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A collection of our top picks for the year in news, including stories about the State Fair stage collapse, Charlie White, Phil Hinkle, bicycles lanes, methane plumes in the Arctic and much much more.

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MASS TRANSIT AND PUBLIC EDUCATION

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It was as if Indianapolis had two enormous packages under the tree on Christmas morning. Although neither one sported much in the way of bells and whistles, they both had a certain hum about them, the potential to really change the way people live around here. In the span of a single week, proposals were unveiled that would transform both our public transportation system and our public schools.

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THE BEST FOOD OF 2011

Since I moved back to Indianapolis in June (after a nine year absence), at least a dozen new independent restaurants have opened their doors to good reviews and brisk business. Never before has dining out been such a popular pastime in the metro area. If the state of the independent restaurant scene were in any way reflective of the state of the economy in general, the casual observer might be tempted to believe that things couldn’t be much better.

BY NEIL CHARLES

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/ARTICLES Review: Everything, Now!, Landlord, Vacation Club by Grant Catton

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Holiday Hip Hopera by Katherine Coplen Don’t miss: Indy CD and Vinyl by Katherine Coplen

Ed’s annual wrap up includes his top ten picks for the year.

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LOOKING BACK

Grant Catton kicks off the music section’s Year in Review with his top eight shows in Indianapolis, including Arcade Fire, Cut Copy and Bill Callahan.

BY GRANT CATTON

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BY STEVE HAMMER SHAMMER@NUVO.NET

his is it. 2012. It’s the year that the world will finally, mercifully, come to an end if you believe the Mayan calendar. It’s also the year I’ve been waiting for my entire life.

How unlike history it would be if it came to an end, but I’m willing to play along with the idea. People have been predicting the end of the world for thousands of years and who’s to say that they’re wrong this time? Not me, Jack.

I’m counting down the days to Dec. 21, 2012, when the ancient prophecies claim the end will come. There are 359 days between when this column appears and then, and I’m planning on making the most of them.

The fun thing about the apocalypse is that it gives you an excuse to do whatever you want with no repercussions. So feel free to ruin your credit rating, commit insurance fraud, take that trip to Spain or Hawaii. Go on and have that extra piece of cake or that affair with your coworker. It’s the end of the world; what else do you have to do?

If it is really the end of days, there are some things you’d be wellsuited to keep in mind.

You’d never be able to stock enough guns, food or gold to survive the rest of your life.

To think otherwise is self-delusional. You’ll eventually run out.

You’re better off looting the pharmacy or liquor store before society breaks down completely so at least you’d be able to leave the earthly plane with a good buzz.

I hate to say it, but you are seriously screwed, so you may as well give up any idea of emerging from your bunker ready to assume leadership of the world. Either you will be dead or you will be a few weeks from starvation, so you may as well make yourself as comfortable as possible.

There will be no cell phone reception, or, for that matter, electricity. So you might want to invest in some solar-powered chargers so you can at least play Angry Birds or listen to your iPod while you wait to die.

There are some basic things every person should know before leaving this mortal plane.

Truthfully, most of the really good songs that the Beatles wrote are on 1, their greatest-hits album, but so are a few of their absolute worst tunes.

The world could have survived just fine if they’d never recorded “From Me to You,” “Hey Jude” or “Yellow Submarine” but maybe not “We Can Work It Out” or “Here Comes The Sun.” John Lennon wasn’t kidding when he sang “The way things are going, they’re going to crucify me.” He was proven right about 10 years later when Mark David Chapman killed him offering only The Catcher in the Rye as his statement of motive.

No matter what you thought of Barack Obama, he really was an honest man who did the best he could, given the hand he was dealt. Unlike many of his predecessors, he committed no felonies while in office and told the truth as much as possible. If the world really does disappear in December, he would have been as good a president as we deserved.

Fox News lied to you. Hamburger Helper doesn’t live up to its name.

Stephen King was a pretty good writer; certainly he was better than his worst detractors would have had you believe.

White Castles were a pretty good value.

Big business in all its forms really was evil.

George W. Bush really did steal that election but 9/11 wasn’t a conspiracy, nor were Pearl Harbor or the JFK assassination. Sometimes things just happen and they don’t make any sense except to the people who do them and maybe not even then.

If the Mayans were correct, you have less than a year to exist.

You’d better make it a year to remember. Don’t waste a minute of it. Eat good food, hug the ones you love, encourage and comfort the people who need it most. Forgive any family members with whom you have any grievances, whether or not they’re justified.

Most of all, live your life to the fullest extent possible. Don’t waste an hour or day. Even if the world doesn’t end in 2012, you’ll still feel better if you do those things. Possess as few regrets as possible and you’ll be happier, by and large.

Whatever 2012 has in store, here’s to a happy and prosperous new year. And, as always, thanks for reading this column and for reading NUVO, the one newspaper that will always believe in people like you and me.

If the Mayans were correct, you have less than a year to exist. You’d better make it a year to remember.

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HOPPE Mass transit and public education A holiday feast

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BY DAVID HOPPE DHOPPE@NUVO.NET

t was as if Indianapolis had two enormous packages under the tree on Christmas morning. Although neither one sported much in the way of bells and whistles, they both had a certain hum about them, the potential to really change the way people live around here.

In the span of a single week, proposals were unveiled that would transform both our public transportation system and our public schools.

This is like being served a multi-course meal with a big slice of cheesecake for dessert when you’ve been living on nuts and berries. A shock to the system is a distinct possibility.

The new, revised transit plan is good news not because it’s visionary or comprehensive — but because it might actually have a chance of getting done. Rather than attempt to encompass all the counties in the Indianapolis metropolitan area, the plan focuses admirably on just two: Marion and Hamilton. These are the counties where the need for transit is the most acute, which means they are also the places where the benefits will be most obvious.

Reducing the number of counties also reduces the cost of the project, as well as the time necessary to make it a reality. A previous eight-county plan would have taken 25 years and cost $2.4 billion. The new, streamlined version can be accomplished in 10 years for $1 billion less.

Most important, the new plan emphasizes bus transit, promising to double the size of IndyGo’s fleet. Relying on buses makes sense. Consider how long it’s taken to extend the Cultural Trail from downtown through Fountain Square. Building urban rail lines would make that seem like a garden party. Buses are cheaper and, perhaps most important, can be up and running quickly. Since the new transit plan will add about $10 a month to everyone’s income tax, providing a service that people can use as soon as possible will be vital.

There are questions. Doubling the buses may seem like a lot, but is it really enough?

Also, has sufficient thought gone into building not just shelters, but bus stations that can serve as economic engines in neighborhoods needing a boost? What about streets?

Does the city have a plan for re-routing traffic to make bus transit as efficient as possible and provide a disincentive for people to use cars? And finally, what about a referendum? Assuming the state legislature even lets us have a vote on transit, what will be

done to make sure the proposal has a maximum chance of passing?

This is heady stuff. A new, improved transit system could really change the way we experience Indianapolis. But an even greater impact could be gained by getting our act together when it comes to public education.

That’s where The Mind Trust, the nonprofit organization charged with improving public education in the city, comes in. The organization’s report, paid for in large part by the Indiana Department of Education and prepared by a North Carolina consulting group, calls for four major changes to the way public schools are managed in this city.

The plan would shift responsibilities and funding priorities in order to make free pre-school available to all 4-year-olds. It would replace the elected school board with a five-member board appointed by the mayor and City-County Council.

The IPS Central Office would be gutted, reduced from 512 positions to 65; its $53.3 million budget would be cut to $10 million, with the difference redistributed to schools. Individual schools would have greater autonomy to develop programs.

While these ideas may, at first blush, appear radical, the longer you look at them the more they seem an extension of momentum already underway. As I have recently argued, IPS is no longer a system, but is, in fact, an archipelago of magnets and other themed buildings. The Mind Trust plan carries this movement to its logical conclusion, with schools trumping administrative hierarchy. Rather than giving parents a choice about where to send their kids, it will require parents to select an educational destination.

Whether such a scheme can work with the administrative skeleton crew The Mind Trust envisions is debatable. What seems beyond question though, is the increasing obsolescence of the current IPS administration.

Someday Superintendent Eugene White is going to step down. Who will replace him and, more to the point, what will they be asked to do? It’s easy to imagine a job description calling on the new super to implement just the sorts of restructuring The Mind Trust calls for.

With one exception. The state legislature will have to allow our schools to be run through the mayor’s office. While mayoral control of schools is not a silver bullet — the track record in other cities is murky — it does create a level of accountability that’s lacking currently. Voters know who the mayor is; most of us are clueless about who serves on the school board. This is democracy’s dark side, where uninformed voters elect people they know virtually nothing about. Mayoral control isn’t perfect, but it’s hard to say it would be worse than what we’ve got.

Talk about a holiday feast … it’s a lucky thing we’ve got all of 2012 to digest it.

Happy New Year!

A shock to the system is a distinct possibility.

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In Memorium

Behind the Scences STAFF CHANGES

What a year it was for NUVO — in terms of editorial staff changes. By the end of 2011, our editorial team was 60 percent new, an unprecedented wave of change. In spring of this year, Austin Considine left the company to move to Brooklyn to nourish his relationship with the New York Times. Austin was around for only about a year, but he made a huge impact and we wish him well. We can’t even measure the impact Laura McPhee made in our workplace — and in the community. McPhee, over the course of seven years, produced innumerable great stories, solidified our CityGuides series, ran our web and news departments and generally brought us daily laughter and a zest for improvement. McPhee left us in September.

NEW TO THE TEAM:

WE BOUGHT A MAGAZINE That’s right, we bought a magazine. Lynn Jenkins approached NUVO Publisher/ Editor Kevin McKinney in the summer about her four-anda-half-year-old publication, Indiana Living Green. She’d taken the mag as far as it could go, and wanted to pass it along to the right next person. McKinney said yes, and we put out our first Indiana Living Green in November/ December. The January/ February issue comes out Jan. 7, and in March, we’ll launch a newly designed Indiana Living Green, and publish on a monthly basis. You can find ILG at local Marshes, Krogers and a bunch of NUVO stops, too. ILG also is distributed in Bloomington, West Lafayette and Kokomo.

Want to help support our new venture? Buy a subscription! It’s a great deal for you and us. Go to indianalivinggreen.com.

2011 News Review

BY H A RRY C H E E S E E DI T O RS @N U V O . N E T Ah, when historians look back on the year 2011, what will be the events that best sum up these past 12 months? The Arab Spring, no doubt. The giant sucking black hole that is the global economy.

And important medical advances, like the

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Prince Julius Adeniyi with student.

For all that 2011 gave us, it also took some of us away. We pause to remember: Prince Julius Adeniyi, who channeled Yoruba culture to Indianapolis through music, dance, storytelling, drumming and food. His contributions included the Drums of West Africa, the Omo Obukun African Cultural Resource Center and the Sambusa Hut restaurant.

Officer David Moore of the Indianapolis Police Department, who was shot four times, died following a mix up by the murderer’s parole officer that allowed the shooter to avoid likely jail time. The parole officer was fired and Prosecutor Curry is seeking the death penalty.

Matt Elliott of the “Old Dog Crew,” who gave us the much-missed Northside News newsstand at 54th and College.

Dan Wheldon, winner of the Indianapolis 500 in ‘05 and ‘11.

Ross Faris, longtime Hilly Hundred Chair, urban farmer and Eli Lilly employee.

The cold, hungry and uncared-for: At least 29 homeless people died on the streets of Indy in 2011.

The victims of the Indiana State Fair stage collapse.

Indiana’s active-duty soldiers, at least four of whom died in action this year.

METROMIX GOES BELLY-UP

Finally, while we normally look the other way concerning other media outlets, we couldn’t help but acknowledge the end of the print version of Metromix, the Gannett-owned weekly paper whose frequent name changes (INtake, Indy.com, Metromix) was as hard to understand, as the bottom-line mentality of corporate, mainstream media. As one of the few independent, locally owned and operated media companies left, NUVO watched with a mix-

dog that can detect colon and rectal cancer simply by sniffing your poo.

2011 has also shown us how important a tool Internet social media has become. Whether it’s for organizing protests against oppressive regimes, coordinating violent flash mobs of looters, or exposing — literally — the sexual misadventures of American politicians. And speaking of politicians, it’ll be quite a while before we have as memorable — and entertaining

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ture delight and relief as Metromix stopped buggering up newspaper racks in late June. What we did not celebrate was the concomitant wave of layoffs of some great journalists, whose work we admire; we hope they all landed on their feet.

We learned, late in the year, that the popular humor publication, The Onion — which proclaims itself “America’s Finest News Source” — is coming to town in February. Surely, we hope you’ll feel that NUVO is America’s SECOND finest news source.

— a crop of goofballs, horndogs and wackos as this year’s Republican presidential hopefuls.

Finally, it’s been a year full of important trials and legal drama. I must thank my chief legal counsel and daughter, Chedda Cheese, for her advice and editing. Have a great 2012, everybody!

JANUARY

Rebecca Townsend, news editor: A native of Indiana, Townsend returns to Indy after a six-year absence that involved stints at the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism, the Wall Street Journal’s parent company Dow Jones Newswires and Missouri News Horizon.

Some of you might remember her as the managing partner of Modern Times Urban Truck Stop at 54th and College.

Tristan Schmid, digital platforms editor: Formerly the director of marketing and communications for the Humane Society of Indianapolis, Schmid has a background in new media, first getting a degree from IU in telecommunications, followed by a master’s in media arts and science from IUPUI and stints at Creative Street Media Group and Angie’s List.

Katherine Coplen, music editor: An Indianapolis native, Coplen returned to town after four wonderful years in Bloomington to take on this position. Her background includes radio and non-profit work; she was the public relations director for WIUX-FM 99.1 at IU for two years, and an intern for WFHB-FM 98.1.

Long-time music editor Scott Shoger moved over to the A&E editor position, freeing up managing editor Jim Poyser to turn some of his attention to Indiana Living Green.

