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Thank you NUVO for keeping the need to improve Central Indiana’s mass transit in the forefront. While dedicated professionals work diligently to maximize limited resources, the system is inadequate by many measures.

For this reason, we must keep House Bill 1011 alive. Last week a Senate committee sent the bill to a summer study committee, delaying for another year the transit system people tell us they want.

HB 1011 would allow counties that wish to participate to put a transit-funding referendum on the 2014 ballot. In those counties, voters would decide whether to increase taxes by .3% per household to expand and improve transit through the Indy Connect plan.

If the people vote to fund Indy Connect, they’ll get twice the local bus service, five rapid transit lines (four with Bus Rapid Transit and one with either BRT or light rail), as well as community circulators.

We know people want the Indy Connect plan because they’ve told us in the more than 250 public meetings held as part of a public engagement effort recognized by

the US Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration as a best practice in community involvement. And more than 7,600 people have signed the petition at www.cirta.us saying they want voters to have the opportunity to decide.

If the referendum passes in Marion and at least one other county, the expansion of local bus, express bus and circulators will begin in 2015. Construction on the first three rapid transit lines would start in 2017. The entire phase 1 would be complete in 2025.

Another year of study delays progress.

So, what can you do now?

• Learn more about legislative efforts at www.indyconnectnow.org.

• Learn about details of and voice your opinion on the Indy Connect plan at www.indyconnect.org.

• Sign a petition in support of better transit at www.cirta.us.

• Follow CIRTA, Indy Connect and Indy Connect NOW on Twitter and like us on Facebook.

— Ehren T. Bingaman, executive director of CIRTA

Because Ideas MatterRecommended Readings by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Butler University

1776 David McCullough Simon & Schuster, 2005 Reviewed by Richard McGowan

NIGHT OF VONNEGUT with Clarence Page

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, Chicago Tribune; author, Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity

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April 13, 7:00 p.m.

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While I was reading the Pulitzer prizewinning 1776, I remarked to my wife, “I’m on Page 268 [of 294 text pages] and cannot see how America won the Revolutionary War.” The remark, in and of itself, suggests why the book is worth reading. It is nothing short of miraculous that the United States did not remain a British colony.

The miracle was constituted in roughly equal parts by the “rabble in arms” and by its leader, George Washington.

Indeed, the book could have been sub-titled The Luck and Hard Times of America’s First General. Washington did free Boston from British grasp, moving artillery and forces into place under cover of dark and through concealment by hay bales, but only after he had suggested a frontal assault on the well protected and fortified British troops.

His officers talked him out of it. On several occasions, only the weather saved the Continental Army.

Yet, Washington was dogged and resolved. He also was a good judge of character and employed it well. McCullough does Americans a kindness by relating stories of those who won that war: Henry Knox bringing cannons from Fort Ticonderoga (NY) to Boston; Nathanael Greene, a Quaker made a general at 33; the fearless and popular Israel Putnam; Major Leitch and Colonel Knowlton, “whose deaths were a heavy blow to the army” and the latter’s death, the “greatest loss” to Washington.

The book’s last sentence provides an apt summary, in that America prevailed—“the outcome seemed little short of a miracle.”

— Richard McGowan is instructor of business ethics at Butler University.

Go to www.butler.edu/BookReview for more recommendations by the faculty and staff of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Butler University.

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The ACLU of Indiana will celebrate 60 years of protecting civil liberties at the Indiana War Memorial, the site where they were first denied the right to hold its inaugural meeting. Speakers Louise Melling, ACLU deputy legal director and director of the ACLU Center for Liberty, and Dawn Johnsen, a board member of American Constitution Society Board and a professor of constitutional law at Indiana University, will address the subject of reproductive justice.

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We love puzzles and we’re not afraid to say so! National Public Radio puzzle-master, New York Times crossword editor and Crawfo rdsville native Will Shortz will give a talk at Butler. Expect scintillating wisdom, word games, audience interaction and free pencil sh arpeners for the first 100 visitors (OK, we made up that last part).

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Bottoms Up Burlesque is one Indy’s best-known and longest-performing burlesque troupes. Their high quality, creative shows celebrate sexiness — in that all-knowing, neo-burlesque kind of way that makes you laugh and maybe even squirm a little.

Note that 100 percent of proceeds go to locally run cancer charity organizations. Win-win!

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BUTLER THEATRE: LUNAR REVOLUTION 2.0

In the spirit of Butler’s ArtsFest theme of “Revolution” this mediation on the moon is conceived and directed by Butler’s Willi am Fisher.

Based on Schoenberg’s 1912 song cycle Pierrot Lunaire, the performance was cooked up in a creative lab of young minds, under th e stewardship of Fisher, and thus it will be totally cool. This show actually opened on Wednesday, and runs through next weekend.

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AMERICAN PIANISTS ASSOCIATION: CLASSICAL DISCOVERY WEEK

Starting Monday and going through this Saturday, it’s the third and final round in the battle to become a Christel DeHaan Class ical Fellow. The fun includes solo recitals, outreach concerts and a concerto performance with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Chamber musi c, new music and song recitals take place through the week at Butler University, Christ Church Cathedral and the Indiana History Center; the gala finals are April 19 and 20 at the Hilbert Circle Theatre, with winners being announced following the final night’s performance.

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DJ MetroGnome can be found at Coaches Tavern every Tuesday for his massive “Take That! Tuesdays” party. MetroGnome’s musical se lection ranges from classic hip-hop to soul and funk. He always turns the otherwise small bar into a sea of dancing music fans. When we asked him what would be new in 2013, MetroGnome said that we can expect more of the same danceable nights with new guests thrown in now and then.

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o be transparent, I’m a city boy. I was An Indy-based creative, raised in Washington, D.C., and I have entrepreneur and aspiring karaoke champion focused not fully grown out of my love for a on making the world a more sprawling, diverse metropolis. Moving to equitable, just place for all.

Indianapolis four years ago, I initially expected to be here no longer than a summer, given the perceived slow pace and lack of diversity.

However, Indianapolis now has become seem to have the talent and technology my home, and it will be hard to find a components working tremendously well. person who champions this city more However, the middle “T,” which is in no than I do. Whether it is our modernized coincidence glued in the middle, is the Downtown, walkable commercial districts, main area where Indianapolis struggles. accessibility to some of the most successTolerance, as Florida defines it, is an ful sports franchises in North America environment that is open to differences or a state-of-the-art airport and zoo, Indianapolis is a destination for contempo- and diversity. Many creative people grow up feeling like outsiders and value places rary urban living. where their differences are no longer a stigYet, to many young professionals, ma, but a welcomed asset. One only needs Indianapolis is rarely considered an ideal to look at issues such as public transit, location to live, work and ultimately raise a family. Statistically, there are tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of college We seem to have the talent and students who live within an hour’s drive of Indianapolis, and technology components working despite an extraordinary effort tremendously well. by city officials and organizations to involve young people in city efforts, there has yet to be a significant bite. education reform, growing income disparThe inevitable question is why? ity and an almost intentional desire to supWhy is it that students and young profespress public expression to see why so many sionals have yet to bite, despite the deteryoung people are fleeing in droves. To mination of elected officials to craft a mescompound this, I am certain that despite sage that resonates with them? our surface-level “Hoosier hospitality,” The answer may be in a seminal book many would agree that Central Indiana is that was written 10 years ago that has not welcoming to minority groups, new since redefined the economic policies of immigrants, or even homosexuals. major cities throughout the United States.

As a result, what are we supposed to This book, titled The Rise of the Creative do? Nearby cities like Chicago, Nashville, Class ... And How It’s Transforming Work, Louisville, Cincinnati and Madison, Wis., Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life, seem to have it figured out. Yet, many are has placed the recruitment and retention forced to hope that Indianapolis will eventuof the so-called “creative class” at the ally turn the corner. This unenviable position forefront of city planning. forces people who recognize the strength and The creative class – a group of people that potential of our city to make a difficult choice: comprises nearly 40 percent of the American Do we continue to have faith that our city will workforce – has the primary workplace funcchange, or move to a place that already offers tion of providing creativity and innovation. the amenities we so eagerly desire?

They work in jobs across virtually every sector, For my two cents, I believe that including education, business, finance, health Indianapolis has a chance. However, I care and more. While appreciating individualthink it will take a lot of hard work. First, ity, they seem to operate by a common ethos many will need to swallow a difficult pill that values “creativity, difference, and merit.” and recognize that the way Hoosiers have Richard Florida, an urban studies theorist and “done it” for millenniums may no longer the book’s author, notes that in order for cities be relevant in today’s world. It is critical for to attract and retain this critical cross section there to be a major paradigm shift that not of the American workforce, they must possess only recognizes the differences of others, three T’s: talent, tolerance and technology. but OPENLY accepts and embraces them.

Indianapolis, in many ways, has impleMy fear is that this will take an incredible mented many of the suggestions of Florida amount of time, and if there’s one thing I to reinvigorate our economy and attract know about the creative class, it’s that time talent. Whether it is through our burgeonis not a luxury. ing biomedicine or tech industries, we NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 04.10.13 - 04.17.13 // VOICES 7

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CEO Charles Venable wants you to come to the Indianapolis Museum of Art

The gun lobby maintains its solid influence over the Indiana General Assembly . If lawmakers embrace a amendment to a Senate bill that a House committee passed last Wednesday, legislators may distinguish themselves by making Indiana the first state in the nation to advance an NRA-inspired policy requiring on armed employee in all public schools. The proposal calls for the state to offer grants to help offset the costs of the mandate — $30,000 per year for two years for schools with 1,000 students or less, $50,000 for bigger schools. This effort coincides with an effort to woo more small arms manufacturers to the area. (RT)

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or a chief executive hoping to double attendance at the Indianapolis Museum of Art by reaching “nice, average people” and eliciting support from “other constituencies at the top level,” CEO Charles Venable is rather cagey and opaque.

He declines to offer specifics on recent budget cuts, describing recent staff eliminations as taking place “across all departments.” While those cuts came quickly in most departments, the knife still hangs over conservation.

The IMA is delaying staff cuts until the annual meeting of the American Institute for Conservation is held at the J.W. Marriott (with stops at the IMA) this summer. He says that the delay will allow employees to present papers and network to find new positions. An excerpt from our March 29 interview with Venable:

The oil lobby is also having a good year at the Indiana Statehouse. The Senate did not display any interest in reducing the nation’s carbon footprint or increasing development of alternative fuels when it passed SR41, a resolution that reads like a re-write of a news release from TransCanada, the company behind the Keystone XL project. The House was expected to vote Tuesday on HR 47, its own version of the love letter to Canadian tar-sands oil. See pg. 21 for more on KXL (RT)

NUVO: But does each person know whether or not he’s losing his job?

VENABLE: No. NUVO: Then how can they possibly network?

VENABLE: I’m not saying they won’t know before the conference. At this minute of the day, the answer is no, but we’re having a meeting this week, and we’re having some other ones to make sure we’re evaluating the situation appropriately and making very strategic decisions that in the long run will lessen the impact in the long run.

Asked how the IMA’s day-to-day operations would change because of cuts, Venable instead asked this reporter to consider the long-range plans of the museum — how it will look like five years from now, instead of today. It was only when I brought up specific changes that I earned specific answers. To paraphrase two such exchanges: Would the library be no longer open to the public except upon appointment? Yes, but that’s a necessary cost-cutting measure. Was the director of publishing and media fired, and if so, how will she be replaced? Yes — but we’ll still publish things; we’ll just be more selective about what projects to take on and when.

Asking for an exact list of the positions that have been eliminated has been a trial. I’ve been gently rebuffed on that

On Monday, Indianapolis received recognition for having the nation’s best new complete streets ordinance from The National Complete Streets Coalition. Mayor Greg Ballard signed the measure, which takes a holistic approach to infrastructure development by taking into account a variety of users, including bikes and pedestrians — after the Indianapolis Marion County City-County Council unanimously passed it last summer. (JM)

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Charles Venable, 53, was appointed Melvin & Bren Simon Director and CEO of the Indianapolis Museum of Art in October 2012.

request several times, least gently by the CEO himself. Here’s a passage from my recent interview with Venable: NUVO: The tricky thing here is that because I don’t know the exact nature of the job cuts — and because I can’t talk to people laid off because they signed a nondisclosure agreement with their severance package — it’s hard to figure out exactly what’s going on.

VENABLE: It’d be inappropriate for you to have a list from us. If Lilly lays off a hundred people, you’re not going to get a list from them.

an organization that cares about our HR and the privacy of our employees whether they work here now or worked here last.

Why would that be any different from a company outside these walls?

NUVO: Well, because of the sense of participation people have in the IMA. They become members and if they don’t know what’s happening...

VENABLE: Well, that’s fine but that doesn’t mean they should have access to employees.

