Nuvo: Indy's Alternative Voice - October 31, 2012

THIS WEEK OCT. 31 - NOV. 7, 2012 VOL. 23 ISSUE 38 ISSUE #1024

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2012 ELECTION GUIDE

Featuring in-depth looks at the candidates interested in serving Marion County in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Indiana State Senate, our Election Guide offers voters some basic orientation as they head to the polls. A robust electorate is the only force capable of saving Hoosiers from ignorance, bigotry and short-sighted special interests. We offer encouragement to exercise that quintessential American right while you still have it.

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SPIRIT & PLACE TIPS OFF

It’s all about play, in all its manifestations, at this year’s Spirit & Place Festival, which runs Nov. 2-11 throughout Indy. We zero in on a few events — a visit by French musician Pierre Bastien and his musical Erector Sets, Know No Stranger’s Fluxus-esque instructions for play — and run down our other top picks for this week.

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THE ROYAL DRUMMERS OF BURUNDI

The powerful sound of the Burundi drummers is rooted in traditions that are centuries old, but their thundering rhythms sound as fresh and modern today as any contemporary beat.

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from the readers Pretty close

Donnelly supports the right to an abortion in cases of rape, incest or the mother’s health.

I thing Gregg is pretty close to that.

Regarding this column, it is right on the money. (“Women in Jeopardy,” David Hoppe, Oct. 31) The new Tea Party/GOP motto should be “It’s gonna happen anyway, so lie back and enjoy it!”

— Northside Joe

Too damn easy

It’s just too damn easy to drive in this city. (“What would it take you to Ride,” Ashley Kimmel). I can’t think of a US city Indianapolis’ size or larger that has such ample, inexpensive parking. I’m sure the local government has no incentive to force the issue, but until we make driving more of a hassle, why would anyone take the bus?

— Rob Peon

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HAMMER Voters hold nation’s fate in their hands Deciding the fate of the middle-class

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BY STEVE HAMMER SHAMMER@NUVO.NET

his column made its first appearance in NUVO in mid-1993 and has appeared every week since. This is the fifth presidential campaign I’ve written about and it’s the one that concerns me the most.

In 1996, the first race on which I opined in print, the choices were pretty clear. If Bob Dole had defeated Bill Clinton’s reelection bid, we would never have learned the name Monica Lewinsky but also might not have experienced the great economic boom that put millions back to work and changed the welfare system as we know it.

The 2000 election represented democracy at its worst, with an unelected Supreme Court swinging the election to George W. Bush, a man who lost the popular vote by more than 500,000. The end result was eight years of terrorist attacks, a state of perpetual war and economic devastation that continues to this day.

In 2004, John Kerry fought an honorable and valiant campaign and, had he won, would have turned the direction of the country back towards peace and prosperity.

A swing of a few votes per precinct in Ohio, and an honestly held election, would have made Kerry president and stopped the war and misery of the Bush years.

Four years ago, we elected a man who promised to change things. Barack Obama has kept most of his promises and the country is finally emerging out of the hole dug during the Bush years.

Whether he did so quickly enough to win re-election will be decided next Tuesday, barring recounts, lawsuits or an Electoral College tie.

The point is that history has been unkind to the Republican plans to redistribute wealth upward and expand war and economic instability to all corners of the earth. The Democratic candidates, in each of the last four elections, have all promoted a policy of peace through strength and expanding the middle class so that all would benefit economically.

What worries me the most is that Mitt Romney looks and sounds very much like Bush in 2000. He sounds reasonable. He denies all attempts to portray his policies as radical. But he’s surrounded himself with pro-war, anti-middle class advisers who want military adventurism abroad and economic Darwinism at home.

Please don’t let yourself be fooled by Romney’s calm demeanor. Beneath that sparkling CEO smile and those words of compassion is an economic policy that would bury the middle class, reward the rich and send our military on conquest missions everywhere a real or imagined threat exists.

For various reasons, this could well be the last column in which I get to address potential voters in a forum such as this.

I don’t want to waste the opportunity to remind you that a vote for the Republican agenda is a vote for misery, chaos, turmoil and death, while a vote for the Democratic program means a fair shake for everyone, an end to needless war and equal protection for all under the law.

The fact that Obama has been an imperfect president at best doesn’t diminish the fact that he kept most of the promises he made four years ago. He vowed to wind down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — and he did. He promised a universal health care program — and we have one. He said he’d go after terrorists — and Osama bin Laden is at the bottom of the ocean.

When he was seeking office, Ronald Reagan famously asked voters if they were better off than they were four years ago. The question this year is: Who will help guide you to a better situation four years from now? Is it going to be a return to the failed policies of the past or the honorable, compassionate, future-minded policies of the president?

Nearly all minds have been made up by now. The hurricane that was, at the time of this writing, threatening to devastate the Eastern Seaboard has wiped all other stories off the news. If there’s one thing cable news networks love more than a presidential election, it’s a scary hurricane.

If you find yourself, however, still undecided at this point, look at the record.

Our country has fared better with the policies of Clinton, Al Gore and Obama than they have Bush and Dick Cheney. Romney is nothing more than a better-looking, less obviously satanic version of Cheney.

Right before the 1960 election, John F. Kennedy addressed a group of voters in Los Angeles. “In the presidential campaign of 1860, Abraham Lincoln wrote a friend, ‘I know there is a God and I know He hates injustice. I see the storm coming, and I know His hand is in it.

But if He has a place and a part for me, I believe that I am ready.’

“Now, 100 years later, the contest still is between freedom and slavery, we know there is a God and we know He hates injustice and we see the storm coming. We see His hand in it. But if He has a place and a part for us, I believe we are ready.”

For the sake of the nation, let us hope we accept the challenge and that we are ready for it. The fate of the nation hangs in the balance.

Who will help guide you to a better situation four years from now?

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HOPPE Your vote may put women in jeopardy What Republicans want

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BY DAVID HOPPE DHOPPE@NUVO.NET

ichard Mourdock tripped over his freedom of speech last week when he answered a debate question about his views on abortion by saying he believes life begins at conception and that, “I came to realize life is that gift from God. And I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape that it is something that God intended to happen.”

In other words, as far as Richard Mourdock is concerned, if you become pregnant as the result of being raped, you are just going to have to learn to live with that “horrible situation” because, according to Mourdock, that must be God’s plan.

Mourdock’s been taking a lot of flack for this exercise of his First Amendment right.

That’s because even those Republican politicians who agree with him are afraid saying such things out loud could cost them votes, especially the votes of young women.

But Mourdock deserves our thanks.

If anyone was in doubt about what Republicans have in store for Indiana’s women after the coming election, those doubts can now be set aside.

If you vote Republican, you will be voting against women. It’s simple as that.

Republican anti-woman bias starts at the top of the ticket, with Mitt Romney and includes the supposedly family friendly Mike Pence.

It’s old news that Republicans are practically required to be opposed to abortion rights. Many Democrats, including current U.S. Senate candidate Joe Donnelly, share that view.

Republicans have been demanding the repeal of Roe v. Wade — the Supreme Court decision allowing for a woman’s right to an abortion until viability — since at least 1980. They’ve used the issue effectively to turn evangelical Christians, who once tended not to vote in elections, into a vociferous constituency. stituency.

The Roe v. Wade strategy has been so effective as a kind nd of perpetual thorn thorn for for prodding the party’s arty’s base it can be tempting to think that at Republicans would secretsecretly prefer to let itt stand.

This year’s election, ection, though, promises to be different. Romney omney has not only said he thinks the Supreme reme Court should overturn Roe, if elected, he will be in a position position to to appoint the new w judges who will do it.

But abortion is just the beginning.

Behind Republicans’ icans’ objection to abortion rights is a deeper antipathy to to the the very very idea of birth control. ntrol. The overwhelming number of women men in this country who who use use contraceptives — to prevent unwanted pregnancies, ass well as for a variety variety of of other health reasons asons — probably take their access to this form orm of medicine for granted. granted.

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Republicans aim to restrict this access.

Romney supports the Blunt amendment, a bill intended to allow employers to deny health insurance that covers anything (like contraception) they find morally offensive.

He has also promised to remove funding for Planned Parenthood.

In this, Romney is following in the footsteps of Pence, the Republican candidate for governor. Pence recently declared that the nuclear family was the cornerstone of a sound economy. Pence says some compelling things about the obstacles broken families, teenage pregnancies and single parent households face in trying to attain anything like economic independence.

Yet this is the same Mike Pence who introduced bills to bar federal funding of family planning clinics in three consecutive legislative sessions. In 2011, Pence’s fellow Republicans used Pence’s “Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act” as a platform to launch an attack on funding not just for abortion services, but contraception.

So what’s going on here?

Today’s current crop of Republicans are the latest in a long line of politicians who, even 50 years after the fact, still can’t get over the 1960s. As far as these folks are concerned, the ’60s were a frightening time when rules were broken, traditions insulted and authority questioned. At the heart of this anarchy was the new availability of contraception, in the form of The Pill.

The Pill changed everything. For the first time in human history, women on a mass scale were able to take control of their reproductive lives. They could plan their pregnancies, which meant that the previously maledominated world of higher education and careers was now open to them — as were the pleasures of sexuality for its own sake.

When Mike Pence talks about the importance of the family, you can bet he is also talking about regaining a kind of social order that the Pill helped discombobulate. That’s why he and his fellow Republicans want to restrict access not just to abortion, but to contraception. And that’s why in just the first three months of 2012, Republicans introduced as many as 944 bills restricting birth control and abortion in states across the country.

These laws are not just intended to protect the unborn. They aim to change the way women live. Republicans try to avoid talking openly about this. They don’t want women to know that, in their scheme of things, g a woman’s life is not her own, but a kind of community property.

Sometimes, though, they can’t help but say what they mean. That’s what Richard Mourdock did last week. If you’re a woman — or there are women in your your care life you car re about — take him at his word.

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THUMBSUP THUMBSDOWN RAPE REMINDERS

What with all the rape discussion in the news as of late, it seemed apropos to reflect on the odds that it appears rape is a daily occurrence in our city. Preliminary estimates from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department suggest a slight decrease in the number of rapes to which they have responded this year — 327 as of Oct. 20 versus 334 during the same period in 2011.

The police logged almost 400 rapes in the city in 2011, according to the annual package of crime data it sends to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Indiana Coalition Against Sexual Assault notes 4,000 substantiated reports of Indiana children sexually abused in a year. More information on awareness, prevention activities and victim outreach is posted at incasa.org.

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DIRTY POLITICS GETS LOCAL

Months ago, in NUVO’s guide to the 2012 primary election, we noted that Carlos May, the GOP candidate running the Fifth Congressional District, appeared to be the victim of clumsy attempt to play on fears potential voters in the district may harbor that a Latino candidate, even a Republican, would espouse ultra-liberal views on immigration. When asked if this theory held merit, May confirmed that his campaign encountered evidence of an attempt to hijack May’s online persona by using decoy campaign sites to mislead site visitors as to May’s true political character. On top of this, one of the names linked to these deceitful domains is also linked to the payroll of May’s opponent, Congressman André Carson. This is not to say the congressman had any personal knowledge or hand in these antics. The fact is, though, that when May’s people began to background this character — Wilson Allen of 1146 Tecumseh St. in Indianapolis, — who registered the domain names of two May sites soon after the GOP began courting him to run following the 2010 primary, they found that a man named Wilson Allen was also listed on Carson’s expense filings with the Federal Election Commission: five payments to Allen totaling $4,000 between September 2011 and September 2012 for photography, outreach and constituent services. Doppelganger or dirty politics? In case there is any confusion, folks, it is CarlosMay2012.com.

THUMBS UP: RENEWED RECYCLEFORCE

One of the brightest spots in Indy’s sustainability movement, RecycleForce, is holding a Grand Opening Open House from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Nov. 2 at at the Near Eastside’s Circle City Industrial Complex (1125 Brookside Ave., Suite D12. Collect some e-waste and grab some cake!

THOUGHT BITE

By Andy Jacobs Jr. Take it easy on Romney. After all, it was only a five trillion dollar fib.

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spirit & place 03 SATURDAY

Electro-acoustic artist Pierre Bastien Lots of people spent their childhoods building cool machines with the motors, gears, and pulleys of an Erector Set, but you’d have a hard time finding anyone who’s taken the concept as far as French artist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Pierre Bastien. Bastien builds machines that play just about any instrument or noise you can imagine, creating a personal orchestra he plays along to.

Bastien brings his sound installations to this year’s Spirit & Place Festival, giving a lecture from 10:30 a.m. on Nov. 3 at Big Car Service Center, performing from 3 p.m that same day at the Central Library’s Clowes Auditorium. Both events are free.

He talked about his work and demonstrated one of his machines via Skype from his studio in Rotterdam, surrounded by instruments from all over the world.

(You can check out the machine on the festival’s website.)

NUVO: The theme of this year’s festival is “play,” a nice double entendre for your work.

PIERRE BASTIEN: Yes, you have this expression of playing music, and also, all my musical work is based on a construction game for children, but also for adults.

You call it “Erector Set” — in Europe and some other places like Japan, all the children of my generation and later play with Meccano, which is the best Erector Set you can imagine. It’s a British invention and it’s really well done and very reliable. You have all the holes already drilled, and you just have to assemble all the parts with bolts and screws.

NUVO: Do you dream of a machine first, or do you hear music and then make a machine to play it?

BASTIEN: It’s both. Generally, I have a musical idea in mind, and I try to realize it into machinery that will help me play it. On top of this mechanical orchestra, I also play some melody or sometimes rhythmical parts. The idea is to have a domestic orchestra. Now I have realized the machines gave me a sort of style in music. I work with musicians, but I like to have some machines around all the time.

NUVO: How do you want your music to sound?

BASTIEN: I think I would like to invent my own folklore. There’s a French writer, Michel Leiris, who said that for him, “Jazz is my folklore.” Jazz was very important, of course, because we were missing something — some folklore — in our Western societies. But I was always interested also in the music of the planets, and the different tones you find. Nowadays, people are looking into the computer to find different sounds. Young musicians don’t say that they play music; they say they are making sounds. I like the natural sounds of the planet. So I like all those sounds coming from natural material, like calabash [a gourd], leather, wood, and metal.

NUVO: How important is the visual element to your music?

BASTIEN: I think it’s 90 percent of it. I have three tiny video cameras placed in points close to the machine, so they take close-ups of what happens, and project them in real time, so that the audience can enjoy the source of every sound I produce. I have a DVD player and I make some loops taken from musical films from the 1920s and 30s. I mix them so that those ghosts, those musicians from the past, they come into the machines onscreen, and they play with us.

NUVO: What can people expect from your lecture?

BASTIEN: It’s not a conventional lecture, but one based on plenty of video examples, so that it will be fun and nice to look at. I can show all these traditional sound installations from the past, even from ancient times, like the Aeolian harp, or some installations invented in Japan, which were used to scare deer from a garden. They were made out of water flowing onto bamboo, which rotates and hits stone. So you can show the links between tradition and contemporary art in this specific field of sound installation.

NUVO: You play music in a unique way, but it’s very melodic and easy to approach. How do you do that?

BASTIEN: I have a theory about that.

Generally in contemporary music, people take some options and they avoid some element of the music. I try not to avoid any of the components of music. You have only five: rhythm, harmony, melody, noise, and tone. I try to use them as much as possible, and to mix them together.

For me, this is music. I like to have everything—noise also—but mixed together to make the music as rich as possible.

— STACEY MICKELBART

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Pierre Bastien and his Erector Set-esque instruments.

Here are some of our top Spirit & Place picks; head to spiritandplace.org for a full calendar and ticketing (when applicable).

It’s More than a Game

02 FRIDAY

Bill Littlefield, host of NPR’s Only a Game, devoted to self-aware sports reporting, chats with the audience about the ways in which competition informs our lives. The theater opens at 1 p.m. for a screening of the Colts game.

