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NUVO EDITORS’ HOPES FOR 2017

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t’s become a yearly tradition for NUVO’s editors to look back on our hopes and dreams from the year before as we look forward to the year to come. Find 2015’s wishlist online at NUVO.net.

EDITOR KATHERINE COPLEN I admit it: I exit this year not-so-hopeful, and can you blame me? Between Putin-led Russian election hackers, rampant bombing in Aleppo, the rise of outspoken white supremacy in public discourse, a betrayal of women who came forward with their sexual assault experiences and a burgeoning kleptocracy, 2016 has ravaged every-

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But here’s my promise to you, NUVO readers. Through gritted teeth and knitted brow — just like we wrote at the end of 2015 — we will be here for you, reporting, organizing and informing, every step of 2017. Things are brighter in the land of music, where I see new faces and spaces emerging every time I hit the town. I’m especially pleased with the formation of new artist groups like Women of Indianapolis Art fostering strength through artistic unity. We will need each other next year, more than ever.

NEWS EDITOR AMBER STEARNS When I looked back on my hopes for this year, expressed one year ago, all I felt was a big ol’ poke in the eye from an existential middle finger. I’m tellin’ ya, it was not a good thing for my blood pressure. With the dumpster fire that was the 2016 news cycle, I’m hesitant to express any more hopes out of fear they’ll go up in flames yet again. So instead of hoping for the world, I send out this request that you have hope for me. Hope that I am able to continue bringing you stories and perspectives you can’t get other places.

Hope that I can add to the voices keeping our government accountable for decisions and legislation. Hope that I can navigate difficult topics that may make us uncomfortable but will always make us think. Hope that I capture the essence of the fighters that keep fighting against all odds. And hope that no matter what the future brings, I am always able to find and present to you the good in humanity.

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Please, God, let this year be better

ARTS EDITOR EMILY TAYLOR

This year was heartbreaking. As a woman, I saw my legislators decide that my body was not worth protecting. As someone who identifies as queer, I saw the dominant discourse ignore a hate crime during the Pulse shooting, saying instead that it was simply an attack on Americans, disregarding that it was an attack specifically against LGBTQ Americans. As an activist, I saw my friends and colleagues break down in tears after a man who represented everything we fight against was elected to be the leader of our country.

Like I said, it’s been a hard year.

Like every broken moment in life, there was beauty this year as well. After the election, artists and writers in Indy responded with an outpouring of support for each other’s creative endeavors. Everyone felt a stir within them, and so many have decided to fight back. That’s what my hope is for 2017. That we do not lose the fire brimming up inside us. That we refuse to let go of the creative forces that feed us. That we make our artwork, our words and our actions reverberate through our collective commitment to equality. And Indy is starting to do that. There’s a renewed focus on how art impacts the spaces and people around us, and in the next year I hope to see a relentless pursuit of what makes Indy activists and artists great — that we don’t give up.

FOOD EDITOR CAVAN McGINSIE

Since this is my first year at NUVO, I can’t look back on my hopes for 2016, but I know one hope was to be in the position

I’m in now, sharing this city’s booming food and drink scene with the people who live here and the continuous mix of visitors making their way through all of our culinary endeavors. While on the whole this has been a year best left in the deep, dark recesses of our collective minds, I can say I am hopeful that the food and drink in our city will continue to grow and prosper.

I am hopeful that more and more people will choose to enjoy and frequent the locally owned and operated establishments that are opening monthly and to eschew the heartless chains that have dotted Indianapolis’ landscape for far too long. I am hopeful that 2017 will be a year of loving and goodness and coming together in the face of negativity and trying our fucking hardest to shine a light of positivity in the darkest of times.

ENGAGEMENT EDITOR BRIAN WEISS I didn’t write out my hopes for 2016, and that’s probably a good thing because they would have been crushed like a used car at the end of its lifespan. Despite this past year, I hold a strong belief that 2017 will be great. In sports, here’s to Jim Irsay waking up from his trance-like state and firing the the dead weight that is Ryan Grigson and Chuck Pagano. To the Pacers deciding that mediocrity just isn’t for them and making a deep run in the playoffs. To the Indy Eleven having a league to call home. And on the interwebs? Here’s to me being able to count the number of times I have to use my banhammer on two hands. Because if that happens, 2017 will be a kinder year, and I think we all hope for that. n

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umpster fire.

Train wreck.

Garbage pile.

Toilet bowl.

There is no question that 2016 was a very difficult year for a lot of people. Want proof why 2016 was certainly not “the best of times?” We’ll give you 51 reasons why — one for every week of the NUVO year (because we take one week off to recoup from the madness).

JANUARY 1. Singer-songwriter/actor David Bowie died. RIP, Ziggy Stardust.

2. Transgender people fell under attack through the discussion of “bathroom bills.”

MARCH 8. HEA 1337, the state’s archaic and invasive answer to stopping abortion, was introduced, passed and signed. (Read all about it on nuvo.net and get mad all over again.)

9. Terrorist attacks wracked Brussels.

10. More Hepatitis C outbreaks were reported throughout the state, along with high rates of HIV. 11. Republican Senate leaders decided not to confirm any person nominated by President Obama to replace Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court, making the judicial branch a hot campaign topic in the run for the presidency.

12. Peyton Manning retired from professional football.

18. … Plus the deaths of Glenn Frey, Nancy Reagan, Harper Lee, Gene Wilder, Florence Henderson, John Glenn. The list goes on.

19. Donald Trump selected Indiana governor Mike Pence to be his running mate.

(When Hoosiers said, “Pence Must Go,” the rest of that sentence was not “to Washington D.C. and become vice-president of the United States.”)

20. The Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando was a tragedy for all of the lives lost and a heartbreak for LGBT people around the country that suddenly felt (even more) unsafe.

21. The U.S. Supreme Court came back with a “gridlock” decision (4-4) on Pres.

Obama’s executive orders, leaving the futures of undocumented immigrants in limbo.

22. Brexit proved a precursor to the election of Donald Trump as we saw nationalism on the rise across the world.

3. Actor Alan Rickman died. From Hans Gruber in Die Hard to Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films, Rickman was one of the most talented British actors to come from across the pond.

13. Brock Turner’s “conviction” without jail time for the rape of a woman at Stanford continued campus rape culture.

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14. Singer-songwriter Prince — another icon that crossed boundaries and put sex appeal in another dimension — died.

23. Baron Hill dropped out of the U.S. Senate race, adding one of many shakeups on the ballot just a few months before Election Day.

15. A Muslim IUPUI student was harassed and called a terrorist on campus and the campus was slow to respond, enraging her friends, teachers and colleagues.

24. Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old Black man, was shot multiple times at close range by two white Baton Rouge police officers.

4. The Indiana General Assembly failed to revise the state’s civil rights laws to include the LGBT community.

5. Sue Ellspermann resigned as Lt. Gov. with the full support of Mike Pence. The female voice of reason so desperately needed in the Pence administration was lost.

6. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died while on a hunting trip in Texas.

7. Carrier announced layoffs due to a shift in production to Mexico. The Facebook video of the announcement went viral, fueling the national political campaign.

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MAY 16. Donald Trump became the presumed Republican nominee for president in Indiana.

JUNE 17. Muhammad Ali died. He was, is and will always be the World’s Greatest.

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25. Philando Castile, another man of color, was shot by police in Minnesota.

26. Five Dallas, Texas police officers were killed and nine others were injured while protecting a march against police brutality.

27. These three shootings all happened within three consecutive days of each other.

28. A week later, three police officers were killed and three others injured in a shootout in Baton Rouge.

AUGUST 29. Record hot temperatures for Planet Earth — in June, July and August. Enough said.

30. Zika — the mosquito-spread disease — caused panic and caution at the Summer Olympic Games due to the threat of birth defects and other medical issues.

