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and Freitas was not happy. embers of the State Board of He complained that he’d asked more Education have taken some flack than 10 days before the meeting that the for going behind the back of state item be placed on the agenda, which Superintendent Glenda Ritz to ask lawwould have made it eligible for a vote, makers for help with calculating A-F and it wasn’t there. But Ritz countered grades for Indiana schools. And Ritz — who chairs the state board that she’d put it on a revised agenda in a discussion section and then it would be — ensured that everyone who follows on what’s called a “consent agenda” for education was talking about the move the group’s next meeting on Wednesday. when she took the other 10 members to Freitas said that’s not what he wantcourt, accusing them of acting illegally ed. But as he tried to discuss it further, to undermine her authority. Ritz kept trying to push past the discusBut it’s clear from the last state board sion and move on. meeting — and the couple before it — “I’d like to hear from other board that the problems plaguing the group are far from one-sided. In fact, it Power struggle impedes progress. may be that Ritz has simply done a better job telling her side of the story. members and not constrain conversaAt issue in part is the way the tion,” Freitas said. board operates, including how much “I’d like to go on,” Ritz said. authority Ritz — as chair — can exert The meeting did eventually move on over the agenda, discussion and votes. with Ritz promising the group would Last spring, the board attempted to come back to the operational issues deal with the issue by approving a deal later in the meeting. And they did — that gives both the superintendent and with just minutes to go. Still, it was members power to put items on the enough time for more debate. agenda for discussion and votes. At that point, Freitas kept asking Ritz The key terms say that the “chair whether she was willing to follow the and the board members may add items original agreement for board operato each board agenda. Reporting or tions. And Ritz kept saying that she was discussion items may be added to the working with the governor’s office on agenda before the meeting, or may be new board procedures. That didn’t go added during a meeting as is consistent over too well with the members, includwith Ind. Code § 5-14-1.5. Items that ing one who insisted that they — not the require a board resolution or a vote governor’s office — should be deciding must be submitted to the State Board how the board would operate. Administrator at least 10 business days And Freitas asked for a promise from before a board meeting.” Ritz that the next meeting could include Board members say they’ve been action on board operational issues. She unable to get some items on the agenda just refused to go there. Instead, Ritz and others are added in ways that limit asked for a motion to adjourn so she discussions or votes. could head to Muncie for an event with The issue exploded at last week’s the Ball State University Democrats. meeting when David Freitas of South The operational issue remains far Bend complained that he’d asked that a from resolved — and it’s unlikely that discussion on board operational issues be put on the agenda. That morning, the educational policy will be done well until it is. n agenda posted online didn’t include it 4 VOICES // 11.13.13 - 11.20.13 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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was subjected to anti-gay bullying long before I came out publicly at age 17. When I entered 6th grade, I was labeled a fag. I still have my yearbook to prove it. For me, the day the yearbook was released was fraught with belly butterflies. After all, the best way to measure your self-worth (in my 12-year-old mind) was counting the people who scribbled “See ya next year” or some other banal message. Regardless of the content, it was a message meant just for ME. I was in the locker room after gym class ... all awkward elbows and knees, clutching the collection of memories to my chest. I remember sheepishly asking one of the more popular, and less sadistic, boys in my class to sign. Before I knew it, my book had made it around half the room! “See, Doug?” I thought. “Things are looking up!” The bell rang. The other kids started to file out, and my yearbook was placed
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unceremoniously back in my lap. I should’ve waited to read their messages in private, but I was craving that validation, that “you’re one of us” chumminess that I was SURE was contained within those pages. I opened the cover and my heart dropped. “FAG!!!” read the largest entry in black magic marker. They had even marked out some entries that others had made
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it. But, I’m still subjected to it. Now, earlier in the day. My cheeks burned with shame and my eyes brimmed with instead of enduring the hurtful words tears that threatened to spill over and and actions of my peers, I have to face prove that I was the sissy-boy they all religious and political leaders, celebrities, claimed I was. I now know real men cry. news organizations and complete strangBut if you want to make it through middle school with your dignity intact, … instead of enduring the hurtful boys and girls, you never words and actions of my peers, I have let them see you sob. Perhaps my peers truly to face religious and political leaders, realized my sexual orientation years before I did, celebrities, news organizations but they don’t deserve and complete strangers proposing that much credit. I was a skinny, bookish kid legislation like HJR-6. who enjoyed choir and drama instead of sports and the straight-man soap opera that is ers proposing legislation like HJR-6. the World Wrestling Federation. I was I never did let my school age bullies different, and that made me an easy see me cry, and today’s bullies won’t target. get that satisfaction either. I refuse to I’m now 33, and I suppose I should let the ignorant mar my future like they be used to such treatment. After all, I’ve marred my past. We will speak, act, and endured it for over half my life, and I’ll vote... and in doing so let it be known always be different. But here’s the thing: that bullying, in all its forms, won’t be I’m not used to it. I’ll never be used to it, and I shouldn’t have to be used to tolerated. n
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WHAT HAPPENED? R.I.P. James Dozier RecycleForce employees woke up Monday morning anticipating a big day at work — the conclusion of the 11-day RecycleIndy Corporate Challenge. Instead they arrived to the shocking news that their co-worker, James Dozier was crushed to death earlier in the morning. "We had an employee get crushed this morning operating some machinery and he died at the hospital at about 6:30 a.m.," Ryan Puckett, a RecycleForce spokesman, told NUVO. "He was here with three other people trying to change the screen in the Beast (a material crushing and sorting machine). He was operating a forklift, he got out while it still running, it moved back and pinned him between the forklift and guard rail, which keeps the forklift in right spot." Puckett said grief counselors were on the scene as the crew attempts to absorb the shock and return to work. The Corporate Challenge, timed to draw attention to America Recycles Day on Nov. 15, set a goal to collect 500,000 pounds of e-waste at the RecycleForce facility. In 2012, the company recycled 6.3 million pounds of materials. Though 2012 (the latest date for which state data is available) marked the lowest number of workplace fatalities, jobsite dangers continues to menace the state's workforce. Last year, 113 workplace fatalities occurred statewide. Beyond the bridge An update on the Davidson Street Bridge clean up, executed on Aug. 26 by a collaborative of service providers from the city, South Side Animal Shelter and the Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention. Coordinators on call 24 hours a day for one week before and two weeks after the camp evacuation worked to provide housing for 27 people, one pregnant girl, three cats and a dog. South Side housed the animals to enable the owners a hope of reunification. As of last Friday, the team had permanently housed four couples, the pregnant girl, a cat and the dog. Some disabled members of the camp qualified for rental subsidies. Gay Marriage Wabash College, the state's esteemed all-male institution, last week squelched any doubt which way its leadership swings on HJR6, the effort to enshrine a hetero-specific definition of marriage into the Indiana. Wabash together with Indiana and DePauw universities joined the Freedom Indiana lobby to defeat the measure in the Indiana Legislature, which reconvenes Jan. 14. In addition to opposition to HJR6 voiced by some of the state's largest corporations — including Cummins Inc. and Eli Lilly & Co. —the Indianapolis City-County Council passed a bi-partisan resolution Monday night urging the measure's rejection. Mayor Greg Ballard also signed the measure. In a statement released following the vote, Council Vice President John Barth said he was proud to be part of the effort to "send the clear message that Indianapolis is a welcoming city to live, work, and play … (where) everyone is welcome.” 6 NEWS // 11.13.13 - 11.20.13 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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The Army Corps of Engineers has heard all the public feedback it cares to on environmental issues related to a major Midtown flood control project. As the 145-day comment period for the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Indianapolis White River (North) Flood Damage Reduction Project neared its Oct. 31 closing date, Indianapolis city officials sent a letter to the Corps requesting an extension for the comment period during which people could respond to the Corps evalua-
tion of several different routes or alignments along which to complete the $49 million levee system that stretches from Broad Ripple to Butler Tarkington.
