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Environment
For those of you outraged - or at the very least, puzzled - by why climate change or global warming has been largely ignored in this political election season, watch this doc.
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News Blog
Appearing last night at the Sanctuary on Penn, Mam wanted to talk not about her own brutal childhood, but about solutions to the problems of sex slavery.
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Environment
A trip to IUPUI to speak on a panel spawned into an all-day adventure.
- by Jim Poyser
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Tags: Environment, Lilly Day of Service, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Anne Laker, Matt Bua, Fall Creek, SPEA, Saba Sidikki, Rich Strong, Megan Anderson, Beyond Coal, Colleen McCormick, Office of Sustainability, Mike Blackwell, IUPUI Campus Center, Slideshow, Feature, Feature
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Politics
Republican Richard Mourdock and Democrat Joe Donnelly tangled early and often about politics, policy and partisanship in the first of two senatorial debates. And both men all but ignored Libertarian Andrew Horning.
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News Blog
No, this is not satire.
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Opinion
This week's important stories told to you in 17 syllables. On this week's docket: squirrels, pussies and moose.
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Current Events
Welcome to what may be the first "Thumbs Up" to ever run a two-consecutive-week appearance: The Indiana Fever just can't be denied.
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Opinion
The three-member Marion County Election Board split along party lines and failed to achieve the unanimous approval necessary to enable satellite locations in the county's northern and southern regions.
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Current Events
Touchdown for Indianapolis women who will benefit from expanded breast cancer services to high-need communities within Marion County thanks to a $50,000 donation from the NFL.
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Politics
Seeing all-male panels of lawmakers make women's health care decisions prompted Ann Stack, a founding member of the 51 Percent Club, to action.
- by Rebecca Townsend
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Tags: Politics, The 51 Percent Club, 2012 election, women's issues, reproductive rights, Betty Cockrum, Sarah Steele Riordan, Ann Stack, Katie Blair, 2010 midterm election, voter participation, civic health, social networks, "When Women Vote ...", Video, Feature, Feature
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To incite greater female participation at the polls, the 51 Percent Club is asking people to post signs beginning with "When Women Vote ..." NUVO editors Rebecca Townsend and Kat Coplen welcomed the challenge.
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News Blog
You probably don't farm, but if you take a second to consider the significance of FFA, you may find you share more in common with these kids than you think.
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Arts + Entertainment Blog
On Carmel’s Main Street, when sheets go up over the windows of the French Bleu Gallery, seven painters channel their muses using a nude model for inspiration.
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Film + TV
A ragged but rewarding doc about Lithuania's Olympic basketball team, which first hit the court in 1992, after its players won gold in 1988 as part of the USSR team.
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Visual Arts
Viewers are encouraged to forge a path through the forest of symbols that make up Nickolson's 'An Apotropaic Symphony,' a new collection of paintings at Dewclaw.
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Film + TV
Our guide to Heartland Film Festival's must-see events, including appearances by Jack Hanna, Corbin Bernsen and a few good mountain climbers.
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Theater + Dance
Dance Kaleidoscope brings back its revue of Beatles songs choreographed by Artistic Director David Hochoy.
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Sports + Recreation
Haunted Angelus, Indy's newest haunt, brings big, ADA-accessible scares to benefit a cerebral palsy group home.
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Visual Arts
One altar in the Indiana State Museum's Day of the Dead exhibit pays tribute to the artist's grandmother via a gumball machine and Wheel-of-Fortune scratch-offs.
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Sports + Recreation
Twists, turns and plenty of actor interaction make this southside haunt absolutely chilling.
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Sports + Recreation
Youngsters looking for a not-so-scary Halloween event will get down at this year's 'Wizard of Oz'-themed ZooBoo.
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Arts + Entertainment Blog
Season resumes Oct. 18 with the first Time
for Three Happy Hour and continues Oct. 19-20 with ISO's music director Krzysztof Urbański performing
that weekend's originally scheduled classical concert.
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Film + TV
As part of our coverage the 2012 Heartland Film Festival, NUVO joined three key members of the Heartland team.
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Film + TV
The "lemon test," wherein a man with lemon in his pocket presses up against a female bus rider to gauge her interest in being groped, plays a prominent role in a smart drama about sexual assault in Egypt.
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Film + TV
What ALS does to Becker, a metal guitar prodigy, isn't pretty. What technology, dedicated professionals, and his family and friends do with him is beautiful.
