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I have a notion that there’s a level had a moment; a weird, uncomfortbeneath which no American should fall, able moment when I visited the joint whether we’re talking about health care or where I used to work: WIBC, the radio groceries. I further think it shameful that station of Rush Limbaugh and The a nation with our financial resources ever Chicks on the Right. I ran into Greg Garrison, the counselor allows any of its citizens to go hungry. I’m pretty sure that Greg believes that who commands the mic from 9 a.m. to a lot of these programs, by redistributing noon weekdays, bringing as much Tea wealth (words he’s used), encourage the to the Party as he’s able. Garrison, who was my office neighbor for three Bill O’Reilly and Rachel Maddow years, said upon passing me in the hall, “In the lair manufacture outrage in a way I don’t of the enemy today, eh?” I shrugged with a queathink William F. Buckley Jr. or Bill sy smile and changed the Moyers could’ve ever imagined. subject to small talk. It bugged me. I get that NUVO has a tradition of development of a welfare-dependent class printing liberal and progressive opinand pull money away from those who, he ion pieces with bylines like Hoppe and feels, are busting their asses to earn it. Hammer. I get that I’m not what’s called But that doesn’t make Greg my enemy. a “climate change denier,” and a fair In fact: The only way we can find the amount of my colleagues aren’t either. I nuggets of truth in both those positions get that we don’t think “sustainability” is — and the fix for those issues — is to a dirty word here at NUVO and that I’m talk about ’em. Together. personally on the record as stating that Bill O’Reilly and Rachel Maddow manlegislation like HJR-6 — the proposed constitutional amendment that would ban ufacture outrage in a way I don’t think William F. Buckley Jr. or Bill Moyers gay marriage — is downright medieval. could’ve ever imagined when they And I get that Greg’s a devotee of Fox began their careers. The cable-TV/talkNews. radio yell-o-rama has become the filter We’re both pretty transparent about through which all policy is viewed. And our biases. I checked mine at the door because users of the echo-chamber don’t — to the best of my ability — when I often fact-check Limbaugh or Ed Schultz, did a drive-time news magazine show the Word of Rush or Ed becomes gospel. for WIBC. (I think Greg would agree, That gospel states: frankly.) And I like to believe I’m willing The other side is lying. to listen to the other side when it comes The other side wants to take your to a variety of issues — and that extends money. to the rest of the NUVO crew. Hell, they The other side wants to take your rights. even keep me in check when I’m guilty There can be no compromise. There of single-viewpoint-thinking. will be no discussion. But Greg is not my enemy. You can’t reason with those people. I disagree with him often, but respect They’re the enemy. the guy immensely. He’s a pro. He’s And as long as that gospel remains thoughtful. I think he’s dead wrong on entrenched, we’ll just continue talking some points, but I’m well aware that we past one another — and never get around have two differing worldviews. to solving a single bloody problem. n Here’s a wildly simplistic example:
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n anticipation of his appearance on the Nov. 10 closing panel of the 2013 Spirit & Place Festival, which is dedicated to exploring risk, legendary musician, composer and education David Baker, distinguished professor of jazz studies and chair of the Jazz Studies Department at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, took some time to explore the theme with Rebecca Townsend, NUVO’s news editor. Excerpts of that conversation, edited for clarity and length, follow: NUVO: In Monika Herzig’s book, David Baker: A Legacy in Music, she talk about some changes you introduced to some traditional blues forms. Is that risky, altering the forms of something so sacred? DAVID BAKER: All the blues musicians I know like the elasticity of the blues … What they do to personalize. What makes the blues attractive to many people is: What can I do that will attach what I’m doing without destroying what they love about the blues? Gunther Schuller’s “third stream” — the first stream is classical, the second is jazz or more rhythmic music — offers an understanding that something is going to happen that isn’t normally going to happen. It gives it an elasticity simply because now it’s been named. For instance, somebody walking in to play at Bears in Bloomington – they can’t play Liszt, Mozart or Hayden unless they dress it up and say, “I’m doing this on purpose.” Then they play it because it gives them cred… because they’re saying, “I don’t care what you think about it, what I’m playing is really jazz.” NUVO: What does the blues teach us about risk? BAKER: I think that’s the strength of music, period. It can invoke words or feeling that you wouldn’t say in the course of just talking, but when you hear it in the course of the blues you know it’s already been bastardized.
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David Baker, distinguished professor of jazz studies and chair of the Jazz Studies Department at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, says a performer can take risks, but must understand the myriad ways a performance can be destroyed.
NUVO: What risks do you take when you play?
NUVO: Have you ever lost a gig because you violated a rule?
BAKER: The ways to ruin a piece… I made a list: a wrong harmony, a wrong form, a wrong note or chord, a wrong rhythm or misread the composition’s volume… or the use of a microphone that is not usually used. In a jam session, there are rules that are unspoken. If you violate them, you run the risk of losing your job. It’s easy to make a mistake if you don’t have the background. Sometimes breaking a rule can cost you your gig. Sometimes it is an effective mechanism to jar them.
BAKER: More gigs than you can imagine. Until I knew how to play jazz — bebop in particular — they didn’t have to tell me more than once to get off the stage. That’s what the jam session is about, it gives you a wider portal of getting in and out alive. If I were talking about civil rights … I’m not going to be singing about somebody dancing or going on a carousel at S E E , R I S K , O N P A G E 08
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You have to go back and say, ‘What was it that caused the applause?’ As a writer, I’m probably more adaptable than anyone I can think of because I was trained to write classical. I love classical music, so I do it. But my living conditions determined that I was a blues player or a religious player playing psalms and spirituals. If I have all those things available to me, now I’m free. But if I have all the rules and if I choose to violate none of them it’s boring. If I choose to violate all of them it’s boring. Nature abhors a vacuum, I’m the person, as an artist, who is always looking for where the vacuum is because at that place, that’s where I belong because that’s where I can do something that’s me. If I avoid the vacuum even when I know it’s there, then I misused my powers of observation.
the carnival because it’s inappropriate. … If I’m playing Beethoven’s Fifth in a place where they serve whiskey, it becomes immediately clear to the people that know the place that it is inappropriate. In a jazz band what happens is great: When it’s your solo, you’re the leader. Then the next person steps forward and they’re the leader. People know when to go in the background and when not to go in the background: That is the secret of a good jazz person. I don’t want someone, while I’m soloing, deciding to take over: That would be war. NUVO: With regard to the risks we take in daily life, in 1953 you risked a car ride from a gig in northern Indiana and you were in an accident that ultimately robbed you of your ability to play your chosen instrument, the trombone. What did you learn from that experience?
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BAKER: The more you know, generally, the more likely you are to adapt and be functional in the environment … You have the growth of options. The more options, the more likely you are to be successful. NUVO: In shifting your focus from performance to education, you helped formalize the academic study of jazz, which involved informing your students of the risks they face. BAKER: It is a never-ending path and you have to be aware of it. I think I’ve written 60-70 books that deal with the narrow path that you are walking: A wrong reading, a wrong harmony can wreck a performance. But if you are smart enough to know what’s missing, it can be fixed. If I go into the club and I walk in and find, “Oh, I’m in the ladies room!” That’s easy enough to fix by leaving. But if you didn’t leave, people would know something was amiss or awry. That’s overdoing it, but we are governed by rules all the time. Otherwise I wouldn’t be teaching the years I’ve taught. Because, basically, people ask me: “What should I do here?” I said, “I can’t tell you what to do; I can give you all the options I know and then it’s up to you to decide.” I can also them grade because I said, “You broke all the rules here.” It’s a narrow road, but it’s one that if the rules are followed, and you know those rules, they give you a kind of strength that you never could do if you were just by yourself, even though if you were by yourself you’d have more things you could do — but you also have more
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“The element of surprise,” Baker says, “is forever one of the guiding lights of poems, of songs, of whatever.”
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Featuring entrepreneur Scott Jones, professional race driver and team owner Sarah Fisher, Quaker pastor and author Phil Gulley and musician, educator and composer David Baker. [To read excerpts of Jones discussing risk with Rebecca Townsend, please visit NUVO.net/news.] Sunday, Nov. 10 5:30-7 p.m. Central Library, Clowes Auditorium, 40 E. St. Clair St. rules you can break. The more you stick to that given thing where everyone knows what happens next, the safer one is, but also boring. The element of surprise is forever one of the guiding lights of poems, of songs, of whatever. Basically, it means now you have a way to put it in a different atmosphere. But if you don’t know any of the rules, you might luck up on a great solo or performance, but you can’t repeat that performance.
