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CURTIS HILL: PERFORMANCE ARTIST I

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f he weren’t a lawyer and an alleged groper the sooner the investigation concludes, the of women, perhaps Indiana Attorney sooner his reputation is restored.

General Curtis Hill might have become a Instead, he’s doing everything he can to painter. He wouldn’t be the sort of artist slow—or even stop—the process. who crafts portraits or landscapes with deliMaybe he just wants to use the thickest cate, careful brush strokes. paint he can find.

No, Hill’s art would have been more Nor has Hill been content to fling it in avant-garde. He would be the sort who only one direction. steps into a room and starts flinging paint He also has hired another set of attorneys everywhere in the hopes that he could find to say he plans to initiate a civil suit. In it, something in the chaos. if it goes forward, the attorney general will That something, somewhere, would stick. argue he has been defamed—a tough case This same spirit seems to animate his curito make for a public figure who willingly, ous defense against the allegations by four even eagerly, stepped into the spotlight and women, both Republican welcomed public scrutiny, and Democrat, that Hill, a Since then, he discussion, speculation, Republican, touched them and criticism. does just about without their consent and At least a couple of the in inappropriate ways at a everything he women he’s accused of party marking the end of and some of the can—flinging paint accosting the 2018 Indiana General staffers who participated in Assembly legislative session. everywhere—to the initial quiet investigation Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, the incident aren’t exactly try to prevent that of a Republican, has called rolling in dough. In saying for Hill to resign, as has just investigation from he’s going to sue for defamaabout every other elected tion, Hill also is telling those taking place. official, Republican or Dempeople they might have to ocrat, in Indiana. assume heavy legal bills to Following the calls for his resignation, Hill defend themselves if they don’t stop telling refused to relinquish his office and demandtheir stories or doing their work. ed an investigation to clear his name.

The threat is designed to chill the discusSince then, he does just about everything sion and slow or stop the investigation. he can—flinging paint everywhere—to try to More paint. More flinging. prevent that investigation from taking place.

Maybe there is something to the art Hill had one of his attorneys file a chalof Curtis Hill. A picture is beginning to lenge to prevent the special prosecutor emerge. It just isn’t one that’s flattering to selected by the Marion County prosecutor the Indiana attorney general. N from partnering with the state’s inspector John Krull is director of Franklin general to expedite the investigation.

College’s Pulliam School of Journalism One would think that, in theory, an acand publisher of TheStatehouseFile.com, celerated investigation would be what Hill a news website powered by Franklin would want. If he is innocent of the charges, College journalism students.

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ACLU OF INDIANA LAUNCHES LGBTQ RIGHTS PROJECT Statewide Initiative Includes Education, Litigation, and Lobbying

BY LAURA McPHEE // LMCPHEE@NUVO.NET THE ACLU OF INDIANA HAS BEEN FIGHTING FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS SINCE 1953 //

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he American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana has announced the launch of a statewide LGBTQ Rights Project. It’s an initiative meant to create more focus and resources for the ACLU of Indiana’s work defending and advancing the rights of LGBTQ Hoosiers.

“We have made great strides here in Indiana, but our work is far from done,” says Jane Henegar, executive director of the ACLU of Indiana. “LGBTQ community members continue to face attacks on their constitutional rights by business owners, school administrations, and elected officials across our state.

“Whether it be a transgender student’s right to use the correct restroom or a couple’s right to purchase a wedding cake free from discrimination, we will continue to fight in court and in the Statehouse for fairness and equality for all of our community.”

The ACLU of Indiana LGBTQ Rights Project will encompass all of the organization’s current and future work, including current legal action, the Transgender Education and Advocacy Program (TEAP), and advocacy work such as pushing the Indiana House to vote “no” on Senate Bill 65, which could prevent schools from discussing any LGBTQ issues without express written permission from parents.

“We are seeing attempts to use religion

to discriminate, such as the recent Mastera student’s name in the school’s official piece Cakeshop ruling at the national level records database. and the 2016 Religious Freedom RestoAt the end of this past school year, ration Act here in Indiana,” adds Katie Blair, Brownsburg orchestra teacher John Kluge director of advocacy and public policy at resigned over the district’s requirement ACLU of Indiana. “The LGBTQ Rights Projthat he address a student by a new name ect is fighting to ensure no member of our matching that student’s gender identity. community faces discrimination based on After having second thoughts about quittheir sexual orientation or gender identity.” ting, Kluge tried to un-resign and asked Currently, the ACLU for his job back. is suing the Evansville The school declined school system on “ [We’re] fighting to to reinstate him. behalf of a transgenNow he’s claiming ensure no member of der student denied the school’s policy the permission to our community faces violates his First use the restroom that Amendment rights. discrimination based on corresponds with his “I’m being comgender identity. The their sexual orientation pelled to encourage student, identified as students in what I or gender identity.”

J.A.W., has been dibelieve is something agnosed with gender —KATIE BLAIR that’s a dangerous dysphoria; he is under lifestyle,” Kluge told a doctor’s care and is currently undergoing reporters early this summer. “I’m fine to hormone therapy. The school has prevented teach students with other beliefs, but the J.A.W. from using the male restrooms and fact that teachers are being compelled to threatened discipline if he does so. speak a certain way is the scary thing.”

Closer to home, the Brownsburg school Helping to bring awareness and educate corporation is dealing with a teacher’s communities like Evansville and Brownsrefusal to call transgender students by burg are among the many missions of the the names they have chosen. The school LGBTQ Rights Project via TEAP. requires signed paperwork from a doctor “We are working with grassroots advoand parental permission in order to change cates and activists and providing them with

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leadership development and support for community outreach and education,” says Kit Malone, Transgender Education and Advocacy coordinator.

“In the case of Brownsburg, it was fortunate that the school had a policy in place to ensure the rights of transgender students were protected,” Malone says. “More schools should have policies on the books to protect kids from bullying and discrimination.

“The situation in Brownsburg can open up conversation and education opportunities in the community, and the TEAP program helps to make community events and forums possible for communities to have larger conversations.

“Ultimately, schools should be a safe place for our kids, and the refusal to call a child by the correct name or to allow that student to use the correct restroom can be extremely emotionally damaging for students and can expose them to bullying.”

Since its beginning in 1953, the ACLU of Indiana has deployed its resources to fight for LGBTQ rights. That mission continues through a unique base of resources to defend civil liberties through advocacy, education, and litigation. At a national level, the ACLU brought its first LGBTQ rights case in 1936 and founded the LGBTQ Project in 1986.

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TARIFFS AND TRADE WAR CURTIS HILL BAD FOR HOOSIERS DEFENSE FUND CREATED

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Indiana Chamber Warns of Cost to Indiana Consumers and Businesses

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he Indiana Chamber of Commerce The Trump Administration has been is warning that the Trump Adminisnegotiating with Canada and Mexico over tration’s actions on tariffs could hurt the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement.

Indiana and turn into the equivalent However, those negotiations have since of tax increases on Hoosier consumers stalled over tariff disputes. and businesses.

Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly said he “What started as a just attempt to prosupports creating a level playing field for tect American steel and aluminum from U.S. steel producers but is concerned that cheap imports has now transformed to the administration’s approach will cause a potential global trade war with chilllasting harm to Hoosier farmers who have ing economic impacts for Indiana and worked a lifetime to develop access to beyond,” Kevin Brinegar, president of the international markets.