NUVO: Well, I’m not saying employees but to have a sense of what’s being restructured.

NUVO: Yeah, but people think of the IMA differently than Lilly.

VENABLE: [Silence.]

VENABLE: Well, they might, but we’re also

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On Saturday, Congressman André Carson presented retired U.S. Rep. (and Thought Bite author) Andy Jacobs, Jr . with a “Distinguished Public Service Award” from The Bowen Center for Public Affairs at Ball State University. Jacobs, a graduate of Shortridge High School, fought in the Korean War with the U.S. Marine Corps. He served as a Democrat in Congress for three decades, advocating for, among things, an end to the Vietnam War and an enactment of a balanced budget amendment. (RT) Louisville and Michigan fought an epic battle in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Game. Though Louisville prevailed 82-76, several Hoosiers playing for Michigan did their home state proud, most notably Crown Point’s Spike Albrecht. On the pro level, the Indiana Pacers warmed our hearts by earning the NBA’s 2012-1013 Central Division championship. Local DJs would love to throw a party, but are miffed that the team has brought in an out-of-town jam master (from Ohio of all places) to entertain fans at the Fieldhouse.

In other sports news, the Alley Cats, Indy’s professional ultimate Frisbee team, begins its season April 13 and will have its first home game at Kuntz Stadium on April 20. (RT)

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AVERAGE , FROM PAGE 09 And that’s when Katie Zarich, of IMA public relations, who seemed to be acting as a buffer of sorts during my talk with Venable, broke in to again describe the cuts as taking place across all departments. In all fairness, perhaps Venable thought I was requesting a list of past employees’ social security numbers and tax IDs, information a good HR department would want to hold on to. But I made it clear I was only trying to get a sense of how staff cuts and other restructuring moves will affect day-to-day operations — and Venable made it clear he wasn’t going to talk about it.

Venable talks about running a nonfor-profit like a for-profit by attending to the bottom line, making money back on investment, eliminating waste, etc., but his comparison of the IMA to Lilly with respect to transparency and accessibility confounds. One entity is trying to keep a lock on trade secrets; the other, well, I’m not quite sure why the common person shouldn’t have access to IMA employees.

Staff cuts were made this year in the absence of salary cuts or furloughs, which were implemented when the museum made budget reductions in 2009. Were such cuts on the table during this round of cost-cutting? “Yes, and the answer is no, because the philosophy was if we were creating from whole cloth the IMA today, where do we need to have certain levels of staffing and where can we get by with a few less?” Venable says. “Unfortunately, they’re our colleagues, our friends, real people, but you also have to have a management strategy. Right now I’m getting ready to launch a search for a Director of Development and Marketing. That’s a major, major job.”

In 2011, the IMA’s then-CEO Maxwell Anderson was paid $400,936 in base compensation, plus $139,573 in other reportable compensation, including housing expenses and his cell phone bill. Part of those housing expenses include upkeep of the Waverley Estate, which serves as both a residence for the IMA’s director as well as a venue for fundraising events.

Venable says that Waverley is “totally” a fundraising tool. “Why else would you live there?” he asks “Do you think my goal in life is to live in a giant 20-room house with a lot of upkeep and people running around?” He also points out that it’s par for the course for a chief executive to live

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have little or no impact on the museum’s in such a home: “It’s intriguing to me that long-term financial health, they serve as a the Historical Society’s director lives under reminder of the eagerness with which the a house under similar circumstances, IU’s board approached the expansion and renopresident has a big house on Meridian and vation of the IMA’s campus during the ‘00s. in Bloomington — and yet for the IMA it Venable notes that costs associated with seems to be something odd.” the building are fixed, and that the IMA’s It’s been “something odd” in part because attendance consistently hovers at just of a Tweet that Venable sent on the afterabove 400,000, whereas the building was noon that layoffs were made at the IMA. constructed for use by 1 million people.

It reads: “Celebrated my birthday @ Cafe “Well, you can say it’s a burden; I would Ginger here in Houston. Really is like an say it’s an opportunity,” he says of the opulent Beijing eatery. Really good food.” building’s size. “Why does The Children’s Trouble is that Venable wasn’t in Houston Museum get 1.2 million people?” that day; although he left on a European trip shortly after making layoffs, he was at the museum when the Tweet was posted. Venable says “Do you think I want to live in a his Twitter account was hacked twice, and also blames a social giant 20-room house with a lot of media tool (Buffer) for holding on to his Tweet for several days upkeep and people running around?”

(Venable enjoyed the birthday dinner the weekend before).

— CHARLES VENABLE, IMA CEO Still, the misfired Tweet has drawn attention to Venable’s While the IMA may be embarking on a social media presence. A Facebook page period of belt-tightening, money to be had he launched for the Waverley estate was when the board is committed to digging it recently taken down, perhaps in response to up. Venable says that past or current memcomments like those by ArtInfo.com blogger bers of the board contributed almost all of Tyler Green (whom Venable singles out as an the $1.22 million recently raised to finish irresponsible blogger during NUVO’s interan industrial design show that will open view): “House of the IMA director has its own this fall. And Venable retains his travel FB page, complete w/ China pairings, renobudget. Asked about the cost and timing of vation pix/plans & assorted opulence.” the two-week European trip he took after Venable says of the Waverley page that making layoffs, he counters that such ques“it’s actually being retooled. I’ve had some tions are misguided: “The goal of the insticonversations on how we want to integrate tution isn’t to get smaller; it’s to get bigger. that into an overall museum umbrella one If you don’t invest in the future you’ll never day, and we have no decisions on that.” have a future.”

Cutting through the social media noise So many mixed messages. The director and following the money, we arrive at the who’s reluctant to live the life associated following facts: The new CEO serves at the pleasure of the IMA’s board, which brought with a nearly $500,000 a year salary, but who says salary cuts and furloughs are him in to make cuts. Here’s Venable: totally off the table. Who notes that the “There was total clarity on the board’s part IMA is a “wealthy organization” whose that there was a $5 million budget gap that endowment has done “very, very well” but the museum needed to correct.” Venable is sticking to a case that drastic changes may be making those cuts in a maladroit need to be made to cut costs now — and way (even a misfired Tweet can do damnot gradually — “ so we won’t be constantage), but he’s doing what he was brought ly dealing with our finances.” Who says he in to do — and it’s something he’s done wants to make cuts openly and honestly before. He notes that when he started at but has left employees in the conservation the Cleveland Institute of Art, the first thing department wondering who’s going to be he had to do was make staff cuts. eliminated and when.

The board is deadset on making up for losses sustained during a period when the museum didn’t grow as quickly as it had hoped. While IMA management says that the construction bonds on their books will

GET INVOLVED Flower Power Comes Full Circle In 1988, filmmaker Kevin Tomlinson filmed and interviewed a group of back-to-the-land “hippies”—living off-grid, insulated and isolated from mainstream culture. In 2006, he tracked down his subjects again to find out what had become of their families’ utopian plans and dreams.

Friday, April 12, 7:30 p.m., Epworth United Methodist Church, 6450 Allisonville Rd. Greening the Crossroads The Central Indiana Land Trust, which conserves and protects natural areas Hoosiers hold dear, is kicking off a series of discussions designed to spark new ideas and update the public on current conservation initiatives. “Greening the Crossroads” focuses on an effort to connect greenspaces in Central Indiana.

Thursday, April 11, 5:30 p.m., Central Indiana Land Trust Office, 1500 N. Delaware St .

Gathering for Good Purchase beers that have been donated for the event to support Exodus in their mission towards helping refugees establish self-sufficient lives for themselves and their families in Indiana.

Thursday, April 11, 5:30 p.m., Tomlinson Tap Room Great Indy Cleanup INDYCOG is partnering with Keep Indianapolis Beautiful to pick up trash on the Pleasant Run Trail.

Organizers encourage participants to bring any trailers, panniers, bike buckets or anything else to store retrieved refuse during this bike-based project.

Saturday, April 13, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Holocaust Day of Remembrance A sapling from the horse chestnut tree that encouraged Anne Frank while she lived in hiding during World War II will be planted on the museum’s grounds.

Sunday, April 14, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., The Children’s Museum, 3000 N. Meridian St

THOUGHT BITE Spring has pretty much arrived and Spring has arrived much pretty.

— ANDY JACOBS, JR

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Team Achieve’s Cortez “Doonie” Hill works out with Coach James Curles on March 27, the day before his first Indiana Golden Gloves match.

Champions B Golden Gloves set the standard

ravado and showmanship can make a professional boxing career. Carefully curated spectacles can fuel ticket sales while, behind the scenes, a manager picks and chooses which fights to take, grabbing easy wins, avoiding guaranteed embarrassments.

Dominating boxing's amateur level is another matter all together. You either have it or you don't. Put up or shut up, period. At this level of pugilism, Golden Gloves bouts sort the walk from the talk, the trained technicians from undisciplined street fighters.

“You ain’t nothin', ’til you win the Gloves,” Evander Holyfield once told boxing writer Michael Rivest.

The annual winnowing process begins at the regional level — 30 regions throughout the country. Hoosier fighters are now in the midst of it.

Indiana's annual Golden Gloves tournament — which began March 21 — continues each Thursday night for six weeks, at 7 p.m. Downtown at the Tyndall Armory at 711 N. Pennsylvania St. The finals begin 12

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April 18; the championships are April 25.

The state champions from each weight class will advance to the national Golden Gloves championship, which began as a Chicago-versus-New York showdown in 1928 and grew into a national institution.

Indianapolis hosted the national championships in 2011.

Before he became the heavyweight champion of the world and changed his name to Muhammad Ali, Louisville's Cassius Clay won two national Golden Gloves titles. Other pros who first earned national Golden Gloves titles include Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Leonard, “Marvelous” Marvin Hagler, Michael Spinks, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield and Oscar De La Hoya. Indy's own three-time world champion and World Boxing Hall of Famer Marvin "Pops" Johnson won two national Golden Gloves championships, in 1971 and 1972, before going to the Olympic Games in Munich to earn a bronze metal.

Two-decade drought Indiana has produced 20 national Golden Gloves champions since the tournament began 85 years ago. Indiana boxers were among the first to challenge Chicago's

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dominance in the tournament's early days.

But 2013 marks 20 years since the last Indiana fighter earned a national title.

The 2013 Golden Gloves roster is packed with fighters who dream of being the next great fighter — the next champion. For at least one of these fighters, Cortez "Doonie" Hill of Team Achieve Boxing, the dream is literal.

"I told coach before this fight, I had a dream that I beat the dude this week and that I'll beat the guy in the championship," Hill said. After winning two fights in preliminary rounds on March 28 and April 4, Hill will, indeed, proceed to the finals.

"The person I fight in the finals is the very person I dreamed — it happened," he said. "So be it: I won and I already knew I was fighting in the finals. Coach asked, 'Do you see yourself winning the whole tournament?' I said, 'Yes!' " Beyond Golden Gloves, Hill said he hopes to make good on the prediction in his yearbooks at Broad Ripple High School: "Most Likely To Be Famous."

The language of bored males Hill's coach, James Curles, has dreams of his own. Like any competitive coach,

some of those dreams involve producing top-notch boxers, but Curles is even more interested in getting kids "out of gangs, off the streets and back in school."

Curles grew up "really poor," first in Stark, Fla., then in Evansville, Ind. He recalls being told again and again, "You'll be dead or in prison before you are 18."

His own life began to turn in a more promising direction when Steve Ryman, an electrician with whom he was apprenticing, challenged Curles to try a college class on Ryman's dime. Curles went on to study music at the University of Evansville, earning a degree in sociology, followed by a master's in the subject from the University of Southern Indiana and a master's of divinity from Fuller University in California.

But the initial transition was not easy.

"You have this rage," Curles said, referencing a feeling of being undervalued by society. He sees it all the time in kids he mentors, kids who are surrounded by dropouts, drugs and violence, who all seem to be related to, or at least know, people who have been shot or are in prison.

Hill can relate to the rage. When asked what he sees as the biggest change in his life since joining Team Achieve in late

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TEAM ACHIEVE Since June 2011, 174 kids have entered Coach Curles’s program.* (About half of these kids have stuck with the program for more than four weeks — these are the kids whose academic, social and vocational progress are tracked and whose stats follow.)

At the time of entering the program: 62 % - expelled or dropped out 37 % - were enrolled, but failing or behind in grade level 38 % - in the court system with one or more felonies Since tracking: 27 % - graduated with a diploma or a GED 58 % - enrolled and caught up to grade level 18 % - pursued post-secondary training, college or technical school 31 % - working full-time 16 % - working part-time 92 % - pick up no new additional charges 9 % - incarcerated 1 homicide victim

The next generation of Golden Gloves fighters is already in training. Team Achieve’s youngest member, Edson “Rampage” Driver, 9, surrounded by (from left) team members Keno Lockridge, Ahmonta “TayTay” Washington, Marque Haggins and Montell Gardner. To make Team Achieve Boxing, kids must demonstrate a commitment to academic progress and positive social interactions.

