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SOUL FOOD IN THE CIRCLE CITY

When it comes to this style of comfort chow, Indy’s got some places that shatter stereotypes. By Ed Wenck

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The first female owner of a Negro Leagues baseball team was buried in Crown Hill in an unmarked grave – now she’s got a headstone.

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Although he campaigned as a change rnie Banks, better known as Mr. Cub, agent, it turns out the change Obama the most celebrated ballplayer in the believed in was really just a hope the history of an otherwise benighted powers-that-be might find something team, has been awarded a Presidential like an ethical bone in their institutional Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian bodies. Obama, after all, sold himself as honor our country can bestow. proof positive the system worked; how President Barack Obama draped the else to explain his meteoric ascent? medal round Ernie’s neck. It seemed So he trusted the insurance compalike the only thing Obama’s gotten nies to do the right thing … right in weeks.

But this is nothing new. Obama is the Debacle is too kind a word for describsame president whose idea of a major ing the mess Obama’s made of what was statement on climate change is to say we supposed to be his “signature” piece of legislation. While it is far too early to pass judgment on the Affordable Care Act Obama, after all, sold himself as (ACA) — the website will be proof positive the system worked. better someday, risks to user security will be fixed, and so on — what this sorry episode has finally revealed about the president’s can find “market solutions” to tackle a so-called “management style” has been problem that, to a great extent, has been nothing short of damning. caused by our market-driven addictions.

For those of us who voted for the guy, What makes Obama’s failure even who have rooted for him, and been outworse is that there appears to be no raged and ashamed by the unabashed rational political alternative to him. hatred he has inspired in so many of our The situation is ripe for a Republican fellow citizens, this has been a gut punch. proposal that might fix our busted If, like me, you’ve been confounded health care system, but all Republicans by seeing just how hard any kind of prohave offered is the certifiably delugressive change has been to come by for sional notion that America already has the past five years, the ACA train wreck (in the words of House Speaker John has been not just bad news, but a disilBoehner) “the best health care delivery lusioning revelation. system in the world.”

Hindsight, as they say, is 20-20, but The ACA mess some us have feared something like this will keep cyncould happen since early 2009, when ics and knowwe learned Obama had taken a single nothings in payer, Medicare-For-Everyone option talking points off the table. This meant that instead about governof health care reform, we were going to ment ineptitude get a system aimed at protecting profits for months, if not for insurers and pharma companies. years. But thinking Instead of reining in the most costly the problem is that health care arrangement in the world, simple is like the government would make it “affordexpecting the able” through subsidies that amounted Cubs to win to payoffs to keep the country’s indusnext year’s the trial-health care complex living in the World Series. n style to which it’s been accustomed.

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WHAT HAPPENED? The danger of ambiguity Indiana’s public access counselor said Monday that the State Board of Education did not violate the law when 10 of its members sent a letter to legislative leaders without meeting in public to do so. But Public Access Counselor Luke Britt also warned in an advisory opinion that “final decisions are mean to be open and transparent” and urged the board and agencies to be careful about following the spirit of the state’s Open Door Law. “I encourage all public agencies to be especially attentive to the purpose of public access laws to avoid ambiguous situations and arousing suspicions of prohibited activities,” Britt wrote. “Regardless of the intent, the appearance of action taken which is hidden from public view is particularly damaging to the integrity of a public agency and contrary to the purposes of transparency and open access.”

State Auditor Sawyer resigns State Auditor Dwayne Sawyer has resigned - just three months after he accepted the position - saying that due to “family and personal concerns” it would be best for him to step down. Pence named Sawyer to the post in August after a long search that included interviews with more than a dozen candidates. The appointment made Sawyer - formerly the president of the Brownsburg Town Council - the first black Republican to serve in a statewide office. Now, Pence will be tasked with finding a new person to fill the position, which had been held by Republican Tim Berry until he left the job to become chairman of the Indiana Republican Party.

Counter the cold The Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention on Thursday emphasized an “urgent request for public donations of warm clothing and other supplies to help individuals experiencing homelessness.”

Donations for the 20132014 Winter Relief for the Homeless will be accepted between 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Wheeler Mission, 245 N. Delaware St. Donated supplies will be shared with several homeless outreach partners, including the Homeless Initiative Program, HVAF of Indiana, Inc., Horizon House, Midtown Mental Health Homeless Resource Team, Outreach Inc., The PourHouse, Inc., and SORRT. To arrange a specific time for deliver, call 636-2720.

CHIP notes that from 1996-2002, 487 people have died while experiencing homelessness. This year, more than 40 people have joined that list. Their memories will be honored at 11 a.m. on Dec. 20, at Christ Church Cathedral, 125 Monument Circle.

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GREEN LIGHT FOR MASS TRANSIT FUNDING PLAN Legislation still must run General Assembly gauntlet

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legislative panel on Thursday endorsed a Central Indiana mass transit funding plan that could mean a tax increase for residents and businesses and require approval from local officials and voters.

The Central Indiana Transit Study Committee voted 12-1 for a proposal that its chairwoman — Sen. Patricia Miller, R-Indianapolis — called a “concept” rather than legislation. It would allow counties to impose a tax on corporations and a local income tax on residents but would also require that fares paid by bus riders fund at least a quarter of the system’s operating costs.

The proposal does not address what kind of mass transit system could be developed.

“We’re trying to leave the decisions to local government,” Miller said. “The vast majority of the people on the committee felt that we would not dictate to local units of government, that we would give them the wherewithal to make their decisions and leave it to local governments to design their plans.”

Miller said the proposal would be fleshed out before the 2014 session, when she and Sen. Brent Waltz, R-Greenwood, will introduce it as a bill.

Ron Gifford, executive director of Indy Connect Now, a coalition pushing for expanded mass transit in Central Indiana, called the proposal a “very constructive framework” for starting the legislative process.

He said it is somewhat similar to a proposal approved earlier this year by the Indiana House.

The Senate amended that bill to order a study of the issue in advance of the 2014 session.

“There are a few new ideas we have to look at, but overall it continues to move the conversation forward in a very positive way,” Gifford said. “This is a good proposal to get us started.”

Originally, advocates proposed a $1.3 billion mass transit expansion plan that would have included more buses, more routes and a light rail line between downtown Indianapolis and Hamilton County. The latter had been particularly controversial and discussion has since moved away from the rail proposal, focusing instead on express buses.

As approved on Thursday, the plan would give local officials in five counties — Marion, Hamilton, Johnson, Madison and Delaware — the authority to develop plans and ask voters for permission to

raise taxes through referendums.

Those options include an increase in the County Economic Development Income Tax and a business tax that would be imposed as a corporate income tax or a county employment tax, which is essentially a fee charged based on the number of a company’s employees. The business taxes would impact only those firms organized as so-called C corporations, not on partnerships or sole proprietorships.

Those corporate taxes could make up no more than 10 percent of the total operating costs of the system. And fares or other ridership fees would have to make up at least 25 percent of the spending.

Sen. Luke Kenley, a Noblesville Republican who heads the Senate Appropriations Committee, said the mix of taxes is meant to capture income from those who had been advocating “We’re trying to leave the proposal. the decisions to local government.”

That includes a number of Central — STATE SENATOR Indiana busiPATRICIA MILLER, R-INDIANAPOLIS ness officials who testified that their employees need better ways to get to work and that an expanded mass transit system would bolster economic development.

“We thought there ought to be some shared ownership in terms of paying for the system,” Kenley said.

“It’s always fun to talk about something new; it’s a lot harder to come up with how to pay for it.”

The lone vote against the plan came from Rep. Mike Speedy, R-Indianapolis, who said he was concerned about the message that a tax increase on businesses would send.

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RETHINKING NATIVE AMERICAN IDENTITY

Perspectives on identity and self-expression from young Native Americans

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On a Friday night in a small, packed theater at the Eiteljorg Museum, The 1491s, a comedy troupe featuring four Native American men in their 20s and 30s, satirized some of the worst stereotypes about American Indians.

The performance included an animated short produced in collaboration with ITVS for a new short film called Injunuity, which airs on PBS stations this month. An Indian baby covered in Band-Aids sits on littered ground on a reservation. Another baby is tossed out onto the lawn. “I’m feeling tipsy, man,” he tells the first baby. “I’m supposed to be on the bottle; my mom’s been on the bottle the whole time, man.” “You’ll be OK, just crawl it off,” says the BandAid-covered baby, who then shares his shame over being beat up by a feral dog while fighting over a piece of meat.

“That’s what’s wrong with our people, we gotta take back what’s ours,” the second baby says. And they head off to confront the dog.

The video is not a commentary on the poverty and dysfunction of reservation life; it is about identity, says The 1491s’ Migizi Pensoneau, who wrote the script.

“What they’re actually just talking about is ‘I don’t know who I am, and I wanna figure that out. Let’s go get my food back.’... All these people are lost, and they have no idea who they are.”

The 1491s credit the generation that founded the American Indian Movement in the 1970s for opening up the space that now exists for them to explore Native identities through satire.

“In my opinion, that generation, the generation that came right before us, they are the remainder of an equation that was since 1492,” says troupe member Ryan Red Corn. “That generation is the one that got backed so far into the corner that they became that hard-lined; that environment structured their entire social outlook. And the only thing they knew how to do was to fight back and lash back and burn things down. But for better or worse they cleared out a lot of space so

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myth that women are considered infethat we don’t have to be like that.”

