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states haven’t hurt their bottom lines, ere we go… so don’t worry about it). The people of Indiana will almost In the end, what’s clear is that the certainly be given the chance to calculus driving HJR 3 is really politivote on whether or not to make the state’s constitution a sign that tells some cal. The amendment was first hatched prior to the 2004 elections, when of us to get lost. Republican uber-strategist Karl Rove That’s what’s going down with HJR made demonizing gays a rallying point 3, the proposal that would amend for the base of his party. It worked — Indiana’s constitution to make marriage and here we are. solely between a man and a woman. Which brings us to a looming refThat proposal has recently been erendum, which could happen this amended in the state’s House of Representatives to allow for civil unions, November (if the ban on civil unions is reinstated) or in 2016 (if it isn’t). but that just makes this exercise in disAt the beginning of this session it crimination more transparent. seemed there were some who hoped HJR 3 only exists in order to codify the belief among some — perhaps many — Hoosiers that homosexuThis notion, that some als are citizens of anothof us are more equal than others, er, second, class. This notion, that flies in the face of America’s some of us are more equal than others flies founding document, in the face of America’s founding docuthe Declaration of Independence. ment, the Declaration of Independence. Remember that? Here’s a pertinent line our state legislators would take the high road and save the state from (you can practically hum it): itself, killing HJR 3 before it went to “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that the public ballot box. No such luck. Indiana will not be spared a date they are endowed by their Creator with with its destiny. There will be a vote, certain unalienable Rights, that among and when it comes it will say a great these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of deal about whether this state is Happiness.” capable of acknowledging its increasUnless, that is, you live in Indiana. ingly urban, culturally complex and And are gay. ever-more worldly self, or whether it In that case, your pursuit of is bound to remain anchored to that Happiness could be constitutionally part of the population that sees the circumscribed to exclude the possibility future as our biggest threat. of your ever being able to stand before I have no crystal ball. I don’t know your community and vow to love, honor how this vote will go; I doubt anyand cherish someone you love. body does. But there can be little There’s been a lot of dizzy speechifydoubt that the battle to come will be ing going on around the Statehouse in bitter, strident and often toxic. We the last week in an effort to justify this may be about to learn more about bald-faced bigotry. It’s ranged from the where we live than most of us ever biblical (it’s what God wants) to busibargained for. n ness practice (similar bans in other
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cheeseburgers but outlawing Skittles. do not wish to test Indiana House Conference committee action may be Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, needed for Pop Tarts. Surely there’s a for drug abuse. candy called Slippery Slope. I do not care what State Rep. Jud It’s all weak stuff, mostly showboatMcMillin, R-Brookville, eats on his ing; but it’s a horrendous waste of my lunch breaks. tax dollars, a court smackdown waiting True, these men are answerable to to happen, and worst of all an ugly piece me, inasmuch as I’m paying to supof demagoguery. port their lifestyles and they’ve taken Any defensibility of this gaseous nana pledge to behave as I undoubtedly ny-ism lies in the popular image of the would in their place. poor as morally lax, childishly self-gratBut I don’t own them, or any of the ifying, and just generally undeserving of rest of their colleagues in the Indiana help from honest working people. They General Assembly, and I don’t presume them guilty. I’m not the mother over their wellbeing; nor am I Big Brother over Dignity is everyone’s birthright. their private lives. If I’ve no evidence of substance abuse or other live in luxury, and they cheat without secret sin that is affecting their job pershame. Politicians of a rightward bent, formance, I’m not about to waste time who dominate Indiana state government, and money randomly interrogating and can’t resist pandering to this mindset. investigating them. Studies and experience show, first of If they’re scarfing double cheeseburgall, that drug abuse findings are minusers and swigging whiskey between floor cule among welfare recipients; so far in sessions, I wish they wouldn’t. If the other states, benefits “saved” have not stuff’s being paid for by the beef and even covered the cost of testing. That’s booze lobbies, I’m kind of mad. But it not to mention what’s to happen to the remains their business. As my employchildren the money was supposed to go ees, they owe me attendance, attention to; or to the alleged abuser who must be and defensible votes. presumed in need of treatment. On that basis, I wish there were a way Other inconvenient facts, particularly I could dock their pay. in Indiana, include a) welfare checks are I wish we as taxpayers could withhold paltry, b) cheating is not a significant their benefits as punishment for failure to act in ways that reflect good character. problem, and c) there aren’t a lot of jobs out there for which to leave welfare, and I wish we could do to them what they many of them pay so poorly those who love to do to the poor. hold them are eligible for - welfare. The case at hand: this week’s overWhat we have here is failure to comwhelming vote by the House to require municate to all sectors of a hurting recipients of welfare assistance for populace that dignity is everyone’s children to be screened for drug abuse, birthright. People who struggle to get under pain of having benefits withheld through the day should not have their — from the kids, not the offenders. nights and weekends commandeered by As a sweetener, Rep. McMillin’s bill restricts food stamp purchases to “nutri- the state, any more than should publicly paid men who command the microtional” items as approved by the govphones in the Statehouse. n ernment, presumably including double NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 02.05.14 - 02.12.14 // VOICES 5
WHAT HAPPENED? Hemp bill heads for House The Senate voted unanimously Monday to pass legislation that would legalize the farming and production of industrial hemp in Indiana. Senate Bill 357 — authored by Sen. Richard Young, D-Milltown — now moves to the House for consideration. The bill does not affect the state’s marijuana laws. Instead, it legalizes the production of one of its botanical cousins. Hemp is a multipurpose crop that can be used in the production of textiles, foods, plastics, building materials and medicines but it doesn’t have enough tetrahydrocannabinol — known as THC — for someone to use it as a drug. “Indiana was once a leader in the production of industrial hemp,” said Young. “This measure will reopen a sector of the Indiana agricultural economy that will greatly benefit the state.” Ten states — including Kentucky — have taken steps to legalize hemp production. Train trauma for mass transit bill The potential that Indy and its neighbors may pursue light rail proved too terrifying to the Indiana Senate’s fiscal conservatives, who amended Senate Bill 176 to preclude that particular transportation mode from figuring into the Central Indiana transit plan, should voters opt to support the tax increases necessary to fund mass transit upgrades. The Senate by a 28-20 vote on Tuesday passed the amended SB 176 on for House consideration. Recycling bill heads for Senate The full House passed a bill Jan. 29 that will require recycling firms to fill out annual or quarterly reports on their activities as part of an effort to boost the state’s efforts to keep less waste from going to landfills. The author of House Bill 1183, Rep. David Wolkins, R-Winona Lake, said businesses that aren’t designated as recyclers can also fill out a report voluntarily. The bill establishes a state goal of recycling at least 50 percent of all municipal waste by 2019. However, Wolkins said that goal might be ambitious, as other states such as California and Massachusetts recycle about 40 percent of municipal waste. The bill passed unanimously and will now be considered by the Senate. House supports freedom of information bill State representatives by a 167-16 vote on Monday passed a bill that establishes a fee structure for government entities responding to open records requests statewide. The bill provides for requests of electronic data, which helps journalists and citizens more efficiently analyze large amounts of data. Electronic file formats will, among other things, allow for data visualizations and interactive graphics. — LESLEY WEIDENBENER AND BRANDON MULLENS OF THE STATEHOUSE FILE, REBECCA TOWNSEND
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ew regression analysis from a local statistician suggests that the economic performance of Great Lakes states with same-sex marriage statutes or constitutional amendments lags behind those without restrictions. The findings, compiled by Jeramy Townsley, an adjunct professor with IUPUI’s Department of Sociology, call into question the data proponents of HJR 3 used to win support of Indiana House Republicans — and offer statistical backing to anecdotal stories of job loss from HJR 3 opponents. “When I went to the testimonies during the Elections Committee meetings at the House, I was surprised that neither Lilly nor Cummins nor the Chamber (of Commerce) had data to support their assertions that there was job loss,” Townsley said. So he set out to see: 1) If he could chart an economic effect related to constitutional amendments and statutes mandating heterosexual marriage definitions; 2) Was it statistically significant; 3) Which direction such policies drove states’ economic performance. Using a regression analysis relating four different economic measures to anti-gay legislative and court events in nine Midwestern states (plus a separate analysis comparing the jobs and business numbers to a combination measure factoring in “anti-gay events” and real gross domestic product per capita), Townsley found statistically significant evidence that “each anti-gay event leads to a negative impact on firms and the economy, often at the 99.9 percent confidence level, and at the cost of thousands of firms per anti-gay event per state.” He scored the major “anti-gay events” per state over the decade in question, with the passage of a restrictive marriage law, for instance, counting for two points and the proposal of an “anti-gay law” counting for one. Sector-level firm loss relating to “anti-gay events” was not statistically significant until two to
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Opponents often discuss the negative economic effects of HJR 3. A new study aims to identify and quantify effects of “anti-gay” policies.
three years after an “anti-gay event”, but “total firms are impacted the immediate year after the legislative/court events.” Townsley also found such events to have a negative impact on the number of jobs and the average real gross domestic product per capita. “For every major anti-gay event,” he wrote, “there is a measureable loss of 963 firms the first year out, a loss of 2,104 firms the second year out, and the third and fourth year have a loss of over 3,000 firms.” He concluded that, for legislative leaders who have emphasized job growth as their primary concern, “it seems unreasonable for the state assembly to pursue this divisive bill, that will undoubtedly hurt jobs growth in Indiana.” Some important caveats must be noted: Townsley’s study has yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal or replicated by other social scientists. The most important question facing him at this point is whether future researchers could replicate his work. Though not included with his initial paper, Townsley is willing to share his data and queries. He provided them to NUVO upon request and said he will post them
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GET INVOLVED Exodus Refugee Spoken Word Event Exodus Refugee Immigration will host its first spoken word fundraiser, featuring performances by Exodus staff, volunteers and former refugees who live in Indianapolis. Exodus Refugee will be taking donations at the event to fund its resettlement efforts. Sat., Feb. 8, 6-8 p.m., Tin Comet Coffee, 2119 E. 10th St., FREE HJR 3 hearings hit the Senate People interested in lobbying for or against House Joint Resolution 3 will have their next opportunity to watch lawmakers in action Monday, Feb. 10, when the Senate Rules Committee meets to consider the matter. Mon., Feb. 10, upon the Senate’s afternoon adjournment, Indiana Statehouse, Room 431 (subject to change) FREE
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FORMER CITY-COUNTY COUNCIL PRESIDENT, BEURT R. SERVAAS DIES AT 94 Beurt R. SerVaas, whose dynamic legacy includes 27 years as City-County Council president (and four decades as a council member), died Sunday at the age of 94. “Indianapolis has lost one of its greatest champions and chief architect of its success,” Mayor Greg Ballard said in a statement issued Monday. Council President Maggie Lewis also weighed in: “Dr. SerVaas, often called ‘the father of UniGov’ forever changed the political and governing landscape with his introduction of a consolidation of Indianapolis and Marion County governments. … We will forever be grateful for his leadership and vision that led to a fair and balanced political landscape for our city.” On Tuesday, NUVO Editor and Publisher Kevin McKinney noted that SerVaas was on the company’s master list for a
CVA lifetime achievement award. An initial review of NUVO’s historical archive unearthed bits of correspondence from SerVaas to NUVO editors over the years. Here is a sampling from Jan. 17, 2000: “Somebody handed me your latest NUVO edition with a column by Brian A. Howey on ‘politics.’ I think I am going to enjoy Brian’s column in the future because he dealt with facts which were quite accurate. I also read Harrison Ullmann’s column concerning his very pertinent comments on St. Vincent Hospital… His columns are usually negative, but always with sarcastic humor, but, never the accuracy Mr. Howey likes … I enjoyed both … I sign this with the only ‘title’ I have in your periodical, a ‘Rats [sic] Ass Republican.’ Cordially, Beurt SerVaas”
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First, Townsley’s definitions of statistical significance look OK, but he needs additional work to prove claims of “robust” significance. The second critique focuses on how the recession affected the results shown across the region. Finally, there is an issue of distinguishing endogenous versus exogenous effects. Professor Rieber acknowledged such criticisms are valid. “You can’t control for everything, but it’s nice to control for as much as possible,” he said. For his part, Townsley started his series of queries as a personal experiment to evaluate the debate he heard at the Statehouse, using economists’ tools to inform local debate as well as to help him tie quantitative data to social theory relating to Richard Florida’s “The Rise of the Creative Class.” And, as he thinks about possibly publishing his work, Townsley is subjecting
his data to various tests that will help him refine his approach, but nothing in this process so far has yielded results that call into question his primary findings that “anti-gay” policies are associated with negative economic affects. Still, he said, the opportunity exists from an economist to embrace the process of statistical model specification, which could build on the preliminary assertions outlined in Townsley’s approach — and build in additional variables to see at what point, if any, they would wash out the effects Townsley identified in his initial effort. Neither the Indiana State Senate, which is currently set to consider HJR 3 in a Feb. 10 rules committee hearing, nor Freedom Indiana, which lobbies against HJR 3, have offered a response to NUVO’s request for comment on the study’s significance. n
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n the middle of a Sunday afternoon event called “A Prayer for Citizenship” in the gymnasium of St. Monica’s Catholic Church, 16 year-old Cynthia Torres approaches the microphone and faces an overflow crowd of 600 people. Congresswoman Susan Brooks sits to Torres’ right. Torres begins to speak, explaining that she grew up in Indianapolis and is a student at George Washington High School. Then she pauses and takes a deep breath. “When I was 12, my mother was deported,” she says.
