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AMERICA’S NEW NORMAL BY JOHN KRULL // EDITORS@NUVO.NET

y now we all know what happened at practice lining up and marching out of Noblesville West Middle School last the school in an orderly fashion. We had Friday morning. tornado drills. When I was very young, we A male student asked to be excused even had drills to prepare us for what to do from class to use the restroom. When he in the event of a nuclear attack. returned, he brought with him two handBut no teacher or principal I ever had guns and he started firing. He shot 13-yearstood before us and said there was a decent old Ella Whistler in the chest and science chance that a fellow student, a former stuteacher Jason Seaman three times, in the dent, a disgruntled employee, or the unhapabdomen, hip, and forearm. py child of an employee would show up and Seaman charged the student with the gun, try to mow us down. No one told us we had swatted the weapon away, and tackled him. to be prepared to be shot dead at our desks. If the seventh-grade math teacher That was unthinkable. hadn’t acted with the courage he did, Not now. Now, it’s just another day in how many children might have died that America. A new normal. morning? How many parThis is the world we have ents would be grieving tomade for our children. day and forever after? How No one told us It is a world in which many brothers and sisters? we are grateful when a we had to be How many grandparents? 13-year-old girl emerges Bad as it was, it could prepared to be from moments of horror have been worse. Ella with a chest wound that shot dead at Whistler remains in critical “only” leaves her in critical but—thank goodness—staour desks. but stable condition. ble condition. And Seaman It is a world in which we himself is recovering from ask teachers such as Jason his wounds. Seaman—a man part of a profession our In the aftermath of the shooting, many of leaders so often demonize and degrade—to the students in Noblesville said they were hurl themselves into the paths of bullets in scared but not shocked. There were few modefense of the young. ments of paralyzing disbelief. When the code It is a world in which we teach students red sounded, they knew what to do. They to accept the fact that they may be shot knew they had to run and hide, as they had when they go to school. been taught during active-shooter drills. This is the America we’ve built. Such drills take place in schools across The America we ask our children America. to inhabit. In addition to teaching students reading, Glory, glory hallelujah. N writing, and math, we also ask educators to teach them how to seek cover and stay quiet John Krull is director of Franklin until the shooting stops. College’s Pulliam School of Journalism Schools didn’t do such things when I was and publisher of TheStatehouseFile.com, a a student many years ago. news website powered by Franklin College We had fire drills, when we would journalism students. For more opinion pieces visit nuvo.net/voices

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INDIANA’S INCREASING BODY COUNT Gun Deaths, Homicides, and School Shootings on the Rise BY LAURA MCPHEE // LMCPHEE@NUVO.NET

ou’re not crazy. There really are more school shootings in America than ever before. Like most statistics related to firearms in this country, the numbers are up. Way up. Thus far, in 2018, there have been 15 shootings at American middle and high schools. Five of those occurred in the month of May, one in April, three in March, three in February, and three in January. Four of these 15 school shootings fall under the “mass shooting” criteria with four or more victims of gunshot wounds in a single incident. We started the year with a mass shooting in Marshall County, Kentucky, where 20 students were shot, and two died from their wounds. In Santa Fe, Texas, 10 students died and 13 were injured in May. In Parkland, Florida, 17 students were killed and another 17 were injured in February. Also in February, five students were shot at a Los Angeles high school. Those are just the “mass shootings.” There are 11 other American cities where

students were shot at school and, in some cases, were killed. In Jonesboro, Georgia, one student died. Two students died in Great Mills, Massachusetts. Another in Birmingham, Alabama. Located just outside of Indianapolis, the town of Noblesville joins the list of school shootings as of last Friday. A middle school boy walked into his science class with two handguns and shot his classmate Ella. He shot his teacher Mr. Seaman. Both will survive their injuries. For the record, this isn’t the first school shooting in Indiana. Since the 1800s, there have been at least 10 shootings involving students at high schools or middle schools. It happened twice before 1900 and once in 1909, when some high school students in Delphi used buckshot to thwart a rival team’s attempt to hang a banner from the school. None of those incidents was fatal. There were no school shootings in the state again until 1974, when a student fatally shot a

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past five years—but none had more than six. The most recent mass shooting in Indianapolis occurred in January, when five people were shot outside the Sawmill Saloon and two died because of their injuries, making them some of the earliest homicide victims of the year. As May comes to a close, the city has now seen 59 homicides. It’s the same number as this time last year, keeping us on pace to reach or surpass 2017’s record body count of 152. There’s every reason to believe we will set a new record for homicides this year, and not just because we’ve set a new record each of the past three years. At the beginning of the millennium, Indianapolis averaged 100 homicides per year. For the past four years, that number has increased to an average of 140. As all the evidence points to another record-breaking year, you aren’t crazy if you think it’s time to do something about gun deaths, mass shootings, and school shootings. You’re crazy if you think it’s going to get better if we don’t do something. N

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teacher in a Brownstown high school parking lot. In the 1980s, there were two shootings— both involving a beef between two male students: one incident at Tech High School in Indy and the other in Crawfordsville. Since 2000, there have been four school shootings in Indiana: one in Gary (2001), one in Martinsville (2011), one in Indianapolis (2016), and one in Noblesville (2018). Not just school shootings are increasing, however. Gun deaths in Indiana are way up since 2000. While last year’s numbers haven’t been released by the CDC yet, Indiana saw nearly 1,000 firearm deaths in 2016, a jump from the 800–850 we’ve been averaging since 2012. Included in those numbers are 40 mass shootings that have occurred in Indiana since 2013. Indianapolis can take credit for the vast majority of those mass shootings, with 15 happening here. Gary, Fort Wayne, South Bend, and Evansville are the only other cities to have more than one mass shooting in the

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25 Ways to Reduce Gun Violence BY MITCH RYALS, DANIEL WALTERS, SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL, WILSON CRISCIONE, AND QUINN WELSCH // NEWS@NUVO.NET

ere’s the good news: America, overall, is a much less violent place than it used to be. Our reported violent-crime rate is almost half what it was in 1991. But here’s the bad: Mass shootings haven’t decreased. In fact, they’ve become even deadlier. In 2010, the World Health Organization found that the United States’ gun-homicide rates were more than 25 times higher than in any other high-income country. And that was before Las Vegas. And before Parkland, Florida. We’ve witnessed 19 of the 30 deadliest mass shootings in modern U.S. history during the past decade. It isn’t just about murders. The suicide

rate has been skyrocketing as well, reaching a 30-year high in 2016. More than half of those suicides were with firearms. After every mass shooting, we all agree: Something must be done. But what? We looked at 25 ideas to reduce gun violence, weighing the results of academic research and the analysis of experts. Some ideas are good. They have a decent shot at saving lives. Some are messy, with the potential benefits weighed down by potential costs. Some are ineffective, doing little to nothing to combat gun violence. But any or all would be more effective in saving lives than the ridiculous platitudes that have now become de rigueur.