Playing in the Streets

@ Harrison Center for the Arts, 6 p.m, free Another spectacular First Friday at the Harrison features Kyle Ragsdale in the Harrison Gallery, LISC’s 20th anniversary party in Gallery No. 2 and all manner of S&P partner organizations hanging out in the gym.

03 SATURDAY

Miracles, Myths, Lyrics & Lies

@ Christian Theological Seminary, 6:30 p.m., $20 general, $15 students/retirees Some of the state’s finest wordsmiths — singer-songwriters Carrie Newcomer and Krista Detor, and writers Phil Gulley and Scott Russell Sanders — gather to share their work, in a sort-of modified songwriter’s circle format they first tried out at Danville’s Royal Theatre.

04 SUNDAY

Moonlit Nigerian Square @ The Athenaeum, 3 p.m., free

Fried plaintains, traditional dance and all manner of Nigerian games, including ludo ayo opon (mancala), okoto and ige (similar to jacks), add up to an afternoon of Nigerian culture, presented by the Global Vision Childrens Network and Girl Scout Troop 1998.

@ The Athenaeum, 4 p.m., free

05 MONDAY

Jazz Meets Klezmer

@ Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation, 7 p.m., donations requested Those bosom buddies, jazz and klezmer, meet up as the Icarus Ensemble (a jazz group mostly comprised of ISO players) and the 65th Street Kelzmorim share the stage.

06 TUESDAY

Games through the Ages @ Conner Prairie, 6 p.m., free

A chance to play board games and party games from the 19th century, with Terry Zoubal from the Benjamin Harrison YMCA leading the charge. For ages 10 and up, but Conner Prairie will provide activities for younger kids.

Art & Play in Child Psychiatry

@ Indiana Medical History Museum, 6:30 p.m., donations requested A panel discussion on play therapy over the ages, featuring top local experts, including professional play and dance movement therapists, an adolescent psychiatrist and the director of the art therapy program at Herron.

HALLOWEEN

Head to nuvo.net for complete Halloween coverage, including Haunted House reviews, a Halloween calendar — and behind-the-scene s reporting by Mike Allee from Necropolis and, as an online exclusive, the Marion County Coroner’s Office.

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“Players divide into groups of two. Each pair stands back to back at the bottom of these stairs,” begin the instructions to Bug Tug, a GAMESpot sidewalk decal on the downtown canal.

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Know No Stranger’s GAMESpot “Play” is the theme of this year’s Spirit & Place Festival, which runs Nov. 2–11, and GAMESpot, one element of the festival, is already available to anyone passing through downtown Indy and select neighborhoods. Over 80 large red and yellow sidewalk decals detail games you can play with friends or passerby—if you dare.

The games were developed by the creative team of artists and performers at Know No Stranger, and are located on Monument Circle, Georgia Street, Massachusetts Avenue, and Indiana Avenue, along the Canal Walk and Cultural Trail, and in the Wholesale District, Broad Ripple, Fountain Square, and a few other downtown locations.

Some of the games involve physical feats, while others require that you recruit strangers to win. Some are sitespecific, so you have to interact with the landscape or streetscape to play.

The Indiana War Memorial is a great site for word games like “Monumental Boggle,” where you have three minutes to come up with the longest word you can, using any of the letters from the words on the memorial. In “Pied Piper,” two people walk in opposite directions around the monument, collecting people for their team as they go. When they meet on the other side, the walker with the most new friends wins.

Near Yats on Mass Ave, “Born in a Barn,” players predict how many people won’t close the restaurant’s door behind them in a five-minute period.

“Stair Stepper,” on Georgia Street, requires a different gamble: on which floor of the Circle Centre Mall parking lot will the next climber stop?

Some games require a physical abandon reminiscent of childhood, like the “Rolling Race” along the Canal Walk. Once you’ve

rolled down the small hill, you finish by standing on one foot, and the player who can maintain her balance the longest wins.

This seems likely to be more popular than “Sock Swap” in Fountain Square. It’s exactly what it sounds like, and it’s hard to imagine friends, much less strangers, getting excited about the exchange.

My favorite games were those that seemed like plausible activities on any given day after a couple of beers. “ Phone Booth” asks how many people you can fit on one GAMESpot decal. “Flash Dance” requires you to dance along when you hear music from passing cars. And in “Shoe Put,” you loosen one shoe, stand on the edge of a green lawn along the Canal, and kick your leg to fling your shoe as far as you can. The longest throw wins.

“This is ‘Shoe Put,’” said one woman to her companion, nodding at the decal as she strolled along. She may have been seeing it for the first time and simply reading it aloud, but I like to imagine her practicing every day.

It’s clear, however, that play doesn’t come naturally to many of us in the course of our daily rhythms. Nearly everyone I saw at GAMESpot locations was in a hurry or engaged with someone or something else, generally ignoring the decals with the exception of a couple of curious readers.

There are also a few hiccups along the way, like a skeeball-style coin toss in a stair-step fountain that isn’t running, and therefore will reward the strong throw rather than the strategic one. (For that matter, will city workers be enthusiastic about the number of games requiring coins in fountains?)

In addition, the decals are bright and obvious if you are walking directly past them, but if you want to try several games, I highly recommend you bookmark the excellent Google map on the GAMESpot web page in your smart phone. It provides very specific location details for the avid game hunter. Now get out there and play.

— STACEY MICKELBART

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RecycleForce (top), ‘Belief and Beauty’ at the IMA (bottom).

Here’s a reason to start out your First Friday in the afternoon. The Circle City Industrial Complex, home to both industry and creativity (via its substantial wing of artist’s studios), is now also home to RecycleForce, the Cultural Vision Award-winner that offers second chances to both discarded electronics, which leak all manner of toxic goodies when just dumped into a landfill — as well as ex-offenders aiming to rehabilitate themselves and re-enter society.

RecycleForce is one of the few places in town that hires those with felonies on their records in a systemic way, and although the organization faced a funding scare earlier this year, it’s landed on its feet and in one of the hippest industrial complexes in town.

A free open house as the new space will take place Friday afternoon; it’s a chance to familiarize oneself with the organization, as well as RecycleForce’s convenient recycling drive-thru.

A 14th-15th century calligraphic scroll inscribed mainly in Arabic and decorated with ink, watercolor and gold is among the more that 250 objects — including ceramics, paintings, woodcarvings and textiles — that make up Belief and Beauty: Crossing

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Nov. 1-3, 9-11, 15-17, times vary; $20 general, $15 senior/student (half-price Nov. 3 on advance purchases at noexitperformance.org)

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A German Requiem @ Hilbert Circle Theatre There’s a certain virtue in getting a bang for your buck when seeing an orchestra — and that’s usually the case when the ISO is joined by the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir to perform a work calling for significant choral resources. Perhaps this year’s most substantial collaboration is on Brahms’ German Requiem, with Mozart opening.

Nov. 2 and 3, 8 p.m., $20-75, indianapolissymphony.org

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Indianapolis Monumental Marathon

Death for Sydney Black NoExit mounts the teen movie parody Death for Sydney Black about a year after its Fort Lauderdale premiere, of which that city’s Sun-Sentinel said, “Its characters ... [are] tropes in a meta-narrative spoofing a very familiar movie genre, the kind with warring high schoolers angling for social clique superiority, drag-down catfights, cheerleading dance-off competitions and murderous plots against each other.” An opportunity for the kind of homemade mirth-making that made NoExit’s Nutcracker such a blast.

Katelyn Coyne directs.

Bridges with the Arts of Islamic Culture, opening Friday at the IMA and featuring art created in Islamic societies from the seventh century to the present. Also on view: manuscripts from the National Library of Morocco, a Syrian glass flask dating from between the seventh and ninth centuries and a 13th-century Iranian bowl. Belief and Beauty, which costs $12 for adults and is open through Jan. 13, 2012, arrives at the IMA after premiering at Brigham Young University’s Museum of Art. And there’s, of course, much more.

Marc Blumthel, of whose digitally altered panorama photos ArtFagCity notes that “the mix of mechanical and psychedelic puts the viewer on edge,” is at SpaceCamp Gallery. A new collection by Mab Graves of over 50 paintings, illustrations and sculptures inspired by the board game Candyland will open at the new Monster Gallery space (1702 English Ave.). The first 200 people through the door will receive a free commemorative Candyland-themed gift. And Samuel Vazquez explores his New York City upbringing, when the Puerto Rico-born artist became involved with graffiti crews, in a new series of paintings opening in the Madame Walker Theatre Center lobby.

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YogaVotes

Find your center before heading into to the ballot box by attending an event affiliated with YogaVotes, a non-partisan campaign devoted to motivating yoga practitioners to get out and vote. A local YogaVotes workshop, titled Empowered for Action, will take place Nov. 2 at Invoke Studio (970 Fort Wayne Ave.), led by Laura Henderson, a yoga teacher and executive director of Growing Places Indy.

It’ll last two hours, with 75 minutes devoted to vinyasa flow practice for all level and the remaining 45 minutes to a non-political guided discussion.

6 p.m., $12 (benefitting Growing Places Indy), yogavotes.org

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The Intergalactic Nemesis @ Clowes Memorial Hall A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and her research assistant team up with a shy librarian to battle an army of sludge monsters from outer space in The Intergalactic Nemesis, a radio play/graphic novel mash-up that borrows tropes from ‘50s sci-fi and ‘30s radio thrillers. Three actors, a keyboardist, a foley artist perform the piece, which began life in Austin, Texas, as a traditional radio play before expanding to include graphic novel and live performance elements. Featured on Conan and All Things Considered; proclaimed “totally nuts” by The Austinist.

8 p.m., $35, theintergalacticnemesis.com

The numbers are impressive: Last year’s Indianapolis Monumental Marathon drew over 10,000 participants and raised over $30,000 for College Summit and The Mind Trust. This year’s incarnation once again includes a marathon (a qualifier for the Boston Marathon), halfmarathon, 5K and fun run (you know, for the kids). Prize money isn’t too shabby, topping at $2000 for the marathon winner. The course starts and finishes near the intersection of West and Washington Streets, reaching north to 66th Street and College Avenue on a path that runs by the State Fairgrounds, the IMA, Butler University and, of course, just about all of downtown’s monuments. A twoday expo affiliated with the marathon kicks off Friday, Nov. 2 at the Indiana Convention Center, featuring more than 40 exhibitors, as well as speakers on the life of the long distance runner, including 2012 Boston Marathon winner Wesley Korir, discussing his charity work in his native Kenya, and three-time Olympian Nick Willis.

8 a.m. start for marathon and halfmarathon, monumentalmarathon.com

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Lou Ann Homan @ Indiana History Center

FOUND’s 10th Anniversary Tour @ Big Car Service Center It’s been a few years since the last FOUND issue hit the streets. Davy Rothbart, Andrew Cohn and the rest of the crew have been busy after all, making a documentary about high school basketball in Medora, Ind., that should hit festivals next year (head to nuvo.net to catch up on that project if you’re so inclined). But when FOUND’s 10th Anniversary tour hits Big Car, the brothers Rothbart (Davy and Peter) will have in tow a new issue of the magazine (the eighth), as well as Rothbart’s new book of personal essays, My Heart Is an Idiot. As usual, Davy will read a few found notes, while Peter plays a few tunes based on found notes.

Storytelling Arts favorite Lou Ann Homan is back this year with Gathering Coal for the Lord, a new program consisting of stories from her father’s childhood. Her Dad grew up during the Great Depression in Fort Wayne, where his parents ran a storefront mission.

Homan is this year’s recipient of the Frank Basile Emerging Stories fellowship, which allows for an Indiana storyteller to develop a story without worrying about the rent for a month or two.

7:30 p.m., $10 advance (storytellingarts.org), $15 door

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Madame Walker Theatre Center 85th Anniversary Celebration After a difficult spring and an S.O.S. call for funding, the Madame Walker Theatre Center has an interim CEO working to calm the waves as it celebrates its 85th anniversary. The week of events from November 9–15 includes a flapper-themed fundraising gala and casino night and a chance for community members to brainstorm on the future of Indiana Avenue.

Patrick E. Chavis IV, an attorney specializing in business consulting and a former judge pro tempore, stepped in at the Walker on a part-time basis in June to help fill the gap left by former CEO Terry Whitt Bailey, who left in December 2011.

Chavis says his diverse background in everything from finance to community, government, and labor relations to procurement and human resources has been helpful in working with the Walker’s board of directors to assess the organization. In August he became the full-time interim CEO. A search for a permanent CEO continues into 2013, and Chavis is throwing his hat in the ring.

“My perception coming in was that if you’ve survived 85 years, you have a good track record of figuring it out, somehow, some way,” said Chavis. He and the board are collaboratively developing a multifaceted business model for the Walker, with a more aggressive approach to programming, the use of the building’s rental

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space, and community partnerships to complement current support from individuals, corporations, and foundations.

“The good part about what’s been going on at the Walker is that the mindset of the organization has expanded,” said Chavis, noting that while it’s a vital community arts organization, there are many aspects to the legacy of the center, including entrepreneurship, education, and wellness.

Chavis and his staff are working to more proactively recruit rentals of the event and office space, and are discussing the creation of a business incubator and technology center with potential partners. In addition to the annual arts camp, Kamp Kuumba, staff are reaching out to charter schools, IPS and its Crispus Attucks Museum, and the IMA to diversify its education offerings. Wellness programs include weekly Zumba classes, and the center hopes to add Pilates and P90X to the roster.

Any increase in programming requires staff time and energy, and to compensate, the Walker added two new staff earlier this year in business development and event management. So how is the cash-strapped Walker managing all this? Chavis is utilizing volunteers wherever possible and working with the board to recruit partners who can offer expertise in areas the Walker needs, like marketing or grant acquisition, in exchange for services such as space rental, in order to help with cash flow.

Many of these initiatives are supported by program and project funds already built into the current budget, he explained, especially those for the anniversary. And as rental and programming activities grow, revenue increases accordingly. “The good thing we have going for us is that though cash flow can be a challenge at times, we do have assets that we’re able to utilize to help leverage our needs,” said Chavis.

As for the scenarios floated earlier this year, “The good news is that the worst case

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scenario didn’t happen. So there was not a layoff; there’s not going to be a closure,” said Chavis. But stabilizing the center’s infrastructure, including upgrading or repairing HVAC, electrical, and plumbing systems, is still the first priority.

The plan is to use a combination of community fundraising, event revenue, and grants for historical buildings and energy savings to raise the $1 million needed. The organization hopes to raise this by spring 2013, and then to build a higher level of maintenance into the annual budget.

The board is also finishing a strategic planning process and will expand its numbers in 2013, adding a board member from IUPUI, a key supporting organization along with the Lilly Endowment.

Other potential members will be recruited from core areas of need, including marketing, finance, non-profit administration, and real estate.

Organizational transparency still poses a challenge for the Walker. Chavis did not have fundraising figures available since the spring campaign began, but said this is partly because he is working with the board to determine how best to report all revenue streams to provide an overall picture of the organization’s finances. He also suggested that a snapshot following the anniversary fundraising made more sense, in order to distinguish between 2012 year-end figures and a new budget for 2013.

For the remainder of 2012, explained Chavis, “The theme is kind of a ‘running start for 2013.’” The Walker board and staff are most excited to see what they can do to bring everyone in the community together. “Our goal is to tap into that potential. Don’t run from your uniqueness—tap into it,” he said.

— STACEY MICKELBART

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Mary Wilson as Lena Horne.

09 FRIDAY 7 p.m., $100

1927 Cotton Club Flapper Party in the Grand Casino Ballroom, featuring live big band, vintage cars, dancing, drinks and hors d’ouvres by Harry & Izzys.

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6 p.m., donation requested

IndyTalks discussion, “Re-imagining the Future of Indiana Avenue,” featuring five presenters: Petra Slinkard, Project IMA; Derrick Braziel, Dreamapolis; DJ Rusty Redenbacher; artist LaShawnda Crowe Storm; and Tiffany Benedict Berkson, Historic Indianapolis.

