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ome years ago, I found myself seated next to then-U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Indiana, at a dinner. It was just a few weeks after the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001. President George W. Bush had declared “war” on terrorism. Our march toward war in Afghanistan and Iraq had begun. Americans, understandably, wanted to make those who had murdered our fellow citizens pay for what they’d done. Emotions ran high. That’s why I asked Lugar, a foreign policy expert and one of the most rational people on the planet, a question that troubled me then — and troubles me now. I can understand wanting to fight terrorists, I asked, but what constitutes victory? When will we know we’ve won? When will it be over? Lugar looked at me for a moment, then said, softly: “That’s the big question.” Being Lugar, he continued with a detailed, closely reasoned analysis of the world situation. He talked about how much more complicated the world had become. About how we were confronting an enemy
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different than the ones we’d fought in the Korea, an emerging nuclear power. past. About how the responses that had In each case, the decision seemed to served us in the past might not work now. come without much reflection. About how we needed to think long and President Donald Trump authorized hard about our decisions the missile strike, he in the days ahead because said, because images of The president of children suffering from a they could have far-reaching consequences. weapons attack the United States chemical It was fascinating, as it almoved him. He acted as if ways is with Lugar, a master seemed to act by such tactics by the Syrian class on a troubled world. were someimpulse — spasm, government But it became clear he thing new — a reason for almost — rather didn’t have an answer to him to disavow his earlier my question. statements that getting than by thought I walked away from that involved in Syria would be or plan. dinner thinking that Richa mistake. ard Lugar, one of the wisest The truth, though, is that and best-informed statesmen on the if Trump weren’t aware that Syrian leader planet, didn’t know how or where the fight Bashar al-Assad is a horrible human against terrorism was going to end, either. being, it could only be because the presiThat wasn’t reassuring. dent hasn’t been paying attention. Wars, I mused that night, are a lot easiTrump also seems to have given little er to begin than they are to end. thought to (or exercised much superviI’ve been thinking about that conversion over) the bombing of Afghanistan, sation with Lugar a lot lately. particularly regarding the ways ISIS will In just a few days, we have launched a use the event for recruiting purposes. missile strike against Syria, dropped the Similarly, the president shook his fist “mother of all bombs” on Afghanistan at North Korea as if he saw Kim Jong-un’s and made threatening gestures to North instability — and possession of nuclear
weapons — as a personal affront rather than a complex problem. And threat. In each instance, the president of the United States seemed to act by impulse — spasm, almost — rather than by thought or plan. Perhaps that is why Richard Lugar, now more than four years out of the Senate but still one of the most highly respected voices regarding foreign policy in the world, unloaded on Trump in a speech to the Foreign Policy Association. He called Trump’s approach to the world “simplistic, prosaic and reactive.” He criticized the president for abdicating America’s world leadership, a course, Lugar argued, that will create a void, making conflicts occur more often and endangering people all over the planet. Lugar’s theme was the same one he delivered years ago during our dinner chat. The world is a complicated, dangerous place and we need to think carefully about our actions because they will have far-reaching consequences. Wars, you see, still are a lot easier to begin than they are to end. N
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Recruitment for mentoring campaign begins at Indians game BY SAM WATERMEIER // NEWS@NUVO.NET
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hree days into working for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana, Rick Belbutoski found himself on the front lines of the mentoring organization’s biggest recruitment campaign — “100 Men in 50 Days.” He had to pinch himself as he sat in a conference room overlooking Victory Field, talking to representatives of the Indianapolis Indians about kicking off this effort together. The campaign will be officially announced during the team’s game this Friday, April 21. Last year, the campaign exceeded its goal and gained 122 men to serve as “big brothers” for at-risk boys in the community. This year, the organization is swinging for the fences and aiming to achieve even greater results. “Like my co-workers, I’m wired to wonder how we can top ourselves,” says Belbutoski, the manager of volunteer outreach and engagement. “I learned that last year’s first campaign with the Indians started before their playing season. So, in the middle of the meeting with them, I thought, ‘Why don’t we kick off the campaign at a game this time?’ That question led to the campaign jumping off the page of a press release and starting at a big Friday night baseball game with fireworks and the whole shebang.” Before the game, the Indians will participate in a press conference to get the word out about the organization’s signature mentorship program. After the game, two former little brothers will take to the field to talk about how their mentors helped them as they grew
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up, jumped over life’s hurdles and carved career paths for themselves. They serve as shining examples of how simply spending four to six hours a month with a role model can make a massive impact on a child’s life. The oranization finds hundreds of kids in need of this kind of bond. Big Brothers Big Sisters currently has more than 750 children in Central Indiana waiting for mentors, and 70 percent of those kids are boys. The group tends to face difficulty in finding male volunteers to serve as their big brothers. Only three out of every 10 inquiries to volunteer come from men — hence the 100 Men in 50 Days campaign, which is now in its fourth year. “Since the organization’s sole purpose is to make sure kids have people around to support them, it really weighs on us when we can’t get to them as quickly as we want to,” says CEO Darcey Palmer-Schultz. “We’re excited and motivated to have an initiative like the 100 Men campaign and partners like the Indians, which both really move the needle on this need in our community.” The organization first collaborated with the Indians last year, and they proved to be the perfect partners, representing the exact kind of male role models that are needed as mentors. “Like your big brother, the Indians go all in
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and completely rally behind you,” says Palmer-Schultz. “They’re deeply invested in this community in a way that stands out and feels special, like a family bond. Of course, their core job isn’t to accomplish our mission, but they own it with us and stay by our side as we try to reach this goal. They really care about the success of what we’re doing. You can see that at every level of their organization when we’re trying to pull this off.” In addition to speaking about the campaign and filling their stadium with posters that promote it, the Indians are offering little brothers free tickets to games all season long, giving them something fun to do with
their mentors. “We’re proud of the success of last year’s campaign, but we know there’s more work to do,” says Randy Lewandowski, the president and general manager of the Indians. “Bigs can make a significant impact on young lives. If bigs and littles can connect through baseball, we are honored to be a resource to help make those connections happen.” At the end of the day, the Big Brothers Big Sisters program is about making those simple connections. As those involved in the organization say, it’s basically just about “becoming friends with a child.” Whether they’re going to baseball games, watching movies or even just running up to the store together, the little bit of time that kids and mentors spend together can leave a lasting impression. The bare minimum that the organization asks of its big brothers and sisters is four hours a month for 12 months from the time they’re matched with their littles. Hundreds of boys are out there waiting for this opportunity. Big Brothers Big Sisters hopes it can find mentors for them among the thousands of baseball fans in the stands this Friday. “Even though this season’s campaign is geared toward finding men, we still need everybody to consider this life-changing opportunity,” says Belbutoski. “It won’t just change the life of a child, it’ll change yours, too. It’ll make you be the kind of person they can look up to for the rest of their lives.” N
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pilepsy is a serious condition that affects an estimated three million Americans and 65 million people around the world. It includes a wide range of conditions where people of all ages are subject to seizures. These conditions are sometimes not easily treated with seizure medications. And even when they are, those medications often come with heavy side effects. These can include speech impairment, liver and kidney impairment and morbid obesity, among many, many others. “These parents were just so devastated and so desperate. Their child was having hundreds of these seizures every day,” Representative Bill Friend, R-Macy, says. “The child would have to wear a helmet and the medications that were prescribed through standard pharmaceutical technique were not effective.” In children, seizures can cause developmental and intellectual disabilities that can pause developmental milestones like walking and talking.
