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et you didn’t know guns were a cure for cancer. Or that they solve math problems faster than computers and calculators. Or that they are even better than a mother’s love. You would know — or at least believe — these things if you lived in the same part of the ideological landscape that Indiana Rep. Jim Lucas, R-Seymour, occupies. Lucas is Indiana’s top advocate for the National Rifle Association and other gun lobbying organizations. In his world, guns are the solution to every problem, the tool to meet every challenge, the answer to every prayer. Lucas has made news for, among other things, pushing through an Indiana law that allows people to bring guns onto school property and berating a lobbyist representing mothers concerned about gun violence during a legislative committee meeting. He found his way into the spotlight again a few days ago by handwriting a note to an Indianapolis Star reporter who had done a story about a sexual-assault survivor and then posting the note on Facebook. Lucas wrote: “After reading your front page article in the Sunday Star about the tragedy of rape, it would be nice to see a follow up article about the thousands of Hoosier women that are taking steps & learning how not to be a victim. “Sincerely, “Jim Lucas” The reaction to Lucas’s note was immediate and intense. People accused him of blaming — if not shaming — the survivor by suggesting that she had allowed herself “to be a victim.” At their
kindest, they said his note was insensitive. It was insensitive, but not because Lucas is mean. He’s just clueless. I’ve had go-arounds with Jim Lucas. In person, he’s a nice guy. It’s only when the subject of guns
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— or anything that touches his radicalized sense of the sphere of gun rights — comes up that he completely loses his senses. That’s the way it is with ideologues. Most of us look at America’s horrific record regarding gun-related violence — we Americans are 2,000 percent more likely to die by gun than people in other parts of the developed world — and see it as a problem to be solved. Lucas and others who live in his world start from a different place. Their priority is less on solving the problem than on “proving,” generally in defiance of both fact and reason, that guns couldn’t be part of the problem. In their strange, altered reality, the easy abundance of guns in the United States makes everyone safer. The fact that the United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population and Americans own more than half the world’s guns while remaining the deadliest
In [this] strange, altered reality, the easy abundance of guns in the United States makes everyone safer.
place on the planet sways them not at all. When I’ve asked Lucas what accounts for America’s staggering rate of gun-relating tragedy if guns aren’t part of the equation — are we Americans 2,000 percent more evil than people in other countries or just 2,000 percent dumber? — he always ducks the question. That, too, is the way it is with ideologues. When one of their prejudices or preconceived notions confronts an inconvenient fact or an unpleasant reality, it is always the fact or the reality that must give way. In this case, most independent studies show that a gun is 40 times more likely to be used against one’s self, a family member or another loved one than it is in self-defense. Lucas and his fellow travelers want us to focus on the one and ignore the 40. That’s like saying we ought to celebrate the father of four who spends the family’s rent and food money on lottery tickets and wins a big pot. That does happen occasionally, but that father is the exception who proves the rule. Most other people who make such a reckless choice end up with homeless and hungry children. Lucas and his crowd doubtless will see this as an attack on guns. It isn’t. There are ways for reasonable people to curtail gun-related deaths and still protect gun owners’ rights, but that is precisely the kind of conversation Lucas and the firearms industry want to prevent from even getting started. They’re so determined to keep us from talking about guns that they’ll do anything. Such as insult a rape survivor. And not even realize that’s what they’re doing. N For more opinion pieces visit nuvo.net/voices
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HOGSETT WON’T SIGN
Pledge to honor Paris Agreement signed by hundreds of other mayors BY AMBER STEARNS // ASTEARNS@NUVO.NET
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ayors across the United States duce Indianapolis’ carbon emissions and have been responding individcontinue moving toward a cleaner, more ually and en masse to President sustainable future.” Trump’s decision to remove the But that statement did not come with a country from the Paris Climate Agreesignature added to the others. ment. Republican and Democratic maySix Indiana mayors have already signed ors are publicly stating that despite the the agreement: Gary Mayor Karen Freeposition of the federal administration, man-Wilson, Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard, they plan to continue to govern in the Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry, Bloominginterests of the Paris agreement and do ton Mayor John Hamilton, South Bend what they can to combat climate change Mayor Pete Buttegieg, and West Lafayette on the local level. Mayor John Dennis. Several Several mayors from others have indicated that “Mayor Hogsett Indiana have signed the that have signed as well or agreement and have pubat least plan to. (Editor’s … feels strongly licly stated their positions Note: The Mayors National that, with so much Climate Action Agenda, on the matter. However one mayor missing from as Climate Mayors, at stake, action is known the list is Indianapolis has received so many remore important Mayor Joe Hogsett. quests to join the agreeThe Climate Mayors ment and the organization than political Agreement was released that the website can’t keep grandstanding.” June 1. On June 2, Hogup with updating the list of sett released the followsignatures.) — ALIYAH WISHNER ing statement: But Hogsett says he has “As a father, I often no plans at this time to join think of the legacy we will leave for our his colleagues and sign it. children. And as Mayor, I know that it “Mayor Hogsett currently has no plans will be up to Indianapolis civic leaders to sign on the Climate Mayors Statement to come together and shape that future. as he feels strongly that, with so much The commitments made in the Paris at stake, action is more important than Agreement aren’t about the political political grandstanding,” said Aliya Wishposturing or partisan rhetoric that ner, deputy communications director for dominates cable news — they are about Hogsett’s office, in a statement to NUVO. ensuring the future health and livability “Mayor Hogsett is instead working to of our city and the global community. follow-through on the promise of his In the coming weeks, I will join others statement last week, assembling a group around the country by bringing together of local leaders and technical experts to local business, non-profit, and scientific present recommendations on meaningleaders to develop actionable steps to reful emissions-reductions strategies for
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CIRCLE CITIZEN/CIRCLE JERK CURTIS HILL Indiana Attorney General JERK Based on the testimony of some Dearborn County inmates who testified that getting arrested saved their lives, Hill made the correlation that chemical addiction programs behind bars represent some of the best methods of reaching addicts in need of services. To say that more jail time for drug users to get clean is compassionate shows a lack of compassion for humanity.
JOE HOGSETT Indianapolis Mayor JERK The bipartisan action of U.S. mayors to
Indianapolis. Mayor Hogsett is committed the goals of the Paris Agreement – and will direct this group of leaders to guide the City towards achieving those goals.” Wishner also said it was important to look at the city’s existing initiatives on energy and the environment to put into to context that although Hogsett isn’t signing the agreement, he is still committed to the spirit and goals of Paris. She cited the city’s commitment to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, the creation of the first comprehensive greenhouse gas inventory that is underway, the “It’s My City” campaign to leverage civic engagement in developing a cleaner, greener Indianapolis and several other public-private partnerships involving the city and the Office of Sustainability. “Under Mayor Hogsett’s leadership, the City of Indianapolis was already working to reduce our impact on both our local environment and the global climate crisis — with or without U.S. commitments to the Paris Agreement, this important work will continue,” said Wishner. To date a total of 289 mayors from 44 states, Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. have all signed the agreement. N
commit to the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement isn’t political grandstanding, but a show of commitment to actions already being done. There’s nothing wrong with walking the walk AND talking the talk.