Request denied. Matt Schueler, project manager for Indianapolis White River (North) Flood Damage Reduction Project, explained the Corps position in a Tuesday telephone call with NUVO. “We didn’t see a need to further extend it,” Schueler said. “Again, it had been open for 145 days. This is the final environmental impact statement. There had been a draft previous, where we’d addressed a lot of the comments. We didn’t feel we’d receive anything new. And, for that reason, the comment period was closed on the 31st of October.” Still, the decision does not mean that
the Corps will begin construction on its preferred alternative, the one that —for financial reasons — excludes Rocky Ripple. The move essentially just sets the table for further discussion between the city, which is committed to covering 25 percent of the project’s costs, and officials with the Corps’ Louisville District, which is overseeing the project. Wrapping up the public input process is important so that the Corps can make clear its position and the city can respond with its position, so “we see where we are and go from here,” district public affairs specialist Carol Labashosky said. The Corps main objective, she added, is to complete the project so that it actually provides the 100-year flood protection that it is supposed to. S E E , R E Q U E S T , O N P A G E 08
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Indy Connect at Artsgarden A lunchtime open house will feature overviews of bus rapid transit and the recommended alternatives proposed for the Indy Connect Red Line (between Carmel and Greenwood) and the Blue Line (Washington Street between Cumberland and the Indianapolis International Airport. See indyconnect. org for more info mass transit expansion proposals. Thurs., Nov. 14, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Indianapolis Artsgarden. FREE America Recycles Day Join in the nationwide effort to boost reusable materials reclamation by dropping into rush-hour recycling. Just load up your trunk with e-waste, pull into the site and pop your trunk for a full-service drop. Fri., Nov. 15, 7-9 a.m., Second Presbyterian Church, 770 N. Meridian St. Greening the Statehouse This annual event provides, which provides an overview of the efforts to address a variety of environmental issues facing the state, will this year have a particular ag focus. Keynote speaker John Tuma, will discuss his experience as a long-time state Republican legislator and lawyer in stoking environmental progress in his home state of Minnesota. Sat., Nov. 16, 9 a.m., IUPUI Campus Center, 420 University Blvd., $10 students, $20 adults Treehuggers hit the Statehouse The Indiana Forest Alliance is rallying to support a proposed ban on commercial logging in the socalled back-country areas of the Clark, JacksonWashington, Morgan-Monroe and Yellowwood state forests. The Alliance encourages everyone interested in preserving the state’s forest system to visit with their legislators on the Legislature’s Organization Day and ask for support of the limited logging ban. Mon., Nov. 18, all day, Indiana Statehouse, 200 W. Washington St.
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Environmentalists take action on the road Though reaction to the most recent International Panel on Climate Change report received about as much attention among Indiana's political leaders as a fart in a cattle barn, activists concerned about the state's environmental health emphasized their concerns by traveling en masse on Nov. 8 to Chicago to join with hundreds of other activists to advocates for tighter restrictions on carbon emissions from power plants who were testifying at a testify an Environmental Protection Agency listening session on proposed regulations to further limit power plant emissions. Concerned citizens Gloria Cassady and Lynn Jenkins [pictured here] were among those who made the trip.
REQUEST , FROM PAGE 06 At this point, no one can say for sure how the negotiations will go. The Corps still has some additional environmental information to gather for the city, Schueler said, so the details of final details of the project are somewhat in flux. “If they come back and don’t want to proceed with either of the two alternatives, it’s kind of hard to speculate what their answer is with all the info they’re receiving,” Schueler said. “If it comes to a point where the city is going to reject the plan, I guess the project would probably be on hold at that point.” On hold and unfinished, Labashosky reiterated. “Again, (the city is) a sponsor providing funding, and they are our partner,” Schueler said. “We’ll see where that leads.” When the city submitted its request for an extension, Lesley Gordon, who handles media relations for the city’s Department of Public Works emailed an update: “Over the past few months, the Indianapolis Department of Public Works, in conjunction with Citizens Energy Group, has initiated an analysis of the “canal west bank” option. Based on preliminary findings, DPW has asked the Corps of Engineers to further study this option as a possible federal alternative for the flood damage reduction project.” Brad Barcom, president of the Rocky Ripple Town Board, is watch-
respond to citizens who take offense to ing with interest. the notion that it makes economic sense As to the west-side canal alignment, to include some of the people along the so-called Baranick Alignment, the river, but not all of them, Schueler Barcom said in a recent email, it repeated his commitment to the Corps “doesn’t protect Rocky Ripple, but at regulation that new projects not re-locate least it doesn’t stink as bad as the other problems from one area to another. two proposed alignments.” “I understand (residents concerns),” He added that the city needs space and he said. “I’m not sure how to respond support as it deliberates its next steps. beyond what I’ve said. We can’t partici“We need as many allies as we can get pate in projects that don’t have a posiright now,” Barcom said. The Corps tries to soothe Rocky Ripple’s con“If it comes to a point where the city is cerns by assuring the public that, going to reject the plan, I guess the project while the levee would probably be on hold at that point.” upgrades won’t protect Rocky Ripple, they won’t MATT SCHUELER, U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS make the flooding issues any worse tive cost-benefit ratio. … Going through in the area. Rocky Ripple residents the process, there wasn’t an alternative are not convinced by this argument that would protect Rocky Ripple, but it because, economically at least, the lack won’t make it worse.” of added flood protection has caused The Corps initially undertook the flood insurance for new residents in the flood control project in response to a neighborhood to skyrocket. request from the city in the late ‘80s The grant process that funds flood for the Corps to intercede on flooding control projects is a competitive process issues along the river. The studies were nationwide and that the proposal must initiated in 1991. be economically justified. To include Wrapping up the final environmental Rocky Ripple did not make economic impact statement feedback is just anothsense Schueler said, explaining that the Corps uses environmental, economic and er step in a long process, it’s to the point where we have to have some back and engineering considerations in its metrics. forth with the city,” Labashosky said. n When pressed on how he would
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paradox surrounds drumming, at least in Western culture. Despite its status as the most essential and versatile of instrumental pursuits, the percussion field in general seldom gets the respect it deserves. Remember Animal, the shackled, barely verbal house drummer for The Muppet Show? What about mockrockers Spinal Tap and their parade of anonymous timekeepers dying under strange circumstances? Or Ringo Starr, long ridiculed for the crime of playing in the world’s greatest pop group? “Drummers get a bad rap sometimes,” says musician-composer Glenn Kotche, best known for his inventive drum work with rock band Wilco. “It’s good to know there’s an organization out there that is showing the good side of percussionists.” That organization is the Percussive Arts Society, which moved its headquarters to Downtown Indianapolis and opened its Interactive Rhythm! Discovery Center museum in 2009. And PAS is enjoying a very busy November, which happens to be International Drum Month. The society’s 38th annual International Convention, known as PASIC, runs today through Saturday at the Indiana Convention Center. The gathering will draw world-class players and thousands of other visitors to the city for concerts, clinics, a gear and services expo and other free and ticketed events with appeal for both full-time musicians and casual fans of all ages. On Thursday, the Rhythm! Discovery Center will open its most ambitious exhibit to date, DRUMset: Driving the Beat of American Music. Scheduled to run for two years, the first-of-its-kind
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attraction will trace the evolution of the drum set – a truly American creation – from its Civil War roots to the latest high-tech innovations. Featured items will include kits played by jazz-era legends Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich and rock icons John Bonham of Led Zeppelin and Neil Peart of Rush, among others. The exhibit reflects the society’s effort to reach beyond its core constituency of teachers and performers and to touch the general public with its message about the rich history, the intriguing future and the physical, mental and spiritual value of the percussive arts. “I think this exhibit will appeal to the masses across the board and will bring people to the center, where they can experience the hands-on portion of it and learn about rhythm and all the other things that are related to the excitement of seeing those drum sets,” says Jeff Hartsough, a PAS staffer for 11 years and its executive director since February. “We’re talking about a huge range of importance as to where rhythm and drums and percussion come from and where we’re headed. So the Percussive Arts Society and the Rhythm! Discovery Center in general try to encapsulate all of that, at least at some level.” Founded in 1961, the nonprofit PAS is the world’s largest percussion organization, with 7,000 members and chapters in nearly every U.S. state and about 30 nations. Its mission is “to promote percussion education, research, performance and appreciation throughout the world” with offerings that include two bimonthly publications, Percussive Notes and Percussion News; various online resources; a broad menu of events and outreach programs; and a physical archive of instruments, recordings, scores and other materials, many rare and unusual. One of the group’s active members is
Kotche, who joined the PAS board of directors a year ago but joined the society in 1983 as a middle-schooler. Its publications appealed to the young player’s appreciation for the broad scope of percussion. “A lot of the kids who played guitars in rock bands just hung out at the music store, and the kids who played French horn and clarinet hung out in the band room,” he says. “I liked hanging out at both, and I didn’t see the need to have this division there. And PAS offered that to me. Ultimately, it was just a resource that made me a much better percussionist.” Attending the International Convention became an annual tradition for Kotche, who will present a clinic at 5 p.m. Saturday about his new instructional book. Another regular is Valerie Naranjo, now in her 19th season as percussionist for the Saturday Night Live band. She was a sophomore at the University of Oklahoma when she attended her first PASIC in 1977. “At the time it was more classically oriented, and I was more classically oriented,” she says. “Since then, it’s just totally busted out” into styles from rock to funk to world music. The annual convention taught Naranjo, “a kid from a little town in Colorado,” how to network in the music industry, and it introduced her to the West African traditions she has studied since the 1980s. She went on to perform and arrange
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Nov. 13-16, Indiana Convention Center Features expo hall from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and more than 100 concerts, clinics and other events Performers and presenters include: Dave Weckl (Paul Simon, Madonna, Chick Corea), Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Glenn Kotche (Wilco, On Fillmore), Jason Bittner (Shadow’s Fall, Anthrax), Rich Redmond (Jason Aldean, Hank Williams III), Valerie Naranjo (Saturday Night Live band, Philip Glass, David Byrne), Peter Erskine (Weather Report, Steely Dan) and Mike Mainieri (Steps Ahead, Dizzy Gillespie, Aerosmith) General public admission: $20 per single concert or clinic; $40 combo pass for expo admission and two events; discount vouchers available from various local music retailers pas.org/PASIC percussion for the Broadway production of The Lion King, and she still serves as a musical advisor to the show. Making her ninth PASIC appearance this year, she will present a clinic Thursday morning showcasing the gyil, the West African predecessor of the modern marimba. “I’m definitely a PAS baby,” she says. The convention is returning to Indianapolis this year after being staged last year in Austin, Tex. Looking ahead, the intent is to have two years in Indianapolis, every third year elsewhere. The event’s centerpiece is the International Drum and Percussion Expo, which hosts more than 100
percussion-related manufacturers, publishers and organizations exhibiting and demonstrating the latest instruments, sticks and mallets, accessories, music and related products and services. Visitors can try out the equipment and buy it on the spot, if so moved. The daytime clinics, which often turn into jam sessions, are followed by evening concerts. Friday brings acclaimed jazz-rock vibraphonist Mike Mainieri and drummer Peter Erskine with local pros Steve Allee on piano, Brandon Meeks on bass and Rob Dixon on sax. Saturday will see drummer Dave Weckl with guitarist Oz Noy and bassist Michael Rhodes.
