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BY MICHAEL LEPPERT // EDITORS@NUVO.NET

rom behind a podium in Florida last week, Emma Gonzalez said plenty.

Much of what she has said the last several days has been said before, sort of.

A sample of her tone was directed toward our nation’s political class. She said to a mourning crowd, mocking the old guard “that us kids don’t know what we’re talking about, that we’re too young to understand how the government works — we call B.S.!”

I mourn the kids from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who died Feb. 14. I love the ones who survived.

I tend to agree with the survivors’ underlying message, which helps me be a fan, but that is secondary for purposes of this column. They are rattling cages. And it is refreshing to watch.

This is a special moment I hope our nation does not overlook. Obviously, the catalyst for this movement was a catastrophe that hopefully does not recur. But part of the uniqueness of the moment is that the young people speaking out today are the actual victims of the catastrophe. I hope that part is never the case again.

The other part is a belief that speaking up actually matters. That is the thing that the old people in this country need to help make sure remains true. Young people need to know that what they are saying is important.

Not because it represents some cliché participation trophy, but because their perspective can help us old folks hear B.S. with fresh ears.

That’s what these kids are giving us more than anything: fresh ears.

David Hogg is one of Gonzalez’ classmates. He was a prominent target of conspiracy theorists who wanted the public to believe that these young people were actors. While we are discussing B.S., this is on top of the list. Hogg’s dad happens to be an FBI agent, as if that matters.

“I haven’t lost hope in America, and my dad hasn’t either” is a sample of what this young man said. He is 17 years old. He has already taken more from the mysterious

and cowardly opposition on gun issues than anyone should have to take. And he appears unphased by it. Stay strong, kid.

We need you to stay strong.

Perspective is the thing that is changing the conversation on gun violence this time.

I have had some conversations with my guns-rights friends these last few days. I am not friends with the NRA’s Dana Loesch and Wayne LaPierre. The people I have talked to are beginning to sound more reasonable than ever. My pals are making suggestions to me like “be specific about the policy you want” and we might be able to agree. “Quit attacking the person who believes in gun ownership …” and maybe we can make a change together.

I ask things like “how about investing in a background check system that is as important to you as social security numbers, citizenship records, or voter rolls?” Or “how about having the Centers for Disease Control do research on how to identify mass shooters before they kill?”

These questions got me treated like David Hogg last year, but now second Amendment lovers are actually thinking before they answer them.

Gonzalez, Hogg, and their friends are not really suggesting anything that hasn’t been suggested before. It’s just that it sounds so much more clear coming from them. They are suggesting solutions to us that are inspiring in their simplicity and familiarity.

And their intentions are pure.

So, kids, watch your mouths. Make sure whatever it is that comes out of them is as honest as everything you have said so far.

The world is listening. If you keep doing this right, it just might become a habit.

For all of us. N Michael Leppert is a public and governmental affairs consultant in Indianapolis and writes his thoughts about politics, government, and anything else that strikes him at Contrariana.com.

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SUNDAY ALCOHOL SALES COULD BEGIN THIS WEEK

LAWMAKERS CONSIDER GUN PERMIT CHANGES

Hoosiers could be able to purchase alcohol on a Sunday as soon as March 4.

BY ABRAHM HURT // NEWS@NUVO.NET

Senate Bill 1, authored by Sen. Ron Alting, R-Lafayette, repeals Indiana’s ban on Sunday alcohol sales, allowing liquor, grocery, convenience, and drug stores to sell beer, wine, and liquor from noon to 8 p.m. on Sundays.

“Just very, very proud to finally get to this point,” Alting said after the vote.

In a 38-10 vote, the Senate approved the amended House version that would have Sunday sales take effect immediately after its passage. The original bill would have gone into effect on July 1.

Indiana has not allowed Sunday sales since before the Prohibition era.

The bill now heads to Gov. Eric Holcomb for his signature before the end of the session.

Senate President Pro Tem David Long, R-Fort Wayne, said the governor was planning to sign the bill next week and that he and House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, would sign the bill with him.

“We’ll probably sign it with the governor maybe out in the foyer,” Long said.

Long said there are more important things the Senate is working on such as workforce development and school funding, but he said passing the bill was symbolically important.

“It’s an important bill in the sense that we’re modernizing our alcohol laws in a way the public supports,” he said.

Alting said he thought the bill passed because it wasn’t pushed as economic development.

“If you look at bills in the past, it’s always been it’s going to generate $6 million or $9 million more dollars in Indiana,” he said in a media availability. “That’s really not the fact.

The fact is Sunday sales are convenient for the citizens of Indiana.”

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ast week’s deadly shooting in a Florida school cast a shadow over an Indiana Senate Judiciary Committee as members debated a bill dropping licensing fees for lifetime gun permits.

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the measure Wednesday by a 7-3 vote, with Sen. Tim Lanane, D-Anderson, citing the events in Parkland, Fla., as reason for his opposition.

“It’s a tough time to consider anything that at all appears like we are making it easier for a person to purchase a gun in the state of Indiana,” Lanane said.

It was only a week ago when a gunman entered a Parkland high school and opened fire, killing 17 people and injuring dozens more.

In addition to eliminating the fee for a lifetime permit, House Bill 1424 would extend the duration of a four-year handgun license to five years.

The bill would expand the background check the state police performs when a gun owner applies for a five-year license.

It would also allow those who apply for the five-year permit to be granted an exemption from background checks conducted through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) every time they purchase guns during that period.

An amendment that would have reinstated the fee for the lifetime license was withdrawn after it failed to pass in a 5-5 vote.

Sen. Rodric Bray, R-Martinsville, said he wrote the amendment because local governments, sheriff’s departments, and chiefs of police rely on the funds that

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come from the license fees. Money from the fees is currently used to buy ammunition for training and other programs for local law enforcement.

Tim Troyer, Steuben County sheriff and president of the Indiana Sheriffs’ Association, said his only concern with the bill was the loss of training dollars.

“Training and equipment dollars are an essential part of our ability to continue to provide public safety,” he said during testimony. “It’s that simple, so it does tie in to our ability to provide public safety.”

When it was in the House, the bill’s author, Rep. Timothy Wesco, R-Osceola, said the potential loss of revenue for local police department would be around be $6 to $7 million while the Legislative Services

Agency reported that it could be as high as $11 million. LSA is the nonpartisan state agency that researches the bills proposed by lawmakers.

Sen. Aaron Freeman, R-Indianapolis, supported the bill because it is stricter than current Indiana law.

