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INSIDE NECROPOLIS

Our reporter went behind the scenes, and somehow survived, to bring back images and information about what it takes to put together one of Indy’s most ambitious haunted houses. STORY AND PHOTOS BY MIKE ALLEE COVER IMAGE BY MIKE ALLEE

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INDIANA’S GREEN ENERGY MIX

The future mix of Indiana’s energy supply — and how much green power it includes — hinges on the outcome of a policy battle brewing quietly all year at the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission. BY DAN FERBER

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TEDX COMES TO INDY

This Friday, a TEDx event will be held for the first time in Indianapolis, coming after previous conferences in Fort Wayne and Bloomington. It is, alas, sold out, as is usually the case for all things TED. BY KATELYN COYNE

from the readers In response to David Hoppe’s column, “The 10 worst college majors”: I completely agree. My English degree from Duke and all my liberal arts courses are with me every day 50+ years later. They taught me to think. I can’t say the same for the glorified high school vocational programs some colleges are substituting because high schools have so often gone to a one-size for everybody “college-prep” program emphasizing standardized testing but teaching nothing of value.

— Posted by E. Dale Dinkens

Any mathematician would tell you that math sits solidly in the humanities. We do math because it is perhaps the purest form of thought. It has nothing to do with computation. It is about contemplating transcendental ideas like infinity and higher dimensions. People only think otherwise because math before the college level is horribly mangled. Anyone with a passion for the creative arts should read “A Mathematician’s Lament” by Paul Lockhart. It’s only a few pages, but it is one of the most eloquent defenses of math I’ve encountered. Please google it! We’ve been trying to correct this misconception for too long!

— Posted by Jonathan

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HAMMER Voting, Lugar, and the Indiana Fever Celebration, thanks and war

BY STEVE HAMMER SHAMMER@NUVO.NET

ate Silver, the polling analyst for The New York Times, came up with something interesting the other day: If only women voted this fall, President Obama would win by a landslide bigger than his 2008 margin, possibly even putting some solid red states such as Georgia into play. If only men voted, Mitt Romney would win almost every state except California, Illinois, Hawaii and a few northeastern states. Why do women support the president and men do not? Silver attributes it to the Democrats strength on issues important to women: equality in pay, the freedom of reproductive choice and the existence of a strong social safety net. What’s more baffling is Romney’s popularity among men. Is it the swagger of the CEO that Romney projects? Is it the fact that he likes to casually threaten war against Iran and Syria? Is it the fact that he feels a woman’s place is in a bright red threering Avery binder? Whatever the reasons, here’s a good opportunity for the women of America to take a stand. They should be threatening a general strike if Romney wins the election. And since women are in charge of most households and many companies, this is no idle threat. Our economy would quickly grind to a halt. Our families would disintegrate. Our lives would be greatly affected if the women of America suddenly stopped working. And since Romney’s policies would bring about a new recession and the destruction of many families anyway, women have nothing to lose by such a threat. Republicans have been declaring war on women for more than 40 years now. It’s time that women declare war right back on them.

“You know, Senator,” I said, “I’m more liberal than John Kerry and Ted Kennedy put together. But you and Bill Hudnut are the only Republicans I have ever voted for. You helped make this city great as mayor and you served the nation well as a senator. I’m just sorry I couldn’t have voted for you 100,000 more times in the primary.” He thanked me and went along with his day. But my words were true. Few senators have served their state better than Lugar did Indiana. His efforts to secure loose nuclear material in the former Soviet Union made our nation safer. Our farmers are better off for his progressive legislation. Our city thrives due to the efforts he made 40 years ago to plan for its future. He deserved better than to be tossed out of office in favor of a Tea Party hack like Richard Mourdock. It’s like watching Leon Spinks, as unworthy a boxing champion as there ever has been, knock Muhammad Ali on his ass. I never thought I’d get a chance to thank Lugar personally for all he has done for the state but now I have. I’m sure he didn’t know quite what to say in response, but I’m glad I had the opportunity to express my gratitude.

Fever title, ABA parallels

Watching the members of the Indiana Fever celebrate their first WNBA championship on Sunday night was a stirring sight. With tears of joy streaming down her face, the great Tamika Catchings thanked her teammates and the people of Indianapolis. They thanked her back. It was the first professional basketball championship in Indiana since 1973, when the Indiana Pacers won the last of their three American Basketball Association titles. Few who watched the Fever game on Sunday are old enough to remember the Pacers’ last title; but for those who are, there are some eerie similarities. Like the WNBA, the ABA struggled every year to maintain its existence amid the indifference of the media and the fans in many of the league’s cities. The Pacers usually played in front of large home crowds but, on the road, their opponents struggled to put fans in seats. The last Pacers’ ABA championship, like the Fever’s title, was in many ways the end of an era. Within two years, the Pacers had traded away their superstars or lost them to free agency. The Fever, with many veteran players, may not stay intact much longer than the 1970s Pacers did. So it makes it especially sweet that the hard work put in over the past decade or more has finally paid off in a championship. Catchings, especially, deserved to hoist the trophy. Her name will forever be remembered alongside the other Indiana pro basketball greats — McGinnis, Brown, Daniels and Miller.

Why do women support the president and men do not?

A meeting with Lugar

I stopped at Starbucks on my way back from lunch the other day and saw a familiar face standing in line: Sen. Richard Lugar. Having been disgracefully abandoned by the Republican Party he had served with distinction for almost 50 years, he apparently had nothing better to do on a Thursday afternoon than to walk around Downtown and grab a cup of coffee. I saw this as a big opportunity. I walked up to him, shook his hand and thanked him for his years of service to the state and said that he would be missed in Washington.

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HOPPE The 10 worst college majors And what’s even worse

BY DAVID HOPPE DHOPPE@NUVO.NET

was recently invited to serve on a committee. I am, as a rule, allergic to committees. While I realize their utility, I tend to agree with Groucho Marx, who once cracked that he didn’t care to belong to any club that would have him as a member. But this particular invitation came from my old alma mater, the college I attended back in those halcyon days when music was played on a stereo, term papers were pecked on typewriters — and practically everybody smoked. The members of my class are having a reunion, and they’ve asked me to help plan it. I am still close to a number of my classmates. We did a lot of growing together while we were in school and, to the extent that some of us have stayed in touch over the years, this sharing of experience has continued through various and sundry breakups, the growth of children, loss of parents and our own, inevitable aging. So I’m looking forward to meeting up and hanging out with these friends of mine. I’ve begun to wonder, though, to what extent this sojourn is going to feel like a visit to some reservation for endangered species, where the lot of us will seem like so many marooned sea turtles. We went to a liberal arts college. Most of us graduated with degrees in things like English, anthropology, sociology, and history. It was great. We learned a lot, like how to read and see and listen, and then how to think and talk about what it all meant. Many of us liked doing these things so much we kept at it, going to graduate schools and getting advanced degrees. Most of us did all right. Not that we haven’t screwed up here and there. But we’re working, often in jobs that provide us with a decent amount of satisfaction and community impact. The trouble is we keep hearing that the kind of education that enabled us to have the lives we do is on the way out. A recent study in the journal Liberal Education finds that many liberal arts colleges are either changing their missions or disappearing altogether. “Although many one-time liberal arts colleges cling to that historical identity in their mission statements and promotional literature, our findings confirm a continuing drift away from the traditional arts and sciences-based model of a liberal arts education,” wrote the study’s three authors, one of whom, incidentally, works for the accounting firm Ernst & Young.

In an article in the journal Inside Higher Education, Victor E. Ferrall Jr., president emeritus of Beloit College, commented that, “the number of Americans who see the great value a liberal arts education provides is dwindling…In today’s market, how is anyone going to get a job as an anthropologist or historian, let alone as a philosopher or expert in 19th-century English literature?” As if on cue, Forbes magazine recently published a listing of the “10 Worst College Majors.” The listing, calculated by the Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) at Georgetown University, provides discouraging news about what liberal arts majors can expect employment and moneywise. Anthropologists between the ages of 22 and 26 are suffering a 10.5 percent unemployment rate and, if they do land jobs, a median salary of $28,000. “Non-technical majors — the arts (11.1 percent), humanities and liberal arts (9.4 percent), social sciences (8.9 percent) and law and public policy (8.1 percent) — generally have higher unemployment rates,” states the Forbes report. “Conversely, health care, business, and the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, math) have been more stable and higher paying for recent college graduates.” Unemployment for nursing grads, according to Forbes, is just 4 percent; their median starting salary: $48,000. “What society rewards in economic terms has moved away from the softer majors,” says Anthony P. Carnevale, the director of Georgetown’s CEW. “It’s become about how much math you do.” I can easily imagine how a statement like this would have affected me when, as a high school sophomore, I was struggling to keep from flunking algebra. I would have sprinted down to shop class and splattered my math-intolerant brains all over the grease pit there with a tire iron. I’m sorry, but some — make that a lot — of us are not, nor will we ever be, equipped to build our lives around the ability to compute. Besides, don’t we have machines for that? We Baby Boomers have been blamed for plenty of what’s gone wrong with society over the past 40 years or so — from recreational sex to SUVs. But what I want to ask my compadres planning our college reunion is this: Why are we failing to preserve a way of education that enabled us to have the kinds of lives we enjoy today? The liberal arts introduced us to timeless questions about who we humans are and how we live together. Then they provided the tools necessary to explore these things in ways that, if they haven’t necessarily made us rich, have enriched us. When we found these traditions, they were vibrant and alive; we seem to have reduced them to columns in a cost-benefit analysis. You’d think we would have learned to pass along more than that.

