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"Brian Weiss"
] | 2016-08-26T13:06:18 | null | 2016-08-25T11:30:00 | Fall is peaking around the corner | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2FSlash%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F25%2F10-things-to-do-this-weekend.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4215948/10thingstodo4.png | en | null | 10 things to do this weekend | null | null | www.nuvo.net | 1. Chreece II
Aug. 27, 2 p.m. 9 stages. 50+ acts. 1 awesome day of hip-hop music.
click to enlarge Chreece founder Oreo Jones!
2. Dig IN: A Taste of Indiana
Aug. 28. noon. This is your chance to sample food from 40 of the best chefs from around the state. Head here for a more in-depth preview.
Military Park, 601 W. New York St., $40, all-ages
3. IN Light IN
click to enlarge Submitted Photo
Hoosiers might find an iceberg or two floating in the Canal at IN Light IN
More than 20 local, regional, national and international artists come together for one giant visual spectacle.
Canal Walk, 801 W. Washington St. FREE, all-ages
4.
Aug. 26-27, times vary. Sample more than 250 wines from around the world. This two-day fest will also feature local cuisine, live musical entertainment and more.
American Legion Mall, 700 N. Pennsylvania St. $40, 21+
5. Adult Swim Drive-In
Aug. 26. 7 p.m. Indy is one of 10 stops on this magical tour of irreverent entertainment, which features unaired episodes of current and upcoming shows as well as never-before-seen pilots, specials and more! This unique, fun-filled evening will also include trivia, prizes, food trucks and more.
Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., FREE with RSVP
Submitted Photo
Fastidio
6. Kids Punk Rock Night
Aug. 27, 3 p.m. As if Fountain Square wasn't going to be busy enough on Saturday. We profiled Fastidio last week, but there’s a bunch more bands you can see including Mr. Daniel, School of Rock, Danny Thompson, Pravda, The Slappies, Stealing Volume and Black Cat Rebellion. Proceeds from this event benefit The Villages foster care program.
Kuma's Corner, 1127 Prospect St., FREE, all-ages
7. Hops & Flip Flops Festival
Aug. 27, 1 p.m. Guess what this festival's focus is? 25 breweries from across the country will be in town with their HOP-forward brews. Whiskey Bent Valley Boys, Brandon Whyde and the Devil’s Keep, The Stampede String Band, Prowlers and the Prey, Midwest Rhythm Exchange and Bleedingkeys provide the tunes. Barbecue and Bourbon, Big Ron’s Bistro, King David Dogs and Speedway Lions Clu provide the grub.
Daredevil Brewing Co, 1151 Main St., $40, 21+
8. Feast of Lanterns
Aug. 27, 4 p.m. The Historic Near Eastside Festival is back again this year! Featuring more than 40 artisans, six bands, food trucks and more it's an all-around grand time.
Spades Park, 1800 Nowland Ave, FREE, all-ages
9. Hoops EP release performance
Aug. 26, 6 p.m. Big news on the local circuit: Hoops signed to Fat Possum earlier this year and their new EP is out August 26 on that label. They’ll celebrate that release in Indy at this local record store.
LUNA Music, 5202 N. College Ave., FREE, all-ages
10. Day of Flight
Aug. 27, 8:30 a.m. This all-day celebration of the three B's will be filled with chances to see many different types of birds close-up, discover the beauty of butterflies and learn about the importance of bees.
Indianapolis Museum of Art, 4000 Michigan Road, included with admission ($18), all-ages | http://www.nuvo.net/Slash/archives/2016/08/25/10-things-to-do-this-weekend | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/f66688b6c3f7726275e49783181b1031227158ea93d8b2e0b9dec86e459e953d.json |
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"Dan Savage",
"In Addition To Being A Nationally Syndicated Sex Advice Columnist",
"Author Of Books",
"Savage Can Also Lay Claim To Being The Only Person At His Home Paper To Have Actually Converted His Sexuality Into A Profession. He Has A Boyfriend",
"A Child. He Is Also Wealthy Beyond The Dreams Of Avari... | 2016-08-26T13:07:28 | null | 2016-08-25T08:00:00 | Is it right to lie to your partner so they'll give you a hand job? What if they've cheated on you in the past? | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2FSavageLove%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F25%2Fsavage-love-a-handy-reason-to-lie.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4209676/savagelove_595_1_.png | en | null | Savage Love: A handy reason to lie | null | null | www.nuvo.net | Bio:
In addition to being a nationally syndicated sex advice columnist and author of books, Savage can also lay claim to being the only person at his home paper to have actually converted his sexuality into a profession. He has a boyfriend and a child. He is also wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice and cheats at racketball...
In addition to being a nationally syndicated sex advice columnist and author of books, Savage can also lay claim to being the only person at his home paper to have actually converted his sexuality into a profession. He has a boyfriend and a child. He is also wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice and cheats at racketball. Good luck getting him on the phone, and don’t ever ask where he’s going or where he’s been. | http://www.nuvo.net/SavageLove/archives/2016/08/25/savage-love-a-handy-reason-to-lie | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/beac2c60f6d64b6452c90124a6ea157fc3c0eef66ac1eb352172369381049a41.json |
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"Mark Sheldon"
] | 2016-08-29T16:50:18 | null | 2016-08-29T10:55:00 | Peep this selection of shots from this weekend's country triple-hitter at Klipsch. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fslideshow-chris-stapleton-hank-williams-jr-ashley-mcbryde-at-klipsch%2FContent%3Foid%3D4224239.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4224238/unnamed_24_.jpg | en | null | Slideshow: Chris Stapleton, Hank Williams Jr., Ashley McBryde at Klipsch | null | null | www.nuvo.net | Today's Best Bets | All of today's events
-All Arts- Classical Music Comedy Festivals + Parties Film + TV Sports + Recreation Theater + Dance Visual Arts + Museums Written + Spoken Word -All Neighborhoods- CENTRAL Downtown Mass Ave Butler-Tarkington EAST East (general) Irvington Martindale-Brightwood WEST Lafayette Square West (general) Avon/Plainfield NORTH Lafayette North (general) Carmel Noblesville Fishers Keystone NORTHWEST Muncie Zionsville NORTHEAST Broad Ripple Nora/Castleton SoBro SOUTH Bloomington South (general) Greenwood SOUTHWEST Southwest (general) SOUTHEAST Fountain Square OTHER Out of state Various Submit an Event
Film + TV -All Neighborhoods- CENTRAL Downtown Mass Ave Butler-Tarkington EAST East (general) Irvington Martindale-Brightwood WEST Lafayette Square West (general) Avon/Plainfield NORTH Lafayette North (general) Carmel Noblesville Fishers Keystone NORTHWEST Muncie Zionsville NORTHEAST Broad Ripple Nora/Castleton SoBro SOUTH Bloomington South (general) Greenwood SOUTHWEST Southwest (general) SOUTHEAST Fountain Square OTHER Out of state Various Submit an Event
-All Music- DJs + Dancing Hip-hop Jazz + Blues + R&B Pop Punk + Metal Rock Roots -All Neighborhoods- CENTRAL Downtown Mass Ave Butler-Tarkington EAST East (general) Irvington Martindale-Brightwood WEST Lafayette Square West (general) Avon/Plainfield NORTH Lafayette North (general) Carmel Noblesville Fishers Keystone NORTHWEST Muncie Zionsville NORTHEAST Broad Ripple Nora/Castleton SoBro SOUTH Bloomington South (general) Greenwood SOUTHWEST Southwest (general) SOUTHEAST Fountain Square OTHER Out of state Various Submit an Event
-All Neighborhoods- CENTRAL Downtown Mass Ave Butler-Tarkington EAST East (general) Irvington Martindale-Brightwood WEST Lafayette Square West (general) Avon/Plainfield NORTH Lafayette North (general) Carmel Noblesville Fishers Keystone NORTHWEST Muncie Zionsville NORTHEAST Broad Ripple Nora/Castleton SoBro SOUTH Bloomington South (general) Greenwood SOUTHWEST Southwest (general) SOUTHEAST Fountain Square OTHER Out of state Various Submit an Event
-All Cuisines- American Asian Fusion Bakery Bar Food BBQ Brewery/Brew Pub Burgers Cajun/Creole Caribbean Chinese Comfort/Soul Food Deli Dessert Diner Egyptian Ethiopian Farm to Table Food Truck French Fusion Gastropub German Greek Hot Dogs Ice Cream Indian Irish Italian Japanese Latin America Mediterranean Mexican Middle Eastern Modern American Moroccan Organic Pakistani Pizza Russian Salads Sandwiches Seafood Spanish Steakhouse Sushi Tapas Tea Thai Vegetarian Wine Bar -All Neighborhoods- CENTRAL Downtown Mass Ave Butler-Tarkington EAST East (general) Irvington Martindale-Brightwood WEST Lafayette Square West (general) Avon/Plainfield NORTH Lafayette North (general) Carmel Noblesville Fishers Keystone NORTHWEST Muncie Zionsville NORTHEAST Broad Ripple Nora/Castleton SoBro SOUTH Bloomington South (general) Greenwood SOUTHWEST Southwest (general) SOUTHEAST Fountain Square OTHER Out of state Various | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/slideshow-chris-stapleton-hank-williams-jr-ashley-mcbryde-at-klipsch/Content?oid=4224239 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/7a3f0e018a0f7f436f82b904b6b2f4cdeae88c203100c998f98e5e51b0598230.json |
[
"Emily Taylor"
] | 2016-08-31T00:51:35 | null | 2016-08-30T15:50:55 | Indy newest dance company debuts their first show. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fa-phoenix-is-rising-in-indianapolis-modern-dance%2FContent%3Foid%3D4227066%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4227068/img_7474.jpg | en | null | A phoenix is rising in Indianapolis modern dance | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/a-phoenix-is-rising-in-indianapolis-modern-dance/Content?oid=4227066&show=comments | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/3aad10cf12a9559078f25350097f2c654107e7819c19e5a7eb9e20c6921c4abf.json |
[
"Lora Olive",
"Lora Olive Is A Marketing Consultant To Our Nonprofit Community Day. Her Work Focuses On Editorial",
"Documentary Projects That Affect Our Local Community. At Night",
"You Will Find Her Documenting Our Local Music Scene",
"Live Performances Around The City. She Has Been A Photo Contributor Fo... | 2016-08-30T18:50:40 | null | 2016-08-30T14:00:00 | Storms pushed this show at the Lawn back a bit, but the crowd hung in to see "Fight Song" live. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fslideshow-rachel-platten-at-the-lawn%2FContent%3Foid%3D4226477.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4226475/img_6980.jpg | en | null | Slideshow: Rachel Platten at the Lawn | null | null | www.nuvo.net | Bio:
Lora Olive is a Marketing Consultant to our nonprofit community by day. Her work focuses on editorial and documentary projects that affect our local community. At night, you will find her documenting our local music scene and live performances around the city. She has been a photo contributor for NUVO for eight...
Lora Olive is a Marketing Consultant to our nonprofit community by day. Her work focuses on editorial and documentary projects that affect our local community. At night, you will find her documenting our local music scene and live performances around the city. She has been a photo contributor for NUVO for eight years. She graduated from Indiana University with a BA in Journalism with a minor in Photojournalism. | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/slideshow-rachel-platten-at-the-lawn/Content?oid=4226477 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/e976fb00318c241a32951a93e03f51e46d4b9d2ecbf54417194847aa6109c76d.json |
[
"Cavan Mcginsie"
] | 2016-08-26T13:08:22 | null | 2016-08-24T12:23:40 | Salt on Mass, a fresh, high-end seafood restaurant opened yesterday on Mass Ave. Get an inside look and review of Indy's newest restaurant. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fa-taste-of-mass-aves-new-seafood-restaurant%2FContent%3Foid%3D4213637.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4213658/20160823_164410.jpg | en | null | A taste of Mass Ave.'s new seafood restaurant | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge The coastal chic interior of Salt on Mass
Cavan McGinsie
click to enlarge Kona Tacos, featuring poke tuna, avocado and caramel-soy glaze from Salt on Mass
Cavan McGinsie
click to enlarge Salt on Mass' pan-seared Panamanian Cobia
Cavan McGinsie
The Midwest isn't particularly known for its fresh seafood. This isn't a surprising fact. For years we were stuck in a situation where the best we could hope for was some quality fish and chips (and even those were hard to come by). But, as Bob Dylan once said, the times they are a-changin'. No longer must we follow Anthony Bourdain's once sage advice of never ordering fish on a Monday due to the fact that transportation is much easier than it was even 15 years ago and restaurants all around the country can receive fresh, daily shipments of any in-season product they desire.Look at me, I'm burying the lead. What all this comes down to is we have a new seafood restaurant here in Indy and it's damn good. Salt on Mass opened last night (guess what, it's on Mass Ave.) and I can attest to the fact that their fish is fresh and, according to the bartender, flown in daily.I made my way through the door shortly after they opened and took a look around the modern, coastal chic room. The place is replete with grays and whites and tan, nautical ropes, the room light and inviting. As I ambled up to the bar I was happy to see the only televisions were at the bar, nothing is worse than having a nice meal with friends and family and everyone being distracted by a screen.A quick glance at the menu showed me they are using as many local ingredients as is possible in a seafood establishment, I noted Viking Farms lamb, Miller Farms chicken and beef from Fischer Farm. After ordering a Carson's Red Dawn to start out I asked the bartender if they had any other local products on the menu and he was excited to reveal that much of their produce is locally-sourced and so is the pasta.If you're going to judge a seafood restaurants quality, the place to start is with something fresh. So, while the crab cakes sounded and looked incredible, I had to go with Kona Tacos, which featured tuna poke, avocado and a caramel-soy glaze nestled in wonton taco shells. I was about halfway through my beer when they arrived. The tacos were unbelievably good, the tuna was fresh, the taco shells crisp and the blending of flavor, as I put in my Instagram post, "perfection."The three tacos had left me feeling satisfied, but if I'm trying out a new seafood place, I'm not going to leave without getting an entree cooked by Chef Neil Andrews (formerly of Oceanaire) and his team. Though many dishes sounded fantastic, including the Crispy Florida Red Grouper or the Seared Atlantic Yellowfin Tuna with kimchee (I'm a sucker for kimchee) and sambal, I had to go with the Pan Seared Panamanian Cobia, (I'm even more of a sucker for meaty, white fish). I ordered a glass of chardonnay to accompany the dish, their wine list was a nice detail, as I have to say a good glass of wine pairs with fish better than nearly any beer or cocktail.While I waited for my meal — and I have to say it was quite a wait, which I expected during the opening night, and you should expect for the first month or so (this goes for any restaurant opening) — I took in the rest of the place. One thing that set it apart from the other seafood options in the city is it is definitely a more relaxed atmosphere. The music was bluesy rock, the workers were in jeans, I was in flip-flops. I'm not saying it was better or worse, but it is nice to have a place to get quality seafood without feeling like I have to dressed to the nines and the waitstaff's garb feeling moderately pretentious.When my food finally arrived, I looked down at the dish and immediately noticed the fish was seared perfectly, with nice crispy edges. Atop the fish sat a healthy helping of Dungeness crab and below was an even healthier portion of asparagus. One bite in and I was in Heaven, a garlicky, buttery heaven. Nothing is worse than undercooked fish, it's slimy and when overcooked, while not as apt to cause a gag-reflex, it is rubbery and tough. This fish, was right in the center. The crispy edges were toothsome and gave a nice crunchy texture while the middle was tender. The massive amount of asparagus was a nice addition and added a nice third texture. Throughout the meal I was asked by no-less than three workers if my meal was going well. I will always prefer a restaurant that is over-attentive, and they all seemed genuinely happy when I said it was great.I finished my dish in unison with my chardonnay. In the just over an hour I was there the place had finally started to fill up with guests, I had seen many people come in that had made reservations. I grabbed my bill out of the glass in front of me, $67 for the meal (prior to tip), so if you're planning on going expect to spend some dough. All-in-all it was a quality meal and I have to say I'm excited for new seafood here in town, the fact that it's a couple minute walk from Old National Centre and mere seconds from the Rathskeller makes it just that much better for a pre-concert meal.See the menu and make your reservations at saltonmass.com | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/a-taste-of-mass-aves-new-seafood-restaurant/Content?oid=4213637 | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/833b20077c54e0c88ac85271bbdb8c7de67f9e0fcf187d7e2df50b40536063c4.json |
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"Dan Savage",
"In Addition To Being A Nationally Syndicated Sex Advice Columnist",
"Author Of Books",
"Savage Can Also Lay Claim To Being The Only Person At His Home Paper To Have Actually Converted His Sexuality Into A Profession. He Has A Boyfriend",
"A Child. He Is Also Wealthy Beyond The Dreams Of Avari... | 2016-08-27T16:50:24 | null | 2016-08-26T08:00:00 | Dan's replacement of the week weighs in on a pegging problem. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2FSavageLove%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fsavage-love-take-control-of-what-enters-your-ass%2F.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4209677/savagelove_595_1_.png | en | null | Savage Love: Take control of what enters your ass | null | null | www.nuvo.net | Bio:
In addition to being a nationally syndicated sex advice columnist and author of books, Savage can also lay claim to being the only person at his home paper to have actually converted his sexuality into a profession. He has a boyfriend and a child. He is also wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice and cheats at racketball...
In addition to being a nationally syndicated sex advice columnist and author of books, Savage can also lay claim to being the only person at his home paper to have actually converted his sexuality into a profession. He has a boyfriend and a child. He is also wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice and cheats at racketball. Good luck getting him on the phone, and don’t ever ask where he’s going or where he’s been. | http://www.nuvo.net/SavageLove/archives/2016/08/26/savage-love-take-control-of-what-enters-your-ass/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/aa0118c953ce6fb499334f326dd1acbd5a4c94a2339fa129f0c726db40b1c72b.json |
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"Gage Hein"
] | 2016-08-27T18:50:31 | null | 2016-08-25T09:50:00 | Gage Hein snapped shots of Lil Uzi's show in Indy this week. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fslideshow-lil-uzi-vert%2FContent%3Foid%3D4215974%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4215971/photo_aug_21_8_32_11_am.jpg | en | null | Slideshow: Lil Uzi Vert | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/slideshow-lil-uzi-vert/Content?oid=4215974&show=comments | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/8aaced8d63a71af2c84b320e96bba7ea9401d92e71978d272aeaabb927b346e1.json |
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"Dr. Rhonda Baughman",
"Dr. Rhonda Baughman Loves To Travel",
"Eat",
"Write",
"Watch Movies",
"Go To Concerts",
"Play With Her Vinyl Record Collection. Her Latest Novel Is About An English Teacher Who'S Also An Assassin. Follow Her On Twitter",
"Not In Real Life",
"Because She'S Actually An English ... | 2016-08-26T13:08:09 | null | 2016-08-24T14:10:23 | The book looking at rock in the Hoosier state | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fstraight-outta-evansville-david-humphreys-account-of-rock-and-roll-in-indiana%2FContent%3Foid%3D4214033.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4214042/img_2387.jpg | en | null | Straight outta Evansville: David Humphrey's account of rock and roll in Indiana | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge
I came so very close to scoring an interview with Charlie Watts, but it fell through at the last minute," says David Humphrey, author of the The Golden Years of Rock and Roll in the Hoosier State due this fall."The Stones had just come off tour and Charlie decided he needed to relax," says Humphrey. "That would have been the chance of a lifetime — but actually, it meant a great deal to me for Charlie to even consider granting me an interview," Humphrey says, not only as a writer and journalist, but as a hardcore fan of the music from the late '50s through the '70s. His eight-chapter book contains several interviews, recollections and stories from fans, musicians, disc jockeys, Indiana garage band members and journalists during the height of rock and roll. Fifteen pages of photos and concert reviews round out the book, with a foreword and afterword from the author. Many of the memories shared by fans for this upcoming book are from individuals who were in local bands that opened for the national acts of the time period. One thing is for sure: Opening acts, even if they were only given two to three days' warning they were to go onstage, took the job very seriously. "One of my favorite interviews is with a man who was just a teen working at Joe's Record Shop in Anderson when his band opened for The Byrds in the mid-'60s. They were only required to play a few songs, but he described what it was like spending the whole day with the band, the autograph sessions and how well the fans were treated, how they were taken seriously as an integral part of rock and roll," says Humphrey.Expensive VIP meet and greet packages and generic photo ops are the norm now.Humphrey continues, "I think the fans I spoke with for the book, and probably other fans of the golden years of rock and roll, miss something specific of the era: meeting the band backstage, meeting after the show for autographs and photos, touring through record stores, autograph sessions, radio interviews, the intimacy, how well fans were treated — much of that is gone now. The change started somewhere around the early to mid-'70s. Rock and roll became a big, big business." Although an even bigger business now, many of rock's past stars were wonderful, patient, and fun to talk to, according to Humphrey. "Peter Asher [of Peter and Gordon] was so very nice to interview," says Humphrey. "Mark Farner from Grand Funk Railroad was also wonderful in person. Success did not go to his head — in fact, he takes success as it is and came across as a genuine rock star with me, in a good way. And Felix Cavaliere [The Young Rascals] was also a great interview. I found him online, contacted his manager and was put in touch with Felix. He lives in Nashville and we were able to talk for quite some time. These guys love to talk about the era, the memories and what happened during the height of their music. Although there is the cliché I've heard that if you love an entertainer's work, you should never meet the entertainer — but these guys? I'm so glad I interviewed them. They were honest and fun, and they're still rock stars to me. I can still hear them on the radio."Humphrey's book also contains an interview with Charlie Smith — widow of Mike Smith (of the Dave Clark Five). "She still lives in Indiana and was very open with me, very honest," says Humphrey. "She talked of their time together before and after Mike's accident — he was paralyzed in a fall — and of his time in and out of physical rehab. It's truly a remarkable love story. Mike passed away a few days before his band was inducted into Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame." "Peter Yarrow [Peter, Paul, and Mary] says the next Bob Dylan could be out there, but nobody's looking for him," Humphrey laughs. "And he may be right. But like so many of my interviews, although bittersweet, this is the best way to talk about history — to hear it from those who lived it. | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/straight-outta-evansville-david-humphreys-account-of-rock-and-roll-in-indiana/Content?oid=4214033 | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/b41844a9e2a28ec0c19743f857a2838fe3ad1640a6c672ecc3f3c0bd9b689474.json |
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"John Krull"
] | 2016-08-31T14:51:41 | null | 2016-08-31T08:00:00 | Neither Clinton is likely ever to do something that would end their chances of returning to the White House. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2FGuestVoices%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F31%2Fthe-clintons-make-republicans-dumb%2F.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4227420/hillary_clinton_sworn_in_as_sec_y_of_state_2-2-09_2.jpg | en | null | The Clintons make Republicans dumb | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge wikimedia commons
Hillary Clinton is sworn into the office of Secretary of State by Vice President Joe Biden surrounded by her family.
Republicans are about to suffer another attack of stupidity.An Associated Press story detailing that major donors to the Clinton Foundation managed to secure meetings with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state has sent GOP fire-breathers into overdrive.Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump flooded social media with calls for an investigation. Several Republican members of Congress followed The Donald’s lead and issued press releases demanding that a special prosecutor be appointed to investigate the matter.Sigh.These people never learn.Bill and Hillary Clinton met when they both attended the Yale University School of Law, where they both were top students. They are among the best legal minds of their generation.That, in part, is the reason why Republican efforts to nail them on legal grounds always fail. The Clintons know where the line is and, with long years of practice, they have become adept at tiptoeing along it.The attempts to defeat the Clintons through legal investigations also end in disaster because both husband and wife have finely developed instincts for self-preservation. There is no doubt that they love money and the good life, but not nearly as much as they love political power.Bill Clinton began running for president while he was still in his mother’s womb. Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the nation’s highest office began in the seconds right after her husband took the presidential oath for the first time.Neither Clinton is likely ever to do something that would end their chances of returning to the White House.And, again, because they have fought upon this terrain so often before, they know how to turn these attacks to their advantage.Republicans were convinced 20 years ago they had Bill Clinton skinned and scalped over his dalliance with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. By the time the impeachment and subsequent trial in the U.S. Senate had ended, several Republican members of Congress had seen their careers come to an end – and Bill Clinton enjoyed some of the highest public approval numbers of his presidency.That pattern has repeated itself again and again.Republicans attack, the Clintons parry and the GOP inevitably ends up sustaining the deepest wounds.The outcome will be the same this time.The AP story reveals a pattern of behavior on Hillary Clinton’s part that is unseemly but not illegal. (If it becomes a crime for public officials to open their doors to people of wealth, every member of Congress, every governor and most state legislators soon will find themselves under indictment.)Using a special prosecutor or some other investigatory means to trickle out details embarrassing to the Clintons also won’t be effective.Because the Clintons have dominated the nation’s attention for a quarter-century, there are few Americans who haven’t made up their minds about them already. The news that they like to cut ethical corners stopped being a revelation two decades ago.More evidence won’t change many minds.What the GOP needs right now is a way to persuade wavering moderate Republicans, distrustful independents and disaffected Democrats to swing their way.Attacking Clinton won’t do that, but there is a way it could be done.Long ago, a Republican presidential candidate destroyed his Democratic opponent by asking one simple question during a debate:“Are you better off than you were four years ago?The brilliance of Ronald Reagan’s query during his 1980 race against Jimmy Carter was that it shifted the focus back where it always should be in public service – on the lives of the people elected officials are supposed to serve. It also helped make the Republican Party the dominant political force in this country for a generation or more.The brutal fact is that if a candidate, Republican or Democrat, asked Reagan’s question now, many Americans could not answer yes without lying. Even with the stock market notching record highs and employment numbers setting new standards, the middle class is dissolving and the American standard of living is eroding.Making this race about those citizens who feel the American Dream slipping from their grasp would be the smart thing to do.Instead, the GOP wants to make this race about Hillary Clinton.Attacks of stupidity are costly – sometimes more than others.This is likely to be one of the “more” times. | http://www.nuvo.net/GuestVoices/archives/2016/08/31/the-clintons-make-republicans-dumb/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/ebd7979209eb5fa2807f0aaff775d8682e5262accc01a1056b437b755b0c7059.json |
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"Jeff Napier"
] | 2016-08-26T13:06:01 | null | 2016-08-24T10:02:14 | The band's latest album is a breathless rush of straight-up rock and roll that no one's really done anything noteworthy with since maybe Buckcherry's first record. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Freview-machine-guns-and-motorcycles-time-bomb%2FContent%3Foid%3D4213602.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4213608/machine_guns_and_motorcycles_.jpg | en | null | Review: Machine Guns and Motorcycles' "Time Bomb" | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge
Machine Guns and MotorcyclesAtomic Robot Records
Wayne Griffith, the leader of Machine Guns and Motorcycles is a smart guy. He has assembled one of the best lineups of Indy rockers and he writes songs that play to this band's strengths. Drummer Mark Cutsinger and bassist John Zeps are local legends that effortlessly lock into a groove as only old buddies can. Dave Lawson, Cutsinger's bandmate in the Zero Boys, blends his buzzsaw guitar sound perfectly with Griffith's own towering guitar chops.
As such, the band's latest album is a breathless rush of straight-up rock and roll that no one's really done anything noteworthy with since maybe Buckcherry's first record.
Time Bomb is front-loaded with a great blast of songs that stick in the craw. "Time Bomb" kicks this affair off with some nice meaty riffage; later, tunes like "Swagger" and "Let's Roll" keep the party rolling along. "Downtown," with tight harmonies, is the first of a pair of great songs that make this album so enjoyable.
But the real ass-kicker on here is "Superjaded," a catchy, rocking, flawless kind of song that gets a band noticed.