Indiana Chamber of Commerce, said in a “I urge the administration to instead press release. take measured, targetThe dilemma has put “The retaliation on ed action in a way that America in disagreement allow manufacturU.S. tariffs will lead to will with six of its seven top ers, the steel industry, foreign markets. lost sales of Indiana and all our farmers to Brinegar said if somecontinue selling quality products—and thing isn’t done about products all over the tariff issues, much could ultimately, lost jobs.” world,” Donnelly said in be at risk, including an a statement. all-out trade war, reces—KEVIN BRINEGAR Brinegar said that sion, a downturn in the broad tariffs could turn economy, lost jobs, and financial and ecointo the equivalent of tax increases on nomic harm to some people in Indiana.

Hoosier consumers and businesses.

“We are hearing a lot of concerns from “Products used in our homes every many of our members, some of whom day, and the materials consumed to build have already been impacted, and we are them, will simply cost more. And the retalvery concerned that this could lead to a iation on U.S. tariffs will lead to lost sales drop in sales and ultimately a loss of jobs,” of Indiana products—and ultimately, lost Brinegar said in an interview. jobs,” Brinegar said.

Toyota, which builds its Sienna minivan Brinegar said the chamber would conin Princeton, Indiana, has said the tariff tinue taking member concerns to Indiana’s on auto and auto parts imports would congressional delegation as well as other drive up its vehicle costs by $3,000. Toyota contact with the Trump Administration, has 10 assembly plants in the United including Vice President Mike Pence. N States, including Kentucky where the Brynna Sentel is a reporter for TheStateCamry is manufactured and Texas where houseFile.com, a news website powered by the Tundra truck is built.

Franklin College journalism students.

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efenders of Attorney General Curtis done impartially and without prejudgment Hill have launched a nonprofit to raise by persons or agencies with legal jurisdiction money to defend the embattled Repubto do so,” Bopp said. lican against allegations that he groped Chezem said they are not defending four women at a Downtown bar in March. sexual harassment, as they understand The Fairness for Curtis Hill nonprofit is the term, and said that under Indiana law, accepting donations now for those who touching another person is not considered want to fund the attorney general’s efforts to inappropriate behavior unless it is rude, defend himself against the charges, which angry, or insolent. happened on the last night of the regular Bopp and Chezem both argued that Hill is legislative session. being judged on a vague and unwritten poliJames Bopp Jr. and former Judge Linda cy of what constitutes sexual harassment.

Chezem of the Indiana “I believe that when Court of Appeals held a “... there are good, the smoke clears there press conference Monday are good, smart people smart people in the announcing the formain the Legislature who tion of Fairness for Curtis Legislature who can can write an appropriate Hill. It took place in the and reasonable policy write an appropriate law office of Kevin Betz against sexual harassand Sandra Blevins, who and reasonable ment that will apply to last week threatened a all state-elected and policy against sexual defamation lawsuit over appointed officials,” the memo and its leaker. harassment.”

Chezem said.

Hill has not offered his Bopp said he set up the account of the evening —LINDA CHEZEM nonprofit so donations except to say he has done made to Fairness for nothing wrong and, instead of resigning, has Curtis Hill will be tax deductible. They will mounted an aggressive defense. accept donations from private individuals Bopp, who has spent 30 years challenging and entities but not from the government. campaign finance regulations, said the nonWhen asked whether the names of donors profit was created because of the question to the fund will be public, Chezem initially that was raised: “How do we ensure fairness said the names would be available if requestfor Curtis Hill?” ed. But Bopp contradicted her and said, “No, “Vital to fairness is a person’s right to the they will not be public.” presumption of innocence, the knowledge Chezem said that after watching the saga of the claims against him and the parties unfold over the past several weeks, she still involved and to know that their account of has trust in Hill. the events will be given due consideration “Political lynching and character assassiand any governmental investigation or nation are not new in politics,” she said. “But adjudication of those accusations must be Indiana can and should do better.” N NUVO.NET // 07.25.18 - 08.01.18 // NEWS // 5

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PEPPY GRILL ENDURES (*MAYBE) Fountain Square Landmark Closing for Repairs

BY LAURA McPHEE // LMCPHEE@NUVO.NET

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eppy Grill in Fountain Square has been on the decline for a number of years, so it was no surprise when rumors surfaced this week that the iconic 24-hour diner would soon be closing.

A Facebook post by a neighborhood group prompted the latest rumors—rumors that turned out to be only partially correct upon a bit of investigation. The diner will be closing in August but only temporarily while the current owner makes some much-needed repairs.

Losing Peppy Grill would and will be a huge loss for the Fountain Square community.

After 60 years, the tiny restaurant has become a cultural icon synonymous with the working-class clientele it faithfully serves. Both are now on the verge of extinction in this increasingly gentrified stretch of Virginia Avenue and the surrounding neighborhood.

The first Peppy Grill opened in the late 1940s at the corner of Washington Street and Senate, site of the current Government Center. By 1955, there were six locations around town, and by 1960, there were 10.

Gene Sluder was the mastermind of those earliest Peppy diners. Though his father was

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listed as owner, young Gene opened and managed the restaurants during its 1950s heydays, starting before his 20th birthday.

Originally, Fountain Square was home to two Peppy locations, with a third just down Shelby Street in Garfield Park. The first in the neighborhood opened at 1024 Morris St. It operated for more than a decade before Sluder sold it to an employee who promptly renamed it Hazel’s Grill after herself.

The second Fountain Square location was at 1004 Virginia Ave., and it is the only one of Sluder’s original restaurants still in operation. (The current 10th Street Peppy Grill

was not an original and has no affiliation with Sluder.)

When he died in 1979, Sluder was 48.

Over the course of 30 years, he’d owned and operated more than 20 restaurants and established the city’s first—and most enduring—fast food chain. Husband and wife team Gerald and Mary Wyman bought Virginia Avenue Peppy Grill shortly afterward, and Mary Wyman continued to operate the restaurant until her retirement at age 74 in 2013. She died two years later.

Betty Stringer began working at Peppy’s around the time the Wymans took over.

NUVO.NET/FOOD Nearly 40 years later, Betty cooked my seats together any longer. And don’t even biscuits and gravy when I stopped in ask about the grill, the deep fryer, or the earlier this week, asking about rumors the refrigeration system. restaurant is closing.

When I’m finally able to reach Duong, “Just for repairs,” she tells me from her he says any closures at Peppy Grill in the seemingly permanent position between next few weeks will only be temporarily. the counter and the grill. “There’s a lot “We will reopen,” he says repeatedly. of stuff needing fixed. I guess he’s finally “We are going to fix things and then gonna do it.” reopen.” When pressed about specific The “he” Betty refers to is repairs he’s planning to Hai Duong, who purchased make, however, Duong the restaurant in 2013. deflects.

Duong has been a fixture in “We will reopen.

“We have to see,” he tells Indianapolis dining since me. “We have to wait and We are going to arriving in the city in the see once we begin.”

1980s and then opening his fix things and Worried what “wait and House of Tokyo restaurant see” means for the future then reopen.” in 1990. of Peppy Grill, longtime Duong moved House of —HAI DUONG, OWNER customers are making Tokyo to Greenwood quite haste to eat what might be some time ago, where it a final meal at the iconic continues to do well. diner before it closes—just in case it Regulars back at Peppy Grill think doesn’t reopen. Myself included.

