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Exactly ten years ago today, the Pacers/Pistons brawl erupted during a game in the Palace of Auburn Hills, Michigan. (See Kent Sterling’s essay on p. 16.) NUVO had a few takes on the Malice in the Palace in the Nov. 24, 2004 issue. Steve Hammer, whose tongue may or may not have been planted in his cheek, wrote that “You can add the name of Ron Artest to the long list of victims of the American justice system following his suspension from the NBA. But you can say something else about Ron Artest. He is a MAN …one deserving of your respect and admiration. … Bottom line, Indiana has proved to the entire nation as a badass state. We’re now a state America knows it would be unwise to provoke, lest trouble ensue.” Another feature at the time was a bulletpoint editorial box called “Thumbs Up/ Thumbs Down.” The “Thumbs Down” blurb on the melee read:
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he official word that the self-proclaimed Islamic State had beheaded young Hoosier Abdul-Rahman Peter Kassig came on a day when the skies turned gray. A thin blanket of snow — for centuries a symbol of death and rebirth — fell on the streets, sidewalks and yards where Kassig grew up and went to school. He died far from home at the hands of people determined to see him as something other than what he was — a good-hearted young man who wanted to help others. The Islamic State killers wanted to make him a symbol of American arrogance. In a video released on social media, a masked militant with a disguised voice said: “This is Peter Edward Kassig, a U.S. citizen of your country. Peter, who fought against the Muslims in Iraq while serving as a soldier under the American Army, doesn’t have much to say. His previous cellmates have already spoken on his behalf. But we say to you, Obama, you claim to have withdrawn from Iraq four years ago. We said to you then that you are liars.” As is so often the case in atrocities such as this, the killer’s tone mingled rage and self-righteousness. How often — and how easily — human beings find justifications for murder. Young Kassig’s death brought to a close a heartrending struggle to preserve his life. On one side, his captors were determined to use him as a means by which they could indict the United States and its foreign policy. On the other side, his parents, Ed and Paula Kassig, worked to do something more meaningful and more real — get those captors to see their son not as a flag or a uniform, but as a human being. To do that, the Kassigs just told their son’s story. Peter Kassig was a young man who graduated from North Central High School in Indianapolis and enlisted in the U.S. Army Rangers. He was honorably discharged for medical reasons and returned home to go to college. On a spring break trip to the Middle East, he, an emergency medical technician, decided he could help people
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in a troubled part of the world. He left school, devoted himself to humanitarian work, began the process of converting to Islam and, in captivity, changed his name to Abdul-Rahman Kassig. He was working on a humanitarian mission when Islamic State militants took him captive on Oct. 1, 2013. They kept him until they killed him. In that time, they apparently never came to see Abdul-Rahman Peter Kassig as a son, as a friend, as a man who wanted to do some good in the world, as a fellow member of the human race. No, they just saw him as a means to an end — a way to make a gruesome statement. That is, of course, what hate does to us. It blinds us first to the humanity of the person before us — and then to the humanity within ourselves. The Kassigs, to their immense credit, have not allowed that hate to claim them. Throughout this ordeal, both parents and son have reminded us, again and again, that, regardless of our nationality or faith, we all are brothers and sisters under the skin. We all hold dear those we love. We all cry when we’re hurt and bleed when we’re cut. Even in their time of immense sorrow, Abdul-Rahman Peter Kassig’s parents asked not for revenge but for reconciliation. They requested that those who mourn their son’s death make contributions to the Syrian American Medical Foundation. They want to continue their son’s legacy of hope. The word that a fine young Hoosier’s life had ended in a land far from home came on a cold, snowy day in Indiana. And, for a moment, that made a gray day even drearier. But Abdul-Rahman Peter Kassig and his parents, in a time of tragedy, reminded us of the only forces that can warm and light the bleakest of days — the humanity that links us all and the love that can sustain us in our darkest moments. n
WHAT HAPPENED? ISIS kills Hoosier native A Hoosier native held captive by ISIS for over a year has been killed. Government officials confirmed the authenticity of an online video released by ISIS proclaiming the murder of Hoosier native Abdul-Rahman Kassig. Peter Edward Kassig was abducted in October 2013 while providing medical aid to Syrian refugees in the region. He converted to Islam and changed his name to Abdul-Rahman while in captivity. The released video of his death differs greatly from previous videos showing the murders of U.S. and British nationals held by ISIS. In earlier videos the captives were forced to give a final statement before the proof of their beheading was shown. The latest video simply shows a hooded ISIS member claiming the head at his feet is that of Kassig. No final statement was given. Governor Pence has declared a period of mourning in Indiana in Kassig’s honor. Hogsett kicks off mayoral campaign More than 200 people gathered in Martin Luther King Park Thursday to hear former U.S. Attorney Joe Hogsett officially announce his campaign for mayor of Indianapolis. Hogsett pointed to the issues of crime, education, and neighborhood investment as areas in which “Indianapolis must do better.” He listed the ways he thought he could do better as Indy’s mayor including the return of community policing to neighborhoods; neighborhood investment like previous downtown investment, educational needs, and job creation. District 86 State Representative Ed Delaney has been kicking around the idea of a run for mayor but has yet to make any official announcement. With Mayor Ballard announcing he will not seek a third term, the Republican ticket is wide open. No one has formally announced any plans yet to seek the office for the GOP. ERB denies hearing for climate action plan The Environmental Rules Board (ERB) for the Indiana Department of Environmental Management refused to grant a public hearing on a petition for a statewide Climate Action Plan. Earth Charter Indiana (ECI) submitted the petition back in June. At that time the board didn’t think they were the proper body to grant the request. However, during the open forum portion of the ERB’s November meeting, Conservation Law Center Director William Weeks told the board they did have the legal authority to act on the petition and urged them to do so. Several other speakers, including students, testified on the need for a state climate action plan. Despite fulfilling all of the requirements necessary for a hearing, ERB chairperson Beverly Gard claimed the request was devoid of merit. Board member Tom Anderson protested that claim and moved a hearing be granted, however the motion failed due to the lack of a second. ECI is considering its legal options. — AMBER STEARNS 6 NEWS // 11.19.14 - 11.26.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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wenty years ago last March, President Clinton signed the Executive Order on Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations. The order was in response to private corporations that have historically contributed to and government agencies that had ignored toxic waste and other environmental hazards in disproportionate numbers in low-income neighborhoods and communities with high populations of minorities. To inform and engage the community on environmental justice concerns in Indianapolis, a group of Indiana University McKinney School of Law students will host a panel discussion on Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Bethel A.M.E., 414 W. Vermont St., Indianapolis. “Our focus is to introduce the community to what environmental justice
is and specifically to highlight three main issues we have identified in Indianapolis,” says one of the organizers, Ravay Smith. “At the meeting we will be introducing a Tumblr page we are creating that will highlight the prevailing environmental issues we have identified: 1) Lead; 2) Combined Sewer Overflows; and 3) Economic Hardships that stem from environmental disparities.” “I hope people will just get an idea of environmental justice,” adds Smith, “and also how it affects their own community as well as communities nationally and internationally.” For instance, in MartindaleBrightwood, a predominately AfricanAmerican community bordered by 30th Street to the north, Sherman Drive to the east, Massachusetts Avenue/21st Street to the south and the Monon Trail to the west, lead was discovered in the soil due to a lead smelter that was once located at 21st and Hillside Avenue. According to the Indiana State Department of Health, lead poisoning
“can permanently and irreversibly damage the developing brains and other organs of young children. Serious effects can include lowered intelligence, behavior disorder, and slowed physical development. Once poisoned, a young child’s chances for academic, social and occupational success are significantly diminished.” “As I’ve advocated across the state,” says Indiana NAACP Climate Justice Chair Denise Abdul-Rahman, “I’ve found that lead is a common thread in African-American communities, that and brownfields, industrial plants, and children living in homes built before 1978 with lead in the paint.” While lead paint is considered the leading cause of lead poisoning in children, and various programs, such as the Indiana Lead and Healthy Homes Program, are working to combat this, what happens when the lead is in the soil? According to the Field Sampling Report for the EPA dated April 28, 2014, a lead smelter existed in Martindale-Brightwood for 20 years >>>
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<<< starting in 1946. Following a fire in 1965, the facility shut down. In 1971, several buildings and lead slag piles were removed from the property, and the area remained vacant until 1985. It is currently the site of Irving Materials, Inc. The Environmental Protection Agency and Indiana Department of Environmental Management started investigating the site in the mid 1980s, when a site inspection by the EPA discovered lead contamination was present at 3,247 parts per million. “Between 2005 and 2007, approximately 47,617 tons of non-hazardous lead-contaminated soil were excavated from properties in the vicinity of the Site and disposed of at the Clinton County Landfill,” according to the April 2014 report. The EPA reassessed the site in 2009 and a non-profit organization, Improving Kids’ Environment, along with Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis conducted a study in 2011. The EPA tested the soil again in May 2014. Elizabeth Gore, chair of the Martindale-Brightwood Environmental Justice Coalition, recently learned that while there is still lead in the soil, it is unlikely that lead particulates have been moving through the air, and the lead appears to be contained to the area near the old lead smelting facility. “There wasn’t lead in every yard, it wasn’t in every sample, so I feel very good about that,” says Gore. “They are going to come back and do another assessment in early spring 2015. At that time, they’re going to try to assess whether or not they’ll do a remediation of the properties, or just removal of soil at contaminated properties.” Events like the one on Thursday night are important, says Abdul-Rahman of the Indiana NAACP, because those who are directly affected can learn more and those who aren’t directly affected can still make a difference. “They can use their voices, social media, organize, create resolutions, get signatures, and work with the CityCounty Council [and other government leaders] to accelerate change,” says Abdul-Rahman. While all are welcome, Smith encourages other students to attend. “I think engaging the youth is important,” she says. “We’re the next generation and if we know what and who we’re up against, we’ll better prepare ourselves to fight environmental justice issues.” n
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25,000 doors in this election and I think people appreciated that no matter where they stood on the political spectrum, Republican or Democrat or Independent. A lot of that doesn’t happen these days. You think that it should happen, but it doesn’t. For me, that was just my standard operating procedure, but it’s not for a lot of people. NUVO: Was it worth it? FORD: Absolutely, a hundred percent. Several nights of the campaign I was like, “Oh my gosh, this is a lot.” But you do your very best to put your best foot forward. I think my message to the voters is, “don’t be so critical of candidates.” There were a lot of voters who really wanted to hear what we had to say and then there were some who were just, “Nope, I don’t want it.” So I would encourage those voters to go a little bit easier on candidates. I think what we could have done differently is not so much of the Democrat vs. Republican. I think that of course it’s important to elect people with those ideologies, but I think it’s important to elect the candidate in terms of “Is this person going to serve us? Is he down there for his own good or is he truly down there to serve the people?” NUVO: Million-dollar question – are you going to do it again? FORD: I’m not sure. Public service has always been a passion of mine and I see the value of what being a public servant is. I’m keeping my eyes open for opportunities but right now I’m just doing my own thing. n
Elder Abuse Workshop Thursday, Nov. 20, 9 a.m. The University of Indianapolis Center for Aging and Community will host a workshop on ways to combat elder abuse. The workshop, “Helping Professionals Prevent Elder Abuse & Neglect,” will include a discussion on staff empowerment, culture change, and person-centered care. Participants will learn how to recognize and prevent multiple forms of elder abuse. According to the National Center on Elder Abuse, 2.1 million adults age 65 and older are victims of abuse, neglect or exploitation each year. Wheeler Arts Community, 1035 Sanders St., $20, uindy.edu/cac E-Cigarettes Forum Thursday, Nov. 20, 6 p.m. Smoke Free Indy will host a discussion about E-Cigarettes and the overall health impact on the community. E-Cigarettes are gaining in use and popularity, especially among youth and young adults. Local health officials hope to educate parents, teachers, and the community about the various types of products on the market and their effects on health. Northwest High School, 5525 W. 34th St., FREE
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Dan Wakefield (left) and Travis DiNicola at the Red Key.
