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THIS WEEK NOVEMBER 14 - 21, 2012

VOL. 23 ISSUE 35 ISSUE #1179

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WE DESERVE BETTER Indianapolis is the largest U.S. city without a unionized hotel. As part of a national “Hotel Workers Rising” campaign led by Unite Here, workers at the Westin and the Sheraton Keystone began meeting among themselves in January 2007. In November of that year, they went public with their desire to unionize. B Y FRA N QUIGLEY C OV ER PH OTO BY MAR K LE E

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INDIANA VERSUS ITSELF

It seems the Republican fantasy of an America where everyone knows their place and is grateful still counts in Indiana.

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A WORK OF ART

I don’t mean to boast, but my bicycle is even more awesome than most people realize. It was built from the ground up, beginning with the frame. Everything on my bike was built and chosen by my frame builder and myself. Consequently, my bicycle fits both my body and my needs almost perfectly. BY BILL WATTS

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CALL IT A TKO

Punch Burger might not quite deliver a knockout, but it certainly racks up the points in a highly-contested category with its quick, efficient service and its wholesome (not to mention delicious) take on our nation’s most beloved comestible. Occupying a useful niche somewhere between gourmet and fast-food, and combining the best elements of both, Punch has rapidly established itself as a favorite of the downtown lunch crowd and the casual diner alike. BY NEIL CHARLES

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TONIC, BY THE NUMBERS

It’s here. We say that, not ominously, horror movie-style. No, we’re shouting from the rooftop – the Murphy Art Center rooftop to be exact. Because that’s where Tonic Ball 11 artists were announced this year way back in May. And, this week, after much planning, consternation, celebration and scheduling, Tonic Ball has arrived. BY KATHERINE COPLEN

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Because Ideas MatterRecommended Readings by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Butler University

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John Adams David McCullough Simon & Schuster, 2001 Reviewed by Richard McGowan The Pulitzer prize-winning John Adams may be the perfect book to read in this, an election year. While certainly a history book, as the 67 pages of notes and bibliography attest, John Adams is, perhaps more importantly, a story of relationships. McCullough has brought to life our widely literate second president and his wife, the brilliant and influential Abigail Smith. As McCullough states: “His marriage to Abigail Smith was the most important decision of John Adams’s life.” The excerpts from letters between “My Dearest Friend” and “Miss Adorable” alone make the book worth reading— even if the two seem antiquated and quaint in their devotion, love, sacrifice, and fidelity for and to each other. The book also shows Adams’s relationships with other founding fathers, among them Jefferson, Hamilton, Franklin, and Washington. The account of friendship, estrangement, and reconciliation between our second president and our third president is especially compelling reading in an election year. The presidential contest between the two was nothing if not a cantankerous, partisan, “vicious” affair. In those days, the candidates did no direct campaigning, so a cluster of their friends demonstrated electioneering at its worst. Observations and detail abound: Adams thought “Franklin to be lazy, neglectful of details, and not easy to work with” and Adams referred to Hamilton as “another Bonaparte.” But the heart of the book is the likeable and brave man, John Adams, and his equally likeable, well-matched collaborator, Abigail. Excellent reading. -Richard McGowan is instructor of business ethics 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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Mr. Clit and the Pink Cigarettes

Teleport your friends I saw Mr. Clit and the Pink Cigarettes play at The Hoosier Dome in Fountain Square last Tuesday night, and they are one of Indy’s best-kept secrets (“The joke’s on us,” Wade Coggeshall, Nov. 7-14). They have marvelous chemistry on stage, and their music is both charming and kinetic. It was one those sets that was so stellar, you wish you could teleport all your friends right there and then, so they wouldn’t miss out!

— Kyle Wesley Schlenz NUVO.NET

The beautiful things Thanks for this great article (“The enduring voice: Supertramp’s Roger Hodgson,” Wade Coggeshall, Nov. 7-14). It’s always a pleasure to hear all the beautiful things Roger has to say. A show by Roger is a big party, a big celebration of love, peace and happiness.

— Nuskysa NUVO.NET

Long live Oceania If Bush had ever assassinated an American citizen without trial, Hammer would have had a brain aneurysm as he exploded in apoplectic rage (“Voters hold the fate of the nation in our hands,” Steve Hammer, Oct. 31-Nov. 7). But when a Democrat does that (twice), it is a sign of ushering in an age of peace and prosperity. IngSoc has taken root in his brain, and he actually believes War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength.

— Shane Labuzan NUVO.NET

By “give to the rich,” I think you mean let them keep a bit more of what they’ve earned. “Giving” to the rich is making billions of bad loans to faux green energy companies which

just happen to be owned by big O donors: the epitomy of cronyism. Another four years of this inept “leadership” and we’ll be well on our way to becoming a banana republic.

— Reality Bites NUVO.NET

Hammer – I like you. We have a lot in common (including an affinity for whiskey) and we probably vote the same way in each election. But you need to stop writing political columns. You’re hurting our cause with your exaggerations and unsubstantiated claims. Don’t you hate Rush Limbaugh? Yeah, me too. Well, sometimes you sound like a Rush Limbaugh for the left. Get back to your funny musings about vending machines and public transportation. Leave the political stuff to Hoppe.

—Josh Hassett

Dear Hammer, one could write an entire book on why women support Obama and men don’t, but I will try to sum it all up in a short letter. Most men instinctively know consciously or unconsciously that Obama is a socialist/Marxist. Except for high ranking government bureaucrats and party leaders, men living in socialist totalitarian regimes are psychologically castrated and emasculated. They are greatly hindered, if not disallowed to chase their dreams, build businesses and in general be the alpha male leader of their own empire. Women and gays, on the other hand, tend to be enamored by cult of personality socialist leaders such as Stalin, Hitler (yes, Hitler was a socialist), Castro, Obama and others. The problem is, these leaders tend to be the only alpha male in the entire nation which these women can respect as real men and be genuinely sexually attracted towards. It is for this reason that real men fear Obama.

—Tim Brown

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HAMMER Sense of Relief

Election is over

BY STEVE HAMMER SHAMMER@NUVO.NET

t was a warm, breezy weekend and everyone in my neighborhood was outside raking the leaves and bagging them by the dozen. Brooms swept porches and steps, sending yesterday’s dust away and welcoming whatever the next season brings. There seemed to be a palpable sense of relief in the air, there and elsewhere I visited after the election Tuesday. Relief is really the only word for it. The campaign had gone on for too long. There were too many debates, too many polls, too many ads, too much everything. It’s good that it’s over and we can move on. But, not so fast. Some of us, that is to say voters whose votes chose the winners, want to make a few final points before we completely erase the 2012 campaign from our collective memories. We learned conclusively this year that conservative media lives in a fantasy world of their own creation, a place where things such as logic and math don’t apply.

The conservative entertainment media bought its own con job when they took poll data that showed President Barack Obama ahead and then “unskewed” the data so that Mitt Romney was ahead. Romney’s own internal polling was manipulated in this same way, making the candidate himself believe he was going to win. They believed their own lies. And the lies they told each other about the polls are just like the lies they tell each other about any number of other topics. They actually believed this stuff, which is why the Fox News team was so shocked and unbelieving when the states started being called for Obama. And these are the people we were supposed to believe on things such as jobs, taxes, health care and wars? Their calculations weren’t just wrong, they were deliberately wrong in order to make themselves feel better. Just like Iraq. George Bush and Dick Cheney were just as shocked when it was discovered there were no WMDs in Iraq as Romney was on election night. This isn’t new. The results last week were a stunning rejection of that kind of politics. For all their imperfections, Obama and Vice President Joe Biden appear as honest brokers, people whose views are well known and who don’t bluff. There’s no reason they can’t bring the conservatives to the bargaining table. The first thing we need to do is stop them from believing in their own myths.

Obama would not have been re-elected without a massive, straining effort to squeeze every last potential vote out of the electorate. It was an historic and massively effective execution of campaign strategy. Democracy at its finest. These people are going to want something from Obama and his administration after investing so much time, passion and effort in making sure he won re-election. He needs to reach out to his progressive base with real action. The people had Obama’s back. Now they want him to continue to have theirs. That means real immigration reform, the effective implementation of Obamacare, constructive dialogue with international leaders and more jobs here at home. The election went the way it did because people simply don’t like the product conservatives are always trying to sell us. When we’ve bought it before, it brought about misery, death and economic turmoil. It wasn’t Romney’s fault that even his expert salesmanship wasn’t enough to seal this deal. Speaking of Romney, it’s going to be hard to say goodbye to him as an active political figure. No other candidate embodies vulture capitalism, the mindset of Montgomery Burns and the like, with quite the zest of

Romney. He seems like a genuinely caring guy who did awesome things for people who went to his church. His plans for changing America were disastrous, but the man himself has no small degree of personal charm. Yes, he will be missed, but not that much. And the relief that people felt seemed fueled by the knowledge we’ve dodged a bullet and the radical politics of the conservatives will be kept out of the White House until 2016. The news is good all over. Gov.-elect Mike Pence will be pure comedy gold over the next few years. Richard Mourdock’s name will go into the hall of Indiana political infamy for defeating Richard Lugar in the primary and then going on to get his ass kicked by Joe Donnelly. And if you’re one of the people on the side that lost, I honestly feel your pain. It was a kick to the guts to see George W. Bush win two elections over good Democrats like Al Gore and John Kerry. It seemed as if the world was over and there would never be political hope again. Yes, let’s move on from the election, but we should resolve to never forget the ideas and philosophies that were so soundly defeated last week. Those forces are in the background for the moment, but they’ll return. Our job is to not let that happen in 2014, 2016 or ever.

The people had Obama’s back.

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HOPPE Where the people are Indiana versus itself

BY D A V I D H O P P E D H O P P E @N U V O . N E T

ook where the people are,” said CNN correspondent John King, as he massaged his blue and red electronic map of the United States on election night last week. It was still early. Mitt Romney had a slight lead. But, as King surfed from state to state, zooming in on particular counties, he explained how the contest would play out. Although it was too soon for him to come right out and say it, King was showing where President Barack Obama would get the votes to win re-election. “Look where the people are.” America, the pundits like to say, is a divided country. This is true on its face, but last week’s election proved those divisions aren’t set in stone and that, in fact, a shift is taking place. That shift was reflected in an array of political outcomes last Tuesday night. But politics is just a manifestation of larger demographic, social and cultural tides. America may be divided, but that division has less to do with opposing ideas about how to solve the country’s problems than it does with one side’s trying to resist the momentum of history.

Romney said that the president had failed to preside over a robust enough economic recovery and that he, Romney, could do better. Romney claimed that the president had engaged in an “apology tour” that debased the nation in the eyes of the world. Romney, it turned out, was speaking in code. What he was actually trying to say was that the very idea of President Barack Obama was un-American. This notion was at the root of Republican resistance to Obama throughout his first term. Time and again, most notably in his adoption of a health care program originally devised in conservative think tanks and implemented by Romney himself in Massachusetts, Obama attempted to gain bipartisan support by proffering Republican ideas, only to be rebuffed. For Republicans, saving the country meant destroying its president. But Romney couldn’t come out and say this. Instead, he ran a campaign designed to visually accentuate the characteristic that made him most unlike Obama — his whiteness. The Republican convention, where his candidacy was officially launched, played like an updated version of the old Lawrence Welk Show. As the campaign wore on, it became increasingly clear that what Republicans at all levels had to offer were not ideas about “getting the country back on track,” but an array of retrograde measures — from limiting women’s access to contraception to building higher walls around our borders — intended to stop the future in its tracks.

What they offered was not a vision, but a fantasy meant to evoke America’s past. Look at an electoral map of the United States and you can see where this fantasy still has traction — those parts of the country where the people tend to be predominantly white, exurban or rural, and evangelical. But look, as King said, at where most people are today and the future begins to come into focus. America, for all its amber waves of grain, is an urban, multi-racial nation, where more than half the people are women. What is clear is that, for them, Obama looked just fine. Better still: he didn’t make them feel like second-class citizens. Democrats won big last week not because there is general agreement with all they may or may not stand for. They won because they have figured out how to be inclusive at this moment when a shift is happening — and people, like all those voters who waited in line for hours, refuse to be left out. This makes the Democratic Party messy, bumptious and infuriating. But it’s also, for the time being, describes the nation. This puts Indiana in an awkward spot. This is a state at odds with itself. Like the rest of the country, Indiana’s urban and industrial sec-

tions voted Democratic. Obama won Marion County with 60 percent of the vote. We also turned a longtime Republican seat in the U.S. Senate blue and repudiated a conservative, corporatist effort at school reform that was highly touted by mainstream media and the business community. But our governor and state legislature are virtually all Republicans, reflecting a state that doesn’t know what to make of its cities, is suspicious of newcomers, and has yet to come to grips with how to reconcile a low level of per capita income with the increasing cost of basic services. The state’s previous administration won plaudits for its balanced budget. But this fiscal juggling act did nothing to improve the condition of our air and water, the sophistication of our workforce or the health and welfare of our people. It seems the Republican fantasy of an America where everyone knows their place and is grateful still counts in Indiana. We’ll see how long this lasts. Anyone who has visited a medium-sized or small Hoosier town in the past few years knows how hollowedout many of these places feel. They are where the people aren’t.

The Republican convention played like an updated version of the old Lawrence Welk Show.

