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ymbols matter. Council and saw firsthand how a state-based Just ask the One Who Must Be Obeyed satellite of the NEH helped public libraries, (OWMBO) — Donald Trump. local historical societies and other commuConsider The Wall. Whether this nity-based institutions unearth and share the turns out to be an actual structure remains kinds of stories that perpetuate and sustain to be seen. But that may not matter. It is a community identity and sense of place. Later, potent symbol that resonates with many Indiana Humanities commissioned me to Americans (although not enough of them to travel the state in order to document our win him the popular vote — another symbol, burgeoning food scene. for legitimacy, that apparently rankles the Republicans have been out to get the OWMBO to no end). Endowments since the early ‘90s. The annual Engaging in symbolic acts, They seem not to understand like barring people from a when it comes to the arts budgets for the that, select group of seven predomand ideas, a lot of valuable work NEA and NEH inantly Muslim countries from gets done that doesn’t make peoentering the United States, is ple famous or rich. Therefore, total slightly called “sending a message.” they argue, such work must be a Never mind if the odds of being less than $300 waste of money. Between them, killed by someone from one though, the annual budgets for million. of these countries is mathethe NEA and NEH total slightly matically meaningless. This less than $300 million. This is less so-called Muslim ban is a symbol: action has than the $1 million per day it reportedly costs been taken. New York City to provide 24-hour security for Given the propensity of the OWMBO and a year at Trump Tower. Cutting $300 million is his Republican allies for symbolism, it was a teardrop in country’s fiscal bucket. merely a matter of time before their sights Which brings us back to symbolism. Cuts zeroed in on the National Endowments for aimed at creativity and scholarship dovetail the Arts and Humanities (NEA and NEH). with recent attacks by the OWMBO on the Funding for these agencies appears to be intelligence community and news media. missing from a proposed Federal budget. These attacks are designed to belittle rigorous Founded in 1965, during Lyndon Johnthinking and personal expression — and to son’s administration, the Endowments had discount the worth of jobs associated with a game-changing effect on American life. nonprofit fields. Indiana needs these jobs. In Before the NEA and NEH, creative people many cases they are the only means of livethroughout the country moved to New York lihood keeping talented professionals in our City or tucked themselves away on college state. They also enhance our communities in campuses. This was a classic American story. ways that are no less important for their being The Endowments, which made Federal hard to measure. money for cultural activity available to all 50 The irony here is that, instead of trying to states, changed that scenario. Regional thedo them in, Republicans should be celebrataters, orchestras, dance companies and visual ing the Endowments. Rarely do Federal agenarts organizations gained traction in medicies accomplish so much with so little. The um-size cities across the nation, enlivening NEA and NEH should be held up as symbols communities and providing work for talented of fiscal restraint. people who preferred staying put. But what would be the symbolic value I worked for the Indiana Humanities of that? N
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THROWING SHADE ON SOLAR Legislators battle citizens, business in fight for renewable energy BY AMBER STEARNS // ASTEARNS@NUVO.NET
ED SOLIDAY R-Valparaiso JERK Soliday’s Twitter response to a constituent’s criticism of a bill he wrote is
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n Thursday, February 9, the State Senate Utilities committee is set to hear Senate Bill 309, which deals with the issue of the distributed generation of power in this state. On the surface it may seem like a bill full of technical mumbo jumbo that shouldn’t concern the general public. But the public should be concerned about the details of the bill and many are, especially residents, businesses and industries that are concerned about and invested in clean renewable energy. The bill, authored by Sen. Brandt Hershman, would require public utilities to end the net metering tariff for costumers by 2027 or “until the first calendar year after the aggregate amount of net metering facility nameplate capacity under the tariff equals at least 1 percent of the electricity supplier’s most recent summer peak load,” whichever comes first. And according to industry watchers, that timeline could be moved up to three or four years. While that may sound confusing — believe me, it is —the bottom line is that the bill seeks to reverse some of the provisions put in place by the Daniels Administration
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and the 2011 state legislature to help creat an investment climate for business and industry interested in wind and solar power. And, for an administration like that of Gov. Eric Holcomb, who has made economic investment and creating a business-friendly environment in Indiana — well, let’s just say that the bill is bad for business. Net metering allows utility customers
who generate their own power to essentially “sell” any power they don’t use back to the public utility at a retail price — which in turn results in a discount of sorts on their bill for power they do get from the utility company. Customers essentially get to use the power they have generated themselves, through wind or solar, at a later date for no additional cost. For example, a typical 10 kW-h home solar installation will produce 55 kW-h of electricity on a sunny day. The average home uses about 40 kW-h each day. So on those sunny days the customer sells the extra 15 kW-h of electricity back to their public utility. When they use power from the utility on a cloudy day, 15kW-h of electricity is discounted from their bill. That’s net metering. So, what happens when net metering ends? The customer sells the 15kW-h of electricity to the utility at wholesale, but then has to pay the retail price when it is used at a later date. That’s like selling a scarf you knitted yourself for $5 only to turn around and buy it back for $10. Net metering doesn’t just affect residential homes and small businesses with rooftop solar panels. The 2011 legislation also
beyond childish. “Not nearly as a stupid as you are!” Real classy there, Ed.