To try to stop the seizures when medication does not prove effective, patients and parents sometimes turn to cannabidiol, which has proven effective in decreasing the frequency of seizures for many people. These medications are FDA approved. Cannabidiol — commonly known as CBD — is not. In 44 states around the country, patients or parents can get the cannabidiol they need without risk, because laws allowing the use of either marijuana — either medical, recreational or cannabidiol — have been passed. Sixteen of those states have only laws involving cannabidiol and not marijuana. When Indiana patients and parents go looking for CBD, though, they risk criminal charges because cannabidiol is illegal in the state. Indiana, Idaho, Nebraska, South Dakota, Kansas and West Virginia are the country’s last states not to legalize recreational or medicinal marijuana or the use of cannabidiol. State lawmakers in Indiana are looking to change that during this legislative
session. Bills proposed in the Statehouse would make grant immunity from prosecution for patients and parents of patients to obtain the cannabidiol that might help their conditions. For the last three years, Rep. Friend has worked to allow parents to get access to the cannabidiol that would help alleviate their children’s seizures. And, for three years, he has been stopped by the prosecuting attorneys or law enforcement, he says. “[They] would say I was trying to legalize marijuana, or I was trying to legalize medical marijuana, neither of which is true,” Friend says. During last year’s session, Friend’s bill granting immunity from prosecution for
parents using CBD oil to treat their child who has epilepsy passed through the House unanimously, he says. The prosecuting attorneys, he continues, killed the bill, though, because they said Friend was trying to legalize marijuana. “I spoke very bluntly to them and told them last spring that I just disagreed emphatically with what they were doing,” Friend says. “I think I used the example that if anyone in your association had a child with this intractable epilepsy you would not be as stiff-necked in your objection to my legislation.” This year, Friend says the prosecuting attorneys have been working with him to come up with language for a bill that they would not oppose. NUVO.NET // 04.19.17 - 04.26.17 // THE BIG STORY // 9
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INDIANA, IDAHO, NEBRASKA, SOUTH DAKOTA, KANSAS AND WEST VIRGINIA ARE THE ONLY STATES THAT HAVE NO LEGAL EXCEPTIONS FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA OR CBD. WHAT IS CANNABIDIOL? Cannabidiol is one of the over 100 compounds that can be found in cannabis plants. Cannabidiol, or CBD, is found throughout both hemp and marijuana plants; in the seeds, stalks and flowers. Because of this, it is rather easily extracted from the plants. Unlike THC, (the compound in cannabis that produces the “high”), CBD has been shown to have significant antioxidant and neuroprotective properties without a high. A three-month study where people ages four months to 41 years old with epilepsy received CBD therapy saw a 45.1 percent overall reduction in seizures in all the patients studied. Among the 17 percent of patients who had Dravet Syndrome, an epileptic condition often resistant to seizure medications, there was a 62.7 percent seizure reduction. In the 15 percent of patients with Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS), another epileptic condition, a 71.7 percent seizure reduction was also seen. Further, almost half of patients saw their seizure frequency cut in half and freedom from seizures was seen in nine percent of patients by the end of the study. While there were some adverse effects to CBD therapy shown through the study,
overwhelmingly what the study showed was that for many people, CBD worked as a therapy that could decrease, or even stop completely, their seizures. That doesn’t make much of a difference for anyone in Indiana if CBD is still illegal.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? Marijuana possession and use is still illegal in Indiana, whether it is for a recreational or medical purpose, and it still will be by the end of this legislative session. House Bill 1148 and Senate Bill 15, though, aim to give immunity to those parents of children with conditions CBD oil could help. “The bill does not legalize marijuana,” Friend says about House Bill 1148. “It does not legalize CBD oil. All it does is grant immunity to the parents and the physicians who present a written recommendation or diagnosis and treatment regimen for that child.” Under the House Bill, marijuana use or possession is still illegal and at least a misdemeanor, if not a felony, offense. The only exception would be if the person charged has, or is the parent of a child who has an intractable epileptic condition and has tried at least two treatment options without success. If a person charged with possession can show that: the product is a pharmaceutical product either
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distributed as part of a clinical trial or by a wholesale distributor, the substance is labeled with its origin, volume and concentration of THC and CBD, the substance contains no more than 0.3 percent THC and at least 10 percent CBD, they have a solid defense against prosecution as long as they meet the requirements. Both Dravet Syndrome and LGS, though, represent a very small portion of patients with epilepsy, which is why Friend says that the prosecutors came to him with the suggestion that the bill’s terminology be changed from identifying those specific conditions to “treatment-resistant epilepsy.” “What we want to do is make sure that we make our group that can benefit large enough that it’s really worthwhile,” Friend says. The original bill allowed a substance to contain absolutely no THC, but in committee many argued that it was largely impossible to guarantee that absolutely no THC would make it into the substance, and that 0.3 percent by weight of THC is not enough of a concentration to feel any real high. “I just wanted to make sure that those parents had an option when nothing else would work,” Friend says. House Bill 1148 made it unanimously through the House.
“That sends a message not only to the prosecutors but across the hall to the Senate that the public, and the people who represent the public, are pretty adamant that this needs to happen,” Friend says. On March 28, it passed through the Senate Corrections and Criminal Law Committee. It also passed through the Senate with a vote of 35-13. Senate Bill 15, authored by Senators Jim Tomes, R-Wadesville, Michael Young, R-Indianapolis and Blake Doriot, R-Syracuse, also aims to help people with epilepsy by decriminalizing and allowing access to CBD. The bill, as introduced to the House, would create a state CBD registry for physicians, patients, caregivers and nurses. The registry would include an online database that would be available to law enforcement personnel. People in the registry would be given registration cards to show to pharmacies and law enforcement if necessary. Under Senate Bill 15, a person with intractable epilepsy, that is, a seizure disorder that has been unsuccessfully treated with at least three seizure medications, can go through the registry process and be treated with cannabidiol. The bill also establishes a study to research the efficacy of cannabidiol as a treatment for intractable epilepsy.
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Pharmacies under Senate Bill 15 can amendment to House Bill 1148 include dispense CBD to patients as long as it’s the registry, a pilot program to study the stored behind the counter, given only effects of CBD oil, the requirement to to a person with a valid registration try other treatment options first and the card and government-issued ID and the change in terminology to “treatment-reamount given is equal to one 30-day sistant epilepsy.” supply in a given This session 30-day span. marks a milestone in A three-month study The bill passed Indiana’s legislation. through the Senate Not only did two bills where people ages four with a vote of 38regarding cannabis months to 41 years old 12 and the House or related substances Committee on make it out of both with epilepsy received Courts and Criminal chambers, both bills CBD therapy saw a 45.1 Code, where it was that made it out of adopted as amendrespective champercent overall reduction their ed. The bill also bers are authored by passed unanimously in seizures in all the Republicans. through the House Of last year’s four patients studied. and was referred medical cannabis bills back to the Senate. and one medical marBoth bills are now under considerijuana bill, none made it through commitation by a conference committee that tee. Four of those five bills were authored will try to come to some sort of comproby Democrats in the Statehouse. mise between the two bills. “If I can’t beat [the prosecuting attorneys], I have to join them. I’m working PROGRESS with them but to their credit they’re “What I said was, let’s take the two working with me,” Friend says. “We’re bills and take the best of each and see if trying to come up with a really good we can’t put them together and come up product and that’s what this is all about with a really good product,” Friend says. is trying to help these kids.” Portions of the Senate Bill included in an NUVO.NET // 04.19.17 - 04.26.17 // THE BIG STORY // 11
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WHY I’M GROWING WEED The absurdity of Georgia’s medical marijuana law BY MIKE BUFFINGTON // EDITORS@NUVO.NET
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’m growing marijuana. I have a flowerpot in my house sitting under a purple grow light with marijuana in it. And it’s illegal. So why is a middle-aged, small-town newspaper publisher growing marijuana? And why am I writing about that, if it’s illegal? The answer to that is found at the intersection of three things: the medical history of marijuana, my son’s seizure condition and state and federal politics. Marijuana has a 3,000-year-old history as a medicinal plant. By 1850, the use of cannabis extracts for medical conditions was widespread in the U.S. But cannabis got caught up in the prohibition movement of the early 1900s. Although the prohibition of alcohol was eventually repealed, the federal government continued its campaign against marijuana. In 1970, the federal government classified marijuana as a Schedule I drug, meaning that it is highly addictive and has no medical value. Marijuana is listed along with heroin, LSD, ecstasy and other drugs under Schedule I. Many believe this was done as a political backlash to that era’s counterculture “hippie” movement, which had embraced the recreational use of marijuana. As America’s war on drugs intensified, the outdoor growing of marijuana came under intense law enforcement pressure. In response, botanists and marijuana growers further hybridized cannabis to adapt it to indoor cultivation. By manipulating lighting, watering, CO2 levels and cross-pollination, growers have created thousands of smaller, more potent hybrids of marijuana.