This does not bode well: New Year’s Eve revelers in Beebe, Ark., are freaked out

when thousands of dead blackbirds fall from the skies, and massive fish deaths are reported in Maryland, Brazil and New Zealand. Witches in Romania, angered over new taxes on witchcraft-related earnings, vow to cast spells on the country’s president and government. Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is shot and critically wounded at a public event in Tucson; six others are killed in the attack.

The U.S. federal debt reaches a recordbreaking $14 trillion. Nearly immortal fit-

Bicycles

MAJOR MERGER Rumors started circulating around the cycling community in Indianapolis, and in November, they were confirmed: The NUVO Cultural Trail Cycling team merged with the Bissel Masters/Elite Cycling team, to form one single USA Cycling NRC Amateur team for 2012 and beyond. This means more attention to elite cycling in Indianapolis, and it also means more money raised for an outstanding organization. The team is dedicated to donating a portion of its prize money to World Bicycle Relief, which provides bicycles to use for transportation to people in Africa, and around the world.

Transportation allows for education, healthcare, and so many other needs that some people are fortunate enough to take for granted.

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The newly merged team gets to know each other.

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BICYCLE COMPETITION GROWING

People around the country will remember the evening in August that produced some of the most severe weather of the year; that was also the evening of the Mass Avenue Criterium.

The final race was cut short because of the weather, but not before Eric Young (Bissell) rode to victory, followed closely by Kirk Albers (Panther), Chad Burdzilauskas (Texas Roadhouse), Jon Jacob (NUVO) and Weston Luzadder (Jamis/Sutter-Home). The Criterium keeps gaining riders, events, and fans — and this year it ended safely, with high drama and excellent competition.

Indianapolis is home to Marian University and the Major Taylor Velodrome: a rare and impressive cycling track. Marian has a history of top-notch cycling and this year was no exception. In September, over 35 colleges and universities were represented in the

ness pioneer Jack LaLanne dies at age 96.

Social unrest and upheaval in Tunisia and Egypt heralds a new political era in the Arab world. Indy’s coolest meteorologist, Chris Wright, turns 50, uber-blowhard Rush Limbaugh turns 60, folk singer Joan Baez turns 70, and basso-profundo actor James Earl Jones turns 80.

FEBRUARY

Indianapolis is covered with a crunchy layer of snow and ice as a huge

USA Collegiate Track Nationals. Marian won Division I, with 1,004 points.

Big changes continue for the Mayor Taylor Velodrome. Officials plan to bid for a national-level race in 2014, and Marian University has acquired the surrounding Lake Sullivan Sports Complex. Marian will continue to make improvements to the track and park, including the reconstruction of the BMX park and a permanent 1.5-mile cyclocross course is in the works. Cyclocross is the off-road version of bike racing. In fact, sometimes in Cyclocross it’s impossible to even be on a bike, and cyclists are forced to carry their bikes up stairs and steep hills. It’s riding the roughest terrain. But it’s excellent conditioning for cyclists in the off-season.

All these exciting developments in 2011 led to USA Cycling naming Marian University the 2011 “Collegiate Club of the Year.” Additional factors (beyond the above) included team members, including Coryn Rivera, Kaitlin Antonneau, and Adam Leibovitz, reaching an average GPA of 3.04 in 2011. (http://www. usacycling.org/news/user/story.php?id=7277)

COMMUTER, CASUAL BIKES ON THE MOVE

Not everyone is competing on two wheels; Indianapolis has added quite a few exciting opportunities for casual and recreation riders, too. Extensive work has been done this year to reach 64 miles of cycling lanes in the city; by 2015, Rebuildindy funds will enable the city to add 75 more miles of trails and bike lanes.

Although the additional lanes have confused some drivers, overall, the city is beginning to slow down and realize that cyclists own the streets just as much as cars do.

After a lot of stalling and even more headaches, the Cultural Trail through

winter storm sweeps through the Midwest. Researchers announce they have trained a Labrador retriever to detect colon/rectal cancer by smelling a patient’s breath or doo-doo. Hosni Mubarak steps down as Egypt’s president. Italy’s premier Silvio Berlusconi is charged with paying a 17-year-old Moroccan girl for sex.

IBM’s giant computer Watson defeats two former “Jeopardy!” champions in a three-day tournament. Libyans

two wheels: The Central Indiana Bicycling Association Foundation and the Bicycle Garage Indy donated five new mountain bikes in conjunction with the opening of the Indy Bike Hub YMCA. Not only does this promote a healthy environment, bikes actually enable police officers to better patrol certain areas.

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Bike lanes continue to grow.

Fountain Square is nearly completed; it’s just begging Indianapolis patrons to bundle up and visit their favorite shops and restaurants over the holidays.

The Indy Parks board recently voted to allow cyclists and pedestrians to expand the hours of usage for the Monon Trail. Now the trail is open and patrolled from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. Already, those who have been monitoring the trail have found that quite a few people use the trail during the early morning hours and to commute to and from work. The bike advocacy group INDYCOG presented the board with 1,100 petitions in order to extend the hours; they’re still working with the city in an effort to have the trail opened and patrolled 24 hours, and eventually for lighting on the trail.

According to their website (theindycog. com), INDYCOG started as a blog in early 2009; in 2010, they expanded to working as a bicycle education and advocacy group.

They now have well over 100 members and have sponsored a number of events, from the Mass Ave. Criterium to the 2 Wheels 1 City celebration, which raised nearly $1,000 for Free Wheelin’ Community Bikes. In November, they also received recognition as a non-profit organization.

Even the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department is hitting the streets on

call for dictator Moammar Gadhafi to resign – instead he turns on his own people and the country devolves into bloody chaos. Indiana House Democrats evacuate the Capitol to protest labor and education legislation. Revenge of the humans: U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.), a five-time “Jeopardy!” champ from 35 years ago and former rocket scientist, defeats IBM’s Watson in a “Jeopardy!” exhibition match.

BIKE HUBS, BIKE PORTS

The grand opening of the Indy Bike Hub came right at the middle of September, complete with a ribbon cutting by Mayor Greg Ballard and all kinds of incentives to join. The Hub has already added several new exercise classes and courses to promote safety. The Bike Hub hopes to provide a place for people to stay fit year-round.

According to Karin Ogden, executive director of the downtown YMCA (Athenaeum and Bike Hub), the City Market “continues to evolve into a thriving local community.”

Ogden said that people can look forward to more organized rides from the Hub from week to week, and that the City Market, Bicycle Garage Indy, Bicycle Indiana, and IndyCog have, “lots of great synergy.”

One thing that Ogden said people might not realize is that the Bike Hub is much like the other YMCA facilities. “I tell people to imagine their favorite neighborhood Y, with a bike twist.” In addition to the bike shop and storage, the Hub offers all kinds of cardiovascular and strength equipment, and several fitness classes — perfect for the winter months.

Like the Bike Hub YMCA, The National Institute of Fitness and Sport (NIFS), in partnership with the White River State Park, offers cyclist access to its BikePort. People can park their bikes with access to the IndyGo Red Line to Downtown Indy. NIFS also offers bicycle commuter memberships.

MARCH

Delusional actor Charlie Sheen and deranged dictator Moammar Gadhafi make televised appearances proving that they’re both completely bat-shit crazy. The national unemployment rates drops to 8.9 percent. A powerful earthquake and tsunami devastates north eastern Japan, leaving thousands dead and severely damaging nuclear power plants in the region. U.S., French and British forces blast Libyan air defense

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General News OCCUPY AS OCCUPATION If “social media,” “tweet” and “crowdsourcing” were among the new words added to the latest edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, the new edition may consider new definitions for “occupy” and “the 99 percent.”

Examples of internal dysfunction within various Occupy movements may serve as a metaphor for the struggles we face in our quest for a free and just society. But the resonance of the message that motivated thousands to stand against our country’s legacy of economic inequalities remains unmarred.

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A protestor offers a simple message from the Indiana Statehouse steps during the first week of the still ongoing Occupy Indy.

A hardcore few remain stationed at the Indiana Statehouse, committed to a 24-7 stance against various threats to democracy. Other activists embracing Occupy Wall Street’s organizational model “are working to educate the public on corporate involvement in the government and working towards policy change at the state level.”

The occupation continues ...

THE STORY OF THE YEAR

PHOTO COURTESY OF JOHN RUSSELL

Indianapolis Star reporter John Russell stands next to the pile of documents he collected during in his damning reports on the ethics of certain IURC and Duke employees.

Despite all the Gannett-induced drama, The Indianapolis Star still has some mighty fine reporters. We must concur with the Society of Professional Journalists’ naming John Russell the Indiana Journalist of the Year. Through dogged persistence and deft use of the state public information laws, Russell was able to identify an all-too-cozy relationship between state regulatory officials and Duke Energy employees engaged in a multi-billion dollar coal gasification plant in Edwardsport.

The story began when a Star editor received a Citizens Action Coalition news release decrying Duke’s hiring of Scott Storms, an administrative law judge and general counsel at the Indiana Regulatory Commission. The editor told Russell, whose regular beat had nothing to do with utilities, that the story merited a little digging.

Twenty-three open-records requests later, with enough damning email to make even the most jaded and duplicitous executive blush, The Star was able to print what Russell calls “my favorite headline in 26 years of journalism — ‘Scandal Topples Duke Executive.’”

Of course the kerfuffle resulted in other firings and reassignments at Duke and within state government, plus the recent indictment of former IURC Chair David Hardy.

The story’s not over yet. The Edwardsport project continues and Duke would like to bill consumers for its more than $1 billion in cost overruns. Thankfully, Russell is still on the case.

In other energy-related news, when the Indiana General Assembly wasn’t otherwise consumed with right-to-work drama in the 2011 legislative session, it got so bold as to pass a voluntary renewable energy standard. Between that and new federal rules tightening emissions standards on coal-fired power plants, perhaps Indiana’s reputation for having some of the nation’s dirtiest air will change in the next 50 years or so.

Meanwhile, as we nurse our kids through their asthma attacks, we can reassure them that at least we have some of the cheapest electric bills in the nation.

sites. Actor Leonard Nimoy – better known as Mr. Spock – turns 80. After 35 days, Indiana House Democrats return to the Statehouse – um, yay?

Arab nations, turmoil and bloodshed are the order of the day. (Yikes – maybe those kooky “End Times” people are right!)

APRIL

Osama bin Laden sleeps with the fishes: literally – Navy SEALs shoot him dead and his body is deposited in the sea.

Chump Donald Trump is dumped as Indy 500 pace car driver. “The Donald” announces he will not run for the highest office in the land, but says if he did, he’d

No fooling, a lot of wild weather going on across the US: tornadoes, floods, drought, wildfires, massive thunderstorms.

More rain falls in Indiana this month (9.2 inches) than it has in over 100 years.

Meanwhile in the Middle East and various

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THE WORKFORCE BLUES

It’s been a rough year for Indiana’s labor force — unemployment has consistently hovered around 9 percent, hiring has slowed to a crawl and the General Assembly is preparing to mount a full-scale offensive to pass a rightto-work bill similar to the measure passed by Wisconsin last year — and it looks like the war against workers will continue into 2012.

Gov. Mitch Daniels says the right-to-work measure, which would limit unions’ abilities to require membership or collect dues, would help make Indiana more attractive to new companies. Labor advocates counter that employees’ wages and working conditions would suffer. Conservatives have been laying the groundwork for passing the controversial measure throughout the year, and Daniels has said the bill will be one of his legislative priorities next year.

The biggest target in Daniels’ sights this year was the powerful Indiana Teachers Union. In addition to his support of charter schools and voucher programs, Daniels sought to limit teachers’ collective bargaining rights to only salary and benefits issues and would strip them of their ability to negotiate evaluation procedures and criteria. The measure passed the

win. Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger admits to fathering a child with a household staff member more than a decade ago – wife Maria Shriver is royally pissed off. RAPTURE! Oops, no.

Mitch says he will not run. Actor (and Harry Cheese look-alike) George Clooney turns 50; the Senate’s funniest member, Al Franken (D-Minn.) turns 60; and iconic folk and rock star Bob Dylan turns 70. A gala musical extravaganza, Norapalooza, is held at the Jazz Kitchen to celebrate

Republican-dominated General Assembly and was signed into law in April.

In January, NUVO highlighted the plight of security guards at Securitas in Indianapolis. Despite the pro-union, prosocial justice platform of its global parent company, local corporate officials fought against even listening to workers’ complaints or requests for a living wage.

The Indianapolis Star reported on much of the labor strife, but when more than 60 Star employees were laid off in June, the news was buried deep in the paper — or as deep as the increasingly slim Star could hide it. Months later, the remaining employees launched a Save the Star campaign, hoping to highlight the obscene financial shell games played by corporate parent Gannett.

The money the media Goliath saved in the thousands of laid off employees would later be funneled to departing Chief Executive Officer Craig Dubow’s pockets; the failed CEO walked away with a more than $37 million severance and retirement package when he left the company earlier this year.

EXITING THE WATER BUSINESS

Citizens Water, a subsidiary of Citizens Energy Group, is set to complete payments of an estimated $425 million by year’s end to acquire the city’s water and wastewater systems. In addition, Citizens is absorbing more than $1.5 billion in city debt. The deal removes several burdens from the shoulders of city officials.

Citizens will take the lead on completing upgrades to the sewer and storm water systems to bring the city into compliance

the 50th birthday of local philanthropist, writer, barmaid and all-around cool chick, Nora Spitznogle. Dan Wheldon wins his second Indy 500.

JUNE

Super actress Natalie Portman turns 30, colorful pop singer Boy George turns 50, and Stones’ drummer Charlie Watts turns 70. Assisted-suicide hero/villain Jack “Dr. Death” Kevorkian dies of natural causes at age 83. Washington

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STATE FAIR SORROW This summer’s state fair stage collapse marred the annual extravaganza of all things Hoosier.

Sunnier days will return to the Indiana State Fair, but we’ll never forget that tragic night when the rigging of the grandstand stage collapsed, taking the lives of seven people and injuring more than 50. For the spectators, the performers and the state fair employees, even as the pain subsides, the scars will forever remain.

