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DONALD TRUMP HAS NO POKER FACE BY JOHN KRULL // EDITORS@NUVO.NET
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oy, it would be fun to play poker with Donald Trump. Judging from the way he’s handled the investigation into his campaign’s — and now, apparently, his administration’s and his family’s — ties with Russia, the president of the United States doesn’t know how to bluff. He hasn’t a clue how to hide his hand. And he often seems to have only the vaguest notion of the cards he does hold in that hand. But, then, playing poker well requires a person to pay attention and be disciplined. And paying attention and staying disciplined are not things President Trump does well, if at all. That is why he or those close to him now are likely in real trouble. If the reports that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is working with grand juries now are true, then it means Mueller has found evidence of a crime or crimes being committed. It doesn’t have to be collusion. That always was going to be a hard case to make. Every prosecutor and constitutional law expert with whom I have talked has said that proving the president or members of his inner circle worked with the Russians to influence the outcome of the 2016 election would be difficult — and maybe even impossible — particularly if there were no ballots altered in the effort. The fact that the president and his brain trust never were in serious legal jeopardy from the collusion charges is what makes his moves in response to them so revealing — and so troubling. If Trump really didn’t have any ties with Russia, then the way to make this issue go away would be to throw open both his doors and his files to investigators and tell them to knock themselves out while he goes about the business of being president. Instead, he’s fired FBI Director James Comey — and changed his rationale for
doing so with every other breath. He’s threatened and tried to undercut Mueller. He’s even tried, via Twitter, to pressure Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign so that he can appoint another, more pliable person in Sessions’ place, one who would presumably muzzle Mueller. In doing so, he’s likely built at least the beginnings of a case for obstruction of justice. This is where the president’s lack of a poker face hurts him. What seems to drive Trump into a fury is any hint or indication that Mueller or other investigators might be looking into the president’s financial records and dealings. He’s fulminated that there should be a “red line” no one should cross. Good luck there, Mr. President. Special counsels tend to go where the trail leads. That’s why, 20-some years ago, an investigation that started with a losing Arkansas real estate deal ended up focusing on an intern and oral sex in Bill Clinton’s White House. Kenneth Starr’s investigation produced an impeachment of a president — only the second in the nation’s history — and a presidential censure, also only the second in American history. President Clinton doubtless wished he could have drawn a “red line” where investigators and prosecutors couldn’t go. But it doesn’t work that way. Because Trump has shown everyone where he feels the most tender — in his finances — Mueller and his team doubtless are going through those records with microscopes right now. Trump all but led them there. There’s a saying among poker players. “If you sit down at the table and can’t tell who the pigeon is, it’s you.” The best guess is that Donald Trump can’t spot the pigeon. N For more opinion pieces visit nuvo.net/voices
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GIVING HATE NO HOME New alliance hosts conference to broaden awareness and action against hate crimes BY AMBER STEARNS // ASTEARNS@NUVO.NET
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new alliance of businesses, organizations and individuals hopes to rally attention and response to the rising incidents of hate-based crimes and incidents in Indiana. The Central Indiana Alliance Against Hate (CIAAH) is a project initiated by the Fair Housing Center for Central Indiana (FHCCI). As an organization, FHCCI is dedicated to fair housing practices and eliminating housing discrimination in Indiana. But Executive Director Amy Nelson says hate-based crimes and incidents that extend beyond fair housing laws are still neglected in Indiana. “We’ve been active on the whole public policy issue in trying to get a hate crime law passed,” says Nelson. “Then, over the course of the last year and a half we were starting to see increasing numbers of hate-based crimes, as well as what we call hate-based incidents occurring in our community.” The increase in hate-based crimes and incidents — acts of aggression based on hate that don’t rank as a crime — was enough cause for concern. It fueled a desire to try and do something about it. “We wanted to look to see if there was the potential [for] or if we could find some funding to do some additional work in this particular area,” says Nelson. The FHCCI applied for a “Communities Against Hate” rapid response grant from the Open Society Foundations. In the grant application, FHCCI pledged to “build a resource and training network for persons and organizations working to address hate in Central Indiana, and will develop the infrastructure for a coordinated community response network to incidents of hate in the region.” As a result, CIAAH was created.
EVENT // Responding to Hate Conference WHEN // Thursday, Aug. 17, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. WHERE // Indianapolis Marriott East Hotel TICKETS // $55 per person
The agenda for the conference is all-inclusive and designed that way on purpose. A variety of marginalized groups victimized by hate crime, and incidents will be FHCCI received $125,000 in grant fundrepresented. ing to use over the next six months toward “We tried to be as conscious as the objectives outlined in the application, we could within budget and within and was the only Indiana agency to receive the timeline that we had in trying a grant. (It is unclear if any other Indiana to put this together to try to get repagencies applied for a rapid response grant resentatives from as many of those — the list of applicants is not public.) Nelmarginalized communities that son says we will never know what factors are commonly targeted by hateplayed into the favorable outcome for the based crimes and incidents,” says grant application, but the fact the Indiana Nelson. “There’s definitely still gaps in the is only one of five states without a hate agenda, and that’s definitely something we crime law on the books could easily have will continue to work on. But due to time played a role in the process. limitations as well as what we could afford “[With] the number of hate-based crimes for bringing in some of these phenomenal and incidents that speakers, we just we have seen ochad to do some curring in our state, While getting a hate crime limits on that.” and the Southern Despite the gaps law passed in Indiana is a Poverty Law Center Nelson feels still statistics about goal, it isn’t the only goal exist, the agenda [the] increasing encompasses of the alliance. numbers of hate many groups that groups along with instantly come us being one of only five states without even to mind when thinking of hate-based a state hate crime law, one can only assume crimes — African Americans, the LGBTQ that that certainly got us points in a way that community, immigrants, Jewish people you wish you didn’t get points for, but in this and Muslims — as well as other groups case it did,” says Nelson. like Native Americans and individuals The first-ever Indiana Responding to with disabilities. Hate Conference will be a day of training “So very often in the disability commuon how to identify and respond to hatenity, there’s a mislabeling of hate-based based crimes and incidents. Nelson says crimes and incidents where it’s often called other states, like Michigan for example, abuse,” says Nelson. “It’s not truly identihave been doing something similar for sevfied as hate crimes and we wanted to bring eral years — but these are also states with some attention to that.” some type of state legislation addressing Several national recognized advocates hate crimes as well. are scheduled to speak at the conference.
