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What do you want your legislators to do in 2017?
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Trying not to engage Trump voters.
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Protect the civil rights of LGBTQIA people. Criminalize hate crimes.
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OWNER AND OPERATOR OF ROOSTER’S KITCHEN Ross Katz is a Chicagoland native, but Indy is happy to have him and his brisket, giardiniera and mac and cheese at Rooster’s Kitchen. Katz says much of his culinary knowledge comes from his childhood and the food he was raised on. He spent years in the craft beer scene, including a stint at Sun King, and is a fount of knowledge on the ins and outs of the industry, especially over a beer or two. Yeah, Katz knows a thing or two about eating, drinking and doing in Indy – that’s why we asked him to fill out this week’s questionnaire. Turn to page 15 to read more about Katz.
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MIKE PENCE, TRUMP WHISPERER? BY JOHN KRULL // EDITORS@NUVO.NET
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here’s a hidden hand guiding affairs in the nation’s capital and that hand comes from Indiana. It belongs to Mike Pence, the now-former Hoosier state governor and soon to be vice president of the United States. While I have been out here working on an independent reporting project and doing two radio shows from NPR’s D.C. studios, I’ve been struck by a disconnect between the near panic among much of the American public about the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency and the quiet serenity of Washington’s governing class in response. During the two shows we did, at least 70 percent of the emails and social media questions and comments expressed either anxiety or outrage about Trump’s election. The nation’s power structure doesn’t seem to be experiencing the same feelings. There’s a reason for that.
“Mike Pence is going to be the most powerful vice president in our lifetimes – and maybe in the history of the country,” longtime Republican political strategist Cam Savage told me. Recent developments support that. It can be seen in the news that former U.S. Sen. Dan Coats, R-Indiana, will become Trump’s director of national intelligence. Coats and Pence come from the same part of Indiana’s ideological landscape. They’re firm social conservatives with strong libertarian leanings at the points of the political spectrum that do not clash with their theological underpinnings. They speak each other’s language. Coats’s appointment signals to Congress, which spent a day deriding Trump’s dismissal of American intelligence efforts, and other parts of official Washington that they are being heard.
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In addition to being a purebred conservative, Coats is also a tenacious, unrelenting advocate for his positions. Years ago, when I was in D.C. working on a newspaper profile on Coats, I heard story after story from memIn this new role, bers of the U.S. House of though, Pence Representahas willingly tives and the U.S. Senate faded into the about Coats’s background. ferocious, in-your-face competitiveness. The tales of his play — all sharp elbows, hard drives and, even in middle-age, determined dives to grab loose balls — in pick-up basketball games in the House gym were legendary. I learned as much when I interviewed him
at the time. We went around and around on some relatively minor point, me probing and pushing, him responding with a tight-lipped smile that said, “You can keep trying all you want, but I’m not moving.” The message Coats’s appointment sends to the power structure is this: You’re upset we have an incoming president who says he doesn’t want and won’t pay attention to daily intelligence and security briefings. Fine. We’ll send in a pit bull to make sure that he must pay attention. Signs of Pence’s hand also can be seen in the move to make Trump’s much ballyhooed wall along the Mexican border a congressional decision rather than a presidential one. The move extricates Trump from a tricky political problem – following through on a promise to have Mexico pay for the wall upon which he could not possibly deliver – and removes some of the power to create international incidents from the new president’s hands. Pence’s performance thus far has been remarkable, in large part because it reveals a disciplined willingness to stay out of the spotlight many people — including me — doubted was part of his makeup. When Pence was governor, his press operation became the subject of jibes for sending out news releases and announcements for even the most trivial developments. If the governor said gesundheit to a sneezing senior citizen at a photo op, we journalists were sure to get an alert about the incident. In this new role, though, Pence has willingly faded into the background. Sensitive to the fact that he serves a chief who seeks the limelight the way a junkie craves his next fix, Pence has been willing to tame his own need to be noticed. Instead, he works quietly, reassuring members of the Congress in which he once served that everything will be okay, that he will be the ears for a president who never stops talking long enough to listen. That’s why official Washington is so calm about the prospect of a Trump presidency. They see Trump as a wild horse who has been haltered, corralled and who soon will be tamed. The horse whisperer is from Indiana. His name is Mike Pence. N
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CIRCLE CITIZEN/CIRCLE JERK MAGGIE LEWIS City-County Council President This week, City-County Councillor Maggie Lewis introduced an ordinance that would create a tax designed to fund mass transit in Marion County. It’s the referendum that Marion County voters approved of by 59.36 percent. Thanks to Councillor Lewis — and the eight other
WHAT’S LIVING IN INDIANAPOLIS? An urban bio-blitz finds nearly 600 species of plants and wildlife in the city
councilors who signed on as co-sponsors — Indianapolis is one step closer to modernization.
DAN COATS Senator Not only did Indiana’s sitting senators Coats and Donnelly (plus newcomer Todd Young) not speak out publicly against the appointments of the openly racist Steve Bannon and Jeff Sessions after their November appointments, but Coats, who ended his term earlier this month, accepted an appointment in Trump’s
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e know there are all different kinds of people living in Indianapolis. Whether they have been here for generations or just a few months, Hoosiers hail from all over the world. But when it comes to what’s living in the city, there is so much more than just people. Back in September scientists from all over the state spent a weekend taking inventory of all the living things along Fall Creek, Pogue’s Run and Pleasant Run. The “bio-blitz” was coordinated and sponsored by the Indiana Academy of Science and Reconnecting Our Waterways — a grassroots initiative designed to bring attention to the waterways in the city and capitalize on what they have to offer neighborhoods for recreation, education and economic development.
Cabinet of Deplorables himself. He will serve as Director of National Intelligence,
“A bio-blitz is a intense kind of effort to inventory all the plants and animals in an area in specific timeframe so you can say
interesting areas of study because the creeks are corridors for wildlife and have you know remnants of natural vegetation that run all the way through the city.” “There’s a great opportunity to Wildlife biologists, entomologists and botanists got connect urban folks who live in the their geek on by observing, cities with nature right in their own recording and counting everything they could find. backyards.” And number of plants — BECKY NOLAN, RECONNECTING OUR WATERWAYS and wildlife existing in an urban setting was someon this date all of these plants and animals what surprising. The final count of living were found in a particular area,” said things — both flora and fauna — totaled Becky Nolan, a Butler University botanist 593 different species. and co-chair of Ecology for Reconnect“Now it’s interesting that so many things ing Our Waterways. “It was focused on are present in the city and I think we’re still areas along Fall Creek and Pogue’s Run trying to figure out the exact t numbers and Pleasant Run which actually are an of species,” says Nolan. “We’re also kind
if confirmed by the Senate.