“What’s the next step once you’re done rior to men in Native societies. On the contrary, she wrote, Native cultures yelling? Once you’re done bein’ mad?” are matriarchal. Among her people, asks Pensoneau. “I think our time is spent answering that question. Now that the Apache, she’s quick to point out, the generation before us is like, ‘We’re woman warrior Lozen fought the U.S. humans and we have a voice!’ We’re the army alongside her brother Victorio in next generation and we’re like, ‘What’s the 1870s and 1880s. that voice sound like?’ And unfortunately “Once I have... educated you, you no it’s irreverent and ridiculous with us.”

Native people still have to counter the perception “What’s the next step once you’re that they are a people of done yelling?” the past, said Carolina Castoreno, president of — RYAN RED CORN, COMEDIAN, THE 1491s IUPUI’s Native American Student Alliance. She told a story: One day her 9-year-old son came home from school longer have the excuse of saying ‘I don’t in tears. A classmate refused to pass him know,’” Castoreno says. the ball in a soccer game. The boy said While Castoreno and the 1491s are he wouldn’t pass Carolina’s son the ball creating a virtual space for young Native because “You’re Indian, and Indians Americans, Canadian indigenous DJ don’t exist anymore.” trio A Tribe Called Red is in the busiCastoreno is a member of the ness of creating a physical one in their American Indian Movement, and home city of Ottawa, Ontario, and while she does participate in protests, across North America. They headlined her focus is on education. “What I’ve the Eiteljorg’s Contemporary Arts Party been doing every day during Native earlier this month, mixing Native singAmerican Heritage Month [November] ing and drumming with hip-hop, reggae, is posting a ‘myth versus fact’ on my and dub-stepped influenced electronic Facebook wall so that all of my friends music. They host a monthly party in can see. And I make it public so that Ottawa, the “Electric Powwow,” and they can share with their friends, and I this year released their second album, have complete strangers inboxing me Nation II Nation. telling me thank you so much for setCastoreno says she hopes to bring A ting that straight.”

Tribe Called Red and the 1491s back to In a recent post, she took on the Indy next year — this time to IUPUI. n

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ames Jones is pretty sure that what you think you know about soul food is all wrong.

“Soul food gets a bad rep,” says Jones, the owner of His Place Eatery.

“You know, when people think of soul food they always say it’s fried food, it’s not good for you, it’s not healthy. But truthfully, soul food is one of the rare forms of cooking in a restaurant that, for all intents and purposes, is still from scratch, which means that there’s a lot less additives and preservatives and things like that in the food.”

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The name His Place, opened in 2009, refers to Jones’ faith.

There are inspirational quotes painted on one wall of the modest, homey structure that’s home to a menu of some of Indy’s most thoughtfully concocted takes on classic dishes, but Jones doesn’t attempt to evangelize when it comes to his Christianity.

Food? Well, food’s a different story.

Jones, a big, affable guy whose mood seems to range from “pleasant” to “really, really pleasant” points out with a preacher’s conviction that a customer ordering food in a place like his can count on knowing exactly what’s in every dish.

Mashed potatoes, for example: “We clean them, cook them, mash them, a little bit of salt, a little bit of butter, a little bit of cream and that’s it. So you know every single ingredient that’s in there. And we’re not making them and holding them on a shelf and putting preservatives in them for months at a time, or bringing them out of a can or out of a box.”

There’s another thing that annoys Jones — stereotyping.

“I think there’s a lack of understanding of what soul food is,” says Jones. “A lot of people combine soul food with Caribbean food, or with all types of other cuisines that aren’t necessarily soul food.” James seems a little miffed by the notion that the perception of soul food is limited to either an overcooked plate of heaping greens and greasy chicken or a bucket of over-spiced gumbo.

Donniece Owens, a co-owner and the kitchen manager of Maxine’s Chicken and Waffles, agrees with Jones: “You got your greens, your black-eyed peas, green beans, corn. [That stuff is] not just soul food. It’s just vegetables that we cook.”

Cynthia Wilson, one of the owners of Kountry Kitchen, a fixture at 19th and College Avenue, says that people are constantly asking her to “define” soul food. “It’s Southern cooking,” says Cynthia. “The collard greens, pinto beans, fried chicken ... our grandmothers from the South were on a shoestring budget, growing their own vegetables, raising their own chickens.” For Cynthia, it’s not about the food so much as the process: “soul food” is the original farm-to-fork concept. Raise the chicken, slaughter the chicken, spice the chicken, fry the chicken — all at the

same address. Even though some of those steps are no longer practical in a restaurant setting, it’s still the methodology of making sure every phase is carefully managed that puts the “soul” in “soul food.”

For all of these cooks, when they’re making soul food, they’re not just heating up sides alongside a plate of rib-tips – they’re spicing and simmering and smoking, spinning new takes on recipes that have been handed down over generations.

There’s another stereotype that needs to be addressed: for those that haven’t visited, soul food places aren’t frequented by a single race alone. This is food that’s designed to appeal to everybody, regardless of pigment. There’s a rainbow of faces crowding these eateries at lunch hour.

Jones and his wife Shawn Marie, who’ve taken His Place from a failing soup kitchen to a bustling eatery at 30th and Shadeland, have cemented the restaurant’s rep as a stop both for blue collar workers on their lunch breaks and big families looking for Sunday dinner after church. “We really enjoy the fact that the customer base is diverse,” says Jones.

“And actually when we first set out to open one of the things we came up with is that good food is universal.”

The roots of the recipes Soul food, the roots of soul food, originates from during the slave times when the slaves were given just the scraps to cook with. They were given all the leftover foods and vegetables to prepare their own meals with. And what had happened is through creativity and resources that they kind of mended together themselves they were able to come up with food that all of a sudden the slave masters wanted; the food that they were fixing for themselves. So ... you have the slave moving into the master’s homes to prepare meals the way that they were prepared for [the slaves’] families. And with that soul food was born. And that’s why soul food is synonymous with the South, because of those roots.

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Everything about Maxine’s Chicken and Waffles seems to shatter stereotypes — even the location. Their bright, gleaming Downtown restaurant is, in fact, next to a gas station. “It’s funny that people identify the restaurant by saying it’s connected to a gas station but [people] walk in and say ‘It doesn’t look anything like we thought it was going to look’!” says Marlene GriffinBunnell, whose husband Darrell is the CEO of Maxine’s parent company.

The “Maxine” in the restaurant’s name refers to Maxine Redmon, who met a gent named Ollie Bunnell in 1939. They married, and the couple settled on the Southside of Indy. Maxine cooked at St. Francis Hospital for three decades while her husband Ollie toiled away at Chrysler. Maxine, charged with raising 10 kids in a four-room home, found ways to stretch the family food budget and keep things tasty. Her daughters, including Donniece, learned how to cook by watching Mom, and the girls soon began creating the recipes that would be the basis for Maxine’s menu.

Isaac Wilson’s family has owned Kountry Kitchen for roughly 25 years, according to Wilson’s wife Cynthia. Although different family members have had control of the operation throughout its history, the tastes have remained consistent. “We try to keep the recipes as stable as possible,” Cynthia says. “When the restaurant was handed from family member to family member … we learned the recipes. They were family recipes that were handed down.”

While those traditional recipes are important — and instrumental in generating repeat customers — the Wilsons weren’t afraid to fix what wasn’t working. “We modified the fried chicken,” laughs Cynthia.

“We sell a ton of fried chicken now.”

James Jones, who admittedly didn’t pick up a spatula until the age of 27, evolved his takes on soul food in culinary school. While working as a radio salesperson for Emmis Communications, Jones was spending his evenings studying the culinary arts at Ivy Tech. Jones says, “The very first class I had, the chef told us that in every class we’d have a project due, and if we kept the same idea through the entire course of culinary school then by the time we finished we’d have a full business plan. I came up with the idea of doing a soul food restaurant, sort of a soul food restaurant with a chef’s hat on it.”

Jones’ concept: pay attention to every ingredient, craft the whole with the utmost care and find new spins on traditional food when warranted. Jones says, “One of the stories that people like to tell is about their mom or their aunt cooking in the kitchen. She would go in, and there is no recipe, there’s just a little bit of this and a little bit of that.

And if you asked them how to cook it, they couldn’t tell you but they could show you.”

Jones set about perfecting those recipes, creating the “cookbook” for his menu, and executing every dish consistently.

Jones wasn’t afraid to run recipes by the toughest possible critics: the family members he’d learned from. “I went and sat down with my wife’s grandmother before she passed away and she made the best chicken and dumplings that I’ve ever had. I usually don’t like chicken and dumplings at all.” Jones convinced Shawn Marie’s grandma to share her recipe, and it took Jones multiple attempts to replicate the dish before he put it on the menu. “Eventually she finally gave us the approval,” says Jones,

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A soul food restaurant is the ultimate mom-and-pop shop.

Cynthia Wilson, who left Ford Motor Company for the restaurant business after husband Isaac retired from Ford and asked her to join him, laments: “People say 24/7? It could be 48/7 if there were that many hours in a day.