“When I go to get a handgun permit today, I do not go through any of the background checks at all that say whether I’m a proper person to actually purchase a firearm,” he said in the committee. “I go through the state police process. I don’t go through the federal process.”

Sen. Greg Taylor, D-Indianapolis, opposed the bill because, he says, the NICS system is broken.

“We are going to say to Hoosiers, ‘We want to rely on that system that we know has failed before,’” Taylor said. “There’s no questions. Nobody can argue that.”

Taylor, Lanane, and Lonnie Randolph, D-East Chicago, voted against the bill. Freeman and Bray supported the bill along with Republicans Mike Delph of Carmel, Susan Glick of LaGrange, Eric Koch of Bedford, Joe Zakas of Granger, and Michael Young of Indianapolis.

Also on Wednesday, the House Public Policy Committee passed Senate Bill 33 by a 10-0 vote that would permit a licensed gun owner to carry a firearm onto church property that has a school.

Abrahm Hurt is a reporter for TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.

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REDISTRICTING REFORM DIES IN INDIANA HOUSE

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or the second year in a row, Rep. Milo Smith, R-Columbus, has killed a redistricting reform bill and House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, said he is OK with that.

“There are a lot of questions we had. I don’t think the bill accurately follows some of the national case law that’s required to be followed, and I hesitate to put that into code until we’re confident of that,” Bosma said of Senate Bill 326, which passed out of the Senate with a 42-6 vote.

But even more important, Bosma said, the United States Supreme Court is already ruling on similar legislation in Wisconsin, mirroring Smith’s reason to kill the bill.

Smith had told another reporter that he would not call SB 326 for a hearing in the Election Committee, which he chairs.

“I don’t think it’s optimal to try to put something into code now when the Supreme Court is going to be ruling on that

by October of this year. I think we need to take that into consideration as well,” Bosma said.

The bill, authored by Sen. Greg Walker, R-Columbus, would establish redistricting standards for congressional and state legislative districts.

Debbie Asberry, redistricting advocate for the League of Women Voters of Indianapolis, is frustrated that Bosma agrees with Smith. She said that while she understands it was not everything advocates wanted, the bill was a good first step.

“We’re disappointed that he’s not exercising what we would have hoped would be to support a really simple bill,” Asberry said.

Julia Vaughn, policy director for Common Cause Indiana, said the reasoning is simply a delay tactic.

“That’s not a good excuse,” Vaughn said.

INDIANA SOLAR JOB NUMBERS INCREASE Nearly 10,000 jobs nationwide were lost in the solar industry in 2017, according to a new report released by The Solar Foundation. But, the group’s eighth annual national jobs census also found that in states where solar is still ramping up, new jobs are on the rise, with Indiana seeing a 3 percent

“If anything, it should spur the General Assembly to take action.”

She said the Wisconsin case could encourage litigation in Indiana over the 2011 maps because the legislative district maps were drawn to benefit one political party over another. The Supreme Court is expected to rule on whether gerrymandering districts for partisan advantage is constitutional.

The U.S. Supreme Court is also set to rule on similar cases in North Carolina and Maryland. Vaughn said if Indiana waits for all of these cases to be resolved, then there won’t be any redistricting reform in Indiana before 2021.

Vaughn challenged all who agree with Smith and Bosma to think about the implications of killing the bill, including whether lawmakers will make a commitment to pass redistricting reform in 2019.

“As long as this conflict of interest exists where the same people who are going to run in the districts play the primary role in drawing the districts, the public is always going to believe that partisan gerrymandering exists and has happened, and that is enough to generate a lawsuit,” Vaughn said.

In the 2017 legislative session, Smith held a hearing on a redistricting reform bill and then refused to call it for a vote, which effectively killed it.

increase in 2017.

Quinn Fitzgerald is a reporter for TheStatehouseFile. com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.

fact sheet, state investment helped increase

Ed Gilliland, senior director of the foundation, says the long-term trend continues to show significant jobs growth.

“Solar employs over twice as many people as employed in the coal industry, five times as many as employed in nuclear energy, and almost as many that are employed in natural gas,” he explains.

The solar workforce has grown by 168 percent over the past seven years, from some 93,000 jobs in 2010 to more than 250,000 jobs in 2017. Gilliland says worries about the outcome of a trade case played a significant role in the loss of jobs. Last year the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled that cheaper solar panels from China were hurting U.S. manufacturers, and in January the Trump Administration levied a 30 percent tariff on those imports.

Gilliland says other state-level policies, such as reducing how much home-solar providers are compensated for delivering electricity to local grids, are also slowing growth. He says the majority of solar manufacturers in the U.S. are not set up to produce cells and panels, and many are concerned that the new tariffs will decrease demand overall, which could lead to even greater job loss.

“We have about 36,000 manufacturing jobs in the U.S. that work on solar,” he says.

“That’s a 48 percent increase since 2010, and most of those manufacturers do not manufacture cells or panels.”

According to a U.S. Trade Representative China’s share of worldwide solar cell and panel production from 7 percent in 2005 to 61 percent in 2012. The Trump Administration’s tariffs are scheduled to decline over a four-year period.

— VERONICA CARTER

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CARMEL APPROVES NEW MOSQUE Marathon Zoning Hearing Ends in Favorable Vote

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onday evening, the City of Carmel Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) voted 3-2 to approve the building of a new Islamic Life Center.

The 28,000-square-foot mosque will be built on a five-acre piece of land at Shelborne Road and 141st Street.

Roughly 500 Hamilton County residents attended the meeting, with more than 200 of those signing up to speak for or against the proposal in a marathon meeting lasting more than five hours.

The Islamic Life Center was proposed by the Al Salam Foundation, a congregation currently meeting in a temporary location in Indianapolis near the Pyramids south of 96th Street. Each week, as many as 150 people pack the crowded space for Friday prayers. Many of the congregants live in Carmel, and they had been seeking a permanent place of worship closer to home.

The BZA’s regular meeting in January, held at the Monon Center, drew such a large number of citizens wanting to speak for and against the new mosque that a second meeting had to be scheduled for this week and moved to the much larger Palladium.

There, many Muslim residents spoke of the pain and frustration of not having a mosque — and not being able to fully take advantage of their rights under the First Amendment — in an otherwise increasingly diverse community.

Supporters also addressed concerns by neighboring homeowners from the Jan. 22 BZA meeting, pointing out that Muslim prayers take place on Friday, so the mosque would therefore not add to Sunday church traffic, that mosque activities were quiet, that there would be no five-time-daily call to prayer, etc.