Duong bought their favorite restaurant Betty is still cooking and serving believing it would be a cash cow and that breakfast all day, so my lunchtime meal he has since been sorely disappointed. of biscuits and gravy on Monday isn’t “He hasn’t fixed a goddamn thing since a problem. Still under $4, the plate is he bought the place,” says Carl (“That’s all brimming when she hands it to me over you need to know. Just Carl.”). “Have you the counter. Fluffy white biscuits that seen the hole in the men’s room floor? It’s melt in your mouth, flour gravy with just the size of a goddamn bowling ball.” the right amount of sausage, and all of it A customer since the 1980s, Carl has smothered in black pepper. been eating Betty’s breakfast for more It’s exactly how my grandmother would than 30 years, and at 78 years of age, have made it for me. Or at least I’d like he can’t imagine trying to find a new to think so. My grandmother Lea died place to get his coffee, eggs, and bacon. before I was born, so I never tasted her He also can’t imagine Duong is sincere biscuits or her gravy. about renovations.

But Gene Sluder would have taught her “He’s not going to fix all this shit,” Carl his way of making them when he hired her continues. “I guar-un-fucking-tee you, at the College Avenue Peppy Grill in the once he finds out how much needs to be early 1950s, and it’s the recipe she would done and how much it’s all going to cost, have used at the Virginia Avenue location he’s just going to board it up and sit on it.” where she picked up extra shifts before her There’s no disputing that Peppy Grill death in 1959. is in desperate need of repairs. In addiI think about my grandmother every tion to the gaping hole in the men’s room time I eat at Peppy’s, and maybe she is part floor, there’s a leaky roof and several small of what has kept me coming back. window AC units that fail to keep the place Sitting here now, 60 years after her even remotely cool in the summer, just as death, I’m remarkably sad and proud to a relic of a heating system fails to keep it think of all that Peppy Grill has witnessed adequately warm in the winter. The vinyl and withstood—not unlike my grandbooths are literally threadbare with multimother, or Betty, or perhaps even me. ple applications of duct tape failing to hold Fountain Square relics, all of us. N NUVO.NET // 07.25.18 - 08.01.18 // FOOD+DRINK // 7

ANNIVERSARIES, TASTINGS, & TAPPINGS

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pland Brewing Company is celebrating its 20th anniversary and everyone’s invited to the free party July 27 at The White Rabbit Cabaret from 8–11 p.m.

The event includes music, beer, trivia, and details about Upland’s upcoming new multifaceted site in Fountain Square.

On tap will be Dragonfly IPA, Wheat Ale, Champagne Velvet, Little Wheat Lies, and Campside Pale Ale. Expanding into Fountain Square with a projected spring 2019 opening of onsite brewing and barrel aging, a full-service restaurant, and a “unique partnership with Gray Goat Bicycle Company” in the refurbished former Value World discount retail store at 1201 E. Prospect St., is a natural for Bloomington-based Upland. For the past year, they’ve been partnering with The White Rabbit for a monthly FREE TIME Movie Series, but the Fountain Square connection goes back to Upland’s quirky First Friday Propaganda Studio in the Murphy Arts Center, featuring a visual artist, music, and a philanthropy receiving proceeds from pint sales.

And don’t miss these events as well: July 28: Indiana Microbrewers Festival, Historic Military Park, 2–6 p.m. It’s the 23rd year for the Microbrewers Festival, and this year features eight beers brewed especially for the event from brewers around the state. Find them exclusively at the HopCat tent. IN Beer Brigade members will have a special area with access to an additional four exclusive beers, along with private restrooms. An IN Beer Brigade ticket packet at $85 includes a Brigade membership and a

general admission ticket to IMF; tickets are on sale online until midnight Friday, July 27 and will not be sold at the gate. Tickets and more info at indianabeerfest.com.

Aug. 1: Triton Brewing Co. at Fort Harrison has a Mango Pale Splitter American Pale Ale tapping and can release from 3–10 p.m.

Aug. 1: Gen Con 2018 kicks off with Sun King Brewing’s official beer, Everlasting Gamer, at a tapping party and free concert on Georgia Street located outside of the Indiana Convention Center. A Gen Con badge is not required to attend Block Party events, the concert, or tapping. You can also find the specialty Sun King brew Aug. 3 at a Gen Con dinner taking place at Chef JJ’s Downtown, 6–10 p.m.

Aug. 11: Dorman Street Block Party, 12–6 p.m. The invite reads, “Don’t miss this celebration in the fast-growing Holy Cross Neighborhood at the first Dorman Street Block Party presented by Flat12 Bierwerks and Smoking Goose Meatery for a funfilled, all-ages summer block party with 35+ Indiana Grown vendors, local food, beer, wine and whiskey, a BBQ competition, live music, and family friendly activities.”

Aug. 18: Hops & Flip Flops at Daredevil in Speedway, 1–5 p.m. features IPAs from 25 nationwide craft breweries to showcase the wide diversity of IPA styles. Includes live music, local foods, and an all-ages 5K fun run and walk. Benefits Brackets for Good, Speedway Lions Club, and Speedway Trails.

Aug. 19: Lafayette Beer League is hosting “Bike to the Breweries” starting at 3 p.m. at Brokerage Brewing Company. Bike to People’s, LBC, and finish at Teays River Brewery for dinner. “In an effort to promote craft beer and bike safety, the group will enjoy brewery tours, samples, and promotions at each stop,” reads the promo. Sign up here: facebook.com/events/166906324175917/. N

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BARGERSVILLE Taxman Brewing Co. 13 S. Baldwin St. taxmanbrewing.com

CARMEL Danny Boy Beer Works 12702 Meeting House Rd. 317-564-0622

GREENWOOD MashCraft Brewing 1140 Indiana 135 mashcraft.com Oaken Barrel Brewing 50 Airport Pkwy. oakenbarrel.com Planetary Brewing Co. 188 S. Madison Ave. planetarybrewing.com

Deviate Brewing 4004 West 96th St. 317-374-8249 Flix Brewhouse 2206 E. 116th St. flixbrewhouse.com

Books and Brews (Multiple locations) booksnbrews.com

Union Brewing 622 S. Range Line Rd. Suite Q unionbrewingco.com

Broad Ripple Brewpub 840 E 65th St. broadripplebrewpub.com

MashCraft Fishers 11069 Allisonville Rd. mashcraft.com

Brugge Brasserie 1011 E. Westfield Blvd. bruggebrasserie.com

Redemption Alewerks 7035 E. 96th St. redemptionalewerks.com

Cannon Ball Brewing Co. 1702 Bellefontaine St. cannonballbrewingindy.com

INDIANAPOLIS

Sun King Spirits 351 Monon Blvd. sunkingbrewing.com/carmel /sunkingbrewing

CenterPoint Brewing Co. 1125 Brookside Ave. centerpointbrewing.com Central State Brewing Co. 2505 N. Delaware St. centralstatebrewing.com

FISHERS Four Day Ray Brewing 11671 Lantern Rd. fourdayray.com Sun King Brewery 7848 E. 96th St. sunkingbrewing.com/fishers /sunkingbrewing

FRANKLIN Hoosier Brewhouse 157 Holiday Pl. /hoosierbrewing Shale Creek Brewing 178 W. Jefferson St. shalecreekbrewing.com

