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TRUMP, ROY MOORE AND THEIR GOD-FEARING ENABLERS

aybe Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and Louis C.K. should run for public office.

If they did, chances are they’d be able to avoid paying the price for their predatory sexual practices.

They’d be able to skip away, consequence-free, like President Donald Trump and, possibly, Alabama Republican U.S. Senate candidate Judge Roy Moore and go their merry ways.

Most of the moral responsibility for the transgressions of Trump, the self-proclaimed groin-grabber in the Oval Office, and Moore, the accused molester of young girls, lies with the men themselves.

Some of it, though, must reside with the people who support, enable and shield them.

For at least three generations, social conservatives have gloried in what they have proclaimed America’s culture wars.

They have railed against liberal licentiousness and media-driven assaults on basic decency.

But the brutal fact is heathen Hollywood has imposed higher standards of moral accountability than the God-fearing heartland has.

Weinstein has been ousted from the company that bears his name. He also likely will face civil suits and possibly criminal prosecution for his serial sexual assaults and harassment of scores of actresses and other women working in the film industry.

Spacey has been fired from House of Cards – the hit Netflix series in which he plays an amoral and egocentric president of the United States – and been removed from at least one movie for his longstanding pattern of allegedly harassing and molesting young men.

And Louis C.K. has been fired from just

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PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP // ILLUSTRATION BY DONKEYHOTEY

about every movie and TV job he has for his history of indecent behavior with women who wanted to work with him.

Contrast these hard falls for Hollywood folks with the way things go for conservative politicians.

Trump famously dismissed his recorded boast about groping women against their will as “locker-room talk.” When more than a dozen women stepped forward to accuse him of either harassing or assaulting them, the president resorted with a series of diversionary tactics.

First, he said the whole thing was a partisan smear.

Then, he said the women involved were too ugly to merit his attentions.

Finally, he threatened to sue everyone

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involved.

More than a year later, we’re still waiting for those suits. We’ll likely keep waiting, because the last thing Donald Trump wants is for his accusers to be able to compel people to testify about his actions under penalty of perjury.

Moore apparently figures that what worked for Trump could work for him.

Like Trump, Moore first responded to a meticulously reported Washington Post story detailing his relationships with a series of underage girls when he was in his 30s by calling it a partisan hit job. He said this even though his most damning accuser, a woman who says he undressed before her and molested her when she was just 14 and he was 32, is a lifelong Republican and

a devoted Trump supporter.

Following that, Moore said what he did was okay because he had the girls’ mothers’ permission to take them out. He and his defenders point to Bible stories of older men being involved with young girls.

Finally, he, too, promised to sue.

Moore doubtless will take steps to put everyone under oath and place himself in jeopardy of committing perjury at the precise moment hell freezes over.

Given their histories and character, we can’t expect moral leadership from Donald Trump and Roy Moore.

Other public officials — such as, say, U.S. Sen. Todd Young, R-Indiana — should set a higher standard.

Young, like many other leading Republicans, initially said Moore should leave the race — but only if the allegations were true. Young took the stance many Republicans did — that of allowing Trump and Moore to be their own judges and juries.

When a fifth woman stepped forward to accuse Moore, with evidence in hand, Young belatedly did the right thing and called for Moore’s withdrawal.

Two former GOP presidential nominees — former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona — are notable and admirable exceptions to this pattern of moral evasiveness. They have said Moore should go.

Period.

Conservatives love to lecture people about moral equivocation.

If they continue to let guys like Donald Trump and Roy Moore skate, well, the rest of us will know that they just don’t mean what they say.

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After giving Roy Moore ample time to unequivocally deny the disturbing allegations against him, those allegations remain far more persuasive than the denials.

Roy Moore should immediately drop out of the race.

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many adults have difficulty fully understanding.

One method implemented in the curriculum for

For 72 years, the Holocaust has weighed on

fifth grade students at the academy has the students

returns, how quickly they are processed, whether they claim refunds, among others.

The agency also said that more corporate tax

Germany’s national conscience, and it is still nearly

read poetry and recollections of the Holocaust

dollars are paid in the final six months of the fiscal

impossible for many to comprehend. Between 11

from children who lived through it. Students at the

year compared to the first six months. The current

and 17 million people, including 6 million Jews, lost

Academy also paint butterflies for children who died

fiscal year ends June 30.

their lives to the Nazis during their industrialized

during the 12-year period after receiving a photo-

killing spree. And many corporations that we’re all

graph and personal information about the child. This

too familiar with, like Bayer, took advantage of the

project, according to Shmoel, shows students at the

cheap slave labor from Nazi concentration camps.

Academy a face and a name. It gives, she said, the

Many questions still arise while discussing the

deceased “a voice through our students.”

Holocaust today: Why did this happen, and even

Throughout the day-long symposium, eight lec-

more terrifying, could this happen again?

These questions and more were the focus of

COMMISSION VOTES TO OPPOSE MARIJUANA DECRIMINALIZATION The Indiana Commission to Combat Drug Abuse voted overwhelmingly last Thursday to oppose

tures came together with two overarching themes:

efforts to decriminalize marijuana for medical or

remembrance for the lives lost, and recognition of

recreational use.

the symposium, “Holocaust and Remembrance:

the horrors of history that we are all called upon to

Lessons for Today’s World,” held in the IU McKinney

prevent from happening again.

School of Law on Nov. 10. With numerous sessions

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throughout the day led by Dr. Bryan Fair, a board

The 11-3 vote, with two abstentions, was taken at the commission’s regular meeting, echoing Gov. Eric Holcomb’s opposition to legislative efforts to relax Indiana’s marijuana laws.

LESS MONEY THAN PROJECTED FOR INDIANA GENERAL FUND

member of the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Maya Shmoel of the Hasten Hebrew Academy,

“I think it’s really important that we’re talking about the most vulnerable population in this state,

among others, the symposium tackled issues such

Indiana has fewer dollars pouring into the

as the rise of hate crimes in the United States and

general fund than state officials estimated when

our young children are not taking edible marijuana

the importance of including Holocaust education in

they made their forecast in April, with the biggest

and ending up in our emergency rooms and our

American education curriculums.

decline in corporate income tax collections.

hospitals,” said Dr. Kristina Box, the state’s health

Dr. Fair’s morning presentation, entitled “The Rise of Hate Groups in America” emphasized the growing number of hate groups that the Southern

PHOTOS HONORING VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES AND LIVES BEFORE THE WAR IN THE SAUNA ROOM IN AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU // PHOTO VIA TERRE HAUTE’S CANDLES HOLOCAUST MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER

Poverty Law Center has tracked. The Center defines

The State Budget Agency reported Monday that year-to-date general fund collections totaled

that we’re doing what we can to make sure that

commissioner, after she made the motion.

“When I signed up for this commission, I signed

almost $4.8 billion, or 2.5 percent less than what

up for a particular reason and that was to address

was the forecast and only slightly below revenues

the opioid epidemic,” said Sen. Gregory Taylor,

reported in the same period one year ago.

D-Indianapolis. “This commission was never tasked

a hate group as any entity that “vilifies others

ments and New Legislative Initiatives Across the

because of their race, religion, ethnicity, sexual ori-

Country” focused on the importance of teaching

entation or gender identity – prejudices that strike

the Holocaust in history classes, and how to do so

and individual taxes were slightly below the April

at the heart of our democratic values and fracture

without traumatizing students.

forecast but 2.2 percent more than what the state

The commission took the vote a day after Hol-

collected in the same period in the last fiscal year.

comb was asked whether he would support efforts

society along its most fragile fault lines.”