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Stormy Weather: The Lena Horne Project, featuring Mary Wilson, one of the original Supremes, playing Lena Horne in a multimedia presentation including video footage and stories from Horne’s life. A VIP reception follows, and the Walker is catering to young professionals at the performance, offering members of IndyHub, Agave, FORTE, and Historic Indianapolis a private bar and free champagne in the balcony.

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MUSIC INDIANAPOLIS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: CLASSICALLY CONTEMPORARY CHRISTEL DEHAAN FINE ARTS CENTER, OCT. 27 r Sonically speaking, the 33-piece Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra is made to order for UIndy’s Christel DeHaan Center. The hall affords just the right amount of bloom to optimize the group’s richness and blend. Those acoustics especially heightened the impact of William Bolcom’s Symphony No. 3 (Symphony for Chamber Orchestra, 1979), the concert opener. The Seattleborn, 74-year-old American composer was present for a three-day UIndy/ICO residency culminating in this public Saturday evening concert, conducted

by ICO music director Kirk Trevor.

Cast in four movements, the 35-minute symphony impresses as a mix between being programmatic and absolute (i.e. with and without extra-musical allusions). Between a first and last movement titled “Alpha” and “Omega,” bookending a “Scherzo vitale” and a “Chiaroscuro,” I seemed to hear the evocation of a beginning and an end - of life, of existence, of a process who knows? The piece starts and finishes with the higher strings softly bowing in harmonics and an absence of rhythm, suggesting something celestial or ethereal in nature.

For most of the symphony, we heard a mostly tonal section, betraying pseudo pop figurations in common time, blending into an avantgardism rather dominated by a well-amplified electronic keyboard instrument mostly striking one note at a time, each one perhaps denoting a signal event. There are hints of bleakness in slight references to Sibelius’s Fourth Symphony.

I found the piece moving, well instrumented and played with a good measure of polish.

Bolcom walked on stage, receiving a warm applause for his 33-year-old work.

Following the break, Trevor returned to conduct Grieg’s too-little-presented treasure: Two Elegiac Melodies for string orchestra, Op. 34 (1881). Lasting less than ten minutes, it is a smile-through-tears forerunner to the Norwegian composer’s Holberg Suite, Op. 40, written four years later. Trevor had his strings well burnished for evoking Grieg’s moods.

When you see a composer’s name like Jan Václav Voríšek, you assume he must be living, “or I would have heard of him.” Not so, this time: Voríšek, a native Bohemian (now the Czech Republic) lived from 1791 to 1825, right at the height of Classicism’s transition to Romanticism, almost an exact contemporary of Schubert and almost as short lived.

And we heard Trevor conclude his program with Voríšek’ Symphony in D, Op. 24 (1821), written just a year before Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony, with nowhere near the latter’s profundity. But we hear more Schubert - with hints of Mendelssohn than we do Haydn, its two middle movements in B minor and D minor respectively. This was a new work for Trevor; he had to use a score to get through it - and got less polish from his players than he had a month ago for his Beethoven Fourth, a work he could probably conduct in his sleep.

— TOM ALDRIDGE

THEATER SEMINAR PHOENIX THEATRE, THROUGH NOV. 25 r Bill Simmons stood out in the Phoenix Theatre’s new production of Seminar, Theresa Rebeck’s story of a washed-up writer and the students he torments during an expensive a writing seminar. Simmons was backed by a tight ensemble of four, consisting of Lauren Briggeman, Neal Eggeson, Samuel Fain and Lisa Ermel. Each of the four students represents a different archetypal student — the rich and privileged girl, the nepotism-reliant boy, the talented, middle-class no-name and the slut.

Though it was entertaining and funny to watch destructive relationships build and crumble, the play felt lightweight in the end, particularly after a trite, over-emphasized ending tied a neat bow on the play’s under-developed student-teacher relationships. That said, Simmons expertly evoked sympathy and abhorrence as Leonard, the psychotic, drugged-out, self-important writing teacher. He captured the nuances of his character, grounding him in a deep sense of failure and over-compensation. Alone, he was worth the cost of a ticket, but the deal was sweetened by a well-rounded ensemble of young actors.

— KATELYN COYNE

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BY REBECCA TOWNSEND

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Democracy is dead, some people say. If you don’t take the time to vote between now and Nov. 6, those people may be right. Even if you do, they may be right. But maybe you can help delay the funeral.

office. Help us fi nd a series of distinctive Indiana success stories that stir greater civic pride, inspiring further innovation rather than oppressive ignorance that humiliates us as Hoosiers.

Before we begin our ballot tour, please entertain one desperate plea from the NUVO news desk: Save us, dear voter. You alone can spare us from ignorance, bigotry and short-sighted special interests. Even if you have given up on politics, please consider an educated vote a gift to the poor reporters of the world who must allocate precious time and treasure recording what these candidates do when they reach

Green Party’s Jill Stein, the Constitution Party’ s Virgil Goode and Stephen Durham of the Freedom Party join a host of other write-in candidates as options. As much as we’d like to acknowledge all the write-ins for all the races, this will be the last time on this tour . Just be aware that if the candidates listed don’t speak to you, write-in options may be available. (If they take the time to step up, they deserve at least an acknowledgement.)

INDIANA’S CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION

U.S. Senate Race: Let it be known that since this summer, NUVO asked Indiana State T reasurer Richard Mourdock’s people for an opportunity to sit Tune in and vote. Please. down for a candidate profi le interview. After weeks of delay, word came asking if NUVO would send the That being said, let’ s be on our way , shall we?

As of today, you retain a fundamental right to help questions in advance. Upon receiving the response First stop: POTUS. select leadership that will affect your life at all levels that no, NUVO would not send the questions in — from war and health care to taxes and local school advance, negotiations over a possible meeting PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES leadership. By participating in the 2012 election, ceased. At that point negotiations with the opposing you take part in a proud American tradition that The major political parties and associated interests have candidates ceased so we could focus our efforts in provides the entire world a sign that it is possible spent more than $1.7 billion so far on the presidential areas we could offer readers contrasting view points. to stand up to tyranny , fascism or anti-feminism in election, according to New York Times analysis. They Before moving on, though, note this race is one a concrete, yet non-violent way . Use this right while stand ready with millions more as they head into the you still have it. Plenty of voters’ rights advocates are final stretch. With nearly 1 million political ads greasing of the most expensive contests for U.S. Senate in the country. As the out-of-state campaign dollars screaming that more-restrictive voter -identification the wheels, do feel you are well acquainted with the drenching Indiana broadcasters, newspapers and requirements, partisan redistricting and the relocation candidates for president? All 19 of them? Incumbent and overcrowding of local polling places are already President Barack Obama, a Democrat, and his mainline political websites indicate, this race is not just eroding voter access to the polls.

Republican challenger, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt about who will represent Indiana most capably in Washington, D.C. It is about which of the dominant Romney, are as far down this section of the ballot as We can’t provide in-depth intel on every candidate the northwards of 90 percent of voters are likely to go. But parties will control the U.S. Senate — and to what powers that be have deemed appropriate to drop in your moneyed interests they are expected to be beholden. former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, the Libertarian district in the limited amount of space available here.

Nationwide, $146.5 million in ads favoring Party candidate, packed an IUPUI auditorium during But through an in-depth series of questions lobbed Democrats have aired between June 1 and Oct. 1 his most recent visit to Indianapolis as he espoused at candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives compared with $181.7 million favoring the GOP , his plan to end our foreign wars, disband the Federal and the Indiana State Senate, we hope to offer greater according to the Wesleyan Media Project.

Reserve and legalize marijuana. insight into some of the issues as stake.

Focusing solely on Indiana ad buys from Oct. 1-21, Any worthy ballot tour must note that voters will Around the edges, we’ll give you an idea of what $10.58 million worth of television ads have focused on encounter the Obama, Romney and Johnson other races you can help decide and where to fi nd the Donnelly-Horning-Mourdock race, according to the candidates by name; the most-informed voters will more information. And when it comes to the basics Wesleyan media analysis. Of that, ads favoring the GOP note their options are even more expansive. The mix of where to go and what expect at the polls, plus a totaled $5.64 million; Democrats had $4.94 million in also includes candidates such as Stewart Alexander , live-feed for the results as they come in on Election ads working on their behalf. Of these buys, W esleyan the Socialist Party candidate accessible to Hoosiers by Day, we have you covered. estimated independent groups purchased 54 percent. write-in, who is a political activist from California. The The candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives were all much more willing to offer in-depth insights about leadership, legislative priorities and their political motivation. As a result, this guide will focus the majority of its attention on the races that provide an opportunity to highlight the candidates’ diversity of approach.

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ANDRÉ CARSON DEMOCRAT, INCUMBENT CONGRESSMAN

CARLOS MAY

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In his four-and-a-half years in Congress, Carson authored two bills passed by his peers and signed by President Obama. One of these efforts, HR1942, was inspired by the suicide of a local soldier, Army reservist Chance Keesling.

In evaluating the personal strengths he would take office, May says people can feel confident that whenever he took action as a representative, he would do so “for the right reasons, not for the easy reasons.” Another strength, he added, is “a willingness and an ability to look at all sides of the issue before I make up my mind on the issue.”

“Had the military taken Chance’ s medical records into account in a holistic manner , they could have prevented this because he was red flagged during one tour of duty . … This bill effectively requires the military to implement a holistic strategy where anytime a troop has had to seek medical treatment, and if they’re transferred to another tour of duty , all of their medical records are taken into account before they’re deployed.

“I’ve been to Iraq and Afghanistan, and I’ve had troops whisper to me, ‘Listen man, any one of the guys or gals who gets treated or seeks medical attention, it’ s like you’re blackballed.’

It’s such a taboo issue. So as a result, their condition worsens or is exacerbated because this taboo is so great because this culture exists in the military. And it’s near and dear to my heart because my mother suffered from mental health issues, as well.”

The congressman’s efforts helped to lead a change in presidential policy , which opened the door for families of the military’s suicide victims to receive a letter of condolence from the president.

MARION COUNTY’S U.S. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS: THE FIFTH AND THE SEVENTH Editor’s note: Thanks to the candidates for spending valuable time with NUVO to offer candid explanations on their positions.

Condensed excerpts are listed here, mostly verbatim, though in some cases they should not be read as direct quotes. The speakers’ original intent is honored at all points.

Full transcripts — including positions on subjects such as foreign policy, agriculture and veterans’ services — along with more detailed bios are posted at NUVO.net.

WHAT DO YOU FEEL DEFINES A GOOD CONGRESSPERSON?

ANDRÉ CARSON (DEMOCRAT, 7TH DISTRICT): I think someone who sees him or herself as a representative in the true sense of the word.

Someone who is truly a representative in D.C fighting on behalf of their district.

Working hard to bring back resources to their district, working hard on creating jobs, working hard on making sure that schools have the resources that they need.

Making critical decisions relating to tax vehicles, income generation … to our war efforts, and, more importantly, collapsing our war efforts so we can get those monies being spent on wars back into our treasury to make critical investments in our cities.

CARLOS MAY (REPUBLICAN, 7TH DISTRICT): The No. 1 item is accessibility. What do I mean by that? The definition of the job is in the title of the job. You are a representative. That means that you need to find out what is going on in your district. You need to ask the people what their issues are, what their problems are. You need to be willing to go out and explain your stances, your votes, your reasons for doing whatever it is that you’re doing to those people … because you don’t represent just one party or just one specific

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demographic of people or one individual, you represent everyone in your district.

SUSAN BROOKS (REPUBLICAN, 5TH DISTRICT): A good effective congresswoman is a person who truly tries to learn what are the most important issues in the district, [who] tries to truly listen to the constituents and then solves the problems that the constituents might have with the federal government. We talk about the issues all the time, which are very important, but one of the most important things that I think an effective member of Congress does is resolves issues constituents might have with the different federal agencies.

CHARD REID (LIBERTARIAN, 5TH DISTRICT): The most important thing is that they abide by the Constitution. The past 100 years both the Republicans and Democrats alike have basically disregarded the 10th Amendment that says we have these 17 enumerated powers set forth in the constitution. Everything else should be left to the states and to the people.

SCOTT RESKE (DEMOCRAT, 5TH DISTRICT) : Somebody who understands that every problem has two sides. You have to satisfy the needs of the whole and the need of the individual components in every problem.

One of the reasons why our two-party system sometimes works is that one argues for the needs of the whole and one argues for the individual components, so if you understand that the other side is bringing a different perspective then you try and solve the problem that meets the needs of both sides.

WHY DO YOU WANT TO BE IN CONGRESS?

CARSON: I’ve been in Congress now for four-and-a-half years. It’s been truly an honor, and since I’ve been in office, I’ve been able to bring back half a billion dollars back to the state and the district. In the past few months, I had President Obama sign two of my bills into law. Now that’s

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Diversity is something May understands well. Growing up in an Army family , he lived in several U.S. cities, as well as Europe, Japan and Mexico. He has degrees from Wabash College and the Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Most recently, May served as director of Mayor Greg Ballard’s Office of Latino Affairs.

“I will make decisions really based off of a chain of events,” May said. “Is the bill constitutional? If so, check off “yes,” move to the next one. Is this going to benefit America and Americans? If so, checkmark yes, move to the next one. Is this going to benefit my district and my state?

One additional strength: “I’m going to get in there and do a job for the people, not for me.”

a task that usually takes a member of Congress a decade or two to have one bill signed into law, and we were able, through a lot of hard work and network building, to get it done in four-and-a-half years.

MAY: I got sick and tired of what was happening at the federal level and I decided to stop whining or bitching about it, and I decided to try and do something about it.

BROOKS: The national debt discussion last spring was at a feverish pitch. I had a daughter going into her senior year in college, a son going into his senior year in high school, and I began to realize what a mess my generation was leaving for the next generation, leaving to them, and learning that so many kids coming out of college were not getting jobs. At Ivy Tech, I was walking into work every day with unemployed Hoosiers. While we have all these people in higher education, I wouldn’t say that the job creation rate is keeping pace with the number of people coming out who need jobs, and it is a huge problem. ...

Then when the super committee was appointed and a small group of representatives could not sit down and figure out how to come up with some solutions to our country’s debt. I felt members of Congress weren’t listening to the American people and maybe didn’t have the skills to try to bring people together and figure out some really tough problems, and I felt that maybe I could be a different kind of representative and do that.

REID: My goal is to honor the constitution and the make sure that the issues that should be left to the states are left to the states. No.1 priority is to balance the budget and also making balanced budget amendments. But not only that, I want to see a balanced budget within two years.

RESKE: Intellectual curiosity, believe it or not. I spent 28 years in the military, 10

on active duty flying helicopters, 18 in the reserves, and so I have a real geopolitical awareness from that. At the same time, I was a civil engineer for the last 20 years and understand things that are very community level. Congress and the state legislature are where those subjects all come together, from the private sector to national defense to industry to education. All that subject matter just comes together.

I’m frustrated, too. It’s born out of frustration that we’re not solving problems as a nation. We’ve become too polarized.

HOW WILL YOU NEGOTIATE THE CURRENT PARTISAN GRIDLOCK THAT SEEMS TO HAVE STYMIED CONVERSATION AND COOPERATION?

CARSON: I’ve had the opportunity to travel, even with some of my Republican colleagues, and at the end of our travels, in conversations, they’ll say, “You know, Congressman, we don’t disagree on much.

Our methodologies are different, our approaches are different, but I think we still want the same for the American people: We want to create jobs. We want to improve our broken educational system. We want to see critical investments made in infrastructure.

But our approaches our quite different.”

And now, I’m even finding out from some of my Republican friends, they, too, feel hindered by their party leadership because of these serious decisions and these cuts that are affecting the very constituents that they have been sworn in to represent.

MAY: I would work with like-minded individuals, and I don’t mean party individuals, like-party, I mean like-mind. If they’re willing to do what’s right and not what’s easy, if they put the interests of their constituents above their own personal interests or their own party interests, we can work together to get stuff done. And that is what is wrong.

