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As we expected, the mere threat of legislation such as HJR 3 angered, frightened and saddened many of our readers. We asked you to share your thoughts. You can find all those stories at NUVO.net. Here’s one. For myself and my wife, the looming threat of HJR 3 potentially becoming law has brought into sharp focus our desire to leave the state of Indiana. Indiana has been my home. I was born and raised here. After completing college and living in other states for a time in my life, I eventually moved back to this state, which has always been the hospitable home I loved. I no longer feel this way...I no longer feel welcome in my home state. I married my wife in 2011, in New York City, shortly after marriage equality became the law in that state.
As far as I know, our neighbors in our community, our friends and co-workers who are married don’t seem to be threatened by our marriage. We haven’t destroyed any traditions that others celebrate just because we love each other. My wife and I are planning to start a family soon, but I think we realize now that we must take our lives somewhere else in order to raise children. We don’t want to raise kids in a state where lawmakers feel it is their divine right to write discrimination into law...even though we are fairly certain that should the amendment be put to referendum for voters in November and pass, it would be struck down in a federal court. We are actively seeking opportunities to live and work in a state that doesn’t view us as second-class citizens. — Melissa Mead NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER //01.29.14 - 02.05.14 // THIS WEEK 3
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espect. I’ve heard that word thrown around a lot lately as the General JOHN Assembly continues its debate of the SITTLER controversial constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in Indiana. EDITORS@NUVO.NET Almost every time I’ve heard the word, the context has been that conserJohn Sittler is a reporter for TheStatehouseFile.com, a news vatives don’t respect the views of gay website powered by Franklin rights supporters. College journalism students. But I seem to remember learning in elementary school: You have to give respect to get it. House Joint Resolution 3 has had two didn’t think the thumbs down sign was hearings, before two different commitrespectful. tees, both held in the House chamber. As Smith said that, Spychala looked Both times, one member of the pubstraight at the chairman and gave him a lic was ejected by the chairman of the double thumbs down. committee. Lost in the public backlash was the Once, it was a woman who was obnoxtrue reason behind his expulsion. In iously yelling and clapping after a man committee meetings, the chair is more testified in support of the amendment. or less all powerful. He or she sets the More recently - and far more newsrules, within reason. worthy - an Air Force veteran was expelled after giving Elections Committee Chairman Milo Smith, History is filled with people who R-Columbus, a double thumbs down gesture. faced consequences … for standing Opponents of HJR 3 up for what they believe in. exploded across social media, condemning the expulsion and turning Scott Spychala into a Smith asked for no thumbs down martyr. gestures. But let’s think about what actually Spychala looked at him and gave a happened and why he was removed thumbs down. from the public gallery. Smith kicked him out. Seems pretty Before both hearings, the committee logical to me. chairman acknowledged the sensitive Maybe Spychala was trying to make a and emotional nature of the debate and statement. And there is certainly someasked for respect from both sides. thing to be said for that. History is filled During the first hearing, Judiciary with people who faced consequences Committee Chairman Greg (often much worse than Spychala’s) for Steuerwald, R-Avon, had to ask for standing up for what they believe in. quiet and respect multiple times after But that doesn’t mean Smith was in Freedom Indiana supporters in the the wrong. gallery were laughing and making Throughout my coverage of this other noises after people testified in debate, I’ve done my best to be imparsupport of HJR 3. tial, to be a quiet observer. In fact, I Last Wednesday, Freedom Indiana haven’t even made up my mind as to supporters again filled the public galhow I would vote if HJR 3 makes it to the lery and had taken to giving a double ballot in November. thumbs down gesture, often while But there’s one thing I have learned: standing, during the testimony of anyThe debate isn’t good for anyone withone in favor of the amendment. Finally, out respect. Smith stopped someone mid-testimony For everyone. From everyone. n and asked for respect. He said he
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WHAT HAPPENED? Senate committee passes hemp bill Industrial hemp grown in Indiana could be another farming option for Hoosiers under legislation that a Senate committee passed Friday. Senate Bill 357 — authored by Sen. Richard Young, D-Milltown — would allow farmers to apply for a license to grow and produce industrial hemp. “Industrial hemp has over 50,000 uses,” Young said. “The land that we’ve got here will produce hemp very well.” Young named several uses for industrial hemp including medicines, textiles, ropes, paper products, plastics, automotive factory material, and building materials. Two Hoosier mothers testified in support of the production of hemp for medical purposes. Both women have children with Dravet Syndrome, a rare form of epilepsy that begins in infancy. “The results are powerful, the stories are dramatic,” said Dr. Trent Jones a lobbyist for Parents for Cannabidol. “It is an immediate, dramatic medicine for children that have drug-resisted epilepsy.” CBD is a compound in cannabis that has medical effects without the psychoactive effects commonly associated with marijuana. Two other bills supported by the cannabis lobby, SB 314 (which would legalize small amounts of marijuana in addition to legalizing hemp production) and HB 1185 (offering a medical necessity defense to marijuana possession charges) were referred to committee in their respective chambers, but have failed to receive a hearing. Domestic violence snapshot In the most recent installment of a multi-year project to track domestic violence statistics in Central Indiana, researchers on Thursday reported a drop in the number of fatalities associated with domestic violence; 12 deaths were recorded in nine Central Indiana counties in 2013, down from 14 in 2012 and 23 in 2011. The number of Central Indiana’s domestic violence victims in need of housing who were denied shelter dipped to 4,438 in 2013 from 4,996 the previous year. The total number of Central Indiana individuals receiving residential domestic violence services from July 2012 through June 2013 was 5,069; nearly 7,900 people received non-residential support. From 2009 through 2011, courts issued between 6,500 and 7,100 protective orders in Central Indiana; researchers assume most to be related to domestic violence issues. To read the “State of Domestic Violence in Central Indiana” and learn how to get involved with the “Community-Wide Plan to End Domestic Violence 3.0,” visit dvnconnect.org. Transit bill moves forward The Senate Tax and Policy committee passed the mass transit bill, SB 176, with an amendment, which among other consequences, prohibits pursuit of light rail. The moved angered the committee’s Democrats, particularly because of provisions preventing organized labor from pursuing binding arbitration. — PAIGE CLARK OF THE STATEHOUSE FILE AND REBECCA TOWNSEND 6 NEWS // 01.29.14 - 02.05.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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Rep. Milo Smith, R-Columbus, chair of the House Elections Committee, (far right) said he loves his son, Chris, who lives in a same-sex relationship in California, but they did not discuss HJR 3 before Smith passed it through his committee.
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mong the thousands of Hoosiers to mourn the Indiana House Elections Committee's 9-3 vote advancing a resolution to codify homophobia into the state constitution, few if any were more aghast than a native son now living in California. Chris Smith watched the streaming proceedings live as his father, Rep. Milo Smith, R-Columbus — the Elections Committee chair — led the hearing in which all Republican members voted unanimously to do the bidding of House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, and Gov. Mike Pence, R-Columbus, by forcing the controversial issue through
the legislative process despite a separate committee's failure to collect enough support to advance the measure. "I'm pretty familiar with what's going on," Chris said in a telephone interview Thursday. "Over the weekend, a newspaper quoted my dad saying he believed marriage to be between a man and a woman." His dad had not told him about HJR 3 or about the hearing or about his vote, Chris said, but "making the decision to vote for HJR 3 after having listened to all those people talk about love and family … it boggles the mind." Rep. Smith tried to keep a good sense of humor during the hearing (except for tossing out a vet who gave him the thumbs down following the chairman's rebuke of the balcony packed with red-shirted HJR 3 protestors who were being too expressive with their disapproval for his standards). He bent the initial timeframe established
for the hearing — one hour for each side, pro and con — and tacked on time to allow an opportunity to speak for the many more people who came to speak against the measure than for it. One woman said that everyone has the experience of having a gay child or a friend with a gay child. She asked if they'd feel comfortable making those friends and relatives family feel unwelcome in Indiana. Rep. Smith looked stone-faced during that speech. His fellow GOP committee members mimicked that hardened façade, even after hours of tales of anguish and suffering and shame and economic consequence. Watching Smith listen to that question was particularly interesting for this reporter because word had arrived in my inbox earlier in the day that he had a gay son, Chris, who was living in California. "Wow," I thought. "I wonder what that
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feels like to him right now. Does he realize how many people he is deeply offending and wounding and sentencing to extended second-class citizenship? I wonder if his son feels unwelcome in Indiana …" Actually, Chris said he "felt very comfortable in Indianapolis being out." But, he added, he really is more of big city guy (as in bigger than Indy). "I wasn't happy in Indiana," he said. "I felt so constricted." After living happily in Chicago for several years, he followed his partner, Ronnie, when he transferred to California for work. "I personally have no interest in getting married," Chris said, noting he and his partner have a registered domestic partnership in case something happens to one of them because they own a condo together and it streamlines benefits and inheritance issues. After Rep. Smith finished the hearing, called the vote and concluded the hearing, we media rushed the legislators. Most of them went straight for Rep Casey Cox, the only GOP member who reserved the right to switch his vote on the House floor if the amendment's second sentence were not removed.
