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n 2019, unless college students wake up hazing finally ends, I will celebrate with and police their own kind, the Unita nice vino. But not until then. If hazing ed States will experience a nonstop deaths cannot stop now, they will never half-century of hazing deaths. That’s stop. Nolan Burch had a BAC of 0.49. right. One death a year for 50 years, and Think of it! in some years multiple deaths, just so I am a bit encouraged that a new biparteams and Greeks can have a little cheap tisan federal bill aimed at curtailing hazing entertainment at the expense of pledges has been proposed. and rookies. U.S. Rep. Pat Meehan, R-Pennsylvania, If this reality doesn’t stink, I don’t know and Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, have what does. Hazing deaths in our country go joined forces to propose the Report and back to 1969. I graduated from Buffalo State Educate About Campus Hazing Act (Reach College in 1968, the last death-free year. Act). Succinctly stated, the bill would On May 25, 2017, I beforce colleges to report gan a no-alcohol protest all instances of criminal I challenge every to highlight the deaths of hazing as an amendment Tim Piazza, Vann Watts, the Clery Act, and it fraternity, sorority, to Sherri Ann Clark, Chuck also would make manband and sports Stenzel, Harrison Kowiak, datory regular campus Chad Saucier, John Davies, on hazing team to go alcohol- programming Matt Carrington, Chad education. free during Hazing Meredith, Nick Haben, I challenge every Gary Deverelly, Jr., George fraternity, sorority, Prevention Week. Desdunes, Michael Starks, band and sports team Carson Starkey, Samu(and their parents, el Mason, Scott Krueger, Nolan Burch, Greek advisers, coaches, college presiPhilip Dhanens, Gabe Higgins, Walter dents) to go alcohol-free during Hazing Dean Jennings, Ben Wynn, Jay Lenaghan, Prevention Week (Sept. 18-22, 2017) as Mike Deng — and all the other dea way of saying these deaths must end. ceased-from-hazing Greeks and athletes. I quote columnist/Greek Jared Lenz: Make no mistake. An alcohol overdose is “Forcing someone to consume egrea painful, demeaning way to die. All these gious amounts of alcohol is pathetic victims suffered before their bodies gave and dangerous.” Amen. Jared’s quote is up. My role as a journalist is to speak and my slogan for Hazing Prevention Week. crusade for the voiceless … and for the Make it yours? living boys and girls whose parents one day At my advanced age, there is a chance will bury them too after hazing. I’ll die before today’s Greeks and athletes My fast is 100 percent — no wine, no experience a paradigm shift and truly beer, no hard liquor — and yes, I will miss reform the culture. Yes, I may not live to beers with my friends and colleagues, and see it. But at least I will die sober. Sadly, glasses of wine with my wife and family. that’s something the parents of so many But so be it. When the string of deaths hazing victims cannot say about their every year from 1969 through 2017 from lost precious children. N For more opinion pieces visit nuvo.net/voices
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JOE DONNELLY U.S. Senator CITIZEN Donnelly’s opposition to the Senate healthcare bill is obvious given his party affiliation, but he is also showing true leadership by pushing state leaders to publicly discuss the bill’s direct impact on Hoosier families. That’s what a leader does. Go get ‘em Joe.
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about the proposed healthcare bill. But the fact that he won’t discuss the impact the proposed Medicaid cuts would have on Indiana is unsettling. After all, HIP 2.0 wouldn’t exist without Medicaid.
TAMIKA CATCHINGS Retired Indiana Fever superstar CITIZEN Yes, we honored Tamika a few weeks ago with a Cultural Vision award, but her dedication to Indianapolis is worth
wice a month, Ilene Loper gets up at five in the morning and takes three buses for at least an hour each way to get groceries from the St. Vincent de Paul food pantry on East 30th Street. Even if she could afford to shop there, she lives more than two miles away from the nearest supermarket. Loper’s neighborhood — the Far Eastside — is a food desert. That means there are no major grocery stores within a mile of where people live. In this neighborhood, located north of I-70 and South of 46th Street, some live several miles from a supermarket.
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Neighbors are starting a grassroots movement to increase access to fresh food for people like Loper. Earlier this year, neighborhood healthy food advocates created Good Food Connections for the Far Eastside. Sharrona Moore founded Lawrence Community Gardens — A Good Food Connections member — on East 46th Street this year with the dream of filling that fresh food gap. Moore will donate half her garden’s produce to neighborhood food banks because she knows many residents
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can’t get to the nearest grocery stores. “There are three grocery stores that we have — the Kroger, the Walmart and the Save-A-Lot. There are no buses that go to those stores, so it’s a struggle,” Moore says. “It’s a struggle for people to get food.” Indianapolis’ new Food Policy & Program Coordinator for the Office of Public Health and Safety Shellye Suttles insists the situation is more serious than not just being able to walk to a grocery store. It’s about food insecurity as a whole. She says poverty, a lack of bus routes and fewer residents owning their own vehicles compounds the situation. For example, Indianapolis’ wealthier northern suburbs could technically be described as food deserts, but “they may have higher access to private transportation,” says Suttles. “Most likely if a neighborhood is a food desert, it’s also a job desert, it’s also kind of a quality school desert,” she adds. That’s the case for Loper, who moved to the neighborhood from the city’s west side three years ago. “Cause I couldn’t afford my house no more — and the rent was cheaper and that’s why I wound up back here,” Loper says. “And then the job that I had, I lost.”
Loper says she’s applied for SNAP benefits but hasn’t been approved yet. So twice a month, she walks a half-mile on 42nd Street — there are no sidewalks — to take public transit to the food pantry. Some of Loper’s neighbors make similar trips. Some have no access to food at all.
