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Heartland! We’re pretty excited about Central Indiana’s annual film festival, especially now that they’ve added an Indiana-centric category. We’ve got capsule reviews of some Hoosier-made films, a Sam Watermeier Q & A with an Indiana filmmaker and Ed Johnson-Ott’s reviews of two must-see movies. PLUS: Check out our 2015 hoops preview!
Breaking the Heartland mold............ P.08 Sam Watermeier interviews Indiana filmmaker Adrienne Wagner.............. P.09 Ed Johnson-Ott’s picks....................... P.12
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So how exactly does higher educationmake an impact on social justice issues like, for instance, poverty? While the details are still sketchy, the University of Indianapolis plans to answer that question. And Stephanie Dolan takes a moment to reflect on the legacy of now former state rep. Jud McMillin.
Higher ed meets social justice.......... P.06 VOICES Stephanie Dolan on McMillin............ P.04 Sex Doc.............................................. P.35
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Indy’s first comedy festival is happening! Crossroads comedy will show off local and national improv and standup heavy hitters. Our own Kyle Long got to chat with Mari Evans about her famous writing career and her upcoming award as a Lifetime Achievement Honoree.
Mari Evans......................................... P.13 Crossroads Comedy........................... P.15 Ed Johnson-Ott reviews 99 Homes.... P.18
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This week’s food section brings you another awesome fall road trip (sober driver required) down to Starlight, Indiana to see the Huber Winery and Orchard and their distillery. Bring the kids for the apple and pumpkins, too. And since Saturday is National Cake Decorating Day, we brought you some fab cake porn from around the city.
Huber Winery..................................... P.24 More food news................................ P.24 Cake Porn.......................................... P.25
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Schools of rock.................................. P.30 ForeverAtLast................................... P.32 Soundcheck....................................... P.33
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ver since Gov. Mike Pence signed the Stephanie Dolan is an awardReligious Freedom Restoration Act winning freelance writer, in March, the journalistic fallout has blogger and novelist. been priceless. But the social and literal blowback has been a trainwreck. Republican State Representative Jud McMillin, representing our state’s 68th district and co-sponsored the god-awful RFRA, resigned on September 29. House Speaker Brian Bosma released I say good riddance to bad rubbish, the following statement: “Our caucus is but — why did he resign? To witness about thankful for Representative McMillin’s Jesus to lost tribes in the Amazon? To feed service to our state, and we fully support the starving children of Africa? To undergo his decision to step down in order to radical sexual reassignment surgery? focus on his family.” No — although all of those things Yeah — I’ll bet they do. would be preferable to the reality. McMcMillin is also counted as one of Millin, a married man, was cheating on the legislators who unsuccessfully his wife. While in the act of cheating on attempted to lead an effort to make drug his wife, he took explicit video with his testing mandatory for welfare recipients. phone. Then, he accidentally sent that Not surprisingly for Indiana, he was video to everyone on his contacts list. sitting in the number three position of Isn’t he a special stupid snowflake. ultimate power in our state’s RepublicanHe panicked, of course, scrambling to controlled House. brush this teeny tiny “oops” under the I do wonder, though, if the Mensa rug with a mass text: “My phone was members who voted him into office were stolen in Canada and out of my control aware that a sex scandal had already for about 24 hours. I have just been able dogged him at least once before when Mcto reactive it under my control. Please Millin was a prosecutor in Ohio. In 2005, disregard any messages you received recently. I am truly sorry for anything offensive you may have received.” Not surprisingly for Indiana, he was Uh-huh. I’ll bet he’s sorry. He’s sorry for once sitting in the number three position again adding to the stereotype of an iron-fisted state of ultimate power in our state’s legislator with a Napoleon Republican-controlled House. complex who wants to bend everyone’s will to match his chosen set of ideals. Except that he’s a flaming hypocrite he stepped down from his position after who can’t keep it in his pants. (Because admitting to sexual impropriety with a that’s way less distasteful than the gays witness in a case that he was prosecuting. ordering pizza from someone who’s a Classy. blistering bigoted homophobe?) The 38-year-old philandering formerThe Indy Star reported the following failed-prosecutor-turned-state-repstatement emailed by McMillan regardresentative will have plenty of time to ing his resignation: “[I have] decided the meditate on the true meaning of family time is right for me to pass the torch and values in the coming weeks. I’m sure spend more time with my family. Now I that, while sitting at home in Brookville, want to focus all of my attention on mak- his family will have plenty to say on the ing my family’s world a better place.” sanctity of the traditional marriage that Why? Because he was winning at makhe has now crapped all over. ing our world a better place and he just Twice. couldn’t stand all the tiger blood flowing I know I’m glad we had such an through his veins? upstanding example of what a morally His colleagues were nothing if not upright heterosexual Christian man is polite as they shooed him out the door. supposed to be. n
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major gift to the University of Indianapolis will allow the small Southside college to research and address the issue of poverty while providing a formative learning opportunity for students interested in making a difference. University President Dr. Rob Manuel announced the gift from Gene and Mary Ann Zink during a launch of the public phase of a capital fundraising campaign for the university. The capital campaign has a goal of $50 million dollars to catapult UIndy deep into the 21st century. The Zinks’ gift is a part of the campaign, with an emphasis on what the university does best — aligning itself with the community’s needs and focusing its student education to meet those needs. Gene Zink, chairman and CEO of Strategic Capital Partners, was a key partner in the development of the UIndy Health Pavillion, a four-story building on the southeast edge of the campus newly dedicated over the homecoming weekend. That facility not only brings all of the school’s health sciences programming under one roof, but it also incorporates the community at large. The Community Health Network will operate a clinic on the campus to provide healthcare services for students, faculty and staff. The goal is to eventually expand a similar clinic open to the general public in the surrounding neighborhoods. It’s that same idea of community engagement that inspired the Zinks to get involved at a deeper level than simply business. “Mary Ann and I have been inspired by the vision of the university in responding to the important problems and questions facing our world,” Zink said. “We look forward to seeing that vision unfold.” Their gift will be used to create The Gene and Mary Ann Zink Poverty Institute. The institute will address public and social issues surrounding poverty through a formative experiential learning environment. The funding will endow scholarships, faculty-guided undergraduate and graduate research
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introduce the campaign for the University of Indianapolis,” said Manuel. “This interdisciplinary center will convene talent from across the country to study and create interventions that counter the effects of poverty in our communities. In many “Mary Ann and I have been inspired ways, this is the future model that connects by the vision of the university in problems in the world responding to the important problems with the education and research taking place and questions facing our world.” at universities.” The amount of the — GENE ZINK, gift has not yet been CHAIRMAN AND CEO OF STRATEGIC CAPITAL PARTNERS disclosed. The gift and idea is so new that details of what the institute will do, the with the university since the earliest con- degree programs it will support, and even where it will be housed have yet to versations about our strategic plan, and be determined. However the building their gift is an especially fitting way to opportunities, interdisciplinary study, special events, visiting speakers and faculty development activities. “The Zinks have been vital partners
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blocks and track record for the university there and will serve as the foundation for this growing concept. Whatever the design, the school’s motto, “Education for Service,” will be at the heart of the institute. And one can pretty much bet that the institute won’t just be a thinktank, issuing reports and studies on the topic of poverty, but will place students in situations and scenarios to not only study the issue, but also to tackle it hands-on. “UIndy will remain a university committed to the faculty-student bond, the liberal arts foundation, applied learning, professional development, spiritual growth for students of all faith traditions and our longtime motto of ‘Education for Service,’” Manuel said. “Our aim is to embrace the qualities that make the university special, and to take those traditional strengths into the future and fully realize the value we provide to our students, the community and our city, nation and world.” n
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It’s an annual milestone, and one that Heartland seems to make better with each pass. This year, Heartland received over 1,750 submissions representing 95 countries. After a lot of deliberation and coffee, 145 films made the cut and are presented to us on a silver platter. Flicks hailing from Iran, Australia, Pakistan, Kosovo and Bulgaria will all make their appearances, but we are most excited about a new category just for Hoosier filmmakers (more on that later). We couldn’t fit in everything we wanted here in print, so consider this the highlights and your best bets for the Heartland Film Festival. Go to nuvo.net for the rest, and turn to the Screens section (p.23) for a story about a high school film all-star.
Opening night screening: Room Oct. 16, 7 p.m. The story follows a mother, Brie Larson, and her 5-year-old son as they escape from the confined room that they have lived in since his birth. Together they discover the joys of the outside world.
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Award Ceremony Oct. 24, 8 p.m. This is really the pinnacle of Heartland. Filmmakers are honored for their hard work through the big announcements of who will take home checks ranging from $2,000 to $45,000. The awards are followed by an afterparty. Old National Centre, Egyptian Room, $65, $55 members Filmmakers’ brunch Oct. 25, 11 a.m. If you are a screen buff, this is the best way to have access to filmmakers from the festival. Omni Severin Hotel, $25, $21 members Closing night: Coming Through the Rye
Oct. 25, 7 p.m. Coming Through the Rye is inspired by a true story, and trails a 16-year-old boy going through adolescence. He ends up running away to the New Hampshire mountains to find the author of Catcher in the Rye. There are worse ways to deal with growing pains. AMC Showplace Traders Point 12, afterparty Premiere Pavilion, $30, $25 members Tickets $9 online (heartlandfilm.org) or by calling 1-866-HFF-1010, $11 walk-up at the box office Passes Box office 10-pack $90, Marsh 12-pack $90, all access pass $380; unlimited regular screenings $210
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im Irwin was an intern at the 2009 Heartland Film Festival. Seven years later, he is the organization’s artistic director and has watched it evolve from 64 films to a 10-day affair featuring 147 films from around the world. Over the last five years Heartland has seen a lot of changes. They moved their offices to the current location in Fountain Square, rebranded from Heartland Truly Moving Pictures to the much simpler Heartland Film, and welcomed a new president, Stuart Lowry. Through all of those changes, they have laid aside their family-friendly reputation and pushed audiences to think about the art form and power of film in new ways. This year Irwin is looking at the largest festival lineup to date, and it features some of the most difficult films he has ever seen. “That’s part of pushing the audience a little bit,” Irwin says. “We get to look at a lot of films each year. We don’t just want to give the audience all of the easiest, most digestible films. We want to challenge them a little bit.” Films like India’s Daughter and Tell Spring Not to Come This Year, are certainly not easy films. They serve as a reminder of how much has changed since the first festival took place nearly
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decided there were films that still met 25 years ago. In the early years, Heartour mission that weren’t intended solely land Film Festival was a 4-day event for entire families.” that only showed about 15-30 films, and This year’s lineup includes films like initially they wanted to celebrate and the documentary Tell Spring Not to Come honor films that were countercultural to This Year about the Afghanistan war the violent films of the ’80s. from the perspective of the Afghan army “After the rise of VHS, a lot of people and Fourth Man Out, the story of a car were making cheap horror movies, and mechanic who comes the founders of Heartout to his three friends land really wanted This year Irwin is who all fit the very massomething that was a lit- looking at the largest tle bit opposite of that. festival lineup to date, culine stereotype. All reels with heavy issues Something that was and it features some behind them. more uplifting, inspirof the most difficult Heartland will of ing,” explains Irwin. films he has ever seen. course still have the They worked with palatable films, hoping that people will Disney and showed quite a few recome see those and then stick around releases of films coming out of the vault. for some of the more challenging ones. There was the occasional harder hitting “It’s kind of like here’s your lollipop, documentary or war film, but for the and here’s your medicine. And pretty most part, you could take a child to any soon that medicine has a much more screening at the festival and be confiprofound impact on you,” explains dent it would be appropriate. Then in Irwin. “And I think that’s the narrative 2009, during Irwin’s first festival, the film moving forward. How do we keep broadPrecious was awarded the Truly Moving ening that audience while retaining our Picture Award. core mission? What does that look like “That was definitely not a film you year after year?” would take the whole family to, but the If it looks anything like this year’s key story really resonated with our mislineup of films, they’re on the right track. sion,” says Irwin. “We started exploring what our mission statement meant and — SUMMER DAILY how it related to the films we chose. We
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ne of the biggest changes coming to Heartland this year is a new category to highlight Indiana filmmakers. “Filmmakers have many odds stacked against them in Indiana,” says Tim Irwin. “We want to shine a spotlight on their work and encourage them to keep making films here.” Irwin is helping Heartland bring that wish to fruition this year through the festival’s new competition category — Indiana Spotlight. Five films — out of the 1,756 submitted — are vying for the top prize of $5,000. To be eligible for this category, a film’s director, producer or writer has to be a current Indiana resident or a native. And 65 percent of their film has to be shot in the state. The accepted entries cast a wide cinematic light across Indiana — from the Fountain Square art district and the limestone belt to Bloomington’s Little 500 bike tracks. The documentary about the Little 5 race, One Day in April, is the only feature-length film in the category. Director Thomas Miller is no stranger to the local festival circuit now; he brought the doc to the Indy Film Fest in July. He’s grateful to these festivals and people like Irwin for looking beyond Hollywood and seeing movie magic in the Midwest. “It’s tough to be a filmmaker in Indiana — that’s why community support for your film is so important,” Miller said.