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increased the total service kW-h from 10 to per year. 1000kW-h, opening up the opportunities Amazon currently has a 13-year purfor large businesses, commercial properties chase agreement to supply power from its and industries to create their own power as wind farm to its data centers. Could the well. And the results have been prosperous terms of SB 309 put that agreement and the for the state. future of Amazon’s business There are numerous large and jobs in Indiana in jeopcorporations and industries Let’s just say that ardy? Anything’s possible, that have made renewable when other states the bill is bad for especially energy sources part of their are competing for that busibusiness. strategic plan and look for ness and are creating better strong investment climates climates for investment. when deciding where to locate. For exam“The trend that is happening in other ple, Amazon has a specific plan for 100 states is that this is a promising industry percent sustainability for the company and we’ve got to figure out, how do we with a long-term step-by-step plan of how make our climate better for this technoloto get there. According to the company’s gy,” Hoosier Environmental Council execuwebsite, Amazon was on track to exceed tive director Jesse Kharbanda says. “So they its goal of generating 40 percent of its own have gone beyond one percent and gone power by the end of 2016 and has a goal of to two, three maybe even five percent. And 50 percent for 2017. To achieve this goal, they have gone from maybe a one-megathe company as created several wind and watt (1000 kilowatts) limit to essentially an solar farms in the same states where its unlimited commitment. ” warehouses are located. Amazon operates Businesses with interests in the investthree fulfillment centers in Indiana — Inment climate of Indiana are prepared to dianapolis, Plainfield, Whitestown and Jef- testify at the committee hearing. Hoosier fersonville — which created much-needed Interfaith Power and Light is rallying its jobs. Amazon also built a wind farm in membership to attend the hearing to Benton County, Ind. outside of Fowler. voice concerns for the bill and champion The 65 wind turbines generate power that renewable energy in the state. The hearing is supplied to Amazon data centers that is is scheduled for 9 a. m. Thursday in the the equivalent of powering 46,000 homes Senate chambers. N
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A CHOCOLATE SKEPTIC IS CONVERTED Making truffles at The Best Chocolate in Town BY CAVAN McGINSIE // CMCGINSIE@NUVO.NET
TASTY, TINY, CHOCOLATEY TRUFFLES FROM THE BEST CHOCOLATE IN TOWN. // PHOTO BY JOEY SMITH.
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hocolate. For some, just the word alone is enough to make their heart race, eyes dilate and mouth water — all sure signs of love. Since the era of the Aztecs, delicious chocolate has been tied to the ideas of passion and love. It’s sinful. It’s irresistible. And yet for me — well — it’s fine. I don’t hate it. I just don’t crave it. When I have a Reese’s cup (or egg, tree, heart or pumpkin; the far superior versions to the standard cup) I peel the chocolate off and indulge on the peanut butter center. When presented at the end of a large meal with a tray full of sweet, elegantly decorated desserts, there is a zero percent chance I will choose any option that revolves around chocolate. Baklava, tiramisu, madeleines, sugar cream pie, cheese, cheesecake, anything with cheese, even a cup of espresso, hell yes — but chocolate, never. But I’m a food writer, and so it is my job to continually attempt to further my palate and knowledge of all forms of food. And so, with
Valentine’s Day — a time for love and a time for chocolate — approaching ever so quickly I decided there is no better time than now to break out of my comfort zone and try to find my own love for chocolate. And that’s how I ended up here, in the production facility of popular Indy chocolate shop The Best Chocolate in Town. Owner and operator Elizabeth Garber recently moved production out of the Mass Ave storefront and to this location near the Circle City Industrial Complex. With a large-scale spot for her and her workers to craft the over 40 styles of truffles they are known for, Elizabeth is looking forward to what could possibly be the busiest year they’ve ever had — which is wild considering that Elizabeth and six other women push out about 100,000 hand-mixed -rolled -dipped -decorated and -packaged truffles a year. As Elizabeth gives me the grand tour, the team is already busting out trays and trays of beautiful truffles. Despite my indifference to the flavor of chocolate, I have always loved
the way it looks, especially the intricate little accents chocolatiers add to turn each piece into edible art. Elizabeth’s space is still coming along, waiting for the fire department to give the okay on a few more details. But all other aspects are ready to go. We pass by two women, Ildelisa Arteaga and Kristine Morris, rolling the cold ganache between their palms into perfectly uniform pallino-sized balls. The action reminds me of playing with Play-Doh as a child, except they won’t be smashing these flat on a kitchen table. A faint shimmer glimmers off their purple nitrile gloves from the oils in the ganache as their fingers nimbly fix any differences in size or shape before the balls are placed on a metal baking sheet lined with wax paper. I’m struck by the precision of their motions. It definitely takes an eye for exactness — there is no perceptible difference between any of the 50 or so they have rolled on their sheets. When Elizabeth asks if I want to roll, I respond like a stoned person that just got pulled
over: “I’ll do whatever you say I should do.” But, before I start rolling away, she decides I should see how the ganache itself is made. One of the women I watched roll ganache is a sweet and enthusiastic retired R.N. named Kristine — she goes by Kris. She comes over to teach me the recipe for the ganache. While she is bringing out the ingredients and getting me a mixing bowls she tells me that after retiring she wanted something to keep her busy. She knew she loved cooking and chocolate, and she’s now been here for seven years. We start the ganache by melting down a ton of chocolate chips. Are you thinking we’d use some specialty equipment or a hot water bath? Nope: we pop them in the microwave for short increments with thorough bouts of stirring between. Once it’s melted — Kris can tell better than I can — we pull out an electric hand mixer and start adding in cream cheese. Blending still-cold cream cheese isn’t an easy task, especially for a weakling like me NUVO.NET // 02.08.17 - 02.15.17 // THE BIG STORY // 7
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ASK THE WINE GUY VINO FOR VALENTINE’S Not many things on this earth go together as well as chocolate and wine. So with that in mind I reached Chris Wildeman of SoBro Spirits — someone who knows wine much better than I — to get the lowdown on which wines will suit your chocolatey desire this Valentine’s Day. Here is what Chris had to say: “Strike like Cupid this Valentine’s Day by bringing dry wine and sweet chocolate together. “Chocolate and wine are common inventory used in accompanying the mid-February lovers’ tradition, but options aren’t as limited as one might think. It is commonly perceived that only sweet wine can go hand in hand with chocolate. Here is a quick go-to guide sure to steer you in a different direction when pairing sweet treats with dry wines for your special sweetheart.” Dark Chocolate lovers: “If you prefer dark chocolate,” says Chris, “look towards Australian Shiraz or Cabernet Sauvignon. The bitterness of dark chocolate pairs nicely with the tannic, jammy and full-bodied attack those grapes offer. Bold is definitely the theme here.” Chris suggests that you “give the Inkberry Shiraz-Cab from Australia a try. This is a fun, quality wine, full of voluptuous blue and black fruit.” The good news is it’s great bargain, usually retailing under $15.