I’m sorry, but some — make that a lot — of us are not, nor will we ever be, equipped to build our lives around the ability to compute.

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THUMBSUP THUMBSDOWN INDIANA FEVER: NATIONAL CHAMPS!

Is a national championship worth a consecutive three-peat “Thumbs Up” listing for the Indiana Fever? You bet! Their 87-78 home-court victory over the Minnesota Lynx sealed the deal with a 4-1 overall record in the finals. Congratulations, Indiana! Sorry about the literal rain on your parade, but we trust the vibe of the overall celebration is unspoiled. You’ve earned your glory. Enjoy it!

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SIGNS OF DISCRIMINATION

The joys of home ownership may be escaping Bank of America. Based on an investigation of disparities in how banks are maintaining (or failing to maintain) bank-owned properties in black and Latino neighborhoods in Indy, Chicago and Milwaukee, the National Fair Housing Alliance announced Tuesday its filing of a federal housing discrimination complaint. In Indianapolis, advocates said none of the evaluated properties in black and Latino neighborhoods featured a “for sale” sign, 71 percent featured “substantial amounts of trash” on the property and 57 percent had broken doors or locks.

SMART MONEY

In line with Indianapolis First Lady Winnie Ballard’s Campaign for Financial Fitness, local financial planners are volunteering their time this Saturday to offer the public free guidance on financial planning. One-on-one assistance will be available along with topical seminars on a range of topics including investment, retirement, employment benefits and insurance planning. The event is set for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Oct. 27 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Discovery Hall. Spanish translation will be available. Visit financialplanningdays.org/Indianapolis for more details.

DEFUNDING’S FISCAL FAILURE

The fiscal geniuses at the Indiana General Assembly may end up costing the state more than $100,000 to have the judiciary smack down its attempt to strip Planned Parenthood of its Medicaid provider status. When the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld the majority of a preliminary injunction protecting Planned Parenthood from defunding, the court rejected the state’s attempt to deny Medicaid funds for preventative health care services such as pap smears and STD testing. (No public funding is used for abortions.) The ruling clears the way for the trail court to issue a permanent injunction, at which point the state can expect a bill from the ACLU for around 400 hours spent on the case (at more than $400 per hour).

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tion that they let too much slide on the controversial Edwardsport power plant, which will use a new technology that produces gas from coal, said Mike Mullett, an attorney based in Columbus, Ind., who represents such groups as the Hoosier Chapter of the Sierra Club, the Hoosier Environmental Council and Citizens Action Coalition. Edwardsport is one of two coal gasification plants in the United States currently under construction. The Edwardsport project has run more than $1 billion over the company’s initial budget estimate of $1.985 billion, spawning legal action by environmental and ratepayer advocates and additional IURC hearings. The advocates’ goal was to keep BY D A N FE R B E R the project’s developer, Duke Energy, E DI T O RS @N U V O . N E T from dumping those excess costs on the public, Mullett said. The future mix of Indiana’s energy The Edwardsport project also spawned supply — and how much green power it a huge scandal involving cozy relations includes — hinges on the outcome of a between Duke Energy and the IURC. policy battle brewing quietly all year at the The goal of the rule update is “to push Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission. utilities to do a better job estimating finanAt issue is the language of the state’s rule cial risk and uncertainty on projects like governing how investor-owned utilities Edwardsport,” he said. develop long-term plans to meet electricity The proposed IRP rule raises the bar demand. Regulators are updating that rule for utilities in several ways. The first for the first time in 17 years. If environis increased transparency. At least two mentalists prevail, the state’s five investorpublic meetings would be required any owned utilities will face more scrutiny time an investor-owned utility develops from outside experts while developing the an integrated resource long-term plans, which plan, and more if the are known as integrated public expresses a resource plans (IRPs). strong interest. And a Those outside experts new provision called will include Indiana a compliance deterenvironmental groups mination allows the and ratepayer advocates, commission to force who could ask tough utilities to redo the questions that may steer planning process if utilities to promote enerthose meetings didn’t gy efficiency and renewhappen. able electricity sources Utilities also have to like wind and solar. This follow the industry’s in turn would fight clibest practices when mate change and save forecasting electricity ratepayers money. demand. That entails But the utilities are considering a variety of pushing back, saying that scenarios in their plansince they have the most ning, such as increased skin in the game, they investment in energy should have the most say — Mike Mullett, efficiency programs, over their plans. watchdog attorney Mullett said. And in a The rules governing significant departure IRPs will steer “longfrom the old rule, the term decisions of utiliIURC must determine whether utilities are ties, and therefore billions of dollars of actually complying with the rule, rather investments,” said Jesse Kharbanda, executhan having them simply say that they are. tive director of the Hoosier Environmental Council. It will influence the mix of coal, Utilities push back natural gas and renewables that utilities The state’s utilities have no problem with use to generate electricity. more transparency, said Ed Simcox, presi“The mix will really drive our overall cardent of the Indiana Energy Association, bon footprint,” Kharbanda said. which represents the state’s five investorThe public comment period on the IRP owned utilities — Duke Energy, Vectren, rule has ended, and the IURC will issue the Indiana Power & Light, Indiana Michigan final rule in a few months. Power and NIPSCO.

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“They’re like teenagers who don’t like their parents setting their hours and telling them about their friends.”

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“For the company to unveil in an IRP process what their long-range plans are is not objectionable,” Simcox said. But the utilities do object to a provision

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allowing the state’s regulators to check whether they’re complying with the IRP rule. In proposed edits of the rule submitted to the utility regulatory commission the trade group struck that provision. The utilities say the new rule gives environmentalists a new way to obstruct the process of building power plants by suing, and that there’s already a mechanism in place for them to object. But Bowden Quinn of the Hoosier Chapter of the Sierra Club says that “we’re not looking for that ability” to sue. “They’re like teenagers who don’t like their parents setting their hours and telling them about their friends,” Mullett said. “The attitude is, ‘We’re perfectly capable of managing our own business without a government agency telling us how.’ ” The Indiana Energy Association also objects to another part of the rule that forces them to meet with environmentalists and ratepayer advocates as they’re developing their plan, which gives those groups more input on utilities’ long-term planning decisions. In the past, the integrated resource plans “have been very black-box procedures,” said Quinn, who has led Sierra Club’s effort in pushing for a new rule. “There was no avenue for participation,” he said. “They just filed them.”

Devil in the details The real problem for utilities is a possible delay that could slow a power plant’s construction, which “could delay them from getting access to the money machine” that electricity ratepayers provide, Mullett maintained. That’s because utilities are allowed a guaranteed return on investment for building power plants. Hard questions about whether they’re complying with state rules could delay approval of an integrated resource plan, which could delay a power plant that a utility wants to build. Simcox says that’s not the reason the utilities are pushing for changes. They’re not necessarily opposed to more public

A FEW FACTS ABOUT INDIANA ENERGY:

• Indiana ranked seventh among the States in coal production in 2010, and coal-fired electric power plants provided 83 percent of Indiana's net electricity generation in 2011. • Indiana’s industrial sector, which includes manufacturers of aluminum, chemicals, glass, metal casting, and steel, consumed more energy in 2010 than the residential and commercial sectors combined. • In 2011, the Whiting oil refinery had the largest processing capacity of any refinery outside of the Gulf Coast region. • Indiana is a major producer of ethanol; in 2011, it had 13 ethanol plants capable of producing 906 million gallons per year. • The largest geothermal heating and cooling system in the United States is being built in Muncie. • Total current operating wind power (as of 9/19/2012): 805 turbines produce 1,343.2 MW Sources: Energy Information Administration / The Indiana Department of Energy Development input while they’re developing IRPs, but “the devil’s in the details,” Simcox said. “The fine line is this: The companies are the entities that are responsible for producing and delivering power. The buck stops with them. You can’t have outside parties dictate to them what they’re going to do and how and when they’re going to do it.” Dan Ferber is an Indianapolis-based journalist, author and speaker. His 2011 book, Changing Planet, Changing Health, which he wrote with the late Dr. Paul Epstein of Harvard Medical School, describes how climate change jeopardizes public health and offers a suite of solutions to help us protect ourselves.

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Necropolis owner Steve Walls notices something wrong. A small bulb illuminating one of the rotted mannequins is casting a faint glow on the floor at the end of an adjoining corridor. It is a long, dark hallway lined with bags of compressed air that visitors will be forced to squeeze through to continue along the haunted maze. Squeezing past the bags doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t provide an uncomfortable sensation, but they do cause one to feel a bit claustrophobic, especially when surrounded by total darkness. >>>>>

An animatronic electric chair, left, was considered state of the art 15 years ago. Steve Walls says it now represents old techn ology. The “workshop,” center, one of the rooms visitors pass through in Dark Terrors. A nine foot tall glow in the dark creature, right, waits deep inside of the Haunted City.