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Hate crimes activist Judy Shepard will talk about her son Matthew’s death and the movement she led to get a federal hate crime law passed as a result. Hilary O. Shelton, senior vice president for advocacy and policy for the NAACP will speak about preventions and solutions to hate crimes in the 21st century. Miriam Ziedman with the Anti-Defamation League will also lead a session. Ziedman has been working with Indiana officials in the effort to get a hate crime law passed in the state. Other speakers include members of the Indiana advocacy community. Nelson hopes the conference is a success in bringing peoples together that all stand for the same goal — eliminating incidents of hate from the Hoosier state — and standing with voices together. “We want to help build up that advocacy part of the alliance through individuals who will be available when we need them to either contact legislators or to speak out when things happen in their communities to report it or to assist in some way,” says Nelson. While getting a hate crime law passed in Indiana is a goal, it isn’t the only goal of the alliance. Nelson hopes the alliance will grow into something that will be at the ready to respond and address any and all incidents of hate in Indiana — existing as its own 501c3 non-profit organization instead of a FHCCI project. But until then, Nelson says the Fair Housing Center will continue to support it because the need in the community is too great to ignore. N
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W What would 50 Game of Thrones characters do at Gen Con 50 and the State Fair? BY KATHERINE COPLEN AND CAVAN McGINSIE // EDITORS@NUVO.NET
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hat would it be like if every character on Game of Thrones met up for a meal? Honestly, probably pretty murdery. Yep, people would definitely die. But in the tradition of George R. R. Martin’s elaborately described feasts — and the Indiana State Fair and Gen Con going down at the same time — NUVO planned an epic State Fair chowdown for our 50 favorite Game of Thrones characters. Why 50? That’s cause Gen Con, the world’s largest gaming convention, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year with a jam-packed weekend of events starting August 17. Meanwhile, over at the fairgrounds, State Fair organizers have also gone super-sized with their theme, which is grandly titled The Wonderful World of
Food. That means every single type of food — mostly fried, yes — is up for grabs. We picked a fair food and a con quest for each of our 50 Westerosi to partake in and of. For those looking for real listings of fair and con activities, hit up gencon.com and indianastatefair.com. OBLIGATORY SPOILER ALERT: Some of these people are recently dead. Some of them very dead. But dead, alive or White Walker, everyone’s invited to our feast, so we don’t want to hear any complaining, or we’ll set the dragons after you. Capiche? This list was compiled by your friendly neighborhood NUVO Editors, some of which are dedicated GOT readers; some, just show fans; some, just joke-lovers.
NUVO.NET/THEBIGSTORY Daenerys Stormborn We’ll try and keep her out of the horse barn, cause we all know about that time she — well, you know. Okay: we’ll say it: She gobbled that horse heart whole. Doing Q&A’s for Female Leadership Panels and trading dragon rearing tips in the exhibit hall.
The Dragons Since these big boys are fond of stealing sheep whole and barbecuing them, we recommend the gyro station. Snacking on some kiddos during Family Fun Day on Sunday.
Making a crown in a cosplay workshop. Too soon?
Jorah Mormont Anything but Miller Catering & Concessions chicken pot pie — a.k.a. the grossest cutscene in Game of Thrones history. Playing Pandemic and learning how to stop the spread of communicable disease.
Varys/The Spider Maybe his little birds will bring him a big bird: Turkey Cheese Balls On A Stick. The Industry Insider program, of course.
Khal Drogo
Cersei Lannister
Drogo’s wedding feast featured plenty of roasted horseflesh, blood pies, sweetgrass stew and delicate pastries. Only one of those things is sold at the State Fair, so treat yourself to some apple dumplings, Khal!
Can’t you just imagine Cersei throwing back some Old Tyme Poppin Korn Kettle Korn while she plots her revenge on, well, everyone?
Buying all the Sun & Stars/Moon of My Life merchandise in the Vendor Hall. We know the Khal is a romantic at heart.
Grey Worm Do the Unsullied even eat? Or are they just killing machines? This dude needs to loosen up. How ‘bout Cards Against Humanity’s gigantic comedy show at the Murat on August 5? Jonathan Coulton, Aparna Nancherla, Eugene Mirman, Paul and Storm, Molly Lewis and Shock T’s will perform.
Missandei Oh, Missandei. She’s been through a lot. Get this girl a deep fried Ho-Ho. Does Missandei know American Sign Language? She speaks every other language. Thursday features an ASL basics workshop.
Viserys Targaryen In honor of this gold-loving tyrant, how ‘bout some golden Indiana corn?
There’s so many Cersei-esque workshops. Villains and Adversaries. Monster Making. The list goes on …
Jaime Lannister Don’t wanna get his golden hand too greasy, so anything on a stick should do. Coincidentally, August 17 is Food On A Stick Day. Jaime could teach Introduction to Saber Fencing with one hand tied behind his back.
Tyrion Lannister He would have to settle for only wine at the State Fair; they don’t have brothels (to our knowledge). The god of imbibing can indulge in this year’s specialty brew: Sun King’s Dragon’s Delight. They’ll tap this Belgian golden ale at a party on Georgia Street, no badge required, August 16.
Shae She said she’d split a ribeye sandwich with Tyrion, but he caught her chowing down with Tywin … Shae just wants a bit of romance in her life — and Author Guest of Honor NUVO.NET // 08.09.17 - 08.16.17 // THE BIG STORY // 7
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It’s historical miniatures time! We pick Sailpower: Fun Scale Combat in the Age of Sail.
Samwell Tarly Sam can split some Hot Wisconsin Cheese mozz sticks with Little Sam. There’s no doubt you’d find Sam making his way up and down Author Avenue.
Ned Stark Is there a food so good it can turn back time before you and pretty much everyone you ever loved were slaughtered? No? All right. Churros. Furiously trying to keep track of all of his kids, who keep wandering off places. JON SNOW AND SAMWELL TARLY //
Charlaine Harris serves up plenty of that in her True Blood series.
Tywin Lannister He’d send his cupbearer ‘Arry to fetch him a root beer float milkshake. You’d have a good chance of finding him with his guard and pants down in the bathroom.
Joffrey Baratheon Feasts haven’t traditionally gone well for Joffrey. He should stick to the Midway. We don’t know what he’d be doing, but he’d do his best to steer clear of the wedding and vow renewals. (But, congratulations, young lovers!)
Bronn Doesn’t Bronn seem like a Lemon Shake-Up kinda guy? Bronn’s already left the Convention Center with someone else’s wife.
Tommen Baratheon This little king loves two things: 1) not making great choices in terms of separation of church and state and 2) his cat Ser
Pounce. Tommen should head over to the 4-H Cat Interactive Demonstration, and then wander over to whatever food booth is closest, making a regrettable, tasty choice. He’d be learning to be a king at Fun with Puppets. Oh, sweet, innocent Tommen
The High Sparrow Dirty Hippy Tots for this dirty hippy man. True Dungeon is what it sounds like — a real dungeon experience. And we know the High Sparrow loves the shit out of some dungeons.
Brienne of Tarth This badass knight is always willing to defend the person she’s currently traveling with. In the spirit of adopting whatever’s near, try a pork tenderloin, Brienne.
Sansa Stark She’s got a lot of things on her list.
Jon Snow It’s like GRRM was making this easy. A Sno-Zone Sno-Cone. He’s teaching Fight Like A Bastard: Swords and Combat in Medieval Europe. (Saturday, 1 p.m.)
Bran Stark One Cocobongo non-alcoholic Banana Mama, please. Bran’s definitely not of age, but he needs to take the edge off, bad. Sitting on the second floor, observing all, seeing all, knowing all.
Hodor Hodor. Hot Dog. Hodor.
She’s a big lemon cake fan, so we say grab a funnel cake and a lemon shake-up and try to recreate the magic … somehow? As the one person in Westeros who has been married multiple times, Sansa would assist the Very Vocal Viking with the wedding and vow renewal ceremonies (Thursday and Friday).
