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THREE DOMINOS FALL IN RUSSIA INVESTIGATION
Mueller’s investigation targets financial transactions and lies to federal agents BY JOHN KRULL // NEWS@NUVO.NET
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he news that two campaign aides for President Donald Trump had been indicted and that another had entered a guilty plea – along with an agreement to cooperate with investigators – had the feel of the first shots fired in what’s likely to be a long battle. The message in this case from Special Counsel Robert Mueller: We’re just getting started. The president reacted to both the news and the warning in predictable fashion. First, he came unglued. Then he lashed out. Trump responded through that most dignified and presidential of media platforms — Twitter — by saying that neither his former campaign manager Paul Manafort nor Manafort associate and former campaign aide Richard Gates III ever had much to do with the campaign. Ditto the denial for former Trump campaign foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos, the only one of the three to plead guilty in the Russia probe. After asserting that bit of absurdity, the president then demanded an investigation of Democrats. It was classic Trump: Deny, deny, deny, then attack, attack, attack.
The president and his besieged team tried to make a case that Mueller’s actions exonerated them because the indictments of Manafort and Gates focused on financial dealings and alleged transgressions before the campaign begin. That “proved,” the president said, that there had been no “collusion.” He missed Mueller’s method. Mueller and his team have documented with precision the many transactions – transactions amounting to at least $75 million — Manafort and Gates had with Russian interests. Many of those transactions Manafort and Gates apparently went to some lengths to hide, either because they were of questionable legality or because they wanted to avoid paying taxes on their gains. Mueller’s team also released campaign communications demonstrating that Gates and Manafort were working to broker a relationship between Russian officials who had dirt on Trump’s opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton. While Mueller may not yet have made an airtight case that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to affect the out-
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come of the 2016 election, he is establishing that at least two senior players on the president’s campaign staff had plenty of motivation – at least 75 million reasons – to want to do Russia’s bidding. Mueller also made it clear that, with Papadopoulos – the campaign volunteer who pled guilty and now is offering insider information to investigators – he has a way to verify or challenge accounts of events offered by other Trump staffers. If they don’t tell the truth, they can face charges of obstructing justice, lying to law enforcement officials or perjury. It’s an elegant box Mueller has constructed. Perhaps that is why the president reacted in the unhinged fashion he did. If nothing else, Donald Trump has first-rate survival instincts. He knows when he’s in trouble. The trouble in this case is compounded by the fact that the president’s typical defense mechanisms – diversion, throwing up smoke screens, blustering, bullying, and, as a last resort, buying his way out of difficulties – can’t and won’t work here.
In all his previous political battles, Trump has encountered opponents who tried to ignore him or rise above him or, occasionally, out-Trump him. None of these strategies worked, because Trump can’t be ignored, is adept at dragging any adversary into the muck and can’t be beat at his own game. But in Robert Mueller the president has met a man who is everything Trump is not – methodical, understated and unswerving. Mueller won’t be distracted by smoke, baffled by bluster or deterred by insults or threats. He will just keep coming forward. More important, he will be operating in an arena congenial to his quiet but detailed approach and inimical to the president’s improvisational style of guerrilla warfare – the courts. There’s a reason President Trump’s greatest setbacks so far have come in courtrooms. The rule of law does not bend easily to people who make stuff up as they go along. Three dominoes tied to the Trump presidency fell early this week. More will follow. Count on it. N
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INDIANA HAS A DRUG PROBLEM A protest over insulin costs highlights concerns about drug companies BY FRAN QUIGLEY // NEWS@NUVO.NET
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t is a bright and sunny autumn Saturday afternoon. Across Indiana, people gather on the sidelines of kids’ soccer games and tailgate outside of college football stadiums. The people walking down South Delaware Street in pairs and small groups are dressed in t-shirts and jeans, and carry brightly-colored signs. They look to be headed for a relaxing outing, too. But as they approach their destination a few blocks from downtown, the looks on their faces became more visible. So do the words and images on their signs. They are not relaxed. Their destination was the corporate headquarters of Eli Lilly and Company, one of three global manufacturers of insulin. In near lockstep with the other two manufacturers, Lilly has raised the price of its insulin by over 300 percent over the past seven years, and over 1,000 percent since the late 1990s. A patient’s out-of-pocket cost for a month’s supply of Eli Lilly’s Humalog can run to over $400. Like most of the other protestors, Hope Charters of Lafayette lives with type 1 diabetes and learned of the demonstration through the patient advocacy group T1International. Charters holds a sign that lists the 2016 costs for treating her disease, including insulin and testing supplies. At the bottom, it reads: “Cost to survive for 12 months: $23,356.” Charters says she chose this message to demonstrate that hiking up the cost of insulin is not like increasing the price of a smart phone or a flat-screen TV: whatever price companies like Lilly set must be met. “If you don’t get your medication as a Type 1 diabetic, you literally die,” Charters says. Insulin is not a cutting-edge medicine. It was first used to treat a person with diabetes in 1922, a revelation that won its discoverers the Nobel Prize. Then they
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gave away the patent for one dollar each, with the intent that the young company Eli Lilly could manufacture and distribute the medicine to all who needed it. For several decades, that plan worked. But now, half of those who need insulin globally cannot reliably get access to it. Even persons with diabetes in the relatively wealthy U.S. are forced to ration insulin and skip injections. Physicians report seeing an increasing number of insulin-deprived patients coming into emergency rooms in crisis. At the demonstration outside of Eli Lilly headquarters, patients shared stories of life-threatening complications from not taking insulin. A letter was read from a mother whose 26-year-old son died this past June after he had lost insurance coverage and was forced to ration his insulin. Manufacturers keep their insulin production costs a tightly guarded secret, but U.S. prices are likely hundreds of times higher than the expense of making the drug. The insulin price increases have been called “price-gouging, plain and simple” by
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U.S. senators. An endocrinologist writing in the New York Times called it a “racket.” One might think that three different manufacturers of insulin would compete with each other on price. Instead, their mirror-image price increases have triggered a class-action lawsuit alleging collusion. At age 15, Hope Charters was a yearround athlete. But she kept losing weight. Her thirst seemed unquenchable, and she was vomiting a lot. For her family, the eventual diagnosis of type 1 diabetes was a terrifying one. Charters’ grandfather and an uncle had already died from complications of type 1 diabetes. Her uncle was only 38 years old. “All I knew was that you die from it,” she says. For Charters and other persons with type 1 diabetes, their body’s immune system has damaged or destroyed the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. Unlike type 2 diabetes, type 1 is unrelated to diet, body weight, or exercise. People with the more common type 2 diabetes often need to take insulin shots on a
temporary or permanent basis. For people with type 1 diabetes, the equation is much more uniform, and more stark: they must inject insulin in order to stay alive. For a while, Charters’ family had good health insurance through her father’s workplace, and it covered most of the cost for her insulin. But by the time she graduated from Purdue and took a job in Downtown Indianapolis, the family had lost that coverage and Charters was on her own. She paid $350 each month for insurance, but was still responsible for out-of-pocket costs until she met a large deductible. Every month became a struggle. Charters does not like to talk about that period. “It was a mess,” she says. “And compared to others, I was not that bad off. I can’t imagine being on the poverty line and having a kid with type 1.” Charters now works for Purdue, and again has good health insurance coverage. But her past struggles to afford lifesaving medicine reflect the current reality for thousands of people across Indiana, and the problem goes far beyond insulin. Some are willing to share their stories anonymously, like the cancer survivor retiree with a whopping $400 co-pay for the medicine she needs, or the son with health insurance who exaggerated his insulin needs to his physician so he could share some of his excess with his uninsured, but also diabetic, father. Others are willing to go public. Eastside resident David Bridges has a full-time job with health insurance. But he too faces a high deductible, and one of his medicines for glaucoma costs over $700 a month. So he maxes out credit cards to buy some of the medicine, and skips doses, hoping for the best. Mark Trover of Indianapolis skipped doses too, when his job offered no affordable
