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aybe Donald Trump just should have knelt during the National Anthem.

That probably would have been more effective than releasing classified information in a strange and sloppily written congressional memo.

Because the president’s complaint isn’t that different from those of the NFL players and Black Lives Matter activists he loves to demonize.

Like them, he says he’s been targeted unfairly by law enforcement officials who are treating him unjustly because of preconceived notions they have about him.

There are some differences in the two situations, of course.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and the Federal Bureau of Investigation agents investigating Trump aren’t likely to shoot or pummel the president without a trial – particularly if he raises his hands in surrender.

Many Black men in America don’t have that same sense of security.

To be sure, there are Trump critics who will argue that the memo prepared by zealous Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives contradicts the president’s thesis. They will say that the memo, cherry-picked and selective as it may be, still demonstrates that the investigation into the Trump campaign’s possible ties with Russia came before any partisan research triggered any further scrutiny.

Then there’s the other line of criticism that came, most forcefully, from that perpetual whiner, U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona.

McCain argued that releasing the memo revealed information about U.S. intelligence-gathering efforts that the Russians and others will be able to use to more effectively hide their efforts to threaten and damage our country. And he argued that public officials, such as presidents and members of Congress, have obligations to support– and not to undermine — the rule of law.

In fact, they’ve taken oaths to do just that.

But, then, what has former Naval Captain John McCain ever done for America other than spend six years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam?

Clearly, John McCain knows nothing about what it means to sacrifice and suffer on behalf of his country.

Not like Donald Trump and his bone spurs do, anyway.

This is the crux of the issue.

So many people in America think they know what it means to be hurt, to be treated unfairly, to be persecuted.

Black Americans, women, LGBTQ citizens, immigrants, the poor, veterans and so many others complain that they have it tough.

They have no idea.

Real hardship is being a multi-millionaire trust fund baby who parlays his inheritance into (he claims) a multi-billion-dollar net worth while becoming a television celebrity and, ultimately, the most powerful elected official in America, only to have uppity special counsels and FBI agents tell him the law applies to him, too.

Now, that’s suffering.

Doubtless, it is this sense that life and circumstance haven’t treated him well that gives this president his bottomless wells of empathy for the disenfranchised, dispossessed and desperate.

But it also fuels his determination to resist injustice at the hands of thuggish law enforcement officials.

After all, what evidence do we have — other than the two guilty pleas, two other indictments and the fact that almost everyone in the West Wing has hired criminal lawyers — that the Trump campaign has done anything wrong regarding Russia?

That’s why the president should take a knee during the National Anthem.

As Donald Trump says, this whole episode is “a disgrace.”

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CITY-COUNCIL TURMOIL CONTINUES Members seek removal of new council president

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t won’t be the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, but figuratively speaking the City-County Council meeting later this month will likely be just as dramatic.

The 25-member legislative chamber is set to vote Feb. 19 on a motion to remove Council President Stephen Clay, a Democrat who has only held the position for one month after ousting his predecessor. “It’s a pain to do it like this but it’s a good thing,” said Council Vice President Zach Adamson, also a Democrat.

According to Adamson, Clay’s maneuver to oust former President Maggie Lewis was “morally bankrupt” and “puts the city at grave risk.” “I believe Clay is intelligent enough (to do the job) but he lacks the temperament and the disposition to do the job,” Adamson said. “He (Clay) believes he has the authority to do whatever he wants, and that speaks to his temperament. Anybody who puts their own well-being above that of the Council and the city puts the city at risk.”

CLAY’S COUP Democrats currently hold a 14-11 edge on City Council. But the Democratic caucus has been up in arms since the Jan. 8 meeting when Clay cobbled together a coalition with five Democrats and nine Republicans to elect him president, defeating Lewis, who had been Council president for about five years.

In a nearly unheard of post-election move, given that Democrats hold the majority, Clay immediately appointed Republicans to chair three committees — public works, rules, and ethics. A move Adamson and other Democrats called payment for the “bribe” Clay offered the GOP to get their votes.

They believe Clay’s committee appointments violated standard political protocol by giving the minority party top leadership positions on committees. “That’s never done — giving leadership positions to the minority party,” he said.

Additionally, the appointments risked

he questions the basis of the argument for another change.

Adamson doesn’t feel compelled to provide a reason. “The Council . . . can remove him for any reason.”

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overall public safety, Adamson said, because members were appointed to chair committees they have never been on nor do they have any institutional knowledge on how those committees function.

As an example, Adamson said he was replaced as chair of the public works committee by Scott Kreider, whom he says has only attended one meeting. “The whole process is breaking down,” Adamson said.

But that process is part of the problem, McQuillen said. “We (Republicans) did not like how business was going for the last couple of years.”

Normally in committee assignments, the majority party has a one- or two-vote majority on committees. But under the previous administration, “most committees had a two or more vote majority, a super majority,” Mc-

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Quillen said. “We were being disenfranchised and that’s not fair to the city or to the people who elected us.”

While there are no council meetings scheduled before Feb. 19, both Adamson and McQuillen confirm there are discussions taking place behind the scenes on possible candidates for the job.

Adamson would not comment on who he would like to see in the position, although over the weekend a published report stated that Democrat Vop Osili has emerged as a frontrunner. (At press time, Adamson had not responded to a request asking for confirmation, nor has Osili).

McQuillen said he would “wait and see” which of the “25 strong personalities on City Council” emerges. “My guess is we will have a new president,” says McQuillen. Though

Due to second thoughts or intense public pressure, several of the Democrats who supported Clay in the January election switched sides and voted late last month to place Clay’s removal on the Feb. 19, agenda.

McQuillen, the Republican, had attempted to place action on Clay’s removal first in the Ethics Committee, which he currently chairs.

But the Council’s attorney, Fred Biesecker, who also acted as Council’s parliamentarian, shot that down, saying it was unnecessary.

Council President Clay then fired Biesecker, whose contract with Council had already expired at the end of last year, McQuillen said.

The Republican attempt to have Clay’s removal first placed in the Ethics Committee “was an improper motion and merely a tactic to delay the process,” Adamson said. “It was a way to drive a wedge between Democrats.”

“Democrats have successfully driven a wedge in their own caucus,” McQuillen answered.

Both sides said they hoped the Council could move forward after the Feb. 19 vote.

“It’s been needlessly frustrating,” Adamson said.

McQuillen agreed, but also pointed out that the wheels had not fallen off the train.

Last month the Council overwhelmingly approved a $55 million bond issue to continue construction on the city criminal justice center project.

“When President Clay was elected, it was like, ‘Henny-Penny, the sky is falling.’ Well, the streets are still being paved, the police are still getting paid and the sky isn’t falling,” said McQuillen. “It’s a good thing to shake up the status quo.” N

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EVENT // Artwork by Gary Gee WHERE // Indianapolis Artsgarden TICKETS // FREE

LOOKING INTO THE VOID Audrey Barcio stares into nothingness to create form.

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udrey Barcio’s Under Influence is an exhibition that has to be seen in person to be understood.

The artist, originally from Lafayette, Indiana — now living in Chicago, Illinois — is a masterful writer of detail in the form of gestural painterly payoffs and nods to art history that are difficult to pick up through a camera’s lens.

The show is on display at Tube Factory Artspace through April 14 and features 24 large Suprematism-inspired paintings, as well as two sculpture installations.

“Continual Eventual,” inside the same room as the paintings, is composed of golden triangular beams with a mirrored finish stacked horizontally in the shape of a pyramid, while “Infinite Reflection” is an installation inside the room adjacent to the main gallery with two neon-lit mirror sculptures facing each other. A metronome marks the passing of time.

For this exhibition, Barcio combined her knowledge of art history with her personal history in art, which includes the experience of living next to her grandmother who was a painter.

