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hen Indiana lawmakers voted this spring to reduce the corporate income tax rate, they were joining hundreds of other legislators in jeopardy. And, ironically, business across the nation considering tax cuts. leaders — the ones who are making But history shows these tax cut the decisions about where to locate — splurges can cause problems for states care a lot about government services. when their economies go south — leavCorporate execs don’t want to locate ing tough decisions about increasing to areas without good schools, medical revenue or reducing services. care and cultural amenities.

At least 30 state legislatures have In fact, it’s big business that is clamconsidered or are still considering tax oring for better mass transit in Central bills this year — and most of them Indiana. It’s the Indiana Chamber of would reduce revenue, according to Commerce fighting for pre-kindergarten Stateline.org, a nonprofit website that tracks state policy. Only a few states are programs that could eventually cost the state some $250 million annually. considering tax hikes.

Business leaders are looking for a proThe moves are the product, in part, gressive approach to building culturally of an improving economy that has conscious communities that keep young reduced unemployment and bolstered state revenues — at least over the past few years (though Indiana’s actual Reduced revenue puts funding for revenues continue to trail the current biengovernment services in jeopardy. nial budget projections by $71 million). State revenues have grown college grads from escaping to the coasts. for 16 straight quarters through the end Indiana’s past cutting sprees left it vulof 2013, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. But these tax cuts are also about nerable. When former Democratic Gov. Evan Bayh left office in 1997, the state competition: The states are engaged in continuous ware to offer in the cheapest boasted a huge budget surplus, but lawmakers frittered much of it away with a business environment. series of tax cuts meant to give some kind The goal is to bolster tax revenue by of reduction to almost everyone in the increasing the number of taxpayers. A broader, more diverse tax base is a stabi- state. They realized later that the benefits were spread so widely that no one person lizing factor during a recession. But the race to lure business development is just noticed that big of a break. And when the next recession came along, the state was that — a race. No state is standing still. unprepared to weather it without cuts to Gov. Mike Pence boasted that when Indiana’s new tax cut is fully implement- schools and state services.

The situation was so serious in 2005 that ed, the state will have the second lowest when then-Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels corporate rate in the nation. But there’s took office, he proposed a temporary tax little chance that will actually be true. increase — one that lawmakers rejected.

Already this spring, New York lawmakEventually, Daniels and lawmakers ers have approved a corporate tax cut brought the state’s finances under control – although its rate will not fall as far as — just in time for another recession, the Indiana’s. Wisconsin has passed corpolargest since the Great Depression. rate tax reforms and other states are conAs we move further from that finansidering whether to make changes as well. cial debacle and lawmakers reignite tax Another problem arises with tax cutcut fever, they should consider history ting approaches: Reduced revenue before they get carried away. n puts funding for government services 4 VOICES // 04.16.14 - 04.23.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO

WHAT HAPPENED? Pacers win against OKC and with the city The Indiana Pacers needed a good week — and so far this one is shaping up nicely. The team defused the Oklahoma Thunder 102-97 on Sunday, leaving Indiana at the top of the NBA’s Eastern Conference after the Miami Heat’s loss to the Washington Wizards.

Then, on Monday, Indy’s Capital Improvement Board announced a 10-year deal that will keep the Pacers at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Over the course of the deal the CIB will spend up $160 million on improvements and upkeep at the Fieldhouse in exchange for the Pacers’ agreement to stay. The team is allowed to keep all revenue it earns.

The CIB released a financial analysis that estimated the annual economic impact of the Fieldhouse and the Pacers franchise at about $208 million, supporting more than 2,000 jobs.

The first for Eleven More than 11,000 fans electrified Michael Carroll Stadium on Saturday with horns, drums and chants as the Indy Eleven took to the field for the team’s season opener against the Carolina Rail Hawks.

The Eleven earned the first North American Soccer League goal to be scored on their home turf when former Indiana University player Mike Ambersley (and brand new father) received a dish from another I.U. alum, A.J. Corrado 43 minutes into the match. The Rail Hawks (which had NASL’s best overall 2013 record) equalized 5 minutes into the second half. And, despite several promising attacks from both squads, the score remained 1-1 at the end of regulation. The Eleven received high marks on its inaugural game from Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard and “an A+” from NASL Commissioner Bill Peterson, who visited Indy for the occasion. The next home game is 7:30 p.m., Saturday, April 19.

Punches, cuts and stolen bases The week’s sports offerings are not just limited to soccer. Louisville will be visiting the Indianapolis Indians April 19-21, with games at 7:05 p.m. on Saturday and Monday, and 1:35 p.m. Sunday. The Indy AlleyCats professional ultimate disc team will take on the Chicago Wildfire at 7:30 p.m. April 19 at Kuntz Stadium. And, for fans of pugilism, the Indiana Golden Gloves titles fights, the culmination of a five-week tournament series will be begin at 7:30 p.m.

April 17 Downtown at Tyndall Armory. And, of course, basketball playoffs are about to start.

“The Pacers need to crank up their dominant defense to 11, figure out a way to get something offensively from Roy Hibbert and George Hill, and recapture the mojo that made them unstoppable in November and December,” observes the Miller Time Podcast’s Flava Dave (who, like Ambersley, welcomed a new baby boy into the world this month).

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n 40 years of criminal defense work in Indiana, attorney Steve Dillon has seen much hypocrisy, ineffective policy and injustice in the Indiana legal system.

The founding member of Indiana’s National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws chapter and a longtime Libertarian politician, Dillon plans to retire from active practice this summer — right around the start date for the most massive reform of the state’s criminal code in a generation, a complete restructuring of felony classifications and sentencing guidelines set to take effect on July 1.

A pending question remains unanswered as Dillon turns toward the next chapter of his life: Will he live to see Indiana voters stand up for what the majority of them say they believe in poll after poll — that marijuana should be decriminalized in Indiana?

If a strong wave of public pro-pot sentiment can be harnessed in the next gubernatorial race, perhaps the former Purdue University varsity debate team member will capture voter interest in the 2016 Indiana governor’s race — if he declares candidacy, a move he has not ruled out.

“Steve has been a great friend and mentor to me since our initial meeting ... often after giving an inside tip on a case (which could only be known from his many years of practice),” wrote attorney Bill Martin in a recent email informing NUVO that 2014 marked Indiana NORML’s 40th anniversary.

“Steve is quick to say, “I bet they didn’t teach you that in law school.’ They never did, of course.

“While the idea of legalization is very popular now, it hasn’t always been; and I am sure there were plenty of times where INORML could have faded away.

Steve never allowed it to.”

At an April 11 interview at his office, a house at 36th and Pennsylvania christened La Casa, which is also home to Indiana NORML, Dillon reflected on his legacy, which includes — in addition to the founding of IN NORML — five successful lawsuits against policies that impinged on

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Steve Dillon, one of the founding members of Indiana NORML, with his associate Bill Martin (right) at their “La Casa” office at 36th and Pennsylvania. 2014 marks the 40th anniversary of the INORML chapter, as well as Dillon’s 40th year as a practicing attorney. He will retire from active practice this year, but has not ruled out a 2016 gubernatorial run on the Libertarian ticket.

Hoosier’s constitutional rights.

“I’m proud of what I’ve done … It’s about freedom and the right to choose,” Dillon said. “Indiana’s penal code shall be founded on the principals of reformation and not vindictive justice. Reformation is what our constitution offers: Where is the compassion? Where is the reformation?

If you’re going to divert, you’re going to have to fund treatment… “

Twisted punishment The original purpose of structuring the criminal code, said Dillon — who chairs the criminal justice section of the Indiana State Bar Association — was to reduce prison populations — and the need to build a new prison for $200 million or more — by diverting lower-level, non-violent offenders into community treatment programs devised to address the root problems of addiction, mental illness and other social trauma.

“I was in the Legislature two years ago and they spent all day talking about drug problems in Indiana,” Dillon said.

“It was amazing: They didn’t mention marijuana all day long. What they talked about was methamphetamine, precursors for methamphetamine, meth labs, the new heroin epidemic, people dying

like crazy on prescription drug overdoses — oxycontins, oxycodone … These were the drug problems in Indiana.

“We’ve heard evidence that we spend $150 million a year arresting 13,000 young people for little bits of pot. At the end of the day, I’m not sure the penal code is really going to address those [budgetary and reform] issues as well as it could have … During the political process they’ve reduced the jail time credit for the high-end offenses; they’ve raised penalties for some of the highend offenses. People are still going to prison for marijuana. They say a lot of the low-level offenses can be diverted to community programs. But … to not send the people for low-level drug possession offenses to prison, they have to have money in the communities to fund treatment programs and most counties don’t have it — and there’s nothing in this penal code to make them do it.”

Dillon said he heard expert testimony at the Indiana General Assembly this year that the criminal code changes would result in 1,000 more people in prison instead of a reduced prison population — and there is not enough fundS E E , D I L L O N , O N P A G E 08

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GET INVOLVED Discovering Brazil through Hip-Hop D.J. Kyle Long hosts an exploration of Brazilian life and culture through the art of hip-hop as a part of the Central Library’s Celebra Brasil. Other related offerings this week include a bi-lingual story time at 2 p.m. April 19 at the Nora Branch and Brazilian dance lessons at 2 p.m. April 19 at the Eagle Creek Branch.

April 19, 2 p.m., Lawrence Branch; April 22, 3:30 p.m., Pike Branch; April 26, 2 p.m., Fountain Square Branch; May 3, Learning Curve @ Central Library, 2 p.m.

Cash available for Creative Placemaking A mixture of national and local speakers is set to discuss concepts of creative placemaking with the goal of boosting Reconnecting to Our Waterways projects around the city; funding is available for a limited number of projects. Registration is free rowworkshop.eventbrite. com and includes lunch and parking. For more details on the workshop visit ourwaterways.org. Organizers also noted that the creative placemaking workshop can also serve as inspiration/orientation for people who want to enter Big Car Collaborative’s next 5x5 competition.

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DILLON , FROM PAGE 06 ing and it’s not ready to go in effect.

“That’s the opposite of what the first goal was when it started,” Dillon said. “I heard person after person [testify], ‘This is not going to work.’ It was ignored.”

He added that 80 percent of the prison population has mental issues or drug problems and those who seek treatment face waiting lists if any help is available at all. Too often, prisoners with significant issues are isolated in solitary confinement for inhumane lengths of time, a practice recently highlighted in an Indiana Supreme Court case in which the Department of Corrections was ordered to work with the ACLU and other stakeholders to devise a solution.

No word yet on this groups’ progress.

It doesn’t take an MBA to see the opportunity In an agricultural state that’s supposedly honors a pro-business, small government tradition, Dillon sees a disconnect between the business opportunities associated with the decriminalization of marijuana and the rhetoric espoused in the political arena.

“Business is going strong in Colorado and Washington where they’ve legalized marijuana and it’s actually being taxed and regulated,” he said. “Those states report making millions of dollars in sales taxes from taking a different approach to the prohibition of marijuana. They’re saving hundreds of millions in law enforcement money not busting people for a small amount of pot.”

The U.S. arrested more than 800,000 people arrested last year for marijuana possession — 90 percent of those had less than an ounce marijuana, he said “In Indiana we spend about $150 million a year … arresting about 13,000 young people and minority people in Indiana.”

Entrenched ignorance Ignoring the evidence that criminalizing marijuana squanders tight resources is a trait Dillon and his NORML cohorts can trace in the country’s political leaders since at least the ‘70s.

Paul Armento, a senior policy analyst for NORML, highlighted the following passage of the Shafer Commission’s March 22, 1972 report to President Richard Nixon that: “The actual and potential harm of use of the drug is not great enough to justify intrusion by the criminal law into private behavior, a step which our society takes only with the greatest reluctance.

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“We can always use volunteers... but unfortunately the reality of it is we need more financial contributions,” Bill Martin, vice chair of Indiana NORML, emailed NUVO. “Nobody with INORML gets paid but trying to change law can be an expensive endeavor — even when you have the majority of the people agreeing with you. More money would allow us to bring in experts to testify in front of our lawmakers, pay for reliable polling, as well as put on more events such as our annual booth at the State Fair.” “… Therefore, the Commission recommends ... [that the] possession of marijuana for personal use no longer be an offense, [and that the] casual distribution of small amounts of marihuana for no remuneration, or insignificant remuneration, no longer be an offense.”

Nixon forsook the commission’s recommendations in favor of a war on drugs policy that persists to this day. NORML has been fighting the federal policy of scheduling marijuana as a schedule one narcotic — on the same level as heroin, cocaine and LSD — since the ‘70s. When an administrative law judge with the Drug Enforcement Agency agreed in 1988 that marijuana was misclassified, leadership declined to take action, as it has to this day. During a Congressional hearing on Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder said the DOJ will not reschedule marijuana which would in turn scale back punishments. Holder instead deferred to Congress to take action.

When NORML first started in Indiana, it was a two to 10 year sentence for possession of under 25 grams of marijuana, for a first offense.

“You could get sent to prison for 10 years for having a joint in Indiana when NORML started in Indiana back in 1974,” Dillon said, noting that in some cases the penalties doubled to 10-40 years.

Under the penal code reform of 1976, Indiana reduced the penalties and did away with the indeterminate sentences, but people still faced up to eight years in prison and with enhanced penalty

zones, in some situations people face up to 20 years in prison for marijuana.

The new penal code will reduce marijuana possession penalties for 30 grams or less to a B misdemeanor level — six months instead of a year. Plus, six months off the top end of the high level of possession of marijuana. But beyond that, marijuana is still pretty much criminalized in Indiana.

