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Music on Soccer Currently listening to the podcast: A playlist for the soccer field by Kyle Long (A Cultural Manifesto, Aug. 7-14), I felt the immediate need to share it with my directors in my department.

Despite the fact that we just executed what could be said to be the biggest latino soccer tournament in the city, I have always had a somewhat indifferent take on soccer. As I was reading the article, however, the words inevitably started to resonate with me. Forgetting the years of attempts to make soccer an insignificant part of my life, I willingly let the music settle in. This article

made me feel all sorts of happy for a sport I thought I no longer had an emotional connection to.

I have also made it a point to not only share it with my network, but also my relatives in Mexico, as one could arguably state, Mexico is where the heart of soccer lives.

So, I applaud you NUVO for featuring content that is relevant, substantial and original (I can’t think of any other place where I would be able to find all this information in one place) not only locally but internationally as well.

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short month ago, I helped a friend move into a new place. The house was fully gutted and renovated. Fake brick walls came down and green countertops were replaced with a beautifully tiled backsplash and granite. The old, red where Broad Ripple is quickly merging carpet is gone and wood flooring now lies with Downtown and young, urban proin its place. The new deck on the back is fessionals are becoming more prevalent. the perfect addition. With fresh paint on Several eviction notices were given upon the exterior, this house is now the nicest on purchase and the work was immediately the block. underway. In the short month my friend The house next door, and the one on has lived there, workers have been out the other side of that, are boarded up and every day. The exterior has been painted, appear to have been that way for quite the gang symbols are mostly gone and some time. the place has been renamed with a new, An apartment complex across the street flashy sign and landscaping underneath. has a very active group of people and visiThe new owner, also upon purchase, tors coming through regularly. The outside apparently came through the neighboris tagged with gang graffiti and trash litters the yard. In one month, the cops have come around several times and someone set the car Constant presence and pride park on fire.

The house my friend moved make a difference. into was up for sale upon renovation, but after several months of no activity, the ownhood, knocked on every single door, introers finally decided to rent it. No doubt that duced himself and told each and every the place was just too expensive for most of person what his intentions were and that if the neighbors to want to buy. The location they all worked together, the drugs would may appear to be too risky for newcomers stop coming through and hopefully the to want to settle. robberies, too.

The draw for my friend, besides the fresh He can often be seen biking by, checking paint and new house smell, was the Monon up on the place, at all hours. I’m not sure Trail in the backyard and the proximity to anyone in the apartments would recognize favorite bars and restaurants. him in his bike helmet and sunglasses, But what sealed the deal was the nextbut the neighbors know who he is and he door neighbor, Barbara. Before the furniwaves and smiles and passes right by. ture was even moved in, Barbara had come It seems like all it takes is a few simple over and introduced herself as the neighsteps to see a neighborhood change. borhood “watchdog.”

Constant presence and pride make a “You’re going to be fine here,” she told difference. Everyone in the area knows him. “It may look scary now, but we have it Barbara by first name and she knows all under control up here.” every single person’s story and the names “In fact, see those plastic bags hanging of their kids and grandkids. Barbara is on the fence? That was my husband. He the “watchdog” of the neighborhood, but was tired of looking at the trash on the more than that she is the kind of neighground.” Then she proceeded to point at bor every neighborhood would want. She the kids playing “Curb Ball” in the street has her eyes and ears on it all and spends and told him every one of their names. her days and nights singing on the porch, The bags she was talking about were inviting the people with their stories over typical plastic grocery bags, tied to the fallfor a drink. ing chain-link fence, and after just a few It’s as simple as that. days of hanging there, every one of them I’m not a huge advocate for gentrificawas full. tion, but with people who care about their As it turns out, the apartment complex neighborhoods, like Barbara, and property was recently purchased by a younger owners like the guy on the bike, I am hopeman, who came in with the intention of ful that even the most problematic neighturning the place into a “SoBro” apartborhoods can be revitalized. ment, as it is right in the heart of the area

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Bicycle Blues I wanted to thank you for writing this article (Bicycle Diaries, “A deadly warning,”). It was well written and definitely expresses the opinion of so many of us who were touched by David’s passing. David Browning was one of my closest friends and I had the opportunity to be with him throughout his ordeal and was with him when he passed.

He would have been touched as well. His mission in life was to help other people through service. That bicycle and articles like yours that keep his memory alive will help people. If one person gets in a bicycle accident while wearing a helmet they wouldn’t previously have worn, then he would be happy.

— Dan Levine, Indianapolis Thanks so much for your piece about the Monon ghost bike (and certainly about David). An update on the bike, it’s now been vandalized three times – recently someone took the entire back wheel (seat and seat post have been taken twice). I don’t know if this is news worthy, but certainly pisses me off!

— Aaron Spiegel, Indianapolis

Raise the Minimum Wage I am a taxpayer and an active participant in my country’s economy, and for me one thing is abundantly clear: America needs an increase in the federal minimum wage. ( NOTE: This letter is a response to AbdulHakim Shabazz’s most recent column, “Don’t raise the minimum wage.”)

Every day that the minimum wage remains below a true living wage, we get stuck with the bill. Think about it. An employee working at the minimum wage lives below the federal poverty line, and thus often takes advantage of government benefits.

When this occurs companies that pay the minimum wage are not just gaming the system, they’re cheating the American taxpayer.

Ron Unz, publisher of The American Conservative , is critical of this conduct noting that federal and local governments spend vast sums of money subsidizing the working-poor. This, he notes, is an enormous corporate welfare program in which businesses get the financial benefit of a low-paid workforce while shifting much of the cost onto the American taxpayer a classic example of privatizing profits and socializing costs.

Private sector employers should cover the expenses of their workers rather than force taxpayers to pay the tab. For this to happen, we need a higher minimum wage that lifts its earners out of poverty.

On top of stiffing taxpayers, a low minimum wage also robs American businesses of much needed growth. Let’s put this into perspective. Today, at the rate of $7.25 an hour, the federal minimum wage is not only insufficient when it comes to caring for oneself or a family, it is historically low. For decades the minimum wage, when adjusted for inflation, has been equal to or exceeded $9 an hour. Today the minimum wage, if it had kept pace with inflation, would be $10.56. This means millions of Americans who earn this low, static wage each year struggle to purchase the goods and services that keep pace with the natural progression of inflation.

This unfortunate reality harms an economy in need of

stimulation. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, an increase in the federal minimum wage would provide a big economic boost. With a hike of merely $1, small businesses and retailers of durable goods will see a considerable spike in sales due to increased demand from minimum wage workers.

Economists have long maintained that the average minimum wage worker is likely to spend rather than save, given a limited income. Therefore, small businesses and the retail sector stand to benefit greatly as the aforementioned $1 hike will result in an extra $2,800 for the each of the millions of households earning the minimum wage.

But wait, raising the minimum wage kills jobs, right? Absolutely not. In fact, recent studies from economists across the political spectrum show that an increase in the minimum wage has a negligible effect on employment numbers. Further, the respected Initiative on Global Markets Forum recently polled 40 economists who agreed four-toone that the benefits from an increase in the federal minimum wage outweigh the costs.

In the end, taxpayers deserve relief and small businesses need the injection of capital, but raising the minimum wage is also a moral imperative. The fact is millions of Americans work full-time jobs year-round only to find themselves living and raising families in poverty. These employees, as studies show, generally do not work for mom and pop shops, rather they are mostly employed by the largest global corporations; enterprises that currently enjoy record profits at all-time highs while wages are at the lowest level of GDP in American history.

This disparity is increasingly unjustifiable. In the greatest country on earth, everyone willing to work should earn at least a living wage. If not, we deprive the lowwage American worker of dignity and we undermine the true value of hard work.

It’s good for taxpayers, it’s good for businesses and it’s the right thing to do. Let’s raise the minimum wage.

— Brent Pierce, attorney and an adjunct college instructor teaching political science.

Finally, here’s a note from one our readers who enjoyed our Mass Ave Criterium event: Just a note to say that yesterday was SO fun! It was my first time volunteering for a cycling event. I’ve done many running races, but this was WAY fun! I have a friend who races, so I thought I would try it. I will volunteer AGAIN! Loved being on the course, felt like a tour guide at times. But I know my way around Mass Ave so it worked out great and the people were so nice! I was right across from the Rathskellar so many didn’t know what was going on and were asking lots of questions. I feel like it creates a lot of awareness when you have volunteers that know about the event and what is going on. People thought it was way cool and didn’t 2013 know that Indy offered such an event. With the MAC and the Indy Crit in town, we’ll get people involved in and loving cycling for sure!

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WHAT HAPPENED? A spike in readership The literary proclivities of Indy youth spiked this summer as measured by at least one metric: Participation in The Indianapolis Public Library’s 2013 Summer Reading Program spiked to the highest number since 2004 — a total of 59,836 children and families, including more than 24,000 kids aged 6-11 and more than 16,000 toddlers and preschoolers. An added bonus: The library allowed kids to use their reading efforts to work off library card debt. More than 1,100 children took advantage of the opportunities, working off almost $25,000 in fees. The library will continue to offer this option for the rest of the year to readers under 18. In addition to all the local reading success, participants in the programdonated 1,210 books for students involved with Christel House International Learning Centers in India, South Africa and Mexico. Local readers can continue to support Indy’s literary culture by visiting the Indianapolis Public Library Foundation’s book sales at the Library Services Center, 2450 N. Meridian St. Half-price book day is from noon-7:30 p.m. on Fri., Aug. 16, followed by $7 bag day from 10 a.m.4 p.m. on Sat., Aug. 17.

Broad Ripple brouhaha Ill ease continues among villagers over plans to redevelop the Broad Ripple brown field site at and around the abandoned Shell Station on College Avenue just north of Central Canal. Protestors gathered at the site last Friday to demonstrate their discontent. Meanwhile, staff with the Department of Metropolitan Development’s planning division issued a tentative recommendation in support of the plan, while noting that the height variances requested would exceed the Envision Broad Ripple zoning guidelines by 20 to 40 percent. The Hearing Examiner will consider the proposal during at 1 p.m. Aug. 15 meeting in the Public Assembly Room of the City-County Building.

Rudy Nehrling of Good Earth Natural Foods has requested a continuance because he said the staff report was not publicly available five days prior to the meeting, providing inadequate time to digest the latest report. Nehrling added that he would like to see an independent traffic study not paid for by the developer.

Quantifying homelessness The results of the annual statewide homeless tally were released on Aug. 7. Officials found 688 unsheltered people and 5,396 people in shelters , safe havens or temporary transitional housing. Of these people: 1,543 were under 18 years old; 1,116 of the adults counted were women fleeing from domestic violence; and 743 of the adults counted were veterans. The total number of homeless individuals dropped 3 percent from the total counted last year, but the number of homeless households — at 4,375 — was up 4 percent over last year.

Among the measured subgroups, the total number of households with dependent children saw the largest annual drop, down 23 percent to 739. The number of homeless veterans spiked 12 percent, though officials noted their hope that $3.2 million in federal grant money heading to Indiana will help improve services to veterans and their families experiencing or close to homelessness. Locally, a new effort “to make homelessness rare, short-lived and recoverable in Indianapolis” will launch on Wednesday with a new cooperative Continuum of Care effort. Blueprint 2.0, the plan guiding the effort, is posted at indycoc.org. The COC’s first full meeting is set for 1-4 p.m., Aug. 14, at 37 Place, 2605 E. 25th St. Also upcoming: The Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention will host “The Cost Of Doing Nothing, A Conversation On Poverty” from 4-6 p.m. on Sept. 12 at the NCAA Christine Grant Ballroom, 700 W. Washington St. — REBECCA TOWNSEND

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State Budget Committee Chairman Luke Kenley, R-Noblesville, is not convinced the current plan to expand mass transit in Indy is the wisest use of tax dollars. And, for him, the issue should not be decided by the people without appropriate guidance from elected officials.