Time Bomb's flaws include weaker songs on the album like "Shadows and Dust" and "Heavy Metal Days" that follow the same template as the rest of the album. It would be nice to see this great band challenged and pushed to greater heights rather than playing the same kind of mid-tempo hi-energy rock to varying degrees of success
If you go:
Machine Guns and Motorcycles with The Lickers and The Vibrolas
Saturday, August 27
Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St.,
9 p.m., $5, 21+ | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/review-machine-guns-and-motorcycles-time-bomb/Content?oid=4213602 | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/c4c867a2f4994c88325639fcb68e9a738ba6f3fe40c6e97ebc7abad734573e46.json |
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Andrew Kist
As a first generation Indian American, Hasan Minhaj remembers having a tough time explaining to his parents what pursuing a comedy career would look like for him.“They were just like, ‘What are you doing? What does this entail?’ — that was their biggest concern,” he remembers. “The more I explained it to them, the more disappointed I would actually feel. I was like, ‘Look. I go on stage and tell jokes late at night in basements, and sometimes people get drunk and yell at me … You’re right, Dad. This is a horrible decision.’”Little did his parents know, Minhaj would end up becoming a senior correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, where he now comments on cultural issues through a comical lens. On top of that, the 30-year-old humorist is also making his theatrical debut in a one-man show called Homecoming King, which is based on true events from Minhaj’s first generation Indian-American experience.Throughout his childhood, Minhaj admits that he was never a performer — although he did spend time speaking in front of people while taking part in speech and debate activities. In fact, he didn’t really get a taste of comedy until his years at University of California, Davis, where he studied political science. “We didn’t have cable growing up,” Minhaj reflects. “I finally saw stand-up comedy when I was in college, and I was like, ‘Oh! This is funny speech and debate. This is the way I should present arguments.’” From here, he fell in love with the art form, eventually working his way up in the comedy world before landing on The Daily Show. And by working alongside Jon Stewart and Trevor Noah over the past few years, Minhaj admits he has grown as not only a comedian but also as a debate maker.“One of the things that I learned atis to first figure out your argument, and then make it funny,” Minhaj says. “Too often, people are just trying to crack jokes. But believe it or not, having a great, sound argument is way harder than just making jokes.”During a recent set at the annual Radio and Television Correspondents dinner, Minhaj was able to put these skills to the test, blasting Congress at one point for their inaction in passing gun control legislation. “I was like, ‘This is a huge elephant in the room, and I would be remiss if I didn’t take the opportunity to say this in front of Congress — the people that can actually pass common sense gun legislation,’” he says. So rather than throwing around “witty barbs,” he chose to instead speak on a relevant issue that he felt needed to be addressed.“I just want to talk about things that I really care about,” Minhaj says. “That’s just the way I think.”Much like his remarks from the Radio and Television Correspondents dinner,comes straight from Minhaj’s heart, highlighting real-life experiences that the comedian has had throughout his life. Over the course of a 75-minute narrative, Minhaj travels through different vignettes while touching on themes like heartbreak, racism and the American dream. Considering the seriousness of some of these personal stories, Homecoming King is not strictly a comedy.“I remember distinctly being in class, learning about the Constitution, and learning that we have these unalienable rights,” Minhaj says. “When that wasn’t reflected back to me, there was a part of me that was like, ‘Hey, that’s not right. I’m holding this receipt, and on the receipt, it says this is what I’m supposed to be getting for the American dream.’”Unlike much of his work on, Minhaj seesas a piece of comedy that can stand the test of time. “I’m making Donald Trump jokes today, and come January 20, those might not be relevant anymore,” he says. “But these true stories that are rooted in these central themes that have been prevalent in America since its inception remain relevant, even after the events themselves have ended.” With this in mind, he ensures thatwill not be his last time doing theater.“If you were to think of comedic and emotional notes from A to Z, you can kind of only play notes A through M with just a microphone,” he concludes. “But when you take it to the theater and you’re doing things with actual physical evidence behind you, and you can use lights, sounds, video and all these different tools, you can play notes A through M and N through Z, which just opens up the possibilities. I can’t wait to continue to create shows like this.” | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/hasan-minhaj-is-blowing-up-the-elephant-in-the-room/Content?oid=4227075 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/01a1a12b089a2dee01dcfc7c74599058c907a76fc7480bb43230604fa1af9384.json |
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"Emily Taylor",
"Emily Is The Arts Editor At Nuvo",
"Where She Covers Everything Visual Art To Comedy. In Fact She Is Probably At A Theater Production Right Now. Before Joining The Ranks Here",
"She Worked For Indianapolis Monthly",
"Gannett. You Can Find Her Thoughts About Indy Scattered Throughout The Nuv... | 2016-08-30T20:50:40 | null | 2016-08-30T15:50:55 | Indy newest dance company debuts their first show. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fa-phoenix-is-rising-in-indianapolis-modern-dance%2FContent%3Foid%3D4227066.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4227068/img_7474.jpg | en | null | A phoenix is rising in Indianapolis modern dance | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge
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“I am married to him and I can’t explain it, he just lights fires in people,” says William. “These guys would walk through fire for him.”
Phoenix Rising’s first performance has more than a theme — it’s their story. The show is called, and when Phoenix went from a dream to a reality in less than six months, they underwent one themselves.“The whole concept not just behind our company, but our dance studio … is literally trying to help along the transformation of Indianapolis in the public eye outside of the state,” says one of the owners of Phoenix Rising, William Sears-Watson who runs the dance company with his husband Justin Sears-Watson. (Justin was formally a member of Dance Kaleidoscope and oversees the artistic integrity of Phoenix Rising.)“Not to say that the Indy 500 is a bad thing, because it’s not, but when you ask 10 people from L.A. what they think of when they hear Indiana, nine of them will say the race,” says William. “… We want Indianapolis to be seen as a cultural city and not just a sports town, we want to be seen as a more diverse cultural place, we want to transform.”And they are definitely planning a transformation. Right now there are two parts to the Phoenix Rising brand — the for-profit studio (which hosts classes like hip-hop, lyrical, ballet, modern and tap) and the not-for-profit modern dance company. They hope to have the company touring in the next few years and holding auditions in places like Chicago and New York.“We want to take an Indianapolis homegrown product and take it and show it off everywhere,” says William.William noted that they have received plenty of opposition, especially from those who think with groups like Motus and Dance Kaleidoscope, that Indianapolis is oversaturated with dance.“This is a city of over a million people, so to have one or two dance companiesto me is unthinkable,” says William.“... When Justin and I do something we do it very hard, we don’t listen to naysayers on to and trust me, there havebeen plenty.”He went onto say that Dance Kaleidoscope loaned them the costumes for this show.“For Dance Kaladescope to do something like that, it not only says a lot about us,” says William. “It says a lot about them.”Justin left Dance Kaladescope last year after a series of stress fractures put him at a health risk dancing full-time. Now he teaches classes at the studio, oversees the traveling competition team (who train for over 10 hours a week) and is the director for the modern dance company.The modern dance company side of things has been a leap of faith for the two; to the extent thatis being paid for out of their own pockets. For now, the company dancers are not being paid for rehearsal time but will get a piece of the profits from the door sales.“They are basically volunteering,” says William.But he went on to say how Justin is able to spark something in the dancers that is unrivaled.The company is made up of Crossroads dancers (who recently had a Fringe show) and an eclectic assortment of others.The Sears-Watsons have been amazed at how Phoenix Rising has snowballed. Getting into a theater was in a long-term plan, now they have a four-show season that’s booked at Theatre on the Square for 2016 and 2017.This particular show will address topics like addiction, all the way to narratives like the lifecycle of a cicada. Justin will be dancing in the show for one song,“Justin is very into one thing affecting another thing,” says Sears-Watson. “So [in this show] we are talking about the transition you might go through in a day, and a week and a couple years, or throughout your entire life.”For a retired dancer a former hair salon owner, running Phoenix Rising is a transformation in and of itself. But it’s something they hope to stake their lives around. William puts it well:“This is our legacy.” | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/a-phoenix-is-rising-in-indianapolis-modern-dance/Content?oid=4227066 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/c3804726c8872544255743854caefda4412dbecacf1922c75b82ac5a4758d4a2.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:10:50 | null | 2016-08-23T10:00:00 | No two cuisines pair quite so well as beer and pizza, Rita Kohn delves into the food world of Bloomington to share the places to enjoy this match made in Heaven. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fa-bloomington-beer-and-pizza-guide%2FContent%3Foid%3D4209678%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4211437/beer_pizza.png | en | null | A Bloomington beer and pizza guide | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/a-bloomington-beer-and-pizza-guide/Content?oid=4209678&show=comments | en | 2016-08-23T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/b04d0f90eef881b08cf830d4a3c411a26836b5a17639ca3b48d08136d8dfd2e3.json |
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"Amber Stearns"
] | 2016-08-29T18:51:04 | null | 2016-08-03T11:16:26 | A look at some of Trump's messaging in 2016 and the recruiting messaging of the Klan from 1924 shows how closely in tune the two messages really are. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fcomparing-the-donald-and-the-hoosier-kkk%2FContent%3Foid%3D4166759%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4166765/newsredacted1.jpg | en | null | Comparing The Donald and the Hoosier KKK | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/comparing-the-donald-and-the-hoosier-kkk/Content?oid=4166759&show=comments | en | 2016-08-03T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/3f3687e1522925501e6a59c40fbd0622df25292e84a7e02d82a192271710b084.json |
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"Dan Savage",
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"Author Of Books",
"Savage Can Also Lay Claim To Being The Only Person At His Home Paper To Have Actually Converted His Sexuality Into A Profession. He Has A Boyfriend",
"A Child. He Is Also Wealthy Beyond The Dreams Of Avari... | 2016-08-26T13:07:08 | null | 2016-08-24T08:00:00 | If a guy can't get it up during sex in a new relationship, it's about time to go. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2FSavageLove%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F24%2Fsavage-love-say-goodbye-to-that-limp-dick.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4209675/savagelove_595_1_.png | en | null | Savage Love: Say goodbye to that limp dick | null | null | www.nuvo.net | Bio:
In addition to being a nationally syndicated sex advice columnist and author of books, Savage can also lay claim to being the only person at his home paper to have actually converted his sexuality into a profession. He has a boyfriend and a child. He is also wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice and cheats at racketball...
In addition to being a nationally syndicated sex advice columnist and author of books, Savage can also lay claim to being the only person at his home paper to have actually converted his sexuality into a profession. He has a boyfriend and a child. He is also wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice and cheats at racketball. Good luck getting him on the phone, and don’t ever ask where he’s going or where he’s been. | http://www.nuvo.net/SavageLove/archives/2016/08/24/savage-love-say-goodbye-to-that-limp-dick | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/12c2fb2ed3e0ab1583bb74784eef942e5a9eb42c0c76bd57b9405bfeb473025f.json |
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"Dan Grossman"
] | 2016-08-30T14:51:25 | null | 2016-08-29T16:51:11 | It shouldn’t be a one-time thing | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Freview-in-light-in-indys-downtown-lights-festival%2FContent%3Foid%3D4225047%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4225049/20160827_225259.jpg | en | null | Review: IN Light IN, Indy's downtown lights festival | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/review-in-light-in-indys-downtown-lights-festival/Content?oid=4225047&show=comments | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/8ac977c40634934cdeede0c1037c5fc4db6d1e545a4a5de14a37d6050b2d74a1.json |
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-All Arts- Classical Music Comedy Festivals + Parties Film + TV Sports + Recreation Theater + Dance Visual Arts + Museums Written + Spoken Word -All Neighborhoods- CENTRAL Downtown Mass Ave Butler-Tarkington EAST East (general) Irvington Martindale-Brightwood WEST Lafayette Square West (general) Avon/Plainfield NORTH Lafayette North (general) Carmel Noblesville Fishers Keystone NORTHWEST Muncie Zionsville NORTHEAST Broad Ripple Nora/Castleton SoBro SOUTH Bloomington South (general) Greenwood SOUTHWEST Southwest (general) SOUTHEAST Fountain Square OTHER Out of state Various Submit an Event
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-All Music- DJs + Dancing Hip-hop Jazz + Blues + R&B Pop Punk + Metal Rock Roots -All Neighborhoods- CENTRAL Downtown Mass Ave Butler-Tarkington EAST East (general) Irvington Martindale-Brightwood WEST Lafayette Square West (general) Avon/Plainfield NORTH Lafayette North (general) Carmel Noblesville Fishers Keystone NORTHWEST Muncie Zionsville NORTHEAST Broad Ripple Nora/Castleton SoBro SOUTH Bloomington South (general) Greenwood SOUTHWEST Southwest (general) SOUTHEAST Fountain Square OTHER Out of state Various Submit an Event
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-All Cuisines- American Asian Fusion Bakery Bar Food BBQ Brewery/Brew Pub Burgers Cajun/Creole Caribbean Chinese Comfort/Soul Food Deli Dessert Diner Egyptian Ethiopian Farm to Table Food Truck French Fusion Gastropub German Greek Hot Dogs Ice Cream Indian Irish Italian Japanese Latin America Mediterranean Mexican Middle Eastern Modern American Moroccan Organic Pakistani Pizza Russian Salads Sandwiches Seafood Spanish Steakhouse Sushi Tapas Tea Thai Vegetarian Wine Bar -All Neighborhoods- CENTRAL Downtown Mass Ave Butler-Tarkington EAST East (general) Irvington Martindale-Brightwood WEST Lafayette Square West (general) Avon/Plainfield NORTH Lafayette North (general) Carmel Noblesville Fishers Keystone NORTHWEST Muncie Zionsville NORTHEAST Broad Ripple Nora/Castleton SoBro SOUTH Bloomington South (general) Greenwood SOUTHWEST Southwest (general) SOUTHEAST Fountain Square OTHER Out of state Various | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/indianapolis-fall-city-guide-2016/Content?oid=4228827 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/bf6cb1b1495772ed169ec7da73a74c49c30e7d3f329ec423eaa933b550eca1d9.json |
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"Rita Kohn"
] | 2016-08-26T20:49:29 | null | 2016-08-26T14:59:26 | Fishers first brewery celebrates its first anniversary tonight, plus Rita has rounded up plenty of new brews and beer events to enjoy. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fheady-hollow-brewpub-turns-one-tonight%2FContent%3Foid%3D4218472.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4218474/12088277_1490588671241773_4072878617922695995_n.jpg | en | null | Heady Hollow Brewpub turns one tonight | null | null | www.nuvo.net | Today's Best Bets | All of today's events
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"John Krull"
] | 2016-08-31T12:50:48 | null | 2016-08-31T08:00:00 | Neither Clinton is likely ever to do something that would end their chances of returning to the White House. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2FGuestVoices%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F31%2Fthe-clintons-make-republicans-dumb.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4227420/hillary_clinton_sworn_in_as_sec_y_of_state_2-2-09_2.jpg | en | null | The Clintons make Republicans dumb | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge wikimedia commons
Hillary Clinton is sworn into the office of Secretary of State by Vice President Joe Biden surrounded by her family.
Republicans are about to suffer another attack of stupidity.An Associated Press story detailing that major donors to the Clinton Foundation managed to secure meetings with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state has sent GOP fire-breathers into overdrive.Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump flooded social media with calls for an investigation. Several Republican members of Congress followed The Donald’s lead and issued press releases demanding that a special prosecutor be appointed to investigate the matter.Sigh.These people never learn.Bill and Hillary Clinton met when they both attended the Yale University School of Law, where they both were top students. They are among the best legal minds of their generation.That, in part, is the reason why Republican efforts to nail them on legal grounds always fail. The Clintons know where the line is and, with long years of practice, they have become adept at tiptoeing along it.The attempts to defeat the Clintons through legal investigations also end in disaster because both husband and wife have finely developed instincts for self-preservation. There is no doubt that they love money and the good life, but not nearly as much as they love political power.Bill Clinton began running for president while he was still in his mother’s womb. Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the nation’s highest office began in the seconds right after her husband took the presidential oath for the first time.Neither Clinton is likely ever to do something that would end their chances of returning to the White House.And, again, because they have fought upon this terrain so often before, they know how to turn these attacks to their advantage.Republicans were convinced 20 years ago they had Bill Clinton skinned and scalped over his dalliance with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. By the time the impeachment and subsequent trial in the U.S. Senate had ended, several Republican members of Congress had seen their careers come to an end – and Bill Clinton enjoyed some of the highest public approval numbers of his presidency.That pattern has repeated itself again and again.Republicans attack, the Clintons parry and the GOP inevitably ends up sustaining the deepest wounds.The outcome will be the same this time.The AP story reveals a pattern of behavior on Hillary Clinton’s part that is unseemly but not illegal. (If it becomes a crime for public officials to open their doors to people of wealth, every member of Congress, every governor and most state legislators soon will find themselves under indictment.)Using a special prosecutor or some other investigatory means to trickle out details embarrassing to the Clintons also won’t be effective.Because the Clintons have dominated the nation’s attention for a quarter-century, there are few Americans who haven’t made up their minds about them already. The news that they like to cut ethical corners stopped being a revelation two decades ago.More evidence won’t change many minds.What the GOP needs right now is a way to persuade wavering moderate Republicans, distrustful independents and disaffected Democrats to swing their way.Attacking Clinton won’t do that, but there is a way it could be done.Long ago, a Republican presidential candidate destroyed his Democratic opponent by asking one simple question during a debate:“Are you better off than you were four years ago?The brilliance of Ronald Reagan’s query during his 1980 race against Jimmy Carter was that it shifted the focus back where it always should be in public service – on the lives of the people elected officials are supposed to serve. It also helped make the Republican Party the dominant political force in this country for a generation or more.The brutal fact is that if a candidate, Republican or Democrat, asked Reagan’s question now, many Americans could not answer yes without lying. Even with the stock market notching record highs and employment numbers setting new standards, the middle class is dissolving and the American standard of living is eroding.Making this race about those citizens who feel the American Dream slipping from their grasp would be the smart thing to do.Instead, the GOP wants to make this race about Hillary Clinton.Attacks of stupidity are costly – sometimes more than others.This is likely to be one of the “more” times. | http://www.nuvo.net/GuestVoices/archives/2016/08/31/the-clintons-make-republicans-dumb | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/a21ccb65f9bf4aac71ff71c317e6175dbdc6ad683cfcd69235a9275f35bca618.json |
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"Kent Sterling"
] | 2016-08-27T18:50:17 | null | 2016-08-23T10:00:00 | Life is better when surrounded by people who know the whole is greater than the individual | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2F10-things-we-learned-from-celebration-of-joel-cornettes-life%2FContent%3Foid%3D4211441%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4211440/joelcornette.png | en | null | 10 things we learned from celebration of Joel Cornette’s life | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/10-things-we-learned-from-celebration-of-joel-cornettes-life/Content?oid=4211441&show=comments | en | 2016-08-23T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/8665dc7a2d252c43ad8344cf6272a661ff5687e52cbe6d92e2e04a143a1799cd.json |
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"The Statehouse File"
] | 2016-08-26T13:10:22 | null | 2016-08-21T10:38:39 | After a lengthy recount, Democrat Ron Drake is finally declared the winner of the primary in the 8th congressional district. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fdrake-wins-recount-in-8th-district-democratic-primary%2FContent%3Foid%3D4207195%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4207197/drake.pitrelli.jpg | en | null | Drake wins recount in 8th District Democratic primary | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/drake-wins-recount-in-8th-district-democratic-primary/Content?oid=4207195&show=comments | en | 2016-08-21T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/7465c9c4d6aa99d9492c93333a2d4e79c7254131bdadc6a40c3ab02ae57aada7.json |
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"Wayne Bertsch"
] | 2016-08-26T13:03:49 | null | 2016-08-24T15:41:00 | Political cartoon "Gadfly" returns to NUVO for the 2016 political season. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2FSlash%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F24%2Fgadfly-returns-holes-in-the-gop-boat.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4214146/gadfly.png | en | null | Gadfly returns: Holes in the GOP boat | null | null | www.nuvo.net | Today's Best Bets | All of today's events
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"Sierra Vandervort"
] | 2016-08-30T14:50:36 | null | 2016-08-30T10:30:00 | The quartet packed up their cars for a two-week road trip up to New York City and back, playing shows, recording music and exploring the cities. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fjeron-braxton-and-the-tomogotchis-click%2FContent%3Foid%3D4224632.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4224638/joyful.jpg | en | null | Jeron Braxton and The Tomogotchis click | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge Performing at Joyful Noise Recordings
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“I feel like we’re creating an entirely new dimension,” Jeron Braxton says to his roommates. They’re sitting together on the front porch of the house they share in Bloomington, discussing the final details of their band’s upcoming East Coast tour. “The stuff we’re doing is so crazy, it’s like we’re augmenting reality, man,” he says.Their group, Jeron Braxton + the Tomogotchis, shaped their experimental sound across Bloomington basements for the past year, but brought their music aboveground this summer on their debut album, released by Indianapolis label Warm Ratio. An eponymous, eight-track demo tape, the album is a testament to the group’s musical diversity.Braxton is the infectiously joyous frontman with the catchy melodies. Trevor Moore is the punk kid with a chest tattoos and punchy bass lines. Dave Segedy is the cat-loving drummer with the technical precision of a seasoned garage band vet and Reilly Shanahan is the boy-next-door guitar player cranking out sunny, pop-oriented riffs.Together, the foursome crafts hip-hop with a dash soul-infused garage rock, cooking up that other-wordly vibe Braxton talks about.“I feel like the thing that sets you apart and makes your art special is your style – or the flavor you put on it,” he says. “I feel like just by creating the stuff that I would want to see and hear, naturally I create my own style.”The Tomogotchis accompanied their Warm Ratio release with a supporting tour all along the East Coast, dubbed the Missed Call Tour. The quartet packed up their cars for a two-week road trip up to New York City and back, playing shows, recording music and exploring the cities.But before they left, the Tomogotchis kicked off the tour with a performance at Joyful Noise.Before Braxton makes his way to the stage, the Tomogotchis open with an instrumental jazz track. Local fans and wandering First Friday patrons slowly begin to fill the venue. The band stands in uniform black against the stark white walls and curtains of the venue. A massive, hollowed, white cube sits center stage.The charismatic Braxton twists and shuffles his way around the stage, his electrified dancing leaves him hanging off the stage during their track “Umm.” Shanahan uses a nearby beer can to make a crunchy slide as he and Braxton wail into the mic: “Closer to the, closer to the, closer to the edge.” Braxton’s homemade visuals flash on the screen behind them.These kind of local performances do well with keeping local music thriving in Indianapolis, especially with the support of the local nonprofit Musical Family Tree.“The shows are a way to plant a flag in our home town and push for people to be more into original music in Indy,” says Joyful Noise booking agent Rob Peoni. “We try to bring in the kind of acts that aren’t getting booked in other venues through here.”Thanks to recent lineup changes, the Tomogotchis double as the backing band to Segedy’s popular garage rock outfit Sleeping Bag. While this provides a good opportunity for both bands to promote their music across the country, it meant a majority of the guys were playing two separate shows a night, for two very different bands. There are no buses for their equipment; there are no fancy hotel stays, just the trunks of their cars and whatever friendly floor they can find to crash on.“You’re out of your comfort zone a little bit, but you just have to go with the flow,” Segedy says. “I love performing every night and meeting new people, and that’s reason enough for me.”It may not always be comfortable, but each city offers a unique experience and a chance to share their music with a fresh group of people.“We go straight to these cool little pockets of the city,” Braxton says. “I like how we come and connect with the community in a really intimate way.”On the Northside of Cincinnati, the group loads their gear in to the Comet, a small bar nestled on the top of a hill on Hamilton Avenue.It’s a Saturday night, and the Tomogotchis and Sleeping Bag are playing with two Cincinnati-based bands, Swoops and Season Sleep. In a vintage-styled dining room, a dozen people sit absently in the booths -– silently staring forward while Braxton dances around at the front of the room.Having played on more than a dozen DIY. tours in his career as a musician, Segedy says these kind of numbers can be common, but aren’t discouraging.“You just have to be grateful to the people that are there,” he says. “Just because there’s not a lot of people doesn’t mean you shouldn’t play your best.”In Pittsburgh, the Tomogotchis play to a full house in the basement of City Grows, an organic garden shop. They load their equipment in among scattered piles of empty plant pots and bags of Miracle-Gro. During their performance, Braxton hangs from the wooden railing of the basement staircase for the chorus of their set’s closer: “Missed Call.”In Hamtramck, Michigan, the bands play a couple extended sets at the diver bar Kelly’s. The bartender -– the leather-clad video director named Jimmy Doom – gives them the run of the place for the evening. What starts as a nonchalant practice set turns in to a communal jam session, featuring the local record store workers’ band and a passing classical Irish folk singer.“Smaller towns can surprise you,” Segedy says. “People get excited when you go out of your way to come to their town. They’ll listen to you and read stuff online; sometimes they’ll even know the words.”After a week of trekking across the Midwest, the boys pack up for their next weekend destination: the Big Apple.In addition to playing shows in Manhattan and Brooklyn, the Tomogotchis are set to perform at Braxton’s pop-up art installation in the East Village on Saturday night.Already an established animator and designer at the age of 22, Braxton has been creating animations, video games and augmented reality applications for years. His unique brand of pop-surrealism has been featured in notable pop culture mediums like Adult Swim, The Creators Project and PizzaSlime.By Saturday night, the Open Gallery Space is decked out in Braxton’s multifaceted creations. His animations flicker on the walls of the hallway. One of his video games is pulled up on an old, boxy computer monitor for people to play. His 3D printed bracelets are tucked into hidden corners, and a giant plush replica of his head sits firmly in the front window. Later in the night, Braxton’s guests pack in to the backroom for a sneak peak of his short film Glucose and a performance from the Tomogotchis.“It all happened so fast, but it was like a dream come true,” Braxton says. “I felt very in my element, and I felt like there was a lot of good energy surrounding that space.”The exhibit also acted as the launch of the new Artist Partner Project from the NYC based music company Sounds Good Studio. The studio helps artists orient themselves in the business world and push for a more interactive relationship, instead of a strict management style.“We’re trying to create more of an entrepreneurship environment for artists,” says Sounds Good associate Sijie Liu. “We want to help artists build their careers. So for this launch party we’re really trying to promote Jeron and his art.”In addition to marketing Braxton’s art in New York, the Artist Partner Project also hopes to take him and the Tomogotchis overseas. They’re currently working to release his material and book the Tomogotchis for shows and festivals in China in the near future.After a successful weekend and a seven hour drive out of New York, the last big happening on the Tomogotchis’ tour is a stop in Cleveland to do some recording for their album.High above Downtown Cleveland in a spacious loft, the guys sink into seats at Crushtone Studios. They’re listening carefully to the new tracks they’ve just spent the afternoon recording with local producer/engineer Jim Stewart.Since recording the demo material for their release back in March, new material and stronger production needs brought the boys back to the studio. In addition to rerecording some of the tracks from their first release, the band brought five fresh songs to add to their catalog.With some help from TJ Maclin – lead singer of the Cleveland soul group Thaddeus Anna Greene and Braxton’s cousin – the guys hope the higher quality recordings will make their tunes more radio-friendly.On Aug. 20, the Tomogotchis and Sleeping Bag end their tour with a homecoming performance at the Blockhouse in Bloomington. It’s welcome week for the Indiana University campus, and a majority of the town is spending their Saturday night at some of the heavier trafficked bars and nightclubs. It’s an intimate performance with only a few spectators, but it’s a welcome home the guys wouldn’t trade for anything.“It’s good to be back in Bloomington,” Segedy says to the crowd during their Sleeping Bag performance. “Thanks for coming out; we love you guys.”They may not always play to the biggest groups of people, but for the Tomogotchis it’s not about the money or the fame. They play because they love playing, and they love sharing their music with new people. That sincerity makes their music genuine and joyous. Listeners love what they’re doing, because the band loves what they’re doing.“I hope people feel something from my art,” Braxton says. “I hope it reminds them of the beauty of being alive and all the wonderful things that surround us. We’re all connected, and we should really relish in that and love one another.” | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/jeron-braxton-and-the-tomogotchis-click/Content?oid=4224632 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/dbd52420bed5cc52911cb63c82adfab343c0cbeef3ce972e745713471b4bb646.json |
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"Indianapolis Rappers",
"Djs"
] | 2016-08-26T13:04:12 | null | 2016-08-24T11:23:35 | Chreece returns to Fountain Square this weekend for another full day of local hip-hop. Included in our coverage: Full festival map and schedule. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fwhat-does-indy-sound-like-let-chreece-performers-tell-you%2FContent%3Foid%3D4213621.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4213623/chreece-webcover.jpg | en | null | What does Indy sound like? Let Chreece performers tell you | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge Design by Braden Nicholson and Will McCarty
Could an all-day, multi-venue hip-hop festival in Fountain Square, comprised almost exclusively of local talent, succeed?
Chreece answered that question last year with a resounding yes. But now the question is this: Can organizers pull it off again?
That's right, Chreece is returning with a second edition this Saturday in Fountain Square.
Conceived by Oreo Jones with organizational support from Musical Family Tree, the inaugural edition of Chreece surpassed all expectations for a local hip-hop festival and lifted the profile of Indy's homegrown hip-hop scene to new heights. The fest sold out almost as soon as the festival kicked off; nearly every venue was packed and the streets of Fountain Square were flooded with good vibes from the hordes of happy hip-hop heads in attendance.
But the festival's success did not come easy. Though the art of hip-hop has thrived for 40-plus years in the United States, long-held stereotypes regarding the genre and its fans still remain. Chreece organizers had to successfully navigate these problematic social and institutional biases before turning their attention to any musical concerns.
Jones says a major hurdle for Chreece, or any promoter attempting to organize hip-hop events, is the difficulty of securing liability event insurance. Many agencies offering these services flatly refuse to insure rap concerts, and the rates from those that do are often prohibitively expensive.
click to enlarge Click to expand this massive Chreece walking map and schedule
Designed by Lisa Berlin Jackson
And then there are the social stigmas projected onto hip-hop. Some held fears Chreece would bring an unruly and disrespectful crowd to the neighborhood. Their concerns were absolutely unfounded — Chreece was one of the chillest music festivals I've ever attended and the festival passed without a single unseemly incident reported. In fact, Chreece brought a crowd of unprecedented diversity to Fountain Square, a neighborhood that hasn't historically been open to embracing cultural pluralism.
Beyond the social triumphs of Chreece, the festival was also a musical home run. I can't remember another occasion when the Indianapolis hip-hop scene looked so strong. Chreece united a broad spectrum of Indy rappers, from the jazz-based golden era sounds of Native Sun to the wavy trap-rap of Drayco McCoy. This brings us to the question at hand: What does Indy sound like?
In terms of hip-hop, Indianapolis is home to the full spectrum of possible hip-hop expression. The '90s were crucial for the development of Indy hip-hop. The Mudkids imported the sound of NYC's Native Tongues movement, while N.A.P.'s "Straight Out The Nappy City" gave us a Midwest take on the West Coast G-funk sound. Today, the Indianapolis scene has been blown wide open. Artists like Sedcairn Archives are exploring the outer limits of the hip-hip universe, while crews from Haughville to Post Road keep Indy rap tied to its urban roots in the neighborhoods of Harlem, Brooklyn and the Bronx.
