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FORGIVE THE RELIGIOUS IN THE NAME OF GOD A

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fter several last ditch efforts to LGBT community. convince the Indiana Senate that it Oh, yes it was. But I forgive them. should debate and vote on the issue It turns out these two Christian-based of bias or hate crimes, I was forced conservative groups oppose any legislation to accept that it isn’t going to happen. Not that provides any, and I mean absolutely this year. any, legal protections for gays. Even they Maybe not ever. know that it is difficult, if not impossible, Nationally, the number of hate crimes to humanely defend opposing enhanced is skyrocketing. Even Vice President Mike penalties for the assault of a gay man or Pence made a surprise visit woman simply because to a historic Jewish cemetery they are gay. Or for being in Missouri to condemn the I have been angry perceived to be gay. And for recent vandalism that had purpose of scaring other at the evangelical the occurred there. Meanwhile, people who are gay. groups in Indiana his home state of Indiana is That opposition might one of only five states left in not seem very Christian. for their cruelty America that is silent on the And it isn’t. toward my LGBT issue. But if Pence were in Pope Francis said in his second term as goverJune of last year that “the neighbors. nor here, he would not be Catechism of the Catholic awestruck by the “inspiring” Church says: that gay people response from the people of Missouri. He should not be discriminated against, that would more likely be making sure Senate they have to be respected, pastorally acBill 439 died, and stayed dead. companied.” He also said that the church Luckily for Pence, and his staunchest must say it’s “sorry to this person that is Hoosier supporters, the Indiana bias gay that it has offended.” crimes bill is dead even without his help.

I have been angry at the evangelical It is dead because the Indiana Family groups in Indiana for their cruelty toward Association and the Indiana Family Inmy LGBT neighbors. But as Pope Francis stitute want it dead. You remember these would expect of me, I forgive them. two groups. They were two of the main I was doing some reading after the proponents of our now infamous Religious exhausting day that Thursday turned out Freedom and Restoration Act in 2015. to be for me and came across an essay by We have heard repeatedly from them Preston Sprinkle. He has a Ph.D. in the that RFRA was not about any group’s New Testament and is a best selling author hatred for the gay community. Neither was and a professor of theology. He wrote that, it an attempt to discriminate against or “We evangelicals need to get beyond what deprive dignity from any member of the we believe and pay attention to how we Voices continues on page 4

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BAYNARD WOODS Baynard Woods is a DC correspondent blogging the first 100 days of Trump for NUVO.net.

believe.” I was specifically drawn to Sprinkle’s view that while the Bible prohibits same-sex behavior, “the Bible also, and much more pervasively, prohibits withholding Christ’s love from those who don’t agree with us.”

This is clearly not how the evangelical IFA and IFI see the world. But again, I forgive them.

Dr. Gregory Tomlinson wrote in The Christian Examiner in December 2015 that “Jesus was concerned with people believing self-righteousness was a ticket to heaven. He repeatedly expressed frustration with the sanctimonious who misinterpreted or misapplied God’s word.” A growing number of Christians see this unholy fear and hatred of the LGBT community as nothing more than a misinterpretation and misapplication of God’s word.

And I forgive them for that too. But no matter how many times I do, and no matter how hard it is for me, my forgiveness won’t change their minds.

My anger toward them never did either. So what will?

I actually believe that as they learn from others of their own faith, they will learn to live in a more Christian-like manner. I see Christianity the way Pope Francis does. I see Jesus as more loving than condemning. And I have always thought that Jesus would be less concerned with the literal contents of the Bible and far more concerned with its infinite meaning.

Indiana will not be able to protect people for being targeted because of bias towards who they are until it can come to terms with its tragic homophobia, which some disguise as Christian based. Ironically, I think it is faith itself that will see us through it.

That and maybe a General Assembly with a little more courage.

One day they will learn Maya Angelou was correct: “It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive.”

I’m now patiently looking forward to that day. Not for me, but for them. N

TRUMP’S BETRAYAL OF TRANS AMERICA “W

BY BAYNARD WOODS // EDITORS@NUVO.NET

hen you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”

This was Donald Trump talking to Billy Bush about assaulting women more than a decade ago, but it has proven to be the ultimate expression of Trumpism.

When Matt Lauer, a rich celebrity, asked Trump, another rich celebrity, about North Carolina’s discriminatory “bathroom bill,” it became a question of whether Trump “would be fine with [Caitlyn Jenner] using any bathroom she chooses” in Trump Tower.

Jenner, like Trump, is a reality TV star with complicated lines between business and family. Of course she can pee wherever she wants.

But trans people who aren’t stars and who have to go to the bathroom in less glamorous places than Trump Tower are shit out of luck after the administration declared in late February it would not protect the rights of trans students.

Jenner spoke out against Trump’s reversal on trans issues, telling him to call her. But because she is also a star, her plea misses the point. Trump attacks the most vulnerable.

If Trump wanted to understand how it feels to be denied access to basic services, he could talk to Gavin Grimm, a trans high school student whose lawsuit against his Virginia school district — for forcing him to use a refashioned janitor’s closet instead of the men’s room — was scheduled to reach the Supreme Court later this month, but was sent on Monday back to a lower court because of the new guidelines set by Trump’s justice department.

Or when Trump spoke at the ultra-right Conservative Political Action Conference in late February, he could have talked to Jennifer Williams and Jordan Evans, the two trans women who stood out in the hallway holding a “Don’t Tread on Me” flag and a sign that said,

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“Proud to be Conservative, Proud to Be Transgender, Proud to be American #sameteam.”

“We spent the last year fighting for transgender rights and being part of a presidential campaign, [and] we didn’t know what we were walking into,” Williams said of the anti-trans fervor once again spiking in the ruling party.

Williams has attended the conference since 2006, when she was working on a film called Fear of a Black Republican. She felt that the conference and the conservative movement was moving toward the libertarianism of Ron Paul and away from the “traditional values” of Mike Huckabee.

Until 2016, she Trump attacks attended the conference presenting the most as a man, rather vulnerable. than as Jennifer, her authentic self.

She says she was received warmly when she reintroduced herself last year — her friends asked if she was still a conservative and when she said she was, they were cool.

But after a brief moment of high hopes, the mood shifted.

First, then-Breitbarteer Milo Yiannopoulos got a keynote spot on CPAC’s program.

Yiannopoulos regularly called trans people “mentally ill” and used a December speech in Milwaukee to mock a trans student.

Like Yiannopoulos, some openly gay people at CPAC seemed eager to dis trans people in order to cement their own endangered status among the bigots. One conservative lesbian blogger sitting in the press section “explained” to a Breitbart editor how trans women were really just men who like to dress in women’s clothes and masturbate.

“Autogynephiles,” she said, talking high and punching down.

Williams was briefly relieved when Yian-

nopoulos was disinvited from CPAC, but then, the night before the conference began, the regime rescinded the Obama-era directive offering federal protection for students to use the facilities that correspond with their gender identities rather than their birth certificates.