GREENFIELD Wooden Bear Brewing Co. 21 W. North St. woodenbearbrewing.com

Bier Brewery & Taproom 5133 E. 65th St. bierbrewery.com

Daredevil Brewing Co. 1151 Main St. (Speedway) daredevilbeer.com

Big Lug Canteen 1816 E. 86th St. biglugcanteen.com Big Woods 1002 N Main St. /BigWoodsSpeedway Black Acre Brewing 5632 E. Washington St. blackacrebrewing.com Black Circle Brewing Co. 2201 E. 46th St. blackcirclebrewing.com Blind Owl Brewery 5020 E. 62nd St. Blindowlbrewery.com

Chilly Water Brewing Co. 719 Virginia Ave. chillywaterbrewing.com

Deviate Brewing 4004 W. 96th St. deviatebrewing.com Flat 12 Bierwerks 414 N. Dorman St. flat12.me Fountain Square Brewing 1301 Barth Ave. fountainsquarebrewery.com Garfield Brewery 2310 Shelby St. garfieldbrewery.com Guggman Haus Brewing Co. 1701 Gent Ave. guggmanhausbrewing.com

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Grand Junction Brewing 110 S. Union St. grandjunctionbrewing.com

The Tap 306 N. Delaware St. thetapmassave.com Thr3e Wise Men Brewery 1021 Broad Ripple Ave. thr3ewisemen.com Triton Brewing 5764 Wheeler Rd. tritonbrewing.com Twenty Below 5408 N. College Ave. 20below.coffee TwoDEEP Brewing Co. 714 N. Capitol Ave. twodeepbrewing.com

Happy Brewing Co. 3902 N. Illinois St. /happybrewingco

PLAINFIELD Black Swan Brewpub 7655, 2067 Hadley Rd. blackswanbrewpub.com Brew Link Brewery 212 E. Main St. brewlinkbrewing.com

WESTFIELD Moontown Brewing Co. 345 S. Bowers St. moontownbeer.com

WHITELAND Nailers Brewing Co. 6001 N, US-31 ste. 14 /nailersbrewingcompany

WHITESTOWN Urban Vines Winery & Brew 303 E. 161st St. urban-vines.com

Indiana City Brewing Co. 24 Shelby St. indianacitybeer.com

ZIONSVILLE

Liter House 5301 Winthrop Ave. facebook/literhouse

Noble Order 98 S. Main St. nobleorderbrewing.com

MashCraft 2205 N. Delaware St. mashcraft.com

Traders Brewing Co. 8587 Zionsville Rd. tradersbrewingcompany.com

Metazoa Brewing Co. 140 S. College Ave. metazoa.beer Redemption Alewerks 7035 E. 96th St. redemptionalewerks.com Rock Bottom Brewery 10 W. Washington St. rockbottom.com Round Town Brewery 950 S. White River Pkwy roundtownbrewery.com St. Joseph Brewery 540 N. College Ave. saintjoseph.beer Sun King Brewing Co. 135 N. College Ave. sunkingbrewing.com/ indianapolis /sunkingbrewing

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he High Art Billboard Project started five years ago with a presentation by Clear Channel to the Arts Council of Indianapolis.

Clear Channel Outdoor Advertising was hoping to collaborate with the Arts Council on some billboard projects, where images of artists’ work were displayed on billboards, as they had seen happen in other cities.

“So they came to us and said, ‘We would really love to do something similar,’ and they showed us examples,” says Shannon Linker, vice president of the Arts Council of Indianapolis. “Most of the examples that they showed us were really safe and traditional, and we said, ‘Well, we love this idea of artists being up on billboards, but you’re going to have to be content with contemporary art because it may not be horses running through fields.’”

In the first year of the High Art Billboard Project, 2013–2014, per Linker’s warning, there were no running horses peeking above office parks and McDonald’s along I-465 and major thoroughfares. Instead, there was Jonathan McAfee’s edgy, Day-Glo painting “Girl with the Hipster Glasses.” There was also Robert Horvath’s rather creepy but oddly beautiful painting “Brain Candy” portraying a neurotoxin up close and personal.

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But there was also abstract work, like “The Last Spectra (Cloud Formation)” by Michal Lile. Those and seven other images greeted drivers throughout the city that reflected the diversity of contemporary art being created in Central Indiana.

And the project, which has a new round every year—featuring 10 Central Indiana artists selected by a jury—survived a change in billboard ownership that occurred in late 2016, from Clear Channel to Fairway Outdoor Advertising.

The partnership requires Fairway to donate the billboard space and for the Arts Council to pick up the printing costs for the 10 billboards to the tune of $3,500 total. But it doesn’t end there.

“The idea was that Clear Channel, now Fairway Outdoor Advertising, would pay for the installation [and deinstallation],” says Linker, “and that they would be moved around. Basically, it’s a win-win for everybody because they have empty space they would have their people install and move them around during the empty space time when they don’t have an advertiser. But that’s a valuable thing to have somebody paying a lot of money for that.”

Since the modus operandi of the Arts Council was to insist that artists get paid for

their work, it became important early on to quantify the value of the High Art Billboard Project, especially because at the beginning there were no funds in the Arts Council coffers to pay artists directly for their participation in the project.

And that estimated value by Fairway, of an estimated 15 million views throughout the year, has been calculated at over $240,000 for the 10 artists in total.

Eventually, however, the Indianapolis Arts Council found the funds within its budget to pay the artists’ $250 licensing fee.

The Arts Council was also able to fund a $500 prize for the People’s Choice Awards. The opportunity for you to vote for your favorite billboard, on the Arts Council website, will take place from Sept. 3—when the 2018–2019 billboards will be installed—to Sept. 9.

The billboards will be installed on Sept.

3 and remain in place for one whole month before being moved and replaced.

The selection process for the High Art Billboard Project stays basically the same every year, but this year the program got more applicants than ever: 127 for 10 spaces.

“We released the call in May, deadline in June, shortly after we convene our selection group,” says Lindsey Lord, the Arts Council’s

public art and artist services coordinator.

“It was three people from Fairway [Outdoor Advertising]; it was two people that we have regularly participate on our selection panels.

We try to include an arts administrator, maybe an artist who didn’t apply, [and] so this year, it was Kyle Herrington and Jingo de la Rosa. And then Julia [Muney Moore, Arts Council director of public art] and myself.”

And the High Art Billboard Project seems to be evolving.

“This year when we met with Fairway to talk about what this year would look like, they also offered—in addition to the 10 14-foot-by-40-foot traditional billboards you’ve seen through the four years of the program—poster-size billboards,” says Lord.

“They’re 10-foot-by-24-foot, and these are the kind of billboards you see kind of more in communities.”

It could certainly be said that High Art is one of the more visible projects that the Arts Council has been involved in.

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2018–2019 WINNERS The Variety of High Art

The 10 artists this year chosen for the High Art

Fleet” featured on the previous page. But it’s

Billboard Program, run as a partnership between

not just painters whose billboards will attract the

the Arts Council of Indianapolis and Fairway Out-

attention of both motorists and birds. There’s

door Advertising, were chosen from 127 applicants

photography (Brian Bosmer, “Search Duality”),

from all over Central Indiana. The work ranges

ceramic art (Jaclyn Head, “Field of Flowers”),

from moody portraiture in Jay Parnell’s “Strange

and textile (Jane Broemel, “Sweet Spots”). Keep

Weather” to Heather Ward Miles’ abstract compo-

an eye peeled for these signs of life in Indy’s art

sition “Ferocious and Feminine” to the playful Mab

scene, as it were, next time you’re stuck in traffic

Graves painting “The Atomic Candy Cosmonauts

on I-465 or Indy’s other major thoroughfares.