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I saw the chairman preparing to descend from his podium, so I stepped up and introduced myself. "How do you feel right now?" I asked. "I don't know," he said, his face somewhat gaunt, drawn with a worn and heavy brow. "It's been a long process — I'm a little tired. It should go to the voters, we've been debating it since 2002." I asked him what he thought of the onslaught of political advertising that would be unleashed if the legislature went on to pass HJR 3. "I hope they'll keep it as civil as they were today in this hearing," he said. I didn't confront him about how having a gay son affected his thinking throughout this process until later in the evening when the pack of reporters had dispersed. I found him chatting with some Republican staffers and asked him for a word. We stepped aside into a semi-private lobby; I then asked him. He confirmed his core belief that codifying a heterosexually exclusive definition of marriage into the constitution will protect what he sees as the proper configuration of a married partnership. As for the rest of it — the mandate that other configurations
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shall not be recognized — that's the part where he feels the voters should be able to cast the judgments. I asked him if he felt Chris left the state because of strong anti-gay streams in the atmosphere. He said he didn't think so, but that I'd have to ask Chris. Whenever he talks to Chris, the representative said, "I say 'I love you son.' And he says, 'I love you dad.'" Lifestyle and politics apparently don't come up. Though he and his dad weren't very close after his parents' divorce, Chris said, "we've really gotten close over the past few years. "In the back of my mind, I knew his beliefs. He recently suggested a family gathering to include me and my boyfriend. We never really talked about my life… to think he doesn't consider me as normal or equal." Overall, Chris said, "I'm really sad. I'm embarrassed. I'm really disgusted by the whole thing. I'm confused as to what I should do… "To hear all those stories of love and family – I couldn't understand how people can sit there saying your love and family don't matter [because] it's our opinion that matters.” n
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The Indiana Family Institute’s Curt Smith on Wednesday afternoon testified in favor of House Joint Resolution 3 and House Bill 1153. He said that, as someone committed to the welfare of children and traditional heterosexual marriages, he supported a constitutional amendment refusing to recognize other familial arrangements as deserving of the same rights. Funny … last time NUVO asked Smith to talk about family welfare he refused to say a word. Maybe because he didn’t feel comfortable with the question about what he was doing with the six-figure checks he was receiving from the state. Committee members neglected to ask Smith why his organization took $1 million in tax-
payer money in the form of a Medicaid waiver grant from the Indiana Department of Child Services, promising to conduct public outreach and education about healthy families but then failing to account to the media for how he spent the money — despite the fact that his grant agreement specified that the recipient communicate with the media about its activities. Even after NUVO’s cover story, which ran Feb. 23, 2012, no public official — neither the DCS nor the legislature — followed up with a public investigation or explanation. (The Society of Professional Journalists Indiana Pro Chapter did, however, award it the top investigative story in its circulation class that year.)
THE GALLERY: Red-shirted advocates with Freedom Information, who are campaigning against HJR 3, watch the Election Committee proceedings from the House Gallery. Staff Sgt. Scott Spychala, who would soon be ejected for breaking House rules by giving Committee Chair Milo Smith the thumbs down, is sitting in the balcony’s front row wearing the army hat. 8 COVER STORY // 01.29.14 - 02.05.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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Elections Chair Milo Smith, R-Columbus, remained, for the most part engaged with the witnesses at Wednesday’s hearing of the House Elections and Apportionments Committee. Republican committee members asked perhaps one question during the entire meeting (which lasted from 3:30 p.m. until past 8 p.m.). Unlike the three representatives that voted against the bill, none of the nine who voted “do pass” offered any defense of their positions, though Casey Cox, R-Fort Wayne, reserved the right to switch his position. Possibly, during HJR 3 hearings in the upper chamber, senators can explore how the “family values” lobby splintered long-term friendships in the legislature by celebrating in its newsletter after defeating a Senate anti-bullying bill that would have extended protections to gay victims. When HJR 3 hit the House Floor Monday evening, 52 representatives — 23 Republicans and 29 Democrats — voted to amend HJR 3 to strip the resolution’s second sentence: “A legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals shall not be valid or recognized.” Rep. Jerry Torr, R-Carmel, said after the vote: “With so much confusion and difference of opinion on what the second sentence means … it’s prudent to take it out.” The House sent the bill to the Senate Tuesday after a 57-40 third-reading vote.
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The Senate is now preparing for a crack at the biggest legislative nut of the season. As one Freedom Indiana lobbyist told NUVO photographer Mark A. Lee, “We still have to look out for snakes.” Senators could opt to kill the bill (unlikely) or pass the amended bill as it is, which would restart the amendment process, delaying the voter referendum until at least 2016 (to the next gubernatorial election, when overall turnout will be higher than in mid-term elections). Or senators could move to put the second sentence back in and, if Rep. Turner does not object, the final resolution would face just one more up-ordown vote in the House before proceeding to the voters this fall. Rep. Pat Bauer, D-South Bend, said he could imagine a scenario in which leadership would try to argue that, even with just the first sentence passing, the resolution still deserves a spot on November’s ballot. That sentence was in the version that passed in 2011 as well.
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The State Supreme Court has supported unprecedented moves by legislators before, he added, by allowing the end of a 150-year tradition when it permitted the legislature to break its quorum rules. Republicans also have a governor who doesn’t want this issue to muddy the waters when he is campaigning for reelection in 2016, Bauer said. HJR 3’s path is unusual on many fronts, Bauer continued, citing the “unprecedented [tactic] to move to it to a different committee” (aside from Ways and
Means, which at times conducts extra hearings to explore a bill’s fiscal impact) and the “strange strategy” of using a bill to explain the second sentence of an amendment. “A bill compared to an amendment holds no water,” he said. Others on the Democratic side called Monday’s vote “a temporary victory,” bemoaning the fact that legislators are even considering support of a move to insert the one-man, one-woman marriage definition in the Indiana Constitution.
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When Rep. Eric Turner, R-Cicero, the bill’s author, opened Wednesday’s testimony, he trotted out figures on the economic situation of states that have adopted constitutional amendments on gay marriage, gunning for a round of statistical razzle dazzle: • Eight of nine states with the top job growth all had amendments defining marriage. • The only states to outpace Indiana’s job growth all have constitutional amendments defining marriage as one man, one woman. • Per capita income four of the five fastest-growing states had constitutional amendments. • A new CNBC study found nine of the top 10 business-friendly states have marriage protection amendments in their constitutions. Turner did not disclose whether the states he mentioned had more inviting tax policies, warmer climates or the added scenic drama of oceans or mountains. In short, he proved that there was some correlation between states’ policies on marriage definitions and positive economic outlook, but not that a hetero-centric definition caused a better business environment. On the flipside, local business leaders from Cummins Inc., Lilly & Co., and Indiana University all testified about how policies widely perceived as homophobic are actually causing detrimental economic consequences for their businesses and the quality of the Indiana workforce. “Your vote today against HJR 3 can spare Indiana from costly, divisive and distracting debate,” Marya Rose, Cummins’ vice president and chief administrative officer, said. Minnesota had a referendum with “vicious” advertising, “$17 million that could have been
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A mistruth repeated often Turner continued with another dubious assertion: that HJR 3 “does not take away any employer’s rights to provide health benefits to their employees or whoever they want, (it) doesn’t take away the rights of the City of Indianapolis or any other local government to provide equal opportunities to whoever they want.” Jackie Simmons, Indiana University’s vice president and general counsel, said she spoke with legal counsel at the University of Kentucky who said that the work-around rule Kentucky universities had to devise to offer same-sex couples benefits (despite the state’s gay marriage ban) ends up costing taxpayers more. The rule casts a wider net, including all “sponsored adults;” anyone who can prove they’ve been living with an insured person for 12 months. By contrast, at I.U., a local employer of 40,400,
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IN THE HALL: Several hundred members of Freedom Indiana at the Statehouse on Monday were shocked and elated that the House passed an amendment removing the second line from HJR 3.
same-sex partners currently have to certify that they are in exclusive committed relationships, that they’d be married if possible, that they own or lease houses together or are significantly intertwined in some other businesses. “The language in the proposed amendment is flawed and creates ambiguities that none of us … should welcome,” Simmons said, adding that passing a constitutional amendment is not like passing a law — that mistakes can’t be fixed in clean-up bills by later legislatures. “If we are to amend our constitution, don’t we owe it to the voter to do it right?” she asked. Wisconsin has a constitutional amendment identical to HJR 3, plus the explanatory language held in HB 1153. A Wisconsin court is currently deciding whether language such as that included in HB 1153 would protect the rights of local businesses to provide benefits to same-sex couples. The amendment without additional language forced Kentucky to devise the “sponsored adult” work around because the university would otherwise be liable for recognizing same-sex relationships as marriage, an act forbidden in their constitutional amendment — as would Indiana’s, if the second sentence is added back to HJR 3. Proponents of HJR 3 continue to assert that Kentucky’s marriage amendment did not interfere with domestic partner benefits, refusing to acknowledge that it forced a costly workaround. Many states have grappled with court challenges when it comes to voter referendums, justice and the definition of marriage.