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The unintended consequence of the war on drugs was two-fold: First, it revolutionized marijuana growing into an indoor industrial production process, and second, it created unique hybrids, some of which have interesting medical value. The second thread of my journey into becoming a part-time pot grower is due to my son’s epilepsy. Clark had his first seizure when he was 6 years old. His seizures come from the left hemisphere of his brain, which didn’t form correctly. On an MRI, his left
on their own. An uncontrolled seizure is often deadly. Fortunately, we have an emergency injection that helps most of the time. Essentially, it is liquid Valium that is injected rectally and immediately absorbed into the blood system. Most of the time, 20 milligrams of Valium stops his seizures before they become life-threatening. But not always. On a number of occasions, I’ve had to take him to an emergency room to get stronger IV drugs. A few times, doctors have had to put him in ICU and give him even more powerful to stop an unconI’m growing it as ridicule aimed at our drugs trolled seizure. Another consequence state’s law enforcement community of his seizures is that who, left to their own narrow prejudice, sometimes Clark stops would deny medical help to hundreds breathing. Dozens of I’ve had to do of thousands of critically ill Georgians. times, CPR to keep him alive until the seizure abates frontal lobe looks like Swiss cheese. and he is able to breathe on his own. In an effort to stop his seizures, he Today Clark is a 6-foot, 235-pound has tried every medication available. He 21-year-old adult. He can’t drive. He had has had two brain surgeries to remove to drop out of high school. He often has damaged brain tissue. Neither surgery was to sleep three or four hours during the successful, and the second one created middle of the day due to the sedative a language deficit that took him months effects of all his medications. He has to be to overcome. At one point, doctors even monitored 24/7 in case he has a seizure. considered a radical procedure to remove When he does have a seizure, it the entire left hemisphere of Clark’s brain invades both his dignity and privacy to in an effort to stop his seizures. have to pull down his pants, sometimes In addition to medications and surgery, in public, to administer the only drug he also has an implanted stimulator that available that will stop his seizures. So cycles on and off to send an electrical I’m interested in any compound that impulse into his brain. He has tried various might help control his seizures. diets. Nothing has worked. Which brings me to the third thread in Unfortunately, Clark’s seizures tend to my quest to grow a pot plant — politics. become status, meaning they won’t stop Last year, the Georgia legislature passed
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a bill that allowed — with certain restrictions — Georgians to possess up to 20 ounces of marijuana cannabis oil for a list of approved medical conditions. That list includes seizures. The problem is that while Georgians can have the oil, it can’t be grown and manufactured in the state. And to buy it out-of-state and bring it across state lines is still illegal. Rep. Allen Peake of Macon is trying to correct that now. House Bill 722 would allow up to six state-regulated companies to manufacture cannabis oil in Georgia. Some have argued that cannabis oil can be ordered online, so it’s not necessary to manufacture it here. But ordering cannabis oil off the Internet is like buying snake oil. You don’t know what the quality or consistency really is. As with any drug, quality control is critical. And there are some voices against the idea. The state sheriff’s association and prosecuting attorneys’ council are lobbying against in-state cannabis production. That has spooked some state senators and Gov. Nathan Deal, who’ve voiced opposition to the plan. As far as I’m concerned, the state’s sheriffs have no standing in the matter. Doctors don’t lobby the legislature about law enforcement concerns, and the state’s
sheriffs should not be lobbying about medical concerns. Nobody has ever overdosed on marijuana, and there is no public safety issue at stake here. All of that brings me to my marijuana plant. Marijuana is a weed, and it’s rather ugly — but in one of God’s more sublime jokes, it’s filled with molecules that could help hundreds of thousands of people who suffer from fragile medical conditions. So I’m growing marijuana as a political statement aimed at hypocritical state leaders who tout a desire to propagate a biomedical industry in Georgia, but who today cower at the idea of allowing the cultivation of a biomedical plant. I’m growing marijuana as an act of civil disobedience against existing laws to bring attention to the absurdity of having marijuana classified as a Schedule 1 drug like heroin or LSD. I’m growing it as ridicule aimed at our state’s law enforcement community who, left to their own narrow prejudice, would deny medical help to hundreds of thousands of critically ill Georgians. But mostly, I’m growing it as a sign of hope — hope for my son whose courage in the face of a life-threatening disease makes a mockery of the irrational fears that surround an ugly plant we call marijuana. Sick Georgians are already buying cannabis oil on the black market, and they will continue to buy bootleg oil if our state’s leaders don’t make it available legally. That makes criminals out of a lot of sick people in our state who need help, not condemnation. It’s time Georgia’s leaders do the right thing. Buffington is co-publisher of MainStreet Newspapers, a group of weekly newspapers in northeast Georgia based in Jefferson. This article was originally published in Flagpole Magazine in Athens, Ga. and is reprinted with permission.
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A MEDICAL MARIJUANA REFUGEE TAKES ON HER SKIN CANCER BY BAYNARD WOODS // EDITORS@NUVO.NET
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’ve been preaching about cannabis cures cancer since 2008,” Laurie Gaddis says. And she’s been preaching it because it works. Gaddis moved to Colorado from Arizona after she was diagnosed with a rare form of skin cancer she says comes from her father’s exposure to Agent Orange in the Vietnam War. She’s called herself a medical marijuana refugee for nearly a decade. The patchwork of state laws under a federal ambiguity that has gotten worse with Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ anti-pot statements has created hundreds of medical marijuana refugees who have to move to a state where the kind of medicine either they or their doctor feel is necessary. Gaddis has never had to undergo chemo or radiation therapy. She still has problems, but she is alive. And relatively well. “I am in a blessed position,” she says of her life in Colorado. “I’m glad I am but I think everybody should have that opportunity. It upsets me that other people are suffering every day and don’t know what to do.” She says she can remember what it felt like with the choice of being “illegally alive or legally dead.” Gaddis treated her cancer with a homemade cannabis oil similar to that made famous by Rick Simpson. Simpson was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma in 2003. When no other treatments seemed to work, he applied a cannabis oil to his skin. Simpson says that within four days, his cancer was cured. Simpson has written books and tells people how to make the oil — using a super high-potency THC indica — but does not sell it, though others do. Gaddis, who has used oil topically and also ingested it, still struggles sometimes.