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JEN BROEMEL, “SWEET SPOTS,” 2018, TEXTILE //

JACLYN HEAD, “FIELD OF FLOWERS,” 2018, PORCELAIN AND GLAZE //

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BEATRIZ AND HER FRIENDS You Can Check Out the 2017–2018 Billboards through Sept. 2

The 10 2018-2019 High Art billboards will be

now. That is because the billboards are often re-

installed Sept. 3, but you don’t have to wait

placed and/or moved around by Fairway Outdoor

until then to see examples of this innovative art

Advertising. But don’t fret. Just click on indyarts.

program. That is because last year’s winners are

org/public-art before you go. You will be able to

still on view. If you want to see Beatriz Vasquez’s

see the 2017–2018 winners as well as their current

High Art billboard “La Santa Frida,” for example,

locations. And while you’re on this website, you’ll

you can still do that—as of this writing—at 1301

see that High Art is just one of many public art

Madison Ave. But we can’t guarantee that it will

projects that the Indianapolis Arts Council is

still be at that location even a couple of days from

involved in! (See next page for Beatriz’s art).

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PENELOPE DULLAGHAN, “BOTANICALS WITH PANSIES,” 2018, MIXED MEDIA //

HEATHER WARD MILES, “FEROCIOUS AND FEMININE,” ACRYLIC ON CANVAS //

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AN ART THAT STRADDLES THE BORDER

A Profile of Beatriz Vasquez

BY DAN GROSSMAN // DGROSSMAN@NUVO.NET

PHOTO BY HALEY WARD //

BEATRIZ VASQUEZ, “LA SANTA FRIDA,” PAPEL PICADO //

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eatriz Vasquez has lived in Indianapolis for close to 25 years. She was born and raised in the border town of Brownsville, Texas. But she also has spent time on the other side of the border, in Matamoros, Mexico.

“My father was born there, so I have many, many family members there and most of my mother’s family is there as well,” she says.

The artwork that appears on Vasquez’s 2017–2018 High Art billboard, “La Santa Frida,” depicts the Mexican artist Frida

Kahlo as a saint.

“I created ‘La Santa Frida’ during a time when she was also very much an influencer in my life while I was going through very personal and traumatic times.”

The work was featured in a 2015 Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre performance of La Casa Azul. The play is based on Frida Kahlo’s intimate diaries, which detail the many struggles she had to overcome in order to create her art. This was an aspect of her history that Vasquez could certainly relate to. Hancock had

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first learned about Vasquez’s work in an Indy Star article by Frank Espich in 2014 and immediately knew it would be right for La Casa Azul.

“When he saw my work, he said, ‘Perfect,’” she says. “‘Her work is going to be perfect for the background.’”

The art technique that Vasquez, 49, has been practicing for the past 10 years also comes from the other side of the border.

The technique, papel picado, is a widely practiced decorative craft in Mexico.

“After I graduated in 2006 from Herron School of Art and Design, I discovered that there was a need for more culturally appropriate work and artwork here. I was not taught papel picado in school here, but I had known about it growing up as a child, growing up in Matamoros and Brownsville. And so right after graduation, I went back to Mexico to reunite with my family, and that’s where I kind of picked it up. I started going through indigenous communities with my family.”

One of her aunts introduced her to her friends who create indigenous crafts, including papel picado.

“So when I returned to Indianapolis, I decided that’s what I would teach myself to do. So I came back here, and every day I taught myself to cut paper, not the traditional way…where they use chisels and nails and hammers to cut these beautiful, intricate designs onto 60 or more pieces of paper.”

Vasquez uses a utility knife to create her designs on colored paper.

One thing that appealed to her about the craft—that she would turn into a personally expressive art—was that the paper used in papel picado is very delicate and easily damaged. But it also has other qualities, including versatility.

“You can do so many things with paper,” she says. “When I started creating

with paper, I really started metaphorically thinking about my work and the indigenous communities where I come from and how vulnerable they really are but strong at the same time.”

Lately the art world has seemed to have caught on to the resonances of Vasquez’ art.

In June, she returned from a series of four residencies in San Francisco. She has also been invited to be the artist in residence in Sierra Leone, West Africa, in spring 2019.

Vasquez was excited by the opportunity to display her work in last year’s High Art program.

“I wanted to show a great Mexican female artist here in Indianapolis billboard-size so that people can recognize that yes, we are here. We—Latinos, Mexican people—are here in Indianapolis, and we are great in many, many ways.”

But in the midst of all her personal success as an artist, Vasquez has had to deal with the recent theft of much of her artwork and many of her family’s belongings. They discovered the loss on July 1 while they were in the middle of moving from Carmel to Indianapolis.

Yet this loss hasn’t prevented her from moving forward with her art. She has an upcoming solo exhibition at Purdue University throughout September at the Black Cultural Center at Purdue University in partnership with the PU Latino Cultural Center. It addresses the Trump Administration’s immigration policies, including its punitive practice of child separation.

“It’s not just happening in the South along the border, but it’s happening here too,” says Vasquez. “A lot of my friends, a lot of my family’s friends, have been deported. I feel like I have a voice because I was born in the U.S., but I’m very close to my culture and my traditions that I feel strength that I have to bring awareness through the work that I create.” N

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AN ART AS P0ETIC AS IT IS PERSONAL Jay Parnell’s Traditional Palette

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s an artist, Jay Parnell, 50, is a selfmade man.

“I’ve been an artist all my life,” he says. “I was always drawing as a kid, in high school. In college, I kind of took a break. I did very little art in college, mostly photography. Once I graduated from college, I worked as a professional photographer for about 10 years. I also began illustrating. And that’s really when I began painting, back in the early ’90s.”

He didn’t learn his precise and painstakingly detailed portraiture in any art school.

“I’m self-taught,” he says. “I’ve worked over the years to get where I am now, and just having the vision of what I wanted to do and where I wanted to go, and so I just worked toward that.”

Parnell’s painting “Strange Weather,” chosen for the 2018–2019 High Art Program, depicts two young men locked arm in arm against the background of a foreboding landscape, facing the viewers with their questions, their hopes, and their fears.

It’s a departure from the other High Art selections in its style and its palette, and it’s an unendingly riveting composition.

Just don’t let your glance linger too long as you’re driving past it when it’s installed in early September.

“It’s about solidarity, obviously, and protecting yours,” he says. “And the ‘strange weather’ comes in with how things have evolved lately. I listen to the journalists speak about how things happen, and it’s like a weather pattern. It’s never attributed to an individual…[The journalists say] the streets are violent.

Things are turning violent…But there’s specific people attached to these specific things that are going on. And to me, it’s like they’re talking about the weather. It’s so far removed from what’s really hap-

pening that it really bothers me.”

Parnell went to Ball State University and received a bachelor’s of science in telecommunications in 1992. His photography skills proved useful in his first job right out of college, when he worked as illustrator and photographer for Ball Corporation.

Yet his subject has been constant through his career.

“I love watching people,” he says.

“It’s almost a no-brainer. It’s still about finding the situation that expresses what I’m thinking about. That’s still what I’m discovering every day, but as far as my subject’s concerned, dealing with people will probably always be the case.”

