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IMMIGRATION: A JOURNEY OF DEATH

The trip to the United States for undocumented immigrants is fraught with danger, and when the worst happens, two Indy academics are identifying remains to help give families some closure.

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Five years ago, in December of 2009, a small news item highlighted the divide between the US and the rest of the world when it came to addressing climate change. Here’s the blurb from the 12/9/09 edition:

Yesterday, 56 papers (in 20 languages) published the same editorial, the first effort of its kind, imploring world leaders to do the right thing at COP15, the climate conference in Copenhagen, and drive C02 emissions down — before it’s too late. The stakes are high and the fears (and denial) are even higher, as first world entities loathe change — especially our own, small-minded US Congress, including our coal-hugging senators, Lugar and Bayh.

Only one US paper ran the editorial (The Miami Herald), so we suggest checking out the editorial’s ground zero, The London Guardian: www.guardian.co.uk; that’s a good place to keep an eye on Copenhagen developments as well.

On a much lighter note, the same issue included a preview of the First Annual Snuggie Bar Crawl in Broad Ripple. A $10 wristband got participants entry to — and discounts in — eight different bars. The benefit for the Ronald McDonald House has apparently since gone the way of Bayh and Lugar’s Senate terms.

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THE HOOSIER WAY: IT DOESN’T ADD UP

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ndiana hates you.

Let’s face it, if you’re not one of those “high income earners” Indiana lusts for, this state has one word for you: Scram. out on an estimated $1 billion in fedFor this we have our governor, Mike eral funds, it also means that many Pence to thank. of the most vulnerable Hoosiers, like That’s Mike Pence, the presidenthose with mental illnesses, won’t tial hopeful. Pence, you may recall, receive adequate care. According to a soft-shoed it during his gubernatorial report by the American Mental Health campaign two years ago. At that time, Counselors Association, Indiana, of he was all about doing things “the all the states, has the most mentally Hoosier way.” ill residents (62 percent) who would Well, we’re finding out what that have been eligible for Medicaid under means. If you’re hungry, sick, or too the ACA expansion. young to defend yourself, it means find There’s more (or less, actually). another state.

Indiana is one of 16 states with little The most recent installment of or no state-funded pre-school for lowthis long good-bye came from the income children. This dubious distincstate’s Family and Social Services tion enabled us to qualify for $80 million Administration, euphemistically known dollars in federal aid. Did we take it? in some quarters as the welfare departPerish the thought! Not the Hoosier Way. ment. After the Great Recession hit, Gov. Pence and his fellow the FSSA began waiving the federal Republicans never tire of bragging requirement that single people work 20 about Indiana’s economy. This, in hours a week, or attend job training, in order to receive food stamps.

But this is not the According to the Hoosier Way, Hoosier Way. Starting in when the going gets tough, the 2015, it looks as though as many as 65,000 tough get going. Like all the way Hoosiers will lose their food stamps. As Gov. to a neighboring state.

Pence put it: “I’m someone that believes there’s nothing more ennobling spite of the fact they have failed to to a person than a job…And to make keep their campaign promises to betsure that able-bodied adults without ter the low per capita rate of Hoosier dependants at home know that here pay. What a vexing reality check for in the state of Indiana, we want to the rightwing fantasy of free market partner with them in their success.” prosperity. If the Hoosier Way is so According to the Hoosier Way, great, why are so many Hoosiers barewhen the going gets tough, the tough ly getting by? get going. Like all the way to a neighIt doesn’t add up. boring state, where they might find But addition isn’t Gov. Pence’s some health care. You see, expanding thing. He’s into subtraction. Imagine Medicaid coverage to an additional how our per capita income will jump 300,000 Hoosiers isn’t the Hoosier — if we can just get rid of some poor Way, either. people. That’s the Hoosier Way: Gov. Pence refuses to expand Don’t let the door hit you on your Medicaid, as called for by the way out. n Affordable Care Act. This not only means that Indiana hospitals will lose

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any years ago, someone asked Lyndon Johnson about the difference between Democrats and Republicans.

“We don’t hate their presidents,” said she lives and works in an environment LBJ, a Democrat. in which saying the nastiest things about “Or their presidents’ wives,” added people with whom one disagrees — and, the late Rep. Andy Jacobs, D-Indiana, apparently, their children — not only some years later during the partisan bitare tolerated but often is encouraged. terness of Bill Clinton’s presidency.

We live now in a world in which deniAnd, now, we apparently can include grating opponents in the most scurrilous their presidents’ children in the mix. terms is the norm.

The communications director for U.S. Maybe in LBJ’s day the offenses were Rep. Stephen Fincher, R-Tennessee, confined to one side of the political unleashed a maelstrom by criticizing divide — although I doubt it — but they President Obama’s daughters, Malia, certainly aren’t now.

16, and Sasha, 13, for their behavior When George W. Bush was president, and attire at the annual Thanksgiving his wife, Laura, may have been spared turkey pardoning. serious sniping, but the couple’s twin Elizabeth Lauten wrote a scathing daughters became the focus of the same Facebook post about the Obama girls sort of nastiness. We saw reminders of appearing bored at the ceremony. that after Lauten’s outburst, when Twitter Lauten lectured the first daughters users posted photos of one of Bush’s that they should “try showing a little daughters drinking at a college party and class. At least respect the part you play.” of both girls yawning at public events.

She also suggested that the girls’ someSomehow the folks upset with Lauten what short skirts were more appropriate seem to have convinced themselves that for a bar — a nice touch, given that the two wrongs equal a right.

Obama daughters are under-age — than The fact that this latest outburst of churla public ceremony.

And, of course, Lauten had to unload on Barack and Michelle Obama as We live now in a world in which parents.

“Then again, your denigrating opponents in the most mother and father don’t scurrilous terms is the norm. respect their positions, or the nation for that matter. So I’m guessing you’re coming up a little short in the ‘good role ishness came during the Thanksgiving seamodel’ department. Nevertheless, stretch son just adds to the irony. yourself. Rise to the occasion. Act like That uniquely American holiday startbeing in the White House matters to you.” ed as a celebration of the fact that people Lauten’s post provoked criticism and of different races from different cultures then anger almost as soon as it went up. with different systems of belief could sit She since has pulled down the post and, down at a common table and celebrate begrudgingly, has issued an apology. their fellowship. At one time, being able She’s on her way to being a meanto listen to — and hear — people with spirited footnote in the histories yet whom one disagreed was something for to be written about an angry era in which we were thankful, an act of faith in American history — and that’s about all the idea of America itself. the attention, as a person, she deserves.

I suppose there’s no way to get the If Lauten were the only American most strident among us to see presiaround bathing in and spewing such vit- dents and other American politicians riol, her bad manners poorly disguised with whom the fire-breathers disagree as a sense of moral superiority wouldn’t as mistaken rather than incarnations of be worth discussing. evil, but, in anticipation of a new year, But she isn’t. could we make a resolution?

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REDSKINS: WHAT’S IN A NAME?

Native Americans protest the racial slur that is a football mascot

— AMBER STEARNS Black Friday protests at Walmart Some Indiana activists protested outside Walmart stores Friday to voice their opposition to what they consider low wages. Walmart reportedly pays the average worker about $11.82 an hour, which Mary Kate Dugan, executive director of Central Indiana Jobs with Justice, claimed is barely enough to cover the basics. Dugan said her group is calling for the company to pay workers $15 an hour and provide more full-time work. Demonstrations in Indianapolis, Kokomo, North Vernon and South Bend were among the more than 2,200 planned at Walmart stores in almost every state. While many other retailers pay similar wages, Dugan said Walmart stores were targeted because the company sets an example for others as the largest employer in the country.

— INDIANA NEWS SERVICE Rep. Eric Turner resigns State Rep. Eric Turner, R-Cicero, officially resigned his seat in the Indiana House. Turner – who faced criticism for lobbying privately for legislation that benefited him and his family – had said in September he would resign. It was too late for him to remove his name from the ballot and he won re-election easily over a Democratic challenger.

House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, has said lawmakers will consider whether to change the law that makes it difficult for parties to replace candidates on the ballot in the months leading up to an election. Turner said in a resignation letter to Bosma that he leaves the legislature “with my integrity and my head held high, knowing for every one of the years I served, I always tried to do what was right.”

Turner’s resignation was effective Sunday. A caucus of Republican precinct committee officials in his district will choose his replacement.

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AIM members Albert Ortiz Running Wolf, Nate Jones and Matt Isaacs (top) protested the Washington Redskins mascot name while Virginia resident Rodney Johnson and a fellow Redskins fan (right) celebrated the team and the name.

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in’t no game, change the name,” chanted protestors outside of Lucas Oil Stadium prior to the Colts-Redskins game Sunday. Just days after the Thanksgiving holiday so many Native Americans find repellent, AIM Kentucky-Indiana chapter members and supporters, including State Representative Reggie Meeks, of Cherokee Ojibwa heritage, drove up from Kentucky to spread the message that Native Americans are not mascots.

Vowing to never change the name, Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder has repeatedly insisted that the name is intended to honor Native Americans, but to that, Albert Ortiz Running Wolf, Kiowa, co-chair AIM Indiana-Kentucky, responds: “We didn’t ask to be honored with a racial slur.

Viking is a job; Redskin is a racial slur.

Stop making excuses for racism.”

In August the California Assembly deemed the nickname disparaging and urged the National Football

League to change it. Similar votes were taken in New York, New Jersey and the District of Columbia.

In June the U.S. Patent and Trademark canceled six of the team’s trademarks, registered between 1967 and 1990, citing federal trademark law that “prohibits registration of marks that may disparage persons or bring them into contempt or disrepute.”

The ruling does not, however, pertain to the logo of an American Indian head in profile.

Instead of challenging the ruling in appellate court, the team sued the five Native Americans who filed the complaint and claimed that canceling its trademarks would violate its right of free speech. Losing trademark protection could cost the team tens of millions of dollars per year.

The legal battle could take years.

Until then, the team’s trademark protection remains in effect. So, too, do the tensions between avid fans and Native Americans.

Many fans averted their eyes or turned their heads as they scurried past

the group hoisting signs and singing the AIM song to a Native drumbeat.

Some mocked and taunted the protestors. A few, like Rodney Johnson, a Chesapeake, Va., Redskins fan who carried a “Keep the name” sign, stopped to exchange hostile remarks.

“It’s just a name. Get over it.”

But it’s not just a name. The term promotes a stereotypical image of Native Americans that has an historical context unknown to many non-Natives.

“There’s a misperception of the word,”

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Rodney Johnson and friend confront Running Wolf on the pros and cons of the Washington Redskins name.

Running Wolf said. “Plain and simple, methodology of many of the polls, explainthe word ‘redskin’ comes from a bounty ing that the ethnicity of responders was in 1875 that advertised $200 per dead not verified, the team continues to validate Indian. People think the name Redskins its stance by referencing a 10-year-old is from something that the first settlers Annenberg Public Policy Center poll said because we painted our faces red. But reportedly indicating that 9 out of 10 Native what it actually goes back to is that they Americans are not offended by the name. would kill our people, and they would Castoreno insists that Native actually skin us. When those skins would Americans have been protesting the be let out to dry in the sun, they would name since 1933, when it was changed be stained red with blood, and that was from the Washington Braves to avoid where they got the term ‘redskins’ from. confusion after the team relocated from The Bureau of Indian Affairs sold body Braves Field in Boston to Fenway Park, tags to settlers to put on our skins.” home of the Red Sox. “If you’re tired of “You don’t see a sports team called the Fighting Whities,” “Redskin is a racial slur. Stop making pointed out John Hubbard, Lakota. “It’s excuses for racism.” insulting. We’re not mascots.”

—ALBERT ORTIZ RUNNING WOLF, KIOWA It’s de-humanizing, emphasized Carolina Castoreno, enrolled hearing about it, imagine how tired we member of the Lipan Apache Nation are dealing with it.” of Texas, AIM co-chair/Indiana conHoping for some understanding tact, and president of Native American from the crowd, Running Wolf agreed Student Alliance at IUPUI. “How can we that the purpose of the day was to get people to care about our problems if educate the public. Names matter. they don’t respect us as human beings?”

“People need to understand it’s like said Castoreno. “The word is intrinsiusing the ‘N’ word.” cally linked to racism. There’s no honor “My biggest question is for Redskins in racism. Dan Snyder is on the wrong quarterback Robert Griffin III,” side of history.”

Running Wolf concluded. “How much Despite many of the nation’s 5.2 million Native Americans questioning the is your skin worth?” n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 12.03.14 - 12.10.14 // NEWS 7

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Veterans History Project Thursday, Dec. 4, 1:30 p.m. U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly’s office will host a Veterans History Project event at the Hendricks County Senior Services Senior Center. Area veterans are encouraged to attend to tell their stories of military service. Donnelly’s staff and volunteers will record the stories for preservation. The Veterans History project is an effort of the Library of Congress. Veterans and volunteers should RSVP by calling 226-5555.

Hendricks County Senior Services Senior Center, 1201 Sycamore Lane (DANVILLE) Healthy Communities Conference Monday & Tuesday, Dec. 8-9, 9 a.m. The Indiana Governor’s Council for People with Disabilities will host the Health Communities Conference at the Westin Hotel. Civic leaders and citizens from a variety of platforms and disciplines will gather to discuss ways to reduce violence, increase health and create sustainable communities throughout the state. The event will also include presentations from Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett and Mary Paterson, Ph.D., a national authority on how violence affects public health, families and communities. Registration and participation levels vary.