“They did pass a bill to legalize hemp production Indiana, so once it’s approved by the feds government … It’s still got that big approval problem, but at least there’s some momentum to get that,” Dillon said.

Racial disparities persist NORML and other pot proponents have long argued that prohibition of marijuana started as a racist policy — and continues as such.

“The national NAACP has taken a strong approach recently to point out the racial disparity of arrests,” Dillon said, noting that a recent report from the ACLU that found blacks are four times more likely to be arrested for possession of a marijuana than whites. “Some places are extremely racially biased, where it can go up to seven times more likely.”

Dillon is currently working with the NAACP in Monroe County to propose the City of Bloomington adopt the lowest priority of enforcement for marijuana possession and paraphernalia.

Indiana Governor Steve Dillon?

In a display box in Dillon’s office are buttons he’s collected running for nine various offices — including mayor, prosecutor and, in 1996, governor against Steve Goldsmith and Frank O’Bannon.

In fact, he marshaled the effort to collect the more than 50,000 signatures to lock in a space on the ballot for the Libertarian Party, a feat no other minority party has accomplished.

Dillon “should be proud of what he did for the party. It was huge,” Andrew Horning said in an email exchange.

Horning is currently running as a Libertarian for the congressional seat currently occupied by a Republican incumbent, U.S. Rep. Larry Bucshon.

“The Green and Constitution parties would surely love to have ballot access ... it’d immeasurably improve their reach, significance, and odds of survival.”

Dillon hinted that his display case may not be quite full — that perhaps there is room to chronicle one more race — a big one that would offer a statewide platform for debate. Maybe, after he stops taking criminal cases, he can devote more time to engaging Indiana’s electorate. n

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Mrs. K lives in a fairly upscale neighborhood in the suburbs outside of Indy. She’s a mom.

She has a professional career. She was recently widowed.

She could also be considered a criminal in the state of Indiana.

Over the course of the past few years, Mrs. K has been complicit in regular purchases of marijuana, making some buys that might’ve been large enough to constitute a felony under Indiana law.

“Mrs. K” is a pseudonym. Some of the details of her story will remain intentionally vague. “This widow doesn’t look good in orange,” she says with a grin.

A while back, her husband, “Mr. K”, was diagnosed with cancer, and an extremely rare form at that.

“One in a million,” explains Mrs. K. Facing aggressive chemotherapy and an invader that attacked his digestive tract, a cancer so exotic that little research had been done in the area of symptom relief, Mr. K’s oncologist told his patient that if weed was legal in the state of Indiana, the doc would’ve prescribed medicinal marijuana to help Mr. K continue to eat as he fought the disease.

According to Mrs. K, “He told us, ‘Don’t tell me how, but if you can get it, try it and see if it works.’ “ Mr. K was a professional, white-collar gent who enjoyed fine wine. He had a military background. He coached youth sports. His coaching style mirrored his parenting technique. Tough, but fair. Follow the rules.

After the second round of chemo, the Ks began buying pot for Mr. K. A friend of a friend of a friend helped them out after hearing what Mr. K was going through.

“It was very apparent to me as a caretaker that it had a calming effect,” says Mrs. K. “Chemo can make you violently ill, and we saw none of that.”

There are studies that back up Mrs. K’s observations. Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base, a National Academy of Science publication by Janet E. Joy, Stanley J. Watson, Jr., and John A. Benson, Jr., concluded that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) could be helpful for reducing chemo-induced “emesis,” the medical term for vomiting: “It is possible that the harmful effects of smoking marijuana for a limited period of time might be outweighed by the antiemetic benefits of marijuana, at least for patients for whom standard antiemetic therapy is ineffective and who suffer from debilitating emesis.”

There were kids in the house.

Teenagers. Was Mrs. K worried?

“Yes! I was,” says Mrs. K. “But Mr. K was very discreet.”

Eventually though, the Ks let their kids — and only their kids — in on Dad’s secret.

“He named each one of his pipes,” laughs Mrs. K. “We had Cartman, we had Holmes, we had Tom … they all had names.”

Mrs. K was well aware of the risks.

Possessing over 30 grams of pot — just over an ounce — is a felony in Indiana, which can bring a fine of $10,000 and three years in jail. The maximum sentence for the misdemeanor of holding less is still a whopping five grand and a year in lockup. Paraphernalia possession carries no jail time (it’s an “infraction”) but the fines still max out at the $10,000 level.

Indiana has some of the harshest pot laws in the nation. By comparison, one needs to be holding over eight ounces of weed to be considered a felon in Kentucky, and the maximum $250 fine is just 5 percent of the top end penalty in Indiana.

The maximum jail sentence for misdemeanor possession in Kentucky is only 45 days.

Despite the risk, Mrs. K wanted to make sure her husband could enjoy the basic — and dignified — human function of taking nutrition by mouth.

Two surgeries and all of the treatments ultimately failed to beat the cancer. Last fall, it became apparent that there was nothing left that could be done for Mr. K — except to make the man as comfortable as possible. Weed continued to be a help.

“Once he quit chemo, because of the type of cancer that Mr. K had — it obstructed his abdominal vital organs — [the marijuana] really helped calm his stomach,” Mrs. K relates. “Up until the last week before he passed away,

Miriah Mershon and her son Jameson, who suffers from Dravet syndrome.

he would take a little hit. Not, y’know, a stoner hit, but enough to just put his body at ease.”

Eventually, Mr. K’s digestive system betrayed him, and nearly all of his nutritional needs could only be delivered with a bag and a needle. At the end of Mr. K’s life, taking a little weed prior to the simple comfort of ingesting a sip of water by mouth was the only option. “It wouldn’t immediately come back out,” Mrs. K explains.

Whatever Mrs. K’s feelings were on the subject of pot before her husband got sick, she’s now in favor of complete legalization across the board. “I’m a big proponent,” she says simply.

Dravet syndrome, CBD and the Merhson family Miriah Merhson and her husband have lived in Crawfordsville all their lives. Their two-year-old son Jameson suffers from Dravet syndrome. (It’s pronounced drah – VAY.) According to the Dravet Foundation website, “Dravet syndrome, also known as Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy of Infancy (SMEI), is a rare and catastrophic form of intractable epilepsy that begins in infancy.”

Dravet’s extremely resistant to a wide range of drugs. Kids with Dravet can suffer epileptic episodes of such length and frequency that every aspect of their development can be affected.

The syndrome can result in progressive dementia.

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began to have “myoclonic jerks”, a sudden lifting of the arms as if the child had received an electric shock. “We first blew that off as a normal reaction,” says Mershon. “It’s a reflex in newborns called the ‘startle reflex’, where they feel like they’re falling, so they throw their arms out.”

Other varieties of seizures soon began to appear. Jameson’s hands would shake violently. At five months old, the Mershon’s son had his first grand mal seizure.

Miriah relays this information from Jameson’s hospital room. An ear infection had given her boy a fever, and elevated body temps can trigger seizures.

“He had a seizure last night that lasted an hour,” she says. “We weren’t able to stop it, so we called the ambulance to take him to the hospital.”

Jameson’s physicians initially prescribed some incredibly powerful drugs to try and stave off the seizures.

“Jameson was taking phenobarbital,” says Miriah. “It made him very zombie-like. He was very tired. He wasn’t focused on anything.”

Jameson is now on a cocktail of four different anti-seizure medications. “He takes Kepra, Topamax, Valproic acid and a new one called Onfi.”

The new medications are somewhat better, but, “They do make him drowsy and off balance. They can inhibit his appetite, and Dravet kids can suffer an inability to absorb nutrients. A lot of children with Dravet syndrome are very thin.

They have a hard time gaining weight, and the medications don’t help that.”

Miriah’s aware that alternative treatments exist. She knows all about a strain of cannabis called “Charlotte’s Web.” It’s a plant named after a Dravet syndrome sufferer in Colorado, a girl named Charlotte Figi.

Charlotte’s Web is high in cannabidiol, or CBD, and low in THC. THC gives a user a range of psychoactive experiences, from euphoria to paranoia. CBD has been proven to help counteract the effects of THC. Too high? Too freaked out? Strains with greater CBD levels have a mellowing effect.

CBD is also the chemical in cannabis that’s effective in the treatment of seizures. According to reporting by CNN, after Charlotte Figi began ingesting an oil extracted from the plant, her seizures dropped from 300 per week to two to three a month.

Additionally, the CBD oil has virtually no detectable side effects. Charlotte doesn’t get stoned when she ingests the stuff.

Miriah wants the options that the Figis have.

“Any alternative treatment that would allow us to decrease or eliminate some of these pharmaceuticals that have these side effects would be amazing.”

Miriah understands that there’s a risk: there haven’t been any lengthy clinical trials regarding these treatments.

“I know there’s been a lot of attention on ‘We don’t know what the long-term side affects are’, but the response to that when you have a child who has such a catastrophic disorder as mine is ‘What’s the side effect of NOT trying something?’

“It’s death.”

Miriah pauses; takes a breath. “I have this amazingly perfect little boy. He’s so strong. He deserves every opportunity that we can give him.”

Had the Mershons ever discussed moving to, say, Colorado? Someplace where medicinal weed is legal?

“We have. But as of right now, we’re just like every other family that’s debated about that. We have relatives here. Our whole lives are here. My husband and I live in the exact same town where we grew up.”

The Mershons both have jobs here in Indiana, good jobs. “If it became necessary that I quit my job and stay home with Jameson, then [a move] might be something that we look into a little further.”

0.03 is the magic number There’s another kind of low-THC cannabis, and it’s a potential goldmine for the state: hemp.

During the 2014 session, the Indiana State Legislature passed a bill allowing the growth of industrial hemp and that bill was signed by Governor Mike Pence on March 26. According to the new law, hemp is defined as a cannabis plant SEE, WEED, ON PAGE 12

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Jamie Campbell of the Indiana Hemp Industries Association — and some of the hemp-based products that might soon be “Made in Indiana.”

WEED , FROM PAGE 11 with a content of THC that’s less than .03 percent by dry weight.

That’s vastly different from the strains that get you wasted. According to information provided by Capt. Dave Bursten of the Indiana State Police, the amount of THC found in the modern recreational stuff can blow past 15 percent. “By contrast, the THC content of marijuana [in] the 1960’s was in the 3 percent range; so we’re not talking about your grandpa’s marijuana,” says Bursten.

One of hemp’s biggest proponents is Jamie Campbell, a founder and Director of the Indiana Hemp Industries Association.

Campbell’s been in the ag business all her life, and when she saw family farms that had been devastated by drought, she began to listen to the folks that claimed hemp was another viable — and hardy — plant that could thrive as a cover crop or as part of a rotation. (Campbell knows that more research is needed, but there’s some indication that hemp growth is especially beneficial as part of a rotation in fields that also yield soybeans.)

The more Campbell learned, the more she became convinced that classifying hemp farming as a felony meant a missed economic opportunity for the state. “I’m not a left-wing tree hugger,”

she says, “… but we have this plant that has 25,000 uses.”

Campbell brought examples of some of those uses to the Indiana State Legislature as that body was considering the legalization of industrial hemp.

“When I testified before the Senate and the House, I walked in with a big box and everything that I put down, I [told them], ‘Look, I bought this from Meijer, I bought this from Wal-Mart’ and every daggone thing said ‘Made in China’ or ‘Product of Canada’ … [the legislators] that weren’t on board were like, ‘Oh, you mean we’re already buying this stuff here?’ Yes. We’re just not allowed to grow it.”

So what kind of stuff did she show the lawmakers?

“You’ve got two parts to the plant: there’s the seed and there’s the straw,” says Campbell. She outlines the various uses of the plant with an evangelist’s zeal.

“The seed breaks down into oil. I use hemp oil to cook with. I have a lotion … that you can buy in most tanning salons. It’s got a marijuana leaf on [the label]. … Oil can be used in paint.

When I was in Tennessee … [I saw] a deck stain made of the stuff.”

Campbell tells me the oil can be transformed into biofuels and lubricants. It’s edible, she says, loaded with omega oils and proteins. There are lots of recipes, and “hemp seed is great on a salad,” according to Campbell.

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“The other component is straw — you break the straw down into … the fiber and the hurd.” The fiber’s used in everything from paper, rope and twine to door panels in cars.

“The hurd is what they would use for, say, animal bedding … it’s also what they use to make Hempcrete,” a building product. “Stucco, plaster, insulation — you know how when you were a kid, you didn’t want to touch insulation? It was fiberglass, you would itch — this is completely natural and it breathes.”

Campbell wants to partner with one of Indiana’s universities to experiment with the stuff. Purdue seems to be the logical choice for hemp research.

The state’s being careful about what gets planted. The hemp seeds that Indiana imports (to ensure quality, Campbell hopes we’re bringing them in from Canada as opposed to China), a “seed commissioner” will have to sign off on whatever gets put into the ground.

Campbell’s understanding of the process aligns with this nugget from Indiana NORML: “Under the recently passed federal Farm Bill, Public Law 113-79 permits the 10 states in which Hemp was legal to grow at the time of passage to grow Hemp without federal interference. Since Indiana had not yet passed Hemp into law, it will be up to [Indiana Seed Commissioner Dr. Robert] Waltz to square things up with the feds.”

Legalizing low-THC strains of cannabis is a shift from the philosophy that lumped hemp and pot in the same category as “dangerous narcotics.”