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for once Florida did not become election’s poster child nightmare spending time with vast family might take Romney the rest of his life may he be the last old rich white guy leading the GOP pres slate now that Romney lost can we be relieved of the burden of Rove, Trump? legalize pot wins may be reversed by feds – why did we re-elect? second term met with customary escape for the pres’ cabinet perhaps Hillary is quitting to put her pres campaign together climate change skeptic Pence wins, continuing efforts to ruin our earth I don’t know how Ritz beat Bennett but she’s going to need all our help 2013 can be the year of opt-out and common sense reform

THUMBSUP THUMBSDOWN TO DUST WE SHALL RETURN

The children of the Dust Bowl are old and dying and, with them, the stories and lessons of the 1930s-era ecological disaster caused when a decade of drought met rampant disregard for soil conservation or cover crops. Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and his reporting team trawled the Great Plains looking for the remnants of the era in the physical historical record and the living record stored in the region’s senior-most members. They emerged with a two-part series, set to air Nov. 18 and 19 on PBS. The film brings to life the savage trauma inflicted on Dust Bowl communities and offers a bracing reminder of quickly people can forget even the most-severe natural warnings. Rather than let the dust lie as a historical footnote, this film bares witness to the experience of living through Armageddon.

BOUNTIFUL HARVEST

More than 600 volunteers and 1,000 day campers recently assisted the staff at Indy Urban Acres, an 8-acre organic farm created to supplement Gleaners Food Bank. “The community has embraced the project and because of them our success was possible.” said Tyler Gough, Indy Urban Acres Farm Manager, in a news release announcing the farm’s annual yield. “ We planted a nice variety of vegetables, but more importantly we planted possibilities and dreams.” The farm will be expanding its winter offerings this year, as well, with the help of a new greenhouse. So-called “food deserts” within the urban core, areas featuring no neighborhood access to fresh vegetables are set to receive additional services the Garden-on-the-Go, a mobile produce service started by IU Health in 2011. So far, the service has made more than 25,000 sales and a $20,000 grant from the Indianapolis Foundation will help expand the service in hopes of improving the myriad health concerns stemming from one abysmal stat: According to IU Health, less than one in four Marion County residents eat the recommended daily servings of fruits and vegetables.

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instead of pass-fail, where we really know the levels of something in our students and we know the levels of performance in writing. The pass-fail assessment does not give teachers, nor parents, nor students the information about how they truly performed. It just shows if they passed or failed the test. So I would like to replace that system with a real growth model, with a true growth model assessment. Once we get that done, then we can talk about how that plays into teacher accountability and school accountability. I can’t really tell you what that looks like because there are a lot of people we need to talk to and come to the table to develop that. But, I can tell you that it starts with a different student assessment model.

Q & A with state’s Superintendent-elect Glenda Ritz

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NUVO: How did you defeat Tony Bennett?

emocrat Glenda Ritz defeated Republican Tony Bennett in a surprise upset for the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction last week. The teacher and librarian at Crooked Creek Elementary in Indianapolis did it by bringing together educators, parents and others frustrated by some of the big changes Bennett has advocated and made in state K-12 school policies. But Ritz – talking to TheStatehouseFile. com by phone while she was on a trip to Washington, D.C. –said it’s a misperception that she simply wants to “roll things back.” “I actually want to move things forward,” she said. “I want to work with legislators to be sure that we’re going to have the best opportunities for the kids in our public schools.” Here’s what else Ritz had to say . GLENDA RITZ: I’m very inclusive. Making sure I’ve got input from a variety of constituencies so that we develop policy that is going to make sure kids across Indiana will have, I guess I would say, the opportunities that they need to graduate from high school, to be successful. So, that could be anywhere from making sure we’re expanding our career tech opportunities for kids. That might mean, on the other end of the continuum, making sure we’ve got some early childhood programs going on. That would mean more emphasis on reading K-12 and making sure that teachers and parents know the true performance levels of their students in the areas of reading and writing and math, instead of a passfail approach to testing that we’ve had. So, I think voters and citizens and teachers and educators are going to see a different philosophy in working with others to have an educational policy that is from the bottom-up approach. To add one more thing to that list: I’m going to reorganize the Department of Education to provide outreach coordinators throughout the state. School districts will know who their coordinator is and will be assessing the strengths and the challenges that need to be addressed. We’ll be working with the community. We’re going to be talking to mayors and

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Glenda Ritz speaks to supporters after winning the Superintendent of Public Instruction race last week.

community people, businesses on how we can go about addressing challenges — then actually providing for those things that I had talked about, career and tech opportunities. NUVO: When I was talking to different Republican leaders, including Gov.-elect Mike Pence and some members of the House, they said that they would continue on with the changes that Tony Bennett made, regardless of your win. What would you say to that? RITZ: Well, I guess I would say that I’m going to have an education agenda. I think that everybody will know that I’m a wellrespected educator and that any changes that I make, I will be talking from the viewpoint of students in the classroom. So, I’m not really out to repeal a lot of things that are in place in the legislature. I want to implement and enact pieces of law in a very inclusive manner when making policy. I think it might be a misconception that I want to roll things back. I actually want to move things forward and I want to work with legislators to be sure that we’re going to have the best opportunities for the kids in our public schools. And I’m devoted to making sure that our public schools are going to succeed. And I think the reorganization of the Department of Education will be my first step in doing that. NUVO: Are there changes that were made to the department of education under Tony Bennett’s term that you support? RITZ: I would say that there are pieces in the actual law that I support. I don’t necessarily support all of the policy that’s developed. So, I’ll want to be working with the policy and the implementation, which

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is the purview of the superintendent of public instruction on how things are implemented. I’ll probably do the most important pieces right away. I am going to have to have conversations with the U.S. Department of Education regarding a waiver that we have … and I may see that we need to head in a different direction. So, I’ll be having some dialogue. I’m very familiar with what’s involved, what’s the policy and what’s the purview. So, I intend to work with whomever I need to work with to bring changes that might need to be made so we can move forward on issue I feel need to advance. For instance, in law, we have a reading curriculum that focuses on K-3 and what should be included in a strong reading program. And, as is suggested there, as a last resort, we might look at retention. So, I see that law as having no problems, really. I can work within that law for the implementation of it. So when Dr. Bennett looked at that law, he put in place IREAD-3, a pass-fail test – and retention for students who don’t pass the test. And it mandated how to go about teaching reading. I see myself implementing the law much differently – not with the parameters and the IREAD-3 approach that Dr. Bennett put in place, but doing it in an entirely different manner. That’s one example. So I won’t be asking legislators to repeal that law. I’ll be working within that law to develop new policy. NUVO: Where do you stand on standardized tests and the evaluation of teachers based in part on their results? RITZ: ISTEP is a pass-fail test and I clearly ran on a platform of growth measure tests,

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RITZ: A true, true, true grassroots campaign. We actually mobilized educators from all school districts and parents and grandparents and retired teachers all over the state of Indiana. There were coalitions of people that were wanting a change and did not like the direction we were heading with high stakes testing and the accountability system, A to F, and privatization of schools and we all had a common vision. They started talking to their neighbors, their friends and relatives and neighbors and just started talking about what was going on. This election was a referendum on education. It was nonpartisan. Yes, I ran on the Democratic ticket, but you know, all partisans, political persuasions were voting for me for this position. So, I see that as a mandate to me about where education should be headed. And that’s what I’m going to do differently. NUVO: What qualities as a teacher and as an educator do you think will be useful in your transition into being the superintendent? RITZ: Throughout my entire career, I’ve been a very outspoken student advocate. In my school district, I’ve never gotten to choose the parents I work with or the administration I work with or the superintendent or the school board and I’ve been in this position for 20, 25 years. And I’ve been a very inclusive person, making sure that when we come to the table, whoever it is, that we’re going to stay focused on what’s right for kids in the classroom – the best learning conditions, the best teaching conditions that a child could have. And, that’s why I got into this race. I saw that going away. I saw it before my very eyes, not being able to make local decisions to make sure that we had what we needed for the kids in our classroom. So, that’s why I got into it. My inclusiveness, my ability to work with people to bring about education policy that actually impacts and gives opportunities for our kids. ■ Tim Grimes is a reporter for TheStatehouseFile.com, a news service powered by Franklin College journalism students.

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eisha Johnson may have missed her bus to work. She has lived for only a month at her current house, a small white-siding rentto-own she shares with her husband, and she is still learning the IndyGo bus schedules. She steps off the curb and nervously scans the horizon north on Capitol Avenue. Finally, the No. 4 comes into view. Sighing with relief, Johnson boards, finds a seat, and begins to put on her makeup. As the No. 4 enters Downtown, the streets are deserted. It is a weekend morning, so the lawyers and accountants and government employees are not here today. No one has arrived yet to patronize the restaurants or to see a show. But as the bus pulls up in front of the Indiana Statehouse, an overflow crowd awaits. Huddled close together under a plastic shelter and stamping their feet against the unseasonable cold, some wear nametags around their necks, others wear work boots and heavy jackets. Like Johnson, most are wearing work uniforms. Johnson steps off the bus and heads across the lawn of the Statehouse toward Washington Street. As she reaches the Westin Hotel, she veers past the main entrance, flicks her sweatshirt hood over her head, and walks in the rear door.

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Johnson’s parents were in the military, and she spent most of her childhood in Germany. After returning to Indianapolis and graduating from North Central High School, she worked in factory jobs and in restaurants before starting as a housekeeper at the Westin in 2007. Her husband is between delivery jobs right now, so they have taken in a roommate to help with the rent. Johnson knows Spanish and a bit of German, and has a bright and ironic sense of humor. (“I get to spend another weekend at the Westin,” she laughs.) But her attempt to earn a nurse’s aide degree was not successful. Her school loan required her to take a full load of classes, but Johnson could not pay the bills unless she worked full-time, too. She was perpetually exhausted, and her grades suffered. She hopes to enroll in online courses soon. Johnson’s title at the Westin is Room Attendant. She starts her workday with a list of assignments for the rooms she is expected to clean, up to 18 in a day. A cart stocked with clean towels and sheets waits for her in the hallway of her assigned rooms. She lugs the 120-pound cart down to the room entrances—no mean feat on thickly carpeted hallways—and knocks on the door. “Housekeeping,” she calls.

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Johnson is expected to complete a “stayover” cleaning in just 10 minutes. She will make the bed, change towels, and ensure there is a full supply of soap and shampoo. The process for a “check-out” is supposed to take just 30 minutes, but even an experienced housekeeper like Johnson often takes much longer to clean a room. Johnson tells of rooms with gum stuck in the carpet, melted ice cream welded to the bottom of a trash can, a room where a child got sick in the bed. The housekeeper’s nemesis is hair in the bathroom, where it tends to stick to shower curtains and sinks. And it is no fun using a scrub brush to clean a stranger’s toilet. “There are crevices in the porcelain, so disgusting things can get into those crevices,” Johnson says. The Westin housekeeper’s arsenal does not include a broom or a mop or pails. The cleaning is done on hands and knees. Some of the hotel mattresses Johnson and her colleagues must maneuver weigh more than 100 pounds each. Johnson was a gymnast in high school and is still very fit, and she takes care to stretch her back and hamstrings before she goes to work. But she still wakes up sore most mornings, and she has suffered leg cramps in the middle of the night. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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Keisha Johnson, above, on the porch of her home prepares for her day as a housekeeper. She takes the bus to the downtown Westin location and often uses the time to prepare her makeup.

reports that hotel workers have the highest injury rate of any service industry workers, and a recent union-funded study reported in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine showed housekeepers are at greater risk for injury than other hotel workers. Johnson’s older colleagues pop ibuprofen regularly, and Johnson has seen newer housekeepers get fired after they failed to clean their assigned rooms quickly enough. Johnson talks with pride about the attention to detail and people skills she has mastered in her work, but she acknowledges the need for speed, too. She refers to Rip It energy drink, just 99 cents in some stores and packing more caffeine than Red Bull or Rockstar, as “the housekeeper steroid.” The American Dream would suggest that all this hard work must be allowing Johnson to move up the economic ladder. The American Dream would be wrong. Johnson started at the Westin earning $7.50 per hour and just received her most recent raise to $9.27 per hour. She is never assigned a full 40 hours per week. Tips are unpredictable and often meager or non-existent, and Johnson cannot afford the premiums for the cheapest health insurance Westin provides. Although her wages easily exceed the federal and state minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, they are far below the $14 per hour estimate of a “living wage,” the minimal cost of supporting a two-person family in Indianapolis according to the most recent calculations by the Poverty in America project at Penn State University. That leaves Johnson in the most vulnerable position in the U.S. economy: too poor to pay all her bills, but with a reliable paycheck for her creditors to garnish. A fall at home last year led to an emergency room visit, five stitches, and a hospital bill she has not been able to pay. She has been evicted for being late on her rent, leading to court judgments. Johnson receives bill collector calls every day. Her student loan debt was eventually collected out of her paycheck for more than a year.

Johnson has supported an effort to organize Indianapolis hotel workers into a union, and she testified in front of a CityCounty Council hearing in June about the use of temporary workers in the local hotels. Wearing a bright red “UNITE HERE” T-shirt, Johnson spoke briefly and clearly into the microphone. But she admitted later that she was rattled by the unexpected sight of her Westin general manager sitting in front of the hearing room. “I was shaking like a leaf,” she recalls. “All I could think of is that ‘I am going to get fired, fired, fired!’ ” She did not get fired, and she continues to support the union campaign. Johnson knows housekeepers in unionized hotels are paid significantly more than she is and have more affordable health insurance. But it is not just about the money. “I have always seen housekeeping as a noble profession,” she says. “Someday, I want to be one of those moms who can send kids to college and have all the bills paid. Why can’t I do that as a housekeeper?”