Westin Hotel, 50 S. Capital Ave., $55-155, gcpdconference.org Festival of Trees Saturday, Dec. 6 & Thursday, Dec. 11, 10 a.m. The Indiana Historical Society will host two free admission days for its Festival of Trees exhibit. The exhibit features 25 uniquely themed Christmas trees, holidaybased photos from Indiana’s history files. A sing-a-long in the Cole Porter room, and a re-creation of the living room from the movie, A Christmas Story. Saturday events include a craft station and face-painting.

Indiana Historical Society, 450 West Ohio St., FREE, indianahistory.org

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The HIV virus (left) and the Ebola virus (right) created similar reactions from the U.S. healthcare community 30 years apart.

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ollowing the images of the Ebola outbreak that was first reported in March, it isn’t difficult to imagine rows and rows of hospital beds of patients cared for by healthcare workers dressed head-to-toe in protective gear.

The international media has offered countless glimpses of the roughly 16,000 reported patients worldwide, including nearly 6,000 who have died, mostly in countries on the west coast of Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, according to November 23, 2014, statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

While people around the globe, including Hoosiers, commemorated World AIDS Day on December 1, they may have recalled a similar sight that was common in the news 30 years ago.

People are less likely to talk about HIV/AIDS because those who’ve been diagnosed are living longer and more treatments are available with fewer side effects than the first drug, AZT. However, according to amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, 1.1 million people in the United States are living with HIV/AIDS, and almost one in five people are unaware they are infected. Approximately 50,000 new infections have occurred every year in recent years, men who have sex with men

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While Ebola has been in the headlines this year, what ever happened to HIV/AIDS?

are the most likely to be infected, especially young African-American men who have sex with men, but women make up about 20 percent of new cases.

Worldwide, there are 35 million people living with HIV/AIDS, and every day more than 5,700 people contract HIV, according to statistics compiled by amfAR. However, that seems to be all but forgotten when the media focuses on news of Ebola, including four cases and one death for patients diagnosed in the U.S., as of November 23.

Dr. Virginia Caine, an infectious disease specialist and director of the Marion County Public Health Department, says this Ebola outbreak is worse than others because it occurred in an urban setting with a dense population as opposed to past outbreaks in more rural areas.

Further, “the political strife that has been going on in these countries [Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea] has decimated their healthcare delivery infrastructures,” says Dr. Caine. “They don’t have enough gowns, and they might not even have soap or gloves. Another problem is the fear and mistrust from some of the residents in those countries. They hear about people going to the hospital who still die, and that people are being quarantined if they’ve been exposed to friends and relatives with Ebola. It’s very scary to some of these residents. Some of

them have gone into hiding, even when some of them were symptomatic, and refused to get healthcare.”

But if it is found in Indianapolis, “All of our hospitals and infectious disease consultants have been preparing in case an Ebola patient comes into an emergency room,” says Dr. Caine. “How to isolate that patient, how to wear the protective gowns, and how to take necessary precautions to make sure there isn’t a risk to any other people in that hospital. We have some of the best infectious disease doctors in the country, and I feel really good about the process here.”

She also encourages Indiana residents to get flu shots.

“We’ve had people call and say, ‘my muscles are aching, I have a fever, sore throat, nausea or diarrhea or vomiting, and I’m concerned I have Ebola, but I may have the flu,’” she says. “It’s easier to concentrate on another disease if they’ve had a flu vaccine. When it comes to treatment, time is of the essence for Ebola patients.”

While Ebola and HIV have some things in common, including the spread of the viruses by bodily fluids and even a similar method of infecting healthy cells, an otherwise healthy person with HIV is unlikely to know until he or she gets tested, something Dr. Caine and other medical professionals encourage.

According to the Indiana State

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Greg says today hospital and healthcare workers treat him and his husband George much better. Now that they are legally married as of this fall, they enjoy more rights as a couple. Even before they were married, hospital visits were not the same concern they were for Greg and his partners in the early days.

It also hasn’t been smooth sailing with Greg’s family members. One Thanksgiving, Greg says he noticed his brother throwing away the china because Greg used it. More recently, Greg’s brother refused to share a meal at a fondue restaurant, something that has been proven not to spread HIV/ AIDS, but Greg fears many people still think is a risk.

Paula French, co-executive director of STEP-UP, Inc., an organization whose programs provide HIV/AIDS-related services, testing, education and prevention, also remembers the early days of AIDS in the U.S. She didn’t think it affected her, so she didn’t think much of it until her brother Steve died of AIDS in April 1994. He told French he was sick only a few days before he died. When her coworkers found out he had AIDS, they would speak in hushed tones about how her brother died, some would even express their sympathy that her brother had AIDS. Seeking a support system in her grief, she started to volunteer in the Indianapolis AIDS awareness community that June, and ultimately got a paying job in the field in November 1994.

French agrees that things have gotten better, but the stigma is still there. One bright spot is she knows, through the programs at STEP-UP, that people are aware and are getting tested. The organization has been passing out “Safer Sex Kits” for several years, and she expects STEP-UP to

Department of Health, the number of persons diagnosed as living with HIV/ AIDS (PLWHA) in the state of Indiana continues to increase every year. In Marion County alone, as of December 31, 2013, there were 4,582 PLWHA, plus another 853 in the donut counties. Those numbers do not include those PLWHA who haven’t been tested.

While Indianapolis-area HIV/AIDS awareness community members tend to agree that much has changed in the last 30 years, there is still work to be done.

For instance, Greg, 54, who was diagnosed with AIDS in the mid-1980s, remembers healthcare workers and even ambulance drivers refusing to take his extremely sick partner, Carlos, to the hospital. When in the hospital, Carlos would be one of many sick people in an AIDS ward in a hospital in Chicago. While the memories are painful to recall, he clearly remembers those mental images decades later.

Because not much was known in terms of treating AIDS at that time, Greg, an airline employee with no medical training, says he would be expected to treat “When it comes to treatment, time is his partners from drawing blood to administerof the essence for Ebola patients.” ing medicine with an IV based only on advice from —DR. VIRGINIA CAINE, MARION COUNTY healthcare professionals.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT In addition to his battles with healthcare workers, Greg was also afraid pass out its millionth kit later this month. he’d lose his job if his employer found Greg and others interviewed for this out that his partners had died of AIDS and he was infected. Greg found himself story agree that attitudes still need to telling coworkers that his first partner change, and it’s unclear what it will take. died of a brain tumor and his second “A lot of people don’t want to know,” died of a heart attack. says Greg. “If they’re having unprotected The stigma is something Greg says sex, they have a guilt-free conscience, you continues today, yet he appreciates know what I mean? But they should still get efforts made by celebrities over the years. tested, get on medication, take their pills.

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Dr. Krista Latham and Human Biology grad student Ryan Strand dig for immigrant remains in Falfurrias, TX.

n the deep south of Brooks County, Texas, forensic anthropologist Dr. Krista Latham and her team of students from the University of Indianapolis organized and led students from Baylor University on an excavation dig. The students came from a variety of academic backgrounds and had no forensic experience. UIndy’s team taught their college volunteers about the basics of forensic digging techniques to ensure the preservation of their projects. The work appeared to use techniques from yesteryear, perhaps more like the movie set of Indiana Jones than the 21st Century. Students used small tools and their hands to dig in the dry earth, keeping an eye out for snakes, scorpions, spiders and fire ants. The hours were long, the temperatures were hot, and the work exhausting.

However, unlike a movie set, there were no bad guys to chase, yet there were tragic tales to uncover below the Earth’s surface: the remains of unauthorized immigrants buried haphazardly in Sacred Heart Cemetery in Falfurrias, Texas.

It’s a project Latham joined in 2013 at the request of friend and colleague Dr. Lori Baker from Baylor University. Their work, along with Dr. Kate Spradley of Texas State University, is a major initiative of the International Consortium of Forensic Identification’s “Reuniting Families” Project. The goal of the project is to restore human dignity to immigrants who have died along the Mexico-U.S. border by identifying them and reuniting their remains with their families. The first step

in the process is exhuming those immigrants from where they rest.

Dr. Latham is an expert in the field of forensic anthropology — she’s Indiana’s very own “Bones.” She was even asked by a prospective student what was different about what she does compared to the Fox television character portrayed by Emily Deschanel.

“I don’t have an FBI partner, I don’t have a fancy lab in the Smithsonian, and it takes longer than an hour to solve my cases,” jokes Latham, recapping her response to the inquiring email.

But the concept is still the same. She works with human remains and uses forensic science to determine who they were SEE, IMMIGRATION, ON PAGE 12

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Human Biology grad student Justin Maiers (left) dumps dirt from the dig site. Latham (above) observes as Maiers and undergraduate student Cheneta Morrison take measurements of an area where remains were found.

IMMIGRATION , FROM PAGE 11 and how they died. Most of the time her work focuses on crime scenes in Indiana and the Midwest, helping law enforcement and the county coroner identify remains and causes of death. However, for the last two summers, Latham has lent her expertise to a more humanitarian cause.

Brooks County, Texas is one of the eight counties that make up the Lower Rio Grande Valley, the most southern portion of the state. Located approximately 70 miles from the Mexican border, Brooks County has its share of immigrant issues ranging from home invasions as immigrants desperately search for food and water to a high number of deaths as those immigrants succumb to the brutal elements. The median income for a family is just under $22,500 and the per capita income for the county is just over $10,200. Forty percent of the residents live below the poverty level.

Ironically, Brooks County tends to be a Democratic area in a state known to be a Republican stronghold. Brooks County has never voted for a Republican presidential candidate since the county was created in 1911. In the 2012 general election, Over 78 percent of Brooks County voters cast their ballots for President Obama compared to the 21 percent who voted for the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney.

Brooks County has no coroner. The number of law enforcement officers is small

and resources are severely limited. Most of the county’s acreage is private ranch land. Typically, if someone found a person deceased on their property, one of three options were selected. Sometimes the body would be wrapped up and taken to Sacred Heart Cemetery in Falfurrias. Other times the body was buried right where it was found. And sometimes the body was never found or simply left to rot where it lay.

Latham says the remains in Sacred Heart are not buried with any type of organization. Sometimes remains are found only four inches beneath the surface while others could be as deep as four feet.

Shared graves are also dug if more than one person is found on any given day.

“Most of the time these remains are left in body bags or wrapped in plastic in shallow, unmarked graves,” says Latham.

“We use the same standards established in Indiana for working with these remains so that everything is uniform and the remains are handled with dignity and respect.”

According to Latham, Indiana has some of the toughest laws in the nation when it comes to human remains and death investigations. Although their work attracted a lot of the local Texas media, Latham did not allow the film crews to photograph the remains once exhumed and answered no questions about what was found. In Indiana, the only person legally allowed to release any information about a body is the coroner. Latham and her crew stayed true to these more stringent standards while working in Texas.

Once exhumed, the remains are tagged and boxed to be shipped to Baylor, Texas State, or UIndy for skeletal analysis. It’s in the lab that the process of identification truly begins. But for Latham, it usually generates more questions than answers.

“Back in the lab we go through our usual process of identification,” says Latham.

“First we clean and inventory the bones associated with the remains and count the number of bones and teeth.” Certain

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bones help in creating the living characteristics of person. Things like gender, height, and age at death can be determined from the right combination of bones. “We can begin to build a biological profile, or basic information about who this person might have been,” says Latham.

The lab work includes a skeletal analysis which can show healed fractures, disease in the skeleton or signs of stressed health.

“A lot of times we can see things like nutritional deficiencies or arthritis in the joints.

That arthritis can be tricky, though,” says Latham. “It can make a person appear older than they really are, but it can also tell us that this person probably had a job with a repetitive behavior, like they had been involved in hard labor for a long period of time.”

Tissue samples, if available, are taken and sent to Dr. Eric Bartelink at California State University — Chico who volunteers his expertise in isotope analysis. That data can help identify the geographic region or even the country where the deceased was from originally. Finally, a DNA profile is created and put on file. Once the identifying characteristics are cataloged along with a detailed description of any other materials found with the remains (a piece of clothing, shoes, jewelry etc.), the remains are re-packaged and sent back to Baylor University for storage. The hope is that one day a name will be matched to the box’s contents and sent to the next-of-kin.

“It’s hard, because truthfully, DNA is the best chance we have of identifying these remains,” says Latham. “But without DNA submitted by the families for comparison, the DNA on file for the remains is meaningless.”

The Reuniting Families Project shares the identification profile with organizations that represent the families of the missing as well as missing persons databases. RFP also works to educate those organizations and the embassies of the involved countries so that they can work with families to collect DNA samples for comparison.

Dr. Krista Latham and her team dig up immigrant remains buried in a cemetery in Brooks County, TX.

Dr. Wendy Vogt works with Central American immigrants traveling through Mexico at a shelter in Oaxaca.

The Pew Research Center estimates more than 85,000 unauthorized immigrants are currently living in Indiana.

As immigrants (left and top) hitch a ride on “la bestia” through Mexico, a caravan (bottom) looks for lost family members near an immigrant shelter.

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WHERE SCIENCE MEETS CULTURE The hardest part of Dr. Latham’s work in Texas is not having that Hollywood ending where the good guys have won and justice is served.

While her science is able to give a general idea of whom the person on her examination table might have been biologically, there are never any definitive answers as to whom that person truly was and how he or she came to be in Brooks County, Texas. Does this person have a family? How long has he/she been missing? Is there someone somewhere waiting for this person to arrive? Why did the journey begin?

When a mutual friend introduced Dr. Latham to Dr. Wendy Vogt, she began to get some general answers to those lingering questions.