In the last year alone, the Center found an

Led by Maya Shmoel, a Hebrew language teacher at Hasten Hebrew Academy and the daughter

The agency also reported that year-to-date sales

Also down slightly through the current fiscal year

with taking a position on marijuana, marijuana is not an opioid.” He was one of the no votes.

to relax the state’s marijuana laws. At least one

increase from 892 hate groups in 2015 to the now

of a Romanian Holocaust survivor, the lecture shed

were individual income tax collections, which were

lawmaker has said he will introduce legislation in

917 groups as of this year. There are 26 groups

light on the lack of adequate Holocaust education

$1.8 billion or .3 percent below the forecast. But those

2018 to make it legal for medical use while a national

currently being tracked by the Center in the state

and the danger of forgetting the past.

collections were 2.8 percent more than what the state

veterans’ group is pushing for a study of the issue.

of Indiana, including the American Freedom Party

Sharing personal examples, such as a high school

took in during the same period in the last fiscal year.

teacher telling her niece that Jews willingly wore

white nationalist organizations.

the Star of David to express pride in their faith,

were 52.9 percent below the forecast and 45.7

there in this state,” Holcomb said. “At this time right

Shmoel expressed disdain for the way Holocaust

percent below the amount the state took in during

now, I’m trying to get drugs off the street, not add

speech. He said that speech that solely exists to

education was handled. She felt that the suffering of

the same period in the last fiscal year. Part of

more into the mix. So, I’m just not supportive of that.”

degrade others does not serve a purpose in society.

the victims being downplayed, and advocated that

the reason collections are down is that corporate

Meanwhile, state Rep. Jim Lucas, R-Seymour, has

Therefore it should not be protected by the First

Holocaust education be accessible to teachers.

refunds have risen as the Department of Revenue

said he will introduce legislation that would legalize

processes refunds more quickly.

marijuana for medical purposes. Several medical

Fair advocated for tighter restrictions on hate

Amendment, he said.

An afternoon session titled “The Importance of

While Shmoel’s curriculum at the Academy

Meanwhile, corporate income tax collections

“The FDA is the organization that approves drugs

and the Traditionalist Worker Party in Paoli, both

focuses on a non-traumatic approach for students,

Also, corporate tax collections vary greatly

Holocaust Education-K-12 and University-Lessons

she found that appealing to a child’s sense of em-

from month to month, the agency also reported.

for All Humanity, for All Time-States’ Legal Require-

pathy is an effective way of teaching an event that

Collections depend on when corporations file their

in this country, and they’ve not yet, and so we’re not

marijuana bills were filed in the last legislative session and all failed.

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“HERRON ARCH 1”

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ou might not be thinking of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) as you’re driving past the sculpture entitled “Herron Arch 1”— with its curves of sturdy aluminum and painted geometric forms — by James Wille Faust. The sculpture, which embodies much of Faust’s signature style, stands in front of the Herron School of Art & Design, Faust’s alma mater.

But maybe you are thinking about healthcare in general. Within a mile radius of this sculpture are Eskenazi Hospital, the IU Melvin & Bren Simon Cancer Center, IU Health University Hospital and the VA Medical Center. The list goes on.

If you’re heading to a hospital for treatment, or to see someone who’s sick, you might not even notice this sculpture.

Because it’s hard to appreciate art, let alone make art, if you are sick, or someone you love is sick. It’s also hard if you know that a sickness will devastate your family financially. And if you’re a self-employed artist — even if you’re as successful as someone like James Wille Faust — you will likely be crushed financially if you don’t have health insurance and you get severely ill. And health insurance is not easy thing to deal with if you’re self-employed, as many artists are.

But if there’s one time this year to think about health insurance, it should be now, because we are currently in the Open Enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which lasts until Dec. 15, 2017.

Over 600,000 people across the country have signed up under the ACA during the first week of open enrollment.

You can get coverage if you don’t have it.

Or change plans if you need to.

And you don’t have to be in this alone.

You can go to HealthCare.Gov and shop for a plan. There are also health insurance navigators who can help you free of charge.

In fact, if you go to the Indiana Department of Insurance website, in.gov/idoi, you’ll find a whole list of healthcare navigators (more about that later). In addition, we’ll have some more information in the form of lists, links, charts, graphs and stories about artists trying to navigate through the healthcare system.

You might even be able to find a plan for less than you expected, or find that you qualify for the Healthy Indiana Plan.

Full disclosure: We at NUVO want to get you as much good information as possible in part because the Trump Administration has been acting in bad faith in regard to the ACA (more about that later too) and causing a lot of confusion.

But for now, let’s get back to James Wille Faust, who goes by Wille, because if you’ve seen his work around town, you might assume that a highly renowned artist such as him wouldn’t have ever had any trouble accessing health insurance.

Actually, it’s hard really to think of Wille as self-employed, because usually his wife and artist-manager, Martha, is by his side, making necessary arrangements. That’s where she was in the kitchen of their log cabin house in a secluded stretch of land on the far Northside as we talked about their health care and insurance history.

Martha and Wille moved back to Indianapolis in 1974 after a stint at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana where Wille received a MFA in painting. Since 1981, Martha has been running the business end of things for Wille.

After a short stint teaching at Herron in 1978, Wille decided he wanted to create art full time.

Martha recalled what she said to him at this point. “‘Here’s the deal,’ she recalled telling him. “‘As long as we can pay our bills and we have healthcare insurance, you can do this. Otherwise, you have to go back to work. Really, our goal was to keep Wille painting.

“So I took a job for a psychiatrist for 10 years to get insurance for us, so we were covered.

That job ended in 1990. So from 1990 to 2009 through a broker we obtained Golden Rule insurance. When the annual insurance premium increased to $32,713.92, with a high deductible we could no longer afford coverage.”

They didn’t have success in getting their insurance premiums down on their joint insurance plan throughout this period, but it wasn’t through a lack of trying.

In 2005 in an attempt to lower their pre-

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miums, they talked to to a representative of another health insurance company, Anthem, in order to bring their rates down.

“She came back a few weeks later and said,” Martha said. “You [Martha] have coverage, he cannot have coverage.”

Wille couldn’t be offered a plan by this particular insurance company because, during the previous year, he had had an in situ melanoma removed from his skin that was stage 0. Melanoma was, according to Martha “the key word,” that Anthem pointed to in denying him coverage.

“I thought it was my head,” said Wille, about the denial of coverage. “It had nothing to do with that.”

Wille was referring to a health crisis that manifested six years earlier. In 1999 he had a thalamic brain hemorrhage due to a congenital malformation in his brain.

He had a two-year recovery.

N “Luckily, I saved money D JA ME SW and that kept us going,” says ILL E FA U ST Martha.

During this time, before the Affordable Care Act was passed, insurance companies were allowed to look back over an applicant’s medical history. If an applicant had a preexisting condition within a given timeframe, they could be denied insurance. The hemorrhage, unlike the in situ melanoma, however, had occurred outside the window of the five-year lookback period so he couldn’t be denied for that.

Faust experienced more minor periods of brain trauma from 2010 to 2011. It was a difficult time for the Fausts because that was during the time that they were locked in a dispute with the Indianapolis International Airport Authority. The airport wanted to remove Wille’s site-specific “Chrysalis” installation from the bulkhead wall of the stairwell leading into the main waiting area. The sculptural work, installed in 2008, was intended as a formal gateway to the city of Indianapolis.

(While the installation was removed in late 2011, and replaced with a video wall, you can still see his “Wings in Flight” painting tripRT

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tych on the wall of the IND waiting area.)

In order to do the public art project at the airport, the Fausts needed to start a limited liability corporation, which they did in 2006.

“I had incorporated Faust Art Studio LLC for the airport project,” says Martha. “I did some research and I found out that although Wille had been denied insurance as an individual that the state requires health insurance companies to give companies insurance. That’s how we got around it. We got our insurance through Faust Art Studio.”

Paying health expenses with a high deductible plan took its toll. Wille needed to switch plans again because the premiums went up so high.

“Over the years, the cost of maintaining health insurance coverage put us into financial hardship,” said Martha.

And during this period Faust experienced a 62-day period gap in health care coverage. He was finally able to get coverage, however, under the Indiana Comprehen// sive Health Insurance Association.