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Torres tries to begin her next sentence, but can’t quite get the words out. Tears well up in her eyes. She gulps and starts in again. “No twelve year-old should have to care for her three year-old and six year-old siblings. But I was all we had. “I pray that the Congresswoman will make the right choice and support a pathway to citizenship that supports family values. I don’t want anyone else to have this pain and suffering.” The rest of the afternoon’s agenda is no less subtle. Torres was preceded at the podium by two Catholic priests, who cite to Brooks the Biblical mandate to be welcoming to the stranger in our midst.
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Brooks faces a wall decorated with U.S. flag-themed banners reading, “Keep Us United.” The co-masters of ceremonies are Rolando Mendoza, Sr., speaking in Spanish, and teenage Rolando Mendoza, Jr., speaking in English. Both, they disclose to Brooks and the gathered crowd, are undocumented immigrants. Today’s goal is for Brooks to publicly pledge support for the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, known as H.R. 15. The bill would allow the Mendozas, Cynthia Torres, and the 11 million-plus other undocumented immigrants in the U.S. to get official
Cynthia Torres and her siblings lost their mother, and their father Enrique lost his wife, when she was deported from Indianapolis five years ago.
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Rolando Mendoza, Jr., an undocumented youth and honor student, makes the case for citizenship to Rep. Susan Brooks.
residency, to work legally, and to move toward a day when they will earn full citizenship. At the end of the program, Brooks, a first-term Republican, will be invited to respond. Everyone in attendance holds a small battery-operated candle, which they are instructed to light only if Brooks agrees to support a path to citizenship. The Congresswoman sits up front alone, with the eyes of hundreds trained directly on her. It is an agenda designed to create tension. The design is being realized. In fact, it is not clear at first why Brooks would agree to attend such a presentation at all. She represents the 5th Congressional District, which is dominated by the affluent suburbs north and north-east of Indianapolis’ center. Her statements on immigration have focused on bolstering the country’s borders, not welcoming the undocumented in our midst. But when Brooks finally takes the microphone to respond, she points out that this setting is a familiar one for her. She and her family have been members of St. Monica’s parish for decades. The invitation to attend today was issued in part by her own pastor, the same priest who had started the agenda by delivering a strongly pro-immigrant invocation. Yet the Latino-dominated crowd may not be all that familiar to Brooks. The parish was much more homogenous when she and her family joined. Since then, its Latino membership has swelled and multiple Spanish-language masses have been added to the weekend schedule. The world around Susan Brooks has shifted in recent years, as it has for all Americans. One of every 20 Indiana residents is foreign-born, with almost half of those coming from Latin America. By 2050, the Hispanic popula-
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“If we are uncaring about the new Irish in our midst — the Hispanics, the Africans, the Asians — on the day of judgment, it won’t be them who condemn us. It will be our grandparents,” says Indianapolis Archbishop Joseph Tobin.
tion in the U.S. is expected to comprise 29 percent of the population — which puts Susan Brooks in a tough spot. On one hand, anyone in the business of winning elections ignores such obvious demographic trends at their peril. Last year, the Republican National Committee issued recommendations from its “Growth and Opportunity Project” that highlighted the party’s need to embrace comprehensive immigration reform. One of the report’s co-chairmen, Ari Fleischer, who served as White House spokesperson during the George W. Bush presidency, cited the meager 27 percent share of the Hispanic vote earned by Mitt Romney in the 2012 election as “a clear two-by-four to the head” to the Republican Party. At a local level, Brooks is well aware that the business community, including the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, Eli Lilly and Co., and other traditional Republican supporters favor H.R. 15. A 2013 poll for the Public Religion Research Institute showed twothirds of Hoosiers support a path to legal citizenship. Yet such surveys pull in a much broader group of respondents than the population of likely GOP voters in an off-year Congressional primary, where conservative activists carry more influence than the Chamber of Commerce. Just ask former Senator Richard Lugar, sent into unplanned retirement in 2012
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IndyCAN has pulled together crowds in the hundreds to press lawmakers about the need for a pathway to citizenship.
by Indiana primary voters who chose his Tea Party-backed opponent, Richard Mourdock. Moudock’s successful campaign was launched with an attack on Lugar for supporting the DREAM Act, which would have provided a pathway to citizenship for young immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. For the pro-citizenship activists pushing Brooks to risk such a challenge, there
is some helpful precedent. When U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly was a Democrat member of the House of Representatives, he voted against the DREAM Act that helped sink Lugar. Donnelly actively promoted his anti-immigrant positions when successfully campaigning to defeat Mourdock and win Lugar’s seat in SEE, REFORM, ON PAGE 12
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REFORM , FROM PAGE 11 2012. But, soon after Donnelly’s victory, immigration reform activists held prayer vigils outside the new Senator’s office and paraded in downtown Indianapolis under banners reading “¡Todos Somos Americanos!” (We Are All Americans). Phone banks were arranged for procitizenship Hoosiers to call Donnelly’s office. Business and religious leaders met with Donnelly individually, pressing for his support for H.R. 15. Finally, at the June roll call, Donnelly joined 67 other senators in supporting the bill. Indiana’s new senator had come over to the side of immigration reform. So has Rep. Jeff Denham, like Susan Brooks, a Republican member of the House. In his district in northern California, Denham sat through churchbased immigration reform forums similar in format to the Indianapolis event. Then, in October, Denham announced that he would join 185 Democrat House members who support H.R. 15. Two other House Republicans have since also signed on as co-sponsors, and immigration reform activists say there are two dozen more House Republicans who have publicly supported a pathway to citizenship. However, House Speaker John Boehner has not brought H.R.
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15 to a vote. Last week, he presented a one-page document summarizing Republican principles on immigration. The statement prioritizes border security and includes no clear pathway to citizenship for adults, but does include support citizenship for immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.
The Stranger Must Be Welcomed The most powerful force behind the local and national campaign for citizenship is the Roman Catholic Church. The Prayer for Citizenship event in Indianapolis was part of a national
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Catholic “Day of Prayer and Action for Immigration Reform.” The agenda and the crowd that day were dominated by members of local Catholic parishes. And one of the campaign’s most visible local supporters is Indianapolis Archbishop Joseph Tobin. Tobin is a large man, with a ruddy complexion and girth that suggests a retired offensive tackle more than a parish priest. The oldest of 13 children and raised in Detroit, he speaks five languages and came to his post in Indianapolis from a prestigious position in Rome, where he held the church’s No. 2 position for religious life. Tobin has no trouble with the
Archdiocese calling on government leaders to change current immigration law. He was part of a delegation to visit Donnelly in April of 2013 when the new Senator was still on record opposing a path to citizenship for undocumented youth and adults. Tobin told Donnelly, a Roman Catholic and Notre Dame graduate, that he assumed the senator was Native American. No, Donnelly replied, his background was Irish-American. “Mine too,” Tobin said. “So you must know a little something about immigration!” Tobin’s point was that U.S. Catholics have a special obligation to embrace the stranger in our community. “In this country, except for Native American Catholics, every one of us is a child or grandchild or great-grandchild of immigrants,” Tobin says. “My grandparents lived with the ‘Irish Need Not Apply’ signs, and that is still very ingrained in the memory of my family. If we are uncaring about the new Irish in our midst — the Hispanics, the Africans, the Asians — on the day of judgment, it won’t be them who condemn us. It will be our grandparents.” Tobin’s boss endorses that message. Pope Francis has famously labeled unfettered capitalism “a new tyranny,” condemned the “idolatry of money,” and denounced structural inequality that sentences so many millions of the
world’s citizens to abject poverty. The first-ever Latin American pope has championed the rights of immigrants, invoking his own family’s struggles in emigrating from Italy to Argentina. This social justice theology is firmly rooted in Catholic tradition, a legacy often obscured by the church’s recent focus on issues like contraception and abortion. Francis’ statements echo those of his predecessors as far back as Pope Leo XIII, whose 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum (On Capital and Labor) included a call for living wages in the then-new industrial society. Succeeding Popes issued their own official embrace of workers’ rights to organize into unions and receive state assistance when necessary. Even the noted conservative Benedict XVI, Francis’ immediate predecessor, explicitly reaffirmed the right to a just wage. In the U.S., the voice of the early 20th century minimum wage movement was a Catholic priest and economist John Ryan. Catholic parishes operated over 100 “labor schools” in the basements of urban immigrant churches, and so-called “labor priests” mentored the organizers of unions at all levels, Catholic priests played a particularly significant role in the Cesar Chavez-led United Farm Workers movement. Today, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ “Seven Themes of Catholic Social Teaching”
Christ,” he says. “The Gospel is not just one datum among many, it represents the determining value.”
Loving Our Neighbors Isaias Guerrero greets me at the door of the converted near-westside convent that the Indianapolis Congregation Action Network, IndyCAN, shares with St. Anthony and Holy Trinity parishes. Guerrero leads me up a narrow staircase and past a six-foot tall statue of the Virgin Mary. A snake is depicted below her bare feet, symbolizing the crushing of the serpent devil prophesied in Genesis. For Guerrero, the coordinator of the immigration justice campaign for IndyCAN and the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, immigration law is not an abstraction. A thin young man with dark curly hair and moustache, Guerrero was 15 years old when his father lost his job in Colombia. Suddenly, Guerrero found himself one of just five Latinos in Greenwood High School—and without legal permanent residency. In 2012, President Barack Obama used an executive order to create the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which allows Guerrero and others to get temporary work permits and drivers’ licenses. But DACA does not provide any
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IndyCAN’s membership includes over 20 Indianapolis congregations from different Christian denominations, all advocating for a pathway to citizenship, increased public transportation, and ex-felon reentry opportunities.
still delivers a message that endorses fair wages and the right to form unions. Predictably, giving voice to these positions attracts some political pushback. Rush Limbaugh called the Pope a Marxist and Fox News’ Andy Shaw said Francis “will prove to be a disaster for the Catholic Church.” Archbishop
Tobin says his pro-citizenship advocacy attracts more angry letters to the archdiocese newspaper, The Criterion, than anything else he does. But Tobin says he sees no option but to follow the Biblical directives: The poor must be fed, the stranger must be welcomed, and justice must be fought for. “As a disciple of
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In November, dozens of people marched 48 miles from to Rep. Brooks’ office in Anderson, carrying a “Pilgrimage for Citizenship” banner and holding prayer vigils along the way.
