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epublicans are about to suffer another attack of stupidity. An Associated Press story detailing that major donors to the Clinton Foundatime the impeachment and subsequent tion managed to secure meetings with trial in the U.S. Senate had ended, several Hillary Clinton while she was secretary Republican members of Congress had of state has sent GOP fire-breathers into seen their careers come to an end — and overdrive. Bill Clinton enjoyed some of the highest Republican presidential candidate public approval numbers of his presiDonald Trump flooded social media with dency. calls for an investigation. Several RepubThe AP story reveals a pattern of lican members of Congress followed The behavior on Hillary Clinton’s part that is Donald’s lead and issued press releases unseemly but not illegal. (If it becomes demanding that a special prosecutor be a crime for public officials to open their appointed to investigate the matter. doors to people of wealth, every member These people never learn. of Congress, every governor and most Bill and Hillary Clinton met when state legislators soon will find themselves they both attended the Yale University under indictment.) School of Law, where they both were top Because the Clintons have dominated students. They are among the best legal the nation’s attention for a quarterminds of their generation. century, there are few Americans who That, in part, is the reason why Republican efforts to nail them on legal grounds haven’t made up their minds about them already. The news always fail. The that they like to Clintons know cut ethical corners where the line is being and, with long Neither Clinton is likely ever stopped a revelation two years of pracdecades ago. to do something that would tice, they have What the GOP become adept at end their chances of returning needs right now is tiptoeing along a way to persuade it. to the White House. wavering modThe attempts erate Republito defeat the cans, distrustful Clintons through independents and disaffected Democrats legal investigations also end in disaster to swing their way. Long ago, a Repubbecause both husband and wife have lican presidential candidate destroyed finely developed instincts for self-preserhis Democratic opponent by asking one vation. There is no doubt that they love simple question during a debate: “Are you money and the good life, but not nearly better off than you were four years ago? as much as they love political power. The brutal fact is that if a candidate, Bill Clinton began running for presiRepublican or Democrat, asked Reagan’s dent while he was still in his mother’s question now, many Americans could womb. Hillary Clinton’s campaign for not answer yes without lying. Even with the nation’s highest office began in the the stock market notching record highs seconds right after her husband took the and employment numbers setting new presidential oath for the first time. standards, the middle class is dissolving Neither Clinton is likely ever to do and the American standard of living is something that would end their chances eroding. of returning to the White House. Making this race about those citizens Republicans were convinced 20 years who feel the American Dream slipping ago they had Bill Clinton skinned and from their grasp would be the smart thing scalped over his dalliance with White to do. Instead, the GOP wants to make House intern Monica Lewinsky. By the this race about Hillary Clinton. n
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FIXING POVERTY IN INDY
Two Indy institutions offer divergent solutions
“No child can learn unless they’re safe.”
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Department of Education outlines plan to prevent child abuse Glenda Ritz, Indiana’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, is proposing her plan to prevent child abuse in schools. The plan includes additional training for school employees and streamlining the license revocation process.
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“No student can learn unless they are safe,” Ritz said in a statement. “As a lifelong educator, I know that keeping our children safe and healthy is a responsibility that our schools take very seriously. That is why the Department is expanding the services it provides to local schools and law enforcement and why we will be working with the Legislature to strengthen Indiana’s laws in the upcoming legislative session.”
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overty is an issue affecting communities all over the country. It’s been an issue for several years and is growing, especially in Indianapolis. But now two educational institutions are utilizing their resources and expertise to address poverty locally with the ultimate hope of making real long-term change.
The Indiana Department of Education wants to work with background check providers to get background checks offered to schools at a reduced rate. The department hopes a discount would encourage background checks for regular school and coach volunteers in addition to school employees.
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The plan also calls for school employees to receive additional training to help identify children who may be abused, as well as what behaviors to look for regarding potential predators. Ritz also wants to reduce the amount of time it takes to revoke a teacher’s license for educators convicted of certain offenses. Under current state law, a separate administrative process is required to revoke a teacher’s license after the teacher is convicted. Ritz wants a judge to be able to revoke a teacher’s license upon conviction. Lawmakers will have the opportunity to consider the department’s plan during next year’s legislative session. — THE STATEHOUSE FILE
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expression and involvement in social justice issues. If you ask Christian Theological Seminary (CTS) president Matt Boulton why that is, he will
tell you those concepts are embedded not only in the teachings of Christ, but in the historical foundations of the institution. Boulton says it is his job to foster conversations within the community on how the seminary can assist on making Indianapolis a better place in adherence to its mission of faithful social outreach. “There are a lot of civic leaders who are concerned about the rise of poverty in the United States, but also in particular in Indianapolis,” says Boulton. Civic research institutions like the Brookings Institute and the Annie E. Casey Foundation have a lot of retrospective data (data that reflects the past) regarding poverty across the country, breaking down the information in each state countyby-county. The Annie E. Casey Foundation — which focuses on children’s issues including poverty, education, health, etc. — determined Indianapolis (Marion County) had one of the nation’s largest increases
in the number of children living in poverty between 2005 and 2013. The child poverty rate in Indianapolis is at 33 percent compared to the national average of 20 percent. Adding adults to the mix reduces the overall poverty rate in Indianapolis to 22 percent, but then the national overall average is 15 percent. The results of a 2016 Brookings Institute study focuses on the concentration of poverty in neighborhoods as well as the rate of change within those concentrated areas. “The research shows that in a neighborhood with a high concentration of poverty — the higher the concentration of poverty goes in terms of the number of residents in that neighborhood who are impoverished — if you get to about 20 percent you see where the negative social outcomes increase significantly,” says Boulton. “If it goes up to 40 percent [the negative social outcomes index] goes up exponentially.” Negative social outcomes include crime and incarceration, lack of education (high school dropouts), unemployment and poor health rates such as obesity, heart disease and diabetes. These outcomes affect a child’s ability to rise out of that poverty situation. The higher rate of poverty and concentration of negative outcomes increase the likelihood of a child raised in that environment falling victim to
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his/her circumstances and repeating the cycle. According to Brookings, Indianapolis is the 15th worst city in terms of poverty-concentrated neighborhoods that are 20 percent or higher and the fourth worst city in the nation with poverty-concentrated neighborhoods that are 40 percent or more. “ And no other city in the country is in the top 15 of the first list AND the top five of the second list,” says Boulton. “We are the only city that is on both lists.” Since poverty has been an issue for a number of years, several organizations have formed with the mission of trying to tackle the issue. The Faith and Action Project seeks to bring everyone together for meaningful conversations that (hopefully) foster collaborative efforts with the goal of finding real solutions. There will also be a seed grant component to foster and support those initiatives that appear to have the greatest potential for change and fellowship awards for initiatives with exceptional promise that can also be replicated in other neighborhoods and cities or accelerated for faster yet effective change. The project will center around two cornerstone events — a fall event that will bring in nationally known speakers and experts for motivational impact and a smaller spring event that will focus on local leadership, training and collaboration. Once established, the spring event will serve as the application time for grants and awards and the fall event will include the grant announcements. All grants and awards will be supported in part by the Mike and Sue Smith Family Fund. The first fall event is scheduled for September 27 at Clowes Memorial Hall. The featured speakers will
be New York Times columnist David Brooks and national talk show host and Hoosier native Tavis Smiley. Boulton says the entire project is still under development and will be continuously developing as needs arise and assessments indicate the need for change. “Well-intentioned efforts are sometimes counterproductive, so we have to be very serious and look at that kind of analysis. But even if we aren’t harming, are we helping and how will we know?” Boulton considers. “I think there is work to do in identifying the most effective metrics, identifying what the metrics would be and then also measuring them in a way that is consistent and reliable over time.”