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In fact, unionized hotel housekeepers do make incomes that approach the middleclass status Johnson dreams of. Earlier this year, unionized housekeepers in New York City agreed to a long-term contract that includes annual raises that will increase the pay of a typical housekeeper by 29 percent over the life of the contract to nearly $60,000 per year. The labor union Unite Here reports that its member housekeepers in Chicago, who do the same work as Johnson, earn over $5 per hour more than she does. By contrast, Indianapolis is the largest U.S. city without a unionized hotel. As part of a national “Hotel Workers Rising” campaign led by Unite Here, workers at the Westin and the Sheraton Keystone began meeting among themselves in January 2007. In November of that year, they went public with their desire to unionize. A delegation of workers formally asked to start

the process of a “card check” vote, where employees who want the union add their names to a card or form until a majority is reached. (The hotels are on record opposing the card-check vote in favor of a secret ballot process. The hotels say it is more fair, but union supporters say it leaves too much potential for workplace intimidation. Both methods are allowed under federal law, but the card-check process leads to union recognition only if the employer agrees.) A year later, Hyatt Regency workers also made their request to be represented by Unite Here. Without union contracts to limit outsourcing, hotel workers say the majority of housekeepers in Downtown hotels are not employees of those hotels. Instead, they work for temporary staffing agencies, usually for pay barely above minimum wage and without benefits. The dominant agency in the field is Georgia-based Hospitality Staffing Solutions, or HSS. An industry magazine ad placed by HSS portrays rows of hotel workers—housekeepers, chefs, servers—lined up in a vending machine like bags of chips, ready for purchase. The ad touts the lower hourly wages of its employees and the avoidance of overtime costs. “As the leader in hospitality staffing, we’re experts at saving clients money,” the ad reads. Eva Sanchez says HSS saves its clients money in part by shortchanging and mistreating its workers. Sanchez worked for HSS in Indianapolis for nearly 10 years, and recently became an organizer for Unite Here. While on the job for HSS at the Westin in 2006 setting up for a banquet, Sanchez was struck in the groin by one of the chairs. She was bleeding and in pain. Sanchez says the manager told her, “This kind of thing happens to you every month down there, so just put a towel on it and get back to work.” A coworker took Sanchez to the hospital, where she received stitches and a bill for $1,400. HSS refused to pay it. (HSS did not respond to repeated calls seeking comment for this story.) Earlier this year, the Indiana

Department of Labor fined HSS and Hyatt together more than $50,000 for violations of the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Act. The violations included failure to train HSS-hired housekeepers on handling chemical hazards, blood, and needles they may encounter in their cleaning duties, and failure to provide agency worker injury records. In January 2012, Sanchez and 13 other local hotel workers filed a lawsuit against HSS in U.S. District Court, alleging a sweeping pattern of wage theft and labor law violations. In a 22-page complaint, they alleged they were routinely forced to work off the clock with full knowledge of the hotel management, were regularly paid for less than the full number of hours they worked, and were not given overtime pay as required by law. One of the plaintiffs, Anastasia Amantecatl, claimed that she regularly worked two hours before clocking in at the Marriott Downtown because this was the only way she could clean the required number of daily rooms. According to the complaint, this practice was common for dozens of HSS workers and was endorsed by hotel management. In its response filed with the court, HSS denied the allegations, and the case awaits trial. Sanchez, Johnson, and their fellow Indianapolis organizers and hotel workers have pursued unionization in part through participation in the national Unite Here campaign and a boycott targeted at Hyatt hotels. But they have focused chiefly on local strategies, including a boycott of the Indianapolis Hyatt Regency that predated the global effort. The local boycott has been honored by organizations like the General Episcopal Convention, the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus, and the NFL Players Association. In 2011, Democratic members of the City-County Council introduced an ordinance that called for Downtown hotel workers like Johnson to receive a county tax rebate, amounting to about $200 for most workers. This year,

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we deserve better council members proposed an ordinance to prohibit so-called “blacklisting,” the practice of hotels refusing to hire employees of the staffing agencies for permanent full-time jobs. The hotels say no such policy exists, but hundreds of staffing agency workers say the rule — written or unwritten — has been used to turn them away when they apply for permanent jobs. Citing government investments benefitting Downtown hotels, councilors sponsoring the legislation say the hotel workers’ plight is a community-wide concern. In recent years, millions of dollars in local tax increment financing supported the building of the J.W. Marriott, promotion of conventions and tourism, and construction of Downtown attractions like the Georgia Street redesign. When the taxpayer support for Downtown development was approved, City-County Council Vice-President Brian Mahern says, local government did not anticipate that hotel workers would be paid so little that they are forced to rely on governmentsubsidized child care and health care programs. “There have been decades of efforts and investment by the city to build the hotel industry, and we have provided direct and indirect subsidies to do this,” Mahern said at a July 2012 council hearing on the anti-blacklisting ordinance. “The community’s goal all along was to create good-paying jobs.” Each time these proposals were scheduled for public hearing, hundreds of redshirted supporters packed the City-County Building’s public assembly room and committee rooms. Crowds overflowed into the hallways. The hotel workers who testified were joined by local students, clergy, other union members, and an impressive cross section of community supporters. Downtown marches and a noisy, drumbanging, Super Bowl-weekend demonstration in front of the Hyatt Regency attracted similar support. “Give ’em a tax break, too” yard signs popped up around the city when the first ordinance was being considered. “As a minister, I am mindful that Scripture says, ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,’ ” says Reverend C.L. Day, president of the Concerned Clergy of Indianapolis and a supporter of the hotel workers. “I would not want my neighbor who is a hotel worker to be denied an opportunity for a better life, because I don’t want that to happen to me. We gave our tax dollars to these hotels, and those tax dollars should be uplifting our community, not being used to hold people down.” The 2011 worker-tax-break proposal was voted down by the council on party lines. But Democrats gained a majority of the council in the November 2011 elections, and passed the anti-blacklisting ordinance in July of this year. Mayor Greg Ballard quickly vetoed it, issuing a statement that there was “no compelling evidence” that blacklisting was taking place. Such setbacks are frustrating for the hotel workers, but economist John Schmitt of the Center for Economic and Policy Research says they stand to benefit significantly if they can gain union recognition. Schmitt’s research shows that unionization raises service-sector workers’ wages by over 10 percent — about $2 per hour — compared to the wages of similar non-union workers. Unionized service-sector workers are also far more likely to have employer-provided

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James Meyers, along with other Chartwells employees, began working with Unite Here organizers in 2010.

health insurance and pension plans. The U.S. labor movement’s iconic success stories are in the manufacturing sector, but Schmitt says the same script can be followed to improve the lives of service sector workers like Johnson and Sanchez. “In the early 19th and 20th century, manufacturing jobs were terrible jobs. The jobs paid badly, they were unsafe, and they required brutally long hours,” Schmitt says. “But unionization changed all that, and there is every reason to believe that we can see the same effect in the service sector now. The fundamental issue is how are we going to divide the outcome of what is produced. U.S. workers are very highly productive, and unionization helps workers increase their percentage of the value produced, and that leads to higher living standards.” However, recent gains from increased worker productivity have gone to the richest Americans, while worker wages have remained largely flat when adjusted for inflation. As a result, income inequality has skyrocketed to levels not seen since before the Great Depression. Globalization and technology advances have made it easier for corporations to send jobs to countries that allow lower wages and fewer worker protections. U.S. workers seeking a remedy for low pay or outsourcing are unlikely to be able to turn to their union for help: only 7 percent of private-sector workers belong to a union now, compared to 35 percent in the 1950s. Schmitt is among many who believe that service-sector-unionization efforts like the Indianapolis campaign have the potential to reverse this trend. Gordon Lafer, an associate professor at the University of Oregon’s Labor Education and Research Center, also expresses optimism about the local hotel workers’ campaign. “Hospitality is one of the industries that is profitable enough to pay decent wages and also dependent on jobs that cannot be sent abroad,” he says. Lafer is not surprised the Unite Here effort

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Sarah Lyons left a job as a barista at IUPUI to work full time with Unite Here.

has been going on in Indianapolis for five years with no signs of letting up. “That union (Unite Here) has a track record of digging in, not letting go, and having success in the long run,” Lafer says.

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In early 2010, Sarah Lyons began working as a barista at Caribou Coffee on the second floor of the IUPUI Campus Center. Like the other 70 people preparing and serving food and drinks at Campus Center outlets like Chick-fil-A, Spotz Grille, and Wild Greens, Lyons’ real employer was neither the branded restaurants nor IUPUI. Instead, the employees work for Chartwells Dining Services, a division of Compass Group North America. At first, Lyons liked the job. As a recent college graduate, Lyons enjoyed getting to know professors and students who were regular customers, and she had real admi-

ration for her more experienced coworkers. But it was a struggle to get by on an $8 per hour salary, and when Lyons’ car broke down, she could not afford to fix it. Lyons and others, including James Meyers, a former fast-food restaurant manager now working at Chartwells, felt managers did not always treat workers with respect. Lyons and Meyers saw that some of their colleagues were working a two-person job alone. The health insurance Chartwells offered for the employees’ families was so expensive that almost no one could afford to enroll. Lyons had been a women’s rights activist in college, and she was alarmed at how readily she was acquiescing in unfair treatment. “I just took it, “ she says. “I hated what I was becoming. I finally concluded, ‘This is crazy. We deserve better.’ ” Lyons, Meyers, and other Chartwells employees at IUPUI began to talk. Soon, they started working with an organizer

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An activist at the Unite Here-organized protest during the 2012 Super Bowl activities in Indianapolis.

for Unite Here. In addition to leading the hotel workers campaign, Unite Here had recently organized food service workers at the Indianapolis International Airport, most of whom are now represented by the union. “I was scared at first,” Lyons admits. “But being a part of a team got me past that.” Within just a few months, about three-quarters of the Chartwells employees signed cards indicating their desire to form a union. In September of 2011, a delegation of employees, accompanied by several IUPUI professors and students, presented themselves in the Chartwells manager’s office and demanded that their union be recognized. A week later, Chartwells agreed to recognize the union, and bargaining began. The eventual 35-page contract included pay raises, a substantial reduction in employees’ health insurance premiums, and the recognition of seniority in promotions and job changes. Meyers and Delbert “Doc” Tardy became shop stewards and now meet regularly with Chartwells management to discuss workplace issues. Soon after the contract was approved, Lyons left the coffee shop to work with Unite Here organizing the hotel workers. “The way Chartwells works with their employees should be an example for the hotels here in town,” she says. “It is a team approach now.” When she recently returned to the Campus Center for a visit, Lyons was greeted with a series of hugs and smiles from her former colleagues. “I am still amazed by what was accomplished here,” she says. “People are so much happier, and I saw workers like James (Meyers) become real leaders in our community.” In fact, Meyers recently took a leave of absence from Chartwells to help Unite Here try to organize other local food service workers to follow the unionized path of the IUPUI and airport workers. Meyers comes over to greet Lyons, and the two reminisce about the day they first walked into the Chartwells office to announce they had formed a union. Meyers smiles at the memory. “I felt like I had won a million dollars,” he says. “I got to tell the manager, ‘You are the boss, I understand that. But I am a man, too, and we can respect each other.’ ” ■

When Indianapolis hotel workers and their supporters sought to support an antiblacklisting ordinance this summer, one of the witnesses at a July 10 City-County Council hearing was Elvia Bahena. Through an interpreter, Bahena told the councilors that she had worked at Hospitality Staffing Solutions, HSS, for 10 years but had never received any benefits from the company. So, when the new J.W. Marriott hotel opened in early 2011, Bahena applied for a permanent job with the hotel. “They (J.W. Marriott personnel) asked me, ‘Where do you work now?’ I said, ‘I currently work at HSS.’ And they said that ‘we can’t hire you directly for the hotel because you work for the agency.’ They said I would have to quit my work at the agency for at least one year and then I could apply directly at the hotel,” Bahena testified. “There is no way I could be without a job for one year. I have three children to take care of.” Bahena decided instead to take a job at United Services Companies, another agency that provides temporary staffing for hotels. Bahena’s council testimony was delivered in front of industry representatives and broadcast on local cable television. Two weeks later, she says, she was fired from United Services. After union advocates and local council leaders alleged Bahena was fired in retaliation for her testimony, United Services issued a statement that Bahena was merely “unassigned” and cited unspecified performance issues. Bahena now works in an Indianapolis food processing plant for minimum wage. Her friends have held fundraisers to help her family pay for rent and food.