REFORM , FROM PAGE 13 permanent status, nor does it create any route to citizenship. IndyCAN includes over 20 Indianapolis congregations from different Christian denominations. In addition to the citizenship campaign, it embraces issues like increased public transportation and exfelon reentry opportunities. IndyCAN is affiliated with the PICO National Network (People Improving Communities Through Organizing), founded in 1972 by Father John Baumann, a Jesuit priest trained in the Saul Alinsky community organizing model. In Indianapolis, the manifestation of that approach has included a series of clergy-packed community events in churches, a business-oriented briefing hosted by Eli Lilly and Company, and demonstrations and vigils calling out individual lawmakers. “At the Statehouse, you mostly see people getting paid to represent the views of corporations,” Guerrero says. “You do not see people who are poor. We are out to change that.” In December, I visited an IndyCAN organizational meeting held in a large classroom of St. Gabriel’s school. After an impassioned bilingual opening prayer, African American pastors and residents talk about mass transit problems and advocacy plans, then Latino residents deliver an update on the citizenship campaign. Later in the meeting, a middle-aged white man in a blue oxford shirt and khakis joins Guerrero at the front of the room, leading a discussion of voter registration and turnout in the next election cycle. “We only have as much justice as we have the power to compel,” he says to the group. “So we need to create the power ourselves.” 14 COVER STORY // 02.05.14 - 02.12.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
It is somewhat jarring to hear the philosophy of radical grassroots organizing delivered by someone who looks like a suburban banker. In fact, Ed Witulski does work as an underwriter for PNC Bank. But he is also a cradle Catholic who found his commitment re-energized five years ago while participating in the “Just Faith” program that calls for Catholics to embrace the roles of advocates for justice. Now he leads his parish’s social justice committee and adheres faithfully to the tenets of Catholic social teaching. He thinks another Catholic will eventually do so as well. “I think Susan Brooks wants to do the right thing,” Witulski says. “I think Susan Brooks is praying for IndyCAN to change the minds of her voters.” Sure enough, as soon as she got the chance to respond at the September event at St. Monica’s, Brooks did say that she was pulling in divine consultation on the issue. “I am discerning and praying about how to fix the system,” she said. But she did not commit to support H.R. 15, nor did she support a clear path to citizenship for undocumented residents. IndyCAN and the Archdiocese kept up the pressure. In November, several dozen people marched the 48 miles from St. Monica’s to Brooks’ office in Anderson, carrying a “Pilgrimage for Citizenship” banner. They stopped at multiple churches along the way, and held prayer services outside a county jail that detains immigrants on the way to deportation. Jesus Ramirez was one of the marchers, and he shared his own story with Brooks and with church groups along the route. Ramirez was born in Mexico and is now a 16 year-old student at Perry Meridian High School. This fall, Ramirez fasted 23 days as part of a national Fast for Families to gain attention to the
“At the Statehouse, you mostly see people getting paid to represent the views of corporations. You do not see people who are poor."
— Isaias Guerrero, IndyCAN suffering of undocumented persons. “I stopped (my fast) only when I felt pretty sure that one more day would put me in the hospital,” he says. During the time he abstained from food, Ramirez sat in the high school cafeteria drinking only water while his classmates ate their lunches. Soon, 32 of his classmates decided to show their solidarity by joining in Ramirez’s fast for a day. Brooks met with Ramirez and the other marchers, but did not change her mind. In response to a request for comment for this article, Brooks’ spokesperson, Alex Damron, said, “Congresswoman Brooks favors a stepby-step approach to the immigration discussion that allows us to give various complicated topics the attention they deserve. Along with the debate surrounding a pathway to citizenship, we must pay attention to a number of other pressing issues including border security, our legal immigration system and our temporary worker programs.” Nearly four months after the Prayer for Citizenship event, I reconnected with the co-masters of ceremonies that day, Rolando Mendoza Senior and Junior. Their family of five came to Indianapolis from Oaxaca, Mexico in June of 2002. They arrived in town on a Sunday and attended Mass the same day at St. Gabriel’s. The priest asked for any visitors to stand and be welcomed, and the congregation prayed over the Mendozas. They have been active members of the parish ever since. For seven years, the elder Mendoza worked in an industrial bakery in Hendricks County, driving a forklift and doing maintenance. It was a good job, but in early 2013 Mendoza was abruptly fired for not having legal status, a situation he is convinced the company had known since the day he was hired. He has since found work at a recycling plant, but his pay is far less. The younger Mendoza attended Indianapolis Public Schools, graduating sixth in his class at Crispus Attucks High School. His dream to attend Indiana University was made financially impossible by the 2011 law that denies him access to in-state tuition. But his excellent record
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“It is not just a problem for us, it is a problem for 11 million people,” Rolando Mendoza,Sr. says.
earned him scholarships to the University of Indianapolis, where he is majoring in biology and business, and planning on becoming an optometrist. Both Mendozas are enthusiastic participants in IndyCAN. “It is not just a problem for us, it is a problem for 11 million people,” Mendoza, Sr. says. “Even though I was talking about my situation and my feelings (at St. Monica’s), I was in a way talking about everyone else in the same situation.” His son nods, and says he got a good vibe from Brooks, despite her reluctance to sign on to a pathway to citizenship that day. Like Ed Witulski, the Mendozas believe she wants to do the right thing for undocumented families. So they push on. “There is still sometimes a lack of knowledge, even in religious communities,” says Rolando Mendoza, Sr. “Sometimes we forget that it is not enough just to go to church. We are told to love our neighbor as we love ourselves.” n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 02.05.14 - 02.12.14 // COVER STORY 15
EVENTS Kyle Herrington: The Worst Person in the World Just who is the worst person in the world? Is it the one saying all those awful or salacious things on Kyle Herrington’s canvases, like “Everyone you know is dead” or “Eat me beautiful”? Or is it Herrington himself, who’s effectively skywriting (spacewriting?) such phrases across the universe? He has, among friends, given life to the hashtag #kyleistheworst, after all. Check out Herrington’s latest word paintings at General Public before flipping back to these pages next week for an artist profile. General Public Collective, 1060 Virginia Ave., opens Feb. 7, 7-10 p.m. Hopson, Russell, Shopoff That’s Melissa Hopson, Hilary Erin Russell and Marna Shopoff, who are united by their common pursuit of an MFA from Herron. Shopoff is often concerned with urban architecture; here’s Dan Grossman on her contributions to a 2013 show at Stutz: “‘Sky scraper between’ looks like a skyscraper of the mind, untethered by any connection to Newtonian physics.” And we saw Hopson at last year’s FoodCon: “Her not-quite-abstract sculpture “O,” visualizes both the place from which we emerge into the world and (more figuratively) the orifices we stuff.” Primary Gallery, opens Feb. 7, 6-10 p.m. Meet the Artists It wouldn’t be February without the gala opening of Meet the Artists, the Indianapolis Public Library’s annual showcase for local African-American artists. Eighteen are included in the 26th edition of the show, including Samuel E Vazquez (abstract/graffiti art), Alpha Blackburn (acrylics) and Kris Komakech (maps/mixed media). Saturday is your chance to, yes, meet the artists: a jam-packed reception will include a fashion show, music by Cynthia Layne, comedy by Lady Luncha’bell and poetry by Matt Davis and Januarie York. Central Library, Jan. 29-March 22, receptions Feb. 8, 5:45-10 p.m. and March 7, 6-9 p.m. Indy Eleven: Artist Reception Have you heard? There’s a new new pro soccer team coming to town. (A hockey team, too). And the Harrison is celebrating Indy Eleven’s inaugural season with a showcase for soccer-inspired art by a bunch of locals, including Lobyn Hamilton, William Denton Ray, Artur Silva and Kyle Ragsdale, as well as work inspired by Lady Liberty, who takes pride of place in Indy Eleven’s logo. Harrison Center for the Arts, opens Feb. 7, 6-9 p.m.
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ords have been part of Robert Indiana’s visual vocabulary for the past half-century. You see them everywhere: in his sculptures, paintings and screen prints — and, of course, in his trademark LOVE sculpture. His stenciled, hard-edged letters in bright colors — often spelling out simple words or phrases — wouldn’t appear out of place on road signs on any American highway. But such seemingly depersonalized words and numbers often have unique meaning for the deeply autobiographical artist, born in New Castle, Ind., in 1928 with the name Robert Clark. In a new exhibition opening Feb. 16 and featuring a selection of fifty-seven prints, curator Martin Krause draws attention to those autobiographical aspects, including new and archival audio and video interviews with the artist. The Essential Robert Indiana features 21 of Indiana’s “autoportraits,” which chronicle a given year in Indiana’s life through letters, symbols and numbers. Also included are homages to Pablo Picasso, Charles Demuth and Mardsen Hartley, selections from his incisive American Dream series and, yes, iterations of his LOVE design. Concurrent with The Essential Robert Indiana is the free Indiana by the Numbers exhibition on the fourth floor, featuring Indiana’s drawings and photographs, tracing the history of his numbers sculptures — on view at the IMA — up to the time of their recent restoration. Krause, who started at the IMA in 1978, met with Indiana four times at his house on the island town of Vinalhaven, off the Maine coast, in order to prepare for this exhibition. NUVO: This isn’t the first exhibition of Robert Indiana’s work at the IMA.
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he said — I talked to him a week before — “No, I’d never go. All the people I know in New York are dead.” He ended up going; he was just playing hard to get. But it is a bit of a challenge for him to leave. He doesn’t get around well anymore and he gets tired. NUVO: Were there any surprises in Indiana’s house?
MARTIN KRAUSE: No, the first retrospective of his paintings was in 1968. But we’ve never shown his prints. The vast majority are screen prints because that is the most conducive for his style of working. Innately, screen prints have very flat areas of color, very hard edges. And that’s exactly what he was trying to achieve in his paintings. I like to think that the print is the ultimate refinement of his image because no matter how you try to hide a brushstroke in a painting, it’s going to be there. The anonymity of the surface is a natural result of screen printing. NUVO: Is this a traveling exhibition? KRAUSE: It’s available to travel, but right now it’s only here. We’ll see if other places are interested. And they may be because he’s in for sort of a renaissance. The Whitney doing a retrospective this past fall was a big deal for him, even though
KRAUSE: I’ve described it as a cross between the haunted house from the Addams Family and Pee Wee’s Playhouse. It’s a 19th century gothic horror that was formerly an Odd Fellows Lodge that he has restored. It’s now on the National Register of Historic Places. There’s a lot of his artwork, but also stuffed animals and plush animals like giraffes that look out the window. He’s got cats and dogs all over the place and mechanical toys. It’s totally him. It’s become sort of an expression of Robert Indiana. So there’s a very playful side to him. NUVO: He also has a political side to him. During the run up to the Gulf War he made some anti-war prints. KRAUSE: But of course this goes way back to the ‘60s. He was very much involved in the Civil Rights movement. He painted a couple of paintings specifically for CORE [Congress of Racial Equality], and he’s always been very liberal. He designed posters for the Jimmy Carter campaign. The last work in the exhibition is a screen print called HOPE, which he did for the Barack Obama campaign and was first expressed as a sculpture at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. n
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REVIEWS Carmel novelist scores big with tenth novel Susan Crandall’s compelling Whistling Past the Graveyard had its paperback release on Feb. 4, and is the Target Book Club pick for February. Published in cloth edition in 2013, it became a Southern Independent Bookseller Bestseller, an Indie Next Pick and gained national critical attention. Crandall visited with NUVO:
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NUVO: Whistling is your tenth novel and the first in the genre of historical fiction. What brought you to this poignant 1963 coming-of-age story about nine-year-old Starla? CRANDALL: I love reading all genres, but publishing tends to push you forward in the same genre. After nine women’s fiction stories, I was ready to branch out into something new. That’s when this little girl started talking in my head; she had such a distinct storytelling voice I just couldn’t ignore her. All of my books are character driven; Starla and Eula [Whistling’s other main character] came first, then I built a story around them. I chose 1963 Mississippi as the setting because it offered the most fertile soil for storytelling conflict for these two.
