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TRUMP DOESN’T WANT TO DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION D BY JOHN KRULL // VOICES@NUVO.NET
onald Trump doesn’t want to be president. That much is evident. Don’t get me wrong. It’s clear the egomaniac in the Oval Office loves the pomp and pomposity accompanying this nation’s highest office. He revels in being the center of attention, of having millions of people wait in anticipation or dread to see what he will say, do or tweet next. But the actual work of being president? Not at all. I’m not talking about the security briefings Trump blows off so he can make one of his many tee times. Nor do I focus
on the fact that there is no evidence he’s ever read or even glanced at one of the healthcare reform bills he berates Congress to pass. No, I’m talking about something more basic. On Jan. 20, Donald J. Trump put one hand on a Bible and the other hand in the air and he pledged an oath. Before God and everyone, Trump vowed: “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” NUVO.NET // 09.27.17 - 10.04.17 // VOICES // 3
NUVO.NET/VOICES The last time I checked, the Constiincendiary to distract attention from yet tution of the United States still contains another embarrassing setback or transa First Amendment. That amendment gression – in this case, the likely failure guarantees, among other things, the right of another attempt to repeal Obamacare to speak one’s mind and to petition govor the reports that the investigation into ernment – that is, to protest – for redress illegal ties with the Russian government of grievances. now has moved to the inner circles of the Yet here is the president of the United White House. States – the man who vowed he would Still others devoted their attention to defend those rights – saying to an audithe fact that the president was dividing ence in Huntsville, Alabama about the Americans while threatening war with professional athletes North Korea, hardly who have taken to a sound leadership kneeling in respectThe nation’s founders strategy. ful protest during All this is true, didn’t envision the the playing of the but misses the main national anthem: nation’s chief executive point. “Wouldn’t you This nation’s being a third-rate reality founders love to see one of didn’t these NFL owners, show emanating from establish this when somebody government and the Oval Office, tacky disrespects our flag, the presidency so to say, ‘Get that son but high-rent resorts and we could be enterof a b**** off the tained. They didn’t rallies called together field right now. Total envision the nation’s disrespect of our her- whenever the occupant chief executive being itage, a total disrethird-rate reality of the White House feels ashow spect of everything emanating that we stand for. in need of ego strokes. from the Oval Office, Everything that we tacky but high-rent stand for.” resorts and rallies called together whenThe irony of saying this in a place ever the occupant of the White House where the citizens didn’t just take a knee feels in need of ego strokes. when Old Glory was displayed but instead No, the founders saw this government once picked up arms and opened fire and the presidency as serious business. on the Stars and Stripes was lost on the They saw both as means to protect and divider-in-chief and his audience. preserve the rights and interests of free That’s not surprising. people who wished to govern themselves. The things about which this president That’s why we require presidents to is unaware, uninformed or uninterested is take oaths. We want – no, we demand – as vast as the universe itself. that they understand the depth of the The reaction to the president’s remarks responsibility and commitment they was swift and harsh. must make. Some people focused on Trump’s This latest episode is just one more bit hypocrisy – the fact that he could offer of evidence that Donald Trump didn’t forthright condemnation of black athletes mean it when he took the oath of office who take a knee to show respect for the eight months ago. country they want to see honor its promJust a little more proof that he doesn’t ises of due process and equality, but not want to be president. for the white supremacists who show up That he doesn’t want to do his job. in public squares toting guns. That he doesn’t want to defend the Others locked in on what they see as a Constitution. N Trump pattern, that of saying something 4 // VOICES // 09.27.17 - 10.04.17 // 100% SUSTAINABLE / RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO.NET
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BACK TALK HEA1337 IS (FINALLY) DEAD Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky and ACLU of Indiana won a victory in an abortion restriction case pursued against the state during the last year and a half. Last week, Judge Tanya Walton Pratt issued a permanent injunction preventing the state from enforcing HEA 1337, which placed a number of restrictions on women seeking an abortion in the state of Indiana. In her judgement, Judge Pratt writes, “The challenged anti-discrimination provisions directly contravene well-established law that precludes a state from prohibiting a woman from electing to terminate a pregnancy prior to fetal viability. The information dissemination provision is also unconstitutional, as it requires abortion providers to convey false information regarding the anti-discrimination provisions to their patients. The fetal tissue disposition provisions do not further a legitimate state interest and are therefore also unconstitutional.” NUVO reported extensively on HEA 1337 when it was passed in March of 2016. A preliminary injunction was granted in June of 2016, a day before the law would go into effect. — KATHERINE COPLEN
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MEMBERS OF COLTS JOIN NATIONWIDE ANTHEM PROTESTS President Trump feuded with players in both the NFL and NBA this weekend over anthem protests and championship teams’ reluctance to visit the White House. On Sunday, some members of the Indianapolis Colts joined a peaceful protest that entails kneeling during the national anthem. The anthem protests were started by Colin Kaepernick while he played quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers in an effort to protest police brutality against people of color. While Kaepernick has yet to be signed by an NFL team this year, effectively curtailing his ability to peacefully protest, many players throughout the league have continued his protest. Trump called Kaepernick and others who participate in the peaceful protests “sons of
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bitches” during a campaign rally in Alabama over the weekend, and called for owners to fire anyone who kneeled during the anthem. In response, many NFL owners issued strong rebukes to the President, including Indianapolis Colts’ owner Jim Irsay, who said in a statement, “The vast majority of players in the NFL – especially those who have worn and continue to wear the Horsehoe – have donated millions of dollars to charities, raised money for those affected by recent hurricanes, created charitable foundations, visited schools, mentored students, worked in homeless shelters, cleaned up parks, and put in hours of their personal time toward improving their communities and the lives of those around them.” During Sunday’s game against the Cleveland Browns, the entire team locked arms during the anthem, while several players took a knee. — KATHERINE COPLEN AND BRIAN WEISS
CO-FOUNDER OF MARTIN UNIVERSITY DIES Sister Jane Edward Schilling died Sept. 13 in St. Louis at the age of 87. Sister Schilling co-founded the Martin Center with Fr. Boniface Hardin in 1966; the education center eventually became Martin College (1977) and then Martin University (1990). Sister Schilling retired in 2012 from Mar-
tin, which remains Indiana’s only predominantly black institution (PBI), and celebrated its 40th anniversary this year. Under the guidance of new president Dr. Eugene White, Martin is currently implementing a strategic plan that would introduce new degree programs, including a school of education, a doctoral program in urban leadership and various associate degree programs. ⁃ — KATHERINE COPLEN
VP PENCE CALLS ON SEN. DONNELLY TO VOTE THROUGH TAX LEGISLATION With a desire to cut taxes by the end of the year, Vice President Mike Pence came back home again to Indiana Friday for his first of three expected trips in the next month — but this time he targeted Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly. “Sen. Donnelly, we need your help too,” Pence said at the Wylam Center for Flagship East in Anderson as Donnelly sat in the audience. “Joe, let’s decide today if we are going to get this tax cut done and we are going to get it done together.” While Donnelly is a Democrat, he has shown before that he is willing to cross party lines. In 2010, Donnelly supported tax cuts he said weren’t perfect, but he knew were needed to provide incentives for economic growth.