Catelyn Stark Momma Stark wasn’t allowed to eat sweets as a wee one so she could stay thin enough to attract a good suitor (ugh, medieval patriarchy blows) so we’d want her to load up on all the ice cream her heart desires at the Dairy Barn. Cat — or Lady Stoneheart — would find herself playing Nine Lives.
Robin Arryn Robin just likes to take elephant ears and make them fly. Does Gen Con have a lactorium?
Totally killing it at Forged Foam’s Sword Fighting Tournament.
Arya Stark They don’t serve oysters or clams at the State Fair, so Arya should hit up Hot Pie for some Bierock: ground beef, onion and sauerkraut in a fluffy sweet dough pocket
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Cutting a path through the crowded hallways like the stalwart companion we all need — until he gets stuck holding the door.
Davos Seaworth Sutter’s serves saltwater taffy, which should remind Davos of his pirating days before he became the Onion Knight.
Robb Stark Walder Frey served pink lamb at the Red Wedding, and yes, the State Fair offers lamb brats, kabobs, burgers and loafs. But we’re gonna say Robb should get the OPPOSITE of that. What’s the opposite of lamb?
NUVO.NET/THEBIGSTORY We think he’d be in dead last in a game of The Wedding Banquet: Blood on the Cake.
Robert Baratheon King Robert would spend his day lumbering around eating at every vendor with a glass of ale in hand and skipping every line. Scotty’s Brewhouse does a special Gen Con themed menu for Gen Con. (No boar.)
Tormund Giantsbane Whatever Brienne’s having.
Whatever Brienne’s doing.
Theon Greyjoy Deliplace’s Polish sausage. Or a footlong hot dog. Or a corn-dog split. (Sorry, Theon.) He’s hardest on himself, so Workshop: Finding Work for Your Critic: Self-Editing for Fiction Writers.
Euron Greyjoy Beef tongue. Rare.
There’s a goth/industrial dark dance after party waiting for Euron and his leather pantaloons.
Yara Greyjoy (Iron) Island Noodles for this hard-assteel sailor. Sitting in on the Ancient Sisterhood of Gaming History panel. (Friday, noon)
Petyr Baelish Littlefinger would happily buy whatever for whoever whenever it was politically expedient. Saturday at 9 p.m., Gen Con 50 hosts a big dance called Dance Through the Ages and attendees are encouraged to show up in their best historical formal attire. Baelish wouldn’t miss an opportunity to find a new partner.
Ramsay Bolton He’d spend the day having Reek find chow for his hungry, hungry hounds. Workshop: Rope Bondage Beginners class. Although, we’d say Ramsay is at least intermediate by now.
The Hound The Hound has killed for chicken in the past — literally. Give this man some Jake’s chicken-on-a-stick; and he may even be willing to get close to the BBQ pit these days. Chainmail Basics — he’s got some big fights coming up.
The Mountain We’d order up the largest American land mammal for the largest Westerosi scary dude: The Mountain can rustle up some Red Frazier Bison brats or burgers. He’ll join his bro The Hound for the Wii U Super Smash Bros. tourney. He’ll be Bowser. The Hound will be Mario.
The Night King You’ll find him double-fisting cotton candy and crying ice tears at the All-American Rejects and Dashboard Confessional show. Hopefully he’s sweeter in the end. Hanging out with the coolest kids at the con.
The Red Priestess A SMOKEY beef brisket sand-WITCH for this mysterious, oft-wrong hot grandma. After all her mishaps, Melisandre will be at Fortune Telling with Gemstones, relearning her craft.
Ellaria Sand In search of something that leaves your lips a bit tingly? Red Frazier Bison’s Dirty Tots have jalepeno cheese. The all-girl cover band Lez Zeppelin will rock the Georgia Street Party Tent on Wednesday, August 16. Yeah, we think Ellaria could get down with this. NUVO.NET // 08.09.17 - 08.16.17 // THE BIG STORY // 9
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The Sand Snakes Like Outback says, Blooming Onions are perfect for sharing. Like Olive Garden says, when you’re here, you’re a murdery, terrifying family. This trio draws blood, so maybe they’ll give some back at the daily Indiana Blood Center blood drive at the Westin Hotel.
Olenna Tyrell We think the Queen of Thorns would toss back an Egg Cream as quickly as she throws back poison wine. We bet you’ll find Lady Olenna parked across the street from the Convention Center at St. Elmo’s, enjoying a final glass of Arbor Gold.
Margaery Tyrell She got deep-fried, so how about some deep fried BBQ bacon? She wouldn’t miss the Costume Parade on Saturday at 3 p.m.
Renly Baratheon Splitting a Smoked Beef Brisket with Melisandre. He would work on getting his revenge against Melisandre by learning the art of shadow puppetry at the Articulated Shadow Puppets workshop.
Ser Loras The tourney knight-turned-unwillinggroom-turned-prisoner-of-the-FaithMilitant would probably love to revisit his halcyon days as a jousting champion; perhaps some turkey legs would turn back the clock? If he can make it out of the dungeon, we bet he’d dig the Queer as a Three-Sided Die seminar on diversity in games.