Susan Crandall Above, left and right, Untitled (Silver Rings), a two panel spray paint on wood piece by Burroughs. Burroughs is pictured in a photograph by Byron Gysin.
NUVO: What are the recurring themes throughout your books? CRANDALL: I love small towns, and they often contribute a character of their own to a book. I grew up in Noblesville when it was a small town, so I have a special understanding. My books explore family, overcoming adversity, and the way the world in which we are cast dictates our lives and how we relate to one another. All of which are important to me personally. NUVO: What significant discoveries do you make as you research and write? CRANDALL: They’ve all opened my eyes in one way or another, which is one reason I enjoy my job. I think one of the most interesting things was with Whistling. I was a child in that volatile year of 1963. So much of what was happening was beyond me — which truly helped in forming Starla’s understanding. It was fascinating to dig deep into the period and compare my child’s views with the realities I discovered. Right now I’m working on a story set in 1923 featuring an aerial barnstorming act. My dad was a private pilot, so I know something about an aviator’s passion for flight. As I research I’ve discovered so much great fodder for a story in this amazing period of change and excitement. — RITA KOHN
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poet John Giorno in 1981. So why is the city hosting an unprecedented celebration of his work 100 years after his birth? Well, why not? Burroughs Century organizer, Charles Cannon had been BY S CO TT S H O G ER toying with the idea of such an event for SS H O G E R @ N U V O . N E T a few years, and last spring, he says, “for e was born in St. Louis and traveled whatever reason, I just went for it.” A (and shot up, and cut up) widely, sci-fi writer who looks to the dystopian stopping in Mexico City, London, triumvirate of Burroughs, Philip K. Dick Paris and New York, before spending his and J.G. Ballard for inspiration, Cannon final years in Lawrence, Kan. But one place had done little more than outline a poswhere William S. Burroughs didn’t spend sible festival when he put in a cold call much time was Bloomington; he likely visto William Burroughs Communications, ited there only once while a public figure, ostensibly the keeper of all things doing a reading at the Bluebird with sound Burroughs, based out of Lawrence. “I thought, somebody’s going to answer the phone — ‘Yes, this is William Burroughs Communications’ — an intern, maybe,” Cannon, rather tall, warm and studious, told me over a burger at Workingman’s Friend. (Is meeting the guy putting on a Burroughs festival at a diner a little like doing business with David Lynch in a booth at Bob’s Big Boy?) “The phone rings and rings, an older man answers, very pleasant voice. I said, ‘Is this William Untitled, circa 1992, ink on file folder IMAGE COURTESY THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Burroughs Communications?’
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He said, ‘Well, who’s this?’” From that slightly suspicious beginning — perhaps in a tone keeping with Burroughs’ often paranoid work — Cannon launched himself (or was launched) into a network of friends, scholars and artists devoted to Burroughs’ work. The guy who answered the phone was James Grauerholz, the executor of the Burroughs’ estate and the writer’s personal assistant and companion during the final 25 years of his life. Grauerholz gave his blessing and then passed Cannon along to Yuri Zupancic, the art curator for the Burroughs’ estate. Zupancic agreed to personally bring some of Burroughs’ visual art to IU’s Grunwald Gallery (see sidebar for more info on Burroughs Century events). “And it just kept growing,” according to Cannon, as one contact put him in touch with another. A friend from Wisconsin told him to call Ohio State University, which houses a Burroughs’ archive and eventually agreed to lend material to the Lilly Library for its show of Burroughs books, correspondence and ephemera. A meeting with IU Cinema head Jon Vickers led to the development of a film festival element. “Getting Jon on board really gave us momentum,” Cannon said. “There’s territorialism on campus, and I’m not affiliated with the university, but
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that gave us legitimacy in the eyes of a lot of other people.” And then came more yesses, both solicited and not. Oliver Harris — who edited the definitive version of Burroughs’ Junky, The Yage Letters and “cut-up” trilogy,” and was called by Burroughs site realitystudio.com “the most eminent living scholar of William Burroughs and his works” aside from Grauerholz — is the keynote speaker for a Burroughs symposium. A fiveperson research team from Florida State University is traveling in with selections from a newly-established Burroughs archive, including “cut-up” manuscripts (to create “cut-up” texts, Burroughs and collaborators would chop up printed media or manuscripts, then rearrange the fragments to create new texts). And Cannon managed to interest some big names in the world of subversive art: punk poet Lydia Lunch, who will perform a night of poetry and song inspired by Burroughs (see sidebar); Mark Hosler, long-time member of culture jamming media collective Negativland, who will bring his brainwarping sound collages to The Bishop. Which still doesn’t answer the question of “Why Burroughs?” — even if it is a pretty inspiring case study for anyone who wants to put on a show
and cultivate a community without a whole lot of money or experience. Here’s Cannon’s best case: “It’s kind of a play on words, the name The Burroughs Century. He was born a 100 years ago — but we feel that we’re living in the Burroughs century, with his concerns with control, addictions, the war on drugs, the prurient morality of America; the way that we delight in the things that we find scandalous.” And when it comes to Burroughs, says Cannon, there’s no separating the tale from its teller. And thus it makes all the more sense, at least to this reporter, to consider the totality of Burroughs’ work, from correspondence to published texts, from casual brushstrokes on file folders to statements of hard-won truths. “In every single one of his novels, at some point he, himself, addresses the reader,” Cannon said. “In the atrophied preface to Naked Lunch, he says, ‘Now I, William Burroughs, will open my word horde.’ Burroughs is not. He was reaching toward a battle with capital-C Control. He calls out those men to do battle, and for him it’s necessary to deconstruct language and literature, take it apart and put it together again in order to fight that battle because these are the systems by which people are controlled.” n
THE BURROUGHS CENTURY KEY EVENTS Feb. 5-9 in Bloomington For a complete list, visit burroughscentury.org. William S. Burroughs: Paintings Though Feb. 6 at Grunwald Gallery, FREE As much a visual artist as a writer during the last two decades of his life, Burroughs is best known for his “shotgun paintings,” created by setting up cans of spray paint in front of plywood boards and then blowing the hell out of them. But not all his work was so spectacular. We quote from a catalogue issued by the auction house Bonham’s: “Burroughs began painting on file folders by accident. Since he always had an abundance on hand, he had been using them as palettes to mix colors for his paintings. Eventually he observed the artistic merit in the folders themselves.” The Grunwald Gallery is offering a rare opportunity to see more than 50 of Burroughs’ file folders, plus other work, including a few “shotgun paintings.” Everything Is Permitted: The Life and Work of William S. Burroughs Through Feb. 10 at Lilly Library, FREE Indiana University’s home for rare books and manuscripts is showing off some Burroughs collectors’ items in its archives — including first editions of Junkie and Naked Lunch and materials from the archives of his British publishers — as well as other
key items on loan, such as the original scroll of Kerouac’s On the Road (the character Old Bull Lee, said to stand in for Burroughs, is described by Dean Moriarty/Kerouac as “a gray, nondescript-looking fellow you wouldn’t notice on the street, unless you looked closer and saw his mad, bony skull with its strange youthfulness – a Kansas minister with exotic, phenomenal fires and mysteries”). Burroughs Film Series Feb. 6-9 at IU Cinema, most screenings $3 A new restoration of the documentary Burroughs: The Movie, premiered in 1983 and rarely seen since then, is kicking off a film series including features and shorts that involve Burroughs as actor, director and/or subject. Howard Brookner began shooting Burroughs: The Movie in 1978 as his senior thesis, then expanded it to a feature five years later: He had access to and traveled with the writer during those years, and spoke with several of his friends, including Allen Ginsberg and Francis Bacon. Brookner’s nephew (the director who died from AIDS complications in 1989) raised money via Kickstarter for the restoration, which premiered last month in New York and will make its Midwest premiere in Bloomington. That’s only one of the rarities in the series: Also screening is a shorts program featuring films made by Burroughs and his friend Anthony Balch, most of which are rarely shown in 16mm.
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MOCA executive director Shauta Marsh was in Portland last year for a conference when she came upon a group of artists who had invented a religion based on the works of the nominally-Gnosticbut-too-complex-to-describe-using-onlya-few-adjectives sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick. “I wasn’t into what they were offering aesthetically; it was a little too Charlie Manson,” she tells NUVO. “Besides, Dick would have hated that anyone created a religion based on his work.” But she was impressed, and she headed over to the (totally awesome) Powell’s Books, picked up a copy of Dick’s VALIS and read it while listening to the work of psych rocker/performance artists Prince Rama. The soundtrack here is important: When Marsh decided to do a show inspired by VALIS — about a schizoid main character who may or may not be Philip K. Dick but is in any case named Horselover Fats — she called upon Prince Rama, plus a couple Dutch artists (Marc Bijl and Serge Onnen), to contribute work. And it turns out Marsh was right in thinking Prince Rama would be on Dick’s wavelength. “What’s funny is that before even knowing what the heck VALIS was, I decorated our entire apartment with pictures I tore out of a book on ancient Roman art and architecture for no real reason besides looking cool,” Prince Rama’s Taraka Larson says. “Then I read about Horselover Fats’ visions of Ancient Rome superimposed on the southern California landscape, and suddenly realized I was unconsciously constructing the same kind of cross-temporal aesthetic vision. His conclusion was that
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time had stopped during the Roman empire and that southern California was a holographic projection on top of it, aka The Empire Never Ended. So we were like, actually Ancient Rome is already holographically projected on Southern California via kitsch decor, watered-down Italian architecture, gilded cherubs, plaster busts, cheap versions of ionic columns, etc., so what if Southern California was the “true” reality, and the Empire is the simulated one?” It’s in keeping with Larson’s concept of “ghost-modernism,” a term she devised to describe “the aesthetic phase following post-modernism that’s marked by a massive haunting of the present by the phantoms of the past by means of kitsch. Anyone who watched the Super Bowl the other night can agree Bruno Mars was totally possessed by the spectres of old boy bands like the Temptations mixed with the dance moves of Elvis, Prince, and a touch of Michael Jackson. A halftime performance totally haunted by kitsch resurrections of the past — a little weird overall, right? Similarly, our exhibit creates a holographic experience of ‘the present’ SoCal 2014 haunted by fragmented shards of Ancient Rome resurrected by way of kitsch, i.e. leather jackets of a fictional motorcycle gang called Parmenides, or a poster of Kim Kardashian dressed as Helen of Troy.” n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 02.05.14 - 02.12.14 // BOOKS 19
EVENTS Pacers vs. Portland You probably won’t see newly-minted million-dollar man Andrew Bynum on the floor for the Pacers after Indiana’s squad gave the seven-footer a second third fourth-or-something chance to act like a Professional Basketball Player With an Actual Desire to Play. Andrew needs to get into shape, it seems. (This is the part of the blurb where we harrumph. Harrumph.)
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Butler vs. Xavier The Xavier Musketeers (wait – do they only put four on the floor? OK, we kid) come to Historic Hinkle Fieldhouse (yes, we MUST include “Historic” every time we say “Hinkle”) to take on Butler (alright, enough with the parenthetical comments). Go Bulldogs. Historic Hinkle Fieldhouse, Feb. 11, 9 p.m.
