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BAYH, PENCE AND THE 2016 ELECTION

ne key politician in Indiana has revealed his plans for the 2016 election, while another continues to dodge the question. Democrat Evan Bayh announced that he would not run for governor in two years. Meanwhile, Republican Gov. Mike Pence said he would… well… actually, he didn’t say anything about his plans for 2016. He hasn’t formally said he’d seek a second term as governor. And when asked directly about running for president, Pence responded by saying he had a good time during his visit recently to Iowa. But for now, back to Bayh, who served two terms as governor before winning two terms representing Indiana in the U.S. Senate. Bayh – one of the state’s most popular politicians – would have had the best shot by far of recapturing the governor’s office for Democrats. It was Bayh who in 1988 ended 20 years of Republican control of the office when

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he defeated then Lt. Gov. John Mutz. Bayh served eight years and then his lieutenant governor – the late Frank O’Bannon – won two terms. But since then, it’s been Republicans in control of the state’s top office. And Democrats have had it. The problem, as Bayh points out, is that Republicans control the Indiana House and Senate. That makes it particularly difficult for a Democratic governor to get much done – especially a popular Democratic governor, especially one that had substantial success in his first go-round. That’s why I think it was always a long shot that Bayh would run for governor again. He was just 32 years old when he won his first term and he finished on an incredible high. The state had a record cash surplus, he had worked with GOP lawmakers to cut taxes, and he had created some popular programs, including 21st Century Scholars, which helps

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pay college tuition for lower-income students. He left with such a strong approval rating that he swept into the U.S. Senate easily two years later. The chance that a second stint as governor could go so well is unlikely. And whether that’s why Bayh decided to forgo a bid or not, it’s probably the best way to preserve his political legacy. Pence, on the other hand, still seems intent on building his legacy – but the direction he wants to go remains uncertain. There seem to be two possibilities at the moment: Pence either is running for president or he wants people to believe he’s considering a run for president.

Consider that Pence spoke recently at the Defending the American Dream Summit in Dallas. Then he spent some time in Iowa – where presidential campaigns begin – speaking at a trade conference and then campaigning for that state’s governor. And he’s been dropping comments about foreign policy wherever he can. These are the types of things a candidate does when he’s weighing a presidential bid. But Pence won’t even really admit he’s thinking about running for president. Not really. As close as he’s come is a comment in The Washington Post earlier this year, when he said, “In the last few months, people have reached out. I’m listening.” But last week, when asked point blank whether his talk about going to Iowa was a sign that he is indeed running for president, Pence dodged the question. He said – again – that there’s no greater honor than serving as Indiana governor and that Hoosiers should know he’s focused on that job. Maybe. But if Pence really wants Hoosiers to know where his focus is, he could just answer the question. n

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coal-fired power plants to close. With hen it comes to the U.S. nearly 40 percent of Indiana’s coal-fired Environmental Protection power plants more than 40 years old, Agency’s proposed Clean Power they will be retiring soon of their own Plan, I wish Governor Pence and accord and in the best interests of rateIndiana’s business community sounded payers – because they are getting too old more like the Little Engine That Could and expensive to operate and because than Chicken Little. people don’t want unhealthy coal polluFor those who don’t recall childhood tion in their communities. fairy tales, the Little Engine volunteered Respected economists say the transito pull a heavy load up a large hill – a tion to clean power can and must be task that larger, stronger engines had done. Former Bush Administration refused to try. The Little Engine makes Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson it to the top with a valiant effort and his wrote recently in the New York Times, mantra, “I think I can, I think I can…” “We already have a head start on the Instead of taking this approach to protecting our children and Those who criticize the proposed grandchildren from the economic risks of climate carbon rule should read what the threats, the governor and Indiana’s so-called Clean Power Plan actually requires, business leaders sound before crying that their sky is falling. more like Chicken Little, who ran off to tell the king, “The sky is falling!” technologies we need. The costs of the because an acorn had fallen on her head. policies necessary to make the transiThose who criticize the proposed tion to an economy powered by clean carbon rule should read what the Clean Power Plan actually requires, before cry- energy are real, but modest relative to the risks.” ing that their sky is falling. There are jobs to be gained in energy Under the proposed safeguards, efficiency and clean energy to offset Indiana must develop a plan to reduce jobs that will be lost at coal-fired power carbon pollution from the power secplants and coal mines. Indiana needs a tor by about 20 percent by 2030, using a plan to manage this transition and help 2012 baseline. train affected workers and young people These goals are very achievable in for a new energy economy, rather than Indiana, and the Clean Power Plan will holding on to the old, unhealthy one. result in cleaner air and water, healthier The health benefits of generating people, and more jobs in the energy effielectricity in a cleaner way will be ciency and clean energy sectors. enormous. A study by the Indiana We can and must reduce carbon polUniversity School of Medicine conlution. For starters, we should restore cluded that the public health cost of Indiana’s energy efficiency goals that burning coal in Indiana was $5 billion were struck down by the Indiana annually. That’s a cost we pay for coalGeneral Assembly this year, reducing related heart disease, lung disease, and overall energy demand by 12 percent. asthma – and the mercury that conWe could also generate more energy taminates our fish. from Indiana wind and sun – curIndiana businesses have been leadrently just 4 percent of our energy supers in building automobiles, electrical ply. More than 10 states are already equipment, batteries, medical devices generating 10 percent or more of their and pharmaceuticals. Why not be a electricity from wind alone, including leader in the clean energy economy and conservative states like Iowa, Kansas the jobs it can bring to Indiana? and Nebraska. I think we can. n The Clean Power Plan does not force NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 09.17.14 - 09.24.14 // VOICES 5

WHAT HAPPENED? Gay couple recognized Northern Indiana U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Van Bokkelen approved a request to recognize Veronica Romero and Mayra Rivera as married. The request was filed Wednesday with agreement from the state and the Lake County clerk. The judge approved the request Thursday. Romero and Rivera have been together for 27 years and were legally married in Illinois back in March. Rivera was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2011. In the agreement, the state agreed to recognize their marriage and in the event of Rivera’s death, have her listed as married and Romero as her surviving spouse. The state decided not to challenge the issue in court because of the precedent set by the Niki Quasney/Amy Sandler case. Their marriage remains recognized thanks to an emergency order excusing them from the stay that holds Indiana’s ban on same sex marriage in place while the U.S. Supreme Court considers the issue. SustainIndy recipients The first SustainIndy community grants were awarded to three Indianapolis organizations. The grants, sponsored by the McKinney Family Foundation and Indianapolis Office of Sustainability, were designed to give financial support to organizations with grassroots initiatives to promote social and cultural activity, economic development, and/ or the environment in the city. Butler University will utilize $10,000 to expand its “Make Change” program. The program rewards residents who improve the environmental quality of their neighborhoods with credit to use at neighborhood businesses. Millersville at Fall Creek Valley Inc. will use $10,000 to create a destination gathering place connecting the Fall Creek Greenway with 56th Street sidewalks and a nearby retail hub. The Philharmonic Orchestra of Indianapolis will use $5,000 for its Strings and Jazzy Things summer music camp for low income and disadvantaged middle school students. — AMBER STEARNS No Bayh for Governor Evan Bayh made it official Friday – he won’t be running for governor in 2016. Last month, Bayh, a former Indiana governor and U.S. senator, said a 2016 run was “highly unlikely.” Friday morning, Bayh removed the last bit of doubt by releasing a statement saying he would not run: “Over the years I’ve been asked whether I would seek the governorship again. The inquiries and encouragement have accelerated in recent months regarding a possible candidacy in 2016. After serious consideration, I have decided that I will not be a candidate for governor in 2016.” Bayh’s announcement leaves Indiana Democrats without a clear frontrunner for the 2016 nomination. — THE STATEHOUSE FILE 6 NEWS // 09.17.14 - 09.24.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO

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The National Organization for Women is a leader in the coversation for LGBT rights and marriage equality.

NOW IS THE TIME FOR CHANGE National Organization for Women leader to address local chapter

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hen the National Organization for Women of Indiana (Indiana NOW) convenes for its state conference this Saturday, the group’s acronym will also represent the timeline for their call to action. The Equal Rights Amendment is at the center of this year’s state conference for Indiana NOW. Events of the day will center around the theme, “The ERA Today: Closing the Gaps, Opening the Gates.” NOW president Terry O’Neill will be the keynote speaker over lunch. The leading voice of feminism in America has been especially busy over the last two weeks talking to the national media about domestic violence in our society following the Ray Rice incident and call-

ing for Roger Goodell’s head. After O’Neill’s speech, the Indiana NOW state conference will conclude with a march and rally at the Indiana Statehouse beginning at 2:30 pm Saturday. Capitol and Washington Streets in downtown Indianapolis will be a busy place. As the NOW rally begins to assemble, the Indiana Moral Mondays march from Crispus Attucks Medical Magnet High School should be arriving to rally, adding their voices to the larger call for change. O’Neill’s passion about public policy that works for the benefit of women is evident. She talks about every point with a conviction that seems born directly out of personal experience. While much of our conversation focused on economic justice, that’s just one of the six core issues NOW works to change. Constitutional equality, reproductive rights, racial justice, LGBT rights, and ending violence against women are also high on the NOW priority list. O’Neill says the equality for women can’t truly be achieved unless all of those issues are

addressed. In addition to what’s covered here, my conversation with O’Neill also touched on Ferguson, Missouri and systemic racism in our society. O’Neill defined the term “poverty violation” — how low-income women, especially women of color, are victimized by their lack of resources. O’Neill spoke to NUVO by phone prior to her visit. NUVO: What are the biggest issues facing women today? TERRY O’NEILL: I think the most pressing issue facing women right now is the coming elections in November. It sounds like it’s not an issue, but it really captures all of the issues that are facing women. Women are getting [screwed] financially because our wages are too low. Two-thirds of minimum wage workers are women. That could improve if we elect the right people in November and will get way worse if we elect the wrong people in November. NOW believes strongly in a living wage, a prosperity wage where you’re not just

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scraping by, but you’re actually sexual assault, dating violence, able to have a vacation once and stalking incidents within a year. We’re also working to the NFL community, and make eliminate the difference between recommendations. On numertips workers’ minimum wage ous occasions of domestic and non-tips workers’ miniviolence, Roger Goodell has mum wage. Currently the tips swept it under the rug. A failure minimum wage is like $2.13 an to respond appropriately, slaps hour. The National Restaurant on the wrist for the perpetraAssociation is out of control. tors, etc. When someone within your community, like the NFL, They have viciously opposed as the head of the organization, any improvement. I mean, we’re the first thing he should be asktalking waitresses who work ing when there’s an incident at diners. I think their median of domestic violence is, ‘Is she actual pay is like $5 an hour. And safe? What do we need to do to then of course it’s all the other ensure her safety?’ That is your things that go into women’s “We believe that it is an aspect of first question. And near as I can financial or economic security nobody asks that question like the gender pay gap. We’re sex discrimination to prohibit same tell, in the NFL. That’s a problem. not enforcing the equal pay laws That’s a systemic problem. So, the way we should. We need legsex marriage. It’s a discrimination I’ve been saying all along, the islation for better enforcement. based on the sex of your partner.” NFL does not have a Ray Rice Child care. You know, it’s adding problem. The NFL has a vioinsult to injury … when you’ve lence-against-women problem.” got less money coming in when – TERRY O’NEILL, PRESIDENT OF NOW you work because you’re female NUVO: Indiana’s ban on same and more money going out the sex marriage could be under door because you are responhe’s not going to veto all of it. They would consideration by the U.S. sible for children much more likely than be stopping the legislation that would Supreme Court in the near future. men are. Those things can get better help us: equal pay laws and childcare What would be NOW’s contribution to for women. We know what the polifunding and funding that would help that national conversation? cies need to be. We know that we need women get into better jobs. They would O’NEILL: We’ll be working with our allies. elected officials to enact those policies, stop those kinds of programs, but then We will not spearhead the drafting of and then enforce the policies. That’s they’re going to start passing laws like what elections are really all about. And restrictions on birth control. There’s a bill an amicus brief, but we certainly will it’s extremely important. that already passed the House that would be very much involved in the strategy around the amicus brief. We have take birth control out of the standard NUVO: So the term “off-year” election amazing organizations like Lambda insurance contract. It’s basic health care is a misnomer? Legal that we work with. We keep advofor women and they want an insurance cating for a sex equality analysis to play O’NEILL: It’s Congress that does the work contract to not include basic healthcare into [the] same sex marriage [conversa— that’s number one. Number two, the for women. That will pass, I predict, if we tion]. In other words, we believe that right-wing, which took over the United lose the Senate. So it’s all those kinds of States House of Representatives in the things that are desperately important and it is an aspect of sex discrimination to prohibit same sex marriage. It’s a last mid-term off-year election that we we need to stop that from happening. discrimination based on the sex of had, they were thrilled. And what they’ve NUVO: You have been very vocal about your partner. We think things like the been able to do is bring Congress, really the NFL and Commissioner Roger Equal Rights Amendment, and by the bring legislative work, to almost a standGoodell following the recent Ray Rice way that is bubbling up again around still. Not the government shutdown, incident. From your perspective, what the country, are essential. If the Equal but just the inability to get anything should be learned from this? Rights Amendment were to become done. House Republicans are simply determined that if it would make Barack O’NEILL: “It was handled wrong from day actually the law of the land, to amend the Constitution, NOW has long taken Obama look good, they’re against it. one and to Roger Goodell’s credit, he the position that the Equal Rights They don’t care what it is. It’s absolutely recognized that he handled it wrong. Amendment guarantees full civil and outrageous. Those are the guys that are We have called on him to resign nonehuman rights for the LGBTQIA comrunning the House of Representatives theless. He admits that he did things munity because discrimination against right now. What the Koch brothers and wrong, but he has not rectified the those persons is really sex-based. So, the other right-wing very wealthy leaders situation. Instead, he has consistently whether it’s based on sexuality or sexual are trying to do this year is to take over done just the smallest littlest bit he expression or gender expression, we the United State Senate. They figure this could possibly get away with to make think that the ERA would cover it. So we is another off-year where they can do in the issue go away. He just wants it off have worked with our allies to file amic2014 what they were able to do in 2010. the headlines so that he can ignore it us briefs that make that claim. Now, I And if they take over the United States again, sweep it under the rug, deny, will tell you that it has not succeeded in evade, diminish. We’ve called for Roger Senate, they are going to be passing a Goodell to resign and for his successor very many courts, yet. But it is a legitilot of legislation that is going to be absoto appoint a truly independent invesmate argument, it’s got good research lutely dreadful for women and the presitigator who will do a top-to-bottom to back it up, and I believe it will evendent is not in a position to veto all of it. review of all of the domestic violence, tually start gaining traction.” n Obviously he will veto the worst of it, but