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A memorial to victims of the stage collapse outside the grandstand at the Indiana State Fairgrounds.

with the Clean Water Act after years of notorious sewage overflows into White River and its tributaries.

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I-69 AND THE UNFUNDED MANDATE OF PAVEMENT

The state continues its aggressive push to pave through the farms and forestland of southwestern Indiana despite at least four lawsuits questioning the rationale of the current approach.

Construction is underway on several sections linking Evansville to Crane Naval Base through Daviess and Greene counties.

That portion of the highway is targeted for completion by December 2012.

Bloomington continues to battle the section running through Monroe County even as state and federal officials continue to argue that locals have no right to stop the highway. Potential retribution for the city’s audacity could result in the state withholding millions of dollars in federal aid for Bloomington’s public bus system.

The State of Indiana and the local governments it supports could not fund the existing backlog of bridge and highway infrastructure repairs without selling 75 years of revenue rights from Indiana’s northern toll road to a private company. But project proponents — in a chorus started by the Democratic governors that proceeded him and continued by the GOP’s Daniels

— insist the economic boost the highway offers will offset the roughly $3 billion cost, the unwelcome appropriation of private property and the environmental costs.

Other hot infrastructure news of the year included the closing of the Sherman Minton Bridge connecting New Albany and Louisville. Thousands of drivers continue to be diverted each day as engineers work to structural integrity by a March deadline.

CITY-COUNTY COUNCIL SCANDALS

Two City-County Council members were arrested in 2011; one was sentenced to prison while the second awaits his day in court.

Former City-County Councilman Lincoln Plowman was sentenced to 40 months in prison earlier this month, shortly after being convicted on bribery and attempted extortion charges. Plowman, the leading Republican on the council at the time, accepted a $5,000 bribe from an undercover FBI agent who claimed he needed help opening a strip club in the city during a sting operation.

As if that wasn’t a bad enough black eye for the city, Plowman, who worked full-time as a major with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, accepted the bribe while wearing his police uniform. Plowman resigned from the council shortly afterward and took early retirement from the department.

Although Plowman wasn’t able to help the undercover operative open the nonexistent strip club, he will likely be seeing plenty of bars in prison.

Plowman’s former fellow councilor Paul C. Bateman Jr. likely wasn’t impressed by the $5,000 extortion attempt; he allegedly defrauded an Indiana doctor of $1.7 million.

Bateman, a Democrat, convinced the

unnamed victim to invest in an ethanolproduction business and The Russell Foundation, which sought to “enhance society through compassionate concerns for the spiritual, moral and ethical fibers of the community.” The head of the foundation, Rev. Michael L. Russell, was also indicted, along with a third man, Manuel Gonzalez.

Instead of the money going to the promised purpose, prosecutors claim the three men diverted the cash to their personal accounts and spent it on luxury items, including a Cadillac Escalade and custom-made clothing.

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PLUNDERING PLANNED PARENTHOOD

Hungry to be known as the most pro-life state in the country, the General Assembly passed new, stricter abortion restrictions that would also withhold federal funds from one of the state’s largest healthcare providers to low-income women.

Despite restrictions already in place preventing Medicare funds from being used for abortions, HB 1210 denies any federal funds going to any facility offering abortions. Nearly 10,000 mostly low-income women rely on Planned Parenthood as their primary medical provider, many of whom are at risk of losing out on many of the other services the organization offers, including cancer screenings and health checkups.

The bill also caps the number of weeks at which a woman can get an abortion,

reducing it from 24 weeks to 20, and requires abortion providers to inform patients the fetus can feel pain.

During the deliberation process, state legislators were warned that the bill might be in violation of federal statutes and could lead to a costly court battle for the cash-starved state. But they pushed forward anyway, hoping to create the “most pro-life state in America,” according to bill author Eric Turner (R-Cicero).

The warnings proved to be prophetic. In June, a federal court granted a temporary injunction preventing the law from taking effect, and the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services disapproved the measure that same month. The 7th U.S. Court of Appeals is currently weighing the case.

THE FIGHTS OF CHARLIE WHITE

Indiana’s top election official was charged with multiple counts of voter fraud in March, but instead of resigning, Secretary of State Charlie White came out swinging. And over the next nine months, White’s family, his predecessor Todd Rokita, former Sen. Evan Bayh and a host of others were all pulled into the melee.

White, who defeated Democrat Vop Osili in the 2010 general election, was charged with seven felonies, including voter fraud and theft. Prosecutors allege that while White served on the Fishers Town Council, he was living outside his district in a condo he purchased with his then-fiancé, now wife, Michelle Quigley-White. White claims he was living within his district in his exwife’s home at the time.

White is battling on several fronts — besides the criminal charges in Hamilton County, Democrats filed a complaint with the state election board, claiming he wasn’t

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tool pulls a real boner: comically named Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) admits to sending lewd emails, texts and pics to half a dozen women. After being skewered and roasted by the press and the public, Weiner resigns. New York becomes the sixth state to legalize gay marriage.

JULY

American hero Joey Chestnut wins his fifth consecutive first place prize at Nathan’s International Hot Dog Eating

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Contest at Coney Island, NY. America’s worst mom, Casey Anthony, is found not guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee. The national unemployment rate creeps up to 9.2 percent.

Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloid News of the World shuts down after a national scandal involving phone-hacking. A sweltering heat wave covers virtually all of the U.S. Manic funnyman Robin Williams turns 60. Norwegian madman Anders Breivik kills 77 people

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in an Oslo bombing and a youth camp shooting rampage. Soulful singer Amy Winehouse dies at 27, rock ‘n roll’s deadliest age.

AUGUST

Congress passes a last-minute debt bill, staving off a U.S. financial default.

Homemaking expert and ex-con Martha Stewart turns 70, President Barack Obama turns 50, and singer and sperm donor David Crosby somehow survives

to 70. Standard and Poor’s downgrades its U.S. credit rating to AA+. Riots rage in London and several other British cities, spawned by public spending cuts and racial tensions. Unbelievably stupid state lawmaker Phil Hinkle (R-Indpls.) uses his publicly listed email address on Craigslist to set up a hotel tryst with a young man, and gets caught – duh. Seven people are killed or fatally injured when a powerful wind gust topples a stage roof and rigging at the Indiana State Fair. Apple’s wizard/CEO

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DANIELS DUCKS GOP DANCE; RUPERT ENTERS THE 2012 FRAY In May, Daniels spurned his suitors and snubbed the opportunity to make a run for the nation’s highest office.

Perhaps it was a hard decision, but now Daniels is probably relieved not to have to associate with the current circus as his Grand Old Party colleagues unleash the desperate effort to garner the Republican nomination for president.

Their counterparts within the Indiana General Assembly and the state’s regulatory network, however, probably have enough cooked up to keep him busy until his final gubernatorial term is complete in December 2012.

Meanwhile, local personality Rupert Boneham, an advocate for disadvantaged youth and a star from the reality TV show “Survivor,” entered the 2012 governor’s race as a Libertarian. Republicans currently jockeying for position include Congressman Mike Pence and former Hamilton County Councilman Jim Wallace. Democrats squaring off for the party nod include former Indiana House Speaker John Gregg and landscaping contractor Thomas Lenfert.

The Indiana Democratic Party has also spent much of the year sending out missives nearly every day aimed at undercutting support for Sen. Dick Lugar, who, as Indiana’s longest-serving member of Congress was first elected to the Senate in 1976. If the Dems can help Mr. Tea Party Richard Mourdock unseat Lugar in May’s primary, their chances of stealing the seat increase.

eligible for the 2010 election. After the bipartisan board sided with White, Democrats filed suit in Marion County. Marion Circuit Court Judge Louis Rosenberg ruled last Wednesday that White was not legally registered to vote at the time he filed his candidacy and therefore was ineligible to be on the ballot. Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller appealed the decision on behalf of the recount commission. The Indiana Supreme Court is expected to weigh in soon.

White has also battled his own party, including Daniels, who suggested White step aside leading up to his January 2012 criminal trial, and Rokita, whom White criticized as a self-promoter.

Special prosecutors John Dowd and Dan Sigler sought similar voter fraud charges against Quigley-White, but White leveled similar accusations of his own, against Sigler and other prominent public figures, including Bayh and his wife, Susan. The respective county prosecutors declined to file charges or appoint their own special prosecutor.

White’s mother threatened to file suit against Hamilton County, saying she was verbally abused by Sigler and his son during White’s grand jury hearing.

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Rupert Boneham, shown here on 2011 election night, will run for governor in 2012 for the Indiana Libertarian Party.

THE 2011 ELECTION

Mayor Greg Ballard was reelected in November, but the Republican’s next term will begin with a Democrat-controlled CityCounty Council.

Ballard defeated Melina Kennedy, a deputy mayor in the Bart Peterson administration.

Kennedy lost despite the backing of the Fraternal Order of Police and an endorsement from The Indianapolis Star (which might illustrate how much pull the local fish wrap has in the city today). She consistently trailed in the polls, and lost the mayor’s office by 7,500 votes.

Although Kennedy lost, her fellow Democrats won a 16–13 majority on the City-County Council, which is believed to be the first time in the city’s history that a Republican mayor would be working with a Democratic council.

LEGISLATORS GONE WILD

Rep. Phil Hinkle might support a constitutional ban against gay marriage, but apparently paid hook-ups with 18-year-old dudes from Craigslist are perfectly acceptable in his book.

In Au gust, the prominent 64-year-old conservative lawmaker — “an in-shape married professional … (who loves) getting and staying naked,” according to an email he wrote to the young man — answered a Craigslist ad posted by Kameryn Gibson and offered him $80 “for services rendered and if real satisfied, a healthy tip.”

Things allegedly fell apart after Gibson discovered who Hinkle was. Gibson alleges he attempted to leave the downtown Marriott hotel room, but Hinkle stopped him. At that point, Gibson called his sister,

who threatened to go to the police and the media. Hinkle called the incident a shakedown, claiming Gibson stole his BlackBerry, an iPad and $100. Gibson and his sister allege Hinkle gave the electronic devices and cash to them to keep the incident quiet.

Hinkle denies he’s gay, but couldn’t say why he set up the attempted tryst in the first place. As with every politician who has been caught with his pants down, Hinkle told reporters he was seeking “professional help” to understand why he did what he did — namely answer a homosexual casual encounters ad seeking a “suga daddy,” send multiple emails to the ad’s teenage author, pick him up and take him to a hotel room, and allegedly expose himself.

Hinkle has refused calls for him to resign, but won’t seek reelection in 2012.

In February, 70 members of the Indiana House of Representatives — including Hinkle — voted to amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage. The state senate approved the same measure the following month. The ban will come before the two houses again in 2013, and if it passes a second time, will go to Hoosier voters.

A few months later, the closet became too claustrophobic for yet another lawmaker.

Former Indiana State Rep. Brian Hasler, D-Evansville, who thought he had made a $160 deal for sex with a male prostitute, actually had landed a date with Sgt. Jon Daggy of IMPD’s vice unit. Instead of escorting Hasler upstairs to a hotel room at the Omni, Daggy escorted him to jail.

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Steve Jobs resigns. Legendary game show host Monty Hall turns 90. Hurricane Irene whips along the East Coast, leaving 46 dead over 13 states. The last of America’s first generation of bluesmen, David “Honeyboy” Edwards,” dies at age 96.

SEPTEMBER

Pregnant pop superstar Beyonce turns 30; the world’s coolest girl rocker, Chrissie Hynde turns 60; country music legend George Jones turns 80;

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and sexy/spooky actress Cassandra Peterson (“Elvira, Mistress of the Dark”) is a well-preserved 60. Former Pacers bad boy Ron Artest has his name officially changed to Metta World Peace – in response, local man Jeff Ayers changes his name to AllOut World War. The U.S. military’s discriminatory DADT policy is repealed.

The world’s unluckiest hikers, Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer, are freed after spending more than two years

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in an Iranian prison. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas applies for creation of a state of Palestine and U.N. membership.

OCTOBER

Mama said, “Knox you out!” After spending four years in an Italian prison on a murder conviction, Amanda Knox is exonerated and released. The Occupy Wall Street protests grow larger and spread to other cities. Annoying

singer Sting and rocker/activist Bob Geldolf turn 60, syrupy-smooth rapper Snoop Dogg hits 40. American innovative giant Steve Jobs dies at age 56.

Sir Paul McCartney marries American heiress Nancy Shevell. Two-time Indy 500 winner Dan Wheldon is killed in a horrific multi-car crash at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Moammar “Daffy” Gadhafi is a dead duck. The world’s population reaches an estimated 7 billion.

NATIONS, LEADERS SURRENDER TO CLIMATE CHAOS Toward the end of the year, in anticipation of the climate summit in Durban, South Africa, a disturbing wave of stories emerged that made our planetary predicament chillingly — and boiling-ly — clear. This was, as even climate change deniers must acknowledge, the Year of Extreme Weather, as chaotic storms and wildfires and whatnot swirled upon the earth all year long. Only a magical thinking person could possibly call that an anomaly, in a year that also saw the rise in all three greenhouse gases. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, CO2 emissions worldwide jumped by the highest one-year amount ever, in 2010. The other two greenhouse gases, methane and nitrous oxide, not to be outdone, are increasing as well.

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So, armed with this science, what did world leaders do, leading up to Durban? They gave up, publicly, saying that a climate treaty that resolves the disputes (mostly between rich and poor countries) would not be possible until 2020. Given the fiddling and backpedaling and dilly-dallying since the Kyoto Protocol international agreement on global warming, coming up on 15 years now, there’s no reason to believe another eight will compel government leaders to take the action necessary to reduce greenhouse gases. Unless, of course, we global citizens decide to Occupy Mother Earth.

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BATTLE IN THE ARCTIC

The Arctic Sea is the poster child of climate change, and 2011 was another banner year for its transition from icedover environment to cash cow for oil companies. The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world, and at the least (new data is constantly being recalibrated) this year is on pace to meet or exceed the record-breaking Arctic ice melt of 2007.