PLUG HOLES IN THE BACKGROUND CHECK SYSTEM

Gaps in the federal background check system allow domestic abusers, convicted felons, and people with mental illness to purchase guns. Roughly 20 percent of Americans purchase guns without a background check. A 2013 survey of prisoners locked up for gun violence found that more than 96 percent of offenders, who were legally prohibited from owning guns, purchased them without a background check. Experts point to three major holes: 1. In most states, gun buyers are able to purchase guns from unlicensed dealers

who aren’t required to run a background check at all. 2. If the FBI doesn’t complete a background check in three business days, licensed dealers are free to sell the gun anyway. FBI data indicates that authorities failed to meet the three-day deadline 1.1 million times between 2014 and 2017. 3. The federal definition of “domestic abuser” doesn’t include unmarried or childless couples. Many states, including Oregon this year, have closed the socalled “Boyfriend Loophole.” Surveys and research show that strengthening the federal background check system is one of the most feasible NUVO.NET // 05.30.18 - 06.06.18 // THE BIG STORY // 7

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and most effective measures to reduce gun violence. Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that states that require universal background checks have lower gun-death rates. Surveys show overwhelming public support.

LET AMERICANS SUE GUN MANUFACTURERS AGAIN

LIFT THE BAN ON GUN-CONTROL RESEARCH

It’s the American way: If a product is killing an unbelievable number of people, the proper remedy is to sue the hell out of them. But since 2005, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act has made gun manufacturers and dealers essentially legally bulletproof. Remove the shield, a recent op-ed in the New York Times pointed out, and gun manufacturers suddenly would have a financial incentive, like every other industry, to make their products safer—likely preventing more accidental shootings. While Democrats have repeatedly tried to push legislation to disarm the gun industry’s special shield, it doesn’t have a chance while Republicans are in control.

From 2004 to 2014, gun violence killed about as many people as a life-threatening infection known as sepsis, but funding for gun violence research was only about 0.7 percent of the amount spent to study sepsis, according to a 2017 research letter in the Journal of the American Medical Association. In fact, the researchers found that gun violence was the least researched cause of death, in relation to mortality rate, and only research into deaths by falling are funded less. Part of what has stymied gun research in the U.S. is the 1996 “Dickey Amendment,” which prevents the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from spending money on activities that “advocate or promote gun control.” Former Arkansas Republican Rep. Jay Dickey, the amendment’s namesake, told NPR he never intended for the amendment to cut off federal gun research altogether, only gun-control ad-

vocacy, and he regrets that the effect was to essentially halt research in the area.

COPY THE AUSSIES

It’s considered perhaps one of the most successful gun-control programs in history. It’s also about as close to “taking your guns” as the mainstream gun-control movement gets. Here are the simple facts: There were 13 mass shootings in 18 years before Australia’s sweeping National Firearms Agreement in 1997. In the 20 years after, there has been just one. While skeptics quibble

even some pieces of Australia’s gun-control program, when combined, could seriously reduce deaths here in the U.S.

TRACK GUNS—AND MANDATE REPORTING IF THEY’RE STOLEN

One of the most effective parts of Australia’s gun-control strategy was simply creating a gun registry—and then enforcing it. In the United States, gun-rights activists fear registries are only the first step to confiscation, and research on their effectiveness in the U.S. is limited. Yet the potential benefits are clear, par-

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with whether the law can be entirely credited, the country’s already-low firearm homicide rate fell further, and suicides absolutely plunged. The key, as the Science Vs. podcast explains, seemed to be the thicket of other laws that came with it, including a ban on semi-automatic and pump-action rifles and shotguns. You have to show a good reason to own a gun—and self-defense doesn’t count. You can only sell through a licensed dealer. You have to register your gun and report if it’s stolen. Much of the Australia program would also almost certainly be struck down by the Supreme Court, and the cultural and physical geography of the United States would create serious regulatory challenges. But

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ticularly when combined with a requirement that lost or stolen guns are reported: It’s a way to close the loophole of “straw purchasers,” where a person illegally buys a gun for somebody else who is ineligible to purchase one. It hands law enforcement officers the ability to actually identify which guns are stolen, cracking down on illicit arms traders and allowing cops to get convictions for thieves. And it encourages gun owners to do a better job of safely securing their weapons. A 2002 report from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms concluded that about 85 percent of criminal gun owners were not the original purchasers of their guns.

INSTITUTE BACKGROUND CHECKS AND TRACKING FOR AMMUNITION

Only a handful of states currently have laws regulating the purchase of ammunition. Federal law does not currently require ammo purchasers to submit to a background check. This year, congressional Democrats introduced a bill that would establish a federal background check system for ammo. U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida), one of the sponsors of the bill, has said it would plug an “absurd loophole” that allows people to “amass hundreds of rounds of ammunition without so much as sharing their first name with a gun store clerk.” Starting in 2019, California will require ammo vendors to report bullet sales to the state’s Department of Justice and conduct background checks on ammunition customers. New York and New Jersey have similar laws. A study in the journal Injury Prevention analyzing school shootings between 2013 and 2015 found that states with ammunition background checks (along with other factors) have lower rates of school shooting incidents.

BAN HIGH-CAPACITY MAGAZINES

To trained hands, reloading a weapon is second nature, like wiping your brow or cracking your knuckles. The rounds run out, the bolt slams forward, the magazine drops with a simple push of a finger, and a new magazine is inserted. It only takes a few seconds. But in a mass shooting, those seconds can buy people time to get to safety—or disarm the shooter. At Seattle Pacific University in 2014, an unarmed student used pepper spray to subdue a shooter while he was reloading. And as advocates of high-capacity magazine bans point out, you wouldn’t need more than 10 rounds before reloading to kill a deer. High-capacity magazines and the weapons capable of employing them, including handguns, were disproportionately recovered by police in connection with violent

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crimes in Baltimore, Minneapolis, and Richmond. These same types of magazines were used in the 2017 Las Vegas shooting. Ultimately, reducing the number of rounds that can be shot from any weapon will reduce its lethality.

MAKE FIREARM OWNERS LOCK ’EM UP

More than two-thirds of school shooters got their guns from their own homes or homes of relatives. Massachusetts legally requires guns to be either kept in locked containers or protected with a trigger lock that prevents them from being fired. Gun-rights advocates strenuously objected, arguing that locking up their firearms made it nearly impossible to ward off a home invader. But a 2015 Harvard University analysis found that victims using guns to ward off criminals were more likely to be injured than people who just tried to run away. By contrast, other studies have found that safe storage practices significantly reduce the risk of suicide and accidental gun deaths. Not only that, it makes it harder for thieves to steal them during a burglary.

