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he Louisville restaurant where U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was heckled is one of my favorite places to eat.

But not because he was treated badly.

On Saturday, activists that are angry about the separations of children from their families at our southern border confronted McConnell outside the Bristol Bar & Grille on Bardstown Road as he finished lunch with a defeated Kentucky state legislator. They shouted at McConnell as he walked away, even yelling that they knew where he lived.

I like the Bristol because the food is good and not insanely priced. The ambience is relaxed and convivial. I’ve spent many a pleasant hour there. That’s what disturbs me about this new fad of taunting public officials when they step out to dine.

It’s not because I have much sympathy for Mitch McConnell. His pattern of again and again and again putting the ambitions of his party ahead of the needs of his country is appalling. His determined willingness to ignore established precedents, invent new rules, and embrace hypocrisy in the process is a disgrace.

And his abdication of any sort of responsibility—moral, legal, or political—for the crisis that brought the protestors out is shameful.

But I’m not a fan of shaming public officials in private moments for a couple of reasons.

The first is that, even in these hyper-partisan and increasingly mean-spirited days, there have to be some places in which decency and consideration still reign. Making every sphere of American life political—and political in the most ugly and inane ways— degrades us all as people, as fellow citizens, as neighbors, and as presumed friends.

I don’t think we can expect McConnell or Donald Trump to elevate the tone of our public discussions, so it’s up to the rest of us to set a better example.

The second reason I oppose this fad of heckling public officials as they dine out is that it isn’t effective.

The protestors in Louisville wanted to

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make a point about the immorality and inhumanity of tearing families apart just so the president could gain some political leverage.

That point was lost. Worse, it reduced the dispute to a level McConnell loves: His spokesperson dismissed the protestors as socialists and cranks.

The activists meant to sink the Senate leader. Instead, they threw him a lifeline.

Doubtless, I will go back to the Bristol on Bardstown sometime in the next few months. Once again, I’ll enjoy a good book and a fine meal in a convivial place.

If by chance I see Mitch McConnell in there, I’ll offer him a pleasant nod of greeting.

I’ll also look at what he’s ordered.

Then I’ll ask my waiter to deliver him a note.

The note will say that I’m making a contribution equal to the cost of his meal in his name to an organization helping families separated by my government.

Then I’ll thank him for giving me a chance to do a decent thing and encourage him to enjoy his meal. N John Krull is director of Franklin College’s Pulliam School of Journalism and publisher of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.

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INDIANA ATTORNEY GENERAL SAYS HE’S THE VICTIM

Curtis Hill Professes His Innocence as Terry Curry Requests Special Prosecutor

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arion County Prosecutor Terry Curry held a press conference on Tuesday to announce that his office has filed the necessary court documents for the appointment of a special prosecutor to oversee matters related to the investigation of Attorney General Curtis Hill.

Essentially, Curry recused himself and his office from any involvement in any potential criminal cases against Hill. While he stated that he has received no additional information regarding the allegations of sexual misconduct against the attorney general, Curry has been in contact with the Indiana inspector general, who is in charge of the investigation at this point.

Should the inspector general decide to pursue criminal charges, Curry said it would be inappropriate for his office to be involved because the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office is currently a client of Hill’s. As state attorney general, Hill is representing the Prosecutor’s Office in several lawsuits, including one filed by Planned Parenthood over the state’s most recent abortion law.

Curry said he has facilitated contact between the inspector general and the Sex Crimes Unit of IMPD, in addition to asking the courts to appoint a special prosecutor in his place.

All of this comes one day after Hill held a press conference denying any wrongdoing.

“I now stand falsely and publicly accused of abhorrent behavior,” Hill said. “These false accusations have irretrievably damaged my reputation. I stand before you a condemned man. Condemned without trial, condemned without notice, condemned without the benefit of any basic rights that ensure fairness.

“These past several days have witnessed

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my name and reputation dragged through the gutter in ways I would have never imagined. Apparently, in this climate, the standard is guilty—and who cares if you’re innocent.

“This is America, and in America, we cannot overlook the presumption of innocence until proven guilty,” Hill continued.

One of Hill’s accusers, Rep. Mara Candelaria Reardon, released her own statement following Hill’s press conference.

“When we take the oath of office, to serve the citizens of Indiana, we agree to be held to a certain standard and honor the trust the public has placed in us. Curtis Hill, through his actions has betrayed the public trust, and lied about his actions to the very citizens he serves.

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“I will continue to cooperate with any and all investigations into this matter until such a time that Curtis Hill is held accountable for his abhorrent behavior.”

The Indianapolis Star broke the story of the allegations last week after obtaining a copy of a memo summarizing the investigation conducted at the request of the Legislative Services Agency (LSA) acting on behalf of the Indiana House and Senate.

While the memo and initial press releases kept the identity of Hill’s accusers private, Rep. Reardon has come forward as the woman Hill groped at a Downtown bar in March of this year. The incident occurred at a gathering of lawmakers, staffers, and others who were celebrating the end of the 2018

legislative session.

According to Reardon’s interview with investigators, Attorney General Hill was “very intoxicated” when he approached her at the bar and “put his hands on her back, slid them down her back, and grabbed her buttocks [...]

She told him to back off and walked away, but Hill approached her again later and again reached under her clothing and grabbed her buttocks. She again told him to back off.”

The report details interviews with five other women who attended the party that night and were harassed by Hill in a similar manner or witnessed the behavior.

Since the memo was leaked and the allegations made public, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called on Hill, a Republican, to resign, including Gov. Eric Holcomb.

“Four women had the courage to step forward to report sexual harassment by the Indiana Attorney General,” Holcomb said in a statement last Thursday. “The findings of the recent legislative report are disturbing and, at a minimum, show a violation of the state’s zero tolerance sexual harassment policy. [...] Attorney General Hill should resign, and I support a thorough investigation by the state’s Inspector General.”

In addition to Holcomb, chairmen of both the Indiana Republican Party and Indiana Democratic Party have called for Hill’s resignation, as have Speaker of the House Brian Bosma, a Republican, and the Senate President Pro Tem David Long, also a Republican.

Hill not only denies any wrongdoing, he steadfastly refuses to resign. In a statement sent to NUVO last week, Hill called the allegations “deeply troubling” and bemoans the lack of fairness in the investigation that did not include his version of events. N

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INDY’S DOCKLESS SCOOTER DRAMA

City Council Issues Cease-and-Desist Letters

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ity officials issued cease-and-desist letters on Tuesday, July 3 to the two companies that dumped hundreds of dockless electric scooters in various locations around and in Downtown Indianapolis last month. One of those companies— Lime—complied with the order. The other company—Bird—is still holding out.

Just last week, the City-County Council Public Works Committee voted to regulate the scooters, or rather, the companies that rent them out. The proposal was moved forward with a 6-1 vote to the full council. It will be considered in their next meeting July 16.

One of the city’s ordinance proposals is a mandate that scooter companies must have insurance. Another insists on various safety features for the scooters, which have become very popular Downtown and in

Indy’s trendier neighborhoods.

“At the end of the day, the City of Indianapolis wants to embrace new technology created by companies like Lime and Bird,” Brandi Pahl, chief communications officer for the city, wrote NUVO in an email. “But we also want to make sure we have the framework in place to regulate it and ensure the safety of not only users, but our residents and neighborhoods as well. The City thanks Lime for its cooperation in suspending operations until the full City-County Council can consider Amended Proposal No. 120…Once adopted, the new regulatory framework will lay out a timeline for next steps, helping to ensure each company’s full compliance with local regulations and to avoid any enforcement actions by the Department of Business and Neighborhood Services.”