“She was very influenced by modernism and in her library she had a Kazimir Malevich book,” says Barcio. “I remember being age four and being very inspired by it,” says Barcio.

Since color blocks are a common visual component for children, the young Barcio recognized the images in the Malevich book. These same images became the main inspiration for the work created for Under Influence.

Barcio has been inspired by the idea of reduction through geometry — with all of art history as a starting point — ever since a college painting assignment where students were asked to abstract a famous work of art. Barcio used Photoshop to complete this particular assignment, and

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the process of utilizing technology as a means to achieve results in a historic medium — such as painting — stayed with her.

Photoshop is apparent conceptually in the backgrounds of Barcio’s paintings: Photoshop’s signature gray and white checkered canvas represents the void. Thus, her paintings reintroduce Malevich’s white void with contemporary visual vocabulary.

“As a contemporary artist I need to keep asking, how do we continue to move forward and backwards in time?”

— AUDREY BARCIO

“It is very much what Malevich talks about with the white as the floating space,” says Barcio. “I feel there is a deep connection between the empty Photoshop canvas as an existential void and as space for things to lay on.”

The checkers are printed onto the canvas before it is stretched. It is then primed with clear gesso and taken off the stretcher for painting. Barcio staples the gessoed canvas to her studio walls and works on three to four paintings at a time; she meticulously leaves some of the areas in the canvas unpainted or exposed through a sheer layer of paint.

The result is that, if not seen in person, the paintings can be mistakenly assumed to be computer-generated. Seeing them

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in person, viewers can appreciate the brushstroke marks and very beautiful painterly moments in some of the color fields. The texture also varies by ambling between glossy and matte and sometimes reflective with glitter.

But audiences missing the details in artwork by skipping in-person experiences for digital interactions is not a new issue brought about by platforms like Instagram. Students have learned about art history through history books for a long time, confining their understanding of art to small flattened images that do not convey the emotion and movement one can only perceive by seeing work in person.

Barcio, who has a BFA in art education, says that she has witnessed this issue first-hand: “It’s amazing how many people have said, ‘Oh, I know what the Mona Lisa looks like,’ and I would say, ‘Well how big do you think it is?’ They’ll describe it like a huge painting. You have to go see it in person. It is very life changing and spiritual for a young artist to see an artwork in person versus a book or JPEG.” Standing between the mirror sculptures of “Infinite Reflection,” while listening to a ticking metronome set to the rhythm of a beating heart, really drives home the ideas working behind Under Influence.

The viewer is brought into an infinite loop of looking forward and backwards to explore the same ideas of the void, time and space explored in the paintings.

“I feel that as a contemporary artist I need to keep asking, how do we continue to move forward and backwards in time?” N

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CELEBRATING CULTURE 30 years of Meet the Artists at Central Library

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or artist and activist D. DelReverda-Jennings, featured in Meet the Artists XXX at Indianapolis Central Library, the role of artists is now more important than ever.

“Art has the power to change the world and that is just not a cliché,” she says.

“The thing is that ‘Art’ should be utilized more as a weapon, than as a backdrop. We definitively need to conceive new ways of thinking!”

Meet the Artists XXX features a Shades of Pearl Showcase that highlights the work of African-American artists whose past participation in Meet the Artists events has served as prologue to success. D. DelReverda-Jennings will have her work exhibited alongside Michael Jordan (Alkemi), Lobyn Hamilton, and Samuel Vasquez — along with seven other artists — through April 1.

And while Shades is a big part of this 30th anniversary Meet the Artists iteration — its gala reception is on Feb. 10, starting at 5:30 p.m. — other artists are also featured in the Center for Black Literature & Culture, which opened at Central Library in Oct., 2017.

The artists from this and past shows will attend the family-friendly gala. There will be live music, dance, and spoken word performances; activities for children; an African-American fashion show; and a presentation by Indianapolis native and actress Vivica A. Fox (Empire, Kill Bill, Independence Day).

There will be a more intimate event on March 2; the First Friday Meet and Greet.

Activities for the entire family include tours of the Meet the Artists XXX exhibit of works, painting demonstrations, youth workshops, and author signings.

DelReverda-Jennings has been a participant in Meet the Artists for more than 20 years. She participated first as a poet, author, and coordinator of literary exhibitions from 1995 to 2002, then as an individual visual artist over the years starting in 2002.

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Her displayed work includes two sculpcelebrate its 20th anniversary in July 2018. tural reliefs from her “These Memories Bear Helping artists to branch out has been Traces of Tears — Reliquary Series.” the goal all along, according to artist and DelReverda-Jennings said that while event founder, Anthony “Tony” Radford. the arts community in Thirty years ago, RadIndianapolis has evolved ford asked the library’s in the decades that she “The thing is that ‘Art’ African-American Hishas been working in tory Committee to host should be utilized Indianapolis — she has an event to celebrate jumped back and forth more as a weapon, African-American artists between the Circle City he was inspired than as a backdrop.” after and Chicago since the by the paintings of Joe 1970s — she says that — D. DELREVERDA-JENNINGS Holiday. “art venues and events The first year featured for Black artists are 10 artists, including few and many venues are often still not Radford. About 150 people attended the inclusive. There is still a whole lot of critical reception. Radford didn’t know it would beactivist and proactive work to be done.” come an annual event at the time, but when Meet the Artists, however, has continuthe committee asked him to start coming ously helped artists find a broader audience to their meetings, he agreed. He now has a and new markets, she says. That includes waiting list for artists. He is already starting the creation of Flava Fresh!, formerly called to decide which artists will participate in “Celebration of Spirit,” a multicultural juried the event in 2020, he said. exhibition that she created. That event will Radford agrees with DelReverda-Jennings

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that there are still very few opportunities in Indianapolis for African-American artists to share their work. Because Indianapolis is a city that tends to focus on sports more than anything else, he says, the event also helps to get audiences to want to learn more about the culture around them.

Omar Rashan, whose work is on display at the Center for Black Literature & Culture, was first featured in the Meet the Artists in 2015. He agrees that there need to be more opportunities, especially compared with other similarly sized Midwestern cities he has visited over the years, such as Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio, as well as bigger markets like Chicago and Atlanta.

This year, his works in the show will include an abstract painting that has a hidden image of Tupac Shakur in pearlescent paints, a nod to the theme for this year’s Meet the Artists exhibit, Shades of Pearl.

Radford invited Rashan to participate in Meet the Artists after the two met through RAW Artists. (The next RAW Artists showcase of emerging artists’ work in Indianapolis, entitled Magnify, is scheduled for June 1.)

By doing Meet the Artists, Rashan was able to expand his network, including graphic design clients, and new patrons of his original artwork. He also hopes to help other up-andcoming artists find their way, just like Radford has helped artists over the last 30 years.

“As an artist, he brings out the best in me and inspires me to find even more purpose,” Rashan says. “I hope people take the time to understand what Tony has done…

He is very caring when it comes to the art community and being able to provide more opportunities.” N NUVO.NET // 02.07.18 - 02.14.18 // VISUAL // 7

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IN WITH THE NEW Mass Ave theatre to be reborn

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heatre on the Square (TOTS) shuttered for repairs last August. Since then, the venue has become ground zero in the fight to keep theater alive in the Mass Ave Cultural District.

“Maintaining the TOTS building as a performance venue is critical to the vibrancy of Mass Ave and for it to remain a theater destination in the city,” says Dave Lawrence, President and CEO of the Arts Council of Indianapolis.

The effort to keep the TOTS building as a theatrical venue is being spearheaded by the Central Indiana Community Foundation (CICF).

But TOTS as a nonprofit performing arts organization is no more. A search for a new name for the venue — and a new theater organization to inhabit it — is about to begin.

“When CICF stepped in in August we tried to be very clear that we weren’t going to save TOTS as the organization,” says Brian Payne, Executive Director of CICF. “We were going to save that physical theater venue for the good of the theatrical and performing arts community.”

