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As part of NUVO’s runup to our 25th Anniversary Issue, we’re taking a look back over our last 25 years. We began last week, Oct. 1 — 25 weeks away from our birthday in March of 2015. This week we’re jumping back 10 years, to page five of our issue dated Oct. 6.

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In that issue, NUVO ran an opinion column penned by a teacher at the University of Indianapolis, Charles Guthrie, who was reacting to speeches by then-President George W. Bush as the incumbent was running for re-election against then-Senator John Kerry.

Mr. Guthrie wrote, in part:

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In these speeches I listen to, bumper stickertype declarations are made about the Iraq war in the name of freedom and national security by a man who could not possibly understand what he is saying. … Dying and killing at the very least deserve a much more subtle and complicated (and accurate) justification than our current leaders and those who support them are offering us.

The Indy Fuel open their regular season at the renovated Coliseum this month — it’s the return of pro hockey to Indy. By Ed Wenck/Photos by Michelle Craig

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On the very next page, our managing editor at the time, Jim Poyser, offered the following in a feature we called “Haiku News”:

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Same-sex marriage is now effectively legal in the state of Indiana.

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("Between analog and digital"), we offered alternate spellings for the name of Social Photography's founder and director. We should have stuck with Aaron Pierce, for that is his real name.

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BOB GARTON EDITORS@NUVO.NET Bob Garton served as president pro tempore of the Indiana Senate for 26 years, the longest legislative leadership

tenure in the state’s history. he first five letters in “civilization” give meaning and substance to the word. Being civil or practicing civility is critically important because it is appeal made, the offending senator is the foundation on which civilization is seated and liable to any censure or punbuilt. Today, civility seems to be a lost ishment the senate may deem proper. art, particularly among elected officials.

However, rules specifying a challenge In her book What’s A Nice of a senator’s integrity must be made Republican Girl Like Me Doing In The immediately before any other business ICLU?, Sheila Suess Kennedy, former is considered. director of the Indiana Civil Liberties Unfortunately, during the recent Union, summarized the significance 114th session during debate on a bill, of civility: “We cannot find common a senator challenged the integrity ground without civility and we cannot of the bill’s author. Both senators solve our problems without finding were Republicans. Apparently, other common ground.”

Today, the law-making process at every level is clouded by an atmoWhat is needed is a climate sphere of pervasive polarization and conof civility and mutual respect. stant conflict between the two political parties.

What is needed is a cliRepublican senators were stunned and mate of civility and mutual respect. A did not offer a challenge while presumwillingness to compromise is the soil of ably Democratic senators were enjoycommon ground in politics. ing the infighting.

Lack of civility in our society is not a A challenge could not be offered later. recent phenomenon. Over 30 years ago, An opportunity to enforce both the rules Dr. William Ouchi wrote Theory Z, a and civility was lost. The Senate missed fascinating management book explaina regrettable opportunity to enforce its ing how American business could meet rules. I doubt, though, if that loss will be the Japanese challenge. According to repeated in the future.

Ouchi, the secret was not technology, During the first 14 years of the 21st but a special way of managing people. century, political campaigns have He claimed we Americans had lost become nasty and negative. Political our sense of trust, our appreciation of consultants advise it’s the only way friendship, and our concern for one to win and, to candidates, winning another as individuals. is what campaigns are all about. The The legislature has rules governing result is winners carry this attitude into the legislative process. One of those office with them and the loss of civility rules requires civility, specifically; no and mutual respect result in governsenator shall impugn the motives of any ment gridlock. other senator. If any senator, speaking There is a pressing demand today for or otherwise transgresses the rules, any a thoughtful public discourse, of service senator may call the senator to order over selfishness, and ethical behavior and indicate the words to which there is over meandering morality. We don’t an objection. need politics of the left but politics of The senator called to order shall life. We don’t need politics of the right, immediately be seated, but he or she but politics of respect. may appeal the call to order. If the In short, America needs a new sense of appeal is seconded by another, an purpose, pride, and progress. Above all, immediate vote, without debate, will we need a renewed sense of civility. n be taken on the appeal. If denied or no

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DAN CARPENTER EDITORS@NUVO.NET Dan Carpenter is a freelance writer, a contributor to Indianapolis Business Journal and the author of Indiana Out Loud.

Super Bowl comes to town, and the next. he money from the Indianapolis We made guinea pigs of our neediest water-sewer utility sale is gone, and neighbors to partner with a vendor that rates are going up, as the city told us formerly employed state official Mitch would happen, sale or no sale.

Roob, and the biggest welfare beneficiaThe money from the Indianapolis ries therein will turn out to be lawyers. parking meter sale is gone, and rates As sold to us by then-Gov. Daniels, have risen and billable hours have the toll road deal was an exception and lengthened, with the collections flowing a steal. A stunning $3.8 billion up front; past city coffers to an outfit in Texas. and the way Daniels put it, any less-thanThe money from the Indiana Toll satisfactory performance by the operator Road lease is gone, and now the foreign would bounce the highway back to the consortium running it has declared state while we kept the money. bankruptcy, ominously struggling A few short years into the 75-year lease against low use combined with raised and disaster has struck. While I suppose tolls and much-criticized service. it’s possible we can take back the road The spectacular failure of IBM’s takeover of welfare eligibility determination, has the state before the Indiana What words of reassurance can the Supreme Court trying to scratch back tens of mildealmaker bestow from his new lions of taxpayer dollars.

Could you please tell office at Purdue University? us again, Mitch Daniels and Grover Norquist and the rest of you libertarian northern Indiana folks were so furious to luminaries, how privatization of basic “lose,” matters appear to be rather more government functions beats letting the government handle the work and control complicated, with various bondholders and lawyers and such weighing in. Who the revenue stream? is betting that adequate maintenance, I’m no economist, Lord knows; and I’ll reasonable tolls and sustainable volume concede there are examples of sensible will emerge from this unsettling set of and successful outsourcing of public circumstances? What words of reassurworks. But how many times, in Indiana ance can the dealmaker bestow from his in particular, do we have to see sell-offs new office at Purdue University? of sensitive amenities for quick bucks Truth be told, it is not bold entreprove pound-foolish before we get the preneurial thinking, but rather prickly idea the private entity saw us coming? politics, that spurs many privatization And how many tax dollars must we pay schemes. Politicians don’t want to arm to unload responsibilities ($1.37 billion, with a B, would have gone to IBM) before their opponents by raising tolls and rates, even when those raises are long we question the conservative Gospel that overdue, as they were in the case of the business knows better than bureaucrats? toll road and Indy parking meters. So Friends of political leaders owe forthey erect a shield and bribe the voters tunes to the public’s buy-in to private in the bargain. Unfortunately, the mornsector superiority – and its lust for wads ing after can come around quickly. of upfront money. We believe governTake the toll road. Please. The $3.8 ment ruined the railroads, when in fact billion is gone and the state, now broke government salvaged the railroads after highway-wise, is committed to serving government enabled the railroads to ruin the highway lobby by finishing I-69 in themselves. We routinely make a joke southern Indiana. A plan to make I-69 a of what may be the world’s finest postal toll road collapsed in the face of fervid service. We fixed streets in time for the opposition. Oh, what a tangled web we Super Bowl with money from Citizens Energy and we’ll be paying when the next weave. n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 10.08.14 - 10.15.14 // VOICES 5

WHAT HAPPENED? Indiana native held by ISIS When ISIS militants released the video showing the murder British aid volunteer Alan Henning, they also revealed Indianapolis native Peter Edward Kassig as their next intended victim.

Kassig was working on a project to bring medical aid and food supplies to the Syrian people when he was captured in October of last year.

Kassig is a former U.S. Army Ranger who fought in the Iraq war and was honorably discharged for medical reasons. He later trained as an EMT and returned to the Middle East to provide humanitarian aid. Kassig’s parents were aware of his capture but remained publicly silent about it until the recent video showing him as the next victim if American airstrikes against the Islamic State don’t cease. Ed and Paula Kassig released a YouTube video Saturday pleading for their son’s release.

— AMBER STEARNS Obama visits Princeton, Indiana President Barack Obama spent the afternoon of National Manufacturing Day Friday addressing students, businesspersons, and local factory workers at the Millennium Steel Company – a main supplier for the Toyota production plant located next door. Standing on a platform in front of large steel coils, the president spoke primarily about the state of the nation’s manufacturing industry in an informal questionand-answer style session. Obama discussed the progress the country is making in terms of the unemployment rate, job growth, salaries and the minimum wage. But he said more is needed and he called for a higher national minimum wage and more spending on the nation’s infrastructure.

Pence, Obama talk healthcare on tarmac Gov. Mike Pence snagged President Barack Obama just steps off Air Force One on Friday and asked for help winning federal approval of the state’s plan to expand health care to low-income Hoosiers.

Pence had asked for a private meeting about the issue and instead got about five minutes on the tarmac with the president.

His office called it a “brief, candid and substantive discussion” about the state’s proposal to extend the Healthy Indiana Plan to include more Hoosiers.

Pence asked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to approve an expansion of the state’s Healthy Indiana Plan, which the Republican governor has dubbed HIP 2.0. But the Obama administration has questions about the proposal, particularly requirements that participants share in the cost of their care.

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U.S. Supreme Court rejects cert, making gay marriage legal in Indiana

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n NFL season, from pre-season to the Superbowl, is 26 weeks.

The normal gestation period for a human baby is about 40 weeks. In the middle of those two time frames, at 33 weeks, the issue of gay marriage traveled through the federal court system and became legal in Indiana.

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the appeals filed by Indiana and four other states asking the court to review the constitutionality of the states’ gay marriage laws. By rejecting the appeals, the decisions made in the Courts of Appeal and the District Courts are now binding as law. In Indiana, The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Court agreed the law banning same-sex marriage and the recognition of out-of-state same sex-marriages is unconstitutional.

“The effect of the Supreme Court of the United States rejecting cert is – it’s over. Same sex marriage is now legal in Indiana,” said Ken Falk, Legal Director for the ACLU of Indiana. “There are no other courts for the state to appeal to.

The Constitution can’t be amended and no legislation can change it.”

A round of applause from several of the plaintiffs in the three cases that started the conversation and court battle erupted following Falk’s statement.

The ACLU of Indiana, Lambda Legal, and a few groups of attorneys from several smaller Indiana law firms filed federal suits in March 2014 challenging the constitutionality of Indiana’s law.

They saw their work come to a triumphant end on Monday. “A federal case working it’s way through the system to the Supreme Court on average takes three to four years,” said Falk. “These cases and this issue traveled at lightning speed.”

The attorneys and plaintiffs gather at the ACLU offices Monday to celebrate and reflect on the Supreme Court’s action. “I never thought this day would come,” said IMPD Officer Teresa Welborn. “I was home sick with the flu when my wife [Beth Piette] called me crying and told me. I didn’t feel well, but I knew I had to get up

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Plaintiffs and attorneys in Indiana’s same sex marriage lawsuits gave a champagne toast during a victory party Monday evening.

for this.” Welborn and Piette were among five couples employed in public safety roles in Lee vs. Abbott et. al. that sued for the right to have their spouses recognized for their public service pensions. The other cases, Baskin vs. Bogan et. al. and Fugii vs.

The Commissioner for the Indiana Department of Revenue et. al., sought to have marriages legally solemnized in other states recognized and for the right to have same sex marriages legally solemnized here in Indiana.

Welborn, like the other plaintiffs and attorneys, thought for sure the U.S. Supreme Court would grant cert to at least one of the gay marriage cases put forth. Other certs had been filed from Virginia, Utah, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin. The court’s rejection of all five cases was a shock to everyone. But, while the Indiana plaintiffs filed a cert response to the state’s request asking the Supreme Court to make a final decision, no one on their side was in any way disappointed with the high court’s rejection. “It is a very, very good day,” Falk said.

Not such a good day for the GOP A very large and clear rainbow appeared in the sky over the northside of Indianapolis, Fishers and Carmel Monday morning. Many people tweeted pictures of it, including State Senator Mike Delph. While the rainbow is considered a religious symbol of God’s promise to Noah to never again destroy the earth and its living creatures by flood (Genesis 9:12-16), the rainbow has also become the symbol of LGBT pride and acceptance. The irony of a tweet from one of the state’s strongest gay marriage opponents and the timing of the court’s rejection of the gay marriage appeals was not lost on many in the Twitter universe.

Attorney General Greg Zoeller’s office issued a statement about the decision that was cloudy, at best, about the reality of the court’s action. “Our nation and all sides involved needed a conclusive Supreme Court ruling to bring finality to the legal question of state authority to adhere to the traditional definition of marriage,” Zoeller said. “Although it is

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unfortunate the Court did not accept the question and has again left states stuck in the limbo of uncertainty, ultimately the U.S. Supreme Court will have the final word on the subject of state authority to regulate marriage. Strong opinions exist on all sides of this issue but we continue to urge Hoosiers to show respect for the Court, the attorneys, the county clerks and the rule of law while this complicated process plays out.”

Was Zoeller referring to another same-sex marriage case out Louisiana that is under consideration in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals? The U.S. District Court in that case upheld the gay marriage ban in the southern state.

And the Sixth Circuit is considered by some to be a more conservative court than others around the country.

However, attorney Bill Groth doesn’t believe that case will have much bearing on the national conversation. “I think the Sixth Circuit Court has gotten the message from the Supreme Court,” he said during the ACLU press conference. According to Falk, that court’s decision would have no bearing or influence on Indiana. “Anything can happen,” said Falk. “But as far as these cases are concerned, the issue is settled.

The denial of cert confirms the decision from the Seventh Circuit as law.”

Statements from other Republicans dedicated to the idea of traditional marriage acknowledged the finality of the court’s decision, although somewhat reluctantly. Senate pro temp David Long said while he was surprised by the outcome, the court has spoken. “The Court appears to have sent a message that if they ultimately do hear these cases, they will support these lower court rulings, and find that same-sex marriage is on equal footing with traditional marriage,” said Long. “Because the U.S. Constitution is supreme to all state constitutions when it comes to a conflict between them, the effort to amend the Indiana Constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman would appear to be over unless the U.S. Supreme Court reverses its decision and ultimately takes up the matter in the future to overturn the current decision by the 7th Circuit concerning Indiana law. Given today’s ruling, that appears unlikely.”

Governor Mike Pence combined his personal belief with his duty to uphold the law in a brief statement following the decision. “While it is disappointing to many that the Supreme Court has chosen not to hear arguments on this important issue, under our system of government, people are free to disagree with court decisions but we are not free

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GET INVOLVED Walk Against Gun Violence Saturday, Oct. 11, 11:00 a.m. Barnes United Methodist Church is hosting a walk against gun violence in Riverside Park and the surrounding neighborhood. The goal of the walk is to bring awareness to the issue and to show a community united against gun violence. The event will also raise funds to support programs that focus on at-risk children. Information about the walk and donations can be found at walkagainstgunviolence.com.

Riverside Park, 2420 E. Riverside Dr.

Plaintiffs Rob MacPherson, Steven Stolen, and Greg Hastley (top, left to right) and IMPD Officer Teresa Welborn (below) expressed their gratitude for all of the support they received from friends, family and co-workers.

to disobey them,” said Pence. “Hoosiers may be assured that I and my administration will uphold the rulings of our federal courts concerning marriage in the policies and practices of our state.

As Governor of all the people of Indiana I am confident that Hoosiers will continue to demonstrate the civility for which we are known and respect the beliefs of all people in our state.”

What happens next?