The prohibitive American drug policy toward marijuana that was spawned in the 1930s Reefer Madness era and ran through the modern “War on Drugs” classified any and all cannabis as a “gateway drug” or a “stepping stone;” a demon weed whose ingestion led the user inexorably to heroin addiction as the smoker needed more powerful chemicals to elicit a buzz.

Legalizing hemp will most likely help the Hoosier state’s agribusiness economy, but low-THC strains of cannabis won’t be beneficial for cancer patients like the late Mr. K. And legalized hemp won’t help Jameson Merhson, either.

The breeding of high-CBD/low-THC cannabis requires genetic manipulation that starts with what Indiana — and the federal government — still classifies as a narcotic as destructive as heroin or cocaine — the strain called pot.

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WEED , FROM PAGE 12 threshold of .03% remain negative despite recent polling data that showed a thin majority of Hoosiers favored legalization — with nearly 80 percent of the state’s citizens favoring the taxation of pot in much the same way cigarettes are taxed. (The numbers came from a 2013 poll conducted by the Bowen Center for Public Affairs at Ball State University in conjunction with WISH-TV.) Pence still refers to pot as a “gateway drug.” The governor’s also pushed for lowering the felony threshold to one-third of an ounce — and backed new sentencing laws that now require felons to serve 75 percent of their time. (Critics of the state’s new sentencing guidelines — and a general “get tough on crime” attitude — have been quick to note that the companies behind the privatization of the Hoosier prison system will benefit financially.)

Medical science lines up with the governor’s concerns when it comes to adolescent use of pot, though. Dr. J. Michael Bostwick, writing for the Mayo Clinic, notes that “During puberty, a period characterized by significant cerebral reorganization, particularly of the frontal lobes implicated in behavior, the brain is especially vulnerable to adverse effects from exogenous (externally introduced) cannabinoids.”

Pot is sometimes viewed as a “reverse gateway” for teens — users were eight times more likely to use tobacco. Yet, according to a National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) teens will use booze before they ever try tobacco, pot or dangerous hard drugs. Compared to the addictive qualities of tobacco and alcohol,

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marijuana has less potential for abuse. On the down side, there’s a scientific term for the classic, stereotypical stoner behavior made famous by countless Hollywood portrayals (and Tommy Chong’s entire body of work): “amotivational syndrome.”

Researchers at Imperial College London, University College London and King’s College London discovered that externally introduced cannabinoids were so effective at replacing the same chemicals that the brain naturally produces to give folks the self-satisfaction of completing a task that motivation to do anything — from a term paper to the laundry — dropped off significantly. This was especially true for smokers who used a lot of weed and those who started young, while their brains were still developing.

(The study was released in July of 2013.)

Proponents of legalization counter that no one’s in favor of an army of 13-year-olds firing up bongs; regulating a legal product would include the same kind of age restrictions the state places on alcohol and cigarettes.

Sen. Karen Tallian, D-Portage, introduced a bill four years ago, a bill simply asking the legislature to take a look at reducing some of Indiana’s draconian possession statutes. She knew she had to begin the conversation slowly.

“I started off with a study because frankly everybody was afraid for me to stick my neck out too far,” says Tallian.

“Nobody was more surprised than I when it passed. I nearly fell off my chair.”

Tallian’s committee spent one summer afternoon hearing testimony. “I had people on the committee sort of shaking their heads and saying ‘Yeah, maybe we need to do something about these penalties.’

“And this was even from some of the more conservative Republican[s].”

Emboldened by the initial reception, Tallian — who practices law when she’s not serving in the Senate — upped the ante the following year.

“The next year I started off with a bill that … decriminalized small amounts for possession, which meant no jail time — infraction only, like a traffic ticket.

There was a provision in there to allow for the growing of industrial hemp. It wasn’t a medical marijuana bill, but it said that if you had a note from the doctor — a medical reason why you needed [marijuana] — that would be a defense.

“There was also something in there about research; allowing universities or any of our pharmaceutical companies to do research on cannabis because they hadn’t been allowed to. Most of the research that had been done had been done in Europe, because most states didn’t even allow educational institutions to do research.

“I filed a similar bill three years in a row now. One year I got a hearing. When Brent Steele (R-Bedford) chaired the committee I got a hearing.”

“As an attorney, I’ve spent countless time in court watching one kid after another plead and I think, ‘What a waste of time and energy.’ ” SEN. KAREN TALIAN, D-PORTAGE ON SEEING LOW-DOSE RECREATIONAL USERS BEING PROCESSED BY THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM.

The year that her bill received a hearing, Tallian took a head count; she didn’t have the support for passage. It was an election year, and the Senator feels that might’ve had an impact.

“Saving resources on enforcement and incarceration” isn’t a real convincing counter to accusations that a candidate’s “soft on crime.”

Tallian let the bill die without coming to the floor for a vote. The logic: No vote at all wouldn’t have the same chilling effect as an outright rejection. She continues to introduce similar bills, though. When asked why, she responds with an anecdote: “I had a young girl who called me in tears at my law office one day. She told me that when she was 18 she’d been busted at your basic graduation party with some tiny amount of marijuana.

She did her community service, paid her fine, did her substance abuse evaluation … she even did probation for a year.

“She went on to college, she finished four years and she was being sent off to do her student teaching at a local school when the superintendent called her in and waved her criminal history at the girl.

Tallian’s voice drips with sarcasm as she utters the phrase “criminal history.” “[The superintendent] said ‘Not in my school. You’re not teaching in my school. And by the way, find yourself a new career.’ ” Tallian’s weary of seeing low-dose recreational users being processed by the judicial system. “As an attorney, I’ve spent countless time in court watching one kid after another plead and I think, ‘What a waste of time and energy.’”

But what about the potential social cost; the possibility that a more liberal attitude toward weed will simply give us more addicts? What about the Governor’s contention that marijuana really is a “gateway drug,” even for adults whose frontal lobes are fully formed?

“I wonder if the governor drinks alcohol,” says Tallian curtly. “There’s no research that shows that marijuana is any

more addictive than alcohol. In fact, it’s probably less so. I consider marijuana on a par with alcohol. Even during Prohibition it wasn’t illegal to possess alcohol.”

So is the Senator in favor of acrossthe-board legalization? It’s one thing to plant your flag in the pro-hemp, pro-medicinal marijuana hill; to fight for the rights of those battling terrible afflictions like Jameson Mershon or Mr. K. It’s quite another stance to cast your lot with Hoosiers smoking weed merely for the fun of it.

Tallian returns to comparing marijuana with booze. It’s a consistent refrain.

“I don’t think we have any business prohibiting recreational marijuana,” she says. “With alcohol, we regulate it. We have standards. We have taxes. We have restrictions on who can buy it. We don’t allow people to drink and drive. Even though we may have people who misuse it, even though we may have people who become alcoholics. I’ve seen this personally, in my family — but it doesn’t mean that you should make it illegal and put people in jail. That’s just wrong.”

“Would I take that position? Probably.

But I’m not even close to that. I’m in Indiana.”

Governor Pence declined our requests for comment on this story.

The weed windfall Set aside the medicinal values of some strains of cannabis, forget the broad uses for industrial hemp, and you’re left with the economics of the legalization of recreational pot: there’s gold in them green plants.

Every stoner worth his weight in bud points to Colorado as the Promised Land: the state legalized everything, both medicinal and ultimately, recreational weed. Then they taxed it. Actual tax revenues for the state were estimated to come in at vastly lower levels S E E , W E E D , O N P A G E 16 NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 04.16.14 - 04.23.14 // COVER STORY 15

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WEED , FROM PAGE 15 than Colorado’s Governor had claimed (roughly half), but early indications put an annual draw at $57 million in bonus ganja revenue. (That’s according to the Colorado Legislative Council, the state’s non-partisan accountants.)

What might that be worth to Indiana?

Here’s a little hypothetical math on the very lowest end of the spectrum: We’ll use a bargain-basement price of $25 for an eighth of an ounce of pot.

Indiana troopers seized 2,464 pounds of processed marijuana when they busted local growers in 2013. (That number doesn’t include the “raw” plants they eradicated — 96,508.) Selling only the homegrown processed pot in the Hoosier state for a retail total of $7,884,800 and taxing it ONLY at the minimum Colorado “medicinal” tax rate of 2.9 percent would’ve brought in $228,659.20.

The Rocky Mountain state, however, laid on the sin tax thick as resin: in addition to a 15 percent excise tax paid during the transition from wholesale to retail, a special 10 percent sales tax was tacked on at the point of purchase.

That’d be a windfall for Indiana of well over a million bucks in reefer revenue if, again, we’re only counting the marijuana generated by local entrepreneurs.

Of course, the enforcement of anti-marijuana laws means resources are spent, not earned. One of the witnesses at Senator Tallian’s pot hearing was a professor from Shenandoah University in Virginia, Jon Gettman, PhD. The numbers he shared (from 2005, in this instance) from the “Bureau of Justice Statistics report[ed] that Criminal Justice expenditures for Indiana (Police, Courts, and Corrections) amounted to about $2.4 billion in 2005.

That year marijuana arrests accounted for 6.2 percents of all arrests, resulting in an estimated cost of $149 million.”

According to the Vera Institute of Justice, Indiana spent an average of $14,823 in fiscal 2010 per inmate; that’s only for incarceration.

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There’s a financial counter-argument, of course: an Alaskan panel estimated that the total cost of legalization for their state — including regulation, enforcement and pressures on the public health system — would cost taxpayers between $3.7 - $7 million. (By comparison, Alaska’s population is just over 735,000, Indiana’s over 6.5 million.) Opponents of the study called it a hastily-constructed attempt by the state government to lobby for more cash for specific departments.

Additionally, the report didn’t account for costs currently associated with the ganja that was already being smoked; its numbers seemed to assume that no one in the state was already using pot illicitly.

Tony Dokoupil, author of The Last Pirate — a memoir about his dad, one of the largest pot smugglers of the 1970s and ‘80s — also warned about another danger of across-the-board legalization in an April, 2014 interview with TIME magazine: “I certainly don’t think we should create a wide-open Coca-Cola-style free market for pot. That does strike me as a public health concern and for the very same reasons we already consider sugar, fat and salt to be a public health concern.

Very big businesses have a way of using people’s freedoms against them.”

Dokoupil insists he’s not a proponent of the “War on Drugs” in the way we know it. While he’s not a fan of what he calls a “third vice industry,” he understands the continued costs of prohibition — he might be dreaming, but he’d prefer a cottage industry that was legal but mostly out of sight.

Trading prohibition for a legal and regulated product would eliminate another problem: the ecological impact of “trespass grows.” Pot farmers working outside of the law wreak havoc on the environment. “To really get a lot of bud, you need to make sure the plants get a lot of sunlight and water … you clear forested slopes and put in irrigation systems and all of that can be pretty environmentally destructive,” says Josh Harkinson, who reports on all things weed-related for Mother Jones.

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*1 gram = 0.035274 ounces About two-thirds of Hoosier growers are trespass farmers. In 2013 the Indiana Domestic Cannabis Eradication and Suppression Program (a federal program that funnels resources from the Drug Enforcement Administration to organizations like the State Police) wiped out 670 grows, and 434 of those were on private agricultural or publicly owned land.

In Indiana in 2013, 395 people were busted for illegal grows. Growers trading in an unregulated crop feel the need to protect their plants, too – those arrests were accompanied by the seizure of 404 weapons. (There is some cost offset, here, though: The ISP also seized nearly $3 million in other assets from growers, including everything from cash to homes to boats.)

It’s our neighbors to the immediate south that are seeing the biggest illicit farming operations. While Indiana’s marijuana crop ranks third behind corn and soybeans as a cash generator, pot is the number one agricultural moneymaker in Kentucky and Tennessee, with a take somewhere between $4 million and $5 million for both states apiece.

Why Kentucky or the Volunteer State?

It’s easy to hide up in the hollers. “It’s the same reason you had moonshine there during prohibition,” said Harkinson. “It’s remote and rugged and far away from the prying eyes of law enforcement.”

As far as the broader varieties of cannabis are concerned, there’s a generational history in bluegrass and bourbon country, too: in the 19th century, Kentucky grew more hemp than any other state in the nation.

Most of the recreational pot seized by the Indiana State Police comes from California, though, and not Hoosier cornfields. Colorado’s the second leading grower of the stuff Hoosier smokers use, followed by cannabis grown in Mexico and smuggled into border states via methods that are becoming more and more creative. Weed’s been brought in through underground tunnels or fired over the border using cannons that are similar in design to potato guns.

Harkinson spent time studying California’s Emerald Triangle, a threecounty spread where growers, in addition to deforesting the local landscape, have loaded their farms with pesticides and rat posion. “[The] poison is being transmitted to predator species like the fisher and the spotted owl.” There are reports of creeks and rivers being sucked dry for summer grows, too, and that’s a terrible development for NoCal’s salmon populations.

(Indoor grows are equally problematic:

by Harkinson’s math, the energy used to raise just four plants can power 26 refrigerators over the same time frame.)

Unlike Indiana, the state of California allows medical marijuana to be sold, but the recreational stuff is still prohibited.

If all weed was legal, Harkinson believes the illegal farms would dry up.

“I seriously doubt that the trespass grows would continue to exist if marijuana was legal,” said Harkinson. “Once it’s legal, it’s going to be an agricultural commodity just like anything else.

Farmers will grow it where it’s cheapest, and in California, that means the Central Valley. That said, the legalization of marijuana is not going to put an end to the trespass grows until [that legalization] happens on a national level.”