Payne says that the building is getting close to the point where the building can open. But actually getting to that point requires a number of steps.

“We don’t have a grand reopening scheduled. We’re creating a new not-for-profit,” Payne says. “I personally am going to be chair of the nonprofit board. We’re still trying to figure out a name for the organization and the building and we’re working on that.

So we’ve got a new board of directors. We’ve invited a couple of the board members too who were on the TOTS board as it kind of went out of business; we invited two of them to be on our [new] board.”

One of the decisions made at the last CCIF board meeting, on Jan. 23, was to have a subcommittee work on a request for interested theater companies propose how they might manage the space.

“They will operate the building they and will rent to other performing arts organizations,” says Payne. “They may produce some of their own work but we will not pick a producer who says ‘I want to do only my own work in this building.’ We want to serve multiple performing arts organizations.”

A request for proposals will be issued on or around Feb. 12.

The board that Payne chairs will focus on making the venue sustainable, he says, “and to create an organizational long term plan to keep that venue thriving for the theatrical and the performing arts community for small and emerging arts organizations.”

The intent of CICF is to pull away once the new theater is put on a course to financial stability, according to Payne.

But it’s not just TOTS at a crossroads. The Phoenix Theatre will soon move from its longtime location to 709 N. Illinois St., well outside the Mass Ave Cultural District. And the vacated Phoenix venue will likely not be available to showcase IndyFringe performances come August, when the annual 11-day-long multi-venue theatrical festival is set to begin.

The Phoenix property will be developed into housing.

And the TOTS building’s status as a venue for IndyFringe — which is preparing for its 14th season — is unclear at this point in time.

IndyFringe Executive Director Pauline Moffat describes the developing status of TOTS as “critical for the festival,” but they have a plan B if enough brick and mortar venues aren’t available in August.

“But it’s not ideal,” says Moffat. “We’d rather have another theater space.”

Roger Schmelzer, the former board president of TOTS who is also on Payne’s new board, thinks that the refurbished theater venue will be ready for Fringe.

“I think [Moffat] can go with Plan A,” he says. “I think it’s going to be fine. The building is in much better shape today than it was six months ago.”

He also said that the new building will be operational at the beginning of March.

HOW THINGS GOT TO THIS POINT In 1993 TOTS moved from Fountain Square to 627 Massachusetts Ave., in Downtown Indianapolis. The theater quickly established

itself as an anchor in the burgeoning Mass Ave cultural scene. It has produced upwards of 250 plays and musicals — among them challenging works like Corpus Christi, Equus, and Southern Baptist Sissies — and has been a longstanding venue for IndyFringe.

But TOTS had experienced financial strains as well as turnover both in the board of directors and with its leadership. TOTS founder Ron Spencer left in 2014. Lori Raffel, his replacement as executive director, left in March, 2017.

Also particularly problematic, at least from the perspective of CCIF — a longstanding grant-maker to TOTS — was a second mortgage that TOTS took out on the building during the tenure of Ron Spencer as executive director, as Brian Payne said in a Jan. 26 article in the Indianapolis Business Journal.

TOTS ended their 2016-2017 season prematurely due to financial difficulty and productions already cast were abandoned.

“We looked at our situation and we thought that we’re probably not as sustainable as we need to be,” Schmelzer told NUVO in August, 2017. “And we carried that forward and started making steps to try to shore everything up and that led to discussions with CICF.” TOTS had more than just financial issues, however, the building itself was in desperate need of repair.

“Structural issues issues and public safety issues came to the forefront,” says Payne, whose organization is putting $200,000 into the refurbishing the building.

“The reason CICF got involved is that we were afraid if TOTS took on more debt and went out of business, some bank would wind up owning this building and making another restaurant or a bar out of it,” Payne says. “The Mass Ave Cultural District and all these performing arts organizations would lose a very valuable venue for them to do their work.” N NUVO.NET // 02.07.18 - 02.14.18 // STAGE // 9

DOIN’ IT DIFFERENT NUVO’s Picks for V-Day Alternatives

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here are no shortage of fine dining choices and traditional romantic gestures for the Holiday of Love.

We’ll leave you to find those on your own. For us, the city offers some great options for a more intimate and enjoyable evening. Here are some of our favorites:

AMERICAN LEGION MALL/VETERANS MEMORIAL PLAZA

PUPPY LOVE & CHOCOLATES

DIY DELICACIES

Why deliver chocolate yourself when you can

Don’t feel like making reservations, getting all

The Downtown park bordered by the auxiliary

have someone much cuter do it for you? With

dressed up and going out for Valentine’s? Let

buildings of the American Legion to the east and

ICAN’s Puppy Love program, your Valentine gifts

Goose the Market make sure you have the best

west, and by Central Library to the north is known as

can be delivered by some floofy pups who are in

V-day at home. This year you have the option to

American Legion Mall. If you walk south, soon you’ll

training to be service dogs.

order online, including the seafood, charcuterie and

find yourself in Veterans Memorial Plaza. If you like

The service has been going for seven years and

cheese platter royale made for two.

war memorials, you’re definitely in the right place,

while your kisses are nice, there’s no doubt your

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with the black granite obelisk shooting up 100 feet

s.o. loves puppy kisses, plus the puppies and dogs

undoubtedly fit for royalty. You get: a whole

The IMA is a great art museum, and great art muse-

above you and the ziggurat-crowned War Memorial

are just one aspect of the gift. It also comes with

poached lobster, six crab claws, cured Ora King

ums are great for dates — full of visual stimulation.

directly to your south. There’s apparently more war

ICAN’s 2018 Calendar, a Dog Art Painting by an

salmon, duck liver pate, wild boar summer

The Asian and world class collection of post-Im-

memorials in Indy than any other place in the U.S.

ICAN dog, Andy’s Candies, Chocolates from DeB-

sausage, wagyu bresaola, wabash cannonball

pressionist work are both good places to begin. The

aside from Washington D.C. But you don’t have to be

rand Fine Chocolates, Handmade Quill Earrings and

cheese and more. Plus, they offer discounted

museum’s stellar European Modernist collection is

a lover of war memorials to enjoy this open space in

a lot more. [Editor’s Note: Check out ICANdog.org

wine pairings to go along.

also something to behold, featuring work by Chagall,

the middle of Downtown Indy with your lover.

to order, the only stipulation is all orders have to be

Modigliani, De Chirico, and maybe our favorite in the

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in by 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, February 7.]

also offering eight-ounce Merlot marinated steaks

icandog.org/puppy-love-year-round

from Fischer Farms in La Porte. To finish it off,

museum, Fernand Léger’s “Man and Woman.” Consid-

The royale in the name is because it’s

And if seafood isn’t your meat of choice, they’re

ering that wifi connectivity inside the IMA really sucks,

CROWN HILL CEMETERY

throw in a cherry crumble pie from local bakery

you actually have no choice but to communicate with

Take a walk up the crown of Crown Hill Cemetery to

Pots & Pans.

your significant other (or at least have an awkward

the gravesite of James Whitcomb Riley for one of

silence with them) without being distracted by your

the best views in the city. The cemetery itself hasn’t

cial last year, we can attest that it will be more

smartphone as you walk through the galleries.

changed a lot since it was opened in 1863 (although

memorable than any meal out.

discovernewfields.org

there are 190,000 more bodies buried there), but the

goosethemarket.com

Having been gifted Goose’s Valentine’s spe-

skyline of Downtown Indy certainly has. Make your

HOLLIDAY PARK

way to the highest point in the cemetery, which also

Okay, so Indy isn’t Rome, and the Ruins at Holliday

happens to be the highest point in the city. There

Park don’t really compare with the Coliseum. (They

you’ll find the final resting place of the city’s most

normally do our best to steer clear of pushing

came from the demolished sculptural facade of one

beloved poet and the remarkable view. A great place

people to chain restaurants, but sometimes

of New York’s first skyscrapers). Perhaps it shows

for a blanket, cheese, bread, a bottle of wine, and a

something happens and you just can’t pass it up.

how desperate Indianapolis was for a little culture

conversation about the impermanence of life.