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Wheels and Wings This is one very cool fundraiser benefitting two fascinating groups: Nine13Sports is a nonprofit trying to get kids back on bicycles for their own health and well-being, and Flight 1 allows kids who are facing challenges (health issues or the loss of a family member) the carefully-supervised chance to actually pilot a small plane as a means of building confidence. IndyCar driver Charlie Kimball will be in attendance, there’ll be music from Ryan Brewer and others and Sun King will provide libations. (The $30 entry fee includes two beer tickets; VIP admission runs $100.)
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he Denver Broncos, quarterbacked by former Colt and future Hall of Famer Peyton Manning, lost Super Bowl 48 (OK, OK, “XLVIII”) to the Seattle Seahawks by a final score of 43-8. That’s not a typo; in case you went to bed early, indulged in too many suds or what have you, the Broncos managed to lose the Big One by the third largest margin in the modern era. Denver, in fact, despite winning two Super Bowls, has lost a record five championships, and the franchise holds the record for the most Darren McKee lopsided loss ever, a 55-10 drubbing by the San Francisco 49ers to cap their 1989 campaign. The Broncos opened the game with the first in a series of miscues: Manning, appearing to have forgotten his own
“We are seeing one of the top two or three defenses of all time in Seattle.” — DARREN McKEE count, watched a snap from center sail over his right shoulder as the QB looked left. The ball was recovered by the Broncos in the end zone and downed there, giving the Seahawks the fastest score in Super Bowl history: a safety in the first 12 seconds. For more on the meltdown that was Denver in this year’s Super Bowl, we spoke with Darren McKee, co-host of “The Drive with Big Al and D-Mac” on 104.3 The Fan, a sports radio station in Denver. McKee has been covering the Broncos since the pre-Manning era, and he traveled to New York to watch the Orange Crush get crushed. While there, McKee also had the onions to ask NFL Commissioner Roger Goddell a fairly personal question. We caught up with
Darren while he was stuck in an airport in St. Louis. NUVO: Before we get to this horrible game, I have to ask you: Were you the guy who asked the Commissioner of the NFL if he used weed?
DARREN McKEE: I was! That was me! You proud of me? What I said was: In light of how concerned the NFL has been regarding the health and safety of players, isn’t it time to consider not advocating for the use of marijuana, but simply not testing for it? There are medicinal benefits to it, and the two states participating in the Super Bowl have already legalized it. Then I threw in the zinger: “Are you willing to be tested for marijuana?” His response was interesting. He IS randomly tested. But I’ll ask you this: NFL players … they’re all million-dollar players, right? Okay, I know there are younger guys who don’t make as much,
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LOSS BY THE NUMBERS • The Broncos managed to lose by the third largest margin in the modern era. • Denver has lost a record five championships and holds the record for the most lopsided loss ever: 55-10 against the San Francisco 49ers in 1990. • The Broncos opened the game with Manning looking left as the snap sailed over his right shoulder — giving the Seahawks the fastest score in Super Bowl history: a safety in the first 12 seconds. • Seattle set the mark for the largest halftime lead with a shutout: 22-0. • Despite the blowout, a record 111.5 million viewers watched the game on television. but even those guys are deep into six figures. How many companies have million-dollar or six-figure employees who are randomly drug tested for marijuana? If you want to talk about performance-enhancing drugs, fine. But not marijuana. They’re not operating heavy machinery or driving an 18-wheeler. You don’t test for Bud Light. Everybody’s all choked up about the puppy-smoochin’the-horse beer commercial, but Goddell [responded by] talking about “addictive substances.” Alcohol isn’t? I’m not a pothead. I’ve smoked marijuana a handful of times. I’m not asking for my own benefit. Since marijuana was legalized in Colorado, I’ve not gone into any of those places that sell weed. But I’ve talked to two ex-NFL players who played for a combined 22 years and smoked marijuana their entire careers. One of them’s Nate Jackson, who wrote a book about his experience in the NFL and details it, so I feel OK using his name. The other player’s never really admitted it, so we’ll keep his name out of this. Nate and this other player — they’re convinced that smoking marijuana … helped them get through their aches and pains in a more healthy way [than other drugs]. I know a player on the Denver Broncos who suffered some terrible injuries this year, and he smokes marijuana on a regular basis … he claims it helps him get over the pains and the aches and assists with his rehab. You don’t have to advocate for it, just stop testing for it. As for me – I’m now known as the “weed guy,” ‘cause I’ve gained over 9,000 followers on Twitter in the past four days since I
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asked that question. NUVO: I think we can both agree that had you been high, Super Bowl 48 might’ve been somewhat more entertaining. McKEE: It would have been so much more fun. Like a dream; something that didn’t actually exist. You know what’s funny about that? The first thing that I did after that game was go out and get hammered. Now, I’m not driving, I’m staying in a hotel and I drank at a bar across the street. I didn’t do anything terribly irresponsible, but I certainly didn’t improve my performance in any way. NUVO: Because the Broncos looked so unprepared and so disorganized going into the Super Bowl, is there some blame to be shared by the coaching staff here? McKEE: That’s a good question. That’s something we’ll have to dig into. Defensively, too, they couldn’t tackle. The Broncos had no takeaways. No turnovers for in the positive column the entire playoffs. I hate to make excuses, but they were missing quite a few of their starters. Derek Wolfe, Rahim Moore, Kevin Vickerson, Chris Harris … Champ Bailey wasn’t the same all year; Von Miller … there were like seven starters who weren’t available. NUVO: Broncos head coach John Fox has said that judging Peyton Manning’s season — or career — by that game is “ludicrous.” But there’s a history here. Manning has a losing record in the playoffs. To Fox’s point, however, what I saw was a complete and total collapse in every phase of the game by the Broncos. Would you agree with that take?
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McKEE: I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, Ed. I’ve never seen anything like it. Peyton had a terrible game. He personally had a terrible game. That first botched snap — it was his fault. Three and out the next possession. A pick six; a bad interception. Balls are overthrown or underthrown. He seemed to be completely shaken up by that Seattle defense. He’s faced other ferocious pass rushes, but nothing like the total package from Seattle. Everybody talks about the Broncos offense as the best offense of all time — which I believe it is — but we are seeing one of the top two or three defenses of all time in Seattle.
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OPENING The Lego Movie e Highly entertaining comic action-adventure set mostly in a convincing computeranimated world of the Legos you played with as a child. Chris Pratt (Parks and Recreation) is wonderful as a likeable, empty-headed guy used to blindly following instructions who gets drawn into a rebellion. The film works because it understands how kids play and translates that into a winning screen spectacle. A wide variety of Lego-licensed celebrities appear, so you get to see interactions between DC superheroes, Harry Potter wizards and NBA All-Stars, to name but a few. Very cool. The cast also includes Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Will Ferrell, Morgan Freeman, Charlie Day, Liam Neeson and Nick Offerman. Adults should have just as much fun as kids. — ED JOHNSON-OTT PG, Opens Friday at in wide release and 3D The Monuments Men A bunch of handsome and/or funny Yankee gentlemen/scholar/soldiers (George Clooney, Matt Damon; Bill Murray, John Goodman) protect Europe from itself, going behind enemy lines to rescue artwork stolen by Nazis. Early reviews are mixed, with Variety in the unimpressed camp: “Clooney has transformed a fascinating true-life tale into an exceedingly dull and dreary caper pic cum art-appreciation seminar — a museum-piece movie about museum people.” PG-13, Opens Thursday in wide release Vampire Academy A half-human, half-vampire young lady learns to protect the good vampires from the bad vampires in the first film adaptation of a popular YA series. PG-13, Opens Friday in wide release
FILM EVENTS Winter Nights: Dr. Jack The IMA’s Winter Nights series is switching over to silents for its final four screenings, starting off with the 1922 Harold Lloyd vehicle Dr. Jack, about a hypochondriac (that is, the Sick-Little-Well-Girl) who lines the pockets of a certain Dr. Ludwig von Saulsbourg, a scoundrel attending to her every whim, until the right and good Dr. Jackson learns what’s going on. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Feb. 7, $9 public, $5 member The Burroughs Century Film Festival Flip to pg. 18 for more information on The Burroughs Century, whose film festival component includes a Midwest premiere (documentary Burroughs: The Movie). IU Cinema (Bloomington), Feb. 6-9
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nce again the live-action and animated Oscar-nominated short films will be screened theatrically prior to the Academy Award ceremony on March 2. Both packages are rewarding, though the animated bundle is a little better than the live-action compilation. Here’s a look at the films.
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ANIMATED JUST BEFORE LOSING EVERYTHING. Thirty compelling minutes of ten-
sion as a woman (Lea Drucker) with her two kids in tow shows up at the mega-grocery where she works to get help escaping from her abusive husband. Every second feels real in this gripping look at the logistics of breaking free from an unacceptable situation.
HELIUM. A terminally ill boy is far from excited at the prospect of Heaven – it sounds so boring! Along comes a well-intentioned hospital janitor, who tells him about Helium, a much more colorful afterlife setting where people live on picturesque chunks of land suspended in the sky by gigantic blimps. The visuals of the afterlife in Anders Walter’s film are beguiling. The tale of new myths replacing flimsy old ones is touching, even if the janitor’s go-for-broke efforts to breach security and finish his story when the boy is moved to intensive care are a bit disquieting. THE VOORMAN PROBLEM. Martin
Freeman and Tom Hollander star in a twisty story of a psychiatrist called in to deal with an inmate whose claim that he is God has been embraced by his fellow prisoners. The feature plays like one of the insubstantial but engaging short segments from the underrated ‘80s Twilight Zone revival series.
THAT WASN’T ME. A group of Spanish humanitarian workers get caught in the middle of a battle involving very dangerous African child soldiers. The harrowing action scenes play like fragments from a big budget movie. The message is less convincing. DO I HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF EVERYTHING? A family races to prepare for a wedding. Quick, frantic and fun.
POSSESSIONS. Japanese animator Shuhei
Morita takes an old myth – after 100 years, tools and instruments attain souls and trick people – and turns it into a wonderful tale of a man lost in the mountains who encounters such beings and responds to their tricks in a surprising fashion. The blend of visual styles is a treat. Loved the physicality of the burly fellow. Watch the scene where he slowly yawns to see how magic animation can be.
MR. HUBLOT. Savor the visual feast of
elaborate mechanical beings and a grandly clunky cityscape in this story of a squat cyborg hermit and his friendship with a dog-like mechanized critter. The intricate animation will make you think of Terry Gilliam’s work and steampunk sci-fi.
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ney’s black & white/color toon that’s running in theaters with the hit feature Frozen. Mickey Mouse stars in the raucous chase story where the action tears out of the screen and into the “real” world. Nothing new here, and the pacing is manic, but it’s fun. Nice to see Mickey in his old-school mischievous mode.
ROOM ON THE BROOM. Lively fairy tale narrated by Simon Pegg about a loveable witch (Gillian Anderson) who picks up hitchhikers – a cat, a bird, a dog, a frog! — while cruising on her broom. Nice artwork, goodhearted fun. FERAL. A boy raised by wolves is discovered in the forest, captured and brought to civilization. The story has an otherworldly feel that makes it hard to connect with emotionally. The visuals are interesting, however.