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RAISE A GLASS TO VISIONARIES
I Lifetime Achievement Award Winner: Betty Cockrum
of Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky
Jared Thompson and Mat Alano-Martin
Dr. Janine Fogel
of Limestone Comedy Fest
Chef Greg Hardesty
of Eskenazi Health Transgender Health & Wellness Program
Tamika Catchings
of the Indiana Fever
Herb Miller
of Lamp Records
f you’re a regular reader of NUVO, you know that a big part of what we do is tell you about why Indianapolis — and the people and institutions that call our city home — is great. We also spend a fair bit of time telling you what Indy could do better; how we can grow; how we can better advocate for others; how we can have more fun. We see the Cultural Vision Awards as a perfect merging of these two things we do, week in and week out. For almost 20 years, we’ve identified people and institutions that make Indy great, and then tell you about how they’re pushing our city to be better. Our six honorees this year represent some of Indiana’s best and brightest — a WNBA superstar, comedy fest pioneers, LGBTQ healthcare advocates, a record label innovator and a chef that shaped our food scene. We also chose one person to receive our lifetime achievement award: a woman who has tirelessly advocated for other women, leading the charge against a legislature that wants to turn back the clock for reproductive rights. Join us on Wednesday, June 14, at Centerpoint Brewing Company, to raise a glass to these excellent individuals. It’s free and open to all. We’re so excited to co-exist in the same place as them — and you. — NUVO Editors
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A WOMEN’S HEALTH WARRIOR BETTY COCKRUM OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF INDIANA AND KENTUCKY // PHOTOS BY JOEY SMITH
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o say that Betty Cockrum, outgoing president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky (PPINK) is a community leader, activist and champion of women is somewhat of an understatement. While all three are very true, they grossly understate everything that Cockrum is and has been to the state of Indiana for a very long time. To list all of the words that could be used to describe Cockrum could take up this entire issue of NUVO and probably half of next week’s issue. But if I had to pick just one of those words to describe Cockrum it would be “awe-inspiring.” (Even then I had to cheat and use two words hyphenated to make one.) Cockrum has had a long history of standing up for women’s rights against male chauvinism and supporting organizations like Planned Parenthood. When we met to chat about her retirement, she told a story of being 20 years old and working in city hall in Bloomington. She had learned about the United Way, how donations could be directed and deducted right from
your paycheck. Cockrum directed her gift to Planned Parenthood. “I only put a quarter in and it was every two weeks,” recalls Cockrum. “And I went home and told my husband about it. He got mad at me and told me that I didn’t have the right to do that without talking to him first. So I went back to work and doubled it to 50 cents.” As president and CEO of PPINK, Cockrum has championed the reproductive rights and healthcare of women, watched her state legislature try to roll progress back 50 years and turn around and sue the state for that effort. She has watched women and men from all walks of life understand and support the mission of PPINK with their activism and their financial support, especially when bad things came out of the statehouse. It’s hard to imagine anyone else in that position of leadership over the last 15 years. What’s even more amazing is that Cockrum had already had a long career dedicated to making Indiana a better place for all before she ever thought about leading
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Planned Parenthood. Right before she took her current post, Cockrum was working under then-Governor Frank O’Bannon as his state budget director. The position had followed her appointment as Commissioner of the State Department of Administration — a post given to her when O’Bannon first took office as governor. Prior to that Cockrum served as Director of Financial and Administrative Services with the Indiana Department of Commerce — her first appointment to O’Bannon’s team when he was elected lieutenant governor. And, before that, Cockrum served as Bloomington’s city controller. The opening to lead Planned Parenthood became available about the time Cockrum was considering leaving government service. She was considering consulting positions until her ex-husband informed her of the post, thinking she would be perfect for it. As she read the six-page document describing the job and Planned Parenthood’s mission, Cockrum’s vision of her own future changed. “It was like singing to me and I was pretty sure that I was going to die if I didn’t get it,” recalls Cockrum. “I was ready to leave
public service at that point and there were other things in the hopper. This was actually the least compensating of the things in the hopper, but it didn’t matter. It was the very right time for me and for this mission.” It wasn’t an easy process getting the job. A headhunting firm assisting with the search told Cockrum that her resume reflected that she was in no way qualified for the post because she had no experience in advocacy, fundraising or healthcare. Cockrum decided right then that they were wrong and she would prove it. “There are some pretty fun reference stories. One of them was the governor’s chiefof-staff who said [on Cockrum’s behalf], ‘she couldn’t do advocacy in the jobs that she’s had. If she gets hired you will have unleashed a monster,’” recalls Cockrum. Cockrum laughs and says she’s not a monster. But we agreed that a force for women was definitely unleashed when she was offered the position in May 2002. And that force has continued to advocate and fundraise on behalf of women’s healthcare to date. It’s that force that
NUVO.NET/THEBIGSTORY has quietly inspired a vast community of people to donate and advocate during those adversarial times with the Indiana legislature. It’s that force that has inspired employees to keep working through death threats and false accusations of wrong-doing. And it’s that force that has filed lawsuits against the state, challenging the constitutionality of laws passed by the Indiana General Assembly. A lifetime achievement award can sometimes lead people to believe that the honoree is done, having achieved all that there is to do in a lifetime. For Cockrum, that is the farthest thing from the truth. She says she
will continue to advocate and be a force for whatever is next, citing Women4Change as a group she could see herself getting involved with. But that future plan also includes taking time out to relax with a glass of wine or hang out with her grandkids. The reins to lead PPINK officially change hands July 1 when Christie Gillespie begins. Like Cockrum, Gillespie is a longtime supporter of PPINK and believes that her 27-year career has led up to this moment to carry the torch for this organization. And Cockrum leaves knowing that the agency is in the hands of someone who believes in it as much as she does.
A LOCAL CULINARY GIANT CHEF GREG HARDESTY // PHOTO BY JOEY SMITH
BY CAVAN McGINSIE // CMCGINSIE@NUVO.NET
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ith each new generation in the city’s kitchens, we see young cooks taking lessons from their chefs and — once they have acquired the work ethic and fundamental skills necessary — branching out to push our culinary scene further. And we praise them. And we write about them. And we remember the culinary scene we see in Indianapolis today was built, as are most great things, on the shoulders of giants. Greg Hardesty is one of these giants. Hardesty opened and ran three critically acclaimed restaurants in Indy: Recess, Elements and H2O Sushi. Out of his kitchens came many of the top talents in the city including Jonathan Brooks of Milktooth and the soon-to-open Beholder, Abbi Merriss
of Bluebeard, Neal Brown of Stella, Pizzology, Libertine and the upcoming Ukiyo and many, many more. Hardesty retired from the kitchen this year after over two decades in the industry and he admits it’s been a huge change for him. “It’s tough to just put the brakes on,” he says. “I’m used to going 24-plus years just going all out, so it’s been a little bit of an adjustment. I’ve lost my identity, somewhat, of who I am, just who I am every day. It’s been tough, but overall it’s been pretty good.” Hardesty says that identity is tied so tightly to being in a kitchen because food has always been a part of him. “I’ve always loved food my whole life. I was one of those kids that would just eat anyNUVO.NET // 06.14.17 - 06.21.17 // THE BIG STORY // 11
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thing. I have a lot of food memories, and I can recall a lot of firsts.” He got his start cooking for other people in college at IU, smirking when he talks about his early cooking. “Back then it was just chilis and stews and things like that on Sundays — basically hangover foods.” After moving to Indianapolis, he found pretty quickly that his new public affairs degree wasn’t going to bring him joy. So he looked in the classifieds and was hired at what was very possibly the top restaurant in Indiana at the time, the now-defunct The Glass Chimney. “I got married while working at The Glass Chimney and then moved out to LA and then San Francisco and those two places were just a huge influence,” he says. After working in kitchens on the West Coast and learning about the burgeoning idea of farm-to-table food, Hardesty brought his family back to Indiana. “When I came back from San Francisco in ‘99 there was a lot going on,” he says. “Tony Hanslits and Steve Oakley were already doing their things; Tony had already done quite a bit. And the Food Network and all those things were beginning to raise the bar and raise awareness and people were more attuned to where there food was coming from. I saw it as a real fertile ground of a place to start — I could be on that front edge of those people that were trying to get it going.” He opened H2O Sushi in Broad Ripple in 2000. “My first daughter was born [in San Francisco] and I had fallen in love with sushi — and obviously fallen in love with her. I was trying to find a way to be a chef and a father and not work quite as much. I thought sushi would be a good way to go, and it was.” Then: “Ego, and desire and determination took over and all of a sudden sushi wasn’t enough.” So he opened Elements on Mass Ave. And, when that wasn’t right anymore, he opened his most well-received restaurant, Recess. Recess served a pre-fixe menu, meaning restaurant-goers ate whatever Hardesty dreamed up. “Frankly it’s a kind of arrogant way to go about it,” he says with a laugh, “but I was
flexible about it.” He tried to be accommodating to customers. But the whole idea behind that style of menu seems to have been Hardesty’s way of pushing himself and his workers to be the best. “I never did it for my own personal gain, per se,” he explains. “All I ever wanted was to make Indianapolis better.” And he did that by teaching and mentoring young chefs. Hardesty says, “My goal when I came back, was to get it going so that – not necessarily that I was going to put it on the map – but so that we could get a foundation going for young cooks to stay.” And so, for Hardesty’s 17 years as a head chef he put in relentless hours. And, looking back, it appears succeeded in that endeavor in making Indy a place for new chefs to flourish. “It was always my dream to have it be where it is now. I’m pretty proud of all the cooks now and how close they all are … I always wanted that and now I envy these guys because they truly are friends and competitors. I’m proud of that.” His new position of selling beef to restaurants for Fischer Farms is finally letting him get out and chat with other chefs and to finally taste their food – a whole new culinary adventure. “I’m going to dinner tonight at a restaurant I wouldn’t have even heard of before, let alone go to,” Hardesty says. “My wife and I are finally going out on a Friday night, which is just unheard of.” While adjusting to his new life outside of the kitchen has its discomforts, some of which are caused by his now-five months of sobriety, Hardesty is spending more time with his family, something that always weighed on him during his long hours in the kitchen. He says, “That’s been the big struggle my entire career is trying to balance those things: family and work.” He isn’t sure if he will ever return to the kitchen. “I’m just excited to watch these young guys continue to grow and hopefully flourish and continue to put Indianapolis on the map. When it’s all said and done I hope I’m just mentioned in the conversation.”