Williams is especially worried for young trans kids. “When I grew up, we had no hope, and you knew that if you were going to be out and proud and live your life authentically, it was just going to be tough,” she said. “These kids have had a great run for several years making life better and easier so they can live openly. But now if I’m them, everybody knows who I am. What’s going to happen to me now?”

The fear, she says “has to be overwhelming, because at least the federal government had your back. Now they don’t.”

At its best, the federal government protects the minority from the tyranny of the majority.

But Trump’s populism says fuck that shit.

On the same day Trump press secretary Sean Spicer said that trans protections are “states’ rights issues,” he also said that recreational cannabis would be a federal issue. In this regime, there are no real principles, only power and the repression of anyone vulnerable enough to repress.

Williams has placed whatever hope she has left in the courts. “If we lose the Gavin Grimm case, it could be pretty dismal for a long time.

I don’t want to say ‘until a Democrat gets elected,’ because I’m a Republican committee person,” she said. “Hopefully our party will be the ones to make freedom happen for everyone.”

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IMPROVING MENTAL HEALTH Indiana makes slow strides in improving services

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n 2015, Indiana ranked rather low in the nation in regards to health concerns. The Hoosier state ranked 32nd in diabetes and 36th in infant mortality.

Our collective mental health is struggling, too.

Almost five percent of adults in Indiana experienced effects of a serious mental illness in 2014-2015, according to a report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. In the same years, almost 21 percent of people in the state reported a mental illness of some type. These numbers are slightly higher than the national average for that time, where about four percent of Americans reported a serious mental illness and just over 18 percent of people reported any mental illness to the study.

Mental health issues encompass a wide range of illnesses, from depression to anxiety to psychosis and ADHD, among many others. The mental health system in the state is doing what it can, and improvements have been made, but there are many ways in which the system is still in need of help.

Josh Sprunger, the executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, says Indiana is in the middle in regards to spending and funding of mental health care.

“Indiana is doing a good job,” he says.

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“What I would say is that Indiana has come a long way in the past five years or so, but they have a long way to go.” Sprunger adds that Indiana, in relation to other states, has maintained relatively steady per capita funding for mental health services, while other states have decreased their services and funding.

“We’re glad about that,” Sprunger says. Still, he maintains, there is much work to be done.

“The community mental health system is really, really strapped,” Sprunger says. “There aren’t a lot of resources there, either financially or in terms of workforce.”

Psychiatrists are especially needed in Indiana, he says, but what is also needed is time to build relationships that don’t get made in normal scheduled appointment blocks.

“There’s no time in the system right now,” Sprunger says. “Time means money.”

But time also could mean relationships that are crucial to the treatment and recovery process for mental health conditions. This is why NAMI has volunteers who themselves have mental illnesses and who lead others in treating their own mental illnesses.

“We’ve got program leaders who experience symptoms of psychosis on a daily basis, but they’re able to manage those symptoms in a way that allows them to live the life that they want to live and to help others,”

Sprunger says. “When you ask those folks to tell their stories and what made a difference for them, certainly medication and treatment are a part of the story, but usually it comes down to a relationship [with a person] who has gone above and beyond in terms of taking time.”

Without time and money, those who cannot afford the care on their own or who do not know how to go about seeking treatment are left without many options. But with funding and help, as at Eskenazi Midtown Community Mental Health Center in Indianapolis, comprehensive mental health treatment can be made accessible to more people.

Dean Babcock, the associate vice president at Eskenazi Midtown Community Mental Health Center, says that the center treats about 16,500 people each year. A lot of the funds that the Community Mental Health Center receives are public funds, he says.

With this money, the centers pay particular attention to the lower-income population.

“We treat a wide range of people,” Babcock says, “but I think many times we treat people that otherwise may not be able to access care of this sort.”

Midtown Community Mental Health Center’s location in Indianapolis, Babcock adds, helps the center provide so well for patients.

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NUVO.NET/NEWS “We feel very fortunate that we’re part of an organization that can work in the community, and so close with the community, and so close with other policy makers and professional schools and the criminal justice system and the other members of local city government and state government… that we can create very creative partnerships in which to help the citizens in the neighborhoods that we treat,” he says.

Mental illness used to be institutionalized, Sprunger of NAMI reminds us. When those institutions started being dismantled, mental health issues became largely criminalized.

Under the Kennedy administration, Babcock says, the idea of the Community Mental Health Centers was established to help people return to their communities and receive the support they need without being locked in a hospital. Eskenzai’s Midtown Community Mental Health Center, the first in the state, opened its doors in 1969.

Early intervention, Sprunger says, is key to helping a person with a mental illness receive treatment and recover. But, again, without the resources and know-how to navigate the system, people in need often do not get the treatment they need.

“A lot of those folks that are getting treatment are getting it in a corrections setting, which is a big problem,” Sprunger says.

Sprunger commends former Governors Daniels and Pence as well as Governor Holcomb, for their openness to change in the

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Division of Mental Health and Addiction and in corrections. Sprunger points to a reduction in solitary confinement as well as new programs geared toward helping increase access to mental health services for children.

In 2016, an agreement between the Indiana ACLU and the Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services Commission prohibited, with some exceptions, solitary confinement for seriously mentally ill patients. This, Dawn Adams, the executive director of IPAS, says in the press release, opened up treatment opportunities that didn’t include harmful solitary confinement for the 5,600 mental ill inmates in Indiana prisons at the time. “[The mental health system is] improving, but it could be improving a lot more quickly,” Sprunger says.

Now, NAMI is advocating for the state to go a few steps further in helping mentally ill inmates. Senate Bill 155 would have prohibited a sentence of the death penalty for a person with a serious mental illness who committed a crime. This bill did not make it through the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Senate Bill 231 also deals with interactions between people with mental illnesses and law enforcement. The bill, which was passed unanimously by the Senate on Feb. 22, establishes a technical assistance center for crisis intervention teams as well as training for the teams. The bill will now move on to the House Public Health Committee for discussion. N

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BREAKING BREAD H BREAKS DOWN WALLS Sharing a Middle Eastern meal in the International Marketplace

BY CAVAN MCGINSIE // CMCGINSIE@NUVO.NET

ere is a truth: Food is a universal language. To break bread with someone is to have a conversation with them — even without using actual words.

A meal helps bring us together and allows us to begin to understand one another.

And it’s always easier to smile when your belly is full.

So here I am, sitting in a booth at Al Rayan on 38th Street, waiting for a dish I have never heard of and having a conversation.

When my bowl of saltah arrived, it looked like it could ultimately destroy my mouth. Iridescent red liquid roiled below the surface of whipped fenugreek (also known as hulba).

Saltah is the national dish of Yemen. It’s hot, both in temperature and spice. It’s also

unbelievably fragrant. Once it is dipped onto the soft, warm Iraqi-style khubz — a bread similar to pita — it revealed itself to be absolutely addictive.