MERYL STREEP Queen Kudos to Ms. Streep for sticking up for journalists and saying what needed to be said about the current state of our national politics at the Golden Globes Sunday night. (She’s also married to a Hoosier. BONUS!)
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of still analyzing what the quality of the species were in terms of if they are unusual or rare and things that that would really surprise even the specialists to find in our urban areas. But partially we don’t know what to expect because there haven’t been a lot of these bi-blitzes especially in the Midwest that have been focused on cities.” So what did they find along Indy’s waterways, and were there any surprises? “One of the things the was interesting — katydids. They are insects that sing at night,” recalls Nolan. One of the scientists was recording and going out to observe singing insects at night. And he found two katydids species.” Another interesting find included a particular species of fish, known as darters, that apparently are good indicators of high quality water in Pleasant Run and Fall Creek. Nolan says there were several factors that fueled the desire for a bio-blitz. First and foremost, there is a big effort to remove invasive species from the areas. By removing the invasive species, native species will be able to thrive and develop. “There’s a sort of developing and evolving subdiscipline of ecology that’s interested in urban ecology and trying to understand what kind of restoration efforts will help to make urban habitats to preserve and increase the biodiversity there because biodiversity is important,”
says Nolan. “You know when we think of biodiversity we tend to think of tropical rainfall for far away places. And yet biodiversity is important everywhere and it’s not that more diverse communities are more stable and more resilient to potential climate change issues or other disturbances to the habitat.” Nolan says the plan is to return in a few years and take another inventory to measure the effects of the removal. Secondly, Nolan says knowing what is actually there works right into ROW’s education mission. “I think I would like to help educate people about what’s right in their own backyards basically and what can be seen by walking down the street and walking along or cycling along the bike path,” says Nolan. “And so I think there’s a great opportunity to connect urban folks who live in the cities with nature right in their own backyards.” Assessing all of the data that was collected over the Blitz period will take some time, but eventually all of the findings will be drafted and published in an article for the Indiana Academy of Science. Nolan is confident that there will be enough interest to repeat the blitz in a few years. “Some of the scientists had such a good time they asked if we could do it again next year,” laughs Nolan. N
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The General Assembly reopens with new goals on both sides of the aisle BY AMBER STEARNS // ASTEARNS@NUVO.NET
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t’s the first week of January, which means the new legislative session has begun. Over the next several weeks our elected state officials will set the pace for the future of Indiana. There’s no question that November’s presidential election results changed the focus of our nation. But how did the election effect state politics? Legislators
from each party are openly discussing how getting back to basics will be the future for Indiana government.
REPUBLICAN FOCUS For those on the outside looking in, there may be an assumption that life is pretty easy for the GOP. After all, the Indiana Republican Party has control of
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2017 BILLWATCH
BREAKDOWN OF POWER IN THE INDIANA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
HB 1002 // Transportation infrastructure funding Next to the budget, this bill is considered to be the most important piece of legislation of the year, according to Republicans. The Democratic leadership agrees and is curious to see how Republicans will swallow the tax increase bill that is the embodiment of everything they have fundamentally been against the last two decades.
Following last November’s election, the GOP maintained its control of the Indiana House of Representatives. Republicans did lose one seat to Democrats, creating a 70-30 split for the 2017 legislative session.
HB 1066 // Bias motivated crimes Hate crimes have been on the rise this year, and Indiana still has nothing on the books that enhances penalties for criminal acts that are obviously motivated by bias and hate. One can only hope that this is the year that changes. HB 1148/1252 // Cannabidiol These bills would not necessarily make cannabidiol legal, but it would give those who possess it for medical reasons for themselves or their children a “get-outof-jail-free-card” if the are caught with it. The biggest “wow” of is that these bills are authored and co-authored by members of the Republican Party. It may not be the decriminalization we ultimately want, but it is a tiny tiny step towards progression. SB 273 // End of Life options If this bill gets a hearing, it is guaranteed to bring controversy and debate to the Indiana Statehouse. Sen. Lonnie Randolph, D-East Chicago, proposes allowing a terminally ill patient who is able to self-administer medication permission to seek out medications from a doctor that will grant him or her the ability for self-termination. Oregon has allowed this practice for several years now and other state legislatures are now considering the option. Interestingly, Randolph has also authored a bill that would eliminate the death penalty from the state’s criminal code (SB 146).
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both the House of Representatives, the Senate and the governor’s office. And not only do they have a majority, they also have what’s known as a “super majority” — meaning they have the numbers to pass legislation without Democrat votes. But House Speaker Pro tempore Bill Friend, R-Macy, says being in the majority is not as easy as it may appear on the surface, especially right now in Indiana. “A majority of the majority have never served in the minority,” says Friend. While that simple statement may sound like a cryptic riddle from sphinx, it cuts to the core of the issue
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those in the Republican leadership face among those caucus. “People like myself have remember what it is like to serve in the minority,” says Friend. “There are only a few of us who were here when [ John] Gregg and [Pat] Bauer were in the speaker’s chair and we [Republicans] were in the minority. Several in our caucus have only been here with Republicans in power.” And that can cause a lot of discourse within the caucus, according to Friend. “We will have members that are aggressive and will want to move forward, but we have to give them some good counsel. We may tell them this isn’t the time, the year, we don’t want to go there,
etc. [There are a lot of conversations in individual offices where we try to translate a philosophy of the office.” Warnings of “tyranny of the majority” came from political leaders and philosophers for centuries; and they are warnings Friend says Republican leaders heed and try to instill in the caucus members who haven’t had the “misfortune” of serving in the minority. Remembering those times and acknowledging that the minority — in this case, the Democrats — can also have good ideas is imperative to achieving the best possible outcomes for our state democracy. “Not all the great ideas come from the majority,” says Friend. “You have to give everyone some kind of consideration. It’s imperative that we don’t fall into the trap of overreach. If we overreach we will find ourselves in some peril.” For the political majority (with a caucus that has not experienced the other side), that can sometimes be the hardest lesson to teach, especially when individual legislators come in to the position with a personal agenda. Friend recalls the realization he had when he moved into a leadership role within his caucus — he was not just serving the constituents of his district, but every citizen in the state of Indiana. And among all of