BANDING TOGETHER Loper lives in Carriage House East Apartments. More than half its 600 units are Section 8 subsidized housing. Carriage House East joined Good Food Connections for the Far Eastside to help these residents. Kelly Evans is one of two full-time apartment complex employees working to connect residents to resources. “A lot of people who come in on Section 8 — a lot of the times they’re unemployed, have come from homeless situations, may be disabled, and so their income is very, very limited,” Evans says. Some of the residents last year brought up the idea of starting a food pantry onsite. Evans says the apartment’s parent company later donated the space. “So we open once a month, although in between time, we do, [too]. If residents need assistance, we’ll bring them over to the pantry,” she says.
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Good Food Connections held its first government program to assist businesscommunity listening session at the apartes to offer fresh food within underserved ment complex to get a better grasp of peoareas died in committee during Indiana’s ple’s needs. Evans says they brainstormed last legislative session. ways to secure healthy food for less money. Lawmakers, including the Indiana Black “It got people thinking about what Legislative Caucus, will study food deserts they could do. And then in their own again this summer. How much progress little groups they started will be made is up for talking about who’s going debate — the issue of food “Most likely if a to do what when,” she insecurity was put to study says. “Three or four of committees last year with neighborhood is a them did get together, little success. food desert, it’s also Food policy coordinaand I think they’re going to get a Costco card.” Suttles says efforts at a job desert, it’s also tor Nick Milan, farm the city level are focused kind of a quality manager of Chickadee around access to full-serGardens on East 42nd vice grocery stores or simschool desert.” Street, is also a member ilar services — “it’s more — SHELLYE SUTTLES focused on accessibility of of the new group. “One of my big takeaffordable healthy produce aways from that meeting was every single as opposed to food insecurity,” she says. person who talked had a completely Supermarket chain Marsh’s recent anunique story. And nobody had the same nouncement the company is closing some problems or the same solutions that Indianapolis locations hasn’t made her job would work for them,” Milan says. much easier lately. His goal at Chickadee Gardens is to “I think it’s important that we not only educate people about growing their own look at maybe the higher level national food and helping them create their own chains to occupy some of the space Marsh little urban farms. is leaving, but we look at the neighborhood organizations considering cooperSLOW-MOVING POLICY atives, that are considering buying clubs, As grassroots organizations rally around mobile delivery, and supporting those new small changes, policy is more slow-moving entrepreneurs in this vacuum,” she says. at the state level. “It’s so important we deliver the soluRecent legislative measures to address tion that people want — as opposed to food deserts have largely failed at the our idea of what is right,” says Chickadee statehouse. A bill that established a Gardens’ Milan. N NUVO.NET // 06.28.17 - 07.05.17 // NEWS // 5
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LUTE-Y TUNES Early Music Festival makes old new again BY CHANTAL INCANDELA // ARTS@NUVO.NET
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hen Indianapolis Early Music Festival Artistic Director Mark Cudek first came to Indianapolis, it was as a performer, not as a director or organizer. He had some downtime before and after performances in the downtown area in 2006, and found himself enjoying and falling in love with the city. Lucky for him, the Artistic Director position of Indianapolis Early Music opened up the following year. “I was constantly buying CDs and listening to ensembles everywhere, and I’ve been performing in festivals for over three decades, so I know many of the American groups. When I saw the position opening I said, ‘That would be so much fun!’ I’d love
to shape the festival, and feature music and performers that I really love and feel a connection to, and showcase the kind of performers I know have strong connections to their audiences.” There was a practical side to things as well. During the regular school year, Cudek, who plays the lute, is the Chair of the Historical Performance Department at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins, and used to spend summers at the Interlochen Music Academy for eight weeks. When that program was condensed down to one week, he found himself with almost an entirely free summer. That was 10 years ago, and the rest, as they say, is history.
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And speaking of history, early music’s history is just that: early. Coming before big names like Mozart and Beethoven you regularly hear in concert halls, early music encompasses the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque eras of Western music, which together span approximately the 11th and 12th century up until around 1750. The instrumentation of these times is quite different from the average concert you hear performed by symphony orchestras today. Instruments like the shawn (prede-
cessor to the oboe), dulcian (predecessor to the bassoon), the viol (a whole family of 6-stringed bowed instruments of various size and pitch ranges held between the legs), and recorders, among many others, were the instruments of the day. String instruments made then used gut strings (made of sheep intestines, but oddly called “catgut”), and their bows look nothing like you see in today’s modern orchestras. Arguably one of the biggest differences is the size of the ensembles. Early music is chamber music. In curating each season of this chamber music from long ago, Cudek thinks long and hard about what to bring to Indianapolis. He’s altered and added different things from