While his subject is the human figure, his mediums have evolved over the years from pen and ink to watercolor to acrylic to oils. He also has distinct preferences in support mediums.

“I’ve always liked a hard substrate,” he says. “I used to paint on Masonite quite a bit.

And then I moved from that to wood panels.”

Parnell paints using reference photos, sometimes from his family and friends’ children. It’s out of necessity because in his very busy life, there’s no time to have people sit and pose for three- or fourhour stretches. When he’s not painting, you might find him at another job that he works to support his family, including his three home-schooled children.

Along the way, Parnell has also considered other career paths.

“I considered being an academic,” he says. “I considered going back and completing my master’s because I really loved talking about the Italian Renaissance; I really enjoyed talking about the history of photography, the history of film. All that stuff is so appealing to me. And I just never pulled the trigger on it because I got a job right out of school, and I was so

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happy making money that I just forgot about being an academic.”

You can intuit his love of the classical tradition of painting just by looking at his work.

“I don’t think you can truly master the figure,” he says. “You can reach a level where you are considered a master, but those people are still trying to further their talents. So I guess it’s about finding that language that best expresses what I want to say.”

His two favorite painters—“the gods of my art world,” he says—are Swedish-born, Norwegian figurative painter

Odd Nerdrum, he says, and the American Andrew Wyeth, two painters firmly rooted in the classical tradition.

And you can certainly see how their influence has rubbed off..

Parnell calls Nerdrum “the Rembrandt of his time.”

“He’s absolutely brilliant,” he says.

“He’s taken painting to another level, and Wyeth is so quintessentially American, and everything is so personal. I mean, it’s poetry not in words but in images, and that’s really what I try to get from him.” N NUVO.NET // 07.25.18 - 08.01.18 // THE BIG STORY // 15

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he official selections for the inaugural Indy Shorts International Film Festival were announced June 28 by its presenter, Heartland Film.

While there are many international films, it’s the shorts about Indy that are bound to attract the most attention. (See the blurbs below for the documentary shorts on the popular brunch spot Milktooth and the defunct Talbott Street nightclub.)

One film in particular seems especially timely.

American recounts the story of a 94-yearold Japanese American veteran who was in an American internment camp during WWII, before going to fight in that war. It stars George Takei—who was also imprisoned in one of these camps—best known for his role as Sulu on Star Trek.

Takei is currently speaking out against Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy against undocumented immigrants and comparing it to the policy that imprisoned him and his family.

The operative word in all of these films— whether it’s Zion, a documentary focusing on the life of Zion Clark, a young wrestler who was born without legs, or the animated short The Driver Is Red, which details the abduction by Israeli secret service agents of Nazi war criminals in Argentina in the early ’60s—is short. That is, films under 40 minutes running time.

“It’s a focus on short films themselves, and it’s an art form that’s unlike any you’d see at a feature festival,” says Heartland Film President Craig Prater. “I’m always convinced that a filmmaker of short films can do films [other filmmakers] can’t do. In fact, feature people get carried away and it goes on forever. Short

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MILKTOOTH: A FINE DINER This documentary is a must for any fan of chef Jonathan Brooks’ brunch creations.

And even if you’re not a foodie, you might feel some Hoosier pride in the fact that this Fletcher Place establishment has been recognized as one of the best restaurants in the world by Conde Nast.

QUEENS INSIDE The loss of the gay nightclub and drag bar Talbott Street was felt beyond Indy’s LGBTQ community. Now this documentary is giving everybody a chance to know about this unique gathering venue that served as a theater in the ’60s before it became a gay and drag gathering place. [film] people, they’ve got a few minutes to show their craft and they have to do it in that short period of time. Our ongoing joke is if you don’t like that short, sit tight, it will be over, a new one will be on there in just another minute.”

A definite highlight of the short-film fest is the Indiana Spotlight short films, which will be shown at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields. (The films must have a director and/or producer with former/current Indiana residency, and most of the film has to be shot in the Hoosier state.)

“There are dozens of short-film festivals, but there are thousands of these standard festivals,” says Greg Sorvig, director of film programming. “It’s a new trend. Being around for 27 years now for Heartland, we’ve got to do something fresh, and this is it.”

The fact that Indy Shorts is giving out $25,000 puts Indy Shorts at the head of the pack, says Sorvig.

The short-film finalists chosen by the

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DESTINATION PARK Destitute truck drivers and their fears and frustrations in Trump’s America are the focus of this documentary.

MICROWAVE TIME MACHINE Heartland jury will compete in the narrative, documentary, and animated categories for the $5,000 grand prizes.

But it’s not only about the money.

Indy Shorts is a qualifying festival for the Academy Awards within the live-action and documentary short-film categories. The winners of the grand prize for the best documentary and the best narrative short film will each qualify to compete in the short-film category of the Academy Awards.

Here’s a sample of selected short films from the Indy Shorts Indiana Spotlight program, shining a light on filmmakers from the Hoosier state, as well as on films made in the Hoosier state.

How can any fan of science fiction pass this narrative feature up? It’s about a young scientist who makes a strange discovery. And since it involves ill-advised uses of kitchen appliances, weird stuff is bound to happen.

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BROAD RIPPLE HIGH SCHOOL IN UPCOMING FILM The High School Is a Setting in the Upcoming ‘The MisEducation of Bindu’

BY DAN GROSSMAN // DGROSSMAN@NUVO.NET

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he forthcoming film The MisEducation of Bindu will tell the story of a 14-yearold Indian American girl, played by Megan Suri, who encounters everything from bullying to bad fashion, as she negotiates the hallways of her high school.

Much of this film was shot in Broad Ripple High School from July 2 to July 18.

Broad Ripple High School, which graduated its last class in 2018 and is now closed, serves as a stand-in for the proto-typical American high school.

This isn’t a story based on personal experience said Bindu director Prarthana Mohan. At least it’s not based on her own personal experience.

“I grew up in India,” Mohan said. “I didn’t go to high school here. But I think there’s something very singular about the American high school experience, and I grew up watching American high school films…My co-writer Kay Tuxford is American and went to school here. She brings that expertise of having gone to school here, and I bring the expertise of being an Indian kid in a foreign land because I came here for grad school much later in life.

We sort of melded those two sensibilities.”

Mohan said that the school is almost like a character in the film. “We were so fortunate to be able to film and just sort of capture the incredible spaces that they have here,” she said. “It was a happy accident that it all came together, and we’re so happy to be here."

A certain amount of serendipity went into securing the school as a shoot location.

Mohan’s husband Ed Timpe, who is the film’s producer, grew up in Indianapolis and went to Cathedral High School. (Mohan and Timpe met as students at Chapman University in California as students.) Accordingly, neither are strangers to Indianapolis, and recently they became aware that Broad Ripple High School was closing.

Timpe and Mohan teamed up with the Bloomington-based Pigasus Pictures, which secured the Broad Ripple High School location—renamed Broad River High School in the film.

Pigasus’ first feature film was 2017’s The Good Catholic, starring Danny Glover and John C. McGinley and was filmed in Bloomington.

The MisEducation of Bindu has some

big names behind it, including the Hollywood-based Duplass Brothers. The brothers workshopped the script with the co-writers and will also assist in pre- and post-production as executive producers.

David Arquette, who has starred in the Scream films, Never Been Kissed, and The Grey Zone, plays Bindu’s stepfather.