BAKER: Familiarity can breed contempt, but could also breed success. It would never occur to me to write a piece where I didn’t introduce anything that was new, anything that was off that beaten path where I would normally tread. I was one of first people in academia who was conversant with both classical and jazz. I look at which group is going to play it and that can govern what I write. If it’s the New York Philharmonic, I’ll write it one way. And, even though I might use some of the same material, I wouldn’t write it that way for a group of jazz players. Again, the more you know, the more you are being held accountable for. And the more know, it can be your means to success and a healthy relationship between you and your audience. But all new is boring. All old is boring. I’m hoping I’m a creature of habit, but not so much that I ignore the signs that say detour ahead. The years I’ve got left are governed by God, which helps me avoid the faux pas you face when you just take the easy route. NUVO: I like how you demand discipline, but offer the opportunity for improvisation. BAKER: Variety is, of course, is the spice of life. But unguided and undisciplined is bad. I write, but I want to make sure I’m communicating. A lot of it has been experimentation. In the beginning, I made a lot of mistakes … I still make mistakes, but not the ones I used to make. Sometimes that mistake sounds like I did it on purpose … if I see that they really like it, I smile a lot. n
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hen viewed whole, the trajectory of Dan Wakefield’s writing career forms a kind of graph spanning events throughout the latter half of the 20th Century. Not that Wakefield is done yet. At 81, he is working on a new novel, set in Miami. He is a sought-after speaker and master writing teacher, well known for his approach to helping people craft their spiritual autobiographies. Last year, Wakefield was the key contributor to a major literary event, having edited the first published volume of Kurt Vonnegut’s letters. In addition to writing a warm and informative introduction, Wakefield assembled the correspondence in a way that manages to capture Vonnegut’s
distinctive voice, creating a work that not only takes its place as part of Vonnegut’s substantial canon, but is essential for readers and scholars seeking a better understanding of the artist and the man. (The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library will celebrate its inaugural Vonnegutfest beginning Nov. 9, with a variety of programs.) Wakefield, who was born in Indianapolis in 1932, and grew up in Broad Ripple, moved back to Indianapolis at the end of 2011, taking up residence in an apartment in the Lockerbie neighborhood. In early October he spoke with NUVO about his long friendship with Kurt Vonnegut and the pleasures of coming home.
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The Shortridge mafia
As an aspiring writer, Dan Wakefield read Kurt Vonnegut long before he met the man himself. Wakefield and Vonnegut shared an important bond: in addition to being native sons of Indianapolis, they were both alums of Shortridge High School. Shortridge remains a legendary place in Indianapolis lore, having graduated a host of notable artists and community leaders, including Richard Lugar, Marguerite Young, Majie Failey, Madelyn Pugh, Noble Sissle, Andy Jacobs, Jr. and Dan Burton. It was known for academic excellence — and for publishing the first daily high school newspaper in the nation. “I started reading [Vonnegut] the year after I got out of Shortridge, recalls Wakefield. “I had gone back to visit some teachers and somebody asked me, ‘What do you want to do?’ I said I wanted to be a writer. One of the teachers said, ‘Well, one boy did that, a boy named Vonnegut. He has stories in the
Saturday Evening Post.’” Those were the days when weekly magazines, “slicks” as they were known, made short stories a regular part of every issue. Thousands of Americans subscribed to slicks, but if you didn’t get them delivered through the mail, you were bound to find a selection at another all-but-vanished American institution, the corner barbershop. That’s where Dan Wakefield got his first fix of Vonnegut, around 1952. “The first one I read was about a high school band teacher. It was based very closely on our high school bandleader, Mr. Robert Schultz. That was a lot of fun,” says Wakefield today. “There was nothing controversial about the story. It was just a nice high school story about a kid in a band.” For Wakefield — and, it turned out, for Vonnegut, too — the shared connection with Shortridge was crucial. “I started reading everything, from Player Piano on. I wrote him about those first novels, and I sent him a book of mine, called Between the Lines, and that became our real bond because I wrote about my fail-
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Wakefield reads at the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in 2012.
ure as a high school athlete and he wrote back and told me about his [failings].” Correspondence eventually turned into shared time together. “The first time I met him was 1963. I was on a Neiman Fellowship at Harvard and a mutual friend had us to dinner. I think there were eight people at the dinner and the only thing Kurt and I talked about was Shortridge,” says Wakefield. “You’ll find in the Letters book that after he reviewed [my novel] Going All the Way for Life magazine I told him about a letter I’d gotten from another Shortridge grad, a guy named Jim Good, who wrote for Life and said, ‘It looks like the Shortridge mafia is working again.’ “Kurt wrote back and said, ‘As long as it’s working, who cares.’”
The Importance of Loyalty The connection between Wakefield and Vonnegut came full circle when Don Farber, executor of the Vonnegut estate, reached out to Wakefield about the possibility of editing a volume of letters. The idea, says Wakefield, originated with Vonnegut’s son, Mark, an author in his own right and Kurt Vonnegut’s literary executor.
“Mark and I have been friends for a long time. When Mark was writing his first memoir, [The Eden Express], we were both living in Boston. He looked me up and asked if I would have any suggestions, which I did. We talked over that manuscript two or three times and then I sent it to my agent, Knox Burger, who was Kurt’s first editor.” Loyalty is the single most striking characteristic Wakefield found among Vonnegut’s letters. “He kept up with friends from high school…And his great loyalty to fellow writers. I got to know Richard Yates [novelist, author of Revolutionary Road] well when he was in Boston. Yates was always down on his luck, always running out of money. He knew that he could always call Kurt and get two thousand bucks to tide him over. The letters are full of his recommending people for fellowships, jobs.” Asked to assess Vonnegut’s contribution to literature, Wakefield leaps ahead: “I think it’s not only his contribution to literature, but his contribution to society and this culture. I am constantly meeting young people who are excited about him. I meet older people who tell me how they were influenced by him. He had a way of looking at things that was fresh; of saying there are other ways of thinking about this, there are other possibilities.” Yet for all his influence on readers, Wakefield acknowledges that Vonnegut’s work has sometimes been given short shrift by critics and members of the academy. “There was an essay about the letters book in the New York Times in which a guy tried to make it that Kurt was a hero of the hippies of the ‘60s and then wasn’t really important anymore. He compared Kurt as a hero of the ‘60s generation to David Foster Wallace and the current generation. I thought, ‘Give me a break!’ David Foster Wallace is hero to a small literary clique in New York. He’s meant to be read by that clique, not by general readers, in my opinion. Later, I wished I said in my [rebuttal] letter that comparing Kurt as a culture hero to David Foster Wallace is like comparing Janis Joplin to a back-up singer for Stevie Nicks.” S E E , H O M E , O N P A G E 12
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Breakfast of Champions Start out your weekend at Bookmamas, where all are invited to read aloud from Breakfast of Champions, and compete in the annual Kurt Vonnegut Look-alike Contest. Judges include Ben Asayskwee, Q Artistry artistic director. Word on the street is that last year’s winner is coming back to reclaim the crown. Bookmamas, 10-11:30 a.m. Free.
Kurt Vonnegut’s letters come under the heading Nonfiction and can be grouped with essays and other assorted pieces of journalism that have been collected in such books as Palm Sunday, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons, Fates Worse Than Death and A Man Without a Country. Nonfiction is an area where Dan Wakefield has also excelled. Considered one of the trailblazers of the New Journalism that arose during the ‘60s, Wakefield’s writing on the Civil Rights movement earned him accolades as “one of the country's most perceptive and sensitive independent commentator-reporters." Wakefield points to a piece Vonnegut wrote for Harpers magazine on the Republican convention in 1972 as exemplifying what Vonnegut did best. “He was always himself when he wrote. What I always try to tell my students is you should write like you’re speaking to a friend. That’s what Kurt did. One of his rules of writing was you should try to be like good company on a blind date. He said his writing was best when he wrote like a man from Indianapolis, which, he said, is what he was. “The reason he started writing nonfiction pieces was because, as he put it, his cash cows — the weekly magazines — all died due to television. He had to start writing something else. He did a lot of book reviews. In fact, the way Sam Lawrence [Vonnegut’s longtime publisher] discovered him was Kurt wrote a book review of a new Random House dictionary. The review was so interesting and funny that Sam wrote him a fan letter, said if you ever need a publisher, come knock on my door, which Kurt famously did.”