BEST CHOCOLATE IN TOWN OWNER ELIZABETH GARBER DEMONSTRATES THE WAY TO DIP A TRUFFLE IN DARK CHOCOLATE. // PHOTO BY JOEY SMITH.
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whose only hand and wrist strengthening exercises involve video gaming and using an incredibly sharp chef’s knife. Every time I think my po’ little wist is going to get a break, Kris says something along the lines of “We need to keep it going.” She explains that the cream cheese has to be completely mixed in or we risk hard chunks remaining in the ganache, and that would ruin the batch. At least I have Kris’ kind conversation and The Beatles’ White Album to keep me company. We’re about halfway done with “The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill” when we finish up. I look down at the nonperishable ingredients on our workspace, spotting a bottle of Jameson and wondering if chocolate and whiskey is a thing. While I’m contemplating a drink, Kris explains that we now put the ganache in a fridge and let it chill until there is a need for this particular style of truffle. The ganache on its own is surprisingly delicious for the simplicity of it. But then again, I’m a firm believer that things taste better when you’ve prepared them yourself since you can almost taste the hard work. Mmm, elbow grease. With the ganache labeled and packed away in the fridge, Elizabeth comes back and settles down across a steel table from me. She has a bucket like the one Kris and I just put away. It’s cookies and cream ganache. “Ready to roll?” This is what I’ll say: rolling is much easier than blending, almost zen-like, really. You scrape up some of the now hard ganache and once you think you have enough you shape it carefully between your palms into a globe. While Elizabeth and I work our way
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CAVAN HUNTS THROUGH 40 TRUFFLE VARIETIES FOR THE FLAVORS THAT WILL CONVERT HIM. // PHOTO BY JOEY SMITH.
through the cookies and cream bucket, we tion, family-owned chocolate maker out of chat about the state of the food industry and California named Guittard. (Before now, I had major the differences in how the chocolate, assumed that The Best Chocolate in Town beer, wine and food industries work, especialmade their own chocolate. Now knowing that ly here in Indianapolis. they were, until a month ago, working purely According to Elizabeth, much like in food out of their store on Mass Ave, that would have and beer, many of the trends start on the been an impossibility.) Elizabeth gives me a coast and work their way in. She was an early rundown of just how much goes into making adapter of the sea salt craze. Now sea salt is chocolate, from bean to bar, and it sounds on everything, including my absolute favorite like a beast of a task. Not making their own thing The Best Chocolate in chocolate gives the shop a Town offers, the milk chocochance to focus on making Elizabeth late sea salt caramels. their truffles. This year, she says, Indian Inside the vat, a stainless and six other spices will be big. They’re steel bowl turns continually women push out already represented in The clockwise, a divider keeping Best Chocolate in Town’s cothe chocolate in only one about 100,000 conut curry truffle. Now this half of the bowl at all times. hand-mixed is a trend I can get behind: Elizabeth explains that there the more savory or spicy the is a mechanism below the -rolled -dipped chocolate, the happier my bowl, similar to a hair dryer, -decorated taste buds. that keeps the bowl a steady I feel like I’m getting the temperature to keep the and -packaged hang of our task after about chocolate nice and smooth. truffles a year. my tenth or so truffle rolled. Robyn Pierceall, an And then I realize for every employee of more than one I do — rolling and then pinching it off a decade, shows me the ways of chocolate because I started out with too much ganache dipping. She plucks up one of the little balls and then having to add some back because I Elizabeth and I have just finished rolling, the overcorrected — Elizabeth is making at least cookies and cream ganache looking for all the two and sometimes three. world like a Killdeer egg but perfectly round, After we have a solid 50 on the tray, we and tosses it in the chocolate. It lands with move to the next step in the process. Time to a small plop, floating on the top and being add a dark chocolate coat to these cookie and pulled to the left by the small current created cream truffles. by the spinning bowl. Watching this from Easier said than done. We stand alongside is like getting a bird’s-eye view of Augustus a waist-high vat of melted dark chocolate. Gloop rolling through the chocolate river. The chocolate comes from a third-genera“The great big greedy nincompoop!” NUVO.NET // 02.08.17 - 02.15.17 // THE BIG STORY // 9
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ASK THE WINE GUY Milk Chocolate lovers: Chris says, “For those that are seeking a dry wine pairing for milk chocolate, consider Pinot Noir. One of the keys to the unity of wine and chocolate is matching each other’s heaviness. Just as a bold and spicy Shiraz matches the rich and bitter components of dark chocolate, the elegant and lighter Pinot Noir matches the milder essence of milk chocolate. New Zealand produces wonderful cool climate Pinot’s that have the ability to rival those of Oregon and France.” White Chocolate lovers: “Not normally a fan of chocolate, but have a taste for white chocolate?” Chris THE TEAM BEHIND THE BEST CHOCOLATE IN TOWN. // PHOTO BY JOEY SMITH
asks, “Let’s get bubbly. Sparkling rosé (for all intents and purposes, sweet or dry) will seal the deal. Spanish Cava is some of the best bang-for-your-buck sparkling wine out there.” According to Chris, “The Poema Brut Rosé is an incredible option in this category.” Which once again is wallet-friendly, hanging around the $10-mark. He also says, “Freixenet’s Sweet Cuvée is just as inexpensive and is another red-berry-based option to pair with the buttery and creamy white chocolate.” He finishes by saying, “Ultimately, your palate is the judge of what works best. “Not a fan of these suggestions? Try something else: Tawny Port, Moscato d’ Asti, German Riesling; those are common suggestions. “We all have our own opinions. That’s the beauty of wine.”