31. Sexual harassment in the workplace was brought to light courtesy of Fox News.

32. The price of the Epi-pen was raised 600 percent by its manufacturer Mylan, with many poised to lose health insurance in 2017.

SEPTEMBER 33. Incidents of aggression against Black people, Muslims, Hispanics and other minority groups increased with the rise of white nationalist rhetoric associated with Trump.

OCTOBER 34. A video of President-elect Donald Trump casually discussing the sexual assault of women hit the airwaves. 17 women came out publically accusing Trump of sexual assault, which he categorically denied. (... And he was still elected.)

35. The pending destruction of the Crown Hill Woods caused tense meetings between the federal government and environmental activists.

36. Gov. Pence wouldn’t consider a pardon for Keith Cooper. Although Cooper is no longer incarcerated for a crime he didn’t commit, the felony conviction remains on his record, making it difficult for him to get a good paying job and qualify for other assistance for his family.

37. Oregon makeshift militia members were acquitted, while conservative lawmak-

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ers dreamed up harsher punishments for peaceful protestors.

38. During congressional testimony, the president and CEO of Wells Fargo bank blamed employees for creating fraudulent credit card accounts, despite proof from employees showing management made them do it.

NOVEMBER 39. The presidential race results were a slap in the face to those who fight against racism, sexism, xenophobia, classism, discrimination, bigotry, hatred, intolerance and inequality.

40. The Indiana general election means Pence did go, but the balance of power stayed heavily Republican.

41. Trump built his Cabinet of Deplorables — the people being placed as department heads are some of the very people who have publicly opposed the very agencies they are being asked to lead.

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DECEMBER 45. The 2016 ISTEP test performance scores resulted in a drop in letter grades for several schools.

46. Russia, with direct guidance from Putin, hacked the election, according to the CIA. 47. … And nobody cared that Russia hacked the election, especially not those crying foul about Clinton’s email server just weeks before.

48. Syria and all of the atrocities occurring there were shared online via social media.

49. The death of former Indianapolis mayor Bill Hudnut.

50. The water crisis in Flint, Michigan continues. Water in Flint is still not safe to drink, and House Republicans closed the investigation in December without resolution.

51. The fact that we even have to make this list tells us this has been a bad year, readers. A bad year.

42. Native Americans and allies from around the country gathered in North Dakota to protest the planned route for the Dakota Access Pipeline. Protesters were attacked by dogs, sprayed with water hoses and arrested in this battle between Indigenous peoples and the government.

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43. The rise of fake news (or at least the recognition of it) and how it impacts our democratic process reverberated through the online sphere.

3. The federal court ruled HEA 1337 and Pence’s ban on Syrian refugees as unconstitutional.

44. This was the deadliest year on record for murders of trans individuals (26 were reported in the first 11 months of 2016) and trans people of color continue to experience violence at an overwhelmingly high rate compared to other demographics.

1. The first US Olympian to compete in a hijab in the Olympics, Ibtihaj Muhammad, won bronze in fencing.

2. Success at Standing Rock means the DAPL is paused, for now.

4. The rise of Pantsuit Nation on Facebook and other grassroots activist groups showed the resistance lives.

5. The elections of Catherine Cortez Masto (Nevada), Tammy Duckworth (Illinois) and Kamala Harris (California) put three women of color in the Senate. n

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he culinary world went gaga over Indianapolis this year. The Fletcher Place-based Milktooth led the pack in Conde Naste Traveler, with a number of other Indy restaurants also getting raves.

While it may be the Indy art scene’s turn to blow up nationally, there were no indications to this effect when January 2016 rolled around.

But the 200 Years of Indiana Art bicentennial exhibition at the Indiana State Museum, which opened in March, certainly warranted national attention even if it received little. This Mark Ruschmancurated exhibition was nothing short of visionary, featuring the works by 19th century Hoosier Group painters such as T.C. Steele alongside works by Indy-based contemporary artists Lobyn Hamilton, Anila Quayyum Agha and James Wille Faust. Hamilton, Agha and Faust all have had substantial success on a national and/or international level. But that success hasn’t translated into national press praising the city as a whole.

Does national attention matter? Maybe we should take measure of the Indy art scene by more meaningful criteria.

Shouldn’t we ask how many artists are able to make a living doing what they love?

Shouldn’t we ask how many artists are actively engaged in their communities?

In April, the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (iMOCA) hosted James

CLOCKWISE. IN Light IN light festival., Unloaded at iMOCA and the People’s 500 at The Tube Factory.

it had occupied for 7 years. (iMOCA still retains a gallery space at CityWay and is looking for a new location.)

Also in April, Big Car opened a gallery in the Garfield Park neighborhood called Tube Factory artspace. They debuted with The People’s 500 by California-based artist Jesse Sugarmann, which featured photographs of Maybe we should take measure everyday Indy residents in racing uniforms. The point of the Indy art scene by more of the exhibition wasn’t so much the medium as the meaningful criteria. social engagement message. Ditto with Carl Pope whose exhibition this fall Wille Faust’s solo exhibition entitled Color focused on Indy-based writer and poet Meditations. This abstract, geometrically Mari Evans’ life and work. precise work was as meditative as the fiBig Car also had a big part in bringing a nal iMOCA exhibition of 2016, Unloaded, 30-foot-high mural of Mari Evans, painted was unsettling. The subject of Unloaded

by Michael “Alkemi” Jordan, to Mass Ave — America’s obsession with guns — was this summer. But their biggest contribution timely, especially considering the fact to Indianapolis just might be their work that the NRA’s preferred candidate is now on improving the community in which president-elect.

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Applications will go live in early 2017.

Elsewhere, the medium was the message. The Indianapolis Art Center continued its trend, under curator Kyle Herrington, of displaying work — oftentimes engaging work — of artists using unusual materials such as pipe cleaners and dust bunnies. It’s also possible to talk about an enthusiastic return to traditional artistic mediums and preoccupations by a certain group of young Indy-based artists based at the Harrison Center for the Arts in 2016. One result of this interest was the Summer Landscape group show that opened in July, curated

by Nathan Foxton.

2016 was the year of IN Light IN, a spectacle involving dozens of local and national artists that lit up the downtown canal with various electrical/digital artistry for two nights in August, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Indianapolis Foundation. Jamie Pawlus’s sign “Happiness” which flashed on and off in tones of cool blue, was one of the highlights.

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non-profit or organized by nonprofit entities. But there’s also a small, but growing, scene outside the nonprofit sphere (although calling all of them “for-profit” would be a stretch).

Consider Circle City Industrial Complex, a sprawling complex on Indy’s Near Eastside, which hosts dozens of small artists’ studios that also function as galleries.

It’s a space that’s made big strides this year in terms of facilities improvements.

Consider Nelson Mandela: The Artist, a fall show at the Long-Sharp Gallery at the Conrad that was one of the best shows this year.

And consider General Public Collective, which gave a solo show to Benny Sanders in July. Sanders also showed his darkly themed portraiture at Pioneer Restaurant, one of the Fountain Square hotspots mentioned in a Bon Appétit feature from February entitled “How Every City Became Brooklyn.”

Next year, you won’t have to wait for a hip restaurant or a storefront gallery to display his work. In January, he’ll open his own gallery/studio space in the Garfield Park neighborhood. n

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want to preface this with the acknowledgement that * I did not see every show there was to see in the Indianapolis area this past year.* Not even close. Also, a five-star review may not have landed a show a spot in my favorites list. Instead, a combination of unique, inventive approaches and outstanding work on- and offstage (especially on a low budget) with a great script are my criteria. With that said, here are my top picks for 2016.

MUSICALS The Addams Family at Footlite Musicals What made it great: across-the-board top-notch staging. Ed Trout’s whimsical direction (and spooky scenic design), spot-on costumes by designer Curt Pickard, and other details crafted by behind-the-scenes crew members made this show a massive hit. On stage, leads to chorus did a standout job. Michael Davis and Kathleen Clarke Horrigan created spitting images of Gomez and Morticia (respectively), but the vocal superlatives were the powerful voices of Ivy Bott as Wednesday and Carrie Neal as Lucas’ mother, Alice.