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ditor’s note: In calling for a fact-check to ensure that I had appropriately summarized Senate Appropriations Chair Luke Kenley’s comment that highway infrastructure was entirely supported by user fees “through gas taxes and various vehiclerelated sales taxes and licensing fees,” an unexpected opportunity opened to discuss with the senator his take on the issues surrounding the effort to increase public transportation options in Indianapolis and surrounding communities. Kenley is a Republican from Noblesville. Edited excerpts from our conversation follow.

NUVO: Isn’t impossible to keep up with infrastructure demands? Isn’t that why we had to do Major Moves and receive subsidies from the American Recovery and Re-investment Act? LUKE KENLEY: The Major Moves was a conversion of these toll road fees to a principal amount of money, so it all came from the highway users. So in that sense, it is a user

fee reduced to a present net value capitalized amount so that we’d have plenty to spend today. So (the governor) is spending the money today based on what we’re supposed to get over the next 75 years. That’s really not a subsidy from another source.

NUVO: I take your point about user fees, but that is not sustainable.

KENLEY: Let me try to say it in a different way and maybe we’ll kind of get connected here.

The gas tax itself is a little over $500 million. When you add in all these other fees that are related to highway usage, you get up to a total annually of about $1.1 billion.

We also charge sales tax on gasoline, which yields another $500 million; that gets state revenues to be used for INDOT and highway funding up to $1.6 billion.

Then you add to that whatever we get from the federal gas tax and the federal allocation. Now in recent years … the revenues on the gas tax both for the sate and federal government has been falling a little bit because of fuel efficiency and so the feds have actually funded some of their highway fund distributions out of

some reserves that have been established through prior usage on the highways, so it gets a little fuzzy … but even transfers from the general fund are actually from highway user fee-related reserves.

I think the point is, in the big picture, that virtually all the capital costs of the infrastructure improvements and the annual maintenance of the highways is paid for by user fees. In the case of mass transit, even under the plan presented by CIRTA, zero percent of the capital infrastructure costs will be paid by user fee. In other words, you’ll never pay that off; you just have to take it from some other revenue source.

Across the nation, the direct fare box only generates 16 percent of the operating cost for the mass transit system. So you have a huge subsidy by percentile of any mass transit system, whereas even if you think you can find some subsidy for the highways, it’s a very, very small percentage and it may not even exist.

NUVO: So we’re not facing a shortfall on transportation funding as we look forward?

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GET INVOLVED Support music education for kids Audio Mask: We Are The Robots, the second annual fundraiser to support AYS’s after-school music education programs, will offer robot masks for all attendees, streaming classic robot adventure movies and a Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em tournament. Local indie music artists in the lineup include Liz Janes, Rooms, ToeKnee Tea and DJ Hobbitron. Upland Brewing Company is donating the beer. Suggested donation of $10 per person; advance tickets available at tinyurl.com/lyrcjxxi; tickets also available for purchase at the door.

Sat., Aug. 17, 8 p.m.-midnight, Speak Easy, 5255 N. Winthrop Ave. World Humanitarian Day, Indy style Indy’s first-ever public celebration of World Humanitarian Day. Started by the United Nations, the observance honors all who have worked in the promotion of the humanitarian cause and those who have lost their lives in the cause of duty.

Art exibits, food trucks, booths; humanitarian open mic starts at 7:30 p.m., featuring voices of Indy’s humanitarian workers. Free.

Mon., Aug. 19, 6 p.m., Evoke Arts and Media (inside Broad Ripple UMC), 6185 Guilford Ave. Input sought on Indy Greenways City officials will unveil their preliminary recommendations on a new long-range vision for Indy’s Greenways Master Plan. To view a map of the network of bike paths and trails that crisscross the community, visit the Greenways tab of the Indy Parks page at Indy.gov.

Each meeting will be held as an open house from 6 to 8 p.m., with a formal presentation at 6:30 p.m.

Tues., Aug. 20, Holliday Park, 6363 Spring Mill Road; Thurs., Aug. 22, Krannert Park, 605 S. High School Road; Tues., Aug. 27, Municipal Gardens, 1831 Lafayette Road; Wed., Aug. 28, Post Road Park, 1313 S. Post Road; Thurs., Aug. 29, Garfield Park Arts Center, 2432 Conservatory Drive.

Sharing knowledge The back-to-school crowd needs tutors — and support.

Indy School on Wheels provides tutoring and advocacy of homeless children. Visit indyschoolonwheels.org to fill out a volunteer application or peruse the group’s wish list — they need everything from snack food and school uniforms to prizes to reward hard workers. The Fresh Start Tutoring Program, which offers tutoring services every Thursday from 3:45-5:15 p.m. during the IPS calendar year, serves about 60 kids from its MapletonFall Creek location. The group welcomes weekly and b-weekly volunteers, as well as donations of basic school supplies. An orientation will be held: Thurs., Aug. 22, at 4 p.m., Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, 418 E. 34th St.

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KENLEY , FROM PAGE 06 we had just put it in the general fund and allowed go everywhere — we ended up giving the state highway department about $120 million a year going forward more money from that source.

And we allocated to all the local units of government, the cities and the counties, about $100 million more going forward. So we have filled up the hole, but we filled it with revenues of users of that source.

NUVO: That includes finishing I-69?

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KENLEY: The big difference and the point I made in the meeting was that highway usage is pretty much and maybe 100 percent paid for by user fees both at the capital expenditures and as to the annual operating costs. Transit: the reverse situation is the fact, so we need to deal with that in terms of deciding whether it’s an important enough priority for us to take resources from other things and apply it to help solve this problem.

NUVO: If the people decide that the amenity is important enough to them, just as an amenity to their community, that they want to pay for it ... what’s the problem?

KENLEY: Well, that’s a little bit overly simplistic view of how government works. For example, if you were NUVO: When we think about to take a referendum on whether these things, is it easy to think SOURCE: “THE HIDDEN HEALTH COSTS OF TRANSPORTATION,” PREPARED BY URBAN DESIGN 4 HEALTH FOR THE AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION people want a transit system or Mass transit proponents argue that, in addition to greater community connectivholistically about some the not, I think you’d want the public ity and opportunity access, related benefits to well-planned transit infrastructure challenges we have — with officials to assume the responsibilinclude a healthier, more active population, fewer traffic deaths and reduced air asthma rates, climate changes ity of providing the most efficient pollution.

Sen. Kenley gives some of these arguments more weight than others. those kind of things — in terms and effective system that they could. of the wider maybe externalized And if you’d taken the decision out consequences of the way we do of their hands also given them the things? excuse of saying, ‘Hey they just said we need to be very sensitive to what kind of do it, so we have to do it and it’s not up to us resources we use and how they impact other KENLEY: Technologically, we have if it’s good or bad, or efficient or not.’ people and how they affect our future availadvanced so much in that area — and So I think that it is very important that ability of resources. we’re moving to things like electric cars the leaders in every community that they and things of that nature — that we’ve NUVO: Getting some kind of agreement on are committed to doing it the right way actually been gaining ground on some of the greenhouse gas issue, it seems, will be and they can be held accountable for their the environmental degradation issues that important in terms of how we move forward. performance on that point. If you just say, result from the use of motor vehicles. So, ‘They people think this’ without having the that question and justification for mass KENLEY: I think it’s a good thing, factually, elected officials be held accountable, you’re transit is not as viable a reason why we for us to try to determine if that is true or not kind of putting us in the position where we should do this as it has been in the past. true, but I don’t think it matters in terms of might not give our best efforts to doing this whether or not we’re interested in making correctly. So you need to have consensus NUVO: Is climate change something that is sure we don’t degrade our environment. that extends to your elected leadership. And important to you? when you elect your leaders, that’s also a NUVO: It’s not the same thing?

KENLEY: Oh, it’s a hugely important issue. referendum on them, OK? I think there is a lot of disagreement over KENLEY: Nope. Because it could be that we NUVO: Isn’t that just another layer of what happens and what the causes are and know that we degrade our environment bureaucracy? Doesn’t that make things less how you remedy it. ... But I think that if through certain types of activities, but the efficient? climate change is occurring … you could truth could be that there is no actual global segregate that into two statements. One is: warming, that there is something else that KENLEY: There’s another more practical Is climate change in and of itself an actual is creating an environmental problem for thing that needs to be considered: How provable act? The second part is: What do us. You need to think a little bigger on this. much do you think the average citizen people, through their usage and their lives, knows, for example, in Marion County NUVO: Well, it seems to be there are a contribute both to the environmental presabout where we are on our budgets with whole bunch of issues intertwined, but the ervation or assets or to the degradation of respect to police and fire or other competpreponderance of the science, the EPA and our living situation. So, whether it is attribing needs? We trust our elected officials the wide majority of scientists accept the utable to climate change, global warming to be experts in these areas. If you don’t greenhouse gas theory. or something else, it is an important issue. give them a chance to have input on the I think a lot of times that gets fuzzied up KENLEY: I’m saying that I don’t know. decision, then the people without knowbecause some people want to say, “It is And, secondly, it’s really not that imporing what the balance is, or what the other absolutely global warming.” But that is tant, if you think that it’s important for liability issues may be, could be led into not really the core issue. The core issue is: you to, environmentally, find ways to be making a choice, that had they known othWhat are we doing environmentally to promore preservationist oriented or not to be erwise, they wouldn’t have made. tect our resources and to not waste them degrading things in terms of our healthy and not create health hazards for people.

NUVO: Isn’t it like Mayor Greg Ballard said? environment.

It’s a dedicated fund. It’s not like it’s taking NUVO: So you are not entirely convinced NUVO: With global warming, I don’t think money away from our fire department or that greenhouse gases need to be controlled? it means that it gets hotter everywhere something else. It’s an additional fee. all at once, but the floods and extreme KENLEY: That’s right. I don’t know the answer KENLEY: If you put this extra dedicated weather … the extreme weather patterns to that. I accept that our activities have a fee on and then you get this reaction that are increasing. bearing on our health and on the preservapeople are moving out of Marion County tion of our resources, and whether or not we KENLEY: That clearly hasn’t been proved. because your income tax is higher than are wasting our resources for future generaYou’re getting off into the distance here now. everyone else’s, then you face the problem tions. That makes the issue just as serious to of assessing your priorities.

NUVO: Well, it’s definitely not my thing to me whether I accept greenhouse effects or debate with you. I value your expertise on global warming or not. I think that’s where Read the rest of the interview at the budget and I appreciate you taking the we get into trouble. We debate something NUVO.net/news. time to walk me through some of it. nobody can quite prove, but the reality is KENLEY: Yes.

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H T A G s e e h t b of tri indianapolis hauls in giant crowds for gaming’s biggest weekend Paul F. Pogue . editors@nuvo.net

I: The Last Man Standing Gen Con 7, Lake Geneva, 1974. College student and lifelong lover of games Timothy Kask had never been in a room with more than 12 gamers in his life before. But game designer and Gen Con founder Gary Gygax had invited Kask to come.

He’d been corresponding with Gygax for years, before Gen Con had even been established, but this was an ideal opportunity for a face-to-face meeting.

Kask says Gygax wanted him to try out a new game he had designed – Dungeons and Dragons. Before long the game would conquer the world, and Kask would join Gygax’s company, TSR, as the first full-time employee in 1975.

He would spend several years helping establish the company that would dominate the field. But he really knew he was in the right, history-changing place when he first met Gygax at that dealer’s hall in Lake Geneva.

“I’m not a real religious guy, but when I walked in, I had this feeling wash over me, like I was home,” he says. “It was an awe-inspiring event. Of course I knew rationally that there must be thousands of gamers in the world, but I had never seen hundreds in one place at the same time.”

Founded in 1968, Gen Con has become, over the years, gaming’s mecca. There have been imitators, but Gen Con was the first, starting with a few hundred in Lake Geneva, then popping up at various places over the years, including a lengthy stint in Milwaukee, before settling into its long-term home at the Indianapolis Convention Center in 2003.