“One Day in April wouldn’t exist without the support of Hoosiers who wanted to see an Indiana story on the big screen.” Another filmmaker competing in this category, Adrienne Wagner, adds that it’s important to explore places like Indiana and the people here who “don’t normally get a spotlight.” Wagner wanted to leave Indy a piece of herself. Before she moved to Portland this summer, the IU alumnus submitted a short film to Heartland. “It just felt fitting that I leave a part of me with a city and a festival that I grew up with,” she said. Wagner holds onto memories of seeing Heartland films in high school with her aunt and making movies in the basement of her childhood home with the camera her dad used to film her soccer games. The titular setting of her film, My Grandpa’s Garage, is an incredibly intricate museum of family memories. Like her grandfather, Wagner has a talent for packing a lot of material tightly together. In under seven minutes, she explores his service in the Korean War, his education at Ball State, his time with her as a child and more, all of which is documented in his little museum. Like the Fountain Square art district in Your Catfish Friend and the stone mill in A Stone’s Pace, the garage is an evocative Indiana time capsule. Wagner sat down to talk about walking down memory lane.
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places. Like the other entries in this category, it’s a modest yet moving film.
getting up close and personal with the coaches and cyclists. While it skimps on their lives off the track, it includes all the gritty details of their time riding on it. Through cameras built inside the cyclists’ sunglasses, the film thrusts you into the race. You’ll practically feel the dirt beneath their tires kicking up into your face. It’s an exhilarating spectacle, making a small-town college sports community seem larger than life.
e A testament to the power of patience. This documentary follows an artist who chips away at wood for years, carving masterworks that inspire the city’s entire art community. Philip Campbell is responsible for revitalizing the Fountain Square art district, renovating the Murphy Building and launching projects like Masterpiece in a Day. Your Catfish Friend is a quietly profound exploration of how Campbell’s work affects Hoosiers and himself. (Listen closely when he talks about how his carving of drifting boats helped him deal with the death of his father.) Oct. 17, 5:45 p.m. and Oct. 24, 3 p.m. at AMC Showplace Traders Point 12; Oct. 21, 5:15 p.m. at AMC Castleton Square 14
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w Heartfelt evidence that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. In this love letter to her grandfather, director Adrienne Wagner squeezes through his cluttered garage, shedding light on all the keepsakes he crams into the small space. He’s not a hoarder; he’s a historian of his own life. My Grandpa’s Garage is a passionate reminder that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder and that you can find art in unexpected
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A STONE’S PACE r Like Your Catfish Friend, this film explores the kind of artwork that leaves artists’ hands rough and wrinkled. It focuses on a father and son working together in one of Indiana’s major stone mills, chiseling the state’s architecture out of the limestone belt that runs through the southern part of it. A Stone’s Pace is a tender, lighthearted look at rough work and the rugged men who do it. Oct. 20, noon at AMC Showplace Traders Point 12; Oct. 21, 4:45 p.m. and Oct. 24, 8 p.m. at AMC Castleton Square 14
ONE DAY IN APRIL e A fly-on-the-wall look at life in the fast lane. IU alumnus Thomas Miller captures the whirlwind experience of his alma mater’s most popular sporting event — the Little 500 bike race. This is a rare kind of sports drama — a co-ed one, following members from four racing teams. The film is an intimate documentary portrait,
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CITIZEN TEKLIT r Director Tim Taylor hangs out with a joyful young man from East Africa named Teklit as he waits for U.S. citizenship. The twentysomething exudes an endearing sense of wonder about America. “Getting food here isn’t even hard. You just go to the grocery store, grab whatever you want, and it takes two, three minutes,” he says with wide-eyed, childlike excitement. Citizen Teklit isn’t an earth-shattering exploration of the citizenship process. It’s a breezy, beguiling reminder of what Americans take for granted. Oct. 20, 7:45 p.m. at AMC Showplace Traders Point 12; Oct. 21, 4:45 p.m. and Oct. 24, 8 p.m. at AMC Castleton Square 14
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HOMEGROWN, F R O M P A G E 09 NUVO: When did you get the idea for this film? ADRIENNE WAGNER: I was sitting in my grandparents’ kitchen having coffee and reminiscing over old times and how absolutely bizarre it was that I was going to be completing my undergrad in May (of 2015). After we finished our coffee, I went outside to my grandpa’s garage so we could change the oil in my car. I climbed into the upper attic and was looking at all of the stuff and wondering what would possibly happen to it all. I also knew that I wasn’t going to be in Indianapolis very much longer, and I had to do something to remember it all. NUVO: What was your grandpa’s reaction when you approached him about the documentary? WAGNER: It’s funny because I don’t know if I ever actually asked him whether he wanted to do the project, but more that I just told him what I wanted to do, and he was more than happy to help out. By the time I had arrived home from our discussion about the film when I first brought it up, he had already emailed me a bunch of short writing pieces he had typed up about his collections. NUVO: What was the most surprising discovery you made about him during the production? WAGNER: I think what was so striking was the fact that every single item he had seemed to have an elaborate and intentional story behind it. A lot of the random things that I would pick up all seemed to have a purpose or a memory attached. The production process itself
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was quite magical that way, in the sense that through the interviews and filming his things, I found out a lot about my own family history and my grandparents and different eras of the world in relation to my own heritage. It was very personal, and as he was able to show me a lot of the things he likes and has accumulated, I was able to show him a bit about what it is I “do” with my expression through film. NUVO: How did he react to the finished film?
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WAGNER: My family sat down and watched it together in a little living room screening at my parents’ house, and when it was over, there was a heavy sense in the room. The film is lighthearted, but at the same time, I think it pokes at the inevitable just enough to get the audience thinking. My grandparents are not going to be around forever — none of us will. They went home after we watched the movie, and I wasn’t exactly sure what he thought. Then I got an email asking for a few DVDs of the movie for him to add to his collection. l
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with his every move. I expect Hollywood will co-opt his persona at some point — at the very least for an episode of a In addition to his three biological TV police procedural, maybe even for a children, he has adopted 32 others. He movie. Hoover’s film gives us a memohas a rehabilitation center for drugrable look at the real man. addicted street children in Ukraine. He His parents were alcoholics. Mokhconducts night raids where the endannenko is determined to be parent to as gered kids are swept up. “You just can’t many as needed. He has no legal right walk past a kid living on the street, you to take the street kids away, he just does just can’t,” he says. it. “Stay with us,” he tells one child, Gennadiy Mokhnenko is a pastor “you’ll grow up to be a person. I’ll try to and a vigilante. He clearly enjoys being be a father to you.” on camera. His nickname is Crocodile The world in which he operates is Gennadiy, after the hero of a children’s harrowing. So many children, little adTV show from the Soviet era. “All time dicts shooting up drugs sold over the he save somebody,” says Mokhnenko in counter by crooked pharmacists, doing broken English. whatever it takes to get by and stay high. Crocodile Gennadiy is the powerful One child can neither hear nor speak sophomore documentary by Steve — she reports being raped, but can’t Hoover, whose first effort — Blood remember where the baby is. Others Brother — was also about someone have been on their own since age 4. helping children. Terrence Malick is Many of them end up in Pilgrim, the an executive rehab center founded by Mokhnenko producer of in Mariupol, the Southeast Ukraine city the film, which where he operates. All hell broke loose mixes material in the country when the Soviet Union Hoover shot fell. He tries to keep his boys out of the over the past conflict between Ukraine and pro-Russia revels. “They’ll change Critics complain that the world maps 50 times,” he is hungry for power he says. and for the spotlight. What else to tell you? Hopefully they’ll keep The film has lighter mocomplaining for many ments, thank God. Mokhmore years. nenko addresses his love Director Steve Hoover for western fast food, and his struggles with English few years with archival footage. Bits of are amusing at times. Oh, and Mokhfootage from the children’s show pop nenko ‘s wife is also deeply involved in up throughout the feature, often placed Pilgrim. She’s just not an on-camera to offer commentary about the goingssort of person. on. The score is restrained — there’s no Mokhnenko is still in Mariupol, still need for musical manipulation here. getting children off the streets while Mokhnenko is a larger than life figure working with the prisons to help whose actions are surrounded by conrehabilitate the kids behind bars. troversy. “I don’t need permission to do Critics complain that he is hungry for good deeds,” he states with the confipower and for the spotlight. Hopefuldence of Batman. Charismatic at times, off-putting at others, he draws attention ly they’ll keep complaining for many more years. l e
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There’s a lot a color in Three Windows and a Hanging. The land is rich and full of life in the small village high in the mountains of Kosovo where director Isa Qosja’s story is set. It opens with three old men arguing about something or another under an old tree. The exchange is routine and social. Nothing to be concerned with here. Later the newspaper arrives and the village routine is interrupted. During the Kosovo War of the late 1990s, an But I can’t, because I live in a culture estimated 20,000 women and girls were that continues to put rape victims on raped by Serbian forces. Most of them trial, even though they’re not supelected not to speak about the assaults. posed to anymore (it’s not been all that But an article on the front page of the long since the practice was officially paper announces that a woman from banned). I live in a culture where the the village told them moment someone anonymously that she The truth is we’re at mentions the possiwas one of the rape best only a bit more bility of a man going victims. So were three evolved than the lunk- to jail, people start other woman from the heads in the movie. making “don’t drop the village, she reports. soap” jokes. We soon learn why so many of the The truth is we’re at best only a bit more rape victims in the country remained evolved than the lunkheads in the movie. silent. The men are outraged. A revelaThree Windows and a Hanging follows tion like this brings shame to the village, the power dynamics in the village as to the men! Why would any of the local the shunning of the teacher begins. The women choose to bring such shame to other women join in and, of course, the the village? children. Got to teach your children It doesn’t take long for the men to how society works. decide who the culprit probably is. The To the credit of Qosja and his cast schoolteacher Lushe (Irena Cahani) is a and crew, the film isn’t simply grim. The single mother and an outsider. Surely it story is gripping, there are fascinating must be her. But why? And why would character studies, the actors are excelshe claim there were three others? lent, and there are moments of warmth The locals turn to Mayor Uka (Luan and even humor. The production is Jaha) for direction, like they turn to gorgeous, thanks to cinematographer him for everything else. He enjoys his Gokhan Tiryaki’s compositions. role as father figure to the village, and The film ends with another visit to the sets out to resolve the situation as efold tree. I don’t want to spoil anything ficiently as possible. — suffice to say that Qosja is couraThis is the point where I would call geous enough to include a note of hope. the men egocentric thugs, or royal With enough notes, you can build assholes, or something, and marvel at a song. l how their culture could be so primitive.
