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HEALTH SCARE
Could Dems use Trumpcare’s explosion to push for single payer? BY BAYNARD WOODS // EDITORS@NUVO.NET
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s debate on Trumpcare raged on in the House, Wisconsin Rep. Mark Pocan spoke outside the Capitol at a small Progressive Caucus press conference, comparing the bill to a Trojan horse sneaking disastrous measures to the American public. “And of course these days we know Trojans are something a little different, and they’re only used when you’re gonna get, well, pretty much what this bill does to America,” Pocan said. Twenty-four hours later, it was Paul Ryan who was being screwed as he stood in front of the press to announce that Obamacare is “the law of the land” and that, after seven long years of complaining, the Republicans would move on from health care after working to pass a bill for less than 70 days. “Moving from an opposition party to a governing party comes with growing pains,” Ryan confessed. “Today’s a great day for our country,” Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said. “It’s a victory.” But for the members of the Progressive Caucus, this wasn’t a moment to rest on the Republican failure — it was time to fight for the kind of single-payer coverage they believe is the right of Americans. “All I’m saying is health care is a right, not a privilege. We’re talking about giving the American people their health care rights,” Michigan Rep. John Conyers said. “So I’ve introduced HR 676, a bill that expands Medicare to every American. It’s not enough to say Obamacare represents progress, though it does. It’s not
enough to say that the Republican health care bill is terrible — and it is. What we’re saying is we’re going to organize the people of this country to bring a proactive, positive alternative vision to health care, and Medicare for all is where we’re at.” Vermont senator and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says he will introduce similar legislation into the Senate and called on Trump, who has expressed support for single payer, to get on board. “President Trump, come on board. Let’s work together,” Sanders said. “Let’s end the absurdity of Americans paying by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.” But when I asked the Democratic House leadership whether they might be on board with such a process, Pelosi gave a rather long and convoluted answer. “When we did the Affordable Care Act, I wanted the public option, as I think everyone knows. We didn’t get that, but I think we mitigated for not having it by having provisions in the bill that enabled people to receive benefits. The public option would have saved more money, it would have been cheaper because [there are] not so many administrative costs,” she said. “We couldn’t get that when we had a Democratic president and a Democratic Congress.” Instead, Pelosi suggested more immediate fixes to the ACA, such as “to make sure the secretary of HHS [Health and Human Services] is able to negotiate for lower prices with the pharmaceutical industry. Prescription drugs are the biggest reason for the increase
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in medical costs.” This response shows a failure of imagination on the part of the Democratic leadership. Trump had already said his strategy would be to let the ACA “explode.” “We couldn’t get one Democrat vote, not one. So that means they own Obamacare and when that explodes, they will come to us wanting to save whatever is left, and we’ll make a real deal,” Trump said. But since it was Trumpcare that had just exploded, the Democrats could have been the ones in the position to make a real deal. Over a decade ago, Trump said he was for single payer, and when asked about it at the first Republican debate in 2015, he said: “As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland. It could have worked in a different age, which is the age you’re talking about here.” No one would deny that it is a different goddamn age now than it was in August 2015. Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette, a chief deputy whip for the Democrats, later told me that the leadership “certainly are open to a conversation with the White House.” “If the president and Tom Price are going to try to find ways to sabotage the system like the president threatened last week — to explode the system — that’s not a very good olive branch.” Then the Republicans met on Tuesday, March 28, a few days after their spectacular failure, and indicated they might not be done with health care after all. “Their celebration is premature,” said Majority Whip Steve Scalise
of Louisiana. “We are closer today to repealing Obamacare than we’ve ever been before.” On the same day, Trump signed a sweeping executive order designed to repeal Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which attempted to reduce emissions and offer financial incentives to businesses for greener practices. When Obama announced the Clean Power Plan in 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency said that by 2030, the plan’s effects would prevent up to 3,600 premature deaths, nearly 100,000 asthma attacks and — since the Republicans clearly don’t care about the health of others — 300,000 missed days of work or school. If these numbers are accurate, this means Trump’s executive order could, like the failed Republican health care bill, lead to widespread death. Marsha Wills-Karp, the chair of the Johns Hopkins Department of Environmental Health Sciences, agrees. “There is tremendous evidence in the medical literature that exposure to chemicals or particulates that are released particularly by power plants are associated with increased death, deaths from cardio-respiratory diseases, also in asthma exacerbations,” she said. In other words, Trump’s executive order means we need good health care more than ever. Just thinking about all of this shit is making America more stressed out and anxious — increasing the need for psychological care and, in my case at least, a big dose of medical marijuana, before Jeff Sessions fucks that up, too. N For more opinion pieces visit nuvo.net/voices
DAVID HOPPE has been writing columns for NUVO for over 20 years.
WEIRD OLD SCROLL T BY DAVID HOPPE // HOPPE@NUVO.NET
he U.S. Constitution is weird. The pects as the Koch brothers, are underway to Oxford Dictionary defines weird as make this happen. These efforts appear to be two-pronged. “supernatural, unearthly” — and that One branch, supported by at least 29 states, describes the Constitution, or at least wants to amend the Constitution to limit the how we relate to it, pretty well. Federal government to a balanced budget. The Constitution was written during Since deficit spending has been a proven the course of a special convention in 1787. way of spurring economic growth and It took from May until September to get overcoming downturns like the recent Great it done. That process — which began as Recession, this would significantly shrink the an effort to revise the Articles of Connational government and isolate the states federation and wound up establishing from one another. our national form of government — has A second group of states, transcended history, and including Indiana, wants a become part of America’s “There’s a “Convention of States,” an founding mythology. open constitutional convenAs Judge Neil Gorsuch’s crowd that tion, capable of addressing Supreme Court confirmawants to take a “the power and jurisdiction tion hearings show, the of the federal government.” ongoing interpretation of our shop-vac to the In any event, the problem 237-year-old governing text with convening a constihas become an almost mystic [Constitution].” tutional convention is that exercise, wherein contemonce it’s underway, delegates can vote for porary behavior — from being able to get a any agenda they want. And with players legal abortion to buying a gun — is either like the Kochs and the anti-government permitted, or not, based on the Court’s colAmerican Legislative Exchange Council lective reading of words written by candle(ALEC) pulling strings, there is no end to the light on animal skin. dismantling that might ensue. The Constitution is a foundation piece of These efforts have nothing to do with what’s been called America’s “civic religion.” representative government. Based as they But you don’t have to be a heretic to at least are on a political strategy designed to wonder if maybe — just maybe — it could perpetuate Republican control in states like use, well, a dusting. Ohio and Pennsylvania, where Democrats Trouble is, there’s a crowd that wants to receive a majority of votes but lose seats, take a shop-vac to the old scroll. They’re rich machinations aimed at triggering Article V and well-connected. And, since 2010, when amount to a constitutional coup. Republicans began redrawing district lines This also lends a darker shade to Inin states around the country, taking over one diana Republicans’ Soviet-style oblivistate legislature after another, they have put ousness to recent calls for a nonpartisan themselves in position to do just that. approach to redistricting. Their support In the months since our last election, for a Convention of States resolution — more and more people have been waking passed overwhelmingly last year — shows up to the fact that we are just one state away the extent to which they have willingly from the possible invocation of Article V, the joined a longer, more radical game. The U.S. Constitution’s provision enabling the Constitution may be weird, but what’s states to call a constitutional convention. coming could be truly bizarre. N Serious efforts, funded by such usual sus-
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TOM ALDRIDGE: A TRIBUTE Longtime NUVO classical music writer passed away last week
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ednesday, March 29, 2017, NUVO (and the Indianapolis community as a whole) lost a great man. By the time I started working at NUVO in 1998, Tom Aldridge was already an established NUVO critic covering the classical music scene as a freelancer. Here I was, a naïve 23-year-old copy editor, but Tom never treated me like a kid. While he acknowledged that he was (much) older and wiser, he saw me as a coworker, equal in his eyes. No matter that he was a senior writer, both in age and seniority; he always treated me with kindness and respect. Whenever he was in the office, he loved to chat with the editorial staff about music — or absolutely anything else. He always had time, sometimes more than I (or other editorial staff) did, to sit down and talk, and he did at every opportunity. He was straightforward to the point of bluntness but with no intent to anger or offend, and after a time, he became a dear friend to me. I got to go with him to the symphony once, and it was a whole different experience for me. And he was a hugger. While I rarely had any idea what he was saying in his reviews (to this day, I don’t know squat about classical music), I can still remember his consistent grammatical error. All the regular writers had one, and I came to expect their little foibles when I opened their work. His was the ad nauseum use of the em dash ( — ). But he used them in a way that reflected his own speech’s cadence: a slight pause to let you know that he was actually thinking about what he was saying instead of making mindless chitchat. He had a calm, slow speaking manner, even if he got a little mad, which never lasted long. He was naturally prone to laughter. He, the late Harrison Ullmann, and the late Chuck Workman (as well as Rita Kohn, NUVO’s Beer Buzz writer) had so much
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influence on my growth. Not only as a writer, but also as a grownup and a friend. Without their confidence in me and their encouragement, I never would have become the person I am, professionally and personally. They were and are inspirations to me.