“You have to be willing to work with your employees, you have to be willing to work with the public and you have to be willing to sacrifice. We have a lot of our customers asking (me and Isaac) ‘Do you all ever take vacations?’ “ The true key to success for a soul food joint? Longevity. These aren’t flash-in-the-pan, trendy places, but restaurants that build on a returning customer base that brings in new diners by word of mouth. Jones says, “A lot of our customers are really family. I tell my customers all the time that if you really enjoy the food just tell other people about us …We have lots of customers that send their friends and family, and when they have friends and family come out of town they make it a point to bring them over here.”

Word of mouth marketing has been critical for Kountry Kitchen over the decades, as has the star power of some of its clientele: the website documents visits from the

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KOUNTRY KITCHEN: Two of the recipes that Cynthia and Isaac Wilson have modified since taking over the restaurant are the fried chicken and the meatloaf.

Kountry Kitchen’s sandwich board is extensive, but if you’re planning on feeding anywhere from eight to 25 people, check out their “Family-Style” menu.

MAXINE’S CHICKEN & WAFFLES: Ok, this seems obvious, but the folks behind the scenes all have their own individual preferred dishes beyond what’s advertised on the shingle. For Donniece Owens, it’s pan-fried chicken; for Marlene Griffin-Bunnell it’s fried catfish, and for Jeffrey Owens, it’s the ultimate comfort food, “mac and cheese. See, these are dishes I was raised on as a kid.”

HIS PLACE EATERY: James Jones keeps individual slices of meatloaf moist by sautéing each cut when it’s ordered. If you order ribs or tips, you’re in for a real treat: Jones has concocted a rub that, coupled with a slow-smoking process, makes for a dish so tasty the mopping sauce is served on the side. Says Jones, “You can eat them just like they are out of the smoker and they taste really good.”

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HIS PLACE EATERY, 6916 E. 30th St., 545-4890, hisplaceeatery.com KOUNTRY KITCHEN, 1831 N. College Ave., 926-4476, kountrykitchenindy.com MAXINE’S CHICKEN & WAFFLES, 132 N. East St., 423-3300, maxineschicken.com

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The namesake (top) and the four family members & co-owners.

likes of Tony Dungy, Eric Gordon and even Barack Obama. Jones has had some celebs drop in, too: former Colts Coach Jim Caldwell, Greg Oden and other sports notables, but “we don’t have pictures up with famous people up everywhere,” says Jones. “That’s just kind of our approach, just come in and enjoy it.”

Jeffrey Owens, one of Maxine’s owners, says, “None of us has ever been affiliated with restaurants.

It’s a lucrative business, but it’s a hard business too.” Additionally, the family concedes that draping a Belgian waffle with three big fried chicken wings isn’t exactly a traditional “soul food” dish, but, according to Jeffrey, “You got to have a niche. You know, because anybody can open a restaurant, but you’ve got to have a niche.”

Beyond that niche, another key to Maxine’s success is their business model: operate the place debt-free. Says Donniece, “The financing basically came from the four owners putting in their own dollars and putting in their blood, sweat and tears into the business.

And our basic concepts were pay your bills as you go and don’t go borrow any money.”

So after five years, does Marlene feel like Maxine’s is “out of the woods”?

“Oh, we still don’t know if we’re out of the woods yet. The first year was lots of surprises.

Two owners were still working and two of the owners were retired. The idea of what it was going to take was a complete surprise. But what really surprised us was the food critics came out really early, and they wrote articles about us.”

Those articles were positive, and it helped Maxine’s catch on with a Downtown lunch crowd looking for something beyond a submarine sandwich.

For Kountry Kitchen, consistent quality over two decades is the ticket to success. Jones has a different take on what keeps people coming back to His Place.

“When you go through our menu I want you to taste something and fall in love with it and come back next time and fight yourself and say, ‘I really want the meatloaf I had last time but, man, that catfish sounds good.’

“I want to make every dish so good we kind of have to force customers to try something else.” n

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noting that now it’s one of their most sought-after items.

Shawn Marie, though, is probably Jones’ biggest critic — Jones’ wife knows exactly how the recipes should taste. “I can spend months researching and testing out different recipes,” says James.

“And then finally when I present them to Shawn Marie and she’ll try it and she’s like ‘Nahhhh.’

She has the annoying talent of remembering exactly how something is supposed to taste.”

Maxine’s owners faced a different challenge: keeping the recipes consistent as the number of diners have gone from a single family to hundreds of people. Owens says, “[When] we first originally opened up we had a chef come in and help us as far as making bulk meals.

Originally we [could] do singles, but he came in and actually did our recipes for bulk meals.”

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REVIEW ENERGY: OVERDEVELOPMENT AND THE DELUSION OF ENDLESS GROWTH NUMEROUS AUTHORS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS The Post Carbon Institute; 2012; $50 w My first reaction to this book was one of alarm.

Here we are, the conscious ones, assessing every CO2 molecule that emits from our tailpipes and smokestacks, counting every mile our food travels, worrying over every aspect of our consumption, and there’s this massive book, ostensibly an eco-advocacy book, with the carbon footprint of a pickup truck fueled by Koch brother bile.

More or less.

So I opened it and eyed and read and understood.

A problem as enormous as the climate disruption we face must be met head on with a book large enough to crack a magnate over the head to wake him up. It’s a book that shouts LISTEN and LOOK: I am the testament to humanity’s pillage of planet earth. I am a book big enough to drive a wedge into the predominant paradigm of growth-is-good and growth-at-any-cost.

A partnership between the Post Carbon Institute and the Foundation for Deep Ecology, ENERGY was published late 2012. It features essays by more than thirty eco-leaders, including Wes Jackson, Wendell Berry, Bill McKibben and Sandra Steingrabber on subjects spanning consumerism, energy, society and ecology.

But what makes this book stand out is its over 150 color photographs of mountain top removal, fracking and oil-covered birds.

ENERGY is a great holiday gift for those who are trying to think outside the consumer box. It’s a monster, unflinching and bold, because it has to be.

Jim Poyser is the Executive Director of Earth Charter Indiana, and he’s been giving away copies of the above-reviewed book to schools he visits.

EVENT Tuesday Evening Author Series in Irvington featuring Edward Kelsey Moore The Irvington Branch of the Indianapolis Public Library is running a five-week program that offers a chat with local authors, plus sales and signings courtesy of Bookmamas Book Shop. Next up: Edward Kelsey Moore, who penned The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat, a book NUVO’s DanGrossman described as “Seemingly designed for the Oprah’s Book Club set (with its slick but folksy cover) … Think of the book as Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café meets The Color Purple meets One Hundred Years of Solitude.”

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really hadn’t intended to write a book,” says author Daly Walker, sitting beneath a skylight in the library of the Indianapolis Arts Center.

The room is awash with an early evening glow, and Walker, along with his partner, the painter Toni Wolcott, is preparing to give a reading from the book they collaborated on, Little Creek: Finding Elemental Life in Brown County.

Little Creek is a collection of linked essays tracing Walker’s personal trajectory following his retirement as a practicing surgeon and the breakup of a long-standing marriage.

Walker, who was also a published writer by this time, began the process of putting his life back together by moving from Columbus, Ind., to an island off the Gulf coast of Florida. There he met Wolcott. The two became a couple and began the search for a retreat where they could write and paint together.

That search led to Brown County, and a roomy cabin and barn at the end of a back road. The couple took up residence there on a seasonal basis and, over the course of five years, created the prose and paintings that comprise Little Creek.

Each brief essay in this collection concerns itself with what Walker calls an element, or essential part, of the life he and Wolcott have made for themselves

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in this bucolic setting. Essays relate experiences touching on earth, air, water and fire, but then Walker expands this list to include pieces dealing with shelter, wood, stone and sound.

“It started as a journal,” he says. “I was writing these for myself, maybe to pass on to my kids.”

Walker began sharing the pieces with an Indianapolis writers’ circle, including Barbara Shoup, the head of the Indiana Writers’ Center, and Nancy Baxter, of Hawthorne Publishing. With their encouragement, he began the process of assembling his written reflections.

Meanwhile, Wolcott was creating oil paintings to accompany Walker’s writing.

“Daly’s the wordsmith,” Wolcott says of their collaboration. “We’re both in the same setting. We’re looking at the same things, listening to the same things, experiencing all the elements in the same way. So it was a natural progression.”

Walker calls Brown County his book’s “main character.”

He says the place’s beauty is not what sets it apart. “I think it’s more the Hoosier flavor — the neighbors, the ways people live and talk and act.”

Walker sees himself as participating in a long line of doctor/writers that includes Chekov, Walker Percy and William Carlos Williams. “The power of observation is so central to both disciplines,” he says.

“Physicians are trained observers and I think that helps to write. The lifeblood of writing is the detail; I think I was welltrained in observing details.”

Little Creek closes with the coming of winter, when the house becomes practically inaccessible. As in the book, Walker and Wolcott are now going through the process of closing their cabin and heading south to Florida. As Walker writes: “I wanted to build a fire in the stove, brew a pot of coffee, and settle onto the love seat with a book and flames to watch. But it was time to go. Life was moving on.” n

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HOLIDAY EVENTS White Christmas at Footlite Based on the Paramount Pictures film of the same name, written

by Norman Krasna, Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, this musical adaptation features 17 Irving Berlin songs. Step back in time into the showbiz careers of WWII vets Bob Wallace and Phil Davis, who follow a pair of singing sisters to their Christmas show at a lodge in Vermont.