According to Carmel resident Eyas Raddvariance for all the reasons cited by people ad, proponents of the mosque have worked before me and likely those following me,” to assuage the concerns of residents of the said longtime Carmel resident John Haskell. surrounding neighborhoods during the “I have only one request: give serious time that passed between the January and consideration and thought to the group February BZA meetings. of people [who] lived there prior to being “We’ve crossed all the T’s and dotted all annexed by the city ... respect our wishes the I’s to basically finish to continue to have this this application in a way small area of now Carmel that is consistent with “We’ve been here for a rural, low-density resiall the laws and reguladential area.” many many decades tions,” says Raddad, 43, Even though the often a senior research advisor and we want a home.” exasperated BZA Preswith Eli Lilly. “We want to ident Alan Potasnik rebe here; we love it. We’ve — EYAS RADDAD minded speakers to keep been here for many, to the topics of land use many decades, and we want a home.” and keep religion (and presumably religious A number of speakers who opposed bigotry as well) out of the conversation, there the project spoke of how they feared the was the occasional speaker who did not.

Islamic Life Center would depress home Carmel resident Paul Knutson, who lives values. They expressed support for the adjacent to the five acres under contention, Muslim community and for the mosque, was a case in point. as long as it be built somewhere else.

“As a Christian, I’m supporting minis“I live directly across from the proposed tries that are helping Christians that are site, and I oppose the issuance of the facing persecution,” he told NUVO, after

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inciting Potasnik’s ire at the podium. “I’ve seen when Islam takes over a region, it’s dominant. I’ve seen it in this country, where places have become no-go zones like in Michigan. I’ve seen it in France.

“These are the kind of things I’m worried about. It’s not so much a land issue. But it is a land issue in a sense that I live right next to it and I’m going to see it,” said Knutson.

When it was his turn to speak, Carmel City Councillor Kevin “Woody” Ryder didn’t pick a side, but he passionately defended the BZA process — and singled out Knutson in his remarks.

“I’m basically standing up to defend the process,” Ryder said. “People have lost sight of what this is. This isn’t about religion. This is a zoning issue. It’s not about the use. And I had to get up because of social media and the press [...] making Carmel out to look bigoted or racist.”

“This neighborhood is one of the most diverse neighborhoods I’ve seen,” he continued. “Of the 900 communications I’ve received, none have been anti-Muslim. I’ve worked to represent everyone in Carmel [but] the gentleman sitting next to me who said he doesn’t want to see the spread of this religion, especially in Carmel, I don’t represent him anymore.”

Carmel resident Erica Drew also criticized the minority anti-Muslim rhetoric that had come up during the hearings.

“It is an understatement for me to say I’m disappointed in the degree of opposition there’s been to this application,” said Drew.

“Don’t let Carmel’s zoning law be the excuse for blocking this mosque. Carmel is a vibrant and diverse community that embraces the First Amendment. Let’s keep it that way.”

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hen I think of Indianapolis, I think about art,” wrote Kate Silver in her Feb.14 story in The Washington Post, “Things to Do in Indianapolis.”

I suppose this might be reassuring to those of us negotiating potholes on the way to work. That is, Silver was more impressed by Indy’s burgeoning arts scene than its crumbling infrastructure (which, to be fair, is a problem not just limited to Indianapolis).

Silver mentioned specifically only three venues in her article — Newfields (aka the Indianapolis Museum of Art), the Alexander Hotel, and Art Bank Gallery — as places to check out fine art. Sadly, only one of those venues, Art Bank, makes the NUVO list of arts destinations to check out for March First Friday.

(Hey, Newfields isn’t even open after 5 p.m. on Friday, March 2, OK?) Art Bank, however, will be open, featuring the work of Lisa Green. It may be worth seeing this exhibit just on her written description alone: “To describe my style, I would say it’s Bob Ross meets ‘Take Your Breath Away’” (Do you picture a frizzy-hair Tom Cruise in aviators?)

The Washington Post’s Silver notes that Art Bank, now serving as artists’ studio space, was at one point an actual bank.

And it still has an intact vault. The fun of the article for me was seeing Silver go gaga over stuff that I’ve grown accustomed to, rightly or wrongly, over the years.

Several blocks west of Art Bank is the Athenaeum, built in 1894, which originally served as a German-American clubhouse and gymnasium. The building’s original name was Das Deutsche Haus before it was changed on Feb. 22, 1918.

After the U.S. had declared war on

Germany a year earlier, The Indianapolis Star and the Marion Council for Defense demanded that Das Deutsche Haus, which served as a German-American clubhouse and gymnasium, have an “American” name.

“So all of this, in my mind, 70 is because of fear of the other,” says Cassie Stock65 amp, the president of the Athenaeum Foundation. She was on hand on Feb. 22 for an unveiling of a Das Deutsche Haus sign. The sign now hangs over the west entrance of the Athenaeum (which will still be known as the Athenaeum).

Stockamp not only presides over a German-American landmark but also a multifaceted nonprofit organization that continues to serve as a venue for 70 nightlife and for community development. It also houses The Rathskeller restaurant and a YMCA. Then there’s the Athenaeum 65 ArtSpace. During the First Friday opening reception, you can check out the iPhone photography of Michael Alrichs, a type of photography inconceivable in 1894. Or even in 1994.

Plein air painting was all the rage in 1894 in Indiana, especially in Brown County. It has recently enjoyed a revival ing whimsical — landscapes is exhibiting among the Harrison Center gang of stuthis more subdued work at the Harrison in dio artists. Justin Vining just might be the an exhibition called In the Moment. capo di tutti capi of the Harrison’s plein air Indiana Landmarks will open its painters. Their M.O.: go out to Indy’s urgroup show People: Nature/Phases. I’m ban riparian zones among other spots (no eager to see the work of Indy-based matter how shitty the weather) and set up Stuart Snoddy, whose paintings were their easels. Vining, known for his colorful, featured in Hi-Fructose Magazine in fantastical — don’t let him catch you sayJanuary 2017.

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Gallery 924 will have receptions on both Thursday night — a collector’s night — and Friday. The title of the show is The Artist’s Process, and participants come from across the spectrum of the arts. It’s an exhibition inspired by Lois Main Templeton, who frequently used text in her otherwise abstract paintings.

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patrons will be the brand new Cabaret Theatre. The new theater shares space with Gallery 924 at the Arts Council and is set to have a grand opening in April.