Next to Normal at Carmel Community Players What made it great: director Carlo Nepomuceno’s focus on talent.

Georgeanna Teipen (the main character), Russell Watson, Sharmaine Ruth, Kyle Mottinger, Daniel Hellman and Bradley Kieper delivered exquisite emotion and vocal performances in this raw narrative without utilizing bells and whistles.

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by Actors Theatre of Indiana What made it great: probably one of if not the best Sweeney productions I’ve ever seen. ATI maximized its use of the small, black-box stage with a multipurpose set piece by designer P. Bernard Killian. Don Farrell was awesome as the ghoulish Todd in presentation and musical ability. Judy Fitzgerald played a perfect foil for Farrell’s insanity as the sociopath Mrs. Lovett. Kudos to director Richard J. Roberts.

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Some of Lisa’s top picks for 2016 in the Indy theater world

Young Frankenstein at Indianapolis Civic Theatre What made it great: the featured talent.

Director Michael Lasley indulged us with shticky pleasures while achieving and maintaining excellence in performance and presentation. Jaw-dropping scenery framed ensemble musical numbers that came at you with the power of a case of 5-Hour Energy drinks. Steve Kruze, Nathalie Cruz, Damon Clevenger, Devan Mathias, Vickie Cornelius Phipps and B. J. Bovin owned their caricatures 100 percent and reveled in their insensible, bawdy humor.

PLAYS Crumble (Lay Me Down Justin Timberlake) at Theatre on the Square What made it great: a dark, lyrical script, direction by Rob Johansen and the performances of Clay Mabbitt and Paeton Chavis. The bizarre humor of the show was appallingly sidesplitting. The language used in the script is sexy, luscious, even poetic at times. The actors agilely wrapped their lips around the fascinating lines. Mabbitt was excellent as the anthropomorphic character House that yearned for a loving touch, an oiled hinge, a release of radiator steam. Mabbitt’s deft physicality in depicting doors, windows and falling plaster and his slithering along walls and floors were amazing. Chavis—as a hyper, foulmouthed, belligerent 11-year-old who exhibited symptoms of schizoaffective disorder and spewed explicit venom via her dolls — was mesmerizing in her onstage intensity.

Merry Wives of Windsor

by Wisdom Tooth Theatre Project What made it great: superlative direction, set and acting. Director Bill Simmons hit a ringer with his premiere shot at directing a Shakespearian play.

The cast and crew was a who’s who of renowned Indianapolis-theater favorites.

The set featured spumoni-ice-cream colors, lawn-dart head ornaments, a mishmash of retro clothing, ukuleles and a bubble-gum-blowing, hula-hooping object of desire. These people are pros. Each and every cast member was top-notch here and adroit at physical comedy. Just a very few include Rob Johansen, Adam O. Crowe, Amy Hayes, Claire Wilcher

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and Carrie Schlatter, and mention must be made of Sara White’s sets and Peachy Kean Costuming’s attire.

PEEING-YOUR-PANTS HYSTERICAL Avenue Q at Footlite Musicals What made it great: the enthusiasm and commitment. Under the co-direction of Kathleen Clarke Horrigan and Ed Trout, the cast was exceptional. Really, pointing out any musical numbers or scenes as “the best” wasn’t possible —every voice, every note was superlative. I was floored by the quality of the show. Just a very few shout-outs include puppeteers Phil Criswell (Princeton), Emily Schaab (Kate Monster), Damon Clevenger (Rod), Graham Brinklow (Nicky), Ryan England (Trekkie Monster) and Zarah Miller (Lucy).

The high-quality puppets the actors used were acquired through an Adopt a Puppet program, making them the equivalent of the ones used in professional productions.

Scenery was also a boon.

Drankesphere by EclecticPond Theater Company at the IndyFringe Festival What made it great: unconstrained, ribald humor by comedians par excellence. A drinking game meets a fast-andloose Romeo and Juliet. This raucous, frenetic send-up brought us such lines as “Are you fucking fisting me right now?” and “Who the fuck is in my bushes?” (the infamous balcony scene). Some of

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Shakespeare’s original lines were thrown in for good measure at a tempo that didn’t seem humanly possible — but was deeply impressive.

Hand to God at the Phoenix Theatre What made it great: Nathan Robbins’ performance of his inordinate attachment to his demonic, vulgar, bloodthirsty puppet Tyrone. Under the direction of Mark Routhier, the entire cast was stellar, but additional emphasis must be given to Robbins and his character’s id in puppet form. His mastery of the craft was remarkable. His puppeteering was so deft that you came to see Tyrone as a separate entity that had accepted the devil as his lord and savior. In contrast to Tyrone, Robbins conveyed a shy, insecure teen in Jason. His split-second oscillation of unrestrained rage to confused, scared boy could twist your spine.

The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful at the Indiana Repertory Theatre What made it great: chemistry on stage and embracing “theater of the ridiculous.” Director James Still, Marcus Truschinski and longtime acclaimed theater staple Rob Johansen captured and hog-tied the play’s nonsensical elements, producing one of the IRT’s most uproarious and unexpectedly deviant shows.

Truschinski and Johansen played off each other flawlessly. The three of them made melodramatic farce a new art form. n

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Press’ many meetups. The local collective hosts writer retreats and even published an anthology this year about terrible job e called it last year. experiences. This year they released a First Fridays got bigger. Gallery podcast about writing that features founder openings had more marketing Brad King interviewing writers around Indy dollars thrown at them. Art institutions about their lives and work. are evolving to dig deeper into the comI do recognize that it’s not fair to say that munity. All of which are signs that there’s Indy hasn’t shown any attention to the thriving culture here and, to put it bluntly, literary world this year. show that Indy gives a damn.

All within 2016: the Kurt Vonnegut MeAnd NUVO was right there covering it. morial Library started raising the funds to But I cannot help but wonder when I look move into a new building along Mass Ave., over press releases announcing hundreds Shauta Marsh at Big Car commissioned of thousands dollars a mural of local NUVO FILE PHOTO in grant funding: poet Mari Evans to Where are the wordcounter Vonnegut’s smiths of Indy finding brick-faced portrait support? downtown and Dan I don’t say this to Wakefield (best-sellimply that Indianaping and occasional olis is without writing NUVO author) had safe havens — simply a Broad Ripple park that the modern named after him. writers in this state Finding Home at the IRT These are all don’t get nearly the amazing things that NUVO FILE PHOTO attention that they happened over the should. last twelve months, Writers like those but to us the really who helped make the exciting stuff — you Memoir Project with know, the kind of the Indiana Writers thing that makes Center, a showcase of you giddy when you writing as a means of read about it — are Brad King interviewing a local writer community developthe small victories. ment. (The project The opening of paired Writers Center teachers with vetthe Tube Factory in Garfield Park ushered erans earlier this year to help guide them in Listen Hear — a sound art space across in writing their stories.) Their production the street — which was the home for Liof Not Like the Rest of Us: An Anthology of brería Donceles, a curated traveling exhibit Contemporary Indiana Writers brought

by Pablo Helguera. This was a home for together writers in their nineties down to Indy’s first all-Spanish bookstore. those in their twenties.

Indianapolis’ spoken word community Writers like the ones Janet Allen brought might be at an all-time high in terms of together to create a play that was written numbers and events. The return of Vocab by over 29 authors. Imagine 29 cooks in to the Casba reminded Indy of its roots in the kitchen; she did some masterful work poetry and music (seriously, go read Kyle in making the whole thing flow.