Bird and Lime brought their business model to an Indy that had almost no regulation in place for their products, following the example set by Uber, Lyft, and other gig economy operators. The operators get their clientele hooked on their products before the local city government knows what hit them and before the cities are adequately prepared to receive them. And then their operators become their best advocate.

The rental scooters can only be accessed— and rented—through a smartphone app. You can leave the scooters just about anywhere when done with them. Actually, you pretty much have to leave them street-side because there are as of yet no racks anywhere set up for them.

People have indeed been leaving them anywhere—in front of businesses, houses,

and even in the Broad Ripple Canal. And if you’re looking for a gig-economy-type job, you can earn some income by signing up to recharge said scooters in your home.

After Bird and Lime brought their scooters to Indy, you might have thought the sidewalks of Downtown and Fountain Square were transformed into scooter racetracks.

If you’re a pedestrian simply trying to walk down the sidewalk, you may be out of luck at this point. There’s not an app, yet, for simply being a pedestrian. But the next best thing might be to set 911 on speed dial just in case you get wacked by a scooter.

Not everyone is taking adequate precautions when riding the scooters. According to a WRTV 6 report, 21-year-old Ty Kutan lost control of his Bird scooter when he hit a pothole at the intersection of Meridian and 22nd streets. Kutan, who broke his orbital bone and needed a dozen stitches, wasn’t wearing a helmet. Bird told WRTV that all riders who request a helmet can access a free one through an app but provided no other information to the station about how to obtain the helmets.

The city had advanced notice of the dockless scooter deluge, according to Taylor Schaffer, communications director for the city of Indianapolis, and has been working with the City-County Council since April to develop effective guidelines.

The goal, she said, is “to embrace innovative forms of transportation while also ensuring the safety of our residents and neighborhoods.”

At least one arts nonprofit is thinking of ways that it could turn the scooter craze to its advantage. Pauline Moffat, executive director of IndyFringe, thinks that the city’s arts community could ultimately benefit from the scooters. But first, she wants to prevent passersby from tripping on abandoned scooters left in front of her venues. So Moffat is contemplating a rack of some sort for the dockless scooters.

She can even imagine curated scooter tours happening during the IndyFringe Festival this August. “There will be fun tours hosted by performers/artists who will take people to shows they never knew existed,” she says. N

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“B

eing the only Filipino restaurant in the city is a lot of pressure.

Because I am the only one. So if I fuck it up, it’s like I ruined my food culture to my city.”

When Rook’s chef and co-owner Carlos Salazar says this, he’s putting all of his cards on the table. It’s a sentiment the average diner wouldn’t recognize when eating at Rook. Hell, it’s something that average chefs may never have to deal with when crafting menus for their restaurant.

But for Salazar, the way his food is perceived is integral to his personal identity, and this drives him to continually create and serve some of the most unique and delicious food in Indianapolis.

The menu at Rook wasn’t always filled with the Filipino cuisine that Salazar grew up eating. “I don’t know if a lot of people know,” says Salazar, “but Rook actually was open before me. I took over two

months into it.”

Ed Rudisell opened Rook’s original location in 2013 with the goal of a counter-service restaurant that, according to Salazar, would “feed people what [Ed] likes to eat, which is banh mi.” Salazar had recently left his position as the sous chef at the popular Northside restaurant Oakleys Bistro when he took over.

“I was ready to get out of Oakleys and open my own joint. I had been a sous chef there for two years. I was itching to get my own stuff going, and Ed was like, ‘Let’s talk.’ He said, ‘How about you take over Rook? You can do whatever you want with the menu.’”

Rook’s original kitchen was too tiny for

Salazar to do everything he wanted, but he knew he wanted to focus on Asian street food. “So I just built the menu off of what I could do in that little space,” he says. “I wanted to do something different. I don’t know if it was ego, but I knew I wanted to change how we ate in this city.”

And while he was able to build a following at the original location, it was quite a daily grind. “I had so —CARLOS SALAZAR many ideas going on in my head, but I couldn’t execute them. There were only two of us to even have time to prep the menu we were serving that night. I didn’t have the equipment or the space.”

So after about two and a half years, they finally had built up enough clientele to

“I don’t want to be the next Chicago. I don’t want to be like New York. We’re different.”

move into the current location, just a little farther north on Virginia Avenue than the original.

“The move opened a lot of doors,” Salazar says. It allowed him to grow his team and to work in a full-size kitchen. The move also allowed him the opportunity to change his focus to adding some of the dishes from his childhood to the menu.

“Food is a major part of the Filipino culture. You eat. It’s like life. It’s why we look like this,” he says with a laugh, gesturing to his stomach. Salazar credits his father’s cooking as the inspiration for his love of traditional Filipino dishes. He says the ones that stood out were adobo, which is meat braised in garlic, vinegar, oil, and soy sauce; a meat stew of tomato, onion, liver spread, bell pepper, and cheese named kaldereta; and Salazar’s personal favorite, kare-kare.

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that could be my last meal and I’d be happy,” he says of kare-kare. “It’s oxtail braised in peanut sauce. It’s very, very bland, but it’s just heavy in the fat flavor of the oxtail and peanuts. You top it with shrimp paste and eat it with rice.”

Recreating these dishes and trying to make them as good as his dad’s are some of the things that push Salazar as a chef.

“I have a version of it on my menu, but it’s just not the same as when he makes it. He showed me how to make it, but I still can’t perfect it and he can. So it’s something that challenges me. I have to keep doing this and making it until I make it to the point where my dad does.”

While Rook’s menu changes regularly and has offerings from jalapeño Spam steamed buns to the flavor-packed Rook Burger, Salazar also keeps a rotation of Filipino classics on there as well. There are light offerings such as the refreshing, mildly sweet-and-sour kinilaw, which features white fish in a coconut aquachile and green-strawberry salsa, all the way to a heavy, fatty, crunchy, fried pork hock dish called crispy pata.

The pata is one of the best pork dishes you’ll ever taste, each bite different from the last as you peel pieces of crispy pork skin off to scoop up some rice and dip in the accompanying sauces. It’s a massive hunk of pork, so prepare to split this with the whole table.

While the menu has received a stellar response from many guests—myself included—Salazar is still highly critical of himself. “I’ve only embraced my culture in the past four or five years, when I started working at Rook. That’s another thing that scares me. I feel like I don’t know much of it. I’m still learning, and I’m still limited to what I know…it’s a lot of pressure on me.”

When he’s not working on traditional Filipino dishes, Salazar takes in inspiration from numerous sources. “I’m still growing,” he says happily. “I’m learning from my staff. I’m learning from everybody, you know. I’m learning from chefs all over the country, either from Instagram or from friends like [Jonathan] Brooks and Abbi [Merriss]. Everyday things are just

going in my head. I’m just thinking about dishes and flavor combinations.”

However, he says his biggest inspiration in the kitchen is new and exciting ingredients. He says, “We made a black pineapple back here the other day.” He says the idea stemmed from black garlic, which is a fermented style of garlic common in Asian cuisine. According to Salazar, the fermentation brings out a “sweeter, less garlicky flavor.” He said they’re still working on perfecting it, but he’s excited to use it.

“Having a different ingredient that you haven’t used is the most exciting thing for coming up with a new dish…now we have some new ingredient I can guarantee no one out there is using.”

No matter what he and his team are pumping out of the kitchen, however, Salazar realizes getting a majority of the public in to taste his food is an uphill battle. “You can be the best chef out there, but not every single person in the world is going to love your food,” he says. “If it’s just not their thing, that doesn’t bother me.

