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NOV. 23 - NOV. 30, 2011 VOL. 22 ISSUE 45 ISSUE #1031

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MAXWELL ANDERSON: THE EXIT INTERVIEW

Anderson reflects on his five-year tenure as IMA director and CEO, discussing 100 Acres, contemporary art, design, free admission, paid parking, arts in Indianapolis — and the IMA’s role in both local and international spheres. BY DAVID HOPPE COVER IMAGE COURTESY OF IMA

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UNIONS WELCOME LAWMAKERS BACK TO CAPITOL Hundreds of union workers crowded the Statehouse hallways Tuesday waving signs and chanting as members of the Indiana House and Senate organized for their 2012 session. BY LESLEY WEIDENBENER

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THE CATS OF MIRKITANI

Linda Hattendorf talks about her documentary, The Cats of Mirkitani, which chronicles her relationship with JapaneseAmerican artist Jimmy Mirikitani, whose life has been a triumph over the injustices of the 20th century. BY SCOTT SHOGER

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LATE HARVEST: VIBRANT, BUT A LITTLE GREEN

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The dishes on offer at Late Harvest, a stylish new Northside restaurant, certainly display no shortage of vibrant, multi-faceted flavors and textures. The braised pork cheeks and brandade are superb; a fish dish indicated where there’s room for growth. BY NEIL CHARLES

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INTERNATIONAL MUSIC SHOPPING GUIDE

As an avid music collector, I’m constantly on the hunt for new sounds and Indy’s west side provides a seemingly endless variety of options. BY KYLE LONG

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In our Nov. 9 review of the Eiteljorg exhibition We Are Here: Native Expression in the 21st Century, we mischaracterized the work of two 2011 Eiteljorg Fellows. The corrected sentence from the review should read as such: “Other Fellows include Anna Tsouhlarakis (Navajo/Creek/ Greek), whose photographic narratives suggest loss and disconnection, and Skawennati (Mohawk), who creates virtual reality ‘games’ and images tense with conflict and the dark promise of a violent clash.”

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HAMMER 25 years of Hammer hate mail

A trip through the vaults

BY STEVE HAMMER SHAMMER@NUVO.NET

ne of the consequences of having written for publications for 25 years is that I have a 25-year-old pile of hate mail dating back to my college days at IU, when I was apparently disrespectful to President Reagan in a column in the Indiana Daily Student. Along with other forms of expression, hate mail has been transformed by the Internet. It’s one thing to talk smack in an email or forum message. It’s quite another to take pen to paper, write a letter about how much I suck, put it in an envelope, attach postage and send it through the U.S. Postal Service. I admire the determination shown by such an act. Hitting “reply” on a news website and spewing venomous words is one thing, but the overt acts of writing a letter and mailing it show true dedication to the task of expressing displeasure at me. I’ve always been honored and humbled by it. While I, myself, have grown older and grayer, my hate mail stays the same as it was in the 1990s. It never changes: I suck as a writer and as a human being and my opinions are stupid. Reviewing a stack of several dozen pieces of hate mail sent to me in the 1990s the other day brought back some memories. This letter I got in response to my first website in 1994 is still one of my favorites: “Think of me as a person who wandered by the “snake boy” freak show just to creep myself out. It worked. I sincerely hope that I don’t wind up like you, the ignorant king of a steaming compost pile of tired prose. Your works in progress or any random article from your give-away rag have cultural value roughly equivalent to a wedgie. NUVO and your contributions therein have impressed me with a new record — most consistent parallels drawn between mildly annoying people/events and Nazis/the holocaust. While you must be quite proud of your clever style, your broken record experiences-of-the-week have yet to register on any scale of significance.” For weeks afterward I prided myself for being “the ignorant king of a steaming compost pile of tired prose.” I like the term and I’m still proud of it. It’s MY steaming compost pile and I am the king of it.

There’s also the direct approach, as seen by this 1996 email: “I stumbled across your page and read a bunch of your columns. “You’re just a terrible writer. Obviously, you have the freedom to embarrass yourself, and you seem to enjoy doing so on a weekly basis. “Please stop, for your own sake; it’s awful. There must be something you can do better than this. It would be hard to do any worse.” Personal attacks work as well when nothing else does, as this one did in 1998: “This is the single stupidest web page I have ever seen. You need to spend a little more time on maybe finding women that you can see without kneeling or have to look through prison bars to see. What you really need to work on is your prose style. Work on that and spend a little less time on your inane, cutesy topics. I really can’t work up enough venom to really let loose on you, since you are really so inconsequential. “Fuck you, Hammer, find another hobby aside from writing your lame columns and even worse HTML. Stay off the net and leave it to someone with something to say.” How quaint it seems to urge someone to stay off the Internet; what a ’90s thing to do. Here’s another ’90s classic hate mail sent to me, with a bonus non sequitur at the end: “You pompous, corduroy-wearing, middle-income-earning, time-wasting turd! Who do you think you are? You are showing to everyone that, YES, you are a simple moron. … I could sell my wristwatch and most probably buy your house with the proceeds — and I drink Blue Ribbon beer.” Short but sweet also works, as in this email from August, 1997: “alot of what your saying is true but you have a lot of hate in you too try to get over it and live happy.” I wish I’d heeded that person’s advice more throughout my life. The problem one has as a recipient of hate mail regularly for 20 years is that you never quite know when they’re right. Valid, verbose criticism of a column is one thing, but how does one respond to an email that says you suck? The same way I always do, I suppose. I thank them for expressing their views and for reading my words. I was thankful for my detractors then and I’m thankful for them now because they give me energy to continue to maintain my steaming compost pile of tired prose. Thanks for reading.

“While I, myself, have grown older and grayer, my hate mail stays the same … “

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HOPPE Occupy the Super Bowl

The movement’s future could be here

BY DAVID HOPPE DHOPPE@NUVO.NET

friend dropped a brilliant idea on me the other day, the kind of idea that, once it wiggles into your brain, has the ability to sprout and bloom like a Chia Pet: Occupy the Super Bowl. Occupy the Super Bowl … Has a ring to it, does it not? As I write this column, the media is abuzz with speculation about the rise and fall of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Police raids on Occupy encampments, from Manhattan’s Zucotti Park, to the University of California campus in Berkeley, have prompted mainstream speculation that now, finally, the crowds of disaffected Americans will begin to disperse and we can begin to discuss the movement’s meaning in the past tense. “Occupy shifted the debate,” proclaimed a headline in last week’s Indianapolis Star. The Associated Press story that followed observed that the Occupy protesters “have yet to turn the conversation into major action,” and that “few politicians or policymakers have publicly taken up the protesters’ cause.” Where, wondered reporters Meghan Barr and David Caruso, does the movement go from here? It would be nice to be able to consign the Occupy movement to the recycling bin of history. This would enable scholars and pundits to give it a poke and put it on the shelf alongside other harmless artifacts, like hula hoops and granny glasses. The Occupy movement has caught our reputedly “liberal” media betwixt and between. On the one hand, right-wingers complain that by even covering the Occupiers, the media tips its hand, giving a disproportionate amount of coverage to a motley crew of folks who haven’t so much as bothered to elect a fearless leader. But even more revealing has been the media’s difficulty, amounting to a kind of learning disability, in coming to grips with the movement’s larger meaning, that is, a fundamental rejection of the what’s become of American capitalism. As Jeffrey D. Sachs, the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, recently observed in an op-ed piece in the Sunday New York Times, America has been so obsessed with anti-communism, and for such a long time, we all but forgot about how to critique capitalism. After World War II, there was the Iron Curtain. Then the Red Scare. The world

settled into a protracted Cold War, drawing up sides that defined communism as a totalitarian menace, while capitalism stood for all that was free. Capitalism, in other words, equaled democracy, and communism tyranny. Lost in this bipolar shuffle was not only the ability to distinguish the many shadings living between these two extremes, but an effective working vocabulary for discussing the inevitable relationship between economics and social justice. Well, the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. A generation has come of age since the end of the Cold War. While there is multi-generational diversity among the Occupiers, the vanguard of the group seems comprised of younger adults who are ready to find new ways to think about money and power in America. If, at times, they seem less than glib, perhaps it’s because they, like so many of the rest of us, are still looking for the right words to describe what’s wrong. At least they can see what’s happening. Maybe they’ve smiled and showed up for those unpaid internships, only to wind up waiting tables. Maybe they’re carrying student loans they don’t know how to pay. Maybe they have no health insurance. Maybe they feel lucky to have a job, but can’t make enough to rent an apartment, or get married, or have kids. And maybe they see no end to any of this because, in Washington and the Indiana Statehouse, they hear politicians saying that the problem is that workers make too much money; that workers’ rights keep us from competing with India and China; that Social Security and Medicare need cutting. To their credit, the Occupiers have stopped smiling. They’ve dumped the Successories and those back issues of Fast Company magazine that told them how cool it would be to be their own brands. They see that when most of us swim with sharks, we’re lunch. Which brings me back to that Occupy the Super Bowl idea. A lot of people in the media have suggested that, once the weather turned cold, the Occupy movement would go away. It would certainly be stressed. But a change in the weather might also prompt a change in tactics. Perhaps now it’s time to pick targets, to show up at those events where the 1 percent likes to party. No single corporate event fills this bill like the Super Bowl. It’s a corporate orgy, where the elite meet to indulge themselves in a self-congratulatory, gladiatorial spree. The city will be in hyperdrive, obsessed with keeping reality at bay, and doing its best to make the NFL’s corporate wingmen happy. Being in the slush and bitter wind of an Indianapolis winter won’t be easy. But it could also make this year’s game the Valley Forge of the Occupy movement. Where does that movement go from here? To the Super Bowl!

This year’s game could be the Valley Forge of the Occupy movement.

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Penn State pederast chance for TV news to scare the shit out of us NBA battle between one-percenters will now be waged in court Wisconsin, having second thoughts, instigates a statewide recall vote Michigan to raise taxes on the poor; that’ll sure teach ’em a lesson! Occupy surge squashed by cops paid by taxes from 99 percent Americans, ill from GOP talking points, want health law repealed Perry would work to eliminate departments whose names he forgets GOP should be allowed to elect a dead pres; the live ones suck! amphibians face the triple threat of people, people and people with Michael Jackson trial done let’s obsess o’er Natalie Wood’s death

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FOUL PLAY

The Penn State pedophilia debacle is, sadly, mirrored far and wide, including here in the Hoosier State where the parents of an athlete on a local swim team are suing the Metropolitan School District of Lawrence Township, USA Swimming and Indiana Swimming. They allege that officials failed to heed warnings of sexually inappropriate conduct on a coach’s part before he molested their daughter. The girl, her attorney asserted, is now “being treated for severe physical and mental conditions, and has turned to self-harming behaviors to cope with her sexual abuse and anguish, including cutting and burning herself.” The coach is already in jail; now the trick is to eradicate the organizational deficiencies that allow such travesty to breed and fester.

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INDIANA PLAYERS DOMINATE WORLD CUP

Indiana’s strong soccer tradition is well established at Indiana University, the state’s high school leagues and even in amateur competition. Now, though, the state can claim World Cup victory! Thanks to a roster where five of the eight players are from Central Indiana, the Power Wheelchair Soccer Team USA took out England 3-0 in the World Cup championship game on Nov. 6 in Paris. Ten nations competed in the Cup. The tournament marked the second Power Soccer World Cup. The U.S. has emerged victorious at both cups. Cheers to future success and the hope that many more players and fans discover how fun and empowering soccer can be!

SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26TH

LEGACY OF VIOLENCE

The perennial problem of domestic violence continues to plague our community. At least 47 men, women and children died from July 1, 2009-June 30, 2011, according to the 2010 State of Domestic Abuse in Central Indiana Report released last week. The Marion County Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team and Domestic Violence Network found “that data integrity continues to be an issue resulting in difficulty with identifying community gaps and needs.” Advocates expressed hope that a partnership with Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, Marion County Prosecutor’s Office and the Julian Center on a federal grant to create a database to foster greater data gathering and sharing will improve training, analysis of locations with multiple calls and enforcement through successful prosecution and protective order enforcement. As demands for services increase for people trying to escape domestic violence, so do the funding challenges for service providers. In this year’s report summary, 38 percent of service providers reported funding shortages in ‘10 up from 29 percent in 2009.

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news Mass transit lobby seeks higher power Churches cultivated for help with mass transit lobby

BY RO BE RT A N N IS E D I T O RS @N U V O . N E T

ackers of a proposed $2.5 billion mass transit plan are looking for help from on high — or at least local churches — as they mobilize ahead of the 2012 General Assembly. State lawmakers are likely to consider allowing a mass transit referendum that would go before the voters as early as November 2012; citizens would decide if a tax increase would be implemented to pay for the 25-year project, which would utilize light rail and buses.