Walls points out the stray light to a Wa member emb mber er of o his production team. “We swimmers hung here,” Walls need some som ome e swi s needs to be totally black. I says. “This Thi h s nee n anyone to know where they are don’t want nt any an touching them, or how long going, goin go i g, w what’s at’ss to last.” it’s t’s going go ng to to las la a something that Walls does every It is some somethin eth re-evaluates and choreographs day. He He re-evalu r each of the steps step guests will take through his 45,000-square-foot spook house. “Every time I walk through, every night we’re open, we find things that we want to change,” he says. “We’re never done. We’re always changing stuff.” Some things are changed for safety. Some are made for customers’ comfort or to entertain them while they stand in long lines. And some changes are made to help scare the crap out of you. Like so many other things, Halloween haunted houses have evolved. Some no longer even call themselves houses; in the industry they are referred to as haunted “attractions.” Years ago they were smallscale events set up in vacant houses, barns or abandoned warehouses designed to run for only a week or two. Haunts like Necropolis are permanent structures; they are open for business one month a year, but busy being rearranged and retooled with new rooms, sets and effects the other eleven. It is a very narrow window for making a profit and the competition between houses for consumer dollars is fierce. No one’s first choice is to attend the city’s second or third scariest haunted house. They want the one that is the scariest. The more successful haunted attractions are a cross between old-school scares and new technology. Some of the top haunts in the country incorporate effects rivaling those in major theme parks. Theatrically lit custom sets, pneumatically controlled animatronics and looping high-definition video work hand in hand with the guy in a hockey mask at the exit chasing you out

with a chainsaw. Today’s haunted attractions are bigger, more elaborate productions than their predecessors. And they are more expensive to produce and to attend. Having been in the business for more than 20 years, Walls has witnessed many of the changes firsthand. “When we opened in 1991, we were a $6 haunted house,” he says. “Now we’re a $27 haunted house. And in a better economy, we could probably charge even more.” Walls says embracing technological change is necessary to stay ahead in the haunted house wars. But he considers high-tech additions many times less important than the low-tech scares one also needs to offer. “We purchased a $3,000 animatronic wolf this year,” he says. “It’s a $3,000 distraction. While you’re reacting to this big, charging and barking wolf, you don’t notice the scary dude entering from the false wall just behind you. That’s the scare, the scary dude behind you. The wolf is just a distraction.” The “scary dudes,” as Walls and his crew refer to them, seem to be almost everywhere. They are the bloody, costumed characters who wait in dark corners, pop through fake panels and slam open coffin lids and false set pieces to keep you in a constant state of anxiety. On a busy night there can be as many as 70 of them lurking behind the walls. Necropolis is a winding labyrinth taking you through foggy cemeteries, black-light sewers and mad-scientist laboratories. It is divided into three areas — the Haunted City, the Zombie Inn and Dark Terrors. You can pay to visit them individually or in combination. To walk all three attractions takes about 45 minutes. There are no resting stops along the way, but there is by law, a fire exit never more than 25 feet away where one can step out of the dark maze to catch a breath if they feel the need. And according to Wall’s security team, there is someone who needs to at least once, if not

NECROPOLIS: CITY OF PERPETUAL DARKNESS 2525 N. SHADELAND AVE. (IN DARK ARMIES PAINTBALL ARENA) 353-1987, darkarmies.com /necropolis-haunted-house Open daily from 7 p.m. through Oct. 31 Single attraction: $19 adult, $12 child Combo ticket: $27 adult, $20 child (group discounts available) several times, every weekend. “We are strictly an adult-based attraction,” Walls says. “We put signs up and we tell parents that we are way too intense for children, yet they take that as some kind of dare and they bring them anyway. Then they get two steps inside, the kid freaks out and they turn around, mess up the flow of traffic and want a refund. Not only is it a bad experience for them, but it slows things down for all the people who have been waiting in line to get in.” Flow and timing are taken seriously at a successful haunted attraction. The long wait to get in is something that many customers complain about and those in the business are constantly looking for ways to shorten the wait, or at least to make it entertaining. “Our goal is to enter six people every 45 seconds,” Walls says. “We seldom achieve it, but that’s our goal. Even at that pace, it can be an hour to hour-and-a-half wait. We had a great attraction a few years back. It was a simulated elevator effect. You walked into a dark library, entered a fake elevator at the back of the room, the doors shut, the floor shook and when the elevator doors opened back up, you were in a swamp. While the doors were closed, we had two guys rolling one room out of the way and

replacing it with another. It was very effective, but the reset time was way too long. It just wasn’t practical.” In the offseason Walls shops haunted house conventions, Internet sites and trade magazines for next season’s new high-tech addition. But you might also find him at the local Goodwill or dollar store scrounging for props to decorate his next themed set. He considers himself a businessman first and foremost. The bottom line is that a haunted house must attract people and it must also turn a profit. There are building leases to be paid, advertising to be bought and payroll to be met. Walls holds no fascination with monsters or horror; he receives no secret pleasure out of scaring people. But many of his employees do. Inside Necropolis a half hour before opening, things start to become very active. Outside, cars are beginning to fill the parking lot and lines are forming. Scary dudes are running in and out of the makeup room putting last minute touches on other scary dudes. There is a sense of anticipation emanating from them. It is more sideshow carnival than Broadway, but this is their stage. “I love working here,” says Mary Ann Hart, who stares at you through eyes transformed by white contact lens. Her assignment this evening is to recite the house rules to people waiting in line, and to occasionally scream maniacally into their face. It’s another distraction. While she is keeping you occupied, you may not notice the guy getting ready to fire up the chainsaw on your other side. “This is my second year,” she said. “I love it. The first night I worked here my heart was pumping all night long.” Eric McFall, better known as Gomez, looks over while touching up a nasty looking head wound. “This is the greatest job in the world,” he says. “I look forward to it all year. Where else do I get to chew my wrists open, spit blood and entertain people.” ■

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A pitch-dark maze with more surprises than most of its kind, an excellent 3-D neon house and a Victorian nightmare hall make up the indoor portion. Outside you’ll see an enormous hillbilly-torture-family sequence that is nearly worth the price of admission. The real standout, though, is the military-themed zombie corn maze, which makes tremendous use of the site’s location at a paintball facility. In the darkness, the deep field of wrecked military vehicles and jeeps gives the impression of an endless apocalyptic landscape. The Blade Runner-esque billowing torch that occasionally lights the night certainly adds to the flavor.

ASYLUM HOUSE 2350 SR 37 SOUTH 919-9347, THEASYLUMHOUSE.ORG TICKETS $20 ($15 ADDITIONAL FOR PAINTBALL), OPEN OCT., 25-31 q The near-legendary Asylum House, which has cemented its role as Indy’s best haunted house over the past decade, has moved to a new location this year: a sprawling 28-acre site. The creators use every single corner to drive their full-frontal interactivity to new extremes. Interactive? Oh yes. For those unfamiliar with Asylum House, there’s none of this “the performers will not touch you; you will not touch them” business. You’re not a passive audience member at Asylum House, boys and girls; you’re the damn VICTIM. The actors are all over it and all over you. It’s best to play along or run for your life. What was once a primarily indoor house has unfolded into a wild ride through a creepy neo-victorian mansion, an alien-and-zombie-infested corn maze and a nightmarish backwoods that goes on for ages. Be sure to wear your running shoes. The most entertaining new addition is a Wonderland-themed sequence, where the Mad Hatter just might have you for tea, literally. It’s advisable to do exactly as the Red Queen orders. And for those who’ve always said they could survive the zombie apocalypse, you have a chance to back up your big talk during a relentless, five-minute obstacle course while armed with only your wits and a paintball gun. Overall, it’s a new location and a new age for Indy’s greatest haunt. We can only imagine what next year will bring. — PAUL F. P. POGUE

HAUNTED ANGELUS 8829 E WASHINGTON ST., 317-500-GRIM, HAUNTEDANGELUS.COM TICKETS $16-24, OPEN OCT. 19-21, 26-31, w Haunted Angelus, one of the newer haunts in the city, hits with a solid first year and the promise of bigger thrills to come. The house doesn’t seem very large from the outside; you might find yourself wondering how much value you’re going to get. But rest assured they take advantage of every square inch with a haunt that feels at least twice as long as it actually is. The first half is essentially a series of themed rooms with everything from “nightmare hospital” to “nightmare pits of hell” to “nightmare-you-get-the-idea.” The second half unpacks into the exterior for an extended jaunt through a wooden labyrinth that twists and turns. The makeup on this one is a real standout. As you can tell from the photo, they didn’t skimp on the blood and gore. Even faces you might only see for a few seconds in

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darkness are plunged in blood. Plus, Angelus jams its finger down on the “creepy kid” button and keeps it there, with unnerving junior psychopaths wandering through some of the murder-halls. Incidentally, the haunt is fully ADA accessible with doors and passages wide enough to accommodate wheelchairs and no cramped ceilings or ramps. Like its sister house in Florida, it’s a fundraiser for The Angelus, a cerebral palsy group home in Florida. Organizers tell me they plan to make it three times as big next year. I’m not sure how exactly they plan to pull that off, but it certainly should be worthwhile. — PAUL F. P. POGUE

THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN: UNSCRIPTED AT COMEDYSPORTZ 721 MASSACHUSETTS AVE., 317-951-8499, INDYCOMEDYSPORTZ.COM TICKETS $5-12; PRESENTED OCT. 26 AT 10 P.M. e ComedySportz takes a decidedly mature stance on Halloween entertainment with The Headless Horseman: Unscripted, a long-form improv piece very loosely based on Washington Irving’s classic tale. Six improvisers tells the story of Drunken Hollow (the place name changes with every performance, per audience suggestions), incarnating characters from the story — Ichabod Crane, Brom Bones, Katrina Van Tassle, etc. — and pulling slips of audience-suggested dialogue from two buckets flanking the stage as they go. Like any good improv show, success depends on strong ensemble work, and the ComedySportz team more than succeeds by that measure. However, hilarious standouts are inevitable; Jeff Clawson and Edward Trout fall easily into that category. With plenty of X-rated content that readily reflects the sensibilities of the audience, ComedySportz creates a gut-busting evening of fast and loose comedy. Their tried and true framework for “adults-only” performances doesn’t disappoint. Worth seeing again and again. — KATELYN COYNE

INDY SCREAM PARK (above) 5211 S. NEW COLUMBUS ROAD, ANDERSON (ON THE GROUNDS OF WHITE RIVER PAINTBALL), 317-489-3732, INDYSCREAMPARK.COM TICKETS $22-$ 40; OPEN OCT. 11-14, 18-21, 25-28, 31 q Indy Scream Park hasn’t been around long, but in a short time it’s established itself as one of the must-see parks of the season. It’s a haunted house as directed by Michael Bay and written by caffeine-addled grad students on a weekend bender. And it’s absolutely huge, with five separate segments that stand distinctly on their own.