So, when White Castle decides to do reservation

in the late 70s when Indy Parks took this salvaged

crownhill.org

material. But in the end, it was a sort of homecom-

only, white tablecloth and candle lit dinners for Valentine’s Day, well, we have to see

ing, since the facade had originally been construct-

INDIANA STATE MUSEUM

ed out of Indiana limestone.

The State Museum has a great building with a high

For many years, however, the transported Ruins

WHITE CASTLE ROYALTY What are you craving this Valentine’s Day? We

ceiling and a glass facade that lets in sunshine.

what it’s all about.

This is the 27th year for this event and it typically sells out

actually appeared to be ruins. The whole thing was

There’s been some great exhibitions at this museum

at most locations around the

fenced off, and the reflecting pool fell into disrepair.

as of late, including the groundbreaking 200 Years

country. There’s something spe-

Recently The Friends of Holliday Park and their $3.2

of Indiana Art exhibition. And there’s certainly some

million capital campaign made restoration possible.

exhibitions like Nikon Small World, showing the

The Ruins were redesigned, rebuilt and reopened in

complexity of life through the eyes of the world’s

of onion-y, greasy White Castle

2016 — accessible to all who want to gape at the weird

best micro-photographers might serve as a segue

sliders while sipping on a Coke.

neither-here-nor-there beauty. And now you can walk

into a discussion with your certain someone about

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through it hand in hand with whoever it is you want to

how babies are born. It may not be the conversation

impress with this uniquely Hoosier history.

you want, but it’s there for the offing.

hollidaypark.org

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cial about being dressed up and hearing and smelling the sizzling

NOTES

The Big Story Continued...

NOTES

TONY P.

CHUCK

SAMMY D.

What matters most is how well you

What an amazing first year we have

A grown up, my son. You’ve done this

walk through the fire. You have walked

had. It has been an unforgettable ride.

on your own. Your journey, your life.

tall beside me in the worst of times. I

Can’t wait to share many more with

Please, never forget your home.

will never forget it. I love you so much

you and see what the future holds for

and I am amazed every single day by

us. I love you!

— NATALIE

but you are cute enough to be strong for you, for us. You have inspired me to be so much

up, never gonna let you down (except once in awhile)

MICHAEL D. MONA

— SHAWNA F.

You are my best friend first and always. Second but most certainly not

NOLLIE (MY DOG)

— MATTHEW

Keep on waggin’ pup.

any less, you are my husband, mate, partner on this roller coaster called life.

— A PROUD OWNER

CLARK

I wouldn’t have it any other way. Love

You’re my Lerb, Tlart! I love you.

be. I’m never gonna give you

and pain in the a.

— LOVE ALWAYS, DAD

POKE

more than I thought I could

as you. Happy V-Day baby! Your wife

SUCHU

you. That’s not always a good thing, overlook it. I will love you and

find someone as close to my heart

PORTER

you more every day. Always.

— NICK

— YOUR SQUARE

Love you to the moon and back!

— SARAH F. P.

— MOM

JESSICA H. AKA MOMMY/ STEPMONSTER

LUKE, ROMAN, AND JUDE

NINA

We’re so happy to get to share our

Ever since I saw you with that glass

Valen-versary with you for yet another

of red wine I knew something was

year! Love you forever, like you for

there. It took me a few asks but you

always.

finally relented and we dated. Didn’t

To a most loving, nurturing

— DAD AND MÁ

and caring partner in crime.

take me long to realize there was more than something. Thanks for

Often I’m left speechless as

JESSICA

sharing the last 18 years with me.

I creepily gaze in your direc-

To My Beautiful Wife,

I love you.

tion. Wondering how I got

These past few months of marriage

so lucky and how your still

have been nothing short of amazing!

in the bed as I wake up each

You planned the perfect wedding and

CARLA MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE

morning. Your love to all in our

quite the party! You mean everything

I love you to moon and back!!

exceptionally loud and crazy

in the world to me and I cannot wait

family gives me all I need each

for the rest of our days together.

day to set out daily to attempt

Love you forever!

mimicking the great example

— SEAN

that you are. Often I’m falling short

“Daddy Bear,” and I love you for — SIMON

it. You have made life with Punky complete, as well.

— MARGO

— YOUR WIFE ANGIE!!

TOMMY ON THE SOUTHEAST SIDE You made me hopeful and maybe

SHANNON

that was my mistake. Either way, I’m

You are an amazing VJD and my

glad we met (even though we never

favorite jerk-face!

formally met). I think you have a

and yet I know I’m a better husband

KEVIN SIMONTON

and father because the love and

You passed away in October, and I

patience you have for me fuels my

miss you more and more every day! I

INDY’S WEATHER

desire to be the best man I can be in

love you with all my heart & soul! May

Indy’s weather is ever changing; un-

any capacity always. I can’t fully put

you keep watch over me and know

predictable extreme heat, tornadoes,

into words how much I love you. Just

that you were the best thing that ever

rain, snow, sleet or hail. Just wait a few

ALISHA TAYLOR

know I do. Happy VD!

happened to me!

minutes, it’ll get better, well maybe.

You are the absolute best thing that

That’s why I love this city.

has happened to me and these past

— RON C. AKA THE HUSBAND YOU SNAGGED ON MATCH

— LEONORA SIMONTON

— MARY

beautiful soul and you’re probably lucky I wasn’t around long enough to taint you, lol, but seriously.

— ANGELA

CHARLES HUCKLEBERRY

—B

seven months have been amazing. I love you with all of my heart.

AMY LOU WHO

Words can’t express how I feel for

PETE

Thanks for the best 30+ years anyone

you. You are my world; my heart;

Loving you whether... times are good

could ask for! Love you.

my soul. Thank you for loving me on

or bad, happy or sad. Valentine - I love

SWEET MAN

the good days and bad. I hope this

you even more after all these years!

I am so happy to have you as my

— ED

never ends. I want to share my life

— ZACH

— K.K.

friend, my partner, my lover and my

ALISON RENE

with you until my very last breath...

“You’re a real goober, but yet, so rad.

but I’m still an a-hole so I may be

JOHN KATES (JOHNNY BEAR)

all its ups and downs. We have so

Because of you, I’m your husband.

complaining. Ahahahaha. Real life; I

You have made my life complete!

many plans for our future but here

And a Dad.”

want this shit forever. Don’t f that up.

Thanks for sharing your talent with

and now, that’s what matters most.

You’ll never find someone that loves

me; I am now empowered to ex-

Love you!

you as much as I do. I know I’ll never

plore my own greatness! You are my

— MICHAEL D.

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husband. I love our life together with

— YOUR BETTER HALF

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CALAS M BURSE

JILL

DAVE

JOHN

To my one and only

Out on a rock, I saw you smile at me,

I love you to the moon and back.

To the love within that goes without

JAMES E MELIS (AKA ‘HANDSOME’)

true LOVE ... The

your eyes were blue, they were true. I

Forever yours.

saying anything... but I’ll say it anyway,

When you kiss me like that, the way

moment we met

knew all along that someday, it would

I love you!

you do,

I knew you were

be you and me.

— BETH

meant for me. The

— QTPIE

school girl all over again.

Butterflies fill my stomach

MY GIRL

hundred pillows,

FREYA

Falling back,

DAVID L.

more than the ocean is deep, and

You are the best pup pup I could ever

And I am in outer space.