“There’s something really for everybody, whether you’re a jazz fan, rock and roll, country,” says Matthew Altizer, marketing and communications director for the society and the museum. “Basically, any kind of music, we have something.” Though once limited to PAS members, the convention was opened to the general public a few years back, with single event tickets at $20 as well as a $40 combo pass that provides entry to two events plus the expo. “That’s relatively new in the last few years, and that’s really helped us reach out to the community,” says Hartsough, who hopes folks will approach the event “with the same kind of idea as the Home & Garden Show or the Boat Show, that people just look for something to do and they come down and they walk through the expo.” Because, after all, making and enjoying music shouldn’t be some exotic novelty. It’s as natural, and nearly as important, as breathing. “We have a quote on one of the walls, ‘Rhythm is the soul of life,’ and I think that really draws everything together,” Altizer says. “What we’re trying to do is show that rhythm, and drumming in particular, truly is more than just a musical idiom. It’s life-changing and life-altering, whether it’s through education or health and wellness or just through music. It’s something that’s very powerful.” n
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drum on the ground and a snare on a chair to be played by a single person. Gradually, stands and other hardware were developed, and players added tomtom drums, cymbals and other elements from around the world. In the era of vaudeville, silent film and radio drama, drummers were expected to wield an arsenal of noisemakers, sound effects and other contraptions designed to mimic various natural and mechanical sounds, resulting in elaborate “trap kits.” But as jazz evolved from swing to bebop, and big bands gave way to smaller jazz and R&B combos, the drum set was distilled into a four- or five-piece configuration that remains the standard for rock and other styles. The DRUMset exhibit flows chronologically, with stations representing early jazz
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and swing, then bop and early rock and roll, the British Invasion, heavy arena rock, and more recent variations and technological advances. The items on display come from the PAS archives and from players and collectors around the world. Among them are a green sparkle Slingerland kit played by Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham in the early ‘70s, a Yamaha kit played by Ndugu Chancler on Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean,” a 10-piece chrome Slingerland kit used by the revered Neil Peart on his first three Rush tours and albums, a facsimile of the Ludwig kit played by Ringo Starr when the Beatles rocked The Ed Sullivan Show and an elaborate assemblage used by Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche on various group and solo projects. The Kotche set, accompanied by Wilco concert video footage for context, includes standard drums, congas, glockenspiel, crotales and other ethnic elements, along with electronic triggers and effects. All by itself, museum staffers say, it represents the evolution of the drum kit. “It’s a modern version of what the original conception of the drum set was, which was a multicultural, multi-percussion instrument,” Kotche says. The exhibit’s interactive elements include several electronic drum kits
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available for hands-on test drives and a wall of foot pedals to show the evolution of that particular drum technology. A special display near the museum entrance will feature Slingerland kits played by jazz heroes Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich, commemorating their hyped and televised drum battles. Serving as a lead-in to DRUMset is a separate exhibition that opened in May and will continue through May 2014. Drums from the Circle City traces the history of the Indianapolis-based Leedy Manufacturing Co., which ruled the drum industry in the early 20th century and earned the title “World’s Largest Drum Company” at a location near Fountain Square that now houses SENSE Charter School. Leedy made the first vibraphone and developed such breakthroughs as the collapsible snare drum stand. “It’s really interesting to me to see, even back in the day when it was just acoustic drumming, how much science went into the development of drums,” Sheff says. “A lot of the innovations for drum sets and percussion in general happened here in Indianapolis, which I don’t think a lot of people understand.” n
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Glen Kotchke Multi-instrumentalist and composer best known as drummer for Wilco and half of the experimental duo On Fillmore. PASIC workshop, 5 p.m. Saturday: Highlighting his first instructional book, which analyzes grooves played in Wilco and elsewhere in terms of big band, classical and world music influences. Current activities include: Touring with On Fillmore in a live stage version of NPR’s Radiolab; new compositions for cellists Jeffrey Ziegler and Maya Beiser, string quartet Brooklyn Rider and chamber ensemble Victoire; solo touring and new solo album Adventureland next year. On passing the torch: “In India, you become a musician by living with your teacher; you become an apprentice, almost. And that’s something that’s
definitely happened with the jazz tradition in the U.S. as well. … When I joined Wilco, I was teaching at three high schools, 50 kids every week, and had been doing that for years. ... That’s the only way I survived, when I got out of college.” What’s up with Wilco: Having just finished three years of touring behind the album Whole Love, the Chicago-based band is slowing the pace and but working on “exploratory recordings” for the next album. On his busy life: “When really interesting opportunities present themselves, that you know you’re going to learn from and really grow from and have a really enjoyable experience, it’s really hard to say no sometimes. But I’m working on that, and with two small children, I’m getting even better at it. … I’ve been out there [performing] for several years now. I think it’s time to go back, hole up in the studio or practice room for a little while, and get my ideas together for the next phase.”
Peter Erskine Two-time Grammy winner known for work with Weather Report, Jaco Pastorius, Joni Mitchell, Steely Dan, Diana Krall, Stan Kenton and more; heard on more than 600 albums and film scores; director of drum set studies at USC. PASIC concert, 8:15 p.m. Friday: Performing with acclaimed jazz-rock vibraphonist Mike Mainieri and local jazz pros Steve Allee on piano, Brandon Meeks on bass and Rob Dixon on sax. PASIC clinic, 10 a.m. Saturday: Demonstrating his line of play-along iOS apps that allow students and teachers to jam with recordings of real musicians and mix individual instruments in and out as needed. Current activities include: New autobiog-
raphy No Beethoven chronicles his years with Weather Report; various instructional products through his company Fuzzy Music. What’s cool about drummers: “Drummers may be some of the only professionals who happily and willingly share trade secrets. If somebody wants to know how we do something, we’re happy to show them, because we know that once they put it into their blender, it’s going to come out unique no matter what. … There’s just a real brotherhood and sisterhood of rhythmic enthusiasm.” What’s cool about PASIC: “It’s a way of seeing old friends, and it’s a way of keeping in touch with any new developments academically or technologically, the instrument designs and stuff. Whether you’re a pro or just a beginner, drummers like drums. We like everything that has to do with drums. ... And even though the thought of a drum convention might sound a little frightening or far out to some people, it’s not that noisy of an affair.”