the September 1999 Indianapolis Monthly wrote, “There is regard for the intelligence of Tom Aldridge’s music commentary.” Tom and I were colleagues writing in different genres for Arts Indiana and NUVO Newsweekly. Sometimes we ended up at the same — LISA GAUTHIER MITCHISON “Tom was a program because I’d attend my own. Tom would private, gentle on kid me about being ‘pretty Tom Aldridge staked out person with a spread around.’ His focus the best reviewer seats in on classical music, he felt, strict passion every Indianapolis concert gave him an edge. And I hall so he could have the for music.” respected him for that, as optimal listening experidid the artists he reviewed. — RITA KOHN ence. He arrived prepared Go to their websites, as with to compare the program at mezzo-soprano Kirsten hand with what he considered the historiGunlogson, and you’ll find his comments cally accepted finest rendering of a classical with the NUVO tag in the company of work. Tom regarded Indianapolis Star’s reviewers from Opera News, Detroit Free music critic Charles Staff as his mentor, and Press, Pittsburgh Tribune, etc. followed in his footsteps. Tom’s passing on Tom was a private, gentle person with March 29, 2017 leaves a tradition to uphold. a strict passion for music as he believed it Lou Harry, in a survey of arts reviewing in should be interpreted. He never swerved
from his set bar of excellence derived from careful listening to those he considered as artistic masters. He upheld the classics and never got used to the inevitable changes wrought by ‘modern’ composers, yet he easily adapted to posting his reviews on the net. When Jay Harvey retired in May 2013, Tom wrote: “Jay, I am sorry that you’re leaving the Star, leaving myself — not a trained journalist — as the sole classical music reviewer for any in-town print journal. I think the public deserves more than one viewpoint in the concert events we both used to cover as a comparative and contrasting twosome…as for the jazz, theater and the other arts you may cover [in your blog], I won’t be offering any competition, as I haven’t been.” An engineer by training and vocation, he turned criticism into a viable avocation. Tom was admired, appreciated, and will be missed. — RITA KOHN
To this day, I am convinced that the Indianapolis classic music realm would not be what it is without Tom. He was not only an amazing friend and writer, he pushed Indy to be better through his reviews, and his writing was not for the faint of heart. Reviewing is something we take seriously at NUVO. After all, how can anything get better without critique? Tom was the embodiment of exactly that; his praise was not given lightly and the musicians he covered thanked him for that. With his passing, the Indy arts world lost a brilliant voice. The staff at NUVO will mourn his passing. We won’t find another like you, Tom. Rest in peace. — EMILY TAYLOR
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CIRCLE CITIZEN/CIRCLE JERK TANYA WALTON PRATT U.S. District Court Judge CITIZEN Judge Pratt declared the provision
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Trans kids must navigate school without firm answers on their rights
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JOE HOGSETT Indianapolis Mayor CITIZEN Celebrating Crispus Attucks’ first high school boys basketball championship win since 1959, Hogsett showed off
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HANOVER COLLEGE ALUMNI CITIZENS In an open letter to Vice-President Mike Pence — a Hanover college alumnus — over 400 of his fellow alumni called Pence out on his support and participation in the xenophobic, racist and sexist agenda of the Trump administration. In a nutshell, the Hanover alums said that’s not what they learned in college, so where did he? Go Panthers!
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ransgender issues are currently being debated in legislative, executive and judicial contexts in America. Last week North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper signed a portioned repeal of HB2, the state’s controversial transgender bathroom bill. The original legislation required transgendered persons to use bathrooms and locker rooms in schools and government-owned facilities that matched the gender listed on their birth certificate. This vote came over a month after President Donald Trump withdrew a position declared under the Obama administration stating transgender students were protected under Title IX to use school bathrooms according to their gender identity. In light of this decision, the Supreme Court sent Gavin Grimm’s case back to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals; Grimm is a teenage trans boy currently suing his high school in Virginia after the school board adopted a policy saying students must use restrooms “limited to their corresponding biological genders.” The case proceeded through the courts on the basis of Title IX. Freedom Indiana’s Campaign manager
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Chris Paulsen said that while the withdrawal was disappointing, the law remains the same. “I think [Trump’s withdrawal] says to trans kids that we’re not here to support them,” Paulsen said. “But it really doesn’t change the law. Right now, Title IX still protects kids based on sex, which is the rule to cover sexual orientation and gender identity. So although it was disappointing and probably a little confusing for a lot of people, so far the law has not changed.” Without the federal clarification, some public high schools are unsure of what to do to help their transgender students. Nurse and mother of three, Jenna Meredith, said that her transgender daughter has received much support from her high school in Fort Wayne, but there are some things that still need to be negotiated. Meredith’s daughter recently came out to her high school. On March 9, Meredith said there was a formal meeting at her daughter’s school where they agreed to use her daughter’s preferred name and pronouns. “That was very exciting for her,” Meredith said. “But they are not budging on the bathroom issue right now. It was a really
constructive conversation, but that was one that they just weren’t ready to go on. So she is still struggling, but overall, doing pretty well…. Where they’re at right now is they’re not forcing her to use the male restroom, and they’re pretty adamant that they don’t want to force her to do that. If she’s not comfortable there, then she should never go there. But the option that they have provided is the nurse’s restroom.” Meredith said that while things are going better than expected, the nurse’s restroom is far from her daughter’s classes. Therefore, her daughter will always have to plan when she goes to the bathroom, decide if she will come to class late or leave during class to use the restroom, and this is going to cause her to stand out among the students. “She shouldn’t have to think every time she uses the restroom,” Meredith said. “It should be a non-issue. She should be able to walk in just like all of the other girls do because otherwise the message is she’s not ‘girl’ enough. She’s not as female as the rest, and it makes her stick out. It makes her separate. But, yes, it might make people uncomfortable temporarily, but it’s making her uncomfortable
NUVO.NET/NEWS every time, and what it can be is a learning opportunity for other people.” Meredith is also concerned about when her daughter goes to high school and has to change for gym class. She said that her daughter’s school said that they want legal guidance on the restroom issues, and without it, they do not want to pick a side and upset the others. This is what high schools have to consider now that the clarification of Title IX has been withdrawn. Do they let their students identify as who they really are and allow them to use the bathroom that correlates with their identity? Or do they have them use the bathroom that matches the identity on their birth certificate? Remember: in high school, the biggest social crime is being different. Having transgender students use different bathrooms or ones that do not match their identity makes them stick out in the crowd. It signals to the other students that something is different about them, when really transgender
students are just trying to get their educaNUVO reached out to several high schools tion and have a good school experience like in Central Indiana representing urban, subeverybody else. urban and rural settings to ask these quesSchools are faced with tions and see where Indiana a balancing act between schools stood in the issue Without making the students on all since Trump’s withdrawal. spectrums feel comfortable. Most of the schools contactthe federal There are a lot of questions to ed declined an interview or clarification, answer: were unavailable. A couple of Will they call the students schools forwarded nondissome public by their preferred names and crimination policies, but the high schools are written policies didn’t address pronouns? Which bathroom will the transgender issues directly. unsure of what student have to use? Which Principal Luke Skobel of to do to help locker room? Who enforces Indian Creek High School and decides these choices? Trafalgar, Indiana did their transgender in If the student must go to the respond, stating that, to his students. nurse’s restroom before class knowledge, Indian Creek and it is far away, will they be High School does not have excused for possibly being late to class? any transgender students out of their Are they willing to talk to transgender 600-student population and therefore has students about their concerns? not revisited Title IX. However, Skobel said Will they have to revisit Title IX, the nondishe encourages students to speak up if they crimination policy and the interpretations? do have a concern about any issues and