“The toughest part is getting people through the door and getting them to stay for the food. I’d say 80 percent of the time, we do that with new customers, but there are people that just won’t.” He believes a big aspect of that is because people are simply unfamiliar with the dishes so they don’t want to, as he says, “risk it.”

But he believes that if people just come in with open minds, they’re going to love the experience. “I have enough confidence in my menu, my staff, and Eli [Sanchez] with his drinks to know that if we can get them to sit down and just try one thing they’re going to love it.”

He says that Rook also deals with the same challenge that many of the locally owned restaurants in the city do: Indianapolis is still very much about chains. “I mean, 90 percent of Indianapolis goes to those places,” says Salazar.

And while that’s true, his main goal is to slowly but surely get people to focus on supporting local. He doesn’t even care if it’s specifically Rook, just local.

“If we can just get people out of those chains and in to eat our food, that’s all I really want. I want us all to be support-

NUVO.NET/THEBIGSTORY ed because I know how hard my friends work. I know the sacrifices they have to make to have the restaurant go, and grow, and to be able to put what they want on the menu. I know the suffering they have to deal with.”

According to Salazar, the biggest thing that people in his position can do is to continue making the food they’re making and work at creating a strong, unique culinary culture. “I don’t want to be the next Chicago. I don’t want to be like New York. We’re different; this is a small-town city, and we just have to find our own taste, our own culture, our own food scene.”

He says there have been points where he’s attempted to add some items to the menu that seem like more standard Indianapolis fare, but he realizes that isn’t what Rook is. “You know, I think people go to Rook to get an experience that they can’t get anywhere else—whether it’s the food, or the drinks, or the service.

“So if they come in here and they see steak and mashed potatoes, they’re not going to get it because they can get that a hundred different places in Indy…I got to a point where it’s like, let’s just keep

doing what we’re doing and not try and be everyone else.”

And while it’s no easy task to attempt to change the palate and mindset of an entire city, Salazar is incredibly proud of what he and his team have accomplished, and he says he still loves what he does. “It’s amazing to think that we’ve been open for five years. It just doesn’t feel like I’ve done this for five years,” he says.

“I don’t know if it’s because we’re having fun, or maybe we’re just working too much, but time is flying by.”

After a moment of thinking, he continues this thought by pointing out that he thrives on working too hard and too much. “I don’t know if I’m crazy or a little screwed up in the head, but I love that stress, I love being pushed. I mean, it’s not for everyone back there; it has to be you.

“I’m not trying to be cliché, but you have to love what we do, you have to like being stressed out, and you have to like being

yelled at or being pushed to the limit.”

He says he is rarely in the kitchen anymore and has taken more of a role in training, coming up with recipes, doing the ordering, and all of the other things that come with being a chef. He also focuses on his family as much as he can.

“I have kids and a wife, so that’s my priority,” he says. He then goes on to share the comic aspect of how simple his dishes are at home.

“My kids are now very picky,” he says with a laugh. “They used to not care what —CARLOS SALAZAR they ate. Everything was good. But now they’ll be eating something one day, and then the next day we’ll have it again, and they’ll be like, ‘Oh, I don’t like this.’ So when I’m cooking at home, it’s something quick.

Something on the grill because to me, it’s just quick, simple, clean flavors. Plus, I don’t want to take my whole time in the kitchen. I want to spend it with family.”

And while he’s happy being a family

“If we can just get people out of those chains and in to eat our food, that’s all I really want.”

man and taking a back seat in the kitchen, he still loves getting in the kitchen when he can. He mentions a recent Wednesday when he worked the line. “We got crushed,” he says with a big smile on his face. “I think everybody knew I was going to cook tonight, so they all came in. It was fun. I listened to music and was singing, and I was getting beat up on the grill. I love that. I love the stress. I love hearing all the tickets coming in; I love being backed up. I don’t know what it is, but it’s just, I think, it pushes me better. It pushes me harder.”

He then takes a breath. “It’s rewarding when you think, ‘Shit, I just cooked for 200 people in four hours tonight.’ That’s intense, and I still have a lot of fun.”

For Salazar, after all these years in the industry, he’s in a good place at Rook. “The biggest pay that I get doing this every day is seeing people being happy or telling me, ‘Dude, that was fucking amazing.’”

He gestures to the kitchen, “This is my heart and soul. This is exactly where I want to be. My staff works their asses off for me, and I’m grateful for that. So just for someone to be happy while they’re here, it’s the most exciting thing.” N

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ime gallery director Alec Stewart was so committed to show the works of artist Henry Swanson at the contemporary art gallery on East 10th Street that he drove the artist himself from Dallas, Texas, to Indy for the month-long exhibition.

The pair met each other while studying at Rhode Island School of Design, and they have kept in touch since. “He sees the humor in overthinking and under-thinking, which is similar to the paintings,” says Swanson.

Swanson has epilepsy, so a road trip with large paintings would have been a challenge without a little help.

The exhibition, titled Snoopy Tattoo, features nine oil paintings with titles such as “Untitled (‘I Sneezed with My Eyes Open Until I Cried’)” and “Untitled (‘Winnie the Pooh Obviously Has a Clear Idea of What Clothes Are So Why Are We Still Discussing It’).”

“Alec and I set up this show the same way I put together a painting,” says Swanson. “It was like a Pretty Woman montage with trying different, sometimes bad ideas without being too serious.”

Snoopy Tattoo comes from Swanson’s apprehension about making permanent decisions. He tells me his paintings start off active and without too much planning, a lot like a Snoopy tattoo. The references are evident with stylistic brushstrokes and compositions derived from classical paintings and flat representations that look clearly sourced from digital images off phone screens or computer monitors.

There are some neon spray-painted words as well as logotype lettering that references corporate branding. But as a whole, the works do not appear to be collaged or to be digitally assembled. They remain painterly and break away from classical beauty into abstract surrealism from canvas area to area; a basketball player’s bent knee glows and folds in all the right places, but the hand’s barely distinguishable fingers that hold up logs are

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treated with the same thoughtful purpose.

This thoughtful display of balance and purpose can also be appreciated in Rachel Hayes’ Infusing the Scene, currently on display at iMOCA at CityWay. The mood of the quilted floor-to-ceiling installation is surprisingly soft and meditative as a result of the effects of the indoor lighting.

Hayes, who has been collaborating with Italian fashion house Missoni since 2017, typ-

ically shows her work in outdoor and architectural settings, achieving different effects each time. For this particular installation, she was seeking an intimate moment according to her artist statement. Infusing the Scene is on display through December 2018.

At the Schwitzer Gallery at the Circle City Industrial Complex (CCIC), artist Jamie Willis lets the subjects of her paintings make the statement with the 45 Project—an ongoing

series of portraits that explore the emotional ride people are experiencing in our current political climate.

“I have been feeling a lot of angst and anxiety, especially with the division of America,” says Willis.

To deal with her feelings, she made a self-portrait and titled it “Fake News” but felt there was more she could do. Willis asked people to submit their pictures with their feelings about the current president and 52 people sent her photos. She promised to portray each one of them respectfully.

“I am hoping this project brings people together or at least reminds us all that we are human beings.”

A floor below at CCIC, at Satch Art Space, Frida Kahlo proved to be a less divisive figure with 53 works by 36 women artists, all inspired by the life and works of the Mexican surrealist painter, for the exhibit Long Live Frida.