Dr. Vogt is a cultural anthropologist at Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis (IUPUI). She based her dissertation research on the migrant journey from Central America to Mexico and ultimately the United States. Vogt spent four summers and an entire year in an immigrant shelter in Oaxaca, Mexico. Her mission was to collect the immigrant story and determine why people were leaving

Central America en masse and taking a trip guaranteed to be fraught with violence, poverty and in many cases, death. She is also working on a book on her research so the immigrant story can be told.

The World Report 2014 published

by Human Rights Watch identifies Honduras as having one of the highest murder rates in the world. Those responsible for providing public safety and security (government officials and law enforcement) are just as corrupt as the gangs, drug lords, and other perpetrators of violent crimes. As recent as February 2013, a UN Working Group expressed concern over the Honduran government’s alleged involvement in widespread human rights violations.

Those violations alluded to killings, disappearances, forced evictions, and sexual violence.

The report for Guatemala from the same source is a little better, but not by much. Organized crime continues to be a problem in the country, despite criminal justice efforts, and some communities have reportedly turned to vigilantism as a solution.

(And Guatemala hasn’t even begun

to heal from the genocide and crimes against humanity suffered at the hands of former Guatemalan leader Efrain Rios Montt. The former dictator was tried and convicted for his crimes in 2012, but the verdict was overturned on a technicality. Montt is expected to be re-tried in a national court in January 2015.) Child labor and exploitation, violent crimes against women and girls and corruption in government and law enforcement are also reported as chronic problems throughout the country.

Before ISIS and Ebola became the hot buttons of justification for the ideological push to “seal the border” in lieu of true immigration reform, the fear was focused on the criminal activity of Mexican drug cartels and human smugglers. However data from the Migration Policy Institute shows the majority of the people making their way into America are Central Americans looking for a life better than the one they left behind, a life without violence, fear, extortion or corruption.

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“La bestia” or “the beast” is the nickname immigrants gave the train because of the dangers found along their journey.

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A caravan of people (top) looking for lost loved ones travels the train route, while an immigrant (bottom) rests in an outside chapel near the shelter.

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“The people that are fleeing those countries (Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador) are more like refugees,” says Vogt. “They are fleeing from violence rather than looking for economic opportunity. Many of them had jobs at home, but were forced in some cases to pay a weekly ‘tax’ that really amounted to extortion which ultimately made that employment non-sustainable.”

Statistics from the U.S. Border Patrol show a decrease in the number of Mexican immigrants apprehended at the border. The number of nonMexican immigrants detained at the border increased by 175 percent between 2011 and 2013. In a January 2014 online article for the Washington Office on Latin America about the Border Patrol report, Senior Associate for Regional Security Adam Isacson wrote, “We are witnessing an exodus of Central American citizens.” The overall trend of the Border Patrol report indicates more and more nonMexican migrants are arriving in Texas and dying in remote areas.

“Migration is a dangerous journey,” says Vogt. “And what Central American people face is not dissimilar from what refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan or other countries face. All areas of war or criminal social violence are triggers for migration en masse.”

The journey through Mexico from border to border is no picnic, either.

Vogt says the southern border from

Guatemala into Mexico is porous, but the Mexican government’s attempts to reduce drug trafficking in and out of the country have resulted in a number of military checkpoints along the border-to-border route.

“Immigrants travel into Mexico by bus,” says Vogt. “However once they cross the border, many immigrants switch to train travel, usually on top of the trains or hidden in cargo cars.”

Immigrants and locals call the trains migrants use to travel “la bestia” or “the beast.” The mode of transportation earned its nickname from the horror that is associated with its use.

“They call it the beast because it has become the epicenter of organized crime along the migrant route,” says Vogt. “People are kidnapped en masse then held for ransom with relatives expected to pay a large sum of money for the safe return of their loved ones.

Some are forcibly recruited to work for the crime bosses as sex workers and drug runners. Others are simply executed for unknown reasons.”

Vogt says there is an understanding that this and other atrocities can happen. Immigrants are warned of the odds of getting robbed, beaten, raped or even killed before their journey even begins. That message is reiterated once they cross the border into Mexico.

“The beast” also gets its name from the physical harm the train itself can do to people. Disease and starvation are always possibilities. Many people fall off the train and lose a hand, a foot, an arm, or a leg from getting stuck on the tracks. Families become separated and loved ones get left behind.

“The civil society in southern Mexico takes care of the injured and lost,” says Vogt. Priests have established shelters along the rail route and their congregations care for the travelers, providing food, water, medical care, and a place for families to try and reunite. Doctors Without Borders has set up some clinics to assist with medical and trauma needs as well, with specialized care for those who have been dismembered.

An immigrant’s stay at one of these shelters can vary from days and weeks to months and years. Vogt says almost everyone there has family somewhere they are trying to reach. There is a yearly caravan where the families of missing migrants travel along the route carrying signs displaying the name and face of the loved one they are trying to find. Through the years of her research, Vogt has wondered what ever happened to the people she encountered during her time at the shelter. Did they ever reach their final destination? Were they able to locate their missing friends and family? Did their stories find a happy ending or a tragic one?

Once Vogt and Latham were able to sit down and share their research and stories, they realized that together they could begin to find the answers to those ever-present questions.

“When we put our timelines together, I realized that some of the people I met at the shelter could very easily be among the remains Krista has found and worked with,” says Vogt.

Latham and Vogt are continuing their work and research individually, but they are also working together through their individual connections to increase the DNA pool of families missing loved ones and educating people on this humanitarian crisis.

Vogt knows of recent immigrant families here in Indiana who are still looking for loved ones who began this latest treacherous journey to America. Convincing them to give DNA samples that can be compared with the remains being stored at Baylor University is yet another step in helping those families find answers and finally providing peace for both the living and the dead.

For Latham, knowing the background and some of the stories that could be associated with her remains makes the need to identify and repatriate them all the more necessary.

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Stutz Business Center, FREE, stutzartists.com Toys Dec. 5, 6-10 p.m. Primary Colours has once again asked a smattering of local artists to create toy-themed work in whatever medium they see fit. Featuring holiday music, Sun King beer and an ornament giveaway, with donations accepted for Indy Reads programming.

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“Yellow Cactus” (1929) by Georgia O’Keeffe, featured in Georgia O’Keeffe and the Southwestern Still Life.

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Indiana Landmarks Center, FREE, indianalandmarks.org Herb Block Dec. 5, 6 p.m. The Vonnegut Library’s latest exhibit features political cartoons from the Civil Rights era by Herbert Block, who went by the pen name of Herblock. The Chicago-born Block (19092001) won three Pulitzer Prizes during his 55 years at The Washington Post.

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was walking with a friend through the Noyes Suite of American Art Galleries at the Indianapolis Museum of Art when we came up to an entire wall of work by Georgia O’Keeffe. This was several weeks before the museum’s big fall/ winter exhibition, Georgia O’Keeffe and the Southwestern Still Life, opened.

She brought up the “Freudian aspect” of O’Keeffe’s work. I played the devil’s advocate and argued that O’Keeffe had always denied the gynecological comparisons that her flower paintings inevitably evoke, with their flower stamens, petals and ovaries bathing in the sunlight.

My friend gave me a withering look; maybe she thought as an arts writer I should know better, or maybe she just thought that I had been born on another planet.

So on the opening night of the IMA’s O’Keeffe exhibition, when I was walking

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through the exhibition with the IMA’s guest curator of American Art Harriet Warkel, I brought up the same thing with her. We were standing in front of O’Keeffe’s painting “Jimson Weed,” with its enormously magnified images of flowers. Completed in 1936, it’s part of the IMA’s permanent collection.

“Maybe,” I started to say, “it would be better if we looked at her paintings holistically, because sex, after all is just part of life ...”

Warkel would have none of this.

“But this is deliberate,” she said.

“Before any of this was shown, Arthur

Stieglitz took nude photographs of her [from 1918 to 1925], and then he showed them in his gallery.” O’Keeffe married the New York-based photographer — 24 years her elder — in 1924.

“Remember, nobody’s seen any work by her,” Warkel continued. “His idea was, once they see these nude photographs, they’re going to remember your name. And then when she did the flower painting, the critics not only remembered her name; they remembered her body, and they actually felt that because she was so sexual she was putting that in her flowers.”

Of course, as Warkel took pains to remind me, O’Keeffe’s flower paintings make up only a small part of the exhibition, organized by the museum services company International Arts and curated

by Charles Eldredge. The show includes 67 works — only 24 of them by O’Keeffe — and is organized by subjects, including SEE, O’KEEFFE, ON PAGE 18

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The show gives a sense of the diversity of still life painting being created in Northern New Mexico in the early years of the 20th century. Traditional and modern works hang in close proximity: Pedro Lopez Cervantes’ “Still Life with Violin” (1934), set against the backdrop of a lush New Mexico grassland is a close neighbor to Paul Burlin’s “Untitled: Still Life with Guitar,” (1918) which, with its disjointed geometries and sepia tones, resembles cubist work by Pablo Picasso.

By playing up such juxtapositions — and adding a beautiful slideshow depicting Southwestern landscapes — the exhibit does a fine job providing context and ambiance for O’Keeffe’s work. As the show makes abundantly clear, O’Keeffe, who began painting in the Southwest in 1929 and moved there permanently in 1949, was not the first or only artist drawn to New Mexico’s colorful cultures and its magnificent landscapes. (They don’t call New Mexico the Land of Enchantment for nothing.)

Speaking of enchantment, it was a little strange but not at all that out of step with the Southwestern vibe of the exhibition to find skeletons and zombies walking through the galleries on opening weekend, which coincided with the museum’s Day of the Dead celebration.

New Mexico, after all, had once been part of old Mexico, and one will find the same cultural traditions and artifacts on both sides of the border.

That said, I found the “Cultural Artifacts” part of the exhibition slightly problematic. Consider Joseph Henry Sharp’s “Crow Papoose and Pueblo Rain Gods,” which depicts two entirely different sets of artifacts created by two entirely different Indian tribes on one canvas. One of the Pueblo Rain God sculptures has been decapitated, which, according to Warkel, suggests that the painter thinks native culture is being undermined by white America.

The painting reminded me of the John Wayne-starring 1956 film The Searchers, which shows Plains Indians with feather headdresses riding horses through Arizona’s Monument Valley. From a post-colonial perspective, Sharp’s presumptuous concern for the marginalization of native cultures is as disconcerting as director John Ford’s unconcern for historical truths. After all, wasn’t Sharp part of the horde of mostly white artists (including O’Keeffe) invading what had once been territory occupied mostly 18 VISUAL // 12.03.14 - 12.10.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO

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Image ID: OK CR1283 Amon Carter KEEP FRAME L R Edges Georgia O’Keeffe (1887– 1986). Black Patio Door, 1955. Oil on canvas, 40 1/8 x 30 in. Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas. (O’Keeffe 1283) © Copyright 2014 Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Image courtesy International Arts® COPYRIGHT 2014 AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART. IMAGE COURTESY INTERNATIONAL ARTS

“Black Patio Door” (1955) by Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986).

Image ID: Baumann Hopi 908.23G Gustave Baumann (1881–1971). Hopi Katzinas, 1924. Color woodcut, 12 1/4 x 13 1/4 in. New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe. Museum purchase with funds raised by the School of American Research. 1952, 908.23G. © New Mexico Museum of Art. Photograph

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by Hispanic farmers and Pueblo tribespeople? What can we make of his pieties given his recent arrival in the region?

Unlike Sharp, O’Keeffe didn’t often paint cultural artifacts, according to Warkel. An exception is her painting “The Wooden Virgin,” which depicts a santos (saint) icon commonly found on altars in Hispanic households in the Southwest.

“She painted that because it was one of the santos that Mabel Dodge Luhan had in her house,” Warkel told me as we continued our walk through the exhibition space. “And she just happened to see it.”

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Image ID: OK CR0876 OKM Georgia O’Keeffe (1887– 1986). Mule’s Skull with Pink Poinsettia, 1936. Oil on canvas, 40 1/8 x 30 in.

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“Mule’s Skull with Pink Poinsettia,” (1936) by Georgia O’Keeffe

Northern New Mexico, with its sublime landscapes and its mix of cultures, served an artistic aphrodisiac to O’Keeffe and her contemporaries, whether modernist or traditionalist.

nationally syndicated columnist for the Hearst Newspapers, started a literary colony in the pueblo of Taos, New Mexico in 1919. With her husband, Tony Luhan, she hosted prominent artists and writers, including painter Marsden Hartley (featured in this exhibition), novelist Willa Cather and poet Robinson Jeffers.

I read Jeffers voraciously in college.

But I also listened to the Indigo Girls, I’m ashamed to say. And from both I’ve since moved on.

“Robinson Jeffers had had an affair with Mabel Dodge Luhan when he visited the region with his wife in the early 1930s,” I told Warkel. (Turns out I was

wrong: the married Jeffers did have an affair while staying at Luhan’s house, but it wasn’t with Luhan, who helped set the groundwork for the liaison but didn’t take part in it.)

“Who didn’t she have an affair with?”

Warkel replied, evidently believing my false testimony. “She was upset that her husband looked at other women while she just slept with other men.”

Jeffers had his own peculiarly jaundiced take on the scene at Taos, which was attracting more than its share of tourists.

Here’s a stanza from his 1932 poem “New Mexican Mountain”: People from cities, anxious to be human again. Poor show how they suck you empty! The Indians are emptied, And certainly there was never religion enough, nor beauty nor poetry here…to fill Americans.

I’m not a fan of this particular Jeffers screed, which I consider to be one of his more self-flagellant poems. But one can find more than enough poetry in this exhibition.