Despite the present Governor’s distaste for the Demon Weed, pot-watchers like Josh Harkinson believe that, much like same-sex marriage, public opinion will shift toward total legalization for all varieties of cannabis and its derivatives. It’s only a matter of time before everything’s above ground, from low-THC hemp for fabrics and medicines to high-octane hash oil designed for vaping stoners. There could be a bump in the road, natch: “The only confounding factor would be some highprofile disaster. All it takes is one stoned idiot, one high pilot, to do something really stupid, and people may start to question legalization.

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EVENTS Takacs Quartet An all-Bartok program by the Takacs Quartet, which has presented complete cycles of the six Bartok quartets around the country, will close out the Ensemble Music season Wednesday. Takacs will play three of the six in Indy: Nos. 2, 4 and 5.

Indiana History Center, April 16, 7:30 p.m., $40 general with student discounts, ensemblemusic.org Tanjerine From the guys who brought you Oranje comes Tanjerine, a fournight showcase for fashion, film, food and spirits at the Sanctuary on Penn. The April 19 main event will feature speciality cocktails, a test kitchen, video projections, interactive exhibits and DJs. It’s preceded by three nights of “Tangerine Presents” events, with April 16 featuring a craft cocktail competition and film screenings (including the 2013 doc Hey Bartender), April 17 given over to a tapping of a dozen craft beers and April 18 being a “fashion preview night.” Also of note: Shop Box, a shipping container (!) featuring work by local boutiques through all four nights, with boutiques rotating in and out of the store’s offerings each night.

The Sanctuary on Penn, April 16-19, times and prices vary, tanjerineindy.com One Slight Hitch Here’s what Lewis Black told us last year about his romantic comedy One Slight Hitch, written in 1983 while he worked as playwright-in-residence in Hell’s Kitchen — and well before his late-career resurgence as a comedian: “If my name weren’t on it, nobody would know I wrote the play, and it’s about a totally different thing than I talk about on stage. It’s a completely different part of my brain.

One is the act of an extrovert; the other the act of an introvert.” The play is set in 1981 on the morning of a wedding in Cincinnati between a caustic NYC writer and a dull Midwest Republican.

Theatre on the Square, April 18-May 10, times and prices vary, tots.org Toxic Burlesque The burlesque must go on — and while it may not be exactly sanctioned by the city, it is officially supported by Troma Entertainment, purveyor of such high-guilt entertainment as The Toxic Avenger and Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD. The night opens with the Indy premiere of locally produced grindhouse movie Time to Kill. And then come the ladies, performing Troma-inspired routines, plus, because it’s still Punk Rock Night, some bands: The Brothers Gross and Mr. Clit & The Pink Cigarettes.

Melody Inn, April 19, movie 7:30 p.m.; bands and burlesque 10 p.m., $10 for the night, punkrocknight.com

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’m so glad I didn’t get arrested tonight,” Katie Angel half-joked over the noise of the DJ at Kat’s Pub, the Camby bar where she’d just finished performing the night of April 11 with her burlesque troupe, Angel Burlesque.

It was like any other Angel Burlesque show — if on a smaller-scale than some of its big fundraising extravaganzas — except for a couple attendees.

The Indianapolis Department of Code Enforcement was on the scene to determine if Angel Burlesque’s act can be defined as adult entertainment.

It’s not an idle question: If it’s determined to be adult entertainment, then it can only be performed on a “regular” basis in adult entertainment businesses, such as strip clubs or adult bookstores, which are carefully regulated and required by law to be located more than 500 feet from any residences.

And such a definition could have a chilling effect on the fledging local burlesque scene by knocking troupes off of just about all the stages and venues where they have performed over the past decade — almost none of which are defined as adult entertainment businesses. Or it might not. Such is the vagueness and flexibility of the code and the laxness and inconsistency of its enforcement.

In any case, the can of worms has been opened. The answer, relayed Monday by the city to NUVO? Yes, Angel Burlesque can be defined as an adult act because it meets the requirement for “semi-nudity,” which the code defines as “a state of dress in which clothing covers no more than the genitals, pubic region and areola of the female breast, as well as portions of the body covered by supporting straps or devices.”

At issue is a letter the bar’s landlord received in late March from the city (as a neighborhood in Decatur Township, Camby is under the administrative authority of Indianapolis). It cites Kat’s Pub for two violations. One pertains to a window sign posted without the required permit. The other is the reason we’re writing this story.

It cites the landlord for violating Section 732-218 of the city code: “The establishment of an adult entertainment business shall be prohibited if the business is locat-

Angel Burlesque’s Ginger Peach performs at Kat’s Pub in Camby on April 11.

ed within 500 feet of a dwelling district.”

And so let’s head to the code: If burlesque is adult entertainment then it can’t be presented “regularly” — this term isn’t specifically defined — at any venue that isn’t classified as an adult entertainment business. And adult entertainment businesses cannot be located within 500 feet of a dwelling district unless they are granted a variance.

The letter to the landlord spells out the penalties: If Kat’s Pub were to present adult entertainment within 500 feet of anyone’s home on a “regular” basis, it would be subject to both administrative fees of $215 per scheduled visit by the city, and then lawsuits with fines up to $2,500 per violation, plus court costs.

But there are at least six burlesque troupes in town, you might say, and they’ve been performing across the city for roughly a decade, since the first neo-burlesque troupe, Bottoms Up Burlesque, hit the scene. Angel Burlesque says it has performed in nine venues since its founding in 2011. How have they gotten away with it?

It’s time for more fun with code enforcement. Here’s how not to get away with a burlesque show:

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1) Do a show in a part of the community that might be hostile — or rather, might be home to a single hostile person who will notify the city.

As Adam Baker, the Director of Communications for the Indianapolis Department of Code Enforcement puts it, “code enforcement is strictly a reactive agency,” and will only address a violation if “people tell us. That’s the way code enforcement is designed.” And so, as Baker reports, the department was alerted to the performance only when someone in a Camby neighborhood sent a letter to the department complaining about an ad for the performance she received in a Money Mailer. Baker emphasizes that the department “is not a Gestapo,” roaming the city looking for infringements. But it must respond to all complaints — and then assess the legitimacy of those complaints based on the letter of the code.

Angel says her troupe has drawn attention because of its ambition to reach new audiences. “We’re really trying to push into the mainstream,” she says. “We’re trying to reach a wider market beyond supportive family and friends.”

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2) Show a pretty lady in a state of seminudity in your advertisements.

Code enforcement issued its citation to the landlord of Kat’s Pub weeks before Angel Burlesque’s performance took place, based upon the titillating nature of the bar’s advertisement for the show. While the department says that “by definition, burlesque does not mean adult entertainment,” the confluence of burlesque and a less than fully clothed woman on a poster was enough evidence for the city to make its decision.

3) Try to do your show more than once in the same venue.

As Baker puts it, with respect to Angel Burlesque’s show at Kat’s Pub: “This could be a one-time performance; that’s another way that would not be considered an adult entertainment business.” So the solution for a burlesque troupe: One and done. Or maybe two. Maybe even monthly?

The trouble is that a business needs to present adult entertainment “regularly” to be defined as an adult entertainment business — and “regularly” is not defined by the code. Not that the code doesn’t get more specific: it does define exactly what “nudity” and “semi-nudity” entail (nudity includes “human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state even if completely and opaquely covered”).

But “regularly”? That’s up for debate.

And that ambiguity likely led to the cancellation of monthly, First Friday performances by Angel Burlesque at Deluxe at Old National Centre, which was contacted by the code enforcement in 2012, responding to a complaint similar to the one made about Kat’s Pub. “When we found out about it, we were under the impression it was only a one-time thing,” Baker says of the complaint. He notes that the venue was never issued a citation for the performance. Live Nation, which manages Old National Centre, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

4) Put on a show without a thorough understanding of the city code.

Katie Angel and the rest of the members of Angel Burlesque were under no threat of arrest Friday night. But they thought a police officer would be attending their show — they were, in fact, plain-clothed code enforcement inspectors — and were more than a little nervous going into the performance.

The owner of Kat’s Pub, Chad Alvey, complained last week to NUVO that the city “didn’t even know what a burlesque show was,” that they “didn’t know what the public indecency law was.” The pub-

Jada Bella, pictured here at Kat’s Pub in Camby, began performing with Angel Burlesque at age 25.

lic indecency law has nothing to do with the adult entertainment code, according to code enforcement’s Baker, but Alvey wasn’t clear on the distinction.

In other words, Angel and Alvey had an unclear understanding of the city code and the way that it’s enforced going into the performance. But the city expects performers and venues alike to familiarize themselves with the law: “At the end of the day there has to be some kind of responsibility on the individual or performer to follow through,” says Baker, adding that “we do what we can, up front, to try to educate.”

One key question: Should Angel and Alvey have been expected to know the adult entertainment code? Angel Katie Angel Burlesque performed a show at Kat’s Pub in February, which didn’t result in a citation of the venue. Alvey booked the show after seeing troupes like Rocket Doll Revue performing in venues around the city that aren’t certified as adult entertainment businesses. Here’s an excerpt from NUVO’s 2012 cover story on burlesque that gives a sense of the scope of the local burlesque scene (with the caveat that much of the information is outdated): “Bottoms Up makes their home in Radio Radio and the Historic Melody Inn, while Crème de les Femmes can be found anywhere from Birdy’s to the Casba’s underground bar. Rocket Doll Revue are regulars at White Rabbit Cabaret and now The

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Sinking Ship; Pur Company can be found just about anywhere there’s a party when they’re not doing their regular gig at Room 929; Angel Burlesque is equally at home on Crackers’ comedy stage or the eminently respectable Deluxe room at Old National Centre. And Hasenpfeffer is White Rabbit Cabaret’s troupe-in-residence.”

In short, burlesque troupes have historically performed at venues across the city — venues open to the public, shows that were widely advertised and featured in local press — without running afoul of the code enforcement. And because burlesque isn’t specifically cited as an adult entertainment act in the code — and semi-nudity and nudity have been historically been featured on local stages that aren’t housed in adult entertainment businesses — then wouldn’t those troupes have a reasonable expectation that their performances were lawful and appropriate? Which brings us to...

5) Perform as a burlesque troupe outside of a theatrical setting.

Katie Angel doesn’t want to have to resort to calling Angel Burlesque’s performances “theater” because she rather likes the term “burlesque,” with its rich tradition rooted in vaudeville, variety shows and other populist entertainment of the first half of the 20th century.

“There’s something special about saying burlesque,” she says. “There’s something so beautiful about burlesque that it’s so female-positive; it connects us to our foremothers.”

But it’s only when Angel Burlesque has ventured beyond a theatrical setting that it’s drawn the attention of the city: First at Deluxe, which has a rock club feel, then

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Kat’s Pub, an unprepossessing bar in a strip mall. There’s evidently safety in presenting burlesque as a legitimate theatrical performance, with all the trappings of high art — in the same way as obscenity charges have historically been defeated by making the case for the legitimate cultural value of a particular artwork.

Not that Katie couldn’t make the case for Angel Burlesque’s importance to the city in other ways. When she spoke to NUVO by phone last week, she was getting ready to cut a $2,000 check to Indiana Equality Action, from funds raised during its Bourbon Boylesque event at the Athenaeum last month.

Angel Burlesque also hosts an annual fundraiser for the Indiana AIDS Fund, and has given money to the Julian Center and Planned Parenthood.

She also emphasizes the “emotional benefits” afforded to troupe and audience members by a performance.

“They’re what motivate me to run Angel Burlesque,” she says. “They go on stage and they feel so confident and they feel so beautiful, so powerful. Where do you get a chance to put yourself out there and receive that kind of positive reinforcement from the audience?”

To be sure, Angel Burlesque defines “burlesque” as the “art of the tease,” and it’s this reporter’s impression that some of the troupe’s performers do achieve a state of “semi-nudity,” as defined by the code, by the close of their performance.

But such strict restrictions on performance involving nudity and semi-nudity have been successfully challenged.

For instance, a 2001 performance of Naked Boys Singing, which involves the full-frontal nudity of adult male performers and has played locally, was shut down by the city of Provincetown, which cited similar zoning laws that prohibit adult entertainment businesses within 500 feet of protected areas.

But according to The First Amendment Center, “According to Provincetown Banner, Judge Gordon Piper found that the town could not prohibit the owners of the Crown & Anchor Inn, a privately owned hotel and ‘entertainment center,’ from staging live nude performances.

The judge noted a footnote in the bylaw that attaches adult entertainment to the category of retail use and ruled that the inn did not fall under the town’s definition of a retail establishment.”

The city plans to inform Kat’s Pub of its decision later this week, and, as Baker says, “start a dialogue” with the club to see if there’s common ground to be found. Kat’s Pub owner Alvey says that while he plans to fight citations assessed by the city, he’s unlikely to continue booking Angel Burlesque if he loses a court case or sustains substantial fines. n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 04.16.14 - 04.23.14 // STAGE 19

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REVIEWS Butler ArtsFest: Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra e ICO commissioned composer-in-residence James Aikman to write a piece in honor of its 30th year, and the result, premiered April 11, was a three movement work, Triptych: Musical Momentum. Aikman’s writing is mature, refined and highly engaging. The first movement, Prelude, began with the harp, sounding almost like chiming bells, then various sections entering in, with an exciting sense of anticipation. The second movement, The Particle Garden, was meant to employ a prerecorded tape, but there was evidently no sound on it, leaving me curious as to its content. The rhythmically vigorous finale, Fanfare, was spirited and celebratory. I look forward to hearing the work again; it will be on a CD released next year as part of the anniversary celebration. The concert began with Strauss’ Emperor Waltzes, arranged for seven pieces by Schoenberg. At times the woodwinds were overpowered, but otherwise it was spirited and lively. Christopher Theofandis’ intriguing, provocative Concerto for Bassoon and Chamber Orchestra followed Strauss, with virtuoso bassoonist Martin Kuusmann. No matter if it was a long, lyrical passage or an acrobatic phrase, Kuusmann nailed it, not just technically, but musically as well, with intention and vision sewn in to each note. It was a breathtaking performance.