Although there is no current tax reform legislation written at this time, Pence talked about the Trump administration’s goals. “We are going to cut taxes across the board for working families and small businesses,” Pence said. “Before the end of the year, President Trump is going to sign a tax cut that will put American workers and the American economy first.” President Donald Trump will be in the Hoosier state Wednesday at the State Fairgrounds, to also talk about the economy and an overhaul on tax reform. ⁃ — ADRIANNA PITRELLI
MANUFACTURERS PUSH LAWMAKERS TO ADDRESS COMING WORKFORCE SHORTAGE Over the next five to 10 years the state’s manufacturing companies are expected to lose between a quarter and half of their workforce, which is why the Indiana Manufacturers Association wants lawmakers to take action now. Brian Burton, president and CEO of the IMA, joined with representatives of manufacturing companies to draw attention to Manufacturing Day, which takes place Oct. 6, and the challenges facing the industry. “Even though manufacturing represents 20 percent of Indiana’s labor force, the highest of any sector, only 4 percent of career and technical education enrollments in Indiana high school career centers are in courses aligned with manufacturing,” said Burton. He explained that manufacturing companies are currently facing a critical workforce shortage. His group organized Manufacturing Day to bring awareness to the importance of the industry for policy makers, educators, parents and students. Manufacturing Day seeks to celebrated modern manufacturing, and inspire future manufacturers. Specifically, the association is pushing lawmakers to consider legislation to boost manufacturing, including proposals like creating relocation incentives for out-ofstate workers and developing employer training grant programs. — MAKENNA MAYS
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y 13-year-old daughter Naomi came along with me to check out the James Dean Festival in Fairmount, Ind. on Sept. 23. It’s not because she is a James Dean fan, exactly, but because it was a Saturday, and the alternative would’ve meant a day at home alone. The previous night in preparation for this trip, we watched part of East of Eden, the 1955 film based on the John Steinbeck novel, in which Dean starred. (I had seen it before, but it’s been a while.) It’s a good role. And James Dean’s emo-
tive, brooding acting style, derived from the Stanislavski method – a style of acting which actors deeply immerse themselves in their roles – hadn’t been seen much on screen before. After his death in a car accident at the age of 24, two more films starring Dean were released, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant. And these two films, combined with his early death, lit the fuse of his enduring fame. The 37-year-old Remembering James Dean Festival, in the town where he grew up and is buried, is a visible manifestation
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of this. During this annual four-day festival, there’s free showings of Dean’s classic movies, a James Dean run and a car show. There’s also James Dean lookalike contests — separate contests for both adults and kids — carnival rides, deep-fried food and a parade. We drove up taking I-31 from Indianapolis. An hour later, we found a parking space at the James Dean Gallery at 425 N. Main St. We were lucky to find parking because the surrounding streets were already crowded with vehicles. Wandering around, we saw a substantial amount of memora-
bilia — correspondence, childhood photos, and personal items of Dean’s — available for view, behind glass. There was a finely rendered painting by Chris Osborne showing Dean behind the wheel of his automobile, looking at the viewer. A book lying on a table — David Dalton’s James Dean: A Life in Pictures — that drew my daughter’s interest because it was written in German, a language that she’s studying in school. There’s demand for such foreign-language books; the Gallery, which functions
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both as a museum and a gift shop, receives visitors from all over the world, including Germany. And the Gallery also hosts music performances. (Later in the afternoon, rapper Dekota Clemmons, a.k.a D3X — a shoein if there ever was one for a James Dean lookalike contest — would rap skillfully over mashups of pop and rap music standards on the James Dean Gallery lawn.) LEE RA SK IN WI The owner of the Gallery, David TH HIS TWO BO OK S: JA ME S DE AN : AT SP EE D AN D JA ME S DE Loehr, 67, was once a visitor as well. AN : ON TH E RO AD TO SA LIN AS // PH OTO BY DA “I grew up in Pittsfield, Mass.,” he N GR OS SM AN said. “But I lived in New York City and Los Angeles for a while. And I was in LA a poster and a pin and before I knew it, I 1979 driving to New York and I came out of was collecting stuff. And I had a whole box my way to stop here. And then I came back of James Dean stuff and it just kind of got in 1980 to the festival for the first time. I out of control and I had a whole house full. just kept coming back and forth and just We opened in 1988. We’ve been doing the got this house in 1986 and opened this in festival since 1980 with just a T-shirt booth 1988. So it’s turned this little hobby that I uptown before I opened this.” got carried away with, and turned it into a I asked Loehr why he thought that Dean fulltime job.” had become an American icon. His fascination began in 1974, when he “Of course, [there’s] his dying young: 24 read the biography James Dean, the Mutant years old,” he said. “But he’s fortunate to King, by David Dalton. have had three good movie roles that still “I was intrigued by his life and I hadn’t hold up strong today: three good roles, seen his movies yet,” he said. “I was out three good directors, and the movies still in California, and I saw three films on the hold up today. We get a lot of young kids big screen and I was knocked out by his in here, young girls and teenagers, and acting skills. I picked up another book and college kids they’re crazy about him still; NUVO.NET // 09.27.17 - 10.04.17 // THE BIG STORY // 7
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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: NAOMI GROSSMAN (PHOTO BY DAN GROSSMAN); A MARCHING BAND KICKS OUT THE JAMS DURING THE GRAND PARADE; ONE BEAUTIFUL RED HOT ROD AT THE CAR SHOW; JANE ALLEN AT THE PARADE (PHOTO BY DAN GROSSMAN); RIBS. SWEET WONDERFUL. BAR-B-QUE RIBS. (ALL PHOTOS BY JOEY SMITH UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED)
it’s not like it’s something from the past. It still feels very modern.” These kids might not know who Cary Grant or Gregory Peck is, he said, but they know James Dean. “I think the thing is, people can identify with him in a lot of different ways,” he said. “The Midwestern farm boy, the New York Bohemian; he was an artist; he painted and sculpted; photographer, movie star, race car driver; a lot of people can identify with him in a lot of different ways. I think a lot of that’s just in his looks — his look is so incredible; he still looks modern today with the haircut. He doesn’t look like an actor from 60 years ago. He looks pretty fresh and modern.” For the diehard James Dean fans, he says, they have next July to look forward to. “It’s our 20th year doing that during the last weekend in July for more serious James Dean fans,” he said. “The festival is great, but a lot of people that want to come and
get a corn dog and go on the Ferris wheel, not particularly James Dean fans.” CORN DOGS AND POLISH SAUSAGE I’m not a wild Deaner, like many attendees of this fest. Having hit the age of 50 last July I keep hearing in my head comedian Denis Leary’s classic response to people telling him he still has half his life ahead of him. To which Leary says something like “Face it folks, it’s not the better half.” I sort of understand the appeal. I mean, who wouldn’t want to be 24 forever? But being a father has its rewards too. One of the biggest rewards that I’ve had in my life so far is that I have a daughter who doesn’t seem to mind hanging out with me. After talking to Loehr and walking past the Ferris wheel and other carnival rides, we found a vendor among numerous food vendors along Main Street who served corn dogs. That’s what Naomi had, while I had the Polish sausage with marinara sauce