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ari Evans’ unwillingness to be interviewed by me only made me respect her more. I’ve been patiently waiting for an opportunity to speak with Evans since I began writing this column for NUVO nearly four years ago. When I heard Evans was being honored this month with a lifetime achievement award from the Indianapolis Public Library Foundation (and will be the subject of a massive mural and several other art and community projects), I figured this was my best shot at securing an exchange with the legendary wordsmith. When I phoned Evans to solicit her comments for this piece she made it perfectly clear that she had no interest in educating naive journalists on the nuances of her writing. “Look, anything I could possibly tell you is already out there in my work. I would suggest that you just Google me,” Evans admonished as she resolutely declined my interview request. While Mari Evans may not be a household name in Indianapolis, she’s established a reputation as one of the finest living poets in the world. Evans first collection of poetry Where is the Music was published in 1968, but it was her second volume of verse, 1970s more overtly political I am a Black Woman, that thrust Evans into international prominence as a writer. As I stated, I do respect Evans’ steadfast commitment to letting her work speak for itself. But I just couldn’t allow this opportunity to pass. I had to earn her trust quickly to pull this interview off, so I shot off a reference to a pair of relatively obscure literary journals she’d contributed to during the 1960s. “Miss Evans I wouldn’t want to waste your time. I’ve read all your books. I even search through old issues of Black World and Negro Digest to find more of your writing.” The reference piqued her interest and Evans decided to give me a chance “well, what do you want to ask me?” NUVO: On Oct. 10 you’ll be receiving the Indianapolis Public Library Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the
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MARI EVANS: Thank you for that question, but I don’t want to address that. I wouldn’t want to comment on anything in the direction you just headed. That’s not the sound I’d want to leave behind me. NUVO: OK, fair enough … You wrote a remarkable essay about Indianapolis titled “Ethos and Creativity,” for the book Where We Live: Essays About Indiana as compiled by NUVO’s David Hoppe. Your essay addressed how elements of the ruling class in Indianapolis plotted the destruction of Black Indianapolis communities like Indiana Avenue. I wonder if you were surprised by any of the information you uncovered while conducting research for this essay? EVANS: No, I doubt I was surprised by very much of what I found. I have been S E E , E V A N S , O N P A GE 1 4
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Changing the Story e Through Oct. 30. The Raymond James Stutz Art Gallery’s exhibition entitled Changing the Story combines the resources of College Mentors for Kids and the Stutz Artists Association to display photos by kids side by side with the 2D and 3D work of Stutz artists thematically linked with and/ or inspired by College Mentors’ mission. College Mentors, a 20-year-old nonprofit based in the Stutz, describes itself as “college students with the most to give to kids who need it most,” and it now has programs on 32 college campuses across the Midwest. One of those mentors was IUPUI grad student Aaron Pierce. His objective as a mentor was to help a group of eight Indianapolis kids from IPS schools on the southeast side get acquainted with photography. The photographs by these kids are on display in a looping slideshow at the Stutz Gallery. Though many of these children come from challenging circumstances, there are a lot of smiles captured in their photography. Pierce has a photograph displayed in the exhibition of a bus bench with an advert that he’s not particularly fond of, to say the least. The bench is located on the southeast side of town, where most of the kids in the College Mentors program — the kids Pierce worked with — live. This photo added a note of sober documentary realism to the exhibit. Some of the other work by other artists — some of them Stutz artists, some not — encouraged reflection. Some reflected back at you. Chad Hankins’ “Blinding Hope in the American Dream,” is a hanging sculpture based on the “Impossible Staircase” conceptualized by Robert Penrose after a drawing by M.C. Escher. There was a version of this staircase in the film Inception, directed by Christopher Nolan. But the particular staircase in this exhibit has mirrors on its surfaces so if you look up you see your own reflection on stairs that don’t lead anywhere. Jeremy Amico’s painting “However it Grows,” inspired by Tupac Shakur’s poem “The Rose that Grew from Concrete,” may have been by a beginning artist, but its acrylic on canvas depiction of a rose growing through a crack in the pavement perfectly captured the sentiment of the poem — and was a highlight of this inspired artistic collaboration at the Stutz. — DAN GROSSMAN Raymond James Stutz Art Gallery
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my own private investigator for as long as I can remember. I knew things about Indianapolis that were not general knowledge. I worked for ten years as an advocate for inmates within the Indiana correctional system. So I knew a lot of information that many people didn’t know. NUVO: I think “Alabama Landscape” is one of your most haunting works. EVANS: Oh, you like that? NUVO: Yes. ... I interpret this work as speaking to the cycle of subjugation and violence America has historically perpetrated against people of color. EVANS: Well thank you, because that’s the kind of analogy I hoped people could make. I find that most people who infer that they’ve read my work really haven’t read it. You’ve obviously read it and you’ve understood what you read. Your head and shoulders above most of the people who talk as if they know my work. NUVO: Throughout your career as an artist you’ve worked in many mediums. You’ve written plays. You’ve written children’s books. You’ve composed music. You developed, produced and hosted a television series on the subject of Black history. I think it’s safe to say that you’re most known for your work as a poet. But I wonder if you classify yourself as a poet? EVANS: Oh no, I stay away from saying I’m a poet. (Laughs.) I only say I write and that I write with as much integrity as I can bring. But I don’t call myself a poet, because I hope I can do more than be a poet. NUVO: I’m so intrigued to know more about your television series The Black Experience. I understand this program was produced for WTTV Channel 4 during the late 1960s. But there’s no trace of the show’s existence. EVANS: I know, that’s because I have the only existing trace of it. NUVO: Do you have any desire to put it back into circulation? I’d love to see it. EVANS: I don’t know. I’m in the process of deciding what I want to do with everything. At my age I have a lot of… (pauses) well, I haven’t yet burned anything. Let me just say that. What to do with the tangible evidence of my having been here is something I haven’t quite decided. NUVO: Does that question concern you? Do you spend time meditating on what to do with all the “tangible evidence” of your work? EVANS: I don’t meditate on it, but yes it occurs to me on occasion. I told some14 BOOKS // 10.07.15 - 10.14.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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one recently that there are some who will be looking for money after I transition, but the only thing I have of value is what I’ve written. NUVO: In addition to the work you’ve written, in 1983 you edited an incredibly important book titled Black Women Writers — 1950-1980 A Critical Evaluation. This book collected critical analysis on acclaimed Black women writers like Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde and many other lesser-known, but equally significant figures. Since its date of publication, this book has remained a crucial and indispensable resource. EVANS: Well, I’ll tell you something funny about that book. As I’m sure you know, Audre Lorde was a feminist and a lesbian. She was very upset with me because I had a man write one the essays about her in the book. I always thought that was funny. I thought as long as I had somebody good writing the essay on her then she should’ve been satisfied. NUVO: So you didn’t take her critique very seriously? EVANS: Listen, I think I’m a stand-up comic, and I don’t really care what people think. NUVO: Are you still writing? EVANS: Well, your question is so broad. But yes, of course I am. You know, I only ever wrote when I had something to say. So I still feel that on occasion I have something to say. So I would say on occasion I write. NUVO: Do you find yourself being inspired to write today by the same cultural forces that inspired you to write during the ’60s and ’70s? EVANS: I really couldn’t say. But I’ve never lost my sense of needing to make statements about what I see and how I react to what I see. So in that sense I guess you could say I still write in the same way. But I don’t write as a profession. I never wrote for any reason other than when I thought “this is something I should make a point of saying,” and then I would write it down. To that extent I still write. But I’m not trying to write to be published anymore. NUVO: Miss Evans, I can’t express how much your work means to me and how grateful I am that you spoke with me today. I’ll never forget this exchange. Congratulations on the award and thank you for your work. EVANS: That’s very kind of you to value the material and to tell me that you value the material — and even to feel that I may even still have something you can use. It was a delight talking to you. n Read the full story on nuvo.net.
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“It is one of the main things that keeps me going performing,” says Magyar. “Is being able to get people to laugh about transgender things in what I consider to be the right way — the right funny things about it. There are a lot of obvious jokes about transgender people and that experience that are bad. Those are the ones that are of course offensive to me as a person, but they are even more offensive to me as a comedian because
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The Great Gatsby e Through Oct. 25. The opening night of the IRT’s season came dressed for the part. Patrons were decked out in roaring ‘20s fringes and pearls to take photos in front of the ’38 Cadillac parked out front. Cap it with a champaign toast and there isn’t much else I would add on the PR production side. The play is adapted by Simon Levy from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel. Certain parts of the play require a prior knowledge of the book; but then again, if you haven’t read the book already, call your alma mater and file a complaint. It should be on every high school reading list by now. While most of the adaptation was strong representation of the book, the only real qualm I have was the amount of time spent on Nick and Jordan’s fling. Time that would have been better served developing Gatsby into a weighty man of mystery. The acting was outshone by Hillary Clemens, who played a Daisy with even more depth than she is given in the writing (which was plenty). Clemens is actually married to Matt Schwader (Jay Gatsby) which made for some extra passionate gazes across the stage. Schwader’s Gatsby tapped into the crazed interpretation of a millionaire made with love, but the extravagance and Old-Sport-swagger was missed. Zach Kenney used the innocence of narrator Nick Caraway to his advantage. He seems to be a damn near perfect fit for this role, and is clearly the point of pride for director Peter Amster. The most impressive part of the show was set. Details like the $900 worth of pastel shirts that fill Gatsby’s closet and the multimedia backdrop help the intimate IRT stage capture the grandness that Fitzgerald is famous for detailing. A rotating belt on the stage allowed for seamless set changes and a small way to show off how well rehearsed the actors were in the space. I didn’t catch one missing a step on or off of it. The only theatricality that could have been stronger were the costume changes for the male cast members. Clemens went through at least three in the first half, while Gatsby and Buchanan didn’t change at all. I do understand that dresses are an easier costume change than a million shirt buttons. The music selection seemed stronger post intermission, but still could have tolerated another coat — after all it’s the golden age of jazz we’re talking about. — EMILY TAYLOR Indiana Repertory Theatre, 140 W. Washington St., $20-$47, irtlive.com
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white dudes who really didn’t get me.” Other troupe members [at Baltimore Improv] would ask about why the group “It’s not surgery and hormones, it’s was all Black. Green remembers people learning how to shave your damn legs,” coming to him and saying things like: says Magyar. “It’s learning how to put on “What if we created an all white improv makeup. I reawaken people’s adolescent team?” His response was spot on. experience.” She hopes that by doing so “You mean like all of improv always she can bring people back to that point and forever,” laughs Green. of relation. Yes, we are all looking at you Jerry Magyar is hardly alone in wanting to use Seinfeld. comedy to build up a safe space. Rasheed For Green, it’s about creating a safe Green is a member of Baltimore Improv’s special project group Minority Re’port — a space. He gives the example of an all female troupe being able to make a joke collective of six comedians of color. about a menstrual cycle and it being “We formed Minority Re’port because funny, where if a man made the same queer people, women and people of joke it would be totally out of line. color are really underrepresented in the “Even though we are a group of six Black people, we all came from different “There is something to be said about walks of life,” says Green. “So It speaks to a differhaving that safe space on stage ent issue … just because we are all Black doesn’t where someone gets your cultural mean we are all the same. references and you all understand It doesn’t mean that we listen to the same music each other.” or anything like that. We — RASHEED GREEN all grew up very different.” For example his own stage presence has a lot of pop culture laced throughout. Where world of improv,” says Green. “There another of the founding members Chrisis something to be said about having topher Jones doesn’t touch the subject. that safe space on stage where someone Green grew up in the suburbs of New gets your cultural references and you all Jersey and hopes to be a dramatic actor understand each other.” eventually. The improv members are all on house “I think people think there is some teams at Baltimore Improv. Minority arbitrary level of what Blackness is,” says Re’port has been going strong for three Green. “That’s applicable to any label. years this March. The idea is pretty People have this arbitrary level of what it is simple — cultural and racial representato be masculine. People have this arbitrary tion. If we take it a step further, it’s pretty level of what it means to be feminine or hard for young performance artists to what it means to be queer … when I say know their own potential when that role we are multifaceted I think we all had to isn’t visible in the media they consume. find our own idea of what blackness is. “We want to see ourselves on stage,” “When we first became a troupe we says Green. “We want to see ourselves had a lot to prove,” says Green. “Or at represented in improv. least that’s how we felt … People thought “I am a queer man of color,” says Green. we were a gimmick because we were ‘the “When I started doing improv it felt good Black troupe.’ Almost three years later, doing it, but I felt like there was something we know who we are. We don’t have to missing because I was never around any other people of color. I was around straight prove anything.” n 16 STAGE // 10.07.15 - 10.14.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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etween Jon Barinholtz and Rob Belushi the two have names like Parks and Recreation, Happy Endings and Dumb and Dumber Too under their belts. Both cut their teeth at the Chicago improv powerhouses IO and Second City. After we got done talking about the places they want to hit while in Indy (Working Man’s Friend and Patachou) and Rob’s condo that he really wants to sell, we moved back into their improv careers. Go to nuvo.net for the whole article (where Rob shares about an unfortunate drunken mishap with a hotel breakfast bar too). NUVO: Jon, your brother preceded you at IO Chicago, correct? JON BARINHOLTZ: He started IO when I was in seventh grade, actually. I remember me and my friends and I would go, like nerdy fat middle schoolers. I lived like walking distance to the theatre, so we would walk
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over there and watch improv. We thought it was really funny. We probably understood 10 percent of what we were seeing. That’s kind of how I got a love for improv — watching him at a young age.