— CHANTAL INCANDELA April 11 at Schrott Center for the Arts Butler ArtsFest: The Soldier’s Tale and Lines from Poetry w Albert Einstein is quoted as remarking, “A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?” The violin features in folk and fairy tales around the world, and violin poetry is a genre unto its own. With Lines from Poetry, a composition for solo violin, Ronald Caltabiano engages with emotions culled from the works of nine poets, giving us impressions alternately airy, earthy, frivolous, thoughtful. Violinist Davis Brooks met the challenge and delivered with assurance and delight. Video artist Jordan Munson created gloriously hued visuals with the feel of a lava lamp. Though engrossing, I admit to closing my eyes to allow my imagination to roam with the music. The Soldier in Igor Stravinsky’s musical tale obviously was not of Einstein’s mind. He trades his companionable violin for a supposedly magical red covered book that promises wealth but, in time, becomes disillusioned with his riches. Owen Schaub directed and Derek Reid choreographed an outstanding ensemble of actors and dancers bringing us into their world with a mix of spoken lines, mime and dance, interwoven within and around seven musicians conducted

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Wendy Meaden’s costumes delighted the eye. A boldly imaginative rendering of The Soldier’s Tale.

— RITA KOHN April 10 at Schrott Center for the Arts

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Bloomington Playwrights Project and the Phoenix partner on a new musical about squabbling siblings

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he future of theater will be defined by collaboration, says Bloomington Playwrights Project artistic director Chad Rabinovitz, who’s teaming up with Phoenix Theater this month to bring a musical first staged in Bloomington to Indianapolis. SPUN, directed by Rabinovitz and commissioned by BPP, tells of how two estranged 20-something siblings try to reconnect after the death of their father.

“It benefits the art form for us to collaborate in this way,” Rabinovitz says.

“That’s the future of new plays. The future of our art form is in collaboration between companies. It shares the risk; it minimizes costs. It’s just better for everyone.”

To that end, both Phoenix and BPP are members of the National New Play Network, which commissions playwrights, endows paid residences for MFA graduates and coordinates “rolling world premieres” across its network of non-profit theaters.

Rabinovitz, who assumed his role as artistic director in 2009, can be credited for a rebirth at BPP, founded in 1979 as a venue to workshop and produce new work.

“In the past four years, we’ve doubled our subscribership; we’ve nearly tripled our production budget and the national renown of the shows that we are doing has grown significantly,” Rabinovitz says.

Indianapolis audiences might recognize the work of BPP from their IndyFringe Festival offerings, including an offbeat paean to community radio (Death Metal Radio Hour) and microtheater grab-bag The Blizzard, a Fringe staple featuring 30 plays in 60 minutes.

It was more than two years ago when Rabinovitz commissioned SPUN from Emily Goodson (book) and Jeremy Schonfeld (music and lyrics).

“Jeremy and I had worked on a musical prior, and he’s just a brilliant composer,” says Rabinovitz. “And Emily did a show called Lady Bits at IndyFringe, which was ridiculously funny. I wanted to put them together on a project, so I commissioned them both to write the musical together.”

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between siblings, says Rabinovitz — the duo, with dramaturgical help from Rabinovitz, spent nine months working on the script sans music.

“Emily wrote 700 pages, and it’s a 120 page play,” he says. “That’s how much editing went into this. And we’re still editing. After nine months, we started to talk about adding music. We really wrote this so that the story was so important that we had to break into song. It was a full year until we had it on its feet. We had a couple of readings and a production [in Bloomington], but we’ve been developing it further during this past year to ready it for the Indianapolis production.”

As the artistic director of the only theater in the Indiana whose sole focus is developing new work, Rabinovitz understands the risk of producing only

new plays.

“It’s exciting, but it takes a lot of work to create new theater,” he says. “That’s why we are a rare breed. There are a lot of challenges involved in writing them, and then in getting people to see them.

We don’t have that name recognition.”

Instead Rabinovitz focuses on selling the experience of new work to Bloomington audiences.

“My audiences, just like the Phoenix audience, are intelligent people who want something that they can’t get anywhere else,” he says. “I sell excitement.

I sell uniqueness — the fact that you are getting a behind the scenes look at a play that no one else in the world gets to see. Our community takes great pride in that they were the ones to help shape the play by their reactions.”

Phoenix audiences, too, will have the chance to help shape this new play with their feedback. Rabinovitz, Goodson and Schonfeld are still very much in the process of refining the production.

“I would be shocked if we ever felt like we were done,” says Rabinovitz. “I think we’re really close, but I won’t know until we see how people react. Whether or not we make changes to it afterward is up to the Phoenix audience.” n

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OPENING Under the Skin t Scarlett Johansson plays an alien (or a monster) in human form that wanders around Scotland snagging men whose disappearance will likely go unnoticed.

Some guy (or guys) on a motorcycle(s) help her, or monitor her, or control her or something. Hell, I don’t know. There’s not much dialogue and most of what you hear comes from Scots whose regional accents are nigh impossible to understand. That describes the plot, too. The mood is dark, stark and compelling, and the film held my interest.

R, Opens Friday at Keystone Art Heaven is For Real Greg Kinnear stars in this adaptation of a New York Times bestseller as the father of a four-year-old who visits the Great Beyond during a near-death experience.

PG, Opens Wednesday in wide release A Haunted House 2 Marlon Wayans returns as Malcolm in this sequel that sees Malcolm start afresh with a new family before the paranormal activity amps up again.

R, Opens Thursday in wide release Transcendence Johnny Depp uploads his brain into a computer in this sci-fi drama helmed by Wally Pfister, who previously handled cinematography for Chris Nolan’s Inception and Dark Knight films.

PG-13, Opens Thursday in wide release

FILM EVENTS Planet Indy: More than Honey A 2012 doc about bees and the threats they face, notably the dreaded Colony Collapse Disorder.

Indianapolis Museum of Art, April 17, 7 p.m., $9 public, $5 member Italian Film Festival: White as Milk, Red as Blood An offbeat 2012 coming-of-age movie about a 16-year-old overcoming his fear of the color white.

Lilly Auditorium at IUPUI, April 19, 2 p.m., FREE Roger Corman IU Cinema has been celebrating work by or connected with the hard-working B movie director throughout the spring. Now he’ll show up April 18 and 19 for a talk and to introduce screenings of some of his most influential films, including biker pic The Wild Angels and Price/Poe horror The Tome of Legeia.

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om Hemingway opens with the title character, played by Jude Law, looking straight at the camera while delivering a soliloquy about the power and majesty of his dick. Dom is nude, but we don’t see the object of his impassioned speech. Initially, he is only seen down to his waist level, but as the camera eventually pulls back, the view is obstructed by the head of a person administering a blowjob.

That’s the kind of movie Dom Hemingway is. A British crime flick turned redemption story, it follows the path of films like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, mixing Quentin Tarantino-inspired shocks with zippy mod visuals of the A Hard Day’s Night school of elan. Writer-director Richard Shepard (The Matador) offers a violent, kicky outing. The screenplay struggles – some parts don’t work, others are too dumb to be engaging. But the film has style on top of style on top of style, along with a swell central performance by Law. Is that enough for you? I wished there had been more, but I left happy.

Law gained 30 pounds of fat for the movie and proudly displays his naked torso and fanny (despite his efforts, he looks more cute than slovenly). In doing so, he follows The Rule of Cinematic Weight Change, which goes like this: If an actor gains or loses a significant amount of weight for a movie, they must be shown in a notable stage of undress to make it clear how very committed they are to their craft. Think Robert De Niro (Raging Bull), Tom Hanks (Castaway),

Jude Law and Richard E. Grand star in Dom Hemingway.

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Charlize Theron (Monster), and Christian Bale in both The Machinist (skinny) and American Hustle (fat). Note: Dallas Buyers Club boldly ignores the Rule of CWC and does not do a shirt-off showcase scene of Matthew McConaughey’s weight loss.

Fresh off a 12-year prison sentence after taking the fall for his boss, Dom and his best friend Dickie (Richard E. Grant) go on a three-day celebratory binge of drugs, drink and women. Then they head to France so Dom can collect his reward from his employer, Fontaine (Demain Bichir). Dom blows the meeting spectac-

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ularly (and unbelievably), but amends are made, leading to a drive with Fontaine and his girlfriend Paolina (Madalina Ghenea) that ends in a wreck, providing some exceptionally cool visuals.

Dom and Dickie return to London, where Dom tries to reconnect with his estranged adult daughter Evelyn (Emilia Clarke) while getting involved with Lestor (Jumayn), a gangster who can’t stand him.

The film builds to a ludicrous bet with Lestor (that puts Dom’s beloved member at high risk) and the resolution of the would-be reconciliation with Evelyn.

Portions of the production don’t work and the change in tone late in the proceedings isn’t smooth. But Law is aces, Grant provides solid support, the eye candy is delicious and the film’s sense of style triumphs over its deficits in substance. Dom Hemingway is nasty fun. n

CONTINUING The Lunchbox e Low-key, engaging dual character studies from first-time director Ritesh Batra. In Mumbai, lunchboxes are delivered to businessmen each day. Curious why her chronically-preoccupied husband doesn’t comment on her new recipes, Ila (Nimrat Kaur) puts a note in his lunchbox. She realizes the lunchbox is being misdelivered when she receives a note back from a different man, soon-to-retire accountant Saajan (Irfan Khan), and an odd friendship begins. Kaur is very good, while Khan gives a wonderfully nuanced performance as a man going through the motions who is drawn back into life through his contacts with Ila and an eager-to-please trainee (Nawazuddin Siddiqui).

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Ernest and Celestine q Absolutely charming animated feature that was an Academy Award nominee. The story follows the unlikely friendship between Celestine, a rebellious young mouse and Ernest, a lonesome bear. The pastel artwork look like it came straight from the pages of a superior children’s book. The details are a visual treat, and the relationship between Celestine and Ernest is rich and satisfying. The message about overcoming intolerance of others is wellpresented. Everything about this delightful film works.

See it on the big screen while you can. NOTE: I had no idea there was conflict between the bear and mouse communities. Wonder how cats feel about this?

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The Raid 2 e Ultra-violent action film. After fighting through a building full of thugs in The Raid: Redemption, police officer Rama (Iko Uwais) goes undercover again, leading to lots more fight scenes in a variety of locations. Gareth Evan’s film is stuffed with dazzling fights combining martial arts with all sorts of other battle styles. The bloody action is mesmerizing, particularly in a huge fight in the gray mud of a prison yard, where the mayhem becomes artful. Bring your droogs and enjoy the well-staged carnage.

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In collaboration with Broadway in Indianapolis’ The Addams Family, May 13-18 at Clowes, Sun King Brewing has worked up Cara Mia, billed as “a ghoulishly lovable brew.” It’ll make its debut April 23, 6-8 p.m., at the Alfred Glossbrenner Mansion (3202 N. Meridian St.), as part of an Indiana Landmarks benefit for the restoration of the 1910 building. You’ll have a chance to get deliciously close to Wednesday Addams (aka cast member Jen Forgerty) and sample what brewer Dave Colt calls a “mysterious and kooky and altogether spooky” homage to an enduring love swirling with “the essence of roses, hibiscus and orange zest.”

The orange inclusion reflects Gomez’s birthplace in Spain, the floral/rose notes waft to us through Morticia’s passion for arranging flowers.

Seventy-plus people assembled on National Beer Day (April 8) at Tomlinson Tap Room to learn specifics of opening a craft brewery from Mathew Stoops, a Financial Center Federal Credit Union craft brewer start-up advisor; Ray Kamstra, Indiana City Brewery founder/brewer; and Andrew Castner and John Lee, currently in the process of opening MashCraft Brewing in Greenwood. Twelve hands went up identifying those thinking about making the commitment. Following the program, in an informal poll, five said they are reconsidering.

With Indy Beer Talks founder Bill Jimmerson leading the panel toward the realities, the consensus was that, in addition to the exhausting time commitment, between $80,000 and $300,000 is required to start-up, depending on the scope of the brewery. Bottom line: Can you consistently produce top quality brews? Can you carry the financial burden? What will set you apart from everyone else to build a loyal clientele?

When two people who live downtown and walk or bike to get around asked me to intercede on their behalf “to bring more of Brugge to the Outliers location,” I presented their case to owner Ted Miller. His reply, “Outliers is Outliers and Brugge is Brugge. There will be some more Brugge brands [at Outliers] in time. We plan on Pooka and White in the summer. They’ll have to get on the Brugge 17 and return on the Outliers 17. That’s my nickname for the IndyGo route College 17 that goes from Outliers to Brugge, nearly door to door.”

Upland Campsite IPA is their first brew in a can. At the Broad Ripple Tasting Room, I tasted Campsite poured into a glass. It was every bit as refreshing as from tap or bottle. While I prefer drinking from a glass, other craft lovers report sipping from a can offers different nuances they enjoy.

