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Lawmakers address political coups, peace parks and sexual harassment

BY EDITORS // EDITORS@NUVO.NET KENNEDY-KING PARK AS NATIONAL MONUMENT TO PEACE

KENNEDY-KING PARK //

Indiana lawmakers from both parties have joined together in an effort to designate Kennedy-King Park in Indianapolis a national historic landmark.

The park honors the site where Senator Robert Kennedy had the task of informing a crowd of Indianapolis residents that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was dead as a result of an assassin’s bullets on the evening of April 4, 1968.

“Fifty years ago, when Dr. Martin Luther King was tragically and senselessly murdered, Robert Kennedy helped our nation heal right here in Indianapolis.

As our country continues to struggle with issues of race and diversity, it is right and appropriate for Kennedy-King Park to gain this national designation,” said Sen. Todd Young.

CITY-COUNTY COUNCIL DRAMA CONTINUES City-County Council Democrats moved to

SEXUAL HARASSMENT TRAINING FOR STATE LAWMAKERS

“For the residents of Indianapolis, Kennedy-King

regain some of their power at Monday night’s

Park has long been a site where we remember how

scheduled meeting. As you may recall, council

proved a plan requiring sexual harassment training for

agreement with SunCoke Energy to address alleged

our community came together in grief and made it

member Stephen Clay, a Democrat, became

state lawmakers authored by State Rep. Cherrish Pry-

violations of environmental regulations at an East

through one of the darkest points in our history,” Rep.

president of the council last month after working

or (D-Indianapolis). Currently, members of the Indiana

Chicago energy plant that produces coke, a solid

André Carson said in a statement regarding the pro-

out a deal with some Republicans, who currently

House and Senate are not required to partake in any

fuel made by heating coal. Under the terms of the

posal. “This site is a national treasure that is worthy of

hold the minority vote on the council, that gave

sexual harassment training. Pryor’s measure would

agreement, the company will pay $5 million in civil

preservation so that future generations can continue

them increased presence and power on commit-

require representatives and senators to complete at

penalties – to be divided evenly between the state

to be inspired to peaceful social activism.”

tees. At Monday’s meeting, Democrats forced a

least one hour of such training each year.

and federal government. The agreement also in-

If enacted, H.R. 4851 would designate Kenne-

successful “no confidence” vote on Clay’s new

The Indiana House of Representatives has ap-

SUNCOKE TO PAY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLATIONS

“Right now, we require staff to take sexual harass-

Indiana has reached a multi-million-dollar

cludes a lead abatement project at Indiana schools,

dy-King Park as a National Historic Site and make it

position that won a majority. This means the

ment training, and I do not see why lawmakers should

day-care centers and/or other buildings where

a permanent addition to the National Park Service

council will once again vote on a president at the

be excluded from that requirement,” Pryor said.

owners are unable to afford lead abatement work.

(NPS) system. This would bring certainty about future

February 19 meeting and Clay could be replaced.

“There have been a number of stories about sexual

“We fight every day to protect the safety of

harassment across a wide spectrum, ranging from

Hoosiers and their families,” said Attorney General

preservation and federal resources as they become

“In the weeks since his election, we’ve learned

available, including inclusion in NPS materials, inter-

that Councillor Clay’s ascent to the presidency

government to Hollywood, and I would very much like

Curtis Hill in announcing the deal. “This agreement

pretive educational services and possible grants to

was secured through means unbefitting the im-

to see us not get those kinds of headlines in Indiana.”

goes a long way to protect Hoosiers and their

help promote the site.

portant duties of his office,” said Councillor Zach

“To be a public official means you must demon-

“For years, the Landmark for Peace Memorial has

families in Northwest Indiana and the East Chicago

Adamson and other Democrats in a written state-

strate the highest quality of character, since we do

stood as tribute to our city’s unity and strength — a

ment provided after the meeting. “He deceived

serve as a model for others to follow,” Pryor noted.

Alleged violations at the plant included illegal

beacon for peace that calls our community forward.

members of the Democratic Caucus, struck deals

“I see no reason that we shouldn’t demonstrate our

emission of waste gases, lead, sulfur dioxide, and

Thanks to the work of Congressman André Carson

that amounted to little more than quid pro quo

commitment to those ideals by taking part in this kind

particulate matter; opacity exceedances; depar-

and Congresswoman Susan Brooks along with

political maneuvering, and ultimately betrayed the

of training, and sending a clear message that harass-

tures from good air pollution control practices; and

Senators Joe Donnelly and Todd Young, in partner-

trust of voters who elected a Democratic majority

ment of any kind will not be tolerated in the Indiana

various failures in monitoring, measuring, record-

ship with the Kennedy-King Memorial Initiative, this

to govern [...] He is unfit to serve as President

General Assembly.”

ing, and reporting of operational parameters and

request for National Historic Landmark designation

of the Indianapolis City-County Council, and we

for the Landmark for Peace Memorial in Dr. Martin Lu-

intend to take the necessary steps to ensure he no

ity and training for sexual harassment. The National

pollution control laws. The Consent Decree, lodged

ther King, Jr. Park ensures that this monument and its

longer mars the important work we have ahead.”

Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) is currently

in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District

message will be protected for generations to come,”

producing an anti-harassment training video for use

of Indiana, is subject to a 30 day public comment

Mayor Joe Hogsett said in response to the proposal.

across the country.

period and approval by the federal court. N

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Indiana is not alone in seeking more accountabil-

community.”

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INDIANA’S FIRST NATIVE AMERICAN OWNED CASINO OPENS Pokagon Band reclaims tribal land

BY LORI LOVELY // NEWS@NUVO.NET

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he Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians opened Indiana’s first Native American-owned and -operated casino last week. Located on 166 acres of tribal trust land in northern Indiana, the Four Winds South Bend Casino, will feature 55,000 square-feet of space for games, restaurants, bars, a coffee shop, lounge and retail outlet.

The casino shares the Four Winds brand with the other Pokagon casino locations that include New Buffalo, Hartford and Dowagiac in Michigan.

“When we broke ground in December 2016, we did so knowing we’ll have a significant economic impact on the region,” John P. Warren, chairman of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, said in a statement. The casino is expected to employ 1,200 people.

“Once operating, it will generate revenue to fund services and programs that will create additional economic opportunities for Pokagon Citizens [and] the city of South Bend, and also fund community projects, local organizations and schools,” according to Warren.

The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians sovereignty was reaffirmed under legislation signed into law by President Clinton in September 1994.

“Our commitment to our tribal citizens, children and families of this region is our greatest priority. From the moment of the groundbreaking and beyond when the casino opens, the benefits will multiply,” said Warren.

“Our Pathways Program provides the necessary steps a citizen or spouse of a tribal citizen can take to find a fulfilling

career,” explained Abbie Kusch, administrative assistant for Mno-Bmadsen, the economic development enterprise of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi.

The casino is expected to make a long-lasting impact in the area beyond the short-term construction jobs by creating 2,000 permanent, full-time jobs and attracting hundreds of daily visitors. In addition to the casino, the project includes a 500-room hotel, a police substation, an adjoining tribal village featuring 44 homes, a community center and health services.

“Our commitment to our tribal citizens, children and families of this region is our greatest priority.”

— JOHN P. WARREN, POKAGON BAND OF POTAWATOMI INDIANS

Warren explained that the Pokagon Band has lived in this region for thousands of years and has been working since 2012 to reestablish their sovereign land in Indiana.

As a federally recognized tribe, the Pokagon Band can control activities on its land independent of state government.