Cat Head Press has set the bar high with recent exhibitions of Goya-inspired monoprints by Benny Sanders and pop-inspired collaborative paintings by The Droops. At Cat Head Press, there will be an exhibition entitled WVM, an acronym of its participants: Chris Vorhees, Steve Moore, and Nick Witten, who has curated exhibitions for Big Car. Speaking of Big Car, the work of Audrey Barcio continues to be featured at Tube Factory artspace (which is run by Big Car Collaborative).

Also in Fountain Square, the New Day Meadery is featuring the collage work of Jenny Elkins.

And speaking of collage, another artist working in this form, Matt Hall, will be the featured artist at Full Circle Nine Gallery in Circle City Industrial Complex.

Finally, the Long-Sharp Gallery will have a reception for Walter Lobyn Hamilton (who creates his portraiture out of mosaics using broken vinyl records), whose exhibit is entitled Narrative Not Included.

I’ve tried to squeeze as much into these pages as possible, but I’m sure I’m missing venues. This is just a way of saying that the Indy art scene is too large to sum up in The Washington Post or even NUVO. That is, there’s more art than one person can possibly see on this (or any given) First Friday in Indy.

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ndy drag queen Blair St. Clair has been chosen as a contestant on Season 10 of RuPaul’s Drag Race. It’s the first time a contestant from Indiana will compete on the show for the title of America’s Next Drag Superstar.

Twenty-two-year-old Andrew Bryson, who performs as Blair St. Clair, is a wellknown diva of the local drag set and the former Miss Gay Indiana 2016. We caught up with Blair by phone just days before the official casting announcement was made public. Although VH1 wouldn’t allow us to discuss anything show related (no questions about challenges, guest judges, or how well Blair or others did in the competition), we did find out a lot about this rising young star.

of the show for six weeks. Production takes your phone; you have no access to computers. I couldn’t talk to my family, not even a text saying, “Hi, how are you!” and that was really hard. It’s almost like losing a loved one. Even when you are cut and you go home, you can’t post anything, you can’t go out in public. It’s super hard.

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March 22, but you actually filmed the show last year, right? Are you relieved to finally be able to talk about it after keeping it a secret for so long?

BLAIR ST. CLAIR: Yes! I’m incredibly excited. I got the official call that I was going to be on the show in early August, so it’s been more than six months.

When you do the show, you have to agree to a total social-media blackout from the time you start until the time the show airs. While we were filming, we didn’t have contact with anyone outside

as if super fans already know who is in the cast before it is announced.

BLAIR: Yeah, the show has a super dedicated cult following. There’s a group on Reddit, and they’ve created a spreadsheet where fans added every drag queen in the country. Then when the time comes for a new season of Drag Race, they divvy it up and start watching everyone’s social-media account to find out who’s suddenly gone quiet. By the end of filming, they’ve got most of it figured out — but not all of it!

NUVO: So how did you explain your absence while you were gone?

BLAIR: I’m not a very good liar, so I created an alibi that was as close to the truth as I could make it. I work in theater as a wig designer, so I told people that I’d gotten an internship in Los Angeles with a touring company.

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The Big Story Continued...

NUVO: Tell us a little about yourself. Did you grow up in Indianapolis?

BLAIR: I was born and raised on the Southside, and I went to Perry Meridian.

My family still lives in Perry Township. In high school, I started doing theater, and that was huge for me. I had a wonderful teacher, Melissa Walsh, who really inspired me. She knew I was a really quiet and shy kid, but with theater, I was able to come out of that and really grow as a person and develop a knack for the stage.

NUVO: After high school, did you attend university or start working right away?

BLAIR: I thought about going into theater right after high school, but because I look so much younger than my age, a lot of people told me it might be hard for me to get adult roles. In the meantime, I took some business classes at IUPUI, but that wasn’t a good fit. Eventually, I went to Paul Mitchell for cosmetology and started working in salons.

My first job was at Meridian Design Group as the shampoo boy. Eventually I worked

my way up to doing hair, but I didn’t enjoy it as much as I thought I would. So I got a job doing hair and makeup for a theater group, and that seemed more like the career I wanted or at least a step toward doing what I really love. There was a lot more artistic freedom than in the salon.

NUVO: Is this when you started doing drag?

BLAIR: It was a little later. I’d been doing some hair and makeup work for theater productions, and then I was cast in La Cage Aux Folles at Footlight Musicals in 2014, and I absolutely loved it. It was the first time I’d really been exposed to drag culture, and it just really clicked for me.

When the show closed, I wanted to continue doing drag. I talked to my mom, and she helped me create the character of Blair. My parents are amazing people.

They’ve been super supportive, especially as I get older. When I first came out, early in high school, they were more reserved, cautious, I guess. Their only concern was

“I’m living my dream and I’m using my love of theater to create my own mini-musical every time I do a show as Blair St. Clair. I’m the producer, the director, and the star.

I love every bit of it.”

— BLAIR ST. CLAIR

how hard it would be for me in the world.

I don’t think I was fully able to understand that as a kid. I do now. And that’s something I’d like to help people younger than me understand too. People react to things differently, and sometimes you both need time. It’s not because they don’t care or love you — sometimes they just need time to understand.

My parents are my biggest supporters at this point. They know I’m doing some-

thing I love. I’m living my dream, and I’m using my love of theater to create my own mini-musical every time I do a show as Blair St. Clair. I’m the producer, the director, and the star. I love every bit of it.

NUVO: Since the closure of Talbott Street, does Indy still have a place for drag?

BLAIR: Absolutely. It was sad when Talbott closed, and it did have an effect. I didn’t start doing drag until about six months after it closed, so it does make me sad that I never got to perform at such an iconic spot. But the good thing that has happened is that more places in town are doing drag shows now. Zonie’s Closet has an amateur drag night, and that’s where I got my start. Metro has drag night, and even straight clubs like Monkey’s Tail in Broad Ripple has had a drag show once a month. What’s amazing is that drag is becoming mainstream, and more people are wanting to try it. We need more clubs, more queens; otherwise, it gets stale.

THE FIERCE COMPETITION Indy’s own Blair St. Clair will compete against 13 other queens on this season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, all of them vying for the title of America’s Next Drag Superstar. The show begins airing on VH1 March 22 at 8 p.m.

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NUVO.NET/THEBIGSTORY NUVO: Tell me about Blair St. Clair. Who is she?

BLAIR: Blair St. Clair is a young, effervescent girl who loves vintage fashion.

She loves everything from the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s — but mostly she goes for a 1960s Christian Dior look. Think Ann Margret and Mary Tyler Moore. She’s a free spirit and a fresh twist but classic and refined.