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Strategy and board games are at the core of the Gen Con experience; the event was, after all, founded by Dungeons and Dragons creator Gary Gygax.

The convention brings together gamers, creators, industry luminaries, costumers, performers and the occasional celebrity into one sprawling complex (with leakage into the city at large, particularly at night). The 45th Gen Con brought 41,000 attendees to Indianapolis in 2012; we might not score quite those numbers for a non-anniversary year, but attendance is still likely to reach the high thirty-thousands.

Kask, who we might call one of the last men standing from Gen Con’s formative era, left the gaming industry in the early 1980s. Flash-forward nearly 30 years to 2006, where he was invited back to the convention as a celebrity auctioneer.

Even though Kask knew about his reputation in the field as the founder of the well-loved Dragon magazine and one of the TSR old-timers, he says he felt just a bit self-conscious hearing the emcee’s highly complimentary introduction, not to mention overwhelmed by the thunderous applause when he stepped on stage.

“A thousand strangers giving me this huge clap!” he says. “I was really shocked.”

But what struck him most about his first Gen Con in decades was just how friendly Indianapolis was. “There were certain families in Lake Geneva who made a point of not being in town when the weirdo gamers came!” he says. “We had that weirdo soubriquet even then. And now I’m in Indianapolis, Indiana, and they’re going ‘Welcome, welcome, welcome!’ I thought I must have been inhaling fumes as I drove downtown and saw banners festooning every light post with signs welcoming Gen Con. ‘Well,’ I told myself, ‘This certainly has changed!’”

Still producing games as part of Eldritch Entertainment, Kask represents a disappearing breed. Dungeons and Dragons co-creators Gygax and Dave Arneson have passed away, and anyone working at TSR postdates him.

He says only a small handful of individuals – all of whom he can name off the top of his head, including Mike Carr, the only person to have attended every single Gen Con – go so far back in the gaming world. “I’m the last one of the original TSR crew that’s still actively producing gaming material,” he says.

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II: The Humble Author Years ago, at your reporter’s first Gen Con, I was watching a new game being introduced, alongside a small crowd. An unusual game, something about light and sound matching. And the woman standing next to me struck up a conversation about the mechanics. I turned to find a face that graces at least a dozen hardback books on my shelf: that of Margaret Weis, a legendary fantasy author whose work dates to the early 1980s, and co-creator of the Dragonlance world, which has given birth to hundreds of novels and become one of the most popular gaming worlds ever devised.

And, of course, all I could think was, “Be cool, be cool, don’t be a crazy fanboy; it’s only the architect of your entire teen pop culture years after all.” We talked a bit and parted ways, with the main lesson not lost on me: At Gen Con, the border between fan and creator is sometimes so thin as to be nonexistent.

When I relate this story to Weis during

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a much more recent conversation, she responds with a gentle, self-deprecating laugh. It’s the laugh of someone who has heard such a story many times before, and yet remains vaguely surprised anybody would be that impressed by her.

“I really enjoy the interaction with the fans at Gen Con,” she says. “I’ve been to many, many conventions around the world, but there’s just something about Gen Con. People come to play, and whether you’re from Italy, the UK, Australia or Japan, everybody speaks the same lan-

guage of games. It’s absolutely remarkable.

It’s my favorite convention and the one I am determined to go to every year.”

Which of course means coming back to Indy.

“We love this town, absolutely,” she says. “Indianapolis is so welcoming; they throw everything open to us. The restaurants change their menus. One year somebody had a special Dragonlance menu, which was really neat. Nobody laughs at the funny gamers. I really look forward to meeting all my friends every year.”

And indeed, the whole thing can carry the tenor of a family reunion, or perhaps reunion of summer camp friends re-connecting summer after summer.

“This is the only time of year I see Tracy (Hickman, the other Dragonlance cocreator) and a lot of other people in the industry I’ve known for so many years.

We make a point of having a dinner with Dragonlance fans Saturday night.”

One of the biggest changes in Gen Con over the decades, she says, is a move towards broader family diversity. “There S E E , T R I B E S , O N P A G E 12 NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 08.14.13 - 08.21.13 // COVER STORY 11

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Gen Con attracts a wide range of gaming merchants and artisans.

TRIBES , FROM PAGE 11 were almost no women at my first Gen Con, and now it’s probably equal numbers men and women,” she says. “We dedicate Sunday to family day, where you can get in a whole family for the price of one admission, and you see a lot of parents introducing their kids to tabletop gaming. Not video games, but face-toface games where you sit around and interact.”

III: The Longtime Pro Author/family man/game designer Matt Forbeck went to Gen Con 15 in the early 1980s and hasn’t missed one since.

He’s been an industry guest of honor for 11 years in a row and now sits on the committee that selects the industry guests of honor each year.

He’s immortalized numerous fixtures of Gen Con in the Dangerous Games series of novels, which use the event as the backdrop for an growing series of threats, starting with a murder mystery and, with the most recent book, escalating into “ Die Hard at Gen Con,” as he puts it.

“It’s so much bigger than it used to be,” he says. “It’s ten times the size of my first Gen Con. The Dangerous Games books are about taking my friends and getting other people to know a little bit about them. Since I’ve been involved in the con for so many years, I can draw back the curtain and show people what it’s like to be part of that.”

Or an insight into the then-controversial decision to move Gen Con from its home in Milwaukee to Indianapolis in 2003.

“We’d run out of hotel rooms in Milwaukee,” he says. “And in Milwaukee, there was always a sense of ‘the geeks are coming to town’ and they’d stay away.

But Indianapolis has a great hospitality industry, and you can absorb hundreds of thousands of people with the Indy 500.

And people here make us feel so welcome and appreciated. It’s great to block off parts of the street and do block parties.”

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Dangerous Games author Matt Forbeck.

IV: The Performer The events certainly do spill out over into the city. Jon Silpayamanant, of Indianapolis mainstay Il Troubadore, went to his first Gen Con last year, when Il Troubadore took their to-the-hilt, makeup-laden Klingon music act to the event. The group found a very receptive audience.

“People are very invested in being not just attendees but participants,” he says.

“They completely immerse themselves in the culture of whatever they love. More often than now, we’ll find people that do speak in the languages that we’re singing, which is very cool, and there are lots of other musicians who are very much into the sci-fi, fantasy and steampunk.”

The whole setup seems perfectly designed for their style. “A lot of the costumed attendees got right into it with us last year, dancing and singing along to the tunes. Everyone seems to love the ‘Yub Yub’ Ewok song from Return of the Jedi,” he says. “We end up doing a lot of open improv and jams right at our booth, which is very cool.”

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Steve Jackson Games’ Munchkin card game parodies the sometimes over-serious gaming world.

V: The Honcho Philip Reed, chief operating officer of industry mainstay Steve Jackson Games, attended his first Gen Con in 1995. He saw several Milwaukee Gen Cons before the move to Indianapolis.

“I miss Milwaukee, but Indianapolis has a nicer downtown area and the convention center is a huge improvement,” he says.

“Anyone who gets the chance needs to walk over to Monument Circle for a look at the gorgeous display.”

Steve Jackson Games is known for many games in the industry, but their most high-profile is Munchkin, a cardbased game dedicated to the often raucous and usually over-the-top comedy inherent in gaming.

“We had a really great experience at Gen Con a few years ago when we first tried our Munchkin capsule machine,” Reed says.

“We grabbed a standard capsule machine, like you’d see at a grocery store, and loaded it with random Munchkin goodies.

I thought fans would like it, but thousands of quarters later, we learned just how much they loved the machine.”

The capsule machine takes a break this year, replaced by an even more ambitious project: converting downtown’s Tavern on the South to Munchkin Tavern each night, including themed menu items and creator guests (including Steve Jackson). Reed expects it to do well and hopes to expand further into the city next year. “I want to touch base with other local businesses while I’m in Indianapolis and explore options for 2014,” Reed says.

VI: The City Just one more example of how Gen Con and Indianapolis, strange partners indeed, have integrated so smoothly over the course of 11 years and seem set for a strong partnership for years to come.

Indianapolis, the Circle City, the Crossroads of America, gathering together gaming’s biggest crowd for its biggest stage.

“When I first heard they were moving Gen Con to Indy, I was dismayed,” Forbeck

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Celebrity guests at this weekends GenCon include True Blood’s Janina Gavankar, left, and Star Trek’s Walter Koenig.

says. “But the people of Indianapolis have embraced Gen Con in a way we never expected.”

Gen Con is its own self-contained world, an oasis on the boundaries of imagination, drawing in tens of thousands from all over the world and sending them scattering back a few days later.

“We’re all bozos on this bus, and that’s how I feel when I’m out there mingling with the crowds,” Kask says. “The fellowship is there. We’re all geeks, nerds, gamers, you know? Gaming, the capital-G Gaming, that’s what links us all.”

Forbeck credits that Gaming sense for the yearly camaraderie.

“It’s a gathering of the tribes,” he says.

“There’s always this sense of continuity and enthusiasm, this incredible sense of fun people. It’s a Brigadoon town that pops up once a year and faces away next year — and now in the same place all this time.”

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When the TARDIS landed on Indy

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The first time I visited Who North America was quite a shock. As a lifelong fan of the British science fiction series Doctor Who (a ‘Whovian’, as we like to be called), I’d always had to rely on online dealers and specialty shops to find merchandise. I never imagined that there would be a store dedicated almost exclusively to Doctor Who right here in Indianapolis.

A longtime cult hit in the States, Doctor Who tells the low budget adventures of an alien known only as ‘The Doctor’ who travels through time and space in a blue police box called the TARDIS (see cover). The show was first introduced to Americans as an import on PBS in the 1970s, but it’s never quite achieved the stature of sci-fi properties like Star Trek and Star Wars. In the UK, however, where the show originally ran from 1963 to 1989, Doctor Who is an institution.

The BBC revived and retooled the series for modern audiences in 2005 and, with the rise of BBC America and availability on Netflix and iTunes, Doctor Who has steadily gained popularity with an American audience. Who North America caters to this audience. Filled with Doctor Who action figures, books, DVDs and more, the large warehouse on the southwest side is a fan’s

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A TARDIS greets visitors to Who North America. Keith Bradbury, below, founded the Doctor Who merchandise outlet.

dream come true.

Keith Bradbury, the owner of Who North America, told me the genesis of the store is informed by his experiences as a Whovian. “I actually began as a fan back in the eighties, I was watching it on PBS stations,” Bradbury said. “You really couldn’t find any Doctor Who products. You could go to conventions but it really cost a lot of money to get a hold of Doctor Who items.

In the late nineties, when the Internet came along, I started researching companies in the UK, finding out who was making Doctor Who

items, and I learned that they really had no one representing them in the United States.”

Bradbury saw an opportunity and began selling the items himself. When Doctor Who returned to the airwaves in 2005, Who North America was well positioned to address the growing demand for merchandise in the U.S. “We just kind of exploded from that point.” With 2013 being the show’s fiftieth anniversary, Who North America is especially busy. “For us it’s been big with so much product coming out, there’s so many exciting things to see.”

But Who North America is more than just another store. It’s also a Doctor Who museum filled with memorabilia from the show’s fifty year history. “I wanted it to be a fan experience,” Bradbury explained.

“You can play on the Doctor Who pinball machine for free, you can see all kinds of items that aren’t for sale that actually go all the way back to 1965. There’s all kinds of things you can do while you’re here to enjoy the experience.”

Who North America is open, by appointment, Monday through Friday (you can find contact information on the company website, whona.com). Once a month, usually on a Saturday, its doors open to the public. Bradbury hopes these open houses will bring Whovians together to share their love of the series.

“Our idea is that we open up and lots of Doctor Who fans can come here at the same time and meet each other,” he told me. “They can talk about the show. They can dress up, which is really cool when we get people showing up in costume.”