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CONTINUING Her q A sweet, sad, fascinating relationship story and thoughtful piece of speculative fiction that achieves transcendence while remaining accessible. Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) is a pleasant, vaguely melancholic fellow who works as a writer at BeautifulHandwrittenLetters.com, dictating artfully phrased messages for his clients. The quiet life of recentlydivorced Theodore changes when he purchases the latest Next Big Thing in technology — the OS1, a self-aware computer operating system. He opts for a female voice, and with that his relationship with the freshly sentient Samantha (Scarlett Johansson) begins. Spike Jonze provides the aesthetic, which is refreshingly guileless. Free of ironic posturing, the film looks at love, loss and the resilient nature of the spirit. R, In wide release The Wolf of Wall Street w Martin Scorsese’s nearly three-hour story of a group of corrupt stockbrokers is a rollicking exercise in excess that gives the 71-year-old filmmaker a chance to show that he can still make a movie that kicks down the door. Leonardo DiCaprio is in top form as the charismatic jerk running the business, while Jonah Hill is just as impressive as the second-in-command. Don’t worry about the length of the film — Scorsese’s indulgent look at indulgence moves at lightning speed. Be prepared for the ride home, where you get to say to yourself, “Wait a minute, how did I end up rooting for those awful people?!” R, In wide release Lone Survivor e Harrowing based-on-fact recreation of a 2005 military mission in Afghanistan gone terribly wrong. Peter Berg’s film isn’t subtle, but it works very well. Mark Wahlberg, Ben Foster, Taylor Kitsch and Emile Hirsch star. If you can get through the movie without tearing up, I don’t want to know you. Marcus Luttrell, the real lone survivor, says the the only part of the film that strays sig-
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nificantly from the truth is the scene where the guys debate what to do with the goat herders they encounter. In fact, there was no debate. Other than that, you’re mostly seeing what really happened. Heartbreaking. R, In wide release 12 O’Clock Boys e The dirt bike/four-wheeler documentary 12 O’Clock Boys follows Pug, a 13-year-old lives for the day 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, and they upset many of their fellow citizens, tearing illegally – and loudly – up and down the city streets. Lotfy Nathan’s hand-held camerawork, combined with a snappy hip hop soundtrack, give the documentary a sense of immediacy. His super slow-mo shots are impressive. Will the flash of fame from the documentary make Pug 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? Unrated, At the Indiana State Museum Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit t Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin and Ben Affleck played Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan in previous films. Now Star Trek’s Chris Pine takes a turn in a reboot of the drama-action-suspense spy franchise. Kenneth Branagh directs competently and the cast is fine, especially Kevin Costner. There’s nothing special going on here, but if you’re in the mood for a oldfashioned spy flick, this gets the job done well enough. PG-13, In wide release That Awkward Moment u When Mickey (Michael B. Jordan) gets dumped by his wife, he turns to his friends (Zac Efron and Miles Teller) for support. Their plan: Have lots of one-night stands while avoiding emotional involvement. What a novel idea! Dick jokes and toilet humor abounds, but not nearly enough of the gags are funny. The cast is game, but the script just doesn’t deliver. R, In wide release — ED JOHNSON-OTT
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Winterfest 2014 A sold out Winterfest was unanimously enjoyed Feb. 1 in the spacious Marsh Coliseum, where some 94 booths attracted attention for over 200 brews, brewing supplies and beer wear and gear. BeerBuzz concentrated on sampling excellent ReplicAles and Cask conditioned brews. Volunteers impressed with their knowledge of the brews they were pouring. Overall, a grateful thumbs up for all Winterfest volunteers. Of special note: the unique “snack necklace” featured cheese sticks and chocolate coated pretzels, along with the ubiquitous string of salt pretzels. In reply to “Where do you think Indiana craft is going,” many mentioned that sessionable beers are bringing “new people to craft.” Several others said the future is in cask brews: “It’s taking us back to beer’s roots.” Other answers to the question of Indiana craft’s direction: “Making a variety of offshoots from a brewery’s base beer.” “Neighborhood and small town breweries making themselves known with specialties for the local people to support them.” “Using local products, growing our own hops, grains. We’re conscious of sustainability.” The biggest breaking news at Winterfest was Thr3e Wise Men’s tastefully framed announcement naming Keely Thomlinson new head brewer and thanking Omar Castrellon for successfully launching their brewery operation. Castrellon is returning to his home base in Little Rock, Ark., to start up a new brewery. His impact on Indiana craft brewing remains with us while he takes with him our collective best cheer. Gary-based 18th Street Brewery’s Drew Fox being named “the Best New Brewer in the State of Indiana for 2013” by the internationally syndicated RateBeer was likewise headline news for the day. 18th Street opened in late 2013. And, once again RateBeer cited Three Floyds with national awards in just about every beer style, awarding it “2013 Top Brewer in Indiana” and naming Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout (Bourbon Vanilla Bean) Indiana’s Top Beer. Along with 18th Street, other breweries opened in 2013 made their debut Winterfest appearance, including: Chapmans (Angola), Carson’s (Evansville), Daredevil (Shelbyville), Four Day Ray (Westfield), Quaff ON! (Nashville), Norris English Pub (Liberty), Indiana City (Indianapolis) and Outliers (Indianapolis). A couple soon-to-open venues were also on site: Mashcraft in Greenwood and Cartel in Plainfield.
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PUTTING MUSCLE BEHIND INDIANA GROWN Farm to fork expert Pete Eshelman talks about the eat local movement
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ew of the players in Indiana’s burgeoning culinary scene can lay claim to as extraordinary a story as Pete Eshelman. Eshelman, along with his wife, Alice, and brother Tim, runs Joseph Decuis, a farm to fork culinary enterprise located in Roanoke, a few miles outside Ft. Wayne. Started as a private restaurant to serve Eshelman’s clients, when he ran a successful business insuring professional sports and entertainment organizations, the Joseph Decuis brand now includes a fine dining restaurant, café, inn and farm, where a large portion of the restaurant’s ingredients are raised, most notably Japanese-style Wagyu beef, as well as free range hens, mangalitsa pigs, goats, sheep, and turkeys. The farming operation prides itself on its all-natural, drug-free, humane, stress-free sustainable farming practices. In the process, Joseph Decuis has saved little Roanoke from virtual extinction, turning it into a rural destination. In January, Eshelman was in Indianapolis to lend his support to House Bill 1039, legislation being proposed by Rep. Matt Lehman (R-Berne), aimed at securing funding to support Indiana Grown, a program intended to better promote local produce and meat. NUVO reached Eshelman by phone to talk about how the eat local movement can benefit the state’s economy and, in particular, its rural communities. NUVO: What made you decide to get into food? PETE ESHELMAN: I’m from New Orleans, where you live for your next meal. The name of our restaurant, Joseph Decuis, Joseph Decius serves homegrown Japanese-style Wagyu in its fine dining restaurant.
Pete and Alice Eshelman run Joseph Decius, a farm-to-fork enterprise in Roanoke.
was actually an ancestor from Louisiana. We credit him for instilling our love of dining together and eating great food. It’s embedded in our family’s DNA, if you will. We would always entertain business people around the diningroom table. If you think about it, that’s the way you build relationships. NUVO: What made you take the leap from serving to raising food? ESHELMAN: Great food requires great ingredients, any chef will tell you that. And the best ingredients you raise yourself, or source from local farms. We started with vegetables and then we went to eggs. The big thing we got into was the Japanese, or Wagyu, beef.
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NUVO: What does your experience tell you about what’s possible in Indiana? ESHELMAN: We started a fine dining restaurant in a small Indiana town. A lot of people told us we were crazy. But Roanoke actually became an advantage because we’re not in a strip mall, we’re not in a big city. We’re located in a small, historic town with a lot of character and charm. We became a kind of economic catalyst because people would come from all over. We went from having guys in pickup trucks with shotguns in the back to limousines. NUVO: What’s at stake? ESHELMAN: As I got into this, I started sourcing foods from other farms and I met niche farmers and learned about what they were doing and the issues they were having. Then I met Ken Meter, who works for a company called Crossroads Research. They had been commissioned by the Indiana Department of Health to study what’s happening to food in Indiana. The one thing in this study that hit me like a lightning bolt was that Indiana families spend $15 billion a year on food. Think about that: $15 billion. And 90
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If you look at North Carolina or Kentucky, they have programs that have been extraordinarily successful. In North Carolina, for example, they have their locally-raised brand. They have, like 1,500 farms signed up. Do you know how many farms are signed up for Indiana Grown? Eighteen. The state came up with this idea, which was super, but there’s no mechanism in place to really push it. “Indiana families spend $15 billion You’ve got to put some resources in this. a year on food...90 percent of those percent of those dollars go out of state. So we don’t pay ourselves in Indiana. We are basically dependent on others. As a business guy, I see this as terrible, but I also see a huge opportunity to put a billion or two billion dollars back into the state. If we can create a billion dollar-plus food economy in Indiana, it can be an economic driver for rural Indiana: for our
dollars go out of state.”
— PETE ESHELMAN small towns, quality of life, our health. We could become an international culinary destination, like New Orleans or Napa. People from around the world come to visit our farm in Roanoke. They come from Japan, China, Korea, Europe. They enjoy seeing how we raise our food and experiencing it in the restaurant, staying at the inn. NUVO: What can the state do in terms of policy? ESHELMAN: I was in the insurance business for 30 years, and I thought that was highly regulated. Now that I’m in the food business, I can’t believe how regulated it is. There are a lot of laws that just don’t make sense. They get in the way of entrepreneurs. The second thing is what Rep. Lehman’s doing. The state can basically identify foods that are grown in Indiana and create an Indiana brand — Indiana Grown.