that he is always willing to hear students out about their concerns. “I’m always willing to talk with students, what things do they think are right and wrong at our school and what needs to be improved, things like that,” he said. “And I think most principals that I’ve encountered are willing to have those conversations with teachers, with students and teachers for that matter. So, speak up.” Paulsen said that she believes with more educational opportunities, people will become more aware of transgender people and realize that these policies are about more than just bathrooms. “Trans people are just trying to live their lives as their true selves,” she said. “Nobody should be denied that right.” While schools, cities and states alike argue over bills and laws, Meredith said that she would not stop fighting for her daughter’s rights. “She’s no different from any other kid,” she said. N
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Indy Food Drop saves healthy, fresh food from the landfill BY CAVAN MCGINSIE // CMCGINSIE@NUVO.NET
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very single day nearly a million semi trucks drive through Indiana. Of those million, a majority of them are carrying foodstuffs to be delivered to retailers, distributors and wholesalers around the state. It’s a routine practice for those businesses to have to send away portions — if not entire truckloads — of that food due to any number of regulations and standards that require produce and other foodstuffs to be of a certain quality. And for years, truckers have routinely taken that food to landfills and dumpsters before they head out for their next delivery. This perfectly healthy and edible food is being tossed by the wayside in a state where one in five children live in food insecure homes. It’s time for that to change. That’s why last month the Indy Hunger Network, a collaborative organization made up of many
organizations, including some of Central Indiana’s top hunger relief organizations like Midwest Food Bank, Gleaners Food Bank, Second Helpings and St. Vincent de Paul, announced a new initiative called Indy Food Drop. Of those million trucks coming through our state, Kate Howe, Managing Director of the Indy Hunger Network, says, “If even a fraction, a hundred of those that come through have food that can’t be delivered, and we can divert them to our organizations, that is going to be a huge increase. Even 10 of them is a lot more food than what we’re getting right now.” Indy Food Drop’s idea is pretty much as simple as it can be. “If you Google ‘Donate Food Indianapolis,’ it depends on where you are, but you may get a small food pantry that can’t really take a whole semi-load of food,”
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says Howe. “There’s no really good way for a truck driver to quickly and easily find donation sites.” Jennifer Vigran, CEO of Second Helpings, explains, “We certainly don’t want to see the situation — which has sometimes happened in the past — where a trucker who really wants to make sure that food stays in the food supply, and who doesn’t know the community, is stuck sitting on the phone calling organization after organization because they didn’t know who has the capacity.” According to Howe, John Whitaker of Midwest Food Bank came to the other members of the Indy Hunger Network with a thought on how to address the problem: “John said something like, ‘What if we could help them find us? There’s already a lot of donated food coming in, but I bet there’s a lot more out there that we’re not capturing because they
just don’t know where to take it.’” And so the Indy Food Drop and the website IndyFoodDrop.org were born. Now truckers know who has the capacity to accept larger loads of food groceries that merchants are unable to accept. “This way, they have one place they can look,” explains Vigran. “We’ve provided them with the key information that they need about who the partners are, what our hours are, where we’re located, what our capacity is and they can very quickly make a decision about where they’re going to take that food. It makes it much easier for them to donate food.” Another issue food banks encountered is that many of the truckers come through the city during times when the food banks aren’t open to accept deliveries,so the Indy Hunger Network found a partner who could take nighttime deliveries.
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NUVO.NET/THEBIGSTORY “We’ve also partnered with Sysco on the livelihood. The issue of food being rejected southside who can take these loads afby grocers and wholesalers isn’t what they ter-hours,” says Howe. “So, if a truck driver want — truckers are in the business of is coming through at three in the morning, selling food, and they would be happy to sell they can drop the load there and one of the any and all food that hasn’t gone bad. food banks or food pantries can go pick it A huge part of the issue stems from up the next day. Through all of us working consumers. together we’re hoping it will make it easier “There’s much more food out there that is for the truck drivers to find us, and it will being wasted at the retail and consumer levbe easier for them to deliver, and it will be els,” Vigran says. “Some studies tell us that it easier for us to receive it and essentially to is as much as 31 percent of our food supply share loads among sites.” that goes to waste at those levels. It certainly Sysco is the largest foodservice distribuhappens in retail where they’re watching for tion network in the world and at all of its those ugly vegetables and things like that.” locations they try to work with local hunger The “ugly vegetables” Vigran references relief organizations. Nathan Schneider, vice have become a major talking point over president of operations at the past few years with Sysco Indianapolis, spoke conscious consumers. Acto NUVO about what leads According to the cording to the USDA, more to food being rejected. than 133 billion pounds of USDA more than Schneider says, “Product food are thrown away each 133 billion pounds year, much of it is produce is often rejected because it doesn’t meet quality is deemed ugly. This of food are thrown that requirements, or it could could be something as away each year be that it doesn’t have simple as a zucchini that enough shelf life remainis slightly too curved, or — much of it is ing to make it through the a tomato that is lumpier produce that is distribution process and on each side than the ultimately to the customperfectly round, red ones deemed “ugly. ers’ location before it is we imagine in our heads. unusable or expires.” Because of the perceived Depending on why the food was reconsumer desire for perfectly symmetrical, jected, distributors like Sysco have had vibrantly colored fruits and vegetables, three options for what to do with the food, some retailers refuse to carry any produce Schneider explains, food is either “refused that doesn’t match these strictures. and placed back on the truck that was So, how do we fix this? attempting the delivery; kept at our ware“As individuals, there is a lot that we can house and donated; or it is disposed of at do,” Vigran says. “Part of it is our own buying our facility.” patterns and making sure that we aren’t that Schneider also says a major piece in this person who is shying away from that last puzzle is “to make sure the word is spread muffin in the case, or that misshapen zucabout the options that are available for chini. And that we understand that it’s really donating product.” about making sure that we got the good, It needs to be made clear that truckers arnutritious food that we want, not whether en’t the bad guys here, throwing away food or not that zucchini has a little hook in it or willy-nilly. For a trucker, it comes down to something like that. a simple fact: time is money. And so, while “Also, it would be great if people would drivers are searching for a place to take ask the store managers, ‘Hey, what do you their unwanted load, they are losing their do with this?’ Make sure that those items
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2. Businesses and truck drivers that donate food like this strawberry are eligible for federal tax deductions based on the overall cost of the products.