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Turner outlined some stats on the legal picture, underscoring one of the underlying fears driving proponents to push this legislation — the fear that “activist courts” will force people to accept relationships they personally feel are improper: • Twenty-nine states operate under constitutional amendments defining marriage; with the exception of Illinois, every state around Indiana does. (The last constitutional amendments passed were adopted in 2006.)
From a social studies standpoint, the pools of support and opposition make for an interesting case study, especially considering the weight alloted to each side on lawmakers’ scales of justice. The proponents can be broken down into a few categories: the professional “family values” lobby, including Curt Smith and his associates on the state and national levels (aka the people whose political ads will foment homophobia across the state for months ahead of the election); the academics who insist society would be better off if our policies fostered more nuclear, heterosexual families and the Christian contingent that argues the same point from a religious perspective; the woman who described herself as a former lesbian blessed to have escaped the lifestyle; and the guy who talked about the only fundamental American rights worth protecting were those recognized at the founding of the country as essential to “Anglo-American” freedom. Just over a dozen people signed up to testify in favor of the bill. Good government policy, many argued, should advocate for heterosexual marriage so that citizens will reproduce and work together to raise their children in twoparent households. The marriage license “legally attaches
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focused on critical issues of Minnesota,” she added. Both Cummins and Lilly testified to losing employees because of the state’s advancement of one-man-one woman policies. Steve Fry, Eli Lilly’s senior vice president of human resources and diversity, described the loss of a talented senior executive in Lilly’s innovation department. “We cannot afford to lose people like this,” he said. “Last year we had someone leave Indiana (for a place) that they deemed more welcoming – unfortunately, they’re now working for competitor out East. Trying to recruit talent … they don’t want their children to live through [the] public campaign that will certainly follow [into the election]. It matters little what voters do … the damage will be done by the time the vote comes around.” The measure will not be an economic benefit, another local business leader testified. “HJR 3 does not meet the standard of helping the state attract, recruit or train talented workers,” said John Thompson, chair of the Indy Chamber board of directors. “It does not enhance economic development.” In response to testimony that Nevada, Hawaii and Colorado — states with marriage ammendements — are forecasting job growth twice that of Indiana, Thompson said, “They passed their amendments in ‘06 and earlier [and], in every one of those three states, they found the language of amendment to be very problematic. In every case, they’ve rewritten legislation and laws to help clarify so that it would protect rights and economic benefits for the citizens in their states.”
are merely insisting upon equal protection under the law and separation of church and state. Ultimately, Turner said, Indiana has defined marriage as between a man and woman “for a long time and there are plenty of us that want to keep it that way.”
we cannot afford to lose people like this … It matters little what voters do … the damage will be done by the time the vote comes around.
— Steve Fry, Eli Lilly exec
• Four states, including Indiana, have statutes defining marriage as one man/ one woman. • Nineteen percent of the U.S. population has had courts redefine marriage to include same-sex couples. “Indiana is one of those states at risk because we only have a statute and not a constitutional amendment,” Turner said, despite the fact that the Marion County Superior Court in 2003 upheld Indiana law’s existing hetero-centric definition of marriage. • Thirty-five states have allowed voters to decide the issue and seven states have overturned their amendment defining marriage. Others say the so-called activist judges
husband and wife together and increases the chances [their children] will be raised with their mother and father,” said Kellie Fiedorek, litigation staff counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, a D.C. law firm that specializes in traveling the country to advocate for heterosexual framing of families — and against equal protections for all couples who consider themselves to be married. Ken Klukowski, a law professor at Liberty University, said society was engaged in a debate between the conjugal view of marriage that centers on the biological reproductive act exclusive S E E , H J R 3, O N P A G E 1 2
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Compassion for the cancer patient or the cop? Here in Indiana, thousands of Hoosier couples consider themselves to be married and are rearing families despite
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REASON TO FIGHT: Suley Hussain (left) and Tyler Neal hold hands as they listen to members of Freedom Indiana tell everyone what motivated them to fight against HJR 3. Opponents shared their stories of suicide, discrimination and bullying while the House GOP caucused prior to its vote.
what state lawmakers or homophobic voters say. Many of them traveled to the Statehouse to testify about how the state’s handling of gay marriage issues has harmed them and others they know. Evansville Police Sergeant Karen Vaughn-Kajmowicz testified that when a dying colleague of hers tried to pass her pension benefits on to her partner, she was not allowed to. Only by agitating for a rule change was she even allowed to withdraw the principle investment she’d paid in — denied the interest benefits extended to other officers. And, with respect to her own lesbian relationship, Vaughn-Kajmowicz discussed the heartache of having a tumor treated with the specter of an unfinished adoption process hanging, not being certain that, if she died, her partner would be able to rear their then 6-month-old son. She told lawmakers she feared how an onslaught of ugly advertising would affect her son at school. “No matter what happens with HJR 3, please don’t make my life worse,” she said. Hoosier Carol Trexler testified that four years ago, when she was diagnosed with incurable lung cancer, she and her partner, Donna, “recognized how hard it is to be a same-sex couple in Indiana.” Despite a pile of documents meant to formalize and explain their partnership, doctors refused to allow her partner to pick up Trexler’s medical records. Donna could not take medical leave to care for Trexler. “Each stumbling block caused additional stress in a stressful situation,” Trexler said. “Some people feel it’s OK to discrimi-
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nate just because they don’t understand or approve. As I look to the future, sadly, I think about end-of-life issues. I want to be sure that Donna is with me at end and has the same rights as surviving spouse without having her rights questioned or dismissed. I don’t want it to happen in Donna or anyone else in Indiana. We want [the] same protections as [our] married neighbors. “I drove here today from [the] hospital
Jesse Hawk, a young man reared on farm outside of Warsaw, told lawmakers he is “a Hoosier by birth and choice.” HJR 3, he said, “has me terrified to be a Hoosier.” Both he and his partner have significant medical issues and he worries how the state’s marriage laws will affect them as they go through treatment. “I’m a Hoosier by birth, but you have me questioning whether I can be a Hoosier by choice.” Many other young people from around the state registered their testimony — several of them Republicans. Justin Kingsolver, a University of Michigan Law School student, who was once the Indiana College Republicans president, said HJR 3 “is bad public policy – it replicates existing law and enshrines discrimination in our constitution.” Kingsolver added, “It is already hard enough to come out in Indiana. I know … as a closeted 17 year old, I was already being bullied … [HJR 3 is] a fight that will hurt the most vulnerable among us. “My fellow Republicans … I implore you to reconsider.” Another student who studied the history of Indiana’s constitutional amendments noted a shift in the amendments from structural changes to substantive
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to men and women, while the other view (which, he said started when divorce began to be more common in society) holds that “marriage laws should be about personal happiness, emotional gratification …” Local “family values” activists tried to flip the script on opponents. “Much has been said that qualifies as a scare tactic,” said Micah Clark, executive director at American Family Association of Indiana. He suggesting “nothing bad” will happen if voters pursue HJR 3. At a press conference on Monday morning, Clark again repeated this assertion and said he didn’t believe children were currently being hurt by the state’s limited definition of marriage (despite testimony to the contrary) and he didn’t believe the testimony of Cummins, Lilly and IU that Indiana’s pursuit of homophobic policy had already had economic impacts in terms of lost talent. “We’re not the ones making this controversial,” Clark said. Smith and Clark insisted issue advertising funded by their groups would not be harmful to children of same-sex couples. But of the two commercials posted by the “family values” lobby this season, both rely on fomenting fear that it is hetero-centric Christians’ liberties that are most threatened by the HJR 3 discussion — that Hoosiers voters are somehow being denied a basic, fundamental right. There’s no mention of the thousands of Hoosiers who are decrying the secondclass citizenship to which this state’s marriage policies subjects them. “This proposed constitutional amendment … is indeed important to every Hoosier, so important that every citizen should have the opportunity to vote for HJR 3,” Eric Miller, founder and Advance America, told the Elections Committee. “There’s no question if it passes without amendment, the people will be able to make an informed decision.” Advance America later tweaked that message on its homepage: “The 2014 General Assembly must pass the Marriage Protection Amendment HJR 3 — as is — so the citizens can vote on November 4, 2014 to stop homosexual marriages!” But that’s a fantasyland pursuit, many opponents said. Voters cannot stop homosexual marriage, they can only stop partners who see themselves as married from equal protection under the law (though it does keep the fear mongers employed in full-time lobbying jobs).
sickness and health, (entitled to) benefits and inherence rights. Quality education, meaningful work and world-class public transit … in these efforts, God will surely bless us. You are in our prayers.”
With so much confusion and difference of opinion on what the second sentence means … it’s prudent to take it out.