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his predecessors, thinking about not just his of the festival, such as pre-concert lectures, own preferences, but what he sees audiencand a family concert. The second day of es getting enthused about as well. Variety is the festival featured a free family concert certainly prized in each season. presented by the Peabody Consort (directed “I try about every other summer to by Cudek) complete with an opportunity to have a collaboration with local musicians, touch some instruments as well. accompanying a soloist I’d like to bring, The Peabody Consort, in collaborafor instance,” he says. “Also, I try to have a tion with the Echoing Air Vocal Ensemble cross-over concert, a group that is basicalpresented a full concert the following day, ly early music players who are also influentitled A Vanished World: Music of Three enced by other styles as Faiths that Cudek himself well. I find the audience created. Christianity, Islam, “It’s like once you really loves those groups. and Judaism all had places I have more collaboin the court of Alfonso X, drink the early rations, like with Early who reigned in Spain from Music America. Whenever music Kool-Aid, 1252 – 1284, and the prothey have a competition, I gram presents music and you’re hooked.” hire the winning group to readings of those faiths. — MARK CUDEK (Those performances have perform, this year being Infusion Baroque.” passed as of this printing) The 51st Indianapolis Early Music Festival The second half of the festival, beginning opened with a swashbuckling night at the July 7, has another wide array of offerings, movies. The group Hesperus performed hitting on various instrument ensembles along a screening of the 1921 Douglass and music from all over the world, and in the Fairbanks film The Three Musketeers, using Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque eras. music from the time the film was set, as Tenor Michael Slatterly — whose career is exploding in leaps and bounds — has preopposed to the year it was made. sented music of George Frederic Handel and The score Hesperus put together is a Claudio Monteverdi from the Baroque-era combination of French Renaissance and to composers of today like Phillip Glass and traditional music, put together by director John Adams with orchestras such as the Tina Chancey, performed on early music New York and LA Philharmonics. He joins instruments, such as the treble viol, renaisforces with La Nef for this festival, a Montresance fiddle, lute, recorder, and bass viol. When Cudek joined IEMF, he decided that al-based group that has their hand in various aspects of artistic creativity. They create and education would be an integral component NUVO.NET // 06.28.17 - 07.05.17 // THE BIG STORY // 7
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produce concerts, albums, and multimedia concerts that often integrate theater, visual arts, movement and dance along with music. They are presenting The People’s Purcell, a program consisting entirely of songs and dances of English composer Henry Purcell (1659 – 1695). This is not La Nef’s first time around in Indianapolis; four years ago they put on a performance that Cudek thought was incredible and the audiences loved, so he brought them back. Two days after that the festival moves forward in time slightly to a program commemorating the 250th anniversary of the death of the prolific Baroque composer George Philip Telemann (1681 – 1767), performed by New York-based REBEL (pronounced ReBELL), and joined by Matthias Maute, world renowned recorder and flute player. Violinists and married couple Karen Marie Marmer and Jörg-Michael Schwarz co-direct REBEL, which founded in the Netherlands in 1991. They were inspired to name their group after French Baroque composer Jean-Frey Rebel, the first composer to utilize a tone cluster — a musical chord made up of at least three adjacent tones in a scale, something you don’t really hear from music of that era; it’s far more common from composers hundreds of years later, such as Bela Bartok or Charles Ives. Their collaboration with Maute spans back to their beginning, as Marmer explained. “We were both doing competitions in the Netherlands, and somehow got paired up,” she says. “We made music, did a concert, and that collaboration has been going strong ever since; we’ve been playing with this gentleman for 26-plus years. That’s why many people when they hear us, especially when it’s just two violins and recorder, people say, ‘It’s like you play telepathically, like you’ve been playing together forever,’ and we have! This is a tight as a glove collaboration, we’re really in sync.” Schwarz elaborated on their program, Alla Polacca, which focuses on Telemann’s Polish-influenced period, an important time in his life. “Telemann, in his early 20s, got a job in eastern Prussia, which we now know as Poland, working for a German duke,” he says. “Most of the people, obviously, like
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the musicians for instance, were all Polish, and he found himself intrigued and influenced by their folk tunes. In his biography he said that when you hear these people on their bagpipes and violins, it is so fascinating and amazing that you will get so many ideas and inspiration, that it will last you for a lifetime.” This period inspired REBEL so much that they’ve recorded several works from it. Speaking further with Schwarz turned into a delightful exploration of various aspects of Baroque music; he touched on how the tuning pitch of “A” back then was much lower than it is today, thanks to gut strings and baroque bows. Eventually conversation turned to what they, and others, find so intriguing about music of this era, and Kramer chimed in. “There’s a freshness to the approach of this music; it’s a new type of sound for some people. That’s almost a contradiction in terms — old music sounding fresh, but it fits.”
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Schwarz added, “It’s also new music in a semble,” he says. “They bring an incredibly sense, because a lot of the repertoire we play exciting energy to the stage, with their has not been heard in decades, maybe even passion for playing. It’s so much fun to be centuries, because we’re constantly digging presenting them.” up new music. It’s not like the Beethoven symClosing out the festival on July 16 is phonies — as wonderful as all nine are — that Piffaro, an ensemble of primarily wind you’ll hear every season. We’re always picking instruments. Specializing in music from the up and finding new things that people haven’t 15th, 16th, and early 17th centuries, Piffaro, heard before.” joined by vocalists from The Rose EnsemThe penultimate ble are presenting show of the festival Cervantes’ epic story “It’s also new music in a features a second of Don Quixote, to mugroup from Montreal, Don Quixote and sense, because a lot of the sic. Infusion Baroque, music make a popular repertoire we play has not pairing, from Richard winners the Grand Prize and Audience Strauss’ tone poem been heard in decades, Prize at the 2014 of the same name, maybe even centuries.” Early Music America Ludwig Minkus’ ballet Baroque Perforof the late 1800s and — JÖRG-MICHAEL SCHWARZ the musical Man of La mance Competition. The all-female quarMancha from 1964. tet (baroque flute/recorder, baroque violin, Piffaro Artistic Director Joan Kimball baroque cello, and harpsichord) will present spoke about the famous story: “Don Quixote a concert of Italian music. is such an iconic work, people get so excited Cudek is thrilled to have them to about it. That’s what made this project so Indianapolis. exciting, is that people get so in to it. We “They are an absolutely fabulous entook various highlights from his adventures,