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and onions, the works. Afterwards we made our way to the Fairmount Historical Museum, which sponsors the festival and has a substantial collection of James Dean memorabilia and artifacts, including James Dean’s motorcycle. Right in front of the museum, under a tent, author Lee Raskin had the two books that he’d written about James Dean including James Dean at Speed, written in 2005 and the more recent James Dean: On the Road to Salinas (2015). And I asked Raskin, who lived in Baltimore MD., about how he became what he terms a “Deaner.” (Raskin as well as James Dean Gallery owner David Loehr are featured in the short documentary film Deaners directed by David Garry, and screened this past July at Indy Film Fest.) “My sister dedicated her whole bedroom to photographs of James Dean,” Raskin said. “And on good behavior, she let me in to see the photographs and I was just enamored of James Dean gracing the Porsche and I was only 10 years old but I liked stuff like that. And the year before [my father]
had taken me to a sports car race. I was impressionable. Then I saw pictures of the other Porsche that he was killed in. I just got so caught up in what was happening, this is the wrecked car. As time goes on, you do other things. You get involved in girls and sports and college. Anyway, I never forgot the James Dean thing. At 18, I bought a Porsche, a used Porsche, not to emulate James Dean, but just because I thought it was a cool thing.” I asked Raskin if he had checked out the 1200-vehicle car show — which of course he had, being a Porsche aficionado — and he encouraged us to check it out as well. TOO HOT FOR A HOT ROD SHOW, BUT JUST RIGHT FOR A PARADE Naomi and I then walked four blocks to the car show, at Park Elementary School. When we finally made it we looked all around, but it was really too hot to linger. I didn’t see any Spyders, the car that Dean had crashed, but I was worried about how my daughter was holding up in the heat. We bought a bottle of water and headed back to Main Street. When we got there we
NUVO.NET/THEBIGSTORY sat down in the grass, in the shade of some oaks alongside residents, who had gathered along the sidewalks to watch the parade that would soon be starting. I made my way to one of the residents seated in lawn chairs. I asked her if she’d be willing to answer some questions and she said that she would. Her name: Jane Allen. I asked her if she was a contemporary of James Dean, who was born in 1934. “He was a bit older than us,” she said. “He died when we were seniors in high school. But Fairmount was such a little town that 7th grade was at the high school. Because it was such a small town, you knew everybody in town … “He rode a motorcycle to school. It’s painted black and gold because it’s Fairmount school colors. And you could hear him coming from the edge of town, it was so loud.” It was, in fact the same motorcycle that was on display at the Fairmount Historical
Museum. “He was very good in all the school plays and that sort of thing and Adeline Nall, was his drama coach,” she said. “She was a classmate of my dad’s in high school, and so we thought she DAVI D LO EH was wonderR IN JA ME S DE AN FR ON T OF GA LL ERY ful. He was PH OTO BY DA N GR OS SM // AN very active in debate team and all the plays and all that kind of thing,” she said. “But there were a lot of kids that were.” Allen grew up in Fairmount, but spent most of her professional life in Indianapolis, where she worked in property
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management. While she still spent summers in Indianapolis, she used the annual festival as an opportunity to get together with her friends in Fairmount. And she also said that many people who had moved away in their youth came back each summer to do the exact same thing. I asked Allen what the festival meant economically for Fairmount.
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“They always say there’s about 2,500 people in this town. And they guess there’s probably 30,000 people here this weekend. [It’s great] for the businesses and it’s such a fun weekend. It’s amazing to me.” N
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n the night of November 10, 2012, a home in the Richmond Hill exploded. This result of an insurance fraud scheme took the lives of two people, injured seven others and caused more than $4 million in property damage in this Southside Indianapolis subdivision. After a drawn-out trial and extensive press coverage, the perpetrators Mark Leonard and his half-brother Bob Leonard were both given life sentences without the possibility for parole. Three others, including Monserrate Shirley, Mark Leonard’s then-girlfriend and owner of the home that exploded, were convicted for their part in the crime. Love and Greed in the Heartland: The Richmond Hill Murders, chronicles this crime and the resulting trial that captivated Marion County for years. The authors are Russ McQuaid, a veteran investigative reporter for Fox 59 News, and Robert Snow, a former captain for the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. With over 20 years as a reporter under his belt, McQuaid has seen more than his share of heinous crimes around the city. After years covering the Richmond Hill explosions, as well as cases such as the murders of Shaylynn Ammerman and Lt. Aaron Allen, McQuaid is all too familiar with the dark side of Indiana. After sharing boxes of documents and research from the Richmond Hill case with Snow, who has published numerous true crime books, the process of writing the book began. It was published in July, 2017. NUVO talked to McQuaid by phone on Sept. 18.
BREANNA COOPER: There was an abundance of evidence at the site of the explosion, as well as extensive documents that had to be gone through during the course of the investigation. What was your process for sorting through all of it? RUSS MCQUAID: As you build the case, from the very first note you take, from
BREANNA: After years of crime reporting, did anything from this case shock you? RUSS: What was the most shocking about this was the arrogance and the narcissism and sociopathic mentality of the people involved. That they think they could get away with this and had no concern for the wellbeing of their neighbors or friends, or even the other co-conspirators amongst themselves. It was almost depraved, it was so shocking that people can do that. What really comes away from this book is that you drive home in your neighborhood, you see your neighbors and say “hi” but you don’t really know what’s going on in your neighbor’s house. You hope all your neighbors are nice guys like you, and you’re hoping your neighbor doesn’t hook up with a sociopath, but the reality is you never know what’s going on next door. the first day you’re walking out there, you go through and pull each record of the individuals involved, their financial records, real estate records, you do interviews, you keep logs and notes of interviews and every call you made. This is like assembling a giant jigsaw puzzle, and you look for the interlocking pieces. Once it starts making its way to the court system, you collect every court document you can. Those layout the story in paperwork, but you can also see the strategy of the attorneys developing on how to present it before a jury, and you cover the trial everyday and a log of what everyone says on the witness stand. The advantage you have is when you have two trials, you compare the notes from the second trial to the first trial, to see what’s new and what does or doesn’t add up, and then everything comes together in the end.
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BREANNA: Do you tend to pick up on when stories don’t quite add up? RUSS: Yeah, and you can usually pick a thread up on that real quick. I knew the first afternoon, I walked out there within 15 hours after the explosion, the first thing I noticed was there was no furniture. I thought “There should be furniture.” It would have been beat up and burnt, but it would have been there. So when I realized there wasn’t any, that didn’t make sense. Then we started learning details about Mark Leonard and Monserrate Shirley, how they had taken their cat and boarded it for the weekend. Anyone who’s ever had a cat knows you don’t board a cat, they’re fine on their own. Then we started digging into her financial records, her bankruptcy and attempts to sell her house. Within 48 hours of the explosion, she went on TV and did an interview with FOX 59, and you
can just pick up certain clues from the way people answer or avoid questions. As you sit and watch, a lot of these things become apparent to you if you keep an eye on it and keep asking questions. You start to get this uneasy feeling that the story isn’t adding up, and that’s what we did in this case.