Literary LEGO Legos will become works of literary art as patrons create portraits of their favorite writers, literary characters or historic Irvington figures. Build at home and drop them off before Nov. 9 to win plenty of fabulous prizes. Indianapolis Public Library, all-day, Free Book signings by Tim O’Brien, Benjamin Patton Next, get your fix of literary celebrity with a few book signings and the release of the second edition of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library’s literary journal, So It Goes. Guests include Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried, for which he won a National Book Award for Fiction; and Benjamin Patton, the youngest grandson of the famed General George Patton and author of Growing Up Patton. Also on view: a human rights art exhibit presented by The Carter Center. Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, noon-1:30 p.m.., free Veterans Reclaim Armistice Day NPR’s Steve Inskeep, left, authors Tim O’Brien and Benjamin Patton, ArtReach instructor and war veteran Hugo Patrocinio, poet Jason Poudrier and US Army Capt. Olivia Cobiskey will discuss how writing and literary expression can be a coping strategy for sufferers of PTSD. The event will also feature an exhibit from the Combat Paper Project, an international showcase of handmade paper works created by soldiers using their own uniforms. Basile Auditorium, Eskenazi Hall, Herron School of Art, 2-3:30 p.m, free, part of the Spirit & Place Festival, reserve as seat at spiritandplace.org Vonnegut! Vonnegut! Glen Williamson is going to play every character in this one-man play (actually two plays written by Kurt Vonnegut). Grab a used Vonnegut book on your way out to take the experience with you and support adult literacy. Indy Reads Bookstore, 4-6 p.m., free Timequake Clambake The puns abound! Named for one of Vonnegut’s novels (or the clambake within the novel), Timequake Clambake will feature comedy from Gary Gulman, left, and music by cover band The Tides. Note the ticket price for this Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library fundraiser. Cook Theater, 7 p.m., $75
Coming home Although Vonnegut reflected on his hometown with warmth and affection toward the end of his life, he never really appeared to consider doing what Wakefield has done — returning, that is, to his Indy roots. In 2011, Wakefield was feeling stranded in New York City when he received an invitation to participate on a panel at the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. When Wakefield called an old friend, the architect Evans Woollen, for advice about where to stay in Indianapolis, Woollen emphatically told him to ask Cathy Gibson if he could stay at her house. Wakefield knew Gibson well. The one-time head of Adult Services at the Indianapolis Public Library had been instrumental in bringing Wakefield to Indianapolis for his first-ever public program here during the 1980’s. So Wakefield took Woollen’s advice;
Don’t forget the free stuff: Anyone who attends three events during VonnegutFest and gets their program stamped will receive a free chocolate bar custom-made for the Vonnegut Library by Endangered Species Chocolate (while supplies last). Those who attend five events during VonnegutFest and get their official program stamped will receive a free black book bag with the library’s logo (while supplies last) in addition to their chocolate bar. and Gibson not only provided Wakefield with a room, she threw a dinner party in his honor. Another old friend, the late Jane Rulon was in attendance. Rulon and Wakefield worked together on the making of the film version of Wakefield’s Indianapolis novel, Going
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All the Way, when she was head of the Indiana Film Commission. Wakefield asked her to drive him around town the next day to look at apartments. They wound up at Lockerbie Court. “I said, ‘That’s the kind of place where I’d like to live.’ It was all brick and wood.”
It turned out there was a vacancy. Wakefield returned to his hometown a month later. “It’s one of my hunches or crazy whims that’s turned out really good.” Wakefield’s appreciation of being back where he started seems simple as it is deep. He treasures his periodic dinners with old Shortridge friends. And when people have suggested that what’s drawn him here is the city’s newfound cultural scene, his response is short, if good-natured: “The only cultural things I’m interested in are the Central Library and the Red Key tavern.” Wakefield says he feels at home at the Red Key, which he happily proclaims as having “the greatest jukebox in the world.” He recalls an evening not long ago when he met a family there who shared a piece of pumpkin pie. It turned out one of the women in that family was related to yet another old Shortridge acquaintance. One thing led to another and Wakefield was reunited with Cecil “Buddy” Crabb, a former Shortridge halfback and retired Air Force general. “Connections like that have been really great.” Wakefield has wasted no time in making an Indianapolis life for himself. “I love downtown. Indy Reads [bookstore] has become a big part of my life. Travis DiNicola has created a great community there for writers — and the Chatterbox [jazz bar] is around the corner.” He has also been teaching classes at the Indiana Writers’ Center. “It’s the best thing I could have done.” Finally, he has maintained his connection with the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. “I’m sure there are other writers who have such things in their hometowns, but I think [the KVML] was a brilliant idea and does great work. It’s not just about reading Kurt, it’s about backing the causes he was interested in.” Wakefield has helped to get a screening of a documentary about the Crispus Attucks-Oscar Robertson basketball team that won the Indiana State Championship scheduled at the KVML this January. The film is by Betsy Blankenbaker, whose previous works include New York In the Fifties, based on Wakefield’s memoir. “It’s about the racial history of this city,” says Wakefield of the Crispus Attucks story. “I think everybody — every school kid and every parent — ought to see it.” Although Indianapolis can, at times, seem almost custom-made for automobiles, Wakefield is a defiantly enthusiastic pedestrian, taking great pleasure in being able to walk throughout downtown, as well as other parts of the city. The Monon Trail is a particular favorite, a relatively new urban amenity that, for Wakefield, also provides a kind of portal to his past. “Walking the Monon Trail,” he says, “I can see the backyard of the house I grew up in.” n
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Venzago returns One of the most beloved music directors in the ISO’s rather short pantheon, Swiss-born Mario Venzago, returned last weekend to conduct the orchestra for the first time since his sudden termination in 2009. Head to nuvo.net for a review of the show, or stick around for this excerpt from our Q&A last week with the conductor, who speaks in rough-cut-but-adorable English (he’s fluent in German and Italian).
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ellers of Tales — a 1939 short story collection edited by W. Somerset Maugham and featuring stories from Poe to Faulkner to Dorothy Parker — is John Lithgow’s “lone prop,” as he puts it, for his solo show Stories by Heart. It was a “kind of Lithgow family bible” as he grew up, and it includes two stories he tells during the show: Wodehouse’s “Uncle Fred Flits By,” in a “45-minute tour de force that doubles as a primer on acting” (The New York Times), and Ring Lardner’s “Haircut.” Lithgow’s night of storytelling by the hearth pays tribute to his elders who read to him when he was growing up, first on the East coast, then (as he mentions below in our e-mail interview) in Akron and Lakewood, Ohio.
NUVO: You’re associated with wearing a red scarf most of the time you aren’t conducting. How did that get started?
MARIO VENZAGO: It started in Indianapolis in 2002, because of all this air conditioning in all these buildings. I said: I must find the ability to warm up. The first time I started to wear a scarf during rehearsals, it was a red one. And I started to like it. And I did it in other places. Since then I always wear my red scarf. NUVO: How does it feel to be back with an orchestra, even if only for a week, who loved you perhaps more than any other music director they’ve played under?
NUVO: Why take things back to the basics? What have you gotten out reconnecting with storytelling in its most primal, around the campfire/fireplace form, after performing in so many different guises and settings?
VENZAGO: It should be very free and very natural to meet each other again. It can be a farewell, because we never had a farewell. It can be a first step in a new relationship. I hope that I am totally free with my feelings and my emotions, and that the orchestra will do the same.
JOHN LITHGOW: I can’t answer for other actors, but for me nothing matches the excitement and satisfaction of delivering a story as the audience is receiving it. You can sense the moments of surprise out there. You hear the laughter of course, but even more intensely, you hear the penetrating silence when people are really engrossed. And, to state the obvious, there is no more glorious sound than loud, live applause.
NUVO: I speak for the players as well as myself when I say that I hope you can arrange to return to conduct here as soon as possible.
VENZAGO: I’m at an age where I’m not interested
in career any more; I’m interested in friendship. As I said at the beginning: This weekend can be a farewell; or it can be a first step in a new future. And future means regularity. I’m not interested in guest conducting here and there, or to come every five or six years to Indianapolis. If the contact is good, I dream to have a certain regularity — what I call friendship — where I can bring my pieces, where I can teach them now where I am artistically, and where they tell me where they are artistically. Then it is a collaboration and an interaction; to give — and to take; to learn — and to teach.
NUVO: How can storytelling knit a family together? And what’s lost when a family hears all of its stories from outside sources? LITHGOW: I can only speak for myself, but I never felt closer to my parents as a child than when they were reading stories to me. For that matter, I rarely felt closer to my siblings than when we were all huddled up together listening.
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NUVO: What’s your take on this closing line from an LA Times review of Stories by Heart? “The best way of honoring storytelling in the theater is with a fresh drama.”