Hilarity ensues, along with all the singing and dancing numbers your showtune-loving heart desires.

Hedback Community Theater, 1847 N. Alabama St., Nov. 22, 23, 24, 29, 30 and Dec. 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14 & 15; $10-20 Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol And it has begun. More than 200 years after Mr. Dickens first appeared on this Earth, his slightly corny but awfully affecting tale of Christmases past, present and future remains a go-to story during these holiday months. And it’s a longtime favorite of IRT audiences, featuring some of the city’s best talent.

Indiana Repertory Theatre, 140 W. Washington St., Nov. 23-Dec. 24 MICK FOLEY: “Tales from Wrestling Past” Look, just go listen to Mick Foley talk about wrestling. If you love wrestling, you’ll lose your mind. If you don’t like wrestling, trust us: you’ll thoroughly enjoy the show anyway.

The Valhalla Room, 215 S. Walnut St., Bloomington; Dec. 1, 8 p.m.; $20

REVIEW Chemical Peel e Motus Dance Theater celebrates a decade of dance by re-imagining pieces from their past. In doing so Motus pays homage to its ten year history while looking toward its future. The showcase offers diverse dance styles, thematically and technically, which demonstrate the varied talents of the company’s members.

The all female revue is refreshing, vibrant and inspiring for its ability to convey an ephemeral feeling through movement and music. Standout pieces include the violent and sensory “Displaced” from choreographer Ashley Benninghoff and the messy and whimsical “Type T” from choreographer Debra Silveus.

Though not dancing herself, executive director Heidi Keller-Phillips was on hand to introduce Motus’ latest campaign: a Kickstarter for a mobile dance stage. As the company continues to search for space in which to practice and perform, Chemical Peel makes it clear that these dancers have found a home in the Indy arts community.

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DANCING FOR HUMANITY

Indy photographer Freddie Kelvin heads to Israel to document Holocaust ballet

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reddie Kelvin is all about seizing the day, particularly with cameras in tow. Neither timidity nor temerity deters his reasoning. On short notice, he flew this September to Israel, specifically Akko (or Acre). Kelvin, who often photographs DK and Indianapolis School of Ballet performances, describes Akko as “an ancient city of great beauty on the coast of northern Israel in the Western Galilee, with an essentially peaceful mixed Jewish and Arab population.”

The enticement was documenting Ballet Austin’s first international performance of their widely lauded ballet, Light/ The Holocaust and Humanity Project.

Other performances took place later in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, “ironically, in the auditorium for the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann,” Kelvin notes.

Kelvin says he first heard about the performances during a 2012 steering meeting between the Jewish Federations of North America and Israel’s Western Galilee. After that, “There was no hesitation in my mind that I would go to Akko,” he says.

Ballet Austin’s choreographer and artistic director Stephen Mills created the ballet in response to the 9/11 terror attacks.

It’s based not on the stories of 9/11 survivors but on that of Naomi Warren, who survived three concentration camps but lost most of her family in World War II. Premiered in 2005, the ballet is part of a community-wide project in which awareness of the Holocaust and all manifestations of intolerance and hatred are discussed. It is performed only in communities willing to embrace open discourse along such lines. Neither Mills nor any of the dancers are Jewish.

Kelvin was enlisted to document all Ballet Austin activities in the Western Galilee, alongside Israeli photographer Yochanan Kishon.

Photographs by Kishon and Kelvin will be exhibited in Israeli communities by Partnership, and will be used by Ballet Austin and the Akko Festival for promotional and marketing purposes.

Plans are being formulated for a possible exhibition in Indianapolis.

“The dancers all are hugely affected by

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the events they depict,” Kelvin reports.

“Akko audience members, many who in all likelihood had family members who suffered similar unimaginable circumstances, expressed the belief that today’s youth can access the issues of the Holocaust more readily through dance than by more traditional approaches.

“This was a learning experience for me; a wake-up call I didn’t anticipate.

Awareness and action countering all forms of discrimination and bigotry is a life-long commitment that I believe we should all make. If we do not, what hope remains for mankind?”

The ballet starts with the joy of the beginning of life and the development of families. This all changes as individuals become isolated from each other. For 12 searing minutes a deafening air-raid siren screeches as the startled dancers,

one by one, fall backwards into a dark void. This scene is unremittingly haunting. People are no longer individuals but property transported to camps and all too frequently to death. Only victims are shown in the ballet, never the perpetrators. The work concludes, as requested

by Naomi Warren, on a note of hope.

A daylong symposium on the Holocaust and related themes took place at the local college; during a panel discussion with Stephen Mills and Rami Beer, another Holocaust choreographer, Yochanan and I sat on either side of a very old lady. She scowled; I don’t think she wanted us there, waving our obscenely long cameras. Between photographing the panelists, I glanced at this lady’s left forearm, stamped with blue numbers that identified her as a Holocaust survivor. n

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FEAR AND LOATHING AT OPEN MIC NIGHT S

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ure, you know about Crackers and Morty’s, but how about the kind of underground or alternative open mics that can pop up anywhere? Coffee shops, an old church, dive bars, a high school. You might find yourself performing for four people at 11 o’clock on a Monday night. Maybe the host is drunk and carrying in a car door. Maybe everyone happens to be barefoot in said church and you have no idea why.

We’ll start things off with rising star DJ Dangler: “Open mics are such a vital part of comedy. Sure, a lot of them suck, and they should; but when things work, they’re amazing. Open mics are great.

And good comics make them better.

I can’t imagine a good scene without good open mics.”

Dangler’s on to something, and we’ll add that open mics provide stage time for regular people to get up for the first time. Or crazy people. Here’s Brent Terhune, who’s run Crackers’ open mic for four years: “A guy went on stage with clown makeup on, a football jersey and one of those Rasta hats with dreadlocks — but his jokes didn’t require that he was dressed that way. It was pure greatness.”

Terhune has plenty of good tips for the aspiring comic, all learned from experience or observation. Here’s one: If your joke requires break-away pants and a Speedo, it’s best to use it as your closer.

“I love the oddities that you’ll see at an open mic,” says Zan Auderferhide, a nationally touring comic who ran an open mic early in her career. “Such creativity, such striving, such guts to get up there. I love them. Open mics are about art.”

“They are also like going to the gym, to work out a new joke and see if it can be developed into a killer joke,” she adds. “They are all about kicking back and people either making you die laughing because they are so crazy funny, or you laughing at your friend whose joke just died. It’s a good time.”

Kenneth Armstrong has a good story of open mic weirdness: “My favorite was when Josh Cocks was on stage at [Bloomington club] Max’s Place and a little boy, probably about ten years old, walked up on stage with a gas mask on, stood there for a couple of minutes then left. WTF.” By design, open mics give comics a chance to deal with a myriad of issues that bedevil any aspiring performer — PAs going out; mic poles slipping

FEELING ADVENTUROUS? Go watch a show or try standup at one of these local open mics: For the civilized: Every week, Tuesday night is Open Mic Night at the Broad Ripple location of one of the town’s heavy hitters, Crackers. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.; two drink minimum; call 255-4211 for reservations. Visit crackerscomedy.com for a coupon for free admission, and email crackersshowcase@gmail.com for a chance to get up on stage.

For the competitive: Morty’s Comedy Joint’s weekly Wednesday night open mic is actually a contest. Go to mortyscomedy.com, then click on the link for the Great Indiana Mic Off. The winner for the year receives $1000. Doors at 7 p.m.; show at 8 p.m.; $5 admission. It’s free to compete; call 848-500 for reservations.

For the punks: Otto’s Funhouse at The Melody Inn may be the longest running open mic in the history of the universe. Catch it at 9 p.m. on the third Monday of the month. It features blocks of live music alternating with comedy. No cover.

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Check out www.hoosiercomedy.com for updated info on open mics and comedy shows in Indy and beyond. lower and lower of its own accord; guys flipping out in front of the stage. Such moments test the mettle of any newbie.

Otto has hosted Otto’s Funhouse at the Melody Inn for over ten years: “True story: I was on stage describing my worst heckler and a guy yells out, ‘Has this ever happened?’ and he rushed the stage. When he got to me, I grabbed him and monkey flipped him over my head.

He landed on the dance floor, but went back to his table after that, and they all enjoyed the rest of the show.”

We’ll allow that you may see the same comics night after night during dry months. But if you stick with open mics, as either a performer or audience member, you’ll find yourself hearing highly original twisted thoughts and seeing homegrown absurdity you never imagined possible. It’s worth the effort. n

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OPENING Frozen It’s an animated tale in which love conquers all, set in a frozen kingdom with a talking snowman as comic relief. Disney decided to release this one in time for Thanksgiving. What were the odds on that?

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CONTINUING The Hunger Games: Catching Fire t The second film in the popular series has a long setup, but the more detailed look at the futuristic society that pits (mostly) young people against one another in deadly battle is consistently interesting. Game cowinners Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta (charisma-impaired Josh Hutcherson) are dragged back into the games again when the President (Donald Sutherland) and a game expert named Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman) concoct an all-former-winners version of the game to quell rebels who have been stirred to action by Katniss’ attitude. There’s too much fighting with weird stuff and animals instead of people, and the film ends with a cliffhanger, but as far as films like this go, this is entertaining.