“The development of this Tribal Village in South Bend will help break down barriers to services for our tribal citizens and enable us to build the necessary healthcare, family services, education facilities and homes,” Warren said.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs approved the tribe’s application to take into trust Pokagon Band land in the city. The move marks the first restoration of sovereign

tribal land in Indiana. “For the first time in 200 years, Indiana has Indian country in it again,” Warren said.

South Bend officials approved agreements with the Pokagons that spelled out obligations for both sides in support of the casino. The city will not support any other casino efforts.

Instead of paying property taxes, the Pokagons will pay two percent of the casino’s annual net proceeds (not less than $1 million) to the city, half of which will go to the city’s general fund and half to a Redevelopment Commission fund to support initiatives aimed at improving educational opportunities and addressing poverty and unemployment.

The Pokagons made a $400,000 payment to help replace and upgrade the Calvert Street Lift Station so the city can provide sewer and water services to the casino.

In addition, the Pokagons will donate $5 million to local organizations over a fiveyear period. Planned recipients include South Bend schools, the Newborn Intensive Care Unit at Memorial Children’s Hospital and improvements to Howard Park.

Over the last two centuries, the Pokagon Band ceded more than 5.2 million acres of their homeland to the United States.

As they reclaim a modest portion of it, Warren said they take comfort in knowing how proud their ancestors would be of this historic achievement. “Restoration of our homeland will preserve our legacy for the next seven generations of Pokagon citizens and ensure that our ongoing economic contributions to South Bend will continue to grow.” N

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NEW LEAGUE, NEW HOME Indy Eleven to play 2018 home matches at Lucas Oil Stadium

BY BRIAN WEISS // BWEISS@NUVO.NET

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ndy Eleven owner Ersal Ozdemir anpast few years have demonstrated anything nounced Monday morning that the club it’s that Indianapolis is perfectly situated to will play their 2018 home matches at be a leader and champion in the world of Lucas Oil Stadium. professional soccer.”

“Today’s announcement that Indy Eleven The Eleven consistently ranked near the will schedule its home games in 2018 at top of the NASL when it came to attenLucas Oil Stadium is a win for our fans, our dance, averaging upwards of 9,000 fans team and our great city,” Ozdemir said. “The per match. While Lucas Oil Stadium has a fan experience will improve significantly 70,000 maximum capacity, the Eleven plan in this great venue with controlled weather to open up around 16,000 seats per match. conditions, nicer ameniThe Brickyard Batties such as concessions, talion, an independent restrooms, seating and supporters group of “If the past few years much more.” the Eleven will see their have demonstrated The Indy Eleven called section nearly double to IUPUI’s Michael A. Car3,000 seats. anything it’s that roll Stadium home every “Indy Eleven’s connecIndianapolis is season since they began tion to its fanbase is truly play in 2014. remarkable,” Ozdemir perfectly situated “It is indeed a great said, before thanking the to be a leader and day for our city. From Brickyard Battalion for the Super Bowl, to Final champion in the world their support over the Fours, to even a U2 conof professional soccer.” years. cert, Lucas Oil Stadium It’s unclear whether or has been Indianapolis’ — ERSAL OZDEMIR not the supporters group mecca of spectacle ever will be able to shoot since these doors opened a decade ago,” smoke off after each Eleven goal, a ritual they said Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett. “Now became known for at Carroll Stadium. with the Indy Eleven set to take this field, Ozdemir added that the Eleven could resoccer fans will continue that tradition here turn to their old home to play a few matches in our great city.” due to scheduling conflicts at Lucas Oil. A The announcement comes less than tentative USL schedule has been released three weeks after the Eleven announced but home games have yet to be finalized as they were leaving the North American Socthe Eleven wait for the release of the Indiacer League (NASL) and joining the United napolis Colts schedule.

Soccer League (USL).

The Eleven will make their USL debut on “Lucas Oil Stadium and the USL present Mar. 24 away to Richmond Kickers. The first a bigger stage for our soccer team and match at Lucas Oil Stadium is set to take more visibility not only in our state but place on Mar. 31 when the Eleven host FC around the globe,” Ozdemir said. “If the Cincinnati in the team’s home opener. N

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A FORKING GOOD YEAR FOR FOOD 8 new restaurants for 2018

BY CAVAN McGINSIE // CMCGINSIE@NUVO.NET

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fter a less than stellar 2017 in the Indianapolis food and beverage industry, we’re glad to see 2018 is already shaping up to be better. In fact, it’s looking to be one of the best years for restaurant and bar openings in quite a while.

Many of the most lauded chefs and restau-

rateurs in the city are opening up new spots or expanding their already popular operations. Each new restaurant is bringing something unique to the table — or bartop — and the best news is, we get to enjoy them, sooner rather than later.

Without further ado, here are our most anticipated restaurants of 2018.

GO OUT AND GET A TASTE UKIYO/MOON RABBIT RAMEN MERIDIAN-KESSLER

Ukiyo, Neal Brown’s return to sushi and Japanese cuisine, is pretty damn exciting.

The unexpected addition of Moon Rabbit Ramen as a magical lunch option only adds to the excitement. Even Brown himself has been blown away by the response. What started as a pop-up, has now become a permanent fixture in the former Room 4 space at 49th and College.

Brown tells me that Josh Boles, the ramen chef at Moon Rabbit, studied ramen in Japan right after graduating college.

With that knowledge, Boles returned to Indianapolis with the desire to share true ramen with the city.

His ramen will blow you away with it’s eclectic amalgamation of fatty, savory, umami flavors in three choices: shio, shoyu and a vegetable-based bowl for vegans and vegetarians.

Another lunchtime highlight is the kaarage chicken.

There is fried chicken. And then there is this karaage chicken.

I would choose this over any other fried chicken in this city. It’s sprinkled with matcha and a light honey drizzle below, it is a nearly perfect bite.

And that’s just lunch.

Brown says, “Dinner focuses on kappo cuisine and sushi, paired with both Japanese & domestic craft beers and sakes.”

For dinner expect to walk out feeling as if you just ate like royalty. There are some standards, like ribeye and chicken thigh on the dinner menu, but use the opportunity to branch out and taste dishes like the hamachi (yellowtail) collar or the chicken heart yakitori with spicy miso.

The most enticing part of the menu are the wonderful fresh slices of fish. Grab a seat at the sushi bar and order omakase. It’s $85 well-spent. The experience of various nigiri and a few other menu items paired along side well-aged sakes and unique cocktails with chef Brown serving them is unlike any other meal you’ll have in Indy.

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understand this means we need to provide affordability along with seasonality. We welcome the challenge!”

And while there is quite a bit of construction to be done to reach the overall vision, Eddie says we can expect it relatively soon, “Before 2020. I plan to run for president, so it is very important for me to have some time to make a run.”

He then adds, “In all honesty, we are shooting for an end of June, beginning of July timeline.”

Summer can’t get here soon enough.

LOVE HANDLE MASS AVE

Chris and Ally Benedyk, the lovely couple behind Love Handle, are moving their operation to Mass Ave — ­ down near Black Market, Roosters and Yats. And the good news is they plan on opening in early February.

Other than the location change, Ally says, “The Mass Ave. location will be different in so many ways.”

Don’t fret. It’s all exciting changes.

“We will now serve beer and wine,” says Ally. She then adds that there is a significant size increase. “The [new] restaurant can seat 70, where at the old location, we could only do about 25.” And most exciting of all — well, maybe that goes to the beer and wine — is the new location will be open for breakfast, lunch and dinner!

So, yes, as Ally shares, “The menu will still have the old faves (biscuits and gravy, biscuit sliders, beef tongue sandwiches, etc.)”