BREANNA: After four years of covering Richmond Hill, along with other notable crime stories, how do you move on from these stories, or do you? RUSS: You always move on, because there’s always going to be another story. No matter how big the story is, there’s always going to be a tomorrow and something else is always going to come up. What you do is you build on your history. The Richmond Hill case went on for a couple years, so you don’t report that all at once. It’s a continuing thread of stories, but there’s things you do when you investigate and uncover. Writing those stories helps you in the future when you do another investigation, and some of the contacts you make, you run into in other cases. Everybody else’s lives go on, so you just keep moving forward.
BREANNA: When you’re reporting on high-tension and emotional stories such as Richmond Hill, how do you remove yourself from the story, especially when you’re interviewing suspects? RUSS: You take into account, of course, your outrage as a human being and citizen of Indianapolis, the pain you feel and the questions you have, and you bring that to the table. After you do that, you rise above it. When you’re interviewing victims, or suspects, or investigators, you bring your knowledge and ability and ask your questions. You don’t make it about your emotions, but rather to say “I’m seeking information as to how this occurred,” and then you can answer the same question for your audience. N The full interview is online at NUVO.net
REMEMBERING HOPE BAUGH BY DAN GROSSMAN // DGROSSMAN@NUVO.NET
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ast week, we learned that Hope Baugh passed away. Hope wrote theatre criticism for NUVO and had her own blog indytheatrehabit.com. She also worked as Manager of Young Adult Services for the Carmel Clay Public Library, which released this statement earlier this week about Hope: It is with deep sadness that [the Library] must share the passing of Young Adult Services Manager Hope Baugh. Hope was hired in 2001 as a Young Adult Librarian, then advanced to the position of manager of the department a year later. Throughout her tenure with the library Hope was a passionate advocate for teenagers, not just as library users but as the next generation of leaders. In addition to her love of connecting readers with Young Adult literature, Hope was a gifted storyteller and an accomplished theater blog-
ger. She had an infectious laugh, a generosity of spirit and a deep commitment to serving our community. Her friends, colleagues and patrons at the library will miss her dearly. In my interactions with her — whether at the library or out as a fellow reviewer writing up IndyFringe performances — I found her always bright and cheerful. I enjoyed her writing for NUVO, a sample of which you can find here. She had an in-depth knowledge of the Indy theater scene, as she had been an actor in a variety of theater performances around town. Her theater blog reflects this knowledge. Someone else who found her a joy to be around is her friend Mark Lee, who has also written (as well as taken photographs) for NUVO. On Thursday, he wrote: “One of the first shows I ever did at the Phoenix was The House of Blue Leaves, and
among the amazing castmates was Hope Baugh... an absolute delight to be around, and someone who exudes joy and happiness wherever she goes. “Years later the two of us became movie buddies, and I just found out through a mutual friend on Facebook that she is no longer with us. What’s up with so many GOOD people dying? (I was going to create a list of complete asses I’d much rather see go, but I know Hope would not like it if I did ... she might LAUGH, but she seriously did not have a mean bone in her body). “Rest in peace, my friend. I’m sorry to see you go...” I asked Mark if he had anything to add. “We used to go to Keystone Arts to watch movies together and around Christmas time she would always ask me with a twinkle in her
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eye if I thought the guy playing Santa Claus was flirting with her,” he said. “Now I wish that he was. I always thought it would have taken someone with a heart like good Old St. Nick to capture Hope’s heart and to match her spirit.” Will McCarty, creative manager for NUVO and co-founder of Q Artistry, says: “Hope was a wonderful supporter to many in the theater community. She was heavily supportive of women and telling women’s stories. She was good energy all around. She remembered your name, was very personable in that regard. She had a great laugh. “We had a show that opened during an ice storm and she was one of the only people there. She came through the ice storm because she wanted to be there for opening night. She was one of those.” Longtime NUVO reviewer and commentator Rita Kohn also shared her thoughts on Hope’s passing: “As long as there are theatres, actors, playwrights, patrons of theatre in Indianapolis, Hope Baugh will be alive,” she said. N
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Carmel’s The Cat gives the big guys a run for their money
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Elgar’s “Serenade for strings” capturing the enchantment of an English countryside, opens with a whisper of violins and wafts into a melody with viola, cello and bass joining the momentum of violins enjoying the playfulness of light and shadow flickering along the rise and fall of pathways. Leppard is a master of ensemble playing, coaxing coloration out of a string orchestra for what seems like so many more instruments than what’s actually on stage. If you listen past the feel of Wagner you smile at snippets of what would become Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance.” Poetry in motion through sound. Mozart’s “Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364” rose to sheer joyousness through the embrace of violinist Zachary DePue and violist Michael Isaac Stern leading, weaving, partnering as a testament to Mozart’s brilliant crossover between symphony and concerto. The rich harmony grows from a divided viola section, and the fulsomeness emanates through two horns and two oboes asserting themselves above, alongside, and beneath the strings. Stern’s viola rose to the demand for a more brilliant tone as a consort with DePue’s lithe sweetness. Richard Ratliff, in his program notes rightfully draws attention to George Balanchine’s embrace of this work for his iconic 1947 ballet, with two ballerinas embodying the violin and viola as soloists, he embraces the three movements’ varying tempo and timbre for building choreographic drama. Schubert’s “Mass in G Major, D. 167” devotes itself to the mood of devotional prayer. Far more modest in presentation than are his other masses, “Mass in G” concerns itself with lyricism more so than with bombast. The chorus and soprano are more prominent than are tenor and bass-baritone. All, together with organist Marko Petricic and the Festival Orchestra, carry forward Schubert’s signature rich harmonic coloration. — RITA KOHN
eople have heard that we aim to be the off-off-Broadway of Carmel. So I think they know that whatever ideas there are, we will give them a shot at making them real,” says Will Wood, the founding artistic director of The Carmel Apprentice Theatre, the newest theater/multipurpose venue in Carmel. “We are fortunate in Central Indiana to be a tight-knit group.” In February 2017, The Cat took up residence in a compact building that formerly housed the defunct live music venue The Warehouse. The address, at 254 First Ave. SW, is on the periphery of Carmel’s Arts & Design District. It’s within sight of (and dwarfed by) the Palladium, the concert hall for the Center for the Performing Arts. The Cat had its first performance in May, Side by Side by Sondheim. “[It was] led by the delightful Ellen Kingston for Carmel Theatre Company,” says Wood. “CTC, whose history goes back over 25 years, had lost their lease the previous December and had been looking for a new home.” Wood himself has had many experiences in theater. After a break lasting 30 years, he reemerged into the scene in 2009 and since then has assistant directed, directed, or produced nearly 20 theatrical productions in Central Indiana. In 2016, he wanted to direct a Cole Porter musical for CTC, but it lacked a venue. Wood and his wife and business partner, Deborah, discovered the 60-year-old building, signed the lease in February 2017, and fulfilled a lifelong dream of having their own theater. The client base for the 150-seat The Cat has grown significantly since they opened their doors. “We have seven resident theater companies, but only two of them existed in any form before we opened,” says Wood.