Chreece provides a perfect opportunity to sample the wealth of styles that populate Indy's hip-hop scene. Before Saturday's fest, NUVO reached out to several of the local rappers, producers and DJs booked at the fest to define Indy's hip-hop sound.
— Kyle Long
click to enlarge Chreece Founder Oreo Jones
Painting by Jonathan McAfee
"To me Indianapolis hip-hop has this sense of wavvy urgency. It's emotional and demanding, yearning for our voices to be heard, but then there's this calm, cool and collectedness. It's almost like we are finally coming to terms with our independence without really claiming a popular national sound. "Tribe Quest" is a prime example of that Indiana hip-hop flavor."
- Chreece founder Oreo Jones
"Indianapolis hip-hop is Midwestern melodies, Southern percussion, the ferocity of the East Coast and drugs from the West."
- Grxzz
<a href="http://grxzz.bandcamp.com/album/commander-of-the-beast-realm">Commander of the Beast Realm by Grxzz</a>
"To me, in so many words, Indy is a mirror of what's hot right now, from the obvious club wave to the lyrical cadences on the West and East Coasts. Me, personally, I mix substance with groove, painting a vivid picture of what I see in my city and experiences in other cities."
- Robb Skee
"Indy has no specific sound. I think it's nothing like the past or nothing like anything anywhere else in America. We simply are, and our sound lives through us. We sound like the future. Our sound is determined; it is hungry, it is poetic, it has a message and not only does it stay true to the artist but it stays true to Indy."
- Fre$co
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Submitted Photo
"Being that we are in the middle of the USA, the Indy sound is not influenced by any one geographical area. Some Indy acts sound Southern, some sound West Coast, some sound big city and some acts even sound like all three at once, with some Chicago thrown in. Indy is still finding its sound, looking for its break, and, most importantly, still developing its base. Over the last 25 years, I have seen and heard so many great things from Indy. Indy's sound is still looking in the mirror, trying to figure out if its cowlick is a blessing or a curse. It's not sure if the shirt should be untucked or tucked in. In other words, Indy's music scene has not fully formed its identity or infrastructure.
RELATED: Peep Musical Family Tree's Chreece playlist
"As acts have taken to the road (Ghost Gun Summer comes to mind), Indy's sound has been taken into the wild and returned triumphant, As acts have aged gracefully (See Rusty of the Mudkids), they have brought new talent into the fold and laid the blueprint out for aspiring Indy artists. When I think of Indy hip-hop now, I think of blog favorites and artistic icons coming together to push the message into the mainstream. I would tell them all that the cowlick is indeed a blessing and to leave that shirt untucked and put on some sunglasses because the future is bright for Indy artists willing to work hard!"
- DJ Indiana Jones
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"Indy sounds like a mixture of each person's lifestyle and experiences."
- Mathaius Young
"The Indy sound is that of its own. I've never met any other group of musicians as worldly and inventive as the ones I work with Indy."
- TXTBOOK
"Indy music is the love child of the digital music sharing age, where the same people grew up listening to the banging rap drums of Three 6 Mafia, UGK, etc. and the minimalistic vibes of acts like The XX, Explosions in the Sky & Bon Iver."
- Trilli
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"It would be hard to classify Indy to one sound, and that's due to the amazing amount of talent that this city holds. You never know what you'll here from the artists that are from here. Some artists might release something dark and heavy, but then artists from the other side of the city might have you listening to something light and mellow. But that's the beauty of Indy's sound: it has a variety, it's unique in every angle and you never know what you'll get when you tune into an artist's newest record.
"From me, a listener can usually expect a darker vibe or a more emotionally in-depth song, and that's just who I am as a creator in this stage as an artist, but some days I might create something that is more light or fun. It really depends on my mood or my life situation at the moment I create."
- Scotty Apex
"To give Indy a sound would be difficult, because it's so diverse it really can't be imitated. The best words I can use to describe it would be 'sensational' or 'mind-blowing.'"
- Ares
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"Indy sounds like the greatest untold story, ever. That's what it sounds like, in my spirit. It's similar to watching a caged beast in action. You don't understand how much damage we can do when we're, officially, on. There is no greater way to describe our sound than — for lack of a better term — original. Everywhere you turn, there is something for you. And you'll always feel included because, it's our sound. It's our stories. We have everything you're looking for. And it is for YOU. You can feel yourself within the music we're developing. It's cult-worthy and magnificent. Our sound is inspiration."
- Pope Adrian Bless
"What does Indy sound like? Indy's music scene in my opinion is pretty much the 'Crossroads of America,' that meaning all sorts of genres, cultures, and musicians have come to one place, giving Indy its diverse culture. Many people feel that either it's a folk style or Chicago's drill has influenced much of Indy's music, but I feel that all the different aspects of music is what makes Indy music scene so cool to me."
- Luke Hazel
"The most notable uniquely Naptown style I recall, probably because I'm so close to it, is in the techniques and mixing styles of the DJ culture. The heads in Indy's DJ community have taken the turntable tricks made popular on the West Coast with the mixing finesse of the East Coast, and put it all together with our own style of blending music with sounds from the South. The outcome is a combination of party-rocking performance and sonic manipulation and creation on the fly, typified by local legends Topspeed, MetroGnome, Action Jackson and many others.
"As far as our hip-hop sound, it's been a long time coming under a lot of different names but I think our newest wave is also our best. Being the Crossroads of America, I think we're a city of collage, by which we use small ideas from different things we like and blend them all together to create our style, à la Paul's Boutique. I've had the pleasure of touring twice with Ghost Gun Summer, a five-rapper team that has taken the sounds and preferences of Indy and formed an all new aesthetic under the tag 'Sacred Game.' Slick, gooey waves of synths and bass mix with staccato drums and jacked samples to form the beats these rappers ride, adding lyrics about partying, traveling the astral plane, philosophy, psychedelics and the feels. Lots of feels."
- Cool Hand Lex / Bangs Nicely
"The city of Indianapolis sounds hungry. Hungry for more. Aside from a few, you can hear the eagerness in a lot of the projects released from Indianapolis (Sirius Blvck's Light In The Attic, FLACO's GunsforGirls, Clint Breeze's Maisha, etc.) . The common goal is to showcase the city's talent so the 'big dogs' of the city — Old National Centre, Hot 96.3, 93.9, etc. — pay attention to the undiscovered market that is Indianapolis hip-hop."
- Brooks The Prophet
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"Indy's sound could give you the 'feels' to be honest. When I say the feels, I mean the music or energy from the song can make you feel a certain way. Indy's artist can put you in your feelings basically . There's so many different circles that touch on different aspects of the sound . Each show is so trill and live and emotional . Depending on what side of town you're on or what circle you are running with, you always get a different vibe. I love it."
- Mula Kkhan
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"I found I was welcomed into the Indy scene quite well when originally moving from Seattle in 07. Before I even touched the ground, I was already building with Rusty Redenbacher, which was a breath of fresh air from my experiences in other local scenes. When I arrived, I went to see a Mudkids show and randomly was standing next to Ace in the crowd. You could almost say that the genesis of D&G actually started that night and if it wasn't for the Indy scene and it being as welcoming as it was when I first came, I wouldn't be having this conversation with you. I wouldn't have made the 'Battle Anybody' beat for Skribble Jam, I wouldn't have met Ace, we wouldn't have made that song, DJ Premier wouldn't have gotten his hands on it and this project would have never happened.
"I built quite a few friendships in Indy and obviously still work heavily with Indy artists. I felt more inclined to debut D&G here because Indy basically built D&G. Events like Chreece are a platform to showcase the diversity and caliber of styles/artists that are from Naptown. I wasn't able to come out last year, but when Ace and I were talking about debuting D&G, the plan was always to come out here. When we found out that they were going to do it again this year, I immediately contacted Ace, hit up Oreo and booked my tickets to come out. "
- Dawhud, D&G
"The sound of Indy can't really be described with one popular genre. There are quite a few scenes in Indy but what seems to be thriving the most right now is the hip-hop scene. With this being one of the most hardworking and outspoken scenes, it has helped create new connections and influence other scenes in Indy. When it comes to local music, we are all in support of each other because we live and work here. We all may not be in the same groups but we all coexist with each other. Together, we represent what our state is to the rest of the world. We sometimes get thrown into the Chicago scene but I believe at the rate at which good music is being made here, we can make our own state a hotspot for new ideas and creativity."
- Shxps
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"The word the stands out when I'm asked the question "what does Indy sound like" is HONEST. Indy has a long history of hip-hop artists and, in the past, honesty would pop up from time to time but it was kind of rare. Today, it's the focal point of most of the successful Indy hip-hop artist. Before the explosion of the Internet ('90s and early 2000s), interest in hip-hop music was extremely location-based. If you weren't from one of the four major cities, people really didn't care what you had to say. Now it's totally different. People here understand that they have a unique experience and an interesting hip-hop scene so that's allowing them to be honest about who they are and where they come from and it's paying off."
- Grey Granite
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"Indy, from a hip-hop perspective, sounds like the truest elements of the artform mixed with a nod to the rich jazz history of our city. This is made up by thoughtful lyricism and even the eclectic creativity of some of the artists here in town. We've seen firsthand the versatility with the emergence of several alternative-style emcees and also those who have incorporated live instrumentation into their music, similar to what we've been doing all these years. It all makes for a beautiful hip-hop scene here in Naptown."
- Richard "Sleepy" Floyd, Native Sun
"What does Indy sound like? Passion. You can tell anyone making hip-hop music in Indy wants it because it's not common around here. Hip-hop artists are not a dime a dozen around this area so if you are really sticking to it, you gotta be passionate about it."
- Eric Swanson, Grey Lamb
<a href="http://greylamb.bandcamp.com/album/find-a-way">Find A Way by Grey Lamb</a>
Jeremiah Stokes
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"Indianapolis sounds like ... dream realm. That's all subjective to a good dream or a bad dream though. Some of our stuff sounds like nightmare incarnate. Some of it sounds like a blissful dream."
- Jeremiah Stokes
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"Indy is a sound that has percolated in basements and back alleys for extra extra long. It sounds like 40 isolated crews figuring out how to build bridges, and all the construction noise that comes along with it.
"It sounds like the first parties I went to in high school, where Rory O'Hara and Mike Graves helped me discover my gift for gab and what the culture was all about.
"It sounds like the Mudkids breaking out and showing Indy venues that hip-hop shows had an audience and appeal that was worth taking a risk on, and creating the first Indiana hip-hop with enough mass appeal that Russ could not put out a new rap for 20 more years and still get nominated in NUVO's best-of poll.
"It smells like the dust blown off of Topspeed's legendary 45 collection as he flips through them, which you can somehow still smell when he cues up an MP3 rip of the deepest cut at a gig. It's all the DJs he's taught, and the ones they've taught, on down the line.
"It sounds like the Indiana bands of every genre who mix it up with a rapper, and every musician who ever sat in on a gig or studio session (and not overplayed).
"Naptown sounds like the old battle leagues at the Melody Inn and Birdy's, where anything could and did happen, and the best battles brought people closer together.
"I hear cars roar by as voices roar louder as some of the best moments have happened outside of venues where spontaneous cyphers erupt and spread like wildfire.
"I see early Old Soul flyers giving those classic hip-hop heads a place to congregate and jam again.
"I am surrounded by another generation of cultural enthusiasts, archeologists who build shrines that allow dead musicians' souls to be reincarnated through a kid's beat battle entry. Griots who weave the tale of two sides of the city over drum beats more ancient than they might realize, one side tearing down the old to recast as amazingly always new, the other side sounding a warning for years that is manifesting in record murders that artists are not safe from. There is no with without without.
<a href="http://justduerecords.bandcamp.com/album/npr">NPR by TJ Reynolds</a>
"It's the sound of all the connectors connecting, like carabiners snapping, holding up and together all the individual parts that make a scene. It's Doug Morris, Nick Saligoe, Jeb Banner, David Queisser, Kyle Long, Stak Daniels ...
"I hear the handshakes of new alliances forming with crews that have figured out doing it together is the only way to grow, from Cut Camp to Strong Roots to Ghost Gun to Just Due to the people that support not because their friends are playing, but because the music is dope. I'm listening as a car drives by playing the album that, either despite or because of its local origins, is one of the driver's all time favorites.
"I see a packed Indianapolis hip-hop festival in 2005 at United States of Mind, and a packed hip-hop summit the year after that, having fun performing one of my first solo sets, and being followed by some young unknown from Warsaw taking the stage in Indy for the first time. I'm gonna have to keep an eye on this Oreo Jones kid.
"Which is why Chreece is so important. It is not some unprecedented idea. It's the next step in what has been building for decades. It does not need some big name national act to anchor it. We're already holding it down, and nobody else can make the soundtrack to this city but this city."
- TJ Reynolds
"Indy sounds like a creative house party, like a sweaty basement trying desperately to grab the attention of all of the neighbors living on the street. The city hosts so many talented acts, but a great deal of the art and culture blooming within Indianapolis stays within Indianapolis. This remains a blessing because it keeps the sound organic and local, but also a curse, as a large amount of these acts deserve nationwide attention."
- neonpajamas
"When I had a metal band in high school on the Southside of Indy, if we wanted to book a show, the bill would be us, one hardcore band, one punk band, and one goth band at Smedley's Dream in Fountain Square simply because there weren't enough bands of any genre to create a bill that made sense along genre lines. At first glance this would seem a limitation to what any scene could do, but after really beginning to write and perform as Andy D in the electroclash scene of NYC in the early aughts, and later in Bloomington and then touring across the country, I can really see the seeds of what we were doing in high school. Playing shows with no coherent genre identity, having germinated and now blossoming into this bright, raw sound that is refreshing precisely because it is so diverse.
"Folks here had to support each other even if they didn't play the same 'type' of music, otherwise there wouldn't have been a scene, so now we have hip-hop artists bringing in drummers from disco-punk bands and psych-garage bands throwing festivals with rappers, and everyone going to and supporting everyone else's shows. Indianapolis has really demonstrated what it looks and sounds like to be post-genre without really losing anything of the culture and art that informed and influenced what each individual artist is doing now. This is perfect for us because we're such weirdos and make such idiosyncratic electropop/hip-hop music that we really wouldn't fit anywhere that didn't have a scene like this."
- Andy D
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"To us, Indy sounds like change. A new generation — our generation — of artists, entrepreneurs, nurses, doctors, teachers and dreamers all coming together to breathe new life into this city. Indianapolis sounds like the America we knew as children: diverse, creative and free-spirited."
- Justin Ryan and Brady Passon, Business Casual
Flaco
Soundcloud
"I have absolutely no idea what Indy sounds like ... and that's a good thing."
- Flaco
"Indy sounds like a well-balanced meal. Our music scene is growing and is as vibrant and healthy as ever, but with a variety of choices and flavors available for the picking. We just want the people of Indy to sit down at the table with us to experience the food(s)."
- DJ MetroGnome
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Photo by Roberto Campos
I still feel fairly new to the music scene in Indy since a lot of my friends have been in it or a part of it for a long while now. The best thing about Indy's music scene is how diverse it is. The rap scene in particular doesn't stick to any certain formula or any specific trend and that's what makes it fun. Everyone that stands out is very unique and a lot of us are almost incomparable to anyone else. It's a growing culture here but it's getting bigger and bigger, and we're getting more and more attention from other places everyday."
- Drayco McCoy
"The Indy sound is a perfect mix of all the sounds we have adopted over the course of our musical development. I feel like we are a bubble about to burst onto the national scene. Why, you may ask? Because we finally began to value our music like artists from other regions like Atlanta, New York, Chicago, Detroit, etc.
RELATED: Read about J. Brookinz' beat battle league
The difference now is that we don't need major labels to assert ourselves onto other markets. We can move independently using the powers of social media and streaming. Once we make enough noise I think the attention will come, and we have more than enough talent to satisfy the appetite of the musical masses."
- J. Brookinz
"Indy's sound is unapologetically free. We have various music scenes fused into one. Our underground scene competes with others from LA, NYC and ATL. We recognize the competition locally and nationally, but continue to strive to develop our own sound."
- Joey French
"As you go around to different parts of the country, you will notice that a certain sound for that area is a dying thing. You could go to Atlanta and literally group artists into who they "sound like." I think the internet has set trends nationwide and artists are starting to just follow whatever formula is hot at the time. I proudly cannot say the same thing for Indy. There are a ton of artists here that truly have their own sound. If I had to put a word to what Indy's sound is, I would have to say 'oddball.'
"Our influences come from a lot of different places, most of which aren't rap/hip-hop related. Indianapolis is one of the only places you will see a cross-genre show and they're generally packed. This is something I think Ghost Gun represents. We try to stress the multi-genre approach while booking out of state. I think that's what really sets Indy apart."
- Freddie Bunz
"I feel like it is hard to put this question into words but I love the variety of sounds coming out of Indy. The best way I can think to describe this is to reference the Tribe event that Sirius Blvck puts together. This is an event that pulls 4-5 different genre acts together and keeps a sold-out crowd in tune the entire time. the people in the crowd may be there for a specific act/genre but leave appreciating something new."
- Knags | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/what-does-indy-sound-like-let-chreece-performers-tell-you/Content?oid=4213621 | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/f373bf8ccecde8bcd7a02460d26f5ca0491ff37caea63dba98cb716afae32600.json |
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"Emily Taylor",
"Dan Grossman",
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"Sam Watermeier"
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"Rebecca Berfanger"
] | 2016-08-26T13:00:52 | null | 2016-08-24T14:18:56 | Comedian presents brand new comedy act in Indy | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fcameron-esposito-back-in-the-midwest%2FContent%3Foid%3D4214058.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4214064/screen_shot_2016-08-24_at_2.16.09_pm.png | en | null | Cameron Esposito: back in the midwest | null | null | www.nuvo.net | Cameron Esposito's comedy can be self-deprecating. However, she is never self-compromising, never afraid to speak her truth on stage and off.The costar of the hilarious new show, available on the new internet streaming service Seeso, will be in Indianapolis at the White Rabbit Cabaret in Fountain Square on August 26 for two shows. The Indianapolis venue will be one of a handful of stops on this Midwestern mini-tour, thanks to the Fort Wayne-based booking agency, Let's Comedy!Esposito co-createdwith her wife Rhea Butcher. Butcher plays "Rhea," a full-time graphic designer, part-time comic still finding her voice, while Esposito's character is "Cameron," a more established comic who typically eats alone.Esposito says she enjoyed the process of bringing the show to life, but stand-up is where she began."Stand-up is how I first wanted to connect with the world," she says. "It took like six months with sporadic performing to make the show, which is the longest break I've taken in 10 years. ... It is a language and a way of interacting. It sounds cheesy, but I cherish it. It gives me a wonderful feeling. ... When you can have live feedback and connect with people, it's different. On set, you still connect with costars and the director and the writers, but the rush of walking on stage in front of 50 or 500 or 5,000 people is unparalleled."That's not to say the life of a comic isn't a grind."Acting and writing for TV and movies are great things to do, because this life is challenging with all the travel," says Esposito. "Number one, you eventually run out of cities, but also hotel rooms and planes are demoralizing after a while. So it's nice to stay at home and be near your home and in your own bed with your wife."She adds that her show in Indianapolis will also have new material — so new she was still working on it as of the interview for this story in early August.Since recording a special last year, she has started over. "This is the beginning of something brand new and I don't know what it will be like, which is exciting," says Esposito. "... The way I've built stuff is to just get up on stage and talk and also listen. It doesn't mean yelling. And I find that some things just emerge over time. It's like a stone in a river sort of thing ... if that makes sense."She does know it will include current events, such as the upcoming presidential election."I've always kept it pretty current; I write new material frequently," she says. "Right now, we are all experiencing something that, at least in my lifetime, is an unprecedented election season. I don't know anything to compare this to. Not that it'll be all election jokes, but the things that have been brought up when we interact with each other, everything right now seems to be at a boiling point."Esposito is an avid poster on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. "Social media is convincing us that every moment is super intense," she says. "If you look at the entire world all the time, we just need to know about everything, and now we can find out about everything as it happens live. We're all always processing the news. ... "I think it's really just we are processing having access to each others opinions. Not just op-eds in The New York Times or the news in the local newspaper, but how does everyone in the world feel at this exact moment, and it's a lot."Following a successful show at the Tiger Room in Fort Wayne last summer, co-founder of Let's Comedy! Ryan Ehle says he is looking forward to seeing Esposito live again."She definitely has her own style," says Ehle. "She takes you on a walk with her. You feel like you get to know her that very first time. You're a better person after sharing her experiences. I love how she talks about her past and transformation of finding herself. I know comedians are self-deprecating, but she really lets you have every detail, no matter how embarrassing."She's also hilarious," he says. "She represents the LGBTQ community very well, and she's not pandering. She's a real hero; she brings people together as a positive force. She's also tough enough to push back if she needs to. She'll break you down so fast if you deserve it." | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/cameron-esposito-back-in-the-midwest/Content?oid=4214058 | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/ba734a09eaee780853cf6920338d5422baa5ec610e197b440ec0a79b0d222026.json |
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"Brian Weiss"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:34 | null | 2016-08-18T14:28:00 | 1. IndyFringe Through Aug. 28, times vary. With 8 different stages, 64 performing groups, and 384 performances, this 11-day festival has something for everyone. Whether... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2FSlash%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F18%2F10-things-to-do-this-weekend%2F.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4200914/10thingstodo5.png | en | null | 10 things to do this weekend | null | null | www.nuvo.net | Joey Smith
Members of No Exit stuff their faces at Pizzology on Mass Ave. You'll see them throughout the Indy Fringe.
1. IndyFringe
Through Aug. 28, times vary. With 8 different stages, 64 performing groups, and 384 performances, this 11-day festival has something for everyone. Whether you like edgy comedy, historical dramas or real-life scenarios, you'll be able to find the perfect play for you.
Various locations, prices vary, all-ages
2. WAMMfest
Aug. 20, 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. Wine. Arts. Music. Microbrew. Need I say more? All proceeds from this event are distributed back to the Greenwood community.
Craig Park, 10 E. Smith Valley Road, $15 doors, all-ages
3. SausageFest
Aug. 19-20, times vary. No, this isn't the college party you're thinking about. Highlighting Kincaid's Meat Market sausages and Sun King beer, this family-friendly event also offers children's activities such as inflatables, face painting, and games.
St Thomas Aquinas School, 4600 N Illinois St, FREE, all-ages
4. Kammy's Kause 2016
Aug. 19-20, times vary. This gigantic fundraiser for 4p- Support Group features all kinds of local bands playing their hearts out for a very worthy cause. Plus: there's a kidzone, a blood drive, and a motorcycle ride planned, too. Kammy's Kause rocks.
American Legion Park, 10584 S. State Road 13, (Fortville), prices vary, all-ages
5. Inflatable Obstacle Course Race
Aug. 20, 8 a.m. Here's how it works: 12 inflatable obstacles are spread out over a 5K course and well, you race to the finish.
White River State Park, 801 W. Washington St., prices vary, all-ages
6. Kids Rock The Park
Aug. 21, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday's forecast looks to be B-E-A-UTIFUL! Head to Broad Ripple park for Girls Rock Indy's annual fundraiser. Live music from The Naptown Jugbusters and more as well as face painters, bounce houses, food trucks, a dunk tank, photo booths, a musical "petting zoo" and a carnival midway!
Broad Ripple Park, 1550 Broad Ripple Ave, $5, all-ages
Julia Dratel
Jackie Lynn performs Sunday at The Spot
7. Jackie Lynn, Paper Claw, David Nance Band
Aug. 21, 9 p.m. From Greg Lindberg's chat with Hayley Fohr (Jackie Lynn): "When I was starting the project I was really getting into Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton. I read the Gram Parsons biography, and just all the Kill Bill movies [were inspirations]. I think Uma Thurman is such a badass, in general. It’s kind of like powerful, country glamour. All the glitz and glam. It’s also all super American and down to earth. And I wanted it to sound like Suicide was the backing band, sonically. Suicide, I found at a pretty early age, so I thought it would be an interesting pairing."
The Spot Tavern, 409 S. 4th St. (Lafayette), $7, 21+
8. President Benjamin Harrison’s birthday celebration
Aug 20, 10 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Math time: My age + 159 = How old Benjamin Harrison would have turned on Saturday. There's FREE BIRTHDAY CAKE and free walk-thru tours of the home’s first floor. Happy birthday to Indiana’s only president!
Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site, 1230 N. Delaware St., FREE, all-ages
9. 98°, O-Town, Dream, Ryan Cabrera
Aug. 19, 8 p.m. Guess what fellow millennials? We're officially old enough to be pandered to on package tours. A minor freak out is very acceptable.
Murat Theatre, 502 N. New Jersey St., $39.50-89.50, all-ages
10. The Phantom of the Opera
Aug. 20, 7:30 p.m. This silent horror classic will come to life at the Historic Artcraft Theatre with live orchestral accompaniment courtesy of the Franklin Chamber Players — a 19-piece orchestra that includes the electric organ, which is bound to make the macabre wold of this film even spookier.