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ESHELMAN: I had a meeting about a year and a half ago at the restaurant. I invited about 30 people, including a representative from Sen. Coats, Congressman Stutzman and his righthand person, as well as state senators and representatives and farmers. I told them, we’re not asking for your blessing. We want you to know this is happening so you can understand it and get behind it. That morning I went to a grocery store and I got a platter of food. In the meeting, I held up a cucumber and said, “I want a show of hands. How many of you think we can raise cucumbers in the state of Indiana?” Everybody raised their hand. And I said, “If you look at the small print, this cucumber was raised in Guatamala. When you shop next, look where we’re buying our food. We’re not buying it here.” There are some super farms, chefs and restaurants in Indiana. It’s time to blow this wide open. n
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art of the Indianapolis Zoo’s stated core mission includes animal conservation, and the Zoo puts its money were its mouth is: one-quarter of a million dollars is handed out every other year to “an individual who has made extraordinary contributions to conservation efforts involving a single animal species or multiple species,” according to their website. The six finalists (winnowed down from 39 nominees) for this year’s award were announced on January 30. The $250,000 dollar top prize — the largest of its kind in the world — has been upped for 2014; past winners picked up $100K for their efforts. Why the increase? “These are people who are saving species all over the world,” said Prize spokesperson Judy Palermo. “They’ve committed their lives to it, they’ve sacrificed, they’ve put themselves in danger.” The grand prize winner, determined by a jury of fellow conservationists, will be announced mid-year and honored at a gala in September. “We try to pick [people] who have a mountain-top view of conservation,” said Palermo. “We have a professor of science from UCLA, from Duke, the AZA (Association of Zoos and Aquariums) Field Conservation Executive Director, CEO of the National Audubon Society and … and someone from the zoo board, Myrta Pulliam, from the Star. There are nine people on the prize jury.” Five runners-up will each pocket $10,000. 26 INDIANA LIVING GREEN // 02.05.14 - 02.12.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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JOEL BERGER, PH.D., of the Wildlife Conservation Society. Berger’s trying to determine how the populations of large land animals are being affected by human activity. He’s been instrumental in helping governments in Africa, Mongolia and America understand the importance of preserving species from the musk ox to the rhino. GERARD CEBALLOS, PH.D., of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Ceballos was instrumental in the passage of Mexico’s Act for Endangered Species, legislation that protects over 40,000 animals. CARL JONES, PH.D., of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trusts and the Mauritian Wildlife Federation. Jones is focused on preventing a repeat of the dodo’s extinction. The island Republic of Mauritius is home to other endangered avian species — ever seen a pink pigeon? — and Jones’ work has been critical in pulling a dozen types of birds from the brink of extinction. RUSSELL A. MITTERMEIER, PH.D., of Conservation International. In addition to leading the aforementioned group, Mittermeier gave us the notion of “megadiversity countries,” an expansion of the concept of “biodiversity hotspots” — simply put, a broadly diverse area that’s targeted for attention. One of the by-products of his work: Mittermeier’s had no less than SEVEN new species named after him. >>>
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There are ways to take a more active role to make sure our food system doesn’t continue on its current path. Here are a few: There’s a new group in town called the Indy Food Council and they’re involved in outreach efforts, setting up working groups and accepting members (individual membership is open to the public at no cost). Slow Food Indy just had its Annual Meeting, but there are plenty of great events on their calendar focused on their mission of good, clean and fair food for everyone. Standard individual membership in Slow Food is $60 and comes with great benefits, but many events are open to the public. Follow the Hoosier Environmental Council as they fight to protect Indiana’s agricultural system. You can check their Bill Watch 2014 page to see what’s happening with two very dangerous bills before our legislature. If the vote has not taken place by the time you’re reading this, please consider sending a letter to your legislators through the HEC Action Center Remember that every dollar you spend on food is a vote. Shop more at farmer’s markets buying foods that are grown and produced sustainably (and don’t be afraid to ask farmer’s market vendors hard questions!). If it makes sense logistically and financially, support your local food co-op or natural grocery store. Eat at restaurants that source ingredients from local and sustainable growers and producers. You can find links for all the fine folks we’ve mentioned here: .indianalivinggreen.com/ whats-for-dinner/
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This may be a bit out of your normal scope of questions but do you have any information on the sustainability of seafood served at local restaurants, particularly sushi restaurants? I’ve had a hard time finding out what specific fishes are being used and how and where they are harvested. Any insight would be helpful! — THANKS, CLAIRE
<<< CARL SAFINA, PH.D., of the Blue Ocean Institute. He’s written six books and hosted the PBS program Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina, he’s worked to craft the United Nations Global Fisheries Treaty, he’s helped reform drift-net fishing and studied the effects of Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster. In short, Safina’s an ambassador for marine life. PATRICIA C. WRIGHT, PH.D., of Centre ValBio, Stony Brook University. Researchers thought that Madasgar’s golden bamboo lemur had been extinct
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There’s an app for that. Download the Seafood Watch app by the Monterey Bay Aquarium to look up information about oceanfriendly seafood and sushi. You can look up any seafood by its name and where it was sourced AND there’s a tab where you can locate businesses and restaurants that sell sustainable seafood. MY FAVE LOCALES: Goose the Market takes orders for fresh seafood (including local shrimp!). Every weekend, Vincent the fish guy talks to various fishmongers about quality, sustainability and health. He then posts a list of the best options for the week, accepts orders until 4pm Thursday, and you have fresh seafood for the weekend. He says, “Some species or types of seafood can be tough to source conscientiously; sometimes we’ll get lucky & there will be a reasonable option available, other times we just have to say no. Large fish can be especially tricky since they not only can be subject to low counts if not caught in certain regions, but can also be a mercury risk. Fishing methods are also to be taken into account.” Junonia Fish Market sells fresh seafood from their retail case in City Market and they serve up a delicious menu for Tomlinson Tap Room. Owner, Chef Kathy, wants to see City Market bustle again, all while making sustainable choices for our oceans and waterways. My best advice: ASK! When ordering fish at a restaurant, ask the server about its source. Most of the time they don’t know – and haven’t even heard of sustainable seafood – so it becomes a learning experience for all! — PIECE OUT, RENEE
for 50 years — until Wright rediscovered the animal one year after being awarded her Ph.D. Wright’s work stresses the importance of the connection between the Malagasy people and the forests and animals that give them their livelihood, and she fought government corruption and the timber industry to help create Ranomafana Nation Park in Madagascar. n For more info on this year’s finalists and past winners, log on to IndianapolisPrize.org. NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 02.05.14 - 02.12.14 // INDIANA LIVING GREEN 27
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Anyone who’s read enough interviews with Ryan Kattner of Philly experimental band Man Man knows the frontman often greets journalists with a (polite) non-sequitur to kick off their talk. My bon mot? “It’s not my fault, I didn’t do it,” Kattner said when he clicked on to our call. But that was about as off-topic as it got in our brief chat before the band’s Indy date this weekend at Deluxe. We had things to discuss, after all, including the new record On Oni Pond, the first significant collaborative record for Kattner (a.k.a. Honus Honus) who wrote it alongside Christopher Powell (Pow Pow). It’s a tamer outing for Man Man, whose kinetic, wacky releases are accompanied by cacophonous, bizarre live shows. And what’s next for them?
HONUS HONUS: We’re going to start working on our next record. I have to buckle down and start writing after this tour’s over, which I’m not looking forward to. NUVO: You’re not looking forward to it? HONUS: It’s like any other creative job. You just kind
of have to pull out of the ether. It could be fun, there could be discoveries made, but it’s also work. But I’m not going to complain about my occupation because I’m lucky to have it.
NUVO: It’s a hard one, though. HONUS: It is a difficult one. It’s the hardest easiest-
seeming job.
NUVO: I haven’t seen you tour this record yet. How do the songs from the new record – which has a decidedly different tone, a bit calmer, almost a bit tamer – integrate into your live set? HONUS: They’re still pretty visceral live. If anything, songs like “Loot My Body,” or “Paul’s Grotesque” turn into nice jam parties live. I don’t know if I like that combination of words, “jam” and “parties,” but whatever. They take on a different spirit live, because ultimately, we’re not trying to recreate the records. We want our live shows to have their own flavor. — KATHERINE COPLEN Find the full interview online at NUVO.net. Man Man, Saturday, Feb. 8 Deluxe at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., 8 p.m., $20, all-ages
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“Green Funeral” gets the release off to an appropriately badass start, with Birden (formerly of Fountain Square garage rock trio The Kemps) crunching away on a thick guitar riff that reeks of weed. Paying homage to Black Sabbath with the song title (referencing “Electric Funeral” from Black Sabbath’s 1971 Paranoid release), the tune’s simple, head-bang-inducing rhythm and patterns would surely make Tony Iommi smile. The group’s SUBMITTED PHOTO second song on the cassette, “Space Venture,” opens with a droning rhythm, dragging the listener along until Birden again begins to rip away around the 1:50 mark. This pattern repeats twice more, with the final ascendency turning out to be the highlight of Side A, as Birden once again channels his inner Iommi with one more fantastic piece of heavy riffage. Despite the release of 2013’s Love Moon on the same trio of labels as the cassette release, I was still very much anticipating the latest release from Male Bondage. Of course, I wasn’t disappointed. Side B serves up another fresh batch of “posttoke adventure sludge,” in the form of three very
Opener DotEXE made a lasting impact in the short amount of time that he was on stage. Starting off with a hard style remix of Ace Hood’s “Bugatti,” he ignited a fuse in the crowd. Remixes of Krewella’s “Crush on You” and The Champs’ “Tequila” had the ladies in the crowd swooning. But it was a nasty remix of Eiffel 65’s “Blue” that made my jaw drop. Adding a house feel and two big drops to an already classic track highlighted the 45-minute set. My only real beef came with the crowd. Since it was all-ages, a lot of teenagers decided to stay up past their bedtimes and SUBMITTED PHOTO attend. Now I usually don’t pay much attention to what’s happening in the crowd, but this was the exception to the rule. I’d list all the atrocities but I’ll save you the pain of reading them and limit it to three: girls taking selfies in the front row, couples fighting during the encore and parades of people attempting to push their way to an already congested middle area. The sad truth is that it seemed the majority weren’t there for the music, just the show. — BRIAN WEISS
solid tunes. Formerly of Kokomo’s The Sorely Trying Days, Male Bondage lead vocalist Adam Jones is no stranger to living up to high expectations. On “Raunch Slab,” the Bondage boys get Side B off to a droney, dragging start (similar to Birden’s antics on “Space Ventura”). However, the band quickly picks up the pace, ripping into series of thrashing up-tempo snippets and gnarly sludge breakdowns. The final breakdown on “Raunch Slab” turns into “Stress Cavity,” which features more sludgy goodness, with a slightly more melancholy tone than the previous song, along with a shred-packed conclusion. Like Side A, Side B closes with best song of the bunch. After a series of driving scuzz attacks, the song concludes in a gnarly ascent to Shredtown USA, putting a great cap on this very solid Indianapolis release. — SETH JOHNSON LIVE
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I’ve followed Phosphorescent to a lot of sets, including a blissed-out one in Bloomington’s John Waldron space and a harried, rushed set inside a small club at SXSW (typical of the festival, overall). I’ve seen them be great and I’ve seen them mess up and I’ve loved it all, honestly. And their performance at the Vogue last week that melded a bit of both — the perfection and the missteps — that was my favorite by far. By all accounts, 2013’s Muchacho is a stand-out release, a career-defining album for Phosphorescent’s Matthew
Houck, who especially shined on his short solo set at the end of the night, including “Muchacho’s Tune,” on the keys. That’s even though he had problems with both his guitar and keyboard (the latter of which he borrowed from awe-inspiring keyboardist Scott Stapleton); as in other bumbled moments in Phosphorescent shows I’ve seen before, the strength of his songwriting outweighed the minutes we had to wait for him to fix his malfunctioning guitar. And perhaps, as the man’s stock-intrade is beautiful songs about brokenness, those moments were my favorite of all. — KATHERINE COPLEN
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his week marks the 100th anniversary of William S. Burroughs’ birth. In celebration, a group of dedicated Burroughs’ acolytes in Bloomington have organized a series of events in tribute to the late writer under the banner The Burroughs Century. One of the marquee events of The Burroughs Century will take place Friday at the Bishop: a spoken word performance by no-wave pioneer, writer and underground music icon Lydia Lunch. Local garage rock trio Thee Tsunamis will kick the event off at 9 p.m. I spoke with Lunch via Skype from her home in Barcelona, Spain. NUVO: Can you tell me about your connection to William S. Burroughs’ work? What interested you in participating in this celebration?
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NUVO: Do you have any thoughts on why Burroughs’ work has consistently influenced rock music through the years?
LYDIA LUNCH: I think there’s a few reasons. It’s the nature of what he wrote about. The books were quite different, and if people go in and read four or five, they’re going to LYDIA LUNCH: I was on a Giorno poetry find one that really impacts them. record with Burroughs sometime in the It’s also how he lived his life, how he early ‘80s. We didn’t have much to do refused convention, the concepts he’s with each other. He probably was just throwing out and the language itself. He... wondering, “Who is this young female was a very unique individual. He was just upstart and what is she doing hanging such an odd creature who had an incredaround here?” ible style. In rock music people are looking for style. It was everything he represented, a lack of conventionality and complete rebellion. Burroughs “He was just such an odd creature” was so unapologetic about what he did and he continued to do what — LUNCH he did and write about it until he was much older than I am. But I thought it was important to insert myself in the The Burroughs Century is because we talk a lot about the same things. We both talk about need a lot; he talks about the “algebra of need.” Even though our obsessions were different — I was never a heroin addict, but I did do a lot of drugs and I was aways addicted to adrenaline. I thought it would be interesting instead of using his cut-up technique [taking a finished text and cutting it into pieces, then rearranging into a new text] to see what happens to cut-in Burroughs work to mine. That’s basically what I’ll be doing at the performance at the Bishop. NUVO: Do you feel as though the combined works create a cohesive dialogue? LUNCH: It’s pretty coherent. But I think the beauty of what Burroughs does is that it doesn’t have to be coherent. That’s what the cut-up technique was all about. Not necessarily making complete reasonable sense but trying to encourage another kind of sense.