NUVO.NET/NEWS insurance to cover his blood pressure and heart medicines. Four years ago, when he was unable to pay to fill his prescriptions to lower his blood pressure, he suffered a stroke. He is now permanently disabled. These Indiana stories reflect a growing U.S. medicines crisis. The cost of prescription drugs has increased an average of 10 percent or more every year for several years, far higher than the rate of inflation. The price of many medicines rises even faster, as Americans discovered with the 450 percent spike in the price of Epi-Pens and the 5,000 percent overnight increase in the price of the drug Daraprim by the company owned by “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli. One of every five Americans report either skipping medicine doses or failing to fill prescriptions each year due to cost. Meanwhile, the pharmaceutical industry enjoys some of the highest profit margins in modern history. For example, Eli Lilly’s 2016 net income was over $2.7 billion. In many years, the company profits exceed $4 billion, with profit margins as high as 20 percent. The industry says it needs those dollars to support its research. But it turns out the research on the most important medicines, especially at the most risky stage of the process, is funded by taxpayers. With the revenue collected from record-high prices, drug companies spend more on marketing and lobbying than on research and development. So it is not surprising that polls show that a large majority of Americans are angry at drug companies — 77 percent say drug prices are unreasonable. Republicans and Democrats alike support aggressive government intervention on medicines pricing. Even Donald Trump has announced that the companies are “getting away with murder.” Proposals in Congress and state legislatures range from allowing imports from Canada, where medicines are far cheaper, to treating pharmaceutical companies as a public utility. So far, the pharmaceutical industry has fought off any significant changes in the system. The “Big Pharma” nickname is well-earned: the industry is one of the top spenders in the world on lobbying and po-
litical campaign contributions, particularly in the U.S. In the Washington, D.C. area alone, pharma corporations employ twice as many lobbyists as there are members of Congress. (U.S. Senator Richard Durbin has said that the industry “has a death grip” on the U.S. government.) Beyond direct lobbying, pharmaceutical companies also employ a more subtle way of advancing their agenda: philanthropic contributions, including funding patient advocacy groups that then echo the industry’s talking points. Giving away a small percentage of windfall profits in return for high-profile goodwill is a time-honored tactic. We all witness it in action every time we walk into a museum, library, or school building that prominently displays the Lilly name. No one understands the Indiana impact of pharmaceutical industry philanthropy better than Pam Altmeyer Alvey. For nearly 30 years, Alvey worked at Gleaners Food
Half of those who need insulin globally cannot reliably get access to it. Bank, guiding its growth from working out of a three-car garage to becoming one of the largest nonprofits in the state. During Alvey’s years as president and CEO, Gleaners distributed hundreds of millions of pounds of food to dozens of charities. Senator Richard Lugar praised Alvey in the Congressional Record. On the day Alvey retired from Gleaners in 2010, she was honored as a Sagamore of the Wabash. Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard proclaimed it Pam Altmeyer Alvey Day. Like all nonprofits, Gleaners relied heavily on donations. During Alvey’s time, she says, no organization was more generous to Gleaners than those connected to Eli Lilly. The largest grant Alvey ever secured was from Lilly Endowment, founded by the Lilly family and funded by Lilly stock. The company’s internal foundation gave a lot of money to Gleaners, too. (“There are a whole lot of good people working in that company,” Alvey says.)
But in her retirement, Alvey struggles to afford the Eli Lilly medicine that she needs to survive. She has had diabetes for decades, long enough to remember when the same vial of insulin that is now priced near $300 cost about $20. Alvey is on Medicare and pays for a supplemental prescription drug plan, but there are big gaps in that coverage. One of the two insulins she has been prescribed is Lilly’s Humalog, and the cost stuns her. “I was totally unprepared for my insulin alone to take more than half of my monthly income,” she says. To control her blood sugar and lessen her need for insulin, Alvey limits herself to two meals a day and eats the same foods for nearly every meal. Alvey is a former Republican precinct committeewoman. She is one of an increasing number of believers in the free market who criticize the pharma industry business model of patent monopolies and government-subsidized research, not to mention bulk government purchases often made without negotiation. “It’s protectionism at its very worst,” she says. “It’s not that the companies are making great breakthroughs in insulin while they are raising the price. They are making tweaks.” Alvey is getting angry, but she catches herself, and again points out that there are good people working in the drug industry, especially at Lilly. “And the company was generous to us at Gleaners, and to others in the community, too,” she says. Then she pauses. “But I would not add on one penny to anyone’s medical costs for those donations.” Back at the demonstration, Hope Charters is joined by her mother Kim McGowen. Like a lot of others at the demonstration, McGowen has no prior history of being an activist. If anything, Charters says, her mom leans to the political right. But there was a time when McGowen had to choose between paying for her teenage daughter’s insulin and the family’s utility bill. It was McGowen’s father and brother who died from diabetes. She knows the stakes involved. So here she is on a Saturday afternoon in Indianapolis, standing next to her daughter, holding a sign saying, “Insulin for life; not for profit.” N NUVO.NET // 11.01.17 - 11.08.17 // NEWS // 7
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THE GRIM PROGNOSTICATOR T.C. Boyle balances bleakness with joy BY JIM POYSER // ARTS@NUVO.NET
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uthor T.C. Boyle is a rarity among writers, equally accomplished in crafting both novels and short stories. He’s won numerous accolades in both genres, and his newest book is a collection of short stories called The Relive Box. His most recent novel, The Terranauts, is the fictionalization of a real and true event, the early 1990s experiment in ecosphere, closed-system, living, Biosphere 2. In Boyle’s hands, this real-life experiment turns into a barn burner — or should I say biome burner — the story of the eight scientists who inhabit the enclosed system, resulting in plenty of sex, treachery and despair. Boyle doesn’t seem to have a lot of faith in humanity’s ability to quell its selfish, destructive tendencies, and so he is one of our most cautionary literary voices writing today. His body of work reveals how we are largely motivated by lust, ambition and selfishness. I would argue, in
fact, that he is one of our most important environmental writers. By bringing humor and horror to the human predicament, Boyle shines a dreadful light on our shared journey toward almost certain demise. Hey, at least we get to laugh at ourselves along the way. You’ll see what I mean Tuesday, Nov. 14, when Boyle comes to Butler University, as part of the Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series. Boyle lives in Santa Barbara, California, but when I spoke with him on Oct. 10, he was visiting Millbrook, Connecticut, researching his current writing project (Outside Looking In). We began our conversation by digging in on a collection of a dozen stories in The Relive Box (published Oct. 3 by ECCO, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers), his 27th published book. For the uninitiated, this book is a great sampler on his work, from the serious to the
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absurd. I wanted to dig in on four stories in particular, starting with my favorite of the collection, “Are We Not Men?”, the story of hybrid creatures created by designer genetic technology — i.e. CRISPR, a genome editing technology, enabling modifications of an organism’s genes. T.C. BOYLE: You know I’m always looking to nature and our place in it as my main theme and fascination. I became aware of CRISPR a couple years ago. This is front-page stuff … buy your own CRISPR kits and mess with things in your kitchen and create your new bacteria or new molds and so on. I just wondered: Is this a good idea? What kind of problems will arise when you can select — according to the genetic makeup of you and your spouse — all the features of your child. You can see where the consequenc-
es are bound to lead: to make us not human anymore. It just seemed to have flown by everybody. It’s inevitable that we will have designer humans.