When the first Affordable Care Act (ACA) Open Enrollment rolled out in 2013, Wille was able to sign up for an Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield bronze plan for 2014.

“It brought Wille’s rate to less than half,” said Martha, speaking of the plan she found for her husband under the ACA. “I am so grateful that [the ACA] happened and it needs to continue.”

Subsequently, the Fausts both reached age 65, and went on Medicare, which means a whole different set of concerns.

A SKETCH OF INDIANA’S ACA IMPLEMENTATION The ACA was signed into law on March 23, 2010 by Barack Obama, after a prolonged fight in Congress, with near-unanimous Republican opposition. It went into effect on January 1, 2014.

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a thalamic brain hemorrhage, or something in between.

The ACA was derided as Obamacare by Obama’s political enemies, but the administration eventually embraced that name. That might have been the ACA’s undoing, however, because Obama was succeeded by Trump, who gained political capital by questioning Obama’s national origin.

The ACA made it possible for families making between 100 and 400 percent of the federal poverty level to receive tax subsidies, as well as putting in place a penalty that those chosing to go without insurance must pay. It also includes the following regulations: no longer could policyholders be dropped by their insurance companies when they get sick. No longer could preventative care, medical screenings and vaccinations be subject to co-payments, co-insurance or deductibles.

“The Affordable Care Act has brought quality, affordable coverage to millions of Americans, and put in place important consumer protections, such as guaranteeing coverage for individuals with pre-existing conditions,” Congressman André Carson told NUVO. “Since the Affordable Care Act took effect, the uninsured rate has been cut almost in half, including through HIP 2.0.

“That is especially true for the millions of Americans who are self-employed or who work in nontraditional fields, where they don’t receive job-based insurance,” he continued. “Before the ACA, it was almost impossible for those in this growing sector of the economy to find affordable insurance that would protect them when they got sick.

This key change has given millions of Americans the confidence they need to take risks and grow our economy, without the fear of becoming bankrupt when they get sick.”

In 2017, 146,956 people in Indiana were enrolled in Marketplace coverage.

ACA also included a Medicaid expansion which 20 governors throughout the United States rejected, meaning millions of low income people in these states continued to go uninsured.

Mike Pence, Indiana governor from 2013 to 2016 — now Vice-President under Donald Trump — chose a different route.

Instead of rejecting Medicaid expansion out of hand, he applied for a waiver with

DO YOU QUALIFY FOR INDIANA’S HIP 2.0 (EXPANDED MEDICAID)?

• Individuals with annual incomes up to $16,842 may qualify.

• Couples with annual incomes up to $22,680 may qualify.

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the Obama Administration to try a revamped Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP), which had been first rolled out as a pilot program under the Mitch Daniels’ administration as a high deductible health insurance plan that required monthly monetary contributions from its participants.

The revamped version, HIP 2.0, was fueled by the Obamacare Medicaid expansion. It required that covered individuals pay a limited monetary monetary contribution to keep their optimum HIP Plus plan, a comprehensive plan that includes vision and dental coverage (ranging from $1 to $100 a month).

After coming to an agreement with the Obama Administration, HIP 2.0, was unveiled in Feb. 2015, allowing people between 100 and 138 percent of the federal poverty line to be covered by this plan. On Nov. 29, 2016, HIP’s architect Seema Verma, was nominated by Donald Trump to serve as administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and subsequently confirmed by the U.S. Senate. On her first day in office, Verma wrote the nation’s governors and urged them to charge premiums and impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients.

In 2016, 412,700 Hoosier adults were covered under the ACA-funded Medicaid expansion.

OBAMACARE DIDN’T WORK FOR EVERYONE Sofiya Inger’s installation “What Lies Within” incorporates a wide variety of media — including fabric, beads, feathers and mirrors. In looking at this work, that takes up nearly the entire lobby wall of the Eastgate Still Waters Adult Day Center, you just might imagine yourself immersed in

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the water with many mirror-coated fishes. It might make you think of a Chagall painting you once saw, or a storybook you were read as a child.

Inger was on hand Sept. 21, 2017 to dedicate the installation, which incorporated the paintings of her art students at the Adult Day Center, and was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.

The full impact of her work, with its soothing effect, is not necessarily measurable in bar graphs and data points, but some researchers have nevertheless undertaken that attempt.

That is to say, such works that are part and parcel of the arts’ overall $440.5 million annual economic impact in Indianapolis, which generate over $47 million in tax revenue annually for the city and the state, according to the Americans for the Arts Art & Prosperity 5 Study.

Inger, 57, came to the U.S. in 1991. She was born in Kirov, in Northern Russia. She has displayed her work in numerous venues and taught at the Indianapolis Art Center, where she won the Skip McKinney Faculty Award in 2011.

Inger, who lives in Indianapolis with her husband, is an artist who has clearly had an impact on the city. And she is uninsured. She earns too much to qualify for HIP 2.0 and she wasn’t able to afford the policies available under the ACA. Inger had left her job with a company that provided health insurance in 2004.

“It was a huge step and it was very scary,” said Inger. “But we just jumped in because I wanted to do things that I wanted to do. I wanted to do art… So we found an individual plan for just the two of us. We don’t have any dependent children. My children are grown

and they’re on their own, just my husband and I. And we don’t have any pre-existing conditions... It was fairly high deductible, higher than you would get from the insurance you would get from the employer. We had affordable monthly payments and we had preventive care [through] Anthem.”

Inger said that she was hopeful about the advent of the ACA. “We were happy and excited, especially when the president said; if you like your insurance plan, you can keep it. This was the phrase that sold us.”

But things didn’t work out as they hoped.

“So our plan changed immediately [under the ACA]... about 30 percent increase and then almost twice more than we were paying,” she said.

She and her husband wound up having to drop the coverage.

“I know many people that Obamacare worked really well for; it’s people with low income, people who have young kids,” she said. “I wish them well and in every situation I understand there’s no pleasing everybody.

Somebody wins, somebody loses; we lost.

“And over the years, when I see this situation with health insurance… my feeling is that the people that are most creative, most energetic, most wanting to change their own life, to have something for themselves, to advance their lives, they get punished for that.”

As far as her healthcare now, Inger goes to the doctor and negotiates.

“I think more doctor’s offices are doing that now. And we know people who negotiate with us; we have payment plans if we need to. If something horrible happens, we’re screwed... We have nothing, no safety net. I’m just happy that my kids have health insurance but that’s all that we got out of it.”

Shannon Linker, Vice-President of the Arts Council of Indianapolis and Director of Gallery 924, has some thoughts on Inger’s dilemma. She’s seen many artists in similar situations.

“The idea of the self-employed, that’s the issue,” she says. “That’s the thing that gives artists the freedom and creativity to do what they need to do but it also is a huge risk.

And that’s why they need support for sure because not everybody can take that risk. We need people doing that.”

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TRIPLE DECKER BLT A mountain of applewood-smoked bacon piled between three slices of Texas toast with lettuce, tomato, and mayo NAVIGATING AROUND THE TRUMPIAN TWEET Between deceitful tweets like the one above and the Trump Administration’s Oct. 12, 2017 announcement that it would end cost-sharing reductions to insurance companies (CSRs) — which did not put an end to the ACA — it’s no wonder why Susan Jo Thomas, Executive Director of Covering Kids & Families in Indiana, is fearful.

“What I’m seeing now that scares me to death is all of the misinformation,” Thomas says. “Because it hit the news last week that the president did away with CSRs, that’s the only thing that people heard, that that was taken away. And what they don’t know is that it really doesn’t affect them.

“CSRs really only affect the insurance companies and the rates were already set before the president did that. So today when they log into HealthCare.Gov and it says that they’re actually getting more premium tax credits than they’ve ever had, they don’t trust it, because in their mind all they heard is that the CSRs have been eliminated.”

That is to say, if Trump intended to make plans under the ACA less affordable, in this instance, he did exactly the opposite.