Bahena was not the first Indianapolis hotel worker to learn that supporting union efforts can be risky business. Longtime Westin bellman William Selm, a past Westin’s employee of the year and winner of the prestigious ROSE Award for hospitality workers, had always been a favorite of the hotel’s customers and management. As recently as 2005, Selm had been asked to speak at a Statehouse rally in support of $275 million in government funding for an expansion of the Indiana Convention Center. “They would often trot me out for causes like that, and I was fully in favor,” Selm recalls. “I loved my job.” Then, in late 2007, he joined the union effort. “Things began to unravel pretty quickly after that,” he says. A few months after receiving the petition asking that the union-recognition process be started for its employees, the Westin terminated more than a dozen bellman positions, including Selm’s. The Westin allowed the fired workers to re-apply for their jobs with a subcontractor. Six months later, the Westin sub-contracted another 30-plus positions of workers in the hotel’s Shula Steakhouse. Selm decided to take a job with the subcontractor, Towne Park, and continued his Westin bellman duties despite being compelled to surrender 40 percent of his tips to the new company. Then, in early 2009, Selm was told that the Westin wanted him removed because Selm had complained to a coworker about the Westin’s subcontracting trend. Westin General Manager Dale McCarty acknowledged to The Indianapolis Star that he had told the subcontractor to transfer Selm, but would not disclose his reasons for the move. The Westin declined comment for this story. U.S. labor laws provide little protection for workers who are victimized by employer retaliation. Federal law prohibits employers from firing workers for union activity. However, employers risk only the prospect of eventually having to pay back wages, minus minus any pay the worker may have earned in the interim, should they be found to have violatviolated the law . It provides little disincentive ffor or employers to crush a union through targeted targeted firings, union supporters say, and National Labor Relations Board data shows that one one in every five union advocates can expect to be fired for their union activity. “It “It is is just justlike like if I were to break into your your house house and and take take thing your TV, and the worst thi in ng g that that could could haphappen to me is that I may have ha ave eto toput putititback,” back,” associate says Gordon Lafer, an asso socciiate professor at so the University of Oregon'ss Labor Labor Education

and Research Center. “When workers ask if they can be fired for advocating for a union, the fair answer has to be, ‘Legally, no. But in reality, probably a few of you will be fired.’ ” Union organizers say the lack of employee protection is part of a hostile political and legal environment for organized labor. Some believe the era was heralded in 1981 when President Ronald Reagan unapologetically fired 11,000 striking unionized air traffic controllers and imposed a lifetime ban on their rehire. Under current law and practice, there has been virtually no penalty for employers who refuse to bargain in good faith with unions representing their workers, leading to barely half of unionized workers actually agreeing to a contract with their employer even after their union was recognized by the National Labor Relations Board. In February, Indiana became the 23rd state to adopt a “right to work” law, which prohibits union contracts that require nonunion members to pay dues for representation. The Indiana legislation was fiercely resisted by labor advocates, who convened large and noisy demonstrations in the halls of the Statehouse. Democratic lawmakers staged a series of walkouts to protest the bill’s progress. Many unions and their members responded to right to work and other unfavorable laws by mobilizing for the recent November elections, canvassing door-todoor and paying for advertisements supporting candidates considered favorable to labor. Compared to many other unions, Unite Here, the union representing hospitality workers, does not spend a great deal of its energy and money on election campaigns or national or state-level lobbying of politicians. The union’s lead local organizer, Mike Biskar, says the 100-percent support from the Democratic councilors for the anti-blacklisting ordinance in the CityCounty Council was a tribute to the workers like Bahena and Selm who shared stories of their struggle with the community, not a product of campaign contributions or traditional lobbying. Biskar also notes that Unite Here has successfully organized workers at hotels in several states states with “right to work” laws. Ironically, the IUPUI food service workers approved their first-ever union condayy tract (see, “We Deserve Better”) the da that the Indiana General Assembly passed the right to work bill. Biskar says says that that similar organizing success will provide the best antidote to laws that disfavor workers. “We just need to look at the historical pattern,” he says. “The New Deal and rights the Wagner Act (that protects the righ ts of workers to form unions) happened because workers were already organizing, not the other way around. “When will labor laws improve and when will politicians stand up for workers?” he he asks. “When workers are organized.” ■

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Low Wages Mean Two Jobs in One Day Little sleep, family time for immigrant worker by Fran Quigley Abdelhakim Ejjair has been on his feet for nearly all of the past seven hours, but he is still moving fast. It is just past 2 p.m., and he walks out of the Downtown Hyatt at a near-trot, headed for his van after a shift as a server assistant at One South restaurant in the hotel. He has been up since 6 a.m., but Ejjair’s haste is inspired not by the fact that he is leaving his job, but that he is already on his way to another. If he can rush home, he should have time to grab lunch and maybe even nap for a few minutes before he leaves for his second job as a lot attendant at the Hertz rental car facility at the Indianapolis International Airport. Today, he is allowing me to accompany him on the transition. Ejjair has been working at the Hyatt for 14 years but still makes only $9 per hour, not counting the occasions when a server shares tips with him. He is paid slightly more at Hertz, but neither job provides much in the way of benefits. Ejjair cannot afford the premiums for family health insurance coverage through the Hyatt, so his two children are covered by Medicaid and his wife goes without coverage. Ejjair and I climb into his van, which has an odometer creeping up on 200,000 miles, a mysterious knock coming from the engine, and a laminated verse from the Koran hanging from the dashboard. We head northwest out of Downtown. In accented English revealing the Arabic and French he grew up speaking in his home country of Morocco, he patiently answers my questions while driving. Yes, he would prefer to work just one job. “If they pay me good, I would not have to work two jobs.” He would like to buy a home one day, if he could save the money. Yes, he is tired. Ejjair is short and slight, with his black hair still dominating over the flecks of gray, and he looks younger than his 47 years. But he has dark circles under his eyes and admits that he sleeps only about five hours on the nights between his double-shift days. Ejjair arrived in the U.S. from Morocco on April 27, 1998, a date he recites from memory. He had worked as a draftsman in his home country, and his skills earned him a visa to move to the U.S. He hoped to become an engineer, but he learned that he would need extra training even to be a draftsman in the U.S., and he could not afford the classes. So he got a job as a dishwasher at the Hyatt and taught himself English, first by watching TV and writing down the words, then through CDs once he could afford a computer. Ejjair remembers his embarrassment when people laughed at his early attempts to speak English. “I am still picking words,” he says. But Ejjair has become an advocate for

$18.33 per hour Amount considered to be a LIVING wage for a family with two adults and two children

$10.60 per hour Amount considered to be a POVERTY wage for a family with two adults and two children

$9 per hour Amount Ejjair earns per hour, after 14 years with Hyatt, to support his wife and two children SOURCE: livingwage.mit.edu

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Abdelhakim Ejjair works two jobs to make ends meet. A draftsman in his home country of Morocco, Ejjair now buses tables and attends a rental car lot.

the drive to unionize the Hyatt. “Many other people want the union, too, but they are scared,” he says. Any hesitation Ejjairs had evaporated when his counterparts at unionized Hyatt hotels showed him their paychecks. “It is the same corporation, and they do the same job as me, but it is not the same paycheck,” he says. “They get paid good money, and they pay very little for health coverage. My paycheck is too low.” So Ejjair works 60- to 70-hour weeks, including shifts at the Hyatt where he is on his feet busing tables for every minute except his half-hour break. Many days, he leaves home for his first job before his children are awake, and he comes home from his second job after they have already gone to bed. I ask him if he is concerned about how long he

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can keep up this pace. He shrugs. “I don’t promise myself. It is hard to tell.” In addition to talking with Ejjair while he transitioned between jobs, I decided it would also be good to get a sense of Ejjair at work. On a breakfast visit to the One South restaurant, I saw him across the room, carrying off dirty dishes while wearing a chocolate brown uniform shirt, a “Hakim” silver nametag and a long black apron hanging well below his knees. The restaurant setting was comfortable and pristine, and the server was charming and attentive. The chicken and egg white breakfast sandwich, including bacon and a side of fried potatoes, was delicious. Countless times, I have been fortunate enough to enjoy similar meals in

similar settings. But it had never been so clear that my pleasure was directly connected to someone else’s labor. Like most American consumers, I rarely think that the price for my shoes or cell phone is directly connected to the sub-poverty wages of those who manufactured them. But in this case, I could not ignore the connection between my affordable meal and the toil of a tri-lingual trained draftsman making nine bucks an hour. Labor advocates insist that consumers should feel no guilt about the cost of hotel rooms and meals in non-unionized hotels, saying the corporations who own the hotels make plenty of profit to allow them to pay better wages and still keep prices low. Hyatt Hotels, for example, recently reported third quarter 2012 profit of $23 million on almost $1 billion in quarterly revenue But I could not help thinking back to my visit to Ejjair’s home, where I met his shyly smiling wife and watched his curly-haired preschool children play on the carpet. I had discussed Moroccan home design and Muslim concerns over the defamation of the prophet Muhammad, and Ejjair shared his plans for his children’s schooling. Suddenly, I did not feel so good about my Hyatt meal anymore. I paid my bill and got up to leave. As I walked out the restaurant door, I looked back to see if I could catch a last glimpse of Ejjair at work. I did. He was cleaning up after me. ■

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Angel Burlesque @ Crackers Broad Ripple As Ernie Banks is fond of saying: “Let’s play two!” On one side you’ve got Angel Burlesque, shaking their lady parts (of all sizes, of course), cracking jokes and generally making with the sexy mirth-making. And on the other, you’ve got Lucky DeLuxe, aka Susanna Lee, who pretty much has a lock on the “funny stripper” game, and has been colorfully described as “a cross between June Cleaver and Columbia from Rocky Horror, with the vernacular of a stevedore” (Dayton Daily News). The double feature opens Wednesday with a sneak preview from which all proceeds will head to the Julian Center, and feel free to being a canned good or item from the center’s wish list any time during the weekend run to get $2 off the cover charge.

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Nov. 14, 8:30 p.m., $10 ; Nov. 15, 8:30 p.m., $10-15 ($5 college); Nov. 16 and 17, 8 and 10:30 p.m., $15-20; angelburlesque.com

Indy International Festival @ Indiana State Fairgrounds

THURSDAY

Edie Lutnick @ Arthur M. Glick JCC

Professional LEGO builders (crafting a Taj Mahal and London Bridge)! Punch and Judy puppet theater! Polish folk song and dance, straight from the old country! Bocce ball! Pageantry straight from the court of Mary, Queen of Scots! A walk-on map of Europe! Beer! Wine! Bocce ball!

Edie Lutnick’s The Unbroken Bond tells the story of the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund, created following 9/11 to benefit the families of those killed in One World Trade Center. Lutnick lost a brother in the tragedy, and worked with her other brother, Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick, to establish the fund.

Nov. 16, 2-9 p.m.; Nov. 17, 10 a.m.9 p.m.; Nov. 18, noon-6 p.m. @ West Pavilion, Indiana State Fairgrounds; adult: $8 advance (indyinternationalfestival.org), $10 door; children (6-12): $6

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

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Landmark Lyric @ Indiana Landmarks Center Here’s the deal: 20 Hoosier poets will each present a poem inspired by an Indiana landmark, from Medora’s defunct brick kilns to Elkhart’s Lerner Theatre. It’s all presented by Brick Street Poetry and Indiana Landmarks, and poets scheduled to read include Catherine Bowman (about Beck’s Mill in Salem), Alessandra Lynch (Hinkle Fieldhouse), Joyce Brinkman (Colgate-Palmolive Plant and Clock in Clarksville), Mitchell L. H. Douglas (Bush Stadium) and JL Kato (Plainfield Diner in Plainfield). 7 p.m., free, indianalandmarks.org

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Matt Bell @ UIndy

Victoria Clark: Glorious Days @ the Columbia Club

Matt Bell, who has a novella and collections of short stories and poems under his belt, is an editor at Dzanc Books, where he runs the literary magazine The Collagist. Here’s a choice sample quote from his novella, Cataclysm Baby: “This smoldered cigar, last of a box of twenty, bought to celebrate happier times, now smoked to keep away the smell of our unwashed skin, of our slipping flesh, of our baby grown in my wife’s belly, the submerged sign of a prophecy burning, stretching taut her hard bulge: All hair, just like the others, gone wrong again.”

Victoria Clark has a Tony under her belt for Best Leading Actress in Musical (The Light in the Piazza), and her list of Broadway appearances goes on and on, stretching back to her 1985 debut in Sunday in the Park with George, which she still appears in every so often. In Glorious Days, she draws from that wide-ranging Broadway experience (from Urinetown to Sister Act: The Musical), while digging up forgotten treasures from Ye Old American Songbooke.

7:30 p.m. @ UIndy Hall A, Schwitzer Student Center; free; uindy.edu

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IU Opera’s Cendrillon review by Rita Kohn

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A tale of William Denton Ray’s harrowing weekend by Dan Grossman

Nov. 16 and 17, 8 p.m.; $35-55 ($12 food or beverage minimum per person); thecabaret.org

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Veterans Day parade recap by David and Lora Olive

Motus Dance Theatre’s choreographers’ showcase by Bryan Moore

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Focus2020 Chautauqua @ The Athenaeum Remember chautauquas? Unless you’re the oldest living confederate widow, we doubt you have first-hand experience, but way back when (between the 1870s and early 1940s), if you wanted to learn about the gold standard, Pygmies, the power of electricity, the power of orgone energy or the power of positive thinking, the big-tent, circus-esque traveling variety shows known as chautauquas were your one-stop shop, featuring lectures, music and other edifying but not quite high-falutin entertainment and upbuilding discourses. The folks at Peace Learning Center are reviving the name and concept this Friday with a program borne out of their Focus2020 initiative, through which they hope to put together an eight-year plan for the betterment of our fair city. Scheduled speakers include Sherry Selwart, the new president of Indianapolis Downtown Inc.; Sam Odle, a new IPS board member; George E. Miller, president of Martin University; Amos Brown, of Afternoons with Amos; and Drew Klacik, senior policy analyst at the IU Public Policy Institute. Also on the program is Josh McManus, the lead inventor at Little Things Lab, where he works on, according to Little Things’ website, “place-making, talent retention and creative economy solutions in midsized and post-industrial American cities,” as well as entertainment from ComedySportz and a Community Action Fair. Registration (at infocus2020.org) is $25 and includes breakfast and refreshments; the event runs from 10 a.m. to noon.