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A SUPERSTAR ON AND OFF THE COURT TAMIKA CATCHINGS // PHOTO BY JOEY SMITH
BY AMBER STEARNS // ASTEARNS@NUVO.NET
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ndiana has been known as a basketball state and Indianapolis a basketball town. And we all know that Hoosier Hospitality is a real thing. But it wasn’t until Tamika Catchings came to town that the two really came together — like chocolate and peanut butter. Catchings’ career with the Indiana Fever is well-documented and celebrated. She led the team to a national championship in 2012, has four Olympic gold medals and was named Player of the Year and MVP multiple times at different occasions for different reasons. Catchings’ level of play not only developed the Fever franchise into a well respected team with a dedicated fan base, but also strengthened the credibility of the WNBA, building fans around the country. But it is the work that Catchings did and continues to do off the court that makes her a visionary and a huge asset to Indianapolis. Her community work began immediately after being drafted by the Fever in 2001 as the third overall draft pick. Catchings had torn her ACL her senior year of college and was unable to actually play that first year. She moved to Indianapolis with her sister, Tauja Catchings, to be a part of the team and heal. But says, since she couldn’t play, she needed something to do. “I was searching myself to try to find something,” says Catchings. Sitting idle is something that just isn’t in her vocabulary. “I reached out to our community relations person at the time [with the Fever], Lori Satterfield, and I remember talking to her and
saying, ‘Hey, whatever events you have going on let me know.’ And so one of the first things we did was at the Riverside Family Center. The director there was like, ‘Oh my God, you are so awesome with the kids. Have you ever thought about doing your own basketball camp?’” That first basketball camp led to many more camps, clinics and, ultimately, her Catch the Stars Foundation, incorporated in 2004. The foundation is all about helping kids realize their potential and reaching their dreams through fitness, literacy and mentoring programs. In addition to the original basketball camps and clinics, the foundation added scholarships for student athletes, reading programs and mentoring programs for teens to its repertoire. What began as something to do while healing turned into so much more. “The community aspect actually gave me life, “ says Catchings. “I’ve seen kids smiling, and being able to impact other people’s lives, that’s what made me smile. That’s what got me up in the morning. There were so many days when I was like, “I don’t want to go to treatment, I don’t want to go to rehab.’ But knowing I was making an impact, I used that to drive me. Even now, I get the same feeling that I got then, it’s the feeling I get now, just knowing that I can impact other people’s lives. It’s really cool.” The Catch the Stars Foundation is just one of the ways Catchings continues to give back to Indianapolis. Catchings took ownership of
NUVO.NET/THEBIGSTORY the Tea’s Me Cafe in February of this year. The little cafe near the corner of 22nd and Talbott Street was a place Catchings frequented. Loving the products of the business helped, but sustaining a small minority-owned business was also important to her business ventures. And like everything else she does, Catchings says it’s another way to help others create opportunities. Catchings wants the cafe to become a place for job training and business opportunities, helping others find their passions and reach their dreams. Although Catchings is retired now from playing basketball, she is still living the sport. “There are two things I swore I would never do in retirement,” Catchings jokes. “I said I would never be a commentator, and I would never coach!” Apparently ESPN didn’t get the memo because the network convinced Catchings to be a commentator for their SEC network, covering
women’s college basketball. She admits that her lifelong insecurities about her hearing and speech impairments fueled the “never-a-commentator” mantra, but, like everything else in life, she faced her fears head-on. It only took two broadcasts for Catchings to find her voice and her passion for the new opportunity. What makes Catchings a cultural visionary for Indianapolis is her ability to see herself in others and help them reach beyond their insecurities and succeed, just as she has done and continues to do in her own life. She can check several of the “challenge” boxes — a woman, a person of color, a person with disabilities — and she can also demonstrate how while those challenges are a part of who you are, they do not define you. “There are so many things to juggle as far as life,” says Catchings, “but I think that’s the thing that drives me, too, knowing that [I can] be a trendsetter.”
A COMEDY FESTIVAL FOR ALL JARED THOMPSON AND MAT ALANO-MARTIN // PHOTO BY JOEY SMITH
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funny thing happens when you listen to enough comedy podcasts: you hear comedian after comedian lauding Bloomington, Indiana as just about the best place around for comics. Yes, little Bloomington, home The Comedy Attic, owned by Jared and Dayna Thompson, located just off the college town’s main drag, Kirkwood Ave. The Thompsons’ club has built a reputation for treating comics — like full-time
touring comic Mat Alano-Martin, also based in Bloomington — with respect; hosting great crowds; and bringing up a whole crew of exciting, boundary-pushing local stand-ups. So, it feels really right that Jared Thompson and Alano-Martin’s five-year-old festival Limestone is just about the best comedy festival around, too. Started in 2013 with headliners Tig Notaro, Maria Bamford and Pete Holmes, Limestone highlights what’s best about comedy: community. Oh, yeah, and really, really funny jokes. NUVO.NET // 06.14.17 - 06.21.17 // THE BIG STORY // 13
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Limestone’s three days take over several venues all over Bloomington, including, of course, the Comedy Attic. And while it’s all fun and games for attendees, Thompson and Alano-Martin approach booking their fest extremely seriously. “There’s no question that it’s extremely important to us as a festival and as a club with the Comedy Attic to make sure that within reason, everyone that we can represent on our stage is represented,” Thompson told NUVO in 2015 before the fest’s third year — headlined by Janeane Garofalo, Kyle Kinane, Michael Che, Doug Benson, and Tom Thakker. Representation of women, people of color and LGBTQ individuals is something the comedy and music worlds have notoriously struggled with. Limestone is impressive not only in its representation of funny people across the spectrum of identities, but for their commitment to up-and-coming comics. From the Blooming10 — a showcase of ten locals that’s included on every year’s festival schedule — to hosts, openers and an absolutely massive volunteer crew, local funny people are represented, given opportunity, and showcased at Limestone. “I think what we’ve learned in the five years of doing Limestone is that Indiana’s comedy scene is really coming into its own,” Alano-Martin says. “There have always been great comics here and ones working professionally, but it certainly feels like a moment is happening. There are a significant number of Indiana comics working not only their home club but clubs across the state and beyond. Several comics who cut their teeth here have moved off to New York, Chicago and LA to continue on their path and there’s also a healthy DIY scene of comic run shows that are run professionally in every corner of the state which offers more stage time for young comics who are hoping to one day do the same. On top of that our state is getting a good reputation nationally among touring comedians as a good place to do comedy, with smart and engaged audiences. Obviously, we like to think Limestone has played a part in all of this, but truly we’re just one piece of a very exciting comedy scene happening in our home state.”