Congress continues attack on coal ash regulation BY JILL MCCARTY EDITORS@NUVO.NET A U.S. Senate effort is underway to block more restrictive federal regulation of coal combustion — and its ash-pond byproducts, including three high-risk ponds around Indianapolis. The legislation comes on the heels of a retaining bluff collapse in Oak Creek, Wis., which sent coal ash spilling into Lake Michigan, a source that provides drinking water to more than 40 million people. The “Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act,” or Senate Bill 1751, sponsored by Sen. John Hoeven, R-ND, would block legislation from changing the current policy on federally regulated coal byproducts. The U.S. House passed an identical bill last month. Currently, coal combustion is regulated by state policy and inspection. In 2008, a coal ash spill that covered 300 acres of neighboring communities in Kingston, Tenn., cost the Tennessee Valley Authority $1.2 billion in clean-up. The disaster prompted President Barack Obama to propose rules for the

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Newly reelected Mayor Greg Ballard has already identified mass transit as his No. 1 priority heading into his second term. Kim Irwin of Indiana Citizens’ Alliance for Transit and Ehren Bingaman, executive director of Central Indiana Regional Transportation Authority, laid out their goals for the upcoming legislative session during a meeting Nov. 15 with a small group of Indianapolis Green Congregations members. Bingaman asked the congregations to pass resolutions supporting the referendum, as well as take a more active role. “We’re trying to build an action network,” Bingaman said. “As it makes its way through the legislative process, we need people manning the phone and sending letters to committee members.” Both proponents framed mass transit mainly as a social justice issue, touching briefly on environmental and quality of life arguments. “There’s a real sense of urgency here,” Bingaman said. “People need to get to work, seniors need to get to their doctor. More transportation options are a lifeline for the people you’re trying to reach and support.” Out of the 50 groups that have already pledged support for the referendum, only 678 coal ash ponds that could possibly contaminate drinking water supplies. In the U.S., about 131 million tons of coal ash are produced by coal-fired power plants. Since coal contains levels of arsenic, chromium and mercury — among other things — it cannot be dumped or stored where rainwater can leach the metals and move them to aquifers. In most cases, when large quantities of coal ash are stored, it’s stored wet to prevent dust. The result are coal ash ponds, which are susceptible to breaching and leaking into other water supplies. Supporters of the bill say that it would keep jobs in the states and would save the U.S. between $1.7 billion and $5 billion per year over 20 years, according to research by the Edison Electric Institute in Washington. “This bipartisan legislation empowers states, and just as importantly, it helps to preserve and create jobs that our nation so badly needs,” Hoeven said in a press release last month about the bill. If the bill were to not pass in the Senate, supporters say that it would cost the coal industry more than $110 billion over two decades. In Indiana, Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.), has adamantly opposed the bill. “The EPA’s narrow ideological agenda is negatively impacting Hoosier families and businesses,” he said. “More harmful federal rules will not create jobs, bring down energy prices or encourage American energy production.” In Indiana, the coal industry provides 3,083 jobs. “Hoosier employees are asking Washington to loosen the grasp of gov-

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hood residents lacking reliable transportaone, Hoosier Interfaith Power and Light, tion, he didn’t believe Englewood would is a faith-based group. Although most pass a support resolution, calling it a job of the church representatives attending left to other neighborhood groups. the Nov. 15 meeting said they supported Although they left the meeting with no the plan, few, if any, pledged their entire firm commitments from any of the church congregation’s support. representatives, Irwin wasn’t discouraged. Joe Bowling of Englewood Christian “A lot of groups are hesitant to take that Church knows of the need for greater transadvocacy step,” portation options Irwin said, addfirsthand; his ing they would church particitake their case pated in efforts to to the individual enable the Near churches’ “deciEastside Orbiter sion makers.” bus service, Church supwhich supported port is one efforts to conpart of transit nect neighboradvocates’ hood residents plan to build a to employment diverse coaliopportunities - Ehren Bingaman, executive director, Central tion of backers. in other regions Indiana Regional Transportation Authority Bingaman also of the city. Due plans to ask the to lack of riderIndiana Sheriffs’ ship the program Association and other law enforcement ended in December 2010, according to Lovi groups to back a potential referendum, King, who coordinated the orbiter for the claiming mass transit will allow residents John H. Boner Community Center. to work rather than turn to crime. Despite up to 20 percent of neighbor-

“More transportation options are a lifeline for the people you’re trying to reach and support.”

ernment regulation,” Coats said. Those opposed to the bill say that without coal combustion regulation, there is a severe risk of harmful pollutants of reaching drinking water supplies. “Coal ash ponds are threatening hundreds of communities and their drinking water supplies,” activist group Earthjustice attorney Lisa Evans said. “The current approach in Congress is to ignore the problem and hope it goes away.” The EPA recently completed a survey of the water sources that run the risk of having a disaster like those in Wisconsin and Tennessee. According to their findings, three Indianapolis-area power stations are at highrisk for an incident similar to Oak Creek. Eagle Valley Generating Station had one high-hazard pond, while Harding Street Power Station had two high-hazard ponds, according to a study by the EPA. “For every day this House has been in session, there has been a vote to curtail EPA protections. That is absolutely unconscionable,” Evans said. “Too many Americans live near toxic coal ash dumps and unless federal action is taken soon, another TVA disaster is just waiting to happen. “We shouldn’t have to wait for more destruction or loss of life to act.” Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., has not yet made a public comment regarding the bill. At this time, representatives from EPA’s Region 5, the region where Indiana falls, declined to comment on the matter. “It’s not appropriate to comment on pending legislation at this time,” an EPA representative said. PHOTO COURTESY OF IPL It is likely that the Senate will vote on The EPA and IPL are working together to address the the bill by the end of this month. agency’s structural concerns about the the coal ash ponds at

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Unions welcome lawmakers back to Capitol

Legislative Organization Day highlights familiar themes BY L E S L E Y W E I D E N B E N E R E DI T O RS @N U V O . N E T Hundreds of union workers crowded the Statehouse hallways Tuesday waving signs and chanting as members of the Indiana House and Senate organized for their 2012 session. The demonstration came one day after Republican leaders announced that passing a right-to-work law will be their top priority, one they said is necessary to boost Indiana’s job-creation efforts. House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, said companies are currently bypassing Indiana for states that free workers from paying fees to unions they don’t join. But workers said otherwise. Mitch Anton, a steel worker from northwest Indiana, said he came to the Statehouse to tell lawmakers why right-to-work will hurt the state. “It will weaken unions,” Anton said Tuesday. “And that will mean fewer protections for workers, lower wages for workers and less safety. It’s not good for Indiana.” Both sides of the contentious debate have produced studies supporting their views. But Republicans have the upper hand in the General Assembly, where they hold significant majorities in the House and Senate. Republicans have a 60-40 majority in the House and a 37-13 majority in the Senate. The Senate margin is so wide that Republicans can produce a quorum for business even if Democrats don’t show up. If Democrats in the House want to boycott business, as they did during the 2011 session, they face substantial obstacles. Most notably, the GOP earlier this year pushed through a new law that could lead to $1,000-per-day fines for lawmakers who try to deny the quorum necessary to conduct business. As he gaveled the House into session, Bosma urged lawmakers to have the courage to move forward with a controversial idea. “Do you want to be brave or safe?” Bosma asked. “It would be very easy for us to have a very safe session. But for me, I think it has to be brave.” During the 2011 session, majority House Republicans moved a rightto-work bill out of committee. But Democrats boycotted the session — even fleeing to Illinois — for more than one month in an attempt to block its passage. Eventually, the GOP gave up on the bill and sent the topic to a study committee for action. That group has recommended the General Assembly take up the issue in January. Then on Monday, Bosma and

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Union workers gathered outside the Indiana House chamber Tuesday where lawmakers were gathered for an Organization Day to prep for their 2012 session. The union members object to right-to-work legislation that would allow workers to opt out of paying fees to unions they don’t join.

PHOTO BY LESLEY WEIDENBENER

House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, talked with reporters Tuesday after calling on lawmakers to be “brave” and have the courage to move forward with a right-to-work law.

Senate President Pro Tem David Long, R-Fort Wayne, said it would be a top priority for the session. Long said Monday that the goal of the rightto-work legislation is not to eliminate unions. “We’ll do everything we can to have a fair, open and honest discussion about that,” Long said. “In the end, a right-towork law in Indiana makes sense. I think it will create a lot of jobs — good-paying jobs — for this state and that’s why we’re doing it.” But the AFL-CIO — which early this year organized weeks of rallies and protests against the legislation — called the Republicans’ position “laughable.” The AFL-CIO organized Tuesday’s demonstrations at the Statehouse and workers are expected to continue with similar gatherings and rallies as the session begins in earnest in January. “It’s about money and power,” said Nancy Guyott, the AFL-CIO’s Indiana president. “Big corporations and their elected friends want to bust up unions, eliminating the last group of people standing in the way of unfettered corporate control,”

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Guyott said. “They want to drive down wages and increase profits. They want to eliminate the voice of working people in the political process.” House Minority leader Pat Bauer, D-South Bend, has promised to “respond appropriately” if Republicans continue to push the right-to-work legislation. But this week, he wouldn’t say just what that action might be. “I certainly do think the minority has the right to defend the people and the process from a majority that becomes tyrannical,” Bauer said. “We have to choose those means that will be most effective. But right now, I couldn’t say what that is without talking to people and discussing it further.” Bauer suggested that an Occupy Wall Street-type protest — which has led thousands of people across the nation to camp out in parks and other public locations, though few in Indianapolis — might be one option. So would forums and rallies across the state. Regardless, Bauer said, the public needs to be involved in some more expansive way if Democrats are to

be successful stopping the legislation. Rep. Kreg Battles, D-Vincennes, served on the summer study committee and said he’s still hopeful that the Republicans will change their minds about right-to-work. “I’ll always remain optimistic,” Battles said. “I hope we go with facts and if we go with good facts and not store-bought reports, we’ll find it really doesn’t create jobs and the jobs it creates will be lowwage jobs. I hope at the end of the day this is about policy and not politics.” The union lobby is gearing up for politics. AFL-CIO members are “preparing for any and all eventualities,” union spokesman Jeff Harris said last week as he prepared for the Organization Day action. “We don’t know how things will play out, but we are going to do what we did last year: Encourage our members to come to the Statehouse and talk to their legislators one on one. That seems to be the most effective strategy.” Lesley Stedman Weidenbener is editor at the Franklin College Statehouse News Bureau.

Maxwell Anderson

The exit interview

IMA’s outgoing CEO talks about what he did — and what’s still to come B Y DA VID H O P P E • DH O P P E@ N UVO .N ET

axwell Anderson’s announcement that he was leaving his post as The Melvin & Bren Simon Director and CEO of the Indianapolis Museum of Art for a job with the Dallas Museum of Art brought a transformative chapter in the history of Indianapolis’ chief arts institution to a close. Over a five-year period, Anderson presided over changes at the IMA that would make it one of America’s most respected encyclopedic museums. During Anderson’s tenure, the IMA established itself as significant venue for contemporary art, with the opening of 100 Acres, The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art and Nature Park. The museum also served as host for the United States Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale. Anderson oversaw the museum’s technological makeover, launching such projects as AMICO, documenting the collections and activi-

NUVO: When you first arrived at the IMA, you revoked a recently levied admission fee, making museum admission free of charge again. Can you revisit your thought process at that time? ANDERSON: I do think a lot about how a museum is a resource for its public. Having spent years looking at how museums operate financially, versus how they’re perceived to operate, I recognized that admission revenue is, for the most part outside of Manhattan, a virtually negligible sum. The exceptions are spikes around major, blockbuster shows that come and go. But, year-to-year, it isn’t that important — three-to-four percent of most museum budgets around the country. NUVO: It also seemed to be a statement about wanting the museum to be as publicly accessible as possible.

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ANDERSON: That was the overarching goal, but you couldn’t make it happen unless the other ingredients were in the stew because if it were a financially unwise decision it would have been hard to make. But it wasn’t. By having paid parking now we hope that two things happen: one, we drive membership so that people say, well, that’s an aggravation; but I’m going to finally join. It’s kind of like NPR and WFYI, where you say, OK, I’m gonna do this thing. Otherwise it’s still pretty painless. For a carload of four people, it’s a buck-25. So we’re trying to live within our means, but at the same time, be as open and available as possible.

ties of art museums, and ArtBabble, which posts videos from museums around the world. On Anderson’s watch, the IMA undertook a major design initiative and opened the Toby, a multi-purpose performance space. He championed policies and design fixes that made the museum building one of the greenest facilities of its kind in the United States, and succeeded in getting his fellow museum administrators to adopt 1970 as the cut-off date when considering the acquisition of archaeological material and ancient art. Anderson was outspoken in his opposition to censorship. He joined a lawsuit against every prosecutor in the State of Indiana to strike down a statute abridging freedom of expression. Anderson, who starts his new job in January, recently met with NUVO in his office at the IMA for an exit interview.

NUVO: You led the IMA through a technological awakening. Why is technology important for encyclopedic institutions? ANDERSON: I guess moving [to Indianapolis] was also moving to a place that wasn’t the center of anything other than Indiana. Hoosiers don’t arrogate to themselves the right to be central very much. That’s a mindset that doesn’t, in many respects, seem appropriate. Being a good place to live, being a place which is family-oriented, being a place which is convivial, is a high value set. So what I began to look for, when I arrived, were the ways this museum could distinguish itself nationally, internationally, as well as serving a local interest and need. Really making ourselves a place of convening seemed to me to be in the spirit of this region and in the spirit of our city. What’s distinctive about what we do with technology is that unlike, say, MOMA [the Museum of Modern Art] would go out and build a battleship and say, see what we did? Aren’t we great? We took an opposite tack. We said, what can we do with technology that will benefit our constituents and benefit the field? Then we’re doing something that matters nationally and internationally, we’re also improving the field of art museums and, not coincidentally, we’re giving something to our visitors, whether it’s the tap tour to experience exhibitions, whether it’s the Dashboard to learn more about how our museum operates, whether it’s the debut of online scholarly publishing that we’ve just announced with Chicago that is going to make reading scholarship from our collections easy and accessible.