You folks who believe that all this envirohorror is just part of the “natural cycles” of the earth, must see at this point, that the speed by which this is happening is anything but natural. On a “natural cycle” scale of, say, a meteorite striking the earth on one end of the spectrum and, say, natural cycles and fluctuations of a bio-diverse planet spinning in the cosmos, we are nestled safely toward the meteor.

So what are earthlings doing to combat this disturbing ice melt? They are combating each other to secure oil leases to extract even more fossil fuels and create even more greenhouse gases to further ruin our habitat.

Everybody got in the game. In late August, Exxon reached a deal with the Russians to plumb their territory of the Arctic Ocean. In early October, the U.S.

NOVEMBER

Kooky skeezer Mariah Yeater accuses teen heartthrob Justin Bieber of making a baby, baby, baby with her in a dressing-room bathroom – her paternity suit is withdrawn after it is revealed that she was just after the Biebs’ money. Dr. Conrad Murray is taken away in handcuffs after a jury finds him guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of pop icon Michael Jackson. Penn State is

Department of the Interior decided to uphold the sale (in 2008) of 487 oildrilling leases in the Chukchi Sea, which will allow Shell to begin exploratory drilling next summer, just in time for the Apocalypse! This is just the tip of the melting iceberg in the scrum of bigwigs competing to drill, baby, drill.

The warming of the Arctic Ocean, exacerbated by these drilling activities, will only hasten the release of millions of tons of methane — frozen beneath the ocean. Once that starts bubbling to the surface, everything that seems “extreme” now will look pretty chill in comparison.

On a human scale — i.e. on a scale that’s more fathomable — there were three incidents in 2011 to drive this Arctic melt home. A British team of adventurers rowed to the North Pole. One of the benefits of climate change is now people can row to the North Pole, how cool is that! It took ’em 28 days to traverse an expanse that — only a few years prior — they only could have walked.

Secondly, a female polar bear swam a record 426 miles because she could find no resting point. She swam nine days straight trying to find land, losing 22 percent of her body weight in the process. Oh, she lost her cub, too.

Perhaps in the near future, oil rigs can create rafts for polar bears to pause on their journeys, a perfect opportunity for cute pictures to send home to the fam.

Finally, in what must be the single most chilling story of 2011, a Russian research team, surveying the East Siberian Arctic Shelf off northern Russia, found plumes of methane bubbling up in the Arctic Sea. To quote a scientist who has been studying the area for 20 years: “Earlier we found torch-like structures like this, but they

embroiled in a disturbing and disgusting child sex abuse scandal – alleged pervert Jerry Sandusky becomes the most hated man in America. Mayor Greg Ballard is re-elected. Facing national economic meltdowns, Prime Ministers George Papandreou of Greece and Silvio Berlusconi of Italy agree to resign; Yemen’s embattled president Ali Abdullah Saleh also calls it quits. Rock’s unluckiest drummer, Pete Best, turns 70.

were only tens of meters in diameter. This is the first time that we’ve found continuous, powerful and impressive seeping structures, more than 1,000 meters in diameter. It’s amazing.”

Amazing, indeed. Methane is 20 times more powerful a greenhouse gas than CO2. If plumes, 1,000 meters in diameter are starting to bubble up in the Arctic … well, the tipping point hath tipped.

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King crab.

ANTARCTICA BECOMES A HORROR FILM

What is the Arctic’s little sister doing to compete with big brother for the spotlight? Plenty! A massive crack was detected in one of Antarctica’s glaciers, a crack so vast it would put your plumber to shame. When it breaks free, it will span 340 square miles, contributing to sea level rise, and hunting down all Titanics, great and small, to turn them into future action/romance flicks.

King crabs have found their way to the edge of Antarctica, because of the area’s more habitable warmth. These crabs are not just invasive; they are ecosystem juggernauts. With no known predators, these crabs will consume sea floor ani-

DECEMBER

The U.S. unemployment rate drops to 8.6 percent. His campaign kicked in the nuts by allegations of sexual harassment and marital infidelity, Herman Cain ends his bid to become the Republican presidential nominee. Moronic former governor of Illinois Rob Blagojevich is sentenced to 14 years in prison for his over-the-top governmental corruption.

LOWE’S BLOWES: Corporate weenies at Lowe’s bow to pressure from some nut

mals, and reproduce to their hearts’ and genitals’ content.

With populations of Chinstrap and Adelie penguins shrinking (more than 50 percent in the last 30 years) and krill numbers plummeting (40 to 80 percent), king crabs may have to resort to cannibalism (crabibalism?) before too many years pass.

WE ARE SEVEN BILLION WASTRELS

Around Halloween, we reached seven billion. Not seven billion hours logged watching TV, not seven billion thoughtsper-day about sex, but seven billion, living, breathing, reproducing, farting, consuming and wasting carbon emitters.

That is a shitload of people! And if you are reading this (which, ahem, you are), then you are one of those people. Even the person writing this is one of those people! Crazy!

Many types of calculations place our population number as well beyond the earth’s capacity to sustain us for any period of time. Yet we keep on propagating the planet with ever more scads of cute, cuddly, pookie-wookie babies. And who can blame us? It’s the biological imperative, coupled with the social paradigm that reinforces such fruitility.

The most extreme, egregious example of this in 2011 was the popular TLC show, 19 and Counting, that featured and celebrated the Duggars, a family with 19 kids. By November, breathless Hollywood reporters were gaga over the Duggars’ announcement that they were expecting their 20th child — which subsequently miscarried.

These people don’t need to be celebrated; they need an intervention.

group in Florida and cancel their ad on TLC’s reality series All-American Muslim – protests, boycotts and mockery ensue.

From “shock and awe,” missing WMDs and Abu Ghraib to 4,487 U.S. military deaths, more than 100,000 Iraqi lives lost and a cost of about $800 billion, the Iraq War finally ends. North Korea’s Kim Jong Il joins The Dead Dictators Club – with Osama, Gadhafi and the Jongster gone, Santa Claus has a lot less coal to deliver this Christmas season!

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New Year’s Eve

WEDNESDAY

Candlelight Evening on Delaware Street

Here are four top New Year’s events, but head to Soundcheck pg.31 for a near-complete list of 75 options for the Eve. And, as always, nuvo.net is your source for more info on all events.

@ Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site It’s priced as a fundraiser ($70 for members; $75 for regular folk), but the annual Candlelight Evening on Delaware Street can’t be beat as a sort of timetraveling home tour, a trip through Indianapolis as it was known to the landed gentry during the mid-19th century. The trip starts at the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site (with substantial hors d’oeuvres, warm cider and carols), before moving along to the Eden-Talbott House (tea bar), the Indianapolis

Propylaeum Club’s Historic Carriage House

(wine!), the Propylaeum Club’s main building (dinner) and the Thomas Taggert House (dessert, coffee). The tour is, of course, guided by seasoned docents, with verbal history lessons at each location.

Space is limited; call 631-1888 to reserve.

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THURSDAY

Green Bay Phoenix at Butler Bulldogs After a short break for the holidays, Butler heads into its second Horizon League matchup, against the perennially resurgent Green Bay Phoenix, on Thursday at Hinkle. After a shaky start, Butler scored a couple big victories in the past two weeks, knocking off Purdue, 67-65, at the then-Conseco Fieldhouse, and Stanford, 71-66, on the road. The Bulldogs’ record remains 6-7, and they were walloped by both ranked teams they’ve played (Louisville and Xavier), but the team seems to be gathering strength as it heads into the Horizon season.

WEDNESDAY

Christmas tree recycling sites

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Blue II enjoys a snack.

@ Hinkle Fieldhouse

Dec. 28, 5:30-9:30 p.m., $70-75 1230 N. Delaware St., 631-1888, presidentbenjaminharrison.org

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Funnymen Dave Smiley and Paul Poteet are hosting the Fifth Annual Union Station Masquerade Ball , which includes live music from Indy cover band My Yellow Rickshaw .

Door prizes are promised, along with other “surprises.” Drink prices are reasonable, and all the event benefits Lauren Seiders, an Indy Riley Kid and multi-organ transplant recipient. Union Station; 8:30 p.m., $49-99, 21+

FRIDAY

Cleveland Cavaliers at Indiana Pacers @ Bankers Life Fieldhouse

Thirty experts polled by ESPN.com have unanimously predicted the Bulls will take home the NBA Central division title for the year.

But when we hit print yesterday, the Pacers were undefeated and in first place, with a 1-0 record, having knocked off their bete noires, the Pistons, in their long-delayed Dec. 26 opener to this truncated 2011-12 season. It was the first game in Bankers Life Fieldhouse , as the Pacers’ home court was recently renamed, and it kicked off an accelerated, 66-game schedule. The Pacers re turn to town Friday after their first away game of the season, in Toronto.

Dec. 30, 7 p.m., $10-1,000 125 S. Pennsylvania St., 917-2500, pacers.com

FRIDAY

Kwanzaa Popps @ 247 Sky Bar

How better to celebrate Kwanzaa than with Kwanzaa Popps, Indy’s top reggae toaster for just about forever, who will lead festivities at the 247 Sky Bar , joined by his backing band, the IRB Sound, and DJ Celebrating Kwanzaa.

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Stella Artois New Year’s Eve Masquerade Ball

Dec. 29, 7 p.m., $14-100 adult, $9-100 youth 510 W. 49th St., 800-368-6852, butlersports.com

Time was that the pyros working at our city parks created a giant bonfire out of discarded Christmas trees, keeping the Pagan yule spirit alive with an environmentally destructive but offering to the beneficent gods. Things have changed as KnoZone action days have accumulated; these days, the city’s Office of Sustainability, in concert with Indy Parks, turns used Christmas trees into mulch, which is used for park and street trees. The city collected more than 15,000 trees last year, and eight drop-off locations for this year’s discarded Christmas trees are open through Jan. 31, 2012. A few “no duh” stipulations: remove all ornaments, lights, bags, tree stands, nails and other decorations; no artificial trees will be accepted; and trees will be accepted during normal park hours. Here’s the run-down of drop-off points: Broad Ripple Park (south lot), Ellenberger Park (east of pool in main parking lot), Garfield Park (MacAllister Center), Krannert Park (north lot), Riverside Park (tennis court lot), Perry Park (soccer field lot), Sahm Park (soccer field lot) and Northwestway Park (near recycling bins).

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Dance Kaleidoscope and the ISO are presenting a New Year’s Eve concert old-world style. They’ll transform the Circle Theatre into Musikverein — a famous concert hall in Vienna — to perform Viennese favorites. Stay after the show for a champagne toast, reception, dancing and more live music. Hilbert Circle Theatre; 9 p.m., $35 and up, all-ages

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Roots Iric . By our calculations, the show falls on the fifth day of Kwanzaa, devoted to the principle of Nia, or purpose, which is defined by the goal of making “our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness,” according to Kwanzaa founder Maulana Karenga.

Dec. 30, 10:30 p.m.

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A Bingo Bango New Year’s at White Rabbit.

New Year’s Eve Big-Ass Burlesque Bingo Bango Show Featuring the Muncie Brothers and Alabaster Betty with special guests Poppy Staccato and Frenchy LaRouge , this will be a darn tootin’ good time. A PBR toast at midnight by fabulous hosts Dorgan and Milroy will end

the evening. Win stupid/entertaining prizes during games of sexy bingo. If that sentence doesn’t confuse or frighten you, you belong in Eff’n Square this New Year’s Eve. White Rabbit Cabaret; 8:30 p.m., $25, 21+

The Libertine Liquor Bar’s New Year’s Eve A seven-course meal starts the debauchery at the

Libertine Liquor Bar’s New Year’s party. Wine

pairing available upon request. After 10 p.m., the doors reopen for a late night party, including champagne at midnight. Be sophisticated and intoxicated at The Libertine this New Year’s Eve. The Libertine; 6:30 p.m./9:30 p.m.; $135 for early evening, $10 for late night; 21+

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Maxwell Anderson exits the IMA Maxwell Anderson’s departure from the Indianapolis Museum of Art at the end of 2011 may not be the biggest arts story of the year, but it’s a contender.

Anderson, who will become director of the Dallas Museum of Art in January 2012, greatly enhanced the IMA’s international reputation.

Under his directorship, the museum designed and launched a digital network, ArtBabble, that linked up the IMA with partner institutions, such as the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The IMA also organized the U.S. Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale.

One of the greatest achievements realized (although not conceived) during his tenure was 100 Acres: Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park. During this time, the IMA also started to organize traveling exhibitions in a major way, including the recent IMA retrospective of African-American artist Thornton Dial, now on view at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.

Another action Anderson took that received praise at the local level was to lift a previously instituted admittance fee. (A $5 per vehicle parking fee was subsequently instituted in September 2011). But the elimination of 33 full-time and 23 part-time security guard and gallery attendant positions in 2010 generated some controversy.

Amos Brown III, host and managing editor of Afternoons with Amos on WTLC-AM, took issue with the decision to eliminate the security guards’ positions. “Not only were they a racially diverse group, it was individuals who were predominantly over 40,” he says.

While Brown acknowledges the value Anderson has brought to the IMA, he also believes that the museum’s relationship to the city has some room for improvement under a new director. He is not alone.

“The next challenge is for the IMA to return to the balance of connecting to the community,” says philanthropist Jeremy Efroymson. “I think that Max did a lot of international things, and maybe the next person needs to have, to add to that, more of a local emphasis, more local programming, being part of the community, and things like that.” — Dan Grossman

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Above: The Big Car crew — from left, John Clark, Shauta Marsh, Jim Walker, Tom Streit, Todd Bracik — at a farewell party for th eir Murphy gallery space in December. Right: Drawings from a collaborative collage project created during the party.

Big moves for Big Car This was a year of transition for Big Car. In December 2011, Big Car Gallery closed its doors for good, ending a seven year-long string of First Friday art openings, music performances and genrebending events in Fountain Square’s Murphy Art Center.

Big Car isn’t stalling, however; in fact it’s revving up its activities, having opened Service Center for Culture and Community this past summer.