Bradbury noted that visitors are of “all different ages” and represent fans of both the current show and ‘Classic Who’ (the 19631989 incarnation of the series). The store also attracts families. “A lot of them are cross generational. They watched it when they were younger, and now they’ve had children and they watch the new series with their kids.” Bradbury can relate; Who North America is a family-owned business.

“I’m actually the big Doctor Who fan,” he confessed. “When my wife and I got married I started out by showing her every single classic episode of Doctor Who I had in my possession on VHS.” Who North America also holds monthly screenings of Doctor Who episodes. The screenings are hosted by Tilt Entertainment in the Circle Center Mall and provide an opportunity for Whovians to meet. They are free to attend and occur on the last Saturday of the month, starting at 2 p.m. Information about screenings, open houses, and other Who North America events can be found on the company’s Facebook page.

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The Fifth Doctor

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Who North America attends Gen Con each year — and this year, the company will show up with products, a life sized TARDIS, and maybe even a replica Dalek (the show’s most famous monster). In addition, Who North America is hosting a dinner and a Q&A with one of Gen Con’s guests of honor, former Doctor Who star Peter Davison.

Doctor Who’s longevity is due in part to the Doctor’s ability to change his appearance and personality every time he ‘dies’, a conceit which allows for a new actor to take over the role whenever the current star decides to leave the series. The next transition will take place when Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith departs during this year’s Christmas special and actor Peter Capaldi replaces him.

In 1981 Peter Davison became the Fifth Doctor, taking over from Tom Baker, whose comically long scarf and razor sharp wit made him a fan favorite in both Great Britain and the U.S. At just 30 years old, Peter Davison was significantly younger than the four actors that preceded him, but he infused his character with the crotchety demeanor of a much older man.

He played the Doctor for three years, including the show’s twentieth anniversary season. NUVO spoke with Davison about his time on the show, his thoughts on the fiftieth anniversary and his advice for the next actor to take on the role of the Doctor.

NUVO: How does it feel to be part of a show that is celebrating its fiftieth year?

PETER DAVISON: Apart from very old, do you mean? Well I was the first Doctor who grew up watching the show, so it’s hard to believe I was playing a hero of mine in the first place. Now it’s fifty and still going strong, I feel honored, humbled and — yet really, really cool.

NUVO: Why do you think Doctor Who has remained so popular?

DAVISON: Something about it hit the spot from the first episode, you wanted to see more. See what the next story would bring.

Suddenly it’s fifty years later. From our British perspective, he’s a peculiar superhero, but he’s ours. He somehow sums up what we would like to be if we were a sort of gentleman superhero. Then there’s science fiction itself, with its limitless scope for imagination and creativity. Doctor Who has become almost self-perpetuating, inspiring the young who grew up and write for, act in or produce the show.

NUVO: What did you try to bring to the

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role that was different from previous Doctors?

DAVISON: I tried to move faster and maybe show a little more fallibility and self-doubt than previous Doctors, but I always wanted to retain an essence of the Doctors I grew up with.

NUVO: You were the last actor to play the Doctor during a major anniversary year (Doctor Who was not on the air in 1993 or 2003). What was it like being on the show during its twentieth year?

DAVISON: Very special. Lots of questions like, “Did you ever imagine it lasting this long?” We made ‘The Five Doctors’ [an anniversary show featuring all five actors who had played Doctor Who at the time, in some shape or form], of course, with Patrick [Troughton] and Jon [Pertwee]. It was like I was a child imagining it.

NUVO: What about the convention experience do you enjoy the most?

DAVISON: I enjoy the talks or panels best, even though people ask the same questions.

NUVO: As someone who has been in his shoes, do you have any advice for Matt Smith, who is leaving the show in December?

DAVISON: Move on, but don’t turn your back on the show. All those mad fans aren’t so bad.

NUVO: Do you have any advice for Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi?

DAVISON: As I said to him only yesterday, get used to it. This is the longest job you will ever have; you’re the Twelfth Doctor from now until the end of time.

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EVENTS NerdProv Fringe may be squatting in its headquarters for the next couple weeks, but that doesn’t mean ComedySportz is on vacation. The troupe will present an improv show designed for the gaming community — in town, of course, for GenCon — at White Rabbit on Saturday night.

White Rabbit Cabaret, Aug. 17, 10 p.m., $10 (or price determined by roll of 10-sided die if attendee is in costume) IndyFringe Festival As the cover to the Fringe Guidee puts puts it, the festival features 384 shows ws over over 11 days. So we can’t list them all, ll, but but we’ll get you started with the first rst showtimes: THURSDAY, AUG. 15 6:00pm Ain’t True and Uncle False; Fruit Flies Like a Banana; What Biscuits; its; De Sade; Wry; Dr. Conundrum’s Cabaret of Miracles; Rough Sex, and Other Bad Words...; If You Really Knew Knew Me...

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7:30pm CANDYLAND; The Laramie Project; Burning Brothels: Sex and Death in Nevada; Storyzilla — Full Frontal Human Movie; Underneath the Lintel; Electric Romeo; Abraham Lincoln: Hoosier Hero; The Rwandans’ Visit 9:00pm Stairway to Kevin; Cabargay II: Cabargayer!; The Billy Willy Show; The University tWits; I said “NO!”; Act A Foo’ Improv Crew!!; (Selections from) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged); Questions of the Heart: Gay Mormons and the Search for Identity Phoenix Theatre, Theatre on the Square, Cook Theatre, ComedySportz, IndyFringe Basile Theater, BABECA Theatre; Aug. 15-25; $10 each, $5 backer button (one-time purchase) also required; indyfringe.org

REVIEW Heartland Actors Repertory Theatre: Taming of the Shrew t Is Taming of the Shrew the timeliest play to produce? Does it condone spousal abuse? Or highlight gender biases?

HART’s production doesn’t take a stance, choosing rather to present a “classical” retelling of one of Shakespeare’s most famous, but certainly not best, plays.

While the free Shakespeare production has become a summer tradition for many, HART’s traditions of using the same actors, the same director, the same costumes, the same scenic design and the same concept is getting tired. Why doesn’t this stellar company tap into its resources to surprise us once in a while?

Nonetheless, the quality of work never faltered.

Ryan Artzberger (Petruchio) has mastered Shakespeare’s language. Lisa Ermel’s Katherina was a fit match for Artzberger, their on-stage chemistry seething with tension and passion. Peopled by a cast of clowns — Scot Greenwell as Tranio, among others — Shrew’s ensemble did a remarkable job of realizing Shakespeare’s prodigious sense of humor.

— KATELYN COYNE Aug. 9-10 at White River State Park

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t’s all about magical realism for storyteller Paul Strickland. Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Márquez and Miranda July are his spirit guides.

J “What I find fascinating is ... how the work of art sets up its own set of rules and we just live in that world for that time,” he says.

He wants to remind people that there’s still magic out there: “You can just go to a garage sale and demand to pay 10 cents more for everything you want to buy.

That’s magical. You can just do it.”

Strickland, who has worked in the fields of standup comedy and singer-songwriting, first performed at the IndyFringe Festival in 2010, presenting his stand-out show A Brighter Shade of Blue. He came back the following two years, and now he’s decided he likes the city and its festival so much that he’s going to move here.

“Indianapolis, for me, is a city of open doors,” Strickland explains over beers at Chatham Tap. “There is a massive opportunity for me to have a very inexpensive and accessible canvas on which to make the work I want to make.”

His path to magical realism wasn’t so magical in itself. After studying music and creative writing at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, Strickland left school without a degree because he, like many a liberal arts major, lacked a science credit.

“Looking back it was a ridiculous decision, but there’s still a part of me that’s kind of proud that I put my foot down and just left,” he says. “And I’ve never needed it, turns out — that chemistry lab.”

Shortly after, Strickland married and moved to Nashville, where he and his wife sang together. But things soon fell apart.

“That was just dreadful and a disaster,” explains Strickland. “She’s actually a really great person. It just didn’t work for a lot of reasons. And so I just quit making music entirely.”

The next year, he found himself at a local comedy club’s open mic night. Before long, telling jokes on stage became routine, and he took to the road. He started to talk about his divorce in his act.

“What happened is I realized there were things about my divorce that I wanted to

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say on stage,” says Strickland. “But standup was the wrong medium. I decided to try and seek out a way to do that. That’s where A Brighter Shade of Blue came from.”

Strickland’s plans for Indianapolis include a series of monthly happenings at the IndyFringe Theater. The first piece — Adoption: A Paul Strickland Inquiry — will feature a visual artist creating a piece of work inspired by adoption and Paul hosting curated stories. In addition, he’s planning a social experiment — putting a coffee table up for adoption on Craigslist. It’s all in keeping with Strickland’s aesthetic of curiosity.

“We are in the business of illuminating things that are already there,” he says.

“We’re all just standing in the middle of a lot of answers asking a lot questions. Our job is to ask the questions for the audience.

That’s all we’re doing.”

But first up is his IndyFringe Festival, Ain’t True and Uncle False.

“It’s anchored in a world that we’re all comfortable with: there is a grandfather, a dad, a son,” he says. “There is a trailer park where a kid loses his hand because he put his hand down somewhere and walked away. You know? Because seven-year-olds lose things.”

He invites audiences that attend his first performance on Thursday, August 15 at 6 p.m.to stick around afterward for popsicles.

And he’s also hosting after-fringe parties at the Fringe Beer Tent on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, both weekends.

“It’s called Five Fringy Things: A Nightly Faux Finale,” he says. “It will basically be a 10 minute wrap up show that will include lots of weird performance art alternative theater. One of the pieces will be called ‘Scuttlebutt,’ which is a gossip column.

And while that is happening there will be a performance-art-interpreter for the imagination impaired.”

“Indianapolis, for me, is a city of open doors. There is a massive opportunity for me to have a very inexpensive and accessible canvas on which to make the work I want to make.”

— PAUL STRICKLAND, STANDUP COMEDIAN AND SINGER-SONGWRITER

EVENTS Indianapolis Indians Three home games remain on the week for the division-leading Indians, all of them against the notas-good Columbus Clippers.

Victory Field: Aug. 14, 1:35 p.m.; Aug. 15, 7:05 p.m.; Aug. 16, 7:15 p.m.

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Motorcycles on Meridian Bike or no bike, you’re welcome to the pageantry of leather, exhaust, rubber and chrome that is Motorcycles on Meridian, which has, since 2008, taken over the Circle and S. Meridian St. during Moto GP weekend.

Aug. 16, 7 p.m.-midnight; Aug. 17, 4 p.m.-midnight Indy Mile AMA Flat Track Grand National Motorcycle Race The Indy Mile pre-dates Indy Moto GP by decades. It’s a showcase for motorcycle road racers (i.e. those who race on dirt) that features close racing at 100-plus mph speeds.

Indiana State Fairgrounds, Aug. 17, 2-10 p.m., $31-36 (includes fair admission)

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IS THIS THE END FOR MOTO GP?

A deathly warning For a while it was our morning routine, my fiancé and I. I’d fill my to-go mug with coffee and head out the door.

“I love you. Have a good day,” I’d say as I left.

“Love you, too,” he’d reply. “Please, wear your helmet today!”

My fiancé had my best interest at heart, lecturing me repeatedly about how he didn’t want a bride with a bloody smashed-in forehead. But the inconvenience of it all was just too much to make me listen.

That is, until a few Sundays ago. I was riding up the Monon on my way to meet a girlfriend for brunch when I passed it. Spray-painted all white and chained to a fence just north of 20th Street, at first I thought it was another piece of public art. As I approached I saw the attached sign: “For David, wear a helmet.”

I was struck. It’s called a ghost bike: an all-white reminder to fellow cyclists to always use caution. Or a reminder to non-cyclists of the consequence of our often dangerous interactions on roadways.

I didn’t know David Browning, who died at age 51. I found a common acquaintance, a manager of a Broad Ripple bar, who said that Browning was well loved and held in high regard.