University of Indianapolis One institution that may already be on the path to helping CTS answer those tough metrics questions is the University of Indianapolis. Last fall, UIndy announced the establishment of a poverty institute, thanks to a philanthropic gift from local architect and civic leader Gene Zink and his wife Mary Ann. “Whenever we think about poverty in our own areas, we think about it through a lens that doesn’t necessarily allow us to look at the complexity of variables that make poverty,” says UIndy president Rob Manual. “For example, we look at education and the people around education as a forum to eradicate poverty — what they are trying to do is good and, in fact, is one of the reasons why people get out of poverty — but there are a lot of variables that make it impossible for people to go through education [for their escape from poverty.] Then if you look at another area like food,
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they are addressing poverty by giving answer their own questions that are food to the immediate need. But they specific to the individual communiare not addressing why they need ties they are trying to serve. food in the first place.” “A white rural area is very different The Zink Poverty Institute at UIndy from an African American or Latino will try to connect all of the dots with- or Burmese or whatever community in the poverty umbrella to identify you want to talk about. The realities solutions to poverty. Those dots will of those situations are very different,” exist in a data lake funneling any and says Manuel. “And so you need those all current information about poverty ‘boots-on-the-ground.’ You need that from every possible source into one organization that understands their centralized repository of information. own community. We just need to “[The respository] will allow any arm them not with just why there’s a grassroots agency to work with us to find the “Whenever we think about real causes of poverty in our own areas, we poverty inside the area that think about it through a lens they want to study,” says that doesn’t necessarily allow Manuel. us to look at the complexity of Several partners have variables that make poverty.” already been shown inter— ROB MANUEL, UNIVERSITY OF est in sharing INDIANAPOLIS PRESIDENT their own data and accessing everyone problem, but what would happen if else’s information in the hopes of certain interventions took place.” making real change. Manuel also emphasizes that the “We use all of their data and say, data will not be retrospective looking ‘let’s now model what happens when over past years and trends like Brookcertain interventions occur inside of ings or the Casey foundation, but will your area,’” says Manuel. “So that the be real-time current data. effect of poverty — you can end up “The data from Brookings and with a much more robust look at how Casey Foundation are terrific in idenyou actually change the long term eftifying what we know to be the probfects of poverty in a certain area.” lem and where,” says Manuel. “The Manuel says the institute and the data from UIndy would hopefully be a university will not be the decision construct of the solution.” n makers telling organizations the answers to the poverty equation, but rather will be the conduit of information providing the data to help them
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he vast, vast majority of football fans’ experiences with this wretched, wonderful sport are grim. They are in the end at least — whenever the season is finished. Because we slog our way through however-many weeks of stupid pre-game shows and panic attacks and a billion DirecTV commercials — yelling and fretting and giving ourselves Type-12 diabetes — and if we are lucky, we get to do it for another week. And maybe another. And another, until we can’t. Until some game-tying field goal or weird onside kick ends the ride in agony — the kind of agony that seems so inevitable that it makes us question why we even do this in the first place. And that’s if it’s a good season. More specifically, for every euphoric Reggie Wayne touchdown in a Miami drizzle there are a thousand Mike Vanderjagts errantly booting our souls in the crotch. For every OMG MARLIN JACKSON PICKED OFF TOM BRADY moment there are a dozen Billy Goddamn Voleks — who was a fourth-string long snapper, by the way — passing for 926 yards and the improbable playoff win and making this city literally demolish the building it happened in, at great effort and expense, because it was just that horrific. (Well, we can never go back in there, folks! LOL sorry!) Being a Colts fan is agony. •••••••••••••• An alarming percentage of NFL players’ experiences with this wretched, wonderful sport are also grim. They are in the end at least — during their lives after football. Because they slog their way through however-many-years of shattered vertebrae and knee bones and internal organs, irrevocably scrambling their central nervous systems in the process. And if they’re lucky, they get to do it for another year. And another. And another, until they physically can’t. And then they are broken sacks of arthritis and dementia at age 43, hosting the NFL on Fox pre-game show. They do these awful things to themselves for our viewing pleasure. For our entertainment. They break their bodies and their brains so that we — the fickle fans — can spend our autumn Sundays casually day-drinking and hurling
vile insults at them when they false-start for the 11th time that drive. They do this to themselves so that we have the mere chance to win our fantasy football league … but never do or will, because whoever you draft first will certainly get dysentery or whooping cough the first game and sit out for the next three months. Being a professional football player is agony. •••••••••••••• Nothing about this system should work. Nothing. The players shouldn’t be playing and we shouldn’t be watching. But they do. And we do. The players have their reasons, we have our own — although none of the reasons are the same or particularly prudent or healthy. They play and we watch because we all can pretend the whole thing won’t leave us miserable and homeless in the end, but goddammit it is Right, somehow! It is Good! It is AMERICA, for better or worse, and we’ve hitched our National Pastime wagon to its corrupt, greedy, misery-inducing Death star and we will cling to it until we die. Then we’ll cling to it in the afterlife, it seems. We are weird. The whole thing is so counterintuitive that it hardly makes sense. Remember this year’s first preseason game that happened like 14 light-years ago? The ceremonial, money-grab “game” against the Packers that got canceled because the Hall of Fame Committee tried to paint the field with weaponized plutonium-tar an hour before kickoff? Yeah, the lead-in to that “game” — the “game” that had already been canceled — had a Nielsen television rating that was FOUR TIMES HIGHER than the 100th running of the Indy 500. Jesus. Football is so dumb and bad and fantastic and addictive, not unlike heroin really. But who cares: TIME TO SHOOT UP, AMERICA! It’s football season once more, thank God. Time to get our fix and then lie motionless in the gutter for months on end! Let us break down this year’s Colts schedule using only the most advanced analytics and predictive uber-metrics, or more accurately, whatever the polar opposites of those things are. Because those things are awful and pointless. Only gambling derelicts care about Antonio Brown’s YPRR stats, for example, and we are not those. We are normal Americans. And this is our drug game. S E E , COLTS, O N P A GE 1 0 NUVO // 100% SUSTAINABLE / RECYCLED PAPER // 08.31.16 - 09.07.16 // COVER STORY 9
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GOODELL: Get out.
The Jaguars are the homeless uncle living in the NFL’s basement who everyone has to adjust their lives around in order to accommodate his being around, constantly smoking synthetic weed and eating everyone’s food and not paying rent. That said, they’ll probably beat the Colts by 45 points again. I’m already depressed.
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Oh, it’s just the Lions; why, they are dreadful. Calvin Johnson’s gone. What’s-his-name Suh is gone. They’re the Lions. The Colts will win by 60 points, probably. It will be very boring, When is the Broncos game? Yeah, no more of that. Those days are gone until proven otherwise. Because last year at this time — before the season opener at Buffalo — everyone was all “Pfffft, the Bills” while doing dismissive jerk-off motions and asking who Tyrod Taylor was. And then Tyrod Taylor and the Bills curb-stomped the Colts into the bleak abyss of NFL mediocrity and nothing was ever the same. Win by 60? 20? Fuck that. You see, the Colts never trounce ANYBODY, ever — even when they were good and going to the AFC Championship Game. Their largest margin of victory in 2014 was 13 points. Way way way more frequently over the past four years they’d win some nail-biter by 3 or 4 … or they’d lose by 350 points. There was not much in between. And yet for whatever reasons last year we all just assumed they’d lazily steamroll through the regular season because of Andre “Last Brother Guarding the Grail” Johnson, I guess? God, we were such idiots. No, this year is different. We are not idiots anymore. Our eyes are open. We can safely assume that Detroit will wheel Jim Caldwell out to his coachin’ pen and he will stand there silently staring into the sun for three hours while the Colts get penalized 412 times for 6,000 yards and the Lions will win on a last-second field goal. That’s our reality now, gang.
WEEK 2 AT BRONCOS Sunday, September 18, 4:25 p.m.
Here’s what I don’t get: The Colts were a very not-good team last year, right? I don’t remember what their record was exactly but I very much recall that they didn’t make the playoffs. And missing the playoffs from the AFC South is like missing the toilet while sitting
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on it — it requires some creative, next-level ineptitude or witchcraft or what have you, like pooping out of your ear canal all over the floor. And despite this fact, the Colts beat the Broncos. The Broncos. The Super Bowl champions. And a week before that they took the other Super Bowl team — the Panthers — to overtime (and frankly should have beat them). So to recap: the same team that beat and should have beaten the two Super Bowl teams is the same team that lost to the worst team in NFL Europe, the Jaguars, 51 to 16. Football is dumb and I don’t understand anything about it. ON WITH THE PREVIEW!!
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Three nationally televised games in three weeks? Something doesn’t feel right about this. It feels … dirty. And wrong. Like we’re being set up.
WEEK 4 AT JAGUARS Sunday, October 2, 9:30 a.m.
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ROGER GOODELL: It’s your turn, Jim. I’m so
sorry. You’re playing in London on October two. Please make the proper arrang JIM IRSAY: Fuck you, Goodell, we’re not going. Who plays football at 4:30 in the morning in Spain or wherever London is? GOODELL: England. Listen, it a great inconvenience, I know. But if Operation: JACKSONVILLEXODUS is ever going to work, we need everyone’s cooperation. Look at it as your duty. Protect the Shield, Jim. IRSAY: What’s the Shield gonna do for us, Rodney? GOODELL: I’ll give you one nationally televised
game before London, how’s that? IRSAY: GIVE US SEVEN! GOODELL: It’s only week four, Jim. I’ll give you two. IRSAY: NINE! GOODELL: Jesus. Fine. Three. That’s literally and mathematically the best I can do. Your broke-ass team doesn’t deserve three, but I’ll give it to you. IRSAY: Throw in William Tecumseh Sherman’s field guitar and you’ve got yourself a deal.
The tailgating before this should be colorful. And by that I mean “stabby.” Bears fans, man. They’re the worst. These people live in Rockford and say that’s somehow Chicago and if you point out the absurdness of that they’ll roll up their cargo pants and show you their tattoo of Ron Santo’s face and then break a bottle of Old Style over your skull. They’re the Trump supporters of the North.
WEEK 6 AT TEXANS Sunday, October 16, 8:30 p.m.
This is on Sunday Night Football. This game. At Houston. In THE marquee spot. When was the last time the Texans or Jaguars or Titans played on national television that didn’t involve Thursday Night Football? Nobody actually watches Thursday Night Football. The whole goddamn country will watch this. And you know, I much prefer the nation at large just assuming the worst about the AFC South; I don’t need every single one of their preconceived notions about how awful it is confirmed entirely. It’s like Abraham Lincoln said: “It is better to remain unwatched and be thought completely inept than to be on Sunday Night Football and remove all doubt.” That aside, the Colts will win by two points by strip-sacking Brock Osweiler in the final 30 seconds because that is how all Colts games end in Houston. S E E , COL TS, O N PA GE 1 2
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WEEK 7 AT TITANS
Sunday, October 23, 1:00 p.m.