Long’s column each week if you want to Far too often, brilliant creative forces hear more about it). That Peace open mic like these go unnoticed in Indy’s art kickstarted as a vehicle to discuss race, community, but at NUVO we think that equality and social justice. These are just a these are exactly the kind of stories worth few milestones in Indy’s literary narrative. sharing. They connect us with the human NUVO has continuously highlighted experience and make us consider our roles Indiana’s verbal and written makers, and in a rapidly changing city. we don’t plan on stopping. After all, it’s the The writers’ community in Indy has a underground voices who are shaking this homegrown, pulled-up-by-the-bootstraps city and reminding us that John Green isn’t kind of audacity. It’s getting stronger too. the only writer in Indiana who can shape If you’re a writer in Indy, you may have how we think. received a Twitter invite to one of the Geeky Write on, Indy. Write on. n

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10 best movies of 2016 (and the five most annoying) 9. The Edge of Seventeen Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) is terrific as a teenager outraged at the indignities of growing up. She periodically turns to one of her teachers (Woody Harrelson) for help, but he’s as acerbic as she is. Smart, frank coming-of-age story with a strong mix of drama and laughs. It feels genuine. Still in some theaters. On video February 14.

ere’s a roundup of my favorite movies of the year, plus a few that bugged me. Aside from my top choice, don’t hold me to the numbers. Everything could shift tomorrow, though it likely won’t.

It’s not in my nature to fuss over lists like this. I just hope it helps you find something enjoyable you might have otherwise missed, or perhaps avoid a dud. Like Collateral Beauty. Seriously, it’s a mess.

10. Captain Fantastic For years, they raised their six children in the wilds of Washington state, living off the grid. When Mom dies, Dad (Viggo Mortensen) must bring his children into the outside world for the first time.

Fascinating and very well acted. On video now.

THE BEST 1. Hell or High Water It’s an action-packed contemporary western/heist story with a great cast in peak form, and it’s relevant to our times while remembering to be entertaining.

Chris Pine and Ben Foster play bank-robbing brothers. Jeff Bridges and Gil Birmingham play the Texas Rangers assigned to stop them. Director David Mackenzie, working from Taylor Sheridan’s screenplay, takes a predictable plot and makes it feel new. The drama is genuine and the action scenes are corkers, especially a shootout near the end. I named this the best film of the year when it came out in August and waited to see what would knock it down.

Nothing came close. On video now.

2. Manchester by the Sea Casey Affleck gives a career-best performance as a brooding handyman living in self-imposed exile until he is forced to return home when his brother’s heart gives out. The astonished loner learns that he’s been named guardian of his 16-year-old nephew (played wonderfully by Lucas Hedges). You’d think this study of grief would be too depressing to sit through, but it’s realistic enough to include the humor that arises in traumatic situations.

In theaters now.

3. La La Land A musical about an actor (Emma Stone) and a musician (Ryan Gosling) trying to make it in L.A. Sit back and surrender to the music, the dancing, the art direction and the cinematography. Thankfully the singing is recognizably human, as opposed to the run-filled song belting so popular on TV singing competitions. The ending is different and satisfying in its own odd way.

In theaters now.

MOST ANNOYING Hell or High Water.

4. American Honey A star is born in Sasha Lane and you’re invited to go with her into writer-director Andrea Arnold’s mesmerizing (and mostly credible) tale of Dickensian life in Walmart America. Warning: this is what’s known as a “critic’s darling,” which means that most folks will find it boring or too weird.

The two-hours-and-40-minute production follows an 18-year-old woman (Lane) that joins a group of young people that travel from town to town selling magazine subscriptions. Shia LaBeouf plays their manager. On video now.

5. (Tie) The Lobster / Swiss Army Man I put these two together because they are critic’s darlings that have polarized audiences. Colin Farrell stars in The Lobster, a futuristic tale of a society where couples mean everything. Single people (like Farrell’s recently separated character) are given 45 days to find a partner or the government will turn them into animals.

The film is exceptionally weird and very somber in a way that turns absurdly comic, while respecting the characters and their concerns.

Swiss Army Man makes The Lobster look routine by comparison. It’s about a despondent castaway on a tiny island who becomes friends with a farty corpse. The corpse farts so often, and so powerfully, that the castaway is able to straddle his body and ride it around the ocean like a jet

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6. Everybody Wants Some!!

Remember Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused, which spent time with a group of high school students in 1976?

Everybody Wants Some!! takes the same free-form approach, this time with a group of college baseball players in 1980. On video now.

7. Deadpool Ryan Reynolds spent years trying to bring his vision of the comic book character Deadpool to life and damned if he didn’t succeed! One of the most snarky, foulmouthed movies ever, and a welcome change of pace from most superhero fare.

On video now.

8. Moonlight A richly detailed look at a young man growing up in a rough Miami neighborhood, told in three chapters with different actors playing him. Mahershala Ali is getting attention on the awards circuit for his work as a crack dealer that becomes a father figure for the boy. In theaters now.

1. Independence Day: Resurgence The first film was ridiculous, overwrought, cheesy junk, but it managed to stay entertaining, especially on repeat viewings. This one is just a mess. What a disappointment.

2. Collateral Beauty Will Smith is aggressively despondent over the death of his daughter. He writes letters to Time, Death, and Life. His “friends” hire actors to play those roles and convince Smith they are genuine.

Does this sound inspirational? Because it thinks it is.

3. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Leaden, pompous and really long. Oh, and the filmmakers basically turned Superman into Doctor Manhattan, so even the title is wrong.

4. Ghostbusters The cast was great, but Kate McKinnon was the only cast member who really shined. The barrage of pointless cameos of cast members from the original film just made this reboot even draggier.

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ig stars, sold-out screenings, stellar films. When it came to cinematic offerings, Indy felt more like New York or Los Angeles this year. Here are five of the many memorable moments of movie magic that lit up the city in 2016.

Purple Rain at the IMA Two days after Prince’s death, his fans flooded the IMA with purple. The sea of colorfully clothed people practically spilled outside of the museum in anticipation for a screening of the musician’s landmark film, Purple Rain. The tale of a tortured artist rising through the ranks of the Minneapolis music scene, this film reveals the vulnerability beneath Prince’s pop star veneer.

During the climactic performance of the titular song, everyone in the Toby Theater sang along and waved their cell phone lights in the air. It was an intimate, unforgettable moment. As people crooned and cried, you could feel Prince’s spirit in the crowd. And the screening ultimately emerged as a true testament to the immortal power of music and movies.

Kevin Smith at PopCon Kevin Smith certainly has some cult classics under his belt (Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy). But seeing him speak may be even more entertaining than his films. This summer, he came to Indy PopCon for a screening of his latest horror comedy, Yoga Hosers. What was supposed to be a 15-minute introduction to the film turned into an hour-long talk — a fascinating, gaspingly funny and surprisingly heartfelt exploration of the inspirations behind Smith’s work.

Indy Film Fest: The Hoosier Lens An homage to classic teen slasher flicks, documentary portraits of housing and healthcare crises, a war story with supernatural elements. The feature-length lineup in the “Hoosier Lens” category at the Indy Film Fest was a shining example of the movie magic happening right here in the Midwest. As Craig Mince, the executive director of the festival, said: “With all the talk about tax incentives and films being made in Indiana, we like to hold up these amazing films and say ‘How about we check out

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the work that is already being done here, and let’s support it from within.’”

The Heartland Film Festival This was a banner year for Heartland.

The Opening Night ceremony made Indy feel like Hollywood, as the glamorous Jessica Biel greeted moviegoers and reporters on a red carpet at the stunning Scottish Rite Cathedral. Then we were treated to terrific Indiana Spotlight films: a devastating portrait of a nurse practitioner (The Invisible Patients); an enlightening look at Indy’s brightest star (A Writer’s Roots: Kurt Vonnegut’s Indianapolis); and a heartfelt exploration of the University of Evansville Purple Aces (From the Ashes). And the festival ended on a perfect note with Josephine — a love letter to an Indy native.