To the side of David’s ghost bike, leaning against a tree, is a plaque inscribed with the serenity prayer: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.”

I snapped a photo of the bike, and just stood for a while, turning the prayer over in my mind. The courage to change, I thought, and the wisdom to know.

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Poor attendance may kill off the event, but not before electric bikes hit the track

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lthough the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is contracted to host MotoGP through 2014, rumors are swirling that this could be the final year for the race, due to poor attendance.

Mark Miles, CEO of Hulman & Co., has responded to the rumors, saying that while the head honchos at IMS will evaluate the situation following this year’s event, the sixth MotoGP at IMS, he expects to fulfill the contract.

The Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix takes place Aug. 16-18, the series’ first race after a three-week break. As the 11th of series’ 19 events, it could signal a turning point in the race for the MotoGP World Championship.

Leading the points standings is Honda rider Marc Marquez, who nabbed his first MotoGP win earlier this year at Austin, Texas, in only his second race at the premier level. “A win in MotoGP is not just any victory; it is something special and I was thrilled. The Austin circuit suited me right from the start,” Marquez said, adding that a test was beneficial because this was a new track for the series.

Marquez remains circumspect when asked about a championship win: “I do not want to think about it because, as we have seen at the last two races, any-

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thing can happen in a championship.

There is still half of the season left and we have to see things in real conditions, with [Dani] Pedrosa and [Jorge] Lorenzo fully recovered. Meanwhile, we are getting these results and there’s [a] chance.

Except for Mugello, in every race I have finished on the podium. Consistency counts for a lot. Perhaps this is more impressive than the wins.”

Trailing Marquez in the points are his teammate Pedrosa and Yamaha Factory Racing teammates Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi. “You learn a lot riding behind them and alongside them, seeing how they tackle the races, seeing their strategies,” Marquez said. “You pick up little things and then try to use them.”

Pedrosa, still recovering from a broken left collarbone, recognizes how quickly his teammate picks up those things. “He does not take long to learn. [He] is the one who has made the least mistakes, and that is why he is the leader.”

Electrifying!

For the first time, electric-powered race motorcycles will compete during the Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix weekend. Sanctioned by FIM, the worldwide governing body of motorcycle racing, the eRoadRacing North American Regional series that competes on three continents will make its IMS debut at 4:30 p.m. Sunday. That makes it the weekend’s final race.

Series promoter TTXGP created the first international race series for electric motorcycles in June 2009. A world series was launched a year later, with regional championships in North American and the United Kingdom. The top teams from both series will compete in the World Cup Final in Asia in November.

The high-performance electricpowered bikes are capable of reaching speeds of 180 mph and have beaten gas-powered bikes in practice for the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. The team that fielded that bike, Lightning Motorcycles, set a world speed record for electric-powered motorcycles of 215.907 mph in August 2011 at the Bonneville Salt Flats and will compete at IMS. Power ed exclusively by solar energy, Lightning Motorcycles’ bike is one of the first racing vehicles with a zero-carbon footprint.

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EVENTS Patrick Rothfuss In conjunction with GenCon, Rothfuss, the extensivelybearded, Madison, Wisc.-based author of New York Times best-selling fantasy series The Kingkiller Chronicle, will read excerpts from his novels, short stories and poetry, field questions and sign a few books.

Central Library, Aug. 15, 7 p.m., FREE Chautauqua Days Festival Its been 150 years since Indiana’s most widely-read female author, Gene Stratton-Porter, came into this world. And no better place to celebrate than at her home and final resting place, dubbed The Cabin at Wildflower Woods, during an annual celebration in her honor, the Chautauqua Days Festival. The two-day, family friendly celebration will include a parade, bluegrass music, drumming by the Miami Nation and, at 7 p.m. Sunday in Lakeside Park, a “Lyrics in the Park” program styled after chautauquas of yore and featuring lectures on themed gardening, living off the land and rescuing birds. Head to genestrattonporter.com or call 260-854-3790 for more info.

Gene Stratton-Porter State Historic Site (Rome City), Aug. 17 and 18 Gene Stratton-Porter celebration But wait, there’s more Porter-centric fun, and closer to home. The Irvington Public Library will celebrate Porter’s legacy with a talk by Barbara Morrow, author of Nature’s Storyteller: The Life of Gene StrattonPorter, and a screening of the hour-long documentary, Gene Stratton-Porter: Voice of the Limberlost .

Irvington Public Library, 5625 E. Washington St., Aug. 17, 1:30 p.m., FREE Totem talk Richard Feldman’s new book, Home before the Raven Caws: The Mystery of a Totem Pole , tells of how a 90-year-old totem pole made its way from the Sitka National Historic Park in Alaska to the Eiteljorg Museum, with plenty of stops in between. Attendees are invited to bring their lunches for this lunchtime talk by Feldman.

Indiana History Center, Aug. 20, noon, FREE

REVIEWS ALOHA, MOZART

BY WAIMEA WILLIAMS Luminis Books $29.95 Hardcover, $18.95 Paperback r From a small island village on Kauai, to the swelter of Honolulu, to the scintillating rush of New York City, to the richly savored life of Salzburg, we are engrossed

by Mailie Manoa’s breathless and breathtaking drive to succeed as a singer on the world’s stages. Mailie’s innocence and zest for life are her allure and her downfall.

At every turn she makes choices that seemingly sabotage her ultimate goal, and we want to reach out and save her. Williams writes with such fervor and attention to detail of places, people and events, we become totally involved in Mailie’s life from the early 1950s, culminating in 1968 when the world’s turmoil of events close in on Mailie. With echoes of the Von Trapp family, Williams’ novel reiterates the ugly parts of the glitzy city of Mozart. Mailie’s sense of humanity underpins her story, yet are we fully prepared to absorb the outcome?

— RITA KOHN

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A TALE OF TERRIBLE TOXINS

Industrial pollution’s impact on a small town

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e’ve all done battle with toxic emissions from industries that dump their by-products without regard to the consequences.

For me, it began with a little creek near my childhood South Bend home, a branch, it was said, of the Kankakee River, but really it was no more than a drainage ditch.

But still, it had water and wildlife, and, of course, a crapload of pollution. Goodness knows what toxins I came into contact with during those formative years.

Later, at college in Bloomington, the problem was PCBs, poly-chlorinated biphenyls, an industrial compound used in electrical capacitors. The people who worked building the capacitors, as well as the scavengers who opened them up for their precious cargo (like copper), suffered illnesses stemming from the contact. As did the citizens of the Bloomington area, since the discarded PCBs leached into the soil and groundwater.

Now, I live in one of America’s most polluted cities, when it comes to airborne particulates; and literally, in my backyard, flows the White River, which, during rainstorms, is the dumping ground for human sewage, courtesy of our combined sewer overflow system. We’ve got lead in our soil, mercury in our air and I witnessed, about a decade ago, a white wall of foam come pouring out of the Anderson Wastewater Treatment Plant that contaminated 57 miles along the White River, killing some five million fish.

You’d think I was past the point where my mind might be blown by a story about pollution.

Not so.

Dan Fagin’s Toms River is an epic 500page saga that is almost unbelievable in its scale and scope. It reads like a novel, with character arcs and plot developments and dramatic twists and turns and yes, suspense stretching even into the last few pages. But it’s also a deeply researched investigative piece of journalism on the unconscionable malfeasance of a corporation — and the creepy complicity of a water company and local politicians and civic leaders.

It’s also a story of science, science that illuminates, science that obfuscates, and ultimately, science that frustrates.

Fagin’s main narrative stretches over sixty years, profiling Cincinnati Chemical Works, an industry that dumped so much effluent and sewage from their industrial

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production of dyes that they had to leave town. By 1949, they were looking to New Jersey, to a big plot of undeveloped land where they could place their chemical plant and pour their toxins directly into the Toms River. And so they did, by the billions of gallons.

Meanwhile, Union Carbide was producing its own toxins, and irresponsible dumping caused the aquifer beneath Toms River to foul.

These two massive toxic events combined to contaminate the inhabitants of the town. Numerous children found themselves with brain cancer, leukemia and other cancers.

Heartbreaking, yes, but it’s hard to prove a causal connection between pollution and disease. And here’s where Fagin’s book really shines. It breaks from the “present” — i.e. the last half-century or

so — to the past, in fact to the very beginnings of medicine’s study of workplace exposure to toxins. He showcases the iconoclastic pioneers who first connected workplace pollutants to cancer. Fagin also explores the checkered history of the study of cancer clusters, and the difficulty in proving clusters of disease to be more than mere random chance.

In prose easy to understand, Fagin takes a long loping look at the science of toxic exposure, and trains his circumspect eye on government’s compliance in industry’s criminal behavior.

But it’s the struggle for justice that forms the heart of his story: the parents of children who have cancer, the children themselves, and the one child in particular who becomes a hero in the story; the registered nurse who notes a significant number of child cancer cases originating from Toms River; the lawyer John Travolta played in A Civil Action, who tries to get the families and industry to negotiate a resolve, instead of engaging in a mutually destructive trial.

Richly told, Toms River is a multilayered barnburner of a now universal tale. Earth is the dumping ground for industries, from massive chemical plants to our own individual automobiles. No surprise when you gauge how deeply disconnected we’ve become from nature and thus from ourselves.

Toms River details that disconnection, with a dollop of hope of how people, with help from science and luck, can still fight for a livable land.

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384 Shows • over 11 days

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This year we bring you 64 performing groups, 8 stages and 384 shows over 11 days in August. No matter what your taste is, you can find a show! These 384 plus shows can’t be downloaded, streamed or digitalized … they can only be shared … LIVE ON STAGE.

IndyFringe has a great reputation as a place where people are super friendly and the audiences generous and responsive.

We see favorite acts returning year after year, new artists visiting and a swag of local performers putting it all out there for you.

The Fringe movement started at the Edinburgh Festival sixty-six years ago and is the largest arts festival on the planet. IndyFringe is one of 200 Fringes around the world. Fringes are incredibly popular because they are diverse and exciting and an incubator for the arts. Join the millions of people around the world who support the incredible Fringe community of artists, playwrights, composers, choreographers, directors and performers. DON’T MISS INDYFRINGE – LIVE ON STAGE.

SO HERE’S 10 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD BE AT INDYFRIN GE 1. Take a break from those little screens that are shrinki

ng your world. You will laugh. Laugh! LAUGH!!!

It helps to leave your political correctness behind!

2. It’s cheap. $10 is as inexpensive a ticket as you can get thes e days.

3. It’s smart. Support the Arts! Volunteer and see sho FREE. Stroll Mass Ave and see FREE stre et theatre.

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4. It’s educational.

We have plenty of high school students, college students and lifetime learners who love the Fringe.

5. Visit the Beer Tent – live music and Flat 12 Bierwerks brew s on tap.

6. Explore Mass Ave, an eclectic mix of locally owned and operated bars and restaurants, live theatre , retail, boutiques, unique gifts and top notch gall eries 7. Support local artists – l00% of the box office is returne d to artists during the annual IndyFringe fest ival.

8. It’s all-round theatre - comedy, cabaret, magic, music, dance and drama 9. It’s an incubator for new talent!

10. Did you know these shows started in a fringe theatre ?

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“The King’s Speech”, “My Big Fat Greek Wed ding ”, “Urinetown” and “The Drowsy Chaperone ”.

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Lee Daniel’s The Butler Lee Daniels directs Lee Daniel’s The Butler , co-produced

by Lee Daniels, from a screenplay co-written by Lee Daniels. It’s about Cecil Gaines (Forrest Whitaker), who served 34 years as a butler in the White House. Also starring Oprah. Early reviews are good: “A star-filled, if heavy-handed, labor of love that certainly has its heart in the right place, and scores dramatically often enough to recommend it,” said the New York Post.