GET INVOLVED Diabetes Walk Saturday, Sept. 20, 8:30 a.m. The American Diabetes Association will host its annual “Step Out: Walk to Stop Diabetes” in White River State Park. The event raises funds for research, education and diabetes awareness in Indiana. One in four Hoosiers who has diabetes doesn’t know it. Registration begins at 8:30 am. The walk will step off at 10 am. There is no registration fee, however participants are encouraged to fundraise to help ADA’s mission. More information is available at diabetes.org/indywalk. Celebration Plaza, 801 W. Washington St. Kings Feast Symposium Saturday, Sept. 20, 8:30 a.m. The Commission on the Status of Black Male, Bloom Project Inc. and the Civil Rights Commission will host the 4th annual Kings Feast Symposium at the Indiana Government Center. The daylong event invites young minority men to participate in a variety of workshops on success in every aspect of their lives. Author and motivational speaker Robert Jackson will serve as the keynote speaker. The event includes a networking luncheon. Professional attire is required. Additional information is available at bloomprojectinc.org. Indiana Government Center Auditorium, 302 W. Washington St., FREE Indy Connect Public Meeting & Webinar Thursday, Sept. 25, 5:00 p.m. Indy Connect will host a public meeting at North United Methodist Church to gather feedback and discussion the possible purple line rapid transit route. The proposed route would run east-west along 38th Street, connecting the Eagle Creek Airpark with Lawrence. The format of the meeting will be 15 minutes of questions and mingling followed by a 20-minute presentation. Attendees will have the opportunity to speak directly with the project planners following the presentation. A webinar will be held earlier in the day at noon for those who cannot attend the public session. Registration for the webinar is available at indyconnect.org. North United Methodist Church, 3808 N. Meridian St., FREE

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Tim Youd uses an Underwood Noiseless to retype Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep at the Los Angeles Convention Center in January.

As part of Banned Books Week at THE VONNEGUT LIBRARY, performance artist TIM YOUD will retype BRADBURY’S FAHRENHEIT 451 on a single sheet of paper — and then BURN IT up.

t was mid-July and I was in San Diego, visiting my parents with my 10-yearold daughter, Naomi. We spent much of our time on the beach, but on the last day of our vacation, I was able to sneak off alone to the La Jolla branch of the

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Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (MCASD). It just so happened that the artist Tim Youd — a guest of honor of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library during Banned Books Week, Sept. 21-27 — was at work when I walked in the door.

Youd was retyping Raymond Chandler’s mystery novel The Long Goodbye; using the same manual typewriter as Chandler, an Olivetti Studio 44. The museum is located close to Chandler’s former home. Here’s Youd’s thing: He types out an entire novel on one sheet of paper. Actually he types on doubled sheets. The top sheet gets coated with typewriter ink from top to bottom; the bottom one receives indentations and ink where the keys break through, because even the strongest sheet of typing paper can only withstand so much. Once finished, he removes the sheets and frames them side by side. Sometimes, the bottom sheet is nearly clean; at others, both sheets are covered in ink. Youd hopes to type 100 novels over five years. He started the project in early 2013 and made his first trip to Indianapolis in September of that year. During last year’s Banned Books Week at the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, Youd typed Vonnegut’s novel Breakfast of Champions on the late author’s tool of choice, the Smith Corona Coronamatic 2200. SEE, BANNED BOOKS, ON PAGE 10

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BANNED BOOKS, FROM PAGE 08 This September, things will be a little different. During Banned Books Week, Youd will type the entire manuscript of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 while residing in the library. Then, taking a cue from that novel involving the ultimate form of censorship, he’ll burn the result. (See sidebar, pg. 11, for various associated Banned Books Week activities.) Bradbury was one of the country’s most insightful writers on censorship. But Vonnegut had his own issues with the powers that be. Across the country his books have been and continue to be banned by schools and libraries. “After Slaughterhouse Five and another book called Twenty Boy Summer were banned from a high school library in rural Missouri in 2011, the Vonnegut Library responded by sending free Vonnegut books to students who requested them at that high school,” says Julia Whitehead, Executive Director of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. “It was our first taste of censorship as an organization,” she continues. “But, of course, Kurt had dealt with it before. So

The Right STUFF Youd’s modus operandi is to retype the novels of particular authors where they originally composed said works. And he employs the actual typewriters — or when those are unavailable, the same brands of typewriters — used by the authors. After about a twenty-minute retyping performance at the San Diego museum, during which time the gallery crowd grows to near capacity, Youd sits down with curator Jill Dawsey for a public conversation. As they talk I take a look at one of the diptychs on the wall — the one of Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff. Much of the typing paper of the top sheet has been keyed away. The bottom sheet is smeared, punched, keyed, what have you, with blotches of black ink — random juxtapositions of words typed

we decided to make sure that celebrating the freedom to read was a larger part of our mission. We tried to do what we could on a national level — communicating with free speech organizations and civil liberties groups around the country — while doing what we could locally.” One of those things, of course, was

beginning to commemorate Banned Books Week, which was launched nationally in 1982 “in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries,” according to the project’s website. Whitehead, who met Youd through a mutual friend — the director

of the Henry Miller Memorial Library in Big Sur, California — thinks he’s an ideal partner on Banned Books programming. And he’s going all in, as it were: Youd will be the third person to live inside of the library’s “prison” of books during Banned Books Week, where he’ll be at the center of programming including Tim’s Bedtime Stories, when local celebrities will read to Youd from books that have been banned. “Tim’s work is unique and shows a personal relationship with both the author and the work,” says Whitehead. “I like both the performance aspect of his work and the tangible piece of art that is created at the end of his process. I like that he interacts with those observing his process. He is knowledgeable about art, literature and so many other things, which will make him an ideal candidate for living in the Vonnegut Library during Banned Books Week. We get more visitors that week than any other week of our year. Vonnegut would like that Tim experienced different kinds of careers before focusing on his art. Tim is keeping the words and stories of various authors alive through his work. We love that.”

one-on-top-of-another. The way the paper is punched through reminds me of the last scene in the movie made of the book, in which the test pilot Chuck Yeager attempts to punch his F-104 through the atmosphere into space. Of course, Youd didn’t intend for the work to come out this way. It just did, based on the typewriter he was using, the amount of pressure applied by the keys on the paper, etc. When we talk after the crowd has dissipated, he tells me he doesn’t deliberately represent key scenes from novels he types, though he’s happy if the final product inspires the imagination. Youd says he was looking a book one day when he started to conceptualize the 100 Novels Project. “It dawned on me that just on a very formal level, what I was looking at, side by side, a rectangle inside of a smaller

rectangle and then duplicated again — the smaller rectangle being the block of text,” he says. “That, I think, was the key recognition for me in the sense that I then decided well, how could I explore this?” Based in Los Angeles, Youd came to his art via a circuitous route. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1967 and raised in nearby Rutland, Youd attended the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester — majoring in economics — and then moved to New York City to work for an investment bank on Wall Street. “I did that for two years and then I moved to Los Angeles to make movies. I produced a couple of feature films before deciding that what I really wanted to do was to be a visual artist,” he says. Youd says he became interested in art during his childhood. His mother was, and still is, an amateur artist.

“I credit her with making that part of our lives when we were just little,” he says. “And so I think I had a skill set as well as an interest and education in art just by being brought up with it. My initial career path was a little bit of a Type A exercise. I think that in some point in my late 20s, I concluded that it wasn’t fulfilling.” By 1998, Youd says he was “drawn back to not just looking at visual art but trying to make visual art. I didn’t drop everything and go to art school along the way I got married and had some kids, so it took some time to put myself in a spot where I could be a full time artist.” Youd’s initial work, both in sculpture and in mixed media painting, often veered into literary territory, inspired in particular by works of literature with an erotic element (Anaïs Nin’s Delta of Venus, the novels of Philip Roth). For one project, Youd bought a stack

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of mass-market paperbacks of Delta of Venus, ripped out each page, painted out the words (or at least some of them) and retyped the same words over the painted areas. “It really awakened me to the formal qualities of the page, of a page from a book,” he says. “The next step was [to] put all the words of the book on one page.”

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RAYMOND CHANDLER? The first book that Youd typed as part of the 100 Novels series was Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in February 2013. “When I did that one I didn’t even know that I was going to type a hundred,” Youd says. “I didn’t do it in a location but I got an IBM Selectric typewriter, the same kind that he used — and famously used to bring out into the snow and shoot with a shotgun.” It was a natural fit for the project, says Youd, because Thompson, when an apprentice novelist, retyped Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in order to learn how to put a novel together. “So that was the inspiration that helped launch the project,” says Youd, who allows that his work is also inspired by minimalist artist and sculptor Donald Judd. “My process is very different from his,” Youd says, but he admits to having drawn from Judd’s “concern with the rectangle in the positive and the negative.” (Judd’s “stacks” of metal blocks resemble ladders in the way that blocks are affixed to the wall at regular intervals, such that there are both positive and negative rectangular spaces of equal size.) As part of the 100 Novels project, Youd also creates cardboard sculptures of the typewriters he uses to type each book. “In a way they are stand-ins on some level for the author,” he says. “They become these idiosyncratic portraits of these different typewriters. I feel like they’re a good counterbalance to the formal diptychs that I’m creating through

the performance of the typing. It’s a yin and yang almost.” The series has certainly captured the public imagination. Youd says that he’s receiving invitations from all over the world. In May and April 2015, for example, Youd will be in Manchester, England retyping Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange. He’s retyped Charles Bukowski’s Post Office outside the Los Angeles post office where Bukowski sorted mail for 12 years. And Henry Miller’s Tropic of Capricorn outside Miller’s boyhood home in Brooklyn. “I think the thing that drives the different reactions the most is the type of venue,” says Youd. “If I’m sitting in an art museum, I think most people recognize it as a performance even if they aren’t quite sure what I’m doing. But if I’m outside, if I’m just sitting on a sidewalk, down on a beach or something, the context is a little more jarring. Let’s put it this way: more people sort of wander in wondering what the hell I’m doing. And the in-between space is ... a writer’s house. Even if I’m at the Vonnegut Library to a certain extent, that’s the middle ground, some people will immediately recognize it as a performance, some people will also be wondering what I’m doing.” The funniest reaction that he’s had so far to his work, he says, was during his performance at the Contemporary Art Museum in San Diego when a man approached him and asked if he (Youd) was Raymond Chandler. Keeping a straight face, Youd answered in the negative, and explained to the curious patron who the late Raymond Chandler was.

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TIM’S BEDTIME STORIES: Local writers and celebrities will read to Youd from banned books. GIFT SHOP SALE: Featuring discounts on books and library memberships. SEPT. 23, 6 P.M. Author talk with young adult author Rainbow Rowell. According to a Minneapolis Star-Tribune report, Rowell’s Eleanor & Park was challenged by parents at Minnesota’s Anoka High School in 2013. A panel decided that while the book does include “227 instances of course language and sexuality,” it was

“powerful, realistic and honest, but not profane” and would remain in the school’s library. SEPT. 24, 5 P.M. Author talk with Malinda Lo on “Diversity and Censorship in Young Adult Fiction.” Lo, whose novels include Ash, Huntress and Adaptation, is the co-founder of Diversity in YA, which, according to its mission statement, celebrates “young adult books about all kinds of diversity, from race to sexual orientation to gender identity and disability.” SEPT. 26 Closing reception, including a talk by Jonathan Eller, Director of IUPUI’s Ray Bradbury Center, and a performance by the band Kilgore Trout.

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In addition to numerous titles at IUPUI, including the Chancellor’s Professor of English, Jonathan Eller is the Director of the Center of Bradbury Studies on the IUPUI Campus. Eller has been at IUPUI since 1993 but had been writing about Bradbury well before then. He’ll give a talk during the Sept. 26 closing reception of Banned Books Week at the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. Tim Youd will retype Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 at the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library on a desk used by Bradbury early in his career — and Eller is providing that desk, part of the Bradbury Center’s archives. Eller collaborated with Youd in order to help him find a 1947 Royal KMM model typewriter of the type that Bradbury used to write Fahrenheit 451. I talked with Eller in late August at the Center for Bradbury Studies on the IUPUI campus. NUVO: Give me a thumbnail sketch of the Bradbury Center.

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Treasures from the Bradbury Center: a. Fahrenheit 451 was translated to 233 Celsius for the first Danish edition in 1955. b. 200 copies were bound with a “fireproof” cover made from an asbestos-based material in 1953. c. Bradbury’s longtime illustrator Joe Mugniani created the “burning man” cover for the 1953 first edition. d. Youd will retype Fahrenheit 451 on a desk used by Bradbury in the ‘50s.