You know, the folks in office right now, they are very quick to point fingers at everyone

SUSAN BROOKS

CHARD REID

SCOTT RESKE

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Brooks cites her diverse résumé when she talks about the leadership strengths she would bring to Congress:

When outlining the leadership strengths he would bring to Congress, Reid focused on his determination to drive a hard-line approach to shrinking federal spending:

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“As a partner in a small law firm, I was a small business owner. I helped, as a deputy mayor , run our state’s largest city and learned about issues affecting our local government and how federal government affects … local communities. … I helped bring very diverse groups of people together to work on, at the time, our country’ s violence problem, our city’ s violence problem …. our homicide rate, domestic violence, child health and welfare issues. My time as U.S. attorney, from ‘01-’07, … focused on national security issues, federal crime issues. … I led an office that represented the United States in civil matters so all of the federal agencies, we were their lawyers … for the Postal Service … the veteran’s association hospital … federal highway … national parks. My now fi ve years at Ivy T ech college working with the unemployed and the underemployed … part of attracting business to Indiana and getting people back to work. I’ve also been the lawyer for that institution.

I hope that I have a breadth of experience that could add a commonsense practical approach to solving problems, not theoretical, pie-in-the sky ideas.”

except for themselves. They are very quick to say it’s the other party when sometime it’s themselves as well and their party as well.

We have got to start making decisions based on what is best for this country, not what is best for this party, regardless of party.

BROOKS: Not move away from the people that we might not see eye to eye on topics, but actually try and develop a relationship with them because I think when you get to know people and begin to work with them as I have in a lot of different jobs, you can usually find ways to work through things. I understand from talking to current members of Congress that doesn’t happen right now. It is very polarized. There isn’t a lot of interaction, whether it’s social or outside of the halls of Congress or actually in the chambers. There isn’t much interaction between the parties. It’s not how it used to be in the past. I really do believe that when people get to know each other on a more personal basis, rather than just the labels that people are attaching to each other, that we should be able to work through some of these differences, I want to try to figure out on a one-to-one basis and try and figure out how we can find some like-minded agreements on some issues.

Maybe not on all the big things at once … (but) small issue by small issue.

REID: I think gridlock can be healthy, to be quite honest, because that’s the whole reason we have separation of powers. You can’t have the House dominated by the Republicans bully around the Democratic Senate. I think the gridlock is a healthy thing

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“I want to see a balanced budget within two years.

Truthfully speaking I don’t think it has any chance of passing, but I think someone needs to stand up and have a proposal that is more radical than what we have.

“I think that life begins at the point of fertilization and I would like to see a law that defines that. The Sanctity of Life Act … puts everything on the same field where federal judges can’t make their own interpretations of when life begins.

“I would prefer to end [the Federal Reserve System] but I would push for an audit-the-Fed bill again if it doesn’t pass the Senate.

“The people who have influenced me the most are not celebrities that the rest of the state knows. They’re the teachers who put in extra time, who showed they cared.

They’re my Young Life leaders in high school, who were there no matter what and would walk beside you and encourage you in your daily life, professors at Anderson University.”

and, quite honestly, I would like to see the government do a lot less than it does.

RESKE: That comes from the voters. When the voters demand that problems be solved, then that’s when problems will start to be solved. You begin that by sending people to Congress who believe that, too.

IN WHAT WAYS, IF ANY, CAN CONGRESS BEST STIMULATE GREATER ECONOMIC GROWTH AND JOB CREATION?

CARSON: We certainly need to make changes to our current tax code. We also need to penalize those companies who choose to ship our jobs overseas [and] come up with more ways to convince companies to keep the bulk of their operations here in the USA. Clamp down on some of these overseas tax shelters and their governments and impose some sanctions on some of the islands that have been used as tax havens to let people escape from paying their fair share of taxes.

Another way is for us to tap into the alternative energy sector. For far too long, we’ve had a dependence on foreign oil. If you look at a state like Indiana, and you drive up I-65 in Carroll County and White County, you’ll see beautiful wind turbines as far as the eye can see. A lot of the time, these wind turbines are being built and manufactured in China. We have a skilled, capable workforce here in the great state of Indiana who can build wind turbines, solar panels and help develop the next generation of alternativefuel vehicles where you could take a bottle of water and power a vehicle to get 60 miles to the gallon. We have to put more pressure

Reske also has a diverse life experience to cite when he outlines his leadership strengths, including service as Marine in the Iraq W ar.

He retired as colonel in 2009 after 28 years of service. Reske is also a civil engineer. An engineering firm he helped start a fi rm that now employs more than 100 people. He has served in the Indiana House of Representatives since 2002.

Reske gets bonus points for being one of the few candidates to discuss apply philosophy to broader issues of political strength and weakness.

“Believe it or not, I think sometimes your strength is always your weakness, so says Sun Tzu. Look for your enemy’ s strength and you’ll find their weakness. Look for your strength and you’ll find your weakness.”

In addition to addressing economic issues, Reske said he is interested in preserving and protecting the benefi ts of Social Security and Medicare. Slashing benefi ts has humanitarian consequences, not only for the people who are retired, but for their kids, he said. “It can set up a whole domino effect of poverty that we were in prior to Social Security and Medicare.”

on Congress to raise the standards so we can do those kinds of things. Those are just some of the creative things that we can do to help spur economic growth.

And the more we collapse and end the war in Afghanistan and our true presence in Afghanistan, we can get our men and women, our service members back home, and use those billions of dollars back in our U.S. Treasury so we can have a series of critical capital infusions in places like Indianapolis to spur economic growth.

MAY: We need to have a tax code or a tax system that encourages small and medium-sized business owners to expand and grow. Right now we do not have that. If we want to solve the tax issue and the loopholes and all that, scrap what we’ve got and implement a new, fair, even, common sense-based tax approach so that everyone is paying into the system.

BROOKS: We need to realize we are in a global competition for jobs. I’ve seen that at my work at Ivy Tech. Companies, when they are making decisions where to create jobs, they’re looking at the business environment, the tax environment, the workforce availability, and we need to make sure that we have a much more favorable tax environment.

REID: The truth is that Congress can’t create jobs. I get really irritated when presidents and Congress say they created jobs.

Government jobs are stealing jobs from the private sector; you are allocating funds.

The best way Congress can create jobs, No. 1 is pass a budget with a tax bracket that

is permanent, so businesses have some degree of certainty going forward.

RESKE: Half the GDP [gross domestic product] comes out of small businesses. Fourteen times the number of patents for new technologies comes out of small businesses. We need to make it easier for small businesses to get capital to get their patents processed.

You got to have manufacturing back here in the United States. Until you bring it back, the middle class will continue to shrink, the buying power will continue to decline.

WHAT DOES SENSIBLE TAX REFORM MEAN TO YOU?

CARSON: I think sensible tax reform means making sure that the wealthy one percent pay their fair share.

MAY: We need to have an approach that is much more fine-tuned for the standard person to understand. Now let me give you the example. Right now, we basically have a tax structure that taxes us based on our production. So where is the incentive as a small or medium-sized business owner to produce more, if the more you produce the more you’re going to get taxed?

So I would be in favor of, lead the push or sign on, if someone else is already leading the push, to revamp it and move from a tax on production, which is, in essence what we have, to a tax on consumption.

BROOKS: I think that intelligent tax reform would require us to make our tax code much simpler. We need to have a discussion about all of the different options.

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BROOKS: I do believe that the federal government’s role is to make sure the states and local entities understand we’re in a global competition for jobs. I am much more in favor of education … to be much more state and locally controlled. The federal government’s role in education should also be probably more focused on research and development; we should be a country that is continuing to innovate and create and federal government should be rewarding that innovation and creation whether it’s in healthcare or in manufacturing or in agriculture. Not everyone in this country is going to have master’s degrees … but we have to continue to emphasize to young people the importance of their high school diploma and of GEDs. We have far too high of a dropout rate in this country and in our state. It’s a very serious problem when we’re competing with countries like India and China that are putting such huge emphasis on education. We’re going to lose that competition for jobs if we don’t have a very educated work force. When I say educated, it’s all levels and types of education, including professional certifications and the various types of college degrees.

I believe fewer rates, fewer loopholes, fewer credits, fewer deductions. We need to simplify our tax code. I think we absolutely need to lower our corporate tax rate because we now have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. We were second to Japan, and Japan has now lowered lower than us.

We absolutely have too many regulations. … I hear it from the agricultural, life sciences, manufacturing, finance and health care community. We have so many regulations that people now have to create jobs to comply with the regulations.

REID: I like flat tax where everyone pays the same percentage.

RESKE: I think first of all it means fairness and everybody pulling their own weight. It means getting rid of self-centered loopholes. It means millionaires and billionaires are paying the same tax rate as their secretaries.

WHAT DO YOU SEE AS THE MOST SERIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE FACING THE STATE? HOW CONCERNED ARE YOU, IF AT ALL, WITH MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE?

CARSON: I think that certainly global warming is a serious issue and a concern of mine. I think that we need to look more clearly at ways in which we can look at the alternative-fuel sector, the alternative-energy sector, solar power, wind power, switchgrass technology, hydropower, to smart-grid technology, to not only power our homes and vehicles, but to make our world, our communities, and our state a better place to live.

Scientists are telling us that the weather we’re witnessing and feeling is a result of our abuse of Mother Earth. This is all a result of our excessive greed and our inability to realize that we are all interconnected and we have a duty and a commitment to maintain Mother Earth as best as possible.

MAY: Water. Lack of water. Potability.

The U.S. just put out a national intelligence estimate that within the next 15 years there’s going to be regional conflicts based off of a lack of drinking water. Within the next 50 years, there are going to be wars, outright wars, due to a lack of drinking water.

Common sense tells you that we’re affecting the environment. Common sense tells me this: If I were to go into the garage with the garage door closed, turn on the car and all the emissions coming out of the car, I’d start to choke. …

We are pumping out millions and millions of pounds of particulate matter, of emissions from our vehicles. The degree to which we affect [the climate], I don’t know because I’m not a scientist. But I would rely upon the scientists’ evaluations to say “Hey, this is something going on, we need to pay attention to it.” We need to, right now, start investing in next generation technologies, not just to what the next generation is going to be, but nextgeneration technologies in terms of what we already use currently. We can be more efficient if we wanted to be. But we got all these vested interests that throw billions of dollars at government and at politicians saying, “Don’t do that, don’t do that.”

BROOKS: The drought that we experienced this summer is very serious issue. We, as

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Hoosiers, often don’t think about conservation the way we should think about conservation. … I am always very pleased to see programs that focus on conservation of all types as well as recycling and sustainability. Having grown up on a lake in northern Indiana, I want to make sure that our water quality is outstanding and I know that we have had water quality issues around the state, so I certainly think that that’s something we need to make sure we are protecting. I think we’re probably now more concerned about greenhouse gases, about issues with respect to droughts, about issues with respect to heat because it’s front and center right now.

REID: I don’t have a great answer for you on that, I really don’t. I don’t question whether or not we hurt the ozone and stuff like that, but I haven’t seen any evidence of climate change yet that I have really bought into. I believe in climate change, not global warming, does that make sense?

RESKE: I think the biggest threat to environmental conditions is going backwards. You actually should always be striving to move forward with cleaning your environment and using technology in a way that enables you to do that but yet doesn’t impede economic growth.

I think [climate change] is real, absolutely real. Even if it wasn’t, why not continue to try to do those things to reduce our carbon footprint. What do you got to lose? If climate change is really happening and those people continue to advocate for ignoring it, it’s a disastrous result on the end. But on the other end, people who advocate that it’s true, so what if they’re wrong? What do we got to lose? In the end we end up with a cleaner environment, so what?

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HOW DO YOU THINK FEDERAL EDUCATIONAL POLICY HAS INFLUENCED THE STATE’S EDUCATIONAL LANDSCAPE? IN WHAT AREAS, IF ANY, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE THAT CHANGE?

CARSON: I think that Race to the Top (a federal program that offered grants to states to reform their education systems) had good intentions, but it was pretty controversial. I know the state of Indiana did not get its fair share. I think more importantly, we need to see absolute reformation of our education system nationwide. We need a space where teachers are given the freedom to teach to meet the different learning styles of children. Most of us are visual learners.

Some of us are kinesthetic, we like to feel, touch, and build things. Some of us are auditory learners. Many of us are a combination of all three, but teachers need the ability, without having to worry about strict testing requirements, to really focus on nurturing these young, great, brilliant minds and future leaders.

MAY: It’s influenced me in every single way. That’s a problem of again, FDR and the New Deal. We started this overexpansion and over-reach of the federal government. We lost sight of what made our country great. And that is our Constitution. Nowhere in the constitution does it say that the federal government is in charge of issues of education.

Therefore, it must be driven by the state.

If we want the federal government involved in education, which I personally do not, but if we wanted it as a people and as a district that I would represent, I would go with the will of the district, not my own. But I would look at it like this.

Let’s let the federal government set just the standard by which we will educate.

And then let the states implement the specifics of that education.

REID: I would like to abolish the federal department of education. I think that it has far too much influence over local school decisions. My theory of education is that local school boards should be making the most decisions at a school.

And if there is going to be an oversight comity of sorts, it should be the state department of education; it should not be the federal level.

RESKE: I don’t think federal policy has had much effect on Indiana. I think this hybrid, private/public education system that we set up in the last two years is going to be the demise of a strong public education system in Indiana, that’s for sure.

HOW DO YOU DEFINE A HOOSIER?

CARSON: I read years ago that during wartime, someone’s ear was cut off in battle and someone bent down and said, “Who’s ear?” and that evolved into “Hoosier.” Hoosiers are why I choose to call Indiana home. It’s the energy of the people, it’s the intelligence of the people, it’s the passion of the people, it’s the sincerity of its residents. And I’m talking from Vanderburgh County to Marion County to Palaski County, and all the way to Lake County. The spirit, the energy, and the positivity that you get from those folks who live in the great state of Indiana can’t be replaced.

Indiana is America’s best-kept secret and I’m proud to call myself a Hoosier.

MAY: Someone with common sense, goodness in their heart, open ability to listen. We are the crossroads of America.

We are a melting pot of all of America right here in Indianapolis, so the Hoosier heartland is one of good people, with good integrity, with good character, and with good desire to help folks out.

BROOKS: I think Hoosiers are people who care about each other and to step up and help each other. We are the epitome of volunteerism, I think, in the country.

I believe Hoosiers are very practical

and are very common-sense oriented. I believe most Hoosiers, but I am worried about this, are very hard working and are industrious, ethical people. [NUVO: What are you worried about?] Because of some of our federal policies like giving people 99 weeks of unemployment.

I believe it’s too much and I believe that government has gone too far with some of its policies in providing for people without requiring people, with respect to unemployment, requiring them to go back and improve their skills or get better education or requiring them to volunteer or requiring them to give back.

REID: A Hoosier is someone who resides in Indiana, and I plan to maintain two residences, and come back often. I am not going to sell my house. I am going to maintain it. My biggest thing is I am not a politician; I don’t even want to be with those guys more than six to10 years.

I mean I can’t stand the idea of working with these dirt bags (you can put that in there I think it will crack some people up).

I want to be with kids, I love teaching.

RESKE: As a guy who’s been in the military and intermingled with people from the other 49 states and territories, I think what people think of Hoosiers is that they’re pretty fair, pretty honest and hard working. I think that’s our reputation, too, I really do. Having worked in the Pentagon, my last two years as a reservist, Indiana’s National Guard had a great reputation and that’s coming from a Marine. So I was pretty proud of that.

WHAT QUESTION DO YOU WISH I’D ASKED AND WHAT’S YOUR ANSWER TO IT?

BROOKS: I am very worried about apathy among young people in our democracy

and the number of young people who are not voting, the number of young people who have no clue who their political leaders are, the number of young people, I mean high school, I mean probably, you know, 15- to 30-year-olds.

Almost all political candidates focus on senior citizens for a reason, OK? It’s because they vote. Because they understand what their votes mean. Many of them fought in wars and have a deeper appreciation of what a freedom to vote means. And I am afraid that a lot of young people don’t, and so phone calls and phone banks aren’t focused on young people. A lot of efforts aren’t focused on turning out the young people vote because they, for some time now, haven’t been showing up.