3. Even if the food isn’t as ugly as this grapefruit, U.S. families still throw out about 25 percent of their food because of misunderstanding expiration dates and poor planning.
4. Because of the strict rules on produce quality at many grocers and distributors, many farmers are forced to let good food, like this tomato, rot on the vine instead of covering the costs of labor and transport.
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are being kept in the food supply and let bility concern,” Vigran says. “But that issue them know that that’s important to you as has been addressed now for over 20 years. a consumer to know that they’re making And fortunately we have a seen a lot of good good use of the food that they do not sell.” things happen as a result of that act and the Maybe this won’t push companies to awareness that people have of the opportuput these products on shelves, but there nity to put that excess food to good use.” is a good chance it will put in their minds While consumers can help spread the idea to utilize programs like Indy Food awareness by opening dialogues with their Drop to send the produce to places who local groceries, the people at Indy Food are taking care of our food insecure. Drop will do everything in their power to “We’re very excited about the opportuget info about the new food drop to the nity to raise awareness amongst truckers truckers coming through our city and state. and to build stronger partnerships with “We’ll have posters, flyers and business the organizations who are rejecting the cards that the truck drivers can stick in food,” Vigran says. “So, if, for instance, a their wallets,” says Howe. “The hope is wholesaler rejects a whole load of food, that we can get a poster up at the loading they now have a resource. docks for Whole Foods, They can turn to that or Kroger, or Marsh, or Some studies tell trucker and say, ‘Are you wherever, so if they can’t looking for something to a load they can say, us that it is as much take do with this food? Here is ‘Hey, here’s where you as 31 percent of our can take it if you want to where you can find that information.’” donate it instead.’” food supply that One thing that Vigran Through the help of the goes to waste. explained to me is that Indiana Motor Truck Assoa major issue for a long ciation, who also has been time has been a fear in a major partner in the the minds of retailers that by donating creation of this initiative, Indy Food Drop is this food that doesn’t meet their standards also working with a company called Freight they could be held liable for any foodRover, an on-board electronic “billboard” borne illnesses that may arise from people and load board that will run digital ads ingesting these items. She says those fears letting truckers in the vicinity know where should be put to rest, thanks to a piece of they can drop refused loads. “There will Clinton-era legislation. In 1997, Bill signed be a button for Indy Food Drops, so if they the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Act, have food to donate they can just click on which protects retailers and wholethat and it will link them to the donation salers who make a food donation in site,” Howe says. good faith, believing it suitable for If Indy Food Drop works in the way the human consumption. team is hoping, it could possibly bring in “Once upon a time there was some liamore food in one drop than some of the
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places see in months and help the food insecure in our city in ways that have never happened before. Second Helpings has rescued 27 million pounds of food since 1998 — much of that food would have ended up in landfills and dumpsters. “The impact is tremendous, and with that food we are serving a million meals a year,” Vigran says. With this initiative, that number will rise rapidly if enough people are proactive and if these trucks are made aware of it. Outside of letting your grocer know about this program and making sure to show some love to those “ugly” fruits and veggies, Howe says, “These organizations can always use money, always use volunteers; all of them run on volunteer help. So people getting out to volunteer their time to deliver food, to sort food, to serve clients who are coming to food pantries, is a great way that the average person can help the food insecure folks in our community. “There is a need, especially for healthy and fresh food; and so the more we’re able to provide for them for free through our networks, the better off folks in our community are going to be.” N
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WHAT WERE EINSTEIN’S DREAMS? A conversation with Alan Lightman, who bridges science and art
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ou could learn a lot about science by reading Alan Lightman’s nonfiction books. But his breakout Einstein’s Dreams, published in 1993, is no treatise on the theory of special relativity. It is instead a novel with elements of fantasy and magical realism, set in 1905, in Berne, Switzerland. This is where Einstein arrived at his revolutionary insights about the nature of time while working as a patent clerk. Einstein’s scientific inquiries, in this book, are mirrored in his dreams at night. In one of his dream worlds, time bends back on itself. In another, the march of time brings increasing order. It is no exaggeration to say that the book, widely read in university classrooms, translated in 30 languages, has become a modern classic. Lightman, who is Professor of the Practice of Humanities at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, will be appearing in conversation with Rabbi Sandy Sasso at Butler University on April 20. Lightman’s most recent book is The Screening Room, a memoir of his life growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was born in 1948. DAN GROSSMAN: How is it that you became interested in science when you were a kid? ALAN LIGHTMAN: I know that from a young age I did experiments at home. I built remote control devices that turned lights on and off around the house … I built rockets [for] lizard passengers that were ejected and came down on parachutes. This started from the age of 7 or 8 on …I was probably 13 or 14 when I built the rockets. So I can’t really say where the interest started except to say that it started at an early age.