But, wait, there’s more: “We will have some really fun additions too,” she says.

“Like, we will do whole and half rotisserie chickens… and some fried items like pork croquettes.”

Ally says a new tradition is starting and it’s what she is most excited for. “The fish fry we will do every Friday evening!

“When we lived in Milwaukee, every restaurant did a fish fry on Fridays...

So, we are kind of paying homage to the city where we got our start. We will fry a few different types of fish, shrimp rolls (think, lobster rolls), with fried potatoes and slaw.”

For the Benedyks, they are ecstatic about the new space. “Mass Ave. is one of the hottest spots in the city,” says Ally.

“We are super excited to be a part of that. Especially at the East end where it still has a kitschy vibe...We have come along way from when from when we first opened in Milwaukee in 2013.”

She finishes, “It’s been a crazy wonderful ride to get to this point, and we can’t wait to see what the future holds.”

MAKING THE OLD FEEL NEW TAVERN AT OLD POINT MASS AVE

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MAKING THE NEW FEEL OLD SAHM’S BAVARIAN CONCEPT SOBRO

The Bent Rail Brewing building at 53rdish and Winthrop is getting a facelift from a very familiar face. Eddie Sahm — of Big Lug Canteen and Sahm’s Ale House — is taking it over and putting in a Bavarian-style brewpub.

Bavarian-style brings up visions of The Rathskeller, Moerline Lager House in Cincinnati, or Garden District in D.C.. The last of these played a role in Eddie’s desire to pursue this concept. Eddie says he and his business partner Scott Ellis, “left the Craft Brewers Conference this past year (after four nights in a row drinking at this bar) thinking that this was something we could sit and drink at every night; I think a switch flipped that evening.”

With that switch flipped, all he needed was a location, and for Eddie, location was a no-brainer situation. “Ed Sahm, my father, grew up in this area,” Eddie says. “He went north to Fishers, but his love of this

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area never subsided. I live in Broad Ripple and don’t plan on leaving anytime soon.”

He then adds, “I have had German food on my mind for a while and while South Broad Ripple has some of the best food options in the city, it hasn’t fully maximized its use of the Monon. I think we can be somewhat of a stopping point for people, which hopefully gets them to explore an area we are in love with.”

As for what we can expect, the answers aren’t completely fleshed out, but Eddie has a pretty good idea. “I think when everyone thinks of Bavaria, the first thing that comes to mind is the beer and pretzels.”

He says they will have an on-site bakery to dish out pretzels. Unsurprisingly, beer will also be made in house. “These [beers] will be recipes that stay true to German recipes and respect the awesome beer culture they have already established.”

Eddie also says, while the menu will be focused on seasonality and local purveyors, he wants to keep the cost as reasonable as possible. “Our goal is to be a staple for the neighborhood,” he says. “We

When longtime owners of Old Point Tavern, Chip and Patti Perrin, announced they were closing up shop and selling it to the Cunningham Restaurant Group — owners of Mesh, Union 50, Livery, Bru Burger and more — many people had some feelings.

Anger was one feeling. Angry that the second oldest bar in Indianapolis — behind the Slippery Noodle — would be closing to make way for another CRG property on Mass Ave. Angry about losing inexpensive cocktails, tasty nachos and yummy chili.

And still others were happy, excited to see Mass Ave make another move away from its less-flashy, ‘80s film set in NYC roots and come into a modern, upscale feel.

Mike Cunningham, CRG’s CEO, says he hopes more people turn towards the latter after they see the finished product.

“We hope what we introduce newly to that space is what the market is looking for,” says Cunningham. “We totally understand that there’s going to be a handful of people that will be upset that they didn’t have their cheap cocktails or the nachos at midnight kind of experience that they had in there.

But with our experience, we think that what we’ll do will please enough people that we can make it viable for the future.”

The end of this statement — viable for the future — is a key aspect that Cunningham isn’t sure many people recognize when dealing with such a historic structure. “There’s a reason Chip and Patti wanted to step out,” he says. “It’s not a

NUVO.NET/THEBIGSTORY business model that can survive very long AN ESCAPE ROOM when your facility is falling apart and your INFERNO ROOM bar costs are through the roof.”

FOUNTAIN SQUARE The necessary renovations on the building are extensive. Cunningham says, This spring, you’ll barely have to step “It currently leaks when it rains, it’s not foot off of Virginia Avenue to escape to your insulated very well.” He also says, “We will tropical paradise. The Inferno Room will be correct the current bar; if you’ve ever sat at open and it’s bringing a waterfall of classic that bar you really can’t sit at it, you have to tiki bar culture along with it. turn sideways to sit at it.”

“I think the atmosphere will make it And while they’re making the necessary unique, that escape,” says Ed Rudisell, structural changes, he is adamant about owner of The Inferno Room. Rudisell preserving as much as possible. “It’s imalso owns or co-owns Siam Square, Black portant for us to keep that history and the Market, Rook and Thunderbird. He says neighborhood feel,” he says. And it should he is excited to bring a new style of tiki bar be, Cunningham and his wife live in the culture to Fountain Square. “To be able to Mass Ave neighborhood. “My wife and I walk through the door and not be at home thoroughly enjoy living in the city, we’ve anymore — I don’t want to say in Indiadone it for almost three years now,” he says. napolis, because you’re still in Indianapo“Although we are going to fix the buildlis — but it’s just getting away from home.” ing … we’re going to save While people in the city the historic facets of the have undoubtedly had building. But, we’re going “I think we can experiences with tiki culture, to put other windows on Rudisell says to expect somebe somewhat of the inside to insulate it so thing rather unique with Inyou’re not getting wet when a stopping point ferno Room. “La Revolucion it rains, or the windows its outdoor tiki bar, I even for people, which has aren’t sweating when it gets think there is synergy there,” cool outside. All of those hopefully gets he mentions. “But we’re going things that add personality in a very different direction them to explore to the building are some of than they went.” those things we have to fix.” an area we are in He then expounds on that The menu hasn’t been thought, “We’re going a little love with.” worked out yet, but Cunmore tribal, jungle, headningham says it will be an — EDDIE SAHM hunter, cannibalistic sort upscale pub menu crafted of route. It’s a style I haven’t

by CRG’s executive chef Carl Chambers personally seen around the United States along with Layton Roberts and Thomas — that doesn’t mean it’s not out there — I Melvin. just haven’t seen it.”

They are shooting for an early April The style has been personally crafted opening, that way they can then focus on and curated by a handful of people includopening their new Italian restaurant in the ing the design team at CODO, Chris Coy former Cerulean space in The Alexander. (who previously has been the wine director “I’m most excited about taking a historic for Black Market), local members of the and iconic location in name and keeping Fraternal Order of Moai, and a Milwauit alive for the future,” says Cunningham. kee-based tiki artist named Dave Hansen. “[Chip and Patti] had a 25 year run there, “Dave is seriously the most humble so that’s definitely a feather in their cap guy and his work is, just, incredible,” says that they made that work for so long. So, Rudisell of Hansen and his work at Lake it’s exciting to introduce what Old Point Tiki Woodcrafts. “It’s exactly what we enshould be in the next two decades instead visioned. He has really latched onto it and of letting it deteriorate to a point where it he knows a lot about the native artwork of would just kind of go away.”

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Sepik Region. He has been killing it.”

Add to the distinctive interior the fact that bartender Eli Sanchez of Rook is crafting the cocktail menu and chef Carlos Salazar, also of Rook, is crafting the menu and you’re just ready for it to open.