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where I received chemo this morning. It is that important to me. If you vote down this amendment, nothing will change: Marriage is still defined under state law. But if you move it forward, you’re telling people like me that they have no protection – you will deliberately see me as less than I am.” Trexler asked lawmakers to “think wisely and carefully about what you are legislating.” As she concluded her testimony, she quoted poet Robert Frost: “In building a fence, we do know what we are walling in. We don’t know what we are walling out.” The Episcopalian Diocese outlined its position through Bishop Cate Maples Waynick, who said: “Same-gender couples contribute to communities and we should grant them status to care for each other in
changes pertaining to policy. He called “troublesome” the trend toward using amendments to enact specific public policy. He suggested the older generation was attempting to foist its views onto his generation, insulating their policies from the legislative process. Lindsay Quandt was a House Republican intern, who worked for many people now holding the fate of HJR 3 in their hands. Elections Committee member Rep. Jeffrey Thompson, R-Lizton, was one of Quandt’s high school teachers. “I respect this place and the work; I’ve spent my entire life respecting this process over politics,” Quandt said. “But today feels a lot like politics.” Republicans believe in small government, she added, “and that includes determining who we have the right to marry.
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It’s not our place and it’s not our job.” She warned lawmakers that the technology of political polling “hasn’t quite caught up” with her generation. “You want to know the pulse of young people in the Republican Party in your districts?” she asked. “Here we are.” Risking expulsion for making gestures in the observers’ gallery, a sea of red shirts waved at the committee. Olivia Reece, “a 22 year-old-born Hoosier and proud Christian from Greentown” said religious definitions of marriage “should be happening in churches, not in a government buildings; whether you agree or not, follow up with your God.” And Amy Brown of Montgomery County, where “homophobia is as common as corn fields,” asked: “Are you going to be comfortable if your child doesn’t feel welcome or moves away because they are gay?” Another said: “This state is my home, I’d hate to have to leave … (it’s) where my family and friends are … the state that my family has called home for over 150 years may require me to leave just so I can call myself an equal.”
It all comes down to equality Richard Waples, a local attorney specializing in constitutional law advised: “Our public policy should be one of inclusion, not exclusion; one of acceptance in love, not rejection and exclusion. We don’t put fundamental rights up for popular vote. This body a number of times has rejected referendums…” If this amendment goes to the voters and Indiana is treated to an acrimonious debate that ends in its passage, lawmakers will be “hamstringing future General Assemblies from recognizing same-sex relationships,” Waples said. A Bosma constituent, Henry Fernandez, described himself as a “civically engaged resident” of the speaker’s district, who is raising twins with his same-sex partner. “When we moved into the neighborhood, divorce rates did not go up, neighbors did not move out, property values did not drop, juvenile delinquency did not rise,” Fernandez said. “Our family is not a legal, financial or personal threat to our neighborhood. “A family’s love should not be subjected to a legislative vote or a statewide referendum.” n
FINALLY: Freedom Indiana volunteer Justin Lewandowski hugs his friend Cameron Cooper after the vote to amend passed.
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HJR 3 NEWS Not really flip-flopping If you read the Star last week, you may have thought to yourself: Just what is the Indianapolis Consortium of Arts Administrators up to, and why can’t they make they make their minds up on HJR 3? According to articles published Jan. 21 and Jan. 22, the consortium first committed itself to opposing the constitutional amendment — “Clearly we’re going to oppose HJR 3,” Arts Council of Indianapolis head Dave Lawrence was reported as telling the Star — before changing course and issuing a statement that the consortium “leaves it up to each [member] organization to take its individual stance on political issues.” So I called up Don Steffy, the newly-appointed chair of the consortium, to see if he’d spill the beans on just who opposed opposing the amendment. Steffy’s answer: The Star was a little off. According to Steffy, the Consortium of Arts Administrators is a “peer and networking group” made up of 40-plus area arts groups that meets monthly in a “collaborative spirit of dialogue.” It meets “behind the wings” and doesn’t have “a unified voice, where we speak for each other’s organizations.” The consortium has never issued statements on any legislation, and its only public activity on record was a 2009 rally advocating for support of the arts in general. Don Steffy That said, the consortium did talk about a proposal to issue a statement opposing HJR 3 at its most recent meeting. However, even if Lawrence told the Star the consortium would “clearly” oppose HJ-3, he didn’t have the authority to say so; the Arts Council of Indianapolis isn’t an official member organization (though it has been invited to meetings on a permanent basis), and Lawrence isn’t part of the organization’s leadership. In short, according to Steffy, the consortium never committed itself to taking any position, either informally or via an official statement. And when member organizations discussed the proposal, it became clear that some members wouldn’t be able to make an immediate decision because they’re, for instance, responsible to boards or concerned with advocating for other legislation. Steffy contrasts the nimbleness of smaller member organizations with larger outfits with more substantial infrastructure that take more time to deliberate on public statements. Which brings things back to the consortium’s official statement, which leaves it up to each member organization to take an individual stance. Lawrence notes that just because an organization isn’t prepared to take a stand doesn’t mean that it won’t, particularly if HJR 3 beats the current odds and makes it to the ballot. But, he can certainly report that the Arts Council of Indianapolis remains actively opposed to HJR 3. Here’s what Lawrence said Tuesday: “We’re cautiously optimistic with yesterday’s results, and we applaud the courage of representatives on both sides of the aisle.” — SCOTT SHOGER
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BUCKING BRONCOS AT THE EITELJORG
B&W photos chronicle early years of the International Gay Rodeo Association
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rowing up as a kid in Seattle, I always had a fascination with cowboys and westerns. I went to my first gay rodeo and got hooked by the whole scene. The rodeo ignited that feeling — the environment, the camaraderie, the maleness of it.” That’s Blake Little, an established portrait photographer who’s worked with Tom Cruise, Samuel L. Jackson and Julianne Moore — and who began shooting the gay rodeo scene in 1988. The results — 41 black and white images of cowboys and cowgirls — are collected in Blake Little: Photographs of the Gay Rodeo, opening this weekend at the Eiteljorg. Little started out on the sidelines of International Gay Rodeo Association events, but was on a bull by his sixth rodeo, and came to be named Bull Riding Champion of the Year by the association in 1990. “I was one of them, so it became more accessible and more intimate,” says Little. “The gay rodeo pictures are of a community that tends to be in a more conservative environment because Western culture just tends to be more conservative. It’s a powerful thing for people in Western culture that are straight or have more conservative views to see these people as real, as essentially just like them.” Eiteljorg curator Johanna Blume was drawn to photos both for their beauty and for the way in which they tell a lesser-told story of the American West: “The composition and balance of light and dark are stunning. But also we have this beautiful work that represents a part of Western culture that is so rarely talked about. We can use these to talk about a diverse American West.” For Blake, the photos, taken from 1988 to 1992, tell a story of progress. “I’ve grown up through gay rights, through Ellen coming out, and I’ve seen marriage equality come to fruition,” says Little. “These photos add to a way of seeing gay, lesbian and transgender people as the same as anybody in Western culture. It’s going to bring, for the first time, a look at the gay rodeo, which is essentially just another rodeo.”
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Rick Simmons (above) photographed in San Diego in 1991, and Alberto Rulloda and Brian Cornell, photographed in Hayward, Calif. in 1989, are among the subjects in Blake Little: Photographs of the Gay Rodeo, on display at the Eiteljorg Museum begining Feb. 1.
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W H E N : F E B . 1- J U L Y 13 WHERE: EITELJORG MUSEUM J A N. 31: P R E V I E W P A R T Y F E A T. I N D I A N A P O L I S M E N’S C H O R U S A N D T O U R L E D B Y T H E A R T I S T (6 P.M., $30 P U B L I C, $20 M E M B E R) F E B. 1: O P E N I N G D A Y F E A T. I N D Y M E N’S CHORUS AND DISCUSSION PROGRAM W I T H L I T T L E, C U R A T O R S A N D G A Y R O D E O P A R T I C I P A N T S (F R O M 12:30 P.M., I N C L U D E D W I T H G E N E R A L A D M I S S I O N) INFO: EITELJORG.ORG
Blume notes intense action shots in the series that depict the rodeo in all its roughness; “You see people flying off of horses or struggling to hang on to a bull coming out of the shoot. Yes, this is a gay rodeo, but they are being thrown off and crashing to the ground at the same
speed and rate as anyone else.” Little’s show turns out to be a timely one for the Eiteljorg, located just across East Street from the Indiana Government Center and Statehouse. “You can’t deny the social context of the gay rodeo work,” says Little. “The Eiteljorg needs to be acknowledged for the fact that they have the strength and fortitude to put this exhibition on.” “The Eiteljorg has been committed to diversity for a very long time,” explains Blume. “We believe that cultural diversity enriches our lives. I hope that people are engaged by the exhibit and that the political climate that we live in right now means that people will think critically when they come into the exhibit and maybe step outside of their comfort zones. That’s when transformative learning can occur.” n
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Constance Macy returns to Kurt Vonnegut’s short stories, this time at the IRT
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NUVO: You were born and raised in central Indiana. Why did you decide to stick it out in Indy, and what do you find rewarding about an artistic career here? CONSTANCE MACY: For one thing, I wouldn’t be doing this interview with you in a market that has thousands of actors. But also, I’m a Creative Renewal Fellow; I’ve had that honor twice — so has my husband. [Since 1999, the Arts Council of Indianapolis has granted more than $2.2 million to help 330 artists and administrators “renew and refresh their creativity” as part of its Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship program.] Part of it, too, is we kind of got in on a wave here. We were part of a group of artists who really made some great
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra: Strauss’s Alpine Symphony You can’t fault Strauss for being indirect. How better to conjure the experience of climbing a giant mountain than via a piece that requires monumental effort to sit through, let alone perform? His 1915 tone poem Eine Alpensinfonie calls for 125 musicians, including an organist, a phalanx of percussionists and an off-stage brass band. And it takes about 50 minutes to play. It’s another mountain to be climbed by the ISO’s young ambitious music director, Krzysztof Urbanski. Also on the bill is Liszt’s creepy, virtuosic Tontentanz. Hilbert Circle Theatre, Jan. 31, 8 p.m. and Feb. 1, 5:30 p.m., $15-80, indianapolissymphony.org Q Artistry’s Emerging Playwrights Series Irvington theater outfit Q Artistry is opening the year by presenting, in repertory, three greatest hits from prior editions of its Emerging Playwrights Festival: Tiffany Bridges’ Without a Spot or Wrinkle, a one-act comedy about church life that was the audience favorite in 2012; Jordan Lyons’ Fishing with Seymour Drosty, a 2011 audience fave about bar life; and Maureen O’Leary’s God and the Machine, a 2011 Teen Playwrights Festival winner about the life of prison inmates in a totalitarian society. Q Artistry, Jan. 31-Feb. 15, times vary, $7-10, qartistry.org
Constance Macy plays a community theater actress in the IRT’s Who Am I This Time?