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(Seems an unadventurous thing to say...) LITHGOW: I’m not sure that my explicit ambition was to “honor storytelling.” I’m not that grandiose. I simply want to entertain people and provoke a little delight, emotion and thought. But I remember that remark, written on behalf of new playwriting, and I know what he meant by it. I would add that, since creating the show in 2008, I have appeared in two brand new plays on Broadway. NUVO: Whatever happened to humorists who tell stories about people other than themselves? Maybe that’s about the impact of standup? Or our present-day Lardners or Wodehouses or Benchleys are writing for TV? LITHGOW: Well, there have always been stand-up comedians — vaudeville was full of them. And there’s no shortage of comic writing. Check out “Shouts & Murmurs” every week in the New Yorker, which is exactly the kind of stuff Benchley wrote. But point taken: nowadays a comedy writer’s dream is a hit pilot for network TV. NUVO: How do you keep these stories fresh with each performance? LITHGOW: It doesn’t need to be fresh for me. Just for all the people out front. That’s always been a stage actor’s challenge, and I never tire of it. NUVO: We talk a lot about sense of place around here. What do you think you absorbed during those formative years you spent in the Midwest, in terms of character, sensibility, etc. — and how does that experience inform the way you tell a very Midwestern story like Lardner’s “Haircut”? LITHGOW: The midwestern setting and my midwestern roots are the two major reasons I picked “Haircut,” especially in counterpoint to the veddy English Wodehouse. When I was a kid in small town Ohio (and there were four of them) I was a regular customer at barbershops exactly like Whitey’s. So for me, “Haircut” is intensely evocative of both the light and dark sides of small town life. n
REVIEWS ONE SMALL TOWN, ONE CRAZY COACH BY MIKE ROOS Indiana University Press/Quarry Books, $26 t A true story retold in a fictionalized blow-by-blow account of coach Pete Gill’s year-long quest to convince the citizens of the tiny southern Indiana town of Ireland, Indiana that if basketball is their religion, he’s their savior and they had better have faith. Roos’ style is to capture the emotional heat of every moment building to the frenzied crescendo with such fervor you’re unfortunately left dangling when there’s no real concluding amen. Did Joe Lents get a basketball scholarship? What happened to the rest of the players? What’s the scoop on Gill after “the miracle” of the sectional win? What happened to Roos when consolidation wiped out Ireland as a free-standing high school? Nevertheless, it’s a revealing cultural story of the lives and times of 20th century rural Indiana.
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The Spiritual Life: A High Risk Venture featuring Rabbi Arthur Green Seekers of all stripes will likely get something out of listening to Green, author of Radical Judaism: Rethinking God and Tradition. The Jewish Daily Forwardrelated site ZEEK says that with that book, Green finally “came out” and “made his case for a full-blown post-monotheistic Judaism,” preferring instead of a concept of “Oneness” or “mystical pantheism.” Co-presented by Ann Katz and Spirit & Place. Arthur M. Glick JCC, Nov. 7, 7 p.m., $8 ($5 JCC members) David Harris-Gershon Harris-Gershon’s memoir What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife? starts with the 2002 Hebrew University of Jerusalem bombing, which killed nine and injured 100. Among those injured was his wife; among those killed was a friend of the couple visiting from San Diego. Years later, Harris-Gershon embarked on what he now calls “a selfish, desperate attempt to heal when secondary trauma brought me to my knees.” The research project/search for closure led him to meet Mohammad Odeh, the Palestinian who planted the bomb. Part of Ann Katz. Arthur M. Glick JCC, Nov. 11, 7 p.m., $8 ($5 JCC members)
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Oddly Normal tells of one family’s effort to help their son negotiate adolescence
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ohn and Jeanne Schwartz are good parents. They’ve always supported their son Joe, helping him to cope with a learning disability and manage his behavioral issues when he encountered difficult teachers. And they welcomed his disclosure that he was gay, after long inferring this might be the case. But it was two things they didn’t know about Joe — that he had recently, somewhat haphazardly, begun to come out at school, and that he struggled with depression — that contributed to his suicide attempt at age 13. In his memoir Oddly Normal, John Schwartz shares that frightening day and his family’s attempts to help Joe deal with coming out. Schwartz, a national correspondent for The New York Times, alternates each chapter between narrating the family’s personal story and reporting on the issues it raised, including research on sexual identity and psychology, the social climate for gay kids, landmark legal cases, and the benefits and drawbacks of diagnosing behavioral issues. “Our personal story was compelling to us, but without context, it’s just a personal story,” says Schwartz. “My wife and I felt that combining it with reporting context deepens the story to give it significance.” He’s quick to note that he cleared the book with Joe. “It made sense to him to do this, not just because he’s a teenager and he’s on Facebook and he doesn’t believe in privacy,” jokes Schwartz. “That’s only part of it; it’s really this idea that he knows sharing stories means something, and helps.” Though their story is still unfolding, Schwartz’s outlook is a positive, hopeful one. So is Joe’s, as he finishes his senior year of high school and looks forward to attending college in 2014. While the Schwartzes had suspected Joe might be gay from the time he was a toddler — he loved playing with Barbies and requested to be a “disco lady” for Halloween at age three — they didn’t want to make too many assumptions based on stereotypes. But by the time Joe started school, the Schwartzes needed to focus on helping him cope.
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Joe Schwartz, pictured with his sister, Elizabeth, (above) and his father, John, struggled with coming out at school. SPEAKER
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A sensitive, bright, verbal child, Joe’s preferences sometimes isolated him from his classmates, making him a target for bullies and exacerbating his response to stress. Over the years, teachers and administrators suggested diagnoses from ADHD to the autism spectrum. The Schwartzes were reluctant to categorize Joe so easily, afraid that a diagnosis would result in a prescription for unnecessary drugs. One of Oddly Normal’s strengths lies in Schwartz’s ability to recognize Joe’s experience as a web of interrelated factors. Joe did eventually receive some assistance for a writing disability. But his success at school could change from moment to moment. “Joe had this cluster
of behaviors that were very difficult for him and set him apart, but underlying it all was the tension he felt from being different,” explains Schwartz. Research supports this viewpoint, demonstrating how multiple “minority stresses” that result from being different can add up. Perhaps as a result, gay teens experience more depression, anxiety and substance abuse than other teens. Other researchers feel that the current outlook for gay teens is far brighter. As they watched Joe and waited for him to come out at home, the Schwartzes sought out other resources, including community centers and a group of gay friends and colleagues they dubbed the “League of Gay Uncles.” Many of the gay uncles warned them of another stumbling block: the lack of opportunities to model romantic relationships. “If you don’t have anybody to date, when do you start dating?” asks Schwartz. “And if you’re not dating, when do you have your first heartbreak?” Encouraging his son’s middle school to form a gay–straight alliance made administrators squeamish, says Schwartz, but parents need to understand that “it’s not a sex club. It’s a sexual orientation club. It’s about acceptance. If you accept who your child is, you’ve got to accept what your child is going to do, too.” n
OPENING Great Expectations r Charles Dickens’ classic story gets adapted again, with Jeremy Irvine as Pip, who is whisked from his impoverished home to London, where he is taught to be a gentleman, all thanks to a mysterious benefactor. The truncated version of the story is entertaining enough, but it doesn’t notably stand out from the other adaptations. Still, the film offers some rewarding performances from Ralph Fiennes as Magwitch, Robbie Coltrane as Mr. Jaggers and especially Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham. Carter’s character is younger than other incarnations of Havisham – she makes it work splendidly. — ED JOHNSON-OTT PG-13, Opens Friday at Keystone Art All Is Lost Robert Redford plays the old man; a water tank plays the sea. PG-13, Opens Friday at Keystone Art
FILM EVENTS Brody presents Godard That’s Richard Brody, who wrote a well-received bio/ study of director Jean-Luc Godard that makes unexpected arguments (the promotional record made for Une femme est une femme is better than the movie itself) and clear-mindedly looks at Godard’s anti-Zionism. He’s hosting a mini-retrospective featuring early (Masculin Feminin, La Chinoise), middle (King Lear, Hail Mary) and late work (For Ever Mozart, In Praise of Love). IU Cinema (Bloomington), Nov. 7-9, cinema.indiana.edu Indy Film Fest Fall Series: Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton e Bolstered by an impressive list of interviewees (Kanye West, Mike D, and ?uestlove all make appearances) and a deep vault of archival footage, Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton breathlessly charts the almost 20 year history of L.A.-based hip-hop label Stones Throw. Structured around founder Chris Manak’s (a.k.a Peanut Butter Wolf) personal history, the film begins with Manak’s childhood record collecting, before it rockets through the label’s growth, its varied roster, and its seminal releases from artists like Madlib and J Dilla. With its sharply focused but frantic pace, the film thoroughly channels Manak’s passionate commitment to his idiosyncratic and deeply personal artistic aims. — TAYLOR PETERS Do317 Lounge, Nov. 7, 7 p.m., $10
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ast things first: Do not leave your seats at the end of this movie. There are two bonus scenes awaiting you — the first adds a tag to the story, the second teases next year’s Marvel space epic, Guardians of the Galaxy. By the way, the guy under the makeup in the final scene is Benicio del Toro. Thor: The Dark World is the second film in the superhero series. It’s ponderous at first, but gets better as it goes, with lively action segments and a good sense of humor. The film opens with the words, “Long before the birth of light there was darkness …” Darkness, huh? As opposed to what? The sound of stubbed toes? An albino cave fish? The narrator went on to describe the backstory, which involves trolls or elves or something Lord of the Rings-ish. Whatever the critters are, they’re pissed-off and planning to destroy or conquer pretty much everything. Yawn. Don’t worry, it gets better. Thor (Chris Hemsworth), he of the mighty hammer and bitchin’ bod, has gone home. Papa Odin (Anthony Hopkins) is ready to make him King of Asgard (you remember Asgard — it’s like the Emerald City, only more butch). But Thor doesn’t want the throne. He pines for his earthly honey-bunny, astrophysicist Jane Foster (Natalie Portman). Odin is dismissive of the relationship. “Human lives are fleeting,” he sniffs. Queen/mother Frigga (Rene Russo) is more understanding. Meanwhile, Thor’s wicked, cool brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) mopes in prison, and the majestic Heimdall (Idris Elba) guards the city.