NUVO.NET/THEBIGSTORY those citizens, perspectives and needs day of session last week. The plan calls can vary greatly. And ultimately, all of for increasing the current gas tax from those perspectives and needs have merit 18-cents-per-gallon to 28 cents. The plan and should be considered when deteralso calls for a $15 hike on standard vehimining a path for the greater good. cle registrations and a $150 added fee on Just because Democrats are in the electric vehicle registrations. The electric minority doesn’t mean that their issues, vehicle cost is justified because of the proposals and their voices deserves any assumed lack of gas taxes paid by electric less respect. vehicle users. (Driving electric vehicles “Just because we can doesn’t mean make help reduce emissions, but the lack that we do so without consideration of of gasoline purchases damages the road the minority. It’s extremely important,” construction budget apparently.) says Friend. The overall goal is to raise millions Friend went a step further, crediting to achieve the funding to create and Democrats for something that Remaintain a long term transportation and publicans struggle with at times — a highway maintenance plan that will crestrong sense of solidarity in motive and ate jobs, and really put the “roads” back message. into “Crossroads of America.” Part of the struggles the Outside of those two Republican leadership big issues, Friend cites has — when working with “A majority of education and public caucus members who as the next things the majority have safety want to charge ahead on the agenda, both of with the advantages of the never served in which are guaranteed to being in the majority — is generate lively debate both the minority.” keeping everyone on task within and outside of the — BILL FRIEND Republican caucus. Friend and message. Friend credits the Democratic party’s would like to see a defiability to do that. nite solution to ISTEP and increases in “Democrats understand the value of school funding that keep struggling rural solidarity, sticking together and support- school districts in mind. The state’s “the ing a common cause,” says Friend. “Our money follows the kids” philosophy lies strength comes from sticking at the heart of the funding formula. It’s a together.” noble philosophy in theory. The essence Many of the caucus conversations ocof schools and education should be curring behind closed doors will be pep about the students. While the loss of 200 talks to inspire that solidarity, according students in Marion or Hamilton counties to Friend. may sting the bottom line, the loss of So what is it that Indiana Republicans that many students in a school district plan to focus on this legislative session? in rural Indiana can be devastating. First and foremost will be approving Let’s put the numbers in perspective. a two-year budget. After all, that is the Carmel Clay Schools in Carmel, Indiana only thing required by the state constihave a total K-12 student population of tution that legislators have to accom16,082. There are 5,000 students alone at plish. The second highest priority on the Carmel High School with 1,245 expected GOP agenda is the long-term funding of to graduate this spring. North Miami road infrastructure improvement. Community Schools in Northern Miami This may be the biggest pill for all County — located in the district Friend sides to swallow as the GOP leadership represents — has 958 students in the plan calls for that dreaded two-word entire district, kindergarten through phrase — tax increase. grade 12. A little more than half of those Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapstudents are in grades 7-12. The North olis, outlined the plan on the opening Miami graduating class of 2017 currently NUVO.NET // 01.11.17 - 01.18.17 // THE BIG STORY // 9
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2017 BILLWATCH SB 15 // Hemp oil registry for epilepsy This legislation would establish a pilot study registry for doctors who want to study the use of hemp oil in the treatment of intractable epilepsy. Like a similar bill in the House, this legislation exempts patients and caregivers found in possession; and Republicans authored it. This bill would also encourage research. Maybe just maybe folks are realizing that there is more to hemp and cannabis than they realize. (A similar bill is was submitted in the House, HB 1177.) SB 179 // Superintendent of Public Instruction selection Last year this proposed legislation to change the office from an election position to an appointed one was seen as a direct attack against then-state superintendent Glenda Ritz. Now that the new governor and new superintendent are from the same party, the legislation may be viewed as unnecessary. Is it really necessary or is it in the best interest of the state? The answer remains to be seen. SB 68 // Marriage This bill makes official what the U.S. Supreme court determined was legal two years ago — same-sex couple have the right to marry. The bill would repeal language from the Indiana Code that currently states marriage is only between a man and a woman. Indiana Code should reflect what is legal in this state and currently it does not. SB 34/HB 11079 // Teacher licenses and background checks After a couple of years plagues with criminal activity involving teacher misconduct with students, legislators are hoping to provide further protections against young people by increasing the background and reference checks for those individuals working with students.
BREAKDOWN OF POWER IN THE INDIANA SENATE Democrats were able to gain at just one seat in the House last November, but lost a seat in the Indiana Senate. This added a member to the GOP supermajority of 41 seats to the Democrats’ nine seats.
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has a mere 76 students. That difference in student population defines everything from teachers and class offerings to facilities and amenities. Despite the pending discussions and differences of opinion the Republican leadership expects to navigate through, there are a few things that will not be a part of the conversation — divisive social issues. Friends says the issues that have plagued the General Assembly over the last couple of years — from Religious Freedom to LGBT rights and more — will not be a priority. Friend says this will be a challenge to navigate — both from within the caucus as well as outside of the party — but it’s necessary for the good of the state. “It’s our preference to take a step back from the divisive social issues,” says Friend. “We have more pressing things to deal with.” With a new governor who has never held elected office before and legislators on either side of the aisle who want to push the boundaries to the extreme, the most pressing issues for the Republican leadership may be trying to find middle ground.
DEMOCRATIC LOGIC For the Indiana Democratic Party, there are a lot of lessons to be learned from the last election. By all election logic and the polling numbers for most of the campaign, John Gregg should be preparing for a swearing in ceremony Jan. 9 instead of Eric Holcomb.