PG-13, Opens Thursday in wide release Jobs Ashton Kutcher is Steve Jobs and Josh Gad is Apple’s other co-founder, Steve Wozniak, in this bio-pic that follows the technology innovator’s rise and fall and rise, from 1971 to the introduction of the iPod in 2001. Reviews have been largely unfavorable: “Jobs is excruciating, failing to entertain and all but pissing on its subject’s grave,” said Slate.

PG-13, Opens Thursday in wide release Kick-Ass 2 Back to kick additional ass. Featuring John Leguizamo as Javier.

R, Opens Thursday in wide release Paranoia A story of corporate espionage from the director of Monster-In-Law. PG-13, Opens Thursday in wide release

FILM EVENTS Summer Nights: The Big Sleep Bogart, Bacall and Faulkner.

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Aug. 16, 9:30 p.m, $10 public, $6 member Vintage Movie Night: Metropolis Maybe you’ve seen the recently restored version of Fritz Lang’s 1927 expressionist sci-fi film Metropolis, which includes longlost footage recovered from a Buenos Aires archive. Or the eccentrically tinted ‘80s edition scored

by Georgio Moroder. But how about the original American cut, released by Paramount with subtitles

by Socialist writer Channing Pollock? That’s the version Eric Grayson has for you Saturday night, with live piano accompaniment by Roger Lippincott.

Garfield Park Arts Center, Aug. 17, 8 p.m., $4

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FROM TROPHY WIFE TO OSCAR BAIT

Blanche DuBois goes slumming in San Francisco in Woody Allen’s new one

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t would be wise for Cate Blanchett to keep the morning of January 16 open.

The 2014 Academy Awards nominations will be announced that day and she’s going to get a Best Actress nod for her work in Woody Allen’s A Streetcar Named Desireish film, Blue Jasmine.

Jasmine is a good movie, one of Allen’s best in years, but the draw here is Blanchett, whose performance takes an off-putting character and makes her surprisingly, um … not quite on-putting, but riveting.

Jasmine (Blanchett) lived in New York and had it all, until her husband (Alec Baldwin) was arrested by the feds for swindling on a massive scale and everything was taken away. Now, she doesn’t even have her husband; he stared at his future and then hung himself. So Jasmine reluctantly heads for San Francisco and the home of her sister, Ginger (Sally Hawkins), which is below her station, but given her current circumstances, what’s a person to do?

Ginger’s life is almost as appalling to Jasmine as her residence. Her current thuggish boyfriend, Chili (Bonny Cannavale) is nearly as vulgar as Ginger’s abusive exhusband, Augie (Andrew Dice Clay), whose nest egg was taken by Jasmine’s dead ex.

It’s all so demeaning for Jasmine. She’s a woman clearly made to hob nob with attractive, wry, intellectual New Yorkers in

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a Woody Allen movie, and not to be forced to depend on the kindness of ethnic types and the hoi polloi. She’s even going to have to find work — and what kind of a job can she hope to get after years of being “trophy wife to a crook?”

Jasmine is just as condescending as I’ve made her sound, and she verbalizes her disdain all the time, often talking to strangers or herself when someone she knows isn’t handy. So why do these people put up with Jasmine? Why do we put up with her?

Because of Blanchett and what she does

with the character.

As maddening as Jasmine is, she is clearly wounded and striking out from a fragile state. Further, she is a curiosity — an individual willing to insult you to your face even as you are offering her support.

The excellent cast also includes the wonderful Louis C.K., doing his best with a woefully underwritten part, and Peter Sarsgaard, gauzy and pleasantly ruthless as a potential love interest/deus ex machina for Jasmine if only she weren’t the person she is.

I don’t know why Woody Allen opted to introduce a Blanche DuBois to deal with two Stanley Kowalskis. But the dynamic works, as does this dark, sporadically funny, but mostly sad portrait of somebody we should find too annoying and selfabsorbed to be interesting. But we don’t and she isn’t and thanks for that, Cate.

CONTINUING The Act of Killing w A mind-boggling documentary by 38-yearold Joshua Oppenheimer that will leave you reeling. Oppenheimer set out to make a straightforward documentary about the Indonesian mass murderers responsible for an astounding number of deaths in 1965, but encountered obstacles at every step. So he turned to the self-styled gangsters and offered them the chance to tell their own stories. The results are stunning and horrible and mesmerizing.

NR, At Keystone Art Blackfish t Solid documentary about the care and treatment of orcas – killer whales – at sea parks, with the focus on one whale who has taken several lives while in captivity.

Many staff members from various parks speak out on the intelligent animals held in captivity for the entertainment of oth-

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Blackfish, the thinking person’s alternative to Shark Week. ers and the sometimes tragic consequences. The documentary format is routine, but the stories are compelling.

PG-13, At Keystone Art Elysium t Neill Blomkamp’s first film since District 9 isn’t nearly as good, but it delivers enough before its dumb-ass ending to

warrant a look-see. Basically a classy version of the dreadful Season 3 Star Trek episode “The Cloud Minders,” where the elite (including the lovely Droxine) live lives of privilege in the clouds while the violent Troglytes toil on the earth below.

Matt Damon more or less plays Kirk and Spock, with a cast rounded out by Jodie Foster, Alice Braga and District 9 star Sharlto Copley as the bad guy.

R, In wide release and IMAX Fruitvale Station e A heartbreaking, beautifully presented account of the last day in the life of Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan), who was shot and killed by police on New Year’s Day in 2009. Twenty-two-year-old Bay area resident Oscar is trying to start his life fresh after a stint in prison. Determined to make his mother (Octavia Spencer) proud, he struggles to earn money legally and be

a responsible father. But on New Years Eve everything explodes in a nightmarish miscarriage of police power. Powerful filmmaking — the fact that you know how it’s going to end just makes it even more devastating. One of the year’s best.

R, In wide release We’re the Millers t In order to better his chances of getting a load of pot across the Mexican border, drug dealer David Burke (Jason Sudeikis) hires a “family,” including a stripper (Jennifer Aniston), a goofball (Will Poulter) and a homeless punk (Emma Roberts). The story in the R-rated comedy is tired, but the jokes are funny, if juvenile, and the cast is likeable. Serviceable late summer fare.

R, In wide release — ED JOHNSON-OTT

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August has traditionally been a good month to open a craft brewery in Indiana. Lafayette Brewing Company is celebrating its 20th anniversary with events Aug. 15-21. Look for new brews and homebrew contest winners along with community highlights and music. Marking their 15th anniversaries are Upland and Mad Anthony, which have both recently opened new sites to expand the reach of their brews: Upland Tasting Room at East 86th St. in Carmel and Mad Anthony Lakeview Ale House in Angola. Upland’s historically inspired Champagne Velvet proved its mettle with a Silver Medal at this year’s State Fair/Brewers’ Guild Competition.

The Brewers’ Guild booth in the DuPont Pavilion at Indiana State Fair has been getting statewide visitors whose acquaintance with breweries and brewpubs is heartwarming. Indiana craft, boosting local economies, might be a mere 3 percent of the market share — the megabrewers still take their 97 percent of sales out of state. But drinkers are increasingly attending to the quality of what they’re drinking, and new brewpub and brewery openings are expected in 2013 and 2014. Even if newcomers are in our midst, Brewers of Indiana Guild director Lee Smith reminds us it’s always satisfying to revisit old standards: “I cook with beer, and my personal favorite is Dirty Helen from Barley Island absolutely makes my French Onion Soup. We throw it in chili too.”

Brewmaster Omar Castrellon credits assistant brewer Keely Thomlinson for Thr3e Wise Men’s newly tapped Tasty Waves California Common.

It’s a richly flavored Amber with ample malts yielding layers of toasted and caramel against the bitterness and flavor from the woody Northern Brewer hops.

Floyd Rosenbaum and Jeff Mease at Bloomington Brewing Company estimated the late July harvest from their hops garden yielded about 45 pounds of hops. They plan to utilize the hops to create the annual Homegrown Hops installment.

Stay tuned for specifics.

BEER EVENTS AUG. 14 • Triton Tap Takeover, 5-10 p.m., at Copper Still (917 Conner St, Noblesville) • Sun King Flagon Slayer tapping (official beer of Gen Con), 6-11 p.m., on Georgia Street in downtown Indy AUG. 16 • 2nd Annual Taste of the World Timmy Trivia Night at Athenaeum Theater; featuring the Second Helpings culinary class serving international cuisine paired with Flat 12 brews; $40 per person or $300 for a team of eighht; reserve at timmyglobalhealth.org

EVENTS Sausagefest 2013 You’ve seen the signs and probably giggled, but those in the know can tell you its for real, and that Saint Thomas Aquinas Church’s annual summer festival serves up artisanal sausage from Gunthorp Farms and L.E. Kincaid and Son’s, along with Sun King beer. Plus there’s a bouncy tent, an adult gaming area (blackjack, Texas Hold ‘Em, etc.), a wine garden and live music.

Saint Thomas Aquinas Church (46th and Illinois streets), Aug. 16 and 17, 6 p.m.-midnight

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Patachou’s gelato stand serves a genuine, small-batch product

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hen Martha Hoover, long-time Indianapolis restauranteur and creator of the Patachou brand, envisioned Napolese, her authentic Neopolitan pizzeria, a gelato dessert component was always a part of her plan. “Gelato is a natural extension of Neopolitan-style pizza,” she says. And the frozen dessert — softer than ice cream and ubiquitous in Italy — had been part of the menu since the beginning.

But last fall, Hoover made gelato a destination in itself with her latest venture, GELO: Gelato by Napolese. The gelateria and dessert bar occupies the east-most space in a strip mall housing three adjacent Hoover restaurants — including Cafe Patachou (her flagship) and Napolese — at the intersection of 49th and Pennsylvania.

Early on, Hoover found herself dissatisfied with the gelato varieties she could source commercially, and didn’t want to rely on traditional ice-cream methods of churning and storing, since gelato has specific storage needs. So she and head chef Tyler Herald began creating their own.

“We had a very definitive idea of the quality we wanted,” she says. “We’re making truly artisanal, small-batch gelato in one and a half gallon quantities.” To maintain its unique texture and to keep it from freezing to a solid mass, gelato should be stored at a higher temperature than ice cream. Continuous churning is ideal; GELO accomplishes that feat using equipment imported from Italy.

The dessert-seeker can expect to choose from about six flavors daily. The staples are adopted straight from what’s typical in Italy: vanilla, chocolate, and pistachio. But don’t expect the pistachio to be green (nothing artificial is added) — or for it to taste like almonds (like your basic ice-cream shop pistachio).

The GELO variety is made with ground pistachios, no extracts or almonds added, and the flavor is often a surprise to customers.

The other three menu flavors feature seasonal ingredients, local when possible. On a day in early August, those flavors included Blackberry-Lemon-Basil, Honey-Lavender

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and Peaches & Cream. “It just so happens that you won’t find a better peach than one that comes from Indiana in July,” Hoover says.

Classic ice cream embellishments are available: the purist might enjoy house-made hot ganache, caramel sauce and/or whipped cream (prepared in an imported machine that guarantees no synthetic aftertaste).

Other toppings include the salty and sweet: crushed pretzels, crumbled cookies, granola, sugared nuts, and classic chocolate sprinkles.

Hoover and Herald have also added classic pastries and other sweets to the mix. A Torte della Nonna (translating “Grandma’s Cake”) and Tiramisu are joined by seasonal cobblers and Double Dark Chocolate Brownies.

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Left, GELO’s accoutrements include the familiar — cookies and granola — and the more upscale — hot ganache.

And even Italians like their sundaes, at least according to GELO. The GELO Classic is two scoops of vanilla gelato, hot chocolate ganache, whipped cream and sugared pecans — and also happens to be Hoover’s favorite.

When it came to decor, Hoover wanted GELO “to look like someone stepped into a bowl of melted vanilla gelato.” The interior is spare and elegant, with antique-style metal crank cafe tables and white mid-mod-inspired chairs. Like any good ice cream or gelato bar, the scent of sweet cream is as big a player in ambience as paint color, and that’s easy to achieve with the machine churning batches front-and-center at the bar.