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NUVO: Anyone else in the family do comedy?
BELUSHI: I just really wanted to branch out and do something different.
BARINHOLTZ: No but we have a very funny family I think. Both of our parents were theater majors at Ohio State — that’s how they met. Then you know, like responsible people, instead of pursuing performing they got real jobs and made a life for themselves. Which is very nice because it allowed my brother and I to be idiots (laughs).
BARINHOLTZ: No one has ever done comedy in Rob’s family before (laughs).
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(This is all VERY sarcastic. Rob’s uncle is John Belushi) NUVO: What makes good improv to both of you? BELUSHI: I would even go so far as to say my family didn’t even know good comedy until I introduced them to it.
BARINHOLTZ: That’s a good question, Rob. What do you think makes good improv? BELUSHI: Probably agreement. BARINHOLTZ: See, I disagree. (Rob laughs) No I totally agree. It’s about agreeing to create a world together and a scene with your partner. It’s tried and true to say “yes and” but that’s what it is. It’s agreeing to what you are establishing on stage. BELUSHI: I think to step that out one yard, I think trust really makes agreement easy. Even if your partner is branching off in a direction that you don’t understand or even agree with, you trust that it is going to be fine. Trust is the lubrication to agreement; the piston to agreement. It’s firing, it’s moving the show forward. And the thing that lubricates that piston is trust. Lubricate. BARINHOLTZ: Rob just wanted to say the word lubricate a bunch of times. BELUSHI: The metaphor is rock solid. n
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FILM EVENTS Friday Night Frights: Tremors e Oct. 9, 9:30 p.m. The film’s title refers to the ground-shaking movements of its iconic monsters — slimy sandworms that slither under the deserts of Nevada. Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward star as two tough country handymen forced to protect their town from the creatures. This film is a classic B-movie that will have you laughing one minute and squirming in your seat the next. It causes different kinds of tremors — sudden shivers of fear and excitement.
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— SAM WATERMEIER IU Cinema, 1213 E. 7th St. (Bloomington), $3, cinema.indiana.edu Skyline Scares presents: The Green Inferno and Cannibal Ferox Oct. 9-10, 8:30 p.m. A devilishly entertaining double feature. First up is Eli Roth’s new film, The Green Inferno — a timely, biting satire about what happens when self-righteous activists are pushed out of their element. (They get eaten by cannibals!) The next movie is Cannibal Ferox, an Italian exploitation film about anthropologists who stumble upon drug dealers and deadly natives in the jungles of Colombia. Come celebrate the Halloween season and see these films on a crisp autumn night at the Skyline Drive-In.
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He Named Me Malala t Documentary about Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who gained prominence when she was 15 and Taliban gunmen opened fire on the school bus in which she rode, shooting her in the head. She was targeted for speaking out in favor of education for teenage girls. Malala recovered and continued her crusade; in 2014 she became the youngest-ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Her story is inspiring, of course, and would have been a compelling segment of a show like “60 Minutes.” As a 2 hour feature, it drags. The family dynamics – activist father and daughter, traditionalist mother, uninvolved brothers – scream for closer examination, but the focus is on the main message, with animated sequences to engage younger viewers. — ED JOHNSON-OTT PG-13
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he movie 99 Homes is reminiscent of OPENING: FRIDAY, KEYSTONE ART Oliver Stone’s Wall Street, but instead RATED: R e of fine suits and sexy women in breathtaking Manhattan suites, it features rolled-up sleeves, beaten-down people motels, surrounded by other evicted and empty McMansions in Orlando. All the nastiness is there, however, along with families. Their court hearings come soon, where they are given a minute or a lot of wheeling and dealing, much of it two to speak before getting shoved out to illegal. This is a mean movie, with excuses make room for the next stunned family. and appeals to decency left to evaporate Construction worker/jack of all trades in the relentless Florida sun. Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield) is the latFilmmaker Ramin Bahrani (Man Push est to be evicted, along with his mother, Cart, Chop Shop, and yes, the Dennis Lynn (Laura Dern) and son, Connor Quaid/Zac Efron drama At Any Price) fo(Noah Lomax). The man throwing the cuses on marginalized people. This time family out is real estate broker Rick he looks back around five years, to when Carver (Michael Shannon). the housing bubble burst and people No need to cover the rest of the solid scrambled to try and keep their reality from disappearing. Deep in debt after receiving I wasn’t looking forward to 99 Homes, loans from freewheeling banks, they are but Bahrani is a skilled storyteller. being evicted for not being able to keep up their payments. cast – the story is built around two of these The knock on the door is followed by four characters. Young Lomax gets to play the stunning declaration that they are a real boy, while Laura Dern is stuck lookbeing evicted right now. Given only a ing distraught or outraged. What a shame, few minutes to grab what they need the to waste her skills. Michael Shannon, who most, they end up standing in front of was exceptional in Take Shelter as a rural the house that is no longer theirs, being Ohio man who foresees the apocalypse, told to move to the sidewalk, please, bites into this role like a dog clenches a because they are now trespassing. chew toy. He gets quiet moments – he even Trespassing. They take refuge in crappy appears reflective for a bit – but he never
99 Homes is painful but oh so worth it shows weakness. He is a scam artist who has worked out his every justification and locked them into place long ago – he will not be shaken. His character eventually takes Andrew Garfield’s character under his wings and the circumstances and the actors make you believe it. The burden of the drama is on Garfield’s shoulder’s and he handles his chores well. He gets a little face-rubby and mumble-mouthed from time-to-time. In those moments he reminds me of character actor Jeremy Davies, who rubbed and mumbled memorably as everything from the translator in Saving Private Ryan to the time-traveling professor in Lost. Surely Garfield and Davies are related. The twitchy DNA patterns are too obvious. I wasn’t looking forward to 99 Homes, but Bahrani is a skilled storyteller. After establishing Garfield’s character as sympathetic, he has him become the villain’s right-hand man, eventually taking on the foreclosure duties himself. As he evicts his first family from their home, you find yourself kind of ... rooting for him. Not because you want the family to suffer, but because he’s our guy and you want him to do his job well. “Don’t hem and haw,” I caught myself thinking. “Just be clear with them and be done with it.” Twisted. The film has an electronic music score that pushes the feeling of dread even further. There was no need for it. 99 Homes drips dread. It’s painful and warped and I’m glad I saw it. n MORE,
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Time for the Blue and Yellow Menace (thanks for that, Pacers radio announcer Mark Joseph Boyle) to take the floor — maybe in their Hoosiers Hickory jerseys? Time for those divided households across Indiana (you know who you are) to start squawkin’ amongst themselves over who gets the front porch flagpole, IU or Purdue? Is it time for a mid-major to make a real run? As in: Will Butler be this year’s Butler? With all that in mind, we humbly present our 2015 basketball preview. Sure, we’ve got a look at our hometown NBA and colleges across the state. But we’ve also got a behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like to play Division 1 college hoops — albeit at a small school that could only dream of the kind of budgets lavished upon programs like Indiana or the Boilers. Roy Hobbson played at a school that small, and his memories are contained herein. But let’s start big, shall we? Like, seven-figure-contract, playing-in-the show big:
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n the past, the Indiana Pacers front office has exhibited the creativity of a Thomas Kinkade painting. This year’s roster is more like a Magic Eye puzzle. You squint, you strain, but it’s hard to see anything tangible. On the eve of the 2015-16 season, only Larry Bird can see the schooner in the visual chaos. There isn’t a single honest-to-goodness starting big man on the roster. Ian Mahinmi? Jordan Hill? They are bridesmaids on the bench, not bridezillas in the starting five. There aren’t any traditional point guards either. George Hill is an excellent (and underrated) basketball player, but he would be
the first to tell you that his game resembles John Stockton’s Floor General mastery like a chainsaw resembles a dog sweater. The two players projected to play shooting guard can’t actually, you know, shoot. That might be an issue. At the beginning of the season, most NBA rosters look like chessboards. Each piece has a highly specific purpose and a highly specific place. The 2015-16 Indiana Pacers more closely resemble a Boggle tray. The dice have been shaken and randomly dispersed, and it’s up to Frank Vogel to find the words. Does that sound pessimistic? It isn’t! The chaos of the roster brings uncertainty, and uncertainty is fun!
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What are the lineups going to be? What kind of wacky plays will they run? Will these small lineups scramble around like Keystone Avenue Cops, or will they be a fine-tuned fast break machine?