This is a game. The Colts play the Titans. It’s at 1 p.m. … on October 23. It’s … you know … yeah.
It’s like Abraham Lincoln said: “It is better to remain unwatched and be thought completely inept than to be on Sunday Night Football and remove all doubt.”
WEEK 10 BYE
Sunday, November 6, 4:25 p.m.
My old golf course GM probably responds to the bye week very rationally and calmly and not at all by throwing running chainsaws at God. (He totally does that, probably.)
WEEK 8 CHIEFS
Sunday, October 30, 1 p.m.
When I worked at a golf course in Florida after college, the general manager was from Kansas City and he very much loved the Chiefs. Everything he owned was emblazoned with the Chiefs logo. He was probably 30 or so at the time. For context here, you NUVO-reading 24-year-olds don’t grasp this: growing up in Indy in the ’80s and ’90s, football wasn’t really a thing. As kids, at first we didn’t even have a team — and then when we did, they were the Jacksonville Jaguars of the league. They were worse than that, really. We didn’t go to games. We didn’t watch football or play it or care about it, by and large. To us — growing up here — football was no different than lacrosse. We liked basketball and baseball and Roslyn Bakery AND WORKING THE LAND UNLIKE YOU GARBAGE MILLENNIALS. (Sorry. Got on a roll there.) Fast-forward to my Chiefs-loving boss in Florida. It was 1998. We set up a fantasy baseball league among all the caddies and maintenance folk and kitchen staff. I don’t remember anything about it other than, at the draft, my boss naming his team “FUCK THE NFL.” ME: Umm, what’s that about? HIM: IT JUST MAKES ME SO FUCKING MAD THAT THE NFL DOESN’T HAVE GAMES ALL YEAR FUCK THAT SHIT WE HAVE TO SIT HERE FOR EIGHT OR NINE MONTHS DOING JACK SHIT WITH NO NFL GAMES THAT IS SOME REAL FUCKING BULLSHIT AND I’M FUCKING SICK OF IT. That’s damn near verbatim. I swear on the Holy Bible. And worse still, he kept it at a controlled scream throughout. A raging, clinched-jaw quiet yell. He wasn’t joking or putting on a show or pranking us. (Trust me, I asked. I swore he was joking.
country falls down a sinkhole. That will be neat.
WEEK 11 TITANS
Sunday, November 20, 1 p.m.
Ugh. This is the bowl of gross Chicken in a Biskit crackers my mom puts out to gnash on while she cooks up the Thanksgiving feast. Such a tease. HURRY UP AND BRING FORTH THE TURKEYS AND THE STEELERS, MOM.
WEEK 12 STEELERS
Thursday, November 24, 8:30 p.m.
My God, this will be awesome. Really. Eat turducken and mashed potatoes all day and funnel bourbon all night while screaming obscenities at Ben Roethlisberger’s stupid, jowly face. HEAVEN. This city will wake up from its coma sometime around Tuesday afternoon. I don’t even care who wins.
WEEK 13 AT JETS
Monday, December 5, 8:30 p.m.
This concept was/is so foreign to me.) He was legitimately, genuinely upset that it was March and NFL football wouldn’t be back for another six months. But he wasn’t otherwise aggressive or violent or a crazy hillbilly. Quite the opposite. Anyway, that was my first encounter with a crazed NFL fan. Up to that point, I was not aware that such people existed. They do. They are everywhere in this country. (See the television ratings for the Hall of Fame non-game discussed above.) Football is weird.
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WEEK 9 AT PACKERS Sunday, November 6, 4:25 p.m.
I would very much like to go to Lambeau Field. Tickets probably cost upwards of FUCK YOU THOUSAND DOLLARS, but still. And the Colts will lose by 195 points. And it will be negative six degrees and miserable, but whatever. It’s a bucket-list item. And if it is for you too, then you’d better be there. Because two days after this game we’re all going to die as Trump wins the election and the entire
Going back to the Steelers game because nobody gives a shit about the Jets, there is an important fact I forgot to mention about tailgates downtown. And the fact is this: The further you get from Lucas Oil, the more crazy-ass debauchery you’ll see. In the shadows of the stadium — like near the N.K. Hurst building — that’s like being in Williams Creek or the Fashion Mall. High-rent shit. That’s where Tony George and all the Lilly execs sip their cognac and tinker with the world’s grain futures market. It is not debauchery-filled at all. But then it goes in concentric circles
of increasing worry, eventually devolving into pure madness. All the normal folk are about a 10-minute walk from the gates, in the Victory Field parking lot and across from White River State Park or some such similar locale – it’s a responsible level of debauchery. Nothing alarming. But get out beyond a 30-minute walk to the stadium — out past the zoo or down where I-70 crosses above Harding Street — and everything becomes the Coke Lot the night before the 500. That’s very relevant if you’re bringing kids. Or if you don’t like getting stabbed in the face with a hand grenade.
WEEK 14 TEXANS
Sunday, December 11, 1 p.m.
I made the mistake of taking my son to his first couple Colts games in a goddamn suite. A buddy asked us to go there with him and seeing as I do not much like spending money on things or my kids or especially things for my kids, I was all, “Sure!” That’s a bargain in the world of parenting! Saves me $400 AND we get all the burgers and beer we can tolerate! Thumbs up, right?
Wrong. Because kids are jerks and they insist on doing fun things over and over, my wife made me take him to a game again last year. But this time it was on my own dime. There was no sugar daddy inviting us into the wonderful, luxurious suite full of hired help and free liquor and all manner of foodstuffs. So I bought our broke-ass shit on Ticketmaster like a sucker. I didn’t tell him this until we were walking into Lucas Oil Stadium. THE BOY: Which suite are we in?
ME: The one smack dab in the middle of
Section 632, like row 19 or something. It’s the people’s suite!! THE BOY: [stunned, horrified look on his face as he realized there was no suite] I may as well have told him we were hopping on a westward train to live the hobo life forever. He simply could not accept that we’d be amongst the unwashed masses. What an asshole. I created his gross football snobbiness, yes — through my own cheap ways. And BY GOD it is my job from here on S E E , COLTS, O N P A GE 1 4
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out to disabuse him of it. We’ll watch games from Section 42,000,000 with the drunks and the thieves and the pigeons until its beaten out of him for good. Only then will we begin inching our way downward toward semi-respectable seats. Nobody likes a football snob. That is wildly unacceptable. It’s like watching the game with Spalding from Caddyshack. I suck.
WEEK 15 AT VIKINGS Sunday, December 18, 1 p.m.
You know who holds the record for most rushing yards in an NFL game? Adrian Peterson. It’s true! (296 yards against the Chargers, November 4, 2007. #analytics!) This is by no means an exaggeration: He will TRIPLE that against the Colts. That’s how bad this Colts’ defense is … and also how reliant the Vikings are on Peterson. Holy shit he’s going to rush for 800 plus yards! That’s going to be both miserable and exhilarating — like early morning swimming for exercise. Vikings by a lot.
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WEEK 16 AT RAIDERS
Saturday, December 24, 4:05 p.m.
Raiders will kick the shit out of the Colts as well. They’re just good, somehow. The Colts could very well be in the midst of a five-game losing streak at this point. Let’s play it conservatively and say they’re 7-and-8 heading into the final game of the regular season. In every other division throughout the history of the NFL, that gets you booted from any and all playoff scenarios. In the AFC South, however, this puts the Colts in the proverbial catbird seat. Because the AFC South is puke and needs to be sent down to Double-A Shreveport.
WEEK 17 JAGUARS Sunday, January 1, 1 p.m.