JONATHAN ELLER: First of all, I had begun to develop a relationship with Ray Bradbury in the 1980s. Over time I had begun to work with him and people around him on special editions of his books — and over the last ten years, writing two volumes of biography in a planned three volume set. In 2011, I published [the first volume of the biography] Becoming Ray Bradbury with the University of Illinois Press, which takes him up to the age of 33 in 1953, just as he has published Fahrenheit 451 and has no idea what it’s going to mean for his life or his career yet. And he heads off to begin a screenwriting stint for the 1956 film Moby Dick which he begins to write in 1953 for director John Huston. The new book which comes out next week — Ray Bradbury Unbound — picks up that story in 1953 and he’s working on the screenplay of Moby Dick for the demanding director John Huston. And

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this carries Ray’s life through the ‘50s and ‘60s and ‘70s and shows how his great gift for short storywriting was somewhat muted when Hollywood begins to draw him into TV and into film. He did lots of scripts for Alfred Hitchcock. When I came here 21 years ago to IUPUI in 1993, there was already a professor here, Bill Touponce, who had been publishing on Ray Bradbury. Together, in 2007, we formed this center to capture all of the concentration of American culture that Ray Bradbury had influenced over a 70 year career. NUVO: What’s your involvement with the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library? ELLER: Julia Whitehead and the KVML have been kind enough to work with me over the years. I’ve come in over the last two summers and taught for them, in “Teaching Teachers to Teach Vonnegut” [a workshop for high school teachers that awards all-important professional development credits]. I’ve been involved with Banned Books Week before. I lectured on the censorship challenges to both Vonnegut’s and Bradbury’s works. This year they’ve asked me to come back in when Tim has finished typing up the Fahrenheit manuscript all on one piece of paper, for the actual burning. I’m always happy to work with them because Vonnegut and Bradbury were kindred spirits. They both hated intolerance. They both hated threats to the freedom of the imagination. And they were both

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Midwestern guys. In all the talking I’ve done around the country from Cal Tech to the American Library Association, we’ve never had an event where a work is symbolically burned as a cautionary reminder — lest we forget that the freedoms that we have on a national level are not always reflected on a lower level. NUVO: Bradbury’s books, like Vonnegut’s work, faced censorship challenges. ELLER: Bradbury faced a lot of the same things. Fahrenheit 451 was often banned because there is some mature language. Not gratuitous; it’s just there in the right proportion. So, yes, school boards have periodically banned it; occasionally back in the 50s, and even later, it would be censored. As a matter of fact, in the 1960s, his publishers, in an effort to make a version of it that was suitable for schools, silently removed all references to sexuality, insanity, alcoholism, [as well as] profanities and references to God. NUVO: That’s kind of ironic. ELLER: The great cautionary tale about censorship was itself bowdlerized or expurgated. They didn’t have a bad motivation, but it’s the fact that it happened shows that you don’t have to burn the books; you just have to get them to stop reading them in their original forms. And Bradbury made note of that on numerous occasions. n

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A&E EVENTS Clark Gable Slept Here Sept. 18-Oct. 19. The Phoenix kicks off its all-comedy season with a pretty dark one set in Hollywood. Clark Gable Slept Here begins as a hotel maid discovers a good-looking corpse lounging on a rug. Turns out he’s a hustler and the room belongs to a married action star. His agent (played by Charles Goad) and a “fixer” (Jen Johansen) clean up the mess while the star attends the Golden Globes. An Indiana premiere, directed by Bryan Fonseca. Phoenix Theatre, phoenixtheatre.org The Italian in Algiers Sept. 19-27. IU Opera opens its season with Rossini’s 1813 tale of an Italian girl who finds herself marooned in the court of an Algerian governor. Musical Arts Center (Bloomington), music.indiana.edu Dave Attell Sept. 19-21. The star of Insomniac, Pootie Tang and Dave’s Old Porn makes his more or less annual Crackers appearance. Crackers Broad Ripple, $23-28, crackerscomedy.com Art Squared Sept. 20, noon-6 p.m. A triple shot of participatory art. The long-running Masterpiece in a Day invites creative people of all stripes to knock out some kind of piece (a painting, song, story, poem) by 3 p.m., with awards announced at 6 p.m. at Fountain Square Plaza. On a similarly open-minded note, you can do just about anything you want in the Fountain Square Art Parade as long as it’s family-friendly. Wear an outfit, carry a sign, push a float or just follow the leaders, second line-style. The parade leaves from 901 Shelby Street at 5 p.m. And running noon-6 p.m. is the Fountain Square Art Fair, featuring dozens of vendors. It’s free to attend everything, and there are no participation costs for Masterpiece in a Day or the parade (booth space at the fair runs $75). Fountain Square, discoverfountainsquare.com, FREE FIESTA Indianapolis Sept. 20, noon-10 p.m. The state’s largest Latino festival heads into its 34th year with food, music, dancing, a ton of kids’ activities and, new this year, a hot sauce tasting. American Legion Mall, laplaza-indy.org, FREE Indy Architects’ Home Tour Sept. 20-21, 1-5 p.m. A self-guided tour of eight private residences, including new homes in Broad Ripple and Herron-Morton and a renovated ‘30s Tudor in Butler Tarkington. Presented by the Indy chapter of the American Institute of Architects. $12 advance, $15 day of, aiahometour.org

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arhol had his Campbell’s. So why not turn beer cans into fine art (or at least really good art)? Nine local artists gave it their best shot as part of CANvitational, Sun King’s showcase for the country’s best canned craft beer. New to the second edition of the fest is CAN’d ART, a Sept. 19 show at the Artsgarden featuring pieces made from cans supplied by participating brewers. “We handed them a couple of aluminum children and I’m looking forward to seeing what they do with them,” says, Jeremy Rudolf, the “beer traffic control freak” for Oskar Blues in Longmont, Colorado. Rudolf says his brewery jumped at the chance to take part of the expanded event based on their long-standing relationship with Sun King. “When they raise their hand, we know the project is going to be something that’s fun, that’s productive, that’s something we want to be a part of,” he says. Sun King co-founder Clay Robinson says while visiting breweries like Oskar Blues around the country he noticed that artists were already appropriating the detritus of the brewing industry.

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“I’ve seen that people have taken cans and recycled them into art,” Robinson says. “It gives new life to the cans.” After last year’s daylong inaugural CANvitational proved a success, Robinson and his crew brainstormed ways to grow the event into a twoday affair. “It’s a culmination of a lot of pieces, parts and passions that flow together to create a unique event that’s going to be a lot of fun,” Robinson says of CAN’d ART. Sun King selected nine local artists after soliciting proposals and then matched them with brewers. They are Hector del Campo, Jake Lee, Lesley Baker, Lydia Burris, Carl Leck, William Ray, Kyle Rowe, Phil Velikan and Paula Wright. “It’s a great opportunity for these artists to connect with an audience that will be receptive to what they’re doing,” says Shannon Linker, vice president of the Arts Council of Indianapolis, which will receive proceeds from CANvitational. Organizers expect more than 40 breweries to participate. Linker hopes the event will encourage brewers to purchase artwork and become involved with the arts in their own communities, just as Sun King has positioned itself as a steward for art in

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Indianapolis. “They’ve been so supportive,” she adds. “They have immersed themselves in the arts community here.” Avon-based artist Hector del Campo says he was thrilled to learn his proposal had been accepted for the show, and praised Sun King for “throwing down” for the arts in Indianapolis. “It’s another venue for young art makers to get their stuff out there,” says del Campo, who also teaches at Ivy Tech. He produced a three-dimensional piece using cans from Baxter Brewing in Lewiston, Maine. “There are certain galleries that are hoity toity. I don’t have a studio downtown; I make all my art in the garage, on the sofa, on the kitchen table.” n

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ike Birbiglia is the finest humorist of his generation. He appears Thursday at Clowes Hall with his new show, Thank God for Jokes. In addition to the tour and numerous appearances on TV and radio, Mike has been busy acting. We chatted by phone recently. Here’s an excerpt, with the full full transcript available on nuvo.net. NUVO: In my review of The Fault in Our Stars I referred to you as “my favorite comedian-storyteller-actor-writerdirector” and I heard from a reader who thought I was making a joke, but actually I was just trying to be accurate. MIKE BIRBIGLIA: I’m working as an actor now on Season 3 of Orange is the New Black. Yesterday, one of the actors and I were talking about the world of theater and film, and how you do end up wearing a lot of hats, inevitably. He said there should be a new name for it, for that kind of hyphenate, and he suggested the word “theatrician” (laughter) which I thought was really smart. NUVO: What’s the line between a standup comedy set and a one-man show? BIRBIGLIA: I think when something crosses into the realm of a one-man show, in theory, what you’re doing is you’re taking a group of stories and you’re creating a single through-line that threads the narrative together, so that someone can walk in at the beginning and almost be witnessing someone tell a single story, you know? Start to finish. In stand-up, it’s really a mosaic of different stories. NUVO: When you’re not touring or filming you still do stand-up at that little comedy club every Monday, right?

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Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra: Opening Night Gala e Short, sweet and to the point — all good ways to describe the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s opening galas these past two years. They’ve decided to skip an intermission and keep the programs a bit more concise, making room for pre- and post-concert receptions. This year’s program started off with Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the brilliant Jeremy Denk at the keys. His Beethoven was precise but not mechanical, infused with infectious joy and youthful exuberance.The second movement was tender and sweet; the last full of aplomb and seemingly cheeky at times. Music director Krzysztof Urbanski, starting his fourth season with the ISO, conducted a reduced orchestra (called for by the piece) that ably complemented Denk. The audience was delighted when Denk came back afterwards for a thoughtful and delicate reading of the 13th variation from J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations. The full orchestra returned for selections from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. It’s a perfectly fine piece but Urbanski’s rather safe, controlled reading seemed a bit tame for a season opener. The orchestra played well, apart from a few flubs here and there, but I wish Urbanski had gone bolder, programming a Strauss tone poem or an overture from one of Verdi or Wagner’s operas — something more celebratory or bombastic. Nevertheless, the concert proved a great start to the ISO’s 85th season. — CHANTAL INCANDELA Sept. 14 at Hilbert Circle Theatre

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BIRBIGLIA: That’s right. Yep, at Union Hall. NUVO: Is there a difference in how that feels now as opposed to the days when that was all you did? BIRBIGLIA: Yeah, when I do the Union Hall shows the audience is kind of with me. It’s almost like a group of friends.

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It sells out right away, it’s in this little room in Brooklyn, and I can work on anything with that group of people. So when I have a new bit that goes well enough in that room, I actually take it to the Comedy Cellar in Manhattan, where people aren’t there to see me. They’re just there because it’s a famous comedy club. Typically, the audience doesn’t know me. I’m not massively known and that is fine — it’s actually kind of my favorite thing about my career. And so I put stuff on stage there, so I can find out how it would really do in the world if it weren’t just my fans in the audience. Because I want it to work both ways — I want it to work with strangers as well as people who know all four of my albums. NUVO: When you played Clowes Hall for My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend, it was so cool. There was this great big stage and you just owned it. BIRBIGLIA: Oh thanks, that was one of my favorite shows on the whole tour. I had such fond memories of that show. NUVO: Prior to a show, do you walk the stage when you do a new theater? BIRBIGLIA: Yeah, I do. I try to walk on the stage a little while, I lie down on the stage a little bit, you know, sit down, lie down. I’ll sit in all different seats in the house. I’ll sit in the front row, I’ll sit in the back row, in the balcony. Yeah, I really try to inhabit the room before a show to make sure I understand it. NUVO: At this point, what’s it like doing talk shows as opposed to earlier in your career?

BIRBIGLIA: It’s funny you should say that, because a couple of weeks ago, I did Jimmy Fallon’s show and it’s my favorite talk show appearance I ever had. I accidentally spilled some water and … I’ve done 40 or 50 talk shows, and in the past I would have just been frozen up and gotten nervous, and the stage manager would have come over and said, “We’re going to start again,” or whatever. But I just felt so loose — at this point talk shows are just like visiting someone’s living room — that I just jumped off the stage and I went behind the curtain and I re-entered, Questlove picked up the cue and played the entry music again. And I came out and there was all this water on the chair. I started screaming at Jimmy about why there would be water on the chair when he was having a guest over. (laughter) It ended up being this amazing moment. n

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An ensemble cast reflects on the benefits of posing nude in Calendar Girls at Theatre on the Square. Calendar Girls

Through Oct. 11 Calendar Girls is the story of a group of WI (Women’s Institute) volunteers in Yorkshire, England who decide to pose semi-nude for a calendar to raise money to buy a hospital settee in memory of their friend, John (Paul Haskin), the husband of one of the women. He dies of cancer early on in the story. The calendar women (played by Laura Baltz, Arlene Haskin, Kate Hinman, Risa Krauter, Nan Macy, and Vickie Smith) have to overcome both their own inhibitions about posing and the disapproval of their organization’s leaders. They also have to work through some of the conflict that comes up whenever people call each other on their blind spots without acknowledging their own. Just as we only get glimpses of each woman’s unclothed body, we also only get glimpses of who she is as a person. I wanted more. But I remember feeling that way about the movie too. The film and the stage play, both by Tim Firth, are

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based on a true story. Under Lori Raffel’s direction these actors do pretty well with what the script gives them. Nan Macy (Chris) is my role model for confidence equaling sex appeal at any age. I’m glad Chris has a sexy husband, too. (Rod, played by Tim Latimer.) I took off stars because several of the set design, pacing, and blocking choices just didn’t work for me. Nonetheless, this show makes for a warm, fun night for adults that appreciate a humorous, heroic story. And it has a nice community theatre feel that fits the vibe of the original calendar project. Also fitting: Theatre on the Square is donating some of the ticket sales to a different charity each night. The night I attended, the show benefited Indy Reads Books. — HOPE BAUGH Theatre on the Square

Through Sept. 21 Lisa Loomer’s Distracted is a vehicle for conveying a ton of information and points of view about how and why we humans try to distract ourselves from what needs attention in our lives. On the surface it is about a couple whose hyperactive 9-year-old son is wearing them out at home and getting in serious trouble at school because of his behavioral issues. Does he have Attention Deficit Disorder or just a lot of energy? No one seems to know for sure, at least at first. And even after he is diagnosed, no one seems to know for sure what to do about it, if anything. There is a lot of humor and a lot of passionate opinion. A lot of disagreement, a lot of options. Under Millicent Wright’s direction, Amy Hayes and Ronn Johnstone are relatable and complex as Mama and Dad. For most of the show we only catch glimpses of Jesse (Colin McCabe) as he tears around backstage, shouting the scene numbers in between cursing and refusing to put on his pajamas, but McCabe’s portrayal is spot on and endearing. The rest of the ensemble, some of whom play more

than one role, support the family’s story deftly as doctors, teacher and neighbors, many with their own distraction-related issues. The ensemble includes Scot Russell, Jamillah Gonzalez, Kelsey Leigh Miller, Beverly Roche, Callie Burk and Susie Sullivan. The audience sits on three sides of the minimalist set and there is no fourth wall. It is as if we are part of the family, too, trying to figure out what to do. At one point when they are fighting, Dad asks Mama, “Who do we know that IS a good listener?” The audience thinks, and maybe even says aloud, as I did, “We are! We have been listening deeply to you!” But the Dad is quick to point out that we, too, are just relating their conversation to our own problems. This, too, is true. I loved that the playwright points out not only the hassles of ADHD but also its gifts. I also loved that she manages to be completely non-judgmental while also saying, “It’s important to keep trying to understand. It’s important to keep trying to pay attention.” — HOPE BAUGH IndyFringe Theatre NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 09.17.14 - 09.24.14 // STAGE 17

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Here’s the complete list of finalists: • Tessa Lark, 25, U.S. • Jinjoo Cho, 26, South Korea • Ji Yoon Lee, 22, South Korea • Ji Young Lim, 19, South Korea • Yoo Jin Jang, 23, South Korea • Dami Kim, 25, South Korea Tom Aldridge has been covering the proceedings for us on nuvo.net. His two favorites in the competition are Yoo Jin Jang and Tessa Lark. Here’s his account of their semifinals performances.