The Devil Dogs of Kilo Company This year has been quite dark and distressing, so let’s end on a light, fun note.

Shot largely in a local writer-director’s basement with more than 400 toy soldiers, this stop-motion animated war film evokes pure, childlike wonder. In addition to its visual marvels, the film has an impressive voice cast of horror icons, including Bill Moseley (The Devil’s Rejects), John Dugan (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and Kane Hodder — the man behind Jason’s hockey mask in the Friday the 13th films.

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hile 2016 has pretty much been a squishy, smelly piece of shit that we can’t wait to scrape off the bottom of our shoe, we have to keep in mind it wasn’t all bad — especially in the worlds of food and drink. While Vice-Presidentelect Mike Pence — the white hair that holds that dog turd together in D.C. these days —was busy eating at Chili’s, our city was busy becoming one of the most recognized foodie destinations in the world.

We’ve been seen in numerous national and worldwide publications this year, and time and time again our food and drink have been mentioned as the top reason why. So, as we say goodbye to the worst year in recent memory, let’s look fondly at just how lucky we are to have such high-caliber restaurants and bars lining our streets, with many more on the horizon.

The worldwide shoutouts started creeping up over the past few years, but 2016 has been filled to the brim, letting people know Indy has come into its own as a bona fide food city.

It started this year when Bon Appétit released the article “How Every City Became Brooklyn,” and Indianapolis was front and center. The article came across as slightly controversial and at times derogatory with statements equating Indianapolis to Brooklyn and referencing our lack of honest culture (Sample passage: “It’s my first time in this place. Maybe like you, though, I’ve been here before — anyone who’s walked through Williamsburg or seen an episode of Girls has. It’s a landscape of under-35s, bristling with locally brewed IPAs, restaurant popups and new kinds of mustard. And everybody — literally everybody — is flaunting freestyle forearm ink.”), but the Bon Appétit piece had an overall positive influence on our city’s place in world culinary culture.

Milktooth’s Jon Brooks, the central character of the piece, told Eater after the original article hit stands: “I get it, I understand why buzzwords and shit

Annotating the food writing that we loved this year

Bon Appétit followed up the original article — maybe a bit of damage control? — with a second piece in June called “Ask a Local: An Insider’s Guide to Indianapolis, Indiana.” The author of the article, Elyssa Goldberg, had a local Indy barista from Bee Coffee Roasters give her the rundown on what to do in Indy. It was nice to see some less-written-about places pop up in the piece, like Broad Ripple’s fusion taco spot La Chinita Poblana and Indy’s vegan capital, Three Carrots.

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like that sell magazines and get people to read articles. But Brooklyn doesn’t have anything to do with Indianapolis,” and that was pretty fucking awesome. Plus, it highlighted one of the coolest joints in the city: Love Handle.

In April, we had five local bartenders from Libertine and Thunderbird make it into a competition which chose the world’s best bartender for the year.

Diageo’s World Class competition took place at The Alexander and we saw one of Indy’s finest bartenders, Josh Gonzales of Thunderbird, make it to the national competition, putting him in the top 15 bartenders in America.

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fried Lebanon bologna on toast. Because why not?”

When October rolled around, we had the opportunity to experience Indy’s first-ever James Beard dinner at Cerulean. Chef Alan Sternberg hosted the dinner — and also happened to dream up the halibut dish heard ’round the world. That spicy, tasty corn green curry still shows up in my dreams.

This final month of the year has seen a huge uptick in these accolades, starting with a group of Indy chefs taking a trip to the James Beard House in New York City to keep our city in the minds of one of the groups that makes the culinary world tick. Alan “While neighboring towns like Chicago Sternberg, Abbi Merriss, Craig Bakand Louisville have long stolen the er and Pat Niebling represented our Heartland culinary spotlight, the Indy state and prepared food scene has evolved with serious, a world-class meal from all accounts. elevated precision.”

As Sternberg told me prior to the — KATE DONNELLY, ZAGAT trip, “I don’t think anyone is expecting to go to New York and show its “Best Beer Bars Midwest” and feathem something completely new. It’s tured Central State Brewing’s taproom, New York after all. If we can go, put on The Koelschip. Central State is known a great meal, share ourselves and our for its wild and intriguing beers and story a little bit, then that’s enough. the taproom highlights these styles If we can make some friends and pick from guest breweries all around the up some inspiration from eating or world. They later saw some national staging, that’s tangible experiences television time when chef Paul Kahan that we can come home with and help shared a pint of their beer with chef grow our city more.”

Michael Symon at Publican on BurgAround that time, Eater wrote: ers, Brew &’Que. “Jonathan Brooks is at the vanguard of When September rolled around we those skilled chef-disruptors changhad another huge publication, Condé ing how America thinks about dayNast Traveler, feature the crown jewel time eating. His dishes — like savory of buzzy Indy restaurants in its list of puffed Dutch baby pancakes with “Where in the World to Eat.” Writer roasted broccoli, aged cheddar, beer Ashlea Halpern said of Milktooth: mustard and pickled fennel — have “This breakfast-, brunch-, and lunchthe kind of punchy, finessed flavors you’d expect at dinnertime, but the only restaurant in an airy converted restaurant only serves customers for garage wouldn’t touch eggs Benedict breakfast and lunch,” in their guide with a 50-foot pole. And that’s what to “The Best Restaurants in America.” makes it so genius. Chef Jonathan Finding an Indianapolis restaurant on Brooks does wild things with Dutch the same tier as places like Chicago’s baby pancakes; he puts egg salad and

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The next day Zagat, a name that has guided people to the best dining around the country for nearly 40 years, named Indianapolis in its “26 Hottest Food Cities in America.”

Writer Kate Donnelly said of our fair city in Zagat, “While neighboring towns like Chicago and Louisville have long stolen the Heartland culinary spotlight, the Indy food scene has evolved with serious, elevated precision.

Between the already established, wildly popular breakfast-lunch-brunch shrine Milktooth, with its ancientgrain porridge and sour-cream biscuits, and Bluebeard’s sharable dinner plates, both of which appeared in Bon Appétit, it’s safe to say that Indianapolis has entered a new gastronomic stratosphere.”

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Marrow and the Cunningham Group’s four-diamond restaurant Vida.

Now we look forward. Travel and Leisure announced Indianapolis as one of its “50 Best Places to Travel in 2017.” And right at the center of the description as to why — food, drink and more food. “The city shattered expectations of Midwestern dining a couple of years ago with the opening of beloved brunch spot Milktooth, and the culinary scene has only gathered steam since then. In the fall, Indy hopped on the fried-chicken trend with Crispy Bird, a sustainability-focused joint from James Beard Award–nominated restaurateur Martha Hoover, while Milktooth’s Jonathan Brooks lent his expertise to the gastropub menu at The Owner’s Wife.

This coming year, Sun King Brewery will open a 15,000-square-foot distillery in nearby Carmel. And with hotels in the works from 21c, Ironworks and home-goods brand West Elm, Indianapolis is poised to become America’s next big destination." n

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nd-of-the-year album lists have a certain sort of reputation amongst music lovers. “Arbitrary!” some cry.

“Totally biased by the taste of the listmaker!” others scream.

Well, yep. 'Tis the nature of lists, and ‘tis the season of list-making, readers. That's why our “best albums of the year” list isn't concerned with ranking in the slightest — just utility and goodness. What follows is simply an an alphabetical list of some of NUVO's absolute favorite albums released this year, solicited from a crop of our regular writers. Albums on this list were, generally, recorded and released right here in Hoosierland from bands that live right here in Central Indiana.

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vocals from some of the city’s finest emcees. Since the release of Maisha, Clint has joined forces with many of the brightest stars in Indy’s jazz scene to form the live aggregation known as Clint Breeze and the Groove.