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Film + TV
Director/writer/editor Musa Syeed, whose parents come from Kashmir, showcases the beauty of the subcontinent and its people without omitting hard realities.
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Film + TV
Ed reviews five more films that caught his attention: Mariachi Gringo, Otelo Burning, The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert, High Ground and Rising from Ashes.
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Classical Music
For its first classical concert program following an ISO management / players' union bridge contract agreement, music
director Krzysztof Urbański abandons the podium for one of the offerings.
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Sports + Recreation
Lackluster thrills and a lack of attention to detail earn Hanna Haunted Acres a low rating this year. But as our reviewer learns, the more you give the more you get.
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Music Blog
Stephen Patterson and his group the White Rabbits will perform at Radio Radio this Thursday.
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Live Music Reviews
It was too big for just one woman to cover it all. Rachel Hanley weighs in with her review of her first time at BRMF.
- by Rachel Hanley
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Tags: Live Music Reviews, Hotfox, Verdant Vera, BRMF 2012, Connor's Pub, Sabbatical, The Sad Sam Blues Band, Midwest Hype, Broad Ripple Village, Review, Slideshow, Feature, Feature
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Profiles
Hip-hop duo Kyle Nagy and John Stamps are moving away from the sound that brought them their base. Will their fans follow?
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Profiles
One of our favorite festivals came back for another year in the Village. This year, the ultra-walkable Indy fest brought cellist Ben Sollee and DJ Colette as headliners with a pack of notable locals to the stages, tents and bars.
- by Kristen Pugh
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Tags: Profiles, 800 lb Gorilla, Ben Sollee, Bonesetters, Crys, Echomaker, Hotfox, Indian City Weather, Jon Rogers, Laura K Balke, Mathew Ferris, Midwest State of Mind, No Direction, Rhinoceros Beetle, Rodeo Ruby Love, Rusty Kinetik, Salvador Dalai Llama Farm, Verdant Vera, Broad Ripple Village, Slideshow, Feature, Feature
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Music Blog
Photos of Brandi Carlile at the Murat on Oct. 16.
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Music Blog
One of our favorite festivals came back for another year in the Village. This year, the ultra-walkable Indy fest brought cellist Ben Sollee and DJ Colette as headliners with a pack of notable locals to the stages, tents and bars.
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Album Reviews
Everything Is Happening shows an ambitious band with a vast sonic palette and a bright future. Sean Armie reviews the self-released debut album from Bloomington's !mindparade.
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Live Music Reviews
The All American Rejects blow the roof off of the Egyptian room, while Boys Like Girls, erm, don't.
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Live Music Reviews
Jordan Martich reviews Trampled by Turtles' show at The Vogue October 19.
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Music Blog
Photos of White Rabbits on Thursday, Oct. 19 at Radio Radio.
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Street Team Blog
Strong winds and chilly temperatures weren't enough to deter racers (or speedo-clad dancers) from this year's IUPUI Regatta.
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Dining Out
Owned by the folks who brought us Chatham Tap and named after the Scottish architect who laid out our fair city, Ralston's is a welcome addition to Mass Ave.
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Markets + Cooking
River City Winery, situated in downtown New Albany, won top honors at the Indy International Wine Competition for its 2011 Vignoles.
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A Cultural Manifesto
"For me the constraints of genre feel just as provincial as the constraints of nationality." Kyle Long speaks with musician, activist and doctor Rupa Marya.
- by Kyle Long
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Tags: Rupa and the April Fishes, San Francisco, Rupa Marya, Kishore Kumar, The Clash, Indianapolis, Jazz Kitchen, gypsy, swing, jazz, Audio, Feature, Feature
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Abdul
On Monday night, along party lines and without regard to Indiana Code, the city-county council passed a budget balanced, in part, by taking $15 million in payments in lieu of taxes (PILOT) from the Capital Improvement Board.
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Barfly
Surf music with a twist.
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Gadfly
Each week, NUVO illustrator Wayne Bertsch turns his keen comic eye to the news headlines ...
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Guest Voices
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney really, really don't like each other. But they had the most substantive presidential debate in maybe 20 years.
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Barfly
Wayne profiles Up!Scumbag before their Saturday album release show at the Melody Inn.
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Hoppe
A recent study in the journal Liberal Education finds that many liberal arts colleges are either changing their missions or disappearing altogether.
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Guest Voices
Some of Indiana's congressional delegation have take action to improve opportunity and independence for people with disabilities. Others have yet to sign on.