Kahlo, whose famous last written words read, “I hope exit is joyful and I hope never to come back,” have been anything but forgotten since her death in 1954. The artist remains an object of curiosity in ways that are both reverent and controversial, as in the case of Snapchat’s recent Women’s Day filter debate. There have also been recent debates regarding the commodification of her image, given her personal politics.

The work on display was diverse with sincere homages to Kahlo’s life struggles, such as in “Looking Within” by Mirvia Sol Eckert, and touching celebrations of her famous works, such as Erin Huber’s “Two Fridas.” There was, unfortunately, work reminiscent of the Snapchat Frida filter. The worst was the inflatable flailing-arm tube man with a unibrow just outside the Circle City Industrial Complex as a sobering reminder of how not even a world-famous Mexican artist can escape the character flatness and disrespect that comes with otherness. N NUVO.NET // 07.11.18 - 07.18.18 // VISUAL // 11

WHAT // A Life In Waves WHEN // Thursday, July 12 WHERE // Tube Factory

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WHAT // Creature from the Black Lagoon WHEN // Friday, July 13 WHERE // Newfields

HIGH PRAISE FOR ‘LEAVE NO TRACE’ Debra Granik’s New Film Tells Sad, True Story of Love under Pressure

BY LAURA McPHEE // LMCPHEE@NUVO.NET

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t’s been eight years since Winter’s Bone earned Debra Granik Academy Award nominations for writing and directing and earned a virtually unknown Jennifer Lawrence her first Oscar nod.

Having seen, loved, and endlessly recommended Winter’s Bone, it’s nearly impossible for me to write about Granik’s new film without referencing it.

To her immense credit, Granik has taken everything good about Winter’s Bone and brought it to this one. Her penchant for shooting outdoors, casting locals, and authentic storytelling make Leave No Trace as good as its predecessor.

Like Winter’s Bone, the physical environment plays a crucial role. There, it was the Ozarks. In Leave No Trace, it is the Tualatin Mountains of Oregon. More than scenery, these literal backwoods settings are inhabited by people who form a subculture all their own. In both films, Granik takes viewers inside an America that most never see or pretend not to see: rural, off-the-grid, marginalized, survival-of-the-fittest America.

The criminality that fueled Winter’s Bone is absent here. In that film, Lawrence spent her star turn as a teenager trying to track down her meth-head father in order to save herself and younger siblings from eviction. It’s a dark, often gruesome film that doesn’t flinch in its realistic portrayal.

There are few, if any, villains in Leave No Trace. There are no definitive bad or good guys—just real people with real-world problems trying really hard to stay out of trouble and stay alive. Like Winter’s Bone, there is an unflinching, painful family drama being presented that is often hard to watch. In this case, it’s a story about love between a father and daughter and, ultimately, the sacrifices love requires.

It’s also a true story, at least in part.

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In the spring of 2004, Oregon police found a man and his 13-year-old daughter living in Forest Park, a 5,000-acre urban forest reserve just west of downtown Portland.

The pair had been living in the reserve for four years. Weekly trips into town for church and supplies purchased with the father’s VA disability check supplemented a rotating library of books from Goodwill, basic supplies, and food not provided by the forest or their small vegetable garden.

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WHAT // Leave No Trace WHEN // Opens Friday, July 13 WHERE // Landmark’s Keystone Art Cinema

According to police, the father was a college graduate and a veteran. His daughter showed no signs of abuse, and there was no evidence of harm. She was clean, well-fed, and healthy, and she had been

homeschooled surprisingly well.

“Their living conditions were unacceptable,” a police spokesperson said after their discovery, “but there was a real, deep love and caring for one another.”

The story of the father and daughter made national headlines. Donations poured in, and a local rancher gave the father a job and mobile home for the pair to live in. They lasted five days on the ranch and then disappeared, taking none of the money or other donated items.

Leave No Trace is the adaptation of the novel My Abandonment (2009) by Portland writer Peter Rock. Fascinated by the story in local papers, Rock imagined what happened to the father and daughter after they were discovered, after social services intervened, and after they disappeared into the woods again.

Ben Foster is superb as the father, Will, a veteran of war struggling with PTSD, single parenthood, and his inability to assimilate. Thankfully, the film allows his mental illness to simply exist without over-dramatizing or sensationalizing Will’s survival mechanisms. He is a man coping the best he can, wanting to live life on his own terms.

His teenage daughter Tom is played

by Thomasin McKenzie, a young New Zealand actress in her first leading role.

In many ways, Leave No Trace is Tom’s bildungsroman, and McKenzie’s graceful portrayal of her arc is mesmerizing.

Dale Dickey plays a pivotal role here, just as she did in Winter’s Bone. While the film abounds with beautiful and gut-wrenching moments, if you aren’t shredded by a scene where Dale and Tom unload groceries from a pickup, you aren’t human. Someone give Dale Dickey a leading role worthy of her remarkable talent.

It’s long overdue. N

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INDYFRINGE GOES TO ISRAEL Tommy Lewey’s ‘Red Couch’ Transcends Language

BY DAN GROSSMAN // DGROSSMAN@NUVO.NET

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cco, Israel, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, will play host to Red Couch, a performance that debuted at IndyFringe in 2011.

Indianapolis-based performer and choreographer Tommy Lewey will bring this production—in which he stars alongside Morgan Skiles—to the Acco Fringe Festival in September.

To raise money for the airfare of Lewey, Skiles, and technical assistant Charlie Borowicz, a showing of Red Couch will take place July 28 at IndyFringe.

None of this would’ve happened if IndyFringe Executive Director Pauline Moffat hadn’t met the director of the Acco Fringe (Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre) a decade ago.

Her Israeli counterpart, let’s just say, piqued her curiosity.

“I was fascinated by this Fringe,” says Moffat. “It’s set in this UNESCO heritage site of this crusader fort, and it’s magnificent.

And he gave me a book, and I looked at the pictures, and I thought, ‘One day I’m going

THE ISRAELI FILM FEST COMES TO INDY FOR A THIRD YEAR FILM ENTRIES RANGE FROM HOLOCAUST DOCUMENTARY TO SPY DRAMA

to take myself to this festival. And I did last year. A group of women, who called themselves Women on the Fringe, took ourselves off to see the Acco Fringe.”

The venue, in the ancient city where crusaders have come and gone—and which currently houses Muslims, Christians, and Jews—left its impression on Moffat.

“Imagine the city walls; imagine them being the backdrop to the most magnificent street theater that you have ever seen in your life,” she says. “And we realized immediately. We all walked out of one show and said, ‘The one show that could make it to the Acco Fringe is Red Couch.’”

The play, which debuted at IndyFringe in 2011 and was reprised in 2017, is an award-winning production that features two performers, Chaplin-esque dancing, and pop music—but no dialogue.

Red Couch isn’t about a couch so much as it is about the man and the woman sitting on it and their ambiguous feelings toward one another.

“The thing about Red Couch is that there’s no focused dialogue,” says Lewey.

WHAT // Red Couch Benefit Show WHEN // Saturday, July 28, 8 p.m.

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“The storytelling is all done through movement and dancing. So there isn’t a language barrier. So the piece itself speaks to a universal thing that everyone has either done or experienced because it’s all about being in like with somebody. And kind of testing those waters to see if someone likes you back, which is something that we can all relate to regardless of whether we’re American or Middle Eastern.”

NUVO’s Rita Kohn, back in 2011, was impressed by the performance. She wrote the following in her review: “Clearly trained dancers, Aggie Schmank and Tommy Lewey easily move from sprawl to split-second twirls and back into sedentary boredom.