Artcraft Theatre, 57 N. Main St. (Franklin), $10-20, all-ages | http://www.nuvo.net/Slash/archives/2016/08/18/10-things-to-do-this-weekend/ | en | 2016-08-18T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/89bf93e0363fe2460dd8e8b6ec75fe7bb818e3055d5631dc8f87cd751d1e9fe5.json |
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"Indianapolis Rappers",
"Djs"
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"Rita Kohn"
] | 2016-08-28T08:50:53 | null | 2016-08-25T12:03:02 | Indy Fringe Fest runs through the August 28, don't miss out on plenty of beer from the Beer Tent while you're enjoying your shows. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Ffringe-festival-review-the-beer-tent-steals-the-show%2FContent%3Foid%3D4216032%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4216055/screen_shot_2016-08-25_at_11.23.56_am.png | en | null | Fringe Festival Review: The beer tent steals the show | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/fringe-festival-review-the-beer-tent-steals-the-show/Content?oid=4216032&show=comments | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/8b33e556dae58046a46eb87edd1438da71aa2a61bfd91f06abca943ccd6580ad.json |
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"Sam Watermeier"
] | 2016-08-26T13:02:16 | null | 2016-08-25T11:01:21 | She had to train to make her voice perfect before making it worse | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Freview-florence-foster-jenkins-and-meryl-streeps-terrible-singing-voice%2FContent%3Foid%3D4216019.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4216021/florence1.jpg | en | null | Review: "Florence Foster Jenkins" and Meryl Streep's terrible singing voice | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge
In the mid-’40s, amateur soprano Florence Foster Jenkins sold out Carnegie Hall even faster than Frank Sinatra, turning away nearly 2,000 people at the door. The difference between her and Sinatra? She was a terrible singer — critics called her the worst in the world.Director Stephen Frears () sheds light on the humor of the story without losing the heart. Beneath the laughs lies a poignant look at the power of perseverance.The great Meryl Streep stars as the titular character — a New York heiress who lives for music. When we first meet her, she is running a music club with her husband, St. Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant), and mostly showcasing other artists’ work. Early on, we see that she wants to cast a spell on people just like the performers she admires.With the help of her hubby and an ambitious young pianist named Cosmé McMoon (Simon Helberg), Florence starts putting on shows and making records despite her complete lack of singing ability.At first, this seems like an off-putting spectacle — an example of how wealth and influence can create opportunities that more talented people can’t afford. But in this age of viral videos and reality TV, this story resonates more now than ever before. It’s so easy to get 15 minutes of fame in today’s world that people from all different walks of life are jumping for it, and we can’t resist watching them try. Above all,is about trying. As she says near the end of the film, “People may say I couldn’t sing, but no one can say I didn’t sing.”In lesser hands, Florence could easily be a mere cartoon, but Streep makes her delusions of grandeur oddly inspiring. She plays her as a woman blinded by her dying wish, seeing the world through the haze of her dreams. It’s a tender, touching portrayal, reminding you why we remain in awe of Streep after all these years.Unfortunately, Helberg does what Streep avoids, turning his character into a goofy comic force. Rather than digging into McMoon’s performance anxiety and fear of working with Florence, he merely turns him into a ball of quirky tics. He’s by far the weakest part of the film.Grant delivers the true standout performance, grounding the strange story in rich emotional reality. He’s a quietly tragic character — a man as blinded by dreams as his wife. He makes you understand why people would avoid discouraging Florence — not because of her social power but because of her infectious warmth and compassion. This is one of Grant’s best performances; it’s engaging, elegantly understated and Oscar-worthy — a description that also applies to the film itself.is one of the better films of the year. Like, it’s an underdog story that makes us realize how feelings of triumph don’t always lie in traditional success. Sometimes, people can win without even crossing the finish line. | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/review-florence-foster-jenkins-and-meryl-streeps-terrible-singing-voice/Content?oid=4216019 | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/fbee15232c822eca6d3c8745c79728cebb0902e8a3b6fd9b8c0f0d3564da90ae.json |
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"Kyle Long"
] | 2016-08-29T14:50:13 | null | 2016-08-29T09:08:00 | "I think you can get insane ideas if you just open your ears and go a little bit beyond Western music, and go a little bit beyond rock and roll recorded between 1955 and 1975 — which most musicians refuse to do." | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2FACulturalManifesto%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fyonatan-gats-unrestrained-rock-and-roll-anarchy.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4224108/yonatan_gat_gal_lazer_by_bryan_c_parker-1.jpg | en | null | Yonatan Gat's unrestrained rock and roll anarchy | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge
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Israeli guitarist Yonatan Gat will bring his brilliant brand of unrestrained rock and roll anarchy to The Hi-Fi on Thursday, September 8.Gat released his excellent debut solo LPon the Indianapolis-based Joyful Noise label in 2015. It was Gat’s first full length release since departing the Tel Aviv based garage punk band Monotonix.With Monotonix Gat earned a reputation for wildly unpredictable, chaos-fueled performances. Gat’s current work maintains the raw, manic punk rock energy of Monotonix, while adding additional layers of musical complexity through the extensive use of free-form improvisation. It’s a powerful combination that Gat calls “unstoppable.”Gat’s performance in Indianapolis earlier this year at the Fountain Square Music Festival was one of the best shows I’ve seen in 2016. Gat is an incredibly charismatic performer and an impressive innovator on the electric guitar. His upcoming show at The Hi-Fi will undoubtedly be a scorcher and I can’t recommend attending highly enough.I spoke with Gat via phone from his current home in New York City.Yonatan Gat: I think it’s different for each project. It’s just kind of became the way I do things. In Monotonix we started playing on the floor because we had a certain objective — to shock people actually. [laughs] It’s hard for me to think about that now because I’m in such a different place. I’m much less interested in shocking people now. But I think shock has a lot of value and I think people need to be shocked out of their senses constantly. But I feel like I’ve already done that.When Monotonix started playing on the floor we just wanted to do something very different and catch people by the balls, to get a response and make them feel something. Eventually Monotonix became like it’s own world and our interaction with the audience grew from that. For example, the way our singer Ami would take a beer from an audience member and spill it over his own head, or take a trash can from the ladies' restroom and spill it all over our drummer. That kind of came from playing on the floor, it wasn’t like the whole thing was planned. It started out as an attempt to really get in the audience’s faces, but it became something else. It became this interactive show where the band communicates with the audience in a very individual and intimate way — even when we’re playing really big shows. When I play festivals I usually set-up a little stage in the middle of the audience so people can see us all around. I don’t have to stand behind the barricades and I can really feel the audience.That’s the point of this band. When I started this band, playing on the floor was not for shock value or for a theatrical element. I wanted to have the audience partake in the show in more of a musical sense. And because the show is completely improvised, I wanted to make it 100 percent flexible, meaning anything could happen at any moment. Thirty minutes into the show we can do something we’ve never done before and keep doing that for another thirty minutes. It’s very open like that. Being inside the audience really allows us to improvise with the audience. I can really get the response of the audience and feel what they need. We don’t try to make an experimental show, and just stare at our effects pedals. We do try to communicate with the audience. Obviously we’re not going to start playing a Britney Spears songs just to try to impress people. But we’re there with the audience and we try to build some sort of community vibe with them.There’s a certain play between us and the audience that I think makes the feeling you had at our show very true. You are a part of the music. You are a part of what you called the “ritual.” Just by being there and the energy you give, you can actually affect what happens next. There’s no set list and nothing is pre-designed. It’s all about adjusting to that moment.Yonatan Gat: Of course it is. Music is one of the deepest things you can have. Music existed before language. Music basically is the source of everything. Music can really tap into some of the primal experiences of being human. That’s actually one of the greatest things about punk music. You asked if I’m a punk musician just thrashing on the guitar, or if I think about music in a deeper way — and I think it’s both. I think punk music’s biggest contribution to the history of music is that it brought back this idea of getting lost inside your music. The jazz people had that, but then they forgot it. Around the ‘70s when there were all those progressive bands in rock music and everything was very self-conscious - actually it’s not that different from now. The punk rockers went back to that feeling of losing yourself in music, to kind of transcend language and ideas and get connected to this primal energy. I think that’s a lot of my attraction to punk music.When I think about music as a ritual, I think every performance is ritual in a way. I like that people call it a ritual, and I agree. It feels like that to me.But I like your question, and a lot people when they talk about our shows having a ritualistic element compare it to voodoo music or shamanistic music. For me one thing that sets our music apart from that idea, is that voodoo or shamanistic music is very repetitive. If you listen to voodoo music with all the Haitian drums it tends to have a very repetitive element. But our music is the opposite of that. So why do you think people make that connection?Yonatan Gat: Interesting.Yonatan Gat: I think it’s both, and more. There are a lot of guitarists I like that are less typical. When people ask me this question I think maybe they expect me to say Jimi Hendrix. Of course I love Jimi Hendrix, it’s sort of impossible to not be influenced by Jimi Hendrix as a guitarist. So me saying Jimi Hendrix is not interesting in a way. When it comes to Western guitarists I really like Syd Barrett and on the other hand I also like Robert Fripp, especially his work on the David Bowie records. I think Fripp’s experiments with Eno really pushed the guitar forward in an ambitious and interesting way. But I really appreciate Syd Barrett for the incredible touch that he has on the instrument. I think it’s completely unique and I was always drawn to guitarists like that.So many things have been done already on the guitar, so it seems like it’s very hard to do something new in a way. But in a way it actually isn’t because all the groundwork has been laid before you. I think you can get insane ideas if you just open your ears and go a little bit beyond Western music, and go a little bit beyond rock and roll recorded between 1955 and 1975 — which most musicians refuse to do.The guitarists I listen to are West African guitarists. One of my favorites… I don’t really know his name unfortunately, which is embarrassing. But he plays in this band called Orchestra Baobab.Yonatan Gat: Yes, he’s one of my favorite guitarists and I’m glad you know him. If you listen to his guitar playing, which is very influenced by Cuban music, you just get this insane amount of new ideas.Even if you listen to a really famous guitarist like Django Reinhardt, which everybody in the West knows. You can take his ideas Not in the sense of studying him or mimicking his style as so many people do. Django completely dominates jazz guitar. He became not only a name, but a whole style of music. But if you listen to his approach to music, then of course you can do new things in rock and roll.People are obsessed with celebrating a certain style of music, from a certain set of years, from a very particular part of the world called the U.S. and England. I think there’s much more music than that. I think if what I do sounds new and refreshing, a lot of it comes from my curiosity about many styles of music from everywhere in the world.One more thing I want to say in that context is to talk about improvisation. We talked about how in the 1970s punk was an important thing to release rock and roll from its own ass. I hope maybe this combination of incorporating styles from outside the U.S. and England will lead to a new music. But it’s tricky talking about these things, because I don’t want to encourage people to go out and start an afrobeat band tomorrow if they don’t come from that part of the world and don’t understand that music.I’m not saying you need to listen to Fela Kuti and imitate his music. But you can take his approach and implement that to your own music and that would immediately make your own music ten times more interesting. I think the place where a lot of bands fall is when they listen to a certain kind of music and than imitate the style. What can be imitated, without any danger of becoming an imitator, is approach. Fela Kuti had his own approach to music. Orchestra Baobab had their own approach to music. Jazz improvisers like Miles Davis had a completely unique approach to music. We don’t need to steal that, but we can use that to open our own minds.Maybe the same way punk rock saved rock and roll from its own ass in the 1970s, maybe taking in those influences and approaches from different musicians, from different times, from different parts of the world —And maybe improvisation too! I think rock and roll is a perfect music for improvising. It doesn’t have to be jam bands playing twelve bar blues. There’s so much more to improvisation. The beauty of improvisation in jazz in the old days was the energy. It was the most insane energetic music. Going to a big band show in the 1920s was like going to a punk show at CBGB’s in 1976. Over time the music became very academic. I think improvisation, with the energy of a music like punk, is unstoppable. There will always be something new to say, especially if you are opening your mind to influences from wherever you can get them.Our time on this planet is short and there is so much music. We only have to open our minds immediately. Then maybe people would stop voting for Trump.Yonatan Gat: Are you going to ask me about Aris San?Yonatan Gat: [laughs] Haha, nice! Yeah, yeah, definitely. I’ve actually been rediscovering Aris San lately. In the last year I bought an Aris San vinyl on Ebay. The album wasn’t that good, but as a guitarist he’s amazing.I think about this a lot: Aris San’s influence in Israel was massive, even though he was ostracized and had to leave the country at some point. There’s a documentary about him on Youtube. I think it has English subtitles - but if not, you’re screwed. It tells his life story and his story is insane. He emigrated to Israel and he became very successful because no-one could play guitar like him in Israel. Something really interesting happened to him, and I think this is something that happens to immigrants when they become very successful in a new country. The country just spits them out.We saw the same thing with Charlie Chaplin in the U.S. This guy moves to America from England, and becomes huge. He was a genius director, he acted in the films and scored them. He had an amazing method of working, it was very improvisational. I get very inspired by people like him. He would shoot with no scripts. His script may have two lines and everything else just happened on set. I think that’s where the potency of his films comes from. Anyway, he becomes this gigantic American icon and in the 1950s they accuse him of Communism and he has to flee back to England at some point, humiliated with his tail between his legs. Spat out of the country where he helped popularize the cinema so much.The same thing kind of happened to Aris San in Israel. He came to Israel and became huge. Then at some point, he did this weird thing. He started incorporating Arabic influences into his music. Which is of course something I do to, because I come from that part of the world. For me it makes a lot of sense to play those Arabic scales. It makes a lot of sense to have Arabic elements because I come from there. It’s not something I would recommend other guitarists to do because it needs to be in you.You can’t play something just because you like it. It’s not that simple.But Aris San did that, and it was very groundbreaking during the late ‘60s and early ’70s. At that time nobody did that. Israel was a much more racist place than it is now. And people just thought he was insane. But for him, he was a stellar musician and it was the next logical way to go. He’s in Israel surrounded by the Arabic countries of the Middle East. Why not bring an oud in? Why not bring the Arabic scales and atmosphere?But people really freaked out. People started calling him a spy, an Egyptian spy or Syrian spy. People were saying he had a camera on the headstock of his guitar and he had to leave the country after being the most successful guitarist. It’s a really interesting story and I could talk about it for a long time.But I think what he brought to Israeli culture was an appreciation for Greek guitar playing. That bouzouki style all comes from Turkish music and back to Arabic music. He really popularized that style in Israel. Now every Israeli guitarist can be influenced by that. So much of Israeli pop music has those elements in them.So even if you don’t grow up listening to Aris San in Israel, his influence is completely inside you. He just completely reshaped music in Israel. He is an incredible guitarist, for sure one of the best guitarists to come out of Israel. He changed music forever and a lot of the change was incorporating those Greek, Turkish, Mediterranean, even Middle Eastern influences into the guitar sound of Israeli music.That exists in my playing whether I like Aris San or not. But in the last year I’ve been on an Aris San kick and I’ve been really enjoying him. He’s a super creative guitar player. Getting into his music is a really good idea. There are great videos of him on Youtube where you can watch him go, and he shreds.Yonatan Gat: I don’t know. Israel is a very problematic place. It’s a very young country. It’s been around way less than a century and I don’t think it has really developed its own identity in music yet. I think part of the problem for Israel culturally is that it’s still looking out to the West for inspiration instead of trying to finds its own voice. That’s a problem in general for musicians around the world. That’s part of what I’ve been complaining about with rock and roll bands. They’re not trying to find their own voice, they’re trying to glorify the 1970s or something like that.A lot of bands in Israel are trying to sound like American or European bands. Or on the other hand, they’re going for that cheap shot of being an ethnic-whatever band - which is something I’m not that interested in. It’s definitely not organic to bill yourself as some ethnic world music band. You can call all music world music, and all music is ethnic music. I have a lot of problem with that.So music in Israel has not been an inspiration to me in the way that I sit home and listen to a lot of Israeli records - outside of a really great Mediterranean-Israeli singer named Zohar Argov. He’s really good. There are some great songwriters and some great musicians, but not as many as I would want to see. Of course there is Aris San. But I think the future might be better.I think the influence for me is just being from there and absorbing the musical culture, whether I wanted to or not. That makes me a different guitar player than any American guitar player because I have this completely different cultural background. Even if I just wanted to make rock and roll. When I was young I listened mostly rock and roll. But slowly over the years you kind of understand that the music you make is a combination of what you want to make, and what you are.Yonatan Gat: Interesting. Yes, it’s valid enough. It’s considered a legendary record amongst psychedelic collectors. You happen to know all these things — but Aris San and The Churchills are rare things in Israel. You’re not going to find a lot of examples of this kind of music in Israel.I heard that record a few times. It doesn’t sound like the most unique piece of music I’ve ever heard. I like it, but I don’t feel like it adds anything to my musical world at the moment. ...Of course it’s valid and I think it’s a beautiful record in a way. There are a lot of interesting things about it. But in the future I would expect more from Israeli bands - and from bands in general. But yes, it’s an interesting record and I should get into it again. I don’t want to say too much about it without listening to it again more recently. I already said a lot.From the way I remember it, it sounds like a band that was looking outside of Israel. But that band actually ended up playing on very weird Israeli records by this famous singer named Arik Einstein. In the later ‘60s they became his backing band. They made very interesting music together, but it still suffered a bit by trying to imitate The Beatles and whatever was fashionable at the time. But it still had some kind of Israeli flavor.I think it would be very interesting for somebody to curate some sort of Israeli rock comp, because I think we definitely have enough stuff for at lest one very interesting compilation. But other than that, I think the future is where we want to be looking when it comes to Israeli music.Yonatan Gat: We’re working on our next record. It’s been two years of that. I started working on the record as soon as we finishedIt’s a bit of a different project. It’s been an insane two year process where we keep going back into the studio recording more stuff and doing crazy editing experiments. I think it’s going to be very special. It’s definitely not going to be rehashing what we did on our last record. But I think it will have a lot of what’s good about that record. I think our next LP will be something that people who like our music can really look forward to and I’m definitely interested in hearing people’s reactions to it. We also have a love DVD coming out soon. A lot of the DVD was shot at our Fountain Square show. | http://www.nuvo.net/ACulturalManifesto/archives/2016/08/29/yonatan-gats-unrestrained-rock-and-roll-anarchy | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/8bd469990da1eb89c4c6af6917c69bfa03164b9b5f8f4366495cb531210518f6.json |
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"Kyle Long"
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Israeli guitarist Yonatan Gat will bring his brilliant brand of unrestrained rock and roll anarchy to The Hi-Fi on Thursday, September 8.Gat released his excellent debut solo LPon the Indianapolis-based Joyful Noise label in 2015. It was Gat’s first full length release since departing the Tel Aviv based garage punk band Monotonix.With Monotonix Gat earned a reputation for wildly unpredictable, chaos-fueled performances. Gat’s current work maintains the raw, manic punk rock energy of Monotonix, while adding additional layers of musical complexity through the extensive use of free-form improvisation. It’s a powerful combination that Gat calls “unstoppable.”Gat’s performance in Indianapolis earlier this year at the Fountain Square Music Festival was one of the best shows I’ve seen in 2016. Gat is an incredibly charismatic performer and an impressive innovator on the electric guitar. His upcoming show at The Hi-Fi will undoubtedly be a scorcher and I can’t recommend attending highly enough.I spoke with Gat via phone from his current home in New York City.Yonatan Gat: I think it’s different for each project. It’s just kind of became the way I do things. In Monotonix we started playing on the floor because we had a certain objective — to shock people actually. [laughs] It’s hard for me to think about that now because I’m in such a different place. I’m much less interested in shocking people now. But I think shock has a lot of value and I think people need to be shocked out of their senses constantly. But I feel like I’ve already done that.When Monotonix started playing on the floor we just wanted to do something very different and catch people by the balls, to get a response and make them feel something. Eventually Monotonix became like it’s own world and our interaction with the audience grew from that. For example, the way our singer Ami would take a beer from an audience member and spill it over his own head, or take a trash can from the ladies' restroom and spill it all over our drummer. That kind of came from playing on the floor, it wasn’t like the whole thing was planned. It started out as an attempt to really get in the audience’s faces, but it became something else. It became this interactive show where the band communicates with the audience in a very individual and intimate way — even when we’re playing really big shows. When I play festivals I usually set-up a little stage in the middle of the audience so people can see us all around. I don’t have to stand behind the barricades and I can really feel the audience.That’s the point of this band. When I started this band, playing on the floor was not for shock value or for a theatrical element. I wanted to have the audience partake in the show in more of a musical sense. And because the show is completely improvised, I wanted to make it 100 percent flexible, meaning anything could happen at any moment. Thirty minutes into the show we can do something we’ve never done before and keep doing that for another thirty minutes. It’s very open like that. Being inside the audience really allows us to improvise with the audience. I can really get the response of the audience and feel what they need. We don’t try to make an experimental show, and just stare at our effects pedals. We do try to communicate with the audience. Obviously we’re not going to start playing a Britney Spears songs just to try to impress people. But we’re there with the audience and we try to build some sort of community vibe with them.There’s a certain play between us and the audience that I think makes the feeling you had at our show very true. You are a part of the music. You are a part of what you called the “ritual.” Just by being there and the energy you give, you can actually affect what happens next. There’s no set list and nothing is pre-designed. It’s all about adjusting to that moment.Yonatan Gat: Of course it is. Music is one of the deepest things you can have. Music existed before language. Music basically is the source of everything. Music can really tap into some of the primal experiences of being human. That’s actually one of the greatest things about punk music. You asked if I’m a punk musician just thrashing on the guitar, or if I think about music in a deeper way — and I think it’s both. I think punk music’s biggest contribution to the history of music is that it brought back this idea of getting lost inside your music. The jazz people had that, but then they forgot it. Around the ‘70s when there were all those progressive bands in rock music and everything was very self-conscious - actually it’s not that different from now. The punk rockers went back to that feeling of losing yourself in music, to kind of transcend language and ideas and get connected to this primal energy. I think that’s a lot of my attraction to punk music.When I think about music as a ritual, I think every performance is ritual in a way. I like that people call it a ritual, and I agree. It feels like that to me.But I like your question, and a lot people when they talk about our shows having a ritualistic element compare it to voodoo music or shamanistic music. For me one thing that sets our music apart from that idea, is that voodoo or shamanistic music is very repetitive. If you listen to voodoo music with all the Haitian drums it tends to have a very repetitive element. But our music is the opposite of that. So why do you think people make that connection?Yonatan Gat: Interesting.Yonatan Gat: I think it’s both, and more. There are a lot of guitarists I like that are less typical. When people ask me this question I think maybe they expect me to say Jimi Hendrix. Of course I love Jimi Hendrix, it’s sort of impossible to not be influenced by Jimi Hendrix as a guitarist. So me saying Jimi Hendrix is not interesting in a way. When it comes to Western guitarists I really like Syd Barrett and on the other hand I also like Robert Fripp, especially his work on the David Bowie records. I think Fripp’s experiments with Eno really pushed the guitar forward in an ambitious and interesting way. But I really appreciate Syd Barrett for the incredible touch that he has on the instrument. I think it’s completely unique and I was always drawn to guitarists like that.So many things have been done already on the guitar, so it seems like it’s very hard to do something new in a way. But in a way it actually isn’t because all the groundwork has been laid before you. I think you can get insane ideas if you just open your ears and go a little bit beyond Western music, and go a little bit beyond rock and roll recorded between 1955 and 1975 — which most musicians refuse to do.The guitarists I listen to are West African guitarists. One of my favorites… I don’t really know his name unfortunately, which is embarrassing. But he plays in this band called Orchestra Baobab.Yonatan Gat: Yes, he’s one of my favorite guitarists and I’m glad you know him. If you listen to his guitar playing, which is very influenced by Cuban music, you just get this insane amount of new ideas.Even if you listen to a really famous guitarist like Django Reinhardt, which everybody in the West knows. You can take his ideas Not in the sense of studying him or mimicking his style as so many people do. Django completely dominates jazz guitar. He became not only a name, but a whole style of music. But if you listen to his approach to music, then of course you can do new things in rock and roll.People are obsessed with celebrating a certain style of music, from a certain set of years, from a very particular part of the world called the U.S. and England. I think there’s much more music than that. I think if what I do sounds new and refreshing, a lot of it comes from my curiosity about many styles of music from everywhere in the world.One more thing I want to say in that context is to talk about improvisation. We talked about how in the 1970s punk was an important thing to release rock and roll from its own ass. I hope maybe this combination of incorporating styles from outside the U.S. and England will lead to a new music. But it’s tricky talking about these things, because I don’t want to encourage people to go out and start an afrobeat band tomorrow if they don’t come from that part of the world and don’t understand that music.I’m not saying you need to listen to Fela Kuti and imitate his music. But you can take his approach and implement that to your own music and that would immediately make your own music ten times more interesting. I think the place where a lot of bands fall is when they listen to a certain kind of music and than imitate the style. What can be imitated, without any danger of becoming an imitator, is approach. Fela Kuti had his own approach to music. Orchestra Baobab had their own approach to music. Jazz improvisers like Miles Davis had a completely unique approach to music. We don’t need to steal that, but we can use that to open our own minds.Maybe the same way punk rock saved rock and roll from its own ass in the 1970s, maybe taking in those influences and approaches from different musicians, from different times, from different parts of the world —And maybe improvisation too! I think rock and roll is a perfect music for improvising. It doesn’t have to be jam bands playing twelve bar blues. There’s so much more to improvisation. The beauty of improvisation in jazz in the old days was the energy. It was the most insane energetic music. Going to a big band show in the 1920s was like going to a punk show at CBGB’s in 1976. Over time the music became very academic. I think improvisation, with the energy of a music like punk, is unstoppable. There will always be something new to say, especially if you are opening your mind to influences from wherever you can get them.Our time on this planet is short and there is so much music. We only have to open our minds immediately. Then maybe people would stop voting for Trump.Yonatan Gat: Are you going to ask me about Aris San?Yonatan Gat: [laughs] Haha, nice! Yeah, yeah, definitely. I’ve actually been rediscovering Aris San lately. In the last year I bought an Aris San vinyl on Ebay. The album wasn’t that good, but as a guitarist he’s amazing.I think about this a lot: Aris San’s influence in Israel was massive, even though he was ostracized and had to leave the country at some point. There’s a documentary about him on Youtube. I think it has English subtitles - but if not, you’re screwed. It tells his life story and his story is insane. He emigrated to Israel and he became very successful because no-one could play guitar like him in Israel. Something really interesting happened to him, and I think this is something that happens to immigrants when they become very successful in a new country. The country just spits them out.We saw the same thing with Charlie Chaplin in the U.S. This guy moves to America from England, and becomes huge. He was a genius director, he acted in the films and scored them. He had an amazing method of working, it was very improvisational. I get very inspired by people like him. He would shoot with no scripts. His script may have two lines and everything else just happened on set. I think that’s where the potency of his films comes from. Anyway, he becomes this gigantic American icon and in the 1950s they accuse him of Communism and he has to flee back to England at some point, humiliated with his tail between his legs. Spat out of the country where he helped popularize the cinema so much.The same thing kind of happened to Aris San in Israel. He came to Israel and became huge. Then at some point, he did this weird thing. He started incorporating Arabic influences into his music. Which is of course something I do to, because I come from that part of the world. For me it makes a lot of sense to play those Arabic scales. It makes a lot of sense to have Arabic elements because I come from there. It’s not something I would recommend other guitarists to do because it needs to be in you.You can’t play something just because you like it. It’s not that simple.But Aris San did that, and it was very groundbreaking during the late ‘60s and early ’70s. At that time nobody did that. Israel was a much more racist place than it is now. And people just thought he was insane. But for him, he was a stellar musician and it was the next logical way to go. He’s in Israel surrounded by the Arabic countries of the Middle East. Why not bring an oud in? Why not bring the Arabic scales and atmosphere?But people really freaked out. People started calling him a spy, an Egyptian spy or Syrian spy. People were saying he had a camera on the headstock of his guitar and he had to leave the country after being the most successful guitarist. It’s a really interesting story and I could talk about it for a long time.But I think what he brought to Israeli culture was an appreciation for Greek guitar playing. That bouzouki style all comes from Turkish music and back to Arabic music. He really popularized that style in Israel. Now every Israeli guitarist can be influenced by that. So much of Israeli pop music has those elements in them.So even if you don’t grow up listening to Aris San in Israel, his influence is completely inside you. He just completely reshaped music in Israel. He is an incredible guitarist, for sure one of the best guitarists to come out of Israel. He changed music forever and a lot of the change was incorporating those Greek, Turkish, Mediterranean, even Middle Eastern influences into the guitar sound of Israeli music.That exists in my playing whether I like Aris San or not. But in the last year I’ve been on an Aris San kick and I’ve been really enjoying him. He’s a super creative guitar player. Getting into his music is a really good idea. There are great videos of him on Youtube where you can watch him go, and he shreds.Yonatan Gat: I don’t know. Israel is a very problematic place. It’s a very young country. It’s been around way less than a century and I don’t think it has really developed its own identity in music yet. I think part of the problem for Israel culturally is that it’s still looking out to the West for inspiration instead of trying to finds its own voice. That’s a problem in general for musicians around the world. That’s part of what I’ve been complaining about with rock and roll bands. They’re not trying to find their own voice, they’re trying to glorify the 1970s or something like that.A lot of bands in Israel are trying to sound like American or European bands. Or on the other hand, they’re going for that cheap shot of being an ethnic-whatever band - which is something I’m not that interested in. It’s definitely not organic to bill yourself as some ethnic world music band. You can call all music world music, and all music is ethnic music. I have a lot of problem with that.So music in Israel has not been an inspiration to me in the way that I sit home and listen to a lot of Israeli records - outside of a really great Mediterranean-Israeli singer named Zohar Argov. He’s really good. There are some great songwriters and some great musicians, but not as many as I would want to see. Of course there is Aris San. But I think the future might be better.I think the influence for me is just being from there and absorbing the musical culture, whether I wanted to or not. That makes me a different guitar player than any American guitar player because I have this completely different cultural background. Even if I just wanted to make rock and roll. When I was young I listened mostly rock and roll. But slowly over the years you kind of understand that the music you make is a combination of what you want to make, and what you are.Yonatan Gat: Interesting. Yes, it’s valid enough. It’s considered a legendary record amongst psychedelic collectors. You happen to know all these things — but Aris San and The Churchills are rare things in Israel. You’re not going to find a lot of examples of this kind of music in Israel.I heard that record a few times. It doesn’t sound like the most unique piece of music I’ve ever heard. I like it, but I don’t feel like it adds anything to my musical world at the moment. ...Of course it’s valid and I think it’s a beautiful record in a way. There are a lot of interesting things about it. But in the future I would expect more from Israeli bands - and from bands in general. But yes, it’s an interesting record and I should get into it again. I don’t want to say too much about it without listening to it again more recently. I already said a lot.From the way I remember it, it sounds like a band that was looking outside of Israel. But that band actually ended up playing on very weird Israeli records by this famous singer named Arik Einstein. In the later ‘60s they became his backing band. They made very interesting music together, but it still suffered a bit by trying to imitate The Beatles and whatever was fashionable at the time. But it still had some kind of Israeli flavor.I think it would be very interesting for somebody to curate some sort of Israeli rock comp, because I think we definitely have enough stuff for at lest one very interesting compilation. But other than that, I think the future is where we want to be looking when it comes to Israeli music.Yonatan Gat: We’re working on our next record. It’s been two years of that. I started working on the record as soon as we finishedIt’s a bit of a different project. It’s been an insane two year process where we keep going back into the studio recording more stuff and doing crazy editing experiments. I think it’s going to be very special. It’s definitely not going to be rehashing what we did on our last record. But I think it will have a lot of what’s good about that record. I think our next LP will be something that people who like our music can really look forward to and I’m definitely interested in hearing people’s reactions to it. We also have a love DVD coming out soon. A lot of the DVD was shot at our Fountain Square show. | http://www.nuvo.net/ACulturalManifesto/archives/2016/08/29/yonatan-gats-unrestrained-rock-and-roll-anarchy/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/025e2e6c9700ba44b17c10485296fe9390e0fac62283fdca27f907c2af5dc87a.json |
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"Bridget W."
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Hello everyone! Welcome back to another stellar week of comic related goodness!This week.. we have an origin story for Ulysses- the Inhuman that started all this Civil War 2 nonsense. There's also a new Atomic Robo series, a new Godzilla series and the! Valiant is releasing some cool stuff this week as well; we have a new series about a group of super powered teens and the Valiant Universe Handbook which is your guide to everything Valiant related!TOP PICKS(W) Keith Giffen (A) Scott KolinsJaime Reyes wakes up one day in the middle of the desert with no knowledge of the past few years. When he makes his way home, he finds out that the government is hot on his trail! They want to learn more about Jaime and the scarab that gives him his power! When all seems lost, Kord Industries swoops in and protects Jaime and his family... but why?(W) Al Ewing (A) Jefte PaloIn this prequel to, we learn more about Ulysses- the man that started all of this. In, we first met Ulysses at college and he was a normal student... until the Terrigen Mists swept on to campus. Now, he can predict the future, sort of. Learn about how he came to join the Inhumans!(W) Fred Van Lente (A) Francis PortelaValiant's newest superhero comic! The psiots were a group of kids that were raised to be killers and nothing more. Now they are on the run and help people who are in need! Don't worry about trying to get a hold of them; they will contact you!(W) Simon Oliver (A/CA) MoritatConstantine is back and London barely survived his arrival! However Constantine is in a load of trouble. Swamp Thing is calling in a favor, Mercury won't leave him be and something wicked this way comes... for Constantine!(W) Nathan Fairbairn (A) Matt SmithLake of Fire takes place in 1200 AD during the Crusades. An alien vessel crash lands on Earth and starts hunting humans! The only thing that stands between humanity and our demise is a group of crusaders!That's all for this week! Next week SAGA IS BACK SO EVERYONE REJOICE. And it's an epic new story arc. One that's been building up since the first issue. So get ready!If you need the full release list, click here! I'll see you next week! | http://www.nuvo.net/GuestVoices/archives/2016/08/25/nuvopop-generation-zero/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/2f929c76ddb58818af6566bff5905c905d2107180c030dd45c5a206711a04733.json |
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"Cavan Mcginsie"
] | 2016-08-30T16:50:39 | null | 2016-08-30T11:29:24 | The people at Patachou are set to open Crispy Bird, a new fried chicken restaurant that will be in the Meridian-Kessler neighborhood. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fpatachou-opening-a-new-fried-chicken-restaurant%2FContent%3Foid%3D4226457.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4226458/img_20160829_103557.jpg | en | null | Patachou opening a new fried chicken restaurant | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge The crispy fried chicken from Public Greens, one of Patachou's other eateries.