“We won’t have just one cocktail that defines who we are,” says Rudisell. “But classics will be super important to us.”

When it comes to tiki culture, this makes perfect sense. As Rudisell describes, “I mean, mai tais are a good bellwether on what to expect from the rest of the drinks. If you have a bad mai tai at a tiki bar, then you’re probably not going to get anything better.”

Rudisell assures there will be plenty of classics like, mai tais, zombies, fog cutters and jet pilots. Then he shares the unique way which their other cocktails will rotate onto the menu. “We are friends with several tiki bartenders and bar owners across the country,” he says. “We would like to feature either their favorite obscure or under-appreciated tiki drink — because there are so many out there that get forgotten about.

Or, another idea is to put on one of their signature drinks.

“It’s a nice way to add a little spice to our menu. I mean tiki is very communal anyway and everybody seems to know everyone — so it’s just another way to connect the dots.”

They’re still testing some dishes, but they know the direction they’re going.

“For food,” says Rudisell, “we will keep aggressively priced because it will be small and medium sized plates, pretty comparable to what we do here at Rook.

Like, quick snacks.

“I don’t think anybody is going to have a sit down, night out dinner there. We’re not fine dining, we’re not trying to be fine dining. It’s a fun place and should be fun.”

THE RETURN COMMON HOUSE UNDECIDED

When Cerulean closed with the New Year it left a hole in hearts and tummies.

Not only because we will sorely miss the bento boxes for lunch and the whiskey selection, but more so because we miss

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having a kitchen where the wonderful Alan Sternberg is prepping top class food for us to enjoy.

The good news is — as we profiled at the beginning of the year — Sternberg will be returning to the kitchen soon and prepping the food he loves, pasta and crudo.

“I think we’re going to explore pasta in a way no one else has in Indy,” says Sternberg. “We’re not an Italian restaurant, so we’re able to draw on more worldly flavors. I’ve spent a lot of time over the last few years learning how to make good pasta and I’m excited to bring that to a larger scale.”

That whiskey selection at Cerulean will also be a key aspect of Common House.

No matter what is on the menu, one of Sternberg’s most notable qualities as a chef is his focus on hospitality.

“I’ve always tried to accommodate my guests to the best of my ability,” he says.

Because of this, “we almost always will have something available for the major dietary restrictions … I do urge guests (dining at any restaurant) to call ahead

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and make the restaurant aware of special dietary needs. “...We want to be able to make sure what we’re putting out is the best dish for the guest.”

Even though all of the wheels are turning on this project, it still has quite the road ahead of it before we get to see and taste the finished product. At the moment Sternberg has a full plate while on his journey to opening his first restaurant.

“The last few weeks have made my schedule kind of crazy for at least the first half of 2018,” says Sternberg. “As of [mid-January], I took over as the Executive Chef of Cerulean Winona. Their chef had a sudden departure, so I’m filling in and steadying the ship.

“After that, I’m opening The Field in Westfield around May, and after that calms down I’ll be shifting focus to Common House.”

Despite being incredibly busy, Sternberg has a solid idea of what the restaurant will offer for guests, this is due to

the fact that he has been working the concept out in his mind for quite a while.

“I’ve had some good fortune to cook with some really awesome chefs the last couple of years, and I think those experiences, more than anything, have inspired us at Common House,” he says. “After seeing so many people follow their own paths, it finally clicked that I should be cooking the food I’m most excited to eat, but at the same time I could continue to push myself with.”

With that goal present in his mind he started to share his vision through his monthly supper club dinners, also known as Common House. “Our supper clubs have always been a lot of fun because we tried to take chances and push ourselves.

Often we’d sit down afterwards and just say, ‘How the hell did we pull that off?’.”

While he may not know how they pulled it off, they did and after being treated to one of the dinners, we’re beyond excited for what the restaurant may hold. For Sternberg, it’s an exciting time, as well.

“I’m excited to share something that I’ve been so passionate about with other people,” he says. “I’m also really excited about being able to work with my wife, Audra ... She’s an amazing personality and always makes people so warm and welcomed.”

While they still haven’t settled on a location, Sternberg knows what he’s looking for in a location. He says, “Neighborhood is a huge part of that discussion.

“Location dictates so much about a restaurant, from menu price, to target demographics, to interior design. Cerulean was kind of a special occasions restaurant, so Common House is kind of the antithesis of that. I want people to feel comfortable and like they’re part of our family. Making sure that we fit into the fabric of whatever neighborhood we land is really important to me.”

Though there’s some uncertainty about the timing of the Common Houses opening, Sternberg says he is shooting for autumn. Until then, we can always head to Lake Winona or Westfield.

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about the same,” Turkette says. “Expect to see our products used to the best of their potential alongside seasonal produce from our family farms.”

I first met George Turkette at a DigIN As for their inspiration, outside of a event named Slow Meat — an event dedsimple desire to support farmers and icated to the idea that if you’re going to their community, Turkette says, “We were eat meat, eat quality meat from animals definitely inspired by the convenience raised as humanely as possible on smallof counter service at a classic New York scale local farms.

City deli. The neighborhood market feel Turchetti’s Salumeria, the new butcher of Publican Quality Meats in Chicago shop and restaurant Turkette, and his comes to mind as well. business partner, Doug “It’s easy to find inspiEsopenko, are opening ration in a damn good in Fountain Square, is an “It’s easy to sandwich.” extension of this idea.

Their ultimate goal is to find inspiration They support local farms educate the city about the by using their animals to in a damn good butchering process, “We serve nose-to-tail cuts and want to reaffirm the consandwich.” recipes to Indianapolis. nection between farmer and “Turchetti’s will be the — GEORGE TURKETTE consumer throughout the only whole animal butchweek, not just on Saturdays er shop in Indianapolis,” says Turkette. at the Farmers’ Market,” says Turkette.

“This defines our purpose from the very They place an immense amount of beginning; to utilize that animal from importance on being transparent. nose-to-tail — reducing waste while Turkette says, “From the window on producing product that showcases the Prospect Street you will be able to see into farmers’ efforts. This drives our menu and our butcher shop and watch our products our meat case.” being made from start to finish — we want “Located right in the heart of Fountain you to see how the sausage is made, we’re Square,” says Turkette, “It was easy to be pretty proud of it.” inspired by the menus of our culinary neighbors along Virginia Ave — FounWAITING IN ANTICIPTION tain Square knows good food! We also BEHOLDER thought it was important to provide WOODRUFF PLACE direct access to some of Indiana’s finest, pasture-raised animals.”

To say that Jonathan Brooks has a lot You’ll be able to go into the shop in the riding on his shoulders with his upcomformer Marrow space, look in that case ing restaurant Beholder is like saying the and get all different cuts of meat from an discovery of DNA was of considerable array of pasture-raised animals. Add to biological interest. that the fact that there will be someone An understatement to say the least. there with the knowledge and passion to With the incredible success of his help you choose the best meat and prepremier restaurant Milktooth, which has pare it correctly. Each step of the process garnered endless accolades including ensures that the meat is being used to its James Beard Nominations and spots on full potential and that you are ending with many best restaurants in the world lists, a great meal. people can’t wait to see what his next Aside from the butcher side of the busiventure will bring to Indianapolis and the ness they will also have quick bites to grab culinary world at large. in the shop.

Eater even included Beholder on its “If you want to grab lunch, expect a fat list of most anticipated restaurants in the sandwich for under $12 or a lox bagel for country.

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And yet, for Brooks, he seems to be thinking of everyone else when it comes to the new restaurant.