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Then again, in the perfect Democratic world, Eric Holcomb wasn’t supposed to be at the top of the ticket. He was supposed to be a somewhat innocent bystander in the fall of Mike Pence. So what happened? What got lost in translation that resulted in such a huge win for the GOP and such a devastating loss for the Democratic Party? According to State Rep. Dan Forestal, D-Indianapolis, it was the basic message that was missed. “We did not connect with the working class,” says Forestal. “We missed the economic struggle that everyday people face every day. The Republicans didn’t.” Forestal — who serves as the assistant Democratic whip in the House — is a firefighter by trade and says he hears and sees the struggles of people and the picture isn’t exactly pretty. He believes that Democrats both locally and nationally tried so hard to appeal
to all of the individual groups that feel disenfranchised that the one basic thing that unifies all of us in this struggle we call life was overlooked. And that one basic thing — economic stability — is the biggest thing facing so many people today. “I’m not saying women’s rights, LGBT rights, Black Lives Matter and everything else the Democratic Party champions are not important. Of course they are important,” says Forestal. “But it’s difficult to care or focus on those issues when you are constantly struggling with keeping a roof over your family’s heads or food on the table or if you are worried about losing the only job you’ve ever had. It’s those worries that are keeping more and more people up at night.” That disconnect from the working class is the part that really stung for Democrats. The party has prided itself on being able to effectively represent laborers and those who aren’t corporate America. Yet somehow, over time, that segment of the population hasn’t found what they have been looking for in the Democratic Party. Forestal says it’s time to change that. Taking the party back to its
NUVO.NET/THEBIGSTORY roots and championing the little guy is what Forestal believes needs to happen. Not that Democrats have purposefully left the working class behind, but speaking to the issue of economic stability and doing it in a manner that isn’t condescending will be the key to Democratic revitalization. “I think sometimes we Democrats get so caught up in the facts and figures and trying to prove that we are right and ‘here’s why’ that we lose what people relate to the most,” says Forestal. “We have been talking to the head and not the gut. And credit has to be given to Republicans because Disconnect from that’s what did. the working class they Their mesis the part that sage spoke to the heart really stung for and gut of Democrats. what people are feeling. They didn’t sweat the details up front. People related to that because they felt they were being heard.” Forestal says the Democratic mantra and principles have not changed. But how the message is delivered and how the party reconnects with its base will — because it has to change. One immediate change that Forestal is choosing to take on personally is re-connecting with the rural parts of the state. With the exception of a few legislators, nearly all of Indiana’s Democratic representation is from the most urban populated areas. Indianapolis, Bloomington, Lafayette, Gary and South Bend send the majority of legislators from the donkey side of the aisle. Forestal believes the party has lost touch with rural Indiana. “So, I plan to visit those parts of Indiana that don’t get a lot of attention or representation from Democrats,” says Forestal. “They may not welcome me openly at first, but I intend to go and keep going back. I plan to listen and to show that the Democratic Party isn’t disconnected from their issues. Their issues are our issues.” N
2017 BILLWATCH HB 1130 // Protections for student journalists This bill would extend First Amendment freedom of speech and freedom of the press protections to student journalists from kindergarten to high school and beyond to college. Because these journalists are typically underage, courts around the state and country have ruled that the First Amendment does not extend to them. This bill would require Indiana school corporations and state-sponsored institutions to honor that protection. AND it’s a bipartisan bill?! Mind blown. HB 1014 // Redistricting commission This bill should be one of the most important bills to voters. It establishes a redistricting commission that would take on a nonpartisan responsibility of redrawing the district lines. The ultimate goal is to eliminated gerrymandering and create fairer elections and balanced representation. SB 309 // Distributed generation To read the bill or even the summary of the bill may make you go cross-eyed trying to understand the utility lingo. But the bottom line is that the bill would effectively take net metering for people who have solar panels for their homes off the table. Net metering allows homeowners to discount the cost of the energy they are pulling from their solar panels from what they get from the utilities. It helps create a culture for people to invest in cleaner energy. No net metering means no lowering of costs and no incentive to energize cleanly. The biggest argument environmental agencies have against this bill is the fact that legislators are dictating the rules of engagement (presumably at the request of the utilities) instead of experts employed by the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission.
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ONE OF SARAH HOBB’S INSTALLATIONS
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arah Hobbs’s work explores the fine lines in obsessive behavior — like what you do after a compulsive behavior stops relieving anxiety. She calls this feeling “liminal space.” In this space, you just might become consumed by a brand new obsessive-compulsive disorder. Or maybe, just maybe, you throw yourself into making artwork. Her installations are often composed in domestic settings — sometimes in places where she’s lived — then photographed. Her exhibit Psychological Traces, which she describes as a mini-retrospective and consists of photographs of her installations, opened Jan. 8 at iMOCA’s CityWay Gallery. Hobbs was born in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1970 and grew up in Columbus, Georgia. Her childhood home sat adjacent to the home of American writer Carson McCullers, best known for her novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Hobbs currently lives and works in Atlanta. McCullers’ home is where Psychological Traces began.
DAN GROSSMAN: YOU DID AN INSTALLATION IN CARSON MCCULLERS HOME CALLED FLIGHT IN PLACE IN 2015. CAN YOU DESCRIBE THAT?
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SARAH HOBBS: I knew the family that lived there. So I know the house very well. So when I was asked to do this, I didn’t want to create an installation that directly had to do with Carson. But I did want to have something in my piece that honored her a little bit. So Flight in Place has everything to do with someone feeling stuck at home in their circumstance and wanting nothing more than to escape and to explore the world. So there’s a high level of romanticism as well for someone who has never experienced it. So the room was filled with travel information. There were two bookshelves that were filled. All the books were travel books and they were all tabbed with post it notes, every single one of them…. [The installation] refers a little
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to Carson because that’s how she felt in Columbus. She felt very different; people didn’t understand her and she couldn’t wait to leave. Of course when she was gone, she was incredibly homesick. So wherever she was, it didn’t quite live up to the romantic idea that she had of it.
DAN: DOES THIS RELATE AT ALL TO HOW YOU GOT INTERESTED IN ART? SARAH: I would say there is certainly a little bit of that in there. When I was growing up, I didn’t dislike Columbus, I had a very happy childhood, but there was always the desire to go somewhere else. ... Our family didn’t travel all that much. ... You’d meet people from other parts of the country or the world and you just thought “I want to go there…” So there’s a part of that that’s me and a part of it also that somewhat felt a little misunderstood because I was interested in art and talking about literature and I didn’t have a lot of friends who were interested in what I was interested in. So I yearned to find some camaraderie elsewhere.
DAN: HOW DOES THE IDEA OF OBSESSION RUN THROUGH YOUR CURRENT WORK AT IMOCA SARAH: So the show is a mini-retrospective because it’s got work from the very beginning to now. ... There’s a piece entitled “Prom Forever” and it’s in a basement. It’s about a person for whom the prom was the ultimate moment of their life when they were the happiest. So they have this secret prom in their basement where they can go and visit that feeling again. So it’s the obsession with this feeling leads a person to create in their home that takes them back to that time or it could be someone who never went to the prom and feels like they missed out on an important part of life and it gnawed at them until they actually decided to create a prom to create that feeling. N WHAT // Psychological Traces WHEN // Through June 24 WHERE // iMOCA, at The Alexander, CityWay TICKETS // FREE
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TRAINING THE TRANS VOICE
Earlham College hosts a transgender singing conference BY EMILY TAYLOR // ETAYLOR@NUVO.NET DANIELLE STEELE INSTRUCTING A CHORUS.