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“Our model encourages, almost demands, that people who have an idea or a dream come try it out here. The new companies, all formed this year, are Improbable Fiction, Approxima, 4 Way Stop, Indiana Theatre Company, and The Carmel Apprentice Theatre.” Since the theater opened, its focus has been integrating itself into its natural habitat. “We serve the local arts community,” says. Wood. “And the term ‘arts community’ is meant in its most liberal term. And the term ‘local’ means just that. We have had several touring acts ask about playing here, and we could easily accept them, but that would send the signal that we are another of the many — and fine — spots open mostly for acts originating somewhere else.” Wood gets excited when rattling off upcoming performances. “Shakespeare, Charlie Brown... a Broadway cabaret, It’s A Wonderful Life, a premiere play, comedy — IndyProv and Dave Dugan.” he says. “We have shows booked all the way through December of 2018, but there’s still room for more.” The next event at the Cat is Ashton Wolf: Dueling Pianos, scheduled for Sept. 30, where
Wolf and his performing partner Craig Wilson will explore many genres of piano music, including rock, country and standards. “I sit at my desk sometimes and watch people walk by with their dogs or kids,” said Wood. “And they stop and stare at the place. Maybe it’s the neat logo on the front, the bird feeder, the dog dish. Or maybe they’re just looking at this tiny place next to the big five-story office building going up…And they just wonder how we’re going to survive!” The venue is by no means exclusively a live-theater spot. “As far as artists, we’ve had comedy shows, student recitals, a surprise birthday party, corporate meetings, ribbon cuttings, summer camps, concerts…lots of stuff.” The flexibility of the setup inside, which Wood describes as “cozy,” allows performers a multitude of possibilities. Overall, Wood says, “We attempt to be relatively family-friendly. And not too loud.” So far, Wood says the best part of running The Cat is “Each time we say, ‘Yes, you can do that here!’ I love the reactions I get. Like ‘Really?” or “You’re kidding, right?’” N
A MOTHER! OF A MOVIE Darren Aronofsky’s shockfest grabs you by the throat BY TAYLOR SULLIVAN-PETERS // ARTS@NUVO.NET
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here is a version of this review that would amount to schoolyard bickering: He hit me and I hit him back. So much of mother! hits me hard over the head with its symbolism, its Biblical and climate change allegory, that part of me wants to hit right back. I paid the local theater my money and I want to dismiss mother! as An Inconvenient Truth plus a quick skim through Genesis plus a little bit of intentional shock bait, submit a PowerPoint-cum-review of my own and call it day. And yet, climate change is the single most important political and global issue facing humanity today. It cannot but be taken seriously, notwithstanding the Biblical allusions around every corner. So, to give it a shot: We open on a woman wrapped in roaring flames, crying. Then a hand lifts some crystal-type-thing and puts it in place, and we watch a house rebuild itself and Jennifer Lawrence — who is credited only as Mother — bloom from a bed. Despite the technically successful catastrophe sequences late in the film, mother!’s affected visuals too-often feel weightless. Later in the film, a wide view of the scene strives for Edenic and comes off more Windows XP screensaver. Back in practical space, Lawrence wakes up and reaches behind her in the otherwise empty bed. “Baby?” she asks, a cinematic hammer in search of a nail. She’s alone but for a camera that tracks her obsessively as she searches the house. We are held close to her for much of the opening; there must be something coming around a corner. Finally she peeks outside, and out of nowhere it’s Him, a.k.a., Javier Bardem. “Don’t sneak up on me like that!” she might’ve yelled. But that big ol’ grin of his too quickly melts all the tension she and we have been racking up, and any hint of chiding takes flight. This is something that for a portion of its runtime mother! does expertly. It puts Law-
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rence’s Mother into situations of increasing helplessness. Something feels wrong, but wrong in that precise way where she can only just register a complaint, can’t stop it. We identify with her discomfort and we identify too with her socialized impulse to be polite. Later, when the movie comes off its rails, we lose this thread of identification, with Lawrence or with anyone. Aronofsky wants to walk a fine line between realism and fancy in this film while never stepping too deeply into one or the other. Refusing to choose is unsatisfying. For all the simplicity of its imagery and allusions, the ultimate failure of this movie comes from Aronofsky’s own failure to choose. Are these people types, or are they real-live, flesh-and-blood human beings? Despite, for instance, a valiant attempt by Michelle Pfeiffer to breathe life and shape into her turn as Woman, she is roundly failed by stock dialogue and characterization. At one point she makes herself a stiff lemonade, and stumbles such that we can practically smell the liquor on her breath, and yet still she must let us know that she is “on her second.” During a later scene practically imported wholesale from a romantic comedy generator Aronofsky found online to fill out his script, Pfeiffer chides Lawrence for not keeping Him (Bardem) “interested” with her plain white underwear. In fact, for a film nominally about motherhood, about femininity — about women somehow — whenever it tiptoes up to anything resembling the lived experience of An Actual Woman, it leans on the old standbys. It's not surprising, that a male director relying on a metaphor about women — one that’s already been ground into semantic dust by both Captain Planet and your local granola hocker — couldn’t come up with something more subtle. N NUVO.NET // 09.27.17 - 10.04.17 // SCREENS // 15
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any people flock to every food festival that they possibly can — downing whatever the crowning culinary item of the day happens to be, basking in gluttonous glory. Others avoid them at all costs due to long lines, lower food quality, weather issues and high ticket prices. Whichever side you may fall on, sometimes there comes a fest that is so perfectly thoughtout, so focused on positivity and bettering our community, that no rational person can harbor resentment toward the event. I nominate TURN Festival as one such event. Hoosiers can head to The Paramount School of Excellence on September 29 and 30 to attend and understand how important this annual event is for our city’s urban neighborhoods. TURN stands for Transforming URban Neighborhoods, and that is the goal of the two-day event. According to Tommy Reddicks, executive director of Paramount School of Excellence — which is a kindergarten-through-eighth-grade, public charter school — it’s the school’s goal every day of the year. “We don’t want TURN to be a one off that you only see once a year,” he says. “TURN [is] a culmination of what we do annually and just the proving point of ‘Hey, here’s what it looks like when it all comes together, but these are all practices you could take home and self-sustain yourself with.’ ” These practices started with a focus on inner city farming, but Reddicks says the Paramount School of Excellence quickly came to realize that was just one small facet of a bigger issue, “We realized that it’s so much more than just inner city farming, that what we were doing involved a health component, it involved a farming component, it involved the process of being in a food desert and it involved a lot of environmental concerns.” The school also understood that they couldn’t fix all of these problems alone. “What we should be doing is modeling these things as an anchor institution,” he says, “And bringing everybody who surrounds farm, food, health and environment into one social context so that we can say, ‘Everybody here is saying the same thing,
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but probably needs to more intentionally work together so we can cross this thing out and put it in the hands of more people that have a larger impact.’ “It kind of moved into its own signature event from that theory.” TURN Fest works two different ways. On the first day, September 29 is the TURN Feast, a fundraising event featuring six local chefs preparing a massive meal for a group of people who pay a premium price tag of $125 for “a casual evening of cuisine, camaraderie and conversation.” This year’s chefs include Abbi Merriss of Bluebeard, Carlos Salazar of Rook, Eli Laidlaw of Plat 99, Alan Sternberg of Cerulean, Peter Schmutte of the soon-to-open Beholder and Brad Gates of the upcoming Hedge Row Bistro. Reddicks and the team behind TURN Fest are upfront with their thoughts on this aspect of the event. “In terms of the TURN dinner itself, the price tag is expensive and the value for what you get — since we have six area chefs cooking some amazing food — is pretty amazing. But that price tag is completely unapproachable to the area community,” he says. “[Friday] unabashedly is a fundraiser. And it’s really set up to support efforts behind Slow Food Indy and Paramount School of Excellence and our inner city farm,” he says. “What we want to do is use this to educate the greater Indianapolis community on what is actually going on with the Slow Food movement, with local access to food, with the food desert problem that we face and how we can get food in the hands of the families in the Brookside area and other Near Eastside areas.” But Reddicks points out that the next day is really the heart of the fest. “When we get to Saturday, that’s when we get to the festival [where] nobody is charged a dime to come in and enjoy, and learn, and experiment and see what’s going on in the backyard of that school and all the organizations, 40 or 50 vendors there, talking about how they create a difference and how people can get involved in that.” Saturday is a day for people in the community to come and learn, and hopefully be able to take home some knowledge of “how