They’ve all been free, open-source, given away, grant-supported. The other magic bean here was the change with federal grants, that we got very few of, to a lot of federal grants, millions of dollars of federal grants, with federally negotiated overhead rates, so when you get a big grant, part of the grant pays for salaries. It benefits the bottom line. Innovation was not, as some have painted it, a vanity project. It was financially responsible. Innovation brought lots of new support to offset core expenses of operations, particularly salary expenses. NUVO: You identified design as a major new dimension for the IMA. Yet, apart from a small gallery and a shop that misfired, it’s been hard to see what’s happened in this field since Craig Miller’s blockbuster show, European Design Since 1985. Has the design emphasis worked the way you wished it would? ANDERSON: You’re right about visibility. But, in point of fact, in 2013 the IMA will open the largest galleries of design arts in the western hemisphere, showing over 1,000 works that were acquired since the initiative began, with a comprehensive display of late 20th and early 21st century design unmatched in New York, San Francisco, Chicago. Craig Miller has been adroitly and assertively building a collection to the point where I think it will be not only the largest suite of galleries, but one of the most thoughtfully installed, accompanied by online educational tools. The largest suite of galleries on two floors in the museum will be devoted to the decorative and design

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arts on two floors in the Hulman pavilion. Eighteenth Century and 19th Century will be on the second floor. On the third floor will be late 20th Century and early 21st. It’s staggering. The move there has been far greater than I could have hoped for. It’s true it hasn’t been in the public eye, but that’s part of the drama that has yet to come. I think we’ll be able to tell the story of the 20th Century through design, picking up where we leave off with PontAven, the neo-impressionists, segueing into the moment in which modernism comes and flowers. I think it will be a pilgrimage site for people from around the world. NUVO: What does building design into the museum’s mission accomplish? ANDERSON: I think it does two things for this museum. One, it fills a gap in our capacity to tell the story of the Industrial Revolution’s legacy. We carry that narrative of modernism into post modernism. The second challenge is that when our contemporary art department does remarkable, leading edge projects with artists, there is an audience for that here. It’s a growing audience. I think the design arts will be for those folks who drive to Cincinnati to go to IKEA, who go to Target. Museums have always collected creativity. We don’t make distinctions between types of creativity here. The fact this office has some paintings in gold frames is a function of tradition but, as a classicist, I don’t make a distinction between paintings, sculpture, architecture, furniture. To me, they’re expressions of creativity and I think our museum is going to benefit from having that open door for people who are aren’t art lovers but can say, well, they do have this incredible collection of furniture — and I have furniture at home. NUVO: Contemporary art has flourished during your tenure. What is the role of contemporary art in an encyclopedic museum? ANDERSON: Look, we’re not unique. The Metropolitan Museum has just rented the Breuer Building for 10 years from the Whitney Museum to have a 100,000 square foot bet on contemporary art. The Art Institute of Chicago built a modern wing. You go across the country, this is the new normal. The IMA is part of a much larger awakening, a reframing of not letting contemporary art museums, in isolation, define the landscape, but looking, instead, at the creative connections between past

and present that can enliven both. Chuck Close and I used to talk about this a lot at the Whitney, as an artist and a board member. The weakness of a museum that’s devoted to contemporary art is the lack of oxygen that comes from seeing great works of art from all time. Contemporary artists stand to learn the most by working in a context where there is African art and Asian art and old masters. That’s what’s exciting about grafting a vital contemporary program on an encyclopedic mission. NUVO: You’re talking about conversations that take place between museums and artists. What about the conversation contemporary art opens with the public? ANDERSON: Well, 100 Acres was the big bet because, clearly, you can’t get a conversion strategy that works if it’s purely hermetic to galleries in your museum and you’re expecting the general public to care. That may happen, but it’s a much more difficult enterprise. Whereas 100 Acres was a bet that, since people like parks, and we have a finite amount of green space in the city of Indianapolis, maybe if we blend those two in the right way we can experiment and introduce thousands of people a month to contemporary art. It’s a basketball court. It’s a park within a park by Alfredo Jaar. The pavilion we did with Marlon Blackwell is probably the most important work of contemporary architecture in the state. It sits there quietly in the woods. NUVO: Speaking of 100 Acres, one of the interesting things during your tenure has been the way the museum used art and nature, the creations of human beings and creation. That’s also been manifest in an approach to the museum building itself.

ANDERSON: I think on Nov. 9, 2011 the status improved dramatically. I think Mayor Ballard’s team is amenable today in a way that they weren’t in their first term to take a fresh look at how the city supports the arts. And I don’t mean dollars alone. I mean a voice at the senior levels of government, vested with the responsibility for cultural affairs. This morning [deputy mayor] Michael Huber said they would be willing to consider that. And, to me, that’s the single most impressive outcome of years of all of us saying, “C’mon.” Having an arts council, which is a regranting agency, shouldn’t be mistaken for having someone sitting at the table with the mayor everyday, deciding policy. The Arts Council does a good job with its mandate, but their mandate is not to articulate public policy. So we need that and I believe that’s going to happen. I knew Mayor Giuliani and, briefly, Mayor Bloomberg, when I was in New York. And what happens when you have an official in charge of culture is you take your chances. In Toronto, there was a center-left government and the museum there had to be about education, community development. That government was swept out of power in 1995 and the government became center-right. We pivoted and became about tourism and urban planning. That’s what you do: you pivot, and look at a different gradient of the same enterprise. NUVO: You have envisioned new roles for the museum — as a center for professional Research and Development and as a paid consultant to other interests wishing to integrate the arts into their missions. What is the role of the 21st century art museum?

“In 2013 the IMA will open the largest galleries of design arts in the western hemisphere.”

ANDERSON: Artists do R&D, after all, for a living. Their area of research tends to be the human mind and human heart, ANDERSON: We had to and politics and sex and knit together a narrative whatever else interests about art and nature and them. We now have a —Maxwell Anderson design. It’s in our misscience department in sion statement and the the museum because I board understood the felt it was essential to undergird our treatnecessity of bringing those together. ment specialists in conservation with science. Otherwise we lack the full arsenal of informaNUVO: You’ve been an outspoken advotion about how to take care of works of art. cate for the integration of the arts into But also it was a way of saying we’re in a city public policy. How would you charactercorridor focused on life sciences and biotech. ize the current status of our situation in If this museum becomes part of that group Indianapolis.

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of professionals which is driving the city’s economy in a real sense, we become more relevant. So our senior conservation scientist is working with Eli Lilly, he’s working with forensic teams, Purdue’s chemistry department. We’re making ourselves more relevant to a big swath of the city and the region and the state’s economic and research-focused industry. It’s higher education. I think the IMA will be conferring a PhD in conservation science within two years — the first museum in the country to do this. Technology research is also earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year at the bottom line this year and last year that we did not have. Straight revenue. Our board is very excited about it. Our R&D is lifting the tide for all museums. The Boston Museum of Fine Art is using our software for their mobile tours. Crystal Bridges is using our software. It’s helping the field, it’s earning revenue. R&D is really about lifting the museum’s reputation, making us more integral to the landscape of Indiana and earning serious revenue. The next arena, which is truly exciting, is visitor studies. We now have four PhDs in our audience engagement department. One of them, who did her Doctorate at the Sorbonne — she’s an Italian national — is reinventing how the online survey of visitor usage translates into what we do on-site in the galleries. Within a couple of years I think this will be a world-renowned center for visitor studies: understanding the motivation of people to come to an art museum, intuiting what they need as a consequence of their motivation and delivering on that. That’s research that yields a direct, tangible benefit to our public and it will bring in grants, which again, support the bottom line. NUVO: This sounds like a far cry from the early 20th century model of the museum, which was designed for pubic uplift. ANDERSON: You’re being an active participant in a local sphere and an international sphere simultaneously. When a museum opened in 1870, it was there to train the workingman in how to become civilized. In a sense, that’s flipped. We’re learning from the public about their expectations and trying to tease out the intentions of artists to be of interest to a broad public. Not corrupt or change any interpretation of those intentions of artists, but recognize that artspeak is not going to do the job. Guided tours that are the same, one size fits all, is a model we need to change. We need to think about conversations with our visitors, not lecturing them.

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WEDNESDAY

BURLESQUE

Pur Company @ Blu Perhaps you think you’ve seen all the local burlesque outfits: your Rocket Doll Review and Crème de les Femmes; your Angel Burlesque and Dr. Sketchy Anti-Art Show (not strictly burlesque; but in the same camp, and re-launching Nov. 26 at The Sinking Ship). You’d be wrong about having the covered the waterfront if you haven’t checked out the Pur Company, a group associated with Pur Dance Fitness

Thanksgiving Burlesque.

that will host a little pre-Thanksgiving shindig at Blu Wednesday from 9:30 p.m. DJ Lucio and Qik will man the 1s and 2s, and there’s nary a cover charge. 240 S. Meridian St., 955-8585, bluindy.com

FRIDAY

THEATER

Is That Your Reel Hair? @ IndyFringe Yes, it is; I swear it’s not a wig. Oh wait, this isn’t a question for me; it’s one that Tiffanie Bridges has faced since sixth grade, when a run in with a chemical relaxer left her with an afro to be reckoned with. Bridges first presented her one-woman show this summer; Rita Kohn awarded it four stars in the NUVO, noting that Bridge’s “dialogue is sharp, smart and situated just right to get audience participation when she wants it” and comparing her to Red Skelton (!) for her ability “to look

Ryan Artzberger as Scrooge laughs away his worries.

SATURDAY

THEATER

A Christmas Carol @ IRT Harrumph all you want, Grinches and Scrooges: the IRT’s A Christmas Carol is a local tradition to be reckoned with, right up there with the Circle of Lights (Nov. 25 on the Circle; lights go on around 7:45 p.m.), the ISO’s perennially weird Yuletide Celebration (starts Dec. 2, with tap dancing Santas) and Seasonal Affective Disorder. Ryan Artzberger is back as Scrooge, and a couple married couples are sharing the stage: Jen (Sister of Mercy and Rose’s sister) and Rob Johansen (Bob Crachit), and Cora Vander Broek (Felicity and Ghost of

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Christmas Past) and Matthew Brumlow (Fred and Young Scrooge). Josefa Beyer gave the last year’s production four stars in these pages, noting that director Richard J. Roberts (returning this year after taking over the production in 2010) found “the right balance between Victorian dignity, Gothic moodiness and a playful stage physicality.” Beyer also had praise for Scrooge (Artzberger, making his debut last year) for conjuring up “a hardened old businessman who bristles at helping the poor yet trembles like jelly when confronted with his past,” despite his looking more like “a young Ray Liotta than old Alistair Sim.” The production runs Nov. 25 through Dec. 24 on IRT’s Mainstage; opening night is Nov. 26 after a couple preview performances. Tickets are $30-55. 140 W. Washington St., 635-5252, irtlive.com

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Tiffanie Bridges prepares for liftoff.

like anybody and everybody,” with the help of a wig or two. Bridges incarnates plenty of divas during her quest to find her real/reel hair, including Striesand, Diana Ross and Cher. Nov. 25 and 26 and Dec. 2 and 3 at the IndyFringe Theatre, with an 8 p.m. start time; tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for students and seniors. 719 E. St. Clair St., 522-8099, indyfringe.org

FRIDAY

COMEDY

A Christmas Carol, Unscripted @ Comedysportz Opening on the same night as ye olde traditional A Christmas Carol (updated over the years by the IRT, but still the traditional flavor) is A Christmas Carol, Unscripted, Comedysportz’s riff on Dickens’ story informed, as usual, by audience suggestions and the wit and whimsy of the improv theater’s laugh-letes. Yeah, laugh-letes; feel free to use that coinage however you wish. Comedysportz will abide by the structure of the story, but Scrooge might turn out to be a pool cleaner, Tiny Tim might not be so tiny; you

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Claire Wilcher is the Ghost of Christmas Past.

get the idea. Audience members will write out suggestions — quotes, expressions, TV dialogue, etc. — ahead of time, which the Comedysportz team will then incorporate into the action. A new version will be presented every Friday at 10:30 p.m. from Nov. 25 through Dec. 30; tickets are $12. Recommended for 18+. 721 Massachusetts Ave., 951-8499, indycomedysportz.com

Review: A Beef and Boards Christmas by Lisa Gauthier Mitchison

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Monika Herzig and David Baker.

FRIDAY

FREE

MUSIC

David Baker: A Legacy in Music signing @ Bookmamas David Baker: A Legacy in Music — a new study of the life of the Bloomingtonbased jazz professor, musician and composer edited and co-written by another IU prof, pianist Monika Herzig — makes a compelling case that Baker has been an innovator in

just about every field he’s pursued. No, let’s up that ante; Baker, whom we might just call a genius if that word weren’t overused, has fit several lifetimes of work into 80 years, making an impact on — just to name a couple — the worlds of jazz pedagogy (in more than one case, he wrote the book when none existed) and contemporary classical music (a chapter from A Legacy in Music makes a convincing case that several of his compositions should be fixtures in the contemporary orchestra repertoire). And he did it all while jumping over roadblock after roadblock. He had to abandon trombone, an instrument upon which he had distinguished himself nationally, after a car crash damaged his jaw. And he fought early battles at IU — first to even be hired in a mostly segregated music school, then to establish the legitimacy of jazz studies in an academic climate where classical music reigned supreme. A Legacy in Music includes chapters on Baker’s personal history and jazz performance, his teaching style (he practices an immersive “dump truck method”), his jazz and classical compositions, his work with the Smithsonian Jazz Orchestra and his public service. Herzig will sign copies at Bookmamas at 2 p.m. Friday; she’ll also have the book at the Indiana Authors Fair at the Indiana History Center Dec. 3. Baker, who is recovering from recent hip reconstruction surgery with characteristic determination, will be in Indianapolis Dec. 21 at The Jazz Kitchen for his 80th birthday celebration. 9 S. Johnson Ave., 375-3715, bookmamas.com

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FRIDAY

THEATRE

A Beef and Boards Christmas @ Beef and Boards

The best Christmas of them all!

Once a year, Beef and Boards takes a break from its decades-long love affair with roast beef to put another meat under the spotlight: the mighty turkey, the white meat to which pork is the other, the Butterball that pleases all. And each year they set themselves up for a challenge: To keep awake an audience tripping on tryptophan. In those heady early years, they distributed amphetamine as an after-dinner digestif (just kidding); now they keep things moving with a variety show incorporating a live nativity scene, a salute to our armed forces and a sleigh-full of song and dance. Rita Kohn rather enjoyed last year’s production, noting that the “versatile cast of 16 singers/ dancers and six musicians delivered high energy, high kicks, enjoyable harmony and finely tuned character acting in 28 song and dance numbers, skits and stories.” Shows run Nov. 25 through Dec. 23, with tickets ranging from $36-59. Doors open at 6 p.m. Friday, with times varying through the week. 9301 N. Michigan Road, 872-9664, beefandboards.com

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SATURDAY

FILM

BEER RUN

Leftover Turkey Trail Run & Novemberfest @ Eagle Creek Park

Rocky Horror Picture Show @ The Irving The Irving Theatre , which was, up until

about 20 years back, a functioning art theater, has become the new home for Rocky Horror in this town, which previously drew midnight crowds at Hollywood Bar and Filmworks, and, well before that, the Circle Theatre. Funny how all our movie theaters end up turning into nightclubs or “theatre” theaters; I wouldn’t mind an independent art theater reclaiming a shuttered space like the Rivoli (now, perhaps, beyond reclaiming), though I’m sure there are lessons to be

The Rocky Horror crew enjoys turkey.

learned from Key Cinemas. Anyway, we were talking about the midnight movie of all midnight movies here, which screens at midnight for a 17-plus crowd paying $6. You may not bring your own props, warn organizers; prop kits will be available for $4 dollars, and a virgin sacrifice (a real one; spooky) will precede the show. 5505 E. Washington St., 356-3355, attheirving.com

MONDAY

SHOPPING

Handmade Promenade Holiday Pop Up Shop @ Art Bank Showing off Handmade’s shirts.