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maître d’? In a little strip mall Italian restaurant? I was surprised too, but happy to see that Ristorante Roma, which opened in December in Carmel’s Monon Square plaza, has someone in charge of the dining room.

And not just a person who leads you to a table and hands you a menu. I’m talking about someone who’s actually running the front of the house, which seems to have become the exception rather than the rule.

That’s not to say that our dinner at Ristorante Roma was without rough spots.

We stopped in for dinner on a recent weeknight without reservations and were happy to see that the restaurant was busy.

But an unexpectedly busy night, coupled with a dining room that was short staffed, resulted in some flaws in timing. But good food and a comfortable atmosphere more than made up for it.

Chef/owner Lucio Romani has created a cozy restaurant and given it some personality with a warm color scheme, wrought iron accents and photo murals of Italy. It’s just the kind of place that could become your favorite little Italian restaurant.

But it’s not your typical pile-on-the-redsauce-and-cheese kind of place. On the menu, Romani points out that when he came to America, he saw plenty of what he considered culinary “sins”: “Pasta used as side dishes, pasta with chicken, spaghetti with big meatballs or full sausages on top, cappuccino at the end of the meal, noodles swimming in a pool of sauce.”

So you won’t find the typical Italian-American fare. But what you will find is a small menu of flavorful, well-prepared dishes and a wine list with about a dozen wines by the glass. So we nibbled on excellent bread, ordered glasses of wine (an $8.50 Sauvignon blanc and a $6 Sangiovese) and looked over the menu.

We started with calamari ($9), what seems to have become the ubiquitous Italian restaurant appetizer. But this version wasn’t breaded and deep-fried with marinara. The rings and whole small squid were sautéed and served with bites of Venetian-style polenta and a lemon mayonnaise. It was a great starter, tender, tasty and interesting.

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Entrees arrived not long after, and this is where the timing problem appeared. We had ordered salads, a house and a Caesar, both $5.25, and so were taken by surprise with the appearance of the entrees. And here is where a maitre d’ can make a real difference: He noticed the issue immediately and was at our table making sure that the solution, of serving the salads alongside the entrees, was acceptable.

We didn’t mind, especially when chef/ owner Romani came out to apologize.

This quick attention makes a real difference in the dining experience because, let’s face it: problems happen. In this case, it was a busy night, the dining room was short staffed and the server thought our salads had already been delivered.

But quick attention to the issue resolved the problem and, rather than grumbling to each other about things, we ended up laughing with the chef about having our salads European-style at the end of the meal.

And we definitely enjoyed our entrees. The special

of the evening, housemade pasta in a creamy walnut and gorgonzola sauce ($19.50) was rich and boldly flavored, a moderately sized portion that seemed just right. Other pastas aren’t made in house, but the chef said he typically offers a daily housemade option. When it’s gone, it’s gone, though, so try it when you see it.

The other entrée we ordered, chicken and sausage with mashed potatoes and caramelized Brussels sprouts, $17.50, may not seem like a typical Italian dish, but it was one of the best I’ve tried lately. The piece of boneless, skinless chicken (which can easily be dry and bland) was tender and perfectly cooked, and the generous piece of sausage was flavorful without being spicy. The sides of mashed potatoes and Brussels sprouts were tasty as well.

Despite the problem with the salad course, we thoroughly enjoyed our dinner. The chef added a complimentary serving of tiramisu to go, $4.25, to make up for the salad mishap, further convincing us of his attention to detail. We’ll be trying Roma Ristorante again. n Creative plating at Roma Ristorante.

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We all love our brownies, cookies and candies — all made with beautiful green canna goodness. But not everyone knows how to make them.

I’m here to tell you that the first ingredient is “canna butter.” And here’s an easy, step by step recipe for it that even a grandpa could follow.

Before even getting to the kitchen, you need to obtain good quality product, the fresher the better.

Stay away from the imported brands, such as pressed brick stuff. They tend to use insecticide on their products — and this would also make it into the butter.

Another point: You want to use pure butter. Not margarine! You want the butter fat to attract the canna goodness. (If you’re using shake, double or triple your product and add another quart of water, but keep the amount of butter the same.)

Bill’s Better Butter Ingredients: Good buds (one ounce or more is ideal, though as little as 1/4 ounce would work) Butter (one stick per 1/4-1/2 ounce of product) Water (two quarts per ounce of product) 1) Break up your product and put it in a cooking pot with water with butter. Bring to a simmer. Continue simmering until about half the volume of water has evaporated.

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2) Strain the heated mixture through a cheesecloth to pull out all unwanted plant material.

3) Place this delicious green mixture of love into a pyrex bowl and place in fridge overnight, or about four to five hours.

(Pro tip: Add two tablespoons of raw honey and 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla and mix well before refrigerating.

Do this if you want to use your butter solely as a spread for muffins or toast.)

4) When you revisit your bowl in the morning, you’l see that the butter has risen to the top of the bowl and the water is at the bottom. Pick out your green chunks of love, pat them dry and then store them in a bag. If stored in a freezer, it can keep for months.

If you used one ounce of product — and two quarts of water — you should end up with a pound of butter.

What now?

Look in your grocery store aisle for cookie and cake mixes that ask for one egg and one stick of butter. Or if you’re in a rush, a little canna butter is always good with honey or jam on a piece of toast or muffin (see the pro tip above).

Eating canna goodness is great for body pains and most certainly creates a happy smile for all. And it’s wonderful over popcorn with a little Parmesan cheese.

Great for movie night.

Bonus recipe: Spicy canna oil Add 1/4 ounce of fresh chopped cannabis and one clove of garlic to one cup of olive oil. Then add hot peppers and rosemary to taste. Let the mixture warm on the stove for a few hours, making sure not to let it burn. Then strain the cooled-off mixture and discard the plant material.

Use this on salads and pastas for a memorable mealtime treat. It goes well drizzled on top of garlic bread too.

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REVIEW COSBY SWEATER PARTY DAD e Indianapolis-based trio Cosby Sweater continues to impress with their latest EP release Party Dad. The live-electronica band comprised of David Embry (production/vocal), Nicholas Gerlach (tenor saxophone/EWI) and Richard “Sleepy” Floyd (drums) has constantly been stepping up the game with recent new releases and a thrilling live set.

Party Dad is more of the same. A short but intricate 6-song EP that totals just over 30 minutes really showcases the multitude of different styles the group can produce, from sensual saxophone melodies to upbeat booty shaking anthems.

The first three songs are fulllength mind-soothing masterpieces that can easily lull the listener into a trance. Relying heavily on saxophone, they’re perfect for a candlelit summer night under the stars.The trio revisits old classics “Open Mouth Kiss” and “Hole” by tweaking the originals just enough to keep the nostalgia element and adding enough freshness to merit a spot on the album.

Cosby Sweater’s flexibility and willingness to test the waters is evident on “Clappin,” the shortest song on the album (and also the most energetic). An increased tempo and inclusion of some peculiar sound effects makes it the most intriguing song off the album.

But, really, this is a band to experience live.

Those looking to sample Party Dad can hear it at an album release party Saturday at The Vogue.

Unfortunately, there is a bit of bad news to pass along as well. Cosby Sweater drummer Richard “Sleepy” Floyd will be leaving the group to focus on other aspects of his life. The electric on-stage personality features on the EP and will perform with the group for the last time at the release show on Saturday. ­— BRIAN WEISS Cosby Sweater EP Release with Shy Guy Says and Freddie Bunz and Friendz, Saturday, April 19, Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., 9 p.m., $10, 21+

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hen I showed up on the doorstep of Nate Karamanski’s house on Saturday night to witness a Gateway session in action, I didn’t see J. Brookinz right away. He was running around, making sure everything was in place to kick off the latest version of his epic album-in-aweekend hip-hop experiment.

Gateway in its current incarnation is the ultimate local hip-hop sampler; over 48 hours – give or take – a who’s who of Indy’s hip-hop scene gets together to write, rhyme and record an album. It’s all helmed by Brookinz, who in three previous years has produced the entire thing himself. This year, he’s taking a more executive role; he picked five local producers (Mandog, Harry Otaku, DylanPrevails, KNAG$ and Philo T) to help realize his vision. He calls himself the “Geppetto” of Gateway5, pulling the strings behind the scenes to make it all happen. “[Gateway] is a window into the underground Naptown hip-hop scene,” Brookinz says, when I chat with him after the weekend is over. He plans to release the latest album this Friday; Gateway albums – packed with relentless weed references – are generally released very close to or on April 20.

The Friday release of the newest Gateway isn’t the only thing Brookinz has going on this week – far from it, in fact.

On Thursday, his birthday, he’ll release a greatest hits album, “a compilation of all my favorite tracks.” Friday, of course, is Gateway release day. Saturday, he’ll put on a producers showcase at Indy CD and Vinyl for Record Store Day, a one-of-akind tag-team battle that pairs producers and DJs. (“I don’t think that anybody’s ever done anything like this before.”)

And Sunday, he’ll take part in a 4/20 Welcome Back Ghost Gun Summer event at Sabbatical (“We’ll give them a proper welcome home”). It’s frankly exhausting even hear him talk about everything he has going on this weekend. But it’s par for the course for Brookinz, who tends to take on ambitious projects and pull them off with nary a hitch.

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Back to Gateway. Brookinz talked at length about the strengths of the producers he tapped to work on this year’s Gateway who he said he’s “rubbed elbows with a lot … these were the five guys I thought would be best for what we’re doing.”

Of KNAG$, he says, “It’s total music to turn up to; his beats bang and they’re really hard.” Of Mandog: “ I marvel at what he does with his music. Where is he coming from when he makes these tracks?

They’re spacey, they change, they build up. It’s almost like he’s conducting.” He calls Harry Otaku “probably one of the most soulful producers in Indianapolis.”

And of DylanPrevails: “He’s one of the most underrated producers; he’s got placements with really, really big artists. A lot of people don’t know that. His style is so engrained in what’s going on in popular music right now and a lot of people outside the city have noticed that.”

The project’s recording engineer, Matt Riefler, added production talents as well under the name Philo T. “He totally came with some huge tracks,” Brookinz says.

So why step back now as a producer, three well-received albums in? “I knew going in that I didn’t want to do it on the producer aspect,” Brookinz says. “I didn’t want to make all the tracks and take care of all the business around putting an album out. I wanted other people to shine, and I would just create the project from an outside angle. I didn’t want to be the every-

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thing man for this one.”

And after being the “everything man” for three previous albums, Brookinz was ready to give ample creative control to the producers he tapped. “I didn’t tell anybody to do anything; I just was like, ‘Hey, I trust you to do what you do best, and I want you to do your best. And I’m going to give you this crazy scenario and not a lot of time to do it in.’ And they came through and killed it.”

Brookinz isn’t totally sure how many people stopped by to witness and participate in this year’s Gateway (“30-plus” is his official guess; there were more than 15 there on Saturday night when I stopped in), which wrapped up Monday morning at 6 a.m. And there’s some more long nights ahead as he finalizes the project before Friday. But Brookinz isn’t worried.

“When you first start off doing things, you’re always worried that it’s going to fail,” Brookinz says. “It’s not. It’s never failed; it’s always been great and better than the last time. I want it to be easy to create things and put things together now. I feel like I have a relationship now with the audience, that they can trust me.” n

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9. Reynoso Records 11 Beachway Dr.

806 Broad Ripple Ave., opens at 8 a.m.

Village Green Records Live music kicks off a 3 p.m. at this Muncie institution, featuring Radio Cologne, Shipwreck Karpathos, Birds of Paradise, Blue Sky Carnival Band, Mid-American, Daniel Sitler and Des Amis, Rudy Valdez and The Howlin Bastards and The Icks. There’s tons of discounts offered on VGR’s stock and all kinds of official RSD offerings available. Music starts later at this joint, so you can head up after you’ve hit all the Indy shops.

519 N. Martin Ave., opens at 11 a.m.

202 N. Walnut St., opens at 11:30 a.m.

Indy CD and Vinyl If you haven’t had a chance to check the revamped store on Broad Ripple Ave., RSD is the perfect time.

The inside stage features performances from David Peck, DJ Helicon, DJ Lockstar, Duchess and Boketto, Cool Hand Lex, DJ Metrognome and the Deckademics DJ School. The outside stage kicks off with Raw McCartney at noon, followed by The Bonesetters, Greg Muller and MaryAnn, No Coast, White Moms and Sirius Black, plus a 5 p.m. producers showcase hosted by J. Brookinz. Rock Lobster and Sun King have a bar set up outside, so you can sample beverages in between sets and shopping.

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Landlocked Music This shop on the Square almost always has a line snaking around it by the time doors open; and rightfully so, as they stock all sorts of interesting goodies and feature the only live performances of the three Bloomie shops we’re profiling. Aurora Dorey Alice, 220 Breakers and Mike Adams at His Honest Weight will perform live alongside DJ sets from Stephen Deusner, Shelly Westerhausen, Nate Gibson and Jim Manion. A Upland RSD brew Vinyl Tap Rye Pale Ale (that’s also available at LUNA) will be on hand at Landlocked. And, for the hardcore Molina fans, a Songs: Ohia crossbow T-shirt will be out for sale.

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Morning sun, because lots of these record shops are flinging their doors open bright and early for audiophiles and local music fans to bustle in and snatch up all the Record Store Day releases. This is the seventh annual RSD, an international celebration of independent record stores. You’ll note we widen our scope beyond Indianapolis a bit on RSD to cover regional shops doing cool stuff on this musical holiday. There are several local artists booked to play at more than one shop this Saturday, and we know lots of shoppers who stop at three or more shops throughout the day. Here’s our quick rundown of Saturday’s special events. n A list of local label releases is online at NUVO.net.