Keep an eye out for Modernist luminary Stuart Davis’s 1923 oil painting, “Still Life with Map, New Mexico” a visual pun on the phrase “I saw New Mexico,” including a visual depiction of a saw. (He didn’t like New Mexico all that much, according to Warkel: he came, he saw and he left).

Then there’s “Garden of Eden,” a warmly colorful abstract work from 1937

by Dorothy Morang that suggests that the realm of Adam and Eve was as much a feeling as a place.

And let’s not forget O’Keeffe’s bone paintings, as surreal as anything by Salvador Dali. In 1938’s “From the Faraway, Nearby,” the deer’s antlers in the foreground take up the whole of the painting against the backdrop of a mountainous New Mexico landscape.

The IMA is fortunate enough to have the spectacular “Pelvis with the Distance” as a part of its permanent collection, with its patch of blue seen through a socket of a pelvis towering to the sky.

To me, the bone paintings, infused with O’Keeffe’s love of New Mexico, have always been her most stunning work. Northern New Mexico, with its sublime landscapes and its mix of cultures, served an artistic aphrodisiac to O’Keeffe and her contemporaries, whether modernist or traditionalist.

The modernists tended to locate themselves in Santa Fe, according to Warkel, while the traditionalists preferred Taos.

Georgia O’Keeffe and the Southwestern Still Life persuasively tells the story of this collective love affair. n

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EVENTS Butler Ballet: The Nutcracker Dec. 4-7. It’s billed “only fully staged production of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker in Central Indiana” — and that sounds right to us. The Butler Ballet Orchestra and the Indianapolis Children’s Choir will accompany Butler Ballet, under the direction of Richard Auldon Clark.

Clowes Memorial Hall, $22-29 adult, $17-23 children, students and seniors, butler.edu Broadway Meets Motown Dec. 4-14. This two-act show will, as is often the case with Dance Kaleidoscope, intertwine familiar tunes with modern dance. First up: a visit to Broadway featuring show-stopping showtunes. Next: a trip to Motown for a presentation featuring three different choreographers.

Indiana Repertory Theatre, 140 W. Washington St., $8-40, dancekal.org Yuletide Celebration Dec. 5-23. Soprano Angela Brown and Broadway vet Ben Crawford (whose credits include Shrek in Shrek The Musical) are back to co-host the 29th edition of the ISO’s Christmas variety show, conducted by Jack Everly and featuring, for the first time, ISO artists-in-residence Time for Three.

We’re told to expect a Frozen medley (from “Let It Go” to “Do You Want to Build a Snowman”) and, as always, Tap Dancing Santas.

Hilbert Circle Theatre, $41-76, indianapolissymphony.org Breaking Up Christmas featuring Sheila Kay Adams Dec. 6, 7:30 p.m. Balladeer, storyteller and clawhammer banjo player Sheila Kay Adams learned the songs of Appalachia in the old, familiar way. A great aunt sang her ballads one line at a time, repeating each line until Adams knew it by heart. She’s passed along the tradition in her own way, serving as technical advisor and singing coach for the film Songcatcher and touring programs of traditional music and storytelling.

Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center, $20 advance (storytellingarts.org), $25 door, $15 students Festival of Carols Dec. 7, 20 and 21. The annual Festival of Carols is one of Indianapolis Symphonic Choir’s most popular programs, so we’d suggest snapping up tickets while they last, even if the number of performances jumped from three to four this year.

This year’s special guest is soprano Marie Jette (as heard on A Prairie Home Companion).

Dec. 7 at Scottish Rite Cathedral; Dec. 20 and 21 at the Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts (Carmel); $15-38; indychoir.org

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HOLIDAY PERFORMANCES A Very Phoenix Xmas 9: Flashing Through the Snow q Through Dec. 21. The Phoenix’s annual holiday variety show acknowledges the profound loneliness that many people feel during this season of ramped-up expectations. But it also takes us through that loneliness to the humor and exhilaration on the other side.

In one selection, Dave Ruark sings “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen as if alone in a church pew while behind him the four women from the ensemble sing the “Hallelujah” chorus from Handel’s Messiah. I wasn’t the only one weeping by the end of this blend.

Yet a perfectly chosen humorous piece follows that. And then the entire ensemble kneels on the floor singing Fain and Cahn’s “You Can Fly” while Rob Johansen performs jaw-dropping acrobatics suspended from a long piece of cloth attached to the ceiling.

And those are just a few of the delights on offer in A Very Phoenix Xmas 9: Flashing Through the Snow, directed by Bryan Fonseca and curated by Fonseca and Phoenix playwright-in-residence Tom Horan. Tim Brickley and Brent Marty are co-musical directors and arrangers. Mariel Greenlee is the show’s very cool choreographer.

What I love most about this year’s mix of singing, dancing, comedy and drama is how adroitly it honors the fact that while Christmas is a shared cultural

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Rob Johansen soars in A Very Phoenix Xmas 9: Flashing Through the Snow (above). Ryan Artzberger and Liz Kimball chat in A Christmas Carol. experience, each person’s experience of it is unique, and unique each year. In between the collaborative pieces of the show, each of the seven ensemble members briefly shares a holiday memory from his or her own life.

The ensemble, or “pack,” in the show’s parlance, includes Olivia Huntley, Rob Johansen, Carly Kincannon, Ryan O’Shea, Dave Ruark, Lincoln Slentz and Arianne Villareal. Each brings something special yet

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol q You know the iconic story, right? A miserly jerk Through Dec. 26. If you’ve never seen the IRT’s Carol, this is a good time to go. And if you go every gets a four-part wake-up call one Christmas Eve. year, this is also a good time. The production is both Ebenezer Scrooge is visited first by his dead friend, reliably beautiful (that snow!) and freshly satisfying.

Marley, and then the Ghosts of Christmas Past, The new mix of actors is lovely under Courtney Sale’s Present, and Future. Fortunately, he pays attention. direction. And there are subtle new pleasures in the He wakes up mentally as well as physically the next design elements. This year I particularly appreciated morning and lives his life differently from then on. the gorgeous period costumes Tom Haas’ stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’ designed by Murell Hor1843 novella has the actors telling the story about ton and the musical emtheir characters as they act it out at a brisk pace. bellishments composed This means you get to enjoy the original’s rich

by Andrew Hopson. language without getting bogged down by it.

also works well with the others.

The show includes one short hilarious play each

by Eric Pfeffinger, Matt Hoverman, Seth Freeman, Daniel Guyton and Patrick Gabridge. The final piece,

by Mark Harvey Levine, is a mind-boggling mash-up of musical theatre and TV. Phoenix Theatre, $35 adult, $22 age 21 and under (all Wednesday tickets $25), phoenixtheatre.org

Each of the actors plays more than one role except Scrooge. This is Ryan Artzberger’s fifth year in the title role. His portrayal grows more nuanced every year. He takes his time with the moment when Scrooge wakes up, laughing and laughing at the unexpected joy of it.

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FILM EVENTS RiffTrax Live: Santa Claus Dec. 4, 8 p.m. The RiffTrax A-team — Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, all former Mystery Science Theatre 3000 cast members — offers new riffs on an MST3K fave: a 1959 curiosity filmed in Mexico (and dubbed in English) that finds Santa battling the Devil on his quest to deliver a doll to forlorn tyke Pupita.

Various theaters, $12.50, fathomevents.com A Christmas Story (1983) Dec. 5-7. Because it’s really not that much fun to watch it on TBS. Artcraft Theatre (Franklin), $3-5, historicartcrafttheatre.org

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very so often someone makes a movie deromanticizing the Western. The Homesman is Tommy Lee Jones’ directorial take on the genre, with a screenplay written by Jones, Kieran Fitzgerald and Wesley Oliver, based on the novel by Glendon Swarthout. Jones also stars in the film, along with Hilary Swank, who should land a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance.

John Lithgow, James Spader and Meryl Streep also make appearances. The three big-league actors are only onscreen briefly, which makes me wonder how much was cut from the production.

Jones’ directorial debut was 2005’s The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, a brutal tale with a wicked sense of humor set in the border area between Texas and Mexico in contemporary times. The Homesman is considerably more downbeat. It reminds us repeatedly of how fragile civilization was in the Old West.

People were eager to erect enough buildings to be able to call the results a town, which sounds relatively safe.

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community. She’s sorely alone, but can’t land a man. We witness one attempt, when she tries to negotiate a marriage with young Garn Sours (Jesse Plemons).

Garn Sours, Mary Bee Cuddy: what great names! Garn tries to be polite, but ends up informing her rudely that she is too plain and too bossy.

I was reminded of an episode of The Office where the staff debated whether Hilary Swank was “hot or not.” Everyone acknowledged that she was talented, probably a fine person, and that she could make herself look beautiful when she wanted, but still they argued on whether she really was sexy. Since Boys Don’t Cry, Swank has been associated with appearances, traits and occupations associated with traditional masculinity.

And so it continues here. Three local women have gone crazy and need to be taken to Iowa to be tended to in a

Not with a title like The Homesman

more kindly environment. The menfolk won’t step forward, so Cuddy takes on the task. With the suffering women confined to an altogether too small carriage, she heads away from any pretense of security.

Shorty after she encounters a grizzled fellow wearing only his long johns, sitting precariously atop a horse. There’s a noose around the man’s neck tethered to a tree branch above. Cuddy works out a deal with the condemned rascal, whose name is George Briggs (Jones). She’ll free him, but he must help her get the women safely off the plains. And with that The Homesman turns into a road movie without a road.

Briggs is ornery as hell, while Cuddy is rigid in her ways. They squabble. They encounter a group of Indians. And so on.

The film has been hailed as a bold look at the challenges, indignities and barriers faced by women. Some of that is certainly addressed, but please note that the movie is named The Homesman.

Yes, the term refers to the person taking the mentally ill women home, but the fact is that Briggs gets more screen time that Cuddy. Too bad, as the production works better when focused on Swank than when Jones is front and center. n

Home Alone (1990) Dec. 5- 11. A weeklong run for probably the most violent holiday classic in the canon.

Cinemark Greenwood, $1.75-2.50, cinemark.com TCM Presents: A Christmas Carol (1938) and Christmas in Connecticut (1945) Dec. 7, 2 and 7 p.m. An Xmas double feature, introduced by TCM host Ben Mankiewicz.

Various theaters, $12.50, fathomevents.com Pilot Error Dec. 8, 9 and 11. A based-on-a-true-story indie about a journalist trying to figure out what happened to a plane that went missing during a flight from South America to Paris. Filmed in Muskegon, Michigan.

Goodrich Brownsburg and Hamilton, goodrichqualitytheatres.com American Promise (2013) Dec. 8, 7 p.m. Thirteen years in the making, American Promise follows two students who are the first from their middle-class, African-American families to attend a prestigious Manhattan private school.

IU Cinema (Bloomington), FREE, cinema.indiana.edu

Caddyshack (1980) Dec. 10, 7:30 p.m. Indy Film Fest closes out its Roving Cinema season with the first film directed by the recently departed Harold Ramis. Bring your own seats.

Sun King Brewing, $10 (21+ only), indyfilmfest.org

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CONTINUING All reviews by Ed Johnson-Ott. Beyond the Lights t Showbiz love story buoyed by a swell performance

by Gugu Mbatha-Raw. Pop diva Nori (Mbatha-Raw) meets Kaz Nicol (Nate Parker), a police officer and politician in the making, and sparks fly. He’s assigned to protect her (shades of The Bodyguard) and you know where everything’s going, but the herky-jerky direction of Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love and Basketball) manages to keep the proceedings lively, aided greatly by the fine cast. Minnie Driver and Danny Glover costar as an overbearing mother and an overprotective father. Soapy fun.

PG-13, in wide release Horrible Bosses 2 i In 2011, I grudgingly gave Horrible Bosses three stars. This TOTALLY UNNECESSARY sequel gets half that. Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis return as guys with vengeance on their minds. The difference this time is that Day and Sudeikis’ characters are more annoying. Jennifer Aniston, Jamie Foxx and Kevin Spacey pop up just long enough to collect a paycheck. New to this film is Chris Pine, who is very hyper. The plot involves the release of a new product and, later, a kidnapping. None of it is funny.

R, in wide release Interstellar r Written by director Christopher Nolan and his brother Jonathan, Interstellar is an ambitious, complex and sprawling film set in the near future. The film offers grand visuals, including a bizarre-beautiful key scene in a location I couldn’t describe if I wanted to. I was entertained and fully engaged for the first two-thirds of the story, despite my frustration at the one-note characterizations of the two women (and most of the men). Matthew McConaughey delivers — who better to play a philosophizing space cowboy? Interstellar is basically Nolan’s 2001: A Space Odyssey on a feedback loop. Do with that what you will.

PG-13, in wide release Penguins of Madagascar y Spin-off of the animated Madagascar kid-flicks. The story concerns penguin spies trying to stop a villain from doing a very naughty thing. Celebrity voices

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include Benedict Cumberbatch, John Malkovich, Andy Richter and Ken Jeong. There’s lots of color and frantic action, which the children around me seemed to love.

I was bored for most of the film. If you’re a grownup with an iPod, I suggest you bring it along, just in case you react like I did. Note: The star rating is a compromise between my reaction and the reactions I witnessed from the film’s intended audience.

PG, in wide release The Theory of Everything e A beautifully acted, handsome and somewhat glossy biopic based on Jane Hawking’s book about how she and revered theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking met, fell in love, got married and dealt with his degenerative illness.

Eddie Redmayne plays Stephen in a brave, determined fashion guaranteed to snag him Best Actor nominations.

And Felicity Jones plays Jane as a sweet, strong individual with traditional beliefs unafraid to veer from the more traveled path. The film made the real Stephen Hawking cry and it likely will do the same to many of you.