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Back on Earth, Jane, her wisecracking assistant/bestie Darcy (Kat Dennings) and Darcy’s wide-eyed intern Ian (Jonathan Howard) — yes, the comic relief character gets her own comic relief character — discover a groovy anti-grav time-and-space transporter column in London. Jane’s former mentor Dr. Erik Selvig (Stellan Sjarsgard) turns up on the TV news, running around Stonehenge naked and ranting. He joins the group later, working in a shirt and tightywhiteys because he doesn’t like trousers (Memorable exchange — Jane: “The very
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fabric of reality will be torn apart!” Dr. Selvig: “I better get my pants!”). The cast is strong, though Hopkin’s Odin grows tiresome and sidekick Darcy, while amusing, seems to have wandered in from the set of New Girl. Hemsworth does a particularly good job, appearing bombastic and/or noble when appropriate while getting along nicely with his human pals. Though the villains-of-record are unmemorable, their threatened actions force Thor and evil Loki to team up, which makes for some dandy moments. Battle scenes are enlivened by holes in space and time which abruptly pop the warriors from one place to another. Neat! Thor: The Dark World is uneven, but the combination of strong personalities, humor and clever battle choreography keeps the Marvel superhero movie formula from dragging. n
CONTINUING 12 Years a Slave e Adopting the point of view of a free Northerner forced into slavery (based on the true story of Solomon Northup), 12 Years a Slave, directed by Steve McQueen (Shame, Hunger) offers the clearest view of slavery I’ve seen on screen. We share Northup’s disbelief at his change in circumstances, his outrage and anger. Still, tentative viewers can rest as-
sured that the film is as touching as it is horrific. As Northup, Chiwetel Ejiofor must express himself through subdued inflection and with his amazingly expressive eyes. He is as good here as Daniel Day-Lewis is in Lincoln. R, At Keystone Art Ender’s Game y Serviceable, if dreary, sci-fi. In the future, the human military is at war with an ant-like race called the For-
mics. Children are recruited to do battle, because young people are the target audience … er, I mean because young people are better at adapting to the video-game style battle controls. Or something. Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield from Hugo) gets recruited and does all the usual coming-of-age stuff. The military leaders are played by Harrison Ford, Viola Davis (she looks fretful) and Ben Kingsley (he looks like a Maori warrior). The ethics of war are examined, lightly and in an obvious fashion. PG-13, In wide release
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Eiteljorg’s contemporary art program recognizes five more fellows Tom Torluemke: Hardball e In the large scale painting “Meanest of the Marauders,” you see a man being sodomized with a baseball bat in a gang attack. The unblinking nature of Torluemke’s work here, in a variety of media, recalls Goya’s series of prints Disasters of War, but there’s often a sexual edge to this work that’s all his own. And then there are paintings that deal with his own horrifying past, namely finding his mother just after her attempted suicide. Lest you think this painter is exclusively obsessed with human folly and/or homoerotic sadomasochism, also check out his mural on the sixth floor of Indianapolis Central Library. By appointment (call 765-753-0390) at Mt. Comfort Gallery Robert Horvath: New is Better e If you’ve ever read William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch, you’ve encountered the Black Meat, so delicious and nauseating that you have to keep eating it even while vomiting between portions. Seeing Horvath’s painting “Neurofraud,” I thought of the Black Meat. Perhaps “Neurofraud” is portraying the brain’s pleasure center in a state of perpetual orgasm, which would be way too much of a good thing. At any rate, it’s doing so with an enticingly delicious blue sheen. Horvath’s paintings, and to a lesser extent their porcelain sculpture counterparts, struck me with their mastery and their urgency. But I wouldn’t want them in my living room. Gallery 924 through Nov. 27 Kyle Ragsdale: Enchanters t In his solo show last year at the Harrison, Ragsdale was going in a freer, looser direction. His figures might’ve been dressed as Victorians, but they were lifelike and set against contemporary Indy backgrounds. Now those stiff ladies — always painted in profile — are back in a big way. The conveyances they use for forward motion or flight, instead of legs or wings, are like Navajo rugs torn into shreds and reassembled as airy spheres. A standout painting called “Mercy Ship” suggests celestial conveyance. The ship’s red beams and sails are strands of rope tied in a Gordian knot as the bow aims heavenward in a yellow sky. I find this painting full of spontaneity and mystery, and of Victorian-era figures, it’s mercifully free.
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t may have been a stupid question, but I had to ask. “Why,” I said to Jennifer Complo McNutt, curator of contemporary art at the Eiteljorg, “has the Eiteljorg been able to make such a name for itself in the world of contemporary Native American art within the past 25 years? There are plenty of other museums out there, after all, some of them with ‘contemporary’ in their name.” “Well, what do you think?” she sort of retorted, before giving me something to quote her on: “Historically, native people haven’t always been treated with the same kind of respect as others in our country, so maybe that’s a reflection of that situation. And people have refused to believe that something that doesn’t look Indian is an authentic representation. There is nothing more beautiful than a beautiful clay pot or an incredibly woven traditional work of art. But why wouldn’t native people living in a contemporary society have the same kind of expressions as everyone else!” Since 1999, the Eiteljorg, which bills itself has having the “world’s foremost collection of contemporary Native American art,” has awarded $1,125,000 in unrestricted grants through its Contemporary Art Fellowship. This year’s five fellows will each receive a $25,000 grant and take part in an exhibition opening this weekend. The museum also typically purchases works of art by each fellow for its permanent collection.
Harrison Center for the Arts through Nov. 27 — DAN GROSSMAN
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Shan Goshorn weaves archival and original photos and documents to create her “political baskets.”
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Nicholas Galanin’s photo series, Where Will We Go, was based on a sign that existed in his hometown of Sitka.
“For so long, native artists have had to create within parameters imposed by curators, ethnologists or collectors,” says Shan Goshorn, one of this year’s fellows. “The Eiteljorg is really encouraging people to go beyond that, to challenge perceptions, to challenge the way that we have been defined.” Goshorn has worked across media for 30 years; Complo McNutt says she first encountered her as a painter and photographer. But she’s recently spent much of her time creating “political baskets,” which weave together archival and original photos and documents — for instance, a photograph of the Great Smoky Mountains and a historical map of Cherokee territory. “I’m able to bring ideas to the table and my work becomes exactly what I’d hoped it would be for three decades: a springboard for honest discussion,” she says. If Goshorn gradually came to incorporate traditional practices into her work after she had established herself, Nicholas Galanin, started out working alongside traditional artists, learning wood and stone sculpting from his father and uncle. He continues to create such “customary” objects alongside
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more obviously contemporary work in sculpture, photography and video. One photo series, Where Will We Go, shows a red-white-and-blue neon sign, “No Indians or Dogs Allowed,” in the middle of a seemingly uninhabited forest. Galanin says the piece was based on a sign that existed in his hometown of Sitka, Alaska “within the last two generations.” n
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All hail homebrewers When Kahn’s at 54th & Keystone featured Fountain Square Brewery on Nov. 1, it brought back memories for head brewer Dan Krzywicki. As a homebrewer he brought a bottle of his Imperial IPA to share at a 2009 Kahn’s tasting. Beer Buzz reported then: “We all agreed it’s mighty fine — sunbright color, spring flower aroma, nicely balanced with malt and hops rather than being ‘hop-heavy.’” We went on, ‘Enter the 2009 Indiana State Fair Brewers’ Cup craft beer competition!’” Dan went one better, joined the Great Fermentations staff and continued to develop a following for his homebrews there and elsewhere until he was tapped to go ‘pro.’ The memory seemed particularly opportune because Nov. 2 was celebrated nationwide as “Learn to Homebrew Day.” While most homebrewers continue to enjoy the craft as a hobby, homebrewers “going professional” are a major part of Indiana’s craft beer industry. Next time you’re at your favorite brewery taproom or brewpub, chat up the brewers to learn how and where they got started. If homebrewing tempts you, stop by Great Fermentations, 5127 E. 65th St., on Nov. 8 at 5 p.m. for their monthly share and learn session, or show up for their beginner’s class Nov. 12 at 6 p.m. News, notes At the Oct. 2013 Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Rock Bottom nationwide was voted “Brewpub of the Year” including Indianapolis’ two sites, Downtown with head brewer Jerry Sutherlin, and College Park with head brewer Liz Laughlin. Visit both for a tapping and tasting event on Nov. 6. Winning beers are on tap. And while you’re out plan a stop as well on Nov. 6 at The RAM downtown and Fishers to taste the RAM GABF winners: Anaheim IPA, Big Horn Hefeweizen and Bavarian Sun. Sports fans, take note: At Lucas Oil Stadium you’ll find Sun King in cans in tens of sections; draft beers are at Sections 109 and 132. And at Bankers Life Fieldhouse you’ll find Sun King brews in locations on club level, main concourse and balcony. Nov. 7 is a beery-busy day: Girls Pint Out third anniversary celebration is a return to its beginnings for a tour of Sun King Brewery at 6:30 p.m. Flat 12 is tapping Return of Musatche Ride Red as their Movember: Men’s Health Awareness fundraiser.