“The food and wine menu will have prices to satisfy everyone. We want neighbors to be able to afford to eat here multiple times a week, as well as offer a really baller experience for people looking for a destination experience or celebrating,” Brooks says.

The menu will consist of shareable small and large plates, and will be slightly more refined than what guests have become accustomed to at the laid back brunch spot, Milktooth.

For his inspiration for the menu, Brooks says, “I’m inevitably inspired by every meal I have — good or bad.” Followed by, “Some of my favorite experiences recently have been Smyth and Monteverdi in Chicago, and Bastion and Urban Cowboy Public House in Nashville.”

And while all of those count as inspiration, Brooks says, “My goal is to cook food that is emotional, nostalgic and immediately recognizable as mine.”

A quick look at Beholder’s Instagram and it’s easy to see we’re going to get bites that are unlike anything we’ve seen in this city like abalone in a black garlic ponzu, horseradish and pine.

Brooks points out one of the aspects of the new spot that he is most excited for has nothing to do with the food at all, and once again focuses attention on others.

He is excited about, “continuing to learn about wine from Josh Mazanowski and sharing that knowledge with young people in a non-intimidating environment.”

Mazanowski is Brooks’ business partner at Beholder and he is also the former sommelier from Recess, the recently closed restaurant helmed by chef Greg Hardesty. Mazanowski will undoubtedly bring a high-caliber knowledge of wine to Beholder, and oenophiles can expect a stellar wine selection.

With Beholder, Brooks is surrounding himself with high-quality people who have proven themselves as professionals in the food and drink sectors, like Mazanowski.

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Schmutte, the James Beard-nominated chef who formerly held the pastry chef position at Cerulean.

He also has Brian “Soft Dad” Brissart, formerly of Thunderbird, Libertine and Spoke & Steele and a USBG World Class cocktail competition competitor running the bar program.

With all of these components coming together, when Beholder opens this April in Woodruff Place it will be bringing something special to a neighborhood undergoing revitalization. Brooks says, “I think at Beholder we have a unique opportunity to provide a neighborhood restaurant to an area that has been underserved food-wise, as well as draw folks from Downtown and surrounding areas to a part of Indianapolis they may be unfamiliar with.” N Editor’s Note: For an early taste of Beholder, there is a preview dinner this Wednesday, January 31 at Milktooth with options for food, wine and cocktails.

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les demoiselles d’avignon The one we look at as the one cursed and framed hangs her orange beast-face, a block for a

SOOTHING AND SAVAGE Alessandra Lynch’s poetry makes NYT top ten list

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n her book Daylily Called it a Dangerous Moment, Butler University Poet-in-Residence Alessandra Lynch takes on the subject of sexual assault with her poetry. Sometimes she does so directly, sometimes tangentially.

Accordingly, there are some passages in this book that are raw and difficult. But you will also find here dream imagery, darkened corridors, owls and — just perhaps — passages towards healing. These are not poems that always reveal their meaning or their intentions easily, but their doors are not locked, as it were.

David Orr, the poetry columnist for The New York Times Book Review, calls Daylily one of the best 10 poetry books of 2017. He cites the book both for its restraint and —

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your ticket and enter the gate

perhaps considering the #MeToo movement — for its timeliness.

Alessandra Lynch will be the featured reader at Brick Street Poetry on Feb. 1 at SullivanMunce Cultural Center in Zionsville. She answered the following questions by email.

DAN GROSSMAN: Is the poem “les demoiselles d’avignon” — after Picasso’s painting — aimed at art critics or Picasso himself? Is it reductionist even to ask this question?

ALESSANDRA LYNCH: This poem is not “aimed” at anyone in particular; having spent a month writing some of the more violent poems that would later appear in Daylily, I was walking through a museum, turned a corner, saw one of Picasso’s cubist paintings of

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(I’m afraid, sir, you’ll find only paint)

...he was using the vague semblance of women to turn the century crude nudes, meat too pink, too undercooked

a woman, and felt an intensely emotional jolt.

I scribbled a few words in a notebook, and those words grew into the poem.

to eat or flay or were they pre-flayed, tenderized women dressing their hair, corkscrewed eyes in the mirror, part-skin, part-stone

oh, but look at those tones!

DAN: In one untitled poem, you write, “No, it is the shadows that are towing us.” Have you dealt with the subject of sexual assault in your previous books?

ALESSANDRA: In my first book (Sails the Wind Left Behind), there is one poem called “Remind Me” in which there is a phrase: “one to the window, raped of its

— fit for the tomb — a box with limited shadow so there was limited light around them — ALESSANDRA LYNCH

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NUVO.NET/BOOKS curtain.” In the second book (It was a terrible cloud at twilight), there is another poem “Stephanie,” written in the second person, more overtly about an assault, that ends with these lines: “Did you report? / [Took.]”

DAN: There are poems here that seem to

in art making and all creative acts as antidotes to the kind of destructiveness inherent in misogyny and other denigrations.

DAN: Is it a challenge teaching poetry in the age of Twitter?

ALESSANDRA: It is always a challenge teaching poetry in this culture as it requires that we move more inwardly, slow down, become contemplative and more open to the world inside and outside of us.These qualities are not necessarily supported or affirmed by our society.

transcend personal experience, particularly in the section “Another Country,” where such subjects as clitoral circumcision are raised. But perhaps the most personal of your poems have the most universal resonance. What do you think?

ALESSANDRA: I appreciate this idea, DAN: In the #MeToo Movement, what is the and it is one I impart to my students place of poetry? often through this famous ALESSANDRA: Poetry quote attributed to James exists everywhere — in Joyce: “In the particular is “Poetry exists every movement, in every contained the universal.” faction, in every leafblade everywhere—in I hope that some of these and owl feather. The spirit poems have resonance, every movement, of poetry is ubiquitous that some of these poems or not words are in every faction, in whether somehow help the readers. involved.

DAN: There are also poems

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every leafblade and owl feather.”

DAN: Who are the poets here that point towards who speak to you most healing, some filled with — ALESSANDRA LYNCH directly? images of nature, of child (In reading your poetry, rearing, and owls. Do you seek solace in I was reminded slightly of both Ted Hughes nature? and Sylvia Plath.)

ALESSANDRA: Yes. ALESSANDRA: That is a high compliment, and I do love both those poets, espeDAN: I assume there are young women in cially Plath. When I was working on Daylily, your classes to whom you want to relay I was reading a lot of Emily Dickinson and your personal experience. Young peoa wonderful contemporary poet/former ple these days are listening to a lot more classmate from Iowa Writers’ Workshop: misogynistic rap and songs like “Blurred Kathleen Pierce.

Lines” than reading poetry. Are you ever inclined to analyze such songs in class? Or is DAN: A daylily’s flower only lasts for a day. this too big a problem for poets to address?

Was this something you considered when ALESSANDRA: I’m not sure that relaying writing this book? my personal experience is necessarily ALESSANDRA: After I wrote the eponuseful, but my students often entrust to me ymously titled poem, I did muse over the their personal experiences which is a great connotations of the flower. There is somehonor and responsibility. I hold profound thing both soothing and savage about the respect for their need and their willingness passage of time. to speak. I once had a class in which we discussed the misogyny of rap songs which DAN: When did you start writing poetry? led into discussion about misogyny in daily ALESSANDRA: When I was six years language. It is important to address all the old. The first poem I remember writing large issues in a very particular and specific was a poem in response to Beethoven’s way. I believe in small acts of kindness and music. N

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caught up with Gary Gee at the Art & Soul Kickoff on Saturday, Jan. 27 at the Indianapolis Artsgarden — the perfect launching point for a First Friday visual art adventure, if you have the time and the inclination, this Feb. 2.