ave you met Indy Reads Books’ guardian angel? A copper statue of a girl with braids of vaguely Native American descent, she hovers on a perch above the children’s section, protecting fertile, fragile minds. She was donated to the bookstore by another protectress of the arts, the late philanthropist Margot Lacy Eccles. “A lot of people don’t notice her,” says Travis DiNicola, the executive director of Indy Reads, the non-profit organization offering literacy tutoring to adults that opened Indy Reads Books in July 2012 as an outreach and fundraising arm. The girl also watches over every copy of the Indy Reads’ new anthology of recent work by Indiana writers, Indy Writes Books. We’ll keep mum as to her exact location. The collection features authors who have some sort of relationship with the bookstore, as guests, customers, socializers or all of the above. They were asked to submit work somehow related to literacy, reading, books or bookstores. John Green’s is perhaps the biggest name on the list, at least when it comes to mainstream readers and moviegoers of a certain age, but Dan Wakefield, who wrote the introduction, comes in a close second, and several more authors have picked up award after award in their respective genres (Ben Winters and Larry Sweazy come to mind). We’ve excerpted from both Wakefield’s intro and one of three of Green’s nonfiction pieces in the book. Green’s essays, written for broadcast on Chicago Public Radio, are being published in print for the first time in the collection. Indy Writes Books will be available exclusively from Indy Reads Books or indyreads.org through
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January, when Amazon and other retailers will get their hands on it. Pre-orders started in October and the first batch of 5,000 books arrive from the Michigan printer by Nov. 25. The book is, of course, just as much a non-profit project as anything else Indy Reads is associated with, and DiNicola notes the organization will recoup the most money on books directly purchased through Indy Reads. DiNicola, who’s seen with “drinking buddy” Dan Wakefield in a photo shoot for this story, talked about the project — his longnursed “baby” — from his office at Indy Reads, peering over a desk piled with books, newspapers and other ephemera. NUVO: When did the idea to publish an anthology start to germinate? TRAVIS DINICOLA: That’s going all the way back. I started thinking about the book almost as soon as the bookstore opened. I love it when bookstores publish books. There’s this great tradition, from Shakespeare and Company publishing James Joyce to City Lights publishing Allen Ginsberg. A couple weeks after we opened, Cathy Day read a piece at the bookstore that I just loved. It was an unpublished piece comparing Facebook to the old tradition of when people would leave calling cards when they went to their neighbors. I was
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talking to her about it and said, ‘I’d love to publish that!’ Our conversation turned to the idea that we really need to publish authors who were at the bookstore. We weren’t quite sure how to do it or how to fund it, but a year ago we were notified that there was going to be money available through the estate of Margot Lacy Eccles. NUVO: She was a long-time supporter of Indy Reads. DINICOLA: She was a huge supporter. She was a great mentor of mine and she also made the original donation that made the bookstore possible. She believed in it, wanted it to happen, helped us raise other funds for it. There was fund set up for organizations that she cared about enormously, and we were lucky that we were one of them. We refer to it as the Big Dream Fund because it allows us to apply for funds for projects that we wouldn’t normally be able to do, that are meant to help us grow and expand our audience. As soon as we knew we would have this fund, this was our first idea. That grant has allowed us to create what we think is a beautiful book. We said, ‘This doesn’t have to be an inexpensive thing. We can go hardcover, we can go 400 pages, do really beautiful typesetting.’ The authors were excited about that. They said, ‘Wow, you’re actually doing a nice book.’ Once we got the funds
in place and were able to get a few of the authors, the rest grew from there. Then I went to Butler’s pub lab. I had an idea of what I wanted the book to be, but we didn’t have either the time (in terms of doing copy editing) or the experience (in terms of getting an ISBN number and other logistics involved with publishing). They connected me with this guy, Zach Roth, who was graduating from their MFA program. He started working on this while he was still in school, then did more work after graduating, donating a ton of his time. Zach not only did all the copy editing, but all of the interior design of the book. He also ended up making the decisions on the order of the book and how the pieces flow. And for the cover, we knew we wanted to have it connect back to the bookstore, so we went to Amy McAdams who designed the original logo for the bookstore. NUVO: How’d you end up picking the authors? DINICOLA: I wanted to focus primarily on authors who had been at the bookstore, whose works I had read, whose works I liked. The first author I asked to be a part of it was John Green. We had talked about it over a year ago, and he had committed to it last spring. I figured if we’re going to do this, having him in the book would be an incentive for other authors to do it, which it has been, and it would be a great way to reach beyond Indianapolis. He has however many million followers on social media and hopefully some of them will pick up SEE, INDY WRITES, ON PAGE 10
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DINICOLA: What’s awesome about the grant that we got from Lacy Eccles is it cover all expenses to produce the book. So we’re able to reap the benefits. And it’s a big part of our budget next year. It’s going to allow us to keep the programs that we have in jails. We’re also going to be able to keep a number of our literacy labs operating. We break it down that every $5 dollars donated to Indy Reads covers the cost of one hour of tutoring. So buying one of these books at $25 basically pays for five hours of tutoring.
COVER DESIGN BY AMY MCADAMS BOOK DESIGN BY ZACHARY ROTH PUBLISHED BY INDY READS BOOKS, 400 PAGES, $25 PRE-ORDER AVAILABLE FROM INDYREADS.ORG (INCLUDES $5 INDY READS BOOKS GIFT CARD); ON SALE NOV. 25 AT INDY READS BOOKS FEATURING CONTRIBUTIONS FROM FICTION: BEN H. WINTERS, CATHY DAY, VICTORIA BARRETT, JOHN DAVID ANDERSON, TERENCE FAHERTY, MICHAEL DAHLIE, FRANK BILL, LARRY SWEAZY, ANGELA JACKSON BROWN, AMY SORRELLS, MARY SUSAN BUHNER NON-FICTION: JOHN GREEN, RAY E. BOOMHOWER, SUSAN NEVILLE, DARYOLYN JONES, BARBARA SHOUP, DAN WAKEFIELD, LORENE BURKHART, CAROL FAENZI POETRY: LIZA HYATT, KAREN KOVACIK, NORBERT KRAPF, BONNIE MAURER PUZZLES: WILL SHORTZ, DAVID L. HOYT AND JEFF KNUREK (JUMBLE) DRAMA: LOU HARRY TRANSLATIONS: DIANNE MONEYPENNY AND GORDON R. STRAIN
so cool, from Indiana, went to IU. Plus I’ve had a chance to meet him a couple times, and he said, ‘If there’s anything I can do to support Indy Reads, let me know.’ So I called him up and said, ‘This is it! Can I get a puzzle for the book?’ He said, ‘Absolutely,’ and he gave us a puzzle that he’d worked on before, hadn’t used and that’s totally connected to literacy. NUVO: The book was funded by what you’re calling the Big Dream fund. What other big dreams do you have if this turns out to be a successful project? DINICOLA: The best-case scenario would be that this is so well-received that we can generate funds to do a second book. We’ve talked a lot about that: Wouldn’t it be cool if Indy Reads could put out a book every year? We don’t know what the second book would be. One idea that’s gotten a lot of support is a community project where we’d have workshops where people could come and write stories about, say, their neighborhoods. Another thing that’s come up is a collection that would focus on the stories of students and their tutors. Or we might find that new writer who’s living in Indianapolis, hasn’t been published and has a really great novel. NUVO: The book makes a pretty effective case that this is a good time to be a writer in Indianapolis. Do you think Indy Reads has played a part in the growth of the literary scene? DINICOLA: I’d like to think that we’ve been a part of that, especially when it comes to the bookstore. When we opened the store, the
NUVO: There’s a mix of genres here, including puzzles, translations, drama, non-fiction. DINICOLA: I wasn’t sure what to expect, but when I started talking to authors, they said, ‘How about I do something different.’ So when Lou Harry asked, ‘Can I write a play,’ I said, ‘Yeah, go ahead.’ And when I was going through the list of different authors that I wanted to have in, Alyssa Newerth, who’s our director of advancement, said, ‘You’re friends with the Jumble guys. Why don’t you ask them to do a puzzle?’ And Jeff Knurek, who’s the cartoonist for the Jumble, lives in town and has been a huge supporter of Indy Reads. Jeff’s cartoon is set in Indy Reads Books and I get to be in it. After we asked the Jumble guys, I said, ‘If we’re going to do one puzzle, let’s get another.’ I contacted Will Shortz, the puzzlemaster on NPR and all that stuff. He’s a little bit of an anomaly for this project because he’s never been to the bookstore and all the other authors have. But he’s
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first author that we had for a reading was John Green. John had just come back from a tour around the country promoting The Fault in Our Stars, the book, not the movie. The first thing that he said when he got up on stage was, ‘I’m so glad to be living in a city that’s opening a bookstore and not closing one.’ That means a lot to me. I’ve heard from so many authors in our city — whether they’re published authors or just starting out — about how important it is to them that we have a bookstore, not just a place where they know their books can be sold, but where they can do readings, where they can meet other authors. Dan Wakefield is at the bookstore all the time, just hanging out there, buying books, talking to other authors. A lot of times at these events, you’ll see a lot of the same faces, other authors from the community who are supporting each other, getting to know each other. NUVO: Dan Wakefield talks in his intro about how there was a preponderance of Indiana authors on The New York Times bestseller chart in the first half of the 20th century. But not so much the second. DINICOLA: Yeah, you have to go back to Booth Tarkington. Vonnegut didn’t live here when he was writing, and neither did Dan Wakefield until very recently. There were some really great writers back then, but then there was this huge gap. Now you look around and there are writers everywhere. You have Ben Winters, who’s doing amazing stuff. John David Anderson, who’s a great young adult author. Frank Bill, Michael Dahlie, Susan Neville. What I hope will happen with the book is that maybe you know John Green or Frank Bill, but you don’t know Terence Faherty, who’s a sensational mystery writer. Or Larry Sweazy, who’s a fun western writer, though he didn’t do a western for us. NUVO: Why do you think it’s a bit easier now to make it as an author from Indiana? What’s changed in the past few years? DINICOLA: The Indiana Authors Award has been a great way to celebrate authors here. A number of authors that have received that are in the book. But you’re right that even ten years ago, the authors who were getting any kind of attention outside of the region were few and far between, and a lot of them would move out. I think a lot of it has to do with the Award, with the bookstore, having John Green here, having Dan Wakefield move back. Every author asks me, ‘Can you introduce me to Dan?’ He’s like the patron saint of Indiana authors right now. NUVO: Though there isn’t really an Algonquin Round Table of Indianapolis as yet.