PG-13, in wide release Whiplash q J.K. Simmons gives one of his best performances here as Terence Fletcher, a man in charge of college age musicians. You know Simmons as the monstrous Vern Schillinger in Oz, J. Jonah Jameson in the Spider-Man trilogy, the dad in Juno and … hell, he’s got 140-plus credits, you’ll recognize him. Miles Teller plays 19-year-old drummer Andrew Neyman, and he’s just as good as Simmons, though he will probably get less attention during awards season because his performance is in a lower key.

Whiplash is the second film from writer-director Damien Chazelle, whose smartest decision is to focus almost completely on the ferocious teacher and the determined student. Whether the spectacle we witness is bullying or academic S&M, the film is riveting.

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his year, we’ve had all manner of new restaurants open, from the casual to the fancy-schmancy. Now you can find everything from raw and vegan fare to Tex-Mex in Zionsville and playful, refined dining in Greenwood. These are our picks for great places to try when you’re making those last few checks on your eating bucket list for 2014.

Salty Cowboy You can read Jolene’s entire review of The Salty Cowboy on nuvo.net, but her overall impression was “kitschy and uncomplicated but definitely appealing.” The new Tex-Mex joint opened shop in downtown of Zionsville, bringing with them a new kind of southwestern offerings. They do the standard Tex-Mex thing, with margaritas and guac and all those favorites. But it’s the Texas influence that puts them on the map with a variety of smoked meats, like brisket and pulled pork. The location has the colorful decor of a border town, and many dishes come in those quaint quilted glass jars.

55 E. Oak St. (Zionsville), 344-0926

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Smoke ring, tenderness and spice: North End’s perfect ribs.

North End BBQ A sister restaurant to Late Harvest Kitchen, this new northside barbecue joint brings everything from smoked meat and fish to homestyle plates with johnny cakes and pimento spread. It’s halfway between a southern backyard barbecue and a sophisticated, high-end eatery. Don’t be put off by its location among a sea of stripmalls: they’re not serving freezer-to-fryer Sam’s Club appetizers, but big plates of Texas

brisket and baby back ribs. The best part is North End is the Switzerland of barbecue sauce traditions, offering four different varieties from mustard to molasses-based. Jolene reviewed their perfectly-cooked ribs and found the place to be worthy of a second visit.

1250 E. 86th St., 614-7427, thenorthendbbq.com Milktooth There is brunch food, and then there is mothahfuckin’ brunch food. Yeah, so there are kids there in flannel and sock hats, and there’s a garden out front.

Drop your hipster judgy face for five friggin’ seconds and go enjoy a completely different take on the most glorious meal of the day. Milktooth ain’t your standard-issue greasy spoon, so bring with you a sense of adventure and a willingness to try something you never have before. Also, get there early to avoid long waits. Actually, don’t: the longer you wait the more you’ll be able to consume amazing coffee and cocktails. This is definitely a “special occasion” kind of brunch.

534 Virginia Ave., 986-5131, milktoothindy.com Plow & Anchor The midwest is not generally known for being a hotspot of high-quality seafood and seafood chefs. John Adams, chef at the newly-opened Plow & Anchor, is trying to change that with a menu devoted to the fruits of the sea. With a fabulous wine program, Plow & Anchor is going the way of the high-end seafood house, and downtown residents couldn’t be more pleased. They also host a variety of tasting dinners with winemakers and other partners. Check them out on social media to stay on top of the event schedule.

43 W. 9th St., 964-0538, plowandanchor.com

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All of Milktooth’s high points: The food, the cocktails and the coffee.

Public Greens As part of the Patachou family of restaurants, Public Greens is turning out the fresh, thoughtful fare that Martha Hoover’s family of restaurants is known for. There’s a twist though: All of the profits from the restaurant will go to fund their charitable Patachou Foundation, which feeds meals to food-insecure kids around the city. The self-service location has a staff farmer and sources from their micro farm just across the Monon from the restaurant.

The location also has a knockout patio, which will be used for live music and seating in the warmer months. But no matter what you order on the menu or from the beer taps (yes, it has those, too), you’ll be helping feed hungry central Indiana kids.

Monon Trail (Broad Ripple), 202-0765, publicgreensurbankitchen.com

Revery Greenwood’s newest restaurant is one big circus — which, we think, it’s a great thing. The restaurant is pairing sophisticated menu items with playful service (you can draw on the tables at this adults-only location) and a heavy infusion of humor and fun. Everyone gets a bite of cotton candy, because who has ever bitten into cotton candy and not been transported back to a circus show or fair ride? No one, that’s who. If you’re looking for a dining experience that is serious about the menu items only, head down to Greenwood and have a little playtime at this new joint. Read Jolene’s review on NUVO.net.

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Flat12 Bierwerks expansion to downtown Jeffersonville Grand Opening Celebration is Dec. 6 from 11 a.m.-10 p.m. at 130 W. Riverside Dr. The event is free, and pints, growler fills and food will be available for purchase.

The house beer list will feature current Flat12 favorites, unique brews such as Spirit Mover Saison, Joe Brahma Coffee Brown Ale, Kattenstoet Belgian Pale and taproom-only offerings.

“We want to make the Jeffersonville location truly unique by offering an exclusive lineup of beers.

Look for a host of one-off beers on the rotating taps that will only be available at the Jeff taproom,” said Rob Caputo, Director of Brewery Operations.

“Situated in scenic downtown Jeffersonville just blocks away from the Big Four Bridge, the rustic, yet polished taproom features a bar with 32 taps, ample table seating, large-screen televisions for sporting events, and a spacious deck overlooking the Ohio River, outfitted with heaters and sidewalls for yearround use. With up-cycled keg pendant lights and reclaimed wooden walls offering a warm rustic feel, and contemporary touches giving it an industrial edge, the overall atmosphere is laid-back and inviting,” said Sean O’Connor, co-founder and president of Flat12.

After distributing to bars, restaurants and stores along Ohio River, “we saw the excitement building in Jeffersonville and we’re happy to be the newest member of the growing Kentuckiana community.”

Brugge Tripel de Ripple is back since its last appearance in 2010. Kahns on Keystone has 750 ML bottles with the familiar duck silhouette and find Tripel on tap at Brugge in Broad Ripple.

Oaken Barrel reports, “We have the U.S. Wheat as our seasonal with Epiphany Belgian Tripel and OB Stout coming.

Events Dec. 5: Indiana Taps and Touchdowns Brew Fest on Georgia Street, 4-7 p.m. This new festival is part of the festivities leading to the Big 10 Football Championship Game at Lucas Oil Stadium on Dec. 6. More information and tickets: indianasportscorp.org Dec. 5: Sun King Tap Takeover featuring ten different versions of Wee Mac and Wee Muckle.

6 p.m.-midnight at La Margarita in Fountain Square, 1043 Virginia Ave. Dec. 6: Five-course beer dinner $60 at Upland in Carmel, 820 E. 116th St., 7:30 p.m. More information and to reserve email: Alison@ uplandbeer.com Dec. 5: Indiana Repertory Theatre Holiday Hoopla includes Scarlet Lane tastings at 6 p.m. followed by performances of A Christmas Carol at 7 p.m. Learn more at irtlive.com or 635-5252.

Dec. 6: Cask ‘N Cellar Grand Opening at 6420 Kennedy Ave. in Hammond, 4-8 p.m.Triton reports, “We will be there celebrating the opening of another great retailer.”

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MUST-GO DECEMBER DINING EVENTS FROM REPEAL DAY TO THE RESTAURANT BATTLE You know what everyone loves? A nice, dressy sweater. Always looks good, feels warm, and makes the holiday season feel so official. Another good reason to bust that bad boy out? It’s party season! December is packed with tons of dining and food events, but we pulled our favorites from our most recent Winter City Guide (look for it in the red boxes around town). As always, you can check out nuvo.net/ food and click on Food Events to see a complete list. Cheers!

Repeal Day Party Dec. 5, 10 p.m. In 2013, bartenders, servers and other industry professionals threw a party in the historic catacombs under City Market in downtown Indianapolis.

Many considered it to be the premier beverage industry party, but last year’s event wasn’t open to the public. Not anymore! This year, they’re partnering with the State Museum and the Indiana Historical Society, and everyone in town is invited. Head downtown to City Market where they’ll be pouring all kinds of cocktails for your enjoyment. Each ticket comes with 2 drink tickets, plus more available for purchase (this is a Prohibition Repeal party, after all).

City Market, 222 E. Market St. $20 Celebrate the Return of the Cocktail Party Dec. 5, 5 p.m.-7p.m. Haven’t been to the State Museum’s Prohibition Exhibit? Get tickets in the coolest way possible with this event. Not only will you get tickets to the exhibit, but you’ll also score a St. Elmo’s shrimp cocktail gift card, some appetizers, and some other stuff too. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites to develop high quality exhibition and dynamic programming for visitors and schoolchildren across the state of Indiana.

1933 Lounge (above St. Elmo), 127 S. Illinois St, Ste. 2, $80 Holiday Nibbles and ‘Nogs Dec 5 and 6, 5-9 p.m. Hey! Nashville, IN isn’t closed just because the leaves have all fallen.

This event features participating eateries, wineries and breweries offering up their wares while you wander among the shops (which will, of course, be loaded with crafty stuff and smell like potpourri and scented candles).

They’ll be prize drawings, too.

Downtown Nashville, prices vary, bccfin.org

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Last year’s Repeal Day Party was industry only, but you’re invited to this year’s festivities.

Ugly Sweater Brew Run Dec. 6, 1 p.m. You put on a hideous sweater and run from craft brewery to craft brewery Yep. Running and drinking. In an ugly sweater. Your ticket price includes two samples at each participating brewer: Fountain Square Brewing Company, Indiana City, Chilly Water, Tow Yard, and Flat 12 plus a complimentary beer at the end.

It’s a five-miler (the longest stretch between brewers is two miles) and the pace should ensure you wrap in under three hours.

Indiana City Brewing Co., 24 Shelby St., $35 Santa Stumble Bar Crawl Dec. 6, 6:30-11 p.m. Circle City Athletics is putting on their annual Santa Stumble Bar Crawl in Broad Ripple. The stumble will be leaving in color-coded groups, so head to their website and buy your tickets in the same color group if you want to stumble with friends. They also encourage you to wear your best Santa or Mrs. Claus attire.

Pizza will be given to the best Santa and Mrs., and they’ll be hitting up all of these bars: Average Joes, Brothers, Broad Ripple Tavern, Chumley’s, Mine Shaft, Kilroys and ending at Rock Lobster for the after party.

Average Joe’s, 814 Broad Ripple Ave., $20, 21+

12 Chefs of Christmas Dec. 13, 7 p.m. Blessed are those who get tickets to 12 Chefs of Christmas. It’s Chefs Night Off on steroids, with 12 of the best chefs (or chef teams, as it may be) serving up 12 dishes paired with a Flat 12 beer. Folks like Milktooth’s Jonathan Brooks and Carlos Salazar from Rook to name but a few of the stellar dozen who will be cooking this night.

City Market, 222 E. Market St., prices vary, 21+ Indianapolis On Deck’s Restaurant Battle Dec. 14, 6:30 p.m. The rules are simple: Each chef must bring a sous chef to assist them in a mystery basket challenge. The chefs must complete one dish in under an hour using the mystery protein and vegetable provided. The first twenty minutes will be for the sous chefs to begin preparations of their respective team’s dish. The remaining forty minutes will be left to chefs Greg Hardesty and Aaron Butts to complete what their sous chefs have begun. This battle is going to pit Recess against Roanoke’s Joseph Decuis, and it’s all taking place at Milktooth. Tickets include snacks, tequila, tacos and a drink ticket.

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LIST , FROM PAGE 23 Ezra’s Enlightened Cafe Ezra’s opened over the summer in Broad Ripple, bringing a whole foods, raw vegan revolution with it. They serve everything from pizza to soup, all of it organic and minimally processed. To call it “superfood” is the understatement of the century, and even the most “rabbit food”-opposed diner can find something they like at Ezra’s.

During cold season, we highly recommend making regular stops to the juice bar to power up your immune system. They’ve got the edible cure for what ails you.

6516 Ferguson St., 255-3972, ezrasenlightenedcafe.com Nine Irish Brothers The Irish-centric bar on the corner of Mass and East is both enormous and jam-packed with old-fashioned Irish menu options. Corned beef?

Check. Guinness? Check. It’s all there. The bar program is also great at keeping small local breweries in rotation, so there’s something local to drink with your across-the-pond noshes. Whether you’re just getting

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575 Mass Ave., 964-0990, nineirishbrothers.com Burgerhaus Yet another out-of-town small franchise moved into the canal space at the new residence downtown. The menu setup is simple, but the burgers and fries are pretty killer. With a nice selection of local beers on tap, it’s hard to beat an ice cold brew and a thick, juicy burger. We also give double props for advertising “spicy” fries that actually had a tasty amount of real heat in there, which made the beer go down that much better.

335 W. 9th St., 434-4287, indy.burgerhausrestaurants.com Union 50 It’s been a good year for the Cunningham Restaurant group. Layton Roberts, Cunningham’s allstar roving head chef, has created an incredible menu, with updated favorites like kimchi meatballs and old favorites like their New York Strip served with celery root puree.

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It’s a great spot that splits the difference between experimentation and familiarity, which makes the updates all the more refreshing.