Valerie Naranjo Percussionist with the Saturday Night Live band; has recorded and performed with Broadway’s The Lion King, Philip Glass Ensemble, Paul Winter Consort, David Byrne and Tori Amos. PASIC clinic, 10 a.m. Thursday: Exploring the repertoire of the West African gyil, predecessor of the modern marimba, with Ghanaian musician Ba-ere Yotere. “It’s very complex and very soulful music. It not only points us in the direction of where we’ve come from as solo marimbists, it also points us in the direction of where we’ve come from as players of jazz, R&B, gospel music and all those styles that we enjoy in America.” 14 COVER STORY // 11.13.13 - 11.20.13 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
On playing for SNL: “We show up about two weeks before the season opens, and we have a marathon rehearsal of things that have been written over the summer. There’s about 880 pieces in our books. Over the many years they’ve been written by various band members, or arranged. And normally we tackle 20 to 30 new tunes a year.” On a typical Saturday, the band arrives for a one-hour rehearsal at 11 a.m., then spends an hour working with the cast on sketch music. They take a few hours off, then return around 7:30 p.m. to entertain an in-studio audience. The house is cleared, and a new audience is brought in for the show. “I usually get home around 2:15 a.m. on Sunday, so it’s a long, long day, but it’s an exciting day. And the thing I love most about it, because I love musical theater, is that it’s a new show every time. It’s never quite cooked. There’s always kind of an opening-night feeling to it.”
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WHAT YOU MISSED Partying at the Eiteljorg The Eiteljorg kicked off its 2013 Contemporary Art Fellowship last weekend with the opening of an exhibition featuring works by the five fellows, performances by Native American sketch comedy troupe The 1491s, and a high-energy dance party thanks to Canadian indigenous DJ trio A Tribe Called Red. In the contemporary arts gallery, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun’s large-scale surrealist paintings drew my attention. In several paintings, animal-like heads (think totem pole) attached to long, spindly, colorful bodies roam Pacific Northwest landscapes; the spirit care-takers of the land. In others, heads in the same style, but pink-skinned and devilish, are transposed hauntingly onto the bodies of oil company executives. On Friday night, A Tribe Called Red made the most of their hour and a half set with their infectious mix of native song recordings and club beats. For much of the time, the mixed native and non-native crowd danced club-style. For the last song, however, a moving circle formed on the dance floor, everyone taking bouncing steps in time. A communal energy was palpable. As Tribe’s DJ NDN later explained to me, that was a “round dance song:” the native people in the crowd formed the circle in response. The 1491s showed several of their YouTube videos along with a discussion and Q&A on Saturday. Most videos offered send-ups of Native American stereotypes. For example, “Slapping Medicine Man” treats his patients with slaps across the face and reprimands like “Quit drinking!” While the whole idea of Native American comedy sounds fresh to my non-native ears, troupe member Ryan Redcord says it’s really not. “Some of the jokes that we have are old uncle jokes that have been around for like 50 years.” Redcorn says. “All it is is we have the mic now, and nobody stands between the microphone to the distribution point. “ — ANDREA MURASKIN
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Todd Matus: Interiors e In the photograph “Violin Atelier Window, Sofia Bulgaria,” you see a pleasant apartment and a window looking out on the street. In a similar photograph, you see a similar setting half a world away - in Indianapolis. Wherever Todd Matus goes as a violin maker and a photographer, he captures crystal clear and engaging images, showing that great photos (and violins) can be made anywhere. By appointment at Litmus Gallery — DAN GROSSMAN
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IndyGo drivers at Central Library, Big Car part of global public art project
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f you drive down Meridian Street and glance at the Central Library this month, more than two dozen giant faces will stare back at you. Who are they? And why are they there? The photo posters are the Indy incarnation of Inside Out, a global art project initiated by the French artist JR — and your curiosity, and that of viewers around the world, is part of the project’s success. JR, a graffiti artist who moved on to photography, is an advocate for placing faces in unexpected places. Each project has its own implications. JR photographed Palestinians and Israelis with the same type of job, then pasted those photos on opposite sides of the West Bank separation barrier, so that Palestinians might confront their often invisible counterparts, and vice versa. Faces are all you get — JR offers no text at installation sites and only the sparest description on the project’s website — so you tend to see his subjects first and foremost as people. In 2011 JR won the $1 million TED Prize to help others implement similar installations in their communities. Indy residents may recognize his work from this year’s Heartland Film Festival, where a documentary short about him with artist José Parlá won a grand prize. Called “Wrinkles of the City – La Havana,” it showed JR and Parla installing portraits of senior citizens who lived through the Cuban Revolution. Indy’s Inside Out was conceived by a group of artists, activists, and friends connected through the Harrison Center for the Arts, including Katie Basbagill, Allison and Jon Ford, Quincy Owens, and Elizabeth and Scott Hall. The group thought about whom to photograph, and current events supplied an idea. “Within the past year or so there’s been a lot of conversation about mass transit,” says Jon Ford, who works downtown at Apparatus consulting and frequently rides the bus. “It’s typically something that’s really hard for a carcentric Midwestern city like Indianapolis to jump into and fully endorse.” So they decided to showcase the city’s
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transit workers. “I’ve never been a bus driver myself,” says Ford, “but I can imagine that sometimes, just like with any other job, you don’t get much recognition or reward.” The installation, he says, “was a unique way to contribute and keep the dialogue on mass transit alive with an artistic perspective.” The project was a finalist in the 5x5 Indianapolis Arts and Innovation Prize, but when it didn’t win, volunteers helped to offset the cost of printing the portraits. IndyGo and IPL were supportive partners, despite the fact that IndyGo logos on the drivers’ uniforms had to be photoshopped out of the portraits. (Inside Out projects must avoid any implication of commercial sponsorship or endorsement.) Portraits will also appear at Big
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Car Service Center and R Bistro. The portraits, installed on the library addition, are dwarfed by the building’s soaring height and gleaming exterior, so cross the grass to have a closer look. The wheat paste used to post the photos is more generously applied to some portraits than others, giving them a lithograph-like appearance. While I checked out the installation, I ran into Parrish Turner, a driver in one of the portraits. He hadn’t realized the photos were up, but came out to see them when his friends joked that he was famous. He’s been driving for about 18 months, and volunteered to have his photo taken because he wanted to support IndyGo. He was happy to have the work, he said. “But they don’t even say we’re with IndyGo,” he said, sounding a bit disappointed. I reassured him that I’d mention it. Then I thought that he’d hit upon the very point of it all, without either of us realizing it. Parrish Turner drives a bus. But he’s also, simply, a guy — a tall, lanky one with a nice smile, who was quick to introduce himself and shake my hand. And I felt glad to meet him. n
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few weeks ago, my daughter and I took advantage of the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s free general admission policy. For the first time — she’s nine years old — she was really able to appreciate the museum. Instead of asking me every five minutes, “Why can’t we go to the Children’s Museum, daddy?” she seemed really interested. Excited even. We started at the Pont Aven School exhibition in the European Collection on the second floor. It shows a grouping of French artists — Gaugin, Emile Bernard, to name a couple — that Henri Matisse, just starting his career in the late 19th century, would have been familiar with. (The IMA’s big-ticket exhibition Matisse: Life in Color, Masterworks from the Baltimore Museum of Art closes Jan. 12.) Then we followed the collection back in time, until we arrived at Hieronymus Bosch’s “Christ In Limbo,” painted in 1575, which was not, to say the least, Naomi’s favorite in the collection. As it turns out I found myself interviewing IMA Director Charles Venable just a few days after my visit with my daughter, for a feature I was writing on the Matisse exhibit. I told him about my trip and asked if I’d be able to continue taking Naomi without having to pay a general admission fee (a significant expenditure for me at my income level). He said the question is being discussed at the highest levels in the museum. A little background: the IMA had a free general admission policy from 1941 until 2006, when it instituted a $7 fee for nonmembers. In January 2007, the museum
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returned to a free general admission policy, with the exception of special exhibits, that remains in effect to this day. At any rate, here’s what Venable told me: “I don’t know what the outcome is going to be. But the board is definitely going to be doing a study and really taking stock of what does it mean to be free in a world where virtually everywhere else you go in Indianapolis to an institution, you pay — at the Children’s Museum, the Eiteljorg, and on and on. What is the value of being free? Who actually takes advantage of that? Who wouldn’t be able to afford a ticket otherwise? I think it’s a wise decision on the part of the board at this moment in the history of the museum to take stock and really look at that. I don’t quite know the timing. I don’t know the outcome, but it’s something that will be evaluated.”