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Lew Wallace’s Ben Hur became a big-screen hit in 1959, and put the 1880 novel back on the bestseller list.
he late Jim Goode, a friend from Shortridge, told me he wrote a paper at Wabash on Indiana writers, and found there was a time when five of the ten books on the New York Times Best Seller List were written by Hoosiers. He said when he told a colleague at Life magazine about this phenomenon, he was asked “Is there something in the water there?” There must be. Whatever is “in the water” here not only produces writers, it produces writers who write good books—books that readers enjoy. From reports on best-selling books by Indiana authors, the “phenomenon” Jim Goode told me about may easily have occurred more than once. In “What Made Hoosiers Write,” an article in American Heritage (1960), Howard H. Peckham, Director of the Indiana Historical Bureau, points out that “...it was not simply that so many Hoosiers wrote that gave the state its [literary] reputation; it is the indisputable fact that a score of those writers produced one best- seller after another which compelled national attention to Indiana.”
Sell Best” in The Indiana Quarterly for Bookmen, that the states whose writers had the most bestsellers were: 1, Indiana; 2, New York; and 3, Virginia. Updating rankings and enlarging them to include authors from other countries who were popular in America, IUPUI librarian Steven J. Schmidt found in his 1990 study (“Do Hoosiers Sell Best?”) that the state or country with the most bestselling authors were: 1, England; 2, New York; 3, Indiana. Indiana has been producing writers “nearly as regularly as corn and limestone,” according to Arthur Shumaker, in A History of Indiana Literature, or, in another homey phrase, Hoosier writers “grew as naturally and as luxuriantly as the horseweed along the banks of the quiet Indiana streams,” as R.E. Banta wrote in “A Word About Indiana Authors” in 1949. It’s still happening. Here is my hot news: “The Golden Age of Indiana Literature” never ended, and is still in full swing. The term is usually said to cover the years from 1880-1920, or from Lew Wallace’s Ben Hur in 1880, to Booth Tarkington’s Alice “Here is my hot news: ‘The Golden Adams in 1921. There were many bestAge of Indiana Literature’ never selling Hoosier authors ended, and is still in full swing.” in that era whose names I never knew (but that — DAN WAKEFIELD figures — some of the writers who were famous in the 1950s are already John Moriarity, a librarian with the objecforgotten). I did know about the book that tivity of an “Eastern outsider” (he came kicked off the era with a bang that is still from Connecticut), took over the libraries at ringing in the ears of readers — Ben Hur: Purdue during WWII, and was so impressed A Tale of The Christ was in my father’s by the sheer number of Indiana writers that bookshelf. I have to admit I didn’t read he decided to see how they fared with readthe novel by Lew Wallace of Gary (who ers throughout the nation. Using formulas was also a General in the Union Army), based on national rankings such as Alice but I saw the big hit movie with Charlton Payne Hackett’s 50 Years of Best-Sellers, Heston in 1959. Both the novel and the Moriarity wrote, in his 1947 article “Hoosiers movie set records: Ben Hur outsold every
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book but The Bible and Uncle Tom’s Cabin from 1880 until Gone with the Wind came out in 1936. After Ben Hur became the highest grossing movie of 1959 and won a record eleven Oscars, the novel soared back to the top of the best-seller list, and has never been out of print. The “Golden Age” seems to have been declared for its turn of the century stars who were photographed together like a Mt. Rushmore of Indiana authors of the era: Booth Tarkington, who won the Pulitzer Prize for both Alice Adams and The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles produced and starred in a movie version); James Whitcomb Riley, “The Hoosier Poet,” author of nationally best-selling books whose title poems I memorized at School #80 (When The Frost Is on the Punkin and Little Orphant Annie); Meredith Nicholson, whose House of a Thousand Candles, a bestseller in 1905, is now reprinted as a “Classic” in a series called “Forgotten Books” (Nicholson’s house where he wrote the book is now a historic site at 1500 N. Delaware); and George Ade, known as “The Aesop of Indiana” for his best-selling Fables in Slang, as well as acclaimed plays and musicals including the Broadway hit “The College Widow,” made twice as a movie. The problem of accounting for the overgrowth of corn, limestone, horseweed and writers that continue to luxuriate here along the “Banks of the Wabash” — as well as The Ohio, White River, The Canal, Lake Maxincuckee, Wawasea and the gravel pits poetically transformed into “lakes” — was summed up long ago in a tale attributed to Opie Read, an “Eastern” lecturer from the Chautauqua circuit who came to speak in Indiana. He began an address here by saying he was aware of the great literary reputation of the state, and asked any writers in the audience to come and join him on the stage. Everyone present headed for the stage except for one man
in the front row. It was explained to the speaker that “He writes too but he’s deaf and didn’t hear what you said.” Already I’ve forgotten one of Kurt Vonnegut’s favorites, Frank McKinney “Kin” Hubbard, whose “Abe Martin” character with his sly satiric sayings for The Indianapolis News was syndicated in three hundred papers nationwide. Vonnegut often quoted “Abe Martin” wisdom in his talks. In a commencement address at Butler, he passed on these sayings of “Abe”: “It’s no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.” “I don’t know anybody who’d be willing to work for what he’s worth.” ... Hardly had the dust settled on “Little Orphant Annie” and other Golden Oldies, when in 1929 a minister from Columbia City published his first novel — Magnificent Obsession — that was not only written in the religious fiction tradition of Ben Hur, but rivaled its success. Author Lloyd C. Douglas left the pulpit for the pen, and followed this with other bestsellers, most notably The Robe, which stayed on the best-seller list for three years after it was published in 1942, and returned when it became the first movie made in “CinemaScope,” starring Richard Burton. (The Robe was my mother’s favorite book, so with that and my father’s copy of Ben Hur in the house, I had a bestseller school right there at Sixty-First and Winthrop, had I not neglected them. Topping off the era of Indiana writers’ bestsellers in the ‘40s that became hit movies in the ‘50s is Ross Lockridge’s Raintree County, which was published in ’48 and hit the screen in ’57 with Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift. The novel not only was a big bestseller, but its author was celebrated in a poem by Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda along with such “American giants” of literature as Melville, Whitman, Poe, Dreiser and Wolfe ... SEE, INDY WRITES, ON PAGE 12
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While these hit movies based on books by Indiana authors were dazzling multitudes all over America in the fifties, a ’42 Shortridge High School graduate (and columnist for The Daily Echo) was toiling away in literary obscurity in a small town on Cape Cod. It was not until his novel Slaughterhouse-Five was published in 1969 that Kurt Vonnegut found fame and fortune. Based on his experience surviving the fire-bombing of Dresden as a prisoner of war in an underground meat locker, the novel became an overnight best-seller. Fans formed lines that snaked around the blocks of bookstores wanting his autograph — er, except in his Hoosier hometown. I received a letter from Vonnegut on May 9, 1969 that read as follows: Dear Dan: At the request of Ayres [department store], I went to Indianapolis last week, appeared on a TV show and a radio show, then signed books in the [L.S. Ayres] bookstore. I sold thirteen books in two hours, every one of them to a relative. Word of honor... Peace, Kurt It wasn’t until 2007 that the city officially recognized him by proclaiming “The Year of Vonnegut,” but he died sixteen days before he was scheduled to give the “acceptance speech” at Clowes Hall. The talk he had written was read there by his son Mark, a doctor in Boston who is also a writer (author of two fine memoirs.) Now there is a Vonnegut Museum and Library in the city, and a larger-than-life portrait of him on the side of a downtown building. Vonnegut remains a national treasure, his work translated in all the major languages of the world, and all of his books still in print. John Green is ushering in a new age of social media-powered literature that could well make Ben Hur’s popularity seem like a chariot compared to a rocket.
Already a hero to millions of young adults, Green’s novel The Fault In Our Stars, a realistic tale of two teenagers battling cancer, was a best-seller before it was published and opened at the top of the best-seller list; the novel’s faithful movie translation helped power its reach to adult audiences of all ages. Green was born in Indianapolis but his parents whisked him off to Michigan three weeks later; his Hoosier karma brought him back when his wife took a job as Curator of Contemporary Art at The IMA. He set up shop in Broad Ripple, where he not only writes best-selling novels, but also teams with brother Hank to produce the Vlogbrothers channel on YouTube, and with Hank and wife Sarah he turns out educational videos on literature, science and art. John Green is not only a bestselling author, he is a walking multi-media corporation. TIME magazine named him on their 2014 list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Since Green is thirty-seven, Indiana’s “Golden” — or maybe now, in record business terminology, “Platinum” — Age of Literature, seems insured for a long time to come. As “Abe Martin” might say: “This ain’t just corn and horseweed.” I know I run the risk of alienating hundreds of writers who probably live within a few square miles of me, and a half dozen good writer friends here whose work I genuinely admire, by mentioning the work of one among so many. (Oh well, it won’t be the first time I’ve offended fellow Hoosiers of all occupations, ages and backgrounds.) Still, I can’t resist quoting the writer who, more than any other, brings back to me the place where I grew up, the place I love, the place that is conjured up so powerfully for me by Susan Neville in her Indiana Winter: “And still we float so gently on this gloom in the graying yellow October daylight, in the night lit with candles, in the strong wood houses and barns, in the orchards where the apples fall into our hands and the leaves twist down. We sail on the land as though it’s real, our compasses pointing north, as though we know where we are. We eat sugar pears and watch the sugar maples blaze and we suck on sweet candy and smell the damp decaying leaves, and we hold tight as the boat heaves and the land pitches.” Bless us all, us Indiana writers — and bless those Hoosiers who don’t rush forward when all the writers in the audience are called to join the speaker on the stage. Hopefully, there are some left in the audience (as well as the deaf man who didn’t hear the call), who are willing to stay in their seat as we pour out our words. Bless those most of all — the readers. n Dan Wakefield would like to thank Indy Reads intern Meredith Deem for her excellent research assistance.