The interior is stunning, with an outstanding bar program to accompany the enormous variety of dishes available, from a charcuterie plate to a big ol’ slab of beef. Check it out in the old Trowel Arts building next time you’re searching for a new place on Mass Ave. 620 East St., 610-0234, union-50.com La Mulita Delicia’s little cantina sibling opened this past year, and Jolene found it to be a wonderfully relaxed version of Delicia’s upscale fare. You can grab some tacos for lunch or a salad, or go for something a little more traditional, like a tamale or a pambazo, a sauceslathered cousin to the torta. They serve dinner, too, with an equally relaxed vibe and lower prices (most things are under ten bucks) than its next-door neighbor.

5215 N. College Ave., 925-0677, lamulitaindy.com — SARAH MURRELL

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o matter how snowy it is where you live, you can have a green Christmas — even though the season is rife with over-consumption. Each year in the U.S., approximately $75 billion is spent on Christmas gifts, 1.9 billion cards are sent and 20.8 million trees are cut. This year, you can save a little money and the environment by carefully choosing eco-friendly gifts and décor. It’s easier than you think.

Gifts Shop local. Transportation of goods contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. Buying from local producers reduces environment impact and supports the local economy. In addition, money spent at local businesses generates 3.5 times more wealth for the local economy than money spent at chain-owned businesses. One-of-a-kind local products are a unique alternative to mass-produced items from retailers.

Check swap meets, craft shows, farmers markets, local listings and Etsy, which features a map for nearby artists.

DIY. Put your talents to work and make it yourself. Do you bake, knit, sew, paint or build things? Make the holidays personal by giving of yourself. Who doesn’t love cookies, a gender-neutral gift for the whole family? If you can’t cook, put ingredients in an attractive glass jar with the recipe and let the recipient do the cooking.

Recycle. There are many forms of recycling, from “re-gifting” to antiques to new products made from recycled materials. Vintage items are all the rage.

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Power down. Avoid giving gifts that require batteries. Discarded batteries are an environmental hazard. According to the EPA, 40% of all battery sales occur during the holidays.

Make it deductible. Give to your favorite charity in the name of your friends and family. Go directly to their website or try Heifer.org and JustGive. org for help.

Be a material girl. Try to avoid plastics, polyesters and other materials that are not easily renewable or may produce toxins. Look for bamboo, cotton and wool – especially if they are organic.

Wrap it up. According to The Recycler’s Handbook, half the paper used in the U.S. each year is wrapping paper. The annual trash from gift wrap and shopping bags totals more than 4 million tons. Avoid glossy or metallic gift wrap. Try fabric gift wrap or get creative by wrapping items in newspaper or old maps, calendars and posters. If you use ribbon, you may be able to skip the tape, which makes reclaiming the paper more difficult. Save the paper from large packages; creases can be ironed out and it can be cut to size for smaller gifts.

Play a little tag. Repurpose last year’s greeting cards as gift tags. For gift bags that come with attached tags, write “Please reuse this bag!” on them.

Pack it up. Bubble wrap is easy to store for future reuse. Cardboard boxes can be saved and reused or set out for recycling.

Shipping companies like Mailboxes, etc. accept foam packing chips.

Remember that less is more. It’s the old quality vs. quantity argument. Give less and make each gift count by purchasing items of value, purpose and meaning.

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Decorate less: clutter isn’t pretty.

Keep it simple. Use treasured heirloom ornaments that have been in your family for generations. Choose durable ornaments made of wood, metal or cloth; they’ll last longer.

Light it — down? Fewer outdoor holiday lights will conserve electricity – which means a lower bill for you and better resource management for the planet. Use mini-lights outside; they utilize less energy.

Burn one. Don’t throw away the whole string when a single bulb goes out.

Replace individual bulbs.

Get the LED out. If your lights are older than 10 years, it’s more efficient to replace them with new LED bulbs, which save up to 90% on energy costs and last longer. They use 0.04 watts per bulb – 10 times less than mini-bulbs and 100 times less than traditional bulbs.

Over 30 days, they will cost $0.19 vs. $18.00 for traditional lights. They can last up to 100,000 hours indoors.

Decorate with nature. Incorporate pine cones or pine boughs into your design. Cut some dried seed pods or flower heads from your garden. Set a blooming plant on the mantel or use cut flowers as your table’s centerpiece.

Time it. Put your holiday lights on timers. It’s a waste of energy to leave them on all night.

Plant the tree. Of the 50 million trees purchased in the U.S. each year, about 30 million go to the landfill. It’s been long debated whether a reusable plastic tree is better for the environment than a cut tree. The answer is: neither. Try a potted tree instead. A small potted tree can be used for several years before it’s planted outdoors. If a potted tree isn’t for you, a live tree is the next best choice. Plastic trees are made from petroleum products and use resources in manufacturing and

shipping. Although theoretically eternal, research shows that repeated use decreases their attractiveness, at which time they are discarded and sent to landfills. Live trees are a renewable resource and often locally grown, saving transportation. They contribute to the air quality during their life and can be converted into mulch after the holidays. Many communities offer tree pickup and chipping for free.

Christmas dinner Eat local. Choose local and organic foods. If you canned produce from your garden last summer or made jam, now is the perfect time to use it.

Use the good china. The holidays were made for using the good dishes and the cloth napkins. Avoid disposables like Styrofoam cups and plastic forks. Break out the fancy stuff!

Bottoms up! Avoid individually packaged beverages. Use the punch bowl to make eggnog. Fill pretty pitchers with ice water and set them on the table for everyone to see – and reach.

Use the leftovers. Nothing beats holiday leftovers. What can’t be saved can be composted for the garden.

The party’s over Cleanup. After the party, use all-natural household cleaners to tidy up. Run only full loads in the dishwasher and washing machine.

Donate. Did you get the latest gadgets?

Donate your old electronics items or find a recycler for computer monitors, laptops, cell phones and other items because Indiana state law prohibits their disposal in landfills.

Remember, the holidays are a time for friends and family. You don’t need a lot of presents, a dazzling light display or an embarrassing amount of food. You just need a little appreciation to enjoy this special time of year. n

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TINY CHATS CATALYTIC BREAKS OUT Talk to enough bands and you’ll quickly learn they all have their favorite disastrous show story.

Dustin Strole, lead vocalist for Indianapolis metalcore band Catalytic, is no different.

“At our very first show ever, our drummer’s entire cymbal stand just completely fell out midsong!” Strole says laughing, when I inquire about his. “He just quit playing, started asking for a Phillips-head screwdriver. ‘Anybody in the crowd got a screwdriver?’”

Catalytic arrived last year with a sound fully formed. Their debut The Voice of Reason earned high praise from IU-Kokomo’s The Forge, as writer Rob Salem praised the production and the band’s songs even as he hoped they’d push beyond their early influences.

“When we started out there was definitely a big Killswitch Engage influence, In Flames, All That Remains, all the typical genre of metalcore,” Dustin Chavez, the band’s guitarist, says. “But now that we’ve finally got a drummer again, we’re definitely getting heavier.”

“Whether you realize it or not, early on you do rely on those influences as your sound develops,” adds Alexander Farrington, who joined the band on drums early this year. “It was a big thing for me, listening to the record. It’s got that Killswitch vibe to it, but you can also tell there’s something more going on there. That’s just the first part of it.”

The band will play a show Friday at the Fifth Quarter Lounge, which will put them in front of an audience primed for an even heavier sound.

The venue, formerly known as Indy’s Jukebox, has earned a reputation over the past few months for pushing local acts.

“I just saw Skeletonwitch there recently, and that was really intense,” Farrington says. “It is definitely becoming one of those places you have to stop to hear great bands.”

Catalytic has had more than its share of personnel changes over the past year, and though they are still actively searching for a bass player, the main focus is on honing new demos and bringing Farrington into the songwriting fold.

“We get really excited when we play these songs for ourselves,” says Dustin Strole, the band’s lead singer. “It’s always nerve-wracking when you play a song and you don’t know how fans will react. For me the new stuff is more exciting to play anyway. I get into it more, I think my presence is better with the new music.”

— JONATHAN SANDERS Fleshsuit, Catalytic, Old Revel Minds, Cabin Pressue 5th Quarter Lounge, 306 E. Prospect St., 8 p.m., 21+

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lthough the Atlantic Ocean separates them, at most times, Ben Watt and Todd Robinson stay close. But I’ll let them explain that. First, a bit about how 2014 has looked for both.

After 30 years of solo silence – but not actual silence in the slightest, as he collaborated with his partner Tracey Thorn as Everything But The Girl, DJ’d all over, released two books, founded and ran label Buzzin’ Fly – Watt returns with solo release Hendra, a collection of 10 meticulous, meditative jazz-folk songs. He told Mother Jones that each song “was all about protagonists at some kind of crisis point and how they deal with it and move on.” Thirty years after his first solo album North Marine Drive, Watt has written an album that feels just as vital, as fresh, as his 1983 cult classic, a reflective, resolute album.

Robinson is spending the year celebrating his record store, LUNA Music, on the occasion of its 20th anniversary. He’s busy planning a smattering of special shows (both in and out of the store), releases and other events — but not too busy to catch up with his old friend, Ben Watt. To celebrate their milestone anniversaries, I asked Robinson and Watt to interview each other about how their friendship came to be and what music has happened along the way. And they made a playlist for us, too, packed with meaningful songs they’ve found and shared with one another.

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TODD ROBINSON: We first made contact after I saw a photo of Ben and his partner in Everything But The Girl, Tracey Thorn, in Q magazine promoting their 1994 album, Amplified Heart.

Ben was talking about how much he loved Liz Phair so I sent him one of her limited 7” singles and popped a note in with it. Ben fired right back and sent me Marion’s Toys For Boys 7”, and so began nearly two decades of record trading, turning each other onto new music, trying to best the last suggestion and becoming close friends.

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BEN WATT: I remember not long after that Everything But The Girl was on tour and we played a tiny show at the Magic Bag in Detroit. Todd was friends with someone from our label and turned up and drove us to an instore appearance and then came to the show. We just hit it off. I think we were looking to reconnect with our roots again and Todd was perfect company.

We stayed in touch, swapping records and faxes, and then when I got into electronic music and started DJing internationally around 2002, Todd would come to the US shows, travelling to Chicago, New York, Miami.

TODD: And then a few years ago, Ben stayed over in Indianapolis for the first time, and span a free DJ set at LUNA. A three-hour set! It was so warm with all the people inside,

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the windows were streaked with condensation! It was a killer set, rife with re-edits (Common, Sonic Youth, Fleetwood Mac, Bon Iver) and some obscure bullets. It must be noted that this reel is what gets played to start off every Record Store Day at LUNA. BEN: My main memory of that trip, it must be said, was a fierce evening of duckpin bowling in Fountain Square!

But I also remember being really struck by the shop. Beautifully curated. The little details. The layout.

BEN: And then in 2013 I began writing the songs for my recent solo album, Hendra. I’d hit a wall with DJ-ing and wanted to get back to words and music. I’d begun the writing process with a long book about my parents — a portrait of their marriage — called Romany and Tom [published

by Bloomsbury 2014 / Longlisted for Samuel Johnson Prize 2014] and the songs for Hendra just bubbled up right afterwards. I needed a break in the

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middle of writing and suggested to Todd we went on a road trip to clear my head, and I flew over and we spent ten days driving down Pacific Coast Highway; but more importantly Todd invited me to roadtest some of the new songs at LUNA before we headed out. I hadn’t played solo on guitar for years.

It seemed like a safe place to begin again so I took a guitar with me. It felt important to be starting again.

TODD: No one really knew what to expect. Is he DJ-ing? Playing samples and guitar? What happened was one of my favorite events at the shop, ever.

Ben showed up with a clutch of lethal songs and blew the roof off. People still talk to me about that show. Now they have the chance to see for themselves at Hi-Fi on December 6.

BEN: LUNA was definitely where my comeback as a live solo artist started.

While I was there Todd passed me a copy of Michael Chapman’s 1969 debut album Rainmaker that had just been re-issued after years in the wilderness. I listened on headphones at LUNA. It really chimed with me. I was working with a lot of alternate tunings at the time, and Chapman’s approach was similar, and so passionate and committed. It was a real booster for me. And the story came full circle last week when I finally got Chapman to open for me in London.

He was insanely brilliant and such a nice man. And it all began with Todd handing me a record.

BEN: Twenty years since birth of LUNA. Pretty much 30 years since my solo debut North Marine Drive. What have we learned, Todd? What is the same?

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BILL WITHERS “HOPE SHE’LL BE HAPPIER” “Ben turned me on to this on our road trip.”

HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER “BAD DEBT” “Todd sent me one of the first ever pressings. Love it.

His star has risen. We might play together next year.”

JOE DUKIE & DJ FITCHIE “MIDNIGHT MARAUDERS” “Another Ben recommendation.”

SUNSHINE ANDERSON “HEARD IT ALL BEFORE” (BEN WATT REMIX) “I pushed the idea to Ben. Nice snapshot of the time too.”

TIEFSCHWARZ “DAMAGE, FEAT. TRACEY THORN” “The day I landed in London, on my only visit, Ben sent me a note at the hotel saying, “You’ve brought good luck. TT was in the studio today, for the first time in ages.” 24 hours later, Tracey and I were dancing to it at Neighbourhood where Ben was DJing.”

RAHSAAN ROLAND KIRK “NOW PLEASE DON’T YOU CRY, BEAUTIFUL EDITH” “Full of personal meaning.”

MEREDITH BRAGG AND THE TERMINALS “MY ONLY ENEMY” “From Todd. Would play this on the come down from DJ shows!”

MICHAEL CHAPMAN “NO SONG TO SING” “Brilliant guitarist. Todd’s recommendation.”

