture. That time they were desperately trying to get home for Christmas after playing out West — when they got stuck in a blizzard in New Mexico and hit a deer in Texas — is viewed as awesome rather than a nightmare. The word “nonsense” gets bandied about a lot towards the end of dinner.

“I’m pretty sure that’s all our band is,” says Abby.

Davey sums up Mr. Clit and the Pink Cigarettes as, “We put nonsense out there, and if people listen to it, ha, the joke’s on them.”

There are some in creative enterprises who want the whole fame and riches thing.

And then there are those who are content just to eke out a living doing what they love.

Add slop-punk band Mr. Clit and the Pink Cigarettes to that latter category.

After all, with a name like that, you can’t really expect to ever headline Madison Square Garden.

“People are either really drawn in by the name or kind of like, ‘Oh, I don’t know about that’,” says Abby, who plays bass in the trio. They derived their moniker from video game characters they created.

“Another common reaction is, ‘I thought you guys were going to be a lot stupider’,” adds Davey, the guitarist.

Along with drummer Ayesha (they don’t bother with last names), the three share a margarita pizza one recent evening at Bazbeaux on Mass Ave. Their punk-rock quintessence is evident through carnivalcolored hair and thrift-store garb. It’s a fitting match to the band’s sound — alternatively disheveled noise and demented, primal busking. They often set up a xylophone on stage for anyone to come up and beat the hell out of while they play. While not used live, Mr. Clit have incorporated Moog into some of their recorded material to give it a Ray Bradbury-like circus quality. Their preference would be to use a megaphone in place of a mic, but it’s tough to hold the button down while you’re playing an instrument.

“We need an assistant to just be up there holding it up to our mouths,” says Ayesha.

Davey’s sort of the unofficial ringleader of Mr. Clit and the Pink Cigarettes. He’s played in a slew of bands since high school.

Only one — Ham Charlie — was ever really stable enough to worth mentioning. king aa recorder recorder Their claim to fame was taking nce to give an to Greenwood Park Mall once impromptu performance with the tting pianist at Von Maur and getting paid in Thickburgers to playy at a Hardee’s. ed Few friends have wanted to make the commitmentt a touring band requires.

Stuff like marriage and children and jobs keep getting in the way.

“I’ve stayed as this loser who doesn’t have anything going on, so I can keep doing this,” says Davey.

He found two willing accomplices in Abby and Ayesha, whom Davey knew from their time at Franklin Community High School. Neither of Mr. Clit and the Pink Cigarettes

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Wednesday OTHER WEDNESDAY EVENTS OMG at the Casba Dirty Ghosts, DMA, Jerome and the Psychics at White Rabbit Cabaret Kools Bazaar at Jazz Kitchen The Motorleague at the Hoosier Dome

Thursday

If you are a metal fan, and you miss this show, punch yourself in the face. Not only is the one and only Lamb of God performing, but they’re performing with the jaw-hinge breaking Hatebreed, Swedish extreme metal geniuses In Flames and British newcomers Sylosis. There’s a lot of metal fans on this earth that would give their right arm to see these bands separalety, much less play together.

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ALLEN STONE

Deluxe at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St. 8 p.m., prices vary, all-ages

Allen Stone certainly doesn’t look like your average blues player, but then, there’s really nothing average about Stone. At only 25, he has already turned the blues world on its ear with his raw voice and great talent. USA Today has called Allen Stone a “pitch-perfect powerhouse” and the New York Times has likened his music to that of Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye. Since the release of his self-titled album via his own label in October 2011, Stone’s shows have been selling out all over the country.

— JOEY MEGAN HARRIS

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Wes Montgomery collaborator and Indyborn jazz organist Rhyne will perform with jazz singer Carol Harris for a night of wining and dining at Plum’s Upper Room. After five years and four records with Montgomery, Rhyne took a two-decade break. But he reemerged in the early ‘90s, and returned to Indianapolis, cutting records with Owl Studios, Rob Dixon, Kenny Phelps and more.

Currently, he’s playing with the original trio Montgomery founded back in 1959, with drummer Kenny Washington and guitarist Peter Bernstein.

See our interview with the group online at NUVO.net. They’ll perform with Oberhofer.

METAL WE CAME FROM NOWHERE, WHITE DRESSES LIE, STRONGHOLD, ORION, ROMANTICIDE Emerson Theatre 6:30 p.m., $8 advance, $9 at door, all-ages

“Fuck Shit Up Show at the Worst Venue Ever.” Well, that sounds appealing, right?

White Dresses Lie tore the house down at their last performance at the Emerson, and it’s highly likely they’re coming back harder and better. We Came From Nowhere are relative newcomers –– combining elements from death metal, metalcore and alternative rock, they’ve rightly earned their place on top of people’s favorites lists. Maybe after this show they’ll be one of yours?