But as she experiments with her own oils, It was easy to hear stories of success and has discovered a lotion that she says at a recent medical marijuana conseems to be working for arthritis. And, ference in Washington D.C. Christine unlike oils or other topicals, it is not greasy. Stenquist, who came to the capital “I’m not bonding the cannabis to the fat from Utah, was diagnosed with a brain so it’s not a greasy formula at all,” she says. tumor in 1996. “During surgery a blood “It absorbs beautifully and gets right into vessel was hit, when I awoke I had left where it needs to go.” side paralysis, I had chronic pain and a This, she says, could be revolutionary litany of issues,” she said. “For 16 years for conditions like hers. Cannabis could be I’ve been bedridden and housebound. in sun screen lotion, potentially helping to Four years ago I discovered cannabis keep people from developing skin cancer. and it’s changed my life,” she said in “We’re just now starting to realize how front of a couple dozen people at a press effective this mediconference in front cine is and how many of the U.S. Capitol people’s lives it’s building. She can remember what changing,” she said. Her state won’t it felt like with the choice take action on medDr. Stuart Titus, the CEO of the first ical pot until the of being “illegally alive publicly traded medfeds do. ical cannabis compa- or legally dead.” Nicole Snow is ny, has been involved from Massachusetts, with various studies, overseas where it is which just legalized recreational marlegal to study the medical effects of cannaijuana. But because there is no federal bis, says that Gaddis is not alone. protection there are still issues, say, for “Currently there is a study underway in children who need cannabis as medicine. Australia, where the incidents of melaPatients, Snow says,”have very different needs than adult users.” noma cancer is quite rampant,” he said. “We need our home rights, residential “They’re looking at a topical as well as protection, discrimination protection, ingestible application.” protections from losing our jobs, proHis company, Medical Marijuana Inc, tection from losing our kids, protection makes an oil similar to the Rick Simpson from losing our health care,” she says. Oil, except it has a high concentration “Which is absurd.” of CBD instead of THC and while they Gaddis says such laws are “so disrehave not been able to study the results as spectful to the millions of lives” like hers thoroughly as they would like, he says he that have been changed and perhaps has anecdotal stories about its success for saved by cannabis. “People are changing skin cancer. But he says that the body has their lives,” she said. “They’re becoming numerous cannabinoid receptors, and free from prescription drugs, they’re able large doses of CBD like those that are legal to interact with their families and it’s in Florida, even without any intoxicating changing the quality of their life.” N effect, can have tremendous benefit.
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ollowing more than a decade as a co-artistic director of one of Chicago’s more than 200 small theater companies — Signal Ensemble Theatre — Ronan Marra’s Storefront Theatre will open in Indianapolis. Marra says the company will focus on featuring shows by women, minority and foreign playwrights. Its first show will be the U.S. premiere of Infinity by Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch in late September at IndyFringe Theatre’s intimate Indy Eleven space. Marra moved to the Indianapolis area in 2015 with his family to be closer to extended family and for the affordable cost of living. He and other members of Signal Ensemble decided to close that company in 2016. In its last few years in Chicago, Signal Ensemble began to produce more plays by women and minority playwrights. Marra says he felt that work was unfinished when they closed that theater, so he wanted to continue the work here. He’s now a one-man show when it comes to producing, marketing, development and fundraising, looking for a venue, and everything else that comes with running a theater company. His goal is to have two shows a season for the first couple years, and ultimately a permanent space to serve as a home not only for the company, but also as a hub for local artists, producing three or four Storefront shows a season. “When I started a theater company in Chicago, it was in 2002,” he said. “We had no idea what we were doing. We picked the shows and figured it out from there. We opened a few months later. So at first, nobody came to our shows. Well, not nobody, but we were always playing catch up.” So when he decided to start Storefront in late 2015, he set it up as a 501(c)3, found a board of directors, and took some time putting that infrastructure in place. The decision to focus on female, minority and foreign playwrights stemmed from a study called The Count funded by the Dramatists Guild and The Lilly Awards and honors the work of American women playwrights. The study looked at plays around the United States to see what was being produced. They considered 2,508 productions at 153 theaters over three sea-
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sons (2011-12, 2012-13, and 2013-14), and released their findings in 2015. The study included Indiana Repertory Theatre. Not surprisingly, the study found that nearly two-thirds — 62.7 percent — of plays that were being produced those seasons were by white, American, male playwrights. “Go figure, right?” said Marra, noting that many professional fields are still imbalanced when it comes to opportunities for women in the workforce. “But you’d think that it’s different in the arts. … What’s really surprising after that was the next highest demographic was 14 percent white American women. And I thought, ‘that’s it?’” The rest of the breakdown was foreign white men (10.6 percent), American men of color (6 percent), American women of color (3.4 percent), foreign white women (2.5 percent), foreign men of color (0.4 percent), and foreign women of color (0.4 percent). Overall, 78 percent of shows included in the study were written by men. “I am a white, American, male playwright who writes and produces plays,” said Marra. “I feel a responsibility to take a crack at that percentage [in The Count]. There has been more of an effort in having more diversity in casting, but there needs to be more for producing plays by women and minority playwrights.” Marra added that there is no excuse when it comes to finding works by women and minority playwrights. He cited the National New Play Network, which has a list of playwrights of diverse backgrounds and links to their works; and The Kilroys List, which is a list of unproduced new plays by women and trans writers that has been around since 2014. A report about The Count in The Dramatist also noted that women only represented 20 percent of newsgathering, artists represented on the walls of art museums, and musicians in orchestras prior to blind auditioning. “What we want is 50 percent of the airtime, 50 percent of the walls of the museum, 50 percent of the stage time in the theaters and on the movie screens,” Norman wrote for The Dramatist. “We want life in the arts to represent life as it is lived in the world. We want to hear the whole human chorus, not just the tenors, basses and baritones.” N
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hristina Baker Kline’s new novel, A Piece of the World, comes on the heels of her international bestseller Orphan Train (2013). The latter novel tells the story of one orphan who was sent on one of the so-called orphan trains that ran from the East Coast to the Midwest until 1929. A Piece of the World, in contrast, is much more set in place. Specifically, it’s set in Maine. It’s told in the voice of Christina Olson, the subject of Andrew Wyeth’s painting “Christina’s World.” Christina Baker Kline was born in Cambridge, England; she splits her time between Montclair, New Jersey and Southwest Harbor, Maine. She will appear at the Christamore House Guild Book and Luncheon that will also feature authors Sarah Jio, Christina Kovac, Benjamin Lundwig and Vaddy Ratner. Proceeds will go toward scholarships and educational programming for Indianapolis youth. NUVO spoke with Christina Baker Kline by phone on April 12. DAN GROSSMAN: You have a line in A Piece of the World that reads, “Sometimes the least believable stories are the true ones.” Is that a maxim that you abided by when writing this novel? CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE: Definitely. The novel’s largely factually accurate, as much as I can make it. There are some competing stories... I had to choose among the stories sometimes because different people had different versions. But as much as possible,
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I stuck to the facts and a lot of them are surprising. So as I was working, I thought that people might think that the story’s made up because it’s a novel but actually some of the most surprising and interesting things are true. DAN: So they actually formed a bond, Andrew Wyeth and Christina Olson. CHRISTINA: Yes, very much so. There’s an epigraph at the beginning about how he says we were a little alike, both of us had been unwell as children, etcetera.. And he really did feel a bond with her and they had this very interesting relationship. They actually liked each other quite a bit and I think you see that as the story progresses; I think he understood her in a way that most people didn’t. I think that he was able to see beyond the surface to who she really was. DAN: Does Maine have a particular hold on you in terms of conjuring up a novel? CHRISTINA: Absolutely. I was raised in Maine... mostly. And I grew up about an hour and a half from that house that was in that painting, “Christina’s World”, which is in Cushing. A lot of my novels take place in Maine. I have a house there, now. I find it endlessly fascinating as a place.