NUVO: What was the best part about being on RuPaul’s Drag Race?

BLAIR: It was a wonderful experience, and I don’t want to discount that. But for me, the best part was not what happened on the show but what happened related to my DUI. It happened before I did the show, and the producers knew about it, and they knew about related court dates. But TMZ got ahold of the story, and it was a lot of negative press and a lot of misinformation.

Even though that was awful, it was a stepping-stone for me to get help and

Check out the red carpet photos from Monday night’s party at The Metro for Blair St. Clair at www.nuvo.net

get sober. Honestly, that’s been the best thing that’s happened to me in the last year. I found a program that works for me, and it’s given me the tools I need to change some things in my life that needed changing.

I’m 22, and you wouldn’t think someone that young could have an addiction or a problem. But lots of young people do. I did. It’s one thing to go out and have fun.

It’s another when you’re going to work, getting shitfaced, and then expecting to get paid. That’s a problem.

NUVO: And RuPaul? What is she like?

BLAIR: Oh my god, RuPaul is an incredibly beautiful, kind, sweet, and stoic Greek goddess. She doesn’t say a lot, but when she does, everyone listens. N

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or 62-year-old Gilbert Gottfried, the internet age has taken some getting used to, especially considering the longtime comedian’s consistently unhinged style. From 9/11 to masturbation, Gottfried has never shied away from a topic because it’s too touchy. This quality has certainly gotten him into trouble a time or two (and it might very well again in the interview that follows).

Nevertheless, the flamboyant funny man remains active on the comedy circuit today, holding tight to his trademark in-yourface approach. Ahead of some upcoming appearances at Morty’s Comedy Joint on March 2-3, we caught up with Gottfried for an entertaining phone interview.

NUVO: In all of my research, I’ve never really seen you speak on this. What was it that sparked your initial interest in comedy?

GILBERT: I just think I was too stupid to do anything else. [laughs] As a kid, I remember I used to watch a lot of TV. I’d watch the shows that were on the air, and I’d watch a lot of old movies. And then, I just started doing imitations of different actors and comics I saw. That sort of started me in that direction.

NUVO: Who were some people you imitated around those early times?

GILBERT: Oh God. I was imitating Humphrey Bogart and Boris Karloff. So even back then, my act was dated. [laughs] NUVO: I recently interviewed Judy Gold, and she talked about how she thinks comedy has gotten too politically correct.

WHAT // Gilbert Gottfried WHEN // March 2-3, 7:15 p.m. & 9:45 p.m.

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Like her, you would seem to have a similar viewpoint. Is there a part of you that feels comedy has become too politically correct?

GILBERT: Yeah. I mean, it’s a weird time.

But I think especially with the internet.

The internet makes me feel sentimental for old-time lynch mobs. At least they had to go out and get their hands dirty. Now, it’s like you sit on the couch in your underwear and form a lynch mob.

NUVO: You’ve had your experience with backlash on social media after making jokes on Twitter about the Japanese earthquake and tsunami back in 2011. What has figuring out how to be funny on social media been like, and what lessons have you learned along the way?

GILBERT: Luckily, I’m one of those people who never seems to learn their lesson. [laughs] It’s funny. With the internet, first you could say, “Oh, well, be careful what you say on the internet,” but you’ve gotta be careful what you say in the clubs because that’ll wind up on the internet. What you say in a private conversation will wind up on the internet.

NUVO: On the topic of online trends, podcasting has become quite big in comedy over the past decade. What was it that made you want to start your own podcast?

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GILBERT: My wife actually suggested it.

I’m one of those people who still looks at a podcast as “Oh, these kids with their newfangled inventions.” I don’t quite understand it, and I’m amazed at how many people listen to my podcast. I was expecting it to be one of those things I do five times and then say, “Well, this isn’t worth it.”

NUVO: What do you enjoy about doing your podcast?

GILBERT: It’s funny. There are these people I have on. Under normal circumstances, I think, “I’d like to sit down and talk to that guy, but I don’t have a reason to.” Now with the podcast, I do have a reason to seek them out.

NUVO: You recently had a documentary about your life come out. What was that experience like? I would imagine it was pretty strange.

GILBERT: Yeah. This filmmaker Neil Berkeley came up to me and said, “I’ve always dreamt of doing a Gilbert Gottfried documentary.”

And I said, “Well, you should set your dreams a lot higher than that.” Then, he just started following me around, and I was too much of a wimp to get away.

Because I never wanted a documentary about me. But then, I let him, and I didn’t stop him from anything that he wanted to film. I mean, it’s gotten great reviews. I myself still have a hard time watching it.

To me, it’s like the first time you actually hear your voice or see yourself moving around, and you go, “No, I don’t sound that way, and I don’t move around that way.” That’s the way it is watching this.

NUVO: You have some appearances coming up in Indianapolis at Morty’s. Having been a comedian for as long as you have, do you have any stories of doing standup here in the past?

GILBERT: It’s funny. I’ve travelled so many places over the years. I know I’ve been to Indianapolis. But for the most part, I show up, I get off the plane, I check into the hotel. The next morning, I do Cap’n Jack and Crazy Jim and their morning show, and then I go back to the hotel and then to the club. So I don’t even know.

I could be in Indianapolis or Paris, and I wouldn’t know the difference. N

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ith spring right around the corner, we are coming up on wine festival season, and, as with every year, one of the first is the WFYI Ice Miller Wine Fest. The annual event, now in its 19th year, is a fun and tasty way to help support Indiana’s public broadcasting and the education, entertainment, and community engagement that comes with it. “Wine Fest is important on so many levels,” says Andy Klotz, WFYI’s director of marketing and promotions. “It’s not only our biggest fundraiser of the year, but it is a tremendous social event that attracts a wide collection of people. … It allows us to stay connected to our supporters and tap into the issues that they’re most concerned about, which in turn provides us direction for programs and news coverage.”

The event, which comes to the Old National Centre on Friday, March 2, will highlight wines and wineries from around the world and Indiana.

“Make sure to go around the entire venue and take in all there is to do and see,” says Klotz as advice to attendees.

“Don’t just head to your favorite winery’s table and anchor yourself nearby.

The Indiana Grown Trail is a fun way to make your way around, sampling all the different local fare. With over 400 varieties of wine at the event coming from local Indiana wineries, as well as local liquor stores and distributors, it truly is a celebration of wine and the perfect opportunity to branch out and try some new varietals.”