When the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals published its decision September 4 affirming the District Court’s ruling that Indiana’s ban on same sex marriage was unconstitutional, the court stayed the decision and didn’t issue a mandate pending action from the U.S. Supreme Court.

Now that the action has been taken (by the Supreme Court doing nothing), a mandate is expected from the Seventh Circuit within the next few days. A few county clerks are waiting for instructions based on that mandate. Other

clerks instantly began issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples.

“I am delighted to once again welcome all loving Hoosier couples to the Clerk’s Office to obtain a marriage license,” said Marion County Clerk Beth White in an issued statement. “Limbo for these couples is over and they can expect nothing but dignity and respect from our marriage license staff when they arrive.”

However, White did say she would not perform instant civil ceremonies because the sense of urgency no longer exists. By the end of the day Monday, White’s office had only issued seven marriage licenses to same sex couples.

The change in the law means more than a change in the wording on the marriage license application. Attorney Karen Celestino-Horeseman says several businesses, industries and programs in both the public and private sectors will have to change everything from employee handbooks to benefits packages and insurance applications.

“Several places are going to need help understanding what the decision and the court’s mandate will mean for them.

But there are a lot of us here that can help with that,” smiled Horseman, referring to her fellow attorneys who worked on the marriage cases.

Monday was a day of celebration for all of the same sex couples who fought for the right to marry and have their marriages recognized. But Tuesday was back to life as usual. “The reality of it all is the transformative nature of this issue,” said Falk. “It will be no big deal a month from now.” n

Germanfest Saturday, Oct. 11, noon. The Atheneum will host its 6th annual Germanfest from noon until 8 pm. Germanfest has become one of the premier fundraisers for the Atheneum, which boasts itself as central Indiana’s German-American architectural and cultural icon. The day will include wiener dog races, a yodeling contest, and a Barvarian Stone Lift and Steinheben competition along with German food, beer, and music. Tickets for adults are $8 and children 12 and under are $2. Information and registration for the various contests are available at atheneumfoundation.org.

The Atheneum, 401 E. Michigan St., $2 - $8 Walk to End Alzheimer’s Sunday, Oct. 12, noon. The Indianapolis Walk to End Alzheimer’s will be held in Military Park in Downtown Indianapolis. The event is designed to bring awareness and raise funds for research, care and support for those impacted by Alzheimer’s disease. The Indianapolis event is the eighth largest walk for the Alzheimer’s Association across the country. Walk participants will learn about the disease, clinical trial enrollment, advocacy opportunities, support programs and services.

Registration begins at noon with the walk set to step off at 1 pm. The route will take walkers along the downtown canal.

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THOUGHT BITE ARCHIVE “In the old days my excuse was, ‘The dog ate my homework.’ Now it’s, ‘The computer crashed.’”

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hen Scott Hillman, the new coach of the Indy Fuel hockey team, visited the overhauled Fairgrounds Coliseum, he was more than a little impressed. It was vastly different from the old barn he’d played in during his days in the Central League, when he was a defenseman for the Odessa Jackalopes and his squad would make the trip from Texas to play the old Indianapolis Ice.

“At first I thought I’d maybe had too many concussions when I walked in,” Hillman laughs.

“I don’t remember the home locker room being where it is — I remember having to take a couple steps up to get onto the concourse, all sorts of things.”

The revamped building was part of the draw for Hillman — the Coliseum was comparable to the rink that hosted the Missouri Mavericks, the team he coached before coming to Indy.

“I think it’s even better than the last building I played in, and that was built new for us in 2010. To have the nostalgia of the old building, the structure on the outside, and then to come inside and you’re just amazed by the sight lines.

It’s the perfect-sized building. State of the art

electronics. It’s going to allow for an incredible game presentation.”

It’s a far cry from some of the sheds that Hillman skated in when he played in some of the lower tiers of the sport. “The worst one was in Jacksonville, Florida. It was more of a youth rink that they’d tried set up for minor league hockey. The PA speakers for the building were sitting above the ceiling tile of our locker room.

When the music would start at the intermission, it would rattle the dust out of the ceiling. You could see the ceiling shaking.” Hillman suffered more indignities in the minors: “You know, cold showers — won’t be any of that in this building, I’ll tell you that.”

No doubt about it, the facility’s going to be a

help. Hillman and the Fuel have their work cut out for them: they’ve got to re-educate a market that hasn’t been home to a professional hockey team in a decade. And they’re going to field a team that’s very, very young. For some of the players — most of whom are roughly the same age as Nirvana’s Nevermind and the publication you’re reading right now — this will be their first experience as professional skaters.

“I’ve gone through this,” says Hillman, speaking by phone (with an unmistakable Ontario accent) from his office in the Coliseum. “When I went to Missouri, I started that expansion team.

I know how difficult it is but how rewarding it is. We didn’t start very well there, but we kicked and clawed and scratched our way into the playoffs and won the first round.

“There is no core of players yet, and it’s not like I’m bringing a core of players with me. I’m bringing one player with me from my club last year, not seven or eight guys that know the coach’s style, not seven or eight guys that know each other from the previous year. They don’t know the city, they don’t know the coach, they don’t know the fans, they don’t know the building, they don’t know the drive to the rink, they don’t know the apartments — there is going to be an adjustment for everybody.”

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“… this is going to be one hardworking team and a team (fans) can be proud of both on and off the ice.”

— INDY FUEL COACH SCOTT HILLMAN

FUEL , FROM PAGE 09 we’ll get to those numbers in a bit — Hillman’s entire squad has their housing paid for by the Fuel at an apartment complex in Fishers. As training camp opened, most of the players hadn’t seen much of Indy beyond the Binford Boulevard corridor that connects their bedrooms with the rink.

To sum up: Hillman has to wrangle a newly formed roster, built from scratch and composed of guys whose ages range from 21 to 25, most of whom have zero familiarity with the Circle City. The lineup at the end of the season will be vastly different from the roster on opening night, when Indy renews its rivalry with the Fort Wayne Komets. Some guys will wash out, some will get moved up. Hilman’s somehow got to find cohesion in the face of all that movement.

So why take on the challenge? The gig in Missouri was successful. The stands were usually full. Hillman and his family — his wife and two young hockey-playing sons, an eight and a 12-year-old — were happy in Independence, MO. Simply put, this isn’t a lateral career move.

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a league currently fielding only seven teams.)

The Fuel also have an NHL affiliation: they’re one of the two farm clubs feeding the Chicago Blackhawks. (If you know baseball, think of the Fuel as the ‘Hawks AA squad. The other, the Rockford Ice Hogs, would be comparable to a Triple-A farm club — the kind of relationship the Indianapolis Indians have with the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Indianapolis Ice also had affiliations with the ‘Hawks at times during their run.)

And for Hillman, the way the two development teams are connected to their NHL franchise was a selling point, too. Hillman is working hand-in-hand with Ice Hogs coach Ted Dent in Rockford and the staff in Chicago — in fact, the coach had returned from the Blackhawks rookie camp immediately prior to our conversation. The Blackhawks are intent on developing players through their system, players who may one day join the major-league team.

But, says Hillman, “We want to be similar to the Blackhawks, of course, but at every level you make your own adjustments to have success at [that] particular level. We’re certainly not going to carbon-copy their playbook and implement that here. I will bring my own style, but we do want to complement what they’re doing and make sure our guys are prepared when they move on to Rockford — that they know what Ted Dent’s going to expect from them there.

We’ll stay very close and in tune to what they’re doing in Rockford.”

And that dictates a style of hockey that relies on speed.

“We want to be a high-tempo team. To us, that’s a pressure system. The ‘Hawks play a high-tempo game, a real puck control game — I think that part of it takes time … we are recruiting guys that can play with that energy and guys that can get up and down the ice pretty well.

We’re looking for guys that can skate, for sure.”

If your familiarity of professional hockey begins and ends with Slap Shot, that’s not the game you’ll see. Hillman doesn’t want lumbering goons, but guys who first skate hard and quick — and will eventually learn to control that rubber disc with finesse, and in turn, control the game. It’s something that fans and players call “hands.”

“The hands part is the tougher part. We’re going to have a young team, and it takes time, I don’t care what league they coming from, there’s always an adjustment period … We believe we’re going to have to grind out the goals, especially in the first half of the year. We know it’s not going to be tic-tac-toe all over the place because guys aren’t used to each other, new systems, new everything.”

Hillman knows there’s a balance here: while the team grows accustomed to one another

Inside the Fuel’s new locker room at the Fairgrounds Coliseum.

and their coach, they’ll have to bring a lot of physicality to their game. “We want to be a team that really finishes our checks and just makes it uncomfortable for the other team,” Hillman assures me. “We’re gonna have some big bodies, some tough guys, but we want to be a disciplined hockey team, a team that plays smart. We’re not looking to bring back old-style hockey. The game certainly has changed.”

HOCKEYTOWN 2.0?

Hugh Harris is absolutely upbeat about Indy’s newest team. “I think your Fuel deal is gonna do very, very well.”

Harris should know. Hugh Harris once captained Indy’s only major league hockey squad, the Indianapolis Racers.

The Racers played in Market Square Arena from 1973-1979 as part of the now defunct WHA, a league that folded soon after Wayne Gretzky scored his first major-league hockey goal — in a Racers’ sweater in Market Square Arena. (A Gretzky jersey hangs on the wall in the Fuel head coach’s office, just behind his desk — it’s the first thing one sees when the coach’s door opens.) When the World Hockey Association disbanded, players like Harris who’d formerly played in the NHL were left out in the cold. “There was a lot of bad feeling when those

players left the NHL,” Harris explains. “If you left, you would have had to have been a Wayne Gretzky to go back. They kinda put the old blackball on anybody that left.”

Harris’s career is pretty well documented — mostly on the walls of his restaurant, Greek Tony’s Pizza in Carmel. (Harris started the business with the joint’s namesake, a friend from his wife’s hometown of Muskegon, MI.) He’s got a lot of fond memories of his days skating at MSA. The crowds were raucous. “I would say that outside of a couple places in the NHL, when that building got filled, it was probably one of the most exciting buildings that you could ever play in. It was so compact. In its way, it was built basically for the fans,” he says.

The return of professional hockey to the Coliseum is an important moment historically: the first event the building hosted was a hockey game between the Indianapolis Capitals and the Syracuse Stars on November 10th, 1939, in front of a sellout crowd of 9,139. After the Capitals ended their run in 1952, The Chiefs would take the ice from 1955-1962. The “Capitols” had a short run before professional hockey left town during the 1963/64 season, then the Racers came to MSA, followed by the Checkers and the Indianapolis Ice. The Ice would again call the Coliseum home around the turn of the 21st century before ultimately folding in 2004. Their

name would be adopted by the “Indiana Ice,” a top-tier amateur team in the USHL that’s currently on hiatus, but plans are afoot to build the Ice a permanent home of their own on Indy’s far northwest side.

For Hugh Harris, while he seems to admire the amateur squad, he’s convinced that a junior hockey product doesn’t have quite the same connection to Indy’s fans. “People can relate back to their mom or dad or grandpa talkin’ about the old Chiefs — or now I guess it’s the old Racers,” he chuckles.

Harris is convinced that an ECHL team is only the beginning of the sport’s professional resurgence in Indy.

“You know they’ll have a good core backing here. I would almost think that eventually, Indianapolis has to get an AHL team,” Harris speculates. “There’s nothing saying that the Fuel couldn’t play in the ECHL and move on.

They certainly got a great guy in Jim Halett.”

(Halett’s the Fuel’s team Governor and coowner — and one of the original Indianapolis Ice owners when the Ice was setting CHL attendance records.)

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SHARPEN THOSE SKATES The Fuel will be playing a lot of in-state and regional games to open their inaugural season. Here’s a rundown of some October home games of note: Fuel V. Evansville Icemen Oct. 12, 3:05 p.m. It’s a preseason game — but the Fuel’s first chance to skate at home.

Fuel V. Fort Wayne Komets Oct. 17, 7:35 p.m. The rivalry returns for the first regular season game at the Coliseum. (The Fuel travel to Fort Wayne the following night.)

Fuel V. Kalamazoo Wings Oct. 22, 7:05 p.m.

Fuel V. Toledo Walleye Oct. 24, 7:35 p.m. Can’t you see the poster? “BREAD ‘EM AND FRY ‘EM.” Fuel V. Komets Oct. 26, 3:05 p.m.

Fuel V. Icemen Oct. 31, 7:35 p.m. Trick or treat!

See indyfuelhockey.com for a complete schedule and ticket info — and the most up-todate roster info. Single-game ticket prices start around $15.)

Definition: Mini-sticks Also known as “knee-hockey,” or “mini-hockey,” mini-sticks is hockey’s answer to baseball’s Wiffle Ball.

A set includes several short plastic sticks — often two goalie-style twigs and four player sticks — plus two goals and a foam ball. The game’s most popular venues are hotel hallways and matches are usually played between actual on-ice travel hockey games by kids between the ages of six and 12, a demographic that never sleeps during road trips. The object of the game is to smack a hockey parent square in the Achilles tendon as said parent is trying to break up a fight. The game usually ends when hotel management permanently bans the playing of knee hockey within his or her establishment.

On fighting NUVO: There are casual fans who are going to wonder why, with all that we have seen in the news about athletes behaving atrociously, behaving violently and even directing that violence toward their wives and children, why does a sport like hockey still allow fighting and does not punish that kind of behavior with an ejection as opposed to five minutes of rest?

INDY FUEL COACH SCOTT HILLMAN: It is a very delicate subject. I think many hockey purists believe that fighting keeps our game very safe. We’ve all played in leagues where there’s fighting allowed, and played in leagues where there are more strict penalties. We’ve also played in leagues where you have to wear a full cage versus a half visor, and each time you put more restrictions on us, the game is a little bit more violent. With sticks, with collisions and the rest, we think it keeps the game honest. They’ll play a little safer style if they know that they might have to answer to someone typically bigger and stronger than them. We are not looking to have three or four fights every night. That’s for sure. But we believe it is an important part of the game that helps keep our players safe.

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Coach Scott Hillman outlines a drill on the first day of camp.

FUEL , FROM PAGE 11 boys have never been drafted, and that doesn’t say that they’re not good players. It’s just that somebody’s not in their corner. There’s always a bunch of players that come on at different times.

You never hear of the number one picks that didn’t make it, but you always hear about the 300th pick that made it.”

The roster On the first day of camp, the tension’s palpable. The players who’ve made the roster already and those hoping for a shot will be skating together across the fresh Fuel logo and the newly minted blue lines on the Coliseum floor. Some players who skated for the Indiana Ice — the amateur USHL squad that played in this very building — are taking a shot at making the Fuel roster. Their eyes get big when they see the change the place has undergone: upgrades like milliondollar ribbon boards are a far cry from the Coliseum’s old look. Distractions abound as the hopefuls take the ice; there seems to be a photographer around every corner. The building gleams, and the faces of the hopefuls tell the story. A shot on this ice might mean a look from a team that’s won the Stanley Cup recently. The locker rooms are state-of-the-art, complete

with flat-screen video monitors and warmup stationary bikes near the player entrances. Even the Zamboni looks to be brand new.

It’s apparent just how fresh this organization really is: Tony Brown, the Fuel’s radio announcer and PR man, is introducing himself to the Fuel’s newly acquired strength and conditioning trainer as they pass one another outside the locker room. Coach Hillman, relaxed, talkative and affable during our phone interview a few days earlier is quiet off the ice this day. It’s obvious that Coach is getting down to the serious business of building a squad that can both feed the mothership and sell tickets, too. He’s not big physically, but he’s got a thousand-yard stare that’s pretty intimidating. Anders Franzen, who played for Hillman in Missouri, says “Hilly” is intense: “He loves hockey. He knows how to push the buttons and get people going.”