Hoover says its been a mostly smooth, trouble-free year for GELO Her biggest challenge?

Shelling out the extra costs involved with sourcing and preparing artisanal products: “It takes more to make things from scratch.” But she adds that most of her customers understand the situation, and are willing to pay the price: “It’s a luxurious treat!”

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Pat Martino’s playing defines elegance. His hands dance on the strings to produce a sublime vocalization infusing your whole body, not merely resonating in your ears. “It’s his humanity,” comments Robert Montgomery, Wes Montgomery’s son, whom Martino recognized in the audience at the first set on Friday. Martino credits a list of ancestral jazz legends, yet for us in Indianapolis the Wes Montgomery connection runs deepest.

Robert relates the story of the young Pat being taken to a Montgomery Brothers concert by Pat’s jazzloving father, after which Pat declared he intended to dedicate himself to perfecting his relationship with the guitar. Wes Montgomery’s approach to bringing soul jazz into the warp and woof of relationships remains profound within the fabric of Martino’s sensibility.

He weaves textures and patterns through his escalating chord conversions emanating from within his body and fusing with his guitar. Half a century later, Martino’s virtuosity breathes continued life into Wes Montgomery’s original charts, sharing with us their connectivity of respect, intellect and emotional range.

Martino pulls us into the story of a journey to connect, communicate, consider on the highest levels.

Partnering with jazz organist Pat Bianchi and drummer Carmen Intorre Jr., there’s no rushing, yet there’s no interrupting with patter, no fillers, just the main ingredients of an idea, a commentary, a call to action shared through music. You feel the bond between the trio, playing off each other, taking time to build or underscore, to reflect, rephrase, define. They smile, and the warmth washes over us. One is mesmerized by how easy Martino makes it look, thumb plucking on his “famously heavy-gauge strings” fit into luthier Bob Benedetto’s “Pat Martino Signature Model.”

Yet as much as Martino seems bonded to his instrument, he has remarked, “The guitar is of no great importance to me. The people it brings to me are what matter. They are what I’m extremely grateful for, because they are alive. The guitar is just an apparatus.”

Those who mask their lack of musicality with earsplitting loudness should sit at the feet of this master.

— RITA KOHN

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ared Hiner was only 20 years old when he learned his first child — still in the womb — was shrinking.

Kamdyn “Kammy” Hiner was born just 37 weeks into her incubation. She weighed 3 pounds, 14 ounces and wasn’t breathing. Her parents barely had time to meet her before she was whisked off to intensive care. Three weeks later, doctors gave Hiner the diagnosis.

Kammy was missing part of her fourth chromosome, resulting in a condition known known as 4p- or Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome.

Worst-case scenario, she wouldn’t survive.

And if she did, she’d be in a vegetative state.

“Getting that kind of information at [that age] is kind of mind-blowing,” Hiner said recently over beers at the Lockerbie Pub. “I wasn’t really sure what to do.”

He took Kammy home after a month-long hospital stay and did his best. Initially Hiner had to feed her with a syringe. She was so small she sounded like a kitten when she cried. Hope was hard to find.

“But day after day after day, she proved everybody wrong,” Hiner said.

Doctors told him Kammy wouldn’t talk. She talked. Kammy wouldn’t walk.

Eventually, she did. Kammy won’t have a personality, they said. Hiner begs to differ.

“She’s a rock star,” Hiner said of his daughter, now 11. “She took the worst possible scenario that you could be given and made it this incredible thing.”

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A single dad with custody early on, Hiner couldn’t do it alone. He sought outside help, and found it through a national support group for parents of 4p- children. At that point only about one in 50,000 children had such a diagnosis. Even today, Hiner only knows of five in Indiana.

That’s what made the support group so important. When Hiner joined, there were about 150 member families. With only a $25 annual fee, the organization couldn’t even print a quarterly newsletter without going into debt. Being a musician and knowing many others locally, Hiner decided to stage a musical festival to raise money. Kammy’s Kause was born.

The inaugural event was thrown together rather hastily. Hiner had to borrow the stage from a local high school.

He still managed to raise $1,000, much more than the 4p- support group was used to having. That was 10 years ago.

Since that earnest debut, Kammy’s Kause has earned more than $118,000, which has aided the support group and its members and funded 4p- research, including

a first-ever worldwide gathering of such geneticists in Washington, D.C. The festival itself, this year on Aug. 23-24, is now a twoday event featuring about a dozen artists, a motorcycle ride, live and silent auctions and a children’s zone.

“It’s like a carnival when you walk in now,” Hiner said of Kammy’s Kause, which is held at the American Legion Campground off State Road 13 in Fortville. Admission is $5 per person and includes parking and camping.

Many of this year’s artists have played it many times before, including Hiner’s band Breakdown Kings. This will be Landon Keller’s sixth year.

“For me, there is this almost tangible feeling of joy and inspiration that exists every single year there that I can’t wait to get back to,” Hiner wrote in an email. “Not to mention getting to hang out with and listen to a lot of local/regional musicians that I’ve come to know and love over the years. The camaraderie among musicians is unmatched. Both my band and my family truly look forward to it every single year.”

As for Kammy, she’s doing great. She’s enrolled in a special needs program at school.

Therapeutic horseback riding and music therapy have helped. Hiner considers Kammy to be on the milder end of the spectrum (many 4p- children require constant care).

“It just makes you appreciate it that much more,” Hiner said. “It took so long to get there and took so much work. Now we revel in it on a much deeper level.”

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THANK GOD, THE “!” IS BACK Panic! At The Disco stops at Radio Radio on small venue tour

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In 2007, if you had asked me who was on top of the emo rock world, I would have two answers for you. First, My Chemical Romance, who were on tour for massive rock opera The Black Parade and then, Panic! At The Disco, who blasted up the charts with their first release A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out and whose fans were eagerly anticipating another release.

Then came Pretty. Odd., the Beatles-inspired baroque pop album released in 2008 – and the controversial drop of the trademark “!” from Panic’s name. Fans were furious (and I, for one, was excited to see such consternation over a grammatical choice). Where was the raging, heartbroken emo of Fever? Where was the exclamation mark?

But Panic! At The Disco has always done what they’ve wanted, and they followed Pretty. Odd. with Vices and Virtues, and now, Too Weird To Live, Too Rare to Die. Good on you for recognizing that title, which is a quote from Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Vegas is more than just an allusion in the album title – it’s Panic!’s home and the major inspiration for this latest, synth-heavy album.

Panic! At The Disco will perform at Radio Radio Wednesday as part of a small venue tour, before joining Fall Out Boy as a support act.

And thank god, they’ve added the “!” back.

NUVO: Why the small venue tour?

BRENDON URIE: Honestly, it’s been a while since we’ve done that and I’m kind of excited for the contrast and the juxtaposition of doing these awesome intimate shows face to face with the fans and jumping to the Fall Out Boy tour. But it’s something that we haven’t really done in a while and it’s fun to do both of them. I don’t know if we really have a preference to which one we prefer more, but these shows are going to be pretty exciting and we’re going to be just as sweaty, keeping them on kind of the same level.

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I’m thinking of the venue you’re going to be at and it’s not small, but it’s definitely not a theatre-sized stage.

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URIE: Sure. We wanted to bring more production, but then we did realize how small some of these places would be. And that’s going to be all-good because we’ve changed our live show a little bit and we’ve got a few transitions.

The energy is going to be different as well and that just goes with finishing this record and being so excited to get on the road again. It will be different in the best way possible.

NUVO: Now, am I right to say that this record integrates some of your synthesizer collection that you’ve been working on? Tell me about working those into songs.

URIE: A lot of the synths, Spencer [Smith] and I actually – this was probably five years ago – we picked up a couple of hardware synths for a rack that we were trying to build ... and they were just amazing. Then we realized, it would be cool to produce our own stuff and our own demos to sound better and get the collection going a little bit further on.

A lot of the sounds have a specific feel behind them that they kind of dictated what the song would be. Sometimes on a more personal note with the songs, I would start with the lyrics that I wanted to tackle, but some of the songs would start with a sound and that would influence me, “Oh, this is how I felt when I was [this old] or this reminds me of this memory.” I wanted to revisit that. A lot of the sounds were kind of nostalgic in their own way and it kind of made the record eclectic enough.

NUVO: I was interested to read the note from Spencer that he posted on [Tumblr] about his struggles with addiction. I wondered if you as a band talked about posting that or if that was something he had decided by himself. How do you think this will impact the tour?

URIE: Sure, yeah. That came about because Spencer was going through this and did want to be honest. He directly wanted to get this out, he wanted it to be from him and so did I. I wanted him to have that comfortability to be honest with not only the fans, but himself.

It’s going to be hard in the beginning, but hopefully it’s going to pay off. So far, it’s been great and we’re really excited about all of these intimate shows and I think that’s going to, like you said, bring some intimacy to it as well, you know? But, that will be something that will be good in the long run for everyone. I think it’s better to be honest than hide behind something that can plague you for so long.

Editor’s note: After this interview, Smith withdrew from this tour to further deal with his addiction issues.

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eeing a hole in your concert calendar for this week? GloryHole Records is hosting a must-see show this Friday at the Melody Inn. The night’s lineup features an impressive selection of local acts, including Male Bondage, Vacation Club, Raw McCartney and my current favorite Indianapolis band Sweet Poison Victim.

I was pleased to see Sweet Poison Victim added to the rock-heavy bill. The band sometimes finds it hard to fit into Indy’s rock-heavy scene because of their eccentric sound, which can jump from calypso to R&B in a flash. But the core of their music is built around the psychedelic guitar work of Ted Somerville and the African drumming of Kwesi Brown.

In Brown’s West African homeland there’s a long history of mixing psychedelic rock with traditional rhythms and song. So, in preparation for Friday’s show, I decided to put together this primer on African psychedelic music. The following albums represent a brief overview of Africa’s rich psychedelic music scene.

THE FUNKEES - DANCING TIME An indispensable compilation by one of the best bands to emerge from the African rock movement. During the ’60s and ’70s Nigeria was home to the most significant rock scene in Africa, and the Lagos-based Funkees were one of the Nigerian scene’s top groups. Like New Orleans’ Meters, The Funkees have a sound and rhythmic sensibility that’s completely their own. Tunes like “Acid Rock” and “Dancing in the Nude” mix hard-hitting percussive grooves with a heavy rock vibe, while “Akula Owu Onyeara” and “Akpankoro” ratchet up the African rhythms. The Funkees achieved minor notoriety outside Nigeria, catching the attention of legendary BBC tastemaker John Peel and pan Afro-Caribbean superstars Osibisa.

WITCH - LAZY BONES While the Nigerian rock scene may have been the biggest on the continent, Zambia’s infamous “Zamrock” scene produced Africa’s loudest and dirtiest rock acts. Kitwe’s Witch were one of the few Zamrock acts to achieve notice outside Zambia, landing a brief tour opening for Osibisa. Witch’s 1975 release Lazy Bones is widely considered their finest work.

The frenzied rhythms and psychedelic guitar fuzz on tracks like “Tooth Factory” and “Black Tears” has more in common with Black Sabbath than the sweet kalindula rhythms popular in Zambia at that time.

LOVE’S A REAL THING: THE FUNKY FUZZY SOUNDS OF WEST AFRICA There’s plenty of African music outside of the rock spectrum that exhibits serious psychedelic vibes and this compilation does a tremendous job of collecting some of the best examples. An essential collection if only for the inclusion of “Allah Wakbarr” by Nigeria’s Ofo and the Black Company, a wild, unrestrained blast of African rhythms and piercing fuzz guitars.

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NGOZI FAMILY - 45,000 VOLTS Zambia’s Paul Ngozi defies all expectations of what African music is supposed to sound like.