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ecause college is so easy, a lot of students go four years without learning or doing anything worthwhile. This is a mistake, because six months after you graduate, when you’re living in an overpriced studio contemplating the idea of nighttime telemarketing to supplement your temping income so you can afford your college loan payments, you’ll need an excellent answer to the question, “Why the hell did I go to college anyway?” I’ve collected a brief list of DOs and DON’Ts for college life to ensure that our current and future students won’t be left with regrets the size of their student loans. Take classes in liberal arts departments, like anthropology and history. Not only will these classes give you invaluable knowledge about such confounding questions as the geographic location of Yemen, they will also make you seem smart at parties and job interviews. Seeming smart is much, much more important than being smart. Take science classes, unless for some strange reason you aspire to become a scientist. For one thing, science classes are hard. For another, science is always being reinvented, which means that everything you learn could become suddenly obsolete. Just think of those poor saps who got their degrees in biology just before Watson and Crick figured out the structure of DNA. Study some. College is the last chance you’ll have to spend entire days reading good books, and anyway, it’s a lot easier if you do your homework. I’m not saying stay up all night popping no-doz and drinking seventeen pots of coffee. I’m just saying that if nothing’s going on some afternoon, you might as well read Kant. Turn down the opportunity to do something absolutely amazing because you need to study. My sophomore year, I passed on a chance to go to a casino in Indiana because I had a big test, and you know what happened? One of my friends won ten thousand dollars at the slots, got drunk, and gave each of his cohorts a thousand dollars. I did fine on that religion test, but I would have gladly failed it for a thousand bucks. Things you can’t do anywhere else. If you want to really live in the Midwest and not just study there, you’ll need to find something that makes you uniquely enamored with it. For my friend Dean, it’s eat-
ing hot dogs with only mustard while loudly complaining that people who eat their hot dogs with ketchup are communists. For me, it’s sitting on the corner of Huron and Wabash on windy winter afternoons and watching gusts of winds knock over pedestrians. Even if you grew up somewhere else, you’ll need to make college a second home. Finding a distinctive interest will ease that transition. Start acting like you’re suddenly sophisticated now that you’re on campus, with its jazz festivals and ballet troupes. Take a lesson from the town and accept that you’re exactly as cool and smart as you were back home in Iowa or wherever. Go on zany adventures you’ll never be able to do as an actual grown-up, like for example driving 6,000 miles to work in an ice cream shop in Moose Pass, Alaska for a summer even though you could have stayed here and interned at the Trib. But... For instance, drive to Moose Pass, Alaska with a girl you’ve been dating for two weeks and who will soon dump you for a balding 33-year-old divorcee named Clarence. Just an example. n PHOTO BY MARK A. LEE
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The Last Savage — a must see, says Rita Kohn.
IU Opera: The Last Savage e Nov. 20, 7 p.m.; Nov. 21, 8 p.m. Menotti’s The Last Savage is delightful and insightful in the way that Gilbert & Sullivan operettas make us laugh at our foibles and help us see why. Set in the early 1960s, Menotti portrays people taking themselves very seriously in perfectly silly situations. Kitty, a pretentious Vassar student, is chasing after academic fame based on an airy anthropology premise. Her billionaire father (Mr. Scattergood) is panicked that a Democratic party sweep in upcoming elections will lessen the hold of the wealthy. An equally wealthy Marajaha of Rajaputatana needs to balance his holding with an American liaison, his Maharanee, with a past that’s pulling the strings of the present and a quartet of young people who are mashing up love in the making. Its ending is unpredictably predictable and along the way we get to enjoy a lot of fine singing, excellent acting and dancing, and production elements right out of TV kitsch. Matching up stuff we watched on the tube and jet setters we followed in tabloids some 50 years ago is a bit of an audience parlor game; it feels like the Flintstones are sitting alongside us. The setting and costumes dazzle with an inside joke about signage. Menotti unabashedly skewers every aspect of society in the US and India. The large cast delivers an impeccably campy production, never losing sight of what makes funny fun. Director Ned Canty obviously loves this work that pleased audiences at its 1964 premiere but earned the scorn of critics. Timing was a factor when fluff wasn’t in tune with unsettling national and world events. Nearly fifty years later, Canty says it’s timely to revisit our take on civilization and high society — and lo and behold, here we are at the cusp of 2015 pushing hard to go back to simpler ways of life — farm to table being but one aspect of that kind of restructuring. You’ll be touched by Scattergood’s sharply edged patter about the plight of a billionaire, Abdul’s anthem to his natural surroundings as the so-called “last savage” in India, Prince Kodanda’s ballad of love for the servant girl Sardula and Kitty’s soliloquy of awakening to reality. Kyle Lang’s choreography is part impish, part Martha Graham-like. Constantine Kitsopoulos conducts with a sure hand to showcase Menotti’s subtleties to define characters. Based on the production originally designed for and created by The Santa Fe Opera in 2011, this is a don’t miss, must see IU Opera Theater production. — RITA KOHN IU Musical Arts Center, 107 S. Indiana Ave. (Bloomington), $15-40
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FIRST FRIDAY, BY THE NUMBERS Editor’s note: Yep, we’re aware that our First Friday reviews are a week later than usual — last week’s issue was such an embarrassment of riches that poor Mr. Grossman was bumped by a week. The 11: A Collective: Various artists w Nov. 5-9, show ended. What a great group of Indybased artists were to be found here, this particular First Friday! Seeing Steve Paddack’s work on display, among them the acrylic on canvas “The Vocabulary of Carpet,” was certainly a highlight with its depiction of a carpet muttering out an empty word bubble against a backdrop of serene green forest and glowing orange skies. If it wasn’t for the humorous con1 “The Vocabulary ceptual content, you might of Carpet” by be tempted to think of him as Steve Paddack a follower of John Singleton Copley and other painters associated with the American Luminist movement. (Then again, maybe he is.) Heather Stamenov has both oil paintings and watercolors entitled “Romantic Dream Scenario.” The painting style is loose and expressive and as contemporary as your neighbors down the street or down the hall. This is just a sample of the work on display here by this group of 11 artists: by the time this goes to press, this exhibition will be gone. But it will pop up again, perhaps next first Friday. Stay tuned. 1
Amelia’s: A Pop Up Gallery Do you remember the fish? No, I remember the Ice Cream: Michael Helsley t Through Nov. 28. The objective of Michael Helsley was to turn the Gallery 924 space into a giant fish bowl and visitors would be obliged to look through the 924 window from the outside as well as view it from inside to get a complete view of what’s going on here. The wall-hanging “Two fish,” 10 feet 6 inches high, constructed in part from vinyl from old billboards, may very well be shaped like a fish but it incorporates ad material for pork and ice cream sundaes so some of the fishiness gets lost. Not all the constructions and collages, however, are bound up with such commercial associations. Take, for example, “The Thinker,” the depiction of which is painted two dimensionally on either side of a wall hanging construction. Here you see a space 2 “The Thinker” by Michael Helsley boy — boldly outlined 2
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“Weaving in and Out of Conversations” (above) by Kyle Ragsdale 1
in black like an excerpt from a comic book — riding a sputnik-like space vehicle with furrowed eyebrows, lost, perhaps in thought as well as in space. In this particular fish bowl, I wanted more space boys and less fish. Gallery 924 Color Coded: Gautam Rao e Through Nov. 28. Synthesis is an overriding concern in the art of Gautam Rao, an associate professor of art at Butler University. In the poster “Thelma and Louise as a Bollywood Movie,” you can see not just a synthesis of fine art and graphic design but also the fusion of American and Indian cultures. Hence the title, lettered in this digital illustration in Hindi — originally created for the Indianapolis International Film Festival Bigger Picture Show. Examples abound as well of Rao’s painting, such as the acrylic on canvas “skyline graph” which you might see as a mash-up of various bar charts and/or a highly pixelated (and colorful) vision of a city skyline. Then there’s “The Numbers Series:” blocks of laser-cut acrylic, hanging on a shelf. These small blocks are cut in the form of letters (in various typefaces) spelling out numbers. In these negative spaces (so to speak) carved out by laser, there are passageways containing small metal balls, enclosed by clear plastic. This is 3D art that you can play with. It’s hard not to sense a very positive — and playful — aesthetic, when contemplating this work. 3
The Raymond James Stutz Art Gallery In the Evening Air: Kyle Ragsdale r Through Nov. 26. Another month-long stint at the Vermont Studio Center this past August (Ragsdale’s seventh) has yielded the body of work on view in this exhibition. Some paintings like “Pie Night” are fantastical, filled with quasi-pointillist brush work, bright colors, and Pan-like figures. Some are based on imagery that this extremely prolific painter captured 4
“Romantic Dream Scenario” (left) by Heather Stamenov
with his iPhone. In the painting “Weaving in and Out of Conversations” you see various adult figures gathered around outdoors: maybe there’s some kind of party going on fueled by cheap booze. Lots of strong contrast here between light and shadow, and a lot of gestural, expressive touches that lend something of a disorienting element to the composition. I don’t always want to go where the subjects in Ragsdale’s works are going (often marching in profile in a straight line, as in a fair amount of his previous work). It’s nice to find, like I’ve found here, a painting of his that draws me into its space and doesn’t let go. Harrison Center for the Arts Wanderlust: Paul Harris t Through Jan. 17. Using mutilated children’s dolls to create art and/or incur shock value has been a long-standing trope in popular culture (think of the Beatles’ “butcher cover” for the album Yesterday and Today or of the video for the Tool song “Prison Sex”). The contemporary art world also abounds with this stuff (i.e. Cindy Sherman and a host of others). And Paul Harris’s collages employing dolls as media hung on the walls, in cages, impaled through the buttocks on crosses, etc… are certainly shocking enough. In “Hooked on Falling in Love,” for example, you 5 see hooks attached to long chains “Hooked on emanating from the eye sockets of Falling in an antique doll’s face. What saves Love” by this particular work from cliché, as Paul Harris well as many others here, however, are the visual puns. But the “Bed Wetters” series, also employing dolls, feels to me like an over-the-top exercise in reductionism. (The takeaway: we are born wetting the bed and we die wetting the bed.) 5