Located in a former tire shop adjacent to Lafayette Square Mall, Service Center joins Big Car’s Made for Each Other Space (on Indy’s near eastside) in bringing community-building art programs

Ups and downs at the Center for the Performing Arts The Palladium, the main venue in Carmel’s Center for the Performing Arts, threw open its doors with much hoopla in January 2011. The $175 million center, which also includes the 500-seat Tarkington Theater and the 200-seat Studio Theater, has put Carmel on the arts map in the Midwest — with both its triumphs and debacles.

Already, there have been some memorable music performances in a wide variety of genres at the acoustically state-of-the-art Palladium, including a knockout recital by violinist Hilary Hahn in October.

And while numerous events are booked for 2012, including an appearance by Bill Cosby at the Palladium on

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into underserved parts of the city.

In the future, Big Car’s executive director Jim Walker sees opportunities in these venues for a certain kind of event that took place occasionally at Big Car Gallery.

“I really loved to watch when everyone contributed a collage to the wall during our collage party,” says Walker. “It’s those kind of things that we’re going to do more and more to help make the city better, to focus on expanding an audience. And [it’s] not even an audience; it will be more like a partnership with all kinds of people.”

And for those people who might miss Big Car’s presence downtown, don’t worry. The nonprofit organization is

soon moving its offices to Earth House, and it will collaborate with that organization on some programming.

“We aren’t going into Earth House thinking ‘OK, we’re going do what we did at Big Car in Earth House,’” says Walker. “What we’re really more interested in doing is going to Earth House and seeing what’s really at the top of the pyramid for their mission. [We’re looking at] what we can we do that would match their mission and help them go further in the direction that they really want to go.” — Dan Grossman

April 15, the Center is having trouble covering costs.

The problem is that revenues haven’t matched expenses for the arts complex.

In an attempt to mitigate this revenue shortfall, the Center for the Performing Arts recently eliminated five staff positions in the departments of fundraising, production, and outreach, according to the Center’s public relations manager John Hughey.

The current fiscal woes come on the heels of the resignation of Steven Libman in July 2011 as the president and CEO of the Center for the Performing Arts. This resignation came after the city of Carmel hired private investigators — at a price tag of $8,100 — to report on his daily activities.

The investigators allegedly found that Libman was involved in a romantic relationship with his executive assistant

and that on more than one occasion he took flights with her to various cities on the Eastern seaboard, with expenses paid by the Center, according to Carmel mayor Jim Brainard. When confronted with this information by the board of the Center for the Performing Arts Foundation, Libman tendered his resignation.

Libman has not talked in detail about these allegations. An independent audit of Center finances, which will be released to the public as soon as it is finalized, should reveal whether or not there were any inappropriate expenditures on Libman’s part.

Interim president and CEO Frank Basile has more urgent items on his agenda, however, like trying to find a way to ensure the Center for the Performing Arts’ long-term viability.

— Dan Grossman

Indy arts organizations huddle up for the Super Bowl

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Above: Andy Miller, “Served,” at the Service Center for Contemporary Art and Culture. Below: Barbara Stahl, “Morning Magnolias,” on the downtown canal under Ohio Street..

The Arts Council of Indianapolis and the Indianapolis Downtown Artists and Dealers Association (IDADA) spent much of 2011 revving up for the Super Bowl. The results of the Arts Council’s XLVI Murals Project are already on view in outdoor locations all over Indianapolis. Local, regional, and nationally known artists created 46 murals for the project, ranging in subject matter from Martin Luther King Jr., to Kurt Vonnegut.

Meanwhile, the IDADA Pavilion will feature installations that showcase local and regional artists, assigning each of them a space within the pavilion to create a sitespecific piece. Pieces will include video art, mixed media works and experiential environments created with sound and light.

The Pavilion, in the old Indiana State Museum building at 202 N.

Alabama St., will then open free to the public on Jan. 14.

“We feel like the opportunity with the Super Bowl festivities, and everything leading up to the Super Bowl, that it would be an excellent opportunity for us to showcase the local and regional arts talent,” says IDADA Pavilion coordinator Mark Ruschman. “And the best way we saw to do that at IDADA was to draw attention to us through this venue, draw people in to see what we have to offer.”

Ruschman and his IDADA colleagues believe that they will be the first nonprofit to get the ball into the end zone, as it were, with such a project.

“We think that this is the first time a small arts nonprofit has partnered with local philanthropic organizations and other arts organizations to put on an event like this, particularly when it’s free and open to the public,” Ruschman says. — Dan Grossman

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The 2011 gallery scene

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Taylor Anne Smith’s “Looking Forward,” included in the StutzArtSpace’s show Unclothed.

STUTZARTSPACE, located in the Stutz Business Center, was not a particularly hot First Friday destination prior to 2011. But under the curatorship of Andy Chen, the gallery had mounted stunningly forward-leaning shows, including Unclothed: Exposing the Art Nude in November.

A panel discussion by the same name, as part of the Spirit & Place Festival generated a capacity crowd. It’s doubtful that a panel discussion entitled Uncovering Covered Bridges, say, would have garnered such an audience. The art nude exhibition’s notoriety and success seemed to suggest that there’s a large audience for cutting-edge, figurative artwork in Indianapolis.

A show that ran concurrently with the Stutz Unclothed show was also one of the year’s highlights. Bodies of Waters, jointly sponsored by Big Car Gallery and the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (IMOCA), featured work by artists inspired by the movies and life of filmmaker John Waters.

Other standouts this year were solo shows by Jonathan McAfee (especially his Some Girls show at Earth House) , Joseph Crone (at Wug Laku’s), Malcolm Mobutu Smith (at IMOCA) and Carla Knopp.

Knopp debuted her Dewclaw Gallery in the South Studios of Circle City Industrial Complex (CCIC) in December.

And jewelry designer Nancy Lee opened her own gallery near Wug Laku’s Studio & Garage earlier this year in the CCIC. Primary Colours, in addition to moving its offices to the Fountain Square’s Murphy Art Center, also established the Primary Gallery in a second space of the Murphy Building jointly operated with Mount Comfort Gallery.

The two galleries run the space jointly and alternate the months of their First Friday openings.

But the IDADA First Friday art scene isn’t the only monthly art walk in the greater Indy area. This year Carmel, which has its own Second Saturday Art Walk, welcomed three new galleries into its Art & Design District. Eye on Art Gallery and French Bleu Gallery are run by Jerry Points and Susan Mauck, respectively. (Both artists formerly had their studios in the Stutz.) And this year Kathleen O’Neil Stevens opened her Renaissance Gallery, which usually features an eclectic mix of photographic work and painting.

As for notable transitions, Christopher West left Dean Johnson Gallery as curator in Sept. 2011, becoming an acquisitions associate with Dan Ripley’s Antique Helper. The Dean Johnson Gallery is still, however, supporting local artists by showing their work in its exhibition space. — Dan Grossman

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Herron prepares art therapy program for 2012 The Herron School of Art & Design is launching an innovative graduate art therapy program in 2012 that won’t simply teach educators how to gather people around a table and get them to express their feelings through art making. It will be, rather, a medical and healthcare profession that requires a master’s degree to practice. The profession uses visual and arts media and the creative process in the assessment and treatment of various mental and physical disorders.

Program director Juliet King, who received her Master of Art in Art Therapy degree from Hahnemann University in Philadelphia, has spent the last 15 years as a clinician, professor, and administrator of art therapy education.

“Art therapists are currently working in many different contexts, including: medical facilities, eating disorder clinics, domestic violence shelters, the Indianapolis public school system, rehabilitation treatment centers, and in private practice,” says King.

Some partners will include Riley Children’s Hospital, Wishard, St. Vincent’s Health, the Julian Center, Exodus Refugee Immigration, the Indianapolis Art Center, and the Veterans Administration.

“We are cultivating the education of clinical practitioners that help those in need through this life enhancing work,” says King. “Additionally, this program will help to create healthcare positions and employment opportunities within the city and state.” — Dan Grossman

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FOOD The best food of 2011 Black Market tops Neil’s list

BY N E I L CH AR LE S N CH A RL E S @N U V O . N E T Since I moved back to Indianapolis in June (after a nine-year absence), at least a dozen new independent restaurants have opened their doors to good reviews and brisk business.

Aided enormously by the enthusiasm that food lovers have shown for their local farmers’ markets, the independents are on their way to sharing the rewards with their corporate rivals.

Obviously we’ll never rid ourselves of the chain restaurants, however desirable that may be. But we are right now witnessing a turning point in the culinary culture of this once sleepy town. I’ll eat and drink to that. Locally, of course.

Here’s a roundup of the restaurants that have grabbed my attention over the past six months.

At the top of the list, without any shadow of doubt, is Black Market. Owners Ed Rudisell

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and Micah Frank are really pushing the envelope and have me almost giddy with anticipation every time I sit down to eat there. The pickle plate, the Welsh Rarebit, the veal marrow bones and the pork schnitzel … they really get it. Enough said.

The Libertine: Having nailed classic pizza at Pizzology, cutting-edge chef Neal Brown has opened a post-Prohibition-style cocktail bar, focusing on upscale smallplate comfort food. Service here is cool and somewhat hipster, but it’s slick and chic and not to be missed.

Late Harvest: Amidst the maelstrom of corporate chain restaurants at the Fashion Mall, chef Ryan Nelson’s bijou eatery offers ambitious food and impeccable service in a striking environment. Not to be missed is the Salt Cod Brandade, the pork cheeks, or the truly awesome Sticky Toffee Pudding.

Maxine’s Chicken and Waffles: Exceptional soul comfort food, great prices and a really lively atmosphere. Ingredients are fresh and vibrant, service is prompt and friendly; and, quite frankly, this is one of the best lunches you could possibly enjoy for its honesty, quality and simplicity.

Harry & Izzy’s: With everyone’s time being in such short supply these days, a good three-course lunch has become a luxury in which few of us can afford to indulge. Should the opportunity arise, however, I can think of few better places to do so than at Harry & Izzy’s. We’ve sampled most of the menu, both at lunch

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Duck buns at Black Market.

and dinner, and have found the food to be exceptional.

Mama Irma: Never had Peruvian food before? Me neither, until this recent visit to the newest addition to Fountain Square. The result? I’m counting the days until I go back. The dishes were perfectly explained and the food was straight from the heart. This was some of the most enthralling, enticing and richly appealing cuisine that we’ve tried in ages.

Chef Joseph’s at the Connoisseur Room: The newest addition to the powerlunch dining scene (a la Mad Men), Chef Joseph lets his palate and talents loose with a constantly changing lunch menu that reflects his many culinary interests. This is the place for an unhurried three-course meal and a couple of glasses of wine, or the hearkening of the old three-martini business lunch. The

décor is striking, but the menu prices extremely fair. Evenings are reserved for private dinners and special events.

Clay Oven: Excellent, authentic Indian cuisine from a chef/owner with experience in top Indian restaurants in London. This is the real deal. The lunch buffet is a steal at $7.99!

On-Time: We loved this dim sum restaurant, with over 50 exquisite small-plate dishes featuring a variety of seafood, dumplings and rice. If you don’t get over to the westside very often, you need to make a visit because this is a unique experience in this town.

The Local: The ambition is almost matched by the achievement. The Local works hard to satisfy all tastes with some unique menu items like frogs’ legs and local beers. This is a must visit for the northsider.

Madison, where Scott Stoner and Christopher Gibson began brewing early summer for their companion restaurant; Triton Brewing Co., at Fort Benjamin Harrison on Oct. 11 (Jon Lang); and Bulldog Brewing Co., in Whiting, in November (Kevin Clark).

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Equally significant is the opening of Twenty-Tap in SoBro, following the successful lead of Tomlinson Tap Room in rotating Indiana craft brews on tap. Continuing the trend for 2012 openings, underway in Indianapolis are Black Acre Brewing in historic Irvington and TwoDeep Brewing, which is reclaiming the Chateau Thomas Winery building at 501 S. Madison Ave. Also notable is burgeoning support for a brewery in tiny Rochester, Ind.

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Flat 12 Bierwerks This year’s excitement centers around nine new Indiana craft breweries/brewpubs establishing a significant presence in local neighborhoods. The hoopla started a tad ahead with Flat 12 Bierwerks’ opening Dec. 30, 2010, in Indianapolis’ Historic Holy Cross neighborhood, with Rob Caputo as head brewer. The year rounds out with the Dec. 13 opening of Fountain Square Brewing Co. with Skip DuVall as head brewer and Bare Hands Brewery’s Winter Solstice opening in Granger, Ind., with Chris Gerard as head brewer.

In between we’ve welcomed Thr3e Wise Men Brewery in Broad Ripple, in January (with Omar Castrellon as head brewer); Cutters Brewing Co. in Bloomington, in May (Chris Inman); Four Horsemen Brewing Co. in South Bend, in June (Stephen Foster); MOBREKI Brewing in If you have an item for the Culinary Picks, send an e-mail at least two weeks in advance to culinary@nuvo.net.

Quantity is matched by quality. A growing number of drinkers are recognizing that nuanced artisan beers made locally and enjoyed fresh is part of living well — and a growing number of experts are giving awards to said beers. Three Floyds retains its noteworthy RateBeer.com rankings with Alpha King and Zombie Dust as the two most highly rated American Pale Ales on their site. Sun King set a record at the 2011 Great American Beer Festival by earning eight medals, four being gold, the most ever in any one competition.

Acknowledging this accomplishment, Mayor Greg Ballard proclaimed Oct. 28 Sun King Brewing Day. Sun King’s status equally helped Indiana gain the highest GABF State winning rate, which included Rock Bottom College Park, Brugge and Three Floyds taking home medals. And when The Ram as a corporate entity was recognized as Brewery of the Year at the GABF, that honor included The Ram in Indianapolis.

One might conclude Indiana is catching up with its preProhibition status, so being aware of our past is good.

Historian Bob Ostrander and beer memorabilia collector Derrick Morris provide the opportunity to get up to speed with the 2011 publication of Hoosier Beer: Tapping Into Indiana Brewing History.

If you have an item for Beer Buzz, send an email to beerbuzz@nuvo.net. Deadline for Beer Buzz is Thursday noon before the Wednesday of publication.