THIS YEAR’S STATE FAIR IS ALL ABOUT THE FOOD T BY CAVAN McGINSIE // CMCGINSIE@NUVO.NET
he midway. The animal barns. The tractors. The concerts. The parade. There are literally dozens of reasons people flock to the Indiana State Fair every year — but the most popular attraction is undoubtedly the food. And with that in mind, fair organizers decided to make 2017 the year of food with their theme The Wonderful World of Food. So what does this mean to you? That there will be more tasty food than ever before at this year’s state fair. Each day of the fair will celebrate one facet of Indiana’s farming culture by focusing on a specific commodity including melons, pork, ice cream and even mint (yes, Indiana is known for our peppermint production). Depending on which day — or series of days — that you make your way to the fair, you’ll see different attractions that encapsulate the food of the day. So, on August 9, Pork Burger Day, you can tour a pig farm using a virtual reality headset, and, of course eat a pork burger (this year’s comes with peanut butter and pineapple on it). If you and the fam show up on Cheese Day (August 11), you’ll join the American Dairy Association for some Delicious Dairy Demos, check out Sarah Kaufmann’s “The Cheese Lady” sculpture and then tour The Dairy Barn for a root beer float milkshake and a Mouse Trap, a hefty three-cheese grilled cheese. While each day has its own theme and its own unique attractions, food vendors will be there cooking up their tasty treats for all 17 days of the fair. And, during all 17 days, the Taste of the Fair competition will take place. To participate, taste a variety of the 12 options around the fair and cast your vote for your favorite. The list includes the aforementioned pineapple peanut butter pork burger, milkshake and the Mouse Trap,
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but it also includes more incredible bites. My favorite noshes include Red Frazier Bison’s spicy, cheesy Dirty Tots and the veggie-friendly Dirty Hippy Tots. While I typically always go for a dish with meat — especially when it comes to bison — the Dirty Hippy Tots, which are sweet potato tots topped with a spicy sauce, crispy brussel sprouts, chives and other goodness, were hands down my favorite bite of the fair. Although, the spiciness was up there, even for a spice-lover. Another stand out was Goodwin Family’s deep-fried bbq bacon. Watching the thick-cut bacon bubbling around in a vat of extremely hot oil was magical, and the crispity, crunchity bacon and smoky-sweet BBQ was every bit as enchanting to taste as to watch. And a surprising favorite was AP Concessions’ deep fried PB&J; my aunt made these when I was growing up and these were even better than I remembered. Another fun addition to the Taste of the Fair is Hook’s Historical Drugstore’s Traditional Egg Cream Soda. Hook’s is, by all rights, a State Fair legend. Once you step back in time to the local soda fountain where you can sip a Green River egg cream or a chocolate phosphate, you’ll reminisce about a simpler time — even if you never actually lived it. “Sure, we’re going to have a lot of fun at the fair, share food on a stick and deep-fried things, but there is a more serious message to it,” says Cindy Hoye, Executive Director of the Indiana State Fair. “Today [the fair] is about the farmer talking to the consumer and making sure that today consumers actually understand where their food is coming from.” “You are going to learn each day during the fair about how important farmers are to feeding the world, and that’s what our message is,” Hoye continues while standing in the center
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of a traveling exhibit from the American Natural History Museum named Our Global Kitchen. The exhibit will be on display throughout the duration of the fair. “As you go through, you’re going to understand about culture, and history and the nature of food all across the world,” Hoye says. Even though it would take about two hours or more to make it through and read everything in the exhibit, within 20 minutes it’s easy to begin to understand the scope of our world’s food culture. You’ll even leave with a sense of hope about the future of farming. The exhibit takes a look at this optimistic future by sharing the past and the present of our world’s agricultural systems and gives us a view of the evolution that will need to take place to continue feeding the exponentially growing population. Hoye finishes, “I think you’re really going to enjoy learning how important food is to the world and also understanding how important our farmers are to feeding the world.” N
NUVO.NET/THEBIGSTORY MOST MEMORABLE STATE FAIR FOODS Nora Spitznogle is NUVO’s dedicated State Fair correspondent and 2017 winner of the Fair’s Ugliest
tools and potatoes — that’s some good old delicious American ingenuity at work.
Lamp competition. We asked Nora — who attends almost every day of the fair yearly — to rank her fave foods to snack on at the Fairgrounds.
6. KETTLE KORN I would rank this higher if they didn’t spell “corn” with a “k.” The corn is popped in a huge kettle over
1. OLYMPIA CANDY KITCHEN CARAMELS You can find these goodies in the FFA Building
a fire and mixed with unicorn and rainbow sugary goodness. I may be eating some as I type.
via Goshen. The Olympia Candy Kitchen has been open since 1912 and they sure have perfected their caramel recipe. The FFA kids sell them — and many
7. CHOCOLATE-COVERED BACON Chocolate: delicious. Bacon: scrumptious. Togeth-
other Indiana-made products — as a fundraiser.
er: yucky, and surprisingly it was served cold. 2010
Every time I buy a bag of 12, I promise myself that I
was the Year of Pigs – and they didn’t mean the
will eat just one and tuck the rest in my freezer for a
fairgoers – and vendors were going hog-wild coming
special treat. If they last until I get home it is a little
up with novelty foods. This one was a real oinker.
miracle. Finding a stray one in my purse is as thrilling as finding a $20 in the dryer.
8. WATERMELON
2. ASSOCIATION SANDWICHES
the State Fair eating chunks of it garners plenty of
While watermelon isn’t weird, walking around I’m talking about the ribeye sandwiches made
sideways looks. The watermelon at the booth in front
by the Beef Cattle Association, the pork chop sand-
of the Cattle Barn is always just right; crisp, ripe, zero
wiches by Pork Producers Association, the grilled
Weight Watchers points.
cheese sandwiches made by the Dairy Association. They’re all equally delicious.
9. HOT BEEF SUNDAE
3. WILSON’S ROASTED SWEET CORN
it didn’t taste bad it sure looked freaky. Picture a
IT DOESN’T GET MORE HOOSIER THAN $4 TENDERLOINS
This one falls under the weird category, although It’s fair to say that I stalk the Wilson’s stand,
bowl of steamy shredded beef, topped with gravy
waiting for them to open in the morning. And I have
and corn, sprinkled with cheese and topped with a
no self-control when it comes to eating it; I burn my
cherry tomato. Yum?
lip every single time, and I don’t care.
10. ICE CREAM ON A STICK 4. BEN’S SOFT PRETZELS I call them the Amish pretzels, because the recipe
It is entirely possible that I’m misremembering the details of this treat that our family loved and looked
was perfected by an Amish baker — named Ben — in
forward to each year. Extra-frozen ice cream was cut
Elkhart. The giant pretzels are just the right amount
into a skinny rectangle, stuck on a stick, and dipped
of soft and big enough to share. Or not.
into butterscotch. My mom still asks every vendor she sees in the Ag/Hort Building about them even
5. KING’S SPIRAL POTATOES The potatoes are spiral cut into a thin ribbon by
though the last time it was served was 1978. — NORA SPITZNOGLE
a blade attached to a drill then deep-fried. Power
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First Friday exhibits explore the art that results from death and prison BY DAN GROSSMAN // DGROSSMAN@NUVO.NET
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his First Friday, per usual, there were way too many exhibit openings in Downtown Indy for any human being to see in the space of an evening. But I saw what I could. One of my first stops was an exhibit that opened at the Bona Thompson Memorial Center, and runs through Oct. 1, documenting the imprisonment of U.S. citizens during World War II in concentration camps.
guards and guard towers to prevent anyone escaping. “There were instances where a couple of men were shot for getting too close to the fence when they were ordered not to, but then they probably didn’t understand English,” he said in an understated tone, without perceptible irony.