Body language games make us laugh or squirm with ‘I’ve been there and done that’ recognition.”

the opening night reception and screening of this annual film festival, now in its third year, will be at the Athenaeum in the Mass Ave district on Sunday, July 15.

The first film to be screened is Maktub at the Athenaeum at 7 p.m. following a 6:30 p.m. reception. The sole survivors of a terrorist attack, Steve

an Israeli Mossad agent and Mona, a Lebanese

WHAT // Indianapolis Israeli Film Festival WHEN // July 15–19 WHERE // Athenaeum (opening night) and JCC TICKETS // $10 for film; $40 for fest passes jccindy.org/israeli-film-fest

and Chua are inspired by notes placed in the West“The Indianapolis Israeli Film Festival explores Israeli society through fascinating, humorous, inspiring, and compelling feature films and documentaries,” says Director of Arts and Education Lev Rothenberg about the film festival that begins July 15.

While most of the films will be screened at the Arthur M. Glick Jewish Community Center,

ern Wall—the holiest site in the world for Jews—to grant wishes to the people who put them there.

The other screenings in the festival are as follows, and take place at the JCC. An Israeli Love Story, July 16, 7 p.m. This is a film based on a true story—the story of a love affair that took place between Eli Ben-Tzvi, the son of

The music for Red Couch might just be equally—if accidentally—apropos for the venue. In previous performances, “Love Is a Battlefield” by Pat Benatar was part of the score, considering all the various battlefields in close proximity to Israel.

“It’s incredibly clever and very different,” says Moffat. “And so we then worked for the next six months to get in touch with them— to get them to look at the work and adjudicate it. And we got the offer for Tommy Lewey and [co-star] Morgan Skiles to set up the Fringe.”

Moffat explains IndyFringe’s role as being “one of the sponsors” of this cross-cultural Fringe voyage. “We negotiated the contract, which means that once we arrive in Israel, he has no expenses.

He has a share of the box office, he has accommodations, and he has food. We’ve supported them in finding a donor who put up $1,500 to match the $1,500 that they raised…Then we have to figure out how to buy the couch.”

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informant, who is recovering from plastic surgery so that she can assume a new identity while they are stuck in an apartment in Hamburg, Germany, for two weeks.

The Essential Link: The Story of Wilfrid Israel, July 19, 7 p.m. This documentary focuses in on Wilfrid Israel, a wealthy Jewish businessman and

Israel’s second president, and Pnina Gal. The Testament, July 17, 1 p.m. and July 18, 7 p.m.

owner of Berlin’s largest department store, who became instrumental in the Kindertransport oper-

Holocaust researcher Yoel discovers a testimony

ation, which saved thousands of Jewish children

from his mother when he opens up a classified file

from Nazi death camps. This film is sponsored

in an attempt to stop construction on a patch of

by Myron and Myrna Weinberger, and Myron will

land where a massacre has taken place.

speak at the screening.

Shelter July 17, 7 p.m. This film revolves around

—DAN GROSSMAN

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NO SUCH THING AS TOO MANY BOOKS Adding More Local Authors to Our Summer Reading List

BY DAN GROSSMAN AND RITA KOHN // EDITORS@NUVO.NET

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e published a summer reading list a few weeks back (NUVO June 27-July 4) recommending 10 new books by local authors and/or books with local subject matter. Turns out, we barely scratched the surface where the local talent pool is concerned.

Thanks to a great reader response, we’ve discovered several new books to add to our summer list. You sent us recommendations for histories, mysteries, and a new Vonnegut collection.

Check out these new releases by local writers, and email us at editors@nuvo.net if you have more titles we should investigate.

PEGGY KING ANDERSON Two-Moon Journey Indiana Historical Society Press, 2018

Determination to survive is at the heart of Two-Moon Journey, the meticulously researched historical novel by Peggy King Anderson. Sept. 3, 1838, Twin Lakes, Indiana. Rows of corn are ripening for the long winter’s food supply. But there never will be a harvest; the federal government has a different agenda. This is the day of forced removal of 859 Potawatomi people from ancestral land. Simu-quah narrates the journey of loss, brutality, and her personal struggle to forgive and start over. —RK

family’s tapestry of gentility stitched over a canvas of shame. Set within the 1960s and 1970s in a confining Mississippi town, we too become entangled in a series of events that compound into a feeling of doom. We can sense something isn’t right here, but what is it? Heightened suspense, engrossing atmosphere, believable characters, and vivid first-person storytelling are Crandall’s forte throughout her oeuvre of award-winning Southern Gothic fiction. —RK

MELISSA FRATERRIGO Glory Days University of Nebraska Press, December 2017

There’s something captivating in the voice of Luann, the 8-year-old narrator in “Ghosts,” one of the stories that makes up Melissa Fraterrigo’s novel Glory Days.

Through her eyes, you see the environmental desolation that comes when developers bring progress to the town in which she lives with her father, Teensy, who is still mourning the death of Luann’s mother. The so-called progress comes in the form of an amusement park called Glory Days. We meet both the winners and losers of said progress in this book, which might feel disjointed to some and kaleidoscopic to others, like a trip through an amusement park funhouse. Fraterrigo founded the Lafayette Writers’ Studio in Lafayette, Indiana, in 2014. —DG

SUSAN CRANDALL The Myth of Perpetual Summer: a novel

JASON LANTZER Rebel Bulldog

Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster, 2018

Indiana Historical Society Press, December 2017

Susan Crandall spins lies into truths as we follow the threads of a dysfunctional

Street and institutional names in Indianapolis’ Near Eastside resonate with

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references to the extended family of Indiana’s fifth governor, Noah Noble. Pogue’s Run cuts through their storied past, the most intriguing chapter being Preston Archer Davidson’s enlistment in the Confederate army in Virginia, thrusting us into the steaming cauldron of mid-19th century politics, religion, and economy and boiling us over with heightened personal and regional passions. Jason Lantzer re-creates our most divisive moment as a nation on fields of combat and within familial breaking points. How Gov. Noble’s grandson implicates Butler University in his choices is part of this book’s intriguing story. —RK

LARRY D. SWEAZY See Also Proof Seventh Street Books, 2018

Larry Sweazy is back with another detective mystery set in Dickinson, North Dakota. Protagonist Marjorie is an indexer for a non-fiction publisher. She’s in a constant squeeze to meet deadlines, yet when a young woman goes missing, she’s compelled to lend her skills to help the police department find her. The third in the series, this thriller telescopes into truths about what lies underneath a small-town circle of church ladies supplying comfort to the recently widowed Marjorie. But what we don’t know can make small-town life downright scary. Sweazy is a master storyteller with two dozen award winning novels, most reviewed in NUVO. —RK

DONA GRIFFIN AND GARY VARVEL Old Whiskers Escapes!

A True White House Tale Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site, Inc. Distributed by Cardinal Publishers Group, 2018

Just in time for President Benjamin

Harrison’s 185th birthday (born Aug. 20, 1833) comes a delightful retelling of a family incident and its aftermath.