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years that drew an audience, and people were excited about it, we were kind of influential to up-and-coming people. Now there are several theater companies that are doing really innovative stuff. I am very proud of our city.
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NUVO: You’re no stranger to performing the work of Kurt Vonnegut, having produced three very successful incarnations of Welcome to the Monkey House with ShadowApe. What draws you to the author?
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strides in building the theater scene and bringing something innovative to it. It was almost defiant. It was like: ‘By God, we will grow art in this cultural desert.’ Looking back it wasn’t that much of a desert; there was more going on than at the time I would give the town credit for. NUVO: How do you feel about the transformations you’ve seen in the city since then? MACY: It’s exciting. I feel like because we were able to have a company for 12
MACY: At the time [that ShadowApe decided to adapt a Vonnegut piece], I had only read Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat’s Cradle. I started reading his short stories and a lot of interviews with Vonnegut. In the process, I became a huge fan. I love a starker view on things that can also be sentimental. It’s coincidental that I did that — and now I’m doing a Vonnegut piece again, pages from the same selection actually. But it’s cool because I’m coming into it with all this appreciation and love and knowledge of the work of Kurt Vonnegut. n
Art & Soul 2014 The ArtsGarden is once again home base for Art & Soul, a celebration of African-American arts and artists, now in its 18th year. The Jan. 31 kickoff, running noon-1:30 p.m., will feature music by Toy Factory and offer a chance to meet this year’s four featured visual artists: musicians E’JAAZ, Myah Evans and Kristina Sharpe, and visual artist Ash Robinson. Performances continue through the month of February, most starting at 12:15 p.m. Jan. 31-March 28, most events FREE, indyarts.org/art-soul GospelFest They don’t get much bigger in the gospel world than many-time Grammy winner Kirk Franklin and Yolanda Adams, called the top gospel artist of the ‘00s by Billboard. They’re the headliners for Butler’s 25th anniversary GospelFest, and are joined on the bill by some of the Midwest’s top collegiate and church choirs. Clowes Memorial Hall, Feb. 1, 7 p.m., $39 adult, $33 senior, $29 student, cloweshall.org
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BY JENNIFER WALKUP Luminis Books e Twisting through past and present is a chilling experience for two teens on a quest for truth. Walkup’s Second Verse edges between Agathe Christie and Tony Hillerman, with themes touching on alienation, rebirth, the occult and destiny, setting the scene with intensifying turns of strangeness and familiarity while leading us deeper into the evil that lurks among us. Sixteen-year-olds Lange and Vaughn are drawn to each other, and yet there’s something eerie about their relationship. There’s also something puzzling about their families: an absent father who mysteriously dies and a mother who moves with Lange into a 200-year-old house haunted by mass murders; adoptive parents who give Vaughn ample spending money and free reign to come and go. It’s almost Halloween and while the other students attending Preston Academy of Arts in Shady Springs, Penn., are engrossed in the century-long annual tradition of uncovering a fake murder, Lange and Vaughn are hunting down a real case that’s not quite shut to them despite being “solved” 80 years ago. Hang onto your seat as pages turn. Billed as a young adult novel by Carmel-based publishing house Luminis Books, Second Verse is grippingly fine for “senior citizen” me.
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e The Field is a compellingly honest slice of life with fully dimensional characters whose struggles and triumphs matter and touch you deeply. Richardson is a worthy heir to Madeleine L’Engle, whose 1962 fantasy fiction novel, A Wrinkle in Time, introduced serious scientific concepts in a book for young adults, and to boot placed a girl in the center of the story. While L’Engle unfolds concepts of space and time and thrusts her characters into an unknown fifth-dimension, Richardson’s characters physically stay put yet intellectually travel beyond ordinary consciousness to delve into concepts of dark energy, collective [un]consciousness and universal energy fields. Misfits who effectively hide their inner strangeness, Eric and Renee grow into an understanding of how being different is not an impediment to living well. The Field is an effective metaphor linking Eric’s place as a soccer team member and as a subject in physics research. — RITA KOHN
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Stephanie Holman develops story on comedian, clown and TV star Red Skelton
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tephanie Holman — Ellettsvillebased children’s librarian, professional storyteller and advocate for the “spoken artform” — was a bit flattered when Storytelling Arts and the Indiana Historical Society commissioned her to develop and perform a story/monologue on Red Skelton, the Hoosier-born comedian, clown, TV star … and painter, short story writer; the list goes on. And also a bit apprehensive. She says they picked her for the next installment of their Sharing Hoosier through Stories series because she “likes to play with voices” and isn’t “shy about silly expressions.” But “would I deign to be Red,” she asked herself. Would she deign to do some of his routines, perhaps unfamiliar to recent generations, but seared into the minds of TV, movie and radio consumers of a certain age? Well, no, and she decided to go another route informed, appropriately enough, by the concepts of storytelling and oral transmission so much at the core of Storytelling Arts and IHS’s work. “I told myself that the majority of the audience would be people who know and love Red already,” Holman says. “So I decided to show how his life in Indiana, his childhood, developed him into that comedian we all know and love.” Holman structured her story into three acts, each narrated by a different woman who played a key role in Skelton’s life. First up: his middle school friend Norma Grubb, who will gesture toward the scandal that surrounded Skelton’s family before his birth, and tell of the key role of mother and two grandmothers played in rearing him. The second act will belong to Velma, his teenage crush, who will pick up the story based on letters Skelton sent home from the road during his first foray into show business. His first wife, Edna Stillwell, will close out the story, taking things up to Skelton’s breakout moment, when his “Doughnut Dunkers” sketch, developed on nightclub and vaudeville stages, was filmed for a Hollywood revue.
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Holman plowed through biographies and archival materials in preparing the story, doing some research at the Indiana History Center. Not that it’s so easy to get at the truth of Stephanie Holman Skelton’s life. He maintained that his father — who died before his birth and was identified in an obituary as a grocer — was also a circus clown. The historical record seems not to support Skelton’s claim, but as Holman puts it, “what better way to connect with the father you never knew, especially if you’re encouraged left and right to act the clown.” “One of the reasons I love telling Red’s story is he was not just considered one of
the world’s greatest clowns, and one of the world’s greatest comedians of the last century, but he was also a storyteller,” Holman continues. “Both on stage and in person, he could not help but embellish.” Live storytelling, at least the way Holman does it, has more in common with improv comedy than a typical stageplay in this sense: While Holman is starting from a written story that’s 15 pages long, she’ll spend the remaining time before the show first memorizing that narrative, and then learning it well enough “so that I can see it like a movie and describe it to the audience, being sure to keep track and not miss any key part of the story.” It’s that process of translating from the “written word to the spoken art form” that’s part of the magic of live storytelling for Holman. The rest is up to the audience “to take in the story and make it live.” n
OPENING Invisible Woman t Ralph Fiennes directs and stars in this adaptation of Claire Tomalin’s 1990 book about the little-known supposed affair between forty-something literary giant Charles Dicken (Fiennes) and 18-year-old Ellen “Nelly” Ternan (Felicity Jones). Dickens meets Nelly during the staging of a play. At first he comes off as simply a benevolent middle-aged celebrity, but slowly a relationship builds. Dickens’ marriage has soured but divorce is simply not done, guaranteeing Nelly a life of secrets, frustration and shame. Fiennes’ direction is rich, though the hand-held camerawork is distracting at times. More importantly, the acting is top notch. And the film has lively moments that make the stuffiness of the era easier to take. — ED JOHNSON-OTT R, Opens Friday at Keystone Art That Awkward Moment Three best friends (Zac Efron, Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan) make a pact to stay single but then totally don’t feel like being single anymore after a while because maybe girls are people too. Here’s Time Out London: “The actors seem to have been involved in a hideous industrial accident that’s left them with the superpower of repelling all comic timing.”