Franzen’s familiar with more than just the coach. The team’s looking at a total of four guys who skated as members of the Vermont Catamounts, a Division I collegiate squad that Franzen played for — “a hockey powerhouse,” smirks Franzen with obvious pride.

“We were thinking of changing the name to the Indy Cats,” jokes Franzen.

Seriously, though, “College hockey’s uptempo, kind of in-your-face — we’ve got a lot of college players here, so it seems like they’ll fit.”

When I ask Hillman about his coaching

technique, Hilly insists he’s not a screamer. If he’d used those techniques in the past, he may have mellowed a bit — especially with a roster including guys who, in their early 20s, are picking up a paycheck for the first time in their skating career.

“Especially with a young crew, you’ve got to have patience. Mistakes are gonna happen, and I want to be the guy that helps ‘em correct those mistakes and develop as players. It’ll be a … supportive environment.”

Hillman won’t have to worry about his young players going wild with their newfound riches. The ECHL has a salary cap, and it’s nothing if not modest.

According to the league’s website, the weekly salary cap for a 20-man roster is a little over $12,000. (The floor is $9,100.) Rookies make a minimum of $415 weekly, returning players make 460 bucks. To put that number into perspective, that’s about one tenth of one percent of what a top-paid NHL player like Sidney Crosby takes home (a total of $12 million for the 2013-14 season).

One man on the roster already has major-league star power associated with the letters on his jersey. Dean Chelios, a forward on the squad, is the son of NHL legend Chris Chelios.

Dean’s pop is an 11 time NHL All-Star, and three-time winner of the James Norris Trophy, the award handed out to the league’s best defenseman.

Dean’s position takes some pressure off of Hillman, who played D before injuries forced him out of his

The Fuel’s roster includes Dean Chelios, right, son of NHL star Chris Chelios.

himself to prove he’s worthy of a roster spot, lineage notwithstanding. “Obviously, I’m gonna be compared, no matter what I do. It’s always a big thing to prove myself, that I wasn’t on the team just for the name.”

So was it then a conscious, deliberate decision to play the forward position as opposed to D, like the old man?

“I’ve always been a different kind of player than Dad,” laughs Chelios.

Chelios, like his brothers, began skating, “as soon as we could walk — what, one or two years old? We’d hang out at the old Blackhawks locker room (his dad played for the ‘Hawks throughout the ‘90s) and play mini-sticks (see Especially with a young crew, DEFINITION, p.12) and when they you’ve got to have patience. were done we’d get out on the ice and just cruise around.” But — INDY FUEL COACH SCOTT HILLMAN according to Dean, his dad didn’t push. “I actually loved baseball, and he liked that I liked baseball, but in the end I just loved hockey too much and stuck with that.” room. He’s listed at 6’ 2”, 185, and although he’s Chelios confirms what Hillman’s promised: Dean’s dad likes watching all his kids play, and just 25, he’s already an ECHL vet — he played for the Toledo Walleye after his collegiate career the Fuel won’t be an exception.

“He’s pretty pumped,” says Dean. at Michigan State. When Dean was younger, If Scott Hillman and the front office of the there was pressure to live up to the family rep, but that’s dissipated. Hockey’s a small universe, Fuel understand anything, they understand that their marketing department includes especially at the professional level, and as forthe guys on their roster — even the ones mer stars have kids of their own, guys such as who aren’t named “Chelios.”

Chelios find themselves skating with other rela“I know people are excited about having pro tives of the game’s elite. Still, Chelios pushes pads: “I’m happy … he’s a forward,” laughs Coach. “He can’t go telling his dad what I told him about playing defense.”

This means star power in the stands for some Fuel games, too: “Chris follows his boys very closely, so we’ll see Chris often,” assures Hillman.

“Dean is a great kid. He’s never taken anything for granted based on his name or what his father accomplished. He is a guy who’s very driven to try and become a professional hockey player.”

Dean Chelios is one of the Fuel players whose name is already affixed to a stall in the locker

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hockey back. I know they’re excited about the affiliation with the Blackhawks,” says Hillman.

“But we really just want to show them this is going to be one hardworking team and a team they can be proud of both on and off the ice.

“Whether as a player or as a coach, it’s my team’s responsibility to be very ‘touchable,’ if you will. We’re going to take time for the fans.

We’ll be out, we’ll be in schools, we’ll work with some various charities — when you’re done with your playing days, it’s those little things you remember. The hospital visits, even just a conversation with a fan. Where I came from, it was a very similar situation. We were just outside Kansas City and they had the old Blades in the old IHL and it had been about ten years since they’d had pro hockey and people just flooded back. Our building was full just about every night. The stories I heard over five years from 70-year-old men and women … when the season’s over, they don’t know what to do. I met people with terminal illnesses who told me ‘It’s this team that’s keeping me going’ — those are the stories and the people you remember.

It’s an important thing for me to teach these young kids, ‘cause we’re gong to have a lot of first year pros. They probably had a hint of it in junior and college hockey, but never at this level, so they’ll understand what a big role they’re playing in people’s lives — people they’ll never even meet.” n Additional research for this article provided by Oliver Wenck.

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ON DISPLAY Warhol’s cherubs Rhonda LongSharp, owner of the Long-Sharp Gallery, was exhibiting Andy Warhol drawings at Masterpiece London art fair in June 2013 when a charming man paid her a visit.

And then another.

And one more after that.

Actually, he sort of made a nuisance of himself. He kept insisting that Long-Sharp sell him a Warhol original on display — a china ink drawing featuring a winged being dating from the 1950s.

“He kept coming in and I kept saying, ‘Sir, these are for display only,’ says Long-Sharp. “We were using them to display something educational about Warhol. And so on the second day that he came back, he said, ‘I’m inspired by those.’

And I said, ‘What would they inspire you to do?’”

And he said, ‘I’m an artist.’”

The persistent Warhol fan turned out to be British artist and sculptor Wayne Warren, a well-known commodity in the art world — at least outside the U.S. — who has displayed his work mostly in Europe, Asia and Australia.

One characteristic Warren piece is “executive excess,” a gold-colored suit of armor made from consumer products.

Warren eventually talked Long-Sharp into selling him the drawing — and it inspired him to create a series of sculptures of angel wings out of plastic and resin. Long-Sharp is now displaying that work alongside Warhol’s drawings of cherubs, angels and wings.

What’s striking about the 36 Warhol drawings in the show is their whimsy. In one, you see a plump female cherub alongside the phrase, “Good Morning.” In another, you see a boy angel portrayed from the back, displaying his butt along with his wings.

“The whole idea of us exhibiting these has been that, to understand an artist, you have to understand the progression of their career, and their influences,” says Long-Sharp. “Warhol was devoutly Catholic, going to mass every day when he was in New York.”

Back in the mid-fifties, Warhol was a decade away from the artistic breakthroughs that would make his a household name.

“By the time he’s doing these, he’s become the king of New York commercial artists,” says Long-Sharp. “He’s drawing shoes, this, that and the other. But at home, on his sketchpad, this is what he’s doing.”

— DAN GROSSMAN Wings, from Warhol to Warren, opened Oct. 4 at the Long-Sharp Gallery.

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FIRST FRIDAY, BY THE NUMBERS Fermata: Richard Mosse w Through Dec. 20. The discontinued film that Irish photographer Mosse used for this body of work, Kodak Aerochrome, gives any vegetation a pinkish hue. The Congo has many lush landscapes, and it’s a beautiful setting for a horrific civil war. The Africa that I encountered in the Peace Corps didn’t look like this, and when I saw publicity photos, I wondered if this was some kind of Christo-esque provocation. But this is no stunt. Consider “Drag,” where a soldier wearing camouflage is dragging a dead body through the brush.

One is left to speculate on all the possible meanings of the word drag, as both verb and noun. “Colonel Soleil’s Boys” spoke to me most directly. It shows soldiers on a hillside in front of their commander. Several look askance at the photographer, underscoring his vulnerability, and even culpability, in this conflict. His culpability is our culpability, as the Congo is a major supplier of tungsten and other minerals essential for cell/smartphone manufacture. The civil war is, in part, a war to control those resources. Quite a feat for iMOCA’s first exhibition at Indy’s swankest possible venue to bring such unsettling and subversive feelings to the fore.

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“The Whore and the Princess” by Martin Kuntz Monkeys with Guns: New Work 2

by Martin Kuntz e Through Oct. 31. I wasn’t quite sold on Kuntz’s prior show at Primary Gallery, 2012’s The Fun Machine Died. His Pop art meets Joycean stream of consciousness approach to gathering together as many pop culture figures as possible on the same canvas — from Pee Wee Herman to Pinocchio — lacked focus. His new work is different, more deliberate and intentional. Consider “The Whore and the Princess” (oil on canvas), which portrays Madonna in grayscale with smaller painted sketches, in red, of various media princesses — Daria, Snow White and Minnie Mouse — in the foreground. Who’s the whore here and who’s the princess? Or princesses?

I’m not sure that’s the upshot of this particular work, but the questions begged are intriguing ones.

Primary Gallery, closing party and artist’s reception, Oct. 31, 6-9 p.m.

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“Current History” by David Hicks Lukas Schooler and David Hicks: 2014 Stutz Artists in Residence Program Exhibition e Through Oct. 24. Lukas Schooler’s “Growth Patterns, Fountain Square” may strike you at first as a representation of a Christmas tree nailed to a wall. But not so fast. As advertised, it’s a three-dimensional map of Fountain Square complete with Astroturf. Schooler is out to represent the urban condition through both sculpture and video work. In “Our Salutations: 39.7910° N, 86.1480° W,” he uses a GoPro camera attached to his body, repeating the same choreographed movements in nine locales around Indy. The result: a video triptych in which he gives you a guided tour/performance where the landscapes seem to be dancing in sync. There’s also constant movement in the mural-like pastel drawings and paintings of David Hicks, who’s something of an apocalyptic Thomas Hart Benton. Check out “Current History, Center Panel,” where Wonder Woman, contending with the chaotic, open-carry, uber-individualism of 21st-century America, looks just about ready to give up her day job.

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A conduit for a free surface: Recent work by Tyler Meuninck e Through Oct. 31. Much like the Indy-based Amy Falstrom, Tyler Meuninck draws inspiration from the Lake Michigan shore. And anybody who’s ever been up to the Indiana Dunes (Falstrom’s inspiration) or the industry-scapes of Gary just to the West (Meuninck’s territory) will understand why these artists work with muted palettes. In his oil painting, “November 17th,” the entire sky is gray — Meunick’s primary color — except for a forlorn white cloud. There are smokestacks in the distance, and in the foreground, you see disused railcars adjacent to what appears to be a brown slag heap. And then there is a red, ramshackle building that, against all those grays and browns, seems to be on fire. Maybe if you crossed a 17th century Dutch landscape painter with a New York abstract expressionist, this is what you’d get. But, of course, painters worth noting are more than just the sum of their influences. Such is true here.

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Julie “Satch” Kern: Sinners and Saints r Insights: 4 Local Artists e Through Oct. 31. An estate sale up in Michigan 4 Through October 31. Lobyn Hamilton’s gave Julie “Satch” Kern the materials she needed portraits, made entirely out of vinyl records, continue — statues of Jesus, 3D carnival signs and stag to impress. In “Return from Africa,” he films — to create collages “exploring the fine achieves a stunning realism, portraying an line between life’s choices,” according to African woman with a pompadour in the her artist’s statement. One piece finds an shape of the African continent. Jerome icon of Jesus attached to a rearview Neal’s work in this Athenaeum group mirror, as if looking back on your show is just as delightful. One of Indy’s poor (or brilliant) choices. Another most overlooked artists, Neal’s amazing conjures a carnival peep show via a — and amazingly dense — paintings clown’s mouth that opens up to reveal portray urban life, often hearkening back a pair of breasts. It’s interesting stuff, to the Jazz Age. But the untitled painting and my only qualm was with the venue, portraying Monument Circle and a fleet which crammed the work together in one of bicyclists on rented yellow bikes riding corner like the Paris Salon on steroids. But, past in the foreground gives this collection hey, at least you can get a cappuccino.

“Return of Neal’s work a contemporary feel.

Funkyard from Aftrica” by Athenaeum Art Space — DAN GROSSMAN Lobyn Hamilton Raymond James Stutz Art Gallery

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by Tom Bianchi, George Platt Lynes, Len Prince, Bettina Rheims, Herb Ritts and Arthur Tress.

Indiana University, Bloomington, kinseyinstitute.org, FREE Germanfest Oct. 11, noon-8 p.m.

Weiner dog races run every hour from 1-5 p.m. at the Athenaeum’s Germanfest, which also finds time every year for a 5k run/walk and yodeling contest. All proceeds head to the Athenaeum Foundation.

The Athenaeum, $8 adult, $2 child 1-12, athenaeumfoundation.org Optical Popsicle 7 Oct. 11, 8 p.m. What fresh madness is theater collective Know No Stranger cooking up for the seventh edition of Optical Popsicle? The surrealist variety show has in the past featured puppets, video, music, dance, comedy, overhead projection, audience participation and performance art not otherwise specified.

Indianapolis Museum of Art, $15 advance (imamuseum.org), $20 door Red Oct. 14-Nov. 9. Mark Rothko bounces ideas — and paint — off his fictional assistant, Ken, in John Logan’s two-hander that won a Best Play Tony in 2010.

Henry Woronicz (Rothko) and Zach Kenney (Ken) star in the Upperstage production, directed by IRT playwright-in-residence James Still.

Indiana Repertory Theatre, irtlive.com Hannibal Buress Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m. The former SNL and 30 Rock writer, present-day star of The Eric Andre Show and Broad City, and first “non-almost billionaire comic” to appear on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show stops by Live Nation’s stomping grounds on his Comedy Camisado tour.

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Conner Prairie’s annual program and powwow celebrates the legacy of an Indiana tribe

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ast week, Conner Prairie invited descendants of Indiana’s 18th and 19th Delawares to travel back to Indiana from their present homes in Bartlesville, Oklahoma for an annual fall educational program, now in its 21st year.

The relationship goes back centuries.

William Conner, a white man who built a trading post along the White River on the site of what has become Conner Prairie Interactive History Park, was married in 1800 to Delaware/Lenape Chief Anderson’s daughter Ma-cun-chis. A permanent living Lenape Camp at the park replicates life in 1816 when Indiana gained statehood from being known as Indiana Territory.

Michael Pace is a direct descendant of Chief Anderson, whose Indiana legacy remains in the city bearing his name. A year-round Lenape Camp re-enactor, he addressed a group of schoolchildren during the The Woodland: Indians Art and Culture program, which ran from Sept. 29 to Oct. 4.

“What’s easier to make and use, an arrowhead-blade knife or a steel-blade knife?” he asked. In unison the class opted for steel. That is why the Delawares traded with Europeans, Pace explained.

“How did Delawares use this knife in the 18th and 19th centuries?” The answers ran the gamut from carving to skinning.

“What do you think I now use this knife for?” Pace continued. He paused, his eyes twinkling, then said, “to make my peanut butter and jelly sandwich.”

The students were delighted.“Delawares, like everyone else, move forward with changing times,” he summed up.

In 1820, the Delawares were forcibly removed from their villages along Indiana’s White River to Missouri Territory. Ma-cun-chis and her six Conner children had to go. William Conner chose not to leave.