Indy Scream Park keeps you busy for hours. The whole thing is designed as an event in itself: A Halloweenstyle county fair complete with the snacks, cheesy entertainment, booths and highly dubious games. (Paintball-shooting invading zombies is something of a thrill in itself.) Worth the cost of admission and certainly worth the drive to Anderson. — PAUL F. P. POGUE

KORN KINGDOM MAZE AT BEASLEY’S ORCHARD 2304 E. MAIN ST., DANVILLE, 317-745-4876, BEASLEYS-ORCHARD.COM TICKETS $6-$8 (PLUS $5 PARKING FEE) OPEN OCT. 12-14, 19-21, 26-28 r Beasley’s Orchard offers a charming harvest experience geared toward families in the memory-making-business. With a pumpkin patch, hayrides, games and entertainment, this Far Westside farm evokes the spirit of fall. And if you’re looking for non-scary fall fun, their Korn Kingdom corn maze might be just the ticket. Maze-goers choose from a variety of passports containing themed multiple-choice questions (sports, history, Halloween, scouting, etc). Throughout the maze, wanderers reach markers corresponding to the questions. A correct answer sends them in the right direction, while an incorrect answer leads them astray. My partner and I completed the quest in about 20 minutes; for me, the perfect amount of time to meander aimlessly. The designers of this maze wisely made the path more difficult at the start and less confusing toward the end. For a family with kids, I expect it might take about twice the time, hopefully adding up to twice the fun. — KATELYN COYNE

SOUTHSIDE MASSACRE 6004 CAMDEN ST. SOUTHSIDEMASSACRE.COM TICKETS $18, OPEN OCT. 18-21, 25-28, 30-31, q Southside Massacre’s more than 40 actors are very hands-on taking a perverse pleasure in scaring the crap out of you any chance they have. And God help you, if you let on at all that you’re the least bit scared! You start out in a toxic wasteland where you are greeted by sadistic clowns, who chase you with chainsaws to your next destination. Enter the pitchblack maze where actors bang on walls reminding you that “There is no God in Hell.” The highlight of the whole shebang is Southside Massacre itself: an insane asylum with its very own butcher shop and a lunatic at every corner. Be warned: A couple of the actors have probably seen Deliverance one too many times. You are not allowed to touch them, but they have no problem grabbing you, throwing you up against a chair or butcher block and letting you know you’ve got a “purty mouth.” It’s all in good fun and comes highly recommended. — MARK LEE

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Internationally acclaimed organist Dr. John Fenstermaker sets the mood, accompanying the 1923 silent film, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” projected on a large screen. Admission is free. Childcare provided.

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It’s hard not to be impressed by the programming the good folks of Irvington put together every year round about this time, culminating in Saturday’s street fair (10 a.m.5 p.m., free), featuring live music (Dancin’ Nancys, Gordon Bonham Trio, Stasia Demos), all manner of activities (Indiana Jim’s Reptile Experience, Make a pot with Don Edwards), a spooky Bloodmobile (Indiana Blood Center’s, for actual blood collection) and a costume parade from 4 p.m., not to mention beer from Black Acre, a craft fair organized by the Indieana Handicraft Exchange and plenty of food trucks (Chef Dan’s Southern Comfort, Flying Cupcake and more). But we get ahead of ourselves. There’s something to do each day leading up to the fair. You’ve got a double-bill at the Irving Theatre of The Invisible Man and The Invisible Man Returns (Oct. 24, 7 p.m.; $5 adults, $3 12 and under) . Spooky stories by Ken Oguss and the crowning of the winners of the Irvington Halloween Festival Writing Contest (Oct. 25, 7 p.m.; free, with donations accepted). A zombie bike ride (Oct. 26, 7 p.m., leaving from Irvington Public Library). Two nights of roller derby at Ellenberger Park featuring the Circle City Derby Girls and Race City Rebels (Oct. 26, 7 p.m.; Oct. 27, 6 p.m.; $10 adults, 12 and under free). EclecticPond’s Dracula: The Panto, a British-style pantomine first staged at this year’s Fringe festival (Oct. 27, 8 p.m.; $15 adult, discounts available). And, last but not least, the Pleasant Run Run, which comes in five mile run, three mile walk and one mile fun run varieties, all of which snake through the sylvan streets of historic Irvington (Oct. 27, registration from 8 a.m.; $25 for five mile, $20 three mile, free for fun run).

This week, organist Charles Manning and his Phantom Singers will again climb up the catacombs to perform a spooky set of tunes, including music from The Phantom of the Opera. Visitors will have the opportunity to embark on nighttime tours of Crown Hill Cemetery, led by tour guide Tom Davis.

Historic Irvington Halloween Festival

Oct. 25-27, 8 p.m. @ 700 W. 38th St., $15-25, crownhill.org

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame @ Northminster Presbyterian Church

Night of the Living Dead, Part 2 @ Wheeler Arts Community

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The Woman in Black @ Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre Stephen Mallatratt’s ghost story hasn’t a chance to break The Mousetrap’s record for longest-running play on London’s West End, though a 23-year run is nothing to sneeze at. The title character first appears to a junior solicitor during a funeral, who then spends the rest of the proceedings trying to figure out what she was doing there.

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Dr. John Fenstermaker will take command of the pedals, stops and all manner of keyboards Friday, playing organ accompaniment to the 1923 silent The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Free child care is available.

Write of the Living Dead @ Big Car Service Center

7 p.m. @ 1660 Kessler Boulevard E. Drive, northminster-indy.org

The guys behind MST3K offshoot RiffTrax return to the big screen Thursday for a digital simulcast of their live riff on Birdemic: Shock and Terror, a no-budget 2008 Birds ripoff that’s lately picked up steam among fans of the odd and incorrect. Michael J. Nelson (Mike on MST3K), Kevin Murphy (Tom Servo) and Bill Corbett (Crowwww!, in later years) will handle mirth-making duties.

A two-day mini-fest at Big Car Service Center (3819 Lafayette Road) devoted to the art of the scary story, presented by Punchnel’s, the web magazine for fiction, reporting and miscellaneous belles lettres with, um, punch. Laird Barron, Gary Braunbeck and Catherynne Valente — along with the winners Punchnel’s Zombific(a)tion story contest — will kick it off Friday night at 7 p.m. with a free, donation suggested program of spooky stories. All three of the aforementioned writers will stick around Saturday for workshops ($25 each) starting from 1 p.m., to be followed by a family-friendly Halloween party ($10, with zombie tag!) that evening to benefit Second Story.

8 p.m. @ various AMC, Regal and Goodrich theaters (check fantomevents.com), $12.50

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Music of the Night @ Crown Hill’s Gothic Chapel

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Acting Up Productions picks it up where they left off last year, showing what happened to Tom, Barbara and Ben after they barely escaped from the zombie horde. Part 2 is based on an original script by AUP Artistic Director R. Brian Noffke, with top local talent in the cast including Georgeanna Smith and Michael Shelton. We gave 4.5 starts to last year’s Part 1, calling it all “you could want from a zombie play.” Complementary webisodes and tickets are available at livingdeadlive.com. Oct. 26, 27, 31, Nov. 1-3, 8 p.m.; Oct. 28, Nov. 4, 2:30 p.m. @ 1035 Sanders St.; $12 advance, $15 door

FRIDAY

Ghostville @ IMAX, Indiana State Museum Dan T. Hall is back this Halloween weekend with his seventh documentary exploration of the paranormal, this one based upon a visit to two sites with great haunting potential: St Joseph, Mo.’s Gore Psychiatric Museum, formerly the site of the state’s Lunatic Asylum No. 2; and Indiana’s Owen County Home, built in 1878 to house the poor and mentally disturbed, and site of an unsolved murder. 7 p.m. @ 650 W Washington St., $9.50, imax.com

SATURDAY

Indy Zombie Prom @ Birdy’s Bar and Grill It’s not only a zombie prom — it’s also a fundraiser for YETI, or Youth Enhancement and Training Initiative, a local non-profit that’s presently raising money to build an orphanage in Nepal. With live music from Voodoo Sunshine, No Pit Cherries and Midwest State of Mind. 9 p.m. @ 2131 E. 71st St., $10 donation, birdyslive.com

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Day of the Dead Festival @ Indiana State Museum and Eiteljorg Museum Because the Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) and Halloween share similar imagery, including sugar skulls, it can be easy for the uninitiated to get the two confused. Learn why the occasionally macabre holiday can be a celebration of life at an interactive, all-day festival featuring activities, performances, artist demonstrations and more. Visit both the Indiana State Museum and the Eiteljorg Museum with a one day only combo ticket, running $8-12.

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Bookmama’s will kick off their Halloween weekend festivities on Saturday with readings at 11 a.m, 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. of “The Raven” and other haunting pieces by consummate performer Stephen Vincent Giles in their Underground Studio 9. Up on the ground floor, a couple writers will set up shop that afternoon at 2 p.m. for book signings: Gary Ledbetter, author of Urban Legend: Murder at the House of Blue Lights; and George McDermott, whose Paramilitary Zombie Survival Field Manual may prove essential after the imminent apocalypse, at least for those not raptured. Sunday will feature a Day of the Dead event (2-5 p.m.) featuring altars and offering an opportunity to share journal entries and memories of the dead. The Giles reading runs $5 for adult and $1 for 12 and under; all other events are free; more at bookmamas.com.