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Performers scheduled to hop up on one of Von’s two stages include: Bo Jackson 5, broken light, Bryce Westman, Callum Pennock, Dino DNA, Earthgrazer, Jacob Elich, John Davey, Keith Austin, Marj’s Basement, MidAmerican, Mr. K, Popular Ego, Seth Benjamin, Slates, The Clutter, The Prannies, Winslow and YEARS. We promise RSD releases shall overflowth the bins.

325 W. State St., opens at 9 a.m.

Vibes GloryHole Records is helping to sponsor this daylong live music bash, which features The Bloody Mess, Caleb McCoach, Bummer Eve, Skin Conditions, Scanlines, Day Creeper, Benny and The Planes, No Coast, Thee Tsunamis, Ampersand Blues Band, White Moms and Raw McCartney.

DJ Jewey Ramone is on deck duty. In addition to the musical goodies offered exclusively on Record Store Day, Vibes will also be hosting sales from the vendors that have taken up space in the store. SNTN Comics is hosting a 25 cent VHS sale, along with the regular supply of comics, books and movies, and selling original prints and works by local artist Aaron Baker. Lux & Ivy will be releasing their spring collection of new and vintage threads, and handmade jewelry from local artists and their Lux Apothecary line. And the ubiquitous United State of Indiana will be clearing off its shelves of older designs for $20 or less.

1051 E. 54th St., opens at 11 a.m.

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Vinyl Rescue Project This newbie Southside record shop updates their Facebook almost daily to let customers know what new titles have been added to the aisles.

They’ll stock RSD goodies and plan big giveaways and major sales on regular stock.

LUNA Music LUNA is bringing back a day-long block party on the corner of 52 St. and College. They’ll open with a sidewalk sale, featuring bargain LPs (think $1 or $2); grab bags of samplers will be available, as well as a huge amount of official RSD records. Performing in the back lot starting at noon are Sedcairn Archives, Sirius Blvck, The Icks, Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s (who also have a LUNA-exclusive yellow vinyl pressing of new album Sling Shot to Heaven), Sleeping Bag and We Are Hex. Next door neighbors Little Super (vintage clothes and accessories), Printtext (small press shop) and Upland (brews) will be open and offering a variety of wares. Laundromatinee be filming and DJ Indiana Jones will spin an all-vinyl set. The packed day cruises until 9 p.m.

520 N. SR 135, Suite M, opens at 10 a.m..

5202 N. College Ave., opens at 8 a.m.

Irvington Vintage This vintage shop has on offer a large variety of colored vinyl and limited run LPs, including a collection of Hoosier-born albums (Zero Boys, Circuit des Yeux, Anonymous, Apache Dropout).

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> Our Annual Sidewalk Sale (thousands of $2 vinyl LPs and $1 CDs, along with other goodies). > Our 1-day liquor license will be in effect – come by and have an Upland Vinyl Tap while you shop! > Grab bags (with samplers, surprises, and treats – all for you, all FREE). > Reconnect with musically minded individuals in our community (good times, indeed...)

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In addition to the free performances, there will be plenty of activity out back — including ‘zine-making with General Public Collective, ticket giveaways with the NUVO street team,WB Pizza will be serving up the best slices in town, and We Are Hex will be selling (only 50 are being made) test pressings of their new 7” single!

THE BEST PART: THE SWEET, SWEET MUSIC – MADE JUST FOR THIS DAY! Each year, artists and labels create artifacts, just for sale on RSD and only at independent shops, like ours. This year there are over 300 titles, going on sale on the 19th – check recordstoreday.com for the GIANT list of exclusive titles – we here at LUNA have them all on order!

Come by and have a little party with us – rain or shine!

> Pick up Margot & The Nuclear So And So’s new album, ‘Sling Shot To Heaven’ and nab our EXCLUSIVE LUNA pressing—on YELLOW wax!

Only 75 available… > Grab yourself one of our limited, made just for the day, LUNA T-shirts!

This year we are proud to offer TWO fresh designs from Nat Russell and Kyle Field / Little Wings! > You’ll want to bag your newly purchased love in the LUNA music / RSD 2014 / Nat Russell Tote. The first 25 folks in line will get one, FREE! Hey Kool Thing...

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WHO ELSE IS COMING TO THE PARTY? > Upland Beer has brewed and will be pouring a very special RSD IPA: Vinyl Tap! Only available at LUNA music and our pals, Landlocked, on RSD. > Little Super will be bursting at the seams with glorious second-hand wares for one and all—no time better to grab that vintage boombox or rad camera! > New neighbors, PRINTtEXT, will be on hand with their impeccable range of periodicals. > Laundromatinee will be on site shooting video for future innerweb love. > NUVO street team will be in full-effect, with giveaways for days. > D.J. Indiana Jones will be firing up a vinyl-only D.J. set, starting at 11AM!

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ast week I co-authored the cover feature 100 Best Hoosier Albums Ever. I originally conceived the piece with the hope of stirring up interest in local music for the arrival of Record Store Day. From that perspective, I think the idea was a success, as our list has sparked heated debates among Indiana music fans.

So to continue the RSD-related coverage, I’ve taken on an even messier challenge: spotlighting a sampling of some of the best Hoosier-created 45s. 45 RPM records were much cheaper to produce than full length LPs, so they exist in significantly greater abundance. Indiana produced some of the greatest garage, rockabilly, funk and psych 45s the world has ever heard. In no particular order, here are a few of my my personal favorites.

THE HIGHLIGHTERS - FUNKY 16 CORNERS Indy’s Highlighters recorded a handful of classic 45s, like their influential debut “Poppin’ Popcorn.” Some have speculated that “Poppin’ Popcorn” influenced James Brown’s foray into the short-lived popcorn dance craze. But, for me, the group’s greatest work is “Funky 16 Corners.” The song was a local R&B hit in 1969 and later helped kick off the resurgence of interest in Indiana funk during the late 1990s.

THE JACKSON FIVE - BIG BOY Released on the Gary-based label Steeltown, “Big Boy” might be the most influential Hoosier 45 of all time. The sweet soul ballad featured lead vocals by a nineyear-old Michael and marks the Jackson family’s first step towards global stardom.

RONNIE HAIG - DON’T YOU HEAR ME CALLING BABY This 1958 release by Ronnie Haig is one of the biggest singles to emerge from the Indianapolis rockabilly scene.

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LATTIE MOORE - OUT OF CONTROL Born in Kentucky, Lattie Moore established himself as a major personality on Indiana country music radio during the 1950s — so much so that an LP title from the period bills Moore as the “The Indiana Hoosier.” Moore was a honky-tonk singer with an occasional rockabilly kick.

A haunting ballad about the struggles of alcoholism “Out of Contol” was co-written with country great George Jones.

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THE XL’S – MARYJANE An intense blast garage-psych madness from 1968 Terre Haute. Tom Ferguson’s scorching wah-wah guitar and Bill Evans’ snarling vocals would’ve sounded right at home on the Stooges’ 1969 debut LP. THE GREMLINS - WAIT A relentless 1966 garage classic from Elkhart’s Gremlins features a wild midsong Farfisa break and piercing androgynous vocals from the band’s 15-year-old leader Barry Heflick.

THE JAGUARS - IT’S GONNA BE ALRIGHT Released on Santa Claus, Ind.’s Skoop label, The Jaguars define the ’60s garage punk sound. The Black Lips have spent their entire career trying to recreate this.

LOST WEEKEND – TROUBLE A mini psych-funk masterpiece from early ‘70s Gary. “Trouble” takes on themes of social justice and racial conflict prevalent in classic soul music of the era.

INTERNATIONAL GRAPEFRUITE - NAPTOWNS ALIVE PEOPLE Ron Matelic was represented twice in our top 100 albums list, first for his work with garage band legends Sir Winston and the Commons and later for his work with ‘70s classic rockers Anonymous. This Beach Boys-style bubble gum number fell somewhere in between those projects.

THE BLUE ANGELS - QUICK SAND There’s something wonderfully off about this early ‘60s recording by Hammond’s Blue Angels. The off-kilter handclaps and out of tune, overly reverbed guitar sound like Duane Eddy on acid. n There’s more online at NUVO.net >> Kyle Long creates a custom podcast for each column.

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WEDNESDAY ‘90S Local H We kind of can’t believe Local H is still sluggin’ it out on the circuit, after almost 25 years and 10 albums. But we admire bands that just keep chugging, and we love ‘90s rock, so that’s a 2/2 for ol’ Local H. Our own local slacker rockers Sleeping Bag will open.

Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St., 8 p.m., $13 in advance, $15 at door, 21+ ROCK Toadies, Supersuckers I’m not sure I understand the continuing popularity of Texan postgrungers The Toadies. I mean, I’ve got nothing against them, they have a few good to great songs. But it just seems like they are a random band to be touring and selling out and shit. Maybe I will have the answer this Wednesday at the Vogue. All I know is it takes big ass balls to willingly go on tour and play after The Supersuckers night in, night out.

The self-professed “Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World” is riding high on the hardest rocking album of the last few years.

Get The Hell is a good oldfashioned rip-snorter of an album.

The album exudes a greasy blend of southern fried rocking that doesn’t compromise its denim-wrapped no-frills hard rock. “Being Bad”

should be the rock anthem of the summer. Other tunes like the title track and “Shut Your Face” hold true to the values put forth by rock forefathers like Ozzy, Lemmy and Robbie Plant. As a bonus, there’s the greatest Depeche Mode cover of all time. When The Supersuckers take on “Never Let Me Down,” they truly make it their own.

As monstrous as Get The Hell is, I can’t wait to see how incredible the live show is gonna be. Even more, I can’t wait to see what The Toadies do to top it.

— JEFF NAPIER Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., 7 p.m., $22, 21+ REOCCURRING Tanjerine Fashion, film and food are on order at this four-day event (from the makers of Oranje). Expect less in the way of music and visual art and more of those three F’s we mentioned. Night one is a craft cocktail competition and screening of the documentary Hey Bartender; night two is a beer tapping and gourmet food tasting; night three is a fashion preview, alongside some shopping options and plenty of food trucks. And the big night is Saturday, which is when all sorts of fashion, film and food will swirl together in a great big tanjerine pie. (We maintain that would be delicious.)

Sanctuary on Penn, 701 N. Pennsylvania St., Wednesday – Saturday, 7 p.m., 21+

Be Here Now, Dog Brothers, Quite the Softie and Digital Dots, Melody Inn, 21+ Doug Henthorn Trio, Ray Fuller and The Blues Rockers, Slippery Noodle, 21+ Grey Gordon, The Homeless Gospel Choir, Hoosier Dome, all-ages Family Jam, Mousetrap, 21+ Kostume Karaoke, Monkey’s Tale, 21+ Retro Rewind, Vogue, 21+ Joe Henderson Listening Party, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Murray-Weirich Uptown Quintet, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Jay Elliot and Friends, The Straight Up Chumps, Tin Roof, 21+ The Phunk Nastys, Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+

THURSDAY SOLD OUT The Lone Bellow They keep coming back because we keep going to see them. Touring on the strength of their 2013 self-titled exuberant debut album, The Lone Bellow’s sold out yet another show in Indianapolis. Catch ‘em on the next run through the city.

White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect St., 8 p.m., SOLD OUT, 21+ REGGAE Dirty Heads What is there to say about a band who named itself after a trait their fans often have? Well, a lot, actually. Dirty Heads roll with that reggaeinfused jam band vibe that made so many love Sublime so much. Their last album was the all-acoustic release Home – Phantoms of Summers.

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in the blogosphere and on the radio, drawing curious attention from places like USA Today, MTV and VH1. A difficult band to pin down stylistically, they cross genres from pop-rock to electronic and borrowing from hip-hop, too. Perhaps it is their genre-defying style that makes them so appealing to modern audiences—kids raised in a culture of collaboration. For this Ohio duo, that formula seems to be working.

SOUNDCHECK ROCK Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ The saddest band name for one of the rocking-est band on the circuit right now; Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ released four EPs last year, cementing whispers of a “creative resurgence” after 25 years in the biz. They’ll play with The Easthills and Ghost Wolves.

Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., 8 p.m., SOLD OUT, 21+

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DANCE Animal Haus This edition of the weekly dance party features Slater Hogan, The Button Mashes, Exploratio, Dan Rohl and Jodyfree.

Blu, 240 S. Meridian St., 9 p.m., FREE with RSVP, 21+ Pompeya, Leverage Models, DO317 Lounge, 21+ Toubab Krewe, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ Trivia Night with Rocket Doll Revue, Melody Inn, 21+ Tweed Funk, Dave Muskett and Friends, Michael Coleman and The Backbreakers, 3:1 Three to One Band, Slippery Noodle Inn, 21+ Latin Night, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Charlie Patton’s War, The Bishop (Bloomington), 18+ Accept Regret, Rock House Cafe, 21+ Altered Thurzdaze, Mousetrap, 21+

FRIDAY COUNTRY Jamey Johnson Maybe you’re not aware (yet) but 8 Seconds Saloon regularly brings some of the biggest acts in country music – like an air-conditioned, indoor Klipsch (plus a mechanical bull!). This week’s mega-watt performer is Jamey Johnson, a country singer-songwriter who’s accompanied Kid Rock and Willie Nelson on tour, and released a Grammy-nominated tribute album to Hank Cochran. He’s written several chart-topping hits for other country heavy-hitters like Trace Adkins and George Strait.