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specifically ones that mention music... there’s quite a few references to music in the novel, both in terms of instruments that were played, occasions on which music was played, and actual texts for songs.” Putting the words to music was no small feat. “Grant Herried, another Piffaro member did all the work of putting this together,” she says, “with some help from myself and the other artistic director, Bob Weimken. He has a real knack for taking the text and finding the tune that fits well with it. A number of the pieces on the program are actually his work, both in terms of finding and setting the words to that music and then also writing little instrumental interludes that sort of go between the verses very creatively.” Thanks to a grant from the Pew Charitable Trust in Philadelphia, Piffaro studied, created, and formed the program over a two-year period. “We went to Spain the first year, on a research trip, getting to travel the Don Quixote trail, and we found some music and refer-
ences there that inspired us,” Kimball says. “It turns out our hotel in Madrid was down the street from the convent where Cervantes was buried, and that was exciting to be near where the bones of the author lay.” To add even more to an already fascinating program, the musicians of Piffaro are not confined to just one instrument each; nearly all the members play several throughout the concert, from the shawn (predecessor of the oboe), dulcian (predecessor of the bassoon) and the krumhorn, an early version of the bagpipe. For early music concerts in Europe, halls that seat 1000 are regularly filled up, and the amount of early music festivals and groups in North America are growing. I ask Kimball, who has been immersed in early music for much of her life, having started the recorder at age 8, what it was about early music that draws such an enthusiastic crowd. After a brief pause, she dives in with her theory. “It’s hard to pinpoint just one thing,” she says. “It’s different — it’s the base of everything that played, and it’s a bit of the unknown, especially with Renaissance music. A lot of the composers that we perform aren’t really known.” She laughed, ‘It’s like ‘Who’s that?’ They aren’t household names, so I think that’s the excitement of a new discovery, of hearing a music from a composer they’ve never heard before. Or it’s hearing things performed in a very different way than they are used to hearing, with a baroque orchestra on period instruments.” I asked a similar question of Cudek, who didn’t start in early music, and didn’t follow your average early musician path. He began as a classical guitarist, who also played and explored rock music and jazz, and played in night clubs in the Caribbean. He found himself transcribing early music on guitar, and that was just the beginning of the fascination and immersion in to early music. I couldn’t see his smile, but I heard it when he responded. “It’s like once you drink the early music kool-aid, you’re hooked. It’s not just the music, either. It’s the whole approach — it’s looser; there’s more room for individual expression and creativity. There are so many different approaches. That’s the beauty of it.” N
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ABORTION: HILARIOUS! Choice – The Musical pokes fun to find heart BY LISA GAUTHIER MITCHISON // ARTS@NUVO.NET
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iven people’s immediate and visceral reaction to the word “abortion,” it’s hard to think that such a topic could be used as fodder for a piece of comedic theater — a piece of musical comedic theater no less. But Indianapolis ex-pat Sheri (Allender) Flanders — along with co-writers Josh Flanders, Kimber Russell, and Kerry Santoro — has brazenly done just that with Choice—The Musical, which opened at the 3rd Annual Premier Premieres! A Weekend of New Musical Comedies Festival, June 23 at the MCL Chicago Comedy Theater. “I am a liberal, atheist feminist who is staunchly pro-choice, but we wrote the musical from the perspective of our main character, Ellie, who is a young pro-life Evangelical Christian,” Flanders says. “Myself and many of the writers and cast of Choice were raised in a variety of different religious households, so we were able to write Ellie and all of the pro-life characters with true compassion and love because we infused them with bits of real people that we grew up with and still know, respect, and love.” “Choice is at its core a coming-of-age story for Ellie, and we start at the moment where Ellie has to make a big decision that goes against everything she has been raised to believe. No matter what your politics are, everyone can relate to the feelings of the first time you have to stand up for yourself and put everything on the line,” Flanders continues. “We poke fun at both liberals and conservatives equally, and identify the universal traits in each character that we can all relate to. Although you might not expect it, Choice is a musical that conservatives with a healthy sense of humor will really enjoy.” Flanders’s thespian background hatched here in Indy. “Growing up, I was always in choir, and I loved singing. The first two musicals I remember my parents showing
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me, which are still my all-time favorites, are Purlie Victorious with Melba Moore and Sherman Hemsley and The Marvelous Land of Oz by the Children’s Theater Company of Minneapolis Alumni. My father was forced to rent the VHS from Blockbuster monthly because it became a cult classic with me and my sisters. Both productions share the similarity of dealing with seriously heavy issues – slavery and feminism — in a silly, playful way, which is definitely reflected in my work on Choice. “Even though I am not religious, I really enjoy gospel music and I was in the Northernaires gospel choir at North Central High School. I see that as direct inspiration for several of the really fun toe-tapping songs for the congregation and some of the tear-inducing ballads that we wrote. While at NC, I participated in the theater department onstage a bit and on costume crew, and after graduation I did some community theater — I was one of the Doo-Wop girls in Little Shop of Horrors at the Headback Theater [home of Footlite Musicals]. “After that, I gave up the theater for a long time to pursue a ‘real’ job,” she says. “But without those experiences growing up in Indianapolis, I don’t think I would
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have been open to pursuing comedy as a career when the opportunity presented itself a decade ago. Thank you, Naptown! No matter how far from home I may roam, I’ll always be a Hoosier in my heart! Wait, that sounds like a new song!” Flanders moved to Chicago to study fashion design, and after graduating, she studied improv comedy and subsequently graduated from the Second City’s Conservatory and music programs. She now performs with the Infinite Sundaes (Second City’s musical house ensemble) and has a two-person sketch show with her husband titled Flanders, about the funnier aspects of being an interracial couple. So with all this under her belt, tackling the issue of abortion with humor may not seem quite as daunting. Especially when the show’s narrator is a puppet called The Cowboy Fetus.