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C.S. Lewis scholar Devin Brown @ Tabernacle Presbyterian Church Devin Brown knows his hobbits. He’s the author of four books on the fiction of C.S. Lewis, professor of English at Asbury University and was a scholar-in-residence in 2008 at The Kilns, a center for the study of Lewis housed in Lewis’s former home in Oxford. He’ll emerge from his hole for a Friday night talk, “What to Watch for in The Hobbit movie,” presented by the Central Indiana C.S. Lewis Society. 7 p.m., free (Brown’s books will be available for a reduced rate), apologetics.org

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Winter Market opening @ Carmel City Center It’s the season of the winter farmers’ market. One week after the downtown Indy version got started (it’ll be open through next spring Saturdays at the Indianapolis City Market), Carmel gets in the swing with 15-20 vendors, including Artisano’s Oils., Mission Coffee Company, Kei Tea and La Torte Cakes and Pastries. The market runs every Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon through Jan. 26 (except Dec. 22 and 29) at the southwest corner of Rangeline Road and City Center Drive, aka Carmel City Center (carmelcitycenter.com).

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Cranksgiving Proving far more successful and longlived than Crunksgiving, which took place in NUVO’s archives one hazy November afternoon, the bike ride/food drive known as Cranksgiving has been collecting canned goods and foodstuffs for food banks and the like since 1997, first in New York City and now in over 28 cities across these United States. Here’s the drill: You bring the bike, along with about $20, some manner of bag, a bike lock and a camera (if you want to participate in the photo scavenger hunt), and show up to the Rathskeller’s biergarten by 11 a.m. (enter from the alley off of Cleveland Street). From there, you’ll be given a list of places around downtown Indy where you can buy food items. There’s no pre-set route, but the rider who doesn’t get lost should end up racking up 15 miles’ worth of pedaling by the time she returns to the biergarten, where the awards ceremony and after-party starts from 2 p.m. The food will head to Second Helpings, the food rescue/culinary training program that’s also the guest/beneficiary of honor at Tonic Ball, the fundraiser/concert/art show taking place Friday night in Fountain Square (more on pg. 27). Nathan Smurdon, chief exploration officer at ActiveIndy Tours,

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Turkey on bike, circa 1908.

notes that “we are NOT promoting this as a race,” but rather as a ride that will encourage participants to explore downtown while using new bike lanes and the Cultural Trail. He says this may not quite be the first Cranksgiving in Indy — other, less widelypromoted “alleycat”-style races have taken place around this time locally — but it is the first one that’s open to all with a bike. Register at activeindytours.com, or find more info about the Cranksgivings nationwide at cranksgiving.org. 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 11.14.12-11.21.12 // go&do

A&E REVIEWS MUSIC INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: SPANISH SEDUCTIONS HILBERT CIRCLE THEATRE, NOV. 8-10 r Any time is a good time to delve into the rhythmic, lighter fare Spain offers. Last weekend, guest conductor Eugene Tzigane, 30 (the same age as our music director, Krzysztof Urbanski), led in four works, two by Spaniards, one by a Frenchman and one by a Russian. Guitarist Miloš Karadaglic, 29 of Montenegro, joined the forces for the program’s centerpiece, Joaquin Rodrigo’s lovely Concierto de Aranjuez. His concierto’s slow movement is filled with heart-rending Spanish melody, poured wistfully into our respective souls by Karadaglic’s expressive strumming. Tzigane’s Mozart-sized orchestra gave us a perfect collaboration with the soloist. The more lively first movement went less well, with many of Karadaglic’s strumming notes running together underneath the violins, even with amplification. Tzigane opened with Maurice Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso, moving his players well nigh effortlessly through the short aperitif. After the break came Joaquin Turina’s Sinfonia sevillana, a three-movement work written in 1920 that remains on the repertoire fringe, despite its accessibility. Last, but hardly least, Tzigane gave us Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio espagnol. Does anyone not know this work

— well, perhaps any symphony-goer? Tzigane took the first, third and fifth of its five parts at a very brisk tempo, the orchestra almost, but not quite running away with him, or from him. It was an evening of mostly quite engaging music, which the half-filled Circle Theatre enjoyed. For more review details visit nuvo.net.

piano playing in his modernist idiom. Chen sailed through them as if they were child’s play. But he astonished most in La Valse. Chen delivered as near an orchestral version of the 15-minute piece as is possible to conceive on a piano. I heard no slips whatever throughout this extravaganza.

— TOM ALDRIDGE

Following intermission, Trevor, as usual, led his forces in an overture, this time the profoundly bewitching one to Gluck’s opera Iphigenia in Aulis. Though genial on the surface, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G, Op. 58, is the composer’s supreme expression in the concerto genre. Chen’s keyboard sparkled with Beethoven’s lyrico-dramatic tensions and resolutions, in perfect balance with Trevor’s orchestra. All he needed to do to earn five stars was to have used Beethoven’s own cadenzas, rather than someone else’s.

AMERICAN PIANISTS ASSOCIATION PREMIERE SERIES: SEAN CHEN INDIANA HISTORY CENTER, NOV. 11 w Sunday afternoon at the IHC’s Basile Theater may go down in the record books as the first concert appearance of the winner of the 2013 APA Classical Fellowship Awards. The Premiere Series is essentially the competition’s first round, and calls upon each competitor to perform both solo and with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra; the competition ends next April. Chen gave us a stunning account of keyboard virtuosity and musical artistry as a solo player, then played Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto with Kirk Trevor and the ICO. Opening with Bach’s French Suite No. 5 in G, Chen continued with Three Etudes of Béla Bartók and finished with his own piano arrangement of Ravel’s orchestral tour-deforce, La Valse. After some overpedaling in the first three dances of Bach’s suite, Chen made his foot lighter for the remainder of the recital/concert. The Bartók Etudes are studies (“etudes” translated) in the most difficult of

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you’ll ever see, with characters breaking the fourth wall, chatting with the musical accompaniment; for all I know they’ve broken the fifth wall, whatever the heck that might be. It’s a massive cast of Butler students, many of whom I’ve seen before. I can only imagine what it must be like for them to be working Sedana, a professor at the Indonesian Arts Institute at Denspasar, whose handful of weeks on campus will end too soon (next week). The production was replete with dancing, singing, puppetry, live music and slapstick physical comedy. And... the masks were fantastical. Sure, it makes for great fun, but the production also illuminates and exaggerates various themes of Shakespeare’s oft-produced work: most prominently, the drug-like state of being in love.

— TOM ALDRIDGE

THEATER BALI DREAM BUTLER UNIVERSITY THEATRE, NOV. 1-11 e This fall, Butler University Theatre is collaborating with I Nyoman Sedana, this year’s Christel DeHaan Visiting International Theatre Artist, and the result, his vision of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is nothing short of a dream. It’s as playful a performance as

It strikes me as a bit unfair in such an impressive ensemble to pick out a few standout performances, but I must. Megan Medley’s portrayal as Puck had the audience mesmerized with her mad dance through various cliche steps. She elicited spontaneous applause the night I saw the show. Logan Moore, now a Junior, is always a force on stage; here is prolific comic talents are fully realized. Thomas Benoist had me nearly in tears with his portrayal as the delightfully dim-witted Snug/Lion. — JIM POYSER

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URISHI LIGHTS: WORK BY NHAT TRAN EYE ON ART GALLERY, THROUGH DEC. 7 e

Bambu’s new bike rack

If you’ve been through the Indianapolis International Airport recently, it’s likely that you’ve seen Nhat Tran’s stunning mural “On the Tip of Our Wings.” Tran’s process of making such work is not just time-consuming. It also incorporates an outrageously expensive natural resource: the sap from the Japanese urushi tree. In her February show at Gallery 924, Orchestral Collage, Tran supplemented her urushi paintings and sculpture with more affordable digital work. With Urushi Lights, up through early December at Carmel’s Eye on Art Gallery, she’s debuting smaller-scale (as well as affordable) urushi work which she’s created by taking a more freeform, expressionistic approach. One of those new pieces is “Regardless of Explanation” (urushi on clayboard), on display alongside examples of the more polished work she is known for. (Polishing and sanding are important parts of her process). The design on the surface of said painting is a semi-transparent swirl of reds and blues. Beneath this thin layer of paint you can see another pattern in a greenish yellow tint, flowing in the opposite direction. There’s rhythm here, and movement. While the bulk of Tran’s work is abstract, curious, representational images occasionally pop out. More

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Nhat Tran, “Regardless of Explanation” importantly to understanding the work, though, is tapping into the feeling Tran seems to be trying to communicate, that of being caught up in one’s art and swept away by it.

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Jennifer Barker’s vision of a comb-shaped bike rack in front of her Broad Ripple-based Bambu Salon (seen in prototype form at top left) was realized last week when designer Scott Sebree supervised the installation of the finished product. Donations from the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability and Barker’s clients helped to meet funding requirements for the project, which IndianaLivingGreen.com has followed for the past four months (see the site for a slideshow).

— DAN GROSSMAN

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Bill Watts and his custom-made bicycle.

It’s a work of art My awesome, hand-built bicycle BY BILL WATTS EDITORS@NUVO.NET I have a bicycle that turns heads. Just the other day, as I was looking for a bottle of beer in a shop, with my bike parked outside, a clerk came up to me and said, “That’s an awesome ride, man!” And that happens a lot. I don’t mean to boast, but my bicycle is even more awesome than most people realize. The things that draw immediate attention to my bicycle are its colors and its fenders. But what makes the bicycle really special is not so readily apparent. My bicycle was built from the ground up, beginning with the frame. Everything on my bike was built and chosen by my frame builder and myself. Consequently, my bicycle fits both my body and my needs almost perfectly. I have relied on a bicycle both for basic transportation and for recreation for 48 years, and, in recent years, I have ridden about 8,000 miles a year. My long experience gave me a very good idea of what I wanted in a bicycle and what I could get by having one built to order. But as cycling goes through a kind of renaissance, and more cyclists take to the

streets, more people can and should think about having a bicycle custom built. For that reason, then, I want to tell the story of how I built my awesome ride. One of the compensations for living in the otherwise dreary cultural and political climate of the early 21st century has been the rise in hand-made and locally produced goods. In Indianapolis, this is most obvious when it comes to food and beer. I now buy my milk from Traders Point, which is up the street from my house, my meat from local growers, and my beer from local brewers. It is more and more possible to live in a handmade world, and I like living in that world. So, when it came time to build my bike, I naturally wanted to work with a local frame builder. In Indianapolis, I had two choices. Shamrock Cycles is the more established of the two. Tim O’Donnell, the owner and builder, sponsors a race team, and he recently won an award for the Best City Bike at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show. His bicycles are innovative and beautiful. Kevin Harvey of Harvey Cycle Works (harveycycleworks.com) is relatively new to professional frame building. He did build some frames in the early nineties, but has spent much of his career as a machinist for an Indy 500 racing team. I found his frames to be elegant and well thought-out, but more utilitarian than the Shamrock bicycles. Perhaps counter-intuitively, I went with the less established builder. When I first met him, I knew that I could work easily with Kevin Harvey. We had compatible

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idea about bicycles, and he had built for himself a bicycle very much like the one I wanted for myself. Plus, I knew from the outset that Kevin was utterly honest and completely trustworthy. Once I had chosen my builder, I went to a bicycle fitter to determine the exact dimensions for my frame. For this, I turned to Jonathan Juillerat, a fitter who is also the general manager of the Nebo Ridge Bicycle Shop on the north side of Indianapolis. I had known Jonathan for more than 15 years because of his work as a bicycle advocate. I once took my commuting bike to Jonathan when he was the head mechanic at another bicycle shop, and I was amazed at how thorough he was in going over every inch of the bike and in anticipating future problems. I knew that he would be equally meticulous in fitting my bike.