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EVENTS Pacers V. Hornets Nov. 19, 7 p.m. The Blue and Yellow Menace (thanks, Mark Joseph Boyle) is far less menacing this season with all the key injuries. Either way, you can get a seat for under 13 bucks, fees included. Sure, you’ll need binoculars and some cotton for the nosebleed, but hey! It’s an NBA game! Bankers Life Fieldhouse, prices vary Fuel V. Solar Bears Nov. 19, 7:05 p.m. The Solar Bears (from Orlando — ooh, clever!) take on Indy’s ECHL Blackhawks’ affiliate. This is a promo night, and a darn fine one: it’s Gleaners Food Bank Night. The first 1,000 ticket holders through the doors with a donation of canned goods gets an Indy Fuel blanket. If you don’t know the tune “Chelsea Dagger,” learn it. You’ll need to know how to sing along when the Fuel scores, just like the way they do it at ‘Hawks’ games. Fairgrounds Coliseum, prices vary IU V. SMU Nov. 20, 8 p.m. A “Hoosiers Showcase” hoops game against Southern Methodist. Methodists? Maybe there won’t be any “alcohol-related incidents.” (We kid. We kid because we love.) Assembly Hall (Bloomington), prices vary Butler V. Loyola (MD) Nov. 22, 5 p.m. The Greyhounds dash in (get it?) from Baltimore for a matchup at historic Hinkle. Go Dawgs! Ours, not theirs. Hinkle Fieldhouse, prices vary Pacers V. Suns. Nov. 22, 7 p.m. Did we mention that the rafters are actually $12.85 with ALL the extra charges? You can actually afford a BEER. Bankers Life Fieldhouse, prices vary IUPUI V. Ball State Nov. 22, 1 p.m. The Jags play the Cards in an in-state tilt at IUPUI’s new home court, the totally-renovated-holy-cow-have-you-seen-the-ribbon-boards Fairgrounds Coliseum. Fairgrounds Coliseum, prices vary Colts V. Jaguars Nov 23, 1 p.m. What’s almost as easy as a bye week? Playing the Jags. (By the way, have you noticed how much this team gets sent to London? Is the NFL trying to build a fan base for a squad named after a high-performance UK automobile? WILL THEY BECOME THE LONDON “JAG-YOUARES?”) We digress. The last time Big Blue played the Puddy-tats, the Colts won 44-17. Expect the CBS fourth-string announcing team in the booth. Lucas Oil Stadium, prices vary
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en years ago, a proud NBA franchise changed forever. In one moment. With one decision. Because of a man defending himself, and a team who defended their teammate. The invisible barrier between fans and participants was erased on Nov. 19, 2004 at the Palace of Auburn Hills, and the Indiana Pacers paid an enormous price in the form of fines, suspensions, and ridicule. While Ron Artest laid on the scorer’s table after a near fight with Pistons center Ben Wallace, a fan flung a cup with a few ice cubes left from a recently consumed beverage. It hit the easily agitated Artest in the chest, and the prone behemoth was off. Artest flew through radio play-by-play voice Mark Boyle, injuring his back, and sprinted into the stands. Teammates Stephen Jackson and Fred Jones joined him. Fists were thrown at the stunned fans, and all hell broke loose. Massive suspensions and fines followed. Pacers players lost over $11 million in salary, and the team with the best record in the East early in the 2004-2005 season after losing to the Pistons in the previous year’s Eastern Conference Finals was a shell of its former self. Even today, the sting of “The Brawl” is felt at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. In response to many interview requests to talk about the anniversary of that bizarre night, Pacers president Rick Fuson responded, “In the aftermath we repeatedly expressed our regret and disappointment ... we will not comment further and instead continue to focus on the positive accomplishments of the team and the franchise on and off the court. We are grateful to the community and our fans for their continued support.” The Pacers would like for everyone to forget The Brawl in the way Richard Nixon wanted America to put Watergate behind them, but it just isn’t possible. And it isn’t necessary or wise. Artest, Jackson and the others were not entirely at fault, and the result of The Brawl has made arenas throughout the NBA much safer. Security is much more vigilant today that it was a decade ago.
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But what if the media had not been manipulated or managed toward heaping all blame for The Brawl on Artest, Jackson, Brown, and Jermaine O’Neal? While some of the Detroit fans were forced to forfeit their season tickets, an exile from the NBA’s elite was reserved for the Pacers. The Pistons, who, it can be argued, actually cause the melee with their lax security and buffoonish fans, were lightly dusted by the magic wand of Stern’s authority (suspensions of six games for Ben Wallace, and one each for Chauncey Billups, Derrick Coleman, and Elden Campbell). While the Pacers have But what if the media had not rebounded to become a well-loved and winbeen manipulated or managed ning Indianapolis sports institution again, the toward heaping all blame for Pistons have slipped into The Brawl on Artest, Jackson, an extended run of poor The Brawl was Brown, and Jermaine O’Neal? results. thought to be the nadir of the Pacers’ existence, but the current team would not exist as it the poster boys for the perceived thugdoes without that night — and the same gery that defined the NBA at that time. is true for the Pistons. It seemed unfair and grotesque at the The Brawl was a moment in Pacers time. Who among us wouldn’t respond to history that cost the franchise dearly for that level of threat presented by Pistons a finite period of time, but allowed for fans? Coach Rick Carlisle said that night, “I felt like I was fighting for my life out there.” a rebirth that may bring success on a grander scale than what may have been It took seven years after The Brawl for possible had it never happened. the Pacers to finish with a better than So what’s wrong with that? n break-even record. Most importantly, the Pacers are likely a better franchise today than they would be had The Brawl never happened. What is often forgotten about the immediate aftermath of The Brawl is that media coverage came down almost entirely on the side of the Pacers. ESPN vilified Pistons’ fans for physically engaging the Pacers and security for not protecting them. Coverage pivoted as Pistons owner Bill Davidson spoke out, and ESPN management appeared to assert control over said coverage. The organization became
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osewater tells the story of a man imprisoned for being a spy. SPOILER ALERT: He eventually gets released. END SPOILER ALERT. For those of you that opted not to read the spoiler sentence, here’s what I can tell you. The film is the first written and directed by Jon Stewart of The Daily Show. Stewart was drawn to the true story in part because his show factored into the events. Despite a few stylistic flourishes, the production is an earnest and straightforward account of what happened, with moments of naturalistic humor based on some major miscommunication. The film is interesting, but lacks urgency. It’s a promising first effort for Stewart, but far from must-see status. For those of you that read the spoiler, I can tell you that part of the reason for the lack of urgency is that we know that the prisoner was released and made it home, where he wrote a book about his ordeal. Maziar Bahari (Gael Garcia Bernal from Y Tu Mama Tambien, The Motorcycle Diaries and No), a stringer for Newsweek, is sent to Tehran to cover the 2009 presidential elections. While there, he is interviewed by one of the comic journalists for The Daily Show. The segment they record includes references to spying that are clearly nonsense — if you understand the show’s approach to humor. When outraged Iranians take to the streets following a suspiciously lopsided election, Bahari films what he sees and gets arrested soon after. The government accuses him of being a spy and demands he sign a confession. His chief interrogator is a man
CONTINUING All reviews by Ed Johnson-Ott. Beyond the Lights t Showbiz love story buoyed by a swell performance by Gugu Mbatha-Raw. Pop diva Nori (Mbatha-Raw) meets Kaz Nicol (Nate Parker), a police officer and politician in the making, and sparks fly. He’s assigned to protect her (shades of “The Bodyguard”) and you know where everything’s going, but the herky-jerky direction of Gina Prince-Bythewood (“Love and Basketball”) manages to keep the
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1/ Hunger Games Marathon Nov. 20, showings begin at 2 or 2:30, depending on venue. Can’t get enough Katniss? This threeheaded, one-day only monster features The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and a screening of the latest installment, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1. After Thursday, Mockingjay continues on its own. It’s the franchise that made archery cool again. PG-13, Mockingjay opens Thursday in wide release V/H/S: Viral Yay! It’s another found –footage horror movie! Pass the motion-sickness meds. R, opens Friday in limited release
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Bahari dubs Rosewater, based on the scent he wears. Rosewater (Kim Bodnia) presents the government’s evidence against Bahari, which includes The Daily Show interview with the spy references. Turns out the interrogator is not one of the people that understands the show’s approach to humor. Rosewater is an interesting character. He uses the internet to research his captive, but lacks the cultural background to be able to correctly interpret what he finds. At one point he challenges Bahari over his relationship with Anton Chekov after seeing the writer’s name on Bahari’s Facebook page. I don’t want to minimize the physical and emotional pain suffered by Bahari. That said, most of us have seen movies
proceedings lively, aided greatly by the fine cast. Minnie Driver and Danny Glover costar as an overbearing mother and an overprotective father. Soapy fun. PG-13, in wide release Dumb and Dumber To y Twenty years after Peter and Bobby Farrelly had their breakthrough hit with Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels in “Dumb and Dumber” the sequel arrives (never mind the 2003 prequel that did not involve the Farrelly’s or the actors) and proves to be just as dumb as expected. As with the original, there are big laughs and lots of gags that fall flat. I could recount the plot, but why? Suffice to
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about prisoners and harsh prison guards or interrogators before and, aside from the internet wrinkle, Rosewater doesn’t add anything new. There’s a sense that Jon Stewart is presenting the story in part to atone for the inadvertent part his show played in the proceedings. He adds a few bits of style — Bahari walks through town while images of his thoughts appear in storefront windows and Bahari talks with the ghost of his father while imprisoned — but mostly plays it straight. Rosewater is a well-intentioned minor film about a major event in one man’s life. I tried to stay invested in it, but my thoughts kept drifting to Abdul-Rahman, the Indianapolis man captured by Islamic militants while trying to help Syrian refugees. When I saw Rosewater last week, there was still hope he would be released. A few days later the militants posted footage of his severed head. The fact-based story in the theater pales in comparison to the actions of today’s monsters. n
say that it picks up 20 years after the first film and also involves a road trip. Age has taken its toll, with Carrey weathering the years better than Daniels. The cast includes Rachel Melvin, Kathleen Turner, Laurie Holden and Rob Riggle. PG-13, in wide release