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MOVIES The best movies of 2011

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4: The Tree of Life Yeah, I know some of you are reading this and rolling your eyes. Terrence Malick’s meditation on life, the universe and our place in it annoyed the hell out of a significant number of viewers. I felt the same way about some of his other films, but this one grabbed me like nothing else this year. The most touching parts of the production deal with a rural American family in the ’50s. Malick does an excellent job creating a specific, credible portrait of the family, aided by great performances by Brad Pitt and young Hunter McCracken. See it when you’re in a reflective mood. Available now.

5: The Guard Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle star in a quirky mismatched cop story set in Ireland.

Expect rich characters, caustic humor and emotion without a whiff of sentimentality.

Cheadle plays straight man most of the time, giving Gleeson plenty of room to stretch as Sergeant Boyle — foul-mouthed hedonist, skilled police officer, devoted son and accomplished irritant. What a treat. Warning: Some of the Irish accents are very thick; you may want to watch with the closed-captions on.

Available Jan. 3.

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Bérénice Bejo, The Artist

1: The Artist An exuberant silent movie about a silent movie star. Set in 1927 Hollywood, the gorgeous black and white feature follows the career of a leading man (Jean Dujardin) at the top of his game and a charming newcomer (Bérénice Bejo) on her way up. The story is packed with clichés and broad acting, but it all works in this context. Dujardin and Bejo are perfect, the score is wonderful (they use xylophones liberally and get away with it, for God’s sake!) and the mix of humor and melodrama is spot on. In theaters now.

2: Win Win Beguiling low-key slice of life movie about a nice guy who does a rotten thing. Not enough space to lay out the plot here.

Suffice to say that a struggling lawyer and coach of a lousy high school wrestling team (Paul Giamatti) gets involved with an old man (Burt Young) and, later, the old guy’s grandson (Alex Shaffer), who happens to be a great wrestler. The cast is exceptional, especially Giamatti, Amy Ryan and Bobby Cannavale, and the script is funny and engaging. From Tom McCarthy (The Station Agent). Available now.

3: The Skin I Live In Forget the romance you associate with Pedro Almodóvar films. He goes someplace else this time, presenting dark, bizarre events in a matter-of-fact fashion. Antonio Banderas plays an intense plastic surgeon monitoring a beautiful woman (Elena Anaya) wearing only a flesh-colored body stocking and a frantic expression. Slowly, with lots of flashbacks, the dynamic of their relationship is revealed.

The more you learn, the more rattled you feel.

During the closing credits I was still reeling.

So freaky. So disquieting. So cool. Available for home viewing March 6.

6: The Descendants George Clooney plays a man who has been emotionally distant from his wife for some time. His relationship with his daughters has also suffered from his frequent absences.

When a boating accident leaves his wife near death, he must step up and be a full-fledged father. Alexander Payne’s film mixes drama and comedy adroitly. The characters are distinct without feeling contrived, the conversations seem genuine, and the Hawaiian setting is used nicely. In theaters now.

8: Margin Call Margin Call takes place over the course of one night, the night in 2008 when Wall Street came undone. It focuses on a small group of people at one company. Someone has discovered the very bad things the company has been doing.

The information will become public tomorrow. What to do, what to do? Scramble, hold high-level meetings, make speeches and do more bad things. Mesmerizing fare, with a cast including Kevin Spacey, Zachary Quinto, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Stanley Tucci and — surprise — Demi Moore, relevant again!

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Michael Shannon, Take Shelter

9: Take Shelter In this drama the villain is dread. The apocalypse is also a factor, and maybe mental illness. Writer-director Jeff Nichols offers a scenario where one man’s most immediate threat appears to be his own fear of disaster.

Michael Shannon is aces as a small-town Ohio husband and father — a good man — who begins experiencing vivid, terrifying apocalyptic dreams. He worries whether the dreams are omens, or whether he is simply coming unglued. The gap between realizing you’re

probably mentally ill and corralling the illness is huge, as the film makes abundantly clear.

Michael Shannon’s performance is searing.

Available Feb. 14.

10: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo A straight-laced journalist (Daniel Craig) teams with a mega-sullen computer hacker (Rooney Mara) decked out in full punk/goth regalia. David Fincher’s version of the first novel in Stieg Larsson’s trilogy that spawned three hit Swedish films is a dense but trackable mystery/thriller with loads of dark imagery shot with great style. The story includes a graphic rape scene, plus Nazis, serial killing, incest and torture. Merry Christmas, everybody, would you like a dollop of strychninelaced whipped cream on your mincemeat pie?

In theaters now.

Honorable Mentions: Hugo (Scorsese’s beautifully shot adventure and love letter to the early days of movies), Moneyball (baseball flick that makes numbers fun), Super 8 (The Goonies meet ET’s grouchy cousin), Warrior (battling brothers with daddy issues — intense and moving), The Lincoln Lawyer (Matthew McConaughey puts his surfer dude persona on hold for a legal drama), 50/50 (believable cancer drama/buddy comedy), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (summer’s biggest surprise: Apes triumph over damn, dirty humans), Crazy, Stupid Love (swell romantic comedy), Tabloid (documentary about a short blonde bombshell accused of kidnapping her Mormon boyfriend.

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7: Young Adult The new feature from the Juno writer and director team of Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman is a wicked mix of abrasive comedy and pathos. Successful author Mavis (Charlize Theron) comes up with what her alcoholsoaked noggin considers a great idea. She’ll go back to her small hometown and “rescue” her ex-high school sweetheart (Patrick Wilson) from his wife and baby. Theron is terrific as a walking disaster area, while Patton Oswalt humanizes the film as an embittered former classmate. Get ready for a series of achingly embarrassing moments. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll even care. In theaters now.

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BY GRANT CATTON MUSIC@NUVO.NET

saw close to fifty shows this year, some as a music reviewer and others as a fan.

Some were incredible, others forgettable, and many others filled the vast middle ground. I missed a few great artists too, like The Black Keys, My Morning Jacket, and The New Pornographers, but there’s only so much time in a week. Why eight? I just didn’t want to dilute the list by including any shows I felt less than 100 percent enthused about. This list, therefore, represents the absolute best of the best of what I saw in 2011.

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A Note from the Editor Judge if you must, but my top music moment of the year is happening right now. I am so happy to be working where my job is to write about what music I am listening to and loving. In the few months I’ve been at NUVO, I’ve had some amazing opportunities, including hearing some great new albums, seeing tons of shows and making connections all over the city with some of the talented musicians who live here. However, the most memorable music moment of my year happened all the way back in April, when I was pulling together an event with my colleagues at WIUX-FM. The day before WIUX’s annual music festival Culture Shock, IU decided to close our outdoor venue, for undisclosed reasons. In just under 12 hours, we were able to relocate the event to another venue, scrounge up a generator, move the stage and still lure hundreds of attendees for the show. After the stress and strain of the relocation, we were finally able to kick back and enjoy the headliner, San Francisco freak-rocker Ty Segall. He played a facemelting set, and then came back to our house to watch “The Hills” and sleep on our air mattress. Life is weird.

Inside the section, we’ve got Grant Catton’s top shows of the year, Rob Nichols’ review of the year in roots music, Kelsey Simpson’s five favorite DIY developments, Kyle Long’s top ten shows and top ten albums of the year and David Brent Johnson’s top historical jazz reissues. We’ll also have lots more content online, including a feature on EDM music, a 2011 punk rock mix tape and our photographers’ favor ite shots of the year. You can count on some more sappy reminiscing from me as well.

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1. CUT COPY @ the Vogue On tour to promote their Grammy-nominated album Zonoscope, this Aussie synth-pop band turned in one of the most energetic, wellproduced and simply electrifying performances I’ve ever seen. They packed the V ogue on a rainy Monday night and the crowd got so crazy that CC lead singer Dan Whitford had to implore everyone to chill out. The combination of lights, bass, synth, dancing, and the band’ s unrestrained enthusiasm made for a rave-like atmosphere. It was an obscenely good show.

2. ARCADE FIRE @ Pepsi Coliseum All right, this one’s kind of a slam dunk, but despite being fully established as indie rock legends and despite the fact the show was moved from The Lawn at White River to indoors on a dreary April weeknight, AF put on a superb show on their first trip to Naptown. They relied heavily on the strongest hits from The Suburbs (or else they might’ve had a riot on their hands) and truly put on a spectacle; they filled the super-wide stage with their troupe of musicians all standing spread-out at the front like buskers, while two drummers kept time majestically on raised platforms, all beneath a surreal black and white film loop projected on a screen above.

Hearing them drop the opening piano chords of “The Suburbs” toward the end of the show was a moment I’ll never forget. Openers The National also put on a hell of a show .

3. TUNE-YARDS @ Rhino’s (Bloomington) For an indie music fan, this was one of those absolute must-see, clear your calendar, cancel your plans kind of shows, and tUnE-yArDs delivered the goods. Their percussion-heavy, homemade R&B sound played even better live than on their latest album WHOKILL, which they were on tour to promote. Merrill Garbus was so fun to watch; dressed in a sort of fuzzy pink boa with half her face painted white, she sang with a raw, gutsy, energy and at times a childlike sense of glee, smiling and giggling in spite of herself when she would pull of f a great riff. By the end of the show , she had the entire crowd bopping up and down with her in time to her closing song.

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4. BAND OF HORSES @ IMA Odds are you didn’t hear about this one. That’s because it was a “secret show,” announced only 24 hours or so before the event and meant to revolve around this year’s Indy 500 festivities. On a spring night that started out rainy but turned mild and clear, Band of Horses played to the crowd of 200 in the IMA gardens as if they were in a stadium of 60,000.

The terraced garden, facing the White River, made for great acoustics. As evening drew in, the stage lights caught the river fog, creating a dramatic mood that went right along with the band’s classic songs like “The Funeral,” and “The Great Salt Lake.”

5. STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS @ Earth House Somewhere along the line, in the process of the past 25 odd years as a recording musician, songwriter, and leader of seminal alternative band Pavement, Stephen Malkmus has become a master guitarist. He displayed that at Earth House this fall when he trotted out his latest album Mirror Traffic, a tightly-produced gem.

To see this show was truly to watch a master at work, playing well-instrumented and technically-brilliant rock and roll.

6. BROAD RIPPLE MUSIC FEST Although there were 150 bands, the lineups at Connor’s Pub and Rock Lobster represented what are undoubtedly the city/region’s best indie rock bands. Outfits like Murder by Death, Pravada, Slothpop, America Owns the Moon,

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New music from Jaecyn Bayne Beat Jab featuring Jefferson Street Band and City of Colour

The Kemps, Sleeping Bag and HotFox — just to name a few — made this an unforgettable day of music and a chance to see a wide swath of what Indy has to offer, for only $15. You simply couldn’t come away from this year’s installment of BRMF feeling anything less than fired-up about the state of indie rock in this region.

7. BILL CALLAHAN @ White Rabbit I find that singer-songwriter Bill Callahan (formerly known as Smog) is one of those staid, quirky artists that you have to be in a particular mood to listen to, and I guess I was in that kind of mood when I saw his show this summer . Cool and aloof, Callahan played his lyrically-rich, prose-poem songs deliberately and with the kind of poised intensity that marks his music overall. The song “Sycamores” actually seemed to move the audience — or at least this reviewer — into a trance as they hung on every word.

8. THE KEMPS ET AL. @ Helter Shelter How does a house show in SoBro get on the same list with the likes of Arcade Fire and Stephen Malkmus? You had to be there. The lineup for this show included two of my favor ite local bands, The Kemps and Vacation Club, along with Oreo Jones, Learner Dancer and Grey Granite. On a hot, late summer night, these bands turned the cramped, dark basement of Helter Shelter into a den of sonic mayhem; it was the kind of close-knit scene that makes you feel like you’re part of something. In this case, that something is Indy’s thriving independent music scene.

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The Year in DIY Music

BY KELSEY SIMPSON MUSIC@NUVO.NET

NUVO contributor Kelsey Simpson presents the five top moments in the ever-changing DIY scene in Indianapolis.

THE DREAM IS DEAD AT DUDE FEST The Dream Is Dead was simply one of the most memorable hardcore bands to come out of the Indianapolis scene. In a genre riddled with similar-sounding artists, “T-Diddy” (as they were affectionately known) were known for their politically-charged lyrics and the brutal guitar stylings of Jared Southwick, who died earlier this year. After 10 years of tearing apart basements and stages across the nation, The Dream Is Dead gave their final performance at this year’s Dude Fest to honor their late guitarist.

Keener, who says, “(Punk rock) does exist, it doesn’t suck, and it’s not just limited to one age group, gender, philosophy, or style.”

STEP DADS It’s not often that bands can switch lead singers midway through their existence and still retain a decent following. Step Dads came out of left field as a post-hardcore powerhouse featur ing James Lyter of Chaotic Neutral on drums and Nathaniel Wolos from Take Two on vocals.

Currently, they are dedicated to playing DIY shows and showing the world that, with a quick member change, even a girl can be a Dad.

BOLTH’S FINAL SHOW The Earth House is perhaps the greatest all ages venue in Indianapolis. They have a strong advantage over other local venues — their room comfortably holds several hundred people with plenty of room to avoid the pit, and plenty of room to join the chaos. In a packed room, hardcore weirdos Bolth gave their farewell performance alongside It’s All Happening, punk rock veterans The Meatmen and ska-punk heroes The Suicide Machines.

PUNKS DON’T GIVE A FEST

EARTHBOUND

2011 was the year of festivals with terrible names.

Not quite as confused as “In The Fest Of W ar,” this festival deserves a mention primarily because all ages punk rock shows seem to have fallen of f the radar. Fear not, however. This should become an annual event according to promoter Kenneth

Based in Fishers, Earthbound originally gained recognition through the ES Jungle’s High School Battle of the Bands competition. Since then, they’ve been playing at more venues and have managed to craft the perfect amount of pop rock and ska.