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WHAT // Exhibitions at Bona Thompson & Gallery 924 WHEN // Ongoing TICKETS // FREE, all-ages
These concentration camp prisoners — let’s avoid euphemisms like internment — were Japanese-Americans, who happened to have the same ethnicity of the inhabitants of the country America was at war with. Surpassing Adversity: the Japanese American Journey focuses on the imprisonment of 120,000 West Coast Japanese-Americans in concentration camps scattered throughout the Western U.S. after Pearl Harbor. It documents their ordeal not only with calligraphy and painted landscapes by camp prisoners, but also with a plethora of historical information, photographs, documents and artifacts from the period. Duffel bags were also on display. These were the bags that held all the items that prisoners were allowed to carry into the camps. The organizers of the exhibit were fortunate enough to have a survivor of the camps speaking on the night of the opening. Gordon Yoshikawa, the speaker, lived with his family in Yuba City, California with his parents and siblings before Pearl Harbor and the outbreak of war between the U.S. and Japan, when things changed drastically. The Yoshikawas were first sent to a concentration
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camp in Tule Lake, California. Later they were transferred to a camp in Topaz, Utah. In 1945, the Yoshikawas were released. They resettled in Cincinnati. Yoshikawa, after obtaining his university degree, spent 37 years working as a chemist. Yoshikawa spent a fair amount of time documenting his family history and what the persecution of Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor meant to the family in terms of losing their houses and property, and worse. At one point, before the family was evacuated from Yuba City, his father was taken prisoner by the FBI. He had come under suspicion because he had been president of the local Japanese community association. Yoshikawa offered the following terse description of his transfer to the Tule Lake “internment” camp:
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“When we arrived at Tule Lake, which was at the California/Oregon border, we were taken by Army trucks inside to the barracks to where we were supposed to be living,” he said. “As we passed through the main entrance, we saw the barbed wire fence at the entrance. We saw the guard towers at the entrance with the soldiers looking inward. That’s when we knew that the situation changed drastically.” Shortly afterwards, Yoshikawa experienced an instance of unabashed joy when he was reunited with his father, who had been transported to Tule Lake shortly before. He described the barracks as cramped buildings with bare light bulbs, heated by small coal-powered stoves during the winter. There was one bare light bulb per unit, and plenty of barbed wire and armed
The show High Times/Low Life at Gallery 924, by the spectacularly gifted painter Martin Kuntz, was not exactly void of political commentary (see online round up for details). It features many works in his pop collage style that recall James Rosenquist somewhat, but also sculptures and drawings. The highlight of the evening was when he started to pull striated strips of tape off a painting entitled “All Beauty Fades.” The media of the painting was acrylic on tape and canvas. Was. That is, when he pulled the striated bands of tape off the canvas all you were left with were alternating strips of young flesh and skull. It was a post/ ante-mortem mashup that, at the same time, recalled the work of many a painter throughout history (the type that wagged a finger at female vanity with depictions of beautiful females being pursued by skeletons, and the like), a reminder to keep your eye on the prize of Christian salvation. But I don’t think Kuntz is wagging his finger here. Instead we are left with a work that riffs on the sad fact that we all grow old and die, What’s jaw-dropping is the execution here; half fine portraiture, half performance art. And the tape unmasking was ready-made for Facebook Live; a dozen or so of patrons were using some sort of social media to document the performance. I include myself in that number. N
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POETRY, DUNK-TANKED Fried chicken, booze, rock and roll... and poetry BY HALEY GIBSON // ARTS@NUVO.NET
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ometimes there is this idea in America that poetry is good for us, that it is this thing that needs to be force-fed,” says Dan Barden, Professor of English at Butler University and author of John Wayne: a Novel. “That is not the way we see it at all.” Barden is one of the Butler creatives who have cultivated Divedapper Poetry Carnival, which features the nationally known poets Adrian Matekja, Wendy Xu and Francine J. Harris. They will wax poetic on the Butler campus, at the Efroymson Center for Creative Writing, from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, August 12. This outdoor poetry fest — featuring not just poetry but an actual carnival with food and fun activities — is the product of poet Kaveh Akbar, Barden’s former student in Butler’s MFA program. Akbar is the founder of Divedapper. com, a website free and open to anyone with an internet connection. It’s an online space for contemporary poets and poetry aficionados to intertwine, a space exclusively dedicated to interviews with major voices in contemporary American poetry. It’s a pretty sure bet, if you’re at all interested in poetry (even just a little bit) that you won’t find the website boring. And it’s also a pretty sure bet that you won’t find the Divedapper Poetry Carnival boring either. “It was such an amazing thing, and he is such an amazing figure that we decided we wanted to find a way to stick him to Indianapolis,” says Barden. “There is no one more connected to the world of poetry than Kaveh,” says John Eckerd, future professor at IUPUI and MFA graduate from Butler. “Poetry should be fun; it should be this thing that we are excited about — a big part of why I think
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they aren’t is because they are force-fed boring stuff. We wanted to do something a little more rock and roll and the event really does that.” The three together have been working together to conceive the poetry carnival since last year. But this isn’t your typical poetry reading, of course: poetry readings don’t usually feature live music, free fair food (and free booze) and carnival games. “It went so well last year, that is really promising for us this year,” says Eckerd. “We have kept the stuff that worked, but we are adding live music [like] Amy O, the rock band out of Bloomington.” The highlight of the carnival, of course — if you’re into poetry — is the three award-winning, charismatic contemporary poets who will read their works from the main stage. “First of all, the three poets that are
heading the event are three of the most essential and most interesting voices in contemporary poetry writing today,” says Akbar. “They are wildly popular, important and read.” Adrian Matejka is the winner of the 2015 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Author Award. This IU graduate has written three award winning books including The Devils Garden, Mixology, The Big Smoke, and most recently released this year A Map to The Stars. China native Wendy Xu who was featured
EVENT // Divedapper Poetry Carnival WHEN // Saturday, Aug. 12, 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. WHERE // Efroymson Center for Creative Writing TICKETS // FREE, all-ages
in The Best American Poetry 2013, and selected for a Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry. She is the author of You Are Not Dead. Her second collection, released this year, is called Phrasis. Francine J. Harris’s poetry collections include Play Dead, and Allegiance was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Open Book Award. Currently she is the writer in residence at Washington University in St. Louis. “During a couple of readings [last year] I saw the audience smiling so broadly and so enthusiastically,” says Barden. “It was like looking at an audience seeing Star Wars for the first time.” Barden and Eckerd were especially excited to speak regarding the carnival festivities which will include balloons, face, face painters and poetry workshops, in addition to free munchies. “We promise the dunk tank every year, and we are not sure,” says Barden. “That’s, like, secret information. No clowns. We don’t like clowns. Maybe a dunk tank.” “Maybe a dunk tank. Probably fried chicken…” replies Eckerd. Barden interrupts, “Oh, fried chicken for sure.” “Fried chicken is locked in,” adds Eckerd. “It’s going to be a block party.” As for Akbar, post-festival, this year, means stepping into a role as visiting professor at Purdue. Akbar says, “All I want is to spend a day celebrating poetry with people who are excited about it or permeable to being excited about it.” N NUVO.NET // 08.09.17 - 08.16.17 // BOOKS // 13
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Charlize Theron kicks literal ass in Atomic Blonde BY JARED RASIC // SCREENS@NUVO.NET
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've spent the last month or two rewatching every single James Bond movie ever made. There are three things Bond does in every movie: 1) He fights bad guys. 2) He drinks a martini because he's a fancy dandy and 3) he very aggressively finds someone to have sex with. And after
Atomic Blonde deconstructs that sexist, misogynistic [James Bond] series. Bond finds his main Bond girl, the original girl is murdered for her connection to Bond. Think of the girl in Moonraker who gets torn apart by dogs for helping Bond. Think of his rape of Pussy Galore...who becomes a good guy afterwards. (Even Daniel Craig, the most contemporary Bond, crept up on a sex slave in a show-
er.) My point is: screw James Bond, Ian Fleming, and the time in history when that stuff was okay. Atomic Blonde deconstructs that sexist, misogynistic series of movies and creates a female spy that fights like John Wick, drinks like Lucille Bluth, and bangs whoever the hell she wants unapologetically. The convoluted plot has Charlize Theron's MI6 agent, Lorraine Broughton, head to Berlin in order to find microfilm hidden in a watch that has the names of all the spies in the Soviet Union. This mimics the plot of the Bond flick Skyfall. Like, exactly. Broughton teams up with David Percival, a wacked-out crazy British agent who has been in Berlin for a decade and has basically gone feral. Played by a perfectly-cast James McAvoy, Percival is such an enigma that as the film veers into double-crosses, triple-crosses, and several giant twists, all you can do is admire
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the charisma on display and smile. Not everything is that great. The pacing is scattershot, at best, with the film bouncing between perfectly-choreographed fight scenes to long, drawn-out monologues of exposition. There's really a lot of plot for a movie that didn't need it. Director David Leitch is one-half of the team that made John Wick. (The other half, Chad Stahelski, stayed with the franchise and made John Wick Chapter 2). So he knows something about burying the audience in plot. The other thing that drove me nuts about Atomic Blonde is the music. The film takes place in 1989, right before the collapse of the Berlin wall. Every single needle drop throughout the entire film is just as predictable as one would imagine.