You are the most beautiful, kind, and

with my whole heart. Forever and

have. You brighten every day and I

That’s what you do to me.

loving soul I have ever known. I love

always.

love you lots (even if you do like to eat

Happy Valentine’s Day to you, love

still to this day. You have

you more than all the waves in the

me sitting on top of the world.

ocean. You make my heart happy.

Sweetheart, I promise to love you a

— HENNA

lifetime, the day past 4-ever.

— YOUR SWEET LOVE

Spam). Thanks for having sense and

COACH POTTER

SEAN

friends, xoxo.

— DAD

LADIES OF INDY

I was blind-sided. My guard was down.

Listen to your body and show it some

I did not run for safety. I did not want

MIRANDA

RAYCE THOMASON

love all year long, not just during

a quick out.

I believe we were meant to go over the

You are not only beside me as my best

“resolution season.”

There were no red flags.

wall together.

friend...companion... “greatest and

— CASSANDRA

most adored...respected...and unself-

Your swagger and your strong side

HIM

You were successful in reaching my

XFINITY: Everyone’s ON DEMAND! I

A Haiku For Homos:

weak side.

love you and everything about you!

Three years in secret

I could not resist your pass attempt.

Maybe this year we’ll be “out”

I am so happy that you were a fair

Fuck the heteros

You’re pretty ok.

— LUMPY SPACE PRINCESS

— JOHN

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catch!

BIG DADDY CRUZE

— ME

Hey Baby! Thank you for you. You

I fumbled a bit, when you took a knee.

I was hooked and we got hitched.

are still the love of my life and I am

CARRIE

so very exciting to see what the

And we be bringing, each of us,

future holds for us.

the music of ourselves to wrap

— HOT MAMA MICHELLE

I’m glad it was your closet I fainted in.

were a definite draw.

ish” man I have ever met...YOU are like

— MANDI (MANDALYNN)

— APRIL CHARISSE (AKA ‘BOOFAY’)

never eating your own poop like your From the moment I set eyes on you

— MRS. BURSE

It feels like my head is falling into a

I love you more than the sky is blue,

first kiss was so innocent, I felt like a

— LIBBI

25 years later, we are still bliztfull!

— MRS. POTTER

ADAM

the other in — ROB

BEN

Here is something very sappy, I love your kisses,

“You need a drink or something?” was

DANIEL H.

one of the first questions you ever

It seems life was determined to hit

asked me. That was also the first time

me hard these past two months,

you made me laugh. There have been

but through thick and thin you

BEN

so many other first experiences I have

were there with foot rubs, choc-

Roses are gray, violets are gray-blue, I

shared with you, I hope that never ends.

olate bars, kind words, and many

will always share my bone with you.

— LESLEY

They make me happy — JODI JO

hugs and kisses. I want to thank

— REGINALD

you so much for everything you

VICTOR M.

have given me in the past year

MEGAN

Always remember, I Love You

and a half. I still can’t believe that I

From the time I met you (10 minutes

found such an amazing man on my

late), I have been in awe of you!

first try! I love you to the stars and

Here’s to many more years. =)

beyond!

I love you!

— MOM

MY SWEETIE We’ve been through so much together

— KAYLA H.

— NATHAN

and, even though we yell at each other about quarter round (which you really

YATS’ CHEESY BREAD

BILL

did install wrong!), I still pick you as

We all know who’s really the cheesiest.

Travel buddy - let’s plan a

my number one person to always be

Kraft ain’t got nothin’ on you.

trip. I love exploring the

around. I love you always and forever!

— STACY

— SARAH

country/world with you.

— YOUR GIRL

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The Big Story Continued...

MAKE A DATE WITH WHITE RABBIT Even if you’re not on the market, anyone can play

BY REBECCA BERFANGER // ARTS@NUVO.NET

W

hen Isaac Landfert dons his clashing red ensemble — red jacket with lapels, red-checkered pants, red suspenders, and sparkly bow-tie — he transforms into Mort Sheboigan, the ultimate dating game show co-host.

For anyone who hasn’t witnessed him as one of the emcees of Let’s Make a Date! at White Rabbit, be warned (or enticed): the 21+, R-rated live dating show — the only such show in the Circle City — will get raunchy fairly quickly.

Landfert insists that Mort Sheboigan has a certain complexity beneath the raunch. “He is innocent and naïve,” he says. “There is also a little bit of a desperation, and tinges of creepiness.”

In the beginning, the show was hosted

by Matt Clemens, Jeff Oskay, and the lovely Desiree De Carlo, a co-founder and performer with The Rocket Doll Revue.

But after Clemens and Oskay stepped away a few years ago, De Carlo stayed on, and Landfert started hosting as the Sheboigan character.

The event on Feb. 14 will mark the show’s fifth anniversary, and the club has produced at least 10 of the matchmaking shows every year since the first one.

Even if you’re already coupled off, says White Rabbit’s Debra Silveus McGaha, “the show is very funny and entertaining as just an audience member.”

Other than the hosts and the premise, no two shows are ever exactly same.

The bachelor and bachelorette are pre-selected ahead of time for these performances. Landfert has a list of potential bachelors and bachelorettes, but he is always open to taking more names, and audience members have even left their contact info with the bartenders at White Rabbit at past shows.

Before everything gets started, the WHAT // Let’s make a date bachelor and bachelorette answer a series WHEN // Wed., Feb. 14, 9:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m. of questions ahead of time about their WHERE // White Rabbit Cabaret, backgrounds, likes, dislikes and tastes 1116 Prospect St. when it comes to pop culture, and so on.

TICKETS // $5, 21+ As a side note, the hosts want all to feel welcome to participate. The show’s also be a similar contest where audience co-hosts have purposefully decided to members have to guess a movie quote or keep the contestants’ sexual orientations synopsis of the bachelor or bachelorette’s ambiguous. Even favorite film. the questions are There is also ambiguous. OccaThe show’s co-hosts have a portion of the sionally, the bachecompetition where purposefully decided to lor or bachelorette audience members will out himself or keep the contestants’ share something herself on stage. about themselves sexual orientations As for the con­— something about testants, audience ambiguous. Even the their own personal members compete for questions are ambiguous. backgrounds, for the spots. example, or a talent.

For instance, they This sharing can be might play a version of Name That Tune as mundane as talking about their careers that features songs by musicians that or educational experiences. Landfert the bachelor or bachelorette mentioned adds that they’ve also had “people doing in his or her questionnaire. There might backflips, dancing, or singing on stage.”

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“Mort and Desiree whittle the audience participants down to three that will receive a seat on the couch,” says Silveus McGaha. “Then the newly formed couples compete for the grand prize date.”

When the show was first conceived, Landfert says, they were afraid that audience members wouldn’t get it. Or worse, they wouldn’t get into it.

Since then, however, he said there have been several audience members who have joined in the audience participation multiple times.

“There is always a little bit of apprehension from audience members at the top of the show, until they see what it’ll be,” he said. But once the regulars start to come out, “We can see how willing people are to put themselves out there.”

At least one couple has maintained a relationship after appearing on or at the show, according to Landfert. But the show’s five-year-running success has little to do with successful hookups.

“More often than not, the people paired off after the show because people tend to mingle afterward,” he says. “We also have couples show up all the time where the two members of the couple will go up individually, and they do it so that they can win prizes.”

Prizes from local businesses include gift cards from New Day Meadery, Kuma’s Corner, and Wip Downtown. You can also win tickets from The White Rabbit Cabaret and gifts from Lover’s Lane.

“The one thing that’s important for people to know is it’s just for fun,” said Landfert. “You can meet people and also win prizes and have fun and be interactive. Or you can come as just a spectator and still enjoy yourself.”

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DINNER THEATRE OF THE ABSURD Be sure your date has a sense of humor with this one

WHAT // Dinner: A Romance in Four Courses WHEN // Sunday, Feb. 25, Doors at 6:30 p.m.

WHERE // Mesh on Mass Ave, 725 Mass Ave.