The wrenching aftermath of Removal remained so intense it was not spoken of for years, explained Dee Ketchum, Chief of the Bartlesville, Oklahoma Delaware Tribe from 1998 to 2002. Most on that trek by foot across Indiana and boat across the Mississippi River did not survive the hardships of moving from a sustainable woodland way of life to a very different plains habitat.

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Through her program of storytelling, Dee Ketchum’s wife, Annette, brought forward the way elders pass on the culture, expected behaviors and values to the next generation.

“Stories are our textbooks, our classrooms. We’re not a dead culture, we’re alive and keep evolving,” she explained.

“Our stories are special to us and give us strength and pride in who we are, just as your stories of your ancestors make you special and should make you proud.”

A ripple went through the class. This was different concept: seeking out personal heritage and passing it on through stories. Will this transfer to classroom and home life? Annette hoped it would.

It’s a gift from her people, she mused.

“This is our homeland. We didn’t come here from someplace else. America is where we’ve always been,” she said.

More to chew on for the students, whose vision was being rearranged about what

it means to be an American.

Music, like storytelling, is integral to Lenape/Delaware culture. Todd Thaxton first came to Conner Prairie in 2006. He had been learning from the Oklahoma-based elders the traditional songs for all aspects of Lenape life cycles. After assisting Chief Ketchum for two years, he now presents on his own, starting with the assumption that every kid likes to bang on a drum.

He tempers that urge by showing the sacred place the drum holds in Lenape life as a sacred way to give thanks, show honor, celebrate an important event and enjoy a social time. Students who gathered around the drum last week got a special feeling as it resonated to their touch.

By day’s end, the children carried home essential words — “Wa-nee-she” [thank you] and “I-saw-me” [you are welcome] — they’d learned during the program.

When a student asked how being called the Delawares came about, Annette explained, “Even though we called ourselves Lenape, Delaware was given to us because the place where we lived originally was named by the British for their Governor de la Warr. It’s just the way things happen sometimes.” n

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And add in two Indianapolis-based authors: Salvatore Pane, a professor of English at UIndy and author of the novel Last Call in the City of Bridge; and Sarah Layden, whose first novel, Trip Through Your Wires, is on the way from Engine Books.

Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, vonnegutlibrary.org, FREE What Makes Us Human: E.O. Wilson and Katherine Hayles Oct. 8, 7 p.m. The questions at hand for this Spirit & Place discussion: Are human and animal socieites that much different? How and when did we become human? Are we living in an age of cyborgs? Biologist, naturalist and novelist E.O. Wilson has long looked at the history of life through a “sociobiological” lens, arguing that “if humankind evolved by Darwinian natural selection, genetic chance and environmental necessity, not God, made the species.” Literary critic Katherine Hayles is concerned with the relationships between literature, science and technology; her book How We Became Posthuman looks at the way we’ve moved beyond Enlightenment ideas of humanism.

Central Library, $35 general, $15 student, spiritandplace.org Ghost Stories Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m. Storytelling Arts returns to Crown Hill for its annual Ghost Stories program with a lineup that includes Indy-based Sally Perkins, Bob Sander and Celestine Bloomfield. It’s preceded from 5-7 p.m. by Crown Fest, a celebration of Crown Hill’s 150th anniversary featuring historical re-enactors and cemetery tours.

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Nevertheless, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on the new novel by Ian Woollen, who is the nephew of my high school girlfriend Kithy Woollen, who inspired my first short story, “Autumn Full of Apples,” (collected in The Best American Stories of 1966), and the son of my friend the architect Evans Woollen (who is Kithy’s older brother), and the grandson of Evans and Lydia Woollen, the formidable couple who I knew while courting Kithy. Naturally, I was eager to read Ian’s novel, Uncle Anton’s Atomic Bomb, to see if I could find any bombshell revelations about my friends the Woollens!

In the novel, the Woollens are “The Wangerts,” and early on I recognized “the diagnostic stare” of the grande dame of the clan, “Constance Wangert,” the kind of stare I remembered from when it was fixed on me by Kithy’s mother when I came to call. Lydia Woollen was indeed of the breed grand dame, known for the “flinty elegance” that describes “Constance Wangert” in the novel. I held up under the “Woollen stare” that had withered other teenagers, and I counted Mrs. Woollen one of the adult friends whose company I enjoyed. She approved of my literary aspirations, and introduced me to the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose revival in the ‘fifties began with the biography she gave me when I was home from college, The Far Side of Paradise. I was working as a summer replacement reporter on The Star sports desk, and when Bob Collins, my mentor and hero, gave me my first byline, the first person to whom I proudly showed it was Lydia Woollen.

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the ’50s to the ’90s, and the discerning Lydia would be proud of his accurate “Invocation of the 1950s,” which opens Uncle Anton’s Atomic Bomb: “Sit back, sip your drink, and allow words and phrases such as ‘sock hop’ and ‘fallout,’ ‘Studebaker’ and ‘Red Scare’ to summon up what images they will. Trust that your evening libation tastes pretty much the same in 1951 as it does today. And if you are a member of gen-whatever for whom the year 1951 has no reference point, imagine a period in American life when the term ‘unwed mother’ had a nasty sting.”

There were even “bomb shelters” being built by some American families in those Cold War days, and in this novel, “The Wangerts” have one in their backyard — which tells me this must be fiction, for The Woollens would rather have been blown to atoms than to suffer such a grace-less, undignified, faddish phenomenon to sully their property!

If anything clearly separates the fictional “Wangerts” from the real-life Woollens, it’s the family business — in the novel, Ward Wangert, Sr. started his own public relations firm and his son went to work for it. I doubt the term “public relations” ever was uttered by Evans Woollen, Jr., father of Evans III. In fact he was not happy about his son becoming

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an architect — he regarded that profession as “Bohemian” (his generation’s version of “hippie.”) Perhaps he would have been consoled to know that the “Bohemian” architect gained national recognition for designing buildings such as Clowes Memorial Hall, the new wing of the Indianapolis Central Library, St. Meinrad’s Archabbey, and the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut.

Hopefully, the accomplishments of Evans III, which grew from architecture to painting in his later years, with gallery shows in New York, would have been deemed worthy by the distinguished grandfather of the clan, Evans, Sr., who was Indiana’s favorite son candidate for Vice President at the Democratic convention of 1936.

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was at some time recruited by the CIA, whether they joined or not — even me!

I was taken to lunch at an eastside New York restaurant by She Who Will Remain Classified (that feminist icon doesn’t like to mention her service as a spook) and asked if I would go with her and several other young writers to put out a “student newspaper” countering Commie propaganda (with our propaganda) at a Communist Youth Festival in Helsinki. I learned years later the gig was sponsored by a CIA front — they’d cover all travel expenses if I could get a magazine assignment to write up the event. I was willing, but pitching it to editors only drew yawns.

Damn! I could have been a soldier in The Cold War! Still wondering if there might be a real life scandal in the Woollen novel, I In the 1950s — almost everyone who was thrilled when I heard that a former CIA career graduated from an Eastern college man from Indianapolis was at some time recruited by the was arriving back here for a visit. Could it be CIA, whether they joined or not — that he was the real-life even me!

— DAN WAKEFIELD “He Who Shall Remain Classified,” coming home to spy on the author of the novel? This distinguished high level have a family place on an island in spook, now retired, was an old friend of Maine where they go every summer. Any mine from Boy Scout Camp Chank-tun“Wangert,” like any Woollen, fears taking un-gi and Shortridge High School, and a new love to meet the family for what I can only refer to him as He Who Shall they regard as “the island test.” Evans, Remain Unidentified. What if this former long after his wife Nancy had died, once Eagle Scout had been the real-life cad in took a new woman friend to Maine for Moscow who seduced the future “Mrs. “the island test,” and when asked how it Ward Wangert” in the novel? went, he reported — in typically succinct But here my colorful “expose” theories Woollen-speak — “It was not a success.” fell apart, as I learned my former Scouting The premise that sets the plot of the friend was not now, nor had ever been, novel in motion is that “Mary Stark” who a womanizing bachelor, but married will later marry “Ward Wangert,” is hired his high school sweetheart, raised his

by The State Department to teach at an own family and lived a life of loyalty to Anglo-American School in Moscow in home, country and family. In the similar the 1950s. Now I am fascinated to learn pedestrian truth of “real life,” no prospecthat the real-life mother of the author tive Woollen wife would have passed and wife of Evans Woollen taught at an the “diagnostic eye” of Lydia had she Anglo-American school in Moscow from 1951-1954! So what if there are real family fallen from virtue before marriage, nor would such a scarlet woman have passed bombshells hidden within this “fiction?” “the island test” of family sanction; as a Now comes the potentially juicy part Woollen would put it, such a misguided — the “Mary Stark” in the novel has foray “would not have been a success.” an affair with an up-and-coming CIA So we are left without a scandal — only agent in Moscow who remains a lifelong a fine work of fiction (a good story, with womanizing bachelor and spies on her plenty of suspense and intrigue), set in and her family after she marries “Ward Wangert.” This CIA man in the novel is so Moscow, Maine and Indianapolis, a family saga in the tradition of Hoosier Booth powerful and his identity so secret that Tarkington’s The Magnificent Ambersons. he is only known as “He Who Remains Classified.” My imagination is going fullWe can only hope some contemporary steam-ahead as I try to think if I knew Orson Welles (who directed Ambersons) any genuine CIA agents who might have will take this drama to the screen. n been that character in real life.

You have to understand that in those Dan Wakefield writes both fiction (Going days — in the 1950s — almost everyone All The Way) and non-fiction (Returning: who graduated from an Eastern college A Spiritual Journey.)

Sinclair Lewis novel. I had the sense he was born in his three-piece suit with the watch-chain across the vest, and that he surely must have slept in it. He was a man of few words, and the few he uttered were law. Mr. and Mrs. Woollen were on the same train I took to New York when I first went to Columbia, and they invited me for dinner in the dining car, which in those days was a grand place with linen tablecloths and bowing waiters. I desperately scanned the menu to find the cheapest entrée, but before I could spot it Mr. Woollen said, “Dan, you’ll have the steak.” I believe those were the only words he spoke during the meal.

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R, opens Thursday in wide release Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner are the adult leads in this live-action Disney adaptation of the longlived children’s book. “The sort of busily contrived, one-damned-thing-after-another farce where cars are smashed and Dad gets set on fire, but it all goes down with a spoonful of sugar and a cheery string of studio tie-ins,” says Variety.

PG, opens Thursday in wide release Dracula Untold Luke Evans (Fast & Furious 6) stars in this Dracula origin story. “A kinder, gentler and decidedly hunkier vampire is the not-so-strong selling point,” says The Hollywood Reporter.

PG-13, opens Thursday in wide release Kill the Messenger A fact-based biopic about Gary Webb (played by Jeremy Renner), the investigative journalist whose 1996 series of articles for the San Jose Mercury News about links between the CIA-backed Contras and the U.S. crack cocaine epidemic was first dismissed, then ultimately praised, by the mainstream media.

R, opens Friday at Keystone Art The Notebook (Le Grand Cahier) An adaptation of the French-language bestseller about 13-year-old Hungarian twins forced to move in with their wicked grandmother at the close of WWII. “Muddled and sensationalistic, and superficially shocking rather than profoundly provocative,” says The New York Times.

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FILM EVENTS Hitchcock Fest II Oct. 10 and 11. The Artcraft’s second all-Hitchcock weekend (the first was in 2012) will kick off Friday night with Psycho (7:30 p.m.) and The Lady Vanishes (10 p.m.), followed on Saturday by The 39 Steps (2 p.m.), Rebecca (4 p.m.), Rear Window (7:30 p.m.) and Rope (10 p.m.).

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Keystone Art, $7.50, landmarktheatres.com Metropolitan Opera: Macbeth Oct. 11, 12:55 p.m. The Met opens its “live in cinemas” season with a simulcast of Verdi’s Macbeth featuring soprano Anna Netrebko.

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t’s fun to watch Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall act. Downey has that smart-as-a-whip, rapid-fire delivery style where he darts between sarcasm and sincerity so quickly that he makes you dizzy. And Duvall is the master of intimidating characters, from cocky firebrands like Lt. Colonel Bill Kilgore in Apocalypse Now to every manner of badass ready to chew up and spit out anyone foolish enough to get in the way.

The Judge is a melodrama that casts the Roberts as father and son (estranged, of course), giving each ample opportunity to strut their stuff. Filmmaker David Dobkin pulls out all the stops to show he is more than the guy who made Fred Claus. The result is entertaining and sometimes moving. It is also hooey, mixing undercooked storyline lines with groan-inducing clichés and slathering the concoction with showy cinematography and a pushy score.

Downey plays Chicago lawyer Hank Palmer, who responds to criticism about the clients he defends by saying, “the innocent can’t afford me.” At the beginning of the film, he is verbally accosted by the outraged prosecution attorney (David Krumholtz) while standing at the urinal and responds by — yes, really — turning toward his opponent and peeing on him. When John Belushi’s Bluto did that in Animal House it was a scream.

Watching it happen here is just sad.

After the death of his mother, Hank heads back to his hometown in southern Indiana for a quick visit. His brothers are there: Glen (Vincent D’Onofrio), who might have made it to the major league if his baseball dreams weren’t crushed by … a cliché, and Dale (Jeremy Strong), a home movie enthusiast dealing with

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some sort of mental challenge. That’s all you will learn about the brothers, because the only people who matter are Hank and (cue the sound of thunder) the Judge, Duvall’s highly respected and extremely righteous character.

Fine, so Hank will spend a few days in town and the father and son will gradually address their differences. But wait, there’s more! While mourning the loss of his wife, the Judge takes his first drink in 28 years. Later, a man the Judge once sent to prison turns up dead on the highway. There’s blood on the Judge’s car and he can’t remember what happened.

Charges are filed and Hank ends up joining the defense team, basically taking over for the flummoxed local lawyer (Dax Shepard) as they face off with a coldly efficient prosecutor (Billy Bob Thornton).

You know the prosecutor is a force to be reckoned with because he uses one of those collapsible metal drinking cups that you snap into place. Wait until you see him open and close it. Mercy!

Father-son issues. A major trial. What

more do you need? How about Hank making out with a waitress named Carla (Leighton Meester) who turns out to be the daughter of Samantha (Vera Farmiga), his high school flame? Surely the movie couldn’t hold any additional drama. Ah, but you know what they say: there’s always room for a tornado that forces the menfolk together to watch home movies and do battle.

The Judge would be dismissible were it not for the fine acting. In addition to the Roberts, Shepard is appealing and a lean Billy Bob does a lot with a little. Hell, everybody’s good. And within that lumpy screenplay are some genuine moments.

There’s a scene where one character has a bathroom accident and another helps clean him up. At the screening I attended, there wasn’t a single giggle or “Eww!” during the segment, even when we briefly see the mess. The audience understood what was being said to them.

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IU Cinema Oct. 9-12, Oct. 14, various times. An eclectic week includes Bernard Tavernier’s 1996 WWII epic Capitaine Conan (Oct. 9, 7 p.m.); the bizarre 1976 Blaxploitation thriller J.D.’s Revenge, which finds a hypnotist becoming the host for a reincarnated ‘60s gangster (Oct. 10, 7 p.m.); Shadow of a Doubt, on a busy weekend for Hitchcock in Southern Indiana (Oct. 11, 3 p.m.); the 1957 Spencer-Hepburn comedy Desk Set (Oct. 11, 7 p.m.); a restored, 2K version of the 1954 Godzilla (Oct. 12, 3 p.m.); and the new documentary Evolution of a Criminal, which finds filmmaker Darius Clark Monroe exploring the reasons why he committed a robbery as a teenager (Oct. 14, 7 p.m., with Monroe scheduled to attend).