Retold here as an action-packed picture book, it’s an all-ages delight illustrated by Indianapolis Star cartoonist Gary Varvel with back pages detailing facts about the sole Indiana-born U.S. president. Old Whiskers is a goat with an attitude whose antics in 1892, along with President Harrison’s 5-year-old grandchild, made headlines about the White House. —RK

KURT VONNEGUT Kurt Vonnegut Complete Stories Seven Stories Press, 2017

Looking through this massive tome filled with stories that vary from outré science fiction (“The Big Space Fuck”) to urban romance (“City”), I’ve come to realize Vonnegut was a transitional author for me. Before discovering him in high school, I was reading science fiction and horror for pleasure. After Vonnegut, whose books often cross genres, my reading selections followed suit. Vonnegut may seem like a deeply pessimistic author in some of his novels—even nihilistic—but he is always morally committed. As Dave Eggers notes in his insightful introduction, “Most of the stories in this collection are moral stories. They tell us what’s right and what’s wrong, and they tell us how to live. In 2017, this is a radical act.” And so it goes for 2018. —DG N

A DAY OF CYCLING COMES TO MONUMENT CIRCLE Indy Crit Bike Festival and Races this Saturday

BY NUVO EDITORS // EDITORS@NUVO.NET

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s the Tour de France nears the halfway point this weekend, Indianapolis hosts its own day of exciting cycling downtown at Monument Circle on Saturday, July 14.

More than just a series of races, the Indy Criterium is also a bicycle festival with events and activities for riders of all ages and abilities. There are also several organized morning group rides varying in length from 4 to 52 miles, including a family ride at 10:30 a.m. designed for all skill levels.

The festival portion of the event includes food trucks and local craft brews, as well as a Kids Zone that opens at 11 a.m.

Get there early for the distribution of 300 free kids’ bike helmets.

The Indy Crit races are part of the 2018 IN/KY District Criterium Championships, and riders will compete for titles, cash, and prizes throughout the day. From beginners to elite, racers at all levels will take to the course beginning at 10 a.m. and going until 7 p.m. Junior races with no registration fees are also scheduled, but you must sign up in advance. There are also several specialty races throughout the day, including a celebrity race featuring local TV personalities, athletes, mascots, and the mayor.

All races will follow a 0.95-mile course with a start/finish line at the north side of Monument Circle. Riders will race from the Circle down Market Street, north on Illinois to Ohio, before turning north again on Meridian. After a lap around University Park via Vermont and Pennsylvania streets, riders come back south on Meridian to the finish.

NUVO’s Mass Ave Criterium is being temporarily folded into this year’s Indy Crit, which means this is your best chance to see the region’s elite riders zip through Down-

town streets faster than you ever thought was possible. The last two races of the evening, women’s and men’s elite, will award $5,000 in prize money each.

Local standout Thomas Revard is expected to compete in the men’s elite 1/2 race. Revard, 21, is a Carmel High School grad who won a national collegiate cycling title during his freshman year at Marian University. He turned pro instead of returning to school this past year, and he is currently riding for Axeon Cycling.

Revard impressed in Canada last month at the Tour de Beauce. After a second-place finish on Stage 2 and a seventh-place finish overall, Revard was awarded the Maillot Rouge (red jersey) and named best young rider. N

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BREW NEWS RITA KOHN is NUVO’s Beer Maven.

AWARD-WINNING INDIANA BREWS The 2018 Open Beer Championship held in Oxford, Ohio, this past weekend meant some big wins for Indiana brewers. The contest had over 6,300 entries this year, making it one of the largest competitions in the world. With four gold, one silver, and five bronze awards, Indiana was well-represented in the winner’s circle.

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SUN KING (2): GOLD // Wood/Barrel Aged Pale Beer:

TWO NEW BREWERIES OPEN IN INDY THIS WEEK

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Garfield Park and Meridian-Kessler Latest Neighborhoods to Get Crafty

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wo new breweries are opening in Indy this week, and in each case, the emphasis is as much on community as it is on the beer.

On the Southside, Garfield Brewery quietly began a soft opening about a week ago, much to the delight of the neighborhood around Indy’s oldest park. “We want to be a place for our Garfield Park neighbors first and foremost,” says co-owner Ted Herrera.

“Our focus is on enjoying the process of making beer and sharing it with our friends and neighbors.”

Herrera and his son Kyle make up half of the Garfield Brewery quartet of ownership along with Gary Kinnett and Larry Agresta.

Though Herrera and Kinnett have day jobs at Eli Lilly and Co., their passion and experience for brewing goes back decades. In Herrera’s case, it goes back to the 1990s when he was a master brewer at Terre Haute Brewing Co. Garfield Brewery has opened with six brews on tap—all named in honor of the neighborhood. There’s a Hervey Street hefe, a St. Catherine sienna lager, the Red Line American red, and a Friday in the Park

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American ale, among others.

While they are also serving up massive soft pretzels and have Clustertruck on speed dial for hungry patrons, there are no plans to expand the menu anytime soon.

“We’re looking at several options for more food,” says Herrera, “but nothing major. We don’t want to be in the restaurant business.

We just want to concentrate on the beer and the neighborhood for now.”

Garfield Brewery is located north of Garfield Park at 2310 Shelby St., just south of Raymond Street. They are open 4–9 p.m.

Wednesday and Thursday, noon–11 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, and noon–7 p.m. on Sunday. An official grand opening should be coming in early August.

On the Northside of town, Happy Brewing Co. has spent the last few weeks getting to know its Meridian-Kessler neighbors during a soft opening of its own. That all changes this weekend with the official grand opening on Saturday, July 14 at their location across

the street from the newly enhanced and improved Tarkington Park.

The family friendly event will feature live music, comedy, and other entertainment beginning at 1 p.m. There will be several special keg tappings as well as tours of the historic 1930s building they inhabit.

Currently, the jovial folks at Happy have six beers on tap, including a stout, porter, IPA, and a pale. Manager Gabe Soukup says the plan is to keep six to eight original brews in rotation as well as a shanty or two. In addition to great beer, they also have an impressive menu of pub fare at affordable prices.

Pizzas, panini, dogs, and wings plus a good selection of appetizers, all under $10.

Regular hours for Happy Brewing are 11 a.m.–9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m.–11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 11 a.m.–8 p.m. on Sunday. You’ll find them at 3902 N. Illinois St., just a few doors north of The Melody Inn and (full disclosure) across the park from the NUVO offices. N

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ALMA AFROBEAT ENSEMBLE VISITS THE U.S. The Barcelona Band Will Bring Its Afrobeat Sound to Pioneer

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uitarist Aaron Feder founded Alma Afrobeat Ensemble in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, in 2003. When Feder left the Midwest for Barcelona, Spain, in 2006, he carried the Alma concept along.

Alma Afrobeat Ensemble has flourished on the Iberian Peninsula, releasing three excellent LPs and assembling a formidable live ensemble. Alma’s 2018 U.S. tour will bring the group to Pioneer on Friday, July 20 in support of their upcoming fourth album, Monkey See, Monkey Do. I spoke with Feder via Skype in advance of the date.

Feder told me that Paul Simon’s 1986 album Graceland provided an important early touchstone for African music. Moving beyond the South African styles represented on Graceland, Feder took an interest in the guitar-heavy chimurenga sound of Zimbabwean artists like Thomas Mapfumo and Oliver Mtukudzi.

“African music is the best music for guitar in my opinion,” Feder shared. “Whether you’re talking about the desert blues, or highlife, or soukous—for me, it’s amazing.”

But it was the music of afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti that sealed Feder’s fate. Feder told me he was deeply impressed by Fela’s ability to bridge the gap between social protest and party music. “It really caught my attention, and in college, I started playing around with that sound,” he said. Fifteen years later, Feder is still deeply committed to the afrobeat sound.

Read on to learn more about his approach to afrobeat and head to PioneerIndy.com to purchase an advance discount ticket for Alma’s July 20 Indianapolis date.