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want to start dressing as a female, but vocals became so wildly out of control,” says I am only going to dress as a female in Steele. “The voice is one of the first ways that choir because that’s where I feel safe.” people assess our gender presentation. So That’s what Danielle Steele’s first the voice becomes something dangerous.” transgender student said to her in 2013. Transgender singers can be outed involunLittle did she know that working with tarily by something small, like a crack in their Charlotte (as Steele calls her throughout voice or slipping into a register that doesn’t her research) would change the (traditionally) match their way she looked at choral music presented gender. “The voice forever, and would lead to one “That can quite literally be of the first transgender singing lethally dangerous,” says Steele. is one of the conferences in the country. As the lessons went on, first ways that Steele kept notes on what It’s no secret that when someone transitions their voice what didn’t and why. people assess worked, often changes — and that’s One of her biggest struggles our gender where Steele’s work began in was the practical problem of 2013, by helping singers craft someone’s voice from presentation. molding how that change happens. one register to another. So the voice She started giving private So Steele started with the voice lessons to two transbasics — speaking. becomes gender students, one male to Steele began with humming something female and one female to male. exercises, phonating, and helpThey both wanted to be in her ing them feel their voices. dangerous.” choir programs but had trouble “They were able to gain vo— DANIELLE STEELE cal control and function much controlling their singing. As their voices grew stronger more quickly than if I just had so did Steele’s teaching reputation (in addithem singing,” says Steele. tion to private lessons, Steele is the assisShe notes that female to male transgentant director of choral activities at Earlham der singers who are on testosterone are able College). She was asked to work with more to control their voices a bit easier. According trans and nonbinary vocalists, helping them to her, there is no research that estrogen master their chosen vocal range. impacts vocal chord; while testosterone “When they started to transition, the radically affects the voice. “Male to female
transgender people have a much harder time when it comes to accessing a singing voice that is both healthy and one that they enjoy hearing,” says Steele. The research and lessons came with a learning curve for Steele, but the frustrating part was having to blaze an academic trail. Like most 34 year olds, Steele started posting those frustrations on Facebook. WHAT // Transgender Singing Voice Conference WHERE // Earlham College, Richmond, IN TICKETS // Students FREE, prices for non-students vary
“There are quite literally — or at the time — zero resources,” says Steele. “I am not exaggerating.” Those posts eventually connected her with Sandi Hammond, an Earlham alumna and human rights activist, who created Butterfly Music Transgender Chorus. (Which picked up national attention from outlets like O, The Oprah Magazine.) Hammond invited her out to Boston to work with the chorus in early 2016. By springtime, Steele was presenting her research at an LGBT issues and music conference at the University of Illinois. Other educators started to seek her out, hoping to gain advice. They wanted to know how to place their trans singers in the chorus, how to teach them and what
repertoire to use with a nonbinary student. The Tennessee Music Educators Association was particularly interested. (The group is comparable to Indiana’s Circle the State choirs.) They were in the process of redoing their audition policy because they realized that transgender singers weren’t able to sing in their preferred ensemble. Steele guided them in changing the culture of the classroom and addressing the vocal pedagogy. It became clear that she wasn’t the only educator wrestling with the gender normative standards instilled in choral music. So Steele decided to create a three-day conference at Earlham College focused entirely on how to instruct anyone on vocal control. “When we are trained to be educators, they mention marginalized groups,” says Steele. “And you may have a day in class talking about the LGBT population, but it’s not like you have a whole semester delving deeply into those issues.” She hopes the conference will offer resources to educators who haven’t touched the field yet. “We want them to go in and begin dismantling gender bias in the classroom. ... Choral music is inherently gendered — from the way that we assign voice parts, often to the type of music we expect a given ensemble to sing. Training these educators to go in and begin critically looking at that system is important.” N NUVO.NET // 01.11.17 - 01.18.17 // STAGE // 13
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MOVIE // Patriots Day SHOWING // In wide release RATED // R, HHHH Patriots Day is a poignant portrait of heroism in the face of horror. It sheds light on one
RECOMMENDED WITH WARNING SIGNS Controversial filmmaker Paul Verhoeven transcends himself.
of the darkest days in recent American history — the Boston Marathon bombing. The film marks the third collaboration between director Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg,
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completing their unofficial trilogy regarding
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American heroes, which started with the 2013 Navy SEAL drama, Lone Survivor, and continued with last year’s Deepwater Horizon, In Patriots Day, Wahlberg stars as Sergeant Tommy Saunders, an amalgam of several real-life cops who responded to the bombing. We see the event through his eyes, and he proceeds as the steady beating heart in the midst of the morbid madness. Wahlberg serves as an effective everyman, an ordinary guy rising to the occasion in an unimaginable, nightmarish situation. The recreation of the bombing is horrifying without feeling exploitative. This isn’t a mere Hollywood spectacle; it’s an enlightening example of terror and tenderness. Wahlberg’s character delivers a heartfelt monologue about how good ultimately conquered evil and how love shined through the rubble as first responders gave people hope amid the harrowing situation. The screenplay stumbles a bit near the end when it tries to inject bits of humor. However, this is a minor nit to pick in a film that otherwise provides a powerful, sobering and ultimately inspirational experience. Some are calling Patriots Day insensitive and unnecessary, but its heart is in the right place. — SAM WATERMEIER
aul Verhoeven, the director of Basic Instinct, Black Book, Hollow Man, Starship Troopers, Showgirls, Total Recall, Robocop and more, likes to make viewers squirm. His rape-revenge drama, Elle, has repeated images of sexual violence. Going into an early screening I was ready to chide the filmmaker for using misery as entertainment. The lurid visuals are there in abundance, but there’s so much more going on that you end up tumbling a load of psycho-sexual questions around your noggin. In Elle, Verhoeven transcends himself. The film, based on Philippe Djian’s 2012 novel, was going to be re-set in America, but Verhoeven decided to keep it in France after deciding that Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher) was the best choice for the lead role. Good decision. Her work here is stunning. I’m not going to tell you much about the story. It starts with the rape of Michele Leblanc (Huppert) and follows her responses to the act. Along the way we learn that something unspeakably horrible happened to her when she was a child (no, not that, something even worse). Leblanc doesn’t talk about what happened then or what happened at the start of the film. The incidents come up later, but only after we’ve had a chance to study
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the manner in which she deals with people, and the steps she appears to take to protect herself from being attacked again. Along the way, we revisit the rape, or perhaps it’s another one, or a fantasy. We deal with sexually explicit video games (she’s the CEO of a company that makes them), numerous forms of kink, a mystery that goes in a different direction than it would in most films, and a hypnotic character study presented by the amazing Isabelle Huppert. Why does Leblanc do what she does? After learning about her past, I was eager to watch the film again. It’s a decidedly differMOVIE // Elle (2016) SHOWING // Opens Friday at Keystone Art RATED // R, HHHH
ent experience on second viewing. While interviewing Paul Verhoeven in 2000, I pressed him on his ultra-violent imagery and apparent pitch black outlook on much of humanity. The filmmaker talked at length about the brutality of nature, He spoke about galaxies colliding for a while, going into full rant mode for a bit, then his voice softened as he talked about his childhood during WWII. “I grew up in occupied Holland,” he said, “and I saw … there were a lot of people that
got killed by bombing, and there were resisters that were shot on the streets by Germans. I was about seven when the war stopped. When I was five, six, seven, we lived in the Hague and were constantly bombed there, not by the Germans, but by the English. Our house was about a mile from the rocket launching pads, where they launched the V-1’s and V-2’s to England, and the English and Americans were constantly bombing that area. The area around us, with the exception of the street we lived on and a couple of others, were completely destroyed. I remember the flames and the people being killed. And the Germans – one evening I remember walking with my father and suddenly we were held by Germans and they said ‘You cannot walk there, you have to walk here and look at something.’ And we walked there and saw 20 people they had taken out of prison and shot. They put them against the wall and shot them and made sure that everyone going home passed them. Dead bodies there, yeah, I remember all that. So you may be more optimistic than I am.” Imagine someone dragging people to see such things. Imagine forcing a child to see that. Elle is the best of Paul Verhoeven’s movies. With flashing warning signs, I highly recommend it. N
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BEER BUZZ RITA KOHN Rita is NUVO’s beer maven More breweries are opening and expanding throughout the state and Rita has the scoop on what to look forward to in the coming year. 1 // 18TH STREET BREWERY IN HAMMOND & GARY 18th Street Brewery founder Drew Fox reports: “We are expanding again. We are adding four new 30bbl fermenters and a new state-of-the-art canning line from Wild Goose .