Clint and company have been dropping jaws and devastating stages across the city. Nappy Head is an Indianapolis hip-hop classic that recalls the best work of The Roots and NYC’s Native Tongues movement.

— KYLE LONG

MIKE ADAMS AT HIS HONEST WEIGHT / CASINO DRONE I’ve stanned for Adams for years at this point, but it’s just because every individual output is so delightful.

Casino Drone is a perfect power pop record, recorded in Bloomington, released on Indy’s Joyful Noise and worthy of worldwide praise.

— KATHERINE COPLEN

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Real attention to dynamics, within individual songs and through the album as a whole, set this self-titled debut apart from the pack as an Indianapolis rarity.

If you’ve felt these songs’ raw power live, the raw recordings pull Eleadah Kemp’s vocals even more to the forefront, singing lyrics which advocate social change on an elemental level. This is Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” re-energized as we face down Trump’s America.

When Durand Jones’ grandmother decided he was singing at home too much, he was forced to join his church choir in rural Louisiana. Since then he’s relocated to Bloomington, joined the Indiana University Soul Revue and released his debut album with the Indications. With the help of writers/producers Aaron Frazer and Blake Rhein, Jones put out an album that’s as intimate as it is fun. Recorded straight to cassette tapes in basements around Bloomington, the eponymous LP showcases Jones’ impressive vocals as well as his band’s soulful groove.

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FREQUENCY GHOST / MOON RABBITS Adam Gross’ (Amo Joy, SM Wolf) Frequency Ghost solo project released one of my favorite cassettes on the impactful Holy Infinite Freedom Revival label in

2015. Then, late this year, he surprised me with the six-track Moon Rabbits that was recorded in Japan, Chicago and while flying over Canada using travelfriendly synths. It’s very upbeat and joyous but undoubtedly in the moment. If the musical CliffNotes of Adam’s travels can be this fun, let’s send him around the world more often.

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For some time Landon has been one of my favorite musicians from Indiana, and his music and ideas constantly take you to new, beautiful places. His Creeping Pink album, Glass Castle, is narratively ambitious and subtle at the same time, but it’s on his recent solo album where I feel uninhibited and captivated by the free-flowing experimental nature, especially on the 15-minute jam “Synthetic Environment ESC.” There’s so much peace and tranquility, but it’s never overwhelming as an ambient electronic instrumental collection of reverie. Pleasant bonus: All sales of the album on Bandcamp are donated to the Hoosier Environmental Council.

— GREG LINDBERG

OREO JONES / CASH FOR GOLD That synth swell that starts us off: I’m a certified sucker for its swelter. Everything on Cash For Gold does. It’s a cool can of drink on a hot summer night and thick beads of condensation are dripping off and down to the pavement. There’s a warm pressure to this pack of bangers, an expectant pulse that everything’s about to pop off. And Oreo Jones, consummate emcee, most hospitable host, carries us all the way through on his tightknit flow. For every summer night edging into morning spent with car wheels grinding Indianapolis’ surface streets, there is no album other than Cash For Gold.

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REHEMA MCNEIL / MOKO This has been an incredible year for Indianapolis hip-hop. I could have easily filled this list with a long list of names, from Oreo Jones to Flaco to Human to Drayco to Ejaaz to Poindexter and on and on. But the charismatic vocals of MC Rehema McNeil left a big impression on me. I also admire her ability to balance club-oriented tunes with more conscious lyrical material.

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Everything’s rendered Charybdis; Dorji’s guitar burns down entire forests; Damon’s drums clobber like a 20-foot giant mid-sprint; the whirlpool is the maw of a monster; none of us make it home.

THE BEAUTIFUL NEW AGE RELAXATION TAPES / THE MAJESTIC HEAVENS REMASTERED Earlier this year I discovered an artist from Avon, frequently releasing mysterious ambient albums on Bandcamp as The Hypergiants ASMR. I mean a lot of albums. Like 82. I became friends with this practically unknown artist, whose name is Eric Marijan Radulovic, and he told me once, “Making music is the only thing that stops the madness from returning.” That haunting serenity transformed into The Beautiful New Age Relaxation Tapes, which brilliantly plays with your expectations of transcendental meditation. The Majestic Heavens Remastered grabs your psyche, forcing you to confront repressed pain and sadness and hope. It’s all meaningful and meaningless.

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uring 2016 Indianapolis emcees and beat-makers thrived in all domains — online, onstage and on disc. Artists like Flaco, Drayco, Ejaaz and Poindexter racked up impressive listens through online music streaming services, the second edition of Chreece was one of the most talked about and successful local live events of the year and a plethora of great LPs were issued by Indy hiphop names both known and unknown.

One of of the most significant releases of 2016 was Clint Breeze’s Nappy Head album. Drummer/producer Carrington Clinton has been creating beats under the name Clint Breeze since 2014. While his 2015 LP Maisha became a cult favorite among local listeners, Nappy Head is poised to position Breeze as one of the most important creative artists in Indianapolis.

Featuring over a dozen guest contributors, including poets, rappers and jazz musicians, Nappy Head weaves a phantasmagoric assemblage of words and sounds into a razor-sharp critique of racial oppression in modern America.

“It’s a social commentary on our times,” Breeze told me during a recent conversation. “I wanted to be very particular and concise with the message. The overall theme or motif of all the album is to symbolize the oppression of Black people in America.”

As a producer Breeze draws skillfully from the soulful, jazz-rooted sound of the beloved Soulquarians collective, which briefly united the creative talents of artists ranging from Dilla to Questlove to Erykah Badu. Beyond music, one of the most impressive aspects of Nappy Head is Breeze’s directorial ability to channel the talents of a diverse range of contributors into a coherent whole.

Oreo Jones had a big year in 2016 too.

As mentioned above, the second edition of Jones’ Chreece festival was a smash hit. The emcee also dropped Cash For Gold, the best album of his career and one of the most important Indianapolis releases of 2016.

I spoke with Jones about the record earlier this year. In addition to experimenting with new sounds, Jones also pushed into new territory as a lyricist.

Best known for his comedic, larger-thanlife flows, Cash For Gold’s “Mud” found Jones exploring more difficult material.

“That’s definitely a social justice record,” Jones told me. “At the time I was writing it, the crime rate and shootings and vio18 MUSIC // 12.21.16 - 01.04.17 // 100% SUSTAINABLE / RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO

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lence in the city were running rampant.

I felt like it was important to tell a story about the people affected by the killings and shootings in the city. That’s very important to me and it’s important to the city to be aware of this.”

The local disc I gave the most play to this year was Sirius Blvck’s NXGHTCRAWLR. With the assistance of producer Bones of Ghosts, Blvck has created one of the must fully realized Indianapolis hip-hop records I’ve ever heard. NXGHTCRAWLR unfolds with almost cinematic movement, as Bones’ dark ambient soundscapes provide the perfect foundation for Blvck’s cryptic meditations on life.

The mood here is different, perhaps bleaker, than past entries in Blvck’s back catalog. That’s in part due to Bones’

A CULTURAL MANIFESTO WITH KYLE LONG KLONG@NUVO.NET Kyle Long’s music, which features off-the-radar rhythms from around the world, has brought an international flavor to the local dance music scene.

“The music here is flourishing. …

“The biggest issue is us reaching out beyond the scene. There’s a whole city out there, but we’re still underground.”

Beyond the need for more community support, I’d like to add one more critique as I close out this look back at Indianapolis hip-hop in 2016. There is a startling and unacceptable lack of gender diversity in this scene. Without question, more effort needs to The local disc I gave the most be put forward in booking women artists and growing the talents of play to this year was Sirius emerging women DJs, producers, emcees and promoters.

Blvck’s NXGHTCRAWLR. One major exception to this gender imbalance is emcee Rehema McNeil.