A TRANS HEALTH PIONEER DR. JANINE FOGEL // PHOTO BY MADELINE CURTIS
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our years ago, Dr. Janine Fogel was on vacation with her family in California. While she was there she picked up a newspaper and read an article that would change her career. The piece was a profile of a transgender health clinic in Sacramento. “I was at a point in my career where I needed to make a change and do something different,” says Fogel. “The political climate in the state was such that I felt like I wanted to do something different and make a change. So all of those pieces just came together.” So when she returned home, Fogel went to Dr. Lisa Harris, the CEO of Eskenazi Hospital, and she loved the idea. “She said, ‘We support you; figure out how to make it happen,’” says Fogel. So, she did. “I had never done anything like that in the past,” says Fogel. “... I had a few transgender patients over the years — I didn’t do their hormone replacement, I was their family care doctor… I didn’t know any transgender people on a personal level that I knew of. I could have known and just not realized it.” She admits in the beginning, she didn’t know much about the specifics — but she knew there was a need. “I didn’t know anything about transgender care besides that some people needed surgery and some people needed hor-
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mones,” she says. “That’s really all I knew. So I started doing a lot of research on my own — a lot of reading, a lot of webinars, a lot of conferences. Just cold calling other physicians across the country.” Fogel ended up connecting with the Fenway Institute in Boston (one of the most well-known trans clinics in the country) and dozens of other doctors around the world. “Everybody in this community is so forthcoming and wants to help other people learn how to do it because so few people know how to do it. It’s such an underserved population,” says Fogel. She recalls sending out emails to Eskenazi’s partners in the IU School of Medicine in the hopes of finding physicians who were interested in helping. The response was astronomical. She now has speech pathologists, dietitians, psychiatrists, a surgeon and even medical legal assistance on her side. The legal help advocates for patients when it comes to gender marker changes, discrimination, and even fighting to make sure insurance pays for the services that should be covered. While few of the doctors had a specific focus on transgender health care prior to the clinic, they were all eager to learn. “I got a therapist who had never done therapy with a transgender person, but said, ‘I’m willing to try it,’ ” says Fogel. When she started the clinic there was a plastic surgeon who had just finished her
residency and decided to focus on gender reassignment surgery. The doctor is now the only one in the state who does such surgeries. The clinic also partners with groups around Indy, like the Damien Center and the Bell Flower Clinic. “All of these pieces just started coming together,” says Fogel. “Everything coalesced, and now we have an amazing program. We have more services in one place than almost anywhere in the country.” The clinic’s numbers speak for themselves. Last year they had around 70 patients. Now, the clinic has 175 with 40 on a wait-list that’s booked up until October. Fogel also just hired a partner to help her take on the growing demand; Dr. Venis starts in August. He will of course help her with patients, but the two also hope to take on more research in the coming years. “We are going to do something to do with eating disorders,” says Fogel. “That’s probably the next thing we are going to do. We know that there are increased instances of eating disorders in the transgender population, but there isn’t a lot of research on that.” She is also interested in studying cognitive changes with hormone therapy. That research will start in the spring. Fogel hopes to share this information, and ideally, create a universal standard of care that physicians follow for transgender patients. Currently, she has not found any quality standards (a list that ensures doctors are giving the checkups, tests, procedures and appointments that patients need) that exists in the medical field for trans patients. She hopes to create one. “It’s been great for me to do something new and different, but more importantly is, I can see what I am doing for my patients,” says Fogel. “I get teary when I think about my patients and how they come in really anxious, depressed, [with] suicidal thoughts — all of these things are really commonly seen — then they start hormone therapy. Honestly, within six weeks, I see them back for their first visit after they started and they are like a new person. They are so happy. They describe it and I can see it — ‘This is who I was meant to be, this is who I really am, it just feels right.’ ”
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PUTTING OUR MUSICAL TALENT ON THE MAP BY KYLE LONG // MUSIC@NUVO.NET
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he unprecedented sucHERB MILLER // cess of Motown Records in the 1960s not only influenced a generation of musicians. Motown’s CEO Berry Gordy also inspired a fresh crop of Black entrepreneurs seeking to replicate the label’s great commercial and artistic achievements. Enter Indianapolis resident Herb Miller. In the late 1960s, Miller co-founded Lamp Records with boxing promoter Howard Layden. The Indianapolis-based Lamp recorded and released music from some of the city’s greatest funk and soul acts. “I had no intention of getting into the music business,” Miller says. But the stifling racial climate of Indianapolis in the 1950s had taught Miller that he needed to be resourceful while searching for opportunity. It was a lesson Miller learned early in life, as a graduate of Arsenal Tech in 1957, where he finished at the top of the class in the school’s automotive department. “I’ll never forget this,” Miller remembered. “The principal called me into his office. He said, ‘Herb, I’m going to be very frank about this. We normally offer a job to the student who finishes at the top of his class in auto mechanics. We can not offer you that job, because we can not find a dealership that will hire you.’ It was a racial thing.” Miller refused to accept the limitations imposed on Black people during this era. After working a variety of blue collar jobs, Miller joined the Indianapolis Fire Department in 1962, and served with honor until 1984, when he retired from his position as an investigator for the department’s arson division. It was during his time with IFD in the 1960s that Miller began dabbling in music. By the late 1960s Miller had opened a trio of record shops, and began promoting concerts by the likes of James Brown and The
Temptations as a member of the Indianapolis-based Defiants Social Club. It was a chance encounter with Indianapolis funk legends The Highlighters that prompted Miller to begin thinking about releasing local music on his own label. While Lamp Records never issued any music from The Highlighters, they did release highly regarded singles from Indianapolis groups including The Vanguards, Amnesty and Ebony Rhythm Band. Miller’s business acumen and industry connections helped secure national distribution for Lamp releases. “I had the desire to put Indy on the map with Lamp,” Miller recalls. “There was a tremendous amount of talent in Indianapolis, it just needed to be managed and presented. Not everyone in this nucleus of talent we had here was ready for it, but we had enough people here that were ready for it.” The catalog of music Lamp recorded stands as an extraordinary document of Indianapolis culture in the late ‘60s and early '70s. International interest in the label continues to grow each year, and original copies of Lamp discs remain highly prized collectibles for soul and funk fans around the globe. And 2017 may be Lamp’s biggest year yet, as the California-based label Stones Throw has plans to release a Lamp anthology later this year. Miller seems genuinely surprised by the continued interest in Lamp. “This is something I never thought would come back, but now that it is back, this is the biggest thing that ever happened me.” Consistent with his lifelong commitment to improving himself, while also contributing to his community, Miller now spends his time running Aerial Recording Communications, an aerial photography company specializing in commercial and forensic photography. N NUVO.NET // 06.14.17 - 06.21.17 // THE BIG STORY // 15