Honest to God, the Colts will be playing this game for a playoff berth. Mark it down. And they will win — because, the Jaguars. And then literally anything is possible. The Colts could lose their wild-card game by 700 points. Or they could go to the Super Bowl. Who knows?! The NFL is so dumb LONG LIVE THE NFL. n
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Indy dance is expanding, as you can see from the feature next to this listing. Here are some other dance events that we are excited about this fall. Kitoko, Shizzo, Hoza Dance Troupe Sept. 17, 3 - 9 p.m., A dance and music festival that is focused on peace and inclusion will headline Kitoko, a Rwandan recording artist from England, and the Shizzo, Hoza Dance Troupe. Pike Performing Arts Center, 6701 Zionsville Road, $20
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hoenix Rising’s first performance has more than a theme — it’s their story. The show is called A Transformation, and when Phoenix went from a dream to a reality in less than six months, they underwent a transformation themselves. “The whole concept not just behind our company, but our dance studio … is literally trying to help along the transformation of Indianapolis in the public eye outside of the state,” says one of the owners of Phoenix Rising, William SearsWatson who runs the dance company with his husband Justin Sears-Watson. (Justin was formally a member of Dance Kaleidoscope and oversees the artistic integrity of Phoenix Rising.) “Not to say that the Indy 500 is a bad thing, because it’s not, but when you ask 10 people from L.A. what they think of when they hear Indiana, nine of them will say the race,” says William. “… We want Indianapolis to be seen as a cultural city and not just a sports town, we want to be seen as a more diverse cultural place, we want to transform.” And they are definitely planning a transformation. Right now there are two parts to the Phoenix Rising brand — the for-profit studio (which hosts classes like hip-hop, lyrical, ballet, modern and tap) and the not-for-profit modern dance company. They hope to have the company touring in the next few years and holding auditions in places like Chicago and New York. “We want to take an Indianapolis homegrown product and take it and show it off everywhere,” says William. William noted that they have received
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to the extent that A Transformation is being paid for out of their own pockets. For now, the company dancers are not being paid for rehearsal time but will get a piece WHEN: SEPT. 2-4, VARIOUS TIMES of the profits from the door sales. W H E R E : T H E A T R E O N T H E S Q U A R E , 62 7 “They are basically volunteering,” MASSACHUSETTS AVE. says William. T I C K E T S : $ 2 4 . 50 - $32 . 50 , T O T S . O R G But he went on to say how Justin is able to spark something in the dancers that is plenty of opposition, especially from unrivaled. those who think with groups like Motus “I am married to him and I can’t exand Dance Kaldeiscope, that Indianapolis plain it, he just lights fires in people,” says is oversaturated with dance. William. “These guys would walk through “This is a city of over a million people, fire for him.” so to have one or two dance companies The company is made up of Crossto me is unthinkable,” says William. roads dancers (who recently had a “... When Justin and I do something we Fringe show) and an eclectic assortment do it very hard, we don’t listen to naysayof others. ers on to and trust me, there have The Sears-Watsons have been amazed been plenty.” at how Phoenix Rising has snowballed. He went onto say that Dance KaleiGetting into a theater was in a long-term doscope loaned them the costumes for plan, now they have a four-show season that’s booked at Theatre on the Square for 2016 and “... He just lights fires in people” 2017. This particular show — WILLIAM SEARS-WATSON will address topics like addiction, all the way to narratives like the lifecycle of a cicada. Justin will be dancing this show. in the show for one song, “For Dance Kaladescope to do “Justin is very into one thing affecting something like that, it not only says a another thing,” says Sears-Watson. “So [in lot about us,” says William. “It says a lot this show] we are talking about the transiabout them.” tion you might go through in a day, and a Justin left Dance Kaladescope last year week and a couple years, or throughout after a series of stress fractures put him your entire life.” at a health risk dancing full-time. Now he For a retired dancer a former hair teaches classes at the studio, oversees the salon owner, running Phoenix Rising is traveling competition team (who train for a transformation in and of itself. But it’s over 10 hours a week) and is the director something they hope to stake their lives for the modern dance company. around. William puts it well: The modern dance company side of things has been a leap of faith for the two; “This is our legacy.” n SHOW
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Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Sept. 23 - 24, 8 p.m., One of the most notable forces in American contemporary dance, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is coming to Indy. The artistic direction is lead by Glenn Edgerton, who is doing a killer job. The Washington Post thinks so too, at least they did when they wrote that Hubbard Street will “take your breath away.” The Tarkington at the Center for the Performing Arts, 3 Center Green, Carmel, $15 - 65 Motus Dance, Orkestra Project and Indy Opera Sept. 24, 5 p.m., One of the fruits of a recent partnership with the opera and Motus (they now share a space), this project is set to bring out the best in both. Expect an hour of various dance styles, music and opera under one roof. Basile Opera Center, 4011 N Pennsylvania St., various prices
Moving Sculptures: Dancing through Light and Shadow Oct. 20 - 23, various times, With two architectural pieces from Dance Kaleidoscope’s repertoire, this show will work with light and the human form to make a visually striking show. DK’s light designer Laura Glover refers to her job as making “moving sculptures.” And this show seems like it will be exactly that. Indiana Repertory Theatre, 140 W. Washington St., $20 - 45
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s a first generation Indian American, Hasan Minhaj remembers having a tough time explaining to his parents what pursuing a comedy career would look like for him. “They were just like, ‘What are you doing? What does this entail?’ — that was their biggest concern,” he remembers. “The more I explained it to them, the more disappointed I would actually feel. I was like, ‘Look. I go on stage and tell jokes late at night in basements, and sometimes people get drunk and yell at me … You’re right, Dad. This is a horrible decision.’” Little did his parents know, Minhaj would end up becoming a senior correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, where he now comments on cultural issues through a comical lens. On top of that, the 30-year-old humorist is also making his theatrical debut in a one-man show called Homecoming King, which is based on true events from Minhaj’s first generation Indian-American experience. Throughout his childhood, Minhaj admits that he was never a performer — although he did spend time speaking in front of people while taking part in speech and debate activities. In fact, he didn’t really get a taste of comedy until his years at University of California, Davis, where he studied political science. “We didn’t have cable growing up,” Minhaj reflects. “I finally saw standup comedy when I was in college, and I was like, ‘Oh! This is funny speech and debate. This is the way I should present arguments.’” From here, he fell in love
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with the art form, eventually working his way up in the comedy world before landing on The Daily Show. And by working alongside Jon Stewart and Trevor Noah over the past few years, Minhaj admits he has grown as not only a comedian but also as a debate maker. “One of the things that I learned at The Daily Show is to first figure out your argument, and then make it funny,” Minhaj says. “Too often, people are just trying to crack jokes. But believe it or not, having a great, sound argument is way harder than just making jokes.” During a recent set at the annual Radio and Television Correspondents dinner, Minhaj was able to put these skills to the test, blasting Congress at one point for their inaction in passing gun control legislation. “I was like, ‘This is a
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just the way I think.” Much like his remarks from the Radio and Television Correspondents dinner, Homecoming King comes straight from Minhaj’s heart, highlighting real-life experiences that the comedian has had throughout his life. Over the course of a 75-minute narrative, Minhaj travels through different vignettes while touching on themes like heartbreak, racism and the American dream. Considering the seriousness of some of these personal stories, Homecoming King is not strictly a comedy. “I remember distinctly being in class, learning about the Constitution, and learning that we have these unalienable rights,” Minhaj says. “When that wasn’t reflected back to me, there was a part of me that was like, ‘Hey, that’s not right. I’m holding this receipt, and on the receipt, it says this is what I’m supposed to be getting for the American dream.’” Unlike much of his work on The Daily Show, Minhaj sees Homecoming King as a piece of comedy that can stand the test of time. “I’m making Donald Trump jokes today, and come January 20, those might not be relevant anymore,” he says. “But these true stories that are rooted in these central themes that have been prevalent in America since its inception remain relevant, even after the events themselves have ended.” With this in mind, he ensures that Homecoming King will not be his last time doing theater. “If you were to think of comedic and emotional notes from A to Z, you can
“One of the things that I learned at The Daily Show is to first figure out your argument, and then make it funny.” — HASAN MINHAJ
huge elephant in the room, and I would be remiss if I didn’t take the opportunity to say this in front of Congress — the people that can actually pass common sense gun legislation,’” he says. So rather than throwing around “witty barbs,” he chose to instead speak on a relevant issue that he felt needed to be addressed. “I just want to talk about things that I really care about,” Minhaj says. “That’s
kind of only play notes A through M with just a microphone,” he concludes. “But when you take it to the theater and you’re doing things with actual physical evidence behind you, and you can use lights, sounds, video and all these different tools, you can play notes A through M and N through Z, which just opens up the possibilities. I can’t wait to continue to create shows like this.” n
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Vonnegut Fest Leading up to the premier of Happy Birthday Wanda June, there will be an entire week of Vonnegut themed events. Here are a few. Panel discussion and opening celebration Sept. 7, 5:30 reception, 6 p.m. panel. This will be a discussion about how the show really came to be. Panelists for the event include: Indianapolis Opera General Director Kevin Patterson, HBWJ Stage Director Eric Einhorn, Butler University faculty member and composer Richard Auldon Clark, and Vonnegut Memorial Library Director of Education Max Goller. Indianapolis Art Center Auditorium, 820 E. 67th St., FREE Butler University Theatre Department play reading Sept. 8, 7 p.m., Butler University professor of Theatre, William Fisher, is overseeing a staged reading of Happy Birthday, Wanda June. This show will open Butler’s season. Howard L. Schrott Center for the Arts on the campus of Butler University, 610 W. 46th St., FREE
Slaughterhouse Five screening Sept. 9, 8 p.m., Shown by Indy Film Fest and directed by George Roy Hill, this might be the closet book-to-screen representation around — minus some changes at the beginning and the end. Basile Opera Center, 4011 N. Pennsylvania St., $10, IndyOpera.org The music of Vonnegut Sept. 10, 5:30 p.m., Okay so Vonnegut didn’t write any music, but these pieces are all based on his writing. Works like Mother Night and Breakfast of Champions gave inspiration to Howard Cass and Seymour Barab. Basile Opera Center, 4011 N. Pennsylvania St., Various prices, IndyOpera.org Brunch of Champions Sept. 11, 12:30 - 2:30 p.m., Where else could this possibly take place other than Bluebeard? Considering the bar is named for a Vonnegut book and the brick and mortar is like a scavenger hunt of Vonnegut titles and one-liners. Oh, and the cast of Happy Birthday, Wanda June will talk about the creative process, Vonnegut and music. Brunch consists of a three-course meal including dessert and a specialty cocktail. 653 Virginia Ave., prices and tickets haven’t been released yet., IndyOpera.org.