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DAN: Can you describe some of your areas of research? ALAN: I stopped doing research in science about 10 or 15 years ago... I worked in astrophysics; I worked on Einstein’s theory of gravity; I worked on black holes, on the way that black holes interact with their astrophysical environment with gas and stars around them: I worked on exotic radiation processes that take place in outer space under conditions and density that we can’t achieve in a laboratory on earth: I worked on systems of stars called globular clusters …
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DAN: When you got your idea for Einstein’s Dreams, was it a flash or did the ideas accrue slowly? ALAN: It was a little of both... The title came to me first. Usually titles come last. You figure out what the book is about and you title it. In this case, the title came to me first and just the idea of Einstein dreaming caught my imagination because it sort of represented the tension between the sciences and the humanities that have been part of my own life since childhood... with Einstein representing our rational, analytical, scientific side and our dreaming representing our more intuitive, artistic, holistic side. So once I had those two words in my head, which did probably come to me in a flash, then the book developed slowly after that. I had read Italo Calvino’s book Invisible Cities. It’s a lovely small book in which Calvino writes these various imaginative descriptions of various cities which are supposed to be in the realm of Genghis Khan. After a while, you realize that they’re not real cities: they’re imagined cities.... That particular book had a form with its short vignettes which are each imaginary places. And as I began thinking about Einstein’s Dreams and what that meant I had that book in the back of my mind Invisible Cities and it suggested to me to do with time what Calvino had done with place. DAN: Do you think social media and socalled fake news have repercussions in the scientific realm? ALAN: Certainly the whole mentality of science is to be skeptical of all statements until you can verify them or refute them by experimental tests. If the National Academy of Sciences make a statement about climate change... I know that they do careful research and they don’t make statements without testing them. There are certain reporters that I trust because I know that... they don’t make statements unless they themselves have done the fact checking and verified them. So I think that’s the next best thing to being able to personally verify every statement that I read in the newspaper. And I think what is dangerous about the current climate. So many things are being labelled as fake news... I think it’s undermining our trust in all reporters. N
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ANIMATED BODY SWAPPING Your Name is Makoto Shinkai’s artistic story of teens learning from one another BY ED JOHNSON-OTT // EJOHNSONOTT@NUVO.NET
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our Name is a reminder of how much fun it can be to watch a talented artist grab for more than he or she can handle. The artist is 44-year-old Japanese filmmaker Makoto Shinkai (The Garden of Words), listed on Wikipedia as a director, writer, producer, animator, editor, cinematographer, voice actor, manga artist, and former graphic designer. Shinkai wrote and directed Your Name, which was released in many countries last year. It was a smash, becoming the fourth highest grossing film of all-time in Japan, and the highest-grossing anime film worldwide, earning over $340 million so far. I usually don’t list dollar amounts when I write about movies, but I want you to know what a crowd-pleaser the film is, so that you’ll consider seeing it even when you learn that it’s an animated Freaky Friday style body-swapping story about two teens, whose Nicholas Sparks-ish adventures deal with the mysteries of time, the fate of a city, and the potential for romance across seemingly impossible distances. But wait, there’s more. How about three – yes, three — montages set to the poprock music of a band called Radwimps. And there’s a bratty younger sister, because anime requires at least one supporting character to be a loud twit. See what I mean about grabbing more than you can handle? I’m sure Shinkai will eventually gain the
clarity of vision to create a masterpiece. In the meantime, we get to savor a movie packed with unbridled enthusiasm of the Billy Mumphrey kind and tempered by bouts of classic teenage angst. Some of it is amusing, some of it is touching, some of it mystifies and misconnects. Never fear — when the story reaches one of its “too much” points you still have the animation to enjoy. Shinkai’s animation takes the visual minutiae of the world we live in and loops it back in a way that makes you appreciate his artistry and the artistry of our reality. His storytelling reflects a different approach — he provides plenty of details, but the result feels more like a color wash than a comprehensible word painting. When country girl Mitsuha and city boy Taki wake up in each others bodies, they each assume it is a dream. At first it’s comic – Taki keeps sitting on the bed, squeezing the breasts of this new body, while Mitsuha is mortified at the notion of having a penis. She dreads urinating because that means she’ll have to touch it. The kids soon learn that their body-swapping is not a dream, mostly by hearing reports from family and friends about what happened when the other teen was in their body. Gradually they learn to deal with their circumstances more effectively, even leaving very brief messages to one another. The adjustment continues, as do the questions: How is this happening? Why is it
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happening to them? Is there a reason why they were chosen? Is there something they need to do? With this being a movie and all, it’s no spoiler to acknowledge that there most certainly is a reason they were chosen and yes indeed, they have things to do. I can’t say much more without spoiling the plot. Actually, I’m not sure how much of Your Name I could explain. I could tell you what they have to do, but not what the ramifications of their actions will be. Of course, stories dealing with the mysteries of time and space usually get fuzzy near the end (or worse, maddeningly detailed as the author explains his story to death. That is not a problem here). My suggestion is to refuse to let the story get in the way of enjoying the story. Relish the overreach of a mighty talented writer-director-etc. Put your fingers in your ears and go “La la la” whenever Radwimps kicks off the next montage. Or you can spend your montage moments thinking about this: What if body-swapping happens all the time, and the world is filled with displaced souls trying to bluff their way through the day so they can get back to their real lives? It would explain a lot. N
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he Indy film community is growing draa greater focus on education, skills developmatically, and next week one of the bigment and building a community of creatives. gest players is giving aspiring filmmakers Last year, we changed the name to Indiana the chance to peek behind the curtain. Filmmakers Network Inc. as part of the proThe Indiana Filmmakers Network Inc. is cess of filing for nonprofit status.” conducting a panel discussion next Tuesday, The group is officially announcing its 501c3 April 11 at 7 p.m. with some of the major nonprofit status at the upcoming panel, and it movers and shakers in the Indy film scene. It has big plans for the future. will take place at the Goodrich Hamilton 16 “The biggest thing we do to help improve IMAX theater in Noblesville. The discussion the film community is by creating opportuniwill touch on tips and tricks for submitting to ties for creatives to connect,” Moschner says. local film festivals, how films are chosen, how “We have a lot of great people in Indianapolis local filmmakers can immerse themselves in making a lot of great things, but they keep to the community and more. The their own bubbles. We provide panelists include: Craig Prater, opportunities for people to step the president of Heartland Film; “We provide out of their bubbles, step out of Dan Moore, the executive direccomfort zones and connect opportunities their tor of the Indy Film Fest; Chris with people they don’t even for people to Holobek, the secretary for the know exist.” Indy Film Fest; Chuck Budreau, This organization will be step out of the festival director of the hooking creatives up with more their bubbles.” expert speakers and opportuniGen Con Film Festival; Patrick Higgs, the artistic director of the ties in the months to come. It’s — JARROD MOSCHNER focusing heavily on “job readiAlhambra Theatre Film Festival; and Nate Sexton, the volunteer ness programs.” In fact, one of its and outreach coordinator for the Middle many projects in the works is a boot camp for Coast Film Festival. production assistants. After the discussion, attendees will be able The Indiana Filmmakers Network is a testato mingle and geek out over film with fellow ment to the power of patience and persevercinephiles, which is exactly how the Indiana ance. It’s been around for a long spell, but now Filmmakers Network started. that it finally has nonprofit status, more doors “The Indiana Filmmakers Network started are opening for partnerships and resources to back around 1998 when several local filmmak- help it grow even further. It’s a shining examers just decided to get together and socialize ple for the filmmakers it aims to inspire — an with other filmmakers,” says Jarrod Moschner, example of how good things come to those the organization’s state board representative. who wait. “Over the years, people have come and gone The group meets on the second Tuesday of and attendance for meetings has waxed and each month. Keep an eye out, Indy filmmakwaned. We restructured the organization with ers. Your time is now. N
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The IMA’s new beer garden serves exclusive Sun King brew BY CAVAN MCGINSIE // CMCGINSIE@NUVO.NET
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n March 31, the Indianapolis Museum of Art launched its newest exhibition, 250,000 Spring Blooms; which is a pretty self-explanatory exhibition. While the IMA’s beautiful, tranquil gardens are a well-known and well-loved aspect of the museum’s 52-acre upper campus, there is a new addition attached to the Madeline F. Elder Greenhouse that will make for a major change in the experience: a beer garden. “To actually have a beer garden in a garden, it’s a really cool thing that not everyone else in Indianapolis can do,” says Stephanie Perry, the IMA’s media relations manager, while I’m sitting with her and the IMA’s new Director of Hospitality, Josh Ratliff. Ratliff joined the IMA’s team just over six months ago and this is his first big project at the museum. His background lies in the high-end culinary realm, and so when he came onto the IMA’s team he took a familiar, hospitable approach to making the museum more accessible to Hoosiers of all walks. “The beer garden is a part of a big picture,” Ratliff says. “So there’s this building full of thousands of years of art and it’s wrapped in 150 acres of gardens and it’s an asset where, normally the team of people are stewards that hand it off to the next generation, but we also have to hand it off to Hoosiers and make it relevant and hand it off to them every day. So, making the campus as a whole accessible, for me, means pouring somebody a beer.” When I ask about the wine available in the beer garden, Ratliff, who as a sommelier has a vast knowledge of the world of wine, explains his mindset on the wine in an allegorical sense, which leads to a clearer view of his vision as a whole. “I’m bringing a wine in that has a few