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REVIEW Welcome Home w Nov. 1 at Old Indianapolis City Hall
Welcome Home built on the buzz that [space], a contemporary art programming outfit, created with its first event, Vacant, which took place in May, also at the Old City Hall Building. Whereas Vacant gave artists free rein to create site-specific installations, Welcome Home revolves around the theme of the “monochromatic living room.” Artist teams were given a color theme, and then collaborated to create a living room within their allotted space; as one can imagine, “living room” was very subjectively defined in this context. Thirty-seven local artists created 18 installations, in total. The “living rooms” were largely excellent and well-executed, with the overriding feeling that each room one entered felt somehow more impressive than the last. The yellow, clear and gold rooms stood out. Jordan Ryan and Kurt Nettleton’s gold room would have felt at home in an episode of Twin Peaks. It featured framed
holograms, and metallic gold fringe and a velour couch, in front of a vintage television displaying age-appropriate television that segued into a bizarre dance video of the artists in the installation itself. Ben Langebartels and Andrea Townsend’s clear room achieved the greatest purity of form with a bubble wrap couch, a table composed of and supported entirely by sheets of glass, beta fish swimming in wall-mounted half-orbs and shelves holding a multitude of bottles. A tray of thumb tacks and a cigar cutter on a coffee table disrupted the oddly perfect and sterile atmosphere with a somewhat sinister and threatening implication. A sense of voyeurism abounded throughout the exhibition, but Lucas Bentley and Andrea Panico’s yellow room took that feeling the furthest by placing the viewer outside a brick “house” in which she had to peer through the windows to observe the living room — and the artists interacting in real time within it. — CHARLES FOX NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 11.13.13 - 11.20.13 // VISUAL 17
PERFORMANCES Third Coast Percussion Chicago-based Third Coast Percussion — or maybe South Bend-based, because the ensemble started a five-year residency at Notre Dame this fall — will play a couple of new music standards, plus a new work featuring a whole bunch of bells, for the next concert on Ensemble Music’s season. Those standards are John Cage’s Third Construction, scored for a mess of non-traditional percussion instruments, from a Northwest Indian rattle to cricket callers to conch shells; and George Crumb’s Music for a Summer Evening, Makrokosmos III, scored for two amplified pianos and ever more percussion, including the jawbone of an ass. And the new piece is Augusta Read Thomas’s Resounding Earth, premiered in 2012 by Third Coast, which calls for approximately 300 pieces of metal, many of them traditionally bell-shaped. The Toby, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Nov. 14, 7:30 p.m., $30 (discounts available), ensemblemusic.org Bela Fleck and Brooklyn Rider Banjo master and Clowes fave Fleck returns this week, carting with him a piece commissioned for Clowes’ 50th anniversary, “Night Flight over Water” for banjo and string quartet. He’ll be joined by his new touring buddies, the new music-friendly Brooklyn Rider. Fellow banjoist Robin Hopkins and Fleck will talk about their chosen instrument before the show in Clowes’ Krannert Room from 7:15 p.m. Clowes Hall, Nov. 15, 8 p.m., $46-63, cloweshall.org Rioult Dance NY Launched 20 years ago by Pascal Rioult (a Martha Graham vet) and Joyce Herring, Rioult Dance NY heads to Carmel this weekend to pair up with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra on an all-Bach program. On the bill are “Celestial Tides” (to the Brandenberg Conceto, No. 7), “City” (to the Sonata Violin and Harpsichord, No. 6) and “View of a Fleeting World” (to “Art of the Fugue”). The Tarkington, Nov. 15-16, 8 p.m., $15-38, thecenterfortheperformingarts.org Encyclopedia Show Indianapolis: Best of 2013 Live variety show/lecture series Encyclopedia Show has big things planned on the subjects of dinosaurs, serial killers, the Zodiac, hockey and obsolete diseases. Featuring comedian David Britton, members of Know No Stranger and ComedySportz, and visual art by Jennifer Blue Hands. Irving Theater, Nov. 14, 7:30 p.m., $8 general, $5 student, attheirving.com
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Butler visiting artist Tim Hardy: Shakespeare is better with an American accent
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“In America, it’s a today and tomorrow society and not so much to do with yesterday. That can become really shallow if we feel we inherit no wisdom from those who have been before. That’s all the classics do — tell us things that we’d do well to listen to.” Hardy finds wisdom in Romeo and Juliet that goes beyond the well-known love story. “I’m setting it in the 1920s,” says Hardy of his concept for the play. “It explains a lot of the male cruelty in the play. It’s not one of the great love stories, as many people think. Romeo and Juliet only have
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four scenes together. A lot of it is about the context in which they live and die in a very male dominated society.” But as he explores his concept for the show, Hardy find that his students often surprise him, bringing new meaning to old wisdom. “They are working as hard as you can wish. The joy of doing a script you know well is that in the mouths of good actors who are brave, you hear things for the very first time. They bring a completely fresh mind to it.” In exchange, Hardy strives to spread a bit of his own wisdom to the student actors with which he works. “Always be proud of your passion,” he says. “It’s very tough out there. The great enemy is bitterness, and if you become bitter you’ve lost. The way not to become bitter is to laugh at the injustices and absolutely take your passion seriously. Never feel foolish or ashamed by it.” n
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EVENTS Trade School Indy: Marketing for Authors Self-published successes are insanely rare. In an online marketplace flooded with totally weird erotic fiction and the brilliant knockoffs like I Am the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and ThirtyFive Shades of Grey, you’re going to have to work really hard to get your new book out there. Copywriter and novelist Nicole Amsler can lend a hand, giving pointers on social media presence, building “tribes” and deploying evil robot aggregators. Keep in mind that all Trade School Indy classes work on the barter system; head to tradeschool.coop/indianapolis for more. Indy Reads Books, Nov. 18, 5:30-7 p.m.
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Saturday Night Live has been a touchstone for two, going-on-three generations in my family. It contextualizes the news of the week, giving us the right to laugh at the idiocies of events and people pushing us into the politics of dysfunction. One could go mad without a dose of SNL. Saturday Night Live and American TV, which at first glance seems like a dense tome, is actually an illuminating journey through the who, why, what, when, how and where of staying power within an industry that likes change-ups. Individual essays allow you to read a section, put the book down and return to it without losing momentum, allowing you to comfortably gain a perspective on a show that has basically stayed the same while constantly changing. Part I traces the beginning in 1975; Part II shows why SNL has stayed alive despite a revolving cast and directorial team; Part III digs into the impact of “Social Politics and Comedic Representation”; Part IV examines SNL’s impact on life outside of the delivery box. Who are we, and why are we lured into the sketches that expose our frailties? Why do we care about the “stars” filtering the world through SNL sensibilities? If you like the variety show that weekly brings us outstanding sketch comedy and popular music, you’ll find this book worthy.