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he Indianapolis Opera (IO) has found their steady footing with the opening of Kurt Vonnegut’s Happy Birthday Wanda June (HBWJ) at the Schrott. For years, Hoosier son Vonnegut collaborated in New York with Richard Auldon Clark, Butler’s Director of Instrumental Activities — and gave Clark his final libretto in April 2007. Vonnegut passed away only two weeks later at age 84. This particular Vonnegut masterpiece may seem a darkly humorous and simple antiwar declaration at first glance, but those more familiar with this play and the rest of his oeuvre know that all of Vonnegut’s work has numerous layers, both creatively complex and rich in social commentary. And under the direction of Eric Einhorn, Metropolitan Opera Stage Director and former singer, IO’s HBWJ could have a significant emotional impact on audiences even now, which is most likely as Vonnegut would have wanted it. “I wish we could have met,” Einhorn says of Vonnegut. “But I do absolutely love listening to Richard’s stories.” Einhorn has traveled an interesting road to get here. A dual study in both opera and direction in an academically intense design-your-own major program at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, his foundation and propensity to push both himself and others beyond their traditional comfort zones has earned him distinct notice. The Austin Chronicle has hailed Einhorn as “a rising star in the opera world” and the Opera News noted his “keen eye for detail and character insight.” “Vonnegut did not give us easy people to deal with … and his work hinges on character development, not effect or spectacle. Wanda June is a complicated piece. But you can hear how much care Vonnegut took with this piece, and you can hear how much he loved opera,” says Einhorn. “By Vonnegut’s own admission, Wanda June is a tricky piece,” he continues. “And it was the ending that was the most difficult, that Vonnegut was never
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quite happy with whether it was on Broadway or on film. Audiences always seemed to expect something else; that surely, the piece could not possibly end on such a nihilistic spin of the ideals and values we hold sacred and dear. But then it does.” Einhorn’s additional concern — while preserving Vonnegut’s material and honoring the scribe’s brilliant, yet ironic and jaded viewpoint — remained not distancing the audience. “Even the worst of the worst humans, the Nazi soldier for example, had to become sympathetic — he wasn’t a villain,” says Einhorn. “Wanda June is not simply an analysis in World War II atrocities. The piece never feels antiquated, actually, and even with the cuts we had to make, for time, the piece flows at the pace of the music. Wanda June is enhanced through musical settings, and it benefits from being an opera … moreover, Vonnegut’s vision of heaven, life, the civilized world and the people who inhabit it is in contrast to much of how we think of what people are taught. His message that no one is pure, that no matter the behavior on earth, that the violence and brutality is reserved for just that — earth — and we all play well
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together in the end, is often difficult for some to take and others find it oddly comforting.” Einhorn admits that he still finds something new every time he visits the work. “There’s always something else to see — to understand — even though I’ve dug deep into this play to bring it alive,” he says. “And I think audiences are going to take away a lot of things from this piece. Vonnegut was certainly not shy commenting on important issues. Although the play is set in the '60s and it will appeal to those who lived through the decade, I think others will appreciate the complexity, the operatic nature of the fact that nothing is black and white — that it’s all about the gray. And this piece is deep in the gray. That makes many of us uncomfortable — and theater is supposed to do just that. This is a time period that opera doesn’t usually deal with. We’re supposed to be affected by the characters we meet, by our experiences. I want people to think about the piece, long after they have left, I want this piece still running through their heads when they go home.” n
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o any loving, childless couples reading this, a bit of advice: Should you ever come across an abandoned baby, contact the proper authorities immediately and turn it in. Do not snatch it and raise it as your own. Yes, I know it’s tempting, but don’t. Don’t. As someone who has seen a lot of movies, I can assure you that the only couple this has ever worked out for is Jonathan and Martha Kent. The Light Between Oceans is a tearjerker that plays like an extra long Lifetime TV movie with a Grade A cast. Based on the novel by M.L. Stedman, the film is written and directed by Derek Cianfrance. Moving on to The Light, Michael Fassbender stars as Tom Sherbourne, back home in Australia after WWI and suffering survivor’s guilt over the loss of so many of his fellow soldiers on the battlefields of France. Tom gets a job as a lighthouse keeper and prepares for a life of seclusion, but wait … Isabel Graysmark (Alicia Vikander), daughter of the man who hired Tom, expresses a desire to see his lighthouse (not a euphemism). When Tom explains that only the wife of the lightkeeper is allowed to see the lighthouse, Isabel proposes to him. Huh. Guess it might have been a euphemism after all. Tom and Isabel get hitched and begin their life of solitude together. Tragedy strikes when Isabel gets pregnant, then
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miscarries. After a second miscarriage she falls into a deep funk, but wait … Tom just spotted a dinghy with an adorable baby and a dead guy in it. Shame about the latter, but the former perks Isabel right up. She looks deep into her husband’s eyes and says, “Can we keep it?” “You’ll have to feed it and clean up after it,” he says. Actually, he doesn’t say that. I was being cute. Sorry. Tom wisely objects to her proposal that they conceal the fact that she had a second miscarriage and raise the child as theirs, but Isabel keeps asking until Tom finally gives in. The cross on the grave of the second miscarried child is destroyed. Tom buries the dead guy in an unmarked grave. What a wonderful idea! Clearly this will lead Tom, Isabel and their lovely stolen daughter Lucy to a life of happiness, but wait … when they’re in town for the kid’s christening, Tom spots a woman grieving in the graveyard. Turns out she is Hannah Roennfeldt (Rachel Weisz), whose husband and baby Grace were lost at sea. Tom’s face remains impassive, but you just know that inside he is thinking, “D’oh!” We’ve reached the point in this essay where I normally would talk about Alexandre Desplat’s strong score, or director
Cianfrance’s listen-to-a-bit-of-the-nextscene-while-still-watching-this-one scene transitions, but I’ve decided to address something else, which requires me to use all-caps to say SPOILER ALERT: THE FOLLOWING REVEALS KEY PLOT POINTS OF THE FILM. Tom and Isabel get busted for pretending Hannah’s child is theirs, and the reason they get busted is because of secret messages sent by Tom. (NOTE: Hoo boy, that was quite a spoiler, wasn’t it? When I say SPOILER ALERT I’m not kidding around.) I elected to reveal this plot point because I was so astounded by its cruelty and baffled by its illogic. Think about it. Tom is so riddled by guilt after seeing the real mother that he sends a handwritten note telling her that the girl is alive. Then he waits (get ready for this) three stinking years (years!!) to drop another clue. to drop another clue. I realise that Post-Tramatic-Stress-Disorder is awful, but even with a twisted mindset, how does this guy justify shattering his wife’s fragile mental construct – in slow motion! – while basically torturing the real mother for the same obscene length of time? END SPOILER ALERT. The Light Between Oceans is a tearjerker, but it didn’t jerk any from me. I was too annoyed watching very good actors doing very stupid things. I liked the atmosphere of this movie, but not nearly enough to forgive the creepy nonsense passing for drama within it. n
Southside With You w For an hour and a half, this film immerses you in another time. It transports us to a hot summer afternoon in 1989 when a young Barack Obama took his future wife Michelle for a day out in Chicago and tried to sweep the feisty lawyer off her feet. Southside With You reminds us that movie magic doesn’t just lie in otherworldly spectacles and explosive adventures; sparks can also fly in simple conversations between ordinary people. At first, Michelle Robinson (Tika Sumpter) insists that the outing with Barack (Parker Sawyers) is not a date. After all, she is his adviser at the law firm where they work, and a romantic connection would be out of the question. But, of course, he slowly wins her over, washing away any sense of cynicism and wrapping her up in warm optimism. Together, Sawyers and writer-director Richard Tanne elegantly emulate Obama’s way with words: the grand, sweeping statements; the intimate, emotional pauses; the down-to-earth yet also larger-than-life manner of speaking.
Southside With You isn’t just a crystal ball look at history in the making. It’s fun to peek into the past and figure out how Barack and Michelle became who they are today, but these characters also exude a timeless, universal appeal. This is a simultaneously timely and ageless story. Love, of course, is a tale as old as time. And like politics, love is about bridging gaps between people and finding common ground in the midst of difference. But it’s not about denying the differences that lie along our paths. It’s about seeing them with empathetic eyes.