grams of residual sugar on it, so it definitely has a mouthfeel that is satisfying, but it’s actually pretty dry and made in a high-quality tradition,” he says of the upstate New York riesling that will be offered. “And it’s in a keg, which I think removes a lot of the nervousness around wine.” He follows that by saying: “It’s also a lesson for us at the museum as a whole. People see [the museum] as some big fancy bottle of wine where they don’t know how to open it, they don’t know the words on it, and so if I can just find a way to keg up what we’re doing here and say, “What’s on tap?” Well, we’ve got art, and flowers, and beer” As for “What’s on tap?” in the beer garden, Ratliff plans four beverage options. One exclusive is a new beer from Sun King called Among the Leaves, an easy-drinking, floral, clean-tasting, light
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ABV, farmhouse ale; it will be the perfect beer for warm summer days while on a walk among the leaves and flowers. Of the collaboration on that beer, Ratliff says, “Sun King is a part of the IMA family and they have been a strong supplier, partner, collaborator across the board for years. They’re a big part of making our public programs a success that they’re involved with. … They walked us through how they design a beer, and how it works, and what our goals would be, and what the flavors and style would be. It was mostly driven by Sun King and we just kind of got to go
along for the ride.” While they also have another local offering on tap in the form of a non-alcoholic root beer from Triton Brewing Co., they wanted to have one more beer style on tap. “I like beers from Germany,” Ratliff says, referencing why he decided on Warsteiner’s pilsner as the other beer on tap. The aforementioned riesling will round out the tap list. We head out of the museum and to the gardens, the spring blooms are already coming in despite the odd weather pattern we’ve had coming into this spring. The beer garden itself is covered by a pergola and offers seating at picnic tables for 30-or-so people. It’s easy to imagine these tables lined with people conversing, sipping on beverages, listening to live music (which will be happening on Fridays in May with local artists like Cyrus Youngman, Monika Herzig and more) and sharing the giant pretzels that will be available from Pat’s Philly Pretzels. It is tied into the entrance fee of the museum and the grounds, which is $18 for non-members, and free for members (memberships span from $55 - $250). The experience of the beer garden is meant to be easy, promote camaraderie and to, at its core, be accessible and add to the museum experience at as a whole. Stephanie Perry says, “If you want to come look at the art, we have that. If you want to get a beer and walk through the gardens, do that. If you just want to sit and drink and not even get up from your seat, you don’t have to. I mean you can take your drink and stroll the gardens, but this whole idea is moving towards making the IMA a place where you come and socialize and there is a sense of community.” N
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KYLE LONG is a longtime NUVO columnist and host of WFYI’s A Cultural Manifesto.
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must admit that I was more than a little nervous to speak with Thomas Mapfumo as I entered his number into my iPhone last week. There aren’t many living musicians I admire and respect as much as I do Mapfumo, “the Lion of Zimbabwe.” But my nerves were quickly eased by Mapfumo’s calm and considerate manner. I found Mapfumo to be a careful listener, and an even more careful speaker. In conversation Mapfumo doesn’t spend words unnecessarily, answering questions on his own terms. But I found great meaning in my short exchange with Mapfumo. In this political age, where ethics and morality are presented as malleable properties that shift with economic winds, I deeply appreciated Mapfumo’s conviction that an individual’s intrinsic human rights hold an incontrovertibly greater value than artificial constructs like national security or national borders. Mapfumo is uniquely qualified to speak on this issue. Mapfumo was born into the colony of Southern Rhodesia in 1945. In the late 1970s, Mapfumo’s songs encouraging rebellion against the Rhodesian colonial state would land him in prison. During the post-independence era of the 1980s, Mapfumo’s praise of Zimbabwe’s revolutionary leader Robert Mugabe turned into disillusionment. Mapfumo’s criticism of Mugabe and his policies eventually led the singer into exile from his homeland. Today, Mapfumo lives in the Northwest United States where he advocates for an overthrow of the Mugabe government. Mapfumo is an important cultural force, comparable to artists like Fela Kuti or James Brown — equal parts political instigator and musical innovator. Musically Mapfumo is known for pioneering the revolutionary form of music known as chimurenga. Mapfumo’s chimurenga replaced the acoustic sounds of traditional Shona tribal music with rock and roll instrumentation. Featuring complex contrapuntal guitar
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lines over hypnotic electric bass grooves, the chimurenga sound was both startlingly fresh and completely irresistible. This week Hoosier audiences will have an extraordinary opportunity to learn more about Mapfumo’s complex political history, and hear his groundbreaking music live. On Wednesday, Mapfumo will participate in a seminar at IU Bloomington’s School of Global and International Studies. On Thursday, Mapfumo and his band Blacks Unlimited will perform a free concert at IU Bloomington’s Wells Metz Theater. KYLE LONG: Mr. Mapfumo, I’ve read interviews where you’ve talked about the role musicians can have as a voice for people who don’t have the freedom to express their grievances against an oppressive system or state. You’ve certainly used your music to advocate for freedom and justice for the people of Zimbabwe, and for people around the world. That hasn’t been an easy road for you. You’ve been
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imprisoned for your music. At various points your music has been banned in Zimbabwe. You’ve been living in exile from Zimbabwe for over a decade now. In the face of so many dangers and obstacles, I’m curious how you’ve maintained the courage and energy to continue speaking out? THOMAS MAPFUMO: I just think that if you are a freedom fighter you have a duty to speak up against corruption, to speak up against evil systems that are used against our poor people. So that’s where I am coming from. I really don’t care what you think about me. All I know is that I want to see people living a good life. I want to see people being free all over the world, not just in Zimbabwe only. I am really against dictatorships, and I am against oppression of the poor people. I am against corruption. There are thing happening that are very disturbing, like the wars going on today in this world, like religious wars with the Muslims and the
Christians. That’s not the world we’re supposed to be living in, you understand? KYLE: Of course, I also want to talk with you about music. The chimurenga music you pioneered in Zimbabwe was strongly connected with the struggle against colonialism. In fact the word “chimurenga” itself roughly translates as “struggle” or “resistance”. I was curious if you listen to American hip-hop music, and if you see any parallels between the Black American rapper’s struggle against systemic racial oppression and the methods by which you and Zimbabweans used chimurenga music in the fight against settler colonialism in Zimbabwe? THOMAS: I do listen to every good music with a good message. I have been listening to a lot of hip-hop stuff. What the youngsters are saying is actually preaching about injustice. There is a reason these youngsters came to be like that, and there is a reason why they are speaking against the system. KYLE: Mr. Mapfumo, the creation of chimurenga music is considered by many as a revolutionary innovation in the history Zimbabwean culture. Your credited for electrifying Shona music by replicating the sound of the mbira, or the thumb piano as we call it here, with electric guitars. I’m curious if that innovation came from an intentional decision to modernize Shona music on your part, or was it a more of an organic outgrowth in the music you were creating during at that time? THOMAS: I really wanted to promote our culture, because nobody was doing that during the colonial days. I had to think about my people’s identity, who they are, and where they are coming from. This is why I started writing chimurenga music. I am not a racist, I want people to live together and I’ve always believed in a united world. That is what I’m trying to achieve. N
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arty Stuart is not only a legend of country music, he is a keeper of the flame. Stuart might be best known for his string of hits from the ‘80s and ‘90s like “Western Girls” and “Hillbilly Rock,” but he’s continued to record regularly (and rock his signature feathered hair). Stuart is a legend of country music and has worked with the old masters, had his first gold record from a single with Travis Tritt and continues to make authentic country music. Stuart has been touring for basically his entire life. He joined Lester Flatts’ band when he was 13, went on national TV for the first time when he was 14 and joined Johnny Cash’s band when he was 22. He left Cash’s band to begin his solo career and has made solo records ever since. With a pedigree like that it would be easy to imagine Stuart lived in Nashville, but the Mississippi native says his journey in country music all started in Bean Blossom, Indiana. “My dad took me up to a bluegrass festival when I was 12,” Stuart says. “At that time that festival was like Woodstock. There were WHEN // Thursday, probably 30April 6, 8 p.m. 40,000 people WHERE // The Hi-Fi in the weekend; TICKETS // $35, 21+ it was crazy. It was an interesting festival because it was part hippie, part grandma and grandpa, and a whole lot of bluegrass aficionados. I just fell in love with the whole scene.” Today, Stuart is 58 and has just completed his 16th studio album Way Out West, a love letter to the American West and to all the things that were quintessentially western. Stuart says, “Me and the band, we made a verbal list of things we loved about the west: Fender guitars, The Ventures, Lily Munster, the Batmobile, Porter Wagoner’s suit, the Lone Ranger’s clothes. We just went on and on about things we loved from the west.”