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Raising Arizona The Coen bros’ second feature finds Nicolas Cage in top form, kidnapping one of a batch of quintuplets alongside Holly Hunter. In 35mm as part of the IMA’s Winter Nights series. Jan. 31, 7 p.m., $9 public, $5 member, imamuseum.org
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The 12 O’Clock Boys, a group of Baltimore dirt bikers, are the subject of a documentary opening Friday at the Indiana State Museum IMAX.
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R, Opens Thursday in wide release Labor Day Jason Reitman (Juno, Up in the Air, Thank You for Smoking) opts out of any sort of comedic business in a drama about an ex-convict (Josh Brolin) who invades the lives of a single mother (Kate Winslet) and her teenage son (Gattlin Griffith) over the course of Labor Day weekend. Winslet was nominated for a Golden Globe for her work.
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he dirt bike/four-wheeler documentary 12 O’Clock Boys follows Pug, a cute kid with braided hair and bright eyes. Pug has been crazy about animals for a long time, and his mother assumes he will someday become a veterinarian. But the little guy has become enamored with the groups of dirt bikers and four-wheelers that roar through the streets of Baltimore. The 13-year-old lives for the day when he can join the 12 O’Clock Boys, the most well-known group of Baltimore riders. They are called 12 O’Clock Boys because when they pop an extreme wheelie, they end up vertical, like hands on a clock facing noon. They upset many of their fellow citizens, tearing illegally – and loudly – up and down the city streets. There have been numerous injuries and deaths due to stunts gone wrong and distracted drivers. To prevent other drivers and innocent bystanders from getting hurt, the police policy is to not chase the riders. Instead, they try to break up gatherings with siren bursts, while police helicopters film the riders from above. The dirt bikers and four-wheelers are beloved by some. Their appearances on city streets bring noise, color and excite-
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ment to hum-drum neighborhood life. Their stunts are impressive. They’re cool and their rebellious style is appealing. Hell, the 12 O’Clock Boys like to drive right in front of the main police station, messing with the minds of the officers who are forbidden to chase them. One of the riders says that groups like his are good alternatives for young people to the lives of crime and/or drug use that snatch many poor kids. Director Lotfy Nathan offers a variety of opinions from talking heads, but mostly explores the scene by following young Pug over a three-year period. We meet him as an enthusiastic, selfassured kid living in a poor neighborhood with his siblings and his mother Coco, a former exotic dancer. Pug’s dad is behind bars and his more down-toearth older brother Tibba passes away from an asthma attack. The absence of positive male figures may play a part in Pug’s attraction to the 12 O’Clock Boys.
Nathan doesn’t spell that out. There are no scenes of Pug bonding with any particular member of the group. They speak kindly of him, but the sense you get is that they’re lost boys, too; boasting about the growth of the group, savoring their positions as local legends, enjoying the rides and the attention that comes with them. What happens later, when the adrenaline rushes fade and the rebelliousness becomes routine? No one talks about that. Instead we watch Pug get older. His presentation style becomes more abrasive. His mother learns he is skipping school a lot. During a gathering of riders on a sunny day, we watch Pug let a slightly older kid ride his dirt bike, only to have the teen steal it – despite that fact that the whole incident was filmed (oddly, Nathan blurs the face of the thief). Lotfy Nathan’s hand-held camerawork, combined with a snappy hip-hop soundtrack, gives the documentary a sense of immediacy. His super slow-mo shots of the dirt bikes and four-wheelers are impressive. I couldn’t stop thinking about Pug, though. Will the flash of fame from the documentary make him even more determined to shuck everything in favor of being a local celebrity in the 12 O’Clock Boys? What’s going to happen to the kid? n
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Brewers of Indiana Winterfest rolls out Feb. 1 at Indiana State Fairgrounds with “roughly 80 brewers’ booths, around 20 of those being out of state breweries and including several new breweries,” according to Rob Caputo, 2014 Winterfest coordinator and director of Flat 12 Bierwerks brewery operations. Caputo claims the new location will enhance visitors’ experiences. The event’s footprint has doubled in size this year, allowing for a large coat check area and adequate portable rest rooms.“We are hoping to minimize the crowding of crisscrossing lines from the past couple of years,” Caputo says. Also new are two different ReplicAles. Rob Caputo Caputo says one is a version of last year’s Old Ale that nine breweries have aged in Buffalo Trace bourbon barrels. The other is an American Stout recipe created by Chip Lewis of Iechyd Da Brewing Company in Elkhart. Nine breweries applied their own touch to the basic recipe, so you’re expected to taste and decide which best suits your palate. “There will be educational signage at both the cask and ReplicAle areas so that attendees can learn more about both of these programs,” Caputo says. Returning favorites include the cask area in the outside beer garden and the World Class Beverage Malt Shoppe offering a wide range of maltforward beers. Generally expect a lot of winter seasonals in the mix of some 200 choices. According to word of mouth, the new wave concept of craft seasonals started in 1988 when Boston-based Harpoon Brewery brought out “Winter Warmer.” Their consumer success tempted other breweries to introduce versions of big, warming brews including holiday specialties with tastes of nutmeg, cinnamon and variety of fruits, followed soon thereafter bold, malty coffee/chocolate and hintsof-vanilla beers as standard winter fare. Proceeds from Winterfest will go to Joy’s House Adult Day Service. Stop by their booth to learn about their services and volunteer opportunities. Big Red is the new title sponsor along with a roster of returning co-sponsors.
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s much as we might love pork in these parts, Indianapolis has never enjoyed much of a barbecue culture; there are no Indy-style ribs or local sauces upon which to hang an identity, no heated debates as to whose secret rub is the best. Barbecue in these parts is a far less jingoistic affair than in, say, Kansas City or St. Louis, and it’s a lot harder to find the good stuff than in many other cities. Here it’s all off to the side somewhere, in strip malls or in tucked-away places that you might otherwise miss unless you either live there or else are on a mission. Barbecue and Bourbon, Indy’s latest entry in the field, occupies a storefront on Speedway’s Main Street, just a stone’s throw from the race track. It’s not an obvious address for such a venture, but the seasonal business could be off the charts even if the word doesn’t get out. For a few weeks of the year, this is a prime location. Owners David Huff and Marcia Sommers have done a great job of preserving this old building’s lived-in, semirustic atmosphere, making good use of rough-cut wood and corrugated metal to create a genuinely down-home feel. It’s simple and authentic: a million miles away from the horrors of shabby chic, and perfectly suited to its purpose. The food, likewise, is unpretentious and expertly prepared. Meats are cooked on a large outdoor smoker, the kind which doesn’t use electronic heat sensors and convection fans. This is the sort of cooking which requires a lot of patience and attention to detail, and it shows.
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Owners David Huff and Marcia Sommers have done a great job of preserving this old building’s lived-in, semi-rustic atmosphere.
are pretty well perfect. Off the bone meats are available by the pound or in sandwiches; the latter include chips and a side of vinegary, jalapeno-infused onion slices which nicely offset the savory and spicy elements of the meat. Particularly impressive is the brisket sandwich ($6.99), a thickly-sliced, generous serving which manages to be tender without falling apart, subtly smoky but not overwhelming. Seasoning on this dish, as well as on the excellent pulled pork, is perfectly judged. All too often at more commercial barbecue restaurants I find myself reaching for the water glass with just about every bite, and am left with the impression that salt is the main weapon in the cook’s arsenal. Not so here, where flavors speak for themselves with minimal enhancement. Two house-made sauces, one hot, one sweetish, provide more than adequate embellishment. Of the side dishes, the most interesting is the fried cabbage, which is cooked in, naturally, bacon grease with extra bacon for good measure. Appetizers are mostly fried, but don’t come up to the lofty standards set by the barbecue. And, as the name suggests, there is bourbon. Lots of bourbon. n
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e Two years after the release of their debut effort, Savages, Indy-based Bonesetters are back with their second full-length album, Figure it Out. They’ve added a new bassist and drummer; only lead singer-songwriter Dan Snodgrass and lead guitarist Sam Shafer remain from the original lineup. They’ve also dropped the word “The” from their name, a change which may matter and may not. But, this is a different band than “The Bonesetters” who came here two years ago from Muncie, and Figure it Out demonstrates that this band is worth watching closely. Savages established Bonesetters as a richly instrumented alt-folk act with a serious songwriting talent in Snodgrass. With Figure it Out, the complex songwriting is still there but the album moves away from that sort of rockorchestra métier; the tracks feel more like individual songs rather than suites of some larger musical statement. Bonesetters still seem to be exorcising some serious demons — lost loves, youthful indiscretions, sins committed by former selves — and looking back into the past for redemption and answers. Lyrically, there’s a lot to chew on, as always. Religious symbolism is rife — devils, saviors and saints make appearances — even in song titles (see: “Day of the Dead” and “Saint Led Astray”). Certain songs take on an element of prayer; of getting things off one’s chest in order to ask forgiveness, as in “Greed”: “We bought lightning / We sold it cheap / We owe our souls to the devil / For our greed.” In terms of sound, it’s hard to draw a specific bead on Figure it Out, as Bonesetters resist easy categorization. Drew Mallot, on bass, and Cody Davis, on drums, seem to have continued and improved upon the band’s penchant for hard-driving beats, and horns and strings on songs like “Golden Youth” and “Saint Led Astray” lend a sort of epicness. Opening track “House Fires” contains a distinctly math-y guitar riff, but that’s about as math-y as this album gets. “Day of the Dead” has early ‘60s pop undertones. “Sundowners” is back to pure ‘90s rock – complete with mid-song breakdown. The album reaches what I consider its high point on “Saint Led Astray.”