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aving worked for a while at England’s most influential restaurant (St. John), Black Market’s Micah Frank knows a thing or two about great British food. So when he suggested to me a couple of weeks ago that I check out the best English pies this side of the Atlantic (in, of all places, Three Oaks, Mich.), my wife and I dropped everything and headed north for an impromptu spot of lunch at the first opportunity. Situated three hours north of Indianapolis, Three Oaks is the kind of place that time might well have forgotten had not a handful of entrepreneurs decided, almost simultaneously it seems, that the nondescript Michiana town was going to become a weekend getaway for cityweary Chicagoans and others of a gastronomically curious bent. Situated in gently undulating farmland amidst wineries and orchards, it’s an unlikely yet perfect spot for a food and drink-themed getaway. Although the Brits love their sweet and fruit pies, it’s the savory varieties that the baker’s reputation rests upon, and which Chelsea Kalberloh Jackson, co-owner with husband Art, has completely mastered at Pleasant House. Steak pies, their buttery, flaky pastry stuffed with meat and vegetables cooked in an ale sauce, are classics not to be trifled with, yet here they are as perfect in taste and texture as any I have eaten. Cornish pasties, the tin miner’s lunch, are half-moon shaped hand pies that were once rumored to have been filled with meat at one end and fruit at the other. They’re so often stale affairs made with cheap puff pastry, yet here they are both robust and tender. The Melton Mowbray pork pie, after which the hat was named, is crafted from a hot lard crust filled with dense pork paté, buffered by a thick layer of wobbly trotter jelly. These are best eaten cold, usually with hot yellow mustard, washed down with a pint of gently hopped pale ale. And as if it wasn’t enough to simply make the best English pies I’ve tasted since my last trip to the UK, Chelsea and her husband Art have rehabbed an absolutely delightful,
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brick-and beams building on the town’s sleepy main street in which to enjoy them. Purists will also love the authentic, lowish-alcohol bitter on tap as well as a splendid 4.3 percent stout and a couple of other real ales. All made in house, of course, as are the sodas: a perfect complement to the home-grown produce from the couple’s Chicago farm. This is true farm-to fork eating, deliberately limited in scope, but perfectly judged. After a satisfying meal of pie, mash and peas, I strongly recommend a leisurely stroll down to the Journeyman Distillery, located in a character-laden old warehouse building. Originally
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intended to be in Indiana, but impossible to achieve owing to this state’s restrictive licensing laws, Journeyman not only micro-distils some remarkably pure and complex whiskies, but also features a tasting room, cocktail bar and limited dining options. Under one roof! For that reason alone it’s worth the drive. On this visit, knowing that the trip back was going to be long, I limited myself to a single, yet sublime, barrelaged Negroni. Next time we’ll spend the night. n
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he Indiana Native Plant and Wildflower Society will have a visit from something of an eco-rock-star at its annual conference on Nov. 9. Dr. Peter Raven, President Emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden and the coauthor of several widely-used textbooks in the field of biology will conduct a presentation entitled “Conserving Biodiversity in a Rapidly Changing World.” Raven has been named a “Hero for the Planet” by Time magazine and his other accolades include the National Medal of Science, the highest award for scientific accomplishment in the United States. Raven spoke with Indiana Living Green prior to the conference. ILG: What’s the biggest problem we’re facing right now when it comes to damaging our ecosystems – is it the livestock industry, energy consumption, what? RAVEN: The biggest problem – especially since it’s unanticipated – would have to be climate change. If you look up the website footprintnetwork.org [the site of the Global Footprint Network] you’ll find that we passed the [annual] sustainable capacity of the Earth around September 1st of this year and it’s getting shorter and shorter every year. (Editor’s note: 2013’s ‘Earth Overshoot Day, according to the Global Footprint Network, occurred on Aug. 20.) It’s like overdrawing a bank account. It’s estimated to drive up the sea levels around the shore of the United States by about 40 inches by the end of this century. Climate change is the biggest threat to biodiversity worldwide and 24 INDIANA LIVING GREEN // 11.06.13 - 11.13.13 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
it simply makes everything else worse. Lowering food production at a time when we have a billion people malnourished already ... those folks in turn put pressure on the systems. The United States operates in a really international context. We have internally about half of what we need to support us, we import about half – we depend on every country in the world. ILG: How frustrated are you when you hear from those who we’ve come to refer to as ‘climate-change deniers’? RAVEN: I’m not particularly frustrated because they’re basically wrong. It’s one of those things where people have been able to reduce public understanding of science to kind of a charade or a game. You have a situation where every academy of science in the world – they’re all non-political – understand that climate change is going on and that human beings are the major factor in it. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ... has decided that that is the case. Something like 99 percent of the knowledgeable scientists working in the field understands that that’s the case. It becomes a real charade when people jump up and say, “But I read a report somewhere where somebody said something else!” It’s sort of trying to make a game out of science rather than recognizing science for what it is – a refined, edited and critical assessment of the facts. n Dr. Peter Raven will appear as part of the day-long INPAWS 2013 Annual Conference: Saving Indiana’s Native Plants and Wild Places, Nov. 9 at the Monon Community Center in Carmel. You can find more info and register at inpaws.org.
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NOVEMBER EVENTS INDIANAPOLIS INTERFAITH ECO-FILM SERIES PRESENTS BIRDERS, THE CENTRAL PARK EFFECT The Fall 2013 Indianapolis Interfaith Eco-Film Series will present the award-winning film Birders, The Central Park Effect, a one-hour film that reveals the extraordinary array of wild birds that grace NYC’s celebrated patch of green. The film is free of charge, although freewill donations are accepted. Complimentary snacks and soft drinks will be provided. Fri., Nov. 8, 7p.m., First Friends Meeting, 3030 Kessler Boulevard E. Dr., Indianapolis SIERRA CLUB BUS TRIP TO EPA POWER PLANT LISTENING SESSION- CHICAGO The EPA is hosting listening sessions in Chicago to gauge support for taking action on limiting carbon pollution from existing power plants. There will be strong opposition to new limits from the fossil fuel industry, so strong support for bold action to address climate disruption is needed. The Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign is organizing transportation and meals for those that can attend. Visit the Sierra Club website to RSVP. Fri., Nov. 8, 8:30 a.m., bus leaves from Indiana Interchurch Center, 1100 W. 42nd St., Indianapolis ORGANIZATION DAY AT THE STATEHOUSE This is the time to tell your legislators what you would like to see in the upcoming session, including legal protection of all three state forest Back Country Areas from commercial logging. Mon., Nov. 18, 8 a.m., Indiana Statehouse, 200 W. Washington St., Indianapolis
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SIXTH ANNUAL GREENING THE STATEHOUSE FORUM Join the Hoosier Environmental Council on Saturday, Nov. 16 for Indiana’s Largest Gathering of Environmental Advocates. This annual, half-day Saturday event also provides attendees an opportunity to learn about solutions that simultaneously improve our health, environment, and job opportunities. The theme of the event will be the future of agriculture. John Tuma, the keynote speaker, has been a proven force for change in the Midwest for the cause of sustainable agriculture. Tuma has also been a passionate advocate for the rights of both small farmers and communities seeking to control their own destiny. Sat., Nov. 16, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m., IUPUI Campus Center, 420 University Boulevard, Indianapolis
existent. Fluorescent lighting, including CFLs, have a ballast that gives a high power burst when they are turned on. It is a persistent myth that this warrants leaving the lights on if you’re only gone for a short while. You would save energy by switching them off even if you were out of the room for 30 seconds.” So, unless your colleague’s arm tires easily, it sounds like it saves energy to turn the lights off every time you leave a room. JacobsParts sells an assortment of LED lighting on their web site and at their north side retail location. Piece out, Renee SIGN UP for the AskRenee Newsletter at indianalivinggreen.com. NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 11.06.13 - 11.13.13 // INDIANA LIVING GREEN 25
REVIEW VARIOUS ARTISTS THE WABASH VOLUME II
y Both The Wabash and The Wabash Volume II are part of a year-long fundraising drive to construct a sculpture honoring the memory of Paul Dresser, Terre Haute native and composer of Indiana’s state song, “On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away.” Disc I was released in December of 2012, and its companion brackets Terre Haute’s 2013 “Year of the River”celebration of the Hoosier State’s most famous waterway. The companion disc to The Wabash doesn’t quite match the quality of the first release; both volumes are, like a lot of benefit CDs featuring local talent (all the performers are connected to the river valley) fairly uneven. Still, Volume II – despite edging into derivative classic rock territory on a few tracks and offering a couple of cuts that are head-scratchingly bad – has enough surprises to make the collection worth the price of admission.