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DAN: One Maine resident is horror writer Stephen King. You babysat his kids. CHRISTINA: Yeah (laughs), A long time ago, and his kids are now writers actually. DAN: Wyeth isn’t a painter universally liked by critics but he’s very popular among the general public. CHRISTINA: Well, I know that his reputation is changing. He was highly regarded until the 1960s at which point with modernism and abstract art and movements away from figurative painting, he was derided as conservative and even reactionary. DAN: Robert Hughes calls him “America’s uncontested champion pictorial puritan.” CHRISTINA: Yeah, exactly. Michael Kimmelman’s obituary in the New York Times in 2009 was pretty damning as well…. But that’s all changing. There’s a new book called Rethinking Andrew Wyeth. It’s a collection of essays by curators and historians about his place in 20th century art in America and he’s not exactly like Norman Rockwell but like Rockwell his work is being reevaluated. It’s also being recontextualized and I would say furthermore that what he was trying to do is now called metaphoric realism. It’s a blend of some
of the surrealist painters that influenced him and some of the realist painters. But he was never exactly a realist and his work is much more, I don’t know, deviant than most people thought at the time. DAN: Your most successful book to date has been Orphan Train. How did you first hear of the orphan trains? CHRISTINA: My husband’s grandfather was featured in an article on orphan train riders. So that was my very first inkling about it. Reading this article, I learned that a quarter million children were sent on trains over 75 years between the East Coast and the Midwest. DAN: What are you working on now? CHRISTINA: My next novel is an epic story about the convict women who transformed Australia. N
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You the Jury. “The basic premise of the show, is that the producers present real civil cases to a live audience and then they allow viewers to text or use the Fox Now app to vote for which side is right or wrong,” says Darvin. The two played the role of the same-sex couple who were refused service at Memories Pizza in northern Indiana in 2015. NUVO spoke with Darvin before show airs on Friday. EMILY TAYLOR: Do you think it can change people’s minds about things like same-sex marriage through the oral arguments? DARVIN LEWIS: As far as gay marriage is concerned, I’m not quite sure whether the show can change the minds of people out there. I feel as though same-sex marriage and religious
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freedom vs. gay civil liberties are topics people have already made up their minds about. However, I do think religious freedom is one of those topics people can go back and forth about. On one hand you see the side of Kevin O’Connor. Even I can see where he’s coming from, but when you get into the idea of his business being “open to the public,” I think he needs to honor just that. It’s not as though Kevin has a membership-only pizza joint that has specific rules as to who they do and do not serve. It’s the exact opposite. EMILY: What was the most unexpected part of the on-the-stand-grilling? DARVIN: I had no idea that I would be on the spot for so long. It was a 90 minute cross examination. I was fatigued, mentally exhausted half way through. Not to mention that Benjamin Crump [attorney for Treyvon Martin’s case] was no joke. He gave me the business on that stand. I walked away with a whole new level of respect for him. EMILY: How do you feel going up against the real Kevin O’Connor, owner of Memories Pizza? DARVIN: I walked away from the experience feeling like I had attached my name to a worthwhile cause… With this new administration, we have already seen how religion is creeping into a lot more of our public policies, like it or not. I think it’s important to have this kind of public conversation. Above all, I can’t wait to see how the final vote comes out and we can get a better idea of what the country is really feeling when it comes to this issue.
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ometime in the '70s, at a deserted factory somewhere in Massachusetts, a gun deal goes wrong, leading to a gunfight between the buyers and sellers. That's the whole story of Free Fire, directed by Ben Wheatley (Kill List, High-Rise), who co-wrote the screenplay with Amy Jump (Jump and Wheatley are married). The film is 90 minutes long; the first 30 minutes is set-up, the last hour is the gunfight. There's lots of blood and gore. And humor. I liked it. Are you a fan of Reservoir Dogs? Wheatley certainly is. Free Fire includes a lot of chatting along with its violence. The characters are a mostly colorful group with a variety of accents (all the better to help you remember who's who), and some well-known pop songs used ironically. Free Fire is dumb fun that thinks it's smart fun. Mind you, I wouldn't say that to the characters – they might turn their guns on me and fire freely. The first couple hundred shots would miss me, but eventually one would connect. Then I would roll around the floor hollering and moaning about the bloody wound on my side. Somebody would either help me or shoot me some more. Either way, there would be a lot more yakking. Did you ever play cops and robbers when
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you were a kid? Being a cop was okay – you got to be the hero – but it was more fun to be a bad guy, because they got to be smart-asses. Free Fire doesn't deal with cops at all. It's 90 minutes of robbers and robbers, with everybody flinging insults in all directions and rolling around the floor when they get shot. Eventually they start dying, but not until they get their moments in the spotlight. You wouldn't think it would be entertaining to watch strangers playing robbers and robbers, but director Wheatley is trying so hard to make “Reservoir Dogs Jr.” that it's hard not to get caught up in all the hooey. Plus, you get to see lots of terrible '70s hairstyles. The vintage hair and groovy clothing make you wince more than the violence. I had trouble remembering all the characters and their affiliations. After a while I decided to stop trying to sort it out and just roll with the mayhem. I'm sure some of you would prefer knowing what's going on in the film you're watching, so here's the rundown.
FREE FIRE CHEAT SHEET Brokering the Deal: Ord (The Lone Ranger star Armie Hammer, sporting a beard). Wants the Guns: Justine (Brie Larson from The Room … not
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the so-bad-it's-good movie called The Room, the other one, the one where a mother and son escape their captor). Irish Republican Army operative Chris (Cillian Murphy, 28 Days Later … not the Sandra Bullock rehab drama). Team Captain Frank (Michael Smiley), also an I.R.A. man. Hired Muscle: Bernie (Enzo Cilenti) and Stevo (Sam Riley). Selling the Guns: Lead Gun Salesperson Vernon (District 9 star Sharlto Copley, whose South African accent sounds almost Australian). Co-Lead Associate Martin (Babou Ceesay, whose afro goes perfectly with his orange clothing). Nothing Distinctive Gordon (Noah Taylor) Trigger-Happy Hothead Harry (Jack Reynor), who had a fight with Steveo the night before. Feel free to formulate your own greater meaning to Free Fire if you wish. I think it's just a shoot-em-up with a gimmick. Luckily, it's got enough action and humor to remain entertaining almost all the way through. N
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ver the past decade the exponential rise of food and drink events in Indianapolis has been incredible. Once summer rolls around it’s rare to find a weekend where we can’t head out for 3-ounce tastings of wine or beer or liquor (these might be closer to 1-ounce tastings) at a festival or plates of delicious and exciting food tastings. We even had our first mead-based festival last year. Now it’s time for a new festival focusing on
a drink most of us start our day with — coffee. The team at Tinker Coffee Co. will bring together seven coffee industry insiders for the inaugural Indianapolis Cup on May 6. Co-founder of Tinker Coffee, Steve Hall, says the idea all started over a couple of beers. “Dylan Morse, our director of accounts, and I were over at my house having beers and we were talking about how our cupping classes, anytime we put them up, they are sold out within just a few weeks, if that, says Hall.