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eing a food writer, I often I walk into a place planning to write a story. I’m there on a mission, looking to pay attention to every nuance of the food, the service, the place itself; I’m there on business, even though I luckily get to take pleasure in my business. But the first time I walked in Rooster’s Kitchen, I was simply there because I was in the neighborhood and I had a hankering for some mac and cheese, and who knows, maybe a beer. I spent the forty or so minutes I was there chatting with the guy behind the bar. His name was Ross. He was awesome. He knew his menu well, he knew beer, he had an easy laugh. He said his parents had owned a hot dog stand in Chicago, and he was excited when I added giardiniera and brisket to my bowl of mac and cheese. About 30 minutes into the conversation I realized he was Rooster. This was his place. I knew then and there I’d be back, and next time it would be for a story.
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I posted a quick photo to Instagram and Facebook and within minutes I had a comment from a casual acquaintance of mine: “Love that place, and they have an awesome staff,” he said. When I responded in agreement he followed with: “My first time there I talked to the owner the whole time. I had no clue he was the owner until about halfway through. He has a cool story about how he started the restaurant.” To say Ross Katz is a good guy is an understatement. Ross is a rare kind of person who is genuinely interested in other people and hearing their stories. If he gets to share his with them, even better. Ross opened Rooster’s Kitchen in the same spot where Regina Mehallick’s beloved R Bistro closed in late February
of 2016. However, Rooster’s Kitchen is a far cry from the high-end style of cuisine R Bistro was dishing out — and that’s okay. “We strive to keep our price point reasonable and we have what I would consider everyday food,” Ross says to me on my return visit. “You know, you can get a sandwich and some carrots and it’s not going to be that bad. Or you can come in and get a salad and be healthy. It fits a niche that Mass Ave was sort of lacking on. “Mass Ave has a lot of, like, date night concepts and so this has a more casual, bring the family, grab a quick bite, type of feel and the price point is key on that. We’re using great, quality ingredients, but I never want to price it out of anybody’s reach.” While he is keeping the price point in a place for everyone, he also is making the flavor profile easy for any palate. He tells me, “I wanted good, honest food and I wanted a comfortable feel, that’s why
3 // BIG WOODS BREWING HEADS TO FRANKLIN Big Woods Brewing Company is adding Franklin to their outreach, with a Spring 2017 opening at the Hillview Country Club to serve the general public along with Hillview members. 4 // SWITCHYARD BREWING PULLS INTO BLOOMINGTON Switchyard Brewing is on track for opening Summer of 2017 at 614 E. Second St. in the historic Elm Heights neighborhood, as the fifth brewery in Bloomington — sixth if you factor in Big Woods Restaurant bringing their craft beer from Nashville.
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the comfort food aspect comes through. don’t want to do a sandwich shop where I It wasn’t that I wanted to make a comfort serve deli meat. You know this deli meat, food restaurant, I wanted to use recipes vacuum-packed stuff really isn’t that great that are from my family and I wanted a sort for you, and it’s not that great. of nostalgic twist to things to kind of make “And so the concept was, we will do a people feel more comfortable. So, with deli, but we will do all of our meats inthose two ideas in mind it kind of naturally house. And then that grew to ‘Well, if we’re progressed into a comfort food restaurant. going to do our meats in-house, we should “But, I’m not always saying that is has have entrees.’ And then it was ‘If we have to be just be comfort food. So as the menu entrees, then we should have servers.’ develops and chang“And so it grew from es — which it will this idea of having a “Long term I’d love definitely morph into sub shop where we do something different our own meats into this to see this become down the road — it essentially the concept a cornerstone kind may be less comfort we have here.” food or more comfort Much of the concept of restaurant where food. What people stems from what Ross people know it in seem to like is what saw on his family’s I’m trying to capture.” table. “What I had at the community” This surprisingly home wasn’t always — ROSS KATZ, OWNER OF seems to be the heart the same as everybody ROOSTER’S KITCHEN of Rooster’s Kitchen. else,” he says, referencIt’s a place that came ing his parents’ aptitude about from a series of ideas that morphed in the kitchen. When most parents were and changed into something different, and serving their kids Hamburger Helper and something ultimately better. going to Portillo’s for a real Chicago dog or “I’ve always had the idea of doing my own Italian beef, Ross’ family was more-or-less restaurant,” Ross tells me. And it doesn’t running a professional kitchen in their come as a surprise when you know his back- home and to their table. ground. Ross was raised in a Jewish house“We had things, like our house-cured giarhold in the Northern suburbs of Chicago. diniera, that are family recipes that we have His family had origins in the restaurant been making forever. A lot of stuff coming industry, his parents having owned that Chi- from a Jewish household too, like our brisket cago hot dog stand in their younger years. and a couple other things speak to that.” “At first I was thinking I would just do Of the giardiniera he takes particua sandwich shop, but then I was like, I lar pride, as he should, since the stuff is
NUVO.NET/FOOD+DRINK friggin’ delicious. “I grew up with like a big jar of it in the back of the fridge and we’d always have it going. And then after a while family and friends would be like, “Mind if I take a little bit?” And then this little batch turned into bigger batches. And then it turned into where we were literally making garbage cans full of it. And then we’d jar it up and give it away at the holidays. Then we took it and used it here.” The brisket on the other hand, which adorns the glorious Mamma’s brisket sandwich and also can be added to the top of the build your own mac and cheese, he readily admits he doesn’t get kudos for. “The brisket itself I can’t take any credit for, that was all her,” he says with a laugh, referencing his mom. “Yeah, that was all her recipe.” Another surprise for Ross, and a lucky one at that, is just how well that mac and cheese has done. “The build-your-own mac and cheese has been a huge seller,” he says. In fact it’s what they’re known for. “And it’s funny because that was sort of an after-
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tap list. I want it to be well-rounded and I taste everything before it goes on tap.” After about a twenty minute tangent into a craft beer convo, Ross gets us back on track by explaining his goal for Rooster’s Kitchen. “Long-term I’d love to see this become a cornerstone kind of restaurant where people know it in the community,” he says. “I want us to have great success and to be great community partners, you know giving back and being charitable. In the next coming weeks we’re already looking at creating community partners and giving back to the city. “We’re wanting to grow that program and hopefully be able to spin off into other concepts. I’d love to be able to play around with different types of food and just kind of see where it goes. “Like I said, a year ago I thought I was going to open up a sub shop and so it could all morph into something completely different. This is definitely not going to be my last restaurant. The restaurant industry definitely has got ahold of me and I’m in it for the long haul.” N
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DO THIS Musical Family Tree has slowly but surely moved into Joyful Noise Recordings’ beautiful space at the Murphy Arts Center, and this weekend, they’re officially flinging the doors open. The all-ages space will host Clint Breeze and The Groove, Barley Pops and the EP in a Weekend band (featuring Caleb McCoach, Sir Deja Doog and Vess Ruhtenberg). Entry is $5, but pony up for $10 or $15 and you’ll get a random local Indiana CD or vinyl record, respectively.