... That would definitely break the ice. As for the story’s inception, Flanders told ChicagolandMusicalTheatre.com, “I came up [with] the idea for Choice during a student musical improv show when an audience member shouted the suggestion of ‘abortion.’ We all took a sharp breath in, knowing that things could go wrong very easily. The show went very well, and the idea stuck with me years later.” Flanders elaborated for NUVO: “Initially the idea was just a raunchy joke, shared only among other comedians. Although I enjoy blue humor, the comedy that I write most often tends to fall in a goofy or silly category. I was raised to be respectful and polite, so I sometimes feel guilty if my jokes are offensive — unless it’s done for a specific purpose, like standing up to a corrupt power structure. The fact that I sometimes recoil at being offensive onstage ‘just because’ is something that has taken me time to reconcile in my comedy. … “Abortion is an issue that has no shortage of serious discussion. Every angle of both sides of the issue has been debated thoroughly, and we as a society are no closer to reaching a consensus. We realized early on that we didn’t want to simply rehash the debates or have the audience leave the theater feeling that they had been preached to. We want people to feel entertained and elevated. Honestly, comedy is the only avenue left for a fresh take on the issue. “Laughter has a wonderful way of diffusing issues that are difficult to talk about otherwise. Although we don’t expect to change any minds through singing and dancing, I hope that we make abortion an easier topic to discuss by erasing some of the stigma through laughter. I think most of us find jokes to be an easy segue to reality.” N Showtimes at choicethemusical.com
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n January 2016, Krysta Rodriguez EVENT // Krysta Rodriguez WHEN // June 30, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. performed a cabaret-style show as WHERE // Indiana Landmarks Center, part of BroadwayCon in New York. Cook Theater, TICKETS // $20 - $85 (Think ComicCon, but for theater enthusiasts.) While that was a one-off performance only for those who braved “I’ve been fortunate enough to be in a blizzard in New York City when many shows with very popular songs,” she says, of the other artists were unable to make but says a cabaret show is “freeing.” it, she’ll be doing a similar gig for The “I think it’s a fun experience to be able Cabaret in Indianapolis and Columbus to share a part of yourself instead of a the weekend of June 29. character,” she says. “You really have no The singer, who has performed on rules, you can say whatever you’ve been stage in The Addams Family as Wedneswanting to say outside of the guise of day Addams, the Deaf West revival a character’s choices. You can feel the of Spring Awakening, the musical First energy of the room, there’s more of an Date, in the most recent revival of A improvisational feel, just you and the piChorus Line, and on the ano. I love feeding off an television shows Smash audience, sharing some “I was diagnosed and Trial and Error, things with them. I’m sure has never performed in of the people in the with breast cancer some Indianapolis before. But audience will be aspiring when I was 30. I’ll she’s looking forward to performers, and maybe her cabaret-style show for they’ll hear some things talk about how I The Cabaret at the Cook that can help them along Theater at Indiana Landpushed through it.” the way.” marks Center on June 30 Without wanting to give — KRYSTA RODRIGUEZ away any spoilers, she and at The Cabaret at the Commons in Columbus says, “The theme that’s on June 29. very strong is perseverance, of finding anShe adds that she and her co-star for the other way when you’re told ‘no,’ or finding evening, Megan McGinnis (Les Miserables, a way to fight.” Beauty and the Beast, Side Show, Little “Part of my story,” she adds, “is I was diWomen) put together a duet show at the agnosed with breast cancer when I was 30. Rubicon Theatre in Montecito, Calif., a I’ll talk about how I pushed through it.” few years ago, and she has performed at Shortly after she was diagnosed, Rodriher alma mater, the Orange County High guez publicly shared her diagnosis and School for the Arts. The Cabaret show will treatment on her blog, ChemoCouture.com. also feature her music director, Benjamin She meant for it to be a way to keep her Rauhala, on piano. friends and family informed of how she Rodriguez says audiences will hear was doing. It has also been a way for other songs from her shows, but also songs that young survivors to cope. reflect a part of her personal life. Jeanie Neal, an Indianapolis-area breast
NUVO.NET/STAGE cancer survivor and advocate diagnosed 16 years ago at age 33, says she appreciates what Rodriguez has done for other survivors, even if it’s just to show them there are other women like them. “Breast cancer in young, premenopausal, women is rare,” says Neal. “It accounts for only about 4 to 5 percent of all breast cancer diagnoses. The median age at diagnosis is 62. All survivors have valuable experiences to share, but my experience clearly wasn’t as similar to that of a 62-yearold woman. We have issues, however, particularly unique to our population — the greatest of which is probably fertility. Or if you’re single, as I was when diagnosed, how do you approach the subject of your survivorship with future partners?” “Younger women aren’t as largely represented in research either,” Neal adds, “primarily due to the fact that there are fewer of us than the average-aged survivors. I’ve participated in as many research studies as
possible, and have encouraged other survivors to do the same. Medical professionals are just now getting a good idea of how to treat us younger patients now that research data on our population is available.” Rodriguez has also experienced hardships in her professional life. “Some of the songs empowered me to get through those times, or cheered me up when I didn’t get a job, or helped me celebrate a job I did get.” “This is a unique opportunity to see one of Broadway’s hottest young stars with the premiere of her brand new solo cabaret and we are thrilled that she has chosen to do it with The Cabaret,” says The Cabaret’s CEO & Artistic Director, Shannon Forsell. “Krysta is one of the most vibrant and engaging young performers currently on Broadway. … Her talent, really, is undeniable. A performance like Krysta’s brings some of the freshest and brightest talent straight from the stages of New York City to Indianapolis.” N
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CRUISE AND BURN
The Mummy should have stayed buried, deep, deep underground BY JARED RASIC // EDITORS@NUVO.NET
Editor’s note: Our regular critic Ed JohnsonOtt is taking a well-deserved break this week. He’ll be back in our pages soon!
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ove him or hate him, Tom Cruise is very good at committing himself — to solid movies, to dangerous stunt work and lots of intense running but, most importantly, to entertaining us the best he possibly can. I usually try to separate the art from the artist (since I still enjoy the films of Woody Allen and Roman Polanski, like the horrible person that I am), but after watching Alex Gibney’s documentary, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, it’s hard to really support Cruise anymore. As much as I love the Mission: Impossible franchise, his sci-fi flicks and Magnolia, I’ll be the first to admit Cruise uses his physical prowess and charm to cover the fact that he has a very limited range.