— JOEY MEGAN HARRIS

SINGER-SONGWRITER MELISSA ETHRIDGE

Palladium at Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Center Green 8 p.m., prices vary, all-ages

After a cluster of massively successful and highly charting albums, Melissa Ethridge is turning her sights to … musical theater? She claimed a spot in Green Day’s American Idiot and is currently writing songs for a musical her partner, Linda Wallem, is writing. But don’t worry –– the confessional rock and roll songstress we all adore is still touring new work of her own; her album 4th Street Feeling dropped in early September. She’s also championing environmental causes (and contributed a track to doc An Inconvient Truth) and recently received her own star on the Walk of Fame.

OTHER FRIDAY EVENTS The Weakenders, Kink Ador, The Deloreans at Birdy’s Vibrate at Subterra Friday Night Vibe at Sensu

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ROCK THE WHIGS

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ROOTS BORN AGAIN FLOOZIES, PARTY LINES, VESS RUHTENBERG Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St. 8 p.m., $10, all-ages

Born Again Floozies’ new album, The Voluptuous Panic was made with Grammy award-winning producer Ben Fowler –– a change from three albums worth of Steve Albini. Singer and songwriter Joey Welch has kept his reputation, earned when he was a founding member of Jonny Socko, as a true eccentric. One of the most notable examples is when The Born Again Floozies first toured Ireland in a horse-drawn gypsy wagon. The Floozies’ unlikely and sometimes strange instrumentation (and tap dancer!) have won them a dedicated fan base, who are guarenteed to turn out for this album release party, especially when anchored by rising locals Party Lines and scene stalwart Vess Ruhtenberg. Look for a review of the album in next week’s NUVO.

OTHER SATURDAY EVENTS Rome at the Vogue Pragmatic, Radio Fx, Xiting the System, Before I Fall, Head Rush at the Rock House Cafe Andy D Bloomington Album Release at Bishop Bar Punk Rock Night at the Melody Inn Real Talk at the White Rabbit Cabaret DJ Sneak at Blu

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“You know, I think landscape had a lot to do with. I mean, it’s a small town, and a lot of people in town live walking distance to the Downtown area. It’s only four blocks by four blocks, so it’s not a huge geographic space. Within that small area, there’s so many bars and places to play, you can’t help but attract a lot of foot traffic. People just sort of stumble in and [see the bands.] I think first and foremost, the musicians that live in the community are supportive of each other and work together for the greater good of each other’s bands. If someone needs a drummer, they’re happy to step in and play for another group, the musicians are just super supportive of each other. I think it starts there.”

Following up on our story on Musical Family Tree, we spoke to The Whigs’ lead singer Parker Gispert about creating a sustainabile music community in Indy. The Whigs originated in Athens, one of the models of sustainability for groups like MFT. Log on to NUVO.net for the full interview.

ROCK ROGER HODGSON

Palladium at the Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Center Green 7:30 p.m., prices vary, all-ages

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OTHER TUESDAY EVENTS Take That! Tuesday at Coaches Juxtapose at the Melody Inn Stephen Lynch at the Egyptian Room Tuesday Night Take-Over at Subterra James McMurty at the Bishop Bar (Bloomington)

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Caught on video: Christ’s return Plus, public views of restrooms

“Coming Up Next! The Resurrection!

Live!”: “If the Messiah descends from the Mount of Olives as foretold in the Bible,” wrote the Los Angeles Times in an October dispatch from Jerusalem, the two largest Christian television networks in the U.S. promise to cover the arrival live from a hilltop in the city. Daystar Television has already been beaming a 24/7 webcam view, and Trinity Broadcasting Network bought the building next door to Daystar’s in September and has already begun staging live and pre-recorded programs using the broad expanse of the Holy Land city as background.

Can’t Possibly Be True

• Once again, in September, the upscale Standard Hotel, in New York City’s lower Manhattan, made headlines for the views it provides to amazed pedestrians. In 2009, it was the hotel’s floor-to-ceiling windows showcasing amorous couples at play (unless the guests knew to draw the curtains), especially delighting out-of-towners seeking inexpensive entertainment. Now, a September 2012 report in the New York Daily News revealed that the restrooms at the hotel’s Boom-Boom Room restaurant posed a bigger problem: no curtains at all.

One restroom user, from Australia, said, “Sitting on the royal throne, you don’t expect a public viewing.” On the other hand, the Daily News noted one gentleman relieving himself and waving merrily at the gawking crowd below.