SATURDAY

The thing about the Indy craft beer scene is it seems like a lot of brewers keep in decent shape; not a whole lot of beer bellies to be seen, although all the makings for one are at arm’s length. Maybe they do a lot of running. Maybe that’s why Upland has put together this run and party at Eagle Creek Park; after all, they need to keep up their figures to fill all those growlers. The run comes first, in 5k, 10k and 1k group loop varieties. The group loop will allow runners to go at their own pace; teams of two to 10 people will have an hour to run as they see fit, with the

While waiting a few days for an Etsy order from a DIY artist/artisan to ship wouldn’t be a problem any other time of the year, Christmas is different. Sure, you want to buy locally made stuff that isn’t lame, but when December 23 rolls around and you’ve completely forgotten about Grandma, the Cracker Barrel becomes a real ace in the hole. Well, no longer; screw Cracker Barrel, because the

Handmade Promenade Holiday Pop Up Shop at the Art Bank will offer the work of over

40 local, regional and national artists and crafters,

Drunken running at Eagle Creek.

prize of a private Upland tour and tasting for the team that completes the most laps (with total laps divided by the number of runners). The Novemberfest will follow, with music by Ladymoon and The New Old Cavalry , and food and beer at no additional charge. Registration fees vary, depending on the size of the group (with discounts for the group loop only) and one’s desire to go the party afterwards. Registration opens at 2 p.m.; runs start at 3 p.m.; drinking starts at 3:30 p.m. 7201 Fishback Road, 812-336-2337, tinyurl.com/ leftoverturkey

at hours that are pretty much in line with those of your average outlet mall. The grand opening is Monday, with hours running 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; check handmadepromenade.com for hours throughout the week. The shop will remain open until Dec. 31, excepting Dec. 4, 11 and 25. Indiana vendors include Brainchild Designs, Mile 44, Little Green Bean Boutique and Miss Holloway’s Parlor of Idle Hands . 811 Massachusetts Ave., 362-1662, handmadepromenade.com

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A&E FEATURE Of cats, war and the power of art Vonnegut Library presents film about Japanese-American artist BY S CO T T S H O G E R S S H O G E R@N U V O . N E T Kurt Vonnegut takes a rather dim view of abstract art in his 1987 novel Bluebeard. The novel is a fictionalized autobiography written by Rabo Karabekian, a once-successful abstract expressionist painter whose essentially meaningless Yves Klein-style monochrome paintings have begun falling apart on the walls of museums and galleries, their cheap, consumer-grade paint peeling in one piece from the canvas. Karabekian redeems himself with one final painting — a giant photo-realistic mural depicting 5,219 prisoners of war, soldiers and gypsies abandoned in a valley by German soldiers following WWII. It’s his only painting with soul; the only which draws upon his skill as a craftsman; the only which addresses the traumas of his life and the injustices of the 20th century. By contrast, Jimmy Mirikitani, a JapaneseAmerican painter and the subject of the documentary The Cats of Mirikitani (screening Friday at the Athenaeum), has spent his life painting with soul, using the raw materials of his traumatic life. — Born in Sacramento and raised in Hiroshima, he moved back to the States just in time to be interned for more than three years during WWII. — Paintings of Tule Lake (the internment camp where he spent his early adulthood), Hiroshima devastated by the atomic bomb and the World Trade Center under attack co-exist in his work with peaceful paintings of cats, flowers and tigers, rendered in a recognizably Japanese style. This Vonnegut and Mirikitani comparison isn’t completely out of left field: The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library will feature work by and about Mirikitani through the close of the year. Friday’s screening of the The Cats of Mirikitani will mark the film’s Indianapolis premiere, and work by Mirikitani will be on view at the library beginning this weekend. When KVML executive director Julia Whitehead first saw Cats, released in 2006, earlier this year, she was inspired enough by both its subject and its director, Linda Hattendorf, to conspire to bring it to Indy. Hattendorf turned out to be a Vonnegut fan, though she didn’t know the library existed when Whitehead first contacted her. Hattendorf is a central character to Cats: The film opens with her discovery of a talented artist, Mirikitani, living on the streets of New York City near her apartment. She brings him food and supplies for weeks, then takes him into her apartment on Sept. 11, 2001,

when a noxious cloud descending downwind from the tower wreckage had made it dangerous to stay outdoors. During the months before Hattendorf finds Mirikitani a permanent living space in an assisted living center, she reunites him with his family (a sister in Seattle; a poet writing about the internment camps in San Francisco), clarifies his citizenship status (though Mirkitani was coerced to renounce his citizenship while in the camps, the renunciation was rendered void in the late ’50s, though the letter announcing the news never reached him), and gleans bits and pieces of his back story (including the time he cooked for Jackson Pollock). And, through the course of the film, Mirikitani paints, as he has through the course of his life, regardless of the situation — sometimes two paintings a day, from landscapes of Mt. Fuji to drawings of Hattendorf’s cat. Whitehead sees similarities between Vonnegut and Mirikitani’s work: “Both were held as prisoners during WWII, and it seemed like a good fit mostly because Vonnegut talked so much about trying to correct injustices against humanity.” Hattendorf echoes those thoughts: “The lives of both Vonnegut and Mirikitani were altered irrevocably by war, and their work reflects this. And yet both manage to find humanity and humor in life despite deep traumas.” Hattendorf’s documentary is unobtrusive, diaristic and warm-hearted; her camera gets close to Mirikitani’s wizened face in a sympathetic way, and we get involved with his life as she does, frustrated for a minute with his anxieties, perhaps, but ultimately uplifted by his overcoming of innumerable tragedies. Her background prepared her to film her story as she experienced it: She’s worked for big-name documentarians Barbara Kopple and Ken Burns, and she helped film William Greaves’ must-see experimental film Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, Take 2 (an experience she calls “zany,” noting that Greaves helped her break into the industry). The Cats of Mirikitani screens Nov. 25 at 8 p.m. at the Athenaeum Theatre; a discussion will follow the film, and a reception with Hattendorf will precede it at 7 p.m. The reception costs $24 (including the film and food from The Rathskeller); the film alone runs $12. I spoke with Hattendorf via e-mail last week; here’s are a few more Q&A’s from our conversation. NUVO: What’s Jimmy Mirikitani up to these days? LINDA HATTENDORF: Jimmy is 91 now. He is still making art daily, and enjoys watching samurai movies with his cat, Miko. Last year the film was screened at the Smithsonian in conjunction with an exhibition that included one of his paintings, so he traveled to Washington, D.C., to be honored there. That exhibit is now at the Holocaust Museum in Skokie, Ill. Jimmy is very proud of all the attention and awards the film has received. He continues to receive fan mail daily from people who have just discovered the film, and visitors from all over the world come to meet him. Fans come from Japan regularly, where he has become quite a cult figure. One man travelled from Sweden to New York to surprise his newlywed bride with

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Clockwise from top: Jimmy Mirikitani and Linda Hattendorf in 2006; Mirikitani, “Cat with Blue Peony;” Mirikitani, “Mother Cat and Baby Cat”

a visit to Jimmy on their honeymoon! NUVO: Have you been surprised by reaction to the film, particularly with respect to the popularity of Mirikitani’s work in art galleries? HATTENDORF: No, it’s not surprising. I’ve always loved his artwork. When he was homeless and making art on the streets, it was the art that first caught my eye and most intrigued me. I have a large collection. It started with the cats — I love cats and every one of his cat drawings is different, from the sweet mother and baby cat to the huge tigers in bamboo. Then I realized the significance of the other things he was drawing — the images of the internment camp where he was imprisoned for over three years during WWII, and the destruction of Hiroshima where he lost most of his mother’s side of the family. It turned out that most of the images of beauty that he drew — flowers, and butterflies, persimmons and fish and birds — were all images of his memories of the beauty of Hiroshima before the war. That made the work even more powerful for me. NUVO: While your film doesn’t underscore anything in a maudlin or over-dramatic way, might we take inspiration from the indomitability of Jimmy’s spirit and his commitment to his creative work, despite all? HATTENDORF: I think Jimmy has something inside that no one could take away. No matter what the external circumstances of his life were, that core of his spirit survived intact. When he was living on the streets, he’d be out there at midnight in the freezing cold, completely focused on making art. I’d look at him and think: I have nothing to complain about. If he can do it, so can I! He was really an inspiration to me as an artist.

NUVO: What are you working on now? HATTENDORF: I’m in development on a project tentatively called Picturing Peace. Audiences I’ve met are so hungry for a little good news, they are looking for some positive stories in the media. If you watch history programs on television, all you ever seem to see is the history of war, and that’s dangerous because we begin to think this is what history is. I want to show the other side. What else happened — cultures of peace in the past and present. If we want to work toward a culture of peace, we need to know what peace looks like; we need to hear the language of peace and hear from people who have successfully resolved conflict in a non-violent way. I’m currently raising funds for a trip to Costa Rica in January. Costa Rica eliminated their army in 1948. All the money that was previously used for weapons went into education. They teach their children methods for resolving conflict non-violently. It can be done.

THE CATS OF MIRIKITANI SCREENING The Athenaeum Theatre, 401 E. Michigan St. Friday, Nov. 25; Film at 8 p.m., reception at 7 p.m.; $12 for film only, $24 for film and reception (tickets available at vonnegutlibrary.org)

Tales from the fourth dimension

Parallel Fashion, in a land where there are no parallels BY S CO T T S HO G E R S S H O G E R@N U VO . N E T Andrew Severns is operating in the fourth dimension these days. Well, we all are, those of us living in spacetime; but Severns, a graffiti artist now working out of the gallery he co-founded, Voir Art, has based his most recent work around his contemplation of what he describes as the “thought landscape.” Don’t let that intellectual heavy lifting fool you, though; Severns still has a foot planted firmly in our everyday 3-D world. Witness Parallel Fashion, an art and fashion show taking place Saturday at the Amber Room at Old National Centre. Severns and Katie Henderson of Naptown Hip Hop Congress put the show together with the intent of, as Severns puts it, “blurring the line between art and fashion,” with the hope that “artists will be inspired by fashion designers, and vice versa.” Henderson and Severns have collaborated before, on a graffiti and breakdancing themed art show called The Study of Style. They’ve divided duties down the middle this time around, with Henderson handling the fashion component of the show and Severns shepherding the visual art side. There are some familiar faces on both sides of the spectrum; up and comers too. A couple NUVO cover subjects will show their work: Lobyn Hamilton, who has pictured Lauryn Hill, Angela Davis, Bob Dylan and The Beatles in his vinyl-based collages;

and Ben Rose, the photographer, filmmaker and writer who’s hard at work on a feature-length script he hopes to get into production in early 2012. Also involved are both principals behind Voir Art: Severns and his collaborator, J. Chin, a California native whose works find theater masks embedded in blooming graffiti landscapes. Rounding out the art side of the show are Brad Taylor, a Herron grad telling Gorey-style fairy tales via woodcut; Randy Piotrowski, whose preview piece on the Parallel Fashion website has a certain lurid creepiness; Andrew Leonberger, a multi-media artist working in Cheerios (among other materials); and Justin Cowan, co-owner of NY Slice and owner of Served, who finds inspiration in the Cookie Monster. The fashion side of the show will feature work ranging from, according to Henderson, “vintage street apparel to couture designs,” presented by a majority of local artists. The Detroit-based Honeyboom Clothing is the sole outside party, with a line of streetwear and designs for the B-boy and B-girl. The locals are Sheila Ferguson (Jealousy Jane, whose punk-inspired work wouldn’t be out of place on a B-52), Jhanelle Baker (JH Fashion, presenting women’s couture), Arela Brown (the Christ-centric Kadosh Clothing), Victorious Clothing (a T-shirt line) and Securittee Brown (Madame Couture). Brown, a Chicago native who has worked her way up the ranks by interning with the Indiana Black Expo fashion show and Midwest Fashion Week, will present women’s couture fashion at Parallel Fashion. She’s presently at work on her first full line, a spring collection she describes as both “feminine” and “edgy,” “a mixture of light and dark.” Brown can point to influences from the fashion world (Christobal Balenciaga, Bob Mackie, Chanel); but, for her, “music plays a tremendous part as inspiration,” notably Rihanna and Beyonce, two “strong, fashion-savvy women.” Music will naturally play a part in the multi-disciplinary showcase on the whole;

An empty Indianapolis Island; do with this what you will.

Occupy Indianapolis Island (or the ARTSPARK) We may have called it a “floating trailer park” once upon a time (in Hoppe’s review of the opening of the IMA’s 100 Acres), but most of us have since come to love Indianapolis Island, Andrea Zittel’s 20-foot-diameter living space moored in the 35-acre lake at the center of the 100 Acres grounds. We spent plenty of time with 2011 Indianapolis Island resident Katherine Ball, who spent her residency on the island working a sort of environmental triage on the lake, including her introduction of myco-remediation techniques to try to clean up pollutants. SUBMITTED PHOTO

Andrew Severns. Below: Severns, “Open Void.”

the lineup includes K. Sabroso, EJAZZ and the Cranes, Circle City Deacons, TJ Reynolds and the Freehand Orchestra and Sea Monkey. Proceeds from Parallel Fashion will go to Circle City Culture, an initiative of Naptown Hip Hop Congress which presents educational programming in IPS schools. “Circle City Culture’s mission is to provide the youth of the Indianapolis area with the educational curriculum and foundational building blocks of the Hip Hop culture to cultivate self-confidence, selfexpression, and personal artistic growth to strive for creative excellence,” Naptown HHC’s Henderson says. “Our entire curriculum supports the Hip Hop values of acceptance, non-violence, creative selfexpression, and physical fitness.” Which brings it all back to the fourth dimension, which, considering Severns’ take on things, ought to inspire all and sundry to aid his or her fellow human being. “Every thought you and others have influences everything around you,” Severns opines. “For instance you cannot have a thought about a person without it affecting that person, and you cannot have a thought about the world without it affecting the world.”