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World Music in Review Top Ten Albums

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1. SEUN KUTI From Africa With Fury: Rise This year was a huge one for afrobeat. Femi Kuti, Ebo Taylor & Orchestre Poly Rythmo all released great albums. But Seun Kuti’s second LP featuring production from Brian Eno was the clear standout for me.

2. TUNE-YARDS WHOKILL WHOKILL reminds me of so many artists I love, from Joni Mitchell to the Raincoats, but it was Merrill Garbus’ use of African music, like the Congolese Pygmy singing techniques on “Bizness” that really made me fall for this LP.

3. JAMES BLAKE

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James Blake This is a beautiful debut from James Blake, mixing avant-electronica with a singer-songwriter approach to create a wholly original sound.

4. OCOTE SOUL SOUNDS Taurus Brilliant exploration of Afro-Latin music, from Ethiopian jazz to cumbia.

5. HELADO NEGRO Canta Lechuza An ambient excursion into tropicalia, Roberto Carlo Lange’s lovely falsetto floats over abstract electronic soundscapes, while his songwriting nods toward the great Nueva Canción tradition.

6. FATOUMATA DIAWARA Fatou The West African nation of Mali ruled music for me this year. Bombino, Tinariwen and Vieux Farka Toure released amazing LPs, but Fatoumata Diawara’s debut album caught my ear with its soulful, jazzy sound.

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Top 10 Live Shows of the Year

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1. L. SUBRAMANIAM @ Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center I admit I’m cheating here. Violinist L. Subramaniam played Indy at the tail end of 2010, but the performance by the master of South Indian carnatic music was so extraordinary it cast a shadow over every concert I attended in 2011.

2. BOMBA ESTEREO @ Lotus Fest For two nights in a row, Bomba Estero destroyed Bloomington, using electronic music and psychedelic rock to interpret a variety of regional Colombian music styles.

3. BILAL @ Madame Walker Theater Bilal delivered a flawless, electrically charged set of classic soul at the Madame W alker Theater.

4. CREOLE CHOIR OF CUBA @ Lotus Fest I was completely overwhelmed by the sound of the Creole Choir of Cuba, a powerful blend of choral music and Afro-Cuban drumming.

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7. AFRICA HITECH 93 Million Miles Spacek and Pritchard cover a vast swath of electronic territory, while reinventing Sun Ra and Ini Kamoze as 21st century bass music.

8. SHABAZZ PALACES Black Up Harsh, experimental sounds from the Digable Planets’ Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler. He is still pushing hip-hop forward nearly 20 years after the release of Reachin’.

9. WORLD HOOD World Hood World Hood explore the spaces between AfroLatin and South Asian music, using funky 808 hiphop beats as their guide. Tracks like “Om Shanti” blur the lines between Mexican, Jamaican and Indian music so perfectly, it’s impossible to detect where one ends and the next begins.

10. THE WEEKND House of Balloons A surreal journey into the dark side of R&B.

5. FORRO IN THE DARK @ Vogue Theater It’s not an easy task to upstage Gogol Bordello’ s Eugene Hutz, but Forro in the Dark pulled it off with their hip, modern take on the rural Northeastern Brazilian music called Forro.

6. GOGOL BORDELLO @ Vogue Theater Gogol Bordello’s gypsy-punk sound massacred a sold-out Vogue audience.

7. DELHI 2 DUBLIN @ White Rabbit Cabaret On paper, Delhi 2 Dublin’s bend of Celtic music and bhangra didn’t sound too appealing to me, but their infectious live show wowed everyone in attendance.

8. DAS RACIST @ Athenaeum Das Racist’s first show in Indy was a fundraiser for the Latino Youth Collective. The group’s chaotic, ramshackle performance was by far their most entertaining appearance in Indy.

9. YUVAL RON ENSEMBLE @ Central Library Ron is an incredibly talented Israeli oud player, but the ensemble’s Sukhawat Ali Khan stole the show with his ecstatic qawwali Sufi singing.

10. KATE LAMONT @ Broad Ripple Music Fest Lamont’s performance at BRMF struck me as a well-executed homage to the early ’90s trip-hop scene. Echoes of Massive Attack and Portishead reverberated through the Vogue.

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The Best of 2011 Roots Music

BY RO B N I CHO LS M U S I C@N U V O . N E T Here’s the question I get more than any other about bands and music: What do they sound like? And when I write about musicians and their music, it is critical to relay influences I hear without making it seem like a singer or a band is only that. This is because it’s also my job to figure out what might make them unique; why we should care about them. For 2011, what resonated was the wide swath of sound encompassed by roots music in Indianapolis, whether we call it Americana, alt-country, folk or simply American rock and roll. I leaned on some of my favorite moments of the year here. New music and concerts that resonated by pushing ahead while respecting what came before. That’s when roots-rock music is at its best.

BEST NEW LOCAL BAND THE DEAD HEARTS Brandon Perry and his buddies put together a group of Indiana guys playing crunchy Midwest and Memphis rock and roll. They made the Q95 Next Big Thing contest, and have a look and sound that harkens back to power pop crossed with Fogerty. This is unapologetic, Petty rock.

BEST LOCAL ALBUM TIM GRIMM Wilderness Songs and Bad Man Ballads Part compilation album, part new material, Grimm’s new album invites you in with his warm, conversational, roughly gorgeous voice. He keeps you listening because the songs richly describe the details of the characters who live there.

LUCKY TO SEE THEM HERE CIVIL WARS @ the Earth House Huge. That is what they are. The success they have had this year, both critical and commercial, was on display on a sweaty July night when the duo poured beautiful harmonies into the old church. They played late in the year at a larger venue (the Egyptian Room), but this is the show that the fans will talk about in reverential terms in 10 years. It was a magical and memorable night of music for the soul.

TWO UNEXPECTEDLY GREAT LIVE SHOWS REO SPEEDWAGON @ Rib America HUEY LEWIS @ Clowes Hall The Champaign, Ill., boys of REO turned Rib America into a sing-along that was propelled by a surprising classic rock energy from Kevin Cronin and his band. They pulled out some old stuf f (“Son of a Poor Man”) that felt good, and celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Hi Infidelity album with multiple cuts from that smash. Great sound, great energy and one of the nicest surprises from an old rock band this year. Lewis, on the other hand, has partially reinvented his band as a Stax/Memphis soul and rock group. Mixing his hits with the soulful sound of the South, Lewis thrilled a Clowes Hall crowd, looked good and proved how you can maintain your integrity as a per former 20 years after your most recent hit song.

GUITAR PLAYER TAKING IT NATIONAL THOM DAUGHERTY Fresh from the breakup of The Elms, Daugherty has done some production work and caught on as a sideman/guitarist with the uber -hot The Band Perry. As the DVD/album “The Last Band on Earth” shows, the guitarist and his crunchy chords were a large part of the legacy of The Elms. He has taken that start and vaulted himself to a place that takes him on a cross-country trek, meeting some of his heroes and allowing him to play for more people than The Elms ever did.

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LAST TIME AROUND FOR TWO LEGENDS GEORGE JONES @ the Murat GLEN CAMPBELL @ the Palladium Campbell is wrapping up his career with a tour and battling Alzheimer’s disease, while Jones is simply an old guy who has lived nine lives. Both revisited their hits for audiences that sensed they were watching history.

MAYBE NOT THE LAST TIME BOB SEGER @ Conseco Fieldhouse His show in May was a greatest hits extravaganza, but how could it not be, with his ubiquitous radio status? He forgot the words to “T urn the Page” and laughed it off. That’s because the other two and a half hours were filled with the rock and roll soundtrack of the lives of any rock fan between the ages of 35 and 60. Seger tours without a flashy stage set up — no big screens, no lasers, no fire bombs. He just brings the band and rock and rolls like it’s 1980. God bless Bob Seger. He’s back out on the road and putting a new album together.

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FRI STEEPWATER, 01/06 HEALING SIXES & THE GLASS ACCIDENT

THUR. 12/29

TORNADO TUESDAY, KALO

THU MANIC BLOOM W/ 01/12 JJ BROWNING AND

FRI. 12/30

THE INNOCENT BOYS, THE HERE NOW, THE LAST DOMINO, BAND OF BEARDS

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THU INGRAM HILL W/ 02/02 MATT DUKE WED 02/15 THE DIRTY GUV’NAHS

Best Historical Jazz Releases of the Year David Brent Johnson of WFIU-FM in Bloomington is the host of the nationallysyndicated classic jazz program Night Lights (and a past NUVO contributor). We asked him to compile his five favorite historical jazz reissues for the year, just in time for our Year in Review issue. These albums are available at your local, independent record store.

1. DAVID BAKER A Legacy in Music “The CD that accompanies this superlative musical biography provides a much-needed overview of Indiana jazz educator, composer, performer, and all-around legend David Baker’s career, covering his forays into Third Stream, progressive bop, big band, and small groups.

Check out, among other things, Baker and saxophonist David Young blowing hot and long live at Indianapolis jazz club the Topper circa 1959.”

2. RON CARTER All Blues “CTI was the Blue Note Records of the early 1970s, and bassist Ron Carter anchored the label’ s sound on many of its releases. On this leader date, he crafts a mellow, good-jazz-groove vibe that’s like a breeze through your downtown apartment window on a sunny afternoon in 1973.”

3. MILES DAVIS GET TICKETS AT BIRDY’S OR THROUGH TICKETMASTER

Live in Europe 1967 “The trumpeter’s ‘Second Great Quintet,’ as it came to be known, reaching new heights of musical telepathy. Imagine what Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams would sound like in concert after playing with Davis for three years straight; with this set, you don’t need to imagine anymore.”

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4. JULIUS HEMPHILL Dogon A.D. “Straight outta St. Louis, a seminal moment in early-1970s free jazz, with roots in the country-blues sound of old, weird African-America.”

5. JIMMIE LUNCEFORD Complete Decca Sessions “With advanced harmonies, a laidback 2/4 rhythm, and a dynamic flair for onstage presentation, the Lunceford orchestra was one of the great big bands of the 1930s and early 1940s. This set finally gives the oftenoverlooked organization its due, showcasing in particular the creative finesse of master arranger Sy Oliver (so good that mega-swing star Tommy Dorsey lured him away in 1939).”

— DAVID BRENT JOHNSON

Listen to Night Lights at 11 p.m. Saturdays on WFIU-FM or online at any time at indianapublicmedia.org.

SOUNDCHECK Wednesday 28

NEW AGE JIM BRICKMAN

Murat Theatre at Old National Centre, 7:30 p.m., prices vary, all ages

Jim Brickman has sold a zillion (that’ s the actual count) new age-y albums. Catch the most charted male contemporary artist of all time at the Murat Theatre tonight, where he’ll doubtlessly sample from his 25 albums, including my personal favorite, The Disney Songbook.

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DANCING ALTERED NEW YEAR’S The Mousetrap, 8 p.m., 21+

Vinny Bricks and Attak will headline this IndyMojo Bash. If you can’t go out on the big day, go out on Thursday for a night of dancing.

ALBUM RELEASE ECHOMAKER RELEASE PARTY White Rabbit Cabaret, 9 p.m., $5, 21+

Special guests The Bread and Butter Crew and Ligyro will play at the Echomaker album release show. Every guest gets a free download code for the Concrete Seeds EP. When I asked drummer Eric Brown to describe the album, he said, “Concrete Seeds boogies down the branches

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into the vast, diverse and fertile musical forest in which Echomaker dwells.” Don’t miss your chance to journey into the aforementioned musical forest with this garage-jazz hip-hop quintet on Thursday.

Friday 30

SWING ROCKABILLY NIGHT

Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St. 8 p.m., $10, 21+

Featuring Delilah DeWylde and the Lost Boys and Bigger Than Elvis, feel free to get your dancing shoes on a night early and step back a half century in time.

SOUNDCHECK Saturday 31

The Melody Inn’s Punk Rock Night New Year’s Eve

Whiskey Business New Year’s Eve w/Andrew Young

NEW YEAR’S EVE EVENT ROUNDUP Presented in absolutely no order, here are more than 75 places to be on NYE. Go online at nuvo. net for event descriptions, prices and more.

Talbott Street New Year’s Eve w/ Ménage à trois

Local’s Only New Year’s Eve Gala

Mo’s Irish Pub New Year’s Eve Celebration

ExtendaSuites End of the World New Year’s Eve Spectacular!