REID: What do you think of the Paul Ryan budget plan?

I think that the Paul Ryan budget plan is a slap in the face to everyone who calls themselves a fiscal conservative, and I think it should be renamed the path to global mediocrity.

RESKE: I think you covered it.

IF YOU COULD ASK A QUESTION OF YOUR FELLOW CANDIDATES, WHAT WOULD IT BE?

CARSON: What do you plan to do for Hoosiers, and what do you plan to do for the middle class?

MAY: Why won’t you debate me?

BROOKS: With Congress at an all-time low approval rating, what are they going to do to try to restore confidence in Congress? And how can they demonstrate, or what do they plan on doing to demonstrate how we can restore our faith in our government?

REID: I would ask Mr. Reske why he doesn’t have any issues listed on his website? Is he running strictly as a Democrat, with only the national party’s platform? Or does he have some of his own issues? [For Brooks:] I understand that you support a budget plan that doesn’t balance for 28 years, and that you support bailouts. Do you consider yourself a fiscal conservative?

RESKE: [FOR BROOKS:] More than 50 percent of Congress and more than 60 percent of the Senate are attorneys. What do you bring to the table as an attorney? [For Reid:] What role does government play in Libertarian philosophy? To allow the free market to be the free market, does government have a role in being the referee?

DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD ABOUT ISSUES PERTAINING TO GAY RIGHTS AND HOW DO YOU THINK GAY PEOPLE FEEL THEY’VE BEEN TREATED

BY HOOSIER POLITICIANS?

BROOKS: Marriage, I believe, is a state issue. I believe that those issues are something that people need to advocate with their local city councilors and their state legislators. States in this country are so different. Federal government shouldn’t try to make all of our states all the same. I believe that all people should be treated equally. I believe in the Constitution and I do not believe people should be discriminated against.

REID: I think everyone should have equal rights, but I don’t think that the federal government should be in charge of marriage of all. Many of my fellow Christians will say that marriage is between a man a woman and God and I agree with that. But notice the lack of the word government. Government should not

be involved in marriage whatsoever. It is a religious covenant. I know that can seem really judgmental and hypocritical to the gay community. The other thing is, I think we need to remember the No. 1 enemy of marriage is not gay marriage, it’s divorce, and unfortunately Christians have just the same percentage rate as everyone else.

RESKE: Motivation means a lot to me in the debate over gay marriage in the Statehouse. I began to realize that was not a debate about a religious term. At first I thought this was a debate about that. I began to realize over time that it was a debate about hate. I think gay people should feel a lot of injustice.

A couple interesting points of similarity and contrast between Carson and May: Both candidates support the so-called Dream Act but have different approaches to the question of legalization or decriminalization of marijuana.

In a letter to legalization advocate Bill Levin (who transparency demands we note is one of two individuals to pay for political advertising in NUVO this election), Carson stated: “Many people claim that marijuana is harmless if used responsibly, yet experts have shown it is a gateway drug, often leading its users to try other dangerous drugs. I believe that it would be a grave mistake to allow some people to use these drugs while we are trying to fight drug use across the country.”

In a video of Carlos May speaking at an Indiana Tea Party candidate forum, he stated: “Where is the sense in these [prohibitive, federal marijuana] policies? This is actually costing us more money, more tax dollars, more time and energy and enforcement than just taxing it and regulating it.”

MARY ANN SULLIVAN

BRENT WALTZ,

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Sullivan is an Indianapolis East Side native. She and her husband of 35 years, Brian, raised three children in Irvington. They now live downtown and have three grandchildren.

Waltz is a two-term state senator, entering his office in 2004 after serving on the Johnson County Council, including a term as a president. After graduating cum laude from Wabash College, he started The Baron Group, an investmentbanking company. He serves on the Senate Appropriations Committee and is the ranking member of the Senate Pensions and Labor Committee.

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Her more than 20 years of professional experience restrict includes stints with IPS, the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, the Indiana Department of Education, the Christel DeHaan Family Foundation, and the Center of Excellence in Leadership of Learning. She has a master’s degree in public policy.

“Making sure that every child, regardless of wealth or geographic location, has access to a quality education has been a big part of my career and is a central focus of my work at the statehouse,” she said.

Her top legislative priorities based on the needs she sees within her district include (in no particular order): 1) The revitalization of Near Downtown business corridors, such as Madison A ve., and adjacent communities; 2) Continued support for high quality public education opportunities for every neighborhood. 3) Maintaining an attractive, engaging urban core and competitive business environment.

Thoughts on the district: Senate District 36 includes the center of the city, the IUPUI campus, near-Downtown neighborhoods, Homecroft, Southport, and parts of Greenwood and Center Grove. Addressing district needs could mean working on abandoned housing issues in Bates Hendricks, advocating for better inclusion of the Chin community in Southport, finding ways to revitalize the neighborhoods surrounding UIndy, expanding the presence of IUPUI in the Center City, and improving roads and sidewalks in suburban Southside communities.

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He lists his top legislative priorities based on the needs he sees within his district as: 1) Jobs and the economy . In addition to outreach efforts such as job fairs he said he “will continue to look for ways to help businesses to grow and prosper.” 2) Public education.

“Indiana must maintain a high standard for its public schools as well as their funding,” he said. “I have been working on several projects with education leaders in our community and state to improve our schools. One way is to establish a fi nancial literacy initiative, which would teach children from grades 6-12 age appropriate lessons on how to manage money , be responsible with debt, and develop credit.”

3) Roads and infrastructure. “Indiana will be facing a signifi cant shortfall in its highway funding for the upcoming budget session,” he noted, emphasizing a need to address that shortfall.

Thoughts on the district: “My Senate District is simply the Heart of Indiana. It is the most diverse Senate District in the state. It contains the Indiana Capitol and Monument Circle, as well as two universities IUPUI and the University of Indianapolis. It contains some of best as well as some of the most challenged public schools in Indiana. It contains newly paved roadways and alleys that haven’t been resurfaced in a generation. It is a remarkable place.”

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TIM DELANEY

FRED PETERSON

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DeLaney, a life-long resident of Washington Township, is now raising tow children there with his wife, Anne. He an active parishioner at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church. In his law career, he focuses primarily on commercial litigation.

His top legislative priorities based on the needs he sees within his district include: 1) Public schools. “We need to devote considerable time and attention to the impact of recent reforms and how best capitalize on reform efforts. My biggest priority is to expand access to early childhood learning.” 2) Infrastructure. “Indiana, particularly central Indiana, is in danger of falling behind the rest of the country in terms of infrastructure. W e have crumbling bridges and roads and virtually no mass transit initiatives of any kind. I support bringing a referendum to the voters to decide whether to invest in modern mass transit.” 3) Jobs. “Both education and infrastructure lead to job growth, but we need to engage in other creative ways to encourage job growth. I want to help eliminate red tape and create one-stop portals for entrepreneurs seeking to open businesses in state. I also favor extending tax credits to companies willing to hire employees during this continuing period of high unemployment.

IF YOU COULD PROVIDE ONE ELEMENT OF CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM ABOUT THE 2012 GENERAL ASSEMBLY, WHAT WOULD IT BE?

SULLIVAN: My constructive criticism would be that leadership at all levels should have had more confidence in their mainstream members to work together. We could have accomplished so much more.

WALTZ: I would have preferred a compromise regarding the passage of right to work legislation, which was very disruptive and would offer very little, if any, benefit to encouraging businesses to locate in Indiana.

DELANEY: Its focus on divisive culture war issues. We are just emerging from the worst recession in recent memory. Instead of focusing on putting Hoosiers back to work, legislators took on a Tea Party agenda focused on attacking women’s access to health care, teaching creationism as science and engaging in so much silliness that legislators even attacked the Girl Scouts.

This kind of extremism has no place in our government, embarrasses the state and gets in the way of real progress.

PETERSON: The term, “minority leader” is a misnomer when the only leadership displayed is to leave town.

SCHNEIDER: No matter how much you disagree with a bill, a legislator has no business being so rigid as to walk off the job.

BARNES: Members of the legislature can’t claim to be “fiscal conservatives” and then not show concern when the state loses track of more than half a billion dollars of revenue. We need a transparent, independent accounting system so that we actually know how much money we have to work with. If you “find” money that was “lost,” restore the

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LIBERTARIAN

Peterson is a lifelong Indy resident. Toward the end of his 40 years working at GM, he started to attend school part time, earned a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy .

Since retiring in 2006, he has been teaching at Ivy Tech.

He said his top political priority is to reform campaign fi nance.

“I propose “The Permission Principle” which would prohibit any corporation or union in Indiana to spend a stockholder ’s or member’s dues money for political purposes without fi rst obtaining their permission.”

He noted that Senate District 30, which stretches from the northern portions of Marion County into southern Hamilton County, “was gerrymandered in hopes to keep it Republican. “ The incumbent senator, he added, was appointed to replace the previous Republican who accepted another in-party appointment.

funding to the original programs that you cut.

Don’t invent new ways to spend that money.

MARTINEZ: The 2012 General Assembly seemed to be plagued by an air of complacency and a lackluster attitude towards bipartisanship. In addition to their inability to bridge the gap between the two major parties, they wasted taxpayer monies chasing pieces of legislation that served to single out and harm select portions of Indiana’s residents and add absolutely no value to the quality of life for anyone living in Indiana.

More specifically, House Joint Resolution 6 has already cost Hoosiers over $78,000 to pursue (more than double the average cost for a single piece of legislation), and if it is successful, its only contribution to our state will be: a.) to concrete an already existing law (same-sex marriage is already denied by the state of Indiana), b.) diminish protections (including domestic violence provisions) for all non-married Hoosiers, c.) it will (and has already) discourage many employers from moving to Indiana in an effort to protect their LGBT employees and to remain competitive while they attempt to attract talent.

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schneiderforsenate.com Schneider served the Indianapolis City County Council for eight years. He is now fi nishing his first term in the State Senate. As a small business owner , which he said will translate to helpful perspective as legislators work for job creation in Indiana. “I am proud to have worked with Governor Mitch Daniels on key bills like property tax caps, repeal of the inheritance tax, and balanced budgets,” he said. “Indiana has a strong foundation to build upon like our AAA bond rating, No. 1 in job creation in the Midwest and No. 5 in the country.”

His top legislative priorities based on the needs he sees within his district include: Property taxes, education and jobs.

“Property taxes are the No. 1 issue I hear about from constituents.

Many people are fearful of losing their homes as a result of the property tax spikes a few short years ago. I have been working to call attention to the assessment side of the issue, which, if not addressed immediately, can circumvent the already existing protections from property tax caps.”

have been forced upon us, especially the way it was done. The state has no interest in criminalizing contracts between private parties. We need a strong, balanced voice.

We need progress not more partisanship.

ADKINS: Only one? While right to work is an obvious choice. I would have to say my biggest criticism is how close the General Assembly came to allowing the governor to pull Hoosiers out of Medicare.

HOW YOU DO THINK AN EXTENDED ERA OF SOLID REPUBLICAN CONTROL OVER THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY WILL INFLUENCE LEGISLATORS’ WORK AT THE STATEHOUSE? HOW WILL BIPARTISANSHIP AND CHECKS AND BALANCES FUNCTION IN THIS ENVIRONMENT?

BREAUX: Focus on the issues that matter, not socially divisive issues that do not address real issues such as healthcare and Indiana’s response to the Affordable Care Act, education-meaningful expansion of full-day Kindergarten, pre-school and funding for traditional public urban schools and suburban schools. Indiana’s high school dropout rate is a big problem. We need to diversify our energy resources in the state, and we need to offer a real plan to reduce unplanned pregnancies and family planning to reduce STDs and too many very young people becoming parents.

SULLIVAN: I believe that there are plenty of good ideas that can garner bipartisan support, if individual legislators are willing to assert themselves within their caucus and to their leadership. My sense is that many legislators are tired of the extreme partisanship and lack of collegiality at the Statehouse.

Until a less dysfunctional relationship is established, the role of the minority will be to react to the overreach of the majority who are testing the extremes of their ideology. Unfortunately, the extremists are driving an agenda that those in control seem unable to manage.

WALTZ: There is no question that both the House and Senate will remain firmly in the hands of a Republican majority. I have always tried to focus on representing my community, not my political party. It is my hope that this new era will enable legislators to focus serving their constituents rather than scoring cheap political points at the expense of the opposing political party.

WATERFILL: The Indiana General Assembly is far too partisan. Right to work should never

DELANEY: We’ve seen the unfortunate extremism that has been the hallmark of

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debate in the General Assembly in recent years. Instead of engaging in such debates, I want to focus on issues that have bipartisan appeal such as early childhood education and improving our transit infrastructure. I don’t care if a good idea comes from a Democrat or a Republican. I only care if it moves our state forward.

PETERSON: As the term “bi” in bipartisanship implies, two leaders are required.

Unfortunately, quality leadership has been lacking on the Democratic side as evidenced by the “we’re not in the majority so we’ll leave town” mentality during the last session.

SCHNEIDER: Compared to a 14-year era of Democrat control, Republicans have only been in the majority for two years, yet we have accomplished much good. Look at our state’s fiscal condition compared to surrounding states. In the Senate where Republicans have a strong majority, 98 percent of the bills passed last year received bipartisan support, and 57 percent were unanimous. We work together in the Senate to accomplish many positive things with both Democrat and Republican support.

BARNES: There will be even more of a focus on social issues and less interest in tackling the tough economic issues that we face. There won’t be much of any bipartisanship in such a climate. Instead, we will continue to see the “political antics” that result with one-party rule.

MARTINEZ: If the current state of affairs in the Indiana General Assembly is any indicator of the effects of an extended era of solid Republican control, Hoosiers need to reconsider our political priorities. We have legislation being rushed through the system with countless unknown earmarks and additional considerations that some legislators

DISTRICT 28 MICHAEL ADKINS DEMOCRAT

Adkins, 62, is a lifelong resident of Hancock County. He has been married over 42 years to Candy , a public school teacher. They have 3 grown children and 4 grandchildren.

He noted that Senate District 28 is the product of an attempt to reduce Democratic representation from Marion County. It divided Warren Township and placed over 31,000 voters into a district that includes all of Hancock County and northern Shelby County . Much of the district is rural, but the great majority of the population lives in cities, towns and suburbs. His opponent did not respond.

DISTRICT 32 JOHN F. BARNES

DISTRICT 33 GENA MARTINEZ

DISTRICT 34 JEAN BREAUX

DISTRICT 35 MARK WATERFILL

Barnes is a seventh generation Hoosier directly descended from two veterans of the American Revolution.

Gena Martinez (née Hancock) was born and raised in South Central Indiana. She attended Orange Coast College while working as the executive assistant to the president of an aerospace manufacturing company.

When she returned to Indiana to start a family, she worked for Cummins, Inc. and was among the founding members of the company’ s first affinity group providing resources LGBT employees.

In recounting her personal biography, Breaux noted her father tutored her in chemistry , introduced her to opera and taught her to run track.

Her mother taught her to question authority “and to never doubt myself or my potential.”

Waterfill and his wife, Missy , have four kids.

DEMOCRAT

His legislative priorities include economic development; education funding and improved public transit.

His opponent, Patricia Miller , a long-time incumbent senator , did not respond to NUVO’ s request to participate in candidate profiles.

admit they aren’t even able to read, let alone weigh and consider. At a recent debate, I heard a Republican incumbent admit that often times Senators’ names are added as coauthors to bills they have never even read! If there is a shred of truth to this (and I suspect there is), it is a shameful state of affairs.

BREAUX: While the legislature often divides along rural vs. urban issues, there are fundamental differences in how the two parties address our state’s priorities such as healthcare, education, tax policy and the environment. Democrats in the Senate will to be organized and vocal.

WATERFILL: We need more fiscal watchdogs at the Statehouse. One-party control has resulted in the administration “losing” over a half a billion dollars, cutting education funding and then not returning that money, and boondoggles such as the Rockport coal-gas plant and the IURC (Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission) and DCS (Department of Child Services) scandals.