PUSH DOCTORS TO TALK TO PATIENTS ABOUT GUNS

Before the Parkland shooting, Florida was such a pro-gun state that it actually passed a law restricting doctors’ abilities to ask their patients about gun ownership. (The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals struck it down last year.) That flies in the face of recommendations from the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, both of which recommend doctors discuss guns with their patients to prevent accidental shootings and suicides. Not only that, but one 2000 American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry study found that after counseling from a psychiatrist, a third of the parents of suicidal teens removed firearms from their homes. With suicide, by far, the leading cause of deaths is from firearms. That’s a big deal.

BAN BUMP STOCKS

When a mass shooter fires into a crowd with a semi-automatic rifle, how fast he can pull the trigger becomes a life-or-death question. In the Las Vegas shooting last October, the gunman in the Mandalay Bay Hotel room was able to fire nine rounds per second. That’s thanks to a rifle modification called a bump stock, which harnesses the recoil of a weapon to

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allow a shooter to fire at speeds comparable to already-illegal automatic weapons. After Las Vegas, banning bump stocks has become a rare gun-control measure even Republicans in Congress say they support—though not, so far, enough to actually pass federal legislation to ban them. But the impact would likely be small. While fewer people may have died in Las Vegas if bump stocks were banned, the devices have rarely, if ever, been used in prior shootings.

RAISE THE FIREARM PURCHASING AGE

Check out this absurdity: You can’t buy a handgun from a licensed dealer if you’re under 21. But if you’re 18, you can still buy an AR-15. After the Parkland shooting, even gun-rights-loving Florida passed a bill that hiked the age to 21. The reform is unlikely to have a dramatic impact on mass shootings, however. Out of the 156 mass shootings since 2009, a Vox piece explained, only one was committed by a gunman under age 21 with a legally purchased semi-automatic rifle. So gun-control advocates suggest going further: Raise the legal age for unlicensed dealers as well, barring informal gun sell-

ers—dealers at gun shows, for instance— and online stores from selling handguns and rifles to customers under 21. Heck, raise it to 25. Treat guns as seriously as rental cars. FBI data shows that more than half of firearm-homicide offenders from 2005 to 2015 were under 25.

GIVE COPS THE POWER TO RESPOND TO RED FLAGS

The horror of the Parkland shooting was compounded by the fact that so many people knew that the shooter was a danger. Why didn’t anyone take away his weapons? Because they legally couldn’t. All the red flags in the world can’t do much if the cops don’t have a legal right to act on them. It’s caused a number of states to enact “red-flag” laws, giving cops the power to ask a court for a warrant to temporarily remove a person’s access to firearms if they’re an imminent danger to themselves or others. In the 14 years after Connecticut implemented such a law in 1999, police temporarily removed an average of seven firearms from each at-risk gun owner across 762 firearm-removal cases, one study found. Often, those gun owners were connected with mental-health NUVO.NET // 05.30.18 - 06.06.18 // THE BIG STORY // 9

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treatment they wouldn’t have received otherwise. Ultimately, more than 100 suicides may have been prevented, the study estimated.

LET FAMILY MEMBERS PETITION FOR GUN REMOVALS

The profile of mass shooters can vary radically, but a few things keep popping up: They’re almost always men. And they very often have a history of domestic violence. In fact, more than half of the shootings from 2009 to 2016 tallied by Everytown for Gun Safety involved domestic or family violence. It’s scary as hell to be a woman trapped in a violent relationship—it’s even scarier if he can kill you with the click of a trigger. It’s why some states have adopted the use of Gun Violence Restraining Orders. Red-flag laws in states such as California and Washington let family members, friends, and employers—not just a police officer—ask a court to temporarily take away a person’s firearm access.

now voluntarily waive their rights to own a gun by having their name added to a list of prohibited purchasers in the national background check database. The new law outlines a process to make sure identities aren’t falsely added to the prohibited list, and it includes a way for people to restore their gun rights later. Other means of voluntary gun surrender vary. Most law enforcement agencies and gun sellers are willing to temporarily store guns for people who are concerned their loved one is suicidal or worried about their gun being safely stored while they are away from home or have visitors

ALERT THE COPS WHEN SOMEONE FAILS A GUN BACKGROUND CHECK

Here’s a policy both Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and his counterpart Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson support: It requires federal officials to notify local authorities within 24 hours whenever someone tries to buy a gun but fails the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. Last year, Washington state passed a similar bill, requiring gun dealers to report a failed background check. A KING 5 report found that there were almost 4,000 instances of failed background checks per year in Washington state, but police were doing little to follow up to find out why ineligible buyers were trying to purchase weapons. It’s a minor fix, but since authorities often miss multiple red flags before mass shootings, this would at least make the red flags more noticeable.

Technically, federal law already prohibits people with a history of some mental-health conditions from possessing guns. But the FBI’s federal background check system relies on states voluntarily reporting that information, and participation is spotty. A New York Times report in 2016 found that Pennsylvania had entered over 718,000 mental records into the federal background check system, for example, while Montana had entered a grand total of four. There are legitimate debates about which mental-health conditions should exclude a person from gun ownership;

REQUIRE STATES TO SHARE MENTAL-HEALTH RECORDS WITH THE FEDS

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the vast majority of people with mental-health conditions, after all, are not violent. But as it stands, some states failing to share their information or properly enforcing the law have allowed dangerous individuals such as the Virginia Tech shooter to gain access to guns.

LET GUN OWNERS IN CRISIS TEMPORARILY SURRENDER THEIR WEAPONS

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over, according to a study published in the American Journal of Public Health in October 2017. About 75 percent of the 448 law enforcement agencies in the eight states surveyed in the study already provide some form of temporary storage.

REQUIRE A POLICE INTERVIEW TO GET A GUN

In New York, it generally takes about six months to get a gun after the applications, background check, safety training, and an interview with a uniformed NYPD officer. New York also requires safe storage

and reporting if a gun is lost or stolen, and it bans large-capacity magazines and assault-style weapons. Firearm death rates in New York are consistently among the lowest in the entire country. In 2016, CDC data showed a rate of 4.2 firearm deaths per 100,000 people, compared to, say, Alaska’s 23.3 or Idaho’s 14.6.

REQUIRE FIREARM OWNERS TO TAKE GUN-SAFETY CLASSES

LET COPS DESTROY SEIZED GUNS

About 61 percent of U.S. gun owners have gotten some type of training, which typically included information about safe handling, storage, and prevention of accidents, according to a 2015 University of Washington study. But the study identified gaps in training: Only 15 percent of owners said they were trained about suicide prevention, and only 14 percent of those who lived with gun owners had received any safety training. In countries that require some type of safety course (often coupled with other strict rules around gun ownership) such as Japan, the U.K., and India, the rate of gun deaths is significantly lower than in the U.S. And according to a new Johns Hopkins study, those who said a gun-safety course influenced their storage practices were more than twice as likely to store all their weapons in a locked manner compared to the general population.