NAPTOWN HHC AND VOIR ART PRESENT PARALLEL FASHION Amber Room at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St. Saturday, Nov. 26, 5 p.m. doors, $7 (net proceeds go toward Naptown Hip Hop Congress educational programming). 18+ to enter, 21+ to drink; 10 p.m. afterparty hosted by Slater Hogan.

And now comes your chance — yes, you; given that you care about stuff — to spend six weeks in the Indianapolis Island space. The IMA is currently accepting proposals for the 2012 residency; according to a press release, “Graduate and undergraduate students and emerging professionals in the fields of art, design, architecture and performing arts are encouraged to apply to customize and reside on Indianapolis Island.” Residents will collaborate with Zittel to realize their plans, which need not pertain to environmental concerns, though both Ball and 2010 residents Jessica Dunn and Michael Runge (thenstudents at Herron School of Art and Design) were certainly concerned with issues of social justice and community; so your proposal, Hermit 2012: This Man Is an Island and Isn’t Going To Talk To You Filthy People, may not go over well. Head on over to imamuseum.org/ islandresidency for more information. And just a couple days after the IMA opened their Island up for rent last week, the Indianapolis Art Center has announced that it will launch a one to two week residency, funded by a $20,000 NEA grant, in its outdoor sculpture park. The lucky artist will create a site-specific permanent or semi-permanent sculpture in theIndianapolis Art Center’s ARTSPARK during late summer or fall 2012. Applications will be accepted from March until May 2012 at the intuitively titled site callforentry.org. Artists will receive an honorarium, production budget, studio space and organizational support; the project is expected to cost $45,000 in total, according to the Indianapolis Art Center, and is funded by one of 863 grants totaling over $22 million awarded today by the NEA.

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Tawara Yusaku, Kyo (Emptiness)

VISUAL ARTS UNIVERSE IS FLUX: THE ART OF TAWARA YUSAKU INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART; THROUGH APRIL 11, 2012 q The Chinese character for the number one — ichi — is typically represented as a solid horizontal line. Tawara Yusaku painted ichi not once but hundreds of times late in his life. There’s nothing solid (or typical) about Yusaku’s brushwork in the selected ink on paper paintings on display in this exhibition however, and his accumulations of countless brushstrokes might make you think of faraway galaxies. They are highly gestural paintings, highly influenced by his thinking about Buddhist ideas. Accordingly, his conception of ichi was not just a numerical one. “It is the universe itself; it is unifying aspect of universal flux,” he once wrote. While Yusaku eschewed representation, works in this show gesture toward traditional Japanese landscape painting or calligraphy. The paintings that I found most engaging are those in which, with his Eastern modes of composition, he confronts the West. You see this in “Great Plains,” which approximates an American landscape, and in his series of paintings “Thinking of da Vinci,” where he attempts to tap into the Italian master’s “wave energy.” This IMA-curated exhibition of the late Japanese artist’s work — Yusaku died in 2004 — situates his art in the context of both traditional Asian and contemporary painting. If you just so happen to be walking from the IMA’s Asian Wing to the abstract contemporary work on the fourth floor, let this exhibit be your bridge. — DAN GROSSMAN ONE PIECE SHOW DEAN JOHNSON GALLERY; THROUGH DEC. 30 e More than 30 artists are included in this show of painting, mixed media works, sculpture, and photography. Jay Parnell’s portrait of his teenage daughter — dressed in a black

coat and posed against a snow-covered landscape — is a beautiful study in contrasts. Susan Mauck’s “Red Shawl” (oil on canvas) — which could have been a fine entry in the “Unclothed: Exposing the Art Nude” exhibit currently running at the Stutz — portrays a nude young woman in a standing pose. Mauck has a knack for getting the essence of a figure with loose, economical brushstrokes, and she does that beautifully here. (The shawl of the title is an ecstatic blur of red brushstrokes that hides nothing of the subject’s figure.) You also see spontaneity on display in Drew Endicott’s black and white photograph “Passing,” where a group of young men watch passersby from a street corner. One of these figures, puffing a cigarette, is androgynous to the point that his/her sex seems a tossup. You can’t help wondering at his relationship to the rest of the men on the corner who don’t seem to notice the photographer taking their picture. If you haven’t noticed already, Dean Johnson has been serving up an abundance of fine art by local artists for a while now. — DAN GROSSMAN HEARTLAND ART FROM YOUR INDIANA COLLECTION INDIANA STATE MUSEUM; THROUGH SEPT. 15, 2013 e Fine arts curator Rachel Berenson Perry closes out her illustrious 26-year career with the Indiana State Museum system with this finely tuned retrospective of artwork from 1870 to the present. Displayed chronologically, 45 paintings and sculptures from the permanent collection of the Indiana State Museum both reflect and comment upon Indiana’s intimate and far-ranging story. It takes more than one visit to absorb how and why a particular person, place or event caught the attention of an artist and why this interpretation continues to have an impact on how we “see” or feel about ourselves as Hoosiers. The exhibit particularly highlights, according to promotional materials, “recently acquired artwork by current artists who carry on lifelong experimentation with their chosen art-making techniques and materials.” Glenn Cooper Henshaw’s “Untitled Portrait” shows us timeless dignity. Floyd D. Hopper’s 1934 “Blue Monday” could be today’s realistic economic situation for many of us. James Tracy’s “West End Café on 4th Street” invites us in. Ellie Siskind’s “The Way the Wind Blows” reminds us growing up is universally challenging. Each work commands attention. — RITA KOHN

MUSEUMS YOU ARE THERE 1950: MAKING A JEWISH HOME EUGENE AND MARILYN GLICK INDIANA HISTORY CENTER; THROUGH 2013 w The Indiana History Center’s latest installment in its “You Are There” series — which has included 1945 and 1968 editions — presents a dynamic, interactive opportunity to explore and engage with family stories. Indianapolis

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and Indiana residents generally are part of a mobile society — many of us have come from someplace else, recently or a generation or more ago. The uniqueness of this new exhibit is the circumstance under which the Kaplan family immigrated to Indianapolis. In 1949, Berek and Frania Kaplan and their two young children were part of the international resettlement of displaced persons who had been rescued from Nazi concentration camps. Before we enter the reconstructed kitchen of their new home on Union Street on Indianapolis’ southside we are able to trace the back story of Berek and Frania’s life in Europe before, during and after the Nazi regime, and to learn about the ways this family of four made a home, found work, developed friendships and set down roots within a year of their arrival. We equally learn about philanthropy in Indianapolis and the role of neighbors who reached out to help the Kaplans learn English and navigate a new place. The Indiana Historical Society exhibit team has created an amazingly accurate reproduction of the kitchen from a photo published in the May 5, 1950, issue of Jewish Chronicle. As an example of mid-20th century material culture, we recognize some of the icons of family life, particularly the ‘hominess’ of sitting around the kitchen table, the place suffused with the aroma of food cooking. The thoroughness of research and attention to detail earns applause. — RITA KOHN

The Jewish Chronicle photograph of Frania Kaplan in her Indianapolis kitchen that inspired the IHC’s You Are There exhibition.

THEATER CONFESSIONS OF A HIGHWAY FLIRT ACTING UP PRODUCTIONS, NOV. 17-20 t University of Indianapolis alum Chelsea Anderson wrote, directed and starred in this original one-act play that explores the sexual misdeeds of a twenty-something woman. Anderson proves to be a powerhouse of talent in this charming production driven almost entirely by her own sensibilities and impulses. Matt Goodrich and Pete Lindblom gave quirky and endearing performances as the many men who have jumped in and out of her bed. The entire cast directly addressed the audience in a convincing way throughout, creating a conversational atmosphere between players and audience alike. However, the

vapid subject matter and lack of growth in the main character from beginning to end left me questioning the relevance of this piece. Despite the main character’s lack of evolution, Anderson’s authentic onstage presence kept me engaged throughout. — KATELYN COYNE

COMEDY PHIL VAN HEST: FUNNY ABOUT THAT INDYFRINGE THEATRE, NOV. 16 (UPCOMING SHOWS DEC. 14, JAN. 18, FEB. 15) e Phil van Hest styles his Funny About That after a radio talk show, with more than a touch of The Daily Show/The Colbert Report; contrast that with his Spalding Gray-inspired monologue work, a taste of which he worked into his opening monologue for this second installment of the show, which concerned the state of education in our city as seen through the lens of van Hest’s own educational background. It’s a unique one: He was born in Santa Barbara, Calif., to graduate students (as all progressives are, according to van Hest); he then spent some formative years in Indonesia, where his only exposure to American culture was via the one sitcom broadcast on Indonesian TV (one year it was Small Wonder; the next, Alf). He eventually made his way back to the States, where he was asked not to come back to one college (not “kicked out”; there’s a legal difference, says Phil), and he was working as a shop teacher before his move to Indianapolis this year. His memoir/ monologue (with Powerpoint presentation) transitioned into an examination of education in Indianapolis, including a few lessons to be learned; for instance, if you talk to your kids, they will turn out smarter. Hence, Phil’s proposed onesie, which reads “Don’t Talk To Me Like I’m a Fucking Idiot,” because baby talk doesn’t do anyone any good. Phil’s monologue gave way to a live talk show interview with Christina Lear, one-time NUVO intern/freelancer and now a teacher at an IPS high school that’s destined (doomed?) for takeover by a private company because of its low test scores. The live interview was a little rockier. It can be tough to be both funny and thoughtful in an interview, but at least van Hest’s talk show format is a hell of a lot more interesting than the rehearsed Q&A format that occupies the hours of network talk shows. This is, to be sure, an alternate vision that should occupy more of our time and airwaves. Live questions from “first-time callers” were accepted; would that any of the mics worked, but the packed house kept noise to a minimum to try to hear everyone. — SCOTT SHOGER

MUSIC ISO CLASSICAL SERIES PROGRAM NO. 8 HILBERT CIRCLE THEATRE; NOV. 17-19 w In its last weekend program before the holiday season ushers in the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s extended Yuletide Celebration series, the orchestra struck gold

with its guest conductor and guest soloist. Austrian Christoph Campestrini led the ISO in two favorites: Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37, and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56 (“Scottish”), with pianist/conductor Jeffrey Kahane at the keyboard for the Beethoven. Shorter, and of lesser caliber, Aaron Jay Kernis’ (b. 1960) Musica Celestis for string orchestra opened the program. Kernis’ intent was to portray “the singing of angels in heaven in praise of God without end.” Campestrini and his strings gave the unmemorable piece a polished account. With each return to Indy, Kahane only seems to get better. This was the best Beethoven No. 3 that I’ve heard in some time, with orchestra and piano dovetailing throughout. Kahane added considerably to the work’s intensity with his rapid scale runs and passage work. He has a way of bringing out notes of importance, making the composition really jell throughout its three movements. And the lovely slow movement, with its more-than-subtle allusion to Mozart’s Elvira Madigan Concerto, gave us a perfectly nuanced experience. Though Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” Symphony was the last he wrote and contains a plethora of memorable themes, the connecting passages tend to ramble just a bit, with the Scottishfolk-derived second movement an exception. Campestrini nonetheless did all the right things in all the right places. His conducting was as good as we’ve heard so far this season. — TOM ALDRIDGE

ENSEMBLE MUSIC SERIES: MORGANSTERN TRIO INDIANA HISTORY CENTER; NOV. 17 r Bedrich Smetana is known principally for his tone poem “The Moldau,” from his My Fatherland cycle (referring then to Bohemia, now the Czech Republic). I don’t recall ever witnessing a live performance of his Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15 (1855). That was corrected on Wednesday, when the Morgenstern Trio of German players — violinist Stefan Hemple, cellist Emanuel Wehse and pianist Catherine Klipfel — gave us their best contribution in the second of Ensemble Music’s five-concert series. They’ve only been at it for some five years, but are already getting notices praising their ensemble maturity.