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“We thought it would be great to do something where a bunch of people could cup. We have a waitlist; there were like 80 people then and now there is between 100 and 150 people on the waitlist and we realized we have to do something where a bunch of people can come. This is something people love to do and we shouldn’t limit it because we only do it once a week and we only have eight people in a class. So, we were kicking around some ideas and we thought it would be really cool to do a cup festival.” From there, they ran with it. They found a location to host the event, The Tube Factory in Garfield Park, the flagship space for the non-profit art organization, Big Car Collaborative. “The space is wide open; it’s a cool venue, and it just made a ton of sense and we just locked it down and started from there,” Hall says. “We put out a feel to some of our friends in town, baristas and stuff, to see if they could do demos or anything like that and everybody was like, ‘Absolutely, this sounds great!’” A cup, for those who are unfamiliar with it, is similar to a wine tasting at a winery. Hall explains the importance of cupping: “You can’t just tell someone that this coffee is better; that just doesn’t last very long. You have to really help people understand what is different about it. When we first were getting started we knew we were going to have to teach people what is different about specialty because you can’t just say its better and have people believe you. You have to explain the differences and educate people on what makes this thing unique. So we knew cupping classes were going to be important and that’s why we do them all the time.” He continues, “Cupping is how coffee is formally evaluated, so it’s like a standardized process by and through which people determine how good a coffee is, how high it scores in this sort of standardized rubric. When people are going to origin to decide what coffees to buy, they cup coffees. “It’s a fun way to experience coffee and it’s a great way to experience the differences between coffees. And that’s our biggest thing, like when we host classes here we go through a detailed sensory evaluation and help people understand what they’re tasting, or how to experience different flavors, or what to think about when you’re smelling something.
…If you can just get a sense for what you liked or why you liked it, then you can go explore this world of coffee.” The event runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will have six different coffees cupped. The cupping itself will take place from 10 until around noon and will cover coffees from Nicaragua, Colombia, Ethiopia and even a surprise coffee from an importer called Genuine Origin. Tickets run higher than some other Indy food fests, coming in at $75. A portion of the proceeds benefit Project Alianza, an organization that promotes education and builds schools in the coffeelands of Latin America. Once the cupping is over it will turn into a traditional festival with tables featuring different vendors. The vendors include: Rabble Coffee, Coat Check Coffee, Milktooth, Uel Zing Coffee, Populace Coffee (Detroit), Open Society Public House and Quills Coffee. Each vendor will highlight different aspects of the coffee world. Hall says, “Sam from Uel Zing, they know everything about cold brew and so he’s the only one talking about cold brew. Andrew and Ruth from Populace are going to be coming down and just talking about espresso. Neal at Coat Check is covering everything about extraction, how you brew at home, how you know if everything is brewed correctly at your house. Josie from Rabble – we put together the Rouser Blend for her – so we thought it would be fun for her to talk about blending, why certain coffees come together in a blend and why you should do blends. We kind of identified our friends and people we respected and saw where everyone could find this cool list. Brian Beyke from Quills is doing a cool chocolate pairing and he was like, ‘Can I do coffee and chocolate?’ and so he is going to do that.” The event will also have beer from Sun King, Flat12 and Scarlet Lane; food trucks will be on site. Hall says the hope is that “People can go around, grab a beer, pull some different espresso shots from the cart. You can talk to Populace and see what goes into espresso and then go to ModBar and see everything in action. That will be cool. There will be some food outside… We just hope people go espresso, beer, espresso, beer and learn about coffee and enjoy the day.” N
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TEN PLACES TO GO ON RECORD STORE DAY BY KATHERINE COPLEN // KCOPLEN@NUVO.NET
Richard Edwards, Sedcairn Archives, Flaco, Ser-
west lafayette
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ecord Store Day turns 10 on Saturday, which means we’ve officially been counting up places to party and celebrate the enduring magic of vinyl for a decade already. So how will you, music lover, spend the nicest day of spring? We’ve made a lil’ list for you to check off, as long as you have a full tank of gas and a crazy glint in your eye. Opening times are subject to change; we recommend hitting up your fave store’s social media pages on Friday to see when doors will be flung open.
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Brothers Group and Rob Funkhouser will delight you; $10 will get you a random Hoosier record to plop on your turntable.
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away. Of course, RSD special releases will be on hand, too, along with an enticing 25 percent off
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Park Stone, Ryan Brewer, Circle City Deacons, Duckland Seals, Charlie Ballantine, Moor dub, Tied, New Wave Collective and Sirius Blvck. And their eats are tons of coffee, and other delights, we’re sure.
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8. TDS CDS AND LPS, BLOOMINGTON If you haven’t meandered your way into this
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Indy’s newest kid on the record block has a stacked
on point: Long’s Donuts, Gomez BBQ, Dogfish Head,
irgin
Prepare for: the line. Eat: Nacho Mama’s noms.
7. SQUARE CAT VINYL, FOUNTAIN SQUARE day of music kicking off at noon, including BYBYE,
Karma is giving away zillions of tickets all day long
autographed goodies and other prizes to be given
take our word for it that it’ll be great. 6. MUSICAL FAMILY TREE, FOUNTAIN SQUARE
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basement record shop on Kirkwood – featuring a de-
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SooBeeLoo, Mr. Daniel, Chad Lehr, Sarah Grain 9. VILLAGE GREEN, MUNCIE
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Dub, Black Cat Rebellion, Wife Patrol, BYBYE and Cloakroom. Expect: a giant party.
Nick Dittmeier and The Sawdusters, Jim Jones Jr.,
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The Long Arm, Antenna Man, The Trip, Robin Goodfellow, Jessica Albatross, Hen and The Tiny Terrible Things Collective will provide the soundtrack starting
With the earliest live music on deck at 8 a.m.,
4. LANDLOCKED MUSIC, BLOOMINGTON
5. LUNA MUSIC, SOBRO
around 3ish; and owner Travis Harvey promises as
Irvington’s little shop features Rob Funkhouser,
DJs Mat Alano-Martin, Caroline Marchildon,
This SoBro block party features special lathe-cut
many RSD exclusive gets as he can get his mitts on.
Mark Tester, MK Ultra, John McCormick, Coke
Spikes and Jar kick off the day; Peter Oren,
releases, gen-u-ine Nat Russell exclusives, tons
Bottle Glasses, Jim Kincaid, Kaiton Slusher, 1790,
Daisy Chain, Mannequin and comedian Kristen
of LUNA merch, giveaways, a sidewalk sale, DJs
10. VON’S RECORDS, WEST LAFAYETTE
Landon Caldwell and Pariah Peels.
Lucas follow. Rhino’s will screen shirts; exclusive
Rusty Redenbacher, Mr. Kinetik and Action Jack-
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releases will rain like manna from heaven, and
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we shall all be healed.