TICKETS // $100.00 per person Have you ever been slapped with a pork chop?

little collaboration

Apparently, this is a possibility in Dinner: A

exists with other

Romance in Four Courses, a collaboration between

art forms. This isn’t

NoExit Performance and the restaurant Mesh on

dinner theater—this

Mass. This intimate performance and four course

is dinner as theater.”

dinner (with wine pairings) is produced by NoExit Performance and hosted by Mesh on Mass Ave.

This is its third time the event has been held,

“Our ‘stage’ is a table and two chairs situated at

but none is alike. “Every

the middle of the dining room. ” says Lukas School-

iteration has been created

er, executive director of NoExit. “The performance

by a different collaborative

occurs just a few feet away from our guests.”

team and every team has ap-

Schooler worked at Mesh for almost five years,

proached the concept in a wildly new way. This was

giving him insight into how the venue could

largely the intent behind the concept — what hap-

accommodate his idea.

pens when you give different artists the same set of

“What the guests at Dinner will see is a single performance piece that incorporates theater, dance,

loose, but unique boundaries? It’s quite wonderful to be able to be the mediator in these processes — to

and live music to portray a Date Night gone bizarrely awry,” adds Lauren Curry, the event’s choreographer. “The principal performers are local movement artists Bethany Bak and Heidi Keller Philips.”

There will be a supporting cast of waiters-turned-henchmen and

really just let the artists take the

“This isn’t dinner theater; it’s dinner as theater.”

a loopy walking violinist played by

— LUKAS SCHOOLER

Anna Hassler. The principal perform-

boundaries and make them their own,” Schooler says.

Curry emphasizes just how exclusive each performance is. “NoExit Performance has created a unique opportunity for Indy choreographers to collaborate with chefs. I told Chef Travis Hitch the tone of the first section, what the actors

ers will be dining alongside the guests (but at their

would be doing. He’s going to take that information

own table). They will be served and eat the same

and create a custom dish for that section. That kind

food at the same time as the guests. At times, they

of high-concept cross-pollination is very innovative

will use the food to communicate with each other.

and rarely done in an art market of Indy’s size.”

This is where the pork chop slaps come in.

This blending of theater and pork chop first

“Lauren is taking the most theatrical approach to this concept — really looking at the act of

occurred to Schooler in college. “I first began

dining in a restaurant and the culture that exists

percolating on a performance based in a restaurant,

within the restaurant between the diners, the

responding to the natural choreography that exists

staff, the furniture, the utensils, and the food. Yes,

within a restaurant — between servers and cooks,

there is romance somewhere in there, but that’s

trays of food gliding through the air, the occasional

not necessarily the total focus.”

guest unknowingly interrupting the flow of the fast-

“My particular vision was to present a dining

paced choreography, the focused trance of a server

experience turned on its head. To imagine what

transporting champagne flutes through a bustling

it would be like if some of the things we think

dining room. It wasn’t until I began working with

at dinner but don’t say were put on full display,”

NoExit that I found an opportunity to fully explore

Curry says.

these concepts. Beyond all this, the culinary arts have always been ingrained in American culture, but

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EVENT // Culinary Cult Classics - Dirty Dancing WHAT // A 6-course meal accompanied by Swayze WHEN // Feb. 14 WHERE // Thunderbird

A FLAVOR-FILLED FEST

Fantastic Food Fest brings local purveyors and celebrity chefs together

BY CAVAN McGINSIE // CMCGINSIE@NUVO.NET

N

ow in its third year, Fantastic Food Fest, which was created by Indiana Grown, is coming back to the Indiana State Fairgrounds on Feb. 10 and 11. The event brings numerous local and national movers and shakers of the food and drink industry into one room and gives the public an opportunity to get an up close and personal look — and taste — at important brands and trends in the industry.

One of the prominent guests making an appearance this year is the fan favorite Top Chef contestant, Casey Thompson. Thompson, a renowned chef and resident of Napa, California, has competed on Top Chef three times. She will be at Fantastic Food Fest all weekend as one of the event’s main speakers, as well as giving a demonstration and running a cooking class.

“Food is a funny thing,” Thompson says, “we all need it, we all love it, and to get to kinda know the people who are making it for you is kinda fun.” This is one of her favorite things about events like Fantastic Food Fest.

Anyone coming to hear her speak can expect some Top Chef talk. “I can’t ever really avoid that,” she says with a laugh. “I think people have a lot of questions about it, especially since I’ve done it three times.”

She also says she will touch on topics like the evolution of chef culture and finding longevity in a tough industry.

“I kind of let the audience dictate what we’ll talk about, but it’s usually about these topics and let them have some fun with it.”

Her demo and class will be more Indiana focused, using products like local duck.

Thompson says her food “can be super casual and fun,” “whimsical and surprising,” or “really homey and good; and I think that’s more my niche and just showing people ways of of doing things a little better is what I enjoy teaching.” And that’s what she

FANTASTIC FOOD FEST BRINGS INDIANA PRODUCTS AND CELEBRITY CHEFS TOGETHER THIS WEEKEND //

says guests who attend can look forward to learning at the festival.

She says while she enjoys teaching, events like this are also exciting for her because, “[it’s] a new place, a new group of people that have certain food styles and ingredients that I’m excited to learn about and work with. I know they’re bringing in a lot of local companies and purveyors. So, I’m excited to do something fun and learn

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EVENT // Fantastic Food Fest WHEN // Feb. 10-11 WHERE // Indiana State Fairgrounds

about a new place.”

One of those local purveyors is Lathay Pegues, who will be sharing his Indiana-made BBQ sauce, JohnToms BBQ, at the event. This is Pegues’ third year and he says he thrives on events like this because,

“I just love engaging with people and talking about BBQ.” “Even if they don’t buy anything, I love talking to people. I mean, we sell BBQ; we have such a fun, unique product that we sell. Most people are into BBQ, most people are into grilling, a lot of people are into smoking. So, to sit and talk about BBQ, that’s my job, that’s what I do for a living.”

JohnToms, which was named Indiana’s Favorite BBQ Sauce by Indianapolis Monthly, is named after Pegues’ grandfather, the man who taught Pegues everything he knows about BBQ. “You know how some families, they’re a soccer family, or a basketball family, or a hockey family? We were a BBQ family,” Pegues says.

His memories of waking up to the smell of his grandfather making BBQ outside, with his sauce on stove are what led Pegues to making his award-winning sauce while he was a student at IU. “I never intended to start a BBQ sauce business, I was simply trying to recreate my grandpa’s sauce because he never wrote it down,” he says before explaining that JohnToms isn’t his grandpa’s recipe, but he was the inspiration for it.

Pegues’ goal at Fantastic Food Fest is to share his stories, his product, his grandpa’s legacy, and to represent his home state of Indiana. “The truth is, people like BBQ everywhere,” he says, laughing. “So, why can’t we be the purveyors of Indiana BBQ. We want to be proud that this product is from Indiana and no matter how far we go we will boast that.”

Thompson says her goal is about educating the public: “I hope that once they come to an event like this, they learn some sort of a wine that they didn’t know about...maybe an ingredient they’ve never had a chance to try...but maybe they try it and decide, ‘I actually like this and next time I see it on a menu I might be more interested in ordering it.’” N

PAID ADVERTISEMENT Board Leadership of FACE Low-Cost Animal Clinic Should Resign The Board of Directors of the FACE Low-Cost Animal Clinic recently dismissed Ellen Robinson as executive director of the organization, a position she had served in for nineteen years. There are troubling questions regarding the board’s decision-making process. Because of these concerns the board leadership of the FACE board of directors should resign.