It’s a good thing it started out as molten lava or else I would have eaten it too fast and missed the most important part of my meal: meeting Abdul Abashaar, the owner of Al Rayan Restaurant.

Abdul is originally from Yemen, but he has lived in America for more than a decade. He is living his own version of the American dream: emigrating from his home country, getting settled into a community in Michigan where he went on to own and operate multiple businesses, and moving to Indianapolis in 2013. He has since opened a grocery store, and now

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a restaurant. His greatest hope now is to bring his family here to join him, but this is proving more difficult than it once seemed.

Abdul’s move to Indiana was the result of many things, but when he sits down across the table from me once my plate was taken away, he says it’s been a positive change for him.

“Every day you meet somebody new,” he says of his new home. “In Michigan, it’s mostly people that you know. And there, you are not the first one there that opened that business — here, I think we are the first one. Here, it’s like a new type of business to the area.”

And he’s not wrong. It is a new kind of business for Indianapolis. There are some Middle Eastern restaurants around the city and state, but they’re very few and far between — and none are on the scale of Al Rayan. The new restaurant opened just over a month ago, Abdul had to expand from his initial operation due to popularity and not having enough space.

His new spot is wide open with traditional Arabic-style seating along the left side where guests remove their shoes and sit on pillows and pads on the floor, these seats also offer curtains for a private dining experience. There are also classic booth and table options for those who are more comfortable sitting in chairs. The decor is sparse. There is also a nice, white tablecloth dining room for dinner time. It’s a simple-feeling room, but comfortable.

While Abdul is living the American dream — and sharing his culture with his community while doing it — he sees that dream slowly turn to ash for others right before his eyes.

I ask him how people in his community feel about the Trump administration’s recent actions on immigration, banning the immigration of people from six Muslim-majority countries including Yemen, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia and Sudan.

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“Not good,” he says. “People are feeling not good.”

Sadness clouds his face. Before, Abdul was chipper and excited to talk to me about the food he makes. His dishes hail from more than just Yemen. He tries to serve the

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best food from all over the Middle East, It’s easy to see that he feels hopeless for including Iraq, Syria, Georgia and places in the moment. He is one of many Indiana the Mediterranean.

Muslims who are dealing with this exact “A lot of families are being affected by situation right now. it big time,” he says.“A couple people are Rima Shahid, the Executive Director of stranded at the airports. the Muslim Alliance of Because it was in 24 Indiana, explained that “There’s not a hours, and it was a big here in Indiana we have change. It wasn’t gradexchange students and common language ual, it didn’t gradually international students change. No. It was, ‘One, between them, but at our schools who don’t two, three, this is hapif they will get to I think the common know pening.’ Some people go home and see their are in the middle of their language between families for spring break trip, or in a transit counor summer break — or everyone is food. try and they cannot go even after. back home and they can That is what brings Shahid describes an cannot come to continue ongoing story that she everyone together, heard while speaking at a here.” and it’s cool to For Abdul, this hits as convocation at Brebeuf a close to home as it possifew weeks ago: see that.” bly can. His wife and two “There was a young — SARA HINDI, EXODUS REFUGEE daughters are currently lady there, she was a stuck in Egypt. They can’t junior, and her dad is come here; he can’t go there. All he says Sudanese. She doesn’t know if, or when she about his own predicament, while shaking will see her dad again. And so when you his head back and forth is, “It’s a tough meet these people and hear their stories, situation.” like this young lady, she was very upset

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because she’ll be graduating soon and her dad won’t be able to make it as of now.

“So, while we can hear numbers, when you have these human stories that you have to deal with everyday, that is when you realize that this is not just a 120-day ban. This isn’t just them checking up the vetting process. This is people’s lives that are on the line here.”

For people like Abdul, who are so unsure about what the future holds for them and their families, the only answer is to keep moving forward and hope for the best. But that can be hard, especially in a state where Muslims make up only three percent of the population.

“Most Hoosiers have never met a Muslim,” Shahid says. “And these stereotypes may be driven by what’s happening globally, as well as what we see on the news.”

She says places like Al Rayan can give a cultural insight.

“I think once you walk into these spaces and restaurants that may be a little unfamiliar to you, once you get to feel that hospitality from the owners, it will dispel a lot of misconceptions that one may have,” Shahid says.

NUVO.NET/THEBIGSTORY Here is another truth: At a time like now, All around the hateful letter, taped into it is more important than ever that we the shape of a heart on a whitewashed reach out to those in our community being stone wall are hundreds, if not thousands marginalized and vilified. of supportive letters from people around As Rima explains, “I think it’s important Indianapolis. for people to go and visit these restaurants Abdul says with a big smile, “It was because, while our nation is so divided amazing. We felt that there are good and while sometimes people everywhere. In we are an extremely the center you see the “I think reaching out to hate letter and then marginalized group, it’s nice to feel support you see all the support your neighbor, telling from your neighbors letters around it. We them you stand in and from community felt special, honestly. members. It’s these And then these people solidarity with them, small gestures that came from [a local] that would mean a lot.” church just as supreally touch upon someone, you know, porters and they said, — RIMA SHAHID, MUSLIM ALLIANCE OF INDIANA ‘You are part of our if you just go to their restaurant and just talk community.’ And we to them. Because that’s what we want. We felt so welcomed, and we felt these people need support right now. We’ve almost been are great.” pushed to the fringes of society and it’s nice Muslim faith organizations in Indiana to just be included.” are just one of many struggling in the face For Abdul, even though he feels that there of heightened xenophobia and racism. The isn’t much he can do right now he has seen threats have been so intense that many a sense of camaraderie in this community restaurant owners were hesitant to speak that he was unaware of before the ban. with NUVO for this story, or have their “We [The IMCA’s mosque] received a photo taken — the reason Abdul does not hate letter,” he tells me and shows me appear here. Last week, the Jewish Coma photo of the letter that he has on his munity Center of Indianapolis received phone. It contains chilling words spewing a bomb threat, during a rash of threats hatred stemming from unwarranted fear. directed at JCCs all over the country.

Then Abdul uses his thumbs to zoom When members of the Indianapolis Musout on the photo, and he reveals somelim community heard this, they reached thing amazing. out in support.

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“I received an email from the president of IMCA [Indianapolis Muslim Community Alliance], and he wrote a very good, supportive letter to leaders of the Jewish community and he says, ‘We are all in this together, we are supporting each other,’” says Abdul.

“We share a lot of things,” he says.

“There’s some disagreement about stuff, but we don’t have to look at that. Just put it aside. We have a lot of beautiful things we share. So we sent them supporting letters and we said, ‘Just let us know of any way that we can support you guys.’”

“I think reaching out to your neighbor, telling them you stand in solidarity with them, that would mean a lot,” Shahid says.

If you want to take further action, Rima says, “Calling your locally elected officials

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and telling them that as their constituent you are against this” is always one of the best ways to get anything accomplished.

Looking for more? Volunteer at places like Exodus Refugee Immigration, where you can introduce refugee families to Indianapolis. They allow volunteers to become mentors, which allows you to show some Hoosier hospitality to a family that is looking to make our state their new home.