The Stabilizer (with B-Movie Bingo) Nov. 21, 7 p.m. Get this: the IMA says, “Started at the Hollywood Theater in Portland and now franchised to the IMA, B-Movie Bingo makes an interactive game out of the most awesome movie clichés ever committed to celluloid. To play, the audience grabs a bingo card and looks to fill squares like ‘Long Boring Scene or Male Ponytail, ‘Teamed up with a Rookie or Animal,’ and ‘White Suit or Tropical Ending,’ while watching some of the worst/best movies of all time.” IT’S LIKE INTERACTIVE MST3K! Indianapolis Museum of Art, $10 public, $5 member To Have and to Have Not Nov. 22, 3 p.m. Bogey, Bacall and Hoosier Hoagy Carmichael as the piano-playin’ pal named “Cricket.” “You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? Your just put your lips together and — blow.” There’s a bonus: Grammywinner Sylvia McNair will sing some of Hoagy’s most beloved numbers before the screening. Indiana University Cinema, 1213 E. 7th St. (Bloomington), $3 The Bishop’s Wife Nov. 28 and 29, 2 and 7 p.m. Our pals at the Artcraft Theatre will soon roll out the first of four films they’ll be screening over the holiday season. The others are a bit more well known: It’s a Wonderful Life (hiss at Potter on the big screen!) National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and A Christmas Story (“Be sure to drink your Ovaltine? A crummy commercial?”) IMDB describes this flick thusly: “A bishop trying to get a new cathedral built prays for guidance. An angel (Cary Grant) arrives, but his guidance isn’t about fundraising.” Artcraft Theatre, 57 N. Main St. (Franklin), $3-5
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Upland brewers Chris Stearly and Patrick Lynch packed their boots in early November and crossed “The Pond” to team brew with mates at Fuller’s in London. The amazing journey started with Fuller’s inviting Upland and Epic Brewing Company in Salt Lake City to join them in a summer-long international/interstate exploration of the differences and similarities between American craft beers and the traditional British styles that inspired them. “Fuller’s and other British breweries pioneered styles like pale ales, porters, and IPAs,” said Fuller’s U.S. brand Manager, Charles Stanley, “and when U.S. craft brewers looked for inspiration in their quest to improve the state of American beer, these are the styles they looked to. We’re thrilled to be partnering with the talented brewers at Upland and Epic to explore how they’ve adapted these styles and created something unique.” Fuller’s Bengal Lancer IPA was served alongside Upland’s Dragonfly IPA in bars and restaurants in Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky and Ohio throughout July and August. See the photos of the London trip at uplandbeer.com/upland-takes-london/ New Seasonals Around Indiana Oaken Barrel, Greenwood: Owner Kwang Casey reports their newest “is a hoppy wheat beer, also known as an American Wheat ... that was invented by American brewers to emphasize great citrus hop taste with light wheat beer.” OB’s other seasonal, Apple Buzz sold out eight batches in 18 days. Half Moon, Kokomo: Roughshod Red IPA is a malty red ale with a hoppy IPA flavor and finish, says brewer John Templet. “It goes great with hearty, spicy foods and seafood alike. Roughshod RIPA is big and bold, loaded with Warrior and Zythos hops and can run roughshod right over you if you aren’t paying attention.” Mad Anthony, Fort Wayne: Hop Loco Double IPA clocks in at a hefty 100 IBU’s, 8% ABV and features “five different American grown hops (Crystal, Amarillo, Chinook, HBC 342 and Zytos), six kettle hop additions, and a large dose of all five hops in the fermenter for dry hopping for a bitter punch,” says founder Blaine Stuckey. The strong malt backbone includes Pale, Munich and Cara Pils. Upland’s Dubbel Up Belgian Dubbel will be released on draught Nov. 22 at Upland retail locations. ABV: 6.5, IBU: 20 Events • Nov. 19: Bistro Beer Dinner (5615 N. Illinois St.), 7-9p.m. pairs with Triton brews. ohyummbistro.com. • Nov. 20: Binkley’s Kitchen and Bar (5902 N. College Ave.) is hosting a Triton beer sampling and tap takeover. binkleyskitchenandbar.com.
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t’s taken her two and a half years, but local baker Gwendolyn Rogers has finally launched The Cake Bake Shop. Located in what was formerly Broad Ripple’s Little House gift shop, The Cake Bake Shop is a pink and white confection of a bakery, with sparkling chandeliers and glass cases full of just-baked treats. There’s also coffee, hot chocolate, wine and champagne — and some soup and sandwich options for lunch as well. But even before the shop opened last weekend, Rogers’ cakes and cupcakes had been getting plenty of attention. NUVO: So how did your cupcakes end up in the new Dumb and Dumber To movie? GWENDOLYN ROGERS: It’s nuts. My husband has been working with the Farrellys for years, since the first Dumb and Dumber, so it’s been over 20 years. During
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that period, I have had the Farrellys over to my house dozens of times, and every time they come, I always make dinner, and I always make dessert, and I do the whole shebang. And so when I read the script, there’s cake in the script. And so I immediately got on the phone and was like ‘There’s no way you can hire somebody else.’ He was like, ‘Well, you know, people pay a lot of money for something like that.’ And he said, ‘But you know what? I wrote that for you anyway.’ So he goes, ‘Of course, you’re in it.’ NUVO: But how did you get into the baking business? ROGERS: Every school event I would always make something. So one year I think I made like 40 lemon cakes for teachers, because it’s amazing how many teachers your kid has. [I have three kids.] Each child has at least 10 teachers because there’s music, there PE, there’s history, there’s English, there’s math, and I couldn’t leave anybody out. After those cakes, every single one of those people said, ‘Would you make me another one?’ or ‘Can I buy that from you?’ The next thing you know, I had so many cakes I was making, I had to buy another oven. I had to buy another stove. I had to buy a fridge to put in my garage because I was running out of room. NUVO: How did you decide to open? ROGERS: It just was like a domino effect. I started looking for places to cook out of, because I thought I can’t do this out of my house anymore. I had to buy bags of flour in 50-pound sacks. And then where am I going to put that? My house is tiny. So I started looking for places to work out of. And that’s when I started looking at opening my own spot. I made the commitment to do it, and then here I am.
NUVO: You’ve gotten a lot of pre-opening publicity. How’d that happen? ROGERS: I entered a cake competition in London, and first of all, I never in a million years thought that they would get back to me. Three months go by, and I don’t hear a thing, and I thought, you know the event’s coming up, it’s like a month away, but just in case, I bought myself a ticket, because I thought I can always cancel. ... And then about a week before the event, I get an email from the head of the contest, and they said would you write a little paragraph about who you are and why you want to be part of this. So I thought oh, my God, sure. I’m so excited — I’ll write anything. So I write it, and like four days before, they said like out of like 3,000 entries, there were 30 people that got in, and they said we’d like you to come. NUVO: So how did you end up baking for Elton John at concerts in Paris? ROGERS: Now I’m kind of famous for my chocolate cake, and off of that, one of Elton’s people has been following me on Facebook. And I guess his favorite cake is chocolate, so they Facebooked me and said, ‘Would you be interested?’ And I thought, this can’t be for real. And then I was like, okay, maybe this is real. They invited me to concerts three nights in a row, front row. It’s amazing that cake or food has turned into this bigger-than-Iever-imagined scenario where it’s connected me with people on a level that I never would have thought would happen. NUVO: And there’s another film project? ROGERS: So on the 20th of November, I am flying down to New Orleans, and there’s a movie being shot called ‘Man Down.’ And Aaron Osborne was the art director on Dumb and Dumber To, and so he’s like, ‘Oh, my gosh, Gwen, there’s a birthday cake in the scene. Would you fly down and put the birthday cake in?’ So I’m making a birthday cake on the 19th. I’m flying down later that evening, and we’re shooting the cake on the 20th. So I’m going to come back with of photo of all the actors and my cake, and it’s going to be super exciting. So that’s next. n Jolene Ketzenberger covers food at IndyDrinkIndy.com. Follow her on Twitter @JKetzenberger.
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THE VOICE’S TONY LUCCA Talk to Tony Lucca for even a few minutes and you’ll understand just how deeply he appreciates the unique experiences of a touring musician. “I think there’s a whole other side to artists that only their band-mates, tour-mates, really experience,” he explains. “There are really interesting dynamics that take place on any given tour between the people sharing the ride. There are all the great stories ... that overall camaraderie. It’s what we do when we’re not playing music. I really wish people had a little more interest in that.” Lucca, who finished third during The Voice’s 2012 season, is no stranger to life on the road. In the last few years he’s played Indianapolis regularly, including repeated headlining stops at Birdy’s and Radio Radio. “Over the years I’ve been able to establish a pretty generous Indianapolis audience,” he says. “It’s good to see them all come out, interact with the crowds, have some beers with them.” Lucca has also supported national acts including Maroon 5 and Sarah Bareilles, using that broader stage to expand the performance style he strives to echo on his studio albums. “As a songwriter I like to get a song down [in the studio] first before getting to the stage so that we’ve got a really solid foundation on which to elaborate. We definitely captured the live sound on the record,” he says of his self-titled LP due out in January. “Of all the records I’ve made so far I think this one definitely is the strongest, and also the closest to what we sound like live.” His music builds upon the influences of Lucca’s Michigan childhood. “It’s a rich sound that falls in the vein of the singer-songwriter, but over the years I’ve tried to experiment with different versions of that,” he says. “The latest incarnation is pretty much straight-ahead classic rock, inspired by a lot of the stuff I grew up on as a kid — Tom Petty, Billy Squire, ZZ Top. Classic stuff.” That, he says is what listeners can expect when he joins Honor By August and Steepwater Band at the Rathskeller on November 22. “If people want to hear some really fun, honest rock-and-roll, they can come on out.” he says. “We’ve been having a lot of fun on this tour. The material’s really strong, everyone’s performing at the top of their game, and so far the feedback we’ve been getting is really favorable.” — JONATHAN SANDERS
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or this installment of Gear and Beer, I sat down with Chris Charles and Craig Smoot of Bizarre Noir at Tow Yard Brewing over flights and pints of Hook Up, to discuss creating musical experiences with their latest album Bedtime Stories and during live shows. NUVO: Tell us about your current guitar setup. CRAIG SMOOT: We don’t really have a preference for gear. We just get what we can afford. I love playing through Marshalls. I play a Marshall DSL40C, which is kind of a mid-range amp, but I like it. CHRIS CHARLES: We try to keep our setup as compact as possible. SMOOT: Definitely. You see those bands with the big, huge amps and things. It’s like why? CHARLES: Nine times out of ten it’s going through the PA anyway, so for us it’s all about the tone. The right sized amp, that’s easy to carry around, yet still has the sound is pretty much what we’re shopping around for. SMOOT: I play a Fender Toronado. I’ve been playing that for the whole time we’ve been playing. It’s a nice complement between the Fender and the Marshall amp. It’s not overly distorted; not that Gibson sound.