Gee’s work is on display as part of Art & Soul, on view in the Artsgarden — which you might call a gallery without walls.

But walls are exactly what Gee is riffing on in his new work. You might consider his ceramic sculptures walls in miniature.

“Actually it’s a broken wall; the wall looks like its been put back together,” Gee said to me about one piece entitled “Rise and Resist,” painted in street art motifs.

“It’s kind of like a joke on the H&M ad,” he said.

(The multinational retail clothing company’s recent advert, widely reviled as racist, featured a photo of a young African-American boy in a sweatshirt with the logo “the coolest monkey in the jungle.”)

“But I flipped it,” Gee explained.

“There’s a monkey in the White House.

I’ve got some jabs at 45; if he spent less time golfing and on Twitter and get in the White House, maybe he’d get some stuff done.”

Programming for Art & Soul, featuring African-American performers across the spectrum of the arts, continues on select dates through Feb. 28. But Gee’s work, part of this event organized by the Indi-

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“As a visual artist I also got to be a vocal artist today and speak about work and what made me create and that was

just an amazing feeling in itself,” Gee told me after he spoke at the podium at the kickoff. “It’s like a dream come true for an artist to actually take the stage and talk about what we do is an honor because most of the time people just look at what we do and they either like it or they hate it.”

Another not to miss exhibition this First Friday is entitled We cannot speak other than by our paintings, at the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library (KVML) starting at 6 p.m.

(The library and museum usually charges admission but on First Friday it will be free and open to the public.)

You might not have heard of Pamela Bliss, the curator of this exhibition, but you know her work if you’ve been on Mass Ave in the past five years. She painted the 38feet tall Kurt Vonnegut mural overlooking Downtown Indy’s trendiest district.

Bliss was also one of the 125 painters who participated in the animation of the film Loving Vincent, the first-ever feature length animated film to use oil paintings for each of its frames — all 65,000 of them. In the film you will be able to recognize recreations of many iconic van Gogh paintings that have become part of the animated background — as well as the foreground.

The film employed actors, among them Saoirse Ronan — who are recognizable in the film despite their rotoscoped transformation into animation. (The painters/ animators used the footage of their performances as references.)

On Jan. 26, KVML held an opening for the exhibition, as well as a showing of the film. The exhibition of paintings consists not of work from Loving Vincent, but of personal paintings by some of the artists who worked on the film along with Bliss.

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on display were those by Dorota Kobiela, the film’s director. Mostly her paintings consisted of cityscapes. In “Lodz, Wires & Sky,” you see the moody gray clouds divided into quadrants by wires as the sky itself diminishes into the distance.

It was in Lodz where Kobiela originally got her inspiration for the film. Originally, she wanted to do a short film, after being inspired by van Gogh’s letters.

At the encouragement of her husband, Hugh Welchman, they developed it into a full-length feature.

“I became friends with many of the other artists and while I was there,” said Bliss about her experience at the film studios in Gdansk, Poland, where she spent much of 2016. “I lived with them, in the same place, and we worked together every day and while I was there I got the idea to put an art show together because we all have our own arts lives not just creating painted frames in Poland.” she said.

On the way out the door of KVML Bliss told me that she would be visiting the White House on Jan. 30 — the day of the State of the Union address — during her forthcoming trip to Washington D.C. She would be taking with her a signed copy of the Loving Vincent DVD. “Not sure if I will actually get to meet Pence but then I was invited, so who knows,” she wrote me in a text two days later.

Bliss said that she would also be also giving a short presentation at a showing

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of Loving Vincent at the Polish Embassy ing out is the studio of Casey Roberts, a during her D.C. visit. painter who uses photographic chemicals The signed copy of Loving Vincent, (cyanotype) as a painting medium. in any case, probably won’t be much One of his new paintings features consolation to the depictions of classical White House, which had Greek sculpture against a recently requested the “As a visual artist background of aspen trees acquisition (on loan) of carved with initials. After I also got to be a the van Gogh painting seeing this contemplative “Landscape with Snow” vocal artist today work, I realized it had from the Solomon R. been more than 10 years and speak about Guggenheim Museum, since I first reviewed a work and what made Casey Roberts exhibition which rejected their request. for NUVO. me create and that An 18-karat gold toilet, And then I thought of was just an amazing the Pink Floyd lyrics “And which 100,000 people had used in the museum then one day you find/10 feeling in itself.” washroom, was offered years have passed you instead.

— GARY GEE. by…” (It’s worth mentioning here Roberts has ART ON AN INDUSTRIAL SCALE made paintings that riffed on Pink Floyd’s I’ll definitely stop by the Circle City Dark Side of the Moon album cover motifs.)

Industrial Complex with its plethora of galleries, artists’ studios and shops this MONSTERS, MONOPRINTS First Friday, per usual.

AND MEMORABILA Satch Art Space will be having a show There’s also a lot going on at the Harentitled Love, Sex, and the Zodiac concenrison Center including an exhibition of trated on those very subjects, and inspired articles, essays and photos by John Sherby the vintage jazz album by Cannonman. The exhibit relates to his Peace Corps ball Adderley. You might even have your service in Nigeria in 1966 and subsequent questions answered by Zodiascope, the trips to the country. fortune-telling game, and have your future I’m partial to Peace Corps memorabilia, I told by a palm-reading. All this fun starts suppose, being a returned volunteer myself at 7 p.m.

(Niger, 1992-94).

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“Quantum Leap” by Quincy Owens and Luke Crawley.

It’s a show sponsored by a partnership between the Harrison and the Indiana Humanities Council, celebrating the 200th birthday of Mary Shelley’s classic horror novel Frankenstein.

“Luke and I decided, for this exhibition, to read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein for conceptual and visual inspiration,” Owens told me. “We’ve taken her characters and the archetypes they represent into consideration along with the settings of the book. Much of the work focuses on our continued exploration of light and optics.

There will be nearly all new work in the gallery, some installation-based light pieces and maybe even our first video project.

The show will be visually very sleek, bright and minimal.”

I’m also intrigued by an equally spooky-sounding exhibition at Cat Head Press put on by Benny Sanders entitled No Authority. Sanders veers in his artistic output between plein air landscapes (you can see an example of said work in the cover art he did for the Dec. 6 edition of NUVO depicting Yellowwood State Forest).

No Authority features abstracted portraiture...and an apparently fraught production process.

“In December, I accepted an interesting challenge to fill a gallery space with enough work to constitute a solo exhibition of print work…” Sanders told me. “I

NUVO.NET/VISUAL obtained full access to Cat Head Press the first week of January with a very unsure outcome in mind. The work has been an intuitive process where I let the ink, the copper plates, the paper and the press make the majority of decisions. I have no time to make ambitious decisions, to sleep, to consider the history of printmaking or to connect with others. I am at the mercy of the wonderful space I am inhabiting for three weeks and hoping for a warm bed and a peaceful breakfast on the morning after the exhibit.”

ing in the bar. (By the way, I’ve seen a lot of great art in bars as of late including previous shows by the Droops and Benny Sanders at Pioneer in Fountain Square, as well as New Day Meadery.)

When I messaged The Droops on Facebook, and asked them about their work at State Street, they answered in a collective voice.

“Oh, just supporting our favorite local watering hole,” they said. “This will be their second First Friday showcasing art on their newly painted walls. They’ve also installed a new hanging system to hang art. There HEADING SOUTH will be a green screen karaoke and that’s alAfter checking out Sanders’ work, I’m ways fun to watch and participate starting going to hit New Day Craft in Fountain at 9 p.m. It will showcase some video work Square. That’s where you can encounter from us too! We will be showing a mix of the patchwork color field paintings of old and new pieces.”