Organizations like the Immigrant Welcome Center, Catholic Charities and others work to resettle refugees and recent immigrants in Central Indiana.

Sara Hindi of Exodus Refugee says, “I’ve found that food is the most common thing that is shared. I spoke with one of our board members and she mentored a Syrian

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family, and she mentioned that they will be making grape leaves. So she is going to be learning how to make grape leaves and then for dessert she will be teaching them how to make apple pie. So, there’s not a common language between them, but I think the common language between everyone is food. That is what brings everyone together, and it’s cool to see that.”

You can see Hindi’s words exemplified around Indianapolis every day: people of all walks of life enjoying meals together. Go in any restaurant in the International Marketplace — the corridor of locally owned and operated restaurants, shops and organizations featuring food from across the world around 38th and Lafayette — and you will see exactly what makes America great.

“People here are more welcoming and the diversity of the community here makes the businesses better,” says Abdul when we discussed Indianapolis. “I feel like the city as a whole is a very good place.”

He enjoys having people come in for the first time — people that maybe have never eaten Middle Eastern food, but they come in with an open mind.

He laughs when he says, “I have a couple experiences where the customers say, ‘We didn’t know what to order; we just know by names, we don’t know what it’s made of.’ Or they say, ‘Do you think I’d like it?’ I said, ‘I like it myself.’

And so they tried it and I get 100 percent feedback from them of, ‘It’s delicious; it’s good.’ And I like that.” N

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A BEER FOR RITA Scarlet Lane and BRBP collaborate

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f there is one person in the Indiana beer scene that deserves to have a beer named after them, it’s Rita Kohn. As Eilise Lane of Scarlet Lane Brewing Co. says, “We are lucky to have her in Indiana and even luckier to have her as a beer authority in the local beer scene. She’s truly a living legend.”

Sitting down to talk with Rita about beer is like sitting down to read an encyclopedia on the topic, except a lot sweeter, funnier and animated. For two decades she has been NUVO’s Beer Maven.

During the years she has been sharing her wealth of knowledge on the beer industry, she has overcome a bout with

cancer and recently, a hip replacement.

While in the deepest throes of cancer and chemo treatments, when she couldn’t keep down food, she sustained herself off of special-made extra-malty beers from some of the state’s brewers.

So when Jonathan Mullens at Broad Ripple Brewpub and Eilise decided to name their commemorative beer for Rita Hangin’ Tough, it was the perfect name — she truly is as tough as they come.

As the bottle reads: “This Oatmeal Pale Ale is as complex and lovely as Rita. Like Rita, there’s a hint of sweetness from passion fruit, and yet it’s balanced with

lemon notes. And, much like Rita, this brew has a good head on its shoulders.

Perfect for day drinking.”

Mullens says of making the beer, “It’s an honor to brew a beer for Rita. John Hill and Rita have been good friends for decades and the Broad Ripple Brewpub is really, really excited to work with Scarlet Lane and NUVO to bring this beer to the public.”

The beer will be released on draft and in 22-ounce bombers at two separate events.

The first launch is on March 15 at Scarlet Lane. This event will also include a screening of the Indiana brewing documentary, Hoosier Brew.

This is followed by a launch at the Broad Ripple Brewpub on March 22, which will feature a local favorite, the crawfish pie dinner.

After the events, the beer will be available at bars, restaurants and select Big Red Liquor locations. All proceeds will support a passion project of Rita’s through a creative grant presented to NUVO. N

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ndy-based curator Daniel Del Real orbean bag. It also functions as a bean bag. ganizes art exhibitions with a particular “The concha is the most popular pastry sense of urgency. at a Mexican panadería [bakery shop],” he He curated An International Art Show, said. “The title of this is “No Seas Concha.” a day-long exhibition that opened on Jan- Which is an expression in Mexico that uary 27, 2017, the day Trump unveiled the means don’t be lazy.” executive order prohibiting immigration On February 20, the day of the recepfrom seven predominantly Muslim countion, performance artist Jonathan Angulo tries from entering the U.S. (The order has laid on top of “No Seas Concha” pretendsince been revised to six countries) ing to be asleep.

Del Real also curated Herencia: Latin “This particular performance is about American Influence in Art at the Christel tackling that stupid stereotype that MexiDeHaan Fine Arts Center at the University cans are lazy moochers,” said Del Real. of Indianapolis. The group show features A painting entitled El Perdón by Mexipainting, photography, and installations can artist Antonio Triana Cardoza is one of from 13 Latinx artists from the standouts. The depicted across Indianapolis — and creature looks like a hybrid “Her video from farther afield. between an Aztec God and A giant installation an A.I. robot. confronts… all resembling a cake con“He’s actually a tattoo the things that fronts you as you enter artist and a muralist,” said Herencia. This is “Really Del Real. “He does well in immigrants run Safe in America,” the work micro scale and really large from” of Chicago-based artist scale. He’s done murals Yvette Mayorga. In fact it is all over the world. He just — DANIEL DEL REAL paints on buildings and it’s decorated with cake frosting. But the frosting spells always this iconic, illustraout a Trump sentiment. It reads “Go Back tive, indigenous inspired style.”

Home, Illegals!!”

Del Real has something of an inspired “That’s the confrontational side of the touch when it comes to putting togethUnited States,” said Del Real. er shows. He was a member of NOPAL On the other side of the installation Cultural, a Latino arts organization that is her video “Really Safe in my room in began hosting a Day of the Dead CelebraAmerica.” tion four years ago, collaborating with the “Her video confronts you with all of Eiteljorg, used as a venue. these different things that have to do with But for An International Art Show — Mexican culture and all the things that which took place at the International Marimmigrants run from,” added Del Real. ketplace (IMC) headquarters at Lafayette Square Mall — as well as with Herencia, WHAT // Herencia: Latin American Del Real worked as an an independent Influence in Art curator. Herencia, however, came about WHERE // At Christel DeHaan Fine Arts because he is an alumnus of the UniverCenter through March 15 sity of Indianapolis.

“I have a really strong connection This video intercuts scenes of celebrawith the campus, particularly with the art tion and home life in a Latina household department,” explained Del Real. In the art intercut with grisly images of corpses — world I’m sort of their example of as one of casualties of the drug wars in Mexico. their alumnus who’s doing stuff in the art world. That’s how they’ve known about me Del Real, 33, who was born in Tijuana, over the years. They decided to contact me Mexico, has several pieces in the exhiabout a year and a half ago to organize a bition. One is a mixed media sculpture Latin American exhibition for them.” N depicting an oversized Mexican concha (seashell) pastry the size and shape of a

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Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen chat each other up at Murat

BY KATHERINE COPLEN // KCOPLEN@NUVO.NET

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h, to look back at those halcyon days in early November when I interviewed Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen in advance of their show this week at Old National Centre. Yes, if we’re being truthful with one another, I created a logistical nightmare of phone lines — hanging up repeatedly on both of them after being somehow unable to figure out our office’s impenetrable call-in system. Yes, we were all vaguely on edge as the election crept nearer. Yes, they both were very, very busy. But at least we three were not yet declared Enemies of the American People, not yet bombarded with mindbogglingly bonkers Twitter updates from our unlikely Prez. Like I said: halcyon days.