JOHN COLTRANE “CENTRAL PARK WEST” “One of my fave Coltrane tunes. And it turns out, one of Todd’s too.”

NEIL YOUNG “ON THE BEACH” “As an Neil Young fan, I was stunned not to know this until Todd passed it along.”

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t’s that time of year when music writers start compiling their annual year end “best of” lists. As I look back at this year’s crop of local music releases Salaam’s Train to Basra stands out as a personal favorite for me. The group is a Middle Eastern music ensemble based in Bloomington, Indiana. I interviewed the group’s leader Dena El Saffar in this column two years ago.With an exciting new recording out, it’s a great time to catch up with the Iraqi-American composer and multi-instrumentalist El Saffar.

We spoke via phone from her home in Bloomington as we discussed the musical inspiration behind her group’s new LP. They’ll play for free as part of the Eskenazi Music Program on Thursday at the hospital.

NUVO: I understand the title of your new record is a reference to a story your father used to tell you about cross country train rides he took in Iraq as a child.

EL SAFFAR: My dad is an immigrant from Iraq. I was born here, and my mom is an American. We had a very international upbringing, but our main connection with Iraq was through my dad’s storytelling.

Whenever he was telling me bedtime stories, I tended to ask for certain stories over and over again. The story about him riding the train from Baghdad to Basra on his own starting when he was only about six years old was one of my favorite stories.

That story made a big impression on me.

NUVO: I appreciate that you included those little anecdotes behind the music in the liner notes. There were a couple I found particularly interesting, like “Lima Sahar” for example. What prompted you to compose a piece for her?

EL SAFFAR: I listen to NPR a lot and one day there was a feature about an Afghani woman vocalist who entered a singing competition and was making it to the final rounds and making a big splash.

Her name is Lima Sahar. I think the situation with women in Afghanistan made it an extraordinary story. She was in the public eye and she was a very brave

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and charming young woman. So I wrote the song in honor of her. Maybe I’ll put some words to it one day, but right now it’s an instrumental piece.

Her story had a little bit of a sad ending. I don’t know exactly what happened to her, but I do know her family was very discouraging of her singing and being in the public eye. So she had to run away and went into hiding. Her time in the spotlight was very, very short. I’d always wondered about her and still do.

NUVO: One of my favorite pieces on the LP is “Joza Tears.” There’s a very heavy, sort of sad atmosphere on that recording. Was there any particular inspiration behind that work?

EL SAFFAR: The joza is an Iraqi spike fiddle that I play. The way I learned the joza was by learning Iraqi maqam, which is the music tradition of Iraq. So I learned to play the joza by studying the ancient music traditions from Iraq.

A lot of these ancient melodies from Iraq are really haunting, they’re full of this kind of pain or anguish. I suppose that has something to do with the sad history of Iraq.

I just wanted to highlight the instrument and those melodies. The instrument

“The joza is shedding tears, and the tears are these musical phrases.”

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has a sound almost like a human voice, it’s very plaintive. So the idea is the joza is shedding tears, and the tears are these musical phrases.

NUVO: What prompted you to incorporate Mexican folk music forms on “The Mariachi Stole My Heart”?

EL SAFFAR: Mexico is a place I’ve visited many times. It’s a very vibrant place in terms of music and art. I’ve been in the most surprising live music situations in Mexico. While traveling on a bus a trio will get on and play and then get off at the next stop. Or you’re just sitting in a park and there are several bands, if you give them some money they’ll play you a song. There’s something really impressive and fantastic about the music scene in Mexico. I find it inspiring.

I’ve also noticed some Latin music has ties with Arabic music. You can also see that connection in the architecture and culture. It’s interesting to look back at the connection between the Arab world and Spain which goes back many, many decades and see how it has manifested here in the New World in Latin America.

NUVO: What instruments are you playing on the album?

EL SAFFAR: I play string instruments. I started with the violin and moved to the viola. I received my viola performance degree from IU Jacobs School of Music which is how I wound up in Bloomington. I kept the violin and viola going and still play both as well as the oud, which is an Arabic lute, it’s a fret-

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EL SAFFAR: Indiana is a bit of a challenge.

A lot of the fantastic musicians I’ve worked with have either moved here and left for bigger cities or they never lived here at all. But fortunately there are some great musicians living here.

I like living in Bloomington because it’s a good mix of small town and big town. There’s a big international scene here with lots of great artists and musicians. I think the lifestyle is nicer here than if we were in an apartment up on the 44th floor in Manhattan. Another big reason we stay here is that we’ve been raising two kids and this seems like the best place to be for the moment. We’re always dreaming of the possibility of moving to a bigger place, but that wouldn’t happen for a few years.

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EL SAFFAR: Yes, we have found an audience. But the truth is we travel a lot.

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WEDNESDAY SHOWCASE Writers Block 10 p.m. Bringing Down the Band, DJ MetroGnome and Lonegevity present this monthly producer’s showcase, which highlights local and national talent. Attendees are encouraged to mix, mingle and network — all while enjoying the dope beats, of course. This month’s edition features Ewokie Talkie from Evansville), Mr. Kinetik (who just dropped a brand new album) and Bangs Nicely (the new project of club DJ Cool Hand Lex).

Sabbatical, 921 Broad Ripple Ave., $5, 21+ JAZZ Larry Carlton 7 p.m., 9:30 p.m. Larry Carlton is the real deal. 19-time Grammy nominee and 4-time winner, Carlton has been wowing fans for more than four decades. Carlton is also known as Mr. 335 because of his love and masterful playing of the classic 1969 Gibson ES-335 guitar. He’s played for the largest of crowds over the years but stops in at the Jazz Kitchen for an intimate, up-close-and-personal show.

Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave., prices vary, 21+ The Personnel, Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+

Nora Jane Struthers and The Party Line, Ghosts of Kin, Hi-Fi, 21+ Brandon Wilson, Union 50, 21+ The Young Minds, Bishop Bar (Bloomington), 18+ Blues Jam, Main Event, 21+ Jay Elliott and Friends, Tin Roof, 21+ Blues Jam with Gordon Bonham, Slippery Noodle, 21+ The Family Jam, Mousetrap, 21+ Coup D’Etat, Waxworks, Montana Wildhacks, Melody Inn, 21+

THURSDAY DANCE Tony Beemer’s Midnight Donuts midnight The Hi-Fi is a bonafide concert venue – owned by the Do317 dudes – but also increasingly a newbie spot to dance. Tony Beemer hosts and DJs this late night dance party on Thursday, which features enough drink specials to ensure you’ll need an extra large coffee Friday morning.

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scene has been thriving for years.

CRNKN stopped by the Old National Centre in March and played a fantastic set, what’s to stop him from doing it again? Craze and Ape Drums also provide support.

Deluxe at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., $20, all-ages ROOTS Holiday Havoc 8 p.m. A Very Merry Cowpunk Christmas features Buffalo Wabs and The Price Hill Hustle, Grant Gilman and Truckerspeed, Blair Crimmins and The Hookers and Forest Rambler. Get there early and stay late.

Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St., $7, 21+ DANCE Altered Thurzdaze 9 p.m Dance the night away at IndyMojo’s Thursday night special, Altered Thurzdaze. This week features Hollow Point, Business Casual and Mike B. Mousetrap, 5565 N. Keystone Ave., $5, 21+ LOCALS Jesse Lacy Trio, Mars or The Moon, Dietrich Jon 9 p.m. We’ve got an interview with LA-via-Indy band Mars or The Moon up on NUVO.net for your browsing pleasure. Locals Dietrich Jon – gatherers of much buzz – will open.

The Bishop, 123 S. Walnut St. (Bloomington), $7, $5 for students, 18+

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Slayer, Suicidal Tendencies, Exodus, Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, all-ages Lera Lynn, Hi-Fi, 21+ Buffalo Wabs, The Price hIll Hustle, Melody Inn, 21+ Max Allen Duo, Union 50, 21+ Evening of Giving Benefit Concert and Charity Auction, Chaser Tower, all-ages The Holiday Concert: A Motown Christmas, Madame Walker Theatre Center, all-ages Thirsty Thursdays with DJ Cory James, Bartini’s, 21+

FRIDAY BOOZY Prohibition Repeal Anniversary Celebration 7 p.m. It’s right around this time every year that we celebrate the long-dead Prohibition Repeal – but we boozy folks at NUVO are cool toasting to the legality of liquor. This party features the talents of local burlesque troupe Rock Doll Revue, tunes by DJ Stroble, pizza by Pi Pizza and artwork by Jonathan McAfee. Indiana City is rolling out a new brew too: Hellcat Maggie, a bourbon barrel aged Irish red. There will be prizes for best flapper and best bootlegger costumes.

Indiana City Beer, 24 Shelby St., 21+ FIRST FRIDAY Shame Thugs, Exploding Head Scene 9 p.m. Jenny Ollikainen’s exhibition Mythic Thymes opens this First Friday at GPC, and locals Shame Thugs and Exploding Head Scene will be on hand later to close the night out with tunes.

Ollikainen’s show features handmade masks evoking mythical creatures.

General Public Collective, 1060 Virginia Ave., FREE, all-ages

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Mav Brooks, Pherocity, Atziluth 7 p.m. Since he heard Skrillex’s remix of Benny Benassi’s “Cinema,” Mav Brooks knew that he wanted to make dance music. As he tells it, he independently researched DJ culture, and he taught himself all about mixing and producing. But his work took a more serious turn this spring after an 8th grader in his Westfield school district committed suicide after being bullied for his sexuality. When Wiseley heard that Indy Pride was open for music submissions, he instantly knew what he wanted to do. On June 14, Wiseley played at his first festival, and the brother of the victim came onstage to speak about his brother and the cause. Wiseley liked dedicating his music to a worthy cause, so when he heard about Officer Perry Renn’s death in the line of duty, he decided to make an edit and dedicate it to Officer Renn and others who lost their lives, emphasizing love and peace throughout the song. “I’m not a great artist, I’m not a great public speaker ... but I felt the need to contribute,” he told us earlier this year. “Music is perfect for that. Music can create emotion, it can help kill pain, and it can truly change someone’s life.” He’ll play at the newly revamped Emerson Theater alongside local duo Pherocity and wunderkind Atziluth.

The Emerson’s got a new lighting rig too; don’t miss this.

Emerson Theater, 4630 E. 10th St., $15, all-ages

It’s Safe I Swear, Mapmaker Album Release 6 p.m. Check this double trouble all-ages album release at the Dome, featuring Left Behind, Awaken O’Sleeper, Hatchling, Archives of A Dreamer, It’s Safe I Swear and Mapmaker. Doors are an early 5:30 – but don’t worry, Daylight Saving Time has ensured it’ll be all dark by then.

Hoosier Dome, 1627 Prospect St., $10, all-ages JAZZ Wynton Marsalis, Cecile McLorin Salvant 8 p.m. Wynton Marsalis is no joke, and neither is jazz singer Cecile McLorin Salvant, who will join him onstage. Take your dad to this big band holiday concert, and the good vibes will last all Christmas long.

Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, 355 City CenterDr. (Carmel), Prices vary, all-ages HOLIDAZE Gordon Bonham Trio Christmas Show 8 p.m. A million high fives for the official start of holiday shows, including this excellent one featuring bluesman Gordon Bonham and his trio.

Rathskeller, Keller Bar, 401 E. Michigan St., FREE, 21+ ROOTS

MFT House Party 8 p.m. Now hear this: Kismet is a sweet new little spot just south of 65 – so this ‘90s themed hip-hop house party features Rehema McNeil, Pope Adrian Bless, New Wave Collective, Ace One and DJ Ninja on the stacks. We’ve recently reviewed releases from McNeil and Bless, and put Ace One on the cover a few months back – it’s your time to shine, New Wave. Producer extraordinaire Harry Otaku will host the party.

Kismet, 1039 S. East St., $5 in advance, $10 at door, all-ages

Frontier Ruckus, Firekid, Vess von Ruhtenberg 9 p.m. A brief thought from Frontier Ruckus’ Matthew Milia, from our interview from their last tour. He says, “I’m on the road a lot, and what do you do when you have a couple hours to fill in the town? I go to record shops, I go to bookshops and I go to vintage clothing stores. I come home with way more shit than I left with. I just luckily moved in Detroit and I have more space to keep my hoarding stuff.

But I have more books than I could ever read, way more records than I could ever listen to. Something about just having volumes of other people’s verbosity just comforts me. Having those objects to me is inspiring.” They play the Hi-Fi for free on Friday.

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5th Quarter Lounge, 306 Prospect St., $5, 21+

Winter Wonder-Jam 9 p.m. Wayne’s got more info on this show in Barfly to the right. Consider your First Friday planned.

Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St., $7, 21+

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SOUNDCHECK TRIBUTES Stolen Face: A Tribute to The Grateful Dead 10 p.m. Bluegrass festival regulars Rumpke Mountain Boys and locals Hyrdyer put together an audio/visual tribute to the Grateful Dead, which is what these jammers do best.

Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., $10, 21+ Boo Ya! Onesie Party with Slater Hogan, Dub Knight, Jodyfree, Dane Rohl, Exploratio, DJ Foxxtrott, Blu, 21+ Tea Tsunami, Werewolf With A Shotgun, Sugar Moon Rabbit, Melody Inn, 21+ The Armory, Tin Roof, 21+ Tic Tac Flow, Bert and Den’s, 21+ Breakdown Kings, Mousetrap, 21+ First Friday Music Party, Bookmama’s, all-ages End of Movember Gala Party, Speak Easy, 21+ Laid, Tiki Bob’s, 21+ Primer 55, Berzerker Mode, Ed Money 2.0,Deadman’s Grill, Route 67 Bar and Grill, 21+ Gwen Sebastian, 8 Seconds Saloon, 21+ James and The Drifters, Union 50, 21+ Unlimited Girls, The Bishop, 21+ Bang! With Cool Hand Lex, Revel, 21+

SATURDAY ROOTS Cara Jean Marcy, Grover Parido, Stasia Demos, Heather Styka 7 p.m. For those looking for a quiet night of community and storytelling, this acoustic roots event at Indy Hostel is for you. Your cover price includes a meal and beer from Outliers. Organizers encourage you to bring a side dish or more drinks if you’re so inclined.