Because of that limited range, he’s very choosy about the kinds of movies he’s in and has a very solid record with his quality control. He also chooses interesting and sometimes groundbreaking filmmakers to work with like Stanley Kubrick, P.T. Anderson, Michael Mann, Brad Bird, Steven Spielberg, Cameron Crowe and Oliver Stone. So what the hell went wrong with The Mummy? A big part of the problem is director Alex Kurtzman, who is primarily a writer of Hollywood blockbusters like the Transformers and Star Trek franchises. His direction is so unassured and nervous that it feels like he second guessed every choice in the film. It’s a half-adventure and half-comedy, but the script is so half-assed that the entire film feels tonally schizophrenic. The Mummy seems more like an adaption of the Uncharted video game series
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than anything else. Cruise is playing Nick, a soldier of fortune who accidentally discovers the hidden tomb/prison of the cursed Princess Ahmanet. Nick is a womanizing dick who will basically do whatever it takes to find some treasure to sell and is way outside of Cruise’s comfort zone as a character, so he feels more like a collection of tics from some of his older performances than a fully lived-in person. All of this is in service for Universal to build on something they’re calling the “Dark Universe,” a shared series of movies (Thanks Marvel!) that brings together all of the studio’s classic monsters into one easy to market franchise. Over the next few years Universal is releasing reboots of
the Bride of Frankenstein, Creature From the Black Lagoon, Wolf Man, Invisible Man, Dracula and several others. Russell Crowe’s character of Henry Jekyll is obviously shoehorned into The Mummy in order to be a bit of connective tissue to the upcoming movies. Really, the only reason Cruise should have even done this movie is because he wants his own Indiana Jones-esque franchise he can keep banking on for another decade without having to kill himself doing crazy stunts. Unless you’re Marvel, you can’t release a movie that’s guaranteed to build into a massive, multi-film franchise with several different writers, directors and cooks in the kitchen. The Mummy falls apart under the weight of its own expectations and dies as it lived: as a shambling zombie, stumbling through the multi-plex, hungry for brains. N
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GARDEN PARTY IS INDIANA’S FORAY INTO THE HARD SODA REALM. // PHOTO BY MARY McCLUNG
or nearly a decade people have seen a certain woman at farmers’ markets around Indianapolis. She usually has a headband on, a ring in her nose, chandelier earrings and a big smile as she shares her latest products. For the first few years it was her and her sister selling products from their Country Mouse, City Mouse booth that included everything from salsa and soups to jams and jellies, then she moved on to co-create Hoosier Mama Bloody Mary Mix. And these days, you’ll find Erin Edds and her husband Stephen behind the booth selling their hard soda Garden Party. But she wants you to know that this product is much bigger than just a farmers’ market product. “There’s still a pretty prevalent misconception as to the scale of our business because people are very used to the idea of farmers’ market Erin,” she says while sitting next to her husband in the Broad Ripple location of the Speak Easy. “I’m the girl they always bought stuff from at farmers’ market.” And while Garden Party is sold at farmers’ markets, it has quickly made its way behind the bars of restaurants and bars all around Indiana and onto the shelves of local and national retail stores — including Kroger, Big Red Liquors and even Target. When Erin mentions seeing their product on display in Target she says, it’s “one of the most exciting things for us, and we’re talking bucket-list exciting.” This isn’t Edds’ first foray into wide distribution; Hoosier Mama gained national recognition which included articles from Vogue, Midwest Living and GQ. However, after a series of legal battles with her business partners, Edds separated from the brand in 2015. From there she started working with Stephen to find the next trend in food and they quickly noticed the hard soda category taking off with companies like Not Your Father’s out of Chicago and Henry’s out of Milwaukee. Stephen says they asked people about these brands and they quickly
noticed a common thread amongst the responses; people would say, “‘I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it, finally got a six pack, I drank one, thought it was great but it had too much sugar. I put it back in the fridge and that was four months ago and I still have three left.’” He then says, “I thought, ‘Well, that’s not the type of pullthrough that you want.’” And so when the Edds started crafting their own hard soda they knew they wanted to use as little sugar as possible and to make a hard soda that was as drinkable as a craft beer. With that idea in mind they crafted Garden Party’s two flavors, Ruby and Violet. Erin says she created the flavor profiles, “They were both actually based off of non-alcoholic drinks that I came up with and sold at the farmers’ market. So when it says on the box that it was born from the local farmers’ market, that is not marketing bullshit spin, that is legitimately where these flavors were born. My sister and I made a lemonade with lavender and blackberry [which became Violet] and an ice tea with ginger, hibiscus and pomegranate [Ruby]. With these flavors, the Edds looked for a company that could help translate them into an alcoholic beverage and a brewery that could take on the business model they had in mind. Where in the past Erin has started small and grown large, this time they wanted to start with as large of a distribution as they could from the get-go, and so they needed a brewery with the capacity to create and hold as much Garden Party as they needed. The Edds originally tried to keep production local, but they found that there weren’t any places in Indiana that could help them, so they used Wild Flavors Inc. in Erlanger, Kent. to craft the flavorings. They knew they wanted a product with around eight percent alcohol, which is exactly what they got. Stephen says Erin helped in the process, “Her palate is strong enough that she could say take the lavender and increase it five percent and add this much more water. I like to say I’m a culinary simpleton, I know what tastes NUVO.NET // 06.28.17 - 07.05.17 // FOOD+DRINK // 15
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good and what doesn’t. For me, when we hit it I knew it, I didn’t know why, but I knew we had.” They then headed to City Brewing in Memphis, Tenn. which was built by the Schlitz Brewing Co. in 1971 and can produce around 60 million cases a year. The contract brewer has done work with massive brands including Mike’s Hard Lemonade, Samuel Adams, Smirnoff Ice and more, and now Garden Party. With their flavors in order and a large enough production facility, Garden Party set out to take over the hard soda market. Their first stop, a Yelp Elite party in the catacombs at the city market. “We walked into the first event, and it is people who are very high-minded about what they like and don’t like, and we had this brand new product,” Stephen says, before clarifying that it was actually just Erin that attended the event. Erin says, “Outside of the focus groups we had done, nobody else had tried it