• Valerie Spruill, 60, of Doylestown, Ohio, disclosed publicly in September that she had unknowingly married her own father following the dissolution of her first marriage, which had produced three children. Percy Spruill, a “nice man,” she said, died in 1998, and Valerie told the Akron Beacon Journal that she had heard family rumors after that but only confirmed the parentage in 2004 (with DNA from an old hairbrush). After eight years of silence, from embarrassment, she went public, she said, as an example to help other women who come from tumultuous childhoods in which many men are in their mothers’ lives.

• Earlier this year, the National Football League suspended some New Orleans Saints players and the head coach for having a reward system that paid players for purposely injuring opponents. In September, coach Darren Crawford of the Tustin (Calif.) Pee Wee Red Cobras team was suspended when former players reported that the coach ran an apparently similar scheme among his 10- and 11-year-olds, using a cash reward of up to $50 for the “hit of the game” (with last year’s top prize going to the boy who left an opposing running back with a mild concussion). At press time, the investigation was ongoing, and no charges had been filed.

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Inexplicable

• Because We Can, That’s Why: In September, the National Geographic cable TV show Taboo featured three young Tokyo partiers as examples of the “bagel head” craze in which fun-lovers inject saline just under the skin of the forehead to create a swelling and then pressure the center to achieve a donut look that lasts up to 24 hours before the saline is absorbed into the body. Some adventurers have injected other areas of the body -- even the scrotum.

• Recurring Theme: In Ventura, Calif., in September, once again, a scammer tried to bilk victims out of money by assuring them that he could double their cash (in this case, $14,000) merely by spraying it with a secret chemical. (Of course, the victims had to wait several hours for their newly doubled cash to dry and eventually discovered that the scammer had substituted blank paper and by that time was long gone.) But the weirdest aspect of the scam is that people who are so unsophisticated as to fall for it somehow managed to amass, in this tight economy, $14,000 cash to begin with.

• For a September beauty contest of female college students in China’s Hubei province, certain minimum body requirements were established at the outset (beyond the traditional chest, waist and hip sizes). Among them, according to a report in China’s Global Post: The space between the candidate’s pupils should be 46 percent of the distance between each pupil and the nearer ear, and the distance between a candidate’s nipples should be at least 20cm (7.8 inches).

Unclear on the Concept

• Punishment Must Fit the Crime: (1) In September, Britain’s Leeds Crown Court meted out “punishment” to a 25-year-old man convicted of sneaking into the changing room of China’s female swimmers during the Olympics: He was banned -- for five years -- from entering any female toilet or changing room. (2) In September, the city of Simi Valley, Calif., adopted Halloween restrictions on the residences of its 119 registered sex offenders, forbidding enticing displays and requiring signs reading “No candy or treats at this residence.” Shortly after that, several of the sex offenders sued the city for violating their rights, in that none of the offenders’ convictions were for molestations that occurred during Halloween. (The lawsuit is pending.)

• In October, Britain’s Gravesham Borough Council, weary of neighbors’ complaints about the noise and smell from Roy Day’s brood of 20 birds, ordered him to remove them and find them a new home. Day, a member of the National Pigeon Racing Association, told reporters of the futility of the order: “They are homing pigeons.” Said a friend, wherever Day sends them, “(T) hey will just fly straight back to him. ...

He has never lost one.”

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© 2012 BY ROB BRESZNY

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The data that’s stored and disseminated on the Internet is unimaginably voluminous. And yet the 540 billion trillion electrons that carry all this information weigh about the same as a strawberry. I’d like to use this fun fact as a metaphor for the work you’re doing these days -- and the play, too. Your output is prodigious. Your intensity is on the verge of becoming legendary. The potency of your efforts is likely to set in motion effects that will last for a long time. And yet, to the naked eye or casual observer, it all might look as simple and light as a strawberry.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): What if you have a twin sister or brother that your mother gave up for adoption right after you were born and never told you about? Or what if you have a soul twin you’ve never met -- a potential ally who understands life in much the same ways that you do? In either case, now is a time when the two of you might finally discover each other. At the very least, Taurus, I suspect you’ll be going deeper and deeper with a kindred spirit who will help you transform your stories about your origins and make you feel more at home on the planet.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I urged my readers to meditate on death not as the end of physical life, but as a metaphor for shedding what’s outworn. I then asked them to describe the best death they had ever experienced. I got a response that’s applicable to you right now. It’s from a reader named Judd: “My best death was getting chicken pox at age 13 while living in the Philippines.

My mother banished me to the TV room. I was uncomfortable but hyperactive, lonely and driven to agony by the awful shows. But after six hours, something popped. My suffering turned inside out, and a miracle bloomed. I closed my eyes and my imagination opened up like a vortex. Images, ideas, places, dreams, people familiar and strange -- all amazing, colorful, and vibrant -- flowed through my head. I knew then and there that no material thing on this Earth could hook me up to the source of life like my own thoughts. I was free!”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Conservationists are surprised by what has been transpiring in and around Nepal’s Chitwan National Park. The tigers that live there have changed their schedule. Previously, they prowled around at all hours, day and night. But as more people have moved into the area, the creatures have increasingly become nocturnal.