“He instituted something that was already a legislative initiative and it affected the insurance company’s price, not individuals like you and me in the marketplace,” she said. “And by doing that, by taking away that extra money that they gave insurance companies, all they did was inflate the amount of money that the individual gets as a premium tax credit.

“So there’s literally people that are logging on today, let’s say, looking to see if they

should change plans because it might be a little cheaper. Or in Indiana two of the insurance companies have pulled out of the market so they’re changing to another program and it’s going to cost them less. And they’re going to get good insurance….and they can’t trust it.”

Julia Holloway, Director of Program Development and Navigator Services at ASPIN Health Navigator, has some examples of insurance options and premium price points on the tip of her tongue.

“If you meet with a navigator, there’s a lot [available in terms of] affordability. So I’m assuming someone who’s like 200 percent of poverty [level] which is about $24,000 [a year], a silver plan is going to cost you over $100 a month; a bronze plan might be under $100. People might not be aware that it’s not a one size fits all. Different plans have different deductibles and premium amounts. As navigators we talk to people about what their healthcare needs are and then show them the array of plans that might be available.”

And, at this point you might be asking: What are navigators, NUVO? Both Holloway and Thomas are directors of organizations that employ navigators.

These are experts that you can talk to by phone or in person — for free — and can assist you with the process of applying for health insurance. (They receive no commissions for their work and are not allowed to recommend one plan over the other.)

Perhaps you’re in Sofiya Inger’s situation, and you have not been able to afford ACA payments in the past and are currently doing without. You have nothing to lose by clicking on “Indiana Navigators” on

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in.gov/idoi to find a list of them— but you should do it soon because demand is high.

The navigators are facing challenges in this first year of the Trump Administration. Federal funding for navigator programs is down 82 percent compared to last year in Indiana. And federal funding for advertising said programs is the state is down 90 percent. The enrollment period this year, from Nov. 1 - Dec. 15, 2017, was cut in half compared to last year.

The resulting strain in the system might in fact be why the Commissioner of the Indiana Department of Insurance (IDOI) declined to talk to NUVO for this story. (This is speculation on the author’s part.) Their website, however, is an excellent resource with a list of navigators available in Indiana, and it’s worth paying attention to the details, which navigators work in what county, to find the closest navigator to you.

If there’s debate about the effectiveness of the ACA in the media — stirred up by Ayn Rand acolytes, Trumpian birthers, pizza chain moguls and Fox News hosts alike — there doesn’t seem to be any at ASPIN Health Navigator, if Holloway is indeed representative of opinion at the organization she heads.

“People come in with stories of having insurance now,” says Holloway. “Our uninsured rate is down in Indiana and people come in and call us and they get insurance and they call us back and they tell us about a surgery that they’ve had or cancer treat-

ment; or they’ve been diagnosed now with diabetes and they’re getting their medicine and they’re feeling so much better. So it’s really changed people’s lives.”

At present, Indiana lowest uninsured rate that the state has ever enjoyed, according to Thomas.

“It’s not just because of the ACA but since the ACA,” she said. “This is literally the first time ever we’ve seen the number of children and kids uninsured; this is the lowest we’ve ever seen it. We’ve seen a huge dent in the adult population, as well. And some of that is because people are signed up through the marketplace; they’re getting insurance.

“There’s a huge demand, pent-up demand from all the people excluded from the market because they had preexisting conditions; who SO FIY were just plain, too risky for insurance A I N G E R companies; they got priced out of the market and now they are definitely enrolled and staying enrolled. And the HIP 2.0 is a savior that has been a wonderful program for this state.”

And Thomas has praise for the way the Medicaid expansion rolled out in Indiana.

“This was a new experimental way of doing things,” she said. “Other states hadn’t done it.

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[Medicaid expansion] would work and it saved several of our rural hospitals. There are many of them that were literally going under because of uncompensated care. Half the people who came in their emergency department didn’t have insurance. Now those hospitals are doing a whole lot better and becoming more stable.”

And now Seema Verma, the architect of the plan that is serving as a model for Medicaid expansion in other states, is part of the administration that seems hellbent on killing it, along with the rest of the ACA. On the other hand, it could be that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under Verma will model a national health care policy incorporating aspects of HIP 2.0. But that might require that Trump’s actions not sabotage the insurance // markets beyond repair.

“Trump is coming in and he is clearly, intentionally sabotaging the act because he couldn’t kill it legislatively,” said Sheila Kennedy, professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) at IUPUI. “Going back, really, into the Bush Administration, and more in the Obama Administration and now Trump, because Congress has been

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essentially not there because the government is just not working, more and more policy is being made via executive order.

“I don’t think that changes to the ACA should be made. I think that it’s clearly improper to attempt to do by the back door which Trump is doing that which congress was unable to do legislatively. … What this administration has been trying to do is make up for the fecklessness of Congress by issuing all of these orders.”

BACK AT JAMES WILLE FAUST’S ALMA MATER On the night of Thursday, Nov. 9, across the IUPUI campus from SPEA, adjunct instructor Ginny Taylor Rosner asked her Practical Concerns for Studio Artists class at Herron School of Art & Design for a show of hands. She asked the 30-some odd students in the class how many were covered under their parents’ health insurance plans.

More than half raised their hands.

Under the Affordable Care Act, these students can keep their plans until they’re 26-years-old — thanks to Obamacare.

Whether or not they will be able to purchase affordable healthcare once they turn 26, is an open question.

Ginny Taylor Rosner’s area of expertise is photography. The 49-year-old considers herself lucky. For 10 years, from the ages of 18 to 28, she went without health insurance,

NUVO.NET/THEBIGSTORY and without going to the doctor.

Once she married, and got on her husband’s plan, she went to the doctor.

It turned out that there were concerns that need to be addressed. “From 28 to 49, I had eight surgeries,” she says.

Her class deals with all sorts of business-related concepts.

“It could be their resumé, or their artist statement, but it could be also talking about pricing their work,” she says. “How to do personal finances so they can make their work; getting a job. The idea of how do you plan for the future, especially the unexpected; things that happen in the future; how do you look at the big picture in your life when you’re a young person, considering the fact that you have this goal of wanting to make work your whole life. Then planning for the unexpected is going to be really important for you to have those conversations and health care is one of them.”

On that night, one of the seniors taking the class, Sara Robinson, 35, talked a little about her healthcare history with NUVO. “In December of last year, I had lost my job, so I qualified for food stamps,” she said.

“Because of that, I was enrolled in HIP, which had been super-difficult to get into HIP previous to that and it only cost me like a dollar because I didn’t have a job.

“And then I found out in the summer that I had type 1 diabetes. So now, I’m terrified about what’s going to happen with my insurance because my income has changed.”

One of the guest lecturers addressing the class that night was Emily Schwank, who owns her own photography business, Raincliffs Photography. While Schwank’s five children are covered under the Hoosier Healthwise plan (a.k.a. Indiana Medicaid), both Schwank and her husband are doing without healthcare coverage for the time being. Like Sofiya Inger, Schwank had found the ACA plans cost-prohibitive in the past and has looked around to see what else is available. For her that’s the Martindale-Brightwood Clinic.

“For me to go [to Martindale-Brightwood] I have to call that morning, and see if they can get me in,” she said. “So it’s not like a traditional doctor’s office where you could make your appointment in advance. You kind of

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have to be like, ‘Hi, I’m here for my follow-up, and they’re like, ‘Okay we can get you in at this time, and if I don’t call before 7:45 in the morning I won’t get in,’ ” she said.

But Schwank and her husband are planning taking advantage of open enrollment this time around. Because free clinics, and emergency rooms, can only go so far with dread diseases like cancer, or rehabilitative care after a car crash.

“We are looking at all of our options,” she says.

WINNERS AND LOSERS So there you have it, an Open Enrollment roundup from an arts editor’s point of view.

I suppose it will surprise no one when I say that we at NUVO see the ACA as a good faith attempt to solve the nation’s healthcare problems, and Trump’s attempt to crush it as a spiteful political act.