There’s an action scene set to “99 Luftballons” (German pop star Nena) a car chase to “I Ran...” (A Flock of Seagulls) and “London Calling” (The Clash) over the closing credits. Every one of these choices is so obvious, having been used in period films the exact same way before. How about a car chase to “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman or a slow motion gun fight to Madonna’s “Like a Prayer?” — just something we haven't heard before over images we've seen before. Atomic Blonde is fun and goofy, but takes itself very seriously. The tone is much more similar to the Bourne films than I was expecting. The movie is also about 30 minutes too long, but it doesn't really matter because Theron is a force of nature in this. You can't take your eyes off of her and she deserves to get a John Wick-esque franchise out of this. Bond is a dinosaur and Atomic Blonde is the meteor that smashes him to dust. N
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BRUNCH, BRUNCH, BABY Features ’90s hip-hop and Bloody Mary bar BY CAVAN MCGINSIE // McGINSIE@NUVO.NET
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runch: Everyone’s favorite reason to drink on Sunday mornings over a plate of too much delicious food. It combines so many lovely things: bacon, Bloody Marys, biscuits and gravy, lattes, waffles and, at the heart of it all, spending time with good friends. On August 26 from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Baby Got Brunch festival brings all of these and more to The Pavilion at Pan Am along with 25 chefs battling to make the best brunch standards; ‘90s hip-hop; and a chance to help food insecure children around Indianapolis. “We started dreaming up ideas and we naturally landed on brunch fest because no one has really jumped on the opportunity yet,” says Ashley Brooks, co-founder of Baby Got Brunch fest. “I couldn’t
believe that, because brunch is such a huge thing right now.” Brooks has already made a huge impact on Indy’s brunch scene as co-founder of the wildly popular brunch joint Milktooth and as founder of Garfield Park Farmers’ Market. Together with her promotional partner, local DJ and event organizer Slater Hogan of Keepin’ It Deep, (a.k.a KID Presents), Brooks fleshed out the idea into a full day festival. The concept is straightforward, even though there are many moving parts: 25 chefs and restaurants can pick from five different categories including biscuits and gravy; waffles; bacon; eggs; and toast. Brooks says, “I have [the chefs] pick their top two and once I gauge what everyone’s interest is I’ll be able to figure out
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what would be a great competition.” Each category features five chefs competing to make the best of whichever category they are assigned. Then, if you’re one of the 1,200 attendees, you’ll get to taste unlimited two-ounce portions of the dishes and vote via text to decide who took your taste buds and turned them into taste besties. The full list of 25 chefs hasn’t been released yet, but some participants including Rook, Bent Rail, Duos, Bluebeard, Pioneer, Public Greens, Cerulean and more have been announced. Brooks says, “We have around a dozen
restaurants right now, but it’s an open application process, so we are still taking applications. I’m going to work on promoting that a little more on social media, and just anyone can apply. “The only vetting process is I just want to have really good quality restaurants that are known for one thing — maybe brunch or making amazing breakfast. I want the experience to be really diverse for the customers.” The decision to keep the audience to only 1,200 was one that just made sense to Brooks. “A lot of these big events, sometimes the flow gets a little tricky,” she says. “So I want to make sure that that’s a focus of ours. So we’re keeping this smaller and we just want to make sure that it’s a good customer
NUVO.NET/FOOD+DRINK “Being a charity event is something that is important to me — [it’s] a thread in everything that I do. I think it’s really important to give back to the community and nourish your community to help sustain it.” — ASHLEY BROOKS, CO-FOUNDER OF BABY GOT BRUNCH FEST.
experience and that these people that buy tickets don’t have to wait in long lines and that there’s plenty of food.” As with any great brunch, Baby Got Brunch features plenty of booze as well. “We just signed on Goose the Market,” Brooks excitedly says. “We have an open bar and we’re doing a build-your-own Bloody Mary bar, and Goose just agreed to sponsor that portion of it. So [with] amazing charcuterie, cheese and pickles, it’s going to be really fun.” And, during our conversation, she’s sure to remind me, “It’s not like you get a drink token or food token. With the ticket price [you get] an open bar and unlimited access to the food.” While the chef competition is a huge focus for the fest, Brooks says, “I like the interactive aspect of this event. There are going to be a lot of interesting things going on during the event. Obviously the competition with the chefs; you can go to the bar; and you can also get drip coffee from Bee Coffee Roasters — they’re our coffee partner and they’re also putting on the League of Lattés.” The League of Lattés is a monthly competition that pit baristas against one another to craft the best lattés they can, the drinks are evaluated through a series of criteria by a panel of judges and the best latté wins. Hogan’s coordination includes facilitating musical entertainment. “We will have DJ Indiana Jones on stage,” Brooks says. “ It’s going to be like a ‘90s hip-hop throwback theme. So you can expect that kind of music.” Competing in a fest like this while still running your own restaurant, “takes a lot
out of the staff and out of your resources,” she says. “But hopefully there is enough benefit from the marketing exposure and just getting in front of that many people, especially if they love your dish and want to come to your restaurant. So, I hope it’s worth it for the participants. … I’m sensitive to [the cost for restaurants],” she says. Food producers will be involved as well. “I have a lot of connections with local farms, so I’m going to be reaching out to some people and if they want to supply some of these restaurants that would be great. But it is the restaurants responsibility to come up with the dishes and provide the food. We are giving a small reimbursement to all the vendors, so it helps offset a little bit of that cost; hopefully, it’s enough to be helpful.” Baby Got Brunch has a philanthropic element as well. “A certain amount of proceeds will go to the Patachou Foundation. They address childhood hunger issues and food access and they feed children on a daily basis,” Brooks says. “ Being a charity event is something that is important to me — [it’s] a thread in everything that I do. I think it’s really important to give back to the community and nourish your community to help sustain it.” Tickets are going fast. “We’re already almost sold out of VIP tickets, which get you in an hour early,” she says. In this first year, even though there is so much going on, Brooks says, “It’s just all about the hospitality of the event and bringing the best product and dishes. We just want the best experience for these people.” N
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Sleeping Bag’s Wet shows maturity and reverence for Hoosier life
BY GREG LINDBERG // MUSIC@NUVO.NET
“I
t’s True,” is the 33-second track that opens Sleeping Bag’s fourth official full-length album, Wet, and it’s a harmonizing vocal track. It’s just Dave Segedy’s voice and your ears. There’s a unique and honest appeal to what Segedy has done over the years that represents childhood nostalgia of growing up in Indiana. With Wet there’s a little less light, and the band’s sound is more expansive an realized than ever. After singing about playing basketball after school (and losing) because he’s “got nothing to lose” the second track “Mummy” hits familiarly hard with comforting fuzz guitar and a solid hook. “Doin’ It Alone” is the standout first single and incessantly catchy. Though it’s a seemingly sunny pop rock track on the surface, “Doin’ It Alone” sets a darker tone for Sleeping Bag. The mixture of lyrics and slow-building tracks like “5th Floor” make this one of the most intimate sounding records that Segedy has put out.