From the semi-finals on Sept. 14: 23-year-old Yoo Jin Jang not only played the best of Sunday’s four IVCI participants, but she gave us the best account so far of the required piece written for the competition, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Fantasy for Violin Solo. Since the composer gave the players the liberty to “give us” the piece as they see it, how do I know this? Because Jang played it the most beautifully of anyone preceding her. The sustained tones, the passage work, the trills, the double stops in fourths — they were all rendered in dulcet tones with a flowing momentum. Its brief, Gershwinesque allusion was there but was not highlighted; it flowed past as part of the whole. And a few words on Lark from Sept. 12: Tessa Lark ended the evening with Beethoven’s Sonata No. 8 in G; the Sonata No. 5 for solo Violin, Op. 27 of Eugene Ysaÿe; the Zwilich Fantasy; and the Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano by Bela Bartók. Lark, who incidentally also plays top-tier bluegrass music, easily bested her three competitors in presenting a sustained tonal beauty. She was their equal in other criteria: virtuosity and musicality. UIndy’s Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center and Hilbert Circle Theatre, various prices, violin.org

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CELEBRATING CHITA

Broadway vet Rivera to share memories from her 80-plus years at the Palladium

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’ve been a very lucky woman to do so many amazing things.” Chita Rivera’s delight in the breadth and depth of her 60-plus year — and counting — career surges across the telephone. Her voice radiates as she pays homage to the pantheon of creators who have been her friends — John Kander and Fred Ebb, Leonard Bernstein, Charles Strouse, Jerry Herman, Stephen Sondheim. Describing her Sept. 25 show at the Palladium, Chita: A Legendary Celebration, as “an evening of sharing memories,” she adds, “It’s a fascinating show and I’m having fun with it. You do your best and hopefully people enjoy what you do.” Expect to hear recreations from West Side Story, Sweet Charity, Chicago, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Bye, Bye, Birdie, The Rink, among other numbers from her extensive repertoire. It’s being billed as a birthday celebration: “A girl only turns 80 once in her life, thank God, and I want everyone there as proof,” she quips. And though she’s already into her 81st year — and she was born in January — who’s to say such a successful and vibrant performer can’t celebrate becoming an octogenarian for as long as she likes? From her 1957 breakthrough on Broadway as the achingly feisty Anita in West Side Story to her hauntingly conniving Claire in 2014’s The Visit at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Rivera has demonstrated an unerring ability to mold dimensional characters and animate their inner force. She says her career has been about “always growing, always seeking ways to reach out and connect.” Rivera’s father, who was a clarinetist and saxophonist for the United States Navy Band, died when Rivera was seven. In 1948 a Balanchine dancer spotted Rivera at the then Jones-Haywood School of Ballet and she was chosen, along with another student, to audition for a scholarship at Balanchine’s School of American Ballet. Steadfastly pursuing ballet, Rivera nevertheless accompanied a friend to an audition for the 1951 touring company of Call Me Madam. In one of those odd twists of fate, Rivera was

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cast as a principal dancer in the show. Many a Broadway critic has alluded to ballet’s loss being Broadway’s gain. Her stellar three-year run as Anita in West Side Story came after six years of earning her way through roles in Guys and Dolls, Can-Can, Seventh Heaven, The Shoestring Revue, Mr. Wonderful and Shinbone Alley (in standby for Eartha Kitt). Rivera’s resume includes

roles in ten films, a range of television appearances, concerts worldwide and recordings, along with a prestigious list of thirty Broadway and regional theatre appearances. The winner of two Tony Awards, among nine nominations, and multiple Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League awards, Rivera is the first woman of Hispanic heritage and the first Latino American to receive a Kennedy Center Honors award. Along with a range of citations for her lifetime of humanitarian work, Rivera was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. Don Farrell, co-founder/ artistic director of Actors Theatre of Indiana, says presenting Chita Rivera at The Palladium is part of ATI’s mission “to bring Broadway legends to the central Indiana community.” In 2005 New York City-based professional performers Farrell, Cynthia Collins and Judy Fitzgerald founded Actors Theatre of Indiana, with the intention of bringing their programs to Central Indiana communities. “We try to present something for everybody,” says Farrell. n

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International Violin Competition of Indianapolis Sept. 17-21. This is it: The final week of the 9th quadrennial edition of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, when the six remaining competitors (now classified as laureates, one and all) face off in the two-part finals. It’s a fournight marathon that asks each finalist to play two concerti. On Sept. 17 and 18 at UIndy’s Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center, they’ll join the East Coast Chamber Orchestra to perform a concerto by either Mozart or Haydn. And then Sept. 19 and 20 at Hilbert Circle Theatre, they’ll be asked to play a Romantic or post-Romantic concerto with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Winners will be announced after the Sept. 20 performance. Head to violin.org for more info.

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My Old Lady r New Yorker Mathias Gold (Kevin Kline) inherits a Paris apartment from his dad, but when he arrives in France, he discovers 90-something Brit Mathilde Girard (Maggie Smith) and her icy daughter Chloe (Kristin Scott Thomas) living there – and due to a French law, he may be stuck with the arrangement. Kline is excellent as a failed playwright, multiple divorcee and recovering alcoholic. Smith and Thomas are as good as always, though the screenplay forces Thomas to make a radical shift in her presentation style. The film is so-so. The actors, especially Kline, rise above the formulaic material. PG-13, Opens Thursday at Keystone Art This is Where I Leave You t Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda and Adam Driver are a few family members drawn together following Dad’s death to spend a week at the old homestead. Comedy and drama mix as they deal with relationships, unfinished emotional business, old loves ... yes, it’s one of those movies. I like this genre, provided that the cast is good and the script isn’t too clunky. This one isn’t memorable, but it works well-enough to squeak by (though the storyline with Timothy Olyphant as the brain-damaged — literally — ex-boyfriend of Tina Fey goes nowhere) and the cast is full of likeable performers. An agreeable disposa-movie. R, opens Thursday in wide release The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby An omnibus of three short films by director Ned Benson about a young married couple living in New York, played by James McAvoy and Jessica Chastain. The first two shorts (Him and Her) were screened last year in Toronto; the feature adds a third, Them. “Too elliptical to reward sustained interest,” says Kurt Loder in Reason. R, opens Friday at Landmark Art The Maze Runner Teenagers try to find their way out of a giant maze in this adaptation of a 2009 YA novel. “Refreshingly low-tech and properly story-driven,” says Variety. PG-13, opens Thursday in wide release A Walk Among the Tombstones Liam Neeson is Matt Scudder, an ex-NYPD cop turned private investigator who agrees to help a heroin dealer (Dan Stevens) find the guys who murdered his wife. Written and directed by Scott Frank (writer of Marley & Me, Out of Sight, Minority Report) and based on the Lawrence Block novel. R, opens Thursday in wide release

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s the closing credits started to roll for Tusk, Kevin Smith’s freaky new horror film, I felt disturbed and moved. The Clerks creator makes some big mistakes in the movie, but in the end he left me staring at a patently ridiculous image while reflecting on the sadness and perverse beauty of the human condition. Then, over the credits, Smith plays a segment from the podcast where the idea for Tusk originated. Smith and his colleague Scott Mosier have a giggly brainstorming session, talking about how the story might go, including its ending. Smith may have thought it clever to include the audio artifact, but the practical effect is this: He stirs up our emotions, then laughs at us for responding to his manipulations. He treats us like chumps. Tusk was sparked by a real ad where some guy looking for a roommate offered free rent if his new roomie would dress up like a walrus. The ad drew a lot of attention and turned out to have been posted as a joke, but never mind, it served as inspiration. Justin Long plays Wallace, the loudmouthed host of a hit podcast. Wallace makes fun of things while his co-host, Teddy (Haley Joel Osment) offers support. They call what they do a not-see podcast because of Teddy’s unwillingness to travel, and because it sounds like Nazi, which gives you a clue as to their sense to humor.

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After watching a viral video of some kid accidentally chopping his leg off with a sword (the video’s special effects are astonishingly bad), Wallace sets out for Manitoba to interview the kid, only to learn the boy committed suicide. At a convenience store, he spots an ad by the film’s version of the walrus aficionado and heads into the wilderness to meet up with the man. Here’s where the movie gets good. At a spooky old house, Wallace meets Howard Howe (Michael Parks), an old fellow with an otherworldly demeanor,

loads of good stories and an insane plan. Wallace ends up trapped in the house and gruesome things happen. Teddy and Wallace’s girlfriend Ally (Genesis Rodriquez) head up to find him, employing French-Canadian detective Guy Lapointe (Johnny Depp) to lead the search. The pre-spooky house part of the film is typical Smith with some obvious Canada jokes tacked on. Justin Long is abrasive, but it’s nice to see our Sixth Sense buddy Haley Joel Osment again. Osment has beefed up considerably, but you adjust to the appearance change quickly. Take note of the clerks at the convenience store — they are played by the daughters of Smith and Depp and are set to star in an upcoming Smith movie. Parks is wonderful as the walrusobsessed Howe. The role is juicy and he establishes and maintains the perfect tone. The segments with Howe and Wallace work. The rescue mission scenes are less effective, largely because the unbilled Depp is such a ham. His Guy Lapointe is nothing but quirky mannerisms, and his time onscreen is a drag. For all that’s wrong with Tusk, the good parts make the weirdo film worth a look-see. Get ready to be amused, exasperated and drawn into a bizarre story that may make you tear up. Don’t stay for the closing credits though, because you’re no chump and you don’t deserve to be laughed at by Kevin and his pal. n

FILM EVENTS Vintage Movie Night: X Marks the Spot (1942) Sept. 20, 8 p.m. Eric Grayson pulls a 55-minute, Republic Pictures cheapie from his collection (plus a cartoon). Garfield Park Arts Center, $5, gpacarts.org Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Sept. 21 and 24. We’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when. AMC Showplace 17, $6, amctheatres.com Royal Shakespeare Company: The Two Gentlemen of Verona Sept. 21 and 24. An encore screening of RSC’s first full production of Shakespeare’s early comedy in 45 years. Keystone Art, $15, landmarktheatres.com

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Life Itself Sept. 22, 5 and 7:30 p.m. Goodrich’s Documentary Days series offers a chance to see Steve James’s doc on Roger Ebert for those who missed it at Landmark. Head to the website below for info on the full series, running through Nov. 3. Goodrich Hamilton 16, $6.50, goodrichqualitytheaters.com David Bowie Is Sept. 23, 7 p.m. A virtual tour of a Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition about Bowie that includes photos, costumes and other rare artifacts from the David Bowie Archive. Keystone Art, $15, landmarkstheatres.com

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t’s being billed as the first Diabolique International Film Festival, launching this weekend at IU Cinema. But the team behind it has screened 250-plus films in Bloomington since 2007 in its previous incarnation, the Dark Carnival Film Festival. The name changed when Diabolique Magazine, an every-othermonth glossy devoted to “genre cinema, literature and art,” came on board earlier this year. Add in the move to the state’s best screening room, the IU Cinema, which comes fully equipped with a THX-certified sound system and high-end digital projectors, and you have a festival that’s up and coming in the world of genre film. Diabolique opens Thursday with Proxy, an Indiana-made film that’s more grounded in mundane reality than your average Diabolique selection. “Human beings are terrifying enough,” says its director, Zack Parker. A monster-less thriller about the pains of parenthood filmed in Parker’s hometown of Richmond, Proxy premiered last year at the Toronto International Film Festival, was distributed by IFC Midnight and is now available on home video. The 36-year-old Parker started making movies at age 11, and has never held a job that wasn’t related to them — tearing tickets at a movie theater, shelving videos at Blockbuster, writing a film column for his local paper. He studied film production at Ball State and UCLA and worked for legendary B-movie filmmaker Roger Corman. Parker’s fourth feature, Proxy, is partly inspired by his experiences as a stayat-home parent of three movie-loving