Here are a few more burning questions: • Will rookie Myles Turner be some kind of funky Sam Perkins/Roy Hibbert love child? A center who can shoot threes AND serve as an elite rim protector is a combination of skills we’ve never quite witnessed in the NBA to this point. Will that be too weird to work on an NBA court, much like the indefensible “sleeved jerseys” Adidas tried to make happen? Or will he be a revelation, like a mascot jumping on a trampling to execute comically exaggerated dunks at halftime? • Paul George will apparently be Indiana’s starting power forward. Will he be a billionaire’s version of Draymond Green, or will old-school bruisers like Zach Randolph reduce him to a thinly-pounded breaded tenderloin patty by the All-Star break? • New Pacer Monta Ellis was brilliant as a young player, attacking the rim with the frenzy of a Hoosier scraping the ice off of a frozen car windshield via a credit card. These days Monta is much more likely to pull up for a lazy jumper, evoking the image of an old-timer on a porch barely mustering enough energy in the humid heat to wave a flyswatter at a passing stranger. Young Monta can help Indiana win in the playoffs. Old Monta might shoot the Pacers into the lottery. The Pacers of old — slow, uncreative, traditional — are gone. What kind of team will emerge in the new season? No one is quite sure, but it’s going to be fun watching them navigate the madness. (Dave Searle is half of the voices on the Miller Time Podcast, available during the NBA season on nuvo.net. He’s also an account exec with our lovely publication.)
would cross almost immediately after I some reason. It. Was. Awful. checked in. The big man let out a gruesome howl Hill had somehow dribbled out of as he crumbled and skidded into the (Editor’s note: NUVO’s Roy Hobbson a double team and across half court, fetal position near the free-throw line, has lived the dream of every young Hoothundering directly at me at a worriwhere he remained motionless for a mosier basketball fan — he played Division some speed. All I wanted to do was foul ment. Is he dead? OH GOD, HE’S DEAD! 1 college ball in the state of Indiana. and get us the ball back and hopefully He was, of course, not dead. Everyone Unfortunately, the school he went to was, take my first-ever shot. in the stadium knew exactly what had um, small. This is his story.) happened and who had It was all any of us done it. It was not amwanted, really. Because ur coach decided to clear the ALL I WANTED biguous. Did I want to just in the dreary Land of bench with about three minutes to crawl under the scorer’s Garbage Time — my TO DO WAS FOUL play. That meant I was checking table and live out the rest home country! — shootAND GET US into my first-ever college basketball of my days in hiding? YOU ing a shot is the Holy game, but only because we were losBET I DID! Was it still kind Grail. It is our Everything. THE BALL BACK ing by about 20 or 30 points and it was (We are not a prideful AND HOPEFULLY of funny? Oh, yeah. Even determined that I couldn’t make things or skilled people!) There Florida players were TAKE MY FIRST- the much worse. And that was mostly true, stifling laughter, because is nothing too shameful EVER SHOT. I think. I was not, after all, carrying a seeing a fat man laid low or dangerous or illegal firearm or leprosy, so why not? by a groin-shot is never that we wouldn’t do in We were a bad team getting walloped NOT funny, ever! the pursuit of a shot by a very good Florida Gators team in Anyway, that is how the first six seconds attempt, up to and including trying to their hellishly hot/loud/angry O’Connell foul a speeding War Machine specifiof my college basketball career began. Center, a 12,000-seat pressurized popcally designed to clear the battlefield of corn bag of violence and wild-eyed, reddebris and human life. The last thing I The eternal 15-seed neck’d lunatics. The last regular season remember: Why didn’t you assholes foul I played at Valpo. And IUPUI. And game I had played in was at Park Tudor, him while he was being double-teamed Ball State and McNeese State and WilI think. This was not that. and standing still? This is bullshit. liam & Mary and Hofstra and Mercer Florida had been to the Final Four Understand: I was not trying to and Vermont and Cal State Northridge, the year before and they were expected take a charge. No, that would’ve been although not really. Not at all. I played at to return. Their best players were Dan rude and unacceptable, at any level of Cross and Andrew DeClercq. Their basketball, regardless of circumstances; none of those schools. I played at all of those schools. (I am Schrödinger’s Unmost notable player, however, was taking a charge in Garbage Time (or athletic Backup 2-Guard!) I played at Dametri Hill — or “Da Meat Hook” if during open gyms) is severely frowned every school you’ve instinctively crossed you recall, if you’re some weirdo diehard upon by everyone, including the Anout of the 2-vs-15 game in your NCAA fan of mid-’90s SEC basketball. He was cient Prophets, and it’s a crime punbrackets, because every single one of listed at 6'7", 340 lbs., but numbers ishable by face-punching. (Leviticus those programs is basically the same. are stupid liars sometimes, unable or 19:7). Rather, I took a They are the same in that they’re ALL unwilling to convey vicious swipe at the on the broke-ass side of the chasm bethe real truth of the ball from a reasonPLAYERS WERE tween the high-profile Florida Gators of matter. Sure, a nuably safe distance as the college basketball world and every merical “weight” can STIFLING LAUGHTER, he sped by, hoping to other Division I team in the country be assigned to an BECAUSE SEEING A catch a piece of the you don’t see playing on ESPN every apartment complex, FAT MAN LAID LOW ball, but more likely week. The Dukes and the Kentuckys for example, or a to catch a piece of his BY A GROIN-SHOT and the other billion-dollar-generating drug store — but if giant arm. As it was, I programs spend their Thanksgivings either of those things IS NEVER NOT caught zero percent of playing in Maui or Puerto Rico or the grew legs and backthe basketball, as well FUNNY, EVER! high-roller room at the Atlantis in the screened you at high as zero percent of his Bahamas. Such a fancy playcation in a velocity, you would giant arm. tropical paradise was never in the cards not quibble over details. You would I did, however, catch 120 percent of for us. Rather, I vividly remember our be nearly dead and super-pissed that Da Meat Hook’s giant ball sack. team spending Thanksgiving my fresha teammate did not call out the backI can still hear its distinct, concussive man year crammed into our assistant screen, but you would not be contemsound – a deep and disturbing THHcoach’s shitty apartment eating Arby’s plating the exact mass of the thing that HWWUUDD, like a pneumatic nail gun and watching some bootleg VHS tape of flattened you all to hell. piercing a fully inflated tire from point Demolition Man. Such was Dametri Hill. Our paths blank range — a tire filled with soup for
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It was everything I imagined the Division I life being, only the complete and utter opposite. That Thanksgiving dinner I mentioned consisting of Arby’s curly fries and Tang painted a truly grim picture, yes — but that was rock bottom. It would get better. LOL! JK! It would not get better. It would get a great deal worse. Twice a year the cold reality of our plight would rear its ugly head and slug us in the gut with billy clubs, billy clubs made of shame. Because twice a year, our athletic director would round us up for our Semiannual Fundraising Telethon, where we’d cold-call It was certainalumni and boosters and random townly not the glamorous life I had ies and hit them up for cash. There we’d envisioned when I signed my letter of in- sit, in some depressing conference room tent to play there. Because 18-year-olds with 20 telephones and 20,000 numbers are fucking idiots and don’t know any to harass. We’d be huddled up like some better, I remember thinking I’d struck sorry-ass gang of orphaned bootshines the basketball equivalent of an episode in a Charles Dickens novel — all dirty of Entourage: and probably suffering from black lung AT LONG LAST, I AM A DIVISION I — begging strangers to donate to our BASKETBALL PLAYER. Unimaginable continued survival. The phone calls perks & co-eds will flow like Powerade, reflected this bleak truth: and we will stay only in the plushest “G’d evening, sir — my name is Roy Four Seasons —never the questionable Hobbson, and I’m the 37th-string point ones. Nike will outfit us handsomely and guard for your Fightin’ [REDACTED]s! chartered jets will ferry us to and from Say, mister, can you spare a few bucks so our destinations, and those jets will be that our team can buy basketball shoes filled with rich mahogany and fine liand also food?” quors. We will dine like wealthy shipping Was it demoralizing and awful? Totally. merchants and otherwise bask in the But was it necessary? Sadly, yes. Absodignified glow of the Division I Life. lutely. We came to have no delusions As it turned out, our program continu- about that. Such is life at the not-UConn ously teetered on the levels of college basbrink of bankruptcy. ketball — the levels I quickly learned that clawing like hell all SAY, MISTER, CAN this wasn’t Louisville season to get that covYOU SPARE A FEW or Wisconsin or Michieted No. 16 or 15 or 14 gan State I was playing BUCKS SO THAT seed and the opportufor — this was a very OUR TEAM CAN BUY nity to lose to Syracuse mid-major univeror Kansas by 92 points. BASKETBALL SHOES sity facing the same That mere chance to AND ALSO FOOD? economic challenges get humiliated is our that EVERY OTHER National Champimid-major does. We onship. That is not an exaggeration. It stayed in dilapidated Ho-Jos & Motel was ours when we played and it will be 6s and various roadside shitbaskets, IUPUI-Fort Wayne’s this year — and also sometimes four to a room. We bussed Montana State’s and Mount Saint Mary’s anywhere within a 38-hour drive, and and Kent State’s and every other team if we ever did get to eat, it’d be at some you’re only vaguely aware of, and who gas station or a gross Golden Corral. certainly won’t win. Our uniforms were made of reclaimed Unless, of course, they do. rawhide, I think, and breathed as well as Because that’s it, really. That is the a COPD patient. Handsome, they were beauty of college basketball: That 0.0004 not. Oh — and pitifully, we once played percent chance that Eastern Kentucky or an in-conference, regular season game Colgate or Campbell beats Duke in the in a makeshift hotel ballroom with ZERO first round and becomes national godspectators in attendance. (That’s a long damn heroes — for eternity. l story for another time.) NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 10.07.15 - 10.14.15 // HOOPS PREVIEW H3
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Who’s going to be hard-to-beat this hardwood season? We asked Kent Sterling, host of The Kent Sterling Show, the p.m. drive time program on CBS Sports 1430 AM here in Indy, to share his wisdom.
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Indiana has put together two disappointing seasons after back-to-back NCAA Sweet Sixteen trips, and the frustration among Hoosier fans is growing. Tom Crean welcomes back a potent backcourt, but dismissed three front court players with experience in favor of McDonald’s All-American Thomas Bryant and Michigan graduate transfer Max Bielfeldt. Success in Bloomington won’t be determined by the offense, which should continue to be prolific, but by the defense. Indiana has had great difficulty over the past two seasons stopping anyone from scoring virtually at will. The most interesting battle in Bloomington will be between those who pine for Crean to fail so a new chapter can be written and those committed to Crean as the right leader at the right time at IU to lead the Cream & Crimson back to national prominence.
PURDUE
A couple of years ago, coach Matt Painter was in trouble. Having told Missouri officials he would take the Tigers job before backing out to stay at Purdue burned some equity, and a regression in Boilermaker success following the graduation of NBA bound JaJuan Johnson, E’Twaun Moore, and Robbie Hummel — all part of his great 2007 recruiting class — didn’t help. Boilermaker Basketball has risen from the ashes, and the team appears ready to contend for a Big Ten Championship and their first trip to the Final Four since 1980.
Led by seniors Rapheal Davis and A.J. Hammond and freshman (2015 Indiana Mr. Basketball) Caleb Swanigan, Painter might have the most mature and talented group in decades. The biggest question mark is at point guard where Johnny Hill, a senior transfer from Texas-Arlington, will try to replace Jon Octets, a senior transfer himself last season.
NOTRE DAME
Pat Connaughton and Jerian Grant are gone, but Zach Auguste and Demetrius Jackson return for Mike Brey’s Fighting Irish of Notre Dame, so all is not lost from the best team in Brey’s 16th season at the helm. ND’s Elite Eight loss to Kentucky might have been college basketball’s best game last year, and it might have to suffice to remind Irish faithful that greatness is possible under Brey in South Bend. The ACC is a grind that will likely not allow the Irish to replicate its outstanding 32-6 season, but regressing to the mean isn’t too bad for Notre Dame — a team that has regularly won between 2025 games under Brey.
BUTLER
Butler Basketball bounced back last year after second-year coach Brandon Miller stepped aside for reasons that remain mysterious. Chris Holtmann took the reins of the Bulldog program, and regained the mojo that had been absent during Miller’s only season as coach. Butler’s race for a Big East Championship last season (despite modest expectations) might turn out to have been more enjoyable than what lies ahead — expectations are very high.
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The Bulldogs are talented, experienced and have people talking about another memorable ride through one of the best basketball conferences in America. Kellen Dunham and Roosevelt Jones are very skilled seniors and Kelan Martin and Tyler Wideman have a year under their belts. The new name that will be on the lips of Bulldogs fans is Tyler Lewis, a very athletic point guard who sat out last year after transferring from NC State. Last year, Butler was a sweet story of underdogs overachieving in the face of adversity. The narrative will be different this year, but the result might ultimately be more satisfying.