More than a dozen weapons confiscated by Washington state law enforcement since 2010 later ended up as evidence in new crimes, according to an extensive Associated Press investigation. Research shows that as gun ownership increases, so do gun homicides. With that in mind, the state law requiring the Washington State Patrol to sell or trade back to the public most of the guns it confiscates seems counterproductive. In fact, this legislative session, WSP supported a bill that would have given them the option to destroy confiscated firearms. It didn’t pass. While some police chiefs wince at the

NUVO.NET/THEBIGSTORY idea of recirculating guns back to the public, others, such as Spokane Police Chief Craig Meidl, contend that the firearms sales are an essential source of income.

MANUFACTURE AND SELL SMART GUNS

Smart guns are designed to restrict who can fire them. Some require an authorized fingerprint; others use a radio-controlled watch or other device that must be within a certain distance of the gun in order to fire. There are also trigger guards that require a fingerprint to unlock. A small 2003 study of 117 unintentional and undetermined firearm-related deaths found that personalized firearms technology was among the most effective at reducing accidental deaths. While the National Institute of Justice issued baseline requirements for smart guns at Obama’s direction, so far, a relative lack of funding along with backlash from gun-rights proponents, including the NRA, has stifled smart guns’ popularity. An NRA-led boycott of Smith & Wesson almost put the gunmaker out of business after it pledged to research smart guns among other reforms.

BAN “ASSAULT-STYLE” WEAPONS

In 1994, the United States banned the manufacture and sale of certain semi-automatic weapons with military-style features and large-capacity magazines. The idea was to limit the number of crimes committed using weapons that could fire a large number of bullets rapidly. The ban was lifted in 2004. A 2018 Quinnipiac University poll found that 67 percent of Americans support the ban returning. A federally funded study found the effect on overall violence to be minimal, in part because assault weapons are used

MAKE GUN BUYERS WAIT

The idea is to require a gun buyer to wait a period of time between the purchase and when he or she actually takes possession of the gun. Waiting periods would give authorities more time to complete background checks, advocates say. Research strongly suggests waiting periods can create a “cooling-off” period and reduce impulsive violence and suicides. The American Medical Association has voiced support of waiting periods, and a Quinnipiac University poll found 79 percent of voters support such a mandate. At least nine states and the District of

ALLOW LOCAL GOVERNMENTS THE POWER TO REGULATE GUNS

Most states have laws broadly preventing local governments from regulating guns. Since the 1980s, prompted by the NRA and other gun-rights groups, at least 43 states have passed “preemption” laws, which advocates argue prevent a burdensome patchwork of local rules. In states without preemption, such as California, cities have the flexibility to impose local gun-control policies. San Francisco requires safe storage in a locked container when the owner isn’t carrying his or her gun, which studies show can prevent accidental shootings, a leading cause of death for children. Still, local rules come with inherent limitations. High-crime cities such as Chicago show that even strict local laws can’t stop guns from crossing state and local borders.

treatment. That can prevent students, including would-be school shooters, from harming themselves or others. Studies have shown that nearly 87 percent of shooters leave behind evidence that they were victims of severe bullying that resulted in thoughts of suicide or revenge. Though most bullied children do not decide to open fire on fellow students as revenge, providing resources to these students could prevent harm. While schools typically lack the number of school psychologists recommended by the National Association of School Psychologists, in recent years school leadership has been more open to adding mental-health resources and threat-assessment teams in schools. The drawbacks to this are minimal. Even if the increased mental-health counselors don’t prevent any school shootings, they’re sure to provide easy access to much-needed support for troubled students.

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in so few incidents (though high-capacity magazines were more common) and in part because the ban’s narrow definition of “assault weapon” hinges on military-style features such as a pistol grip or a folding stock. Although semi-automatic rifles are rarely used to commit crimes, when they are, the potential devastation is terrifying. The purpose of the ban in 1994 was to reduce the lethality of mass shootings. Mass shootings have become much more lethal since the ban expired.

Columbia have some sort of waiting period, typically between two and seven days. A 2017 study in the National Academy of Sciences journal using data on waiting-period laws from 1970 to 2014 found that the laws are associated with a 17 percent reduction in gun homicides and a 7 percent to 11 percent reduction in gun-related suicides.

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One sign the response to recent shootings has been different? Corporations started speaking out. Walmart, Dick’s Sporting Goods, and Kroger raised restrictions on the minimum age required to buy firearms. CitiGroup banned their business partners from selling firearms to those under 21—and from selling high-capacity magazines or bump stocks at all. Major investment firm BlackRock announced they’d offer customers the ability to invest in funds that did not include gun manufacturers. Companies such as Enterprise-Rent-A-Car, Symantec, MetLife, Delta, and United all announced they’d be ending their discount programs for NRA members. It’s uncertain whether many companies will be willing to infuriate major chunks of their customers by championing regulation of their gun rights. But we’ve already seen what sort of massive power corporations wield when they get into politics. As an example, look at how they beat back trans-bathroom bills in Texas and North Carolina. N A version of this article first appeared in The Inlander, a weekly based in Spokane, Washington. NUVO.NET // 05.30.18 - 06.06.18 // THE BIG STORY // 11

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or Sofiya Inger’s solo show Beneath Our Feet at the Harrison Center, opening June 1, you may marvel at the foresight of her year-old artist statement, considering the volcanic eruptions going on in Hawaii and the sinkhole opening up on the White House lawn threatening to swallow the ultimate swamp monster. “Only when the fire erupts through the mouths of volcanoes, spilling numinous flow on villages and disrupting airports,” Inger writes, “[do] we get a glimpse of the awesome power inside our cosmic home. With fierce tenacity we keep building on grounds shifting beneath our feet.” Inger’s exhibit will include mixed-media paintings and installations. Often in her work, you can expect an expressionistic narrative element that might make you recall Marc Chagall. You can usually expect a much brighter palette in the paintings of Jerry Points, whose landscapes are reminiscent of French pointillism—painting with dots—but carry that tradition into the 21st century, at least when he gives a nod to the likes of Mark Rothko along the way. His exhibition in the main Harrison Gallery is called Points of Reference. According to his artist’s statement, he recently ran into health problems that limited his ability to do outdoor, plein air paintings. “At the age of 72, a severe case of shingles left him without the use of his left arm and in near constant pain. Plein air now not an option, the studio was his refuge, where he adapted his style and painting skills to reflect his creative impulses. His canvases evolved into abstract works with plein air components, such as ‘Trees of Hope.’” As if there isn’t enough going on at the gazillion-ring circus of the Harrison, the City Gallery will be opening with Kate

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3 // Gallery 924, 924 N. Pennsylvania St.