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n the 2015 oil on canvas painting by Gustavo Uriel entitled “Dissimulate” you see a young man on a bed facing you. He’s doing what a lot of us do in bed these days: scrolling on his smartphone, his face bathed in blue light. On the other side of the bed, you see the young man’s nude partner, only visible in broad outline, facing away, cast in shadow. Uriel, 24, is one of 45 Hoosier artists who are showing work in a juried exhibition entitled Curio Cabinet, at the Indianapolis Art Center, curated by Kyle Herrington, which opened Friday June 9. “Curio Cabinet is a group exhibition focusing on the idea of art as a window into curiosity, invention, and wonder,” says Herrington. “Dissimulate,” Uriel’s only entry into this show, could be described as an internet-age window into curiosity. It’s a self-portrait — although Uriel is hesitant to label it so — that engages with sure-footed realism, treatments of light and shadow and its sense of mystery. In this painting, it’s impossible to know
whether the young man’s partner is a man or woman. “I guess that’s important to me, the viewer’s interpretation,” says Uriel, whose studio is the basement of the house in Irvington where he lives. “Because my tendency is to be on the nose a little too often. So I like when I leave a space for interpretation. Because in a lot of my work, my drive towards making it is to understand my personal issues with sexuality and the culture behind that. But I want the work to speak to more than just my own needs. A lot of the work is suggestive in a modest manner. It’s never really explicit. I want to slow the viewer’s gaze and try to trick them into just staying with the painting longer ... beyond the face value.” In a 2016 painting playfully entitled “Forget-Me-Knot” (oil on wood) you see another couple; no faces are visible, only torsos and limbs — and the bulge in one of the subject’s shorts. They could be wrestling, or about to make love. “I haven’t made too much work about it but I do think about how sensual sports are,”
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Gustavo Uriel exhibits his work at the Indianapolis Art Center
Uriel says. “It’s so much a masculine, hetero setting and culture. But they do these really sensual things. Because I played a few sports in high school, and I knew I was gay and I never fit in.” Uriel went to high school in Vincennes and then spent three years in Vincennes University before transferring to Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis where he graduated in 2015 with a B.F.A in painting. He returned recently to sports, but on his own terms. “I’ve been out of school for a year,” he says. “I took a gap year. I wasn’t painting very much. I took up boxing. I loved it but I did not renew because I wanted to paint again.” Spirituality also plays a prominent role in his work.You can see this in a particular 2016 painting entitled “Day Dream,” features a well-muscled young man in the nude. He’s ringed by a halo outlined not by gold leaf, a common medium in the genre of religious icon painting, but by gold spray paint. And the man’s not being embraced at his dying moment by the Virgin Mary; instead he’s
checking his smartphone. In Uriel’s life there is a certain tension between devotion to painting — a demanding discipline — and the draw of social media. “So, now after a year [after graduating Herron] I feel good and I feel like making consistent work a lot more,” he says. “So in that time I’ve been cutting things out and social media is one of them. Being good about time management. Although I can’t ever give it up. I’ve limited it to 30 minutes after work.” Unlike “Dissimulate” where his reference was a photograph that he took of himself and another model with a tripod, the visual reference for “Daydream” was a figure appropriated from the internet. “I’m more interested in appropriation because it allows me to assemble a situation or composition using photographs from my camera roll or images that I’ve taken with my DSLR,” he says. “Combining what’s mine and what I’m appropriating. I’m really interested in the idea that our social media feeds say a lot about us.” N
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Gal’s Guide delves deep into the lives of women on a new podcast
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f you’ve never heard of filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché, actress and Wi-Fi inventor Hedy Lamarr, fashion designer Coco Chanel, or the first African-American and first Native American woman pilot Bessie Coleman, you’re ... probably not alone. But you have a chance to catch up each Friday this summer when the women behind Gal’s Guide to the Galaxy will release a new episode of their podcast Your Gal Friday on galsguide.org, about the life and times of these four women in June. Ultimately, the site will feature podcasts about more than 75 other women of art, science, culture and history. Gal’s Guide Executive Director Kate Chaplin, Treasurer Katie Harris, and Secretary Nicole Amsler, started Gal’s Guide as an outlet for women to be able to discuss various issues, including slut shaming, body image, women’s portrayal in the media and cancer coping tech-
NUVO.NET/BOOKS niques, among other topics. Recently, the group read Hidden Figures before attending a screening of the film, followed by a discussion of the real-life women who worked for NASA. Chaplin has also recently shared her knowledge of all things Wonder Woman for the May 2017 Gal’s Guide meeting and around town. She has frequently lectured about women filmmakers at film festivals based on her personal experiences and extensive research. Meetings, which take place on the last Thursday of every month from 7 to 9 p.m., are open to all ages and genders, not those who identify as women. On June 29, the group’s topic is a Summer Reading List from Gal’s Guide at Barley Island Brewing Company in Noblesville. Chaplin, Amsler and Harris also want to reach out beyond those who attend the meetings. “It can be scary to travel across town, join a room full of strangers and put
yourself out there,” says Amsler. “Some women only connect with us online, and that’s okay. Other women have commented, joined the discussion, and then made the leap into a meeting or event. That’s great too! We are honing our mix and I expect it to change continuously over the years.” Chaplin, a Noblesville-based filmmaker, and Phoebe Frear, an up-and-coming local filmmaker, research and host the podcasts that Gal’s Guide release. The research process for each subject, says Chaplin, takes a couple weeks, including subject determination. She and Frear discuss what they would like to learn and then split up the questions, do the research and interview each other for the podcast recording. On the first podcast, Chaplin and Frear discuss Guy-Blaché’s work as a filmmaker of more than 1,000 films from 1896 to 1920, including why they thought her male contemporaries are more famous,
whether she realized her own success in her lifetime, and why other filmmakers should know more about her. Most notably, Guy-Blaché’s innovations in the early years of filmmaking included color, sound, interracial casts, and the concept of acting “natural” on camera. Chaplin and Frear say future podcasts will have a similar back and forth, conversational tone, and may feature guest speakers. “I feel like sometimes we talk about people in history or celebrities,” says Frear, “as if they are at a higher level than us that we cannot reach or relate to, where in fact, we can all make our mark in history just as much as these gals have and we are all human. Life is messy. We make mistakes but we can also still do a lot of good in this world.” Gal’s Guide presented a program called “Women You Haven’t Learned about in School” in March for Women’s History Month, including classes in Pike
Township and at Ball State University. Chaplin says she anticipates more classroom appearances in the 2017-18 school year. By the time fall semester starts, more podcasts will be available for students who want to learn more about specific women. “Having support and creating a connection to the amazing women that have come before them is essential to inspiring women to follow their dreams even when they aren’t supported by the rest of society,” says Harris. “I’m especially proud of Kate’s school-age outreach, that young girls are getting a chance to learn about important women in history and find new heroes.” “What I hope the audiences will be inspired to look beyond a history book or a movie screen,” says Chaplin, “and find connections and lessons that make their life fuller, richer and more connected to this galaxy we all share.” N