NUVO: When you formed Alma in 2003, afrobeat music had a very small following here in the U.S. Since that time, afrobeat has exploded in a huge way, even hitting the mainstream in 2008 with the arrival of the Fela musical on Broadway. What do you make of the growth of afrobeat music over the last decade or so?

AARON FEDER: From my point of view, so much of that growth is due to Martín Perna from Antibalas and Ray Lugo from Kokolo Afrobeat Orchestra. These are the people who were almost single-handedly responsible for the revival of afrobeat. During the ’90s, Ray had King Changó, which was part

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WHAT // Alma Afrobeat Ensemble WHEN // Friday, July 20 at 9 p.m.

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of this punk and world music crossover that was going on in New York. That’s very similar to what happened in Barcelona with Manu Chao—he’d been doing a punk thing with his previous band Mano Negra. So there was a surprising crossover happening where punk and hardcore moved over into this world music thing. That kind of makes sense if you think about the history of ska and reggae with bands like The Clash. I think Antibalas and Kokolo really started this resurgence or at least opened people’s eyes to afrobeat.

NUVO: When I think about the elements that define afrobeat, there are a lot of important musical characteristics, but I also think about lyrics. For me, political commentary and lyrics representing the worldwide struggle for justice are an essential part of the afrobeat aesthetic. Tell me about the role of political commentary in Alma’s music.

FEDER: I completely agree with what you’re saying. Afrobeat music is not about getting laid, partying, and jumping in a hot tub. This music comes from a desire for social change, and that’s reflected in our music. We try to address modern issues. On our new album Monkey See, Monkey Do, a lot of the tunes address the same concept.

That expression “monkey see, monkey do” is usually used when people are doing ridiculous things that they shouldn’t be doing.

I feel like this is quite representative of the U.S. at this point—and perhaps the whole world. The demagoguery seems to have taken over, and we’re so willing to go along with what somebody says because we want to follow them. I find it hard to believe that people really believe in all the crap that’s happening these days. I just believe they’ve been misled. This idea permeates the whole album. But I think it’s important to say that we are not a political band. We’re not in support of one politician or another. We’re in support of people thinking for themselves and listening to their conscience. N

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INDY MUSIC THROUGH THE LENS Music Video Extraordinaire Jake Huber Reflects on Work with Local Artists

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or local videographer Jake Huber, there’s no such thing as a lofty idea. From filming Hoops in a public-access television studio to filming Oreo Jones in a moving glass-box truck, the music videographer extraordinaire isn’t afraid to test the limits in order to help showcase local talent.

“It’s just fun to meet people,” Huber says.

“If I have a crazy idea, most of the time, people will just say, ‘OK, go for it.’”

If you’ve paid attention to Indiana music in the past year, it’s likely you’ve seen Huber’s impressive video work. Recently, he had a hand in an intricately plotted video for local rapper Flaco that involved a lively cast of elderly actors. Within the last year, he’s also worked with notable locals such as Baby Ebony (formerly known as Dose), Diop, Double A, and Sonny Paradise, while helping local rapper DisTinct with his cypher series of videos as well. This is in addition to the work he does at Square Cat Vinyl, capturing artists’ live sets and posting them to the Square Cat YouTube page.

Born and raised in Indianapolis, Huber originally started out in photography before choosing to go the video route. “Once I branched into video, I wanted to challenge

myself, so I started doing some really lame to come into this Fort Wayne public-access music videos,” he says. “I learned from my TV station. It was a hectic time, but it was mistakes and learned to network better, and really good working with those guys.” finally, I started reaching out to more imThis experience served as a springboard pressive acts.” His first notable breakthrough for Huber. “Through that, I learned to just came while working with Hoops on a video find the right people to make your crazy for their song “On Top.” ideas come to life,” he says.

“I found a Christian public-access TV In addition to his music video work on the station in Greenwood,” Huber remembers. side, Huber has also been on the crew of an “A week before we were HGTV show for the past supposed to do this shoot, three years. The music vidthe people at the network “If I have a crazy idea, eos have certainly served looked up Hoops and as a refreshing change of most of the time, saw they were doing a pace, he says.

Planned Parenthood ben- people will just say, “Just doing that day efit show, and they canafter day, I was like, ‘I need ‘OK, go for it.’” celed on me. So I spent to get out of my normal —JAKE HUBER routine of doing a home four days straight calling all the public-access TV renovation show,’” he says. places in town, seeing if they had open slots Over time, he’s found other like-minded or anything.” freelance video companions, such as Alex He continues, “Without spending Faulker, Joe Sailer, and Turner Fair, who thousands of dollars, I found Fort Wayne have helped make his video visions become public-access TV, where if you’re a citizen of reality.

Fort Wayne and you take a one-hour semi“A lot of people here are kind of on the nar, you can be a public-access TV producer. same boat as me, where they’ll shoot sitSo I found a guy online, made him take this down talking-head interviews all day and not course, and he was my producer. I got Hoops be able to go out and do something fun, like

putting Oreo Jones in a glass-box truck and driving him around the city,” Huber says.

Local artists are certainly grateful for the work of Huber and his counterparts as well.

“I just sent him the song and the lyrics, and they did all the location scouting,” says Sonny Paradise, who worked with Huber on his “Adlibs in the Street” video. “They did the storyboard. They did everything. I can’t thank those guys enough. They did their thing with that video.”

According to Baby Ebony, Huber is a lot of fun to work with too. “You can be super comfortable around him,” Baby Ebony says. “He’s funny as hell, and the energy and creativity he has is very comforting.”

Looking forward, Huber’s video for the Baby Ebony song “Euphoria” will premiere at a listening party on Aug. 4. And although it has no set release date, the glass-box truck video from Oreo Jones (a video for Jones’ Michael Raintree project) is one to keep an eye out for too. From there, expect more of the same music video work from Huber.

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THE CHREECE 4 LINEUP IS DOPE AS HELL Indianapolis’ Largest Hip-Hop Festival Returns in August

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ver the weekend, the lineup for Chreece 4 was announced, and boy oh boy, is it dope as hell.

Originally founded by Indianapolis champion Oreo Jones, the one-day festival has grown organically since its start in 2015 while also serving as a catalyst for the growth of Indy hip-hop. Now in its fourth year, the hip-hop fest will again take place in Fountain Square this year on Saturday, Aug. 25. Boasting its most impressive lineup yet, Chreece 4 will feature 50-plus emcees and collectives, tons of DJs and producers, and all the Cheers and Peace your heart could possibly desire.

Having recently signed to Kanye West’s GOOD Music record label, Chicago rapper Valee will make his way to Indianapolis for Chreece 4. Earlier this year, Valee teamed up with fellow Chi-town native Jeremih on the irresistible track “Womp Womp.”

“We are very excited about having added GOOD Music’s Valee to this year’s show, as we all feel he is this year’s emerging Midwestern hip-hop act,” says Ron “DJ Indiana Jones” Miner, head of business development for Chreece. “At Chreece, we will be identifying a new artist from the Midwest to target each year as someone to watch, and we hope to make it so that those artists want to perform at Chreece as well.”

Additionally, underground hip-hop heroes Black Moon will also make an appearance at this year’s Chreece. Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, Black Moon (which stands for Brothers who Lyrically Act and Combine Kickin Music Out On Nations) emerged in the early ’90s, scoring a massive underground hit with their debut album Enta da Stage.

“Secondly, we added a dash of OG flavor to this year’s festival so that the over-30 crowd has something to get them involved,” Miner says. “Black Moon has been indie from day one and laid the blueprint for all indie hiphop in the early ’90s.”