ATKINS: I know Republicans who are concerned about having full GOP dominance in the legislature. The GOP has become so emboldened they broke the governor’s promise to labor and passed RTW. The very fact they tried to opt Indiana out of Medicare because of radical ideology is scary. A greater dominance by the GOP will embolden the Tea Party and make bipartisanship all but impossible.

IF YOU COULD ASK ONE QUESTION OF YOUR OPPONENT, WHAT WOULD IT BE?

SULLIVAN: Do you really believe that your rigid and extreme ideology is helpful to, or representative of, a modern, internationally competitive city?

LIBERTARIAN

Martinez’s opponent, Sen. Greg Taylor, did not return NUVO’ s his candidate questionnaire.

WALTZ: Does Mary Ann Sullivan believe that she would be more effective in representing our community as one of 13 Democrats out the 50 members of the state Senate and if “yes” how she would do so?

DELANEY: I would ask if he regrets authoring bills to defund Planned Parenthood, teach creationism in science class, make abortion a Class C felony, allowing guns in playgrounds and libraries and if he regrets endorsing Richard Mourdock in the primary over the respected Senator (Richard) Lugar.

PETERSON: The largest cash payments unabashedly accepted by the other two candidates came from corporations or unions.

My question to both is, “Why is the individual’s political voice not most important?”

SCHNEIDER: Why are you so critical of so many of the bills that received bipartisan support? Are you upset with the moderates of your own party and wish they would be more rigid and partisan?

BARNES: Why do you spend so much time on social issues and so little time on the vital economic issues of jobs and economic development that would really help this district?

MARTINEZ: Let me begin by stating honestly that I have the utmost respect for state Senator (Greg) Taylor. … If I am elected to office it means I ran a good campaign and my district stood behind me (while we watched pigs fly overhead and snuggled close to Satan to keep warm). My only criticism may be that he wasn’t aggressive enough. To that end: Senator Taylor, why did you not present more legislation with the intent to proactively protect Hoosiers in your district as opposed to only responding appropriately to defend them from the predatory bills of other legislators?

STATE SEN., DEMOCRAT

DEMOCRAT

“Both my parents worked hard and cared about the underserved,” she said. “They taught me to live life to the fullest while leaving a footprint of activism and love.”

“Jobs, education and health care are important issues for my district. I have created jobs in the district and know what it takes to do so. I am a proponent of enlarging health care opportunities for all Hoosiers, especially the most vulnerable, such as children and the elderly. My opponent has voted against health care check ups for the uninsured and even tried to end federal Medicare in Indiana.”

Breaux’s only competition, is write-in candidate Eric “The Nobody” Scott.

His opponent a long-time incumbent senator, did not respond.

BREAUX: I would ask Scott Schneider why he is so opposed to Planned Parenthood in Indiana. I would ask him if he is aware that PP provides valuable services for low- and moderate-income men and women in the form of breast exams, cancer screenings, and remedies for contracted STDs. These conditions, when detected early, can reduce the onset of serious illness and the spread of disease while at the same time saving our state significant health care costs.

WATERFILL: Why did you co-author SB 423, 2009, a boondoggle requiring the state to buy gas from a for-profit developer for 30 years, and then lie about the fact that you co-authored that bill?

ADKINS: My opponent is a very nice guy. Of all the questions I could ask, No. 1 would be how can you accept so many special interest campaign contributions and say you will not be beholden to any special interest?

WHAT QUESTION DO YOU WISH WE’D ASKED AND HOW WOULD YOU ANSWER IT?

DELANEY: Why am I running? I am running because we have been traditionally represented in District 30 by bipartisan senators who focused on the real priorities facing our state. That changed in 2009 when the Tea Party picked the replacement for our senator, who stepped down mid-term.

PETERSON: The Democratic candidate wants to keep lowering the mandatory age for children to be sent to public school.

How does he determine the age and is there a lower limit? The Republican wants creationism taught in public schools.

Would he also mandate that all other religious accounts of the creation be included or only the one in which he believes.

SULLIVAN: What is the best part of what you do?

The absolute best part of representing my community is working with stakeholder groups to solve problems and create new opportunities. It is intensely satisfying to identify a problem, bring everyone together who is impacted by that problem, and collaboratively find a solution. Equally fulfilling is envisioning a great new direction and developing a compelling plan to get there.

WALTZ: What is my favorite Harrison Ullmann column? “My Dinner Date with God” circa 1996.

BARNES: When people vote for me, they will be voting for someone who will work for them. They will be voting for a candidate, not a party. I am a moderate Democrat and a fiscal conservative. I believe in reaching across the aisle to get things done by working with members of the other party.

Indiana is supposed to have a “part-time, citizen legislature”. I don’t think the founders envisioned 30-year incumbents who vote to give themselves expensive perks like health care and pensions. Let’s get back to prioritizing service to our constituents.

MARTINEZ: I do wish NUVO would ask all of the candidates this election round how they intend to set aside party obligations and tend to the needs and requests of the citizens they are sworn to represent. Political parties are powerful tools that serve to win elections, but people are called to legislate, not parties. Voters should bear this in mind when selecting candidates, not parties.

WATERFILL: Are you a fiscal conservative?

Yes. As a small business owner I will work to keep property taxes low. I pledge to: Oppose wasteful boondoggles such as the Rockport coal-gas plant, co-authored by my opponent; [and to] end pensions for legislators.

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How spooky the Statehouse gets is up to you.

MANY OTHER RACES WILL BE DECIDED NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT.

INDIANA GOVERNOR: We ran deep with these candidates in our Sept. 26 issue, which is archived at NUVO.net. As with the debates the Indiana Debate Commission hosted featuring the U.S. Senate candidates, the IDC has the three gubernatorial debates archived at indianadebatecommission.com under the “video” tab.

INDIANA ATTORNEY GENERAL: Kay Fleming, a Democrat from Indianapolis, is challenging incumbent AG Greg Zoeller, a Republican.

The winner gets to manage the office, which as the state’s attorney, handles an estimated 3,000 civil lawsuits and approximately 1,600 criminal appeals each year. Among the legal positions it must negotiate: the state’s relationship to the federal government on health care and funding of Medicaid providers.

INDIANA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (DISTRICTS 86-100): In all, 15 legislative districts within Marion County (at least in part) are up for grabs, ostensibly, at least.

Republicans Cindy Kirchhofer and Mike Speedy and Democrats John Bartlett and Robin Shackleford (who is set to replace retiring Rep. Bill Crawford) are running unopposed, victors in the local political kingpins’ dubious practice of carving out “safe” districts that give the major parties almost certain control of certain sections of the city.

Speaker of the House Brian Bosma, a Republican, is up for re-election along with three other incumbent Republicans and four incumbent Democrats.

The main question the news desk had for these candidates can be answered by reviewing their performance on one core issue last session: mass transit. What did you do to champion or advance a bill to allow Indianapolis to pursue the mass transit plan embraced by top business and sustainability interests alike? Answer: Nothing.

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JUDICIAL ISSUES: Don’t beat yourself up if you haven’t studied the individual caseloads of each judge slated for your review. Without the benefit of a comprehensive primer on why we do judicial elections they way we do, accompanied by the general knowledge that leaders within the judiciary disagree about the best method of judicial selection, suffice it to say, judges face no competition in their races. There are 10 Republicans and 10 Democrats with 20 benches between them at the Marion County Superior Court. Some judicial leaders say retention of judges would result in better jurisprudence if a more-exclusive, but better-formed commission were appointed to review judges’ performance.

In a recent op-ed article, Joel M. Schumm, a clinical professor of law at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, noted that a poll of Indiana State Bar Association members shows “more than 80 percent of the responding lawyers support the retention of the two Indiana Supreme Court justices [Steven H. David and Robert D. Rucker] and four Court of Appeals judges” who are facing retention votes Nov. 6.

Schumm also recommend the court’s retention website (courts.in.gov/retention) as an additional information source.

STATE SUPERINTENDANT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION: Glenda Ritz, a Democrat from Carmel, is challenging incumbent Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett, a Republican. The candidates disagree sharply about the degree to which standardized test scores should drive educational policy. The Bennett-directed state takeovers of Indy’s “failing” schools center on letter grades based in large part by testing metrics. He is campaigning on efforts to continue improving student achievement.

Ritz decries the legacy of teach-to-the-test mentality and advocates greater local control of schools. Both candidates have classroom experience. Ritz cites 33 as a teacher while Bennett spent 10 years teaching science before moving into school administration.

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LOCAL SCHOOL BOARDS: Responsible, in-depth coverage of these races would require the doubling of size of this guide, a luxury disallowed by the rigid ratio of advertising-toeditorial content that governs those print publications scrappy enough to still be in business. We may not like it, but this is the fiscal reality we live in. Still, we can direct you to a couple resources that may assist you in making educated decisions about the people who will be guiding the largest consumers of local tax dollars, our city’s public schools, which, as charter models expand, increasingly include more out-of-state interests. On this note, stalwart grassroots education activist John Harris Loflin noted in a recent dispatch that out-of-state campaign contributions have enriched reform-oriented candidates.

That being said, Indianapolis columnist Mathew Tully, who has authored Searching for Hope, a book about life at local “failing” school, took a strong stance for reform: “For those hoping for change, it’s simple: Elect newcomers Hannon, retired IU Health CEO Sam Odle and teacher Gayle Cosby, as well as veteran board member Diane Arnold, who is running unopposed,” Tully wrote.

Local public broadcaster WFYI has archived a debate of local school board candidates at http://tinyurl.com/IPSdebate2012.

WARNING: The number or precincts has increased, but the number of polling places dropped to 295 from 481 in 2007, as the mayor’s office began consolidating more precincts within single polling locations.

In the primary election earlier this year , the county clerk recorded voter complaints of problems such as inadequate parking, inaccessibility and overcrowding at 19 locations, representing 54 precincts. The mayor’s staff have made some adjustments to try to address these issues.

VOTE (OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE).

PREPARE + Confirm your registration. + Double-check your polling place. [Note: This step is extra important as many polling places have changed.] + Review the candidates on your ballot.

You can handle all these steps by visiting the state Election Division’ s indianavoters.in.gov.

Marion County Clerk Beth White also hosts a voter information portal at indy.gov/VIP. HEAD TO THE POLLS (OR VOTE EARLY) + Grab your some form federal or state identification card that features your name and a photo. Examples of acceptable identifi cation include: a driver ’s license, passport or military identification. + On Nov. 6, Election Day, polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. + Early voting at the county clerk’ s office in the City-County Building downtown (200 E. Washington St.) runs from 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. through Sunday, Nov. 4. Early voting ends Monday, Nov. 5, at noon. + Reimbursed parking for early voters is available at the pay two lots directly north and south of the intersection of Market and Alabama Streets. Y ou do have to pre-pay the lot fee, but it is reimbursed after presenting a voucher from the Election Board.

PROBLEMS? Call the Hoosier V oter Hotline: 866-IN-1-VOTE (866-461-8683).

Report any Election Day issues to the clerk’ office at 327-VOTE (8683).

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MOVIES Flight t At the sneak preview I attended Monday night, Flight received a healthy amount of applause at its conclusion, and filmgoers praised the drama to studio reps in the lobby. On the movie review web site Rotten Tomatoes, the production has received 88% positive reviews as of this writing. Clearly, a lot of people think highly of the film.

The story: Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washington) is a middle-age pilot with a great amount of skill and experience. In the opening scene, Whip lies in bed at 7 a.m. after a night of hard partying with beautiful flight attendant Katerina (Nadine Velazquez). He has a 9 a.m. flight, but no worries, he just does a little coke to get himself in gear.

Onboard the plane, he furtively makes a screwdriver with one hand while holding an intercom with the other and coolly addressing passengers. Cool is the word for Whip Whitaker.

The weather is lousy and the take-off is beyond bumpy. Whip frightens his co-

pilot (Brian Gerety) and rattles the passengers by gunning the plane through the clouds to find a non-turbulent spot. After accomplishing his task, he takes a nap, only to be awakening when a mechanical emergency throws the plane into a plunge. I won’t detail what happens – suffice to say Whip amazingly manages to save all but six of the souls on board.

But what about Whip’s soul? TV commentators hail him as a hero, but the blood tests at the hospital record the contraband in his system. Can the results be hidden from the authorities?

Should they be? And what about Whip and his reckless behavior? Can he face the truth in time to save himself?

I appreciated Denzel Washington’s predictably strong performance along with the fine work by the rest of the cast.

I was engrossed by the depiction of the airplane disaster at the beginning of the film and the intriguing hero/anti-hero set-up presented by writer John Gatins (Real Steel) and director Robert Zemeckis (Castaway, plus several motion-capture annoyances). Unfortunately, though the film flows more smoothly than most Zemeckis productions, the addiction storyline left me wanting.

I understand why a mainstream audience would get involved in the tale. Major

movies with big movie stars don’t tackle addiction very often. But I see a lot of indie movies, where addiction stories are all too common. For something like this to work I need a new twist, or some major insight into the main character. But Denzel Washington is opaque, a trait that carries through to his characters. We learn next to nothing about Whip – he’s just another addict slogging through denial.

A cover-up plotline featuring Bruce Greenwood and Don Cheadle is morally vacant, but interesting. Kelly Reilly

engages as an addict who gets romantically involved with Whip, while John Goodman contributes a big comic performance as Whip’s buddy/drug source that seems more appropriate to The Big Lebowski than an addiction drama.

Bottom line: If you haven’t seen many films about addiction, Flight may very well work for you. If you’re a veteran of the genre, however, beware, because as the story grinds on, it becomes more of a task than a treat.

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Dennis Doros of Milestone Films presents three films by Clarke, considered the most important female director in post-WWII America. All are rarely screened and difficult to find on video, as is much of Clarke’s work; Doros is at work on ameliorating that situation, and will talk Nov. 2 about Milestone’s restoration of Portrait of Jason, her 1967 documentary profile of a black male hustler. Nov. 1: The Connection (1962), about a group of addicts, musicians and filmmakers waiting in a NYC loft for a drug connection.

Nov. 2: Ornette: Made in America (1985), a portrait of saxophonist Ornette Coleman; Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel with the World (1963), made just prior to Frost’s death and incorporating footage from some of his last speaking engagements.

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Over the next couple weeks, the IU Cinema will screen seven films by Claire Denis, one of the smartest filmmakers in the world, whose work engages substantially and often brilliantly with post-colonial issues. Nov. 4: Chocolat (1988), her debut feature, which drew on her childhood experiences in West Africa. Nov. 5: I Can’t Sleep (1994), about a French murder case. Nov. 6: Nanette and Boni (1996), about a sister and brother from a broken home. Screenings continue through Nov. 11; Denis is scheduled to attend Nov. 11 and 12.

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BY H O W A RD H E W IT T E DI T O RS @N U V O . N E T Growing up in central Indiana and earning a management degree at Purdue University seems an unlikely path to running a successful boutique winery in California’s Sonoma Valley. But such is life for Erik Miller, who named his Kokomo Winery after his hometown.

“I had a buddy who moved out to Sonoma County when we were at Purdue,” Miller said. “I came out and visited him and just fell in love with the place. It was really weird for a guy from Indiana to come to San Francisco and all you have is public transportation. Then I saw Santa Rosa and thought it would be big enough to support a career and still small enough for me to fit in and be comfortable.”

Miller learned the business quickly and is now making great Dry Creek Valley wines in northern Sonoma.

Talking about the wine making pro-

cess earlier this year, he observed how people get just a little too geeky talking about things like oak.

“My philosophy on oak is that we use oak like you’d use salt at a meal,” he said. “You want some salt on your meal so it has that seasoning. It would be bland without it to some degree but you don’t want to taste the salt.”

But wine is more than just the oak it’s aged in. Great wine comes from the vineyard. “It’s the terroir — the earth, soil, sun exposure, the bench (land),” Miller said. “That has to be first and foremost in the wine and then that oak is more than a storage vessel. The oak adds some tannin, some flavor and some mouth feel.