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Robyn dips the tips of her pointer and middle fingers to roll it through the chocolate, making sure all of the ganache is covered before scooping it out with her two fingers. When she lifts it into the air the warm chocolate runs off her fingers in a waterfall back down into the bowl below as she lowers her fingers onto the metal divider and scrapes the remainder off the back of her purple gloves — Willy Wonka wore purple gloves, too, I think. Then, almost robotically, she flips the little dark marble that is left resting gently between her fingers onto a fresh sheet of white wax paper and then with her pointer finger she does this sort of swoop — a backwards C to be precise — which leaves a perfect little decorative topper. All of this takes approximately ten seconds. Robyn does this about five more times before she asks if I’m ready to jump in. “Sure,” I say confidently. It looks really easy, right? That easy confidence turns to ash after my first attempt. Somehow I get all four of my fingers covered in chocolate, I also get too much chocolate on the truffle which leads to a huge blob of chocolate underneath the truffle (it looks more like the chocolate covered cherries
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we get my grandma every Christmas), and my swoop, instead of a backwards C, is closer to a stream of tears running down the truffle. “It’s harder than it looks.” Robyn and Elizabeth astutely point out. I couldn’t agree more, but I’m not deterred. I’m going to make one of these suckers look pretty. I wipe the excess chocolate off and dive back in, being careful to only use the two fingers to pull my little Augustus out of the chocolate. When I set it down, there isn’t as much gloop on the wax. In fact, it looks closer to a ball instead of 3-D Blinky, Pinky, Inky or Clyde — but the swoop, while more swoopy than my first attempt, is not quite right. Third time proves to be the charm — is what I would say if this was a work of fiction and not a recounting of my day bumbling through a real-life chocolate shop. It turns out fifth time is the actual charm. And, once I had accomplished what I came here to do, I step away before I could mess it up again. (I also want to lick the chocolate off of my gloves, but I don’t after Robyn says it will just taste like gloves. I’m pretty sure nitrile-flavored chocolate won’t be the key to converting me into a chocolate lover.) Elizabeth tells me I was actually better than a lot of people who’ve dipped truffles in the past. The Best Chocolate In Town used to actually let people dip their own truffles
before they realized it’s not the easiest thing in the world. Now, much like me, they keep that work in the hands of professionals like Robyn. With over 18 years of running this business Elizabeth has a pretty firm grasp about what works and doesn’t work in her shop, and in this industry. The Best Chocolate in Town started out as a side project in college to make money on the side. “The mocha truffle was my first truffle and only truffle at the time,” she tells me. “I was making the caramels and using a different turtle recipe at the time. Gosh, I probably had 10 different items at the time.” Her first production spot was in Edinburgh, Ind. She had planned on opening it in Columbus, but the rent was too high at the time — $400 a month, she says with a laugh. She couldn’t afford it at the time, and the rent in Edinburgh was more reasonable and so she started there. She says in those early years, she commuted from Greenwood down to Edinburgh, and when she would head home around midnight after incredibly long shifts, there wouldn’t be a single car on I-65 all the way home. Now, things have changed, on I-65, and for Elizabeth. She eventually moved the operation to Franklin, and a few years later up to her spot on Mass Ave. At that time, there wasn’t much
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ILDELISA ARTEAGA AND KRISTINE MORRIS HARD AT AT WORK ROLLING GANACHE FOR TRUFFLES. // PHOTO BY JOEY SMITH
on the north end of the now-incredibly poptruffles: coconut curry — got to stick with the ular street. Elizabeth speaks fondly of those trends — something called The Gorg, named slow days at the beginning, and about how the for its gorgonzola filling, and a port wine and neighborhood grew up around her and the fig creation. city embraced her business. (I choose the last one because I had seen While the city loves it, a Amelia Morris, one of the big portion of her business workers I hadn’t worked Elizabeth speaks actually comes from busiwith personally, making the nesses doing large batch organache and it looked wild. fondly of those ders and online orders. That The consistency is much slow days at the conversation leads us to runnier than what Elizabeth the packaging department, and I had rolled, so rather beginning, and where Ashley Hayhurst and than being dipped in chocabout how the Amanda Isselhart are busy olate, the shells are made packing up an order of 100 in plastic molds and the neighborhood boxes of assorted truffles for ganache is squeezed inside. grew up around a local jewelry store. This is a I had to feel the difference of type of work where I would the center for myself.) her and the city fail miserably. Ashley and I also get two milk Amanda are very precise in embraced her chocolate sea salt caramels, their work with tissue paper because I’ve gotta stick with business. and ribbons and labels — my go-tos. and anyone who’s received a As I plop down at a little gift from me can attest to the fact that tissue table in the corner and pop open my bag of paper and I don’t get along very well. labored-over goodies, I must admit, I’ve got a Now that I’ve made my way through the en- smile on my face. tire chocolate factory I make my exit through Am I converted? Am I in love? the great glass elevator and back out into the Well, I don’t think tastebuds work that way. streets of Indy’s Northeastside. A quick drive But, I undoubtedly have a higher sense of over to Mass Ave and it’s time to get a taste appreciation for these tasty little morsels. And of the fruits of my labor — or, actually, seven when I come back in to get some chocolate women’s labor. Has my newfound appreciafor Valentine’s Day — which I need to do soontion for the work grown my affinity for actual, er rather than later — I’ll be getting myself you know, chocolate? another of those port wine and figs to go along At the counter of the shop, I order a few with my caramels. N NUVO.NET // 02.08.17 - 02.15.17 // THE BIG STORY // 11