8 Seconds Saloon, 111 N. Lynhurst Dr., 6 p.m., prices vary, 21+

Lone Bellow in Indianapolis Jahman Brahman, Indigo Sun, Mousetrap, 21+ Caroline Smith, Kool’s Bazaar, DO317 Lounge, 21+ My Yellow Rickshaw, Ale Emporium, 21+ Zach Lapidus Quintet, Herbie Hancock Electric Tribute, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Bible of The Devil, Leeches of Lore, Melody Inn, 21+ Hillbilly Happy Hour with The Punkin Holler Boys (early show), Melody Inn, 21+ Revenge, Sabbatical, 21+ Zanna Doo, Britton Tavern, 21+ Katie Josway, Indy Hostel, all-ages Endless Summer Band, Three D’s Pub and Cafe, 21+ Alanna Drive, Illig, Birdy’s Bar and Grill, 21+ Third Annual Peep Show, Fountain Square Brewing Company, 21+ Avi Sic, Sensu, 21+ Mina and The Wondrou Flying Machine, Chatterbox Jazz Club, 21+ Samuel Lawton, Sleet Street, More Than Conquerors, Bad Habit, Pawl Frank the Monkey, Irving Theater, allages WTFridays with DJ Gabby Love and DJ Helicon, Social, 21+ Sixteen Candles, Vogue, 21+ Man On Earth, Open Air Stereo, Rathskeller, 21+ Indien, Coolidge, The Elixirs, Radio Radio, 21+ Boo Ya! With Slater Hogan, Bartini’s, 21+ Apollo Mono, Indiana City Brewing Company, 21+ Pork and Beans Brass Band, The Jeremy Vogt Band, White Rabbit Cabaret, 21+

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Aaron Lewis The Staind frontman returns on a solo stop this Friday at the Egyptian Room.

Sturgill Simpson Simpson’s release High Top Mountain is straight up Appalachia honky-tonk pinned up with classic Nashville rowdiness. He’s branching out into more psyche-

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Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St., 9 p.m., $10, 21+ BRAS Toxic Burlesque First up: a screening of Time To Kill, a local sexploitation film. Then, Brothers Gross and Mr. Clit and the Pink Cigarettes will soundtrack a collection of weird and wild burlesque performances.

Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St., 7 p.m., $4 for movie, $7 for burlesque, $10 for both, 21+ R&B Ledisi Ledisi — full name Ledisi Anibade Young — already has eight Grammy noms under her belt, as well as a pretty developed acting career.

But beyond all that, she has a voice — this voice, you guys—that is part R&B crooner and swinging jazz singer. She can belt it out Aretha style, and also jump around the scales with delicate precision.

She’s every woman. It’s all in Ledisi.

PROM My So-Called Prom We’re major fans of Rock and Roll Prom (christened this year My So-Called Prom), which benefits Bloomington’s Boxcar Books’ Pages to Prisoners Project and features supergroup cover bands pulling members from Central Indiana’s best-loved bands. On the lineup this year: TGIF Yeah! (members of 123s, The Double Digits, Brother John); Bikni Kill (Cooked Books, Legs, Ray Creature); The Craisins (Good Luck, Traveling, Poor Islero, Legs, Alabama Legsweep, Selfish Whales); Rancid (High Dive, Community Currency, Tooth Soup); Crazy Sexy Cool (The Vallures) and Near West Side (Ask Torlando, Mike Adams At His Honest Weight, Rodeo Ruby Love, Living Well, Reverend House, The Pulpit Bullies and Dietrich Jon). Dress like it’s 1994 and party like you never could at your prom, because of the chaperones.

Bluebird, 216 N. Walnut St., 9 p.m., 21+

DANCING Cosby Sweater This Indy electro group will play out with Shy Guy Says and Freddie Bunz and Friends. Peep our review on page 26.

Vogue, 6250 N. College Ave., 9 p.m., $10, 21+ DANCING Jacked Official Movement Pre-Party If you’re planning to jet off to the Movement Festival in Detroit, plan to hit up this techno mini-fest first. Featuring DJ Shiva and Adam Jay (both of whom made an appearance on our 100 Best Hoosier Albums list) will perform alongside Keith Kemp, an acolyte of classic Detroit techno and new dance music classics.

White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect St., 10 p.m., $5 in advance, $10 at door, 21+ TOKES 4th Annual 420 Party Part 1 Part one of this big fest features Hyrdyer and The Twin Cats. There’s a reason the Mousetrap is relentless voted “Best Place for Hippies” in our Best of Indy readers’ poll, and when you’re making 4/20 plans (or even 4/19 plans), you should take note of their serious hippie cred.

Mousetrap, 5565 N. Keystone Ave., 8 p.m., 21+

SUNDAY TOKES 4/20 Fest An absolutely massive show featuring Cloakroom, Xerxes, Srvvlst, Dessa Sons, Male Bondage, Wounded Knee, Prize the Doubt, Black Lodge, Potslammer and last but not least, the mighty return of emo kings Pessoa. Best not miss this one, kids. Best not.

Westgate, 6450 W. 10th St., 5 p.m., all-ages TOKES 4th Annual 420 Party Part 2 The second night of 420 partying features Flatland Harmony and an Easter egg hunt. And we’re sure you’ll see many altered dudes at the ‘Trap that look like Jesus, so you’re definitely celebrating both holidays at once.

Mousetrap, 5565 N. Keystone Ave., 8 p.m., 21+ Soner Jesus Easter Blas(t) phemy Party, Back Door (Bloomington), 21+ Dynamite with DJ Salazar, Topspeed, Mass Ave Pub, 21+ 1st Annual 420 Party, Greg’s, 21+ Gordon Bonham Trio, Slippery Noodle, 21+

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Heather Styka, Indy Folk Series, all-ages Royal with DJ Limelight, The Hideaway, 21+ Nailed It, Blu Nightclub, 21+ Dallas Leonard, Gatsby’s Pub and Grill, 21+ Transmission ‘90s, ‘00s Dance Party, Root Cellar Lounge, 1+ Discovering Brazil Through Hip-Hop, Lawrence Library Branch, all-ages Date Night with Barbara Randall, Chef Joseph’s at the Connoisseur Room, 21+ Glowga: Electro Yoga (early show), DO317 Lounge, 21+

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WEDNESDAY, APR. 23 GUITAR Joe Bonamassa Guitar virtuoso Joe Bonamassa has already released 10 studio solo albums in his 36 short years on this earth. He comes from the British school of blues, quite a separation from blues’s American roots, pioneered by guys like Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck. Bonamassa puts a sophisticated English spin on the looseness of US blues forefathers like B.B. King and Muddy Waters. The crowd is usually packed with true music lovers and musicians, so guitar aficionados should get tickets early if you want to be close.

Murat Theatre at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., 8 p.m., prices vary, all-ages

ROCK Say Hi, Big Scary Rock bands from the PNW always have a good sense of humor about the music business. Take this joke from Say Hi’s Facebook page: “Q: What do you use to play the Radiohead app? A: Your Thombs!” With an attitude like that, it’s hard to imagine the show will be anything but fun. They’re bringing with them Australian duo Big Scary, who remind us of a cross between Fleet Foxes and The XX, if you can wrap your mind around it Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St., 9 p.m., $10, 21+ Retro Rewind, Vogue, 21+ Cyrill Aimee, Cabaret at the Columbia Club, all-ages

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n honor of our cannabis-centric issue, we wanted our Sex Doc to answer our most burning marijuanarelated sex question: does smoking weed actually make sex better as so many Google and head shop patrons say it does?

DR. D: Very little is known on the topic actually, probably in large part because marijuana is mostly illegal.

Now that some states are starting to legalize it for recreational use, I imagine there will be more research on the topic other than just on people using it for medical reasons. We do know that some people report easier orgasm while on marijuana but we don’t know what percent of people feel that way, or how much one should smoke to get an “easing” effect, or who is most likely to benefit from that. After all, we also know that some people report worse sex, especially less intimacy or more disconnection during sex, while on marijuana.

But again, much of this is survey-based and/or anecdotal given the challenges of studying illegal drugs.

SARAH: Personally, what I find does the job is merely the relaxation part of it—not so much marijuana’s oft-purported sensory-heightening abilities. Orgasm, for most people, is a largely mental game that requires you to “pay in” a certain amount of psychological energy to get satisfaction and satisfy your partner, which is often be depleted by the sluggish, beaurocratic shuffle around this mortal coil. The common thread, as I read many testaments to the orgasmic power of weed, was actually a lot of busy professionals who enjoyed that smoking kind of “forces” you to stop thinking about responsibilities and keep your head in the moment. When you can let go of the to-do list for an hour or two with your partner and think only about what feels good, you’ll be completely focused on the action in the moment, which always results in fan-friggin-tastic sex for all parties involved.

So there you have it: even more reason to legalize it. Go online to NUVO. net to see our list of canna-fied sex accessories to bring a little green into your bedroom in a non-smokey form.

DR. DEBBY HERBENICK & SARAH MURRELL The Other Shrinkage How do you address real strange fetishes with your S/O? I have a bizarre fetish (shrinking) that would require the re-writing of the laws of physics in order to make it a reality. I haven’t told my S/O about it because I don’t think it’s worth the potential shame with no real payoff because we can’t make it happen. Instead, I get my (fetish-focused) kicks from websites that cater to my interests and have normal (great sex, though!) sex with my S/O. — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: Reader, I want to thank you sincerely for doing the impossible: introducing me to a fetish I had not yet encountered. Apparently shrinking (microphilia) is pretty much exactly as it sounds (I guess): a fetish for very small, usually palm-size shrinkydink people. So yeah, unless you track down a voodoo priest or priestess who is on some seriously next-level shit, this one will be relegated to mostly fantasy. You seem to have a pretty realistic grasp on this, so maybe just incorporate

some of the costumes or hair styles (Wig shop trip!) from the characters you like into your partnered sex. I have to admit though, I’d prefer this kind of information be revealed to me with the same care, delicateness and understanding of sharing your herpes diagnosis: acknowledging that some S/Os will bolt, but someone who you’ve bonded with will stick around and make it work with you. Hang onto the good folks and make them the Tinkerbell to your NOPE JUST KIDDING I DON’T WANT TO FINISH PAINTING THIS MENTAL PICTURE THANKSFORREADINGBYE. ‬ DR D: You don’t have to address your interests unless you want to. You have a website you seem to find pleasure with. If you want to share your interest with a partner one day, you can, and you may want to suss out your compatibility with the person before deciding whether this is a first or fifth or fiftieth “date” reveal. If you’re dating through a pretty open-minded community like Fet Life it may be easier to reveal sooner than, say, through Hinge where you might have (possibly justified) concerns that your fix-ups could share it with your mutual friends, without your consent. Sexual feelings belong to all of humanity - and you seem to have a good head on your shoulders with a sense that you can find others like you if and when you want, and connect online, but you also get that shrinking isn’t everyone’s thing. You’re one step ahead of many others.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe,” said novelist John Updike. That’s a sad possibility. Could you please do something to dispute or override it, Taurus? Would it be too much to ask if I encouraged you to go out in quest of lyrical miracles that fill you with wonder? Can I persuade you to be alert for sweet mysteries that provoke dizzying joy and uncanny breakthroughs that heal a wound you’ve feared might forever plague you? Here’s what the astrological omens suggest: Phenomena that stir reverence and awe are far more likely than usual.

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some future date you may be the unexpected beneficiary of generosity. I’m expecting more of the latter than the former for you in the coming days, Libra. I think fate will bring you sweet compensations for your enlightened behavior in the past. I’m reminded of the fairy tale in which a peasant girl goes out of her way to be kind to a seemingly feeble, disabled old woman. The crone turns out to be a good witch who rewards the girl with a bag of gold. But as I hinted, there could also be a bit of that other kind of karma lurking in your vicinity. Would you like to ward it off? All you have to do is unleash a flurry of good deeds.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1937, physicist

George Paget Thomson won a Nobel Prize for the work he did to prove that the electron is a wave.

That’s funny, because his father, physicist J. J. Thomson, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1906 for showing that the electron is a particle. Together, they helped tell the whole story about the electron, which as we now know is both a wave and a particle. I think it’s an excellent time for you to try something similar to what George did: follow up on some theme from the life of one of your parents or mentors; be inspired by what he or she did, but also go beyond it; build on a gift he or she gave the world, extending or expanding it.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You have been a pretty decent student lately, Aquarius. The learning curve was steep, but you mastered it as well as could be expected. You had to pay more attention to the intricate details than you liked, which was sometimes excruciating, but you summoned the patience to tough it out. Congrats! Your against-the-grain effort was worth it. You are definitely smarter now than you were four weeks ago. But you are more wired, too. More stressed. In the next chapter of your life story, you will need some downtime to integrate all you’ve absorbed. I suggest you schedule some sessions in a sanctuary where you can relax more deeply than you’ve allowed yourself to relax in a while.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You have the power to shut what has been open or open what has been shut. That’s a lot of responsibility. Just because you have the power to unleash these momentous actions doesn’t mean you should rashly do so. Make sure your motivations are pure and your integrity is high. Try to keep fear and egotism from influencing you. Be aware that whatever you do will send out ripples for months to come. And when you are confident that you have taken the proper precautions, by all means proceed with vigor and rigor. Shut what has been open or open what has been shut -- or both.

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