If you’re taking Klotz’s advice, mix up your go-to wines and try some of these similar styles instead.

ied like a Syrah and typically fruit forward.

However, if you enjoy earthier, smokier wines, they will not be as bold as a Syrah, so don’t expect a major punch to your palate.

WHITES

REDS CABERNET SAUVIGNON: If you find your palate gearing toward a full-bodied, Old World red like Cabernet, then there’s a good chance you would fall head over heels for a Tempranillo or Rioja. Typically Spanish in origin, it is very similar to Cabernet but generally has a more earthy and leathery profile and more cherry, similar to a Pinot Noir. Another benefit of tasting and loving Tempranillo is it is typically inexpensive in comparison to Cab and still just as delicious.

PINOT NOIR: Pinot became the go-to red wine after people fell in love with the 2004 movie Sideways. And while Pinot deserves its love, another wine from the same region is worth a try. Gamay Noir comes from the same area as Pinot, in the Beaujolais region of Burgundy, France — it may even be bottled as Beaujolais — and it drinks like a bowl full of berries and cherries with a nose like a bundle of fresh-cut flowers including the soil.

Much like the Tempranillo to Cab, Gamay is

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much easier on the wallet than Pinot and for that reason alone, you should give it a taste.

MERLOT: For years, Merlot was a beloved wine, especially for people just getting into wine. And then — again thanks to the movie Sideways — it fell off the map after being bashed by Paul Giamatti’s character. And while Merlot is actually a solid wine — despite many low-quality versions out there — you should give Grenache a chance. Some of the best wines in the world are Grenache, and there are enthusiasts who love the candied, spicy flavor profile. The truth is no two Grenaches are the same, especially when comparing a Spanish Grenache to a French or American Grenache. So taste the day away and find the one that your taste buds adore.

SYRAH: Que sera … Syrah is one of the darkest and boldest styles of red wine there is, and it is beloved by wine connoisseurs from around the world. And, while you shouldn’t pass on a Syrah (aka Shiraz), you also shouldn’t miss out on Malbec. Malbecs are mostly from Argentina and are full-bod-

SAUVIGNON BLANC: Sauvignon Blanc is truly a unique style of wine, especially when compared to other popular styles. While it has typical citrusy white wine notes, it is more herbaceous than most other whites are. If the herbal flavors are what drive you to Sauvignon Blanc, then a good way to go is Albariño. This light, refreshing, and acidic wine is a wonderful option when you’re looking for your spring and summertime whites, especially if you’re looking to pair with seafood. Give it a try and use your nose to find the basil notes hiding in there.

RIESLING: Not all Riesling is created equal.

Some Rieslings, especially when looking at a Midwest palate, are cloyingly sweet, but on the other end, there are dry, highly sought-after bottles from Alsace. And while you should definitely branch into those dryer Rieslings, if you prefer the sweeter variety, you may like Indiana’s state wine, Traminette. Traminette is from the Gewurztraminer family, and while it can be dry, mostly it is sweet due to residual sugar, and it has a similar flavor to the German wine, with notes of pineapple and lychee. If you want to be a true Hoosier, this is the wine for you.

PINOT GRIS: While Pinot Gris (aka Pinot Grigio) is readily available most anywhere you go that serves wine, it is much

NUVO.NET/FOOD+DRINK rarer to come across White Pinot Noir.

So if you happen to see this being sampled while at an event, it’s the best place to try it out. Because it is made with red grapes (minus the skins), it has a much richer flavor profile and is typically bolder. To give it a flavor profile is difficult as the variations between oaked and unoaked are wildly diverse, but if you love baked apple pie, you’ll love White Pinot Noir.

CHARDONNAY: Chardonnay, much like White Pinot Noir, has very different flavors depending on how it is finished. It is truly a versatile style of wine, and it’s nearly impossible to pinpoint a single flavor profile. And if you love Chardonnay, whether oaked or unoaked, Viognier should become part of your usual bottle choice. While Chardonnay is usually bolder and more citrusy, Viognier is a lighter, easier-tasting wine with a citrus note but definitely (only slightly) sweeter. The only question you have to ask yourself for both styles is if you enjoy them oaked, unoaked, or both.

Spending your afternoon at the Wine Fest tasting your old favorites along with some of these new options is a fun and easy way to support WFYI and expand your palate and wine knowledge. As Klotz says, “Many people don’t realize how public media is different from commercial media. We have to pay for the programming we receive from providers like PBS and NPR. Wine Fest goes a long way in helping us secure that great programming.”

He then adds that after the event you should stick around for the Sun King After Party. “The best part of Wine Fest is the people you run into and the conversations you have,” says Klotz. “WFYI supporters are a devoted group, particularly our radio listeners. They’re active, engaged, civic-minded folks who are great conversationalists, so no topic is off limits.” He says the After Party is the perfect place to continue those conversations while enjoying live music and getting some bites of the hearty dishes available at the party. N

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BY CAVAN McGINSIE // CMCGINSIE@NUVO.NET

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n Sunday night, Feb. 25, restaurateur and chef Neal Brown announced via his Facebook page that he would be closing his restaurant, Stella.

Stella opened March 21 of 2017, after Brown closed the original location of his craft pizza concept, Pizzology. The new restaurant, Stella, brought southern European cuisine with a focus on local ingredients to Massachusetts Avenue.

Now he’s decided to close the space, but he’s not getting rid of his craft cocktail bar, Libertine, which is located a floor below Stella’s space. On the same post announcing the closing, he said, “We’ll be using the Stella space as an event space in the immediate future. If you’d like to book a private event, please reach out.”

The closing comes with the announcement of another venture for Brown and a few other local business people. Brown is joining Angie’s List co-founder and former CEO, Bill Oesterle, and Oesterle’s business partner, also of Angie’s List, Ed Sherman, in reviving the vintage art deco space at 215 E. 38th St., which formerly housed a Chase Bank. The trio will be

opening an upscale restaurant named Midtown Brasserie.

In a press release sent out last night, Brown says, “First of all, that building is amazing, and I’m beyond excited about the possibilities it offers.”

He also calls it a destination spot.

Midtown Brasserie is set to open by September of this year. It will join Brown’s remaining restaurants, Ukiyo and Moon Rabbit Ramen at 49th and College, Libertine Liquor Bar on Massachusetts Avenue, and Pizzology in Carmel.

According to the release, the 7,500-square-foot building was built in 1947. It reads, “The new restaurant will incorporate the original architecture, as well as the original vaults and safety deposit box areas. Outdoor seating is planned under the former drive-thru awning. The property offers 72 parking spaces.”