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FLYING SAUCERS AND BIGFOOT Two exhibitions at Tube Factory focus on the paranormal BY DAN GROSSMAN // ARTS@NUVO.NET
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aybe you’ve seen Bigfoot or UFO- ferent books about Bigfoot and he put themed artwork in art galleries together this exhibit which has like a little before. The problem is, Jeremy bit of everything; it has art, native amerEfroymson says, much of that art ican art, footcastings, a replica of a nine isn’t very good. foot human skeleton,” says Efroymson. “It “I wanted to do a show where artists has all kinds of photos. It has replicas of who were talented and just happened to what a Bigfoot might look like and we’ve live in different areas,” says Efroymson. put these things together. This is the first So he placed an open call for submissions time this has ever been seen outside the for a show that he set out to curate for state of Washington.” iMOCA entitled Museum of Real and Odd. UFOs, probably to a greater extent than For this exhibit, showing at Tube Factory Bigfoot and Sasquatch, have occupied a artspace through April 14, he winnowed kitschy corner in the American psyche. down 250 submissions to 13 from all over And there are certainly pieces of art in the United States. As a result, he says, “I the Museum of the Real and Odd that call think the quality of work in the exhibit is to mind this kitsch, intentionally or not, a lot better than what you usually see in such as Cassandra Klos’s “The Arrival.” a typical Bigfoot or a This photograph depicts UFO show.” a man and a woman in “I don’t think anybody a field, walking towards Efroymson is vice-president of a white UFO-type-thing needs to pigeonhole Efroymson Family with glowing windows. themselves as being a The man and the womFund, where he has supported many artan could be Mulder and UFO person or being ists and art nonprofits Scully from the X-Files, an art person or a throughout the Midfor all we know. west, including iMOCA But there are works sports person.” and Big Car. Efroymthat are much more — JEREMY EFROYMSON contemplative, evokson’s name might ring a bell because he was ing a sense of wonder was the first executive director of iMOCA for the complexity of the natural world. and one of the driving forces behind the Such is Jennifer Scheuer’s hand colored $25,000 grant that rolls out to five visual lithographs “Ginseng/Aging,” which, with artists across the Heartland every year. its rich detail, is evocative of illustrations At the same time, the Tube Factory in dusty books of natural history that you artspace will be hosting Chris Murphy’s might find in old libraries. The Hairy Man exhibition in its main “I just thought it had a mystical element gallery — which Efroymson describes as a and the way she shaped these pieces of show highlighting the history of Bigfoot in ginseng to look like human bodies,” says the Northwest. Efroymson. “I wanted to not just have “Chris Murphy has written nine difUFOS and Bigfoot. It’s more about the
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sense of keeping our minds open to all kinds of unusual things.” An installation entitled “The Museum of Contemporary Art on the Moon” by L.A. based Julio Orta, featuring two wacky videos, just might take the cake for being the most unusual work. “I don’t know how they do this but somebody’s selling 20-acre plots on the moon,” says Efroymson describing the videos. “So Orta bought property on the moon and he’s having architectural drawings made and he has a website and he’s going through the whole process of what a contemporary art museum would look like on the moon.”
Efroymson, a big fan of Serra’s sculptural work, has a taste for all kinds of art — from the most abstract you can think of to works replete with cultural references. “I don’t think that anyone has to pigeonhole themselves,” says Efroymson, who started to get interested in UFOs in his 20s. “I like sports. I like art. I’m interested in UFOs and bigfoot. But strangely enough, James Turrell, who’s a well known artist and is one of the sculptors that I really like, he was a U2 pilot. A lot of his light sculptures have to do with seeing the horizon up at 60,000 feet. And then I asked him about UFOs and he said that he believed or at least he was open to it. I guess more than anything, I don’t think anybody needs to pigeonhole themselves as being a UFO person or being an art person or a sports person.” N
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asha Jones has worked on a spoken word tribute to Nina Simone for the last five years. “I am kind of a perfectionist maybe, I don’t know,” laughs Jones. “This is something I have been working on for a while. I love the audaciousness of Nina Simone. … She shared a lot of what was happening in her community and for her people. I love that component of that. I love the component of the poetry and the imagery that she set.” For Jones it’s words that need to be spoken now more than ever. She mentions “Mississippi Goddamn” as an example. “I think that this is a time where it’s almost reminiscent of the period where she wrote it,” says Jones. “… Seventy years after that we
WHEN // Tasha Jones WHEN // Wednesday, Feb. 8, 12:15 p.m. WHERE // Indianapolis ArtsGarden
are still needing to write these types of materials. It says something about the country… and those of us who want change and want a revolution and pushing and standing and protesting for that kind of thing.” NUVO spoke with Jones about the story and timing behind her work.
EMILY TAYLOR: IN WHAT WAYS HAVE YOU SEEN HER WRITING AND HER MUSIC BECOME SO PROMINENT RIGHT NOW? TASHA JONES: She will always be present, because her words and her music was transcendent right? It wasn’t for a particular
NUVO.NET/BOOKS culture… it was human. I do think that also she was very clear with the way she wrote her words and sang. … I just think the time is so right for Nina Simone and the audaciousness of her voice, and her pen and her fingertips. To have so much political courage — we need that. We need people of courage… Everybody can’t just watch and pull out their phones.
EMILY: AS AN ARTIST HOW DO YOU SEE YOUR ROLE IN HUMANITY [AS A WRITER AND SPOKEN WORD ARTIST]? TASHA: I think Mari Evans said it best, it’s my job to speak the truth to the people. You have to speak the truth to the people. And the truth does not enslave. It’s not loud. It’s not ever revolving. It’s the truth, it’s not an alternative fact. (laughs) So I do that… It’s an alternate way to see how we can live together.
EMILY: YOU STARTED THIS PROJECT FIVE YEARS AGO. WHAT SPARKED IT FOR YOU?