PLAN AHEAD One part of the Holy Trinity of Indy 500 music acts was announced Monday: Keith Urban will anchor Legends Day at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, alongside guests Dustin Lynch and Clayton Anderson.
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SWAP AWAY We’ve long sung the praises of Chris Banta’s Romanus Records, the crazy little label of sand-filled records and other oddities. Banta — who also plays in Brother O’ Brother — will host a monthly vinyl swap at Fountain Square Brewing Co. starting Wednesday at 7 p.m. Listen to and trade local records while drinking local beer — what’s better? – KATHERINE COPLEN
n a Friday night on the southside of Bloomington, as dozens of listeners sit cross-legged on the concrete floors of the collective event space called The Void, Ethan Helfrich stands alone on stage among piles of kick drums, mic stands and guitar cases. He slowly drags a violin bow across his guitar while a single candle burns at his feet. A black and white video of hazy tree lines and creek beds plays in the background. His ambient, meditative solo project, Rest You Sleeping Giant, has his audience transfixed.
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Helfrich has made ambient music as Rest You Sleeping Giant for over two years now. He’s released a variety of demos and soundtracks online, including a split album with the ambient band Ky== and a creative commons release called Coldharvest I. But, up to this point, Helfrich’s music has only been available only online. After uploading six of his projects to his Bandcamp
account, his latest album, Spirits, was released on cassette and vinyl on Dec. 16. Recorded at his home to cassette tapes, the six tracks of Spirits navigate through soft and blissful landscapes that Helfrich describes as “marked by a long and cold journey through a series of hardships.” “I refer to it not necessarily as the album I wanted to put out, but the one that came out of what was going on in my life at that time,” Helfrich says. To create his sleepy sounds, Helfrich uses a variety of effects pedals and loops on his guitar. Some tracks on his new
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album, like the nearly 12-minute running to create a glissando effect. time of “Left to Decay,” contain upwards “I love doing stuff like that, because it’s of 30 different loops to create the specifvery creepy,” he says. “It just creates this ic “wall of sound” often associated with wonderful atmosphere. Other times I’ve ambient and shoegaze music. just smashed my guitars against things; “Shoegaze can be such a subjective sometimes my shows get kind of weird.” term,” he says. “But, my definition for it is Helfrich also designs and creates the really anything using a lot of effects pedals. visuals for his shows. His short film Frost You can listen to a lot of popular albums was originally an interactive project and hear lots of shoegaze elements.” assignment from one of his classes at A self-proclaimed Indiana University. “pedal nut,” Helfrich The 30-minute film A self-proclaimed says he owns upwards contains a compiof 40 effects pedals. lation of 15-second “pedal nut,” Helfrich Thanks to his variety clips that Helfrich says he owns upwards set to a score of his of reverb, delay and looper pedals, he can own airy drones. of 40 effects pedals. manipulate his guitar As a current to create the ghostly, graduate student ethereal sound of Rest You Sleeping Giant. in Human Computer Interaction Design, In addition to effects pedals, Helfrich Helfrich likes to incorporate the element has taken to using more unorthodox of interaction into his performances. He objects to help him create the right sound. finds new ways to incorporate lighting, Sometimes he’ll use a violin bow, a paintvisuals and whatever else he can find to brush or a screwdriver against his guitar make his music more engaging.