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Brian Wilson returns to Indy with Pet Sounds tour
BY KYLE LONG // KLONG@NUVO.NET
I
n the early 1990s, Chris Farley starred in a memorable trio of sketches on Saturday Night Live portraying an inept talk show host nervously fawning over his guests. “Do you remember when you were in The Beatles?” Farley asks a bewildered Paul McCartney in my favorite edition of the series. Well, it’s really hard not to become that pitiful Chris Farley character when you’re speaking to Beach Boys’ auteur Brian Wilson. Not only are you talking to the greatest pop music guru in the history of the goddamned world, but Wilson’s famously terse and often monosyllabic responses render all desire for a conventional interview into a far and distant dream. But I tried. And I tried hard. I watched every last Brian Wilson interview on the whole entire Internet. I cringed as I witnessed some of the greatest interviewers in the game crumbling before Wilson’s seemingly impenetrable laconic barricade. I studied Wilson’s moves like a boxer in training for the biggest fight of his life. When I finally jumped into the ring with Wilson for this interview, I knew I wouldn’t walk away victorious. But I was determined to make it to the final round. And I did … I think. And I found Wilson to be much warmer than I expected. There’s an innocent and youthful quality to Brian Wilson that hasn’t been tarnished by the punishing winds of time. And that’s really the magical essence of early Beach Boys’ music. Wilson found a way to crystalize the carefree joys of youth in music. And that’s what makes Pet Sounds such an important and singular work in Wilson’s canon. Wilson is in the middle of an extended 50th anniversary tour of the record, which will bring him to the Old National Centre on April 23. The highly lauded disc found Wilson’s teenage bliss giving way to more adult anxieties. Wilson reflected these melancholy themes through a prism of colors unparalleled in
KYLE: Bob Flanigan was the longest active original member of The Four Freshmen, did you ever get a chance to meet him? BRIAN: Yeah, I met him at a concert in Hollywood in 1958. I met him and The Four Freshmen. I was very nervous to meet him.
the pop music spectrum. Pet Sounds is a complex masterpiece, depicting scenes of heartache and worry in breathtakingly beautiful technicolor hues. Reviews of Wilson’s Pet Sounds revue have been mixed, as were early reactions to the record itself following its initial release in May of 1966. Today, the record is almost unanimously ranked as one of the greatest rock albums ever made. KYLE LONG: Mr. Wilson, I know you’re a self-taught musician, which I think is amazing. I read a quote where you stated that you learned everything you know about music from Chuck Berry, Rosemary Clooney, and The Four Freshmen, and I’m going to ask you about two of those artists today. Of course, the great Chuck Berry recently passed away. Any thoughts you’d like to share on what his music meant to you? BRIAN WILSON: Well, his melodies and his lyrics were very, very influential and he taught me a lot. I wrote “Surfin’ U.S.A.” because of “Sweet Little Sixteen.” KYLE: I’m speaking to you from Indianapolis, so I have to ask about The Four Freshmen, who were founded here in Indianapolis in 1948 on the campus of Butler University. I know The Four Freshmen’s music had a profound influence on you. Do you remember how you first encountered their music? BRIAN: Well, I first heard them in 1958. I heard their albums and I learned how to sing from Bob Flanigan, their high singer. I learned how to sing falsetto, then I wrote “Surfer Girl”. KYLE: The Four Freshmen were founded by Ross and Don Barbour, who were brothers, along with Bob Flanigan who was their cousin. Did that family connection within The Four Freshman resonate with you as you rallied your bothers and cousin to begin performing music?
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KYLE: You created Pet Sounds with some of the greatest session musicians in California, folks like Hal Blaine, Carol Kaye, and Billy Strange. There were also some great jazz players performing on Pet Sounds too, like Paul Horn, Jack Nimitz and Barney Kessell. Did you handpick all the musicians on Pet Sounds? BRIAN: Well, I had my contractor line up the Wrecking Crew, who played for Phil Spector. I had him line up the musicians.
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BRIAN: Yeah, but we weren’t copying The Four Freshman. I learned to give the guys parts to sing from The Four Freshmen. The guys took to it very easily. KYLE: Mr. Wilson, I think we share the same favorite Four Freshmen album. I’ve read that Four Freshmen and Five Trombones is your favorite. I love that album too, and I’ve read that it was the first record you ever bought? BRIAN: That’s right. I bought it at a record store in Hawthorne. I played it, and I was so, so happy to hear it. It was a great album.
KYLE: Last week, I did an interview with the great jazz musician Charles Lloyd, and he had so many wonderful things to say about you and your music. You and Lloyd had a pretty significant musical relationship. You sang on his 1971 album Warm Waters, and he played on some Beach Boys records, including a wild flute solo on “Feel Flows”. Tell us about your connection with Charles Lloyd. BRIAN: Well, Charles Lloyd was a very great musician. He’s one of the better musicians I’ve ever worked with. He’s a very good musician. KYLE: Do you have any favorite cover versions of your songs? David Bowie also did an interesting version of “God Only Knows”. Do you take time to check out these tributes to your work? BRIAN: I listened to Andy Williams’ version of “God Only Knows.” He’s a very good singer. KYLE: What did you make of Andy Williams’ version? BRIAN: Ah, I loved it! I thought it was beautiful. N
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WEDNESDAY // 4.19
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THURSDAY // 4.20
THURSDAY // 4.20
THURSDAY // 4.20
FRIDAY // 4.21
FRIDAY // 4.21
Jackie Greene 8 p.m., The Hi-Fi, $15 advance, $17 door, 21+
Old Dominion 7 p.m., Murat Theatre at Old National Centre, prices vary, all-ages
Why? The Bishop (Bloomington), 18+
Charles Lloyd, The Marvels 7:30 p.m., Center for the Performing Arts, prices vary, all-ages
IndyMojo’s 420 Tent Party 5 p.m., Mousetrap, 21+
Fifth Quarter Burlesque Blowout Bash 8 p.m., 5th Quarter, $15, 21+
Jewey Ramone’s 60th Birthday Bash Melody Inn, 21+
Rootsy, bluesy, rocky
Boundary-pushing literary
Greene pops through Indy
Nashville country act Old
rap god Yoni Wolf makes
regularly, because (we
Dominion just released “No
music on Joyful Noise Re-
assume) he loves us so.
Such Thing As A Broken
His latest is Back to Birth (2015).
Three stages, anchored
Lots going on this week-
by Muzzy Bearr, Flatland
Organizers say, “Angel
end at the Mel, including
Here’s Murphy in an inter-
Harmony Experiment and
Burlesque says good-
this b-day bash featuring
cordings, which means he
view with Kyle last week:
Strong Roots Records,
bye to the 5th Quarter
Cheetah Chrome and John-
Heart,” the first followup to
swings through Hoosierland
“I have these interesting
respectively, will kick off
Lounge’s current location
ny Blitz Performing Young,
their debut album – which
on the regular.
blessings in my life that
at 5 p.m. and go late into
in the only way we know
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the eve.
how....with sexiness, glitter
Zero Boys, Ricky Rat Pack
sic from them to come.
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and a wild party.”
and Holy Sheets.
The Flying Toasters, Britton Tavern, all-ages Brahms’ Requiem, Hilbert Circle Theatre, all-ages Young Roddy, Emerson Theater, all-ages Black Voodoo, The Rathskeller, 21+
Ozzy Osborne Tribute, Elrusho, 5th Quarter Lounge, 21+ Pete Bradley Adams, Kara Cole, Indianapolis Art Center, all-ages SFJAZZ Collective, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Record Store Day, various locations, all-ages (see page 24) David Roth, Unity of Indianapolis, all-ages Lit with Slater Hogan and DJ Rayve, Tiki Bob’s, 21+ Jon Langston, Tin Roof, 21+
share music with humanity around the world. It always lifts me up.”