WEDNESDAY

Silent Halloween @ Indiana Landmarks Center The not-at-all-haunted former church features a couple spooky silents, with cash bar: Buster Keaton’s straight-forwardly titled short The Haunted House (1921) and German expressionist mainstay The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, with organ accompaniment by Mark Herman). 7 p.m. @ 1201 Central Ave.; $12 public, $10 Indiana Landmarks member; silenthalloween. eventbrite.com

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Indy Magic Monthly Halloween Special @ Theatre on the Square Francis Menotti headlines a night of magic also featuring Brandon Baggett (fresh from his run at Holiday World) and emceed by Esmerelda Fallendo, who we’ll bet is an exact DNA match with Taylor Martin. Plus: Door prizes! 7:30 p.m. @ 627 Massachusetts Ave.; $20 adults, $12 seniors, students, military; indymagicmonthly.com

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Composer residencies For whatever reason — aligned stars, academic schedule quirks, our city’s irresistible soundscape — this week will find three contemporary composers taking up residences at Indy universities, or at least those within driving distance. William Bolcom, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1988 for his Twelve New Etudes and perhaps the best-known of the bunch, will arrive at UIndy Wednesday for a three-day visit that includes three public performances of his work. The first, Oct. 25 at 7 p.m., is a vocal and chamber recital of his work; the second, Oct. 26 at 7:30 p.m., will feature the UIndy wind ensemble and orchestra. And the final performance, Oct. 27 at 8 p.m., is a collaboration with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra featuring Bolcom’s Symphony No. 3, Greig’s Two Elegiac Melodies and Vorisek’s Symphony in D Major. The first two are free; the ICO performance is $25 for adults and $12 for students. The public is also welcome to a roundtable discussion Oct. 27 at 12:30 p.m. featuring Bolcom; his wife, the mezzo-soprano Joan Morris, with whom Bolcom has collaborated on a number of performances and recordings of American popular song; and ICO Music Director Kirk Trevor. All events are at the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall of Uindy’s Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center. “What impresses me about [Christopher] Theofanidis... is his ability to blend several musical languages once thought to be mutually exclusive... there are elements of Asian music, minimalism, high chromaticism, and a sort of brightly colored impressionism... the results are enormously attractive.” That’s The Washington Post on this year’s guest composer for ISU’s Contemporary Music Festival, the university’s not so highly publicized weekend of discussions about and performances of new music. All events are free and open to the public, and there are quite a few of them. The fes-

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tival kicks off Oct. 24 with a performance of two Theofanidis pieces — and a world premiere of a piece for alto sax and cello by Alexis Bacon — by the Indianapolis Chamber Players (including Butler prof Davis Brooks on violin). Oct. 25 is packed with student recitals and discussions, and closes with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra playing plenty of new music, including Michael Torke’s Lucent Variations and Theofanidis’s Bassoon Concerto. It all closes Oct. 26 with plenty more Theofanidis during an evening concert featuring ISU ensembles. Plenty of info can be found at indstate.edu/music/ cmf; Thursday and Friday night’s concerts take place at ISU’s Tilson Auditorium. And Butler is also in the act, welcoming film composer Christopher Young for a visit from Oct. 24-28 that will include a Sunday afternoon concert by the Butler Symphony Orchestra featuring an extended suite from his score for the movie Priest. That 3 p.m. program is free and open to the public; also on the bill are Young’s music for Hellbound: Hellraiser II and Bless the Child, spooky film music by George Crumb and John Corigliano and new pieces by Butler Composer-inResidence Michael Schelle (The Exorcism of the Sugar Plum Fairy) and Butler grad Kyle Wernke (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow). Head to butler.edu or officialchristopheryoung.com for more. 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 10.24.12-10.31.12 // go&do

GO&DO Rangoon University, which was being held by the regime, while thousands of students were still in prisons. This opposition earned me seven years imprisonment. I was terrified. In prison, I met many student activists, veteran politicians, members of opposition parties and monks. I realized the true intention of the military dictators. They wanted our brains to be rusty, to numb our intellect. Political prisoners (until 2007) were not allowed pens or paper, books or any other learning materials. Throughout my time in prison, I was determined not to let the Burmese junta dull my mind. I tried my best to study in prison, though the consequences of getting caught were severe. NUVO: What do you want people to know about Burma and what do you want them to do with that knowledge?

THURSDAY

Yelp Paints the Town Red @ Mavris Arts & Event Center Want free stuff? Yelp, the onomatopoetic crowd-sourced review site, has you covered with a big old, 21+ party at the Mavris Arts & Event Center. All you need do is RSVP (for free, on yelp.com) to get access to samples of our town’s arts, culture, food and drink. On the bill are Cultural Cannibals, The Art Press (on site screen printing), Studio 2000 (sample massages), Irish Ink (airbrushed tattoos), film shorts (Indy Film Fest), Just Pop In (popcorn) and 240 Sweets (marshmallows). Plus, booze samples from Harrison Bourbon, Indiana Vodka and Sorgrhum (the rum made from sorghum). NUVO will represent with some manner of paint-by-numbers installation, so there’s also that. 7-9 p.m. @ 121 S. East St., free, yelp.com

STARTS 25 THURSDAY Seminar @ Phoenix Theatre

Just about everything on this year’s Phoenix Theatre schedule is one manner of premiere or another, and in the case of Seminar, its the first time that the comedy by Teresa Rebeck ( Smash, NYPD Blue, Law & Order) will hit the Midwest. It’s about a jerky, sarcastic writing teacher/poohbah and his students/targets in a master class. Oct. 25-Nov. 25 @ 749 N. Park Ave.; $28 adults, $18 ages 21 and under ($18 for opening weekend, Oct. 25-28); phoenixtheatre.org

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Aung Khaing Min @ Athenaeum Theatre “I’m not a hero or extraordinary. I am a normal guy.” That’s Aung Khaing Min, who, for all his strengths, may not be the best judge of his own extraordinariness. Not everyone has the courage, at the age of 15, to oppose a brutal regime, as he did in 1988 during a pro-democracy uprising in his homeland of Burma. Not everyone has spent time in prison as a penalty for speaking truth to power — Min did seven years, beginning in 1996. Nor can just anyone bear witness to, according to Min, “killings, prolonged arrest, arbitrary detention and forced labor” and still find the energy to advocate on behalf of his people. And it may well be a rare soul who can land on his feet in a new country and connect to both disapora communities and the community at large, as he has since arriving in the U.S. in 2005 on a Department of State Burmese Refugee Scholarship. Min, who spent those first five years in the U.S. in Bloomington and Indianapolis, will share his extraordinarily un-extraordinary story this Thursday, Oct. 25, at the Athenaeum, during Exodus Refugee Immigration’s annual fundraiser. Exodus, the largest refugee resettlement agency in Indiana, has, for 31 years, worked with refugees from countries around the world. Just this year, the organization settled nearly 700 refugees. Min said that he was “scared of being killed” while jailed, and that he “didn’t want to be tortured or beaten. But I loved my country and my people, and this gave me the courage to do what I had to do when it needed to be done,” he told NUVO via e-mail last week. Min escaped to Thailand after his release from prison, working there for an organization there to raise awareness about the situation in Burma.

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From there, he arrived in Bloomington on a scholarship, attending Indiana University, where he earned a degree international relations. After graduation, Min worked many organizations, including Exodus, and dedicated himself to helping his friends, family and all political prisoners in Burma. “I lived in a prison in Burma and survived the excruciating prison life,” he said. “Some of my friends remain in prison; some were re-arrested and imprisoned again; others died. They sacrificed their lives in the quest for a free and democratic Burma. As long as there are political prisoners in Burma, I will continue to work until they are all free.” Indianapolis is home to nearly 10,000 refugees — and approximately 75 percent of those refugees are from Burma, according to Carleen Miller, executive director of Exodus. But it’s not as if a refugee’s problems are over once they land in a new country. “If you think about it, each of these individuals aren’t only overcoming a path that has a lot of pain and a lot of suffering,” said Kristin Wright, director of development at Exodus. “They’re going down a new path with a lot of challenges.” Here’s more from our interview with Min, who is currently living in Boston, where he’s pursuing a masters degree in public administration. NUVO: What’s your story? What happened to you in Burma? AUNG KHAING MIN: As student activists, we faced many difficulties: constant threats from the authorities, and the military intelligence was always watching us and our families. We faced social exclusion, discrimination in the school system and loss of educational opportunities. I was expelled from high school for meeting with fellow students to talk about human rights and democracy in Burma. I was involved in the demonstration calling for student rights, freedom and democracy. We opposed the Diamond Jubilee Ceremony of

MIN: If people really know about the situation in Burma, why people flee from Burma and become refugees, what they have suffered in their lives, I think they will understand the lives of those living in exile. Leaving Burma was not easy - it was a hard choice to make. Often I feel torn: I want to be in Burma, I want to be there for my family, but I must work for my country. The 2010 elections failed to bring true democratic change to Burma. The elections are designed to legitimate, strengthen and elongate military rule in the country. Hundreds of people are still languishing behind bars for peacefully exercising their basic civil and political rights; hundreds of thousands of ethnic people are on the run from military brutality and hundreds of thousands of people are still in refugee camps. I agree that there are some changes, but it is important to know that those changes do not meet the benchmarks yet. We, the Burmese people, are the ones who want to see the real changes in our country most. But given the current situation, we just want to tell people not to over-cheer the deceitful changes and wait to see whether the changes occurring are leading to the right track or not. We still have a long way to reach the real changes. — NATHAN BROWN