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Kade Puckett’s chiming guitar work on the original composition “Old River” shimmers, and The Highland Reunion’s “Swimming” is a piece of marvelous minimalism. John England and the Western Swingers’ take on “(Back Home Again in) Indiana” would’ve made Bob Wills smile, and Tedi Dreiser Godard’s cover of “On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away” evokes the Victrola era nicely. (Godard, in fact, is Paul Dresser’s great – niece.)The standout, though, is Cari Ray’s “Wade On In,” whose Sunday-morning lyrics are offset perfectly by Ray’s Saturday-night vocals: she’s got just enough whiskey and smoke in her pipes to make a song of salvation credible. If you’ve only got the ready cash for one disc, go with the first volume – while it’s not quite as stylistically diverse, it’s got more hits than misses. Taken as a double set, there’s a nice coffeehouse vibe to the project, and heck, it’s for a lovely cause. — ED WENCK
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pon returning from to Indy New York, after plans with his locally revered proto-punk band, The Gizmos, had fallen through, Dale Lawrence would become familiar with the works of a man named Lou. “When I was in The Gizmos, I wasn’t very preoccupied with The Velvet Underground or Lou Reed stuff, really. It was later, after I moved back here, that that stuff started finally mattering to me and making sense to me,” Lawrence says on the phone to me in early November. Since that realization, Lawrence has embarked on a new chapter of his musical career, coming down from his punk past and fronting Indy’s version of The Vulgar Boatmen for decades. This Saturday, The Vulgar Boatmen will make an appearance at Radio Radio, alongside local groups The Icks and Vacation Club. In honor of Lou Reed’s passing, the Boatmen, who have a history of covering the Velvets, will devote half of their set to Reed’s legacy with 45 minutes of covers. Since 1989’s You and Your Sister, Lawrence and the Boatmen have held strong to their love for Reed and the Velvets. “If you count every cover we’ve ever done, it’s fairly expansive. We probably have three times as many covers as Vulgar Boatmen songs, but that’s not to say we can pull them all out of our butts on any given night,” Lawrence said. “Some of them we’ve only played a few times, or maybe once a long time ago.”
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Founder of GloryHole Records (and promoter of this show along with Musical Family Tree) Jimmy Peoni is a longtime fan of the Boatmen. Having seen the band hundreds of times over the years, he still looks forward to the VU covers, in addition to their regular repertoire of original tunes. “They used to always end one of their shows with an extraordinary ‘Foggy Notion’ or ‘Waiting For The Man.’ One of my personal favorites is ‘Sister Ray,’ which I haven’t seen them do for about ten years and I hope they pull it out,” Peoni said. “But no one does Velvet Underground like The Boatmen.” The Boatmen’s set isn’t the only place where Lou Reed’s legacy will be felt. A fan of Reed’s since discovering Velvet Underground & Nico at a young age, John Caldwell of The Icks owes much gratitude to Reed. “Lou Reed is a god of mine,” Caldwell said. “I was 14 years old and all of a sudden I wanted to get into counterculture and music, and I bought the Velvet Underground’s first album based on the Andy Warhol cover, which I know that they probably wouldn’t like that too much. I picked it up, went home and put it in my Play Station. And I was never the same.”
Samuel James of Vacation Club is looking forward to the Boatmen’s Velvet cover set as well, “I probably wouldn’t be in a band if it weren’t for him,” James said. With an extensive familiarity of the Velvets at this point, Lawrence still marvels at the band’s lasting legacy, from their simple rock and roll approach to Reed’s intelligent songwriting. “In so many ways, the Velvets have influenced not just us, but countless bands since then I think,” he said. n
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ast Saturday night I spent my evening spinning Bollywood dance tunes for a Diwali celebration hosted by a local Indian association. Although Indians represent a small fraction of the Indianapolis population – 0.4 percent according to the 2010 census – their mark on our city’s cultural landscape has been enormous. The Indian immigrant community has imported their nation’s world class tradition of cinema, music and cuisine and brought them to life here in Indianapolis. So I’m always honored when I’m asked to participate in holiday celebrations and festivals within the South Asian community. Although I’ve never set foot on Indian soil, the culture has been a guiding force in all my musical endeavors. Diwali is popularly known as the Festival of Lights and it’s the most widely celebrated holiday within India, where festivities famously include marathon sessions of explosive firework displays. The celebration I participated in here in Indy was much less rambunc-
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and refine this eternally living soul. As I was spinning records during this year’s Diwali celebration, I began to consider the significance of the message behind the holiday. My mind turned toward the legacy of the recently deceased Bollywood singer Manna Dey. Affectionately referred to as King of Melody, Dey passed away last week at the age of 94. He was one of India’s greatest music legends, recording over 3,500 songs in a career that spanned over six decades. Manna Dey’s unique artistry combined the sophistication of classical tradition with the widespread appeal of popular music. Capable of slow Capable of slow languid languid phrasing, or lightning bursts of rapid vocal improvisaphrasing, or lightning bursts tion, Dey’s golden voice is familiar to all fans of Indian music. of rapid vocal improvisation, I pulled out one of Dey’s clasDey’s golden voice is familiar sic anthems and queued it up on my turntable. It was his 1971 song to all fans of Indian music. “Zindagi Kaisi Hai Paheli” from the film. The production on the track is a bit cheesy but it doesn’t diminish the beauty of the song or the quality of Dey’s tious. A few hundred families gathered brilliant reading. The title translates loosely to celebrate the occasion by lighting as “The Strange Riddle of This Life,” and the candles and enjoying an evening of tralyrics are a meditation on the mysterious ditional food, dance and music. and ephemeral state of human life. The story of Diwali is born from an As I listened to the lyrics and Dey’s ancient myth of Hindu gods locked impassioned vocal performance, it in a battle of good versus evil. It’s an occurred to me that Dey had achieved a allegorical tale intended to symbolize refined state of Atma. Dey’s soul will live on the personal moral struggles every indiand on through the timeless recording in vidual must face in the course of life. his vast body of work as his voice remains Beyond all the flashing lights and legto enlighten and enthrall future generaends of supernatural deities, Diwali is tions of listeners. In this sense, I suppose ultimately a time of self-reflection. It’s all artists are engaged in the act of refleca period of renewal that asks followers tion and soul purification that the Diwali to reflect on the state their own inner holiday proposes, as we struggle to create light, or Atma. In Hindu philosophy, work that edifies our community and crethe Atma or Atman is a concept that ates a legacy that remains long after our suggests we all possess a soul or life body has departed. n force that exists beyond the state of our physical body or consciousness. Diwali >> Kyle Long creates a custom encourages Hindu practitioners to evalpodcast for each column. uate the condition of their Atma and Hear this week’s at NUVO.net consider what they can do to elevate 28 MUSIC // 11.06.13 - 11.13.13 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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WEDNESDAY EMO empire! empire! (i was a lonely estate) Yes, the headlining band’s name does contain both two exclamation points and a parenthetical. Originally started as Keith Latinen’s solo project, he wanted his band name to express his grand artistic aspirations (hence the doubly-exclaimed “Empire”) while “the parenthesis signify that I feel like I am unimportant and unnoticed.” empire! empire! (i was a lonely estate)’s sound is, perhaps unsurprisingly, generally categorized as “emo,” and their allegiance to organizations whose names befuddle music journalists the world over is strong, having released records on strictly no capital letters, a UK-based label. They’ll play with Dowsing, The Reptilian and Wounded Knee. Hoosier Dome, 1627 Prospect St. 7 p.m., $8, all-ages GUITAR Steve Vai Steve Vai is the guitarist’s guitarist, often called a virtuoso, who composes album after album of complex instrumental music. This tour, in support of Vai’s latest album, The Story of Light, has been so successful that an additional leg of the North American
dates has been added. Vai’s shows are technically dense, but a treat for the trained ear and casual listener alike. Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., 8 p.m., $30, all-ages POP Leagues Pop trio Leagues is stopping by Radio Radio for a hump day dose of tasty jams of the Nashville variety. They do indie pop rock just the way you like it: light and danceable, but with plenty of catchy guitar riffs and deliberate arrangements. These guys do sweet without the saccharine, and their song “Spotlight” might sound familiar even for the uninitiated listener – it’s been in plenty of commercials. Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St. 9 p.m., $10 advance, $12 at door, 21+ Flannelgraph Records Showcase on WFHB Local Live, Radio and TV Center (Bloomington), all-ages Sir James Galway with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Center for the Performing Arts, all-ages Honky Tonkin’ Tilford Sellers and The Wagon Burners, Alex Vucelich, Melody Inn, 21+ Art Reiner, Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center, all-ages