and it was absolutely terrifying.” Stephen admits, “It was terrifying, completely terrifying. She did it and I was at home waiting for the call of either her bawling, ‘Oh, what have we done? Everybody hated it.’ But she called and it was just a rebirth, just…” “Stella got her groove back,” Erin interjects with a laugh. Stephen finishes by saying, “Yeah, just, ‘People loved it, they got it, it’s great!’ And that was the first big step. Since that initial release the Edds have seen their product distribution rapidly grow. One way they’ve grown it is by being out in the community. “We’re trying to just be as involved in community events as we can,” Erin says. We’ve always had the inthe-mouth marketing approach, where we have a product that is so different it is so important for us to have as many of those first impressions as possible.” And she is quick to remind that those impressions come straight from the couple, “There are only two of us and we have a company to
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run, but we come ourselves. We don’t send a staff member, because we don’t have any,” she finishes with a laugh. While the Edds are still out at community events promoting their hard soda, Garden Party is now found in bars, shops and restaurants in over 90 percent of the state. This distribution has grown rapidly through the efforts of Monarch Beverage Company and also due to the Edds vast connections with restaurant owners, chefs and restaurateurs. The Edds’ connections and love of Indiana’s food and drink scene are immediately evident when speaking with the couple, they are constantly fading off into conversations about other companies and industry insiders and praising them in some way or another. Whether it
awards we’ve won thus far and national attention we’ve gotten, I mean, we’re just so proud that we’re able to help the efforts of building Indianapolis as a brand.” The awards and attention include winning Beverage Industry Magazine’s Innovation of the Year (the first Indiana business and first woman-owned business to do so), being named one of Gear Patrol’s “Summer’s Best Cocktails,” being part of an article in Bloomberg Businessweek and more. And Stephen sees Erin as one of the ambassadors for women in the male-dominated beverage industry: “We’ve got a woman who has created two nationally-recognized and award-winning brands. That’s kind of a big deal. Hopefully more and more people will recognize and appreciate that. I want more and more women to say, ‘I can create a beer, I can create spirits.’” “We’ve always had the in-theWhile building up women and Indiana is mouth marketing approach, definitely a major aspect where we have a product that is of their vision, the Edds don’t hide their biggest so different it is so important for goal. Erin says, “Our goal is us to have as many of those first to build this as organically and thoughtfully as we can impressions as possible.” while maintaining con— ERIN EDDS, CO-OWNER AND CEO OF trol over our message and GARDEN PARTY HARD SODA. quality, and to eventually, hopefully, attract the is Erin sharing her excitement of workinterest of a portfolio and to become part ing with the people in Ivy Tech’s Culiof a group.” nary Arts program, to the importance of They realize some people may look Martha Hoover of Patachou Inc. or the down on this goal, but they don’t really amazing meal they had at a new local seem to care. “You hear people almost adrestaurant the other day, they are conmonish the brands that do get absorbed,” stantly sending positive words towards says Erin. “But if I were Ballast Point and others in the industry. It’s easy to see someone was waving a billion dollar check that they hope to be a part of the people at me, it’d be real hard to say no.” that put Indy (especially Indy women) Stephen continues “I hope they look on the culinary map. back in 5, or 10 or 20 years and say, Stephen says, “No matter how far we “People drank Zima and Smirnoff Ice and expand outwards, what we’re representing then one day somebody in Indiana went, is the best of Indiana. The way I look at it ‘We can do craft versions of this,’ and now is people will say, ‘The premiumization of there’s a whole explosion of hard sodas the hard soda category, guess where it’s that started in Indianapolis.” occurring. It’s not Brooklyn. It’s not CaliHe finishes with a laugh, looks at Erin fornia. It’s Indianapolis.’ So, we’re excited and says, “And hopefully we’re on a boat about that.” somewhere enjoying a Garden Party and Erin follows, “Between some of the reading that story.” N
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TUBAS, SKATES AND KISS
BY BOSTON BASSIST TRACY FERRIE, AS TOLD TO KATHERINE COPLEN // MUSIC@NUVO.NET
Editor’s note: Before Boston — yes, they of the spaceship art and inescapable Q95 jam “More Than A Feeling” — pops by Klipsch on Sunday with Joan Jett and The Blackhearts, we rang up Tracy Ferrie. The bassist has logged road time with Boston for a number of years after a career with a pack of Christian metal bands like Stryper. Why did we want to speak with Tracy, specifically? A little birdie (named Gail, the band’s PR guru; hi, Gail) tipped us off that Perrie had a bunch of connections to the Hoosier state from his Northern Indiana competitive roller skating days. We’ll let Tracy tell his tales from here. We started with the question fitting for a kid who grew up in the band instrument capital of the U.S.A., Elkhart: Why play the tuba?
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he tuba was the largest band instrument that the band director could pull out for this small little kid. I just wanted to do something different... [The band director] suggested the baritone, and I said, ‘No, that’s not big enough.’ Ironically I wasn’t a big kid, so maybe I wanted to bite off more than I could chew, so to speak. What’s funny is that the tuba, historically, was always kind of a geeky guy instrument to play. I’m doing these shows now with Boston and my old tuba-mates will show up at these shows. We still talk about how we made the tuba cool. We totally changed the image of tuba-playing. We were the rock stars of the marching band. We thought we were so cool. I was born in Kokomo, and then my parents took a job with a roller rink up in Elkhart, Ind. It was the Holiday Roller Rink, and then we re-named it the Holiday Skate Center. They ended up owning it after a lease purchase over the years; during all that time my dad was my coach. His dream was to see his boys roller skate, figure skate, pairs, dance, the whole bit. So we spent a lot of time [on that]. I would get picked up from school, go straight to the skating rink, and be practicing until 7:30 in the evening, when the skating session would start. … [A rollerskating competition] was parallel to
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the ice skating. We would carry more weight on our feet than ice-skaters, but we were doing similar maneuvers and jumps and spins as the ice skaters. So, you skate to a routine with music. You have a three or four minute program. The person who does the best routine, cleanly, would get the higher score. Originally, it was all classical music [for the routines]. But as some of the other music got popular with John Williams, we skated to Jaws, to Star Wars, to the Superman soundtrack. All kinds of cool stuff. We traveled a lot. So we had friends all over the country. So that lifestyle, of traveling around, staying in different hotels every night, really translates well to what I do today in Boston, and [other bands] before that. I’ve been doing this for 30 years now. The crazy lifestyle of traveling around is very similar. It was almost like I was primed for this kind of life. One of our stops happened to be a national championship that we happened to be at every year — because we would make it to the nationals — which was in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. We showed up, checked into our hotel, saw some of our skating contacts. We started walking the halls and talking, and one of my friends said, ‘Hey, the band KISS is here!’ And so we wandered down one of the hallways and ended up in Gene Simmons’ room. Just walked in, like a kid does, cause you don’t