Attention to fit

The fitting was done in three one-hour sessions. In the first session, Jonathan took numerous measurements of my old bike and of my body, and conveyed these measurements to Kevin, who designed the frame. In a second fitting session, Jonathan set up the stationary bike according to the new design. I rode this stationary bike, Jonathan took more measurements, and Kevin made adjustments to the design. Then, after the bike was built, I had a third session, in which final adjustments were made to the components. For me, this attention to fit was some-

thing entirely new. Prior to building my own bike, my whole notion of fitting was to adjust the saddle to a point that seemed comfortable, and then take off riding. Since I was spending a good sum of money on the bicycle, and committing ideas to the permanency of steel, it made good sense to invest the time and money in a professional fitting. In addition, I have had one persistent problem that I wanted to address through fitting. On long rides of more than 200 miles a day, the tips of my fingers go numb, and sometimes stay that way for months. Both Jonathan, in doing the fitting, and Kevin, in designing the frame, were mindful of this problem, and worked to take pressure off of my hands. While it is still early days, my hands seem happier with my new bike. Fitting the bike to my needs was even more important than fitting it to my body. I planned to use my new bicycle for three distinct purposes. First, I commute about ten miles a day to work, and I also use my bicycle for most of my day-to-day travel. Secondly, I participate in an organized but obscure sport called randonneuring. This is not a competitive sport, but one in which riders complete a specified course within a certain time period. The shortest randonneuring event is 200 kilometers, or 124 miles, which must be completed in 13 hours, and the longest is 1200 kilometers, or 746 miles, which must be com-

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pleted in 90 hours. Thirdly, I use my bicycle for touring, and go on two or three trips each year carrying all of my camping gear and clothing. I have ridden down the California coast, across France, and down the Florida coast to Key West, and plan to make similar trips in the future. Some cyclists would have different bikes for these different purposes. I have heard the late, great Sheldon Brown say that cyclists should think of their equipment as golfers think of their clubs: they don’t use a putter when they need a driving iron. Consequently, cyclists should have a bag full of bikes to meet their various needs, regardless of what their spouses say. I understand the thinking behind this view, but I have always preferred to rely on one bicycle for most of my needs. Because I am not a gifted mechanic, I like to have just one bicycle to maintain on a day-to-day basis. I will keep my old bike as a back-up, and I keep a separate bike equipped with studded tires for snow and ice, but I will do 98 percent of my riding on my new bike. Some of the decisions about my bike were obvious given the ways I planned to use it. Most randonneurs have fenders on their bikes so that they can ride through the rain, and they have generators built into their front hubs that power very bright and very reliable front and rear lights, allowing them to ride through the night. I wanted these things, and I also wanted a device called “The Plug,” which would be connected to my generator and allow me to charge my GPS or my phone as I rode. Plugging in some of the choices I made came out of my own habits and experiences as a cyclist. I wanted disc brakes because I had grown tired of adjusting cantilever brakes, and because I am overly cautious in descending steep, twisty hills. I thought the additional power of disc brakes would give me the confidence to make faster descents. Disc brakes are still relatively rare on road bikes, but Kevin had already designed and built several road bikes with them, so it made good sense for him to put them on my new bike. I also needed a bike that would travel well. For both randonneuring and for touring, I often have to take my bike onto

an airplane. My old bicycle was a Ritchey Breakaway, which had a frame that came apart so that it could be packed into a suitcase and checked as regular baggage. I needed something like that on my new bike. Kevin was able to build my bike so that it could be taken apart. One of the most impressive things Kevin was in the wiring of the bike. A wire goes all of the way from the front generator tube to the back of the bike, providing power to the rear light. But, because the bike comes apart for travel, the wiring also had to come apart. Kevin’s long experience working with racecars has given him great skill in solving problems, and he was able to design and build such a wiring system. Kevin also did an extraordinary job with the paint. I had decided that I wanted a light blue and yellow color scheme for the bike, rather like Swedish flag. (I was an exchange student in Norway, and, while I do not admire all things Swedish, I do admire their flag). I also asked Kevin to paint my name on the top tube, under the saddle, so as to personalize the bike. He did all of this brilliantly, and the paint job is what first captures the attention of those who admire my bike. Of course, there are some disadvantages to building a custom bike. It is both expensive and time consuming. It took a bit more than three months to build the bike, and I made numerous trips to the builder, to the fitter, and to bicycle shops for components. The frame itself cost $2100 to build, and I spent another $2000 on the components, and I also paid a fee for the fitting But for me, at least, the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages. I have exactly the bicycle I wanted, equipped in the manner I have chosen. I also think my bike is a work of art. Kevin does not go in for a lot of embellishment, but there is elegance and beauty in almost every aspect of the bike, from the fillet braised joints to gracefully raked fork to the way that the mounting brackets for the disc brakes are integrated into the frame. And my new bike is not just beautiful; it also rides very well, and it does a damn good job of getting me from one place to the next.

Kevin Harvey of Harvey Cycle Works with the bike he created for Watts.

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Bicycle Garage Indy promotes a healthy lifestyle with its array of bikes, fitness machines and health/fitness related products. 222 E. Market, Suite E-101, 317-612-3099; 4340 E. 82nd St., 317-842-4140; and 997 E. County Line Rd., 317-885-7194, bgindy.com BICYCLE OUTFITTERS INDY

This is an online and local shop that specializes in road, mountain, as well as fitness bikes; they’ve often got sweet discounts advertised on their website.

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No bike snobbery and very little spandex, this is old school, commuter and mountain biking — though avid riders and racers are welcome too! 5804 E. Washington St., 317-356-4585, indycyclespecialist.com JOE’S CYCLES

A neighborhood bike shop in the heart of Fountain Square, Joe’s specializes in helping you build a custom bike to suit your individual needs. 1060 Virginia Ave., 317-602-3911, joescycles.com KREME TWENTY-FOUR

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FILM THE DUST BOWL DIRECTED BY KEN BURNS NOV. 18 AND 19, 8 P.M. ON WFYI-1 e Here’s a quote for you: “We Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people, barbaric or civilized.” Sounds like something you might have heard after Hurricane Sandy or the brutal summer our country just endured, doesn’t it? In fact, the speaker was Hugh Hammond Bennett, who created the Soil Conservation Service in the 1930s to counter the effects of the Dust Bowl. Bennett’s comment is one of many stark moments in Ken Burns’ new film, The Dust Bowl, which reminds us – as Burns always does – that the decades may change, but we stay remarkably the same. Just as a portion of our population today laughs off the need to address climate change, and acts as though short-term profits trump longterm environmental health, so did the landowners who precipitated the environmental nightmare that was the Dust Bowl. Using expert commentary from historians and wonderful, if heartbreaking, stories from Dust Bowl survivors, Burns tells us that wheat farmers in the 1920s in the Great Plains tore up the ground using a cheap plowing method. They reaped great rewards initially. Then disaster struck. “A decade-long catastrophe of biblical proportions” and “the worst manmade ecological disaster in American history” are two descriptions of what occurred. To put it another way, the

Then in 1932, the first dust storm rolled over the plains. Fourteen storms hit in 1932. Thirty-eight hit in 1933. In the film, survivors say they thought these storms signaled the end of the world, and to see the film footage and still pictures Burns unearthed, you can understand why they felt that way. The walls of blowing dirt blocked out the sun, making noon look like midnight, and some of the storms stretched 200 miles wide at 65 mph. What happened next was relentlessly bleak. Widespread poverty that left people living in chicken coops, eating lard sandwiches and wearing clothing made from flour sacks. Dust pneumonia, which killed people. Suicides, both by adults who couldn’t care for their families and children affected by their parents’ despair. People smothered in dirt and killed in dust drifts. Suffocating farm animals. Invasions of jackrabbits. By 1934, the dust made its way east to New York and Washington, D.C. Soon, the plight of the Plains had a name – “the Dust Bowl,” a phrase coined by an Associated Press reporter – and the nation’s attention. The Roosevelt administration brought help in the form of the Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration, which gave jobs to farmers, and devised new plowing methods. Eventually, enough farmers agree to work the land more gently and the federal government purchased vast areas of land to let the grass grow back. We also get music and literature for the ages from Woody Guthrie and John Steinbeck. You come away from The Dust Bowl amazed by what the people were able to endure, saddened that we value the economy more than we do the environment and, of course, a whole lot more knowledgeable about American history. In other words, it’s typical Ken Burns. — MARC D. ALLAN

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GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK MOVIE SERIES

Heartland Truly Moving Pictures and Michael Feinstein’s Great American Songbook Initiative are teaming up this fall to present a series of classic movie musicals on a big screen at the Palladium. The series kicks off Thursday, Nov. 15 with White Christmas, and Feinstein will be in the house Friday, Nov. 16 to introduce An American in Paris and sign copies (from 5:30-7 p.m.) of his new book, The Gershwins and Me. The Gershwins of the title are, of course, George and Ira; the “Me” is Feinstein, who worked as a librarian for Ira Gershwin from the late ‘70s, a job which poised him to become both an interpreter and historian of the Great American Songbook. The series starts with four screenings this week, and continues with one Friday screening per month through March. Tickets are $7.50 and all screenings but one will be from Blu-Ray. Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m., White Christmas (1954); Nov. 16, 2 p.m., The Sound of Music (1965); Nov. 16, 7:30 p.m., An American in Paris (1951); Nov. 17, 10:30 a.m., The Wizard of Oz (1939)

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This is one heckuva weekend for fans of the American movie musical. Back in the day (for our purposes, the ‘20s), the finest movie houses weren’t content to bring in a pianist or organist to accompany the latest epic; no, they had house orchestras, knocking out sometimes a score a week to mighty beasts like, say, Intolerance or Wings. Hilbert Circle Theatre brought in an orchestra or two in its day, and it returns to that era as the ISO performs the score to West Side Story, while the film plays out on the big screen with effects and vocal tracks intact. After a couple performances on the Circle, the Palladium, with a screen already up for the Songbook series, will pick up the final screening. David Newman will conduct; tickets range from $37-85. Nov. 16 and 17, 8 p.m. @ Hilbert Circle Theatre; Nov. 18, 7:30 p.m. @ The Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts

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The Brazilian filmmaker will present four of his road movies this week at Bloomington’s IU Cinema, including a sneak preview of his new adaptation of On the Road on Wednesday, Nov. 14 at 7 p.m. On the Road and a lecture by Salles are free but ticketed; all other films are $3 each. Nov. 15, 3 p.m., Walter Salles lecture; Nov. 15, 7 p.m., The Motorcycle Diaries (2004); Nov. 16, 9:30 p.m., Foreign Land (1996); Nov. 17, 7 p.m., Central Station (1998)

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Lincoln e On September 18, 1858 in Charlestown, Illinois, during his fourth debate with Stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lincoln stated the following: “I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races.” The remarks were in response to Douglas’s attempts to portray Lincoln as a radical who was not just opposed to slavery, but in favor of racial equality. Lincoln’s words were simply a necessary part of his efforts for the greater good. You know, just politics. Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln is a thriller about politics that takes place between January and April of 1865. The debate passage above is never mentioned, but we see more of Lincoln’s politicking. The Civil War is about to end and Lincoln is determined to push through a constitutional amendment banning slavery before it does. He figures that once the war end and the southern states became voting members of the union again, the amendment won’t have a prayer, so he has to ram it through now, by any means necessary. Tony Kushner’s fine screenplay offers a close-up view of the political wheeling and dealing of the time, with the wily Lincoln showing how adept he can be at the often corrupt activity. It’s fascinating, and sad, to see him in the thick of it, but it goes a long way towards making that terrible debate quote more understandable. Not any less repulsive, but at least more understandable. Daniel Day-Lewis plays Lincoln, once again bringing his magic to a role. He looks like the man, he sounds like what you’d expect Lincoln to sound like – he presents Lincoln as a sometimes melancholy

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leader, soft spoken but capable of ferocity when required, and given to storytelling. His Lincoln has the lofty qualities we’re all aware of, but is equally skilled at getting down and dirty to accomplish his goals. Fascinating man, fascinating story. Charming quiet moments with his youngest son temper the boisterous finagling. For the most part Spielberg avoids his trademarked sappiness. Every now and then John Williams’ surprisingly well-behaved score shoves its way to the foreground for a little emotional bullying, but the bulk of the film is presented without excess holiness. The period atmosphere is earthy and adds to the production’s verisimilitude. The rest of the cast is nearly as impressive as Day-Lewis. Tommy Lee Jones does wonders as Pennsylvania Rep, Thaddeus Stevens, as does Daniel Strathairn as Secretary of State William Seward. James Spader, John Hawkes and Tim Blake Nelson are pluses in short, but punchy appearances as party operatives/thugs working the illegal side of the persuasion business. Two questionable choices are Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln and Joseph GordonLevitt as the Lincoln’s rebellious son Robert. Field is so well-known for her inyour-face characters that her first appearance is distracting, but she does a skillful job presenting the First Lady as more than a mentally-ill burden. Gordon-Levitt is solid – it’s his storyline that pales in comparison to the other goings-on. I wish Lincoln had addressed the president’s willingness in the debates to use racism to combat racism. I wish it had ended at one of its natural stopping points and avoided revisiting the tragedy at Ford’s Theater. But the movie I must address is the one Spielberg made, not the one he didn’t, and it’s quite good, much better than I thought it would be.

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Punch Burger lands some solid hits BY N E I L CHA R LE S N CH A RL E S @N U V O . N E T Punch Burger might not quite deliver a knockout, but it certainly racks up the points in a highly-contested category with its quick, efficient service and its wholesome (not to mention delicious) take on our nation’s most beloved comestible. Occupying a useful niche somewhere between gourmet and fastfood, and combining the best elements of both, Punch has rapidly established itself as a favorite of the downtown lunch crowd and the casual diner alike. Frankly I’ve never understood the bigger-is-better approach to burger-building, which often results in an exploding edifice best approached with a knife and fork. The whole point of a burger, I’ve always believed, is that one should be able to get a taste of the whole thing in a single bite, ideally using only one hand (the other being on the wheel) without everything disintegrating into a messy heap onto your newly-pressed trousers. On this count, Punch acquits itself with flying colors most of the time, offering moderately proportioned (one-third pound)

sandwiches fashioned from grass-fed beef from Fischer Farms or Indiana raised turkey, both fresh and never frozen. Toppings are in proportion to the meat and bun, combining to form the perfect hand-sized burger. Of the three buns we tried on a recent visit, the most solid, and therefore portable, was the outstanding pretzel, followed closely by the whole wheat. Both were sufficiently dense to support the contents, but adequately porous to absorb some of the delicious sauces. Lagging a bit behind was the traditional white bun, which turned somewhat soggy (although no less tasty for that) and was best attacked with flatware. All the beef is cooked medium-well, which is probably the best way to approach this very lean meat, as the slight char and crispy edges serve only to enhance the already intensely beefy flavor. Punch offers a small selection of proprietary burgers, including the truly outstanding Thai, topped with peanut butter and sweet chili sauce. Try it on the pretzel bun to get the most from the sweet/savory contrast. Also excellent was the Aloha, a highly satisfying creation featuring ham, pineapple, Swiss cheese and teriyaki sauce. Of the four burgers sampled, this one was the most problematic to eat, being slathered perhaps a bit too generously with sauce. Fans of allday breakfast will love the Southern Sunrise, with its perfectly cooked fried egg and generous topping of guacamole and hot sauce. In addition to the proprietary burgers, diners can choose from dozens of toppings

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to create an almost infinite variety of sandwiches. A vegetarian option in the form of a portabella mushroom cap is also available in place of beef or turkey. Perhaps best of all, and what confirms Punch’s advantage over every other fast food joint in town, is the availability of beer. With several local brews on tap by either the glass or pitcher, this is the clincher. Prices are moderate for downtown: a couple of burgers, a generous serving of excellent waffle fries and sweet potato tots in addition to a pitcher of Flat 12 porter came to just $36 for two.