This story will be developing as NUVO has reached out for further information on what to expect with Midtown Brasserie and the redevelopment of this corridor of 38th Street. N

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North Carolina Natives Bring Alt-Country, Bluegrass Blend to Indy

BY BILL FORMAN // MUSIC@NUVO.NET

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t one point or another, all of us have wondered how to land a gig playing the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on a float sponsored by Kentucky Fried Chicken.

For the North Carolina band Mipso, there isn’t any great secret to how it happened.

“That is a great question, and a question that we still kind of ask ourselves,” said Mipso mandolin player Jacob Sharp, who recalls getting a call out of the blue from the parade’s talent booker. Sharp and his bandmates, who were on tour at the time, soon were deliberating whether you could really stay true to your art while rolling through the streets of Manhattan in a holiday procession led by Mariah Carey and the Pillsbury Doughboy.

“Once we realized that we did think that was possible, it became this really fun and freeing opportunity to take part in what I think is one of America’s most absurd traditions,” said the singer and mandolin player of the annual ritual that draws an audience of some 50 million television viewers. “We were literally 15 feet above the streets of Manhattan on a flying bucket of chicken with Colonel Sanders and his minions alongside us.”

Sharp also has vivid memories of 50-foottall cartoon-character balloons hovering above them.

“The nearest balloon to us was one of the Angry Birds — it was this menacing-looking pigeon — and, you know, the whole day was just, on every level, so absurd,” he said.

“Like they shut down a portion of Central Park that morning for the performers, and we shared a dressing room with Pat Benatar and Questlove. So yeah, for a young string band, it was a different set of circumstances than what we’re used to out on the road.”

That was three years ago, back when Mipso was still transitioning from its original acoustic-string-band sound toward a more

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singer-songwriter alt-country approach.

In many ways, it’s a natural progression for Sharp and his bandmates — fiddler Libby Rodenbough, guitarist Joseph Terrell, and bassist Wood Robinson — who began playing together six-plus years ago as classmates at UNC-Chapel Hill.

I asked Sharp how it feels to step away from bluegrass and to play music that’s less than 120-plus beats per minute.

“It’s great,” he said of the band’s newfound freedom. “Our first album came out right after we had formed, and we had never been in a band before and were just starting to write our own music. Being from North Carolina, the history of string-band music and bluegrass was what we were most interested in at the time. But all of our shared favorite records are Laurel Canyon stuff from the ’60s and ’70s. And so, as we’ve matured and become more confident as songwriters, we’ve felt that bluegrass — although it was an important foundation for us to have understood initially — wasn’t necessarily the best tone for some of these songs now.”

Mipso’s change in direction is immediately apparent on the band’s recently released Coming Down the Mountain album.

Highlights include the Rodenbough-penned

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ballad “Cry Like Somebody,” her voice reminiscent of Emmylou Harris as she sings, “You cry like somebody with nothing to cry about / Tears running down to your open mouth / Moaning like a dog that wants out.”

The album also brings together some stellar session players. On the opening title track, guest pedal-steel player Eric Heywood — who’s best known for his work with Son Volt and Ray LaMontagne — helps the band recreate the sound of Harvest-era Neil Young.

“That was certainly a direction that we let him know we were hoping we’d find together,” said Sharp. “He’s pretty amazing, and he recently moved to North Carolina, so we’re lucky to have him as part of our community.”

As for other album influences, Sharp says Jackson Browne also ranked high.

“We were listening to a lot of live recordings by him and his band at that point,” he said. “And when it comes to

more modern stuff, Rick Mills is one of our favorite songwriters and guitar players and producers, and then also Anaïs Mitchell.

So those were kind of the different places we were pulling from. What’s so cool about that Laurel Canyon community, at that moment in time, was how these bands with really distinct and separate personalities all came together. They were living together and making these really dynamic records, both from a production and songwriting perspective, and that kind of became the driving force for what we were trying to do with this album.”

In fact, Sharp feels like the Chapel Hill area has the same kind of musical camaraderie that helped make L.A.’s Laurel Canyon sound what it was.

“Of course, part of this is just because it’s where we’re from and it’s what we know best, but I think the triangle of North Carolina — which is Chapel Hill, Durham, and Raleigh — has as strong and diverse a music community and scene as anywhere in the country right now,” said the musician, citing hometown artists such as Mandolin Orange, Steep Canyon Rangers, and Hiss Golden Messenger, as well as influential labels such as Merge Records and Yep Roc Records.

The one obstacle is that in order to make a living, those bands spend much of their time touring far from home. Mipso has racked up more than 300 shows out on the road, but the band members feel the musicians from their neck of North Carolina maintain their connections with each other.

“It’s unfortunate that although we have so many musicians living within five miles of each other, we’re generally hundreds of miles apart, out touring at the same time,” says Sharp. “But if you look at any of the album credits from bands around here, you’ll see a lot of overlap when it comes to who’s playing on whose record. And that’s a really cool and amazing thing.” N

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Monika Herzig’s All-Woman Group Plays for Jazz Girls Day

BY KYLE LONG // MUSIC@NUVO.NET

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deep love for jazz music first brought German-born pianist Monika Herzig to the United States. Since the 1990s, Herzig has been living in Bloomington, where she earned a doctorate in music education at Indiana University. While she currently holds a faculty position at the school, most Hoosier music fans know Herzig for her work off campus.

Herzig has been a prolific performer and recording artist during her time in Indiana, releasing around 20 albums as both a leader and member of the fusion group BeebleBrox. In addition to her work on the keys, Herzig has also distinguished herself as an author and advocate for women in jazz.

Herzig’s 2011 book David Baker — A Legacy in Music is not only an excellent biography of the late Indianapolis jazz legend, but an indispensable title for anyone seeking to learn more about Indy’s important jazz legacy. Herzig’s latest volume is titled Experiencing Chick Corea: A Listener’s Companion, an expert analysis of one of jazz music’s greatest keyboardists.

But what will bring her to Indy this month is Herzig’s advocacy for women in jazz. As part of Jazz Girls Day, Herzig will be conducting a free jazz clinic for girls at Central Library on Saturday, March 10.

Later that night, Herzig will bring her allstar/all-woman band to the Jazz Kitchen for a concert. Head to MonikaHerzig.com for more info and register for the free Jazz Girls Day clinic at Central Library.

NUVO: You have a lot of excellent projects planned for 2018, one of those being the release of the album SHEroes. Tell me about that project.