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A New York family finds little peace in downsizing in Allison Lynn’s new novel
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of mine had been moving to Boston and arrived with her significant other when their car, with all of its belongings, was stolen. And the house they were supposed to be moving into fell through. In the back of my mind, for years, I’ve had that concept about being someplace unfamiliar, without any of your things, stripped of all your material goods — things we define ourselves by too much these days. And I though it might be freeing to have some of these days out of yourself. I created these characters and as it played out, to my surprise, it was any-
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OPENING Blue is the Warmest Color Originally titled, less poetically, La Vie d’Adèle (or Adèle’s Life), Blue is the Warmest Color killed it this year at Cannes, winning both the top prize for a feature film (the Palme D’Or), plus special mention for its two leads, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux. Adèle (Exarchopoulos) is a 15-year-old blue-haired lady, Emma (Léa) is an art student; they fall in love and have straight-forwardly (or graphically, your call) presented sex through the course of the three-hour movie. The actresses described the shooting experience as “horrible,” for what that’s worth: “When you’re an actor on a film in France and you sign the contract, you have to give yourself, and in a way you’re trapped (Seydoux).” NC-17, Opens Friday at Keystone Art
CONTINUING 12 Years a Slave e Adopting the point of view of a free Northerner forced into slavery (based on the true story of Solomon Northup), 12 Years a Slave, directed by Steve McQueen (Shame, Hunger) offers the clearest view of slavery I’ve seen on screen. We share Northup’s disbelief at his change in circumstances, his outrage and anger. As Northup, Chiwetel Ejiofor must express himself through subdued inflection and with his amazingly expressive eyes. He is as good here as Daniel Day-Lewis is in Lincoln. R, At Keystone Art All is Lost r Robert Redford plays an unnamed man lost in the Indian Ocean with no working radio. What to do? That’s the plot of the film by writer/director J.C. Chandor (Margin Call). Unlike other “you are there” survival stories, Redford’s character has no one to talk to, so there is little chatter. Damned if it doesn’t work anyway. At 77, Redford is still able to command the screen, and his character’s focus held my attention. Chandor indulges in a some arty visuals, but Redford’s no-nonsense performance anchors (ahem) the movie. Compelling stuff. PG-13, At Keystone Art, AMC Castleton About Time r Director Richard Curtis (Love Actually) offers a likable blend of comedy, romance, drama and fantasy in this tale of Tim Lake (Domhnall Gleeson), who learns at age 21 that the men in his family are capable of hopping though time to various points in their life and tweaking things. The cast is fine, with standout turns by Bill Nighy and Lindsay Duncan as Bill’s parents. Those willing to hang in and adjust to the film’s quirkiness will be rewarded. R, In wide release
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he Dallas Buyers Club is exceptional in large part due to the performance of Matthew McConaughey. Dismissed by many after years of cranking out disposable romantic comedies notable primarily for scenes where the actor showed off his sexy physique, the Texan movie star is in the midst of a career resurgence that began with 2011’s The Lincoln Lawyer and continued with Killer Joe, Magic Mike and Mud. In The Dallas Buyers Club McConaughey knocks it out of the ballpark. I wasn’t looking forward to the film. McConaughey lost in the neighborhood of 50 pounds for the role and I don’t approve of actors gaining or losing great amounts of weight for a part. When The Dallas Buyers Club started, I winced at McConaughey’s emaciated physical appearance, but within seconds he established his character so completely that I stopped thinking about what the actor did to his body. In Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallee’s film, McConaughey plays Ron Woodroof, a hard-partying 1980’s Dallas redneck working as an electrician and rodeo cowboy. We first encounter him in the middle of a three-way with two rodeo groupies in a vacant holding pen. When an electrical accident sends him to the hospital, a blood test is done and Woodroof is informed that he is HIVpositive and has roughly 30 days to live. His reaction is anger — how dare the doctors say he has a faggot disease! If this sounds dreary and depressing, rest assured that McConaughey gives the
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proceedings a crackling sense of immediacy — and even humor — with his portrayal of Woodroof. The ornery goodold-boy not only outlives his expiration date, he comes up with a way to work around the system and bring in money, following the lead of New Yorkers and starting a buyers club. Instead of selling life-extending medications to fellow sufferers, he lets them become club members for $400 a month and gives them the combinations of vitamins and drugs he
purchases from other countries. Running the buyers club requires Woodroof to become involved with gay people. There are no Afterschool Special moments here — the alliance is born of necessity, but watching Woodroof’s transformation from bigot to confederate is touching nonetheless. Particularly fascinating is his relationship with Rayon, a drug-addicted transsexual, expertly played by Jared Leto, who also lost an alarming amount of weight for the role. I was so caught up by the story, so moved by the unsentimental screenplay, that I didn’t step back and assess the film. The mark of an exceptional movie is that it involves you so completely that you don’t notice, or care, about its rough spots. n
Mountainfilm on Tour Didn’t make it the Telluride Film Festival, a Memorial Day-weekend fest devoted to films that embrace all sorts of adventure (including, but not limited to, the adventure that is mountaineering)? Then the Telluride Film Festival will come to you. Its traveling program is a hodgepodge of shorts on subjects such as extreme skiing, tintype photography, toads, wolves and rollerblading.
Heartland Award Winning Shorts A few weeks after the Heartland Film Festival posted its highest numbers ever — in terms of attendance, submissions, screenings, premieres, maybe even free cups of coffee distributed — they’re back with a selection of award-winning shorts from the fest, plus conversations with the creators of said shorts. Part of the Ann Katz Festival of Books and Arts.
Buskirk-Chumley Theatre (Bloomington), Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m., $10-15, mountainfilm.org
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WHAT YOU MISSED Repo! The Genetic Opera screening featuring director Darren Lynn Bousman Nov. 8 at the Irving Theater Before Darren Lynn Bousman, director of the 2008 film Repo! The Genetic Opera, screened his cult classic for an audience at the Irving Theater Friday night, almost literally out of the back of his van, he invited volunteers to come up to the stage for a little game. I was tempted to yell, “For god’s sake, people, he directed half the ‘Saw’ series! IT’S A TRAP!” Fortunately for them, it was just a dare to sing, a cappella, the film’s famous “Drug Market” scene. Not so easy under the best of circumstances, even harder when Terrence Zdunich, the writer/narrator of the film who actually delivered that scene, is right there with you. But they gamely played along. Repo!, a hellaciously bizarre experience in film, was made doubly hellacious with “shadow cast” Transylvanian Lip Treatment, which also puts Rocky screenings at the Irving, pantomiming all the big scenes as live theater. The audience interacting reached a level only previously seen in a certain horror picture about a dude named Rocky. There’s a scene toward the end showing a crazed conductor leading a sing-along in front of an in-movie theater audience. So when the real-life theater audience joined in for the fun, well, the already-vague line between performer and audience vanished completely. For the uninitiated, Repo! is a rock opera in which Paris Hilton tries to prove she’s a better singer than
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Sarah Brightman. So Hilton sics Giles from Buffy The Vampire Slayer on Brightman to carve out her eyes. And THAT’S NOT EVEN THE MAIN PLOT. Ben Lyons from At The Movies suggested it might be the worst film of the century (a statement Bousman now wears like a badge of honor), it is certainly one of the most bizarre. “My agents thought I was crazy!” Bousman told the crowd. “I had directed three films in a row that had opened at number one, I was in line to direct Saw 5, and instead I went with this. People ask me if it was worth it and if I would change anything, but when I see audiences reacting like this, I know it was totally worth it.” — PAUL F. P. POGUE
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Indiana craft breweries are flourishing within a “fertile crescent” south of Indianapolis, within easy access on highways replete with fine scenery and cultural richness. Each brewer’s story is unique and engaging, as are the beers. East on I-74, dropping south onto Ind. 1 gets you to Great Crescent Brewery, in an 1843 building at 315 Importing St. in the historic Ohio River city of Aurora. Great Crescent is celebrating its fifth anniversary Nov. 14-16 with events 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. each day. Friday at 7 p.m., Great Crescent’s celebratory tapping will feature Langtree Lager, a classic 1800’s American pilsner made with locally grown American six-row barley, milled corn from Aurora Farm & Feed Co. and Aurora hops. “This beer is our Tribute to Samuel Langtree, Brewmaster at the original Crescent Brewing Co.,” said Dan Valas, brewmaster and co-founder with Lani Valas of Great Crescent. Great Crescent’s regular house beers includes 2013 Indiana Brewers Cup Silver Medal Harmonie Dark Lager, based on what is believed to be Indiana’s first commercial beer, brewed by George Bentel, an immigrant from Germany who joined George Rapp’s 1814 settlement, now known as New Harmony. Dark Lager took a Silver Medal at the 2013 Indiana Brewer’s Cup along with a Bronze Medal for Aurora Lager. Valas is recognized as an Indiana Artisan brewer specifically cited for Great Crescent’s Dark Lager and Bourbon Barrel Stout, which has the distinction of being the first barrelaged stout in a can. More at gcbeer.com. Accessible from I-74 or I-65 is Hawcreek, a nanobrewery just north of the town of Hope at 11420 N. State Road 9. The don’t-miss family operation includes a brother and sister and their spouses: Josh and Nicole Bontrager and Jacquie and Abram Carman. The taproom is open weekends and now features a delicately delicious Jalapeño Ale and a bold Chaos IPA along with their regulars. Call 812-374-2998. Don’t miss Sun King’s Save Your Tabs Collection Holiday Challenge for Ronald McDonald, Nov. 13Jan. 11. Check Sun King website for drop off sites. Broad Ripple Brewpub’s 23rd Anniversary on Nov. 14, featurng $2.30 imperial pints all day, with an added treat of Bubblegum Lager on tap and special evening events. Nov. 16 is Flat 12’s FoBaB [Festival of BarrelAged Beers] from 1-10 p.m. More at flat12.me. And Riviera Club is hosting a dinner pairing food by Keystone Sports Review with Bier brews; reserve at rivi.org or call 255-5471.