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TASHA: To be honest with you, I was trying to learn the piano. I love music, and my whole life seems like it’s been revolving around this empowerment push for women to be stronger, to be better, to be greater. … I am saying that my competition is not based on one thing that a physical essence of the way that you look or the way I look. Or who you are with and who I am with. My competition is for me to be better, for me to be more humane, for me to be a better woman. And that I push you also, in competition — to be a better woman, a better you, a whole you. So when I started deepening my knowledge of who I am, of what I was going through at the time, it seems like that as an artist you have this extreme high as an artist… and some of those times are the lowest times with family. … Without those experiences, how then can you write so you can heal yourself and then heal somebody after that? Five years ago, I began to
study Nina Simone and the choices that she made, because I was in the middle of a life choice for myself. She made a choice to say, I have to do this for my art and for what I am here for. I am not really for sure if at the time she felt like she would or would not get blacklisted, or if she realized the consequences. … That being on a national TV and telling people that you are going to burn like flies for the way you are treating me and my people was a very audacious thing to do. So audacious that they are going to say, you are never going to work in this city again. Then what happens to your livelihood? What happens to your children? How can you afford your child? … You have spoke truth to power, and who does that? Who does that at their job? Who does that without worrying about the consequences? Studying that and the women who make those kinds of choices — you understand what your path has to be. That’s what happened to me.
EMILY: WHAT WAS IT THAT KEPT YOU FROM SHARING THIS SERIES UNTIL NOW? TASHA: If I am still emotional over something then it’s just for me. I have to get to the point where I can get through it. It took that amount of time to get through it. I am okay with that. That time was needed to write poems like “Listen Afros.” What if everybody tomorrow wakes up with an afro? Would it be an issue? Everyone in the United States has to look European, I can’t get a job if I don’t. I can’t be a president if I don’t … What if everyone woke up tomorrow and took on my culture? ... If everyone wore a dashiki. Everybody. What if that was okay? What if that was the norm? What if everyone had to run out and get what I looked like? … It’s those type of things where I am finally okay with the work. I don’t get emotional. The work is not an illusion bundling and questioning. I am resolved and I am satisfied with it. It’s ready because I’m ready. N
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HOW DENSE WE CAN BE Pedro Almodovar’s Julieta takes on grief and guilt BY ED JOHNSON-OTT // EJOHNSONOTT@NUVO.NET
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he closing shot of Julieta shows a car driving along a winding road high above the ocean shore. We see the car round a curve, but the camera continues forward over the edge. For the people in the vehicle the journey continues, while the audience is reminded of the leap being taken. We won’t learn what happens next. We don’t need to. Julieta was going to be Pedro Almodovar’s first English-language film. The man that brought the world The Skin I Live In, All About My Mother, Talk to Her and so many more; he optioned three short stories by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Canadian writer Alice Munro – Chance, Soon, and Silence – for the project. All three tales were about a Vancouver woman named Juliet Henderson. Almodovar intended to move the location to New York City. But as the filmmaker worked with the material his plans changed – Juliet became Julieta, the location moved to Madrid, and the language became Spanish.
Julieta is absorbing. Parts of it seem rushed, parts of it seem like rough sketches, but it never gets dull. The film deals with grief and guilt, and how dense we can be. Emma Suarez plays middle aged Julieta, who is looking for her long absent daughter. As the mother reflects on the curves her life has taken, we move into the past, where twentysomething Julieta is played by Adriana Ugarte (the switch from older to younger actor is routine. The switch back is beautifully handled in a mid-scene transition). Key to everything is a fateful train ride. Julieta is approached by a sad man looking for company. He makes her uncomfortable and she ditches him. In the dining car, she meets a gorgeous fisherman named Xoan (Damiel Grao). He’s confident and well spoken and married to a woman in a coma. Julieta and Xoan hit it off and get it on, conceiving their future daughter. The train ride is interrupted by a crash, by the way. Julieta will manage to
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feel guilty for it. After getting settled, Julieta travels to Xoan’s lovely seaside cottage where the funeral for his wife has just concluded. How convenient! How Almodovardian! Julieta is greeted with suspicion by Maria the housekeeper (played by Almodovar regular Rossy de Palma), but the day perks up when Xoan arrives. WHAT // Julieta (2016) Here’s all SHOWING // In wide you will know release (R) about Xoan: ED SAYS // t He’s handsome and rugged, with a fine torso. In addition to his fling on the train, he meets with long-time friend Ava (Inma Cuesta) for “a screw” from time to time. It’s no big deal, he assures Julieta. They couple up, the housekeeper defrosts, and daughter Antia (played in chronological order by Ariadna Matin, Priscilla Delgado, and Blanca Pares) is born.