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NUVO: Burroughs has been accused of being misogynistic in both his work and personal views. Does that element of his character bother you? LUNCH: Well, he killed his wife. I don’t know; people think I’m [a misandrist] or that I hate men. I only hate men who are in positions of power, that are corporate kleptomaniacs and warlords. I don’t hate the average man. It doesn’t matter to me if he was a misogynist. It’s not the person I judge; it’s the work. I’m misanthropic for the most part. If you’re a misogynist I think “Oh, so you only hate half of the human race? Wow, I hate most of the motherfuckers.” I say that with a great amount of sarcasm and a lot of fucking truth. Most of my favorite writers were dirty old men in one way or another: Hubert Selby, Henry Miller, Genet and Burroughs, too. NUVO: In addition to the Burroughs reading you’re also giving a lecture titled Performance, Sex, and Punk Feminism?
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I might be able to raise a glass and cheer them on. But I really don’t think they are. This is for the alternative paper, right? [laughs] Go crack a dick, bitch. I dealt with some of that with the films I did in the early ‘80s with Richard Kern. By some people’s standards the films are pornographic. But they are not pornography. They were dealing with extreme sexual issues and trying to come to an understanding of knowing you’re not alone in these feelings. What really bothers me about Lady Gaga is that she’s basically a cultural klepto. She’s stolen from every art sub-genre and through stylists, she commodifies everything. She is commodifying what is a way of life for some people and turning it into a fashion statement. To me, that’s cheap. I guess I just come from a group of people who felt it was important to express ourselves and be who we were, not what we fucking wore. Not making music that’s lyrically redundant and with no vision whatsoever, except towards commerce.
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Julianna Barwick, Vasillius Angel-voiced Julianna Barwick comes back for her second show in the area, after a performance at the Hilbert with the Indianapolis Children’s Choir last week. We spoke last week, and she said of her musical performance style: “For me, it’s just more about feeling and sounds. And all the music I make just starts with me making stuff up as I go. I plug all this stuff in, I start playing around with effects and I just start singing, like I have my whole life. It’s not intentional; it’s just what happens. I don’t want to be wordless singing lady - it’s not what I was thinking — but it just happens. “It’s like with Sigur Ros too. I don’t know what they’re saying, but I can weep when I listen to it. Or get super amped. Those kinds of emotion in language translate without words. I really love that, because I feel like the listener can adapt that and process the music and internalize and individualize it. And make it their own, and not make it about some story that I’m telling. It just so happens that that’s a side product of how I ended up making music. Which I totally get, because there’s a lot of music in different languages that completely moves me, and I know that other
Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St. 8 p.m., $5, 21+ PRODUCERS Writer’s Block Producer Showcase This month’s showcase features DMA and Tyler Knapp; attendees are encouraged to mingle and network — while enjoying the dope beats, of course. Bringing Down the Band, DJ MetroGnome and Lonegevity present. Sabbatical, 921 Broad Ripple Ave 9 p.m., $5, 21+ Rebelution, Cris Cab, Green Room Rockers, Deluxe at Old National Centre, all-ages Retro Rewind, Vogue, 21+ Il Troubadore, Tim Brickley, B Side Lounge, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Karaoke Wednesday, Shorty’s Pub and Eatery, all-ages The Family Jam, Mousetrap, 21+
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people feel the same way.” Russian Recording, 1021 S. Walnut St. (Bloomington) 8 p.m., $10, all-ages ROOTS Houndmouth “I know that Matt, when he was 21, he went and saw Gillian [Welch] at the Bluebird,” Houndmouth keyboard player Katie Toupin said on the phone yesterday. “And from that time, when we were a local nothing band before Houndmouth, that was our dream. To play something like the Bluebird. It really is a special venue for us to play.” The New Albany roots rockers will kick off their winter tour with a show at that venue in support of their record From the Hills Below the City. Look on NUVO.net for the full interview with Katie. The Bluebird, 216 N. Walnut St. (Bloomington) 9 p.m., $10 in advance, $15 at door, 21+ FUN AND GAMES Dingo Dingo, The Chicago Typewriters, Coup De’ Tat, Rocket Doll Revue Burlesque First trivia, then burlesque then rock and roll. What more could you want? Get there at 8 p.m. for trivia ($3) and then 10 p.m. for music ($5). Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St. 8 p.m., prices vary, 21+ EDM Altered Thurzdaze Get a healthy dose of EDM every Thursday night. Both Mousetrap regulars and electronic music fans will find something to like about this weekly event, especially as genres like dubstep, EDM and
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Wild Cub, Bailiff, Sol Cat, DJ Jon Rogers Wild Cub’s Keegan DeWitt had a busy January when I hopped on the phone with him last week. He had two films at Sundance (for the second year in a row) and brought his Nashville
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Dark Side Orchestra electro-pop band Wild Cub up there with him to play a couple shows. They just re-released their debut record Youth on Mom and Pop music. “There’s so many different facets to this. One big obvious one is that we live in a time where music is just disposable. It appears and then it’s instantly gone, and it’s like ‘Hey, what else do you got?’ In a way, I feel a little bit lucky to take something that we put so much work into and make sure that it has a life that it deserves, and
that it can really breathe and exist for a while. The band essentially formed around us recording the record. I was doing singer-songwriter stuff and floating around, and we wrote ‘Thunder Clatter’ [a single from Youth] and started to record it and thought, ‘Okay, I think we might have a record here; let’s keep digging around this.’ Then we recorded the record. So although it’s existed for a little while, we were kind of forced into existence because of the record
in a good way. It feels like we’re only starting to realize what it is. The third tier of that, which might sound cheesy, but I think it’s a useful analogy is, if a tree falls in the woods and nobody hears it kind of thing. And now, it’s great. We spent the first six months to a year essentially tap-dancing and trying to get people to care, and now it’s a whole different substantive journey to be able to go places and have the room be full, and have the people know the music and be excited. To be able to really bring the density to the music that is not there if it just exists on Spotify and people can flip through tracks really quickly.” DO317 Lounge, 1043 Virginia Ave. Suite 215 8 p.m., FREE, 21+ DEAD Dark Star Orchestra Dark Star Orchestra, the deadest of Dead tribute bands, has been ticking since the ‘90s. This is a serious Dead band. Sometimes they even get members of the Grateful Dead themselves (Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Donna Jean Godchaux, more) even hop up on stage with them. Soon – very soon, in fact – they’ll exceed the number
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OPENINGS Re-Grand Opening We spoke with the new owners of Broad Ripple record shop Indy CD and Vinyl a couple weeks back, and now that renovation they told us about is almost complete. They’re celebrating with a weekend-long party, including sales on new records (including some awesome new used collectibles) new products, new branding, new paint and much more. Local DJs Cool Hand Lex, Action Jackson, Jackola, Lockstar, Helicon, Metrognome, Gabby Love, Indiana Jones and Rusty Redenbacher will be on hand on Saturday On Sunday, A-Squared Industries (which includes two of three of the new owners of the shop!), Shimmercore and Crookshanks (both employees of the shop!) and DJ Little Town will spin. Quincy Royal (Theprezforevea) will also hit the store with his new album Get Fresh: Radio City along with the rest of the festivities. Indy CD and Vinyl, 806 Broad Ripple Ave. Saturday-Sunday, FREE, all-ages EXPERIMENTAL Man Man We’ve got a shot chat with Man Man’s Honus Honus on page 28 and a full interview online before the show. Deluxe at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St. 8 p.m., $15, all-ages ANNIVERSARIES Rock House Cafe Five Year Anniversary Show Phoenix on The Fault Line, Model Strange, Soulsik and Dead Man’s Grill will perform at this show, which celebrates
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When songwriters make a “slant rhyme,” the words they use don’t really rhyme, but they sound close enough alike to mimic a rhyme. An example occurs in “The Bad Touch,” a tune by the Bloodhound Gang: “You and me baby ain’t nothing but mammals / So let’s do it like they do on the Discovery Channel.” Technically, “mammals” doesn’t rhyme with “channel.” I suspect that in the coming week you will have experiences with metaphorical resemblances to slant rhymes. But as long as you don’t fuss and fret about the inexactness you encounter, as long as you don’t demand that everything be precise and cleaned-up, you will be entertained and educated. Vow to see the socalled imperfections as soulful. Virgo
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Almost,” writes novelist Joan Bauer. “It’s a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe.” I’m sure you know about that feeing yourself, Cancerian. Sometimes it has seemed like your entire life is composed of thousands of small almosts that add up to one gigantic almost. But I have good news: There is an excellent chance that in the next 14 to 16 weeks you will graduate from the endless and omnipresent almost; you will rise up and snatch a bold measure of completeness from out of the ever-shifting flow. And it all kicks into high gear now. Cancer
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most recent book is this: “Ever since I learned to see three sides to every story, I’m finding much better stories.” I’m recommending that you find a way to use this perspective as your own in the coming weeks, Leo. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, it’s crucial that you not get stuck in an oppositional mode. It would be both wrong and debilitating to believe that you must choose between one of two conflicting options. With that in mind, I will introduce you to a word you may not know: “trilemma.” It transcends a mere dilemma because it contains a third alternative. Leo
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1984, Don Henley’s song “The Boys of Summer” reached the top of the Billboard charts. “Out on the road today / I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac,” Henley sings wistfully near the end of the tune. He’s dismayed by the sight of the Grateful Dead’s logo, an ultimate hippie symbol, displayed on a luxury car driven by snooty rich kids. Almost 20 years later, the band The Ataris covered “The Boys of Summer,” but changed the lyric to “Out on the road today / I saw a Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac.” It conveyed the same mournful contempt, but this time invoking the iconic punk band Black Flag. I offer this tale to you, Virgo, as an encouragement to update the way you think about your Virgo
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Food aficionado Michael
Pollan says that Americans “worry more about food and derive less pleasure from eating” than people in other countries. If you ask them what their association is with “chocolate cake,” they typically say “guilt.” By contrast, the French are likely to respond to the same question with “celebration.” From an astrological perspective, I think it’s appropriate for you to be more like the French than the Americans in the coming weeks -- not just in your attitude toward delicious desserts, but in regards to every opportunity for pleasure. This is one of those times when you have a license to guiltlessly explore the heights and depths of bliss. Libra
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spoken among the Eastern Canadian Inuit, the word for “simplicity” is katujjiqatigiittiarnirlu. This amusing fact reminds me of a certain situation in your life. Your quest to get back to basics and reconnect with your core sources is turning out to be rather complicated. If you hope to invoke all of the pure, humble clarity you need, you will have to call on some sophisticated and ingenious magic. Scorpio
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “What is the purpose
of the giant sequoia tree?” asked environmentalist Edward Abbey. His answer: “The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.” I suggest you meditate on all the ways you can apply that wisdom as a metaphor to your own issues. For example: What monumental part of your own life might be of service to a small, fragile part? What major accomplishment of yours can provide strength and protection to a ripening potential that’s underappreciated by others? Sagittarius
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “To burn with desire
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Back in 2002, three young men launched Youtube, in part motivated by a banal desire. They were frustrated because they couldn’t find online videos of the notorious incident that occurred during the Superbowl halftime show, when Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction exposed her breast. In response, they created the now-famous website that allows people to share videos. I foresee the possibility of a comparable sequence for you, Aquarius. A seemingly superficial wish or trivial interest could inspire you to come up with a fine new addition to your world. Pay attention to your whimsical notions. Aquarius
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.” That’s what 20th-century author Truman Capote said about his own writing process. Back in that primitive pre-computer era, he scrawled his words on paper with a pencil and later edited out the extraneous stuff by applying scissors to the manuscript. Judging from your current astrological omens, Pisces, I surmise you’re in a phase that needs the power of the scissors more than the power of the pencil. What you cut away will markedly enhance the long-term beauty and value of the creation you’re working on. Pisces
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