Southside With You is simply beautiful — a hopeful, heartfelt film in a politically-fueled year filled with hatred. Like love, it will sneak up and floor you. — SAM WATERMEIER Rated PG-13, In Wide Release
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Take a bite of that Crispy Bird Over the past few years fried chicken has become one of the most highly sought dishes across the country. Indianapolis has an incredible fried chicken scene. For years the best was found only in the soul food kitchens like Mississippi Belle and homestead restaurants like Hollyhock Hill. But over the past few years, fried chicken has slowly come to the forefront of many trendier, new restaurants in the city. Martha Hoover, of the Patachou Foundation, has seen firsthand just how much we want crunchy, golden chicken. So, she is answering this desire with a brand new fried chicken restaurant, aptly named Crispy Bird. The new concept, which is slated to open later this year or early 2017, came about from the popularity of the dish at two of Hoover’s other restaurants. “We started serving fried chicken at Petite Chou in 2010,” Hoover says. “What I thought would be a onetime special turned out to be a weekly (every Wednesday) feature due to its extreme popularity. We serve a different version of fried chicken at Public Greens and that item has become our number one selling protein. Martha’s son David (who will be taking the helm at Crispy Bird) returns from his culinary schooling in Paris and a stint in the kitchen at RELAE, the only certifiably organic restaurant with a Michelin star and the number one restaurant in the world for sustainability. According to Hoover, “My son, David, pretty much perfected ‘his’ version [of fried chicken], experimenting at home over the years. His initial goal before moving to Paris for culinary training was to open a restaurant that specialized in fried chicken. Tyler Herald, our executive chef, is what I would call a student of fried chicken. When the real estate opportunity came available in the [Meridian-Kessler] neighborhood, we all looked at each other and said ‘hell yes’.” Crispy Bird will open at 49th and Penn. It will be highly focused on the local and sustainable, with the vertically raised, GMO- and antibioticfree chicken provided by Gunthorp Farms. Martha says, “The vegetable menu at [Crispy Bird] will share center stage with the fried chicken; gluten free, vegan and vegetarian offerings will be first, as opposed to second, thoughts.” — CAVAN MCGINSIE
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he Midwest isn’t particularly known for its fresh seafood. This isn’t a surprising fact. For years we were stuck in a situation where the best we could hope for was some quality fish and chips (and even those were hard to come by). But, as Bob Dylan once said, the times they are a-changin’. No longer must we follow Anthony Bourdain’s once sage advice of never ordering fish on a Monday since that transportation is much easier than it was even 15 years ago, and restaurants all around the country can receive fresh, daily shipments of any in-season product they desire. Look, I’m burying the lead. What all this comes down to is we have a new seafood restaurant here in Indy and it’s damn good. Salt on Mass opened on August 23 (yes, it’s on Mass Ave) and I can attest to the fact that their fish is fresh and, according to the bartender, flown in daily. I made my way through the door PHOTO BY CAVAN MCGINSIE shortly after they opened and took a Kona Tacos are a fresh start to any meal look around the modern, coastal chic at Salt on Mass. room. The place is replete with grays and whites and tan, and nautical ropes; options on the bar menu including a Sethe room light and inviting. The massive attle Manila clam bowl, Bahamian conch windows give a nice view of the always fritters, and a New England Lobster Roll, busy Mass Ave, so if you’re a people all of which I hope to return and order. I watcher, this will be a prime locale. As asked for a full I ambled up to menu as well, the bar I was knowing bar happy to see the bites weren’t only televisions The tacos were unbelievably the reason I were at the bar, was here. nothing is worse good, the tuna was fresh, A quick than having a glance at the the taco shells crisp and the nice meal with friends and fam- blending of flavor “perfection.” menu showed me they are usily and everyone ing as many lobeing distracted cal ingredients by a screen. as is possible in After taking a seat — there were plenty a seafood establishment. I noted Viking open since I was the first customer — I was quickly greeted by the bartender and Farms lamb, Miller Farms chicken and beef from Fischer Farm. After ordering he gave me a bar menu and a glass of a Carson’s Red Dawn to start out I asked water. I noticed quite a few local brews the bartender if they had any other local on the menu, including some from Tow products on the menu and he was excitYard, whose owner also has a hand in ed to reveal that much of their produce Salt on Mass. There were a few food
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is locally sourced and so is the pasta. If you’re going to judge a seafood restaurant’s quality, the place to start is with something fresh. So, while the crab cakes sounded and looked incredible, I had to go with the Kona Tacos, which featured tuna poke, avocado and a caramel-soy glaze nestled in wonton taco shells. I was about halfway through my beer when they arrived. The tacos were unbelievably good, the tuna was fresh, the taco shells crisp and the blending of flavor, as I put in my Instagram post, “perfection.” The three tacos had left me feeling satisfied, but if I’m trying out a new seafood place, I’m not going to leave without getting an entree cooked by Chef Neil Andrews (formerly of Oceanaire) and his team. Though many dishes sounded fantastic, including the crispy Florida red grouper or the seared Atlantic yellowfin tuna with kimchee (I’m a sucker for kimchee) and sambal, I had to go with the pan-seared Panamanian cobia. (I’m
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of asparagus. One bite in and I was in even more of a sucker for meaty, white heaven, a garlicky, buttery heaven. Nothfish.) I ordered a glass of chardonnay to ing is worse than undercooked fish. It’s accompany the dish; their wine list was a nice detail, as I have to say a good glass slimy and when overcooked, while not as apt to trigger of wine pairs a gag reflex, it with fish better is rubbery and than nearly any tough. This fish beer or cocktail. was right in While I waited One bite in and I was in the center. The for my meal — heaven, a garlicky, buttery crispy edges and I have to heaven. were toothsay it was quite some and gave a wait, which I a nice crunchy expected during texture while the opening the middle was tender. The massive night, and you should expect for the first amount of asparagus was a nice addition month or so — I took in the rest of the and added a welcomed third texture. place. One thing that set it apart from Throughout the meal I was asked by no the other seafood options in the city is it less than three workers if my meal was is definitely a more relaxed atmosphere. going well. I will always prefer a restauThe music was bluesy rock, the workrant that is over-attentive, and they all ers were in jeans, I was in flip-flops. I’m seemed genuinely happy when I said it not saying it was better or worse, but it is nice to have a place to get quality was great. seafood without I finished my feeling like I have dish in unison with to be dressed to the WHERE SALT ON MASS my chardonnay. In nines and the waitthe just-over-anstaff’s garb feeling hour I was there, W H E R E : 5 05 M A S S A C H U S E T T S A V E , moderately preten- I N D I A N A P O L I S , I N 4 6 20 4 the place had finaltious. One factor ly started to fill up P H O N E : 3 1 7 -6 3 8-6 5 6 5 I felt was missing, with guests; I had MORE INFO: SALTONMASS.COM and it may come seen many people eventually, was the come in that had lack of oysters. No made reservations. true seafood meal is complete without I grabbed my bill out of the glass in front a few succulent oysters on the half shell of me, $67 for the meal (prior to tip), with some classic mignonette. I truly so if you’re planning on going, expect hope they add these to the menu sooner to spend some dough. All in all it was a rather than later. quality meal and I have to say I’m excited When my food finally arrived, I looked for new seafood here in town; the fact down at the dish and immediately that it’s a couple minute walk from Old noticed the fish was seared perfectly, National Centre and mere seconds from with nice crispy edges. Atop the fish sat the Rathskeller makes it just that much a healthy helping of Dungeness crab better for a pre-concert meal. n and below was an even healthier portion
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feel like we’re creating an entirely new dimension,” Jeron Braxton says to his roommates. They’re sitting together on the front porch of the house they share in Bloomington, discussing the final details of their band’s upcoming East Coast tour. “The stuff we’re doing is so crazy, it’s like we’re augmenting reality, man,” he says. Their group, Jeron Braxton and the Tomogotchis, shaped their experimental sound across Bloomington basements for the past year, but brought their music aboveground this summer on their debut album, released by Indianapolis label Warm Ratio. An eponymous, eighttrack demo tape, the album is a testament to the group’s musical diversity. Braxton is the infectiously joyous frontman with the catchy melodies. Trevor Moore is the punk kid with a chest tattoo and punchy bass lines. Dave Segedy is the cat-loving drummer with the technical precision of a seasoned garage band vet and Reilly Shanahan is the boy-next-door guitar player cranking out sunny, pop-oriented riffs. Together, the foursome crafts hip-hop with a dash of soul-infused garage rock, cooking up that otherwordly vibe Braxton talks about. “I feel like the thing that sets you apart and makes your art special is your style — or the flavor you put on it,” he says. “I feel like just by creating the stuff that I would want to see and hear, naturally I create my own style.” The Tomogotchis accompanied their Warm Ratio release with a supporting tour all along the East Coast, dubbed the Missed Call Tour. The quartet packed up their cars for a two-week road trip up to New York City and back, playing shows, recording music and exploring the cities. But before they left, the Tomogotchis kicked off the tour with a performance at Joyful Noise.