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A SURPRISE APPEARANCE Robert Downey, Jr. hits Castleton for the Heartland premiere of The Judge

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he Heartland Film Fest has always had Hollywood aspirations. Witness their glitzy awards ceremonies of years past hosted by L.A. media types and featuring mid-level stars like Corbin Bernsen. And their Truly Moving Picture Award, a stamp of approval for “entertaining films that do more than just entertain,” according to festival info, that’s been recently awarded to The Fault in Our Stars, Boyhood and The Lego Movie. You might even say that the huge cash prizes awarded to festival-winning features and shorts were an attempt to more or less buy the respect of the industry — or at least attract quality film submissions — elevating Heartland in the film world in a surefire way that wouldn’t depend solely on word of mouth.

And few stars come bigger than Robert Downey, Jr. — the best-paid film star in the world for two years running — making his surprise visit during an Oct. 4 screening of The Judge at AMC Castleton one of Heartland’s finest hours. Or “biggest nights,” as Heartland president Stuart Lowry put it after a Q&A with Downey, Jr. — not only the star but a key producer of The Judge who shaped the direction of the film — and director David Dobkin, a mainstream comedy vet (Wedding Crashers, Fred Claus) who tried to prove his drama chops with the film.

It’s a bit of a pity that I enjoyed listening to Downey, Jr. riff on audience questions way more than I did watching the formulaic, overlong, overbearing movie. And that the appearance seemed a calculated attempt to enhance the Midwestern cred of a movie that was obviously filmed in Massachusetts and follows a hackneyed, simplistic storyline about a prodigal son returning from the big city to the family and hometown he had forsaken.

Still, for Heartland to score this kind of advance screening only a month after The Judge opened one of the biggest film festivals in the world — the Toronto International Film Festival — is undoubtedly a coup. And it’s worth noting that Downey Jr. was aware of the ways in which he was sticking to a proven

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Hollywood formula. From his post-film Q&A: “I always say, ‘Beware of the passion project,’ so I wanted to make a film that was an audience-pleasing bit of entertainment ... We had this great writer in Bill Dubuque, who’s from just down the road in St. Louis, who really gave the script a sense of place. He was like, ‘There should be this old girlfriend, and then maybe he’s cheating on his wife and he kissed this girl in a phone booth in a bar.’ And I was like, ‘We need stuff like that!’ It’s evocative and funny, and it gives Hank more to deal with. Who wants to watch a movie where [it’s only about] the case! Back when movies like The Verdict were made, that was enough. But I feel like audiences are so savvy nowadays.”

In other Heartland news, we can pass along the identity of the closing night film, plus word of a couple special screenings. Belle and Sebastian, a French feature based on the ‘60s television series about a boy named Sebastian and his sheepdog Belle, will close the festival Oct. 25 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The film was released last December in France (a sequel has already been ordered), but hasn’t yet hit U.S. screens.

And Heartland is partnering with The Weinstein Co. on a couple advance screenings. St. Vincent, which finds Bill Murray taking dubious care of a 12-yearold that single mom Melissa McCarthy leaves on his doorstep while she works long hours, will play AMC Traders Point Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. And The Imitation Game, a biopic about mathematician and cryptographer Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch), who was convicted on criminal offense of homosexuality in early ‘50s Britain, will play AMC Castleton Oct. 22 at 8:45 p.m. n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 10.08.14 - 10.15.14 // FILM 21

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Annabelle r Early on in Anabelle, a character says, “We must shine a light on the monsters that feed off our anxiety in order to gain strength.” Like any good horror film, that’s what Annabelle does, exposing viewers to evil and leaving us exhilarated. A prequel to the haunted house thriller, The Conjuring, it follows a ’60s-era couple and their newborn child as they are terrorized by a demonic doll. The film plays out like a funhouse reflection of family stress. Sensitively acted and thoughtfully written, it’s as poignant and tender as it is thrilling.

— SAM WATERMEIER R, in wide release The Boxtrolls t Fun animated story from the creator of Coraline and ParaNorman. The odd, underground creatures known as Boxtrolls raised a lost human boy named Eggs (voice of Isaac Hempstead-Wright). The villainous Archibald Snatcher (Ben Kingsley) is after the group and Eggs soon ends up reluctantly teamed with an adventurous human girl named Winnifred (Elle Fanning).

Entertaining, with a big performance by Kingsley.

Would have been more enjoyable if the Boxtrolls had more personality.

PG, in wide release The Equalizer r While Denzel Washington can handle anything, he is particularly adept at playing Boy Scouts and crazy people. The Equalizer lets him do both. Robert McCall (Washington) enjoys a quiet life in Boston, working at a store called Home Mart (not Home Depot). But when a little teen-age prostitute named Teri (Chloe Grace Moretz) is abused by her Russian pimp, McCall gets involved. Intensely, efficiently, violently involved. The action scenes are furious, sadistic and fun to watch, but don’t expect anything resembling subtlety from Richard Wenk’s screenplay.

R, in wide release Gone Girl e David Fincher’s adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s bestselling novel is smart and, from what I’m told, faithful to its source. The thriller deals with what happens when, on their fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) reports that his wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) has gone missing. Nick receives support and sympathy at the beginning of the investigation, but as time goes by the perception of him begins to change. The thriller held me throughout its nearly two and a half hour running time. A shift in the point of view in the middle of the film forces you to reconsider everything. Some may find it too outlandish, but it never fails to remain interesting.

R, in wide release Love Is Strange e Ben (John Lithgow) and George (Alfred Molina) have been a couple for decades. They formalize their union with a wedding and all is well, until George is fired from the church where he works for violating its official policies by publicly acknowledging his relationship.

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Writer-director Ira Sachs and co-writer Mauricio Zacharias’ focus is on how we behave when interacting with those we love, which can get mighty strange. The film is lovely, painful and universal.

R, in wide release My Old Lady r New Yorker Mathias Gold (Kevin Kline) inherits a Paris apartment from his dad, but when he arrives in France, he discovers 90-something Brit Mathilde Girard (Maggie Smith) and her icy daughter Chloe (Kristin Scott Thomas) living there — and due to the French law, he may be stuck with the arrangement. Kline is excellent as a failed playwright, multiple divorcee and recovering alcoholic. Smith and Thomas are as good as always, though the screenplay forces Thomas to make a radical shift in her presentation style. The film is so-so. The actors, especially Kline, rise above the formulaic material.

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The Skeleton Twins r Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig, two of SNL’s finest graduates, are so good that they triumph over the heavyhandedness of the movie. Siblings Milo (Hader) and Maggie (Wiig) independently plan to kill themselves.

Milo makes the attempt, Maggie is interrupted by news of Milo’s action. Maggie invites Milo to come stay with her and her hubby, Lance (Luke Wilson at his best) in New York while they try to fix what ails them. It’s not easy. Milo soon hooks up with an ex (Ty Burrell) and Maggie cheats with a swim instructor (Boyd Holbrook). Bad news relationships are just part of their problems, but never mind — just savor Hader and Wiig.

R, in wide release This is Where I Leave You t Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda and Adam Driver are a few family members drawn together following Dad’s death to spend a week at the old homestead.

Comedy and drama mix as they deal with relationships, unfinished emotional business, old loves … yes, it’s one of those movies. I like this genre, provided that the cast is good and the script isn’t too clunky.

This one isn’t memorable, but it works well-enough to squeak by (though the storyline with Timothy Olyphant as the brain-damaged — literally — ex-boyfriend of Tina Fey goes nowhere) and the cast is full of likeable performers. An agreeable disposa-movie.

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reat beer list. Good bar food.

Pleasant service. Long waits on busy nights. Cool bathrooms. Crack Fries are good, but Pretzel Nuggz rock.

There you go: A review of HopCat that would fit on Twitter.

And really, that pretty much sums it up.

HopCat, the huge new bar that opened this summer at the intersection of College and Broad Ripple avenues and Westfield Boulevard, doesn’t have the kind of menu that requires a lot of explanation.

Unless you’re talking about the beer, and then, with 130 taps, there’s plenty to talk about — if you’re so inclined. I realize that the massive beer selection is the focal point at HopCat, and clearly, beer fans love the variety.

For, me, though, such lengthy lists are like huge menus — overwhelming. I just don’t need that many options. I mean, I find the 38 choices available at Twenty Tap to be a bit much. Even there, it can take me so long to figure out what beer I’d like to try that I tend to order one I’m familiar with just to avoid having the server make yet another trip back to the table to see if I’ve decided.

I do appreciate that HopCat divides the beer list into categories — so if you want a pumpkin ale, for example, you can look in the “fruit/veggie/spice/ smoked” section and quickly see that there are three varieties.

But HopCat, with its 9,600 square feet, black velvet paintings of rock stars and restroom walls adorned with Rolling Stone covers, seems to be designed to appeal to crowds rather than connoisseurs. And even with two bars and plenty of seating (including an indoor section with picnic tables as well as an outdoor patio), patrons can face a lengthy wait on busy weekend evenings.

That’s why we stopped in before noon for a recent Sunday lunch on a Colts game day. Although we walked right in at 11:45 a.m., by the time we left, the place was packed.

And why wouldn’t it be? HopCat seems like a great place to watch a game (I specifically noted customers settling in on the comfortably wide barstools). It’s not especially cheap, though, so even if you just want to have a couple of beers and

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an appetizer, you’ll easily drop 20 bucks.

We started with an order of Pretzel Nuggz, $8, and while that seemed pricey for a dozen little pretzel balls, mustard and beer-cheese sauce, they were delicious. That beer-cheese sauce was especially tasty, and we took our servers advice and kept what was left for dipping the fries — which, of course, we had to try.

The original HopCat in Grand Rapids has won kudos not only for its beer, but also for its addictive “Crack Fries.”

In fact, the restaurant even holds an annual Crack Fries-eating contest during which winners have come close to eating 2 pounds in under 6 minutes.

They certainly are tasty. The seasoned, beer-battered fries are $4.25 (or $12 by the pound). They also come as a side with sandwiches and burgers, so we opted to try them that way, and while “addictive” is going a bit far, they are very good.

We did try to figure out just what makes the seasoning so appealing (beyond the salt and pepper, of course), and it might have something to do with the white and brown sugar our server clued us in on.

We also tried a burger, and the halfpound $10.95 Bar Zee, one of HopCat’s original signature burgers, was definitely hearty. Topped with bacon, beer bar cheese (which you can also get as a dip) and pickled jalapenos, the burger definitely didn’t lack for flavor, although it was cooked more than the medium requested.

The rosemary chicken salad wrap, $9.50, was stuffed with a generous portion of chicken, grapes, pecans, bacon and spinach and was an appealing option. We also added on an extra to share, a cup of HopCat’s Killer Mac and Cheese, $2.95, which we enjoyed plain, though you can get it loaded with chicken, chorizo, mushrooms, tomatoes and more.

There were plenty other menu items that sounded tempting, from bar classics such as fish and chips and a Reuben sandwich to chicken tacos and porter-braised beef.

But it just might be a loaded version of those Crack Fries that will lure us back. n Jolene Ketzenberger covers local food at EatDrinkIndy.com. Follow her on Twitter @JKetzenberger.

Sun King swept the Great American Beer Festival Wood-and Barrel-Aged Strong Beer style with a Gold medal for Lonesome Dove and a Silver for Barrel Aged 666:Sympathy for the Devil overcoming 105 other entries. Carson’s gained Gold for Red Dawn in AmericanStyle Wheat, 31 total entries. Bier earned Silver for Sanitarium in Belgian-style Abbey Ale, 62 entries. Sandy Cockerham joined the GABF ranks for the first time as one of the 222 judges coming to Denver from worldwide. Cockerham and Ron Smith are Indiana’s only Master level judges. Brewers say comments from judges is the major reason they send beers — the goal being to master the art of brewing-to-style.

Chilly Water is warming up fall with Friend of the Devil Dopplebock coming in at 8.2% ABV, (a portion will be aged in a bourbon barrel for future release), Harvest Moon Autumn Ale made with pumpkin, cinnamon and vanilla and Breakfast in America Oat Stout along with their regulars. Coming up are a Rauchbier (smoked beer), a dunkelweiss and a Belgian Strong Ale. Every Wednesday is Chilly Water’s Hippie Hour with $3.75 pints and $7 growler refills. The new menu brings turkey chili, a beer cheese soup made with Built To Last Pilsner and chicken and veggie quesadillas. Live music is every weekend. More at: chillywaterbrewing.com.

Bloomington Brewing’s BBC Rye IPA is incorporating a hefty dose of Indiana-grown organic rye malt.

Last batch of 10-Speed Hoppy Wheat is in bottles and kegs. Get it now or wait until summer 2015.

Half Moon is celebrating this year’s harvest with a full-bodied, rich, toasty, malty copper colored Bavarian-style Marzenbier.

Mad Anthony’s Hop Wang is a double IPA brewed with freshly picked Cascade hop cones from just across stateline at Battlecreek. Pumpkin Head Imperial pumpkin ale clocks in at a zesty 7.2% ABV. Events Oct. 8. Union Jack Pumpkin Beer Fest; tickets at unionjackpub.co/events/pumpkin-beer-fest/ Oct. 9, 6 p.m. Bier tap takeover, Ember Urban Eatery.

Oct. 10: Upland’s Bloomington Brewpub is celebrating its expansion with a throwback burger menu features prices from Upland’s 1998 opening year.

Oct. 10: Black Acre is hosting their inaugural Barrels on Bonna, Indy’s barrel-aged beer festival and sharing a few of their barrel aged goodies.

Oct. 10, 6-10 p.m. Carmel City Oktoberfest, Carmel City Center, Bier Brewery & Hubbard & Cravens pair up for surprises.

Oct. 11, 1-5 p.m. Porter’s Perfect Pint Fest, Hawthorn Park, Porter, Ind. 35 craft beers, food vendors, live music; benefits the parks and recreation department and volunteer fire department.

Tickets at eventbrite.com.

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Indy’s Whisky & Fine Spirits Expo 5-9 p.m. Calling all refined whisky lovers! This event, sponsored by Vine & Table, has consistently improved every year it’s been put on, with no chance of stopping that growth this year. With Indiana’s new laws allowing breweries to distill spirits, you’ll surely find a producer you’ve never tasted before. There will also be a gourmet buffet, plus the highlight of the event: master classes in tasting available to ticket holders with no additional fee. Food, fine booze, and an education on what the best stuff on earth should taste like? Sounds like a grand time.

The Montage at Allison Pointe, $50, $100 VIP.

Brains & Beer 4: Terminus Awaits 6-11 p.m. Though technically it’s long before Halloween, this bash will be held at Scotty’s Thr3e Wise Men Brewing Company to celebrate the season premiere of The Walking Dead. There will be Walking Dead trivia, a psychic reader, good beer on tap, a best-dressed zombie & character contest for adults and kids, and the season 5 premier of The Walking Dead. And the special invited guest host for the evening’s festivities is His Ghoulishness, Sammy Terry. Suggested donation at the door of $10.00 to continue the mission of Partners in Housing Indy.

Thr3e Wise Men Brewery, $10 suggested donation, facebook.com/ events/277623929091940/

FRIDAY & SATURDAY Parisian Flea Market 9 a.m.-4 p.m. “Gently used” or “previously enjoyed” are the buzzwords at this Parisian-style flea market, where foodies can pick up classic cookware and serving ware for a good cause. You can shop for home accessories, mirrors, dish ware, art, lamps, furniture, estate jewelry, chandeliers, pottery and gift items. It’s not just about the stuff, either. The flea market benefits the Fair Haven Foundation, which provides free housing for families of cancer patients in two locations near area hospitals.