JIM POYSER: Tell me more about the technology — it’s about altering DNA, right? T.C.: We’ve been able to do that for some years now, but CRISPR uses an enzyme that allows it to be done much more easily and quickly. Some of the examples that I use in the story – well, all of them except for the dogcat and crowparrot — already exist. That’s part of the joke, it’s already here: the superpig and the supercow. We have always genetically crossbred our creatures in order to get the chicken with the big breast and so on. And now we can do it in the lab where we can change creatures at will and make anything we want. As I say, once the dogcat is out of the bag… [Laughter]
NUVO.NET/THEBIGSTORY TOP T.C. BOYLE BOOKS
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Over a quarter century I’ve been thrilled to
don’t want to finish the book you’re reading? For
interview some of my favorite authors, either as a
me, it’s like that before I even start a Boyle book.
freelance writer or editorial staff member for this
So beware; you might unleash a Boyle Binge
publication. Highlights include Russell Hoban (Rid-
for yourself. Here are my top half-dozen picks for
dley Walker), Kazuo Ishiguro (winner of the Nobel
his work:
Prize), David Byrne (Strange Ritual, Bicycle Diaries) and Oliver Sacks (Awakenings). Happily, I add T.C.
1 // A FRIEND OF THE EARTH (2000), mentioned
Boyle to this list.
at left, a father-daughter futuristic story about the
I was introduced to Boyle’s fiction only recently, spring of 2016, when a friend suggested I read his
largely unsuccessful commitment to save the planet from global warming.
2000 book about global warming, A Friend of the
Earth. It is no cliché or exaggeration to say I could
2 // WHEN THE KILLING’S DONE (2011), medita-
not put this novel down. This is the book I’d been
tion on invasive species, including that most invasive
looking for — for years: a dystopian vision at what
species, human.
climate change will create, but also a look back at efforts by environmentalists to preserve this planet
3 // RIVEN ROCK (1998), historical novel about
for future generations.
schizophrenia, psychiatry and wealth.
If a book can possibly save us from ourselves, this is the one. Tweeting about A Friend of the Earth resulted in a Twitter conversation with Boyle that led to, about
4 // THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE (1993), hilarious novel, based on the bizarre “health” practices of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, the cereal industrialist.
a year ago, an assignment for Motherboard about Boyle’s 2016 novel, The Terranauts. Over the course of about 18 months, I’ve read
5 // DROP CITY (2003), comic send up hippie, dropout culture.
nearly every novel Boyle has written. I call it my Boyle Binge. At this point I’m near the end of his list
6 // THE TORTILLA CURTAIN (1995), still-rele-
of novels, and feel some sadness about that. You
vant, heartbreaking book about illegal immigration,
know how it is when you love an author’s work and
set in California
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JIM: Or the crowparrot. What does that creature say in the story? T.C.: It says, Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! And at dinnertime it says, Big Mac! [Laughter]
JIM: I love the hilarity and humor of that story. “Are We Not Men?” is a particularly good cautionary tale on how we humans constantly mess things up. T.C.: One of my joys in writing stories and novels is to just explore things that disturb me. It’s a what-if scenario of course, but also: what does it mean? What are the possible repercussions of this? A Friend of the Earth, for instance, [published] in the year 2000, deals with global warming, projecting to 2026, and everyone says “Well, you’re so prescient to predict this.” I reply, “Not at all. I read the news like everybody else,” and wonder what it will lead to next.
JIM: Do you feel the need sometimes to try and balance your vision so you’re not perceived as too negative? T.C.: No, I don’t care about that in the slightest bit. I’m just an artist making art. And people can take it for what they will…. I am simply exploring it for my own purposes — and these stories are the result.
JIM: I see a direct connection between “Are We Not Men?” and another favorite story in the collection, “The Relive Box” about a technology that allows people literally experience their past by viewing it repeatedly. It seems every new technology quickly
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overtakes us. T.C.: If they’d had computer games when I was a boy, I would have never read a book. That’s just the way it is. “The Relive Box” is a story about gaming, of course, and our obsession with it. But also it’s a story about memory and reliving our experiences. Some of the science there — retinal recognition — exists.
JIM: I found it particularly poignant how the characters are so deeply interested in using this technology to understand themselves and the choices they made over a lifetime. T.C.: As we all do, Jim, in how imperfect our memories are. If such a device did exist — and by the way I’m working on it in my basement lab and will be marketing it by 2020, and $5000 is the opening price —
JIM: Can I get in on the ground floor of this?
T.C.: Yeah, yeah. For you, it’s $4,999. [Laughter] I’m fascinated by the idea. If you were able to do it [relive your life], why would you do anything else? There are a million things I would like to relive; and once you start reliving them, why bother to live? By analogy to any of the obsessive games people play, the games become more interesting than life. JIM: Ultimately, using the Relive Box might result in fewer carbon emissions than, say, driving your four wheeler around town. T.C.: Pretty soon nobody’s going to leave home anymore. The Amazon drone will be bringing us everything. Where’s the social interaction in that? The last place remaining is the local bar. And I’m working on the app for a virtual bar. So up it pops in your living room, the drinks
NUVO.NET/THEBIGSTORY WRITERLY QUOTES FROM OUR CONVERSATION T.C.: Ninety-five percent of the time it [the story idea] just starts to talk to me in either first or third person and I just follow it. The writers who most interesting to me are the ones who have a wide canvas and never say no. Of course, I write about the same themes perpetually but I haven’t gotten to the end of them yet.
JIM: Current writing project? T.C.: It’s called Outside Looking In; a historical novel about the beginnings of LSD; what it does to our brains as animals. I’m interested in its discovery and the early days.
JIM: Any comments on Kazuo Ishiguro winning the Nobel Prize for Literature?
T.C.: I love him. I have met many Brit writers of his generation — Roddy Doyle, Salmon For those of you hoping to read more about
Rushdie, Julian Barnes — but I have never met
Boyle the writer, instead of Boyle the grim
Ishiguro. He’s one of the first I will mention when
prognosticator, here are some snippets from our
asked what I like … especially for two books:
conversation.
Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go.
JIM POYSER: Given you are accomplished in
JIM: The Terranauts appears to be a TV show in
both short story and novel writing, how do you
development.
know if something you’re beginning work on is going to be a short story or a novel?
T.C. BOYLE: I always very consciously set out to write a novel or a short story. I’ve never had
T.C.: Yeah, The Terranauts was bought before it was published — but whether that happens or not, I don’t know… Volumes have been written about writers who
the experience of a story expanding into a novel
go to Hollywood and … I never felt a need to do
or vice versa. I guess it’s a question of the com-
that and I can give many artistic reasons and
plexity of the idea, but as you know I really have
sound like a saint about it, but what it comes
no idea what it will be and that’s the joy of doing
down to is I can not imagine sitting in a room
it and why I only want to write fiction: because
with anyone and making an artistic decision.
it’s a process of discovery along the way. I’m fortunate because I’m not locked into any
But when I am sitting by the fireplace on a rainy night with a cat on my lap and a dog on a
school or mode. I write in all modes. I’m never at
rug and a book in my hand I glance up occasion-
a loss, and I’m never bored.
ally to the mantel and there are my books. There they are. They can’t take that away from me.