Cavan McGinsie
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Fried chicken. It’s a crispy, delicious godsend. Over the past few years it has quickly become one of the most highly-sought dishes across the country. In Indianapolis we have an incredible fried chicken scene. For years the best was found only in the soul food kitchens like Mississippi Belle and Maxine’s Chicken and Waffles , and also at the homestead restaurants like Hollyhock Hill and The Iron Skillet . But, over the past few years fried chicken has slowly come to the forefront of many trendier, new restaurants in the city including Thunderbird in Fountain Square and The Eagle on Mass Ave.Martha Hoover, the brain behind the Patachou Foundation , has seen firsthand just how much we want crunchy, golden chicken. So, she is answering this desire with a brand new fried chicken restaurant, aptly named Crispy Bird . The new concept, which is slated to open later this year or early 2017, came about from the popularity of the dish at two of Hoover’s other restaurants. “We started serving fried chicken at Petite Chou in 2010,” Hoover says. “What I thought would be a one-time special turned out to be a weekly (every Wednesday) feature due to its extreme popularity. We serve a different version of fried chicken at Public Greens and that item has become our number one selling protein. It is obvious that fried chicken has a special place in everyone’s mind, especially mine!”The timing couldn’t have worked out better with Martha’s son David (who will be taking the helm at Crispy Bird) returning from his culinary schooling in Paris and a stint in the kitchen at RELÆ , the only certifiably organic restaurant with a Michelin star and the number one restaurant in the world for sustainability (a driving force behind all of Patachou Foundation’s restaurants). According to Hoover, “My son, David, pretty much perfected “his” version [of fried chicken], experimenting at home over the years. His initial goal before moving to Paris for culinary training was to open a restaurant that specialized in fried chicken. Tyler Herald, our executive chef, is what I would call a student of fried chicken. When the real estate opportunity came available in the [Meridian-Kessler] neighborhood, we all looked at each other and said “hell yes”.”Crispy Bird will be opening at 49th and Penn, in the neighborhood of the original Café Patachou and Patachou Foundation’s offices. As with all of Patachou’s spots it will be highly focused on local and sustainable, with the vertically-raised, GMO- and antibiotic-free chicken being provided by Gunthorp Farms in La Grange. Martha says, “The vegetable menu at [Crispy Bird] will share center stage with its fried chicken; gluten free, vegan and vegetarian offerings will be first, as opposed to second, thoughts.”One added bonus to Crispy Bird is the space will serve as a sort of henhouse for new ideas, according to the initial press release: “Additionally, we are going to use the Crispy Bird® space at 49th and Penn as an incubator for new brands that are hatching next from Patachou Inc.” | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/patachou-opening-a-new-fried-chicken-restaurant/Content?oid=4226457 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/9609d5eb38609799c8380fea36d244cbc255e1a93d494e74bff00e3850557aa6.json |
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"Cavan Mcginsie"
] | 2016-08-26T13:10:42 | null | 2016-08-15T07:00:00 | It's Indy Pizza Week August 15-21 and we are breaking down our city by the many different pizza styles that you can find in Indy. In this first part we have Chicago, Grilled and Midwest styles. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Findianapolis-pizza-style-guide-chicago-grilled-and-midwest%2FContent%3Foid%3D4187265%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4187269/thehotbox2.jpg | en | null | Indianapolis pizza style guide: Chicago, Grilled and Midwest | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/indianapolis-pizza-style-guide-chicago-grilled-and-midwest/Content?oid=4187265&show=comments | en | 2016-08-15T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/77cd419086c99dbe9c0c7c5685480fa089212ddb41c22577f40052688d32fa0c.json |
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"Wayne Bertsch"
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] | 2016-08-26T13:10:03 | null | 2016-08-22T14:03:53 | DigIN's A Taste of Indiana takes over Military Park on Sunday, August 28 and as always it is the easiest way to taste locally-sourced dishes from many of Indiana's best chefs and restaurants. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Ftaste-the-best-indiana-has-to-offer-this-weekend%2FContent%3Foid%3D4203505%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4209287/2e9a0669.jpg | en | null | Taste the best Indiana has to offer, this weekend | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/taste-the-best-indiana-has-to-offer-this-weekend/Content?oid=4203505&show=comments | en | 2016-08-22T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/04b54665ec459f25c62fd9f130c006bdeb9eaf0238802cf4ce7e8e371c2d6d8a.json |
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"Kent Sterling"
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"Kent Sterling"
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"Dan Grossman"
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"Kent Sterling"
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Phil Taylor
August 30th is way too early to be relentlessly cynical about the 2016 Indianapolis Colts.
An NFL season is broken into quarters, and even a bad first quarter is too early to cast an entire season into the scrap heap.
There is no doubt these Colts are a bit different from most of those Colts teams who have posted only one losing season since 2001, but until the season starts and players hit to win rather than prepare we can’t know for certain what might happen.
Injuries have taken a toll and brought question to positions that were believed to be areas of strength – like cornerback where Vontae Davis is expected to miss at least the first two games of the regular season.
Nine hits to the once again healthy physique of quarterback Andrew Luck in the first half of the Saturday’s preseason game against the Philadelphia Eagles cast doubt about his ability to survive that level of beating for an entire season.
Sure, there are reasons to feel a little foolish for believing the Colts will find a way to the Super Bowl – or even the playoffs – but finding a reason to have faith is what we do in August.
Here are to top nine potential, but very likely fictional, narratives that would validate genuine optimism for the 2016 Indianapolis Colts:
9 – Hysteria in coaches meeting causes schematic replate. During a postseason wrap-up with media, Chuck Pagano confirmed rumors that mayhem during an early September meeting led to a change in focus and scheme that propelled the Colts to an astonishing turnaround. During that meeting, new defensive coordinator Ted Monachino drew up the innovative “98” defense for the very first time. Experts claim the deployment of Robert Mathis in a position never before conceived will forever change football.
8 – Chud takes offense vertical with T.Y. Hilton catching 80 balls and averaging 18 yards per. While fans sweated a meaningless preseason of dinking and dunking to keep Andrew Luck upright, offensive coordinator Rob Chudzinski waited to unveil a vertical passing game that confounded defenses and stunned analysts. Hilton responded with the most productive season of his five-year career with 1,440 yards and 15 touchdowns..
7 – Foundering in preseason causes frenetic work by players leading to mass improvement. Fear of doom was a powerful motivator as the Colts careened through a preseason that set a new standard for uninspired play. Each of the 53 roster survivors spent significant time staring in the mirror and realized that a different level of aggression is needed to play winning football. A furious rally against the Lions in the opener set a tone that never changed. 6 – Frank Gore becomes first running back his age since John Riggins to run for 1,000 yards. Defying age and worries about an offensive line that appeared to have difficulty generating enough push to consistently create a hole, Gore found enough creases to use his 225 carries to notch 1,012 yards and earn an invitation to his first Pro Bowl since 2013, which he declined because of the Colts trip to the Super Bowl.
5 – Offensive line congeals just in time to save Andrew Luck’s life. The porous unit that allowed the Eagles to rain down blows on their quarterback began playing like a unit against the Detroit Lions in the opener, and just kept rolling, allowing opponents to sack Luck only 10 times. As a result, Luck was able to do what he does best – throw the deep ball to the speediest trio of wide receivers in the NFL. “The Five Blocks of Granite” – Castonzo, Mewhort, Kelly, Good, and Reitz are now among the finest units in the nearly century long history of the NFL.
4 – Importance of preseason is vastly overrated and the Colts find a way to win AFC South. All the doubts caused by a singularly difficult to watch preseason were entirely unfounded as the Colts played with crisp aggression from the opener against the Loins through the regular season into the playoffs.
3 – August injuries lead to December health. The Colts injury issues were at their worst as the regular season started and only improved from there. Every starter who returned was able to finish the season on the field, and a miraculous recovery by left guard Jack Mewhort allowed the starting offensive line to play together intact through all 16 games.
2 – Robert Mathis returns as a rampaging beast at age 35. Mathis continues to defy age and a recent spate of injuries by matching his 19.5 sacks total of 2013. His strip sack against Tom Brady in the AFC Championship was the deciding play in an AFC Championship Game for the ages.
1 – Andrew Luck proves incredible play of quarterback can trump mediocrity everywhere else. The greatest season played by a quarterback in NFL history led the Indianapolis Colts to a third Super Bowl in the last 11 years. Luck was virtually untouched while completing an NFL record 56 touchdown passes and running for another seven as the Colts set the bar for explosive offense in a championship season Colts fans will forever remember.
Kent Sterling hosts the fastest growing sports talk show in Indianapolis on CBS Sports 1430 every weekday from 3p-6p, and writes about Indiana sports at kentsterling.com. | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/nine-dream-scenarios-during-2016-colts-season/Content?oid=4227044 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/a799ddf09791694898c29ac1e02506cb13a776de9abc1f5c3cdcea37dd61e359.json |
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"Cavan Mcginsie"
] | 2016-08-26T13:07:43 | null | 2016-08-23T14:39:27 | Omni Severin's newest Farm to Fork Dinner Series is bringing you to the table for an intimate evening with local food and drink producers. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fshare-an-intimate-meal-with-smoking-goose-taxman-and-more%2FContent%3Foid%3D4209772.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4211828/indsev-16006-farm-to-fork-aug-web-1170x660.jpg | en | null | Share an intimate meal with Smoking Goose, Taxman and more | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge Omni Severin
click to enlarge Fischer Farms ribs were absolutely incredible
click to enlarge The full menu for August's event
Omni Severin
It's a rarity to share a dinner with the farmer who provided the meat for the meal. But, here I am shoveling ribs into my mouth faster than I should, I'm not even a ribs kinda guy (I lean towards brisket), but damn these are good and I'm sharing them with Dave Fischer of Fischer Farms and his family. He is sharing his thoughts on the importance of local farming with my girlfriend and me. My girlfriend, a long-time vegan, isn't eating, but after the conversation she tells me she was excited to hear Dave's thoughts on meat, farming and food — trust me, that is high praise and does not come easily.This is the incredible part of the new Farm to Fork Dinner Series at the Severin Bar inside the Omni Severin Hotel Downtown. The series focuses on bringing local farmers in with local ingredients to prepare four-course meals for local people. Not only was Dave Fischer and his entire family a part of the meal, but Sun King Brewing , who provided the libations for the evening, also had a representative there to explain the beer pairings and Sun King's mission. Also, the team from Garwood Orchard came to share the story of this family-owned orchard in La Porte, Indiana. It truly was a wonderful evening of conversation and sharing a love for local, sustainable food.This month, on August 31 at 6 p.m., the event is back and featuring Smoking Goose Meatery Taxman Brewing Company and Capriole Goat Cheese . All three producers will be there to share their stories with you and for you to have one-on-one conversations with. It's a singular event here in Indianapolis and it is the perfect opportunity to enjoy a great meal, learn about sustainability and locally-produced products, and the proceeds go to benefitting Second Helpings, a charity that helps feed food-insecure Indiana residents.Seats are $49 per person, excluding tax and gratuity, Spaces are limited and reservations can be made by calling 317.634.6664. For more information, visit OmniHotels.com If you'd love to go, but August 31 doesn't work for you, don't miss out on the next two events:featuring Starlight Distillery, CBR Natural Meats, Just Pop In and Fair Oaks Farms.featuring a fall harvest celebration | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/share-an-intimate-meal-with-smoking-goose-taxman-and-more/Content?oid=4209772 | en | 2016-08-23T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/f18c695e8bc671db2e7796b6b249ee8eb654abc2476f33bfd0fd2eed97a11ae4.json |
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"The Statehouse File"
] | 2016-08-30T16:51:38 | null | 2016-08-30T08:40:00 | Glenda Ritz, Indiana’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, is proposing her plan to prevent child abuse in schools. The plan includes additional training for school employees... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fdepartment-of-education-outlines-plan-to-prevent-child-abuse%2FContent%3Foid%3D4226394%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4226393/ritz4.jpg | en | null | Department of Education outlines plan to prevent child abuse | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/department-of-education-outlines-plan-to-prevent-child-abuse/Content?oid=4226394&show=comments | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/fdca46b26409d319a186adb607047577b140d3d735873cd1b479f935d6196531.json |
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"Renee Sweany"
] | 2016-08-26T13:10:12 | null | 2016-08-25T11:30:00 | Where do you recycle worn out shoes/clothing/linens that are too far gone to donate? | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fask-renee-what-do-you-do-with-really-really-really-old-shoes%2FContent%3Foid%3D4195780%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4195782/573px-old_rags_into_new_cloth-_salvage_in_britain_april_1942_d7435.jpg | en | null | Ask Renee: What do you do with really, really, really old shoes? | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/ask-renee-what-do-you-do-with-really-really-really-old-shoes/Content?oid=4195780&show=comments | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/6a46d819a78dab9006d034947684db1054745e1dfcec692a4a61d817ce6cf818.json |
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"Ted Somerville"
] | 2016-08-29T18:51:08 | null | 2016-08-29T09:20:00 | Ted Somerville takes you on a trip through Chreece, a homegrown hip-hop fest that went down in Fountain Square this weekend. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fslideshow-chreece-2-in-fountain-square%2FContent%3Foid%3D4224137%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4224136/_dsc6768.jpg | en | null | Slideshow: Chreece 2 in Fountain Square | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/slideshow-chreece-2-in-fountain-square/Content?oid=4224137&show=comments | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/c4dbccd6a8782144b1e48c3d96dbee8e41cbc6390ce7e20b5fb0e8924205641a.json |
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"Amber Stearns"
] | 2016-08-27T16:50:53 | null | 2016-08-22T10:16:33 | Hanover College student Sierra Nuckols is tackling food insecurity in Indianapolis with her Community Food box project. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Ftaking-action-to-tackle-food-insecurity-in-indianapolis%2FContent%3Foid%3D4209266%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4209278/food_box_stocked.jpg | en | null | Taking action to tackle food insecurity in Indianapolis | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/taking-action-to-tackle-food-insecurity-in-indianapolis/Content?oid=4209266&show=comments | en | 2016-08-22T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/b7ef51303a1220115f4ae5f03ea2c6e25e1fcb54b3d24749eb7f0d31227ed2c5.json |
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"Dr. Rhonda Baughman"
] | 2016-08-27T16:50:39 | null | 2016-08-24T14:10:23 | The book looking at rock in the Hoosier state | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fstraight-outta-evansville-david-humphreys-account-of-rock-and-roll-in-indiana%2FContent%3Foid%3D4214033%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4214042/img_2387.jpg | en | null | Straight outta Evansville: David Humphrey's account of rock and roll in Indiana | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/straight-outta-evansville-david-humphreys-account-of-rock-and-roll-in-indiana/Content?oid=4214033&show=comments | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/34ff9cc155d84c0849c3ffa0bbac878a47b2fd66ef50acce8f6e5b2a356ee5c7.json |
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"Dan Grossman"
] | 2016-08-29T22:50:26 | null | 2016-08-29T16:51:11 | It shouldn’t be a one-time thing | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Freview-in-light-in-indys-downtown-lights-festival%2FContent%3Foid%3D4225047.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4225049/20160827_225259.jpg | en | null | Review: IN Light IN, Indy's downtown lights festival | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge
IN Light IN, which celebrated the 100th year of the Indianapolis Foundation, is already a thing of the past.I’m willing to bet, however, that most of you fortunate enough to have attended this free festival last weekend feel like I do: that it shouldn’t be a one-time thing.IN Light IN, which took place in the general vicinity of the Downtown Canal, wasn’t just about art that incorporates light: it was about people interacting with art, about people becoming part of an outdoor canvas. Take, for example, the “Paddlit” paddleboats outfitted with LED lights by Big Car Collective, lights that paddlers could to some degree, if they so desired, control. Or take, for another example, the bicycle-powered light-infused constructions of “Shadows of Our Prairie Past” created by Opera-Matic and Know No Stranger. These were constructions that you could—if you so desired—ride.IN Light IN was also about creative use of space. Not only did Downtown Canal itself become a canvas for Indy-based Owens and Crawley’s “A September without Ice”— which allowed visitors to ponder the effects of global warming — but building façades became canvases as well.Projectionists were having their way with the Scottish Rite Cathedral, with the Bethel A.M.E. Church, and with the Indiana Government Center. At Scottish Rite, YesYesNo from Brooklyn, N.Y. allowed people to cast their shadows onto the front of the cathedral, against a hallucinatory blur of lights set to music. A similar thing was going on in more spectacular fashion at the upper canal under 11th Street where Austin, TX based Luke Savisky created “ST/X.” This installation allowed people to have their images projected from a live camera stage onto a water screen over the canal. So you could see the images of participants not just walking, but dancing, on water.While the Fest included many artists from all over the country, a number of well-established Indy artists were included as well. Anila Quayyum Agha’s canal path-level “Alhambra Nights,” is a variant on her Art Prize winning work “Intersections.” It invites viewers to cast their own shadows on the surrounding walls as they walk by her hollow, interior-lit, hanging sculptures carved in geometric patterns. While these sculptures project a vision of sacred space, Jamie Pawlus’s neon-illuminated sign “HAPPINESS,” invites viewers to contemplate their own interior space. As the cool blue sign switches off, and then comes back on in stages, Pawlus reminds us that being happy relies on a sense of perspective. We can only appreciate the light of happiness if we know what it’s like to be in the dark. | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/review-in-light-in-indys-downtown-lights-festival/Content?oid=4225047 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/59ae19a1c129c458ba8d53261eed608c96c0cfa76e481acd2fd56287da15aacb.json |
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"Renee Sweany"
] | 2016-08-30T16:50:38 | null | 2016-08-30T11:00:00 | Joe Hogsett cancelled the deal with Covanta, now the Mayor's Office of Sustainability is looking for ways to improve Indiana's recycling programs. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fask-renee-renegotiating-the-cancelled-covanta-deal%2FContent%3Foid%3D4226396.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4226398/covanta-3.jpg | en | null | Ask Renee: Renegotiating the cancelled Covanta deal | null | null | www.nuvo.net | Michelle Craig
Galanti,For starters, I will gladly answer any questions you have about recycling and green living, but I will not tolerate anyone belittling my home state or name calling. That said, I will still answer this question because I think others would like an update as well.From a very reliable source, I learned two things.1. The Mayor’s Office of Sustainability has published an analysis of the results of the recent online survey about recycling 2. Members of the team will be attending the Resource Recycling Conference August 30-September 1 to learn more about how to make curbside recycling a reality for Indianapolis.They are also revamping the drop-off recycling program and will make an announcement about any changes this fall. These things don’t happen overnight, partially because it’s government, but also because it’s a huge undertaking. I hope I’ll be one of the first to let you know as a new recycling program evolves. The Office of Sustainability provides information about all of their services and initiatives, as well as dates for upcoming public meetings (including those that were held to gain input about the future of recycling in our city) – and you’re always welcome to ask me (in a respectful manner).Piece out,Renee | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/ask-renee-renegotiating-the-cancelled-covanta-deal/Content?oid=4226396 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/9d64992e947dddd28b56bfc05c159bf253c76a0f57ad102bbc02b1e5b2ca1ad6.json |
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"Dan Grossman"
] | 2016-08-26T13:06:56 | null | 2016-08-24T14:32:57 | New works by Gary Gee, Hector Del Campo, Samuel E Vázquez | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fa-herron-nexus-of-street-art%2FContent%3Foid%3D4214075.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4214089/dontforget_samuelevazquez_300dpi.jpg | en | null | A Herron nexus of street art | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge Don't forget by Samuel E Vázquez
click to enlarge Birth of a city by Gary Gee
click to enlarge Candyland by Hector Del Campo
Gary Gee, who will show his paintings and ceramic sculpture at Indiana Landmarks on Sept. 2, once worked as a licensed cosmetologist."I was doing hair," he says. "I was getting better at it but mentally and physically I wasn't there."The processes that he learned in this career, however, were not wasted on his career as an artist."There's color theory with hair, technique," says the 46-year-old Gee, who grew up in Indianapolis. "I had to humble myself too because when you're a guy you think there's no reason for [a woman] to be here all day until you actually learn the process."But it's the processes of human evolution and history, as well as the history of street art, that are the subjects of his paintings and ceramic sculpture. In these works, you can see images of Olmec statues and Buddhas swirling around like leaves in a stream. You may have seen some of his paintings previously atat the Indianapolis Library and, both of which are showcases for African-American artists.Gee is working towards his B.A. in integrated studio practices at the Herron School of Art and Design. So it's no coincidence that he'll be showing his paintings — as well as recent work in ceramic sculpture — along with paintings by Herron instructors Samuel E Vázquez and Hector Del Campo.And it's easy to see why these artists feel a kinship with one another. In all of their work, you can see nods to the history of street art, graffiti and the importance of the urban experience in American culture.The process involved in the nexUS exhibition coming together was anatural one."My manager Amy Ward was showing my work around town in different galleries," says Gee. "And she showed it to the Rapp Family Gallery; they loved my work. And they wanted it but I only would have seven months to fill this big venue. She talked to me, and she was like, you talk about Sam and Hector a lot. They've already been established. ... So the whole concept of nexUS just evolved.""Nexus means the connection between things or persons," says Sam Vázquez. "We knew each other: I knew Hector, Hector knew Gary. Also, the roots of why we do this as far as artists is rooted in the genesis of street art. The roots are there, but each of us will interpret it in a different way. That's the connection that we have as artists."Vázquez was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1970 but grew up mostly in New York City where he tagged quite a few subways and subway lines. Indeed, it's Vázquez's canvases that seems closest of all these artists to the New York City graffiti scene in their expressive and extemporaneous abstraction.Yet all of these artists have a certain outsider perspective to the Indianapolis art scene, which continues to evolve from its roots in landscape, nature and portrait painting. In the case of Vázquez and Hector Del Campo, that sense of being an outsider is accentuated by their coming to Indianapolis from elsewhere."I'm a first generation Cuban American," says the 39-year-old Del Campo, who grew up in Tampa, Florida. "Literally understanding and seeing cultures, that's what I grew up in, and having that weave between different cultures and sharing different ideas, talking, communicating; even art, food and music. That weave between everything was really rich."There's a richness to many of Del Campo's paintings; you can almost see different styles — geometric abstraction and more expressive gestural work — wrestling it out on his canvases. There's also a richness as far as texture and different media that are used. You could also talk about a certain conceptual richness in his work. Take "Altered Rainbows" which is a quite literal mashup of various rainbows in various shades of grayscale against an olive green backdrop.And it was Del Campo and Vázquez who helped Gee see the rainbow, as it were, at the end of his occasionally stormy experiences in school."Both of them as friends and mentors over the past two years have just groomed me to be a better me," says Gee. "Hector kind of laid out a plan one time. We hung out after a class one time and he showed me; 'Man, you got potential to more than you think that you can.' I was at Ivy Tech, I was finishing off a graphic design degree. I was struggling. I wasn't the greatest graphic designer. At the same time, I stayed in the program." | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/a-herron-nexus-of-street-art/Content?oid=4214075 | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/bc7f828f8e100869f12eff489d1575f17148e9e7b62c47924e36a2f142a469e7.json |
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"Ed Johnson-Ott"
] | 2016-08-30T16:50:42 | null | 2016-08-30T12:24:37 | The Light Between Oceans is a tearjerker, but it didn't jerk any from me. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Freview-the-light-between-oceans-has-great-actors-doing-dumb-things%2FContent%3Foid%3D4226630.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4226633/the_light_between_oceans.jpg | en | null | Review: "The Light Between Oceans," has great actors doing dumb things | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge
To any loving, childless couples reading this, a bit of advice: Should you ever come across an abandoned baby, contact the proper authorities immediately and turn it in. Do not snatch it and raise it as your own. Yes, I know it's tempting, but don't. Don't. As someone who has seen a lot of movies, I can assure you that the only couple this has ever worked out for is Jonathan and Martha Kent.is a tearjerker that plays like an extra long Lifetime TV movie with a Grade A cast. Based on the novel by M.L. Stedman, the film is written and directed by Derek Cianfrance. You may remember his powerful domestic drama, Blue Valentine, starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. Or maybe not. Maybe you repressed your memories of it because it was so overwhelmingly depressing.Moving on to, Michael Fassbender, respected for his appearances as Magneto in numerousmovies and viewed with awe by those who saw him pacing around his apartment in, stars as Tom Sherbourne, back home in Australia after WWI and suffering survivor's guilt over the loss of so many of his fellow soldiers on the battlefields of France.Tom gets a job as a lighthouse keeper and prepares for a life of seclusion, but wait … Isabel Graysmark (Alicia Vikander), daughter of the man who hired Tom, expresses a desire to see his lighthouse (not a euphemism). When Tom explains that only the wife of the lightkeeper is allowed to see the lighthouse, Isabel proposes to him.Huh. Guess it might have been a euphemism after all.Tom and Isabel get hitched and begin their life of solitude together. Tragedy strikes when Isabel gets pregnant, then miscarries. After a second miscarriage she falls into a deep funk, but wait … Tom just spotted a dingy with an adorable baby and a dead guy in it. Shame about the latter, but the former perks Isabel right up.She looks deep into her husband's eyes and says, “Can we keep it?” “You'll have to feed it and clean up after it,” he says. Actually, he doesn't say that. I was being cute. Sorry. Tom wisely objects to her proposal that they conceal the fact that she had a second miscarriage and raise the child as theirs, but Isabel keeps asking until Tom finally gives in. The cross on the grave of the second miscarried child is destroyed. Tom buries the dead guy in an unmarked grave.What a wonderful idea! Clearly this will lead Tom, Isabel and their lovely stolen daughter Lucy to a life of happiness, but wait … when they're in town for the kid's christening, Tom spots a woman grieving in the graveyard. Turns out she is Hannah Roennfeldt (Rachel Weisz), whose husband and baby Grace were lost at sea.Tom's face remains impassive, but you just know that inside he is thinking, “D'oh!”We've reached the point in this essay where I normally would talk about Alexandre Desplat's strong score, or director Cianfrance's listen-to-a-bit-of-the-next-scene-while-still-watching-this-one scene transitions, but I've decided to address something else, which requires me to use all-caps to sayTom and Isabel get busted for pretending Hannah's child is theirs, and the reason they get busted is because of secret messages sent by Tom. (NOTE: Hoo boy, that was quite a spoiler, wasn't it? When I say SPOILER ALERT I'm not kidding around.)I elected to reveal this plot point because I was so astounded by its cruelty and baffled by its illogic. Think about it. Tom is so riddled by guilt after seeing the real mother that he sends a handwritten note telling her that the girl is alive. Then he waits a substantial period of time (three years, I think) to drop another clue. I realise that Post-Tramatic-Stress-Disorder is awful, but even with a twisted mindset, how does this guy justify shattering his wife's fragile mental construct – in slow motion! – while basically torturing the real mother for the same obscene length of time?is a tearjerker, but it didn't jerk any from me. I was too annoyed watching very good actors doing very stupid things. I liked the atmosphere of this movie, but not nearly enough to forgive the creepy nonsense passing for drama within it. | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/review-the-light-between-oceans-has-great-actors-doing-dumb-things/Content?oid=4226630 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/915035806630f523b88d40d2f47bbdef5742ff89041e3d36a3a47bd6c4dc3c9e.json |
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"David Hoppe"
] | 2016-08-31T00:51:44 | null | 2016-08-30T12:14:00 | Like so many Hoosier Dems, Gregg’s record is pro-life, pro-gun and pro-coal. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2FHoppe%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Findiana-democrats-more-of-the-same%2F.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4226629/patriotic-donkey-2400px.png | en | null | Indiana Democrats: More of the same | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge openclipart.org