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e careful in the world of men, Diana. They do not deserve you.” For the last 20 years, Hollywood has made several half-assed attempts at making a Wonder Woman movie. At different times throughout the years, Sandra Bullock, Lucy Lawless, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Mariah Carey were all attached to play the Amazonian princess. No one could get the script right, with writers like Joss Whedon and Laeta Kalogridis either being replaced by new writers or failing to finish a script in the first place. All of those issues are just lip service in reality. Hollywood loves its money, and if it can find a way to exploit an untapped market, it will film without a script if that’s what it takes. The problem wasn’t script concerns, but that the studios were oper-
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ating under two false narratives. One was that women didn’t care about superheroes and wouldn’t turn up for a Wonder Woman movie. The other was that a female-led action franchise wouldn’t do as well as one led by a (white) male movie star. The Marvel cinematic universe managed to prove that men and women both go to the theater to see superhero movies with the popularity of characters like Black Widow, Gamora and The Scarlet Witch. Even still, none of Marvel’s female characters have led their own movie and won’t until Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel movie in 2019. The DC Extended Universe beat Marvel to the punch with a female-led superhero movie, but they still hedged their bets by introducing Wonder Woman in Batman v. Superman. Gal Gadot had to prove herself in a movie about men fighting each other over the size of their packages directed by a critically savaged male filmmaker. Wonder Woman is easily the best DCEU
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movie so far and the best superhero movie since The Winter Soldier. Setting the film in World War I was a stroke of genius since watching an Amazonian demi-goddess kicking the hell out of Germans in trench warfare is something I think we’ve always wanted to see without even knowing it. Director Patty Jenkins brings some much needed color to the DCEU, making Batman V. Superman feel even darker in retrospect. She is a revelation as a filmmaker here, directing intimate character moments just as powerfully as she does pulse-pounding action set-pieces. She joins Katherine Bigelow and Ava DuVernay in the rarified air of women directors able to get projects off the ground. At the age of 20, Gadot served as an enlisted soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces where she served as a combat trainer, so she looks effortlessly badass as Wonder Woman. In the Fast and the Furious series, I thought Gadot was just another model trying to act, but she em-
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bodies Wonder Woman in a way I never expected. She’s perfect here and will give an entirely new generation of young women a new hero to love. Chris Pine’s heroic love interest discounts Wonder Woman at almost every turn, being condescending when he’s not being patriarchal. Pine and Gadot have chemistry to burn, but it’s so much more fun watching her be a badass without Captain Kirk making googly eyes in the background. Even after finally getting her own movie, Wonder Woman still has to prove herself to another man. It’s frustrating and makes me “wonder” why the movie even needed a love interest instead of having her find agency on her own. Wonder Woman making half a billion dollars in a week is a good sign that we’re headed in the direction of women having equal representation in the movie theater. With Black Panther, and Captain Marvel coming soon, it looks like the white boys will have to start sharing their toys. N
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GREAT INDY RESTAURANTS ARE CLOSING LEFT AND RIGHT On Friday, June 9, Chef John Adams announced via social media that Marrow in Fountain Square would be closing. His Facebook post read: “It is with deep regret that Marrow will be closing its doors after this weekend. We would first like to thank our incredibly talented and dedicated staff for such a great run and all of their amazing work. Special thanks goes out to all who supported us and believed in our concept. Stop in this weekend for your last chance to dine with us. Sunday will be our last.”
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oday, my morning mail brought many surprises, including a message from Austin Dickey: “I’ll get straight to the point. Would you be interested in doing a story on Ripple Ride beer bike, the newly launched party bike in Broad Ripple, Indianapolis?” Austin continued with a pitch hard to refuse: “To give you a quick background on our business, my wife and I are young newlywed entrepreneurs who fell in love with the Broad Ripple scene, and wanted to bring a new experience to this unique town.” Here’s the story:
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Marrow brought a style of cuisine to the city that we haven’t seen before with its Global Soul Food. The menus were exciting, inventive and yet still accessible and familiar, using quality produce to create dishes from around the world. This comes on the coattails of two other great, chef-driven restaurants closing in the past month. Both The Owner’s Wife and LongBranch closed; LongBranch’s team was actually made up of many people who
RITA KOHN: Exactly what is Ripple Ride Tour? AUSTIN DICKEY: Ripple Ride is a 15-person, pedal powered beer or party bike exclusive to Broad Ripple Village. Our passengers begin their tour at Triton Tap, and from there they can decide upon two or three other brewpubs, bars or breweries such as HopCat, Thr3e Wise Men, Broad Ripple Brewpub, Union Jack Pub, Flatwater and others.
being entrepreneurs runs in our blood. We wanted to start a company with the purpose of making people smile while incorporating fitness, and since there was an open market, we have the opportunity to grow with the intention of making this our full time job. RITA: How can customers get more information? AUSTIN: Customers can visit our website rippleridetours.com or they can call us at 317-829-4968 to book a ride and get more information. The ride is bring your own beer or wine, [with] no liquor or glass bottles [allowed].
RITA: What else do you want NUVO readers to know about Ripple Ride? AUSTIN: Broad Ripple, unlike the heart of Downtown Indianapolis, is slower-paced and more relaxed. That is exactly how you and your group will feel when riding with Ripple Ride. You won’t be pedaling super hard to get to the next place, then chugging your drink and rushing to your next location. With Ripple Ride we want you to take your time, have fun, laugh with friends and enjoy the atmosphere that Broad Ripple offers.
RITA: What happens when it rains? What happens in the winter? AUSTIN: We live in Indiana, everyone is used to a little rain and other unpredictable weather. So therefore, we do operate in the rain as long as there isn’t any lighting, thunder or any other dangerous weather conditions. We do not operate in the winter; our operating months fluctu-
Though Ripple Ride isn’t necessarily a new idea for Indianapolis — with similar businesses like the Pickled Pedaler and Handlebar — it brings a fun and different way to experience Broad Ripple that is more exciting than stumbling up and down the sidewalks, hopping from bar to bar. It also adds to the most basic principle behind drinking beer, it helps bring people together. N
came from Marrow and also Adams’ past restaurant Bluebeard. Adams had experience at the aforementioned Bluebeard under his belt. He also served as chef at Plow & Anchor when it opened and was on the team at the critically-successful H2O Sushi in Broad Ripple. We are currently seeing restaurants from experienced and insanely talented chefs and restaurateurs closing in rapid succession; a sign that the market is highly saturated and we can only hope that these closings slow sooner rather than later.
RITA: What led you to start this enterprise? AUSTIN: We were out with some family and friends on a similar beer bike tour and they proposed the general idea that it would be fun to own a beer bike business. We pondered the idea for many months, researching the steps it would take to launch a beer bike business of our own and how people would react to it. We ended up deciding on Broad Ripple due to its recent growth, brewpub craft beer scene, the open market and our love for its unique atmosphere.