JIM: You seem equally at home writing in first or third person.
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FROM THE RELIVE BOX
Katie wanted to relive Katie at nine, before her mother left, and I could appreciate that, but we only had one console at the time and I really didn’t want to go there. It was coming up on the holidays, absolutely grim outside, nine-thirty at night—on a school night— and she’d have to be up at six to catch the bus in the dark. She’d already missed too much school, staying home on any pretext and reliving the whole time I was at work, so there really were no limits, and who was being a bad father here? A single father unable to discipline his 15-year-old daughter, let alone inculcate a work ethic in her? Me. I was. And I felt bad about it. I wanted to put my foot down and at the same time give her something, make a concession, a peace offering. But even more I wanted the box myself, wanted it so baldly it was showing in my face, I’m sure, and she needed to get ready for school, needed sleep, needed to stop reliving and worry about the now, the now and the future. “Why don’t you wait till the weekend,” I said.
are just the way you like them, and the babes never say no … who needs to go outside? Outside is nasty. There are dangerous other people out there. They might talk to you for God’s sake.
is to die. That’s how I’m going to deal with it.
JIM: Are you going to bury yourself into
JIM: Sounds like your basement has a lot
the compost pile first? T.C.: Of course. I want to be recycled properly. I am a recycling fanatic, even though nothing matters, I can’t help it …
of projects going on. T.C.: I’m a hardcore tinkerer.
JIM: Why is it only immediate danger that
JIM: This relates to the third story I wanted you to talk about: “Surtsey,” the story of an island hit by a hurricane and storm surge. The protagonist family in the story has to make its way to the local school, where everyone else has gathered as well. In a world where we never leave our homes, will it only be extreme weather events that force us to interact with each other? T.C.: I’ve been on this global warming thing since the 1990s. …Kivalina [the island] is going under. That’s the end of it. We think of the horror of the Syrian refugee crisis. This is nothing compared to when Bangladesh floods and it’s under two feet of water, permanently. What are we going to do with everyone? Where are they going to go? Look at the hurricanes we’ve just had. Truly frightening. And California is on fire yet again.
JIM: Which brings up another story in the collection, “You Don’t Miss Your Water (‘Til the Well Runs Dry),” about the multiyear drought in California. In it, you turn the story of neighbors in conflict over the lack of water into a comedy. T.C.: But of course the serious problem underlying is where we are now: the worldwide fight for resources. There you have it, we are doomed. My plan as I have told you,
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awakens us to a crisis? T.C.: The crisis came a long time ago and there’s nothing we can do about it. We have been trying to ameliorate the effects, and I don’t want to be exclusively negative about it. When I was a child, there was no notion of recycling, the world was a big place and resources were infinite. Now at least we are aware, but is it too late to be aware? Furthermore as you can no doubt predict there will be some kind of cataclysm coming, whether biological or nuclear war. It won’t eliminate our species entirely but will take us back to a time before any of this was in operation.
JIM: Some say we should be moving into a palliative care mode for planet earth. T.C.: I hate to be exclusively pessimistic, I take great joy in life and in nature and in just being alive and having consciousness, but things look pretty grim. The population has tripled since I was born, resources are dwindling and we are fighting over them. Almost every country, and now I’m afraid including our own, is run by a gang of bully boys who seize power, use it for their own benefit and enslave everyone else. It’s true of ISIS and Putin … I can’t really see our democracy and our freedoms existing into the future. Nor can I see poverty being eliminated … it’s just utterly depressing.
JIM: I work a lot in schools, and recently went to a high school to visit an Environmental Action Club, and one kid said he was in the club because he had seen weather changes over the course of ten years — and so was terrified by climate change. T.C.: It’s staggering. But to be optimistic, there is that club and he’s in it. There are some voices that can stand in opposition to the capitalist notion that we have to have infinite consumers and infinite product on a finite planet.
JIM: Isn’t that ultimately what we’re up against, capitalism and the wheel of consumption? T.C.: We’ve had a right wing takeover of the government and now we can’t have birth control anymore. As if we need more people. Both parties are guilty of this: every seat is bought and sold by corporate interests. And the corporate interest is to make money for somebody, some stockholder, no matter what happens. You’ll notice that any kind of environmental advance for clean water or clean air, as soon as the stock market drops 100 points, we have to throw those out, because all that really matters is the bottom line of making money for somebody somewhere. It’s all a grim prospect and I don’t want to be grim all the time — which is why I’m writing to try to get the feelings out. And why I’m out in the woods by myself… To be alone in a wild place where no one is around is what I hunger for. We can resolve all these problems you and I talk about in a very simple way. If everyone on earth can agree — no cheating — to abstain from sexual relations for 100 years, problem solved. Great idea? Should I start the campaign? N Jim Poyser is executive director of Earth Charter Indiana.
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t a time when Kellyanne Conway’s false “alternative facts” are crowding out the real stuff — the stuff that Donald Trump decries as “fake news” — George Orwell’s 1984 seems especially timely for the creative minds of NoExit Performance. “What kept digging at me was the normalization of ‘alternative facts’ and ‘sensational media’ and ‘fake news,’” says Ryan Mullins of NoExit. “We hear them on the news or read them in the paper from our trusted news source[s], and we’re like, ‘Huh, that’s... a normal thing coming from these people.’ But, it’s not a new thing because that’s where 1984’s power comes from.” With this in mind, NoExit aims to bring the classic dystopian novel, which was written by George Orwell and published in 1948, to life. The novel chronicles the demise of Outer Party member Winston Smith, in the country of Oceana, who works for the Ministry of Truth, whose job it is to revise former news articles and create fake news. WHAT // NoExit’s 1984 WHEN // Nov. 3-18 WHERE // 1336 E. Washington St. TICKETS // prices vary
NOEXIT’S 1984 IS NOW
Cutting edge theatre crew doesn’t need help making 1984 contemporary BY SETH JOHNSON // SJOHNSON@NUVO.NET
The production is made possible with the help of several collaborators, including set designer Andrew Darr and composer Rob Funkhouser. Also lending a hand: Barnaby Aaron and Charles Borowicz of AnC Movies. And let’s not forget their chosen stage adaptation by English playwright Matthew Dunster. At the start of 2017, NoExit had no plans of including 1984 in their season. “We kind of got to the point where we felt like we needed to be a little more responsive and a little more timely,” says Mullins, 1984’s director. After coming to this conclusion, the performance company decided to put the Tennessee Williams piece they originally had scheduled for 2017 on hold in exchange for 1984. “Every U.S. citizen’s life has changed in some way or another since January,” says Mullins. “That happens every time a new administration takes over, but this one feels different.” In keeping with their theme of site-spe-