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laying their biggest show yet was enough to make the members of rock band Standout Story physically ill. It’s just over a week after they’ve opened for Thirty Seconds to Mars and Blue October in a sold-out Egyptian Room, and Standout Story’s guitarist, Josh Hurt, and drummer Chase Allen are still shaking off illness while shooting pool at the Lockerbie Pub. Bassist Ryan Parks, Hurt’s cousin, and vocalist Joe Miller are still too sick to join them. The local quartet earned the honors of opening the show after winning Indy’s NextUp contest, hosted by radio station X103. There were 10 performers chosen for the two-round competition, with firstround winners selected via an online vote. For the final showdown, Second Story got to play in one of their favorite venues. “We were fortunate enough to make it past that first round and play at The Vogue,” says Hurt, 22, a graduate of Decatur High School. “That was our third time playing there and we love that place. That was already a win for us.” Standout Story won the overall vote, earning the opening slot for Thirty Seconds to Mars. Hurt called it an “amazing experience.” As only his second concert playing with Standout Story, it was even more so for Allen. “In front of 2,000-plus people, I felt out of my league from the start,” the 22-year-old Avon High School graduate says. “But we rocked it.” So much so, that they’re still recovering. Aside from the expended adrenaline, they also had to move their own gear on a cold night, something Hurt was not dressed for. “I definitely paid for it,” he says. Still, they got to meet Thirty Seconds frontman Jared Leto, albeit briefly. Since Leto’s a well-known actor as well, there were many others backstage who wanted his attention. Instead Standout Story spent more time with Blue October singer/guitarist Justin Furstenfeld. “He gave us a lot of good advice and was really supportive of us,” says Hurt. “He said local bands don’t usually have
the crowd ready to go like we did. We got them fired up for them.” It’s a pretty good addition to the resume of an act that’s only entering its third year in existence. While each member has played music individually for years, the lineup coalesced through the area scene. Hurt and Parks met Miller through mutual friends. After their first drummer had to quit because of time constraints, they found Allen through shared contacts. It helped that Allen is an alum of the drumline from the nationally competing Marching Black & Gold of Avon High School. “We clicked right off the bat,” says Hurt. “We were talking about being a band the first day.” So far, Standout Story has issued two five-song EPs. The second, Let Me Go, debuted this fall. Their foundation is Warped Tour-ready, including buoyant pop-rock and punk, and even semiacoustic balladry. Both releases were recorded locally at Static Shack Studios. “On this new EP we wanted to show more of a rock side,” Hurt says. “It’s a general term and we have a lot of different styles. This time we have a few songs that show a more edgy side.”
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Playing almost all original music tends to limit how often and where Standout Story can play at home. That has disenfranchised many a local talent in the past, but hasn’t deterred this band so far. Hurt has a positive outlook of the area music scene. “From when we started, I’ve seen it grow big time,” he says. “It’s definitely getting better. And our fan base is amazing. They love us and we love them. I think that’s why we keep getting such good turnouts at our shows. We respect them. Without them we’re nothing.” Eventually Standout Story want to play on stages outside Central Indiana. Bloomington’s Bluebird has been the farthest away so far. Despite the current dominance of electronic, pop and rap, Hurt believes there are ears that still desire the aural equivalent of blood, sweat and beer. “I don’t want to say it’s dead,” he says of his preferred musical style. “There’s still a market out there, but it’s not near the biggest. There are still people who like to rock. We look for those people.” n Listen to Standout Story on standoutstory.net
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outheastern is the success story that almost wasn’t. It’s the fourth in a line of solo records from singer-songwriter Jason Isbell — the previous three mostly unremarkable, with a sparkle here and there of something great. That was before the former Drive-By Truckers’ guitarist got himself in rehab and then got himself straight. The songs still poured out of him, just without that thick layer of whiskey this time. The result, Southeastern, is a beaut of a record, dealing in redemption and intimacy and loss and newfound love. That love part comes from Isbell’s new wife, fellow songwriter and fiddler Amanda Shires, who walked Isbell into rehab and then married him when he walked out. That’s her violin on Southeastern’s standout track (one of many) “Traveling Alone,” sweetly riding along with Isbell’s voice. That — and the story behind it — is just one bit of what makes his new album so affecting. Isbell will play at the Vogue on Tuesday. NUVO: Some of these songs, you’re speaking from some universal human experiences – getting sober, dying of cancer, sexual abuse. What characters from your own life are you drawing from for these songs? ISBELL: It’s usually combining a few people together to get the stories. There’s something about songwriting that I like a lot. You don’t have to differentiate between what’s true and what’s fiction. If you’re writing a book, they put them on different shelves. If you’re making movies, they call them documentaries or not, but with songs, you can pretty much get away with anything in that world. There’s a lot of it that comes from personal experience, because I think it’s harder — for me any way — to notice the right details unless I’m talking about something I’ve had experience with. But the reason these things are universal is because, by definition, is because everybody’s dealt with them. I don’t know anybody who hasn’t been affected by cancer, or too many people honestly, who haven’t been affected by sexual abuse in one way or another.
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to record the chorus. But the rest of that song developed after I got back home and was able to reflect a little bit.
NUVO: That brings to mind the difference between a casual listener of this record and a listener who’s more informed by your own biography and life. A casual listener wouldn’t know, for example, that in “Traveling Alone,” the violin is played by your wife, and it’s a duet between the two of you. That really appeals to me, that second meaning can be unlocked for the listener. I’ve seen it referred to as a public proposal. ISBELL: I did write that song in that way. We’d been to a wedding of a friend of mine who used to work for the band, and he wrote this song for his wife. He’s not a songwriter by trade, you know, but he wrote a song for his wife and played it for her at her wedding. I was inspired by that, to write a song specifically to and for one person, which is not something that I’m used to doing. It was difficult. She and I were doing this thing where we would separate for a few hours and go to opposite ends of our house. She would write a song and I would write a song. Then, we’d come together and sing it for each other at the end of the day. “Traveling Alone” and “Cover Me Up” started from that. “Traveling Alone” started when I was out on the road, just in an airport singing into my cell phone, trying
NUVO: I’ve had musician friends tell me they need to get sober, but they’re afraid of it — for fear of how their writing and performing and musical habits will change. What’s been the most surprising thing about writing songs sober? ISBELL: Well, you know, that’s an excuse. When anybody tells you that, that’s an excuse to keep drinking or doing whatever they’re doing. Just like writer’s block. All that stuff is bullshit. It’s all an excuse to not do the work that needs to be done. Before I went into the process of sobering up, I thought that way too. I was a little bit delusional there, because the fact of the matter is, you didn’t learn how to play music in the first place when you were drunk. Most people didn’t. When I was seven or eight or nine years old, playing the guitar, and then 12 or 13 trying to write songs, I wasn’t drunk. I spent more time on it then, when I was that age. I lived and breathed music and records and instruments and songs. And I’ve gotten back into that since I’ve had the time in the day to work on those things. I don’t wake up needing two or three hours to recover from the night before; and when the sun goes down, I don’t immediately think I need to be out somewhere raising hell. It’s given me a whole lot more time and a lot more focus to actually do what I’m supposed to be doing.