Indy Hostel, 4903 Winthrop Ave., $15, all-ages ROCK Calliope, The Constants, Chives 8 p.m. Triple Cs means triple the fun.

Joyful Noise Recordings, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 207, donations accepted, all-ages HIP-HOP Ghost Gun Collective and Friends 9 p.m. Sam’s Silver Circle is turning up the heat on their new monthly with a showing from the Ghost Town Collective (that’s Sirius Black, Oreo Jones, Grey Granite, John Stamps, Freddie Bunz, remember). You can get some pizza, too.

Sam’s Silver Circle Bar, 1102 Fletcher Ave., donations accepted, 21+ ANNIVERSARIES Ben Watt, KO 9 p.m. After twenty years with Tracey Thorn in the best-selling

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Entitled Hendra, it follows his 1983 cult classic North Marine Drive, and claimed the award for ‘Best ‘Difficult’ Second Album’ at the recent AIM (Association of Independent Music) Awards 2014 in London, fending off albums by Anna Calvi and Blood Orange. Decorated with an array of four and five-star reviews on release, it features collaborations with former Suede guitarist Bernard Butler, Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour and producer Ewan Pearson. This year has seen him tour with different sized line-ups but on this night, he’ll play solo acoustic and electric. Peep our interview on page 28.

The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 4, $20 in advance, $22 at door, 21+ SHOWCASE Dog Brother, Mind Parade 7:30 p.m. Thanks, Musical Family Tree, for another all-ages local showcase at Indy CD and Vinyl. This one features Dog Brother and Mind Parade.

Indy CD and Vinyl, 806 Broad Ripple Ave., FREE, all-ages APA Emmet Cohen 8 p.m. Miami-based Emmet Cohen was a finalist in the 2011 Thelonious Monk International Competition. He’ll play his American Piano Association Jazz Fellowship outing at the Kitchen this weekend.

Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave., $10, 21+

Chase Blackburn and Company, Thirsty Scholar, all-ages Ultraviolet Hippopotamus, Vogue, 21+ Frank and Doug’s Christmas Show, Rathskeller, 21+ 10th Annual Winter Concert, Buskirk-Chumley, 21+ Blair Clark, Ocean Prime, all-ages

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The Bishop, 123 S. Walnut St., (Bloomington), 18+ ALBUM RELEASE Apostle of Solitude Album Release 10 p.m. Sometimes the Mel’s Punk Rock Night decides to get even more awesome and use its powers to promote a local album. This Saturday is one of those awesome days, when organizers throw their full weight behinds Apostle of Solitude’s new release Of Woe and Wounds. In Calico, Kvlthammer and You Will Die will also play.

Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St., $6, 21+ DANCE Elephant Wrecking Ball 10 p.m. This trio features Scott Flynn (Pretty Lights) on trombone, pedals; Dan Africano on bass and Neal Evans (Dopapod) on the drums.

Mousetrap, 5565 N. Keystone Ave., 21+ Sexy Santa Party, Bartini’s, 21+ The Whigs, No Coast, Radio Radio, 21+

Sanders Open Mic 9 p.m. We go to DJ’s on Sundays whenever we can because Jon Mac Wood puts together a fun and inviting local mic night. Last week’s featured Ampersand Blues Band, Caleb McCoach, Benny and The 25th and College Band and Jaws Flannelly.

DJ’s Lounge, 1707 Prospect St, FREE, 21+ JAMS Jingle Jam 7 p.m. That newly redone Coliseum is getting all sorts of big event workouts this fall, the latest of which is 99.5 FM’s Jingle Jam. Your mom’s favorite band, Train, will headline, supported by buzzy The 1975, the indomitable Mary Lambert and poppy rapper Jake Miller.

Fairgrounds Coliseum, 1202 E. 38th St., prices vary, all-ages ROOTS Sturgill Simpson 8 p.m. His album Metamodern Sounds in Country Music is racking up all sorts of slots on Best Of lists, so Sturgill’s moved up in venue size. He can play the Vogue comfortably now, which we’re sure will be full of adoring fans who lap up his esoteric tunes, which intentionally tracks the connections between traditional and country music and stranger sounds.

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SHOWCASE Gospel Jazz Experience 7 p.m. The continually evolving Owl Music Group partners with Indy Jazz Fest for this fundraising

mini fest. We’re jazzed (get it?) for another Gospel Jazz Experience show. One in September featured Kevin Anker’s Tribute to Melvin Rhyne, plus performances from Tad Robinson, Staci McCrackin, Soul Purpose, Joran Applegate, Brian Reeves, Pam Westbrook and Brian Kelly. A full lineup for this one hasn’t been announced, but we’re guessing it will rip. A portion of proceeds benefits the Julian Center.

Latitude 360, 4016 E. 82nd St., prices vary, all-ages The Paramedic, Along Came A Spider, Hoosier Dome, all-ages

TUESDAY DANCE Broke(n) 10 p.m. Though it’s gone through more changes than any reasonable human could probably count, Tuesday night at the Melody Inn has a long tradition of hosting some of the best electronic music in the city. After an original run between 2005 and 2007 during which they hosted some of the nation and world’s biggest drum and bass acts, IQ Entertainment’s Broke(n) Tuesdays are back at the Melody Inn. Organizer Jay-P Gold says this time around he wants to widen the sonic range with as much “weird shit” as possible, ranging from footwork and jungle, to broken beat techno, and of course no small amount of drum and bass. This week features Jaybe, Kryzma, Sean Newnum, and NuM3R1K, plus local emcee Ace One hosting.

Melody Inn,, 3826 N. Illinois St., FREE, 21+ ROOTS Justin Townes Earle 8 p.m. After two and a half years, Justin Townes Earle released his sixth studio album, and first ever on Vagrant Records. He called it Single Mothers – it’s ten tracks that showcase exactly why Justin Townes Earle is considered an excellent steward of contemporary Americana. He’s staying far away from Indy and hitting Bloomington instead – he’s had some troubles around these parts, if you recall – but the drive to see Earle will be worth it.

Bluebird, 216 N. Walnut St. (Bloomington), $20, 21+ Walter Salas-Humara,Jonathan Rundman, Delae Lawrence, Janas Hoyt Westcott, house venue (unlisted), all-ages Adia Victoria, Plateau Below, The Bishop (Bloomington), 18+ NUVO.NET/SOUNDCHECK

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Blood Meridian I am a virgin, but I’ve been experimenting more and more with sexuality. My boyfriend has fingered me but I am pretty tight. The other day we tried playing with a dildo (plenty of lube) but as he put it in I got a sharp pain and we had to stop. The pain immediately went away but I started bleeding so our fun ended for the night. I think maybe I just tore my hymen, but two days later I am having mild spotting. Should I be concerned? Will it continue to hurt or cause bleeding when I have sex?

— Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: Everything about this is awesome: the patience, the research, the lube, the trusting partners, the experimentation, all of it. You might continue to bleed, you might not, but eventually the discomfort and blood stops. Also keep in mind that it’s a wet, vascular area down there, so it’s tough for even small clots to form like they would quickly and easily on a dry, less vascular part of the body like an arm or leg, so it might bleed longer than you’d expect. Next time, I would put your hand over your bf’s and control the pressure and motion until it feels comfortable, then let him take the wheel completely.

DR. DEBBY: Many women experience slight vaginal bleeding or spotting after their first few times having vaginal penetration. And of course every woman, and every hymen, is different so there is no way for me (or even for you) to know if that will be a one-time thing or will happen for the first few times you have sex.

Using lubricant was a good idea — you might add some to the thing being inserted (his fingers, the dildo, or his penis) as well as to the opening to the vagina.

And please, don’t skimp on lube! In our product tests, we’ve often found that people think they are way over-using lubricant when usually they are barely using any. It’s totally okay to use water-based lubricant that approximates the size of a quarter or half-dollar. Check out K-Y Liquid, Pink, or Good Clean Love lubricants. And while using a dildo might seem like a good idea, dildos are often hard and don’t have a lot of “give” in them, which can make them more uncomfortable than a penis.

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DR. DEBBY HERBENICK & SARAH MURRELL check in with a gynecologist who can check to see if there are any anatomical issues getting in the way of you receiving comfortable penetration. Finally, try your best to relax and focus on pleasure. If you start to feel anxious or uncomfortable, you can always stop and try again another day.

Wild Night’s Calling 7 years ago fresh outta high school, me and a buddy got into a college party, I hooked up with a guy who went ape shit crazy on me. I enjoyed myself no problem. I ended up getting pregnant and as soon as he found out, proposed. I said yes and he has been Mr. Perfect ever since. It’s always slow soft intimate look me in my eyes so lovingly kinda thing. I tried to tell him I want to give him what he wants but then he just goes down on me!?! Is it wrong to want the beast in him? And why is he holding back?

— Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: Whoa. Whoa. WHOA. There are some layers to this question. So, just to clarify, you went to a college party and hooked up with someone who banged you with the reckless abandon of a wild beast in the wilderness, you got knocked up, married the guy, and he’s been Mr. Romantic Intimate Sex Guy since he put a ring on it?

I mean, I could break this down to you a million ways, but basically, there’s something about taking a woman seriously as a partner that makes a lot of straight guys feel weird about cock-throttling you while grabbing you by the ponytail. Again, this goes back to all these weird designations that men are socialized to see women as other than just “humans with sexual desires.” So, now you’re in the category of Wife, Mother and Partner while, on the night of your first trist, you were Horny Stranger At Frathouse. This kind of “role compartmentalization” is something I think men struggle with far more than women, especially when it comes to sex and relationships (but what the fuck do I know, seriously). Here’s the secret: you have to tie it directly to your capacity to orgasm, and he’ll be on board. If you say, “I want you to get what you want” and then he goes down on you, first of all, congratulations on winning the sexual partnership game, and second, you know he’s a giving partner. Harness that giving nature by saying, “I really get off on you letting your wild side out in the bedroom.” If he doesn’t get the hint, you might try initiating the Jungle Book sex and letting it play out naturally.

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DR. DEBBY: It sounds like you assume he wants supercharged vigorous sex just because you had it one time, ever.

What if he doesn’t really want that? Maybe he’s a guy who prefers romantic, loving, gentle sex but during your drunken hook-up, he really went at it. I mention this because you said you tell him that you want to “give him what he wants”, assuming he wants crazy sex, but then he gives you oral. Then you go on to say that you’re the one who wants “the beast in him”, at least sometimes. If that’s what you want, then you need to take ownership of your wants. You can let him know that you still like all the other kinds of sex with him, but sometimes you’d like sex to be a little wilder or crazier. Have you tried telling him what you want - some people use different terms for sex to describe the kind of sex they want on a given day. This is the difference between saying “Make love to me” and “I want you to fuck me”. Or even, “I want you to fuck me… hard. And pull my hair.” Know what I’m saying?

If you’re having this conversation outside the bedroom, you can remind him that you like all sorts of different kinds of sex, and that you know he still loves you and respects you, but sometimes you’d like him to be a little rough with you. If you’re watching a movie with a particularly saucy sex scene that turns you on (Have you seen Unfaithful?), you can also lean over and say “We should do it like that some time.”

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SARAH: Only one way to find out, girl. Also, for future ref (because I’m assuming from the period anxiety you are pretty young), guys that aren’t grossed out by period sex (at least after the first couple of days) are usually way more fun in the sack. Do with that information what you will.

DR. DEBBY: Most guys get over their period discomfort during or after high school and hopefully your boyfriend can evolve, too. If you’re okay with it, encourage him to find a way to be okay with it. If he doesn’t want blood directly on his penis, he can always wear a condom. Yes, he might feel good thrusting between your thighs — and if that turns you on and you’re into it, then great. But don’t put yourself in the position of feeling like your pleasure and satisfaction don’t matter when you’re on your period. They do.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I enjoy getting spam emails

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Now and then, it is in fact possible to fix malfunctioning machines by giving them a few swift kicks or authoritative whacks. This strategy is called “percussive maintenance.” In the coming days, you might be inclined to use it a lot. That’s probably OK. I suspect it’ll work even better than it usually does. There will be problems, though, if you adopt a similar approach as you try to correct glitches that are more psychological, interpersonal, and spiritual in nature. For those, I recommend sensitivity and finesse.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 1989, Amy Tan birthed

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Science-fiction novelist Philip K. Dick has been one of my favorite authors since I discovered his work years ago. I love how he reconfigured my mind with his metaphysical riffs about politics and his prophetic questions about what’s real and what’s not. Recently I discovered he once lived in a house that’s a few blocks from where I now live. While he was there, he wrote two of his best books. I went to the place and found it was unoccupied. That night I slept in a sleeping bag on the back porch, hoping to soak up inspiration. It worked!

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Do you enjoy telling people what to do? Are you always scheming to increase your influence over everyone whose life you touch? If you are a typical Pisces, the answer to those questions is no. The kind of power you are interested in is power over yourself. You mostly want to be the boss of you. Right now is a favorable time to intensify your efforts to succeed in this glorious cause. I suggest you make aggressive plans to increase your control over your own destiny.

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