Clay Terrace Mall, Carmel, $5 (16 and under FREE), fairhavenfoundation.org/parisian/

I Am Broad Ripple 12-6 p.m. I am Broad Ripple is a yearly festival highlighting what Broad Ripple has to offer i.e. arts, retail, dining and entertainment venues. This will be a family friendly event that include artists, musicians, community groups and businesses.

There will be lots of food, but no booze (sorry party people). The proceeds from this event will go towards cleaning the graffiti and repainting of the iconic rainbow bridge this year; any money left over will go into a fund that will be established for the beautification and safety projects in Broad Ripple.

Broad Ripple, iambroadripple.org/ Little Wish Foundation’s Mardi Groctober Fest 2-7 p.m. Little Wish Foundation invites

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I Am Broad Ripple is Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. (It will be brighter than this.) you to their Mardi Groctober Fest, a Louisiana-inspired fundraising food event. Have you ever experienced a Cajun Shrimp Boil or had an Andouille Sausage Sandwich?

Well, prepare yourself for a big of that ‘Lou’siana” fire. There will also be some live jazz and a kids area full of games. The Little Wish Foundation grants little wishes to children with cancer at Riley and Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital, so make sure you stop by, have some grub, and make some kids a little happier.

Indy Firefighter’s Local 416 Union Hall, $15 Adults, $5 (kids 6-11), under 5 free, littlewishfoundation.org

TUESDAY, OCT. 14 Foreign Policy & a Local Pint — World Food Day edition 6-8 p.m. Did you know that we make

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enough food to feed the world? Then why are so many people around the world starving? Researchers and advocates will discuss and try to answer that question on Oct. 14, when Foreign Policy & a Local Pint gets rocking for World Food Day. You will have the chance to discuss informally with experts from Africa and DC, foreign aid analysts, and activists seeking to end hunger and extreme poverty in Indianapolis and around the world. And also there will be beer. Yay, beer!

City Market, FREE, facebook.com/ events/340645056110324/.

SATURDAY, OCT. 18 Pints for Half-Pints 4-8 p.m. An evening of local craft beer, food trucks, music and prizes. Find out who will claim the trophy in the Broad

Ripple Brewers Throw Down. All proceeds benefit STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) initiatives at midtown schools. Admission includes souvenir pint glass to first 300 guests. Age 21+ only.

The Speak Easy, $10 admission (food and beer sold separately), pfhp.org.

TAPAS WINE & JAZZ:A Fundraiser for the Foundation of Autism 6-10 p.m. Fine wines, excellent food, music by Janiece Jaffe and Curtis Cantwell Jackson, a silent auction featuring unique items, and a lot of other fun stuff is happening at this Autism benefit. Get down there and help out a good cause while having a blast at a fancy country club. You only live once, right?

Broadmoor Country Club, $40, autismresource.org/events/tapaswine-jazz

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ou’ve probably heard us talk about it before, but our Great Indiana Beer Bracket is going to rock your pants off this fall. Or maybe that’ll just be all the beer. Either way, we are narrowing it down to a few final contenders for our ultimate final four brews. Let us explain our process a little.

You’ll notice that not all of our geographic locations match up to brewery locations, and that’s more or less intentional. We wanted our brackets even, so just like the NCAA and NFL, we fudged a few latitude and longitude lines to make sure talent was evenly spread. And yes, we know that not everyone making beer in Indiana made it on our bracket, but we did have to cut ourselves off somewhere. second round Oct. 4-10

third round Oct. 11-17

fourth round Oct. 18-24

If you have suggestions for contenders in next year’s bracket, email us at editors@nuvo.net.

After a first round of voting, these are the contenders moving on to compete for spots in the sweet 16, which you can vote in next week. After that, we’ll further pare it down (This is Indiana, you all know how brackets work) until we get a competitive final four. Then, the real fun begins.

On Saturday, Nov. 1, pile in with your friends at NUVO as we head to Chumley’s to settle this battle once and for all. It’s going to get heated, with each of the four breweries bringing three styles of beer to go head-to-head. One will be a mild, one hoppy, and one malty or dark brew.

The taste test will be blind, and a winner will

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be crowned in each category. We’ll also crown a grand champion, offer him a chalice of his enemies’ blood, and fall into warlike chants of praise. Or maybe we’ll skip he chalice of blood and just go for really wicked high-fives, brah.

It’ll also be a good opportunity to meet up with the Brew Bracket guys, who have been helping us set this thing up and do it right.

They’re kind of experts, anyways.

So how do you get into such a glorious arena?

Head to NUVO.net where you can grab your presale tickets while they’re cheap. You should also make your picks for the next round while you’re at it. Let the great Indiana Beer Battle carry on! n — Sarah Murrell fourth round Oct. 18-24

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1. 18th St. Brewery

(Bloomington)

15. Three FLoyds Brewing Co.

2. bloomington brewing co.

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(Bloomington)

14. shoreline Brewing

3. Carson’s brewing co.

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(Evansville)

13. Iechyd Da Brewing Co. (Elkhart)

(Whiting)

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16. upland brewing co.

(Gary)

5. bulldog brewing co.

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12. Salt Creek Brewery (Bedford/Bloomington)

11. quaff On! Brewing Co./ Big Woods Brewing Co.

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(Shelbyville / Speedway)

12. People’s Brewing Co. (Lafayette)

6. Grand Junction Brewing Co. (Westfield)

7. Half Moon Restaurant and Brewery(Columbus) 9. mad anthony brewing co.

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11. Outliers Brewing Co. (Chatham Arch)

7. Flat 12 Bierworks

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Muncie rapper Flaco’s output is Based-God-esque: he’s dropped 36 projects on his Bandcamp in a little less than four years, so keeping up with Flaco’s output can be exhausting. Even then, giving one of his tapes a proper listen is the real challenge. Most of them go 20-plus tracks deep, all with his scattershot style.

While the composition can feel as rushed as his release schedule, Flaco’s works are stuffed with stuff.

His influences are vast and varied, and he incorporates pretty much all of them, all the time. In the first five tracks of his newest work, Cheto, he features individual songs based on Jay and Silent Bob, Kanye West and Playstation 2. By indiscriminately and irreverently cribbing from both hiphop and pop culture, his tapes take on a random, maze-like quality as they twist styles from track to track. He’s not shy about wearing his influences on his jean-jacket sleeve, whether he’s finessing a Bone Thugs flow or outright flipping a SpaceGhostPurrp beat for himself.

Flaco is no kind of biter, though — ­ whatever styles he chews up, he spits back a little weirder, and usually a lot more stoned. The weed smoke hangs heavy on Cheto, influencing both the sonics and stream-of-consciousness highdeas.

Flaco blends cynicism with impulsivity between rolling blunts. For him, doing his thing often means simply ignoring traditional rap song structures to just do whatever he wants, like pitching down his vocals in the middle of a verse or randomly dropping out the beat. On the free-form “Playstation 2,” producer SB turns the sound from the PS2’s opening screen into a scant cloud rap.

Don’t get it wrong: Cheto is a thoroughbred rap tape, even if it’s a bizarre one, crammed with different skits and flows and riffs and homages, like both Flacofied semi-spoofs on the Dr. Dre and Kanye classics, “Forgot About Dre’s Drycleaning” and “New Sway.”

He’s constantly clowning hip-hop tropes, with songs like “FUCK YOUR DUMB, STUPID PARTY” or tracks that repeat rhymes to the point of meaninglessness.

While he often chooses not to on Cheto, Flaco can really spit when he wants, me-first rhymes that hail from the Young Money school of solipsism. Here, his best hip-hop tendency is his Gucci-Mane-esque flair for song conceits, such as his “left-hand-righthand” ode to double-fisting on “Ambidextrous” or the “wipe me down” hook on “MIAGI.” He is explicitly serious about his art, though; you just have to cut through the disorder to hear that.

Such a single-minded, relentless focus on himself could be off-putting lyrically, but it’s actually his greatest asset as an artist. It grounds his identity and shows sincerity against a backdrop of noise and randomness, holding down his unique brand of wild meth-hop.

— ADAM LUKACH

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t’s a brisk September evening at Fountain Square’s Maltese Tiger and Ryan Perkins is ripping and tearing through a fuzzed-out set of tunes, howling as his backing band thumps right along behind him. Following each song, listeners howl right back, in approval. Do they know this lanky rocker is merely 18-years-old?

“After having seen Chives [a nickname Perkins also uses to release his music under] play music, it all sort of makes sense. His youthful exuberance turned out through some warped, rockabilly wild man,” says Jacob Gardner (Raw McCartney, BIGCOLOUR, etc.), who plays in Perkins’ live lineup from time to time. “Watching him play, you wouldn’t know that he’s 18.”

Perkins’ exploration of music started in middle school. After giving skateboarding a try, he discovered Black Flag and the early hardcore punk sound.

“That First Four Years album kind of changed my life. After I started getting into that, I just broke off into my

own area,” he says when we talk. “I just picked up a guitar and wanted to play along with all these songs.”

As a freshman in high school, Perkins moved on to churning out his own original tunes.

“Even if they were shitty songs, I’d write like ten songs a day,” he says. “I’d plug into another little guitar amp for vocals and just scream into that and wail on the guitar.” Over the years, he continued to refine his sound, letting each new influence inspire his work. But it wouldn’t be until the death of one legendary rock ‘n’ roll animal in September 2013 that everything finally clicked for him.

“Right when Lou Reed died, I was like, ‘Wait a second,’” Perkins recalls.

“Velvet Underground is like my favorite fucking band of all time. This switch went off in my head, and I just started cranking out actual song songs and sitting down and putting time into it.”

Perkins would eventually start venturing out to local gigs, specifically citing the first ever show at Westgate in February of this year as one that connected him to the Indy scene.

After attending several blowouts at the

Westside venue, he eventually developed a relationship with Westgate founder Dimitri Morris, who also runs DIY record label/art collective Headdress Records.

Morris:“Chives started coming to Westgate shows earlier in the year. After seeing him a few times and making light conversation he told me he played music and promised to give me a demo next time I saw him.”

Since then, Headdress has put out two Chives cassettes (Chives and The “Chirping” Chives) — the most recent of these being a Cassette Store Day release which features Perkins covering four Buddy Holly songs.

As for the live Chives experience, Perkins says, “I’ll probably never have a set lineup that will for sure be that way forever.”

“I think sometimes people might be into the idea, like, ‘Whoa. This is going to be cool,’ but I feel like they’re going into it thinking, ‘This will be cool in the sense that he’s so young,’” Perkins says.

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(Editor’s note: The American Pianists Association’s Jazz Fellowship Awards Premiere Series features five competitors in solo performances at the Jazz Kitchen throughout the next several months. The competitors include LA-based Kris Bowers, who won the 2011 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition; NYC-based Christian Sands, a two-time Grammy Award-nominated pianist; Indianapolis native Zach Lapidus, recipient of a fellowship at Ravinia’s Steans Institute for Young Artists; Miami-based Emmet Cohen, a finalist in the 2011 Thelonious Monk International Competition; and New Orleans-based Sullivan Fortner, who received the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship. A winner will be announced on March 28 following a program at the Hilbert Circle Theatre. Full listing of solo performance events is available on NUVO.net.)

Christian Sands opened the American Pianists Association Jazz Fellowship Awards Premiere Series with a runaway rendition of Nat Adderley’s “Work Song.”

Since I was sitting far back, with tall people in front of me, I couldn’t see the keyboard, so in reality I’m certain Sands only has two hands, though it felt as though he had three to produce the electrifying effect. Working in close unison with bassist Nick Tucker and drummer Kenny Phelps, Sands

immediately won over the capacity crowd at the Jazz Kitchen with his clarity and precision amidst the race to the finish. A Steinway artist, a piano was specially brought in for Sands, and its brightness set the tone for the ensuing program that covered the full spectrum of the language of jazz, which Sands defers to as an important aspect of his oeuvre. Sands doodled his way into Ellington’s “Caravan” with respect to the original yet spinning off with cascades of notes before slowing down to inhabit the standard with freshness, a bit of whimsy and a vamp that brought smiles.

Addressing the audience, he conceded, “I know it’s a competition, but we’re having fun,” thus acknowledging Tucker and Phelps. At home with a bassist and a drummer as a member of the widely traveled Christian McBride Trio, and as a protégé of Dr. Billy

Taylor, his meditative to jaunty “Lonesome Lover” was a fitting tribute to his mentor through an arc that meandered its way back to Teddy Castion’s original tune. With “If I Were A Bell,” Sands created a tone poem hinting at the tune through circular motion music box playing, making space for Tucker and Phelps to shine. “Miss Jones” took us into atmospheric outer reaches with Sands plucking the Steinway’s strings with his left hand while his right hand was playing the keyboard. Minimalism gave way to fulltilt “Rogers and Hart with swing,” quipped Sands.

“Somewhere Out There” was a delicate dancerly showcase across tempos, allowing the mind to linger on “beneath the pale moonlight someone is thinking of me…” The journey through the film “An American Tale” appropriately was filled with side excursions before getting back to the main road.

A full attack, “sort of the blues,” “Thrilla in Manilla” was a clear audience favorite and Sands stopped to recognize the applause, promising to send us out into the night with a true blues riff on “Fried Pies.” Sands proved up to Wes Montgomery’s dual demands of crisp, clear single notes against stabs of chords, with Tucker and Phelps right alongside him. We worked up a sweat just listening. The encore of Bill Withers’ “Lean On Me” leant the subtext of Sands’ philosophy as a jazz pianist—he honors the greats, develops his own voice, and passes both along to yet another generation.

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Recorded at his Bon Iver bandmate Justin Vernon’s April Base studio in Fall Creek, Wis., Range of Light is an outside record in name (taken from John Muir’s musings on beauty of the Sierra Nevadas) and lyric.

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I am in love with this place But I fear for its grace Shoot the sky Opens up like the sea And the resinous high Bloodlines and divines Will my kids see the trees?

Will the glen fall on me?

Carey has said in interviews this album is inspired by time spent in the outdoors and time spent reading about it. Before his show at the Hi-Fi this weekend, NUVO chatted with him about another writer obsessed with the outdoors: John Muir.

And for the rabid Bon Iver fans amongst our readership, we diligently asked about the status of Carey’s other project. He had no real updates for us, saying, “There’s nothing going on. It’s all up in the air, basically.” Vernon did contribute a vocal feature to Range of Light, however.

NUVO: You’ve mentioned that the work of John Muir influenced your recent musical output. What specific writings of Muir’s were you referencing?

SEAN CAREY: The main one was called The Yosemite. I can’t remember where I picked it up. I think somewhere on tour somewhere, and it just kind of stuck with me since like 2010. On the first S. Carey tour, I remember hanging out in the back of the van and reading it. And his writing’s not super captivating, but it’s so calming.

It just kind of took me out of the van for a second and brought me back to the couple

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times that I had gone to Yosemite as a kid, and some other places that I’ve been in the Sierra Nevadas.

That book was always in my tour bag.

I would take little notes here and there. I really like his writing style, his descriptions and his way to make everything beautiful and simple. I thought, that’s pretty much what I’m going for in my music. I saw a lot of similarities there. When I started writing the new album Range of Light, I didn’t really know what to call it. By the time I had all the songs mapped out and could tell what they were going to be about – I don’t think they were all recorded at that point, but maybe some of them were skeletons – I saw this range of emotion in the songs. Some being pretty joyful, or just kind of being like, “This is who I am, this is this part of me.”