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have those boundaries like an adult. [You think] you’ve got the album, so they’re family! That’s what it’s like with Boston — [fans] know more about your business than you do. So we walked into Gene Simmons’ room, and he politely asked me to shut the door behind me and leave the room, and it was very nice. The next day, I saw him in the dining area for breakfast. I came in for my skating event and had my silver KISS-like outfit that my mother had made. I was still in it, because we had just got back from one of my events. The KISS band and crew was at this very large table having breakfast, and noticed this kid in a sparkly silver suit. I ended up walking over and saying hi to them, and they invited me to sit down at their table and have breakfast. I ran up to my room and got my poster signed. I had attended the Destroyer tour kickoff that was the beginning of their tour. It was one of those things you never forget. … They were very nice. I got to swim in the pool with them. It was kind of like a weekend with KISS. Like a bunch of uncles. N
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orty years ago, on June 26, 1977, I attended Elvis Presley’s last concert. It was at the now-demolished Market Square Arena in Downtown Indianapolis. I was a teenager then. I’d skipped school to buy the tickets, getting myself into a fair bit of trouble by doing so, but I’d been an Elvis fan for a long time. I really wanted to see him perform live. It wasn’t cool to be an Elvis fan then. My friends ribbed me about it, but that didn’t bother me much. There was a quality of yearning in Elvis’s voice that spoke to me then and speaks to me now. His art was a kind of seeming artlessness, an ability to communicate the most deeply felt emotions with his music. He seemed to embody many of the tensions and contradictions — insecurity and self-assurance, sensitivity and toughness, anger and acceptance — that warred within me, too. His show didn’t disappoint. While he walked through his early hits in little more than a perfunctory fashion, he delivered powerful performances of “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and “Hurt,” singing as if his heart were about to explode. Less than two months later, it did. The mythology is that Elvis’s final shows were disasters, moments when he was so wasted that he could barely stand, much less perform. Certainly, a few of the reviews suggested as much. But it seemed to me even then that fame too easily made a celebrity into a canvas onto which we could paint our own hopes and fears — and that many of the reviewers weren’t critiquing his performance as much as they were the fact that he had aged
NUVO.NET/MUSIC or put on weight. They wanted to see the young, slim, hip-shaking Elvis, the one who shattered windows and kicked open doors to let the breeze blow through, not some middle-aged guy who sang of weariness, despair and … hurt. But I didn’t come to the show expecting to see a 21-year-old hillbilly cat. I came expecting to see what I saw, a man of some years, trying through his art to make sense of and express what he’d seen and felt. Many years later, when I was about the same age Elvis was when he died, some Elvis fans asked me to give a short speech at Market Square Arena before it was torn down. I told them young Elvis had been such a liberating force and such a seductive figure that the power of that persona allowed us to forget that he also was a human being, one who had been touched and scuffed up by life just as all of us are. I said that his death at age 42 may have cost us the greatest period of his art. And I talked about what it meant to be 40 — to have put on a few pounds, to have some regrets, to have taken a wrong turn or two and had to find one’s way back on course. The pity with Elvis, I said, is that he didn’t have the time to find his way back. But, on that stage 40 years ago in an arena that no longer exists, it seemed as if that was what he was trying to do — find his way back. That is what moved me then. And moves me still. When he performed “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” he sang it as if it were a hymn of reassurance, his prayer for reconciliation and forgiveness. And “Hurt” was a kind of deliverance, a release of the pain and anguish he felt, perhaps the only way he knew to confront his demons. He sang as if not just his life, but his soul, depended on it. In a sense, it did. For great artists, the line separating art from life is a blurred one. The forces that inspire them also can torment them. Right up to the end, he was still a man, an artist, who embodied tensions and contradictions. He was still Elvis. And I saw him. N NUVO.NET // 06.28.17 - 07.05.17 // MUSIC // 19
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KYLE: Black Violin’s most recent LP is Stereotypes, which came out in 2015. The album’s title track is an important commentary on cultural stereotypes about race and music, particularly I think classical music. You’ve been touring on this record for a couple of years now, and I wondered what kind of reaction you’ve been getting to opening up dialogue on this subject? WIL B: The reaction has been pretty good, and pretty inviting. If you come to a Black Violin concert you’ll see all types of “If you come to a Black Violin people in the building just to great music. concert you’ll see all types of people listening It’s a group of people that in the building just listening to great probably wouldn’t be in the same room togethmusic. It’s a group of people that er unless they were at probably wouldn’t be in the same a baseball game. That’s to see, and when room together unless they were at a amazing everybody is there we have baseball game.” an opportunity to engage with people, and open up — WIL B OF BLACK VIOLIN the conversation a little bit. We’re not onstage outreach, and Black Violin has performed literally having a conversation with the for more than 100,000 students in North audience, but for instance, we have a America and Europe over the past 12 song called “Invisible” where Kev does a months. And it’s educational outreach that monologue about how we came up with brings Black Violin to Indiana this summer. the song, and its purpose, which is to tell The band will be performing Thursday, people that you’re not invisible. If there’s June 29th at Muncie’s Emens Auditorium anything that you feel strongly about, for the Music for All Summer Symposium. you’ve got to scream out, and be loud. Tickets are available at camp.musicWe have moments like that during the forall.org/concerts or the Emens Auditoshow. Our show is just very inclusive, all rium ticket office. types of people are there having a good I spoke with Black Violin’s Wil B via time. So I think the message has been phone in advance of that Muncie date. received very well. N lack Violin has been perfecting its blend of hip-hop beats, with classical music instrumentation for over a decade. To date Black Violin has racked up three album releases, and collaborations with artists ranging from Kanye West to Alicia Keys. Beyond purely musical concerns, Black Violin is on a mission to amend misguided stereotypes about classical music, hiphop and race. That agenda has pushed the group into a heavy schedule of educational
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