So let us return together to those more simple of times with a portion of that interview. First, premise: Cohen and Anderson, beyond their individual pursuits as CNN primetime host and Bravo network host and honcho, are longtime friends. Their joint tour, remounted whenever both have brief moments of free time, features the two interviewing one another, answering audience questions, showing off videos and generally just goofing off together. This tour’s DNA has more in common with Cohen’s late night chats on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live than Cooper’s hard-hitting explorations of politics on Anderson Cooper 360.

Cooper and Cohen answered questions separately about the Indianapolis date of

AC2, which stops in Indy on Friday. Find and it’s such a representation of his personmore online at NUVO.net. ality. The Clubhouse looks like his office and A main feature of each show is Anderson his home. When he has a party, he loves to and Andy interviewing one another. So what stir things up, like he does on a Housewives do they admire about each other’s interviewreunion. Getting disparate groups of people ing skills? together and serving them cocktails and ANDY: I admire his work ethic and progetting them to say stuff and talk about stuff fessionalism. I think he’s really fair. I think … he gets away with asking questions of that everyone gets a fair shake with him, people that I could never in a million years and I think he’s very smart get away with. I don’t exactly and engaged and interested. know how he does it. I think “I think it’s I like his approach. … [As for it’s because people know tour changes] we’ve gotten he’s having fun with them; difficult in more comfortable with each he’s not making fun of them. television to take I think that really comes other on stage. We have a better sense of what stories People feel like he’s your personality… across. work and what don’t, and on their side, even though and to actually what new stuff to add. We’re he’s asking questions which always changing the show and they’re embarrassed by and get that to be evolving it. I think it’s actually wouldn’t ordinarily answer. what your show is He asked Susan Sarandon to great that it’s taken this long to get to Indianapolis because name an award show she’s like.” the show has just gotten gone to stoned, and her — ANDERSON COOPER answer was “only one.” Then better and better. We just went to my hometown of St. Louis, he asked Shaq about how big because I was kind of waiting until the show you-know-what is. I couldn’t believe [it]! The was great [to go]. answer is hilarious that Shaq gave. But who ANDERSON: I think it’s difficult in televiwould ask that in a million years?! sion to take your personality – if you have a After the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlanstrong personality, like Andy does – and to do, Cooper and Cohen – who are both openly actually get that to be what your show is like. gay — hosted a tour stop as a fundraiser for Andy has created this late night show unlike the One Orlando fund. Here’s what both said any other. It’s my favorite late night show, of that night:

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ANDY: The most important thing about that was that we got to go there and make people laugh. You could tell from the people that we met before the show that it just seemed that people were ready to laugh.

ANDERSON: I spent about a week there, in the wake of the Pulse attack. It was actually a really special show. The audience was in the mood to laugh, have a good time. It was really just an incredible experience. The energy in the room was really moving. We consciously, early on, spoke a little bit about what had happened, and then said that it’s nice to just have a night to make you all laugh. I know there were several people there who had lost loved ones. I know a mom that I interviewed of one of the men who was killed was there. The owner of the club, I think, was there as well, as well as a couple of city officials. It was a really electric audience.

We wanted to wait until it was an appropriate distance from the shooting to actually do it; we made sure it was the appropriate time. But I think we were one of the first benefits back in town to raise money for the One Orlando fund, so it was really special. N

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WHAT // The Impersonators SAM SAYS // e The Impersonators is the second film in what filmmaker Joshua Hull calls his “Anti-Growing Up Trilogy.” While his first film, Beverly Lane,

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PIECES FALL INTO PLACE

Get Out is anchored in today’s culture

focuses on dysfunctional office drones fighting off zombies, The Impersonators revolves around party rental superheroes. The film was released

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Arnold’s website. It’s Hull’s best work yet — an audacious ensemble comedy that feels like the best film the Farrelly Brothers never made.

Arnold stars as Les, a seasoned veteran at Super Rentals. When we meet him, he’s all washed up, showing up at kids’ birthday parties with zero enthusiasm as Mr. Super. His oppressive boss (Jas Sams) threatens to hire a younger, more athletic guy to fill his shoes. Les gets a chance to redeem himself when the crime-ridden town of Rockville recruits him and his ragtag team of superhero impersonators to lift local spirits. The gang seems like a real dysfunctional family, which is a huge credit to the hilarious, endearing cast. You can feel the weight of the time they’ve spent together and the love buried beneath their constant bickering.

Out of Hull’s three films, this one exudes the most confidence, swinging for the fences when it comes to crude, quirky humor. It’s his most “mainstream” effort, but it’s still imbued with an outlandish indie sensibility.

The Blu-ray edition of the film is the real deal, complete with comic book-style cover art as well as audio commentary and a feature-length documentary about the making of the film. It’s now available on Arnold’s website, www.thatjosharnold.com. The film will also be screening at Scarlet Lane Brewing Company on March 25 at 6 p.m. The cast will be there for a Q&A hosted by yours truly.

The Impersonators is an Indy gem you won’t want to miss. Keep an eye on Hull and the cast here — they’re bound for bright futures.

— SAM WATERMEIER

wo weeks ago the big movie story was the Academy Awards. Last week the attention went to the release of Logan, Hugh Jackman's final Wolverine movie. Meanwhile, Get Out, a story about the worst meet-the-parents weekend ever, earned $30 million over its first three days of release. The film cost around $4.5 million to make, a tiny sum by today's standards. After only two weeks Get Out's domestic total has reached $78 million, with much more to come.

I don't typically refer to box office receipts in my movie essays. I'm doing so now because I hope I can intrigue those of you that overlooked or dismissed the film enough that you'll go see it despite its genre.

What genre? I'll get to that later.

Get Out is written and directed by Jordan Peele of Key and Peele, the comedy duo whose eponymous sketch comedy TV series ran for five seasons on Comedy Central. The most well-known recurring bit from the series involved Peele playing President Obama and his partner, Keegan-Michael Key, playing Luther, the President's anger translator. While Obama maintained the dignity and restraint one expects from the leader of the free world, Luther the anger translator would rant and rave about the President's opponents Those days seem so long ago. Who ever would have guessed that the new occupant of the Oval Office would make Luther look refined by comparison?

But I digress.

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Key and Peele dealt with race relations on a regular basis, always finding an interesting way to approach the subject. With Get Out, Peele has found a new way to satirize the naive notion – popularized with the election of Obama – that we are living in a post-racial society. He puts it in a horror movie.

There, I've stated the genre. Get Out is a horror movie, my least favorite genre except for princess movies. I lost interest in horror films because too many of them used gore and cheap scares to win the approval of audiences that seemed content to put up with any old piece of crap as long as it made them jump in their seats.