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children. Alexia Rasmussen stars as a quiet young woman named Esther who suffers a miscarriage after being brutally beaten outside her doctor’s office. She then finds herself tangling with Melanie (Alexa Havins) and her husband, Pat (Joe Swanberg) in a support group for mourning mothers. Parker didn’t intend to make a horror film from this subject matter. But he found he could “push the themes and audience further” by working within the trappings of the genre, doing what any effective horror film does by holding a funhouse mirror up to everyday issues. Other films showing at Diabolique do much the same thing, reflecting our world while transporting us to another. The French short film Entity taps into a universal fear of isolation with its story of an astronaut stranded in space. In the midst of a bleak futuristic world, the Canadian short The Last Halloween captures the childlike wonder and fear involved with wandering around at night. M.O.T.H explores the pain of growing up through its apocalyptic story. Parker will participate in an aca-

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demic symposium Saturday morning with fellow burgeoning filmmaker Ti West to discuss the world of indie horror — and how to break into it. West will speak Friday at 3 p.m., then present three of his films — The Sacrament, The Innkeepers and The House of the Devil — from 6:30 p.m. to midnight. This year, Diabolique will present awards in 11 categories, including Best Feature, Short, Actor, Actress, Director, and Screenplay. And there’s one more first at this year’s fest: the festival’s inaugural screenplay competition. The winning feature and short screenplays will be chosen by Emmy and WGA award-winning writer Victor Miller, who penned the seminal slasher film Friday the 13th. In addition to cash and other prizes, the winning screenwriters will receive written feedback from Miller. n

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CONTINUING All reviews by Ed Johnson-Ott except when noted. Boyhood w Filmed over 12 years by Richard Linklater, about three days at a time per year, this fictional feature tells the story, from age six to 18, of dreamy but well-adjusted Texas kid Mason (Ellar Coltrane). There are precedents to the project in the documentary world, notably the Up series, which has followed the lives of fourteen British subjects since 1965, starting when they were seven years old. Like other Linklater films, Boyhood is sunny and optimistic but not without its rocky moments; driven by dialogue that’s often funny and insightful but always natural; and it hits specific cultural and geographical touchstones without neglecting the universal potential of its story (think of how Dazed and Confused worked even if you didn’t share in Linklater’s nostalgia for the ‘70s). R, in wide release

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Brown’s legendary performances. And his acting is solid as well — he does as much with Brown as the script allows. Viewers are offered a choppy portrait of a great performer and a deeply flawed man. He’s shown at times in human form. An argument over time signatures with Maceo Parker (Craig Robinson) is illuminating, and Brown’s conversations with promoter Ben Bart (Dan Aykroyd) suggest a genuine relationship of trust. But on the whole, Get On Up is about an obsessive, tyrannical, abusive, self-absorbed holy terror who created a dazzling stage show packed with funk and soul. PG-13, in wide release Guardians of the Galaxy w Action-packed, funny and full of heart, Guardians of the Galaxy is a wild space adventure from Marvel Studios that, at various times, reminded me of Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Last Starfighter, The Fifth Element, Joss Whedon’s Firefly and Serenity, and more. Chris Pratt, as one of a group of rag-tag prisoners who learn to use their criminal skills to benefit for the greater good of the universe, sets the tone of the film. He’s spot-on as a Han Solo type, swaggering about and cracking wise, while radiating a sunniness that warms those in his sphere of influence. PG-13, in wide release

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Cantinflas u The biography of the famed Mexican comic actor treats him like a saint, which is poison for this type of film. Oscar Jaenada plays Mario “Cantinflas” Moreno and he gives it his all, but the story’s insistence on painting the performer as an underdog hero undermines the film. Much more interesting is the side story of Hollywood producer wannabe Michael Todd’s (Michael Imperioli) efforts to get his movie Around the World in 80 Days bankrolled. Cantiflas won a Golden Globe for his work in that film. Nobody will win anything for their work in this one.

The Hundred Foot Journey r Comfort food. Helen Mirren runs a restaurant in France that earned a Michelin star. When the Kadam family, far from their homeland of India, experience a car breakdown near her place, Papa (Om Puri) decides to open a restaurant of his own in a building directly across the street. Sparks fly. Meanwhile, Papa’s son Hassan (Manish Dayal) is a gifted cook. Marguerite (Charlotte Le Bon) is an aspiring chef working at Mirren’s restaurant. You do the math. Lasse Halstrom’s feel-good film is charming, but terribly calculated and predictable. A little more dramatic tension would have helped. Trimming the end of the overly-long movie would have helped as well. PG, in wide release

PG, at AMC Showplace 17 The Drop t An atmospheric crime story with fine performances, especially from star Tom Hardy. Not much can be said for the screenplay by Dennis Lehane (author of Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone and Shutter Island) except that it gives the characters something to do. It’s James Gandolfini’s final film, and his performance as a bar owner who gets involved with organized crime is as good as you would expect from the man who was Tony Soprano. But he isn’t given much room to stretch (he’s be better remembered for his promising role in Enough Said). The film has an agreeably slushy feel, though it drags in spots. R, in wide release Get On Up r In Get On Up, Chadwick Boseman, who played Jackie Robinson in 42, successfully conveys a sense of James 22 FILM // 09.17.14 - 09.24.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO

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all weather just screams, “Hit the road. Go for a drive. Get outta town.” Now, Zionsville isn’t that far away, but the charming Boone County town makes a great fall drive destination — and with the addition of the Salty Cowboy, Zionsville now has an appealingly kitschy Tex-Mex joint that’s loud, affordable and fun. That description is a little out of character for the high-end village, which definitely has a let’s-go-antiquing-withMom sort of vibe. But I’m guessing that even Mom would appreciate a margarita. Who knows — she might even go for a tequila flight or a mezcal tasting. And while the casual, hang-out quality of the bar seemed like the big draw to me, the dining room was full of families on our recent visit. And why not? The food at the Salty Cowboy is familiar, priced right and plenty good. But paired with a tequila or moonshine cocktail, a michelada or a bottle of Shiner Bock (or, yes, a $2 can of PBR), the tacos, fajitas, burgers and burritos make the Salty Cowboy a fun and filling dinner stop for a get-outta-town tour. Located off Zionsville’s brick-paved main drag at 55 E. Oak St., the Salty Cowboy is owned by Shari Jenkins, who also has Noah Grant’s Grill House & Oyster Bar. But the new Tex-Mex place has a personality (and menu) all its own. In a place like the Salty Cowboy, you just have to start out with a margarita, and the house version, $7, was solid, with the canning jar-style mug carrying out the country theme. Canning jar glassware has become a trend that just won’t disappear, and the jars seem to be a way for a restaurant to proclaim itself a countrified, downhome kind of place, whether it really is or not (I’m thinking here of the North End Barbecue & Moonshine). I just hope the house-barreled Four Roses Manhattan is not served in a jelly jar. In any case, there are also a few craft brews on draft, some Texas and Mexican beers in bottles and three wines by the glass. Clearly, the focus is on tequila. The menu includes pulled pork, beef brisket, ribs and chicken for the Texas barbecue crowd, some fajitas and burritos, a few apps and a good variety of $4 tacos — mostly pulled pork, chicken

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and fish (though I did spot a vegetarian version with the corn and black beans of Texas caviar). Nachos named for Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton made me think of Bakersfield’s salads (named for Johnny, June and Willie), and overall, the Salty Cowboy did remind me of the Mass Ave. taco/tequila/whiskey joint. It’s almost as loud, at least in the bar, even on a Sunday night. The music ranged from classic Johnny Cash to current country artists, and if the long communal table we were seated at had been full, conversation would’ve been even harder. But still, it’s a fun bar, with a younger, livelier atmosphere than you might expect in Zionsville. Service was quick and attentive, and our chips and salsas, $3.50, arrived in short order. We liked the thin, crisp chips and the two kinds of salsa, though they were both quite mild; the verde version had just a bit of heat. For entrees, we opted for a pulled pork burrito, $11, which featured lots of tender,

smoky meat, sautéed onions and poblanos We added on a side of that Texas caviar, $3, although we really enjoyed the side that was included: a very tasty verde rice. We also tried two tacos. The pescado, $4, featured battered cod, nicely cooked though under seasoned, which was livened up by a sweet-spicy cabbage and cilantro crema. Next time, I might get the cowboy pescado instead, a spicier version with habanero pineapple salsa. The Corona chicken taco, also $4, was quite mild as well, with lots of juicy, flavorful chicken brightened up with pickled onions. You won’t find much in the way of dessert on the Salty Cowboy menu, just a traditional pecan-infused cream liqueur (for those over 21) and a s’mores jar, $7, which the menu says is enough to share — so we opted for that. And while the small canning jar (again with the jar) of graham cracker crumbs, chocolate pudding and marshmallows was certainly an uncomplicated dessert, it was tasty. And while I would have liked a smaller graham cracker layer and a bigger (and richer) chocolate pudding layer, we certainly ate it up. Kind of like the restaurant itself — kitschy and uncomplicated but definitely appealing. n Jolene Ketzenberger covers local food at EatDrinkIndy.com. You can follow her on Twitter @JKetzenberger.

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Triton Brewing at their third anniversary is maintaining its original trajectory “to build a healthy and vibrant organization and continue to grow the brand, with quality and consistency as our “Watch-words.” Our goal is to grow only as large as quality will allow,” offers David Waldman, operations director/ founder. With Railsplitter at 7% ABV and 70 IBU’s as Triton’s flagship beer, they immediately signaled their intention “to provide one of the biggest flavor profiles for each brand that we produce, [ensuring] big flavor and balance.” Building liaisons with the Fort Benjamin Harrison neighborhood has been central to its mission, as has leadership within the industry. “Triton has hosted aspiring brewers and brewery owners in the process of getting their own breweries open. We do collaborations with other local breweries and we have been helping push legislation that will make it possible to do Contract Brewing in Indiana. We work with local colleges and universities to provide internships and with academically based entrepreneurial programs,” summarizes Waldman. Triton’s 3rd anniversary party on Sept. 20 is family friendly 2-5 p.m. and adult only 6-10 p.m., timed for the CANvitational crowd to move from Georgia St. downtown to 5764 Wheeler Rd. in Lawrence. QUAFFTOBERFEST Craft Beer & Music Festival, Sept. 20-21at Bill Monroe Music Park & Campground in Bean Blossom, launches Quaff On! Brewing’s “Aquaffalypse” — a 90-minute IPA. Brewers Mark Havens and David Watkins report it’s dryhopped with Brown County-grown Cascade hops from Waltz Valley Farms. More at quafftoberfest. com and 812-988-6006. To reserve a camping spot or golf cart: beanblossom.us or 800-414-4677. Nathan Scruggs, formerly RAM assistant brewer, is now Head Brewer at Rock Bottom College Park. Mike Freeman, a familiar presence at Great Fermentations, is Scott Ellis’ new assistant brewer. “Mike has been an avid homebrewer and wine maker (including time as a professional winemaker at a small boutique winery) for 10 plus years and was a chemist in his previous career,” reports Ellis. Oktoberfest, pumpkin and other vegetable and fruit brews are being tapped and are appearing in cans and bottles all over. Oaken Barrel’s specialty Apple Buzz arrives mid-October. Most unusual is Half Moon’s Chocolate Coconut Porter. “The flavor is a little bit like a Mounds candy bar,” says brewer John Templet. It’s a contrasting taste against Scarlet Lane’s Dorian Coconut Stout. Sept. 17: Upland Brewpub, 350 W. 11th St., Bloomington, hosts the new album by Jeff and Spencer Tweedy, starting at 7 p.m.

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hat happens when a franchise falls apart at the top level, but the brickand-mortar stores live on? They become Pasquale’s, once an Indianapolis pizza chain that ran aground as a franchise, but the individual businesses carried on as independent pizzerias. There are a handful of them still afloat in the Indianapolis area, and one (located at 1135 E. Troy Ave.) recently fell into the hands of Tom and Edward Battista, the father-and-son restauranteur duo with hands in Bluebeard, Milktooth, and Amelia’s Bakery. I chatted with the younger Battista on the phone about his plans for the neighborhood pizza joint. And, like the wise business man the Battistas proven to be in the past, they’re not trying to fix anything that ain’t broke. Or rather, they’re not trying to fix anything that is pizza. After all, the business has been in continuous operation since 1959, making it a likely candidate for the oldest continuously operat-

ing pizza place in Indianapolis. It’s a delicate balance when you take over a mom-and-pop restaurant where there is history between the locals and the food—and probably none more intimidating than a place with 50 years of history to stand on. Unlike the Battista’s other business, though, they