Op. 15 ended a program which included Debussy’s early Trio in G and Mozart’s late Trio No. 6 in G, K. 564. And it was with the Smetana that all three players jelled into a well-integrated ensemble, the strings and keyboard giving us a unified picture of a strongly impassioned Romantic chamber piece. Klipfel provided the galvanizing facter in her beautifully sculpted keyboard work, but Hempel and Wehse showed equally assertive control when their parts called for it. Though Klipfel maintained her high pianistic level in all three pieces, the string players seemed slightly off their stride in the Debussy and Mozart, in which rough tones, slightly missed pitches and a lack of balance invaded their playing. I thought Klipfel was the “star” — till I experienced the Smetana. That is when I realized the group deserves its general accolades; they just had a bad start. — TOM ALDRIDGE

LIGONIER: A PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY PHOTOS BY JEFF MOERCHEN; INTRODUCTION BY MELISSA DINVERNO (QUARRY BOOKS/IU PRESS) t Ligonier, located along the Elkhart River in Noble County in northeast Indiana, is of note for its historic murals, a 1920s filling station and the town clock, as well as an abundance of parks and walkways. But photographer Jeff Moerchen is not pushing tourism. One-third of Ligonier’s current population is of Hispanic or Latino heritage, and his photographic essay provides passing glimpses of daily life through 70 black and white photography, with a focus on the town’s bustling Hispanic community. The photographs are both complex and simple, with a sense of longing echoed by Melissa Dinverno’s introduction. While Dinverno speaks of the Hispanic culture in various phases of regeneration, the book doesn’t fully provide a sense of history — when, why and how did the Hispanic community come to Ligonier? Why do they stay? As a photographic record of a diverse small town struggling to survive, this book raises questions and creates conversation. — RITA KOHN

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FOOD An omnivore’s dream: Late Harvest is vibrant, stylish and a little green BY N E I L CHA R LE S N CH A RL E S @N U V O . N E T Wine lovers know that late-harvested grapes often produce wines of great concentration, depth and complexity. Chef Ryan Nelson’s cooking has always aspired to champion these qualities, and the dishes on offer at Late Harvest certainly display no shortage of vibrant, multi-faceted flavors and textures that combine to form a harmonious whole. Although the exterior of this stylish new restaurant could be mistaken for an up-market chain, the interior, with its warm wood and stone tones, its high ceilings and elegant place settings, is like a temple to fine dining. It’s not easy to pin down the dominant culinary theme at Late Harvest, although the online mission statement suggests a combination of the best elements of fine dining with a neighborhood restaurant. A neighborhood restaurant in London or Paris, perhaps, but not yet in these parts, more’s the pity. With a couple of notable exceptions, you’re not likely

to find pork belly, pork cheeks, duck confit or salt cod brandade on any menu in town, so to find them all front and center here is something of a dream come true for the omnivore. In spite of being quite busy for a weekday evening, a recent visit found Late Harvest’s front of house firing on all cylinders with quiet but friendly efficiency. Of the several dishes we sampled, standouts included a really splendid plate of braised pork cheeks ($25). The texture was firm yet melting, almost like pork belly but more muscular. This was accompanied by some deliciously earthy chanterelle mushrooms. A second main course, a fish dish, was less successful, but I think we can attribute this to teething problems in the kitchen. Suffice to say, the issue was handled expertly and without fuss. As a first course, we really enjoyed the brandade ($10), a sort of thick paste of salt cod, fresh cod, cream and olive oil, served straight from the oven. This was one of the finest such dishes I have tasted in a restaurant, with a profound, yet not too salty, flavor. All too often this dish winds up tasting like mashed potato. Not so here. Both this dish and the caviar pie ($16) were served with housebaked bread (brioche in the case of the latter.) Although beautiful to look at and ambitious in scope, I found that the caviar was overwhelmed by its creamy cheese base and admittedly delicious garnish, as well as by the heavy char on the otherwise excellent brioche. A small plate of house-made kielbasa ($9)

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Late Harvest’s caviar pie.

had all the makings of a fine dish, but the sausage was under-seasoned, and the accompanying Brussels sprouts still a bit raw. A side of poutine ($8), perfectly fried potatoes with cheese curds and an egg, was fantastically decadent. The dessert, a magnificent sticky toffee pudding, was little short of immaculate. It only stands to reason that a restaurant this ambitious and young would experience some teething problems early on: there can be no doubt that Late Harvest is set to become one of the city’s finest dining destinations. I am certain that next time around this excellent new restaurant will merit a much higher score.

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Plenty of people are volunteering to deliver Thanksgiving meals to people in need, but organizers at the Mozel Sanders Foundation say they’ve received less than 50 percent of the total cash donations needed to fund the annual dinner. As of Friday, the foundation has about $36,000 to fund their annual Thanksgiving Day dinner delivery for about 25,000 people in need across the city. It needs about $77,000, Stephanie Sanders, a foundation co-chair, said in a phone call Friday. “It’s always down the wire,” she said, noting that some corporate donations are beginning to come in.”If every volunteer would just give a dollar, we’d be alright.” The event is volunteer driven, with people delivering meals from satellite locations all around the city. The foundation and its Thanksgiving dinner are named in honor of the Rev. Dr. Mozel Sanders, who became pastor of Mt. Vernon Missionary Baptist Church in Indianapolis in 1959. The Thanksgiving Dinner Event has served more than 25,000 dinners to families each year for the last seven years, according to the foundation website. For more than ten years, in addition to the Thanksgiving hot meals, the MSF has also given thousands of pounds of staple groceries each month from Mt. Vernon Missionary Baptist Church. Donations to support the Mozel Sanders Foundation’s delivery of hot Thanksgiving meals to people in need may be sent, before or after Thanksgiving, to: The Mozel Sanders Foundation 709 N. Belmont Indianapolis 46222. If you have an item for the Culinary Picks, send an e-mail at least two weeks in advance to culinary@nuvo.net.

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Patrick’s Kitchen is celebrating its final day at their present location. Dec. 3 Patrick’s will open at the Brick Street Inn, 175 South Main St., Zionsville. Phone remains 317-733-8755 Happy 15th Anniversary to Three Floyds. NUVO didn’t get to Munster for the party, but we noted Three Floyds’ “Robert the Bruce” in bottles at White Rabbit, where we were for MOTUS Dance. White Rabbit’s excellent craft beer selection includes neighbor Fountain Square Brewing’s full-bodied Porter Sun King’s wee mac on tap, and Sun King’s Sunlight Cream Ale and Osiris in cans. Upland Wheat and New Albanian Barleywine are bottled. Tomlinson Tap hosted a Triton tapping Nov. 16. Triton’s Wheat offers an outdoorsy nose opening into layers of malt tastes and closes clean with a slight hop tang. Brewer Jon Lang’s hoppier than usual Amber finishes with a bit of citrus while his IPA is close to expectations with its full array of hops. The Stout is middle of the road malt backbone with a coffee nose that opens into layers of tastes including chocolate and toffee.

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MOVIES The Skin I Live In BY E D JO H N S O N - O T T E JO H N S O N O T T @ N U V O . N E T

w (R) First things first. Don’t read any other reviews of Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In. I’ve checked out about a dozen today and most of them tip you off to things you shouldn’t know. I avoided press releases and reviews before seeing the movie and that worked out well for me. The early part of the film was odd and intriguing. The middle section was odd and confusing — I wondered whether all of the scenes would add up to something or whether some were mere digressions. The final part of the film royally messed up my head. During the closing credits I was still reeling. So freaky. So disquieting. So cool. I’m not going to lay out the plot — I’ll just tell you what is shown in the first few minutes: Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas) is an intense plastic surgeon developing an artificial skin resistant to burns and insect bites. Tough skin. In Ledgard’s compound in the town of Toledo

in Spain, he monitors a woman named Vera (Elena Anaya), who wears only a flesh-colored bodystocking and behaves like a trapped animal. Vera appears to be Ledgard’s patient and prisoner. The doctor is assisted in his daily tasks by his loyal housekeeper, Marilia (Marisa Paredes). Forget the romance you associate with Almodovar films. He’s going someplace else this time, presenting dark, bizarre events in a matter-of-fact fashion. Sure, he’s done that before, but this film gets darker and goes further out there than usual. The classic James Whale film version of Frankenstein presented the creature sympathetically in spots, but primarily as a menace. Almodovar’s film, based loosely on the story “Mygale” by Thierry Jonquet, takes time to study what it’s like to be the subject of an obsessive surgeon’s attention (no spoilers — I’m still working off the basic setup). Here, the horror is in the process. Men do bad things in the film. One justifies his actions. Another wallows in his. One is so stoned he doesn’t even know he did anything wrong. The women in the film are acutely aware of their suffering, but hesitant or unable to change their situations. Neither the patient nor the doctor reveal their inner selves verbally. Almodovar does it instead with his unblinking camera and it feels invasive. One more thing to make you squirm. There is so much I want to say about this movie, but I can’t. Frustrating. What can I

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safely mention? Two of the female characters do so much acting with their eyes that I was reminded of silent films — their expressions flirt with camp, but their grim circumstances mute the humor. Alberto Iglesias’ score is a beaut — listen to him effectively build tension with organs and trumpets. Incidentally, the singer in the party scene with the braided hair and the gap in her teeth is Concha Buika. Check

her out on YouTube, she’s a stylish vocalist and possesses a distinctive beauty. The Skin I Live In is more stimulating intellectually than emotionally, in part due to the walls (the figurative ones) around key characters, but Almodovar stirs your feelings in other ways. Freaky, distancing, melodramatic, straightforward, nonlinear, disturbing — this is his best movie in years.

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The following are reviews of films currently playing in Indianapolis area theaters. Reviews are written by Ed Johnson-Ott unless otherwise noted. ARTHUR CHRISTMAS (PG)

Computer-animated family comedy. How does Santa deliver all those presents in one night? By using an ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. The film, from the Wallace and Gromit team, follows the heroic journey undertaken by Santa’s youngest son upon discovering an undelivered present. The voice cast includes James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent, Imelda Staunton and Ashley Jensen. 97 minutes.

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Humor and drama mix in the well-reviewed new film from Alexander Payne (Sideways, Election), which follows Matt King (George Clooney), an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who must figure out how to cope when his wife is left comatose from a boating accident off of Waikiki. The tragedy leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family’s land, which was handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries. 115 minutes. The film was screened after NUVO’s print deadline, but you can read Ed’s review at www.nuvo.net.

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Wow. Martin Scorsese’s story about an orphan boy (Asa Butterfield) living in a 1930s Paris train station and his relationship with a toy shop owner (Ben Kingsley) is a gorgeous love letter to the cinema, a movie about itself, with expertly-used 3D, frames so carefully composed they look like they leaped out of Wes Anderson’s Rushmore, and glorious recreations of the early days of movies. The film is 2 hours and 10 minutes long — some children may find the sophisticated feature tiring. This dazzling creation demands a full review — look for mine in NUVO soon. 130 minutes.

THE MUPPETS The plot of this reboot of the Muppet franchise for a new generation is largely about rebooting the Muppets for a new generation, with numerous jokes about t(PG) how pop culture has passed by the felt critters. Jason Segel, one of the lead human

characters (Amy Adams costars), was instrumental in getting the movie made. The jokes are the usual Muppet mix of laugh-out-loud lines and groaners. The musical numbers are fine. I thought there were too many wistful moments and that the script spent too much time trying to satisfy the adults and not enough time trying to satisfy the kids. At the end of the screening, however, the kids seemed pretty happy. 102 minutes.

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Editor’s note: Kyle Long is a world music DJ and co-creator of Cultural Cannibals. He’s been blogging about shopping in Indianapolis for world music.

he west side of Indianapolis is well known for its diverse dining destinations, but the area also offers some of the city’s best shopping options. Whether you’re in the market for books, groceries, clothing, movies or sporting goods, the Westside provides an abundance of unique options, often in the most unlikely of places. For example, you may stumble onto a cricket bat while grocery shopping at Om India Plaza, pick up a classic B-movie from Mexican wrestler El Santo as you eye the desserts at a hole-in-the-wall pasteleria or discover the work of Egyptian singer Om Kalsoum while making a stop at the halal butcher. As an avid music collector, I’m constantly on the hunt for new sounds and Indy’s west side provides a seemingly endless variety of options.

Latin Music One of my favorite spots is the Indiana Discount Mall. Located next to Saraga International Grocery on the city’s west side, it’s home to Indy’s largest marketplace for Mexican and Latin American goods. In addition to the wide assortment of soccer jerseys, cowboy boots, religious icons and quinceañera dresses, the mall also houses a massive selection of music. On any given weekend, you can find half a dozen music vendors peddling their wares in tiny booths overflowing with CDs. The mall is a veritable treasure trove of Latin music. Whatever style you’re looking for, you can find it in abundance here. From traditional Mexican music like ranchera and banda, to the latest reggaeton and cumbia hits, to niche genres hyphy norteño and Chicano rap, it’s all here. Lately, I’ve been hitting the Discount Mall in search of tribal guarachero, a hot new electronic dance music emerging from the club scenes of Mexico City and Monterrey. Tribal guarachero, or just tribal (pronounced tree-VAL), combines elements of traditional Mexican music

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with banging, synth-heavy house and electro beats. The genre’s biggest star, Erick Rincon, a 17-year-old prodigy from Monterrey, has described tribal as a mix of “pre-Hispanic and African sounds with cumbia basslines.” Tribal has been getting great press from taste makers like Mad Decent, Vice and Fader, but has yet to make its way into mainstream Mexican culture. My first few attempts at finding tribal CDs in Indianapolis were unsuccessful, but the sound has slowly started to make its way north. This summer, tribal albums began popping up on the racks of Indy’s Latin music dealers. I recently paid a visit to one of my favorite music booths at the mall in hopes of scoring some new tribal beats. The shop has no name, but it’s easily identified by its bright blue walls and distinctive multicolored, handmade divider cards. I got lucky: two new tribal CDs had just arrived — Best of Tribal 2010 and Tribaleando en Texas, a comp focusing on productions from the very active Texas tribal scene. The ship’s owner, Javier told me that tribal is selling slowly, noting that it is just beginning to find an audience here. Cumbia always moves briskly, according to Javier, but narcocorrido is by far his biggest seller, adding that he has trouble keeping albums by genre stars Gerardo Ortiz and Larry Hernandez in stock. Narcocorrido (literally translated as “drug ballad”) emerged from the combination of two distinct Mexican traditions: the accordion-heavy, polka-based sound of norteño and the narrative folk ballads of corrido. Known for its lyrics detailing the true stories of Mexico’s drug cartels, narcocorrido has been blamed for romanticizing criminal activities like murder, torture and drug smuggling. Not overly familiar with the genre, I asked Javier to recommend a narcocorrido album. Without pause, he handed me a copy of Ortiz’s latest release Entre Dios Y El Diablo . It was a good pick. At 22 years old, Ortiz brings a youthful exuberance to the corrido tradition, and I responded to the singer’s charismatic and artful sound. Standouts include the infectious, anthemic opener “Aquiles Afirmo” which mixes jazzy accordion breaks with the sound of shotgun blasts; an epic ballad, “Angeles O Demonios,” based on the story of infamous drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes; and “Este Amor,” an inventive ranchera version of Bob Marley’s “Is This Love.” I frequent Javier’s booth because he knows music, has good taste and is happy to talk shop, despite his broken English and my nonexistent Spanish. I also appreciate his deep crates. Javier stocks a musical variety you won’t find in his competitor’s booths; for example, digging through Javier’s CDs, I found albums by Austin, Texas ranchera-rockers Chingon (a favorite of director Quentin Tarantino) and Mexico City’s funk-rockrappers Molotov — records far more inter-

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SHOPPING GUIDE Ethiopian Abyssinia Restaurant, 5352 W. 38th St. Hana Market, 4861 W. Washington St. Latin Indiana Discount Mall, 3585 Commercial Dr. Located next to Saraga International Grocery on the city’s Westside Indian Om India Plaza, 4225 Lafayette Rd.

esting than the typical pop fodder offered elsewhere at the mall. Aside from the music, the mall also houses a full-service restaurant, a tattoo parlor, and a barber and beauty salon. On a typical Sunday afternoon, it’s probably the liveliest place in Indianapolis.