4 // Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, 340 N. Senate Ave. 5 // Circle City Industrial Complex, 1125 E. Brookside Ave.

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6 // Kime Contemporary, 2827 E. 10th St. 7 // Cat Head Press, 2834 E. Washington St.

8 // The Oilwick, 1604 Deloss St. 9 // New Day Craft, 1102 Prospect St. 10 // Murphy Art Center, 1043 Virginia Ave. 11 // Garfield Park Arts Center, 2432 Conservatory Drive 12 // Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St. 13 // Tube Factory artspace, 1125 S. Cruft St.

65 Oberreich’s new exhibition featuring mixed media, collage, and text. “Greetings from Indianapolis,” Oberreich told me, “evolved out of conversations with those who stayed and those who left—and those who have never been here—on what it is about Indianapolis that has drawn me in and at times sent me elsewhere.” (She briefly lived out of state.) Just to shake things up a bit, you might want to make Indiana Landmarks the next step on your First Friday itinerary. Landmarks will be opening an exhibit

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spiked with punk aesthetics and pop culture called Off the Record: A Punk Art Show. Twenty-eight artists will be featured. You might expect this show at the end of some dark corridor in the Murphy Art Center, but it’s to be found here, at this stately venue. What’s with you, Indiana Landmarks? If my daughter happens to come with me to the galleries on June 1, I don’t know if I’d take her to Landmarks. But I would take her down to the Young Collector’s Show II at Gallery 924, even though she’s 13 and the show

is geared toward the 3- to 12-year-old set. (I’ll do anything to shake off her occasional “meh” reaction of indifference when I take her to galleries). I should mention that 924 will also be having a Thursday opening for art collectors who want to get away from the maddening First Friday crowds. Kime Contemporary, Listen Hear, Cat Head Press, and 10th West Gallery will also have Thursday receptions (on May 31). But if you’re in my karass, you must absolutely, positively not skip the First Friday Vonnegut Gallery, featuring prints inspired by

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the life and legacy of the Indy-born author, at the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. If you want to check out something completely different, why not check out the RUCKUS makerspace at Circle City Industrial Complex, where Katy Newton will have some of her kimonos and accessories on display. Also on hand will be her ensembles that she took to Midwest Fashion Week. If you’ve been to the Day of the Dead Celebration at the Eiteljorg, you’ve probably seen her costumes. Kime Contemporary, across the street from Pogue’s Run Grocer, will have a show featuring an installation by Danielle Joy Graves and Nick Witten in a show called Dream Anywhere, Play Here, Part 1. I’ve admired Danielle Graves’ seriously weird, or weirdly serious, plush sculptures since last March’s show at the now defunct General Public Collective. The 99 (plush) knives that she displayed back in May 2017 were the pièces de résistance, as it were. The show was informed by research into the history of Valerie Solanas, the woman who tried to kill Andy Warhol. Just a bit south of Kime you can find Cat Head Press where the work of Minneapolis-based Austin Stiegemeier will be on display. I don’t have his artist’s statement, but I have checked his website. Let’s just say that if you’ve ever wanted to check out an artist who combines the sensibilities of Marcel Duchamp and Francis Bacon, your time has come. You can also purchase tickets online on Eventbrite for their Thursday, May 31 preview night ($30) and receive a

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free print by the artist. Another venue that’s no stranger to offbeat art is The Oilwick. I went there for the first time last weekend, and I caught a show of paintings by recent Herron grads. I was struck by the talent dripping off the walls. But I was even more impressed by the gumption of the young artists who had turned what had been a derelict building into gallery and studio space and made it the home base for a nonprofit arts organization. That exhibition, called Room 221, will sadly no longer be available for view on First Friday. In its place will be a benefit show called Pints for Pups, featuring handmade pint glasses for sale. You can fill the pint glasses with free beer. The Freedom K9 Project and the artists will split proceeds. Hell, as long as you’ve made it this far, why not check out nearby Fountain Square? New Day Craft, which will have work on display by Harrison Center-based artist Quincy Owens, will also have a good selection of paintings and prints by NUVO’s own cartoonist Wayne Bertsch in the back room. And a visit to Fountain Square, for the discerning arts aficionado, still requires a visit to the Murphy Arts Center. Featured in the Future Friends Holographic Magic Club, in Suite 213 at the Murphy, will be After the Rain, a written- and spoken-word art exhibit by Theon Lee. Just a few more miles away you’ll find the Garfield Park Arts Center, which will have a group show called Flashback, a Look into the Past. And if you have any gently used craft supplies in your trunk, you can

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trade them with other artists in a craft exchange sponsored by Craft Raft. If you have any energy left, make a trek to Listen Hear where there will be plenty to listen to and hear—as well as see—in Jacob Gardner’s Make an Offer, a mixed-media exhibition that explores “repetition of form in the communication of emotion,” according to the web description. Then head on over to Tube Factory artspace, and cruise around the First Friday Night Market, and maybe get a bite to eat. In the artspace, check out Christos Koutsouras’ manipulated landscape photographs on display in his exhibit Land Art (Telling Trees), which document the forest fires that ravaged the Greek island of Samos, his birthplace. Following this itinerary of sorts will bring you full circle for First Friday, not in terms of galleries on a map, but thematically. Recall that Sofiya Inger’s exhibit Beneath Our Feet also confronts natural disaster, and impermanence. “In our days filled with duties, schedules, rituals, both boundless cruelty, and profound kindness to each other,” she writes in her artist’s statement, “We forget to realize one thing: all of us are literally walking on top of the tiny and enormous spinning globe with a glowing hot center!” N NUVO.NET // 05.30.18 - 06.06.18 // VISUAL // 13

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MARGARET CHO LIKES STUPID Cho Is a Highlight of the Limestone Comedy Festival in Bloomington BY SETH JOHNSON // SJOHNSON@NUVO.NET

ans of comedy know that Bloomington has become a mecca of sorts for the art form, thanks in large part to the longstanding legacy of The Comedy Attic. Now in its sixth year, Limestone Comedy Festival is continuing to build upon this reputation as well, with a 2018 lineup that will be headlined by none other than Margaret Cho. “I’ve been a huge Margaret Cho fan forever,” said Mat Alano-Martin, co-director of Limestone Comedy Festival. “I still consider her one-woman show, I’m the One that I Want, to be one of the finest hours of standup ever performed, so it’s just exciting to have her.” Slated for May 31–June 2 this year, the festival will again take place at numerous Bloomington venues, with tickets available for individual shows as well as the whole festival. In addition to Cho, several other notable names are also featured on the 2018 Limestone lineup, including Judah Friedlander, Chris Gethard, Laura Kightlinger, and more. Ahead of her set at Buskirk-Chumley Theater on Thursday, May 31, we caught up with Cho for a phone interview.