As stated in Adams’ post, Marrow was only open through Sunday. Though you may not get another taste of Marrow, we can hope Adams and the rest of the team will find places in new kitchens and bars soon. — CAVAN MCGINSIE
RITA: What in your collective background led you to believe Ripple Ride is a viable way to earn your living? AUSTIN: We’ve grown up around both sets of our parents owning businesses; so
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METAVARI PLAYS METROPOLIS The silent sci-fi film gets a re-score live at Fort Wayne’s Hobnobben Film Fest
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f you need an escape from the current hellscape dystopia, you can pop in the silent film classic, Metropolis – about a futuristic hellscape dystopia. The 1927 German expressionist sci-fi film by Fritz Lang has held status as a cult favorite among film fans for its inventive special effects, as well as its original score composed by Gottfried Huppertz, inspired by Wagner and Strauss. And perhaps the best way to experience a screening of Metropolis for the first or twentieth time is with the visual and sonic experience of an updated rescore. In 2014, Indiana electronic musician Nathaniel David Utesch, who makes music under the name Metavari, was approached by Fort Wayne’s art house theater, Cinema
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Center, to participate in their “Sound & Shadow” series where old silent films are re-scored. Utesch and his live bassist, Ty Brinneman, quickly decided on Metropolis. “There’s so much legacy behind the film — from its themes and visual effects, to the countless re-scores attached to it — we just had to invite ourselves to the party,” Utesch said as to his decision to rescore Metropolis. After playing in the “Sound & Shadow” series, one thing led to another and Metavari scored their first worldwide record deal with One Way Static, a horror-centric soundtrack label in Belgium. The release was to be the recorded Metropolis re-score for Record Store Day 2017 with distribution in the U.S. from Light in the Attic
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Records (distributor of Twin Peaks, Drive, Stranger Things vinyl releases). Utesch says he never thought Metavari would release the score itself. “I had it in my head from the beginning to condense my favorite moments into a 40-ish minute stand-alone record, ditch the Metropolis title, and that would end up being Metavari’s next full-length record.” Utesch adds, “But it seemed like we blinked and the Metropolis re-score was getting a release of its own.” This summer at Fort Wayne’s Hobnob-
NUVO.NET/MUSIC ben Film Fest, Metaposers, “Claudio vari will perform the Simonetti and Metropolis re-score Goblin, Riz Ortolalive at the Arts ni, John Harrison, United Center. The Carpenter and Howtheater is a roughly arth, Klaus Schulze, 600 seat space with and the ocean of grand brick arches inspiration that is and folded concrete Tangerine Dream.” walls that are a disFrom the inceptant relative to the tion of Metavari, influential art deco film-scoring was architecture found the daydream that in Metropolis. became distracted The Hobnobben by life and touring. “I have gushed over Film Fest is pre“Since Metavari sented by the Fort largely became a soundtracks for as long as I solo endeavor (and Wayne Cinema can remember.” Center, the same dropped the bullet group that originally point marked “post— NATHANIEL DAVID UTESCH rock”) in 2015, I’ve commissioned the re-score. “Sound & shifted the lens that Shadow” performances were added to the I look at its future with. The live show is fest this year, including a performance of still a massive priority, but the tools I use a live score to Battleship Potemkin by the and the catalog I am hoping to create Hope Arthur Orchestra and the Metropolis couldn’t be more different than what they re-score by Metavari. use to be,” says Utesch. Though he is excited about the upcomUtesch continues, “I find such deep ing performance, Utesch is also looking inspiration in contemporary artists who forward to releasing a new Metavari LP have found a career as both live musinext fall, titled Symmetri, through One cians and film composers — Steve Moore, Way Records. Symmetri will be a “standMakeup and Vanity Set, Johnny Jewel, Dialone edit of the Metropolis re-score” sasterpeace, Sinoia Caves. I would like to according to Utesch, and it’ll contain think I have a realistic expectation about existing and reconfigured tracks from [Metavari’s] future.” the re-score soundtrack. In regard to the On Saturday, June 17 at 9:15 pm, Metarelease Utesch adds, “The record will see vari will bring Metropolis alive in a new distribution in the US through Light in the light. In the Arts United Center, within the Attic Records, a cameo I’m still pinching stage house that is eight stories tall, the myself about, and a couple more surprises gleaming dust lit from projected film will we’ll be revealing closer to its release.” bounce along to the vibrations of Utesch’s Utesch’s love of sci-fi and horror genre synth-lines, live drums, saxophone and a film scores reaches back to before he even variety of vocal tracks. Utesch says the verstarted his Metavari project. sion that will be played at the event will be “I have gushed over soundtracks for the 2010 The Complete Metropolis version as long as I can remember,” says Utesch. that contains all of the newly discovered “From Toto’s appearance in Lynch’s Dune, and restored footage. to Vangelis’ Blade Runner masterpiece, to Metavari will also perform the score the differences between the US and Eualongside the film this September in ropean versions of Legend. It blossomed Cleveland, and in Portland in Deceminto a life-long obsession with synth heavy ber. Utesch concludes, “I’d love to take it backdrops from the ‘70s and ‘80s.” anywhere I can find a warm-blooded body excited to watch it.” N Muses for Utesch have included comNUVO.NET // 06.14.17 - 06.21.17 // MUSIC // 25
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fter creating more than 50 12-inch vinyl recordings, and over 100 digital releases within the techno genre, I’d imagine some of Adam Jay’s longtime fans were surprised to find his 2016 long player Corpora comprised solely of electro beats. Jay was so engrossed by his experimentation with the genre that he composed a second round of electro beats for a new LP titled Maxia Zeta, available now on the Detroit Underground label. I caught up with Jay to discuss his roots in the Indianapolis electronic music scene, and his recent foray into producing electro sounds.
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KYLE LONG: I think you and I are roughly the same age. I came of age in Indianapolis during the ‘90s, and electronic music wasn’t always terribly accessible here during that period of time. So I’m curious how you first encountered electronic music? ADAM JAY: Through the journalism department at my high school. I was the photo editor, and photographer for both the newspaper and yearbook at Southport High School. The students there were a year or two above me, and they were going to raves, and listening to a lot of really interesting music that I had never heard before. On top of that, my sister was a DJ at Earlham College around the same time. She was exposing me to a lot of industrial music. I could kind of hear the similarities, and it just sounded like nothing else I had ever heard. I became really interested in the fact that a lot of these people who were making this music were doing it alone. I’d been in bands playing bass guitar, and in the symphony orchestra in high school. So being part of an ensemble was everything that I knew about how to make music. So hearing this music and how unique it was, and then coming to learn that all these people were doing it on their own. It was like, “Wow!â€? That was a real eye-opening experience.Â
KYLE: I remember going to some raves in Indianapolis during the ‘90s. They would be in these massive halls at places like the State Fairgrounds, with hundreds, if not thousands of attendees. Were you attending raves as a teenager? ADAM: I was attending raves, not quite at the age where I was discovering this music, but a couple of years later, you know 16, or 17 years old. I did have some friends that moved to Indiana University while I was still in high school, and we would work on benefit shows down in Bloomington together. That’s kind of how I became a DJ. It was like, “Okay, we’ve got these shows and we need some more DJs. I better figure this out.� It started very early for me, I’ll admit. But it’s kind of crazy to think back now that I’ve been DJing for more than 21 years, you know? Because I don’t really feel that old. [laughs] KYLE: Did the DJing come before you got into production? What was the timeline? ADAM: Yeah, I think for most electronic music artists DJing is where you begin. There was definitely a period in the ‘90s and early 2000s where if you wanted to be able to DJ outside of your hometown, you kind of had to take on production. Because that was the only way people in other markets were going to hear you. I’m not going to get booked on the West Coast unless there’s a DJ out there
NUVO.NET/MUSIC that is buying a record that I produced. They’re just not going to find out about me otherwise. So for me, it definitely started with DJing, and it actually started in the basement of my mom’s house with an old broken record player, and a warped Dead Milkmen record, and a little radio shack mixer. The record player was broken, the power cable was cut so I couldn’t plug it in. It was just an old belt drive table, and I would put that record on, hook it up to the mixer, hook my headphones in, and then I would just manually spin the record with my finger on the label, just to kind of get a feel of how the physical motion creates speed and slows, and the relationship with tempo on a physical level. When I was actually able to get a hold of proper equipment, I had a more fundamental understanding that allowed me to really hit the ground running. I was able to instantly pick up on beat-matching and a lot of these technical things that were crucial before CDJs and Serato,and all the digital ways that DJs perform now. Being able to beat match was crucial. So it definitely started with me there, and I really didn’t start producing music until I was like eighteen, or nineteen-years-old. That was a lot of hours, going through lots of different gear, and it was years before I was able to put anything together that was worth hearing. KYLE: I want to move on your your new release Maxia Zeta, which is a fantastic album. The press release for the record frames the work as electro music, and as I was listening to the record I was thinking of the legendary Juan Atkins, one of the originators of techno music in Detroit. In addition to his role as a techno pioneer, Atkins also made some brilliant electro records that attracted fans from other musical genres like hip-hop. I wondered if you could talk a bit about the relationship between techno and electro music? ADAM: Sure, they’re both genres of electronic music, and I think among electric music genres they are two of the most closely knit, mostly because they philosophically look into the future. A buddy of mine who was a local producer and DJ who went by the name Locutus, he gave me a great lesson when I was really young about futurism.