Researchers who have studied the situation believe the tigers are doing so in order to better coexist with humans. I suspect that a metaphorically similar development is possible for you, Cancerian.

Meditate on how the wildest part of your life could adapt better to the most civilized part -- and vice versa. (Read more: tinyurl.com/HumanTiger.)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What is a dry waterfall? The term may refer to the location of an extinct waterfall where a river once fell over a cliff but has since stopped flowing. Döda Fallet in Sweden is such a place. “Dry waterfall” may also signify a waterfall that only exists for a while after a heavy rain and then disappears again. One example is on Brukkaros Mountain in Namibia. A third variant shows up in Cliffs Beyond Abiquiu, Dry Waterfall, a landscape painting by Georgia O’Keeffe. It’s a lush rendering of a stark landscape near the New Mexico town where O’Keeffe lived. Soon you will have your own metaphorical version of a dry waterfall, Leo. It’s ready for you if you’re ready for it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You are getting to where you need to be, but you’re still not there. You have a good share of the raw materials you will require to accomplish your goal, but as of yet you don’t have enough of the structure that will make everything work. The in-between state you’re inhabiting reminds me of a passage from the author Elias Canetti: “His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.” Your next assignment, Virgo, is to see what you can do about coalescing a few constellations.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Doctors used to believe that ulcers were caused by stress and spicy foods. But in the 1980s, two researchers named Barry Marshall and Robin Warren began to promote an alternative theory.

They believed the culprit was H. pylori, a type of bacteria. To test their hypothesis, Marshall drank a Petri dish full of H. pylori. Within days he got gastric symptoms and underwent an endoscopy.

The evidence proved that he and his partner were correct. They won a Nobel Prize for their work.

(And Marshall recovered just fine.) I urge you to be inspired by their approach, Libra. Formulate experiments that allow you to make practical tests of you r ideas, and consider using yourself as a guinea pig.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This is not prime time for you to rake in rewards, collect hard-earned goodies, and celebrate successes you’ve been building towards for a long time. It’s fine if you end up doing those things, but I suspect that what you’re best suited for right now is getting things started. You’ll attract help from unexpected sources if you lay the groundwork for projects you want to work on throughout 2013.

You’ll be in alignment with cosmic rhythms, too.

Your motto comes from your fellow Scorpio, writer Robert Louis Stevenson: “Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): On a beach, a man spied a pelican that was barely moving. Was it sick? He wanted to help.

Drawing close, he discovered that ants were crawling all over it. He brushed them off, then carried the bird to his car and drove it to a veterinarian.

After a thorough examination, the doctor realized the pelican was suffering from a fungus that the ants had been eating away -- and probably would have removed completely if the man hadn’t interfered. Moral of the story: Sometimes healing takes place in unexpected ways, and nature knows better than we do about how to make it happen. Keep that in mind during the coming weeks, Sagittarius.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A farmer in Japan found a 56-leaf clover. Well, actually, he bred it in his garden at home. It took effort on his part. Presumably, it provided him with 14 times the luck of a mere four-leaf clover. I don’t think your good karma will be quite that extravagant in the coming week, Capricorn, but there’s a decent chance you’ll get into at least the 16-leaf realm. To raise your odds of approaching the 56-leaf level of favorable fortune, remember this: Luck tends to flow in the direction of those who work hard to prepare for it and earn it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The largest bell in the world is located in Moscow, Russia. Called the Tsar Bell, it’s made of bronze, weighs 445,170 pounds, and is elaborately decorated with images of people, angels, and plants. It has never once been rung in its 275 years of existence. Is there anything comparable in your own life, Aquarius? Some huge presence that has never actually been used? The time is near when that stillness may finally come to an end. I suggest you decide how this will occur rather than allowing fate to choose for you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Are you interested in experiencing a close brush with a holy anomaly or a rowdy blessing or a divine wild card? If not, that’s perfectly OK. Just say, “No, I’m not ready for a lyrical flurry of uncanny grace.” And the freaky splendor or convulsive beauty or mystical mutation will avoid making contact with you, no questions asked. But if you suspect you might enjoy communing with a subversive blast of illumination -- if you think you could have fun coming to terms with a tricky epiphany that blows your mind -- then go out under the night sky and whisper a message like this: “I’m ready for you, sweetness. Find me.”

Homework: Name ten items you would put in a time capsule to be dug up by your descendants in 500 years.

Testify at Freewillastrology.com.

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