Like previous large-scale reforms to the American medical system, Medicare and Medicaid, the ACA is not perfect. “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” Obama was wont to say. It was meant to be tweaked. But that requires a Congress that doesn’t continually cater to the most radical parts of its party and a President that can ignore the fact that a highly significant piece of American legislation will always have a Black man’s name attached to it.

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RECONVENING THE FELLOWS

Museum looks back at 20 years of contemporary art in Native Art Now!

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mong the artists in the Native Art Now! Exhibition is Holly Wilson, a member of the Delaware Tribe of Oklahoma/Cherokee, and a 2015 fellow. The artist’s small bronze sculpture, “Enough” (2015), depicts a girl on top of pastry boxes surrounded by tiny cupcakes, including the two cupcakes she is holding, one in each hand.

“We don’t enjoy what we hold when we have too much,” Wilson says. To her, the cupcakes represent greed or excess, when we are trying to acquire specific things we want to have, or acquire more money to buy more things.

While the girl in the sculpture is a oneof-a-kind, Wilson has given away cup-

cakes made from the same mold used for this piece as gifts.

This piece, like other sculptures Wilson has done, tells a story. She added that everything in her work has meaning, comparing it to the oral tradition of her ancestors, including stories she would hear from her mother. She also said she hopes that her work can inspire connections.

“I do it because it’s important to me, and I hope it will strike a chord with someone else. When people see my work and tell me, ‘I get that,’ there is a connection of their experience to my experience, and the more connections we can make, the better.”

Nicholas Galanin, Tlingit/Aleut, of

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Sitka, Alaska, is a 2013 fellow featured in Native Art Now! His “I Think It Goes Like This?” (2012) is a deconstructed “appropriated Indonesian totem pole” of disjointed and jumbled faces, hands, and body parts, all painted the same black, all facing in different directions.

“The concept and conversation of the work is displacement of culture and knowledge and language,” he says. But there is also the attempted homogenization and reconstruction of culture,

knowledge, and language.

“Stereotypes oftentimes can feed how or why something is perceived in a certain way,” he says. “As artists, we are creating something within that same space.”

As for the recognition of Native artists, he stated there are still challenges to achieve success beyond just equity within the art world, an ongoing theme among other participants of the symposium. He added that the role of the artist is also important given the current political climate and ongoing struggles.

“In our communities, in a time of lies, art should play a role of telling the truth,” Galanin said. “It should allow for dialogue and progression in the community.

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The idea that it is merely entertainment is privileged. There is so much important work to be done, and artists are on the forefront of this conversation.”

Native Art Now! is definitely a part of that conversation, including 39 sculptures, photographs, paintings, and textiles depict modern and traditional concepts told through the perspectives of past Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship recipients who can trace their ancestry back to indigenous people in the United States and Canada.

Since 1999, the Lilly Endowment Inc. has helped to fund artists to dedicate more time to pursue their craft while opening doors to more connections in the art world. Every other year, five new fellows have been named.

“Instead of naming new fellows this year, we brought them back to this convening,” said assistant museum curator Dorene Red Cloud. “We wanted it to be

participatory instead of people just talking at them.” Native Art Now!, which will travel after the exhibit wraps up at the Eiteljorg, is part of the celebration of the

“There is so much important work to be done, and artists are on the forefront of this conversation.”

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history of the fellowship.

Red Cloud added that there are two other exhibits taking place to honor past fellows at the Eiteljorg this year.

The Geometry of Expression features the works of Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee), Wendy Red Star (Crow), and Anna Tsouhlarakis (Navajo/Creek/Greek), three women who use shapes to tell the viewer

about what it is like to be Native American, including their individual identities and experiences from that perspective.

That exhibit will go through Jan. 7, 2018.

Another exhibit, In Their Honor, features paintings, prints, and sculptures by five fellows who have passed away since the beginning of the program: Rick Bartow (Wiyot), Harry Fonseca (Nisenan Maidu/Hawaiian/Portuguese), John Hoover (Aleut), Allan Houser (Warm Springs Chiricahua Apache), and George Morrison (Ojibwe). All five were known to be groundbreaking in terms of bringing deserved attention to contemporary Native artists. Their works will be on display together until April 1, 2018.

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edious commutes are too common in many large cities. You can never get that hour or so of your life back.

But when faced with three to four hours of total drive time between home in Zionsville and work in Terre Haute, Dr. Louis Janeira, a cardiologist at the Providence Medical Group, looked at it as an opportunity instead of a loss.

He hired a driver and decided to spend his commute doing something he loves — writing. Lucky for him, he can manage it without the threat of motion sickness.

“I’ve never had that problem. I’m lucky that way,” he says.

Using the pen name Dr. L. Jan Eira, and also known as “The MD Writer,” Janeira has created numerous mystery/thriller shorts, novels, and plays, one of which, The Gift, will be staged this weekend at the IndyFringe Indy Eleven Theatre. This is the second production of the play. The premiere was at the Community Theatre of Terre Haute in June, which played to sold-out audiences.

The Gift explores suicide, assisted suicide, euthanasia, cancer, hallucinations and mental illness. It’s a story about a girl, Eleanor, mysteriously gifted with foresight. Eleanor believes this phenomenon is linked to her mother’s own visions of the future. Eleanor must determine what is truth and what is imagination in her mother’s mind because if she fails, it will lead to her death.

The show is coming full circle in its IndyFringe staging.

“I wrote a 10-minute play called The Final Word for the Short Play Festival at IndyFringe in 2016,” Janeira says. “It was loved by all. I decided to write a full-length play around it,” This time, the play will be under the direction of Jan Jamison.

“I respect and admire [her],” he says.

“She recently won five Encores for her direction and work on Indy stages. I picked her because of how I admire her talents.”

That admiration extends to handing over the helm of the production completely. “I purposely have not interfered at all with the director as I trust totally in her talent and ability to put a successful run on stage.

I’m excited to see the end result.”

A common mantra in writing is to write what you know, and Janeira has done just that with all of his works.

“Being a medical doctor, writing with medical undertones comes natural and easy for me. I feel I am uniquely positioned for that purpose. I would not say my writing influences my work as a cardiologist,” he says, which is good news for his patients, as many of his fictions include suspicious deaths, “but I definitely think my artistic work is heavily influenced by my medical practice. Certain cases and patients provide me fodder for my playwriting.”

Janeira has been a longtime supporter of the arts, and through his ingenuity of using that commute downtime as a creative outlet, he can now take an active role in the theater scene. After a case of writer’s block with his young adult books, The Traveler Series about time-traveling teens, he decided to shake things up and take some playwriting courses.

“I love theater and have been a huge consumer most of my adult life. My first play ever was Annie, which I saw on Broadway in 1975. I’ve been mesmerized by staged arts ever since. I mostly admire the works of Lin Manuel Miranda and Sir Andrew Lloyd Weber.”

His own playwriting debut was The Ambush, a medical murder mystery, which played on stage in Carmel in 2015. Following that, The Final Word and Stop Crying! were staged at the IndyFringe theater in 2015 and 2016, respectively. The Curse of Count Dicky, Secrets of the Heart, and The Final Word were staged at 4th Street Theater in Chesterton, Indiana, in 2016 and 2017.

“My short play, Secret of the Heart, was staged off off Broadway in 2016,” he says.

“That was my proudest moment.”

In the future he’s planning to stage Critical Recall and The Freshman That Could in 2018.

“The Casualty will hopefully be staged in 2018 or 2019.” he says. “Theaters in Terre Haute, Brazil, Green Castle, and others are looking at several of my pieces and hopefully will give me the honor of a production in 2018. Also, Chesterton, Indiana, will hopefully produce one of my plays in 2018.” N

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MUSTACHE AND MURDER Sure it’s old-fashioned, but so’s the source material

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alling something old fashioned sometimes can be deemed an insult when describing music, movies or any kind of art that doesn’t break any new ground, but instead merely tells a simple story well. When describing Kenneth Branagh’s take on Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, however, it should definitely be taken as a compliment.