NUVO.NET/FOOD+DRINK to do something for yourself to create your own sustainable, healthy food.” Brad Gates, executive chef for Hedge Row Bistro, due to open on Mass Ave early next year, says of Friday’s feast, that he is “very honored to do it.” He and his executive sous chef will dish out lamb meatballs in a spicy tomato sauce as hors d’oeuvres for the meal. Gates says the event is “definitely our cause. Kimbal obviously had no problem getting behind it and being the speaker and being a part of the event. So, once we were asked on our side, I think it was just an obvious choice to be a part of it.” Gates is referencing Kimbal Musk, brother of inventor Elon and keynote speaker of Saturday’s event. Gates ran a catering company in Indianapolis for years with a storefront in the Indianapolis City Market before closing up shop and joining The Kitchen Group, a restaurant and nonprofit group headed by Musk. The Kitchen Group
Kitchen Community is behind it and sends crew out to be able to help with that.” The learning gardens that The Kitchen Community constructed in Indy are very much in line with The Paramount School of Excellence and their student-and faculty-run garden. Reddicks says there are “762 kids at the school this year and all of them have an opportunity to learn how to garden on their own, how to do something like that at home, to understand where their food comes from. “We have a Tuesday afternoon farmers’ market during our growing season where our food is at, not just a discounted rate, but at an insanely affordable rate for both our students and staff to be able to take vegetables home from the school garden and appreciate that for the freshness it is and feel like it is completely accessible to them.” Reddicks says seeing where the TURN movement is today compared to where it started in 2010 is his favorite thing. “762 kids at the school this “I remember pulling our first carrot out of the year and all of them have an ground behind our school opportunity to learn how to garden and watching the kids that I was working with at the on their own, how to do something time just freak out,” he like that at home, to understand says. “And then I put it in my mouth and they really where their food comes from.” freaked out, and it was — TOMMY REDDICKS completely gross to them. “And going from that to pulling out a carrot and focuses on urban farming among a dozen having them tell me what kind of carother important food culture initiatives. rot it is and whether or not it grew very Hedge Row Bistro will be The Kitchen well, and if our soil probably needs to be Group’s first restaurant in Indianapolis, but enhanced a bit because that thing should Gates points out the nonprofit foothold have grown a little bigger.” they have created in the city’s food system His hope for the fest is that the comprior to opening a for-profit restaurant. munity will begin to recognize TURN as a “The Kitchen Group has preceded the movement.“That TURN, as far as its name, restaurants coming into the Indianapolis Transforming URban Neighborhoods — community,” he says. “We’ve been doing that transformative process should be a learning gardens there for years now. There process and it shouldn’t be a one-off.” are up to 26 learning gardens that exist in He hopes to see the movement grow and Indy that were funded in part by The Kitchevolve into something much bigger and en Community [the nonprofit entity of The more substantial. “There would be this long Kitchen Group]. A lot of it is done by [Growreach of things that would be going on year ing Places Indy and its Executive Director] round and all of that would celebrated in Laura Henderson and other entities, but the annual festival.” N
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V Torso is a force of nature. In their song, wild poetry is smashed into your earholes with such an impulsive amount of emotion that it’s easy to just label it punk, but they are so much more. At its core is an inventive trio of minimal, but innovative instrumentation and then the polarizing lyrics and vocals of Natty Morrison, whose words and phrases grab you in each song and refuse to let you go. The original lineup met in Lafayette and included Natty, Dylan Schwab and Brent Smith from Broken Light, and Garret Ney from Faux Paw. They came together to form VV Torso in Indy, and after a couple of years they have honed in on their craft. A loyal fanbase continues to grow locally and beyond. I must have passed these guys several times at a show in Lafayette, and stood in the shadows (as I do) when they played at The Spot Tavern. Perhaps, if collided, the circling energy leaking from our heads would have created an unsafe implosion. (All speculation, of course.) After a shift in their lineup — Dylan Schwab left as their drummer and Tom Lageveen joined — the band worked hard on playing shows and focusing on new material. During that time the trio also had an album waiting to be released, and now LPVV has found a home on Jurassic Pop (Schwab’s label) with a cassette release this October. VV Torso will celebrate with a release show at State Street Pub on October 19.
VV Torso to release debut album on Jurassic Pop this October
And, to get you prepared for this outstanding record and a destined-to-be-memorable show I sat down with Natty Morrison and guitarist Brent Smith to dig deeper into the psyche and process.
GREG LINDBERG: What has been the process in the whole gestation between finishing recording and the release coming up? What has the process been like for you guys? BRENT SMITH: Yeah, I think we sat on it for a while because we were trying to gain some more local support here in Indianapolis. We recorded the album pretty early, and we hadn’t played many shows yet. So I think the biggest thing was playing locally. NATTY MORRISON: We finished recording in May, and Dylan the original drummer left to move to Texas at [around] the beginning of July. So we were kind of in a period where we didn’t really know what we were going to do with our record. We didn’t know how the band was going to continue. I was living with Tom, who is our current drummer now, and we wanted to make sure we just weren’t going to put out a record to have it heard by our friends and not follow up with touring. And also we were becoming a different band. There was definitely a period of time where we were listening to songs we have on this first record and wondering if we wanted to try rerecording and adding new songs in. But the more we listened to it and the further it got from people around Indianapolis that were listening to it, the more
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we talked ourselves into putting out a record that’s getting some pretty positive feedback.
GREG: One of the things I love about VV Torso is that you guys have this unique sound while there’s also something very familiar. Are there some specific influences that inspired the band when writing LPVV? NATTY: I think it’s important to mention that we certainly have some core influences that are shared. We all like Fugazi and Dead Kennedys. We’re also … how do I put this eloquently? We’re kind of morons when it comes to the style of music. So it’s kind of weird because I don’t really listen to a ton of music that’s close to what we sound like regularly. There’s certainly more commonality and influences, but strangely enough I just never know how a song is going to sound. I have no idea where it comes from. Lyrically, from my
vocal approach, I’m definitely thinking about more of a poetic sense or more Protomartyr or The Stooges. People who have like kind of a big, bellowing voice and they’re kind of playing a character. BRENT: I think in terms of music, we can never really pinpoint exactly what it is that helps us define our writing and how it kind of relates to what people want to associate it with. I think, for me, it’s trying just to find that sound on guitar that I have never heard before. For the other guys I know, like for Tom, it’s like that. It’s just trying to find a drum beat that is unique or has character. And I know Garrett tries really hard on bass, too. We all really have that same mentality of trying to create something that is, like you said, familiar but also kind of new to us. NATTY: I think when we’re writing one thing to keep in mind is other punk bands do it better than us. But we don’t sound like other punk bands.