Ethiopian Music I spent the better part of my adolescent years at the public library. While my friends were occupied with video games and school activities, I was busy ransacking the library’s music collection. I would grab anything that looked interesting and I wouldn’t leave until my bag was overflowing with CDs, LPs and cassettes. This is how I first encountered Ethiopian music. Flipping through the cassette section one day, the cover of a Mahmoud Ahmed tape caught my eye. Curious, I stuck the tape in my bag and proceeded to check out. I’m not sure what I expected Ethiopian music to sound like, but I certainly wasn’t prepared for the sensuous, soulful psychedelic grooves that came from my boombox after hitting play. Swirling organs, throbbing bass and jazzy horn arrangements provided the backdrop for Ahmed’s passionate and mysterious voice. The melodies were dark and restless; the sound Ahmed and his band created seemed to encompass everything I loved about music. There were bits of funk, jazz and psychedelic rock, all filtered through the

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unique Ethiopian musical scale. It sounded very exotic and intriguing to me, as a teenager stuck in the suburbs of Indianapolis. I was instantly hooked and I immediately set out to find more. After quickly exhausting the library’s collection of Ethiopian music, I ventured out to the Westside, exploring the shops and eateries of Indianapolis’ growing East African community. Fortunately, nearly every grocery store and restaurant I visited had a small collection of music for sale and in the shops that didn’t sell music, the workers were eager to assist me in my search. I remember visiting a now-closed Somali restaurant near Lafayette Square. After informing me they had no music for sale, the waiter quickly rushed into the kitchen to grab a couple of tapes from his personal collection. The amount and location of East African retailers constantly fluctuates, but there are a couple of locations that have had a consistent presence in the scene, Abyssinia and Hana Market. Abyssinia is best known as the city’s longest running Ethiopian restaurant, but the owners operate a small grocery in the adjacent shop. You can always find an excellent variety of Ethiopian CDs at Abyssinia. If you’re interested in checking out contemporary Ethiopian sounds I would recommend any volume of the Nahom Favorite series, which chronicles the more traditional side of Ethio-pop, and if you’re looking for classic sounds you can’t go wrong with any title in the amaz-

grew increasingly stranger. In the midst of the percolating noise, a full-on brass band appeared, blasting away like Sun Ra’s Arkestra in its prime. As much as I loved this number from Heera Panna, it was a song from the CD’s other soundtrack, Hare Rama Hare Krishna, pushed my obsession with Bollywood music into overdrive. Opening with a sustained, fat Moog tone riding on top of a slamming breakbeat, the psychedelic masterpiece “Dum Maro Dum” made every hair on my body stand up straight. I checked the liner notes to see who composed these amazing bits of musical madness and saw the name R.D. Burman credited with both film scores. On my next trip to Om Plaza I started searching for any CD or cassette that carried the composer’s brand. Nearly every Burman tape I purchased included at least one irresistible nugget of Indian rock or disco. I was amazed to hear Burman’s musical palette touch on mod soul, cool jazz, Beatles pop and bossa nova, sometimes all within Indian Music the same composition. By the end of the year I had purchased every Burman CD Located on the city’s west side, Om and cassette in the shop. India Plaza is one of my favorite places Om Plaza is also the place where I disto find music in Indy — and it’s a grocery covered the wild north Indian party music store, not a record shop. I’ve been buycalled bhangra. I would regularly drop ing cassettes and CDs at the plaza (aka International Bazaar) for well over 15 years. in to pick up the latest hip-hop/bhangra crossover CDs by RDB and Panjabi MC, Although their selection has thinned down as well as classic folk recently, it’s still the best albums by A.S. Kang spot in Indiana to purand Kuldeep Manak. chase South Asian music. I also fell in love with In the pre-Internet days I’m not sure what I Pakistani qawwali and of the ’90s, Om Plaza’s South Indian carnatic expected Ethiopian cassettes (sold at three music at Om Plaza. The bucks a pop) provided music to sound Abida Parveen and L. me with an affordable Subramaniam CDs I opportunity to explore my like, but I certainly bought there a decade interest in Indian music. I ago are still some of the would spend hours combwasn’t prepared most frequently played ing through the shop’s albums in my collection. for the sensuous, immense collection of And this description only music in hopes of findsoulful psychedelic scratches the surface of ing an odd bit of funk or the music variety found psychedelia buried deep grooves that came at Om; there are bhajans, within the seemingly ragas, ghazals and a huge endless racks of vintage from my boombox selection of regional Bollywood recordings. after hitting play. Tamil and Telugu film With little knowledge music too. of Bollywood music and Unfortunately, Om absolutely no familiarPlaza hasn’t been ity with the Hindi lanimmune to the digital music revolution’s guage, I was left to examine the cover art devastating effect on brick and mortar to find clues that might reveal contents of record shops, and their once monstrous the music held within. That’s how I first selection has now been reduced to a more noticed a CD that would be my key in manageable collection spread over a few unlocking a vast catalog of Indian funk, racks. The new releases section has vandisco and psychedelic music. ished, with the bulk of the stock dating Typical of vintage Bollywood reissues, it from the mid-2000s and prior. This isn’t had two film soundtracks crammed onto the place to cop the hottest new Bollywood one disc. A tiny snapshot of Bollywood hits, but it’s still an incredible resource for superstars Dev Anand and Zeenat Aman students of Indian music as well as curious dressed in full hippie garb caught my neophytes — and if that weren’t enough attention. I glanced at the film titles, Hare you can grab a fresh samosa and jalebi at Rama Hare Krishna and Heera Panna, and the register as you check out. flipped the disc to check the track listing. Noticing a song titled “Freak Out Music,” I sensed I was on the verge of discovering This is just a brief glimpse of the vast gold and immediately checked out. shopping opportunities available on the Rushing home, I shoved the disc into west side. The commercial landscape of my boombox and quickly cued up the this area is in a constant state of flux and song. I was not disappointed. With layers shops come and go with little fanfare. of bubbling synths and wild guitar feedIn fact, a Vietnamese grocery that once back hovering over a funky drum pattern, housed a massive stock of CDs and VHS “Freak Out Music” sounded more like a tapes recently closed its doors for good. If lost Krautrock obscurity than anything I we want Indianapolis to become a place could have imagined tucked away on an where culture thrives, it’s important to otherwise standard Bollywood soundtrack. support these merchants. Ears perked, I listened in shock as the track ing Ethiopiques collection. Hana Market is home to the city’s only Eritrean market. Once a part of Ethiopia, Eritrea declared independence in 1993. Both countries still retain many cultural similarities, including their music. Hana is thick with atmosphere, as the market has become a social center for Indy’s Eritrean community. On my last visit, a small group had gathered in the shop to play cards and enjoy some traditional foods. I felt like I’d arrived at a really cool house party and, far from being annoyed that I’d disrupted the card game, the group was pleased to help me choose CDs from the shop’s modest selection of Eritrean music. Contemporary Ethiopian and Eritrean music is not easily accessible online and you won’t find many of the titles carried by Abyssinia and Hana at iTunes or Amazon. Hana and Abyssinia offer a tremendous musical resource to Indianapolis and the staff at both shops are excited to share their culture.

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The online world of Indy’s newest punk band BY N ICK S ELM M USIC@ N UVO.NET Last Friday night, I found myself fumbling around the social networking website Stickam.com. After a face-to-face interview with local pop-punk saplings Late Nite Reading fell through, I agreed to interview them during their nightly broadcast on Stickam. As my confusion turned to frustration, I broke down and called Late Nite Reading bassist Brady Szuhaj for assistance. Szuhaj laughed sympathetically when I admitted how lost I was on the Stickam website. After guiding me through the registration process, Szuhaj welcomed me to the band’s popular video broadcast where my face stood out amongst scores of 16-year-old girls. With my technical issues resolved, Szuhaj and Late Nite Reading frontman Dolton Wixom opened up to my questions in front of their 900 Internet followers that night. “This is actually a slow night for us,” said Szuhaj. “We do this show every weeknight, and we usually have around 2000 people tuning in.” To have 2000 people hanging on your every word is pretty impressive for any local band, not to mention a high school band. All members of Late Nite Reading are between the ages of 16 and 18. Only drummer Drew Cottrell and guitarist Mitch Volpe are currently attending traditional high schools. Late Nite Reading formed in 2009 and began developing their devout following early on. Bypassing traditional DIY avenues, Late Nite Reading incubated their fan base by blitzing the Internet. “We are all about social media,” explained Szuhaj. “Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr, Stickam: we use it all. They’re all cool ways to connect with fans.” “Because of all the social networking,” said Wixom, “our national fan base actually predates our local fan base.” Despite having a larger national following, Late Nite Reading have made sure not to neglect the local scene. “We’ve played all the local haunts” said Wixom. “E.S. Jungle, The Emerson, Earth House and the Dojo; you name it, we’ve played it.” The band’s sound is radio-ready poppunk; it has attracted the attention of national acts and promoters. “We’ve played all over the Midwest supporting big bands,” said Szuhaj. “We’ve played with bands like All Time Low, Never Shout Never, Yellowcard and Forever The Sickest Kids.” This past summer, the band embarked on their first tour. “It was a lot of fun. We toured down to Texas and back with our friends from Score 24 from Long Island,” said Suzhaj. While their pre-existing following certainly

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made their first official outing a bit easier, the tour wasn’t without educational experiences. “We were playing sold out shows in smaller clubs with maybe 200-300 people” reminisced Suzhaj. “But it was easy because we just kind of followed Score 24’s lead. They really showed us the ropes of touring.” At a gig in Austin, Texas, the band received some scary news. “We were playing at Six Flags, Austin,” said Wixom. “We got there early and were hitting up the rides and chilling with fans, waiting for Score 24 to show up. All of a sudden, we got a call from Score 24 saying that their van had broken down and that they were dropping off of the tour. We were really nervous. They had always been there to show us what was up, but now we were on our own.” Luckily for the band, the rest of the tour went off without a hitch without their mentors. “We were able to deal with everything on our own.” said Szuhaj, beaming. “Even though it was a bummer that Score 24 had to drop off, we still had a great tour without them.” After returning from the tour, Late Nite Reading geared up to release their second EP, Dedicated to Deadlines. “Our first EP was really raw and doesn’t really represent our current sound,” said Szuhaj. “We’re really proud of Deadlines. It’s gotten us a lot of hype.” The four-track Deadlines incorporates new-school pop-punk and electro-pop elements with incredibly slick production. The band isn’t afraid to wear their influences on their sleeves. “Of course, we like Blink 182 and the older punk sound, but we listen to a lot of All Time Low and Forever The Sickest Kids,” said Szuhaj. “I’m really into electronic music and Brady’s into more hardcore stuff,” added Wixom. “I guess you could say that Dolton is pop and I’m punk,” said Szuhaj. With Deadlines only available online, the band is more or less self-sufficient. “We do so much on our own,” explained Szuhaj. “We really don’t need a label at this point, but that doesn’t mean we wouldn’t welcome a label deal. We have a lot to juggle right now. [A label like] Hopeless Records would be ideal [but] while we have a big following, we just don’t have the sales to really attract any serious attention.” Until spring break (when they can tour again), the band is taking it easy. “We’ll play locally or play a weekend show every now and then” said Szuhaj, “but our main objective is just to try to move units and not lose momentum.”

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The Damn Rev New songs on show at the Vogue this Friday BY G RA N T CA T TO N M U S I C@N U V O . N E T The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band will return to The Vogue Theater for its annual day-after-Thanksgiving show and, according to the Reverend himself, the band will unleash some songs that have never been performed live. The tracks will ultimately end up on the band’s forthcoming new album. “We’re always working on something new, even on tour,” said Peyton, speaking via phone from Austria, where the band was wrapping up a five-week European tour. “And we’re going to be playing some stuff at the Vogue that no one’s ever heard before.” Peyton says the new album, which he hopes to begin recording sometime in December, represents a bit of a departure from the band’s blues-influenced, roots-rock sound. “It’s going to be a more diverse record,” he said. “It’s still going to be the Big Damn Band, but I think people are going to be surprised when they hear it.” Specifically, Peyton said he’s trying to take finger-style county guitar music to “different places” that people have never heard before. Beyond that, however, he declined to get more specific. “We don’t want to give too much away,” Peyton said. Based in Brown County, the Big Damn Band have been touring and recording since 2003. After recording a few independentlyproduced CDs, the band were signed to L.A.-based SideOneDummy Records in 2008; they’ve since released three full-length albums on that label. The most recent is

a cover album of songs by blues legend Charlie Patton, which were recorded on a single microphone for a more raw, authentic sound. Peyton said that his band plans to start recording the new album soon after their shows in Indianapolis (Friday) and Cincinnati, and that the recording process should take roughly one month. With Peyton’s wife, Breezy, on the washboard, Aaron Persinger on drums and the Reverend on guitar and vocals, the band have an up beat, homemade blues sound. With the steel guitar providing lots of raw, loose notes, and the relatively simplified percussion provided by the washboard and Persinger’s modified drum-kit—which includes a plastic bucket—the band manages an infectiously gritty blues sound that takes the listener back to the early 1900s Mississippi Delta. According to Peyton, that sound translates surprisingly well to European audiences. The recent tour represents the BDB’s third European tour this year alone. In Serbia, specifically, he found entire crowds singing along to the words of his songs, though most of the fans couldn’t even speak English. Peyton said there just seems to be something about his personal, rural life-inspired songwriting that resonates with people. “Real, from-the-heart music played from the heart, with intensity, I don’t really think that has a border,” Peyton said. Incidentally, Reverend Peyton is actually an ordained minister as well as a Kentucky Colonel, an honor bestowed upon select individuals by the Governor of Kentucky. “I collect titles like some people collect stamps,” he said.