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cific work, NoExit found the perfect venue for Big Brother to rear his ugly head in. The venue is an old, single screen movie theater (that has housed many other business operations over the years, according to Mullins) on E. Washington St. “It’s got a really good mix of industry, bureaucracy, and also a vintage feel with all the wood paneling — it feels like it’s stuck in time somewhere,” Mullins says. Actor Ryan Ruckman, who plays the role of Winston Smith in the production, is also quite fond of NoExit’s choice in venue. “It’s a crazy space,” Ruckman says. “It looks like a building that was in use in the ‘80s. And incidentally, the way it’s torn apart, it looks like it hasn’t really been in use since then either, which I think is really neat.” To further enhance the audience’s experience, NoExit has called upon the help of several collaborators, including set designer Andrew Darr. “Andrew Darr has created a really unique aesthetic to make it feel like the bureaucracy is just piling up around you,” Mullins says. This will be paired with the multimedia work of AnC Movies; their contribution to the performance: the Two Minutes Hate. “Propaganda is always fun to make, and there was some opportunity for that,” says Barnaby Aaron of AnC Movies. This multimedia work will also be accompanied by audio from composer Rob Funkhouser, who’s responsible for all the incidental music in the show, as well as some sound effects and environmental ornaments. “One of the exciting things about working with NoExit is the level of flexibility there is in development,” Funkhouser says. “Even if I wanted to give away everything [about the audio elements] right now, I couldn’t. I can say that it will be more than just your traditional PA system.” But although audiences will be hit on all sides by audio and visual elements, Mullins ultimately hopes the theme of 1984 is what sticks with people after leaving the show. “I feel like now is kind of that apex point,” Mullins says. “We’re not in danger of the story of 1984 happening, but the things that make 1984 are not as safely fiction as they have been in the past. It doesn’t feel as science fiction as it was once meant to be.” N NUVO.NET // 11.01.17 - 11.08.17 // STAGE // 13
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REVIEW ISO DOES MAHLER RIGHT INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA HILBERT CIRCLE THEATER ANDREY BOREYKO, CONDUCTOR HHHH Benjamin Britten was a fan of Gustav Mahler’s, at a time when his music wasn’t exactly getting the most attention, particularly his gargantuan (in both size and length) Third Symphony. Britten did the world a kindness in arranging the second movement of that mammoth work, “What the Wild Flowers Tell Me” for a smaller orchestra, to make it more accessible for orchestras and audiences, and he stayed wonderfully truthful and close to the original. This joyful movement started the latest ISO Lilly Classical Series concert out on a good foot for this Oct. 28 concert at Hilbert Circle Theatre — especially since the opening theme was played by principal oboist Jennifer Christen, easily the gem of the wind section. Her sweet entrance had a sense of intimacy and gentleness that carried throughout the work. Augustin Hadelich, winner of the 2006 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, rounded out the first half of the program with Benjamin Britten’s “Violin Concerto,” and was, as he usually is, astounding. Since winning the IVCI, he’s gone on to win an Avery Fisher Career Grant (2009), a Grammy award in 2016, and was recently named Musical America’s Instrumentalist of the Year, so it was a treat it was to have him back with the ISO. His left hand dexterity is astonishing. Then there’s the infectious joy in his playing; he doesn’t just play his 1723 Stradivarius violin — he makes it sing. The ISO managed their parts well, too; conductor Andrey Boreyko molded and shaped things just so. The evening finished out with Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 9, which is so wonderfully sardonic and goofy at times. This was an incredibly spirited reading, though it’s hard for this symphony not to be, simply from the writing. Although I still have beef with intonation issues in the winds, I’m continuously pleased with the sense of direction and vigor in the ISO’s playing so far this season. — CHANTAL INCANDELA
Spirit & Place’s 10-day-long series of events invites conversation on racial equity
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s the praise and worship leader at one of Indiana’s most historic African American churches, Josiah McCruiston makes sure he knows the history behind the songs he selects for service each week. For this reason, “Amazing Grace” is not a song you’ll hear sung at First Baptist Church of Bridgeport on Indy’s Westside. “There are Negro spirituals, and there are white spirituals, and ‘Amazing Grace’ is one of those white spirituals that was created by an original slave ship captain,” says the 24-year-old Indiana native. “I feel that it is demeaning to a culture of Black individuals to continually sing this song that was mainly written by a person whose sole purpose in life was to capture and kill African Americans.” McCruiston, who played (and sung) the part of Cole Porter for the Indiana Historical Society’s “You Are There” series, will take part in the public conversation “Reflections on Race” at the 2017 Spirit & Place Festival, alongside Indiana historian Dr. James Madison, poet Dr. Maria Hamilton Abegunde, SongSquad and fellow actors from the IHS museum theater program. The theme of power, like electricity on a high tension wire, runs through 37 events across Indianapolis that are mostly free. You’ll be able to check out exhibits, documentary screenings, conversations and more, taking place across 32 venues with over 70 presenters, speakers and performers from 100 partner organizations. Everything from climate change to classical music is up for discussion and debate in the context of the powers that be, to quote Public Enemy. According to program director Erin Kelley, one subtopic that will come up a lot at the 2017 festival is racial equity, with the the signature Spirit & Place Public Conversation serving as a good example.
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“Our public conversation is all about reflecting on race and the power that our cultural institutions have in helping us understand race and the history of racial oppression in this country,” Kelley says. “We’re also going to be reflecting on the power that the arts and humanities have in helping us have critical conversations about race.” With this year’s public conversation in particular, Spirit & Place will be changing the overall format of the discussion in order to make it more engaging for everyone in attendance. “Dr. Maria Hamilton Abegunde is going to lead a genuine public conversation where
we’re going to try to engage everyone in attendance in conversation about race, reflecting on some of the readings we’ve heard and some of the dramatic interpretations we’ve witnessed,” Kelley says. Following this conversation, Kelley’s hope is that community members would then start taking part in Spirit & Place’s year-round “Powerful Conversations on Race” series. As for his involvement in the event, McCruiston looks forward to an engaging conversation on a topic that’s near and dear to his heart. “The creator of this event has found their calling to bring forth a conversation on racial history and reconciliation, and I believe that in itself is extremely powerful,” he says. “We can analyze history for days. But instead of analyzing, let’s actually talk it out and change from that.” N
STICK A (PITCH) FORK IN ‘EM
Colts’ season effectively over at halfway point BY BRIAN WEISS // SPORTS@NUVO.NET
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s the fourth quarter began Sunday, the pain. While the setback doesn’t guarantee Luck Indianapolis Colts led the Cincinnati will miss the remainder of the season, all signs Bengals 20-17. It was familiar territory, lead to Luck being shut down for the year. the fifth time the Colts have led at one In Monday’s press conference, head point or another during the final quarter coach Chuck Pagano said, “We’re going to this season. And yet again, the Colts faltered exhaust all resources because the best interdown the stretch. With just under seven est is the player and his longterm [health] minutes to play, Bengals lineman Carlos and we’ve said that.” Luck will miss his third Dunlap intercepted Colts quarterback Jacoby consecutive week of practice this week. Brissett’s pass and returned it 16 yards for a While the setback is certainly not what touchdown, giving the Bengals a 24-23 lead. Luck, the Colts or fans had hoped for, it might Brissett and the Colts would fail to muster a be best for Luck’s future. Putting a less than comeback, losing their 100 percent Luck, or third game in a row even a fully healthy and falling to 2-6 on The Colts sit alone at the Luck behind the Colts the season. offensive line bottom of the notoriously- atrocious The Colts are who I could spell disaster. thought they were: a bad-but-now-slightlyBrissett has taken a bad football team. beating in the backimproved AFC South. Their 2-6 record field week in and week is the worst start to out and he’s come up a season since 2011 (remember that Curtis grimacing more than a few times. The Colts Painter guy?); and they’ve been outscored by have allowed the most sacks in the league (33), 104 points, by far the worst point differential and the Jaguars were able to sack Brissett a in the league. They sit alone at the bottom staggering 10 times in week seven. With the of the notoriously-bad-but-now-slightcurrent Colts offensive line, Luck and his surly-improved AFC South. Any hopes they had gically repaired shoulder would bear the brunt of making the playoffs have been dashed. of ferocious defenses each week, something Hell, one look at their remaining schedule neither you or I want to see the outcome of. — Texans twice, home vs. Steelers, Broncos, So where do the Colts go from here? IdealTitans; on the road against Jaguars, Bills, ly to their first top five draft pick since taking Ravens — and I think a strong case can be Luck with the No. 1 pick following the aforemade for the Colts losing out. mentioned disastrous 2011 season. While I Just three weeks ago I wrote about how the hope the Colts are competitive each week, Colts could salvage their season if Andrew I’m indeed calling for the Colts to throw in Luck returned to the field. At that time he the towel and chalk the 2017-18 campaign had returned to practice and was on a path up as a lost season. There’s little to gain from to seeing game snaps in a few weeks. Forget winning one, two or even six games in the about that. Multiple reports surfaced over the second half of the season, and there’s plenty weekend that Luck started feeling pain in his to gain from losing games. Grab your pitchshoulder while throwing in practice and will forks if you want, but I think they’ve already seek further opinions as to the source of the been stuck into the Colts. N