According to Timpe, the road to getting The MisEducation of Bindu made into a feature film was a long one.

“It’s pretty typical to rewrite the script and go through new notes and have the project evolve,” said Timpe. “This is a much different script than it was 10 years ago. We shortened it. It [originally] took place over the course of a whole year, and now we’ve boiled it down to one day. So there was the evolution of things and then finding the money and then finding locations. So 10 years is a little exacerbated but it does take a long time.”

One of the things that “exacerbated” the time spent on the film was producer Timpe and director Mohan having a child.

Their boy, Cyrus, now 3 years old, was on hand at Broad Ripple High School on July 18 during filming, along with his grandparents on his father’s side.

Originally, Timpe said, the city of Indianapolis itself was also a character in The MisEducation of Bindu.

“Now that we’ve boiled it down,” said Timpe, “it’s sort of more about the school and the atmosphere around [it]. It was always supposed to be in Indiana.”

The overarching message, said Timpe, is that the high school experience isn’t unique.

“The experience is sort of happening to everybody,” he said. “And it’s not just happening to one group of people. Everyone has sort of their own unique story and their own unique way they get through high school. I think this is another way of showing another one of those stories.”

Additional footage was shot in a private residence in Carmel, and the entire production wrapped on July 23.

Mohan equates the experience of making a film, where there’s quite a bit of waiting around for everyone involved, with film school.

“It kind of ruins the magic,” said Mohan.

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Black Circle Brewing Company Is a Brewery Built on Music

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t’s not every day that a legendary punk band plays at a brewery. Black Circle Brewing Company is not your average brewery though.

Located at 2202 E. 46th St. in the South Broad Ripple neighborhood, Black Circle is a brewery built on music. For proof, just take a closer look at its name. “Black Circle is actually a reference to a record,” says co-owner Jesse Rice. Already in their three-year existence, the brewery has welcomed both large and small acts to its stage, including underground legends like Mutoid Man and the Dead Boys, as well as local acts like Bullet Points and Potslammer.

Having played in bands of his own over the years, Rice came up in the underground. “I used to live in Bloomington, and I just loved basement parties and having bands,” he says.

These festivities would continue at his home in Indy until he and some buds (three original Black Circle partners have since moved on) decided to make things a little more official “We got this place in March of 2016,” Rice says. “Ever since then, it’s just been building something new every week to improve it a little bit more.”

Although Black Circle throws all kinds of shows, the space has become best known

for hosting metal bands. According to Rice, In time, Rice and his beer-brewing partner there’s a reason for this. “It kind of just Dan Gayle have continued making a name happened that way because 5th Quarter for themselves, offering Indy’s music lovers a Lounge closed down the same month that home that feels just right. In addition to their we opened, and the promoters were like, selection of vinyl records (all music played in ‘Well shit. We’ve gotta throw these shows that the brewery is of the vinyl variety), the brewwere booked out for ery has an impressive the next six months to wall of pinball maplaces,’” Rice says. “A “We really think they are chines. Of course, you lot of the established forget about the providing a great spot for can’t music venues already beer either. According had bookings too, so some heavier bands in Indy to Rice, some popular we ended up getting Circle brews across a wide spectrum as Black shit that we had no include Pixel Punk business getting.” well as just about anything (an 8-bit themed Within its first three American Pale Ale) else you can think of.” months, Black Circle and Jaycee Cones was thrown into the —CHRIS BANTA (an IPA named after fire, hosting acts like Casey Jones from Mutoid Man and Conan from the U.K. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles).

“It just caught on quickly, probably even Underneath it all, however, there’s support more so than the beer did,” Rice says. “As a for the Indianapolis music community, which 3-month-old brewery, we were barely off the has certainly been appreciated by many local ground from that perspective, but here was bands. “We love Jesse and the entire Black Mutoid Man playing in here. So it was cool.

Circle Brewing crew to bits,” says Chris Banta, It gave us a lot of early exposure and also vocalist/guitarist of Indianapolis rock band got a lot of local bands to just know that we Brother O’ Brother. “We really think they are were even here. We kind of got a kick start providing a great spot for some heavier bands from that.” in Indy across a wide spectrum as well as just

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about anything else you can think of. The vintage video games, great menu, and overall super-friendly, no-pretention environment has made this a place we have been happy to support and be a part of.”

This sentiment is one that’s echoed by Mike Naish, bassist of Indianapolis metal band Apostle of Solitude.

“Jesse has done nothing other than improve the venue over the past few years,” Naish says. “He has updated the sound system a few different times by adding additional monitors for both the crowd and those of us who occupy the stage; [there was] also a recent extensive expansion of the venue to accommodate larger crowds.”

He continues, “Black Circle Brewing has been supportive of my bands by providing a great setting for shows with other touring bands and our recent record release in February 2018. Black Circle Brewing tirelessly supports the local music scene and does so without stepping on other venues.”

Going forward, Indy can expect more of the same badassery from Black Circle. With shows booked all the way through New Year’s Eve, there’s a little bit of something for everyone on the calendar. And, of course, you can always just head there for a killer hang as well. N

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JAZZ FEST TO CELEBRATE ART BLAKEY

Kyle Long Gets a Sneak Peek at this Year’s Indy Jazz Fest Lineup

BY KYLE LONG // MUSIC@NUVO.NET ANAT COHEN // PHOTO BY MARK SHELDON

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ndy Jazz Fest supporters were offered a first look at the festival’s 2018 lineup during a fundraising event at The Cabaret last Sunday afternoon. The theme of this year’s Jazz Fest is The Big Beat. According to Indy Jazz Fest Director David Allee, the name is a nod to the legendary jazz drummer Art Blakey.

“Art Blakey had an album called The Big Beat, and we think of Indy Jazz Fest as coming from the same place as Art Blakey,” Allee says.

Indy Jazz Fest 2018 is scheduled to run from Sept. 13–22. Maintaining a format established in recent years, the festival will take place in multiple venues around town as opposed to the all-day outdoor extravaganzas of earlier editions.

This year’s festival also continues the trend of featuring rising stars and local talent over bloated superstar acts. While this leaner approach certainly helps to keep the festival financially solvent, there’s also a mission-driven purpose behind showcasing unheralded talent. According to Allee, that’s where the Art Blakey connection comes into play.

“Art Blakey was a nurturer,” Allee states.

“It was Art Blakey who first brought us

Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Timmons, and many other musicians we revere now. Even more contemporary musicians like Terence Blanchard and Wynton Marsalis went through the school of Art Blakey. Art Blakey nurtured a lot of musicians, and when we look at the festival, we value the ability to present both the notable names in jazz alongside musicians who deserve greater notoriety.”

While some of the final details for Indy Jazz Fest 2018 are still being nailed down, I’ve compiled a few highlights below. Stay tuned to NUVO for more Indy Jazz Fest 2018 coverage this September.

LARRY CARLTON, SEPT. 19 Perhaps the biggest name at this year’s festival is fusion guitarist Larry Carlton. A long-running member of the pioneering fusion group The Crusaders, Carlton is probably best known for his prolific work as a session musician. The list of Carlton’s studio credits is thicker than a phone book and includes some of the most important albums in popular music history. As a session player, Carlton is probably best known for his work with Steely Dan and Joni Mitch-

ell. Carlton is featured on Steely Dan classics such as Aja and Gaucho, and his work with Mitchell includes beloved favorites such as Hejira and Court and Spark. Carlton has recorded over 20 solo LPs and accumulated 19 Grammy nominations.