GRAPE SENSE BY HOWARD HEWITT

The Golden Rule of wine and food pairing is a simple one – if you like it, drink it! But when the family gathers for the turkey feast next week something more is often expected. How about something different? Or maybe you’re the type that would like to serve up something a bit more extravagant! An occupational hazard for wine writers is the expected column of wine recommendations for the holidays so who am I to disappoint? But let’s not go down the tired trail of Chardonnay and whatever red is in the cabinet. If you want white wine with the turkey, and that’s probably the best choice, look for a good dry Riesling. No matter the region it comes from Riesling is a very safe pick. But who wants to play it safe? If you like drier wines but want a big nose of fall in your glass of wine try a Gewurztraminer or Viognier. Gewurzt (easier to say without sounding like you’re sneezing) is one of the most aromatic wines in the

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world. It can be fairly sweet to off-dry. Viognier, my choice of the two, is a drier white wine with hints of apple, pear, and spice on the palate. For an even better pairing go drier with a Pinot Gris or Chenin Blanc. For the extravagant dinner gathering, splurge for the world’s best white wine – Chablis. Better Indy wine shops will have a few labels to choose from. Chablis is Chardonnay made in a dry, crisp style with tremendous minerality and acidity. You can find great bottles in the $20 price range. The red of choice has long been Pinot Noir for Thanksgiving. But consider a French Beaujolais – and not that Nouveau stuff. Find a Beaujolais Cru wine from Julienas, Morgon, or Fleurie. The Gamay-based wines are very affordable at $12$18 and great with food. If you want to impress pick up any bottle of Oregon Pinot Noir above the $30 price point. It is sure to be a winner. Read Howard Hewitt’s wine column at redforme.blogspot.com. Write him with questions or comments at hewitthoward@gmail.com.

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20 people sit on the Tonic Board

Fountain Square’s biggest night BY K A T H E RI N E C O P LE N K CO P L E N @N U V O . N E T

different social service agencies receive meals every day from Second Helpings

t’s here. We say that, not ominously, horror movie-style. No, we’re shouting from the rooftop – the Murphy Art Center rooftop to be exact. That’s where Tonic Ball 11 artists were announced this year way back in May. And, this week, after much planning, consternation, celebration and scheduling, Tonic Ball has arrived. Here’s the deal: Each year the Tonic committee selects three superstar groups (past choices include Prince, Madonna and The Clash); the night of Tonic Ball, dozens of local bands cover songs from those groups in a myriad of styles and instrumentations. (Editor’s note: Turn to page 32 for the full Tonic Ball schedule.) And every year for 11 years, Tonic takes over the, Square. The benefit for Southeastside nonprofit Second Helpings showcases what is best about Indianapolis: our huge hearts and our huge collection of musicians. After sitting down with organizers, we nixed the idea of a traditional feature on about the event, opting instead for a breakdown of all of the different pieces of the event and the nonprofit it supports. Did you know that Second Helpings has rescued over 17 million pounds of food since its founding? Second Helpings’ mark on Indy is indelible –– from creating a greener city by recycling unused food, to providing meals for hungry kids and adults, to training unemployed or underemployed citizens to be highly skilled food industry employees and chefs. Tonic Ball and Second Helpings are growing alongside one another. The kitchen renovation this spring more than doubled that a.m.ount of meals workers can turn out in one day. And, for the second year in a row, Tonic Ball will take over five venues Friday in Fountain Square. Tonic Ball tickets are on sale at LUNA Music. Pick up your wristband to move through all five venues throughout the night. CONTINUE TO PAGE 32 FOR TONIC BALL THE COMPLETE Fountain Square SCHEDULE OF Friday, Nov. 16 BANDS 8 p.m., $25, 21+

the amount of money that goes to anything except feeding hungry Hoosiers (spaces, equipment, artists and bands all donate their time and resources)

1998

graduates from the Culinary Job Training Program

12 and under get in free to the Fountain Square Theatre, featuring the music of U2 (Tiny Tonic and Tonic Gallery are also free, and White Rabbit Cabaret and Radio Radio are 21and over)

year Second Helpings was founded

6,507,697 5 17,783,232

bands performing this year

meals prepared and delivered since the founding

total venues used this year, including Tiny Tonic (SECS), Tonic Gallery (New Day Meadery), White Rabbit Cabaret, Radio Radio and Fountain Square Theater

artists Tonic will highlight this year, including Stevie Wonder, U2 and The Kinks

pounds of food rescued since 1998

80 band submissions in 2012 total

years, in a row, people have suggested The Beatles should be the Tonic musical selection

Unknowable times attendees have shouted “Free Bird!” either ironically or non-ironically

500

total years of Tonic Ball in Fountain Square

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Tonic Ball, by the numbers

musicians of every genre, age and style who’ve performed over the years

41 meals provided by each Tonic Ball ticket

114,800

(at $ 25dollar s each)

meals projected Tonic Ball 11 will provide from ticket sales

2,900

meals Second Helpings can provide per day before the Spring 2012 kitchen renovation

6,000 5

meals Second Helpings can prepare per day, post-renovation

different Boys and Girls Clubs that r eceive meals (approximately per day)

400

pieces of art from 32 different artists in the Tonic Gallery

10 years founder Ken Honeywell ran Tonic Ball. This year will be his first as just an attendee, with Matt Mays taking over as Chairperson

MUSTACHIOED MAN BY DESIGNER AMY MCADAMS, WHO CREATES PIECES FOR EVERY TONIC BALL

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MUSIC Killin’ it

Here come the Buffalo Killers BY JE FF N A P IE R M U S I C@N U V O . N E T Lebanon, Ohio is a town known for sprawning Woody Harrelson and Ed Larson, a shady ice cream truck driver who did a infamous Rainman-type trick on the game show Press Your Luck back in the day ––Google it, great story. The city also gave birth to the country’s latest hipster sensations The Buffalo Killers, who, after six years and four albums are approaching the peak of their powers. They’re touring behind their latest album Dig. Sow. Love. Grow., which Indy can sample tomorrow at Radio Radio. I recently spoke with Andrew Gabbard, guitarist and co-vocalist for band as he was preparing to leave for the tour. Andrew and his big brother Zach –– Buffalo Killer bassist, vocalist –– grew up in Lebanon soaking up the music on their father’s collection; ‘70s fare like Neil Young and especially The Grateful Dead. It wasn’t long before the brothers had the bug. “Once I started really pursuing music, Cincinnati was the place to go and see live local groups and touring acts. I’ve learned so much from watching the local bands of my time,” says Andrew. “I kind of missed out

on the Sudsy’s experience. But I’ve spent many a night at The Comet and when I was younger, The Void.” From these forays, Thee Shams was born. They quickly made a name for themselves, recording a pair of fine albums for Fat Possum Records and touring with The Black Keys. Dropping the keyboard, played by Joseph Sebaali, who switched to drums, the brothers formed The Buffalo Killers. In short order, they began attracting attention with their new sound, which was much heavier and more organic than Thee Shams’ garage racket. “We didn’t really decide what we were gonna sound like,” says Andrew. “We don’t care about genres. We have a lot of influences and I guess it shows. We just write songs, show up and knock them out. We like to rock. Song by song.” He pauses and laughs. “Song and groove assistance.” The band’s second album, entitled Let It Ride was produced by The Black Key’s Dan Auerbach and Got the attention of the Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson, who soon had the band opening for The Crowes. “Dan taught me how to dance and Chris taught me how to roll a joint properly,” Andrew chuckles. The band decided to take their time with 3, their third album. “We wanted to try and take our time with a record and see how it came out.” Andrew tells me. “Some of the best songs I’ve ever written are on that album. It was our baby.” He pauses a beat. “Now, Dig.Sow.Love Grow. is our baby.”

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And what a nice fat baby it is. The opening “Get It” is the heaviest track the band has recorded yet –– a Sabbath groove with just the right touch of Mississippi grit. The album moves through one sound after another like the After the Flood-American Beauty dynamic of “Blood on Your Hands” to the Early Plastic Ono Band yowl of “Those Days” and “Graffiti Eggplant.” “Things are easier,” Andrew says of the recording process. “We’ve really learned a lot about each other and what we can do. Less thought goes into things. We’re just the band who supports the song.” Fans can expect plenty of new material, too. “Me and Zach are writing songs constantly and we’re just trying to stay on schedule and at least put a record out every year,” he says.

“We’ve always got the songs. There’s generally no theme with our albums; it’s just songs about our lives and what’s going on in our little bubble. We’re very fortunate to be able to put out records. We’re just trying to keep it up.” So, what can we expect tomorrow at Radio Radio? Gabbard is quick with an answer. “When we play live, we drink a few beers, smoke a joint, get loose, have fun, connect with each other, connect with our audience. We give 100 percent always. And we are always sad when it’s over.”

BUFFALO KILLERS, HOLLIS BROWN Radio Radio, 1119 Prospect St. Thursday, Nov. 15 9 p.m., $10, 21+

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Kyle Long’s music, which features off-the-radar rhythms from around the world, has brought an international flavor to the local dance music scene.

Espanglish Night Eduardo Luna is the host of Espanglish Night, a monthly Monday night party featuring a dizzyingly eclectic rotation of live music. As the name suggests, Espanglish Night specializes in mixing Spanish and English language artists. A typical bill may feature a Hoosier-bred rapper or ska band, followed up by a Mexican metal group or Dominican hardcore punk outfit. If you’ve been to Espanglish Night you may know Eduardo by his boisterous alter ego, El Camarón Electrónico (the electronic shrimp). Clad in a Mexican soccer jersey and a luchador mask from Mexico’s professional wrestling leagues, El Camarón presides over the night’s events introducing bands and occasionally initiating an impromptu game of lotería –– a Mexican variation on bingo. Eduardo is an exceedingly thoughtful person and he asked I acknowledge his Espanglish Night partners Nicolasito, La Piedra Mediterranea and Jimmy Tavares. NUVO: Can you tell me about the concept behind Espanglish Night?

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Spain and South America like Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Jaguares, La Ley and Molotov. I would also recommend a couple hip-hop artists from Spain, like Violadores del Verso and Nash Scratch. NUVO: What’s your background in music? LUNA: Really I’m just a music aficionado. I tried to play bass when I was younger and I was in a basement metal band. We were trying to be one of the first rock en español metal bands in Indianapolis. That was about 11 years ago. NUVO: Your alter ego El Camarón Electrónico hosts Espanglish Night. What inspired you to create that character? LUNA: As a kid growing up in Mexico, I used to watch lucha libre, Mexico’s professional wrestling. The wrestlers would get very involved with the audience and the crowd would respond enthusiastically. Sometimes it would get to a point that they were in each other’s faces. So El Camarón Electrónico exists to provide an interaction between Espanglish Night and the crowd. The mask is part of Mexican culture and when I put it on I become someone else. But really, it’s just for fun.

EDUARDO LUNA: It’s about being open to multiculturalism in Indianapolis. It’s about bringing Latino people into English-speaking bars. It’s about introducing the English-speaking crowd to Hispanic culture. I grew up in Acapulco, Mexico. There was a radio station there that really influenced me, 97.7 FM. I still remember it. They used to play a mix of both English and Spanish language music. More recently –– Eduardo Luna NUVO: Espanglish regional styles of Night is still in its infanMexican music like cy; ultimately, where do corrido and banda you hope to take it? have dominated the radio. The radio stations aren’t playing the reggae and rock LUNA: One of our main goals is to grow en español that many people want to large enough that we could bring a band hear. So Espanglish Night is a place where like Molotov from Mexico City to perform we can feature those styles. in Indianapolis. But for now we want to It provides an opportunity to show peoprovide a platform for new bands in the ple who grew up in the United States that Midwest to showcase their music to a bilinwhat they hear on Latino radio is not the gual audience. Beyond music, we want only thing that we listen to. When people Espanglish Night to create community come, it really opens their eyes. It’s not between cultures. If you go to the show, what they have learned to expect of Latino you’ll meet new people, talk about new music from radio and television. It shows things and get acquainted with their way of them another side of our culture. We listen living. The goal is for Espanglish Night to to the same types of music like rock and create that bridge. hip-hop, only the language is different.

“It’s about being open to multiculturalism in Indianapolis.”