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The album is less Hillybilly Rock and more classic country. Stuart’s latest is more than a love letter to the west: It’s a love letter to 1960s country music. The songs have a classic feel, cutting guitar lines, narrative lyrics and harmonizing vocals. The tone of the telecasters is incredible because the album was produced by Mike Campbell, the longtime guitar player for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Beyond making music, Stuart is known for collecting it. His personal collection has over 20,000 pieces of country music memorabilia, ranging from rhinestone suits and boots to guitars and picks. He started collecting as a young man in love with the trappings of the genre. After a while, Stuart said he realized that someone needed to save country music artifacts from thrift stores around Nashville. “The first artifact that I went, ‘Something’s wrong here,’ that I bought was Patsy Cline’s train case for $75 at a shop on 8th Avenue in Nashville. I thought, ‘Man this is wrong, this is wrong.’ I was watching the family jewels being thrown out the window,” Stuart explained. N NUVO.NET // 04.05.17 - 04.12.17 // MUSIC // 19
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ARTIST // Father John Misty ALBUM // Pure Comedy LABEL // Sub Pop
ARTIST // New Pornographers ALBUM // Whiteout Conditions LABEL // Concord
MULTIPLE DATES
WEDNESDAY // 4.5
WEDNESDAY // 4.5
SATURDAY // 4.8
SATURDAY // 4.8
SATURDAY // 4.8
TUESDAY // 4.11
American Pianists Association Finals times vary, prices vary, venues vary, most all-ages
Margo Price 7 p.m., The Hi-Fi, SOLD OUT, 21+
Mike Mains, Motherfolk, Achilles Tenderloin 8 p.m., Musical Family Tree, all-ages
Convoy, Sleeping Dog, The Urban Abstract, Raviner 8 p.m., 5th Quarter Lounge, 21+
Kishi Bashi Deluxe at Old National Centre, all-ages
Bonesetters, S-E-R-V-I-C-E, Uh 9 p.m., Pioneer, 21+
Jukebox the Ghost, The Elwins, The Bikewalk 8 p.m., The Hi-Fi, $16 advance, $18 door, 21+
Joyful Noise Recordings
A good time to go see
artist Kishi Bashi is a
some great local music
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is now.
the Ghost dropped a self-ti-
If you can somehow finagle Once of the most delightful
yourself into the sold-out
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parts of every April is the
Margo Price show at the
the Margo Price show on
Suck up every bit of the
revelation to see live – and
APA’s badass pianist com-
Hi-Fi, do it. Price is one of
Wednesday, all is not lost
5th Quarter Lounge while
barely manages to answer
tled banger in the middle of
petition, this year featuring
the most exciting country
for your Wednesday night
it’s still open through
the question on how K.
2014, so they’re about due
Sam Hong, Henry Kramer,
songwriters going these
music plans. Musical Family
April. (We will hold back
Ishibashi create the beau-
for a followup – hopefully
Drew Petersen, Steven Lin
days, and her hit single
Tree is (finally) back in their
our tears until the doors
tiful cacophony of noises
that means new songs at
and Alex Beyer in a variety
“Hands of Time,” is a guar-
new concert space in the
actually close.)
that make up his lovely
this Hi-Fi show.
of venues across Indy.
anteed tear-jerker.
Murphy, and they’re doing
records? (Either a loop
Finals take place on Friday
things right with a indie rock
machine, or magic.) Tall Tall
and Saturday at the Hilbert
bill featuring Virginia Avenue
Trees will open.
Circle Theatre.
Folk Fest regular Motherfolk.
WEDNESDAY // 4.5 Alex Mendenhall, Coal Yard Coffee, all-ages Sones de Mexico Ensemble, Mathers Museum, all-ages Blues Jam with Travis Feaster, Slippery Noodle, 21+ Odell Fox, Melody Inn, 21+ Toy Factory, Kona Jack’s, 21+ Avenue Indy Jazz Quintet, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Anna Lee Chalos-McAleese and Andrew McAleese, JCC, all-ages
THURSDAY // 4.6 American Pianists Awards Song Recital, Indiana History Center, all-ages Gordon Bonham Blues Band, Slippery Noodle, 21+ Latin Dance Party, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Obtuse with DJ Shawshank and David Peck, Pioneer, 21+ Kenny G, Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, all-ages
Salaam Middle Eastern Music Ensemble, Eskenazi Hospital, all-ages Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives, The Hi-Fi, 21+ Christian Lopez, Don Gallardo, Fountain Square Brewing Co., 21+ DBO, Emerson Theater, all-ages The Return of Retro Vinyl, Greg’s, 21+
Nagaski Dirt, Jeron Braxton and The Tamagotchis, Moon Bounce, Ehiorobo, Be Here Now (Muncie), 21+ #LAID Fridays, Tiki Bob’s, 21+ Vess Von Ruhtenberg, Volunteer Department, Beaker, State Street Pub, 21+
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Rod Tuffcurls and The Bench Press, Vogue, 21+ Charlie Hunter Trio, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Back to the Future ft. DJ MetroGnome, The Hi-Fi, 21+
SATURDAY // 4.8 Saint Aubin, Joshua Powell and The Great Train Robbery, The Hi-Fi, 21+ Back 2 the ‘80s, Indiana Farmers Coliseum, all-ages Parasites, Applecore, Sump Pumps, Thunderbolt
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Grease, Melody Inn, 21+ Real Talk with Action Jackson and A-Squared, White Rabbit Cabaret, 21+ Zao, Emerson Theater, all-ages Saint Aubin, Joshua Powell and The Great Train Robbery, The Hi-Fi, 21+ Shawnthony Calypso, State Street Pub, 21+ Carter Hulsey, American Opera, Ryan M Brewer, Chad Lehr, Fountain Square Brewing Co., 21+ Kreator, Obituary, Midnight, Horrendous, The Vogue, 21+ Ann Hampton Calloway, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Ghost-Note, Mousetrap, 21+ Ariel, New World Symphony, Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, all-ages Chase Rice, 8 Seconds Saloon, 21+
SUNDAY // 4.9 Mint, Melody Inn, 21+
Dan + Shay, Jackie Lee, Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, all-ages The Claudettes, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ TobyMac, Bankers Life, 21+ Dan TDM, Old National Centre, all-ages Gordon Bonham Trio, Slippery Noodle, 21+
MONDAY // 4.10 Gene Deer, Slippery Noodle, 21+ Magic City Hippies, Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ Acoustic Open Mic with Big Little Lions, Irving Theater, all-ages
TUESDAY // 4.11 Indianapolis Jazz Orchestra, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Nathan Kalish, Square Cat Vinyl, all-ages Reverent Robert and Washboard Shorty, Slippery Noodle, 21+ Rosetta, 5th Quarter Lounge, 21+
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I’m a woman in my late 40s. In my early 20s, I married a much older man. We did all the requisite things: kids, house, intercourse once a week. When the sex fell off due to his declining health, he surprised me by suggesting we open our marriage. He said I was too young to be limited and he didn’t want me to leave him for sex. I spent time contemplating how to truly fulfill my desires. I read a lot of erotica, indulged in porn, and discovered that what turned me on was Dominance. Not intercourse particularly, but power play with me as the Queen controlling a slave. I like chastity, face-sitting, and light bondage. I have found that this type of play appeals to smart and kinky gents. But I am finding that, despite a gentleman’s declaration of “wanting something long-term,” perhaps a friends-with-benefits arrangement, they tend to drop out in short order. Three times in the past two years I have spent a great deal of time getting to know someone before there was any play — a lot of time chatting online, several vanilla dates. In each of these instances, I felt that I had found a good friend. Each of these three men dumped me in exactly the same way. Each said that I was too overwhelmingly beautiful and powerful, and that their obsession with me took up too much room in their lives. This is very frustrating because I feel like I give someone the