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The sense of longing, tiredness, and a Midwestern slice-of-life is evident, but what stands out most is how effective the pacing and placement of the tracks is overall. Previous albums maintained an early ’90s rock vibe of Pavement and Lou Barlow and, though the feeling is still here on Wet, there’s also some of The Cure, The Replacements, and ‘80s synth pop spread efficiently throughout. For example, “The Storm” and “Instrumental #2” don’t exploit a retro rhythm that isn’t authentic and still Sleeping Bag at its core. By the time the tail end of the album is reached, “Affection” sounds like nothing the band has produced before. It’s jarring, but at the same time refreshing to hear Segedy take risks and expand upon the feel-good minimalism that has made Sleeping Bag a favorite among Indiana music lovers. There’s no noticeable pain for Segedy continuing to soak in his Hoosier roots. There’s no sense of being stuck as a
ARTIST // Sleeping Bag ALBUM // Wet WHEN // Out August 11 LABEL // Warm Ratio
musician in a place where small gems can often be obscured. If anything, the youthful innocence of past songs isn’t entirely stripped away, but there’s a lot of adultness to be found on Wet. Dave Segedy’s project has evolved from various recording and touring members, but throughout the years Sleeping Bag has remained succinctly Segedy’s unique voice. From his days with Muncie’s Arrah and the Ferns to his solo effort as Whoa Bro Awesome (later becoming Sleeping Bag), we’ve seen Segedy get his toes wet, wade around, make a big splash, and now Sleeping Bag is certainly wet. Not soaked. Not oversaturated. But a community staple. Something great. Something relatable. Wet evokes us, and it’ll soon become a part of you and your everyday life. N
KYLE LONG is a longtime NUVO columnist and host of WFYI’s A Cultural Manifesto.
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uring a recent interview with Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, I questioned the pop star about his early years in the Indianapolis music scene. While reflecting on this time, Edmonds’ thoughts turned to the Words of Wisdom, a mixed male/female vocal group Edmonds compared to The 5th Dimension. Babyface spoke about the group with a reverent tone: “They were like superstars,” he said, adding that Words of Wisdom represented everything he and his young bandmates were trying to attain in music. Scores of soul music fanatics around the globe share Edmonds’ passion for the Words of Wisdom. A 45 RPM single the group cut for Indy’s Lamp Records in the early ‘70s remains a highly sought after cult favorite for collectors. In light of Mr. Edmonds’ praise for the group, I thought this would be a great time to share an interview I recorded with Words of Wisdom founding member Herman Slaughter. “The philosophy behind the name Words of Wisdom was that we performed songs that made sense. We didn’t sing just any old junk. It had to be a meaningful song,” Herman told me. KYLE LONG: Am I correct that you were born and raised in Indianapolis? HERMAN SLAUGHTER: Yes, I was born here in Indianapolis. Like many of us in the music community, I attended Crispus Attucks. They had a really strong music department. We lived so close to Attucks, I could get from my front porch to my seat in the classroom in five minutes. I never studied music at Attucks. My music education came from the church. I was the grandson of a minister. We had ministers on both sides of our family. My whole family was in the choir, and there was a piano in every house. But I didn’t play an instrument. My voice became my instrument.
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KYLE: I assume you weren’t just listening to gospel music as a young person. What other sounds were influencing you? HERMAN: When I was 12, my mother asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I said, “A tape recorder.” So my parents bought me an RCA stereo tape recorder and I started recording music off the radio. The Impressions, The Young Rascals, and The Beatles were the groups that got me interested. Then all the Black groups came into the picture, and it was on! KYLE: When did you start thinking about making your own music? HERMAN: When I was in college my girlfriend was a talented performer, and her mother was a professional singer named Flo Garvin. KYLE: Wow, are you serious? She was a big deal! HERMAN: She was, and that sparked my interest. She was one of the hippest mother-in-laws you could have. I met some very famous people in her home: Errol Garner, Christine Jorgensen and Kreskin ... I got to go see her perform at the nightclub at a very young age because she was my girlfriend’s mother. KYLE: Flo Garvin was sneaking you into the nightclub as a teenager so you could NUVO.NET // 08.09.17 - 08.16.17 // MUSIC // 19
NUVO.NET/MUSIC watch her perform? That’s amazing. What kind of impression did she leave on you as a performer? HERMAN: She was elegant. She was a soft singer. She could sing in a whisper. She’d bat her eyelashes and charm you to death. She was a lovely entertainer. But what really inspired me to start a group was a call I got from my best friend while I was away at a college. He said, “Come back to the neighborhood. You got to see this group.” So I go to his apartment and Rodney Stepp and the whole Diplomats band are there in his tiny little apartment. I said, “Oh my gosh!” That made me decide to put a singing group together, and I thought maybe they could play behind my group someday.