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month or so after 10-01 Food and Drink opened its doors for business in 2011, I reviewed the restaurant for this paper, excited to see what the city’s latest farm-to-fork eatery would have to offer. The concept was right on the money: locally-sourced comfort food served up with the restaurant’s own uniquely defining twist. On paper, this place was a sure-fire winner. The problem was that the kitchen fell somewhat short of its own ambitions. In spite of the cool, inviting décor and down-to-earth, friendly service, the cooking just didn’t gel, and I couldn’t escape the feeling that this eatery betrayed all the signs of becoming another short-lived venture. My fears were unfounded. In the intervening years, a transformation has taken place. With well-seasoned local chef Dan Dunville (formerly of The Meridian) in charge of the kitchen, owners Natalie Wolf and Jeff Cart now find themselves ensconced at the helm of a vibrant, bustling enterprise which these days seems to consistently appear near the top of almost everyone’s best-of lists. For Chef Dan, the move represents an opportunity to kick back a little and focus his considerable talents on creating great food in a casual environment. Although the menu has remained largely the same, Dunville has changed most of the recipes, streamlining and simplifying while improving quality, all without cutting corners or compromising the diners’ experience. Many of Dunville’s loyal diners have followed him from The Meridian to 10-01, and the hopping Broad Ripple Avenue joint enjoys a more varied clientele than before. Hipsters mingle with hip replacements, and brown spirits take their place alongside the white. The demographic might be all over the place, and refreshingly so, but the food and drink most certainly isn’t. At the core of the drinks menu is a solid foundation of local beers, selected by partner Jeff Cart, offering some excellent, less-well-known brews, such as New Albanian’s splendid and
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Long live Lou. Last Saturday night, music fans of all ages and degrees of balding came out to Radio Radio for a lineup of homegrown rock and roll. While vastly different on the surface, The Vulgar Boatmen, Vacation Club and The Icks all share a penchant for simple songwriting, deeply influenced by The Velvet Underground. Dale Lawrence of The Vulgar Boatmen had referenced this simplicity while reflecting upon VU’s legacy in an interview a week prior to the show. In Lawrence’s opinion, The Velvet Underground’s definitive influence on modern rock music came from them “putting more stock in early rock and roll and simplicity, and downplaying technical prowess to show that that’s not really what the best rock is about—it’s about ensemble playing.” “Hi. We are The Icks, and we are from four blocks away,” said the band’s singer, Jon Caldwell as the band dove into a set of their uniquely danceable rock crunch. Along with their trusty drum machine, the trio was well received by the older crowd in attendance. Vacation Club played a very solid set of their energetic bubblegum psych. With several songs coming from their 2012 EP, VC got many in the crowd groovin’ and shakin’ during their irresistibly fun set. The Vulgar Boatmen opened their set with “You and Your Sister,” the title track from their 1989 album. As promised, the band went on to play several more of their own songs before diving into VU covers. “Are there any Lou Reed fans out there? Well, here’s to Lou,” said Lawrence before jumping into a spirited rendition of “Beginning To See The Light.” Lawrence and company went on to several more excellent selections, including “Run Run Run,” “White Light/White Heat,” and “I’m Waiting For The Man.” Perfectly soundtracking the hazy burst of creativity coming from the Fountain Square neighborhood, “Foggy Notion” was one of the best-received covers of the night. Throughout the set, The Boatmen’s mastered repertoire of Velvet tunes was expansive and on point. Indiana could not have asked for a better homegrown homage to the great Lou Reed. — SETH JOHNSON
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he is.), he thought it would be cool if it included a cassette [Weed Forestin’] that I actually included during the sales of the second Dinosaur Jr. record. [I included it] in a couple of record stores where, if you bought the Dinosaur Jr. record, you’d get the cassette with it. It’d sort of become part of this Dinosaur Jr. lore that it happened. And that cassette was basically the first Sebadoh cassette. So, Karl suggested that it would be cool if we could re-do the cassette and include it with every tenth copy for this box set. I was flattered by that, that he had even thought of it. Coincidentally, I was working on a reissue of that very album at the same time, so I could make a very, almost perfect production of that cassette. And he did that, so I thought that was very cool. Then he asked me to do an acoustic
song for a flex-disc series. … And then he started bugging me about doing – we had self-released this EP which was sort of a pre-cursor to the album; it was from the same sessions. It was a 5-song EP called The Secret EP and we just made it on CD to sell on tour. And when Karl found out about that, he started saying, “Hey, I want to put this out on vinyl.” And we ended up saying, “Okay, cool!” So we did a 10-inch of that, and he asked us about doing the fulllength and it just seemed like … why not? I like the care they take with their packaging and everything. I didn’t see any real need for Sebadoh to be looking around for a bigger indie label, and, actually the ones we approached weren’t interested. We didn’t look around that much. It just appealed to me to do everything low-budget, not a lot of money. There wasn’t a big advance involved; I also didn’t want to get into a situation where we were trying to get a label to include us in their release schedule and then hoping that they paid attention to us. S E E SEBADOH, O N P A G E
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We didn’t want to get into that; we’ve been through all that stuff before. It just seemed really modest. It just seemed to fit our whole deal. And the care that they took with the packaging and the other stuff was cool. It was really personal. All the members of the Sebadoh are involved in the management of the band as well, and having somebody we can talk to really quickly and figure things out has been fun. And easy. NUVO: We interviewed you back in 2011 about the possibility of a new album and you said, “I’m not afraid of failure since just about every record I’ve made since Harmacy has been completely ignored. If I can make a record that means something to me and that I enjoy, then it’s a success.” Following up with 2013 Lou from 2011 Lou – has this release been a success in your eyes according to those terms? BARLOW: Yeah, mostly because we have new songs to play live. As far as whether it’s a success or not, I don’t really know. I know that when the record came out, I made the mistake of reading the reviews and half of them were devastatingly negative, and I was like, “Oh, god.” Shockingly [negative]. I was kind of hoping we would ride this wave of goodwill … but that wasn’t really happening. We got really personal, really nasty reviews from The Onion A.V. Club, Pitchfork, Spin. I kind of read those and gave up – NUVO: I can’t believe you read reviews! BARLOW: It was dumb! I shouldn’t have done it. I guess in my experience, with Dinosaur Jr. stuff I was always shocked at how positive it’s been for every one of those records. But for Sebadoh, for every record except for maybe Bakesale, we were always like, the reviews were always … the fact that we have two or three songwriters in the band [is] always a huge point of contention with people, reviewers in particular. My lyrics are a big problem for them. And it’s always been that way. But we’ve managed to do well and survive, despite that. So with this one, I read that initial burst of bad reviews and then [stopped] and said, “I’m just going to hope for the best.” It’s been good. We just did a really nice tour of Europe that was better than I expected it to be. We’ll see how the next tour goes. We did a tour of the West Coast earlier this year that was pretty bad, just in terms of attendance. But maybe it will be better this time around. NUVO: On the topic of reading reviews: this album has been characterized a lot in the press as a “breakup album.” I know
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’ve been writing A Cultural Manifesto for nearly two years now, and the question of what role music can play in creating social change has been a major theme of this column. During my time with NUVO, I’ve had the opportunity to ask a lot of great musicians to share their thoughts on this topic. I thought it would be interesting to take a look back and compare some of their responses. Public Enemy were the first group I ever heard making overtly political music, so I was a bit surprised when I interviewed Chuck D and he distanced himself from the notion that a musician could be an agent of social change. “They don’t have to deliver the message themselves,” Chuck said, suggesting that artists were better off passing the responsibility to more conventional political figures or leaders. “They can point their audience to people who have a message. That’s what I did on my records. I always thought