PG-13, In wide release Blue is the Warmest Color e Ambitious, meticulous study of the romance between naive young Adele (Adele Exarchopoulos) and sophisticated artist Emma (Lea Seydoux), by director Abdellatif Kechiche, based on the graphic novel by Julie Maroh. The film, which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, clocks in at three hours, allowing plenty of time to examine the relationship between Adele and Emma. The sex is given ample time as well, and some may be startled by how graphic the goingson get. Blue is rich, nuanced, rewarding and very well acted — just be sure you’re not fatigued when you attend, and make a bathroom stop before the screening.

NC-17, At Keystone Art Delivery Man e Vince Vaughn’s character is refreshingly sincere, supporting actor Chris Pratt — so wonderful as Andy Dwyer on Parks and Recreation — is in fine form, and this comedy-drama has a good heart.

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PG, Open now in wide release and 3D Oldboy Indy’s favorite Knicks’ fan, Spike Lee, has knitted together a high-concept thriller about a man (Josh Brolin) imprisoned for 20 years for no clear reason.

Elizabeth Olsen co-stars and Samuel L. Jackson turns up with a dyed mohawk.

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oody Grant is an old coot with long, wispy white hair that shoots off in every direction. His nose hair is as thick as his beard (I worried whether it would cause him to have trouble breathing). Bruce Dern, best known for his starring turn in Silent Running and decades worth of supporting roles as eccentric characters, plays Woody with such nuance that it doesn’t even seem like acting. He expertly presents him as an ornery man likely touched by dementia.

They won’t let Woody drive anymore, so he leaves his home in Billings, Mont., to walk to Lincoln, Neb. Seems he received one of those Publishers Clearing House-type letters stating that he HAS WON A MILLION DOLLARS if he has the correct code number, and Woody intends to collect it. His outspoken wife, Kate (June Squibb), has repeatedly told him that the letter is phony, but he won’t listen. His sons David (SNL vet Will Forte), a stereo salesman whose live-in girlfriend just moved out, and Ross (Bob Odenkirk, Saul from Breaking Bad), an aspiring TV news anchor, argue over what to do with Dad. Mom and Ross want to put him in a nursing home.

David doesn’t, and eventually decides to take a few days off and drive Woody to Lincoln and clear up the millionaire thing once and for all.

Nebraska is a road trip movie directed

by Alexander Payne (The Descendants, Sideways, About Schmidt and Election) from a screenplay by Bob Nelson. Shot in black and white (gray and lighter gray, actually) to better accentuate the bleakness, the film is populated mostly by people who are vacuous, quietly miserable or insufferable. It’s a downbeat mix of comedy and drama that takes its own sweet time to get rolling. The focus is on Forte and Dern: David has always longed for approval from his dad and hopes the road trip will allow them to grow closer.

But Woody spends most of his time in silence, apparently off in his own world.

When he connects with our shared reality, his prime concern is his own agenda.

He appears to barely notice David.

As with most road movies, the jour-

Bruce Dern, left, and SNL’s Will Forte star as father and son on a roadtrip in Nebraska.

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ney is the destination, and a substantial stretch of the movie is set in Hawthorne, Neb., where the men make an unplanned stop in Woody’s hometown that turns into a reunion, with June and Ross coming to town to join the dour festivities.

We meet a number of Woody’s relatives, old friends, flames and acquaintances, including former business partner Ed Pegram (Stacy Keach) and ex-girlfriend Peg Nagy (Angela McEwan in a transcendent performance).

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tion. Then the gold diggers rear their heads. It builds, slowly, to a number of notable scenes that range from touching to comically absurd.

I didn’t laugh nearly as much as the majority of the audience at the screening. In addition to being distracted by Woody/Bruce’s alarming nose hair, I wondered if I would become addled one day (I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in January and dementia is not uncommon as the disease progresses.)

I also wondered whether Payne and Nelson’s parade of sad, angry, inane, lost and/or insufferable folks was an indictment of rural communities or humanity in general. When the goingson were at their sourest, I reminded myself that kind soul Peg Nagy was living a fulfilling life in the midst of it all.

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EVENTS IHSAA Football State Tournament Time for the finals at Lucas Oil Stadium — and no arguments about single-class matchups when it comes to the gridiron. Six games decide the 2013 high school champs in six classes over two days, and admission is a mere 15 bucks per day. Central Indiana’s well represented, with Brebeuf, Cathedral, Cardinal Ritter and Westfield all making appearances; the tourney wraps with a Carmel vs. Warren Central matchup for the 6A title. Check ishaa.org for more info and game times.

Nov. 29 and 30, doors open daily at 11 a.m.

Pacers vs. Wizards The Pacers are contenders. Paul George is a legitimate All-Star.

Miami and Chicago should be nervous. And it’s not even Christmas yet. Catch the Blue and Yellow beat up on D.C. in Indy before they embark on a five-game road trip.

Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Nov. 29, 8 p.m.

IU vs. Purdue The Hoosier football squad isn’t good. Purdue is awful. None of that matters when pride is on the line — it’s the 89th Battle for the Old Oaken Bucket, Saturday at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington. In a preview of the game, Indiana’s website featured a typo in which the Boilers’ school was misspelled “Purude”. Them’s fightin’ words.

Nov. 30, 3:30 p.m.

Colts vs. Titans Horseshoe Nation is uneasy – the Colts have been playing some pretty rotten pigskin of late. Last Sunday’s utterly woeful performance in a 4011 drubbing by the Arizona Cardinals seemed to indicate that this club is missing more than just Reggie Wayne – they’ve got work to do in every aspect of their game. Luckily (pun intended) the next game is a home stand, Luck never loses back-to-back contests and the rest of the AFC South absolutely sucks.

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n 2006, the Baseball Hall of Fame’s Negro Leagues Committee selected Newark Eagles’ owner Effa Manley for induction into the hallowed hardball shrine.

The move made Manley — who is widely known in the community of Negro Leagues fans and historians as a precedent-setting, trailblazing, hardnosed woman in a man’s business — the first and so far only female elected to the Hall. From the mid-1930s to the late 1940s, states Manley’s entry on the Hall of Fame website, Manley used her position to push for African-American civil rights and racial equality.

But more than a decade before Manley piloted the Eagles, Olivia Taylor took over ownership of the Indianapolis ABCs after the sudden death of her husband, C.I. Taylor, a beloved pillar of the nascent Negro National League. The unfortunate happenstance made Taylor, not Manley, the first woman to own a top-level Negro Leagues team.

But while Manley received a plaque in Cooperstown, Taylor was buried in an

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The first female owner of a Negro Leagues team was buried in an unmarked grave in Indy – now she has a headstone

unmarked grave in Indianapolis’ Crown Hill Cemetery. Effa Manley has become a baseball legend; Olivia Taylor an overlooked, forgotten historical footnote, a fact symbolized by Taylor’s undignified final resting place.

“Olivia was a fearless woman, cut in the mold of Madame CJ Walker,” says Negro Leagues researcher Paul Debono, who authored a book about the history of the ABCs. “Olivia stepped into her widow's role after C.I.’s premature death … unafraid [of] the rowdy raucous world of black baseball. She stood her ground with the bosses of the Negro League including the big man, [Negro National League founder] Rube Foster.

“Olivia has been overlooked in local lore,” Debono adds. “Her role in local baseball history has been mostly unknown, underestimated and forgotten.”

But that injustice has just changed. The nationally known Negro Leagues Baseball Grave Marker Project, which has raised funds to place stones at the unmarked graves of dozens of Negro Leagues players, has placed a marker at Olivia Taylor’s final resting place. The development makes Taylor the first owner and first woman to benefit from the NLBGMP’s

tireless efforts, and, organizers hope, will set in motion the much deserved recognition Taylor has yet to receive.

The idea of honoring Taylor through the grave marker project was raised by the NLBGMP’s founder and director, Jeremy Krock, who says the entire process of placing a headstone — historical research, fundraising, and design and creation of the marker — usually takes about six months to a year or more and costs roughly $1,000. Donations are gathered through the grave marker project’s sponsoring partner, the Society for American Baseball Research.

“When we identify an unmarked grave, we work to confirm given name, confirm dates of birth and death, nickname and write a fitting inscription which we require to contain the phrase ‘Negro Leagues Baseball’,” Krock says. “[Taylor’s] was an overlooked marker.”

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The woman who would become a baseball trailblazer was born Olivia Harris in about 1884, the first child of James and Pollie Harris of Birmingham, Ala. It was in Birmingham where, in all likelihood, Olivia met Charles Isham

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Taylor, a South Carolina native and rising star in the black baseball community who founded and owned the Birmingham Giants team in 1904.

It’s unclear when exactly Olivia Harris married C.I. Taylor, but newspaper accounts peg the date around 1910.C.I. built the ABCs into a hardball powerhouse, after taking ownership in 1914 and in 1920 he helped Andrew “Rube” Foster found the Negro National League, the first sustained, long-term circuit of black baseball teams in history. At the time, the couple was living at 446 Indiana Ave. with their son and four lodgers, including ABCs pitcher William “Dizzy” Dismukes.