Yes, I know I'm generalizing and that I've probably missed a lot of notable horror films.

I'll just have to live with that.

Get Out introduces Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and Rose (Allison Williams), who are headed to her parents for the weekend. When Chris asks if she's told them he's black, Rose laughs off the very idea, assuring him that her folks are charming to a fault and that her father always says he would have voted for Obama for a third term if given the chance.

So it's off to the parents they go, in an elegant gated community. The parents (Catherine Keener and Bradley Whitford) are just as polite as Rose described – Dad even voices his “third term for Obama” line.

All is well, but wait … there's something not right about the only two black people at the estate. Georgina (Betty Gabriel) the housekeeper looks like her smiling facial expression

was frozen into place and handyman Walter (Marcus Henderson) barely seems tethered to our reality. They make Chris nervous, and he's not put at ease by his hosts' squirm-inducing attempts to show how racially progressive they are.

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Chris explains his discomfort to Rose, who tells him to relax. He expresses his concern by phone to his best friend, a TSA officer named Rod (Lil Red Howery), who urges him to get the hell out of that place.

First time director Peele does a fine job anchoring the film in today's culture (an early encounter with a police officer is disquieting and all too credible) while gradually increasing the freaky feel. Chris, beautifully played by Daniel Kaluuya, marks a rarity in horror films – a lead character that doesn't do anything howlingly stupid, aside from not heeding his friend's advice to split.

Composer Michael Abels' score is creepily compelling, easing us from social satire into a nightmare that works as both a metaphor and a suitably thrilling and, yes, gory conclusion.

You'll wince when you hear Rose's refined father refer to Chris as “my man.” Just wait until you find out what he means.

After everything is revealed in Get Out you'll want to see it again to watch the pieces fall into place. Nice job, Mr. Peele. N

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A BREWER IN A BREWER’S LAND Metazoa Brewing’s new brewmaster is from Chicago

BY RITA KOHN // RKOHN@NUVO.NET

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ood news for us: Metazoa Brewing Co. lured John J. Hall away from Chicago to head their team as brewmaster.

Hall began his career at Chicago’s Goose Island Beer Company as a cellarman in 1997, and worked his way up to head brewer in 2002. In 2012 he was named brewmaster of Chicago’s first Latin American-inspired brewery, 5 Rabbit Cerveceria.

Hall, a Siebel Institute grad, is an award-winning brewer, taking home 12 gold medals from the Great American Beer Festival and four gold medals from the World Beer Cup. We spoke with Hall prior to his March 6 starting date at Metazoa.

RITA KOHN: With a 15-year tenure at Chicago’s now oldest operating brewpub — Goose Island opened in 1988 — and then as a founding part of 5 Rabbit, you now take on your third brewmaster stint at Metazoa.

What are you most looking forward to in your own journey as a craft brewer as you join the Indiana craft beer industry? When you made the leap from Goose Island to 5 Rabbit you said, “New is not better, it’s not worse; it’s just different. I should be a little scared. That’s good. I know I’m going to learn so much.”

JOHN J. HALL: This is the very first substantial move for me and my wife Margie.

We both come from rather large families that reside in the Chicagoland area. Anytime you make a major move, you hope it is going to help you grow in new and unexpected ways.

I am eager and excited to be a “Stranger in a Strange Land.” I feel that I can start here at

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Metazoa with an extensive brewing background but a clean slate at the same time.

RITA: Reportedly, one of your last beer formulations at Goose Island led you to taking on head brewer at 5 Rabbit. What kind of an epiphany led you to Metazoa?

JOHN: If you see my resumé with 15 years at Goose Island and four-plus years at 5 Rabbit, you can see I’m not one to bounce around. I found myself on the market for the first time in nearly 20 years. I had a lot of offers and discussions immediately, but I needed to find somewhere I could see myself for the long haul. I needed to feel that the brewery could offer me as much as I could offer it.

When I first met with [Metazoa founder] Dave [Worthington], we had less of an interview and more of a very long discussion about a lot of things beyond the brewery. I felt an instant rapport and I felt I could do some good things at Metazoa.

NUVO.NET/FOOD+DRINK However, I had never been to Indianapolis before and Margie would have to sign off on this decision. We drove down two days after my first meeting with Dave. He showed us the brewery and much of the city and frankly, Margie and I talked to each other that night and agreed we could see ourselves making the next chapter of our life here.

RITA: Quality and consistency are the benchmarks for all craft brewers. Finding a niche to set oneself apart from other breweries to gain a brand following is the second quest for a brewery. What do you see yourself bringing to Metazoa to accomplish their growth in brand recognition?

JOHN: I have a long background working in production brewing and have been fortunate enough to work with and learn from some really great and talented people. I have lived through the growing pains of breweries, experiencing things that really propelled the breweries as well as some things we learned never to do again. I can help with the move

to packaging to get our beers to more people.

Coming from the outside, I’ll need to look at what Metazoa is already doing, like brewing a wide variety of beer styles. Dave and I will have to determine the right beers to send out into the world to make a lasting impression on those trying a Metazoa beer for the first time. I am not ready to declare a “niche” or force a “niche” for ourselves.

RITA: You bring with you a history of active participation in the industry — medals for your recipe formulations from major beer competitions, membership in national and Illinois-based brewers associations, judging major competitions — how do you see your history of active participation fitting in with the Brewers of Indiana Guild?

JOHN: I am really looking forward to becoming active in the Brewers of Indiana Guild. It’s partly selfish: I’ll be in a new town where I don’t know anyone, and they say it’s wrong to drink alone. Seriously though, I have made great friends being on the board

of the Illinois guild and participating in guild events. Working in a brewery for a long time means you get to see what works and what doesn’t. Hopefully I can share some ideas or insights that can help the Guild spread the word about craft beer and its benefits to local culture and community.

RITA: Metazoa’s news release carries this quote: “As life long pet owners who got all our pets from shelters, [my wife] Margie and I are really happy to find an immediate connection beyond the beer.” How do you see philanthropy playing into your role as brewmaster at Metazoa? [Metazoa donates 5% of its profits to animal and wildlife organizations.]

JOHN: Caring about something beyond your own front door is always a good thing.

The care and responsible treatment of animals is wonderful and necessary. I think if you look at the craft brewing industry as a whole, you will find passionate people who often go out of their way to support causes important to them and their community.

Breweries are often donating time, space and beer to raise awareness and funds for a number of worthwhile causes. This is one of the numerous perks of this line of work: you make beer, you make friends with folks who make beer, and these people are generally some of the nicest and most socially-conscious people I’ve had the pleasure to meet.

RITA: Please add anything else you would like NUVO readers to know about John J. Hall.