The best tracks on this 1977 release are pure proto-metal, right down to the horror-themed lyrics on “Night of Fear.” Ngozi’s overdriven guitar lines and piercing vocal style increase the LPs eerie vibe.

ROB - FUNKY ROB WAY Ghana’s Rob is best known for the song “Make it Fast, Make it Slow,” a track famously sampled by J Dilla. But I prefer his 1977 debut Funky Rob Way. The album’s hypnotic, droning space-rock grooves sound more akin to Kraut rock icons Can or Amoon Duul than the highlife and afro-beat groups in vogue in Ghana at the time. Rob’s vocals alternate between bizarre shouted chants and softly spoken incantations, while the band adds buzzing synths and hissing guitars creating some of the heaviest grooves ever pressed to wax.

TINARIWEN - AMASSAKOUL Psychedelic music is alive and well in Africa and has found a new home among the Tuareg people of Niger and Mali. The members of Tinariwen came of age in Algeria listening to Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix on radio broadcasts emanating from a French military base. They combined those heavy guitar riffs with traditional Tuareg rhythms and melodies to create what some have called desert blues.

All Tineriwen’s LPs are worth hearing, but I prefer this 2004 title for the wild, primal rocker “Oualahila Ar Tesninam.”

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THURSDAY FESTIVAL Rootwire Livetronica band Papadosio throws a festival for themselves and their favorite bands every summer in Ohio. Indy act Cosby Sweater is the only band from Indy on the massive lineup, so we gave them a call before they head out for the date.

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NUVO: Cosby Sweater is the only Indy band on the lineup this year for Rootwire – how does that make you feel?

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pretty awesome because there are a lot of great bands in Indy, but I really feel like what they are trying to go for at Rootwire is a more eclectic group of music from all around the world. Like they have a band from the UK there this year and a bunch of stuff from all over the place so it’s pretty cool that we get to play with so many great acts.

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at the Marsh Free Stage (P.S. We heard this is the Rev’s favorite show all year.)

Indiana State Fair, 1202 E. 38th St. , 8 p.m., FREE, all-ages JAZZ Sarah Marie Young “The girl can sing!” That’s Quincy Jones, talking about Indy native Sarah Marie Young, who has left the Eastside of Indianapolis for Chicago. She quickly became a regular in the Chicago jazz scene, before heading to Switzerland to record her first full-length album of originals. She’ll perform for one night at the Jazz Kitchen, with her signature mix of originals and highlights from the Great American Songbook.

Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave. 7:30 p.m., 10 p.m., $12, 21+ SPACEY Klingon Band Four words: They. Sing. In. Klingon. The Gen Con madness continues, this time around noon in the Arts Garden.

Indianapolis Arts Garden, 110 W. Washington St. 12:15 p.m., all-ages JAM Umphrey’s McGee The guys of Umphrey’s were in school at Notre Dame when they started playing together.

Guitarist and vocalist Jake Cinniger says, “In South Bend, there wasn’t a whole lot going on in the music scene. So we just kind of just created our own music scene between a couple bands. I was in a band called Ali Baba’s Tahini and we would play all the time with Umphrey’s. Umphrey’s had just started and you know we would play parties, pubs and all the old places and kept pretty busy. We got sort of a repertoire going and then a fan base.” Of course, that fan base grew exponentially from their days at school. But now, they’re headed back to school – or, at least

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Lawn at White River State Park, 801 W. Washington St. 7 p.m., prices vary, all-ages ROCK Hockey What does a band do when they go on a long hiatus? Well, Ben Grubin from Portland rock band Hockey was honest with us. “We were in an isolated situation for a lot of that time,” Grubin says. “Lots of Netflix happened: First two seasons of Twin Peaks. Parks and Recreation, French New Wave films and on and on. [I] celebrated my grandma’s 95th and 96th birthdays.”

— REBEKKA REMUS The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave. 9 p.m., $12, 21+ ALBUM RELEASE Male Bondage LP Release Show You read a bit about this show in Kyle Long’s column, but we’ll tell you a bit more. Promoters Drink Or Die have solidified into a bonafide record label and are releasing (in conjunction with GloryHole Records) Male Bondage’s new release Love Moon.

They’ve spent the summer touring the U.S. and have returned to Indy with sludgier riffs and more rage. (P.S. This is the band old NUVO columnist Hammer used to live next door to. See their oftwritten about loudness in person.)

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FESTIVAL FORECAST INDIANA WARM Fest, Aug 31-Sept. 2, Broad Ripple This Labor Day weekend Broad Ripple Park will host acts like Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Michael Franti and Spearhead and Mayer Hawthorne. Plenty of local acts will play the fest, which is one of the biggest in Indy ever.

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Since its February release, the record has helped elevate the band to new heights, including a spot at Outside Lands this past weekend. I spoke with Thao before their Deluxe at Old National Centre show about the process of making the record, and its influences along the way.

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ing. That’s a product of having time for my own life and to be more of a part of my community. I also had a lot more time to write this record than the previous ones. I had the luxury of writing and taking breaks and snapping songs and starting new ones. The main thing is that the narrative perspective is a lot different, and is more about building community and being a part of one.

NUVO: A big part of being a part of your community was your involvement with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners. How did you gain interest in that, and where did it lead?

NGUYEN: A lot of my friends are really amazing activists in San Francisco. Two of them have been involved with this group for years. I always noticed how much they cared about it. It was a level of dedication that I hadn’t seen working with other organizations. They asked me to fill in on an advocacy visit to a state prison and I was home long enough to get clearance, which I hadn’t been able to do before. I went in for my first visit.

After your first visit, you can’t not go back. That’s how it started.

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ILLINOIS North Coast Music Festival, Aug. 30-Sept. 1, Chicago This Labor Day weekend, Union Park in Chicago will host a variety of names that will get you grooving like Big Gigantic, Afrojack and the WuTang Clan.

More headliners are still to be announced as the date approaches. And the fun doesn’t stop when the festival closes because numerous after parties will be hosted at venues around the city.

OHIO Rootwire, Aug. 15-18, Logan, Ohio Hosted by the electronic rock band Papadosio, this festival mixes visual arts, music and workshops in Kaeppner’s Woods. Some musical acts include Dopapod, Jimkata, ESKMO and The Main Squeeze as well as multiple sets from Papadosio.

PENNSYLVANIA Made in America Festival Aug. 31 - Sept. 1, Philadelphia Yes, it’s a bit of a haul. Yes, it’s the same weekend as Warm Fest. But if you have a true love for the Queen B — that’s Beyonce — you’ll want to head to Jay Z’s Made in America Festival. Nine Inch Nails co-headlines.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY © 2013 BY ROB BRESZNY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Normally, International CAPS LOCK DAY happens only once a year, on June 28. But in alignment with your current astrological omens, you have been granted the right to observe the next seven days as your own personal International CAPS LOCK DAYS. That means you will probably be forgiven and tolerated if use OVERHEATED ORATORY and leap to THUNDEROUS CONCLUSIONS and engage in MELODRAMATIC GESTURES. You may even be thanked -- although it’s important to note that the gratitude you receive may only come later, AFTER THE DUST HAS SETTLED. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): William Turner was a 19thcentury English landscape painter born under the sign of Taurus. His aim was not to capture scenes in realistic detail but rather to convey the emotional impact they made on him. He testified that on one occasion he had himself tied to the mast of a ship during a snowstorm so that he could experience its full effects firsthand. The result was “Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbor’s Mouth,” a painting composed mostly of tempestuous swirls. What would be the equivalent for you, Taurus? I’m trying to think of a way you could be perfectly safe as you treated yourself to an up-close encounter with elemental energies.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Some years back, the Greek government launched a huge anti-smoking campaign. In response, cigarette sales spiked dramatically.

When my daughter was six years old, I initiated a crusade to ban Barbie dolls from our home forever. Soon she was ripping out pictures of the accursed anti-feminist icon from toy catalogs and leaving them on my desk. With these events in mind, I’m feeling cautious about trying to talk you into formulating a five-year master plan. Maybe instead I should encourage you to think small and obsess on transitory wishes.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly,” the Canadian poet Robert Bringhurst reminds us. That will be a good principle for you to keep in mind during your own adventures during the coming weeks. I suspect that any liberation you are able to achieve will come as the result of intense discipline. To the degree that you cultivate the very finest limitations, you will earn the right and the power to transcend inhibitions that have been holding you down.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” When I came across that quote while surfing the Web, I felt that it jibed perfectly with the astrological omens that are currently in play for you.

Every website I consulted agreed that the speaker of this wisdom was Socrates, but I thought the language sounded too contemporary to have been uttered by a Greek philosopher who died 2,400 years ago. After a bit of research, I found the real source: a character named Socrates in Way of the Peaceful Warrior, a New Age selfhelp book by Dan Millman. I hope this doesn’t dilute the impact of the quote for you, Leo. For now, it is crucial that you not get bogged down in quarreling and brawling.

You need to devote all your energy to creating the future.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Do you know that you are a host for more than 10,000 different species of microorganisms? Many of them are bacteria that perform functions essential to your health. So the stunning fact of the matter is that a large number of life forms share your body and constantly help you in ways about which you have no conscious awareness. Might there be other examples of you collecting benefits from unknown sources?

Well, do you know who is responsible for providing you with the water and electricity you use? Who sewed your clothes and made your medicine? Who built the roads and buildings you use? This is an excellent time to take inventory of all the assistance, much of it anonymous, that you are so fortunate to receive.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): More often than not, your fine mind does a competent job of defining the problems that need solving. It comes up with concise questions that lead you in the right direction to find useful clues. It gathers evidence crisply and it makes smart adjustments as the situation evolves. But after studying the astrological factors currently at work, I’m a little concerned that your usually fine mind might temporarily be prone to suffering from the dreaded malady known as paralysis through over-analysis. To steer yourself away from that possibility, keep checking in with your body and your feelings to see what alternate truths they may have to tell you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): By the standards of people who don’t know you well, the triumph you achieve in the coming days might seem modest. But I think it will actually be pretty dramatic. Here’s my only concern: There’s a slight danger you will get grandiose or even a bit arrogant in the aftermath of your victory. You could also get peeved at those who don’t see it for the major achievement it is. Now that I’ve given you this warning, though, I’m hoping you will avoid that fate. Instead you will celebrate your win with humble grace, feeling gratitude for all the help you got long the way.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.” So said French writer André Breton. I suspect that many of us feel the same way, which is kind of depressing. But the good news for you, Sagittarius, is that there will be times in the coming months when you will get as close to naming that mysterious thing as you have ever gotten. On more than a few occasions, you may be able to get a clear glimpse of its true nature. Now and then you might even be fully united with it. One of those moments could come soon.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The Paris Review did a story on novelist William Gass. The interviewer asked him why he wrote his books. That was “a very dumb question,” he sneered. Nevertheless, he answered it, saying, “I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.” In other words, his primary motivations for expressing himself creatively were loathing, malice, and hostility. I beg you not to use him as your role model, Capricorn. Not now. Not ever.

But especially now. It is essential to your long-term health and wealth that you not be driven by hate in the coming weeks. Just the opposite, in fact: The more you are driven by love and generosity, the better chance you will have of launching a lucky streak that will last quite a while.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are,” said author Marianne Williamson. “Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is.”

Your assignment, Aquarius, is to seek out the deepest possible understanding of these truths. To do that, you will have to identify the unripe, shadowy qualities of the people who are most important to you. And then you will have to find it in your smart heart to love them for their unripe, shadowy qualities almost as much as you do for their shiny, beautiful qualities.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Aldous Huxley was the renowned 20th-century intellectual who wrote the book Brave New World, a dystopian vision of the future. Later in his life he came to regret one thing: how “preposterously serious” he had been when he was younger. “There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet,” he ruminated, “trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly, my darling . . . Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.” I would love for you to put this counsel at the top of your priority list for the next ten months, darling Pisces. Maybe even write it out on a piece of paper and tape it to your bathroom mirror.

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