Olivia inherits the club In February 1922, C.I. died suddenly at the age of 47, thrusting Olivia into the role of team owner. Conflict between her and ABCs manager Ben Taylor, C.I.’s brother, began almost immediately, with Ben chafing at his sister-in-law’s ownership of his brother’s life passion.

Along with Ben, Olivia attended the annual NNL league meeting in December 1922 in Chicago; media reports listed Olivia as “Mrs. C.I. Taylor.”

She returned home to Birmingham for a visit a month or two later, and the 1923 baseball season seems to have more or less passed uneventfully.

It was before the 1924 season that Taylor’s troubles began, in the form of player dissent and the raiding of her squad’s roster by clubs in the eastern part of the country. She was accused of underpaying the squad’s members, and Taylor and Dismukes traded vitriolic, sarcastic letters to the editor in the national black press.

A spate of early-season rain damaged the ABCs’ financial status, forcing the cancellation of numerous games, and several players left the club. While Taylor was visiting family in Alabama, Dismukes attempted to piece together a decent team.

But even those efforts proved futile, and the whole operation came crashing

“Olivia was a fearless woman, cut in the mold of Madame CJ Walker.”

— NEGRO LEAGUES RESEARCHER PAUL DEBONO down later in June, when NNL officials booted the Indianapolis franchise from the league under the argument that the raiding of Taylor’s club by independent teams decimated the ABCs’ roster to the point that the franchise was putting a terrible product on the diamond.

Taylor and the ABCs were allowed to remain associate members of the league and could play exhibition games, but the tone of the league’s announcement was decidedly negative and tacitly suggested that Taylor had ruined C.I.’s great legacy.

In a statement, Taylor asserted the ABCs books were actually in quite good shape, contrary to the league’s claims. She accused Foster — without specifically mentioning his name — of being the ringleader of a cadre of NNL executives who targeted the ABCs for dismantling in order to snap up the franchise’s best players for their own teams. She additionally charged that Foster intentionally fudged the league’s financials to make the ABCs look bad.

“After all, the one big aim was to disorganize the club and prevent them from playing any more games this season,” Taylor’s statement claimed.

She then boldly charged Foster and his friends with betraying their own race for the sake of greed.

“The sooner it is realized that all Negroes will not ‘sell out’ for a morsel of bread the nearer we will come to getting what a thing is worth,” she said.

But Olivia Taylor’s three-year run as the owner of a top-level Negro Leagues team was over. While baseball pundits debated both the cause and significance of the ABCs’ demise, Taylor quietly faded from the big-time hardball scene.

After baseball Now, nearly 90 years later, it remains unclear whether Taylor was either a victim of sexist, jealous male businessmen or simply a paranoid, ill-equipped team

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owner who was in over her head. The he-said-she-said between her and Foster exists as a matter of perspective and personal opinion. What or who was the exact source of Taylors’s downfall will perhaps never be determined.

Fortunately, Taylor’s story doesn’t end there. As Debono noted in his book, her dealings in the baseball world earned her the respect of the Circle City’s AfricanAmerican business community; indeed, during her time as ABCs owner, she received letters of support from entities called the Better Indianapolis League and the Indianapolis Negro Business League.

And in 1925, she was elected president of the Indianapolis chapter of the NAACP. Taylor spearheaded the group’s preparation for hosting the national NAACP’s 18th annual spring conference in Indianapolis in June 1927. With that, she became the first woman to head up the influential and historic NAACP’s national convention.

On April 24, 1935, Taylor’s story came to an end when she died suddenly at the age of 50. Her death received scant attention in the national media.

Taylor was buried in the same plot in Crown Hill Cemetery as her husband.

Though the baseball community managed to raise funds for a headstone for C.I. in 1922, there was no such effort for his widow, who was interred in an unmarked grave.

The money for a proper burial might not have been available eight decades ago, but thanks to the NLBGMP’s efforts, it is now. With that, Taylor’s legacy in Indianapolis and the baseball world will start to open up to the public.

“Olivia emblemized the hard-working spirit of black women at that time,” Debono says. “She was smart and humble. I don't think Olivia really needed or expected the attention of the larger community, but apparently she had the respect of her peers.”n

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Brewing conversation The free seminar titled “So You Want to Open a Brewery” at Great Fermentations was oversubscribed within minutes of the online announcement by Financial Center Federal Credit Union.

An added session filled up, too.

Beer Buzz asked FCFCU vice president Annette Roy what attendees will gain since she admitted, “What we cover has very little to do with beer.”

Financial literacy, says Roy, is uppermost because a brewery is a business. People who “walk” through a feasibility study for opening a business gain an honest picture of what it takes to get started and stay in business. “A major reason for small business failure is the lack of cash because of the lack of planning,” Roy says.

The 70 would-be professional brewers at the Nov. 16 sessions heard from financial advisor Matt Stoops that it is one thing to have a passion for quality beer and another to have capital to brew, market and grow — the basic essentials leading to a viable income. Jim Schembre and Bob Mack from World Class Beer emphasized the importance of knowing why you want to open a brewery, the customer base you want to serve. They underscored “serve” because people coming back for your product is the way to success, which is based on consistent quality, being a good neighbor (“Craft brewers care about community”) and building your customer base through personalized service.

New to taste Thr3e Wise Men Buffalo Trace Bourbon Barrel Ale pours a shiny brown, wafts layers of aromas from vanilla to oak, and fills the mouth with multiple flavors.

RAM: Barrel-aged Olaf, Jr. the Bock, “imparts rich flavors of raisin and plum backed by oak, coconut and a touch of chocolate after nine months in a W.H. Harrison oak bourbon barrel,” says Chris Knott who just took over as head brewer from Andrew Castner, who is on his way to opening a new brewery. Ghost King IPA is returning.

Indiana City: Mimi’s Tabernacle Breakfast Stout; Harvest Gold Wet-Hopped American Wheat; Shadow Boxer Oatmeal Stout; Yacht Rock Belgian Wit; Beyond the Pale American Pale Ale are on tap.

Don’t miss Nov. 27: Cutters five-tap takeover at End of the Line Public House in Fountain Square including the Cutters/Union Brewing collaboration, Rye on the Scarecrow 2xRIPA. More at: imgur.com/RdpG9ug Nov. 27: BRBP is tapping Biscuit’s Brew California Common Ale; a collaboration between John Treeter and Sara Turner using her recipe. 6 p.m.

Nov. 29: Union Jack Pub - Broad Ripple: A tapping of 10-plus dark brews including Upland’s ubiquitous Teddy Bear Kisses. More at unionjackpub.co

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ou know INgredients Field to Fork Market is a different kind of store even before going in: The garden out back is the giveaway. Nestled next to the old drive-through lane of a former Taco Bell, several raised beds are still loaded with kale, beets, and arugula, all gleaming under the November sunshine.

Inside, you find an air of rustic comfort where fast food once reigned. Across from a table piled high with pie pumpkins and knobby gourds are wooden bins of kabocha squash and cabbages as big as your head. Behind the counter, the day’s menu is posted on panels made of reclaimed barn wood. Every shelf in the store boasts products from Indiana vendors — from potato chips to granola to barbecue sauce.

Co-proprietor Kevin Logan says, “We wanted the store to have a little bit of the old mercantile, old general store kind of feel.”

INgredients was conceived as a onestop, week-long farmers’ market, growing out of Logan’s and his partners’ twoyear-old farming enterprise, Abundant Harvest Farm. The beef and many of the vegetables featured on the menu come from Abundant Harvest.

Co-owner Tom Wiles says the farm ran afoul of anti-competitive clauses when seeking to sell at the largest farmers’ markets. Opening a store was the next logical step, and the idea of a commercial kitchen and lunchtime fare soon followed. “We were very interested in growing, producing, processing, and storing the foods,” he says. “And then we wanted to be able to

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train others to do that and to give them access to the wonderful foods we have.”

Logan is a holistic physician who knows firsthand food’s power to heal.

In his practice he daily counsels people toward nutrient-dense food — meaning local and chemical-free. Produce ripened to fullness and eaten soon after harvest is simply more nutritious than typical grocery store fare.

His wife and co-proprietor, Jacqueline Logan, would someday like to see customers picking tomatoes straight from the beds out back. “Just to give them that connection back to the land, knowing that they just got it today off the vine.”

In the meantime, chef Allison Godinez introduces guests’ palates to potentially unfamiliar foods in an accessible way: spaghetti squash carbonara, for example.

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arugula harvested just steps away from the kitchen. As much as 70 percent of the store’s produce comes from local sources, the closest being the onsite garden.

Catering to several dietary plans, from gluten-free to paleo to vegetarian/vegan, Godinez relishes the chance to get creative with seasonal abundance. The autumn menu features butternut squash, brussels sprouts, and kale in various tempting incarnations. Even the baked goods are made with healthy and local in mind — using eggs from an Amish farm and Traders Point milk. Juices, smoothies, and a daily agua fresca round out the offerings.

In keeping with Abundant Harvest Farm’s commitment to sustainable and organic principles, the shop carries produce, meats, and dairy from carefully vetted Indiana growers and producers.