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their money local. McKinney hopes to keep government intervention in the project small, limiting their role to setting up guidelines for qualification and letting consumers choose beyond that. “The idea is that we would sort of help manage a brand. The Indiana Grown label, or whatever it might be — it may go by a different name — we would help establish the brand and the rules — the white lines down the highway, as it were — so that everyone who wants to can participate; so we have more consumption and production of Indiana Grown products.” The possible label qualifications would not be dependent on a farm’s use of technology or farm size, from the half-acre urban farmers to commercial producers. “This absolutely would be for small farms, but it’s also for large farms. It’s also silent on levels of technology. It could be someone who’s [growing] organic, and for people who use or seek out the benefits of a biotechnology crop.” The commission’s only concern, as far as labeling, is whether or not the end product was produced in Indiana. That also means the Indiana Grown label will have to expand to fit a wider definition of what “Indiana Grown” means. “Red Gold, for example. Maybe not all of their tomatoes come out of the ground in Indiana, but the vast majority do and they are certainly processed here. Red Gold may seek to use an Indiana Grown

here are two things that Ted McKinney, Director of the Indiana Department of Agriculture, knows for sure: Indiana agriculture is much more diverse than the current marketing reflects, and Hoosiers love to shop local. So a while back, the ISDA came up with Indiana Grown, a program that would, in theory, “provided the producers that wish to use it and opportunity to add a label in the hopes that it might have value.” Like the Real California seal that goes on all California-grown produce, McKinney hoped the availability of the sticker would be a huge incentive to both the consumer and the producers. Except, as McKinney so tidily summed up, “it has simply not worked. “ In the true spirit of our agricultural roots, McKinney and the ISDA tilled up that soil and started over to make the program work again. The first step was securing the votes to form a commission in the legislature, which turned out to be one of the easiest parts. “The Indiana legislature, to their credit, introduced and passed unanimously — no dissenting votes either in committee or either chamber — legislation that called for the creation of a commission with very diverse backgrounds that would then help us help the state structure an Indiana grown pro“When we say ‘all agricultural gram that would be more vibrant and more useful products,’ we mean it.” to everybody, from producers to restaurateurs, — TED MCKINNEY, DIRECTOR OF THE retailers, and everyone in INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE between,” McKinney said. The first step for the commission is to decide on what the label. But it could go all the way to hardguidelines should be for a producer to wood timber. Most people do not know be allowed to label it “Indiana Grown.” that Indiana is renowned nationally for One major change the commission will it’s hardwoods for use in office furniture make is to widen the definition for what and the like. So when we say ‘all agriculcounts as being “grown,” which they tural products,’ we mean it.” would like to expand to fit anything that The commission’s next meeting will comes out of the soil or fed by Indiana be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, produced grain — from lumber to pork Sept. 17 at Indiana Farm Bureau, 225 and tomatoes. That means Indiana S. East Street Indianapolis, in Meeting Grown labels on items from the hardRoom 7 Central. The commission’s meetware store to the grocery store, allowing ings are open to the public and free parkmore opportunities for consumers keep ing is available. n

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True, Join the Dead aren’t trying to create their own musical bandwagon for others to jump on. But that doesn’t make their debut album, Distorted Cognition, any less of a formidable introduction. Featuring current and former members of Rowco, Dent, Phoenix on the Faultline and Eyes On Fire, Join the Dead’s groove-oriented hard rock/ metal hybrid was a common noise over the last couple decades — something right at home on X103 before they became Alt 103.3. That may not satisfy every headbanger, but it doesn’t sound like Join the Dead care either. With Distorted Cognition, they’re aiming at those who like to rock but still enjoy discernible hooks they can hang their chain wallets on. Every member of this quartet offers an important contribution. Guitarists Steve Boyles and James Sweeney slash and burn throughout, while the rhythm section of drummer Jason Carr and bassist Casey McDermott introduce enough tempo changes to keep attentions spanning. Singer Sahar Montalvo might be the most valuable player here. He simply wears these songs like skin, effortlessly oscillating between clean and harsh vocals and climbing an emotional ladder from calm to cacophonic. That range comes in handy when you have tracks like “Oceans,” a mid-tempo manifesto that turns dancey on the choruses before inviting everyone to the pit. Just as important, the production on Distorted Cognition is stellar. Produced and engineered by Brian “Bone” Thorburn at Threshold Studios, he gives every instrument its due space in the mix without overpowering the others. There’s also plenty of effects — from vinyl static, surround sound and bottomless echoes — that accentuate rather than get in the way of the songs. For those who like their rock with an unbridled sense of melodic ferocity, Join the Dead undoubtedly salutes you. Their album release show is 7 p.m. Sept. 19 at the Rock House Cafe, with guests Pragmatic, Standout Story and Dead Man’s Grill. Admission is $7 at the door. — WADE COGGESHALL

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ntigone is considered to be the world’s first feminist. She’s a Greek legend. She’s not a myth, she’s a legend. [She] lived,” says Kristen EllisHenderson, the guitarist for Antigone Rising, a four-piece country act coming to the Rathskeller for a show tonight. When I spoke with Ellis-Henderson, we did talk about her band’s two new EPs, Whiskey & Wine, Vol. 1 and 2. And we talked about her band’s plan to resist stagnation in a difficult music industry by changing the release model. But mostly we talked about women. Like, her wife, Sarah Kate Ellis-Henderson, who happens to be the president of GLAAD. And her band, who happen to be all women (all gay women, actually). And all women and girls Antigone Rising wants to inspire with their new foundation Girl Bands Rock. Plus Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Tegan and Sara, Pink and Carrie Underwood, too. Antigone Rising have strong feelings about women’s place in the music industry, and the myriad ways it proves difficult to succeed as an all-female group. There’s no easy answers, but EllisHenderson is convinced that representation – simply modeling for young girls and boys that being a woman in an all-female band is a possibility – is the most effective way of changing the system from within. Before we get into the Q&A: There’s a reason you might recognize Ellis-Henderson, even if you’re not a country music fan. She and her wife Sarah Kate were on the cover of TIME in 2013 (kissing!) as part of a story by David Von Drehle called “Gay Marriage Already Won.” Together, they also penned a book, Times Two: Two Women in Love and The Happy Family They Made, about the birth of their two children.

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bands in music, in general. A woman in the music industry is a pretty big anomaly, actually. A fully sustained artist. Last year, at the MTV Music Awards, when Miley Cyrus was gyrating against Robin Thicke, it just, to me, and to us, really shone a light on what is so wrong with our cultural and with the music industry. It inspired us to start our own foundation called Girl Bands Rock. Because we feel the reason that there aren’t more all-female bands, self-sustained, fully-sufficient bands, is because kids don’t see it. Kids don’t see it on TV. They don’t know that they can [do that]. Very often, the case is that if you don’t see it, you don’t know you can be it. So there’s an argument for that – there’s never been a female president because we’ve never seen a female president, you know? What we’re trying to do now, is that when we go out on tour is that we’re doing outreach programs in schools and

in youth centers. We’re really just, more or less, modeling what an all-female band looks like. They’re not going to get it on TV, they’re not going to get it on mainstream media. ... There are bands now like Sick of Sarah and Hunter Valentine and they’re so cool, but they’re not allowed to have any mainstream success. I’m really hoping that’s changing. They’re a little younger than we are now and they’re hitting it really hard right now. They’re in a different time in their lives. They’re good bands, you know? They’re as good as any guy bands. I hope that they get some credit for it, and they break through this ceiling. We were on tour with The Bangles a couple years ago and we were talking to the Peterson sisters. They were like, “What the hell? We were so sure that after we broke and all the success that we had that it would be like floodgates [of all girl bands].” Even The Bangles were saying this! “There was The Go-Go’s, and then us, and then we just figured, here we go! It’s going to change everything.” But there hasn’t been a successful all-female band since The Bangles. We were the closest thing that came to it. SEE, ANTIGONE RISING, ON PAGE 28

NUVO: Your press release for this tour calls you a “feminist country band.” Tell me what that means. KRISTEN ELLIS-HENDERSON: Obviously, we’re feminists, so it makes sense, right? It does sort of fly in the face of what some country music sort of represents. It is an interesting thing to be. And all female

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ANTIGONE RISING, FROM PAGE 26 We got signed to Atlantic, we were on Lava, stuff happened with VH1. It seemed like we were going to break that way. And somehow the music industry just put the breaks on. NUVO: When you said that, I immediately started searching my brain for a successful contemporary all-female band. I remember when Beyonce was touring a couple years ago and did her Superbowl show with an all-female backing band. It was very cool, but I think it was just a feature on that tour. ELLIS-HENDERSON: Exactly. It was her backing band. They were a band, but still. But even just to put that image into the minds of young boys and young girls that are watching is awesome. But that’s true. They’re not a band, and that’s the worst part about it. It’s the kitsch. And that shouldn’t be. It shouldn’t be such a novelty. And those girls were crushing it, that backup band was amazing. And Beyonce is psychotic. In the music industry there are amazingly powerful women artists, but there are way more disasters, though. The Beyonces are few and far between. I think Pink is amazing. But even still, these aren’t women that are coming out and writing their songs. Pink is writing her songs, but [she’s not] coming out, playing guitar. Don’t get me wrong, Pink is literally catapulting around arenas, so what she’s doing is phenomenal. But when you think about it, it’s what she has to be doing to be phenomenal, as a woman in the music industry. She can’t just get up there and play her guitar like Ed Sheeran. If Pink came out strumming an acoustic guitar, singing the songs that she sings – and they’re phenomenal songs – would she even be noticed? Would they bother? ... Even Katy Perry, who I really love, sort of demeans herself at every turn. And while she does it in sort of a really cute, self-deprecating way that’s loveable, it’s this weird thing she has to do to be successful. NUVO: What about Taylor Swift? She came out with just her acoustic guitar and her songs that she wrote herself. She’s morphing into a pop act, but I still think she’s separate from the Katy Perrys, Beyonce, Lady Gagas – ELLIS-HENDERSON: Yeah, but she’s trying to be them, right? Now she wants to be them. Taylor Swift is such a great example, if she wasn’t now doing what she’s doing. I have no idea what it’s like to be at that level of success. I do know that whatever level you’re at, you always feel like you’re one second away from losing your foothold. I find as a rule, the women in country music are much more relatable to me, at least. 28 MUSIC // 09.17.14 - 09.24.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO

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NUVO: The Miranda Lamberts and Carrie Underwoods of the world? ELLIS-HENDERSON: Totally. Carrie Underwood, what a voice on that girl. But when you think about it, both of those girls you just named have careers in the music industry because they won a TV show [singing contest]. NUVO: Indiana is the in midst of a fight for marriage equality. Is there a difference for you, as an out artist and an advocate going to an Indiana, or a North Carolina, or a Vermont or California? ELLIS-HENDERSON: I find as an out artist that when we do go to these states that are turning down the ballots, where equality doesn’t exist … before there was equality in certain states, the whole country you just felt like a minority. You were a minority. Now that we have equality in certain states, I feel like when I go to states that don’t have equality, I feel like it’s more hostile. It’s not like anything is happening to me in that state, not like anyone is throwing eggs at me onstage. I just feel less equal. I do. I can’t stop myself. North Carolina just had a vote, and we were headed to North Carolina literally right around the time that equality was turned down. I just felt like, I don’t want to go to North Carolina. What are we doing? Back in the ‘90s, I remember marching on Washington. We weren’t marching for

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marriage equality. That didn’t even occur to my brain. I was never getting married! We were there just to exist. Just to not be killed. We just wanted to not be hated. That was all we were marching for, to not be totally hated by our families, or be outcasts anymore. Two million people showed up in DC, in 1993. It wouldn’t have even occurred to us to think [about marriage equality]. But we were there, angry and ready to fight, and we wanted something. And if anyone had said, you should be fighting for marriage equality, I would have said, “What does that even mean?” It’s one of those things that’s like a huge mind-blowing concept. But once you put the idea in our head, in all of our heads, that yeah, why do I think this is okay? To pay taxes to live in a country that doesn’t believe in who I am? Now, when I go to a state when it doesn’t exist, or where they’re fighting against it, it makes me feel like I can’t be there. Why are we coming here? But the fans want to see you. It’s so disheartening, to think that exists. NUVO: Tell me about the decision to release two EPs in a year instead of one full album. ELLIS-HENDERSON: So, the music industry is obviously a disaster. It always has been, I’ve always found it to be that way since we’ve been in it. You cannot keep up, you’ve just got to keep reinventing it and finding new ways to be creative and to keep your fans

engaged with what you’re doing. We hadn’t put a record out in about two years, so we really needed to put out something new. Our initial idea was to just start putting out one song at a time, and put out one a month, and at the end of six months, turn it into an EP that you can sell at shows. For the most part, we find that our fans are downloading. They very rarely order CDs online now, but at live shows, they love to buy CDs, have you sign it, meet you after the show. But because we hadn’t put new product out in a few years, we decided instead to put the five-song EP out first, and then, instead of saying we’re “releasing a single,” saying that we’re celebrating each song on the album. We’re trying to make videos for each song, do alternate mixes, or interesting versions, just to keep the fans engaged. So we’re doing five songs in March, and five songs that we’re going to release in October. The real strategy behind it is that, I think, that any artist in this day and age that disappears from their fans news feeds for any amount of time … people will forget all about you. Certainly don’t disappear for two and a half years making a new album, which is typically what most artists do. You make an album, then go and tour in support of the album. So you spend six months to a year writing the album, then six months to a year recording the album, then six months to a year touring the album. And now you’re three years … by the time you get another album out. You might as well be dead. Everybody thinks, whatever happened to Britney Spears? Why, because it’s been six months since she did anything? So we just realized that our strategy is to don’t disappear. And to keep it interesting, with a constant stream of content. I think that it’s really tricky for most artists. If you’re an artist who doesn’t also have a bit of a business mind, which is common, you [can disappear]. If you think of the artists that we’re losing because they’re not creatively thinking in this way, we’re probably missing a lot of good music. But you’ve got to keep up with the Joneses if you want to stay alive in this business. … I know what our bank account looks like. I know what our taxes look like every year. We’re doing fine, we’re staying the same, not drowning or dying. Our fans are making sure of it. We’re doing the crowd-funding thing, and I think that works amazingly well. Because you get to cut out this middle man, the record label, who takes a huge cut. And you get to make all the choices. It’s kind of amazing, you know. You don’t have to worry about anyone telling us what to wear, or not to be out. You have a lot more freedom that way. n This interview has been condensed and edited. There is more from Kristen on NUVO.net

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space at the same time. Another divergence from other competitions, says Harrison, is the music itself. “They can play anything they want within any combination of five elements: an original tune, a jazz standard and a blues standard, as a soloist and as a trio,” he says. Commenting on “the wish of some judges that it would be easier to judge if everyone played the same tune[s],” Harrison jokes, “My life is not to make life easier for the judges,” adding, “We are about assisting the artist.” “When the finalists come together in May 2015 from May 2014, we will have watched each player’s growth in personal confidence,” Harrison says. “So we have an intensity of a different sort, where each person is striving to develop himself.” Each of the finalists comes with an already impressive resume of awards and public appearances with major jazz figures and as soloists. LA-based Kris Bowers won the 2011 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition. NYC-based Christian Sands is a two-time Grammy Award-nominated pianist. Indianapolis native Zach Lapidus received a fellowship at Ravinia’s Steans Institute for Young Artists. Miami-based Emmet Cohen was a finalist in the 2011 Thelonious Monk International Competition. New Orleansbased Sullivan Fortner received the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship. APA moved its national headquarters to Indianapolis in 1982. Competitions for jazz pianists began in 1992. APA’s purpose has evolved into one of developing significant professional careers through its fellowships by providing concerts, recordings, and other professional services, explains Harrison, adding, “The New York Times has described [our] work as “profound early career assistance.” n