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KYLE: So how did you go about putting together a vocal group? HERMAN: I tried several times before Words of Wisdom, but I kept coming back to the same people. I recruited my present wife Rosa Hart, and her sister, a gentleman named Michael Vaughan, and Flo Garvin’s daughter Karen Garvin, who was my wife at the time. So we started this group and I said, “Now we need a manager.” So we went and got Rickie Clark. [note: Clark is founder of the Circle City Records label, and served as a popular DJ in the ‘70s for WTLC under the name Rickie “Solid Gold” Clark.] Rickie was a business-minded person and he connected us with a booking agency. So we got connected with Bill Overman who booked shows for all the military bases. The first thing he told us was, “You guys need a record.” That’s when our quest started to get a recording together. We put together our own backing band called the Truth Revue. Our bass player Gary Amos had a brother who was a songwriter for Lamp Records. His name was Charles “Moose” Amos, and a lot of the great songs on Lamp Records were written by him. KYLE: What year did that Lamp 45 come out? HERMAN: Around 1974. We were one of the last waves of groups to record on Lamp. KYLE: In December of 1972 you and the Words of Wisdom performed at a concert
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that I’m totally fascinated by. It was called the Superfly Revue, Curtis Mayfield was the headliner and actor Ron O’Neal even made an appearance. Tell us about this show. HERMAN: Oh man, that was really fantastic! There were several groups from Indianapolis on that show. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes were supposed to perform, but they got caught in a snowstorm and The O’Jays zipped right in and put on a fantastic show. I remember we wore these beautiful uniforms that my wife had designed and they had hoods on them. Rickie Clarke had orchestrated the show so that the lights would come on when the girls pulled their hoods down and the crowd went wild. That was the best concert I ever had. KYLE: Did Words of Wisdom perform with any other soul music legends? HERMAN: Later on we toured with James Brown, we played about five cities with him. We backed up Jackie Moore for awhile. A lot of artists would hire a vocal group that had their own band, that way they didn’t have to worry about backgrounds or anything. We toured with Bettye Swann, Brook Benton, and Solomon Burke. KYLE: You’re now working behind the scenes in music. Tell us what your current projects are. HERMAN: Unity Productions is the name of my company, and our philosophy is to teach working musicians about the whole process of the recording industry, from how to make a disc, to filling out all the paperwork. It’s important for musicians to learn all this so they’ll know if someone is cheating them or not. So our goal is to teach the business of independent music. Kids Intervention Incorporated is the name of my nonprofit. Our mission is to give kids and young adults options for an alternative career. A career in music can be very rewarding, and it keeps young people out of trouble. Many of the musicians I’ve worked with over the years weren’t getting in trouble as teenagers because they were at home practicing, and getting ready for a job. N
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): I hope you’re making wise use of the surging fertility that has been coursing through you. Maybe you’ve been reinventing a long-term relationship that needed creative tinkering. Perhaps you have been hammering together an innovative business deal or generating new material for your artistic practice. It’s possible you have discovered how to express feelings and ideas that have been half-mute or inaccessible for a long time. If for some weird reason you are not yet having experiences like these, get to work! There’s still time to tap into the fecundity. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano defines “idiot memory” as the kind of remembrances that keep us attached to our old self-images, and trapped by them. “Lively memory,” on the other hand, is a feisty approach to our old stories. It impels us to graduate from who we used to be. “We are the sum of our efforts to change who we are,” writes Galeano. “Identity is no museum piece sitting stock-still in a display case.” Here’s another clue to your current assignment, Taurus, from psychotherapist Dick Olney: “The goal of a good therapist is to help someone wake up from the dream that they are their self-image.” GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Sometimes, Gemini, loving you is a sacred honor for me — equivalent to getting a poem on my birthday from the Dalai Lama. On other occasions, loving you is more like trying to lap up a delicious milkshake that has spilled on the sidewalk, or slow-dancing with a giant robot teddy bear that accidentally knocks me down when it suffers a glitch. I don’t take it personally when I encounter the more challenging sides of you, since you are always an interesting place to visit. But could you maybe show more mercy to the people in your life who are not just visitors? Remind your dear allies of the obvious secret — that you’re composed of several different selves, each of whom craves different thrills. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Liz, my girlfriend when I was young, went to extreme lengths to cultivate her physical attractiveness. “Beauty must suffer,” her mother had told her while growing up, and Liz heeded that advice. To make her long blonde hair as wavy as possible, for example, she wrapped strands of it around six empty metal cans before bed, applied a noxious spray, and then slept all night with a stinky, clanking mass of metal affixed to her head. While you may not do anything so literal, Cancerian, you do sometimes act as if suffering helps keep you strong and attractive — as if feeling hurt is a viable way to energize your quest for what you want. But if you’d like to transform that approach, the coming weeks will be a good time. Step One: Have a long, compassionate talk with your inner saboteur. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Each of us comes to know the truth in our own way, says astrologer Antero Alli. “For some it is wild and unfettered,” he writes. “For others it is like a cozy domesticated cat, while others find truth through their senses alone.” Whatever your usual style of knowing the truth might be, Leo, I suspect you’ll benefit from trying out a different method in the next two weeks. Here are some possibilities: trusting your most positive feelings; tuning in to the clues and cues your body provides; performing ceremonies in which you request the help of ancestral spirits; slipping into an altered state by laughing nonstop for five minutes. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Would you scoff if I said that you’ll soon be blessed with supernatural assistance? Would you smirk and roll your eyes if I advised you to find clues to your next big move by analyzing your irrational fantasies? Would you tell me to stop spouting nonsense if I hinted that a guardian angel is conspiring to blast a tunnel through the mountain you created out of a molehill? It’s OK if you ignore my predictions, Virgo. They’ll come true even if you’re a staunch realist who doesn’t believe in woo-woo, juju, or mojo.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): This is the Season of Enlightenment for you. That doesn’t necessarily mean you will achieve an ultimate state of divine grace. It’s not a guarantee that you’ll be freestyling in satori, samadhi, or nirvana. But one thing is certain: Life will conspire to bring you the excited joy that comes with deep insight into the nature of reality. If you decide to take advantage of the opportunity, please keep in mind these thoughts from designer Elissa Giles: “Enlightenment is not an asexual, dispassionate, head-in-the-clouds, nails-inthe-palms disappearance from the game of life. It’s a volcanic, kick-ass, erotic commitment to love in action, coupled with hard-headed practical grist.” SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Some zoos sell the urine of lions and tigers to gardeners who sprinkle it in their gardens. Apparently the stuff scares off wandering house cats that might be tempted to relieve themselves in vegetable patches. I nominate this scenario to be a provocative metaphor for you in the coming weeks. Might you tap into the power of your inner wild animal so as to protect your inner crops? Could you build up your warrior energy so as to prevent run-ins with pesky irritants? Can you call on helpful spirits to ensure that what’s growing in your life will continue to thrive? SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The fates have conspired to make it right and proper for you to be influenced by Sagittarian author Mark Twain. There are five specific bits of his wisdom that will serve as benevolent tweaks to your attitude. I hope you will also aspire to express some of his expansive snappiness. Now here’s Twain: 1. “You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” 2. “Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.” 3. “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” 4. “When in doubt, tell the truth.” 5. “Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.” CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “My grandfather used to tell me that if you stir muddy water it will only get darker,” wrote I. G. Edmonds in his book Trickster Tales. “But if you let the muddy water stand still, the mud will settle and the water will become clearer,” he concluded. I hope this message reaches you in time, Capricorn. I hope you will then resist any temptation you might have to agitate, churn, spill wine into, wash your face in, drink, or splash around in the muddy water. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1985, Maurizio Cattelan quit his gig at a mortuary in Padua, Italy and resolved to make a living as an artist. He started creating furniture, and ultimately evolved into a sculptor who specialized in satirical work. In 1999 he produced a piece depicting the Pope being struck by a meteorite, which sold for $886,000 in 2001. If there were ever going to be a time when you could launch your personal version of his story, Aquarius, it would be in the next ten months. That doesn’t necessarily mean you should go barreling ahead with such a radical act of faith, however. Following your bliss rarely leads to instant success. It may take years. (16 in Cattelan’s case.) Are you willing to accept that? PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Tally up your physical aches, psychic bruises, and chronic worries. Take inventory of your troubling memories, half-repressed disappointments, and existential nausea. Do it, Pisces! Be strong. If you bravely examine and deeply feel the difficult feelings, then the cures for those feelings will magically begin streaming in your direction. You’ll see what you need to do to escape at least some of your suffering. So name your griefs and losses, my dear. Remember your near-misses and total fiascos. As your reward, you’ll be soothed and relieved and forgiven. A Great Healing will come.
HOMEWORK: When they say “Be yourself,” which self do they mean?
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