HERZIG: SHEroes is the second album from my all female group; the first one was called The Whole World in Her Hands.

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speaks to everybody.

So one goal is to hear those compositional voices, but I have a few other pieces that I thought fit the character of the project. We have a version of the “House of the Rising Son,” which talks about that early New Orleans culture I just mentioned. We also have a version of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.” I just thought that was a really cool anthem. We can climb and we can do it! I kind of rocked this version up, and this recording was passed to the song’s co-author Valerie Simpson. She wrote back and said, “Well, this is an interesting version. I never thought I’d hear my music that way, but I really like it.” I thought that was very flattering.

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It comes out of my advocacy for women in jazz. I’ve been doing this for a long time, and it’s still an upward battle. There are a lot of reasons for that. Initially the environment where jazz was first performed in the Storyville district of New Orleans was not a place that women had easy access to, and it was actually a very dangerous environment.

But throughout the history of jazz, it’s been difficult for women. Some of that is due to the way jazz improvisation has been traditionally taught through mentorship. Even today there are a lot of early dividers; when jazz is introduced in middle school, that’s not really a time a young girl wants to step out and say, “Yeah, I’m gonna take a risk in front of my

peers and make a fool out of myself trying to improvise.” That rarely happens.

NUVO: So are there particular women in jazz you’re paying tribute to on SHEroes?

HERZIG: The concept of that project is, first, to feature our own original compositions. Because I’m putting the album together, I have the privilege of including a lot of my own compositions. But most of the others have contributed at least one piece. The idea is to hear all these different voices. I think it’s important to recognize that once jazz starts adapting to a more equal representation of women, it will change the language and it will change how jazz sounds. And that’s OK because jazz should be something that

Day concerts and clinics you’re organizing.

HERZIG: In March, we will stage for the first time in Indiana Jazz Girls Day. There will be one in Indianapolis and one in South Bend. This is part of a national movement created by SF Jazz featuring mentorship, clinics, and discussion. The girls get a chance to work in combos and jam and play together. It’s an all-women cast of clinicians, so it’s a very safe environment. SF Jazz has been doing this for around five years, and this year we’re having events all over the country.

For this event, I’m bringing in Leni Stern, who was voted one of the best 50 female guitarists by Guitar Player magazine.

I’m also bringing in Jamie Baum, who is a great composer and flautist and a Guggenheim fellow. Then we’ll team up with a lot of great regional ladies such as Bethany Robinson on bass, Hannah Johnson on drums, Jen Siukola on trumpet, Janiece Jaffe on vocals, and Shawn Goodman will join us on the clarinet. Later that evening, we’ll take this great band to the Jazz Kitchen for a concert. N NUVO.NET // 02.28.18 - 03.07.18 // MUSIC // 19

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You’re almost brave and sort of free and semi-faithful.

My advice about these halfway states is the same: Either go all the way or else stop pretending you might.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Appalachian Trail is a 2,200-mile path that runs through the eastern United States. Hikers can wind their way through forests and wilderness areas from Mount Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in Georgia.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Is 2018 turning out to be as I expected it would be for you? Have you become more accepting of yourself and further at peace with your mysterious destiny? Are you benefiting from greater stability and security? Do you feel more at home in the world and better nurtured by your close allies? If for some reason these developments are not yet in bloom, withdraw from every lesser concern and turn your focus to them. Make sure you make full use of the gifts that life is conspiring to provide for you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “You can’t find intimacy— you can’t find home — when you’re always hiding behind masks,” says Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist Junot Díaz. “Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.” I can’t imagine any better advice to offer you as you navigate

your way through the next seven weeks, Virgo. You will have a wildly fertile opportunity to find and create more intimacy. But in order to take full advantage, you’ll have to be brave and candid and unshielded.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the coming weeks, you could reach several odd personal bests. For instance, your ability to distinguish between flowery bullshit and inventive truth-telling will be at a peak.

Your “imperfections” will be more interesting and forgivable than usual, and might even work to your advantage, as well. I suspect you’ll also have an adorable inclination to accomplish the half-right thing when it’s impossible to do the perfectly right thing.

Finally, all the astrological omens suggest that you will have a tricky power to capitalize on lucky lapses.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): French philosopher Blaise Pascal said, “If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.” American author Henry David Thoreau declared, “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” I would hesitate to offer these two formulations in the horoscope of any other sign but yours, Scorpio. And I would even hesitate to offer them to you at any other time besides right now. But I feel that you currently have the strength of character and fertile willpower necessary to make righteous use of such stringently medicinal magic. So please proceed with my agenda for you, which is to become the Smartest, Feistiest, Most Resourceful Lover Who Has Ever Lived.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The state of Kansas has over 6,000 ghost towns -- places where people once lived, but then abandoned. Daniel C. Fitzgerald has written six books documenting these places. He’s an expert on researching what remains of the past and drawing conclusions based on the old evidence. In accordance with current astrological omens, I suggest you consider doing comparable research into your own lost and half-forgotten history.

You can generate vigorous psychic energy by communing with origins and memories. Remembering who you used to be will clarify your future.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s not quite a revolution that’s in the works. But it is a sprightly evolution. Accelerating developments may test your ability to adjust gracefully. Quickly-shifting story lines will ask you to be resilient and flexible. But the unruly flow won’t throw you into a stressful tizzy as long as you treat it as an interesting challenge instead of an inconvenient imposition. My advice is not to stiffen your mood or narrow your range of expression, but rather to be like an actor in an improvisation class. Fluidity is your word of power.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s the Productive Paradox Phase of your cycle. You can generate good luck and unexpected help by romancing the contradictions. For example: 1. You’ll enhance your freedom by risking deeper commitment.

2. You’ll gain greater control over wild influences by loosening your grip and providing more spaciousness.

3. If you are willing to appear naive, empty, or foolish, you’ll set the stage for getting smarter. 4. A blessing you didn’t realize you needed will come your way after you relinquish a burdensome “asset.” 5. Greater power will flow your way if you expand your capacity for receptivity.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): As you make appointments in the coming months, you could re-use calendars from 2007 and 2001. During those years, all the dates fell on the same days of the week as they do in 2018. On the other hand, Pisces, please don’t try to learn the same lessons you learned in 2007 and 2001. Don’t get snagged in identical traps or sucked into similar riddles or obsessed with comparable illusions. On the other other hand, it might help for you to recall the detours you had to take back then, since you may thereby figure out how to avoid having to repeat boring old experiences that you don’t need to repeat.

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