2011, he cites his mentality and temper.

"I used to be ready to fight on the street," he said. "I've matured a lot being in the guidance of coach; it's the little things, but the little things add up.

"If a dude used to say something to me out of the way, I'd be ready to beat them up.

You can't let things people say steer you off on the wrong path. I try to keep that in mind in my everyday life."

Guided by the notion laid out in Psalm 23:7, "So a man thinketh in his heart, so he is," Curles will often asks kids new to his gym to define themselves.

Responses such as "I'm not a punk" or "I'm not a bitch" are not uncommon.

"They don't say what they are," Curles said.

His goal then is to the channel the rage and lack of self-awareness he sees and transform it into a desire to achieve in the ring and beyond — to recognize, confront and defeat "the ghetto in our minds."

This approach came, in part, from Joe Marshall of the Omega Boys Club in San Francisco, which is known for its cuttingedge work confronting the culture of violence among inner-city youth.

To deprogram the kids from "the lies the streets have taught them," Marshall once told Curles, "you have to be deprogrammed yourself."

At Team Achieve, boxing is the incentive to bring kids in, but anger management classes, tutoring and vocational guidance are part of the package.

"Violence is a social disease," Curles said. But, he adds, it is also "the language of bored males."

Deprogramming involves, among other things, learning the difference between "friendships and fearships."

Team Achieve's Ahmonta "TayTay" Washington, 14, who has earned state championships in Junior Olympics and Silver Gloves, defined fearship as someone who "is with you, but gets you to do bad things."

The best plan, Washington said, is to try to avoid such people. If that is not possible, then ignore them, "even if they call you soft."

Disconnecting from local gang culture that materializes around various neighborhoods of "sets" and "cliques" is a bit more subtle. It involves substituting a positive influence for a negative one. "Our community replaces their community," Curles said, noting his bottom line: Members of Team Achieve "can't be throwing gang signs or committing crimes."

Defying the odds Curles attributes much of his own deprogramming to a spiritual awakening.

"God whooped me — he snatched me up with such brutal force," he recalled.

But while Curles is happy to share his faith, his work is not about counting conversions. "I do it not so they'll become Christian, but because I am Christian," he explained.

The selflessness of a life turned over to a higher calling does not go unnoticed by his team members.

"He's pretty positive," boxer Doonie Hill said. "He runs that program without charging anyone anything because he likes to see people succeed in life. Coach is trying to get me back to school. A tutor's done an assessment – I'm missing about a semester's worth."

Curles also gave credit to Saint Jude, the patron of hopeless causes, for protecting him from his own poor decisions and for continued guidance his effort to reach kids

“effort equals results”

who may seem at first to be beyond hope.

"That's kind of the kid we go after — the kids that no one else wants," Curles said.

And, with Curles' encouragement and discipline, about half the kids who embrace the program improve their grades and change their attitudes enough to box for Team Achieve.

Achieve International earned its 501(c)3 nonprofit status in the fall of 2010. In two years, team members have earned 32 state titles in Golden Gloves, Silver Gloves, Junior Olympics and Kentucky Open programs.

"These kids keep defying the odds; they keep winning," Curles said. But he is just as quick to note their academic and social successes. In short, he said, "Kids that weren't in school are in school; kids that were prison-bound are college-bound." But it is more than rhetoric. He tracks the academic progress of the kids in his program and is happy to share his statistics. [See sidebar.]

Curles has applied for a grant to help buy more equipment, including a regulation ring, for the gym, which some days has 40 or more kids working out. Donors have already provided a computer room and a stocked kitchen. The gym's landlord is tearing out a wall to make room for additional gym space and is paying to install showers and a washer and dryer hook-up.

"We can't help everyone who needs help, but we can help everyone who wants help." Curles said, admitting that his job includes "a lot, a lot, a lot" of heartache.

"I do everything I can to push a kid to their full potential, but at the end of the day it's free will. If they don't want help, there's nothing I can do. … When a kid drops out of our program, it's not a relief.

It breaks my heart."

47% made Team Achieve Boxing (Numbers rounded) *Not including kids that drop in for a snack or to use the computers.

SOURCE: COACH JAMES CURLES

INDIANA’S NATIONAL GOLDEN GLOVES CHAMPS 1993 Darnell Wilson (156) 1984 Victor Levine - Indiana (125) Ronnie Essett (156) 1976 Aaron Pryor (132) 1972 Marvin Johnson (165) 1971 Marvin Johnson, below (178) Samuel Nesmith (156) 1970 Norman Goins (132) 1969 Eddie Beauford (139) 1954 Phil Horsley (135) 1952 Kenneth Wright (112) 1947 John Labrol (135) 1946 Joe Frucci (201) 1944 Tom Nate (112) 1937 William Joyce (126) 1936 Pete ete Lello (135) ng Wyatt (147) 1935 King 1931 Jack Kranz (175) nz (175) John Long (201) ng (201) 1930 Buck Everett erett (175)

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The tournament begins On the first night of this year’s Indiana Golden Gloves, coaches in opposing corners of the ring encourage the fighters throughout the night, which features 17 fights, each three, three-minute rounds.

"Work the body!"

"Throw a nice four-punch combo — now!"

"Thirty seconds! Leave it all in the ring!"

Some fighters look fully engaged in the effort of staying on their feet with their hands up; others step in the ring with clear focus and precise technique.

Golden Gloves President Keith Boggs is pleased with the turnout. Attendance and the number of fighters participating are up over last year, he said.

For Rex Scott, sitting in Tyndall Armory for the first time in 30 years was "a trip down memory lane."

Indiana Golden Gloves attracts him, he said, because the contestants are all amateurs — and they are local.

"We came every week, every fight," Scott said. "I remember this as a much bigger room when I was a kid."

Sitting ringside, the Indianapolis native looked at a set of bleachers in the corner of the upper balcony and remembered how his dad would always sit there during tournaments, using a rope to pull a cooler of beer up from the main floor.

The spectacle can pull “habit-forming or addictive,” according to Dick Mercer, who began attending Golden Gloves about 40 years ago with his friend Tom Lyday, sitting in the balcony with a bag of White Castle hamburgers and a six-pack of beer. A couple years later, both men offered to use their experience in marketing to help boost awareness and ticket sales.

Mercer is now a 35-year veteran of the Indiana Golden Gloves board of directors.

When Lyday died in 2001, the organization established a scholarship program in his honor. He notes everyone in the organization is a volunteer, a testament to their passion for the sport.

He points out several people around the ring who have been fixtures for decades.

There is Jim Payton, the timekeeper.

Payton's dad, Harold, 93, was the timekeeper before him. In fact, Mercer noted, Harold crafted the bell that signals the end of each round.

Then there is Ron Hick, who drives from Illinois every year to help with timekeeping, and retired sportswriter John Bansch, who remains ringside to help with statistics and publicity. There's announcer, Stu Goldner, who works at a printer and takes care of the bout sheets and programs.

There's Vicki Elder of the boxing commission, who has helped keep the whole operation in line for decades.

And, of course, George DeFabis, 86, who began his own storied boxing career in 1944 and is a member of the National Golden Gloves Hall of Fame.

DeFabis wants to see more "marquee boxers" in the program, generating interest like Marvin Johnson, Sammy Nesmith or Norman Goins did in the '70s.

But cultivating respect and discipline, and presenting new opportunities to kids, some of whom have their first airline ride or overnight hotel stay as a Golden Gloves fighter, is the ultimate purpose of the program, he added.

"That's really what's this is about — making them better citizens."

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EVENT INFO What: Indiana Golden Gloves Where: Tyndall Armory, 711 N. Pennsylvania When: 7 p.m. Thursdays through April 25 Why: To determine the region’s representatives at nationals Price: GA, $10; Ringside, $12 Amenities: Popcorn, Beverages (including beer), Milano Inn sandwiches (Cash only)

Kaitlyn Lovitt, 19, of the Integrated Fighting club, before entering the ring on March 28. She received a tough introduction, but said she would be back. “Even though I lost, I feel like I’ve won because I got up in the ring.”

as easy as it looks."

Despite the sport's male domination, females are gaining ground — on both sides of the ropes.

Curles calls Jamie Billings of Indy Boxing South "the best coach in the state," or, at least, "the most underrated," noting, "people overlook her because she's a woman."

In line with Curles' assessment, on April 4, Vincent Ventura, a Billingstrained fighter, just about knocked Team Achieve's Hill off his game.

Hill, who naturally weighs around 150 and added weight to fight in the 165-pound class, had devised a strategy to deal with the extra height and weight he knew Ventura would bring. He would keep moving forward, keeping close in to Ventura, making it harder for Ventura's long arms to connect.

Still, Hill said, Ventura came out ready to brawl, landing some heavy blows.

"Between rounds, coach kept telling me to use speed, and I went to power," Hill explained, frustrated that he was not able to stick to Curles’ instruction. "(Ventura) wanted to brawl, so that's what we did the whole fight."

Still, Hill and Curles appreciated the challenge.

"At the end of the day, we want the best," Curles said. “We want the hardest competition, so bring it. We want to send our best fighters to nationals."

Sweat equity

Golden Glove judges declares Team Achieve’s Hill the winner in his March 28 match against Indy PAL’s Tony Anderson. He won the following week against Indy Boxing South’s Vincent Ventura and will appear in the April 18 finals.

Women in the ring Women are not yet part of Indiana's official Golden Gloves program because, organizers say, there are not yet enough females to fill out a complete program. Their fights are a bonus to the ticket.

Kaitlyn Lovitt, 19, of the Integrated Fighting Club began boxing in January.

During the March 28 round of fights, she stepped into the ring for a relentless pounding by Linda O'Bradovic of Mishawaka's St. James Boxing Club.

At least one seasoned veteran of the sport said the fight should have been stopped, or Lovitt's coach should have stepped in.

Fighters don't tend to tap themselves out — it’s something in their wiring.

Nonetheless, Lovitt absorbed O'Bradovic's onslaught, staying on her feet

and, for the most part, keeping her hands up. Stepping out of the ring post-fight, Lovitt, who is in pre-nursing studies at IUPUI, kept her head up.

"I feel I worked like I've been trained," she said. "Even though I lost, I feel like I won because I got up in the ring."

In Lovitt's post-fight de-briefing, coach Kenny Walker said she did "a hell of a job." His critique focused on her need for cardio improvements and her lack of forward movement.

When fighting a bigger opponent with longer arms, like O'Bradovic, Walker advised fighting close up.

"Don't make the mistake of stepping back," he said. "You want to get to the right or the left. Circle and jab; it's the jab that dictates."

The three, three-minute rounds "got longer" as they ticked on, Lovitt said. "It's not

When this spring's Golden Gloves concludes, training will continue at gyms around the city.

Curles estimates spending $70-$140 a week on gas, driving all around the Eastside delivering kids to and from the gym.

As he finished drop-offs on a late March afternoon, his phone rang.

It was a new kid, calling to inquire about joining the team.

"I ain't gonna charge you anything, champ," Curles says. He finishes the call, then remarked: "Sweat equity is worth more than money. If you're in the program, you'll work 10 times harder than any other gym."

That should pay dividends, according to Mercer, the long-time observer. Whether it is in the ring or in life, he said, success boils down to one simple equation: "Effort equals results."

Curles and Billings, along with coaches from other storied clubs around town such as Sarge Johnson Boxing and Indy PAL, are doing their best to extract the effort it takes to produce a national champion.

"I believe the time when Indiana will produce another national champion will come with this next generation," Curles said. "I feel the competition among these guys getting stiffer."

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rian Noffke — the home-grown, self-taught co-founder of Acting Up Productions — keeps an intense pace.

An equity actor seen on stage at IRT, the Phoenix and Beef and Boards, Noffke has produced ten shows for Acting Up in the two years since its founding. In that time, Acting Up has gained a reputation for quality performances and interesting season choices on a shoe-string budget. The company’s production of The Underpants, a farce about indecent public exposure adapted by comedian Steve Martin from the 1910 German original, opens April 12 at Theater on the Square. I caught up with Noffke, who studied at Marian College without finishing his degree (he’s not a “school person”), at TOTS prior to an evening rehearsal.

NUVO: So would you say you’re self-educated?

BRIAN NOFFKE: Mostly. I observe a lot. I observe designers or directors when I do shows at IRT or wherever. Most of my experience is hands-on. In college, I’ll be honest they didn’t really teach us much.

What I learned in college was the history of theater, script analysis, costume design and technical stuff.