Iozzo’s Jazz Night

Barley Island New Year’s Eve w/Eclectic Funk Hoosier Dome New Year’s Eve Cadillac Ranch Black and White Ball Dave and Buster’s New Year’s Eve w/Bullet Proof Soul Indiana State Museum Family New Year’s Eve Celebration The Libertine Liquor Bar’s New Year’s Eve The Rathskeller New Year’s Eve Party w/Zanna Doo Birdy’s New Year’s Eve Bash w/Old Revel Minds German American Klub New Year’s Eve Howl at the Moon New Year’s Eve Dueling Piano Old National Centre New Year’s Eve Comedy Jam Fountain Square Theatre’s Rockabilly New Year’s Eve Tiki Bob’s New Year’s Eve

8 Seconds Saloon Tremors New Year’s Eve Party Coaches Tavern New Year’s Eve with Max Allen Band

Indiana State Museum ChaCha New Year’s Eve 2012 Amber Room’s New Year’s Eve Deluxe’s A Nuclear New Year’s Eve Indy’s Jukebox New Year’s Eve Bash Bubbaz Bar and Grill New Year’s Eve Party The Connosseur Room What Are You Doing New Year’s Indiana Live! Casino New Year’s Eve Party Madame Walker Theatre Sam Cooke New Year’s Eve Event Kessler Mansion Rock in the New Year, Hollywood Style Hyatt Regency New Year’s Eve Rock N Rock Ball The Mousetrap sixth Annual Grateful New Year Children’s Museum Countdown to Noon

The Irving Theater New Year’s

White Rabbit Cabaret’s Big-Ass Burlesque Bingo Bango Show

Trader’s Point Creamery New Year’s Eve at the Loft

Rock House Cafe New Year’s Eve Party w/Smoke Ring Moxe

Moon Dog Tavern New Year’s Featuring Blonde Sonja

Northside Social’s New Year’s Eve Party

Starlite Ballroom New Year’s Eve Party

Average Joe’s Toast for the Kid’s New Year’s Eve Party

Morty’s Comedy Joint NYE 3-Way

The Ugly Monkey New Year’s Eve Party

Euphoria and Creation Cafe New Year’s Eve Celebration

Union Station New Year’s Eve Masquerade Ball

The Pub New Year’s Eve Party

Adobo Grill’s New Year’s Eve 2012

Emerson Theater Two-Day New Year’s Eve Bash

The Bluebird’s New Year’s Eve Rev. w/ Peyton’s Big Damn Band

Bu Da Lounge New Year’s Eve Party

Blu’s New Year’s Eve Event

Blu Martini BLU New Year’s Eve

D’Amore CIROC the New Year’s

Brother’s Bar & Grill New Year’s Eve Extravaganza

Daddy Real’s The Place, Gene Deer New Year’s Eve Show

Crackers (Downtown) Celebrate with Dan Cummings

Hard Rock Cafe Rockin’ New Year’s Eve

Crackers (Broad Ripple) Celebrate with James Johann

Hibert Circle Theatre New Year’s Eve in Vienna with the ISO

Peppers (Broad Ripple) Celebrate New Year’s Eve

Jazz Kitchen New Year’s Eve All-Star Band and Dinner

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Plus, lawn chair balloon floats When Tattoos Aren’t Nearly Enough: In some primitive cultures, beauty and status are displayed via large holes in the earlobe from which to hang heavy ornaments or to insert jewels or tokens, and BBC News reported in November that an “increasing” number of counterculture Westerners are getting their lobes opened far beyond routine piercing, usually by gradually stretching but sometimes with a hole-punch tool for immediate results. The hard core are “gauge kings (or queens),” showing a “commitment” to the lifestyle by making holes up to 10 mm (three-eighths inch) wide. (Cosmetic surgeons told BBC News in November that they’re already preparing procedures for the inevitable wave of regretted decisions.)

NOTE: So much “weird” news just involves different people caught in the middle of the same old weirdness. For this week and next, check out recent Recurring Themes (plus important Updates of previous stories): • Larry Walters made history in 1982 with perhaps the most famous balloon ride of all time -- in an ordinary lawn chair, lifted by 45 helium-filled weather balloons -- soaring to over 16,000 feet in Southern California before descending by shooting the balloons one by one. In 2008, gas station manager Kent Couch of Bend, Ore., made a similar lawn-chair flight and had scheduled another, for November 2011, to float over now-allegedly peaceful Baghdad, to raise money for Iraqi orphans. (Couch subsequently postponed his flight until March 2012 to give the charities more time to organize.)

• Corruption in some Latin American prisons has allowed powerful criminals to buy extraordinary privileges behind bars. News of the Weird’s report on Venezuela’s San Antonio prison in July described the imperial reign of one drug lord-inmate, who presided over a personal armory, a local-community drug market and private parties (and with his own DirecTV account). In a surprise raid in November on a prison in Acapulco, Mexico, the usual drugs and weapons turned up, but also 100 fighting roosters for daily gambling, along with a prisoner’s two pet peacocks.

• The lives of many choking victims have been saved by the Heimlich Maneuver -- even one received inadvertently, such as the one a Leesburg, Fla., motorist gave himself in 2001, after gagging on a hamburger, then losing control and smashing into a utility pole. As he was thrust against the steering wheel, the burger dislodged. In November 2011, as the mother of 8-year-old Laci Davis drove her to a Cincinnati hospital after a locket stuck in her throat and caused her to double over in pain, Mom hit a

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pothole, which jarred Laci and dislodged the locket loose into her stomach (later to come out naturally).

• It seemed a rare event (first reported in 1994 but initially regarded as an “urban legend”). However, twice now recently, workers have played a particularly dangerous prank on a colleague.

A month after the recent News of the Weird story about Gareth Durrant’s lawsuit in England against co-workers who had inserted a compressed-air hose into his rectum, a carpenter’s assistant in Nicosia, Cyprus, was jailed for 45 days for pulling the same stunt on his colleague, rupturing his large intestine.

• Sometimes professionals who overbill for their hours go too far, claiming obviously impossible schedules, such as lawyers News of the Weird reported on in 1992 and 1994 (one, a Raleigh, N.C., lawyer, submitted one client bills averaging nearly 1,200 hours a month -- even though a month only has 744 hours).

New York City officials said in October 2011, however, that it’s quite possible that city prison psychiatrist Dr. Quazi Rahman actually did work 141 hours one week, including 96 straight (because of a shortage of staff and because he could properly nap during his shifts).

They ordered him to return only a tiny amount of his $500,000 in overtime payments for the last year.

• Ten years ago, the fashionable bulletproof clothing industry was in its infancy, with Miss Israel creating a stir at the 2001 Miss Universe pageant with a bulletproof evening gown. Since then, technology and design improvements (along with more rich people!) have enabled leading stylist Miguel Caballero of Colombia to add to his fashion line. The New Yorker reported in September 2011 that Caballero had made a bulletproof dinner jacket for Sean Combs and kimono for Steven Seagal, and that Caballero clothes are available in strengths of bullet-stopping, from “9 mm” to “Uzi.” • Rumors that daring youth are inserting tampons soaked in vodka into body orifices to speed alcohol delivery have been around for at least 10 years.

Curiously, the only regular-sourced news stories come from TV stations in Phoenix (KNXV-TV in 2009 and KPHO-TV in 2011), and the “urban legends” source Snopes. com calls the whole idea far-fetched.

Nonetheless, in November 2011, a school resource officer told KPHO’s Elizabeth Erwin that there are “documented cases” and that “guys,” too, engage by inserting the tampons into their rectums. Dr. Dan Quan of the Maricopa Medical Center cautioned against the practice, warning of the dangers of mucosal irritation.

• Anti-government survivalists engaged in high-profile standoffs have made News of the Weird -- most recently the story of Ed Brown and his wife and supporters, resisting a federal tax bill, holed up for nine months in the New Hampshire woods near Plainfield in 2007. (The Browns were arrested by a U.S. marshal who tricked his way inside.) The longestrunning standoff now is probably that of John Joe Gray, 63, and his extended family in a 47-acre, well-fortified compound in Trinidad, Texas, southeast of Dallas. They

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have lived ascetic settlers’ lives since Gray jumped bail in 2000 on a traffic charge.

Gray has said he feels free on his land and warned authorities “better bring plenty of body bags” if they try to re-arrest him.

Updates

• Unlicensed “surgeon”-castrator Edward Bodkin re-surfaced recently after more than a decade under the radar. He was sentenced to four years in prison in 1999 in Huntington, Ind., for unauthorized practice of medicine (removing the testicles, with consent, of five men). Bodkin was arrested in August 2011 in Wetumpka, Ala., and charged with possession of child pornography, but authorities also recovered castration equipment, videos of castrations, photos of testicles in jars and a form contract apparently used by Bodkin to obtain the consent of men going under his knife.

• In January 2009, the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services removed three kids from the home of Heath and Deborah Campbell in Holland Township, apparently after becoming alarmed that the Campbells might be white supremacists. Though a court later concluded that the kids had been “abused,” the Campbells told the New York Daily News in October 2011 that the state acted only based on the names the parents had given the kids -- Adolf Hitler Campbell, who was then 3, and his then-1-year-old sisters,

Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell and JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell. The Campbells have consistently denied that they are neo-Nazis.

• It is almost No Longer Weird that Western chefs attempt to get as exotic as they can serving plants, insects and obscure parts of animals in their dishes that are usually only experienced by cultures far removed from America.

Jennifer McLagan’s recent book on how to cook animals’ “odd” parts describes various recipes for cooking hearts, heads, tongues and ears, and guesses that the next big thing in Western eating will be testicles. “(S)teaks and chops are like bulletproof to cook,” she said. “Any idiot can cook a steak, right?”

• Thomas Beatie was big news in March 2008 when he and his wife, Nancy, decided to start a family, except that Thomas, not Nancy, took on the child-bearing responsibilities. (Thomas, born a female, had his breasts removed but retained his reproductive organs.)

Thomas got pregnant, appeared on Oprah and subsequently had three children (who mugged delightfully for the cameras on the syndicated TV show The Doctors in October 2011). He also revealed on the show that it might be time to get his tubes tied, as each pregnancy requires him, irritatingly, to abandon his male hormone regimen.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In North America, a farmer who grows wheat gets only five percent of the money earned by selling a loaf of bread made from his crop. When my band recorded an album for MCA, our contract called for us to receive just seven percent of the net profits. I encourage you to push for a much bigger share than that for the work you do in 2012. It will be an excellent time to raise the levels of respect you have for your own gifts, skills, and products -and to ask for that increased respect, as well.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): For much of the 19th century, aluminum was regarded as a precious metal more valuable than gold. It was even used for the capstone of the Washington Monument, dedicated in 1884. The reason for this curiosity? Until the 1890s, it was difficult and expensive to extract aluminum from its ore. Then a new technology was developed that made the process very cheap. In 2012, Taurus, I’m predicting a metaphorically similar progression in your own life. A goodie or an asset will become more freely available to you because of your increased ability to separate it from the slag it’s mixed with.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The coming year will be a good time for you to consider investigating the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Devotees of this religion call themselves Pastafarians. Their main dogma is the wisdom of rejecting all dogma. Having such a light-hearted approach to spiritual matters would be quite healthy for you to experiment with. For extra credit, you could draw inspiration from a church member named Niko Alm. He convinced authorities to allow him to wear a pasta strainer on his head for his driver’s license photo. Having a jaunty approach to official requirements and formal necessities will also serve you well.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life is an ambitious work that deviates from formulaic approaches to film-making. Some observers hated its experimental invocation of big ideas, while others approved.

New York Times critic A.O. Scott compared the movie to Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, one of America’s great works of literature. Here’s what Scott wrote: “Mr. Malick might have been well advised to leave out the dinosaurs and the trip to the afterlife and given us a delicate chronicle of a young man’s struggle with his father and himself.

And perhaps Melville should have suppressed his philosophizing impulses and written a lively tale of a whaling voyage.” Using this as a template, Cancerian, I urge you to treat 2012 as a time when you will be like Melville and Malick in your chosen field. Trust your daring, expansive vision.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I love the way they celebrate the New Year in Stonehaven, Scotland. A procession of revelers swings big flaming baskets around on the ends of long chains. I recommend that you carry out a comparable ritual as you barge into 2012, Leo. Symbolically speaking, it would set the perfect tone. The coming months should be a kind of extended fire festival for you -- a time when you faithfully stoke the blaze in your belly, the radiance in your eyes, and the brilliance in your heart.

Are you ready to bring all the heat and light you can to the next phase of your master plan? I hope so. Burn, baby, burn.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Historian David McCullough wrote The Greater Journey, a book telling the stories of ambitious young American artists who relocated to Paris between 1830 and 1900. They had to move away because their home country had no museums or art schools at that time. You Virgos may want to consider seeking a similar enlargement of your possibilities in the coming months. As you seek out the resources that will help you follow your dreams, be prepared to look beyond what you already know and what’s immediately available.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Professional basketball player Ron Artest petitioned the court to let him change his name to “Metta World Peace.” “Metta” is a Buddhist term that signifies loving-kindness and benevolence.

When the new moniker finally became official, Metta World Peace sealed a radical shift away from his old way of doing things, symbolized by the time he leaped into the stands in the middle of a game to punch a fan in the head. The coming months will be an excellent time for you Libras to initiate a rite of passage that will expedite an equally dramatic transformation.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Many of the questions we had as children never got resolved or answered to our satisfaction.

They still remain marinating in the back of our minds. Meanwhile, fresh queries keep welling up within us as the years go by. After a while, we’ve got a huge collection of enigmas, riddles, and conundrums. Some of us regard this as a tangled problem that weighs us down, while others see it as a sparkly delight that keeps making life more and more interesting. Where do you stand on the issue, Scorpio?

If you’re in the latter group, you will be fully open to the experiences that will be flowing your way in 2012. And that means you will be blessed with a host of sumptuous and catalytic new questions.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The first half of 2012 will be an excellent time to for you to exorcize any prejudices you might be harboring toward anyone who lives or thinks differently from you. You’ll be able to see your own irrational biases with exceptional clarity, and are also likely to have exceptional success at scouring yourself free of them. This will give you access to new reserves of psychic energy you didn’t even realize you were shut off from. (P.S. I’m not saying you possess more intolerance or narrow-mindedness than any of the rest of us. It’s just that this is your time to deal brilliantly with your share of it.)

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In Botticelli’s painting The Birth of Venus, the goddess of beauty and love is shown arriving on dry land for the first time after having been born in the ocean. Naked, she is trying to cover her private parts with her hand and thighlength hair. Her attendant, a fully clothed nymph, is bringing a cloak to cover her up. Analyzing this scene, art critic Sister Wendy suggests it’s actually quite sad. It symbolizes the fact that since we humans can’t bear the confrontation with sublime beauty, we must always keep it partly hidden.

Your assignment in the coming year, Capricorn, is to overcome this inhibition. I invite you to retrain yourself so that you can thrive in the presence of intense, amazing, and transformative beauty.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The coming months will be an excellent time to take an inventory of your life to determine whether there are any ways in which you act like a slave. Do you find it hard to defeat an addiction that saps your energy and weakens your ability to live the life you want? Are there institutions that you help sustain even though they cause harm to you and others? Is it hard for you to change or end your relationships with people who are no damn good for you? Are you trapped in a role or behavior that is at odds with your high ideals? Discover what these oppressors are, Aquarius -- and then summon all your intelligence and willpower to escape them.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): California engineer Ron Patrick put a jet engine in his silver VW Beetle. Now he’s got a 1,450-horsepower vehicle -- but it’s not legal for him to drive on public highways. In the coming year, Pisces, I suspect you’ll be tempted to try something similar: create a dynamic tool with a modest appearance or a turbo-charged source of energy in a deceptively small package. But if you do, please make sure that you can actually use it to improve your ability to get around and make your life better.

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