INDIANA STATE
Greg Lansing can flat-out coach, and he’s going to have some experienced and talented Sycamores to lead during the 2015-2016 season. His top three scorers are back, and Indiana All-Star Bronson Kessinger joins the front court to provide matchup problems for the rest of the Missouri Valley Conference. Khristian Smith and Devonte Brown are seniors who scored 10.5 and 11.9 points per game, and Brenton Scott chipped in 11.4. There is nothing easy about succeeding in the very balanced MVC, but the alternate losses and wins that marked the last 13 games on the Sycamores’ schedule in 2015 from January 21 through the end of the season should feature more wins in 2016. The question at the end of this season won’t be whether the very well respected Lansing is the right guy for the Indiana State job, but whether the Sycamores can find a way to keep him.
IUPUI
Jason Gardner is going to enjoy a better second season than he did during his first leading the Jaguars. Last year’s 10-21 record was not an indication of the progress made during the season, nor the improvement made during an off-season of hard work by those returning. No Jaguar averaged double figures in scoring, but three of the top six scorers are back, and junior transfer Nick Osborne is expected to contribute in the frontcourt. Darell Combs has transferred from Eastern Michigan and will help as well. It will take time for IUPUI to chip away at the stranglehold the Dakota teams have had in the Summit League, but with every diamond in the rough Gardner finds in area high schools and transfers from other programs, they get closer and closer.
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arol Nguyen is probably one of the youngest filmmakers that you will meet at Heartland this year. She is 17 and has now won the high school film category twice and a runner up. Her short films are not just a hobby, they are her days at school and hopefully her career. Nguyen attends Tomoko art school in Toronto, the same place where her sister (a visual artist) gathered her education. “I wanted to enter the school but I didn’t know what arch I should do,” says Nguyen. “I am not very good at singing, dancing, acting.” Film was one of the few specialties that didn’t require much prior knowledge. “I am just incredibly lucky that I got in the program and it was right for me,” says Nguyen. The school that she goes to alternates between filming and film theory each
week, while balancing all of her other classes every other day. For the piece that has won at Heartland, This Home is Not Empty, she spent every day from 3:10 until midnight building the set for the small scale house that is featured in the three minute film. The story opens with a phone off the hook in a living room. There are things shattered on the floor and it’s clear that the all white house is abandoned. “I use very little cuts in the film because I want to accentuate anxiousness and tenseness,” says Nguyen. The camera zooms out and the viewer can see that it’s a small scale model. A human hand cuts in and start to adjust things, eventually burning the paper house down. “I had worked with paper before,” says Nguyen. “I have come to find that in all of my films there is a common theme of control and lack of power ... When I work with people I am trying to find that power, where with objects it
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— an essential component for people trying to make a living in an industry still working to establish itself. So I was impressed to find that Huber Wineries is filling their bottles with things grown on the Huber family farm. Not only does it lead to more variety among vintages and bottles, but it requires much more space and resources. Huber’s is a gigantic operation, sprawling across 550 acres of Southern Indiana farmland that includes not only grapes,
but apples, pumpkins, peaches, Christmas trees and an enormous compound of retail and event space. That’s before you even get to the production facilities. The huge diversity of the business ensures that people are coming in yearround, and that means less feast-andfamine fluctuations of business for the Huber family. They still own and operate the winery and farm, as they have since the first Hubers immigrated from BadenBaden, Germany in 1843. You can tell that a whole bunch of Huber kids work in the winery by the unusually high number of young, fresh-faced blonde people walking around the production facility. Therein lies the secondary benefit of the diverse farm: Different kinds of seasonal farm work means the Huber >>>
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<<< family gets to provide more work throughout the year, from event staff in spring to harvest help in the fall. They need a lot of help loading all that fruit and juice into the fermentation tanks, and the pressing room was in high gear with people loading and cleaning out equipment on a constant rotation. There’s something a little disorienting about pulling up to different grape varietals through the dizzying rows upon rows of grapevines, like maybe our bus drove through a black hole and spat us out in a weirdly flat part of chilly NorCal. But as we drove through the farm on the back of a flatbed, the scale of the operation starts to hit when you drive through orchard-size patches of peach trees, then blueberry bushes, all hemmed in by grapes where the airflow is optimal. As a result, Starlight Distillery, Huber’s liquor-producing arm, produces an enormous variety of fruit-based bottles. Their line of infusions takes the liquor distilled from the fruit juice and infuses it back with the fresh juice. They hit the palate as a massive whack to the mouth of fruit, in which the alcohol fades to the background. They
also feature a formidable lineup of brandies and ports made from peaches, apples, blueberries as well as from grapes. For those of you that have wholly written off all Indiana wineries, first of all, shame on you, and second, start with these. They might be the thing that changes your kir royale game forever, either blended with your own favorite dry sparkling or the Cuvee Blanc that is made in-house. And I promise they have a bottle of dry or semi-sweet wine that will win you over to the Indiana winery lovefest I now have going on in my own bar. Not a wine drinker? Easy. You can still support family-owned Indiana liquor production by grabbing a bottle of their vodka, gin or grappa. But long before you do any of that, you should load the kids up in a car with a sober driver and head down to Starlight for an afternoon of tasting, apple and pumpkin picking, cheese eating and cider drinking. While you’re in the tasting room, ask them to give you a sip of something you wouldn’t normally gravitate to. I found myself surprised by the care with which the Hubers distill and bottle the flavors of their farm, and I think you probably will, too. n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 10.07.15 - 10.14.15 // FOOD 25
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Sonny Vincent was playing in New York City when punk was in its purest, most relevant form. Before Legs McNeil was selling Please Kill Me T-shirts and before Lisa Kristal was in charge of the CBGB brand, he played places like Max’s Kansas City alongside bands like Suicide, The Cramps and Teenage Jesus & The Jerks. His band The Testors was involved with a stable of artists that would go on to influence the Bowery and beyond. The Testors released a 7” (Together/Time Is Mine) and would go on to tour nationally with the Dead Boys. Guitarist Cheetah Chrome brought to New York the remnants of his foray with Rocket From The Tombs connecting the dots between the Cleveland sound and New York. The Testors would eventually call it quits in 1980, though Vincent has continued to play regularly. Throughout the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, Vincent played in several groups, including some with Chrome. Now 50 years later, Vincent reunited onstage with the original members of The Testors to celebrate the (now nonexistent) Max’s Kansas City. The Testors’ Complete Recordings (1976-1979) were released last year on Alien Snatch Records. Vincent released a new album, Spiteful, featuring a new super group including Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols, Rat Scabies of The Damned, and Steve MacKay of The Stooges. Vincent’s career is laden with musicians that were integral in defining punk, and he himself has made a point to champion original punk energy. We chatted Sonny up before his show at State Street Pub this weekend. Find more on page 34.
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GIRLS ROCK INDY Cost: Varies, but between $50-100 for classes. Workshop cost varies Rehearsal details: “Classes are currently six sessions, with hopes of 10 sessions in the spring. We also offer some Saturday intensive workshops that last five hours,” says executive director Twinkle Van Winkle. Frequency: “Mondays and Wednesdays currently. We have classes scheduled several days after school during the fall, and our beginner intensive drum workshop is Oct. 10; for adults Nov. 14,” Van Winkle says.
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Geared toward: “Our programming is almost entirely family-friendly and varies depending event. We host a Tiny Tots Rock! music class for kids ages 0-6 first Saturday of the month and also have some adult-only events planned coming up.” Concert Venue: “Our headquarters in the Murphy Arts Center is our venue. We hold classes, events, workshops, concerts and we are on every First Friday,” says Van Winkle. Advantages: “The advantage to our programming is to offer opportunities to young kids to learn an instrument at a lower cost. We want to help all kids experience music, no matter what their financial background. We feel that this is key in our mission to create positive social change within our community.” Van Winkle continues: “Our events are geared mainly towards young girls and women, but we are expanding our reach to include families, boys and girls and others. We value diversity.“ Proudest moment: ”Sitting in our first ever guitar instruction class with four 8-year-olds while they asked questions and tuned up their guitars, seeing the excitement and joy for the opportunity.” Future plans: “We’ll have an expanded class and workshop schedule come spring. We also look forward to offering a low-cost recording studio option to help curtail our expenses. [It will also help] provide needy kids with instruments and to offer scholarships based on financial need.“ The Murphy Arts Center, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 214, 643-0233, girlsrockindy.org
SCHOOL OF ROCK CARMEL Cost: $290 per month Geared toward: Elyse Causey, general manager says, “Fall 2015 season begins week of September 20th, ends with performances weekend of January 15-17. Intermediate to advanced performance groups for Fall include: Steely Dan (Mondays); Arena Rock (Tuesdays); Iron Maiden vs. Judas Priest (Wednesdays); Top of the Rock (Thursdays); Southern Rock (Thursdays). “Groups also available for younger beginners aged 8-12 (Rock 101), older beginners aged 12-18, and an adult program.” Frequency: “One private lesson each week, one group rehearsal each week; program goes year-round with three seasons a year.” Geared toward: “Intermediate to advanced shows made up of kids aged 12-18; beginner groups available for younger beginners (aged 8-12) and older beginners (aged 12-18).” Concert venue: “Varies. Past venues include: Hard Rock Cafe, Deluxe at The Old National Centre, Latitude 360 Indianapolis, The Irving Theater, Wolfie’s Grill, Three D’s Pub & Cafe, Barrio, Soho Cafe, The Grove Haus.” Advantages: “We have a unique approach that is all about inspiring students,” says Causey. “We take kids from the lesson room to the stage. Kids performing live on stage in front of audiences from 100-200 to even 300 people is an incredibly inspiring experience, and helps develop students not only musically, but also helps develop confidence, teamwork, the value of practice, and the list goes on.“ Proudest moment: “There’s been so many. Probably one of the most recent was this last weekend at our final summer shows, a Tribute to Frank Zappa show,
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SAM ASH: ASH ROCK Cost: $15 per week (plus one-time $25 registration fee for new students) Rehearsal details: “Bands meet once per week for an hour. Sessions run usually four, six, or eight weeks. Each band will perform at least once, but usually twothree times, within a typical session,” says Preston Nash, lesson coordinator. Geared toward: “We have youth bands and adult bands. There’s no age restriction as long as the person wants to ROCK.” Concert venue: “Our bands naturally play on the performance stage in the Sam Ash store, but that’s hardly all. Other regular venues include Ben & Ari’s, Three D’s, Birdy’s and The Yard Line. [Our] bands have played many more places, including the St. Lawrence Festival, the Indianapolis Repertory Theater, Sabbatical, the Emerson, the Hoosier Dome, charity events, live radio broadcasts and more.” Advantages: “We put together bands, not just a collection of people playing songs. There’s a big difference. And in addition to learning and playing covers, most of our bands write and record original songs. Our bands learn about the music business, copyrighting songs, marketing, and more.” Experience: “The first ASH ROCK band started in March 2012. We currently have 19 active bands, six adult Generations bands, and 13 youth bands. Roughly 200 people have been in an ASH ROCK band since the program began. “ Proudest moment: “One very special moment for me was putting together an ‘all-star’ ASH ROCK line-up to play the open house for ArtMix, a special needs school Downtown, of which one of the ASH ROCK members attends,” says Preston Nash. “This show was, for me, the shining example of how this program is about much more than just playing rock songs.”