In addition to being one of the most charismatic live performers in Indianapoproduction. Blvck elaborated on the relis hip-hop, McNeil also released a superb cord’s sound when we spoke earlier this EP this year titled Moko. The word “moko” year, “When Bones sent me some of the translates to “womanhood” from the instrumentals I was unsure about a few Polynesian language of Tonga. So I asked of them because they were so different McNeil about the lack of “womanhood” from anything I'd ever heard before. It being represented in local hip-hop. kind of threw me off at first. Not in a bad “I have mixed emotions about it way, but it was new. We had kind of dehonestly,” McNeil told me. “Part of it is veloped a good outline together from the an opportunity, because there aren't first three records, but we threw everythat many female emcees in the city that thing out the window with a lot of these are dominating, so I have an open path tracks. Bones just said, ‘Trust me. This to dominate and control the scene and is what we need to do. If you do this it's saturate it with my music. But also I feel going to be something fresh.’ So I trusted like I'm overlooked in certain areas, like him, and it came out good.” getting booked for shows.

The three records outlined above As the unprecedented political represent a mere snapshot of Indy’s changes of 2016 point to a scary future large and constantly expanding hip-hop in the year to come, we need the critical scene. If you haven’t yet ventured into voice of hip-hop more than ever. Let’s this world, these discs offer a perfect hope Indianapolis hip-hop continues entry point. There’s a widespread feeling to grow in 2017 — to grow artistically, among journalists, fans and artists that to grow in community support and to the local scene here has serious potengrow in diversity. n tial to explode into the national consciousness, but until that happens, these artists need your support.

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Take That! Tuesdays, Coaches, 21+

The Bluebird, 216 N. Walnut St., (Bloomington) $15 advance, $20 door, 21+

The Blue Side, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Holiday Music Series: New Old Cavalry, Cardinal Spirits (Bloomington), 21+ Machine Gun Kelly, Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, all-ages Tacular Tuesday, State Street Pub, 21+ Tuesday Mashup, Melody Inn, 21+

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 28TH Blues Jam, Slippery Noodle, 21+ Pavel and Direct Contact, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Wife Patrol, Sarah, Flat 12 Bierwerks, 21+ Mighty Brother with Crescent Ulmer and Biz Strother, Square Cat Vinyl, all-ages

THURSDAY, DEC. 29TH Holly and The Mad Wails CD Release Party, Dream in Evergreen, Melody Inn, 21+ Sideous, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ Altered Thurzdaze, Mousetrap, 21+ Benefit for Tennessee, Joyful Noise, all-ages SUBMITTED PHOTO

Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Saturday, Dec. 31 at The Bluebird (Bloomington)

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FRIDAY Night Moves with Action Jackson and DJ Megatone, Metro, 21+ Wayland, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+

WEDNESDAY

Holiday Stories and Christmas Music, Garfield Park Arts Center, all-ages

Rods and Cones, The Rathskeller, 21+

DANCE

AV Club with MARM and dum dum, State Street Pub, 21+

Jackson Vanhorn, BYBYE, Melody Inn, 21+

Mandrake, Dragstrip, Melody Inn, 21+

R&B Christmas Party with Avant, The Vogue, 21+

The SleepyNap Project, Pioneer, 21+

Straight No Chaser, Murat Theatre at Old National Centre, all-ages

12 DJs of Xmas B2B Edition 9 p.m. This annual DJ face-off features PHNM, Zebo, Action Jackson, Lemi Vice, Indiana Jones, Top Speed, Limelight, Lockstar, Slater Hogan, John Larner, jFET, Indigo Child, Dub Knight, Jody Free, DJ Gabby Love, Big Baby, Sinclair Wheeler, Cool Hand Lex, Hugh Jeffner, Cadillac G, Scott Matelic, Metrognome, Maverick and Lookout.

Get in free with two food items for Gleaners.

The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., free with two cans of food, 21+

12th Annual Winter Solstice Celebration, Unitarian Universalist Church of God, all-ages Straight No Chaser, Murat Theatre at Old National Centre, all-ages

Blues Christmas with Gene Deer, State Street Pub, 21+

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Rods and Cones, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+

9 p.m. Oreo Jones, Clint Breeze, Sedcairn Archives, Kill Surf City and Stranger Sex perform at this showcase hosted

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White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect St., $5, 21+

Kelly Pardekooper CD Release Party, Melody Inn, 21+ Walter Beasley’s New Year’s Celebration, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Blackberry Smoke, Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, all-ages Pam Thrash Retro, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ 8Ball and MJG, The Vogue, 21+ Jessie Phelps, Jay Elliott, Black Circle Brewing Co, 21+

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Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave., prices vary, 21+ NYE Boy Band Review 10 p.m. Our vote is for “I Want It That Way” on repeat ten times, but we bet you’ll hear a bunch more than that at this ‘90s-filled tribute show.

The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., $75, 21+ NYE Punk Rock Night New Year’s Eve Spectacular 10 p.m. Tribute bands playing this gigantic New Year’s Eve party include: GNFNR, Stackhouse, Public Animal #9, Lisa Frank & The Trapper Keepers and MCV Burlesque.

Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St., $8, 21+

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New Year’s Weez 8 p.m. A pack of locals honor the legend of Cuomo with a full Blue Album and Pinkerton tribute night.

Grease up your sing-along voice way in advance – you’re gonna belt along to every song.

New Year’s Evil 9 p.m. Iron Diamond headlines this 10 p.m.-sharp starting metal show to ring in the New Year.

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Ciroc the New Year 9 p.m. This party is 1) always huge and 2) always sold out, so if you wanna party on the Regions rooftop. DJs Indiana Jones, Gabby Love, Lemi Vice, Mass Appeal, Rican, Jozyano and Action Jackson will spin throughout the night.

$130 for all-inclusive tickets, Regions Tower NYE A Gatsby Affair 9 p.m. Slater Hogan, Sinclair Wheeler, Kayla Noel and Joe Meltdown will perform during this event at the new event space The Pavilion. This party will be huge: flapper girl dancers, a balloon drop, silk aerialists and so much more are planned for the evening.

The Pavilion at Pan Am, 201 S. Capitol Ave., prices vary, 21+ NYE New Year’s Extravaganza 9 p.m. The Impalas, Joe Hess &The Wandering Cowboys, Scott Routenberg Jazz Trio and DJ Lockstar will perform at this four-party event that includes delicious noms and party favors.

Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, 1 Center Green $85, 21+ NYE Downtown Indy’s New Year’s Eve Celebration 8 p.m. This is Indy, not New York City — ­ our outdoor NYE party drops an IndyCar, not a ball.

(And come on, a racecar is much, much better.) Downtown Indy’s party kicks off at 8 p.m., and is mostly outside, but there’s a space inside Bankers Life to step in to warm up.

There’s bands like the Jump Smokers, Standout Story, Just’A Band and 87 Southbound scheduled to perform, plus midnight fireworks.

Georgia Street, FREE, all-ages NYE New Year’s Eve Masquerade 8:30 p.m. The one guaranteed place to wear your masquerade mask every year is Union Station’s big-ass NYE bash, featuring tons of rooms, cover bands, drinks and more.

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THE YEAR IN LOCAL JAZZ This year, jazz seemed to grow exponentially, with more venues inviting more players and more patrons reminding me to attend diverse locations: Chatterbox, Jazz Kitchen, Bangkok Jazz Bar, Aristocrat, Mousetrap, Slippery Noodle, Omni Severin, Chef Joseph’s, Clowes, Palladium, Schrott, UIndy De Haan, ISO, Gregory’s Russian Restaurant, Madame Walker Center, IUPUI and just about every brewery, taproom, brewpub and cidery.

Heartland Film Festival featured jazz artists and Indiana jazz educators are reporting an influx of young players.

With the gains came losses.

David Allee reminded me of the passings: David Baker, Billy Wooten, Mary Moss, Willis Kirk and jazz DJ and supporter Harry Riser.