This shouldn’t be difficult.An Indiana Democrat, John Gregg, ought to win the governor’s race in this year’s election. This is as true now that Gregg’s opponent is Lt. Gov. Eric Holcomb, as it was when it appeared Gregg would be running against incumbent Mike Pence.Pence’s gift of gaffe was almost limitless. Let us begin to count the ways: Whether he was defending discrimination against the LGBT community as religious freedom, enabling the state’s degrading addiction to coal, or earnestly signing off on one of this country’s most oppressive laws regarding women’s reproductive rights, Pence seemed determined to build a wall around Indiana.It’s no wonder he won Donald Trump’s vice presidential sweepstakes.By the time Trump plucked him from a freakishly narrow field of ne’er-do-wells, Pence had so thoroughly managed to reinforce every negative Hoosier stereotype that many voters seemed ready to vote against him, if only to stop his ham-handed assault on the state’s national reputation.Enter Eric Holcomb, a Republican hack, whose career in politics has never included actually being elected to anything. Short on both time and money, his campaign, thus far, has amounted to his saying, “more of the same.”In most elections, in most states, this situation would represent a golden opportunity for the opposing party, a chance not just to compete, but win a coveted office. But this is Indiana we’re talking about — and the Indiana Democratic Party — which makes predicting what happens in November a decidedly slippery proposition.This starts with John Gregg, the Democratic nominee. Gregg is a longtime Democratic pol, whose greatest claim to fame may be that he almost beat Mike Pence in the last election. This, in spite of a cornpone campaign that managed to alienate many urban voters, most of whom happen to be Democrats.As long as he could play the anti-Pence, Gregg’s prospects were bright. But, like so many Hoosier Dems, Gregg’s record is pro-life, pro-gun and pro-coal. His ads feature Republicans applauding him for being a fiscal conservative. He appears, in other words, to be just like a Republican — only competent.This approach may work for Gregg. But it does nothing to enhance how we think about Indiana, or address the ways life is changing here. Unfortunately, its lack of imagination is characteristic of the Hoosier Democratic Party’s MO, which has been to accept and thus perpetuate clichés about how retrograde and reactionary we are.And herein could be John Gregg’s undoing. Our state’s lack of genuine political competition — not just among candidates, but ideas — has led to almost unprecedented levels of voter apathy and political participation. In 2014, 43 percent of state house and senate races were actually uncontested. Voter turnout, unsurprisingly, was the lowest since World War II.Bernie Sanders has called for an initiative, “Our Revolution,” aimed at recruiting, training and even funding new generation progressive candidates to run for state and local offices. It’s a provocative idea that has yet to find its legs. But something like it could reinvigorate Indiana’s Democratic Party. Unless, that is, the state’s Dems like things just the way they are. | http://www.nuvo.net/Hoppe/archives/2016/08/30/indiana-democrats-more-of-the-same/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/f6e1b4a1ec5fc1be4647877ae709317cbe9289b30bec410476201dd1ac9c6773.json |
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"Dan Grossman"
] | 2016-08-29T00:50:05 | null | 2016-08-28T18:28:07 | My 12-year-old daughter Naomi and I arrived at the first ever Indianapolis Light Festival (IN Light IN for short) around 10:00 on a Saturday night... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fin-light-in-projections-and-reflections%2FContent%3Foid%3D4222772.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4222775/20160826_225215_1_.jpg | en | null | IN Light IN: Projections and Reflections | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge A September without Ice by Owens & Crowley with Police Helicopter overhead
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My 12-year-old daughter Naomi and I arrived at the first ever Indianapolis Light Festival (IN Light IN for short) around 10:00 on a Saturday night after the drenching rains had stopped. The air was warm and humid and there were many people strolling past the banks of the downtown canal—as well as paddling in paddle boats pulsating with light.And light was being reflected and projected here in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Indianapolis Foundation. This was the first night of this two-night event involving approximately 25 installations, in and around the canal.The first installation we came across was “Water Mining” by Indy-based Brian McCutcheon and the performance group MANA2 at the Indiana Government Center basin.Ghostly projections danced on the concrete walls that enclosed the installation space. In tandem with this dancing light, there was an eerie music of sorts—the amplified sounds of the water in the canal. There had just been a musical performance by MANA2, which we had just missed, that incorporated the sounds of the amplified sounds of the canal.The water was where my daughter was looking. “Daddy, look at the pink flamingo,” she said.I looked. Indeed, floating at the edge of the water, there was a small plastic pink flamingo.“It’s probably some child’s toy,” I said offhandedly.I was more interested in what looked like, from afar, like battery-powered toys on the water. These were “Paddlit” paddle boats. They were the same paddle boats that people usually rented to take out on the canal water, but they had been equipped with waterproof LED lights courtesy of Big Car Collaborative.For the nonprofit Big Car, based in Indianapolis, getting the public involved in art is a big part of its mission. The paddlers were not only powering their paddle boats with their kinetic energy: they were altering the rhythm of the pulsating LED lights on their paddle boats. And, in their collaboration, they were becoming a part of the IN Light IN canvas, as it were.It was something of a trip to see these paddle boats cruise down under the glow of a suddenly transformed Indiana Government Center as we walked north along the canal. The entire north-facing façade of this building was cast in a flickering blur of sharply delineated scalpels of light cutting the shadows.This light flickered and fell on the eastern corner of the building façade, adorned by the logo—Governor Mike Pence’s favorite catch phrase. And just like that, this bland emblem was transformed it into something playful and trippy. Just what exactly was going on here?The artist appropriating this canvas, and casting the building in his “Projected Visions,” projections was Ryan Patrick Griffin from Los Angeles, California.Griffin conjured up these images on an iPad and then projected on the building from a quarter mile away.This type of projector/computer interface technology was also being put to use a few blocks north—at the Bethel A.M.E Church at 414 W. Vermont Street, by New Albany Ind. based Tiffany Carbonneau and Louisville, KY-based Susan Crumb. To tell the story of the 150-year-old church, they were projecting images and text onto its façade with their installation “A Place in Time.”But there was also a “Silent Disco” taking place on the lawn by the church, organized by the Indianapolis Museum of Art and Old Soul Entertainment. And it was silent because there’s a noise ordinance along the canal that prevents music from being played after 10:00. So the dancers on the lawn were all wearing blue-glowing headphones, listening to the music of two DJs spinning for two sets of microphones under the glow of the projections on the A.M.E. church.Some of the music acknowledged the rich history of African-American jazz along Indiana Avenue.“Do you want to go dancing?” I asked my daughter, shortly after we arrived at this location.“I’m really, really tired,” she stated flatly, in place of a yes or no answer.Nor did Naomi want to view the installations from a paddle boat. Nor did she want to dance around the Illuminated Reef directly across the canal (built by Barebones Productions and the Illuminated Reef Collection), something that a lot of families were doing. This seemed like the most family fun activity of all. These dancers carried with them glowing lanterns around the glowing reef. From afar, it looked like baby jellyfish circling a giant sea organism.Nor did Naomi remark on Quincy Owens’ floating installation “The First September without Ice,” an array of 18 softly-glowing steel framed plastic “glaciers” that could only be seen as a commentary on Global Warming, on how the human-caused global warming is causing arctic sea-ice to melt.As we watched, a couple in one of the Paddlit boats—pulsating red in LED lights—cruised past the coolly flickering icebergs. These shifted in color from green to blue and back again before our eyes. And then a helicopter passed by, beaming its spotlight along the canal banks.Doubtlessly, the couple powering the boat with their feet had more in mind than global warming that evening. And of course, that is the problem with climate change: it’s hard to appreciate the problem when it (usually) doesn’t affect our daily lives.And it occurred to me that this interaction between installations — and the concepts embodied by them—was the most exciting thing about IN Light IN for me.My daughter, who clearly was not excited this evening due to being up late, was using my shoulder as her pillow.But there was something — not part of IN Light IN — that I thought might wake her up a bit.So we climbed up out of the canal to see the 9/11 memorial at 421 W. Ohio Street, consisting of two steel beams that had been part of the structure of the World Trade Center and a six-foot-high granite wall carved with remembrances of the catastrophic attacks happened almost 15 years ago now. One of the beams is capped with a stone sculpture of an American eagle.She seemed moved by what the memorial represented; she reached out and touched one of the vertical beams with her hand. At the same time, I was looking towards the downtown skyline from which spotlights—some of them vertical—emanated.It was then that I recalled the Tribute in Light, the powerful twin lights that had cut vertical effigies through the New York Sky in April 2002, to memorialize the twin towers that were no longer there.We descended back down to the canal.On the way out we again passed the installation “Water Mining,” in the Indiana Government Center basin. Indy-based Brian McCutcheon andJordan Munson, from MANA2, were on hand to answer the questions about the mechanics of their installation, which was projecting ghostly waves of light dancing in tandem to the eerie music recorded underwater.It was Naomi who had noticed the plastic pink flamingo floating in the water when we first came down to the water, the flamingo that I had thought was just a toy.But it was, as Naomi had suspected, more than just a toy.“The pink flamingo is an underwater hydrophone, and the sounds are being fed back to video,” Munson explained. “The video reacts to the stimulus that the mic pics up.” | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/in-light-in-projections-and-reflections/Content?oid=4222772 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/1ec4bfc73dcc16c5b2bc31247d47e36d53d40ca7bf8f394f531f5f85af0b8d8c.json |
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"Amber Stearns"
] | 2016-08-27T16:50:52 | null | 2016-08-25T16:20:27 | The first ever Climate Leadership Summit brought environmental leaders, city planners and mayors from all over the state to Indianapolis for a one-day event. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fa-commitment-to-climate-change%2FContent%3Foid%3D4216496%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4216499/img_0322.jpg | en | null | A commitment to climate change | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/a-commitment-to-climate-change/Content?oid=4216496&show=comments | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/2ac7d57efbf624b827acd98245191d4966f17d924a5a68024c1a7f040ae59613.json |
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"Sierra Vandervort"
] | 2016-08-30T16:51:37 | null | 2016-08-30T10:30:00 | The quartet packed up their cars for a two-week road trip up to New York City and back, playing shows, recording music and exploring the cities. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fjeron-braxton-and-the-tomogotchis-click%2FContent%3Foid%3D4224632%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4224638/joyful.jpg | en | null | Jeron Braxton and The Tomogotchis click | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/jeron-braxton-and-the-tomogotchis-click/Content?oid=4224632&show=comments | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/3f81f4989f6765b8d38c68a337ef95b33167c21562b22aea36af7308aa193e4b.json |
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"The Statehouse File"
] | 2016-08-30T12:50:35 | null | 2016-08-30T08:40:00 | Glenda Ritz, Indiana’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, is proposing her plan to prevent child abuse in schools. The plan includes additional training for school employees... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fdepartment-of-education-outlines-plan-to-prevent-child-abuse%2FContent%3Foid%3D4226394.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4226393/ritz4.jpg | en | null | Department of Education outlines plan to prevent child abuse | null | null | www.nuvo.net | NUVO File Photo
Glenda Ritz, Indiana’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, is proposing her plan to prevent child abuse in schools. The plan includes additional training for school employees and streamlining the license revocation process.
“No student can learn unless they are safe,” Ritz said in a statement. “As a lifelong educator, I know that keeping our children safe and healthy is a responsibility that our schools take very seriously. That is why the Department is expanding the services it provides to local schools and law enforcement and why we will be working with the Legislature to strengthen Indiana’s laws in the upcoming legislative session.”
The Indiana Department of Education wants to work with background check providers to get background checks offered to schools at a reduced rate. The department hopes a discount would encourage background checks for regular school and coach volunteers in addition to school employees.
The plan also calls for school employees to receive additional training to help identify children who may be abused, as well as what behaviors to look for regarding potential predators.
Ritz also wants to reduce the amount of time it takes to revoke a teacher’s license for educators convicted of certain offenses. Under current state law, a separate administrative process is required to revoke a teacher’s license after the teacher is convicted. Ritz wants a judge to be able to revoke a teacher’s license upon conviction.
Lawmakers will have the opportunity to consider the department’s plan during next year’s legislative session.
TheStatehouseFile.com is a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students. | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/department-of-education-outlines-plan-to-prevent-child-abuse/Content?oid=4226394 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/f15483ae019ccfc4a4d2b11fc10ebd6ede6abb593e16b007d98d30ec48552c85.json |
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"Dan Grossman"
] | 2016-08-29T10:50:53 | null | 2016-08-28T18:28:07 | My 12-year-old daughter Naomi and I arrived at the first ever Indianapolis Light Festival (IN Light IN for short) around 10:00 on a Saturday night... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fin-light-in-projections-and-reflections%2FContent%3Foid%3D4222772%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4222775/20160826_225215_1_.jpg | en | null | IN Light IN: Projections and Reflections | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/in-light-in-projections-and-reflections/Content?oid=4222772&show=comments | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/297b89548db31abea9b275608a6824715c90180df6b7ca7912280270f5c9a191.json |
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"Kent Sterling"
] | 2016-08-26T16:49:02 | null | 2016-08-26T11:15:00 | The Colts face the Philadelphia Eagles in the third preseason game | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2F10-questions-the-colts-hope-to-answer-saturday%2FContent%3Foid%3D4218144.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4218142/andrewluck3.jpg | en | null | 10 questions the Colts hope to answer Saturday | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge Photo Courtesy Indianapolis Colts
Thank God this one doesn’t count.
The Colts are in tatters. Injuries everywhere, and many of the healthy starters won’t play because they are borderline antiques who require protection like the sofa you were forbidden to sit on “because it’s only for special occasions”.
Who wins preseason game #3 between the Colts and Philadelphia Eagles is irrelevant, but there are a number of sidebars that make it must see TV.
Roster spots are at stake, and the evaluation of the critically important 2016 draft class continues. Andrew Luck is back from injuries, and his progress needs to be charted as well.
The two most crucial issues remain – as they do for every NFL franchise – can the Colts get to the quarterback, AND can they keep the other team from getting to their QB?
Here are the 10 big questions the Colts hope to answer tomorrow night against the Eagles:
10 – Is Chester Rogers a lock for the 53-man roster? Through camp and two preseason games, Rogers looks like an NFL wide receiver, but doing that against defenses stocked with shabby talent destined for the cut list is one thing. Getting it done against starters will be another. He played a bit with the ones against the Ravens and caught one Andrew Luck pass, so it’s so far so good for the UFA out of Grambling. Watch for Rogers to get on the field more often during the first half against the Eagles as the Colts front office tries to evaluate him.
9 – Is Luck’s back-up Scott Tolzien or Stephen Morris? Morris has led the Colts in rushing during each of the first two preseason games, and neither has thrown a pick while hitting on two TD passes. Statistically, Morris seems better suited to picking up chunks of yards while Tolzien has been more a dink and dunk guy who manages an offense. These quarterbacks are different flavors, but neither is Luck. If the Colts are forced to make this decision matter, they are in big trouble regardless, but I kind of like Morris.
8 – Is Dwayne Allen a receiving tight end who blocks, or a blocking tight end who catches the ball? Allen is capable at catching and blocking at a high level, but the Colts would rather see him gash defenses by creating mismatches in coverage with linebackers than helping set the edge of the pocket. But if that is what is necessary for the Colts to keep Luck upright, Allen will be a very athletic third tackle.
7 – Are the Colts deep enough to compete without Davis, Langford, Mathis (healthy), Gore (healthy), Robinson, Brown, Geathers, and Moore? If this was the regular season, the answer would almost certainly be no, regardless of the opponent. The biggest holes are at cornerback where the Colts have lost the one player they could not afford to lose – Vontae Davis. Fortunately, no one is going to hold the Colts accountable for losing in the preseason. If health is still a huge issue on September 11th, the Colts will either benefit from a soft opening quartile of the schedule, or dig themselves a hole.
6 – Will Hugh Thornton survive cuts? Thornton is an incredibly affable right guard who has never played up to expectations due to injury and sporadic effectiveness. He’s the last member of the woeful 2013 draft class to survive as a Colt, and it’s time for Thornton to prove himself worthy of a roster spot – or not.
5 – Is Antonio Morrison the real deal? Through two preseason games, Morrison appears to be as advertised – an athletic tackle machine, who – if healthy – can set a tone for an aggressive defense that establishes a tone through physicality. Morrison took a step up from the Bills game to the Ravens game, and to get on the field during the regular season, he needs to take another.
4 – Is Josh Ferguson an NFL running back? We know he can run, but there is a lot more to being a running back than running with the football. If Ferguson is going to function as a running back for the Colts, he needs to be able to pass block – especially if La’Raven Clark is at right tackle. Ferguson missed blocks against the Ravens that he cannot miss during the regular season if Luck is going to stay upright and ambulatory.
3 – Without Robert Mathis and Kendall Langford, can anyone hit an opposing QB? Until Mathis got healthy toward the end of 2015, the Colts were among the worst teams in the NFL at putting pressure on the passer. Nothing will be more important for the Colts defense than sacks and pressures, and with Mathis at 35, it’s as likely as not there will be stretches where the Colts will have to succeed without him to compete for a playoff spot.
2 – Can Andrew Luck continue to make good decisions? In his first action since week nine last season, Luck was outstanding in both moving the ball down the field and staying clean. Luck is not going to complete every pass very often (he was 8-8 against the Ravens), but if he can keep from getting hit at the level he enjoyed last week, the Colts offense has a chance to right the ship and reassert dominance in the AFC South.
1 – Who is the right tackle if Joe Reitz can’t go? We know Le’Raven Clark will get the call if Reitz sits against the Eagles because of a balky back. Clark is a big and athletic tackle who has all the physical tools to be a very good pro. At Texas Tech, Clark used a two-point stance exclusively, so he needs to learn how to play with his hand down and initiate contact. With fellow rookie Joe Haeg on the shelf, Clark needs to reach a level of competence very quickly or Luck is in peril. If Clark plays well tomorrow, maybe he winds up being the guy.
Kent Sterling hosts the fastest growing sports talk show in Indianapolis on CBS Sports 1430 every weekday from 3p-6p, and writes about Indiana sports at kentsterling.com. | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/10-questions-the-colts-hope-to-answer-saturday/Content?oid=4218144 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/073d9a974db2425431d5c6240a755d8cdbd9fb6a8159b91449ff6756affe66f6.json |
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"Rita Kohn"
] | 2016-08-26T12:59:19 | null | 2016-08-25T12:03:02 | Indy Fringe Fest runs through the August 28, don't miss out on plenty of beer from the Beer Tent while you're enjoying your shows. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Ffringe-festival-review-the-beer-tent-steals-the-show%2FContent%3Foid%3D4216032.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4216055/screen_shot_2016-08-25_at_11.23.56_am.png | en | null | Fringe Festival Review: The beer tent steals the show | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge IndyFringe
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5:30 p.m. and there’s a glitch with the official tapping procedure. No worries. Indy Fringe beer tent manager Guy-Jo Gordon’s got it covered.He lines up cans of Champagne Velvet shared by Upland Brewing Company.“Hello everybody, come on up, tap on the bar top and grab a beer. Hey it’s the Fringe.”So we did and the crowd at the new, table-filled gathering place at 748 Mass Ave. — the corner of Mass Ave. and St. Clair Street — officially opened Indy Fringe Fest 2016 with a celebratory toast.Guy-Jo isn’t daunted by what he can’t control. Expect a lot more fun at the beer tentDuring the festival, beer is served on weekdays between 6:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m., and between 1:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. on weekends, reads the notice. Along with Champagne Velvet Premium Pilsner, you can savor Tin Man’s Damascene Apricot Sour Ale, Oskar Blue’s Dale’s Pale Ale and Bell’s Two-Hearted.“Fabulous job at the BEER TENT,” is the news release shout out from Pauline Moffat, the Madonna of Indy Fringe. “And a big thank you from IndyFringe to the Firefighter's Local Union, Lee Dykstra who created our fabulous new tent and 50 seat air conditioned theatre, William Denton Ray for his imaginative BEER TOTEMS and Gershman Partners Theatre Entry, Jan White and Steve Adams whose wonderful decorations will bring a little sparkle to our lives!!!”Umbrellas of all hues and sizes spark the white tent—and should rain fall, a prop can easily become a positive shield against getting drenched for a dash to a show along Mass Ave.Or be at your “fringiest,” stay where you are at The Tent, grab a cold beer and enjoy our Short Fringe shows!” advises the notice. Two shows every hour, $5 per show. | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/fringe-festival-review-the-beer-tent-steals-the-show/Content?oid=4216032 | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/eeb29c551d90e0edd9a836cd35d5100e163a9bd5c853c17fdfd79ecfd8bc1e7f.json |
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"Renee Sweany"
] | 2016-08-30T16:51:40 | null | 2016-08-30T11:00:00 | Joe Hogsett cancelled the deal with Covanta, now the Mayor's Office of Sustainability is looking for ways to improve Indiana's recycling programs. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fask-renee-renegotiating-the-cancelled-covanta-deal%2FContent%3Foid%3D4226396%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4226398/covanta-3.jpg | en | null | Ask Renee: Renegotiating the cancelled Covanta deal | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/ask-renee-renegotiating-the-cancelled-covanta-deal/Content?oid=4226396&show=comments | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/35a99f1ec92a10bcbca06e7c16f004f74c5bcf8ca5776144f9a479780af7f490.json |
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"Cavan Mcginsie"
] | 2016-08-31T00:51:32 | null | 2016-08-30T11:29:24 | The people at Patachou are set to open Crispy Bird, a new fried chicken restaurant that will be in the Meridian-Kessler neighborhood. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fpatachou-opening-a-new-fried-chicken-restaurant%2FContent%3Foid%3D4226457%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4226458/img_20160829_103557.jpg | en | null | Patachou opening a new fried chicken restaurant | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/patachou-opening-a-new-fried-chicken-restaurant/Content?oid=4226457&show=comments | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/1c6022b3969a94ae59dd958e6491696148c7842b831e7da1979b8563b8dd26e1.json |
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"Cavan Mcginsie"
] | 2016-08-26T13:12:01 | null | 2016-03-23T11:45:59 | The Red Key Tavern is celebrating 65 years under the Settle family. Take a nostalgic look through the years of this historic Indy watering hole. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fthe-red-key-tavern-turns-65%2FContent%3Foid%3D3876211%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/3876249/red_key_sign_1_.jpg | en | null | The Red Key Tavern turns 65 | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/the-red-key-tavern-turns-65/Content?oid=3876211&show=comments | en | 2016-03-23T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/a44eb9819867a240299a0d569ac5f75f80322b2ab76798912bc7a29bdf7ba5e7.json |
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"Ed Johnson-Ott"
] | 2016-08-26T13:01:48 | null | 2016-08-25T10:20:14 | An unremarkable release date and unremarkable shots | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Freview-hands-of-stone-is-stuck-in-concrete%2FContent%3Foid%3D4211907.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4211911/hands_of_stone.jpg | en | null | Review: "Hands of Stone" is stuck in concrete | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge
is a boxing movie with a costarring performance by Robert De Niro that's being released nationally in late August. Are your internal consumer alarms going off? They should be, because if the movie was a strong enough action film to compete during the lucrative summer movie season, it would have been released in May, June or July. If it was a powerful enough drama to compete during the prestigious fall movie season, it wouldn't be released for at least another month or two.By releasing the movie nationally in late August, the studio is conceding that they have low expectations for their film. If they're lucky, they'll rack up some dollars this weekend. After that their flick will likely fade fast, as audiences traditionally spend Labor Day weekend catching up on big films they'd intended to see and small/unusual films () they've heard good things about.tells the story of the celebrated fighter, Roberto Duran, often referred to as the greatest lightweight boxer in history. Written and directed by the Venezuelan-born Jonathan Jakubowicz, the film jumps around as it lays out the ascent of the Panamanian Duran (Edgar Ramirez). As a boy, Duran is fatherless, hungry, and ready to fight. He resents the Americans, in large part because they occupy a certain canal in his country.The cocky kid becomes a boxing sensation, but he lacks discipline. After some foot dragging, enter coach Ray Arcel (De Niro). Ruben Blades appears as Duran's business manager (he's shady, because all business managers in movies are shady). John Turturro shows up periodically to remind us of the Mob's interest in the sport. Ana de Armas plays Duran's eventual wife, who spends most of her screen time being outraged and/or giving birth. Eventually Usher enters the film as the charismatic Sugar Ray Leonard, making the proceedings considerably more interesting.So what is it aboutthat got the production dumped in late August? The cast is clearly talented, but Usher is the only actor given anything particularly interesting to do. Edgar Ramirez struggles to make Duran more than just a macho thug, but the screenplay doesn't give him much more than that. I was interested to see the successful Duran struggling to keep his weight down (a boxer with body issues – intriguing!), but the film drops the subject moments after it is introduced.I can get cozy with clichés, both in character and plot points, but the movie is too damned choppy to allow the viewer to do anything more than just watch. You know those catch-up specials TV dramas do at the beginning of a new season, where they lay out the story from the previous year? Hands of Stone plays like one of those.But the film's biggest problem is its boxing scenes.used hand held cameras to make their fight scenes remarkably close and intense.used long, uninterrupted shots that made the fights easy to track visually and more emotionally immediate.cheats, using quick cuts of aggressive moves, gloves lashing out, and reaction shots. There's the impression of a lot going on, but the fake boxing is cobbled together in the editing room, and where's the fun in that?So there you go.has feet in concrete. | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/review-hands-of-stone-is-stuck-in-concrete/Content?oid=4211907 | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/395d83501876a2a6fc8d52fc4915d8cce5b24b26fb6677699b5ba2166d76cb66.json |
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"Bridget W."
] | 2016-08-26T13:08:54 | null | 2016-08-25T12:24:00 | #NUVOpop: Dang, Valiant, back at it again with the cool new titles! | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2FGuestVoices%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F25%2Fnuvopop-generation-zero.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4214181/14138985_10208777489668073_1070623175_o.jpg | en | null | #NUVOpop: Generation Zero | null | null | www.nuvo.net | 8/24 Generation Zero! from Bridget Wilson on Vimeo.
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Hello everyone! Welcome back to another stellar week of comic related goodness!This week.. we have an origin story for Ulysses- the Inhuman that started all this Civil War 2 nonsense. There's also a new Atomic Robo series, a new Godzilla series and the! Valiant is releasing some cool stuff this week as well; we have a new series about a group of super powered teens and the Valiant Universe Handbook which is your guide to everything Valiant related!TOP PICKS(W) Keith Giffen (A) Scott KolinsJaime Reyes wakes up one day in the middle of the desert with no knowledge of the past few years. When he makes his way home, he finds out that the government is hot on his trail! They want to learn more about Jaime and the scarab that gives him his power! When all seems lost, Kord Industries swoops in and protects Jaime and his family... but why?(W) Al Ewing (A) Jefte PaloIn this prequel to, we learn more about Ulysses- the man that started all of this. In, we first met Ulysses at college and he was a normal student... until the Terrigen Mists swept on to campus. Now, he can predict the future, sort of. Learn about how he came to join the Inhumans!(W) Fred Van Lente (A) Francis PortelaValiant's newest superhero comic! The psiots were a group of kids that were raised to be killers and nothing more. Now they are on the run and help people who are in need! Don't worry about trying to get a hold of them; they will contact you!(W) Simon Oliver (A/CA) MoritatConstantine is back and London barely survived his arrival! However Constantine is in a load of trouble. Swamp Thing is calling in a favor, Mercury won't leave him be and something wicked this way comes... for Constantine!(W) Nathan Fairbairn (A) Matt SmithLake of Fire takes place in 1200 AD during the Crusades. An alien vessel crash lands on Earth and starts hunting humans! The only thing that stands between humanity and our demise is a group of crusaders!That's all for this week! Next week SAGA IS BACK SO EVERYONE REJOICE. And it's an epic new story arc. One that's been building up since the first issue. So get ready!If you need the full release list, click here! I'll see you next week! | http://www.nuvo.net/GuestVoices/archives/2016/08/25/nuvopop-generation-zero | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/38d3eee1df97806fed782475fc30451a0024d25da73e7ba3309cb46f732f5d2d.json |
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"Brian Weiss"
] | 2016-08-31T00:51:40 | null | 2016-08-30T15:35:00 | Three of Wilder's most famous films will be shown at the Toby and IMAX® Theater | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2FSlash%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fima-state-museum-to-honor-gene-wilder-this-weekend%2F.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4227065/genewilder.jpg | en | null | IMA, State Museum to honor Gene Wilder this weekend | null | null | www.nuvo.net | Wilder in 1970
Indy film lovers have a chance to pay tribute to the late Gene Wilder this weekend thanks to the Indianapolis Museum of Art and Indiana State Museum. Wilder passed away Aug. 29 from complications of Alzheimer's disease.
Fans can catch any of the following screenings for $5 each.
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN on Friday, September 2 at 7:00 p.m. at the Indianapolis Museum of Art Toby Theater. WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY on Saturday, September 3 at 11:00 a.m. at the IMAX Theater in the Indiana State Museum. This screening will be accompanied by a “concession stand takeover” where Wonka candy will be rampant. BLAZING SADDLES on Saturday, September 3 at 7:30 p.m. at the IMAX Theater in the Indiana State Museum.