Christie’s 1934 novel has been so widely read and Sidney Lumet’s 1974 film adaptation is so beloved that it’s easy to criticize this remake as something that probably didn’t need to even be made. As great as the last film is and as iconic as the story has become over the years, Branagh’s remake was caught in an unenviable position: if it was too different, the film would be accused of disrespecting the source material and if it was too similar it would

be called a pointless vanity project. The film could be slammed no matter what and had nothing to gain either way.

The story follows what is arguably Christie’s most famous invention, the brilliant Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot (played by Branagh himself ), as he attempts to unwind after solving a particularly difficult case. His berth on the Orient Express was a last-minute decision as he figures it might be the quickest way to get him back to London so he can begin a well-earned vacation.

The train is filled with a motley crew of individuals who seem to be complicated enough to be the central characters in their own story, let alone side characters in someone else’s. There’s a severe nun, a drunk banker, two angry servants, a cruel princess, a racist doctor, a ravenous widower, a few pairs of doomed couples and

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an American gangster. When one of them turns up dead, Poirot must cut his vacation short to put the disparate pieces of the puzzle together and find the murderer.

Branagh fills the cramped confines of the Orient Express with a remarkable cast featuring Judi Dench, Derek Jacobi, Willem Dafoe, Olivia Colman, Johnny Depp, Josh Gad, Penelope Cruz, Michelle Pfeiffer, Leslie Odom Jr. and several others. As uniformly excellent as the supporting cast is, none of them have the heavy lifting Branagh does as Poirot, in a performance I expected to find a little self-indulgent, but instead thought was completely lovely.

Branagh doesn’t try and match the coolness of Albert Finney’s portrayal of

Poirot, Peter Ustinov’s wit or even the warmth of David Suchet, who played the role for over two decades. Instead, Branagh brings a haunted look to the bright blue eyes of the master detective.

Poirot is wounded and, even as he tamps down any excess emotion with his obsession for order and delight at being left alone, we can see that his uncanny ability to detect crime is also a defense mechanism to help him avoid self-examination.

This Poirot isn’t a debonair action hero like Robert Downey Jr’s Sherlock or a high-functioning sociopath like Benedict Cumberbatch in the series Sherlock.

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RITA KOHN is NUVO’s Beer Maven

Smoking Goose’s Oca makes Sun King’s taproom a pub

A CASE FOR BROWN ALES many styles sharing aromas of the season and hues showing off the spectrum of primary colors meeting up with their opposites. Hold up a Brown and the hue can sparkle like garnet or impart the glint of moonlight off tree bark.

Over the years of Indiana craft growing a patron base, I’ve begun to feel that Browns are the Cinderella beers of autumn — or any season come to think of it.

I sent a call out to brewers — what’s your feeling about Browns?

• “When coming to market with a Brown, you know it is an uphill battle.” ­ — Eilise Servies, Scarlet Lane co-founder and brewer.

• “Browns to me have never been a go-to style to drink or brew; I generally think ‘meh’ when thinking of the style...Now sour brown I can get behind.”

— J osh Hambright, Central State Brewing co-founder and brewer.

• “I fell in love with Dark Mild when I used to visit Liverpool on business trips. As is the tradition after long workdays there, we would “stand a round” of fresh hand pulled pints at the local pub.”

— Michael Pearson, co-founder and brewer of Daredevil.

• “Wow, Browns. I mean where to go from there. I love them. I love them malty and I love them hoppy and well-balanced.”

— Jonathon Mullens, BRBP head brewer.

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e’re all fluttering around the picnic tables, our phones out capturing images of each sausage, beer sampler, baked potato, pretzel and cheese crumble before each of us separately decides we can’t wait any longer and we have to dive into eating.

It’s like that final scene in Ocean’s 11 when each schemer leaves the Bellagio fountain; “Clair de Lune” is dreamily scoring the moment, and finally they’re all gone. Except in this Soderbergh flick it cuts to each of us shoving food into our mouths — and let’s just say there is no glamorous way to eat sausage.

It’s media night at Oca, and we’re all getting a first taste of the new eatery in Sun King Brewing’s Downtown taproom. “Oca” means “goose” in Italian. That should tip you off to the team behind the food being dished out — Indy’s beloved Goose the Market. Oca is truly a marriage of two of Indianapolis’ culinary industry titans. And we’ll be honest, it’s the pairing we didn’t know we needed, but we’re so lucky to have.

I’ve spent plenty of Friday evenings after work in the Sun King taproom, sharing a couple tastings and then grabbing a growler to go. Maybe you have, too. Sun King’s co-owner Clay Robinson says, the plan with this addition to their tap room is to change the way people visit Sun King.

“Craft beer fans have been visiting our tasting room to sample our fresh, flavorful craft beer for eight years. With Oca’s delicious food and up to 16 Sun King beers on tap, we hope guests will come by more often to enjoy the tasty pairings,” he says.

Having been in for a taste, I‘m pretty sure Oca changes everything. Now, not only will you not have to leave Sun King to get food, you won’t want to. First

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off, parking’s free — sorry, Mass Ave. Secondly, there are few better food pairings in the world than sausages and a well-made beer. And this menu is pretty much a sausage fest.

The menu offers five sausages made

by Smoking Goose specifically for Oca: Weisswurst, salmon sausage, currywurst, Berkshire pork and octopus sausage and pheasant sausage.

During media night, as we tasted each sausage in sandwich form, some clear favorites emerged. The Octo was my personal favorite; it paired spectacularly

with Sun King’s bitter, hoppy Wet Hopped and Sticky pale ale. The sandwich highlights the flavorful Berkshire and octopus sausage (which has rapini, pine nuts, fennel seed, anise seed and paprika) with an Italian-style addition of a spicy arrabbiata sauce, fresh mozzarella, rapini, pine nuts and orecchiette pasta salad. All of the flavors came together to create something wholly unique, yet completely recognizable and delicious.

Another standout was the currywurst, which Smoking Goose’s owner Chris Eley shared that he was actually kind

NUVO.NET/FOOD+DRINK of nervous about. He pointed out that a typical currywurst is a traditional sausage with the addition of a curried ketchup on top. At Oca, they’ve actually curried the sausage and the end product is all-around better. The mix of the spicy, pungent curried sausage with beet-potato hash, escarole and crab cocktail was fantastic, it was easily the quickest to disappear from the table. And tasted alongside Sun King’s light and malty ESB, Bitter Druid, the Wurst One sandwich was made all the better.

And while the sausages are definitely a highlight of the menu, there is much more to taste including more traditional Goose items put together on a charcuterie board.

They also had the best baked potato that has ever been crafted, the Sasquatch. Pretty much anything with ‘Nduja on it will pull me in. Add to that a duck egg and the everso-crispy pork rinds and you’ve got a dish I’ll never forget.

But the standout of the night was a dish I’ve never heard of, but couldn’t get enough of, the Choucroute Garnie. It’s a dish from Alsace and while it’s name references the “dressed” fermented cabbage warmed with riesling, it’s the addition of three types of sausage: Nuremburg, Strasbourg and Knack and the king of the dish, the smoked rib chop that make it a thing of wonder.

The food at Oca is meant to bring you and your friends together.

Corrie Quinn from Smoking Goose also is happy to share that even if you’re not a meat eater, there are options for you as well and hopefully more on the horizon.

“Oca is always happy to put together dishes for non-pork eaters, vegetarians, folks

with food allergies/intolerances (gluten, nuts, etc.),” she says. She points out that if you have any food allergies or intolerances you can always let them know and they will happily pull together something for you if at all possible.

She also points out, “The menu will be rotating, too, and Chris already has plans for vegetarian and vegan sausages working their way through the ever-changing menu.”