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CHARLES: I have a Shure Beta, a 55 Deluxe and a Green Bullet [harmonica microphone]. The 55 Deluxe is super warm. I use a TC Helicon effects processor and it runs the gamut of effects. It’s always working, but it’s usually a slave pedal instead of an immediate effect. We use that live, at practice and recording in the studio. NUVO: Any favorite patches? CHARLES: None that I’d like to give away. [laughs]. I haven’t done much with customizing anything; mainly I just try to make sure the levels are right. The go-to is a doubling effect, to give it that high and low sound. It has reverbs, delays and flanges. There are some specialty things we’ll put on to pop out parts. NUVO: Where do you record? CHARLES: We go to Arkbarn Recording. That’s where we did our latest album [with Ryan Koch]. We were very happy with that. SMOOT: He was really open to our ideas.
CHARLES: We constantly get comments about the tone of it. It’s not heavy-heavy or too twangy. It’s like right in that midrange. I think [the combination] definitely gives us a distinct sound.
We didn’t use a click. We recorded everything live and then went back and did vocals. We wanted to do some stuff with infrasound, sub-sonic sounds. NUVO: Besides that have there been any other experiments in the studio? CHARLES: We used Snake Mountain, Skeletor’s Palace – the classic He-Man toy. It has a snake with a microphone. We do a lot of vocal layering, so it was fun to not just use vocal effects from the Helicon and in postproduction but also to have this entity from our childhood just in the most random places. SMOOT: At Chris’ insistence. “If we don’t use motherfuckin’ snake mountain, let’s just scrap the whole CD.” NUVO: What can you tell us about the bass and drum gear? CHARLES: Sam’s [Quebe] rig is an Ampeg with a Jaguar bass. [In the studio] he went direct in and then we used amp modeling. We also used sub-sonic triggers. SMOOT: Keyboard triggers – to beef things up. We didn’t want to oversaturate, because “where’s that keyboard” [during a live show]. CHARLES: You’d love our drum kit because it’s a Frankenstein kit. SMOOT: It’s mostly Mapex, not all Mapex. He [Elias Sanchez] has like three floor toms. It’s got holes in the cymbals, and cracks … n
SMOOT: I write everything on an Ovation Celebrity acoustic electric. I have other guitars, but it’s hard enough to keep one up and ready. Six dollars for another pack of strings? Who do you think I am, Bon Jovi? NUVO: What about effects? SMOOT: I have a few effects pedals that I use. I play through an old Crybaby wah pedal, Boss Noise Suppressor and occasionally I’ll use an MXR Fullbore pedal to get more, over the top distortion. I use that on outros. NUVO: What’s your vocal setup right now?
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HILLBILLY HAPPY HOUR w/PUNKIN HOLLER BOYS. Doors @ 7 p.m., show @ 7:30 p.m. $5. MANNERS PLEASE, THE DIRTY CREEPS (Chicago ... featuring Dana from Draw Blood), FRANKIE CAMARO CD RELEASE. Doors @ 9 p.m., show @ 10 p.m. $5.
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fter a certain point, writing about an annual, block-busting event like Tonic Ball becomes a numbers game. How many bands will perform, how many venues will open doors, how many meals for Second Helpings – the food rescue nonprofit that it all supports – will funds raised provide? So, this year, like we did in 2012, we embrace the numbers rundown and present to you 13 facts for Tonic 13. A couple of additional details: songs by Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks, Nirvana, Foo Fighters and the Velvet Underground/ Lou Reed will be covered by local bands at the Hi-Fi, Radio Radio, White Rabbit Cabaret and Fountain Square Theater (with NUVO’s own Ed Wenck hosting the
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Velvet Underground stage). Please note Tonic Gallery and Tiny Tonic went down last week – there’s just too much to pack into one Friday night these days. We’ve got a gallery of images from the nowauctioned Tonic Gallery on NUVO.net, plus more info on the bands playing, a complete schedule and photos from many Tonic Balls past. Friday night’s event is (sadly) sold out. And now, on to the facts:
20 ARTISTS CONTRIBUTE 20+ PIECES TO THE TONIC GALLERY
18 PEOPLE SIT ON THE TONIC COMMITTEE 30 VOLUNTEERS WILL HELP PUT ON THE BALL
4 VENUES WILL OPEN THEIR DOORS FOR THE BALL, THE MOST EVER 60 BANDS WILL PLAY INCLUDING 270 MUSICIANS TOTAL
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90,000 DOLLARS (OR MORE) IS THE PROJECTED AMOUNT TONIC 13 WILL RAISE 1,850 WRISTBANDS WILL BE SOLD, OR GIVEN OUT TO VOLUNTEERS, MUSICIANS AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS
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46 SPONSORS HAVE LENT THEIR SUPPORT 10 YEARS IN A ROW FOR THE COMMON TO TAKE THE TONIC STAGE 9 PEOPLE WILL TAKE THE STAGE FOR THE BIGGEST BAND AT TONIC, THE AMPERSAND BLUES BAND 358 PERFORMANCES HAVE TAKEN PLACE AT TONIC BALLS PAST AND PRESENT 4,600 WAS RAISED AT TONIC THE FIRST YEAR 85,000 MEALS WILL BE SERVED AS A RESULT OF TONIC FUNDRAISING EFFORTS
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uring my time in the Indianapolis music scene I've worked with, or watched performances by nearly every major dance company in the city. While there are definitely some excellent modern and classical dance troupes located here, nothing I've witnessed from those ensembles matches the imagination, energy and athleticism I've witnessed from Indy's street dance community. Breakdancers, long viewed as a novelty by the formal dance world, are finally beginning to receive their due respect on the national stage. Just a few weeks ago, Memphis jook dancer Lil Buck was recognized as 2014's Performing Arts Innovator by The Wall Street Journal, and earlier this year Brooklyn flex dancer Storyboard P was labeled the "Basquiat of street dance" in a lengthy bio piece published by The New Yorker. As a DJ I've spun at several Indianapolis dance battles and personally witnessed the depth of talent in the local community. That's how I met Brandon "Edge" Haines, a dancer with a huge vision for his craft and its place within the Indianapolis arts community. I met with Edge at a downtown coffee shop to discuss his dance crew Alkemy and the healing power of hip-hop dance.
“We’ve got krumping, breaking, jittin’ and jookin’.
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The Army doesn't brainwash you exactly, but you have to go in with a certain mentality to take care of business or you could die. I was doing route clearance, and if we made a mistake or did something stupid, we'd be dead. That level of seriousness can drive you to the brink of cracking. You can snap. Hip-hop saved my mind. It helped me find balance. My military time was the ultimate, hard, cold, disciplined, stern experience. Then I discovered the dance. That's the other half of me. I don't care about anything when music is playing. I move how I want to move and nobody can tell me different — I'm free. NUVO: Tell us about your dance crew Alkemy.
EDGE: Alkemy's core base is dance. But we want it to become an umbrella group for all types of artists. We welcome — EDGE anybody that is passionate. We are not necessarily just looking for the best of the craft, because you can be the best and still be an asshole. It's great if you're the NUVO: How did you get started in the best dancer and you're winning money and street dance scene? getting famous. But what are you doing to leave a legacy behind? What are you doing EDGE: In 2010 I met Erica Culp and Katie to create community? Dancing has a culture Fouse and they invited me to a practice for and we're trying to continue that culture their hip-hop dance group. I instantly fell and move it forward. in love and three months later I decided to quit my job and dedicate myself to the art. NUVO: What styles do you and your It's been rough, but this is my calling. crew specialize in? NUVO: What pulled you in so deeply so fast? EDGE: It was the healing factor to be honest. I've served in the military, and I'm still currently on National Guard status. I'd been back from my first deployment for about four months and I was not feeling comfortable. I wasn't feeling like myself, and I was going through a lot of changes. I was very young at the time. I'd just turned 20 when I came back. Dancing felt like home. No matter where I went or who I was around I could dance anywhere and it felt like home. Dancing allows me to be myself.