And in case you didn't know: | http://www.nuvo.net/Slash/archives/2016/08/30/ima-state-museum-to-honor-gene-wilder-this-weekend/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/0f5e82237d78e6de8ab464b77a944135b8f07e380c460144eb0436dbee1b09e1.json |
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"Rita Kohn"
] | 2016-08-27T18:50:32 | null | 2016-08-26T14:59:26 | Fishers first brewery celebrates its first anniversary tonight, plus Rita has rounded up plenty of new brews and beer events to enjoy. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fheady-hollow-brewpub-turns-one-tonight%2FContent%3Foid%3D4218472%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4218474/12088277_1490588671241773_4072878617922695995_n.jpg | en | null | Heady Hollow Brewpub turns one tonight | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/heady-hollow-brewpub-turns-one-tonight/Content?oid=4218472&show=comments | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/14c9e2266d9cd35ca27689994411f25ac601f991d84bd1c9db4e99b078e86104.json |
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"Lora Olive"
] | 2016-08-31T04:51:31 | null | 2016-08-30T14:00:00 | Storms pushed this show at the Lawn back a bit, but the crowd hung in to see "Fight Song" live. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fslideshow-rachel-platten-at-the-lawn%2FContent%3Foid%3D4226477%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4226475/img_6980.jpg | en | null | Slideshow: Rachel Platten at the Lawn | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/slideshow-rachel-platten-at-the-lawn/Content?oid=4226477&show=comments | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/bf7db2a1830b61771d340796936a074a29692ac685259d5302fffcac7132b29f.json |
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"Sam Watermeier"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:00 | null | 2016-08-19T08:43:00 | “When we were making the covers record, I realized what a waste it is to spend your entire life only working on one person’s song, even when that person is yourself." | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fadam-duritz-writes-songs-for-everybody%2FContent%3Foid%3D4203102%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4203104/adam_duritz.jpg | en | null | Adam Duritz writes songs for everybody | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/adam-duritz-writes-songs-for-everybody/Content?oid=4203102&show=comments | en | 2016-08-19T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/b49103f8a0032d4c4b93e314b5b37202cff4693dabcdac80cc7d24bcc8002f1d.json |
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"Jonathan Sanders"
] | 2016-08-26T13:04:33 | null | 2016-08-24T09:56:47 | The Ataris plays the Mel with another Hoosier act, Hell's Orphans. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fkristopher-roe-stays-hands-on%2FContent%3Foid%3D4213601.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4213604/the_ataris_.jpg | en | null | Kristopher Roe stays hands on | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge The Ataris
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When you've been writing songs for two decades, it's easy to get hung up on the idea of legacy. Just ask Kristopher Roe of The Ataris, who braces at the thought that he'd be lumped in too much with the nostalgia crowd.
"Especially with some of these old songs, when you play them live there's a whole new life to it," he says of reworking songs off the band's early albums. "Any song we play I'm not just gonna beat a dead horse and just play something for nostalgic value. And I won't keep on playing anything unless it's something that I'm proud of."
Roe has plenty of material to pull from on his band's latest tour, which stops at the Melody Inn on Thursday, including some new material he's been working on for a yet-to-be-released album. And though the band briefly had flirtations with major label fame when its cover of Don Henley's "The Boys of Summer" crossed over to Top 40 radio off the band's fourth studio album in 2003, he says he never felt like a pop band and never had a major label pushing him to be anything he wasn't.
"More often than not people think we're just a pop-punk band and I don't think we sound anything like that," he explains. "I'm 39, and I think we're more of a rock band, we've got more of a Foo Fighters or Nirvana thing going, where there's no one genre driving us. We're just a rock band. Even on So Long, Astoria, I mean, that's just a rock and roll album. There's nothing novelty or pop-punk about that album. It's melodic, and pop means popular and we were never really popular. And punk, I think we're far from punk."
That comes through a lot more on his new material.
"I tour a lot, and touring definitely pays the bills and also funds my recordings," he says. "That's the thing. I just put out this other six song EP with some old songs that I recorded at the same studio like new songs, but they're all based off old ideas. I'm happy with putting out a few songs at a time, but there are people that I'll tell 'em there's new songs, and ... people still always ask when you're gonna put out a full record! I'm like, 'Why do you care? People don't buy records!'
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Roe has always stayed close to his Anderson roots, choosing to pick the bands for his own shows as a general rule, "because if you don't, chances are a lot of these venues you'll show up and it'll be some bad pop-punk cover band, some high school band playing Blink covers."
For the band's return to the Melody Inn, he recruited Hell's Orphans, also of Anderson, a band he knew through a high school classmate he'd played in a band with three decades ago.
"I think I'd posted a picture or something on Facebook, and Kris Roe got a hold of me on there and asked if we wanted to open for them at the Mel," Hell's Orphans guitarist Nigel Baker told me. "We'd played with him at the Birdhouse a couple years ago, right before their tour. They'd needed a place to practice so they showed up there and played, then we played and then Intergalactic Caravan played. That was a super fun show! I smashed a guitar and had smoke bombs in it, it was awesome! There should be like a 15-second snippet of it somewhere online, but good luck finding it."
As for special plans for this show: It's a secret.
"That's classified information!" Baker laughs. "Let's just say our goal for every show is to have more fun than any other band there."
They'll have a hard time having a better time than Roe, who by all accounts is readying himself for the next great Ataris full-length, energized as a songwriter and ready for what another decade as a musician has to offer.
"The writers I always loved were really good about taking you to the places they were describing in the moment," he says. "To me good music always has in common that good ability of taking all the vivid details of the moment and really describing them to a listener. And I think as I've gotten older I've gotten better with that. When you're young you just kind of write to write, and as you get older you get better at honing in on what you do best. What are my strong points as a writer? For me personally that's what I feel I go for when I write a song: I want to paint the most descriptive picture I can."
And playing an Indy venue is a simple pleasure for the Hoosier songwriter.
"On a personal level Indiana's always been important to me because I have a personal attachment to memories of growing up here, all the good times I had as a kid and as a teenager," says Roe. "But the thing for me is, over the last ten years you've seen this great resurgence of places like Fountain Square where people like Tufty from Radio Radio, and the guys running the Hi-Fi, they're really putting their hearts into taking the music scene and proving they know what it's about. They're in tune with what makes good music.
"The downside still is that there's not a lot of all-ages support in Indianapolis, because of the stupid old rule where you can't have alcohol in the same room as all-ages. In any other state they'll stamp an 'x' on your hand and you can still go into a room that's 'over 21' and not drink. That's an Indiana law that's yet to change, and I think people should still push to change it."
This tour stops at the Melody Inn, the size of the venue Roe loves.
"I always loved the really small intimate shows because those are the ones I always liked going to," Roe says. "But I'm always really hands-on with picking the venues we play. Some of my favorite shows have been little dive bars like that. Playing the Vogue was really rad because of all the history there. Playing big places are great, but there are some big places on this tour. A couple of House of Blues shows — it's a real variety, and that's great because it keeps you really excited and it keeps things changing up day by day. But the Mel, I like playing that bar." | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/kristopher-roe-stays-hands-on/Content?oid=4213601 | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/a2f1e096d2999fee5c6be417047f87430720ce994b0afed1fb0ebe8d75285078.json |
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"The Statehouse File"
] | 2016-08-30T22:50:41 | null | 2016-08-30T16:49:32 | The Courts and the Judiciary Interim Study Committee met heard testimony Tuesday on the issue of LGBT civil rights in Indiana, but offered no recommendations for legislators to consider next year. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Flgbt-civil-rights-transgender-bathroom-debate-goes-nowhere-in-committee%2FContent%3Foid%3D4227159.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4227411/equality2_2.jpg | en | null | LGBT civil rights, transgender bathroom debate goes nowhere in committee | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge
Lawmakers may leave the debate surrounding LGBT civil rights in the hands of the court.The Courts and the Judiciary Interim Study Committee met to hear testimony and study the issue, but ended up not making any recommendations for legislators Tuesday.“I think each and every one of these issues is now making its way through federal courts,” Committee Chair Rep. Greg Stueurwald, (R-Avon), said. “We need to be aware of that and see how those cases make progress. No matter what we do, it’s probably going to be preempted.”Legislators have struggled to tackle the issue of LGBT civil rights. During the most recent session, the search for a compromise between religious freedom supporters and LGBT supporters failed. The Senate did not vote on or debate a bill giving protections right to gay, but not transgender Hoosiers.Emotional testimony at Tuesday’s committee hearing put both the discussion front and center once again. Tara Biddinger, a transgender woman, said she worries about losing her job, being denied access to services and being kicked out of her house.“I’m not looking for total acceptance,” she said. “I’m looking for respect as a fellow human being.”Several transgender individuals and business leaders pushed for lawmakers to add the words “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.”For many parents, however, the Obama administration’s mandate to let transgender students use the bathroom of their choice worried them. One mother submitted a letter to the committee detailing an incident where a boy entered the women’s restroom at a track meet. In her letter, Larissa Sweet said the 16-year-old exchange student that Sweet is responsible for was in that restroom. The exchange student left after seeing the boy enter.“After multiple texts I went from being scared to being angry,” Sweet said in her letter. “She was no longer in direct harm but potential for future incidents of this kind became increasingly clear, and it had been less than a week since the mandate.”Mother of four Monica Boyer said she does not think transgender individuals are a threat, but instead feared boys and men could use the mandate as a loophole.“What boy wouldn’t jump at the chance to shower with the girls?” she asked.Several people who testified said they worried a man could record video of women in the bathroom or sexually assault them.Committee member and Sen. Greg Taylor, (D-Indianapolis), said he thinks people were misinterpreting the directive from the Obama administration. He suggested parents read the 25-page set of guidelines released by the administration and provide examples of solutions to some of the concerns.Jeanne Smith, a transgender woman, suggested having gender-neutral single stall restrooms to help protect those that might be uncomfortable, but also said she’s never had a problem using the women’s restroom. She shared that one of her more uncomfortable experience was when she accidentally walked into the men’s restroom.“I got into the hallway and a group of women were standing there and they said ‘We wondered what you were doing!’ I just laughed,” Smith said. “I put my hand on my mouth and laughed and then we all went into back into the [women’s] restroom.”The committee will meet again on Sept. 22, but it is uncertain if LGBT civil rights will be discussed again before the next legislative session. | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/lgbt-civil-rights-transgender-bathroom-debate-goes-nowhere-in-committee/Content?oid=4227159 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/d7655619ec69ba902191dfd2fee799844874903c24cc6ef743985d5df3ee7d35.json |
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"Kyle Long"
] | 2016-08-26T13:08:35 | null | 2016-08-25T08:00:00 | Her new release finds Rehema hitting an impressive stride as an emcee, and her mix of conscious lyrics and dance floor-ready tracks creates a winning combination that appeals to a wide berth of listener tastes. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2FACulturalManifesto%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F25%2Frehema-mcneil-on-moko-or-womanhood.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4213989/rehema_mcneil.jpeg | en | null | Rehema McNeil on Moko, or "Womanhood" | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge Submitted Photo
Rehema McNeil
Rehema McNeil unapologetically identifies as a "conscious" rapper, but she's not afraid to pair her thoughtful lyrics with club-friendly beats. She follows up her 2015 debut EPwith a new project, a five-song EP titled. The release finds Rehema hitting an impressive stride as an emcee, and her mix of conscious lyrics and dance floor-ready tracks creates a winning combination that appeals to a wide berth of listener tastes.
I rank Moko as one of the best local releases of 2016 thus far and I strongly recommend catching Rehema's 10:30 White Rabbit performance Saturday night at Chreece.
NUVO: In your notes for the release, I read that the word "moko" means "womanhood" in the Polynesian language of Tonga. Why did you choose that word to represent this project?
Rehema McNeil: Overall, I wanted to reflect my upbringing. My father introduced the word "moko" to me years ago and I thought it sounded cool and clean. I felt it was fitting for this project because I have become a woman since the release of Davu.
NUVO: When we spoke last year I remember you telling me that Davu was essentially your first attempt at rapping, that you came from more of a spoken word background. Listening to Moko, it sounds like you've really found your voice as an MC.
McNeil: I'm still finding my voice. There's so much to learn, and the more you learn the more you realize that there's so much more that you don't know. It's a continuous journey and I'm looking forward to learning what's next. So I try to stay open to grow as a person and artist.
NUVO: On Davu your lyrics addressed themes relating to social justice. For example, your piece "Terrorist" commented on the 1921 Tulsa Race Riots in Oklahoma. Are there similar themes in your lyrics for Moko?
McNeil: It's a bit more personal this time around. I've been going through a lot of things, both good and bad. Those challenges helped to create character. So I wanted to write about it to release it. "Black Widow" speaks about beauty and identity and relationships.
On "False" I wanted to do a song based off Greek mythology. It tells a story about how hip-hop has become like gospel now for many people. People follow and adhere to the lyrics of the mainstream rappers and it changes their lifestyles. I didn't want to call the song "False Gods" because I didn't want it to be too preachy. So I called it "False" because I don't really agree with a lot of the things being told within music today.
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NUVO: So you think the language of popular contemporary hip-hop is having a negative influence on young people?
McNeil: Yes, I would say so.
NUVO: You think it's contributing to violent or misogynistic attitudes?
McNeil: I love hip-hop and I think it's a beautiful art. As individuals every choice we make is our own. We can't blame media; we are only influenced and from there we make our own choices. I feel like whatever you expose yourself to repetitively, that is what you become over time. I'll leave it at that.
RELATED: Rehema at Chreece in 2015
NUVO: Womanhood is a central theme on Moko. On that topic I'd like to ask about your role as one of the few women emcees working the Indianapolis hip-hop scene. The rap scene here is very male-dominated. Do you have any thoughts on that?
McNeil: I have mixed emotions about it honestly. Part of it is an opportunity, because there aren't that many female emcees in the city that are dominating, so I have an open path to dominate and control the scene and saturate it with my music. But also I feel like I'm overlooked in certain areas, like getting booked for shows. I do get booked for more shows now, but that's more because of my personal connections. It's progressing, but it's slow like baby steps. At the same time I believe in creating my own doors and creating a buzz that is so broad and saturated within social media that people can't ignore it.
NUVO: Do you get a sense of whether there's more opportunities opening up for other women to follow your path?
McNeil: I would say yes. I hear women when I get offstage say, "Oh my god that was amazing. You were the only woman up there and you really represented!" That makes me feel good and I feel like it inspires other women to know that just because there aren't any women onstage you can still get up and do it.
NUVO: I want to get your thoughts on "Black Widow," which has a heavier club sound than any other work you've created thus far.
McNeil: I love to dance. I wanted to make a song that would make people get up off their seats and dance, and I feel like we achieved that. That song tells different stories. One of them is about being compared to another woman in a relationship and how that made me feel emotions of pain and disappointment, but ultimately helped me realize my self-worth, which is a beautiful thing. Then the song talks about identity and how the media paints a picture for little girls and young women to grow up to. I feel like every woman is beautiful, and there's not just one form for beauty. It's an anthem for confidence and finding your self-worth. | http://www.nuvo.net/ACulturalManifesto/archives/2016/08/25/rehema-mcneil-on-moko-or-womanhood | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/8e075035d2296cf1078914d454126561475751f5ba50a1813b1faf65073a6cf6.json |
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"Amber Stearns"
] | 2016-08-26T12:58:55 | null | 2016-08-25T16:20:27 | The first ever Climate Leadership Summit brought environmental leaders, city planners and mayors from all over the state to Indianapolis for a one-day event. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fa-commitment-to-climate-change%2FContent%3Foid%3D4216496.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4216499/img_0322.jpg | en | null | A commitment to climate change | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard sits on a panel with Kokomo Mayor Greg Goodnight (far right), Whiting Mayor Joe Stahura (center left) and Fort Wayne Public Works Director Kumar Menon (far left).
Photo by Rick McHaffey
click to enlarge Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett addresses the summit with a welcome to the city.
Photo by Rick McHaffey
The first ever Climate Leadership Summit brought environmental leaders, city planners and mayors from all over the state to Indianapolis for a one-day event. The goal of the event was a simple one — to unite all of those interested in taking action to address the issue of global warming with local level government officials who recognize the cause and are doing what they can.Earth Charter Indiana presented the summit with the sponsorship help of multiple companies and organizations committed to the cause.The representation from the side of local government was bipartisan and mutual in the respect the mayors shared between them.“I think that you’ll hear from mayors today at the local level about how we know we have to get things done,” said Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett in his opening remarks. “Once elected, we know we gotta put all that partisan stuff aside and start working together.”The morning program included an address from Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard — a Republican who, despite the greater attitude of his political party, is dedicated to reducing the carbon footprint left by society.“Change starts at the local level by making sure citizens have the best quality of life,” said Brainard.He openly questioned the positions of his fellow Republicans in Washington regarding climate change, noting the former GOP presidents who championed environmental legislation in their administrations — Theodore Roosevelt created the national park system and Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency, just to name a few.The mayors from Kokomo and Whiting joined Brainard to talk about the individual things they have done to make their own communities less dependent on energy and more sustainable. All of the mayors agreed that there is more that can be done on the local level than people realize. And Brainard encouraged summit attendees to get involved at the local level.“Get involved in the design of cities,” said Brainard. “That’s where change happens if cities are designed from the beginning to not require so much energy.” | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/a-commitment-to-climate-change/Content?oid=4216496 | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/688574c3e409ff433ba4bf73eb74620a5e6964e28becb801545cfa3672700837.json |
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"Rita Kohn"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:18 | null | 2016-08-18T07:00:00 | There is more than meets the eye when it comes to branding a beer, Rita chats with Isaac Arthur, a designer who has created many labels you may recognize yourself. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fdoes-what-you-see-determine-what-you-drink%2FContent%3Foid%3D4187662%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4187722/in_beer_brigade_copy.jpg | en | null | Does what you see determine what you drink? | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/does-what-you-see-determine-what-you-drink/Content?oid=4187662&show=comments | en | 2016-08-18T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/6789b6dfe638e6d5d234c90e6e2569ab94112421662e43f5caabd7e388c9c819.json |
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"Ed Johnson-Ott"
] | 2016-08-29T18:51:17 | null | 2016-08-02T15:04:26 | Zappa, in and out of a cow barn | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Freview-eat-that-question-frank-zappa-in-his-own-words%2FContent%3Foid%3D4164878%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4164880/screen_shot_2016-08-02_at_3.00.06_pm.png | en | null | Review: Eat That Question: Frank Zappa In His Own Words | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/review-eat-that-question-frank-zappa-in-his-own-words/Content?oid=4164878&show=comments | en | 2016-08-02T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/4c854f4936b5b4f9c42819affc464fd394d9c257c45925ec8c9052171b550aaf.json |
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"Dan Grossman"
] | 2016-08-27T16:51:00 | null | 2016-08-25T10:55:29 | A battle with cancer put her in isolation, and she coped by making art | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Freview-susanna-hoones-ghostie-house-stories%2FContent%3Foid%3D4214097%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4216014/20160805_220931.jpg | en | null | Review: Susanna Hoone's Ghostie House Stories | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/review-susanna-hoones-ghostie-house-stories/Content?oid=4214097&show=comments | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/e6e1494d9617ac7b1dcf1a68273d51fe36684f32680c04f9fd7090e6cc9ca6d2.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:31 | null | 2022-01-01T00:00:00 | @ Just Ride Indy, 1125 E Brookside Ave, B30 | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fride-for-st-vincents-cancer-challenge%2FEvent%3Foid%3D4193962%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4193961/562123f6_stvsstarsfinal.jpg | en | null | Ride for St. Vincent's Cancer Challenge | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/ride-for-st-vincents-cancer-challenge/Event?oid=4193962&show=comments | en | 2022-01-01T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/007a119f38138e0a33701ed6a62c733797180e8b0c2e148b02dfeaa9579acbe0.json |
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"Cavan Mcginsie"
] | 2016-08-26T16:49:05 | null | 2016-08-26T10:58:02 | St. Elmo has been serving Indianapolis for over 100 years, for 40 of those years one man has been there making sure our meals have been memorable and delicious. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Florenzo-acuna-40-years-of-serving-indianapolis%2FContent%3Foid%3D4216056.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4218138/lorenzo.jpg | en | null | Lorenzo Acuna: 40 years of serving Indianapolis | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge Lorenzo Acuna has been serving at St. Elmo for 40 years
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It is a rarity to work anywhere for 40 years. On average, millenials will work at four different jobs by the time they turn 32. Lorenzo Acuna is from a different time, a time when people were loyal to their workplace and in turn their workplace was loyal to them. Earlier this year Acuna celebrated 40 years as a server at the famed St. Elmo Steak House, a rare feat in the service industry, where many people get burned out due to the stress level and abnormal hours. For Acuna it is the life he has always known and loved.He started out serving in the ‘70s at a now defunct Indianapolis restaurant, Laour. Of his beginnings at La Tour, Acuna says, “My Italian friend Franco persuaded me to start at La Tour. He was an old guy who taught me the ropes. At La Tour our chef was Wolfgang Puck. This was in the early- to mid-seventies, before Puck became famous.” La Tour was a popular white table cloth French bistro downtown Indianapolis in the ‘70s and Puck’s jumping off point in the United States. He served as chef there for a few years before he headed to Los Angeles to become chef and part owner of Ma Maison and the rest is history. For Acuna it was the beginning of a long a fruitful career of serving Indianapolis. From La Tour he went to work at The Columbia Club, The Skyline Club, Chateau Normandy and The Canterbury. But, St. Elmo is his home. Recently Acuna got the chance to see the first chef he worked with, “When St. Elmo won the prestigious James Beard award a couple years ago Wolfgang Puck was [also] one of the recipients. I had not seen him in 40 years. It was nice to see everyone’s lives come into almost full circle.”“I have regular guests that I have waited on for 40 years,” he says proudly. St. Elmo has many return customers, and so, for a man like Acuna — a fan favorite — his customers have become a part of his life, “I have seen them go through all stages of life, from birthdays and graduations to retirements. I have seen babies grow up and become regular customers.” He says this is one of his favorite things about his job and he has created these loyal customers through his skills and personality.It would be easy to mistakenly think Lorenzo has kept his job simply by keeping his head down, doing his work and never leaving; there are workplaces in the world where you can just get by. But, St. Elmo hasn’t become one of the most famous steak houses in the world by settling for mediocrity, the company sets a high standard for its employees and Lorenzo exemplifies these standards. During his 40 year tenure, Lorenzo has become an iconic figure within the establishment, with many customers requesting his service and returning simply to have him make their meal more than simply food and drink. St. Elmo’s co-owner, Craig Huse, says Lorenzo, “Sets the bar for our entire staff. He hustles, but maintains complete control. He never gives up a shift and he always stays late to handle guests arriving around closing time. He lets new servers know that he’s a St. Elmo veteran, but he balances that out with teamwork and help.”When I ask Lorenzo how he has been able to continue in this industry for so long without wearing down or getting burned out, he responds, “It’s simple,” he says, “I love my job! It is easy to do something that brings you joy … Ultimately, working at a place that has the highest standards, best quality food, top notch service and is a true historical institution gives me wonderful satisfaction in life.”His years of hard work have granted him the ability to not only make a living doing something he loves, but to spend time outside of work doing the things he loves. Huse says “He’s the ultimate family man to his wife and daughter. Lorenzo exercises frequently through the week to stay in shape (like waiting tables isn’t enough exercise – right?) … He simply has a motor that doesn’t stop.”When we look at the service industry, you’d be hard-pressed to find many people who have been serving our city for longer. Lorenzo has been honored for his service with a ROSE Award; the most prestigious award a person in the service industry can be bestowed. According to the ROSE Award website, “ROSE Award honorees are true goodwill ambassadors for their companies and the city. We hope you will take the opportunity to recognize your employees or volunteers who exemplify service excellence.” Huse has nothing but positive words to say about Lorenzo and he points out how important this is for our city, “People like Lorenzo, who’s served thousands of locals and visitors to our city since 1976, add to the character and hospitality [for which] Indianapolis is widely known.”When I ask Lorenzo if he originally planned to make serving his career he says, “Only in my dreams, and I guess my dream came true … My 40 years have been such a pleasure at St. Elmo. I am looking forward, towards my next 40!”Make your way through St. Elmo’s recently renovated, historic doors to allow Lorenzo to continue living his dream by showing you a great time and serving you his favorite item on the menu, “Cowboy cut ribeye! With the bone, lots of marbling and lots of flavor.” | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/lorenzo-acuna-40-years-of-serving-indianapolis/Content?oid=4216056 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/74fb0fcbc011824448dd76a5593724498b4abb8dbb3ef795c51c4e7aee2fb6ec.json |
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] | 2016-08-28T08:50:44 | null | 2016-07-18T12:30:00 | Time to get voting, kids. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fbest-of-indy-2016-is-here%2FBestOf%3Foid%3D4122143%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4130819/071816_boi_web_topper.png | en | null | Best of Indy 2016 is here | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge
What's your favorite thing – your absolute favorite thing – to do, see, taste, experience, touch or go to in Indianapolis? The thing you tell your out-of-town friends, “You've GOT to come to Indy and do _____.” What do you brag about? What makes you the most proud?
Is it our great and growing food scene? Your favorite cover band? The best nonprofit to volunteer with?
Best of Indy is a time to celebrate everything fabulous about Indianapolis. So, how does it work? Our month-long reader nomination period ended Monday, July 11. (You picked 'em. We just made sure you spelled 'em right.) On this ballot, you'll find more than 150 different categories to vote for, with 5, 7 or 10 of the most nominated choices to pick from. *Between the nomination period and ballot creation, we've eliminated a very small amount of categories that didn't receive enough votes.
Best-of issues are a staple among alt-weeklies –- and also a source of much debate and contention. Before you get fired up, we have a couple of reminders. Don't see your favorite taco place on the Best Tacos list? Before you fire off that angry email –- and we know, your fingers are itching -– ask yourself, “Did I nominate them?” If the answer is no, next year, do it! If you did, remember your fellow NUVO readers are out there nominating up a storm, too. NUVO editors and writers have 51 issues a year to tell readers about all of our favorite things. This is YOUR time to have your voice heard, and give your favorite person, place or thing credit, too.
You can vote once a day until the ballot closes on August 29. We'll publish the results on October 12, along with some best-of picks from your editors, too. (And we might even celebrate with a big party some time around then, too.)
Sound good? Get your clicking fingers ready …
Your friends,
NUVO Editors
*An incomplete version of our ballot was live for a short period of time last week. We weren't done counting up your votes yet, so we pulled it offline. What can we say? We just got too excited. | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/best-of-indy-2016-is-here/BestOf?oid=4122143&show=comments | en | 2016-07-18T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/d77945f49a6057fc180a7ac46a3cd5651092911743025e6eb60ea073022a0a90.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:11:26 | null | 2016-08-23T10:24:49 | Immigrants play a key role in Indiana's economy, according to a report by the Partnership for a New American Economy. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fimmigrants-spark-big-economic-gains-in-indiana%2FContent%3Foid%3D4211466%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4211468/gr-53650-1-1.jpg | en | null | Immigrants spark big economic gains in Indiana | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/immigrants-spark-big-economic-gains-in-indiana/Content?oid=4211466&show=comments | en | 2016-08-23T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/40df69e1984831afa81c649d071e13bd77a4f705dbcc63d946c8768e9d87ab03.json |
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"Kyle Long"
] | 2016-08-28T08:51:04 | null | 2016-08-25T08:00:00 | Her new release finds Rehema hitting an impressive stride as an emcee, and her mix of conscious lyrics and dance floor-ready tracks creates a winning combination that appeals to a wide berth of listener tastes. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2FACulturalManifesto%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F25%2Frehema-mcneil-on-moko-or-womanhood%2F.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4213989/rehema_mcneil.jpeg | en | null | Rehema McNeil on Moko, or "Womanhood" | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge Submitted Photo
Rehema McNeil
Rehema McNeil unapologetically identifies as a "conscious" rapper, but she's not afraid to pair her thoughtful lyrics with club-friendly beats. She follows up her 2015 debut EPwith a new project, a five-song EP titled. The release finds Rehema hitting an impressive stride as an emcee, and her mix of conscious lyrics and dance floor-ready tracks creates a winning combination that appeals to a wide berth of listener tastes.
I rank Moko as one of the best local releases of 2016 thus far and I strongly recommend catching Rehema's 10:30 White Rabbit performance Saturday night at Chreece.
NUVO: In your notes for the release, I read that the word "moko" means "womanhood" in the Polynesian language of Tonga. Why did you choose that word to represent this project?
Rehema McNeil: Overall, I wanted to reflect my upbringing. My father introduced the word "moko" to me years ago and I thought it sounded cool and clean. I felt it was fitting for this project because I have become a woman since the release of Davu.
NUVO: When we spoke last year I remember you telling me that Davu was essentially your first attempt at rapping, that you came from more of a spoken word background. Listening to Moko, it sounds like you've really found your voice as an MC.
McNeil: I'm still finding my voice. There's so much to learn, and the more you learn the more you realize that there's so much more that you don't know. It's a continuous journey and I'm looking forward to learning what's next. So I try to stay open to grow as a person and artist.
NUVO: On Davu your lyrics addressed themes relating to social justice. For example, your piece "Terrorist" commented on the 1921 Tulsa Race Riots in Oklahoma. Are there similar themes in your lyrics for Moko?
McNeil: It's a bit more personal this time around. I've been going through a lot of things, both good and bad. Those challenges helped to create character. So I wanted to write about it to release it. "Black Widow" speaks about beauty and identity and relationships.
On "False" I wanted to do a song based off Greek mythology. It tells a story about how hip-hop has become like gospel now for many people. People follow and adhere to the lyrics of the mainstream rappers and it changes their lifestyles. I didn't want to call the song "False Gods" because I didn't want it to be too preachy. So I called it "False" because I don't really agree with a lot of the things being told within music today.
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Rehema McNeil click to enlarge
NUVO: So you think the language of popular contemporary hip-hop is having a negative influence on young people?
McNeil: Yes, I would say so.
NUVO: You think it's contributing to violent or misogynistic attitudes?
McNeil: I love hip-hop and I think it's a beautiful art. As individuals every choice we make is our own. We can't blame media; we are only influenced and from there we make our own choices. I feel like whatever you expose yourself to repetitively, that is what you become over time. I'll leave it at that.