NUVO: I know you started doing comedy at a pretty young age. Who were some influences that inspired you to pursue it so early on? MARGARET CHO: The first one was Joan Rivers. She was incredibly influential and also became a very, very good friend later on. [She was] just somebody who had a lot to say. There was so much that she had to do with the birth of women in comedy and that sort of permission for women to be in comedy. [She was] an incredible comedian, also, and a great mentor all the way to the very end. So I’m lucky that I had her in my life and got to know comedy through a real pioneer.

Like, you don’t want to get so far into politics that you let go of the mirth and excitement and dumbness of being a comedian. That to me is so precious. I never want to stop being stupid. That is kind of a motto. Don’t stop being stupid.

NUVO: With how political you are at times,

NUVO: Speaking of mentors, I know that Robin Williams was also a mentor to you. How did he impact you and your career? CHO: It was very hard because I would have to always follow him. He was sort of a silent partner in this comedy club in San Francisco called the Holy City Zoo, where he used to be the doorman. I would always have to perform after him, and it was really hard [laughs]. But what a great man. He was sort of the patriarch in comedy in San Francisco. If you had a problem, we all would sort of go to him for whatever. To me, his mentorship was the community that rose up around him in comedy, and how many people relied on him for whatever. He was just the first one of anybody to make it at that point, and that was a hugely big deal. So it’s really sad that he did so much for people, yet nobody thought to ask him if he was all right. It’s really crazy. Of anybody,

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you would think that he would be happy and that he would be satisfied. But I think he had a lot of dissatisfaction too that we’ll never really know. I didn’t know him as well as everybody else. But he had a great impact on my career because I had to learn how to follow him, which was really trial by fire.

NUVO: I’ve asked this of other comedians who are political in nature. Do you ever find it difficult to balance between being funny and being an advocate? CHO: I think it’s most important to be funny. You never want to get into being an actor-vist [laughs], like an actor activist.

however, I’m curious what your thoughts are on gun violence in America, especially with the recent school shooting in Texas. CHO: It’s depressing. That to me is so tragic and so needless. It’s such a strange reverence that we have for these gun nuts that’s so stupid. It’s literally killing our children. That is so upsetting. It’s just these kids who want to go to school. They should be able to go to school and be safe in school. And for some reason, people who have no reverence for the Constitution somehow get stuck on the Second Amendment. They have no reverence for any other part of it but the Second Amendment. It doesn’t make any sense. I think we’re in really bad trouble. When people are saying there are too many doors…that’s so dumb. It’s a real insult to the intelligence of our country. We should be smarter than this. Every other nation, practically, has understood that gun violence is not OK, and they’ve taken measures to protect the populous. But for some reason, we don’t get it. I don’t know what’s going to happen, but it’s very upsetting.

NUVO: Having gone through all that you have over the course of your comedy career, what tips would you give a young person who’s looking to pursue a career in the entertainment business? CHO: Never give up. Tenacity is really what will carry you through. Everybody who works hard to continue and persevere…they’ll get there. It’s really about that. It’s that perseverance and that dedication that pay off. N

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TOO DELICATE FOR ‘DEADPOOL 2’? The Movie Is Self-Referential and Meta Down to the Bloody Core BY JARED RASIC // SCREENS@NUVO.NET

DEADPOOL 2 //

eadpool 2 is the Saving Private Ryan of superhero movies. Not because it’s a genre classic (although it is) and not because it deconstructs superhero movies (although it does) but because there are more severed heads and limbs than at the beaches of Normandy. The filmmakers couldn’t care less what offends people and assume that no one is too delicate to appreciate the trademarked Deadpool balance of hyper-violence and the gleefully profane. One of the biggest improvements with this sequel to the surprise hit of 2016 is that the film feels less like a swing for the fences and instead like more of a natural progression for these characters in this specific corner of the Marvel Universe. Deadpool 2 is still constantly self-referential and meta, but the goofiness feels as if it fits the world as more than just an excuse to make fun of the endless influx of superhero movies. Ryan Reynolds is charming as Wade Wilson, a smart-ass mercenary who’d rather do good for the world and hang out with his girlfriend than be the same angry a-hole he was last time. When a soldier from the future shows up trying to murder a teenage boy who will grow into a murderous despot, Deadpool has to decide whether to protect the life of a kid or save thousands of lives in a future he has no relationship with. The stakes are much higher (considering half of the first Deadpool took place on a freeway), but this is still nowhere near the cacophony of children’s tears that was Infinity War. With Josh Brolin perfectly reimagining his gruff demeanor to play Cable, a humorless warrior from the future, and Zazie Beetz

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stealing the show as the supernaturally lucky Domino, Deadpool 2 gives us people to care about instead of just characters to laugh at. Director Tim Miller, who gave the first film the fast-paced and hilarious tone it needed, is replaced by David Leitch, one of the masterminds behind the modern classic John Wick. Leitch brings his impeccable action timing to the franchise, giving the movie a bone-splitting immediacy missing from the original. Obviously, the film exists primarily as a satire of superhero movies and all of the clichés inherent to the genre, but now it works equally well as an actual action movie. When it’s not funny, it’s exciting…which is a surprisingly complicated tone to balance. It’s pretty incredible how much better Deadpool 2 is than the original. Those involved figured out everything that didn’t work about the film and smoothed it out to the point of invisibility. From the pacing to the plot all the way down to the tiny little Easter eggs hidden throughout the film, Deadpool 2 is an almost flawless example of an action/comedy. It even works for people that hate superhero movies since it meticulously ridicules everything that makes the worst ones feel like test-grouped clones quietly slinking off the assembly line. Deadpool 2 is the hero we deserve. He likes chimichangas, a sexually adventurous life with his girlfriend, and killing people with swords. How could Superman ever hold a candle to that? N NUVO.NET // 05.30.18 - 06.06.18 // SCREENS // 15