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Before Braxton makes his way to the stage, the Tomogotchis open with an instrumental jazz track. Local fans and wandering First Friday patrons slowly begin to fill the venue. The band stands in uniform black against the stark white walls and curtains of the venue. A massive, hollowed white cube sits center stage. The charismatic Braxton twists and shuffles his way around the stage; his electrified dancing leaves him hanging
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off the stage during their track “Umm.” Shanahan uses a nearby beer can to make a crunchy slide as he and Braxton wail into the mic: “Closer to the, closer to the, closer to the edge.” Braxton’s homemade visuals flash on the screen behind them. These kind of local performances do well with keeping local music thriving in Indianapolis, especially with the support of the local nonprofit Musical Family Tree. “The shows are a way to plant a flag in our home town and push for people to be more into original music in Indy,” says Joyful Noise booking agent Rob Peoni. “We try to bring in the kind of acts that aren’t getting booked in other venues through here.” Thanks to recent lineup changes, the Tomogotchis double as the backing band to Segedy’s popular, garage rock outfit Sleeping Bag. While this provides a good opportunity for both bands to promote their music across the country, it meant a majority of the guys were playing two separate shows a night, for two very different bands. There are no buses for their equipment; there are no fancy hotel stays, just the trunks of their cars and whatever friendly floor they can find to crash on. “You’re out of your comfort zone a little bit, but you just have to go with the flow,” Segedy says. “I love performing every night and meeting new people, and that’s reason enough for me.” It may not always be comfortable, but each city offers a unique experience and a chance to share their music with a fresh group of people. “We go straight to these cool little pockets of the city,” Braxton says. “I like how we come and connect with the community in a really intimate way.” On the Northside of Cincinnati, the group loads their gear into the Comet, a small bar nestled on the top of a hill on Hamilton Avenue. It’s a Saturday night, and the Tomogotchis and Sleeping Bag are playing with two Cincinnati-based bands, Swoops and Season Sleep. In a vintage — styled dining room, a dozen people sit absently in the booths — silently staring S E E , BRA X TON, O N PA GE 2 6
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BRINGING IT HOME High above Downtown Cleveland in a spacious loft, the guys sink into seats at Crushtone Studios. They’re listening carefully to the new tracks they’ve just spent the afternoon recording with local producer/engineer Jim Stewart.
Since recording the demo material for their release back in March, new material and stronger production needs brought the boys back to the studio. In addition to rerecording some of the tracks from their first release, the band brought five fresh songs to add to their catalog. With some help from TJ Maclin — lead singer of the Cleveland soul group Thaddeus Anna Greene and Braxton’s cousin — the guys hope the higher-quality recordings will make their tunes more radio-friendly. On Aug. 20, the Tomogotchis and Sleeping Bag end their tour with a homecoming performance at the Blockhouse in Bloomington. It’s welcome week for the Indiana University campus, and a majority of the town is spending their Saturday night at some of the heaviertrafficked bars and nightclubs. It’s an intimate performance with only a few spectators, but it’s a welcome home the guys wouldn’t trade for anything. “It’s good to be back in Bloomington,” Segedy says to the crowd during their Sleeping Bag performance. “Thanks for coming out; we love you guys.” They may not always play to the biggest groups of people, but for the Tomogotchis it’s not about the money or the fame. They play because they love playing, and they love sharing their music with new people. That sincerity makes their music genuine and joyous. Listeners love what they’re doing, because the band loves what they’re doing. “I hope people feel something from my art,” Braxton says. “I hope it reminds them of the beauty of being alive and all the wonderful things that surround us. We’re all connected, and we should really relish in that and love one another.” n
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expect me to say Jimi Hendrix. Of course I love Jimi Hendrix, it’s sort of impossible to not be influenced by Jimi Hendrix as a guitarist. So me saying Jimi Hendrix is not interesting in a way. When it comes to Western guitarists I really like Syd Barrett and on the other hand I also like Robert Fripp, especially his work on the David Bowie records. I think Fripp’s experiments with Eno really pushed the guitar forward in an ambitious and interesting way. But I really appreciate Syd Barrett for the incredible touch that he has on the instrument. I think it’s completely unique and I was always drawn to guitarists like that. So many things have been done already on the guitar, so it seems like it’s very hard to do something new in a way. But in a way it actually isn’t because all the groundwork has been laid before you. I think you can get insane ideas if you just open your ears and go a little bit beyond Western music, and go a little bit beyond rock and roll recorded between 1955 and 1975 — which most musicians refuse to do. The guitarists I listen to are West African guitarists. One of my favorites… I don’t really know his name unfortunately, which is embarrassing. But he plays in this band called Orchestra Baobab. NUVO: Oh, wow! You’re talking about Barthélemy Attisso. He’s one of my guitar idols. He’s from Togo and he traveled to Dakar, Senegal in the 1960s to study law where he joined Orchestra Baobab. GAT: Yes, he’s one of my favorite guitarists and I’m glad you know him. If you listen to his guitar playing, which is very
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influenced by Cuban music, you just get this insane amount of new ideas. Even if you listen to a really famous guitarist like Django Reinhardt, which everybody in the West knows, you can take his ideas. Not in the sense of studying him or mimicking his style as so many people do; Django completely dominates jazz guitar. He became not only a name, but a whole style of music. But if you listen to his approach to music, then of course you can do new things in rock and roll. People are obsessed with celebrating a certain style of music, from a certain set of years, from a very particular part of the world called the U.S. and England. I think there’s much more music than that. I think if what I do sounds new and refreshing, a lot of it comes from my curiosity about many styles of music from everywhere in the world. One more thing I want to say in that context is to talk about improvisation. We talked about how in the 1970s punk was an important thing to release rock and roll from its own ass. I hope maybe this combination of incorporating styles from outside the U.S. and England will lead to a new music. But it’s tricky talking about these things, because I don’t want to encourage people to go out and start an afrobeat band tomorrow if they don’t come from that part of the world and don’t understand that music. I’m not saying you need to listen to
Fela Kuti and imitate his music. But you can take his approach and implement that to your own music, and that would immediately make your own music ten times more interesting. I think the place where a lot of bands fall is when they listen to a certain kind of music and than imitate the style. What can be imitated, without any danger of becoming an imitator, is approach. Fela Kuti had his own approach to music. Orchestra Baobab had their own approach to music. Jazz improvisers like Miles Davis had a completely unique approach to music. We don’t need to steal that, but we can use that to open our own minds. Maybe the same way punk rock saved rock and roll from its own ass in the 1970s, maybe taking in those influences and approaches from different musicians, from different times, from different parts of the world — and maybe improvisation too! I think rock and roll is a perfect music for improvising. It doesn’t have to be jam bands playing twelve bar blues. There’s so much more to improvisation. The beauty of improvisation in jazz in the old days was the energy. It was the most insane energetic music. Going to a big band show in the 1920s was like going to a punk show at CBGB’s in 1976. Over time the music became very academic. I think improvisation, with the energy of a music like punk, is unstoppable. There will always be something new to say, especially if you are opening your mind to influences from wherever you can get them. Our time on this planet is short and there is so much music. We only have to open our minds immediately. Then maybe people would stop voting for Trump. n
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Rod Tuffcurls and The Bench Press, The Vogue, 21+
Paranormal Etiquette: First Friday Dance Party, Melody Inn, 21+
From Graceland to Indy Concert, Karaoke Gold Club, 21+
Flint Eastwood, Chad Lehr, Bobbie Morrone Trio, The Hi-Fi, 21+
Punk Rock Night, Melody Inn, 21+
WTFridays, Social, 21+
Michael Blackson and Friends, Murat Theatre at Old National Centre, all-ages
First Friday Show with Frederick The Younger, Hex Mundi, Tombaugh, Joyful Noise, all-ages
Pavilion Music Series ft. Rainwater, Downtown Pavilion (Brown County), all-ages
Zoo Trippin’, Dell Zell, Coastl, Radio Radio, 21+
Cyrus Youngman and The Kingfishers, State Street Pub, 21+
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Lafayette Theater, 600 Main St. (Lafayette), prices vary, all-ages
Conner Prairie, 13400 Allisonville Road, prices vary, all-ages
EchoCheck’s Wednesday Night Open Stage, Drifty’s, 21+
Dan Alten, Eric Sorgel, Rabble, all-ages
Free Jazz Wednesday, Chatterbox, 21+
Frederick the Younger, Daisy Chain, Jeron Braxton and The Tomogotchis, The Back Door (Bloomington), 21+
Karaoke Wednesday, Shorty’s Pub, 21+ Open Stage, Claude and Annie’s, 21+ The Family Jam, Mousetrap, 21+ Wacky Wheel of Fortune Karaoke, Monday’s Tale, 21+
THURSDAY HIP-HOP AKROBATIK Sept. 1, 9 p.m. The Proforms, Simon Sed and Tony Styxx accompany Boston’s Akrobatik
Black Sabbath 8:30 p.m. Great news from Black Sabbath: Tony Iommi’s cancer is in remission, and the band will tour on. Klipsch Music Center, 12880 E. 146th St., prices vary, all-ages PARTIES The Bishop 7th Anniversary Spectacular 9 p.m. The Earth rotates around the Sun and so the Bishop celebrates its anniversary. This time, they’re celebrating with Durand Jones and The Indications, Erin Tobey and Spissy. Congrats to one of Bloomington’s best bars and music venues on your seventh year. The Bishop, 123 S. Walnut St. (Bloomington), FREE, 18+ Puff Puff Beer, Birdy’s, 21+ Cam’ron, The Vogue, 21+
Metaphonic Workshop: Adam Grahhs, Duncan Kissinger, MARM, State Street Pub, 21+