Really true futurism is a concept that whether it’s a painting, or a piece of music, when you listen to it, it sounds like it’s from 20 or 30 years in the future. What makes it truly futuristic, is if in 20 or 30 years in the future, it still sounds like it’s 20 or 30 years in the future — that’s futurism. Techno and electro both have that in common. They’re striving to paint a picture of the future. Sometimes that can be a utopian vision; sometimes it can be a dystopian vision. So they have that in common, and the tools and instruments that are used in either genre are very similar. Where they kind of splinter off is electro comes more from a hiphop b-boy background. So electro has a lot of breakbeats, and 808s. Techno is coming from that Detroit electronic soul origin. There’s a lot of overlap philosophically, but sonically, at least to people who are really attuned to underground electronic music, the differences are huge. Electro is something that I’ve always been listening to. Around the same time that I discovered techno I was discovering this Detroit label Interdimensional Transmissions, and I was buying electro records. They were good openers and closers for my techno sets. It was something that a lot of friends had told me, “You should try to produce electro sometime.” But I just never felt like I had anything to say on the subject of electro. That changed last year. KYLE: What changed? ADAM: Well, Maxia Zeta is my second electro album. My first electro album was also on the label Detroit Underground, it was called Corpora. That was last year. What really happened was I got this synthesizer, this Swedish portable synthesizer called the OP-1 by a company called Teenage Engineering. In true futuristic fashion this synthesizer had been a design project for like fifteen years before it was even released. It’s portable, it has a lithium battery, and it’s made from CNC machined aluminum. It’s very playful, and it makes sounds that once I got it, it seemed like I was trying to fit square pegs into round holes to make techno with it. All the sounds that I would make with it made me think, “Man, these are great sounds for electro!” So it really inspired me. N NUVO.NET // 06.14.17 - 06.21.17 // MUSIC // 27
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): You have to admit that salt looks like sugar and sugar resembles salt. This isn’t usually a major problem, though. Mistakenly sprinkling sugar on your food when you thought you were adding salt won’t hurt you, nor will putting salt in your coffee when you assumed you were using sugar. But errors like these are inconvenient, and they can wreck a meal. You may want to apply this lesson as a metaphor in the coming days, Aries. Be alert for things that outwardly seem to be alike but actually have different tastes and effects. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Here’s a possible plan for the next ten days: Program your smart phone to sound an alarm once every hour during the entire time you’re awake. Each time the bell or buzzer goes off, you will vividly remember your life’s main purpose. You will ask yourself whether or not the activity you’re engaged in at that specific moment is somehow serving your life’s main purpose. If it is, literally pat yourself on the back and say to yourself, “Good job!” If it’s not, say the following words: “I am resolved to get into closer alignment with my soul’s code -- the blueprint of my destiny.” GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Actress Marisa Berenson offers a line of anti-aging products that contain an elixir made from the seeds of a desert fruit known as prickly pear. The manufacturing process isn’t easy. To produce a quart of the potion requires 2,000 pounds of seeds. I see you as having a metaphorically similar challenge in the coming weeks, Gemini. To create a small amount of the precious stuff you want, I’m guessing you’ll have to gather a ton of raw materials. And there may be a desert-like phenomena to deal with, as well. CANCER (June 21-July 22): There are three kinds of habits: good, bad, and neutral. Neutral habits are neither good nor bad but use up psychic energy that might be better directed into cultivating good habits. Here are some examples: a good habit is when you’re disciplined about eating healthy food; a bad habit is watching violent TV shows before going to bed, thereby disturbing your sleep; a neutral habit might be doing Sudoku puzzles. My challenge to you, Cancerian, is to dissolve one bad habit and one neutral habit by replacing them with two new good habits. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, cosmic forces will be on your side as you make this effort. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Dear Dr. Astrology: Good fortune has been visiting me a lot lately. Many cool opportunities have come my way. Life is consistently interesting. I’ve also made two unwise moves that fortunately didn’t bring bad results. Things often work out better for me than I imagined they would! I’m grateful every day, but I feel like I should somehow show even more appreciation. Any ideas? -Lucky Leo.” Dear Lucky: The smartest response to the abundance you have enjoyed is to boost your generosity. Give out blessings. Dispense praise. Help people access their potentials. Intensify your efforts to share your wealth. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Years ago, a fan of my work named Paul emailed to ask me if I wanted to get together with him and his friend when I visited New York. “Maybe you know her?” he wrote. “She’s the artist Cindy Sherman.” Back then I had never heard of Cindy. But since Paul was smart and funny, I agreed to meet. The three of us convened in an elegant tea room for a boisterous conversation. A week later, when I was back home and mentioned the event to a colleague, her eyes got big and she shrieked, “You had tea with THE Cindy Sherman.” She then educated me on how successful and influential Cindy’s photography has been. I predict you will soon have a comparable experience, Virgo: inadvertent contact with an intriguing presence. Hopefully, because I’ve given you a heads up, you’ll recognize what’s happening as it occurs, and take full advantage.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’ll never get access to the treasure that’s buried out under the cherry tree next to the ruined barn if you stay in your command center and keep staring at the map instead of venturing out to the barn. Likewise, a symbol of truth may be helpful in experiencing deeper meaning, but it’s not the same as communing with the raw truth, and may even become a distraction from it. Let’s consider one further variation on the theme: The pictures in your mind’s eye may or may not have any connection with the world outside your brain. It’s especially important that you monitor their accuracy in the coming days. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to go gallivanting so heedlessly into the labyrinth. Or maybe it was. Who knows? It’s still too early to assess the value of your experiences in that maddening but fascinating tangle. You may not yet be fully able to distinguish the smoke and mirrors from the useful revelations. Which of the riddles you’ve gathered will ultimately bring frustration and which will lead you to wisdom? Here’s one thing I do know for sure: If you want to exit the labyrinth, an opportunity will soon appear. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Over the years I’ve read numerous news reports about people who have engaged in intimate relations with clunky inanimate objects. One had sex with a bicycle. Another seduced a sidewalk, and a third tried to make sweet love to a picnic table. I hope you won’t join their ranks in the coming weeks. Your longing is likely to be extra intense, innovative, and even exotic, but I trust you will confine its expression to unions with adult human beings who know what they’re getting into and who have consented to play. Here’s an old English word you might want to add to your vocabulary: “blissom.” It means “to bleat with sexual desire.” CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your life in the coming days should be low on lightweight diversions and high in top-quality content. Does that sound like fun? I hope so. I’d love to see you enjoy the hell out of yourself as you cut the fluff and focus on the pith . . . as you efficiently get to the hype-free heart of every matter and refuse to tolerate waffling or stalling. So strip away the glossy excesses, my dear Capricorn. Skip a few steps if that doesn’t cause any envy. Expose the pretty lies, but then just work around them; don’t get bogged down in indulging in negative emotions about them. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Inventor, architect, and author Buckminster Fuller lived to the age of 87. For 63 of those years, he kept a detailed scrapbook diary that documented every day of his life. It included his reflections, correspondence, drawings, newspaper clippings, grocery bills, and much other evidence of his unique story. I would love to see you express yourself with that much disciplined ferocity during the next two weeks. According to my astrological analysis, you’re in a phase when you have maximum power to create your life with vigorous ingenuity and to show everyone exactly who you are. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You have a cosmic license to enjoy almost too much sensual pleasure. In addition, you should feel free to do more of what you love to do than you normally allow yourself. Be unapologetic about surrounding yourself with flatterers and worshipers. Be sumptuously lazy. Ask others to pick up the slack for you. Got all that? It’s just the first part of your oracle. Here’s the rest: You have a cosmic license to explore the kind of spiritual growth that’s possible when you feel happy and fulfilled. As you go through each day, expect life to bring you exactly what you need to uplift you. Assume that the best service you can offer your fellow humans is to be relaxed and content.
HOMEWORK: Do a homemade ritual in which you vow to attract more blessings into your life.
Report results at FreeWillAstrology.com.
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