EXODUS REFUGEE IMMIGRATION ANNUAL FUNDRAISER Thursday, Oct. 25, Doors at 6 p.m. The Athenaeum, 401 E. Michicgan St. Tickets $35 advance (exodusrefugee. org), $45 door

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ETHEL with Todd Rundgren @ Clowes Memorial Hall ETHEL is a Juilliard-trained string quartet that fears no music. Todd Rundgren is a self-trained musician who can tell you all about his idiosyncratic theories of music

(as he did a couple years back as a lecturer at IU Bloomington). The two parties first played together in 2005, when ETHEL was the third wheel on a strange co-bill of Rundgren and Joe Jackson. They join forces again this year for Tell Me Something Good, an out-there celebration of the music of the ‘70s featuring Lou Harrison’s medievalbaroque-Javanese Quartet Set, Arvo Part’s icy Spiegel im Speigel, new arrangements of charts by Afro-alien Sun Ra — and, of course, a whole lot of Rundgren. 8 p.m. @ 4602 Sunset Ave, $35, cloweshall.org

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Caffeine Crawl Like the wine or beer aficionado, a committed coffee enthusiast will max out her resources in search of the perfect cup. It can be a lonely obsession, as most coffee-drinkers are just in it for the caffeine. But this Saturday the bean obsessed will join together in tastings and conversation for the first Caffeine Crawl to be held east of the Mississippi. Think pub crawl, but with coffee. Participants will begin their tour at Julian Coffee Roasters, then move through five more local coffee shops (with a chocolate shop thrown in for a sweet break from the jitters), tasting samples and hearing presentations on everything from single-cup brewing methods to coffee pairings. “With wine tastings, we interact with the person pouring your drink and that’s part of the experience,” explains Jason Burton of The LAB creative group of Kansas City, creators of the Crawl concept. “But in coffee culture, in a high-end coffee shop most people are in a hurry or are intimidated by the barista stereotype. So the whole idea behind the Caffeine Crawl was to break down that barrier and get coffee enthusiasts interacting with the shops and learning more about the behind-the-scenes.” Stops on the tour include Julian Coffee Roasters, The Best Chocolate in Town, Bjava Coffee, Harvest Café Coffee and Tea, Hubbard and Cravens Coffee and Tea, Lulu’s Coffee + Bakehouse and SoHo Cafe and Gallery, where the crawl will end with an after-party featuring live music and a raffle of food and beverage prizes (proceeds will go to charity). Tickets are $25, and available online at caffeinecrawl.com or locally at Lulu’s Coffee + Bakehouse. The Crawl runs from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

TUESDAY

David Javerbaum @ Arthur M. Glick JCC What does one call one who pens a memoir on behalf of God? Not a ghostwriter, exactly. A spiritwriter? David Javerbaum’s The Last Testament: A Memoir from God is an account of what really happened in the Hebrew and Christian bibles, written by the most reliable narrator ever. Javerbaum is a former head writer and producer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart; he visits as part of the Ann Katz Festival of Books & Arts, which runs through Nov. 17. 7 p.m. @ 6701 Hoover Road; $5 public, $3 JCC members; jccindy.org 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 10.24.12-10.31.12 // a&e feature

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Architect Trung Le and Carrie Busey Elementary School, which Le thinks is a model of good design; Design for America director S ami Nerenberg. Both will speak Friday at TEDx Indianapolis.

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Rethinking design at 18 minutes a pop BY KATELYN COYNE EDITORS@NUVO.NET It’s right there in the mission statement. TED, the organization behind a series of massively popular conferences and talks, is intended to be a “clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world’s most inspired thinkers.” That clearinghouse has gotten bigger over the years; gone are the days when it was absolutely impossible to get into one of their annual conferences (though ticket prices can still be quite steep), and TedTalks videos have been available for free online since 2006. But the philosophy still speaks to a top-down approach — someone must remain behind the curtain, curating, inviting, engineering. Enter TEDx, a franchised version of the TED conference that allows organizers to apply for their own licenses to develop a TED-branded event, with a significant degree of control over what can be presented (zealots, be they preachers of politics or religion, can’t be invited; talks must be filmed and 18 minutes each, the set length for any TED talk). This Friday, a TEDx event will be held for the first time in Indianapolis, coming after previous conferences in Fort Wayne

and Bloomington. It is, alas, sold out, as is usually the case for all things TED. Presented by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the International School of Indiana and Big Car, TEDxIndianapolis will take the theme of design learning. That’s consistent with TED’s roots in the design community; the organization’s name is an acronym for Technology, Entertainment and Design. “The idea [behind TEDx] is to continue the energy throughout the year,” explains Jim Walker, Big Car’s executive director, “and then have the big main conference be the culmination of all that year-long energy that happens all over the world at the different conferences.” “Jim Walker was the first to suggest a handful of speakers that formed the basis of the conference,” explains Anne Laker, the IMA’s former director of public programs and Big Car’s current program director, “many of whom are experts in creative crowd sourcing — putting creativity in the hands of audiences.” It’s an impressive list. Scott Stulen of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis will speak to how his organization’s decision to implement programming driven and contributed by the community. John Green, the Indy-based professional blogger and hugely successful writer of young adult novels who Walker describes as the “Bill Nye, the Science Guy” of history, will speak about a community of fans of his writings and YouTube videos known as “Nerdfighters” for their commitment to save the world by effectively deploying their collective intelligence. Sami Nerenberg, a leading figure in the Design For America movement, which is dedicated to getting college design students involved with real-world

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projects, will speak her organization’s mission to connect students with communities outside the campus quad. [It’s about] “giving the students a sense of agency and voice, and saying, “Well, what are you passionate about? What is happening within your own community?” Nerenberg told NUVO. “We show them examples of other people doing it, and we give them a safe place to fail so they can reframe those failures as learning opportunities.” And Trung Le, a leader at the architectural firm Cannon Design, will speak to his ideas about a new learning ecology. Le was working with the International School of Indiana to help the school redesign its campus when the germ of the idea to bring TedX to Indy began to take shape. (The school later contacted Big Car for more help on the redesign, an association that indirectly led the two organizations to collaborate on the conference, with the IMA later entering the fray as a third partner.) As the school continues to consider a campus redesign, its leaders hope to pull the larger community into a conversation about what makes for an optimal learning environment. “The global conversation right now is trying to define the relationship between design and learning and teaching,” Le said. “Environment has a huge effect on behavior. If 21st century skills that we are teaching and learning require a new behavior and pattern, then how can the environment facilitate that?” Le finds answers in a search for a “new learning ecology,” arguing that space ought to define expectations. “Walking into a gothic cathedral, that sense of smell, the way the space is laid

out, how light comes into the space, it emphatically tells you how you should behave,” Le said. “Well, if you’re going to design a space for collaboration, it should tell you that this is a place that you have to interact, to engage.” Le, who spoke at TEDxIstanbul as part of a project to design a new model of school for the entire country of Turkey, is a proponent of the idea of environment as a third teacher (with adults as the first teacher and peers as second). He argues that the alignment between environment and pedagogy is crucial. “You see very progressive environments where the old way of teaching is still there and then you see very progressive pedagogy stuck in a kind of 20th century model of space,” Le said. With his team at the Third Teacher (a branch of Cannon Design), he works with anthropologist and educators to discover a community’s individual “learning ecology.” The TEDxIndianapolis conference is a first step in discovering the learning ecology of Indy. “TED as a brand and as a mindset expresses 21st century learning skills,” Le said. “The idea that we are solving very complicated, complex problems, that a single expertise is no longer able to address… We need to arm ourselves with a diversity of mindset.”

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Nineteen dead comics were resurrected Thursday night at the White Rabbit, from Rodney Dangerfield (played by Cincinnati’s Mike Cody) to Mae West (a bawdy Janette Perez), Andy Kaufman (a spot-on Isaac Landfert, staying in character off-stage) to Philagrios (Vincent Holiday, playing one of the two authors of the first book of jokes in recorded history), Phil Hartman (Jim Leugers, doing the frozen caveman bit) to Joey Bishop (Otto). Mitch Hedberg, John Candy, Groucho Marx, Redd Foxx (nailed by Vinnie Landfert), Gilda Radner, Bill Hicks, Johnny Carson and George Carlin numbered among the other impressions. White comics played black ones, black comics played white comics; there were no rules. Comedians obviously put forth a ton of effort to memorialize their favorite comics. The costuming, props and sets made for a terrific show. Some comics were more nervous than others, some better prepared, but each crafted an effective portrayal; their love for the comics they paid homage to was evident. This made for an extraordinary night, watching dead comics full of life again, making us laugh once more. The next Absurd Third Thursday at White Rabbit is Nov. 15; the Dead Comics Party around this time next year.

The big “first” of the night was the resumption of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s concert schedule in mid-season, as it were, because a contract was settled. But Friday evening’s real first came when ISO music director Krzysztof Urbanski allowed his players to take on Ravel’s Boléro without a conductor. And it worked quite well, till the entrance of the solo French horn. It burbled its way onward trying to find the theme but never quite clamping on it. It was noticeable by all and was surely embarrassing to the player, who simply had one of those bad moments particularly endemic to horn players. Otherwise Boléro was played together and stayed together from start to finish.