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GUITARWORKS: BAND BUILDERS Cost: $175 per session Rehearsal details: “Five sessions annually, one-hour rehearsals on Sundays” Geared toward: “Ages 7-? Only requirement is to be willing to practice.” Concert Venue: The Guitarworks Stage Advantages: “Students will get real life band instruction from professional musicians that have playing for over 25 years,” John Gray, principle instructor, says. “I have an equal background in rock bands, jazz bands, blues bands, etc. As well as being a classically trained musician and having group instruction experience. We have a great stage and sound system, too.” Proudest moment: “The bands have performed some epic songs in the past, including ‘YYZ,’ ‘Thriller,’ ‘I Am The Walrus’ and David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’ (coming soon to a stage near you).” Gray continues: “Personally, when I saw my son perform on three different instruments during a session.” Future plans: “I expect to keep growing by continuing to put bands together and getting them gigs out in the real world. We also plan to have a Band Builders stage at some major events next year.” 996 S. State Road 135 (Greenwood), 885-1510, guitarworks.in
KINGSTON’S ROCK COLLECTIVE Cost: $500 Rehearsal details: “Saturday and Sundays in 90-minute sessions for six rehearsals, and five 30-minute private lessons,” according to coach Tom Scott. Frequency: four-five sessions a year Geared toward: “Children to adults. No requirements, just a love of music” Concert venue: “The main performance room at Kingston’s Music Showcase,” says Scott.
Rocky Nash adds: “We have had so many quiet or shy students explode like total rockstars when they perform! Aside from the obvious entertainment aspect of that, it is absolutely magical to see them feel so confident and sure of where they belong... Which is certainly on that stage!”
Advantages: “High-end rehearsal room, no pressure to purchase from a store, instructors are active performing musicians.”
Future plans: “My wish, and it’s slowly starting to come true,” says Preston Nash, ”is to see ASH ROCK in every Sam Ash Learning Center across the country. At some point I could see us in a bigger facility with a recording studio, performance hall, the whole shebang.”
Future plans: “In only our second session we have almost quadrupled our enrollment,” says Scott.
Proudest moment: “[Seeing the] students form bands and gigging outside of the program.”
LAUNCHPAD: ROCK PAD Advantages: “Our students get the full band experience,” says TJ Hampton, one of Launchpad’s chief rock n roll officers. “They rehearse, perform and record as a band. This is in contrast to other programs, where students play a small part in one themed performance and then begin again. In addition, the cost of our program is as much as 50 percent less than some other ‘rock schools.’ ”
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Cost: $79-$149 per month Rehearsal details: “Once per week, evenings, 60-90 min” Frequency: “Our bands gig together for the entire year.” Geared toward: 10-17 years old, via audition or invitation Concert venue: Various Proudest moment: “We had hundreds of people lined up to get student signatures on their brand new CDs at our album release show last November. It was a sold out event with standing room only. These weren’t teenagers who take music lessons. They were rock stars,” says Hampton. Future plans: “We are planning to expand our current location and nearly double the capacity of our lesson program and Rock Band,” says Hampton. “Never before has it been easier to get a band out of the garage and onto the stage. Part of the rise of successful youth musicians in Indy has to be attributed to better access to quality programs. With talented coaches fostering growth in these young players this trend is bound to continue.” 301 S Center St. (Plainfield), 721-7775, launchpadindy.com
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BRENT & CO (D.C.), YOUNG KINGDOM, RICHARD CAUDLE. Doors @ 8, show @9. $5.
Thu 10/08
SHIFTY DIGITS, 3AM BLUES BAND, SPEED BIRD, YONA. Doors @ 8, Show at 9. $5.
Fri 10/09
DAVE & ROB’S 14-YEAR MELODY INN ANNIVERSARY PARTY w/ PINKY DOODLE
POODLE (Tokyo, Japan), TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS TRIBUTE BAND, JAY ELLIOTT of Stereo Deluxe, COMEDIAN DAVE DUGAN and THE COUSIN BROTHERS. Doors @7, Show @ 7:30. $7. Sat 10/10
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Sun 10/11
DAN TEDESCO (Iowa), APPLE & THE MOON (Dayton). Doors @ 8. Show @ 9. $5.
BENEFIT FEATURING BOTTOMS UP! BURLESQUE and music by GNFNR (Guns and Roses Tribute) and THE MESSENGERS. Doors @ 9, Show @10. $7.
Mon 10/12
CHOPPED LIVER MAGAZINE PRESENTS METAL NIGHT W/ SHE WALKS WITH NO LEGS (CT), THE ABERRATION (VT), ANARCATECTURE and MALEVOLENT SPIRITS. Doors@ 8, Show @9. $5. Tue 10/13
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ead singer Brittany Paris, a.k.a. B., is a tattoo artist by day, rock star by night. I can relate. Students also call me B., a.k.a. Dr. B., and I am a professor by day, music journalist by night. Which is not even close, come to think of it, and Brittany is much cooler. Also, Brittany can sing. Really sing. You don't even want to hear me jingle. Ever. Her cat jumps on her head in the middle of the interview. We laugh and then get serious. And then we laugh some more. This is why it's fun to interview musicians. They get it. They know when to take things seriously and when not to. "We didn't always take things seriously, though," says Jared Paris, Brittany's husband and ForeverAtLast's drummer. "We formed in 2008, played around town in Indiana and Illinois, played just to play, but we only got serious toward the end of 2010 and into 2011." It paid off. Victory Records signed ForeverAtLast in December 2014, and they're hitting the road for an intense two-week, six-state tour in honor of their new album Ghosts Again, the follow-up to their debut February to February. The band may be classified as Christian pop punk, but personal influences range from Taking Back Sunday, Paramore, Jimmy Eat World and Alkaline Trio to classics like Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. "Ghosts Again was finished in February of this year. We mixed and mastered for three weeks in Atlanta, and we're proud of the outcome," says Jared. "And I love that part the most. I enjoy everything about music, but that mixing
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and mastering part, where I can add the little extras and make certain parts pop. I love that part. "We're always writing," says Brittany, "but I have to admit I like the demo process the best, odd as it may sound. The initial design of the song and the sound, the direction it takes, the feel of it when you think, 'This is it!' There is a satisfaction in the complete idea for me.
They’re hitting the road for intense two-week, six-state On the phone, both Brittany and Jared are full of life and laughter and energy. Their guitarist Jordan Vickers, a major player in the band since 2010, also helps write. “We've all been friends for a long time. We know each other well, which is one of the reasons I think we work together well, such as with our video. We loved the way it turned out [the video for Bad Blood]. It was a great shoot but I'm not sure we had
much to do with the end product. Luckily, we worked with a team who really knew their stuff. The video and song itself are about death and what it can teach you, such as the fact it's pointless to hold grudges because we know where it leads. The band will play the Hoosier Dome on Oct. 16. “Our home base for a long time was The Gear in Franklin. But when that closed,” Jared says, “we found our new home at the Dome. It was a no-brainer. We love the venue and they've been very supportive. We always thought we'd be bigger somewhere else, but for us, it's worked the other way, the right way. We have so much support here and we love getting asked for advice within our hometown. I feel we've set our personal standards high and others see that, too, but they know it's something that can be achieved within themselves, too.” Support is the name of the game. Victory Records says ForeverAtLast received large interest from UK rock press, and an they will be covering the band tour. extensively, with issues hitting streets next month. ForeverAtLast was voted by Alternative Press as one of the Bands You Need To Know 2015; so, the future is bright, at last, for ForeverAtLast. “I just hope we can continue the circle,” Jared says. “I know what our favorite bands have given us, what they've done for us. I know how, emotionally, they worked for me, made me feel — picked us up on a bad day, made good days even better. I want to be able to build our own fan base and do that same thing for them." n
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definitely a mixture of well-known and not-so-well-known tunes. The 9:30 set opened with “Nutville.” This galloping blues, mambo, jazz hybrid perked me up — I could not remember who wrote it. Same with “The Preacher” that closed the 7:30 set. I went home to learn about composer Horace Silver. No one told me to — it came organically. — FROM A JUNE REVIEW OF AVENUE INDY BY RITA KOHN Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave., $8, 21+ Jelly Roll, Emerson Theater, all-ages Levi Driskell, Tin Roof, 21+ Brent & Co., Young Kingdom, Richard Caudle, Melody Inn, 21+
POP Truslow, Shiny Penny, Veseria 9 p.m. Big news for Shiny Penny: the Kokomo pop band – formerly Shiny Penny and The Critical Shoes – is going on a long tour in celebration of their new album Wait, Don’t Hold. Their tour kicks of this week with Ohio’s Truslow and Indy’s Veseria. Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St., $5, 21+ Ensemble AMP, Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument, all-ages Gooch Palms, Louie Louie, Holy Sheets, Mr. Clit and the Pink Cigarettes, State Street Pub, 21+ Surveying the Damned, 5th Quarter Lounge, 21+ Comprador, Absonites, Dirtbike, White Rabbit Cabaret, 21+ I See Stars, For the Win, Alive in Standby, Emerson Theater, all-ages Ashley Monroe, The Vogue, 21+
Hayes Carll, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+
Speedbird, 3AM Blues Band, YONA, Melody Inn, 21+
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LABELS J Fernandez, Ted Tyro 8 p.m. Joyful artist and Chicagoan has new bedroom pop record Levels of Laughter to showcase at his record label’s home venue. It’s always good to see a JNR artist come home. Joyful Noise, 1043 Virginia Ave., all-ages
The Warrior Kings, Slippery Noodle Inn, 21+ All Good Things, Shoefly Public House, all-ages Mikaela Davis, Lauren Shera, The Hi-Fi, 21+ Pimps of Joytime, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+
White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect St., $15, 21+
Jesus Twin Record Spin 9 p.m. It’s a bring your own vinyl night at the State Street Pub. State Street Pub, 243 N. State Ave., prices vary, 21+ PARTIES Opal Fly and Kapow! Album Release Show 8 p.m. This Bloomington band placed in our first-ever Best of Bloomington readers poll, but you’re gonna have to wait until next week for the details. Feel sufficiently teased yet? Good. (They’re also releasing their debut album. Congrats!) Player’s Pub, 424 S. Walnut St. (Bloomington), $5, 21+ ROOTS
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The Kickback, Bent Rail, 21+ J Fernandez, Kevin Krauter, The Bishop (Bloomington), 18+ Soul Street Live, Tat Place Bar and Grill, 21+ Harpeth Hill, Tin Roof, 21+ Beats Antique: The Vogue, 21+
Blue Rising, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ Lee Brice, Murat Theatre at Old National Centre, all-ages J Fernandez, The Bishop (Bloomington), 18+ Paula Monsalve Quintet, The Chatterbox, 21+ Sworn IN, Emerson Theater, all-ages Adam Ezra Group, The Rathskeller, 21+ Sweet Honey in the Rock, Judson and Joyce Green Center for the Performing Arts, all-ages David Allan Coe,Outlaws and Moonshine, 8 Second Saloon, 21+ Ed Moey 2.0, 5th Quarter Lounge, 21+
SATURDAY DANCE Real Talk A line stretches out from the White Rabbit every time the A-Squared DJs and DJ Action Jackson roll into Effin’ Square for their second Saturday dance night Real Talk. Get there early
Joel Levi, James and The Drifters 9 p.m. Two batches of locals take over the Hi-Fi on Friday, with Anderson’s Joel Levi – now based in Nashville – headlining in support of his new album Rangeline. James and The Drifters hail from Huntington, and gig regionally – espect bluesy Americana with a hint of heartland rock.