Robinson guided FACE from a small nonprofit start-up to one of the most respected lowcost spay/neuter clinics in the country. Under the best of guidance, few new businesses survive the first two years. Under Robinson’s leadership FACE flourished. When the clinic started in March of 1999, 23,000 dogs and cats a year were euthanized at either the Humane Society of Indianapolis or Indianapolis Animal Care and Control. Due in large part to the efforts of Robinson and the hard working staff at FACE, and the over 200,000 dogs and cats that were spayed or neutered there, the euthanasia numbers decreased to less than 3,000 dogs and cats last year. Under her management the clinic underwent a large expansion just a few years after it opened. Thanks to her leadership FACE is now poised to open an even larger addition so it may serve more animals. Robinson also left the clinic on solid financial footing at the time she was dismissed.

Robinson was the one constant there through it all. FACE’s success did not happen by accident or luck. When serving as many animals and owners as FACE does short cuts and half measures won’t do; animals’ lives are at stake. Robinson possessed the focus, intelligence, sophistication and leadership necessary to run a clinic in which the safety of the animals was paramount, and the mission of the organization preserved. She was a caring, hands-on administrator who knew the operation of the clinic like few know anything in their life. Tough decisions had to be made, but she strove to create a work environment that was positive and rewarding for all involved. Most were appreciative.

A few were not. Still, a few can make a lot of noise.

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There are questions that donors and patrons should ask. Did personal friendships between board leadership and unhappy former employees affect the decision-making process? If so, did it affect the information leadership relayed to the full board? Was the relayed information accurate and complete? Prior to her dismissal was Robinson ever informed her job was in jeopardy? If not, why not? Prior to her dismissal was she ever asked to speak with the full board so that members could ask questions, express concerns or request clarification of information they found worrisome, but had received secondhand? What does it say of the board’s management style if this was not done?

Why on an issue so integral to the clinic’s future, involving a director whose track record was so impressive, would the board receive its information through a filter rather than directly? Was leadership concerned that if the full board heard from Robinson directly members might find things to be different than they had been led to believe?

I am enormously proud of what FACE and its staff has accomplished. When I started FACE in 1992 I did so because of concerns that some who were supposed to be serving animals at that time saw it as a game, more about politics and appearances than policy. Now I have grave concerns that the cycle may be repeated. Running a clinic like FACE is a complicated endeavor, even more so now with the new addition to the building. Fortunately, the office and veterinary staff that Robinson had in place when she was dismissed is a professional and caring one. But recent actions by some on the board make me wonder how long it will take before that changes. Will FACE continue to safely serve the large number of dogs and cats that it was intended to serve, or will FACE flounder, becoming just part of a fundraising game for those seeking things to do?

I believe the Board of Directors of the FACE Low-Cost Animal Clinic acted in a shameful, unprofessional and destructive manner when it dismissed Ellen Robinson. FACE board leadership should resign.

— Scott Robinson M.D. Founder of FACE and president for 15 years

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A STORM IS COMING The moxious Storm Large hits the Palladium Stage

BY JONATHAN SANDERS // MUSIC@NUVO.NET

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or Storm Large, who will be taking the stage at Carmel’s Palladium on Friday, Feb. 16 with her band La Bonheur, a half-hour interview is a whirlwind of strong opinion, sharp-witted humor and tantalizing hints of what fans can expect from her compelling stage show.

“Not really [so much],” she laughs, when I ask if, like Randy Newman, she often has to shift up her performances depending on her varied paying audiences. “When I’m performing with a symphony I’ve never performed with, somewhere they aren’t familiar with me, I am a little more gentle with my humor, my language, and more selective with my material because I have some R-rated songs, some X-rated ideas and a fucking Z-rated mouth. Sometimes my mouth gets ahead of me onstage, because I’m an old showgirl!”

Already a veteran performer before she

gained three months of reality TV fame in the mid-00s as part of Rock Star: Supernova, Large almost made it to the final episode.

“I have some R-rated songs, some X-rated ideas and a fucking Z-rated mouth.”

— STORM LARGE

Since then, she has managed to continuously remain a national touring presence, playing more than 200 shows a year. She tours as a theater and cabaret performer: as well as with Pink Martini, her genre-bending bands that showcases an orchestral fusion of pop, classical, latin

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and jazz. As a vocalist, she’s also performed with Rufus Wainwright and George Clinton, among many others.

When she returns to Carmel this month, her second time performing in the city, Large says she’s excited to really branch out and bring her brand of spontaneity to the Palladium stage.

“There’s always one or two songs that I’ll remember or hear or write and I’ll just have to play them at a show,” she explains. “So we learn them backstage and I make the band whip them out last minute. So it’s never a fixed show, I am very spontaneous.

I love what I do and things excite me, and if something excites me I know I can get the audience excited. That’s really how I operate, viscerally and instantaneously, on instinct — to my own pleasure.”

She’s also proud to be a political person,

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and her tongue sharpens against those who say singers have no right to political opinions, whether on stage or not.

“I get this a lot because I’m vocally political, the whole “Shut up and sing!” thing. I go ‘I don’t know what you do for a living, so you telling me to shut up and sing is actually a political opinion! What do you do for a job, shoot birds at the airport?’

It’s crazy. Am I supposed to sit there, look pretty, sing, and be just sort of this imbecile that doesn’t feel or think or exist or vote or pay taxes in this country? Suck my dick! That’s usually what I end up saying. It doesn’t go over very well.”

That was, she says, the other difficult thing about being in the reality spotlight always being on camera, under public scrutiny, which comes down to how you own it.

“You’ve got to keep in mind, everything you do online, everything you say online, on camera anywhere is there forever,” she says.

“And I’ve said some stupid shit on stage [and] on Instagram. Anyone who looks at my feed, I’m always naked, I don’t care. I’m not shy about my body, I’m almost 50 years old and super proud of my body.

Large was happy to talk about the increased popularity of burlesque and cabaret acts, particularly in our local scene, something she attributes to growing frustration with politics and culture in general.

“Now people [are] getting back out and going to see shows like these as a form of escapism,” she says. “Live music, and performers aren’t on an island of the stage where the audience has to just sit and observe – no, you’re human beings in this dark room with me and I get to do what I want, and you get to do what you want, and we’re going to have a relationship by the end of the night. We’re all going to experience stuff and feel something together viscerally in a human way.

“Of course you can choose to sit and be quiet,” she laughs. “I’m not like GG Allin, I’m not going to grab someone and do something disgusting to them. But I make it abundantly clear that you absolutely are invited to participate in a human event of exuberance and joy. It’s like my kind of church.” N

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

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or Joshua A. Thompson, Black History Month has traditionally been a time for personal research. The classically-trained pianist spent prior Februarys digging into the stories of unsung Black composers and musicians. This year Thompson decided to take his research to the stage, recruiting an all-star crew of Indianapolis musicians, dancers, poets,

and visual artists to create Village Voices: Notes From the Griot. With a cast including Premium Blend, Bashiri Asad, Manon Voice, Chandra Lynch and Uzuri Asad, Village Voices creates a tableau of the Black experience in America through dynamic live performances.

I recently caught up with Thompson during a rehearsal for the show.

spans so many different genres. We’re casting a wide net and trying to cram in as much as we can in about two hours.

KYLE: To help shape this idea into a theatrical presentation you turned to playwright Megan Simonton.

JOSHUA: When I had this idea in my head, I had the first couple scenes. I explained it to Megan and said, “You take it from here.” She did, and she created a really amazing script that’s not trying too hard to be something it’s not.

create Village Voices: Notes From the Griot, and what you’re hoping audiences will take from this production?

JOSHUA THOMPSON: Classical music, or orchestral music has always been the genre that’s found a way into me. So I KYLE: Specifically, who are some of the spend my time learning and listening to underappreciated figures you are celeclassical pieces. But in 30 years of being brating in Village Voices? a student of the piano, I JOSHUA: For me percan literally count on one sonally, I fell in love with hand the times I’ve been “The whole point William Grant Still. He was given a piece of classical a composer and pianist is to highlight music that was written by an in the 20th Century. He African-American, or even a unsung and does a really good job of person of color period. classical piano and underperformed taking In my music education mashing it up with jazz.