“I spend a lot of time at (farmers’) markets,” says Logan. “Part of the reason I go to the market is to get good food, but the other part is to talk to the people who are growing it.” Realizing that many people don’t have the time to chat up farmers on Saturday mornings, Logan has done all the legwork. To give customers that sense of personal connection, farmers’ bios will be posted with their products. n

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I can’t say that I know Wayne Griffith, the ringleader of Indy rockers Machine Guns and Motorcycles. I vaguely recall meeting him once, but I don’t know him. But I know good shit when I hear it, and Welcome to the New Revolution, the new LP from Machine Guns and Motorcycles is some good shit. Whoever Wayne Griffiths is, he’s made some good friends. He’s got drum god Mark Cutsinger, guitarist Dave Lawson, and a wild man on the bass, local legend John Zeps. Welcome to the New Revolution should prick up a few more ears.

The songs here employ the same punk/metal swagger of The Heartbreakers and D Generation with a tiny touch of the ‘90s-era Epitaph sound. Zeps and Cutsinger form an rock solid backbone.

Zep’s bass effortlessly locks into Cutsinger’s kit, allowing Wayne and Lawson to melt eyeballs with their searing and passionate guitar interplay.

Griffith’s vocal style is odd – in a good way. The way he sings and the way the band plays seem to completely disassociate themselves from one another. Like if Cheap Trick’s Robin Zander was singing in Motorhead. It’s a unique sound that can be quite captivating.

Machine Guns and Motorcycle’s eponymous first EP was pretty workaday stuff, with one song, “Not Looking for a Fight,” that showed some promise. Welcome to the New Revolution, with Paul Mahern’s master touch giving it a razorsharp sheen, is light-years beyond the humble sounds of the first EP. The guitars that runs rampant on songs like “Chinese Fire Drill” and “We Are Young” are a marvel. “We Are The 99” is the first single and video (which features the godfather of Indy punk Bill Levin and is a hoot) and is a pretty accurate calling card.

Deeper in the album, “Stiff Competition” starts off as a nice mid-tempo rocker, when, out of the blue Griffith breaks into the first couple of lines of the Cheap Trick classic “Downed,” nails it and then continues rocking. But the real gem here is “Crash and Roll” a perfect pop punk masterpiece that should be blowing up radios from coast to coast.

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im Brickman is billed as “America’s Romantic Piano Sensation.” But perhaps a more appropriate name is the “New King of the Christmas Album.”

His recently released album, “The Magic Of Christmas” brings the tally to six holiday albums over the course of his nearly 20-year recording career – five of them in the past decade.

Brickman is clearly fond of the holiday season and its music, but that’s not the only reason he’s made so many such albums. He also sees Christmas music as a natural extension of the kind of (mostly) instrumental piano music that has been his stock-in-trade throughout this career. “[At Christmas] we’re talking about a very emotional time for nostalgia, for comfort, for healing, for romance —­all things that are synonymous with my music,” Brickman said. “So I think that by nature, they complement each other.”

The continuing success of his Christmas albums suggests that fans will welcome a new Brickman holiday release whenever a new one arrives. And Brickman has some ideas about why demand for his seasonal albums has yet to wane. For one thing, instrumental piano Christmas albums are a rather unique breed.

“There are Trans-Siberian Orchestra instrumentals and there are Mannheim Steamroller, [but] there’s not a lot of intimate, beautiful instrumental Christmas music. Something to put on while you trim the tree, something really emotional that takes you to a place, which is by nature what I always think my music is,” Brickman said.

He also finds that, while Christmas albums by pop vocalists have proven to be a staple of the season, a lot of those albums aren’t that artistically interesting or unusual.

“To be the 200th person necessarily to sing ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,’ I don’t know what it is, but I just feel like there’s an opportunity as an instrumentalist to interpret these songs in a very different way than a lot of people are used to hearing them,” Brickman said.

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PERFORMING ARTS, 355 CITY CENTER DR. (CARMEL) This popularity makes Brickman a reliTICKET: PRICES VARY, ALL-AGES able concert draw, and he is spending much of his November and December on his annual Christmas tour, bringing along “The Magic Of Christmas” indeed violinist Tracy Silverman and vocalists finds Brickman applying his signature Anne Cochran and Luke McMaster for solo piano sound to holiday clasguest appearances in his show. sics, such as “We Three Kings, This will be the 18th straight year “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” Brickman has done such a tour, which and “Here We Come-Ahe said has come to be more than just a Caroling.” Brickman plays them holiday music concert. in a straight-ahead fashion, but “It turned somewhere along the way keeping things fresh with the occafrom a concert experience to a full emosional instrumental twist of by inserttional range experience, I think, for us and ing bits of other famous songs into the for the audience,” Brickman said. n melodies of the songs he plays.

Brickman chose three guests that he thought would bring a classic singing style to The Magic Of Christmas — Sandi Patty, Megan Hilty and most notably, Johnny Mathis, who sings the Brickman original, “Sending You A Little Christmas,” which also happens to be the title track on the new holiday duets album from Mathis.

“It was one of those things that happened very organically,” Brickman said of the Mathis collaboration. “It happened he was working on a duets album for his Christmas. So there was just that synergy.

Then I never expected that the song that I wrote would end up becoming the title track for his album. That was a complete surprise. It wasn’t intended to be that way in the beginning.”

The collaboration with Mathis will undoubtedly be as a career highlight for Brickman – not that there haven’t been plenty of high points for him already since he released his debut album, No Words, in 1994.

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n Monday, Dec. 9, the Indianapolis Marion County City-County Council will vote on an anti-panhandling proposal that could effectively criminalize all variety of artistic street performance in the Downtown area and place severe limitations on artistic performance throughout the city. Like many other Indy-based artists, I find the harsh restrictions embedded in this proposal unacceptable and misguided. As I reviewed a copy of Proposal 143 on the indy.gov website recently, I was reminded of the importance street performance has had in my life.

I will never forget the first time I heard the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble.

It was 2005, and I was in Chicago on a record-buying mission and I decided to check out the Virgin Record’s Megastore located on Michigan Avenue. As I approached the Magnificent Mile, I was transfixed by a faint strain of majestic brass music pushing through Chicago’s bitterly cold December winds. Even from a distance it was one of the most glorious sounds I’d ever heard.

I discovered what I was searching for on the street.

I wound my way through the maze of frigid city blocks eventually finding the source, a group of eight young men dressed in camo fatigues. They performed in perfect unison on a bustling street corner, immune to the din of honking cars, and noisy pedestrian traffic. Their music embodied an improbable mix of sounds, capturing the texture of jazz, the tough, rhythmic drone of hiphop and the beautiful choral harmonies of Medieval madrigals and motets. I stood in amazement listening to the group for over an hour, shivering in the subfreezing temperatures alongside them. I would’ve stayed longer, but they called it quits for the day at sundown. I dumped whatever cash I had from my pocket into their tip jar and walked away astonished by their innovative sound.

Over the next year, I never missed an opportunity to visit Chicago in hopes of witnessing another street-side performance by the group. I caught them a couple more times in the Windy City before they relocated for extended residencies on the sidewalks of New York, Berlin and London.

Despite achieving a respectable measure of success, Hypnotic stayed true to their street performance roots — even after being

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featured in a major New York Times piece, and collaborating with music royalty like Prince, Erykah Badu, Blur’s Damon Albarn, The Wu-Tang Clan, Femi Kuti and Mos Def. My fascination with Hypnotic wasn’t the first or only time I’ve found myself seduced into traveling by the call of street musicians.

For me, a big factor in visiting New York is always the thrill of discovering exciting new music as I navigate the sidewalks and subway corridors of the city. On my first trip, I was determined to catch a performance of traditional Chinese classical music. With Manhattan’s Chinatown hosting the largest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, I figured there must be a thriving Chinese music scene. I was wrong (or so I thought) as I scoured the city’s guide books and event calendar listings for concert information and found nothing. But my disappointment was short-lived, as I discovered what I was searching for on the street, a soloist on the violin-like erhu crouched in front of a D line train stop and a four-piece ensemble performing an impromptu concert on a Chinatown side street.

Mayor Ballard claims the anti-panhandling Prop.143 was crafted to protect the interests of Downtown’s business owners, but street performance can be a significant attraction for visiting shoppers, diners and tourists.

In 1985 the Metropolitan Transit Authority created Musicians Under New York, a program designed to advertise and promote the wide variety of performing artists working in the city’s subway terminals. Perhaps Indianapolis could help find new ways for artists to flourish instead of threatening their right to perform. n Log on to NUVO.net to find ways to contact your local representative about Prop. 143. > > Kyle Long creates a custom podcast for each column.

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7th Annual Thanksgiving Dinner and Show Before you stuff yourself with all the turkey you can eat, get your fill of funk at the Mousetrap. For seven years running, the Trap has put on this dinner and music show

for anyone who wants to come out and enjoy. For out-of-towners and the uninitiated, the Mousetrap is the home for all things funky, and Ladymoon’s show is worth the journey just to see their virtuoso bass player in action. One important note: this show is all-ages, so bring whoever you want.

Mousetrap, 5565 N. Keystone Ave., 8 p.m., FREE, all-ages CRUNKSGIVING 5th Annual Mandatory Mustache Bash Fingers crossed you’ve groomed your face hairs to perfection – our very own music editor was almost kicked out of the 4th annual bash because she foolishly forgot her paste-on ‘stache. They’re not kidding about the mandatory bit of this event name. However, for the more follicularly-deprived of us, there’s always a Sharpie handy to dash off a faux handlebar. At this iteration of the celebration, performances by White Moms, Michelles, United States Three and Teenage Strange are booked.

Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St. 8 p.m., $8, 21+ CRUNKSGIVING The Besnard Lakes, Street Spirits Now in their tenth year, The Besnard Lakes are treating us to

a little of that extra sweet, Grade A, Canadian atmospheric rock. The four-piece is famous for expansive melodies and finely-layered harmonies over big, fuzzy guitars and thrashing drums. Their latest album is titled Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO, and although we have no idea what that means, with a record that good, a sensible title seems unnecessary.

Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St. 8 p.m., $12, 21+ CRUNKSGIVING Twerksgiving Wick It the Instigator hails from the home of country in Nashville, but his sound is far, far removed from anything twangy or even remotely earthly. The DJ/producer mixes up everything from dubstep to hip-hop, “Twerksgiving” is the perfect title for Wick It’s set, as there will be no shortage of twerk-ortunities.

Blu Lounge, 240 S. Meridian St. 9 p.m., $5, 21+ CRUNKSGIVING ICON: Pre-Turkey Day Workout Old Soul Entertainment’s annual Prince vs. Michael Jackson showdown is back again, and ready to get you sweating to the iconic talents. It’s pelvis versus pelvis, falsetto to falsetto, Billie Jean against Darling Nikki, and it’s going on all night before the holiday. Everyone’s got Thursday off, so why not take full advantage by making your way to The Jazz Kitchen in every item of pleather that you own? If you’re stuck at the house playing Monopoly with your cousins, you can still make this late one and dance your familial frustrations away.

Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave., 10 p.m., $10, 21+

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Outer Limits, 8839 U.S. Highway 31 (Edinburgh), 10 p.m., FREE, 21+ Kennedy Jones, Sensu, 21+ Landon Keller Band, Josh Chalfant, CJ”s Bar and Grill, 21+ ‘90s Party, Bartini’s, 21+ The Family Jam, Mousetrap, 21+ Black Wednesday, Howl at the Moon, 21+ Lauren King, Birdy’s, 21+ Free Jazz Wednesdays with Sophie Faught, Chatterbox Jazz Club, 21+

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Big Holiday and Broadway Sing-Along If you’re already headed downtown to see the Circle of Lights, make an evening out of it with a jolly night of holiday and Broadway music. John Phillips will lead the way, providing everyone in the audience with the words, and Chef Joseph’s regular music maker Sean Baker will follow along on the baby grand. Enjoy the festive scene outside until your extremities go numb, then come indoors and warm yourself with the awesome power of Christmas carols.

Chef Joseph’s at the Connoisseur Room, 115 E. Ohio St., 7 p.m., FREE, all-ages ROOTS Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band We follow the Rev and his crew fastidiously on Instagram, where they post shots from stops in Eastern Europe, both coasts and, of course, right back here in

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th’Empires town. We’re lucky to have such a crowd-pleasing, swashbuckling trio of noise-makers call Indiana home. Grab your whiskey, boots and woman (or man or BFF – but not baby, this one is strictly 21+) and catch the group in their home territory during this annual show.

Vogue Theater, 6359 N. College Ave., 8 p.m., $10 in advance, $20 at door, 21+

Last Show And that does it for The Secret Location, a house venue on the Near Northside that’s held truly epic shows for as long as we can remember. Closing out the run is: Teenage Strange, Pravada, Nate Hammond, Jon Autry, Didache, Caleb McCoach, Benny Sanders and Co. and more.

As per our policy, NUVO does not publish addresses for house shows.

Secret Location, 7 p.m., all-ages

‘90S Third Eye Blind While everyone else is recovering from Black Friday, you could be spending the evening back in the glorious musical years of the ‘90s. It is undeniable that all adults over 25 have, at some point, rocked out hard to “Semi-Charmed Life,” and nearly half of all US adult men have cried along to “Crystal Baller”

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SATURDAY POP I Dream In Evergreen Right on time for our first round of flurries (and an honest-to-goodness

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Hoosier Dome, 1627 Prospect St., 7 p.m., $10, all-ages ROCK Truth and Salvage Co. This Nashville-by-way-of-LosAngeles-by-way-of-Indy band drops by regularly and is always a mighty good time. Savor your chance to see them in the intimate Do317 Lounge – they’re usually booked in much bigger venues. They last popped by as part of the inaugural Fountain Square Music Fest in July as part of their tour for latest album Pick Me Up. DO317 Lounge, 1043 Virginia Ave., Suite 215, 8:30 p.m., prices vary, 21+

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): French painter Henri Matisse thought highly of his own work. He tended to ignore critics because he didn’t think they understood his art well enough to produce intelligent critiques. There was one person whose opinion he was willing to heed, though; a single colleague who he said had earned to right to evaluate and assess his art: Pablo Picasso. I encourage you, Gemini, to come up with your own short list of people whose judgment you totally trust and respect. It’s a good time to seek out their feedback on how you’re doing.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): How is it possible that you have come so far and worked so diligently only to be resigned now to hanging out in limbo, waiting around for the lucky break that may or may not ever arrive? I’m here today to escort you out of this infernal place. If you resist, my assignment is to drag you out. Why am I so adamant? Because I am sure it’s a mistake for you to be passive and hope for the best.

You need to resume working diligently, focused for now on what’s right in front of you without worrying too much about the big picture. In my opinion, that approach will lead you to unforeseen help -- and a clarification of the big picture.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your levels of personal magic are high. The radiance beaming out of your eyes is extra sparkly. There’s an artistry to the way you are expressing yourself. Without even trying, you’re exuding natural charisma and animal magnetism. In light of all these advantages, I suspect you will have an elevated capacity for both giving and receiving pleasure.

In fact, I predict that your ability to feel really good and make other people feel really good will be at a peak. I hereby designate this the Week of Supreme Bliss.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The BBC reported on an expert who combs Switzerland’s Risoud Forest to find the spruce trees whose wood can be made into the highest quality violins. After years of experience, Lorenzo Pellegrini knows which few trees will produce instruments with the most resonant tones.

They grow slowly and have few knots. They need to have had enough water to grow strong, but not so much water that they’re mushy. Your task in the coming weeks, Virgo, has a certain resemblance to the master tree-picker’s work. It’s time for you to start selecting and gathering the raw materials you will use to craft your own lyrical story in 2014.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here’s the bad news: For all of

us, including you, there is a gap between our intentions and our actual effects. Here’s the good news: Now is your special time to narrow that gap. More bad news: All of us, you included, are periodically guilty of sending out mixed messages. We confuse people with our ambivalence; what we say is sometimes different from what we feel. More good news: Now is your special time to reduce your mixed messages to as close to zero as possible. One more taste of bad news: Like all of us, you are a bit hypocritical. You engage in behavior that you criticize in others. You don’t practice what you preach. One last piece of good news: Now is your special time to work on being forthright, genuine, and consistent.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I am very fond of strawberries

and cream,” said author Dale Carnegie, “but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn’t think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn’t bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or grasshopper in front of the fish.” That’s a good teaching story for you, Scorpio. In order to get your desires fulfilled by the people who have the power to do that, you should give them what they actually long for -not what you long for, nor what you wish they would long for.

This is always true, of course, but it’s especially applicable to what’s going on in your life right now.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Touted as a prime source

of “kick-@ss spirituality,” author Danielle LaPorte has advice that’s good for you to hear. “You will always be too much of something for someone,” she says, “too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy.” But that’s exactly as it should be, she adds. It would be a mistake to “round out your edges,” because then you would “lose your edge.” And I’m here to tell you that you need all of your edge right now, Sagittarius. It’s time to ignore people’s mediocre expectations and push past their limits. To be true to yourself, you will probably have to be too much of something for several someones.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Going into my spiritual

mentoring session with the priestess, I had the intention of discovering truths about myself I didn’t know before.

That meant stirring up revelations about my ignorance as well as my potentials. I wanted assistance in facing my flaws as well as in tapping into my dormant powers. It worked.

Her guidance was a potent catalyst. I was able to shed the debilitating nonsense stories I’d been telling myself about who I am. I awakened strengths that had been asleep. What I wish for you, Capricorn -- indeed, what I predict for you -is a comparable experience. To expedite matters, go out in search of a person, adventure, or breakthrough that can help provide you with the kind of prod I received.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I bet people will be gossip-

ing about you more than usual. Is there anything you can do to ensure that it’s mostly benevolent gossip? Yes, there is. First, make sure that when you gossip about others, you are unfailingly positive in your comments. If you don’t have anything good to say about someone, don’t say it.

Second, be on your best behavior. Communicate clearly and don’t even think about taking unethical shortcuts.

Finally, contribute more inspirational energy than usual to every group you’re part of. Be an effervescent team player.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Maybe your ego isn’t big

enough. I’m serious. Is it possible that you could benefit from being more proud of yourself? Would it be healthy for you to give yourself more credit for the struggles you have weathered and the skills you have mastered and the beauty you have managed to forge out of the chaotic raw materials that life has given you? I’ve got a good feeling about this, Pisces. I can imagine you summoning the playful courage you will need to express more confidence. I can even picture you beginning to fantasize about embarking on certain stirring adventures you’ve never believed you were strong enough to try before now.

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