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Circle Jerks, Oddities, Abnormalities and Curiosities

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OFF!: First Four EPs “A punk supergroup of sorts, OFF! combines the talents of Keith Morris (Circle Jerks), Greg Hetson (Circle Jerks, Bad Religion), Steven McDonald (Redd Kross) and Mario Rubalcaba (Rocket from the Crypt), whose sound is a whirlwind of raw punk. Since half of the band came from the Circle Jerks, the album does have an expected Circle Jerks sound, but with a renewed freshness; [there are] some familiar sounds but with that “new band” smell. This record combines tracks from earlier EPs into one cohesive unit/ It’s raw and unpolished – the way punk records should be.”

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Every Saturday night at The Melody Inn is Punk Rock Night. Billed as the “longest running weekly punk showcase on the planet,” the Mel has featured over 2000 local, regional and national punk rock bands in the last 11 years. Founder Greg Brenner handed the event over to Rich Barker earlier this year. Barker also plays in local punk acts Gay Black Republican, The Two-Bit Terribles and The Slappies. Here’s the top five punk rock albums Barker thinks you just can’t miss. Circle Jerks: Oddities, Abnormalities And Curiosities “This Circle Jerks album has gone unnoticed to the casual punk album buyer, but is a nice little gem worth seeking out. Most tracks embody the band’s typical brash and heavy style; but, true to the title of the album, there are some tracks that flirt with other styles and atypical sounds. Sitar anyone?” Death: Politicians In My Eyes “Reissued recently, this album was truly ahead of its time; it was released in 1974 but sounds akin to the punk movement that didn’t begin until 1976. This Detroitbased all-black trio had a sound that was obviously influenced by The Stooges, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, but they took it where no one else had previously.”

Cerebral Ballzy: S/T “Straight out of Brooklyn, Cerebral Ballzy’s debut album is one of the faster and heavier albums in recent years. Combining hardcore punk and skate punk, this D.I.Y. band has given a fresh spin to a vibe created by classic punk bands like Suicidal Tendencies and Bad Brains. Speed is the key here; songs have a lightning pace and a deafening degree of guitar distortion. The vocal delivery ping-pongs from a snotty rant to a melodic scream. Look for their music videos during Adult Swim.” Farler’s Fury: Purgatory, Quebec Winner of Punk Rock Night’s 2011 award for “Best Non-Local Release,” this album sounds a little more Scottish then Canadian. It’s their unique instrumentation that gives Farler’s Fury their special sound – that is, the addition of a bagpipe. Overall, their sound is reminiscent of The Dropkick Murphys or Social Distortion; it’s big hook anthem punk, but the cool factor is that the bagpipe takes place of the lead guitar on many tracks. The album is solid all the way through, well-written and produced with just enough stylistic variety to keep your attention. Plus, there’s even a sea shanty for good measure.” -Rich Barker, Punk Rock Night at The Melody Inn

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You’re going to need some hair of the facial variety (or a handy prop) to get into this party. Mustachioed bands include Vacation Club, Pravada, Household Guns, Pocket Vinyl and The Damn Choir. You’ve gotta have a mustache to enter the event (and if you don’t, you will be given one to wear at the door). Prize packs and custom mustache flasks will be awarded to those whom the judges vote have the best facial decorations. There will be Sun King beer, fresh vegetarian tamales and a mustache photo booth. What more could you want?

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Talbott Street Nightclub, 2145 N. Talbott St. 9 p.m., $5 advance, $10 at door, 21+

Terry Mullan and Bryan Jones of Chicago and John Larner of Indianapolis will perform at the 5th annual Thanksgiving Party at the Talbott Street Nightclub during a night of house and dance music. Terry Mulan has made apperances at Coachella, Bugged Out, and Footwork and Bryan Jones was just named one of Chicago’s Most Powerful People in Music. The show is presented by Indymojo and X103.

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who is recently picking up speed, presents a ridiculous visual set coordinated to the live set. Their 20-minute Demons EP showcases escalating dance beats and intriguing samples; I’m digging the birds sampled on “Raum.” Local producer Ed Trauma is supporting, along with Deek. THRASH SYLOSIS

ES Jungle, 6151 N. Central Avenue 6 p.m., all ages

Get a dose of British heavy metal at the ES Jungle. Sylosis has toured with The Black Dahlia Murder, Cephalic Carnage and Psycroptic, and made appearances at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, the Download Festival and Sonisphere Festival. This is their first American headlining tour. Their newest album, Edge of the Earth , is inspired partially by the songwriting of Chuck Schuldiner of Death (see our Don’t Miss picks short review of Death’s Politicians in My Eyes ). SUBMITTED PHOTO

Lydia Loveless project has been hosting a series of extremely successful concerts that are F-R-E-E. Catch indie-poppers Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. this Thursday. The duo, out of Detroit, is Daniel Zott and Joshua Epstein; they’re found a fan in their source material. Dale Earnhardt Jr. is a fan of the act’s poppy harmonies.

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ROOTS REV. PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND The Vogue, 6259 North College Avenue 7:30 p.m., $12 advance, $15 at door, 21+

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The Mousetrap, 5565 N. Keystone Ave 9 p.m., $5, 21+

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Donating one’s womb

Plus, wheelchair ramps to nowhere At press time, Melinda Arnold, 34, was waiting to hear whether her mother would be accepted as an organ donor for her daughter -- with the organ being the mom’s womb. Melinda (a nurse from Melbourne, Australia) was born without one (though with healthy ovaries and eggs), and if the transplant by Swedish surgeon Mats Brannstrom of Gothenburg University is successful, and Melinda later conceives, her baby will be nurtured in the very same uterus in which Melinda, herself, was nurtured. (Womb transplants have been performed in rats and, with limited success, from a deceased human donor.)

Government in Action

• A British manufacturer, BCB International, is flourishing, buoyed by sales of its Kevlar underwear, at $65 a pair, to U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan and Iraq. However, soldiers and Marines must buy them directly; the “Bomb Boxers” are not supplied by the Pentagon even though nearly 10 percent of battlefield explosive-device injuries result in sometimes-catastrophic genital and rectal damage. According to an October report in Talking Points Memo, the Pentagon’s currently issued protection is inferior to BCB’s but is less expensive. (Although the Pentagon fully funds post-injury prostheses and colostomies, it could purchase about 7,700 Bomb Boxers for the price of a single Tomahawk missile.) • In what a cement company executive said is “one of those bureaucratic things that doesn’t make any sense,” the city of Detroit recently built wheelchair ramps at 13 intersections along Grandy Street, despite knowing that those ramps are either not connected to sidewalks or connected to seldom-used, badly crumbling sidewalks. The ramps were required by a 2006 lawsuit settlement in which Detroit pledged to build ramps on any street that gets re-paved, as Grandy was. (No one in city government thought, apparently, to attempt a trade of these 13 intersections for paving 13 more-widely used ones in the city.) • A Chicago Tribune/WGN-TV investigation revealed in September and October the astonishing result that Illinois laws passed in 1997 and 2007 at the behest of organized labor have given at least three former union leaders lifetime government pensions as if they had been city or state employees, totaling an estimated drain on public budgets of about $7 million. Two teachers’ union officials were allowed to teach exactly one day to qualify, and an engineers’ union official was hired for exactly one day, with the remainder of the service of the three having been on the payroll of the respective unions. A September

Tribune report estimated that perhaps 20 other union officials might have been eligible under similar provisions.

Great Art!

• It was haute couture meeting haute cuisine at the Communication Museum in Berlin in November, as prominent German chef Roland Trettl introduced his fashions (displayed on live models) made from food, including a tunic of octopus, a miniskirt of seaweed, a trouser suit made with lean bacon, a scarf of squid ink pasta, and a hat woven from lettuce. The museum director (presumably without irony) said the items were “provocative” and “raise(d) questions.” • Veteran New York City performance artist Marni Kotak, 36, gave birth to her first child, Ajax, on Oct. 25 -- and that was her “art,” as the birth took place at the Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn, N.Y., after Kotak had moved into the space two weeks earlier to interact with visitors. Previously, Kotak had “re-enacted,” as her “art,” both her own birth and the loss of her virginity in the back seat of a car. (A New York Times report suggested that Kotak may not be the most extreme performer in her family. Her artist-husband, Jason Martin, makes videos in which he dresses as a wolf or dog and “conducts séance-like rituals intended to contact the half-animal, half-human creatures that visited him in dreams as a child.”)

Police Report

Recent Alarming Headlines

• Cutting-Edge Policing: Officials in Prince George’s County, Md., reported that crime had fallen as much as 23 percent during the first nine months of 2011 -- the result, they said, of holding meetings with 67 of the most likely recidivist offenders in five neighborhoods and sweet-talking them. The 67 were offered help in applying for various government and volunteer programs, but were told they would be watched more closely by patrols. • Milestone: Joseph Wilson, 50, was chased by police and arrested in Port St. Lucie, Fla., in October and charged with shoplifting from a Beall’s department store. It was his 100th arrest -- although prosecutors are batting only .353 against him (35-for-99). (Wilson’s getaway was delayed when he jumped into the passenger seat of an idling SUV and ordered the driver to “Take off!” but the driver did not.) • Points for Style: (1) Police in Corpus Christi, Texas, looked to the public for help in October to find the man who, according to surveillance video of a city agency building, stole three surveillance cameras (not the recording units, just the cameras) by lassoing them from their perches near the ceiling. (2) Theresa Mejia, held in the Burlington, Wash., police station on kidnapping charges, climbed through a ceiling vent in a dramatic escape attempt, traversing the entire length of the building before officers knew where she was. (However, that put her directly over the police chief’s office, and she crashed through to the floor.)

by standing beside the entrance to a McDonald’s for about 10 minutes, popping his pimples with his fingers. (2) A man unnamed in a news story was charged on July 24 with resisting arrest (for trespassing) by failing to put his hands behind his back. According to the Destin, Fla., police report, the man explained, “I can’t put my hands behind my back because I’m making a bowel movement (in my pants).” (According to the report, that was true.)

The Aristocrats!

• (1) Owen Kato, 23, was arrested following a police report in Port Charlotte, Fla., of a man grossing out customers

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Least Competent Criminals

• Brent Morgan, 20, was arrested in Prince George, British Columbia, in October on three counts related to the attempted theft of a Corvette. Morgan had seen the car in a driveway, jumped in and locked the doors. However, the owner had been in the process of charging the battery, which was still too weak for the car to start and for the door locks to continue working. Feeling trapped and sensing that the owner had called the police, Morgan panicked and began using any available tool inside the car to smash the window. According to the police report, officers arrived just as Morgan had broken open the driver’s side window, but too late for Morgan to realize that he could have exited the car by manually lifting the door lock with his fingers.

• “Maine Woman Loses Lawsuit Over Removal of Husband’s Brain.” “Condoms Rushed to Thai Flood Victims.” “Killer Sharks Invade Golf Course in Australia.” “Lingerie Football League Wants to Start a Youth League.” “Man Uncooperative After Being Stabbed in Scrotum With Hypodermic Needle.”

A News of the Weird Classic (May 1991)

• Wanda Webb Holloway, 36, was arrested in January (1991) for putting out a murder contract on a Channelview, Texas, woman. Holloway thought killing the mother of her 13-year-old daughter’s arch rival would cause the rival to quit the junior high cheerleader squad in grief, making way for the Holloway girl’s selection. Reportedly, Holloway imagined the other girl’s death, too, but realized that she could only afford one contract. (Holloway’s story spawned two TV movies. She was convicted of soliciting murder, but the verdict was overturned, and she eventually pleaded guilty in exchange for a 10-year sentence, of which she served six months.)

Send your Weird News to Chuck Shepherd, P.O. Box 18737, Tampa FL 33679 or WeirdNews@ earthlink.net or go to www.NewsoftheWeird.com.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In a famous Monty Python sketch, a Hungarian tourist goes into a British tobacconist’s store to buy cigarettes. Since he doesn’t speak English, he consults a phrase book to find the right words. “My hovercraft is full of eels,” he tells the clerk, who’s not sure what he means. The tourist tries again: “Do you want to come back to my place, bouncy bouncy?” Again, the clerk is confused. In the coming week, Libra, I foresee you having to deal with communications that are equally askew. Be patient, please. Try your best to figure out the intentions and meanings behind the odd messages you’re presented with. Your translating skills are at a peak, fortunately, as are your abilities to understand what other people -- even fuzzy thinkers -- are saying. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There are modern Chinese painters who use oil paints on canvas to create near-perfect replicas of famous European masterpieces. So while the genuine copy of Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” is worth over $100 million, you can buy an excellent copy on the Internet for less than $100. If you’re faced with a comparable choice in the coming week -- whether to go with a pricey original or a cheaper but good facsimile, I suggest you take the latter. For your current purposes, you just need what works, not what gives you prestige or bragging rights. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything,” said Sagittarian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. “I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.” I urge you to consider trying that approach yourself, Sagittarius. Instead of worrying about how to launch your rebirth, maybe you should just dive into the middle of the new life you want for yourself. Avoid stewing interminably in the frustrating mysteries of the primal chaos so you can leap into the fun in full swing. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The Golden Gate Bridge spans the place where San Francisco Bay meets the Pacific Ocean. It wasn’t easy to build. The water below is deep, wind-swept, beset with swirling currents, and on occasion shrouded with blinding fog. Recognizing its magnificence, the American Society of Civil Engineers calls the bridge one of the modern Wonders of the World. Strange to think, then, that the bridge was constructed between 1933 and 1937, during the height of the Great Depression. I suggest you make it your symbol of power for the coming weeks, Capricorn. Formulate a plan to begin working toward a triumph in the least successful part of your life. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s an excellent time for you to get an entourage -- or if you already have one, to expand it. For that matter, it’s a perfect moment for you to recruit more soldiers to help you carry out your plot to overthrow the status quo. Or to round up more allies for your plans to change the course of local history. Or to gather more accomplices as you seek to boldly go where you have never gone before. So beef up your support system. Boost the likelihood that your conspiracy will succeed. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you expand your concept of what you’re capable of, you will receive a specific offer to move up a notch. If you perform your duties with intensified care and grace, you will be given new responsibilities that catalyze your sleeping potential. The universe doesn’t always act with so much karmic precision, with such sleek, efficient fairness, but that’s how it’s working in your vicinity right now. Here’s one more example of how reasonable the fates are behaving: If you resolve to compete against no one but yourself, you will be shown new secrets about how to express your idiosyncratic genius.

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