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MOVIE // Sense & Sensibility WHERE // Artcraft Theatre, Franklin RATED // PG
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MOVIE // Never Too Young to Die WHERE // IU Cinema, Bloomington RATED // R
EVEN STRANGER THINGS Three takes on new season of Netflix’s ‘80s homage
THE SPOOKINESS If you ask anybody in my house, I lost nine hours of my weekend watching Strangers Things 2. If you ask me though, it was well worth the binge No, it doesn’t quite beat the first season — no season can or will. In this season though, we were introduced to amazing new characters like ultimate gamer Mad Max (Sadie Sink) and Radio Shack employee Bob (Sean Astin). You’ll fall in love with new character dynamics like babysitter/ single-dad Steve (Joe Keery, the oncedouchey boyfriend of Nancy) with plucky Dustin, my favorite character. The only part I took major issue with was a entire side trip in episode seven that seemed out of place and just to fill time, but it was probably setting up the next season. So, spooky-scale: There were also some moments that frightened me. Let me preface this statement by saying I’m a wuss when it comes to spooky things. (A younger me considered Pirates of the Caribbean a
horror movie.) This season’s beasty Demodogs and their teethy, plant faces scare the shit out of me. I screamed during episode eight and would not suggest watching that particular episode at midnight if you’re anything like me. But if you or your little one can handle any movie with a ghost, a skeleton or a spider, you’ll be fine. — HALEY WARD
THE RELATIONSHIPS Stranger Things 2 takes us on a similar nostalgic ride to season one, but, as my girlfriend put it “Season one felt like it was an ‘80s show; this feels like people trying to make an ‘80s show.” Despite the over-cinematized look and the godawful seventh episode (seriously, it’s the worst) ST2 brings us back to Hawkins in a great way and all of our fave characters are back — except Barb. We miss Barb. This season’s strongest aspect is the relationships that are built: Hopper and Eleven (#fave), Steve and Dustin, Joyce and Bob
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(Sean Astin joins as this wonderful, loveable character), Lucas and Max (a new member of the gang), Jonathan and Nancy, and last, but not least Will and Mike. Sure, it’s nostalgic. Sure, it’s scary (the big bad this season is much more terrifying than the Demogorgon). Sure, it’s mind-bending. But, in the end, it’s all about people coming together and loving one another in different ways. While the world is crumbling around them — by the final episode I still had no idea how they would get out of this alive — they come together and show us some different, enjoyable sides of the characters we already started to love in season one and use those new bonds to tackle a new beast. — CAVAN MCGINSIE
THE SOUNDTRACK I had one thing on my to-do list this past weekend: binge watch Stranger Things 2. Given the overall awesomeness of the first season, my expectations were high. It was
all I talked about last week. (Editor’s note: It was.) And by early Saturday morning I had breezed through all nine episodes. While everyone is talking about Eleven, Hopper, Demogorgons and the Upside-Down, I want to bring up how badass the Stranger Things soundtrack is. Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, back from season one, provide perfect spooky ambient tracks that match the overall tone of the show. I admit I listened to the soundtrack beforehand — thanks Spotify — but I found myself pleasantly surprised by the timing of tracks in each episode. They don’t distract you from what’s taking place, but add just enough substance to satisfy your ears. As for the season itself, I think the producers threw a filler episode in to set up another season, and a few of the subplots were unnecessary, but I’d definitely recommend carving out some time to watch this, even if your sole reason is to not get mad at coworkers for unintentionally spoiling it. — BRIAN WEISS
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FOOD EVENT // OverIndulgence WHAT // An afternoon of caviar, champagne, pastries and more WHERE // The Gallery Pastry Shop
SEAFOOD IN INDY There are plenty of eateries, markets and events around Indianapolis making and selling killer seafood (much of it pulled out of the ocean less than 48 hours ago) and even options for those of us who love to prepare our meals at home. And we’ve got just a few of them here for you.
1 // CAPLINGER’S FRESH CATCH Caplinger’s is truly a place of beauty, a rare gem to find in any city and we have two of them here. Whether you need some tuna steaks for the grill, giant, sweet scallops, whole red snapper, or stone crabs they have just about any fresh seafood you can imagine. If cooking seafood scares you, their awesome staff is always happy to help explain the best ways to prepare any seafood they sell. Plus, if they have the best damn lobster rolls and fish sandwiches you’ll find pretty much anywhere.
A BATTLE AT SEA
The first rule of Culinary Fight Club is eat BY CAVAN McGINSIE // CMCGINSIE@NUVO.NET
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ost everyone with television has seen an episode of some show that pits chefs in a head-to-head battle. The food that comes out looks incredible, and you can’t help but crave it. But, sadly, you’re there sitting on your couch, munching on stale cheddar and sour cream chips and drinking a beer (maybe if you’re lucky you have some leftover pizza from last night). Culinary Fight Club, a traveling cooking event series that hits metropolitan areas across the country, brings the chef battle live. And when the flames subside
and the knives are dropped, you get the sweet experience of tasting the dishes the chefs crafted. Last Tuesday evening a small grouping of people watched on as four local Indiana chefs prepared dishes in the sprawling dining room of Bent Rail Brewery. The four chefs included Vincent Salas of Caplinger’s Fresh Catch, Allen Smith of Meridian Restaurant, Evan Slusher of The Taco Shop and Miguel Cordero of The Italian House on Park. The event comes through Indianapolis multiple times a year, each time featuring
a specific product, like steak or chili. And so, as the chefs prepped their stations, they waited for the secret ingredient of the evening to be announced — they knew the theme was seafood, but the sea is full of many ingredients. In truth, they probably had some idea since the evening’s sponsor was Sitka Salmon Shares — salmon is in the name, after all — and so when the massive, fresh, line-caught salmons were brought to their tables, they should have been prepared. They just had one more task: sprint to the pantry and find all of their non-fish
2 // CHEF OYA’S THE TRAP Chef Oya is bringing #DeliciouslyDope seafood to an underserved area of the city. Once you get a bite of the loaded crab legs, or salmon, or lobster tail with shrimp, topped with Chef Oya’s buttah and signature seasoning you’re gonna be eating seafood 5 days a week. And you don’t want to miss Lobster Roll Saturday, it’ll be a truly magical day for you and your taste buds. 3 // OCEANAIRE OYSTER BASH Consider the oyster. It is a thing of beauty and Oceanaire is recognizing it as such and throwing a whole party based around the wonderful little shellfish. On Sunday, November 19 they will celebrate with wine, beer, spirits, live music and, of course, oysters. The hors d’oeuvres menu includes: unlimited oysters on the half shell, oysters Rockefeller, oyster shooters, and even more seafood like shrimp, lobster and calamari. So much fresh and tasty seafood to enjoy all night.