What I love most of the dishes on the menu — other than the fact that I didn’t ever want to stop eating them — is they are made to share. The food at Oca is meant to bring you and your friends together to enjoy some locally crafted beers, have some great conversation and eat to your heart’s desire. It is changing from a spot to stop in for a beer or two into the true tradition of a pub. N

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ver the past three decades, Indianapolis’ Vess Ruhtenberg played in a slew of notable projects, from legendary punk outfit the Zero Boys to ‘90s rockers The Lemonheads, to his own indie rock group United States Three.

But never before has he made a solo record. Until now.

“I just finally thought, ‘Well I haven’t done it,’” Ruhtenberg says. “I was alone in my studio for a couple of weeks, which is a tremendous downtime. So I finished a couple of old songs, and I had a whole bunch of new ones. I just did it. It was really fun. It’s silly to say, but putting out your own record is a new sensation.”

And so Ruhtenberg’s debut solo album, appropriately entitled Tremendous Downtime in celebration of that empty studio time, is due out on Nov. 17 — the same day he’ll play covers of The Cure at Tonic Ball. Recorded at a studio he co-founded with Jeb Banner named Twin Mono, the album is both political and vulnerable.

Tremendous Downtime is 11 solo Ruhtenberg creations that came together during a difficult time. “You’re not really sleeping, you’re not really eating, you don’t feel like socializing,” Ruhtenberg says.

“So what do you do? You go in the studio.

It was one of those times.” Certain tracks like “The Brighter Side of a Coin” and “You’re Done Chasing Me” speak to this in their titles alone.

“It was a bit of a tough time emotionally,” Ruhtenberg says. “I was struggling in my love life, so I was having this self inspection time mixed with sadness mixed with ‘I’m gonna do something productive because I’m not gonna waste my time.’”

He was also, like the rest of us, witnessing a drastic change in America’s political climate, which took him back to an earlier time in his life. “The political songs were

resuscitated from Bush era, but they apply so much more now with the unreasonableness of things,” Ruhtenberg says.

“Even though I would sometimes write little protest songs to amuse my friends during times of strife, this time, for the first time, I felt like it was time to come

Things” characterizes this playful essence perfectly. “I tried to do things differently, which is why ‘It’s OK to Try New Things’ is the centerpiece of the record,” Ruhtenberg says. “It’s just nice to run the other way. There’s no point in doing things over and over again, which is one of my com-

out and say something publicly, being an artist with an opinion.” Tracks like “Lady Liberty” and “The Times They Better Be Changing” are examples of this sentiment.

“I’ve always had somewhat feminist lyrics on a lot of songs, but this time I wanted to be a little bit more direct,” Ruhtenberg says. “I mean, we have a sexist president, and that’s kind of weird.”

Beneath all of this tension, however, lies an exploratory spirit that has never quite existed on previous Ruhtenberg records. The song “It’s OK to Try New

plaints about rock and roll in general.”

“I’m always impressed by how willing Vess is to just try something,” Twin Mono studio partner Jeb Banner says.

“He hasn’t gotten to that point where he’s too cool to do something stupid. He’s willing to do something, and if it doesn’t work, he’s like, ‘Alright, let’s try it again.’ I think he’s kept a pretty consistent thread through all of his work of being willing to experiment and play.”

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Downtime contains the “Vess aesthetic.”

Banner says that you can really draw a parallel between Ruhtenberg’s songwriting and the architecture he’s attracted to.

After all, Vess’ grandfather Jan Ruhtenberg was a highly regarded architect, who worked with Philip Johnson. “[The Vess sound] is modernist,” says Banner, who also describes Ruhtenberg as “an architecture buff.” “He is very intentional about every sound he puts into a song. He’s perfectly happy to leave some empty spaces. He’s really careful about not crowding things. You can see a direct connection between the architecture he likes and the music he makes.”

This aesthetic is also something that bandmate Paul Mahern of the Zero Boys (who mastered Tremendous Downtime) sees in Ruhtenberg’s work as well.

“He’s got a really particular aesthetic that he’s really maintained through all of his bands,” Mahern says. “The way he puts a song together and, even more importantly, the way he puts a recording together is just very uniquely Vess.”

But Ruhtenberg admits that he’s starting to get bored with “Vess.”

“I really wanted to just do a record that was carefree, and endings and beginnings were somewhat invented on the spot,” Ruhtenberg says. “Sometimes I said things that I’d flinch about, or there’s a line that is a little pitchy. But, I left it.”

Going forward, fans can expect more solo output from Ruhtenberg in the future. “At this stage in my life, I can just play songs of my life, and songs I wrote yesterday as me as easily as I ever could,” he says. As for Tremendous Downtime, physical copies of the album will be available to purchase at Ruhtenberg’s Nov. 21 performance at the Hi-Fi with Busman’s Holiday. N

KYLE LONG is a longtime NUVO columnist and host of WFYI’s A Cultural Manifesto.

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ast year I sat down to write a letter to jazz legend Sarah McLawler.

I wanted to tell her how much I loved the records she cut for Brunswick and King in the early ’50s featuring her soulful vocals, and pioneering improvisations on the Hammond B3 organ.

I wanted to let Sarah know that I thought of her every time I drove by her alma mater Crispus Attucks.

I wanted to explain that I could hear the unique frequencies of the Indianapolis sound in her playing.

I wanted Sarah to know she still had fans in her old hometown, and I wanted to invite her back to play again.

Perhaps most importantly, I wanted to ask Sarah if I could interview her about her time here in Indy, a woefully undocumented chapter in her story.

Writing out my admiration for McLawler was easy, but knowing where to address the letter was a challenge. When McLawler left Indy in the 1940s, she seemingly cut all ties with the city, and like many folks of her generation, McLawler had little to no presence in the digital world.

So I decided to contact Doodlin’ Records, the last label McLawler recorded for. The label’s founder Pete Fallico immediately wrote back. Unfortunately, he had sad news. Fallico told me that McLawler had been admitted to Harlem’s Amsterdam Nursing Home where she was reportedly in a non-verbal state, battling dementia. I received even sadder news earlier this month when I learned McLawler had passed away on September 12 at the age of 91.

With McLawler’s passing, so goes my hope for a more thorough understanding of her Indianapolis years. But I’ll try my best to piece together what I do know here.

Sarah McLawler was born in Louisville, Kentucky on August 9, 1926. Her parents divorced during her early childhood. When her mother died in 1936, Sarah moved

to Indianapolis with her father Rev. V.W. McLawler who was called to pastor at Indy’s Corinthian Baptist Church. It was at Corinthian Baptist Church where McLawler received her first musical instruction.

The church’s organist and musical director was a gifted musician named Vestarine Slaughter. According to a 2011 interview with McLawler on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network Channel’s Sissy Gamache Show, Slaughter was impressed with the young Sarah’s talent.

Attending Crispus Attucks, where she enrolled in 1939, provided McLawler an opportunity to study music at a high level with instruction from respected educator Norman Merrifield. “We had one of the best music departments in the state of Indiana,” McLawler stated in author David Williams’ 2014 book Indianapolis Jazz. After graduating in June of 1943 McLawler continued her academic study of music at Indianapolis’ Jordan Conservatory.

While there, the active club scene on Indiana Avenue provided her first professional opportunities as a musician.

One legend tells of an underage McLawler sneaking into the Sunset Terrace to watch Lucky Millinder’s famous swing band perform. McLawler would later tour with Millinder’s band as a vocalist. But her first regular gig was with Midwest bandleader Gene Pope. Pope’s band held down a long residency at Sea Ferguson’s Indianapolis Cotton Club. McLawler sang with a version of Pope’s orchestra that

also included Indianapolis legend Errol “Groundhog” Grandy on piano.

She left Indy to attend college at Nashville’s Fisk University and there met drummer Hetty Smith in 1948. The two musicians hit it off, and headed to Chicago where they founded The Syncoettes, a pioneering quartet of women who became a sensation on the Chicago scene. Rounding out the group were Lula Roberts and Vi Wilson, who’d already paid their dues touring with big bands like the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, and the Darlings of Rhythm.

The fame McLawler achieved with The Syncoettes quickly led to recording opportunities.