I could go on, but this seems like a good point to stop. Julieta is one of those films where you could list every incident depicted in the characters’ lives without spoiling anything, because the film is about Julieta and her great grief and guilt more than anything. Some angled Twilight Zone camera positioning and a score by Alberto Iglesias that occasionally seems inspired by a Hitchcock film gives the production the ominous feel of a thriller. That’s all well and good, but the bright colors and tortured faces make it clear we are smack in the middle of an Almodovar melodrama. I long for the days when Almodovar created movies that made me dizzy. He may still surprise us, but in the meantime, I’ll settle for a mid-level offering like Julieta — which is wrought without going over. It keeps to the road, gliding around curves and assuming guilt for anything that interferes with the ride. N
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n atheist gets hit by a truck and sent to heaven. God offers him a deal in which he can avoid going to hell by writing and selling a book that clears up some of the major misconceptions about religion. It sounds like the set-up of a corny “faith-based film,” but this is actually the premise behind a wild and witty web series called The Book of Dallas. Set in writer-creator Joe Atkinson’s home of Evansville, the series follows a cub reporter named Dallas McKay (Benjamin Crockett). Angry, liberal and unapologetically atheist, Dallas finds himself suffocating in the Indiana Bible Belt. “You’re an atheist in this part of the country? That’s bold,” one of his friends says with a sharp tone. Dallas quickly turns into a believer when he meets God in heaven — a quaint coffee shop where the lord regularly chows down on waffles. By the way, God is a fast-talking twentysomething woman. And she’s tired of people committing atrocities in her name. “Crusades, inquisitions, genocides. Religion kills,” she reminds Dallas. She sends him on a mission — to write and promote a book that shines a positive light on religion. While he’s on tour with the book, Dallas faces obsessed fans, staunch naysayers and bloodthirsty reporters. We never hear
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what’s in the book that’s making people so upset, but the point is that it doesn’t matter. Dallas’ critics think he is simply wrong. The Book of Dallas takes satirical aim at this world in which too many people stubbornly think in terms of black and white, blinding themselves to the shades of gray in between. Although it was filmed back in 2012, the film’s world is unfortunately familiar to the one we find ourselves in today. It’s a contentious world of instant anger and knee-jerk reactions, of violent actions carried out for the sake of peace. As the series shows, it doesn’t take much to make people snap. But it can also be just as easy to set them on a more positive path. You can watch The Book of Dallas for free on Vimeo and the Court Street Productions website. The production company also produced the devastating documentary, From the Ashes: The University of Evansville Purple Aces, which premiered at the Heartland Film Festival last year. The Book of Dallas evokes the same kind of small-town warmth as that film. The Book of Dallas can be quite awkward and hokey at times, but it’s ultimately a clever, charming series. Back in 2012, it received international distribution (and nearly two million views) on KoldCast TV. This show is definitely worthy of attention. And Atkinson is a filmmaker worth keeping an eye on — he’s going places in Indy and beyond. N
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hen progressives attempt to push forward gun control legislation, a Republican voice is always quick to argue that the “bad guys” will still get their hands on guns no matter how many obstacles are placed in their way. While I do support some forms of gun control, I think there’s a reasonable logic within that argument. And I would make a similar argument against Donald Trump’s travel ban. Those seeking to do harm to the United States will most certainly find the means to navigate around the ban. So, instead of stopping terrorists, Trump’s ban — as of this writing, currently on hold thanks to a temporary restraining order issued by U. S. District Court judge James Robart — will cause the unnecessary separation of families, prohibit refugee children from obtaining urgent relief, deny international medical students an education, and
prevent musicians from culturally rich nations from performing in the United States. And it’s the musicians I want to focus on. If Donald Trump is truly interested in promoting peace, prosperity and liberty around the world, — perhaps he should invest in music. The U.S. government is no stranger to investing in the political power of art. In 1950 the CIA surreptitiously created the Congress for Cultural Freedom, an international agency that promoted everything from jazz to broadway musicals to advance a nationalistic agenda in America’s Cold War with the Soviet Union. The CIA also used the CCF to mobilize against artists they viewed as a threat to American interests, like the great Chilean poet and Communist Party member Pablo Neruda. In many respects the CCF was a success, sending artists like Dizzy Gillespie or Louis Armstrong on international goodwill tours
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the 1980s. Thanks to the Awesome Tapes From Africa label, their work was given wider exposure when a compilation of the group’s material was released by the label in 2013. Dur-Dur Band broke up during the ’90s, but briefly reformed in 2014 for a concert and workshop at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis.
SUDAN: Alsarah calls her music “East African retro pop.” Not a bad description, but it doesn’t completely do justice to her highly individualistic mix of traditional and electronic Sudanese sounds. I asked Alsarah about this unique blend of influences last fall and she said, “I don’t see a difference between traditional music and pop or contemporary music. To me they’re all extensions of the same thing. I think of music in general as a circle with all these things being different points within the circle.”
IRAN: Mohsen Namjoo is often labeled as the “Bob Dylan of Iran,” due to his unconventional style and because of his brilliant lyrics. Namjoo has experienced frequent clashes with Iran’s government Pump this music up and spent several SYRIA: Omar Souyears in exile after loud enough to drown leyman performs a being sentenced to high-octane elecout the endless angry five years in prison tronic version of the for his irreverent babble of the Trump traditional Syrian musical interpretadance music known tion of passages from administration. as dabke. Souleyman’s the Qur’an. Namjoo’s music gained widespread international exmusic, which blends traditional Iranian inposure after being championed by Western strumentation with Western rock influences, is haunting and unforgettable. artists from Björk to Henry Rollins. IRAQ: Farida Mohammad Ali is known as
YEMEN: A trio of Yemenite sisters living in
the “mother of the maqam” — a traditional Iraqi art music said to have roots in Iraq’s Mesopotamian culture. Ali has lived in the Netherlands since 1997 due to political instability in Iraq.
Israel, A-Wa released one of my favorite records in 2016, their debut disc Habib Galbi. A-Wa mixes traditional Yemenite folk song with hip-hop and EDM. I spoke with the group’s founder Tair Haim last fall. The A-Wa can’t perform in Yemen due to political instability, their music has caught on thanks to social media. “Young students who left Yemen and now live in Europe come to our shows, and they say that little girls look at the video of “Habib Galbi” and look at us as role models,” Haim said. “It’s heartwarming, because thanks to social media we can spread to places that we can’t even go… We get a lot of beautiful comments from people saying thanks for putting our culture in the forefront and for making us happy in these hard times.” N
LIBYA: The Benghazi-born art pop singer-songwriter Ahmed Fakroun is a real anomaly in North African music. His 1983 hit “Soleil, Soleil” provides a good example, the groundbreaking song mixed disco and rap with Arabic pop motifs. Fakroun’s music sits nicely alongside the work of groups like the Talking Heads or the Tom Tom Club.