Melissa Parrott Quimby. The sample of I’m wondering if The Droops will her work that I saw on Facebook rehave on display the Warhol-esque beer minded me a little of packaging that they that Sol Lewitt’s humongous was on display in the Cat mural “Wall Drawing no. “I am at the mercy of Head Press exhibition at 652” on the second floor Galleries in the the wonderful space Herron of the Indianapolis Mufall of 2017. seum of Art/Newfields.

I am inhabiting for ( “We tried collaboI’ll go not just for the rating with Kuma’s for three weeks and bright colors but also to about a year but that fell help keep the art scene hoping for a warm through. We went ahead alive in Fountain Square. and printed the box bed and a peaceful And then I’ll head southanyways,” The Droops east to Tube Factory breakfast on the told me.) artspace in Garfield Park Now, after writing all morning after the to check out Audrey of this, I feel very much Barcio’s solo show Under exhibit” in need of a Droops Influence. beer. There’s none in Look for a feature on — BENNY SANDERS my fridge, of course, Barcio by Jennifer Delgabecause it doesn’t exist dillo in the pages of NUVO next week!

—yet. Would such a beer, I wonder, be a stout or a pilsner? Regardless, I figure it FEELING THE DROOPS might make me feel more colorful....

If you like ingesting art with your beer Because I’m feeling kinda colorless or vice-versa, then head down to the State right now. I had pledged to myself that Street Pub to see the paintings of the I would, for once, write a First Friday Droops, a group of six millennial, Herron feature without talking Trump, which grads. These artists specialize in making sucks the oxygen from my brain. After very colorful, stylized paintings that might all, shouldn’t it be enough to focus on the make you recall Big Boy adverts, Sears & fact that First Fridays are still very much Roebuck catalogues, Andy Warhol, Roy alive despite the demise of the IndiaLichtenstein…. in no particular order. napolis Downtown Artists and Dealers You’ll be able to see their work — work Association (IDADA)? I tried to maintain that they’ve painted collectively — hangthis discipline, but I failed. N

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alls are often built to create isolation. But with Indianapolis noisepop band Spandrels, walls are built to bring people together. These walls are of the sound variety, of course.

Fronted by vocalist/guitarist Casey No (and his brilliant bellow), the band chats with me ahead of a Friday night headlining set at Pioneer in Fountain Square.

“With this band, I like it because we don’t always agree on everything,” says drummer Christine Pallon. “We have different ways of approaching things and might disagree, but it always feels healthy when we bring up things. It’s like how a family should be.

It’s definitely a healthy dynamic because, in the end, we all want what’s best for this band and for each other.”

Long before their days as a four-piece, Spandrels started out as the noise project of No. Thanks to the culture at a local art and performance space/café named PG in his hometown of Evansville, No felt encouraged to push the boundaries of sound.

“I would get up there with a guitar and just attack it with a butter knife through a bunch of effects pedals,” says No, a self-confessed Kim Gordon fanatic. “Over time, I got interested in doing a band, so I paired up with another person. He played bass, I played guitar.

Spandrels is making noise in the Midwest music scene

We maxed out our Guitar Center credit cards The occasion? Opening up for Palehound. and bought a shit-ton of pedals, and then we “I asked them to be in a band with me started doing improvised, free music.” because I talked to Ellen [of Palehound], Eventually, No would hit the road with his and I was like, ‘I wanna open for you, but two-piece. And as fate would have it, this I don’t have a band.’” says No. “So I hit led to him meeting his future band mates. them up, and I was like, ‘Hey y’all. You As members of the LGBTQ+ community, the wanna just do one show opening for Palefour current Spandrels members were in the hound?’” Much to No’s delight, the show same room together for the first time while went off without a hitch, and the lineup attending a benefit has stuck ever since. for local queer youth “From my in Champaign-Ur“The fact that all four perspective, I had bana named You Are a band members of Spandrels are discovered Not Alone. that could not only “It was lovely and gay means that our music keep up with me in it was gay and it was of dealing with is inherently political in a terms very fun,” recalls my bullshit, but they Spandrels’ guitarist climate like this.” also believed in the Isaac Arms, who — CASEY NO, SPANDRELS VOCALS/GUITAR music like I did,” No helped organize the says. “I can’t speak benefit. In addition to an early incarnafor them, but what I can say for myself as tion of Spandrels and Arms’ former band an artist is that I’m making the most vital Withershins, You Are Not Alone bolstered music that I’ve ever made in my life with a very impressive lineup of nationally these people.” known acts as well, including Melkbelly, This feeling is also reciprocated from his Palehound and Speedy Ortiz. bandmates. “I almost feel a little bit like “It was pretty well supported, but it more we’re still coasting the same arch of that just stands out as the way all four of us first adrenaline high from the Palehound show, came together,” Arms says. which is strange because it’s been half a Less than two years later, Arms, No, Pallon year,” Arms says. and bassist Isabel Skidmore played their “That feeling I got playing that Palefirst show together, at the Hi-Fi of all places. hound show is one I still get every single

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time Spandrels plays,” Skidmore adds. “I feel excited and honored to be doing it.”

Since teaming up, the four have begun writing collaboratively, while also putting their own mark on No’s previous catalog of songs as well.

“As we’ve gone on, we’ve started to write more together, and I think we challenge each other,” Arms says. “I have grown so much as a musician and as a person through our songwriting process. It’s hard to describe, actually.”

With several shows in the Midwest area (including a recent one opening for Bully in Champaign-Urbana) under their belts, Spandrels are embarking on an East Coast tour in March, capping it off with a show at State Street Pub with Hales Corner.

No recognizes the unique position Spandrels is in. “The fact that all four members of Spandrels are gay means that our music is inherently political in a climate like this,” he says.

And while he may sometimes make snide comments about the band helping to progress the “gay agenda,” No ultimately sees Spandrels as yet another voice in the boisterous world of rock music. “Even though we aren’t criticizing the government or whatever overtly, writing a love song as a queer person is in itself political (and personal).” N

KYLE LONG is a longtime NUVO columnist and host of WFYI’s A Cultural Manifesto.

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n late 2018, Now Again Records in California will release the first ever anthology of the legendary Indianapolis soul label Lamp Records. I have an abundance of NUVO coverage planned for the collection’s release, including interviews with nearly every major figure associated with Lamp.

To kick off this year of Lamp-related coverage, I want to focus attention on the label’s first, and most influential release: “Somebody Please” by The Vanguards.

For a quick comparison, think of The Vanguards as Indy’s version of The Temptations.

The Vanguards were led by James Davis, a dynamic soul vocalist who’d built his chops singing doo-wop in the halls of Shortridge High. After graduating from Shortridge in the early ‘60s, Davis spent a couple years overseas in the military. Davis formed The Vanguards immediately after returning home, and by 1969 The Vanguards were dominating the Indianapolis soul scene.

Cue Lamp Records’ co-founder and artistic director, Herb Miller, who’d heard The Vanguards singing at the now-defunct Dave’s Lounge on W. 16th Street. With encouragement from the influential WTLC soul jock Spider Harrison, Miller signed The Vanguards to cut the first release for his fledgeling label. The featured track on the single was “Somebody Please”, a devastating breakup ballad penned by Davis, with assistance from early Vanguards’ guitarist “Cadillac” Paul Irvin.

Both Davis and Miller had high expectations for their debut effort, but neither one could’ve anticipated the song’s incredible rise. “Somebody Please” was an immediate hit in Indianapolis, and quickly began to

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break into other markets.