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Pokey LaFarge 7 p.m. Perhaps you, dear Indianapolis-based reader, don’t get up to Muncie much. Perhaps this free, all-ages show will convince you to change that. The Canan Commons free series is one of the best parts of summer in Hoosierland, and this ragtime hot swing band show should be a highlight of highlights. Canan Commons, S. Walnut St. (Muncie), FREE, all-ages POP Cloud Cult Sept. 3, 8 p.m. Go to this show simply to see how freakin’ stoked Veseria is to open this show. The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave. Ste. 4, $20, 21+ The Company Men: Music of the Decades, Conner Prairie, all-ages
SUNDAY Dynamite, Mass Ave Pub, 21+ Reggae Revolution, Casba, 21+ Dear Tracks, Hunterchild, Hales Corner, GDRX, The Bishop (Bloomington), 18+ Free Jazz Jam Sundays, The Chatterbox, 21+ Sunday Night Bluegrass Jam, Mousetrap, 21+
MONDAY FESTS Roc and Row Festival 10 a.m. In place of last year’s WARMfest is this year’s Roc and Row – another reconnecting our waterways iniative that features The Ark Band, Hero Jr., 3:1 and Friends, Sugar Moon Rabbit, Broken Growlers and Ruditoonz. Also: yoga sessions for all, slacklining, a wellness fair, vendor market, food, beer and
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more. This event is free but donations to the Carl G. Fisher Society are encouraged. Broad Ripple Park, 1550 Broad Ripple Ave., FREE, all-ages Open Mic Night, Smokey Bones Bar and Grill, all-ages Soul Bus, Kona Jack’s, all-ages
TUESDAY Take That! Tuesdays, Coaches, 21+ Sirius Blvck and Friends, Jeron Braxton and The Tomogotchis, Kill Surf City, Blood Handsome, The Bishop (Bloomington), 18+ Wilco Listening Party, Indy CD and Vinyl, all-ages Pick ‘n Play Tuesdays: Open Mic Nights, Garfield Park Arts Center, all-ages Learn Blues Dancing with Josh Davis, Player’s Pub (Bloomington), 21+ Wilco Listening Party, LUNA Music, all-ages Indy Contra Dance, Grove Haus, all-ages Gene Deer Tuesdays, Longacre Bar and Grill, 21+ Free Jazz Tuesdays, The Chatterbox, 21+
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SUPPORTING SEX WORK work: clients like you, NAJ. Maggie McNeill, a sex worker, activist and writer, wrote a blistering piece on her blog (“The Honest Courtesan”) about a recent undercover police operation in Seattle. Scores of men seeking to hire sex workers — the men ranged from surgeons to bus drivers to journalists — were arrested and subjected to ritualized public humiliation designed to discourage other men from paying for sex. “These crusades do nothing but hurt the most vulnerable individuals on both sides of the transaction,” McNeill wrote. “The only way to stop this [is for] all of — NOT A JOHN you clients out there to get off of your duffs and fight. Regular clients outnumDan Savage: You can speak up, NAJ. ber full-time whores by at least 60 to The current line from prohibitionists one; gentlemen, I suggest you rethink — people who want sex work to remain your current silence, unless you want illegal — is that all women who sell sex to be the next one with your name and are victims and all men who buy sex are picture splashed across newspapers, TV monsters. But talk to actual sex workers screens and websites.” and you hear about considerate, regular The legal risks and social stigma atclients who are kind, respectful, and tached to buying sex doubtless leave sometimes personally helpful in unexsome clients feeling like they can’t speak pected ways. (A sex worker friend had a up and join the fight, and the muchregular client who was a dentist; he did touted “Nordic Model” is upping the some expensive denlegal stakes for buyers tal work for my uninof sex. (The Nordic sured friend — and Model makes buying he did it for free, not Clients need to join sex illegal, not selling for trade.) You also it. In theory, only clithe fight. hear about clients ents are supposed to who are threatening suffer, but in practice, or violent — and how the women are punished, too. Bazelon laws against sex work make it impossible for them to go to the police, making unpacks the harms of the Nordic Model in her story — please go read it.) But sex them more vulnerable to violence, workers today, like gays and lesbians not exploitation and abuse, not less. too long ago, are coming out in everThere is a large and growing sex workgreater numbers to fight for their rights ers’ rights movement, NAJ, which Emily in the face of potentially dire legal and Bazelon wrote about in a terrific cover social consequences. story for the New York Times Magazine In The Origins of Sex: A History of the (“Should Prostitution Be a Crime?” May First Sexual Revolution, which I read 5, 2016). Bazelon spoke with scores of while I was away on vacation, author sex workers active in the growing and Faramerz Dabhoiwala writes about increasingly effective decriminaliza“Societies of Virtue” formed all over Engtion movement. Amnesty International land in the late 17th century. Adulterers, recently called for the full decriminalizafornicators and Sabbath-breakers were tion of sex work, joining Human Rights persecuted by these groups, NAJ, but Watch, the World Health Organization their campaigns against prostitutes were and other large, mainstream health and particularly vicious and indiscriminate; human rights groups. women were thrown in jail or publicly But there’s something missing from whipped for the crime of having a “lewd” the movement to decriminalize sex I have been seeing sex workers for 30 years, and I shudder to think how shitty my life would have been without them. Some have become friends, but I’ve appreciated all of them. Negative stereotypes about guys like me are not fair, but sex work does have its problems. Some clients (including females) are difficult — difficult clients aren’t typically violent; more often they’re inconsiderate and demanding. Clients need to understand that all people have limits and feelings, and money doesn’t change that. But what can we clients do to fight stupid, regressive, repressive laws that harm sex workers?
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appearance. The persecution of streetwalkers, brothel owners and women guilty of “[walking] quietly about the street” went on for decades. Then a beautiful thing happened. “In the spring of 1711, a drive against ‘loose women and their male followers’ in Covent Garden was foiled when ‘the constables were dreadfully maimed, and one mortally wounded, by ruffians aided by 40 soldiers of the guards, who entered into a combination to protect the women,’” writes Dabhoiwala. “On another occasion in the East End, a crowd of over a thousand seamen mobbed the local magistrates and forcibly released a group of convicted prostitutes being sent to a house of correction.” Male followers of loose women, soldiers of the guard, mobs of seamen — not altruists, but likely clients of the women they fought to defend. And thanks to their efforts and the efforts of 18th-century sex workers who lawyered up, marched into court and sued the pants off Society of Virtue members, by the middle of the 18th century, women could walk the streets without being arrested or harassed — even women known to be prostitutes. I’m not suggesting that today’s clients form mobs and attack prohibitionists, cops, prosecutors and their enablers in the media. But clients can and should be out there speaking up in defense of sex workers and themselves. Sex workers are speaking up and fighting back — on Twitter and other social media platforms, sometimes anonymously, but increasingly under their own names — and they’re staring down the stigma, the shame and the law on their own. It’s time for their clients to join them in the fight. n
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you are attuned with the cosmic rhythms in the coming weeks, you will be a source of teaching and leadership. Allies will feel fertilized by your creative vigor. You’ll stimulate team spirit with your savvy appeals to group solidarity. If anyone can revive droopy procrastinators and demonstrate the catalytic power of gratitude, it’ll be you. Have you heard enough good news, Sagittarius, or can you absorb more? I expect that you’ll inspire interesting expressions of harmony that will replace contrived versions of togetherness. And every blessing you bestow will expand your capacity for attracting favors you can really use. Sagittarius
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Illuminati do not want you to receive the prophecy I have prepared for you. Nor do the Overlords of the New World Order, the Church of the SubGenius, the Fake God that masquerades as the Real God, or the nagging little voice in the back of your head. So why am I going ahead and divulging this oracle anyway? Because I love you. My loyalty is to you, not those shadowy powers. Therefore, I am pleased to inform you that the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to evade, ignore, undermine, or rebel against controlling influences that aren’t in alignment with your soul’s goals.
Libra
Taurus
Aries
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The fictional character known as Superman has one prominent vulnerability: the mineral kryptonite. When he’s near this stuff, it weakens his superpowers and may cause other problems. I think we all have our own versions of kryptonite, even if they’re metaphorical. For instance, my own superpowers tend to decline when I come into the presence of bad architecture, cheesy poetry, and offpitch singing. How about you, Capricorn? What’s your version of kryptonite? Whatever it is, I’m happy to let you know that you are currently less susceptible to its debilitating influences than usual. Why? Well, you have a sixth sense about how to avoid it. And even if it does draw near, you have in your repertoire some new tricks to keep it from sapping your strength. Capricorn
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s quite possible you will receive seductive proposals in the coming weeks. You may also be invited to join your fortunes with potential collaborators who have almost fully awakened to your charms. I won’t be surprised if you receive requests to share your talents, offer your advice, or bestow your largesse. You’re a hot prospect, my dear. You’re an attractive candidate. You appear to be ripe for the plucking. How should you respond? My advice is to be flattered and gratified, but also discerning. Just because an inquiry is exciting doesn’t mean it’s good for you. Choose carefully. Aquarius
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Leo
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Scorpio
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Would you like to become a master of intimacy? Can you imagine yourself handling the challenges of togetherness with the skill of a great artist and the wisdom of a love genius? If that prospect appeals to you, now would be a favorable time to up your game. Here’s a hot tip on how to porceed: You must cultivate two seemingly contradictory skills. The first is the capacity to identify and nurture the best qualities in your beloved friend. The second is the ability to thrive on the fact that healthy relationships require you to periodically wrestle with each other’s ignorance and immaturity. Pisces
Virgo
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