McLawler issued her first recording for the Chicago blues label Premium in 1950. From there she was signed to King Records where she issued a series of fantastic singles. This period of McLawler’s work is captured on a fantastic compilation titled The Chronological Sarah McLawler - 1950-1953, which is widely available in digital music outlets, and highly recommended.

McLawler was among the first wave of jazz instrumentalists to embrace the Hammond B3 and was recognized for her pioneering work by the Jazz Organ Fellowship, who inducted her into their Hall of Fame in 2010.

McLawler’s early work on the Hammond is best captured on the brilliant 1953 Brunswick recording of “Red Light” with saxophonist Georgie Auld. But the most significant partnership in McLawler’s life revolved around jazz violinist Richard Otto. McLawler and Otto wed in

1954 and maintained a devoted musical partnership until Otto’s death in 1979.

Otto and McLawler issued a handful of singles and three LPs on Chicago’s Vee-Jay Records and performed together as the Otto-McLawler Trio for three decades. After Otto’s death, McLawler continued performing around New York as an organist. During these years McLawler embraced her role as a pioneering woman in jazz, performing with groups like the Big Apple Jazzwomen, and Les Femmes Jazz, with whom she cut her final disc, 2010’s Under My Hat on the aforementioned Doodlin’ Records. “I decided to help women all I can, whatever way I can help young women, to inspire them,” McLawler told author Lucy O’Brien in her 2003 book She Bop II. In that same book McLawler also lamented the lack of recognition accorded to her important legacy in music. “I’ve not been recognized for the work and pioneering I’ve done,” McLawler told O’Brien.

But Sarah McLawler didn’t allow such setbacks to stop her from living her best life, just as she didn’t let America’s racial and gender oppression stop her from pursuing her wildest dreams. McLawler continued performing into her late eighties, cutting an unforgettable figure onstage with her colorful wardrobe and stylish hats.

She was at home onstage, she was comfortable. McLawler was famous for kicking off her shoes during performances, in fact a December 1953 issue of Jet Magazine refers to her as “shoeless organist Sarah McLawler.” Even better, a May 1961 issue of Jet details an instance where McLawler had to walk home barefoot because a “drunk” ran off with her shoes as a souvenir.

While Sarah McLawler may have been under-appreciated by the public at large, she was unforgettable to those that knew her, and her music. So it’s with a great sadness, and even greater admiration that I say goodbye to Sarah this week. N NUVO.NET // 11.15.17 - 11.22.17 // MUSIC // 19

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The next ten months will be an ideal time to revise and revamp your approach to education. To take maximum advantage of the potentials, create a master plan to get the training and knowledge you’ll need to thrive for years to come. At first, it may be a challenge to acknowledge that you have a lot more to learn. The comfort-loving part of your nature may be resistant to contemplating the hard work it will require to expand your worldview and enhance your skills. But once you get started, you’ll quickly find the process becoming easier and more pleasurable.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I predict that during the next ten months, you will generate personal power and good fortune as you ripen your skills at creating interesting forms of intimacy. Get started! Here are some tips to keep in mind. 1. All relationships have problems. Every single one, no exceptions! So you should cultivate relationships that bring you useful and educational problems. 2. Be very clear about the qualities you do and don’t want at the core of your most important alliances. 3. Were there past events that still obstruct you from weaving the kind of togetherness that’s really good for you? Use your imagination to put those events behind you forever.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” - Charles H. Duell, Director of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899.

“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” Lord Kelvin, President, Royal Society, 1895. “All the music that can be written has already been written.

We’re just repeating the past.” - 19th-century composer Tschaikovsky. “Video won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a box every night.” - filmmaker Darryl F. Zanuck, commenting on television in 1946. I hope I’ve provided enough evidence to convince you to be faithful to your innovative ideas, Scorpio. Don’t let skeptics or conventional thinkers waylay you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You may be entertaining an internal dialog that sounds something like this: “I need a clear yes or a definitive no . . . a tender revelation or a radical revolution . . . a lesson in love or a cleansing sex marathon — but I’m not sure which! Should I descend or ascend? Plunge deeper down, all the way to the bottom? Or zip higher up, in a heedless flight into the wide open spaces? Would I be happier in the poignant embrace of an intense commitment or in the wild frontier where none of the old rules can follow me? I can’t decide! I don’t know which part of my mind I should trust!” If you do hear those thoughts in your brain, Gemini, here’s my advice: There’s no rush to decide.

What’s healthiest for your soul is to bask in the uncertainty for a while.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): According to storyteller Michael Meade, ancient Celtic culture believed that “a person was born through three forces: the coming together of the mother and father, an ancestral spirit’s wish to be reborn, and the involvement of a god or goddess.” Even if you don’t think that’s literally true, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to have fun fantasizing it is. That’s because you’re in a phase when contemplating your origins can invigorate your spiritual health and attract good fortune into your life. So start with the Celtic theory, and go on from there. Which of your ancestors may have sought to live again through you? Which deity might have had a vested interest in you being born? What did you come to this earth to accomplish? Which of your innate potentials have you yet to fully develop, and what can you do to further develop them?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I predict that starting today and during the next ten months, you will learn more about treating yourself kindly and making yourself happy than you have in years. You will mostly steer clear of the mindset that regards life as a numbing struggle for mere survival. You will regularly dream up creative ideas about how to have more fun while attending to the mundane tasks in your daily rhythm. Here’s the question I hope you will ask yourself every morning for the next 299 days: “How can I love myself wth devotion and ingenuity?”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): This may be the most miscellaneous horoscope I’ve ever created for you. That’s apropos, given the fact that you’re a multifaceted quick-change artist these days. Here’s your sweet mess of oracles. 1. If the triumph you seek isn’t humbling, it’s not the right triumph. 2. You may have an odd impulse to reclaim or recoup something that you have not in fact lost. 3. Before transmutation is possible, you must pay a debt. 4. Don’t be held captive by your beliefs. 5. If you’re given a choice between profane and sacred love, choose sacred.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Of all the signs in the zodiac, you Sagittarians are most likely to buy a lottery ticket that has the winning numbers. But you’re also more likely than everyone else to throw the ticket in a drawer and forget about it, or else leave it in your jeans when you do the laundry, rendering the ticket unreadable. Please don’t be like that in the coming weeks. Make sure you do what’s necessary to fully cash in on the good fortune that life will be making available.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the game of basketball, if a player is fouled by a member of the opposing team, he is given a “free throw.”

While standing 15 feet away, he takes a leisurely shot at the basket without having to deal with any defenders. Studies show that a player is most likely to succeed at this task if he shoots the ball underhanded. Yet virtually no professionals ever do this. Why? Because it doesn’t look cool. Everyone opts to shoot free throws overhand, even though it’s not as effective a technique. Weird! Let’s invoke this as a metaphor for your life in the coming weeks, Capricorn. In my astrological opinion, you’ll be more likely to accomplish good and useful things if you’re willing to look uncool.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1991, Aquarius rock star Axl Rose recorded the song “November Rain” with his band Guns N’ Roses. It had taken him eight years to compose it. Before it was finally ready for prime time, he had to whittle it down from an 18-minute-long epic to a more succint nine-minute ballad. I see the coming weeks as a time when you should strive to complete work on your personal equivalent of Axl’s opus.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Thomas Edison was a prolific inventor whose work led to the creation of electric lights, recorded music, movies, and much more. When he was 49 years old, he met Henry Ford, a younger innovator who was at the beginning of his illustrious career. Ford told Edison about his hopes to develop and manufacture lowcost automobiles, and the older man responded with an emphatic endorsement. Ford later said this was the first time anyone had given him any encouragement. Edison’s approval “was worth worlds” to him. I predict, Pisces, that you will receive comparable inspiration from a mentor or guide or teacher in the next nine months. Be on the lookout for that person.

HOMEWORK: Is there a belief you know you should live without, but don’t yet have the courage

to leave behind? FreeWillAstrology.com

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