Of course, the festival is jam-packed with local hip-hop talent as well, including Drayco McCoy, Flaco, Mathaius Young, Clint Breeze and the Groove, Skypp, Parris Ladame, Ghost Gun Summer, Allison Victoria, Mudkids, Switchblades, and much, much more. In keeping with Chreece tradition, the festival will showcase all lanes of Indy hip-hop, from trap to boom bap, offering up a little bit of something for everyone.

“We used the same philosophy booking our Indiana-based acts, like Drayco, Mudkids, Parris Ladame, and others,” Miner says. “Chreece is hip-hop cradle to the grave, and we wanted to have something for all hip-hop fans.”

Like previous years, Chreece will take place across several Fountain Square locations. This year, participating venues include HI-FI (21+), White Rabbit Cabaret (21+), Pioneer (21+), Thunderbird (21+), Hoosier Dome (all ages), Square Cat Vinyl (all ages), and the Fountain Square Plaza (all ages).

The Chreece crew has also shared news of an exciting partnership they’ve started with Live Nation.

While attending the Music Cities Forum in April, Live Nation’s Dan Kemer and Chreece Presents (Oreo Jones, J. Brookinz, and Miner) got together to discuss ideas on how to further develop Indy’s live hip-hop music scene. From these discussions, Chreece Presents was born.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You can’t sing with someone else’s mouth, Taurus. You can’t sit down and settle into a commanding new power spot with someone else’s butt. Capiche? I also want to tell you that it’s best if you don’t try to dream with someone else’s heart, nor should you imagine you can fine-tune your relationship with yourself by pushing someone else to change. But here’s an odd fact: You can enhance your possibility for success by harnessing, borrowing, or basking in other people’s luck. Especially in the coming weeks.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You wouldn’t attempt to cure a case of hiccups by repeatedly smacking your head against a wall, right? You wouldn’t use an anti-tank rocket launcher to eliminate the mosquito buzzing around your room, and you wouldn’t set your friend’s hair on fire as a punishment for arriving late to your rendezvous at the café. So don’t overreact to minor tweaks of fate, my dear Gemini.

Don’t over-medicate tiny disturbances. Instead, regard the glitches as learning opportunities. Use them to cultivate more patience, expand your tolerance, and strengthen your character.

this task. More than at any time since your birthday in 2015, this is the season for unleashing your smiles.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Lucky vibes are coalescing in your vicinity. Scouts and recruiters are hovering. Helpers, fairy godmothers, and future playmates are growing restless waiting for you to ask them for favors. Therefore, I hereby authorize you to be imperious, regal, and overflowing with self-respect. I encourage you to seize exactly what you want, not what you’re “supposed” to want.

Or else be considerate, appropriate, modest, and full of harmonious caution. CUT! CUT! Delete that “be considerate” sentence. The Libra part of me tricked me into saying it. And this is one time when people of the Libra persuasion are allowed to be free from the compulsion to balance and moderate. You have a mandate to be the show, not watch the show.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Emily Dickinson wrote 1,775 poems—an average of one every week for 34 years. I’d love to see you launch an enduring, deep-rooted project that will require similar amounts of stamina, persistence, and dedication. Are you ready to expand your vision of what’s possible for you to accomplish? The current astrological omens suggest that the next two months will be an excellent time to commit yourself to a Great Work that you will give your best to for the rest of your long life!

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): What’s the biggest lie in my life? There are several candidates. Here’s one: I pretend I’m nonchalant about one of my greatest failures; I act as if I’m not distressed by the fact that the music I’ve created has never received the listenership it should have. How about you, Sagittarius? What’s the biggest lie in your life? What’s most false, dishonest, or evasive about you? Whatever it is, the immediate future will be a favorable time to transform your relationship with it. You now have extraordinary power to tell yourself liberating truths.

Three weeks from now, you could be a more authentic version of yourself than you’ve ever been.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I pay tribute to your dizzying courage, you wise fool. I stage whisper, “Congratulations!” as you slip away from your hypnotic routine and wander out to the edge of mysterious joy.

With a crazy grin of encouragement and my fist pressed against my chest, I salute your efforts to transcend your past. I praise and exalt you for demonstrating that freedom is never permanent but must be reclaimed and reinvented on a regular basis. I cheer you on as you avoid every temptation to repeat yourself, demean yourself, and chain yourself.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Now and then, you go through phases when you don’t know what you need until you stumble upon it. At times like those, you’re wise not to harbor fixed ideas about what you need or where to hunt for what you need.

Metaphorically speaking, a holy grail might show up in a thrift store. An eccentric stranger may provide you with an accidental epiphany at a bus stop or a convenience store. Who knows? A crucial clue may even jump out at you from a spam email or a reality TV show. I suspect that the next two weeks might be one of those odd grace periods for you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I’m feeling a bit helpless as I watch you messing with that bad but good stuff that is so wrong but right for you. I am rendered equally inert as I observe you playing with the strong but weak stuff that’s interesting but probably irrelevant. I fidget and sigh as I monitor the classy but trashy influence that’s angling for your attention; and the supposedly fast-moving process that’s creeping along so slowly; and the seemingly obvious truth that would offer you a much better lesson if only you would see it for the chewy riddle that it is. What should I do about my predicament? Is there any way I can give you a boost? Maybe the best assistance I can offer is to describe to you what I see.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Reverse psychology” is when you convince people to do what you wish they would do by shrewdly suggesting that they do the opposite of what you wish they would do. “Reverse censorship” is when you write or speak the very words or ideas that you have been forbidden to express. “Reverse cynicism” is acting like it is chic to express glee, positivity, and enthusiasm. “Reverse egotism” is bragging about what you don’t have and can’t do. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to carry out all these reversals, as well as any other constructive or amusing reversals you can dream up.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Psychologist Paul Ekman has compiled an extensive atlas of how emotions are revealed in our faces. “Smiles are probably the most underrated facial expressions,” he has written, “much more complicated than most people realize. There are dozens of smiles, each differing in appearance and in the message expressed.” I bring this to your attention, Virgo, because your assignment in the coming weeks— should you choose to accept it—is to explore and experiment with your entire repertoire of smiles. I’m confident that life will conspire to help you carry out

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Poet Emily Dickinson once revealed to a friend that there was only one commandment she ever obeyed: “Consider the lilies.” Japanese novelist Natsume Sōseki told his English-speaking students that the proper Japanese translation for “I love you” is Tsuki ga tottemo aoi naa, which literally means “The moon is so blue tonight.” In accordance with current astrological omens, Pisces, I’m advising you to be inspired by Dickinson and Sōseki. More than any other time in 2018, your duty in the coming weeks is to be lyrical, sensual, aesthetic, imaginative, and festively nonliteral.

HOMEWORK: Send your secrets for how to increase your capacity for love to: Truthrooster@gmail.com.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your key theme right now is growth. Let’s dig in and analyze its nuances. 1. Not all growth is good for you. It may stretch you too far too fast—beyond your capacity to integrate and use it. 2. Some growth that is good for you doesn’t feel good to you. It might force you to transcend comforts that are making you stagnant, and that can be painful. 3. Some growth that’s good for you may meet resistance from people close to you; they might prefer you to remain just as you are and may even experience your growth as a problem.

4. Some growth that isn’t particularly good for you may feel pretty good. For instance, you could enjoy working to improve a capacity or skill that is irrelevant to your long-term goals. 5. Some growth is good for you in some ways and not so good in other ways. You have to decide if the tradeoff is worth it. 6.

Some growth is utterly healthy for you, feels pleasurable, and inspires other people.

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