NUVO: What bands would you recommend to NUVO readers to give them a taste of the alternative Spanish language sounds you’re referring to?

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LUNA: Of course there’s Manu Chao and Café Tacuba, which many people know. But there are lots of awesome rock bands from Mexico,

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MUSIC Breaking up with Future Islands

Baltimore-based synthpop at Russian Recording BY KATHERIN E COPLEN KCO P L EN @ N UVO.NET Synthpop trio Future Islands have released three almost perfect albums in fairly short order: Wave Like Home (2008), In Evening Air (2010) and On the Water (2011). But their musical history is much longer, deeper and weirder than that. The former art students – Samuel T. Herring, William Cashion, Gerrit Welmers – met at East Carolina University and formed Art Lord & The Self-Portraits in 2003 with Adam Beeby, and Kymia Nawabi. After a few albums and a few tours, Nawabi and Beeby dropped off, the group moved to Baltimore, and Future Islands was born. Their adopted town of Baltimore and adopted collective Wham City helped the former Art Lords find their sound. Wham City a rollicking art and music collective including circus conductor/composer/producer Dan Deacon and 20ish other comedians, authors, musicians and innovaters overflowed out of Charm City with their oddball antics. Those antics were executed by sincerely talented performers, though. And Future Islands is perhaps the most sincerely talented group of the bunch. I spoke with bassist William Cashion, whose basslines careen in and out of tracks, grounding their soaring sound. NUVO: Are you still in the pattern of playing basement shows when you go back to Baltimore –– secret shows? Or is it just the official venue scheduled shows now? CASHION: We do some secret stuff. We’ll play like a warehouse space or an art gallery with an outdoor space. There’s a really great art gallery downtown called Current Gallery and they have an outdoor space that they set up in the summertime. We did a show there this past summer and we announced it the week of, as sort of a secret show. We love playing those kind of spaces, for sure. NUVO: So, I have to tell you, In Evening Air was a really good breakup album for me. What are some of your favorite breakup songs? CASHION: Uh, wow. That’s a tough question, like listing your favorite songs. There’s all kind of those old 1950s pop songs that are about breakups, I can’t think of any off the top of my head right now. Like “Teardrops on my Pillow” [by Sunny Gale]; it’s from like a compilation of forgotten songs of the fifties. That’s a really good one. That general style, I think, kind of captures that. Love has always been a theme for rock and pop music back in the day. NUVO: Tell me about the connection between the album art and your two

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recent full-lengths. CASHION: Kymia Nawabi did the art for our first two albums. She was in Art Lord originally. She played keyboards and tambourines. She was a senior when we were all freshman, [then] she graduated and went to grad school in Florida. … Once Future Islands had a proper album, we just approached her about it and sent her the music. The Wave Like Home album cover was painted while she was listening to the record and inspired by the music. For In Evening Air, the cover was a piece that she had finished before listening to the record and she sent it over thinking it might fit. We loved it a lot. And the artwork for On the Water was done by my girlfriend Alaina Johnson. I’m actually in her van right now, we’re driving around Baltimore right now. NUVO: What is your intended destination? CASHION: We’re dropping a friend off at the airport right now. NUVO: Ah, going to the airport is terrible, I think. CASHION: It’s not too bad. NUVO: So you’ve been on a pretty extended tour for a bit now; what have been some of your most memorable shows on this tour? CASHION: The West Coast is always really great; we just got back from a West Coast tour. We played Honolulu about a month ago and that was actually a really amazing. A couple hundred people came out; we were shocked that people out there knew who we were. Some

MUSIC of those people like knew the words and I think other people were just curious to check it out. It was a really good turn out. We spent a whole week there and got a beach house and stayed for a week. That was the last show before our month off. NUVO: I heard Honolulu has a pretty interesting punk scene, actually. CASHION: Yeah, there’s a really cool band called Tank Mist [there]. They’re pretty sweet guys. NUVO: What is the future of synthpop? There’s been a 21st century revival: where do you think it’s going and where would you like to see it go? Is Future Islands going with it? CASHION: I feel like our music is becoming more and more organic. We’re moving away from the synthpop vibe but were still using some of the same instrumentation. … That was definitely the vibe we were feeling early on, when we were first making music. A lot of people just have keyboards laying around these days. It’s easy to get a keyboard with some beats on it and figure out some chords and just do it. I think it’s a lot easier to make that kind of music now than it was with sequenced drum machines and all that fancy stuff in the early ‘80s. It’s always been a mainstream thing and I think the mainstream will continue to use elements of synthpop in the future. NUVO: What do you remember from times you’ve played in Bloomington before? CASHION: We played at The Bishop back when In Evening Air came out. We played as Art Lord and Self-Portraits with Dan Deacon in a park in 2005. We were supposed to play in this DIY punk basement but the cops

shut the venue down the night before so we showed up and they had decided to move it to this park in the city. We plugged in our stuff under this picnic pavilion. It was kind of funny because I would be standing in the grass getting shocked while playing my bass, because the grass was wet. NUVO: I read [in another interview] that you were listening to a lot of Fleetwood Mac on this tour. CASHION: Yeah, I’ve been listening to them a lot on this break. Me and Sam both kind of frequent the record stores here. When we’re on tour, we try to check everything out. I’m addicted to buying records. I’ve been listening to a lot of Robin Guthrie, from the Cocteau Twins. I always listen to a lot of the Flaming Lips in the fall. I think this fits this time of year. NUVO: Have you been to a Flaming Lips show? They get weird –– really, really weird. CASHION: Yeah, I saw them for the headphone concert for the Soft Bulletin in like 1999. It was in a pretty small intimate venue; the capacity was like 400. It was really great, getting covered in confetti and stuff. NUVO: Did [Wayne Coyne] roll on top of you in the hamster ball? CASHION: It was a little bit before the ball. They had just started doing the whole thing with confetti. I remember they had somebody with a bunny suit come out during “She Don’t Use Jelly” and dance among the crowd.

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High Five: DJ rudee

DJ rudee a.k.a. Josh Gallahan is a Toronto-based DJ and producer currently touring with German producer ATB. They’ve been together quite a while –– rudee and ATB have been together for five ATB albums. We had rudee pick his five top albums of the moment before their show together at the Vogue on Thursday. Log on to NUVO.net for an interview with ATB and check Soundcheck for the show listing.

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4. Motorcycle, As the Rush Comes (EP)

“What a great tune! A fantastic combination of a great song with awesome vocals by JES. A timeless tune which has a fixed space at my iPod.”

5. Sven Väth, The Harlequin, The Robot and the Ballet Dancer “This LP by the German legend Sven Väth used to be on repeat on my playlist for a long time back in the ‘90s. Experimental tracks created a journey through great sounds. I still love to listen to it nowadays.”

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8:00 p.m. Blue Collar Bluegrass 8:20 p.m. KRS + 1 8:40 p.m. CW and the Working Class Trio 9:00 p.m. Vess Von Ruhtenberg 9:20 p.m. The Haters 9:40 p.m. Brian Deer & The Achievers 10:00 p.m. Yoko Moment 10:20 p.m. Phyllis 10:40 p.m. Red Light Driver 11:00 p.m. Everything, Now! 11:20 p.m. Cocaine Wolves 11:40 p.m. Pravada 12:00 am Red Rash 12:20 am Coolidge 12:40 am Odyssey Favor 1:00 am Deezen 1:20 am The Founders

7:40 p.m. South Six Five 8:00 p.m. Vertigo, Joe Welch 8:20 p.m. ROOMS 8:40 p.m. Sudo 9:00 p.m. Everest 9:20 p.m. Kaliedostars 9:40 p.m. The Common 10:00 p.m. Mars or the Moon 10:20 p.m. We’re Not Squibnocket 10:40 p.m. Gabriel Harley Band 11:00 p.m. Circle City Steel 11:20 p.m. Byrdhouse 11:40 p.m. Buster Eagle

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8:00 p.m. Bat Tattoo 8:20 p.m. Crackhead Patty 8:40 p.m. Motorboat Mary, Dave Harrison 9:00 p.m. Freddie T. & The People 9:20 p.m. Mina & the Wondrous Flying Machine 9:40 p.m. Ty Causey Band 10:00 p.m. Scott Kline and the Illusion of Control 10:20 p.m. Goliathon 10:40 p.m. Tad Armstrong 11:00 p.m. Bill Mallers 11:20 p.m. Matt Mays & Count Baldie 11:40 p.m. Household Guns 12:00 a.m. EchoMaker 12:20 a.m. Chad Mills & the Upright Willies 12:40 a.m. Randy King & the New Positions 1:00 a.m. Pink Boyd 1:20 a.m. Old Truck Revival

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Colorado-based electronic music artist Derek Vincent Smith, a.k.a. Pretty Lights returns to the Egyptian Room accompanied by a cast of characters including Eliot Lipp, Paul Basic and Indy locals Cosby Sweater. Pretty Lights has become somewhat of a festival staple in recent years with appearances at Coachella, Rothbury, Wakarusa, Bonnaroo and a headlining spot at GlowFest in Bloomington a few years ago. With his unique blend of glitchy urban sounds, pounding hip-hop beats and vintage soul samples, Pretty Lights is set to dazzle. Equally omnivorous in his musical stylings is Brooklyn-based DJ Eliot Lipp who, over the past eight years, has cultivated a well-earned reputation as an underground electronic music pioneer. Lipp recently signed with Pretty Lights Music and released Shark Wolf Rabbit Snake, a sort of left-field sonic smorgasbord whose track “Wonderland” premiered on Jay-Z’s blog Life and Times.” — SEAN ARMIE

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Radio Radio, 1119 Prospect St. 9 p.m., $15, 21+

Give up your Wednesday, ladies and gentlemen. The “Greatest Rock and Roll Band In The World” is coming. After a brief hiatus and the exit of longtime manager Chris Neal and guitarist Ron Heathman, Supersuckers is back on tour with Thin Lizzy. They’ll stop in Indy tonight at Radio Radio.

Thursday ROCK BUFFALO KILLERS, HOLLIS BROWN Radio Radio, 1119 Prospect St. 9 p.m., $10, 21+ See our interview on page 28.

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ATB says, “Every two years, I use my bus tour as a kickoff to the production process of my next album. It’s great to be on the road for three weeks and collect so many impressions that I can transform into new musical ideas. I sit in the bus, having just played a fantastic gig with lots of great feedback from the audience dancing in front of me all night, and I drive through this awesome landscape and just assemble all these feelings into the first ideas for an album. Many of the tracks on my albums were born during the US bus tour.” Check out accompanying DJ rupee’s High Five on page 31 and read the rest of the interview with German producer ATB online at NUVO.net.

OTHER THURSDAY PICKS

Kamikabe, Rivers of Nihil, Summon the Destroyer at Hoosier Dome Girls Rock Benefit with Oreo Jones at Indy CD & Vinyl Dell Zell, To Light a Fire, Caelume at Melody Inn

SOUNDCHECK player for The Carolina Chocolate Drops dropped us a line in early spring about their new album, Leaving Eden: “I think we felt a bit more freedom on this one [album] because we were kind of cut loose from the past a bit because we didn’t have a history with this new lineup,” Giddens said. “So, it was like kind of freeing in a way. We could kind of take this album where we wanted and we didn’t really have a thought for the album, like we want to make this a this kind of record. We were just like, let’s see where it leads us. That was kind of freeing in terms of we weren’t really framed by the stuff we had done for the last six years.” COUNTRY JAMEY JOHNSON

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‘COVER PARTY TONIC BALL Fountain Square 8 p.m., $25, 21+

The idea is this: forty-ish Indy bands cover three superbands (this year, U2, Stevie Wonder, The Kinks). You exchange money to see these bands. All the money goes right into the hands of the good people at Second Helpings, who put it to work feeding hungry Hoosiers. Sound like a good deal? For more information, turn to page 27.

OTHER FRIDAY PICKS

Citizen Cope at Egyptian Room at Old National Centre Unchain the Wretched, Earthworm Jim, Peach Pop at Hoosier Dome Living Proof at Moon Dog Tavern Here Come the Mummies at the Vogue (sold out)

Saturday

COUNTRY CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave. 7 p.m., $18 advance, $20 door, 21+

Talented songwriter Jamey Johnson pens country ballads not just for himself, but for the likes of George Strait, James Otto and Trace Adkins. He’s currently touring on Living for a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran, an album stuffed full of duets with country music’s favorite ladies (Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris) and gentlemen (Vince Gill, Merle Haggard). POP FUTURE ISLANDS

Russian Recording, 1021 S. Walnut St. (Bloomington) 8 p.m., $12, all-ages

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OTHER SATURDAY PICKS

Modern Strangers, Goat at the Rock House Cafe The Elect, Peter Novelli at the Slippery Noodle Zoso Led Zepplin Tribute at Katie Herzig, Erin McCarley at the Rathskeller

Sunday OTHER SUNDAY PICKS

Karaoke at the Monkey’s Tale with Dougie Rocks Standup at the Sinking Ship Old Skool Sundays at Subterra Echomaker, Shiny Old Soul at the Melody Inn

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a sweetheart salary twice what he made as police chief of much larger Glendale), and his resignation left him with a generous state pension of $240,000 a year. Rather than quietly accept the payout, Adams immediately appealed to a state pension panel, claiming that his one inexplicably rich year in Bell had actually upped his pension to $510,000 a year. In September, with a straight face, Adams pleaded his case to the panel, but 20 times during the questioning invoked his right not to incriminate himself.

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