EDGE: Between all of us, I can honestly say we cover all the styles in the hip-hop and freestyle realm. We've got popping, krumping, breaking, jittin' and jookin'. We've got dancers that buck, that pop, that house, that do footwork, waacking, vogueing and straight hip-hop. n
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POP Ingrid Michaelson 8 p.m. Singer Ingrid Michaelson made it big on the radio with “Girls Chase Boys” but her fans know that she’s been churning out catchy, gorgeous pop for much longer than that. Buskirk-Chumley Theatre, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave. (Bloomington), prices vary, all-ages
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My Brightest Diamond 8 p.m. Shara Worden’s voice and storytelling has wowed audiences across the world. Going by the moniker My Brightest Diamond, Worden has dabbled in many different genres of music, settling in on folk for her second to last project All Things Will Unwind. After moving to Detroit and birthing a son, the new album addresses the painful juxtaposition of life and death, class and race, art and politics — as heard through the mesmerizing lullaby of a new mother. New album This Is My Hand explores dance music through the lens of a marching band – Shara mentioned in an interview with us last week that it’s her dream to have a marching band up on stage during her performances. Could Indianapolis, home of Bands of America and Grand National Championships for marching bands across the country, be the perfect place for that? We’ll have to see. White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect St., $15, 21+
Jay Elliott and Friends, Tin Roof, 21+ Blues Jam with Gordon Bonham, Slippery Noodle, 21+ The Family Jam, Mousetrap, 21+
THURSDAY UKES Mim’s Ukes Traveling Ukulele Sideshow 7 p.m. Ukulele players of all ages and skill levels are invited to participate in workshops, “jam” with other ukulele players, and attend a concert performance by local and international ukulele artists at mini-ukulelefestival featuring Mike “Uncle Elvis” Hind, Drop Ready and The Jonless Martins. Ukulele workshops during the day. Logan Street Sanctuary, 1274 Logan St., $12, 21+
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HIP-HOP Atmosphere 9 p.m. Over the course of a nearly 20-year career, iconic indie hip-hop duo Atmosphere have almost single-handedly put Minneapolis on the hip-hop map. Atmosphere’s community-based approach to scene building has paid off in dividends for the group and their hometown. They’re still thriving on the same indie label they cofounded in Minneapolis in 1995. Their Rhymesayers label has released a slew of classic titles from artists like MF Doom and Brother Ali, and helped to shape Minneapolis into a veritable epicenter of underground hip-hop music. — Kyle Long Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., $22.50 in advance, $25 at door, 21+ ALBUM RELEASE LEGS Cassette Release Show 9:30 p.m. Bloomington band LEGS drops their cassette at a release show at The Bishop, accompanied by Purple 7. Bishop, 123 S. Walnut St. (Bloomington), 18+ Animal Haus, Blu Lounge, 21+ Altered Thurzdaze, Mousetrap, 21+ George Winston, Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre, all-ages Ekoostik Hookah, Glostik Willy, Birdy’s, 21+ Midwest Rhythm Exchange, Union 50, 21+ Danville Jam, Ellis Park, all-ages Brillz, Snails, Deluxe at Old National Centre, all-ages Tied to Tigers, Glenwood Drive, Werewolf with a Shotgun, Grant McClintock, Melody Inn, 21+
Tonic Ball 4:30 p.m. See that profile on page 22. You didn’t think that was all we had, did you? There’s much more about Tonic Ball – including 13 years of coverage – on nuvo.net. Fountain Square, various addresses, SOLD OUT, 21+ (mostly) LEGENDS Tony Bennett with special guest Antonia Bennett 8 p.m. The wonderfully classic Tony Bennett has sold more than 50 million records, including 10 million in the last 10 years – that means from ages 75 – 85, a.k.a. definite retirement age. Bennett is nowhere close to slowing down – his latest, Duets II, made it to the very top of the charts. And he knows what the kids like, too. That’s why he’s doing some interesting work with Lady Gaga. Their collaborative album Cheek to Cheek, a collection of jazz standards, came out in September. Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, 355 City Center Dr., prices vary, all-ages METAL Fiber, Bizarre Noir, Photian Schism, 9th Circle Symphony 9 p.m. A little bit more about the beer part of our Beer and Gear feature on page 20: NUVO: What do you think of the beer? CRAIG SMOOT: I like this place [Tow Yard] and it’s open on Monday. I’ve totally been on the scavenger hunt looking for a brewery on a Monday. They have good food, too. CHRIS CHARLES: I think the beer is very good. I don’t normally drink red ales, but [Oatis Redding Imperial Red Ale] is very smooth. I’m probably gonna have to get a growler from [Tow Yard] today. That’s a smart thing to do. SMOOT: You can’t really say
no to Horsepower [Tow Yard’s Double Pale Ale]. 5th Quarter Lounge, 306 E. Prospect St., $5, 21+
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countless breathless press blurbs. When I asked for more, they said they didn’t have another release prepared until next year. This is truly a baby band preparing for what could be a mega-launch, if all those breathless press blurbs are to be believed (does this count as one now?) Locals The Farewell Audition and Indien will accompany. Birdy’s, 2131 E. 71st St., $5, 21+
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New Old Cavalry, Broad Ripple Tavern, 21+ Max Allen Band, Union 50, 21+ Cornmeal, Bluebird, 21+ Dawn and Hawkes, The Blue Eyed Bettys, Birdy’s, 21+ Michael Spiro, Ritmos Unidos, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ The Joe Marcinek Band, Pleasant Drive, Mousetrap, 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 METAL Progressive Metal Under the Dome 6:30 p.m. We love the themedmusic nights at the all-ages Dome. This one is all progressive metal, featuring Chiasma, Hatchling, Pvrenchymv and Divisions. Hoosier Dome, 1627 Prospect St., $8, all-ages GUITARS Indy Guitar Summit 7:30 p.m. The Indianapolis Guitar Summit performs bi-annually to packed houses at The Jazz Kitchen in Indianapolis, and has appeared at, among other places, The Indiana State Museum Jazz Concert Series, Concerts by the Canal, The Indiana Avenue Renaissance Festival, and the Wes Montgomery Jazz Festival (WesFest). Although every guitarist in town shows up to hear the group play, it appeals to everyone that loves great music played by great musicians. Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave., $15, 21+ POP American Wrestlers, The Farewell Audition, Indien 8 p.m. I’ve been getting incessant emails about American Wrestlers as they prepare to stop in Indy – over and over the same song, with
Percussion and Other Things 8 p.m. This cool showcase features solo, duo and chamber performances by different musicians, including Doug Perkins (Meehan/Perkins Duo), Tim Feeney, Christian Taylor (Ampersand Blues Band) and Derek Johnson (Bang On A Can Allstars/Ampersand), Amy Garapic (TIGUE), NOBROW. collective and The Kraken Quartet with composers Elliot Cole and Andrea Mazzariello. As usual, this show is pay what you want. Joyful Noise, 1043 Virginia Ave., donations accepted, all-ages ANNIVERSARIES The Enders Five-Year Party 10 p.m. It’s the fifth anniversary for Indy hardcore punk band The Enders, who picked up Gay Black Republican, The Involuntarys and Giraffes Eating ions as accompaniment for their big night. Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St., $6, 21+ RETURNS The Vulgar Boatmen, White Moms, The Bloody Mess 8 p.m. It seems like the Vulgar Boatmen come through every winter, and we attempt to explain the complicated path this band’s lineup took from 1982 to now. But we’re not going to do it this time, nope, we’re not. We’re just going to tell you to go see them at Radio Radio on Saturday with White Moms and The Bloody Mess (both local), because the show will surely be great. Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St., $5, 21+ RDGLDGRN, Kaneholler, The Young Wild, Hi-Fi, 21+ DJ Helicon, Breakdown Kings, Model Stranger, Whiskey Business Sports Bar, 21+ Kung Fu, After Funk Mousetrap, 21+ Clayton Anderson, Vogue, 21+ Naptown Connect, 5th Quarter Lounge, 21+ KO, Deeper, Dirtbike, Sonny Blood’s Exploding Head Scene, Kismet, all-ages
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set – and sometimes longer. Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, 355 City Center Dr., prices vary, all-ages ROCK Blue October 8 p.m. Does anyone else remember that epic Blue October video with the ballerinas? Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., $25, 21+ Reggae Revolution, Casba, 21+
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KO 3 p.m. Now Chicago-resident KO comes a couple hundred miles southeast for a showcase at Indy CD and Vinyl. Her band White Moms plays the evening before with Vulgar Boatmen at Radio Radio. Indy CD and Vinyl, 806 Broad Ripple Ave., FREE, all-ages LEGENDS Randy Newman 7 p.m. In our minds, Randy Newman is our grandpa. Our film-scoring (Toy Story, James and The Giant Peach, A Bug’s Life, Cars), Three Dog Night-covered grandpa. His set lists are chock full of his classics (“Short People,” “You Can Leave Your Hat On,” “You’ve Got a Friend in Me”) and his encores are almost as long as the actual
MONDAY HOOSIERS John Hiatt 8 p.m. Indiana’s prodigal son returns for a show at the BuskirkChumley in Bloomington. Expect plenty from his July album Terms of My Surrender, out on New West Records – but the old hits, too. Buskirk-Chumley Theatre, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave. (Bloomington), $47.50, all-ages
celebrate Jackson’s birthday. This dance night was always a super fun mid-week break – and the Lockerbie is a super walkable spot just south of Mass Ave for those looking to imbibe beforehand. Bring your dancing shoes. Lockerbie Pub, 631 E. Michigan St., FREE, 21+ THRASH METAL GWAR 9 p.m. There’s never a bad time to revisit Taylor Peters’ piece “Seven Lessons from my first GWAR show.” To wit: “It is as bizarre as it sounds to see an effigy of Snooki from Jersey Shore disemboweled by a bunch of armored trolls. It is equally weird to see a group of armored trolls hold a bull fight with a dragon-like creature called the ‘Jaeger Monster,’ as well as to see them attack a small roundish creature with giant teeth and a feather duster for an arm because it was a custodian and it complained about the mess they were making.” Please also note: the group is touring with their first-ever female lead singer, Vulvatron (Kim Dylla). Yes, it’s as amazing as that sounds. Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., prices vary, 21+ Hoodie Allen, Chiddy Band, Old National Centre, all-ages
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Every saint has a bee in his
halo,” said philosopher Elbert Hubbard. Similarly, some Libras have a passive-aggressive streak hidden beneath their harmony-seeking, peace-loving persona. Are you one of them? If so, I invite you to express your darker feelings more forthrightly. You don’t have to be mean and insensitive. In fact, it’s best if you use tact and diplomacy. Just make sure you reveal the fact that there is indeed a bee in your halo. I bet you will ultimately be pleased with the consequences you stir up through your acts of courageous honesty. Libra
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“cement” and “concrete” interchangeably, but they are not the same. Cement is powdery stuff that’s composed of limestone, gypsum, clay with alumino-silicate, and other ingredients. It’s just one of the raw materials that is used to make concrete — usually no more than 15 percent of the total mass. The rest consists of sand, crushed stone, and water. Let’s regard this as a good metaphor for you to keep in mind, Scorpio. If you want to create a durable thing that can last as long as concrete, make sure you don’t get overly preoccupied with the “cement” at the expense of the other 85 percent of the stuff you will need. Scorpio
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness,” said American humorist Josh Billings. I propose that we make that your motto in the coming weeks. It’s an excellent time to liberate yourself from memories that still cause you pain — to garner major healing from past anguish and upheaval. And one of the best ways to do that will be to let go of as much blame and rage and hatred as you possibly can. Forgiveness can be your magic spell. Capricorn
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Denmark has been a pioneer in developing the technology to supply its energy needs with wind power. By 2020, it expects to generate half of its electricity from wind turbines. Recently the Danish climate minister also announced his nation’s intention to phase out the use of coal as an energy source within ten years. I would love to see you apply this kind of enlightened long-term thinking to your own personal destiny, Aquarius. Now would be an excellent time to brainstorm about the life you want to be living in 2020 and 2025. It’s also a perfect moment to outline a master plan for the next ten years, and commit to it. Aquarius
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Piscean actor Sir Michael Caine has had an illustrious career. He has won two Oscars and been nominated for the award six times in five different decades. But for his appearance in Jaws: The Revenge, he was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor. He confessed that his work in that film was not his best, and yet he was happy with how much money he made doing it. “I have never seen the film,” he said, “but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.” In accordance with the astrological omens, Pisces, you have permission to engage in a comparable trade-off during the coming months. Pisces
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