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THE MANY LIVES OF UNCLE JAMZ BY KYLE LONG // KLONG@NUVO.NET
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uring the first few decades of its existence, the Madame Walker Theatre was known for staging marathon revues of local talent. A typical bill would feature dancers, vocalists, and musi cians performing in a wide variety of genres. It wasn’t unusual to see an up-and-coming blues singer performing alongside a combo of veteran jazz players, topped off by a doowop quartet and a pair of tap dancers. I was always sad I never had a chance to see one of these homegrown extravaganzas, so I’m pleased to report that Indianapolis music stalwart Sid “Uncle Jamz” Johnson is giving me the chance. And he’s giving the whole community a chance with his Independent Music Festival, happening on Friday, Nov. 3 at the Walker. The event is a fundraiser for victims of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, and features a long list of talent curated by Sid. The evening kicks off at 7 p.m. and features more than 20 musical acts running the gamut from Naptown soul legend Rodney Stepp, to rising Indy jazz star Bryan Thompson, to Midwest rapper Skypp. Though it’s not advertised as such, in many respects this weekend’s festival is a reflection of the seven decades Sid has devoted to building up the local music community. Johnson is a giant within the Indianapolis music scene. But if you’re unfamiliar with his name that’s probably because the majority of Sid’s work has been behind the scenes. Sid retired from public performance after disbanding his group The SCYID in 1980, and these days works primarily in artist management. But before he disbanded The SCYID, he fronted more than a half-dozen bands, worked as a music journalist, managed some highly regarded Indianapolis musicians, and co-wrote a handful of classic R&B songs. While much of Sid’s music career has been defined by his work in R&B, he’s a rock and roller at heart. During a recent conversation, Sid lit up while waxing poetic about British rock gods like Jeff Beck. His affinity
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for that sound was born early in life. “I was infected by the Beatles in 1964,” Sid says. “I saw them on Ed Sullivan and I was just floored. I was listening to how those girls were screaming over them, and I was like, ‘I think that’s what I want to do.’ I’ve never been the same since.” Sid was a precocious kid, and his involvement with the music scene started early. “I went to Shortridge, but I formed my first group with some of my buddies that went to Arlington,” Sid recalled. And during his time at Shortridge Sid began dabbling in some of the music industry byroads he’d later travel as an adult. That included a run as a music journalist for Shortridge’s student newspaper The Daily Echo. I checked out some of Sid’s early journalistic work in the archives of the Indiana Historical Society. His column, titled Happening... featured interviews with members of the legendary Indianapolis soul-jazz group Steve Mason Trio, and reviews of milestone concerts like Led Zeppelin’s Indianapolis debut at the
State Fair Coliseum in 1970. During his time at Shortridge Sid also dipped into artist management and booking, arranging gigs for important local bands at after-school functions. And that’s where Sid connected with Rodney Stepp, who was already making huge waves with bands like The Diplomatics, and Jazzie Cazzie and The Eight Sounds. Sid stepped in to help mange Stepp’s groups, and began to learn some hard lessons about the music business. “I traveled with Rodney’s groups when they went out and played dates,” Sid told me. “We went through some trials and tribulations. We were on airplanes that almost crashed. We went on a tour with the ‘Fake Stylistics.’ There was a group of people that were parading around as if they were Russell Thompkins and the Stylistics, and we didn’t know any better! [laughs]” While he continued performing with funky hard rock groups like Dwayne Rock and The Plush Band, “People used to tease me and say I was the Black Mick Jagger,” Sid recalled, it was his work in artists management that would define his musical activities during the 1970s. Cue the moment when the opportunity of a lifetime landed in Sid’s hands. “I went to an Average White Band concert at the Convention Center and this group called Manchild opened up for them,” Sid recalled. For the uninitiated, Manchild was an R&B supergroup featuring some of Indy’s most talented and charismatic musicians - including a young Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds. “I’d never heard of Manchild because I’d been a little bit distant from the scene at that point. But I knew one of the members, Reggie Griffin. He and I used to be managed by the same person, this guy who was a rip-off manager. So after the show was over I started chatting with Reggie and he asked me, ‘What are you doing now?’ I said, ‘Well, I was just getting ready to
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KYLE LONG is a longtime NUVO columnist and host of WFYI’s A Cultural Manifesto.
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REVIEW BOB DYLAN WITH MAVIS STAPLES // IU AUDITORIUM In front of a packed IU auditorium, Bob Dylan’s Never Ending Tour took audiences back in time to the 1960s and back to the present with covers from the Great American Songbook. Before Dylan and his band took the stage, veteran performer Mavis Staples warmed up the crowd, something that she has a knack for. Whether she’s singing a cover of “For What It’s Worth” by Buffalo Springfield, or “Build A Bridge,” a song from her upcoming album If All I Was Was Black, catching a Mavis Staples set always feels like you’re sitting in church. That’s not to say she’s preachy — she’s just incredibly moving. At 78 years old, Staples’ music transcends generational gaps. By the time she closed her set with the 1972 Staples Singers’ hit “I’ll Take Your There,” everyone in the audience was singing along. Dylan opened his set with the 2006 track “Things Have Changed,” with the singer accompanying his band on piano. From there, he rolled right into the classic hits “It Ain’t Me, Babe” and “Highway 61 Revisited.” Throughout the course of the evening, Dylan revisited “Tangled Up in Blue” and “Blowing In the Wind,” the latter of which was orchestrated beautifully to accommodate a voice affected by decades of smoking. “Tangled Up in Blue,” off the of the 1975 album Blood
on the Tracks, however, was slowed and muddled beyond recognition. With the stage lights fading to black after every song, Dylan was starting up a new song just seconds later, running through a 20-song set in around two hours. His band, particularly drummer George Receli, never missed a beat. By the end of the performance after an encore of “Blowing in the Wind” and “Ballad of a Thin Man,” Dylan left the stage without uttering a word to the audience, but he really said quite a lot. The concert reflected Dylan’s career: a couple lows, but certainly a lot of highs. — BREANNA COOPER
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start a new band with my cousin. We were going to be doing something similar to what you guys are doing, a sort-of funky thing with rock influences. But after seeing you guys, I don’t think I want to do it anymore, because you guys are just so awesome!’ Reggie said, ‘Here’s my number. I want you to give me a call tomorrow.’ ” “So I called Reggie Griffin the next day.” Sid continued. “He said to me, ‘I’m the leader of Manchild, and taking care of all the business is overwhelming me. I’ve always known that you’ve had connections, and you’re a good journalist. I can’t think of anybody better to be our manager than you. I’d like for you to join the group and play briefcase.’ ” Sid jumped at the opportunity. Manchild wasn’t the only legendary Indianapolis group Sid managed during the 1970s. Sid also “played briefcase” for Merging Traffic, a psychedelic fusion band featuring an all-star cast of jazz players. While Merging Traffic never issued any recordings, their name has lived on. “Merging Traffic had a really unique sound. Whenever they performed people would be mesmerized by their musicianship. It was just incredible - I mean incredible beyond your wildest imagination.” Despite their extraordinary talents, neither Manchild or Merging Traffic were able to break out of the Indy scene during the ‘70s. But fortunately for Sid the 1980s proved to be a time where his musical activities were in sync with the zeitgeist of the era. By the end of the decade Sid would see his name in the songwriting credits of top 10 hits on Billboard’s Hot 100. The ‘80s saw Sid contributing material to local groups to international R&B stars like Shalamar and Dynasty. Two of Sid’s greatest achievements as a tunesmith were created in collaboration with his old pal Kenny Edmonds. Sid is one of four writers credited on the quiet storm anthem “Slow Jam”, as recorded by Midnight Star. “Slow Jam” has had a long shelf life, inspiring numerous samples, and covers, perhaps the most notable being Usher’s take on the tune in 1997. Sid and Babyface scored another hit in 1988 with The Deele’s “Two Occasions.” “Two Occasions” has also enjoyed a long lifespan. In 2005 Mariah Carey interpolated