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e’re always creating new buzz.” That's Joel M. Harrison’s assessment of American Pianists Association activities — and it isn’t mere hype. Simultaneous with appearances by current classical and jazz fellows at venues worldwide, new contenders are preparing to showcase as part of the Jazz Fellowship Premiere Series, with the first beginning next Saturday at the Jazz Kitchen with Christian Sands. For Harrison, APA artistic director and president, “not maintaining the status quo” is the underlying force that keeps the 35-year-old organization healthy and vibrant, and in the spotlight. Every appearance by one of the fellows or a finalist brings mention of The American Pianists Association, headquartered right here in Indianapolis. Every two years, an American pianist between the ages of 18 and 30 is awarded one classical fellowship or one jazz fellowship. 2014-15 spotlights the jazz fellowship through a series of programs, leading to naming the American Pianists Associations Cole Porter Fellow in Jazz on March 28, at the Hilbert Circle Theatre. The position includes a $50,000 cash prize, and each finalist receives $10,000. After the fellow is chosen, the pace never abates. In the midst of giving each new fellow two years of career assistance [worth $50,000], they participate in a range of appearances, recording opportunities, education and community outreach programs and media and management training. In early 2014, a panel sifted through 42 potential contenders. On May 21, at New York City’s Rubin Museum of Art, the APA announced the five finalists [in no particular order]: Christian Sands, Sullivan Fortner, Emmet Cohen, Zach Lapidus and Kris Bowers. Each presented one composition inspired by a work of art at the Rubin. And then, unlike any other competition, all seems to go quiet for four months as finalists go about their usual pursuits and prepare their programs for the intimacy of Indianapolis’ Jazz Kitchen. Another unique aspect, points out Harrison, is presenting each finalist in a solo appearance. “It’s the sense of ‘I am the artist,' “ he says, of the solo program. This takes away the intense pressure of contending against four others in the same

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ranje, Indy’s annual showcase of music and art, returned last weekend to the Centennial Hall and Dow AgroSciences Celebration Park at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. A variety of rotating musical acts performed on five stages and over 40 artists presented works ranging from contemporary to the experimental. For 2014, Oranje added a

Record Store Lounge in the bottom level of Centennial Hall which was filled with bins of vinyl records for sale provided by local Indy CD and Vinyl and LUNA Music. An outdoor beer garden offered selections of local craft beers and the Uber booth offered discounted rates to those needing a ride home.

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here's a reason Bloomington's Lotus Fest has been around for 21 years. Every autumn, Lotus Fest organizers bring a carefully curated selection of the world's greatest musicians to the Hoosier state for a weekend full of unforgettable performances. In addition to the always brilliant artist lineups, Lotus Fest benefits from a thoughtful approach to the sequencing and placement of acts within the festival schedule. The Lotus format allows attendees the option of choosing among a rich variety of concert experiences, from intimate chamber style performances to all-out street parties highlighting global hip-hop and dance music styles. The considerations outlined above are just a few of the reasons why I regard Lotus as the best music festival in Indiana. While the 24 groups on this year's Lotus roster don't feature as many star acts as years past, that's really not the point anyway. The joy of Lotus is often found in the experience of discovering exciting new sounds, and this year’s schedule provides ample opportunity. If you decide to make the trek to Bloomington for Lotus this weekend, below is a list of performers I recommend checking out.

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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.

instruments Van-Ahn Vanessa Vo is a one-women musical tour de force. While Vo is most closely associated with playing the Vietnamese zither (called the đàn tran), she also performs on the dan bau, one of my favorite instruments in the world. The quivering tones produced by the one-stringed dan bau sound at times like a theremin. Sergio Mendoza Y La Orkesta Channeling a variety of sounds from Mexico and the American Southwest Mendoza and company have created a compelling and danceable style they call "indie mambo." Featuring waves of shimmering psychedelic slide guitar washing over the percolating cumbia and rumba rhythms, Mendoza's indie mambo sound comes highly recommended by me.

The quivering tones produced by the one-stringed dan bau sound at times like a theremin. Aurelio Martinez Honduran musician Aurelio Martinez is one of the greatest living exponents of Garifuna music, and my top pick for Lotus Fest 2014. The Garifuna people of Central America represent one of the world's most unique cultural traditions. A blend of African and indigenous Caribbean ancestry, the Garifuna people have become famous for their vibrant form of music and dance called punta. The intensely percussive sound of punta exemplifies one of the best-preserved African music traditions in the Americas. Martinez is a master of the more traditional side of Garifuna music, and his soulful vocals are captivating. In addition to being an iconic Central American performer, Martinez is also the first black person to become a congressman in the National Congress of Honduras. Van-Ahn Vanessa Vo As a singer, composer and virtuoso performer on several traditional Vietnamese

Movits! Conceptually speaking, the idea of blending Swedish hip-hop with big band era swing jazz didn't sound exceptionally appealing to me. My apprehension was misplaced – the mix works, and it's quite fun too. Swedish trio Movits! have become major crowd favorites at Lotus, and they'll be making their third appearance at the festival this year. Arga Bileg The seven-piece Arga Bileg play American jazz on Mongolian folk instruments creating a thoroughly unique sound you're not likely to see on Indiana soil outside the confines of Lotus Fest. Nagata Shachu If you've never experienced the thundering rhythms of a Japanese taiko drum ensemble Toronto's Nagata Shachu will provide an excellent opportunity. The six-member ensemble will likely be the loudest group at Lotus this year. > > Kyle Long hosts a show on WFYI’s HD-2 channel on Wednesdays and Saturdays NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 09.17.14 - 09.24.14 // MUSIC 31

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in the early ‘90s, has hung in there through the years, although last year they lost their keyboardist Dre Gipson. They still managed to put out a 5-track EP, though. It’s called Intrinsically Intertwined, and we’re sure they’ll showcase a few tracks from it on Thursday. Locals Coolidge will open. Birdy’s, 2131 E. 71st St., $20 in advance, $25 at door, 21+ SOUL

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WEDNESDAY JAZZ Jazz Fest Various times. Jazz Fest festivities continue all week all around town, including tonight’s double bill of Rob Dixon and The Indianapolis Jazz Collective and Stefon Harris and Cynthia Lane at the IMA. Over at the Kitchen, Old Soul presents a tribute to Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka and Gil Scott-Heron with local artists. Tomorrow’s plans include the Butler Faculty Jazz Quintet and the Grace Kelly Quartet, and the weekend is full of all events, including Saturday’s Indy Jazz Fest Block Party, the smashing close to all 10 days of Jazz Fest. Look on NUVO. net for more information on specific events, and picks from the editors. various locations, prices vary, some all-ages, some 21+ BLUEGRASS Trampled by Turtles 8 p.m.This bluegrass might appeal to people who don’t even like bluegrass. They may be a string band, but their songs contain elements of pop. Dave Simonett’s voice portrays emotion easily, and the light but effective instrumentals really compliment his vocals in this album. Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., prices vary, all-ages

Brett Harris, Big Star 4 Heavy Hometown, Melody Inn, 21+ Don Williams, Colm Kirwan, Murat Theatre at Old National Centre, all-ages Trabajo, Mezzanine Swimmers, Open Sex, Rob Funkhouser, The Cream (Bloomington), all-ages Retro Rewind, Vogue, 21+ Two Man Gentlemen Band, The Bishop (Bloomington), 18+ Karaoke with Magik, Weebls Bar and Grill, 21+ Blues Jam, Main Event, 21+ Jay Elliott and Friends, Tin Roof, 21+ Blues Jam with Gordon Bonham, Slippery Noodle, 21+ The Family Jam, Mousetrap, 21+

THURSDAY DANCE Pierce Fulton 10 p.m. Fulton recently released a debut record on influential UK label Cr2 Records – and it climbed up to number 2 on Beatport Top 100 electro house releases almost immediately. From organizers: “Pierce is considered to be one of the hugely talented ‘Nu Skool’ producers making a huge impact on the dance scene. Pierce’s recent remix of the MTV Ibiza backed ‘Don’t Be Afraid’ by MYNC, Ron Carroll & Dan Castro introduced a whole new wave of hype for the young up-and-comer.” This is one of those

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shows you’ll want to catch while he’s still in the $10-range – one of those “I saw him when ...” shows. Expect support from Sinclair, Joshua Freeman and Dane Rohl. The Bluebird, 216 N. Walnut St., (Bloomington), $7 in advance, $10 at door, 21+ FESTIVAL Lotus World Music and Arts Festivals Various times. It’s the big one! Celebrating its 21st birthday is the festival that brings artists and musicians from around the world to Downtown Bloomington.The festival kicks off with a concert featuring Hungarian band Söndörgö and Italian group Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino and doesn’t stop there. Lotus is truly a “world festival” featuring acts from Spain, Honduras, Mongolia, Ireland, Tunisia, Sweden, India, Denmark and many more. But it’s more than just music. A Festival Arts Village will feature a wide range of artistic abilities from sculpting to chalk art. More free programming can be found in the park where interactive workshops will be held and you’ll even be able to create some of your own amazing art at the arts and crafts tables. Don’t miss Kyle Long’s picks for Lotus on page 31. various locations, (Bloomington), various prices, some all-ages, some 21+ SKA Fishbone, Coolidge 9 p.m. Barfly let us know about ska/punk fusion group Fishbone’s stop at Birdy’s in last week’s paper, but we’ll go over it again. This group, which experienced their biggest success

Kool’s Bazaar Album Release Party 9 p.m. Haven’t seen any good neo-soul lately? We’re guessing Kool’s Bazaar will speak to you. They’ve got a new vocalist and are releasing an album at this Thursday show at the Hi-Fi. Aryk Crowder will open. The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 4 , $10, 21+ Animal Haus, Blu Lounge, 21+ Affiance, Phinehas, Refractions, Sail the Seas Dry, Into the Divine, Voices, Emerson Theater, all-ages Pierce Fulton, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ The KillTones, Darling Down, Melody Inn, 21+

ALBUM RELEASE Join the Dead Album Release 7 p.m. Refer to our album review on page 26. Rock House Cafe, 3940 S. Keystone Ave., $7, 21+ DANCE Dieselboy, Firecat 451, Hollowpoint 8 p.m. Firecat 451 coming the same time as Banned Books Week? This is something Alanis Morrisette would call ironic, but we would just call a coincidental. He’ll open with Hollowpoint for Diselboy, a drum and bass artist with major chart success. Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., $10 in advance, $15 at door, 21+ DANCE Milk N Cookies 10 p.m. Self-described as “twin brothers leading the Post-Bro House movement.” Fair enough. Kilroy’s at the Dunnkirk, 430 E. Kirkwood Ave., (Bloomington), price varies, 21+ Quafftoberfest, Bill Monroe Memorial Music Park and Campground, all-ages

Jazz Faculty Recital, Schrott Center, all-ages

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CJ Boyd, Sedcairn Archives, Magician Johnson, Early Life 8:30 p.m. David Moose Adamson brings the Bloomington debut of his new project Sedcairn Archives to The Cream, alongside Joyful Noise artist/bassist CJ Boyd, Magician Johnson and Early Life. The Cream, 1316 S. Walnut, (Bloomington), $5, all-ages

Tom Harrel Quartet, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Whole Lotta Shakin’ – A Place Pumpin’ Rock and Roll Revue, Brown County Playhouse, all-ages After the Burial, Texas in July, I Declare War, Reflections, Come the Dawn, Robotface, Emerson Theater, all-ages Jamie Kent and The Options, Scarletta, Biergarten at the Rathskeller, 21+ Cornfield Mafia, A Ston’s Throw, 21+ Midnight Mike and The Mauraders, Main Event, 21+ Pfreak Show, That Place Bar and Grill, 21+ Mesa Rain, Chateau Thomas Wine Bar, 21+ DJ Rican, Subterra, 21+ Night Moves with Action Jackson and DJ Megatone, Metro, 21+ WTFridays with DJ Gabby Love and DJ Helicon, Social, 21+

SATURDAY ALBUM RELEASE KO EP Release Show 8 p.m. Great news for fans of Kristin Newborn – she’s finally releasing a debut EP for her project KO. That includes Newborn and drummer Todd Heaton, who recorded the EP earlier this year and will release it on Joyful Noise Recordings. They’ll celebrate with an album release show at Radio Radio, featuring Big Colour and Jorma Whittaker and Bait and Tackle Tabernacle this Saturday at Radio Radio. Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St., $5, 21+ MOON STUFF

FUNDRAISER Julian Jam 6 p.m. KO and Girls Rock! Indy will provide the music, local breweries and winers will provide the drinks and various “food stations” (we’re guessing booths from local eateries) will provide the eats. PLUS – and this is the really exciting part – street-legal rides in all manner of car (it is in the Dallara Factory after all) will be given. All funds raised will support programming for children and families at The Julian Center. Dallara IndyCar Factory, 1201 Main St., 21+

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Autumn Euqinox 3 p.m. Celebrate the Autumn Eqinox with an afternoon of sonic explorations and experiments at the IMA. Minneapolis’ Beatrix*JAR will create a sonic playground with all sorts of kitschy toys and electronics for you to play with. Brian McCutcheon has created an interactive sculpture called Water Mining alongside collaborators Michael Drews and Jordan Munson. They’ll launch a specially modded boat and perform live in tandem with the response to underwater soundscapes broadcast by the sculpture. Stuart Hyatt’s performance is particularly interesting – he solicited tons of guitar players to gather under existing 100 Acres sculpture Team Building (Align) to gentle strum the E major power chord right at 5 p.m.