NUVO: How did Acting Up Productions start?

NOFFKE: It came in a period of self-reflection.

I was burned out. At Footlite I’d done 77 shows in 16 years. I lost jobs, girlfriends, health. Then I met my business partner, Beth Williams, during a production of Fiddler on the Roof in Greenfield. We became friends, and started talking over several months

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NUVO: It was surprising to hear that Acting Up Productions was setting up shop there.

NUVO: Acting Up Productions does a lot, including a full season of shows and theater classes. How do you support yourself?

Is this your full-time gig?

NOFFKE: Yup. It’s what I do. I’m also the associate lighting designer at Theater on the Square. Mind you, I only make about 20 percent of what I’m actually worth. But as part of my salary they let me have this space [TOTS Stage II] for free and costumes and props and anything to borrow. I light a ballet every Christmas, and I live on a shoestring, seriously. I pinch pennies.

NUVO: How so?

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NOFFKE: After we did A Steady Rain, Sam Fain and I were having a beer. We were talking about me doing lots of things for every show. He said there was this one rehearsal ... We had just finished a scene, and he went on to a section about his character. I literally got up from my seat, walked to a lighting instrument on the floor and started adjusting it in the middle of the run. Once I see something needs to be fixed, that actor hat comes off and the designer hat goes on. It offended him, and I felt terrible for leaving an actor like that.

That was a downfall in me, because he needed me to be there for him.

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Hannibal Buress’ comedy is cool. Not cold, not indifferent. Just ultra-relaxed; casual. Effortless.

So, it follows that a phone conversation with the 29-year-old comic would be more like a quick catch-up with a longtime acquaintance than an interview with someone who’s “on,” cracking jokes left and right. Buress is chill on the phone – he answers my questions, but nothing much more. It’s like his comedy: laid-back observational set-ups with bite. He’s been called “the black Mitch Hedburg” by some.

The Chicago–born comic has been marked as one “on the rise” for a couple of years. In that time, he’s been name-checked and endorsed by the big guys, like Chris Rock, Louis C.K. and Jim Gaffigan. Hard to

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believe he was homeless for a spell after moving to the big city.

After arriving in NYC, he spent time writing for SNL and 30 Rock (where he appeared in a bit part as a homeless guy) before departing to focus solely on standup; he currently tours over 100 dates per year, returning to Brooklyn every Sunday to host a comedy showcase at The Knitting Factory. He’s not interested in talking about why he abandoned two coveted writers’ room slots after just a year each; he wanted to write for himself, and that’s that.

This spring, he plans to release release

Laugh Out Loud Featuring the Queer Queens of Qomedy: Poppy Champlin, who has a Showtime special in the bag; Mimi Gonzalez, featured on Today and Ellen ; and Sapna Kumar, a Chicago native of Indian descent who competed on Last Comic Standing . Ticket prices vary ($25 at door, advance and group sales at indyprideinc.org).

Talbott Street, April 11, 8 p.m.

Indianapolis Symphony Choir: Bach and Lauridsen Bach’s Magnificat is paired with a much more recent piece by the California-based Morton Lauridsen, Lux Aeterna, on the Indianapolis Symphony Choir’s final show of their 76th season, featuring the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra.

Lauridsen, a National Medal of Arts recipient who has become a staple of American choral music, will arrive tomorrow in Indianapolis to teach master classes at Butler and workshop with local groups in advance of the performance. Tickets $15 to $75 (available from indychoir.org).

Clowes Memorial Hall, April 12, 8 p.m.

about my dreams of owning a theater company. And, boom, we both had a little bit of money and decided let’s just do this. We fought on and off between Indianapolis and Greenfield. We chose Greenfield because it was an untapped market.

NOFFKE: We both live in Greenfield, and it was something we wanted to try. Beth really talked me into it; I wanted to do Indianapolis, but I caved. I said let’s try it for a couple of years. It hasn’t been very successful. Since the first day we moved in we have had nothing but problems with the people in Greenfield. So we’re no longer going to be there. All of our shows will be in Indianapolis.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream It’s the fourth time the IRT has taken on Shakespeare’s psychopharmaceutical-fueled moonlight romp. Gerson Dacanay, a Christmas Carol vet, stars as Puck.

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a web series (“I don’t know if it’s called Talking With Strangers or Talking To Strangers. Who knows?” he said) and continue filming season two of The Eric Andre Show, the absurd, public access talk show send-up on which he is cohost.

He’s jumping into music, too – hip-hop’s a long-time love for Buress, who claims to have freestyle rapped as a 12-year-old. Now, most sets end with a rendition of “Gibberish Rap” (sample lyrics “I’m rappin’, rap rap rappin’ / in my socks rapping / got on my jeans / jeans, degrees, put on deoderant”).

He’s already debuted it in Indiana; the track received a mixed response at Notre Dame University club Legends a few weeks back.

“They were touchy about a couple things,” he said. “They didn’t respond to ‘Gibberish Rap,’ that well. Usually I do a song four or five times, but since they didn’t respond I did it eight times.”

Birth of Soul A jukebox musical including music from a seven-decade span, from doo-wop to Motown soul to neo-soul.

Presented by the recently founded Fractal Group Inc. and benefitting food pantry program The Cupboard Inc. Tickets $25-35, students $15 thecupboardpresents.org).

Athenaeum Theater, April 12, 14, 19, 21

ONGOING Clybourne Park e An artful response to Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park shifts focus from the AfricanAmerican Youngers family (the subject of Hansberry’s play) to the white family that sold its home to the Youngers. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2011) and Tony Award for Best Play (2012), the play’s action spans 50 years, from the sale of the home in 1959 (Act I) to the rippling effects of that sale in 2009 (Act II). An impressive, tight seven-person cast doubles characters from first to second act, each playing a more liberated version of the same type of person in Act II. Bernie Killian’s stunning scenic design makes for a different kind of show during the intermission, when a stage crew scurries to age the house 50 years in only 12 minutes. And program notes start a discussion about the history and gentrification of our changing city. — Katelyn Coyne Phoenix Theatre, through May 5

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Chido Johnson: Tese e The standout for me in Johnson’s multi-faceted exhibit is Let’s Talk About Love, Baby , a collaborative project where different artists were asked to submit an artistically embellished (or mutilated, depending on your point of view) book into Johnson’s “Love Library.” You could spend perusing hours the collection. All the People I’ve Ever Loved is particularly amusing. When you open its purple cover a mechanical tally counter adds you to the artist’s love list! iMOCA through May 18 Blythe Hager: Gloaming e The final show at Carla Knopp’s gallery features the beautifully composed and unsettling paintings of Hager. In “Cages” you see three bird cages and a glowing TV screen against the dark green wall of an interior room. Perhaps this room — and the surrounding house — constitutes a cage for the unseen residents. Her landscapes are equally depopulated; even when you see people in them, they face away from you. In “Wonderland,” a woman is either playing croquet — or has momentarily stopped playing to gaze into the deep green swath of the woods beyond, where she has just overheard the Mad Hatter.

Dewclaw Gallery through April 27 Exchange: Amy Reel e Reel uses family members and friends as models for face portraits in ink and conté crayon that are often much larger than the patrons who view them. Expressionistic touches sometimes convey the subtleties of human expression with compelling, hypnotic power.

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i Weiwei, one of today’s foremost artists on the world stage, has become a sort of spokesperson for what ails China. The retrospective Ai Weiwei: According to What?, at the Indianapolis Museum of Art through July 21, explores in detail the artist’s trajectory over the past two decades, from early work influenced by readymade artists such as Duchamp and Warhol to recent largescale works exploring his complicated relationship with his own country.

From the dismantling of Qing Dynasty temples, reconstructed into ethereal works of art using ancient joinery techniques, to iconic forms shaped into marble (such as a surveillance camera and construction hat), Ai has reclaimed and transformed the personal and the political. He’s created this arresting body of work under the watchful eye of a totalitarian regime: Ai was detained for 81 days in 2011, which only added to his mystique and world-renown. Even as China continues to modernize, its silencing of speech continues, proving once again that economic prosperity and

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free speech do not go hand in hand.

And yet tossing out tradition, particularly when that tradition is not the foundational source of such oppression, is akin to throwing out the baby with the bathwater. This is what Ai so astutely observes, creating a dialogue between past and present in such works as Colored Vases (2007-10), a collection of Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE) vases dipped in brightly colored industrial paint. Tradition meets progress — and the results are jarring when one considers the ancient pedigree of the vases.

(If one didn’t know their lineage, these could be the latest find at Pottery Barn.)

To further fuel these tensions, a series of three life-size photos depict the artist in the process of dropping a Han dynasty relic, the final frame revealing the urn in smithereens. It is unclear whether or not Ai wants the viewer to applaud or abhor his actions — and this may be the point. Is tradition a form of stasis, or a

Thoughts on a retrospective of work by the Chinese artist and activist

springboard for change?

The central work in the retrospective, Straight, in which 38 tons of rebar from the 2008 Sichuan earthquake are arranged in undulating waves, reminds us how quickly we forget: nearly 5,000 children perished under the crush of shoddy construction from which the rebar was reclaimed.

Displayed alongside a wall listing the names of the fallen schoolchildren, also read aloud in a recording that sounds somberly throughout the gallery, Straight calls out not only the specific tragedy of complacency, but a more widespread tragedy, that throughout history societies — including our own have devalued human life in the pursuit of power and wealth.

It is an enduring reality that such art created out of tragedy — Picasso’s Guernica comes to mind as an antecedent of Straight — is often the only means of remembering beyond the ephemeral news cycle. But what can art do beyond calling attention to and commenting on the world’s ills? Unlike history, which is written and rewritten according to the needs of the culture, art stands alone as a document to truth — and that, perhaps, is its greatest gift. As Ai has said, “…we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.”

Gabriel Lehman r Many of Lehman’s paintings show waiflike females set against the backdrop of strangely-lit alien skies.

“Sweet Dreams” sees one nude waif hanging onto a VW Bug-sized teapot with one hand and the cords of a parachute with the other while falling from the sky.

Perhaps this painting, with its naïve eroticism, underscores the fragility of all life, alien or terrestrial.

Indy Indie Artist Colony through April 25 Stutz Open House Preview: First Look t There’s some good work to see here: a black and white, space-expanding abstract painting by Susan Brewer; a finely-rendered sketch by Jim Gerard of a figure in motion that’s more motion than figure. But some of the most compelling pieces such as Ginny Taylor Rosner’s photographs of windmills in Northern Indiana have already been featured in Stutz exhibitions.

Raymond James Stutz Art Gallery through April 27 Spectrum t The wall text for Elizabeth Smith’s “Supernova” draws a comparison between supernovas and snowflakes.

The thousand-odd beadwork “snowflakes” hanging on the gallery wall each have a unique design like snowflakes but without the Smith’s wall text, I don’t think I would’ve drawn any extraterrestrial or subatomic comparisons. Likewise with her dimensionally-titled, engagingly decorative paintings that you might describe as candyland arabesques. Sharing the space are Matt Kenyon’s stunningly beautiful glass vases that propose a certain unified field theory of design and function.

Harrison Center for the Arts through April 27 — All reviews by Dan Grossman.

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REVIEWS NEW STORIES FROM THE MIDWEST 2012

EDITED BY JASON LEE BROWN AND SHANIE LATHAM Quarry Books (Indiana University Press) More like new-ish stories: The 19 stories in this volume were first published in 2010, and it’s taken until March 2013 for them to reach us in anthology form (by contrast, the Best American volumes draw from pieces published in the year prior, so that a 2012 volume features 2011 work). A minor quibble: Each story has something going for it, and most are enhanced (rather than ponderously weighted down) by a sense of place.

Outsiders often prove the most compelling: the gay museum assistant who relocated to Iowa in Roderic Crooks’s “Townie”; Xiang, known as Wang to his foreman, who delivers his story in broken English about picking up a hitchhiker and sharing a moment of cross-cultural understanding in David Driscoll’s “Circling in the Air.” Humor is often absent, and thus welcome via the cornhole absurdity of Michael Czyzniejewski’s “The Amnesiac in the Maze” (a tale of being lost, Godot-style, in a corn labyrinth) and Mark Wisniewski’s “Schnecks” (everybody loves a couple schnecks with a tasty foot-long). Anthony Doerr’s “The Deep” has an uncanny lightness as it skips along the surface of the life of Tom, a kid with a weak heart growing up in a rooming house near a Detroit-area salt mine during the Great Depression. Christine Sneed’s “Twelve + Twelve” deals with car crashes, grief and inter-generational romance in a believable way. And Chad Simpson’s “American Bulldog” builds up a nice head of steam as an unloved pet nears what could be the end (against the backdrop of a flooded basement, one of many scenes likely familiar to the Midwestern reader).