“We have to know how to use that and not overpower the delicacy or sense of place. Here I am making 12 different varieties of Zin alone and we use five different vineyards. If I put the same oak on all five vineyards I’d have the same Zin. That common thread would give me a house flavor. I never want a house flavor because those vineyards are very different.”

His passion, work ethic and desire to be successful can be traced to his Hoosier roots.

“I think if there is one thing we have in the Midwest and it’s this stereotype that we’re hard workers,” Miller said in the modest winery offices. “That has been a connection with me and (vineyard

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manager) Randy Peters and some of the other farmers out here that we’re down to earth, salt of the earth kind of people.”

Miller’s love for his hometown made naming the winery easy. Working with his college roommate Josh Bartels and grape grower Randy Peters gave him a team to direct the winery’s success.

“Maybe people will try the wine because the name is comforting too them,” Miller said. “We don’t spend extra money on the showboat things, the tasting room and winery but we will not take shortcuts on the equipment it takes to process grapes. We use the best oak we can buy, and make sure we’re sourcing the best possible grapes.”

Miller may have Midwestern industrial roots growing up in Kokomo, but his wines have been lauded by the biggest competition in the world, The San Francisco Chronicle’s annual wine contest.

The Kokomo Cabernet is easy to find in Indiana at wine shops and better liquor stores and a great wine for the price point.

Howard W. Hewitt writes every other week for NUVO and 20 Midwestern newspapers in Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan. See his blog at www. redforme.blogspot.com

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music REVIEWS

Modern Motion brings 1986 to 2012

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inning Modern Motion down to one genre is about as fruitless as defeating the demon in Paranormal Activity. They’ve mysterious and clever and have a serious love of the mid-‘80s.

NUVO: You guys said that you are a mixture of Joy Division and the Killers. What are others bands that are influences to Modern Motion?

VON DOZIER: We just throw those in there based on what people tell us at shows.

We’ve gotten comparisons to DEVO before — to David Bowie, The Cure, even Prince.

It seems to be something new at every show. But of those two bands, I do think there’s some truth there; mainly a lot of our songs are rather dark in nature, yet they maintain a pretty bright sound. It’s a strange combination and I just realized that [combination] barely makes any sense. I think the year 1986 does a better job explaining us than any other band, or even genre. We do a bit of everything.

KRISTOFF CARMICHAEL: I think those band comparisons just kind of stick because people tend to rely on comparisons to help get an understanding of a band. And those two bands [Joy Divison and The Killers] are, of course, phenomenal bands –– flattering to be compared to. But the main commonality that warrants comparison, maybe more so with The Killers, is an equal marriage of guitar and synthesizer in terms of building a song. David Bowie, The Cure, Simple Minds — they are absolutely influences.

People sometimes mislabel us as almost a send-up of ‘80s music, as if we do it in a tongue-in-cheek sort of way. But that period of time produced some seriously important music, and I think our sound and approach to music actually comes from a sincere reverence for that era, not an attempt to be kitsch.

NUVO: You’ve also said that Indianapolis was the most appropriate place to be an indie rock band. What do you think of the indie bands from here?

VON DOZIER: It’s generally hard to even find any indie bands here, but of the ones we know and have personally played with, they do it well. Coy-Koi, Buster Eagle are a few. A lot of the time in this city, you can just kind of get lumped

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into a category of “Oh, you’re not punk or metal? You must be indie rock then.”

It creates a pretty interesting scenario for us when bookers sometimes have no idea how to book us because we have a unique sound, even though our sound is not all that wildly crazy or polarizing.

I think that says a lot about the current local music scene that is predominantly ran by punk and metal music.

CARMICHAEL: There are incredible musicians in this town, and a great network of people who make up that scene, but the fact of the matter is that there are not too many that I think we identify with in terms of musical taste. That being said, there are only a handful of bands that I feel like are covering new ground in Indianapolis.

To Von’s point, it seems like there isn’t a scene to cater towards what we do; we just helplessly fall into that vast gray area between punk and metal that seems to polarize the music scene in this town.

NUVO: Are there any others you’d like to work with?

VON DOZIER: We’re not picky about who we play with, as we’ve played shows now with just about every genre possible, or as much as you can in under a year. Punk, metal, hip-hop, blues, rockabilly and jazz even.

We recently played with a band from Brazil, Cabana Cafe, which was an insanely refresh-

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ing change of pace. We always have at least one song in our set that fits the show’s mold, to identify with the other bands.

We’ve kind of had to learn how to do that, to adapt to a few of those genres, although we do it happily. We have jazz songs, country songs, pop-punk songs in our library that we’ve never shown. But if the scenario ever presents itself, we have always been ready for absolutely any occasion, anytime, anywhere. We are constantly, constantly, constantly writing. Any and every genre, just to see how far we can stretch.

NUVO: Are you guys signed at the moment?

VON DOZIER: Not currently, although we are now looking. It’d be wonderful to have some label support by the time our first full-length album drops within the next year, along with distributing our first EP (Big Mode) that we produced earlier in the year.

NUVO: Have you been on tour to any place besides Indiana?

VON DOZIER: These next few months we’ll actually be getting out of the state for the first time to places like Chicago and Memphis. We just played our “last Indianapolis show” at The Melody Inn on Oct. 18, as we intend to take a small break from the city, rest, record, play a few out of state shows. Don’t worry Indy, we’re not breaking up with you.

NUVO: Your dream show — what happens at it?

VON DOZIER: Tiny Tim with Slayer as his backing band. The PA blows out in the middle of our set and we make $20 at the door. We spend it at Waffle House.

CARMICHAEL: It’s a hard question. But if we aren’t following rules of reality, I’m thinking we get some of Elvis’s DNA, create a clone of him (and maybe even that pet monkey of his too) and just get him out on stage. We would do a five minute set, then we could just watch him encore out the rest of the night. As long as no one mentions Blue Hawaii and sends Clone Elvis into an emotional tailspin.

Sleazy, dirty Sleigh Bells, A thing called Divine Fits, High Five: Mr. Gnome, Transcendental Bass: Mountain Goats’ Peter Hughes

Matthew Aaron is a man of many dark interests. He hordes a collection of artifacts and artwork from the most feared and detested serial killers of our time in his Last Dime Museum. He’s even managed to interview some of these killers in person. He has in interest in the black art of rock and roll, proving himself a likeable and engaging frontperson in his former, Faces-inspired band Trainwreck, his solo work and his current project, Endiana — whose latest album After The Fall is a broken-hearted tour de force.

From first listen, the most striking thing about After The Fall is how simple and straight-laced it is. When Aaron sings “I’ve got a secret in my pocket” it’s not an eyeball or a labia skin thong — it’s “A reminder of how much you loved me.”

This, quite simply, is a love album; well, love and all that goes with it, from longing and despair to awkward moments, from suicide to black eyes.

The album has echos of Zevon, Wilco and even a little Matchbox 20 rattling around songs like the title track, “2nd Hand Heart” and the beautiful “I Fall Down.” But it’s Blind Otis and the Lost Highway, Otis Gibbs’ great. lost band from yesteryear that Endiana owes the most debt to. Especially on tunes like “Left Coast,” “Black Like Mine” and “Part Time.” Scott Manning and Aaron’s guitar sparkle throughout, and John Byrne’s lap steel adds a nice touch to a couple songs.

However, the under-utilized bassist Tim Fuller is the MVP here.

The two songs where Fuller gets to run loose are the best on the record, “Loose Ends” is an awesomely funky number that adds much needed sexuality to the proceedings. “Nashville” ends the album in a blaze of gloryrific rocking and a classic rock bassline that Foghat would kill for. Endiana would do well to grow in the direction of these latter songs. Another album or so and Endiana has the capacity to give us a truly great Hoosier masterpiece. As it stands they’ve given us a pretty cool ironic make-out record.

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A CULTURAL MANIFESTO

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Kyle Long’s music, which features off-the-radar rhythms from around the world, has brought an international flavor to the local dance music scene.

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Royal Drummers of Burundi “Music is in my blood. I was born dancing and drumming. From as early as I can remember, it’s the only thing I ever wanted to do,” says Gabriel Ntagabo.

Ntagabo is director of the Royal Drummers of Burundi, a world renowned African percussion and dance ensemble that will appear at Carmel’s Palladium this week.

The powerful sound of the Burundi drummers is rooted in traditions that are centuries old, but their thundering rhythms sound as fresh and modern today as any contemporary beat. I asked Ntagabo about this tradition and how it has been passed down though the generations.

“Drumming in Burundi has been handed down from father to son for centuries,” he says. “As each new generation is born, the boys begin following the drummers. At the age of six, they start to practice and learn.

There is no school. Gradually, over time, the best drummers begin to stand out and they may be in their first performance as young as 13-years-old. Many boys want to be drummers, but ultimately only the best will do it professionally –– as you will see during this tour of North America.”

The group has become famous for its dynamic live performances.

“Our first appearance on a big world stage was with Peter Gabriel at his WOMAD Festival in 1982,” Ntagabo says.

He elaborated that dance is a major element in the drummers’ presentation.

“Our show is highly energetic, and the dancing involves great jumping –– almost acrobatic-like –– and many symbolic movements,” Ntagabo says. “Normally the dancer follows the rhythm of the music, but in Burundi drumming the beat must follow the dancer. The dancer is the leader.”

The tiny East-Central African nation of Burundi is ranked as one of the poorest countries in the world. Despite this designation, Burundi’s rich cultural heritage has attracted serious global interest for decades. Recorded works by the Drummers of Burundi have famously been used as inspiration and sample

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fodder for many Western artists.

In 1971 British musician Mike Steiphenson used a Drummers of Burundi field recording as the rhythmic foundation of his UK hit “Burundi Black.” Joni Mitchell did the same in 1975, utilizing the drummers’ rhythms as a backing track for “The Jungle Line.” In the 1980s the hip-hop world caught up with the drummers and you can hear the Burundi rhythms on The Beastie Boys’ classic “B-Boy Bouillabaisse.” Around the same time, Sex Pistols’ manger Malcolm McLaren began to champion the group, urging his new wave protégées Bow Wow Wow and Adam Ant to cull the Drummers of Burundi sound for influence.

I asked Ntagabo to speculate why the group’s sound has been so influential.

“Our manner of playing is unique to us.

It is strong and powerful with wonderful rhythms,” he says.

And unique it is –– the slow and steady rhythmic lines of the Burundi drumming style varies greatly from the complex polyrhythms found in other well known African drumming traditions. The apparent simplicity of the Burundi rhythms makes work easier for Western appropriation and imitation.

As our conversation concluded, I asked Ntagabo if Burundi drumming traditions have maintained their importance in contemporary society, or if they’ve been surpassed by popular forms of entertainment.

“The drummers are as important in our culture today as they have been for centuries,” he says, emphatically. “It gives our country a strong identity and it unifies everyone.

Our young people are more interested in the drumming music than any other kind of music. The drummers are always present for important events and people, as they were for the king in the past. Now they are present for dignitaries, important government projects and events.”

Thanks to Madelaine Collinson for translating this interview.

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MUSIC Dance with the dead

Paranormal recordings inspire new album

BY W A DE CO G G E S H A L L M U S I C@N U V O . N E T Zak Bagans was just another working stiff peddling cell phones for a giant corporation when he found his calling — a highly unusual and scary one.

For seven straight nights he woke to a woman screaming his full name. Considering he lived alone in his Trenton, Mich., apartment, he found this odd. On the last night he had been asleep on his stomach when he was once again awaken in the same manner.

But this time, it felt like something was on his back pinning him down. After about 30 seconds, Bagans felt like he could move again. He flipped over and immediately faced the shadow figure of a woman at the foot of his bed.

To this day, it’s still a moment he has trouble describing.

“It’s like having contact with an alien,” Bagans said during a recent phone interview. “I don’t think this was just some random experience with a ghost. I think whatever prayers I was saying at the time were answered. This was my purpose.”

Bagans’ fate was sealed when he returned to Michigan two years later for a visit, after having moved to Las Vegas. He took a video camera back to that apartment complex, gained entry to his old unit thanks to a friendly maintenance man and showed him what he had written on the inside of a cabinet door: “This place is haunted” along with his name and the date. Bagans told the maintenance worker about his experience. That’s when the man revealed that a woman who lived there before Bagans had killed herself in the bathtub.

“That for me kind of validated my experience,” Bagans said. “Once I heard that, I was really hooked on doing this forever.”

He went on to host the paranormal reality series Ghost Adventures, now in its seventh season on the Travel Channel. It has taken Bagans and fellow ghost hunters Nick Groff and Aaron Goodwin all over the world investigating some of the most notorious haunted locales. They’ve used some of the latest technology to capture what they consider aural and visual proof of the existence of the supernatural.

“The level of communication with spirits I get now is what drives me,” Bagans said.

“That is what’s groundbreaking in this field.”

One of his favorite devices is the SB7 Spirit Box, which sweeps through radio waves at a rapid clip to catch any interference. Bagans has used it

numerous times to capture what’s believed to be spirits answering his questions.

“I don’t care who believes and who doesn’t,” he said, of his results. “I know what we’re getting are voices that we can’t explain. I don’t know whose voices they are, but they aren’t of the living. We need to listen to them.”

Bagans concocted an interesting way to do just that. He collaborated with EDM pioneer Praga Khan (of Lords of Acid) to create an album of music built around these spirit voices. NecroFusion features 11 tracks, each telling a story of a departed soul and featuring actual electronic voice phenomena (EVP) that Bagans has recorded on his adventures. Khan’s music — both eerie and engaging — is meant to reflect the emotions Bagans felt during these experiences.

One of those on is titled “Poor Pearl.”

It concerns the story of 22-year-old Pearl Bryan of Indiana, whose decapitated body was found in 1896 near a slaughterhouse, on a site where supposed devil worship was conducted. It’s now the location of Bobby Mackey’s Music World near Cincinnati, considered one of the most haunted nightclubs in the country.

On “Poor Pearl,” Bagans is heard stating, “I think Pearl is safe now from her killers.”

An EVP recording of a voice replying, “Is she?” follows.

NecroFusion isn’t just a project to satiate Bagans’ affinity for music, but a way for these voices to be heard. He believes just by listening to them, they can finally be at peace.

“They’ve wanted to say these things since they may have died under mysterious circumstances or taken their own life,” Bagans said.

“They just want to be heard so they can move on. Hearing these voices can not only help us understand the afterlife, but help them rest.”

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Back from the dead. Each week NUVO speaks with a local music luminary about their favorite music. All albums are available at your local independent record store.

In a world of “Brother” bands that aren’t in reality any relation, the Wood Brothers are an authentic, familial pair. Chris and Oliver Wood reinterpret the sounds they loved as kids in Colorado, creating a shimmering canvas of blues-folk that’s earned them a solid fan base and high marks from folk critics. After fifteen years of playing separately, the Woods came together to record Ways Not to Lose. Since then, they’ve rejoined –– never to be parted musically. The brothers call it “part influence, part blood, all magic.”

Last week, they felt a little bit of that magic when their fans rallied to replace Chris’ cracked bass after it fell apart at the start of their tour in Nashville. After the upright cracked in Tennessee, the band had just under 12 hours to replace it before soundcheck in Kent, Oh. Their fans rustled up a replacement in just under an hour. Here’s five records they kept spinning on their drive between Nashville and Kent –– and probably en route to Bloomington, where they’ll play tonight.