GREG: Natty, your lyrics feel like a driving force as much as the vocals and music. Do you have a collection of poetry and try to apply some of them to the songs that Brent and the rest of the band write or do you listen to the songs first and then write? NATTY: It can go both ways. When we first started, I had a portfolio of very, very bad poetry that I collected over the years. Just dogshit. But I had it. And they would just start playing, and I’d read through it. I’d have a few papers right on my phone, and I’d look through and
NUVO.NET/MUSIC I would find phrases that worked. I’d just try it out live. So it was kind of on the spot. As it went on, I’d say I got this part and then flesh it out by going home to write it. At this point now I’ve found that I’m [still] doing some pre-writing, like I’ll give this phrase that I wrote in a bar at three in the morning and want to see if it works out. But honestly a lot of the times as we’re writing it, I’m writing it along with them. And to be honest I don’t know what my songs are about until 15 to 20 times we’ve played them. There are times where we’re still working stuff out when we’re playing shows or I’m still trying to figure out what it’s about or what I’m trying to say. One night something clicks in my head and I say something different. So it’s not improv, but I’ll go home and figure out that’s what I’m trying to talk about.
GREG: There’s a lot of relatable struggle in the lyrics as well. For example, “14 Days” has an addictive chorus, but also a fairly serious tone. What was some inspiration in writing “14 Days”? NATTY: “14 Days” was a song that we wrote on the spot after I had gone through a particularly rough patch with just some personal stuff. I certainly have self-destructive tendencies, and it was essentially where I had this long drive home and I was thinking that the last 14 years of my life had actually just been living very casually. Living very similarly to the way I describe the character in “Blood,” which is somebody who lives very cavalier and also acts as though life is inconsequential. Loving life very much, but also treating it like it doesn’t matter. And also trying to get better. So it’s a period of self-recovery and healing. Trying to feel better about certain things. It’s certainly an indictment of myself and my own tendencies to just treat myself like shit. But it’s also about that life doesn’t end at the moment of awfulness. Life continues beyond that. It’s a bit a plea to myself, and also for people I knew as well who were close to me who were going through personal family stuff that was not going very well. A lot of times my lyrics tend to be me projecting it onto other people. And it’s a flaw that I have that I know of. So yeah, it was essentially about self-destructive and rebuilding self-worth as well.
GREG: Has the dynamic of the band evolved in how you guys write music together or play live? BRENT: I think the biggest thing that changed when Dylan left was that we lost a voice for criticism. Dylan was a strong critic. That’s [one of] the main things we lost with Dylan, and I think when Tom joined he brought a technical aspect to the drumming that challenged us to make things a little bit heavier. It was a nice change, too, because Tom is one of those people that you could just let go and he could create something where we wouldn’t have to battle with him about anything. We lost Dylan as a strong voice, but we gained Tom as an incredibly strong player. NATTY: The interesting thing, too, is that when Tom joined, he was little precarious. He was a little bit like, “This is your band that I joined.” And then we were like we want you to be able to speak up, and he just sort of naturally took over this editing role. A lot of time the role of the drummer is to be able to figure out how things are going to build and develop. He was able to do that, and I’m proud of him. He super stepped up as not only a player, but he also leads our writing and voice in a creative and interesting way. WITH LOCAL DJ AND NUVO COLUMNIST
GREG: Have you already started recording new material or planning to soon? BRENT: Right now we have a batch of songs that we’re about finished with. I think we’re maybe trying to write a couple more tracks, but leaning pretty soon to start demoing the new batch of songs to have a better idea of where everything is at. I think we’re definitely go to record the second batch. I don’t see why we wouldn’t. The songs in my opinion are a little more evolved than the songs that are on the first record, in a good way. NATTY: Yeah, they’re a lot different. We didn’t plan for the release with Jurassic Pop, so we’re going to need to tour a little bit to sort of get the stuff out there. So that’s where we’re at right now. We probably have about 80 percent of the new record ready to go, but we want to make sure we have a couple other tracks. I’d say in the next three to four months we’ll probably be back in the studio. N
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ere’s a confession: I feel compelled to don my critical mouthpiece far too often throughout the year to shit-talk music festivals with boring, and stunningly homogenous lineups. I’ve seen far too many endless indie rock snooze-fests stacked with disproportionate representations of my white male counterparts through the years. So, it feels good every autumn to sing the praises of Bloomington’s Lotus World Music and Arts Festival, and hype up its consistently fantastic performance rosters. This year’s Lotus Fest takes place from Thursday, September 28 to Sunday, October 1. And once again, I’m confronted with my annual conundrum in covering Lotus to find what specifically to focus on. Each year’s festival offers such an embarrassment of riches, there’s no way I could properly do Lotus justice in my column space. But one aspect of Lotus Fest 2017 that struck me is the number of insanely amazing women performers packed onto this year’s bill. (Find a list of my favorites at the end of this column.) At the average music festival, gender imbalance on the bill is a serious weak spot. It’s become cliché to see a 100-act festival roster with only a few women artists in the mix. This has never been a problem for Lotus, whose organizers have been smashing the patriarchy in this casually beautiful and nonchalant fashion for years.
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Lotus has long done work to foster meaningful cross-cultural communication through music. In this Trump-infected reality we’re suffering through, many arts organizations are scrambling to put together programs that can end up tokenizing diversity as a way to combat the racist rhetoric and actions of the president’s administration. But Lotus has been seriously committed to meaningful cross-cultural artistic exchange for more than 20 years. That commitment extends beyond the annual festival to a year-long enterprise known as the Lotus Blossoms Educational Outreach which brings critically acclaimed performers from around the world into rural Southern Indiana classrooms and community centers for programs that are equal parts education and entertainment. So I challenge all our dear progressively minded NUVO readers to support Lotus. If you value a music festival that puts musical greatness above gender, race, and religion, then I challenge you to support Lotus. If you love amazing music regardless of its place of origin, then I challenge you to support Lotus. And if you can’t make it to the festival, I challenge you to consider making a donation to the Lotus Education and Arts Foundation. You can do that, or check out the full Lotus Fest lineup at LotusFest.org.
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heard Afro-Venezuelan rhythms and songs of her homeland to the Lotus stage on Saturday night.
Betsayda Machado will bring the seldom
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tional and modern capabilities. We Fei hits the Lotus stage on Friday.
PASCUALA ILABACA Y FAUNA TRIO DA KALI Mali’s Trio Da Kali came together for a project with the famed new music ensemble Kronos Quartet. The group unites three musicians from Southern Mali’s Mande griot traditions including the fantastic vocalist Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté. Catch Trio Da Kali both Friday and Saturday nights at Lotus.
SUBHI The Chicago-based vocalist Subhi interprets the Bollywood and Punjabi songs from her family’s cultural heritage in a jazz context. Subhi will perform Friday evening at Lotus.