— SCOTT SHOGER

EVENTS Donald Ray Pollock See Get Out, pg. 5.

April 11, 7:30 p.m.

Will Shortz See Get Out, pg. 5.

April 12, 7 p.m.

Quan Barry Saigon-born, Boston-raised, many-prized (Pushcart, NEA Fellowship, Wallace Stegner Fellowship). Sample quote: “In the last room shelves lined with jars, pale bleached things held in suspension ... Some contain two-headed cows, others dogs and cats with massive deformities — prehensile tails, the stumps of extra heads growing out of odd places, one a fetal pig but the moony thing has flippers,” from “poem” ( Water Puppets).

University of Indianapolis, April 13, 7:30 p.m.

Kevin Kling, Chicken Soup for the Chicken A commentator for All Things Considered, Kling “trucks in spirituality and subversion, fear and philosophy, wisdom and wisecracks ... delivered with ample dollops of humor, a dose of wonder and a sly, ‘lookwhat-I-did’ smile” (Pioneer Press).

Indiana History Center, April 13, 7:30 p.m., $25 door, $20 advance (storytellingarts.org)

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larence Page, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Chicago Tribune, thinks of Kurt Vonnegut as an “uncle by a different family,” the kind of guy who’s prone toward telling stories, sometimes even preaching, but always with a sense of humor. Page, who has worked for the Tribune since 1971 and says he can relate to Vonnegut’s post-war Chicago journalism experience (Page after Vietnam, Vonnegut after WWII), will keynote the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library’s annual fundraiser, Night of Vonnegut, on April 13 at Scottish Rite Cathedral. He answered a few questions over the phone Sunday (and see the film section for a few more words from Page regarding Roger Ebert’s legacy). I got the ball rolling by asking Page if he has a favorite Vonnegut book; my interpolations aren’t essential to the rest of the interview, so I’ll let Page take it from here.

“Cat’s Cradle is still my number one — and I say still because that was how I discovered Vonnegut. I was in college at Ohio University in the late ‘60s when one of my buddies at my favorite saloon had his class books there, and on top was Cat’s Cradle.

I think he went off to the john, and I had a few minutes to pick up the book and start reading. The very first page, I was hooked.

It has kind of a Melville opening — a takeoff from ‘Call me Ishmael.’

“I keep coming back to Cat’s Cradle because it seems so complete. So many of his other works — God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; Slaughterhouse-Five; Breakfast of Champions — widely touted for good reason, are very anecdotal and the story arc

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isn’t as complete as in Cat’s Cradle, which has a distinct beginning, middle and end that I find most satisfying.

“My second favorite Vonnegut book is Slaughterhouse-Five, and what’s intriguing about it is that he opens up with non-fiction. I think he was getting into what Benjamin Disraeli would call his ‘anecdotage,’ where he was evolving from strictly writing fiction into becoming more of a public essayist, which is how he ended up, really.

“One reason why Vonnegut attracted me off the bat is his tone, which is something only a journalist could come up with. It’s the same reason why I’m a fan of Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, Joan Didion and other New Journalists, some of whom crossed over into fiction writing. Vonnegut had that same kind of clear, crisp, conversational way of delivering very heavy thoughts, taking you from what you know to what you don’t know, starting off from what seems like an amusing entertainment and taking you from there into some deep

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thinking. What I love about Cat’s Cradle is how Vonnegut creates a religion and has a lot of the narrative storytelling skills that make the Bible as magical as it is. Narrative is the secret of good journalism and good writing, in general. Most people can’t name all ten commandments, but everybody can remember the story of how Moses got the ten commandments. “ I love those little Vonnegutisms: Beside ending a sentence with “So it goes” to signal and emphasize that he just made an important point, there’s also the way he says ‘Listen’ at the beginning. When he starts to digress, like I am constantly with you, he’ll say ‘Listen’ like he’s about to say something really important to hear. He can do that and get away with it because he has crafted his work that well that you find it amusing and not annoying.”

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A horse chestnut tree sapling derived from a 170-year-old tree that once stood outside Anne Frank’s window in Amsterdam will be planted in The Children’s Museum’s Anne Frank Peace Park April 14 at 10 a.m. The sapling is one of 11 to be planted across the country at sites hand picked by The Anne Frank Center U.S.A. for their commitment to and representation of Frank’s legacy of tolerance.

The center consulted with the Children’s Museum on a permanent exhibit, The Power of Children, highlighting the stories of Frank, Ruby Bridges and Ryan White, three children who faced discrimination.

And the museum has for three years housed some of the saplings in its biotech lab.

The public is invited to the tree planting

ceremony in the Peace Park, also home to several sculptures, including one of Anne Frank’s diary made out of Indiana limestone. Dorit and Gerald Paul, who donated the park in 2009, will be in attendance.

“Being refugees ourselves and seeing Anne’s picture reminds me of what I looked like as a girl and what we went through,” said Dorit Paul in a news release. “There was also a big allée by the river where I grew up in Germany lined with chestnut trees and we all collected the nuts. So, the chestnut tree and Anne Frank struck a chord with me.”

Children’s Museum President and CEO Jeffrey Patchen says of Frank’s story that it “shows the importance of personal narrative” and is “as relevant today as it was when it was written.” He says of the sapling, “It’s a forever tree, to keep Anne Frank’s dream alive.”

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The brand new book,The Pipeline and the Paradigm, is a mixture of science, philosophy and first-person advocacy.

The book is adamantly anti-Keystone XL, but Sam Avery gives space to the other side, respectfully allowing them their say, and letting their side of the story deepen his thinking about the issue.

The book begins with a picture of Avery in handcuffs in D.C., purposely being arrested to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. Especially in its second half, the book is a travelogue of his adventures across the U.S. and Canada, interviewing activists and pipeline proponents all along the way.

But Avery, based in the Louisville, KY, area, is also a businessman, a solar installer, so he knows this issue from an important angle, that of an expert in renewable energy.

Why are tar sands so bad?

The Keystone XL pipeline will enable the massive extraction of oil from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada. Many call it a carbon time bomb. James Hansen, who recently announced his retirement from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, famously maintains that if the pipeline is approved, it’s “game over” for the climate and thus the planet.

Part of the problem with extraction of tar sands is that it’s an energy intensive, dirty process. According to research just released by the Post Carbon Institute, while the EROI (energy returned on investment) for conventional oil is 25:1 — 25 oil-based units of energy for every one unit of energy used to extract it — tar sands has a ratio of only 5:1. And deeper extraction makes that ratio sink to 2.9:1.

It’s the upgrading of the tar sand bitumen that is so energy intensive and pollution creating. According to Avery’s book, “Compared to refining conventional oil, upgrading tar sands (removing impurities and adding hydrogen) produces two to three times more sulfur dioxide (which causes acid rain), volatile organic compounds (producers of ozone), and particulate matter (a cause of heart and lung diseases).”

Avery also writes that, “Tar sands extraction uses — and pollutes — enormous quantities of water. It drains watersheds and destroys thousands of acres of wetlands by with-

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drawing groundwater at rates measured in the billions of cubic feet and trillions of gallons.”

Add all this to the concerns of the threat of pipeline breaches, as witnessed by the spill in Mayflower, AR, and thus soil and aquifer damage and, overall, the anointing of further fossil fuel extraction as baptism of the collapsing ecosystem, and Keystone XL pipeline is medium and message of our planetary peril.

Mind and spirit Avery states from the outset, “What I want to do with this book is look into the mind and spirit of people, like me, who understand that the Earth is in crisis and feel they have to do something about it.”

He calls for a new paradigm, an ecologic one.

“In the ecologic worldview, biological communities exist in their own right, whether or not they are ‘useful.’ Trees, soil, animals, streams, plants, lakes, deserts, and oceans have no less right to exist than human communities.” He adds, “The living world includes the economy, but it is not limited to the economy.”

Ultimately, in the ecologic paradigm, “human need is subordinate to the Earth’s capacity to sustain life…. We fit into it.”

While once we were part of the overall ecosystem, now we are “an entirely new form of life … too big not to know or care about how we affect the rest of life.”

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an extremely valuable Goya painting. But wait, the scam goes awry when Simon gets hit in the noggin during the heist and awakens with no memory of where he hid the painting. After threats and torture fail, gang boss Frank (Vincent Cassel) hires hypnotherapist Elizabeth Lamb (Rosario Dawson) to climb in Simon’s head and do

some exploring. But wait, when it comes to Elizabeth, there’s more than meets the eye.

Secret alliances and shifting allegiances, but it sounds simple enough. Too simple, which spurs Boyle to teacup it up – hey, that was a NICE one – in order to keep us engaged. And so the flick goes, flashing and jump-cutting and generally playing like Inception Lite, only with a shaved beaver.

The point came where I stopped feeling invested in the characters and just watched as they were moved around by Boyle and cowriters Joe Ahearne and John Hodge like boys playing with action figures in the backyard on an overcast day. Trance is busy – BUSY – and ultimately silly. If you look at your movies holistically, take caution.

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uch of my conversation with long-time Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page was taken up with discussing the works and impact of Kurt Vonnegut (Page is the featured speaker at Saturday’s fundraiser for the writer’s memorial library). But Page says he had Ebert on the mind, and I couldn’t resist putting a couple questions to him about the film critic, who died last week at age 70. Here are a few excerpts: “He and Gene Siskel both, Midwestern guys, brought serious film criticism to TV, and being a cross-media person myself, I know that is harder than it sounds, because TV is a visual medium, craves simplicity and can tend to hate nuance. Good film criticism is quite the opposite. I knew both of them; we all got started in Chicago journalism around the same time. People always said, ‘Do these guys hate each other?’ And I said, ‘Look at the two of them. Yeah, they’re passionate about their beliefs; if they disagree, they’re going to raise their voices and make their points. But they don’t talk over each other. It’s almost as if they rehearsed it, which they didn’t, but they were

Scary Movie 5 Stars Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Snoop Dogg, Katt Williams, Molly Shannon and Terry Crews.

The Place Beyond the Pines Well-reviewed caper drama starring Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper.

The Sapphires Well-reviewed, based-on-a-true-story film about Australian Aboriginal girls who entertain U.S. troops in Vietnam in 1968.

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hallow Grave, Trainspotting, The Beach, 28 Days Later, Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours: Danny Boyle directs with exclamation points. He uses big – BIG – colors, bold premises, herky-jerky edits, camera angles that disorient you because that – THAT – is part of the fun of it (whispered: even when fun isn’t the goal).

Trance took me on a teacup ride. I liked being whipped around – STYLISHLY – at the beginning of the trippy caper movie (or trip movie featuring a caper). Even as the goings-on became more confusing, I hung in there, because you’ve just got to respect a film where a shaved beaver is an integral plot point (FYI: after 16 years as NUVO’s movie reviewer, this marks the first time I’ve ever used the phrase “shaved beaver.”

I feel free.) Later, everything got so confusing that I couldn’t spoil the film if I wanted to, but I didn’t object. I was too dizzy.

De rigueur paraphrased plot description, including two spoilers too obvious to be of concern: Simon (James McAvoy, employing his agreeable natural Scottish accent) is a nattily-dressed fine art auctioneer secretly working with a group of criminals to steal

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both so good at making their point briefly, in a sound byte that was good for TV, and at the same time giving space to the other.’

“That is something that they call chemistry in television, and it’s the elusive quality that brings to mind that old Supreme Court line of Potter Stewart’s about obscenity — I can’t define it but I’ll know it when I see it. That’s chemistry, and that’s why nobody else has even come close to duplicating the success of Siskel and Ebert. Part of that is because both of these guys were

Midwesterners — Gene from Chicago; and Roger moved up from Champaign, a small-town guy whose father was an electrician. There’s a classic Midwestern sense of decency that says you can be passionate, firm and confident in your beliefs, but don’t let it make you into an undesirable person.

“He was diagnosed in 2002. Part of his jaw was removed but he went back on the year and continued to work on air. The cancer came back and he then lost the entire jaw, couldn’t speak anymore, eat or drink. Everyone wondered what was going to happen, but he turned out to be more prolific than ever with new media; he got on Facebook, Twitter blogs. His last column talks about redesigning his new webpage.

You have that poem ‘Rage, rage against the dying of the light,’ and really, Roger’s an example of that. He didn’t quit, and I think he’s just a role model for all of us journalists.

Don’t let anything get you down and just keep going. And we columnists are famous for having to be carried out feet first anyways!” –– As told to Scott Shoger.

Evil Dead o Remake of the 1981 horror cult favorite. Maybe it would have been different had the 2013 edition of Evil Dead scared me, but it didn’t, not for one second.