Others were darker, too. It occurred to me one day that Range of Light [Muir’s phrase

“I keep thinking of a painter who has a huge canvas and he can vividly see what he wants to do.”

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for the Sierra Nevadas] could be a cool way to represent that; that range of emotions in the songs. I was thinking about those experiences in the Sierra Nevada, and how nature and wilderness is something that keeps popping into my writing, and are things I’m kind of constantly inspired by.

That’s where that whole thing came to be.

I don’t feel like I’m an expert in John Muir at all, but I’ve always connected with his aesthetic and his writing. His spiritual take on nature is something I can really connect with. Just everything about him is kind of like, “Wow.” I kind of think he was nuts, but at the same time amazing. [He said], “Okay, yeah! I’m going to go live in the mountains with a bag of rice for five months.

NUVO: Do you have much of an opportunity to get out into many national parks, forests, other various beautiful landscapes on your tours?

CAREY: Sometimes!

It’s pretty hard to do on tour, but it has happened, that you have a day off or something and you’re not traveling on that day off, that you can do some cool stuff.

This summer we got to spend an hour in Jasper National Park in Canada, and that was pretty nuts. We’ve gotten to spend time in Big Sur, because we’ve played there a couS. Carey ple times. That’s just really beautiful. With Bon Iver, we toured New Zealand and Australia. New Zealand is probably the best place in the world, I think. We had time there to do some hiking and we drove around a little bit. We had a friend of a friend that lent us a car.

NUVO: How do you adapt your intricate sonic layers to the more organic live setting?

What’s the instrumentation on this tour?

CAREY: For the most part, I think we’re able to capture the song and perform it.

It’s pretty close to the record, a little different here and there. I think the live performance is more dynamic, and we get a lot louder in certain places. That’s always a fun challenge to try and figure out. We do have a lot of stuff onstage. I have a couple keyboards and a little percussion station, then there’s a guitarist that always plays this mini vibraphone that we built.

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There’s a pedal steel player that also plays keyboards. There’s a bass player and a drummer. We all have a couple different things that we do. I think the one thing that I sometimes miss, or would like, is some strings of violin. That would sound awesome. But we work with what we have, and our van is absolutely packed to the brim.

We’re pretty maxed out on instruments.

NUVO: What does a successful and productive day of writing look like for you?

CAREY: I don’t know! My writing is so sporadic. A successful day for me is if I get an idea that I can take to a point where I can see what it’s supposed to sound like in the end. I’m not doing a ton of writing right now, but I have one song that I fiddled with the idea for a couple days. I take little voice memos of me messing around, then, a few days later I would listen to the voice memo and I’m at a point that I can picture what it’s supposed to sound like in the end. To me, it’s like, “Okay, that one is done,” even though I don’t have any of the lyrics and we probably won’t record it for a long time. I think that if you can see the end result really clearly, then you’re going to find a way to get there. I keep thinking of a painter who has a huge canvas SUBMITTED PHOTO and he can vividly see what he wants to do. Maybe the canvas is blank, but if you can see it, I think you can figure out how to attain it. To me, that’s a success.

My writing is so sporadic, especially with lyrics, that I’ll write one lyric a day and be like, “Yeah, that’s cool.” And then I’ll sit on it for a while and come back to it.

NUVO: You’re a new dad. How has becoming a father changed your artistic output?

CAREY: I think it changes your perspective on a lot of things. For me, I think I can write from a different place. Not every song, but I can write from that different perspective, a little bit more mature. Also, in a way, it makes the song less precious.

It doesn’t matter, because I have this beautiful baby, you know? Yeah, I want to write good songs, but I have something that’s a lot bigger and better than the song to worry about. It’s freeing, in that way. n

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music and later on became friends. On top of him being a great songwriter and musician he is literally one of the nicest people you’ll meet, and a great example.

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t NUVO, we write, talk and think about Indianapolis every day. It’s our home, after all. What about the hometowns of musicians who tour through Indianapolis? When did they fall in love with their own local scene?

We’ll ask the same questions of each musician who participates in this feature. This time, we’re featuring South Carolina brothers Kelly and Patrick Morris, who make up The MoBros.

They’ll stop in at the Hi-Fi this weekend, touring their new album Walking With A Different Stride.

NUVO: Where did you grow up?

PATRICK MORRIS: We grew up in Camden, South Carolina, about 30 miles northeast of the capitol. If you have seen the movie The Patriot you’ve seen Camden. It is where General Cornwallis’ house was/is, and they filmed a good portion of the movie there.

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NUVO: What’s the all-ages scene like there?

MORRIS: I believe that there is only one venue which is The New Brookland Tavern that is all-ages, but I’m not too sure.

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NUVO: When did you move (if you did move)?

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NUVO: What was the music scene there like?

MORRIS: Camden itself has only one venue, but a really great one called The Venue on Broad, which is still one of our favorites, and a great tour stop for traveling bands. Camden’s music scene is basically merged with Columbia’s since Columbia is the closest major city. There are really a lot of great original bands and singer-songwriters coming out of Columbia and SC in general. We’ve got a lot of soul in the South. The music scene is like a community there, which I believe is a prerequisite for any music scene to prosper. Everyone knows each other, goes

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to shows together and are very supportive of each others music.

NUVO: What was the first local band you really fell in love with?

MORRIS: Josh Roberts was the first local artist that we really thought highly of. We saw him play an acoustic set in Camden for a festival back when we were just starting to play out. We really enjoyed his

MORRIS: We have not moved yet, because our plan is to be on the road as much as possible. We’ve really only been back to SC for three or four weeks this year. There is nothing more freeing or therapeutic than being on the road. We love being on the road, constantly moving, sleeping in hotel parking lots, getting the hotel’s breakfast in the morning. At this point it is not an exaggeration to say that we actually live in a van. We are thinking of moving, and right now it’s looking like Chicago. We played in Chicago back in July and really loved it. There’s so much going on in Chicago for music and just the arts in general. Our older brother is an actor in Chicago and it would be nice to be near him. We’ve spent most our lives in the country and would like to try “The Big City” out for awhile, but who knows where we will end up. n

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SAMITE’S REFUGEE WORK

amite began studying music with his grandfather as a child in Uganda, and he was on track to become a major force in Ugandan music.

And then politics intervened. Regional ethnic conflicts forced the musician to flee his homeland, and in 1982 Samite entered Kenya as a political refugee. Five years later, he immigrated to the United States, where he’s established himself as one of the preeminent African musicians working in America. He’s also drawn on his difficult experiences as a refugee to create Musicians For World Harmony, an organization dedicated to bringing music to distressed and displaced populations.

He’ll play at the Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, October 11.

Here’s a portion of our conversation.

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SAMITE: I was a refugee myself at one point in my life. In the refugee camp there was a lot of loneliness. I noticed that whenever someone would sing in the camp or we had the opportunity to see a performance it would make time move faster and make sad memories go NUVO: I know you play a variety of instruaway. Sometimes it would help people ments including the mbira, or thumb remember good things. piano. What instruments will people see Before I started the organization I was you playing here during your performance? traveling through West Africa trying to bring music into the refugee camps. I SAMITE: I play several kalimbas or mbiras, noticed when I’d go to perform in these which are basically different versions of places it would inspire the people to start the same instrument. I play the litungu to sing again ­— children who’d seen their which is a type of harp. I also play many parents die, or women who were abused different types of flutes and I sing. in the Congo. When I would go perform in the camps after singing one or two songs people would come forward and say “we also have a song. Can we sing for you?” So I realized it was “When people sing it gives important for me to let other musithem hope.” cians be part of this and I created — SAMITE the organization to help people sing again. When people sing it gives them hope. It helps them realize NUVO: You were born in Uganda but that whatever they’re going through in the you’ve spent a significant part of your life moment, it’s not going to last forever. in Kenya and the United States. Do you consider your music Ugandan, or is it more NUVO: When people are suffering and experiencing these tremendous mental an expression of all your life experiences? and physical hardships is it difficult to get SAMITE: It’s no longer just Ugandan music. them to engage with the music?

I am Ugandan and I sing in a language SAMITE: No, not at all. They are always called Luganda. But I’ve been touched by eager. In some of the hospitals or recovery so many experiences the music is not just centers where I play some of the people are Ugandan anymore, even though there’s a so sick that when I say, “It’s time to move lot of Ugandan influence in it. I’ve been to our body,” some of them can only move so many places and played with so many their shoulders, or their fingers or maybe great musicians, it would be impossible even their eyebrows. But you can see them to shield myself from those influences. I making the effort and you know you’ve think that’s part of the reason my music is reached them, and you’re making them accessible to so many people. smile inside. I live for that moment. n NUVO: In 2002 you founded Musicians For World Harmony an organization devoted to bringing music into refugee camps, orphan> > Kyle Long hosts a show on ages and war-torn regions of the world. What WFYI’s HD-2 channel on inspired you to develop this organization?

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the ability to play at large festival stages and small amphitheaters, the group has attracted a large and loyal fan following. The group’s latest EP When The Dust Settles debuted at No. 1 on the iTunes Electronic Charts and Billboard’s Top 25 after dropping on their own label 1320 Records.

Their current tour is the biggest yet, featuring a new production rig that tests the limits of lighting and sound.

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WEDNESDAY EXPERIMENTAL Bob Bucko Jr., Surrealestate 7 p.m. Remember that Based Godesque rapper Flaco we profiled on the first page of this section? We’ve got another insanely prolific artist rolling through town this week. Iowa’s Bob Bucko, Jr. has released dozens of EPs and albums in the last ten years; his found sound collage tracks integrate various pop song structures.

Irving Theater, 5505 E. Washington St., $5, all-ages LEGENDS Don Williams 7:30 p.m. Indianapolis is a good place to be if you’re a fan of country music. Between Klipsch, The Murat and 8 Seconds Saloon, you’ve got stars to see every single week. And this week is of course no exception.

Country Music Hall of Famer Don Williams was called the “Gentle Giant of Country Music” for years and years, all the way until his 2006 retirement.

Insert record scratch noise: retirement? He’s a country music Michael Jordan, because he came right back out a few years later, and even released a new record, 2012’s And So It Goes, featuring Alison Krauss and Vince Gill, among others. We’re happy to have Don Williams back on the packed country touring schedule.

Murat Theatre at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., price varies, all-ages

JAM JJ Grey and Mofro, The London Souls 7:30 p.m. JJ Grey and his band Mofro bring the Florida funk back to Indiana again.

The Bluebird, 216 N. Walnut St., (Bloomington) $20, 21+ ALBUM RELEASE Mina and The Wondrous Flying Machine Album Release 8 p.m. Brandon Whyde, Landon Keller accompany this album release for Mina Keohane and crew at the Vogue’s #locallove night. Wayne’s got a pitch for attending in this week’s Barfly on the next page. We’ll give a mini pitch of our own: Mina’s voice is one of our absolute favorites in Indy, and we like to see her play out whenever possible.

The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave.,$5, 21+ POP Junior Prom with Tied to Tigers 9 p.m. If loving every pop duo from Brooklyn is wrong, we don’t want to be right. They call their style “punk soul dub dance music,” but we just call it fun.

They’re remarkably rounded out for a group with just one release.

This show is the perfect mid-week dance break.

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SONGWRITER Steve Gunn, Mary Lattimore, Jeff Zeigler, Tyler Damon 9:30 p.m. We’ll break down this show collaboration by collaboration. Steve Gunn is a New York-based guitarist and songwriter who’s spent time collaborating with drummer John Truscinski. He’s just yesterday released what, by all accounts is a truly excellent album called Way Out Weather. Harpist Mary Lattimore and guitarist and synth player Jeff Zeigler will open.

They’ve recently collaborated on Slant of Light, out on Thrill Jockey now. Local experimental drummer Tyler Damon (Thee Open Sex, Sitar Outreach Ministry, Sir Deja Doog, Heavy With Puppy, Canned Hamms Blues Band) will open.

The Bishop, 123 S. Walnut St., $8 in advance, $10 doors, 18+

The Doubleclicks 7 p.m. Oh, you guessed this band would be adorable, didn’t you?

Sisters Angela and Aubrey Webber play meme-adjacent ukulele and cello-based tracks with sweet and simple results. Our fave is “Clever Girl,” the dino-themed empowerment track. They’re, unsurprisingly, big on the Internet. Fans of Garfunkel and Oates, take note.

Indy Reads Books, 911 Mass Ave., $8, all-ages INTERNET Ne-Hi, Bikewalk, Dietrich 9 p.m. Breakdown: NE-HI (Chicago) is four piece driven by surf licks and sweeping melodies; their debut album was released earlier this year via Manic Static. The Bikewalk (Indianapolis) makes indie folk with Indy roots. And Dietrich Jon (Bloomington) is a newbie dance rock quartet, with a fresh new EP, Higher.

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An Acoustic Evening with Jason Isbell 7 p.m. Isbell’s Southeastern is one of our favorite albums of 2013. Here’s a bit from our interview with Jason Isbell from his last tour stop; Isbell describes his writing relationship with wife Amanda Shires as such: “She and I were doing this thing where we would separate for a few hours and go to opposite ends of our house. She would write a song and I would write a song.

Then, we’d come together and sing it for each other at the end of the day. ‘Traveling Alone’ and ‘Cover Me Up’ started from that.

‘Traveling Alone’ started when I was out on the road, just in an airport singing into my cell phone, trying to record the chorus. But the rest of that song developed after I got back home and was able to reflect a little bit.” His Bloomington show is a fundraiser for Amethyst House. Shires will open.

Buskirk-Chumley Theatre, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave., (Bloomington), prices vary, all-ages

9 p.m. DJs Sinclair Wheeler and Gno spin hits of the ‘90s and aughts at this new weekly, and it kicks off this Thursday. Organizers promise the first five groups of five ladies get a free VIP section and complimentary bottle of champagne.

Revel Nightclub, 255 S. Meridian St., free with college ID, 21+ DANCE Worst Behavior 10 p.m. Lemi Vice and DJs Gabby Love and Action Jackson run this Rad Summer/Crush Entertainment sponsored dance night. Resist the urge to do anything really bad, will you?

Tiki Bob’s, 231 S. Meridian St., FREE, 21+ Animal Haus, Blu Lounge, 21+ Altered Thurzdaze, Mousetrap, 21+ Schwervon, Mr. Clit and The Pink Cigarettes, Vibes Music, all-ages Max Allen Duo, Union 50, 21+ Burly and Steinbeck, Max’s Place (Bloomington), all-ages The Grayces, Melody Inn, 21+ Landon Keller with Full Band, Royal Theater Danville, all-ages Jerry and Robin, A Stone’s Throw, 21+ Have Music, Will Travel, Player’s Pub (Bloomington), 21+ Steve Allee, Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center, all-ages Darsombra, Skyprojects, Sommer, The Artifex Guild (Bloomington), all-ages Wampire, Tops, The Hi-Fi, 21+

Retro Rewind, Vogue, 21+

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Blues Jam, Main Event, 21+ Chad Mills, Union 50, 21+ Jay Elliott and Friends, Tin Roof, 21+ Blues Jam with Gordon Bonham, Slippery Noodle, 21+ The Family Jam, Mousetrap, 21+ Chris Oaks, Triton Tap, 21+

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America Owns the Moon 7 p.m. We will attempt to describe the sound we made when we heard America Owns The Moon was reuniting at the Mel anniversary show. Let’s see. It was something like, “Herrrrrngghhh.” Or maybe “Hurrrrikk.” Mumbled excitedly, of course, because they’re one of our favorite local groups of the last decade. They’ll play alongside The Fugless, The Brothers Gross, Draw Blood, Mr. Clit & The Pink Cigarettes and The Cousin Brothers. Happy 13th anniversary, Dave and Rob! Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St., $7, 21+

LEGENDS Gladys Knight 8 p.m. The singer, the businesswoman, the humanitarian, the author, the Grammy winner, the women, the myth, the legend, GLADYS. She’s coming.

Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, 355 City Center Dr., prices vary, all-ages SOUL The MoBros, The Breakes, Coup D’Etat 8 p.m. We’ve got a questionnaire with The MoBros on page 30.

The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave, $10, 21+ FOLK Asgeir with Low Roar 8 p.m. Asgeir Trausti Einarsson is a he, but he speaks in we’s. “We made this record; we went into the studio, we buy new synthesizers in every city.”

Apt, because although Einarrson releases music under his first name, his album is the result of an interesting collaborative process. Yes, it is his voice and songs heard on his hugely popular 2012 release Dýrð í dauðaþögn, which sold so many copies that it’s estimated that one in ten Icelandic citizens own a copy and with which he swept just about every category he was nominated in during the 2012 Icelandic music awards. But it’s his father, Einar

SOUNDCHECK Georg Einarsson, who contributed most of the lyrics. When Asgeir released an English version in 2013, titled In The Silence, it was singer-songwriter John Grant who assisted in the translation lyric translation. And when he tours, it’s with a full band. So, even though the album, in both versions, plays like a creation of a single musician, the “we” works. Asgeir’s falsetto glides over it all, humming and snaps in between stanzas; drum machines and synths titter and click alongside.

Asgeir and Co. easily swing back and forth between organic, spare folk and bloomington electronic music. “I just recently about three years ago have an interest in [electronic music], just a few months before we made this album, In The Silence,” says Asgeir when NUVO reached him via phone. “Right now, I’m more into acoustic songs and folk songs. I kind of go back and forth with those things. We always try different views with the songs in the first three days arranging the song. I try to stay open minded with those things. I never wanted to get stuck doing something just one style or trying to follow some one thing.”

Deluxe at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., $15, all-ages TRIBUTE A tribute to Roy Orbison 9 p.m. Bigger than Elvis perform the music of Roy Orbison along with special guests Bill Mallers, Kimmie Letko and Jamison Fisher.

Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St., $6, 21+

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17 local acts will take the stage. At some point during the day, local soul singer Bashiri Asad will do a live recording of his new album.

And there’s even more artists out on the Sabbatical patio. Chicago’s Aryk Crowder will open up; Indy InTune Radio will broadcast live. If you’ve got to miss it, at some point Shine Indy will put out the record created on this day.

Sabbatical, 921 Broad Ripple Ave., free until 9 p.m., $5 after, all-ages

PIXIES Black Francis 9 p.m. Frank Black, a Pixie, Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV, Black Francis. All one dude – plus a couple other dudes and ladies, when he’s with the Pixies. He’ll roll through Indy as Black Francis. His recent setlists have included a mix of Frank Black, Pixies, Larry Norman, Gary Green, Kinky Friedman and Gram Parsons covers, so who knows exactly what iteration he’ll take on this time.

Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St., $20, 21+

NEW VENUE Art and Harmony: Singersongwriter Showcase 6 p.m. Four musicians will perform a short set at this new venue in Carmel. Plan to walk through local galleries during the Second Saturday Gallery Walk, too.

The Warehouse, 254 1st Ave. S.W., FREE, all-ages IRISH Celtic Thunder 8 p.m. Organizers says “Mythology,” the current stage show from Irish performers Celtic Thunder is as epic and historical as ever.

They bring a giant Celtic cross and “ancient” standing stones, moody lighting and plenty of va-va-voom.

Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, 355 City Center Dr., prices vary, all-ages UGANDAN Samite 8 p.m. Peep our profile on page 31.

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White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect St., $5, 21+ COFFEE Second Saturdays at Tin Comet 10:30 a.m. Yeah, we mean a.m., not p.m. This mid-morning miniconcert features Mr. Daniel’s Music Hour. Bring the wee ones!

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Subdermal Babyproofing I want to get the implant birth control, but a friend in the military has it and says that, instead of having no period for three years, she is basically constantly spotting. Does it work for some people and just not others?

— Name Name, from Source SARAH: Pretty much. I know some women who have taken the exact same form and dose of birth control who had wildly different experiences with them (though I’ve heard of that constantly-spotting thing more than the no-period thing with the implant).

Keep in mind, too, that you’re adding hormones to an already established hormonal mix that’s unique to you, and it’s tough to predict how each person’s own mix will respond. Healthcare providers are aware of this, so talk to someone about your questions (the fine folks at the Bell Flower and Planned Parenthood clinics know all there is to know). It might take a few different tries with various hormone dosages and delivery methods, but you’ll find the right one for you.

DEBBY: Everyone is different in terms of how they respond to birth control. There are now several good long-acting forms of birth control including implants and a few different kinds of intrauterine devices (IUDs). You can learn more about these on PlannedParenthood.com and I would suggest asking your healthcare provider about which options might be right for you.

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Swole Shrinkage Does taking steroids have any sexual side effects? I heard it shrinks your balls, but does it shrink anything else?

— Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: I’d say your brain, but if you’re the kind of person who thinks steroids are a good idea, that’s probably a preexisting condition. The shrinking of your balls and backne is the last of your problems with long-term steroid use.

Regardless least of what you’re taking (or thinking about taking), there’s simply no regulation and testing of these products, so there’s no accounting for how they will affect you. Also, there’s nothing as unattractive as finding out that a person with the hot body got it through obsessive training and/or popping pills, so whatever your reasons, skip them. If you don’t believe they’re that bad, do a quick Google search for dead professional wrestlers and pay special attention to their ages and causes of death.

DEBBY: There are so many different kinds of steroids, hormones, and exercise “enhancement” pills and herbs and such that there are no uniform side effects or risks I can share with you. If you are taking anything like that, please please please check in with your healthcare provider. If it is something your provider has prescribed to you, ask about the side effects. If it is not something prescribed (like if it’s something you bought at a health food store, over the internet, or through a friend), please bring the pills or herbs to your healthcare provider and ask for their honest assessment. Some products are basically worthless — they do nothing at all and are just a waste of money. Other products may produce an effect but possibly may come with mild, moderate, or severe health risks.

No Talk, Just Touch My girlfriend was raised very conservative (both parents were in ministry) and I have a really hard time getting her to talk about sex with me. Our sex life hasn’t changed at all in the 6 months we’ve been together, and I don’t think it will as long as we avoid the topic.

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DR. DEBBY HERBENICK & SARAH MURRELL SARAH: What you’re fighting, friendo, is a system of values that equivocates sexual purity with spiritual worth, so you’re really going to have to chip away at some logically unstable bedrock here (the contradictory nature of which she is no doubt feeling the brunt of right now).

Help her focus on the fact that sex is a chance to deepen your intimacy and just make your partner relax and feel good for a while. If I were you, I’d start with examining your language choice when it comes to talking about sex.

Instead of saying “it would be hot if ...,” try “It might be fun to ...” which is subtle, but it takes the kind of tawdry language out an inserts a universally positive word.

Similarly, instead of “You’re so sexy when you (explicit sex act),” try “You’re so beautiful when you’re enjoying yourself in bed.” Start with positive, fairly PG-13 compliments until she eases into it. She may never feel comfortable with the “sexy-sex” part of naked playtimes, but you could show her that you appreciate her vulnerability and sensuality—and that “sexy” and “sex kitten” are not the same thing by any means.

DEBBY: You’re right! If you keep ignoring sex conversations, you two are unlikely to become more comfortable.

This is a shared problem though — it’s not just about her.

She may have been raised in a more conservative home but ultimately the issue is that you two might benefit from learning to share intimacy, not just physically but with words, too. Why not try reading a fairly gentle book about sexuality together? I like Becoming Orgasmic due to its gentle tone and even if she is orgasmic, you two still might benefit from reading it out loud to one another. For Each Other is another lovely book about sexuality. Both of those are older books but still good. Of the books I’ve written, Because It Feels Good (published in 2009) and Sex Made Easy (2012) probably have the most “gentle” approach and, again, reading them together may be helpful whatever book you choose. I say this because the simple act of saying sexual words to one another can be a huge leap forward. It can also be easier for many people to start saying things about sex that aren’t about them per se. So you can talk about sex, without talking about yourselves (at first). Reading about sex may also give her (and you) a better sense of the diverse and interesting ways that people experience their sexuality. Over time, she may feel more comfortable talking with you about sexuality without feeling judged or mocked. Remember: humans develop with time and with gentle encouragement and nurturing.

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shit cleaned way up, pun intended, so I’d probably use something like Satin, which is highly recommended by piercers for aftercare. If it’s good enough for their holes, it’s probably gentle enough for his. Have fun!

DEBBY: Take your pick with soap; that’s a personal choice.

But do make sure that you have been vaccinated, especially for Hepatitis A and B. Soap doesn’t get rid of viruses and when you start putting yourself into contact with fecal matter — even just a tiny bit — you want to make sure you are in good health and have the best defense mechanisms possible. Many people enjoy analingus (oral stimlation of a partner’s anus). It’s nothing to be ashamed of, but definitely something to let your healthcare provider know you’re into so that he or she can help you best protect yourself (in terms of vaccines for anything that could come from fecal exposure) and can be responsive to you should you have any symptoms at a later date. Most people enjoy analingus without any major issues. Good for you for being open to your partner’s desires and to making it a good experience for each of you.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Situation #1: If you meet resistance or doubt, say this: “Ha! This diversion can’t slow me down, because I am in possession of an invisible magical sword!” And then brandish a few charismatic swipes of your sword to prove that you mean business. Situation #2: If angst and worry are preventing your allies from synchronizing their assets with yours, say this: “Begone, dread! For with the power of my wicked crazy songs, I am the destroyer of fear.” And then sing your wicked crazy songs. Situation #3: If you’re finding it hard to discern the difference between useless, ugly monsters and useful, beautiful monsters, say this: “I am a useful, beautiful monster!” Your kind will flock to your side.

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Myself,” Louise Erdrich speaks of the human heart as “that place you don’t even think of cleaning out. That closet stuffed with savage mementos.” I invite you to use her observations as a prod, Taurus. Now is an excellent time to purge the savage mementos from your heart, and clean the whole place up as best as you can. You don’t have to get all OCD about it. There’s no need to scour and scrub until everything’s spotless.

ALLI Even a half-hearted effort will set in motion promising transformations in your love life.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I hope you will learn more in the next eight months than you have ever before learned in a comparable period. I hope you will make a list of all the subjects you would love to study and all the skills you would love to master, and then devise a plan to gather the educational experiences with which you will reinvent yourself. I hope you will turn your curiosity on full-blast and go in quest of revelations and insights and epiphanies, smashing through the limits of your understanding as you explore the frontiers of sweet knowledge.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Three times a week, I take a hike along a rough path through an oak forest. I say it’s rough because it’s strewn with loose rocks. If I don’t survey the ground as I move, I’m constantly turning my ankles. Or at least that was the case until last week. For two days, with the help of a rake, I cleared many of those bothersome obstacles off the trail. It took several hours, but now the way is smoother. My eyes are free to enjoy the sights that aren’t so close to the ground. I recommend that you do similar work. Stop tolerating inconveniences and irritations that hobble you. Get your foundations in shape to serve you better.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): American author Edgar Allan

Poe (1809-1849) was ahead of his time. He created the genre of the detective story and mastered the art of Gothic horror tales. According to the Internet Movie Database, 240 films have referenced themes from his work. British writer Aldous Huxley wasn’t a fan of Poe, though. He said Poe was “too poetical — the equivalent of wearing a diamond ring on every finger.” Judging from the astrological omens, I suspect you may be at risk to lapse into a diamond-ring-on-every-finger phase yourself, Leo. While I am all in favor of you unveiling more of your radiant beauty, I’m hoping you won’t go too far. How about wearing diamond rings on just four of your fingers?

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running for the U.S. House of Representatives in Georgia’s 10th Congressional District. To bolster his authority, he repeats quotes by revered figures from American history. One of his favorites has been a gem from the sixth U.S. President, John Quincy Adams: “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” The only problem is, those words were actually written by country singer Dolly Parton, not by Adams. Don’t get fooled by a comparable case of mistaken identity, Virgo. Be on the alert for unwarranted substitutions and problematic switcheroos.

Be a staunch fact-checker. Insist on verification.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “There’s a way not to be

broken that takes brokenness to find it,” writes Naomi Shihab Nye in her poem “Cinco de Mayo.” I suspect this describes your situation right now. The bad news is that you are feeling a bit broken. The good news is that this is a special kind of brokenness — a brokenness that contains a valuable secret you have never been ready to learn before now. Allow yourself to feel the full intensity of the brokenness, and you will discover a way to never be broken like this again.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In a competitive

game show on Japanese TV, 13 people had slabs of meat tied to their foreheads. They then poked their heads up from below, through holes in the floor of an elevated platform, where a hungry lizard was stalking around. But not one of the contestants stuck around when the lizard came to nibble the meat; they all ducked down out of their holes and fled to safety. That was probably wise, although it meant that the prize went unclaimed. Now I’m wondering, Sagittarius, about what might happen if a similar event were staged in your neighborhood. I suspect there’s a chance you would will yourself to stand calmly as the lizard feasted on the meat just inches from your eyes. As much as I admire that kind of poised courage, I want you to know that there are better ways to express it. Be on the lookout for noble challenges with goals that are truly worthy of you.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Director Michael Bay makes big, loud, fast, melodramatic action films, including Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, and the four Transformers movies. The critics hate him, but he’s unfazed. “I make movies for teenage boys,” he says. “Oh, dear, what a crime,” he adds sarcastically. I love that stance. He knows what he’s good at, and makes no apologies for doing it. I recommend that you cop some of that attitude right now.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): While walking in San Francisco, I passed the Pacific Heights Health Club. The sign out front said, “Birthday suits tailored here.”

It was a witty reference to the idea that working out at a gym helps people get their naked bodies in good shape.

I’d like to interpret the sign’s message in a different way, and apply it to you. The time is right for you to get back in touch with your raw, original self, and give it the care and the fuel and the treats it has been missing. Who did you start out to be? What does your soul’s blueprint say about who you must become? Home in on your source code and boost its signal.

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poet Emily Dickinson in a playful letter to Maggie Maher, dated October 1882. In accordance with the astrological omens, I authorize you to let that same declaration fly frequently from your own lips in the coming week. Feel free to invoke other variations on the theme of naughtiness, as well: “I am exploring the frontiers of naughtiness,” for example, or “You need to be naughtier” (said to a person you’d like to get naughty with), or “Being naughty is my current spiritual practice.”

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I am naughtiest of all,” wrote

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Horror novelist Stephen King has sold more than 350 million books. But when he was young and destitute, still honing his craft, his self-confidence was low. His breakthrough work was Carrie, about a teenage girl who develops telekinetic powers. But when he was first writing that manuscript on his old manual typewriter, he got so discouraged that he threw his first draft in the trashcan. Luckily for him, his wife retrieved it and convinced him to keep plugging away.

Eventually he finished, and later sold the paperback rights for $400,000. I hope you have an ally who will go digging in your garbage to fish out the good stuff you unwisely discard. Or maybe this horoscope will convince you not to scrap it in the first place.

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