RELATED: Rehema at Chreece in 2015
NUVO: Womanhood is a central theme on Moko. On that topic I'd like to ask about your role as one of the few women emcees working the Indianapolis hip-hop scene. The rap scene here is very male-dominated. Do you have any thoughts on that?
McNeil: I have mixed emotions about it honestly. Part of it is an opportunity, because there aren't that many female emcees in the city that are dominating, so I have an open path to dominate and control the scene and saturate it with my music. But also I feel like I'm overlooked in certain areas, like getting booked for shows. I do get booked for more shows now, but that's more because of my personal connections. It's progressing, but it's slow like baby steps. At the same time I believe in creating my own doors and creating a buzz that is so broad and saturated within social media that people can't ignore it.
NUVO: Do you get a sense of whether there's more opportunities opening up for other women to follow your path?
McNeil: I would say yes. I hear women when I get offstage say, "Oh my god that was amazing. You were the only woman up there and you really represented!" That makes me feel good and I feel like it inspires other women to know that just because there aren't any women onstage you can still get up and do it.
NUVO: I want to get your thoughts on "Black Widow," which has a heavier club sound than any other work you've created thus far.
McNeil: I love to dance. I wanted to make a song that would make people get up off their seats and dance, and I feel like we achieved that. That song tells different stories. One of them is about being compared to another woman in a relationship and how that made me feel emotions of pain and disappointment, but ultimately helped me realize my self-worth, which is a beautiful thing. Then the song talks about identity and how the media paints a picture for little girls and young women to grow up to. I feel like every woman is beautiful, and there's not just one form for beauty. It's an anthem for confidence and finding your self-worth. | http://www.nuvo.net/ACulturalManifesto/archives/2016/08/25/rehema-mcneil-on-moko-or-womanhood/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/6bafe9829202dff4de3a6d25b2ba30700a2c1d4c51998aef9dbe6b37d4ef0571.json |
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] | 2016-08-27T18:50:30 | null | 2016-08-16T16:20:38 | If you're a fan of indie films then go see "Don't Think Twice" | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Freview-dont-think-twice-making-the-snl-style-dream-come-true%2FContent%3Foid%3D4196386%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4196393/dont_think_twice.jpg | en | null | Review: "Don't Think Twice," making the SNL-style dream come true | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/review-dont-think-twice-making-the-snl-style-dream-come-true/Content?oid=4196386&show=comments | en | 2016-08-16T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/363ca04763fced8c8997686049f71dd008bc83a59bfc88b30e89a96abd126049.json |
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"Gannett... | 2016-08-26T13:07:56 | null | 2016-08-23T15:46:09 | A few of our picks from Indy Fringe, from spoken word to puppetry | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Findy-fringe-2016-reviews%2FContent%3Foid%3D4211876.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4211898/silkenveils_image.jpg | en | null | Indy Fringe 2016 reviews | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge
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Indy Fringe is the mile marker for the beginning of the fall arts season. We went through the list and found performers with some amazing personal stories and reviewed some shows that might be outside of your comfort zone. But that's what Fringe is about — break out of the box and try something new.Happy Fringing, y'all.at the Indy Fringe Basile TheatreThe intimacy of the IndyFringe Basile Theatre perfectly sets the mood for this tense, claustrophobic play.The set is spare — four chairs, one covered in junk food wrappers and the scent of despair. Four women emerge from the shadows, and we learn that they are trapped in this tight space. Are they hostages? Patients in a mental hospital? Addicts in some kind of severely strict rehab center?Playwright Jan White creates an ominous atmosphere in which unsettling uncertainty hovers over every scene. Well, almost every scene. Once the mystery starts unraveling, the play grows slightly less interesting. The answers to the viewers’ questions don’t feel as shocking and revelatory as they should.The beginning of the play is filled with dark magic. A scary sense of mystery washes over the audience, and we feel as vulnerable as the characters. But what starts as a harrowing drama too quickly tries to wrap the viewers in a warm blanket of hope and optimism.could use some more time in its setting. It’s a strong, evocative, well-acted show, but it feels like it ends too quickly and neatly. It should make you uncomfortable, squirming and itching to escape its suffocating setting. Like its characters, it’s eager to move from the darkness into the light. But maybe it needs to linger in the dark a little longer. However, all in all, this is a compelling show that will leave you shivering at the thought of being in the same nightmarish scenario as its tragic, compelling characters. —Sam Watermeierat the Phoenix Theatre— yes, that’s how it’s spelled — has a whimsical and engaging set-up. Set in a fairy tale world where iconic characters from our childhoods hang out together in a place called “Artists Alley,” it’s a sugary-sweet show that offers some food for thought, but it ultimately leaves a lot to be desired.The play follows the fourth little pig as he befriends other fairy tale characters while doing time in community service. The pig, who is amusingly named Steve, must perform three acts of kindness: First, he has to persuade the Boy Who Cried Wolf to stop lying; then he has to spend some quality time with the grandmother of Little Red Riding Hood; and finally, he has to help Pocahontas pick up trash in the forest.For quite a spell, these scenes don’t seem to go anywhere. They feel more like random episodes in a web series than threads tied to a larger narrative. Eventually, though, Steve learns an important lesson through his time with these characters. He realizes that he’s not an unworthy runt. He doesn’t deserve to live alone on the fringes of the fairy tale world — he deserves to live “happily ever after.”The play culminates in a beautiful, heartfelt message and sends you out into the night with a smile on your face. Unfortunately, what leads up to that ending is a largely dull and faintly funny fantasy. But the actors’ energy and enthusiasm will occasionally rub off on you. Michael McLendon Tetmeyer is particularly fun to watch as a sleazy Donald Trump version of Jack (from Jack and the Beanstalk).is a fun 45-minute outing for the kids. But it will probably leave adults fidgeting impatiently in their seats. It’s a flawed play, but it’s paved with good intentions. —Sam Watermeierat the Phoenix Theatre UndergroundLoren Niemi’s autobiographical storytelling is intense and personal at the same time. He recounts how he ended up at Catholic seminary, though not Catholic and not even very religious, after high school and how his journey evolved, eventually shaping him into a Buddhist antiwar demonstrator. Everything was changing in that decade—it was post Vatican II, and Vietnam was on the horizon. Catholicism and the country were torn between the past and the future, with causalities on both sides confusing the present. Eventually, Niemi was denied his final vows because, as he was told, “it isn’t what you believe; it’s that you say it out loud.” While racism, “post-riot architecture,” and the questionable morals of the church and country are at the heart of his story, the seemingly inconsequential details bring counterbalance to the performance’s serious subject matter, such as Niemi smoking a joint during visiting hours in a minimum-security prison with 62-year-old Brother Basil, who had been imprisoned for protesting—a joint that was smuggled in via Jennie O’s vagina. History buffs, lapsed Catholics, and antiwar supporters will find much to enjoy in this show. —Lisa Gauthier Mitchisonat ComedySportzDrink! The audience is continually invited to imbibe along with the actors while EclecticPond plays fast and loose with Romeo and Juliet. This raucous, frenetic send-up brings you such lines as “Are you fucking fisting me right now?” Drink! “You have to be 16 to drive a Chevy but only 13 to drive a vulva.” Drink! “Who the fuck is in my bushes?” (the infamous balcony scene). Drink! And, regarding Juliet, Nurse says, “She isn’t experienced with men, so if you are looking for butt stuff, this is not the droid you’re looking for.” Drink! Some of Shakespeare’s original lines are thrown in for good measure at a tempo that doesn’t seem humanly possible—but is deeply impressive. Drink! Some ad lib adds to the flow, and anytime actors manage to crack each other up onstage means good comedy. This is an excellent show to cap off an evening of Fringing. Drink! —Lisa Gauthier Mitchisonat Theatre on the Square Stage Twostyle, an adult Matt looks back at his teen-age relationship with May. May and “Matty” pass notes as a major part of their interaction. It was the 1990s, so these were actual paper notes that had to be hand-written and sometimes even mailed, like with a stamp. Matty calls notes May’s “weapon of choice” but only because he is portrayed in all his teenage male awkwardness and oblivion. As Matt says, “Life as a teenage boy is making a series of stupid statements and then trying to make up for them.” Overall, it’s a sweet picture of bumbling first love with wide-eyed actors portraying the teens. But then their lives take a heart-wrenching turn. Looking back, Matt says you always remember the first and the last of something, but you never know when that last is until it’s over. This initially lighthearted show ends with the audience having a more conscious appreciation for the people in their lives. —Lisa Gauthier Mitchisonat the Phoenix MainstageIt’s prettily done, incorporating marionettes and shadow theater into the story of an Iranian émigré who flees the marriage altar and then, in a storage closet, has PTSD-like flashbacks to her childhood during the Iranian Revolution. In her mind, Darya has linked her family’s tragedies to her parents’ soulmate-like connection to each other. A love her mother clung to even though her husband eventually left them and created a new family with a new wife. Now, Darya is terrified of losing her own identity to her fiancé because she is the product of what we would now call a dysfunctional family. The bones of the production itself are strong, with solid acting and cunning props and staging. It’s visually striking. My discomfort comes from the slow pacing and the extraneous use of Darya’s fiancé, Ahmad. Ahmad’s presence on the other side of the closet’s locked door does little to move the story forward until the end. I wish he had been a stronger character—someone who had a personality that showed he was worthy of Darya commitment. While the flashbacks and puppetry are intriguing, they run too long. The puppetry scenes especially could be tightened up because they drag down the story’s momentum. —Lisa Gauthier Mitchisonat Theatre on the Square Main StageThe opening act of this hybrid dance/music performance is a string quartet taking the stage solo with no dancers. Their music is somber, like, say, Bach meets Philip Glass. (Later in the performance, the quartet, in fact, plays a work by Glass.) When the dancers do arrive for a piece called Ping Pong Fumble Thaw, the dance is definitely as advertised. That is, there’s something a little fumbling about the way the dancers move across the stage in bare feet, roll across the floor, slither under chairs on which the quartet members are sitting as they perform, and slither over one another. You might wonder at the significance of the black tape wrapped around the arms of the dancers like phylacteries and their burlap sack-like garments but the performances don’t provide any clues. Things become less pongy and fumbly in a dance piece called Hello Night where dancers Sara Little and Katelin Rupp move around the stage more like Bolshoi dancers than ping pong balls. When the dancers’ glances finally connect, the performance ends. The next act entitled “Solo’iquy” has even more of a storyline. (Perhaps it’s invoking Jean-Luc Godard's short film Armide, from the 1987 motion picture Aria.) In this dance, the female dancer (Rachel Mack) seemingly becomes jealous of the relationship the violinist (José Valencia) has with his violin. (Unlike in Godard’s film, there is no stripping naked here.) Elsewhere in Carve, you see some dancing on (and with) chairs. An allusion to Flashdance, perhaps? You might think that dancers dancing to the occasionally mournful music of a violin quartet wouldn’t result in the most spirited or engaging performance. But music and dance merge well here. —Dan Grossmanat ComedySportzAt first Scott Long, who hails from Fishers, wanted to do a Fringe show about “a crazy politician who says whatever the hell he wants.” But then Trump came on the scene and he had to scrap the whole program. Anyway, he thought, no one wants to hear politics for 100 percent of a show. So he tried mixing it up a bit so part of his show would be about politics, the other about relationships and sex. He certainly does have some barbed observations about the political scene, say, like when he compares Evan Bayh to a male nipple. Long’s gifted with a casual stage presence and he connects well with an audience. But ultimately, the sexual and the political largely stay separate in his monologue, like distinct memes and posts on a Facebook wall. And Long largely fails to make the connection between common bedroom politics and the scene outside the bedroom. Thus, a certain kind of predatory lust seen often in politicians goes unremarked upon. Call me crazy, but I think that people still want comedians to make such connections. —Dan Grossmanat ComedySportzNo, this isn’t some hostage-taking melodrama set on the high seas starring Somali pirates and Tom Hanks. But there is maybe just a little bit of a Tom Hanks-type everyman in Hollywood, CA.- based Kurkendaal. It’s certainly easy to relate to his desire to get along and have a good time with his boyfriend and his family on their cruise along the Alaskan coast. But the dreadlock-wearing Kurkendaal is clearly not Tom Hanks: being gay and African American makes him a minority within a minority.And the particular situation that he gets thrown into is far fromterritory, despitetheme playing as Kurkendaal walks out onto stage. Actually, at times it’s more like Psycho. (Kurkendaal appropriates this music as well at certain key moments.) You see, his boyfriend’s family is “Right-wing Caucasian...NRA loving.” So opportunities for miscues and arguments abound. Kurkendaal’s solution to all this is to take as many day-trip excursions as the cruise line offers so as to avoid conflict with his in-laws. (And it turns out that such trips are filled with people trying to escape their in-laws.) But it’s impossible to escape such conflict. Because of Kurkendaal’s appearance, certain cruise ship passengers mistake him for staff. And certain members of his boyfriend’s family think his reaction to this incident is overblown. The question is: can such conflicts ever be resolved? Kurkendaal’s at least willing to give it a shot. His delivery is fast, smart, high energy, and — perhaps most importantly — humanistic. (He’s also great at doing impressions.) Ultimately he chooses not just to avoid conflict but to see the best in people, even in his right wing in-laws. So it’s quite easy for an audience to see the best in him. —Dan Grossmanat the Phoenix UndergroundThe very first magic trick that Simon Coronel did up on stage was to make his fingers disappear and reappear. Maybe it was a little scary for some people. After all, you can’t practice sleight of hand if you don’t have fingers. But just as impressive as his adept trickery was the stream of Australian-accented words coming out of his mouth. Because Coronel was able to accomplish more than just magic tricks. He was able to teach his audience something about the stage craft of magic and make them laugh—a lot.“I just broke a rule; never show them how it’s done,” Coronel said, after he showed the audience how to turn a one dollar bill into a twenty dollar bill in the blink of an eye. (He did it, in part, by having a twenty dollar bill taped to the underside of a one dollar bill.) But then he progressed to a harder trick. He changed a five dollar bill into a fifty after having an audience member test out the bill to make sure there was nothing funny about it. And for those who like a sense of mystery – for those who like to believe in magic – his only explanation for this trick was that it involved 15 years of practice.Perhaps the most amazing thing he did up onstage involved that Nora-Roberts-meets-the Marquis-De Sade classic Fifty Shades of Gray. And perhaps that was an appropriate climax, as it were, to the show. After all, Coronel had the confidence of Christian Grey, and the audience was like Anastasia Steele in his hands. —Dan Grossmanat Theatre on the Square Main StageA Fringe highlight every year seems to be the rule now. This year boasted more dance than ever before and Dance Kaleidoscope used it to it’s full potential. It’s the one time of year that dancers try out choreography that might make t onto the IRT state later in the season. Highlights included First Touch choreographed by Jillian Godwin, Edge of Seventeen by Missy Trulock and Enlightenment by Timothy June — all of which are based on influential “divas” in music. While the show had weak points, DK’s strong partner work showed through. —Emily Taylorat Indy Eleven TheatreThis show is riddled with literary references, the mannerisms of Indiana’s eccentric author and plenty of humanist humor. Oh, and every character is dressed in a Vonnegut red sweater and mustache. The premise follows Vonnegut as he does reporting on near death experiences from a state of the art lethal injection facility in Texas/Peter’s pearly gates. However parts of the show felt off in directional choice — for example the the one Black actor playing every minority. Overall the show boasted a strong representation of Vonnegut and had diverse actors who could make various roles believable while still in the same costume. — Emily Taylorat the Indy Fringe Basile TheatreThis comedy/magic show follows the narrative of Jamahl Keyes’ childhood. His sleight of hand is impressive, especially considering his sleeves were rolled up. Though most of them were predicable, there were a handful that stumped me. The show was comical in a self deprecating kind of way. This is a good bet if you are taking the kids. — Emily Taylorat Theatre on the Square Main StageIt’s like watching mommy and daddy hugging between the sheets for anyone under 50. Deb Mullins has made a show that’s part jazz hands, part sticky resin fingers and part showgirl. The backup dancers/singers lent to the comedic effect. A few sound issues made Mullins’ voice less powerful than it could have been. —Emily Taylorat the Phoenix UndergroundThis was singularly the best show this reviewer saw at Indy Fringe thus far. It holds down a strong mix of comedy and spoken word. This piece has seamless transitions covering topics like women’s rights, coming out, social media, privilege, transgender rights and mental illness all while making you laugh five minutes later. Spoken words artists who have appeared at Vocab and other poetry staples around the city performed and interacted with one another on stage in a way that felt entirely natural. If you are a poetry proficient or novice this is a must-see. —Emily Taylor | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/indy-fringe-2016-reviews/Content?oid=4211876 | en | 2016-08-23T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/da3e406af2ba4f2e66a4a0d6833e5ecfac53cf12617f7f149a1c47f905b477d9.json |
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"Katja Krasnovsky"
] | 2016-08-26T13:09:17 | null | 2016-08-17T10:32:06 | To celebrate the Hoosier bicentennial, several organizations have created the Children of Indiana Nature Park. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fkids-own-this-park%2FContent%3Foid%3D4198297%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4198307/dsc_5329_creek_stomp_fun_by_randall_schieber.jpg | en | null | Kids own this park! | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/kids-own-this-park/Content?oid=4198297&show=comments | en | 2016-08-17T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/6d42bd878dd6ac392df11d4bbb810e2eadb047df49b728702c945da9bc96bf08.json |
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"Brian Weiss"
] | 2016-08-27T16:50:30 | null | 2016-08-25T11:30:00 | Fall is peeking around the corner | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2FSlash%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F25%2F10-things-to-do-this-weekend%2F.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4215948/10thingstodo4.png | en | null | 10 things to do this weekend | null | null | www.nuvo.net | 1. Chreece II
Aug. 27, 2 p.m. 9 stages. 50+ acts. 1 awesome day of hip-hop music.
click to enlarge Chreece founder Oreo Jones!
2. Dig IN: A Taste of Indiana
Aug. 28. noon. This is your chance to sample food from 40 of the best chefs from around the state. Head here for a more in-depth preview.
Military Park, 601 W. New York St., $40, all-ages
3. IN Light IN
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Hoosiers might find an iceberg or two floating in the Canal at IN Light IN
More than 20 local, regional, national and international artists come together for one giant visual spectacle.
Canal Walk, 801 W. Washington St. FREE, all-ages
4.
Aug. 26-27, times vary. Sample more than 250 wines from around the world. This two-day fest will also feature local cuisine, live musical entertainment and more.
American Legion Mall, 700 N. Pennsylvania St. $40, 21+
5. Adult Swim Drive-In
Aug. 26. 7 p.m. Indy is one of 10 stops on this magical tour of irreverent entertainment, which features unaired episodes of current and upcoming shows as well as never-before-seen pilots, specials and more! This unique, fun-filled evening will also include trivia, prizes, food trucks and more.
Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., FREE with RSVP
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Fastidio
6. Kids Punk Rock Night
Aug. 27, 3 p.m. As if Fountain Square wasn't going to be busy enough on Saturday. We profiled Fastidio last week, but there’s a bunch more bands you can see including Mr. Daniel, School of Rock, Danny Thompson, Pravda, The Slappies, Stealing Volume and Black Cat Rebellion. Proceeds from this event benefit The Villages foster care program.
Kuma's Corner, 1127 Prospect St., FREE, all-ages
7. Hops & Flip Flops Festival
Aug. 27, 1 p.m. Guess what this festival's focus is? 25 breweries from across the country will be in town with their HOP-forward brews. Whiskey Bent Valley Boys, Brandon Whyde and the Devil’s Keep, The Stampede String Band, Prowlers and the Prey, Midwest Rhythm Exchange and Bleedingkeys provide the tunes. Barbecue and Bourbon, Big Ron’s Bistro, King David Dogs and Speedway Lions Clu provide the grub.
Daredevil Brewing Co, 1151 Main St., $40, 21+
8. Feast of Lanterns
Aug. 27, 4 p.m. The Historic Near Eastside Festival is back again this year! Featuring more than 40 artisans, six bands, food trucks and more it's an all-around grand time.
Spades Park, 1800 Nowland Ave, FREE, all-ages
9. Hoops EP release performance
Aug. 26, 6 p.m. Big news on the local circuit: Hoops signed to Fat Possum earlier this year and their new EP is out August 26 on that label. They’ll celebrate that release in Indy at this local record store.
LUNA Music, 5202 N. College Ave., FREE, all-ages
10. Day of Flight
Aug. 27, 8:30 a.m. This all-day celebration of the three B's will be filled with chances to see many different types of birds close-up, discover the beauty of butterflies and learn about the importance of bees.
Indianapolis Museum of Art, 4000 Michigan Road, included with admission ($18), all-ages | http://www.nuvo.net/Slash/archives/2016/08/25/10-things-to-do-this-weekend/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/6640d9498f5d7f892b8d12c179b54b8ea50b35c3cc1d1798598f05686d4c17b2.json |
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"Rita Kohn"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:42 | null | 2016-08-17T11:00:00 | An Indiana brewery is making national news as one of the most underrated breweries in the country. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Findiana-brewery-ranked-in-50-most-underrated-craft-breweries-in-us%2FContent%3Foid%3D4187733%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4187736/1394411_604710926255159_623522539_n-2.jpg | en | null | Indiana brewery ranked in "50 Most Underrated Craft Breweries in U.S." | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/indiana-brewery-ranked-in-50-most-underrated-craft-breweries-in-us/Content?oid=4187733&show=comments | en | 2016-08-17T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/91a290cedac8c6e0cc6e2a36844f0254fefdf623bf5efd1d252c11c437412306.json |
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"Ted Somerville"
] | 2016-08-29T14:50:17 | null | 2016-08-29T09:20:00 | Ted Somerville takes you on a trip through Chreece, a homegrown hip-hop fest that went down in Fountain Square this weekend. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fslideshow-chreece-2-in-fountain-square%2FContent%3Foid%3D4224137.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4224136/_dsc6768.jpg | en | null | Slideshow: Chreece 2 in Fountain Square | null | null | www.nuvo.net | Today's Best Bets | All of today's events
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"Renee Sweany"
] | 2016-08-26T13:05:45 | null | 2016-08-25T11:30:00 | Where do you recycle worn out shoes/clothing/linens that are too far gone to donate? | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fask-renee-what-do-you-do-with-really-really-really-old-shoes%2FContent%3Foid%3D4195780.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4195782/573px-old_rags_into_new_cloth-_salvage_in_britain_april_1942_d7435.jpg | en | null | Ask Renee: What do you do with really, really, really old shoes? | null | null | www.nuvo.net | Today's Best Bets | All of today's events
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"Dan Savage",
"In Addition To Being A Nationally Syndicated Sex Advice Columnist",
"Author Of Books",
"Savage Can Also Lay Claim To Being The Only Person At His Home Paper To Have Actually Converted His Sexuality Into A Profession. He Has A Boyfriend",
"A Child. He Is Also Wealthy Beyond The Dreams Of Avari... | 2016-08-26T12:59:39 | null | 2016-08-26T08:00:00 | Dan's replacement of the week weighs in on a pegging problem. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2FSavageLove%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fsavage-love-take-control-of-what-enters-your-ass.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4209677/savagelove_595_1_.png | en | null | Savage Love: Take control of what enters your ass | null | null | www.nuvo.net | Bio:
In addition to being a nationally syndicated sex advice columnist and author of books, Savage can also lay claim to being the only person at his home paper to have actually converted his sexuality into a profession. He has a boyfriend and a child. He is also wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice and cheats at racketball...
In addition to being a nationally syndicated sex advice columnist and author of books, Savage can also lay claim to being the only person at his home paper to have actually converted his sexuality into a profession. He has a boyfriend and a child. He is also wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice and cheats at racketball. Good luck getting him on the phone, and don’t ever ask where he’s going or where he’s been. | http://www.nuvo.net/SavageLove/archives/2016/08/26/savage-love-take-control-of-what-enters-your-ass | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/cbaac1c261601594d49261a17761b8d97905ecbf2613bcddaef4a6e20e106041.json |
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"Rebecca Berfanger"
] | 2016-08-27T16:50:12 | null | 2016-08-24T14:18:56 | Comedian presents brand new comedy act in Indy | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fcameron-esposito-back-in-the-midwest%2FContent%3Foid%3D4214058%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4214064/screen_shot_2016-08-24_at_2.16.09_pm.png | en | null | Cameron Esposito: back in the midwest | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/cameron-esposito-back-in-the-midwest/Content?oid=4214058&show=comments | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/5efa869167b73f92129f9ce7b3721fb64d90f29d22cec1c77d85bfd50eb647b2.json |
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"Mark Sheldon"
] | 2016-08-29T18:51:18 | null | 2016-08-29T10:55:00 | Peep this selection of shots from this weekend's country triple-hitter at Klipsch. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Fslideshow-chris-stapleton-hank-williams-jr-ashley-mcbryde-at-klipsch%2FContent%3Foid%3D4224239%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4224238/unnamed_24_.jpg | en | null | Slideshow: Chris Stapleton, Hank Williams Jr., Ashley McBryde at Klipsch | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/slideshow-chris-stapleton-hank-williams-jr-ashley-mcbryde-at-klipsch/Content?oid=4224239&show=comments | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/8b029609489ee9b3bf84f2cdfe1dc7eaba402b469412dd01506243a93d4c2a58.json |
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"Ed Johnson-Ott"
] | 2016-08-28T08:50:56 | null | 2016-08-16T16:25:24 | "Hell or High Water" takes an utterly predictable plot and makes it feel new | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2Findianapolis%2Freview-hell-or-high-water-the-bank-robbers-of-west-texas%2FContent%3Foid%3D4196400%26show%3Dcomments.json | http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4196401/hell_or_high_water.jpg | en | null | Review: "Hell or High Water," the bank robbers of West Texas | null | null | www.nuvo.net | null | http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/review-hell-or-high-water-the-bank-robbers-of-west-texas/Content?oid=4196400&show=comments | en | 2016-08-16T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/9a4e7af6474ca6643ab3ea737f269fe71b0b90ab65c09d7eaeef380adf43349c.json |
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"David Hoppe"
] | 2016-08-30T16:50:37 | null | 2016-08-30T12:14:00 | Like so many Hoosier Dems, Gregg’s record is pro-life, pro-gun and pro-coal. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuvo.net%2FHoppe%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Findiana-democrats-more-of-the-same.json | http://media1.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/u/slideshow/4226629/patriotic-donkey-2400px.png | en | null | Indiana Democrats: More of the same | null | null | www.nuvo.net | click to enlarge openclipart.org
This shouldn’t be difficult.An Indiana Democrat, John Gregg, ought to win the governor’s race in this year’s election. This is as true now that Gregg’s opponent is Lt. Gov. Eric Holcomb, as it was when it appeared Gregg would be running against incumbent Mike Pence.Pence’s gift of gaffe was almost limitless. Let us begin to count the ways: Whether he was defending discrimination against the LGBT community as religious freedom, enabling the state’s degrading addiction to coal, or earnestly signing off on one of this country’s most oppressive laws regarding women’s reproductive rights, Pence seemed determined to build a wall around Indiana.It’s no wonder he won Donald Trump’s vice presidential sweepstakes.By the time Trump plucked him from a freakishly narrow field of ne’er-do-wells, Pence had so thoroughly managed to reinforce every negative Hoosier stereotype that many voters seemed ready to vote against him, if only to stop his ham-handed assault on the state’s national reputation.Enter Eric Holcomb, a Republican hack, whose career in politics has never included actually being elected to anything. Short on both time and money, his campaign, thus far, has amounted to his saying, “more of the same.”In most elections, in most states, this situation would represent a golden opportunity for the opposing party, a chance not just to compete, but win a coveted office. But this is Indiana we’re talking about — and the Indiana Democratic Party — which makes predicting what happens in November a decidedly slippery proposition.This starts with John Gregg, the Democratic nominee. Gregg is a longtime Democratic pol, whose greatest claim to fame may be that he almost beat Mike Pence in the last election. This, in spite of a cornpone campaign that managed to alienate many urban voters, most of whom happen to be Democrats.As long as he could play the anti-Pence, Gregg’s prospects were bright. But, like so many Hoosier Dems, Gregg’s record is pro-life, pro-gun and pro-coal. His ads feature Republicans applauding him for being a fiscal conservative. He appears, in other words, to be just like a Republican — only competent.This approach may work for Gregg. But it does nothing to enhance how we think about Indiana, or address the ways life is changing here. Unfortunately, its lack of imagination is characteristic of the Hoosier Democratic Party’s MO, which has been to accept and thus perpetuate clichés about how retrograde and reactionary we are.And herein could be John Gregg’s undoing. Our state’s lack of genuine political competition — not just among candidates, but ideas — has led to almost unprecedented levels of voter apathy and political participation. In 2014, 43 percent of state house and senate races were actually uncontested. Voter turnout, unsurprisingly, was the lowest since World War II.Bernie Sanders has called for an initiative, “Our Revolution,” aimed at recruiting, training and even funding new generation progressive candidates to run for state and local offices. It’s a provocative idea that has yet to find its legs. But something like it could reinvigorate Indiana’s Democratic Party. Unless, that is, the state’s Dems like things just the way they are. | http://www.nuvo.net/Hoppe/archives/2016/08/30/indiana-democrats-more-of-the-same | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.nuvo.net/637575d6a8c15dda5733d7b6aa8dcfaa82646cb0571c9837b4314bbf6fc6ca26.json |
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