JOHN: I love a wide range of music, sometimes to the consternation of my coworkers when I have the stereo cranked in the brewhouse. I read a lot, leaning towards science fiction and the more fantastical and odd. I have a bachelor’s degree in film and animation, and before brewing, I made educational films and animated fairy tales for Encyclopedia Britannica. Come by the brewery and tell me the places I need to see, where to eat and drink, and where to find good music and books. I’m excited to learn about my new home. N

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HO, HEY Lumineers stop at Bankers

BY ALAN SCULLEY // MUSIC@NUVO.NET

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hen cellist/bassist Neyla Pekarek answered an ad in 2010 to join a Denver-based band led by Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites, she was merely looking for a gig to fill some time and earn a little pocket money.

Instead, she has been part of two hit albums and is set to play some of the biggest stages in the United States this spring.

“I had just finished school. I was going to be a music teacher and I had just moved back home,” Pekarek said in a recent phone interview. “I had never been in a band before. I’d been a cellist. I wasn’t a guitarist or a drummer or something. It didn’t really interest me, to be honest. But I went to shows a lot and had friends in bands. I basically was looking for anything to keep me busy while I looked for a teaching job.”

By the time Pekarek came into the picture, Schultz (lead vocals, guitar, piano) and Fraites (percussion, piano) had already spent eight years laying the groundwork to take the Lumineers beyond local band status.

Based in New Jersey for most of that time, it wasn’t until 2009 that they decided to move west to Denver. By then, Schultz and Fraites had grown frustrated at not gaining more success on the New York City area scene and by the high cost of living there.

Things began to click in Denver. By late 2011, a debut album, funded by the group’s management, had been recorded and the Lumineers were starting to tour. And in December 2011, a first break came when the song “Ho Hey” was used in the season finale of the CW television series, Hart of Dixie.

The band’s self-titled album came out on Dualtone in April 2012. By that time, “Ho Hey” was already beginning its climb up the “Billboard” magazine Hot 100 singles chart, peaking at No. 3 on that chart, while topping a half dozen other genre charts. A follow-up

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single, “Stubborn Love,” topped Billboard’s Adult Alternative chart and went top five at Rock Airplay and Alternative Songs.

It’s no surprise that when time came to start working on Cleopatra, that the challenge of following up a hit album weighed on the trio – especially Schultz and Fraites, who write the Lumineers’ songs.

“There was absolutely pressure in a different way,” Pekarek said. “I think we felt pretty pressured on the first record as well, especially because we were kind of putting all our eggs in one basket at that point. It was like, well, this is our one shot. It was basically all the best songs Wes and Jer had written up to that point and hoping it takes, and it did, which was really exciting.”

Pekarek for a time wasn’t sure how things were going as Schultz and Fraites were writing for the Cleopatra album.

“Basically Wes and Jer were holed up in a house in Denver for about six months and wrote the record,” Pekarek said. “It was kind of mysterious. I didn’t hear any of the tracks until about a month before we went into the studio. Even then, it was like I went in [to record parts] for about 10 days and didn’t hear the final product for quite

a long time after that. They were keeping it pretty close to their chests.”

The album retains the folk rock feel of the debut, but it’s darker lyrically and also a bit heavier, as the group plugs in for more of the instrumentation. But the sure-footed melodies of songs like “Sleep on the Floor,” “Ophelia” (which has some of the stomp and cheer of “Ho Hey”), “My Eyes” and “Angela” carry the day and deliver on the promise of the first album.

On this tour, the Lumineers are joined by opening act Susto, which is promoting its new album, & I’m Fine Today. It’s an eminently listenable collection that transcends Americana genre boundaries through the adventurous additions of strings, horns and synthesizers.

But Susto frontman Justin Osborne feels his band will be a good complement to the Lumineers, and at least one track, the infectiously optimistic “Jah Werx” is likely to enchant crowds who come to hear the Lumineers play “Ho Hey,” others may not.

“I think there are going to be people in every single one of those crowds that love us, and there are going to be people in every single one of those crowds that probably don’t,” said Osborne, who’s grateful for the opportunity. “But I think that’s kind of the point of us being on this tour, to bring something extra for people who might be into music that’s a little bit more edgy.” N

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very autumn I devote extensive covalbum Pipa From a Distance where you play the pipa through a wah wah pedal. erage in this column to Bloomington’s Is it ever challenging for you to find a balLotus World Music and Arts Festival. I ance between tradition and innovation in was recently surprised and excited to your music-making? find out that Lotus Fest is just one element WU MAN: I grew up playing Chinese of the Lotus organization’s year-round effort traditional music. The traditional music to promote global music and culture in the is in my blood. It will never go away. It’s a Hoosier state. Chief among these projects is very important root for me. But I always Lotus Blossoms, a youth-focused outreach ask myself what’s next? That question program that brings world renowned perleads me to step out of the traditional formers into Indiana schools. box to a much bigger musical world. That The 2017 Lotus Blossoms lineup features question leads to me to see what I can do an amazing mix of artists representing with this traditional Chinese instrument. traditions from Iraq to Mexico. On Friday, That’s why I started innovating and collabMarch 31, Chinese pipa master Wu Man will orating and taking the instrument in new perform a free public concert as part of her directions. But again, as I mentioned it’s Lotus Blossoms residency.

Wu Man is recognized as the top virtuoso still rooted in the tradition. on the pipa, a lute-like Chinese instruKYLE: In that particular ment that’s roughly 2,000 example I just cited, what led years old. Her study of the “The traditional you to playing pipa through instrument began at age electric guitar pedals? nine, when Chairman Mao’s music is in my WU MAN: I know this is Cultural Revolution was in very crazy. [laughs] I grew blood.” full effect. While Wu Man up at a time in China when grew up learning the pipa — WU MAN we didn’t know jazz or steeped in the traditions of electronic music. There was nothing at that Chinese culture, her career on the instrutime, there was zero happening in China in ment has transcended those parameters the ‘80s. So when I came to the States in the and carried the pipa to the frontiers of 21st Century music.

‘90s, I suddenly heard so many different She’s released nearly a dozen criticalkinds of music, from jazz, and rock, to ly acclaimed solo albums and recorded heavy metal, and electronic music. important work with artists like Philip Every time I walked in a store in the Glass and Kronos Quartet. Wu Man is a States I heard this crazy sound, that to me founding member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road sounded like pipa music. People would Project. An incredibly versatile musician, say, “Oh, that’s an electric guitar. That’s Wu Man is equally comfortable contribrock guitar.” Somehow that sound stayed uting to experimental music projects like with me. I thought it would definitely be Bang on a Can, as she is performing on the fascinating if I tried my instrument with soundtrack of Kung Fu Panda 3. those sounds. So I started using the guiI spoke with Wu Man via phone from her tar technology with the pedals, the wah home in San Diego. wah, the delay, and the distortion. It’s very new and exciting. It’s a different colKYLE LONG: You’re a great master of or of the pipa, but you still hear the pipa traditional Chinese music, but you’re style there. It’s definitely not a guitar. To also an equally great musical innovame that’s fascinating. So that’s why I did tor. For example, I really love your 2003 it in 2003. N NUVO.NET // 03.08.17 - 03.15.17 // MUSIC // 19

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I’m a straight-identified guy in my early 30s. I am married, but my wife lives in another part of the country and we’re doing an open relationship until she moves to live with me. Last weekend, I met a girl at a bar who ended up coming home with me, and she turned out to be a pre-op trans woman. I’d never been with a trans person before, so I decided to just roll with it and ended up having a pretty good time.