An Indianapolis Recorder article dated September 20, 1969 announced the song had hit the number one spot in both Columbus, Ohio and Orlando, Florida. That action attracted attention from national distributors. Double Shot Records picked the release up and issued an edited version of “Somebody Please” on their subsidiary label Whiz. By the end of the year “Somebody Please” had hit the Billboard R&B Hot 100, climbing all the way to #49 on December 9, 1969.

“Somebody Please” set the gold standard for Naptown soul, and it’s one of the

most important pieces of art ever created in Indianapolis. The record’s rapid ascent on the national charts is certainly impressive, but the enduring appeal of “Somebody Please” is even more compelling.

Since its release in 1969 “Somebody Please” has maintained steady interest from soul music fans around the globe. In recent years the song has attained an almost viral popularity online. There are probably over a dozen YouTube users who’ve uploaded the original Vanguards’ recording of “Somebody Please” onto the site.

All told, The Vanguards’ classic easily has over twelve-million views on YouTube alone.

Through the years “Somebody Please” has attracted significant interest from R&B vocalists. The first cover of the song was recorded in 1969 by Billy Keane. Keane cut a mid-tempo take on the ballad for the Shreveport, Louisiana label Ronn Records.

One of the more fascinating recent versions is by K-Ci & Jojo, lead vocalists of the iconic ’90s R&B group Jodeci. K-Ci & Jojo recorded “Somebody Please” on their 2013 album My Brother’s Keeper.

But, maybe, the most interesting embrace of “Somebody Please” has come from the Chicano community of East Los Angeles. The first major indication of the song’s importance on the West Coast came from its inclusion in the beloved late-’70s/ early-’80s compilation series East Side Story. “Somebody Please” also makes frequent appearances on the track-lists of copycat compilations like Lowrider Oldies and Shady Side of Town.

“Somebody Please” has been sampled and covered by a wide variety of East L.A.

artists. In 1997 the influential alt-Latin rock band The Blazers recorded “Somebody Please” for their Rounder Records’ released album, Just For You. “Somebody Please” has also been sampled by numerous East L.A. gangsta rappers. The best example being Lil’ Blacky’s revenge themed take from his 2000 album Big Ballin’. Lil’ Blacky’s version inspired other chopped and screwed remixes of The Vanguards’ ballad.

You’ll also find superb versions of “Somebody Please” from young Latina vocalists like Divina and Trish Toledo. A quick search on YouTube will reveal scores of East L.A. tributes to the song, including Spanish language versions, and videos featuring Spanish language subtitles.

It’s interesting how Los Angeles has adopted this Indianapolis creation as their own, while The Vanguards’ legacy remains badly neglected here in their hometown.

Neglected. Not forgotten.

The Vanguards’ work is still cherished by a generation of Naptown soul fans who grew up with their music during the early ’70s. That point was illustrated for me personally last week. I had just pulled in to the Indiana State Fairgrounds for a DJ gig.

I was blasting “Somebody Please” on my car stereo. The parking attendant looked to be around sixty-years-old, with a bored and tired expression on her face. That expression changed after I pulled up.

“Oh my god! The Vanguards,” she exclaimed. “I need to jump in that car with you!”

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And that’s just half of your assignment, dear Taurus.

Here’s the rest: Tell stories that help you remember the totality of who you are, and that inspire your listeners to remember the totality of who they are.

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(P.S. The near future will be prime time for you to swear a sacred oath or two.)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In March 1996, a man burst into the studio of radio station Star FM in Wanganui, New Zealand. He took the manager hostage and issued a single demand: that the dj play a recording of the Muppet song “The Rainbow Connection,” as sung by the puppet Kermit the Frog.

Fortunately, police intervened quickly, no one was hurt, and the kidnapper was jailed. In bringing this to your attention, Leo, I am certainly not suggesting that you imitate the kidnapper. Please don’t break the law or threaten anyone with harm. On the other hand, I do urge you to take dramatic, innovative action to fulfill one of your very specific desires.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Many varieties of the nettle plant will sting you if you touch the leaves and stems. Their hairs are like hypodermic needles that inject your skin with a blend of irritant chemicals. And yet nettle is also an herb with numerous medicinal properties. It can provide relief for allergies, arthritis, joint pain, and urinary problems. That’s why Shakespeare invoked the nettle as a metaphor in his play Henry IV, Part 1: “Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety,” says the character named Hotspur. In accordance with the astrological omens, Virgo, I choose the nettle as your power metaphor for the first three weeks of February.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Knullrufs is a Swedish word that refers to what your hair looks like after sex: tousled, rumpled, disordered. If I’m reading the astrological omens correctly, you should experience more knullrufs than usual in the coming weeks. You’re in a phase when you need and deserve extra pleasure and delight, especially the kind that rearranges your attitudes as well as your coiffure. You have license to exceed your normal quotas of ravenousness and rowdiness.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In his “Crazy Lake Experiment” documented on Youtube, Harvard physicist Greg Kestin takes a raft out on a lake. He drops a tablespoon of olive oil into the water, and a few minutes later, the half-acre around his boat is still and smooth. All the small waves have disappeared. He proceeds to explain the science behind the calming effect produced by a tiny amount of oil. I suspect that you will have a metaphorically comparable power in the next two weeks, Scorpio. What’s your version of the olive oil?

Your poise? Your graciousness? Your tolerance?

Your insight into human nature?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1989, a man spent four dollars on a painting at a flea market in Adamstown, Pennsylvania. He didn’t care much for the actual image, which was a boring country scene, but he thought he could use the frame. Upon returning home, he found a document concealed behind the painting. It turned out to be a rare old copy of America’s Declaration of Independence, originally created in 1776. He eventually sold it for $2.42 million. I doubt that you will experience anything quite as spectacular in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. But I do suspect you will find something valuable where you don’t expect it, or develop a connection with something that’s better than you imagined it would be.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the 1740s, a teenage Capricorn girl named Eliza Lucas almost single-handedly introduced a new crop into American agriculture: indigo, a plant used as a dye for textiles. In South Carolina, where she managed her father’s farm, indigo ultimately became the secondmost-important cash crop over the next 30 years. I have astrological reasons to believe that you are now in a phase when you could likewise make innovations that will have long-range economic repercussions. Be alert for good intuitions and promising opportunities to increase your wealth.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When I was in my early twenties, I smoked marijuana now and then. I liked it. It made me feel good and inspired my creativity and roused spiritual visions. But I reconsidered my use after encountering pagan magician Isaac Bonewits. He didn’t have a moral objection to cannabis use, but believed it withered one’s willpower and diminished one’s determination to transform one’s life for the better. For a year, I meditated on and experimented with his hypothesis. I found it to be true, at least for me. I haven’t smoked since. My purpose in bringing this up is not to advise you about your relationship to drugs, but rather to urge you to question whether there are influences in your life that wither your willpower and diminish your determination to transform your life for the better. Now is an excellent time to examine this issue.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Would you like to shed unwieldy baggage before moving on to your next big challenge? I hope so. It will purge your soul of karmic sludge. It will prime you for a fresh start.

One way to accomplish this bravery is to confess your sins and ask for forgiveness in front of a mirror. Here are data to consider. Is there anyone you know who would not give you a good character reference? Have you ever committed a seriously unethical act? Have you revealed information that was told to you in confidence? While under the influence of intoxicants or bad ideas, have you done things you’re ashamed of? I’m not saying you’re more guilty of these things than the rest of us; it’s just that now is your special time to seek redemption.

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