SOUNDCHECK then, all players will slowly increase volume until what organizers call a “sonic volcano” is achieved. Here’s more: “The work has dual roots in both academic — think John Cage compositions and Fluxus events - and popular culture — think Wayne’s World and Spinal Tap. The setting pays tribute to land and environmental art by responding to the existing topography, but leaves nothing behind except the visual and aural memories of the event.” Don’t worry about bringing food – food trucks and other amenities will be on hand. Indianapolis Museum of Art, 4000 Michigan Road, FREE, all-ages PUNJAB Christel House India 6:30 p.m. With music and dance, Christel House, and Anita Lerche and Gregory Hancock will bring India’s vibrant culture to Indianapolis audiences. It all happens at “An Evening Celebrating Christel House India” at the Athenaeum on Sept. 20. During the evening’s performance, Lerche, a native of Denmark who recently relocated to Indianapolis, will perform the world premiere of her new Hindi song, “India.” The song will be part of her new Punjabi album Sadke Punjab Ton, set to be released in October. Athenaeum, 401 E. Michigan St., FREE, all-ages SONGWRITERS John Prine 8 p.m. What to say of John Prine? That he’s performed for more than

40 years? That he beat cancer twice? That Bob Dylan calls his music, “Midwestern mindtrips to the nth degree?” That people have been giving him lifetime achievment awards for more than a decade but he keeps touring and making music? Consider all of that and more said. Clowes Memorial Hall, 4602 Sunset Ave., prices vary, all-ages

released Three Against Nature, a free four-song EP that goes as hard as their album Self Predator. Keeping close to previous themes is a fast-paced glitchy-electronic sound which coincides perfectly with the groups love for lasers. Get ready to jump because standing still won’t be an option during this show. Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., $16, 21+

local label putting out his tape. DJ Lounge, 1707 Prospect St., FREE, 21+ SINGER-SONGWRITER

BOY BANDS Nick Carter, Jordan Knight 8 p.m. Backstreet Boys’ frontman Nick Carter and New Kids on the Block singer Jordan Knight are touring together – they call themselves Nick & Knight – and stop Friday at Old National Centre. Both guys have performed together as part of NKOTBSB, a combination of NKOTB and Backstreet Boys members that had teenage girls screaming like crazy. But this tour, in support of their self-titled debut album released on September 2 is just the two of them. (But there will still definitely be a lot of screaming.) Murat Theater at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., prices vary, all-ages DANCE Savoy, Bright Lights 11 p.m. After playing at the Deluxe Room earlier this year, high-energy rock-electronic trio Savoy returns to Indianapolis with fellow bassthumping Bright Lights to play at the bigger Egyptian Room as part of the Mo Lasers Mo Problems Tour. And if there really are more lasers than last time, all I have to say is prepare yourselves. Savoy recently

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Gregory Alan Isakov, Sunday at Radio Radio He’s not a part of official Jazz Fest festivities, but this jazz singer will be right at home in Indy during his show on Saturday. (P.S. Can you still hum the theme from Moonlighting in your head? That’s Al Jarreau.) Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, 355 City Center Dr., prices vary, all-ages FOLK The Half Step Sisters 7 p.m. The Indy Folk Series opens with return guests The Half Step Sisters – that’s Katie Burk on fiddle and Julia Conway on double bass, both singing. Future Folk Series shows will include Shiny and The Spoon, The Good Bad Luckys, The Accidentals, Carrie Newcomer and Harpeth Rising. Indy Folk Series, 615 W. 43rd St., prices vary, all-ages CASH Carlene Carter, Morgan Myles 9 p.m. The daughter of June Carter Cash will venture over to the Hi-Fi on Saturday with Morgan Myles. If the stars align, we’ll have an interview with her on NUVO.net before the show. The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste 215, $25, 21+

Pursey, were, the last time they were in the news, operating two different versions of Sham69 – but PRN organizers say this is the original lineup, including both Pursey and Parsons. Another legendary band, California hardcore group Total Chaos, will open, along with The Brothers Gross and The Enders. Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St., $13 in advance, $15 at door, 21+

Gregory Alan Isakov 9:30 p.m. South African singer-songwriter Gregory Alan Isakov’s last album was The Weatherman, recorded alone in Colorado by Isakov. I love his explanation for why he named the album that. He says,”To me, the idea of a weatherman is really powerful. There’s a guy on television or on the radio telling us the future, and nobody cares. It’s this daily mundane miracle, and I think the songs I chose are about noticing the beauty in normal, everyday life.” His songs are simple and achingly beautiful. Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St., $18 in advance, $20 at door, 21+ Heffron Drive, Deluxe at Old Nation Centre, all-ages Adam Kuhn, Street Spirits, Chives, The Curls, Maltese Tiger, all-ages Hometown Roots Concert, Indianapolis Public Library, all-ages W.T. Feaster and Friends, Slippery Noodle, 21+ Off to The Moon, Melody Inn, 21+ Reggae Revolution, Casba, 21+

Harper, Biergarten at the Rathskeller, 21+ Autum Music Fest, Jon E. Gee’s Music Room, all-ages Irish Music and Language Classes, Garfield Park Arts Center, all-ages Oliver Winery’s Harvest Wine Festival, Oliver Winery, all-ages Playing for Change Day: Concert with the Tides Trio, Indianapolis Public Library, all-ages Krista DeTor at Living Lightly Fair, Minnestrista Cultural Center, all-ages Nailed It, Blu, 21+ Royal with DJ Limelight, The Hideaway, 21+

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Sham69, Total Chaos, BroGro, Enders 10 p.m. Punk Rock Night sometimes really brings the heat. This is one of those Saturdays. That’s because Sham69 is coming, the Hersham punk band that has gone through – as many of those old punk bands have – a variety of lineup reconstructions over the years. Guitarist Dave Parsons and frontman Jimmy

Digital Dots Tape Release Show 9 p.m. Jon Wood is at DJs on a lot of Sunday nights, but this Sunday night is something special. That’s because he’s finally releasing Greatest Hits on tape this Sunday at a show with DMA and Sirius Black. We’ll have an interview with Wood on NUVO.net on Thursday; until then, just keep refreshing Holy Infinite Freedom Revival’s Bandcamp – that’s the

Dynamite!, Mass Ave Pub, 21+ Acoustic Bluegrass Open Jam, Mousetrap, 21+

MONDAY Thomas Brinkley, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Industry Mondays, Red Room, 21+ Chris Shaffer, Slippery Noodle Inn, 21+

TUESDAY RADIO-READY Kongos 8 p.m. You know this band. It’s the one that features a chorus of massive bass drums and a man screaming “Ohhhh, come with me now,” over and over. That’s from their new album Lunatic, which made the alt-rock indie band one of VH1’s You Oughta Know: Artists on the Rise. Deluxe at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., $15, all-ages Claude Bourbon, Indianapolis Arts Garden, all-ages Broke(n), Melody Inn, 21+

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Head N. Swallow and The Infinite Soreness I performed oral sex on a guy and swallowed. A few hours later my throat was extremely sore. Should I go to the doctor? — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: Yep, but you should always go to the doctor if something is acutely, extremely sore. However, the incubation period of most viruses and infections is a lot longer than a few hours or minutes. There are a bunch of possible reasons your throat hurts, but only your doctor will be able to tell you which one it is. DR. D: I would be surprised if you had any STI-related symptoms within hours of exposure. However, I’m glad you are aware that STIs - including chlamydia, gonorrhea, herpes - can be transmitted via oral sex. Your sore throat could be due to a cold, due to strep throat, or to a previous exposure to an STI and it’s smart to ask a healthcare provider if you have a question about your body.

Chicken soup for the hole I know aphrodisiac foods are fake, but is there anything you can eat that makes for better sex? Like how eating a banana prevents cramping in sports? — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: Being neither a sports nutritionist nor a medical professional, I can’t recommend any foods based on researched science. Anecdotally, however, I can give you a lengthy list of foods to avoid in order to save yourself from a potentially disastrous bedroom romp: any food in which chili and nacho cheese are the main condiments, anything served from a mobile food distribution location of any kind, particularly gassy cruciferous vegetables, any and all beans, a solo six pack, and anything eaten competitively. Get some complex, slow-burning carbs in there for long-lasting fuel and get ready to go all night, if that’s your thing. Basically, treat your pre-sex meal like any other pre-workout meal: something that keeps you going without slowing you down. DR. D: Your timing is fantastic! Here at The Kinsey Institute we have a new art exhibit opening around the theme of 34 VOICES // 09.17.14 - 09.24.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO

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DR. DEBBY HERBENICK & SARAH MURRELL aphrodisiacs. I hope you’ll come and check it out - the opening is this Friday, September 19 from 4:30 to 7pm on the IU Bloomington Campus: As for foods and better sex, I know of no foods that will give you instantly better sex. However, some research suggests that a Mediterranean Diet (heavy on lean proteins such as fish, good oils, nuts, veggies, etc) is linked to better sexual function for both women and men. Still the idea is that it’s an ongoing diet and not something you can eat today for better sex tonight.

No butts about it My BF is really freaked out by any girl touching anything near his butt. Like, no touching whatsoever, and he will actually jump if you graze too close to the crack. I have no desire to do anything butt-related with him but its really distracting to have to remind myself to be so careful around his butt. What’s up with that and how do I help him get over it? — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: Butt anxiety is real. And while it’s not your job to delve deeply into its root causes like a psychoanalytical spelunker, you should respect that anxiety. After all, you’d expect him to have the same respect for your body, right? From what you describe about this pretty extreme nocontact rule, I might reset your sights on a smaller goal than “getting him over it” because a) it’s still not your job and b) you’ve phrased this problem in such a way that tells me you think of this as inconvenient for you. Instead, approach it as a conversation first before you start trying to put your hands where your fella doesn’t want hands. DR. D: Some people simply aren’t used to having anyone or anything near their butt and the sensation is strange and not pleasant. Others associate negative feelings with anything anal due to a history of health issues (like hemorrhoids), older brother roughhousing, sports team or fraternity hazing (which can include forms of sexual assault that are often not recognized or talked about), or sexual abuse. Whatever the reason for his jumpiness, it’s his reason. If it’s super distracting and getting in the way of your sex life, try to (gently and kindly) let him know this and see how you might be able to slowly get him more comfortable with full body touching. For example, as he grows to trust you more perhaps you can suggest that you give him a full body massage. He would be naked and lying face down on the bed. Using a lotion or massage oil, start by rubbing his shoulders and neck, then lower back. The first time or two that you massage him, don’t go anywhere near his butt.

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It’s trust enough that he’s letting you massage him in this vulnerable way. As he and you become more comfortable, ask if you can massage him a little closer to his butt. Always ask before you touch and don’t surprise him or try to be funny by touching his butt without his permission. GO SLOWLY. If you’re a woman… You know how gynecologists usually give you fair warning before inserting a speculum into your vagina or a finger in your anus? Fair warning matters. Ask - and only if he says yes - massage close to his butt. And when he’s ready, see if he’ll be comfortable with you massaging his butt cheeks. If you and he are able to get to that point, he - and his body - may learn that you can be trusted around his butt. Everyone has sensitivities. They may be physical or emotional or both. Good for you for doing your best to be attentive to his.

Spit or spit? My boyfriend’s a heavy smoker, and it makes his cum taste really awful. I know it’s the smoking because it tasted way better after he quit for a few months last year. Aside from obviously quitting, is there anything he can do or eat that will make it better? — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: I’m not going to cast aspersions about the nature of your relationship, but have you thought about, oh I don’t know, not swallowing? I mean, barring the presence of an actual gun to your head (in which case, the taste of the semen would be the least of your problems), who says you have to imbibe his foul-tasting jizz? If you’re trying to avoid a mess, which do understand, then just keep a box

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of Kleenex close at hand and let him know, with care and respect, that you’re not going to choke down any more bowling alley-flavored baby juice until he gets his habit under control. Otherwise, tell him to load up on fresh fruit and chlorophyll-rich (bright and dark green) veggies, which are both natural deodorizers of the whole body. DR. D: Probably not. Cigarette smoking is, as you know from personal experience, linked to less pleasant odors and tastes, including of semen. Of course, beauty (and taste) are in the eye of the beholder but many people would agree with you on this. There are certain ideas that sugary and watery fruits like pineapple might enhance the taste of ejaculate, though it’s never been studied. And there is certainly no data on whether it can counteract the icky effects of cigarette smoke on semen, but it may be worth a try. Another option is to not swallow. Your boyfriend gets to choose whether to smoke or not and you also get to make choices, including whether to swallow or not. If you haven’t yet shared this new piece of info with him, you might: not only is smoking not great for taste, but cigarette smoking is also linked with erectile problems later in life.

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America has more trees than it did a hundred years ago. Aggressive efforts to replace the decimated old-growth forests have paid off. The bad news is that the new forests have a far less diverse selection of tree species than the originals. The fresh batches are often crowded into smaller spaces, so wildfires are more massive and devastating. And because so many of the forests are young, they host a reduced diversity of plant and animal life. All in all, the increased quantity is wonderful; the lower quality not so wonderful. Is there a lesson here for you? I think so. In your upcoming decisions, favor established quality over novel quantity. Capricorn

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “My definition of a devil is a god who has not been recognized,” said mythologist Joseph Campbell. “It is a power in you to which you have not given expression, and you push it back. And then, like all repressed energy, it builds up and becomes dangerous to the position you’re trying to hold.” Do you agree, Pisces? I hope so, because you will soon be entering the Get Better Acquainted with Your Devil Phase of your astrological cycle, to be immediately followed by the Transform Your Devil into a God Phase. To get the party started, ask yourself this question: What is the power in you to which you have not given expression? Pisces

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