elements of “Two Occasions” into her 2005 hit “We Belong Together,” resulting in a windfall of royalties and awards for Sid. It was Sid’s capacity for crafting compelling hooks that earned him the enduring nickname “Uncle Jamz.”“I got the name Uncle Jamz from the leader of Midnight Star,” Sid told me. “I came into the rehearsal room one day and he said. “Here comes Uncle Jam. The man that comes up with incredible hooks all the time.” It just kind of stuck and everybody started calling me Uncle Jamz.” Sid is a truly an adaptive being. When hip-hop began to usurp other genres as the dominant form of American popular music, Sid evolved with the times. Sid’s most notable association with hip-hop occurred in the early 2000s when he helped shepherd the Albany, Georgia rap duo Field Mob to international success. Sid is credited as executive producer on much of the group’s early work, including their massive 2002 hit “Sick of Being Lonely”. Sid’s enduring career in music is a rare thing indeed. And that puts him in a unique position to offer an appraisal of Indy’s musical past. “A musician once said to me, ‘Do you realize the history you’ve had with this music scene? You’ve touched almost everybody that’s done anything in this city.’ I’d never stopped to think about that before,” Sid reflected. “But I was like, ‘Wow. that’s pretty true. Either as a manager or as a performer, I’ve been able to observe it all.’ ” Undoubtedly, Sid has carved out an accomplished career in music. But in my opinion, one important chapter remains unfinished. In 1979 Sid formed The SCYID (pronounced Sid). The group attracted attention; from 1979 to 1980 the Indianapolis Recorder published multiple entries buzzing about The SCYID, but no other tangible trace of the band remains. But The SCYID did leave behind an unreleased collection of recordings, representing the only known document of the last of Sid’s many and varied bands. According to Sid, the recordings are currently in the possession of Toy Factory’s Daren Owens. Perhaps with a little encouragement, Indianapolis music fans can help bring this slice of local music history back to life. N
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): In accordance with the astrological omens, I recommend you indulge in any or all of the following exercises. 1. Dedicate an entire day to performing acts of love. 2. Buy yourself flowers, sing yourself a song, and tell yourself a story about why you’re so beautiful. 3. Explain your deeply-felt opinion with so much passion and logic that you change the mind of a person who had previously disagreed with you. 4. Make a pilgrimage to a sacred spot you want to be influenced by. 5. Buy a drink for everyone in a bar or cafe. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Dear Rob: I saw a photo of you recently, and I realized that you have a scar on your face. I hope you don’t mind me telling you it resembles an ancient Mayan hieroglyph that means ‘Builder of Bridges for Those Who Are Seeking Home.’ Did you know this? If so, do you think it’s an accurate title for what you do? - Renegade Leo Scholar.” Dear Scholar: Thanks for your observation. I don’t know if I fully deserve the title “Builder of Bridges for Those Who Are Seeking Home,” but it does describe the role I’m hoping to play for Leos. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for your tribe to clarify and cultivate your notion of home. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Author Clarissa Pinkola Estés encourages us to purge any tendencies we might have to think of ourselves as hounded animals, angry, wounded victims, leaky vessels aching to be filled, or broken creatures yearning for rescue. It so happens that now is a perfect time for you to perform this purgation. You have maximum power to revise your self-image so that it resounds with more poise, self-sufficiency, and sovereignty. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I used to scoff at people who play the lottery. The chance of winning big is almost nil. Why not invest one’s hopes in more pragmatic schemes to generate money? But my opinion softened a bit when the planet Jupiter made a lucky transit to an aspect in my personal horoscope. It really did seem like my chances of winning the lottery were unusually high. I started dreaming about the educational amusements I’d
pursue if I got a huge influx of cash. I opened my mind to expansive future possibilities that I had previously been closed to. So even though I didn’t actually get a windfall during this favorable financial phase, I was glad I’d entertained the fantasy. In alignment with current astrological omens, Libra, here’s the moral of the story for you: Meditate on what educational amusements you’d seek if you had more money. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the early stages of Johnny Cash’s development as a musician, his mother hired a coach to give him singing lessons. But after a few meetings, the teacher counseled him to quit. Johnny’s style was so unique, the seasoned pro thought it better not to tamper with his natural sound. I hesitate to offer you comparable advice, Scorpio. I’m a big believer in the value of enhancing one’s innate talents with training and education. On the other hand, my assessment of your destiny between now and October 2018 impels me to offer a suggestion: It may be useful for you to give some credence to the perspective of Johnny Cash’s voice coach. Make sure you guard and revere your distinctiveness. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I used to nurture a grudge against Tony Pastorini. He was the high school math teacher who kicked me out of the extracurricular Calculus Club because my proofs were too “intuitive and unorthodox.” The shock of his rejection drove me away from a subject I had been passionate about. Eventually, though, I came to realize what a good deed he had done. It would have been a mistake for me to keep specializing in math — I was destined to study literature and psychology and mythology — but it took Pastorini to correct my course. Now, Sagittarius, I invite you to make a similar shift of attitude. What debt of gratitude do you owe a person you have thought of as a source of frustration or obstruction? CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the lore of ancient Greek mythology, the god Prometheus stole fire from his fellow deities and sneakily gave it to us humans. Before our patron provided us with this natural treasure, we poor creatures had no access to it. As I gaze out at your possibilities in the coming months, Capricorn, I foresee you having Promethean inclinations. Your ability to bestow blessings and spread benevolence and do good deeds will be at a peak. Unlike Prometheus, however, I don’t expect you’ll get into trouble for your generosity. Just the opposite! AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Here’s a parable you may find useful. An armchair explorer is unexpectedly given a chance to embark on an adventure she has only read and dreamed about. But she hesitates on the brink of seizing her opportunity. She asks herself, “Do I really want to risk having ragged reality corrupt the beautiful fantasy I’ve built up in my mind’s eye?” In the end she takes the gamble. She embarks on the adventure. And ragged reality does in fact partially corrupt her beautiful fantasy. But it also brings her unexpected lessons that partially enhance the beautiful fantasy. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “A game of chess is usually a fairy tale of 1001 blunders,” said chess grandmaster Savielly Tartakower, a Pisces. “It is a struggle against one’s own errors,” he added. “The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.” I think this is excellent counsel during the current phase of your astrological cycle, Pisces. It’s time to risk bold moves, because even if they’re partly or wholly mistaken, they will ultimately put you in a good position to succeed in the long run. Here’s a further point for your consideration. Remember the philosopher Rene Descartes’ famous dictum, “Cogito ergo sum”? It’s Latin for “I think, therefore I am.” Tartakower countered this with, “Erro ergo sum,” which is “I err, therefore I am.”
HOMEWORK: Meditate on death not as the end of physical life, but as a metaphor for shedding
what’s outworn. In that light, what’s the best death you’ve experienced? Freewillastrology.com
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