LOCALS Art Adams, The Elixirs, MG and The Gas City Three, Hudson Hornet 8 p.m. Rockabilly legend Art Adams chatted with us about Elvis in a recent interview. Here’s his take: “ I was doing this music before I ever heard of Elvis. The first time I heard Elvis — and I don’t mean this disrespectfully because I do think he’s a great singer — but I remember driving to work listening to WIBC and they said “we’ve got a new artist coming up named Elvis Presley” and the song they played was “I Don’t Care If The Sun Don’t Shine.” I wasn’t impressed. I really wasn’t and if I listen to it now I’m still not impressed with that song. That was before Elvis found out what kind of voice he really had. When I heard it I thought we’re doing better stuff than that in the Rhythm Knights. Like I said, that’s no reflection on Elvis because I still think he’s one of the best singers that ever was. I went to see Elvis here the first time he came to Indianapolis. He was opening for Hank Snow. (Editor’s note: this was 1955 at the Lyric Theatre.) At that time Hank Snow had a six or seven piece band and they were all dressed in fancy Nudie suits. Hank was on top at that moment. Can you imagine Elvis coming out with this three-piece band trying to open for one of the biggest stars in country music? They booed Elvis. He just beat on his guitar, knocked about three strings off it and spit on the floor. They also booed him at the Grand Ole Opry. They probably would’ve booed me if I’d played there too.” 5th Quarter Lounge, 306 E. Prospect St., prices vary, 21+
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Scottish Highland Games and Festival, German Park, all-ages Drum Worshop: Beginners Intensive, Girls Rock Headquarters, all-ages ARToberfest, H.J.Ricks Centre for the Arts, all-ages Diarrhea Planet, Hoosier Dome, all-ages Erica Blinn and The Handsome Machine, The Rathskeller, 21+ IndySoul Music Series, The Hi-Fi, 21+ Wulfe Bros., Indiana Grand Casino, 21+
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ZO! featuring Carmen Rodgers, Bashiri Asad 9 p.m. Multi-instrumentalist and producer extraordinaire Lorenzo Ferguson is better known to soul music fans simply as Zo! Working under the name Zo! Ferguson has released a series of highly praised R&B albums in collaboration with vocalists ranging from Little Brother’s Phonte to indie-soul heavyweight Eric Roberson. On Saturday, Zo! will be backed by the Detroit-based Collective Peace and vocalist Carmen Rodgers. Indianapolis favorite Bashiri Asad will take on opener duties, making this a must-see show for any soul music fanatic. We have an interview with Zo! online at NUVO.net now. The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 4, $20, 21+ SceneSupport at Localmotion, Fletcher Place Arts and Books, all-ages BuDa Lounge Presents Pur the Company Burlesque, BuDa Lounge, 21+ Creeping Pink, American Cream, Cool Ghouls, State Street Pub, 21+ Gunar and The Grizzly Boys, 8 Seconds Saloon, 21+ Sandy Lomax 7 The Bill Myers Trio, Chatterbox, 21+
JAZZ Shawn Goodman 2 p.m. The Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation opens its Second Sunday Concert Series Oct. 11 at 2 p.m., featuring Shawn Goodman’s new group, SG4 Reinvented. Back by popular demand, clarinetist Shawn Goodman, a Yamaha Performing Artist and Butler Professor, grabbed national attention with her debut album, Not Benny’s Goodman (2013), a duo collaboration with the great jazz pianist Gary Walters. Goodman’s new group features Joel Tucker on guitar, Thomas Brinkley on bass and Kenny Phelps on drums. “I’m doing new types of music that I haven’t performed with my small groups in the past, like incorporating Middle Eastern themes and sounds, and R&B into my jazz repertoire, hence why I’m calling this group SG4 Reinvented,” said Goodman, adding, “Bring the family out for this free hour of music at the IHC.” The Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation, 6501 N. Meridian St., all-ages
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Q&AS Sonny Vincent, Black Cat Rebellion, Chives, Vin Zetro 8 p.m. Here’s a bit more from our Sonny Vincent interview from page 30: NUVO: Where all are you going on this tour? SONNY VINCENT: It’s mostly certain sections of the States, I just got done playing Goner Fest in Memphis, Tennessee. We went down south, and to North Carolina, and right now we’re in Rochester, New York and then we’ll be in Providence, Rhode Island. We’ll mainly be in the East. NUVO: You played Max’s 50th Anniversary recently — how was that? VINCENT: That was great, it was sold out. It was nice for me to play with the original lineup of Testors because you know, it was really special. I really enjoyed it, and now it’s kind of out of my system. I don’t think we’ll do any more but maybe, who knows. NUVO: What do you think of festivals like CBGB Fest, do you think that’s something you would ever want to play? VINCENT: I don’t really keep track of that stuff because nowadays those things are a little bit different than I think people would expect. I think people play those festivals that had never been to CBGB’s and it’s not a true CBGB’s fest. State Street Pub, 243 N. State Ave., prices vary, 21+ ROCK Girlpool, Eskimeaux, Told Slant 7 p.m. Haven’t checked
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Ed Schrader’s Music Beat Bottom Feeders, State Street Pub, 21+ Take That Tuesdays, Coaches Tavern, 21+
The Algorithm and Angel Vivaldi, Save Us From The Archon, Join The Dead, The Wise Man’s Fear, Ultra Kombo, Emerson Theater, all-ages
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Charlie Ballantine Band, Jazz Kitchen, 21+
Lazy, Sedcairn Archives, Bigcolour, State Street Pub, 21+
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Meat Wave, Chives, Alaska, Dirtbike, house venue unlisted, all-ages
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Making contact When I was a teenager, there was always the rumor that you could catch STDs from toilet seats. Now, I wonder, is it actually possible to catch any STDs just from contact with surfaces? SARAH: As enterprising, creative and guilty teenagers tend to do, this myth was created as a convenient excuse to cover the real reason all humans everywhere get STIs: because someone didn’t want someone else to know they’d had some sex they weren’t supposed to. While it may have spared some tense moments between spouses or parents and teenagers, it is not very helpful as a matter of public health. Unless you know of anyone who uses a toilet by first rubbing their genitals all over it, this is patently false. DR. D: Not unless they are actively part of sex and you are putting those objects in or around your genitals (like with sex toys). The toilet seat rumor is just that: a rumor. And unfortunately the rumor has sometimes been supported by well-meaning doctors who didn’t
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I’ve heard that lambskin condoms are coming back. Do they feel that much different? Why did they fall out of favor in the first place? SARAH: Listen, I don’t honestly know why anyone would use a lambskin condom over the standard latex unless they had an allergy. Here’s why: all animal membranes have little tiny micro-holes in them. They have to, as those controlled barriers of exchange allow the living tissue to, well, continue living. That means they make garbage barriers against any infectious disease, so you might keep the sperm away from the egg, but you will not keep the infection from the person. Sorry, Charlie.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): As I meditated on your astrological aspects, I had an intuition that I should go to a gem fair I’d heard about. It was at an event center near my home. When I arrived, I was dazzled to find a vast spread of minerals, fossils, gemstones, and beads. Within a few minutes, two stones had commanded my attention, as if they’d reached out to me telepathically: chrysoprase, a green gemstone, and petrified wood, a mineralized fossil streaked with earth tones. The explanatory note next to the chrysoprase said that if you keep this gem close to you, it “helps make conscious what has been unconscious.” Ownership of the petrified wood was described as conferring “the power to remove obstacles.” I knew these were the exact oracles you needed. I bought both stones, took them home, and put them on an altar dedicated to your success in the coming weeks. Taurus
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): George R. R. Martin has written a series of fantasy novels collectively called A Song of Ice and Fire. They have sold 60 million copies and been adapted for the TV series Game of Thrones. Martin says the inspiration for his master work originated with the pet turtles he owned as a kid. The creatures lived in a toy castle in his bedroom, and he pretended they were knights and kings and other royal characters. “I made up stories about how they killed each other and betrayed each other and fought for the kingdom,” he has testified. I think the next seven months will be a perfect time for you to make a comparable leap, Gemini. What’s your version of Martin’s turtles? And what valuable asset can you turn it into? Gemini
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): The editors of the Urban Dictionary provide a unique definition of the word “outside.” They say it’s a vast, uncomfortable place that surrounds your home. It has no ceiling or walls or carpets, and contains annoying insects and random loud noises. There’s a big yellow ball in the sky that’s always moving around and changing the temperature in inconvenient ways. Even worse, the “outside” is filled with strange people that are constantly doing deranged and confusing things. Does this description match your current sense of what “outside” means, Cancerian? If so, that’s OK. For now, enjoy the hell out of being inside. Cancer
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): We all go through phases when we are tempted to believe in the factuality of every hostile, judgmental, and random thought that our monkey mind generates. I am not predicting that this is such a time for you. But I do want to ask you to be extra skeptical toward your monkey mind’s fabrications. Right now it’s especially important that you think as coolly and objectively as possible. You can’t afford to be duped by anyone’s crazy talk, including your own. Be extra vigilant in your quest for the raw truth. Pisces
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Galway Kinnell’s poem “Middle of the Way” is about his solo trek through the snow on Oregon’s Mount Gauldy. As he wanders in the wilderness, he remembers an important truth about himself: “I love the day, the sun . . . But I know [that] half my life belongs to the wild darkness.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, Scorpio, now is a good time for you, too, to refresh your awe and reverence for the wild darkness — and to recall that half your life belongs to it. Doing so will bring you another experience Kinnell describes: “an inexplicable sense of joy, as if some happy news had been transmitted to me directly, by-passing the brain.” Scorpio
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The last time I walked into a McDonald’s and ordered a meal was 1984. Nothing that the restaurant chain serves up is appealing to my taste or morality. I do admire its adaptability, however. In cow-loving India, McDonald’s only serves vegetarian fare that includes deep-fried cheese and potato patties. In Israel, kosher McFalafels are available. Mexicans order their McMuffins with refried beans and pico de gallo. At a McDonald’s in Singapore, you can order McRice burgers. This is the type of approach I advise for you right now, Sagittarius. Adjust your offerings for your audience. Sagittarius
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You have been flirting with your “alone at the top” reveries. I won’t be surprised if one night you have a dream of riding on a Ferris wheel that malfunctions, leaving you stranded at the highest point. What’s going on? Here’s what I suspect: In one sense you are zesty and farseeing. Your competence and confidence are waxing. At the same time, you may be out of touch with what’s going on at ground level. Your connection to the depths is not as intimate as your relationship with the heights. The moral of the story might be to get in closer contact with your roots. Or be more attentive to your support system. Or buy new shoes and underwear. Capricorn
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I haven’t planted a garden for years. My workload is too intense to devote enough time to that pleasure. So eight weeks ago I was surprised when a renegade sunflower began blooming in the dirt next to my porch. How did the seed get there? Via the wind? A passing bird that dropped a potential meal? The gorgeous interloper eventually grew to a height of four feet and produced a boisterous yellow flower head. Every day I muttered a prayer of thanks for its guerrilla blessing. I predict a comparable phenomenon for you in the coming days, Aquarius. Aquarius
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Do you know about the ancient Greek general Pyrrhus? At the Battle of Asculum in 279 BCE, his army technically defeated Roman forces, but his casualties were so substantial that he ultimately lost the war. You can and you must avoid a comparable scenario. Fighting for your cause is good only if it doesn’t wreak turmoil and bewilderment. If you want to avoid an outcome in which both sides lose, you’ve got to engineer a result in which both sides win. Be a cagey compromiser. Virgo
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If I could give you a birthday present, it would be a map to your future treasure. Do you know which treasure I’m referring to? Think about it as you fall asleep on the next eight nights. I’m sorry I can’t simply provide you with the instructions you’d need to locate it. The cosmic powers tell me you have not yet earned that right. The second-best gift I can offer, then, will be clues about how to earn it. Clue #1. Meditate on the differences between what your ego wants and what your soul needs. #2. Ask yourself, “What is the most unripe part of me?”, and then devise a plan to ripen it. #3. Invite your deep mind to give you insights you haven’t been brave enough to work with until now. $4. Take one medium-sized bold action every day.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The coming days will be a favorable time to dig up what has been buried. You can, if you choose, discover hidden agendas, expose deceptions, see beneath the masks, and dissolve delusions. But it’s my duty to ask you this: Is that really something you want to do? It would be fun and sexy to liberate so much trapped emotion and suppressed energy, but it could also stir up a mind-bending ruckus that propels you on a healing quest. I hope you decide to go for the gusto, but I’ll understand if you prefer to play it safe. Pisces
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