I was a student of piano artists, and that and Negro spirituals, and and trumpet for over 15 otherworldly sounds. spans so many years before I ever had an I’d be remiss if I did not instructor who was a person different genres” bring up Margaret Bonds. of color. So psychologicalShe is a woefully unly, I think that’s a little bit — JOSHUA THOMPSON der-celebrated composer. mind-numbing for someone She was a graduate of the who is growing up playing a Juilliard School of Music, genre where there’s such a giant vacancy and definitely did not get her due. There’s in representation for individuals who are a piece by her called “Troubled Water” that musicians of color.

I absolutely love.

It’s not that the works aren’t there, but To bring things more into the modern they weren’t presented to us. So I said era, we’re also highlighting and celeto myself, “If you spent the last 30 years brating the amazing work of Cassandra learning works of Europeans, you can Wilson. A lot of people don’t understand definitely spend the next year learning the just how influential she is. works of African Americans and people of Finally what we have to do is make sure African descent.” that people understand that the artists So that’s what I did. I literally went on performing in Village Voices need to be a listening tour, found music that I liked, recognized in their own right. We have to and learned to play it. I thought it would highlight local artists creating work now and add to the experience if I brought other adding to the canon. We’d do them a disserpeople in who work in genres that are vice if we didn’t add their contribution. more familiar, and may seem closer in So let’s honor what is past, and let’s proximity to what we consider to be a honor what is present, so we can figure Black community experience. out where we’re going in the future as The whole point is to highlight unsung a community and as individual artists and underperformed artists, and that as well. N NUVO.NET // 02.07.18 - 02.14.18 // MUSIC // 19

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): British athlete Liam Collins is an accomplished hurdler. In 2017, he won two medals at the World Masters Athletics Indoor Championships in South Korea. Collins is also a stuntman and street performer who does shows in which he hurtles over barriers made of chainsaws and leaps blindfolded through flaming hoops. For the foreseeable future, you may have a dual capacity with some resemblances to his. You could reach a high point in expressing your skills in your chosen field, and also branch out into extraordinary or flamboyant variations on your specialty.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When he was 32, the man who would later be known as Dr. Seuss wrote his first kid’s book, And To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. His efforts to find a readership went badly at first. Twenty-seven publishers rejected his manuscript. On the verge of abandoning his quest, he ran into an old college classmate on the street. The friend, who had recently begun working at Vanguard Press, expressed interest in the book. Voila! Mulberry Street got published. Dr. Seuss later said that if, on that lucky day, he had been strolling on the other side of the street, his career as an author of children’s books might never have happened. I’m telling you this tale, Taurus, because I suspect your chances at experiencing a comparable stroke of luck in the coming weeks will be extra high. Be alert!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A survey of British Christians found that most are loyal to just six of the Ten Commandments. While they still think it’s bad to, say, steal and kill and lie, they don’t regard it as a sin to revere idols, work on the Sabbath, worship other gods, or use the Lord’s name in a curse. In accordance with the astrological omens, I encourage you to be inspired by their rebellion. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to re-evaluate your old traditions and belief systems, and then discard anything that no longer suits the new person you’ve become.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): While serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Don Karkos lost the sight in his right eye after being hit by shrapnel.

Sixty-four years later, he regained his vision when he got butted in the head by a horse he was grooming.

Based on the upcoming astrological omens, I’m wondering if you’ll soon experience a metaphorically comparable restoration. My analysis suggests that you’ll undergo a healing in which something you lost will return or be returned.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The candy cap mushroom, whose scientific name is Lactarius rubidus, is a burnt orange color. It’s small to mediumsized and has a convex cap. But there its resemblance to other mushrooms ends. When dried out, it tastes and smells like maple syrup. You can grind it into a powder and use it to sweeten cakes and cookies and custards.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, this unusual member of the fungus family can serve as an apt metaphor for you right now. You, too, have access to a resource or influence that is deceptive, but in a good way: offering a charm and good flavor different from what its outer appearance might indicate.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A grandfather from New Jersey decided to check the pockets of an old shirt he didn’t wear very often. There Jimmie Smith found a lottery ticket he had stashed away months previously. When he realized it had a winning number, he cashed it in for $24.1 million -- just two days before it was set to expire. I suspect there may be a comparable development in your near future, although the reward would be more modest. Is there any potential valuable that you have forgotten about or neglected? It’s not too late to claim it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The U.S. Geological Survey recently announced that it had come up with improved maps of the planet’s agricultural regions. Better satellite imagery helped, as did more

thorough analysis of the imagery. The new data show that the Earth is covered with 618 million more acres of croplands than had previously been thought. That’s 15 percent higher than earlier assessments! In the coming months, Libra, I’m predicting a comparable expansion in your awareness of how many resources you have available. I bet you will also discover that you’re more fertile than you have imagined.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 1939, Scorpio comic book writer Bob Kane co-created the fictional science-fiction superhero Batman. The “Caped Crusader” eventually went on to become an icon, appearing in blockbuster movies as well as TV shows and comic books. Kane said one of his inspirations for Batman was a flying machine envisioned by Leonard da Vinci in the early 16th century. The Italian artist and inventor drew an image of a winged glider that he proposed to build for a human being to wear. I bring this up, Scorpio, because I think you’re in a phase when you, like Kane, can draw inspiration from the past. Go scavenging through history for good ideas!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I was watching a four-player poker game on TV. The folksy commentator said that the assortment of cards belonging to the player named Mike was “like Anna Kournikova,” because “it looks great but it never wins.” He was referring to the fact that during her career as a professional tennis player, Anna Kournikova was feted for her physical beauty but never actually won a singles title. This remark happens to be a useful admonishment for you Sagittarians in the coming weeks. You should avoid relying on anything that looks good but never wins. Put your trust in influences that are a bit homely or unassuming but far more apt to contribute to your success.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A Chinese man named Wang Kaiyu bought two black-furred puppies from a stranger and took them home to his farm. As the months passed by, Wang noticed that his pets seemed unusually hungry and aggressive.

They would sometimes eat his chickens. When they were two years old, he finally figured out that they weren’t dogs, but rather Asian black bears. He turned them over to a local animal rescue center. I bring this to your attention, Capricorn, because I suspect it may have a resemblance to your experience. A case of mistaken identity? A surprise revealed in the course of a ripening process? A misunderstanding about what you’re taking care of? Now is a good time to make adjustments and corrections.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Charles Nelson Reilly was a famous American actor, director, and drama teacher. He appeared in or directed numerous films, plays, and TV shows. But in the 1970s, when he was in his forties, he also spent quality time impersonating a banana in a series of commercials for Bic Banana Ink Crayons. So apparently he wasn’t overly attached to his dignity. Pride didn’t interfere with his ability to experiment. In his pursuit of creative expression, he valued the arts of playing and having fun. I encourage you to be inspired by his example during the coming weeks, Aquarius.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): According to ancient Greek writer Herodotus, Persians didn’t hesitate to deliberate about important matters while drunk. However, they wouldn’t finalize any intoxicated decision until they had a chance to re-evaluate it while sober. The reverse was also true. Choices they made while sober had to be reassessed while they were under the influence of alcohol. I bring this to your attention not because I think you should adhere to similar guidelines in the coming weeks. I would never give you an oracle that required you to be buzzed. But I do think you’ll be wise to consider key decisions from not just a coolly rational mindset, but also from a frisky intuitive perspective. To arrive at a wise verdict, you need both.

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We are interested in people who are daily cigarette smokers Call or email us to schedule a phone interview

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shall also perform such other duties in the ordinary course of business as performed by other persons in similar such positions, as well as such other reasonable duties