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hat do Milktooth, Love Handle, Amelia’s, and Provider all have in common? First, they’re all beloved Indianapolis institutions crafting some of the finest food and drink in the city. Less obviously, each space was designed and branded by the couple behind Flatland Kitchen Creative Studio. Rebekah and Eric Nolan first met while studying at the Herron School of Art. “We started working together 10 years ago,” says Rebekah. “We had friends that wanted album covers, and show posters, and stuff like that, so we just started collaborating. “Obviously, it turned into more than friends. And over time, it sort of morphed into more and more collaborative design work.” That design work started to take off with the local bakery Amelia’s. Rebekah says the couple’s friendship with Amelia’s co-owners, Charlie and Tiffany McIntosh, led to them getting that first gig, and it snowballed from there. Since then they have helped turn spaces around the city into places that make you want to come back time and again. “We both have always felt really strongly about environments, the impact that an envi-

ronment can have, and what you can take “It was definitely a lot of fun painting away from being in a space,” says Rebekah. butts on walls,” says Rebekah. “We really feel like everyone has a And that same focus on the people bevery specific, singular uniqueness,” she hind the business goes with every space and explains. “Even though we adapt to certain brand they work on. For example, Eric says, trends, and ideas, and things start to look “The first time that we discussed anything the same in one area or another, I think at with Neal Warner of Coat Check and Proeveryone’s core there is something specifivider, it was essentially a long conversation cally different about them.” about us, him, and ideas.” It is this innate uniqueThe only difference at ness that Flatland Kitchen “We’re not only Provider in comparison finds to bring to the foreto other spaces is Flatland reflecting the front of each space. Once Kitchen’s original design they have that in mind, business, but we’re helped inform the idea they try to “find a really behind Provider. also fostering a impactful way to get that A mural the couple had through in the environcommunity in a lot started before Provider mental experience that moved into the space was of ways.” people have.” incorporated into their Anyone who knows Ally —REBEKAH NOLAN design. “Once we talked to and Chris Benedyk—who Neal, we developed [the own and run Love Handle—knows that mural] more, expanded it a lot more, and they’re fun, lighthearted people. Thanks to it became a lot different,” says Eric. “But Flatland’s work, from the vibrant painted that initial abstract floral pattern was there green-and-white scales above the kitchen, before Provider, and I think they sort of built to the sexy, hand-painted pig butts and legs on that in a lot of ways.” when you walk in, the space feels just as fun “When we get to talking more detail about and friendly as the Benedyks. the design, we have to create a visual conver-

sation,” Rebekah says. “So there’s a lot of back and forth about what they’re drawn to.” While the process of creation and bringing their clients’ visions to life are exciting and a collaborative experience, it’s also something that can take years. As they mention with their current work in the upcoming Field Brewing Company and Beholder, they truly enjoy the finished products. “I feel like the best part is walking in, seeing everything together, and seeing everyone interact with the space,” says Rebekah. “We’re not only reflecting the business, but we’re also fostering a community in a lot of ways.” Eric expounds on this thought. “It’s rewarding the first time you see those people, and I feel like over time—like at Love Handle—it starts to become a second home in some ways. You feel comfortable there. And that tells me that other people can feel that same way in that space.” As for what Flatland Kitchen brings to the table that makes them unique, Eric sums it up by saying, “There are parts of this that are an art. There are parts that are a craft. And it’s difficult for a lot of people to navigate the gray area between art and branding, but I think that’s where we live.” N NUVO.NET // 05.30.18 - 06.06.18 // FOOD+DRINK // 17

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SUMMER GUIDE TO LOCAL RELEASES New Music Drop Dates for Indy Artists BY SETH JOHNSON // SJOHNSON@NUVO.NET

S.M. WOLF // PHOTO BY RACHEL ENNEKING

here are plenty of awesome concerts to look forward to this summer, both large and small, but we wanted to highlight some local albums that should be on your radar. Below is our guide to some Indianapolis album releases that we’re anticipating between June and August, including everything from jazz to hip-hop to rock ’n’ roll.

THE SHAKE UPS, LEGENDARY DEFENDERS DUE OUT JUNE 1

LDYCP, LDYCP DUE OUT JUNE 8

via Darling Recordings, with an album release in

The brainchild of Chelsea Sherman, this melodic

ington (at Blockhouse on June 23).

Indianapolis (at Pioneer on June 15) and Bloom-

rock collective from Bloomington makes hazy

THE RESOURCE NETWORK, PSYCHOGRAPHICS DUE OUT JUNE 5

chamber-pop music à la St. Vincent. With this album on Indy-based label In Store Recordings,

KEVIN KRAUTER, TOSS UP DUE OUT JUNE 15

Having raised eyebrows in the past six months,

LDYCP takes the listener on all sorts of twists and

After the release of his chilling Changes EP, this

turns, leaving one helluva first impression.

Indiana-based musician returns with a more

this budding Indianapolis four-piece features several former members of the band Video Grave.

S.M. WOLF, BAD OCEAN DUE OUT JUNE 1

Known for lighting up living rooms and venue

After impressing with their debut album, Neon

on Cleveland’s Quality Time Records serves as a

Debris, in 2015, Indianapolis psych-pop sweethearts

synth-heavy full-length, which is set for release

KIEFER IAN, SOUNDS GOOD EP DUE OUT JUNE 8

stages alike, The Resource Network’s debut EP

on June 15 via notable indie label Bayonet Records (Beach Fossils, Frankie Cosmos). Also known for his work in the band Hoops, Krauter will celebrate the release of Toss Up with an in-

perfect introduction to the band’s relentless rock

HALES CORNER, HALES CORNER DUE OUT JUNE 15

S.M. Wolf are back with their sophomore full-length.

’n’ roll sound. Be sure to catch them in a city near

After surpassing expectations with their debut

out on a headlining tour of the U.S.

On June 1, the band will celebrate the album’s re-

you on their upcoming North American tour in

album, Garden View, Hales Corner returns with

lease at the White Rabbit Cabaret with support from

support of the release.

an equally impressive sophomore effort. Marked

BYBYE and Clint Breeze and the Groove before then

by guitar interplay and introspective lyricism, the

embarking on an extensive summer tour of the U.S.

band’s self-titled second album is set for release

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store performance at Luna Music before heading

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bert Glover, Pravada have become a local staple of Indianapolis’ rock scene over the past decade. After a long time away, the band has returned

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with Still the Sea, which is already available to stream and purchase via their Bandcamp page. On July 7, however, the album will receive proper

BRANDON TINKLER, OPEN UP YOUR EYES DUE OUT JULY 21

release-show treatment with a night of festivities

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TEO, TEO DUE OUT AUG. 3 AMANDA GARDIER, EMPATHY DUE OUT AUG. 25 Having become an active player in Indy’s jazz scene in recent years, saxophonist Amanda Gar-

at the White Rabbit Cabaret.

NATIVE SUN, NEVER BE KING DUE OUT JULY 27

dier is set to release her debut album, Empathy,

TRAVELING BROKE AND OUT OF GAS, BASTARD AMERICANA DUE OUT JULY 7

Longtime veterans of the Indianapolis hip-hop

albums from local jazz guitarist Charlie Ballan-

scene, Native Sun return with a release that is reflec-

tine, Gardier assembled an impressive group of

tive of all that’s going on in the world today. “Native

musicians to help her with Empathy, including

Sun has always represented positivity, and the songs

Ballantine, Mina Keohane, Rob Dixon, and more.

on this upcoming record are really motivational yet

Two album release shows are currently in the

truthful,” says emcee Bobby Young, better known by

books—one at the Jazz Kitchen on Aug. 25 and

his rapper name B. Young. “Sonically, we’re stronger

one at Chatterbox on Sept. 8.