— BEVERLY BRADEN

Urbanski began this all-French program with Oliver Messiaen’s Poèmes pour Mi, a song cycle for soprano and orchestra. The nine songs were sung by soprano Twyla Robinson whose vocalism varied over the songs’ plethora of emotions. Though the strings dominated the high registers of the orchestral compass, Robinson often delved into the mezzo range, where she could not be heard above the strings back of her. Urbanski had planned to end his program with Boléro before deciding to not conduct it. So instead he inserted it between Poèmes pour Mi and the evening’s

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masterpiece, Debussy’s La Mer (1905) which proved itself yet another Urbanski triumph, as he wove his players through the three sea evocations. It was a perfect balance of strings, winds, brass, percussion and harps, all appearing in their place as though it could hardly have been otherwise. For more review details visit nuvo.net. — TOM ALDRIDGE

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The ancient Roman poet Ovid writes in Metamorphoses, “My purpose is to tell of bodies that have been turned into shapes of a different kind.” Utilizing an art form far more ancient than Ovid’s, ceramics artist Rachel Bleil also concentrates on the theme of transformation in her exciting new work. But the subjects that largely focus her attention here are not the ancient Greek heroes or gods, but teddy bears and caterpillars. “Transformation Vessel” is a large stoneware vessel that incorporates the image of a teddy bear’s head into the spout. The beautiful designs carved and painted into the body of the vessel — the artist uses a technique known as sgraffito — show a caterpillar in various states of transformation under the teddy’s solemn gaze. Many of the works here are wall

Rachel Bleil, Teddymorphs, at the Indianapolis Art Center hanging, including many butterflies (in keeping with the theme of transformation). Most are as flat surface-wise as the wall behind it. “Big Splash,” however, shows a tea pot that appears to have been sliced in half, with its cut side placed flush against the gallery wall. From this particular piece, a stream of liquid seems not only to protrude but also transform itself into a teddy bear. There’s a metaphorical underglaze, as it were, to the work in this exhibit. Bleil is riffing on the transformational possibilities that open to us when we look out on the world with a childlike sense of possibility and wonder. — DAN GROSSMAN

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And more Heartland news BY SCOTT SHOGER SSHOGER@NUVO.NET I’ll make this intro simple and just say that I’d like to see more film portraits by Jonathan Frey, whom you may know best as a photographer (he has a studio at the Harrison and recently participated in the center’s India-Indiana cultural exchange/show). His short film about Kipp Normand — the local artist, architecture expert, amateur historian and found object collector — was given a Festival Award by Heartland Film Festival, putting it in the running for a grand prize award that eventually went to the animated short Head over Heels. Kipp Normand screens in a shorts program with Head Over Heels (among other films) at 11:30 a.m. on Oct. 26 at Castleton 14, and at 11 a.m. on Oct. 26 at Traders Point 12. Here’s more about it, from an e-mail interview with Frey. NUVO: Why Kipp? JONATHAN FREY: Kipp Normand, at face value, is enthralling. His glasses, his beard, his apparel, his art, his hoarding, his genuineness all have a mystery about them. I was drawn to him at an inquisitive level. NUVO: How does your practice as a photographer inform your approach to motion picture-making?

THE WINNERS As Heartland leadership told us last week (in our cover story, very much still available at nuvo.net), part of the draw of the Heartland Film Festival, is, in short, the money. Sure, they treat the filmmakers well, show their films in ideal conditions and curate with an attentiveness to the needs of the human animal at all ages, but $100,000 can encourage even coast-huggers to migrate inland. And, so, the awards are a big deal, and more than just an opportunity to throw some laurels on a poster. Here, then, are this year’s winners, along with their remaining screenings. Grand Prize Winner for Best Narrative Feature ($100,000): Cairo 678, screening Oct. 24, 4:30 p.m. @ Traders Point 12; Oct. 26, 6 p.m. and Oct. 27, 9 p.m. @ Castleton 14

FREY: The transition into film was daunting at first. I quickly, however, learned that all of the skills I gained from photography easily applied to film. The only new thing I had to understand was motion and how motion would affect my style. But rather than develop a new style or approach to light or the framing of a subject, I decided to fit film into my photography. I shoot portraits. A person says a lot without saying a word with just their face. It’s powerful. It’s striking. Every picture I take I want for it to carry that power and strikingness. Now when I film, I’m looking to accomplish the same things. I want every scene to be memorable and to tell the viewer something whether it’s their face or them simply walking. NUVO: Were you surprised your work was selected by Heartland? FREY: I was very surprised the film was selected by Heartland. And I was very, very surprised that it won a Festival Award. Shooting films is a relatively new endeavor for me. So the fact that I had not submitted anything to Heartland before (or to any film festival for that matter), shocked me. I was pleasantly shocked. The film Kipp Normand is as much about him and my work as much as it is about the community of Indianapolis. Family, friends, and perhaps strangers have encouraged Kipp and me in many fabulous ways. They have supported him and his art. They have supported me in my photography and films. Ending up in Heartland acted as the culmination of many parts coming together for something wonderful. For that, I am grateful.

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FOOD Surprises on the Uplands Wine Trail From Chambourcin to brandy BY HOWARD HEWITT EDITORS@NUVO.NET Wine country and Indiana aren’t often found in the same sentence. But they don’t create an oxymoron. Indiana has several wine trails and more than 60 wineries. And if Indiana has a wine country region, it’s southern Indiana’s Uplands Wine Trail, home to several of Indiana’s best (although there are, of course, viable wineries elsewhere in the state). With just one or two fall weekends remaining with Hoosier leaf-peeping at its peak, a weekend winery visit makes for a great day. Several of the wineries on the Uplands Wine Trail are close in Indy and offer pumpkin picking, live music or food to draw huge crowds. The biggest celebration is probably at Huber Orchard, Winery and Vineyards. Huber’s has thousands of pumpkins, live music, food, hayrides, and huge crowds

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From left: Turtle Run Winery’s Jim Pfeiffer; Huber Orchard; and Butler Winery’s Jim Butler.

every weekend in all fall. And frankly, Huber is one of a small handful of Indiana wineries making better Indiana red wine than most Hoosiers have ever tasted. Huber Vineyards sits atop the hills overlooking the Ohio River, near Louisville. The elevation, old glacial soils and environment make it arguably Indiana’s best spot to grow grapes. Just 10 miles away is Jim Pfeiffer at Turtle Run Winery. Pfeiffer is a blendaholic by nature and takes Indiana’s sometimes eclectic grapes and makes very drinkable wines. Check out Huber and Turtle Run’s Chambourcin red wines. You’ll be surprised by how Pinot-like these wines can be when they’re well-made. Huber has very nice light style whites, while Turtle Run’s are uniquely tasty. And both wineries have worked

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steadily to reduce the natural sweetness of Indiana grapes. And if you are into brandy, Ted Huber has been making and aging award-winning spirits for several years. The Uplands Trail gives the individual wineries marketing power and identity. “Validity, validity, validity,” said Pfeiffer, winemaker and owner of Turtle Run Winery. “When you have event marketing and have big events people take notice. “When we started our winery, and we’re now in our 12th year, we had seven dry wines,” he said. “The dry wine drinkers give you just one chance. The sweet wine drinkers will knock your door down with their head and keep coming. You have to promote yourself, promote your industry, grow and get others to grow with you. We want to be noticed but it takes a lot of effort.” A shorter Uplands Wine trip would be to Bloomington to Oliver and Butler Wineries. Who hasn’t visited Oliver? The winery made its name with the sweet reds and whites, but the Creekbend line of Oliver wine and other bottlings are very solid choices. Try Oliver’s Chambourcin and his Syrah. Bill Oliver makes his Syrah in a lighter French style that’s fruit driven with a hint of spice. I’d challenge anyone to blind taste his Syrah and guess its origins. Next wander into the colorful countryside to Butler Winery. Jim Butler is another of Indiana’s wine pioneers. He got his start at Oliver and then branched out on his own. He owns the unique distinction of winning the initial category first place in the Indy

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International Wine Competition a few years back with his wonderful Dry Rose’ wine. But the Uplands area is about more than just marketing. Butler has put in years of effort to get the Uplands designated as an American Viticulture Area approved by the federal government. That designation would give the area a unique labeling for its style and quality of wine. It’s an achievement that wine aficionados would recognize as serious winemaking. “We probably started four or five years ago and we’re in the home stretch,” Butler said. “I’m hoping by the end of the year we’ll have it.” All nine Uplands wineries have good websites with directions and hours; check out this article on nuvo.net for links.  Howard W. Hewitt writes about wine for NUVO and 20 Midwestern newspapers. Check out his blog atredforme.blogspot.com.