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of art as a weapon of change. “Think of Bob Dylan, or movies like Easy Rider and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” Baptista said. “These things were like a slap in the face to society. I think artists are mirrors. A good artist reflects what the person didn’t even see at first. We can answer questions that weren’t even asked.” Haitian musician Richard A. Morse led the band RAM during a period of great political upheaval in the island nation. His outspoken lyrics attracted violent retribution from Haitian government, yet Morse “But the people who took to the the was skeptical of the role he and other artists played in raising the streets might sing my song.” public’s consciousness. “People weren’t taking to the — RICHARD A. MORSE streets because I wrote a song. But the people who took to the streets might sing my song,” Morse said. I felt like I’d gotten a good grasp on the Minister Louis Farrakhan did a lot of great range of views held by musicians. But I was things for black people, so I always pointed curious to know what the leaders of social my audience to him. I pointed to many other figures, some historical, that I believed change themselves thought about this question. So I asked Bobby Seale, co-founder of had great aspects of leadership.Immortal the Black Panther Party. Technique is widely considered one of the To my surprise, Seale placed more most outspoken voices in hip-hop. So I value on music’s role in social change was surprised again when like Chuck D he than any artist I had spoken to. downplayed the artist’s influence. “Music perpetuates the message, it opens “People always call me a “conscious” rappeople up and it allows for a greater folkloric per, and I respond by saying that conscious communication. That’s what the performing doesn’t mean you’re going to do anything,” arts are about. I love to see it when music Tech said. “If you took a survey of people in really, truly addresses the social and political this city and asked them if they thought the issues of human liberation,” Seale said. government was corrupt, or if the president Clearly there’s been no consensus of was a liar — most of them would probably thought among the artists I posed this say yes. But if you ask them what they are question to. But it doesn’t diminish my going to do about it, the answer is nothing. own belief in music’s power to shape Most American hip-hop artists have thought, as I recall how essential musihad the luxury to create their art in a cians like Bob Dylan, Fela Kuti and Bob relatively safe and stable environment. Marley were in shaping the developWhat about artists who create work in ment of my own political awareness.n the midst of great social unrest? Sérgio Dias Baptista led the band Os Mutantes during the rise of Brazil’s military >> Kyle Long creates a custom dictatorship. Baptista witnessed the exile podcast for each column. of many of his contemporaries who dared Hear this week’s at NUVO.net to challenge the regime’s authority and it served to strengthen his belief in the power
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WEDNESDAY ROCK Sebadoh Since forming in 1986 in Westfield, Massachusetts by Dinosaur Jr. bassist Lou Barlow, Sebadoh has gone through various phases of playing and touring until they took a 14-year recording hiatus in 1999. But Barlow’s back this year with a new full-length on Joyful Noise – a huge get for the Indy label. We have a full interview on page 26. Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St. 9 p.m., $12 advance, $18 at door, 21+ FOLK You Won’t, The Spring Standards Way back in 1999, Josh Arnoudse and Raky Sastri commenced an awkward and terrible swordfight. After that, they were best friends, eventually taking their friendship to band level. These days, they’ve shared the stage with bands like The Lumineers and Josh Ritter. The Spring Standards, coming by way of Brooklyn, are a trio made up of only two names: Heather and James, and James. They describe themselves as “being blessed with throats of velvet, and Heather with the wind of a foghorn.” Sounds pretty good to us. DO317 Lounge, 1043 Virginia Ave., Suite 215, 8:30 p.m., $10 advance, $12 at door, 21+
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Jorma Album Release Show Color us excited for this local record release, by Marmoset’s Jorma Whittaker on the label that re-released bunches of his music, Joyful Noise. His self-titled solo LP (his second, after one released 10 years ago on Secretly Canadian) was announced just a week ago. Also performing: Fred Brown, Bait and Tackle Tabernacle, Heavy Hometown. White Rabbit Cabaret, 1119 E. Prospect St., 8 p.m., $5 at door or $15 for door and LP, 21+
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Simply Shenanigans This benefit for FACE and IndyFeral lets you get tipsy and watch burlesque – for a good cause. Bring cash for the raffles, games and various wares peddled by vendors. Those Lazy Cabineers will perform early in the night. Birdy’s Bar and Grill, 2131 E. 71st St., 8 p.m., $10, 21+ POP MGMT A few years ago, MGMT just wanted to get us on the dance floor to cop an Electric Feel. These days, they’ve matured, and put out a new record, MGMT. Their current stuff is miles away from the zippy club bangers that made them, but MGMT seems content to keep putting out new music and experimenting. Still, it’s hard to imagine an MGMT show going off without “Kids” and “Time to Pretend” making the mix, so don’t leave your dancing shoes at home. Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St. 9 p.m., $29.50 in advance, $35 at door, all-ages
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): There’s something resembling a big red snake slithering around in your mind these days. I don’t mean that literally, of course. I’m talking about a big red imaginary snake. But it’s still quite potent. While it’s not poisonous, neither is it a pure embodiment of sweetness and light. Whether it ends up having a disorienting or benevolent influence on your life all depends on how you handle your relationship with it. I suggest you treat it with respect but also let it know that you’re the boss. Give it guidelines and a clear mandate so that it serves your noble ambitions and not your chaotic desires. If you do that, your big red snake will heal and uplift you. Aries
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind,” asserts novelist Chuck Palahniuk. Your assignment, Gemini, is to work your ass off to fall out of love with your pain. As if you were talking to a child, explain to your subconscious mind that the suffering it has gotten so accustomed to has outlived its usefulness. Tell your deep self that you no longer want the ancient ache to be a cornerstone of your identity. To aid the banishment, I recommend that you conduct a ritual of severing. Tie one side of a ribbon to a symbol of your pain and tie the other side around your waist. Then cut the ribbon in half and bury the symbol in the dirt.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): “You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again,” said painter Joan Miró. “You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life,” he added. The coming days are likely to bring you none of the former kind of experiences and several of the latter, Cancerian. It’s a numinous time in your long-term cycle: a phase when you’re likely to encounter beauty that enchants you and mysteries that titillate your sense of wonder for a long time. In other words, the eternal is coming to visit you in very concrete ways. How do you like your epiphanies? Hot and wild? Cool and soaring? Comical and lyrical? Hot and soaring and comical and wild and cool and lyrical? Cancer
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The saxifrage is a small plant with white flowers. It grows best in subarctic regions and cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere. The word “saxifrage” is derived from the Latin word saxifraga, whose literal meaning is “stone-breaker.” Indeed, the plant does often appear in the clefts of stones and boulders. In his poem “A Sort of a Song,” William Carlos Williams celebrates its strength: “Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.” I nominate this darling little dynamo to be your metaphorical power object of the week, Virgo. May it inspire you to crack through blocks and barriers with subtle force. Virgo
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Sweetness is good.
Sweetness is desirable. To be healthy, you need to give and receive sweetness on a regular basis. But you can’t flourish on sweetness alone. In fact, too much of it may be oppressive or numbing. I’m speaking both literally and metaphorically: To be balanced you need all of the other tastes, including saltiness, sourness, bitterness, and savoriness. From what I understand, you are headed into a phase when you’ll thrive on more bitterness and savoriness than usual. To get an idea of what I mean, meditate on what the emotional equivalents might be for bitter tastes like coffee, beer, and olives, and for savory tastes like mushrooms, cheese, spinach, and green tea. Scorpio
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ion, almost nothing can keep you from getting the love you need in the coming days. Here’s the only potential problem: You might have a mistaken or incomplete understanding about the love you need, and that could interfere with you recognizing and welcoming the real thing. So here’s my prescription: Keep an open mind about the true nature of the love that you actually need most, and stay alert for the perhaps unexpected ways it might make itself available.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In his utopian novel Looking Backward, American author Edward Bellamy wrote a passage that I suspect applies to you right now: “It is under what may be called unnatural, in the sense of extraordinary, circumstances that people behave most naturally, for the reason that such circumstances banish artificiality.” Think of the relief and release that await you, Capricorn: an end to pretending, a dissolution of deception, the fall of fakery. As you weave you way through extraordinary circumstances, you will be moved to act with brave authenticity. Take full advantage. Capricorn
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “I have your back” is an American expression that could also be rendered as “I’m right behind you, ready to help and defend you” or “I’m ready to support you whenever you’ve got a problem.” Is there anyone in the world who feels that way about you? If not, now would be an excellent time to work on getting such an ally. Cosmic conditions are ripe for bringing greater levels of assistance and collaboration into your life. And if you already do have confederates of that caliber, I suggest you take this opportunity to deepen your symbiotic connection even further. Aquarius
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Over a hundred countries around the world celebrate a holiday called Independence Day, memorializing a time when they broke away from another nation and formed a separate state. I encourage you to create your own personal version of this festival. It could commemorate a breakthrough moment in the past when you escaped an oppressive situation, a turning point when you achieved a higher level of autonomy, or a taboo-busting transition when you started expressing your own thoughts and making your own decisions with more authority. By the way, a fresh opportunity to take this kind of action is available to you. Any day now might be a good time to declare a new Independence Day. Pisces
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