RAYFORD GRIFFIN, SEPT. 18 One of the most interesting local players on the 2018 schedule is drummer Rayford Griffin. Griffin cut his teeth in the Indianapolis music scene during the early 1970s, performing in the band Tarnished Silver with a young Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds.

During the late 1970s, Griffin was a member of the legendary Indianapolis fusion group Merging Traffic. It was during a gig with Merging Traffic that Griffin was first noticed

by French jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty. Griffin would later join Ponty’s band, which led to work with artists including George Duke, Michael Jackson, and Stanley Clarke.

CORY HENRY AND THE FUNK APOSTLES, SEPT. 15 Best known as organist for Snarky Puppy, Cory Henry’s Funk Apostles specialize in virtuosic cosmic soul grooves.

ANAT COHEN, SEPT. 16 Clarinetist/saxophonist Anat Cohen grew up in Israel but quickly gravitated toward the music of the Americas.

Cohen has distinguished herself as a great interpreter of Brazilian music in particular, performing extensively in the choro idiom.

BILLY CHILDS, SEPT. 15 The acclaimed California-born pianist Billy Childs has won Grammy awards and a Guggenheim Fellowship for his brilliant work as a composer and performer. Childs also has a strong connection to the Indianapolis jazz scene, having worked extensively with both J.J. Johnson and Freddie Hubbard.

HAROLD LÓPEZ-NUSSA AND OSCAR MICHELI TRIO, SEPT. 14 Fans of Latin jazz won’t want to miss this doubleheader featuring the incredible Cuban pianist Harold López-Nussa with Dominican pianist Oscar Micheli.

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Ignore everything I just said! Here’s my real advice: Dare yourself to feel strong positive emotions. Tell secrets to animals and trees. Swim and dance and meditate naked. Remember in detail the three best experiences you’ve ever had. Experiment with the way you kiss. Create a blessing that surprises you and everyone else. Sing new love songs. Change something about yourself you don’t like. Ask yourself unexpected questions and then answer them with unruly truths that have medicinal effects.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your past is not quite what it seems. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to find out why—and make the necessary adjustments. A good way to begin would be to burrow back into your old stories and unearth the half-truths buried there. It’s possible that your younger self wasn’t sufficiently wise to understand what was really happening all those months and years ago and as a result distorted the meaning of the events. I suspect, too, that some of your memories aren’t actually your own but rather other people’s versions of your history. You may not have time to write a new memoir right now, but it might be healing to spend a couple of hours drawing up a revised outline of your important turning points.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): One of the most famously obtuse book-length poems in the English language is Robert Browning’s “Sordello,” published in 1840. After studying it at length, Alfred Tennyson, who was Great Britain’s poet laureate from 1850 to 1892, confessed, “There were only two lines in it that I understood.” Personally, I did better than Tennyson did, managing to decipher 18 lines.

But I bet that if you read this dense, multilayered text in the coming weeks, you would do better than Tennyson and me. That’s because you’ll be at the height of your cognitive acumen. Please note: I suggest you use your extra intelligence for more practical purposes than decoding obtuse texts.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Ready for your financial therapy session? For your first assignment, make a list of the valuable qualities you have to offer the world and write a short essay about why the world should abundantly reward you for them. Assignment #2: Visualize what it feels like when your valuable qualities are appreciated by people who matter to you. #3: Say this: “I am a rich resource that ethical, reliable allies want to enjoy.” #4: Say this: “My scruples can’t be bought for any amount of money. I may rent my soul, but I’ll never sell it outright.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): As you wobble and stumble into the New World, you shouldn’t pretend you understand more than you actually do.

In fact, I advise you to play up your innocence and freshness. Gleefully acknowledge you’ve got a lot to learn. Enjoy the liberating sensation of having nothing to prove. That’s not just the most humble way to proceed; it’ll be your smartest and most effective strategy. Even people who have been a bit skeptical of you before will be softened by your vulnerability. Opportunities will arise because of your willingness to be empty and open and raw.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Since 1358, the city of Paris has used the Latin motto Fluctuat nec mergitur, which can be translated as “She is tossed by the waves but does not sink.” I propose that we install those stirring words as your rallying cry for the next few weeks. My analysis of the astrological omens gives me confidence that even though you may encounter unruly weather, you will sail on unscathed. What might be the metaphorical equivalent of taking seasick pills?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Spanish word delicadeza can have several meanings in English, including “delicacy” and “finesse.” The Portuguese word delicadeza has those meanings, as well as others, including “tenderness,” “fineness,” “suavity,” “respect,” and “urbanity.” In accordance with current astrological omens, I’m making it your word of power for the next three weeks. You’re in a phase when you will thrive by expressing an abundance of these qualities. It might be fun to temporarily give yourself the nickname Delicadeza.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Uninformed scientists scorn my oracles. Reductionist journalists say I’m just another delusional fortuneteller. Materialist cynics accuse me of pandering to people’s superstition. But I reject those naive perspectives. I define myself as a psychologically astute poet who works playfully to liberate my readers’ imaginations with inventive language, frisky stories, and unpredictable ideas.

Take a cue from me, Scorpio, especially in the next four weeks. Don’t allow others to circumscribe what you do or who you are. Claim the power to characterize yourself. Refuse to be squeezed into any categories, niches, or images—except those that squeeze you the way you like to be squeezed.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.” So said Sagittarian novelist Jane Austen. I don’t have any judgment about whether her attitude was right or wrong, wise or ill advised. How about you? Whatever your philosophical position might be, I suggest that for the next four weeks you activate your inner Jane Austen and let that part of you shine—not just in relation to whom and what you love but also with everything that rouses your passionate interest.

According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’re due for some big, beautiful, radiant zeal.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “There are truths I haven’t even told God,” confessed Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. “And not even myself. I am a secret under the lock of seven keys.”

Are you harboring any riddles or codes or revelations that fit that description, Capricorn? Are there any sparks or seeds or gems that are so deeply concealed they’re almost lost? If so, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to bring them up out of their dark hiding places. If you’re not quite ready to show them to God, you should at least unveil them to yourself.

Their emergence could spawn a near miracle or two.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): What are your goals for your top two alliances or friendships? By that I mean, what would you like to accomplish together? How do you want to influence and inspire each other? What effects do you want your relationships to have on the world? Now maybe you’ve never even considered the possibility of thinking this way. Maybe you simply want to enjoy your bonds and see how they evolve rather than harnessing them for greater goals. That’s fine. No pressure. But if you are interested in shaping your connections with a more focused sense of purpose, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to do so.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In Janet Fitch’s novel White Oleander, a character makes a list of “twenty-seven names for tears,” including “Heartdew. Griefhoney. Sadwater. Die tränen. Eau de douleur. Los rios del corazón.” (The last three can be translated as “The Tears,” “Water of Pain,” and “The Rivers of the Heart.”) I invite you to emulate this playfully extravagant approach to the art of crying.

The coming weeks will be en excellent time to celebrate and honor your sadness, as well as all the other rich emotions that provoke tears. You’ll be wise to feel profound gratitude for your capacity to feel so deeply. For best results, go in search of experiences and insights that will unleash the full cathartic power of weeping. Act as if empathy is a superpower.

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