INDIANA’S UPLANDS WINE TRAIL Best Vineyards Winery, est. 2008 Brown County Winery, est. 1986 Butler Winery, est. 1983 Carousel Winery, est. 2003 French Lick Winery, est. 1995 Huber Winery, est. 1978 Oliver Winery, est. 1972 Turtle Run Winery, est. 2001 Winzerwald Winery, est. 2002

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o if you want to think of things in traditional terms, IUPUI professor Scott Deal is the conductor/producer of Auksalaq, an opera about the Arctic that premieres Monday, and his collaborator, University of Virginia professor Matthew Burtner, is the composer. But that’s not the whole of it. For starters, it’s a “telematic” opera, meaning the opera house, as such, is a global superstructure. Telematic, as an adjective, refers to the application of any sort of telecommunication or informatics technology to any concept or thing. In this case, it means that the content of Auksalaq will be shaped by performers playing in venues around the world, by video and audio mixed in one location and sent out via the Internet to many others, by audience members contributing to the presentation via laptops or cell phones. As such, audience members in any one space will see and hear things happening immediately before them (such as live performances in the same room), as well as content created halfway around the world. Auksalaq will premiere in seven venues simultaneously, ranging from IUPUI’s Campus Center Theater to a New York City art gallery to a Norway academy. All performances will start at 5 p.m. EST, leaving Norway to sell its performance as something of a late-night party because of the time zone shift. As Director of the Donald Tavel Arts and Technology Research Center, Deal has been involved before with these kind of telematic, online performances that gather together performers in various venues. And it’s a case of a happy marriage of content and form, according to Deal, because climate change is “a global issue that crosses borders and affects all of us. What better way than to use the Internet to invite discussion.” The idea for it first took shape in spring 2007, after Deal attended a colloquium at the University of Alaska, North by

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2020, that considered the socioecological impact of climate change on the Arctic. Deal met Burtner at the time, and later decided to pitch him his idea of a opera on a global scale about a global problem. “I like to compose, but it’s not in me to write the music for a whole opera,” Deal said. “I thought if anybody would understand the Arctic, he would,” because Burtner grew up in Alaska and had written previous Arctic-themed work. Burtner enthusiastically accepted, and the first performance of the piece, without much of the technological apparatus that will be included next week, was in Indianapolis at the Central Library during 2010’s Intermedia Festival. That performance featured a collection of chamber pieces, played on conventional instruments as well as objects that could be found in the natural world (water, tree branches, rocks; piano, cymbals, bongos). That “live” music makes up part of the opera and hasn’t changed much since Burtner first wrote it, but this world premiere expands on that performance significantly. Audiences (at least at IUPUI) will see three video screens in the performance space. The one on the left will show live performances in various venues, as well as interviews with experts on climate change and Arctic imagery. Deal will live mix the left screen at IUPUI and send out that feed to all venues. The middle screen will be devoted to more Arctic footage and art video, compiled by Jordan Benson, an IUPUI professor and a member of Big Robot. Benson will live mix that video at the Washington, D.C. performance; all other venues will play a pre-edited compilation of that footage off DVD. The screen on the right will be a little different. It’ll work off the NOMADS system, a versatile software developed by the University of Virginia that allows audience members to engage with a performance in different ways. “You can take your laptop or a mobile device, log in and then type in your thoughts, making the screen a thought wall,” Deal said. “Then at another moment as soon as someone logs in, that’ll create a dripping sound that Matthew recorded. That’s emblematic of the fact that the more people we have on the planet, the more things melt. Later, a stylus will appear on app

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that can be moved to manipulate Arctic wind sounds. Sound will waft up from audience, as well as loudspeakers.” All venues and performers will work off a single score featuring discrete chamber pieces played to a clock to determine tempo. A master clock embedded in an IUPUI-developed application named Backstage will allow performers at all locations to coordinate their efforts, as well as exchange text messages and respond to cues to play their parts. This isn’t Deal’s first rodeo, but he’s not entirely comfortable with that feeling of indeterminacy either: “It’s kind of a wild ride; maybe I’d like it to be a little less hair-raising, because it keeps me up at night! It’s hard, but I think it’s the ethos of art right now. I love symphonic music, but I’m not really interested in working that aesthetic. You have to embrace that idea of letting go and letting other people shape the content in a way that’ll work for them.” Deal said the work, which will feature interview clips of sober scientists and fiery Native activists as part of its melange of extra-musical elements, isn’t exactly agitative, but it does have a point of view. “Putting anything in front of someone is not a neutral act; there’s always some activism behind it. Having lived in Alaska for 12 years, having seen and heard the climate change begin to occur — through unprecedented forest fires, the migration north of plant life from the south — I felt this could be my contribution Some people might be good at going out and speaking about it, like an Al Gore; some people might write their congressperson or send money. But as an artist I felt that I could take this idea, and then I could help create a conversation, and that when I retire, I can look back on it as something that I feel really good about.”

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Matthew Burtner (top left) and Scott Deal (left side in top right) at rehearsals for an Oct. 2010 performance of ‘Auksalaq’ during New York City’s Ear to the Earth festival. Middle: Percussionists play water and other elements during the New York City rehearsal. Rehearsal photos by Jill Steinberg. Bottom: Part of Deal’s stock of Arctic images, provided by the International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I am officially protesting you, Libra. I am staging a walkout and mounting a demonstration and launching a boycott unless you agree to my demand. And yes, I have just one demand: that you take better care of the neglected, disempowered, and underprivileged parts of your life. Not a year from now; not when you have more leisure time; NOW! If and when you do this, I predict the arrival of a flood of personal inspiration. Halloween costume suggestion: a symbolic representation of a neglected, disempowered, or underprivileged part of your life.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The coming week could have resemblances to the holiday known as Opposite Day. Things people say may have meanings that are different or even contrary to what they supposedly mean. Qualities you usually regard as liabilities might temporarily serve as assets, and strengths could seem problematical or cause confusion. You should also be wary of the possibility that the advice you get from people you trust may be misleading. For best results, make liberal use of reverse psychology, freaky logic, and mirror magic. Halloween costume suggestion: the opposite of who you really are.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas,” said French painter Paul Cezanne. Many writers make similar comments about the excruciating joy they feel when first sitting down in front of an empty page. For artists in any genre, in fact, getting started may seem painfully impossible. And yet there can also be a delicious anticipation as the ripe chaos begins to coalesce into coherent images or words or music. Even if you’re not an artist, Scorpio, you’re facing a comparable challenge in your own chosen field. Halloween costume suggestion: a painter with a blank canvas.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I don’t have a big problem with your tendency to contradict yourself. I’m rarely among the consistency freaks who would prefer you to stick with just one of your many selves instead of hopscotching among all nine. In fact, I find your multi-level multiplicity interesting and often alluring. I take it as a sign that you are in alignment with the fundamentally paradoxical nature of life. Having said all that, however, I want to alert you to an opportunity that the universe is currently offering you, which is to feel unified, steady, and stable. Does that sound even vaguely enticing? Why not try it out for a few weeks? Halloween costume suggestion: an assemblage or collage of several of your different personas.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): As you contemplate what you want to be for Halloween, don’t consider any of the following options: a thoroughbred racehorse wearing a blindfold; a mythic centaur clanking around in iron boots; a seahorse trying to dance on dry land. For that matter, Sagittarius, I hope you won’t come close to imitating any of those hapless creatures even in your non-Halloween life. It’s true that the coming days will be an excellent time to explore, analyze, and deal with your limitations. But that doesn’t mean you should be overwhelmed and overcome by them. Halloween costume suggestions: Houdini, an escaped prisoner, a snake molting its skin.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): An avocado tree may produce so much fruit that the sheer weight of its exuberant creation causes it to collapse. Don’t be like that in the coming weeks, Cancerian. Without curbing your luxuriant mood, simply monitor your outpouring of fertility so that it generates just the right amount of beautiful blooms. Be vibrant and bountiful and fluidic, but not unconstrained or overwrought or recklessly lavish. Halloween costume suggestion: a bouquet, an apple tree, a rich artist, or an exotic dancer with a bowl of fruit on your head. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I hope your father didn’t beat you or scream at you or molest you. If he did, I am so sorry for your suffering. I also hope that your father didn’t ignore you or withhold his best energy from you. I hope he didn’t disappear for weeks at a time and act oblivious to your beauty. If he did those things, I mourn for your loss. Now it’s quite possible that you were spared such mistreatment, Leo. Maybe your dad gave you conscientious care and loved you for who you really are. But whatever the case might be, this is the right time to acknowledge it. If you’re one of the lucky ones, celebrate to the max. If you’re one of the wounded ones, begin or renew your quest for serious and intensive healing. Halloween costume suggestion: your father. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Do you know how to tell the difference between superstitious hunches and dependable intuitions? Are you good at distinguishing between mediocre gossip that’s only ten percent accurate and reliable rumors that provide you with the real inside dope? I suspect that you will soon get abundant opportunities to test your skill in these tasks. To increase the likelihood of your success, ask yourself the following question on a regular basis: Is what you think you’re seeing really there or is it mostly a projection of your expectations and theories? Halloween costume suggestions: a lie detector, an interrogator with syringes full of truth serum, a superhero with X-ray vision, a lab scientist.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Does anyone know where I can find dinosaur costumes for cats?” asked a Halloween shoppe r on Reddit.com. In the comments section, someone else said that he needed a broccoli costume for his Chihuahua. I bring this up, Capricorn, because if anyone could uncover the answers to these questions, it would be you. You’ve got a magic touch when it comes to hunting down solutions to unprecedented problems. Halloween costume suggestion: a cat wearing a dinosaur costume. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Live Monarch Foundation made a video on how to fix a butterfly’s broken wing (tinyurl. com/FixWing). It ain’t easy. You need ten items, including tweezers, talcum powder, toothpicks, and glue. You’ve got to be patient and summon high levels of concentration. But it definitely can be done. The same is true about the delicate healing project you’ve thought about attempting on your own wound, Aquarius. It will require you to be ingenious, precise, and tender, but I suspect you’re primed to rise to the challenge. Halloween costume suggestion: herbalist, acupuncturist, doctor, shaman, or other healer. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It’s not a good time to wear Super-Control HigherPower Spanx, or any other girdle, corset, or restrictive garment. In fact, I advise you not to be a willing participant in any situation that pinches, hampers, or confines you. You need to feel exceptionally expansive. In order to thrive, you’ve got to give yourself permission to spill over, think big, and wander freely. As for those people who might prefer you to keep your unruly urges in check and your natural inclinations concealed: Tell them your astrologer authorized you to seize a massive dose of slack. Halloween costume suggestions: a wild man or wild woman; a mythical bird like the Garuda or Thunderbird; the god or goddess of abundance.

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