“Whatever I can make that creates this trip, something where you can sit and feel, see or smell, that’s what I want,” he says. “I want to be an interactive experience.” His alternative sound has found a happy home in the unique music scene of Bloomington. From playing among emo and hardcore bands in basements to open mic nights at the local blues joint, the Players Pub, he’s found a wide audience of listeners ready to space out with him. “There are so many different types of music here,” he says. “And people are open to lots of different types of music even if you’re weird and way out there, and I love Bloomington for that.” His main goal with Rest You Sleeping Giant, he says, is to create a feeling that will resonate with his listeners. “I like things you can just drop out to,” he says. “I want people to kind of space out and be consumed by what is going on,” he says. N
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Aesop Rock, Rob Sonic, DJ Zone, Homeboy Sandman The Vogue, 7 p.m., $20 advance, $22 door, 21+
Craig Morgan 8 Seconds Saloon, 6 p.m., $12 and up, 21+
Obtuse: DJ Nights Pioneer, 10 p.m., FREE, 21+
S-E-R-V-I-C-E, Brother O’ Brother Melody Inn, 10 p.m., $5, 21+
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The Toasters, Circle City Deacons, The Run Up, Duderus, DJ Cabby Melody Inn, 8 p.m., 21+
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FRIDAY // 1.13 Him and Her Duo, Claddagh Irish Pub Northside, 21+ The Almost Heroes, Ponder, Bogues, Holy McKenzie, Ocean Lux, Cody Almon,
Chris Swartz, Irving Theater, all-ages The Why Store, Mousetrap, 21+ Sixteen Candles, The Vogue, 21 + My Yellow Ricksaw, Britton Tavern, 21+ Reece Phillips, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ Bigger than Elvis, Radio Radio, 21+ Wyld Fridays, Blu, 21+ Paul Holdman, Rebekah Meldrum, Flannel Jane ‘90s Tribute Band, Slippery Noodle Inn, 21+ Fool House: ‘90s Party, Tin Roof, 21+ The Cousin Brothers, Melody Inn, 21+ Friday Night Karaoke, Road Dog Saloon, 21+ Open Stage Blues Jam, Hilltop Tavern, 21+ Night Moves with Action Jackson and DJ Megatone, Metro, 21+
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M. Ross Perkins, Charlie Ballantine Trio, Square Cat Vinyl, all-ages Chris Davis, Hard Rock Cafe, all-ages Henry Lee Summer, 8 Seconds Saloon, 21+ The Nude Party, Smokes, The Holy Sheets, The Lickers, State Street Pub, 21+ Noise! Live Piano Cabaret Karaoke, White Rabbit Cabaret, 21+ The Kevin Anker Soul Experience, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ #Laid, Tiki Bob’s, 21+ 3:1 Band, Kona Jack’s, all-ages Fire Fridays, Cadillac Ranch Struggle, Emerson Theater, all-ages
SATURDAY // 1.14 Dizgo, Mungion, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ The 6th Annual Dolly Party Birthday Bash, Forty Five Degrees, 21+ Queen Delphine and The Crown Jewels, Slippery Noodle, 21+
Real Talk with Action Jackson and A-Squared Industries, White Rabbit Cabaret, 21+ Nick Dittmeier and The Sawdusters, Wasser Brewing Co, 21+ Andy D, Sirius Blvck, John Stamps, Pioneer, 21+ Revel Saturdays, Rvel, 21+ Shit Show Saturdays, Blu, 21+ Two-Year Birthday Bash, Redemption Alewerks, 21+ Second Saturday Songwriters Showcase, Logan Street Sanctuary, all-ages No Pit Cherries, Sham’s Bar and Grill, all-ages Dana Dane, Kwame, DJ Topspeed, Vogue, 21+ Andrew Young Band, Britton Tavern, 21+ Howard, Curbside Observation, Mousetrap, 21+ Lit, Slater Hogan, DJ Rayve, Tiki Bob’s, 21+ Local Honey, Sinking Ship II, 21+ Crambone, Southport Bar and Grill, 21+
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MONDAY // 1.17
Cross Country, Brownies in Cinema, The Bishop (Bloomington), 18+ Tango Barcela ft. Eugenio Urritia Borlando, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Reggae Revolution, Casba, 21+ Dynamite, Mass Ave Pub, 21+ The Orchard Keepers, Heartland Heretics, Count Rockula, Melody Inn, 21+ Industry Sundaze, Tin Roof, 21+ Indy Irish Folk Music Session, Bent Rail Brewery, 21+ Rob Dixon and The Tucker Brothers, Marrow, 21+ Acoustic Bluegrass Jam, Mousetrap, 21+ Free Jazz Jam Sundays with Jared Thompson Quartet, The Chatterbox, 21+ Face A Face Presents: Pieces, Pinttext, all-ages Gordon Bonham Trio, Slippery Noodle Inn, 21+
Free Jazz Jam Mondays, The Chatterbox, 21+ Jazz Jam Session, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ PBR Bingo, Sinking Ship, 21+
TUESDAY // 1.18 Acoustic Open Stage, The Aristocrat, 21+ Take That! Tuesdays, Coaches, 21+ Tongues Unknown, Coup D’Etat, ByBye, Melody Inn, 21+
WEDNESDAY // 1.19 Care, Manneqin, Spacer, The Bishop (Bloomington), 18+ G Love and Special Sauce, Ripe, Vogue, 21+ Overkill: Metal DJ Night, State Street Pub, 21+ Blues Jam with Gordon Bonham, Slippery Noodle, 21+
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil is a huge holy tree that links all of the nine worlds to each other. Perched on its uppermost branch is an eagle with a hawk sitting on its head. Far below, living near the roots, is a dragon. The hawk and eagle stay in touch with the dragon via Ratatoskr, a talkative squirrel that runs back and forth between the heights and the depths. Alas, Ratatoskr traffics solely in insults. That’s the only kind of message the birds and the dragon ever have for each other. In accordance with the astrological omens, Aries, I suggest you act like a far more benevolent version of Ratatoskr in the coming weeks. Be a feisty communicator who roams far and wide to spread uplifting gossip and energizing news. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You have a divine mandate to love bigger and stronger and truer than ever before. It’s high time to freely give the gifts you sometimes hold back from those you care for. It’s high time to take full ownership of neglected treasures so you can share them with your worthy allies. It’s high time to madly cultivate the generosity of spirit that will enable you to more easily receive the blessings that can and should be yours. Be a brave, softhearted warrior of love! GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I love and respect Tinker Bell, Kermit the Frog, Shrek, Wonder Woman, SpongeBob SquarePants, Snow White, Road Runner, and Calvin and Hobbes. They have provided me with much knowledge and inspiration. Given the current astrological omens, I suspect that you, too, can benefit from cultivating your relationships with characters like them. It’s also a favorable time for you to commune with the spirits of Harriet Tubman, Leonardo da Vinci, Marie Curie, or any other historical figures who inspire you. I suggest you have dreamlike conversations with your most interesting ancestors, as well. Are you still in touch with your imaginary friends from childhood? If not, renew acquaintances. CANCER (June 21-July 22): “I never wish to be easily defined,” wrote Cancerian author Franz Kafka. “I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.” Do you ever have that experience? I do. I’m a Crab like you, and I think it’s common among members of our tribe. For me, it feels liberating. It’s a way to escape people’s expectations of me and enjoy the independence of living in my fantasies. But I plan to do it a lot less in 2017, and I advise you to do the same. We should work hard at coming all the way down to earth. We will thrive by floating less and being better grounded; by being less fuzzy and more solid; by not being so inscrutable, but rather more knowable. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Here’s my declaration: “I hereby forgive, completely and permanently, all motorists who have ever irked me with their rude and bad driving. I also forgive, totally and forever, all tech support people who have insulted me, stonewalled me, or given me wrong information as I sought help from them on the phone. I furthermore forgive, utterly and finally, all family members and dear friends who have hurt my feelings.” Now would be a fantastic time for you to do what I just did, Leo: Drop grudges, let go of unimportant outrage, and issue a blanket amnesty. Start with the easier stuff — the complaints against strangers and acquaintances — and work your way up to the allies you cherish. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There are some authors who both annoy me and intrigue me. Even though I feel allergic to the uncomfortable ideas they espouse, I’m also fascinated by their unique provocations. As I read their words, I’m halfirritated at their grating declarations, and yet greedy for more. I disagree with much of what they say, but feel grudgingly grateful for the novel perspectives they prod me to discover. (Nobel Prize-winner Elias
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