KAIA KATER Canadian musician Kaia Kater brings traditional Appalachian folk music into a modern context, using her banjo and voice to comment on issues like the Black Lives Matter movement. Catch Kaia Kater Friday and Saturday night at Lotus, and at the free and family friendly Lotus in the Park event on Saturday afternoon.
Accordionist Pascuala Ilabaca will be blending the traditional Chilean folk music of her home with influences from jazz and rock on Friday night at Lotus.
SAHBA MOTALLEBI & NAGHMEH FARAHMAND Iranian virtuoso of the tar and setar Sahba Motallebi will perform with percussionist Naghmeh Farahmand Friday and Saturday night at Lotus, and Saturday afternoon at Lotus in the Park.
MEKLIT Ethio-American singer Meklit creates music inspired by Mulatu Astatke, the father of Ethio-Jazz. Meklit performs both Friday and Saturday at Lotus.
LADAMA A pan-American musical collaboration that unites the cultures of Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, and the United States. Lama will appear at Lotus both Friday and Saturday night.
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Wu Fei is a master of the 21-string Chinese zither known as the guzheng, and is equally skilled at exploring the instrument’s tradi-
This quartet of Polish women specialize in performing on the Polish chordaphone knee fiddle known as the suka. Catch the group on Saturday and Sunday at Lotus. N
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats likes to play along with the music of nature. On one occasion he collaborated with Mandeville Creek in Montana. He listened and studied the melodies that emanated from its flowing current. Then he moved around some of the underwater rocks, subtly changing the creek’s song. Your assignment, Aries, is to experiment with equally imaginative and exotic collaborations. The coming weeks will be a time when you can make beautiful music together with anyone or anything that tickles your imagination. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Some newspapers publish regular rectifications of the mistakes they’ve made in past editions. For example, the editors of the UK publication The Guardian once apologized to readers for a mistaken statement about Richard Wagner. They said that when the 19th-century German composer had trysts with his chambermaid, he did not in fact ask her to wear purple underpants, as previously reported. They were pink underpants. I tell you this, Taurus, as encouragement to engage in corrective meditations yourself. Before bedtime on the next ten nights, scan the day’s events and identify any actions you might have done differently — perhaps with more integrity or focus or creativity. This will have a deeply tonic effect. You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when you’ll flourish as you make amendments and revisions. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It’s high time to allow your yearnings to overflow . . . to surrender to the vitalizing pleasures of nonrational joy . . . to grant love the permission to bless you and confound you with its unruly truths. For inspiration, read this excerpt of a poem by Caitlyn Siehl. “My love is honey tongue. Thirsty love. My love is peach juice dripping down the neck. Too much sugar love. Sticky sweet, sticky sweat love. My love can’t ride a bike. My love walks everywhere. Wanders through the river. Feeds the fish, skips the stones. Barefoot love. My love stretches itself out on the grass, kisses a nectarine. My love is never waiting. My love is a traveler.” CANCER (June 21-July 22): One of the oldest houses in Northern Europe is called the Knap of Howar. Built out of stone around 3,600 B.C., it faces the wild sea on Papa Westray, an island off the northern coast of Scotland. Although no one has lived there for 5,000 years, some of its stone furniture remains intact. Places like this will have a symbolic power for you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. They’ll tease your imagination and provoke worthwhile fantasies. Why? Because the past will be calling to you more than usual. The old days and old ways will have secrets to reveal and stories to teach. Listen with alert discernment. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The United States has a bizarre system for electing its president. There’s nothing like it in any other democratic nation on earth. Every four years, the winning candidate needs only to win the electoral college, not the popular vote. So theoretically, it’s possible to garner just 23 percent of all votes actually cast, and yet still ascend to the most powerful political position in the world. For example, in two of the last five elections, the new chief of state has received significantly fewer votes than his main competitor. I suspect that you may soon benefit from a comparable anomaly, Leo. You’ll be able to claim victory on a technicality. Your effort may be “ugly,” yet good enough to succeed. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I found this advertisement for a workshop: “You will learn to do the INCREDIBLE! Smash bricks with your bare hands! Walk on fiery coals unscathed! Leap safely off a roof! No broken bones! No cuts! No pain! Accomplish the impossible first! Then everything else will be a breeze!” I bring this to your attention, Virgo, not because I think you should sign up for this class or anything like it. I hope you don’t. In fact, a
very different approach is preferable for you: I recommend that you start with safe, manageable tasks. Master the simple details and practical actions. Work on achieving easy, low-risk victories. In this way, you’ll prepare yourself for more epic efforts in the future. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Be realistic, Libra: Demand the impossible; expect inspiration; visualize yourself being able to express yourself more completely and vividly than you ever have before. Believe me when I tell you that you now have extra power to develop your sleeping potentials, and are capable of accomplishing feats that might seem like miracles. You are braver than you know, as sexy as you need to be, and wiser than you were two months ago. I am not exaggerating, nor am I flattering you. It’s time for you to start making your move to the next level. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to take extra good care of yourself during the next three weeks. Do whatever it takes to feel safe and protected and resilient. Ask for the support you need, and if the people whose help you solicit can’t or won’t give it to you, seek elsewhere. Provide your body with more than the usual amount of healthy food, deep sleep, tender touch, and enlivening movement. Go see a psychotherapist or counselor or good listener every single day if you want. And don’t you dare apologize or feel guilty for being such a connoisseur of self-respect and self-healing. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A queen bee may keep mating until she gathers 70 million sperm from many different drones. When composing my horoscopes, I aim to cultivate a metaphorically comparable receptivity. Long ago I realized that all of creation is speaking to me all the time; I recognized that everyone I encounter is potentially a muse or teacher. If I hope to rustle up the oracles that are precisely suitable for your needs, I have to be alert to the possibility that they may arrive from unexpected directions and surprising sources. Can you handle being that open to influence, Sagittarius? Now is a favorable time to expand your capacity to be fertilized. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’re approaching a rendezvous with prime time. Any minute now you could receive an invitation to live up to your hype or fulfill your promises to yourself -- or both. This test is likely to involve an edgy challenge that is both fun and daunting, both liberating and exacting. It will have the potential to either steal a bit of your soul or else heal an ache in your soul. To ensure the healing occurs rather than the stealing, do your best to understand why the difficulty and the pleasure are both essential. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1901, physician Duncan MacDougall carried out experiments that led him to conclude that the average human soul weighs 21 grams. Does his claim have any merit? That question is beyond my level of expertise. But if he was right, then I’m pretty sure your soul has bulked up to at least 42 grams in the past few weeks. The work you’ve been doing to refine and cultivate your inner state has been heroic. It’s like you’ve been ingesting a healthy version of soul-building steroids. Congrats! PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): There are enough authorities, experts, and know-it-alls out there trying to tell you what to think and do. In accordance with current astrological factors, I urge you to utterly ignore them during the next two weeks. And do it gleefully, not angrily. Exult in the power that this declaration of independence gives you to trust your own assessments and heed your own intuitions. Furthermore, regard your rebellion as good practice for dealing with the little voices in your head that speak for those authorities, experts, and know-it-alls. Rise up and reject their shaming and criticism, too. Shield yourself from their fearful fantasies.
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