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MONDAY // 2.13
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Planned Parenthood Fundraiser 10 p.m., State Street Pub, $5, 21+
Bashiri Asad: Luther Vandross Tribute 5 p.m., Jazz Kitchen, $20-$30, 21+
Harley Poe Double Hitter 9 p.m., Melody Inn, $6, 21+
Icon Live: J Dilla and Dr. Dre 8 p.m., The Hi-Fi, $12 advance, $15 door, 21+
Robert Ellis, Jenny O., It’s Just Craig, Square Cat Vinyl, $12, all-ages
Sir Deja Doog, Hen 9 p.m., White Rabbit Cabaret, $6, 21+
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your reputation is in a state of fermentation. Will this process ultimately produce the metaphorical equivalent of fine wine or else something more like pungent cheese? The answer to that question will depend on how much integrity you express as you wield your clout. Be as charismatic as you dare, yes, but always in service to the greater good rather than to selfaggrandizement. You can accomplish wonders if you are saucy and classy, but you’ll spawn blunders if you’re saucy and bossy.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Even if you’re not an occult wizard or pagan priestess, I suspect you now have the power to conjure benevolent love spells. There’s a caveat, however: They will only work if you cast them on yourself. Flinging them at other people would backfire. But if you do accept that limitation, you’ll be able to invoke a big dose of romantic mojo from both your lower depths and your higher self. Inspiration will be abundantly available as you work to reinvigorate your approach to intimacy and togetherness.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Using a blend of warfare and diplomacy, Napoleon extended French control over much of Western Europe. In 1804, he decided to formalize his growing sovereignty with a coronation ceremony. He departed from tradition, however. For many centuries, French kings had been crowned by the Pope. But on this occasion, Napoleon took the imperial crown from Pope Pius VII and placed it on his own head. Historian David J. Markham writes that he “was simply symbolizing that he was becoming emperor based on his own merits and the will of the people, not because of some religious consecration.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, Taurus, you have the right to perform a comparable gesture. Don’t wait for some authority to crown you. Crown yourself.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Here’s some advice from Scorpio writer Norman Rush: “The main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you can have all the time you want for reading.” It’s understandable that a language specialist like Rush would make the final word of the previous sentence “reading.” But you might choose a different word. And I invite you to do just that. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to devotedly carve out more time to do The Most Important Thing in Your Life.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Have you heard the fable about the four blind men who come upon an elephant for the first time? The first man feels the tail and declares that the thing they’ve encountered must be a rope. The second touches one of the elephant’s legs and says that they are in the presence of a tree. The third strokes the trunk and assumes it’s a snake. Putting his hand on a tusk, the fourth man asserts that it’s a spear. I predict that this fable will NOT apply to you in the coming weeks, Gemini. You won’t focus on just one aspect of the whole and think it’s the whole. Other people in your sphere may get fooled by shortsightedness, but you will see the big picture. CANCER (June 21-July 22): For now, at least, your brain is your primary erogenous zone. I suspect it will be generating some of your sexiest thoughts ever. To be clear, not all of these erupting streams of bliss will directly involve the sweet, snaky mysteries of wrapping your physical body around another’s. Some of the erotic pleasure will come in the form of epiphanies that awaken sleeping parts of your soul. Others might arrive as revelations that chase away months’ worth of confusion. Still others could be creative breakthroughs that liberate you from a form of bondage you’ve wrongly accepted as necessary. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Human beings upload 300 hours of videos to Youtube every minute of every day. Among that swirling flow is a hefty amount of footage devoted exclusively to the amusing behavior of cats. Researchers estimate there are now more than two million clips of feline shenanigans. Despite the stiff competition, I suspect there’s a much better chance than usual that your cat video will go viral if you upload it in the coming weeks. Why? In general, you Leos now have a sixth sense about how to get noticed. You know what you need to do to express yourself confidently and attract attention -- not just in regards to your cats, but anything that’s important to you. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I know you haven’t literally been wrestling and wrangling with a sweaty angel. But if I were going to tell a fairy tale about your life lately, I’d be tempted to say this: Your rumble with the sweaty angel is not finished. In fact, the best and holiest part is still to come. But right now you have cosmic permission to take a short break and rest a while. During the lull, ratchet up your determination to learn all you can from your friendly “struggle.” Try to figure out what you’ve been missing about the true nature of the sweaty angel. Vow to become a stronger advocate for yourself and a more rigorous revealer of the wild truth.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sixteenthcentury Italian painter Titian was renowned for his brilliant use of color. He was also prolific, versatile, and influential. In 2011, one of his paintings sold for $16.9 million. But one of his contemporaries, the incomparable Michelangelo, said that Titian could have been an even greater artist if he had ever mastered the art of drawing. It seems that Titian skipped a step in his early development. Is there any way that your path resembles Titian’s, Sagittarius? Did you neglect to cultivate a basic skill that has subtly (or not so subtly) handicapped your growth ever since? If so, the coming weeks and months will be an excellent time to fix the glitch. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Our obsessive use of digital devices has diminished our power to focus. According to a study by Microsoft, the average human attention span has shrunk to eight seconds -- one second less than that of a typical goldfish. I’m guessing, though, that you Capricorns will buck this trend in the coming weeks. Your ability to concentrate may be exceptional even by pre-Internet standards. I hope you’ll take opportunity of this fortunate anomaly to get a lot of important work and play done. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The time is now, Brave Aquarius. Be audacious about improving the big little things in your life. (That’s not a typo. I did indeed use the term “big little things.”) For example: Seek out or demand more engaging responsibilities. Bring your penetrating questions to sphinx-like authorities. Go in search of more useful riddles. Redesign the daily rhythm to better meet your unique needs. Refuse “necessary” boredom that’s not truly necessary. Trust what actually works, not what’s merely attractive. Does all that seem too bold and brazen for you to pull off? I assure you that it’s not. You have more clout than you imagine. You also have a growing faith in your own power to make subtle fundamental shifts. (That’s not a typo. I did indeed use the term “subtle fundamental shifts.”) PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): ”Love does not at first mean merging, surrendering, and uniting with another person,” wrote the poet Rilke, “for what would a union be of two people who are unclarified, unfinished, and still incoherent?” That’s an excellent meditation for you to entertain during the Valentine season, Pisces. You’re in the right frame of mind to think about how you could change and educate yourself so as to get the most out of your intimate alliances. Love “is a high inducement for the individual to ripen,” Rilke said, “to become something, to become a world for the sake of another person.” (Thanks to Stephen Mitchell for much of this translation.)
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