Instead, I was pestered for an hour and a half by ooze porn as the four stupidest young adults in history get attacked by supernatural grouches. Why are they assaulted? Because one of them opens a book that has “Don’t Open This or We’ll Kill You!” written all over the cover. How are they assaulted? With maximum goo. (R) —Ed Johnson-Ott Ginger and Rosa t Filmmaker Sally Potter sets her sights on two teenage best friends coming of age in the early ’60 with the Cuban Missile Crisis and general fear of nuclear annihilation looming over everything. Elle Fanning is outstanding as 17-year-old Ginger, who was born in the shadow of Hiroshima and moves towards activism, accompanied by her pal Rosa (Alice Englert, daughter of celebrated director Jane Campion). Well-drawn characters abound, but the earnestness becomes enervating. Luckily, Fanning’s performance soars enough to compensate. (PG-13) —Ed Johnson-Ott

FILM EVENTS Exhibition: Manet at the Royal Academy of Arts A series of digital simulcasts of visits to art exhibitions begins Thursday with Manet at several Indy-area multiplexes.

April 11, 7:30 p.m.

So’s Your Old Man and You’re Telling Me! You’re Telling Me is the 1934 talkie remake of the 1926 silent So’s Your Old Man . Both star lovable, bumptious drunk W.C. Fields. Part of the IMA’s mini-series of silent films with live accompaniment. Eric Grayson will introduce, with Roger Lippencott on the keys.

The Toby, Indianapolis Museum of Art, April 12, 7 p.m.

Back to the Garden Epworth’s Eco-Film Series wraps up with a time-lapse portrait of what’s become of a group of back-to-theearth, off-the-grid hippies. Kevin Tomlinson first filmed the subjects of his doc in 1988, then followed up in 2006.

Epworth United Methodist Church (6450 Allisonville Road), April 12, 7:30 p.m.

The Wrecking Crew The Midwestern premiere of a documentary on L.A. session musicians who played with the greats of ‘60s pop (Beach Boys, The Monkees) — and served as the genuine articles behind the Milli Vanillis of the time.

Eiteljorg Museum, April 13, 4 p.m.

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Foundry Provisions Cafe opens for business in former Herron metal shop

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rothers Josh and Mark Nottingham weren’t really trying to get into the restaurant business. They were just looking for office space for their Nottingham Realty Group. But the property that caught their attention — on 16th Street between Alabama and Delaware streets, across from Gregs/Our Place and the Harrison Center for the Arts — came with a catch.

Five years ago it was purchased from the city by the Herron-Morton neighborhood.

And when the brothers Nottingham in turn bought the property from Herron-Morton reps, the terms of sale stipulated that a coffee shop would go in the corner building.

“Thinking about how to use this space, we were open to something fun,” explained Mark.

That fun space became the Foundry Provisions Cafe, which opened last month in the last step of the revitalization of a long dormant stretch of 16th Street (the offices of the real estate group opened late last year).

The history of the property goes back more than 100 years, but it has sat vacant for the past 20. It’s been a gas station and a steampowered car factory. As the Herron School of Art metal shop, it was known as “the foundry,” from which the café takes its name.

It was the location in Herron-Morton neighborhood that really drew in the Nottinghams. “This is where I live, where I work. We have a lot of ties to this area,” said Mark. The building needed substantial rehab to make it work as a café, including new electric work and plumbing before any other furnishings could be put in.

Support for redevelopment came from the U.S. Small Business Administration 504 loan program. Indiana Statewide Certified Development Corporation and First Bank Richmond NA provided the loan, with additional financing assistance from New Markets Tax Credits from the Indianapolis arm of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation.

“We feel supported. This is a communityoriented business venture,” said Mark. The SBA 504 loan program is designed for businesses in their first year of operation. This took some pressure off the initial cash flow needs and allowed them to focus on rehabbing the property and starting the café. And the neighborhood has embraced the cafe, which was with customers voicing their support during a soft opening on March 29.

Manager Kimmie Burton was brought in to shape the café. The vision for Foundry Provisions is a gathering space: a place to meet over breakfast and lunch, where high schoolers from Herron High School can stop on their way home, where you can grab

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Hoosier Brown Rye, hoppy and roasty with a rye kick, is a collaboration brew between Indy’s Flat 12 Bierwerks and Lafayette’s People’s Brewing. “We formed a bond and started kicking around the idea for an India brown ale with a ton of chinook [hops] and rye [malt],” comments Flat 12 brewer Josh Hambright. “After a few weeks of texting and emails we settled on a recipe.”

“We hope everyone enjoys what we’ve created and realizes we each have our own style, but we can combine those to create yet another angle,” explains People’s founding brewer Chris Johnson.

“It was exciting for me to come back to my hometown and help brew,” Hambright continues.

“I’ve known some of the guys at People’s since high school and a lot of my family and friends drink their beer regularly so its extra special for me to do a beer with them.” “It’s special to share [our camaraderie] with people around our state and to show yet another aspect of the business,” concludes Johnson.

Hoosier Brown Rye debuts April 12 at Nick’s English Hut in Bloomington and April 13 at Bloomington Craft Brew Fest at Woolery Mill. It’ll then travel to Lafayette May 4 for the TAP@TAF Brew Fest, held on the grounds of The Tippecanoe Arts Federation at 6th St., between North and Brown streets.

Flat 12 is also collaborating with Great Fermentations for 12 Penny Scottish Ale, a cold-conditioned Scottish Export ale, available at Flat 12 taproom and in bars and restaurants on draft. Homebrewing kits following the recipe are at Great Fermentations.

One last note: Look for special Indiana Craft beer events around Bloomington April 10 through 13, while keeping in mind that April is Alcohol Awareness Month.

EVENTS Indy Veg Society Spring Potluck The first potluck of the year for the Indianapolis Vegetarian Society crew. Attendees are encouraged to bring a vegetarian dish (vegan if you want everyone to have a taste), place settings and a recipe or ingredient list. It’s free, aside from your food contribution.

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a grilled cheese after hitting the bars on a Friday night (the café is open until 2:30 a.m.

Friday nights and will have live music). A patio offers seating for about 30 people.

Foundry Provisions offers a range of locally sourced foods: coffee from Julian Coffee Roasters, pastries from Circle City Sweets, sandwich meats from Goose the Market. The Morton sandwich, with its Sriracha mayonnaise and mortadella, has a little bite; vegetarian options include Kurt V, a portobello mushroom panini.

Burton plans to expand vegan and glutenfree offerings, and is happy to fix an order based on a customer’s specific needs.

Taking inspiration from the history of the building, the décor has a post-industrial vibe, with a concrete floor and corrugated metal accents. Custom furnishings were designed and built by local furniture maker and Herron grad Matthew Osborn. The cafe will exhibit new artists each month. Currently featured are the recycled and found metal sculptures of Todd Bracik, who took sculpture classes in the space while a Herron student.

Morel Festival: Simply Music, Simply Mushrooms Bean Blossom’s Bill Monroe is evidently the perfect spot to hold a festival devoted to the mighty morel, the mushroom Antonio Gaudi would have built if he were called upon to build a mushroom. Not only is the park well equipped for plenty of live music — including performances by The Cox Brothers, Chicago Farmer, Indiana Boys and New Old Calvary — but it’s centrally located between southern Indiana’s morel hotspots. On the schedule are classes and guided hunts for both neophytes and experienced hunters — and on the morning of April 21 the first annual Indiana State Morel Hunting Championship. Single day passes are $25; weekend passes start at $35; head to morelfestival.com for more.

Bill Monroe Music Park and Campground, Bean Blossom, April 19 and 20

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IN MEMORIUM: JASCHA jascha was my friend. I am so lucky.

He was far more adventurous than most. He did things that were extraordinarily strange and funny. jascha was a private detective in Baton Rouge –– or at least he claimed to be. I can see him now, with his coonskin cap and a camera, lurking in the shadows and that grin of his unfurled across his face. Alternate-universe jascha solves crimes. He’s Sherlock Holmes with a guitar.

Those of us who knew jascha had to walk with him from time to time. I don’t know what the hell made him walk so fast. His keys jangled furiously as he walked, but if you asked him to slow down, he’d just turn around and grin. I guess he had too many places to be. jascha was so easy to talk to. He understood his friends.

I think that’s what made his songs so great. jascha understood people. He had a leg up on the rest of us in that respect.

I don’t know how he captured it, but there is so much joy and life in his songs. Listen to “Last Honest Man.” He had a friend who loved him. He had a family. He had a song to sing. Everything was all right. He had the rare gift of being able to express universal truths that so many songwriters aim for, but so few achieve.

A friend of jascha’s said to me, “jascha didn’t play the synthesizer, he played the human soul.”

He once sang, “Truth is, all of us should cry more / older that we get.” jascha had it figured out.

I want to be a more empathetic friend for jascha. I want to be more adventurous for jascha. I want to be more gregarious for jascha. I want to walk faster for jascha.

There are so many places to go. I want to write the way jascha did. I want to write the human soul.

I want him to come back to us.

He wasn’t perfect, but he was my friend.

I miss him so very much.

I love you, jascha.

–– MATT ERLER

(Editor’s note: Indianapolis-based singer-songwriter jascha (who eschewed his last name and capitalization) died Wednesday, April 3 at the age of 28.

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EASTHILLS FINALLY RELEASE ALBUM Fifteen years in the making; hear it Saturday at Birdy’s

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reams can come true if you work at them long enough. In the case of Hank Campbell and Will Barada, it took them almost 15 years to finally achieve theirs.

Both have known each other since elementary school. Music was, and has always been, one of their bonds. Specifically bands like Pavement and Guided By Voices who, as Campbell noted during a recent phone interview, aren’t classically trained but that just helps make their music more authentic.

GBV’s Robert Pollard worked as an elementary school teacher by day while writing songs in his basement at night.

“That was great affirmation to us,” Campbell said. “It can be done like that. That gave us a big push.”

So in 1997, after Barada graduated from Indiana University, the two rented a house in Muncie. It was time to focus on music. They set up their gear in the living room and started jamming. As Campbell recalls now, with a laugh, they didn’t accomplish much.

“The fantasy was much more powerful than the reality at that point,” he said. “We didn’t know anything.”

From there life took its customary twists and turns. Work and family cut into their creative time. And yet they continued to write music together, mainly through tape trading. It was

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that love for music that kept the dream alive.

“We really believed we could do something with this,” Campbell said, referring to his and Barada’s band The Easthills and their debut album, Death of a Salesman. “I know that’s cliche, but we’ve always had that spirit underneath it all. The older we’ve gotten, the more spiritual this has become for us.”

It still took a catalyst for Death of a Salesman to become reality. That spark plug came in the form of a couple people.

The first was Brad Morgan, now the bass player in The Easthills. Campbell became friends with him over, naturally, music after moving back to his hometown of Rushville.

Morgan encouraged he and Barada to properly record their songs.

“He brought a lot of enthusiasm,” Campbell said.

There was still that minor detail of not really knowing the production side though.

That’s when Andy Wilson, a local music promoter and childhood friend, introduced them to Doug Henthorn. The Healing Sixes frontman, who’s played with the likes of John

Hiatt and Joe Bonamassa, embraced bringing their songs to life. They spent several Sundays using Campbell’s big empty house as a studio.

“We were like little kids waiting for Christmas when Doug would give us something we could listen back to,” Campbell said. “His fingerprints are all over the album. We were really pleased with his production style. He definitely favors an overall classic rock sound.”

Indeed, Death of a Salesman is dynamic, including a triple guitar attack (Adrian Degner is the third with Campbell and Barada) and a driving rhythm section that’s rounded out by Healing Sixes drummer Wade Parish. Its street date is April 16, but fans can buy it for $5 at the release show April 13 at Birdy’s.

If there’s a silver lining to all those years of half-starts, it’s that The Easthills (named after a cemetery in Rushville) have a deep well of material. At 37, Campbell feels like he’s just getting started.

“One thing that excites us is we’ve gotten a good response so far,” he said of the record.

“We’re not a band that spent three years on our first album and now have nothing else.”

And don’t expect the follow-up to take as long as the first.

“We’re not going to take 15 years on the next one for sure.”

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w Ten years is a long time for anybody. For a struggling metal band, ten years is an eternity. And eternity is a heavy concept, which suits Steve Janiak, and his merry band of badasses in Devil To Pay just fine.

Their latest release, Fate is Your Muse is chockfull of heavy, life-changing themes; it grapples with stuff like reincarnation, end of the world hysteria, conformity and even a little alien abduction. FiYM is, without a doubt, a towering, monumental piece of metal that has the power to transcend labels an genres. Doom? Straight up metal?

Stoner rock? Whatever the fuck Metallica called what they were doing after Master of Puppets and before Load? Give FiYM half a chance and it will change you.