TANGLED HEADPHONES, A NEW SENSE DUE OUT JULY 13

One of Indy’s current jazz greats, saxophonist

on Aug. 25. A featured performer on all four

than we’ve ever been, and we’re hella excited to

JOMBERFOX, THE VARIETY AGE DUE OUT JULY 14

share it with Indy and the world.”

resume over his decades of playing, both locally

POPE ADRIAN BLESS, FURY ROAD DUE OUT AUG. 26

and nationally. Also the artistic director of Indy

Another local rock favorite featured on this list, Indianapolis’ Jomberfox make their long-awaited

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The always-charismatic Pope Adrian Bless

Jazz Fest, Dixon will celebrate the release of Coast

to Crossroads with a pair of performances at the

return after releasing Parade back in 2015. Fea-

Jazz Kitchen on June 30. The album features vir-

turing members of the band Blue Moon Revue,

tuoso Charlie Hunter on guitar and Mike Clark on

Jomberfox will celebrate the release of The

drums, with some guest appearances from Ernest

Variety Age in grand fashion with a headlining

Stuart on trombone.

show at HI-FI on July 14, being joined on the bill

Rob Dixon has amassed an incredibly impressive

by America Owns the Moon.

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unveils his latest six-song EP, Fury Road, with the help of longtime Indianapolis producer

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Wildstyle. Known for his ferocity on the mic, the Indianapolis rapper has been a crowd favorite at each of the last two Chreece hip-hop festivals,

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lighting up rooms with his energetic approach on stage.

Indianapolis-based composer, performer, and mul-

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timedia artist Jordan Munson presents three works written over the course of the past three years with his latest album, Until My Last. The album draws on Munson’s background in sound design, improvisa-

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Clif Wallace & The Kickback The Jazz Kitchen

Photian Schism, Earthling, Drude, Blunt State Street Pub

S.M. Wolf album release show The White Rabbit Cabaret

The Decemberists Old National Centre

Kranks EP release show The Irving Theater

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Sirius Blvck, Grxzz, Kill Surf City Square Cat Vinyl

The Decemberists have

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Clif Wallace has the experi-

Do ya’ ever just look at the

S.M. Wolf celebrate the

stood the test of time and

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It’s been 20 years since

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ence and the versatility to

lineup for a show and think,

release of their highly

become a staple in a scene

ass on over to the Eastside

Sunny came home and Col-

summertime until the first

lead one of the greatest live

“Damn, those are all pretty

anticipated new album, Bad

flooded with unoriginality.

and catch the release of

vin’s A Few Small Repairs

Ghost Gun show of the

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badass band names!” Yeah,

Ocean. They’ll be slangin’

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the new self-titled EP from

made her a country-cross-

season. Well, ya’ll, Sirius

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me neither. But damn,

limited-edition, colored vinyl

hard to pin down, but fans

Kranks. They’re kickin’ it off

over smash. In the years

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hop (compelling lyricism,

these are all pretty badass

and other goodies as door

all agree their live show is

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since, she’s released over 10

bring you a rare live band

dusty samples, dope beats)

band names. And if you

prizes for ticket pre-orders.

one of a kind. They’re tour-

Dirty Kluger, Arcadia, The

albums, won three Grammy

performance at Square Cat

with jazz instrumentation,

say them all together, it

The party starts off with the

ing in support of their latest

Sliding Glass, and Summer-

awards, and seemingly

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Wallace and the band define

sounds as if we’re about to

smooth tunes of Clint Breeze

album, I’ll Be Your Girl, and

bruise.

toured nonstop. Sunday’s

Kill Surf City. The show is

what good fusion ought

get waaaay stoned with an

and The Groove along with

you should be there.

show in Bloomington is

free, so no excuses from ya’

to be and make it obvious

alien overlord or something.

the chillest of chill jams from

solo, acoustic, and well

broke ass.

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worth the drive.

where others fall way short.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Dear Oracle: I find myself in the weird position of trying to decide between doing the good thing and doing the right thing. If I opt to emphasize sympathy and kindness, I may look like an eager-to-please wimp with shaky principles. But if I push hard for justice and truth, I may seem rude and insensitive. Why is it so challenging to have integrity? - Vexed Libra.” Dear Libra: My advice is to avoid the all-or-nothing approach. Be willing to be half-good and half-right. Sometimes the highest forms of integrity require you to accept imperfect solutions. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You have waited long enough to retaliate against your adversaries. It’s high time to stop simmering with frustration and resentment. Take direct action! I suggest you arrange to have a box of elephant poop shipped to their addresses. You can order it here: tinyurl.com/ElephantManure. JUST KIDDING! I misled you with the preceding statements. It would in fact be a mistake for you to express such vulgar revenge. Here’s the truth: Now is an excellent time to seek retribution against those who have opposed you, but the best ways to do that would be by proving them wrong, surpassing their accomplishments, and totally forgiving them. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Marketing experts say that motivating a person to say yes to a big question is more likely if you first build momentum by asking them smaller questions to which it’s easy to say yes. I encourage you to adopt this slant for your own purposes in the coming weeks. It’s prime time to extend invitations and make requests that you’ve been waiting for the right moment to risk. People whom you need on your side will, I suspect, be more receptive than usual -- and with good reasons—but you may still have to be smoothly strategic in your approach. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I bet you’ll be offered at least one valuable gift, and possibly more. But I’m concerned that you may not recognize them for their true nature. So I’ve created an exercise to enhance your ability to identify and claim these gifts-in-disguise. Please ruminate on the following concepts: 1. a pain that can heal; 2. a shadow that illuminates; 3. an unknown or anonymous ally; 4. a secret that nurtures intimacy; 5. a power akin to underground lightning; 6. an invigorating boost disguised as tough love. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When I was a kid attending elementary schools in the American Midwest, recess was a core part of my educational experience. For 45 minutes each day, we were excused from our studies so we could indulge in free-form play—outdoors, if the weather was nice, or else in the gymnasium. But in recent years, schools in the U.S. have shrunk the time allotted for recess. Many schools have eliminated it altogether. Don’t they understand this is harmful to the social, emotional, and physical health of their students? In any case, Aquarius, I hope you move in the opposite direction during the coming weeks. You need more than your usual quota of time away from the grind. More fun and games, please! More messing around and merriment! More recess! PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): For many years, actor Mel Blanc provided the voice for Bugs Bunny, a cartoon character who regularly chowed down on raw carrots. But Blanc himself did not like raw carrots. In a related matter, actor John Wayne, who pretended to be a cowboy and horseman in many movies, did not like horses. And according to his leading ladies, charismatic macho film hunk Harrison Ford is not even close to being an expert kisser. What about you, Pisces? Is your public image in alignment with your true self? If there are discrepancies, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to make corrections.

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