Over the course of the weekend, I started to get the sense that she really liked me and maybe even considered me boyfriend material. I want to see her again, but I’m not really available for a serious relationship. Knowing the kind of unbelievable shit trans people have to deal with, I feel like it would be unfair to string her along. She is not aware of my marital status. What should I do?

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DAN SAVAGE: O brave new world that has such straight-identified guys in it.

Anyway, CTOFA, here’s what you should do: Get in a time machine and go be completely — what’s the

word? — oh right, go be completely straight with this woman before you take her home from that bar. You’re married and doing the LDR thing and the marriage is open and you’re available for fun but nothing more.

No time machine? Then handle it the same way you would if you’d deceived some cis woman — excuse me, if you’d accidentally gotten some cis woman’s hopes up by failing to mention the wife. Level with her — you’re married — and let the nips fall where they may. She might be angry or she might not give a wet squart (she may not be as interested as you think she is). If she accuses you of making up a wife because you don’t want to date a trans woman, it shouldn’t be hard to prove your wife — and your marriage — exists.

Finally, CTOFA, you say it would “be unfair to string her along” because of the “unbelievable shit trans people have to deal with.” It would be unfair — it would be wrong — to string a cis woman along, too. Stringing people along is wrong, period.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I’ve always belonged to what isn’t where I am and to what I could never be,” wrote Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). That was his prerogative, of course. Or maybe it was a fervent desire of his, and it came true. I bring his perspective to your attention, Taurus, because I believe your mandate is just the opposite, at least for the next few weeks: You must belong to what is where you are. You must belong to what you will always be.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Nothing is ever as simple as it may seem. The bad times always harbor opportunities. The good times inevitably have a caveat. According to my astrological analysis, you’ll prove the latter truth in the coming weeks. On one hand, you will be closer than you’ve been in many moons to your ultimate sources of meaning and motivation. On the other hand, you sure as hell had better take advantage of this good fortune. You can’t afford to be shy about claiming the rewards and accepting the responsibilities that come with the opportunities.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Seek intimacy with experiences that are dewy and slippery and succulent. Make sure you get more than your fair share of swirling feelings and flowing sensations, cascading streams and misty rain, arousing drinks and sumptuous sauces, warm baths and purifying saunas, skin moisturizers and lustrous massages, the milk of human kindness and the buttery release of deep sex -- and maybe even a sensational do-it-yourself baptism that frees you from at least some of your regrets. Don’t stay thirsty, my undulating friend.

Quench your need to be very, very wet. Gush and spill. Be gushed and spilled on.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Would you like to live to the age of 99? If so, experiences and realizations that arrive in the coming weeks could be important in that project. A window to longevity will open, giving you a chance to gather clues about actions you can take and meditations you can do to remain vital for ten decades. I hope you’re not too much of a serious, know-it-all adult to benefit from this opportunity. If you’d like to be deeply receptive to the secrets of a long life, you must be able to see with innocent, curious eyes.

Playfulness is not just a winsome quality in this quest; it’s an essential asset.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’re ripe. You’re delectable. Your intelligence is especially sexy. I think it’s time to unveil the premium version of your urge to merge. To prepare, let’s review a few flirtation strategies. The eyebrow flash is a good place to start. A subtle, flicking lick of your lips is a fine follow-up. Try tilting your neck to the side ever-so-coyly. If there are signs of reciprocation from the other party, smooth your hair or pat your clothes. Fondle nearby objects like a wine glass or your keys. And this is very important: Listen raptly to the person you’re wooing. P.S.: If you already have a steady partner, use these techniques as part of a crafty plan to draw him or her into deeper levels of affection.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Let’s talk about a compassionate version of robbery. The thieves who practice this art don’t steal valuable things you love. Rather, they pilfer stuff you don’t actually need but are reluctant to let go of. For example, the spirit of a beloved ancestor may sweep into your nightmare and carry off a delicious poison that has been damaging you in ways you’ve become comfortable with. A bandit angel might sneak into your imagination and burglarize the debilitating beliefs and psychological crutches you cling to as if they were bars of gold. Are you interested in benefiting from this service? Ask and you shall receive.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Evolved Scorpios don’t fantasize about bad things happening to their competitors and adversaries. They don’t seethe with smoldering desires to torment anyone who fails to give them what they want. They may, however, experience urges to achieve TOTAL CUNNNG DAZZLING MERCILESS VICTORY over those who won’t acknowledge them as golden gods or golden goddesses. But even then, they don’t indulge in the deeply counterproductive emotion of hatred. Instead, they sublimate their ferocity into a drive to keep honing their talents. After all, that game plan is the best way to accomplish something even better than mere revenge: success in fulfilling their dreams. Please keep these thoughts close to your heart in the coming weeks.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “The noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world,” wrote Martin Luther (1483-1546), a revolutionary who helped break the stranglehold of the Catholic Church on the European imagination. I bring this up, Sagittarius, because you’re entering a phase when you need the kind of uprising that’s best incited by music.

So I invite you to gather the tunes that have inspired you over the years, and also go hunting for a fresh batch. Then listen intently, curiously, and creatively as you feed your intention to initiate constructive mutation. Its time to overthrow anything about your status quo that is jaded, lazy, sterile, or apathetic.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Either you learn to live with paradox and ambiguity or you’ll be six years old for the rest of your life,” says author Anne Lamott. How are you doing with that lesson, Capricorn? Still learning? If you would like to get even more advanced teachings about paradox and ambiguity -- as well as conundrums, incongruity, and anomalies -- there will be plenty of chances in the coming weeks. Be glad! Remember the words of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr: “How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Lichen is a hardy form of life that by some estimates covers six percent of the earth’s surface. It thrives in arctic tundra and rainforests, on tree bark and rock surfaces, on walls and toxic slag heaps, from sea level to alpine environments. The secret of its success is symbiosis.

Fungi and algae band together (or sometimes fungi and bacteria) to create a blended entity; two very dissimilar organisms forge an intricate relationship that comprises a third organism. I propose that you regard lichen as your spirit ally in the coming weeks, Aquarius.

You’re primed for some sterling symbioses.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you normally wear adornments and accessories and fine disguises, I invite you not to do so for the next two weeks. Instead, try out an unembellished, what-you-see-is-what-you-get approach to your appearance. If, on the other hand, you don’t normally wear adornments and accessories and fine disguises, I encourage you to embrace such possibilities in a spirit of fun and enthusiasm. Now you may inquire: How can these contradictory suggestions both apply to the Pisces tribe? The answer: There’s a more sweeping mandate behind it all, namely: to tinker and experiment with the ways you present yourself . . . to play around with strategies for translating your inner depths into outer expression.

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