The confidence that the addition of Rob Hough added to Devil to Pay’s last release, Heavily Ever After has solidified on this record, making this the musical apex of the band’s career (thus far). Janiak and Hough effortlessly entwine their guitar heroics around the baddest rhythm section walking the planet right now. Matt Stokes and Chad Prifogle have each taken their games to another level. Fate is Your

Muse is the album that should take these boys places, sold-out soccer stadiums in Paraguay and profiles on NPR and shit.

FiYM starts off with four tunes that rock your face and sets the tone for the album.

“Prepare To Die” is the heaviest rewrite of “Dust In The Wind” ever. “Ten Lizardmen and One Pocketknife” is so everything it’s title promises it to be. Proggy lyrics and breakneck guitar make this a fun ride, while Stokes’ bass makes “Wearing You Down” a monster.

“Already Dead” is a set apart by Prifogle’s simple yet unbelievably cool cowbell work. Yes, cowbell. And it doesn’t sound one bit cliché either. “Black Black Heart” and “The Naked Truth” are a couple of second half highlights.

However, it’s the closer, “Beyond The Ether” that ends up as the album’s crowning moment. It is a piece of Doom that is without a doubt the heaviest, sludgiest thing this band has ever done. It leaves the album off on a wink-wink high note.

(The CD and Digital versions of FiYM also include the GloryHole 7” “This Train Won’t Stop” and the excellent “Tie One On.”).

The release party is set for this Friday, April 12 at Radio Radio. As good as this record is, it makes my innards hurt thinking how good this shit is gonna be live.

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f you picked up a NUVO last week, you probably know the Ai Weiwei show opened at the Indianapolis Museum of Art on Friday. I had the privilege of spinning for the show’s opening night festivities and as I began the process of selecting music for the event, I turned to my collection of underground Chinese rock.

In China’s conservative cultural landscape, rock music still represents a powerful symbol of rebellion. So powerful in fact, that last month the perpetually rebellious Ai announced plans to release an album’s worth of rock tunes.

“Some songs are like heavy metal, some are more punkish, and some are more pop,” Ai says of the project.

With the arrival of the Ai Weiwei exhibition in Indy, I thought it would be a good time to profile a few of the leading voices in China’s relatively young rock music scene. Think of it as a soundtrack to Ai’s According to What, which remains on display at the IMA until July 21.

CUI JIAN

Any discussion of the Chinese rock scene must include mention of Cui Jian, an artist labeled as the “father of Chinese rock music.” Jian shot to fame in the late 1980s when his song “Nothing to My Name” became an anthem for the student protest movement which culminated in the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations.

A classically trained musician, Jian began his professional career in 1981 playing trumpet in the Beijing Philharmonic Orchestra. But his musical destiny dramatically changed course when the singer-songwriter heard a Beatles cassette smuggled into Beijing from Hong Kong.

So Jian traded his trumpet for the electric guitar and set about creating his distinctive sound –– a blend of traditional Chinese instrumentation and rock and roll with sharply written lyrics containing thinly veiled messages of social commentary.

Jian’s propensity to mix music with social justice has frequently landed him at odds with Chinese authorities. For many years Jian was forbidden from performing in public and his music was banned on state-controlled Chinese media.

Despite this government suppression, Jian remains one of the most popular rock musicians in China and his music continues to evolve.

Recently Jian has incorporated elements of electronic music and hip-hop into his sound. He’s also received support from major Western stars, singing with the Rolling Stones at a Shanghai concert in 2006 and rapping with Public Enemy at the Beijing Pop Festival in 2007.

CARSICK CARS

Inspired by the Velvet Underground, guitarist/singer/composer Zhang Shouwang formed Carsick Cars in 2005. Combining catchy pop hooks with destructive guitar noise, the band quickly became the darlings of the nascent Beijing indie rock scene.

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cited as the scene’s anthem, “Zhong Nan Hai.” Referring to both a popular cigarette brand and a residential Beijing neighborhood for top government officials, the song’s cryptic double meaning perfectly sums up Carsick Cars’ ambiguous political stance.

Although his lyrics occasionally dance around the subject, Shouwang has claimed the band’s music is not political. Shouwang is more interested in creating visceral guitar noise. His masterful control of extreme guitar sounds recalls the best work of Sonic Youth, Carsick Cars toured with the group in 2007.

ZUOXIAO ZUZHOU

You may have seen musician/artist Zuoxiao Zuzhou in the Ai Weiwei documentary Never Sorry –– perhaps you saw him handcuffed to Ai in the artist’s “Gangnam Style” parody video. Ai has called his friend and collaborator “the most important musician in China” and he chose Zuzhou to produce his forthcoming debut release.

Zuzhou is perhaps the most outspoken and provocative artist in the Chinese music scene. His croaking, out-of-tune vocals and brilliant lyrics have prompted comparisons to Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits.

Eschewing the metaphorical commentary employed by most Chinese singers, Zuzhou takes direct aim at his lyrical targets. From food scandals to government corruption, Zuzhou takes inspiration from the everyday injustices of contemporary Chinese life.

It’s an artistic choice that comes at a great price: like Ai Weiwei, Zuzhou has been subjected to prolonged periods of indiscriminate detention by Chinese officials.

Aside from his 2010 collaboration with the Canadian rock band Cowboy Junkies, Zuzhou’s music is nearly impossible to find in the United States. But it’s well worth the work in tracking down any of the musician’s LPs as Zuzhou one of the most interesting figures working in rock music today. >> Kyle Long creates a custom podcast for each column. Hear this week’s at NUVO.net

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WEDNESDAY ROOTS An Evening of Blue Grass Punch Brothers member Noam Pikelny said to us last May, “People who don’t know much about bluegrass music call us a bluegrass band and people who really are steeped in bluegrass music refuse to call us a bluegrass band. Some people who are extreme preservationists are offended when others label us a bluegrass band.” Bluegrass, it seems, is a loaded term. But the very title of this evening proves you’ll truly experience a night of bluegrass with Pikelny, Ronnie McCoury (Travelin’ McCourys), Bryan Sutton (Dixie Chicks, Jerry Douglas), Barry Bales (Alison Krauss) and Luke Bulla (Lyle Lovett).

Deluxe at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., 7:30 p.m., all-ages POP Tristan Prettyman, Caitlin Rose A pair of women with angelic voices and pop charm breeze into Radio Radio on April 10. Prettyman is a surfer girl who stumbled upon Ani DiFranco’s music in her early teens; she grabbed a guitar and never looked back. Fans of Ingrid Michaelson and Brandi Carlile, take notice of this one.

Caitlin Rose is Nashville born and bred, with Patsy Cline in her blood.

She’s touring The Stand-In, which was released on February 25 of this year.

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THURSDAY POP Neon Trees Provo rockers Neon Trees ruled the airwaves this winter with their insistant jingle “Everybody Talks.”

They’ve joined up with radio kings Maroon Five for a spring tour that will take them across the US. But first, they’ll stop at Richmond High School.

Richmond High School, 300 Hub Etchison Parkway, Richmond, $15 students, $20 general, advance; $20 students, $30 general at door Revue at Brown County Playhouse, all-ages Three Cent Queen, Dead on TV, Dead Parade, Red Measure Melody Inn, 21+ Young Rapids, Street Spirits, She Does Is Magic, White Rabbit Cabaret, 21+ Antoine Dufour, The Jazz Kitchen B-Side, 21+

show is either, but we’re excited to find out. Indy’s Jukebox, 306 E. Prospect St., 8 p.m., $10 advance, $15 at door, 21+ METAL Devil To Pay, Dead Man’s Switch Read our feature on page 27 Radio Radio, 1119 Prospect St. 9 p.m., $7, 21+ The Main Squeeze, Audiodacity, The Stone Foxes, The Vogue, 21+ Melody Danford’s Farewell Show, Hypnotic Velvet, Propellers, Dan Glenzig, Melody Inn, 21+ Narpolicious, Sabbatical, 21+ This Must Be The Band (Talking Heads Tribute), The Mousetrap, 21+ Metal Night, Hoosier Dome, all-ages Branch Gordon, Eddie Merlot’s, all-ages Farrelly Markiewicz Quartet, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Captain Ivory, Bunny Brothers, The Rathskeller, all-ages Grizzly Music Company Showcase, Monkey’s Tale, 21+ The Last Bison, The Bishop (Bloomington), 21+

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FESTIVAL WIUX Culture Shock The second of two big festivals this Saturday is a favorite of ours. WIUX is Indiana University’s student radio station; completely student run, 99.1 FM features more than just regular college radio spins.

They have a boisterous sports department that live broadcasts IU’s many sports; they are one of the biggest organizations at the university, claiming hundreds of members; and they throw a huge, free festival every spring featuring favorite local, regional and national artists. This year, catch Mikal Cronin, Maps and Atlases, Apache Dropout, Jamaican Queens, Dead Beach, Oshwa, Teepee, Fluffer, Brownie Mountain and Charlie Patton’s War. (Editor’s note: Music editor Kat Coplen is the former PR Director for WIUX.) Dunn Meadow (Bloomington) Noon – 10 p.m., free, 21+ TonyWhoa! Album Release, Indianapolis Church of Christ, all-ages Butler’s 18th Annual Sweet Jazz Cabaret, Hilton Indy Downtown Hotel, all-ages Midcoast Swing Band, Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center, all-ages

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SUNDAY TRIBUTE A Tribute to Daft Punk A salute to Daft Punk, the helmeted,

electronic duo that got our heads all bopping in the ’90s and our eyes spinning with the digital displays that accompanied their sets. The actual band is working on a new album, but you can get a dose of the Punk early this year at the Vogue. Will this Daft-inspired duo be harder, better, stronger, faster? You’ll have to come to find out.

The Vogue, 5279 N. College Ave., 9 p.m., 21+ FESTIVAL Holi Celebration and Fundraiser Join our Cultural Cannibal columnist and Spice Box –– Indy’s Indian food truck –– to

met UK artist Glen Hansard and his band The Frames. No, that was back in Massachusetts, where Ritter worked while playing open mics. Hansard invited him back to Ireland, and the rest is musical history. Ritter is six full-lengths in, and his album The Beast in Its Tracks comes out this month.

The Vogue, 5279 N. College Ave., 8 p.m., $24, 21+

SOUNDCHECK celebration Holi, the beautiful Festival of Colors. All proceeds go to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society; all color powder used is homemade and non-toxic. Bring your kids.

Herron-Morton Place Park, 19th and Alabama, 1 p.m., $10, all-ages Keyshia Cole, Murat Theatre at Old National Centre, all-ages Midwest State of Mind, Moritat, Pocket Vinyl, Melody Inn, 21+ Occidental Gypsy, DO317 Lounge, 21+ Terrapin Flyer featuring Melvin Seals, Tom Constanten, Mark Karan, The Mousetrap, 21+ Hot Jazz for Cool Kids, Central Library, all-ages

TUESDAY ROCK Jukebox the Ghost Philly-born, Brooklyn-formed Jukebox the Ghost released Safe Travels last June. Of the album, they said to us, “The ethos for this record was ‘Work until it is done –– not until we are out of time.’ So we ended up with a record where everything is purposeful, nothing done in haste and we can stand by every line, take and arrangement choice.” They’ll return to Indy for a show in late spring.

Deluxe at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., 8 p.m., all-ages

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ROCK Crazy Dayz Local promoter Lazy Hawk (we’d call him by his first name, but we don’t know it!) is going Crazy these Dayz. He’s planning a two-day fest at the Melody Inn, featuring Veseria, Audiodacity, Party Lines, Phoenix on the Fault Line (Day One) and Harley Poe, The Brothers Gross, Mr. Clit and Green Gold. Both nights are preceded by Hillbilly Happy Hours that start at 7 p.m.

The Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St., 9 p.m. (both days), prices vary, 21+ Katie Armiger, 8 Seconds Saloon, 21+ Urban Jazz Coalition, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Seryn, Birdy’s Bar and Grill, 21+ War Radio, The Rathskeller, 21+ Borrow Tomorrow, And Away They Go, Radio Radio, 21+ Cory Williams, DO317 Lounge, 21+ DJ Craze, The Vogue, 21+

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Indy Folk Series, 615 W. 43rd St. 7 p.m., $10 at door, $5 with student ID, all-ages CELEBRATIONS Barfly Comics 10 Year Anniversary A salute to Wayne Bertsch, who’s been drawing Indy musicians for 10 years (and will keep on for many more.) Featuring the galactic weirdos in Five Year Mission, punkers Up! Scumbag, chanteuse Jenn Cristy and house rockabilly dudes of The Danny Thompson Trio. A final note: there’s a wedding happening at this show too!

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BATTLE High School Battle of the Bands All-ages hotspot the Hoosier Dome hosts an annual Battle of the Bands that’s actually not lame!

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Last year’s competition yielded the formidable pop punk group No Direction, who released their debut album She’s The Man a week or so ago. Finals are on May 4th.