space they need. I think this is likely BS. Could “I’m overwhelmed” be the new “It’s not you, it’s me”? I am tired of having my feelings hurt. Must I hang up my crop forever? Done Offering My Mental Energy DAN SAVAGE: Forever hanging up your crop because a few guys tactfully ended things over a two-year period seems a bit melodramatic. So hang in there, DOMME, and hold on to that crop. The mistake you’re making, if I may be so bold as to offer some constructive criticism to the Queen, is investing too much time and energy up front, i.e., you’re making large emotional investments in these guys before you get around to the play. You’ll want to screen guys for your own safety, of course, but spending “a great deal of time getting to know” a potential kinky FWB is a recipe for disappointment. Because if you don’t click during play — if your style of BDSM doesn’t do it for them or vice versa — there are really no “benefits” in continuing. I suspect that was the case with your last three gents. But instead of ghosting you or saying something that could be construed as critical or unkind, all three heaped praise on you instead. You were too beautiful, too overwhelming, etc. It was, indeed, a kinder, gentler, subbier way of saying, “It’s not you, it’s me.”
Dominant women are in such short supply relative to demand that submissive men will, well, they’ll submit to an endless vetting process. During that process, submissive guys open to something long-term will say so, DOMME, but submissive guys who aren’t looking for something long-term will say so, too, if they sense that’s what you want to hear. In order to be safe while avoiding avoidable heartache, DOMME, you’ll want to invest a little time in getting to know guys before you play — again, for your safety — but not so much emotional energy that you’ll be annoyed/upset/devastated if it doesn’t work out.
My wife and I are poly. Next week, my wife is going on a business trip, and I made plans with a woman who we sometimes hook up with to come over. The complication is that, at 8 a.m. the next morning, our housekeeper is supposed to show up—and she’s likely to see that my wife is away but I’m eating breakfast with another woman. I’m not sure what to do. We’re open about being poly, but that seems like an awkward and inappropriate conversation to have with your housekeeper. An Inconvenient Guest
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DAN: You shouldn’t have to sneak around in front of your housekeeper, AIG, but your housekeeper probably — definitely — doesn’t want to hear the details of your sex life. So sneak out the back door or pass your lady friend off as a houseguest (remember to rumple the sheets in the guest room) — or reschedule either your housekeeper or your hookup.
Last night, the GF was on the receiving end of a session of oral sex, but maybe because we were in her sister’s spare bedroom, or for whatever reason, she would repeatedly get within a whisker of coming only to say, “STOP! Too intense!” But I am persistent if nothing else, and on the fourth try, we got there. Boy, did we get there! I can’t ask for personal insights, Dan, since performing oral sex on women isn’t your thing. But perhaps your readers have a few surefire tricks that work when all else fails? Perhaps Everyone Really Says It’s Some Trick DAN: Your first three attempts got the GF close, PERSIST, and the fourth got her off. You obviously know what works for your girlfriend and don’t really need tricks or tips. You just keep doing what you’re doing, and next time you want to brag about your ability to get your GF there, go ahead and send me an honest brag. There’s no need to phrase your bragging in the form of a question — this is Savage Love, not Sex Jeopardy. Listen to Dan’s podcast every week at savagelovecast.com
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your attention. Stay focused on them with disciplined devotion. Be selfish in your rapt determination to serve your clearest and noblest and holiest agendas. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I hope that by midMay you will be qualified to teach a workshop called “Sweet Secrets of Tender Intimacy” or “Dirty Secrets of Raw Intimacy” or maybe even “Sweet and Dirty Secrets of Raw and Tender Intimacy.” In other words, Libra, I suspect that you will be adding substantially to your understanding of the art of togetherness. Along the way, you may also have experiences that would enable you to write an essay entitled “How to Act Like You Have Nothing to Lose When You Have Everything to Gain.” SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If you have a dream of eating soup with a fork, it might mean that in your waking life you’re using the wrong approach to getting nourished. If you have a dream of entering through an exit, it might mean that in your waking life you’re trying to start at the end rather than the beginning. And if you dream of singing nursery rhymes at a karaoke bar with unlikable people from high school, it might mean that in your waking life you should seek more fulfilling ways to express your wild side and your creative energies. (P.S. You’ll be wise to do these things even if you don’t have the dreams I described.) SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you’re a Quixotic lover, you’re more in love with love itself than with any person. If you’re a Cryptic lover, the best way to stay in love with a particular partner is to keep him or her guessing. If you’re a Harlequin, your steady lover must provide as much variety as three lovers. If you’re a Buddy, your specialties are having friendly sex and having sex with friends. If you’re a Histrionic, you’re addicted to confounding, disorienting love. It’s also possible that you’re none of the above. I hope so, because now is an excellent time to have a beginner’s mind about what kind of love you really need and want to cultivate in the future. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your new vocabulary word is “adytum.” It refers to the most sacred place within a sacred place -- the inner shrine at the heart of a sublime sanctuary. Is there such a spot in your world? A location that embodies all you hold precious about your journey on planet Earth? It might be in a church or temple or synagogue or mosque, or it could be a magic zone in nature or a corner of your bedroom. Here you feel an intimate connection with the divine, or a sense of awe and reverence for the privilege of being alive. If you don’t have a personal adytum, Capricorn, find or create one. You need the refreshment that comes from dwelling in the midst of the numinous. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You could defy gravity a little, but not a lot. You can’t move a mountain, but you may be able to budge a hill. Luck won’t miraculously enable you to win a contest, but it might help you seize a hard-earned perk or privilege. A bit of voraciousness may be good for your soul, but a big blast of greed would be bad for both your soul and your ego. Being savvy and feisty will energize your collaborators and attract new allies; being a smart-ass show-off would alienate and repel people. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Here are activities that will be especially favorable for you to initiate in the near future: 1. Pay someone to perform a service for you that will ease your suffering. 2. Question one of your fixed opinions if that will lead to you receiving a fun invitation you wouldn’t get otherwise. 3. Dole out sincere praise or practical help to a person who could help you overcome one of your limitations. 4. Get clear about how one of your collaborations would need to change in order to serve both of you better. Then tell your collaborator about the proposed improvement with light-hearted compassion.
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