Allee continued, “From [Baker’s] performances with his wife Lida at The Jazz Kitchen in the late ‘90s to the collaborative work during the Indy Jazz Fest, specifically the Freddie Hubbard tribute, David always inspired with his encyclopedia knowledge of jazz, upbeat guidance and unparalleled talent. David’s fingerprints are all over modern jazz throughout the world from his composing to his educational approach. His sheer volume of credible jazz masters on the scene today is a testament to his legacy.”

Allee shared his highlight as Wes Montgomery Tribute Day at IUPUI Campus Center, a huge undertaking but fitting for the

jazz master we paid tribute to.

Indianapolis is a huge contributor to the jazz world. An upper echelon jazz city!

“For 2017 look for more Indianapolis legacy programming with an emphasis on elevating the modern-day Indianapolis scene. [Look for] the last gig of the last tour by vibraphone great and Indiana native Gary Burton with pianist Makoto Ozone on March 17.”

Chilly Water is Indianapolis’ recognized music brewpub, and owner Skip DuVall notes, “It’s just nice to be able to work with a brewer who is as passionate about being a musician as he is a brewer. Dan Krzywicki is just a very creative person in many ways. It shows in the beers as well as some of the artistic things he does around the brewpub.”

Stephen Lyman is representative of the volunteer pool surrounding jazz in Indianapolis.

While the large part of his volunteering is with the American Pianists Association, you’ll find him supporting almost every other jazz organization and a myriad of venues. This is Lyman’s overview: “Sullivan Fortner, our 2015 APA Cole Porter Fellow in Jazz, has had quite a year. His first Jazz CD, Aria, received high critical acclaim and talk of a Grammy nomination. As Sullivan’s APA host family, my wife and I traveled to New York City to be present when he was awarded the Lincoln Center’s Emerging Artist Award in Jazz.”

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© 2016 BY ROB BREZSNY ARIES (March 21-April 19): NPR’s Scott Simon interviewed jazz pianist and songwriter Robert Glasper, who has created nine albums, won a Grammy, and collaborated with a range of great musicians. Simon asked him if he had any frustrations -- “grand ambitions” that people discouraged him from pursuing. Glasper said yes. He’d really like to compose and sing hip-hop rhymes.

But his bandmates just won’t go along with him when he tries that stuff. I hope that Glasper, who’s an Aries, will read this horoscope and take heart from what I’m about to predict: In 2017, you may finally get a “Yes!” from people who have previously said “No!” to your grand ambitions.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Humans have drunk hot tea for over two millennia. Chinese emperors were enjoying it as far back as the second century B.C. And yet it wasn’t until the 20th century that anyone dreamed up the idea of enclosing tea leaves in convenient one-serving bags to be efficiently brewed. I foresee you either generating or stumbling upon comparable breakthroughs in 2017, Taurus. Longrunning traditions or customs will undergo simple but dramatic transformations that streamline your life.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “What you do is what counts and not what you had the intention of doing,” said Pablo Picasso. If I had to choose a single piece of advice to serve as your steady flame in 2017, it might be that quote. If you agree, I invite you to conduct this experiment: On the first day of each month, take a piece of paper and write down three key promises you’re making to yourself. Add a brief analysis of how well you have lived up to those promises in the previous four weeks. Then describe in strong language how you plan to better fulfill those promises in the coming four weeks.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): During the campaign for U.S. President in 1896, Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan traveled 18,000 miles as he made speeches all over the country. But the Republican candidate, William McKinley, never left his hometown of Canton, Ohio. He urged people to visit him if they wanted to hear what he had to say. The strategy worked.

The speeches he delivered from the front porch of his house drew 750,000 attendees and played an important role in his election. I recommend a comparable approach for you in the coming months, Cancerian. Invoke all your attractive power as you invite interested parties to come see you and deal with you on your home turf.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Poetry is a way of knowledge, but most poetry tells us what we already know,” writes poet Charles Simic. I would say the same thing about a lot of art, theater, film, music, and fiction: Too often it presents well-crafted repetitions of ideas we have heard before. In my astrological opinion, Leo, 2017 will be a time when you’ll need to rebel against that limitation.

You will thrive by searching for sources that provide you with novel information and unique understandings. Simic says: “The poem I want to write is impossible: a stone that floats.” I say: Be on the lookout for stones that float.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): *The Economist* magazine reports that if someone wanted to transport $10 million in bills, he or she would have to use eight briefcases. Sadly, after evaluating your astrological omens for 2017, I’ve determined that you won’t ever have a need for that many. If you find yourself in a situation where you must carry bundles of money from one place to another, one suitcase will always be sufficient. But I also want to note that a sizable stash of cash can fit into a single suitcase. And it’s not out of the question that such a scenario could transpire for you in the coming months. In fact, I foresee a better chance for you to get richer quicker than I’ve seen in years.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): For a bald eagle in flight, feathers are crucial in maintaining balance. If it inadvertently loses a feather on one wing, it will purposely shed a comparable feather on the other wing.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, this strategy has metaphorical meaning for your life in 2017.

Do you want to soar with maximum grace and power?

Would you like to ascend and dive, explore and scout, with ease and exuberance? Learn from the eagle’s instinctual wisdom.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In August 2012, a group of tourists visited the Eldgja volcanic region in Iceland. After a while, they noticed that a fellow traveler was missing. Guides organized a search party, which worked well into the night trying to track down the lost woman. At 3 a.m., one of the searchers suddenly realized that she herself was the missing person everyone was looking for. The misunderstanding had occurred many hours earlier because she had slipped away to change her clothes, and no one recognized her in her new garb.

This is a good teaching story for you to meditate on in 2017, Scorpio. I’d love to see you change so much that you’re almost unrecognizable. And I’d love to see you help people go searching for the new you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 2017, you will be at the peak of your ability to forge new alliances and deepen existing alliances. You’ll have a sixth sense for cultivating professional connections that can serve your noble ambitions for years to come. I encourage you to be alert for new possibilities that might be both useful for your career and invigorating for your social life. The words “work” and “fun” will belong together! To achieve the best results, formulate a clear vision of the community and support system you want.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn writer Edgar Allan Poe has been an important cultural influence. His work appears on many “must-read” lists of 19th-century American literature. But during the time he was alive, his best-selling book was not his famous poem “The Raven,” nor his short story “The Gold-Bug,” nor his novel *The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.* Rather, it was *The Conchologist’s First Book,* a textbook about mollusk shells, which he didn’t actually write, but merely translated and edited. If I’m reading the astrological omens correctly, 2017 will bring events to help ensure that your fate is different from Poe’s. I see the coming months as a time when your best talents will be seen and appreciated better than ever before.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “My goal is to create a life that I don’t need a vacation from,” says motivational author Rob Hill Sr. That’s an implausible dream for most people. But in 2017, it will be less implausible than it has ever been for you Aquarians. I don’t guarantee that it will happen. But there is a decent chance you’ll build a robust foundation for it, and thereby give yourself a head start that enables you to accomplish it by 2019. Here’s a tip on how to arouse and cultivate your motivation: Set an intention to drum up and seek out benevolent “shocks” that expand your concepts of who you are and what your life is about.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The birds known as winter wrens live in the Puget Sound area of Washington. They weigh barely half an ounce, and their plain brown coloring makes their appearance unremarkable. Yet they are the avian equivalents of the opera star Pavarotti. If they weighed as much as roosters, their call would be ten times as strong as the rooster’s cock-a-doodle-doo. Their melodies are rich and complex; one song may have more than 300 notes.

When in peak form, the birds can unleash cascades at the rate of 36 notes per second. I propose that we make the winter wren your spirit animal in 2017, Pisces. To a casual observer, you may not look like you can generate so much virtuosity and lyrical power. But according to my analysis, you can.

Homework: Send me predictions for your life in 2017. Where are you headed?

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