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APRIL 23 Victor Wooten, Jazz Kitchen, 21+

APRIL 24 HIP-HOP Tech N9ne Did you know Tech N9ne’s legal name is Aaron Dontez Yates? We didn’t either, but it doesn’t surprise us his name is a mouthful. Have you heard his flow?

It’s the fastest this side of Twista and Busta Rhymes. So fast, in fact, that he united the fastest choppers for a track on his album All 6s and 7s called “Worldwide Choppers.

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NIGHTLIFE We partied at Beale St. with Faster Pussycat, then ordered strong martinis at Mass Ave’s teeniest bar, Tini. Then we headed to Fountain Square for First Friday and Bu Da Lounge for cigars and sushi before stopping in at Chatham Tap to watch a few games.

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SNAIL MAIL APP Wait ... What? A startup company in Austin, Texas, also serving San Francisco, promises to take its customers’ incoming U.S. mail three times a week, photograph it and deliver it back to the customers via mobile phone app, for $4.99 a month. The company, Outbox, provides some value-added services, removing the customer from junk-mail lists and

paying bills. Still, Outbox’s unorthodox business model assumes that a growing number of people absolutely hate opening, filing or discarding pieces of paper. Co-founder Will Davis told CNN in February that at least he does not fear competition: “No one is crazy enough to do what we’re doing.”

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• College basketball player Shanteona Keys makes free throws at a 78 percent rate for her career, but on Feb. 16, she weakly shanked one of those 15-foot shots, causing it to thud to the floor about eight feet

short of the rim -- the worst collegiate free-throw attempt of all time, according to several sports commentators who viewed the video. Keys explained to Deadspin.com that she always brings the ball close to her face when she shoots, “and my fingernail got caught on my nose, so I couldn’t follow through correctly.” Her Georgia College (Milledgeville, Ga.) team lost to rival Columbus State, 70-60.

• Research Hurts: Between 2002 and 2010, according to the March BJU International (formerly British Journal of Urology), an estimated 17,600 patients came to U.S. hospital emergency rooms

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reporting genital injuries from trouser zippers (presumably by accident, but researchers took no position on that).

Seven authors (six from University of California, San Francisco) took credit for the report, funded by a National Institutes of Health grant, and found that “zip” wounds were only about one-fifth of emergency penile injuries.

Family Values • Rachel Hope and Parker Williams, both apparently intelligent and attractive, decided to procreate and fully raise a child together -- even though neither has romantic intentions toward the other. Their relationship is likened to a business one, according to a February New York Times profile, in which they do their respective biological duties, separately, and then each basically outsources half the subsequent child-rearing to the other. Said another parent in a similar relationship: “When you think about the concept of the village, and how the village was part of child-rearing for so many cultures ... it makes total sense.”

• Robert Burton, 34, got a 15-year prison sentence in February for forcing women into prostitution, with evidence including a police report quoting Burton’s 7-year-old son, who was in the car with Burton and two women when Miami police stopped them. The kid had earnestly identified the women: “Those are my daddy’s hoes.”

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• Professor Peter Froehlich, who teaches computer science classes at the highly competitive Johns Hopkins University, contractually grades “on a curve,” automatically marking the highest grade an A, with other grades trailing based on their proximity to the class’s best. One clever student tried to organize the entire class for December’s final exam, to persuade everyone to do no work at all -- thus rendering the “highest” grade a zero, meaning an A for everyone.

(Of course, if a single student broke ranks, everyone except that student would receive an absolute zero.) Fortunately for the students, according to InsideHigherEd.com, the class held together, and a shocked professor Froehlich nonetheless honored his contract, giving everyone an A (but subsequently closing the loophole).

• Thieves broke into the home of Earlie Johnson in Muskegon, Mich., in February and made off with several flat-screen TVs, but what really irked him was that they also stole his entire DVD pornography collection, consisting, he said, of the films of every African-American porn star since the 1970s. (“I’m not no scum bag guy, pervert, or nothing like that,” he told WZZM-TV. “I just thought it was cool to own my own porn collection. It keeps my relationship (with his fiance) fresh and tight.”) As soon as the news of Johnson’s misfortune spread, several adult video companies donated DVDs to help restore the collection.

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killing the woman and sending the man dashing down a road wearing nothing but his condom (which reduced his chances of receiving help from motorists). (2) Near Daytona Beach, Fla., in February, Ms. Asia Walker, 30, driving her boyfriend around, could not resist his amorous advances and soon lost control of the car. It left the road and plowed completely through a vacant house. She was briefly hospitalized, but her boyfriend was not hurt.

Fine Points of the Law • Even though the British government refused to grant trademark protection to the Italian maker of “Jesus Jeans” because it would be “morally offensive to the public,” the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had no such qualms and approved the application in 2007. Since then, according 38 CLASSIFIEDS // 04.10.13 - 04.17.13 // 100% RECYCLED P APER // NUVO

to a February Wall Street Journal story, the company has prevented a dozen other companies from using such clothing names as “Jesus First,” “Sweet Jesus,” “Jesus Couture” and, most recently, “Jesus Surfed.”

People Different From Us • A persevering Brooklyn, N.Y., high school teacher, Ronald Grassel, finally relented and submitted himself to a psychiatric evaluation that had originally been ordered in 1997 after he angrily and overenthusiastically dumped teachers’ union literature in his principal’s office. Grassel had refused the exam and been benched, and for 14 years was neither fired nor paid while he filed a series of unsuccessful legal actions to overturn the decision.

According to a March New York Post report, when he finally submitted to an exam in 2011, he was declared fit (his world-class obstinacy

• Humans’ belief that fragrances improve their allure can seemingly never be overestimated. Dutch-based artists Lernert Engelberts and Sander Plug told The New York Times in March that they recently created a concoction to call attention to our neediness for artificial scent. Noting the deluge of new industry creations in 2012, Engelberts explained, “Our point is, why do you need nearly 1,400 new scents in one year?” The pair created Everything, which they claim contains a bit of every one of the year’s fragrances they were able to obtain (including Fame by Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber’s Girlfriend), dumped into one bottle and left to marinate -- and they offered it for sale for the equivalent of about $39,000.

Least Competent Criminals • Not Ready for Prime Time: (1) Paul Masters, 47, was charged with a roof-

entry burglary of a Roses department store in Lexington, Ky., in March. Those burglaries are common, but almost always nighttime jobs, when no one else is on the premises. Masters, though, dropped in just after lunchtime. After police swarmed the store, Masters eventually fell through a drop ceiling and was arrested. (2) Jarad Carr, 37, was arrested in Chippewa County, Wis., in March after he persisted in demanding a refund for the computer printer he said he had bought at a Wal-Mart (though he lacked a receipt). While examining the printer, the Wal-Mart employee noticed a sheet of paper still inside -- showing two counterfeit $100 bills -- and called police, who arrived while Carr was still haggling for a refund.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): German theologian Martin Luther (1483-1546) was a central figure in the rebellion against the Catholic Church that led to the Protestant Reformation. You’ll never guess where he was when he was struck by the epiphany that became the core axiom of his new religion. I’ll tell you: He was sitting on the toilet in the Wittenberg Monastery. The Holy Spirit gave him the crucial knowledge then and there, or so he testified. In this spirit, Aries, keep a very open mind about where you will be and what you will be doing when your illuminations arrive this week.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your task is to uncover the semi-happy ending that was hidden back in the story’s beginning. Once you do that, you may be able to create a graceful and honorable climax. In fact, I don’t think you will be able to bring about the semi-happy ending any other way. It’s crucial that you return to the original flash of inspiration -- the time when all the plot lines that eventually developed were first germinating. You need to remember fate’s primal promise. You’ve got to read the signs you missed in the early going.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you play poker, the odds are one in 649,740 that you will get a royal flush.

That’s an ace, king, queen, jack and ten of one suit. As for drawing a straight flush -- any five consecutive cards of one suit -- the odds are one in 72,192. Judging from the current astrological omens, Gemini, I’d say your chance of getting one of those hands is far better than usual -maybe one in 88,000 for the royal flush and one in 8,888 for the straight flush. But those still aren’t great odds. On the other hand, getting a flush -- all five cards of the same suit -- is normally one in 509, but these days it’s pretty likely for you. The moral of the story, not just for when you’re playing cards, but in whatever you do: Expect really good luck, but not miraculous, out-of-this-world luck.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place,” wrote the poet Rumi. This is excellent advice for you right now, Cancerian. You are nearing the peak of your power to express yourself with beautiful accuracy. You have more skill than usual at understanding and conveying the interesting truth. As a result, you’re in a position to wield extra influence. People are receptive to being moved by your heart-felt intelligence. So please do more than simply push for greater efficiency, order, and discipline. Those things are good, but I hope you will also be a radiant role model who exemplifies what it means to be soulful.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Golden Rock is a Buddhist holy site in Burma. It’s a small pagoda built on top of a giant boulder that in turn seems to be precariously balanced at the edge of a down-sloping bed of rock. How does the boulder remain stationary? Why doesn’t it roll off the edge? It appears to defy gravity. Legend says that it’s held in place by a single strand of hair from the Buddha’s head. I suspect that many of you Leos will soon have access to a tricky asset with resemblances to that magic strand. True, it might be merely metaphorical. But if used correctly, it could become a key element in a future foundation.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s Soul-Searching Season: a good time to go in search of your soul. To aid your quest, I’ll offer a few lines from “A Few Words on the Soul,” a poem by Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska.

“We have a soul at times,” she says. “No one’s got it non-stop, for keeps. Day after day, year after year may pass without it. For every thousand conversations, it participates in one, if even that, since it prefers silence. It’s picky: our hustling for a dubious advantage and creaky machinations make it sick. Joy and sorrow aren’t two different feelings for it. It attends us only when the two are joined. We can count on it when we’re sure of nothing and curious about everything. It won’t say where it comes from or when it’s taking off again, though it’s

clearly expecting such questions. We need it but apparently it needs us for some reason too.” (Translation by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh. Read the whole poem here: http://tinyurl.com/SearchSoul.)

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I do not believe in God,” said Mexican painter Diego Rivera, “but I believe in Picasso.” My poet-musician friend Tanya has a similar philosophy. “I don’t believe in God, or even Goddess, for that matter,” she says. “But I do believe in Patti Smith.” Do you have a God-substitute, Libra? Or, if you do have faith in a Cosmic Wow, is there also a more approachable, second-tier source of divinity you love? According to my reading of the astrological omens, you would really benefit from feeling an intimate kind of reverence right now -- a tender devotion for something higher and brighter that awakens the sleeping part of your lust for life.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This would be an excellent time to stage staring contests with yourself in the mirror. There’s a high likelihood that you will win every time. I think you’ll also have great success whenever you try to read your own mind. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you’ve got an uncanny knack for plucking buried secrets and self-deceptions out of their hiding places. One more thing, Scorpio: Have you ever considered how fun it might be to wash your own brain and kick your own butt? Now would be an excellent time to experiment with those radical acts of healing.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness,” writes novelist Chuck Palahniuk. “We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.” Your assignment in the coming days, Sagittarius, is to prove Palahniuk wrong. As the surges of sweetness flow through you, as your secret joy ripens into bright blooming bliss, imprint the sensations on your memory. Vow to remember them for the rest of your life. Make these breakthrough moments into talismans that will serve as magical spells whenever you need rejuvenation in the future.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein had his priorities straight. This is what he said about his profession: “In philosophy the race is won by the one who can run slowest -- the one who crosses the finish line last.” It’s my belief, Capricorn, that a similar rule should apply to you in the coming days -- no matter what project you’re working on or goal you’re trying to accomplish. Proceed slowly enough to be absolutely thorough, meticulous, and conscientious. As you make your way to the finish line, be as deep as you dare.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In Samuel Beckett’s novel Molloy, the main character talks about a long overland journey he took on foot and by bicycle.

Before the trip, he had read somewhere that when people are lost in a forest, they often imagine they’re moving in a straight line when in fact they’re going in a circle. That’s why, during his own travels, he intentionally walked in a circle, hoping thereby to go straight.

Although this might sound like a loopy strategy, Aquarius, I think it will make sense for you to adopt in the coming week. Your apparent path may be very different, maybe even opposite, to your actual path.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Are you in competition with someone who is doing mediocre work? Do you find it incomprehensible that anyone would pay attention to that weak expression instead of flocking to your beautiful vibe? If so, here’s my advice. Withdraw your attention from your inferior opponent. Don’t waste a minute feeling jealous or resentful or incredulous.

Instead, concentrate your energy on making your production so strong and smart and irresistible that you simply overshadow and overwhelm your rival’s.

HOMEWORK: I’m guessing that many of you will soon be discovering secrets about where you came from.

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