Wednesday HALLOWEEN PICKS: Retro Rewind Halloween at the Vogue Halloween Blues Jam at Slippery Noodle Climax 2: Halloween Night at the Melody Inn Quarter Night at Peppers Bashiri Asad & Xenobia Green at Jazz Kitchen Bounce Festival at Pic-a-Chic Farms (Bloomington) Nikki’s Halloween Bash at Tin Roof Me in Radio, The Ivory Skies at Birdy’s A Helluvah Halloween Drag Show at Talbott St. Halloween Independence Bash at Tropicana Nightmare at Landsharks Sum 41 at Old National Centre Scare in the Square Scarey-Oke at The Monkey’s Tale Hump Day Halloween at Hyde Costume & Scream Contest at Greg’s Hump Day Halloween Blowout at Knickerbocker Saloon Halloween Bash at Rock Lobster RadioNOW Erotic Exotic Ball at Bartini’s OMG It’s Halloween at The Casba Extreme Midget Wrestling at Egyptian Room Burlesque Bingo Bango Halloween Edition at White Rabbit Cabaret Day of the Dead Party at Blu Lounge

Thursday THURSDAY PICKS: Tiki Night at the Melody Inn Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit at the Vogue

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1. Dr. John - Locked Down Great songs and production! Dr. John is a legend and we love hearing this new stuff from him. Good choice bringing Dan Auerbach on board.

2. Shovels & Rope – O’ Be Joyful

New friends of ours. We played a festival with them and were very impressed. Amazing singing and feel. (Editor’s note: See Shovel & Rope at the Bishop next week.)

3. Tedeschi Trucks Band Everybody’s Talkin’ Old friends of ours. A freight train of a band – we always love to play with them. We always appreciate a good live album, too.

4. Black Keys – El Camino Love everything they do.

5. Michael Kiwanuka Home Again Beautiful and soulful record. What a voice!

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See A Cultural Manifesto on page 30 FIRST FRIDAY SERENGETI

Joyful Noise, Murphy Arts Center, 1043 Virginia Ave. 8 p.m., $5, all-ages

In the last five years, Chicago emcee Serengeti has paired up with an interesting selection of producers and collaborators, including Polyphonic, Yoni Wolf (Why?), Owen Ashworth (Casiotone for the Painfully Alone), Sufjan Stevens, Son Lux, Jel and Odd Nosdam. His pairing with Owen Ashworth seemed, to us, particularly apt, as Serengeti’s flow is akin to a rapped version of classic Casiotone tracks like “Don’t They Have Payphones Where You Were Last Night.”

He’s claiming the First Friday spot at the Joyful Noise space. Take advantage of the record store while you’re there and pick up Kishi Bashi’s newly released EP Room for a Dream, on sale in the office/performance space/record shop.

FRIDAY PICKS: Krewella at the Vogue Bollywood Bhangra, Diwali Edition at Social Andy D Album Release at Radio Radio

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ROCK HERO JR. ALBUM RELEASE Radio Radio, 1119 Prospect St. 9 p.m., $5, 21+

Until a few months ago, three-piece rockers Hero Jr. was brothers Evan and Matthew Hughey and long-time friend Dave DuBrava. But they’ve got a new Hero on their roster –– guitarist Ken Rose. This Saturday show is lastest in a long string of tour dates for Hero Jr., but they’re returning to us for a special hometown record release of their latest, Backup Plan. Produced by Paul Mahern and released on his imprint, Desa Records. They’ve also got one of our favorite press release lines in recent memory: “These aren’t tunes tweely plinked-out on a toy piano with a banana by today’s cool kids.“ No, indeed they’re not. It’s real, likeable rock and roll.

Sunday

POP-PUNK THE DOLLYROTS

The Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St. 9 p.m., $7, 21+

Los Angelos’ The Dollyrots play delicious, sugary pop-punk, aided greatly by singer Kelly Ogden’s syrupy-sweet voice. Their chugging pop sound would fit perfectly among ‘90s teen romance flicks’ soundtracks (think Letters to Cleo’s cameo in Ten Things I Hate About You) –– and they’ve picked up a few oddball slots, including a featured performance on The Price is Right and CSI: NY. Ogden sings on Because I’m Awesome track “Brand New Key” that “Some people say that I’ve done all right for a girl.” Hell yes you have, Kelly.

They’ll be supported by The Putz, The Founders and Bottoms Up Burlesque.

Tuesday

DANCE LET GO

The Lockerbie Pub, 631 E. Michigan St. 10 p.m., free, 21+

Maybe you’ve heard –– Fabulous Indy dance night Let Go is letting go of the Lockerbie. Hosts Annie and Andy Skinner and Ben Jackson are turning their talents to new dance nights in the city. But if you’d like to party with them at the Lockerbie, there’s two more chances to do that. Come out

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A quick update from the music desk: control of long-running EDM night Juxtapose has been handed over to emerging party music label Rad Summer. They’ve christened their new night “Werk,” and they be werking extra hard to bring together all the different dance music niches that exist in the city.

A statement from label employee JP Gehlhausen: “Starting Jan. 8, Rad Summer presentsWerk at the Melody Inn. Inheriting the legacies of both the longstanding tradition of EDM at The Melody Inn on Tuesday nights and the epic dance party that is Let Go, Werk will be an open format weekly dance party that will feature the best dance music that Rad Summer can bring you.

Our goal with Werk is to bring together all of the niches of dance music culture in Indianapolis by booking rotating lineups of DJs and live acts. Between all of the different scenes, Indy is teaming with EDM from Cultural Cannibals, Keepin It Deep, IndyMojo, Grime Time Collective, A Squared, Heavy Gun, Rad Summer, etc. We also intend to make the most of the Melody Inn’s stage by incorporating danceable live acts into Tuesdays. A night that brought together the talent of all these different factions could easily be one of the best the city has ever seen.” early –– the Lockerbie’s smallish dance floor can be the most fun when it’s slightly less packed (and you’ll have an easier time getting a drink too!). DJ Lockstar will guest at the November date. As for what’s new for the Skinners, head out to the Sinking Ship the 4th Tuesday of every month for Sound Selector, an open turntable night where wannabe and already-be DJs can bring their own vinyl collection to spin. They’re also back with Action Jackson on the second Saturday of every month for Real Talk at the White Rabbit, a free dance party that’s, real talk, reliably awesome. And, of course, A-Squared pops up as a sponsor/host for exciting concerts all over the city almost weekly. And Action? He’ll be at the helm of new night Werk. See the box above for more info.

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• Surviving a cobra bite in Nepal is simple, some natives believe. If the victim bites the snake right back, to its death, the venom is rendered harmless. One confident farmer bitten in August in Biratnagar told BBC News that he went about his business normally after fatally biting his attacker and survived only after his family convinced him that perhaps the custom was ridiculous and hauled him to a hospital.

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD NEWS OF THE WEIRD CONTINUED FROM PG 37 • A September religious festival in Nanchang, China, is a favorite of beggars, as visitors are in a generous mood, but officials expressed concern this year about the increasing hordes of panhandlers harassing the pilgrims. Thus, town officials ordered all festival beggars to be locked up in small cages (too tiny to allow standing) to minimize the hustling. Beggars are free to leave, but then must stay away permanently. Most beggars chose to stay since they still earned more in festival cages than they would have on the street.

Whale Discharges in the News

• In August, schoolboy Charlie Naysmith of Christchurch, England, taking a nature walk near Hengistbury Head beach, came upon a rocklike substance that turned out to be petrified whale vomit -- which, to his surprise, proved worth the equivalent of from $16,000 to $64,000. “Ambergris,” a waxy buildup from the intestines of a sperm whale, produces a foul odor but is valuable commercially for prolonging the scent of a perfume. (Actually, after floating in the sun, on salt water, for decades, the ambergris on the beach was smooth and sweet-smelling.)

• Tucker, an 8-year-old black Labrador mix, is the only dog in the world trained to detect the faint whiff of the tiniest specks of whale feces in the open ocean water (and from as far as a mile away!). A September New York Times dispatch from coastal Washington state noted that the 85 or so orcas that populate the area have been identified and tracked for decades, but locating them at any given time was always a problem until Tucker came along. One of his trainers explained that the dog’s directional signals are accurate but often subtle (such as by a twitch of the ear).

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• The CIA and the National Security Agency may play roles, but Kentucky’s homeland security law explicitly acknowledges “God” as the key to the war on terrorism. In August, the Kentucky Supreme Court declined to hear atheists’ challenges to the state’s 2002 “legislative finding” that the state’s “safety and security” cannot be achieved without God’s help. A lower court wrote that since the law did not “advance” religion but merely paid “lip service” to a belief in God, it did not violate the separation of church and state doctrine.

• Seventy people, including 20 children, were discovered in August in an eight-story-high, all-underground bunker in Kazan in the Russian Republic of Tatarstan, and authorities said the quasi-religious sect had probably been there for nearly 10 years without heat or forced ventilation -- or sunlight. The group is nominally Islamist, but according to a dispatch by London’s The Guardian, the sect is more likely under the individual control of 83-year-old, selfdescribed prophet Fayzrahman Satarov.

• The Tax on Worship: When the Roman Catholic Church in Germany warned in September that too many Catholics were opting out of paying the country’s “religious tax,” many Americans got their first-ever notice that some European democracies actually tax worship. The Catholic Church made it official that anyone backing out of the income tax surcharge would be ineligible to receive Holy Communion or religious burial (although the tax avoider could still receive Last Rites).

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• The Bronx, where nearly one-third of the population lives in poverty, is the poorest of the five New York City boroughs, with percapita income 70 percent lower than neighboring Manhattan’s. Yet among the city’s most ambitious public works projects under construction is an 18-hole golf course in the Bronx’s Ferry Point Park, estimated to cost the city $97 million, according to a September New York Times report. Furthermore, golf may be losing popularity. The Times reported that rounds of golf in New York City have dwindled (from 880,000 on 12 municipal courses in 1966 to 561,000 on 13 courses in 2011). From the city’s standpoint, it gets a course to be operated by a Donald Trump company and is hoping to build a waterfront esplanade adjacent to the course.

Questionable Judgments

• Update: As News of the Weird mentioned in July, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control found 11 instances since 2000 in which ultraOrthodox circumcision priests (mohelim) had passed along the herpes simplex virus from their saliva when they used the ancient method of blood-removal from the wound by sucking it clean. Responding in September, New York City’s Health Department ordered the mohelim to warn parents of the danger and to require written consent for the ritual, but in October, three rabbis and three Jewish organizations challenged the order in federal court, arguing that Jewish law “requires” that particular method of blood removal. (According to the CDC, in 10 of the 11 cases, hospitalization was required, and two boys died.)

Least Competent Criminals

• (1) Todd Kettler, 37, was arrested in October in Kalamazoo Township, Mich., and charged with robbing a Southfield, Mich., bank five days earlier. The manager of a strip club in the Township had noticed that Kettler was handing women money saturated with red dye, and called the police. (2) Two men, ages 45 and 42, were arrested in Toronto in September after they walked into a neighborhood money-transfer store with $520,250 in a duffel bag and attempted to wire that amount to an address in Los Angeles. Police charged them in connection with an ongoing moneylaundering investigation.

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You could reinterpret the meaning of certain turning points in your past, thereby revising the flow of your life story. 3. You could forgive yourself for an old sin you thought you’d never let go of. 4.

You could receive a friendly shock that will diminish some sadness you’ve carried for a long time.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): This would be a good time to get introspective and meditative about your urge to merge . . . to think objectively about the way you approach togetherness . . . to be honest with yourself about what strengths and weaknesses you bring to the art of collaboration. The most important question you can ask yourself during this inventory is this: “How do I personally contribute, either knowingly or unconsciously, to the problems I experience in relationships.” Here’s another query you might consider: “How hard am I willing to work to create the kinds of intimacy and alliances I say I want?”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Dear Rob: I seem to be marooned in an interesting limbo. The sights and sounds are not exactly pretty, but they keep me perversely entertained.

I’m sampling tastes that are more sour than sweet, thinking that sooner or later the sweetness will start to prevail -- but it never does. Sometimes I feel like I’m in a trance, unable to do what’s best for me. Can you offer any help? Like maybe give me a password that would break me out of the trance? -Meandering Gemini.” Dear Meandering: This is one of those rare times when you have cosmic permission to favor what’s calming and reassuring rather than what’s amusing and stimulating. Your password is sanctuary.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): On September 22, the San Francisco Giants played a baseball game against the San Diego Padres.

In the fourth inning, Giants’ third baseman Pablo Sandoval sprinted to the edge of the field, then hurled himself over a railing and into the crowd in order to snag a foul pop-up. The fact that he landed upside down but perfectly unhurt wasn’t the most impressive aspect of his feat. Nor was his improbable ability to wield such precise concentration while invoking so much raw force. Even more amazing was the pink bubble that Sandoval blew with his chewing gum nanoseconds before he dived. It was a supremely playful and successful Zen moment. That’s the spirit I hope you will bring to your efforts in the coming days.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your unconscious mind will be more accessible than usual in the coming weeks. It will reveal its agendas more clearly and play more of an active role in your life. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? It will depend on how open-minded you are toward the surprises your secret self will reveal. If you try to ignore or repress its eruptions, they’ll probably wreak chaos. If, on the other hand, you treat this other part of you as an unpredictable but generous ally, you may be able to work out a collaboration that serves you both.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Urbandictionary.com defines “Skymall solution” as “an absurdly single-purposed tool or solution that solves a problem you don’t actually have.” The term is derived from the famous Skymall catalog, which sells unusual specialty products. According to my analysis of the current astrological omens, you should be wary of any attraction you might have to Skymall solutions. Do you really need a King Tut tissue box cover or an ice cube tray that makes ice in the shape of dachshunds or a stencil set for putting messages on

your bundt cake? I doubt it. Nor do you need their metaphorical equivalents.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Right before I woke up this morning, I had a dream that one of my teeth fell out. As I lay there groggily in bed, my mind searched for its meaning. “What does losing a tooth symbolize?”

I asked myself. “What is its psychological meaning?” I promised myself that when I got up, I would google that question. But my rumination was interrupted by a dull ache in the back of my mouth, and it was only then that I remembered: Yesterday, in actual waking life, I had a real tooth yanked out by a real dentist. The moral of the story, Libra: Be wary of making up elaborate stories and mythic assumptions about events that have simple, mundane explanations.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This is an excellent time to explore the frontiers of wise foolishness. I’m hoping you will take full advantage of learning opportunities that might require you to shed your excess dignity and acknowledge how much you don’t know. Are you brave enough to disavow cynical thoughts and jaded attitudes that muffle your lust for life? Are you smart enough to understand how healthy it would be to go out and play like an innocent wild child? Make yourself available for delightful surprises.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Zombies used to be terrifying. But then they became a featured motif in pop culture, often in humorous contexts, and now there’s a growing acceptance and even affection for them.

Here’s the view of Max Brooks, author of The Zombie Survival Guide: “Eventually rock and roll morphs from Sid Vicious to the Jonas Brothers.

Same thing with vampires: We went from Dracula to Twilight to make them peachy and G-rated. I guarantee you someone is working on a way to take the fear out of zombies and market them to children.” Your assignment, Sagittarius, is to do to your personal fears what the entertainment industry has done to zombies: Turn them into amusing caricatures that don’t trouble you so much. For example, visualize an adversary singing a duet with Justin Bieber.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “You must learn from the mistakes of others,” said humorist Sam Levenson. “You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.” That’s excellent advice for you right now, Capricorn. In order to glean the teachings you need most, you won’t have to bumble through a single wrong turn or bad decision yourself. There will be plenty of blundering role models who will be providing you with the precise inspiration you need. Study them carefully.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Every November, thousands of writers participate in National Novel Writing Month. They pledge to compose at least 50,000 words of a new novel in that 30-day period. In accordance with the astrological omens, Aquarius, I propose that you commit yourself to a comparable project in your own field. Is there a potential masterpiece on which you could get a substantial amount of work done? Is there a major transformation you’ve long wanted to undertake but have always had some excuse to avoid? I predict that you will attract unexpected help and luck if you summon the willpower to focus on that task.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t believe the climate is changing? Go ask the birds what they think. Sixty percent of all the feathered species in North America have moved north in the past 46 years. Scientists are pretty sure their migration is a response to the warming trend that’s afoot. I like the idea of tuning in to how animals behave in order to get accurate information about the state of the world. Would you consider doing more of that, Pisces? According to my astrological analysis, the coming months will be a time when you can learn a lot from nonhuman intelligences.

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