WEDNESDAY // 4.19 Walk theTalk: Positive Thinking, The Vogue, 21+ Classical Music Indy Presents, Eskenazi Hospital, all-ages Amendola vs. Blades, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Jessie Abbey Tour, Coal Yard Coffee, all-ages Maria Schneider, The Butler Jazz Ensembles, Schrott Center for the Arts, all-ages Greg Burroughs, Tin Roof, 21+ Johnny Rawls, Slippery Noodle, 21+ Clayton Anderson, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+
THURSDAY // 4.20 Space Party, Cosmic Chrome Cafe, Tappers Arcade Bar, 21+ Flux Pavilion, Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, all-ages
Obtuse: Duchess and Dilettante, Hakk.Haus, Pioneer, 21+ Flint Eastwood, Michigander, White Rabbit Cabaret, 21+ Latin Dance Party, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Tomato Face, JamForceF!ve, Lemon Sky, Be Here Now (Muncie), 21+
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Rod Tuffcurls and The Benchpress, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ Purple Xperience Prince Tribute, Hoosier Park, 21+ #Laid Fridays,
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Slater Hogan, Cdillac G, Tiki Bob’s Cantina, 21+ Steed, Conjurer, Hatesong, Black Recluse, State Street Pub, 21+ 21 Savage, Old National Centre, all-ages
Steve Fulton, Brown County Inn, all-ages Yvonne Allu, ArtsGarden, all-ages Drake White and The Big Fire, 8 Seconds Saloon, 21+
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SATURDAY // 4.22 Coffin Daggers, The Madeira, Transylvania Hell Sounds, Melody Inn, 21+ Ultraviolet Hippopotamus, Mousetrap, 21+ Stella Luna and The Satellite, Britton Tavern, 21+ The Knot Brothers, Thirsty Scholar, all-ages B2B, Lunamatic, Dream Chief, The Bishop (Bloomington), 18+ Veseria, Shadeland, Radio Radio, 21+ Sixteen Candles, The Vogue, 21+
SUNDAY // 4.23 Brian Wilson presents Pet Sounds The Final Performances, Murat Theatre at Old National Centre, all-ages Of Montreal, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ Mr. Clit and The Pink Cigarettes, Fever Hands, Melody Inn, 21+
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): After George Washington was elected as the first President of the United States, he had to move from his home in Virginia to New York City, which at the time was the center of the American government. But there was a problem: He didn’t have enough cash on hand to pay for his long-distance relocation, so he was forced to scrape up a loan. Fortunately, he was resourceful and persistent in doing so. The money arrived in time for him to attend his own inauguration. I urge you to be like Washington in the coming weeks, Aries. Do whatever’s necessary to get the funds you need to finance your life’s next chapter. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Fantasize about sipping pear nectar and listening to cello music and inhaling the aroma of musky amber and caressing velvet, cashmere, and silk. Imagine how it would feel to be healed by inspiring memories and sweet awakenings and shimmering delights and delicious epiphanies. I expect experiences like these to be extra available in the coming weeks. But they won’t necessarily come to you freely and easily. You will have to expend effort to ensure they actually occur. So be alert for them. Seek them out. Track them down. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Contagion may work in your favor, but it could also undermine you. On the one hand, your enthusiasm is likely to ripple out and inspire people whose help you could use. On the other hand, you might be more sensitive than usual to the obnoxious vibes of manipulators. But now that I’ve revealed this useful tip, let’s hope you will be able to maximize the positive kind of contagion and neutralize the negative. Here’s one suggestion that may help: Visualize yourself to be surrounded by a golden force field that projects your good ideas far and wide even as it prevents the disagreeable stuff from leaking in. CANCER (June 21-July 22): A reader named Kris X sent me a rebuke. “You’re not a guru or a shaman,” he sneered. “Your horoscopes are too filled with the slippery stench of poetry to be useful for spiritual seekers.” Here’s my response: “Thank you, sir! I don’t consider myself a guru or shaman, either. It’s not my mission to be an all-knowing authority who hands down foolproof advice. Rather, I’m an apprentice to the Muse of Curiosity. I like to wrestle with useful, beautiful paradoxes. My goal is to be a joyful rebel stirring up benevolent trouble, to be a cheerleader for the creative imagination.” So now I ask you, my fellow Cancerian: How do you avoid getting trapped in molds that people pressure you to fit inside? Are you skilled at being yourself even if that’s different from what’s expected of you? What are the soulful roles you choose to embody despite the fact that almost no one understands them? Now is a good time to meditate on these matters. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the coming weeks, there will be helpers whose actions will nudge you -- sometimes inadvertently -- toward a higher level of professionalism. You will find it natural to wield more power and you will be more effective in offering your unique gifts. Now maybe you imagine you have already been performing at the peak of your ability, but I bet you will discover -- with a mix of alarm and excitement -- that you can become even more excellent. Be greater, Leo! Do better! Live stronger! (P.S.: As you ascend to this new level of competence, I advise you to be humbly aware of your weaknesses and immaturities. As your clout rises, you can’t afford to indulge in self-delusions.) VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I love to see you Virgos flirt with the uncharted and the uncanny and the indescribable. I get thrills and chills whenever I watch your fine mind trying to make sense of the fabulous and the foreign and the unfathomable. What other sign can cozy up to exotic wonders and explore forbidden zones with as much no-nonsense pragmatism as you? If anyone can capture greased lightning in a bottle or get a hold of magic beans that actually work, you can.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A friend told me about a trick used by his grandmother, a farmer. When her brooding hens stopped laying eggs, she would put them in pillowcases that she then hung from a clothesline in a stiff breeze. After the hens got blown around for a while, she returned them to their cozy digs. The experience didn’t hurt them, and she swore it put them back on track with their egg-laying. I’m not comfortable with this strategy. It’s too extreme for an animal-lover like myself. (And I’m glad I don’t have to deal with recalcitrant hens.) But maybe it’s an apt metaphor or poetic prod for your use right now. What could you do to stimulate your own creative production? SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Now would be an excellent time to add deft new nuances to the ways you kiss, lick, hug, snuggle, caress, and fondle. Is there a worthy adventurer who will help you experiment with these activities? If not, use your pillow, your own body, a realistic life-size robot, or your imagination. This exercise will be a good warmup for your other assignment, which is to upgrade your intimacy skills. How might you do that? Hone and refine your abilities to get close to people. Listen deeper, collaborate stronger, compromise smarter, and give more. Do you have any other ideas? SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my ax,” said Abraham Lincoln, one of America’s most productive presidents. I know you Sagittarians are more renowned for your bold, improvisational actions than your careful planning and strategic preparation, but I think the coming weeks will be a time when you can and should adopt Lincoln’s approach. The readier you are, the freer you’ll be to apply your skills effectively and wield your power precisely. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Zoologists say that cannibalizing offspring is common in the animal kingdom, even among species that care tenderly for their young. So when critters eat their kids, it’s definitely “natural.” But I trust that in the coming weeks, you won’t devour your own children. Nor, I hope, will you engage in any behavior that metaphorically resembles such an act. I suspect that you may be at a low ebb in your relationship with some creation or handiwork or influence that you generated out of love. But please don’t abolish it, dissolve it, or abandon it. Just the opposite, in fact: Intensify your efforts to nurture it. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Your astrological house of communication will be the scene of substantial clamor and ruckus in the coming weeks. A bit of the hubbub will be flashy but empty. But much of it should be pretty interesting, and some of it will even be useful. To get the best possible results, be patient and objective rather than jumpy and reactive. Try to find the deep codes buried inside the mixed messages. Discern the hidden meanings lurking within the tall tales and reckless gossip. If you can deal calmly with the turbulent flow, you will give your social circle a valuable gift. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The best oracular advice you’ll get in the coming days probably won’t arise from your dreams or an astrological reading or a session with a psychic, but rather by way of seemingly random signals, like an overheard conversation or a sign on the side of a bus or a scrap of paper you find lying on the ground. And I bet the most useful relationship guidance you receive won’t be from an expert, but maybe from a blog you stumble upon or a barista at a café or one of your old journal entries. Be alert for other ways this theme is operating, as well. The usual sources may not have useful info about their specialties. Your assignment is to gather up accidental inspiration and unlikely teachings.
HOMEWORK: At least 30 percent of everything you and I know is more than half-wrong.
Are you brave enough to admit it? Describe your ignorance. FreeWillastrology.com.
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