NUVO: Let’s talk for a moment about song ordering. The album ends on this uplifting note with “Relatively Easy“ after the gut punch of the several songs before. I’m sure that was deliberate, but can you talk me through the deciding process of how to order these songs? ISBELL: That can be a complicated process, because I go with themes and subject matter, but I also go with keys. I’m not going to get too geeky up in here, but I try to put a little bit of musical theory into that. What key a song is in, what the last chord you hear is, then the first chord of the next song. I like those to be thirds of fifths, sometimes, or even relative minors, depending on what direction I want the record to move in. But, I did want to end this record on a happy note, because I know there’s a lot of darkness there. NUVO: I know you did a lot of live vocal recording, and I feel like I can hear that particularly on the chorus of “Yvette.” Would you do it on another record? ISBELL: It’s a hard thing to make yourself do, because you’re not always going to sing on key or on pitch. Well, not me. I’m sure there are a lot of singers who could nail it every time. Sometimes people don’t necessarily need to hear things that are on key; they need to hear things that are a little bit more visceral and emotional. That’s something that Dave Cobb when he was producing he coached me to do that and to be okay with some of those first-take vocals. It’s a lot like just letting someone take a picture of you and post it on the Internet without looking at it yourself first. But I think it’s what was needed for this particular project, because the record is very personal and emotional, for lack of a better term. n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 01.29.14 - 02.05.14 // MUSIC 23
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vented him from performing in New York. For the next few years Johnson withdrew from the scene. During this time Johnson focused on staying clean and sharpening his composition skills. The hard work paid off, when Johnson returned to music full-time he entered the most fruitful period of his career. In addition to recording a slew of classic LPs, Johnson also emerged as a major voice in the Third Stream movement which sought to merge elements of classical music composition with jazz. Johnson earned praise for ambitious orchestral pieces like Sketch for Trombone and Orchestra and Perceptions, a tone poem composed for Dizzy Gillespie. At the urging of Quincy Jones, But his sights were set on the Johnson relocated to Hollywood burgeoning new bebop movement to venture into scoring films. Johnson contributed arrangements to Isaac Hayes’ Shaft while stacking up an impressive instructors, recalled the city officials list of projects himself. His most sucwould send, “brand new instruments to cessful scoring project was a collabothe other schools and send us the leftration with Bobby Womack on a film overs.” (The Musical World of J.J. Johnson, called Across 110th Street. But Johnson Joshua Berrett, Louis G. Bourgois III) quickly became frustrated being limited After graduating, Johnson joined up to working in blaxploitation cinema. with a regional jazz band. By 21, Johnson “You’re in a very racist element there. had earned spots with the swing bands There are no black film composers doing of Benny Carter and Count Basie. But the likes of Star Wars,” Johnson later said his sights were set on the burgeoning of his experience in Hollywood. new bebop movement in New York and, Johnson made a decision to head back to with the help of Dizzy Gillespie in 1946, his Indianapolis, where he returned to the Johnson made his way to 52nd Street. jazz scene and spent the remainder of his Johnson spent the remainder of the career working in a classic post-bop style. ‘40s gigging and recording with the After losing many close family members cream of the bebop movement, includand receiving a cancer diagnosis, Johnson ing Charlie Parker. Johnson also particichose to end his suffering with a shotgun pated in the recording with Mile Davis’ blast to the head on Feb. 4, 2001. legendary Birth of Cool sessions. This week, we remember J.J., anothBy the late ‘40s Johnson had established er massively successful member of himself as the premier trombone voice in Indianapolis’ rich jazz community. n modern jazz. However a battle with addiction would provide the biggest setback of >> Kyle Long creates a custom his career. Johnson’s struggles with heroin podcast for each column. led to a misdemeanor conviction resulting Hear this week’s at NUVO.net in the loss of his cabaret license, which pre-
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SONGSTRESS Neko Case Solo artist and New Pornographer Neko Case told us in our last interview with her, “I never really knew if I could [sing] or not,” she says. “I just knew I wanted to really badly. It was more about desire than self-confidence.” We think everybody’s settled on the “can sing” side of things, as the guitarist and singer, currently touring The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, continues to rack up awards (most recently a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Music Album). She’ll perform with Thao and The Get Down Stay Down Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave. 8 p.m., $26 in advance, $28 at door, 21+ ROCK Savoy This Brooklyn-based trio brings out both the average concertgoer and typical club-banger with producing high-energy live music that blends synths and esoteric sounds. A diverse track list of original mixes and well-known remixes will keep fans on their toes,
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Drum — jam-packed with some of the radio-ready pop tracks she mentions below — during a party at Casler’s. DJ Lockstar will join, along with a variety of other musicians. And now on to London’s favorites: 1. Michael Jackson, Thriller “Billie Jean,” “P.Y.T,” “Thriller,” “Beat It,” … I really could stop right there and this album would make my list but I haven’t even mentioned my personal favorite “Human Nature.” To say I LOVE this album is just such an understatement. 2. Mariah Carey, Daydream This album produced “Fantasy,” “Always Be My Baby” and “One Sweet Day” which are still three of my guilty pleasure jams. Those songs come on and all cool points go straight out the window. I’m the person sitting in the car next to you at the stop light rocking out. No shame in my game. That girl can sing, and that girl can make a killer song! 3. Adele, 21 What a freaking voice! She kind of blows my mind. This album is full of great songs and great performances. I was a fan with her 19 album and the single “Chasing Pavements” but I became an addict when she released this record. Instantly became a favorite.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who won a Nobel Prize in Economics, says that consulting experts may be useless. In his study of Wall Street traders, he found their advice was no better than information obtained by a chimpanzee flipping a coin. Meanwhile, psychologist Philip Tetlock did a 20-year study with similar results. He found that predictions made by political and financial professionals are inferior to wild guesses. So does this mean you should never trust any experts? No. But it’s important to approach them with extra skepticism right now. The time has come for you to upgrade your trust in your own intuition. Taurus
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I’m a big fan of logic and reason, and I urge you to be, too. Using your rational mind to understand your experience is a very good thing. The less stock you put in superstitious head trips and fear-based beliefs, the smarter you will be. Having said that, I recommend that you also make playful use of your creative imagination. Relish the comically magical elements of your mysterious fate. Pay attention to your dreams, and indulge in the pleasure of wild fantasies, and see yourself as a mythic hero in life’s divine drama. Moral of the story: Both the rational and the fantastical approaches are essential to your health. (P.S. But the fantastical needs extra exercise in the coming weeks.) Gemini
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Cosmopolitan magazine is famous for offering tips on how to spice up one’s sex life. Here’s an example: “Take a few of your favorite erotically appealing flavor combinations, like peanut butter and honey or whipped cream and chocolate sauce, and mix up yummy treats all over your lover’s body.” That sounds crazy to me, and not in a good way. In any case, I recommend that you don’t follow advice like that, especially in the coming days. It’s true that on some occasions, silliness and messiness have a role to play in building intimacy. But they aren’t advisable right now. For best results, be smooth and polished and dashing and deft. Togetherness will thrive on elegant experiments and graceful risks. Leo
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Kenneth Rexroth wrote a
poem called “A Sword in a Cloud of Light.” I want to borrow that image. According to my astrological analysis and poetic intuition, you will generate the exact power you need in the coming weeks by imprinting your imagination with a vision of a sword in a cloud of light. I don’t want to get too intellectual about the reasons why, but I will say this: The cloud of light represents your noble purpose or your sacred aspiration. The sword is a metaphor to symbolize the new ferocity you will invoke as you implement the next step of your noble purpose or sacred aspiration. Libra
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species known as the Clark’s Nutcracker prepares for its winter food needs by burying 30,000 pine nuts in 5,000 places over a 15-square-mile area. The amazing thing is that it remembers where almost all of them are. Your memory isn’t as prodigious as that, but it’s far better than you realize. And I hope you will use it to the hilt in the coming days. Your upcoming decisions will be highly effective if you draw on the wisdom gained from past events — especially those events that foreshadowed the transition you will soon be going through. Scorpio
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Can you imagine what it would be like to live without any hiding and pretending? How would you feel if you could relax into total honesty? What if you were free to say exactly what you mean, unburdened by the fear that telling the truth might lead to awkward complications? Such a pure and exalted condition is impossible for anyone to accomplish, of course. But you have a shot at accomplishing the next best thing in the coming week. For best results, don’t try to be perfectly candid and utterly uninhibited. Aim for 75 percent. Sagittarius
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s a favorable time to gather up resources and amass bounty and solicit help and collect lots of inside information. I won’t call you greedy if you focus on getting exactly what you need in order to feel comfortable and strong. In fact, I think it’s fine if you store up far more than what you can immediately use — because right now is also a favorable time to prepare for future adventures when you will want to call on extraordinary levels of resources, bounty, help, and inside information. Capricorn
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Extravagant wigs became fashionable for a while in 18th-century England. They could soar as high as four feet above a woman’s head. Collections of fruit might be arrayed in the mass of hair, along with small replicas of gardens, taxidermically stuffed birds, and model ships. I would love to see you wear something like that in the coming week. But if this seems too extreme, here’s a second-best option: Make your face and head and hair as sexy as possible. Use your alluring gaze and confident bearing to attract more of the attention and resources you need. You have a poetic license to be shinier and more charismatic than usual. Aquarius
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): One of your anti-role models in the coming weeks is the character that Piscean diva Rihanna portrays when she sings in Eminem’s tune “Love the Way You Lie.” Study the following lyrics, mouthed by Rihanna, and make sure that in every way you can imagine, on psychological, spiritual, and interpersonal levels, you embody the exact opposite of the attitude they express: “You’re just gonna stand there and watch me burn / But that’s all right because I like the way it hurts / You’re just gonna stand there and hear me cry / But that’s all right, because I love the way you lie.” To reiterate, Pisces, avoid all situations that would tempt you to feel and act like that. Pisces
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