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THURSDAY METAL The Devil Wears Prada Hard metal rockers The Devil Wears Prada have made a massive leap forward with their new album 8:18. It’s their hardest rocker yet, and the guys are out on the road in support of the Killswitch Engage-produced record. Things are going to get loud, sweaty, and thrash-tastic at the Deluxe show, so get there early if you want to get close. Deluxe at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., 7 p.m., $20 advance, $23 at door, all-ages EDM Altered Thurzdaze Get a healthy dose of EDM every Thursday night. Both Mousetrap regulars and electronic music fans will find something to like about this weekly event, especially as genres like dubsteb, EDM, and house music gain a greater share of pop culture attention. This is a great way to kick the weekend off early, and get a little of practice dancing before you shake your groove thing in nearby Broad Ripple on the weekend. There’s a different lineup of artists every weekend, but one thing remains the same: this is an EDM dream and an allaround blast of a dance party. Mousetrap, 5565 N. Keystone Ave., 9 p.m., FREE, 21+
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Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton (This is Stones Throw Records) This crowdfunded doc showcases legendary indie record label Stones Throw Records, which has claimed J. Dilla, Anika Aloe Blacc and others on its roster. The L.A.-based label is the baby of DJ Peanut Butter Wolf, who most recently reissued the J. Dilla classic Donuts. DJ Jon Rogers will start spinning at 7 p.m., before the screening. This event is presented by Indy Film Fest. DO317 Lounge, 1043 Virginia Ave., Suite 215, 7 p.m., $10,21+ HARDCORE Eye Empire, Eyes on Fire, Pragmatic, True Becoming Hardcore Supergroup Eye Empire features former members of Stuck Mojo, Stereomud, Dark New Day, Switched, Submersed and Texas Hippie Coalition. This bill also welcomes special guests Eyes On Fire, Pragmatic and True Becoming. This is the ultimate show for hardcore fans, and traverses some of the biggest names in the hardcore scene. Rock House Cafe, 3940 S. Keystone Ave., 8 p.m., $10, 21+ Drive-By Truckers, Promised Land Sound, Bluebird, (Bloomington), 21+ Jake Simmons and The Little Ghosts, Melody Inn, 21+ Yo Gotti, Old National Centre, all-ages Fish n Grits with Action Jackson, Social, 21+ The Dead Squirrels, 86th St. Pub, 21+ Sunny Sweeney, Will Hoge, Rathskeller, 21+ Sugar Moon Rabbit, Radio Radio, 21+ Gretchen Wilson, Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, all-ages Animal Haus, Blu Lounge, 21+
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): I’m not a big fan of fear. It gets far more attention than it deserves. The media and entertainment industries practically worship it, and many of us allow ourselves to be riddled with toxic amounts of the stuff. Having said that, though, I do want to put in a good word for fear. Now and then, it keeps us from doing stupid things. It prods us to be wiser and act with more integrity. It forces us to see the truth when we might prefer to wallow in delusion. Now is one of those times for you, Aries. Thank your fear for helping to wake you up. Aries
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings,” wrote W.H. Auden. If that’s true, then your job is to be a poet right now. You seem to be awash in a hubbub of paradoxical inclinations, complete with conflicting desires and mismatched truths. There’s no shame or blame in that. But you do have a responsibility to communicate your complexity with honesty and precision. If you can manage that, people will treat you with affection and give you extra slack. They might even thank you. Taurus
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): What can you do to improve your flow? Are there obstructions in your environment that keep you from having a more fluidic rhythm? Do you harbor negative beliefs that make it harder for life to bestow its natural blessings on you? Now is the time to take care of glitches like these, Gemini. You have more power than usual to eliminate constrictions and dissolve fixations. Your intuition will be strong when you use it to drum up graceful luck for your personal use. Be aggressive. Be bold. Be lyrical. It’s high time for you to slip into a smooth groove. Gemini
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the beginning of his novel The White Castle, Orhan Pamuk offers this meditation: “To imagine that a person who intrigues us has access to a way of life unknown and all the more attractive for its mystery, to believe that we will begin to live only through the love of that person—what else is this but the birth of great passion?” How do you respond to this provocative statement, Cancerian? Here are my thoughts: On the one hand, maybe it’s not healthy for you to fantasize that a special someone can give you what you can’t give yourself. On the other hand, believing this is true may inspire you to take an intriguing risk that would catalyze invigorating transformations. Which is it? Now is a good time to ruminate on these matters. Cancer
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Canadians Tommy Larkin and
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Stephen Goosney are biological brothers, but they were adopted by different families when they were young. They lost touch for almost 30 years. Once they began looking for each other, it didn’t take long to be reunited. Nor did they have to travel far to celebrate. It turns out that they were living across the street from each other in the same small town in Newfoundland. I foresee a metaphorically similar experience in your future, Leo. When you get reconnected to your past, you will find that it has been closer than you realized. Leo
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): This will be an excellent week for you to talk with yourself -- or rather, with yourselves. I’m envisioning in-depth conversations between your inner saint and your inner evil twin . . . between the hard worker and the lover of creature comforts . . . between the eager-to-please servant of the greater good and the self-sufficient smartie who’s dedicated to personal success. I think that in at least some of these confabs, you should speak every word out loud. You should gesture with your hands and express colorful body language. It’s prime time for your different sub-personalities to get to know each other better. Virgo
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the coming week you will
probably have more luck than usual if you play keno, craps, blackjack, bingo, or roulette. People who owe you money will be inclined to pay you back, so you might want to give them a nudge. I won’t be surprised if you find a $20 bill lying on the sidewalk or if a store cashier accidentally gives you way too much change. In the wake of these tendencies, your main assignment is to be alert for opportunities to increase your cash flow. For example, if you wake up in the middle of the night with an idea for boosting your financial fortunes, I hope you will have a pen and notebook by the bed to write it down. Libra
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Not for all the whiskey in
heaven,” begins a poem by Charles Bernstein. “Not for all the flies in Vermont. Not for all the tears in the basement. Not for a million trips to Mars. Not for all the fire in hell. Not for all the blue in the sky.” Can you guess what he’s driving at? Those are the things he will gladly do without in order to serve his passion. “No, never, I’ll never stop loving you,” he concludes. According to my understanding of your astrological cycle, Scorpio, now is a good time for you to make a comparable pledge. What is the one passion you promise to devote yourself to above all others? And what are you willing to live without in order to focus on that passion? Be extravagant, pure, wild, and explicit. Scorpio
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Dmitri Razumikhin is a
character in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment. His surname is derived from the Russian word for “reason.” At one point he makes a drunken speech that includes these observations: “It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! Not one single truth has ever been arrived at without people first having talked a dozen reams of nonsense, even ten dozen reams of it.” Let’s make this a centerpiece of your current strategy, Sagittarius. Just assume that in order to ferret out the core insights that will fuel your next transformations, you may need to speak and hear a lot of babble. Sagittarius
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): At the 2013 Grammy
Awards, actor Neil Patrick Harris introduced the band Fun this way: “As legendary gangster rap icon Katharine Hepburn once said, if you follow all the rules, you miss all the fun.” Everything about that vignette is a template for the approach you can use now with great success. You should gravitate toward festive events and convivial gatherings. Whenever possible, you should sponsor, activate, and pave the way for fun. Toward that end, it’s totally permissible for you to tell amusing stories that aren’t exactly factual and that bend the rules not quite to the breaking point. Capricorn
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Some spiritual traditions regard the ego as a bad thing. They imply it’s the source of suffering -- a chronically infected pustule that must be regularly lanced and drained. I understand this argument. The ego has probably been the single most destructive force in the history of civilization. But I also think it’s our sacred duty to redeem and rehabilitate it. After all, we often need our egos in order to get important things done. Our egos give us the confidence to push through difficulties. They motivate us to work hard to achieve our dreams. Your assignment, Aquarius, is to beautify your ego as you strengthen it. Build your selfesteem without stirring up arrogance. Love yourself brilliantly, not neurotically. Express your talents in ways that stimulate others to express their talents. Aquarius
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Dr. Seuss wrote his children’s books in English, but he liked to stretch the limits of his native tongue. “You’ll be surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond ‘Z’ and start poking around,” he said. One of the extra letters he found out there was “yuzz,” which he used to spell the made-up word “yuzz-a-ma-tuzz.” I recommend that you take after Seuss -- not only in the way you speak, but also in the ways you work, play, love, dream, and seek adventure. It’s time to explore the territory beyond your comfort zone. Pisces
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